1 | Solution or Selection Committee? | First / Given Name | Last / Family Name | Organization / Company Name | Website | Job Title | Gender | Country of Residence | Country of Birth | Which of the 6 official UN languages do you speak fluently? | Share with us your motivation(s) for applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit (to present a project or serve as Selection Committee Member). Describe how you have used innovation for positive global impact. | Biography | What is the name of your solution? | Please provide a tag line description of your solution | UN Solutions Summit 2019 will highlight projects that solve for one or more of the SDGs. Which of the SDGs does your solution advance? (Choose all that apply.) | In which countries is your solution currently, or intended to be, in implementation? | Do you have partners for this project? | Who are your key partners? | At what stage is your innovation? | Why do you think your solution is at the stage of innovation you selected above? | Please describe the problem your solution is addressing | How does your solution work, and what is the long-term vision for global impact? | In what way is the solution unique from other approaches that exist in this space? What is the new perspective or methodology? | How far has your team progressed in the development of this solution? How do you measure your progress and methodological rigor? | Planned Goals and Milestones for your solution? (for example, any new countries or markets you will expand in, staff you will recruit, and projected lives impacted?) | What resources are most needed for the solution to scale and have considerable impact? Please include your short-term, medium-term and long-term needs. | Please provide us links related to your work and / or your solution. For example: company website, project website, scientific / technical articles, process videos. Please include full URLs (including http:// or https:// at the beginning of the link) | Please provide us any links to videos or audio recordings from your speaking engagements or interviews. Please include full URLs (including http:// or https:// at the beginning of the link) | Please list any awards you or your solution have won, or been a finalist for (Please indicate winner or finalist for each) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Saad Javed | Cheema | WWF-PAKISTAN | https://www.wwfpak.org/ | Project Coordinator | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | I count myself very lucky to be able to make a living by doing work that is in alignment with my values and the things that I believe in. It seems to me that a lot of people have made peace with the idea that work is something that is separate from their values, from their passions and interests. I am passionate about social causes and want to contribute it, according to best of my knowledge and good determination. Working as Project Coordinator at World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan, my proposed actions are ; •Building the capacities of primary producers on sustainable waste management will result in improved soil quality and crop productivity through an optimal use of crop waste to maintain soil organic matter levels and nutrient recovery. •Exploring options for by-and co-products through involving research institutions and industry will pave the way for increased opportunities adding productive value to waste, by-and co-products resulting in environmental and economic benefits for the farming communities. •Improve resource efficiency through reduction of waste and improved waste management in primary production. •Create increased awareness and dialogue through creation of joint stakeholders’ platform across relevant sectors on availability, needs and options for sustainable management and use of agricultural waste. •Improve air quality – by reducing on farm emissions. By working on above objectives I am getting following positive global impacts; •Aware farmers regarding death and decline of beneficial soil microbes and insects due to burning of crop residue. •Crop residue incorporation increases organic matter and mineral content in the soil. •Reduce GHG emissions by using crop residue management machinery. •Less burning of hydro-carbons fuels. •Aware the general public, government and private institutions regarding the issue of crop residue burning and SMOG. •Society is increasingly becoming conscious about environmental issues in the wake of changing climate and an ever-growing global population. Unsustainable disposal of crop residues is one of the important issue under debate. •Maintaining and managing crop residues in agriculture can be economically beneficial to many producers and more importantly to society. •CRM practices support the water conservation and increase the water efficiency. •Crop residue management are common means for controlling runoff and erosion, which can also result in reduced P losses | Cheema has 8 years of experience in different sectors and he earned his MSc (Hons) degree in Agricultural Engineering. He is working as Project Coordinator at World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan, where he looks on sustainable crop residue management practices, specially on rice crop. The common practice in country is the burning of rice residue, which creates many problems to natural flora and fauna. It also create SMOG and generate many health diseases. Before this Mr. Cheema has worked with Engro Fertlizer as District Commercial Officer, where he looked different alternate sustainable solution for rice crop. As rice crop is the one the most thirstiest crop in world, So he enhance the capacity building of farmers on sustainable rice platform (SRP). Before this Mr. Cheema was worked with Anchor Commodities as a Area Manager high efficiency irrigation system. He has designed and installed many drip, sprinklers and Central Pivot irrigation systems on cereal crop, vegetables and orchards. While working as Consultant Field Engineer with Agribusiness Support Fund, under the USAID funded project, he helped poor and non technical farmers to enhance their yields by using new innovative agriculture practices and gave access to their high value crops to international market through agro food systems and chains.Through these experiences, he has developed strong skills in entrepreneurship, consulting and training development. Cheema feels pleasure focusing on the topic of poverty, hunger, wildlife, environment and energy issues. | Crop Residue Management and Issue of SMOG | Go Green, Say No to GHG, Sustainable residue solution with win win situation for All | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, China, Turkey, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines | No | Transition to Scale | Every year hundreds of million tons of rice residues (straw and husk) are produced and burnt it out at farm scale. Rice residues can be a cash crop for farmers, if we develop a strong supply chain in market for energy purposes, because energy is considered the basis for the progress and prosperity of nations and societies. CRM team has developed handicrafts like baskets, mats, hat and other useful things from rice straw and will be available in market this year after harvesting of paddy crop. | Following problem are faced by CRM team •Small holding farmers have limited financial capacity to bear the cost of sustainable residue management practices otherwise; they are unable to harvest the benefit. •Limited information and options are available for farming communities for rice-residue value addition and industrial usage. •For operating Pak seeder and paddy straw choppers needs 85 HP tractor, which are mostly not available in farmer communities. | We are developing a sustainable supply chain of different crop residues. There are large potential in Pakistan and as well as all the agriculture based economies to use their crop residue as bio energy. Fossil fuels resources are reducing very abruptly as well as they have very adverse effect on environment. On very specific way if I talked about only rice residue, it has very less calorific value (straw) and very less proteins in it. So neither it can be ideally use in energy sector not as animal feed. But our CRM has added its economic value by developing co and by products from it. In All over the world rice residue is mostly burnt out. Rice is the 2nd largest stable food. In 1 Hectare the ratio of yield to residue is 40:60 percent. So you can easily guess how important is our solution globally. | The solution is unique in several ways if it considered with past practices. we using rice residue in development of many other things like used in mushroom production, as a source of bio char, animal fodder, energy production, for chemicals are extracts, fiberboard, paper and pulp industry. The methodology is mentioned below; •CRM team has developed a supply chain for rice straw residue and added economic value in it. •All CRM registered farmers can now sale their rice straw in market with good price. •CRM team has developed handicrafts like baskets, mats, hat and other useful things from rice straw and will be available in market this year after harvesting of paddy crop. •By and Co-products are developed from rice husk and rice bran, are interlinking with industrialists by conducting seminars and meeting at chamber of commerce. | We worked hard to developed the different solutions. Its very difficult to agree farmers to adopt new interventions. It's all team effort, In our project geographical area no one is going burn their crop residue, because now he knows very well that he can get good price of his residue. On the other hand rice residue demand is increasing day by day in markets because of this project. I think we are going on a right track. | During year 2018-2019, we are working very specifically on rice residue. The reason behind it the issue of SMOG. But getting a very good learning we are going to extend our this project to other major and cash crops specially on cotton, wheat and sugarcane. We will also need some technical persons who have good command on mechanization, ability to link the intervention with industry will be needed. | In Pakistan 80 percent of farmers have less than 10 acres agriculture land. So small holding farmers have limited financial capacity to bear the cost of sustainable residue management practices otherwise; they are unable to harvest the benefit. For this issue we are in touch government institutions to give them financial assistance, so that they can create their on resources to scale up the solution. The short-term goal is to create the awareness among people. Now society is increasingly becoming conscious about environmental issues in the wake of changing climate and an ever-growing global population. Unsustainable disposal of crop residues is one of the important issue under debate. Medium-term need is to develop some co and by products from rice residue. By doing this it add value in rice residue and farmers will not burnt their residue. Long -term goal is that CRM existence farmers will buy their crop residue management machinery to save the environment and reduce the input costs of sowing and add organic matter in soil by incorporating the crop residue. | https://nation.com.pk/22-May-2019/joint-efforts-needed-to-fight-off-smog https://epaper.brecorder.com/m/2019/05/23/15-page/783075-news.html?fbclid=IwAR0fE8-ahVTWUHyLdEx5KAY8DZCf_cioC-K8y5xgz8o973BKg2ad6ui8QJE https://pakobserver.net/urban-air-pollution-damaging-health-economy/ https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/wwf-seminar-explains-how-technology-can-tackle-smog-in-pakistan/ https://www.wwfpak.org/?uNewsID=348611 | https://www.dawn.com/news/1483824/stubble-burning-must-be-reduced-to-curb-pollution https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/474635-crop-residue-burning-major-cause-of-smog | Not any yet. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Daisi | Omokungbe | Technocrat Media Africa | www.technocratmediang.com | CEO/Lead Strategist | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The Agenda 2030 of the United Nations is one of the vision I committed myself to as a young leader working to see Nigeria coming out of challenges and leading her 201 million people into prosperity that is capable of setting a new pace of development, blocking poverty and inequality. I want to participate at the United Nations Solutions Summit by presenting a solution to solve the problem of culture of abandoned projects and projects corruption in Nigeria and build world-class network and partnership to affect my work positively. I believe this Summit would empower me to further pursue passionate involvement in the issue of youth inclusion, leading accountability, transparency and policy engagement programs in Africa. As a young leader committed to new political engagements, I strive to drive sustainable development across communities and empower young people for excellence. | Oludaisi Omokungbe has experience across Engineering, Digital Media, Project Management, Youth Engagements and Policy Development. He is an advocacy Professional - acclaimed as Africa’s One of the first 100 most Innovative and Brilliant Youth Consultants. Oludaisi is the author of The Emerging Wave of Techpreneurship. He is the CEO and Lead Strategist of Technocrat Media Africa, and also the Executive Director of African Revolution Academy, a youth-led social enterprise providing leading consulting services for development. EDUCATION Oludaisi is a graduate of Electrical/Electronic Engineering Technology from the Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti. Currently, he is being educated at Bells University of Technology, Ota, pursuing further degree in Project Management Technology. EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS Mr Omokungbe is demonstrating passionate involvement in the issue of youth and inclusion, leading accountability, transparency and policy engagement programs over the years in Nigeria. He is a young leader committed to new political engagements and strives for sustainable development and empowering young people for self-reliance. He has over eight years’ experience in the media industry by working with reputable media organizations as an engineer, web manager and blogger, now a CEO. In 2017, he was appointed as an Expert Delegate to the National Youth Policy Review Conference in Abuja organized by Youth Hub Africa and International Institute of Education where he advocated for the inclusion technology initiatives and projects for youth in Nigeria. | Follow The Projects | ... tracking project accountability | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Nigeria with focus on each of the thirty-six and the FCT | No | Ideation | The Project is still at the stage of idea development with statistics from communities in Nigeria. | Over 100, 000 uncompleted projects across Nigeria at local, state and national. Several billions wasted and looted while the people and communities are living in the shadow of such projects. The Projects is a citizen-led initiative to lead movement against the culture of abandoned projects in Nigeria which shall monitor, track&pressure government to complete all projects initiated with special interest on project designs, duration and cost of projects providing real-time analytics of progress. | #FollowTheProject shall not only monitor and track projects of government, it shall design and implement systems and programs to engage project practitioners on why the culture of abandoned projects must be defeated in Nigeria’s public and private sectors. #FollowTheProject will recruit and mobilize “Citizen Project Ambassadors"" across states of the federation to tour project sites, access level of progress and compliance with the standard and international best practices for such projects, and as well engage grassroots people in the project host communities. #FollowTheProject as part of leading the cause to defeat the culture of abandoned projects by government, this initiative shall engage citizens to educate them through town hall sessions and radio programme on creating enabling environment for projects of government to strive and be completed in their communities as all these shall contribute largely to the success of project delivery in Nigeria on time and according to project charter, standard and scope. #FollowTheProject generates and publishes data on the general performance, stakeholder acceptance and citizens’ satisfaction, and tracking reliability, functionality and maintenance of such projects after commissioning. Project scope, project time, project cost, project quality, project human resource, project communications, project risk, project procurement and project stakeholder management. | #FollowTheProjects as part of leading the cause to defeat the culture of abandoned projects by government, this initiative shall engage citizens to educate them through town hall sessions and radio programme on creating enabling environment for projects of government to strive and be completed in their communities as all these shall contribute largely to the success of project delivery in Nigeria on time and according to project charter, standard and scope. The involvement of ordinary citizens to take ownership of projects sited in their communities is the one of the uniqueness of this accountability and transparency citizen-centred initiative. | We're working to have more facts, seek and build partnership and gain confidence of funders to find the project for the next 24 months. The number of abadoned projects and ongoing projects tracked and communities captured. | 1. New Market: The perception this project solution is going to create on project management and ownership culture in Nigeria would be massive and will lead new revolution and narratives across major sectors such as health, power, works, building and housing, oil and education. 2. Staff and Workforce Recruitment: Apart from the core team members that would implement this idea, we will recruit over 774 Citizen Project Ambassadors across the 774 local governments in Nigeria to monitor projects at the grassroots which is crucial to the project success. 3. Projected Lives to Impact: Apart from the direct of about 1000 people to implement this project in Nigeria, the over 201 million people living in Nigeria will enjoy new life when critical projects of critical importance are completed across their local, sub-urban, urban communities and cities. For instance, the over 15 million out-of-school children in Nigeria would have been enrolled in schools when the facilities are completed and equally have access to quality health facilities in their communities and many other impacts this idea would generate and sustain. | 1. Human Resource and Training 2. Office and Furniture 3. ICT Devices e.g Desktop Computers, Laptops, Mobile Tablets, Printer, Copiers, Cameras, Wireless 4. Project Vehicles e.g Hilux Vans to access local communities 5. Working Grants: salary, office supplies, media and publicity 6. Citizen and Community Engagements e.g town hall meeting, radio programs and campus tours ( to raise consciousness among young people). 7. Funds for Research and Development 8. Funds for Technology Development e.g Mobile app, website | https://youtu.be/xF-MzyhW-Ik | https://www.instagram.com/p/BVl_STBjeKB/?igshid=hbjotacpvbgj | One of the first 100 most Innovative and Brilliant African Youths (2014) by I Have a Vision Foundation, Accra, Ghana. Fifth Award Winner (2014) Annual National Essay Competition for Undergraduates by Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) of Nigeria Award of Prolific Writer of the Year (2015) by Students’ Senatorial Council, Students’ Union Government, The Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti. * Fellow, Nigeria School on Internet Governance 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kimberley | Abbott | Vested Impact | www.vestedimpact.co.uk | Founder & CEO | Female | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Australia | English | I would be honored to attend and present our ground-breaking initiative, Vested, that directly impacts ALL the SDG’s through its focus on digital financing innovations for funding the SDG’s. I am motivated by the opportunity to share our work, receive creative input, and to influence the regulatory & policy foundations around impact investing, but also connect with investors who care deeply about long-term change and impact, and with industry leaders who can help us scale and reach the billion lives we are projected to impact. I have used innovation throughout my entire career, as an expert in Human-Centred Design, Lean & other innovation practices. I have applied this innovation for impact multiple times in my career: as founder and CEO of Roka, an award-winning social enterprise that used economic empowerment of women & education to break the cycle of poverty. And most recently in my new venture, Vested, which bridges the gap in financing of the SDG’s and provides an innovative solution to democratizing impact investing and drive trillions into solving the SDG’s. With extensive experience in presenting and public speaking: including a TEDxYouth speech, international tech conferences, and even at UN conferences (as a technical consultant for DPO) I believe I would make a compelling, interesting and insightful presenter. I am primarily motivated by a desire to share innovation, learnings and opportunities because I believe collective power and collaboration hold the key to impact. I also am motivated by the opportunity to share what I am doing with Vested, and our belief that unlocking the power of the ordinary investor may be the best hope we have at financing the SDG’s | I am currently the female Founder & CEO of Vested, a revolutionary company solving the world’s greatest challenges. I am also currently an expert Tech consultant to the United Nations, leading the CPAS project to transform UN Peace keeping all over the World to be community & impact focused using data and tech. I am currently a Non-Executive Director of the Board of EPIC London, a youth development organisation. I was previously Engineering Innovation Lead at Thales UK, a multinational security and aerospace company, and was the co-founder and CEO of Roka, an award-winning social enterprise developed to break the cycle of poverty in rural India through economic empowerment of women and education. In 2015 I was named as one of the Financial Review's Australia’s 100 Women of Influence, was in the 2018 Top 30 Most Innovative Engineers, and the Top 50 Women in Engineering. I have also been a member of the official Australian Government Delegation to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, and a recipient of the Commonwealth Youth Award for Development in 2016. | Vested | We are redefining 'millionaire' to be a person who impacts 1 million lives | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Currently being tested and have regulatory approval in the United Kingdom, and will expand to Europe very quickly. Our next target regions for 2020 are: Australia & Asia. We anticipate expanding to the USA, after SEC approval (2021) | No | Transition to Scale | Vested is currently in the process of completing beta testing in the UK, placing us post-proof-of-concept phase & in the early stages of transition to scale. We built a prototype & tested it early 2019, & have since then built a full product/app, completing beta launch & user testing in July/Aug 2019 (w. 100 users), & have been awaiting regulatory approvals to go to full public launch in Sept/Oct 2019 where we will be in scale mode, immediately scaling rapidly to thousands, & millions of users. | The world is at least $3 trillion a year short to adequately solve the SDG’s. Impact investing is seen as the most promising place to access this finance. However only 2% of impact investments are accessible by everyday ordinary investors. There is estimated $5 trillion waiting to be unlocked from these ordinary investors to be directed to impact investments however there is no accessible way for ordinary people to find, compare & invest small amounts in alternate market impact investments. | Vested is a micro-investing app that offers an alternative marketplace for true impact investments, democratizing impact investing and driving funding into the SDG’s. We collaborate with the worlds leading Asset Managers to create the 'Amazon' of impact: Offering true impact investments on a regulated digital platform, allowing ordinary investors to choose to invest as little as $100 into projects, ventures and businesses tackling problems they care about. Leveraging our propriety impact assessment algorithm they can make impact-based decisions & can then track and monitor their individual, and collective, impact across a portfolio. Our unique platform allows ‘pooling’ of investments enabling the small contributions of the many to have word changing effects. Vested is a revolutionary citizen-centric platform that empowers ordinary people with economic independence, raise awareness, understanding and mobilise millions of investors around the SDG’s. Through our proprietary impact assessment algorithim, that pulls on data from over 250 organisations and 3 million data points, we regain trust & provide traceability, transparency validation of impact for the sector. And ultimately, we unlock trillions of dollars in funding for societal challenges and help achieve the sustainable development goals. At just 2 million users, we estimate Vested to have over $1 billion of assets under management, and we will be impacting over 1 Billion lives through financing solving the Global SDGs | Impact investing is currently nearly solely focused on institutional investors: i.e the large sum investments from the few. Only 2% of impact investments being made by retail investors. Yet 63% of millennials say they want to impact invest. Our approach is new because we take the perspective that the small contributions of the many will have a more significant impact and putting citizens at the centre of impact investing will shift financier behaviour on a level & acceleration far greater than currently being seen. By opening up impact investing we can bring together a social system of change that empowers citizens, democratizes the investment system, providing retail savers and investors. Vested is one of the first platforms to make impact investing accessible to the ‘missing 98%’. Vested also is revolutionary in its use of our proprietary impact assessment algorithm, that takes the proposed theory of change and pulls on data from over 250 organisations and 3 million data points to weight predicted and existing performance, translating it into a single, easy to understand and relevant measure of impact (an impact ‘credit rating’). Allowing users to make comparative impact based-decisions on where their investments have the most impact, and to also track and monitor individual and collective impact, alongside risk and return. | We have built the technology, including the beta versions of the algorithm and the app. We have been building the partnerships and relationships with social finance asset managers to feed the supply side of the marketplace, and have just started beta testing with a small initial user-base. Operating within the highly-regulated financial sector has meant considerable effort is spent on obtaining authorisation to operate, and we are tentatively approved to operate to an unlimited and retail market as of Sept 2019. This will be our scaling point. Our methodological rigor is continuously applied through our applications of Design Thinking and Human-centred Design principles. We ensure constant engagement and user-acceptance testing, across all the sectors (social, investment & policy). We engage frequently with social finance asset managers, to both build partnerships and a pipeline of assets for the platform, as well as to ensure our solution meets the needs of them and their social impact clients. We engage regularly with the Financial Conduct Authorities and associated government impact investing institutes to ensure Vested has the proper regulatory rigor, & can influence future policy around impact investing. And we of course complete user testing with our ordinary investors to ensure we are empowering them in the right ways to invest their money in things they care about, and that we are providing the transparency and tracability on their impact they desire. | Our goal with Vested is to create a global platform to mobilise investors all over the World to drive finance into SDG focused projects, businesses and funds. Regulatory policies are the only barrier to global expansion, as such the scaling will happen over a number of years, with new countries and regions added as the platform matures. Milestone - UK Public Launch & Scale (Aug – Dec 2019): •Raise $500,000 equity investment into Vested •Recruit 3 additional staff •KPI: Gain 10,000 users •KPI: Facilitate $10 million of investments made into SDG aligned assets •Impact KPI: 1,000,000 Lives Milestone - UK & EU - 2020 • Make platform portal accessible to financial advisors and capital market brokers (will put impact investing mainstream alongside capital markets) • Scale team (to 10+) • KPI: Gain 100,000 users • KPI: Total $100 million of investments made into SDG aligned assets • Impact KPI: 50,000,000 lives Milestone - Expansion to Asia-pacific - 2021 • Release Impact Assessment Algorithim platform to public & private fund and portfolio managers (providing data-driven evidence and comparative analysis of impact across portfolios) • Expand and recruit team in Hong Kong or Australia • KPI: Gain 1 million users • KPI: Total $1 billion of investments made into SDG aligned assets • Impact KPI: 0.5 Billion lives Milestone - Full global expansion (Incl. USA) - 2023 • Retain 4 million users • Facilitate $5bn of investments made into SDG aligned assets • Impact: +1 billion lives | The largest resource required for Vested to scale is financing/grants/investment in Vested as a business itself, and partnerships with social finance institutions. We also require support and advocacy in the regulatory and policy environment as impact investing is still relatively new asset class. Short-term: We are looking to raise an equity Seed Round of around $500,000(or attract equivalent funding in grants etc) which will enable independent regulatory cover, increasing our team, and scale across the UK and Europe. Tapping into a market of $1 billion of investments and a potential to impact millions of lives. Medium-term: We would look to raise another round of funding (estimated $2m) to finance setting up teams in Asia-Pacific Region, and expanding the partnerships to include mainstream financing and modifications to tech platform. Long-term: We will need to expand the team to the USA and work closely with partners and institutions to gain SEC approval. This would require another significant funding injection (although the platforms own revenues could support this by this time) and policy and regulatory support/advocacy will continue to be needed. | Company website: https://www.vestedimpact.co.uk Demo/explainter video: https://youtu.be/e1_ioD4zffY Article submitted to UN Task Force on Digital Financing of the SDG's: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2are34xxn3jdc2v/AABHSnsJKgvn_j5TFeXL4mBba?dl=0 | TEDxYouth speech (from previous social enterprise): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWsbQ_Tjn40 | Personal Awards: 2018 Top 30 Most Innovative Engineers (Australia) 2017 Top 50 Women in Engineering UK 2016 Commonwealth Youth Award for Excellence in Development Work 2015 Young Alumni Award, University of Wollongong, Australia 2014 NSW Young Women of the Year Award (finalist) 2013 Westpac and Financial Review's 100 Women of Influence, 2011 Young Australian of the Year, Kiama Council | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dahiru | Biu | Global Organization for Sustainable Development Goals Inc | www.go-sdgs.org | Founder/CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | My motivations for applying to be part of the UN Solutions Summit to present a project or serve as a Selection Committee Member come from how far the United Nations have come in finding ways to promote the SDG Goals and how Young people have been involved in the process around the world. | Amb. Dahiru Biu Founder/CEO Global Organization for Sustainable Development Goals Inc. --- Ambassador to Africa [Global Education] International Organization for Education Inc Special Consultative Status ECO-SOC Affairs, Council on NGOs United Nations Headquaters New York, USA | GLOBAL ORGANISATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (GO – SDG) in the North west and North east Nigeria | Girl child, Women and youths who are very poor living in rural areas with less access to resources | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | No | Sustainable Scale | To build capacities of beneficiaries to be leaders ensure over 90% enrollment and higher attendance for girls as well as enhanced learning outcomes for all children Give opportunities to out of school Youth, to be become competent and productive members of the community. Building community empowerment through skills acquisition. •Youths, Children (girls) Women (Widows) Rural and Urban Poor Accountability, Participation, Innovation, Creativity, Excellence, Teamwork, Knowledge Sharing. | •Provision of scholarship to underserved and vulnerable groups • fund for girl-child education at all levels will be made accessible to children of the poor. • counseling to girls out of school in each state to start or continue schooling. •provide trainings and relevant information in different focal areas. •Sensitize and mobilize people on skills acquisition •skills acquisition and entrepreneurship •The Foundation will also provide small grants to beneficiaries | Team Formation: The TEAM will consist of experienced professionals with experience in NGO Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Youth Development, Community Development, Entrepreneurship Development, and Women Empowerment. The Team will also be supported by other experts and professionals who will be full or part-time volunteers. Programs: The Foundation will implement programs in the following areas: Community Development •Formulation and implementation of Community Development programs. A Report by the World bank, released in 2014, showed that only 33% of Nigerians could be considered Poor, all Northern States of Nigeria fell below the national average of 46.5%. Damning is the following summary of Regional Averages:- 1 = South West - 19.3% Poverty (+ Average) 2 = South South - 25.2% Poverty (+ Average) 3 = South East - 27.36% Poverty (+ Average) --------------------------------------------------- ** National Average 46.0%% Poverty --------------------------------------------------- 4 = North Central - 45.7% Poverty (+Average) 5 = North East - 76.8% Poverty (- Average) 6 = North West- 80.9% Poverty (- Average) It is a well known fact that there is extreme and debilitating poverty in Northern Nigeria which is a time bomb that could explode without notice. It is also a fact that the extreme poverty in the north is the root of the major ills affecting the north today such as Boko haram and youth restiveness. | Organize interaction forum with school management (PTAs and SMCs) to prepare for enrolment and integration of girls. This will offer an opportunity to know the number of schools and vacancies available for their enrolment. •Provision of support and counseling to girls out of school in each state to start or continue schooling. Number of girls supported to start or go back to school will be known, thereby facilitating appraisal of the project •Adult literacy • Commitments toward formally educating girls in northern Nigeria dates back to almost seventy years. And from the mid–eighties to date, there have been more than 10 government policies, mandates, and programs, made to improve and encourage girl child education. Social factors such as forced early marriage , girl trafficking and preference of boys over girls have largely limited girls' access to education in many rural areas. Other factors that have compounded the problem include outmoded customs, lack of schools in some rural areas, and a high level of ignorance on importance of girl child education. | StateActivityTarget ParticipantsMonth/2019 KEBBI STATE Initial baseline study ReviewGO-SDG TEAM Children (more of girls) Out of school youths (more of women) Women and Youths Program manager, Executive directors, Board of trustees and major Donors January February ~ March March – May June SOKOTO STATEInitial baseline study Review & Strategic RetreatGO-SDG TEAM Children (more of girls) Out of school youths (more of women) Women and Youths July August September~ November December ZAMFARA STATEInitial baseline study Meetings with parents and school authorities in various local governments to commence enrollment GO-SDG TEAM Children (more of girls) Out of school youths (more of women) January Katsina Capacity building & skills acquisitionWomen & youthMarch Activity Review and impact in: Sokoto, Zamfara & KebbiApril Adamawa Entrepreneurship, Reproductive health & skills acquisitionWomen & Youth May Gombe Capacity building & skills acquisitionWomen & youth June Adamawa & GombeJuly Borno Capacity buildingWomen & YouthAugust Yobe Capacity buildingWomen & youthSeptember Jigawa Capacity buildingWomen & youthOctober Abuja, Kano & PlateauNovember Strategic Retreat with major stakeholdersDecember | The foundation will be a non-profit and non-governmental organization (NGO) non-political, non-religious organization that contributes and encourage girl child education and socio-economic growth and development through capacity building, skills acquisitions and empowerment of women and young people in Nothern Nigeria. | Partner with other National and International organization in Programs implementation and in achieving the vision and mission of the organization. Namely: •UNFPA •UNDP •DFID •World Bank Country Office •Ministry of Education •Ministry of Youth Development •Ministry of Women Affairs e.t.c •Partnership with both local and foreign farms to support Good Agricultural Practices. | http://www.go-sdgs.org | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ev16VRkrDNEtLYLE4C-Z4eKG56wu2uRM/view?usp=drivesdk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | GILBERTO | CRUZADO VASQUEZ | National University of Cajamarca -PERU | www.unc.edu.pe/ | Agronomy Engineer and Geologist | male | Peru | Peru | English | French | Spanish | Since a long time ago I work as a Professor of General Geology and Applied Geology to Engineering and besides to this activity a work in the countryside to give water for irrigation purposes and domestic uses. A made some projects to profit the termal conditions of water to develop the tourism and health , even forestry. | I was born on 11 july, 1949 in a great farm called Huacraruco, district of Jesus, province , department of Cajamarca Perú. My primary school I studied in several places. Secondary school in the School Cristo Reay from the congregation of Maristas. University studies in the National University of Cajamarca, O got my tittle of Agronomy Engineer. Master Degree at the Vrije University of Brussel-Belgium Grade of Doctor of Sciences and Engineering at the National University of Trujillo I followed an International Course in Integrated Gestion of Water at he University of Wageningen from Holland and the National University Pedro Ruiz Gallo of Peru. I also followed the International Course in Geological Data Management. | Water for the energy, nutrition and say goodby to the poverty | If you control the water in the mountain you can promote a true develop. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Here in Peru, in z place called Huaraclla, place where I am working now to give water to the peasants. | Yes | Church of Saint Joseph from Germany | Research & Development | Yes of course, I want to promote the catch of water for infiltration and later to have a clean water | I need some help to improve the financial support to make forestry . | I think in a very short time, because people are so dynamic. | Make several maps: Topography, geology, geomorphology, soils, hydrology, etc. | I want to messure the soil eorsion and the percetaje on infiltration in the soil. | Yes of course | First some volunteers Second some money to plant vegetation and construct small dams to reserva water. | At the moment I have pictures and a video. | I will send you later | Now I have more water, the irrigated water has been increased | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Regnard | Raquedan | ParentUp | https://www.parentup.ca | Co-founder | Male | Canada | Canada | English | We would like to be part of this global event to share our impact and learn from other innovations that are tackling the same issues. We've learned that expanding the network is also a good way to find partners and collaborators. | Regnard Raquedan is the Co-Founder of ParentUp. Mr. Raquedan is dedicated to helping parents overcome their daily challenges with the help of technology. As a technology professional, Mr. Raquedan developed expertise in digital strategy, user experience design, and web development in over 15 years. He has an MBA and a Masters degree in Information Management and recently completed an executive program on Innovation and Strategy at MIT Sloan. Before ParentUp, he co-founded The Pink Basket Project, a crowdfunding initiative that raised funds and provided care packages to at-risk mothers in Toronto, and CubbySpot, a tech startup that connected parents and child care providers. Mr. Raquedan advocates for support for parents-- from improving maternal health to increasing awareness on emotional well-being. His efforts at ParentUp has been recognized at the Global Initiative for Science and Technology Tech-I competition and the Ryerson Social Venture Prize. | ParentUp | Toll-free SMS-based support line for teen moms in the Philippines | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Philippines | Yes | Commission on Population and Development | Transition to Scale | Ten pregnant women and ten mothers with newborn participated in the pilot implementation of ParentUp in Marikina City, Philippines from June to July 2018, funded by the Grand Challenges Canada. The participants send in questions related to pregnancy and infant care through their mobile phones at no cost since this is a toll-free number. Maternal and newborn care experts then provide not only relevant responses from their queries, but also non-judgmental support. | According to a report by the Philippine Statistics Authority, there were 203,085 teenagers that become mothers in 2016, a majority of them belonging to low-income communities. These girls have poor access to information and emotional support, especially in a country where teenage pregnancy and unwed motherhood carry heavy social stigma. In many communities, they do not have regular mental health professionals and counsellors in the local community health centre. | ParentUp is an SMS-based consultation and support line for young, low-income mothers that gives them maternal health information and emotional support. Mothers can send in questions for free and they will get relevant responses and non-judgmental support from maternal care and parenting advisers. ParentUp also features screening for Postpartum Depression so moms who may require help will get it on time. In a country where 74% of adults ages 18-34 owns a smartphone[1], ParentUp’s messaging service presents an opportunity to reach young mothers whether they are using a smart-phone or a non-internet enabled cell phone. Data has also suggested that women are more likely to own a mobile phone than men in the Philippines [2]. | On the back-end, development is underway to make the support line become powered by both Artificial Intelligence (AI) chat bots and the aforementioned health advisers. The support will come in languages and dialects like of the target geographies, such as Tagalog and English. The innovation’s primary goal is to improve the health outcomes of mothers and their young children, ultimately saving their lives. We also want to improve access to modern healthcare information and best practices by using technology that is already there in the community (low-end feature mobile phones). Our Theory of Change essentially follows this model: We believe that when we send our messages we educate the teen moms and in turn, they gain the knowledge on health, nutrition, and parenting, as well as uplifted by the positive messages and emotional support. These will eventually lead to better health habits and practical actions that replaces old behaviors. Specifically, if ParentUp is implemented into communities, we anticipate it will answer the questions and provide support which meets the needs of mothers in low-income settings so that health outcomes of the community are improved and maternal and infant deaths are avoided. | A needs assessment survey was undertaken among 80 mothers in order to define the specific requirements of the intended market. This was supplemented by home visits and focus group discussions covering 30 mothers. The needs assessment indicated that although the teens are looking for the information and find value in the information received, they are not capable of paying for the service. This insight led to designing the service as a toll-free support messaging line. Ten pregnant women and ten mothers with newborn participated in the pilot implementation of ParentUp in Marikina City, Philippines from June to July 2018, funded by the Grand Challenges Canada. The participants send in questions related to pregnancy and infant care through their mobile phones at no cost since this is a toll-free number. Maternal and newborn care experts then provide not only relevant responses from their queries, but also non-judgmental support. Half of the participants indicated that they saved an unnecessary visit to a health institution with the use of ParentUp, which also indicates saving them from transportation cost and unpleasant experiences such as long waiting hours in the health centers – considered among the main barriers in seeking health care. Furthermore, ParentUp received high ratings on the following: relevance: 9 out of 10, ease of use: 9.7, believability: 9.2, innovativeness: 9.9, and uniqueness: 9.6. | ParentUp is available nationwide as a special short code phone number (i.e, a short five digit number) enabling us to reach millions of people by working with the government, non-profit organizations, and private companies to promote the service. Promotional activities will include posting in social media, placement of posters and brochures in public spaces and local health centers. In five years, we have the potential to reach over one million teen moms (ages 15-19) in the Philippines alone. If the age group 20-24 is added, the potential reach is doubled. Financially, ParentUp will be supported by a business model where the partner organizations (government, non-profit, and businesses) will sponsor to implement the SMS support line in communities of their choice. The sponsorship would cover the cost of maintaining the system and the service. This approach will ensure scalability while providing value for our partners. Our value proposition to them is the improved health outcomes of their constituents and beneficiaries. For the for-profit entities, we are going to provide a way to partner with their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts and improve brand presence. | Proof-of-concept viability: In 2018, we've initially validated the viability of the basic functionality of ParentUp. The underlying technology of offering an SMS service and the process behind responding to questions are fully functional with high levels of user satisfaction. We've also validated the functions pertaining to toll-free charging and making sure that the end-users are not charged. As this work expands, we will track health resource utilization including the successful referral to health centres. We will also validate some new functionalities regarding case assignment/routing to improve response time. The methodology would be based on Agile testing and quality assurance framework of software, as outlined in Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Crispin and Gregory, 2009). Financial sustainability: We will validate the financial viability and business model of sponsorships and platform usage from organizations who will participate in the proposed pilot, as well as interviewing and meeting a sample of similar organizations. We will gather and analyze the data, and use this as an indicator for market validation. Based on the interest we’ve received and partnerships soon to be finalized from the Philippine Commission on Population and Development and non-profit organizations such as the Zuellig Family Foundation and Forum for Family Planning and Development, we remain confident that strong potential for our product is likely. | https://www.parentup.ca https://www.ryerson.ca/news-events/news/2019/07/social-startup-provides-parenting-support-for-some-of-the-worlds-most-vulnerable-moms/ | From a past event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcZRYPaSOrU | Grand Challenges Canada, Ryerson Social Ventture Prize, GIST Tech-I | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohammad Asif | Safi | Fair Law Organization for women (FLOW) | Www.flow-af.org | Excuetive Director | Male | Afghanistan | Afghanistan | English | Well I have an active member of SDG in Afghanistan and done a lot of innovative projects and currently working on one UN. | My full information is available on my CV | Berucay | Not have this time | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Afghanistan | No | Research & Development | Based on our country requirements | It’s have many problems | Day by day the world is changing so their is need that we should prepared accordingly to updates level life . | The new idea for Afghanistan is will be to bring updat concepts . | Almost last 6 months | Sure | It’s have many points . | Still not finalized | Not yet have | Not finished yet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Erick | Mukiza | Essential Social Service Creative and Legal Foundation | http/:esslegalfoundation.or.tz | Executive Director | Male | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | My Name is Erick Mukiza aged 34, an Executive Director of Essential Social Service(Ess) Creative and legal foundation. This is non profit, non political organisation run by youth who are legal proffessionals we are providing legal support to the marginalized and vulnerable communities in Tanzania. Ess Supplementing Tanzania Government, United Nations and other Development Partners to implement Sustanable Development Goals Particulary Goal number 16 which is Access to justice for All. Ess as the youth organisation we have the role to implement sustanable development goals to ensure no one leave behind by 2030. Our innovation scheme is called legal Assurance Scheme this scheme ensure poor people have Access to justice at affordable upkeeping feess. I decided to apply this UN solution summit because i want a capacity strengthen from international Experts in order to increaze my little knowledge on Sustanable Development Goals particulary goal number 16 and the skills which i will gain from the summit i will multiply to my fellow youth in Tanzania. | I was born in the year 1985 in Tanzania, Tabora region i grew up in a middle class family. i compled my Advanced level in the year 2007 and later on i join a law course at University of Dar es Salam here in Tanzania. In the year 2013 i establish my youth legal organisation called Essential Social Service Creative and Legal Foundation as i become officially an Executive Director up to date. | Legal Assurance Scheme | This is the new brand only for Ess it ensure poor people to have access to justice, it has a Copyright no C0837187 dated on 13. March 2018 , . | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | My Solution currently is operated in Tanzania | Yes | Youth of United Nation Tanzania(YUNA), Young African Leader Initiave Tanzania(YALI), Local Government Ilala Municipality, Primary and District Court Tanzania. | Scaling | This scheme is operating now. For the past 12 month, the organisation has raised$5000 from 247 members who have subscribed to the legal Assurance Scheme. Not only that we have been trusted by the Government,Civil Society,and ,,local community. In addition to that this scheme has already get full Government bleessing with Copyright Clearance number No C0837187 dated 13 March 2018. | Provision of justice in Tanzania is Limited to the few people who can only afford to pay private advocate living out the poor and marginalized group.Ess identify the gap and came up with innovative solution called legal assurance scheme which ensure poor people to have access to justice. | This is an innovative approach to enable poor communities to access justice at affordable upkeeping fees. We have four packages to choose from based on individual capacity to contribute:Gold Card covers six people in a family, platinum Card covers 4 people in a family, Silver Card covers 2 people in a family and Copper Card covers single person. Upkeeping feess contributed monthly or yearly and covers all legal services except criminal, political cases. The Long term vision is that : To be trusted by creating equitable access to justice for all, especially the marginalized and vulnerable communities in Tanzania | Legal Assurance Scheme is impactful justice innovation with the potential to become financially sustanable and scale nationally or globally. This is because is an Artificial Intelegence to solve comp,ex social problem which is a legal challenges. It is unique because we are the founder and owner of this scheme legally with Full Government bleesings with copyright clearance certificate. | For the past 12 months my team manage to ensure 247 members join legal assurance scheme. Ways which i use to measure my progress is that if i will improve the capacity of community members especially youth, women, disabled and elders in adressing legal challenges. | My planned goal is to extend more branches in Tanzania then i will extend to the East African Countries. Also my Goal as a as young director is to proctect basic human rights of local communities in Tanzania. | The resources needed are: 1. Capacity strenghten both individual, institutional, and my team 2. we need to have access of information about sustanable development goals 3. we need financial support to reach out poor communities 4. we need techinical support from expert who can help us to scaleup our innovative solution. | http://esslegalfoundation.or.tz | https://streamable.com/fd766 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mbuh | Raphael Mbuh | First Modern Agro. Tools Common Initiative Group(FI.MO.AT.C.I.G) | https://www.facebook.com/mbuh.raphael | ECOSOC NGO President | Male | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | French | Breaking News! There is a genocide taking place now in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. Statistics are appalling, with tens of thousands of internally displaced persons and refugees in Neighboring Nigeria. After the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, world countries in 2005 decided that henceforth, it will be their Responsibility to prevent genocide. We ask this from the United Nations, to empower Anglophone linguistic minority in Cameroon by sending a fact finding mission to validate and establish the case of genocide, mediate for inclusive dialogues, intervene and Stop the genocide. Sit-tight 38-year rule autocrat, President Paul BIYA of the republic of Cameroon has shown no desire to stop the genocide and to address the root cause of the conflict. He has rejected the voice of his own people; ever since the Anglophone linguistic minority in Cameroon noticed the arrogance and hypocrisy of the BIYA’s government that say it is ready for inclusive dialogues but never made any move. This is why the Anglophone linguistic Minority in Cameroon decided to establish every Monday a public holiday characterized by ghost town since 2017 until both parties sit on the dialogue table. Claiming they are ready for dialogues for over three years and with irrelevant persons-federalists and leaving out the relevant stakeholders-separatists is completely meaningless. If we think that we can end the crises without addressing the root causes then we are deceiving ourselves, they would be ignited even if they end. | MBUH Raphael MBUH after obtaining his GCE A/L spent one year of teaching experience in a primary school, then he continued university in the university if DOUALA where he obtained a higher teacher’s DIPLOMA in mechanical manufacturing and pedagogy in JULY 2005. He went to the field and after three years of experience as a secondary school lecturer, he decided to further his studies in the University of DOUALA, where he obtained another higher DIPLOMA in mechanical engineering as a teacher in JULY 2011. Since then he has been working with the Cameroonian government as a teacher. He has had several promotions, he is examiner at the GCE BOARD, and he is school administrator (SENIOR DISCIPLINE MASTER) at Government Technical College DIPENDA BAKUNDU. He is lead activist in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon during the Anglophones crises in October 2016-ongoing with UN recognition. | Mediation for peace through inclusive dialogue in Cameroon | Inclusive dialogues between Cameroonian government and Anglophone separatist Leaders | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Cameroon, Nigeria, Switzerland and United States of America | Yes | Cardinal Tummy of Cameroon has a similar initiative though was rejected by the Cameroonian government, the Swiss government also started a similar initiative, seeking Partnership with CLEAR ADR in London | Transition to Scale | We have talk and wrote letters to both parties, what is left is just to bring them to the dialogue table. | .The Marginalization of the Anglophone linguistic minority in Cameroon by the francophone majority. •Discrimination of the Anglophones in government. •The gradual eradication of the English culture in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon. This has led to the war in the anglophone regions of Cameroon between the government of La République du Cameroun and AMBA fighters leading to continuing genocide and crimes against humanity against the Anglophone linguistic minority in Cameroon. | Inclusive dialogue could help fighting parties come to a compromise solution. For global impact it would help achieve the SDGs in having peaceful and inclusive societies. | In other to solve this problem Cameroon DIASPORA thought that it is better for Anglophone regions to separate from Francophone regions. They therefore pick their guns and start fighting. Other solutions people have proposed include decentralization. Meanwhile others propose federation. But my solution first is inclusive dialogue between fighting parties and military removal of the 38-year rule dictatorial regime of Paul Biya | We have attended the 10th session forum on minority issues in Geneva on the 29 Nov.-01 Dec. 2017 related to the Anglophone crises in Cameroon since 2016. -Attended the 63rd session of the committee against torture at Palais Wilson first floor on the 23rd of April-18 may 2018, Geneva -Attended the 115th session on enforced or involuntary disappearance on 23rd April-02 May at palais de nations room xxiv Geneva related to the enforced or involuntary disappearance of the interim government of the AMBAZONIANS from Nigeria. We acquired knowledge in all these conferences and talk with fighting parties. | We planned to still travel to the US to talk with Ambazonian leadership for inclusive dialogue to hold. | Short term resources include visa to the US for the President , medium term resources include getting experts on mediation and long term resources include negotiating with a host country where fighting parties can sit on the dialogue table. | https://thepostnewspapercameroon.com/award-winning-inventor-offers-to-mediate-anglophone-crisis/ http://www.atlanticchronicles.com/2019/01/22/to-end-anglophone-crisis-concerned-cameroonians-offer-to-negotiate-between-govt-amba-fighters/ | https://youtu.be/AyWOnmK8qTY https://youtu.be/QmzCXalHOa0 https://youtu.be/aTgn0XxIMEc | Medal winner in Hydro electric power generation on South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Pradeep | Mahapatra | UDYAMA | www.udyama.org | Secretary | Male | India | India | English | Am spearheading UDYAMA, (www.udyama.org ) as founder, embarking on citizen-actions on mainstreaming climate induced DRR, END-WATER-POVERTY campaign, deepening governance on water and local biodiversity as an emerging issues and opportunity to garner collective effort. I have been trying to capitalize mainstream resources impact to livelihoods linking with community resilient-process & climate-justice. Our focused activities on landscape advancement, wise water use, and ecosystem based initiatives, gearing greening and green energy drive has well accepted along with life skill building integration, innovations & inclusion. Am always advocating broad based livelihoods in cultivating solutions for people & planet that has added value for money to resilience building connecting to social, ecological, human capital. Whole in initiative since last two decades is to link to the broader view of Poverty & poverty alleviation that goes beyond just income ,Highlight the crucial role of ‘local context’ , space to local perspectives and how this influences the asset base to categorize the strategies that make up their livelihoods. Build on what exists - integrated perspective that unites the concepts of economic development, Facilitate Risk informed Development & Catalyze Agents of Change ,Cultivating commitments for insulating solutions community resilience.it will be an extra advantage to add value to our ongoing activities of community resilience and risk informed development, adaptation & mitigation especially in resource poor areas connecting community towards better training , tools that will help for model building, strategic planning, sustainable management & to bring a positive change with sustainability | Mr Pradeep Mahapatra is a Development Catalyst close to three-decades with an emotional relationship with communities & institutions having strong exposure in eco-development & community-resilience-process . Mr. Mohapatra is deeply advocating localize the SDGs and pursuing for local action & global networking towards risk informed resilient development. And now he is the one of the MAC of Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) under the framework of SCP. He is spearheading UDYAMA, (www.udyama.org ) as founder, embarking on citizen-actions on mainstreaming DRR in order to maximizing benefit of readiness, preparedness, better rehabilitation. He is influencing policy to add on cross cutting programs to minimizing loss, damages, allied risks & vulnerability linking with END-WATER-POVERTY campaign, deepening governance on water and local biodiversity & capitalizing mainstream resources impact to livelihoods of small holdings linking with community resilient-process & climate-justice. His focused activities on science led livelihoods focusing on landscape advancement, cluster based evidence based natural resource management, wise water use, and ecosystem based initiatives & life skill building integration with grass root innovations & inclusion is well reflected into action. He always advocates broad based livelihoods in cultivating solutions for people & planet that has added value for money to resilience building , community adaptation connecting to social, ecological, human capital in undertaking emerging issues to Next-Development-Challenges. | Scaling up Sustainable livelihoods & Fair Climate Initiatives : An Innovation & Inclusion Process | Resilient Livelihoods | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India | Yes | Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, Mumbai, ICCO, Netherlands, ICRISAT, India, NABARD | Scaling | UDYAMA has proven track record on resource conservation & mobilization & has demonstrated onsite activities and its responsiveness to social, ecological development , change Management on mitigating drought, added green energy, protecting environment , livelihood development is well reflected & link to the broader view of poverty & Giving local perspectives with integrated perspective with an objective of backward & forward linkage to Farm & Non-farm based livelihoods | Vulnerable eco-system, devastated livelihood, ravaged resource base, deteriorated quality of life, malnourished environment, lack of confidence and capacity for entitlement and access to resource base has created immense imbalance and embarrassing caused impoverishment of vulnerable sections, The problems of poverty and deprivation in the tribal regions are complex and intense and not fairly addressed due to lack of political will and governance | There are two major components: I) Promotion of climate change impacts resilient integrated ecosystem based livelihood models with Green Energy and, ii) setting up institutional processes for learning, management and sustainability of project interventions. i)Promotion of ecosystem based climate change resilient integrated livelihood models •Ecosystem based Preventing Degradation & Agro- Ecology Development •Life cycle based Micro-water resource development, Water Harvesting, Conservation, Restoration, Rejuvenation •Gearing Green Energy, Greening , Biodiversity conservation ii)Setting up institutional process for learning, management and sustainability •Community institution building, Green Technology transformation scaling models •Information, communication & knowledge management platform(Resource Hub) •Skill building for women , Eco-prenureship towards revenue models | Innovation is to protecting land mass from degradation, utilizing ecologically sensitive indigenous resilient farming and alternative methods for wise land & water use , rejuvenation followed by adoption green energy especially solar based post harvest technology, biomass conservation can help to achieve important prerequisites for environmental sustainability & livelihoods empowerment on enterprising mode connecting market adding value to food systems, water & energy governance | Team of UDYAMA has UDYAMA has inspired by actions, demonstrated evidence based initiatives on sustainable livelihoods and environmental richness working directly with community in engaging partner NGOs and carved out good learning on resilience process. Founded in 1997, UDYAMA aims towards strengthening and building capacities of local communities with a view to enhancing adaptation to vulnerability and changing the culture of self-reliance in harnessing resource base, blending with traditional and improved technology transformation with well articulated development communication towards micro-development perspective | Goal is Demonstrating Resilient Livelihoods Linking Water-Nature- Culture-Energy-Ecology-Empowerment & Entrepreneurship in order to Reduce drudgery, health hazards and promotion sustainable livelihoods engaging community added with cross cutting programs To Empower community youths and women linking with school education & children towards self resilient towards gearing greening and green energy and promote Eco-prenures for good income and self dignity and projected outcomes of the project in the To leverage mainstream resources & capitalize ongoing programs of government To Influence policy for am integrated & convergent action | Action to engage community & partners for preventing degradation & biodiversity conservation towards doubling farmers income Technology on Solar irrigation, water use, home lights, post harvest technology like solar storage & dryers, roof to solar to minimize loss of products and distress sale for power governance Advocacy. for an integrated & convergent action for sustainable food systems Funding to connect & scaling the programs with more model building Research for value adding and linkage for micro-macro establishments on resilience livelihoods | https://www.academia.edu/30602268/The_Power_of_Collectives https://nios.academia.edu/PradeepMohapatra/Analytics#/activity/documents?_k=k8mziv https://www.academia.edu/13843072/Migrants_now_Mainstreamed https://www.academia.edu/s/6010a5d7cb/pathways-adaptation-to-climate-change https://www.academia.edu/27917948/Actions_and_reflections_on_Sustainable_Livelihood_and_Fair_Climate_Report 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13 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Beverly | Gichiri | Mugure-Agriventure | http;//mugureagriventires.co.ke | Agriprenuer | Female | Kenya | Kenya | English | Climate smart agriculture! Innovation is key to improving productivity growth in the agriculture and agri-food sectors, thus contributing to production and economic growth,higher competitiveness,farm family income, and ensuring lower food costs for consumers in the long-term. Innovations in agriculture is key to conserving the world’s biodiversity and to ensuring the ability of millions of small scale farmers to grow their own food.Agriculture is one of the best pursuit in economic development.Eradication of poverty, creating employment opportunities for youths and Women and rural development can only be achieved through sustainable Farming, and Agricultural innovations. As a Woman and a farmer, i have taken to my own hands to create a positive impact among small scale farmers. On my four acre farm,i have initiated CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE. I have Implemented sustainable technologies and practices, such as improved varieties of crops,irrigation,organic pest control measure,water conservation,smart market analysis,simple and efficient transport logistics,improved storage facilities and training farmers on agricultural information.This has resulted to high yields,good quality crops and an increase income in our produce.The women are able to earn more and fetch better markets for our Goods. Soil and water conservation techniques,in my farm is key.I am practising ,Agro forestry such as tree planting, and Integrated farming to reduce water loss. Managed natural regeneration, and integrated soil fertility, using organic manure by making my own compost pit. I am also sphere heading talks and representing youths and other farmers for Better policies that govern Agriculture in Kenya.I believe the Government and other private bodies have an important role in the agricultural sector.Clear agricultural policy and regulation framework will facilitate access to information, reduce bureaucracy,market accessibility,and structural change in agriculture. | Beverly Mugure Gichiri Born in a small farm,in Kenya Nakuru County on March 7 1990,I began my journey through life. I am the the youngest daughter in a family of two other siblings.Completed my studies in Nakuru at an age of 18. After graduating in High school,i embarked on a journey to college in Nairobi where i graduated with a diploma in Hospitality management.I landed a job in a restaurant where i started as a waitress.Apart from working in a busy restaurant i enjoy mentoring and talking to young people to understand their challenges and where they come from.In my career,i developed a passion in the food business,created a great network of clients,but i also identified a disconnect between the consumer and the producer.As i was serving clients,most of the time we would be missing Spinach,butternut,or potatoes.How best could i solve this problem?.Growing food was the Solution! From there i managed to acquired a one acre farm in Juja where i started my farming projects.I started by growing wild vegetables and tomatoes which was a trend in that area.Through my Project, i have empowered women in my community,trained youths on agricultural practices during school Holidays. I am a very hard working lady,focused, result and goal oriented.I believe in empowering other people,that way you create wealth and improve other peoples lives.I enjoy farming,when i farm, i feel i am making Progress.I love reading, participating in charity work, car racing and mentoring young people. My mission in life,is to make this world a better place than i found it. | CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE | Transforming Agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure Food security | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kenya | No | Transition to Scale | I have been farming since 2016, and i strongly believe i have endured the challenges that the business comes with.Through this experience,i believe am in a position where my business can transit to a bigger project.This will require funding and involvement of other bodies or investors to see this dream come true.The successes and failures are a great lesson and experience to do better in agriculture. | My project has solved issues of unemployment among youths and women.I work with at least 10-20 women in rotations.This women depend fully on this farm and are able to feed and take their children to school.It has also eradicated poverty among local communities, because they have a living and they earn an income.We are also keen in conserving and protection of the environment by using better quality seeds,conserving water and using manure instead of harmful fertilisers in the business. | My long term vision is to facilitate an extensive farming project in vegetable production and dairy farming.Their is a great potential and niche market in milk production and vegetables.My vision is to create more employment among youths and train them to start small start-up for them.I want our produce to be solved all over the world,create employment,eradicate poverty and contribute to economic Growth. | Most of the farmers in Kenya farm for profit purposes.My project has a different approach in investing in people more than just making money.My project put people first, understanding their backgrounds,talents and working on improving and empowering people to be better and instilling hope in them.I believe that when you invest in people,one can achieve a lot. | We have structured a different way of working.To empower more people, we came up with a rotational shift.This way, we are able to employ more people where they work for 4 hours and allow others to work too.This is a very operational methods which requires supervision.. We have also identified a different method of selling our produce.We do not take vegetables to the market, we have identified individual and cooperate clients so we can sell directly. Investing in water storage has saved us money and time too. We have also started collecting data and record keeping for our sales and farm operation procedures, to keep track of our sales. | Goals. Expand to a 10-15 acre Project by 2022 in vegetable production and Dairy farming. Employ at least 200 Youths by 2030. Impact and initiate agricultural programmes in at least 3 schools in every county. Launch a Flower project for young children to instil a passion for farming at a younger age. | Key solutions are Long term-Mechanisation to increase production and ease work load,Investors to meet our goals,experts to assist in consultation,agronomist etc. Medium-term Quality seeds, a fence,quality branding and packaging. | https://ke.linkedin.com/in/beverly-mugure-145571103 https://tukuka.co.ke/product/tukuka-magazine-may-2019/ https://twitter.com/olenkere https://www.facebook.com/1511841925778304/posts/beverly-mugure-shares-her-story-on-becoming-a-farmer-read-about-her-inspiring-st/1933809636914862/ | https://twitter.com/statuses/1016613534061481986 https://twitter.com/tukuka_/status/873157335690170368 | Best Youth Champion in Agribusiness 2018 Under United Nation FAO /EAC. Completed a project in Benin in Youth in Agribusiness Young Fellow 2019 United state department of State in Washington DC. Incubated in Michigan University representing Kenya for the Advancing women in Agribusiness. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Paul | Gibbon | UK Doorstep Choice (Ltd) | http://www.ukdoorstepchoice.co.uk | Founder / Director | male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | - knowledge transfer in respect of IP and related rights, use of, for wider social, economic, and environmental good. Innovation has been used for reference in relation to human rights. | - founded the business in 2005 | Paid for preference services | Representing and protecting a consumers rights to privacy at home | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | - has global application according to configuration and rights and laws applicable | Yes | HM Government / Commonwealth - Barclays Plc / Rsm International | Sustainable Scale | - proof of concept and business models already tried and tested in most basic form | - the solutions are to address and protect the rights of people who do not want unsolicited callers and unsolicited mail in any capacity at, and through, the door of their home | - utilises rights and technology used to provide a solution. The services can be configured to suit any socio-economic environmental equation and priority of any community or country | - in respect of aim and capacity, there are, and can be, no other solutions available | - has international private and public recognition as a first | - unable to quantify due to the above | - knowledge transfer, application and use of related IP between relevant organisations in relation to time line | - unable to supply / provide in this format | - unable to supply / provide in this format | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Michael | Abboud | First Aid Tablet | https://firstaidtablet.org/ | First Aid Tablet | Male | Australia | Lebanon | Arabic | English | The FAT initiative, is a humanitarian aid initiative, developing digital knowledge based solutions to aid people in: -Health sustainability & Hygiene -Security & Survival techniques -Disaster zone safety procedures -Aid applications and methods -Counselling and Psychotherapy -Maps GPS and Off-line -Asylum and Human Rights -Preventing the Recruitment of Children in Armed Forces, and Human Trafficking -Education for primary students A fully loaded durable digital tablets along with an accelerated learning session on the ground will provide recipients caught in crisis zones with sustainable lifesaving solutions. Our team and partner NGO’s will carefully asses and penetrate crisis zones and provide aid where professional aid is lacking. To date, no organisation has introduced this vast menu of solutions which the First Aid Table provides. The First Aid Tablet will serve to strategically introduce solutions to its beneficiaries, and in so doing, bridge the widening gap between privileged and underprivileged. In addition, First Aid Tablet will provide the first opportunity to combine full comprehensive solutions together on one platform, where Health, Psychology, First-Aid, Security, and Education, come together on one device. The nature of having a compact all-in-one device easily accessible and transportable is crucial in managing life threatening situations. All made available on a solar rechargeable rugged device with cutting edge key features. | After attending various humanitarian aid summits, reoccurring issues raised by speakers and moderators regarding the lack of effective long-lasting solutions by humanitarian aid agencies for people caught in crisis zones proved to be of great concern. With this in mind, I began the process of applying an innovative approach to resolve this critical problem. With the aid of my background in creative media, the concept ‘First Aid Tablet’ (FAT) came to mind ticking all the right boxes by providing an app designed by experts loaded onto a digital tablet to assist the people caught in crisis. Once the model made itself clear, feedback was sought from the humanitarian aid agencies around this initiative in order to move forward with its development. ""having the potential of becoming the most powerful tool in humanitarian aid"" Was one opinion from a government agency... The response was overwhelming attracting invitations from various Humanitarian Aid bodies, and various government agencies to exhibit the innovation. We are currently in the app development faze of the application. | First Aid Tablet | The dispatch and distribution of life saving solutions by digital means to people caught in crisis zones. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Africa, Middle East, Australia, Europe | No | Research & Development | The First Aid Tablet board of advisors consists of experts in the fields of: science, health, civil defence, and education, who are gathering the data/content needed for the app developers to design/develop the application. | Lack of critical information in crisis zones is made available for recipients in humanitarian aid initiatives which is needed in the absence of any professional and consistent support. | The First Aid Tablet app and device is loaded with simple to navigate and animated solutions specifically tailored for each crisis which the recipients are experiencing: Health sustainability & Hygiene Security & Survival techniques Disaster zone safety procedures First Aid applications and methods Counselling and Psychotherapy Maps GPS and Off-line Asylum and Human Rights Preventing the Recruitment of Children in Armed Forces, and Human Trafficking Education for primary students A fully loaded durable digital tablets along with an accelerated learning session on the ground will provide recipients caught in crisis zones the instructions of use. In addition, First Aid Tablet will provide the opportunity to upload the data collected from each device forming a macro-cyclical opportunity for invention and the introduction of new products and services over time to better the solutions it provides. All made available on a solar rechargeable rugged device with cutting edge key features. | To date, no organisation has introduced this vast menu of solutions in the manner which the First Aid Table provides. The First Aid Tablet will serve to strategically make available these solutions to its beneficiaries in a simple yet effective way which provides solutions at a press of a button to people in crisis zones. | We have identified the Solutions, established the company, successfully registered as a member of the Australian Charities & Not for Profit Commission ACNC. Our advisory board are gathering the data needed for the app developers. The app developers have developed the development and design strategy along with a business plan. | Currently we are negotiating with a leading South African Charity which will be our partner in Africa. We will be testing the device in Africa under the cooperation of our partner. We are looking at impacting thousands of lives initially and within 5 years we would like the device available in every crisis zone world wide. | The resources needed to scale is the digital device which we are under negotiations with a manufacturer in china. Short -erm needs: Data collection, seed funding Medium-term needs: App developers, Digital-tablets/hardware, funding Long-term needs: Administration staff and funding | https://firstaidtablet.org/ https://www.facebook.com/Firstaidtablet/ | https://firstaidtablet.org/ https://www.facebook.com/Firstaidtablet/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mutiu | Akano | Charitable Youth for Nation Building | https://www.charitableyouth.org/ | Lagos State Coordinator | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am planning to educate the all fulani herdmen herdsmen in Osun, Ogun , Oyo and Ondo states in order to avert the danger in our land. Herdsmen are killing in Nigeria and I think what we need is to go them and give them education and love. This will go a long way in resolving most of the problems in Nigeria | Education is key and is one of the tool to eradicate hunger and illiteracy in a community. My team and I have been doing this work for the past few months and we are still on it. If we can get any assistance from the United Nations, It will make this programme to come to limelight | Herdsmen killer solution | https://www.charitableyouth.org/ | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | Yes | Adisa Kabiru, Adebayo Dorcas, Olabiyi Rofiat, Akano Saheed and so on | Research & Development | We are at formation stage and our team are not losing sleep on this progress | Eradication of Illiteracy among the herdsmen in Nigeria | The long term vision is to reduce the rate of illiteracy among the fulani and stop killing | The project is targeted at illiterate fulanis. Most of them hardly go to school. We are ensuring that we remain focus and go to the rural areas where they live. | We had team in place and we have gone to some of where they live before now | We are planning to go global but at this moment, we are only starting in Nigeria , afterwards, we recruit globally to extend this selfless service | We really need resources such as teaching materials, books, cloths for them, and any other assistance from the United Nations will be welcomed. | https://www.charitableyouth.org/ | https://www.charitableyouth.org/ | Nill, we are in the formative stage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohamed Lamine | KABA | Youth Action Hub Guinea - CNUCED | https://www.facebook.com/youthactionhubguinea/ | Coordinateur National | Masculin | Guinea | Guinea | French | Par la présente, je viens très respectueusement auprès de votre auguste personne, soumettre ma candidature. En effet, je souhaites associer mon image à cette grande organisation afin de parvenir à une performance grandissant le succès de mon projet professionnel qui consiste à mettre au service de ma nation et de toute l'humanité, mes acquis théoriques et pratiques en essayant de trouver solution aux problèmes sociologiques. J'ai pour ambition d'oeuvrer pour l'amélioration des conditions de travail, la prise en compte de la responsabilité sociale et environnementale au sein des entreprises, la lutte contre la corruption et les inégalités qui sont des facteurs très importants pour un développement durable des nations, plongées qu'elles sont dans l'ère de la globalisation des idées et de la mondialisation des cultures. Veuillez trouver en pièce jointe la demande qui vous dira plus sur ma motivation. Cordialement, Mohamed Lamine KABA | Sociologue de formation spécialisé en organisations, 27 ans célibataire. Fils Lamine et de Saran KOUROUMA. | ODD2 et Agrobusiness, une solution efficace pour lutter contre la faim en Guinée | 1- moderniser la culture du maïs pour satisfaire la demande illimitée de consommation ; 2- mecaniser la culture du soja pour faire face aux besoins | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Guinée | No | Research & Development | La rédaction du document projet est finie | La pauvreté et la faim | Agrobusiness pour sortir les populations de la faim | Il s'inscrit dans une approche participative et inclusive des jeunes garçons et filles | 95% d'évolution réalisées | Accompagner l'État et ses partenaires dans la poursuite des Objectifs de Développement Durable | Ressources humaines , techniques, matérielles et financières | Nous n'avons pas encore de site internet . Veuillez voir ci-dessus le lien de notre page Facebook | Ci-dessus la page Facebook | Nous au départ pour le moment | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dosse | SOSSOUGA | Amis des Étrangers au Togo: ADET | https://www.fb.me/ongadet.com | Executive Director | Male | Togo | Togo | French | Les ODDs étaient recherchés et trouvés par un groupe mondial ( les groupes majeurs). Ces objectifs de développement durables ont été présenté aux chefs d'État et de gouvernements dans le monde avant d'être adoptés par ces derniers en 2015. 4 ans après sa mise en œuvre, on sent un engagement de certains gouvernements dont 142 sur 193 qui les avaient adoptés, à accepter volontiers de présenter leur rapport national: certains 1 fois, 2fois ou 3fois mais les résultats escomptés par l'organisation des Nations-Unies sont toujours mitigés. Au lieu que la pauvreté diminue, elle augmente plutôt, au que la faim diminue le rapport de la FAO précise qu'en 2014 en Afrique de l'ouest 44,4 millions de personnes sont malnutris en 2014 contre 182 millions en 2018. Les ODDs ont pourtant démarrés et il reste 11ans pour les atteindre. Les rapports du Secrétaire Général de l'ONU sont pourtant clairs à exploiter par les gouvernements. En Septembre 2019, les chefs d'État et de gouvernements reviendront confirmer leur engagement mais il faut leur donner les meilleures pratiques pour la bonne mise en œuvre des ODDs pour ne laisser personne de côté. | Dosse SOSSOUGA est né au Togo en 1959. Il est un des innovateur de l'agenda 2030. Il a été un membre UNTEAMWORK pour la mise en œuvre des ODDs. Il est membre de plusieurs réseaux nationaux et internationaux ODDs. Il a eu le prix mondial ODDs en 2016, 2017, 2018 et en 2019. Il est un des 53 candidats ayant réussi au cours de formation sur l'anti-corruption et les ODDs organisé par PNUD et Le département anti-corruption de l'ONU. Il a fait éditer un livre par la maison d'édition européenne sur la stratégie de mise en œuvre des ODDs. | La stratégie de mise en œuvre des ODDs | Ne laisser personne de côté | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Au Togo et dans tous les pays du monde entier | No | Proof of Concept | Parce que nous déjà un programme ODDs reconnu officiellement par le gouvernement qui a donné son consentement et a exempté l'ONG: ADET de taxe. L'organigramme est préétabli et les mécanisme d'operationalisation sont en cour. On attend le financement publique pour afficher la transition à l'échelle, la mise à l'échelle et amorcer l'échelle durable. | Personne ne sera laisser de côté dans la mise en œuvre des ODDs. Il y aura la révolution des données, la lutte contre la pauvreté, la lutte contre la faim, le changement climatiques, l'éducation de qualité pour tous, la santé améliorée pour tous, l'énergie renouvelable pour tous etc..comme prévus dans les ODDs | Le fonctionnent de notre mécanisme est lié à son financement. | Elle est unique parce que la façon traditionnelle du fonctionnement des gouvernements mérite des réformes ,lesquelles font défaut actuellement pour la mise en œuvre des ODDs. | Des formations données et d'autres qui seront données à notre équipe permettront de mesurer des progrès vérifiés et vérifiables à tous les niveaux. | Des équipe seront formées, équipées pour s'adapter à toutes situations et éventualités. | Nous avons prévu un Budget annuel qui prend en compte tous nos besoins. Le cummul des années peut déterminer le court, moyen et long terme. | https://www.fb.me/ongadet.com; http://www.africardv.com/front page/togo-ladet-veut-reinventer-la-democratie-please; https://youtu.ne/AP8mpA6UjicROADD; http://my.editons-ue.com/referrals/ed51b6 | Déjà | Prix mondial ODDs 2016, 2017, 2018 et 2019 décerné par BUILD en Angleterre, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Damian | Ohienmhen | Nugenesis Energy | www.nugenesisenergy.com | Project Development Officer | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | French | My project seeks to address persistent energy poverty in rural areas in Nigeria. In areas were national power grid extension doesn't cover, my solution aims to supply power to the residents in these communities, thereby promoting economic development and inclusion in these areas. The UN Solutions Summit offers a platform to not only showcase my proposed solution, but also gain additional support to realize its potential for rural development. Forming a broad based coalition of support would significantly improve the chances of a successful project scheme, one that is able to last long enough to guarantee the achievement of its goals. The support I receive from the UN Solutions Summit would all but assure these goals are met. The innovation of decentralized grid power is one that allows communities that are not connected to the national grid network to realize their full potential for economic inclusion and development. Grid services are considered to be non-viable in these areas due to poor economic output. This further impoverishes the people living in these areas and the cycle continues unchanged. My solution offers to break this cycle by ensuring economic development, thereby offering incentives to promote growth in these communities. I hope to further this cause to other rural areas in Nigeria which seek the same innovation for its economic development. | I am a Renewable Energy Project Developer with 5 years of post-graduate experience. I am the recipient of the prestigious Tony Elumelu Foundation award in 2017 recognition of my entrepreneurship drive in Nigeria and was awarded a cash sum of $ 5,000 to pursue my innovative pursuits. I have worked on a variety of sustainable energy initiatives including starting the first student chapter of the Students for Sustainable Energy for All (SSEA) at my university in Nigeria (2014) where we organized educational outreach programs on sustainability issues and developed pilot projects for implementation. I have been a part of various government and private sector dialogue forums, including the monthly Nextier Power Forum in Abuja, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization's Validation Workshop for Biomass Projects in Ogun State, the Stakeholder's Assembly on Power organized by the judiciary and legislative arms of government, the Nigerian Alternative Energy Expo in Abuja to name a few. I have worked alongside public and private institutions in Nigeria to pitch and develop my decentralized power project, working with the Ogun State Government and Onyx Rice Mill in Niger state. I was recently awarded the Chevening Scholarship in 2018 to study a Masters program in the United Kingdom driven at bolstering my knowledge in my chosen field. | The 5KVa/4KWe Combined Heat & Power Unit for Decentralized Energy Generation | A decentralized energy solution to cater for rural power and energy needs. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria, Ghana | Yes | Onyx Rice Mill, UNIDO Nigeria and GIZ in Nigeria | Proof of Concept | We have developed the Proof of Concept (PoC) model and are in the process of implementation to demonstrate the viability of the project. The PoC will reveal the potential pitfalls of the project and address key concerns surrounding the technology behind the process | We are attempting to solve energy poverty in communities which lack grid-based power supply. This is aimed at fostering economic growth and development in these communities which have been neglected in past years. We are also attempting to curb climate change my using our solution to displace the use of more harmful energy generation practices as seen with the use of generator sets which spew harmful greenhouse gas emissions into the environment | The Combined Heat and Power unit works by utilizing biomass waste in the form of sawdust or rice husk to produce high temperatures and heat in a boiler unit. The heat is then used to produce high grade steam which drives a turbine connected to a shaft to produce electrical work. Some of the steam is redirected for use in process systems which require large heat inputs. The system is capable of producing 4 KWe of electricity and 10 Kg/hr of steam. The long-term goal of this project is to replicate it on a much larger scale allowing for large inputs of waste material to generate power in large Combined Heat and Power Units. The aim is to foster growth in rural communities, provide an alternative to fossil fuel based powered generator sets and help in addressing climate change by implementing these solutions in countries across the region and the globe. | Solutions to curbing energy poverty in these regions have largely been driven by the use of solar panels which produce electricity when sunlight hits its surface. This relies heavily on solar input which can be unavailable on days with heavy cloud cover and low solar penetration. This technology also is only capable of generating electricity and does not solve the heat input problem which many communities require for industrial processes. This technology seeks to address these problems in tandem by offering to generate both heat and power for applications which range from industrial use to residential lighting purposes. This hopes to bridge the energy gap on two fronts while at the same time addressing other persistent challenges related to poor waste management practices practiced in these communities. | We have developed the prototype for the project and are at the stage of setting up its pilot. The project is currently being vetted by finance and grant institutions for the purpose of offering funding to set-up the project. We have liased with private institutions, particularly rice milling institutions in Nigeria which require large heat and power inputs to run their mills. Milestones are measured principally through the acquisition of certain documents such as a Power Purchase Agreement with the energy consumer, a Purchase Agreement with a supplier of the raw material and making a part payment for the equipment supplied from an international equipment dealer. | Once we have established the viability of the pilot project, we hope to scale the solution to a 500 KW plant. This plant will have the a standing capacity to produce 500 KW of power while at the same time providing heat to industrial processes. We also hope to employ around 50 people to man and run the plant and hope to offer additional jobs to suppliers of raw materials (i.e. saw dust and rice husks). We hope to expand this solution to the neighboring country of Ghana which has similar energy challenges. | The key resources required are the finances required to erect the pilot model developed thus far. Outlining these goals and needs in phases are as follows: Short-term Needs: Financial support of $100,000 to implement pilot scheme. Demonstrate viability, establish solid partnerships with suppliers of raw materials. Medium-Term Needs: Move towards larger scale implementation of project, establish larger support team. Move to garner greater regional support for project implementation. Long-Term Needs: Obtain backing of global international development institutions and private development institutions of repute for crosse-regional deployment. | 1. https://nugenesisenergy.com | 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPLIaMMA2Oo | 1. Tony Elumelu Foundation Award (TEF) 2017. $5,000 Grant. 2. Nigeria Energy Forum 2018 Award- 3rd place winner. 3. Chevening Scholarship 2018- Recognition of Entrepreneurship Activities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | brice | bindzi | freshbag | https://freshbag.shop/ | General Manager | male | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | French | Spanish | I am an agronomy engineer and a freelance developer living in cameroon with more than five years experience working with rural farmers organizations and the ministry of agriculture. I am also a social entrepreneur trying to solve the cameroon food supply chain challenges using digital and mobile solutions. | born and raised in cameroon. Studied abroad where I obtained my agriculture engineer diploma. came back to my country where I work as a consultant, freelance engineer and data analyst for the ministry of agriculture and rural development. Founder of the togetherfund association that support and provide training and mentorship opportunities to young cameroonians entrepreneurs. Founder and general manager of freshbag an online platform that connects farmers with end consumers. | Freshbag | Supply all your groceries needs in just a few clicks - your market next door | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Cameroon and subsaharan africa | No | Transition to Scale | we are currently implementing the solution on the ground and we are gaining strong positive traction from the potential beneficiaries (farmers and end consumers). | the food supply and production chain in cameroon is highly fragmented. 85% of the farm are owned by families and under 5 ha and provide for more than 90% of the food consumed in urban areas. But sadly most of the farmers live with less than $2 per day and cannot make ends meet. the only one benefiting from the retail of produces are brokers who source their products at low prices straight from farms and resell at abusive margins both at the expenses of farmers and consumers. | freshbag give the possibility to farmers to sell their produces before harvesting, provide them with logistics to transport their goods from rural areas to towns and give customers access to affordable prices by distributing in its retail centers. Freshbag is a social enterprise which will soon become a cooperative of both consumers and farmers working together... we will build distribution/retail centers in municipalities and scale to 100 thousand members to impact more families. As more cameroonian join our cooperative we will be able to build more and create a supply chain more resilient to changes or speculation. a new model for africans. | the solution is unique in the case of cameroon because no other business is currently implementing such approach to create a synergy between consumers and farmers/producers of local goods. by creating a cooperative of consumers we could help fight food supply interruption and reach food self sufficiency for millions. | the digital solutions is available. we are currently providing the services to a few because in full scale we require to engage more capex for distribution centers, food hub (conditioning and processing) and logistics. | Our currently is currently available for consumers in the city of Yaounde and for farmers located in cameroon.... in the next 12 months we will make it available to consumers in neighbouring provincies and countries in the subsaharan regions to sources their produces and local good from cameroon. | short term - Logistic equipment and facilities medium term - distribution/retail centers for consumers long term - regional expansion expenditures | www.freshbag.shop | none at the moment | no award | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jarius Andrew | Greaves | Youth Network for Reform (YONER Liberia) | https://web.facebook.com/yonerliberia2008/ | Founder and Executive Director | Male | Liberia | Liberia | English | As an empathetic achiever in youth leadership and one of Liberia’s most emerging Human Capital Developer in the endeavors of youth social entrepreneurship, I am proudly presenting 'Entrepreneurship Education Initiative', a non-profit social enterprise Program of YONER Liberia in order to elevate and tell my stories about how I've become a ""builder"" and problem solver in my community through persistence, passion, creativity and innovation at the United Nations in an approach to inspire other civil war affected and poverty stricken young people like myself to strive in solving problems within their communities. I was born in a remote village when Liberia’s 14 years’ civil war was just seven years old. My parents sought refuge and safety from the civil wars in the forest. We slept in bushes; had no food to eat, no healthcare, and I became malnourished and nearly dead. But, thanks to my parents who stood the test of times and made me to be alive and the person I am today. The war lasted 14 years, ravaged the entire country, and killed over 250,000 people and ended in 2005 when I was 18. The challenges made me stronger, bore in me a spirit to preserve, and inspired me to understand the true meaning and the purpose of life—to look beyond my own needs to see other people’s needs. Out of the challenges, a vision was born—a vision to reconcile, reunite and to empower fellow young Liberians and children who were abused, used as child soldiers and denied opportunities to develop into productive citizens, to live well, to heal from the effects of the civil wars, to pursue their dreams, and to become independent men and women. In 2008, I led, established and registered YONER Liberia, as a Non-Profit Social Enterprise in Paynesville; has designed and implemented several innovative projects through its two Flagship Programs - “Giving Back to our Community Action Initiative” and “Entrepreneurship Education Initiative”. Together, these projects have empowered over 50,000 youth and children affected by Liberia’s civil war. Additionally, since 2016, YONER Liberia has emphasized on entrepreneurship and ICT Innovation, thus; recruited, trained and supported more than 5,000 high school and university students in five counties to learn and apply science, social entrepreneurship skills, and technology to their lives and to solve problems and to drive Liberia’s growth and development in the 21st Century. To my credit, I’m a recipient of USAID Liberia Development Award 2019. | Jarius is a Liberian Youth Development Worker with 15-year experience in local community engagement, youth empowerment initiatives, entrepreneurship & social justice advocacy. He's an empathetic achiever and one of Liberia’s most experienced Human Capital Developer in the endeavors of social entrepreneurship; Founder/ CEO of YONER Liberia -an 11-year old social enterprise nonprofit whose mission is to undertake actions that nurture and build honest and able leaders to become self-reliant and change-makers in their communities. Since 2008, YONER Liberia has designed and implemented several initiatives through its two Flagship Programs - “Giving Back to our Community Action Initiative” and “Entrepreneurship Education Initiative.” Together, these projects have empowered over 50,000 youth and children affected by Liberia’s civil war. Since 2016, YONER Liberia has emphasized on Entrepreneurship & ICT innovation; recruited, trained, and supported over 5,000 high school and university students in five counties of Liberia to learn and apply science, social entrepreneurship skills, and technology to their lives and to solve socioeconomic problems. He's a proud Recipient of several awards for his invaluable services to youth development, using tech entrepreneurship as a tool to empower fellow youth, including “Recognition Award Recipient” of the USAID Liberia Development Award-2019, the Government of Liberia’s 2018 Business and Youth Organizations’ Social Economic Impact Award"". | Entrepreneurship Education Initiative | A non-profit social enterprise program with a portfolio of projects & activities emphasizing on social entrepreneurship and ICT innovation | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Liberia | Yes | Tamma Corps - Media Partner, US Embassy Monrovia - Event Host Partner, Ministries of Youth & Sports & Education - Public Sector Partner | Scaling | YORNER Liberia is an 11-year old social enterprise nonprofit; already recruited, trained and supported over 5,000 high school and university students in 5 counties to learn and apply science, social entrepreneurship skills and technology to their lives and to solve problems. YONER Liberia is poised to empower Liberia’s young people by continuing to train them in entrepreneurship and technology skills in order to learn and use the skills & tools to advance themselves and live a quality life. | Paynesville has over 400,000 people, and is Liberia’s 2nd largest and populated city. Youth ages 15-35 constitutes about 70%. Due to a multitude of factors, this demographic finds themselves in vulnerable employment, with limited venture-driven skills and tools attainment, and limited or no opportunities to forge a path toward a better future. There are lots of economic driven crimes particularly among the youth which is as a result of the lack of employable skills and opportunities for youth. | YONER Liberia has two customized programs: High School – YONER Liberia runs an annual entrepreneurship competition in various high schools as extracurricular activities - recruits students, form them in team of 3 and pair them with mentors and in a month, conduct research in their communities, identify social challenges and turn them into business solutions. They are further processed through a week-long innovation lab to refine their ideas, and acquire skills in presentation, public speaking, pitching, business & financial management and ethics, customer services. They live pitch their business to a panel of judges and the best businesses are selected and receive cash prizes for start-up support. Entrepreneurial Academy – this is a six months in-depth entrepreneurial and ICT innovation training for 100 high school graduates and college students annually. In the first 4 months, they are given innovative and venture-driven skills and tools to identify existing problems and conceive/ develop new solutions for business. The fellows participate in a ‘Venture Café’, form into 20 teams, pair them with suitable mentors and work together over two months period and develop business solutions. They live pitch their ventures to a panel of judges. The judges select the 6-best venture ideas and receive cash prizes/awards and further given the needed platforms inclusive of relevant tools and other resources for business start-up support to register, launch or expand their ventures. | An example on the High School - Form a Project Management Team, designs our project, raise-funds. Engage earmarked high schools authorities, establish partnership, schools nominate 20 students, gender balanced, we conduct an interview to assess the students entrepreneurial ideas and passion, select between 3 to 9 students, form them in a group of 3, recruit mentors and pair, and launch a month-long Mentorship Institute - where students and mentors work together with support and guidance from our team to develop business ideas. The ideas are submitted into full business proposals and pitch decks at the deadline. Conduct preliminary rounds of competition, selected teams move to a week-long innovation lab for co-creation and where content and business experts further mentor them by reviewing their business proposals, and pitch decks and give feedback for improvement, and other skills including public speaking, presentation, elevator pitching, dress code for business, among others. We then host the semi-final live pitch competition, and selected teams move to the National Grand Live Pitch Competition. Winners receive awards and cash prizes. The overall first winner travels to the US to participate in our partner, University of Delaware's High School Entrepreneurship Competition for a share of US$100,000. Participants become part of our growing network, have access to our office space and continue to work on and improve on their business ideas and compete in other competitions. | Example on the Entrepreneurial Academy – Over the last 3 years, YONER Liberia has received over US$75,000 from the US Department of State's Office for GIST Initiative and US Embassy Monrovia and successfully implemented a number of entrepreneurship & ICT Innovation Projects Including Liberia's first 'Entrepreneurship Academy"". YONER Liberia has successfully piloted the Academy, recruited, incubated and supported 100 entrepreneurial-driven high school graduates and college students. This is a six-month in-depth training in which nine training modules are taught within 140 sessions, facilitated twice a week, two hours per day. YONER Liberia developed a comprehensive syllabus from which the course modules and presentations/lectures for each topic were researched, prepared and presented. On April 30, 2019, YONER Liberia graduated 69 fellows who completed the training. Progress measurement: a) Successfully equipped 69 high school graduates and / currently college students, (aspiring/emerging entrepreneurs and innovators) with the tools and knowledge needed to identify existing problems and develop solutions and approaches to solve the problems from startup, registration and launching b) Provided existing entrepreneurs with the skills needed to improve the efficiency of their business operations to achieve quality products and services. c) Trained young Liberians in strategies to conceive new ideas for a business or social innovation to generate positive social, economic impact | YONER Liberia goals for 2019/2020 is to raise US$214,235 grant funding support to achieve the following: 2019/2020 - To improve our office facility to include a co-working space, innovation/design thinking lab, Pitch Theater, training room and office to have an enabling space of our own to host our events at our own convenience. Our network members have increased therefore; the space at our office has limited capacity to host everyone, and our various events. 2019/2020 - To Scale the High School Entrepreneurship Competition from 2 to 4 counties by recruiting, incubating and supporting 330 high school students from 55 high schools and in 4 counties; form them into 110 teams, pair them with 110 mentors and through an intensive Innovation lab and co-creation accelerator and over a period of six months research in their communities, develop 110 new social businesses, pitch and 25 receive start-up capital 2019/2020 -To continue the Academy by recruiting and incubating 100 high school graduates and college student, forming them into 25 teams, pairing them with 25 mentors and through a “Venture Café” over a period six months develop 25 new social businesses, pitch and 6 teams receive start-up capital. | YONER Liberia goals for 2019/2020 is to raise US$214,235 grant funding support for achieve the following: 2019/2020 - To office facility to include a co-working space, innovation/design thinking lab, Pitch Theater, training room and office to have an enabling space of our own to host our events at our own convenience. Our network members have increased therefore; the space at our office has limited capacity to host everyone, and our various events. 2019/2020 -To recruit and incubate 330 high school students from 55 high schools and in 4 counties; form them into 110 teams, pair them with 110 mentors and through an intensive Innovation lab and co-creation accelerator and over a period of six months research in their communities, develop 110 new social businesses, pitch and 25 receive start-up capital 2019/2020 -To recruit and incubate 300 high school graduates and college student, form them into 60 teams, pair them with 30 mentors and through a “Venture Café” over a period six months develop 60 new social businesses, pitch and 12 teams receive start-up capital. | Meet-ups links https://www.facebook.com/TammaTV/videos/2315762551883139/ https://www.facebook.com/yonerliberia2008/videos/707210009709645/ https://www.facebook.com/yonerliberia2008/videos/320576448823079/ Website: http://diamondchallenge.org/liberia/ & http://www.gistnetwork.org/content/gist-i-hub-monrovia-%E2%80%93-yoner-liberia Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/yonerliberia2008/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/yoner-liberia/103/831/880 Twitter: https://twitter.com/yonerlib2008 Blogsite: www.yonerliberia.blogspot.com Links to Liberia First High School Entrepreneurship Competition Live Pitch event: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=764105267116642&id=395619310631908 https://web.facebook.com/newdaylib/videos/764206370439865/ https://www.facebook.com/newdaylib/videos/764122960448206/ https://www.facebook.com/farafinashow/videos/2003836166546665/ Jarius Andrew Greaves online presence http://blog.meridian.org/tag/liberia/ www.facebook.com/jarius.andrewgreaves https://www.facebook.com/jandrew.greaves.9 https://www.linkedin.com/in/jarius-andrew-greaves-ba-ggarl-a156a725/ Video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbxbf5ad-Oc Articles” www.http://www.youth-time.eu/articles/story-of-yoner-liberia-founder-jarius-andrew-greaves http://www.wya.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/AR2014_nobudget.pdf | https://www.facebook.com/TammaTV/videos/2315762551883139/ https://www.facebook.com/yonerliberia2008/videos/707210009709645/ https://www.facebook.com/yonerliberia2008/videos/320576448823079/ https://web.facebook.com/newdaylib/videos/764206370439865/ https://www.facebook.com/newdaylib/videos/764122960448206/https://www.facebook.com/farafinashow/videos/2003836166546665/ https://youtu.be/v1kWpxnef8A https://youtu.be/g9bQXvtLA1w http://www.youth-time.eu/articles/story-of-yoner-liberia-founder-jarius-andrew-greaves | We’re Proud Recipients of National and international awards for our invaluable services to youth development and the use of tech entrepreneurship as a tool to empower fellow youth in Liberia, including “Entrepreneur Recognition Award Recipient” of the USAID Liberia Development Award-2019, the Government of Liberia’s 2018 Business and Youth Organizations’ Social Economic Impact Award”, The West African Regional Magazine’s “Young Achiever of the Year”-2018 , and Global Youth Icon Award 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ebenezer | Annoh | Greepec Consult | www.Greece.polarize.com | Operations Manager | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | Animal nutrition and organic farming is faced with a number of challenges. Our solution to this challenge is the conversion of eggshells into powder as a calcium mineral supplement purposely for animal nutrition and vegetable farming. We have used this innovation to reduce and reuse eggshells waste for the social gain of the environment as well as create jobs for many youth. | Ebenezer Annoh is the founder and Operations Manager for Greepec Consult. He has in-depth knowledge in Agriculture operations and Business Consultancy projects for the past five years. His passion to solve social challenges and enhance youth development projects has earned him great reputation on the global stage. He is married with a beautiful daughter. | Eggshell Powder Project | Calcium Mineral Supplement for Animal Nutrition and Vegetables Farming | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Ghana and West Africa | No | Transition to Scale | Millions of tonnes of eggshells end up daily in dumping sites across the world. These eggshells are calcium mineral supplements that can be used for animal nutrition and vegetable production when processed into powder form. My solution is going to reuse eggshells waste for the social gain of the environment as well as provide numerous jobs. | My product will improve animal nutrition with calcium mineral supplements as well as promote vegetable farming. | We add eggshells powder to animal feed especially for pigs, poultry and dogs. The long-term vision is to commercialize our processing and production should we receive the necessary assistance. | Our solution is cheaper as compared to the use of oyster shells which is being endangered due to limited availability. Our main raw materials are readily available and accessible everywhere. | We have piloted and tested our products with the various market segments who will need our eggshells powder. We have also conducted the laboratory analysis of our products to know the various mineral supplements composition and the required amount needed for application. We are 45% in Progress with our innovation and continue to do more research work on it. | We plan to scale up production to the other regions of Ghana and enter the West African market by 2024. We hope to employ 1000 youth in this business supply chain. | Collection bins, Transfer vans/pick up and a multi tasking processing machine. For the short term we are creating collection centers for eggshells and promoting awareness creation and partners in the supply chain. For medium term we are engaging for volunteers and need to acquire transfer vans to collect the eggshells to our processing center. Our long-term is to move beyond Accra to the other regions and countries with our innovation. | https://www.facebook.com/120336491759914/posts/700118580448366/ | https://www.facebook.com/120336491759914/posts/700118580448366/ | 2nd Place Award at Innovate Ghana Competition in 2018 A semi finalist at Mac Dan Entrepreneurship Challenge | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chukwudi | Egwuagu | Federal University Oye Ekiti Nigeria | https://www.fuoye.edu.ng | Academic Technologist | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | MALARIA VACCINE Research has been in existence globally for over one century ago. Mosquito has become the deadliest in animal kingdom. The high rate of maternal mortality and child morbidity arising from Malaria disease is alarming and worrisome , most especially in sub Saharan Africa. Scores of hundreds of inhabitants of sub Saharan Africa die annually as a result of Malaria. World Health Organization , WHO , has declared Malaria a global emergency. These necessitated an urgent and aggressive research findings which led to the miraculous discovery of a potent Malaria Vaccine from 100%. natural herbs , no side effects. Malaria Vaccine Innovation is a global innovation. | An experienced multidisciplinary researcher and innovator. A distinguished eminent scholar. | INNOVATION IN MALARIA VACCINE. | MALARIA VACCINE INNOVATION | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Nigeria | Yes | WHO , NAFDAC | Sustainable Scale | Research completed successfully. | High rate of mortality arising from MALARIA disease , mostly in African States. | Vaccination . Zero tolerance to malaria deaths. | 100%. natural herbs . No side effects. Doubled potency. | Clinical Trials. | African States. | Funding. | httpss://www.fuoye.edu.ng | httpss://www.twitter.com/engr.chukwudi.egwuag | This innovation is 2019 latest innovation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Isa | Elegbede | Bradenburg university of technology, btu, cottbus-senftenberg, Germany | B-tu.de | PhD student | Male | Germany | Germany | English | I am interested to contribute and be part of change makers that would solve problem in the areas of food security and fisheries while identifying data issues as a factor hindering growth. Base on my experience and expectations, I am highly motivated to attend this programme thereby networking and sharing ideas on possible solutions in global problems. | I am a PhD candidate at the the Brandenburg University of technology, BTU, Germany. My research interest is in fisheries (food security and safety), sustainability science and data management. | Sustainability certification and data mgt | Solving marine and coastal resources management through sustainability certification and data management | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria and Canada | No | Research & Development | This solution is innovative because it relate to using sustainability to solve fisheries and food security while using data science | We r ensuring sustainable fish production and ensuring adequate data management and monitoring. | The long term goal is to ensure Sustainable food production at all scale | Because we are considering using SDGs goals to tackle sustainability and identifying the relevance and importance of data science and practices | We are still at the research level and working on some of our outcomes | The research will empower the indigenous people of Canada and the local communities as well, also promote livelihood and communities, thereby supporting fisheries and food security. | The research need adequate capacities and technologies to support people | We don't have a website | Not yet | OFI fellowship award and Rigby trust award for the project. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Oluwatosin Niyi | Abiri | cmapit.io | https://cmapit.io | Lead Developer | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The explosion in the availability of satellite data and big data crowdsourced through the increase in devices penetration in Africa offers great opportunity to develop important solutions that can strengthen the most Local effort towards environmental protection and sustainable development. Putting these increasingly available resources to use is a key to unlocking the potentials of people on the continent to build capacity to better protect their own environment and become viable from the Lessons they Learn. The software I built with my team is called cmapit.io and it is designed to help Local researchers carry out simple analytics, it simplified analytics of Sentinel-2 satellite data (raster analysis), powerful map editor, forest density analysis and also NDVI calculation. The software is engaged regularly in more than 40 countries, it has handled over 5,000 analytics sessions on average of 9 minutes per sessions and it onboard more than 500 users monthly. The software is designed to help Local researchers participate effectively in using satellite data to understand their communities' vulnerability to deforestation, climate change, flood, etc. Being able to put satellite images to use in the most Local methods towards sustainability hold the most promise for the continent. Creating solutions that can expand the consumption of satellite data Low processing computers and mobile devices can build connected an ecosystem of Local environment champions and active citizens. This is why I am applying to the summit with this innovation. This software won MongoDB Award on Innovation in New York in 2016, Open Data Institute Award in London in 2016 and Geospatial World Forum Award in Hyderabad in 2017. | Abiri Oluwatosin Niyi is the co-founder of https://cmapit.io - a multiple award-winning geospatial startup company, focused on developing web-based telematic tools that document development issues in Nigeria. He Launched Nigeria's 1st Locally developed GIS software that is engaged regularly in more than 40 countries. Niyi looks forward to partnering with local governments in Nigeria to deploy free civic tech solutions that will aid development in each community. | cmapit.io - a GIS software. | GIS, climate change, forest management, trees protection | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Nigeria. | No | Scaling | The software is engaged regularly in more than 40 countries, it has handled over 5,000 analytics sessions on average of 9 minutes per sessions and it onboard more than 500 users monthly. We can provide the analytics break down via email attachment. | The explosion in the availability of satellite data and big data crowdsourced through the increase in devices penetration in Africa offers great opportunity to develop important solutions that can strengthen the most Local effort towards environmental protection and sustainable development. Putting these increasingly available resources to use is a key to unlocking the potentials of people on the continent to build capacity to better protect their own environment. | Being able to put satellite images to use in the most Local methods towards sustainability hold the most promise for the continent. Creating solutions that can expand the consumption of satellite data Low processing computers and mobile devices can build connected an ecosystem of Local environment champions and active citizens. The big picture is the increase in awareness of property rights and ownership of natural resources including forests and trees and also the transparent management of the resources and great accountability. | Building this software over the past years gave me a powerful insight into various algorithms that are in development to make earth analytics more consumable and also help me understand the increase in the availability of earth data. The software has been adopted by various government ministries on the continent and also by various universities. The software has also exposed numerous undergraduates to their first practical experience in GIS analysis using cmapit.io and it’s practically the software they are growing their career with. | as noted earlier, the software is Launched at https://cmapit.io, engaged regularly in more than 40 countries, it has handled over 5,000 analytics sessions on the average of 9 minutes per sessions and it onboard more than 500 users monthly. We are currently introducing the software to undergraduate researchers in Nigeria, it is shaping their interest in GIS and remote sensing and also giving them hands-on experience. | The user analytics indicates the software is used in more than 40 countries every month (we can provide the analytics details) and there is increasing adoption in other African countries. Our goal is to build an online learning platform and also invest in social media advertising. This will give us the reach with need, the scale we need while we run on a Lean budget. | we are Leveraging on the growth of smartphone adoption (penetration) and that is very organic. Our main focus is to build an online and offline Learning model to reach out to communities that will adopt the software in various roles as their Local property management platform, climate change effect monitoring software, Land resource management platform, etc. In the short term, we are using social media and in the Long term, we plan to set up Learning centers in areas based on clusters of users. | The software website: https://cmapit.io a project proposal on how the world bank can Leverage on the software to build independent electricity models remotely https://twitter.com/xniyi/status/1140750889810087941 an example of the software being used to analyse forest and soil data in Czech Republic https://twitter.com/xniyi/status/1151948132508475393 being used by property companies to draw polygons and also used by researchers to generate polygons of areas being dredged in Lagos to understand the environmental consequences https://twitter.com/xniyi/status/1150952096679677960 cmapit being used by Nigerian university students in their classrooms https://twitter.com/cMapIT/status/1119228396012285958 A user feedback from Austria https://twitter.com/ITBeHa/status/1148350661693779968 cmapit being used to measure pipeline water distribution and also draw up the costs https://twitter.com/xniyi/status/1128751374391443459 cmapit Learning session in a government ministry in nigeria https://twitter.com/xniyi/status/1136743676053528576 a Local researcher using cmapit on mobile phone https://twitter.com/xniyi/status/1137393976250720261 testing cmapit analysis on a area in Ethiopia https://twitter.com/xniyi/status/1141038027856388096 | my interview on Nigeria's biggest TV station on how we used cmapit to track Fulani herdsmen attacks https://medium.com/@MapIT/cmapit-com-is-nigerias-most-effective-platform-to-track-fulani-herdsmen-attacks-video-and-f19a78cf34f | cmapit won mongoDB award in New York in 2016, the video of the CEO presenting cmapit in New York https://twitter.com/xniyi/status/1149644345542266880 MongoDB identified as a top solution in Africa https://twitter.com/AfricaFactsZone/status/1131651540241014785 This software won MongoDB Award on Innovation in New York in 2016, Open Data Institute Award in London in 2016 and Geospatial World Forum Award in Hyderabad in 2017. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Yusuf | Shegow | Somali Architecture | www.somaliarchitecture.com | Founder; Architectural Assistant | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Somalia | English | Almost 5 years ago during whilst in university, I was inspired by a workshop I was involved in recreating 3D models of Manchester. I then took this idea and started archiving old historical building of Somalia that was lost during the war and started raising awareness of the importance of our national heritage. This then caught bot national and international attention to which we were invited to exhibit what we worked on at London Design Biennale, Manchester and recently UNESCO in Paris. | Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, I moved to the UK at the age of 13. I studied at Manchester School of Architecture where I earned his Bachelor’s degree and Masters thereafter. Inspired by my studies and love for my homeland, I founded Somali Architecture in 2015. What initially began as a platform to share images of pre-war Somalia, later evolved into a research project. This involved recreating historic buildings destroyed in the war using digital 3D models. Having travelled extensively across Europe, Asia, Africa and the US, I have seen how architecture has changed neighbourhoods and communities for the better. It has the power to shift the equilibrium of a city in a more progressive direction, building by building. I have grown to understand how architecture blends engineering, art and science to transform cities and individual lives. Last year SA team including Ahmed Mussa, Madina Scacchi and Iman Mohamed. were invited to exhibit alongside 40 other countries at the London Design Biennale 2018. £30,000 was raised through crowdfunding and sponsorships to deliver the exhibition - “What Remains”. The exhibition celebrated the remnants of the country’s rich architectural past, offering the hope of a brighter future. Due to the success of the exhibition in London, We have been invited to exhibit in Manchester and UNESCO. Last year I was invited as a guest speaker for the first-ever Mogadishu Tech Summit 2018. Sharing a platform with leading Somali innovators, I presented our vision for Somali Architecture and the importance of preserving the country’s heritage. | Raise Awareness | Raise awareness on the importance of architecture which tie in to Global Goals of 11. | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Somalia | No | Transition to Scale | After raising awareness for the past 4 years we have managed to achieve our short term goals, we are now in the process of scaling so that our long term goals can be achieved. Which is to have an impact on the built environment how we can be sustainable as a recovering country to be more sustainable. | Currently, in Somalia, we do not have National Heritage for the built environment or the guidance of UNESCO or other organisation. We have now managed to achieve in getting international organisation involved, bringing communities together and the importance of the built environment. | Our long term goal is to build a team that will be able to carry out more research on how to achieve sustainable communities that are aware of their surrounding, educate the younger generation. Before us, there was little to none about the importance of architecture and the built environment. create an office where this research can be carried forward with office equipment and everything we need. Raise more fund or partner up with other organisations. | What makes us unique is that we are using all type of media to have an impact using social media to get the message around and exhibiting our work to make it more interesting something that has not been done within Somalia. The work we are carrying is mostly research and a lot of historical archives but makes is more interesting is that we are using, social media including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Youtube to post videos, images to make it more interesting, and recently we started using VR to showcase people buildings that have been destroyed during the war. We also use 3D print to showcase how these look in 3D form. | Last year we have raised funds and managed to get a sponsor for our exhibitions showing that people are beginning to realise how important our built environment is. We have also been invited to other places in one of our social media ""Snapchat"" we have managed to build an audience of over 20 million people viewing our filters part of aim in raising awareness. Our audience is growing. | - Build Team - Expand to other cities in Somalia - Implement or have an impact on local or national governance - Create workshops - Have talks, panel discussions. | This ties up to the above 5 points, building a local team in Mogadishu and partnering up with an organisation that aligns with our ethos. Since we are non-profit see how we can get funds to pay for our staff and have long term partner with organisations that will give us equipment. | https://twitter.com/Somarchitecture www.somaliarchitecture.com https://www.instagram.com/somaliarchitecture/ https://sketchfab.com/SomaliArchitecture https://www.archdaily.com/891577/somali-architecture-students-digitally-preserve-their-countrys-heritage-before-its-too-late https://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/somali-architecture-students-are-stitching-back-countrys-built-heritage https://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/somali-architecture-students-are-stitching-back-countrys-built-heritage https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/11/somalia-mogadishu-3-d-model-architecture-history/574375/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgRgrzoLei8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Zakari | Hassane | Potentiel Terre | www.facebook.com/PotentielTerre | President | Male | Niger | Niger | French | since the age of 25, I understood that we must rethink the food system and the employement market in Niger. I would like to have the opportunity to share our realities, the proven solutions and the synergies needed to sustainably reduce hunger, poverty, unemployment and gender inequalities. | I have a master in accounting control and audit. I am Director of Control at UCMN. Coming from a modest family, I shone pretty well at school. I managed to show that the first capital is not financial. I built a network of more than 1000 young graduates who share the idea of Earth Potential . I hold this commitment from the experimental school (Zarma) where we have been taught to believe in ourselves. I like to learn because I always feel that there is still knowledge I need to improve and expand what we do at Potentiel Terre. | GesAg (Gestion electronique du système Agricole: Agri-Gestion e-AgriGestion) | After an investigation, there is no accessible (or usable) tool for farmer with a low level of education. It is these who ensure our food supply. The | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Niger | No | Proof of Concept | We had the idea (2016), 2017 we did a survey on utility and concurrency (complementarity), 2018 we developed a hard version. | In our conries, agriculture is abandoned because producers do not make a profit. They do not know how to make choices, make cross-cultural comparisons, take climate change into account, keep accounts. Even if you did not go to school, you can use our solution. It is easy, accessible to all, duplicabl everywhere | The solution adapts to the realities of the users. Each season a module (and by speculation). There is a hard, soft version and the application. Constitute a database of all crops (quantity produced, sold, consumed, etc.). It will be sustainable and financially autonomous. | We want an economically inclusive world. This innovation is the key to small farmers. | we worked voluntarily. We have an action plan that allows us to evaluate our progress. | there are teams by level: rural area, urban center and country level. | immediate need: logistics equipment, rolling stock medium and long term: a team of high-level computer scientists, agricultural engineers and management controllers. | We did not publish on the project. Given our limit, we want to be careful. | We did not publish on the projec. http://potentielterre.blogspot.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Georg | Feneberg | A Needs-based dollar | www.needs-based-dollar.com | Economist | Male | Canada | Canada | English | Tired of the fluff and bad results that come out of the current economic model tied with political models. It's time to end poverty and create an economic and political system people can be proud of. | I'm a university student with a mixed ethnic background that was born in Germany and further grew up in Brazil, USA, and Canada. I spent time in the amazon rainforest a child with a tribe who had just be found by civilization. With a multicultural background, I am no stranger to the discriminatory ways of the current political and economic paradigms. | a needs-based dollar | a revolutionary economic model that control money supply and inflation while balancing government budgets. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Intended for all countries. | No | Transition to Scale | Because everyone I speak with in person is quickly convinced. From a mathematical perspective the money creation formula I created, though still not in mathematical form due to my inexpertise in creating complex formulas in the nonparagraph form, my model is holistic and controls inflation. Give me some chalk and board and I will show how the numbers work. It is explained in my book but I have recently found a breakthrough way to explain it more clearly if it is still not understood. | Debt-based dollar's creation of market housing bubbles and the housing demand through the artificial creation of money through the fractional reserve banking model. It also fixes the job loss problem from automation. This is the major problem we are facing. Implementation of automation and the loss of jobs. My model literally creates a framework in which it can produce an over amount of jobs if need be. Corrupt politicians and badly run narratives by the government to manipulate the public | My solution remodels economy to function in a completely new way by controlling inflation and fixing government budget problems. It will create a future world in which every human is born equal under natural law. Not this master-servant framework of debt and taxes. | I invented a new economic model that controls inflation no one else has ever invented this. | it's done only further details and nuisances of the system still needs to be addressed. the main framework is done. | Make a million people aware. | Financing and marketing and human resources. Acceptance. | www.needs-based-dollar.com | Just short podcasts on Instagram, youtube, and at my university. | This is brand new. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Reagan | Mudziwapasi | Lupane State University | www.lsu.ac.zw | Lecturer | Male | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | English | I am motivated by the desire to solve the environmental and social problems obtaining in the marginalised and rural area where i leave and in the world. I therefore want to help highlight the problems and inspire more people to develop solutions to them. Additionally the UN Solutions Summit will is a great platform for me to showcase my innovations, learn from other innovators, network with business and forge collaborations with great social causes. Through this platform i will be able to add my voice to solving some of the problems bedeviling the world. I have used innovation for positive global impact by inventing, patenting and commercialising biodegradable planting bags i make from waste material. A tobacco company in Zimbabwe was accumulating between 200 and 300 tonnes of organic waste. They would dump it at a landfill until it was banned because it burnt for weeks and cause air pollution in surrounding residential areas. I then developed the biodegradable planting bags from the waste converting it into a new environmentally friendly product. Zimbabwe targets to plant 500 million trees by the year 2026 and USA alone plants 1 billion trees and 1 billion flowers annually. There is thus scope to sell the biodegradable planting bags in many countries thereby reducing the number of plastics used in tree and flower planting. This will reduce cancer cases from carcinogens released into the environment (water and land) by plastics. The chemicals include bisphenol A and phthalates. Additionally number of animals that are choked by plastics will be reduced. I developed reusable fly trap for use by farmers and the general populace. It is made from used PET bottles and animal waste. It reduces cost of fly traps from $10 to below $0.50 and it helps reduce plastic use and environmental pollution from PET and animal waste dumping. I developed a vermifiltration based bioreactor for wastewater treatment and recycling. It is a low cost, low energy and environmentally friendly technology that uses earthworms to treat sewage. It has application in many African countries were water shortages are recurrent and sewage treatment is a problem leading to frequent outbreaks of cholera and typhoid. I advised a local council on the technology and they want to install the system for their residents. Currently i am working on electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen. I believe hydrogen is the cleanest energy of the future and it will be used to power many engines globally. | Reagan Mudziwapasi is a biotechnologist with interests in waste management. He develops solutions to waste management. Reagan wants to help save the planet and humanity by developing cradle to cradle solutions that reduce plastic use and disposal of waste at landfills. He is a lecturer at Lupane State university and a director at EnviroBiotech Solutions Africa. Reagan holds a Master of Philosophy in Environmental Biotechnology and a Bachelor of Technology (Hons) in Biotechnology both from Chinhoyi University of Technology. He is a Mandela Washington Fellow and a member of the Environmental Professionals Council of Zimbabwe (EPCOZ) and the Institute of Waste Management Zimbabwe Chapter. | Biodegradable planting bags | Biodegradable planting bags for use in tree and flower nurseries | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Zimbabwe, USA, South Africa, Zambia, Kenya and Malawi | No | Transition to Scale | The solution was tested and patented. Some units were and are being sold already. There are talks to partner some people in mass production of the bags. | It addresses waste dumping which results in environmental pollution. The solution is made from a waste product of tobacco packaging which causes problems in disposal since it burns for long periods of time and does not compost uniformly. It addresses use of plastic in tree and flower planting by offering an alternative to plastics which release carcinogenic chemicals such as bisphenol A and phthalates into the environment. The solution thus helps to reduce cancer incidences. | The solution is organic. It can thus decay when buried underground during tree planting. This process will take about six weeks which is sufficient for plant development. When on top of the ground the biodegradable bags can take more than three months before they are degraded or decompose. Thus they can be used in plant nurseries. When the bags decay the produce environmentally friendly products since they are made from organic plant fiber. The bags have a excellent aeration and drainage because of the pores in the fibers. They thus do not hinder root development. Unlike plastic when you transplant your plantlet you can plant it with the bag avoiding root damage which can result in poor plant development. This is because the bags take a short time to decay. The long term vision for global impact is to eliminate use of plastics in nurseries in the next 15 years. Thus there are plans to take the technology to other countries through forestry commissions, NGOs and other avenues. There will thus be massive marketing using social media and high level engagements with governments and business to promote uptake of the bags. Current and past engagements with government agencies staff, students, fellow innovators etc have brought positive feedback. More waste materials will be tested in order to use them in production of the biodegradable bags ultimately reducing amounts of waste destined for the landfill in the world.. | The solution uses waste material thereby closing the loop in terms of waste generation. It does not produce toxic chemicals when it decomposes and it is cheaper that plastic alternatives. It also performs better than plastic since it has better aeration and drainage and avoids rotting of roots. | The solution was tested in two locations namely Chinhoyi and Lupane at two universities. It was patented through the Zimbabwe Intellectual Property office. I measure our progress using timelines and feedback from customers and students who tested the product. The methods used to test performance of the solution are scientific and are guided by statistics. Thus they are of considerable rigor. | The goal is to take the solution to take the solution to South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Malawi and USA, respectively in the next 5 years. Other countries will be entered thereafter. In the year 2022 the solution will enter South African and Zambian market. In 2024 it will enter Kenya, Malawi and USA. Staff with expertise in fitting and turning as well as automation, international marketing, social media marketing, packaging, production, transport and logistics, human resources management, public relations, resource mobilisation, law, research, agriculture, accounting and management will be recruited. Other general employees with skills such as driving will also be recruited. recruitment will be gender sensitive and will seek to empower people from marginalised communities. The solution is projected to impact 100 000 people by 2022 and about 2 billion people by 2030. This will be achieved through job creation, corporate social responsibility and reduction in air and land pollution as well as exposure to cancer causing chemicals. | Currently the the resources needed are working space, equipment such as sewing machines and automated sewing machines. We also require more raw material from China and a solar system to power the machines when there is no electricity even though the plan is to run 100 % on solar. Additionally we need computers, printers, packaging equipment, delivery vehicles and storage centres. We also need human resources to produce the bags and to run the company professionally on a full time basis. | https://www.stwnewspress.com/news/mandela-washington-fellows-present-groundbreaking-agricultural-ideas/article_71d5a8b3-0618-5517-9188-b3260e9562e8.html https://www.irex.org/people/reagan-mudziwapasi https://www.unccd.int/sites/default/files/relevant-links/2017-10/Reagan%20Mudziwapasi%20%28Zimbabwe%29on%20COP13.pdf http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.re.20160601.03.html https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1104511072 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6264469/ https://www.scopemed.org/?mno=223895 | https://www.flickr.com/photos/washingtonfellowship/48132371503/in/album-72157709242823393/ | Poster pitch competition at Oklahoma State University-Number 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joshua Kobla | Adzakpa | ALLIANCE FOR SDGS NETWORK | www.allianceforsdgsnetwork.org | CEO | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | Having resolved to make human welfare my preoccupation, l always look out for groundbreaking events that would help me equip myself with skills and the know-how so l can serve my immediate community, my nation and the world at large. On this premise, I feel motivated to apply to be part of the UN Solutions Summit. I am an associate fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society, which is an award given by the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust and Royal Commonwealth Society, and a member of the UN Interagency Network for Youth Development and Youth Working Group on Gender Equality. I am the leader of the UN SDGS Awareness Campaign team in Ghana, an initiative of the Alliance for SDGs Network, of which I am a founding member and founder. I am a Global Ambassador of World Health Innovations summit, a registered UK based organization. I was part of a highly powered team that drafted Action Plan 001 on the SDGs for World Merit that was submitted to the UN. I am Empower Women Champion, an initiative of UN Women and I was part of the consultative group that spearheaded Commission on Status of Women, CSW 61 of the UN. I am a He-for-She Champion. As an advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), I have organized numerous practical sessions to sensitize people on what the goals are and to prepare change makers to help in their implementation. Apart from my campaign in Ghana, I have convened SDGs Training Sessions at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in the Cocody section of Abidjan, Côte D'Ivoire for 1,300 students of the university and CEOs of 7 youth-led organizations. These sessions poached talents who are currently working on various practical projects on education, sanitation, climate change,gender equality and decent work in Côte D'Ivoire . I partnered with Brand For Humanity Pte Ltd in Singapore and held a training event on SDGs and entrepreneurship at the National Junior College in Singapore for 1000 change makers within the Asian Pacific Zone. In 2018, I convened the first national dialogue on the SDGs in Ghana in partnership with the CSO Platform on SDGs, Private Enterprise Federation, Government of Ghana through the Ministry of Planning, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Ministry of Communication and the Ministry of Information with support from the German Development Cooperation GIZ and G3iD Geneva. This was under the theme, ""Role of Technology and Innovation in Accelerating the Implementation of Agenda 2030”. | I am a Ghanaian logistician/statistician and a social entrepreneur. I have a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a focus on logistics and supply chain management from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, a higher national diploma in statistics from Takoradi Technical University and a master’s degree in climate change and sustainable development from the University Of Ghana. I am the co-founder of Grikob Foundation Ghana a global initiative of M & G Logistics and Supply Chain Company Limited. | SDGS AWARENESS CAMPAIGN | My SDG,My Impact | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Ghana,Cote D'ivoire,Nigeria | Yes | GHANA CSOs PLATFORM ON SDGS | Sustainable Scale | Our project started on 20th March 2016 and it is still running. | Exhaustive research has shown over the years sustainable development for all countries is only truly possible through comprehensive cross-sector efforts that begin with education. A careful recent pilot survey conducted on the Global Goals in Ghana revealed that 82% of people are not well aware of the goals and the imperative need to mount an awareness campaign about the Global Goals through education to garner support for their implementation. | Education undoubtedly can accelerate progress towards the achievement of each of the proposed sustainable development goals between now and 2030 in a multiplicity of ways. Becoming much aware of the goals with their various targets will help people who would be precisely youth, to contribute meaningfully towards the implementation of the global goals. The target group are youth between ages 10-35. This awareness campaign would provide the platform to galvanize support to make the SDGs achievable. Below are the objectives of the project: To create awareness about the Global Goals in Schools To give students in-depth knowledge of the various Global Goals and what they seek to achieve To prepare the youth to contribute to the SDG’s implementation To poach and mentor potential Change Makers To build a society of youth who are capable of contributing immensely to developmental issues To help the youth harness their entrepreneurial skill to create employment opportunities The project has since informed a cross section of Ghanaians about what the Global Goals are about and prepare change makers to help in the SDG’s implementations taking into consideration the objectives of the project. The project is expected to help the youth to initiate projects that align with any of the SDGs. We are of the conviction this awareness program would continue to yield commensurate returns to help push the SDG's agenda forward. | The project has been embarked on through visitations where the team gives factual presentations on the SDG’s in seminars, conference, symposiums, soirees, talk shows among others. Education on the Global Goals has been a mixture of visual presentation using SDG'S icon cards, projected screens as well as prepared speeches. The project content is designed to be an interactive session which would open room for questions from audience or participants and answers from facilitators. The project stresses on how and ways to initiate projects or events that align with the SDGs The project has been decentralized to the ten regions of Ghana. There has been a monitoring team at the national level to supervise and coordinate work at the regional level. Reports on the impact of the project are made available to organizations, civil society groups, other stakeholders and through blogs. | We have been able to add innovative ways to this project as the years pass by from 2016. We are able to measure our impact through number of people reached and practical solutions they initiate and execute for the greater good. We do so through follow ups, monitoring and evaluation and analysis of data we gather in the process. | Apart from the SDGs campaign in Ghana, the team convened SDGs Training Sessions at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in the Cocody section of Abidjan, Côte D'Ivoire for 1,300 students of the university and CEOs of 7 youth-led organizations. These sessions poached talents who are currently working on various practical projects on education, sanitation, climate change,gender equality and decent work in Côte D'Ivoire . The team partnered with Brand For Humanity Pte Ltd in Singapore and held a training event on SDGs and entrepreneurship at the National Junior College in Singapore for 1000 change makers within the Asian Pacific Zone. We measure our impact by the number of people reach who practically initiate solutions to address any of the SDGs. | Logistics and finances involved in all these activities so far have been hugely self-funded by the team. We have had challenges with this initiative and despite the lack of financial, technical and logistical support , the team have through their own coffers been able to provide educational materials and other logistics in their small way. We have since written to some corporate organizations to support this initiative and still awaiting responses. We need SDGs branded souvenirs like baseball caps, flashcards,T'shirts among others,a means of transport to be able to reach out to most communities in Ghana. | https://twitter.com/ravikarkara/status/828270837350424576 https://twitter.com/Mandy_Sanghera1/status/828148792717348865 https://twitter.com/ravikarkara/status/828266376649392128 https://twitter.com/UNWOMEN4Youth/status/825475972707315713 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qlqjg_itNQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZCqpSTVa8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSutcrhRddE https://www.facebook.com/wm.grikob/ https://www.globalpeoplesummit.org/team/joshua-kobla-adzakpa https://www.facebook.com/joshua.adzakpa/posts/1330843796966787 https://grikobfoundationgh.org/micro-enterprise-training-for-rural-women-in-the-gomoa-east-district-of-ghana/ https://www.modernghana.com/news/757849/global-goals-for-the-greater-goodworld-merit-ghana raises.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C536052688 https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/two-ngos-organise-health-screening-for-nsawam-inmates-and-officers.html https://www.instagram.com/joeadzakpa/ https://twitter.com/Joeadzakpa https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-kobla-adzakpa-62888ba8?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile https://www.facebook.com/joshua.adzakpa | https://twitter.com/ravikarkara/status/828270837350424576 https://twitter.com/Mandy_Sanghera1/status/828148792717348865 https://twitter.com/ravikarkara/status/828266376649392128 https://twitter.com/UNWOMEN4Youth/status/825475972707315713 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qlqjg_itNQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZCqpSTVa8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSutcrhRddE https://www.facebook.com/wm.grikob/ https://www.globalpeoplesummit.org/team/joshua-kobla-adzakpa https://www.facebook.com/joshua.adzakpa/posts/1330843796966787 https://grikobfoundationgh.org/micro-enterprise-training-for-rural-women-in-the-gomoa-east-district-of-ghana/ https://www.modernghana.com/news/757849/global-goals-for-the-greater-goodworld-merit-ghana raises.html?_e_pi_=7%2CPAGE_ID10%2C536052688 https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/general-news/two-ngos-organise-health-screening-for-nsawam-inmates-and-officers.html https://www.instagram.com/joeadzakpa/ https://twitter.com/Joeadzakpa https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-kobla-adzakpa-62888ba8?trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile https://www.facebook.com/joshua.adzakpa | Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society Global People's Fellow Sage Ghana Ambassador | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sebastien | de Halleux | Saildrone, inc. | https://www.saildrone.com/ | Chief Operating Officer | Male | United States of America | Swaziland | English | French | We would like to submit our solution (wind & solar ocean drones quantifying our oceans) to share how technology can contribute to the UN Decade of Oceans, UN development goals (especially SDG14) and drive data-driven positive change for all countries, developed and developing around the world. Oceans cover 70% of our planet and drive planetary systems like extreme weather, fisheries, carbon cycle, maritime transport, energy generation etc that impact humanity. Saildrone designs and manufactures wind and solar-powered autonomous surface vehicles called saildrones, which make cost-effective ocean data collection possible at scale. We are building the world's largest high-resolution ocean datasets, working with communities, governments and private companies around the globe. We believe that better inputs in planetary models will yield better outputs and that new insights gained in weather forecasting, carbon cycling, global fishing, and climate change will have a tremendous impact on humanity. As the old adage go: ""You cannot fix what you cannot measure and you cannot adapt to what you don't know."" | Sebastien de Halleux is currently chief operating officer at Saildrone, a company that designs, manufactures and operates a global fleet of wind- and solar-powered ocean drones monitoring the state of the planet in real time. Saildrone's mission is to quantify planetary systems that affect humanity like extreme weather, global fisheries and carbon fluxes. Before Saildrone, de Halleux cofounded a video games company called Playfish, which disrupted the industry by turning solitary game play into social experiences. Playfish attracted hundreds of million of users before being acquired by Electronics Arts. He also helped launch one of the very first mobile game companies back when mobiles had black and white screens and actual keypads, which IPOed on NASDAQ. An internationally recognized leader, recipient of the Tech 100 and Tech Fellow Awards and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, de Halleux holds a master's in civil and environmental engineering from Imperial College, London. In his spare time, he spends every minute with his children and friends on his sailboat or driving a mobile cinema truck trough rural Africa. He recently welcomed his fourth child, a daughter named Xochi. | Saildrone | Understanding planetary systems affecting humanity using wind and solar powered ocean drones | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Norway, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Cape Verde, Cook Islands (more to come) | Yes | NOAA (USA), NASA (USA), CSIRO (AUS), JAMSTEC (Japan), IMR (Norway), The Schmidt Family Foundation, Capricorn Investment Group (Jeff Skoll), The Oak Foundation, The Li Ka Shing Foundation (and many others) | Scaling | After 7 years of R&D and validation, working with the best scientific institutions on the planet (NOAA, NASA, CSIRO, JAMSTEC, IMR and many others), our Saildrone solution has been recognized as capable of collecting climate-quality data from any ocean anywhere around the world, including atmospheric data, oceanographic data, fish biomass, carbon flux, and bathymetry information as accurately as any research vessel, while being several order of magnitude cheaper. | 70pc of our planet is covered by oceans but they are mostly unknown. We measure them using ships which cost $100m+ each to buy and $25k-$100k a day to operate, while generating huge amount of carbon emissions. Satellites give us a big picture but cannot see below the surface and have poor resolution. Saildrone are wind and solar powered autonomous and unmanned ocean vehicles which collect high precision data from the world oceans without any carbon footprint. | At the heart of our solution is the Saildrone USV (Unmanned Surface Vehicle). Each vehicle is 7m long by 5m high and 2.5m deep, and weighs 750kg. The main characteristic is that there is no engine and no fuel, instead the vehicle relies on a a 'wing' to harness wind-power for propulsion and solar panels to power the onboard sensors and computers. This enables them to stay at sea for over 12 months at the time, measuring the environmental variables and transmitting live data via satellite back to shore. The data measured includes all the key environmental variables: atmospheric (wind, air temperature, humidity, pressure, solar radiation, CO2); oceanographic (water temperature, salinity, oxygen, pH, CO2, chlorophyll, wave height and period, currents directions and velocity); fish biomass using echo sounders; and seabed mapping using multibeam echo sounders. This data is sent back to shore and distributed to our global science partners for data quality control and for ingestion into numerical models that provide new insights that impact humanity such as estimate of fish stock, measurement of pollutants, mapping of hypoxia zones due to agricultural run-off, weather predictions, climate predictions, carbon budget, ocean acidification, and monitoring of illegal fishing. We make the outcome of these models easily accessible to the general public, such as enhanced weather forecasting for any point on the planet available for any community at https://forecast.saildrone.com/ | Most planetary observing technologies focus either on land (billions of sensors) or in space (satellites and microsats). Almost no technology focuses on the ocean, which cover 70pc of the planet. Ocean technology is still mostly relying on ships and moorings, making data both expensive and scarce and out of reach of most but the richest nations. Beyond the technology, our innovative go-to-market approach is also unprecedented. We don't sell the saildrones. Instead we offer our science partners high quality ocean data on a fully managed service basis (Mission-as-a-Service). This means that Saildrone takes care of all manufacturing, sensor integration, shipping and deployment logistics around the world, and runs mission 24/7 on behalf of our partners. This enables scientists to focus on science rather than complex infrastructure, reduces risk and increases cost efficiency. We raised private capital to pay for the capital expenditure, so there is no upfront investment from users in using saildrone. Overall we have lowered the cost of ocean data acquisition by several order of magnitude to about US$2,500 a day-at-sea of data collection. | Here's a timeline of our progress: - 2001-2009: initial R&D into wind propulsion resulting into patented wing design (measure: world speed record; wing patent filed) - 2009-2012: initial R&D into ocean vehicle capable of crossing an ocean (measure: successful ocean crossing) - 2012-2016: initial R&D to instrument a saildrone for scientific data collection, under public private partnership with the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) - 2016-2018: rigorous scientific validation of the saildrone data with scientific institutions around the world: science papers published for each data stream (summarized here: https://www.saildrone.com/data-quality#science-papers) - 2018-current: scaling of global operations, 100 saildrones, 500,000 nautical miles of missions, operations in ALL key oceans: Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Med, Indian, Southern Ocean with over 30 science partners across all continents. | Our longer term goal is to achieve full planetary coverage and enable real-time monitoring of our global oceans at a 6x6 degree resolution. This will require 1,000 saildrones. We call this concept: 'The Quantified Planet'. It follows on the blueprint of the Argo network of ocean profilers (4,000 profilers at 3x3 degree resolution), a scientific infrastructure that has enabled humanity to answer the question of the heat budget of the planet (ie Global Warming). We expect to open 20 operating hubs around the world, working with many 'Large Ocean Nations' (formerly 'Small Island Developing States'), to act as launch and maintenance hubs for regional fleets of saildrones. We believe that the data collected will impact humanity at large, as weather and other phenomenons include every human beings on the planet. This reinforces the goal of SD14, contributes to the UN Decade of Oceans, and many other regional development goals (blue economy). | The key resource needed is long term financial commitments by the private and public sectors to support the operational running expense of this solution. This is in the order of $30 to $100m per annum for global coverage to cover things like satellite communications, data infrastructure, global logistics, local capacity building, scientific data analysis and dissemination, and educational outreach. The need is very similar to the funding requirements of the successful Argo network, which is funded via a global consortium under the UN IOC. | Company website: https://www.saildrone.com/ Global press coverage: https://www.saildrone.com/press Selected scientific publications: https://www.saildrone.com/data-quality#publications Mission highlight: Antarctica Circumnavigation: https://www.saildrone.com/antarctica Current missions: https://www.saildrone.com/updates TED presentation: https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastien_de_halleux_how_a_fleet_of_wind_powered_drones_is_changing_our_understanding_of_the_ocean Bloomberg video: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-05-15/the-robots-roaming-the-high-seas-video | TED presentation: https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastien_de_halleux_how_a_fleet_of_wind_powered_drones_is_changing_our_understanding_of_the_ocean ExplOratorium presentation: https://www.exploratorium.edu/video/ocean-discovery-talk-marine-drones | Index Award Finalist (2019) https://theindexproject.org/award/winnersandfinalists/saildrone US Department of Commerce Bronze Medal (2018) https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/edd/awards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chiyanika | Nakasamu | Greenbelt Energy Corporation | N/A | CFO/Co-Founder | Male | Zambia | Zambia | English | I grew up under the care of my grandmother who is a smallholder farmer in one of Zambia’s rural communities, as a statistic in the 70% rural poverty rate in Zambia’s rural area of Kanakantapa, this back ground gave me the desire and passion to be an active hand in the call to end poverty and hunger in Africa. Thus I co-founded Greenbelt Energy Corp an agribusiness firm that offers a positive social economic pathway to thousands of poor rural African communities without leaving anyone behind. The community benefits from the innovation through improved rural community livelihoods through increased incomes as a result of increased producer productivity, increased sustainable forest use, increased access to low cost and Eco-friendly production systems and increased women participation in the out-grower scheme. | Chiyanika Nakasamu is an award winning individual who uses data to solve financial inclusion and climate change related challenges. I am a banking and finance executive with 2 years experience in financial management and business advisory strategy formulation. As a agribusiness leader i have encountered multiple challenges in running a social enterprise business, as a result, i faced a lot of discouragements which almost made me to quit. But the desire and my passion to make a significant impact on lives of people who are still suffering have enabled me to strive and keep fight until i help them find their way out of poverty. | Data science and Artificial Intelligence | We are using drone technology for data collection and analysis to solve social-economic problems across the agriculture sector | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | This initiative will be implemented in Zambia | Yes | Rural Finance Expansion Program, Ministry of Agriculture, Idrone Zambia Services, Hollard Insurance and Barclays Bank | Transition to Scale | We have proved that using low cost drones for agriculture mapping, data collection and analysis, it is possible to help small scale farmers to do farming efficiently and improve the interaction between small scale farmer and financial providers. This concept was tested on selected small scale farmer's fields and was proved to be viable, efficiently, effective and sustainable. The innovation of this concept lies in providing small scale farmers with real time information for decision making. | The major problem facing rural communities and smallholder farmers is the problem of low crop productivity due to lack of access to financial services from financial providers. Statistics indicate that Zambia has an estimate 1.6 million smallholder farmers of which over 80% have low crop productivity. Small-scale farmers face specific constraints that hinder their productivity, thus perpetuating low incomes and contributing to persistent rural poverty. | We provide rural communities and smallholder farmers with access to good and sustainable agriculture practices which will increase their crop production by 80% and improve their interaction with financial providers. Our aim is to promote sustainable farming systems by reassessing farm product life cycles and production systems using artificial intelligence designed repair and reuse system to boost producer productivity and reduce post harvest losses. Thus we intend to develop low cost drones and AI, data science based solution to promote precision farming among smallholder farmers and rural communities. Use our system to collect, store and analyze data based on its geographic location, this will enable us to provide actionable information for crop protection and boost yield among small holder farmers and rural communities. | . The use of technologies such as SAP Leonardo and Cloud IOT Core will allow us to connect, manage, collect and analyze IoT data from sensors and smart devices to transform business models, processes, and operations. This will enable us to develop models which determine the best farming methods depending on the data mapped conditions and propel the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) capabilities with human expertise and computer insights to promote precision farming. We will use low cost drones to collect data on farm field through mapping. The crop data collected is analyzed using drone deploy software to come up with field crop data, crop growth model soil analysis mapping, fertilizer recommendation and weather data. | We have gone as far as securing funds for this project from interested partners and we have equally tried to engage relevant authorities and decision makers who can help us get required certificates for use to start operating. our pilot project was tested 3 month ago on 50 farm fields. Our success is measured through the number of small scale farmers to our services and increase in crop production. | We are targeting about 50,000 small scale farmers and we intend to create over 5000 job to rural youth and women. This project will expand to Malawi, Zimbabwe and Botswana | Deploying drone technology to provide precision farming service to small scale farmers is very challenging because of low income levels characterizing the agriculture sector. What we currently need is more funding that will help us sustainable in the long run. we need advanced drones and analytic software that will enable us to come up with effective prediction models. | https://vimeo.com/259074262 | https://web.facebook.com/search/top/?q=BongoHive&ref=eyJzaWQiOiIwLjA2NDQ2MDYyMTI5Mjc1MjQzIiwicXMiOiJKVFZDSlRJeVFtOXVaMjlJYVhabEpUSXlKVFZFIiwiZ3YiOiJiZWUwOWY5M2ZhNzMyY2ZhNTlhMWNiNmQ5ZjQ1MGQzODkyNDI0ZTQ5IiwiZW50X2lkcyI6W10sImJzaWQiOiI1OTNmOTM2OWQxNjhiN2FlMmExZDY3YWFhODJhMzUyNCIsInByZWxvYWRlZF9lbnRpdHlfaWRzIjpudWxsLCJwcmVsb2FkZWRfZW50aXR5X3R5cGUiOm51bGwsInJlZiI6ImJyX3RmIiwiY3NpZCI6bnVsbCwiaGlnaF9jb25maWRlbmNlX2FyZ3VtZW50IjpudWxsLCJjbGllbnRfdGltZV9tcyI6MTU2MzU1NzM3ODc1OX0&epa=SEARCH_BOX | We won 2016 Nyamuka Zambia Business competition, we come second in Data Hack innovation award. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Santiago | Bertoglia | Voluntarios de las Naciones Unidas - Argentina | Voluntarios de las Naciones Unidas - Argentina | Asistente humanitario | masculino | Argentina | Argentina | Spanish | Desde hace muchos años que se encuentran las alarmas sonando, donde se encuentran los sufrimientos de las personas y lo más lamentable son los dolores que sufren los NIÑOS. Estas situaciones hacen poner en actividad los conocimientos para proteger la VIDA y proteger el Planeta. | Por la motivación mencionada, trabajo desde el año 2000 realizando presentaciones judiciales y animando a víctimas a la continuidad de las acciones judiciales. | Fuentes de Vida | Agua, Aire y Tierra | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Se destina para Argentina y todos los países del Planeta. | Yes | Todas las personas de nuestro Mundo | Transition to Scale | Por encontrarse en el sistema comercial tradicional. | El consumo humano de agua envenenada. | Todas las personas podrán tener equipo de purificación de agua. | Todas las personas deben consumir agua limpia, sana y segura. | Por el momento no existe progreso. | No dejar a nadie atrás. | Estar unidos y todos los recursos robados por funcionarios públicos corruptos | https://membercenter.nationalgeographic.com/580589984294 | https://gpccommunity.unhcrideas.org/Page/Home | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jalal | Awan | RAND | https://www.rand.org/about/people/a/awan_jalal.html | Assistant Policy Researcher / Phd Candidate | Male | United States of America | Pakistan | Arabic | English | I am a doctoral candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy analyst at the non-profit think-tank, the RAND Corporation, based in Santa Monica. Prior to joining RAND, I worked as an electrical projects and maintenance engineer at an industrial power plant and as a technical consultant at an energy consulting firm in Pakistan. I came to the United States in 2013-14 for my Masters in Energy Systems at the University of Southern California in LA. At USC, I got enrolled in policy and business school electives and had a chance to do a summer internship at the UNDP in NY in 2014-15. Since then, I've become an advocate and proponent of policy solutions to the world's environmental problems. I co-authored a paper on Climatic Impacts on Youth, Peace and Security as part of the UN Sustainable Solutions Network and presented it at the ICSD at Columbia University. I take a keen interest in international affairs and politics and am a regular freelance writer in various online and journal publications (including the LA Times). My research interests revolve around autonomous transport, climate change, infrastructure resilience, future of work and the smart grid. I have experience working on lifecycle analysis of photovoltaic-based off-grid electrical systems and feasibility of 'platooning' autonomous vehicle fleets to tackle traffic congestion in Los Angeles. Apart from my Phd focus in policy, I am an IEEE-accredited electrical engineer and an ASQ certified Six Sigma Green Belt. At RAND, I am currently involved in projects like developing performance measures for public health emergency handling, estimating benefits of autonomous vehicles, evaluation of transboundary environmental impacts on India-Pakistan relations and cybersecurity of unmanned aerial vehicles. I also have the U.S. Green Building Council certification in Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED). I believe that the UN Solutions Summit would provide me an opportunity to take my dissertation idea around hyper-local air quality monitoring through citizen science to a global level. I see the city I grew up in (Lahore) at #6 worldwide in terms of particulate matter pollution and therefore have a deep interest in exploring hyper local air quality monitoring. | Jalal Awan is a doctoral candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy analyst at RAND. Prior to joining RAND, he worked as an electrical projects and maintenance engineer at an industrial power plant and as a technical consultant at an energy consulting firm in Pakistan. As part of the UN Secretary General's Sustainability for All team, he conducted background research and actively participated in the negotiations that led to post-2015 sustainable development agenda adoption. At RAND, he is currently involved in projects like developing performance measures for public health emergency handling, estimating benefits of autonomous vehicles, evaluation of transboundary environmental impacts on India-Pakistan relations and cybersecurity of unmanned aerial vehicles. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Pakistan. His research interests revolve around autonomous transport, climate change, infrastructure resilience, future of work and the smart grid. He has experience working on lifecycle analysis of photovoltaic-based off-grid electrical systems and feasibility of 'platooning' autonomous vehicle fleets to tackle traffic congestion in Los Angeles. Awan is an IEEE-accredited electrical engineer and an ASQ certified Six Sigma Green Belt. tification in Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED). | Hyper-local Air Quality Monitoring: Applications in the developing world. | Reducing Particulate Matter Exposure through Smart City Design: Quantifying the impact of built environment on PM 2.5 emissions. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | United States | Yes | https://www.prgs.edu/cazier-initiative.html | Transition to Scale | We have deployed 30 sensors to monitor air quality at a hyper-local (neighborhood) level in the City of Santa Monica. Our initial data analysis shows interesting correlations between air quality and the built environment.I am now building my own sensors at a fraction of the original sensor cost ($45 vs $200+) to deploy in Pakistan. Additionally, my paper in the Journal of Env Science 'An analysis of pollution inequity among demographics in Los Angeles county' (Awan et al., 2019 is forthcoming). | Citizens rely on air-quality data from sparsely distributed monitoring stations for planning purposes and for communicating air quality. However, sparse distribution means they may not accurately represent the pollutant gradients at the neighborhood level. Low cost air sensors could become a game changer in monitoring air pollution, traffic management, personal exposure and health assessment. | , I plan to apply meteorological and geographic topology data (from sources like OpenStreetMaps and weatherunderground) and use existing machine learning models leveraging Artificial Neural Networks to quantify effects of hard infrastructure in predicting PM2.5 levels. Currently, based on my independent study so far, air dispersion models lack the consideration of spatial design and focus more on environmental factors to predict air quality. Since urban design factors are under human control, it makes sense to look at them and analyze correlations with bad AQ in order to design future cities that fare better than existing ones in terms of criteria pollutants (SOx,NOx,CO,PM). Existing work by Professor Yao-Yi Chiang at the USC Spatial Sciences Institute as well as Air Pollution Emission Experiments and Policy analysis (APEEP) model at CMU confirms and quantifies correlations between PM2.5 and urban design related features in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh respectively. If we can successfully quantify the relative contributions of each of these urban design related factors towards AQI, we can come up with general guidelines or best practices in urban planning and smart city design. As part of future research, I also plan on exploring the ‘pollution inequity’ problem, demographics consuming less goods and services and being exposed more towards PM2.5. | My primary research question is: “To what extent can smart city design practices improve PM2.5 emission levels in Los Angeles?” To answer this research question, I need to answer two intermediate, but linked secondary questions pertaining to correlations between air quality and the built environment. Therefore, my proposed research will be composed of two separate, but interlinked tasks, culminating in a final proposal around best practices and guidelines to reduce particulate matter-related air pollution. Traditional machine learning approaches like Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW), simple linear regression (LR), vector autoregression (VAR) or Gradient Boosting Machines (GBM) have been tested on the Los Angeles air quality dataset and found to fare worse than this new machine learning centric geo-context based approach. The geo-context based approach will allow me to classify geographic features and rank them in terms of their importance in predicting PM2.5 values. The baseline PM2.5 value will be obtained from the deployed Cazier sensors, which alongside meteorological dataset from (10/01/2018 – 06/01/2019) will form the training dataset while data from the next three months (i.e 07/01/2019 – 09/30/2019) will serve as testing dataset for the project. | The team has set up a live data stream to capture data from deployed sensors and use machine learning techniques to analyze and compare readings from co-located sensors across spatial and temporal dimensions. As of now, we have: •~1,324,800 records per month (primary data) •Total - 5,645,520 records/3.95 GB (10/2018 – 2/2019) •Retrieved historical data from November 2018 and the past month for analysis •Merged data from multiple sources for air quality and weather •Examined correlations between air quality and temperature/humidity •Compared data collected from PA sensors vs. Gov. monitor (AirNow) vs. model estimates (Breezometer) Findings: •Trends in Air Quality in Santa Monica •Air Quality During Woolsey Fire •Comparison to Models | Forecasting spatially correlated time series data is challenging because of the linear and non-linear dependencies in the temporal and spatial dimensions. More recently, however, certain machine learning techniques and models like CMU’s Air Pollution Emission Experiments and Policy analysis (APEEP) have resulted in remarkably accurate Particulate Matter (PM) and Air Quality Index (AQI) forecasts. As a next step in the process, and as part of this proposal, I plan to apply meteorological and geographic topology data (from sources like OpenStreetMaps and weatherunderground) and use existing machine learning models leveraging Artificial Neural Networks to quantify effects of hard infrastructure in predicting PM2.5 levels. Currently, based on my independent study so far, air dispersion models lack the consideration of spatial design and focus more on environmental factors to predict air quality. Existing work by Professor Yao-Yi Chiang at the USC Spatial Sciences Institute confirms and quantifies correlations between PM2.5 and urban design related features in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh. If we can successfully quantify the relative contributions of each of these urban design related factors towards AQI, we can come up with general guidelines or best practices in urban planning and smart city design. As part of future research, I also plan on exploring the ‘pollution inequity’ problem, demographics consuming less goods and services and being exposed more towards PM2.5. | In the short-term, I need access to a high speed computing machine to run various models comparing correlations between PM2.5 pollutants and the built environment and test the accuracy of various approaches. In the medium term, I will need to collaborate with the EPA, City of Santa Monica and the citizen science community on the practical applications and utility of my results. In the long term, I want to secure funding to creat, test and deploy do-it-yourself air quality sensors across Lahore, Pakistan with the support of local government. | https://www.prgs.edu/news/2019/cazier-air-quality-analysis.html | https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-trump-environment-clean-air-water-20190711-story.html | The John and Carol Cazier Initiative for Energy and Environmental Sustainability - awarded $30,000 for Phase 1 implementation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Maimbolwa | Muliwana | Go Ye Therefore (GYT) | http://goyethereforezambia.com | Country Coordinator | Male | Zambia | Zambia | English | The major motivation is influencing change towards children’s academic improvement and hence community development. Literacy education is key to self and community empowerment and enhances development. Literacy education has social and economic benefits to communities. It is the foundation for community empowerment. Any other form of empowerment without literacy education is not sustainable. | The Country Coordinator was initially a Regional Manager under Southern Water & Sewerage Company for a number of years in all its regional areas and later he moved to Lukanga Water & Sewerage Company as Branch Manager to help set up operational aspects of the then new company. He later joined an International Donor Organization, the Joint Country Programme (JCP) which is a merger of three international sister organizations namely Norwegian Church Aid (NCA), DanChurch Aid (DCA) and Christian Aid (CA) having three headquarters to report to which are Oslo in Norway, Denmark and United Kingdom (UK). Here he implemented various projects directly like Water and Sanitation Project funded by UNHCR in collaboration with Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) and helped various Zambia based NGOs develop and implement projects, and sometimes chaired the Organization Projects Committee whose chair was on rotational basis. He developed programme specific annual plans & budgets, participated in the process of developing the NCA 2016-2020 Strategic Plan, Conducted M & E to programmes specific partners, and participated in the NCA 2011 – 2014 Field Evaluation Process. Under JCP he monitored and gave technical supported to about ten (10) organizations in various projects ranging from education, health, climate change and economic empowerment. | Improvement of Primary School Learners’ Literacy Project - Zambia | Literacy Education for Academic Achievement and Community Development | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Zambia (currently), South Africa (Intended) & Lesotho (Intended) | Yes | Ministry of Education, ChildFund Zambia, LitWorld (USA), and AFID (Accounting for International Development) | Scaling | We have already implemented it and proven its effectiveness. impact, cost effectiveness and how it is liked by stakeholders in the education sector. We have also piloted it with ChildFund Zambia and evaluated its effectiveness and impact together. | The main problem is low literacy levels at primary school level (up to grade 7) in schools in Zambia. PISA Report - Zambia Programmes for International Student Assessment (PISA) Report for Zambia released by OECD in December 2018 reviewed that 95% of grade seven (7) pupils are unable to achieve the minimum level of proficiency in reading. FineReads ANCEFA Gp-education # copied from ZANEC (www.zanec.org.zm) | Solution integrates Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) methodologies and skills into existing education system, and shall focus mainly on personal development of teachers, parents & learners, improving classroom practices to ensure they are socially & emotionally safe for learning, and also improving the school culture to be a socially & emotionally safe learning community and environment to build love for school in learners through an enhanced sense of belonging. To achieve the above this shall be done through sensitization, training and implementation of a Social & Emotional Learning oriented Curriculum in literacy sessions. Through SEL methodology and literacy sessions, children shall be powerful readers, writers, learners and academic achievers. Teachers shall be trained as mentors to create safe, inclusive and praise- centered learning environments for learners whereas parents shall be sensitized to be more involved and supportive to their children learners. The targeted learners shall attend weekly literacy sessions which will take them through step by step interactive lessons (like read-aloud, think-aloud, listening, writing) and community building activities that are highly participatory. OVERALL IMPACT: New generation of learners, story-tellers & academic achievers produced and effecting change both at personal and community level in Zambia and other Southern African countries (South Africa, Namibia & Lesotho) in 3 to 5 years. | Innovation is unique and effective than other interventions because it is comprehensive and integrates social emotional literacy component. Learning is social; learners need to feel safe in their relationships in learning environments, need to be ready or prepared to learn and also they need to be motivated to succeed. Concerning making the learning environment safe, we create a culture where learners do not fear making mistakes during participation in the classroom environment as there is no bullying and mockery from peers or fellow learners and no mockery/ intimidating remarks from teachers for learners that contribute wrong answers. It involves all key stakeholders in the learning environment (teachers, learners and administrators, Parents Teachers Association) and parents/guardians without whose coordinated involvement and support, literacy education becomes a failure. The model includes the following methodologies which makes it even more unique than other existing solutions: Relationship based approach (Teacher and learner), Involvement of Parents and guardians, Read Alouds and Think Alouds strategies, Building learners’ motivation to learn, Making the learning environment socially and emotionally safe for learners (other interventions do not resolve the problem of bullying, mockery and intimidation), Improvement of Social and Emotional Learning skills, Value for learners’ stories and story-telling, and Literacy education for those with hearing disabilities. | We have researched about the causes of low literacy levels in Zambia through rapid baseline/research studies. We then decided to develop the model through a Theory of Change development process which helped us to incorporate and knit together all the missing links in current interventions thereby making this model comprehensive and impactful. We have done Research and Development and through implementation of this model for three years and reaching out to more than 700 learners and 243 teachers as well as piloting it for six months with ChildFund, we have proven its effectiveness. We have full proof of the concept and we are now ready to scale it up. Project assessment shall focus on “Project Results Chain” (Inputs, Outputs, Outcomes, Impact). Information collected from monitoring and the interim evaluation shall enhance timely and appropriate decisions that can improve project implementation, project management and achievement of desired outcomes. The following are the three key performance indicators categories we shall use: Impact Indicators, Outcome Indicators and Output Indicators. A baseline shall be established for each indicator to help us determine the measuring starting point or the foundation of measurement of project progress monitoring. Thereafter, a target as desired level of change for each indicator shall be set. Change shall be measured from the baseline and the target shall help us know how far we are. | OVERALL IMPACT: New generation of learners, story-tellers & academic achievers produced and effecting change both at personal and community level. PROJECT GOAL: Improved Literacy levels for academic achievement and community development. (a) 75% of learners (161, 000) have acquired SEL skills & knowledge - December 2022 (b) 75% of learners (161, 000) have achieved minimum level of proficiency in reading - Sept 2021 (c) 75% of learners have achieved at least 75% school attendance - December 2021 (d) 75% of learners have improved in academic performance (or are within pass rate) - Sept 2022 (e) Reduction in reported/ identified bullying incidences - August 2021 (f) 230 schools have been trained and are implementing SEL model - November 2022 (g) Reach out to South Africa, Lesotho & Namibia by 2020/1 Note: Milestone (a) to (f) are for Zambia and shall be similar milestone for each of these countries we shall reach out to. | RESOURCES NEEDED FOR UPSCALE 1.SHORT TERM (a)Equipment for Trainings and usage by project staff to do their work (b)Learners’ story books for “Read-Alouds & Think-Aloud” strategies. These should promote Social & Emotional Learning strengths (Curiosity, Hope, Belonging, Kindness, Friendship, Confidence and Courage). (c)Financial support for snacks for learners (start of the project for motivation) (d)Financial support for Training materials & Stationery (e)Communication: Publications & Video documentaries (f)Sensitization: Meetings, Television & Radio (g)Capacity building of Duty Bearers (Ministry of Education) and other Development Actors 2.MEDIUM TERM (a)Transport for mobility to project areas (b)Financial support for project implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation, Audits, Project Personnel (c)Participation in Advocacy events e.g. World Read Aloud Day, World Literacy Day (d)LONG TERM (a)Established country office (Zambia and targeted countries: South Africa, Lesotho & Namibia) | 1. Zambia Daily Mail – Literacy Clubs Prop Up below average pupils – Livingstone (GYT Zambia) http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/literacy-clubs-prop-up-below-average-pupils/ 2. XINHUA NEWS AGENCY - 2019 http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-03/11/c_137886465.htm 3. “Reading aloud to children every day puts them almost a year ahead of children who do not receive daily read alouds regardless of parental income, education level or cultural background” (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research) 4. “Social and Emotional Learning skills are the foundation for high-performing students, classroom, and schools” (Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, 2011) 5. “Social and Emotional Learning Competences are important for student achievement, motivation and school engagement. They are also critical ingredients for supportive teacher – student relationships; for classroom management; and as a solution to teacher burnout” (Jennings & Greenberg, 2009; Jones Bouffard & Weissbourd, 2013) 6. Girls and women who are educated have greater awareness of their rights, and greater confidence and freedom to make decisions that affect their lives, improve their own and their children's health and chances of survival, and boost their work prospects. (UNESCO) 7. A literate and educated girl is three times less likely to acquire AIDS, she will earn at least 25% more income, and she will produce a smaller, healthier family. (UNESCO) | 1. The District Commissioner (DC) officiating at Her Story Campaign 2018 – by GYT Zambia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G0vPIUVrO4 2. Commemorating the Day of the African Child – by Literacy Learners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN494jCAQzU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qliIKbywmlY 3. Literacy Learners celebrating “World Read Aloud Day” at the Ministry of Education Resource Center in Livingstone town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CeVNPjN4IE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rzszVQGa1o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8npNB4DfIw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f77xRCzwYA8 | Our model influenced Livingstone District being the best in Literacy methodologies at a Provincial Literacy Day for Southern Province - 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Derrick Hosea | Opio | OneLamp | www.onelamp.ug | CEO | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | As a social entrepreneur and founder of OneLamp, Derrick Hosea Opio strongly believes innovation can change the world particularly Africa. OneLamp deploys and relies of an existing network of local small scale entrepreneurs locally known as “ddukas” to solve the lastmile distribution challenge at the bottom of the pyramid in Africa. OneLamp recruits and trains village retail shop owners and todate we have established the largest direct sales network of well-trained village retailers/solar agents operating in Uganda. OneLamp’s direct sales network of 465 local entrepreneurs overcomes the barriers of distribution in rural areas of Africa where large shopping malls and tarmacked roads have not yet reached. We teach village retail shop owners how to sell solar lights using our developed sms platform and they then teach customers who visit their shops. Partnering with village retailers offers a faster way of gaining access to the local market knowledge, access to a huge offgrid client base. Also at the local levels, there are no institutional structures to initiate, develop, promote and implement energy access projects. As we grow OneLamp will expand this network to 2500 local retailers across East Africa. Partnering with local entrepreneurs offers a faster way of gaining access to a huge offgrid client base and to control setup costs of product pickup points. OneLamp has also been able to cost efficiently serve Africa’s lastmile using an existing transport network of taxi motorcycle riders locally known as boda – bodas and also expand financial inclusion of rural households through mobile money payment solutions. By using an existing transport network of taxi matatus and taxi motorcycles for delivering solar systems OneLamp also enjoys cost savings and makes notable reductions in GHG emissions caused by rapid motorization in Sub Saharan Africa. | Derrick Hosea Opio is the founder & Chief Executive Officer of OneLamp. He is an Alumni of the Fledge Accelerator, Halcyon incubator, DO School NYC Sustainable Cup Challenge and a 2015 Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society. He has a background in LLB and Bsc Accounting & Financial Management. He is also a 2016 Power Africa Offgrid Energy Grant Challenge Winner and recipient of the 2015 African Rethink Awards Grand Prize. Derrick is also a member of the the Inclusive Business Accelerator and Empowering People Network, an initiative of Siemens Stiftung that promotes appropriate technological solutions for the major areas of basic supply in emerging markets. In 2018, OneLamp was honored with the World Summit Young Innovators Award at the WSA Global Congress in Vienna. WSA Young Innovators is a special recognition for young social entrepreneurs under 30 years of age, using ICTs to take action on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). | OneLamp | OneLamp is Africa's lastmile on-demand delivery service for clean energy. | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Uganda | Yes | MTN, Airtel, Angaza, Omnivoltaic, Togbo | Transition to Scale | At present the OneLamp USSD mobile platform is developed and active across two of the largest Mobile Network Operators in Uganda (MTN & Airtel) to enable mobile payments and product orders. Our 1st regional distribution service center has been set up in Uganda with a delivery network of 137 matatu drivers and a direct sales network of 465 local retailers across 12 districts. We are currently registering more delivery matatus and signing more village retailers to cover the entire region. | Two in three Africans do not have access to energy and that's keeping people on the continent poor. At OneLamp we believe that access to clean modern energy, especially in Africa, where 620 million people have no electricity, is essential to eradicating extreme poverty, eliminating avoidable child deaths, and achieving universal secondary education, more inclusive growth, gender equity and sustainable land-use. | OneLamp offers a same day last mile clean energy delivery service that enables offgrid households and small enterprises in East Africa order solar systems via mobile sms and enjoy door to door delivery using an existing transportation network of taxi motorcycles and direct sales system of local retailers. To receive a solar system, offgrid households anywhere in Uganda dial *265# on Airtel or MTN network, order number of solar systems they need, make mobile money payment, type their name, location and the then send sms to OneLamp using their mobile handsets. OneLamp receives the order and confirms delivery instantly via sms. We then deliver using an existing network of 50,000 matatus and 350,000 taxi motorcycles. OneLamp’s direct sales network of well-trained village retailers overcomes the barriers of distribution in rural areas of Africa where large shopping malls and tarmacked roads have not yet reached. Providing energy access to off-grid communities through solar home systems is one of the most efficient ways to end energy poverty. OneLamp customers are moving from less efficient lighting sources such as kerosene lamps, to solar home systems that can power high quality LED bulbs and super-efficient appliances that were not a possibility for them before. OneLamp envisions a world where every off-grid African household & business has access to modern clean energy. | Our business model recognizes that extending the electricity grid to remote areas is fraught with problems. It is expensive, transport costs are high, and accessibility is difficult. In sub-Saharan Africa, grid extension costs $23,000 per kilometer. Africa requires more than $300 billion in investment capital to achieve universal electricity access by 2030. On the other hand, the capacity needed to produce a watt of solar power (enough to run a small light), which in 2008 cost $4, has come down to $1. We derive inspiration for our business strategy from Africa being global leader in mobile money transactions; Sub-Saharan Africa is particularly undergoing a mobile digital revolution with mobile subscriptions predicted to rise, to about 930m by late 2019 from 635m in 2014. OneLamp uses the power of mobile SMS to aggregate demand for clean energy at the bottom of the pyramid while reducing; supply chain inefficiencies and the time and money offgrid households currently spend to purchase dangerous kerosene for lighting. We also deploy USSD technology for payments, quality customer service and impact assessment of solar lights at the bottom of the pyramid. SMS & USSD technology is available on every GSM-enabled mobile phone and allows OneLamp to reach directly potential offgrid customers scattered in rural villages and in urban slums cross the country without internet access or grid connection. | OneLamp is committed to bringing electricity to areas where current grid infrastructure is limited or slow on the horizon particularly off-grid rural and semi-urban areas. We measure our impact in four areas; financial performance, productivity and efficiency of our products, health and environmental safety realized from the usage of our solar products by the different customer groups. Our key performance indicators include energy savings from solar products sold, greenhouse gas emissions of product replaced, greenhouse gas reductions due to solar products sold, number of households and businesses provided new access to clean energy. OneLamp has been able to setup a direct sales network of well-trained 465 village retailers/solar agents operating across 12 districts. To-date; OneLamp has provided 105,600 people living in offgrid communities in Uganda access to affordable clean safe lighting by selling 28,358 solar light systems as an alternative to kerosene lanterns. Our products have enabled off-grid households to save $8m that could have been used to buy kerosene fuel for lighting and also eliminate harmful exposure to 17,605 tonnes of CO2 emissions. In addition, the money that’s saved can be redirected towards health needs, education and housing. The usage of solar lights to read and carryout home chores is also expected to result in a reduction of chronic diseases caused by indoor air pollution and risks of injury caused by flammable fuels used in the lamps. | Our mission to expand access to affordable quality clean energy solutions through innovative distribution networks and mobile payment technology for the world’s deprived and underserved communities. OneLamp envisions a world where every off-grid African household & business has access to modern clean energy. Our goal is a 15% market share of the Off-grid market in Uganda by the end of 2025 before expanding to other 4 East African countries. OneLamp hopes to achieve annual sales revenue of $15m within 5 years with operations in 5 East African countries and the largest direct retails sales network of 50,000 solar agents. Our initial operations are in Uganda, East Africa. In East Africa; electricity access is at 12% in Uganda; 14% in Tanzania and 18% in Kenya forcing more than 20m households to rely on dangerous kerosene lanterns for lighting.l. Our target consumer segments include off-grid households, small enterprises living in rural and semi urban off-grid areas currently using kerosene lanterns for atleast 2-6 hours per day. OneLamp solar systems provide clean, reliable energy, which delivers power for lights, home appliances and smartphones. By 2025 OneLamp hopes to impact 3m offgrid households with better quality light, reduction or elimination of fuel-related health issues, fire hazards and toxic fumes, save 823.3m USD annually that could have gone to kerosene expenses, and avert 1.7m tonnes of CO2 emissions. | As a team our aim is to build a profitable self‐sustaining social enterprise that accomplishes its predefined social goals and stakeholder interests. To scale we need investments from impact institutions that can provide advisory support and value-added knowledge that OneLamp needs. Lastly OneLamp needs patient affordable capital. In Uganda, commercial loans often come with interest rates above 25 percent, with collateral requirements up to 150 percent of the value of the loan. These requirements are not feasible for an enterprise looking to rapidly scale up the delivery of clean energy to low income offgrid household and enterprises at the bottom of the pyramid. In the short term we need $250k debt financing and $2m in the medium term for inventory requirements and further development of our mobile platforms. OneLamp is manufacturer neutral and sources high quality affordable products from global suppliers that meet Lighting Africa minimum quality standards & recommended performance targets. In the longterm OneLamp needs $50m investment to expand our delivery network for solar systems across East Africa. | https://www.worldsummitawards.org/winner/onelamp/ https://www.usadf.gov/pressreleases/2016/3/28/off-grid-energy-winners-in-uganda https://lelab.info/land-of-african-business-the-2015-award-recipients/ https://www.empowering-people-network.siemens-stiftung.org/en/solutions/projects/onelamp/ https://www.newvision.co.ug/tag/one-lamp-limited/ https://solarmagazine.com/usadf-new-africa-off-grid-energy-challenge-entrepreneurs/ https://halcyonhouse.org/derrick-hosea https://make-it-initiative.org/africa/cpt_startup/onelamp/ https://make-the-planet-great-again.com/one-lamp https://thedoschool.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/OneLamp.pdf https://solarmagazine.com/usadf-new-africa-off-grid-energy-challenge-entrepreneurs/ | https://youtu.be/-G1Lcaht47o | 2018 World Summit Young Innovators Award Winner 2016 Power Africa Offgrid Energy Grant Challenge Winner 2015 African Rethink Awards Grand Prize Winner 2014 DO School NYC Sustainable Cup Challenge Winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Pradeep Kumar | Gohil | World Micro Stock Exchange | https://www.linkedin.com/in/worldmicrostockexchange | CEO/Founder | Male | India | India | English | We are startup World Micro Stock Exchange will generate universal basic income sources, insurances, credit, job, skill, entrepreneur and alliances for the world's common masses crowdfunding investment without capital in the global market through our advanced MPR planning of buy as a micro shareholding value proposition will reduce all kind risk burden of poverty, unemployment, finance, and market crisis. We generate sky limit crowdfunding investment and micro the shareholding value proposition will automatically support all general insurances credit liability for all kind finance need of global common masses, we providing fastest services to all industry business loan/IPO listing batter then all big stock or government/private banking systems we support to the government all cash tax/GST/Income tax return (disputed cash currency numbers or barcode data entry will block in our cyber custody )we provide recovery in on window FinTech, RegTech, Blockchain will reduce all kind risk of Poverty, Unemployment, Finance, Tax recovery, corruption, BankATM robbery, and Market crisis and generate millions Job/Skill and sky limit brokerage partnership | I’m Pradeep Kumar Gohil Sole-Properties of World Micro Stock Exchange a Universal Basic Alliances of crowdfunding & micro shareholding value proposition we expert and support to UN and all national government in largest public, private and government-oriented eco-enterprise application innovators | World Micro Stock Exchange | We are startup World Micro Stock Exchange is Global Tender/Bid of Universal Basic Income sources alliance | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India/USA/China | No | Ideation | We are first in the world will reduce all kind of financial risk | We enable to provide the world's fastest crowd finance model of all kind finance need/indeed of common masses pull out from poverty and become an entrepreneur and increasing (job/skill/partner) all industry will free from all the burden of (sale, marketing, and IPO listing) government will free from all the burden of (political hours & unrest, corruption, economy crisis) | Our World Micro Stock Exchange is best IPO listing platform Advanced MRP multiple investment and segment compliances for common masses, all industry and government have to follow our FinTech, RegTech, Blockchain, the segment will reduce all kind risk of poverty, unemployment, finance & market crisis, political hours & unrest We enable to provide the world's fastest crowd finance model of all kind finance need/indeed of common masses pull out from poverty and become an entrepreneur and increasing (job/skill/partner) all industry will free from all the burden of (sale, marketing, and IPO listing) government will free from all the burden of (political hours & unrest, corruption, economy crisis) | Today no one solution or e-direction devices policy segment will reduce all kind risk of finance, saving, or investing and increasing universal basic income sources systems for common masses | At present we need an eraly stage funding support from UN all nation common masses, all industry, and the government will merge/equity/partnership with our World Micro Stock Exchange is best IPO listing platform Advanced MRP multiple investment and segment compliances for common masses, all industry and government have to follow our FinTech, RegTech, Blockchain, the segment will reduce all kind risk of poverty, unemployment, finance & market crisis, political hours & unrest We enable to provide the world's fastest crowd finance model of all kind finance need/indeed of common masses pull out from poverty and become an entrepreneur and increasing (job/skill/partner) all industry will free from all the burden of (sale, marketing, and IPO listing) government will free from all the burden of (political hours & unrest, corruption, economy crisis) | We will generate millions of job/skill/entrepreneurship in every country will have adopted/merge/partnership for our joint venture government security exchange commission will allow us a trial basis opening in their country | We startup for long terms we will generate millions of job/skill/entrepreneurship in every country will have adopted/merge/partnership for our joint venture government security exchange commission will allow us a trial basis opening in their country | We awarded in 2010 Nasscom top ten emerge company conclave our ''Antique Bank App'' same venture in name change World Micro Stock Exchange was selected top ten enterprise category of FinTech, RegTech, and Blockchain We awarded in 2013-14 India’s top ten best enterprise developer team organized by Developer Premier League (DPL) Deworx.in, Intel, and Digit. At recently we awarded India's part of the Top 50 Impact Ventures which are in consideration for The BSE Impact-2019 .organized by Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) We participated at TiE NY (ny.tie.org) ""TiE New York Pitch Competition"" has been selected accepted our startup pitch of Universal Basic Income sources alliances venture of World Micro Stock Exchange at Google’s 8th avenue offices (111 8th avenue) We also selected U.S Dept. of Commerce’s Minority Business Development Agency for inviting following way. Our startup venture World Micro Stock Exchange was selected and accepted by the MBDA InVision Tour - New York City has been approved! Below is information regarding your registration and important conference venue details Attending: Pradeep Kumar Gohil Registration Type: Innovator Confirmation Number: KLN8J9XFLGC Number in Party: 1 Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - Wednesday, May 22, 2019 Location: New York, New York https://www.linkedin.com/in/worldmicrostockexchange | https://youtu.be/fuwJPJ11aJc | At recently we awarded India's part of the Top 50 Impact Ventures which are in consideration for The BSE Impact-2019 .organized by Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) We participated at TiE NY (ny.tie.org) ""TiE New York Pitch Competition"" has been selected accepted our startup pitch of Universal Basic Income sources alliances venture of World Micro Stock Exchange at Google’s 8th avenue offices (111 8th avenue) We also selected U.S Dept. of Commerce’s Development Agency Minority Business | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Michel | Loots | Tridealhouse | www.tridealhouse.com | Director | male | Belgium | Belgium | English | French | We have developed an innovation which can contribute to help solve the slum poverty of 890 million urban slum inhabitants in a sustainable and self-financing way, the Tridealhouse. This is being developed through a basic needs industrial mode that is UN/SDG compliant. Just like vaccines can be produced with small fixed profit margin for mass vaccination of all children, we can meet the basic needs of all by creating a new kind of industry: the basic needs industry. The major source of inspiration of Michel Loots to develop this Tridealhouse ""basic needs industry"" were the achievements and visions of James Grant, DG of UNICEF 30 years ago to vaccinate and save millions of children. We can do the same to meet the basic or SDG needs of all urban slum dwellers by cooperative industrial production of sustainable houses in which 12 of 17 SDG are integrated. This can be achieved in cooperation with UN/ODA, leading industries, research centers, governments, and foundations/ impact investors. This is a project called ""vaccination against poverty"" Therefore, the UN is always an inspiration to contribute and innovate for positive global impacts. It is therefore an honour to participate to help achieve UN goals and to support the UN solutions summit. | Dr Michel Loots, MA Ec Sc., MD, first obtained a full MA economics degree, then studied medicine and graduated as medical doctor. His goal is developing solutions for solving poverty and related problems in cooperation with UN agencies. 25 years ago, he created the Human Info NGO, which helped 15 UN agencies to digitise and bring in open source about 50.000 UN/ODA publications. This was a ""vaccination against ignorance"" innovation Concurrently he was knowledge and best practices transfer consultant and partner of 15 UN agencies of which UN-Habitat, FAO, WHO, UNESCO the last 25 years. He developed the concept of a basic human needs industry to help solve poverty based on the UNICEF basic human needs concept. To understand slum solutions, he obtained certificates in concrete technology and building. He co-founded several SME. He and founded 3 non-profit organizations of which an ongoing Human Info NGO project. Recently he founded the mixed humanitarian-social and economic-industrial Tridealhouse project to help solve urban slum poverty. The partner in Tridealhouse Dr Fasika Kelemework holds a Doctorate in Business Leadership and Master in Development Evaluation and Management. He worked for the last 24 years in various organizations including the European Union office and International NGOs in Ethiopia. He was also a consultant for the UN and several NGOs in Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation. He worked 3 years as Director of Performance Management in the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency and joined Tridealhouse in 2018 as Director Ethiopia/Africa. | Tridealhouse | Tridealhouse, a sustainable solution for urban slum inhabitants to acquire and finance their own food-producing house to help break the poverty cycle | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | It is currently co-developed in Ethiopia, and we have interest and intentions to start in Kenia, Sierra Leone, Mozambique, South Africa | Yes | The Ministry of Innovation of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa Science and Technical University, University of Gent, Magnel Institute, in Belgium, VITO research institute, Belgium, and about 4 key industrial partners in concrete and steel profiles | Proof of Concept | We have built a 1/3 scale proof of concept house and also validated a full model by our university, structural engineering and industry research partners. The demonstration model was well received at the recent UN-Habitat Assembly of governments from 25 to 31 may with as theme: “Innovation for Better Quality of Life in Cities and Communities”. More than the 350 stakeholders, of which members of slum dwellers international, ministries, UN visited our proof of concept model and were all positive | As of 2017, 890 million people worldwide were living in urban slums. Their basic needs are not met, they cannot acquire any house, nor participate in the economy. They spend 20 to 40% of their income on fuel, and ~20$ per month on rent for slums in deplorable conditions. Poor nutritional quality food purchases take up 50 to 80% of income expenditures. With 3.15 persons per household, many have no access to water, sanitation or jobs. They have no pension and no security when they become older. | Tridealhouse is a modular hybrid steel profile and pre-cast concrete house that can be repaid by the poorest slum inhabitants as it grows food on its sides. It is produced industrially in local factories. It is using as much local resources and materials as possible. It integrates best factory practices with highest care and standards for the workers. At mass industrial production Tridealhouse can be produced for around 11.000$ and repaid in 10 to 15 years through incomes of food production and saved costs. It can be assembled in 2 days onsite. Tridealhouse provides for all five needs defined by UN-Habitat to solve the slum challenges. It provides water, sanitation, durability, living area and ownership. In addition, the Tridealhouse provides a micro-job as it produces food and generates revenues. The sides of the triangular house collect all the rainwater in foundation tanks, and have around 90m2 of hydroponic growing area. Tridealhouse vision is to help fulfill 12 of 17 SDG. It is designed to become a global vaccination against slum poverty. It will particularly be a safe haven for woman, children and disadvantaged, and a pension for the elderly. It is hurricane, earthquake and flood resilient. Steel profiles can be adapted to resist worst storms. It is made to last 50 to 80 years with minimum maintenance. Tridealhouse is to large extend repaid by the poor themselves and thus a source of proudness, and a foundation for a happier life | The last year we conducted a thorough examination of all alternative projects for slum housing. None of these collect water or have an urban farming and local job component. Slum houses also miss many features needed to address the SDG. Typical social houses in developing countries cost 15 to 20.000$. Therefore, Tridealhouse has no global alternative for the moment. TH is designed in line with 12 of 17 SDGs and guided by the key principle of solving poverty and of leaving no one behind Key features are: Rain water catchment, storage, filtering (foundation tanks) Recirculating showers with treadle pump system Tiger worm toilet and/or sanitation tank and/or excrement drying in sunny regions Solar thermal and PV, solar sanitary water heater/ dryer Urban farming on the sides. Chicken and mushrooms in cellar Community empowerment Industrially/ economically; TH is a modular concept. Components are manufactured industrially nationally at big scale to attain a consistent high quality and keep costs down. The mixed humanitarian-social and industrial-economic approach means there is a fixed, transparent profit margin of 4%. In order to succeed, cooperation of 5 types of stakeholders is necessary: Government; UN/ODA, Research institutions, industry and impact investors. Tridealhouse already has cooperation at highest level with the first 4 of these Tridealhouse includes all know-how and best practices of UN/ODA based on unique 25y experience of processing 50.000 UN publications | Tackling slum poverty encompasses many dimensions relating to 12 SDG. It therefore requires integrated innovations in as many dimensions. We progressed very far. 8 basic conditions must be fulfilled in order to have global outreach. Through steady progress and collaboration with R&D and industrial partners and simulations we can fulfill all of them. Following conditions can now be met. 1. Price per house = ~11.000 $ (at industrial mass production), generating 600-1200 $/year in food 2. Modular system. Onsite assembly in two days 3. Durability > 50 to 80 years. Minimum maintenance 4. Conforming to local and international building codes 5. Inclusion of urban farming, social engineering, SDG/ sustainable utilities 6. 75% of raw materials sourced nationally or regionally. Innovation & technology transfer 7. Cooperation with Government, Social stakeholders, ODA, EIB, WB, UN, Universities, R&D, Impact Investors 8. Production of modules in peer-supported factories. Focus on training, productivity, quality In addition, we identified and master all needed technologically elements, ranging from special concretes, including agricultural wastes, recirculating shower, treadle pumps, passive ventilation and more. Progress and metholodogy are measured by intensive cooperation with 3 university centers and 1 research institute. This enhances coordination, implementation and monitoring capacity for the technical and social evaluation of Tridealhouses. | We expect Tridealhouse to impact 12 of 17 SDG positively and thus improve and save lifes in a multidimensional way. The average slum family is 3.15 persons, each TH has impact on 3.15 persons. Planned goals: 2019: 30 TH installed in Ethiopia, 95 projected lives saved or improved 2020: 1000 TH/year factory in Ethiiopia, 3150 projected lives saved /improved 2021: factory expanded to 10.000 TH per year, 31.500 lives saved /improved, cumulative p/y 2022: Model factory of 10.000 TH/year replicated in other 5 countries: Kenia, Mozambique, South Africa, India, Philippines 156.000 lives saved /improve p/y 2023: Factories of 10.000 TH/year replicated in 5 more countries 2024: Global policy/ systems and sustainable financing support attracted, revenues make global operation self-sustainable, industrial optimization of technologies, production and financing makes it possible to scale globally where needed and possible 2025: trickle down economic effects in terms of nutrition, water, improvement, diminished disease burdens in slums, and economic participation of slum inhabitants to the economic growht of their countries Milestones M1 Produce 30 houses locally in Ethiopia in partnership with main technical university M2 Build and operate the first 1000Th/y factory in Ethiopia M3 Expand model factory in Ethiopia to 10.000 Th/y capacity M4 Factory scaling and implementation capacity in 5 other countries M5 Integration of technological, development and industrial value chain | In order to tackle the global slum problem, cooperation of 5 stakeholders are needed : (between brackets what we achieved so far) 1. Government (Gvt of Ethiopia - MOU signed, interest of other countries) 2. UN/ODA (support of UN-Habitat, expressions of interest of FAO and other UN) 3. Universities and research centres (official cooperation with Addis Ababa AASTU university and 3 universities or R&D in Europe) 4. Industry (cooperation with major steel profiles producer in Europe and with concrete factories) 5. social and impact investors (not yet - to be activated) Since we started this project in May 2018, we have obtained support and cooperation on high level of the 4 first stakeholders. Resources needed to scale: Short term Financial- impact investors, to invest in order to attain milestones M1 and M2 Medium term Organizational: hiring and managing expanding teams in each country Financial ; impact investors for Milestones 3 and 4 Policy support for industrial establishment: local and on country level Technology: shared R&D for improving tech capabilities to use local raw materials and resoruces UN/ODA support in their thematic field or geographical scope Long term Financial : creating global revolving fund to finance foreign currency components of TH Policy and industrial support in each new country UN/ODA support as above Industrial value chain integration support, to decrease costs per TH, increase use of local raw materials and increase quality | 1) Company website: http://www.tridealhouse.com 2) 1st UN-Habitat Assembly: Urban innovation Center stage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BucwjbgyvM 3) Instagram of Mrs Maimunah Mohd Sharif, Executive Director of UN-Habitat (@maimunah.mohdsharif) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByXmIPGnAfv/?igshid=5mpybkrlmf6e ""Tridealhouse is a unique modular pre-cast concrete house that produces food, generates revenue, and can be financed and owned by slum inhabitants. Exhibited at the #UN-HabitatAssembly, Tridealhouse is a true example of #UrbanInnovation in #Housing!"" 4) Tridealhouse 2 minutes video presentation https://vimeo.com/333580925 5) 1st UN-Habitat Assembly: Innovate4change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BucwjbgyvM | 1) SABC TV: Innovations introduced at UN habitat assembly - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv7GTB5keUo (middle 1/3) - broadcasted in South Africa and 54 countries in Africa 2) Voice of America TV UN Habitat Assembly Calls for Innovations - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHx1rPhzufg (second half) 3) Switch TV Kenia - Innovation to boost sustainable housing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udXdO_5exuA&t=26s (first half) 4) 1st UN-Habitat Assembly: Innovate4change: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BucwjbgyvM | We were selected as one of the global urban innovations to present and showcase our model Tridealhouse at the 1st UN-habitat Assembly of governments from 27 to 31 May 2019 in Nairobi, Kenia, and appraised as a unique and true innovation for solving slum poverty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Soha | El Baklawy | Businessita Women Empowerment | www.businessita-we.com | founder | female | Egypt | Egypt | Arabic | English | We create opportunities for women who work or want to launch their business, to develop efficiently; in order to build a community of strong women able to assist and empower one another to achieve all their goals, and make their dreams a reality. Showing them that knowledge is indeed power. Liberating her from any unfavourable environments, enabling her to protect herself, kids and loved ones from any type of abuse hence she has developed her professional career and is able to financially sustain herself and loved ones. Objectives: • Develop the MENA Region culture through the female population. • Promote women’s self-improvement and business development of Middle East society (of all age groups). • Make a difference via flourishing women’s physical, mental and emotional skills. | I am Business Mentor, A Change Maker, A Startup and Strategic consultant. Passionate about Women Empowerment in business. No matter what I believe that ""There is Nothing a Woman Can Not Do!"". By the age of 30 I was the General Manager for our family business in Egypt (El Baklawy Group - chain of pharmacies /stock market accounts and a para-pharmaceutical company). I was managing more than 90 employees, where I helped women reach and develop their career paths whilst working over my progress. Furthermore I was the first to implement work life balance in the pharmaceutical industry in Egypt, in which I broke the internal stereotype in the whole group allowing women to be in senior managerial titles while implemented all women rights in the Egyptian Labour law. By January 2018, I launched Businessita WE. Where I thought of merging both strategic alliance and women empowerment but on a different level not only based on our collaboration ""Businessita WE"" but also on the collaboration of a whole community of women. Supporting and empowering each other in the business field to share experience, solve problems, decrease risks, pool business resources, etc. And of course my target is a global rather than a local community. | Businessita Women Empowerment | More women in business don’t just enhance communities they develop countries | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Egypt and Iraq, planing to expand regional then global | No | Transition to Scale | As we have already active customers & already delivered about 7 mentoring projects and 3 consultations. | Women worldwide face 3 main challenges regardless of their career achievements and/or financial independency. These challenges are societal stereotypes in business, unconscious self bias filled with judgements and devaluating thoughts, and finally, women’s self critic. Through further screening, its was seen that women are only 23.9% in the workforce labour, and only 3.9% in top management and CEO (in the MENA region) according to UN WOMEN. | Our services: A-Community cause(we collaborate to solve women’s challenges in business) 1-Focus group (for market insights/research) 2-Support Club “Business Divas” (like a study group but for work) 3-round table (to discuss business obstacles for the same phase) B- women development 1-career Assessment/career goal setting 2-project assessment 3-training (online and offline) C-resources directory 1-promoting women in diverse fields 2-providing women business needed resources D-business consultancy 1-strategic business planning 2-sales and marketing 3-cost control management 4-Operational management and personnel consultation 5-legal consultation Businessita WE believes in the power of women to change lives and communities. Breaking current business stereotypes and taboos, paving the path to an empowered generation. | we provide a non bias chance for any women to launch her business (without the need to win a competition to get mentored), in addition to the mindset and professional trainings, career guidance through our career assessments sessions. We also provide top notch business consultations with attractive prices (a maximum of 10 K for 3 month) plus we don't deliver the projects turnkey we educate the women themselves. Furthermore we created a resources’ directory of women to women, because, as women, we have great calibers in different fields/industries. Not only to fulfill any business inquiry or need, but to guide and help all the other women to launch their businesses as well. and finally in attempt to creating a backbone support, not based on one organization ""Businessita WE"" but a whole community to ensure its continuity. To never have a business or system that is dependent on one person only, and in case they are no longer there, women might feel that they have no help or support. Where, as a community, we create, on a regular basis: ▸ Focus Groups: To gain consumer feedback on product. ▸ Roundtable Meetings: To discuss current obstacles and how to overcome for business’s of the same phase regardless the industry. ▸ Business Diva's club: To encourage and motivate one another, like a study group. Currently we are collaborating with service providers to provide a one stop shop for our clients. | Out of 10 paid mentorships 7 projects have showed revenue generation/growth, created partnerships/ local deals. One project launch with 1500 EGP as starting capital which generated 20k EGP in the first 3 months. 2 career assessments, resulted in women career shifting to follow their passion. 3 consultation projects delivered with a success rate of 93%, currently delivering 2 more. according to our financials: 1st quarter of 2018, we had only 1 consumer, generating an average of 50$ monthly, 150$ per quarter. 2nd quarter of 2018 we had 5 consumers, with revenue of 250$ per quarter. 3rd quarter of 2018 we had a total of 7 consumers yet 2 mentorships were uncompleted (1 due to lack of professionalism & the other was mother's terminal disease) but we gained 1 consultations project for 300$ plus the 250$ per Quarter. 4th quarter of 2018 we had 8 consumers for mentorship growing our revenue to 450$ quarterly plus 550$ for 2 more consultation projects. Showing an annual growth of 150 %% growth. Finally Our success not only measured through the delivery of the projects or business inquiry but rather the succession of the client both professional and personal life. | with our Market size: we plan to emphasize our online and offline presence with regard to our market segments 1st phase for Businessita WE is Egypt, 2nd Phase: MENA Region(currently penetrating market), 3rd Phase: Asia/Africa and 4th Phase: Globally. With our services: We plan to affiliate with an international accredited program that merges between both business development and mindset-cultural development to provide to our community. in addition too increasing the number of partners to serve a complete blockchain for women in business. furthermore we intend to create an empowerment program that integrates business education, self awareness & development Hence we are a service organization based on human capital therefore we have to be quiet careful choosing our upscaling strategies and partners. We will outsource 3 categories of our services which include business consultations and the resources directory as they will be more aware of the country’s economic status, local market needs and finally the country’s local culture. On the other hand the collaborations & alliances will be in the mentorship which includes women self development, career development, project assessment & launch. By which these services are highly dependent on the connection between the mentor and the mentee, the relevant expertise of the mentor and the need from the consumer (as a client or a mentee) regardless of the country’s economic status and culture. | short and medium terms would be finance and professional guidance are: to (achieve short and medium goals) 1-Increase exposure via offline and online presence (empower more women) 2-development our current services (providing online payment plans, quotas and services) 3- Adding more services to our business model (for consumer highest satisfaction) 4-Expanding our partnership platform (for a 1 stop shop consumer experience) 5- launch a women empowerment program providing 3 month intense training and workshops across the MENA region where our long term needs would include collaborating with a global NGO to create and develop programs for business and mindset/cultural development for unprivileged women worldwide not only for better communities, paving the path fo coming generations but for a world with more inclusive and sustainable solutions. | https://www.businessita-we.com https://www.facebook.com/businessita.we/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/businessita/ | https://youtu.be/v3cqhBNGxoc https://youtu.be/S6woxiAh7kk https://youtu.be/9yN4Is7RSN0 | In less than a year after the company’s inception, Businessita WE won two awards of appreciation it's active role in society empowering women in business | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Michael | Walter | My healthy life initiative | www.Facebook.com/myhealthylifeinitiative | CEO/Founder | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My healthy life initiative is an initiative committed in the reduction of non communicable disease in Nigeria and Africa at large by creating awareness campaign/free medical screening, using the power of mobile technology to connect patients from rural community to doctor in the urban center and also using biogas innovation as a tool to prevent some risk factor of these disease. We impacted directly 2000 men/female in Nigeria with our free medical screening and indirectly over 10000 person through our social media platforms.we have partner with African diabetes and hypertension association in organising a free medical screening in Ghana and over 500 person were impacted, currently developing a mobile app the will connect patients from rural community to doctor, medical lab.scientists, pharmacy and pharmacist in the urban cities. | Walter Michael has three (3) years of experience in the nonprofit sector and has earned a bachelor’s of technology degree in Industrial Chemistry from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi, Nigeria. While working as a community advocate on youth and women participation in governance with Leadtots and human development service under USAID, National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Ministry of Youth and Women Program. He helped to educate thousands of youths and women on the need to participate in leadership in over 36 communities in North East Nigeria. He has been trained on several other professional courses like business management, financial management, customer relation, entrepreneurship development, community advocacy and mobilization, renewable energy (bio gas), disease control and reduction. Previously, Walter as worked in a private sector as a general manager (H&H shopping mall), industrial training officer (First Drop Nigeria), sales manager (Jolly Industry Nigeria) etc. Walter has volunteered with Nigeria U-Report(a program sponsored by USAID, W.H.O and UNICEF, curently volunteering as Country Manager African Diabetes and Hypertension Association Nigeria. He is an Alumni Young Professional Development Program Liberia. (http://ypdp001-001-site1.atempurl.com/our%20alumni.html) Through these experiences, Walter has been able to developskills in capacity building,leadership development, business development and community advocacy. Walter is also the C.E.O of Jolly Walter Global/my healthy life initiative.Co founder/Director Mobilization, youth ignite opportunity | My healthy life initiative | Using the power of Mobile technology and bio gas innovation in the reduction/prevention of non communicable disease in Nigeria and Africa at large | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Nigeria | No | Ideation | Currently carried out our first goal which is free medical screening and campaign, but our goal 1and 2, still hoping to located a partner to sponsored our mobile technology app and our bio gas innovation innovation that is the more reason we choose ideation. | According to world health organization (WHO) non communicable disease killed about 41 million people globally in a year, in Nigeria alone over 617,300 death occur annually and two out of five person in the family are living with non communicable disease (WHO, 2018).( Reducing mortality rate rate cause by non communicable disease). | 1. Connecting patients in the rural community to doctor, medical lab scientists, pharmacy and pharmacist in the urban center, long term vision reducing mortality rate cause by non communicable disease in rural community. 2. Using biogas as a major source of energy in the rural area for cooking and electricity. Long term vision reducing some of the risks factor of non communicable disease and curb climate change. | My solution is unique in so many way 1 using cow dung and domestic waste in Generating energy from in your home, existing cutting down of tree for firewood 2. E-Health app: currently using waiting room in the clinic to wait for a doctor but my solution connect a patient from your home to a doctor, medical lab scientists, pharmacy and pharmacist in the clinic. | The bio gas and the E- Health app on a prototype but currently running the awareness and free medical screening | Our goal to impact 5,000,000 Nigeria before 2025, Expand to west Africa like Ghana, Liberia, Niger in the next 7 years, which we are already extending our free medical screening/awareness campaign to within our one year existence, and the whole Africa before 2030 | A seed fund will helped my solution to impact over 20000 person in 6 state in the northeast Nigeria with the next 2years, 7million person in 6 month Nigeria and to reduced the rate of non communicable disease in Nigeria and Africa at large. | https://www.facebook.com/myhealthylifeinitiative | https://youtu.be/_1DM32Zrz14, https://youtu.be/ICDD8BjW8ig | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ajay | Singh | Nimray- solar | https://www.nimray.com/ | President | Male | India | India | English | I work for clean energy and sustainable mobility. I Crated NimRay-DECENTRALIZED ELECTRICITY NETWORK BASED ON SOLAR ENERGY OVER BLOCKCHAIN. This project relies on the idea that renewable energy can offer an economically viable means of providing connections to people and communities deprived from access to electricity. GAIN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE Nimray brings clean energy to communities of all sizes. We do so by supplying both the innovative Solar technology and an accessible energy network that allows home energy generators to trade clean electricity profitably with others. All based on a newly developed blockchain technology that is going to revolutionize the industry. Winner of the Global Energy Awards from Le Monde France in Singapore. CEATEC JAPAN, PARIS PEACE FORUM. | Ajay is the “Global Energy Award” winner from Le-Monde France in Singapore. Selected by JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization), invited to CEATEC 2018 by METI-The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry Japan. Selected project leader at Paris Peace Forum. An initiative by French President Emmanuel Macron. Attended UNESCO, Paris session to discuss Artificial Intelligence for Human Rights and SDGs at 2018 Internet Governance Forum-Paris. Mentor of Change – Atal Innovation Mission- NITI Aayog- Government of India. Young Leader India/France- by French President Emmanuel Macron The “Young Leaders Club India/France” was created by French President Emmanuel Macron during his official visit in India, aims to build an influential advisory network to promote Indo-French bilateral action. | NIMRAY | DECENTRALIZED ELECTRICITY NETWORK BASED ON SOLAR ENERGY OVER BLOCKCHAIN | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | INDIA, AFRICA, FRANCE | Yes | VIKRAM SOLAR, DELTA | Proof of Concept | We have developed a prototype, however user base is limited and due to new technology a lot of certification nd compliance is required. | GAIN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE Nimray brings clean energy to communities of all sizes. We do so by supplying both the innovative Solar technology and an accessible energy network that allows home energy generators to trade clean electricity profitably with others. All based on a newly developed blockchain technology that is going to revolutionize the industry. | Problem The solar energy market is dominated by large utility companies that buy solar energy at a low price and sell it through the electricity grid at a much higher price, securing huge profits at the expense of the end consumers and small-scale solar producers. u300 days of sun and still 24X7 electricity is a dream for many. Earth has been receiving trillions of units of energy every day from morning to evening but we've never been able to use it. } Solution By creating a freely accessible network for Solar energy trading, Nimray is challenging the dominance of the large energy companies. With Nimray, consumers can produce their own electricity and sell any excess at competitive prices to their neighbors via Nimray Network. This opens a whole new world for trading solar energy over a network. Creating microgrids all over India and connect them over a network built on the solid blockchain. | Target Beneficiaries We are making a new use case of Blockchain in Solar energy, main beneficiaries are people who live in high rise apartment and don't have land or roof to install solar panels, we provide them with the option to buy solar energy without the need of installing solar panels at their premises. Another use case is in villages in where an agriculture land can be converted to a microgrid and on same land farmer can produce crops and clean energy as an extra source of income. Mission and Vision Our mission is to make India independent from power cuts, by creating Solar Microgrids all over India. Over 400 million people in India, including 47.5% of those living in India’s rural areas, still had no access to electricity. Because of the remoteness of much of India’s un-electrified population, renewable energy can offer an economically viable means of providing connections to these groups. | Innovation Description -Power is generated and distributed locally, A homeowner either can be a producer or a consumer of Solar energy. -This allows us to sell solar energy within a local community without the need for heavy infrastructure and a central authority. Smart Microgrids can be installed in any remote location. We connect all smart microgrids using blockchain. -Now a user can buy or sell solar energy either back to the grid by net metering or to a neighbor on Nimray network Competitive Advantage We are taking the first movers advantage in this domain, this is a fairly new use case of Blockchain in solar energy space. | Planned Goals and Milestones We are finding more and more innovative use of Nimray network for helping people in poverty, lit up schools with clean energy, finding more use cases where we can deploy Nimray all over the world. Especially in developing countries. | SHORT TERM: Funding support, grants and institutional. Medium-term: corporate reconnect, government inclusion Long Term: User adoption with government support, VC funds to scale up. | https://www.nimray.com/ https://parispeaceforum.org/porteurs_projet/decentralized-electricity-network-based-on-solar-energy-over-blockchain/ https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovation/decentralized-electricity-network-based-on-solar-energy-using-blockchain | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C7wpa0QC78 | GLOBAL ENERGY AWARDS https://www.lemonde.fr/smart-cities/article/2018/07/10/en-inde-des-panneaux-solaires-pour-tous_5329201_4811534.html CEATEC Japan by JETRO & METI JAPAN PARIS PEACE FORUM: https://parispeaceforum.org/porteurs_projet/decentralized-electricity-network-based-on-solar-energy-over-blockchain/ Young Leader India France 2019. https://in.ambafrance.org/Ambassador-hosts-2019-batch-of-Club-Young-Leaders-India-France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mitchell | Gold | homeplanet virtual university | http://www.homeplanet.org/wpp | chief architect | m | Canada | Canada | English | I presented my ideas at the inaugural conference for the Foundation for a Culture of Peace in Madrid in December 2000. My ideas won an International Award from the World Futures Study Federation. My ideas , when implemented will change the manner in which the UN Delivers services. | see my linked Account https://www.linkedin.com/in/homeplanet/ | UN Office of the Future | I am developing this process as it seems like a simple way to proceed - those having concerns over the problems at the UN, our solution skirts around | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, North Korea, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lichtenstein, , Lithuania, Luxemburg, New Zealand, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sa | Yes | TD Bank, New Zealand various organizations | Research & Development | I am actually further along because Proof of concept exists through the failure of the SDG Fund. I am currently deciding which decisions should be mine or the hoist country - given they have no structure in place to evaluate my proposition | distribution of the funds provided under COP 21 . Our solution involves the retraining of existing UN Resident Coordinators and establishing the position in donor countries. Our 1% solution process avoids the Helms Act in the United States as to having a process for Development | a retrained UNRC enables a fair distribution of resources developed by COP 21. when our APP is developed we will have an Emotional Intelligence process to add to all Artificial Intelligence processes - thereby improving on all AI delivery systems. the International geo political impasse will have a new dynamic as we demonstrate we have enough resources for all - eliminating fear, ignorance, greed and guilt, the main motivators of society today. desire to receive for the purpose of sharing is a higher ordered thinking process. | it skirts around the broken UN distribution system - whereby the world Bank and its 30/30 model has proven to be ineffective and debilitating. Focussing on education in the CSR standards (ISO 26000) which the UNGC has already committed to implement and has not, and UNDRIP which all UN members have signed on to - yet not implemented and the 1% solution which is conceptually agreed upon but not implementable using normal processes and still keep the UN in tact. | I am waiting on the President of the TD Bank (one of the top 5 in Canada) to approve the issuance of the credit card that will enable 1% spent on the card to fund the UN Office of the Future. this is only one of the three funding streams for the office of the Future | Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, North Korea, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lichtenstein, , Lithuania, Luxemburg, New Zealand, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, we are beginning in Canada and New Zealand, informed Sweden, the UK | We are doing a documentary on the story of how the UN Office of the Future came about, some of the story over the past 30 years. Our documentary is in process and we are looking for $2 M to complete it at the level necessary | http://www.homeplanet.org/june2902/MadridDocumentFinal.htm presented at the Inaugural conference of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace and recent interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwJMocKzqtI video interview | best to stay focussed on our current activity than lead your minds into areas that are merely illustrative examples - more work to put together - just stay with the program of the future - the past is what it is - the future is what needs our attention, and our intention. Your broken systems at the UN are not of interest to me - the future is what is of interest to me and ought to be of more interest to you | Mitchell Gold, (IAEWP),, 2001 WFSF-Futures Awards for creating futures-conscious organizations 17th WFSF World Conference Sept of 2001. ""1% Solution"" proposal, Federico Mayor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Dr. Young Seek Choue, and T.Y.S. Lama Gangchen, et al 1% solution is a voluntary global tax implemented through a Brand Label Marketing Strategy. The Culture of Peace initiatives of both UNESCO and the UN and satisfies the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual perspectives of individuals. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | ALFONSO | NAVARRO CARVALLO | ELITESDGs | https://twitter.com/pochonavaro | ELITESDGs | male | Peru | Peru | Spanish | the innovation begins with the SDGs 4.7 to interlace with the other 17 SDGs to comply with the regulations of the SDGs 4.7. 1 to achieve a positive global impact in my locality, country and around the world. | ALFONSO NAVARRO CARVALLO 2 nationality Perú and Chile I currently live in Tacna Perú single teachSDGs teacher national geograghic | quality education around the world | Quality education throughout the world, a good education changes minds and hearts because we only have one planet. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Perú and Chile | Yes | TeachSDGs | Sustainable Scale | we are doing it in schools, universities and companies | quality education to develop sustainable development goals | comply with the 17 SDGs so that everyone has an improved quality of life for people, animals, plants, soils, air, etc. | several methodologies and on the way it is always modified because you will never see a perfect methodology because the world always changes | SPPS | the problem is global, and we must reach anywhere in the world | SDGs statistics, qualified personnel SDGs, and biodegradable materials | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xctHQAc0sNA&t=19s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xctHQAc0sNA&t=19s | the biggest reward is that more people join to meet the 17SDGs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | David | Shamala | Africans Rising For Justice, Peace and Dignity | https://www.africans-rising.org/ | Coordinating Collective | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | With this letter I hereby would like to state my motivation to be part of the UN Solution Summit the themes are especially relevant to my professional expertise,work and therefore I would high appreciate to be given an opportunity to be part of this program that will bring young SDGs leaders and professional from different countries. Am very interested on the GOAL 5: GENDER EQUALITY GOAL 8: DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH GOAL 10: REDUCED INEQUALITIES GOAL 16: PEACE, JUSTICE AND STRONG INSTITUTIONS GOAL 17: PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE GOALS Am Currently working on this areas National, Regioal and international.As a special added value of this event ,I find the opportunity to network with other professional from the world which is an exceptional opportunity for horizontal exchange of experience and development ideas and possible solutions facing people in the world. I perceive this also as an occasion to familiarize with good practices as a channel for my personal development . I am confident you will find my application as a worthwhile investment. My involvement to this program is a wise investment and will pay off for years to come. | David Shamala is a Kenyan-born human rights activist of african descent who is the current Treasurer and Coordinating Collective of Africans Rising For Justice, Peace and Dignity in Banjul Gambia,Coordinator at Students for Liberty Organization, Advisory Board member at African Leadership Institute/Project Pakati in South Africa,Youth Ambassador at Young Utopians in Berlin Germany and Part of directors at Do With Boldness Foundation.Shamala was Youth Ambassador of Phanicey Charitable Foundation, serving as it's Strategic Planning and Program Director from 2015. Shamala is the final year Student at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology and was the consultant at Peace Direct and the United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) are convening an online consultation on the role and contributions of youths to peace in the world and CSOs Participant at African Union Commission ,Peace and Security Council through the Early Warning Department at East Africa Consultations on the role and contributions youths to peace and security in Africa in Asmara Eritrea. | the role and Contribution of Youth to Peace and Security in the world | Exploring what the role of youth i peacebuilding looks like in practice and understanding how to operationalise the principles behind that. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Africa continent | No | Research & Development | The solution it came from idea stage to reasech and development stage after conduct extensive research in different parts of africq | The solution is trying to solve and achieve Gender equality and empower all women and girls Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | The solution work well with support from the government agencies and key policy and decion makers. This will give a long term vision in policy formulation, evaluation, monitoring and implementation to ensure we have peace and security | My solution is unique because it outlines other factors of SDGs that are interdependent from peace and security such as gender equality, Political and Economic empowerment and Partnership for financial sustainability | We have progressed from idea stage to research and development stage just waiting for support in implementation. All the data collection was done online using modern technology | This is a global engagement and we expect all key policy makers to help in championing this solution but the pilot program will be carried in 54 African countries | We will need manpower resources, Capital and equipments to facilitate the implementation | Not yet | https://youtu.be/rhnlWdL9ANk | Not applicabe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Margaret | Grout | Thinking Huts | http://www.thinkinghuts.com/ | Founder | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Thinking Huts seeks to use technology to solve humanitarian-driven goals. 3D manufacturing would reduce the building costs associated with traditional construction projects while also reducing the timeframe in which the project is completed. By utilizing 3D manufacturing to create 3D printed schools- which is just the beginning!- that implement sustainable solutions such as solar energy and cloud technology in the learning curriculum, the number of schools built could be effectively increased. This 3D manufacturing process has the ability to stem into water filtration systems as well as hospitals. The opportunities are endless. With this technology, we can catalyze change in education, healthcare, and sustainable energy. | 17 years ago I was adopted from China. My life could look drastically different if it weren't for my parents and the education they provided me. I do not take my life for granted because there is another human out there working in a factory- with no opportunity to attain an education- who very well could have been me. 5 years ago, a sophomore in high school, I embarked on a mission to research and find a way to utilize the tremendous future of 3D printing with humanitarian goals. While I am young, I have been championing my idea every day these past years and will continue to persevere until one day when every developing community has access to a safe, quality education. I believe that 3D printed schools have the power to eradicate poverty, boost economies, and create brighter futures. Recently this year, a similar concept unveiled itself: 3D printed houses. The potential of 3D printing is in its beginning stages and I am excited to see my idea come into fruition after years of people telling me that my idea was crazy. Nevertheless, I kept reminding myself of Steve Jobs' quote, ""Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do."" | Thinking Huts | Building Minds | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Intended to be global | No | Research & Development | Thinking Huts needs to find potential partner communities and we are in the prototype development stage of building our 3D printed schools. | According to UNESCO, over 260 million children do not have access to education and 615 million children cannot read a single sentence. These staggering numbers give resonance to the problem at hand: how do we make education accessible and empower communities with the fundamental tools to build a brighter future? Thinking Huts seeks to be the solution that combines the future of promising technology with lasting social impact. | Thinking Huts is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that seeks to provide immediate support for jump-starting education in developing countries via 3D printed schools. We envision a future where quality education is accessible to all: “Building Minds” one hut at a time. There is an eye-opening number of areas in the world where education is financially and geographically inaccessible. Our core belief is that the education of the human mind is Earth's greatest asset and the universal solvent that has the power to break the cycle of poverty. Thinking Huts aims to provide assistance where this resource goes untapped. While the desire is there, the immediate access may be difficult to obtain. | Architectural scale 3D printers today are used to build houses. Thinking Huts would use this technology for tackling SDG 4 by making education accessible through schools. | We are seeking out funding and building a team of volunteers who will be able to add further expertise in the areas of research, development, 3D printing on an architectural scale, and community involvement. | As we get closer to fully realizing our vision, we plan to create a teacher support program, increase staff to aid in the process of teaching the community how to use the 3D printers, and impact more countries. | Short-term: the building of a physical prototype. Medium-term: research, development Long-term: resources to scale, a team, raising awareness of our mission, partnerships with global 3D printing companies. | http://www.thinkinghuts.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8tasKbXpAE | N/A | CU Boulder New Venture Challenge Women's Entrepreneurship Prize Finalist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ahmad | Mustapha | Hult Prize Foundation | www.hultprize.org | Campus Coordinator | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I'm a youth living in Nigeria and I have experienced what it means for large number of youth to be unemployed and its consequences for socio-economic well-being. Empirical evidences have linked unemployment to rising wave of depression and suicide in the country. Internet fraud which is youth driven popularly known as 419 is fiercely battled by the anti graft agencies however, the root cause is not addressed therefore as more youths are drawn into the scene due to its lucrative nature. Using design thinking methodology I have been able to design a bespoke solution that will enable the youths to deploy that vibrant energy to learn the skill sets required for employment in the era of the 4th industrial revolution where machines (computers) are set to take over the traditional jobs, taking into consideration the World Economic Forum's Report that projects 65% of kids in primary school to be employed in sectors that are yet to exist. My solution will utilize a peer to peer online learning platform to teach on-demad skill sets and competencies, this is aimed at raising the next generation of skilled workers that will remain relevant despite the threat that machines are set to take over jobs. | I'm a social entrepreneur and I have led a social enterprise movement at sub-Saharan Africa's largest university, with a student population of over 40,000; Ahmadu Bello University as the pioneer Campus Director for Hult Prize Foundation. The Hult Prize challenges university students to develop bespoke solutions to developmental challenges affecting bottom of the pyramid population. As the Campus Director, I have inspired and mentored students to develop start-ups that are poised to change the status of vulnerable communities in Nigeria. I have a Bachelors degree in Quantity Surveying from Ahmadu Bello University, I'm also a scholarship recipient of the Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF). | Maestro | Mastering the skill sets for the future of work | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Nigeria | Yes | Global Impact Sourcing Coalition (GISC) and Pluralshight | Ideation | We have used the methodologies of design thinking to develop the solution, however, we in the process of implementation. | Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) 20.9 million Nigerians are unemployed. Accordig to Stuern, tertiary education advisory firm, they report that 500,000 Nigerian graduates enter the labour market yearly, but 40% have no job prospect. Stutern also reports that only 48.68% of job seekers possess the skillsets required for employment. | The world is experiencing growing skills instability as a result of rapid technological disruption, the World Economic Forum (WEF) gives a succinct projection; 65% of kids in primary school will be employed in sectors that are yet to exist. These trends shaped our approach to teach on-demad skill sets and competencies for the future of work, the competencies will be in terms of emotional intelligence and soft skills e.g critical thinking, problem solving, relationship management, these are must-have skills in all job sectors to thrive and prosper, also we'll focus on ICT competencies, taking into consideration that global data analysts demand will be 46 million amassing $25.5 billion in revenue by 2022 (WEF). Our curriculum vendors is Pluralshight, they develop learning paths and assessment authored by leading industry experts, Pluralsight is trusted by 70% of fortune 500 companies. Our solution will utilize online collaborative learning community using real life case studies to curate effective learning experience. The Global Impact Coalition (GISC), the world's only impact sourcing supplier directory has agreed to support our learners get jobs through the impact sourcing platform, this is an all rounder solution that enables employment opportunities and this creates increase the standards of living due to increased spend on family and household requirements, the community also benefits from the multiplier effect of injecting new capital into the local economy. | The educational technology market is nascent in sub-Saharan Africa, the world is moving at very fast pace making advances in ultra modern technology, these technologies are ushering in the dawn of the 4th industrial revolution, this new era is set to witness the advent of machines taking over jobs dominated by humans. Therefore to keep at par with these transformations, we are set to develop the human capital for the future of work. | We have utilised design thinking and lean start-up methodology to develop our implementation roadmap, we have pitched to Venture capitalists to raise capital, however, we are waiting for their feedback. We are in the process of bootstrapping to enable us implement our solution. We've also enlisted technical adviors to guide us on our operation, we've benefited immensely from their advisory support. | We have set out our implementation roadmap, we plan to start operation by November, 2019. Our target user base is to reach 500 youths by the first year, we plan to sign strategic partnership with tertiary institutions, this will enable us tap from their economics of scale advantage to enable us get to other frontiers. According to our projected EBITDA we will be cash flow positive by our second year of operation and by the 5th year of our operation we'll target to teach 10,000 people. We can achieve this number because of our online distributed delivery channel. | For our operations, we require a capital of $150,000. This will be for our learning hub set up and IT installations, We plan to teach 500 youths by the first year, our revenue source will be from the subscription by the students which will be considerate of their low income status. According to our projected EBITDA we'll have a positive cash flow by our second year of operation this will enable us scale and get out operation to new frontiers. For our medium term of 5 years we plan to teach 10,000 youths for this we'll need additional capital of $200,000 for expansion and our long term needs we plan on raising our series A capital of $1,000,000. We plan to get our series A through impact funds, this is because it is strategically aligned to our objectives. | http://aypafrica.com/spotlight-hult-prize-comes-ahmadu-bello-university-zaria/ | https://twitter.com/hultprize/status/974694206462676992?s=19 | Global Top 20 Hult Prize Campus Director Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF) Scholar National 3rd Prize Unilever Africa Idea Trophy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Daniel | Gbujie | TEAM 54 PROJECT | team54project.org | CEO | male | United States of America | Nigeria | English | I recently became aware of the conference your agency is planning for SEPTEMBER. As the event aims to create platforms for innovators to showcase their various solution to accelerate Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), I am writing to express my sincere desire not only to attend but participate in the conference at the event. The agenda of the conference will help promote my climate solution idea called SPACECLIME and REPCLIME. As an SDG advocate on CLIMATE ACTION, I believe these two ideas will be an addition to other discoveries addressing climate change. Furthermore, by attending I will be able to Collaborate with other esteemed professionals during the conference which would greatly contribute to its success. Other reasons motivating me to attend the summit is to join other stakeholders to amplify the voice on the global climate crisis, especially as I intend to make a presentation. This conference will help me better prepare for a bigger conference in Washington DC the summit will give me the boost I need to get re-energized and motivated. Although attending is an investment on my part, I believe I will find it to be a worthwhile opportunity with significant benefits both in the short term and into the future. I have used innovation for positive impact by creating a climate idea that is being worked ontohelpbuild resilience and we even expanded the idea to have a Satellite-based technology which is an effective tool for analyzing and visualizing data on species with inaccessible environments, in order to identify areas where conservation practices are needed and better plan for disaster risk reduction before and after ecological incidences that causes transhuman migration, human-wildlife conflict, and predator-prey interactions. | Daniel Chidubem Gbujie hails from Ahiazu-Mbaise, Imo State in the Southeastern part of Nigeria. He is an SDGs advocate especially climate Action SDG 13. He promotes climate change awareness, builds public commitment and triggers climate action at all levels to facilitate conservation, sustainable development and better effective use of the Earth's resources for the good of global citizens. Dr. Gbujie as he is popularly called often helps in organizing climate rallies and petitions that are in favour of better environmental regulation He has coordinated the planting of over 78,411 trees and is looking at planting over 1 million trees in partnership with a Swedish based organization WomensVirtualChoir.org. Gbujie will be awarded on the 26th of April 2019 with the “Global Youth Leadership Award 2019 in Environment Category” in Kathmandu, Nepal by the body Global Youth Parliament he was recently awarded the Triple-A award by the Africa Trade center ON THE 15TH July 2019 as the best inventor in Africa Gbujie is an international multi-award winner in the medical and environmental field. 1.(https://qwenu.com/2018/05/11/nigerian-medical-doctor-blazing-the-trail-for-climate-change-and-health/) 2.(https://m.thenigerianvoice.com/lifestyle/231682/nigerian-doctor-nominated-by-world-medical-association-for-u.html). 3.https://parrotreporters.com/2019/05/21/an-african-techno-innovative-climate-app-idea-repclime-top-the-climate | SPACECLIME | USING DIGITAL INNOVATION TO TAKE CLIMATE ACTION | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | it is intended to be used in AFRICA and PACIFIC ISLAND NATIONS they are countries disproportionately affected by climate change | Yes | team54project international | Ideation | We think our solution is at the stage of innovation because we are in the features that characterize Ideation which includes the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas which we have all done, we have gone as far as pitching the idea in a challenge competition in Vienna and we won the UN office of outer spacer Affair the climate action category and are among the top 3 final overall winners. | Our project is called SpaceClime, aims to address a global environmental challenge using the knowledge of advanced technology. Therefore, technology seems to be an alternative path to addressing the adaptation approach to the crisis. Space-based technologies fit that description. It is leeway to addressing the critical interconnected areas affected by climate change such as agriculture, disaster recovery, energy, health, economy, and future solutions will require advanced technological approach. | With the advanced technology that space-based technological system brings, it is possible to integrate the operating systems from the orbiting satellites to the land-based digital communication operating system on the land (Earth), which can assist in the creation of an Early Advance Climate Warning System and processed data can be sent into other existing platforms (telephones, mobile phones, mobile applications, internet platforms, etc.). SpaceClime can have an essential role in monitoring and providing an early-warning system for the vulnerable communities that are vulnerable and at risk. Lack of early-warning system and alerts, that can be transmitted and transferred on-land could lead to increased damage of properties and casualties in the areas affected by the unusual weather patterns. Helping to strengthen our adaptation approach and climate disaster reduction risk protocol. Space-derived geospatial data will be useful during the emergency response, such as flooding and bush fires. In the case of large urban areas, Space-derived geospatial data will be great for urban planning, development and management of infrastructure. The recent environmental disaster from Cyclone Idai is a good example of how the governments of Zimbabwe and Mozambique could have used the space-based technologies to avoid senseless deaths experienced. | The SpaceClime project is unique from other approaches by highlighting the role that advanced technology can play in strengthening the adaptation capacity and building resilience. it will guide policymakers, business leaders to see the bigger picture of an ecological disaster in real-time. With the integration of land-based digital technology accurate information can get to them from stakeholders to actual citizens. Our path to successfully taking Climate action requires adequate adaptation methods to help address many of the negative outcomes of climate change which includes: flooding, famine, extreme temperature above body temperatures, droughts, extreme weather patterns (hurricanes, tornadoes, bush fires, cyclones) and insecurity. They all have disastrous and often fatal ends for humans and other living things. Hence, the need to get realtime environmental pieces of information to the stakeholders in other to better respond to the disaster. Stable projections of environmental parameters are needed by potential investors to make crucial financial decisions that can impact on sustainable development goals. Subsequently, the government will require the services of SpaceClime idea to better plan the risk reduction strategy during any climate crisis. The absence of an innovative system like SpaceClimeas an app to help project and analyze climate risk will greatly affect the global Agenda for sustainable development by 2030 and beyond. | Our team through our creative climate idea plans to integrate space-based technological application, SpaceClime, which uses geospatial information from satellite and transfer it into land-based digital communication system for effective communication during and after ecological events and disaster. Furthermore, this initiative can be upgraded as a user-friendly accessory in a satellite driven application system. Advanced technology will be the go-to tool used by future generations to effectively address the climate crisis and to build the foundation for sustainable development. So because of the nature of this type of technology, its application is guarded by powerful nations, we pitched the idea with a UN-based agency the UN office of outer space affairs during a GLOBAL challenge competition and we won the competition. We are in the stage of development following the win, and our idea SpaceClime winning the UN agency overall competition, is a great measure of progress plus they have invited us to Washington DC to be part of the 27th Workshop on Space Technology for Socio-Economic Benefits. We will be meeting investors at the event, for likely partnership and collaboration which will be key to achieving sustainable development and building climate resilience. | our planned Goals and Milestones for your solution, are to begin reaching out to investors we are looking at creating the displayed in the 3D animated image of the operating concept, through photos, videos and presentation, how SpaceClime will help us to address the climate crisis and create climate solutions. Our goal is to showcase our project, SpaceClime, to be the go-to application. we will be recruiting over 20 staff and over 193 volunteers and we now projecting that if our application becomes fully functional over 25 million people within Africa and pacific island nation may benefit. We are looking at displaying this project at the 2020 Dubai expo | we need funding to develop this advanced based application and make it available to ordinary people who are farmers, government officials, involved in disaster risk management and our planned Goals and Milestones for your solution, are to begin reaching out to investors we are looking at creating the displayed in the 3D animated image of the operating concept, through photos, videos and presentation, how SpaceClime will help us to address the climate crisis and create climate solutions. we need also more data sources on the environment. Our project identifies the need to strengthen the early warning and early projection among communities in nations that are disproportionately affected by climate change. though our interest is in SDG 13, addressing the climate challenges systematically will be our long term goal in other to reinforce other SDGs. Our project is able to identify the sectors that climate crisis affects critically namely agriculture - regional food crises, leading to continuing food insecurity, water scarcity, and health emergencies. The ability to predict and project likely outcomes of environmental challenges like spiking temperature rise and flooding can help farmers better adapt to the changing times which in turn leads to a positive agricultural outcome (SDG 1, 2, 3, 6). SpacecClime will be integrated with other land-based technology and it can help the various government to better plan sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11) | Website: www.team54project.org Social Media: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/team54project/ youtube- https://youtu.be/ZLr-YwXYWy8 https://spacegeneration.org/space-for-youth-winners http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/pressrels/2019/unisos517.html?fbclid=IwAR2iOmTTh8_g9Iqt2r-IaQDA7YqNhT4-bK_ZS-n3aN3qLhonzgKpfWzAhhE | The first part of the presentation at Western Washington University Washington State 1.https://www.facebook.com/624348878/posts/10157222659673879?s=624348878&v=i&sfns=mo 2. Quickly Building an International Climate Action Network with Daniel Gbujie, Team 54 Project https://www.greenteamacademy.com/podcast/050-daniel-gbujie-team-54-project/?fbclid=IwAR1tFq53qJbpdmGEUl6AJXLdA9ROIHOq5_3eH_rFLEp8YAqmZXSCcHoQZSM | Finalist of the UN office of outer space affairs June 2019 African TRADE CENTER Award July 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Gavin | Ngabonziza | Equity Trusts Business' Limited | www.facebook.com/Equity_trust_business'_ltd | Cofounder | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | Being a cofounder Equity Trusts Business' Limited, technology enthusiast, writer, sport lover, motivational & inspirational life coach, environmentalist, and equal rights activist; My journey through all these endeavors has been that of struggle, resilience and sacrifice, to better the lives of my family and everyone around me even with the little resources I can access. Therefore my application here is another opportunity to expand my capabilities and change more lives. | Was born in a small suburb in the heart of Kampala, to a family of eight on July, 22nd 1998 in Nsambya Hospital. Spent most of my childhood growing up in different places and with different families. Went to City Parents' School, Kawempe Muslim Secondary School, Lubiri Secondary School, Kibuli Secondary School. Spent early years a prefect in primary school, and in high school, national debate champion and runner up, Stanbic National Schools Championships runner up, Eutelsat star awards competition runner up 2017, enarcate climate Essay competition fifth place. | Limitless | I am because we are. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | African nations with numerous dialects, South America, Asia, North America, | No | Ideation | Limited technical support and capacity to move from ideation | Reading, Writing and Math incapability in Africa and other developing economies, inequality in education access for blind, deaf and native only speakers where most need access to programs to learn, easing trade and business, combatting terror, disease, limited understanding of products description, drugs,machinery manuals by users, unequal opportunity access due to language barriers, limitations in communication for travelers, high costs on translation, absence of a universal communication mech | Our story is a vision of a society without borders brought by language, varying dialects, illiteracy, differently abled shortcomings like blindness, deafness, dumbness and senescence. We are involved in creating a universal language Artificial Intelligence Algorithm (Z-Algorithm) to create a more inclusive society to the aforementioned effect. LIMITLESSAn Artificial Intelligence universal language Algorithm (Z-Algorithm). Real time optical input and output to and from; text, brail, video, audio, literature from and to any language. | Real time optical input and output to and from; text, brail, video, audio, literature from and to any language | Market analysis and technology research, we are in the stages of getting funds for the right team. We measure progress through continued comparisons in the understanding of our IDEA based on research and feedback for our targeted beneficiaries | We are targeting countries with very high illiteracy rates, countries with diverse cultures and ethnicities, expand in high tourist destination countries, Impact atleast 2,000,000 lives in first year of launch | Short term- data usage and research skills, critical analysis from AI experts and Hardware designers, Medium term- Prototyping skills for both software and hardware, recruit more skilled staff, roll out trials to improve on the product based on user feedback. Long term- very good marketing strategies and team, more research into eco friendly production of hardware and at low costs but of high quality, adjusting designs based on different users and upgrading of software, set up of production facilities and offices in multiple nations to ease access for users | https://Youtu.be/FPyVnUzyiaU, https://www.facebook.com/EquityTrustsBusiness'Limited, facebook: onesix, | https://Youtu.be/FPyVnUzyiaU | 2017- Eutelsat Star Awards Competition Country Runner Up Essay Category, Stanbic National Schools Championships 2017- Runner Up, High School cross fire Debate Championships - 2017 winner, ICC Debate Championships 2017- runner Up, Enarcate Climate Change a Essay Competition-2017 finalist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lambert Tardzeyuf | Binla | Loving Hearts Foundation and Projects | www.lovingheartz.org | Founder and Global Coordinator of LHF & P | Male | Denmark | Cameroon | Chinese | English | French | From empirical evidence revealing that 1.3 trillion Kilograms of food is wasted in the world and 50% of food produce in Africa being wasted, to carrying out a quantitative study sampling 1000 Cameroonians and 100% of our sample population revealing to us that they are either wasting or keeping something redundant that could help someone somewhere because they don't have the time to walk around looking for who needs what they are wasting for keeping redundant. Also a majority of our sample population opined the point that the reason they don't want to reach out to vulnerable persons is because of the too many intermediaries between them and the needy hearts making never to be efficiently reached because of selfish and dubious reasons. The findings accumulated and correlated with the misery in the world to children in Africa dying from hunger, poverty, extremists radicalization and diseases which can be preventable with simple #LOVE gestures from a community that is responsible in action than in words. This is so because ""well done will always sound better than well said"" and ""the world doesn't need PEACE, but needs to BE PEACEFUL, what the world needs is LOVE to BE PEACEFUL"" Allt these findings and realities motivated my application as I want to .make sure this message is enhance across the globe through and in all the smallest of Communities. | Binla is a young dynamic and creative and innovative person with a 5yrs plus cummulative experience in the domain of business and social entrepreneurship as a paid worker and volunteer for Local, National and International development projects. Binla holds Master degree in International Relations from.the International Relations Institute of Cameroon, IRIC, Masters I in Administration and Management of Enterprises from the University of Yaounde II, Soa and a BSc. In Management from.the university of Buea with a cummulative record GPA of 3.12/4. Binla is currently studying for a Master's in Business and Economic Administration In Innovation, Knowledge and Entrepreneurial Dynamics at Aalborg University Denmark while presently on his 3rd exchange program semester at Roskilde University, Denmark to Study Communication. Binla is currently running a couple of initiatives such as being a freelancer writer for some online blogs in Cameroon, running a coordinating FACTS IRIC preparatory classes group to help empower graduate students to sit in for Public exams in Cameroon so as to better their lives and career while also being Global Coordinator for Loving Hearts Foundation and Project's. | Loving Hearts Konnect (#LovingHeartsKonnect) | #Konnecting Needy to Giving/Caring Hearts. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Loving Hearts is presently being implemented in Cameroon, Kenya, Uganda, Ivory coast etc. But we have membersAnd volunteers across the entire planet earth that is the 6 continents. | Yes | Young persons with different skills, talents, resources and services ready to sacrifice these for a better society. | Sustainable Scale | This is so because we have been impacting lives for the past 5yrs and still counting. So far we have been able to sustain our vision and we keep looking for strategies to scale up and sustain the project for the betterment of our communities. | From empirical evidence revealing that 1.3 trillion of food is wasted in the world and 50% of food produce in Africa is wasted, to carrying out a quantitative study sampling 1000 Cameroonians and 100% of our sample population revealing to us that they are either wasting or keeping something redundant that could help someone somewhere because they don't have the time to walk around looking for who needs what they are wasting for keeping redundant. | To STOP the WASTAGE and REDUNDANT keeping of useful and valuable Resources/Services in the community through Sharing in LOVE. 1. Loving Hearts Konnect (http://www.lovingheartz.org/konnect), konnects to; elimate WASTAGE of valuable resources and services, elimate REDUNDANT keeping of valuable resources and services and eliminate the too many intermediaries between Needy and Giving Hearts while konnecting Loving Hearts (Needy, Caring and Giving Hearts). 2. Through Loving Hearts members, volunteers, Ambassadors and well-wishers with different skills, talents, resources and services, we identify vulnerable Communities and Konnect with them to offer the above making sure money is not a barrier to impacting the community since we are all gifted with skills and talents. | 1. The platform and project is the first Integrated online digital platform in Africa to STOP the WASTAGE and REDUNDANT keeping of useful and valuable Resources/Services 2. It helps people solve the issue of time and or energy of moving around to look for who needs what is being wasted or kept redundant. 3. It makes aid to be efficiently implemented by reducing the too many intermediaries that prey on the vulnerable 4. It permits the caring/Giving Hearts feel the impact of engaging into community Development initiatives 5. It aolve the issue of money being a barrier to impacting the community as money is needed to purchase skills, talents, services and resources which are all things we have and want to give our to the vulnerable at a zero cost. 6. The platform is also integrated in nature because it permits for tangibles (resources) and intangibles (services) being wasted or kept redundant to be put at the disposal to those who really need them while also providing the opportunity for vulnerable persons to make their request. | From a handful of about 20 members, volunteers and ambassadors in the room in Yaounde to about 150 members, volunteers and Ambassadors in all 6 continents of planet earth the idea birth in a one room house has not only been shared and implemented but the vision has been loved and taken all over the world. The basic digital platforms and social media sites to support the project have all been created and manned by members, volunteers and Ambassadors of Loving Hearts. To measure our success we use the following parameters 1. Number of people eho #Konnect through our platform on daily bases. 2. Number of people who visit our website on daily basis 3. Number of people who visit our social media sites on daily basis 4. Number of likes, shares, reactions, views on our social media sites 5. Number of new members, volunteers and Ambassadors who call everyday to be part of the project 6. Number of different persons in different countries aligning and creating branches of the project and platform in their country. 7. Number of Testimonials we recieve from Loving Needy Hearts 8. Appreciation letters from vulnerable and less privileged Communities. 9 Daily suggestion of members on how to better end enhance the vision and mission of the project. 10. Number of members selected for international recognition programs. | Apart from putting on the platform and getting the project going as our first milestone, we got calls from other countries about their love for the initiative and this has let to the creation of the project Branches and having of new members, volunteers and Ambassadors in different countries. We planned to make Hearts Foundation and project initiative a house hold name in Africaamd the world at large. We plan to start advocating and sensiitizing for the United Nations to include #SDG18 that is #LOVE on the 17 SDGs which is the foundation for all other SDGs to be attained efficiently. We also intend to create physical offices in different Communities we find ourselves to facilitate the vetting and #Konnecting of Loving Hearts. | We believe that if we had physical offices in Communities we are actively involve in our solution can be scale up. Also little financial support for volunteers like transportation and communication credit will go along way to motivate them for maximum efficiency as well as encourage others with skills and talents to come I'm and join the wagon so we can make the society a better place for all. | Our links Twitter: @lovinghearts_fp Instagram: lovingheartsfp YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIczU-defNKKAGKTI7OtBCw LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lovingheartsfoundation Website: www.lovingheartz.org Konnect Platform: http://www.lovingheartz.org/loving-hearts-konnect Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Loving-Hearts-Foundation-And-Projects-1061189924016758/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/binla.lambert | Our links Twitter: @lovinghearts_fp Instagram: lovingheartsfp YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIczU-defNKKAGKTI7OtBCw LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lovingheartsfoundation Website: www.lovingheartz.org Konnect Platform: http://www.lovingheartz.org/loving-hearts-konnect Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Loving-Hearts-Foundation-And-Projects-1061189924016758/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/binla.lambert | Our volunteers have gain employment in bigger International projects Our volunteers have been selected for International programs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | adewale | adebisi | wallisdecor/Perez paints nig.Ltd | http://www.wallisdecor.site | social entrepreneur | male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Increase sales & employment; Significantly increase the percentage of billions of tons of plastic removed from the natural environment; Directly impact the number of trees saved, decreasing CO2 emissions; Increase number of children educated in low-income countries; Increase plastic producer & consumer awareness and change commercial behaviours; Contribute significantly to external philanthropic projects benefitting all members of the community; Establish multiple outlet/innovation/education centres with the potential to employ hundreds of skilled & unskilled staff; and Extend the Wallisdecor Design 4E ethos to the West African region and the globally | An entrepreneur and networker who has established and led individual and product to new level of international success in a variety of community and the industries. Proven ability to create and mould a brand image and successfully ideas that vision to the masses, resulting in significant growth of enterprises value.Adebisi Isaiah Adewale Date of birth: 13th April, 1984 State of Origin : Osun state Local Govt: Odo-otin State of Birth: Lagos state Address: 4/6 silver street Olorunshogo Mushin Lagos Mobile:08023457629 Home Phone: 08132174439 Email:wayx23401@gmail.com | perez empowerment | the problem of plastic pollution & lack of consumer awareness on plastic pollution | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Nigeria | Yes | Yali West Africa, FADAMA Guys | Sustainable Scale | Environment - clean the environment of unwanted plastics captured and collected from marine, air pollution , and land sources to use it in the production of affordable high-quality home products. Education - provide tours in our workshop/showroom/innovation space to teach students, consumers and visitors alike the importance of recycling and the second life of plastic. Employment. Enterprise - continue to break the mold and engineer attractive new designs with 90% recycled materials. | 400 million tons of plastic products are produced every year (half of which is for single use only). 8 million tons of plastic ends up in oceans annually, polluting water & damaging marine life. 1 million bottles are purchased every minute. Of the 5.8 billion tonnes of primary plastic no longer in use, only 9 percent has been recycled since 1950. This problem affects every person on the planet. | Increase sales & employment; Significantly increase the percentage of billions of tons of plastic removed from the natural environment; Directly impact the number of trees saved, decreasing CO2 emissions; Increase number of children educated in low-income countries; Increase plastic producer & consumer awareness and change commercial behaviours; Contribute significantly to external philanthropic projects benefitting all members of the community; Establish multiple outlet/innovation/education centres with the potential to employ hundreds of skilled & unskilled staff; and Extend the Wallisdecor Design 4E ethos to the West African region and the globally. Impact for our project is based solely on resources and scale of project development. The model we have developed is fully replicable so that it can begin at the local level, be rolled out with appropriate support nationwide in Nigeria, throughout West Africa regionally, continent-wide, and globally in any developing country where plastics pollution is a problem, educational and economic opportunities are lacking, and one-stop-shop recycling centers can be created. Regarding commercial development for our project, our profit margin in 2015 was 50%, sales increased by 200% in year two, 100% by year three, and another 50% last year. The appetite for our bespoke and innovative products is widespread and increasing. We have sold more than 650 different items to more than 2,000 customers including both businesse | We address the challenge of plastic pollution by creating well-designed furniture, accessories, and construction products from 90% up-cycled plastic collected from the local environment. We use reconstituted plastic lumber (compression moulded plastic waste) as a replacement for wood in our furniture, decking and construction materials. In this way we contribute to a reduction in plastic pollution and to forest tion. Our first product was a simple pouffe made from re-used PET drinks bottles. Since then our range has expanded to include couches, desks, beanbags, beds, wardrobes and decking. These can now be found in hundreds of Nigeria high-end lodges, hotels, schools and businesses. To date, Wallisdecor Designs has collected over 400 metric tonnes of plastic to use in our lifestyle products, representing a significant, positive environmental impact. As our techniques have been perfected, we have focused on increasing the percentage volume of recycled plastics in our products. A key element of this process has been our increased use of plastic lumber (“Greenwood”) to form the structural strength of our furniture. Cushioning for our furniture range is made with cleaned and shredded soft plastics (plastic bags and packaging plus leftover foam from local workshops.) Our designer bags and jewellery are made with leftover pressed plastics and adorned with leather produced by Masaai women. Our school-desks are 100% processed plastic lumber as are our smaller home accessories, | Having tested the proof of concept, we are currently at positioning for scale stage in order to test the business and delivery model of our product and build upon the parameters of what we have already executed. We are seeking investment of $250,000 to expand our workforce to include technical experts such as engineers, sales and marketing team and the R&D experts to research recycling/consumer habits all over the world. We are seeking investment of $250,000 for machinery plus appropriate tools to help us streamline production. We are seeking investment of $100,000 to build our first official flagship/innovation/showroom and retail space. | Globally, home furnishing markets thrive on availability of beautiful, affordable furniture and related products. Increasingly, there has been a profound mind-set shift around the problems of plastic and consumers are looking for environmentally-friendly, sustainable solutions without compromising on style, quality, cost or design. Consumption patterns have not decreased - people still want their ‘nice’ home commodities and lifestyle – but not at the expense of their pocket or compromises in design. The ideal is to make eco-friendly, recycled products at a competitive cost and with an alluring design and lasting quality. With the human population increasing precipitously, the demand for wood lumber from depleted forests will be increasingly unsustainable – as new wood furniture manufacturing increases, the planet suffers. Wallisdecor Designs offers consumers the opportunity to recycle & purchase beautiful items in the knowledge that their profits will help clean their environment, educate students in low income countries and provide much needed employment. | This expansion will enable Wallisdecor Designs to realize substantial sales growth over the next five years so that it can achieve specific financial objectives: Increase potential client base from thousands to millions by increasing exposure from local to national markets. Increase sales revenue, margins and profitability. Purchase extrusion mold machinery necessary to produce plastic lumber at a much faster production rate to increase output capacity of our furniture. Hire the professional staff needed such as engineers, designers, sales and marketing teams, admin, logistics and legal staff to remodel this template all over the globe | http://www.wallisdecor.site.http://www.LinkedIn.com/wallisdecor | https://youtu.be/EOAwLs75IJ8 | AYEEN,and TEF Mentor award | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | WILLIAM | ADELEKE | WILLIAMADELEKE | NONE | UNIVERSITY LECTURER | MALE | Kazakhstan | Nigeria | English | Russian | DESIRE TO BE PART OF SOLUTION TO THE WORLD PROBLEMS. PROFOUND PROBLEMS REQUIRE NO LESS PROFOUND SOLUTIONS. THE WORLD PROBLEMS REQUIRE COMPREHENSIVE IDEA-SOLUTIONS, AND NOT MAGNANIMOUS DONATIONS. COUNTRIES SHOULD BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE SDG WITH LOCAL CAPACITY AND THE UN SUPPORTS. WITH THIS SOLUTION, IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE FOR ANY COUNTRY, HOWEVER POOR TO ALMOST IMMEDIATELY END POVERTY AND ALL OTHER STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS, IT WOULD ALSO BENEFIT EVERYONE, FROM THE VERY POOREST TO THE RICHEST. IT WOULD BE A STABLE SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY WITHOUT INCURRING ANY DEBTS. MONEY WOULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR THE GOVERNMENT, BUSINESSES AND INDIVIDUALS. MONEY WOULD BE SUFFICIENT BUT NOT EXCESSIVE WE HAVE SOLUTION! | MY NAME IS WILLIAM OLUFEMI ADELEKE NIGERIAN NATIONAL. CURRENTLY, I AM A SENIOR LECTURER OF SOCIOLOGY AND RESEARCH METHODS AT THE INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY (iitu.kz) IN KAZAKHSTAN. MY RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE: ERADICATION OF POVERTY AND INEQUALITY AT ALL FRONTS, ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY, INSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND PUBLIC ENLIGHTENMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA | CENTRAL BANK SOVEREIGN CURRENCY' / 'A NEW MONETARY SYSTEM PROPOSAL' | CENTRAL BANK SOVEREIGN CURRENCY' / 'A NEW MONETARY SYSTEM PROPOSAL | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | NIGERIA AND THROUGHOUT AFRIKA | No | Proof of Concept | THIS IS A RESEARCH-BASED SOLUTION THAT HAS UNDERGONE CRITIQUE AND REVIEW | THE PROBLEMS RELATING TO POVERTY, INEQUALITY, INJUSTICE, UNEMPLOYMENT, ECONOMIC UNDERDEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, FORCED MIGRATION, LACK OF MONEY | CENTRAL BANK SOVEREIGN CURRENCY OFFERS BLUEPRINT ECONOMIC SOLUTION FOR ANY COUNTRY TO RESOLVE ALL STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS AND MANY MORE | CENTRAL BANK SOVEREIGN CURRENCY' IS UNIQUE MONETARY SYSTEM. THERE'S NO ANALUGUS FUNCTIONING ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD | AT FINISHED STAGE | CENTRAL BANK SOVEREIGN CURRENCY' HAS THE CAPACITY TO HELP ACHIEVE ALL OF THE SDG IN AFRICA | CENTRAL BANK SOVEREIGN CURRENCY' MUST PASS PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE AND APPROVAL, MANDATED BY THE IMPLEMENTING GOVERNMENT PRIOR TO IMPLEMENTATION. IT MAY AS WELL INVOLVE MAKING THE CENTRAL BANK ABSOLUTELY INDEPENDENT AS THE 4TH ARM OF THE GOVERNMENT | www.journal.kaznu.kz SERIES OF PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY # 1 (68) 2019 | www.journal.kaznu.kz SERIES OF PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY # 1 (68) 2019 | CERTIFICATES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Gregory Thato | Rakobe | Plenteous (PTY) LTD | N/A | Founder | Male | Botswana | Botswana | English | To present a project which I intend to start in Botswana and also in other countries. The idea at this point of time is still at its start-up stage due to lack of financial resources and human resources. My idea is on starting an agriculture educational centre for sustainable and profitable for Botswana and other countries. So far we have had any opportunity to get trainings from various hubs and universities on skills and knowledge on social entrepreneurship. Our core goal is to develop a new mindset on farmers to improve their farming methods for the better of the food production and also to keep earth preserved for the future of man-kind. Traditionally our local farmers have being really on old ways and traditional methods of farming hence leading to low yields of food production, poverty and hunger. With our new innovation of agriculture educational centre for future sustainable and profitable farmers will be able to replicate our model across the world and create decent agriculture rural job opportunities. The future of the world depends on the new leadership of sustainable profitable smart agriculture practices. | Gregory Thato Rakobe is a 29 year old Motswana who has an award in Bachelor of Science Degree in Animal Science from Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resource and recently completed his Master of Science Degree in Animal Management Systems. He has been award certifications on Entrepreneurship Development from Local Enterprise Authority, Supervisory Skills and Management Development from Institute of Development Management, Climate change Social Entrepreneur from Climate Exploration Hub, Property Marketing from BA ISAGO University and Executive Education for Go-to-Market from Stanford School University School of Graduate Business. Gregory has worked for Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources for 2years on National Internship Program as a Research assistant and instructor, after which he volunteered to work for one year at Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources as a Hostel Warden. During his spare time Gregory visit farmers as a consultant and currently he is building his New Company called Plenteous. Gregory has been invited by Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture of to attend 29th International Leadership Workshop for Rural Youth 7th-20th August 2019 in Herrsching, Germany where he will participate on his new business venture which seeks to open a Farm Business Academy for Senior Citizens and Youth to learn Sustainable and Profitable practical knowledge and Skills. | Farm Business Academy | The Farmers Academy | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Botswana | No | Ideation | Well it is due to lack of funds to support the development of the idea to another level of where it will be able to become self-generating income. | We want our people in rural areas to become educated with climate smart agriculture practices to boost healthy lives and access to food. Most of our old aged people are found to be at rural areas who are mostly affected by hunger, through our programs, we want to empower our youth to return to rural areas to partner with old age to work together on climate smart agriculture practices. This will create job opportunities for unemployed youth found in urban areas. | We want to use reach our clients through face to face mass market at each district, will be also targeting military, mining organizations which have retiring or retrenched employees to be part of the re-structuring that is to say offer our training to people to have a better life after retrenchment or retiring to climate smart agriculture business ventures. We are also into talks with mining organizations to collaborate on having our programs for their staff to plan ahead for future crunch times of loss of jobs through retrenchment which can be heart stressing. We have completed our Website which will soon be running for our clients to have easy access to view our products and services. We are now working on having computer added software linked with our website and social network to calm and retain our customers. Our core vision is to create sustainable and profitable agriculture opportunities throughout the country at large and globally. | The uniqueness can be realized on the quality of education for our farmers and agribusiness locals. Most of the agribusiness are not sustainable and profitable due to lack of current skills and knowledge In today and the future of agriculture practices and methods. | Since the idea has not yet fully developed, we have met challenges with the team on lack of financial support to keep up with day to day progress. That has always been a great challenges hence some team members can not persist to assist without financial income which is understandable and factful. Although we have some members who are sacrificing their time and finance to push forward the vision also supporting with their expertise and talents. | Our future target is to replicate the idea around the country mainly at rural areas were most people are farming and lacking knowledge and skills found mostly in urban areas. Will go across boarders in other countries were most farmers are lacking access to quality education of sustainable and profitable agriculture practices and methods. | We currently need a building structure of the Academy and also fitted with educational resouces such as projectors, computers, seminar room and auditorium sets and also offices as well as coffee shop and dinning hall. | https://www.entrepreneurship-campus.org/ideas/22/13104/ | https://www.facebook.com/eventfeedbw/videos/2178679099088675/?t=22 | 1. Go-to-Market Program offered by Stanford University School of Graduate Business. 2. Currently we selected on best ideas 2019 for UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). 3. We are also selected to participate on the 29th international leadership workshop in Herrsching, Germany August 5th to 22th 2019. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | James | Ehrlich | ReGen Villages Holding, BV | http://www.ReGenVillages.com | Founder | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | I am a researcher and lecturer at Stanford University with 15-years case study research of organic, bio-dynamic and effluent based food cultivation practices, in addition to research on intentional communities, co-housing and ecovillages. Published two (2) UN Sustainable Development Goal Platform Briefs co-authored by myself and Profess Larry Leifer and Chris Ford (AIA) from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University. | Founder, ReGen Villages Holding, BV EIR, Stanford University Faculty, Singularity University Senior Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center (Obama) White House Appointee - Regenerative Infrastructure Co-author of 2, UN Sustainable Development Goal Platform Briefs on decentralized, regenerative and resilient neighborhood development. Co-author of ""Organic Living"" Hachette 2007 | ReGen Villages | Future of living in off-grid, self sustaining communities | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Globally, starting in Netherlands, Sweden, UK, U.S.A, India, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Morocco | Yes | Schneider Electric, Philips, Asahi Glass, Wilo, LG, Sir Robert McAlpine | Research & Development | We are further developing our patented Village OS (tm) operating system software that is the first of its kind dashboard on regenerative and resilient infrastructure systems that enable decentralized (off-grid and self-sustaining) neighborhoods. We have engaged government, industrial and university partners, and part of the EU Commission on Smart Rural Development. Our goal is to break ground on our first pilot community in 2020 with a pipeline of projects intended to replicate globally. | Critical housing shortages is the greatest driver of economic inequality. Access to clean water, healthy organic food, renewable energy and hygiene (waste-to-resource management at the neighborhood scale. Reducing pressure on cities by developing off-grid neighborhoods in the peri-urban and eventually rural areas. Improving healthy outcomes of residents, living in self-sustaining communities. Reducing burdens on governments, local/regional/national | ReGen Villages provides critical life support systems at the neighborhood scale integrating energy-positive dwellings within master planned communities around food, water, energy and waste-to-resource neighborhood planning - driven by our Village OS (tm) patented software operating system that can manage the metabolic integration across climate zones. The long-term vision is to replicate and scale self-sustaining neighborhoods around the world and connect them through our Village OS software platform, in a way that uses AI/ML (artificial intelligence and machine learning) to improve and mitigate regenerative infrastructure for maximum thriving potential based on climate zones. The need for ReGen Villages is urgent where the impact will be stronger, healthier and self-reliant communities living further from cities in these dynamically changing environmental and economic times. | ReGen Villages is unique in its integration model of durable and resilient platforms that can learn from each other and autonomously improve across climate zones. There are no other platforms in the world that connect neighborhood infrastructure by climate zones and use this data and systemic approach to make the environment and lives better. The new perspective is on re-imagining greenfield developments outside of over crowded cities and urban areas, using ReGen Villages OS software to develop mixed use residential and agricultural lands, in ways that produce over abundant surpluses of clean water, food, energy and resources from waste, while housing thousands of families without compromising the productive value of these areas. | ReGen Villages has engaged outreach around the world, with continuing viral media spread of our vision and plans since 2016 after our announcement at the Venice Biennale for Architecture. We have brought on globally recognized branded industrial partners, top universities for collaboration and have a pipeline of land grant opportunities with government support. ReGen Villages patented its Village OS software platform and continues to develop the software to create the first of its kind automated neighborhood control system for regenerative and resilient infrastructure. We measure progress on our ability to continue this engagement, outreach and plans to break ground on our first pilot community in 2020, and then continually measure our impact for further EU and regional/structural government support. | Our first pilot community is intended to break ground in the Netherlands in 2020. We intend to expand the north European climate context in Sweden, UK and beyond to U.S. markets in impoverished areas. Since we commenced our Stanford University research in 2013 and founded our Dutch holding company in 2016, we continue to have outreach to sovereign wealth, surplus and pension funds looking for ways to reinvest from fossil fuels into asset-backed residential communities, but that have SDG impact. ReGen Villages therefore has a methodical approach to initially use private equity and patient debt, along with joint venture partnerships in each country, to co-develop and manage these thriving, self-sustaining pilot neighborhoods. Our intent is then to bundle 2-3 land holdings of villages into a larger green bonds that will enable ReGen Villages to replicate the joint venture development model around the world, especially in developing economies of rural India, Sub-Saharan Africa and ASEAN countries. ReGen Villages is also part of the EU Commission on Smart Rural Villages, helping to guide the nearly 3-billion new allocation of grants and subsidies toward regenerative and resilient neighborhood developments. | ReGen Villages Holding raised 1.2 million Euro from wealthy family offices since 2016. We are currently in a 1 million euro bridge to a 16 million Series-A round, which is actually sufficient funding in order for ReGen Villages to realize its first pilot community of 300 homes in the Netherlands. The Series-A round will also enable ReGen Villages to complete its Village OS software development and provide OPEX for continued expansion of our regenerative master planning pipeline. Mid-term we expect to raise Series B-E rounds over the next 5-years for a total of 140 million Euro, in order to reach terminal value for equity investors. Within this 5-year period ReGen VIllages will commence the creation of the first green bond offering in order to have a vehicle to transact with pension funds and sovereign wealth that are already compelled with ReGen Villages vision and plans. Our long-term goal is a 3-5 billion Euro green bond that will enable ReGen Villages to act as a fund of funds, to support regenerative neighborhood developments at scale around the world, powered by our Village OS software and AI platform. | http://www.ReGenVillages.com Original UN Sustainability Development Goal Platform Brief https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/622766_Ehrlich_Integrated%20village%20designs%20for%20thriving%20regenerative%20communities.pdf ReGen Villages Stanford Prototype Lab https://vimeo.com/337408542 | James Ehrlich TEDxx Trondheim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH_94v67upo&t=7s CNN Money https://www.cnnmoney.ch/shows/big-picture/videos/regen-villages-james-ehrlich-your-home-could-pay-itself-ecovillage FastCompany https://www.fastcompany.com/90207375/the-worlds-first-high-tech-eco-village-will-reinvent-suburbs | ReGen Villages winner of Singularity University ""Global Grand Challenges"" 2016 - category Shelter SVOD conference, winner ""Most Sustainable Impact"" award Stanford Park Conference ""Most Disruptive Start-Up"" award, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | JOSHWA | TAMBO | Kibera Community Empowerment Organization | www.kceo.org | Founding Director | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | I was born and raised in Kibera slum, growing up I helped my entrepreneurial mum Syprose, to sell catfish to off school but more often than not we slept on an empty stomach because she was saving all the business profit to pay my school fee together with other 7 siblings. Nearly 65% of my classmates dropped out of school due to lack of school fee and feeding program in the school. My school was not exceptional but this phenomenon is true to other schools in slums in Kenya to date. pon graduation I co-founded KCEO, a non-profit that incubates women living with disabilities on social entrepreneurship, leadership development and digital literacy bundled with a yearlong 1:1 mentorship, market access, and seed capital- and also incubating schools on how to establish organic catfish farms in their respective schools to leverage organic food wastes to grow healthy, nutritious catfish to supplement schools feeding program, hence promoting school enrolment, uptake of afternoon classes and improving health of school children hence addressing hunger. I believe that women like Syprose (my mum) has significantly contributed to raising daring change markers in Kenya with non-conventional business skills- that is why am so passionate about replicating mores Syproses by incubating women living with disabilities who have been subjected to layers of stigma and discrimination yet they have underlying potential that has not yet been tapped. I also incubate more schools to produce healthy and nutritious catfish to replicate more Joshwa's who will grow to take actions of creating sustainable development platforms to solve social problems in their respective communities as I do today. So far KCEO has incubated 300 women living with disabilities from 7 slums in Kenya, launching 171 successful social ventures 100% women-led- collectively impacted 67,770 lives with their products/services. Our School Incubation program has so far incubated and invested in 50 schools across Kenya, so far fed 40,000 students with healthy and nutritious lunch meals. | I was born and raised in Kibera slum, the controversial capital of Nairobi largest informal settlement. On the whole, I am “a slum boy”, being used to overcrowded, lack of social infrastructure, insecurity and polluted days, but also lively and joyful nights. I am a big fun of community-based social entrepreneurship, and when I was younger I helped my entrepreneurial mum to sell indigenous vegetables and small fish (catfish) and leaned the spirit of social entrepreneurship, this build the passion in me to create sustainable development in my community. I’m 2018 Acumen Fellow, 2017 Mandela Washington Fellow-Business and Entrepreneurship Track. Joshwa is currently Special Advisor to the Kibera Community Empowerment Organization (KCEO), which he founded during 2011 so far impacted 100,000 lives through Street Literacy, Social Entrepreneurship and Food Security Programs. I co-founded Kshoes, a social enterprise that partners with skilled artisans age 16-30 years, producing recycled customized shoes sold both in Kenya and international market, this creates 12 jobs to skilled artisans, 117 youths, generated revenues are reinvested in empowering women. So far 300 women trained on leadership development, social entrepreneurship, and digital marketing, receiving seed capital and mentorship; out of which 171 started their businesses, serving 17000 lives on a daily basis. The supported businesses address food security, education, environment, technology and human rights. Joshwa has a Degree in Computer Science and Post Graduate Diploma in Sustainable Business | Organic Catfish Farms | We leverage organic food waste to produce healthy and nutritious catfish to feed school students | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Kenya, with plans to scale it across East Africa | Yes | CDF office, -They will support other schools to establish cat fish farms in Kibera slum - Youth leaders, Women leaders, Popular opinion leaders, Chiefs. - CSO’s with interest in Agribusiness- We will work with them to scale cat fish farming th | Scaling | KCEO designed this program from the student perspectives tested it in 7 schools and replicated in an additional 43 schools, the result has been significant and now we are partnering with 10 county governments to scale it across 10 counties in Kenya with a projection to serve 500,000 students in the next 3 years | 85 % of the households are food insecure, with 50 % being severely food insecure. The use of negative coping strategies to address food insecurity such as reducing the number of meals, reducing food variety and quality, scavenging, and eating street foods is prevalent in Kenya. This directly affects school attendance with student opting to stay home rather than attend classes on an empty stomach, eventually some drop out of school while the average school means score drops drastically. | Our Organic Catfish program identify, train and mentor schools in the informal settlements in Kenya on how to leverage locally available organic food waste to power customized Organic catfish ponds - the students then take the lead role of the product to increase their leadership and business management skills- The fish are harvested and used to serve school meals to promote school enrollment and uptake of afternoon classes. Additional fish are sold to the student's families at an affordable price to increase uptake of white meat which is healthy and nutritious, the income generated through these sales are used to set up new catfish ponds KCEO work with both county and national governments to offer agricultural extension services through the respective ministries of Agriculture, University of Nairobi Aquatic Department- they gain hands-on farm management skills, tools, and resources that enable their catfish farms yields to increases. Students are also supported to start customized mini catfish farms in their family backyards to increase food security in their respective communities and practically learned the art of social entreprenuership | Schools in Kenya today depend on Feed the Future program to offer meals in their respective schools, they donate food from breakfast to lunch even- the number of schools is way more than the food being donated to these schools- and more often than not schools have to wait for weeks before food can be delivered to these schools. This has significantly affected learning, school attendance, and overall students performances. We as KCEO believe that the most sustainable ways of ensuring schools are food secure to improve overall performance is to train and invest in schools to leverage locally available resources to produce healthy and nutritious food in mass using cost-effective methods such as our model. We do not entirely oppose the donor aid model in our community but we are running ahead of time because we are 100% sure it is not sustainable and sufficient, that is why our model is unique in our context. We do not only ensure that students stomachs are full but we leverage this model to train them social entrepreneurship and business management skills to build creativity and innovation culture hence generating a new breed of students who identify a problem in their communities mobilizing available resources to solve that problem. Today we have over 500 organic fish ponds established by students in their neighborhood, at least they are sure of 1 meal per day and some are selling the fish to generate their school fee hence keeping them in schools | KCEO today has incubated 50 schools successfully established 50 organic catfish farms and collectively fed 40,000 kids through this initiative. over 500 kids have replicated this model in their respective family backyards, with half of these families earning $3 daily from the sales of their catfish injecting these revenues in paying their school fee. KCEO has designed a digital curriculum and working of KCEO App that is going to offer customized tools that schools can plug in online to learn and replicate this model in their respective schools across East Africa to make their school's food secure. We have successfully formalized a partnership with both county and national government to leverage their resources and networks to adopt this model in their financial plan for national food budget with other 10 county governments across Kenya already adopted this model and funded it through 2019/2020 financial budget, this means in that the next years over 500 schools are going to have fully certified organic catfish farms. We measure- school enrollment, uptake of afternoon classes, family income from the family gardens, school additional income, new investments made, no of schools replicated the models, no teachers incubated | We have 3 goals of incubating and investing in 500 schools to establish 500 fully-fledged organic catfish ponds serving over 500,000 students on a daily basis. With the new partnership, we just made, we are looking forward to establishing 10 fully-fledged organic Aquatic Hubs in 10 different counties across Kenya hence incubating teachers, local farmers and youths across KENYA on how we can leverage locally available organic food waste to power customized catfish farms to make Kenya food secure. In 5 years we want to replicate this model across Uganda and Tanzania schools to caterlize the ripple effects across East Africa | Currently, KCEO has secured 50000$ from the county government 2019/2020 financial budget, our target in the next 3 years is to raise an additional $250k to establish fully-fledged organic Aquatic Hubs to incubate farmers and school teachers on models of making our communities food secure leveraging locally available resources. We are working on creating a pool of mentors from Aquatic departments from local universities that can invest their research skills to improve this model by documenting the lessons learned and design possible sustainability plans to ensure that KENYA and our neighbors are food secure to help boost our education performances. | https://www.facebook.com/KiberaEmpowerment/photos/a.1077523828929702/2671754776173258/?type=3&theater https://www.facebook.com/KiberaEmpowerment/photos/a.1077523828929702/2607831369232266/?type=3&theater https://www.facebook.com/KiberaEmpowerment/photos/a.1077523828929702/2606132096068860/?type=3&theater https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxbmzERdy-w&fbclid=IwAR3X5o58dlqh8phOYUMo0C3Qjf2o67MylvyKWeb2owa7zN5nSx-r3NJpO2k | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxbmzERdy-w&fbclid=IwAR3X5o58dlqh8phOYUMo0C3Qjf2o67MylvyKWeb2owa7zN5nSx-r3NJpO2k | Ambassadors Self Help Award(US Embassy)- 2018 PISCCA AWARD(French Embassy)- 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | M,. Indre | Wanof | Kampung Course Indonesia | https://www.kampungcourse.id/ | Co-Founder | Male | Indonesia | Indonesia | English | Since early childhood, I often accompanied my mother to sell vegetables at a traditional market and assisted my father work in a furniture store. These early experiences gave me exposure to entrepreneurship and taught me the value of hard work and community service. Now known as a person of high empathy and integrity, I have spent years developing my entrepreneurial interests for the benefit of my local community, especially for young people losing out on job opportunities or their studies due to lack of expertise. These interests have led me to establish Kampung Course (KC) (www.kampungcourse.com). At KC, we strive to connect students with course providers to uplift student skills and help SMEs achieve maximum productivity for the educational services by focusing on course promotions, mentoring, scholarship, community support, and youth empowerment. KC has successfully attracted 21,000 monthly visitors, connected >500 youths from 20 provinces with 35 course providers in Kediri, and entered Malang for replication. I am determined to spread the positive impact of KC farther and wider. I strongly believe that participating in this fellowship will develop my leadership capabilities and critical thinking for upscaling KC nationally and regionally. My passion for making Indonesia better through entrepreneurship and economic development, my years of related experiences, my willingness to share and collaborate with others, and my eagerness to learn from United Nations and all of their companion and Eagerness of Youth atmosphere really demonstrate that I am a suitable candidate for this program. I believe it will profoundly impact me, my communities, and my entrepreneurial projects. | I am now a student in Universitas Islam Kadiri, One of University near to my project place. while as a teacher in this region called by kampung inggris as the place of many local course institutions in indonesia, i am also as kampung inggris developer with platform called by kampung course. I am totaly active in several communities to develop english village will be known by the people nationally & internationally. | Kampung course (Market place for local course institutions) | with Kampungcourse! Let's support our local course institutions | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Kampung inggris,Pare,Kabupaten Kediri,Indonesia | Yes | Institutions (School,Campus,etc), Department of Educations & Culture, Directorate of coaching courses &Training, Related educational institution/corporate/private companies,Investor,Communities. | Scaling | Based on Center Statistic Department of Indonesia, number of unemployment in Indonesia has reached 7.02 millions people in 2016, including 400,000 bachelor graduates in 2015. One of the key skills is English. This motivate us to develop innovative solution named Kampung Course (see: www.kampungcourse.id), an online education marketplace that connects students with course service providers using class-based or private coaching system for skill and talent development | an online education marketplace that connects students with course service providers using class-based or private coaching system for skill and talent development. This way could help students improving their skills in the midst of the importance of non-formal education to enter workplace and higher education, and at the same time assist local SMEs in giving their optimal educational services. | Rank 113 in terms of Human Development Index leaves serious concern for Indonesia in regards to its education sector, particularly non-formal education which raises more than 13,000 based on Directorate Course and Training. This keeps growing as many high school and university students entering workplace and higher education needs “preparation” to get in. Particularly, when it comes to deal with English skill as a part of highly-needed eligibility in entering universities of workplace. Based on Center Statistic Department of Indonesia, number of unemployment in Indonesia has reached 7.02 millions people in 2016, including 400,000 bachelor graduates in 2015. One of the key skills is English as it is official language of ASEAN. Though we are going to be one of the key players in global economy, we are not ready since facing a huge problems in responding to English and other related job skills. We believe the problem is not only happened to indonesia but all countries in this world regarding the local course institutions and registrants. | Many platform is connecting the people to the hotel,ticket,and others but there is no platform to help local course institutions connected with their registrants how to increase the productivity of them. an online education marketplace that connects students with course service providers using class-based or private coaching system for skill and talent development. This way could help students improving their skills in the midst of the importance of non-formal education to enter workplace and higher education, and at the same time assist local SMEs in giving their optimal educational services. We have started in December 2015, have been testing for the past one year and a half and will be soon to be the biggest, largest, and the best Indonesian online education marketplace. | Now we still focuse on Kampung inggris. we have taken corporation with 35 course institutions in indonesia and 1 foreign online course institutions in USA. we measure with our impact model canvass. Activities : - Listing - Registration - Payment - Find a Course - Consultation - Collecting Course Info or data - Promotion Online & Offline - Partnership & Sponsorship - Community Engagement Output : - An increase in number of registrants - An increase in income of local course - Decreasing Number of Marketing cost of local course - Service Improvement - Brand Awarness - User Costumer Acquisition - Database & Traffic conversation Outcomes - Brand Recognition - Skill Improvement for student - Less Job Unemployment (Decent work) - Commersialisation - Trusted Platform Impacts - Human Resourche Development - Local economic growth - Qualitity education | After we are success in our Niche Market or focuse place project, We will scale up from 1 city to more than 22 cities and 1 type (language course) of course institutions to more than 22 type of course institutions. Our big dream this platform will be used for all of countries this world | This is our current Key Resources : - The Network effects - Listings - Generated Content - Platform architecture - Algorithms, Data, Analytics capabilities - Brand,Web & App | https://www.kampungcourse.id/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Y4Kem_QCo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xau12wjkh0 (Interview with local radio of indonesia) | 1. The Nextdev academy for Social impact 2. Sucor Security Competition 3. Startup weekend indonesia 4. Sidu Entrepreneur competition 5. Economic creative Development of Indonesia 6. Austalia Awards 7. Asean Data Startup Accelerator | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohammed | Toraif | Fish.me | https://fish.me | CEO | Male | Bahrain | Bahrain | Arabic | English | We love people, especially fishermen. Thats why we want to help engaging fishermen directly with the consumer market. | CEO of Fish.me inc, based in Bahrain and a Computer Engineer, Microsoft Certified Trainer, dad to two beautiful kids, and Global Innovator in the fishing industry. https://www.linkedin.com/in/toraif/ | Fish.me | A marketplace platform that gives fishermen the ability to sell their catches directly to consumers. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Bahrain, future cities: Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, and them African Continent. | Yes | Expo 2020 Dubai | Transition to Scale | Because we have proven that fishermen can reduce their fishing costs by selling directly to consumers which means more revenues for them directly. | The middle man, sale on credit for fishermen. Providing fresh quality seafood to consumers. | Its a platform that consists of two apps: 1- Seller app on Android for fishermen to sell their catches. 2- Buyer app for consumers to purchase fresh fish. | As of now, there is no marketplace app that links fishermen with consumers directly. | We managed to develop the app after many iterations to test it with fishermen to make it as simple as possible. Currently we are very eager to push our product to the market. | We are lookimg at Gulf Countries as a full region to penetrate. Currently in Bahrain and eventually in all other five countries. | We need strategic partnerships and marketing funds. These will enable us to push our product to the regional market and then aiming globally. | https://fish.me https://www.instagram.com/fishdotme | NA | EXPO 2020 Dubai Global Innovators | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Akaninyene | Obot | Ukana West 2 Community Based Health Initiative (CBHI) | www.linkeldn.com/in/ukana-cbhi-ikotideh-ba4815124 | Program Manager | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I will like to join the UN solutions summit because I see it as a platform that I can make the voices of the underserved people in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria be heard. The population of Akwa Ibom State is 4.6 million people and 70% of these people live in the rural area with 90% living below the poverty line and yet 0.2% only have access to affordable quality healthcare via the community based health insurance (CBHI), Primary Health Centre, Ikot Ideh. In Akwa Ibom State, there are 440 primary health centres situated mostly in the rural community but many are dysfunctional or underutilized because of the fee for services and this has given rise to the high mortality rate in the state. This UN Summit will give me the privilege to showcase the impact CBHI in the health of the community it is situated and the need for speedy intervention to prevent the program from shutting down due to lack of fund and also network to see ways of scaling the program across Akwa Ibom State to reduce the mortality rate, strengthen the health system and reduce the prevalence of HIV CBHI ENROLLEES SERVICE UTILIZATION FROM YEAR 2014 – 2019 S/NSERVICE UPTAKE20142015201620172018MAY 2019 1TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN IMMUNIZED 4731431873 11061545830 2TOTAL NUMBER OF CHILDREN UNDER 5 YEARS SERVICE UTILIZATION (0-5 YEARS) 168 371 544 860 991221 3ANC 455442 458 620 475202 4ADULT SERVICE UTILIZATION 295604 1210 11571404457 5TOTAL NUMBER OF DELIVERIES 29 29 43 67 47 19 | CBHI ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) Scheme was launched on the 21st August, 2014. This laudable program is an integral part of the drive for Universal Health Coverage in the state and nationwide. The CBHI scheme is currently being piloted in Ukana West Ward 2 in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. CBHI model is characterized by “Pooling at the Ward Level” with a “Community Trust Fund” at the local government level. The Scheme is managed by community members (selected through an open process) who make up the Board of Trustees (BOT). The program is not for profit and provides risk pooling (protection) to cover the cost of health care services. Not for profit health care financing mechanism is based on solidarity (agreement, oneness) between members and democratically accountable to them. Key functional components of CBHI: Vision: A community where all citizens have access to affordable quality health care services without suffering any financial hardship Mission: •To make healthcare services equitable, accessible, sustainable and affordable for all •To improve access to health care by eliminating or reducing out-of-pocket payment by clients •Engaging community members through social mobilization to share in financing of local health services •To improve efficiency in the allocation and use of available financial resources •To advocate for improved healthcare financing in the state •To collaborate with relevant organizations for improved healthcare services | Health Intervention for the underserved people of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria | Across the 34 local government of Akwa Ibom State, 34,000 vulnerable lives will be selected to benefit from the project | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | Yes | Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Health, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Akwa Ibom State Primary Health Care Agency, Community Health Department, University of Uyo Teaching Hospital and Policy Alert, Uyo | Transition to Scale | Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) was established in 2014 as a pilot project and as a model in the state to scale up across the state for everyone equal access to quality and affordable healthcare. The program has been sustained till date with a track record of successes and there is therefore the need to scale it up across the state | My project seeks to make healthcare services affordable and accessible to all without discrimination. Eliminate out of pocket payment which drives people away from seeking medical services from qualified medical personnel. It also improve the standard of service delivery by community involvement in the health system management | Member pay a premium of 10, 000 Naira (28.16900 dollars) per head to access quality and affordable healthcare services throughout the year at the Primary Health centre, Ikot Ideh and secondary referral services at Cottage Hospital, ukana. Part of this money is used to offset any secondary referral services, procurement of drugs, training of the healthcare staff, maintenance of the facility and salary for CBHI staff and volunteers. The Long term vision is to improve the program and scale it across the state and use same as a model in the nation to attain the Universal Health Coverage 2030 in Nigeria | The unique thing about Ukana West 2 Community Based Health Insurance ( CBHI) is that it is situated in a Primary Health Centre which is the first point of visit for any health need mostly by the rural dwellers. It bring affordable and quality healthcare services to the underserved and poor people who otherwise would not have the money to visit health facilities. The pregnant women attend antenatal services, give birth in the facility and the new born babies receive immunization services and medical follow up from medical experts and not quacks or traditional birth attendance. The program situated in the health facility makes drugs available, train the health workers, ensure that the service delivery is standard, maintain the facility in terms of repairs and provision of affordable necessary equipment or materials | We measure our progress by the number of people in the underserved community who have been able to access healthcare service, number of pregnant women who visit for antenatal and post natal services, number of children delivered and the number of stakeholders in the state who have heard and understand the health insurance program | The goal is to have similar program in the remaining two senatorial district ( Eket and Uyo) of the state before the end of 2020 Milestones: The number of Stakeholders in these Senatorial District who have buy in to the program The projected lives to be impacted upon in 2020 will be 20, 000 lives across the state | Fund (Premium, Drugs, advocacy tool kits, Salary for staff) Capacity training for the health workers Skill acquisition program for the identified vulnerable lives for household economic strengthening Medical Equipment for the facility Ambulance for emergency | https://youtu.be/Puch0MJkbPQ | https://youtu.be/lR61irRmK-c | The only organization in Nigeria supported by UHC2030 stakeholders to host the first UHC day in December 2019 with 1300 dollars National Institute of Research and Strategic Studies, Duru, Recognition award in 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Abdulhafeez | Ochepa | Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria | https://staff.futminna.edu.ng/website_home.php?id2=82a3x2a43484 | Lecturing | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | UN Solution Summit will give me the highly desired opportunity to present my fantastic tier one solution to great minds, key entrepreneurial stakeholders and investors around the world. | Mr Ochepa Abdulhafeez is a Lecturer in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Business Studies, Federal University of Technology, Minna. He is currently pursuing PhD in Management at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi. He obtained M.Sc in Management from Kogi State University, Anyigba, Kogi State in the year 2016. He Lectures Management and Entrepreneurship related courses. Mr Ochepa was formerly an employee of United Bank for Africa Plc as a Relationship Manager before joining the University in the year 2012. He is currently serving as the Secretary on the University Convocation Exhibition Sub-Committee and equally served as a Students Level Adviser for four years. He is equally the Staff Adviser of the National Association of Entrepreneurship and Management Technology Students (NAEMTS). Mr Ochepa is the Business Manager of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Business Studies Model Shop. He has been highly instrumental in organizing yearly Entrepreneurship Week in the University. The young Lecturer added to his feathers, the Grand Entrepreneurship and Management(GEM) Awards of ""The Most Supportive Staff"" in the year, 2016 and ""The Most Humanitarian Staff of the Year"" in 2018. He equally got Letters of Commendations for the successful organisation of the 24th, 25th and the 26th Convocation Ceremonies of the University. His research work encompasses Entrepreneurship, Human Resource, SMEs, General Management and the likes. Mr. Ochepa had just invented a new product ""M&M Straw Cup"" a solution for hygienic handling of Straws in hospitality sector and households. | M&M Straw Cup | An enclosed cup designed to pop-out a single straw at the push of the button thereby reducing the risk of contamination to the barest minimum | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Nigeria, South Africa, Germany and the world at large, in the long run. | No | Ideation | Because all conventional methods of handling straws, observed so far, cause straws to be contaminated by their exposure to multiple hands contact, dust, house flies and even bacteria. Hence, our product is an innovation in this case as it is an enclosed cup designed to pop-out a single straw at the push of the button thereby reducing the risk of contamination to the barest minimum. | It has been wildly observed that straws are not properly handled in public places like eateries, hospitality homes and even in many households. They are usually exposed to germs and other contamination caused by multiple hands contact, houseflies, bacteria and the likes. | Our product(cup) allows a single straw to pop-out at the push of the button. This solution will improve the hygiene, especially as it relates to the way straws are being handled in the hospitality sector and individual households. | M&M Straw Cup is an enclosed cup designed to pop-out a single straw at the push of the button thereby reducing the risk of contamination, caused by the conventional methods of handling straws which exposes them at various unhealthy degrees. | We have been able to develop a prototype (an MVP) | We hope to grow from rapid prototyping stage to mass production of the product and leverage on large market in the hospitality sector and growing population of households in Nigeria to gain heavy traction and start exportation of the product to other countries in the next two years. More professional employees will be brought on board our team and we believe to keep iterating and improving on our product based on feedback in order to continue to increase our market shares and remain in the world market for as long as the beverages and other bottle drinks that will require our straw cup, for save drinking, remain in the world market. | Short-term: Startup and operating capital, Business Office, Professional employees Medium-term: Market share expansion by starting product export to neighboring countries. Launching other product versions and engaging in the product foreign direct investment Long-term: Market dominance and increased product line, world-wide Product presence and selling of company shares to the general public. | https://staff.futminna.edu.ng/website_home.php?id2=82a3x2a43484 | https://twitter.com/AbubakarOchepa/status/1153230080921001984?s=20 | Startup Nigeria 2019 - Finalist Grand Entrepreneurship & Management Award(GEM Award) 2018 - Winner Letter of Commendation (Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niegria) - 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohamed | Alpha | Science, Technology, Engineering and Arts Development- STEAD | http://stead.fbcusl.com/ | Head Of Innovation | male | Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone | English | My name is Mohamed Alpha, age 24. I'm from Sierra Leone and a student of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Njala University. I'm a Social Innovator working to identify and empower innovators and their ideas to benefit our various communities . Most outstanding achievements have ranged from being an Innovator who have impacted communities with solutions in terms of Energy and Agriculture. I'm a nominated Most Influential Young Youth in my hometown. Nominated Innovator of the year 2019 in my country Winner of the Infracon Engineering student competition 2019 My story can inspire my fellow Africans especially in the field of social innovations looking at the fact that only few youths are into that. My story will motivate others to start solving pressing problems within there communities even without government involvement. Years back, my team provided electricity service for a community in my country using a Solar and Wind tech combined with our knowledge. This can ginger others to take the lead instead of listening to government. Since 2012, I started the innovation journey with an organization called Innovate Salone, a hub to empower innovators. Later, I was an alumni and had to take this initiative in my hometown,Kono District which well known for diamonds mining. My step to implement innovation to this place is leading and motivating youths to take up actions in solving pressing problems in there respective communities. To date, this district is one of the leading one in terms of solutions like Auto irrigation systems, Mini hydro generator that produces clean energy and a SunBox using solar energy. All these ideas are on the realm to be implemented once fully completed and they're with local materials around us. So, this initiative being led and still on the process to improve education and empower communities is something I can proud of because it was my first venture to serve my country. www.facebook.com/mohamed.alpha3 My Facebook link where you can find more interesting stories of my ventures in innovation Best Regards Mohamed Alpha | Mohamed Alpha, born in Kono District, Sierra Leone. Age 24, went to school in the capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown. Was raised by a single parent, my mother. I am currently studying Electronics and Telecom in Sierra Leone. I am an innovator by passion solving problems across my country and continent. I am an African Presidential Leadership Program fellow, Young African Leadership Initiative fellow, studied Global Social Entrepreneurship- certificate. | MINI HYDRO GENERATOR | Mini hydro system is a solution to providing electricity for rural areas in my country and at the same time do not pollute the environment . | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | SIERRA LEONE | Yes | Innovate Sierra Leone/ Global Minimum | Sustainable Scale | The mini hydro generator is an idea based on the fact of the suffering of our community people in accessing electricity at affordable cost and at the same time do not harm the environment. It works with slow running water and was built with local materials with an output of 220v/1000watt. It can serve many communities because it can be replicated and very easy to operate. It works with no fossil fuel, just the use of running water,slow or fast. | Providing Electricity for Rural Communities 75% of Sierra Leoneans are farmers in the rural communities of the country, living in total blackout for decades now. Since 1975 to date, Sierra Leone has undertaken six hydro-power projects with a total output of 61.75MW, which is quite below the country’s revealed hydro-power potential of 5000MW. Babies are delivered everyday in rural areas in Sierra Leone. | A Micro-Hydro Power Plant innovated with an A-D-A (AC-DC-AC) system for sustainability and efficiency, Suitable for installation in naturally slow flowing and artificially moving water, with a rated output of 100KW. Have the potentials for 24 hours of generating quality electric energy to supply 2500 homes. Innovated to use less expensive materials for installation, less maintenance and room for repairs and maintenance without shorting down power transmission. Eco-friendly, and with 100% possibilities for replication in 1000s of rural communities in Sierra Leone, In Africa and the world at large. Estimated population is 2,500 Households. Our long term plans is, each year after implementation, we occupy another village. Annual market for electricity in the Manjama village (case study town) is Le 80,000,000 We shall be selling at [Le] 500.00 {$ 0.15}USD Per 1 Unit/kilowatt. With this research, we have huge market value and long term services because there are up to thousands villages and towns without electricity. | OUR COMPETITORS 1. Less expensive to install and run and can work yearly round compared to solar plants 2. Less prone to breakdown and Eco friendly compared to thermal plant with an equivalent outputs. Low volume of water is required for installation. Small piece of land is required for installation. Less expensive materials are required. Absolutely little or no negative effects on the environment (eco-friendly) Rooms for repairs and maintenance without shorting down supply Sustainable 24 hours of electricity generation and supply is possible Clean and affordable electricity to meet the income status of the target consumers Opportunity for micro-industrialization. Opportunity for community growth and development. Opportunity for commerce and income generation. Easily adoptable and adaptable in rural communities. Can be installed with or without naturally flowing water. | ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR: Completed the implementation architectures of the solution Completed 2 years of feasibility studies on the seasonal behaviors of the proposed river This was a tough junior from the idea stage to now. We have to use our own resources as students to travel in different locations, interview people, collect data, study the situation of water flow. Then, we had to finalize to base our idea in this kind of innovative prototype. | The Mini Hydro System is easy to install and run and can work everywhere with water availability and Africa as a whole has abundant water facilities. It has huge employment opportunities as local youths will be trained to implement, run and repair. This idea was designed to be replicated in such a way it can impact any community people, our initial estimated population in the village we did the cases study was up to TWO THOUSANDS households and has capabilities to impact more. | 1. Expertise to scale up the idea. 2. Financial cost to scale up the idea and implement in the case study environment as our short term goal. 3. Long Term needs are opportunities to acquire more knowledge in Leadership and Engineering in a way we can give back to our various respective communities. we are students that are passionate about solving pressing problems affecting our people. | www.facebook.com/mohamed.alpha3 | www.facebook.com/mohamed.alpha3 | INFRACON Engineering Students competitions 2019 Most Influential Young Person , 2018 Nominated Innovator by Eminence Africa 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Hafeezullah | Hafeezullah | Youth SDGs Rural Development Sindh | www.youthsdgsindh.org.com | Founder | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | Salam; I'm a young social entrepreneur having working experience with social organization a qualified leadership and management degree from Islamabad I have started self oriented organization in Rural areas mostly villages for Basic primary quality education, climate change, gender equality, drinking water to attempt UN SDGs We are also operated a school for quality education with low fees also started free education for orphans and disabled children My organization ""Youth SDGs for Rural development"" aim to provide Parents counselling and thier children's to provide quality education in less privilege areas to help them like free school dress and school bags to motivate childrens and their parents for regularity and maintain discipline in Government schools also. In our Rural areas people living 80% under poverty and also un educated my aim to engaged more educated youth through workshop training, motivational seminars talks that are organized in weekly monthly basis to encouraged these peoples for Quality education, climate awarenes and reduce poverty Currently my organization started poverty alleviation program also in Rural areas we are collect data for implementation UNSDGs Goals no poverty | I'm social entrepreneur my age 28 as my education have Bachelor's of electrical engineering working in 2 years project implemention for educational institutions Also i have complete Master's in leadership & Management studies Now a owner of welfare organization working for Sustainable development Goals in Rural areas for education, poverty, climate, gender equality. | Youth SDGs Rural Development Sindh | Quality education for every Child | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Youth SDGs Rural development sindh our project in SDGs implemented in Rural sindh Pakistan | No | Sustainable Scale | In our Rural areas 80% people are uneducated also poor they have no any such awareness so my aim to organized and engaged Young peoples for implement and launched SDGs for education, climate change, gender and poverty programs | Quality education wants to free for every child try to make more volunteers that provide free education for poor childrens | Quality education and climate Change i have developed a workshop for trainings and seminars we provide educational facilities in Batch wise after sent them to own areas | Training for young peoples thats work for volunteers base for Attempt SDGs vision 2030 | Our team member are fully trained these work in own areas we elevated them on daily weekly Base on organization performa spread sheets | No comments | There is no school infrastructure in such areas so my aim to established schools buildings on community basis that create funds on monthly | Fb/youth SDGs rural sindh | Fb/youth SDGs rural sindh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Michael | Awiti | KUTV | www.kutv.co.ke | Freelnce journalist | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | Am a believer in the power of sustainable development goals and I made a choice to be part of solution .my project is at an idea stage even though I have brought few people together in a campaign dubbed dosomething we only use this to help in making better our slums environment in Nairobi Kenya. | Am Michael Awiti alias Gidote Dangote, born and raised in Nairobis mathare slums in the year 1995.went to Beijing primary school,then later otieno oyoo highschool. Later studied diploma in journalism and media studies at Mahanaimeducational institute . Took an apprentice for 1year at GBS tv .worked for a local radio station and currently running a globe doc's healthcare technology project. And am here today to present the multimiion idea for implementation. | Globe doc's technology | A medical social enterprise with focus on communities around the world. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kenya | No | Research & Development | I have put all the necessary facet together and was looking for funding to start the implementation | 1.leadership and governance. Weak public health leadership and management and limited community participation in health care development. 2.Health workforce Extreme health workers shortage due to inequities in workforce distribution thus compromised quality health care. Medical products. Rampant corruption in medical products procurement system and unreliable supply system .leads to unaffordable prices the products. Etc | We created health management informatiom system, create e-commerce hub for medical supplies and consumables ,medical logistics e-learning and research solutions as well as innovating health uber. | My goal is to get consumers more empowered both in knowledge and purchasing power. I see an opportunity in developing a standard EMR solutions and medical apps to manage hospital data . I aim to streamline the current patient referral protocals and make it more intuitive and helpful. I see an opportunity in developing telemedicine network and a platform to enhance and collapse barriers to doctor patient interaction and improve hospital communication This is different from other health mobile apps that only control frequent visit to the hospital. | This is quite a workload considering am alone ranger ,so having piled alot of required research info am now looking for a willing like mind team to be able to take a first step. | Goals is to make available medical history for goverments to support and plan for it's citizens . Target individuals looking for research work for learning Medical entrepreneurs and many more | First we need funds for developing and maintenance of medicine mobile apps ,few automobile for health uber and like mind exparts for mentorship for good directions. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ad7Ug1UDW2-UNWFZdOUMUbyOB3Skd0z2/view?usp=drivesdk | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5GjrWkBIWLsM0VnVWo3aUNSNGc/view?usp=drivesdk | Nothing yet but so much to come in the near future | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Manu | Prakash | Foldscope Instruments | http://www.foldscope.com | Assistant Professor | Male | United States of America | India | English | Imagine a world where every child has a microscope in their pocket. What might change? Might more students move into the STEM fields? Would they discover something new in the microcosmos? Could they have a better understanding of their own world by knowing what is hidden but powerful? Might a new notion of cleanliness emerge, a way of thinking about scale and life itself? The problem we are addressing is that in the world today over 1 Billion children live in homes where the family income is less than $2.5 a day. Access to education, let alone scientific instruments, is limited to these children. And yet nearly all of these children have pencil and paper. To that list of essentials we would like to add the microscope. We have invented a very low-cost microscope made of paper and a tiny glass lens. The cost to make our microscope is less than $1 and yet the power of this microscope rivals those of instruments found in chemistry classrooms across the developed world - 140x magnification with 2 um resolution. In testing this device we have found the imagination of our testers far exceeded our own in the utility of this device. It is not only extremely inexpensive (a primary goal of ours) but also extremely hardy in tough environments making it an amazingly useful tool to scientists and researchers in the field (and children on the playground!) We would like the world to take up this challenge with us - getting these devices into the hands of every child will take more than a village - it will take a planet. We have already been working to convince governments, school districts, NGOs, states, cities and philanthropic citizens that the need exists and the solution is in our reach. Please help us along this journey. The results could be nothing less than life-changing for the student and history-making for the world. | Manu Prakash is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Stanford University where he runs a curiosity-driven research group in the field of Physical Biology - with goals to elucidate physical design principles in biology at organismic, cellular and molecular scales. A significant effort is spent in designing and building precision tools to probe and perturb biological machines. This approach brings together experimental and theoretical techniques from soft-condensed matter physics, theory of computation and unconventional fabrication to open problems in biology. He is also an inventor at heart and is currently focusing on technological solutions to problems in global health. His inventions include a $1 paper microscope, a $5 chemistry lab, a computer that works by moving water droplets in magnetic fields, and Oscan, a 3-D printed smartphone add-on that aids in the diagnosis of oral cancer. Born in Meerut, India, Prakash earned a BTech in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur before moving to the United States. He did his master’s and PhD at MIT and was a Harvard Fellow before founding the Prakash Lab at Stanford. Professor Prakash has been distinguished as a Frederick E. Terman Fellow (2011-2013), a Pew Scholar (2013-2017), a top innovator under 35 by MIT Technology Review (2014), in the Brilliant 10 by Popular Science (2014), a National Geographic Emerging Explorer (2015), a MacArthur Fellow (2016), an HHMI-Gates Faculty Scholar (2016-2021) and a Chan Zuckerberg Investigator (2016-2021). | Foldscope | Magnifying Curiosity Worldwide | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | All countries. We currently sell our microscope to over 140 countries | Yes | Moore Foundation, Indian Government, Stanford University | Scaling | We are still trying to find the best marketing methods and partnerships to get to sustainability. We are very close but need some infusion of advice/ideas and funds to get to that level. We have distributed and/or sold nearly 1M Foldscopes around the planet, but because the device is so inexpensive, we don't make much on each sale so it will take many more sales on a regular basis to create sustainability. | The need for everyone to have access to scientific tools in order to explore and better understand the world at the microscopic scale. We see a great divergence between the developed and developing world in terms of access to these types of tools and we want to correct that inequity. We believe every child should have access to a microscope much like a pencil. We also believe that with access comes curiosity and interest and will likely promote STEM careers to a new set of children. | We produce the lowest cost microscope possible - but one that is a true scientific tool, not a toy. We believe that by making the device so inexpensive (less than $1 to manufacture, our lowest cost is $1.75 to buy) access will increase exponentially. We are already in partnership with the Government of India to get Foldscopes distributed broadly in that country but we need the same in many more countries. We are currently working in China, Argentina and Russia at the Government level to get the broadest impact we can. We need to continue that across the globe. | This is the first and only scientific microscope that can be made for under $1. This is the main unique quality of the device which makes it accessible to all. The device is made from paper and a small glass bead for a lens. The design borrows from the earliest microscope designed by van Leeuwenhoek. We produce two basic product lines: a Deluxe kit that is affordable to the developed world that includes the basic Foldscope and a number of accessories. Our second line is the basic Foldscope. This allows us to sell 20 Foldscopes for $35 or $1.75 per Foldscope and making it accessible to many more people who would otherwise not have access to such instruments. We hope that by selling the Deluxe kit to those who can afford it, the company can then sell the low-cost kit to those in the developing world. | We started in 2015 out of Stanford University with free distribution of the beta version of the Foldscope. Over 50,000 were distributed to 130+ countries through individual requests. We received very positive feedback and in 2016 founded Foldscope Instruments to produce and sell the microscope. A second version was designed under the auspices of the company and has been sold through our online store, Amazon, purchase orders and through trade shows. In 2019 we will hit 1,000,000 distributed. We have a partnership with the Indian Government to distribute to teachers across India. We are developing similar partnerships in Argentina, Vietnam, China and Russia. | We will continue to explore government partnerships in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Malaysia, Indonesia and others. We would like to be the go-to microscope for all middle school and high school students across the planet. In addition, we hope to explore medical applications for Foldscope and bring additional frugal scientific products into the pipeline from the Prakash Lab at Stanford University (where the Foldscope was invented). At the same time, we continue to build our community of users - microcosmos participants will come from every region, every walk of life, every country and every age. This website contains a huge treasure trove of scientific data. We hope to soon exploit this data to develop organism identification using AI and other computer tools. | In the short term, we see marketing as a high priority and we need some capital infusion to get to the next level so will be doing some fundraising. Medium term we hope to expand our manufacturing to India (currently manufacture in China only). Long term we will continue expanding our manufacturing to locations that optimize distribution and we will execute on new products such as a low-cost centrifuge (in development at Stanford currently), microtome, and other scientific and diagnostic devices. | http://www.foldscope.com/ our primary website http://microcosmos.foldscope.com/ is our community of users - people post their Foldscope findings here and others comment. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/12/21/through-the-looking-glass-annals-of-science-carolyn-kormann https://www.foldscope.com/research is a list of papers by us and others about Foldscope use. | https://youtu.be/ky-cqSI5mwE https://youtu.be/0kga0UitN2E https://www.facebook.com/nasdaily/videos/2260630110884501/ https://youtu.be/BUB3pBC38YE https://t.co/800b5I5mU5?amp=1 | 2014 TR35 MIT Technology Review 2014 NSF Career Award 2015 NIH Directors New Innovator Award 2015 National Geographic Emerging Explorer 2016-2018 HHMI-Gates Fellow 2016 MacArthur Fellow 2016 APS DFD Milton van Dyke Award 2016 Nikon Small World Video Competition 2017 Popular Science/NSF “Vizzies” Experts 2017 WIRED’s Next List 2017 ChanZuckerberg BioHub Investigator 2017 Index Award, Design to Improve Life 2017 Medgadget’s Best Medical Technology 2017 Rolling Stone’s 25 People Shaping the Future | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Axwessoo Siayi | Nicodemus Soko | CSYM HUDUMA- - (Christian Spiritual Youth Ministry) | http://www,csmbtz.co.tz | CEO/COO | Male | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | This is an annual catalytic gathering at United Nations Headquarters in New York during the UN General Assembly high-level week at the end of September. Being motivated as it takes once and it would some place to be heard. Also isa pllace for me to join the exceptional teams already developing their innovative solutions that address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It would also lift up and advances the work I do for my community. | Nicodemus Siayi Soko a Graduate Theologian of the Church of God of Tanzania and a teacher is the Founder of CSYM HUDUMA- Christian Spiritual Youth Ministry and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the organization which is a Community Based Organ for advancement Youth and Indigenous Peoples of and also assist with Land Rights and understanding of working Partnership between indigenous peoples and States: Treaties, agreements and constructive Based Organization located in Manyara Region specifically in Mbulu Sanu Barray Village Office situated at Madunga Hall Sanu Barray. With him the organization have been in operation in the community for over 10 years with a Mission to serve mankind especially in providing the following:Educational,Developmental as well as Health-related services and Spiritual services within the Manyara Administrative 4 Districts in which it supports the welfare of the Barabaig and Hadzabe Girls Education arrangements; as long as the Community is exposed to be; in addition the organization is also delivering of providing essential services, and address stigma as well as discrimination, prevention efforts for Women including PMTCT. With this also he has the required skills to run this NGO’s/CSO which in which to mention few as (TEN/MET/TECDEN/PANITA/PEPFAR-AIDS RELIEF/SAVE THE CHILDREN as well as The UN AGENCIES). | Empowering Girl’s through Education and Improving Women livelihood in the Marginalized Communities | (MWEZESHE MSICHANA) EMPOER A GIRL | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Tanzania | No | Research & Development | This solution is at the stage in which I am working at as the communities I work with is not much aware of what it means tom educate a girl. Women account for roughly half the world's population, perform two-thirds of the hours worked, receive one-tenth of the world's income, and have less than one-hundredth of the world's property registered in their names. Communities I work with need more attention to the matter of Girls education. | The solution is addressing the attitude of many national development frameworks that fail to recognize the value of educating girls; that they may improve their livelihood and stand on their own against discrimination in their lives.Develop capacities and readiness of Girls participants to explore using digital learning and Empowering Girls through Education; that they may Improve their livelihood in the Marginalized Communities(MWEZESHE MSICHANA)mean to support a Girl in the Swahili language | The long term vision for the global impact is strengthening the presence and voice of women in the policy, with the overall goal of developing leadership roles for Community-women at the global level. The solution draws upon the popularity of community Women leaders’ in different areas of the Region and as well as the global level by utilizing a mechanism for delivering the Educational messaging and spreading awareness about Girls Rights to Education as Education is women's rights. | The solution is unique as it is about the education of the girl child, as well as education for the girl child assumes critical importance both from the perspective of women’s empowerment and globalization of education. The uniqueness also is about the; intervention is for strengthened future of the family to have a positive effect and what can be done to improve the family’s perspective to the education and with the attention of the girl marginalized people – including children – at the top of the agenda. But two years since world leaders committed to achieving a clean environment for children – though still far short the SDGs, are we on track to achieve the goals for children? Do we even have enough information to know? Progress for Every Child in the SDG Era assesses the intervention for marginalized girls that is expected to overcome these specific causes of marginalization as well as ensure access and completion of basic education. | We look upon and have a followup to the following. Progress for Every Child in the SDG Era Progress for Every Child in the SDG Era reveals the magnitude – and the urgency – of the challenge: On average, 75-80 per cent of child-relevant indicators in each country either have insufficient data or show insufficient progress to meet global SDG targets by 2030. Despite much progress, a child without an education is still there. Educating girls helps to make communities and societies healthier, wealthier and safer, and can also help to reduce child deaths, improve maternal health and tackle the spread of HIV and AIDS; that would the outcome of expansion and improvement in girls’ education. It also considered evidence on the relationship between expansion and improvement in girls’ education and a deepening of gender equality. | As working through community-based and government-supported models to reach the poorest individuals within the country. First, I decided to work within the poorest communities as part of the study; Empowering Girl’s through Education and Improving Women livelihood in the Marginalized Communities; this the work to be done within the Manyara Administrative 4 Districts-namely; Mbulu, Hanagw, Babati and Simanjiro for the Maasai Girls Education in which I have been aiming for the welfare of the Barabaig and Hadzabe Girls Education advancement. Empowering Girl’s through Education and Improving Women livelihood in the Marginalized Communities(MWEZESHE MSICHANA) and those with the worst educational indicators. Second, I am working with locally-based models of intervention to try and reach those with the most need through Village, Savings and Lending (VSL), Mothers Groups, partnership with Government representatives and religious bodies who serve the most marginalized. The program aims to reach 20000 schoolgirls in around 200 schools in 3 districts. The program's impact includes its influence on 500 School Development Committee members, 9000 mothers of girls who participate in a mothers' group, and 2,000 traditional religious leaders whose involvement will allow for culturally and religiously appropriate approaches. IGATE estimates the number of direct beneficiaries to be 40,000 in the first 3 operating years. | The short term, medium-term and long term needs are:- 1 Awareness on improving the quality and effectiveness of Girls education Girls' Access to Education and developed effective models for working with others in the work in the three years of the Project. 2. Improve societal development and quality of life through family education and social development programs for girls with the means of improving the effectiveness of Health and Family Planning. 3. Improved Mother to Girls awareness of their girls and Sexual status with transparency; relationship developed better. 4. Improving the quality and effectiveness of their educational and social development programs for girls; 5. Developing and testing strategies to engage parents, community leaders, schools, and government officials to support, promote and advocate for girls' education; and 6.Contributing to the development of relevant educational and social policy that is informed and shaped by the needs and realities of girls themselves Empowering Women through Education! | Improving Girls’ livelihood and Empowering them through ... https://www.peacefirst.org/project/improving-girls-livelihood-and-empowering-them-through-education VIDEO- https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1WvamDllUcA651H-NL9rKxJQbuqN8Vw4m&export=download Improving girls livelihood and empowering them through education kelly s. 21 July 2018 2:15 *Updates on 16th June meeting with the villagers at Ayamaami village* On this day we started our project by discussing with members of the community the purpose of what we want to do and here are the things we were able to tell them, introduced what our project is and here are the project agendas. | https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1WvamDllUcA651H-NL9rKxJQbuqN8Vw4m&export=download | NON WITH THIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sheka | Choden | Awaji Youth Federation (Fellowship) | https://awaji-youth-federation.com/ | Fellowship | Female | Japan | Bhutan | English | My name is Sheka Choden. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Development from the College of Natural Resources in Bhutan. Making a difference in people’s lives is the most important element I aspires for, in my future career. I have worked and volunteered with varied organisations in order to gain a wide range of experiences. I have also volunteered with social enterprises like Greener Way, Clean Bhutan and Earth Guardians back in her country. Working as an intern in multicultural organisation like World Food Program, United Nations has made me think creatively and solve problems in new and exciting ways. While in Bhutan I also worked with Mr. T. Sangay Wangchuk, the Managing Director of Etho Metho Tours on his Agro-Tourism pilot project (Dhumra Farm Resort), in Punakha Bhutan. Currently, I am working as a fellow member of Awaji Youth Federation (AYF) in Awaji Japan. AYF is a fellowship program that provide a creative platform so young innovators and designers can come together across cultures, backgrounds and disciplines. My dream is to put into action the knowledge and skills I have acquired so far through her studies, into upgrading the existing climate smart agriculture in my country. I can realise my dream to help the rural communities in Bhutan to achieve sustainable education. I hope to apply effectively my experiences from various activities, in all aspects of work. During my final year in the university i studied on plant called Sympolocos paniculata (pangtse) in Punakha, Bhutan.It can be one of the solution to food security due to its various sustainable use. It is common in the Himalayan region throughout Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, and China at altitudes raniging from 1500-3000 masl. However, the potential of plant to produce oil, the traditional knowledge of its use, its ethnobotany, and the extraction of its oil has not been explored. There is a lack of research and documentation of indigenous knowledge on this plant species. Therefore, the purpose of this project was to document the traditional method of extracting pangtse oil practiced in Yowa village, Kabesa gewog, Punakha, Bhutan. The extraction processes from its initial flowering to harvest and extraction yield have been documented. | My name is Sheka Choden. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Development from the College of Natural Resources in Bhutan. Making a difference in people’s lives is the most important element I aspires for, in my future career. I have worked and volunteered with varied organisations in order to gain a wide range of experiences. I have also volunteered with social enterprises like Greener Way, Clean Bhutan and Earth Guardians back in her country. Working as an intern in multicultural organisation like World Food Program, United Nations has made me think creatively and solve problems in new and exciting ways. Currently, I am working as a fellow member of Awaji Youth Federation (AYF) in Awaji Japan. AYF is a fellowship program that provide a creative platform so young innovators and designers can come together across cultures, backgrounds and disciplines. Using their unique skills and existing specializations, the fellows will find new solutions to global issues through study and collaboration. With this opportunity I am working in projects related to Agriculture to revitalise the Awaji island of Japan that is declining in young people working on farms. My dream is to put into action the knowledge and skills I have acquired so far through her studies, into upgrading the existing climate smart agriculture in my country.I can realise my dream to help the rural communities in Bhutan to achieve sustainable education. I hope to apply effectively my experiences from various activities, in all aspects of work. | Food security solution: Symplocos Paniculata ( Asian Berry), an edible oil extracted by the local people of Bhutan in punakha. | Symplocos is a genus of flowering plant belonging to the symplocaceae family. It is a solution to food security and environmental conservation. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | This is a solution which the local of rural Bhutan of Punakha has been doing it for generations. They have their own traditional method to extract the oil. It is one of the traditional ethno-botanical knowledge on plants and their uses. | No | Research & Development | In my final year of university, i chose this study because of lack of research even among Bhutanese people. Only the few older generations has been practicing this oil extraction and now its extraction has been diminishing due to its tedious work. Therefore, the study seeks to document how pangtse makhu is extracted, a method which is a dying culture. | Extraction of edible oil from symplocos paniculata has been a dying culture in Punakha, Bhutan due to the cheap availability of other edible oils. Growing of this plant along the rice field not only serves as additional food source to the people of Punakha, Bhutan, but it is also found to have ecological uses. S. paniculata can adapt to different temperature zones and varying soil conditions thus solving the forest degradation issues. | Through other studies done in China, it indicated that due to its high unsaturated fatty acids symplocos paniculata has the potentia to bel bioenergy plants. In India natural dyes are also extracted from the plant. A yellow dye is extracted from the bark. According to the Bhutanese it also contains traditional herbal medicine. Therefore, this a multi-solution plant that solves ecological, herbal, and food security issues, if we plant this species. | This oil is traditionally extracted in few parts of Bhutan. locals has few knowledge about it. It is a dying culture and this kind of ethno-botanical knowledge needs to be shared around the world. | Other than doing these small research project by documenting the process in my final year of university. We have not made any progress. Further studies along with experts in plant are needed to study this plant thoroughly. In the future we might be able to study and propagate this plant species and commercially sell the oil to other countries. I call this oil the olive of Bhutan. | The government of Bhutan has supplied oil expeller from India, to recover the production of Pangtse makhu oil and reduce the intensive nature of pangtse makhu production. However, through mystudy , i found out that the purity of the oil is better in the traditional method a because of the use of the tight bamboo basket for pressing the oil. My goal is to help these rural community of Bhutan to develop a machine, that solely works for that seed and reduce their tedious work. I want to be the bridge that connects and finds experts and engineers that can help the farmers of Bhutan. Through this competition, i want to be the youngest youth to help the rural farmers. | Traditional extraction processes have a maximum capacity of about 20 kg per day, and modern powered machinery can double that amount. It’s a labour intensive process which involves three people working one full day from drying to extraction of 2 litres of oil from 20 kgs of pangtse makhu. The traditional practice for extracting Pangtse makhu is found to be labour intensive. The grinding of the pangtse to expelling oil is a tedious, a time consuming, which results in very low yield of extracted oil. Hence, we need to develop a machine or solution that can extract the oil. 1.We also need to find out in the long run, how to grow the plant and meet the consumption of the people. 2. Testing the oils properties and comparing with other edible oils to find its benefits. 3. Pangtse makhu is a non-refined oil it does not have a long shelf life so finding a way to increase it shelf life. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKMtS-p-IuQ | I don't have videos or audio, but i have pictures. | This is my final year project in university. So i have never participated in any competition. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Spyros | Schismenos | School of Social Sciences and Psychology (SSAP), Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI), Western Sydney University (WSU) | https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ssap/ssap/research/humanitarian_and_development_research_initiative | PhD Fellow and Research Member | Male | Australia | Greece | English | We have decided to apply to be part of the UN Solutions Summit because we want share with the people our research project and involve as many communities as possible in this initiative. About our project, Hydropower for Disaster Resilience Applications (HYDRA) aims to investigate low-cost models providing localized hydropower to support remote community socio-economic growth and environmental sustainability, through the development of a pilot product - a portable, do-it-yourself (DIY), easy-to-deploy-and-operate (EDO) micro-hydropower generator that is equipped with flood warning systems designed to operate at the local level. This system could be beneficial for remote communities with limited energy resources and insufficient flood resilience mechanisms. Furthermore, the system could be operated and maintained by end-users without the obligatory participation of professionals. HYDRA is informed by the principles of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction at the community level. The project exists at the nexus of these important agendas – seeking to establish a sustainable energy source that supports local development, as well as an early-warning system that can minimize disaster losses. Moreover, HYDRA presents technologies and methods that currently exist (portable micro-hydropower and localized early-warning) but have not previously been used in an integrated fashion. Lastly, HYDRA prioritizes the needs of riparian communities facing energy insufficiency and limited flood response resources and capabilities. It follows a “local to global” strategy and is suitable for low-income populations. Positive findings can contribute to saving lives during water-based disasters, especially among vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and those with mobility issues. The DIY/EDO concept (similar to an IKEA/LEGO product) provides a notable advantage, since it can be built, dismantled and rebuilt multiple times by end-users with limited expertise or educational background without the obligatory participation of technicians or professionals. Importantly, HYDRA can enhance community-based disaster preparedness, including collaboration between community groups and emergency responders. The suggested product may not satisfy all the energy needs of every community, but it will result in economic, environmental and psycho-social benefits to more remote communities who frequently experience energy inequality. | I am currently a PhD Fellow and Member of Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative (HADRI) at Western Sydney University in Sydney, Australia. Since 2016, I have been offering services to the UNESCO Chair on Conservation and Ecotourism of Riparian and Deltaic Ecosystems (UNESCO Chair Con-E-Ect) as the Focal Point for the Wider Region of Asia and Pacific. I am also an active member of the United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth (UN MGCY) - 5 publications with UN MGCY (3 of them will be published soon). My research focus areas include disaster management, renewable energy, community development, environmental sustainability and humanitarian engineering. Through my research, I aim to promote these fields in a combined manner under the inspiring scheme of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. For more information please check my CV. | Hydropower for Disaster Resilience Applications (HYDRA) | HYDRA is a portable, low-cost, DIY/EDO micro-hydropower generator equipped with flood warning systems designed to operate at the local level | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Greece, Australia, Nepal, Brazil, Guatemala | Yes | UNESCO Chair on Conservation and Ecotourism of Riparian and Deltaic Ecosystems, International Hellenic University (Greece), Galileo University (Guatemela), Municipality of Nova Friburgo (Brazil), communities in Nepal (Nepal), My Safety Approved (USA) | Research & Development | This research initiated recently (31.01.2019). Even though we have published related articles, we secured the required funding in June 2019. The research will be completed in 2021. A documentary and short videos will be developed to show the progress.Social media and a website will keep our followers up to date. | The improvements in disaster management schemes for riparian ecosystems do not reflect the reality of those rural/remote communities in areas where natural hazards abound. Water-based disasters are a serious threat as they can develop rapidly and at different scales. Generalized warning systems are often incapable of accurate, in-time flood predictions, especially at the local level. This, and related challenges, such as energy insufficiency, undermine local socio-economic development. | HYDRA aims to prove whether portable hydropower generators designed for local-level applications and disaster response can: i.accurately detect phases of water-based disasters, ii.warn nearby communities and response authorities prior to flood inundation, and iii.increase the effectiveness of evacuation plans. This can be achieved by generating the minimum energy required to activate warning systems (lights, sirens) and evacuation routes (lights) during the early stages of a flood event. Positive findings could contribute to early-warning system programs and save lives during extreme weather events, especially among vulnerable groups such as the elderly and those with mobility issues. It could also prevent conflict and maintain human dignity (basic quality of life standards) in post-disaster phases. This research could also enhance community-based disaster preparedness, including collaboration between communities and other stakeholders (first responders, authorities, national agencies, NGOs). A long-term key potential benefit lies in the establishment and “daily use” of a localized renewable energy source, its economic and psycho-social effects, and with these acting as a critical vehicle for community-based disaster preparedness via an effective flood response capability. | HYDRA is an innovative research because it uses technologies that currently exist (micro-hydropower and localized early-warning) but not used combined for remote community emergency response and socio-economic development. Even though many researches focus on community challenges and opportunities when establishing the aforementioned technologies, none of them investigates them combined. At this point is should be stated that there are researches which present localized early-warning systems powered by solar or show how can solar contributes in disaster recovery phase. However, these researches are not related to what we suggest since they use a renewable energy source that is not directly connected to the water-based disaster that affects the community. Our goal is to develop a system that is not affected by the flood, continues to operate during the flood disaster, and supports the community in the response process (e.g. powers evacuation lights and/or a shelter). This concept can increase disaster awareness and save lives, especially in remote riparian areas where low-income communities reside. | Even though we have published several articles related to this topic, we have only recently started the prototype design, development and testing. Specifically, about our methodology and data collection schemes as follows: Methodology: In order to obtain comprehensive information suitable for evaluating the feasibility of the study and its uses in vulnerable communities we will focus on 3 different data sources: literature review, prototype testing (lab and field), and end-users evaluation (community and emergency groups participants). Data collection: The data collection is divided to two sections: (i) prototype testing, which includes simulation and modeling, and lab and field testing, and (ii) end-users evaluation which includes “DIY/EDO components” – system assembly/disassembly, “early-warning system” - emergency evacuation drill, and stakeholders’ opinion (community and emergency groups participants). The field testing will take place in Greece. Then it can continue in Nepal or Brazil or Guatemala (subject to data results). | 2019-2020: design, develop and test the HYDRA system (lab testing and community testing in Greece) 2020-2021: optimize the system 2022-2023: test the system in Nepal, Guatemala and/or Brazil/ 2024-...: release it in the market. Major goal is to make the system as low-cost as possible so more vulnerable communities can benefit from it. The system will be DIY/EDO so end-users will limited technical knowledge can assembly it without the obligatory presence of professionals. | short-term: funding (this need has been secured by the partners of the project) medium-term: testing the system in at least 2 flood-prone communities (aiming for one low-income and one high-income community) and promotion of the participant communities long-term: testing the system in multiple communities (mainly low-income communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America) and promotion of the participant communities in order to (i) familiarize the public with the limited capabilities of the participant communities in disaster resilience and (ii) attract more visitors or provide more opportunities so the participant communities can achieve socio-economic growth and improve their well-being. Please note that the more funding and support we have the more communities we can include. | Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Spyros_Schismenos LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spyros-schismenos-55a7a1108/ HADRI: https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/ssap/ssap/research/humanitarian_and_development_research_initiative please note that HYDRA website is under development | We are in the process of making a documentary of HYDRA research. The documentary, as well as other short videos will be released in 2020/2021. | Award, 2019 HDR, Research Training Program Scholarship, Western Sydney University (Awardee: Spyros Schismenos - Topic: Hydropower for Disaster Resilience Applications) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | LUMONA | KIBORE | Social Economic and Governance Promotion Centre | http://www.facebook.com/segpcentre.org/ | Secretary General | Male | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | I am social worker by proffesional holder Advanced Diploma in Community Development and Bachelor Degree in Education.I have been working in NGO sector now for 21 years.My field of exparties include promotion of governance,rule of law,democracy and social cultural human rights.I have attended a number of local and international conferences including Expert Mechanism for the rights of indigeneousl peoples 2015 ,under funding support from UN Voluntary Funds for indigeneous peoples in Geneva. A part of conferences attended i have been working to promote policy issues and assist the Government in policy reforms and National plans formulation.I have been conducted a number of training to empower the citizen on social accountability mornitoring,public expenditure tracking,justice and civil education.Working in collaboration with our network member organizations, i have.been working to promote peace and security in the Great lakes region. I have been used my innovation to share with my network member organizations in the region. | I am social worker holder Advanced diploma in Community Development and Bachelor Degree in Education(B.A Education) | Enhancing freedom of Expression and Improving accountability through promotion of democratic governance and increasing access to justice in Tanzania | The objective of this programme is inclusive development in Tanzania through improved transparency of governance and accountability of the state inst | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | The solution intended to be implemented in Tanzania and to be replicated in East Africa member countries | Yes | National Coalition and Network member organizations i.e SAHRINGON,LHRC,TWLA,TGNP,ESRF and Government | Scaling | Yes the solution is innovative because will increase access to justice, basic legal aid (paralegal or professional) services in particular for women and protect women's rights to land and property, safety and security as well as protect human rights. Secondly ; promote governance, freedom of expression and the rule of law and the need to reform the judiciary into an efficient organisation that can mediate disputes in a transparent and accountable manner. | The solution addressing the problem of Poor governance and abuse of human rights which hinder access to justice for all and ineffective accountability among service providers.The government doesn’t obey rule of law and provide space of freedom of expression.Also the government is not responsible enough to protect the rights of its citizens. People have been abducted and killed and others lost with no investigation. | The solution will work because we have a collaboration with other network member organizations within the Country as well as in the region. We use our network forums to present common issues facing our countries and put a mechanisms intervention on how to tackle and resolve the problem. At Global level we work with international organizations like TAP,ICFG and other UN Organizations.We share Vision and other common ideas. | The solution is very unique because will involve a deserve group working in the area of governance,rule of law, human rights,civic education,gender issues,women rights,policies and social accountability monitoring. Will work in close relation with government,Member of Parliament,councilors,community,religious leaders,NGOs/FBOs,CSOs and traditional leaders.The methodology entails social mobilization ,capacity building training, public meetings,dialogues,consultation,stakeholder,meetings,advocacy strategies. They will be training for policy makers,training for paralegals,training for activists groups,training for religious leaders,training for traditional leaders and training for community members.Also awareness session will be conducted using theater drama,media and road show campaigns. | The solution will be measured using the following indicators :Result 1.1: Improved capacity and coordination in the criminal justice sector. Result 1.2: Changed norms and behaviour based around accountability on improved ethics and transparency. Result 1.3:Effective management information, learning and research produced Result 1.4 Increased protection of women's rights to land and property, safety and security These will be achieved by conducting the following activities: 1.Advocating for Support the implementation of the Legal Aid Act 2017 (e.g. registration of paralegals). 2.Provision of legal aid and Train paralegals throughout the country, preferably female. 4.Organise community empowerment training, conferences and workshops focusing on women/community legal, social, economic and political empowerment using the law. 5.Create or use existing community groups for legal aid services 6.Conduct Legal and human rights awareness raising and educations 7.Train paralegals on property rights of women and on specific approaches for handling women’s rights violations. 8.Coordination and dialogue. | The overall objective of this programme is inclusive development in Tanzania through improved transparency of governance and accountability of the state institutions and private sector. Main goal: Increased access to basic legal aid (paralegal or professional) services in particular for women. Increased protection of women's rights to land and property, safety and security. Formal and informal institutions effectively promote legal aid and protect human rights. Specific objective: One is reduced incentives for corruption through a combination of improved deterrence in the criminal justice system, increased company transparency and governance of professional services, and collective actions that reshape social norms and expectations around corruption. Specific objective: Two is increased protection of citizen’s rights, in particular for women, through legal aid services and legal empowerment. | The resource needed are financial support to a tune of 260,869 USD for two years project implementation plan | http://www.facebook.com/segcentre.org/ or http://www.linkedin.com/lumonakibore | nil | nil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jon | Rathauser | Keheala | https://www.keheala.com/ | CEO & Founder | Male | Israel | United States of America | English | Keheala addresses one of the greatest public health challenges, Tuberculosis, with a simple solution: behavioral nudges delivered across basic feature phones. Our innovative approach was recently selected by the top medical journal in the world, the New England Journal of Medicine for its relevance, effectiveness and appropriateness. I seek to attend the UN Solutions Summit in order to raise awareness for Keheala's work and unlock its potential with more use-cases and in more geographies. Equally importantly, I hope to attend and share our behavioral expertise with others seeking to address some of the greatest challenges, beyond healthcare, in our mutual pursuit of the sustainable development goals. | Jon Rathauser is the CEO & Founder of Keheala. Keheala recently represented Israel in the World Summit Awards, a UN initiative recognizing impactful digital interventions, and took second place out of 220 startups in the AfricaTech Challenge at VivaTech in Paris. Before founding Keheala, Jon worked for Deloitte Analytics helping to address his healthcare clients’ toughest business challenges. Prior to healthcare, Jon pursued his interests in renewable energy, performing solar development, financing and R&D in Toronto and later at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Jon earned his MBA from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and a Bachelors of Science Degree in the Ecological Determinants of Health from McGill University. Jon is a competitive lacrosse player who captained McGill's varsity lacrosse team to their first national championship in school history, and today, he continues to compete with the Israeli National Lacrosse Team, captaining the National Team to a Silver Medal in the 2016 European Championships and a seventh place finish in two World Championships. He also helps to run the Kenya Lacrosse Association which provides growth opportunities through lacrosse for hundreds of boys and girls in one of Nairobi’s largest slums. | Keheala | Saving Lives By Delivering Powerful Behavioral Interventions Across Mobile Phones | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa, India | Yes | USAID, Kenya National TB Programme, Academic Partners at MIT, A large pharmaceutical company and a large telecom operator | Transition to Scale | Today, our largest project supports nearly 20% of Kenya's annual TB population. We have new small-scale projects in different geographies, new products in the works and longer-term plans for new partnerships in new countries. Accordingly, our program is currently being demonstrated at scale with early adoption by next customers underway. To us, this suggests the value of our offerings and appropriateness/adoption of our sustainability and scale model. | 22 million people die each year from tuberculosis, HIV, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which all have effective treatments or cures. A series of non-medical drivers of disease - access to care challenges, burdensome treatment protocols, community stigmas, healthcare systems that lack the resources or behavioral expertise, and a general lack of information, motivation and support - exist outside of health facilities and affect how people perform on treatment. | # Keheala uses behavioral science to guide the design of an intervention so that individuals are maximally motivated to adhere. In the last twenty years, an explosion of research in the social sciences has demonstrated that seemingly small changes in the decision environment, such as a change in the way information is framed, or a change in the default, can result in large changes in behavior. Our team specialize in the use and development of such “nudges”, as they’re often called, particularly for more effectively promoting prosocial behavior. The key elements of our approach are to increase accountability, decrease plausible deniability, and communicate expectations. Specifically, adherence is reframed as a public good, norms are established and observability around an individual’s daily adherence is increased, in an anonymous way, because people are more likely to complete an expected behavior when they know others are watching. To achieve these aims, we utilize a two-way mHealth platform whose key features are daily self-verification, follow-up from live supporters in the event that individuals do not verify after multiple reminders, and occasional normative, motivational messaging. While healthcare providers can access a web-dashboard and certain reminders are sent across SMS, the majority of interactions occur across an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) platform that is accessible from 99% of all phones, including basic feature phones, without download. | #Other 'adherence' solutions enable remote monitoring of patient adherence but are still dependent on the underlying healthcare system to address the drivers of non-adherence. This is often the challenge has healthcare systems frequently lack the resources or the expertise to address the non-medical drivers of disease, which exist outside of the healthcare facility - in the home and in the community. Keheala extends the reach of the healthcare system beyond healthcare workers, into the hands of patients - a healthcare system's greatest resource - to provide them with tools of empowerment that motivate healthcare-seeking behaviors. Keheala actively and independently maximizes an individual's motivation and adherence to treatment by designing every interaction with insights and best practices from the social science. To the best of our knowledge, Keheala is the only mHealth platform that has rigorously demonstrated improved health outcomes in TB or HIV. Keheala offers an effective and cost-conscious alternative grounded in behavioral science and leveraging the proliferation of mobile phones in the developing world. | #In partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Kenyan Ministry of Health and academic partners at MIT, Keheala implemented a 1200 tuberculosis patient randomized controlled trial in Kenya. Patients using the Keheala intervention demonstrated a 68% reduction in the unsuccessful treatment outcomes - death, failed treatment and loss to follow up - compared to the standard of care control group. These results were recently accepted to the New England Journal of Medicine for publication. The company is now treating 20% Kenya's TB population, a new intervention in Zimbabwe for its first customer, UNDP, has been launched, and the approach is now being modified for HIV and diabetes in partnership with a large African telecom. Whenever possible, Keheala implements randomized controlled trials - the Gold Standard for evidence-based research, to validate our approach with a new context or in new geographies in order to proactively assuage potential skeptics. Today, we've addressed a dire immediate challenge, behavior change around healthy behaviors, and we're now leveraging the vast amounts of data we have to solve next-generation challenges: spatially predicting disease and drug-resistant outbreaks for supply chain management; predicting who is likely to succeed or fail treatment, early-on, in order to differentiate-care and optimize resource allocation; and tailoring public health solutions to individuals. | #There are plans in place to move into India and South Africa. We're also moving upstream in the patient care cascade to address pre-treatment screening, pre-treatment loss to follow up and challenges around access to or accuracy of quality diagnostics. Other use-cases we're currently moving into or considering have to do with TB prophylaxis, HIV (ART and PrEP) adherence, vaccination programs, as well as NCDs (diabetes and cardiovascular disease). Around the world, there are 22 million people who unnecessarily die from TB, HIV, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, not to mention many many more who suffer within their treatment protocols. Keheala can save these lives, reduce suffering and expense associated with re-treatments, transmission, the selection of drug-resistant strains and complications due to improper adherence. Looking just at TB care in Kenya where we currently operate at scale, Keheala can save 1,500 lives and over 24 million dollars in wasted spending, annually. | Funders need to hold implementers more accountable to results and cost-effectiveness. Our value proposition offers better health outcomes and cost-savings. However, adoption is slow because Program Managers are not incentivized by their funders to either demonstrate better health outcomes or to save money. In fact, grant-financed organizations actually have an incentive to spend (ineffectively) as they are penalized the following year for any unspent grants. The major development funders are, in theory, held accountable by their tax-payers but these incentives do not get passed down the line. Keheala hopes to work with funders and policy makers on innovative financing mechanisms that overcome some of the misaligned incentives in order to maximize impact and cost-effectiveness. | # https://www.keheala.com/ https://www.dropbox.com/s/iupaoqq54o3yt64/EY_2019_Self-Verification_and_Support_to_Promote_TB_Treatment_Success.docx?dl=1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/1cjwlp59lfmjr1m/EY_2019_SI.pdf?dl=1 | # http://www.tedxcambridge.com/talk/harnessing-reputations-to-inspire-altruism/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fv8U9X8b_W3IIZnuEzzJQTzrqRS17sUc/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0FfDqyeQ5eTZ2xtaldrdGk4SFU/view?usp=sharing | Winner: New England Journal of Medicine Publication Teva Pharmaceutical's RISE Challenge 2017 World Lung Health Conference Abstract Presentation Pears Challenge for Developing World Innovations IsraAID 'Leap Frog Award Finalist: Sanofi's AfricaTech Challenge (2nd out of 220) UN's World Summit Awards (1 of 6 chosen to represent Israel) World Bank's TechEmerge Brazil 8200 Social Program MassChallenge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Collins | Agumagu Collins | YOUNG YOUTH NETWORK FOR GOOD LEADERSHIP IN NIGERIA(YYNGLIN) | www.youngyouthnework.worldpress.com | HIV Awareness,advocacy and Education | male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My motivation is based on Religious Intolerance happening in Nigeria and would love to provide solution that will help my country and the global community in tackling them | I have a B.SC in Accountancy at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology and a member of the Nigeria Institute of Management. I am the Co-founder of the Young Youth Network for Good Leadership in Nigeria and I have organised peacebuilding awareness based programmes in Nigeria. | Engaging Religious Leaders in Nigeria for a Peaceful Religious freedom | This will be done by organising a dialogue meeting between Religious leaders and it followers in Nigeria for a more Religious understanding. | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Nigeria | Yes | West African Working group on Women,Youth,Peace and Security(Nigeria chapter) | Ideation | because is at ideation | Religious Freedom and peaceful co-existence among various faith in Nigeria. | Is through partnership | inter-religious understanding to promote peaceful living | God has been our strength in carrying out this idea. Inter-faith dialogue awareness,outreaches etc. | nil | Technical,funding etc | www.facebook.com/yynglin | nil for noe | nil for now | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Elvis | Kadhama | Pearl Entrepreneurs Academy | https://peauganda.wordpress.com/ | Founder and Executive Director | male | Uganda | Uganda | English | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit. i have used my innovation to create impact in my community through last mile distribution and financing of clean energy products | Elvis Kadhama is aged 26 years old, a Ugandan young social entrepreneur with a diploma in business administration from Uganda College of Commerce Tororo. I am a YALI alumni of year 2018 and a current a finalist at Tony Elumelu Foundation year 2019 awaiting to be awarded a seed capital of $5000 to boost my innovative social business, a finalist at the one young world. I am currently the founder and executive director at Pearl Entrepreneurs Academy (PEA) and spearheading a sustainable renewal energy project and CEO and head of production at Eco-soap organics Uganda. I am a grantee of the pollination project year 2018, grantee of the McGinnity family foundation years 2018 and secured an equity grant from ENVenture enterprises Uganda. | Renewal Energy for Rural Ugandans | ""The development of a low-cost solar lighting solution to disadvantaged households in rural eastern Uganda through a responsible and sustainable last | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Uganda | Yes | Enventure Enterprises Uganda, Grow movement Uganda and Wilmat development foundation | Transition to Scale | : We are currently implementing the solution on the ground and we are gaining strong positive traction from the potential beneficiaries (low income populations). After raising awareness for the past 2 years, we have managed to achieve our short term goals; we are now in the process of scaling so that our long term goals can be achieved. Which is to have an impact protect both the environment and people’s health to help them escape the poverty trap and carbon emissions. | Residents of rural communities use kerosene lamps for lighting their homes and businesses. Kerosene-based lighting is expensive, frequently causes fire outbreaks, emits unhealthy fumes and does not provide sufficient light for businesses to flourish or for school children to do their homework. Furthermore, kerosene emits significant amounts of CO2. The low-income population mostly uses firewood and charcoal on open fires to cook food for the household on a daily basis. | Pearl Entrepreneurs Academy provides last mile distribution and financing of clean energy products to the low-income population in both rural and urban areas that contribute to saving the environment, improving the health of the customer’s family and providing the means to escape the poverty trap. The following products are being offered: •Solar lanterns saving kerosene •Improved cookstoves saving 50% of the wood and charcoal in comparison to an open fire or local cookstove •Ceramics based water filters saving the costs and material for boiling water •Briquettes manufactured from recycled household waste that burn twice as long as charcoal at a similar price per kg Our long term vision is “we recognize renewal energy as a critical enabler for businesses to flourish education and envision countrywide access to clean energy technology for the Uganda’s deprived and under served”. | Pearl Entrepreneurs Academy designed and validated two innovative last mile sales and financing systems for the low income population. PEA uses two business model innovations: an affordable financing option (Group Installment Plan, GIP) and partnerships with Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) to scale distribution amongst the rural population and encourage the shift away from traditional kerosene lamps. Our affordable financing plan will make solar lanterns affordable to households living in rural Uganda. Customers will make an initial small deposit (of 3USD), and then they start making weekly payments of 2USD to spread the total cost over a 4-week period. This has reduced the upfront cash charge to customers by 10 times and based on our market research conducted our products are affordable for [>95%] of rural households we are targeting. We are approaching village savings and loans associations (VSLAs) consisting out of an average of 30 members. 80% of households in Mayuge are assumed to be in at least one VSLA group. These groups meet weekly to collect savings and provide loans to its members. VSLA’s enable PEA to efficiently educate potential customers about our products and provide basis financial literacy training for members to comprehend the savings potential. The customer can purchase the product and pay back in weekly installments not exceeding his or her weekly savings through the product. | As a team our aim is to build a profitable self‐sustaining social enterprise that accomplishes its predefined social goals and stakeholder interests. To scale we need investments from impact institutions that can provide advisory support and value-added knowledge that peal entrepreneurs academy needs. Our project is a social business and by charging an affordable price for each product, we ensure the sustainability of the business model. The strategy to beat our competitors is to provide low cost, high quality products and full customer support which include warranty and direct deliveries. Affordable prices will make our products accessible to a larger population than current solutions and customer support will increase brand loyalty in the market. We want to increase our product portfolio with i.e. solar powered field irrigation systems, household-bio gas plants, large solar system that can power television/ radio as requested by some customers We want to grow to other districts by both opening shops in other towns/ districts and by entering more commission-based partnerships with shops, NGO’s and trading centers operating in and across other districts. | Our major goal is to bringing solar energy to areas where current national grid infrastructure is limited or slows on the horizon particularly off-grid rural and semi-urban areas. We have also set out our implementation roadmap and we plan to start operation of new offices in the ten districts that make up Busoga region. PEA has been able to setup a direct sales network of well-trained 20 Village Savings and Loans Associations with each group consisting of 30 members on average. To-date; PEA has provided 100,000 people living in off grid communities in eastern Uganda access to affordable, clean, safe lighting, improved cooking, safe and clean drinking water by selling 5000 solar lights as an alternative to kerosene lanterns, 2500 improved cook stoves as an alternative to traditional three stone open fire cooking methods and 1500 water filters as an alternative to local pots and canisters. Our products have enabled off-grid households to save $1000 per year that could have been used to buy kerosene fuel for lighting, firewood and charcoal for cooking and medical bills to treat typhoid and other related diseases caused from contaminated drinking water. We also have a future target of replicating the idea around the country mainly in other rural areas were most people are of grid and lacking knowledge and skills found mostly in urban areas. Will go across borders in other countries were most low income population are lacking access to quality renewal energy products. | 1.Human Resource and Training 2. Office and Furniture 3. ICT Devices e.g. Desktop Computers, Laptops, Printer, Copiers, a Camera, 4. Project Vehicles to access local communities by transporting the products 5. Working Grants: salary, office supplies, media and publicity 6. Citizen and Community Engagements e.g. radio programs and campus tours (to raise consciousness among low income population). 6. Funds for Research and Development | https://peauganda.wordpress.com/ | https://youtu.be/HtrY22-dxeM https://medium.com/@eriklwer/my-reality-of-selling-clean-energy-products-in-the-last-mile-to-the-bottom-of-the-pyramid-41d11dc9a52d | YALI regional leadership center Nairobi alumni, Tony elumelu foundation finalist, one young world finalist, grantee of the pollination project, grantee of the MCginnity family foundation and ENVenture enterprises | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | danilo | piaggesi | Knowledge for Development (K4D) | www.k4d.org | Managing Director | male | Italy | Italy | English | French | Spanish | Recognized leading global development manager with expertise in international development, nonprofit, government and corporate sectors, focused on achieving faster and more inclusive economic growth, with more than 35 years of experience managing large development projects, impact investments, fundraising and technical cooperation funds focused on creating measurable social change. Particularly Mr. Piaggesi’s skills focus on information and communication technology (ICT), innovation, knowledge and advocacy strategies in support of poverty reduction, education, social inclusion and the achievement of the SDGs. | Mr. Piaggesi range of experience involves progressively more complex functions: project work for the development sector (United Nations FAO, 1981-1991); business development for the private sector (Telecom Italia/Telespazio, 1991-1998); program evaluation (European Union, 1997-1998); projects and policy development, strategic advice, thematic funds creation, fundraising, impact investments and brokerage of high profile institutional and sector agreements (Inter-American Development Bank, 1998-2011); management and fundraising in the non-profit sector (Knowledge for Development-K4D, 2011 to present). Has well developed diplomatic negotiation and communication skills and a strong international background, having lived and worked in the field in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA. | MONITORING PROGRESS IN DEPLOYMENT OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT UN SDG 17 | knowledge for development | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | My solution is intended to support the UN in the achievement of SDG 17, worldwide | Yes | the UN | Ideation | K4D follows closely the workings of the UN Open Working Group for the development of Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on Goal 17 “Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development”. K4D considers progress in achieving SDG the greatest and most significant challenge the world must pursue, and thus is committed to supporting such processes in any way and by any means it can. | K4D proposes to work on behalf of the UN to monitor progress in the implementation of SDG17 in the area of “technology” and its applications to further development objectives, and to report on world-wide achievements towards the fulfillment of agreed targets. | K4D proposes to undertake the following activities and timeframe: 1.Linkage to UN Open Working Group for the development of Sustainable Development Goals a.Meeting with OWG members, on the occasion of ECOSOC assembly. Theme: presentation of project; establishment of liaison. 2.Development of open platform a.Conceptual design and organizational platform b.Technical web-based design c.Pilot testing d.Dissemination campaigns e.Registration of user organizations/individuals f.Full-fledged operation 3.Consultation to establish baseline a.Design of baseline data matrix b.Requests for data from sector governmental organizations, specialized agencies, individual organizations c.Data collection of public sources d.Promotion of use of Open Platform to collect data from users e.Meeting with Technology Bank and Science, Technology and Innovation Supporting Mechanism Chair. f.Report on baseline. 4.Operation of open platform and data-bases a.Design of output formats for open data-bases b.Collection of data on projects, activities, results c.Generation of outputs from open data formats 5.Generation of output reports a.First report b.Bi-annual reports 6.Dissemination events a.Presentation of results in ECOSOC meetings, others as required | The solution is unique because it involves the UN system as a partner | We are at the initial stage yet | Sustainable Development Goals are accompanied by targets and will be further elaborated through indicators focused on measurable outcomes. For SDG 17, the following targets will be the focus of K4D monitoring: Technology | N.A. | www.k4d.org | N.A. | see web-site | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Diane | Pruneau | Université de Moncton | www8.umoncton.ca/littoral-vie | professor | Woman | Canada | Canada | English | French | In our research team, we use design thinking with community people and university students in order to accompany them while they look for sustainable solutions to environmental problems: climate change, plastics in sea water, water quality in cities, greening the university campus, etc. We have experience in helping people to find original and applicable solutions. I would like to attend the Summit to see what solutions other people create and I would be pleased to share our trials with design thinking in Morocco and Canada. | Doctor Diane Pruneau is Professor at the Université de Moncton, specialized in environmental education and science teaching. She is the Director of the Littoral et vie research group, that conducts various research projects and pedagogical interventions in environmental education. The research group’s objective is to educate adults and young people to environmental subjects to help them become aware of the state of their environment and to create and accomplish environmental actions. Dr Pruneau’s research programs have focused on people's relationships with their environment, education for sustainable cities, climate change education, environmental skills development, and the use of design thinking in environment. | Making compost and jewelry to adapt to climate change | Helped with design thinking and Facebook, Moroccan women adapted to floods with a waste recovery cooperative, whose products are jewelry and compost. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Morocco | Yes | École Nationale Forestière d'Ingénieurs (Rabat), Centre de recherche et de développement international (Canada) | Scaling | In October 2017, a first exhibition of jewelry of the cooperative was organized in Rabat. The Regional Directorate of the Environment of the Marrakech-Safi region installed in women's houses a fast composter to help the cooperative to accelerate its production. In November 2017, the women took charge of their cooperative and registered by themselves at a local fair in Marrakech. | In the past, women stored food in the event of road closures because of the floods. They put plastic on the roof of their house to prevent water from seeping in. Some took refuge in the mountains. The floods caused drinking water problems as they destroyed the village water supply pipes. Condemned to consume the contaminated water of the wadi, the women filled plastic containers and waited for the suspended matter to settle to the bottom. This water made their families sick. | The lived experience has changed the way women manage drinking water and their garbage and those of their neighbors. They have carried out proactive and reactive adaptation measures to flood: better choose their water sources, better filter water, use an alarm system to warn other women of the emergence of a flood and reduce or recover solid waste transported by floods (to make compost and jewelry). They also have other adaptation ideas that they want to achieve: building water storage structures, treating well water with adequate amounts of chlorine, making neighbors aware of not throwing waste into the river, build solid pipelines, build wells away from the river and floodplains and filter the water before it arrives at the tap. The project has ecological, social and economic impacts in Ourika. The use of compost, hitherto unknown in this region, is likely to improve the quality of sandy soils. The recovery of garbage (leftovers of food and plastic bottles) will improve the quality of the water of the wadi and the beauty of the landscapes, an important element for tourist attendance. The creation of the women's cooperative will provide women with economic resources and financial independence. Because we initiated them to Facebook and the Internet, the project also contributes to the digital literacy of women and their families. | Design thinking, electronic tablets and Facebook were chosen as teaching aids to accompany the women with little schooling in the resolution of problems caused by the floods. Design thinking is a new collaborative way of working during which user needs analysis, abduction and rapid prototyping are put forward. Interventions with women took place over three years. Design thinking dictated the content of the workshops while electronic tablets and Facebook served as collaborative tools when women were at a distance. With videos and photos, the women shared their flood experience on Facebook and, with the help of the facilitators, resolved two sub-problems of the floods: drinking water and waste. These issues were co-defined in depth, with the facilitators regularly asking women questions to identify all aspects of these problems. In workshops and on Facebook, solutions to clean water and reduce local waste were proposed and prototyped. Water filters were built and shared on Facebook. The women conducted a domestic composting experiment to see if this activity was feasible to reduce local waste. They also created, shared and evaluated prototypes of jewelry made with discarded plastic bottles in their environment. The women started a women's cooperative specialized in waste recovery, whose products are jewelery and compost. The use of design thinking and with a technological tool (Facebook) is quite new for finding adaptations to climate change. | An analysis of the solutions proposed by women showed that the approach taken (design thinking + Facebook) has allowed women to collaborate for a broader definition of the water quality. The solutions proposed by women were considered varied, feasible and effective. Tablets and Facebook have proven easy to use by poorly educated people. Facebook has enabled the creation of a tight social network. Participants improved their awareness of the impacts of floods and waste. Their technological, environmental and geographic knowledge has grown, as have their problem-solving and communication skills. Their personality has evolved from an unscrupulous attitude to some confidence to improve their financial situation. Participating women have improved many of their capacities, including better management of their drinking water and household waste, responding to floods, using ICTs and conducting economic activities. They have also developed manual skills: knitting, composting, making jewelry and other items with recycled waste. They shared their environmental and technological learning in their respective communities. Their children used their tablets or helped them understand our Facebook posts.Thanks to our regular interventions (often daily), we believe that information about floods and the local environment has spread in their communities. Women finally say they have changed their attitudes to their future: many of them dream of going to school, getting a job and even a husband. | We are currently using design thinking and other technological tools (RealTime Board, Tinkercad, Knowledge Forum) with students in Canadian Universities for helping them to propose new solutions to local environmental problems. The problems actually addressed are arsenic pollution in a river, contamination of the drinking water in a city and greening a campus. While we make projects with the students, our research team study the strenght and limits of design thinking and of ICT for helping people to solve local problems. We are beginning a new project in Morocco: trying to diminish the quantity of plastic waste that goes in the Mediterranaen ocean. We want to continue our research with new environmental problems. We also want to train Canadian and Moroccan teachers to use design thinking and ICT with their students. We have written a pedagogical guide on design thinking and on the use of ICT in environmental problem solving. This guide will be distributed to teachers and future teachers in Canada and Morocco. | Short-term: money for printing the pedagogical guide and distributing it to the teachers and professors, money for helping the Moroccan women manage their cooperative (we want to develop their management skills) Medium-term: money for conducting our new project on plastics in Morocco (travel, material). Long-term: contact with people interested to experiment design thinking and ICT on environmental problems in other countries. | See: http://lensconference3.org/index.php/program/presentations/itemlist/search?searchword=Pruneau&x=0&y=0&categories=2&format=html&t=1563913320201&tpl=search&Itemid=144 | See the video at: http://www.gire-pse.com/index.html | We were finalists at the Momentum for Change competition in 2018. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Naumana | Niazi | 22FOUR | www.22four.com | Director | Female | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | I am an entrepreneur and very enthusiastic to be part of UN Solutions Summit. We are here at Pakistan, working on very influential technology solutions, which can certainly brings lot of potential and collaborations for global community. I seek opportunity to present our solution with highly motivated approach. We worked in the recent past with some of UK based ventures and the main mission was to connect developed markets with emerging markets in the best interest of business support, community support and knowledge sharing. | I would like to introduce our company (22FOUR International Private Limited) that has been in business; offering application development, software solutions and digital services for the past 3 years as a private limited company under SECP Pakistan. We basically exist as Digital services provider, who provides effective technology product, commercial software solutions and digital consultancy to various businesses. 22FOUR collaborates with many startups as key technology partner. We are committed enabling businesses and brands with technology acceleration to leave a permanent impression on web, digital and mobile platforms. 22FOUR is services integrator that helps clients to capitalize on the latest technologies to boost their competitive advantage. With a rare combination of deep technical expertise and business acumen, 22four collaborates with you to solve your most critical business challenges, offering a full range of services including application development, enterprise mobility, data intelligence, business acceleration and many more. We at 22FOUR invent technology solutions for mass market and few renowned verticals tapped so far are; • Health Tech • Tech in Real-estate • Ride Hailing • Fin Tech • IOT • On Demand Marketplace • Ecommerce We established our repute to develop and produce innovative solutions, which disrupts markets. We carry a portfolio of numerous happy customers across global. | ArzePak | 1- Let's get you home 2- Bringing what belong to you | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Pakistan, Middle East, South Asia, Bangladesh, Srilanka | Yes | Enem Estate, Alnafay IT Solutions, 22FOUR INTL, CresVentures. | Proof of Concept | Basically we developed MVP and solution is under testing with a focussed closed group of targeted market. However we have many MOU signed to take solution on scalability once we gain validation of MVP. | Our aim of existence is to uberize the real estate experience. We want to do that by providing real estate solutions of all sorts to people while keeping all the information at our portal entirely credible. Every word written on our portal would be error free and correct. | We have 2 value proposition that set us apart: •Our information and services are entirely credible •We are a one stop real estate solution as we provide every service that one needs during a real estate experience | Arzepak is the only brand that is offering Credible, 360 Degrees real estate solution because we have the ultimate balance of a real estate experienced team supported by a high tech innovative product that would rely on AI to keep us a notch above the rest. | We have developed MVP in 6 months timeframe and it can be validated with actual product exist. However 18 month journey of product development is still on the way. We follow agile approach and very much independent to allowing every individual to come up with best creativity. Slack, JIRA are the project tools to tasks and monitor across teams. | 2019 Q1- MVP Development Q2- Testing and Improvements Q3- Market test within Pakistan Q4- Market launch & Scalability both for sales and product features 2020 Q1- New distinct features launched in Pakistan Q2- Setting up Operations teams to launch 7 cities of Pakistan Q3- Setting up Operations team to start Operations in Dubai, Bangladesh Q4 - 200 Engineers, 300 Sales person, A 360 real estate solution | Long term needs- A state of the art technology team which can work on AI, automation and data mining Medium term- A competitive sales and marketing skilled force with capacity to handle 360 marketing and expansions altogether Short term- Data and testable inventory and real estate projects | https://beta.arzepak.com/ Product Demo: https://www.facebook.com/Arzepakofficial/videos/736765703446020/ | https://www.facebook.com/Arzepakofficial/videos/736765703446020/ | We are just getting ready to appear in competitions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kamal | Faridi | 22FOUR | www.22four.com | Director/CEO | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | In my work as Founder of 22 Four, I focus on providing comprehensive digital marketing strategy and execution services to small businesses in a variety of industries ranging. I feel very confident to explore collaborative possibilities to benefit communities through my participation in the event. | At my core, I’m a hybrid technology strategist, marketing guru and creative problem solver with a can do attitude. I’ve always loved the opportunity to roll up my sleeves and get to work solving complex business and marketing problems. In my career, I’ve amassed significant experience building and managing corporate brand campaigns and demonstrating positive ROI for various products across different industries including healthcare, technology, internet, social media and international policy. Through this diversified experience I’ve gained first hand facility with the best practices needed in every situation. As a result, I possess the depth of experience and diverse toolkit needed to confidently lead effective teams. In 15+ years, I’ve become intimately acquainted with all the challenges and immense opportunities that accompany digital marketing. Due to my efforts executing sales, marketing, social media and business development campaigns, I’ve been able to both launch and successfully scale a number of businesses in Pakistan and North America. Creating successful digital marketing companies is fun for me because it incorporates equal parts strategic positioning and disciplined execution combined with creative problem solving and outside-the-box concept development. Having mastered this unique blend of skills, I’m able to confidently deploy a host of different tools to scale businesses at different stages of maturity. | ArzePak | 1- Let's get you home 2- Bringing what belong to you | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Pakistan, Middle East, South Asia, Bangladesh, Srilanka | Yes | Enem Estate, Alnafay IT Solutions, 22FOUR INTL | Proof of Concept | We are disrupting via bringing untapped features which will solve many problems of real estate vertical. | We are going to offer 360 solution for real estate with lot of innovation for AI and automation. | We connect emerging markets with developed markets to bring better visible investable opportunities. | AI, AR & VR as new inclusion in technology. Also data intelligence to help predictive analysis. | MVP is developed. Agile is method to task and monitor teams. | Uberising real estate market along with global connectivity. Minimum 3 countries to be targeted in next 2 years. | Technology Experts. Sales Experts. | https://beta.arzepak.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/Arzepakofficial/?epa=SEARCH_BOX | Not appeared in any competition for ArzePak. However 22FOUR has won numerous awards in the Past. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Somtochukwu | Ugwu | Society for the Improvement of Rural People (SIRP) | https://www.sirpnigeria.org | Gender Head | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am one youth that is committed to serving humanity and one way in which I am currently doing this is through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs provide solutions to the various challenges facing humanity. I believe that together we will definitely achieve the SDGs by 2030. From the foregoing therefore, I recently came up with an innovative idea called Unskilled to Skilled (U2S), which caters for every unskilled and unemployed youth in Nigeria. Currently in Nigeria, 16 million youth are unemployed and this figure according to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistic (NBS) accounts for 23.1% of the youth population in Nigeria. This has led to an increase in the rate of youth restiveness and involvement in crime in Nigeria. U2S exists to tackle the foregoing issues. My motivation therefore for applying to attend this summit is to first of all share this innovative idea with the rest of the world. The UN solutions summit provides me with a platform for this. This summit also offers me with an opportunity to connect with other global innovators. I believe so much in partnerships and collaborations. A popular adage says “If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together”. This is the power of partnerships. Finally, I intend to take back whatever I must have learnt from this summit to my host community. Workshops and the social media will be particularly useful for such dissemination. | My name is Barrister Ugwu Somtochukwu I am a lawyer by profession. I am currently serving as the Gender Head/ Partnerships Officer of Society for the Improvement of Rural People (SIRP). SIRP is an NGO based in Nigeria, which is committed to addressing the various challenges facing various vulnerable groups in Nigeria. I am also the team leader of Unskilled to Skilled (U2S), which is a Youth Economic Empowerment (YEE) platform that is committed to reducing the youth unemployment rate here in Nigeria, which currently stands at 23.1%. I have gotten and won so many recognitions and awards for my work. Notable amongst them is the Unleash Talent Award 2019 and also being recognized as a global ambassador by RockFlower (US). I am also a member of some of these global coalitions that are committed to addressing various issues affecting youth and women i.e. The One Campaign, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Global Legal Empowerment Network and Men Engage Nigeria etc. I am passionate about promoting youth and women empowerment. Links: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/somto_ugwu Blog: https://www.sommyhills1592.blogspot.com | Unskilled to Skilled (U2S) | U2S is an innovative YEE platform that exists to further reduce the youth unemployment rate in Nigeria, which currently stands at 23.1%. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Nigeria | Yes | Enugu State Government, CubosWorld, RockFlower (US) and Rose academies (US) | Proof of Concept | U2S is at the stage of proof of concept. This is because we have tried it out albeit in a small scale and found out that it is a successful YEE model. In 2018, we raised 12,000 USD to implement a YEE project in Akwuke community of Enugu State, Nigeria. Every 120 USD donated ensured a year's training for 1 youth in the community. This total donation helped put 100 youth into the labour market in Nigeria, where they are currently thriving. | Currently 16 million youth are unemployed in Nigeria and this figure according to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistic (NBS) amounts to 23.1% of the youth population. This foregoing situation has translated into an increase in incidences of youth restiveness and involvement in crime. Many youth who have seen there is no way out of this situation, have resorted into a life of kidnapping, stealing, robbery, internet fraud, etc just to make ends meet. This is the problem U2S exists to solve. | Our proposed solution is pretty simple. U2S exists to use employment as a tool to reducing the high rate of youth restiveness and involvement in crime here in Nigeria. U2S uses an innovative YEE model in achieving this. At U2S, we are not just interested in training various unskilled and unemployed youth on various skills as other YEE models do. But we are also interested in ensuring that they find a place where they can put their skills to work, thereby leading to their financial independence. We achieve this by pairing up our trained beneficiaries with already established businesses here in Nigeria. At U2S, we define YEE as a process by which youth gain the ability not just to make decisions for themselves, but also for others around them. The foregoing definition has been guiding our activities here in Nigeria. We are currently seeing various youth who are now staying away from a life of crime simply because they are now gainfully employed. Our long term vision for global impact is to both grow U2S replicability and scalability wise. In the long term, we expect this model to be replicated in other countries of the World. We also expect to have grown in terms of beneficiaries. We intend in the long term to reach more than 20,000 unskilled and unemployed youth both in Nigeria and outside Nigeria. We also intend to register onto our platform more than 10,000 established entrepreneurs. | Currently in Nigeria, there are so many YEE models targeted at further reducing the rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria. Worthy of note is Industrial Training Fund (ITF) what they do is that they train various unemployed and unskilled youth in Nigeria on various vocational skills. Then at the end of the day, the trained beneficiaries are given sets of equipment in their trained fields to use to start up their own businesses. The challenge with the foregoing model is this. It has been discovered and sadly enough that when these beneficiaries are given these equipments that they usually sell it and use the money for something else, thereby eroding the great reasoning behind it. U2S is totally and clearly different from the foregoing YEE model as we carefully choose our beneficiaries. Our requirements are pretty simple you must be unskilled, unemployed, committed and willing to learn. Our beneficiaries are then trained on skills that they are passionate about. And which they will be willing to go into. At the end of the program, we then pair our trained beneficiaries with entrepreneurs already working and registered with us. This model has indeed proved efficient and effective over time. | U2S has so far gone beyond both the ideation and the research and development stage what we are in now is at the proof of concept stage. We are at the stage, where we intend to upscale our work to reach not just hundreds of various unskilled and unemployed youth, but thousands if not millions. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is one key area of U2S work here in Nigeria. We strongly believe that if a project will not be effectively monitored and evaluated then there is no need to start such a project in the first place. In the foregoing regard, U2S uses basically two evaluation tools which have proven overtime to be most useful. This two evaluation tools are pre/post surveys which are normally given to our beneficiaries on a quarterly basis. Also, we use interviews to assess the impact of our program on beneficiaries. We conduct series of interviews with them to know what needs to be done to make the project better. So the foregoing two evaluation tools are what we use here at U2S. This activity is usually carried out by our M&E Officer Mrs Nnedi Nworah. | •To establish a large vocational centre here in Nigeria, where various unskilled and unemployed youth in Nigeria can be trained on various skills of their choice like baking, tailoring, hair-dressing, bag making, shoe making, coding etc by the end of 2020. •To recruit more members who will act as paid staff members, volunteers, trainers for U2S. We intend by the end of 2020 to have recruited more than 100 members. •To make sure that U2S is a YEE model, which is not only used in Nigeria, but also in more than 50 other countries of the world. We will be majorly targeting countries in the global south, where issues of youth unemployment are much predominant. We intend to achieve this by the end of 2022. •12,000 USD was raised in 2018 by U2S. This amount was used for the training of 100 unemployed youth (ages 18-30 years) in Akwuke community of Enugu State on various vocational skills. The cost of training one youth for a year in Nigeria is presently put at 120 USD. With additional funding and support, we intend by 2024 to reach more than 10,000 unskilled and unemployed youth. •In 2018, U2S partnered with 50 established entrepreneurs here in Nigeria. We intend to bring in more than 5000 established entrepreneurs into this platform, by the end of 2024. | •Short-term needs: Our short-term needs are actually with regards to improving our capacities with regards to this project. Knowledge they say is power. So we would love to be involved in so many capacity building workshops and sessions. Also, we need in the short-term an increase in our visibility. We intend to partner with various media organizations in this regard. We strongly believe in the power inherent in promotion. If a project is not adequately promoted then it is not known. In the short-term, we also need to build strong networks with other like-minded organizations, donors etc. We strongly believe in partnerships. A popular adage says “if you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together”. •Medium-term needs: This will require a whole lot of funding because in the medium-term, we intend to establish a huge vocational centre here in Nigeria. Also, we intend to use these funds to pay the training fees of this youth in Nigeria. These funds will also go into the payment of staff salaries and other contingencies. •Long-term needs: Our long-term needs have to do with the sustainability of this solution. This is why going forward we intend to do two things. Firstly, we intend to start up a for-profit business. The profit gotten from this business will go directly into financing this initiative. Also, we intend with the agreement of our beneficiaries mandate them to pay a stipend monthly for the financial sustainability of this initiative. | Website: https://www.u2s.org.ng/wp Blog: https://www.sommyhills1592.blogspot.com | Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyM7mNsZnGA | •In 2018, U2S was nominated in the best project category in the Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Award jointly organized by the Goi Peace Foundation and the Stiftung Entrepreneurship Foundation. This has resulted in U2S gaining global recognition among various renowned individuals and organizations alike. A prominent example is Helen Clark (The former Prime Minister of New Zealand). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Somtochukwu | Ugwu | Society for the Improvement of Rural People (SIRP) | https://www.sirpnigeria.org | Gender Head | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am one youth that is committed to serving humanity and one way in which I am currently doing this is through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs provide solutions to the various challenges facing humanity. I believe that together we will definitely achieve the SDGs by 2030. From the foregoing therefore, I recently came up with an innovative idea called Unskilled to Skilled (U2S), which caters for every unskilled and unemployed youth in Nigeria. Currently in Nigeria, 16 million youth are unemployed and this figure according to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistic (NBS) accounts for 23.1% of the youth population in Nigeria. This has led to an increase in the rate of youth restiveness and involvement in crime in Nigeria. U2S exists to tackle the foregoing issues. My motivation therefore for applying to attend this summit is to first of all share this innovative idea with the rest of the world. The UN solutions summit provides me with a platform for this. This summit also offers me with an opportunity to connect with other global innovators. I believe so much in partnerships and collaborations. A popular adage says “If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together”. This is the power of partnerships. Finally, I intend to take back whatever I must have learnt from this summit to my host community. Workshops and the social media will be particularly useful for such dissemination. | My name is Barrister Ugwu Somtochukwu I am a lawyer by profession. I am currently serving as the Gender Head/ Partnerships Officer of Society for the Improvement of Rural People (SIRP). SIRP is an NGO based in Nigeria, which is committed to addressing the various challenges facing various vulnerable groups in Nigeria. I am also the team leader of Unskilled to Skilled (U2S), which is a Youth Economic Empowerment (YEE) platform that is committed to reducing the youth unemployment rate here in Nigeria, which currently stands at 23.1%. I have gotten and won so many recognitions and awards for my work. Notable amongst them is the Unleash Talent Award 2019 and also being recognized as a global ambassador by RockFlower (US). I am also a member of some of these global coalitions that are committed to addressing various issues affecting youth and women i.e. The One Campaign, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), Global Legal Empowerment Network and Men Engage Nigeria etc. I am passionate about promoting youth and women empowerment. Links: Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/somto_ugwu Blog: https://www.sommyhills1592.blogspot.com | Unskilled to Skilled (U2S) | U2S is an innovative YEE platform that exists to further reduce the youth unemployment rate in Nigeria, which currently stands at 23.1%. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Nigeria | Yes | Enugu State Government, CubosWorld, RockFlower (US) and Rose academies (US) | Proof of Concept | U2S is at the stage of proof of concept. This is because we have tried it out albeit in a small scale and found out that it is a successful YEE model. In 2018, we raised 12,000 USD to implement a YEE project in Akwuke community of Enugu State, Nigeria. Every 120 USD donated ensured a year's training for 1 youth in the community. This total donation helped put 100 youth into the labour market in Nigeria, where they are currently thriving. | Currently 16 million youth are unemployed in Nigeria and this figure according to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistic (NBS) amounts to 23.1% of the youth population. This foregoing situation has translated into an increase in incidences of youth restiveness and involvement in crime. Many youth who have seen there is no way out of this situation, have resorted into a life of kidnapping, stealing, robbery, internet fraud, etc just to make ends meet. This is the problem U2S exists to solve. | Our proposed solution is pretty simple. U2S exists to use employment as a tool to reducing the high rate of youth restiveness and involvement in crime here in Nigeria. U2S uses an innovative YEE model in achieving this. At U2S, we are not just interested in training various unskilled and unemployed youth on various skills as other YEE models do. But we are also interested in ensuring that they find a place where they can put their skills to work, thereby leading to their financial independence. We achieve this by pairing up our trained beneficiaries with already established businesses here in Nigeria. At U2S, we define YEE as a process by which youth gain the ability not just to make decisions for themselves, but also for others around them. The foregoing definition has been guiding our activities here in Nigeria. We are currently seeing various youth who are now staying away from a life of crime simply because they are now gainfully employed. Our long term vision for global impact is to both grow U2S replicability and scalability wise. In the long term, we expect this model to be replicated in other countries of the World. We also expect to have grown in terms of beneficiaries. We intend in the long term to reach more than 20,000 unskilled and unemployed youth both in Nigeria and outside Nigeria. We also intend to register onto our platform more than 10,000 established entrepreneurs. | Currently in Nigeria, there are so many YEE models targeted at further reducing the rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria. Worthy of note is Industrial Training Fund (ITF) what they do is that they train various unemployed and unskilled youth in Nigeria on various vocational skills. Then at the end of the day, the trained beneficiaries are given sets of equipment in their trained fields to use to start up their own businesses. The challenge with the foregoing model is this. It has been discovered and sadly enough that when these beneficiaries are given these equipments that they usually sell it and use the money for something else, thereby eroding the great reasoning behind it. U2S is totally and clearly different from the foregoing YEE model as we carefully choose our beneficiaries. Our requirements are pretty simple you must be unskilled, unemployed, committed and willing to learn. Our beneficiaries are then trained on skills that they are passionate about. And which they will be willing to go into. At the end of the program, we then pair our trained beneficiaries with entrepreneurs already working and registered with us. This model has indeed proved efficient and effective over time. | U2S has so far gone beyond both the ideation and the research and development stage what we are in now is at the proof of concept stage. We are at the stage, where we intend to upscale our work to reach not just hundreds of various unskilled and unemployed youth, but thousands if not millions. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) is one key area of U2S work here in Nigeria. We strongly believe that if a project will not be effectively monitored and evaluated then there is no need to start such a project in the first place. In the foregoing regard, U2S uses basically two evaluation tools which have proven overtime to be most useful. This two evaluation tools are pre/post surveys which are normally given to our beneficiaries on a quarterly basis. Also, we use interviews to assess the impact of our program on beneficiaries. We conduct series of interviews with them to know what needs to be done to make the project better. So the foregoing two evaluation tools are what we use here at U2S. This activity is usually carried out by our M&E Officer Mrs Nnedi Nworah. | •To establish a large vocational centre here in Nigeria, where various unskilled and unemployed youth in Nigeria can be trained on various skills of their choice like baking, tailoring, hair-dressing, bag making, shoe making, coding etc by the end of 2020. •To recruit more members who will act as paid staff members, volunteers, trainers for U2S. We intend by the end of 2020 to have recruited more than 100 members. •To make sure that U2S is a YEE model, which is not only used in Nigeria, but also in more than 50 other countries of the world. We will be majorly targeting countries in the global south, where issues of youth unemployment are much predominant. We intend to achieve this by the end of 2022. •12,000 USD was raised in 2018 by U2S. This amount was used for the training of 100 unemployed youth (ages 18-30 years) in Akwuke community of Enugu State on various vocational skills. The cost of training one youth for a year in Nigeria is presently put at 120 USD. With additional funding and support, we intend by 2024 to reach more than 10,000 unskilled and unemployed youth. •In 2018, U2S partnered with 50 established entrepreneurs here in Nigeria. We intend to bring in more than 5000 established entrepreneurs into this platform, by the end of 2024. | •Short-term needs: Our short-term needs are actually with regards to improving our capacities with regards to this project. Knowledge they say is power. So we would love to be involved in so many capacity building workshops and sessions. Also, we need in the short-term an increase in our visibility. We intend to partner with various media organizations in this regard. We strongly believe in the power inherent in promotion. If a project is not adequately promoted then it is not known. In the short-term, we also need to build strong networks with other like-minded organizations, donors etc. We strongly believe in partnerships. A popular adage says “if you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go together”. •Medium-term needs: This will require a whole lot of funding because in the medium-term, we intend to establish a huge vocational centre here in Nigeria. Also, we intend to use these funds to pay the training fees of this youth in Nigeria. These funds will also go into the payment of staff salaries and other contingencies. •Long-term needs: Our long-term needs have to do with the sustainability of this solution. This is why going forward we intend to do two things. Firstly, we intend to start up a for-profit business. The profit gotten from this business will go directly into financing this initiative. Also, we intend with the agreement of our beneficiaries mandate them to pay a stipend monthly for the financial sustainability of this initiative. | Website: https://www.u2s.org.ng/wp Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/UnskilledS | Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyM7mNsZnGA | In 2018, U2S was nominated in the best project category in the Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Award jointly organized by the Goi Peace Foundation and the Stiftung Entrepreneurship Foundation. This has resulted in U2S gaining global recognition among various renowned individuals and organizations alike. A prominent example is Helen Clark (The former Prime Minister of New Zealand). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Paul | Odenigbo | Diligent Care for Creative Intelligence Development | www.dicideiq.org | President/CEO | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I have been an entrepreneur for over 30 years. An employer of labor. I have been able to provide solutions challenges affecting my industry and had established the Prince Odenz Group of Companies. Made up of Fotoflash Ltd, Altraprint Ltd and Prince Odenz Estates. These provide innovative services. My concerns over work force attitude and societal challenges motivated me to seek solutions. First, in 2003, I instituted a study in partnership with Bayero University Kano, Nigeria, The study is concerned with bane of Africa underdevelopment, attitude and health concerns. The theme is Climatic and Environmental factors Affecting learning and Performance an International Survey. The study involve 91 countries.30 countries in Africa, and others in Europe and Asia. The findings reveal that climate and environment conditions contribute to health, attitude and economic performance. It also reveal that in Africa Malaria, Malnutrition, Heat stress, lack of Omega 3 /fish oil and diseases are implicated. This helped us to start a charity initiative that will provide solutions by providing sensitization to prospective mothers. The solutions will help solve maternal and child mortality issues. Thus provide empowerment and skill to have smart, healthy babies that have potential for peaceful, sustainable, inclusive and economic performance. By so doing have introduce an innovation that help provide vulnerable population better health as women and child right. | Dr Odenigbo who received his BSc in Business Administration, PGDE in Education, M.Ed in Guidian and Counselling from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, a Diploma holder in Nursing and Patient Care from Alison Academy, and a PhD in Human Growth and Development from California University, USA is the President/CEO of Diligent Care for Creative Intelligence Development. The organization is in Special Consultative Status with United Nations ECOSOC, dedicated to promoting better intelligence and health as a tool for health, academic and socio-economic performance, hence closing the gap in highest and lowest achievers. ..emphasizing smart maternal health for smart newborn He is also an entrepreneur and the Founder/CEO the Prince Odenz Group. He has received numerous awards from a variety of Institutions; Fellow of African Institute of Public Health Professionals (2017), Honorary Ambassador to World Academy of Natural Sciences (2017), Fellow Chartered Institute of Project Management (2011), Fellow Institute of Human and Natural Resources 2000, Fellow Institute of Corporate Administration (1998). He is also a recipient of Industrial Leadership Award (1998). Other notable training was from; Institute of Visual Thinking in United Kingdom on Beyond Teaching and Learning and Thought Create Things (2005). He is an Alumni of Harvard Business School Leadership Training (2006) and a Financial Administrator trained by Chartered Institute of Administration (2009). | Smartmom.baby | Smart Maternal Health Skill for Smart Newborn | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Currently in Nigeria. However it is designed for all prospective mothers in sub Sahara African countries where disease burden, malaria, poverty and limited heath care services exist | Yes | Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria and Federal Ministry of Education, Office of Special Assistant to President on SDGs | Transition to Scale | My solution is to get newborn babies to be born healthy and intelligent (smart). The newborn should have high intelligence of up to 125 IQ points. World Health Organization define health as both physical and mental well being. Such potential is only possible when prospective mothers have maternal skill to deliver physical and mentally healthy babies. It will lead future society that meet SDGs 1, 3, 4, 8 and 16 target. | According to UNICEF every 2 minutes, a woman dies in childbirth and studies show maternal mortality rate is related to community economic output. Nutrition, disease burden and lifestyle are implicated. In sub-Sahara Africa, women are 136 times more likely to die than in developed countries. General Issues: poor quality care, absence of electricity, clean water, transportation, trained health professionals and interventions, limiting cultures, traditions and beliefs. | We provide 16 Smart Maternal Keys in a pictorial form which has been compiled. The Keys was launched 2017 in Nigeria and many are being trained. They were compiled from existing scientific knowledge to empower prospective mothers towards having newborn with healthy smart minds. In the skill, emphasis is on the most crucial construction stage - the -first 3 months into pregnancy. Preconception preparedness is much more about taking informed actions and responsibilities required prior to pregnancy. Pregnancy is like farming and building project that require all project management principles, but vulnerable African prospective mothers act based on chance, belief and culture. | It is simplified and handy in a pictorial form. Can be mounted at home. It is a skill just like any other skill women need to survive. It involve coaching with visual cues. Even health professionals are amazed at it. Below is the guiding principles. Lifestyle Adaptations - a. Micro-nutrients from fruits and vegetables b. Fish oil-unsaturated fatty acid c. Parental positive stimulation d. Antenatal care in health facility e. Baby handling and vaccinations Avoidance- Understanding indirect consequences of a. Plasmodium and malaria on unborn child brain development b. Infections and diseases on unborn child development c. Heat stress common in Africa on unborn child development d. Hazards posed by drugs, alcohol and emotional reactions on unborn child developing brain. We work to advance education in Maternal Skill for smarter newborn. The sensitization has high impact, it is sustainable and cost effective. The project educate mothers on environmental factors, adaptations and pregnancy strategies that enhance their maternal skill, newborn health and intelligence Currently women depend solely on health care centers. | Federal Ministry of Health endorsed it for all Healthcare professionals nation wide. It is termed UNBORN CHILD IQ DEVELOPMENT. The first edited manual has been in use. ANTECEDENTS •Saving Brains: Healthy Minds enhances human Capital towards SDG, Abuja, FCT, Jan. 2018 •Saving Brains: Healthy Minds enhances Human Capital towards SDG, AbaK LGA, Akwa Ibom, Dec. 2017 •Role of UN SDG in Activating Potential and Maternal Skill Workshop, Abuja, 29th July 2017 •Role of UN SDG in Activating Potential and Maternal Skill Workshop, Calabar, 22nd July 2017 •Education Resource Centre ERC Staffs, Abuja, FCT- Nov 2016 •State House Medical Centre, Abuja Antenatal Clinic- Oct 2016 till date --- Ongoing •National Open University of Nigeria NOUN, Fac. of Public Health Nat. Conf.-- Oct 2016 •UN International Girl Child Day. Theme: Girls Speak Out - Oct 2016 •National Asso. of Catholic Nurses Guild in Nigeria , National Conference-Sept 2016 •Assoc. for Good Clinical Practice in Nigeria –Clinical Trial Africa Summit–Sept 2016 •Federal Ministry of Education Counsellors in South-East Geo-Political Zone -2014 •Counsellors Association of Nigeria Members, Enugu State Chapter- 2014 •Principals of Sec. Schools in Federal Capital Territory, Educ. Board, Abuja, FCT -2013 •Principals of Secondary Schools in Kano State, SMoE, Nigeria -2013 •Directors Federal Ministry of Education, FMoE, Abuja, Nigeria-2013 •Directors Federal Ministry of Health FMoH, Abuja, Nigeria -2013 | We plan to expand to other African countries who have serious maternal, newborn and child mortality/morbidity issues. In sub-Sahara Africa, women are 136 times more likely to die than in developed countries. (Few African women are able to have babies with great health and cognition) Issues from mother: hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, serious infections etc Issues from newborn: infection (meningitis, pneumonia, and diarrhea), preterm birth. General Issues: poor quality care, absence of electricity, clean water, transportation, trained health professionals and interventions, limiting cultures, traditions and beliefs. INDICES: Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births) – Nigeria reduced from 1350 in 1990 to 814 in 2015, Malawi increased from 157 in 1990 to 634 in 2015, Ghana reduced from 634 in 1990 to 319 in 2015 while Kenya reduced from 687 in 1990 to 5100 in 2015 (WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group, and the United Nations Population Division. Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990 to 2015. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2015) In low and middle income countries, 25% of pregnant women and 19% of new mothers also experience depression. This affects not only the mother’s health, but her ability to care for her child. Depressed women are 2.1 times more likely to give birth to a low birth weight infant. In childhood, stunting is increased by 40% among children of depressed mothers. Mothers deserve to smart maternal skill. | Logistics, funding, health care personnel, materials. experts, resource persons, advisory, locations, project management experts. | www.dicideiq.org https://www.facebook.com/smarterlivesafrica/ | https://www.facebook.com/paul.odenigbo.52/videos/2437834209821598/?t=0 | Fellow of African Institute of Public Health Professionals (2017), Honorary Ambassador to World Academy of Natural Sciences (2017) Honorary PhD in Philosophy from International Philosophical Institute India (2017), Honorary PhD on International Relations from University of Life India (2017). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | J | V | B | X | W ki | W | Antigua and Barbuda | Angola | English | French | Bbnnn | Gh'' | Bn'' | H''' | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Hjj | No | Proof of Concept | Jjjj | Knkn | N''' | N'en | Jjjj | Bbbb | Nnnn | Nnnnn | Nnnnn | Nnnnn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Vincent | Ocen | Sugur Development Agency (SUDA) | https://sudasrt.org/ | Executive Director | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | My motivation for applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit (to present the Youth parliament project) is to share my experience of grassroots engagement in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Because we need effective collaboration between the public and private sector and civil society at local, regional and global scale. We need to create processes that generate engagement with the SDGs at the level of communities and bioregions everywhere. Only if local people will take responsibility for implementing the SDGs in their community and their region do we have a realistic change of accomplishing the audacious task set by Agenda 2030. To motivate such a commitment, we need people to understand the multiple benefits that will result from a successful implementation of all SDGs for their own lives, their families and communities, nations, and for humanity and the community of life as a whole. The future we want has to be co-created by us! I have used innovation for initiating projects for positive global impact. For instance, The Youth Parliament Project which enhances the capacities of Youth Council representatives and the civic youth leaders to influence and advocate for sustainable development by participating meaningfully in the local government decision making processes in Uganda. Project Video link: https://youtu.be/FrGMEVM4vIg This project employs the Community Youth Parliament platform that provides an inclusive opportunity to the youth council representatives and civic youth leaders to influence and advocate for the implementation and monitoring of sustainable development goals. It also serves as a social accountability tool by serving as an ‘informal’ platform for young people in the community to come together and articulate development issues that affect them and develop ideas for addressing their problems. The discussions during the sessions are informed by development challenges faced by the youth (e.g. unemployment, etc). For the local government duty bearers, this platform provides an outlet for the dissemination of information about new policies. This project uses the transformative approach of shaping consultation and dialogue processes between state and civil society in an action-oriented manner. It focuses on building the civil society capacities as constructive and inclusive dialogue partners of the state and enabling them to effectively claim their participatory rights. | Vincent Ocen is a self-driven, result oriented legal and Information Technology Sustainable Development actor with proven ability to work under multidisciplinary settings. He is the Global Youth Representative for Action for Sustainable Development Facilitation Group 2018-2020 and Executive Director for Sugur Development Agency (SUDA). His work mainly entails research, legal advocacy, facilitation, coordination and project management focused on development, governance and human rights policies. He is engaged in networking and cooperation with national and global civil society organizations and other development actors. He has participated and recognized in various regional and international events. For instance; The 2018 UN Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development in Bonn Germany, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) in Nairobi, Kenya, Pan-African Debate Championship in Cape Town, South Africa, SDGs conference in Yaoundé, Cameroon, Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition in Berlin Germany, Advocates for International Development Probono project among others. Furthermore, Vincent has 11 years of experience in the community development sector, specifically focusing on Civic rights, peace-building and Democratic governance. Holds Master of Arts in Human Rights, Globalization and Justice at Keele University -UK. In conclusion, Vincent is driven by his commitment to Social justice and sustainable development and one day he hopes to witness a Just, Peaceful and Democratic society in Uganda in particular and Africa in general. | The Youth Parliament Project | This project employs the community Youth Parliament platform for shaping decision making processes between the state and the civil society | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Uganda | Yes | HEFO Foundation ,GIZ-CUSP, Amuria District Youth Council ,Youth with a focus Teso, Ajokis Women’s Association, Public Affairs Centre of Uganda ,Teso Anti-Corruption Coalition, Great Lakes Centre for Peace | Scaling | It is because my project can be replicated and it’s scalable to different contexts. The underlying principle for transformation in this project is shaping consultation and dialogue processes between the state and civil society in an action-oriented manner. The solution focuses on building the civil society capacities as constructive and inclusive dialogue partners of the state and enabling them to effectively claim their participatory rights. | Despite their high numbers, the youth face challenges in participating in decision-making, planning and budgeting processes. Therefore, they are excluded from the implementation of government programmes at the local government level because their representative body per law, the Youth Councils are not effectively and efficiently performing their duties. Addressing inequality and the social exclusion of particular groups of young people is a big challenge within the youth sector. | Addressing inequality and the social exclusion of particular groups of young people is a big challenge within the youth sector, even for youth organizations. Creative mechanisms, such as the use of community youth parliament platform, must always be prioritized and reviewed. Harnessing the potential of new and social media tools to improve access to information and expand space for civic engagement is equally vital to improving youth participation. The cost of non-participation is high because the youth will fall through the cracks of the government programs and policies. The project employs the Community Youth Parliament platform that provides an inclusive opportunity to the youth leaders to participate in decision making processes in order to influence and advocate for the implementation and monitoring of SDGs. This platform serves as a social accountability tool for young people in the community to come together and articulate development issues that affect them and develop ideas for addressing their problems. | The underlying principle for transformation in this project is shaping consultation and dialogue processes between the state and civil society in an action-oriented manner. The project focusses on building the civil society capacities as constructive and inclusive dialogue partners of the state and enabling them to effectively claim their participatory rights. The project employs the Community Youth Parliament platform that provides an inclusive opportunity to the youth leaders to participate in decision making processes in order to influence and advocate for the implementation and monitoring of SDGs. The project implementation team developed a strategy as a basis for the campaign to empower the youth to meaningfully participate in the local government consultation and decision-making processes. The strategy involves the use of different methodologies such as training, organizing the project orientation meeting with stakeholders, use of Community Youth Parliament and the design and distribution of Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials. The project facilitates youth access to information on their right to participate in the decision making, local government budgeting and planning processes, accountability and resource mobilization. | The project implementation team developed a strategy as a basis for the campaign to empower the youth to meaningfully participate in the local government consultation and decision-making processes. The strategy involves the use of different methodologies such as training, organizing the project orientation meeting with stakeholders, use of Community Youth Parliament and the design and distribution of Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials. The project facilitates youth access to information on their right to participate in the decision making, local government budgeting and planning processes, accountability and resource mobilization. The issues raised by the youth during the discussions are forwarded by SUDA in collaboration with the district Youth Councils to the Sub-county authorities, District Local Government councils, the district sectoral committees, the National Youth Council and to the Uganda Parliamentary Forum on Youth Affairs (UPFYA) for follow-up action. SUDA collaborates and networks with the different stakeholders such as youth led CBOs, Amuria CSO network, district departmental heads, political leaders, school authorities, religious leaders, women led organizations and lower Local Governments to ensure ownership and sustainability of the project. The project monitoring and evaluation is done continuously with the view of measuring the progress of the project implementation and the reports are shared with partners. | Planned Goals; To empower the youths to promote Peaceful and Inclusive societies for sustainable development. To raise citizens who shall be the necessary human and intellectual capital to foster Sustainable development in Uganda. Planned Milestones; Develop a strategy for implementing a campaign aimed at increasing youth participation in governance and decision-making processes in Amuria district, Uganda Prepare and disseminate Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials (i.e. 1500 pocket hand books, 800 posters and 200 t/shirts). Conduct project orientation meeting for 30 stakeholders Develop training materials for trainings of youth council representatives and selected youth staff from civil society on; 1.Advocacy, lobbying & communication 2.Basic data collection methods and 3.Resource mobilization. Conduct information session on the local government planning and budgeting cycle. Conduct three one day trainings each targeting 17 participants from the Sub-county and District Youth Councils and selected youth staff from civil society on 1.Advocacy, lobbying & communication 2.Basic data collection methods and 3.Resource mobilization. Conduct 16 Community Youth Parliament sessions in the four Sub-counties of Amuria district, Uganda. The project will continue to facilitate youth access to information on their right to participate in the decision making, local government budgeting and planning processes, accountability and resource mobilization. | Short-term Needs Design the project implementation strategy Designing the project action plan and budget Lobbying for Funds Launching the project Conduct the survey on youth Participation in governance and decision-making progresses. Medium -term Needs; Recruiting Volunteers and staff Signing the Memorandum of Understanding with local Government Authorities Signing partnership agreements with other NGOs, and development partners, Develop and design training and Information, Education and Communication materials Long -term Needs; Plan to scale up Disseminate Information, Education, and Communication materials to the Beneficiaries Acquire project Equipment (Public Address System, Computers, Vehicle, Motor bikes) | https://sudasrt.org/ https://youtu.be/FrGMEVM4vIg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqC6SOazV3k https://youtu.be/18VPOCFbkAU https://youtu.be/AB2FeDbW4_c https://youtu.be/fdSGvRgCK6s https://youtu.be/ft4Z5DGBXUI https://www.dropbox.com/s/y96lz0oo95d3d1v/A4ID%20-%20SDA%20Legal%20Research%20Report%20%20-%20Land%20Rights%20in%20Teso%20Uganda%20188057-4-134%20v8.0.rtf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/w2qtwkbnx64edj7/Women%27s%20Land%20Rights%20and%20%20Anti-Discrimination%20188057-4-148%20v5.0.rtf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/nqgcpwdahs1btoq/Recourse%20and%20Redress%20188057-4-157%20v2.0.rtf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/htsxobh538qgnvi/SDA%20-%20Template%20Complaint%20Letter%20-%20UN%20188057-4-98%20v3.0-1.rtf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/4s99eif585hxsr1/Guide%20to%20Local%20Council%20Court%20%20Administration%20188057-4-139%20v2.0.rtf?dl=0 | https://youtu.be/FrGMEVM4vIg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqC6SOazV3k | 2010-Received Uganda National Youth Essay on Governance Award. 2011 – Received the best Debaters Award for Universities National Debate championship in Kyambogo University- Uganda. 2012-Received Award for representing Uganda in the pan-African Universities Debate Championship 2013-Received the most Outstanding commissioners’ Award for Uganda Christian University. 2018 Received YALI RLC leadership Award 2018– Finalist of the UN SDG Action Challenge Award | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Frederick | Kakembo | Ndejje University | www.ndejjeuniversity.ac.ug | Deputy Vice Chancellor | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | I would wish to share insights with; and learn from diverse innovators globally about practical solutions that integrate; a) promotion of municipal sanitation; b) protection of forests, wetlands and ecosystems; c) reduction of greenhouse emissions; d) reduction of poverty and promote livelihoods; e) promotion of food security. We have developed and successfully piloted models for commercial scale recycling of municipal waste into tradable commodities that include; a) fuel briquettes; b) organic fertilizers; c) biocides/disinfectants; d) ornaments/crafts; e) building materials such as bricks and pavers. The rationale is to apply socio-economic incentives to engage diverse stakeholders in activities related to environmental sustainability and municipal sanitation. In so doing, private capital is optimized to supplement resources of local governments for service delivery and environmental preservation. The projects are anchored in educational institutions to engage youths (who constitute over 75% of the population in Uganda). Stakeholder engagement is done via; a) innovative Information, Education and communication (IEC) programs; b) demonstration of technical and business models for Resource Recovery and Reuse (RRR) to incentivize stakeholders; c) creation of platforms and forums for inter-sector linkages and partnerships; d) provision of research-based evidence for developing supportive policies and institutional frameworks for RRR. | Frederick Kakembo, an Alumnus of Brown International advanced Research Institute, Rhode Island USA; holds a PhD in Community Education and Training of the University of Pretoria, South Africa; Master of Education (Curriculum and Educational Media) Makerere University and a B.A. Education of Makerere University. He has worked as Dean of students (2000-2008); and Dean of Research and Graduate school (2009-2013) in Uganda Christian University. He is Deputy Vice Chancellor of Ndejje University (2014-todate). In 2012-2014, he was a consultant and coordinator of a project entitled; ‘From Waste to Wealth: Sustainable Wastewater Management in Uganda’ funded by the Grand Challenges (Canada) and Coordinated by the United Nations University (Institute of Water, Environment and Health), Canada. In 2012 he worked as a Consultant for the Association of African Universities to review a HIV/AIDS Toolkit for Higher Education Institutions in Africa and recommended appropriate online course delivery. In 2006 he was the chief consultant for the USAID-funded project that produced video vignettes known as ‘Be a Man’. The project was coordinated by Health Communications Partnership (HCP) and executed by Young, Empowered and Health (YEAH). His research and projects are published in various journals and international conferences in; South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Portugal, France, United Kingdom, USA, Porto-Rico, Mexico, Canada, South Africa, Mali, Netherlands, Germany, Tanzania and Kenya. | Involvement of Educational Institutions in Resource Recovery and Reuse in Uganda | Our solution is focused on engaging stakeholders in mitigating effects of climate change variability (CCV) via a) IEC programs on Resource Recovery an | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Uganda | Yes | St Kizito High School Namugongo; Uganda National Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Alliance (UNREEEA); Uganda National Biogas Alliance; | Transition to Scale | The project has introduced new products and provided remedies to some of the pressing problems in the country. The proof of concept projects are already showing signs of promising outcomes in relation to municipal sanitation, forests preservation, job creation and improved livelihood. It has also attracted admiration of many innovators during national and international exhibitions; including awards won within the country and outside. | a) Depletion of forests to provide cooking and heating fuel to 95% of the population in Uganda use charcoal and firewood for cooking; b) poor management of municipal waste polluting air, land and water bodies; causing diseases. Out of 90,000 tons of solid waste generated monthly in Kampala city, only 40 % is collected and delivered to landfills; c) Reclamation of wetlands, national parks and forest areas for farming destroys the ecosystem that supports life; d) depletion of soil nutrients. | Demonstrating factory-scale recycling of municipal waste into tradable commodities incentivizes stakeholders to engage in environmental sustainability. It is done via; a) IEC programs; b) training; c) partnerships; d) policy and institutional frameworks. The project promotes adaptive capacity within communities to identify locally-appropriate remedies; optimizing local resources. Institution and community based capacity building include; competitive activities, award ceremonies; exhibitions and green-expos, radio and television talk shows, seminars and trade-shows. Capacity building is aligned with existing socio-cultural attributes that optimize resilient sociocultural fabrics such as social cohesion, group consensus; communal decision-making, communal ownership and social capital. Social norming is specifically promoted through Educational entertainment (Edutainment). The project also makes use of IK-based survival instincts among the communities. It promotes keen and accurate detection of signs of impending disasters such as city floods and epidemics. The circular economic models reflected in this project could be replicated to support environmental sustainability as a guiding principle nationally and globally. Waste management is transformed; from collection and disposal models to processing and commodification to support livelihoods. Innovative knowledge and skills are applied through hands-on activities to address local needs; using local resources. | While waste recycling technologies have existed for long, operations have not impacted on livelihoods and environment conservation because of; a) lack of public awareness of prospects of recycling; b) Inadequate technical skills; c) Health-risk perceptions; d) inadequate business and managerial skills; g) Inadequate capital for start-up and/or up-scaling; h) Non-supportive policy environment and lack of an institutional frameworks; i) Absence of factory-scale production which make operations none sustainable. To solve the above, training and awareness creation programs have been undertaken to popularise waste recycling. The programs have also focused on addressing cultural and psycho-social sensitivities associated with reuse of products recycled from bio-waste; especially the human feacal matter. Stakeholder collaborations have been undertaken to overcome some of the challenges of isolated operations. In this respect, platforms have been created to promote inter-sectoral linkages via conferences where Academicians, public and private sector agencies converge. The latter comprise of civil society organizations, industrialists and private service providers. Commercialization and business models have also been introduced to attract private capital into recycling operations. This supplements governments’ inadequate resources for service delivery. Models of waste management have been transformed from collection and disposal to processing and commodification. | Structures have been developed in Ndejje University (NDU) fabric to link teaching, research and community outreach through interdis¬ciplinary project development. Five research and development centers were created in areas of; 1) Energy; 2) Water; 3) Agriculture; 4) business incubation and 5) NDU holds exhibitions to demonstrate RRR best practices to communities, public and private agencies. Using the Block-placement initiatives students (supervised by staff) are placed in urban and rural areas near the university campuses to integrate with communities and civil society organizations and get used to patterns and work-schedules of the world outside the university. They identify solvable issues within communities, learn from them and get opportunity to diffuse social and technological innovations Joint workshops, seminars and projects involving natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and communicational sciences are conducted to; a) integrate knowledge and complementarity; b) to transfer knowledge and; c) to organically link the Food, Energy, Water and Ecosystem (FEWE) nexus. Progress is assessed through; a) new products and solutions that are rolled out to communities on a regular basis; b) prizes and medals won nationally and globally; c) easiness by which NDU graduates get employed or start up enterprises; d) ability by students and staff of diverse faculties to undertake joint projects; e) joint ventures between NDU community and external agencies | Community-based Waste Recycling Units (COWARU) will be formulated to undertake RRR. Besides generating income, COWARU will be principle change agents to promote and sustain desirable behavior and practices. Through training, a critical mass of water and sanitation corps will be developed to promote and sustain adherence to sustainable practices. Ultimately, the problem faced by local authorities (of enforcing compliance to good practices) could be reduced. Participatory processes will be used to develop manageable and sustainable and community-driven plans. Multidisciplinary teams of RRR professions and educators will offer training and managerial consultancies. Start-up and scale-up financial facilities will be coordinated for the following specialized activities; i) Waste collection, sorting and carbonization; ii) supply of the biochar to briquettes producers; iii) production of briquettes; iv) packaging, branding, marketing of briquettes; v) producing fertilizers, biocides and disinfectants from biochar and briquettes ash. Conceptually, 90,000+ tons of waste generated monthly in Kampala city alone will be enough to produce 10,800 tons of briquettes; potentially generating $2,376,000; providing jobs to 200,000+ urban dwellers. More jobs will be created in production of fertilizers, disinfectants, crafts, ornaments and pavers. In this Circular Economy, domestic and agro-industrial waste will be translated into scalable opportunities for grassroots urban communities. | Short term; 1. Conduct community participatory workshops to conceptualise; a) environmental sustainability issues; i) real and perceived causes of climate change variability (CCV); ii) reducing incidences of CCV; iii) coping with CCV; possible mitigation measures iv) effects of CCV; v) consequences of inaction; vi); Human and financial resources for taking action. 2. finances to Produce IEC materials on CCV focusing on; a) challenges/issues, causes, manifestations, indicators, effects, remedies; b) mitigation measures and adaptation; ii) institutional and community-based training programs 3. Airtime on radio, television; print media facilities; social media platforms and live human interactive sessions to; a) create awareness about issues, prospects and start-up and scale-up; b) establish platforms for inter-sectoral linkages and partnerships. Medium-term 4. Financial resources for: a) setting up units in various within the urban informal settlements to demonstrate technical, financial, managerial and entrepreneurial operation of waste recycling. The facilities needed include; a) 6 Production premises ($ 5000 @ ); b) 6 Electric sheaving machine ($300 @); b) 6 large-scale carbonisers ($ 2000 @); c) 6 large-scale briquetting equipment; ($3200 @); d) 6 solar driers $ 2000 @); e) 6 Packaging and branding devises ($ 300 @) ) Total $ 75000; f) Long-term needs 5) A truck to assist in coordination and transportation services: $ 30,000 | https://www.ndejjeuniversity.ac.ug/2018/07/10/university-scoops-international-climate-innovation-award/ https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1489916/ndejje-university-water-research-development-center https://www.sustainabilityexchange.ac.uk/student_engagement_finalist_ndejje_university_u https://www.ndejjeuniversity.ac.ug/energy-research-and-development-center-erdc/ https://www.ndejjeuniversity.ac.ug/news-energy/ https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1498366/ugandas-renewable-energy-demonstration-site https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnership/?p=25197 https://sun-connect-ea.org/ugandas-first-renewable-energy-demonstration-site-opened/ https://www.nduwrdc.org/tiki-index.php?page=Staff-Profiles https://campusbee.ug/news/ndejje-build-ugandas-biggest-renewable-energy-bio-waste-recycling-plant/ http://www.fomentoenergy.com/news/uganda-s-first-renewable-energy-demonstration-site-opened https://www.ndejjeuniversity.ac.ug/environment-agriculture-and-forestry-research/ https://www.ndejjeuniversity.ac.ug/2018/08/15/ndejje-university-water-research-and-development-centre/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekgz1aCdf5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJNL3XEWTmE https://www.ntv.co.ug/news/national/Ndejje-University-launches-biogas-initiative/4522324-5058248-108gtyy/index.html https://www.revolvy.com/page/Ndejje-University?stype=videos&cmd=list&sml=6h_3Z5peWQM https://www.sustainabilityexchange.ac.uk/student_engagement_finalist_ndejje_university_u | In June 2019, NDU won an award from the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA); as the environment sustainability institution of the year NDU won the International Green Gown Awards at the High Level Political Forum which took place in New York in July 10th 2019 https://www.sustainabilityexchange.ac.uk/student_engagement_finalist_ndejje_university_u https://www.greengownawards.org/2019-winners1 https://www.sustainabilityexchange.ac.uk/student_engagement_finalist_ndejje_university_u | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | VENKATA RAVI TEJA | POTLURI | Indian Space, Ocean & Weather Information - ISOWI - Home | http://facebook.com/isowi | Blogger | Male | India | India | English | The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. In all this vastness of universe, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It underscores our responsibility to save our only livable planet EARTH for the upcoming generations. > Future belongs to countries with Agriculture, Education, Proper usage of Natural Resources & not with Nuclear Missiles, Hunger, Pollution. We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. Human race cannot coexist with Nuclear Weapons & Increasingly Polluted Planet. so, Fight for our World, not your country. (Governments must allocate more budget for Development, not for Destruction) #Who_speaks_for_earth? | I'am a collection of Organic Molicules called ""P.V. Ravi Teja"" (Name). I live in Repalle-India, done B.tech in CIVIL Engineering. Currently I've been a blogger for ISOWI & UN-Volunteer. And if i talk about my hobbies ""Drawing, Astro-Photography, Playing Badminton & reading Carl Sagan Books. | Protecting Cities From Floods & Maintaining Ground water levels | Protecting Cities from Floods due to Over Concreting and Maintaining ground water levels with Pits or every home. | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | INDIA | No | Proof of Concept | Because I personally implemented this to my Home, and achieved a positive result. | Due to Employment, Education & Business purposes the large number of people migrating to Cities. In order to provide the shelter to these people, the Cities becoming Concrete Jungles and results no space for rainy and flood water to sink into ground. So we must concentrate on Eco urban planning by leaving some open land free from concrete & using “Pervious Concrete Technology” to allow water to sink into ground. | Governments, NGO's & etc Organizations must create awareness programs for Public on how to build a Eco-friendly homes, Usage of Water sinking Concrete technology, Leaving open land for rain water pits, Waste management and importance of Protecting environment to overcome the Floods. | My solution is unique from the existed space because 95% of building constructers using regular concrete and covering all the land surfaces, and resulting into sink for rainy water to ground. and majority of people not using Rain water Pits in their homes. | I am using this technic in my home and the out come is Positive. | I want to share this idea to the people who are living in Cities, for controlling future water crises. | The resources I want: publicizing in a big way to create positive out come from construction builders. short-term needs: Identification, Funding, Publication long-term needs: Monitoring of results | 1) https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/coastal-communities/solutions/5151 2) https://www.entrepreneurship-campus.org/members/ravitejacosmos/ | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Russell | Collins | Himalayan Rocket Stove Pvt Ltd | www.himalayanrocketstove.com | Managing Director | Male | Australia | Australia | English | Over the last five years I have been focussed on developing clean burning, high efficiency combustion heating for the Himalayan belt. This has lead to the creation of several combustion heaters which are made and sold through the Himalayan Rocket Stove company in India. As a result of this work, I also developed a zero cost smokeless cookstove solution, and set up an NGO in India called the Smokeless Cookstove Foundation, which is currently run by Nitisha Agrawal. I am now working with IIT Mandi in India to roll out biomass pellet fuels for thermal space heating, which has not previously been done in India. In addition I am also developing a low cost waste incineration solution that will reduce the health impacts of poorly disposed plastic waste in regions without viable collection facilities. My exposure to clean biomass combustion technology has convinced me that this is a crucial part of the mix of energy solutions for heating, cooking and waste disposal, as well as other solutions as well. I would like to leverage my understanding of this solution in the Indian context to a wider audience. | I have been travelling and working in the Indian Himalayas since 1992, initially in eco-travel where I coordinated a range of eco projects and educational programs. During this period I witnessed first hand the impact of climate change in the Himalayas. I have been committed to environmental work since my days at university as a member of Friends of the Earth from 1989. My work in India is now focussed on clean combustion technology. I have previously worked on projects that involved remote region solar pumping, solar passive building in the Himalayas, and from 2004 to 2015 I coordinated and ran an annual eco educational tour for children from Spiti Valley to Ladakh. I now split my life and work between Australia (where I am currently setting up my new venture, Rocket Man Designs) and India (where I am the Managing Director for the social enterprise, Himalayan Rocket Stove). | Himalayan Rocket Stove | Bringing clean and efficient biomass combustion heating to the Himalayas and beyond. | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | India, Nepal and Bhutan currently, with potential to expand. | Yes | IIT Mandi and HP Govt, India | Scaling | We are entering our 3rd season of sales (which occur through the winter months) with an expected 5x growth in reach and revenue. Our growth from first to second season was 3x in revenue, and we were capped due to lack of funds for production, with market demand exceeding our capacity to produce. We have rectified this with a production loan that allows us to make and distribute sufficient stock to our outlets. | Fuel demand for heating in the winter months is a pressing issue that is leading to deforestation and air pollution, as well as drudgery for the householders (often the women). There are 20 million homes across the Himalayan belt (from north to NE India, including Nepal and Bhutan) of which the vast majority need heat for approx half the year as a survival necessity. The average household fuel demand is approx 1000kg wood per year. The combustion of this wood releases 3.5 tons of CO2 per year. | In its simplest form, our combustion heaters look and feel like a standard room heating device that can also be used for cooking on. Internally they use dual chamber high temperature combustion to burn smoke, thereby releasing additional heat, and dramatically reducing pollutants released to the air. The fuel savings in this format is approx 50% and smoke reduction an estimated 90%. In the new format we are introducing this year, we will include the option to burn biomass chillets and pellets made with pine needles that are an abundantly available biomass fuel source that is just now being developed by IIT Mandi. This will reduce demand on forestry by 100% and offers a range of benefits including reduced drudgery and reduced pollution (the pine needles are often burnt off to get rid of them as they are considered a menace in the slopes of the Himalayas.) We also add functionality with our modular design, and have now introduced hot water heating from waste heat in the exhaust flue, which will improve on family health outcomes due to improved hygiene. Safety heat panels, glass fire door for improved fuel management are also available as options. Phone charging and a range of oven cooking attachments are in development. We have had requests to set up production in other regions such as Chile, Mongolia and Tibet, and it is clear there is a global demand for high efficiency combustion heating. Our vision is to scale to meet this demand. | There are plenty of products in the improved cookstove space, but there are none in the improved heating space other than ours in the Himalayan belt, and seemingly none globally that can match our price and functionality. Using the efficiencies of mass production using CNC machine technology we can make a product range that is both high quality and low cost that offers an expanding range of functionality due to the modular design ethos. | We spent 12 months doing in-depth prototyping and field trials from mid 2016 to 2017 in the high mountain region of Ladakh. Based on the feedback from this period, we redesigned and entered production phase late 2017. We have been through 2 cycles of commercial sales and have sold 750 units since then. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, and any issues are being addressed in a case by case manner. As a social enterprise, we are keen to measure more than just commercial figures, and we are setting up processes to also measure social and environmental data. We conducted a post season user survey this year with 50 responses. | We are in the process of opening up new regions across the Himalayan belt, including Nepal and Bhutan, as well as the NE regions of India. We are actively recruiting and have just taken on 2 extra female staff at our showroom and warehouse location in Parwanoo, near to Chandigarh. At this stage we are fully engaged in dealing with the demand from these regions, but we are getting regular queries and requests from other parts of the world. As we become more financially viable, we will set up an international development team who will be tasked with setting up local production and distribution in various other regions. We have requests to do this in Mongolia, Chile and Tibet at this stage. We are also working on new product lines, including low cost waste incineration for regional areas with waste to usable heat as the criteria for this. Our mission statement is to save 1 million trees over the 10 years from 2017. For each stove in use we save approx 1000kg per year, equivalent to one mature Himalayan tree per year per stove in use. Based on a calculation of tripling our market each year for that period we will come very close to achieving this, even without Govt subsidies. With subsidies, we will achieve this goal much sooner. Each tree of 1000kg abates 3.5 tons of CO2, so in 10 years we would hope to contribute 35 million tons of CO2 abatement in the Himalayan belt alone. | We have just recently scaled our production and warehousing capacity to deal with the immediate increase in demand. In the short term we are hoping to double our team size and train up juniors to expand our ability to deal with the increased volume of sales. Over the coming 2-3 years we plan to develop a range of flagship stores across the Himalayan belt with supply and service functionality. These will also feature a new concept we are calling the Himalayan Eco Store, where we will showcase and feature a range of products from various suppliers that meet 2 basic criteria, they should be good for the Earth, and suitable for a Himalayan market. Over the 3-5 year period we will need to set up production capacity in new regions so as to distribute the load and shorten the distribution networks to localised regions. In terms of needs, we are looking to raise funds and bring on board talent that will facilitate this. | Himalayan Rocket Stove: https://himalayanrocketstove.com Smokeless Cookstove Foundation: https://smokelesscookstovefoundation.org Rocket Man Designs: https://rocketmandesigns.com Update from Oct 2018: https://youtu.be/eXmt893VA78 Smoke Pollution Reduction Demo: https://youtu.be/ICxiKmpwmSk Pine Needle Pellets Prototyping: https://youtu.be/_BoDGF_hjcI Smokeless Cookstove Revolution: https://youtu.be/y7KDSAj10KU | IndiaSpend 2017: https://youtu.be/sdYjatCtDGI TEDx IIM Ranchi 2017: https://youtu.be/57qR6R-MkTU (video is missing the images) | Winner: ASME ISHOW 2019 Bangalore Finalist: Capgemini Innovators Race 50 2017 SmartFifty Delhi 2018 IIT Mandi - Himalayan innovation Challenge 2019 Acumen - Unilever - Online inccubation challenge Startup India WhatsApp Grand Challenge 2019 NatGeo Genius Application Shortlist 2018 ICCO Green Business Challenge - Selected for incubation in NE region | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kwame Andrews | Daklo | Engage Now Africa | www.engagenowafrica.org | Albinism Program Coordinator | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | My motivation for putting in this innovative solution is to make sure it's scalable to other countries to the benefit of millions of people with albinism suffering from skin cancer across Africa. Skin cancer kills many persons with albinism in Africa on daily basis basically due to unavailability of sun protection cream and the expensive nature of those existing in the market. This solutions is meant to fill this gab by making sunscreen available and affordable to persons with albinism | Kwame Andrews Daklo is the Current Albinism Program Coordinator at Engage Now Africa and also work with Ghana Association of Persons with Albinism as the Project Officer. Kwame have a degree in Social Studies Education at University of Education, Winneba. He is an Alumni of YALI RLC West Africa ACCRA 2019 as an emerging leader in Civil Leadership. He is currently participating in the the Leaders Africa program of the Obama Foundation Leaders program. Kwame is an Albinism Rights Activist and disability advocate. He is passionate about issues relating to Albinism and help to create awareness on the condition to reduce stigma and discrimination associated with the condition worldwide | MELA PROTECTS Sunscreen | Mela Protects Sunscreen a locally produced sunscreens from local Shea butter to save lives of especially person with albinism from skin cancer | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | MELA-PROTECT Sunscreen is currently being piloted in Ghana and scalable in most African countries producing Shea butter. The target countries are the west African sub region | No | Proof of Concept | Mela Protects Sunscreen has passed the ideation stage and currently we have the prototype which is going through testing and adjustments to the various weather conditions and making it stable for longer lifespan of the product . We have also secure basic equipment for the production in small amount for the start of scaling. Mela Protects Sunscreen is going through series of testing to confirm it suitability to the use and the environment. | Every year, at least 5 persons with albinism die of skin cancer and over 50% out of 135 participants in a survey complained of various skin problems in Ghana. Persons with Albinism find it very difficult to buy sunscreen due to high cost of these products which can only be found in super markets Ghana has over 6 hours of sunshine which is dangerous to the skin of persons with albinism. As a result person with albinism need constant supply of Sunscreen to survive under this condition. | Mela Protects Sunscreen is a product from local Shea butter produced by persons with albinism in Ghana. This product is to be used by persons with albinism to Protect them from the UV Ray's of the sun to prevent skin damage which lead to skin cancer. Persons with Albinism would be trained to produce this cream hence providing sustainable employment to them. The product is a life saving one and it meant to reduce the prevalence of skin cancer.. | The solution is very unique in the following ways 1. The use of local raw material such as Shea butter and coconut oil 2. It's affordable and readily available to the user 3.shea butter is widely used in Ghana and the west African subregion 4. It moisturizes the skin and give it the protection from the sun for a long time 5. It is produced by persons with albinism giving them sustainable employment and a healthy life 6.it add value to local raw materials | The team currently reached 90% in the development of the Mela Protects Sunscreen. The prototype is undergoing adjustments and testing for stability and long lasting. We are making the necessary adjustments and certification for final introduction into the market. We are piloting the product and have a small laboratory setup for production of 30kg per day | The project is starting in Ghana and hope to reach over 3000 Ghanaian with albinism in the first year of production. We are also exporting the product to the neighboring countries especially Nigeria which provides a large market place for the product. We planned to set up in Ghana and within 5 years to expand to other west African countries. The product hope to impact over a million people with albinism reducing skin cancer to 50% in three years after scaling. Over 200 people to be employed along the production and distribution chain in the next three years | Training for the production staff and other managerial staff for marketing and awareness creation about the product and it distribution channels Material resources and how to get them delivered easily to the production centre In the short to medium term the solution needs financial resources to setup a manufacturing facility with the basic tools for production of the cream. In the long term, we are looking at resources for expansion and getting the product to other countries across Africa for the benefit of all with albinism to combat skin cancer | http://www.kremyproalbiny.com/d%C3%A1rci | https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2434615736590833&id=100001272920376 | Not any yet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chiara Felicia Gabrielle | Amisola | Developh | https://developh.org | Founder & CEO | Female | Philippines | Philippines | English | Technology in the developing world is moving in the wrong direction, and I want my generation to be the one to bridge issues in technology and society before it’s too late. When digital penetration is at an all-time high with radicalization and hate speech being widespread and democracy being undermined -- with many tech leaders only developing for a minority, there’s an issue with the way we’re approaching development and technology; and this isn’t only a case in the Philippines, it’s universal. As part of the first generation growing up with a childhood molded by tech, growing to see the world around me shaped by new innovation that have changed our world today: we’ve defied expectations - worked against tech, challenging norms to instead invest in social good, to invest in people, and to invest in tech that is inclusive, diverse, and empathetic -- what’s necessary in this world. Being part of the UN Solutions Summit would mean I voice out my work with my global nonprofit I’ve grown since 16: redefining how we look at technology and how the next generation enters into it. My nonprofit invests in youth-led innovation for social good - impacting over 70,000 youth in the past three years through offline/online programs, teaching with social good at the center. My work seeks to catalyze innovation for social good by redefining the technology pipeline in developing countries -- giving every youth the opportunity to explore tech by breaking down entry barriers and supporting them actively from outreach to building. We’ve witnessed 70% participation from gender minorities and LGBTQ youth; with 700+ student members that regularly engage and get the opportunity to be supported and retained in the pipeline as they explore technology while building for impact. We’ve seen ventures disrupting civic engagement, mental wellness, education, and poverty -- coming up with unique solutions driven from the worlds they come from. When we empower a diverse generation to be the founders of not only tomorrow, but today - we’re not only paving the way for more technologists -- we’re actively bringing change, impact, and numbers in the space that needs it most. We’re operating differently from accelerators & incubators. We’re student-driven, and we know that students can change the world from their bedrooms - we’re making it happen today, and the world needs to know that and see that innovation comes from the most unexpected places. | Chiara Amisola is a nineteen-year-old founder, activist, software engineer, designer, and Computer Science student at Yale University from Manila, Philippines. She’s the Founder & CEO of Developh, a global nonprofit investing in youth-led innovation for social good across the developing world; seeking to nurture the student founder community and break entry barriers to tech through education and accelerator opportunities to bridge the innovation gap. Since 2016, the organization has impacted over 70,000 youth in offline and online programs. From being born in the slums of Tondo, Manila to discovering code at the age of six: she began building websites, writing, and creating at an early age. She delved into the Philippine startup industry from its boom around 2013 - touching into several social good sectors and building Batid, a civic engagement and digital humanitarianism tool that sought to inform and secure public citizens in an increasingly authoritarian regime. Later, she built Iboto.ph, a voter education tool that engaged over 5 million Filipinos for the 2019 midterm elections. Chiara was recognized as the Student of Vision at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Computing, the world’s largest women in technology conference in 2018 - the youngest to speak on the celebration’s keynote stage. She has gained recognition from the Microsoft Imagine Cup, Philippine Department of Science and Technology, and more. She seeks to explore computational justice while accelerating innovation that matters - empowering student founders who will change the world. | Developh | Developh is an international nonprofit investing in youth-led innovation for social good across the developing world to bridge the innovation gap | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Philippines, Indonesia, India, Thailand, Australia, United States, Singapore, Taiwan | Yes | QBO, Phildev, PLDT | Transition to Scale | Developh has measured growth in terms of its membership of students engaged (100% increase monthly, currently 700 as of July 2019), but is seeking to strengthen its outreach to accelerator lifecycle through repeated tours, workshops, talks, and programs throughout the year to retain student talent at any stage. We’re mainly operating in the Philippines here and seek to gain further international executive leadership to help champion the growth of our tech programs | Technology gap in developing countries. Outside of resource and education, the gap in retention (high school) for students to pursue tech/adjacent fields. The Philippine founder ecosystem has minimal student representation, several gaps in government “technology business incubators” to actual student communities (i.e. no student feedback or metrics collected), and a minimal percent of student projects are built on despite resource allocation and funding. | Developh is unique in the sense that we’re by-students, for-students: and that we create a sustainable model where students are empowered to explore innovation with the foundations of technology and social impact models to do so; have the opportunity to engage in diverse national dialogues and form teams that are more reflective of the problem they want to build for; gain access to career and mentorship opportunities to explore technology and their own capacity for impact in tech as they are educated + tangibly work in the scene - especially in startups; and have their products (whether a full-blown startup/business venture or a social good project with measurable impact) put into fruition. We’re fostering a returning community of youth who will later champion development in their region, fill in several entry gaps that current incubators/accelerators/institutions do not address and are not binded by anything, and have more results. We release more impactful projects: from side hustles turned ventures to engaging multimedia projects that influence hundreds of thousands of people. Long-term, we want to employ our model in other developing countries to create a self-sustaining founder ecosystem in areas that are relatively behind Silicon Valley. We believe that this student-driven nonprofit model can change the way we interact with products in terms of purpose. Our vision is to have more diverse founders and more tech for social good. | As mentioned, Developh is by-students, for-students. We’re heavily powered by community and the data points that we gather from knowing what students truly need to learn, want to build for, and what sectors of technology they want to engage in. Next, we’re an impactful platform open to diverse collaborations: from acting as a recruiting pipeline for corporations while empowering underserved youth from traditionally underrepresented and marginalized communities, to working with different incubators/accelerators/causes to reach out over different nations - addressing timely and relevant needs, while engaging students long after the fact. We’re not another group dropping money and running off; we’re not just building solutions hacked together by people not invested in their problem. We’re working with students who build solutions molded by necessity and experience that are worked in-and-out, we’re working to sustain engagement and get students excited about technology and explore countless potential pathways, and we work ethically + meaningfully - engaging in progressive spaces and building for what the world needs. | We work with a lot of data: from working with people in the education and business sector to see how to outreach, to constantly expanding + evolving our curriculum when we accelerate ventures and projects under our innovation programs. Our core metrics: 1.) students exploring technological fields (interning, high school students entering STEAM courses, conference delegations; the representation numbers from those), and then 2.) the impact of accelerated products -- whether startups or one-off engagement projects like websites or iOS applications. Our model is always in the works and shifting (such as our education curriculum when we outreach to underserved areas), but we have a 100+ strong network of mentors internationally for our programs like talks, webinars, and accelerator for office hours; run an open-source education initiative with dozens of materials for our community to use; maintain relationships with different spaces and institutions to run programs and activities, etc. | Projecting to reach 150,000 students through offline/online programs by the 1st quarter of 2020 -- through talks, webinars, engagement materials, partnering with other communities such as technology/entrepreneurship/design-adjacent clubs who engage with our materials Expand Developh to Indonesia (at least 10 school presence there), and reach out to 200 schools in the Philippines by the 1st quarter of 2020 (currently 80 high schools/colleges) where we source student talent/members from Incubate 10 ventures with a demonstrated impact report (at least in the implementation/validation stage with working prototypes) by the 1st quarter of 2020 | Short-term More youth champion contacts to work on community/career development programs around the region and to sustain impact Funds for offline programming such as outreaches (tours around underserved regions of where we operate) Medium-term Further resources to maintain the capacity of our organization (mailing lists, messaging groups, career boards, opportunity sharing lists, etc.) -- such as mass organizational tools as we hit thousands and thousands of actively-engaged members Long-term Impact investment fund to identify, scout, and work with existing + proven mission-based organizations for our social good accelerator; and for heavily promising teams for our ventures fund Developed curriculum in partnership with institutions, especially technology business incubators; also explore policy to further solidify these partnerships and our view of development starting from educational institutions | Short-term More youth champion contacts to work on community/career development programs around the region and to sustain impact Funds for offline programming such as outreaches (tours around underserved regions of where we operate) Better analytics and survey materials to collect more data about the youth we work with and their needs; and also to perform ecosystem mapping and gain massive insights + anecdotes per region Medium-term Further resources to maintain the capacity of our organization (mailing lists, messaging groups, career boards, opportunity sharing lists, etc.) -- such as mass organizational tools as we hit thousands and thousands of actively-engaged members Industry partnerships with groups working with underserved and more marginalized communities (i.e. homes for abandoned children) to work with student groups without formal schooling Long-term Impact investment fund to identify, scout, and work with existing + proven mission-based organizations for our social good accelerator; and for heavily promising teams for our ventures fund Developed curriculum in partnership with institutions, especially technology business incubators; also explore policy to further solidify these partnerships and our view of development starting from educational institutions | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7QO0VRTDUE&t=1s | Microsoft Imagine Cup Philippines (Finalist) Global Teen Leader 2019 (Winner) AnitaB.org Student of Vision 2018 (Winner) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Michael | Adusei-Nsowah | Primary Health Vision Care - Ghana/ Africa | www.phgglobal.com | Co - Founder/Project CEO/ Optometrist | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | I am a multiple award recipient Health & wellness solution creation Innovator, from Ghana/ Africa, who founded Primary Health Vision Care to create innovative community health promotion & specialist care projects that serve People in Urban/ rural/ deprived communities in Ghana/ Africa, with quality, affordable and sustainable Professional health care services and wellness products through mobile clinic & partnership services, Technology digital delivery services, Health & wellness shop services, & network of Community Volunteers / Ambassadors and Professionals, consolidating and re- structuring the public health inequality bottleneck on a mobile based platform , www.phgglobal.com. Through the innovative Project solutions, I have reached and cared for about 20,000 people, travelled to 14 out of the 16 regions and visited about 200 communities in Ghana. We have scaled and expanding to Rural Communities in other African countries, registering officially in Nigeria, with our project directors. Through this innovative solutions that started as an idea followed by Professional work and actions for the past 4 and over years ( officially), I have received 5 national and international awards including : 1. Top 10 MTN Heroes of Change, 2017( out of 2,400 Nationwide nominations), 2.Top 50 Entrepreneur in Africa, with sustainable project to improve lives and create jobs, African Entrepreneurship Awards, 2016, Morocco ( out of 4,000 Projects). 3. Nominated as the ,7th Most Influential Young Ghanaian ( out of 50 nominations,), 2018. 4. Winner in Social Enterprise ,& Philanthropy categories, Top 50 Most Influential Young Ghanaians, 2018, after public voting. 5. Top 6 Healthcare start Entrepreneur in Sub Saharan Africa, Innovate for Life, Accelerator Program, Amref Health Africa, Kenya ( out of 246 Organizations), 2017. My vision is to see an Africa, where no one dies or get blind or get malnutritious because they lacked Professional care, because of their geographical rural/ deprived poverty community location. Our project the PHG Health Promotion Ambassadors Network,you was selected as one of the UN SDGs Action Cohort competition,2019.We hope to expand through a well cordinated Uber like health app, linking Professionals, Services, Wellness products and the people, working towards the SDGs 3 ,and others creating good health & well being for all through Health promotion projects & social enterprise employable ventures | I am Dr Michael Adusei-Nsowah , a practising Optometrist, Vision Scientist with multiple award recognition in Health & vision care Promotion Innovation & Social Enterprise Philanthropy. I am the Co - Founder / Project CEO of Primary Health Vision Care, which started from ideation to impacting many rural / deprived Communities lives in Ghana/ Africa. I love creating innovative solutions for human life improvement. I am honored to lead this organization to receive these awards which include: 1. Top 10 MTN Heroes of Change, 2017( out of 2,400 Nationwide nominations), 2.Top 50 Entrepreneur in Africa, with sustainable project to improve lives and create jobs, African Entrepreneurship Awards, 2016, Morocco ( out of 4,000 Projects). 3. Nominated as the ,7th Most Influential Young Ghanaian ( out of 50 nominations,), 2018. 4. Winner in Social Enterprise ,& Philanthropy categories, Top 50 Most Influential Young Ghanaians, 2018, after public voting. 5. Top 6 Healthcare start Entrepreneur in Sub Saharan Africa, Innovate for Life, Accelerator Program, Amref Health Africa, Kenya, 2017. | My Solution Primary Health Vision Care.We create innovative community health promotion & specialist care projects that serve People in Urban/ rural/ deprived communities in Ghana/ Africa, with quality, affordable and sustainable Professional health care | We create innovative community health promotion & specialist care projects that serves People in Urban/ rural/deprived communities in Ghana/Africa | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Ghana( Headquaters) & Nigeria( Registered with Project officers) | No | Scaling | Because, we are already in the market, with sustained paid customers, and now expanding the number of Communities we have. Have a workable wellness Shop office coordinating community works, and registered in Nigeria. We are financially self supporting for the past 2 years. | Access to quality, affordable and sustainable Professional health services and wellness products is a public health challenge, in developing nations, worsens in the rural/ remote/deprived communities,as compared to city dwellers. Many die, get blind, and become malnutritious from avoidable or preventable causes, due to untimely delivery or lack or inaccessibility . This bottleneck is what Primary Health Vision Care solves by bridging the Gap through our sustainable innovative project solutions. | Our Solution, termed PHG Care Solutions of Primary Health Vision Care works as we create innovative community health promotion & specialist care projects that serve People in Urban/ rural/ deprived communities in Ghana/ Africa, with quality, affordable and sustainable Professional health care services and wellness products through mobile clinic van & clinic partnership services, Technology digital delivery services, Health & wellness shop services, & network of Community Volunteers / Ambassadors and Professionals, consolidating and re- structuring the public health inequality bottleneck on a mobile based platform , www.phgglobal.com. Through the innovative Project solutions, I have reached and cared for about 20,000 people, travelled to 14 out of the 16 regions and visited about 200 communities in Ghana. We have scaled and expanding to Rural Communities in other African countries, registering officially in Nigeria, with our project directors. Our long term vision is to set up a Technological Wellness organisation with a global digital network app, for most Communities in Africa, expanding our services to these African communities,as we link Professionals, services , health & Wellness centres, with Community Volunteers and People. We hope to set up a Health & Wellness Tourism Spa serving the Sub Saharan Africa region. | Our Solution is unique from other approaches because, we greatly utilised the power of technology to scale and reach many people, with Professional health services counselling & wellness products, as we set up mobile clinic services at the door steps of the people. After which, we partner with local hospital/ clinic who lack our services, for sustainable care, by our team of experts.Wr also have the job creation aspect of training community Volunteers , we call Ambassadors, to retail health & wellness Nutritional products, to the community people, especially mothers & children under 5 years. By this , iur Volunteers are empowered to be self supporting as they passionately work in a network of digital platform care , with Professionals through mobile phone or www.phgglobal.com. This blend of Health services with Social Enterprise sustainable modules make our innovation and methods unique. | We have worked on this for the past 4 years and beyond ( Officially Registered Enterprise ), after some few years of Voluntary service basis. The Team has progressed, as we have being financially self supporting and Expanding, with other Innovative Projects. Our progress is measured through our Monitoring & Research Evaluation team, as we take history records of all People cared for in medical records, with cards given out. Product sold are recorded through out weekly and monthly records achive. Our progress is measured as we balance quality of care, communities reached and sustained, products sold and delivered with transaction records. | Through the innovative Project solutions, I have reached and cared for about 20,000 people, travelled to 14 out of the 16 regions and visited about 200 communities in Ghana. We have scaled and expanding to Rural Communities in other African countries, registering officially in Nigeria, with our project directors. Through this innovative solutions that started as an idea followed by Professional work and actions for the past 4 and over years ( officially), I have received 5 national and international awards including : 1. Top 10 MTN Heroes of Change, 2017( out of 2,400 Nationwide nominations), 2.Top 50 Entrepreneur in Africa, with sustainable project to improve lives and create jobs, African Entrepreneurship Awards, 2016, Morocco ( out of 4,000 Projects). 3. Nominated as the ,7th Most Influential Young Ghanaian ( out of 50 nominations,), 2018. 4. Winner in Social Enterprise ,& Philanthropy categories, Top 50 Most Influential Young Ghanaians, 2018, after public voting. 5. Top 6 Healthcare start Entrepreneur in Sub Saharan Africa, Innovate for Life, Accelerator Program, Amref Health Africa, Kenya ( out of 246 Organizations), 2017. My vision is to see an Africa, where no one dies or get blind or get malnutritious because they lacked Professional care, because of their geographical rural/ deprived poverty community location. | Currently, we need financial investment, networking & global Partnership to scale and build a Technological based system app, purchase Mobile clinic and to train Community Volunteers to be employable with our Wellness products in short term . In medium term to establish other Strategically located health & wellness business shop offices , to coordinate Community activities. In the long term set up A health ,& wellness Spa Organization with clinics, Nutrition care & wellness therapy with modernised health Technological based equipment facilities serving the Sub Saharan Africa region. | Our website for digital consolidated platform for our project progress is http://www.phgglobal.com. | https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCxv45S7_p9bQkzE6HN6SifA | 1.Finalist 10 MTN Heroes of Change, 2017( out of 2,400), 2.Top 50 Entrepreneur in Africa, African Entrepreneurship Awards, 2016, Morocco (out of 4,000). 3. Nominated as the,7th Most Influential Young Ghanaian ( out of 50 nominations,), 2018. 4. Winner in Social Enterprise & Philanthropy categories, Top 50 Most Influential Young Ghanaians, 2018. 5. Top 6 Healthcare start Entrepreneur in Sub Saharan Africa, Innovate for Life, Amref Health Africa, Kenya ( Finalist of 246 Organizations), 2017. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Caroline | Chepkemboi | Eldo Tea Enterprises | www.eldotea.co.ke | Co-Founder | Female | Kenya | Kenya | English | Eldo Tea Enterprises ,is a social enterprise that is on a mission to bring Kenya’s best specialty teas - purple, green , white and black herbal teas to the world.Our specialty teas from Camellia Sinensis are organically processed in smaller batches using green leaf from selected small holder tea gardens in Nandi County, this enables the Eldo tea brand to maintain its key strengths; Capacity, Quality and Consistency. Our tea is organically produced and processed at source, thereafter packaged in eco-friendly material. Our signature purple tea processed with our proprietary process gives a unique purple color, and a bold taste that is not found in any other teas out of Africa. The Eldo Tea Brand “True Taste of Kenyan Tea” was established as a social enterprise with the objective of improving the living standards of small holder tea farmers and rural women in the tea growing region of Nandi County, by increasing income without exploiting or disturbing nature. The Vision is further supported by selling specialty teas such as purple tea, green tea, and white tea directly to consumers and international niche markets. Tea being the second most consumed beverage in the world after water is known to be nutritionally sound with various health benefits when taken regularly supported by numerous research on tea around the world. In addition, Eldo Tea also plays a key role in encouraging the area’s small holder farmers to grow purple tea in their uncultivated land, whose efficacy is guaranteed to meet the health and wellness needs of people interested in a healthy lifestyle. This also ensures as well as encourage; Protection of land erosion, soil degradation and carbon sequestration through massive cultivation. Practice Organic Agriculture using locally available farmyard manure and green manure. Provide social economic support to farmers, and especially women involved in the venture. Supply tea products to consumers processed and packed at source through specialty tea markets, Organic and health food stores. Eldo Tea Enterprises partners with a community of small holder tea farmers based out of Nandi County, Republic of Kenya bringing you a tea experience to life whilst giving you the best in specialty and healthy teas. For where there is tea, there is Life, where there is Tea | CarolineChepkemboi Tormoi is a social agripreneur and Co-Founder of Eldo Tea Enterprises. A social enterprise that partners with Independent Tea Farmers from Nandi County,Kenya. After spending nearly a decade working in customer care and marketing for multimillion dollar health,wellness and food brands, Caroline knows what truly drives health conscious people to embrace a product ,and it is not mastering marketing strategies. It is how well you connect with the heart-beating people what you are trying to do and communicate your understanding to them. Caroline has successfully developed and launched the specialty tea brand Eldo Tea . In addition to her extensive customer care and marketing from various organisations such The Health Shoppe , Nairobi Java House, and East End Chemist. Caroline is a trained Marketer from the Kenya Institute of Management. | Sustainable Tea& Herbs Farming | Farming for Good towards Healthy Living | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Nandi County ,Kenya | No | Proof of Concept | As a social enterprise ,we have recruited Independent Tea Farmers with an opportunity to grow more purple tea a new variety of camellia sinensis thats been developed by Tea Research Institute of Kenya , as well as developing a proprietary manufucturing process for purple tea, value addition in tea extracts. we have successfully introduced the products to the market internationally. | Globally there is an increase in health awareness among the consumers and the need to meet the needs of the health and wellness demand for healthy products. The need for sustainable farming practices and climate smart agriculture to be adopted by farmers , due to climate change. | Value addition to locally produced tea. Improved social economic status and food security for our partner farmers. Climate change impact through protection of land erosion and soil degradation. Health benefits from antioxidant properties of specialty teas resulting in preventive rather curative health | We seek to provide specialty teas for discerning tea lovers, health and wellness consumers to meet their need for authentic, organic and superior tea beverage, working with over 500 independent tea growers enabling us to serve the needs of the most discerning markets. As a social enterprise in agribusiness value chain based out of Nandi County, Kenya. We are on a mission to bring Kenyan specialty tea to the world under the brand name: Eldo Tea “True taste of Kenyan tea” | Research and development in collaboration with Researchers from( KIRDI) Kenya Industrial Research Institute and Tea Research Institute to achieve our goals of fortified tea products and food supplements. | by aligning our enterprise to Poverty alleviation , food security, economic development of our partner farmers by providing opportunities to diversify into herbs farming to increase incomes and improve livelihoods. We plan to increase number of farmers to 5000 and 300 job opportunities for youth and women. | We need to put up a processing facility ,to be able offer our tea & herbs from source to customer. Acquisition of manufucturing and packaging machinery to meet customer needs. | https://eldotea.co.ke/ http://app.info.newhope.com/e/er?s=2130&lid=134408&elqTrackId=226039a24815415ea28ba39c7e564550&elq=4e1cae359fc3497388d4de69596c6bd7&elqaid=30178&elqat=1 | https://player.fm/series/biz-chats-with-women-business-owners/caroline-tormoi-eldo-tea-enterprises-kenya | Through the support of International Trade Centre , being a beneficiary of their SITA -Mitreeki project in EA, SheTrades Initiative | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dharsono | Hartono | PT Rimba Makmur Utama (Katingan Mentaya Project) | www.katinganmentayaproject.com | Founder/CEO | Male | Indonesia | Indonesia | English | Dharsono Hartono founded his company, PT Rimba Makmur Utama, in 2007 to develop the Katingan Mentaya Project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. The project is currently the biggest Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) approved REDD+ project in the world, which generates an average of 7.5 million triple gold certified carbon credit annually. The project area was previously under threat of conversion to an industrial acacia plantation. Since over 90% of the carbon stock in the project area lies in the clearance, draining and burning of the underlying peat. Through performance-based carbon financing, the project offers a viable alternative to conversion, preventing the release of greenhouse gases equivalent to 447,110,760 tonnes of carbon dioxide over 60 years. The project works continuously with the local communities in the project area to help them shift from extractive economic activities, such as logging, to more sustainable activities such as rattan cultivation, fisheries and coconut sugar production. | Dharsono Hartono works as the CEO of PT Rimba Makmur Utama, an Indonesian based company developing a 149.800 hectare peatland forest REDD+ project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. His role include marketing and identifying sources of carbon financing through carbon market. Dharsono has experience in financial consulting and international banking, working for multinational companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and JP Morgan in New York, handling merger acquisition, debt management and financing and capital raising. In 2018, Dharsono won an Indonesian EY Entrepreneur - Environmental Avant Garde Award. | Katingan Mentaya Project | Acting locally thinking globally | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Indonesia | Yes | Permian Global, Wetlands International, Puter Foundation | Sustainable Scale | REDD+ is being implemented in other parts of the world. Katingan Mentaya Project shows that REDD+ can work and can be replicated. | The project goal is to develop and implement a sustainable land use model through reducing deforestation and degradation, ecosystem restoration and increasing economic opportunities. The project is designed to achieve: 1. Climate: to deliver credible GHG emission reduction through avoided deforestation & forest degradation 2. Community: To enhance the quality of life, reduce poverty by creating sustainable livelihoods 3. Biodiversity: To eliminate drivers of deforestation and forest degradation | The project prevents the conversion of the forest area to fast-growing industrial timber plantation by having obtained full legal control of the production forest area through ecosystem restoration concession license. The project implements a variety of activities through a holistic approach in order to achieve its objectives. All activities are implemented with full consideration of internationally credible science and standards, conservation priorities, Indonesian laws and regulations, land tenure, socio-economic needs, and community consultation based on free, prior and informed consent principles. The project aims to bring positive change over the next 60 years by conserving the integrity of remaining peat swamp forest, and by playing a crucial role for Indonesia as it sets out to fulfil its emission reduction commitments in the years ahead. | Our project runs a community development program across 34 villages to encourage people to take part in the development of ecosystem restoration plans. The program optimises benefits for the local communities that are expected to have an impact on increasing the income of the target groups. This could eventually reduce activities which are not environmentally-friendly and will contribute to poverty reduction. In cooperation with communities, the project use three principles: responsibility, transparency and equity. We draw an agreement with the community institution, ensuring that both parties are equally positioned. The cooperation program is based on the village plan drawn up by the communities themselves and accompanied by an independent agency. The program selection is based on the agreement with the community using Pentagonal Livelihood methods, which consider five access that exist in society, namely human capital, natural resources, financial resources, physical resources and social resources. After the program is agreed, negotiations are conducted and then legalized in a MOU. In general, community development programs consist of : 1. Inside the concession: Implementation of social management area using adaptive agroforestry systems and the development of non-timber forest products 2.Outside the concession area: 2.1). The development of community livelihood program which is based on the potential of the village 2.2). Programs related to community resilience | Our project is fully validated and verified to the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and the standards of the Climate Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCB). It has achieved triple-gold status under the CCB standards on account of its exceptional benefits. Full details are available at http://www.vcsprojectdatabase.org/#/project_details/1477 | The project aims to prevent the release of the greenhouse gases equivalent to 447.110.760 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 60 years | Support from the local and national government, local communities and the development of carbon market | https://www.katinganmentaya.com https://youtu.be/-oZlLsAR9Ko https://www.cifor.org/redd-case-book/case-reports/indonesia/katingan-peatland-restoration-conservation-project-central-kalimantan-indonesia/ https://revitalization.org/article/katingan-project-protects-restores-endangered-peat-forest-borneo/ https://www.wetlands.org/publications/tropical-peatland-conservation-restoration-katingan-mentaya-indonesia-biodiversity-conservation-climate-mitigation-adaptation/ https://theredddesk.org/countries/initiatives/katingan-peat-forest-restoration-project-central-kalimantan | https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=wd79BHv519Q https://youtu.be/6xpgaxgvotc | In 2018, Dharsono won an Indonesian EY Entrepreneur - Environmental Avant Garde Award. And his company, PT Rimba Makmur Utama was one of the recipients of 2018 Indonesia Sustainable Business Award, and in the same year the company selected as The Most Committed New Member of the Year by UN Global Compact. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sruthi | Maligiveli | The Girl Foundation | www.thegirlfoundation.org | Project Coordinator | Female | India | India | English | Being a sociology student, I always have the desire to work on the societal issues. I think every Indo should give something back to the society, where everyone can lead a happier life and live in a safe society. I love to be a changing agent in the society to create a better world for everyone individual. | Career objective: Seeking a challenging position in the field of social work and Administration, so as to utilize my skills for organizational and individual growth. Academia: Master of Arts in Sociology from Indira Gandhi National Open University. Bachelor of Arts in History, Economics and Public Administration from Osmania University. Work Experience: Working as the Project Coordinator for “THE GIRL” Foundation, TGF, by awakening young minds by conducting awareness programs in Life Skills, Gender Sensitization and Menstrual Hygiene, since August 2017. Roles and Responsibilities: •Visiting the schools in Telangana State and interacting with the students. •Conducting awareness talks on Life Skills •Working on the questionnaire and analyzing their feedback to make more effective ways to motivate the students. Experience: Working for “TGF” gave me an enormous understanding of student’s predicaments. This practical contact with and observation of Government Schools across construct a notion for their amelioration in variant segments. Personal qualities: •Continuous Learner •Disciplined and Optimistic •Hard working and Honest | Changing Agents | Equality, Abuse & Health | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Hyderabad, Telangana | No | Sustainable Scale | Because everything should start at an early age, which we took as a challenge to give them idea and consequences of the most pressing societal problems. We are seeing an enormous change in the areas wherever we go and conduct sessions. And we get very positive response from the students and their parents. | Gender Equality just can't be achieved when women and men enjoy the same rights and opportunities across all sectors of society. It's is not just empowering and educating women, it's more about making the men aware of the vigour and prominence of the women in the society and vice versa. It's about giving equal regard and responsibility to both the sexs.Equality should address each and every issue of the society,which results in, to put the men and women on the same ropes of the society. | Vision for Global Impact is to create a better world for everyone who live in it, which our prime responsible. | Interacting with the children in a different way apart from giving lecturera is what we do, where each and every child of our session thoroughly enjoys our presence. | We are reaching out to many people as time is going on, the development or progress is taking up very fastly, and with the help of international organisation we can reach out to more people and be as a changing agents of the society. | We are ready to take up the sessions all over the world, if we have sufficient funds to travel, that would be our privilege to enlighten every student in the world. | It's my privilege to introduce The Girl Foundation as the most committed social enterprise and NGO which is working on sexual abuse, Menstrual Hygiene, Adolescent Issues, Substance Abuse (Child Sexual Abuse) , Art of parenting, working on POCSO Act in all the rural semi urban Government Schools. Our pilot Project Disha has successfully completed one year program in ZPHS, Lingampally, BHEL. Bringing awareness in the above mentioned topics. Now the second we successfull moved on to Project PAATHSHAAALA, 100 schools campaign, which is committed to address 100 schools across AP & Telanagana. So far we have finished 25 schools and we are sure to complete the rest as soon as possible. In this process of journey we are looking for pitching in more volunteers who can spare their valuable time or help in contributing monetarily ( individually ) we respect your money and time and would be happy to contributing the same for a better and a safer society. | https://www.thegirlfoundation.org/ https://www.facebook.com/thegirlfoundation/ | https://www.thegirlfoundation.org/ | There's lots of media coverage, which you can find on facebook page link provided above. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | AUSTINE WISLEY | NGABWE | CHRIST'S VICTORY CENTRE | WWW.CVCKENYA.WORDPRESS.COM | PROJECT COORDINATOR | MALE | Kenya | Democratic Republic of the Congo | English | Our motivation for applying to be part of the UN solutions summit is to give refugees a voice and ensure that they are not forgotten. We positively impact the world by providing education to everyone without discrimination and despite their background. | Austine Wisley Ngabwe is a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo who lives in Nairobi, Kenya. He is one of the founder members of Christ's Victory Centre, which aims to provide hope to the hopeless through an economic empowerment program for women and youth who lack formal employment. His mission is to empower beneficiaries to be personally responsible for future successes. Austine runs an Education Centre for refugees, where he nurtures and mentors young people and women, and promotes menstrual hygiene by ensuring regular supply of sanitary towels to girls. | REFUGEE CONTEST | The trauma that often precedes a refugee | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Kenya | No | Proof of Concept | Our solution is at the proof of concept stage because it is already in action. This means that the idea has already been proven to be feasible due to the fact that we have been able to implement it and has shown progress over the years. We have managed to educate refugees and have provided them with a path to higher education. | Our solution addresses goals number 1 and 2.We educate refugees,children that come from families that are not well off and adults who wish to learn English. This helps solve goal 1 in that education helps in eradicating poverty. It opens doors to various opportunities in terms of employment. The solution is also relevant to goal 4 because it provides quality education to all genders. | Our solution entails ensuring refugees that seek asylum in Kenya are able to get quality education despite facing the hardships that come with relocating to a new country under such circumstances. This, coupled with educating the locals who are not well off meets our vision to make education available to everyone without any discrimination. Our ultimate goal is to positively impact the lives of everyone we educate by giving them a chance of having a brighter future. We envision expanding and accommodating people from all over the world that need our help thereby making the world a better place not just for a few people but for everyone. | This solution is unique in that, we, the pioneers are also refugees and therefore understand the challenges involved in living in a host country. Such challenges include language barriers, trauma, the difference in culture, the change in the education system and having to start afresh.Our methodology involves sharing our experience which enables us to better deal with the refugees and our stories act as a testament that things do indeed get better. | Our solution has been in progress for 10 years and over that period of time, the number of students we host has been gradually increasing . We measure our progress by the number of lives we have managed to positively alter. An example is having a huge number of the adults who were in our English classes getting jobs and others starting their own businesses. In those years,we have also managed to form a women's group that helps in integrating the female refugees and some locals who are not well off into the society. | Our number 1 goal is to buy a piece of land in which we can expand our school. We aim to provide better infrastructure and accommodate more students, both refugees and locals. | Our short term needs include getting more stationery, purchasing new uniforms for the students and providing food for them while at school. Empowering/training teachers and women in our women's group via workshops is our medium-term need.Lastly, our long-term needs include getting a proper and stable water supply,purchasing a piece of land and finally constructing a modern school. | https://cvckenya.wordpress.com/about/ https://www.facebook.com/cvckenya/?ref=br_rs | https://www.facebook.com/cvckenya/videos/338462626759666/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Vaibhav | Lodha | ftcash | www.ftcash.com | Founder | Male | India | India | English | Every year, millions of people fall back into poverty due to health problems, financial setbacks, and other shocks. Compounding this situation is the fact that most those living in or near poverty lack even the most basic banking services. Effective tools for saving, sending, and borrowing money and mitigating financial risks can help people weather setbacks and achieve greater financial stability over the long term. Most poor households operate almost entirely in the cash economy. This means they use cash, physical assets or informal providers (such as money lenders) to meet their financial needs—from receiving wages to saving money. However, these informal mechanisms can be insecure, expensive, and complicated to use. And they offer limited recourse when a major problem arises, such as a serious illness in the family. ftcash is converting cash to digital payments thereby creating unique transaction history which didn't exist earlier. We provide preapproved advances/loans which can be disbursed at the click of a button and which can be uniquely paid back from their daily transactions, something like a daily EMI. While the proliferation of WhatsApp and Facebook has transcended from metros to cities and even villages we believe ftcash will be the enabler for them to accept electronic payments and access to institutional finance. We believe that it's time ""The Missing Middle"" comes of age and gets access to better health, education, and nutrition through financial inclusion. As most large corporates and banks compete to deliver financial services, ftcash captures a formally ignored market like the micro-merchants. ftcash creates a simpler way to access the payments into their bank accounts and make transactions in a faster, more convenient manner. ftcash enables that financial inclusion provides social and economic justice to these underserved communities. Improved cash flows, better cash management and purchasing ability provides a base of a just society. UN Solutions Summit is the new age of connected intelligence creates unlimited opportunities for anyone. It is a springboard to get inspired and transform ideas into action. It is a crowdsourcing innovation engine where we draw ourselves to the edges to drive solutions to rather difficult social problems. Being a participant can provide a right platform to highlight some of the work we are doing and connecting with the right minds who are working to solve world problems through innovation. | Vaibhav is the Co-founder of ftcash, one of India's fastest growing financial technology company, recognized by Forbes, backed by PayPal and MasterCard. ftcash empowers the 60+ million underserved micro-merchants in India through financial inclusion using digital payments and loans. Vaibhav was conferred by His Royal Highness Prince William & Kate Middleton in 2016 in India. Previously, Vaibhav was a Director, Global Development at XPRIZE, leading the first global prize that targets the problem of access to water. He has been associated with The World Bank where he advised the Government of India for a project worth $1 billion. Vaibhav started his professional career as a management consultant where he consulted several Fortune 50 clients. Vaibhav has received a number of accolades and awards over the last few years. In 2017, World Economic Forum selected him as a Davos 50 among the Global Shapers to represent the voice of millennials for their Annual Meeting at Davos. He was recently awarded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge for his work in Inclusive Innovation. Vaibhav was chosen as 'Achiever of the Year - 40 under 40' by Businessworld, India. Vaibhav is an avid speaker and contributor at international conferences & media outlets such as TEDx, Nobel Peace Committee for Business, World Economic Forum, CNN, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine among others. Vaibhav is an engineer from NIT, Tiruchirappalli where he was awarded Distinguished Alumni Award – Young Achiever in 2017 and an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School. | ftcash | ftcash empowers the 60+ million underserved micro-merchants in India through financial inclusion using digital payments and loans. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | India | Yes | Mastercard, Paypal, Facebook, HDFC Bank, National Payment Corporation of India, Proctor and Gamble, Global Shapers Community of World Economic Forum, Acumen Fund, Global Good Fund, The Asia Foundation, Columbia University, Stanford GSB | Scaling | ftcash is currently serving 30,000+ merchants impacting over 150,000 lives with a 30% month over month growth. The organization processes over $60 million yearly and has a delinquency rate of less than 3% for this segment of small merchants. We believe with these figures have proved our model. With the infusion of capital from likes of FMO and Accion in the tune of $7 million, we are scaling our business to impact millions globally. | India has 60+ million micro-merchants and small businesses but less than 4% of these merchants have access to capital. These merchants are never catered by the banks and NBFCs as they do not have any credit history or collateral. In most cases, these micro-merchants are given loans at exorbitant rates by devious money lenders. This results in a gap in financing for what has been coined as the ‘missing middle.’ | ftcash is converting cash to digital payments thereby creating unique transaction history which didn't exist earlier. We provide preapproved advances/loans which can be disbursed at the click of a button and which can be uniquely paid back from their daily transactions, something like a daily EMI. While the proliferation of WhatsApp and Facebook has transcended from metros to cities and even villages we believe ftcash will be the enabler for them to accept electronic payments and access to institutional finance. We believe that it's time ""The Missing Middle"" comes of age and gets access to better health, education, and nutrition through financial inclusion. As most large corporates and banks compete to deliver financial services, ftcash captures a formally ignored market like the micro-merchants. ftcash creates a simpler way to access the payments into their bank accounts and make transactions in a faster, more convenient manner. ftcash enables that financial inclusion provides social and economic justice to these underserved communities. Improved cash flows, better cash management and purchasing ability provides a base of a just society. | a. Combined payments and loans platform allows us to access proprietary data of payments used to give our loans which are uniquely repaid back from the payments platform. b. Merchant relationship through payments platform also allows us to access alternate data from his mobile phone that allows us to gauge the risk better. We conduct a separate psychometric analysis for the merchant to understand this intent to pay the loan back. | ftcash provides a software and hardware based full-stack payment solution to small merchants to initiate digital payments in less than 5 minutes. In addition, ftcash uses its proprietary algorithm to understand the credit-worthiness using their transaction flow data on the payments platform along with several other data points including psychometric analysis, which can be leveraged to provide these underserved SMEs with institutional finance. After disbursement of loans, the collections is done using the payments platform for their future receivables. The solution has been operation for over 4 years in the market and is currently being scaled to empower 60+ million micro-merchants in India. | Planned Goals for next 5 Years: 1. Impact over 1 million micro-merchants in India and across emerging markets (South Asia, Latin America and Africa) 2. Impact over 5 million lives with access to better livelihood. | At ftcash, we envision to enroll over 1 million merchants in the next 5 years on our platform and provide loans to over 100,000 merchants. 1. Alliances and Corporate Tie-ups: a. We are tying up with FMCG, Pharmaceutical Manufactures and several services related companies to enroll retailers and service providers at scale through a strategic partnership. Merchant Acquisition Cost: Rs. 500 2. Crowdsourcing Merchant Acquisition a. We plan to crowd source our merchant acquisition through social media and local marketing to encourage customers and small business owners to encourage businesses to sign up merchants for a referral bonus. Merchant Acquisition Cost: Rs. 500 3. Social Media a. We have tied up with various social media groups like Mumbai Moms, Mumbai Garment Dealers and Exporters who are home/remote businesses and working on several other partnerships. Social Media activity on these groups allows to reach a large number of merchants and get them to sign up on our page. b. We are also building inroads to these businesses by interacting offline and getting them to signup through the numbers and emails shared on the forums. Merchant Acquisition Cost: Rs. 400 4. Re- seller Program a. We have recently employed senior executive who is leading the charge of Re-seller program. | https://www.ftcash.com/ http://bwdisrupt.businessworld.in/article/MIT-Awards-250K-to-ftcash-for-Most-Innovative-Future-of-Work-in-the-World/12-11-2018-164005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViAjXyGq9HE&t=1s https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/facebook-t-hub-pick-10-indian-start-ups-for-support-programme-1563361538241.html https://www.accion.org/ftcash-raises-approx-7-2m-in-series-a-funding https://www.mid-day.com/articles/mumbai-easy-breezy-will-kat-impress-young-innovators/17126168 https://sites.ndtv.com/therealdeal/contestants/vaibhav-lodha/ https://www.gov.uk/government/world-location-news/six-indian-companies-emerge-as-winners-of-great-tech-rocketships-2016 https://www.paypal-incubator.com/india/portfolio/ http://www.hot100.technology/CompanyProfile.php?View=161 http://www.redherring.com/events/red-herring-asia/2016-finalists/ http://www.isb.edu/news-media/press-releases/sap-and-isb-collaborate-jumpstart-social-enterprises https://www.ciudaddelasideas.com/giftedcitizen/multimedia.php?id=205 | https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/04/ftcash/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYIMmSwsKxA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUkZS0RiKpo | MIT Inclusive Innovation, UK Trade and Investment,President of India, Pitch Day,TechCrunch Disrupt,Singapore Fintech,Abu Dhabi Fintech Festival,Mastercard Global Startpath,Paypal Incubator,IBM Fintech Smart Camp, IBM Fintech Smart Camp, Red Herring Asia 50, NTT Data Open Innovation, IIM Ahmedabad CIIE-IIFL Fellowship, KPMG Hot 100 Startups, NASSCOM Emerge 50, iSPIRT InTech 50, The Fintech20 India, mBillionth Award South Asia, ISB-SAP Social Enterprise Jumpstart, Village Capital Program | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Avinash | Bansal | Leaf Innovation Pvt Ltd | https://leafwearables.com | CTO | Male | India | India | English | We have a vision to provide safety to 1 billion people by 2022. UN is an organization that has the potential to create global impact, brings together people of different countries and beliefs on a common platform. We also at SAFER infra wants to create a global impact with our innovation to bring a positive change. We are a safety tech company providing on-demand safety infrastructure to mobile (eCommerce and food delivery partners, cab aggregators, etc) and immobile assets (like establishments, commercial and residential) within 15 minutes anywhere in the city. I got motivated for the idea since I believe safety has been an issue which hasn't been handled technologically well. There has been practically no innovation in this sector. It's mainly a public sector undertaking leading to no major modernisation. In India, police to population ratio of 131:100k people, thus average response time to every case is fairly high. Apart from that, the statistics of safety issues are staggering. 1 in every 3 women across the world have faced molestation, every 8 minutes a child goes missing, for the past 4 years, more than 200 Domino's delivery boys have died on the job. This deeply hurts us and we are determined to provide safety to people by creating a safety ecosystem of first responders who can reach and audit any problem within 15 minutes and act as a complementer to public police system. We have already monitored 400,000 trips of various clients (in mobility sector) and solved 3700 cases with 73% related to accidents, 19% related to brawls/arguments and 8% others involving harassment, operational inconvenience in last 30 days in Bangalore, India alone. Prior to launching Responder’s network, we were in the wearable space selling SAFER Smart Jewellery in different forms and sold 20,000 units which used to inform about your location to your friends and family in an emergency situation just by the click of a button. Our innovation in hardware space leds us win the prestigious Women Safety Xprize at United Nations in June 2018. | I am a graduate from Delhi Technological University in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2015 working to solve the problem of Safety and create a SAFER world. We launched our first product Safer (an artificially intelligent smart safety wearable ) in 2015 for solving the problem of women safety. We were a part of Prime Minister Modi's delegation to silicon valley as the top 10 innovators of India. Having been featured in more than 700 news articles from the likes of CNN and BBC, we recently won the Million Dollar X Prize Award at United Nations. I'm heading the Technology Department at SAFER now. I have been a Research Scholar in Digital Signal Processing at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign in 2014. I have rich experience in embedded systems with Omnipresent Robot Tech. and team A.I.R (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics) on the autonomous unmanned ground robot. My interest lies in making things actually work. | SAFER Infra | We are a safety tech company providing on-demand safety infrastructure to mobile (eCommerce and food delivery partners, cab aggregators, etc) and immo | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | India, South Africa, Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil. | No | Transition to Scale | We are working with 3 clients in the mobility sector solving 100+ cases of safety on-road and also part of the World Bank Project where we are providing safety to 3000 women students in their skill development program. There is only 8% conversion in these institutions who join the mainstream labor force mainly due to safety issues. We are ensuring their safety to see if we can improve the percentage turn up. Since we are setting up operations PAN Delhi and Bangalore, we are in scaling stage. | We are addressing the problem of safety and unavailability of a single-window for threat assessment and handling in a small stipulated timeframe. Due to poor police to population ratio in developing country like India, the response time of the police network is pretty high. We as a company wants to protect People, Protect Assets and Protect Brands | We provide several touchpoints like a Trigger app, APIs for the client, toll-free number, etc through which our clients share the details and location of the emergency alert. We have our Rangers and shared sites spread across the city strategically who have our SAFER app installed. These people mark themselves ONLINE when they come to work. As soon as an alert comes, the system automatically searches for the nearest Ranger and allots the case to him. He navigates to the site and solves the matter as per Standard operating procedures well designed in accordance to handle medical and combat situations. Our long term vision is our predictive analysis and machine learning algorithms can start deploying our Rangers smartly that our response time can go even further lower and we can serve better and faster. Then we can open our system for B2C and create a chatbot in WhatsApp or Facebook and let people directly ask for help and we can solve public cases as well. | Current solution is mainly dependency on police department or private safety companies who provide QRT teams. But we are more like a complementors to police than a competition. Primarily the immobile and mobile assets we are targeting, they need our services to safeguard their people in shorter response time and need a quick resolution with the audited report. There isn’t any tech integration through which police dept is providing real-time information with tracking. So we are unique in that regard. Apart from this, our vision is to make a PAN India presence, and since every state government works in a decentralized way, there is no standardization. We fill that gap as well to become a common name for safety for all our clients. Moreover, our value proposition is the Response time, machine learning to predict the occurrence of cases and managing the supply chain accordingly. | We are in a pilot phase right now with 3 clients in the mobility sector and already monitored 400,000 trips of these clients and solved 3700 cases with 73% related to accidents, 19% related to brawls/arguments and 8% others involving harassment, operational inconvenience in last 30 days in Bangalore, India alone. We have certain KPIs that we monitor to keep a tab on our progress. Currently, they are as follows: Average Response time: 12:18 minutes. Avg No of Cases Solved in a day 124 Avg Time per Case 18 Mins 10 Seconds Current Operation Efficiency 12 Cases/Ranger/Day Net Promoter Score 24 | We are planning to set up operations in Delhi/NCR and Bangalore. We are creating a strong team of engineers to make a scalable and stable product. Also we are hiring admins for managing control room and trainers for the Rangers. Our first milestone is create a Ranger network of 300 people for Delhi/NCR and 350 people for Bangalore to develop a bandwidth to handle 4000 cases per day. Post that as our clients are available in 300 cities of India, we will expand to those cities before expanding to international markets. Our current efforts have already impacted more than 3700 lives. We want to target to insure 700 million rides that happen across transportation and logistics sector per day in India. And provide Safety to Billion People by 2022. Post that there are several countries with similar designs like Indonesia, South Africa, Philippines, Thailand, which have similar abundance of private security companies which we aggregate and safety concerns in the market. | We are currently looking for the right hires and partners who can help us in improving our processes and help in setting up operations which are scalable and efficient. We have clients looking for quality service which works flawlessly. Post that we will be working in unit economics of our system which comes when we share our inventory of Rangers across clients, then we need to set up a Business Development team to convert more leads. For the long term, we need support from the government and police departments to ensure this service can reach a maximum audience. Some right partners can take us to different countries and help us establish the biggest security company providing safety services to all platforms and can be open as FREE SAFETY for all. | 1. Company website: https://leafwearables.com 2. Youtube video of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZUsiupLQ2o&feature=youtu.be 3. Article in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/denizcam/2018/06/07/safety-device-for-women- wins-1-million-xprize-launched-by-philanthropists-anu-and-naveen-jain/ 4. Article in CNNhttps://money.cnn.com/2016/03/02/smallbusiness/india-women-safety-leaf- wearables/index.html 5. BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-43228311 https://www. rstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/leaf-wearables-a-startup-that- works-for-child-and-women-safety-3674297.html 6. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-safety-women/indian-start-up-wants-to-make-attacks-on-women-a-concern-of-the-past-idUSKBN1K115D | 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZuu50SyH1w 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mExxzzKRw5I 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_opNgdM7OM 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r0mtdd7T4A | - Winner: Anu and Naveen Jain Women Safety Xprize Winner at the United Nations - Winner: DST Lockheed Martin Innovation Award - Winner : Ericsson Innovation Award - Most Promising Young Entrepreneur's Award, Lee Kuan Yew University - Winner: Best Innovation at Philips Blueprint - Atal Innovation Mission Awardee - Most promising Young Entrepreneur at - Winner of 10 minutes million, IIT Bombay - Asia Champions of Eureka, IIT Bombay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Huram | Konjen | Dianox | www.dianox.org | CEO | Male | Denmark | Denmark | English | My team is working on a new diagnostic biotechnology to help the hundreds of millions that are still not diagnosed, but in order to succeed we need partnerships with NGOs and medical universities. Before we can initiate these partnerships, we need to show that we have widespread support. This is where the UN Solutions Summit comes into play as it gives us an opportunity to get exposure on the increasing challenges of hepatitis, and serves as an opportunity to inspire other entrepreneurs to move into this field. | I am a tech savvy generalist with an ability to link technology with the business domain. I have spent the last few years developing my complexity management skills in the driver's seat of impact projects in global organizations. I am now working on a biotechnology opportunity where I can cultivate my entrepreneurial spirit and lead meaningful innovation efforts on a global scale. | Dianox | 300 million people suffer from hepatitis. Our mission is to reduce this number to zero. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Currently researching in Denmark and the US, it will be implemented in Philippines to begin with. | No | Research & Development | We have spent a year to validate the societal problem and business case by talking to various experts from the Gates Foundation, WHO and Deloitte. We are currently running experiments to get to Proof of Concept stage with our biotechnology. | Hepatitis is one of the leading causes of death in the world with almost 2 million people dying from it every year. Many cases of hepatitis are treatable and some even curable, but to do so one needs to be tested for the virus. Even though hepatitis is a global epidemic very few people get tested for it. Only 10% of people living with hepatitis have been diagnosed. There is a clear lack of accessible early diagnostic tools. | We have designed an accessible and cheap alternative to the current painstaking process of testing for hepatitis. A self-test consisting of a diagnostic chewing gum that can detect hepatitis. The gum is chewed for 2-5 minutes, and if the subject has the hepatitis virus, the gum simply changes color. The color change takes place minutes after the gum comes into contact with the subject's mouth, and responds to hepatitis biomarkers in the saliva. This makes it quick and easy to screen broad populations for hepatitis. Chewing gum is naturally salivating, which makes the testing process pleasant, instead of using a cotton swab to uncomfortably prod the glands to secrete saliva. Chewing gum is also the world’s most common habit. It dates back 9.000 years, and is deeply embedded in most cultures around the world. This makes gum an ideal design for a scalable diagnostic test that even children would not object to. | All current hepatitis tests are blood based and require trained medical staff, which means the need for anonymity is overlooked. The ability to test anonymously is critical to avoid the stigma of having an incurable and highly contagious virus that can be sexually transmitted. Depending on the region, being diagnosed with hepatitis by a doctor can result in getting fired from your job, and even being ostracized from your community. There are a number of advantages to using saliva instead of blood as a diagnostic tool. Here are the most beneficial qualities of a saliva based test: - Non-invasive - Safe to administer at home (no needles) - No need for trained medical staff By utilizing saliva instead of blood, we are able to develop a self-test for hepatitis that addresses the most critical need of patients, specifically the need for an anonymous test. | We have run a few experiments to determine how to get the chewing gum to change color when it comes into contact with saliva. Now we are developing the biotechnology that detects and quantifies the hepatitis virus. | We are fighting to eradicate deaths from hepatitis. We believe the best way to do this is by introducing an accessible early screening diagnostic test to the market. Our immediate goal is to recruit one more technical co-founder as the research we are conducting is very complex. Our vision is to create a hepatitis diagnostic test that costs 80% less to scale than current market solutions. This has the potential to improve the diagnostic rate of hepatitis from the current 9% to 90% that the WHO has set as a target. | Short-term ressources: Experienced wet lab researchers to mature the biotechnology Medium-term: Intellectual property to secure competitive advantage Long-term: Partnerships with relevant NGOs and manufacturers | As we are at a very early stage, we do not have much work that is available publicly yet. We are waiting with publishing scientific journal articles until our IP is secured. We have recently applied to a number of patents, but these have yet to be released on public websites. http://dianox.org/ | https://youtu.be/opg0TQ5N_Kw | - Venture Cup National - Venture Cup World Cup (finalist - competition is still ongoing) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nikhil | Gehlot | Ideaforage Innovations Private Limited | NA | Founder & CEO | Male | India | India | English | Motivation There are two reasons 1. Emotional - I want to contribute back to education and improving the pedagogy. 2. Factual - Edtech is a growing and there is a lot of opportunities to create products and venture, which can solve problems, creates jobs and give good returns to Investor | Nikhil Gehlot is the Director of Ideaforage Innovations Private Limited. He has four years of experience in both the profit and non-profit sectors. He is a first-class graduate in Civil Engineering from SRM University, India. He has worked with Development Alternative, VSO India and Ashoka: Innovators for Public. His expertise includes strategic collaboration, Problem-solving, and Enabling technologies to create inclusiveness and reach masses. He has been the recipient of Multiple Scholarships and awards. His creative and technical work has been featured in Limca Books of World Records and prestigious journals. He has delegated to Singapore, Malaysia, and Brussels to be part of various Conferences, youth forums and Summits. | Trigonik | World's First Trigonometry Based Board Game | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | India | No | Transition to Scale | We have created one of the most amazing board games every design. Educational board games are very high in demand especially for the children from the age group of 10-18. We also have got the Intellectual Property rights for this game and pre-order in the prototype stage. We are constantly working on the next version and variant of this product as well as Mobile application to reach masses. | More than 150 million children in the world have learning lags, these learning lags are due to disadvantaged background, disability, gender bias, and poor quality education. Most of these students are being ignored in the schools and not being able to get the pedagogy Fear of topics like trigonometry, which is one of the most important subjects for the long term career, is still not being gamified, due to which many students are not being able to learn and develop the skills in future. | As per the leading Media Portal, the Guardian “Maths Anxiety” causing fear and despair in children as young as six which can cause physical symptoms and behavior problems in classes. Trigonik is a Trigonometry based Educational board game exclusively designed for students & people above the age of 10 above, globally there are 59 million children in 195 countries. This game will reduce the anxieties and improve the learning outcome, it will also reduce the burden of teachers, time is the best asset of any school and teacher usually it takes 60 - 90 minutes or 2-3 periods for teachers teach the basic concept, with this game the burden will get removed. There are still old traditional practices and pedagogy used to teach the children which doesn’t help all the students. With this, we are empowering all the students and teacher with a new to create a positive impact. | Board games are one of the entities which come under monopoly products, every board game on this planet is unique and I respect all the creator, artist and designer for their respective creation in this segment, even if have to factually and logically justify the uniqueness of it this game, there are three points which separate this board game from all the other board games globally, first the topic we have chosen, there is no company or individual who has taken an effort to gamify trigonometry, I am the first person to do it, second the dices, all the dice-based board game have a common dice which was created long back, I have been able to create the world’s first trigonometry based dices ( exclusively for this game, third board games are very expensive, we are launching multiple variants of it, which will start from as low as one dollar ( 70 Rs/- ). It will be one of the most affordable board games, which opens up the opportunity to reach the bottom of the pyramid. We have a global mission for “ Trigonik ”. We want to reach 5.9 Million schools globally, But We believe that the real social impact happens when we create a product or service for the people who are always being ignored. We will launch a Braille version for the Blind people. The Mission is to serve 36 Million Blind people and 246 billion Visually Impaired. These Exclusively created 3D Trigonik Braille version will be distributed and sold to all the blind school globally via order or CSR Activity. | We have so far received the order of 500 boxes to get deliver to various schools, we are also preparing the braille version of it as well. We will launch this product in october As far as measuring the Impact, we will be constantly taking feedback from the user, of their initial experience with the game, using various survey form. Our sale of the product will also be defining a lot of impacts,if our sales are getting increasing, it will show that the product is getting word of mouth. | If we have to reach to every school on this planet, one day per school, it will take us sixteen thousand years, we have recently got an IPR and now we are ready to produce, we also have a pre-order from some people, In the next one year we will be closely doing impact assessment with one thousand children with different backgrounds. Although we had tested with some users and ready to capture the market share, We have to create multiple campaigns in various school and cities via collaborating with NGOs and channel partners, We will be creating a volunteer-based system to empower young people to advocate for this product, we will be training one thousand teachers, which will become agents for us to deploy this product. Meanwhile, we will be working on various version of the board, creating a Mobile and web-based application. We are setting a target to sell 1 lakhs boxes globally via online and offline mode. We will pitch to investors as well to make them part of our mission. | As far as measuring the Impact, we will be constantly taking feedback from the user, of their initial experience with the game, using various survey form. Our sale of the product will also be defining a lot of impacts,if our sales are getting increasing, it will show that the product is getting word of mouth. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVWeZ9vh_5VgbzU8hkTn7S90p-8DVCNU/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DMsNT5wU6KWHkPw3DKvK8XT54eoXdMYk/view?usp=sharing | Yes, we have received an Award and Intellectual Property rights. Being the first to come out with the Trigonometry based board in the world. We have successfully entered into India book of records 2020 Edition. We also have got the Intellectual property right from Govt. of India, which Includes the Copyright, Industrial Design Rights and trademark. This achievement and acknowledgment are itself add value and credibility to our product. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Steeve | Casimir | ATOULA.Org | atoula.org@gmail.com | Communicant extern | Male | Haiti | Haiti | English | French | I am very glad to be part of this member group in order to share and have new purpose scientist so that will help me and my community benefits this program. | I am Steeve Casimir, i am twenty eigth years old. Then i have a degree in Tourism anp sculpture and a diploma in hospitality. | Applying sustainable for the growth economic changing community. | This concept should allow the community to grow their economic without wasting the natural and cultural things that they have in their opootunity now. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Haïti, nowasday , respond as one country that this project may be implemented so i hope so this project will help peopke to serve better with the things in the world. | No | Sustainable Scale | This will impact the changing of thinking the population and i hope this will permit every one in the community to live in a better, safe, resilient place and sustainable. | Waterless Hungry Climate environment | We plan to register and built a community in every block and this group who is formated will be able to act and suggest new purpose in the global community. | Act Change purpose new objectif | We are now following an ambition project together. | We do a lot things in the community. | We love our communith and planning for changing. | We hope that the best is yet to come. | We plan for everything | Aknowledge Tourism inovation Cilture program | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Johnmary | Kavuma | Upcycle Africa | www.upcycleafrica.org | Founder and CEO | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | I grew up as a poor orphan without access to good housing. Rain at night meant the end of sleep to my grand-mother and me. When I was 19 years old. The poor drainage system next to our house could flood due to high accumulation of plastic waste dumped in the trenches. It led to the collapse of our house. I only survived with huge wounds, my only grandmother died from the injuries she suffered. I was able to turn my challenges into a motivation of creating my company Upcycle Africa . I was fortunate early in my life to find the intersection of what my passion was and the world greatest need. The experience of growing as a poor orphan in Uganda motivates me to work towards sustainable development goals especially SDG 13. I experienced first-hand the brunt of climate change and how that shapes the level of injustices and inequality that meet people daily. I believe human will act when informed and empowered. I am on a mission to raise awareness and inspire others to join me and act now! I founded Upcycle Africa which transforms the waste crisis in Africa into employment opportunities for marginalised groups of people while training them the skills of turning plastic waste into affordable and eco-friendly homes. We have so far constructed over 110 houses out of plastic bottles and other plastic waste like jerry cans and car tyres. Empowered (Trained) over 120 youths creative building techniques, employed 108 women as plastic sorters and compactors. We have reached over 200000 people while changing their mind-set about plastic waste use. With our slogan “Waste is not waste not until you waste it” By the end of this year we hope to construct 17 and more houses out of plastic waste in different parts of Uganda and Africa. I hope to gain Entrepreneurial skills and knowledge on business management such as business financing, marketing, staffing and scaling up of business. I believe that through networking and interactions with like-minded persons, I will appreciate how similar businesses are run elsewhere and how challenges are addressed. I hope to acquire more Leadership skills which will enable me lead my team better, and encourage them to work together for prosperity of business. My entry into the fellowship will hopefully enable me acquire more skills and experience in running an empowerment based business so as to impact the world positively. I equally hope that I shall be able to pass on skills of management to my teams and to many other people. | I am Kavuma Johnmary, a Ugandan enterpreneur, change maker, and an environmentalist. I am passionate about uplifting the lives of marginalised groups of people while conserving the environment. I have volunteered with several organisations in line with that. In 2015 i founded Upcycle Africa which empower communities to protect the environment while constructing affordable homes out of plastic waste. I am also the co-founder Kimuli Fashionability, an initiative that is unchaining persons with disabilities from the bondage of discrimination and unemployment/underemployment by equipping them with hands-on creative tailoring skills to turn plastic waste into upcycled fashionable clothing. Through my work, i seek to demonstrate to the world that ""disability is not inability."" and ""waste is not wase untill you waste it "". Additionally I am also a peer educator at tech for community trying to bridge the digital gap by availing opportunities to everyone in rural communities starting from younger generation to youth and women. I love passing on skills to other people so that i can break the barriers that keeps them poverty. | Transforming the waste problem into opportunities by provinding affordable homes | We transform the waste crisis in Africa into employment opportunities for marginalised groups of people while training them upcycling skills. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and Nigeria | Yes | environmentally cousious organisations | Scaling | We have so far constructed 117 houses in different parts of Africa. Provided shelter to over 10 marginalised families. Upcycle Africa has created direct jobs to 178 women in our five communities of operation who serve on contract as waste pickers. Our school recycling project recovers plastic waste from over 52 schools monthly while educating students on good waste management practices. We would like to change the mind-set on the way people think and dispose of plastic waste. | There are over 150 Million Tons of Plastic already in the oceans. Experts predict that there will be more plastic than fish in oceans by 2050. Housing is still very expensive especially for people living in slums and low income areas. dignified housing is expensive considering that these families earn an average of $40 as monthly income. The lack of quality housing compromises people’s health and development opportunities | Our long term vision for the global impact is to build a social business that is standing for environmental conservation and uplifitng the lives of marginalised groups of people. We are looking forward to rise a generation that is counsious to enviromental safety through our senstization programs. | Our competitive advantage is that we train and promote on the employability of marginalized youth through training them with free hands-on skills of creative construction to be able turn waste into finished houses and acquire self-sustainability. In this we address two main potential issues, proper waste management, Inclusion and employment marginalized youth. We construct long lasting up-cycled houses for example constructed using plastic bottles, roofed with plastic jerry-cans and rubber while breaking the stereotypes the community has towards plastic waste. | My team has progressed in building this solution whereby its now considered the best as far as construction homes from plastic wste is considered. In this we have been able to be the source of information to most organisation internation on how to construct homes from plastic wste. We count our progress by caunting the number of waste collected from different areas and the number of people whose behaviour changed on the way they dispose off plastic wste. We also measure our impact by the number of homes/ houses constructed. We are able to measure our impact by number of people reached for example in a country. | Our goal is to build a social business that is standing for evironmental conservation and uplifting the lives of marginalised groups of people. Our mile-stone is to construct more homes in Southern part of Africa. West and Central. We hope create a wareness change people mindset on the way they think and dispose of plastic waste. We hope to get more people on our team so that we can be able to excute our desired goals. We are on a mission to raise awareness, inspire other to join us and act now. | Funding that can aid us to scale to almost all African countries, An efficient and skilled team as our ambassordors in different parts of Africa. We are looking forward for more partners on board so that we can be able to scale to every part of Africa. We are lacking connections to the right people. | Facebook page https://web.facebook.com/upcycleafricalimited/ Twitter https://twitter.com/Upcycle_Africa Instagram https://www.instagram.com/upcycle_africa_limited You-tube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk7R19zVnlUdEb8wcyap5Aw?view_as=subscriber Website www.upcycleafrica.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT1spms1Lso Urban TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT1spms1Lso Urban Tv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xwx71Y9F38 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgJZWLPbDEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irdyxegY_50&t=9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOi9lbT-aKk&t=2s | i was a finalist at the Ye-community Awards and i was selected as the out standing enterpreneur with my enterprise Kimuli Fashionability. I was also received an honarable mention at the Rice Awards in Washington US, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anastase | BUCYANA | FABUWI LTD | https://fabuwi4.webnode.com/ | Managing Director | Male | Rwanda | Rwanda | English | French | Am BUCYANA Anastase, Managing Director of FABUWI Ltd and I have dreams that my opinions will be one time considered for better improve population's life all over the world. We have project named "" Have liquid soap by yourself, eradicate Ebola, this project aims to teach everyone on how to produce liquid soap at home using available materials, and this will facilitate them to hand wash as necessary as well. We have started by teaching community health workers from the villages, in order to distribute the soap to the mother who come to them for health care especially when child has diseases from poor hygiene; they automatically teach the mother about hand washing techniques. We introduce this innovation because normally the liquid soap is very expensive and population knows that is for only the riches and the access is very difficult for them to get it. As recommended by WHO, It is not safe to use solid soap in hand washing because can cross the micro organisms to the hands then the techniques of hand washing is not sufficient. We are experts in the domain of soap production and while we get funds we can automatically expend at worldwide level and we eradicate diseases from poor hygiene as is known that are more percentage than others especially in sub sahara Africa. We talked about Ebola because nowadays is ravaging the African continent and can be spread at all over the world so we can sing the song says that"" No Hygiene, no life"". | We have more experience in soap production in Rwanda and distribute in Host community to be used, when we make supervision in the villages where we are operating the number of diseases from poor hygiene is drastically decreased, reference made. | Have liquid soap by yourself, eradicate Ebola! | We will facilitate the population by teaching them on how to produce the liquid soap by themselves and they automatically use it. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Is operating in one district of Rwanda, and have dreams that expending them in sub saraha Africa. | No | Scaling | The project is operated in sampled zone of Rwanda country for sometimes gets funds will be operating in all the country why not the continent or worldwide. | The high number of population who get sick are mostly affected by diseases from poor hygiene, due to do no hand wash effectively. Means using clean water and liquid soap. | When the population knows to produce themselves the liquid soap with available tools, they will use it without problem and they will not get sick every time. And their economy will grow as well. | The teaching of the role of effective hand washing in Host community will facilitate them to initiate the start-up of producing it. Here the references and examples will be given. | One year ago with the struggle of implementation of the project in sampled zone of activity. | The goal is to have easily liquid soap at home produced by the population themselves, and while we implement the project we will need at least project coordinator at every district and liquid soap producers as techniques at least one in sector. Here we will count the number of the districts and sectors. | Human resources according the zones of operations Financial resources buying some materials and payment of employees Material resources must have machines for facility of production. | https://fabuwi4.webnode.com/ | https://fabuwi4.webnode.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | STEPHEN UCHENNA | EZURIKE | STEFF OIL NIGERIA LIMITED | Nile | Executive director | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I would love to have an experience so as to enable me make an impact on my community | Am a business man and also an entrepreneur | Youth empowerment program | Empowering the youths | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Nigeria | No | Research & Development | We are still very young and we need support, the government of Nigeria is not really doing anything for the youths so we need to attend summits and seminars in other to learn more and bring back to our country to impact on the youths and development of our country. | Sustainable development and agricultural development | We are researching | We are creating awareness to youths of Nigeria on the needs to be self sufficient and independent . | We believe so far we still need the partnership of some foreign countries to enable us attending summit and seminars to learn more. | Right now we have not attended any summit in the USA. We would love to go and learn and come back to impact on our young youths. | We need support from foreign leaders | Still under development | Still under development | None yet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mavis | Nduchwa | Chabana Farms | www.chabanafarms.com | CEO | Female | Botswana | Botswana | English | Botswana is home to the world’s largest elephant population in the world. Every year farmers lose their crops to elephants, a single elephant can wipe out an entire family’s annual food produce in one go. Chabana Farms helps mitigate the conflict between farmers and wildlife conflict. Elsewhere in Africa the solution is to shoot elephants, at Chabana Farms we believe the solution is smaller than a bullet. BEES, our solution are bees. We use bees as living fences around the farms. We train and supply farmers with beehives. We then create markets for farmers by buying back the honey from them. It works, elephants do not like bees, especially when they go into their nostrils and therefore keep away. Using bees we currently 1. Create jobs for more than 300 women farmers 2. Contribute to the food security as farmers are now able to harvest their crops 3. Help save wildlife as farmers no longer have to shoot elephants in their farms 4. Conservation, bees pollinate 70% of the planet plants 5. Gender based violence- we have seen a significant decline in the numbers of gender based violence as women are now empowered and have jobs We currently supply the local market with raw desert honey, we also export to Lesotho and Namibia | Mavis Nduchwa is the founder and CEO of Chabana Farms, a agribusiness startup in Botswana that works with communities to alleviate hunger and poverty in rural areas through various social projects. The recipient of 2018 Most Outstanding African Entrepreneur (Tony Elumelu Foundation), Mavis’s passion is in the food symbiosis. Mavis Nduchwa is a 2019 BBC judge in a show The Food Chain, The Global Food Champion. She currently sits in the African Union AU-IBAR Committee Southern Africa as the Financial Controller. Mavis Nduchwa was born 35 years ago in Francistown Botswana | Changing the world one bee at a time | We are using bees to help fight human wildlife conflict | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Botswana, Zambia | No | Sustainable Scale | We have 10% of the local honey market, we export to two of the neighboring countries Lesotho and Namibia. We recently registered for export of our desert honey to United States Of America. Our customer return rate has more than doubled in the past 14 months | We are addressing the problem of 1. farmer wildlife/elephants conflict 2. Unemployment in rural areas 3. Conservation of both wildlife and plants 4. Gender Inequality | Elephants naturally do not like bees, we therefore use bees as living fences around the farms to keep the elephants away. This is a more better and natural solution than farmers shooting elephants. The idea is for farmers and the upcoming generation to build a symbiotic relationship to help empower women and children in rural communities though providing training and jobs for them. Using bees we hope to retain some of the plants getting extinct as well as stop desertification. We also hope to reduce and end gender inequalities in rural communities. | Our solution is more natural and most importantly smaller than a bullet. Our solution is solving a number of issues at the same time such as 1. Unemployment 2. Food security 3. Reduced Inequality 4. Conservation We also use the platform to work with schools to teach children in communities about conservation | We have a network of more than 300 farmers who we currently work with. We measure our success and growth with numbers of lives we change at grassroots or communities level. We have set up Botswana’s first honey processing factory in Gaborone | We have currently started exporting our products to USA market, with such a big market we will be able to scale up and grow our farmers network to 1000 farmers in the next two years. This will also enable us to more than double our revenues as well as employ and train more people in the country | Short term To enable us to scale up we need capital 1. To grow our farmer network 2. To expand our processing factory Long term 1. To access more bigger markets 2. To expand our solution to other African countries | http://www.chabanafarms.com http://www.kalaharihoney.com https://venturesafrica-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/venturesafrica.com/8-female-agripreneurs-in-africa-you-should-know-about/amp/ htthttp://www.lionessesofafrica.com/blog/2019/4/7/lioness-launch-chabana-farms-launches-botswanas-first-honey-processing-factoryps://m.facebook.com/ https://impakter.com/chabana-farms/ | https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLnNvdW5kY2xvdWQuY29tL3VzZXJzL3NvdW5kY2xvdWQ6dXNlcnM6NDQ0ODA3MzA5L3NvdW5kcy5yc3M&episode=dGFnOnNvdW5kY2xvdWQsMjAxMDp0cmFja3MvNjM2MTE0MzUx https://youtu.be/7fTXacLPUTI | 2018- Most Outstanding African Entrepreneur (Tony Elumelu Foundation) Fledge14- Seattle USA FemBio Botswana Botswana Private Business Growth Awards 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John Mekinson | Enezer | REJEDRACS | google.com | Gestionnaire | Male | Haiti | Haiti | French | It will be an undeniable pleasure for me to participate in this summit. As a young intellectual, I have to get involved and work for a better world. indeed, I choose to participate because I would like to give my contributions for the eradication of poverty by 2030. As a student in business management, having proposed micro and macro economic solutions, I must also propose a rational use of resources because our needs are unlimited and resources are scarce and limited. Currently, the world contains about 7.5 billion people, so should we use GMOs (genetically modified organisms) to satisfy them? how are we going to increase the economic growth of under-equipped countries? these are my questions and my starting point to fight against resilience and venerability in the world. | I am John Mekinson ENEZER, I am a student in Business Management and certified in Crisis Management via MOOC, I have a training on the restoning of Haiti within the OAS through ADIS-Haiti. I consider myself a leader because, I often get involved in organizations that have the objective to fight against poverty, working on reforestation ect. I would say, it is not the world that will transform us but rather the opposite. | Fight agaibst poverty | To fight against poverty is to work so that the level of unemployment and chronic hunger in the world is reduced exponentially. in this project we hav | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Haïti | No | Research & Development | Beacause she has not landed yet. | Looking at the number of people who do not have access to water, health care. Looking at the situation of Africa with the exception of Rwanda, Bostwana and South Africa. | It works very well if we take into account the characteristics of a project. | No, its not the solution unique from other approaches that exist in this space. | Yes i measure this progess... | 1- utiliser OGM 2- augmenter emplois 3- gérer les ressources rares | Medium term | Scientific/tecnical articles | Maybee yes but i don't have the link. | It's up to you to see them beacause i have not yet materialize this project. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mbuih | Zukane Retruyap | ICAD Enterprise | www.icadorg.com | Founder / CEO | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | French | I am applying because the UN solution summit will be a unique opportunity that will create an enabling environment to scale my innovative solution at the global level. For the pat four years, our solution have gained grounds at the local and national levels in the fight against climate change and the promotion of environmental sustainability, via waste management, recycling and sustainable agriculture. haven gained sufficient local, national and international recognition (testified by the plethora of grants and awards received), we believe it is high time we scaled our visibility on a UN stage, which is offered by this renowned opportunity. We have used innovation (locally fabricated machines) to tackle SDG 1,2,7, 13 and most importantly 15 at the local and national levels, but which has a very high impact at the global level. Building on the fact that we have a common planet and climate, the hazardous effect is felt by every one in an equal par, so in the fight against climate change, every action counts and every positive action has a global impact. Over the years, ICAD Enterprise has demonstrated this by creating a positive global impact via - The planting of 10 000 trees every year in up to 21 communities (http://www.icadorg.com/en/world-earth-day-planting-of-2000-trees). Our innovation in this move is the fact that we plant them in and around sacred forests, which engenders sustainability, because no one dares to fetch wood in a sacred forest. These trees helps in carbon sequestration at the global level and contributes enormously to Cameroon's Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), pledged during the Paris agreement on climate change in 2015. Today, we count over 45 000 trees planted in 4 years. | Mbuih is an international development expert, specialized in sustainable development. He has over 15 years of accumulated experience in the domain. He currently serve as a lecturer and community manager in one of Cameroon's state universities- Dschang. Mbuih is at the same time the founder and CEO of a social enterprise, dubbed ICAD Enterprise, which deals with recycling, waste management and sustainable agriculture. Mbuih is a PhD student in the University of Douala - Cameroon and has published 6 scientific articles. | Waste for Development (W4D) | W4D entails providing sustainable solutions to environmental issues Cameroon, through tree planting, recycling, waste management and agri-tech. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | 1. Cameroon, Nigeria, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea | Yes | - USAID via the YAIF Fund (USA/Ghana); DevGrad, Belgium; Tony Elumelu Foundation, Nigeria; Policy Center for the New South, Morocco, The Pollination Project, USA; University of Dschang, Cameroon | Transition to Scale | Ever since I won the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship grant in 2017, we have been able to carryout our activities beyond Dschang, to reach out to 21 localities. Not only are we conceiving machines for recycling and waste management, we have been able to produce our recycled products and sell to households, schools, hospitals, while offering some for free to the less privileged. We have created direct impact to 5693 beneficiaries, with over 250000 indirect beneficiaries. | In Dschang, 92% of households uses wood (deforestation) as a source of fuel. Also, Due to lack of space, inept collection, disposal and management system, waste generated by households, and agricultural productions heap up continuously engendering a filthy environment, water pollution, bad odours, and multiplication of flies which serve as vectors of disease like malaria, typhoid, cholera, diarrhoea etc. Therefore, there is an urgent need to recycle these wastes to useful resources. | ICAD's solution evolves around pre-sorting of wastes, recycling them and giving other meanings to them. ICAD also does sustainable agriculture and now agri-tech. Besides, ICAD carries out CSR,which entails planting trees around sacred forests and fruit trees in Orphanages. 1. Waste Collection: We invented 3 methods, firstly the photocopy for points (P4P), which entails exchanging plastic bottles for discount and at times free photocopy of notes and handouts from students mostly. Secondly, we invented the mobile crushing van, which entails moving from place to place (rivers, oceans, streets, waste sites) and be crushing plastics into pellets. Lastly, households registers in our platform and sends tool-free SMS when their thrash is full. 2. Recycling: We recycle 3 things. Firstly, plastics into medical prosthesis (offered to amputees for free in underprivileged localities), roof tiles and construction pavements. We also recycle animal (2000 chicks in our poultry) and household wastes into biogas, through biodigestion and lastly, we recycle papers, sawdust and rice husk into briquettes (bio charcoal) (SDG 7 &13) 3. Sustainable agriculture: The slurry obtained as a by-product of the biogas is used as organic manure in a 5 ha farmland, some of the organic manure are offered to poor farmers for free (SDG 1&2) We also practice aquaponics lately. 4 CSR: A total of 45 000 trees have been planted in 21 localities, with over 7001 fruit trees in 16 orphanages (SDG 15) | Firstly, the P4P is a unique concept in Cameroon and in the over 15 countries I have visited. In my locality, like in most poor countries, students spend over 60% of their expenditures on photocopies. Faced with this and with the difficulties of obtaining wastes constantly, we invented this concept, whereby 10 plastic bottle waste are equivalent to 1 free page of recto-verso photocopy, so a student in need to photocopy 10 pages and doesn't have the money, will do everything to pick 100 bottles littered. At the end of the day, it is a win-win, because they photocopy their notes for ""free""(SDG 4), meanwhile we recycle the plastics into other outlets for sell. In reality, we make a 100% profit from the plastic, thus, easily ploughing back part of it for the photocopies. Secondly, Our Mobile plastic crushing machine is the first of its kind, so we go for the thrash and wastes where ever they are, this has permitted us to be exporting some of the pellets. Thirdly, our approach protects the forest entirely, most afforestation programs are just anywhere, but we invented the issue of planting the trees in and around sacred forests, because no one dares to fetch wood in sacred forests. Lastly, we package our bio-manure in recyclable bags, mostly in dried forms, which can be used at any time and any season, which is an innovative solution to the muddy and heavy slurry that was traditionally used. | We progressed from artisanally made recycling machines to mechanized. Before we won the Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders Alumni Fund in 2018, we were basically using hand made designed machines to recycle our wastes, but today, we have a 5W PC Series Pellet machine, adapted to a mobile van. With the machine, we are capable of recycling 1 ton of plastics a day, contrary to less than 50kg in yesteryears. Another palpable progress is the fact that we no longer pay thrash collectors, like before, we have designed a method to be getting the thrash at our doorsteps, via the P4P project, especially after we incorporated e-services to the thrash collection. Before 2017, we were not capable to produce enough organic manure for our organic farms (5ha), but in March 2019, which was the farming season, we had an excess of 1211 kg of organic manure, up from 500kg last year. It should be noted that this excess is being distributed to underprivileged farmers, for them to increase their yields and as a way of promoting sustainable agriculture. Ever since we started recycling papers into briquettes, the campus of the university of Dschang is smoke and soothe free, because we recycle all the paper wastes that used to be burnt. Today, 90% of households in my locality, are registered in our collection platform. | In our 2 years strategic action plan (2019-2021), we intend to add 10 mobile crushing units, made up of a van and a pellet machine, up from just one now, our vision is to have a van in each of the 10 regions of Cameroon. We intend to recruit 50 youths in our headquarter and innovation center by next year (December 2020), because we are in the process of increasing our organic farm to 20 ha, We also intend to create another recycling unit in Ndop and Bamenda by that time and we have evaluated that our labour will increase from 18 to 50 by then and this is our major milestones in the coming year. Building on our profit margin, we shall increase our trees from 10000 annually in the past years to 20 000 annually by 2021, and in which case we will target all the major sacred forests in the North West and West Regions of Cameroon. Another major milestone is to export the pellets to our partners in Belgium and in China. When the above will be realized, we are comfortable that it will create an impact to over 2 million people by 2022 and the figures might double by 2025. We intend to build greenhouse and incorporate it in our aquaponic as a way of fully promoting agri-tech and organic farming. | The most important resources needed in the short, medium and long term are technical resources. We have been using mostly student volunteers, from the technology institute and the Faculty of agriculture of the University of Dschang to fabricate our machines and execute the projects. We are in dire need of renewable energy experts and experts in recycling and agri-tech. We also need an expert in chemical engineering, who can help us to purify our biogas. Basically in all the domains, we need experts who can fine-tune our activities. In long term, we will need to have sufficient material resources, to open more innovation and collection centers. | - Company Website: http://www.icadorg.com - My latest Publication on Climate Change (Read Chapter 11, page 127) : https://www.policycenter.ma/sites/default/files/Rapport%20-%20Atalntic%20Current%20AD%202018%20%28Web%29.pdf. - My Publication in the African Educational Journal, 2017: http://www.netjournals.org/z_AERJ_17_009.html - My Publication in the Commonwealth Journal 2016 (Page 38): http://camerooncommonwealthjournal.com/journal/download/24-cameroon-journal-of-studies-in-the-commonwealth-vo.php - My Publication on International migration crisis: https://doi.org/10.14738/assrj.54.4465 - Report from Menoua Actu , our Local TV Channel on training of trainers on local techniques on recycling sawdust and paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onb9f1rqYxs. - Educating youths on how to create an organization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi_KThKn59s. - Tree planting: http://www.icadorg.com/en/world-earth-day-planting-of-2000-trees - Plastic upcycing: http://www.icadorg.com/en/plastic-up-cycling | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ1--qu_c_c | - Award Winner, UNESCO-MARS Research summit: http://www.unesco-mars.com/mars_award_winners.php#7 - Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program (winner). http://tonyelumelufoundation.org/programme/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/TEF2017_1000_NAMES1.pdf - YALI Alumni Innovation Fund (winner) https://meetalumni.yaliwestafrica.org/event/yali-alumni-innovation-fund-yaif-award-winners-list. - Atlantic Dialogues Emerging Leaders Fund (Winner) - DavGrad Award winner - CATI2Uds award (Finalist. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
101 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nicholas | Smoot | Innovation Collective | I18C.Con | CEO | M | United States of America | United States of America | English | To share our model for turning communities into inclusive high powered venture studios for fortune 100 brands. We have helped 9 cities unlock their potential with our model. | Nick Smoot is the founder and CEO of Innovation Collective. For the last 4 years they have been running an experiment to repair community and capitalism. Nick believes the wheels of capitalism are a bit wobbly due to pressures we didn’t expect, such as a thing called the internet. Now with 9 communities in the world running the IC model and 5 buildings either occupied or in development, they are having too much fun building what he calls, “American Dream Factories”. Many of the projects are in very unlikely locations, yet the communities they deploy in are producing some of the most significant new startups. Google named one of the cities as a digital capital citing the work of Innovation Collective. Milken Institute listed their most mature project as creating impact and assiting as the city shot up to number 5 on the “top performing small cities” report, and Brookings has cited a city they deployed in as having more startups per capita than any other city in the state by nearly 2x. Nick has a goal of building a new way in the world for humans to connect, experience abundance, find joy, and be creative. Nick is a Milken Institute Young Leader and was a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council. He has been interviewed for or contributed to Bloomberg, Forbes, USA Today, Fast Company, Mashable, Virgin, Inc. Magazine and Huffington Post. He has been a speaker for SXSW, BBC, VentureBeat, Rise of the Rest, and A-Tech. | Innovation Colletive | repairing Community and Capitalism | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | United States, Aruba, Ghana, Ireland, and Greece | Yes | Apple, it is complicated, and Schmidt futures. Along side of a few universities. | Scaling | Because we have deployed in 9 communities and have 16 in the pipeline. They include Selma Alabama and Costa Mesa Ca. Very different and yet still match our model | Inclusive community and capitalism | Our solution works by unlocking human potential through a series of offline and online events. We provide access to space and networks across the world. The long term vision is 200 communities in 3 years. | We are leveraging uneducated citizens as a venture studio for brands. | We measure success by memberships and innovations shipped. | 200 cities in 3 years. | Short Term- a think tank in each city focused on a problem set Mid Term- 50 new communities Long Term- 200 communities that are running our events model and our venture studio model. | https://www.innovationcollective.co/ https://www.innovationcollective.co/associates/ https://www.innovationcollective.co/brands/ https://www.innovationcollective.co/cities-summit/ https://www.innovationcollective.co/developers/ https://www.innovationcollective.co/education/ https://www.innovationcollective.co/foundations/ https://www.innovationcollective.co/governments/ https://www.innovationcollective.co/thinktank/ https://www.innovationcollective.co/vc/ | https://open.spotify.com/episode/5z2fG4pAWMNjFmULsCDr3W?si=unYefajzS4Cp9YaFbLxjww | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
102 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mojisola | Adewumi | 21st Century Entrepreneur initiative | https://web.facebook.com/youthentrepreneur2017 | Founder/Creative Director | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | French | Participating as a presenter in the UN Solutions Summit is really appealing to me due to its unique strong links in promoting inclusiveness, leadership development and its support to suistainable innovations .Particularly , achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is integral to each of the 17 SDG goals. Only by ensuring the rights of women and girls across all the goals will we get to justice , inclusion and economies that work for all, and sustaining our shared environment now and for future generations. Growing up was quite challenging, born and raised up in a community where culture determined the right of women and girls,, where women lack access to lands right , where women are totally disengaged from the process of development but dream to make a positive difference and influence others strengthen my desire helping women and girls in communities and villages in Nigeria making them a better version of themselves.. Our initiatives explores the role of advocacy and empowerment as tools to strengthen the rural community’s understanding of gender and land rights. It seeks community based approach, focuses on women economic empowerment, engaging them in vocational and entrepreneurship training skills to enable them set up small sustainable business and become self reliance while educating them on their lands right. Through this community about 6000 women have successfully undertaken collective action and have participated in capacity-building programs, including advocacy, lobbying and mobilization. | Adewumi Mojisola is the founder of 21st Century Entrepreneur Initiative, She is an alumnus of University of Twente (ITC) The Netherlands, Vedica Scholar for Women Leadership India, Pan Atlantic University (EDC) Nigeria and Adekunle Ajasin University Nigeria. She had her first working experience with Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria. She is a recipients of international awards like Thomson Reuters Foundation, London Scholar awards for support on human rights. Mojisola recently appointed as Global Schools Advocate by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network-Youth also featured as top 10 Global Youth Impact Game Changer by The Introducer Magazine USA. Received Transparency International Fellow Award- for Youth in entrepreneurs tackling land corruption in Africa. Received National Presidential grant by the Federal Government of Nigeria on Youth Enterprise with Innovations, national competition . She represent Nigeria as a delegate to participate in a round table discussion with the African Union President and other World Leaders on economic integration between the two continents at African/Arab Youth Platform Conference. Mojisola received Global Program for Women Leadership Fellow Award by the Observer Research Foundation India and DFID UK Government: She won UN SDG 16 innovations challenges Award organized by Canadian Embassy and Accountability Lab Nigeria She received Global Affairs Canada Scholarship Award for leadership training at Coady international institutes Canada and Global Peace Ambassador Award | Gender empowerment and solutions to land corruptions in Africa | Sustainable empowerment for women is a tool to address all forms of social injustice among women. Women must be part of developing solutions to issue | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Nigeria | Yes | Ondo State Government, Bank of Indurstry Nigeria,, Civil Society organizations like Transparency international and Thompson Reuters Foundation London | Sustainable Scale | Previous projects using this approach had considerable success, apart from the fact that women gain awareness of their rights and play an active role in claiming their rights., this inituatives since inception Increase the financial capacity of community women and enhanced their livelihoods, support girl child education and reduce poverty, ensuring elimination of all kinds of violence against women and girls through Full participation in social, economic and political empowerment at all level | Women in rural community are totally disengaged in the process of development,experience a lot of marginalization, lack access to land rights due to customary laws and most importantly lack of political will and to implement policy that supports equal land use and control. Therefore, the lack of access to land and ownership rights results in a lack of collateral. This, in turn, limits access to farming and credit facilities, thus increasing levels of poverty among rural community women. | The project is focusing on capacity building of women who are socially and economically marginalised. Most importantly the project prioritizes the most vulnerable women (the organization targets poor illiterate, young widows,marginalized and displaced members of the society. Priority is given to the completely illiterate poor widows, who will be accorded with basic literacy skills . These are determined through recruitment evaluation procedures with the assistance of local authorities and religious leaders.Family members of our beneficiary are involved in the project. The project is designed to be all inclusive, with the ability to create a viable platform for policy memorandum; most importantly , the project by design,showcase the women’s abilities as a peace keeper ,changemakers and leaders which are hardly noticed in various communities due to lack of political will to implement policy that support gender equality. The project was desighed to have valuable contributions for the global drive towards enhancing women’s right to land to have more credence in the community level area . it is important to understand how these rights affect the well-being of women | Uniqueness of our initiatives lies in our abilities to Creat an innovative approach to tackling the disproportionate impact of land corruption on community women through the introduction of INTERACTIVE COMMUNITY PANELS , consisting of family head ,government rep,resentatives ,women leaders, religious groups and lawyers , the panel are informed about issues relating to women income generation through land related activities This panel works with women on income generating activities, while informing and enabling them to improve their livelihoods . About 6000 women from 20 Community have successfully undertaken collective action and participated in capacity-building programmes, empowered to play a vital role in leadership development as well as community development. Apart from the organizations presence in the project area and the coorperations from the communities it works with, Our partnership with MTN Telecommunication company to reach across to wider audience also proof to be helpful through introductions of USSD code which is applicable offline for all mobile phone user with free toll numbers for rapid response, It also serve as a means to connect with available jobs for women in their neighbourhood through mobile app and a USSD platform | Maintaining strong collaborations with all stakeholders and regular monitoring of the project in order to verify the proper implementation and assessing needs .have indicates rapid progress in the development of our solutions which meets the socio economic needs of the target people in all projects center. At least one out of every household in 20 communities in Ondo State Nigeria directly benefit from our initiatives. With a strong inbuilt Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting procedures the system has facilitates provisions of timely regular reports for all the stakeholders for transparency and accountability. We measure our progress through Monitoring in a continuous process to ascertain whether the project is progressing towards the achievement of specific goals . Implementation of action plans was used as the bases of monitoring and the results of monitoring used as feed-back to restrategise other future project . The main purpose of monitoring was to compare the progress of activities and their outputs with the action plans of the projects. Final internal evaluation will be carried out for future refrences The results will be the major part of the final report. The evaluation will be carried out during the final phase of the project. | The project’s specific goals are:- (i) To Increase the financial capacity of community women and enhanced their livelihoods, To support girl child education and reduce poverty . (ii) Advance gender equality, equity and the empowerment of women, ensuring elimination of all kinds of violence against women and girls through Full participation in social, economic and political empowerment at all levels and bringing women into the main process of development and advocates for women lands right Targeted primary beneficiaries to this project shall include 50000 women who shall be mobilized from different countries across Africa To achieve this goal , our expectations to this experience in additons to networking opportunities and skills gained during the UN Solution Summit program is influencing people, policies, structure and system, lobbying for women rights,organizing events , community fund raising and recruiting women into self-help groups through which the women engage in various socio-economic activities. | Shoet term needs are recruitments of more technical know how staffs and language interpreters to cover other states of Nigeria and creating a land tools app that will reduce land corruption in the community area level. Medium terms needs, advanced collaborations with international organizations for funding. Long term needs, Includes bulding a globsl platform ,bringing , together women across Afruca to provides lasting solutions to Pressing challenges in the area of suistainability innovations, healthcare and gender inequality | Link to published international Article: Read the full proposal through this link. https://landportal.org/news/2019/03/african-youth-fight-land-corruption Youth Impact Game Changer: Adewumi Mojisola (Nigeria) https://www.theintroducermagazine.com/youth-impact-game-changer-adewumi-mojisola-nigeria/ https://www.worldpulse.com/community/users/mojisola-adewumi/posts/90952 https://www.worldpulse.com/community/users/mojisola-adewumi/posts/83713 | YouTube link See Video Below – start at 7:19 https://youtu.be/OTGdA94m8aQ https://www.theintroducermagazine.com https://web.facebook.com/youthentrepreneur2017 https://www.linkedin.com/in/adewumi-mojisola-ileola-2368a3136 https://twitter.com/AdewumiMojisola?s=08 https://www.theintroducermagazine.com/ http://www.trustconference.com/changemakers/ | Thomson Reuters Foundation Award London: Global affairs Canada scholarship award - Presidential National grant award Winner Global Schools Advocates- UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network-Youth. UN SDG16 Innovation Challenge Award Global Peace Ambassador Award Fellow: Global Program for Women Leadership -ORF India/DFID UK Government Transparency International Fellow: Youth in entrepreneurs-tackling land corruption in Africa. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
103 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Susi | Susilawati | IPB University | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb8pmpv9pio | Student University | Female | Indonesia | Indonesia | English | I have a big dream in my life that i want to develop a small city in Indonesia in economic sector through reuse waste or reuse local potential resource. I want to join this programme because i want to meet people who has the same aim with mine and discuss further more may make collaboration with them how they achieve their dream or work for it. I am volunteering my self in small city, concession, for 40 days to build this area. I made a product from the waste become flavour ummami (the product). This product is also made to support Indonesia's goverment programme ""one village, one product"". The waste is carapace of crab and it becomes a big problem here because it blemish environmental pollution and healthy issue for society. The name of village is Waruduwur village has a lot of droput kids since junior high school and this product will empower them. Because of that this product solve a lot of problem and achieve UN programme, Sustainable Development Goals for number 1 (no pverty), 3 (good healthy and well-being),8 (decent work and economic growth), 9 (industry innovation and infrastructure), 12 (responsible consumption and production) and also 17 (partnership for the goals). | i am Susi Susilawati student of fisheries and marine science in aquatic prodct technology departement. I am final year student of bachelor degree. I love discussing about youth, innovation, and SDGs. I have a dream to increase economic from small city through reuse waste or local potential, i told this idea in any programme in international event such as UN4MUN Southeast Asia Conference in Thailand, Action Fest Indonesia in Jakarta, Future Youth Summit in Malaysia, and International Exposure Visit on Youth Engagement to Meet SDGs in India. This idea also made me a winner in some national competition such as National Essay Compepetion Apothema Math and Agrination Business Plan Competition NEMO. | “Kaldu rajungan”: Utilization waste of crabs as broth for empowering healthy and environment of society in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia. | ""reuse the waste, reuse the better life"" | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Waruduwur village, Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia | Yes | Local Goverment, Indonesia Goverment, and IPB University | Sustainable Scale | This innovation has already been a product and being developing by the local goverment. Further it will take collaboration with a company for more develop. | Waruduwur Village has this problem since some years ago and it has influence any area such as environmentall pollution, sanitation water, and healthy of society. I use the glutamate acid contain in carapace crab become flavour ummami and the innovation will empower youth here because the village has a lot of dropout kids from school. In other side this innovation also solve environmental issue, sanitation water issue and healthy of society issue. | Waruduwur village has local potential is crab, a lot of society works as fisherman and house wife works as labor to process crab. The waste of processing crab is carapace crab. Carapace crab has bad smelling becuse has glutamate acid contain which will degradate become bed smelling. I use the glutamate acid contain in carapace crab become flavour ummami and the innovation will empower youth here because the village has a lot of dropout kids from school. In other side this innovation also solve environmental issue, sanitation water issue and healthy of society issue. This product is developing by local goverment to support national goverment programme ""one village, one product"". Further more the product will collaborate with national company to more develop of it. | This product is made by science methodology. This is how the product is made: Fresh carapace crab is washed with orange 15% until clean, then shape the carapace become smaller. The carapace is boiled 80oC about an hour, take the filtrat and reboiled again with adding ginger, garlic, salt, and pepper. After that the filtrat is dried with temperature 100oC about 3 hours. | This product is developing by local goverment to support national goverment programme ""one village, one product"". Further more the product will collaborate with national company to more develop of it. | This innovation will be sold in any markets such as online market and offline market. The innovation also will be speciality product from the small city, Cirebon, and it has already agree by the local goverment. In the future it will take employee from dropout kids to process this product. | Waste from carapace crab, it is really easy to find because the main ingredients is from natural local resources. In the short-term this innovation needs marketing side to manage it and advertisement to more sell the product, in medium-term needs research to more reuse the waste become other product such as cosmetics product, healthy product and others because carapace crabs has citin contain. in the long-term also needs investor to support for international product. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb8pmpv9pio | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb8pmpv9pio | The innovative for developing small city | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
104 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | GIDEON | OWHONDA | University of Port Harcourt | uniport.edu.ng | student | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | As a final year student in the college I have had the privilege to lead people in difference capacity. With my involvement in student politics and national affairs in my country I have come to see a deteriorating leadership style breeding in all spheres of leadership and this has the ability to undermine the prosperity of future generation. However, with a nature and nurture leadership style with a paradigm shift from the conventional style I believe I can make a change that will influence the world at large . This leadership style unveils the Arcanum which is a secret mystery of leadership . People are suffering and gnashing in the midst of abundance of resources. This is not suppose to be so. It is on this note I want to present to the world a lasting panacea to the leadership problem of the world | My name is Gideon Owhonda, am from a small village in Rivers State, Nigeria. Born on the 9th of September 1993 my mum was sent away by my dad for reasons best known to him. One year later they reconciled and at the age of four (4) my parents divorced, I was left with my mum and my feeding was at the mercy of the harvests of her peasant farming. The resources was so limited that my mum almost sold me out. However, at age six (6) I lost my grand dad at this point my mum had no choice but to send mW to friend of her in the city. When I got to the city I saw entirely new light and three years later been with my boss I opted for education and though it brought some mis understanding with my boss but I have to push on knowing that if I must be great it will be only through education . that was how I went into school and finally when it was time for college my boss refused to further me but I never hesitated leaving her to work out my future, so when I left her I did local jobs of all kinds and finally secured admission to study Chemical and Petroleum technology and presently am in my final year of study. * I believe that my story can change the world but i need to be great to tell that story because no body reads the story of a changeless changer . | Leadership with chastity | Leading the people and the resources with fear and trembling | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Nigeria | No | Research & Development | Because I am currently researching on more solution and modalities to arrive at a resolution soon. | 1. Failed leadership 2. Resources sharing inequality 3. Corruption in the government procedures 4. Youth non participations in government and decision making process 5. Illiteracy and violence among the youth | I am envisioning a world without violence, corruption and a world with people sharing benefits from all concerned institutions. | 1. These solutions takes cognisance of all other existing solution and them worked on their weak point to arrive at a resolution 2. These solutions looks at permanent resolution of all concerned areas 3. These solutions are products of deep meditation and a practical look of the world we see and how and why people do what they do. | Our progress is dependent on what we have gotten from what we want to get. However, we are moving forward every given day. | Our goals encompasses all manner of good virtues | 1. Leaders with chastity 2. Conducive environment 3. Finance for mobilisation All these are needed in both short term and long term | Not yet available but soon | Not yet but soon | Not yet available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
105 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Oluwaseun | Abolurin | Leap Power Technologies Inc | www.leap-power.com | Power Infrastructure Development Manager | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | In Nigeria, electricity access rate was nearly 60% in 2015 (according to the World Bank), with 86% of urban areas and 41% of rural areas with access, while access to non-solid fuels reached only 4%.My solution is designed to provide affordable and environmental friendly energy to the rural and off grid communities using a renewable energy technology. The will make use of Solar PV panels, inverter systems with storage to provide energy access to rural communities which will in turn improve their standard of living and economy. This is also an environmental friendly solution. | Mynames are Oluwaseun Ige Abolurin (Nee Abogunrin), a graduate of Electrical Engineering from the University of Ilorin (B. Eng-2005), a registered engineer, a certified Field Service Manager, and an electrical power systems engineering expert with over 11years professional experience. I am having vast experience in Electrical Power system planning, implementation, commissioning, field service management, alternative energy solution design/Implementation, remote monitoring system, equipment capacity dimensioning, key account management, technical Sales, Health Safety Environment processes, energy audit, renewable energy consultation, commissioning, maintenance and reliability planning, facility maintenance, troubleshooting and fault resolution skills, Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), power systems protection and control, cooling system capacity dimensioning and project management. Presently, working with a US based energy & power solution firm with work base in Nigeria, as a Power systems expert responsible for the provision of technical and managerial advice on design and deployment of power & energy infrastructure for the client. I have become particularly interested in ensuring power generation, power availability, power improvement, power design, maintenance of power, energy efficiency, energy policy, technical sales, project management and wish to develop my career in that direction-this I believe will make a great contribution towards the further development and actualization of your organizational goals. | Green Community Power | making affordable energy accessible for rural communities | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | Yes | Leap Power Technologies Inc | Research & Development | We are still testing the equipment to be used for proof of concept at the equipment manufacturer warehouse to get the best efficiency. | Energy access Ecosystem conservation | Its a smart technology that will be harnessing the energy form the sunlight via solar PV panels and converted to electricity using our smart technology equipment. | Its coming with a smart hybrid technology that will be having dual output power to power both Direct Current and Alternating Current loads. The solution will come with affordable and efficient energy saving DC lights and fans. | We are almost done with the Research and Development of the solution. The methodology has been smooth so far | We are starting from Nigeria, to west Africa and other parts of Africa. The projects will be touching millions of lives across the country and employ hundreds of local expertise in implementation, operation and maintenance of the solution | Short term goal is to deploy to a community in Nigeria am, run the project. Mid term goal is to empower and train local hands on the operation and maintenance of the solution and integrate the into the project. The long term role is for the community to take full ownership of the solution and run it successfully. | N/A | n/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
106 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Akuzike | Moyo | Population service International-Malawi | Http://PSIMalawi.com | Youth Alert Supervisor | Male | Malawi | Malawi | English | My motivation in applying the UN solution Summit is to showcase my project . I feel that my project is unique in solving the Sustainable development goals. Its a unique in a way that i have combined goal #3 and Goal #13 which is tackling Good health and well being and climate action in a one package. Hence i want to share it with other people around the world so that they can learn and implement it on the same in their respective countries. On the same note, i want to learn from other friends from other countries and learn on what innovative SGDs projects are implementing. I would also want to boost my knowledge and understanding on SDGs and its implications on lives of the people so that i can put them in use in my country Malawi. | My Name is Akuzike Moyo. I was born in Nkhotakota district-central region of Malawi. I am 27 years old. I am a youth development worker. I advocate for youth development and issues that they affect them in day to day lives ranging from Sexual and reproductive health rights and environmental rated issues. I have worked with a number of organisations and institution and further participated in a number of youth conference s and volunteering program like International Citizen Services and being a Young Women Can Do It advocate Alumin, where i have established and co-facilitated the establishment of 100+ Young women can do it clubs in Nkhotakota district. I am currently working with Population Services International-Malawi office as a Youth Alert Supervisor, Which i have so far greatly contributed to the fully particpation of Youth friendly health service among the younths and recognition of Health services rights from 21 health facilities in Machinga district. I hold a diploma in commonwealth Youth Development from Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural resources and i am pursuing a bachelors of Social science in Development Studies from Catholic University of Malawi. | Green Up my community | This is SRHR and tree planting integration concept. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Its only Malawi | Yes | with Interactive Society for Health and Development (ISOHEDE). | Proof of Concept | It is at this stage because i have done the situational analysis, problem has been identified. The last stage is lobbying for funds which will help with the implementation. | Green up my community project will be implemented in Machinga district in two traditional authorities namely TA Nkula and Mposa. Machinga district is situated in eastern part of Malawi. The areas have mountains, hills and flatlands with rivers all of them running to the basin lake (lake chirwa) and Lake Malawi. The impact areas mentioned were hit hard with January 2015 devastated floods, which occurred as a result of environmental degradation | The purpose of the project is to build climate change resilience and intensify tree planting among the communities by raising awareness, advocacy, sourcing and provision of seedlings, the project will also embark on stem tree planting which grows without being watered. It is envisaged that this project will avert the future flooding and reduction of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the project, therefore will work with already existed government and non-governmental structures such as youth clubs and it will further establish eco-community groups. This is SRHR and tree planting integrated project, The SRHR part is focusing on population control, through promotion family planning uptake in-order to increase to climate change resiliency and reduce pressure on the environment as it is no longer a secret that large family size find it very difficult to recover from climate change shocks as compared to the smaller family size and again population increase negatively affects the environment as people begin to cut down trees carelessly for farming and charcoal in large volumes, this project therefore, will address all sides of the coin of SRHR and Tree planting. | The strategic approach will include use of truncheons of natural species that better fight anthropogenic factors of the changing climate. While most efforts in tree planting and a forestation centre on use of tree seedlings , this approach effectively promotes tree planting using truncheons (commonly called tree stems), which are sourced from existing branches of natural trees from within communities or nearby forest reserves and planted anytime of the year without watering. The truncheons require a shorter time for plants to reach maturity, no caring for nursery stock and livestock cannot easily damage the new shoots. Among the activities in the project will include; community awareness, advocacy, interface forums and tree planting exercises. The tree planting will take two folds both tree seedling and truncheons planting. The project will also use awareness and interface meeting with the target audience to raise awareness on the uptake of the contraceptive methods that in the long run will help reduce population that will in-turn reduce the high levels of tree planting. | Its a personal concept. It took me six months that's from January-June, 2019 in developing the concept. The measuring of the project will be; 1. Number of people involved in planting trees exercise against planned of 90,0000 from two Traditional Authorities 2.Number of people accessing Health services from their nearest health facilities. Contraceptive uptake checked in the Register book. 3. SRH/ Climate change information and Knowledge among the communities which will be measure through Focus Group Discussion if they have be reached | Expanding to a whole district of Machinga district by 2021. Targeting all the 17 Traditional Authorities which the district has. | The project will require $ 10,000 - Procurement of polythene tubes and tree seedlings - Fee for hiring a consultant to produce messages through posters -Fees to pay in radios for SRH/Climate change information - Allowances for Training and meetings with community leaders | https://www.facebook.com/isohede/ | https://www.facebook.com/akuzike.moyo | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
107 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Bonny | mubiazalwa | (CADI) COMMUNITY AID DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE | in progress | Deputy Executive Director | male | Uganda | Uganda | English | Our dream is a society free from all types of exploitation and discrimination where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potentiality. Our mission is to empower community people free from poverty, illiteracy and social injustice. CADI works with people whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, health problems, environment and other social needs. CADI strives to bring about a positive change in the quality of life of the poor people. CADI is committed to making its programs socially, financially and environmentally sustainable, using innovative methods and appropriate technologies. CADI believes and is actively involved in promoting human, women and child rights and disability rights, human dignity and gender equity. Although the emphasis of CADI’s work is at the individual level, the work of the organization depends on an environment that permits the poor to break out of the cycle of poverty and hopelessness. CADI, therefore, fosters the development of the human potentiality of the members of the organization and those they save. For achievements it’s goal, wherever necessary, CADI welcomes partnership and collaboration. Our aim is to achieve in a large scale, positive changes through economic development program, rights based and social programs that enable disadvantaged and marginalized women and men including person with disabilities so that they can realize their potentiality. | We were founded in January 2014 and get registration from Ministry of Gender, Labour and social Development in March 2019 ,over the course of our operation we could, established ourselves as a pioneer in recognizing and tackling many different realities of poverty in Bison A, Tororo Municipality, Tororo district. Activities We, CADI have been working for socio‐economic development i.e. Non‐formal knowledge sharing, Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Women Rights, Disability Rights through awareness, advocacy and campaign, Women and youths Empowerment through Skill Training, and Micro Credit Support and this has based on VSLA(Village Saving and Loan Association) model, Information and Communication Technology Transfer, Environment and Climate Change and Disaster Preparedness activities to provide livelihood for disadvantaged people and marginalized community including person with disabilities, displaced and street children, distress and vulnerable people. | poverty Prevention is better than cure | Poverty is curable through a combined effort. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | In Uganda, Tororo District, Eastern Region | Yes | Local Community persons who work as volunteers | Scaling | Although the emphasis of CADI’s work is at the individual level, the work of the organization depends on an environment that permits the poor to break out of the cycle of poverty and hopelessness. CADI endeavors to bring about changes of level of regional/local policy on poverty alleviation and social progress and henec being at the above level currently. | CADI actions have been addressing the problem of poverty. Moreover, it can be said that, in comparison with the national context those problem in the targeted area are worse than the overall national problems. The wide ranging poverty has led to a number of failures in the lives of the youth in their day to day life and hence affecting the future of the youth and their social life. Many governmental and non governmental have come up with strategies aiming at eradicating povert but fails | Our dream is a society free from all types of exploitation and discrimination where everyone has the opportunity to realize their potentiality. Our mission is to empower community people free from poverty, illiteracy and social injustice. CADI works with people whose lives are dominated by extreme poverty, illiteracy, health problems, environment and other social needs. CADI strives to bring about a positive change in the quality of life of the poor people. CADI is committed to making its programs socially, financially and environmentally sustainable, using innovative methods and appropriate technologies. CADI believes and is actively involved in promoting human, women and child rights and disability rights, human dignity and gender equity. | Given the socio-economic and cultural context within which poverty occurs, the project will aim at stopping poverty marriage by: Engagement of father,mother and children in the process,(ii) mobilizing school awareness of and engagement of children, parent, teachers,PTA,boar, (iii) removing barriers and bottlenecks to law enforcement through advocating , (v) increasing the capacity of non- state actors to undertake evidence based policy advocacy by increasing the role of youth leadership through new media technology, monitoring and evaluation among others. It will involve different stakeholders -, government representatives at national and sub-county levels, legislators, parliamentarians, law enforcement agencies and civil society organizations, including associations of women and of youths. | CADI has sufficient general and technical expertise and experience in development sectors especially on employment through income generating activities, human resource development through skill and need based training and educational activities and promotion and protection of human rights, women and child rights and disability rights. CADI have sound knowledge on development activities, project implementation and management, monitoring and evaluation, cooperation and coordination among national and international donors, local administration, registration authorities, local community based organization and development budget control and expenditure verification, foreign, national and government grants/funds management and we have necessary academic background. And we know that local culture, religious and social value, participants behave and attitudes. The Executive Director and Founder of CADI is more capable for smooth operation of the organization and it’s projects and programs and he has sufficient experience and academic background and he has been suffering physical disabilities since a long that made by road accident. Coordinator of the proposed project is also capable for smooth implementation and program management. He has sufficient experience and academic qualifications and he has been suffering low visually problem, so we are capable for proposed project implementation and achieves the goal and objectives. | Smooth project phase out will be ensured by the fact that the proposed project is built into a framework of ongoing program (CADI Microfinance project) and has planned for learning, sharing and policy influence event at local. The tested rights based approach focusing on empowering person with disabilities community and their platforms will develop relationships with Tororo Municipality Authority and Local Administration and private sector participate and raise their voices for responsive employment and income generating activity based services as well facilitate for collective person with disabilities community action plans will define their own priorities and plans for development. The project will build grassroots commitment, ownership and skills for working towards lasting change. CADI will ensure through Local Government and Local Administration activities observation on the ground that relationships built during project implementation become robust and continue beyond the timeframe of the proposed project. The engagement of the person with disabilities and physically challenged people men and women in the local economy facilitated by the project will sustain their income, wage and employment beyond the project period. | The fulfillment of CADI’s mission requires the services/contributions of competent professionals committed to the goals, objectives and values of CADI. CADI, therefore, fosters the development of the human potentiality of the members of the organization and those they save. For achievements it’s goal, wherever necessary, CADI welcomes partnership and collaboration. Our aim is to achieve in a large scale, positive changes through economic development program, rights based and social programs that enable disadvantaged and marginalized women and men including person with disabilities so that they can realize their potentiality. CADI endeavors to bring about changes of level of regional/local policy on poverty alleviation and social progress. After end of the project all project materials, equipments, experience and learning and existing project staffs will be accumulated with CADI microfinance project as component/interventions. CADI will continue the program through our own resources when your fund is closed. | http://www.dspace.mak.ac.ug/bitstream/handle/10570/3342/Niringiyimana-Masters-dessertation.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://borgenproject.org/poverty-in-uganda-101/ | https://youtu.be/I399Qgvv3J0?t=185 | CADI has won a partnership with the local community councils and this has also won it run project in Eastern Uganda, to compaign for ending girl teenage pregnancy in Uganda. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
108 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Charles | umeh | Parkers Mobile Clinic | Https://www.facebook.com/parkershealth | Medical Doctor | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I want to apply to present a project in this summit because I am passionate about increasing healthcare accessibility for less privileged people. I use innovation to create positive global impact through my mobile clinic which deliver healthcare services at the doorstep of elderly people, disabled people and people living in remote areas. | Dr Charles Umeh is a self-motivated, proactive, and has several goals. He is a Medical Doctor ,professional eHealth and telemedicine consultant, a specialist in occupational health safety officer. He has 12 years experience conducting online training. He is a strong youth advocate .He is a city chapter director for start up grind (www.startupgrind.com). Dr Charles Umeh was a medical doctor at Parklane Hospital from 2014 to 2016. From there, He now now has several voluntary roles; research associate and project manager for eHealth at Parkers establishment, child professional at Heard Initiative, global youth ambassador and English teacher at a World at School.He also still work as a Medical Doctor. His professional memberships include the International Society of Telemedicine and eHealth, the International Medical Informatics Association, Canada National Institute of Health Informatics , Acfee, NextGen global health security network, Healthcare Informatics society of Nigeria. He won the UNDP YOUTH CONNEKT AFRICA AWARD in 2018. He is currently running a mobile clinic which deliver healthcare services at the doorstep of patients. He is from Nigeria, He attended Nnamdi Azikiwe University from 2008 to 2014 and Dennis Memorial Grammar School.He has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree . linkedin.com/in/charles-umeh-ba53a012a | Parkers mobile clinic | We deliver healthcare services at your doorstep | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nige | Yes | Ngos, Hospitals and Government. | Transition to Scale | We have piloted and launched our product. We are currently acquiring customers. | We are solving the problem of poor accessibility to adequate and affordable healthcare services among elderly people, disabled people, chronically ill and people living in remote areas. | Parkers Mobile Clinic clinic is a movable clinic which provide healthcare services at the doorstep of elderly, chronically ill and disabled people. We deploy movable vans equipped with medical facilities and health personnels to deliver healthcare services at the doorstep of our target customers.We also offer emergency ambulance services at sites of accidents and other medical emergencies. The goal of the Mobile Clinic is to achieve the highest attainable standard of health for people in rural communities.Our target market are people living in remote and rural areas where there are no Doctors. Our services will address the problem of poor accessibility to quality healthcare services among people living in Rural and remote areas.It also address the problem of healthcare access for disabled people, elderly and bed ridden people who can move independently to the hospital. Our main distribution channel is through a mobile van ,through which we move from homes to homes to render healthcare services. During a typical Mobile Clinic outreach to a rural community, the mobile team conducts synchronized health service delivery including clinical consultations, ante-natal care,dispensing medicines, HIV counselling/testing etc. So far ,we have been able to render over 100 homebased healthcare service in Nigeria and we have saved over 100 lives. | We deliver healthcare services at the doorstep of our clients unlike the routine methodology of patients having to travel long distances in order to seek medical treatment. | We have launched our product and we are scaling. We measure our progress through the number of services offered per day ,number of lives saved and number of lives positively impacted. | We aim to impact positively on the lives of over 100,000 people in Nigeria before the end of 2020. | We currently need vans equipped with medical facilities. Our long term goal will be to acquire a fully equipped hospital-in-a-train. | Https://www.facebook.com/parkershealth | https://vimeo.com/332820786 | Finalists: Accelerate lab program 120under40 Award Openideo healthy bone challenge innovation award | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
109 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Amadu | Mashkur | Nahila investment limited | Www.nahiainvestment.com | Supervisor | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | Education is the key of life,that motivated me to talk about girl child education because my people from sub sahara faces such problems and we have them educated and get good jobs by doing that by building infrastructures | I'm a man of 32 years of age work as supervisor at nahila investment limited Ghana and member of mgcy and reacher advocate on girl child education, flight against poverty, garbage recycling | Girl child education | Good infrastructure must be implemented for schools and support them to go to school imln form of encouragement | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Ghana | No | Research & Development | Yeah because my from sub sahara regions do drift a way from their villages to cities in such of jobs no place of sleep for them in the cities too so if they were empowered and educated will be better | illiteracy,poverty and hunger | To educated the girl child in sub sahara regions in Africa, there they will knowbwhat is good for them | Empowerment and free education for girl child there they will learn a trade to cater themselves | It a starter project and what to use this platform to show case the little idea to impact to the world | Yeah if growth women must work their me | Infrastructure, l,schools job opportunity my short term will be school , jobs train to be enterpreneur and empowerment and long term is infrastructure, | @strain676//twitter..com | @amadu mashkur// Twitter. com | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
110 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Khalid | Ahmed | Mount kenya university | Www.mku.ac.ke | Nutritionist | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | French | My names are khalid ahmed an undergraduate student at mount kenya university.Different generations had different problems the previous generations had issues with communicable diseases example small pox measles for our generations its the non communicable diseases in the form of diabetes cancer hypertension that have claimed a lot of lives and proper nutrition being an integral part of health I have come up with two concepts of mobile health applications that are going to solve SDG number 3 which is to ensure good health and well being for all.I was able to do my clinical attachment at kajiado refferal hospital in my community where i noticed a gap in how doctors/nurses and nutritionists do calculations of nutritional supplements and food portions.The entire process is manual,liable to error and time consuming.I hence developed a health app which calculates the RDA’s i.e recommended daily allowances for different patients with different conditions giving the patient the exact medical nutritional supplement and also calculates their food servings and auto adjusts to the different conditions that patients pose.This app revolutionizes health care as we see it. | My names are khalid ahmed mohamed a nutrition and dietitic student at mount kenya university.i am on the verge of completing my undergraduate degree and have successfully completed 4 months clinical attachment at kajiado county refferal hospital and also have finished my 3 months internship with the kenya red cross society where am a volunteer and also a member.i have been engaging with the community and local hospitals during my undergraduate hence came up with concepts about digital health | Nutrikha7/Nutrihelper | Achieving universal health through patnerships | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kenya | Yes | Government of kenya and Thika level 5 hospital | Transition to Scale | The ideation and formula formulation was done and the prototype was developed where the proof of concept was established during the prototype testing phase at thika level 5 hospital.Feedback was received on how to improve the app.Pilot phase is beginning on august | The app was informed by the way we calculate various feeds and supplements manually for patients in hospitals and also the rising cases of medical errors that lead to deterioration of patients and even death of patients as the health care providers also suffer from fatigue.The app also covers the gap of manual data collection in our local hospitals as this is liable to error and has a high likelihood of being tampared | The app firsts collects the data of the patient.The doctor or nurse inputs the condition that the patient is suffering from for example diabetes and hypertensin.The app calculates both diabetic and hypertension supplements at the same time as the equations are different and complex and based on the weightof the patient but the app runs that in 5seconds.I.e give 230mls of supplement X to the patient.The app also calculates the food portions to be given for example give one serving of bread for breakfast 2 servings of meat for lunch etc.The app is accurate and gives what the patient requires at that moment.The app has a special feature of reminding the nurse on what supplement to give,the time to administer the ward where the patient and bed number. | An app of this version which solves these problems doesnt exist.Hospital induced malnutrition and medical errors have been among the biggest killer of patients and a solution has been lacking but nutrihelper is here to solve this. | The team has been meeting to develop the app from an ideation to a working prototype that has been tested and confirmed to be working.The app is about to begin pilot phase where we will be working with thika level 5 hospital for 2 months where the app will be serving patients and collecting data.Routine feedback is usually received from the nutritionists and nurses who use on how to improve the app and add features to serve the patients better.Progress is usually measured by the numbers of patients using the app and recovering well as was observed during the prototype testing phases. | The project has already interests from global pharmaceutical companies for example B BRAUN.The plan is to start at thika level 5 hospital and expand to the hospitals in the county.One of the key patners are ministry of health who will help in countrywide usage of this app,having interests from global companies like B BRAUN who want to put their products in the app,having them as a patner will help us go global as they work in over 200 countries.Health is a global necessity and hence this innovation is aimed to help everyone with the world as our market and with B braun ready and the app is working it will be achieved. | The app has been confirmed to be working and has gained market approval.The pilot phase doesnt require a lot of resources because i will be working with the doctors and nurses and train them on how to use the app. Medium term is making the app accesible to the country where funding is required to follow up on the app’s progress and updating it to suit the patients,similarly for long term which is to go global where the app will be patients and monetary help is key in making this happen because B BRaun and the government of kenya are ready | https://youtu.be/wClwbrWGsEA | https://youtu.be/xNgvAMcXoqY | University of cambridge my little big thing competition-Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
111 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Franklin | Kwenah | Bong Freedom of Information Network | N/A | Coordinator | male | Liberia | Liberia | English | This program is about sharing my idea as to how Freedom of Information can be use to improves citizens participation and enhances transparency and accountability which serve as tool to promoting peace. | Franklin N. Kwenah live in Gbarnga, Liberia 27 years of age, third year university student at the Cuttington University studying Natural Resource management with emphases in Economics. Franklin Kwenah, Coordinator of the Bong County Freedom of Infromation Network is working to provide technical support to local government departments in the justice and security sector. Work with county authorities’ line ministries and agencies to strengthen their information disclosure practices. As FOI practitioner, I committed to advancing the use and value of freedom of information. I work as a Radio Journalist and Advocate. I serve as NEWS Editor at Hott FM Gbarnga. My work also program production and presentation, Script writing, and Radio Announcing. I served in the position of reporter, Program Director and Radio Director at Y-Echo Radio. I have knowledge and skills in Microsoft Office Suit and basic Technical skill, Audio, Photo and Video editing, Peace and Conflict Management, team work, project proposal writing, Psychology and Counseling. | Access to Information in Liberia | Promoting peace through enhancing transparency and accountability and citizens participation using the Liberia Freddom of Information law. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Liberia | Yes | The Carter Center | Scaling | It is to be selected because it has been used in many areas and is proving to be unique and applicable in promotion of human rights, justice and peace which is supporting SDG #16 meanly. | Advancing the right of access to information is a joint responsibility between the government and its citizens. While the government must assure full and effective implementation and enforcement of the Freedom Of Information Act, it is up to the citizens to monitor government efforts and to use the law. But there is low citizens involvement/participation and awareness in the implementation in the right to access information as well in government. | It enable understand the important of the right to access information, basics of the Liberia FOI law and process to accessing information. Understand gender inequity in access information, challenges faced by women and potential solution. Know the Whats, Why, Who and How about the FOI (Liberia FOI Act) and use the law, Understand gender inequality and inequity in access to information,Challenges women faced and Ways to help addressed them. It supports the The right of access to information is a fundamental human right guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights, and it affect all persons irrespective of age, color, nationality. So Our long-term vision for global impact is to reach out in other countries with this work. | We are the citizens participatory approach, which allow citizens to take action for themselves and working government and stakeholders advance this right. | We are now in the implementation/ action taking level and we had reached out to over 1500 persons. It is progressively the best methodological rigon. | Cover the entire country and reach-out to other countries in the next 10 years. | Resources are most needed for the solution to scale and have considerable impact are logistics, human resource and finance. | https://www.linkedin.com/in/franklin-kwenah | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
112 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Muhammed Dimma | Mawejje | Mawejje Creations | mawejjecreations.wordpress.com | Founder/Director | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | In my community whenever bananas are harvested, they only consider the fruit leaving out the stem to rot, After discovering that banana plantations are more than food we eat, but it poses a hidden treasure know us fibers which can be used in different innovations with all that i realised that people are seeing no value in banana waste especially after harvesting the fruit in the community i do come from.There was lack of proper knowledge on how to add value to banana waste in the community thus i saw the need to openly talk about and address this problem with my passion for banana fiber. This motivated me to go through research and training at Texfad in banana fiber technology & innovations where I learnt how i can add value to banana waste most especially the stems and trunks and i came up with Mawejje Creations a social enterprise which aims at developing affordable banana fiber products to reduce banana waste, enabling banana growers earn extra incomes to sustain themselves while creating jobs opportunities for women and girls in rural communities of Uganda. Recently I and my team we trained Mukono banana grower's community on how to extract fibers from wasted banana stems with positive results that excited them from discovering the material and innovations developed from the banana waste they had been dumping and apparently we are working on memorandum of understanding (MOU) with community to enable us reach more banana growers in the country, have trained, 20 youths and 10 women from different communities on how they can utilise the material found in wasted stems as per now they are able to sustain them selves with small amount they earn from their products they make out of fibers. We have tought community on how to manage waste hence reducing carbon emissions caused by banana waste. we didn't stop from there, applied in for scholarship where I was shortlisted from thousand application and managed to win a scholarship award plus 3 month business mentor-ship in design thinking and structure. To mention but few, being that banana framers are our primary customers, we have empowered them on how to turn waste into sustainable material where by they even sale the banana fibers to people who are using it to develop various products and innovations. With more knowledge i have about waste, i was assigned as local mentor at SINA. | I’m Mawejje Muhammed Dimma a Ugandan by nationality. I’m a professional chef and a specialist in waste management living in Kampala. A social entrepreneur passionate about social change, innovation and banana fiber value addition with over 3 years experience in this field. I have worked with a number of companies in the waste management sector which has shaped me to be resilient in this industry.I’m also chef and operations manager of Rafiki catering service and team leader of Mawejje Creations. | Banana Fiber Extraction | Extract,Create & Earn From Banana Waste | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Uganda | Yes | Youth Organisations, Stuff members, Community leaders and Banana growers | Proof of Concept | For above,from the trainings and Research we have carried out through out. We have engaged community members and banana growers on how valuable it is when it comes to banana fiber extraction and waste management. | Over 10 million hectares of Banana plantation, with an average of 1500 plants per hectare, exist in more than 160 countries globally, Uganda produce about 9 million tons of banana production annually, creating tons of waste in form of stem and stocks, which have been left over to decompose and rot hence emitting gas emissions with negative impact on the environment, which increases global warming every year. | With approach of adding value to banana waste, we directly engage banana growers in chain of production as they extract banana waste to get fibers, sale them to us in due course they earn extra income to sustain themselves while creating jobs opportunities for disadvantaged youth and women in rural communities of Uganda through banana fiber production, hands-on skills training, developing affordable banana fiber products to reduce banana waste to have acarbon free emission environment in Uganda and the entire global. We envision to be the leading company in Uganda and Africa improving livelihood of banana growers through recycling banana waste into products of value. | There different apporaches used by different innovators but at Mawejje Creations we develop different home textiles which inculde table marts,cushion,rugs and on other hand we in research on how we can develop banana fiber fabricswe also use these fibers to make banana papers for package. through the process of extracting these banana fibers there wastes which remain behind, we use them to make charcoal briquttes for cooking hence saving the enviroment. We directly engage the local farmers and youths in rural communities in creativity, recycling of banana waste into banana fiber, income generation without using a chain of middle men. It is also unquestionably the best among existing solution that turn banana waste focusing on developing affordable banana fiber products,income generating activity and job creation with both social & enviromental impact. Conventionally, the banana fibre is extracted through a cumbersome manual process, wherein the pseudo stem sheaths are scraped and the fibre is separated by using a metal scraper (flat and blunt blade). In this manner, just about 500 gm can be extracted. On the other hand machine can designed in a very simple way such that it can be used by everyone, as the mechanism is very simple but we are yet there since we extract manually. | We are a team of 5 who are passionate about change, waste management,value addition and youth unemployment in the region. Alituha God; degree in procurement with 5years of experience in Business management &Book keeping Annet Namuyaba; certificate in fashion&design,certificate in applied social innovations with 2years in garment making Isa Kyakonye; certificate in mass communication&journalism with 2years in sales&marketing Moses Ssenda; degree in textile and garment making with 25years in weaving & textile Muhammed Dimma; Certificate in hotel&hospitality,certificate in Business incubation,Banana fiber extraction and technology with 8years experience in chafing,3 years in banana fiber innovations& product development. The team is based on love and passion towards the change and impact in the community and composed with different profession, education background and vocational skills. Training has been of a practical nature, as team members were trained and equipped with different team building skills and others and as a result, each has a good working skills of the whole production process. There is therefore a lot of specialization. Apart from the various tasks, Most of the members work part since some work doesn't need physical appearance&we believe in a team where everyone achieves more and no one is above the other. | We want to establish Mawejje Creations as a socially and environmentally minded social enterprise through up scaling & utilization of sustainable resources for job creation among youth and women groups, i.e. empowerment and employment schemes. Look for ways to repilcate our module in three districts,theres provision of 5 tonnes of banana fiber,establishing 3 extracting centers in our new pilot districts. We will acquire a heavy duty banana fibre recycling machine which will be supplied to banana growers at micro credit, that will increase on the volume of production to serve the increasing demand of our products. This means increases in employees and efficiency hence improved product quality and reduction in unemployment. At least 3% of banana growers knowing how turn banana waste into products of values and start to generate enough income to support themselves and their families. 200 lives of women and girls in rural communities of Uganda being positively impacted through our services, production and the selling of recycled banana fiber products in 2 years to come. 500 jobs opportunities being created out of banana waste to alleviate in rural communities of Uganda. | Currently our production is still at low capacity due to use of manual extraction where its hindering/limiting us to wider impact at the moment and labour intensive. So to over come that we need automated machines to extract bananana waste in banana fibers. Another great barrier is financial constraint for us to diversity our services in rural communities for this case we are looking potential funder and grants. We also have challenging of marketing our products&service since most people are ignorant about banana fiber innovations,value addition and most of them tend to think that its sisal!. In nutshell we are looking for machines,funds and places where to showcase our solution for wider audiences. | https://mawejjecreations.wordpress.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1OEENxcRLaXexZkbTg3Nxg https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UPDvYlPCledimN4ZdGgQKqaKZI79yauM/view?usp=drivesdk https://m.facebook.com/Mawejjecreations | https://youtu.be/RfC4TJffkJA | Finalist Young African Leaders Awards 2019 organized by African Youth Architects. Winner of Global video competition organized by Sawa World 2018 Winner of scholarship award in applied social innovations 2018. Winner of Most outstanding YALI network member RLC Ugandan chapter 2018. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
113 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rahid Bashir | Ganai | Rahid Bashir's Housekeeping Services | www.rbhks.wordpress.com | Managing Director | Male | India | India | English | From the beginning, whether in news or from the talks naming UN was just outstanding. I was very much found of UN and its organizations and want to learn and work how they work. When I came to know about the summit, without looking here and there I clicked on it and just submitted this form. Because with its catchy and unique name 'UN and Innovation"" gives it a look that it will suffice all the things. Being an MD of Housekeeping Services I started this company for earning some pennies which leads me to hire employees and make them able to earn their livelihood. I not only hire employees but train them so that they can open their too. By this problem I want to reach on global levels and go to every nook and corner to make people able to work for them and able to surprise the society with new technologies. | I am from a middle class background with an Engineering degree in Food Technology. During my degree I started to work for building my company in part time and after completing I worked full time there. Besides this to make an impact I joined Masters program in Public Administration which help me to administer well. This time I am a young Enterprenuer which gives employment opportunities to youths and make them able to open a small business units too. I also have a good command over public speaking and have speaked in many seminars and programs. I also have experience in team leading and currently leading various local teams within company. | Make all able to generate Income | I want to make impact on the youth and make them able to earn their livelihood. In which I will make them aware about technology and growing fields. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India | No | Sustainable Scale | Innovation starts from one himself. I innovate it for me and tested it on me and sure it will help other too. | I will address the unemployed section which is a global issue now. Being an unemployed man one can lead to destructions and various problems can occur. My experience has revealed that An empty mind is full of destruction and when people remain busy in earning they can feel good in full filling their needs and crimes will be somehow low. | My long term vision is to combine Technology with tradition and make everyone able to work and earn. Everyone should handle and learn machine so that one can't be dependent on higher ones. | Technology with tradition make this unique because some one who don't want to leave his tradition will now earn while not leaving. | we have progressed much and beyond our expectations and still counting. | I want to expand it in many developing and under developed countries. | we just need awareness and machine learned staff. Besides this need some more think tankers and professionals which will make it more handy to all. | http://www.rbhks.wordpress.com | http://www.rbhks.wordpress.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
114 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Patrick | Sseremba | Sseremba Healthcare Innovation Lab | www.shcilab.org | CEO | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | My name is Dr. Sseremba Patrick a Ugandan citizen. At the age of 16, I lost my father due to respiratory distress- a common complication of malaria among the population. So many people have lost lives due to malaria and its complications. According to World Health Organization, Africa loses 300 people everyday due to malaria and majority of these are pregnant women and children below 5 years of age. This is why I created TRICK-The Malaria Bot. An artificial intelligence mobile software to diagnose, treat and prescribe medication for malaria. It does this using machine learning technology and photo magnetic self-testing kit clipped on the finger. The procedure does not involve withdraw of blood from the patient but has 98% accuracy. I have made posters for delivery of the traditional malaria testing kits and I received about 540 calls from different persons who would wish to test and treat malaria from home. However, there only worry was pain following pricking using needle from the testing kits. The common malaria testing and diagnostic strategies have lost sensitivity due to the rapid evolution of the parasites and hence new approaches to diagnostic and treatment aid are needed. In the health centres I worked in, I worked on over 1000 patients in a period of 4 months but 70% of the tests performed by the laboratory were negative yet patient exhibited signs and symptoms of malaria. The patients were managed with anti-malarial drugs and improved. This prompted the need for an effective diagnostic strategy to solve malaria cases. Malaria kills more people on the African continent than HIV, cancer and diabetes combined. | Patrick Sseremba is a 22-year-old Ugandan-born based farmer, writer, politician, activist, IT expert, social media marketer and influencer, a programmer and a motivation speaker. He is a finalist in the 2019 Tony Elumelu Foundation award and social impact award 2019. Over the last four years, he has worked in a variety of professionals in both private and public sector despite being an undergraduate student doing bachelors in medicine and dental surgery. He earned his certificates in counselling at Kisubi University, IT and networking at IIHT institute as well as online certification in programming. Patrick has published many books in fields of science and agriculture. He is an ambitious agri-preneur as well a dentist in making. He has established an online mobile clinic (Sseremba dental care) where he offers mobile dental services to people on call. In addition, he manages some small scale businesses around town. He is passionate about exploring and learning new things, through searching for knowledge in workshops, seminars and conferences about digital world and agriculture. | Trick- The Malaria Bot | A bloodless malaria testing kit and an artificial intelligence mobile app to test, diagnose and prescribe medication for malaria. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Uganda | No | Research & Development | I am in talks with developers and various departments under ministry of health to construct the minimum visible product. The timeline has been drafted and initial tests of the technology have been carried out in other countries. | 1. Lack of access to malaria diagnostic aids in rural areas. 2. Increased mortality rates due to malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. 3. Failure of traditional laboratory practices to detect malaria parasites. Malaria, according to WHO, affected 217 million people in 2017 and an estimated 435000 people died globally. Drug-resistant malaria is becoming an increasingly significant threat in Africa and the search for new diagnostic approaches are becoming increasingly urgent. | TRICK- The Malaria Bot We are creating 1. An artificial intelligence mobile application to test, diagnose and prescribe medication for malaria and fever. 2. A self-testing kit that does not require blood samples. Magnetism and light have been combined in a test that can diagnose malaria in under two minutes without the need to take blood. We need to use light and magnetism to differentiate between the blood of an infected and a healthy person. Unlike ‘gold standard’ tests that work by detecting molecules produced by the malaria parasite, our application deploys polarised light to detect hemozoin crystals, which are by-products excreted by the malaria parasite. It does this in less than two minutes—four times the speed of the fastest among current tests on the market. The results are sent from the device, which clips onto a patient’s finger, to a mobile phone. “It’s just plug and play,” The real key here is that it doesn’t require a blood sample, so a patient could potentially test for the disease on their own, at home. | We are different from other approaches on the market by the following strategies: 1. Bloodless malaria testing Verses Blood testing. Our major competitors are medical laboratories which use traditional microscopic approach to malaria diagnostic aids which offer a high failure rate producing so many false positives tests. Our solution offers a bloodless malaria testing strategy. 2. Artificial intelligence verses Human doctors. Our product utilizes artificial intelligence technology for consultation, diagnosis and prescription of medication which is competing with human doctors. The Malaria Bot acts as an automated scientist that does not just take a ‘brute force’ approach, but rather take an intelligent approach to science and medical diagnostics. It will therefore minimize errors that are common in medical diagnostics. | We have entered partnership with developers from India who will work on the project for 3 months period. We have lobbed funding from venture capitalists and investors to aid in development of the project. We have received approval from ministry of health to go on with the intended project. We have designed the project framework. We have registered our company. We have established a website for the project www.shcilab.org We have carried out research from previous projects to know how better to im prove ours. | The sub-Saharan Africa is at a greatest threat of malaria cases. Therefore we target to expand to all countries under Africa starting with the neighboring Kenya, DRC, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi. The project is projected to save over 10000 people annually who die from misdiagnosis and lack of correct treatment protocols. We are planning to recruit Village Health Trainees (VHTs) who possess these self testing kits to move in remote areas and help underprivileged persons who lack finances and access to smart phones. We will partner with government agencies to make our product a public consumption modality. | 1. Funding to improve on research and development and on the technology precision. 2. Partnership from competent firms and organizations to advance my project. 3. Training and skilling of my team members. SHORT TERM NEEDS: 1. Funds to make product. 2. Technology improvement. MEDIUM TERM NEEDS: 1. Approval from WHO to use product as treatment modality. 2. Partnership. LONG TERM NEEDS: 1. Funds to sustain the project. 2. Multi-sectorial collaboration. 3. Scaling and partnership with other countries. | http://www.shcilab.org https://www.independent.co.ug/six-mak-students-to-compete-in-inter-university-innovations-challenge/ https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/14/health/ugandas-first-ai-lab-develops-malaria-detection-app-intl/index.html?no-st=1564255368 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW_NiY4lV3k | Winner for Tony Elumelu Foundation 2019 award Finalist at Social impact award 2019 Winner of East African Inter-university challenge 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
115 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joan | Nandiri | Oasis Peace Web Organization | https://www.oasispeaceweb.org/ | Lawyer/ social entrepreneur/ innovator | Female | Kenya | Kenya | English | I would lie to be part of the UN Solutions Summit where I wish to present a project. I am a changemaker who strongly believes that the attainment of the Vision 2030 United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals will be a clear road map to enhancing human prosperity/ dignity, achieving global peace and ensuring a healthy planet. Through my various youth led/ run initiatives, I work to advance attainment of various SDGs. In 2016, I established a youth initiative called 'Khola' in Lugari sub-county. This was in urgent response to the high youth unemployment rate. The major reason for this issue is that the youth in my country overly depend on 'white collar' jobs that are overstretched and scarce. In creating this initiative, my goal was to transform youth mindsets, engage and empower them to explore alternative income generating avenues. Since 2016, we have worked with and impacted on the lives of 779. We have done so through training in business/ entrepreneurship, skill development and talent tapping. The Summit will advance the work of my team and convene resources and talent around us. I wish to interact/ network with solution-makers to draw guidance from and be inspired by them. I would like to obtain mentorship from the great minds that will be present. I would like to test my creativity, present my solution and obtain knowledge that will catapult me to move it from the research and development stage to proof of concept, transition to scale and be ready for scaling phase. | My name is Joan Elizabeth Nandiri, a vibrant young Kenyan lawyer and social entrepreneur. I am deeply passionate about social justice, economic empowerment of youth and gender related issues. Growing up in a community that was rooted in patriarchy, I could not view myself as anything more than a human belonging to the ‘weaker’ gender. Education and high achieving women have awakened me to the realization that I am more; a leader and changemaker. I am an alumni of Young Africa Leaders Initiative (YALI), a program that equipped me with leadership, effective communication as well as social entrepreneurship skills. I am a Global Peace Ambassador by Global Peace Chain and a certified World Peace Agent by World Peace Initiative. In December 2018, I was privileged to be selected by Transparency International alongside 8 other young Africans to take part in a program dubbed; 'Young African Social Entrepreneurs Tackling Land corruption'. I am currently working with widows in Lugari, Western Kenya, educating them on their rights and easing access to justice. l am a writer and poet who uses literary work to highlight the plight of women in Africa. I am the founder of Khola Youth Initiative, co-founder of Amani Community-based Organization and a programs officer at Oasis Peace Web Organization. My youth led/run initiative 'Khola' is coined around empowering the youth with the goal of alleviating unemployment and draws guidance from SDG 8. I move beyond parochialism to create real change. | CELLULOSE MANUFACTURING PLANTS FOR ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT | THE CELLU- 'LIGHT' KEY TO ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Kenya and Uganda | No | Research & Development | We went through a rigorous ideation phase where we brainstormed solutions to the widespread youth unemployment rate in Kenya and Uganda. A number of solutions were proposed;there was a general agreement that an innovation centered on readily available raw material would be most suitable. We agreed on cellulose manufacturing plants as cellulose is probably the most abundant organic compound on earth. We are yet to develop a proof of concept but are at the important research and development stage. | In mid 2018, my team conducted a community needs assessment survey that revealed that 7 out of every 10 youth in Lugari sub-county, Western Kenya are unemployed. This state has led to an evident slur in the economic development of communities and widespread poverty consequently. Our solution seeks to create employment opportunities for people in rural communities, to empower them economically, enable them develop their communities and aid in the global efforts to progressively alleviate poverty. | Cellulose is the substance that makes up most of a plant’s cell walls, it probably is the most abundant organic compound on earth. Cellulose can be used in making paper products, cotton, linen and rayon for clothes. This polymer has also been found to have versatile uses in many industries such as veterinary foods, wood and paper, fibers and clothes as well as cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. It is incredible that even cellulose from weeds (such as the water hyacinth found on Lake Victoria, Kenya) has been found to contain properties that can be processed into useful products like biodegradable plastic. Due to the abundance of this product, cellulose manufacturing plants can be set up in as many rural communities as possible. These plants will create job opportunities for rural dwellers; provide them with income to aid in global efforts of poverty alleviation.These industrial plants will also play a major role in the development of rural communities in terms of improving infrastructure, enhancing the delivery of public goods and services, boosting trade and establishing facilities such as schools, health centers and water points.A complete Cellulose Manufacturing Plant will have the following features; mixers, granulators and reactors for converting cellulose into cellulose derivatives or products to sell to other industries. Our long-term vision for global impact is to expand this impact to all rural communities in Africa to create opportunities and alleviate poverty. | These solution is unique in that its problem solving approach has a multi-faceted dimension. It offers employment opportunities to the rural folk; in doing so, it contributes directly to the economic development of these rural communities and is crucial to the global efforts of poverty alleviation. It is also unique because the abundance of its raw material, cellulose, has made it possible to establish these plants in all the rural communities.Rural dwellers no longer have to travel to urban and semi-urban areas in search of job opportunities.The rural dwellers will fully embrace these as there will be the general feeling that these industries belong to them and that they have been set up to improve their livelihood. These allows for these industries to thrive in welcoming environments. The other unique aspect is that the raw material is readily available and can be acquired free of charge. | We are past the ideation phase and currently at the research and development stage. | We wish to partner with/ recruit into our team institutions/ individuals with expertise in assembling plants, a good number of engineers. To be in line with all legal requirements, we wish to bring on board a team of certified legal officers.We will benefit immensely from guidance and mentorship of leading global manufacturers and industrialists from whom we hope to learn, reshape and perfect our solution. Our starting point will be the rural communities within Kakamega County of Western Kenya. From here, In a year's time, we wish to expand our impact to select rural areas spread across local communities in the other counties of Kenya (except Nairobi County). In two years time, our vision is to grow our impact to the neighboring Uganda. We will launch the establishment of cellulose manufacturing plants to select rural communities in Uganda. Our 5 year goal is to have grown our impact in at least all the African countries. Our vision is to transform millions of lives of people living in rural areas in Africa. We shall do this by establishing cellulose manufacturing plants whose raw material, cellulose, is probably the most abundant on earth. From these plants, people will earn income either as plant operators, experts, technicians, employees, casual laborers, middle men, strategists, business people and so many more opportunities. Rural communities shall develop economically, employment/ income generating activities will be assured and poverty will be alleviated progressively. | We will need funds to set up these plants in rural communities of Kakamega County, Western Kenya. We will need machinery and certain chemicals that will enable us to transform cellulose derivatives into finished products that can be sold to markets directly or sold to other industries for further processing. Human resource is very crucial to the success of this solution.These resources are key needs both short-term, medium-term and long-term. | https://www.google.com/search?q=cellulose+manufacturing+equipment&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=Zu7uIWy4L6HK1M%253A%252CEKJWHh11XWsHoM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kShyBUn1-kYMrWJ9tKGuK3HGSi_xA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiUgYfthdbjAhXjyYUKHfnRA8AQ9QEwD3oECAQQBg&biw=1280&bih=689#imgrc=rzLNkPk7-bZjLM:&vet=1 | Not applicable | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
116 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Adama | Kane | JokkoSanté | www.jokkosante.org | Founder | Male | Senegal | Senegal | English | French | I would like to attend the Solution Summit to present a digital ehealth pkatform named JokkoSanté. This is a very disruptive ehealth project experimented in Senegal since 2015 with excellent outputs. Considering all international prizes and awards winned we believe JokkoSanté could be deployed worldwide to help reach SDGs 3, 10 and 12 JokkoSanté is a web/mobile app easy to use for all stakeholders : •NGOs and Private Companies use their online account to buy points (by paying JokkoSanté) and target their beneficiaries by location, age, gender, etc… •Diaspora can buy points online with credit cards or Paypal and send those points to their family members or friends •People can micro-save buy buying points in medical centers or pharmacies or with mobile money •Health Insurances and mutual companies can manage their members on the platform and pay pharmacies with points transfered to their members Below are the side benefits of using points system on mobile phones • our platform can be used by the sponsors (NGOs and Private Companies) to send Health Information by text messages to their target beneficiaries because when registering, members must accept to receive health related messages. •The system is transparent as beneficiaries receive branded text messages telling them who has paid their prescription •Last but not least, by bringing crystal transparency on points donations (NGOs and Private Sector) and on diaspora points transfers, we are improving access to good and reliable medicines while increasing official pharmacists revenues | From a very young age, Adama has distinguished himself with his resourcefulness commonly called ‘R System’ in Senegal. Growing up in a very large family, he understood he needed to be productive very early to sustain his studies. He started the project JokkoSanté as an employee of Orange that very quickly understood the potential of JokkoSanté and provided full institutional support with the Ministry of Health and by funding the first pilot. This was the first case of the Entrepreneur Support scheme initiated by the company in Senegal. He started the initiative JokkoSante in 2012 and received a Certificate of ""Recognition of Excellency"" delivered by the International Union of Telecommunications. JokkoSante was chosen by the 2015 African Entrepreneurship Award as the best African project in an unexplored domain and in the preservation of the environment with a prize of 150,000 USD. In July 2016, at the international competition for e-health, JokkoSanté won unanimously for the first time in 10 years, the Grand Prix all categories. It is one of the nine best projects in Africa and Asia selected by the E-Health Observatory of the Southern countries in 2016. In October 2016, Adama was elected Ashoka Fellow. In May 2017, Adama was invited to speak at the United Nations HQ and was recognized as one of the top 12 Innovators which could help achieve the SDGs by 2030. Adama is a husband, father of two and he wants to contribute in leaving a positive legacy to future generations | JokkoSanté | JokkoSanté is a Health-focused digital payments platform giving to all stakeholders an unique tool to manage online prescription, third-party payments | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Senegal | Yes | MicroSoft, Ashoka, Orange, Osiwa, Fondation Pierre Fabre, Boehringer Ingelheim; | Transition to Scale | After four (4) of pilot project in Senegal we plan to expand internationally soon and get 50 millions users globally by 2023. Our strategy is to communicate widely on our pilot project results and then partner with Health NGO and Foundations, Governement and CSR-oriented Private Sector companies. | in Africa, big part of money aimed to Health is misused: • Local population is facing high drugs related expenses without any efficient coverage. Diaspora is helping but there are not sure the money sent for health expenses won’t be misused •Health insurance and mutual companies don’t have an online tool to follow their customers transactions and are then facing many frauds •Private companies, NGOs don’t have any means to make sure that the beneficiaries will receive the donations for free | JokkoSanté is a web/mobile app using points as health services payment currency: •NGOs and Private Companies use their online account to buy points and target their beneficiaries by location, age, gender, etc… •Diaspora buy points online with credit cards or Paypal and send it to their family members •People can micro-save buy buying points in pharmacies or with mobile money •Health Insurances and mutual companies can manage their members on the platform and pay pharmacies with points; Our platform can be used by the sponsors (NGOs and Private Companies) to send Health Information by text messages to their target beneficiaries who have their prescriptions paid •Every beneficiary receives a branded text messages telling them who paid for their prescription •Bringing crystal transparency on points donations (NGOs and Private Sector) and on diaspora points transfers, we are improving access to good and reliable medicines while increasing official pharmacists revenues We expect to impact 3 millions people in Senegal, 50 millions people in Africa and 100 millions all over the world by 2024. The results expected are : fight counterfeit drugs and ilegal sales, promote drugs responsible consumption, increase families health expenses savings, grow private sector contribution on health expenses, protect the environment | Wherever presented, JokkoSanté is recognized as the first solution of its kind and we improve the traditional ways of funding healthcare. With limited sources of incomes, being able to receive points from other relatives or even organizations helps address the challenge related to affordability of medicines. The mechanism can also benefit organizations (such as NGO’s) donating medicines as a current model. Instead of shipping medicines and offering them to families, points can be offered as an alternative more cost effective, targeted and environment friendly system. Our channels are : - B2C : web application where people can register with their mobile phone number for free. Please not that even a feature phone can interact with our app - B2B : Private Companies, NGOs, Foundations, etc... manage their funding online - Health Profesionnals : have profesionnal accounts and digitalize the prescriptions and medicines delivery. The app is also used as a billing tool | After one year of research, we launched the pilot project in February 2015 in Senegal in rural area with the objective to have at least one member per household. Two years later, we exceeded our target (1300 members for 800 households) and then moved to Dakar (Senegal Capital) and currently we have more than 4200 members including hospitals, private pharmacies, private companies, individuals, etc... We measure our progress with monthly reports sent to our partners and annual meetings where all stakeholders are invited to share their views and contribute improve the solution We also follow some KPIs like the number of members, the amount of CSR funds, the daily, weekly, monthly spendings, the medicines stocks, etc... | Our next steps are : - total expansion in Senegal in 2019 - expansion in West Africa in 2020 - expansion in East Africa and globally in 2020, 2021, 2022 | The resources needed : - Short Term (2019-2020) : 350K USD and awarness campaign among the NGOs and Private Companies about this new way of funding healthcare with transparency and traceability (marketing, lobbying, impact investors) - Medium Term (2021-2025) : 1 M USD : deployment in African countries (impact investors, social franchise, partnering with pharma industry and governements) - Long Term (2026-2030) : 1.5 M USD : deployment worldwide (impact investors, social franchise, partnering with insurance companies) | http://www.jokkosante.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZf-gybhmD4 https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovation/jokkosante-the-digital-community-pharmacy-to-save-money-and-protect-environment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juJw6Xvtj3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Hd7sXqJhI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_53YbYxWU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPDDQxQtrOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqoCZYJZAo8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nGKAWj3y0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN3_nZVxrnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgGn5E9C7Us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_owzjKlIkh4 http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/03/health/jokkosante-medicine-app-senegal/index.html http://af.reuters.com/article/idAFL8N1G87T2?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0 http://atlantablackstar.com/2017/07/13/expired-and-fake-drugs-are-a-huge-problem-in-west-africa-but-this-senegalese-entrepreneur-has-a-solution/ https://pharmacy-staffing.com/pharmacy-mobile-applications-and-phone-apps/ http://www.responsible-economy.org/en/speakers-network/speaker/1354-adama-kane | https://youtu.be/wWLYtnBjxoo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr8yeRJaOnI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV99RDZZn4E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB4mMpvZLWo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztUy8Ua8730 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76EpnfhUhyk | - Winner African Entrepreneurship Award 2015 - Winner ITU Telecom Award 2015 - Winner eHealth Grand Prize 2016 (France) - Winner Global South eHealth Observatory Prize 2016 - World Summit Award 2015 & 2016 (Senegalese Best Health App) - Boeringher Ingelheim """"Making More Health"""" Fellow - Ashoka Fellowship 2016 - Winner West Africa Com """"Changing Lives"""" 2017 - City of Paris International Innovation Awards 2016 (Finalist) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
117 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | AYOMIDE | ALADE | Icon farms | https://www.linkedin.com/in/icon-farms | CEO | male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Icon Farms is an agro processing based company which involves the cultivation,processing and production of farm produce(farm raw materials into finished products) and we have a products that we are working on now and it is called Icon cocoyam flour. Cocoyam is a root food that boast of many benefits for a healthy living. It has properties that prevent, fight and cure many diseases.Consumption of cocoyam is very high all over Nigeria.The stages that are involves in the processing of cocoyam into flour is in five stages; peeling,washing,drying,grinding and packaging. This is an idea that has been brought to reality because we were able to produce our prototype products.Icon cocoyam flour our is a product gotten from cocoyam tuber,this cocoyam flour can be taken by any age because of the vast nutrients that is present in it.We tend to use the local method for processing because of lack of fund to get equipment that will make the processes to be faster,neater and easier.This local method that we use includes the peeling of the cocoyam after it has been gotten from the farm,then washed, sun dry,it will stay under the sun for 3-4 days and then for grinding.Then packed into a airtight nylon.But when there is equipment the same way for the processes but the drying is goingto be done by a machine but now there is no capital to get those equipment for the processing. | I am Ayomide by name ,an agropreneur, male ,creative person and also i am someone that is ready to learn from people.I love to meet people and I want to make impacts and also solve problems that is around me. | Icon farms | Agricultural processing,food processing | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Nigeria | Yes | Babalola Ademola, Oyediran Olumide | Proof of Concept | No Finance/fund to scale it up | The first impact is the eradication of hunger(zero hunger)- pledges to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. No poverty-Adequate nutrition is an incredibly important indicator of a persons ability to get out of poverty, later in life. Creating jobs is a great way to reduce poverty. When people have jobs, they have income, and when people have income, they can more easily get themselves out of poverty. Employment opportunities | At Icon farms, our target audience are people who are interested in agriculture buying agricultural products and definitely it is everyone because everybody love agricultural products. | Our solution is unique in its own way because we are working toward the sustainable goals which includes zero hunger,no poverty and well being | We have been able to turn our ideas into reality by making a prototype products but we cannot continue because there is no capital to purchase equipment and also warehouse. | After we kickstart the business and we have gained ground in the state where we started from,we will move to another state until we gain full ground in Nigeria. At Icon farms, our target audience are people who are interested in agriculture buying agricultural products and definitely it is everyone because everybody love agricultural products. | Warehouse Equipment Registration of the company name Certificate from Nafdac in Nigeria | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJC8ukIpJWI https://www.linkedin.com/in/icon-farms | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJC8ukIpJWI https://www.linkedin.com/in/icon-farms | None yet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
118 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rita | Otu | Beau Haven Farms | https://www.beauhavenfarms.com.ng/ | CEO | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I came on the frontier to learn to fight inequality and poverty in a new global context. I want to advance that fight, and I want to test and improve my strategy and solutions at UN Solutions Summit, a place where participants will meet and work with fellow participants, educators and speakers from all over the world. According to the World Food Programme 66 million primary school-age children attend classes hungry, with 23 million in Africa alone. In Nigeria, about one-third of children under 5 and women of childbearing age suffer from Vitamin A deficiency. Our innovation addresses the needs of mothers by improving access to locally produced, low cost fortified flour. Nutri-Flour is an environmentally sustainable social enterprise that provides training to build cassava farms, improve nutrition, and turn them into vitamins-rich flour that can be incorporated in local staple foods or sold to bakeries and markets. Nutri-Flour provides solutions to micro-nutrient malnutrition by fortifying staple flours for over 170,000 children & young women in Nigeria who are limited by expense & imprecision to access Iron, Vitamin A and Zinc. The strategy uses staple flours that are specially formulated to treat severely malnourished kids as delivery vehicles for the critical micro-nutrients. | Rita Robert Otu is an International award winning agriculturalists, environmentalist and a feminist. She has an in- depth understanding of food security issues but with special reference to Africa. Rita is an enthusiastic advocate and leader of numerous efforts to advance the future of agriculture education in Nigeria. She is the CEO of Beau Haven Farms, a social enterprise providing integrated finance and management services to smallholder cassava, sweet potatoes and cocoa farmers in Nigeria. Her engagement reaches throughout the value chain providing support in issues management and strategic development to a broad range of clients ranging from farmers to food processors, scientists to governments. Rita is a passionate advocate for women in technology, and has spent the last 5 years campaigning for more recognition and support for young women and girls in computing. This led her to found #cassavalink, a social enterprise which empowers women cassava farmers through technology, the Nigeria’s first mobile network for women farmers in tech. Through the training and exposure of these girls and women to ICT, lives of other 1,000 women in the rural area. Rita holds a Masters degree in International Development from the prestigious University of Manchester, United Kingdom and a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Economics and Extension which she obtained a Second Class Upper Division 2:1 from University of Calabar, Calabar. Cross River State. | Nutri-Flour: Reaching Millions with Nutritious Food | Local Solutions to Malnutrition in Nigeria | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Gambia | Yes | Harvest Plus, Human Empowerment and Development project | Scaling | Nutri-Flour has benefited many people and also has received several successes since its establishment at the beginning of 2014. Over the past six years, Nutri-Flour has built a sustainable supply chain of small cassava farmers and sold flour products in 200 stores. What is necessary for successful up scaling of this project are enough farmers willing to venture into yellow cassava cultivation. To date, we have engaged about 500 rural women for our food processing. | In Nigeria, about one-third of children under 5 and women of childbearing age suffer from Vitamin A deficiency. The most vulnerable are often children, whose mental and physical growth, and ultimately potential to create a better future, is dependent on this most basic human need. Most don’t have access to healthy foods, and every meal is primarily starchy flour especially those of rural communities, contain insufficient amounts of vitamins and minerals. | We manufacture micro-nutrient rich cassava and maize meal flour avail them through affordable retail distribution in rural and peri-urban areas, in smaller packs for $0.2-0.4 that the majority millions in the survival markets can access. Since 2014, the number of people we have served is over 100,000 families in the five states of Nigeria who consumed garri. These include, children, women, youths, elderly etc both in rural and urban families. Our long term vision, we hope to impact over five million children in the next 5 years of operation, reducing chronic hunger & undernourishment and to promote better health and growth. We also hope to improve market accessibility to over 10,000 farmers in the next 5 years of operation with potential for expansion. This work starts on the farm, supporting the people and communities who grow our food. That’s why, as part of our long term goals; we’ve pledged to improve the livelihoods of 800,000 farmers by advancing climate-smart agriculture practices that increase productivity and climate resiliency, while using fewer natural resources. | To fill the nutrition gap, Nutri-Flour increases access to Vitamins, moves the site of food production into cities and villages and introduces income generating opportunities by training communities how to build cassava farms. Also, Nutri-Flour is scientifically designed and tested flour that offers the simplest, fastest, and most cost-effective approach for replenishing essential vitamins and minerals in chronically malnourished children. By teaching women how to make cassava into a powder we make it easy for them to incorporate the extra vitamins into the foods they already make, without having to change their dietary habits. This powder is also easy to transport and sell as an additional source of income. Furthermore, Nutri-Flour empowers families to produce their own source of Vitamins using cassava .The use of biofortified yellow cassava to improve nutrition is innovative, and the emphasis on turning the cassava into a powder ensures that families can easily incorporate this new source of protein into the dishes they already make. Working with partner organizations to run train-the-trainer programs is also novel in the field of nutrition programs and guarantees sustainable improvements in nutrition. | Nutri-Flour increases access to vitamins and minerals, moves the site of food production into cities, and introduces income generating opportunities by training communities how to build organic cassava farms. The program benefits families in food insecure areas in Nigeria. The outcome is as follows: •Outcome: 5,000 families will have Nutri-Flour farms Measurement Plan: Number of participants completing the program •Outcome: Each family will have access to recommended daily vitamins and minerals. Measurement Plan: Measuring the grams of Nutri-Flour produced by each participant per week during home visits conducted by community leaders and facilitators. •Outcome: Decreased rates of stunting by 50% Measurement Plan: A study comparing the rates of stunting in families who grow biofortified yellow cassava farming to those who are not. | We're currently expanding to Ghana and Uganda for distribution across Sub-Saharan Africa. We're also working on new interactive learning apps and new show concepts to deepen farmers' learning! 2018- Received Entrepreneurial awards in Sub Saharan Africa from Study UK Alumni Awards. 2017-Reached a milestone of 50,000 households 2016- Establishing of Nutri-School farms in 5 primary and secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. 2015- Received WIL Award, UAE for our Local Solutions in empowering women Farm Initiative Dr. UbokUdom Okon was hired as the new agriculturalist. He works with the community to plan and implement the garden and field crops, as well as to train students in crop production. Harvest was again used for the nutritional program at the schools and to earn a modest return to sustain the Farm Initiative program. Health and Nutrition The schools are committed to improving the health of students. We partner with All farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN). Special sessions are focused healthy living style of students. Movement toward Self-sufficiency: We continue to pursue discussions with State government and local government to discuss transition towards implementation of agriculture programs and establishment of gardens in schools in the area. | Short term- Training on branding and market accessibility to other Europe and Africa Medium Term- Funding and training Long term- More Partnerships for Scaling to other countries and funding. | https://www.beauhavenfarms.com.ng/ https://youtu.be/qdcAn34u2Ys https://thestoryexchange.org/nigerian-entrepreneur-beau-haven-farms-teaches-women-farm-grow-selfconfidence/ http://www.peasfoundationng.org/ https://youtu.be/bkrZ24Cycrw | https://youtu.be/bkrZ24Cycrw https://youtu.be/lpEfpwyGaPU https://youtu.be/OhtsowWZXwU https://youtu.be/bkrZ24Cycrw | - WSIS Forum Photo Contest Finalists-2019 -Regional Award Winner of Study UK Alumni Awards by British Council, United Kingdom in 2018. -Winner Wise Woman in the community from Wise Women Awards, United Kingdom -Finalist Citizenship award, SHE Foundation, United Kingdom 2016 -Outstanding Alumnus from Manchester University in 2015. - Winner WIL Awards, UAE, 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
119 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Peder | Hill | Kids Save Ocean | www.kidssaveocean.com | Executive Director | Male | Austria | United States of America | English | Our Kids Save Ocean initiative has already been recognised across the world and by over 20 Heads of State. And our youth-driven environmental education and activism platform called Fatechanger, which has been co-developed by youth, is ready take off. The UN Solutions Summit is a perfect opportunity to extend our collaboration with the UN and empower our project to begin transforming both education and youth activism, enabling kids to not just learn the science of climate change and ocean pollution, but also do something about it. Teaser video for our app, which will be released in September: https://youtu.be/YjVhfimT95I My work as founder of Kids Save Ocean has ultimately been about giving children a voice in the global narrative about our world's endangered environment, a mission my volunteer-driven NGO has approached through art exhibitions, collaborations with the UN, and software development. Our work at Kids Save Ocean has been recognised in 8 languages, and by Kings, Princes, Presidents, a Queen (Elisabeth), the Pope and Prime Ministers. Even a Knight. Sir David Attenborough: “Dear Peder Hill, …I am greatly impressed and wish you every success in what you are doing.” | Peder Hill has taught art and biology for the last 16 years, and currently teaches at Draschestrasse Vienna Bilingual School. He began the Kids Save Ocean in 2016 by helping his 12-year-old art students build a 5-meter-long humpback whale out of trash to bring attention to the problem of ocean pollution; the “Last Whale” sculpture, which has been exhibited both at the UN and the Austrian Academy of Sciences; its next exhibition is at Austria’s largest aquarium, the Haus des Meeres. After building the whale, unsatisfied with their sculpture’s impact, we wrote a proposal to the United Nations Vienna to have the world’s first Children’s Clean Ocean Summit – titled The Last Whale as well. The UN embraced the project, and the Summit was held on June 22nd in Vienna. Peder has built a global team of volunteers, all drawn to the vision of giving children a powerful voice about the environment. They include David Carson (probably the world’s most famous graphic artist), and 6 mobile app developers - among the Kids Save Ocean projects is Fatechanger, an app which will teach kids about environmental problems and give them a voice to transform local and international environmental policy. His work will be featured this year in 2 books. Peder graduated with honors in Biology and Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and received an MA in Conservation Biology from San Francisco State University. He is an award-winning artist but has also worked in technology as project manager for a startup near the Silicon Valley. He's a published writer. | FateChanger mobile app | The FateChanger app empowers youth to learn about plastic ocean pollution and climate change and lobby governments to revolutionize their approaches. | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | All English-speaking countries. | No | Research & Development | Our FateChanger app is almost ready for release. We've tested as many assumptions about our business plan as possible. We have only to launch the pilot app, which has already been recognised around the world. | Problems: 1) The global tragedies of plastic ocean pollution and climate change. 2) Busy teachers have trouble integrating sustainability and the SDG's. 3) School textbooks are boring and out of touch with what youth prefer. 4) Children have no voice about the environment. | Our mission is to give kids a powerful voice in the global narrative about our planet’s environment – initially empowering them with the FateChanger app, later formally integrating them in the United Nations. Fatechanger provides teachers and students with a powerful education platform, empowering kids to really protect our planet, giving kids a voice in the world. We additionally intend to reinvent the textbook along the way, FateChanger offers multiple impact pathways to youth: - National letter-writing campaigns - Toolkits to connect with local government - Toolkits to transform schools - Signature-collection campaigns to create ballot initiatives - Statistically sampling youth opinion toward enabling youth representation in UN Data collection will guide development, enabling us to navigate to maximum impact. | Competitive mojo of the FateChanger app and our approach ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Which historic educational app factors will be eliminated? •Quizzes •Childish design •Anything vaguely boring •Useless bells and whistles Which factors will be raised way above industry standard? •Deep dose of real-world complexity of issues •Resources for wide range of users •Promoting critical thinking •Fostering creative problem-solving •Cross-connectivity with other environmental groups •Sustainability and Climate Change resources Which factors will be reduced well below industry’s standard? •Number of annoying notifications Which factors will be created that the industry never offered? •Enables active global citizenship •Real-world problem solving •First hipster educational app ever •Scalable to additional Sustainable Development Goals •Kids decide app’s future content development •Action alerts to facilitate youth activism •A chance to actually change the world | Our FateChanger app will test a variety of approaches developed to give kids the ability to have maximum impact for not just sharing their voices but influencing local and global environmental policy. These include our letter-writing campaigns, integration of youth into local government, state-wide citizen initiatives, and using the app to statistically sample youth opinion toward enabling youth representation in the UN. Rigorous data collection is built into the app and platform, measurements geared towards decision-making and learning. We will measure the outcomes of these experiments and focus our future development efforts, pivoting wherever necessary to achieve maximum impact. We’ll measure: •# users (Students, Teachers, Others) •# letters written •# countries with kids who have written letters •# national policy changes •# local policy changes •# youth actions •# youth integrations with local government (e.g. city) Additional useful measures of the power of youth voice. These directly reflect increases in the number of app users and subsequently impact. •# exhibitions of our humpback whale sculpture •# visitors annually per exhibition •# articles written about our project Many results of our efforts are available through the app itself, including number of letters written by each country and feedback via push notifications and progress pins on the app’s map if and when, for example, policy changes result from our efforts. | App release in September: We'll initially release the app in English, using user-use and outcome data from our back-end and user input to enable us to navigate the app's future development. Funding: a volunteer and myself are actively approaching potential funders. Our detailed short list includes over 40 potential funding sources. We roughly anticipate funding by January, 2020, Staff: after funding, we will hire an assistant to help with the pilot of the app. After the pilot has run, we will seek additional funding to scale staff to enable further app development and the beginning of our magazine publishing, the design of which will be helmed by David Carson - publishing be part of our strategy to simultaneously create maximum impact and become a sustainable NGO. We roughly anticipate the process running up to the first magazine will take until January, 2022. Languages: After our English-language pilot, and after funding has been attained, we'll scale to other languages starting with German. Using the sampling abilities of the app which will grow with the user base to statistically measure youth opinion with the end goal of rigorously measuring youth opinion on environmental issues so their voice can be reflectively represented at the UN. For we intend that youth have a formal voting seat in the United Nations and are working toward that goal. We'll have to wait and see how long this will take. | At all stages we'll need guidance and training from industry professionals to bolster our capacity and allow us to tap into relavant networks. Short-term: funding for myself and a project manager(s) to help the volunteers and myself with the FateChanger app pilot. I'm currently doing this along-side a full-time teaching job. Medium-term: Additional funding for hiring developers and staff. Long-term: Additional funding for hiring developers and staff. | Here's a video I made to share how I achieved so much success with Kids Save Ocean and help other teachers develop projects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ITSrzYDvs NGO website: https://www.kidssaveocean.com Ocean Plastics Lab, for international traveling exhibition about how science is dealing with plastic ocean pollution. The FateChanger app was chosen for inclusion before it was even finished: https://oceanplasticslab.net Here's a short teaser film for the FateChanger app. It was directed by 17-year-old students of mine: https://youtu.be/YjVhfimT95I Here you'll find the Fatechanger app's prototype (available only from desktop computers): https://www.kidssaveocean.com/savetheocean-app | This is the same link as above, but you'll see me introducing an early version of the FateChanger app at our UN Children's Clean Ocean Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ITSrzYDvs Featured on Education for a Better World Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/environmental-artists-and-activists-with-peder-hill/id1441900177?i=1000439221825 | 2018 - Fatechanger mobile app included in German Federal Ministry’s traveling exhibition Ocean Plastics Lab. 2018 - Recognized in Sierra Magazine’s Cool Schools - Best of the Rest. 2018 - Reconized by Esther ""Woj"" Wojcick as Moonshot Teacher 2018 - Reconized by the Vienna Board of Education (Stadtschulrat) for excellent achievement for my Kids Save Ocean project. 2010 - Recognized by the Stadtschulrat for filmmaking projects about Climate Change and the UN Millennium Goals. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
120 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anne | Wairimu | HIAS Kenya | https://www.hias.org/kenya | Intern | Female | Kenya | Kenya | English | I am applying for opportunity because I am passionate about being a global change agent through art and I know that this kind of an opportunity would provide me with a platform to share my idea with other youths and in that way, I am able to get more ideas on how to make my idea better or better still, I could get partners or youths from other countries adopting my ideas and implementing them in their own countries and that way, we get to grow together regardless of where one comes from. My idea is about teaching the necessary artistic and entrepreneurial skills to unprivileged youths in Kenya by partnering with artistic university students. We aim to empower these youths to pursue a sustainable career and in that way reduce the high rates of food insecurity, youth unemployment and drug abuse. We therefore envision a new open-minded Kenyan youth that has access to an entire project cycle for artistic and entrepreneurial development. Our aim therefore is to create an interconnected global network that supports the youths new projects and artworks. In early 2018, my team and I mobilized youths from Kibera Slums by the help of non-governmental organizations and community based organizations. We first identified their interests in various arts and then we decided to start of with drawing classes and creative arts class where we made things such as cement vases. The class consisted of approximately 10 students. Since we did not have donors, we borrowed money from our friends and relatives and we were able to raise around 30 US Dollars which we used to buy 2 A3 Sketch books, pencils, rubbers, water color (primary colors) and a set of acrylics. The creative art class was meant for 5 minutes art and craft projects which would act our sustainability plan. At that point in time, we made 6 vases and I was in a position to sell all of them at 7 US Dollars each. The money was used to buy more acrylic paints, cement, brushes among other things. Later on, we changed our venue to a Community based organization still in Kibera Slums but this time round, our largest group was children from the age of 8 to 12 years. They were approximately more than 30 children. We used to teach them how to paint and mix colors and give them papers and pieces of cloth from where they could draw and paint. We were even privileged to celebrate the international Peace Day together. We noticed that these children preffered drawing and painting to other unproductive activities. | I am a 23 year old recent graduate from Kenya. I was pursuing BSc. Community Development and Environment at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. In addition to this, I am an actress. I have been doing theatre plays for 2 years and I have featured in a few Kenyan Programmes such as 'Hullabaloo Estate' and 'Sue na Jonnie'. My love for art made me start running an art initiative in Kibera Slums. I am passionate about art, climate change and technology. Currently, I am an intern at HIAS Kenya and I am doing mental and psychosocial refugee Case management. I am also a Systemic Acumen for Youth-led Development Solutions fellow doing complexity systems thinking. I have also undergone design thinking training as well as a gender diversity training. | Art Mentorship Initiative | Since talent can hardly pay one's bill in Kenya, our initiative wants to change that by providing free valuable opportunities to unprivileged youth | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Currently we are based in Kenya but we hope other countries could adapt the same because it can be used all the world and not limited to Kenya | Yes | University Students | Research & Development | This is because currently we are still working on developing our idea | The youth in Kenya is at the risk of losing their potential careers and talents in pursuit of coursework certificates and better paying jobs. Since talent in Kenya can hardly pay one's bills, Art Mentorship Initiative wants to change that by giving free valuable learning opportunities to the unprivileged youth. | We have a project cycle where we source national and international art experts who act as mentors to the young artists at the campus level. When the university students are mentored for a month or two, they are now capacitated enough to teach the necessary artistic skills to the unprivileged youths in Kenya for 3 to 4 months. We then have volunteers from the campus side and the already taught youths who now have the capacity to teach the young children and the cycle continues up to a point where the whole world changes. We envision a new open-minded Kenyan youth that has access to an entire project cycle for artistic and entrepreneurial development. We therefore aim to create a global interconnected network that support the youths artworks and new projects | The whole idea is for the youth hence it is a youth to youth initiative and it unique in that sense. The other reason is that we have an established project cycle that aims at producing an entire new generation. | We have identified the vulnerable youths that we want to work with and we are currently making arrangements on how we can get space for our next batch We measure progress by conducting assessments for the learning students so that we are able to measure their progress. We therefore give weekly practical projects which upon submission and marking, we are able to tell whether our students are learning or not. We also conduct focus group discussions where we get to learn the various challenges the youth are facing | We plan to expand to other parts of the Kenya and globally and get partners from there as well as support from the United Nations We also plan to have the private sector companies as our partners since we have a sustainability plan where we will be creating artistic crafts for sale We also plan to impact 200 youths at the end of our every financial year | Short - term 1) unprivileged youths 2) artistic university students Long-term 1)Space to teach from 2) Funds 3)National and international art experts 4) Art tools or equipment | https://twitter.com/itisyartkenya?s=08 | https://twitter.com/itsAnneMuthoni?s=08 | I was awarded a certificate for presenting the solution during the Rotary International Day in 2018 at the United Nations I will be presenting the solution in Abuja during the Global Youth Forum organized by International Labour Organization | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
121 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohamed | Sylla | Women Deliver | www.womendeliver.org | Young leader Fellow | Male | Mali | Mali | English | French | Having a Certificate on sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equality and sustainable development, communication and media, advocacy and youth engagement, and grant proposals and financial stewardship from Women Deliver Young Leaders Program DIGITAL UNIVERSITY, Certificate of Profeciency on Global Public Health from Sustainable Development Goals Academy, Haemorrhage. I am applying to attending the UN Solutions Summit for sharing my expertise, knowledge, leadership skills and move forward sustainable development goals. During my studies, I developed an excellent eyes for details and have a significant experience in Management, Documentation and Social Impact. I undertook a project managing as part of my studies, so I am comfortable working as part of a team and am confident in my interpersonal and communication abilities. I have received a feedback from fellow team member that helps to affirm this. Young Leader Fellow of Women Deliver for advocating gender equality, governance, education, health and well-being of girls and women. I am experienced in Survey urban food project entitled ""Partnership Afro-German""to increase the efficiency of the use of resources to improve Food security in West African cities and attended several workshops, conferences and summit. As a result of my enthusiasm, educational background, and previous work experience, I feel I can make a valid contribution to your organization and the Global Development. | Having a Certificate on sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equality and sustainable development, communication and media, advocacy and youth engagement, and grant proposals and financial stewardship from Women Deliver Young Leaders Program DIGITAL UNIVERSITY, Certificate of Profeciency on Global Public Health from Sustainable Development Goals Academy, Webber Training (Teleclass Education for Healthcare Professionals): Certificate on Neonatal Sepsis Prevention in Low -Resource Settings, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research: Certificate on The Evidence-Based Management of Postpartum Haemorrhage. Attested on Management in Health, Basic on Health Economics, Health Outcomes and Poor from E-learning of World Bank. Global Health Program from USAID E-learning: Monitoring and Evaluation on HIV/AIDS and Youth Sexual Reproductive Health. | Understanding Energy use and promoting health practices in rural/peri-urban communities in Africa. | - Biomass in high use in rural communities - Alternative energy for fuel not often feasile or sustainable - Evidence about | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Mali | No | Research & Development | I do think this solution is at the stage of innovation, health and save ecosystem. | Understanding Energy use and promoting health practices in rural/peri-urban communities in Africa. Why ? (Problem Statement). | Firewood and other solid biomass materials are useful resources globally. However poor handling and user practices may be injurious to health. Why do not investigate firewood problems and provide solutions for rural/peri-urban in Africa communities. | Methods : Observations Indepth interviews Literature reviews | Expected outputs : Policy brief advocating safer use practices | Goals are: 1- Understanding the role of firewood as an energy resource among the target groups. 2- Investigating background health related problems in relation to firewood and others solid fuels use. 3- Exploring perceptions on health risks and avoidance strategies. 4- Developing safer practical strategies that are affordable and adaptable. | Identify and map the processes and daily practices of women in a typical rural/peri-urban community around use of biomass fuels. Understand possible safer use practices that reduce limit exposure to negative health effects of biomass fuels. | Not applicable | Not applicable | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
122 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Abdoulaye | SALL | HOPE FOR MALI | https://hopeformali.com | Founder & CEO | Male | Mali | Mali | French | Participating to the UN solutions summit will help me learn more about sustainable development goals and will also enhance my existing skills. This great event will also give me the opportunity to share with other participants how I'm changing the way we can grow food for millions people's while making profit true a secured web based platform and mobile apps. | My name Abdoulaye SALL I 'm 25 year old, I major Computer science , I am the founder and CEO of HOPE FOR MALI STARTUP, US DEPARTMENT OF STATE ALUMNI 2017 , my goal is to empower small scale farmers in Africa aliavate poverty I love traveling, reading sharing and learning new cultures | HOPE FOR MALI | ""Empowering small scale farmers in Africa"" | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | HOPE FOR MALI intends to transpose its experience every where the proper structure to support the small scale farmers is lacking.we are now operating in Mali. | Yes | ORANGE MALI S.A | Proof of Concept | We have developed a secured web platform ready to be tested and released. | HOPE FOR MALI is solving small scale farmers are relegated to oftenly: Unbankable, lack of capital to expand their farms Smart farming Techniques to take advantage of extra land they possess. Market access. | HOPE FOR MALI is a Digital Agriculture Platform that empowers rural farmers by providing them with improved seeds, farm inputs, training on modern farming techniques and provides a market for the sale of their farm produce. This gives the farmers the capacity to farm more acres and by extension leads to increased food production and security in Africa. Hope For Mali is a startup that facilitates food production, food security and sustainability by empowering farmers. This, by providing farmers with the necessary on-farm equipment and tools (improved seed varieties, training on the use of modern farm techniques and mechanized tools) as well as off-farm (marketing of harvested products).""HOPE FOR MALI"" hopes to increase incomes, improve the livelihoods of millions of farming communities and families, as well as food security, access to food and the reduction of hunger and poverty in West Africa. By using innovative technology, he hopes to provide local networks with another funding channel to invest directly in agriculture. We are committed to expanding our reach in order to continue to empower local farmers, positively impact their lives and their families while boosting food production and sustainability in Mali. | Our unique value proposition is : - To Connect farmers with sponsors to boost agriculture economy model - To increase food production while promoting youth participation in agriculture - To improve living conditions of small scale farmers in Africa by involving everybody | We are a team of twenty with ample experience in Technology, Financial management and agriculture operations, With over 70 % of our work dedicated to agriculture operations and technology together we have a common goal of empowering small scale farms across Africa. | HOPE FOR MALI intends to replicate his community model in other African countries like Ghana, Senegal , Guinea,basically any country where the proper structure to support small scale farmers is lacking this becomes an opportunity for Hope for Mali and the addressing market is literally huge. | At HOPE FOR MALI, we understand that the budget required to start our operations will depend on the approach and size, which we think will be very important. Our vision is to become the first digital agricultural platform in Africa, admired for its impact on collaborative food production and strengthening food security on the continent. Below you will find how we plan to spend our initial capital. In Mali, the cost of corporate certification $ 750. Our price for liability insurance, licenses and license will cost - $ 10,000 Our budget to acquire an office space or warehouse that can accommodate the number of employees for at least 6 months (including rebuilding the facility) will cost $ 30,000. Office equipment (computers, printers, projectors, markers, server / Internet access, furniture, phones, filing cabinets and electronic equipment) will cost $ 20,000 Amount required to purchase the necessary software applications - $ 3,500 The launch of an official website will cost $ 4,000 Our cost to pay bills and staff for at least 2 to 3 months - $ 10,000 Additional expenses such as business cards, signage, advertising and promotions will cost $ 5,000 Our advertising and marketing budget - $ 500,000 Miscellaneous - $ 10,000 Based on our detailed analysis above, we will need $ 593,250 to start our business linking agricultural sponsors with real farmers. This business will be a world class business that will reach every corner of the world. | https://www.hopeformali.com | https://youtu.be/NNo1fb43xWA | Malistartup Award (finalist ) 3rd place Africa Digital Award 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
123 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Venuste | Kubwimana | International Transformation Foundation (ITF) | www.itfsecretariat.org | Secretary General | Male | Kenya | Rwanda | English | French | Learn and Network aiming for instrumental insights for my project scale up across Africa. The summit will allow me to exchange ideas and experiences with experienced practitioners of various backgrounds leading various innovations. For me, it all started in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. I was born and grew up in the Southern Province of Rwanda, a rural area stricken with poverty. During the 1994 genocide, I lost almost everyone in my family making it even more difficult to meet daily needs. I was a 14-year-old high school student. When I was then forced to search for a job to meet basic needs but nobody would give me a stable job because I wasn’t from an influential family. The frustrations I went through balancing school, working to pay school fees and supporting my siblings started a passion in me to create opportunities for fellow young people. This is to ensure that less young people go through the same frustrations. That is when the dream to create a youth system that would provide jobs, offer opportunities to grow and contribute to sustainable development of our communities was born in my mind. Since then, that dream influences my choices and dictates my life path. In December 2009, I established International Transformation Foundation (ITF) an international youth-led non-profit organization providing educational and self-development programs encompassing leadership and entrepreneurship to contribute to development of our home communities. ITF is now directly providing livelihood to over 117274 people daily with over 60 young people from different countries working at ITF Secretariats in Kenya and Rwanda. Read more at http://itfsecretariat.org | Named among 2018 Africa’s top 50 Innovators at Africa Innovation Summit in Kigali and Global innovator of the year by Aid & International Development Forum in Washington; DC. Venuste Kubwimana has been Secretary General of International Transformation Foundation since 2009. An international youth led non-profit organization he established providing youth educational and self-development programs encompassing leadership and entrepreneurship to contribute to their community’s development. Venuste is a 33 years Rwandan multiple awards winning youth activist and social entrepreneur. In 2017, his work was recognized for “Youth 4 South” solutions awareness organized by the UN office for South to South Cooperation; and “Milken-PennGSE Education Business Plan Competition” at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2016, he was selected as Global Citizen Youth Advocate and the American Express Emerging Innovator; East Africa Cohort by Ashoka. And was nominated for the Nelson Mandela-Graça Machel Innovation Awards. In 2015, He was a Guest Speaker at Africa Prosperity Summit in Dares Salaam. Read More: http://venustekubwimana.net | A water kiosk at school | A rural community school-based and student-managed business selling clean tap water to community residents at affordable prices. | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Kenya & Rwanda | Yes | Join the Pipe Foundation | Scaling | To date, we have successfully: •Built 12 water kiosks at 12 schools/communities in Kenya and Rwanda thus; •6557 school children no longer have to absent themselves from school to secure water for their families. • 120358 people have access to clean water at affordable price within their communities. •School earns enough money from selling water to community residents at affordable price and are able to repay the set-up cost which is then redeployed to an additional school/community. | In Kenya, it is estimated that only a ⅓ of the population has access to safe drinking water close to their homes, at an affordable price ( same issue in many developing countries). Therefore, school-going children especially in rural communities have to walk long distances (at least 4 km) so as to secure water for their families before/ after going to school causing absenteeism and resulting to school drop-outs. | Setup at a school located in a rural community with no working tap water system. In a community, it set to be the main source of clean water for all households. A Water Kiosk at School is a (Primary or Secondary) school-based and students-managed business selling clean tap water to community residents at an affordable price. It consists of financing a community school to set up on-site water kiosk with sustainable products for the students to transport clean tap water from school to their homes. It is both an educational and profitable business teaching the students business and entrepreneurial skills, and generating much-needed income for schools. It provides practical education bridging the gap between school and work. And contribute to further development of the community with a school which is able to support itself. It is characterized by the following environment friendly products developed in partnership with Join the Pipe Foundation: 1.Water Saving Tap Station - Our water stations not only provide clean drinking water but also saves water. No water is wasted with our auto-stop tap! 2.DRIP TAPS For Hand Washing Facilities - Drip taps technology reduces 90% of water usage! 3.Water Bottles - We provide refillable water bottles (made of BPA free plastic) for the children to drink from. 4.Jerry Carry Karts - reduce the physical injury from constant lifting and carrying heavy loads of water on heads of the children. | There are various initiatives that bring clean water to communities and schools in Africa. Water.org impacts thirteen countries on three continents and focuses financing clean water initiatives through WaterCredit. Generosity.org has eight goals: Water and Sanitation, Medical Aid, Education, Family Support, Economic Development, Legal Assistance, Disaster Relief, and Mentorship. These are only a few examples of organizations aiming to improve the water crisis, however, there is currently no organization whose goal parallels that of A Water Kiosk at School. As opposed to these organizations, A Water Kiosk at School is unique in its mission: to provide reliable access to clean water to schools and communities, instill valuable entrepreneurial skills in the youth, and help local schools support themselves financially. The establishment of these water kiosks eliminates the need for students to travel many miles for clean water. As a result, students will increase their time spent in schools. Additionally, they will acquire business, collaboration, and leadership skills by selling water, generating much needed income for schools in the process. A Water Kiosk at School also has a competitive edge from having ITF’s support and guidance. ITF can provide A Water Kiosk at School with legal, security, and structural help when needed, ensuring the project and kiosk business runs smoothly. | In Kenya: Since the project launch in 2014, we have successfully built 11 water kiosks across 11 schools/communities in Kenya directly serving 5655 students and over 75587 people living around these communities. Rwanda Invitation: This August, we are set to launch our second water kiosk at school. After a successful pilot at Rubugurizo primary school is serving 902 students in Muhanga. After invitation and consequently signing MoU with the Ministry of Education on behalf of the Republic of Rwanda to help Improve quality and learning outcomes across primary and secondary education in the country. Monitoring & evaluation: Day to day operations & records: A Water Kiosk at School is managed by 2 students per day with 2 roles. One receives money and does the book records. The other one is responsible for assisting customers at the tap. The book keeper records include time, buyer name, quantity purchased and paid amount . The book keeper also records any expense if any. At the closing of any business day, both kiosk operators sign and submit the records book to the responsible teacher. Weekly and Monthly report: The information recorded every day in the records book is used to compile a weekly and monthly report prepared by students with support of a teacher. The report is sent to ITF. Monthly Kiosk Visit: ITF project coordinator visits the school to review the day to day book records. User Survey: This is done every quarter to get user feedback. | 5 years strategic plan goals and milestones: -We are working to raise 109 743 USD to finance our five (5) years strategic plan. -With our five (5) years strategic plan, every year, we will set up six (2) water kiosks in Kenya, one (1) water kiosk at school in Rwanda and one (1) water kiosk at school in a new country that will be in East Africa or West Africa. -Each kiosk we set up directly serve an average of 600 students and 2500 people residing in communities around the school. Therefore this 5-year strategic plan will set up 30 water kiosks at 30 schools/ communities across east and west Africa. Directly serving at least 18000 students (6 – 16 years old) and 75000 general communities’ residents not only by providing them clean tap water, improved sanitation and health but also its social business model that develop communities’ solidarity, developing local education and an entrepreneurial spirit. And other multiple benefits associated with a water kiosk at school for students, school and community residents. -This 5-year strategic plan will set up five new operations base (office) in East & west African countries. With each office run by at least by 3 volunteers (18 – 30 years old). This plan will provide employment opportunity to 15 young people. | Scale up Capital Investment: as a small youth organization (ITF-International Transformation Foundation) our main challenge is access to funding. Since rural community schools do not have the money for the large investment. ITF makes the initial investment to set up the water system at a school. The school then, through selling of water to the students and members of the community at an affordable price (decided by community residents), is used for sustainability of the water system. The other part of the money that is made from the water kiosk goes into supporting WASH activities in the school and paying off the initial investment to ITF which is then redeployed to an additional school/community. The school is able to repay off the capital investment after 36 months. With hundreds of schools/communities’ applications that we receive per year in need of a water kiosk at school. Our financing capacity is not enough. Team Capacity development: As we replicate the initiate in different communities and countries there is a huge need of supporting local members in making networks and understanding the steps necessary in setting up, financially sustaining and scaling a water kiosk at school in their communities & countries. | Project Video: https://youtu.be/TVK5sZnLQ9Q Project website: https://www.awaterkioskatschool.com (As of now the project website is under maintenance therefore some tabs might be not available) ITF Website: http://itfsecretariat.org | Voice of America radio (Great lakes region-Kinyarwanda): https://www.radiyoyacuvoa.com/a/4387355.html?fbclid=IwAR2NcIzdrllEViuSRjCyGmuCHqFyYDjQLLWouM3IC6SzrHz4FUoo_1pGBSE | Winner: 2018: The Spindle-Best Innovation in development Award. 2018: Exhibited as Africa’s Top 50 Innovations at 2018 Africa Innovation summit. 2017: Youth4South solution awareness, UNOSSC 2016: ESD (Educational Sustainable Development) Okayama Award – Global Prize 2015: Global awards for Fundraising- Big Impact Small Budget award category. 2014: Pan- African Award for Entrepreneurship in Education. Finalist: 2017: The Milken-Penn GSE education business plan competition … | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
124 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | JULIUS CHINYE | TEMBEICK | YOUTH RESOURCE CONSULTANCY AND GOVERNANCE INTERNATIONAL (YORCOGI) | www.yorcogi.com | PRESIDENT | MALE | Belgium | Cameroon | English | I have designed a Simple Global Peace project that has to do with everyone in the society, it looks simple but has more potentials than weapons of wars. I grew up not knowing about Peace education because it was neglected and often regarded as something of educated people. Also, because my country had no war by then most people thought it was Peaceful not knowing the absence of war is not a sign of it being peaceful or in peace. Most countries neglect this aspect of Peace related issues, though some are trying now , the efforts are not still sufficient thus each and everyone needs to know about peace related issues, knowing which methods to use NOT only violence. Furthermore, Peace constituencies from a few committed, thoughtful individuals have good aspects of sustainability and like Magaret meads said never doubt what they can do. I wish to showcase the potential of this global project and how we can use fewer resources to achieve sustainable goals not just for today but for generations. I know the absence of peace causes all other activities in any place to be stagnant. This I know coming from a country and a region with ongoing armed conflict and having been in international forums with different peace builders from over 50 countries for 5 days together. | Tembeick is currently the Country Director of Global Peace Chain Belgium, Director of Social Integration and Welfare for African Caribbean Pacific Diaspora Youths Support Services (ACP DYSS)Belgium, President Youth Resource Consultancy and Governance International (YORCOGI) and Main Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Geneva for Modern Advocacy Humanitarian Social and Rehabilitation Association (MAHSRA). Before, he used to work as a Volunteer Consultant to twelve (12) Young Grassroots, Community Base Organizations and Institutions in Cameroon. Furthermore, he has worked as a Lot Quality Assurance Surveyor (LQAS) and Independent and External Monitor for World Health Organization (WHO) campaigns in the North West Region of Cameroon. Not forgetting, having worked as Project developer and was a Delegate of the Cameroon Youth Council Bamenda I Executive Bureau. | IS A HOME REALLY A HOME (ISAHRAH) | #IS A HOME REALLY A HOME?#ISAHRAH# | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | GLOBAL | No | Ideation | Using our postcards and complementary cards with ""guiding"" messages reaching out to leaders to help their judgments before they take decisions on behalf of the people. Reactivating their human consciousness as rational beings while engaging EVERYONE to know something about peace education globally through our different trained volunteers indifferent countries and online | In the world today, many countries, cities, towns and communities are unpeaceful characterized with either conflict (violent and non violent), social injustice, protests and grudges. Most of these unstable society has been caused by decisions taken by leaders either being short sighted of the future outcomes or by taking decisions that were in favor of a few in the society or because they were egoistic. | HOW IT WORKS -Production of Postcards and Complementary cards with reactivating conscience messages to help leaders in decision makings The cards will carry the following messages IS A HOME REALLY A HOME? When the people cannot have basic public necessities when the leaders elected cannot stand for the people when leaders stay quiet in the midst of injustice when people are homeless and displaced IS A HOME REALLY A HOME? Citizens stay awake with the melody of gunshots The Lullaby of gunshots with prolonged cries makes children fall asleep Youths who are future leaders killed like there is no tomorrow Mothers forced to be motherless and widows Fathers become fatherless Children grow in sadness and pains rather than love IS A HOME REALLY A HOME? The ""Home "" here is the society. -Creating a strong media and social media presence -Training and creating strong and solid teams of volunteers on campaign activities in different parts of the world from local, regional, national and International levels -Train trainers both online and physically on Peace education and Conflict Prevention. -Use of artists and writers LONG-TERM VISION FOR GLOBAL IMPACT To help and support leaders take decisions and policies for the society objectively, reactivating their consciences to mitigate and escape avoidable decisions and policies that will promote injustice, conflicts, protests and grudges in the world while educating the population on peace related education and support for their leaders | Aimed at bringing out the human rationality of leaders through the rekindling of their consciences as humans with concern for others in the decisions they take for the society. Since wars developed in the minds of people, it is in the minds of people that defenses of peace must be constructed and this campaign intends to bring in people, everybody in the society in Peace education and Conflict Prevention. Also, using our postcards and complementary cards with ""guiding"" messages reaching out to leaders too to help their judgments before they take decisions on behalf of the people | This solution is at the stage to start execution having the required financial resources. Already in contact and have presented the idea for collaboration with the following who are waiting for it to start; -Gandhi Institute for Non violence Rochester New York, USA. -A contact at the Center for Social Justice USA. --Under review for collaboration with the Arab League Youth Council Peace builders from over 30 countries HOW DO YOU MEASURE YOUR PROGRESS AND METHODOLOGICAL RIGOR • More peaceful societies with more Social Justice • Many leaders receiving our cards and giving us future testimonials • Work in collaboration with the already established contacts of Peace builders in over 30 countries globally • More people, especially youths who are future leaders involve in Peace education and Peace related issues • More people advocating for peace • A global community of committed Peace advocates • A global network of action oriented Peace advocates | Creating a strong media and social media presence This campaign will need to showcase its activities and network with potential people who share its objectives, • Develop a good website with forum for interactions on meaningful peace related issues • Create a strong social media presence through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Instagram Training and creating strong and solid teams of volunteers on campaign activities in different parts of the world from local, regional, national and International levels. Campaign activities include, but not limited to, • Designing cards and translating cards to different languages • Meeting leaders (how to approach leaders and present our campaign thus getting their acceptance) • Identifying potential leaders • Identifying organizations, companies and individuals to partner with • Updating media and social media platforms and reporting • Sending post mails • Train trainers both online and physically on Peace education and Conflict Prevention. • Raising awareness and disseminating information physically at (different levels) and online Use of artists and writers •Artists will be used to pass messages on campaign related issues globally while volunteer writers will be use to produce newsletters and educational materials | Human resources that is the right people passionate about peace works, the right networks and financial resources to print postcards and complementary cards, create a strong online presence and train volunteers. | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KO9WtentbzUDuV_V9F_U_RtgK_D58-lm | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EJwSAFZgqU | 2015: National Volunteer 2012: Cameroon Presidential Grant of Excellence 2012: Attestation of Good Leadership 2011: Cameroon Presidential Grant of Excellence | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
125 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Elijah Amoo | Addo | Food for All Africa | www.foodforallafrica.org | Founder/Executive Director | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | I believe in leveraging on networking and sharing of best practices to design better solutions. The UN solutions summit provides a great opportunity to learn,network and share the impact of our Chefs on Wheel project with other people on a wider platform. I look forward in leveraging on this opportunity to scale our solution. Chefs on Wheel is Africa's first online hospitality jobs training and hiring platform where hospitality companies and people can easily request for the services of freelance hospitality at the comfort of their homes and premises.We focus on leveraging on technology to increase employment opportunities for young people most especially illegal migration returnees, while expanding the tourism and hospitality sector in Ghana. We also provide an avenue to support young entrepreneurs to create their professional catering and hospitality businesses by reaching customers through the supply of products essential for the hospitality industry. | Fondly called “the doctor in the kitchen” , Chef Elijah Amoo Addo is one of the young Ghanaian social entrepreneurs using his experience within the culinary industry to create efficient and sustainable means of nutrition for low income families and vulnerable communities. Chef Elijah Amoo Addo is the founder and CEO of Food for All Africa. A food recovery company that operates West Africa’s first community food service through food recovery,redistribution,farming and forum for stakeholders within the food supply chain. Food for All Africa leverage on technology to bring food to semi-urban and rural areas through a local food distribution app and community stores under the brand name “ Okumkom”. His organization recovers between $8,000-10,000 worth monthly of food to support over 5485 beneficiaries across Ghana. His company was in 2014 selected as one of the 100 Global Best practices to end hunger and poverty in Ghana by Dubai International Awards for Best practices. Chef Elijah was in June,2017 awarded by Queen Elizabeth II as a 2017 Queens Young Leader for his courage and passion of re-inventing Africa’s food system by bridging the food gap between plenty and scarce within communities. The 2016 Cost of Hunger in Africa report by the National Development Planning Commission estimates Ghana loses GH¢ 4.6 billion which is equivalent to 6.4% GDP annually to hunger among children and 24% of all child mortality cases in are associated with under nutrition. | Chefs on Wheel Africa | Chefs shortage and Youth Unemployment in Ghana: The Chefs on Wheel Approach | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Ghana | Yes | Hospitality companies and stakeholder businesses within Africa's food supply chain | Transition to Scale | We are currently been operating our solution with over 250 customers and looking to fundraise to scale. | Each year, 350,000 young people are expected to join the labour force in Ghana, but they face significant barriers to employment. More than 65 percent of youth between the ages of 16 and 35 are considered underemployed. This result in most Ghanaian youth attempting illegal migration in search of greener pastures. Youth unemployment and illegal migration is a challenge affecting not just Ghana or sub-saharan African but it's effect can be felt as well by Europe. | Chefs on Wheel Africa is an initiative focused on increasing employment opportunities for young people while expanding the tourism and hospitality sector in Ghana. Ghana's hospitality industry is 4th in ranking for profitability across Africa and it is one of the highest growing sector within the economy.We create Africa's first online hospitality jobs training and hiring platform where people can easily request for our services at the comfort of their homes. Chefs On Wheel Africa aims to equip 45,000 young men and women with the skills they need to transition into jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors. Young people do receive main training in culinary skills and hospitality management with added training in communications, customer service, ICT, and digital literacy skills. To ensure that training is aligned with national and global standards in the hospitality sector, the initiative facilitates coordination with hotels, restaurants, and hospitality associations to improve the quality and relevance of training materials. The initiative also connects young people with opportunities for employment both from the hospitality companies or through our freelance hiring platform to provide culinary services at the comfort of customer’s homes. In two years I envisage Chefs on Wheel Africa to be a premier hospitality training and job creation platform in Ghana with over 35 partner hospitality companies depending on us for human resource within their businesses. | Currently there are about three companies seeing the opportunity of gap in culinary training and the hospitality industry have set up training schools. Major among them is Dainess Chef School, School of Culinary Arts and Khameen hospitality schools. This schools provide training for young people wishing to create careers within the hospitality industry. They mostly focus on basic cookery and cake baking. Their students after graduating go out to look for their own jobs. Chefs On Wheel Africa on the other hand focuses on an all inclusive training and job creation program working in partnership with stakeholders within the hospitality and tourism industry. With our founder's experience as a social entrepreneur within Africa's food supply chain,our business is built on impact and support to the youth of Ghana. As a professionally trained chef,my first initiative founded from 2013 is Food for All Africa Food for All Africa is food recovery company that operates West Africa’s first community food service through food recovery,redistribution,farming and forum for stakeholders within the food supply chain. Food for All Africa leverage on technology to bring food to semi-urban and rural areas through a local food distribution app and community stores under the brand name “ Okumkom”. This experience puts us ahead with our approach and innovative way of addressing youth unemployment,illegal migration and chefs shortage in our growing hospitality and tourism sector | We have a team of six members with a combined experience of 35 years within food,hospitality management,IT,Web development,communication and social management background. We are all based in Ghana. We have an advisory board made up of 3 experience businessmen with combined experience of 68 years within Ghana's hospitality industry. Elijah Amoo Addo: Co-Founder/COO With over 7 years working experience as a chef within Ghana’s hospitality and tourism industry Wilhelmina Annang-Addo: Co-Founder/Administrative Head Wilhelmina also posses wide experience in computer software and the hospitality industry. She holds a certificate in computer software from IPMC and comes on board with strength in management and overseeing the human resource of our company. Kweku Arko: Lead Developer Kweku is a computer science degree holder from KNUST and founder of Decode Computer software. He has developed and deployed computer software’s with three years experience. He manages the development of Chefs on Wheel web pages. We have two chefs who serve as lectures with support from Head of Department of Hospitality for Accra Technical University. We measure our progress through milestones,impact and feedbacks from our customers and partners | Growth in Ghana’s tourism and hospitality sector is a key national priority. It’s vital to reducing poverty, improving youth employability, and moving the nation to middle-income status. The sector will have or create an estimated 400,000 jobs by 2030. Chefs On Wheel aims to equip 30,000 young men and women with the skills they need to transition into jobs in the tourism and hospitality sectors. With our platform and training program scaled we would be able to provide employment opportunity to over 2,500 youth annually by 2022. Mr Herbert Acquaye, the President of the Ghana Hotels Association, has said Ghana’s potentials to make money through the hospitality industry could be wasted if attention was not given to the training of more professionals. https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2015/05/21/ghana-faces-shortage-of-skilled-personnel-for-the-hospitality-industry/?fbclid=IwAR0ddvPtWVmSVMqZ6NnkqMfO4CmeT1g1oAcqEDjwuzrE94foL24ysgqsyWs We plan on scaling our operations to Nigeria by August,2020 and develop our mobile application to facilitate chefs hiring on freelance basis. | We currently need a permanent structure with classrooms,kitchen equipments and hostel facilities for our beneficiaries who come from far. In the short term we need modern kitchen equipments to facilitate practicals. Medium term is to solve our hostel facilities within 13months from now. Our long term need is to have our own permanent space to host the project. | www.chefsonwheel.com https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2015/05/21/ghana-faces-shortage-of-skilled-personnel-for-the-hospitality-industry/?fbclid=IwAR0ddvPtWVmSVMqZ6NnkqMfO4CmeT1g1oAcqEDjwuzrE94foL24ysgqsyWs https://www.linkedin.com/in/chef-elijah-amoo-addo-519a2b86/ https://www.instagram.com/chefelijah.addo/ https://twitter.com/professoraddo https://www.facebook.com/professor.addo2009 www.foodforallafrica.org www.chefsonwheel.com www.okumkomfoods.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db5GU5dXcoY&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4PL7qsp_c0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0CuXBY9LDo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfZaYj4Pdfw&t=10s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4PL7qsp_c0&t=6s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGrL2vXjXr4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_k7QQmQv3U | 2017 Queens Young Leader Award-Winner 2019 Michigan State University Transcendence Award-Winner 2017 Ghana 40U40 Winner-Food and Beverage Catergory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
126 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Seynabou | Sankaré | JEADER | Www.jeader.org | Co-lead partnership and sponsoring | Female | Senegal | Senegal | English | I sign up to serve members of the community, I am a young social entrepreneur, working for the development of youth entrepreneurship and fighting for gender equality and diversity. Going to this event will allow me to share my return with my colleagues but also to learn to better argue the causes of my sustainable development goals. | Am 31 ,living in Senegal ouest Africa Am a social entrepreneur,Busness develloper in digitale and communication and education and Formation. Am in 4associations like a team partnership and sponsoring At last I was in aeronautic | It’s time to act | organized a Training for women entrepreneurs and help the young for having a good éducation back ground and nice work decent work | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Senegal | Yes | Fatou Binetou Thiam | Research & Development | Because I have a positive impact in my events | Gender equality and my solution is to do many trainings and to communicate everyday | To organized a conference a débat and I see in 2025 I’ll have a big impact | The new strategy will be to enter in à African culture and to tell the thruth but strategiquely | Am progressing well and I see good methods day by day | Any arias any countries and cible like the young and old people’s places | Technical and financial issues may have the impact of being able to help people with the same problem | Www.jeader.org Tweeter : iamjeader Facebook : iamjeader | YouTube : Super women leadership conference 2018 | Jeader give me a reconnaissance on 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
127 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | LAURENT CHRISTOPHER | BILIHANYUMA | ℅ST. AUGUSTINE UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA | N/A | ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST, BOOK AUTHOR & RESEARCHER | MALE | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | Dear Sir/Madam, Refer to the title above, l'm Laurent Christopher bilihanyuma, with 31 years old. I have a certificate in Accountancy completed from St Augustine University of Tanzania, certificates from international Journal of scientific and engineering research- IJSER, Certificate of participation in film4climate competition 2016 and certificate of participation in uniting4climate 2017, both are provided by World Bank for research purposes and Data recording. I'm excited to submit my solution to UN SOLUTION SUMMIT due to my competence experience in records management, Data enumeration, international audit, cost Accounting, Accounting packages, software Applications, economics, statistics and payroll system. In additional to my extensive experience, I have strong communication, customer service, planning and business administration skills. I worked for project as Enumerator in annual survey of industrial production 2015/16 for three months contract and to employment and earnings survey 2017/18 at national bureau of statistics Mwanza office, as well as, I worked for origin distinction(OD) survey that was being conducted by Nathan Associate a company commissioned by TANROAD to undertake comparative transport costs analysis for central and Dar corridor. The survey was also organised by Talanta international located Mwenge Dar es Salaam. Moreover; I have Strong Communication. Without a doubt, being an effective communicator is a top attribute of a strategic worker. Passion & Commitment. Enthusiasm for your mission or project will get others excited because they can see and feel your dedication. Positivity. A positive attitude is contagious. Innovation. Collaboration. My broad background makes me an excellent to apply for the post above. Find the enclosed herewith copies of certificates and curriculum vitae for your consideration. I will be happy if my kindly request will be considered. Yours sincerely. LCBilihanyuma. LAURENT CHRISTOPHER BILIHANYUMA. ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST, BOOKS AUTHOR AND RESEARCHER. FROM UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA. ℅ST. AUGUSTINE UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA. P.O.BOX 307. MWANZA CITY ,TANZANIA. +255766802380. +255783961110. E-mails: bilihanyumahlpc19@gmail.com & : bilihanyumahlpc19@yahoo.com : teamglobalpositivechange2014@gmail.com | P.O.BOX 307 NYEGEZI MWANZA CITY | LEADERS MUST SAY DO AS I DO AND NOT DO AS I SAY"" | *True leaders have integrity. Integrity is the very core of their influence. Living the values they profess to believe is what gives them credibility | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Tanzania | Yes | GRADUATE'S, ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST, ECOLOGISTS, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL STAKEHOLDERS | Research & Development | Through partnership of leaders among countries if they have the spirit to stand on their saying that let's unites for environmental solutions and making cementation on what's bring positive impacts on our surrounding will result to the best sustainable development goals particularly goals number 17. | The problems of my solution is mostly of leaders do say but never do in realistic way of leaders and failing to say do as I do and not do as I say this revile that *True leaders have integrity. Integrity is the very core of their influence. Living the values they profess to believe is what gives them credibility and allows others to place their trust in them. True leaders are able to say “do as I do” rather than just “do as I say”, because they lead by example* | My solutions work from villages leaders, town leaders, governmental leaders, & national leaders through Seminars, debates , mass media And through sports and games. Leaders have high motivations about development in the society through their saying towards development matters, therefore leaders should be in partners to ensure the effective sustainable development goals are done very seriously for the sustainable development matters. | Through dealing with crowd and population ,it has been very unique for us to present the project and changing people towards sustainable development goals for the best future as required to the community. New perspective is to follow people from their living place, ground football, halls and through seminars. | Many respondents respond positively because when we say leaders are not unites on sustainable development goals as they say practically and they see clearly what we say and what they see, therefore it has been very contrary to what's they lead and what they say practically. I measure my progressive through number of respondents who respond positively on our project, if there many we know the project is so successful but when they are few it means there is a problem on the project. | Our goal is to reach respondent 500 up to the end of the years who will be motivator of the sustainable development goals particularly number 17 that is partnership to solve potential obstacles/ challenges that faces sustainable development goals number 17. The project is originated TANZANIA with cooperation with east Africa countries members. | Resources needed to ensure the successful of the project are books, booklets, magazine's, mass media, cameras, photos, phones & internet to ensure the requirements availability. For the whole years the project might be organized into two phases starting with the planning of six months and long terms of 12 months platform .through doing two sessions the project will be successful implemented and positive feedback will be raised out for future benefit. | https://youth.be/Al1pYWNF8E8 | https://youtu.be/OHhXwmcpwto | films climate change certification 2016 Uniting 4climate change certification 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
128 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Magambo | Abduh | Center for Innovation Support-CIS | www.cis.org | Chief Executive Officer | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | As a person from a financially humble background, my passion for the realization of the global goals developed immediately after joining Makerere University. It came as a result of my interminable desire to be a pillar in ensuring positive change in my immediate community, my country, Africa & the world at large. It is because of this aspiration that has made me over time allocate my best towards agitating for better lives across the African block. Basing on that summarized elucidation of my desires, applying to be part of the UN solutions Summit becomes not only a prudent, but also a wise decision in paving a way for the realization of my goals, agendas as well as move in tandem with the realization of global goals. | I was born on 14th February 1993 to Mukasa Taibu & Nalumansi Faridah of Lubanyi Buikwe in Buikwe town council approximately 55 KM East of Kampala by road. I completed my primary level from Buikwe Self Help Center and later Joined Lweru secondary school for O level a school that is two kilometers from Buikwe Town. I joined Lugazi Homeland college for A level and i got 17 points missing government sponsorship by a point. from 2011-2017 i was doing odd jobs including farming with a cardinal role of raising tuition at the university. Through this long to jot trek, I later raised tuition and joined Makerere University a prestigious university of East Africa where i joined up with friends whome we shared common agendas towards the creation of distinguished routes that could pave way for the realization of global goals. I later started my first organisation called Center for Innovation Support-CIS, through this organization we organized the first East African Inter University Innovations challenge bringing together over 120 young innovators from different universities across the East African Community with an obligation of supporting young innovators towards the realization of global goals as well as addressing African challenges. I also have other organizations that include, Restore Green Africa-RGA, that focuses on combating climate change, African Initiative for Leadership-AIL, Soft Heart Uganda-SHU, and also a founder of Action for Climate Africa-ACA. I am a student in my second year pursuing a bachelors degree in Regional & Urban planning. | Increased innovation for Global Goals | Addressing African challenges through increased innovations as well as realizing global goals | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | All the 54 African countries | Yes | Makerere University, Invention Plus Group of Companies, Century Bottling Company & Kampala International Medical Center. | Scaling | Because we have already implemented our proposal and ran some of the proposed activities including the first East African Inter University Innovations Challenge, We are also planning to introduce innovation to secondary schools across the country (UGANDA). The program will run from 1st- 19th November with a target of inspiring the young generation to innovate in order to ease the journey of realizing global goals through increased innovations. | From rampant poverty across majority of the African populace to strengthening to means of implementing global goals and partnership among nations, the easier and most efficient route is allocating more resources and increased efforts in promoting and supporting innovators with solutions focusing on the most pressing challenges of their immediate communities and the World at large. | It operates in a way of reaching out to different young innovators guide them, as well as organizing different innovation challenges under different themes with an agenda of supporting and promoting innovations among the young people in order to address the most pressing challenges of the African continent. The solution also intends to establish an incubation center in Uganda worthy Us $ 360,000 that will facilitate young innovators in developing their innovations from idea stage to sustainable stage. The solution through the established incubation center intends to support innovations across the African continent that will have a potential of creating a net worthy of 85 million Us Dollars by 2029. | The solution is unique in a way that it has the capacity of reaching out to all young Innovators in the institutions of learning as well as reaching to all young innovators out of school. The solution intends not only to support but also promote their innovations from being meager ideas to multi million projects in the next decade. The solution is also unique in a way that it will create another avenue of realizing global goals through empowering and supporting young innovators that aim at achieving different global goals. | Our voyage in the implementation process is so far so promising and good because we managed to organize the first inter university innovations challenge that connected us to more than 300 young innovators from different universities across the East African community. Our progress is measured in reference to our 2019 annual work plan that we have covered almost 60% amidst extreme financial shortages. | We intend to organize the first Africa inter university innovations challenge in October 2020 bringing together young innovators from all the four clusters that make up the East Africa Community. The challenge will bring together the best 10 teams from each of the four clusters and compete at a continental scale. We also hope to have offices in all those four regions (East, west, North and South Africa). We shall be employing staff in all those regions and will be in charge of regional coordination in order to move in tandem with our agendas that cardinally focuses on the realization of Global Goals. | We need human resource that can mentor our teams, We need Eight vehicles that will facilitate our staff and meet the transportation demands of our staff with in Uganda and with in the East African community and later on financial resource to meet our annual budget of US $195,000. We also need computers in form of desk tops and laptops (18 pieces) that will ease our work. We are also in dire need of secretarial and office furniture and equipment worthy US $ 40,000 as well as US $ 360,000 that will be used to facilitate us to establish our incubation center that will play a pivotal role in achieving both the middle and long term goals. | www.cis.org https://www.independent.co.ug/six-mak-students-to-compete-in-inter-university-innovations-challenge/?fbclid=IwAR1km8BtYkNlM_NeIsQK1qTAKjwT8ww42Zq8BVZ79pPuGWQfdof6nIUlZJ0 | We were hosted by Record Tv Uganda Under the theme "" ICT in the 21st century, youth and innovation"" on record Tv facebook page is Record Tv Uganda. https://www.facebook.com/recordtvuganda/videos/2463218750628614/ | I haven't won any award so far but we are focusing on winning as many as we can in the shortest time. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
129 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Louison | Mbombo | Mbombo Initiative against malaria (SOLIDARIEDADE NA MOKILI) | www.initiativeagainstmalaria.org | Chief Executive Officer | Male | Brazil | Democratic Republic of the Congo | English | French | Despite long-term efforts to eradicate malaria, the disease still remains one of the top killers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Malaria is the most important single cause of frequent work and school absenteeism and delay in achieving sustainable development. From 2016-2017, DRC observed an estimated increase of more than half a million malaria cases (24.4 million to 25 million), according to the WHO World malaria report 2018. DRC is one of the leading countries in the world for malaria cases, accounting for 11% of the 219 million cases and 435000 deaths from malaria in 2017. Mbombo Initiative Against Malaria (Solidariedade Na Mokili) is new hope for the world toward the elimination of malaria and the achievement of many Sustainable Development Goals – including ending poverty, improving health and well-being, ensuring quality education. Our mission is to eradicate malaria by providing tools and resources and helping to fight poverty in DRC. We are a not-for-profit organization that raising money for treatment, providing health education to families and health professionals, and distributing mosquito nets also where clinical research met artificial intelligence to defeat malaria. In partnership with Google and Microsoft we are turning data into better outcomes by analyze, visualise and understand better that data in order develop its algorithm that helps in predicting the number of future incidents, motivate the development of a system that can predict future incidences and prediction with the goal to making a decision and better target our limited resources in areas most need in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | Louison is the Founder of the Mbombo Initiative Against Malaria (Solidariedade Na Mokili), a not-for-profit organization that, in partnership with Google and Microsoft, implements data analytics and machine learning to advance Malaria prevention and research, raising money for treatment, providing health education to families and health professionals, and distributing mosquito nets. The initiative has reached over 10 million people since its creation in 2015. In 2017, Louison was rewarded by UNESCO at the Youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition for the best project to prevent childhood malaria death and selected as an inspiring young leader by the European Commission to debate inequalities at European Development Days in Brussels. Louison is a student in Medicine at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil | Mbombo initiative against malaria | Where clinical research meets artificial inteligence to defeat malaria | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Yes | Google , Microsoft, Oxford University ( Malaria Atlas project ) | Scaling | The initiative has reached over 10 million people since its creation in 2015, through raising money for treatment, providing health education to the families and health professionals, give specific medicine for children under 5 years old and women pregnant. | Malaria is a disease of poverty and results in poverty. Investing to end malaria death means investing in healthier and more prosperous societies where every human enjoys the life we want. My initiative is new hope for the world toward the elimination of malaria and the achievement of many Sustainable Development Goals – including ending poverty, improving health and well-being, ensuring quality education. | Mbombo initiative against malaria, which is granted by Google, Microsoft and receiving fund from the public donation is turning data into better outcomes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) . In partnership with these private sectors , we use Google Cloud Platform , Microsoft azure and BigQuery, collecting data at the provincial and health zone levels in six provinces (Kwilu, Kinshasa, Equateur, Sud Ubangi, Nord Ubangi, and Mongala ).from the National Malaria Control Program, Division of the National Health Information System and World Meteorological Organization data. To convert all those raw data into the same format, province population data have obtained and measure all the cities on the same scale. Input variable fields are fixed as each city average Maximum temperature, average Minimum temperature, average rainfall, the average mean humidity, the number of positive cases followed by outbreak reported as an output field. Our data analysis results have shown that the minimum temperature and relative humidity and have a positive association with the incidence of malaria. | We are using machine learning in order to better-predicting malaria outbreak that could be useful to reduce the risk of transmission and better target our resources in areas most need and help in decision making. To develop machine learning algorithms that can help predict the disease one month in advance The faster Mbombo initiative against malaria can develop those algorithms, the more hope there is for early prediction. Before prediction algorithms can be developed, datasets must be analyzed, visualized and understood that data. Province and health zone malaria data are having a different population of women and children with the respective number of malaria cases. We are applying in Support Vector Machine algorithm which has a low error rate has proven to be useful in malaria outbreak prediction among other prediction techniques, it is mainly used for solving classification and regression problems. | We are implementing innovative strategies based on the universal coverage of population through integrated malaria control services; working with communities with a high burden of malaria and creating a network in order to defeat the disease. We offer many ways of partnership or ecosystem collaboration. We work closely with community members to create corporate grants, workplace giving, event sponsorship, consumer activation, and employee engagement. We engage Goodwill Ambassadors; on behalf of our council administration and team members, we give ambassadors a full power to mobilize public interest( work through schools, regions, churches, social clubs, universities, etc.), including the decision makers to support the noble mission of our organization. | future plans - Building a network of researchers and clinicians in malaria data analytics and machine learning in DRC to advance in prevention and research - Helping to prevent and control malaria through systems-strengthening assistance that is vital to effective and sustainable malaria control. -Supports health zone through their provincial health division in kwilu province, kwango, maidombe kasai central kasai and sankuru - Organize every year 10K Run to fight Malaria along with conducting the Awareness Program On Malaria, engaging leaders , music icons and sports heroes to deliver lifesaving health education to ensure families sleep under nets and seek timely testing and treatment. -Accompanied with the structures of malaria management availability of inputs (mosquito nets and others) - collected data on malaria in kwilu province, kwango, maidombe kasai central kasai and Sankuru and developing algorithm and prediction -Monitor field activities and their impact in the community awareness of the community on the fight against malaria especially during the time of peak epidemic | We want to be a generation that will eradicate malaria and achieve one of the greatest humanitarian accomplishments. We envision a world free of malaria, we are looking for Partners and to be linked with possible funders for financial support in order to defeat malaria, save lives, unlock human potential and trillion dollars in economic impact | https://www.france24.com/fr/20190621-louison-mbombo-tatiana-houndjo-jeunes-africains-developpement-commission-europeenne https://www.lepoint.fr/afrique/rdc-la-data-pour-lutter-contre-le-paludisme-21-06-2019-2320230_3826.php https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2019-06-21---tatiana-houndjo-and-louison-mbombo--young-africans-committed-to-development-.BkZBRVKckr.html https://eudevdays.eu/sites/default/files/190516_edd2019_meet_the_young_leaders_en_0.pdf https://www.friendsofeurope.org/event/africa-summit-1?tab=speakers https://site.medicina.ufmg.br/inicial/solidariedade-contra-a-malaria/?fbclid=IwAR15datNfR3szDeg_cOX5Q2pN2grJt-vd03JpDieG1-3BRxlFIJYVhcYFxs https://www.soubh.com.br/noticias/gerais/ong-fundada-aluno-ufmg-tratou-vitimas-malaria?fbclid=IwAR0IK1bU9SiufGuN9EIs2sTKFUl1WvHGAdkxY3wePxRR1nPeVHNncrCZMWw https://ufmg.br/comunicacao/noticias/ong-fundada-por-aluno-da-faculdade-de-medicina-ja-tratou-30-mil-vitimas-de-malaria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKnxFhq7AGw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OroPLuKbOn4 https://blogs.uai.com.br/ufmg90anos/2017/09/09/estudante-da-ufmg-vence-competicao-da-unesco-com-projeto-de-prevencao-da-malaria/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdA7PYN37ZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMw2Ld_HGMM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKnxFhq7AGw | UNESCO-Youth citizen Entrepreneurship competition 2017 Builder of Africa's future 2018 European Commission Young leader 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
130 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | issa | mutambala cyprien | slash business | http://www.slashbusiness.org/ | CEO | male | Burundi | Democratic Republic of the Congo | English | French | The United Nations is one of the great institutions in the world and involved in sustainable development ... I, too, being a citizen of a developing country, I believe it is my responsibility to contribute to the development of this country. latest. which motivates me to participate in this great assembly to present a project that will always have an impact in a community and why in the whole world. I believe that if everyone takes his responsibility in his field or his 17 objectives of sustainable development, the world is better in the coming years ... months in my field I have developed a way to touch more than two major problems of the world and which are in the 17 objectives of sustainable development. Starting from a modern construction company, I believe I can reduce the unemployment rate by creating employment, fight against gender galgality and sexism, fight against global warming by implementing simple and effective practices in construction. | I am Issa Mutambala Cyprien, a young Congolese living in Bujumbura / Burundi. I was born on the 04/07/1997 in Tanzania in the camp of NYARUGUSU when my family was the like refugee of 1997, who had confronted two great men of my country, MOBUTU and L.D. KABILA Mzee. returned to Canada in 2001 when I was 3 years old and stayed there until my parents and my family returned home. I did my primary and secondary studies in the DRC, finished my university studies in 2018 in Burundi at Hope Africa University, I have a degree in civil engineering. and I am an entrepreneur who seeks to make money while helping others and to support the great struggles of this world, because for me it is nothing to have the money if the others do not benefit from it or do not find the importance. | slash business | job creation, 123/5000 fight against gender inequality, fight against global warming, contribute to the sustainable development of the world ... | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | RD Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzanian. | No | Research & Development | to be honest, I'm doing the right thing in my field, and for my community and the whole world we need projects that solve urgent problems and affect this planet. therefore my project is not selfish because it is not just for the money but also to help, superotut to the biggest problems we face. in my community it's so innovative and even globally. | Briefly I am facing the big world problems, i contibue to have sustainable development of my community and the world by supporting some of the goals of sustainable development. 1 * job creation. 2 * fight against gender inequality. 3 * fight against global warming 4 * develop people because without the development of people who can help me push my idea forward and fight the problems mentioned above. my fight leads to nothing. | in the long run, my vision is to develop a system that will help me to understand my points of view and show people the main emergencies that threaten our land. having a company that will have more than 5,000 employees in its agencies, put an end to gender inequality in my region. fight and initiate other actors in my field and those who are not in my field to fight against global warming in the world. | the methodology is simple and that is what makes the beauty and grandeur of what we think. as we say here, a problem that attacks the family must be overcome by the whole family. So for global problems we have to face them all ... for me, if everyone in his field intervenes for the big struggles, we will be able to change the world at best. my idea is not just for the money but to support today's global struggles and help others to participate. | in any case, as we evolve, we try to focus on why we started, we always keep an eye on what motivated us from the first day. For lack of resources and financial means, we go there at no turtle but we will achieve it anyway by the grace of God. the logic is the same ... | we plan to embark on four countries, where we will intervene in our field by supporting these major goals of sustainable development. while knowing that our system will be occupied by ciquante per cent man and fifty percent woman. | in the short, medium and long term we need two bigger things ... the others can be developed by us with time ... firstly, we need financial resources to better settle and survive to better face these problems. and secondly, we need the mentoring and coaching sessions of the people who preceded us in this matter because they know how to orient themselves and how we can focus our energies on really important aspects. | http://www.slashbusiness.org/ https://www.facebook.com/slashbusiness/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWVBipaNgOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlG3Ssj3vn8&t=74s issamutambala@gmail.com | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWVBipaNgOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlG3Ssj3vn8&t=74s issamutambala@gmail.com | selected to campus of antrepreneurship sselected as delegate to AIMUN Dubai 2019 advisor to the president of the Congolase community in Burundi 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
131 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Barbara | Goodman | Cures Within Reach | www.cureswithinreach.org | President & COO | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Since 2008, Cures Within Reach (CWR) has been a disease-agnostic thought leader in clinical repurposing research and a neutral, nonprofit partner to all medical stakeholders. We leverage the speed, safety and cost-effectiveness of medical repurposing research to drive more treatments to more patients more quickly, by clinically testing approved and available drugs, devices, nutraceuticals and other products for any unsolved disease. By funding repurposing research projects in North America and Europe, CWR has created real patient impact, finding repurposed therapies to improve patient outcomes in 13 different indications. CWR is building on our current successes to expand the global impact of repurposing, helping more of the 350 million people worldwide who suffer from one of the more than 7,000 unsolved diseases, regardless of where they live. CWR is interested in capacity building for clinical research, sustainable models and patient-centric partnerships that improve health and quality of life in low and lower-middle income countries (LMICs). Our online platform dedicated to repurposing research, CureAccelerator®, has proven successful in centralizing, receiving and prioritizing funding opportunity Request for Proposals (RFPs) and submission of repurposing research projects. CureAccelerator can be accessed from anywhere in the world, and can be used to speed research funding to researchers in LMICs. | Barbara Goodman joined Cures Within Reach (CWR) in the fall of 2017 to help expand the reach and influence of CWR in both the philanthropic and commercial spaces, as well as to foster organizational growth and financial sustainability. Barbara is helping CWR develop new partnerships and expand current relationships with donors, sponsors, partners, industry, government, Board members and other volunteer leaders, to further CWR’s mission of driving more treatments to more patients more quickly through medical repurposing research. Barbara has over twenty years of international business and healthcare/biomedical/life sciences sector business experience, focused on planning and implementation of strategic growth initiatives at both for-profit and not-for-profit corporations. She joined CWR after leading the Illinois Biotechnology Industry Organization (iBIO) Institute’s PROPEL Center for nearly 10 years, where she led programs to increase the number and success rate of early-stage life sciences companies in Illinois, and supported iBIO’s international activities. Barbara previously worked in corporate strategy and business development at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (now the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab), Cardinal Health Medical Products & Services Division, and Chesapeake Corporation. Barbara earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations from the University of Minnesota and a Master’s of Business Administration from Thunderbird School of Global Management. | ReGRoW: Repurposing Grants for the Rest of the World | Repurposing research grants for low and lower-middle income countries to build capacity from within and to find treatments for the developing world. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Cures Within Reach currently has agreements for repurposing research funding with institutions in the U.S., Canada and Europe. The ReGRoW program will provide repurposing research grants to researchers located in low and lower-middle income countries. | Yes | Current Supportive Organizations for ReGRoW include the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations, FHI 360, Horizon Therapeutics, Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Vetter Pharma, with many others in process. | Proof of Concept | During the first half of 2018, Cures Within Reach (CWR) engaged stakeholders representing pharma, academic global health policy/research, pharma services, philanthropy and patient advocacy in creating a plan for ReGRoW. Since then, we have been engaging and building relationships with other groups and organizations involved in LMICs. Initial feedback has been positive for ReGRoW. CWR is nearly done with the work in Phase 1 of our pilot program, and is preparing to begin Phase 2 later in 2019. | The need for scientific capacity building and access to medicines is highest in LMICs, yet pharma research & development investment is focused primarily in the U.S., Europe, China and Japan. In addition, people are living longer in LMICs, creating a growing need for access to new health diagnostics, education and training and innovative medicines. Finally (and critically), only a small portion of medical research funding goes to researchers in LMICs, contributing to a loss of scientific talent. | Through ReGRoW, Cures Within Reach (CWR) will build capacity for clinical research by providing repurposing research grants to clinicians and researchers in LMICs. Projects that are eligible for ReGRoW funding must utilize generic drugs or drug-like compounds (such as indigenous medicines) that are currently available to patients in-country, and can focus on any unmet medical need in any disease area. Eligible institutions must be “research ready,” and all submissions will be made on CWR’s CureAccelerator platform. Phase 1 of the ReGRoW pilot incudes engagement of and partnership with nonprofits, NGOs, initiatives and other existing Access to Medicine efforts; building a pool of scientific reviewers for research proposal submissions; and launching a Request for Proposals and collecting initial proposal submissions. Phase 2 includes vetting, review and ranking of initial proposals and invited full grant submissions; developing procedures and logistics for research grant management; and analyzing success measures specifics related to Phases 1 and 2 of the pilot. Our vision of the ReGRoW global impact is that these grants will help build research capacity FROM WITHIN the developing world FOR the developing world, supporting retention of scientific talent from these countries. In addition, results from these clinical research projects have the potential to create readily available treatments for patients in parts of the world that lack access to adequate and affordable medicines. | The ReGRoW program is unique from other approaches in three main ways. First, ReGRoW will provide funding for clinical research directly to researchers and clinicians in the countries where patients will be impacted. While eligible ReGRoW applicants may have collaborators in upper-middle and high income countries, all funding will go directly to LMICs, in order to build research capacity and to solve local problems locally. Second, ReGRoW funding is specifically for repurposing research: testing generic drugs and drug-like compounds (such as indigenous medicines) to determine if they are safe and effective in treating unsolved diseases. This approach helps increase access to medicine, as only inexpensive therapies that are available in-country are eligible, and any positive results from the clinical research can be adopted right away. Also, repurposing research has been shown to have a higher success rate, be faster to patient impact and be more cost-effective than new drug development. Third, ReGRoW will not focus on any specific disease areas. Instead, it will be disease agnostic, accepting submissions for any disease or condition, ranging from more common conditions (such as cancer or cardiovascular disease) to conditions that primarily impact only LMICs (such as river blindness). This will allow local researchers to propose repurposing solutions for any of the diseases that affect their communities. | Cures Within Reach (CWR) has moved beyond the ideation stage that began in January 2018 and has begun Phase 1 of the ReGRoW pilot. Phase 1 goals include: engagement of and partnership with nonprofits, NGOs, initiatives and other Access to Medicine efforts; build a committee/pool of scientific reviewers for research proposal submissions; launch a Request for Proposals and collect initial proposal submissions; and develop plan/processes for Phase 2 of Pilot. The success of Phase 1 will be measured by the number of in-country research institutions, health systems, NGOs, etc. engaged in ReGRoW; the number of proposal submissions received on our CureAccelerator platform; and the number of proposal submissions selected for scoring by our scientific reviewers. CWR has been in conversation with a number of groups that have experience in LMICs and Access to Medicine initiatives. Several have joined ReGRoW as a Supportive Organization, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FHI 360, Horizon Therapeutics, Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Vetter Pharma, with others in process. We publicly launched the ReGRoW concept at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health 2019 Annual Conference and presented ReGRoW at the May 2019 Harvard Global Health Catalyst Summit. CWR has also been fundraising for the ReGRoW pilot, and we expect to raise more than 75% of the funds for Phase 2 by Fall 2019. | The ReGRoW program will start with a pilot of three repurposing research grants of up to US$50,000 each to three researchers or clinicians in LMICs. During this 12 to 18 month pilot period, Cures Within Reach (CWR) plans to: continue building relationships with organizations in LMICs and fundraising for the pilot; adapt our CureAccelerator platform as needed for LMIC submission, recruit volunteer reviewers and launch and promote the Request for Proposals funding opportunity; review and prioritize proposal submission and select the highest ranked proposals for full grant submissions; review grant applications and selected grant submissions for funding; and administer and manage funded grants. As we scale beyond the pilot, we will explore adding other program goals, such as mentorship opportunities with high income countries, development of in-country clinical trial offices and capacity-building researcher training. We will also use the learnings from the pilot stage, including success metrics and milestones, to improve and adapt the ReGRoW program. | In order to successfully complete and scale ReGRoW, Cures Within Reach (CWR) will need several resources. In the short term, financial support for ReGRoW program is critical. This financial support will cover the funding for the three grants, as well as operational support (both direct and indirect) for ReGRoW. Examples of operational support include modifications to our CureAccelerator platform; marketing and outreach to LMICs; and staff time and effort. We expect to have secured more than 75% of the funding needs by Fall 2019. We also need the partnership of additional Supportive Organizations and Advisory Committee members to help with best practices and outreach to LMICs throughout the pilot. In the medium term, CWR will need to recruit scientific review volunteers from a range of backgrounds and expand staffing to help support and manage the ReGRoW pilot. Our long-term needs include increased financial support in order to expand ReGRoW beyond the pilot phase. This financial support would fund up to 10 new repurposing research grants in LMICs; additional CWR staffing to manage and support ReGRoW; and other direct and indirect operational support. CWR may also use additional financial support to create conference or events to connect ReGRoW applicants and awardees with other stakeholders from pharma, academia, government, philanthropy and patient groups. Continued volunteer and Supportive Organization engagement is also vital to the long-term goals of ReGRoW. | Cures Within Reach (CWR) website: https://www.cureswithinreach.org/ CWR Mission and Impact webpage: https://www.cureswithinreach.org/about-us/cwrmission CWR ReGRoW Program webpage: https://www.cureswithinreach.org/research/regrow-pilot#regrow-pilot-advisory-committee-supportive-organizations-%E2%96%BC CureAccelerator information website: https://cureaccelerator.org/ CWR videos of patients/others: https://www.cureswithinreach.org/stakeholders/videos-of-patients-others | ecancer interview with Clare Thibodeaux, PhD, Director of Scientific Affairs at Cures Within Reach at the Harvard Global Health Catalyst Summit, May 2019: https://vimeo.com/340183683 | None to date. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
132 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Stephanie | Benedetto | Queen of Raw | https://www.queenofraw.com/ | CEO & Co-Founder | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Queen of Raw’s online marketplace helps designers access surplus textiles, creates value for producers, and minimizes the flow of textiles to landfill. Queen of Raw provides a platform for producers and purchasers of textiles to recapture value from what would otherwise become waste. It is a marketplace where manufacturers and stockists of textiles can sell their unused textiles, rather than storing them, landfilling them, or burning them. It also unlocks a major supply of affordable, quality textiles for designers around the world who have trouble accessing these materials. Why you should care Queen of Raw estimates that over US$120 billion worth of unused textiles is sitting idle in warehouses waiting to be burned or landfilled every year, while numerous designers struggle to access materials. Connecting producers and consumers through an online platform provides a win-win opportunity. How the Global Goals are addressed Industry, innovation and infrastructure The platform helps to include smaller designers in the global fashion and textiles industry by giving them more access to materials. Responsible production and consumption Queen of Raw helps to reduce waste throughout the fashion industry supply chain and provides a marketplace for sustainable textiles. | Corporate attorney turned fashion tech and sustainability entrepreneur, Stephanie is the Co-Founder of Queen of Raw, a marketplace to buy and sell unused textiles, keeping it out of landfill and turning pollution into profit. Prior to starting Queen of Raw, Stephanie worked as a lawyer in the fashion, media/entertainment, start-up, and technology industries and co-founded a sustainable textile manufacturing facility. An advocate for women in business and sustainability, her companies have been featured in NPR, Good Morning America, NYTimes, Vogue, WWD, ELLE, Cheddar, Parade, WCBS, United Nations, Fortune, Entrepreneur, WIRED, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and Fast Company. Stephanie is a NASA/NIKE/IKEA/DELL LAUNCH.org Innovator, a Grand Prize WeWork Creator Awards Winner presented by Ashton Kutcher, a thredUP Circular Fashion Fund Recipient, was nominated as a Founder to Watch by Women 2.0, and was a Finalist for the WGSN Global Fashion Awards, Rent the Runway/UBS Project Entrepreneur, and the $1M Verizon Powerful Answers Award. She is a Member of Pledge 1% and Founding Member of Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network, along with Aveda, Kering, and Stella McCartney. | Queen of Raw | Marketplace to Buy and Sell Unused Textiles, Keeping Them Out of Landfill and Turning Pollution Into Profit | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Global | Yes | Techstars, WeWork/Ashton Kutcher, thredUP, Cisco | Transition to Scale | Partners/Customers: Already acquired 55,000+ users ● Customers include H&M, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Kering, & Reformation. ● For every sale, we get a 25% commission plus monthly recurring revenue. | Problem: Broken Supply Chain ● U.S. $120B worth of excess fabric sits in warehouses around the world every year, awaiting its end of being burned or buried. ● It is a liability for the factories who over produced it & for the brands who over purchased it, killing the environment & drastically affecting a business’ bottom line. | Solution: Global Marketplace & Supply Chain Management ● We intelligently match buyers with sellers; unused textiles are sold quickly & easily at lower price points, giving designers access to materials that they never had before. ● Using Queen of Raw, sellers map, measure, & trace their waste in real time, minimizing their waste streams going forward. | Stephanie Benedetto's family has been in textiles for over 100 years. But when Benedetto came of age, she didn’t want to simply carry on. As much as she loved the business, she hated its waste. Her idea was this: She’d use blockchain to track the industry’s excess fabric, enabling it to be easily identified and resold. When a brand buys a monthly subscription, it’ll get a customized supply-chain management system that’s designed to expose excess yardage and waste (water, chemicals, dollars) as they occur in real time. “Let’s say I am the farmer,” Benedetto offers. “I get an alert on my phone and enter ‘I just took 500 pounds of raw cotton to X mill to get spun into thread.’ I upload a certification that it’s 100 percent organic, click, and save.” The mill operator does the same when he receives the cotton, and up through the chain. The idea is that the brand can see why its waste is happening. Queen of Raw's data can then help the company become more efficient going forward -- and be rewarded financially for taking action. | Sustainability: Already saved 1B+ gallons of water ● Member of Pledge 1%. ● Founding Member of Wildlife Friendly Enterprise Network, along with Aveda, Kering, & Stella McCartney. | Queen of Raw estimates that by 2020 their platform will save over 15 billion litres of water and one million kilograms of chemicals, as increasing access to existing resources will decrease the demand for new textiles. Furthermore, giving unused textiles a second chance in the market will divert two million tonnes of textiles from landfill in the same period. | Growing strategic partnerships, engaging in an official global rollout, and raising our seed round. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWr7WyPi5ts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLTs-I3cxrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj8phRCP26k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHQlIQc0cAs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qevp5fTJVMU | https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/style/story/queen-raw-working-make-fashion-industry-sustainable-62811357 https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/05/24/fashion-industry-waste https://cheddar.com/media/a-raw-deal-queen-of-raw-wins-360-000-from-wework https://wcbs880.radio.com/articles/queen-raw-founder-stephanie-benedetto-small-business-spotlight https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/331229 | Awards: ● Grand Prize Winner WeWork Creator Awards, presented by Ashton Kutcher ● NASA/NIKE/IKEA/DELL Launch.org Innovator ● Rent the Runway/UBS Project Entrepreneur Finalist ● thredUP Circular Fashion Fund Recipient | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
133 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Abraham | Kalonga | MAMALAND MUSHROOM FARMS | Mamalandmushroomproject.blogspot.com | CEO | Male | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | I am independent scientist pursued Bachelor in Veterinary (BVM) at Sokoine University of agriculture. I use my scientific skills on quality fungi-culturing and spawn production. I got experience and knowledge of microbiology which i turn it to profitable fungi microbiological significance to healthcare, livelihood and environment of my society by providing alternative source of protein for protein-energy malnutrition and food security. I am cultivating mushroom as for 3 years now as a way out since it could help reduce vulnerability to poverty, malnutrition and unemployment problem to youth. | I am Abraham E. Kalonga. I am Tanzanian agribusiness man aged 29 years old. I am the founder and C.E.O of Mamaland Mushroom Farms, a registered agribusiness deals with production of mushrooms, mushroom spawns and mushroom extension services aiming at diminishing Protein-Energy Malnutrition (P.E.M) to affected group of peoples in underdeveloped societies both in urban and rural areas of Tanzania. I am independent scientist pursued Bachelor in Veterinary (BVM) at Sokoine University of agriculture. I use my scientific skills on quality fungi-culturing and spawn production. | ROLES PLAYED BY MUSHROOM CULTIVATION ON POVERTY, MALNUTRITION, ENVIRONMENT AND YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT REDUCTION. | Mushroom cultivation could help reduce vulnerability to poverty, malnutrition, environment and youth unemployment problem. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Tanzania | No | Scaling | Mamaland Mushroom Farms also harnessing, processing and preserving the edible fruit bodies of Afrocantharellus, Lactarius, Russula, Termitomyces and Amanita for storage and markerting. Products in the form of nutritional food such as mushroom tea, mushroom dietary supplements, mushroom powder, mushroom sauces, mushroom soups and chips are of interest because they can contribute to health, food security, income generation and poverty alleviation in the country. | Mushroom cultivation could help reduce vulnerability to poverty, malnutrition, environment and youth unemployment problem by strengthening economic livelihoods through the generation of fast yielding and nutritious source of food and reliable source of income. It also does not need rain, large space or sun for its growth.. It improves the sustainability of small farming of small farming systems through the recycling of organic matters. | Our Mushroom Research and Development Initiative (M.R.A.D.I), created pathways to meaningful employment for young peoples, met its goal of educating 3500 peoples within three years includes youths, women, and other special groups. Mamaland Mushroom Farms hands-on and online training course as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse from low- to-medium income communities. We are doing skills training programs for youth. | Mostly many peoples in my country suffer from protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) contributes to 300 deaths per day of children under five years. My innovation will address problem at lower cost since we use simple technology of mushroom cultivation leading to lower selling price which is affordable to people living in our country. Also we are conducting online mushroom production's training (Mamaland Mushroom Production Course) to distant start-ups so as they can learn fundamental understanding concerning the production of mushroom so as they can improve livelihood through employment creation (poverty alleviation) and secure food availability for future survival. | Our Mushroom Research and Development Initiative (M.R.A.D.I), created pathways to meaningful employment for young peoples, met its goal of educating 3500 peoples within three years includes youths, women, and other special groups. Mamaland Mushroom Farms hands-on and online training course as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse from low- to-medium income communities. We are doing skills training programs for youth.We measure progress by Daily inspecting our project planner. | Possible plan is to scaling up over the next 3-10 years. Our plan is to expand the business to greater scale within 3-10 years from 1000 kg to 15,000 kg per day for agroprocessing of mushroom products. We intend to scale-up our business in terms of production and workforce by building medium scale industry for mushroom processed products so as to increase employment opportunities to our fellow youths. We want to exported dry wild mushroom to Europe (Netherlands) more than 100 tonnes per seasons and to increase the figure yearly by 10% from 2019. | Short-term: Seed Capital, farm equipments, technical know-how Medium-term: Farm equipments, Agroprocessing facilities, technical know-how Long-term: Farm equipments, Agroprocessing facilities, Market access | Facebook URL: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010475920676 Twitter URL: https://twitter.com/m_mamaland LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mamaland-mushroom-farms-ab5678117/ Youtube: https://youtu.be/WaslQTa1pSY | Youtube: https://youtu.be/WaslQTa1pSY Youtube: https://youtu.be/WbFJOKuXmJ0 | NIL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
134 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Judith Salome | Asaala | The University of Nairobi | uonbi.ac.ke | Student | Femalr | Kenya | Kenya | English | My motivations are: 1. This is one of the biggest stages to share with my project and for the fact that UN do support such environmental projects. 2. Focusing on creating awareness in order for companies and consumers to adopt my project, this platform will help me alot as I have had limited platform which I appreciate too. 3. The fashion industry has been rated among the highest environmental pollutants thus another motivation for me to applying for this. 4. Actualization of my project was not easy due to lack of proper machinery but with such a platform I might get to interact with people who might give me their ideas on easier or more refined ways to go about it. My innovation is positively impacting the globe because it is a bio-degradable textile that has been dyed organically and painted using organic paints. If a big percentage of fashion textiles are made using this method or garments made from this fabric, pollution will decrease and so will our aquatic animals have a life too hence clean oceans. | I am Asaala Judith Salome. A graduate from The University of Nairobi, School of the Arts and Design pursued Fashion and Design . I did finalise my 4th year 1 month ago awaiting for my graduation on September 6th this year (2019).In 2017 while I was in 2nd year I participated in a workshop known as Design woth Social Impact, which involved three Universities, The University of Nairobi, Zurich school of Design and Macedonia school of design. The workshop involved how to integrate the society into the design world whereby we were to figure out how the society could use design in problem solution. It was a unique design perspective that I enjoyed learning. | Process of making a bio-degradable textile from a mix of banana sheath fires and organic cotton | Fashionment looking amazing. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Kenya | No | Proof of Concept | Currently that is where I am because I am still looking for more platforms and machinery technologies to deal with refinery of the project. | The use of non-biodegradable textile and chemical dyeing in the fashion indusrty. | My solution is biodegradable textiles that has been organically dyed thus able to reduce landfills which are full of non-biodegradable unwanted textiles and keep our aquatic animals alive and our oceans clean because of the organic dyeing. Long term vision is making everyone be aware of fashion impacts, adoption of biodegradable textiles by designers/outfit manufacturers and consumers. | The textile is unique because it is biodegradable, involves a mixture of banana fibre and organic cotton, has been organically dyed and the motifs were organically painted on the textile. | This project was my final year project in campus. I got to make the textile with some help then designed outfits using them. The methodological rigor was intense and involved alot. | Creation of awareness is the first goal. Staff to recruit is basically people who are jobless and like 2/3 creatives to help. Many countries plant bananas so basically those would be prospect expansion destinations. | Raw materials are banana plant stems and organic cotton ration 50% to 50%. This is what I used for my textile but the ratio varies depending with preferable of the textile's thickness/ what season the textile is for. For short term the needs will be the basic requirements; scraping machine, banana stems, organic cotton, spinner, warping meel, a loom and two to three people who will help with the weaving. For medium term and long term a refinery machine will be needed and more research on how the fabric could be refined. | https://uonbi.ac.ke | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
135 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John Awiel Chol | Diing | EARTH University | https://www.earth.ac.cr/en/support-earth/mastercardfdn/scholar-awiel-diing/ | Student | Male | Costa Rica | South Sudan | English | Spanish | I believe transformative change is our passion and the will to make the change that counts which has nothing to do with greatness or the power to be that big or recognized in the society. After graduating from high school, I was faced with a frustrating situation. As a refugee, I was not able to qualify for Kenyan government scholarships, yet I had no other funds to pay for university. I moved back into the camp and volunteered as a teacher for my former primary school under LWF, a community mobilizer for girls under Windle Trust Kenya and as an interpreter for the UNHCR helping New Refugee register for their entrance to the camp. A wave of violence had sent a large influx of South Sudanese into the camp. Every morning I would go to the border and interpret, help people register for their entrance to the camp, find out why they were claiming refuge. It felt so good because I was really giving back to my community and it made me realize just how vulnerable refugee populations are. It felt so good making a change that is aimed at identifying small things that we can do to others in society and finally making the correspondent change through Belena Millers. We will be empowering local farmers by purchasing their locally produced maize and strive to provide South Sudan rural communities with an alternative, accessible source of highly nutritional food, which will ultimately help achieve zero hunger. UN solution summit is the best platform to present our project. | John was born in South Sudan at the height of the second civil war. His family fled the country when he was just a baby, and he grew up in the Kakuma refugee camp in the arid Turkana District of northwestern Kenya. Life there was hard, and he often went hungry, sometimes having to rely on short-term food aid from UNHCR. Seeing the suffering a refugee child goes through and also being directly affected gave him a purpose and a vision for finding a sustainable solution to problems of conflict and hunger. It also drove him to focus on education as the key to bringing this change to his community. John completed elementary school in the camp and, with the support of the Sudan Scholar Federation, finished high school in the nearby community. Despite receiving good grades, he lacked the financial means to further his education. So after high school, he returned to the camp and volunteered as a primary school teacher, a community mobilizer, and an interpreter for new refugees. Today he attends EARTH University in Costa Rica as a MasterCard Foundation Scholar. He studies agricultural science and plans to complete his Bachelor’s degree in 2019. He joins hand with my two other friends to form Belena Millers, a community give-back project aimed at empowering lives of the local farmers through investing in the milling machine which process locally produced maize and providing farmers from Jonglei region of South Sudan with agricultural techniques. | Belena Millers | End hunger, achieve food security in South Sudan through local agriculture | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | South Sudan | No | Proof of Concept | We are at this stage due to lack of funding to buy the necessary equipment. We have done the market research and all the necessary problem analysis. Our project is self-sustainable as is built on the concept of people-purpose and profit. With a focus on empowering local farmers and revitalize Agribusiness and processing industry in Jonglei state by creating a ready market for local produces, youth employment and increase affordability by offering the processed maize flour at favorable prices. | UN estimates about 6.1 million people in South Sudan are in need of food assistance due to no access or high food prices owing to food products importation. Maize is the second highest consumed cereal at 40% of the total cereal produced. Maize production is expected to reduce by 14% in 2019. Constant maize deficits correspond to the need to import 50% of this cereal. Local farmers and traders report that year-round imports of maize are needed to meet local demand causing constant rural poverty. | Achieve food security through Belena Millers limited by increasing local maize production, increase accessibility by processing maize into a fine flour and increase affordability by lower prices. We will help local farmers increase their land production through the use of better practices. Create a ready market by selling their product to Belena milling agent which will process it into fine meal flour that will be sold to rural people at an affordable price and will be easily accessible | We are unique in our approach focus at revitalizing maize flour processing industry in communities across remote areas of Bor Town, Jonglei State in South Sudan. Our model is designed in such a way that its focus is on the Producer → Grain store → Milling Agent → Retailer → Consumer. In this approach, Belena Millers Ltd. Will establish an umbrella (Belena Farmers Association) which will bring farmers from different parts of Jonglei State together. Through this Association farmers will get access to fertilizers, Agronomic practices and hence we aim to increase the area of maize production and assure higher productivity by increasing the amount of production per unit area. It will lessen Belena Millers efforts to buy maize from local farmers of the region and produce quality maize flour for the local population. Per current high maize meal prices and frequent shortages, Belena Millers Ltd. will provide a cheaper quality maize flour and assure year-round availability. Local farmers through the Belena Millers Ltd. will save on the costs of maize storage as the Belena Millers will facilitate the storage. Equally, more local landowners would be able to farm and supply their maize product to Belena Millers Ltd. This will stimulate the local economy and increase Jonglei State cash flow eradicating poverty and achieve zero hunger. | Market analysis, so far we have done enough market study of where we will be selling our products, we have identified our local consumers and fix consumers which include restaurants and institutions like schools, and we are only left with the signing of contracts which will be upon accomplishing installation and building facilities. We have formed Belena farmers association, where are now registering local maize farmers in the region of the Jonglei where the mill will be situated, these will be farmers where we will be procuring maize from. Collaborations. We are working on identifying collaborators who will help us in different stages of our approach. Some organizations have shown interest in collaborating with us especially on the farming component. They are ready to work with us as soon as we start since they applause our ideas and methods. We have managed to secure a very strategic location in the market of Marol, the largest market in the Jonglei state region. This will ensure easy distribution and transportation to rural areas which are our target. Finally, we have also registered our business in the country and made inquiries on machines especially on the milling machine and steel silo store. We are in constant contact with vendors as soon as we get our money we can easily acquire the equipment. All this progress show that we are ready to start anytime we get the required startup capital. | Belena Millers Ltd is to be established in 2020 with an aim of producing fine maize flour in the remote area of Bor Town in Jonglei County, in order to reduce the high retail price of maize meal due to the shortage in this obscure area, create employment for the youth. The company will strive to increase the maize quality by processing maize into flour soon after harvest to minimize loss due to poor storage, rodents and termites, ensure there is a constant supply of maize flour to the local market. Our long terms goals are to establish an Agricultural Vocational Training Center where young farmers will be trained on agricultural methods to ensure the long-term availability of large production. Belena Millers Ltd. will also provide quality seeds and fertilizers at lower prices to the farmers as part of a giveback program. For young farmers, this will be a way of motivating youth to join and value farming as an alternative to employment. To increase our employability and create a greater impact we will expand our production capacity and our milling company to neighboring rural areas. Belena Millers Ltd. understands that malnutrition problem in the country, so our focus will be to enter into mega-partnerships with the Health Ministry and international health organizations to develop vitamin-enriched maize meal, especially for babies and lactating mothers | Short term is the establishment of the Milling machine. The start-up period will require the following resources: Building of facilities, Ordering, and installation of an effective milling machine, Installation of electricity hookups, Procuring maize sources, Training of staff on operations and maintenance then building of stores to ensure stable quality maize flour during the pre-processing. At this stage, we will ensure the successful operation of the business while we think of expanding the business goals. Medium-term The aim of Belena Millers Ltd. is to create food security, provide a ready market for maize production to farmers in the Jonglei State, and help youth get employment. With positive cash flow, Belena Millers Ltd. will turn its focus to economic growth through community involvement. Belena Millers Ltd. will work with local farmers to encourage agricultural production by establishing an Agricultural Vocational Training Center where young farmers will be trained on agricultural methods to ensure the long-term availability of large production Long term Belena Millers Ltd. understands that malnutrition is a significant problem in the country, so our focus will be to enter into mega-partnerships with the Health Ministry and international health organizations to develop vitamin-enriched maize meal, especially for babies and lactating mothers. | We haven't yet done with our websites but we are working on mostly before implementation | We haven't yet done with our websites but we are working on mostly before implementation. | We haven't received any awards yet since we are just in the process of starting up but we have a lot of companies who have expressed their interest to collaborate with us in different parts of our approach. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
136 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ezekiel | Olajumoke | NGsnails | www.ngsnails.com | Founder | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Started the business from personal saving (less than $100) but through word of mouth and referral method, we've been able to grow the business from the profit we earn on our revenue Although it's a slow and steady growth; but we are glad we could touch many lives with our healthy meal campaign especially amidst the poverty-ripped, rural community. | Olajumoke Ezekiel is the founder of NGsnails; a top leading company involved in the production, processing and packaging of Healthy, Organic snails. He's a great advocate of Agriculture and encourages youth to embrace farming practices. He's a researcher (in the field of Molecular Biology and Genetics) and recently he discovered an innovative way to grow giant snails to an incredible size of 350 grams within 15 months instead of waiting for the conventional 36 months. With his research breakthrough, he's contributed to the availability of snail meat all-year-round and thus, every one can stay healthy by eating more snail meats. His major interest is on the youth and presently, he has groomed over 250 youths on how to farm snails and operate in the snail farming value chain. His goal is to empower 2,500 youths in each 36 states of Nigeria on how to breed snails and extracts its valuable compositions to drive a healthy nation. | Sootless Grilled Snails | To build a healthy nation free of Stroke complications. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Nigeria, Ghana (Intended) | No | Scaling | With our unique organic, snail farming technology, Our snails reach an incredible, giant size of 350 grams within 15 months instead of the conventional 36 months; And from this model, we've produced a snail (grilled) product that can last up to six (6) months on shelf without getting degraded thus, helping us to reach out to over 2,500 people every month. Our goal is to scaleup production on a 10 hectares of land to allow us serve 250,000 people every month. | According to the World Health Organization, Stroke is the third leading cause of death worldwide. In Nigeria, 10 out of 1,000 people suffers from stroke with 85% leading to mortality cases. NG snails is committed to continuously create awareness on the health benefits of snails and make snail meat available all-year round because snails are highly rich in protein, iron and calcium but low in cholesterol. | Recently, people are becoming more health-conscious to what they consume. But the unavailability of snails all year round are making people to choose alternative livestock meals howbeit, we are relentlessly breeding the snails all-year-round to ensure a constant market supply. Snails are special delicacies in West Africa and they are highly proteinous with zero cholesterol content.with our innovative snail products,snails can be stored up to 6 months and still maintains its' freshness. With this innovative model, we are able to reach out to more people in farther distance. Howbeit, within 5 years, snails will be the most consumed protein-meal for an average African. and with this;we can build a healthy nation. | Apart from our Farm-to-Table business model; 1. We produce Giant African Land snails (GALs) which can weigh up to 400 grams within 15 months unlike our competitors that have to wait for 36 months before the attain such large size. 2. We are committed to research works that improves our productivity. We recently had a breakthrough of organic snail feeds that enhances snail growth within a short period of time. 3. Our snails are giant snails and meatier snails compared to other random snails found in the market. because of the organic way we breed our snails; they have a distinctive tasty aroma, just like the snails in the wild 4. Our strength lies in our snail egg hatching expertise with 90% hatchability rate success compared to our competitors. 5. We recently had a research breakthrough on our sootless snails; This processed snail can last as long as 6 months without getting degraded. With our organic mode of preservation, we are rest assured of a healthy meal when consumed. | having undergone a critical food laboratory testing rigours; It was affirmed that our sootless (grilled) snails contains NO HEAVY METALS and it is safe for consumption. With our unique preservation system we invested tangible time as a team by working on the shelf life of our snails. Our team consist of young youths below 30 years old and they are not just smart but Proactive! Working with such team is a great morale booster. | In 2 years time, NGsnails shall be the largest distributor of healthy, organic, Giant snails in West Africa with a staff strength of 50. With our expansion model, we would have established, 3 main farms in 10 subsaharan countries in Africa and over 400 out-grower scheme with a special focus on areas where poverty and mal-nutrition is prominent thereby empowering the youth and building a healthy community. We are rest assured in 2 years'time; our revenue would have grown beyond $50,000,000 and we shall be the foremost supplier of snail by-products | Short Term Needs: 1 .Acquire 10 hectares of land to erect training academy and scaleup production 2. Build a 10-tonnes per day processing plant 3. Create an efficient delivery channel for easy market access. Medium Term Needs: 1. Expand team core by training 1,000 youths every month 2. Deploy young consultants to outgrower schemes and equip them with technology and facility to breed snails. 3. Upgrade our processing plants to 100-tonnes per day to cater for larger market sector Long term needs: 1. Strategic partnership with major farmers in sub-saharan countries via networking 2. Extraction plants to fully extract the snail components and slime in its' pure form. | www.instagram.com/ngsnails www.ngsnails.com | https://youtu.be/1Sid-w4vdyA | Certificate of Leadership, YALI West Africa Certificate of Excellence, Fate Foundation School of Business | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
137 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sunnie Antonio | Marcar, Jr | LYFT Africa | https://lyftafrica.blogspot.com/ | Executive Director | Male | Liberia | Liberia | English | Young people account for about 65 percent of Liberia's population of 4.1 million, and youth unemployment is estimated as high as 85 percent (United Nations, 2019). By 2030, the attainment of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to be achieved. Due to limited resources, the government of Liberia have applied fewer efforts to attain the SDGs, especially goal #4. Poor education has caused many high school graduates to lack innovation and relevant career and business skills. From research conducted in 2018, 1 out of 50 Public schools in Liberia don’t run an effective ICT program and 1 in every 10 public school teachers has computer knowledge. Many youth who graduate from secondary schools in Liberia find bike-riding, petit trading, rubber tapping, and other low class activities as the only medium to income generation. With the provision skill training such as ICT training for students and teachers in Public Schools in Liberia, youth would gain relevant business and career skills and teachers would integrate technology with their teaching and become effective. With quality education, youth would be innovative to start small-scale businesses, gain career skills, and prepare for college. I have been motivated by the above to design and implement an effective ICT program for teachers and students in public secondary institutions in Liberia. This program would provide high school graduates with relevant technology skills that will promote self-reliance through business and jobs. Additionally, the program will enable teachers to integrate technology with teaching to promote goal 4 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. | Sunnie Antonio Marcar, Jr. is a social worker, educator and an IT personnel. He is Liberian and a resident of the 72nd Community in Paynesville City, Liberia. He holds a “C” Certificate in education from the KRTTI in Kakata, Liberia; a Diploma in IT from the Amity University, Monrovia; a Certificate in Design of educational application using web technologies from NITTTR, Chennai, India; a Certificate in Business and Entrepreneurship from the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Regional Leaders Center (RLC), Cohort 6, Accra, Ghana. He has vast working experience of over 9 yearsteaching and training. He co-founded TED-Liberia, an ICT providing entity in Liberia that setup computer labs in schools and conducts computer training for students and teachers. Sunnie is passionate about youth and his passion for career and youth development led him to establish LYFT Africa in 2018, a youth volunteer organization that designs and implements career development and awareness programs for youth in Liberia. Sunnie has made publication in a journal titled ""Innovations in Science, Technology and Management Towards Sustainability"", 10th November 2017 at the P.S.R engineering College, Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu, India with ISBN 978-93-86146-37-3 found at: http://www.psr.edu.in/images/CSE/Proceeding.pdf In 2018, he received a Certificate of Recognition for his services rendered to trainees during the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Regional Leaders Center(RLC), training in Accra, Ghana. | Secondary ICT Empowerment Initiative | Education, Technology, Information Communication Technology, Youth Empowerment | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Liberia | No | Research & Development | My solution is at the Research and Development state because we have not tested the solution but have gathered sufficient information surrounding the problem. The solution gathered is sufficiency enough to scale the project. | My solution is addressing unskilled youth, computer illiteracy among college students and unemployment among youth. Through the teaching of technology in public high schools, students would gain relevant computer skills to adequately prepare them for college, jobs and businesses. | Secondary ICT Empowerment Initiative seeks to setup a modern computer laboratory in Public Schools for students and teachers. The initiative will recruit well trained and qualified trainers to use its customized computer curriculum to train participants. Participants The long-term vision of this initiative is to reduce unemployment and increase the number of skilled youth by providing in-depth computer knowledge to participants in courses such as Microsoft Offices 2013 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Publisher), CorelDraw X5, Adobe Photoshop, and Windows Movie Maker. This will adequately prepare young Liberians for education, gain employable business and career skills. This will enhance quality education in Pubic Schools which will support the attainment of goal #4 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal. | Unlike other computer programs, Secondary ICT Empowerment Initiative is unique in that it will use its own curriculum and open source application that are customized to suit participants’ taste. The initiative will employ hands-on practical exercises and real-life scenarios to help participants learn better. The initiative will make use of new methodologies such as peer-training, and group projects. Trainees who catch up with course lessons would be used as aids to assist slow learners. Participants would be grouped to implement projects as well. | My team has completed our research and has outlined approaches to develop the solution. We have planned project documents such as ICT curriculum, budget milestone, timetable of work, collection of application, and preparation of training materials. We have initiated theoretical progress of this solution 100% including the registration of the organization. Practical progress of this solution is yet to be implemented. | The goal of the solution is to train at least 100 participants monthly in the field of technology and help participants to set up small ICT businesses. First, I intend to acquire a suitable facility to be used as computer lab I intend to acquire materials and setup the lab within a week I intend to recruit and train at least four trainers within two weeks; I intend to recruit participants within a week; After these processes, training of participants would commence | Mainly, long-term ICT equipment such as computers, projectors, generators, printers, cameras, computer chairs and desks, routers, switch are most needed for the solution. | http://www.psr.edu.in/images/CSE/Proceeding.pdf https://www.facebook.com/LYFTAfrica/photos/a.1716465721798047/1716431015134851/?type=3&theater https://www.facebook.com/LYFTAfrica/photos/a.1630285003749453/1630286367082650/?type=3&theater | https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1593241084114970 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=490256888155954 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI0Rq868nn8&t=3s | Certificate of Recognition, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Regional Leaders Center (RLC), Accra, Ghana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
138 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lincol | Jiménez Balboa | Southern Peru Copper Corporation | www.southernperu.com | Mining Engineer | Male | Peru | Peru | English | Spanish | The dynamics of today's society have left behind traditional organizational paradigms to give rise to new organizational conceptions based on development with a focus on intelligent organizations. Organizations that are constantly learning with themselves and their environment, where learning environments are constantly being built from a systemic and innovative vision, which in addition to transforming them develop them correctly, according to the demands of the convulsed and demanding social environment. No organization can afford to fall behind or lose viability in the social context and remain without transcending, much less those focused on the educational service. These require, for healthy social development, to be pioneers, leaders in their work so that their efforts are embodied in a manner articulated with social demands without putting secondly the full development of the individual. Consequently, they are called to generate strategies that allow them organizational development, acting as intelligent organizations from their structure and mission and vision. | My name is Lincol Jiménez Balboa, Mining Engineer graduated from the National University of San Marcos, Fellow CIEMIN 2015, Finalist of the First International Award of Mining Engineering Students 2015, Member of Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative 2016, Fellow Planning e Mine Engineering at Toquepala Mine - Southern Peru Copper Corporation, Mine Planning Engineer at Mina Orcopampa - Compañía de Minas Buenaventura, I am a person adaptable to different work groups, communicator, leadership skills, group motivator, eloquent and management of different scenarios. | Sustainable Development in Mining | The majority of companies in the extractive sector are involved in this commitment to be sustainable. To do this, they choose some strategies that he | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | The solution is focused at the moment in Peru, in the different regions and localities of Peru, to promote an integrative message and adoption of policies and regulations that allow the development of the regions | Yes | Juan Sanchez Michue, Luis Escobedo | Research & Development | Public Investment Projects are capable of directly affecting the provision of physical and human capital of each region and, through it, the productivity of private labor and capital. However, the efficiency of the management of Public Investment Projects depends on the internal processes that are followed by public institutions for their implementation, and, the capacities of the personnel that carry out the activities. | In summary, it is possible to develop sustainable extractive projects if we focus well on prioritizing the needs of our socio-political and socio-economic contexts. It is not necessary to reflect on the main omissions and mistakes made in our corporate process in order to verify that there are new and innovative opportunities to legitimize the business, developing the immediate environment. | It is necessary to open the mind, true, but more than that training for godliness, where your treasure is your heart, you can think, build, view, condition, speak; realities therefore require affinity and communication, one without all is not possible. | Government commitments are very important as this brings sustainable development to populations in communities affected by mining. | The weakness of the State to mediate and resolve these conflicts with clear legitimacy criteria, forces mining companies to negotiate agreements under pressure, with groups whose main argument is force. In addition, the achievement of results, in this way, also generates the message that violence pays. In this way, the company generates, without looking for it, more pressure groups that use the same route to obtain their own benefits, which partially explains the panorama of the permanent crisis that exists in the areas surrounding mining projects (the other large The cause of the violence is the negative socio-environmental impact, real or perceived, on the part of the populations near the mines). | The concentration of the mining contribution in the Areas of Influence generates an imbalance in what should be the harmonious development of a greater ecological and political space. This at the same time generates more tension in the non-benefited communities but immediately next to the official Influence Area of the project. Large companies supplement this problem with the creation of foundations that allow them to reach larger provincial and regional spaces (especially now that there is the so-called Extraordinary Contribution of mining) but this is exceptional in the mining sector. | Transcend the Area of Influence and act on watersheds or on the province. This does not necessarily imply a larger budget, as long as there is a state or non-government counterpart with its own resources and experience working at that level. | movemining.org | movemining.org | Expand interest groups to those outside the power map. If the objective of mining contributions to development is the fight against poverty, the most vulnerable must be represented at the dialogue and coordination tables for development programs. This must be part of the company's policy and negotiated as a condition for the programs that are Include the concept of Sustainable Development, and measurement indicators such as the Human Development Index. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
139 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tochukwu | Egesi | Innovation Corner Africa Limited | www.ticafrica.org | CEO | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | We are applying to UN Solutions summit for the chance to win equity-free support which, if gotten, will accelerate our expansion timeline. We are also applying for the opportunity to be part of the UN's brilliant community committed to social impact. We believe that UN Solutions summit accelerator can give us tactics on how best to hold on to our social impact goals while pursuing our business goals. Being a UN Solution Summit finalist will also give us access to some of the most intelligent minds in the world who can provide feedback on our technology solutions and connect us to partnerships which can help scale our business. | Tochukwu Egesi is the founder and Chief Executive of Innovation Corner. He is an innovation expert who has invested the last 2 years evangelising an industry-wide shift to technology innovation to drive social development in Nigeria. Prior to Innovation Corner, he designed and co-created solutions with First City Monument Bank, Nigeria and Bridge Creative Agency on projects supporting youths and African SMEs to leverage technology to grow their businesses. Innovation Corner led by Tochukwu in partnership with leading technology and non-technology giants is responsible for many social technology projects including Rem Health, Blueform, Gage and NatureHost. This leadership culminated in the recognition by the World Bank, International Finance Corporation and the First Lady of Nigeria, Mrs Aisha Buhari for social innovation and most recently a partnership between Innovation Corner and the United Kingdom. Tochukwu, a LEAP Africa fellow, is a trained Economist, a chartered banker and accountant. | Nature Host | offline enabled community engagement tool for natural resource companies to improve social licence | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Nigeria, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone | Yes | International Finance Corporation and The Canadian International Resources and Development Institute (CIRDI) | Proof of Concept | We have completed the design and development of our solution and we are now working on our pilot in Sierra Leone under the disclosure to the development program of the International Finance Corporation. | Macro-level data with little local insight. Lag in disclosure Lack of rights to information and limited local dissemination. No tangible economic or social benefit to the community Fake news, biased information. Technical information and lack of context. | The overall objective of this project is to improve the relationship that exists between host communities, government and natural resource companies through the use of offline enabled Information and Communication Technology. The Specific Objectives Include: Increase natural resource companies alertness to social license. increase the use of ICTs in improving the relationship between hist communities and natural resource companies. improve citizens’ access to information about government and Natural resource companies activities regarding natural resources. Improving data disclosure by the government and natural resource companies. Nature Host works using offline enabled technology such as USSD for user registration and SMS for communication. It also works using an online dashboard for corporates and governments and for community members who wish to see more details on communicated activities. Our vision is to be the smart community management tool for Africa’s natural resource sector and save USD 20 million per week for each client from delays due to conflict between natural resource companies and host communities. We will scale using a hub-spoke model with organizations like IFC and CIRDI as our hubs and our country presence as spokes. We will include IOTs in our delivery mechanism, allowing us to serve rural areas better and generate more data for natural resource companies. We aim to make data disclosure simpler through automated calls in local languages. | Apart from its offline enabled approach using Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) and SMS, Nature host brings the following unique offerings to community management: Timely data collection and disclosure Proactive data sharing and developing digital skills Clearer information about social impact Responsive communication Collaborative generation of data The local context in data sharing. New data related to jobs and entrepreneurship Strengthen social license Improved conflict management Higher economic and social returns | Our team has completed our product prototype over a 6 months period and have formed alliances with the International Finance Corporation and The Canadian International Resources and Development Institute (CIRDI) to pilot our solutions in Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau. We have also gained a customer in Nigeria (one of the top oil and gas companies in Nigeria). We measure progress through: User reach Client acquisition Product development Team strength | New Countries Sierra Leone----2020 Guinea Bissau---2020 Staff Team of 12- Q2 2020 Projected lives impacted 500,000 Lives ----Q4 2020 Our vision is to be the smart community management tool for Africa’s natural resource sector and save USD 20 million per week for each client from delays due to conflict between natural resource companies and host communities. We will scale using a hub-spoke model with organizations like IFC and CIRDI as our hubs and our country presence as spokes. We will include IOTs in our delivery mechanism, allowing us to serve rural areas better and generate more data for natural resource companies. In addition to improving access to essential government and natural resource companies activities, we are committed to improving the privacy and security of our data. We aim to make data disclosure simpler through automated calls in local languages. | short-term Funding Staff Capacity building and Training Research study Digital technology Equipment medium-term Funding Staff Capacity building and Training Research study Digital technology Equipment long-term needs Funding Staff Capacity building and Training Research study Digital technology Equipment | www.naturehost.co | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV8fvxrIy0I&t=833s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ANCLKhW82k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbRPMSbfGfM&t=333s | Finalist: World Bank Youth Summit Finalist: ACT Foundation Social Innovation Awards Winner: LEAP Africa Social Innovation Fellowship Winner: Nigeria's First Lady Social Innovation Award Winner: United Kingdom Go Global Africa Winner: US Government/MWFAA YALI Award for Science, Technology and Innovation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
140 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | SANA | MOHAMMED | Halabja Group company | https://www.halabjagroup.com/ku/ | Network performance analyzer engineer / communication engineer | Female | Iraq | Iraq | Arabic | English | I think this forum is a golden opportunity for me to meet young leaders and entrepreneurs from different counties around the world and I want to learn from the experience of the participants and exchange our ideas about the subject of (empowering young to be effective leaders and developing small projects). I want to meet academician people and listen to their tips about (the tools and ways of involving young in community development) my passion about making a positive social change in my community will help me a lot to be committed to the program and get the maximum benefits of it. This passion is not only about me but also about empowering the others young to be leaders and step outside their comfort zone starting to look at the opportunities and make the real change by taking effective actions to develop their local community and my main motivation to attend this program is to invite the young leaders to implement mutual project in the sector of (develop youth leadership skills and developing small projects ) I believe this program is a great platform for educating a generation of tomorrow's leaders who work for finding the solution to the world's problems , my goal is to become a successful leader in my community being awarded this scholarship will greatly benefit me in achieving my goal which launching ((Young Business Start-Up Training)) I believe that this forum is a unique event for empowering women to be effective leaders who inspire loyalty and goodwill in other people around the world. Finally, I would like to mention that the program theme is especially relevant to my professional expertise, and therefore I would highly appreciate being given an opportunity to attend this event which gathers professionals from all over the World. | I was born in 1993 in Sulaimani city, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, I graduated at Communication Engineering College /Sulaimani Polytechnic University in 2016, and currently, I am a Network Performance Analyzer Engineer at Halabja Group Company. I began my youth work from being volunteer in some different organizations and events for e.g. : volunteer at the Second Harvest food bank of east central Indiana in summer 2013, also I was office manager assistant at WWB Company for business and management consultancy, I was Labor market surveyor at IREX program to increase youth employment in Iraq and this program (Labor Market Analysis Industry Representative Survey) which was a part of the (Iraq University Linkages Program) was developed by IREX with the support of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. I am the Alumni of IYLEP (Iraqi young exchange program) program in summer 2013. My application was successfully selected among approximately 3500 students from overall of Iraq and I am a participant (Member) of the Co-Opinion /Second Annual Youth Summit at Kadir Has University, Turkey in 2017. My application form was accepted among 2515 applicants around the world who applied for the program. And proudly I was the first winner of writing the best article about (the cross–cultural) in the IYLEP 2013 Reunion Blog contest, The title of the article is (culture as an iceberg) it was published at Meridian Blog post website and I studied Entrepreneurship &community development program at Ball state University in 2013 and alumni student of the international exchange alumni program from 2013 - current. | Young Startup Business Advisory Center | developing small business sector in Iraq | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | IRAQ | No | Proof of Concept | because I am already working on finding sponsors and funding resources to implement my project, and I am working on finding partners and trying to work with other NGOs to execute this project | Unemployment is one of the most complex problems faced by Iraqi society. According to a report, the largest percentage of unemployment was recorded among graduates of universities, universities. The report prepared by the Organization for Peace and Freedom in cooperation with the Norwegian People's Aid Organization said that unemployment in 2014 was 6.53% and rose in 2015 to 16.56% and rose during the current year 2017 to between 20 to 25%. | Project name: Young Startup Business Advisory Center Target group: young people with no current enterprise in Sulaimani city, Iraq two different manuals will be used in the training which are : 1- Generate your idea (GYB) 2- Start your business (SYB) These manuals are belonging to ILO organization. this centre has plans to train about 240 unemployed young per year and totally about 1200 young will be trained for 5 years. The impacts of this project idea: - The young will learn about the importance of the development of their managerial skills to start a new business. - The young will learn not to fear of failing in their business and face the risks and how to deal with people and negotiate with suppliers. - The youth will learn to develop their creative ideas - This project will have a good impact in developing the infrastructure of the economy in sulaimani city of Iraq - this project tries to develop the small businesses sector in Sulaimany city and Iraq because small projects contribute to local economies by bringing growth and innovation to the community in which the business is established. Small businesses also help stimulate economic growth by providing employment opportunities to people who may not be employable by larger corporations. | this centre has plans to train about 240 unemployed young per year and totally about 1200 young will be trained for 5 years. The impacts of this project idea: - The young will learn about the importance of the development of their managerial skills to start a new business. - The young will learn not to fear of failing in their business and face the risks and how to deal with people and negotiate with suppliers. - The youth will learn to develop their creative ideas - This project will have a good impact in developing the infrastructure of the economy in sulaimani city of Iraq - this project tries to develop the small businesses sector in Sulaimany city and Iraq because small projects contribute to local economies by bringing growth and innovation to the community in which the business is established. Small businesses also help stimulate economic growth by providing employment opportunities to people who may not be employable by larger corporations. | this project is in the stage of implementing and I am already working on finding sponsors and funding resources to implement my project, and I am working on finding partners and trying to work with other NGOs to execute this project | this centre has plans to train about 240 unemployed young per year and totally about 1200 young will be trained for 5 years. The impacts of this project idea: - The young will learn about the importance of the development of their managerial skills to start a new business. - The young will learn not to fear of failing in their business and face the risks and how to deal with people and negotiate with suppliers. - The youth will learn to develop their creative ideas - This project will have a good impact in developing the infrastructure of the economy in sulaimani city of Iraq - this project tries to develop the small businesses sector in Sulaimany city and Iraq because small projects contribute to local economies by bringing growth and innovation to the community in which the business is established. Small businesses also help stimulate economic growth by providing employment opportunities to people who may not be employable by larger corporations. | The impacts of this project idea: - The young will learn about the importance of the development of their managerial skills to start a new business. - The young will learn not to fear of failing in their business and face the risks and how to deal with people and negotiate with suppliers. - The youth will learn to develop their creative ideas - This project will have a good impact in developing the infrastructure of the economy in sulaimani city of Iraq - this project tries to develop the small businesses sector in Sulaimany city and Iraq because small projects contribute to local economies by bringing growth and innovation to the community in which the business is established. Small businesses also help stimulate economic growth by providing employment opportunities to people who may not be employable by larger corporations. - reducing the unemployment rate in sulaimany city, Iraq | none | none | none | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
141 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ogaga | Godwin | Veneer Artistry | Onyxdiary.com | CEO, Veneer Artistry. | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Growing up in a country like Nigeria where it's survive or perish, one has to find ways to earn a living legally. Having given much thought into how to earn poverty and improve standard of living to as much people as i can, the Solutions summit is the perfect platform for me to showcase my idea and make the world a better place as much as i can. | I'm Onyx Godwin Ogaga, a beauty blogger and akeup Artist, i have an OND degree from Obafemi Awolowo University in Dramatic Arts. I was born on August 12, 1995 in a polygamous family. I started working at a factory when i was only 16years old in Lagos, Nigeria. Got into the university to study, completed it and went on to work on Television, Fashion and the Beauty industry. I have my own beauty/lifestyle blog ONYXDIARY.COM. Now, I'm a professional makeup artist and using my skill to earn a living, and that is how i found an idea that could potentially Change the life of millions. | Veneer Artistry Beauty Work space. | A centre where Beauty Professionals who can't afford to set up their studios rent spaces in our fully furnished one to work and earn from their skills | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | The country is Nigeria, Specially Lagos Nigeria for a start, with growth, we would expand to more places across Nigeria. | No | Ideation | Lack of funding. I have no funds yet to practicalize my innovation yet. | Veneer Artistry is a beauty studio in which we offer Beauty work space. What's a Beauty work Space? A beauty work space is a fully set up standard studio where beauty professionals like - makeup artists, Hair stylists, Nail Technicians, Barbers, etc can rent out a space in our studio to work/earn a living. We're solving the problem of unemployment and poverty. Renting/setting up a studio in Nigeria is very expensive, we're solving this by setting up one and renting at affordable rates. | Beauty professionals who can't afford to set up their studio to earn a living can rent our spaces in our fully set up standard studio at a very affordable rate. These beauty professionals could be Makeup Artists, Nail technicians, Hairstylists, Barbers and more. The long term Vision is bridging the gap between unemployment and capital. As a skilled beauty entrepreneur, setting up a standard studio in Nigeria is very expensive, many would pay to work in a standard studio where they can earn their own money. This way, we're solving unemployment, poverty, developing people, giving opportunities that aren't there. When we become bigger, we would open more branches across Nigeria and expand for more outreach. | This solution doesn't exist in Nigeria yet, there's no affordable work space for the thousands of beauty professionals in Nigeria who can't afford to set up their own studio to earn a living. | Still the stage of ideation. I've gone on to find out some important details like areas we could reach more people, a middle class area where there's no judgement among the poor and rich, everyone is on equal footing there. We've looked into it's profitability and sustainability. So far, i've found out the idea is 90% practical and possible. | We plan to expand into major cities like Port Harcourt, Abuja, Calabar and more. We also plan on expanding to different sectors not just beauty. We also plan on teaching classes on Hairstyling, Makeup Artistry, Barbing and more to empower people, especially women and girls. | We need money to set up a fully Standard studio in lagos first. The business is self sustainable, because rent would be paid at very affordable rates by the beauty professionals. | https://www.Onyxdiary.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgKuiakXNUQCDcD_HX8Q7HQ https://instagram.com/onyxgodwin | I was a guest on a show 'The inside out show' and here's the YouTube link. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=MPIlIAG4fQg | Non | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
142 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | NAYAB | RAZA | USPCAS-W | http://water.muet.edu.pk/ | RESEARCH SCHOLAR | FEMALE | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | With this piece of letter, the aim is to request an opportunity regarding UN summit held on 21-28 September in New York, USA .Being a water scholar from US-PKISTAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCE STUDIES IN WATER. (US-PCAS-W), it is best opportunity for me regarding receiving a water stewardship in Pakistan. As we know Pakistan is agrarian country beside this we also knew regarding all of menace of water scarcity that is open challenge for all on global platform. Surprisingly, I have done my bachelor degree in the field of Biochemistry and Food Nutrition technology .My ultimate goal is to become an expert researcher in food security and sustainable socioeconomic development by cost effective solution for safe food system for community in the world. Moreover currently I am under the MS water scholar in water sanitation health sciences (WASH) in US-PKISTAN CENTRE FOR ADVANCE STUDIES IN WATER. So both this field are related with this course which pave the way for healthy and sustainable food system. This summit study interests me most because at the end of the summit, I will be able to produce a policy that would be helpful to sustain the food security, agricultural sustainability and water resilience in my country. It also Provide professional approach with all the tools of knowledge needed from the scientific, innovative, the regulatory and the economic point of view to manage the risks of food insecurity and agricultural in sustainability in the country.Lastly, allow me to express that I do strongly believe that I deserve to be in the list of those to attend the course study from this respectful institution to continue my study furthermore. I will be patiently waiting for a positive reply. Please accept my deepest appreciation and gratitude to your further assessment and consideration. | I Nayab Raza from Pakistan waiting that kind of opportunity where I could improve my skill and represent the Pakistan. My bachelor degree in the field of Biochemistry and Food Nutrition technology. that time My ultimate goal was to become an expert or researcher in field related to ]sustainable and healthy agriculture by cost effective solution for related isues,people in Pakistan use fresh Water and untreated waste water. Both causing problem as excessive use of fresh water putting stress on water resources and untreated wastewater risk for health and lives, which I want to address. Moreover, recently continual degree in MS in water sanitation health sciences (WASH) in Us-Pakistan Centre for Advance Studies in Water, Being my specialization Is very much related to it .So, both these fields are related to water-which is necessary for life on this earth. If it is ok then health and sanitation become automatically address that is why I chose this wash degree so I may address these lethal problems to save life and economy. Being a WASH student my stance is particularly linked with water and its effects on public health .WASH is itself a broad study that cover the whole ecosystem. | ECO GREEN TECH | 1. Cost effective eco-friendly Remediation of industrial wastewater using consortium of microalgae and bacteria 2. Harvesting of microalgae for produ | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | My innovative solution is intended to be implement all over the world. | Yes | RINU COHORT ,IEC MUET JAMSHORO | Research & Development | Our project is comprehensive system and addressing a core and critical issue of wastewater discharged in water bodies without treatment . It is covering all area so water and sanitation and good health and wellbeing as it focus on treatment of water through a cheap means of algal consortium. After wastewater treatment algal biomass can be used for the production of biofuel and bio fertilizer. My solution is scientifically sound and easily implementable by using existing technologies. | My solution is to ‘Textile wastewater treatment using algae- bacterial consortium that is cost effective solution. According to one estimation textile industry generates 288,326 million gallons of wastewater yearly. Out of this 88,326 million gallons, only 8% wastewater is treated before disposal. The disposal of untreated textile wastewater directly into water bodies has detrimental environment. | The most important thing is to share the research and innovation conducted in one part of the world to another part of the world which is lacking behind in the said field of innovation. So in this way, the transfer of technology and modern research is being ensured to the developing part of the world. My ultimate aim being a biochemist and now being future water expert would focused on cost effective solution for filthy and polluted water how it affected and destroy millions of crops and loss millions of lives quietly. Moreover, aforesaid problem is what I am trying to solve that how we can protect and conserve the freshwater and how we can coin progressive remedies to eliminated the very cause behind issue by suggesting a cost effective and result oriented solution because it adversely affecting human health. Together with collaborating of UN summit in new york, I shall be able to implement the research experience to bring socio economic prosperity in the country.so, .My research under the umbrella of title ‘Textile wastewater treatment using algae- bacterial consortium, by this treated the wastewater by cost effective way To add a genuine contribution regarding fulfil the requirement of water for the wetland and agriculture to ensure with food security around the world. And this course would prove and ensure its vitality to enhance my knowledge and current solution available around the world. | Existing wastewater treatment have so much disadvantage when using process like Activated sludge process, Advance oxidation, Reverse osmosis, Ion exchange, Flocculation, Membrane filtration and its Cost estimation on that process is: 70, 812, 500, 00 Pakistani Rupees (500000 us dollars) having High maintenance, High energy, Sludge producing .My solution have innovative and novelty by comparing with other methods that is Novice application in Pakistan. Biological solution through Micro algae consortium can be adopted at anywhere in world especially developing and third world countries has Environment friendly application. My sustainable estimation cost of prototype is: 6, 00000 PKR (3526.67dollars) which is 60 % less than existing treatment processes having lots of Advantages: Less maintenance, low cost, renewable energy usage, biofuel production. | Nayab Raza (Originator of Project Idea): Being a WASH student, my primary concern is to look after the characteristics of water and direct exposure of community. I started laboratory work with growth of medium, sampling and designing of pond which can enable us to get rid of wastewater related many problems I have designed prototype for first of its kind in Pakistan I want to work on it through UN platform to commercialize it. MUHAMAD TEHSEEN: being an environment student my ambition to solve the environmental problems, design a treatment plant which is easily excess in community. After that my undergoing project is quantification of biomass produce from algae that utilize in biofuel production. MUHAMMAD RIZWAN (ASSIATNT PROFESSOR IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINERING USPCASW): My Ph.D. is in Environmental Engineering and Energy from Myongji University South Korea. My field of expertise are biofuel production and wastewater treatment. | My basic aim and goal is to expand my idea into reality in underdeveloped countries especially .so in that way I would produce cost effective solution that has positive impacts on millions of lives on globe. Water Pollution is major environmental problem especially wastewater of industries with sludge into water bodies ,that not only lethal to human but whole ecosystem .As we know Pakistan is on water stress line its issue has risen to the water scarcity. It is estimated that 8% urban wastewater of industries is just being treated. Wastewater effluents from industries, particularly in developing countries like Pakistan, discharged into water bodies. This wastewater is being used for irrigation purpose by farmers in agriculture and livestock related production. So, the quality of wastewater effluents is responsible for the degradation of the crops and food nutrition and also impacts human health. In Pakistan for irrigation purpose wastewater is used that contain emerging pollutant like lead, arsenic, mercury are found in exceed limit of W.H.O. Besides this, all crops lacks basic nutrition So, they are responsible for many Acute and Chronic diseases cause gastroenteritis, liver damage, nervous system impairment, skin irritation and liver cancer in human as well as animal. Our main problem in agriculture is its production cost is high, but lack of main constituent which is essential for the growth that results of chronic disease in community dependent. | We need platform as resources where we raise our voice against the common problem like water scarcity on map of globe, obviously we need best mentorship on this prolific platform with the good fund .As iam so much competitive by childbirth I have courage to compete with anyone and stood win. When I got selected, hope so, then I will set my long term visions. | http://water.muet.edu.pk/ | http://water.muet.edu.pk/ | 1.Yes I had selected under RINU second cohort JAMSHORO SINDH, MEHRAN UNVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY JAMSHORO, SINDH, we have won under best five category awards funded by SINDH government amount six (6) million or 3,723.03 United States dollar. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
143 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Hammed Lekan | Rabiu | Pan- Trio Agro and Multi-business Enterprise | N/A | Production Manager | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | French | It is quite evident among the sustainable development goals that one of the need to achieve sustainable development of a nation is to ensure good health and wellbeing(lifestyle and diet) of her populace alongside with other goals. Relative to agricultural production in as much more credence is given to food production and processing to combat food insecurity,improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture the need to ensure food value chain addition ascertain the all round sustainability we aspire for .This strategic approach to sustainability contribute to one of my motivation to apply for the United Nation Solution Summit. According to UNICEF Nigeria has the second highest burden of stunted children in the world with a national prevalence rate of 32% of children under 5. An estimated 2 million children in Nigeria suffer from severe acute malnutrition but only two out of every 10 children affected is currently reached with treatment. The alarming levels of this indicator, which reflect level of food and nutrition insecurity in Nigeria surpassed only by those in India. Indeed nearly 13 million Nigerians still suffer from hunger with wide differences across geopolitical zones and between urban and rural areas. The above recognized problem is part of our motivation at Pan Trio Agro and Multi-business enterprise to major in increasing the value chain of agricultural produce in order to combat the problem of food security in Nigeria. Through our innovation and product discovery Our enterprise has a positive track in value chain addition of cassava, improving the nutritional status of the populace, elevating the standard of living of the local cassava farmers and creating a social balance for a product that has believed to be for the marginalized individual or destitute within the society due to nutritional imbalance of the produce. | I'm a general consultant in livestock production, expert in sustainable system of production, a nutritionist and an organic poultry Farmer. | Cassava Morn | It is an improve Cassava flakes, fortified with Coconut, lactose, sucrose and other macro nutrients to curb the problem of malnutrition in Nigeria. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Nigeria | Yes | Olorunfemi Sunmbo: A production advisor and expert in sustainable system of production trained by Royal Agriculture University United Kingdom .Agboola Lawal Oluwaseun: A first class students in Animal Production and health at Lautech | Proof of Concept | Market research and survey has proven the product to be generally accepted by the populace apart from the fact that cassava flakes been a staple food in Nigeria. The product is generally accepted by all the classes of income earners as we can't meet up with the current demand of the product. | Nigeria is the largest producer of cassava in the world and nearly all the farmers plants cultivate it because of its hardy nature and climate change which serve as an alternative for them during harsh weather. Cassava is know to be nutritionally imbalance but widely consumed in the country with only few individual able to supplement it with other additives. The key problem our solution is addressing are ; Increasing value chain, malnutrition and social balance for cassava in the country. | Casava flakes that has believed to be nutritionally imbalance have been improved in quality with our innovation product called cassava morn which is sock I'm water and consumed by all ages to solve the problem of malnutrition in the country. The idea will ensure increase in the Cassava cultivation and providing more market for the local farmers, increasing their annual revenue and elevate their social status. Predominantly in the country woman are always engaged in Cassava flakes processing and this in the long run will ensure more woman participation and fill the gender gap in the agricultural sector. Malnutrition is not only a problem in Nigeria as its cut across all developing nation which makes the product to be internationally relevant. In the long run after cutting across all the geo political zone in Nigeria we will gradually expand to the nearby countries like Benin Republic , Ghana and Togo and gradually cut across all Africa countries which it is believed that by 2050 Malnutrition case would have reduced by 40% in Nigeria and Africa at large. | The existing approach sponsored by UNICEF to curb the problem of malnutrition in the country is the used of Soybeans fortified with additives which cost about $100 for an individual and it has proven to worked effectively but still rely on importing the materials used which is not sustainable. We focus on increasing the quality of readily and well familiarize staple food which is locally produced and has proven to be effective and high consumption preference by the populace. The innovation is cost effective and is readily available. The normal Cassava flakes producer is known to be a normal Cassava flakes that is predominantly contains Carbohydrates. Our product has been improved nutritionally to increase the nutritional status of the populace through fortifications. | Before we could arrive on a standard production measure that is inline with food safety and quality control we went a rigours research and training in Cassava flakes processing company studying their production techniques and look at the place of innovation. The team is made of individuals bounded by the same values and experienced their respective field of expertise and this helped in product discover and implementation. | The company is working to improve its production capacity from 5000 tonnes to 10000 tones and gradually increase through campaign, awareness and good marketing. We will gradually expand across the west part of Nigeria and expand to the north within the next two years and having a production center across all the geo political zone and having a cassava plantation estate across the state. We are working on a public private partnership ( NGO, Government etc) to subsidies the product to ensure it's cut across all the classes of income earners in the countries. By 2020 The product should take about 2 million people permanently out of hunger. | Short term need: Public private partnership ; to render technical advisor and creating a platform for awareness of our innovation. Medium term need: Empowering the Cassava Farmers through supply of resources by Government or Agency or NGO. Long Term Plan: Production Processing Factory and Finance. | https://www.facebook.com/pantrioagroandmultibusiness/ | N/A | Small Scale Enterprise Grant Royal Agricultural University United Kingdom. African Award Scholarship Australia Graduate Entrepreneurship Fund by Bank of Industry Nigeria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
144 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | AIME LUDOVIC PEGDWENDE | SAWADOGO | YALI NETWORK | https://yali.state.gov/ | ACTIVE MEMBER | MALE | Burkina Faso | Burkina Faso | English | French | I gained experience in the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and my contribution will be of great importance. As a member of the Young African Leaders Initiative Network(YALI), I exchange with other students in terms of achieving the sustainable development goals for a better future. I have been trained on understanding climate change, Business and Entrepreneurship, Civic Leadership, Public management, Mandela Washington Fellowship Institute Courses, Leadership, Understanding Elections and Civic Responsibility, Understanding the Rights of Women and Girls, and Responsible Leadership on Transparency and Good Governance. I participated in events organised by the United States Embassy on volunteering and Climate Change during COP21 in Paris in 2015. I have been selected for the 11th cohort the YALI West Africa Regional Leadership Center in Accra. I have been trained by UN-HABITAT in the development of urban planning tools with highly qualified professionals. I am a member of youthlead, YALIServes, AFRICA4HER. I organised events on volunteering. On Nelson Mandela Day on July 18th, 2019 I have organised with the American embassy events on blood donation and Planting trees. I posted my events on social networks to contribute to inciting people to have positive attitudes. Thanks to my events, many people joined our network in order to save our planet. I am working for the development of standards of constructions with earth materials for cheap, ecological and resilient cities. I am always working for my community and for the future generations. | Aimé Ludovic Pêgdwendé SAWADOGO was born in 1993 in Burkina Faso.He received many prizes for his excellence at school and was a leader.He was the football team captain.At 11 years old,he was admitted in the minor seminary of Baskouré for secondary studies.He adapted to the seminary hard rules.He bred animals and won a seminary football cup.He plays football,volleyball,table tennis and petanque.In 2008,he got good grades in Maths,Physics and Chemistry to be sent to the minor seminary of Pabré for scientific studies.He was the leader of the Audio Visual group which was in the center of organising the seminary events.The priests gave him a good conduct for being a good leader.He gained many experiences in civil engineering and Bank and Insurance.He gained experience in the United Nations Human Settlements Programme(UN-HABITAT).As a member of the Young African Leaders Initiative Network (YALI),he impacts positively his generation.He participated in events organised by the United States Embassy on volunteering and Climate Change during COP21 in Paris in 2015.He has been trained by UN-HABITAT in the development of urban planning tools with highly qualified professionals. He has been selected for the 11th cohort the YALI West Africa Regional Leadership Center in Accra.He is humble.He can adapt to many situations.He uses many softwares such as AutoCad,Archicad,Google sketshup,Microsoft word,excel, and powerpoint. He organises events and promotes education for children and sensitizes against HIV infections and early pregnancies. He is engaged for his community. | VOLUNTEERING | It is about inciting people for volunteering actions. Volunteering will save our planet. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | In Burkina Faso, there are many volunteers through YALIServes. We are connected with people from all aroung the world in order to impact positively our generation. | Yes | YALI NETWORK, UNITED STATES EMBASSY | Sustainable Scale | Our solution is on a sustainable scale. Many people join more and more the network for volunteering activities. Many young people know that they are to fight against climate change for our generation and the future generations. | Internet connection is not enough available for many members. It is difficult to gather people from different regions where internet is not available. There are online discussions and we experience difficulties to gather engaged youth. | Our solution works very well. People know that volunteering brings joy. Many people adhere for stronger actions. The long-term vision is to impact more children in infant schools and primary schools in order to help them grow up with volunteering ideas. If we involve more children in our actions, I think that in thirty years, the world will be better than today. | Our solution is unique in the fact that anybody leads freely his volunteering. You volunteer anytime and anywhere. Volunteering has many forms and you can use them all for the planet. Freedom for actions make our solution unique. The perspective is to incite anybody to volunteer his whole life. | Many people have joined the network. The group becomes wider and wider every year. Many people have taken online courses to help their communities. We build bridges between communities for lifelong relationships. Everybody is free for his volunteering actions. Everybody chooses in what he wants to volunteer. We share photos on social networks in order to incite many people join us for volunteering actions. | The network is international. Everybody is free to join the network. Many people are joining the network. There are online discussions to plan goals in order to improve the actions towards our communities. | We need sponsors to help us. The United States embassy helps us in organizing events. We need support from our governments. We need available internet connection. Our short term need is available and cheap internet connection. The medium-term need is to gather more people and mainly children. Our long-term need is to continue improving our volunteering activities. | https://www.facebook.com/ludovic.sawadogo.7 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AevVM5H02BQ | GO GREEN COP21(winner),YALI GREEN CHAMPION(winner), Volunteering(Winner),UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE(Winner), ,BASICS OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS(Winner),FUNDAMENTALS OF BISINESS EXPANSION(Winner),FUNDRAISING CONCEPT(Winner),SERVANT LEADERSHIP(Winner),COMMUNITY ORGANIZING FOR ACTION(Winner),CREATING AND MAINTAINING ENTREPRISES(Winner),WORKFORCE COLLABORATION AND DEVELOPMENT(Winner),STRATEGIES FOR PERSONAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT(Winner),MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR PEOPLE AND RESOURCES(Winner). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
145 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Paola | Pirrello | https://www.linkedin.com/in/paola-pirrello-240688131 | https://www.linkedin.com/in/paola-pirrello-240688131 | https://www.linkedin.com/in/paola-pirrello-240688131 | Female | Italy | Italy | English | Spanish | The World In Progress Project at the United Nations ECOSOC in New York I attended boosted the knowledge of the UN Agenda 2030. The Title of my contribution is: ""A Progressive Fullfillment of a Human Rights - based society in line with a Progressive Development of the International Law"".The UN system is the main global forum to improve global governance, hence It is the most suitable forum in which to boost the EU values and mission.The UN Quadriennal Comprehensive Policy Review called for the urgency of a better RePositioning of the UN system to be able to properly address the full range of development challenges. The UN Reform should encompasses the democratization of the Security Council, the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ, a merit-based election of the Secretary General (A gender equality condideration could be supported), the veto application, the request of the 2/3 majority. As the SC permanent members are unrelenting for the Reform so as to maintain their power at the UN, the member states should probably consider some legal options which may could lead to a way forward, as shared in the academic environment and some policymakers. One option is to propose the invalidity of the Charter based on the legitimacy of the signature of the Charter at a war-time (so some states acted under duress, as their foreign policy decisions were under the influence of the SC members), and on the Customary International Law prohibition of the threat of use of force in concluding Treaties that predate the Charter. Nevertheless, recognising the pivotal role played by the UN in the global governance, the more feasible and desirable way forward could be the Re-Negotiation of the Charter, which may lead to its free adoption, to delete the democratic deficit, and to reaffirm the need to constitutionalize the UN system.The path to make the UN system a Constitution should involve the presence of a more democratic process, concretely the paradigm shift from a sovereignity of the states to a sovereignity of the people, hence recognising global citizen both as subject and as object of law. The Parliamentary Representation should also be involved, following the representation and the accountability as main pillars of the democracy. The Direct Democracy may be in terms of the Initiative of the Citizen to make legislative proposals.Recognising the importance of these normative development may lead to Humanize the Economy and, at the same time, to Humanize the International Law | The attainment of the principles of Equality and No Discrimination is my core mission in my personal and professional life, as in my view these principles are the foundations for a society, on which all the other values can be built. The Comparative Equality and Anti Discrimination Law at the University of Stanford contributed to create a global view of equality and anti-discrimination law, comparing U.S., European and other legal systems worldwide. Being part of Global Women Club empowers my mission concretely. Being a member of Young Professionals in the Foreign Policy - Bruxelles and the American Bar Association provide me with an insightful and fruitful view on business issues which I would like now to use for a new higher purpose in line with foreign European objectives and values in the Transatlantic relations empowerment. Europe at the heart of the international geopolitical interrelations plays a central role in the diplomatic affairs. My European Union Chamber of Commerce in China membership proposes itself to serve this common converging mission.The World In Progress Project at the United Nations ECOSOC in New York I attended boosted the knowledge of the UN Agenda 2030 planning and implementation, together with a direct exchange of views with UN representatives involved in this mission. It has been a life-changing experience and from then on I empowered to committ myself to find potential more sustainable development systems. | A Progressive Fulfilment of a Human Rights - based society in line with a Progressive Development of the International Law"" | A Progressive Fulfilment of a Human Rights - based society in line with a Progressive Development of the International Law | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Any country can benefit | No | Ideation | The Project Human Rights - based and Gender-Sensitive Approach for more Sustainable and Resilient Cities in an Integrate Urban Planning aims to represent a New Societal Urban Design Conceptual Framework.Recognising the importance of the above mentioned normative development lead to Humanize the International Law.The ellenic idea of a just society in a just city is the underlying idea. For example in Parmenide's thought, represented nowadays by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme. | The Project aims to represent a New Societal Urban Design Conceptual Framework.Recognising the importance of the above mentioned normative development lead to Humanize the International Law.The ellenic idea of a just society in a just city is the underlying idea, represented nowadays by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme.The mission of the Architecture to create happy citizens is desirable. | The Project aims to represent a New Societal Urban Design Conceptual Framework. Recognising the importance of the above mentioned normative development may lead to Humanize the Economy and, at the same time, to Humanize the International Law. The ellenic idea of a just society in a just environment is the underlying idea. For example in Parmenide's thought, represented nowadays by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme. Moreover, like in the Renaissance the idea of the Ideal City affected how to build a city, I strongly believe this concept meet the valuable social mission of a groundbreaking Ideal just City Design for a just society applied to modern times. The mission of the Architecture, expressed by various architects, among the others, Le Corbusier, to create happy citizens would be highly desirable. The City Resilience Framework is taken as a reference framework. A Human Rights - based approach and Gender-Sensitive Approach is considered as one of the desired long term sustainable framework in an integrated urban planning. The United Nations Management Paradigm is taken as a comparative Framework with the aim to assess how the United Nations Development System may inform the Law so as to lead to a more sustainable transformative change. The currently ongoing process of the Repositioning of the UN Development System is in line with the European reorganization as the European elections testified. | The Project aims to represent a New Societal Urban Design Conceptual Framework. Recognising the importance of the above mentioned normative development lead to Humanize the International Law.The ellenic idea of a just society in a just city is the underlying idea. For example in Parmenide's thought, represented nowadays by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme.The mission of the Architecture, expressed by various architects, among the others, Le Corbusier, to create happy citizens would be highly desirable. The City Resilience Framework is taken as a reference framework. A Human Rights - based approach and Gender-Sensitive Approach is considered as one of the desired long term sustainable framework in an integrated urban planning. The United Nations Management Paradigm is taken as a comparative Framework with the aim to assess how the United Nations Development System may inform the Law so as to lead to a more sustainable transformative change. The currently ongoing process of the Repositioning of the UN Development System is in line with the European reorganization as the European elections testified. The path to make the UN system a Constitution would involve the presence of a more democratic process, concretely the paradigm shift from a sovereignity of the states to a sovereignity of the people, hence recognising global citizen both as subject and as object of law. This normative development is going to shape a new normative equilibrium worldwide. | The Project is currently submitted to the attention of International stakeholders for consideration and potential partnerships so as to reach the desired results. It is going to be addressed to the attention of the International Regional Fora and International Human Rights Courts. | The Project aims to represent a New Societal Urban Design Conceptual Framework. Recognising the importance of the above mentioned normative development lead the International Law.The ellenic idea of a just society in a just city is the underlying idea. For example in Parmenide's thought, represented nowadays by the United Nations Human Settlement Programme. Lke in the Renaissance the idea of the Ideal City affected how to build a city, I strongly believe this concept meet the valuable social mission of a groundbreaking Ideal just City Design for a just society applied to modern times. The mission of the Architecture, expressed by various architects, among the others, Le Corbusier, to create happy citizens would be highly desirable. The United Nations Management Paradigm is taken as a comparative Framework with the aim to assess how the United Nations Development System may inform the Law so as to lead to a more sustainable transformative change. The currently ongoing process of the Repositioning of the UN Development System is in line with the European reorganization as the European elections testified. The path to make the UN system a Constitution would involve the presence of a more democratic process, concretely the paradigm shift from a sovereignity of the states to a sovereignity of the people, hence recognising global citizen both as subject and as object of law. This normative development is going to shape a new normative equilibrium worldwide. | The Comparative Equality and Anti Discrimination Law at the University of Stanford contributed to create a global view of equality and anti-discrimination law, comparing U.S., European and other legal systems worldwide.Being part of Global Women Club empowers my mission concretely. Being a member of Young Professionals in the Foreign Policy - Bruxelles and the American Bar Association (the related Initiatives, Centers, Committes anf Fora will be used to draw the resources needed to empower the project) provide me with an insightful and fruitful view on business issues which I would like now to use for a new higher purpose in line with foreign European objectives and values in the Transatlantic relations empowerment. Europe at the heart of the international geopolitical interrelations plays a central role in the diplomatic affairs. My European Union Chamber of Commerce in China membership proposes itself to serve this common converging mission. The World In Progress Project at the United Nations ECOSOC in New York which I attended provides further needed resources and networking to boost the project. | www.linkedIn.com/in/paola-pirrello-240688131 www.facebook.com/paola.pirrello.77 My Facebook profile presents the description of the project with reference to my presence as a Speaker at the Women Economic Forum in Birmingham on July 10th 2019 in which the idea has been presented. The related video will be shortly available. | www.facebook.com/paola.pirrello.77 My Facebook profile presents the description of the project with reference to my presence as a Speaker at the Women Economic Forum in Birmingham on July 10th 2019 in which the idea has been presented. The related video will be shortly available. | I have been invited at the Women Economic Forum as a Speaker. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
146 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jafar | Shah | CARAVAN | syed jafar shah | Director Board | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | I associated with civil society orgs for more than 2 decades, working in social mobilisation,community development, environment, gender, advocacy and SDGs sectors. Remained Member Parliament(2098-18) of Provincial Legislative Assembly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. As member parliament, remains focal person for Megs and represented Pakistan in Dacca declaration in 2012. Remained focal person and member SDGs Task force Pakistan. Also remained member of steering committee on Climate Change of the Assembly. Presently working with National NGO CARAVAN in Northern Pakistan( Swat valkey). With UNDP support, we developed a replicable model of Forest Conservation in terrorism hit area Swat Kohistan where local communities are mobilised to conserve forests through rotational in citu conservation. In recognition of this, I am awarded Ashoka Fellowship while Asia Forestry network Has given me membership. I Remained trainer/ practitioner of PRA and other participatory approaches for natural resource management. Would like to present my project for possible replication elsewhere. | Born in 1957, have been graduated in Natural Sciences and Laws from Pakistan. Studied Natural resource management in International Agriculture Center Wageningen,the Netherlands and participatory approaches in resource management at It on Keen University Thailand. Also studied banking. Worked with Intercooperation( Swiss), Rural Support programmes Pakistan and CARAVAN( 25 years). Have visited many countries including U.S, England, Indonesia,Thailand,Phillipines, Jordan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan etc as part of my study tours. Author of 9 manuals in participatory development. Also wrote on NGOs sectors approaches in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Am senior member of progressive, secular,democratic political party, the AWAMI NATIONAL PARTY of Pakistan. Remained M.P twice. Remained advocate of SDGs during my membership in assembly and was focal person for Megs and later on SDGs and Climate change. Also remained member of Public Accounts committee. Awarded as the most vocal member of Parliament for 4 consecutive years2013-17). Am nominated as Global Goodwill Ambassador Humanitarian. Awarded by IUCN for my contribution to develop district conservation strategies for three districts in Pakhtunkhwa province. Got Ashoka Fellowship Award for contribution to protection of environment thru community mobilisation. Am member of Asia Forestry Network, International network of parliamentarians for conflict resolution presently. For detail pl visit my Facebookpage( syed jafar shah) my LinkedIn profile or my Twitter. Presently involved in Advocacy for implementation of SDGs. | Community based natural resource management systems | To better understand and practice sustainable development, local communities must be engaged in Natural resource management through a meaningful partn | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Presently we have been working on this model in Pakistan. | Yes | Local communities including owners,users and the relevant Government departments. | Proof of Concept | It is because of its first time implementation through active community involvement and meaningful partnership among stakeholders. | Climate change, environment degradation, poverty and transparency. | Am convinced that this is the most important approach towards solution of the problems as mentioned earlier. It has a wide global impact to implement SDGs practically. | Sure, this approach proved to be the genuine one as all stake holders are on one page and have established meaningful partnership for natural resource management in a transparent manner. It has identified roles and responsibilities of stake holders. | It is a praise worthy model and all stake holders are convinced to get it replicated on large scale. | At this moment we work LOCALLY but think GLOBALLY. We are advocating for its replication on large scale even if legislation required. This is now our major goal. Once adopted locally it certainly will be replicated elsewhere in the world. | Yes, it does not need additional resources. The main approach is to trust and engage communities and all other stake holders in the process. Ownership sense and mobilisation in addition to Government sensitization towards participatory approaches. The main thing needed is educating and training all stake holders. | UNDP Pakistan website. The project was in Behrain area of Swat district Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,Pakistan. Also Ashoka website may be visited where they awarded me for this approach. You may find my nane( Jafar Shah) and the description of the approach. Website of Asia Forestry Network can also be visited. | Reports available but in manual( book shape). Can produce during the conference. | Yes. As told, I got Ashoka Fellowship Award for this project. In addition, have been nominated member of Asia Forestry Network. I presented the project at RECOFT Thailand in 2005. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
147 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chinedu | Emembolu | Live SmartCity Technology Development Initiative | www.livesmartcity.com | Founder & CEO | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I will be honoured to share our mission at LiveSmartCity towards developing and promoting affordable, sustainable and off-grid mobile Eco-homes for 100 million homeless Nigerians. We are in urgent need to provide disabled-friendly and adequate Eco-homes that are climate-change-proof to millions of vulnerable people like never before. Today, millions of people who lacked basic social amenities like clean water, electricity, proper sanitation and refuse disposal are dreadfully vulnerable to heatwaves, drought, erosion, air and environmental pollution, and forced migration or displacement. Our innovation uses a mixture of intelligent software, renewable energy and recycled materials to develop sustainable off-grid mobile Eco-homes that smartly reuses, recycles and conserve water, energy and other resources to minimize waste, save money and lives. This will enable budget-consumers live a fulfilling life while protecting the environment collectively. | I’m an award winning software architect with 15 years experience in designing and engineering smart and robust technologies to deliver affordable, reliable and sustainable solutions to improve people and businesses towards building free, safe, progressive and sustainable societies in Africa. 2015 Tony Elumelu Foundation Award recipient. | LiveSmartCity | Building Smart Sustainable Societies one Eco-home at a time. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | No | Research & Development | Our solution is at the research and development stage because of lack of capital and access to efficient and sustainable renewable energy solutions to speed up development. | Our solution strives to address homelessness, inadequate housing and climate change. 100 million Nigerians are homeless and lack basic social amenities like clean water, electricity, proper sanitation and refuse disposal. These multiply inequalities and have a long-term impact on physical and mental health, and risks of death by carbon pollution and fire accidents when using petrol generators, kerosene lamps or burning charcoals or refuse. | Using our mobile app, consumers will affordably access LiveSmartCity on pay-as-you-go basis by renting our Eco-homes or buying a plug-and-play off-grid model deployable anywhere. Our long-term vision is to provide LiveSmartCity Eco-homes and services to 100 million people and cut down 94,126,300 metric tons of Carbon emission by 2070. | Our solution uniquely deploys a mixture of intelligent software, renewable energy and recycled materials to provide an affordable and mobile off-grid automated Eco-home solution that is climate-change-proof. A new plug and play automated Eco-home that can be deployed to anyone anywhere in the world. | We are currently developing a prototype. We measure our progress milestones using models completed, cost ratio and start/finish technique. | We plan to scale from the prototyping phase to deploying ready products to our 3,000 waiting subscribers by Q1 of 2020. We project to successfully service 100,000 customers by 2021 and scale to other countries. Our long-term vision is to provide LiveSmartCity Eco-homes and services to 100 million people and cut down 94,126,300 metric tons of Carbon emission by 2070. | Short-term, we will need talents with experiences in sustainable engineering and financial intelligence, capital, highly affordable and efficient renewable energy solutions. Successfully develop and deploy a LiveSmartCity solution accessible to 3,000 budget-consumers in Nigeria by 2020. Medium-term, we will need to build strategic partnerships and collaborations with companies in renewable energy, logistics, sustainable development and build effective teams for expansions to serve more consumers and countries in West Africa. And also help advocate for favourable government policies towards promoting sustainable development and mitigating climate change. Our long-term vision is to provide LiveSmartCity Eco-homes and services to 100 million people and cut down 94,126,300 metric tons of Carbon emission by 2070. | https://www.livesmartcity.com | I haven't had an opportunity to speak for the welfare of 100 million homeless people but I'm enthusiastic about engaging an audience eloquently and win the crowd's solidarity for homelessness and climate change. I don't have a video of me being interviewed or making a public speech but I have a video of me speaking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdfopkH6YrI | 2015 Tony Elumelu Foundation Award recipient. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
148 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Yogesh | Agola | Private | Till not date | private | Male | India | India | English | Respected Sir/Madam, Myself Yogesh Agola and I am from India. I want to say something about Election process and how we can help to the world in election process by cost saver, time saver, with two way in vote counting, no doubt on election result, no hacking and many more benefits. I am contacting you with some hope. So that I am requesting to you please please please read my article Now for voting in election many country uses ballot paper while many country uses electronic voting system, both system have some advantage and disadvantage. In ballot voting system some disadvantage like It takes huge amount of time Cost of paper ballot is high It is difficult to retrieve votes Not Eco friendly Casting vote is also time consuming Now take disadvantage of electronic voting system Hacking issue Single virus can destroy data Fake display unit may be If you know in India, electronic voting machine is use with VVPAT (voter verified paper audit trail), in this system when we vote one vote is store electronic and other one VVPAT slip for cross count purpose in VVPAT machine. But cross tally vote for few booth only. We have 2 storage of vote. Main issue is we are not cross counting upto 100% level. We get VVPAT slip means one type of ballot paper. In VVPAT system after print slip, print is cut and store in to VVPAT device so it is difficult for counting. Now I have one suggestion that now make VVPAT design such that VVPAT slip is not cut but it will make roll into device. We have to make device scan and counter by passing this VVPAT role into this device we will get no. of vote with no. of candidate and this vote is tally with Electronic stored vote for better transparency. By scan and counter device we can 100% cross tally VVPAT vote with electronic store vote. OR We can make VVPAT design such that we get print like OMR answer sheet, when we vote then it can be mark in vote code may be 1,2,3 etc. By this way we can also verify maximum electronic vote with VVPAT sheet. Now see the benefits Time save Cost saver Transparency increase No need of special paper like use in Ballot paper We have two options for vote counting so forget about hacking No doubt on election result Eco friendly We will stop tragedy happen in election of Indonesia before few days. If I have wasting your time then sorry. https://youtu.be/fANI7P9ndJ0 | My Self Yogesh Agola. Presently i have private business in my native place Morbi, Gujarat, India. My qualification is M.Sc. in Chemistry from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat. I have doing Job in Aditya Birla Group for 7 year. I am believe in Simple leaving and high thinking. I have also give suggestion to Government to use indelible ink for change old currency with new currency in Demonetization occur in India. I have also give suggestion to Government for reduce tax corruption, Please take help from National Highway Authority of India. Respected Sir/Madam, Please please read my suggestion and think. Thanks and Regards, Yogesh Agola | Alternate use of Ballot papper with many more benefits | If we apply my suggestion then we get too much benefits like time saver, cost saver, no doubt on election results, no hacking, Eco friendly etc | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Country which have high labor cost and currency value are high. Please calculate current cost of election and my suggested cost of election for US, UK, EU etc. You can survey on this also. | No | Proof of Concept | Respected Sir, I have exact no idea where my stage of innovation. But please please read. We can doing better than my suggestion also. If you have any problem then directly contact me. I will come to meet you also. | Now a days many country uses Electronic voting system while other using ballot paper but both have some advantage and disadvantage. In both cases many countries doubt on election result. From my suggestion unique system develop and nobody can doubt on election result with many more benefits like time saver, cost saver, no doubt on election results, no hacking, Eco-friendly etc. But please please please read | Unique system develop for world on Election. We can save time, save money, transparency increase, strong democracy, Eco friendly etc. But please please please read | This is the simple way. We make simple system like press one button and store vote in two way. One is electronic and other is print one type of ballot voting. Now we can easily compare both vote so nobody can hacking. We make design of print so that we get roll and print is simple way as number and after passing this roll in scan device. This device will count number with possible number. So simple way. (like use pensil in Space) | Till date nobody think on this and nobody help me on this. I want to contact you with some hope. For more details you can see video of Election voting system video of India. https://youtu.be/ZJReQ8ao0SU please see this video so you get more idea. Now we have to only make device scan and counter this is not tough task. | If you give me fund then we will develop for all the World for better democracy. | We take one EVM-VVPAT machine from Election commission of India. We will have one good sensor that we will scan and count number, this is vailable. We have to modify print design such that roll will make like old cassettes. | https://youtu.be/fANI7P9ndJ0 Please see my presentation on you tube. | Till date no. | No | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
149 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chikumbutso | Chibwinja | Agrinet | N/A | International Career Ambassador and third year student at University of Malawi (UNIMA) Chancellor College in Food Security and Nutrition | Male | Malawi | Malawi | English | My name is Chikumbutso Chibwinja from Malawi and University of Malawi (UNIMA) Chancellot College third year student apart from being International career ambassador for Malawi to help the fell youth in thier career path identification and development through mentorship among peers. As young change maker who has already registered recommendable achievement at both national and international level through following engagements. 1. In 2016 I graduated from Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR) Natural Resources College (NRC) Campus with credit in Food security and Livelihood Security. 2. In 2017, I secured my first job at Spanish International Humanitarian Aid consortium so called African Director and Candelaria as Agriculture and Food Security Programme Coordinator where I was fully exposed to smallholder farmers challenges in relation to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and need for innovative project to address Thier most often agricultute challenges which perpetuates hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition rates in Malawi and other developing countries untried which depend on agriculture. 4. In 2018 I pitched my new project in nutrition assessment to the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) International Nutrition Assessment Innovation Challenge Awards 2019 where I was selected as only black African individual finalist among six International finalists from enty African continent to be recognised and honoured by International nutrition and health body. 4. In return Sight and Life (SAL) Foundation based in Switzerland which hosted American Society for Nutrition (ASN) 2018 at Haynes Cinventionn Center in Boston USA from 9-12 June 2018 offered me full scholarship to upgrade from Diploma to Batchelor Degree in the same field. 5. In 2019, I pitch d to World Health Organization (WHO) African Health Innovation Challenge 2019 where my project so called National Underfive Nutrition Data Management System (NUNDMS) under its development stage has been adopted by WHO for further mentorship, funding and implementation of the same in African region in specified field of application programming. Lastly I am pitching Agrinet project to United Solutions Summit as experienced professional of the challenges that samllholder farmers are facing and how to address them through innovative and creativity approach. My project address all the challenges of the smallholder farmers under one roof and aids national economic growth. | First name: Chikumbutso Surname: Chibwinja Sex: Male Date of Birth (DOB): 24 November 1994 Marital Status: Single Nationality: Malawian | Agrinet | Growing agricultute digital connectivity for economic growth | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Malawi | No | Proof of Concept | Agrinet Malawi has reached proof of concept development stage since the project was developed by the Focus Group Discussion (FGDs) where I was serving as Agriculture and Food Security Programme Coordinator in four areas where there are errors farmers groups to list the challenges that they feel that are most existing challenges for them to experience hunger and poverty that if the project address those then the farmers will be better off. | The challenges that Agrinet project is addressing are as follows 1. Lack of stable, reliable and better agriculture markets for the smallholder farmers 2. Inadequate, poor and intermittent agriculture services that dwindle the overall productivity. 3. High farm inputs and low selling prices of the agriculture farm inputs 4. Climate changes and global warming as a global agriculture challenge | The name Agrinet is a name coming from the combination of two terms as Agriculture and Network. The challenges that Agrinet project is addressing are as follows 1. Lack of stable, reliable and better agriculture markets for the smallholder farmers produce and this challenge will be address being Agrinet mobile application which will be like Facebook to connect only farmers, consumers and agriculture base companies at national level where all parties can upload, search and orders agriculture produce. 2. Inadequate, poor and intermittent agriculture services that dwindle the overall productivity and this challenge will be address by Agrinet mobile application free online agriculture extension services offering to all farners 3. High farm inputs and low selling prices of the agriculture which will be addressed by Agrinet fundry activity to offer smallholder farmers one care fund support which is relatively enough to feed average household if we'll take care of. For instance SMS subscription for updates to farmers and SMS promotion which can raise enough money to support few farmers from all regions 4. Climate changes and global warming as a challenge which will be addressed by establishing of Climate Change Farm Insurance Policy (CCFIC) which will involve the farmers to pay 25% of the total farm value and if climate change adverse conditions happens Agrinet will have that customers 100% potential yield reimbursement. | Agrinet is having alotbof new methodology in its planning of implementation. 1. Agrinet mobile application connecting all farmers, cinsumy and agriculture based companies under one roof. 2. Online free agriculture extension services and on farm agriculture consultant services at minimal fee. 3. Farmers one care funds support from Agrinet fubdray activities 4. Climate Farm Insurance Policy which will cover the all lose of smallholder farmers at given 25% of the farm value | I am the only person working on this project but this project has been from idea, to research and validation of the project to the framers to be challenge driven and productive to the consumers, farmers and agriculture based companies. I have strong belief that this project is worthy supported as it will changes the landscape of agriculture to most profitable entrepreneurship to the smallholder farmers which will later address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation. | Agrinet is the start up that's has full potential to be scaled in other countries in African and other containers becsuey of its specific elements as brand which does not exist any where in the world having little support evenegi support at community level where it will be easily supporting and expandibgvitaekf through its income regeneration activities attached for sustainability griunds. The next step from. Now is to have funds to programm Agrinet mobile application, set up supporting platform and test it at community level | The resources needed for the esgby of this project at community level as the programming, and establishment of the office to support and execute the ervucs with minimum persons in service. Later the support might be need to execute the project at national coupled with our efforts as a startup. Lastly the scaling of the project at African continent and other continent where Headquarters of all operationnwill be based in Malawi | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-W70-eJJKnTVczO4q7an_EeJrV5C4Whn/view?usp=drivesdk | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-W70-eJJKnTVczO4q7an_EeJrV5C4Whn/view?usp=drivesdk | 1. Amey Society for Nutrition (ASN) Nutrition Assessment Innovation Challenge Awards based on Arm Distance Technique (ADT) as surrogate measure of Body Mass Index (BMI) 2. WHO request for partneship to implement National Underfive Nutrition Data Management System (NUNDMS) in African region. 3. Agrinet project was successful in ASEAN African Students Entrepreneurship Week as innovative and creative project in agriculture field in Africa. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
150 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Vine | Ikpe | University of Uyo, Nigeria | https://www.uniuyo.edu.ng/ | Research Assistant/Consultant | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | As a young Nigerian, passionate, goal-driven and always willing to learn, I have always felt indebted to the society and look forward to opportunities to give back positively to the society in one way or another. I want tot grab the opportunity to build myself professionally, personally, network, connect and form partnerships during the summit. | Bachelor Science-Psychology, Research Assistant-Psychopharmacology, Consultant-Psychological Assessment of Lab Animals. | Psychological Sequelae of Marijuana Intoxication and Drug-Law Policies | Ideation Research & Development Proof of Concept Transition to Scale Scaling | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Nigeria as a country, Africa and other developing countries of the world. | Yes | My supervisor, Associate Professor Gbenga Emmanuel Abikoye | Scaling | As a research work, it has gone past planning, experimentation, research development and has been presented in several conferences both local and outside Africa, and is about to be published in the University of Oldenburg, Germany journal. | My solution seeks to address the issue of drug use and abuse especially among young adults in Nigeria, Africa and other developing countries of the world. What is the future of the Nigerian society and society at large in the presence of excessive, indiscriminate drug use and abuse? How really promising or bright is the tomorrow of the young Nigerian adult or youth if they are drug addicts/drug dependents? | My solution is simply the carrying out of experimental studies on drugs which sounds common but is first uncommon in my field of study (Psychology) here in Nigeria, and, the merging of these experimental studies with data from findings used to emancipate for reformations in drug-law policies in Nigeria and other developing countries of the World. My approach to studying drugs experimentally is employing purely scientific methods and approaches, especially these approaches and methods employed from Pharmacology and other related disciplines (interdisciplinary). With these approach and method, drug use and abuse which is of great concern to other bodies, would be reduced to the nearest minimum, and drug users would rather be treated like other humans who need more care attention rather as criminals, cast-aways, etc. | The merging of the two activities (research first then reformations in drug-law policies) is novel. During dialogue and discussions with the government, policy makers and stakeholders involved in drug-law policy, it is easier to present primary data or paper work of not just what sourced out from previous data but fresh, new data, and BY the very persons presenting these data.This is especially effective in my country Nigeria as things are done differently here. The impression made to these officials is that ""we are not just here maybe as others have been here, and would keep coming; neither do we have intentions to make profit from this. We have done our very own homework and presenting to you, data generated by ourselves, experimentally and not through questionnaire surveys which these are not valid as a result of being too concerned that questionnaires should be all filled to the extent of giving persons who are not the target sample to fill"" | With the heights I as the brainchild see this solution going, it has not gone far yet. The target is to reach all countries of the world, all drug users not minding language barrier as researches and reports would be be translated to several languages, cause reformations in drug-law policies in all developing countries of the world as they are the ones that suffer the ill treatment of drug users. Currently, we are still excited about reaching the international space through the just concluded World Congress on Undergraduate Research in the University of Oldenburg, Germany where this research was presented, it received high recommendations and reviews from international judges from all over the world and is about to be presented. Measurement of progress and methodological rigor is several ways and things to include the reach to the target readers which are drug users, the general public, the general scientific community, reviews both from peers and experts and ofcourse, attention which we have add a bit of success in all of these. | We hope to cover more parts of Africa which is regarded home, then other parts of the world. The coverage here is to include and not restricted to drug users, policy makers, the government, etc | Finance to conduct experimental researches which could be very expensive, partnerships with other bodies in discussing with policy makers about reformations, opportunity to learn, grow, network and connect. | https://www.facebook.com/insideuniuyo1?fref=search&__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARA_abt9cQqxVVnh-hB4VuHgyNbsbya0G_ZRwWk6OAkWv77zehc2l1j1GboBn8qf2wQbaAu4hiuJFYCz, https://oldenburgconnect.de/ | https://oldenburgconnect.de/ | Best presentation during defence of this research in school, one of the top best researches in the Health category of the WCUR, Oldenburg, Germany-winner here was Teres, pacesetter for the outbreak of employing experimental approach and use of lab animals in conducting researches in Psychology and the Social Sciences. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
151 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | esther | kisakye | community smile Uganda | https://web.facebook.com/communitysmileuganda/ | founder | female | Uganda | Uganda | English | I hope to gain Entrepreneurial skills and knowledge on business management such as business financing, marketing, staffing and scaling up of business. I believe that through networking and interactions with like-minded persons, I will appreciate how similar businesses are run elsewhere and how challenges are addressed. I hope to acquire more Leadership skills which will enable me lead my team better, and encourage them to work together for prosperity of business. My entry into the fellowship will hopefully enable me acquire more skills and experience in running an empowerment based business so as to impact the world positively. I equally hope that I shall be able to pass on skills of management to my teams and to many other people. | I am a younger change make, enterpreneur and an environmentalist i used my own difficult and painful difficult past into employment opportunities for marginalised groups of groups of people, I founded an intiative Community Smile Uganda which is creating jobs for marginalised groups of people while adding value to plastic waste. | Turning plastic waste into products of inherent value. | We empower local communitities to protect the environment while training them the skills of recycling and upcycling. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Uganda | Yes | Upcycle Africa,Kimuli Fashionability,Make Adifference Africa. | Proof of Concept | I have just graduated from the university and all along have been working on this venture while studying. In the process the profits from the products sold paid half of my tuition. Having finished last this i hope to dedicate more time build a very strong and efficiate team to make this venture successful. | According to National Environment Management Authority 600 tins of plastic waste are badly disposed off in Kampala everyday, Without a waste disposal system all this plastic waste ends up in water ways, It clogs pipes, flood the city centers and affect aquatic life. Mean while Uganda's population is the fastest growing the entire with 20 year, It is expected to double this puts alot of pressure on the employment for younger generation especially the youths. | Community Smile Uganda extends the lastest knowledge to younger people, youths and women in rural communities by training them the skills of recycling and upcycling plastic waste as a way of creating employment opportunities for marginalised groups of people. We are making beatiful and stunny products that are environmentaly friendly and aer made from locally available resources/ materials so that we can be able to provide employment opportunities to marginalised groups of people while conserving the environment. | We are unique in such that we are transforming discarded plastic waste into products of inherent value while empowering marginalised groups of people. We give people hope from being unemployed to their own businesses . we also give training to unskilled marginalised poeple and we sensitise poeple on how to recycling and upcycling plastic wastes | We have been able to go through person and proffessional development and in this we have been able to create employment opportunities for younger youths and women. We measure our impact by counting the number of plastic waste collected, Number of people empowered, eco-friendly packaging materials produced and number of people reached in our sensitization programs. | We hope to train over 1000 marginalized poeple as waste collectors, sorters compactors and constructors and we are able to provide employment for 500 of them due to a high demand of our services. We will have built a social business standing for environmental and social impact, whereby our work contribute to a mindset shift in regards to waste and inclusion. | short- term we need capital of 10000 USD ,an office space and effiecient team medium-term we need capital of 30000 USD to buy land, to open up an empowerment center for youth and women in our areas of opperation. long term needs expanding our markets to different communities,nations and continents | https://web.facebook.com/communitysmileuganda/ | https://web.facebook.com/communitysmileuganda/ | I have not been on any awards however i am working hard to get awards and reconginitions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
152 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Monica | Mucunguzi | Supreme Executives | In progress | Founder/Recruitment Director | Female | Uganda | Uganda | English | Every single night I am kept awake looking for ways to help solve youth unemployment in Uganda. This is a problem that runs deep within my family, having been raised by a single mother with no job and currently supporting an elder brother and sister, who despite their competencies, have failed to find employment. I am currently working on an interactive candidate profiling platform that would help employers around Africa gain access to Uganda's labour and in the process help unemployed youth be trained and find jobs.This will include a CV tailoring application that provides candidates with a step-by-step guide on how to tailor different CV sections to better help them improve their CV value. The UN Summit will help me network and meet like minded professionals and learn from how they are using technology to come to action and provide solutions to gainful employment and end poverty in their regions. This will help me better my own projects. Perhaps sharing how I am using technology to contribute to my region's development will also give some delegates some insights on how they can better their own projects and in so doing create mutually beneficial partnerships to help our communities. | I am a 27 year old entrepreneur from western Uganda. I was born into a family of 4 and raised by a single mother, which instilled in me the values of hard work, family, patience and perseverance because she brought us up and paid for our school fees through working odd jobs. I currently run a recruitment firm called Supreme Executives which was incorporated on the 14th of June 2019.This helps me support my mother and my other two siblings who are still struggling with unemployment. I believe in their skills, their passion and competencies and hope they will find employment through the candidate profiling platform that I am creating if my firm has not grown enough to employ them. Previously, I co-founded a recruitment firm called The HeadHunters Uganda and resigned in June 2019 because my partner did not share the same goals. My biggest focus in life at the moment is professional training and development that will help me find innovative ways to solve Uganda's unemployment challenges, help youth, especially university graduates and mid career professionals market their employability skills as they search for gainful employment. I believe myself to be a business savvy woman with the persistence to turn Supreme Executives into a successful company that is passionate about helping youth find employment. | Supreme Executives | Great People. For Great Places | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Currently in Uganda, intended for Africa | No | Transition to Scale | We are at this stage because we have already defined the problem we seek to address, which is youth unemployment and we know the viability of our innovation as a solution. I have worked with recruitment firms before and interacted with more than 80 employers who are open to this innovation and are willing to pay for it.I have also worked in a firm where a similar solution was available but very restricted despite the fact that our clients continued to request for this service. | Many unemployed youth have to compete with those who are employed and very often, clients that come to us and many other recruitment firms, end up choosing those who are in active employment because they have easier access to information about new jobs and form about 80% of the applicants. As a result we find ourselves in a cycle where jobs are shifting from the hands of one employed person to another employed person leaving out those unemployed without access to information on new jobs. | We are creating a candidate profiling platform, that profiles all youth of working age, according to age, gender, career path, work experience, skills and competencies, among other criteria. Most important about this platform is that a candidate can let us know whether they are employed or not. Because we are all about equal opportunity and decent work for all youth, we prioritize candidates who are currently unemployed. Whenever we receive a client who is looking for candidates to fill various positions, we map out the client's search criteria, and using various filters we will search our platform for candidates who match this criteria and are unemployed. These will be the candidates that we shortlist for interviews such that one by one, we can take them out of their unemployment status. This platform will be complete with a CV tailoring tool that will enable candidates use better formats, and will also train them on how to market their skills on their CVs better. Shortlisted candidates will be taken through a day's training on how to pitch their skills and competencies during an interview to increase their chances of landing the job. We have also spoken to a TV station about considering a TV show (similar to' ""Be My Date"") where every week we shall choose 5 candidates from various professions (unemployed youth only) to showcase their skills to a panel of specialists and to employers and hiring managers who will be watching. | Unlike other solutions, we choose to put unemployed candidates as first priority while filling positions. Instead of choosing from hundreds of already employed candidates, we would rather recommend someone who is unemployed and meets the selection criteria for our client. Our solution is also unique in a way that we have chosen to partner with different professional bodies and institutions like universities to verify profiles and eliminate the need to do a background check as a separate process. Universities or institutions like CPA can be alerted when a candidate creates a profile and lists a qualification belonging to them. They can then verify if this is true and and we can mark the candidate's profile as verified or unverified depending on what response we receive from the institution. Our platform will also be able to manage a client's hiring process and give analytics as to how long their recruitment timeline is from the first time a job order is processed to when a candidate is labelled as hired. An employer can be able to track different candidates they would like to hire in future by getting in touch with them and inviting them for orientation long before the position available is vacant. For example if an Accountant at company X tenders in his/her resignation and is serving their notice, the Recruiter at X can login and start sourcing from a pool of Accountants and invite 3 for orientation and be able to choose the best performer at the end of the month. | We have reached the design phase and have already found a team to design our platform. Being a part of the Human Resource Managers Association affiliate club, we are able to stay in touch with different recruitment managers to know how many would find our platform useful and be willing to pay to use it. We have set different dates and timelines till November next year to measure our progress and help us keep track with our progress. | We plan to extend the service to Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda once we register 70% of our targets for Uganda. We hope that by 3rd April 2020, we will be launching the platform for Uganda for candidates to create profiles with us, and beginning our first CV guide program at Makerere University. For this to happen, we will recruit a Head of Sales and Marketing, a Program Manager, and Recruitment Associates to manage our social media engagements and reach out to different associations, and institutions to encourage their members to register with us. So far, we have already met with the team at Certified Public Accountants of Uganda who have agreed to support us in profiling Accountants. We have dedicated June 2020 to reaching out to technical schools and tertiary institutions to create partnerships that will see their students employed by different employers that approach us for this kind of labour. | We need to have the assurance of funding to compensate our design team for them to complete the platform by the close of March 2020 as planned, and to be able to recruit more team members. Mentorship is a very important aspect as well. We need to have a mentor on board to guide our team, and see that we scale as planned. Our short term goal is to have an effective product that different employers can rely on and be able to profile professionals form different industries and sectors especially those who are unemployed.To recruit a highly productive and reliable team that shares the vision and goals of Supreme Executives. We will be aiming at driving traffic to our platform and encouraging employers to use our platform using free monthly trials and free job adverts. Our medium term goals will see us have our in-house software and web designer competent enough to suggest and make improvements to our platform. This will also see us creating more successful marketing and sales campaigns like launching an annual Recruiters night and career fair. We will also put strategies in place to ensure service transformation and client satisfaction through service quality surveys Our long term goals will see us becoming a leader in Africa's recruitment space through building our brand, providing an exceptional and unmatchable recruitment service. We will form partnerships with local universities to increase job-readiness of new graduates through job shadowing. | https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-mucunguzi-a47bb2a8/ https://web.facebook.com/supremeexecutivesug/ | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
153 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dumbiwe | Hara | Not yet registered | Not yet opened | Project Director | Female | Malawi | Malawi | English | Due to high population pressure on the land, agricultural harvests have dwindled because of shrinking land holdings and there have been environmental negative impacts arising from deforestation, soil loss, spillages of harmful chemicals, improper disposal of waste one of them being vehicle scraps that can be seen in our four major cities namely Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mzuzu and Zomba. The consequences of such improper disposal has contributed to non-cleanliness of cities, spillages of chemicals into the water table which is our main source of portable water and a safety hazard to children who play in these areas (considering the chemicals that goes into running and making of these vehicles it can be very dangerous when it comes into contact with children).My innovative solution to this problem is to focus on discussing with owners of vehicles especially bus companies to buy their scrap buses and turn them into leviable houses for poor people especially households that are headed by women and children. According to SDG number 6 countries should ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all by 2030 and as per goal number 11 which stipulates that countries should make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable .Hence, I decided to come up with this solution because it will resolve the environment problem while at the same time providing decent housing for poor people especially women and households that are headed by children, further to that it will resolve the shortage of classrooms in rural areas where children take their lessons. | My name is Dumbiwe Chimwemwe Hara (Mrs Kapito), and I am a citizen of Malawi. Being one of the students that attended a college that was championing messages and outreach programs for people who are underprivileged instilled in me respect for diversity and a burning desire to be an advocate for those underserved on this planet. This opportunity will provide me the final tools I will need to meet the challenges that our country is faced with, and to be a strong advocate for those that are marginalized. I work as a Community Relation Analyst which entails planning, making crucial community decisions, implementing Social Investment programmes which is also in line with the 2030 SDG agenda and presenting the progress of the community concerns to management monthly. As a Community Relations Analyst, I am constantly in contact with so many community leaders in the areas where the railway line has passed as well as other high-ranking government officials whom we discuss developmental issues and other concerns in regard to the railway line.Being one of those women that has managed to overcome considerable challenges in a male dominated society I work diligently in contributing to the development of the people in my country by encouraging the spirit of independence especially in those that remain marginalized so that they can be empowered and assist them in making decisions for their growth. | Environment and Social innovation project, construction of houses/classrooms from scrap buses | Environment and Social innovation project | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Malawi | No | Ideation | Because I do believe that my innovation has a potential of improving peoples lives by providing them with decent houses as well as classrooms for children who still learn under trees. Further, to that interms of environment this project will contribute positively in the sense that the scrap that are lying in our cities will be removed and those lands will be used for other developmental projects for my country. | My project is addressing the problem of most households that are headed by women and children not having decent houses but also at the same time it is addressing the challenge that our cities our currently being faced with interms of scrap buses that are dumped improperly. | A rise in disposed off vehicles that have either been involved in accidents or are beyond their depreciation value are contributing to environmental negative factors. Though the Government has policies with regards to such things but they are not enforced which in the end lives our cities with so many vehicle scraps that contributes to environmental factors of non-cleanliness as well as a risk to communities. Amidst this environmental crisis Malawi´s population growth rate is very high and most people are very poor to the extent that they cannot afford to rent, buy or build a decent house. The most affected being households that are headed by women and children whose survival is below $2 a day. I have been motivated to pursue this because first all I love my country but also the planet we all live in as well. Secondly, from my analysis I believe that if someone does not step forward and come up with a sustainable solution to our environment by removing these buses then with time it will become a huge problem for us whereby its chemical spillages will contaminate the water we drink, we will have no space for development or agriculture due to so many scrap yards and our cities will continue to look dirty. | In Malawi most of the solutions that have been accepted overtime with regards to housing seem to be costly and not durable. Most people especially my target group cannot afford to build durable houses made from burnt bricks and iron sheet, on the other hand the grass thatched houses made from mud that they build poses a live risk and do not last longer. Coming to the issue of scrap buses, overtime it has become a norm for most companies to dump their buses anyhow with no proper procedures but if this project is implemented it will act as an eye opener for Government to enforce its policies and laws so that it is not repeated going forward. | So far the progress I have made todate is approaching owners of the buses to inform them of my intentions, talking to the District Council so that they can assist me in the identification process of my target group but also provide me with a land where this project will be implemented. Further to that I am also writing proposals to differrent organisations for funds meant for this project. | Considering that it will be a pilot project currently I am targeting Malawi only. However, if it proves viable then my next country would definitely be Zambia. On full scale I am looking at employing not less than 50 to 60 young people who be implementing this project together with me. Currently my plan is to atleast reach out to almost 1000 people. | Short term-Funding for the project Mid-term-Buying as well as removal of the scrap buses, transportation of the scrap buses to sites,idenfication of the target group,identification of land, employment of young people and design stage of the houses as well as classrooms Long-term-Implementation of the project, mentoring,completion of the projects,monitoring and evalution, handover to the owners. | It is still at an idea stage so I do not have a website at the moment. | It is still at an idea stage so I do not have videos or links with regards to this project. | It is still at an idea stage so I can confirm here that I have never won any award with regards to this project. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
154 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Christine | Adero | Girl Child Network-Uganda | www.gcnuganda.org | Program Manager/ Project Lead | Female | Uganda | Uganda | English | I envision a community that is safe, just, equal and tolerant for all girls to exist and thrive. I chose to focus on girls because they are the most vulnerable of the population. Considering Sustainable Goal 11 whose aim is to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, I am dedicated to make sure that girls are safe in the cities and rural areas as they travel to and from school. Every girl has a right to safety in society, especially when they are trying to access education. I have been able to interact with the girls I work with in the Girls Empowerment clubs at Girl Child Network, who shared their day to day experiences of bravely making it to and from school, with a lot of risks that happen along the way. Using questionnaires and hand written notes, the girls were able to share what made them feel unsafe and what recommendations they had to help them feel safer. Some of the hand written notes had short stories on some of their terrifying experiences with people specifically men who harassed, bullied, verbally abused, physically abused and cat called them. Many admitted they did not know what to do to protect themselves. Using my data analysis skills, I was able to visualize the data collected. I plan to use their responses to come up with proposed solutions to the problem that may include advocating for the safety of girls in school, using technology to map the safe and unsafe routes for the girls and call for a call to action by the Government. Having identified the problem and possible solutions, I believe being part of the UN Solutions summit will help me build on the solutions in a broader way considering I will be meeting other innovative participants to share knowledge and ideas with. Furthermore, being part of this program and meeting youth from different cultures and backgrounds in related field of work will expose me to the most effective practices used by my fellow participants in advancing safer public spaces for children, and I will use the most promising ones and use them as a vehicle to advocate for safer transportation and roads for children to and from school. I also hope to build my capacity, skills, networks and knowledge on how to influence decision making on policies in my country, especially advocating for safer routes for girls and a call to action from the government. I hope to gain better presentation skills, communication & bargaining skills, advocacy skills and writing skills. | Christine Adero is a Ugandan fashion model with extensive dynamic experience in digital security, data science, and working in the fields of ; youth and gender sensitive programming, policy development, and project management. Passionate about the rights of girls, She is the Program Manager for the Girls Empowerment Clubs at Girl Child Network, where the clubs are safe spaces in schools with the goal of creating a platform for girls to freely express themselves, advocate for their rights and enlarge their knowledge on a variety of subjects. In addition, Christine is also a selected talent for the Unleash 2019 program, DefendDefenders SafeSisters program fellow working on digital safety for women and girls, a Youth Champion at “Every Hour Matters” (A post rape care campaign) under Together For Girls c/o UNAids where she contributed to a post rape care toolkit for Uganda, a Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) fellow, a DefendDefenders DOC-it 2018 fellow working on data analysis and visualization while using data for advocacy, a CREA Alumni under the Feminist Leadership and Movement Building and Rights Institute of East Africa, selected speaker at the World Youth Forum 2018 held in Egypt, and has worked on several youth and gender development programs with United States Peace Corps as a facilitator & partner. | #SaferRoutesForGirls Campaign | Every girl has a right to safety from danger in society, especially when they are trying to access education. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Uganda | Yes | Gals Forum International | Proof of Concept | I together with a team conducted a baseline survey with over 500 girls in and out of the city of Kampala which provided informative feedback on what challenges the girls face to and from school together with their suggestions to feel safer. With my data visualization skills, I was able to turn the data into visuals and use it to come up with a draft concept note for advocacy. We partnered with Gals Forum International to write a full concept and budget to be used for resource mobilization. | With many of the girls growing up in slums or semi-urban areas and having to walk to and from school, they face a lot of challenges along the way. From harassment to bullying, the journey is a worrying experience for them. Most parents cannot afford private transportation for them, so they have to endure some of the terrifying encounters with public transport operators, drunkards, hawkers, gangs among others. This is a regular danger for millions of school going girls in Uganda. | The campaign will provide girls with a platform to discuss the different challenges they face on their way to and from school, and the opportunity to provide input into the development of better and safer communities. It is essential that girls are listened to so their specific needs around education, public spaces, transport and access to services are addressed by tackling unequal power relations and challenge harmful social norms that perpetuate the insecurity and exclusion of girls in communities. Other activities also include inception meetings with stakeholders and relevant Ministries in Uganda, safety walks to identify safe and unsafe routes in the communities, transit operators dialogues, sensitization and awareness meetings, community meetings on safety for girls, advocacy with policy makers and follow ups to see what changes have been implemented to ensure safer routes for girls which may include installation of street lights, security personnel near schools, helpers for school children to cross roads, changed attitude for transit operators among other recommendations.. The long term goal is to contribute to safe, accountable and inclusive communities in Uganda with and for adolescent girls aged 6 to 24 years. | In 2018, Plan International conducted an online perception-based survey on safety in cities with 392 experts in children’s rights, women’s issues and urban safety in 22 cities and Kampala was among the 22 cities. The survey revealed that sexual harassment is the number-one safety risk facing girls and young women with 78% of experts describing it as an extremely high or high risk for girls and 77% saying that it occurs either very or fairly often within public spaces in their city. Experts across all 22 cities surveyed see sexual harassment as the biggest risk for girls. Therefore Plan International with its implementing partners advocated for safer spaces for women and girls in communities. The difference with the #SaferRoutesForGirls is focusing on a specific group of the population and that is the school going girls who are the most vulnerable of the population. With millions of school going girls in Uganda having to transport themselves to and from school, there's need to address sexual harassment and violence issues in the public and private transport sector by all stakeholders through human rights lenses, while recognizing that failure to address the same shall derail the enjoyment of the fundamental rights and freedoms that women/girls are entitled to and that are guaranteed under international and local legislation as well as derailing economic growth. | Girl Child Network Uganda (GCN) conducted a survey with over 500 adolescent girls aged 8-19 years between February and May 2019. The girls who participated are members of GCN’s empowerment clubs in Kampala, Wakiso and Masaka. The purpose of the survey was to hear firsthand from the girls their experiences living in Kampala. About 60% of the girls reported that they did not feel safe commuting to and from school. Based on GCN’s survey, 56% of the girls walk to and from school, with 51% of them leaving home as early as 6am before the sun comes up. 67% of them reported they had felt unsafe during their journey to and from school and did not tell an adult, yet in the survey they reported various incidents which include sexual assault, cat calling, physical assault, bullying, or being followed by someone. Using this information GCN and Gals Forum International created a 100% complete concept note, work plan and draft budget to be presented to the Ministry Of Education, Kampala City Council Authority, The Police and funding partners to ensure implementation. | By the end of the campaign, we hope to have influenced both policy and societal attitudes. Together with the different stakeholders, we will Increase girls’ safety and access to public spaces, develop training programs for schools and foster debates on issues of safety in public spaces, Increase public awareness on sexual harassment in public spaces and different ways to prevent the violence, Increase meaningful participation for girls in urban development and governance; and advocate for the increase in security measures on the roads normally used by the students to and from school. This project will focus on the 3 most vulnerable districts in Uganda and will expand to other parts of the country as the project progresses. | GCN already conducted the baseline survey and developed the project proposal together with Gals Forum International. In order to implement the project, financial support is needed to cater for expenses that include: - Costs towards inception meetings with stakeholders like Ministry Of Education and Kampala City Council Authority - Costs towards sensitization and awareness building in schools and communities using brochures and posters in schools -Transit operators meetings costs with key transport operators like taxi drivers, bike riders and school van drivers -Community meetings in order to engage community members in 5 divisions in Kampala -Advocacy meeting costs with key stakeholders and policy makers, media engagement costs etc -Follow up costs to measure the impact of the project and what measures have been put in place | https://web.facebook.com/unleashlab/photos/a.598696370321388/1102487973275556/?type=3&theater This solution was selected as an Unleash 2019 Talent working on SDG 11. Unleash UNLEASH is a global innovation lab that brings together bright minds from all over the world, where talents find real and disruptive solutions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through innovation challenges, inspiration and competition. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f44ssfh-sG4&list=LL0mP01_pwmV35Dt1_Zg3GrQ&index=6&t=0s | -Selected Talent for Unleash 2019 conference for the #SaferRoutesForGirls campaign idea -Selected speaker at the World Youth Forum 2018 -Named among the 5 young people changing the world by Together For Girls c/o UNAIDS - Awarded a Youth Champion for my contribution towards formulating a Post-Rape care toolkit for Uganda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
155 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jessica | Mandanda | Pepeta Africa | pepetaafrica.org | Member | Other | Malawi | Malawi | English | Background Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in the world today. It is a major obstacle to the fulfilment of women’s and girls’ human rights and development and therefore a threat to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. While there have been efforts to address and eliminate Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) and Harmful Practices (HP) in the African region, and improved access to, and exercise of, Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), progress has remained slow and uneven, and the approaches have been fragmented. It is increasingly clear that the elimination of all forms of SGBV and HP is intrinsically connected to transformation of gender and socio-cultural norms including those related to women’s sexuality and reproduction; and to improving women’s access to comprehensive sexuality education and sexual and reproductive health information and services. Malawi ranks 145/188 on the Gender Inequality Index, reflecting high levels of inequalities in reproductive health, women’s empowerment and economic activity. Women in Malawi generally fare worse than men on most social and economic indicators including wage equality, political participation, secondary and tertiary education enrolment and literacy. Additionally, violence against women and girls and harmful practices, including early and forced marriages, sexual assaults, harmful sexual initiation, and domestic violence, remain serious issues. Nearly half of Malawi’s girls marry before turning 18 (47%), and the adolescent birth rate is very high, with 30% of babies born to mothers 19 years or younger. My personal experience and the statistics and number of women suffering motivates me daily to keep working and fighting against GBV. | I am an advocate for Gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Malawi fighting against Rape culture and gender based violence. I am an aspiring young leader working to engage with the youth to take advantage of opportunities and creating opportunities and spaces in decision making and leadership. I am a champion for increased and inclusive access to contraceptives for young people as well as championing the cause for improved youth friendly services to encourage the youth to take control of their sexual and reproductive health and rights. | #ShutItDown Womens movement | Ending Gender based violence in Malawi | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Malawi | Yes | Every Girl in School Alliance (EGISA), Coalition for the Empowerment of Women and Girls (CEWAG) and Women Lawyers Association (WLA) | Research & Development | We are currently solidifying our partnerships and board which includes research and vetting if the all selected options and donors, as well as identifying our areas of focus for our pilot activities following the mobilization already done | Violence against women and girls is one of the prevailing and devastating violation of human rights that continues to plague Malawi. While there are many efforts and interventions by multiple organizations in GBV awareness and calls to end Sexual violence, progress remains underwhelming as statistics show a rise in cases around Malawi. | Through our established partnerships with the Women Lawyers Association and psychosocial counsellors, the movement has supported survivors of GBV in pursuing justice and continues to do so. With support from our other partnerships whose criteria remains organizations, coalitions and young women led initiatives such as the Young Feminists Network working to end gender based violence, the movement calls for support to address the inhumane issue of GBV and all other various forms of violence against women and girls. | We aim to bring together and consolidate all efforts against gender based violence to form a united front presenting and demanding presidential affirmative action while providing logistical support to on going GBV cases as well as cases brought forward. | Through our partners feedback, the number of cases we have supported and gained justice for as well as feedback from our social media platforms. | Unified efforts against GBV under a unified Women’s Movement in Malawi Established partnerships between stakeholders, all activists and marginalized groups in advocacy against GBV Set accountability structures as met by the demands of the March from the relevant institutions to be addressed We aim to be an inclusive movement and welcome all voluntary efforts towards our cause | Logistical support to cover transportation, communication, marketing and legal fees to further our impact area. | www.twitter.com/ShutItDownMw | www.twitter.com/ShutItDownMw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
156 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jane | Ndungu | Bead art by jane | https://instagram.com/beadartbyjane?igshid=m67ghwrmwf64 | Founder | Female | Kenya | Kenya | English | I have been an admirer of art and beading hobby being my main motivating factor my objective is to help youth and community to be creative with artistic ideas that can turn into successful social enterprises to eradicate factors relating to sdg 1, 5,8 and 9 i.e poverty, improve gender equality, unemployment and improve innovationand finally growth and development of the economy. My main motive for applying Un Solution summit is because i want to meet with other entrepreneurs and learn a skill or two, i also want to network which will help me creat global market, funding and recognision which will help me mentor other youths who will see my achievement. Bead Art making is a unique, creative way of developing innovative goods by handcraft pieces such as servietteboxes, tablemats, home decor and other extraodinary vintage treasures like gifts. I have also trained not less than 10 youths who are currently earning income. | Am from Kenya and have proffesionally studied Business management from St. Pauls University. I have been an admirer of art and beading hobby being my main motivating factor, i do beading as a job where am a vendor in kenya online market company called Jumia, where i sell my beaded crafts and other decorative items.When i was young used to collect beads from torn shoes, clothes and make jewelry, so when i grew up i met with a friend and trained me beading and i had to study using collectable beads collected when i was young. I became more interested and started making serviette boxes and mats and sell them to friends and my mums chama/merrygo round women groups. It was generating income and thats when i decided to start beading as a business. I have managed to sell over 500pieces. I have also sold many country flaggedserviette boxes. | Bead art by jane | Bead art by jane handcrafts/beads serviette boxes,tablemats, accessories and home decor | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Kenya, usa | No | Sustainable Scale | Tradition people have been using plastic bags or mats to store their tissues. This Bead art skill will eliminate tradition, including plastics which are harmful to the environment. Also it is customized to ones colour, design and its beautiful accessory unlike the existing norm of wrapped paper and used as gifts. Its durable because the material used is plastic and lasts longer saving cost. It is light in weight - and multipurpose and used as a jewelry box and also decor. | My major focus and aim right now is try and TRAIN youths, girls and women on how to bead and eventually create sustainable income and overcome challenges related to sdg of unemployment, gender imequality, innovation and growth and development of economy | My major focus is try and overcome challenges related to sustainable development goals through TRAINING and employing. And my main SDG will be goal 1, 5, 8 and 9. SDG goal 1 being Poverty- poverty is brought about by lack of basic needs and so When I train the youths and community they will create sustainable income to cater for their needs and do away with poverty. SDG Goal 5 : Gender Equality – women and girls face gender bias and by training girls and women they will be perceived as equal provider by masculine gender and this will about women and girls getting development positions. SDG goal 8: decent work and economic growth. By this I mean that through beading will eliminate unemployment and create jobs for youths thus growth to the economy through international selling. The last goal am concentrating on is SDG goal 9 which is industry, innovation and infrastructure. By this training, youths will utilize their talents and come up with new products/innovation during their social beading activity and thus will improve the infrastructure and also improve on innovation. | Beaded boxes are customised to ones colour, design which are beautiful and are made from plastic materials which are durable, replicable enhanced by search engine like Google, YouTube and pinterest, and also environment/eco friendly unlike plastick papers which are not ecofriendly. Bead art products preserve culture and so it suits traditional oriented clients/tourist who want to maintain culture and beauty Altogether. Extensive marketing, advertising, engaging in expos, shows, and exhibition will bring a defeat from competators who produce the same products with different materials and at a cheaper price. | Bead art by jane is a sole entreprenuership startup and sl in regards to team its not huge. Currently am a vender at an online market called Jumia which is assisting me create self-employment. Also referrals are also my major clients. I have also trained not less than 10 people who are currently making extra income. | FUTURE ASPIRATIONS My future goal is to grow and be able to join international online platform like amazon, alibaba and etsy and be able to sell my products there. With the help of funding from local and international grants I will reach the goal. Also through training youths i will be able to employ them altogether and eventually make economies of scale products where we can be able to export globally. | Training rooms which i must hire to train youth and do their social beading activity comfortably, raw products ie beads which are costly i need to buy alot for training, international trading licence for global market, advertising cost is very expensive and through funding i will be able to meet a solution to scale and have considerable impact. | https://instagram.com/beadartbyjane?igshid=1fftdq093pqq6 https://m.facebook.com/beadartbyjane https://www.instagram.com/p/BwH37gdjtY7/?igshid=q80vexkt9kug https://www.entrepreneurship-campus.org/ideas/24/13266/ | https://youtu.be/sd1J9nduvTM https://youtu.be/sSwCAEbg40I | Nominated as best project 2019 under youth Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition. The result are not out yet voting ongoing https://www.entrepreneurship-campus.org/ideas/24/13266/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
157 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mark | Barone | Public Health Institute Brazil | www.ForumDCNTs.org | Technical Director | male | Brazil | Brazil | English | Spanish | I would like to present our achievements to encourage others to take advantage of the lessons learned from the NCDs Forum (ForumDCNTs) that I have created with a multisectoral group in Brazil to address NCDs challenges to achieve SDG 3.4 through SDG 17 goals on partnership and funding allocation. | Dr. Mark Barone has nearly two decades of experience working in health education, communication and research. In addition to his leadership in diabetes, Dr. Barone has founded the Intersectoral Forum to Fight NCDs in Brazil (www.ForumDCNTs.org) and, as Senior Technical Advisor, oversees the implementation and develops strategic sustainability plans for Public and Global Health Programs, such as HealthRise and HeartRescue (Medtronic Foundation funded programs). Having published extensively on the relation between diabetes, health, sleep, and life quality, Dr. Barone lectures in courses, workshops and conferences. He was member of the reviewing board of several conferences, journals and private and public foundations, and has represented Brazil in numerous conferences, including as a member of the civil society at the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs in 2018. He holds a PhD in human physiology, in addition to a journalist license and two graduate certificates: one in Diabetes Education and another in Communication, including journalism and marketing studies, and several additional certificates in Public and Global Health. Dr. Barone is currently member of the Board of Directors of the largest diabetes association in Brazil (ADJ Diabetes Brazil), Technical Director with the Public Health Institute in Brazil, Global Technical Advisor for Medtronic Foundation and member of the Philanthropic Committee at Associacao Samaritano. | Intersectoral Forum to Fight NCDs in Brazil | Build intersectoral partnerships to address NCDs challenges in Brazil | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Brazil | Yes | Public Health Institute (PHI), Associacao Brasileira de Hipercolesterolemia Familiar (AHF), ADJ Diabetes Brasil, Novo Nordisk, Abbott, Medtronic Foundation, UFBA, UFMG, IEA-USP, MoH | Sustainable Scale | Because the ForumDCNTs started in 2017 and, as a continuous initiative with biannual convenings, and it will reach its 5th meeting in October, when, again the 50 most influential leaders and authorities on NCDs will discuss priorities and develop partnerships to address challenges on care and prevention of NCDs. Knowing the achievements of the ForumDCNTs so far, we are now in the sustainable scale phase to guarantee sustainability to the initiative and scaling best practices to fight NCDs. | Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) account for 71% of all deaths globally. More than a third of these deaths are premature, and over 80% occur in low-and-middle-income countries. In Brazil, 72.6% of deaths are caused by NCDs. Although several projects addressing NCDs exist in isolation, there has been no neutral ground in Brazil to facilitate collaboration and peer education between sectors to maximize impact with the goal of achieving sustainable and scalable solutions. | The ForumDCNTs was established as an initiative to build capacity for cross-sectoral dialogue and partnerships to address the threat of diabetes and other NCDs in Brazil, guided by the SDG 17. Its biannual convenings are attended by ~50 leaders and authorities, so from: 6 public sector institutions (Federal Ministry of Health, Municipal and State Secretaries of Health and Universities), 14 health companies (pharma and medtech) and 23 not-for-profit organizations. During the morning period, the three sectors share knowledge and best practices of multisectoral programs and policies to fight NCDs; in the afternoon, workgroups share lessons and develop action plans to co-design or co-accelerate innovative strategies. Areas explored include: epidemiological updates, partnership building strategies, return-on-investment evaluations, public health priorities, and strategies for improving prevention and treatment of the main NCDs and their risk factors. The long-term goal of the ForumDCNTs is to guarantee that the different sectors are aligned and partnering to guarantee that Brazil accomplishes the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.4 aims: reduce premature mortality caused by NCDs by one third by 2030. | To allow a continuous opportunity, the ForumDCNTs disseminates events, opportunities for partnerships, case studies, and facilitates access to resources through a monthly newsletter, webinars, Facebook page, Twitter (@ForumDCNTs), YouTube channel, LinkedIn group and website: www.ForumDCNTs.org Its is unique in terms of making sure that key representatives from the different sectors - public, private and not-for-profit - are always represented. | •At the most recent (fourth) convening, held in April 2019, 77% of the 56 participants were returning, and 61% had attended two or more previous convenings; •100% declared that the convening promoted intersectoral dialogue and cooperation; •96% identified new partners during the convening; •77.4% were motivated to engage in multisectoral partnerships (between the 1st and the 2nd convening this was observed in 44% of the participants); •50% increase in the number of intersectoral projects in implementation phase was observed, in comparison with 3rd convening. •NGOs united toward common goals and participation as a group at the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs in 2018; •Public authorities committing to the sustainability of NCDs programs, proposed in conjunction with the private sector (e.g. Diabetes and hypertension care programs in primary healthcare); •Increased opportunities for the private and public sectors to participate in discussions with civil society (e.g. sugary drinks taxation); •Foundation of an alliance for advocacy in cardiovascular care (GAC); •Incorporation of additional themes in existing programs (e.g. mental disorders and hypercholesterolemia, hypertension and diabetes screening and referrals). We follow the participants of the ForumDCNTs, monitoring the partnerships they have been forming and the outcomes they have been achieving through their programs, as well as assisting them to form new partners to scale best practices with positive results. | The ForumDCNTs itself is built to work in Brazil, but we can assist other organizations to develop a similar model in other countries. In Brazil the idea is to scale the programs and policies throughout the country. | To sustain the current structure of the ForumDCNTs we need to raise U$ 100.000 yearly. This way the impact of the ForumDCNTs will constantly expand through the exponential grow of partners, aligning the public, private and not-for-profit sectors in neutral ground. | The initiative's website: https://forumdcnts.org/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ForumDCNTs/ LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12061357 Twitter profile: https://twitter.com/forumdcnts Presentation at the APHA 2018 Conference: https://apha.confex.com/apha/2018/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/399011 Publications on the Global Health Leaders' website: https://globalhealthleaders.org/third_forum_fight_ncds_brazil/ https://globalhealthleaders.org/can-learn-non-communicable-diseases-brazil/ https://globalhealthleaders.org/challenges-and-opportunities-of-public-private-partnerships-perspectives-from-healthrise-and-dr-saude/ Publication on PHI's website: https://www.phi.org/news-events/1460/forum-highlights-need-for-cross-sector-partnership-in-brazils-fight-against-ncds Capacity Building provided to empower NGOs to work more effectively on NCDs: https://forumdcnts.org/eventos/capacitacao-estrategica-para-ongs-de-dcnts photos: https://forumdcnts.org/fotos/Capacita%C3%A7%C3%A3o+de+ONGs+2019 | This is the YouTube channel of the ForumDCNTs, thus all material there is from the ForumDCNTs' meetings or interviews to specialists: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2X3GprmSxpOV2fJIGf6QEw | Selected for oral presentation at the APHA 2018 Conference: https://apha.confex.com/apha/2018/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/399011 And poster presentation at the CUGH 2019 Conference: https://hi-in.facebook.com/CUGHnews/posts/2347559511942792 https://www.cugh.org/sites/default/files/Abstracts_PaperPosters.pdf https://www.cugh.org/sites/default/files/CUGH%202019_FINAL_CF%200319.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
158 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Patrick | Nwafor | DigiSmart Nigeria | www.digismartng.com | Founder | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The advancement of Educational systems over the years has been my great motivation so far. As a kid, I was privileged to see the birth and rise of the Digital Space; it's vices and virtues and most especially the roles it played in EDUCATION on every length or aspect of life. Over the years, the internet has become a very toxic environment; there have been hundreds of cases of cyber-bullying in the past 5 years that have amounted to over 56% suicide cases recorded. ""By popular references, Nigerian twitter is the most toxic twitter community in the world at this time"" Due to how the vices of the Internet age grew to outnumber the virtues, I developed an educational scheme to educate young children on how to harness the power of the internet and the right etiquettes required to thrive in the online community. It is called ""DIGISMART"" aimed at producing Digitally Smart Individuals and making the online community a better place. For us to reach the root and save the next generations, we go straight to the foundation which is ""THE BASIC EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM"", which is known as Primary/Secondary schools in my country. In Nigeria, we have very few YOUNG teachers and so most don't understand how the Digital space/Internet works inline with Education. ""Teachers"" are the front doors to creating a lasting impact in a child's life so The DigiSmart scheme was created to follow an impact direction. First we EDUCATE THE TEACHERS on how the Digital communities work, teaching them how to join, thrive and equip themselves with information. Then we EDUCATED THE STUDENTS on how to rightly LIVE on the digital space (enlightening them on the vast opportunities) Then we guide both Teacher and Student to achieving a balanced and sustained knowledge and growth using the Digital platforms to improve education smartly. For example ""DIGI-CLASS"" (A product of DigiSmart) makes use of several interesting digital platforms to teach. 1. Teacher uses Instagram LIVE video to take a class on a Saturday 2. Teacher tasks students to take a test on the live feed so as to mark attendance (This makes the kid listen if they are aware it costs marks) 3. YouTube video/documentary explains further by giving a more visual account of stories that relate to the topics 4. Twitter serves as a discussion room for lessons learnt using the hashtag. | Patrick Nwafor is Nigerian by birth and has been a great enthusiast of the Digital Space. He joined platforms like MySpace and Facebook at a very young age of 8 and helped his teachers sign up on those platforms which later paved his way to becoming a Digital Strategist. Patrick Nwafor earned a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science (2016) from Babcock University, one of Nigeria's top private institutions and has helped several organizations build their online reputation from Local to International standards. Patrick Nwafor devotes his time to community service every month as he is a core member of the Inyang Otu Foundation that caters for kids in slum areas in Lagos in line with the SDG2. He has a clear, logical mind with a practical approach to problem solving and a drive to see things through to completion; great eye for detail, always eager to learn and enjoy overcoming challenges. Patrick Nwafor is also an open-minded, friendly and resourceful leader with a sound and optimistic outlook on all things in life. | DigiSmart Nigeria | Think future, Think DigiSmart | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Nigeria | Yes | Lagos State Government | Scaling | We have completed all the phases of registrations and licenses. We have also carried out projects in partnership with schools in Nigeria. | The great misuse of the Digital Space/Internet The vices of the internet age | Our solution provides quality education for lifelong learning. The long term is to be able to produce Individuals (Professionals & Non-professionals) that can harness the power of the digital space and also thrive well in every online community | This solution's methodology has infused the fun of the digital space into learning and also has a great effect in community development looking at the fact that the world is quickly evolving and would need NEW rules for us as humans to blend easily. | We have been able to kick off on trainings and proper partnerships that can help us reach more people. We measure our progress by how deep the impact of the trainings have been on both sides o the divide; The Teachers & The Kids (i.e the students) | - To train at least 1 Million Nigerian Educators - To Create a platform that can help develop kids for the future by regularly educating them on the opportunities of the Digital space and the right attitude/image to maintain - To expand into other African countries that will benefit from this scheme - To have a footprint in every country in the world as advocates for Digital Literacy | Short term Needs: More Team members, Media coverage equipments Long term needs: Strategic partnerships, Financial aid to operate and scale, Strategic awareness, Customized Educational gadgets for the target audience (learning tabs for students and Teachers) | https://www.linkedin.com/company/digismart-ng/ https://gossipnaija.ng/digismart-nigeria-set-to-train-1-million-nigerian-educators/ https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=879046249118192&id=100010384750156 https://www.instagram.com/digismartng/ | https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=879046249118192&id=100010384750156 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
159 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohamed A | Kamara | Light Salone Innovation | www.lightsaloneinnovation.com | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer | Male | Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone | English | I am a young and energetic entrepreneur that is passionate about solving the electricity across Africa, my participation in the UN Solution Summit will give me the opportunity for me to meet, network and collaborate with other Entrepreneurs solving different problems across the world. this programme will help me collaborate with fellow youth solving the same or similar problems to develop or share ideas on better ways to tackle the problems affecting our people. I founded a company that Design and fabricate small scale renewable energy plants (hybrid system of solar and wind we called Sowind Technology, plastic lantern, small scale hydro generator, solar book, charging tele centers) built using recycling materials that provides the cheapest and most sustainable electricity for rural communities.we have contributed in improving education in the country by building study centres for students in deprive communities to study at night. We have provided jobs for many youths in the country by teaching them how to fabricate these electricity options. Economically we have increased in revenue generation in the country and increase household income of thousands of women who are involved directly in using this electricity to increase their revenue in the business. We have increased in women participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. It’s hard to find women in the above professions we here at Light Salone, we provide women with the fundamental skills to choose the above fields to change their society. | I am the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Of Light Salone Innovation, I am an Award-Winner: Leader of Leaders of the Young African Leadership Initiative Programme, am a Tony Elumelu Foundation-GIZ Entrepreneur, an award winning International Finance Cooperation(IFC), International Youth Foundation(IYF).I an energetic Sierra Leonean who is personate about making electricity accessible and affordable for everybody for especially the far reached and deprived communities through which we empower youths and women with the focused on Energy and Entrepreneurship Development, I have wealth of experience in fabricating and designing small scale renewable Energy systems, I Research alternative ways to provide electricity for less privilege sierra Leoneans using recycling material. My passion is in developing, designing and fabricating small scale renewable energy system built from recycling material to provide electricity for the less privileged to have access to lasting and sustainable electricity. | Light Salone Innovation | Design and Fabrication of small scale renewable energy systems we built using recycling materials that solve the Electricity Problem. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Sierra Leone | Yes | Ministry of Technical and Higher Education | Transition to Scale | We have developed recycled renewable energy systems (hybrid system of solar and wind we called Sowind Technology, small scale hydro generator, plastic lantern, solar book,) that provides sustainable electricity for rural communities we have increased our customers up to 2430 users, we have contributed in improving education in the country by building study centres for students in deprive communities to study at night. we have a team of technical expects. | Over 85% of citizens in Sierra Leone and less than 1% of rural communities have no access to electricity, hospitals, schools, youth centers and small businesses do not function effectively because of the inconsistency of electricity supply, across Africa over 67% of Africans lack access to electricity and globally over 1.3 Billion people across the world lack the access to electricity, the Energy sector is a huge industry and its take innovative approach to reach. | Our recycling approach for providing electricity is an innovative approach (using scrap PVC pipes as turbines for the windmill, scrap metals as the turbines for the hydro generator,plastic bottles for plastic lantern etc) helps in provide rural communities with electricity which is cheaper, affordable and reliable compared to the existing fossil fuel generators.we have the ambition to contribute immensely in reaching over one thousand communities in the next five years electricity in the home of deprive communities that were affect during the Ebola scourge. Mud slides, fire outbroke and flooding our recycled options of providing electricity are the cheapest, more affordable and sustainable. | Our innovation is better than the existing ways of addressing the electricity challenge because of the following. •Our renewable energy solutions are partly built from recycling materials, from scrap metals and structures found locally. These are the only electricity generators that we know of built from recycled materials. •We employ local people to do the building of these solutions. Often in Sierra Leone, engineering solutions and constructions use only foreign skilled labour, using Sierra Leonean people only for the manual labour. •We offer a cheaper solution than that of the government or large-scale energy generating infrastructure, because of the use of local labour, recycled materials and donations from friends and family members •We reach the poorest of areas, communities and villages that are usually disregarded because they are small and cut away from roads. These villages do not yet have plans to have government electricity and, given electricity access in the country, it may take many decades. .•We encourage girls in to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) which helps to increase women participation in these field •We generating electricity from dustbin materials this help us to solve two problems as one cleaning the environment and as well as providing electricity for the resident of these communities. | We have developed different energy system, we have implemented our systems in more than ten village communities, we have working solar book which saves rural resident access to use their note book to provide them with light needed to study, Our SoWind (Solar & Windmill) serving village communities in sierra Leone, we have developed over 50KW of energy generated from the recycled energy systems, We have Installed mobile charging system for several communities that Produces up to 5KW.we have Powered communities’ health centers which is serving over fifty villages. We have Powered study grounds for both primary and secondary pupils, we Provide basic light for 24 bases for more than five villages.we started with investment of $6000 we won as grant from GIZ with that support we have increased our customers up to 2430 users in few months of support. We measured our impact through our impact in improving education in the country by building study centres for students in deprive communities to study at night. We impact employment by providing jobs for many youths in the country by teaching them how to fabricate these electricity options. Economically we have increased in revenue generation in the country and increase household income of thousands of women who are involved directly in using this electricity to increase their revenue in the business. We have increased in women participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics | Electricity is one of the most paramount things needed for any nation to develop, all sector need electricity for development, industries, hospitals, manufacturing companies etc, one of our long-term plan is to expand and replicate the renewable energy options to more one hundred thousand communities across Africa, which will impact more lives and change more lives in the establish communities, Secondly In the next ten years we hope to employ more than fifty thousand youth across Africa. We hope to attract more sponsor and partners so that we achieve our target. We expect to increase our revenue to more than 50% in the next ten years. | We need design engineer to help us in the development and improving on the branding and packaging of our renewable energy systems. We also need resource in improving on the scale of production and increase the quantity of electricity production. We will need resources to improve on the technical design of the systems and replicate the energy systems to other part of the country and even to other countries as the market arises We will experts on marketing and advertising so that we advertise and market of our product and create more awareness of our product across the globe. We will use this funding to reach out to the most deprive communities across Africa and bring our energy solution to their door steps | Check our website:www.lightsaloneinnovation.com Youtube channel:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCazdJtVHinsh03yqzjHQW5g/videos | TV show about my Innovation;https://youtu.be/bzEd8J7uCJo TV show on my innovation;https://youtu.be/dD8k1l8-oHc TV Reporter on my innovation;https://youtu.be/yw2lBycE-qQ | 2017 UNDP Social good summit youth innovator of the year 2018 UNDP Social good summit youth innovator of the year 2018 European Innovation Council Innovation challenge 2018 National Telecommunication Commission Challenge 2018 International Youth Foundation award 2018 International Finance Corporation award 2018 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program 2019 Eminence Africa challenge 2019 Young African Leadership Initiative Programme Accra,Ghana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
160 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Henry | Ngale Foretia | AIT Group (Poultry Farmers Management Systems) | http://pfms.cm/ | CEO | Male | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | French | To be part of the UN Solutions Summit is a dream and I would highly appreciate being allowed to be part of professionals from all over the world especially Innovated entrepreneurs who are working tirelessly to solve the world's most pressing problems. I find the opportunity to network with other professionals which are an exceptional opportunity for horizontal exchange of experience. Our innovation SAVE THE CHICKEN AI is a disruptive solution that breaks the cycle of poverty among poultry farmers worldwide who remain poor despite being in farming for decades. It helps chicken farmers to perform instant disease diagnosis on a Smartphone with just three simple steps; provide results and advice on the needed treatment within 30 seconds. Helping farmer to minimize chicken mortalities (increasing farmer’s income) and prevent consumers from consuming infected chickens. A Poultry Farmer just takes a photo of an infected chicken or poop; the app will perform instant diagnosis, with the aid of AI and can review over 200,000 scans at the same time. Providing real-time predictions on the locations and timing of poultry diseases outbreaks through an automated surveillance system to help track outbreaks across countries with a simple, accurate and excellent approach, fast and cheap. Unlike the current approach where; a veterinarian must-visit poultry farm before performing diagnosis and prescription which is laborious, expensive and requires much time. https://youtu.be/2sGxxn5GDe8 | Henry Ngale Foretia is an entrepreneur with over 12 years’ experience in entrepreneurship, The Co-Founder and CEO of AIT Group, a Poultry Farmers Management System that provides quality animal feed to poultry farmers in Cameroon and expert training. Recent assignments include being a senior expert facilitator in helping farmers gain certification with his government for protection and compensation in case of (Bird Flu) outbreak and holds a senior advisory position at the South West Livestock Farmers Union), to assist farmers to grow their businesses with a successful track record. With a network of more than 1659 farmers, Henry recently innovated SAVE THE CHICKENS AI which uses Artificial intelligence (AI) to perform instant poultry disease diagnosis within 30 seconds, provide the result and advice on needed medication. Provide real-time predictions on the locations and timing of poultry disease outbreaks through an automated surveillance system to help track outbreaks across countries. This innovation solves the problems of chicken mortality and increases farmers’ revenue while making quality chickens available at the cheapest cost. Henry is the recipient of many awards and accelerations including the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellow at the University of Iowa USA. Brightest Young Minds in Africa, 2018 Tony Elumelu Fellow, Orange social venture prize Award Winner 2018, Best national project in the digital economy, YALDA iBoot Camp International Delegate and many more. | SAVE THE CHICKENS AI | Help poultry farmers minimize chicken mortalities, prevent consumers from eating infected chickens while tracking disease outbreaks across countries | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Worldwide | Yes | Our Key partners are Veterinarians. Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Buea. Orange Cameroon Telecom Company. | Proof of Concept | Farmers worldwide have made a diagnosis with SAVE THE CHICKENS AI and the Machine-derived diagnoses were compared with diagnoses from five veterinarians in Cameroon and the Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine at the University who reviewed the same scans and confirm its accuracy to over 90%. Results have been sent to the WORLD ORGANISATION FOR ANIMAL HEALTH (Oie) for approval before fully deploying to poultry farmers in all communities worldwide. | The Poultry industry has potentials to achieve malnutrition, hunger, food security and ensures better health for all. Despite efforts made, disease outbreaks still devastate millions of farmer’s worldwide economies. Standard tests are rare and expensive. Many diseases infect chickens simultaneously which causes increased mortality, allowing farmers to remain poor despite being in farming for decades. Averagely, 1 of every 7 chicken dies before maturity, resulting in $ Billion losses worldwide. | The solution is SAVETHECHICKENS (AI) which performs instant chicken disease diagnosis. Poultry Farmers takes a photo of an infected chicken or poop; the app performs diagnosis within 30 seconds, provide the result and advice on the needed treatment with the ability to review over 200,000 scans conducted at the same time with more than 90% accuracy, similarly to a well-trained Vet. Farmers can also be consulted by a certified Veterinarian online. The system stores data gathered, Provides real-time predictions on the locations and timing of poultry diseases outbreaks through an automated surveillance system to help track outbreaks across countries and provides insight to pharmaceutical companies on where to quickly deploy their products. It helps farmers and veterinarians to identify diseases and act fast before spreading to potentially infect people and cuts out the need to send samples far away for expensive lab tests. The goal is to economically sustain Poultry Farmers in minimizing chicken mortality (increasing farmer’s income) and prevent consumers from eating infected chickens, help Vets by increasing their online consultation presence while referencing Vet pharmacies for drugs and vaccines purchases. In our part, we are using data-centric solutions (AI) to optimize chicken mortalities which will eliminate losses for the goal in helping to feed the world’s billion people. | The foundations of SAVE THE CHICKEN app's algorithms are Artificial Technology (AI). The algorithm for poultry disease detection is a custom Convolutional Neural Network, developed particularly to identify diseases on all the chicken family, learning critical features from a large dataset of chicken pathology images. The app's User Experience (UX) is coded in Java, as all of the farmers had Android-based phones. The server-backend is in Python, dealing with distributing data between the farmers and the company. The poultry advice algorithm is a Dense Neural Network that runs on the backend, as environmental values are pulled from an external API to update the algorithm for individualized users, in real-time. Overall, the app utilizes novel technology to provide analysis of poultry diseases with a level of accuracy which has not been possible until now. We started developing SAVE THE CHICKEN to solve this problem, to assist these farmers in sustaining their communities. Using AI technology, we're helping farmers in developing areas optimize their production by analyzing all diseases straight from the camera, providing direct treatment advice for the diseases. This quick and easy test helps to prevent disease spreading and it’s a boon for poultry farmers which could be rolled out to other developing countries. | Our Team is made up of 4 experienced, dynamic and committed young minds of various backgrounds with a vision to help in solving part of the world's developmental problems in ending hunger, achieving food security and ensuring better health for all especially children most vulnerable to severe malnutrition. Henry Ngale Foretia, Co-Founder/ Chief Executive Officer with over 12 years experience. Diana Mbechenyi, Co-Founder/ Chief Operations Officer with over 3 years of experience. Hilary Fru Nde, Chief Technology Officer with over 8 years experience. Rose Pelagie, Chief Marketing Officer with over 4 years experience. We are very conscious of gender equality, that’s why we have both males and females equal at the top management positions, likewise at the lower positions. Our procedure for validation was Retrospective to know the degree of redundancy versus novelty of the experiments used for validation as well as the degree to which the model predicts the observations. We performed a usability study; to know if it functions. Then a study of if it’s used by target populations? And also a study of efficacy to know if it works. We did a pragmatic trial to see real-world efficacy. Daily, we measure progress through movement toward our goals by tracking the overall movement toward an outcome goal. | Our milestone for the first year is to reach 5000 paying users in Cameroon. We already have our APP on play store with daily paying users. We keep on upgrading to meet most farmers’ needs. Phase I -Research, Developing and testing the Save the chicken's application -Certifying the application with Microsoft IoT and the Department of veterinary medicine at the University of Buea in Cameroon -File for intellectual property rights at OAPI Cameroon -Make provisions to receive payment via mobile money, credit cards, checks, cash and other -Apply for startup challenges for visibility, incubator and acceleration programs. Phase II -Ameliorating the application and updates to suits all our users’ needs - Recruiting personnel’s for digital and tradition marketing campaigns plus a marketing budget -Official launching -Report on lessons learn -Scaling within Cameroon poultry industry while collecting data and measuring the impact. Phase III -Networking with friends in different countries for possible scaling - Recruiting personnel’s for digital and tradition marketing campaigns plus a marketing budget -Make provisions to receive payment via mobile money, credit cards, checks, cash and other -Scaling within countries while collecting data and measuring the impact. Including traveling and all | 12 Months Milestones/ goals MILESTONE 1: Conduct marketing of the solution INTENDED RESULT: Get 50,000 downloads, generates $140,000, Reduce 10% chickens mortalities KEY TARGET INDICATOR: 12000 performing diagnosis 10 times, 7000 low-income persons can purchase chickens, 23000 Farmers are confident to scale production, POTENTIAL RISKS: Areas of low internet connectivity and farmers without Smartphone MITIGATION: Partner with B Bound technology to offers augmented connectivity to function offline and still have the results in real-time. MILESTONE 2: online marketplace opened for farmers to update buyers for chicken’s sales INTENDED RESULT: 10000 Farmers subscribes, Generate $20,000 USD KEY TARGET INDICATOR: Chicken consumers receive demands on time and increase their sales volume, Farmer’s revenue increase by 13%. Youths become interested in the poultry industry POTENTIAL RISKS: Some farmers are not aware of the services MITIGATION: TV ads to increase visibility MILESTONE 3: Vet subscription portal created to be a reference for drugs purchases INTENDED RESULT: Each Vet gets access to a minimum of 100 farmers within his or her locality KEY TARGET INDICATOR: Get disease surveillance in real-time and update country representatives on outbreaks POTENTIAL RISKS: 2% of Vets refuse to subscribe, claiming they already have customers MITIGATION: Provide sales statistics for other Veterinarians and hold regular meetings to strengthen their services. | https://www.iowajpec.org/news/meet-fellow-henry-ngale-foretia https://www.uneca.org/stories/eca%E2%80%99s-52nd-session-highlight-requisite-place-youths-africa%E2%80%99s-leap-forward https://www.orange.cm/particuliers/1/27/prix-orange-de-lentrepreneur-social-2018-256496.html https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.savethechicken https://youtu.be/2sGxxn5GDe8 https://www.journalducameroun.com/en/38-cameroonians-win-2018-tony-elumelu-foundation-grant/ | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sUOEQ4DMp3kHZLp3QToeAC5xgik4EKiD/view https://youtu.be/2sGxxn5GDe8 | Awards 2017 USADF Grant $10,000 2018 Seed Capital Grant from the Tony Elumelu Foundation $5,000 2018 YALDA i-Boot Camp Business Plan Finalist 2018 Orange Social Venture Prize Grant $2,000 2019 Best National Digital Economy project by Grant $1,500 Accelerator/incubator 2017 Mandela Washington fellow, University of Iowa USA 2017 Brightest Young Minds in Africa 2018 African Changemakers Fellowship 2018 Cameroon Leadership Academy Fellowship 2018-2019 Orange Cameroon Technipole Incubator | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
161 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Atish | Gonsalves | Humanitarian Leadership Academy | https://www.humanitarianleadershipacademy.org/innovation/ | Global Innovation Director | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | India | English | With the ever-increasing frequency and complexity of natural and man-made disasters, humanitarian organisations require new approaches to tackle these emergencies. At the Humanitarian Leadership Academy, an innovative humanitarian learning start-up, our approach to innovation leverages not just technology, but new tools and methodologies to solve some of the most challenging problems. We are testing solutions that are locally driven, relevant to end-users and pioneering creative and innovative ways to engage new and impacted stakeholders . With the longstanding focus on learning and knowledge, we attempt to answer the question: “How do we co-create and share learning that is engaging, scalable and impactful to build resilient communities and save lives?” At the centre of our learning process is the endeavour to enable others to create and share their own experiences, thus becoming active creators of learning rather than being passive consumers of knowledge. We have used mixed-reality gamification for improving humanitarian learning by introducing role playing, storytelling, scenarios, peer-to-peer feedback and simulation exercises. The games that have been developed with local partners focus on a wide range of topics including disaster preparedness, climate change & green behaviours, volunteer & community engagement, gender issues (e.g. toxic masculinity), design thinking and coaching & mentoring. The problems we seek to solve and work toward are identified with the local individuals and communities we work with that centre around the UN SDG's. We have created spaces for individual innovators and groups within the humanitarian sector to innovate – with a keen focus on learning and knowledge sharing. We have used design thinking and co-creation, combined with innovations in learning (gamification, VR, chatbots) to create innovative learning at the local level. Now with over 100,000 registered learners on our global platform Kaya Connect, we are looking to scale up and engage a globally active audience to enhance our findings and solve the issues by increased accessibility of resources, relevance of content and support and user-centered design thinking. Read more about how we have combined gamification with local co-creation here: https://www.humanitarianleadershipacademy.org/topics/gamification/ https://www.humanitarianleadershipacademy.org/innovation/ | Atish Gonsalves is a social technologist, entrepreneur and the Global Innovation Director of the Humanitarian Leadership Academy based in London. With a background in software engineering, AI and human-computer interaction, Atish’s experience includes leadership roles at technology and international non-profit organisations including the United Nations. Atish has consistently implemented successful educational-technology (edtech) solutions that have helped democratize learning for thousands of learners in difficult contexts. Atish is also the founder of Gamoteca, a collaborative digital platform that enables organisations create their own mixed-reality learning games. Atish is a global citizen, having lived in six countries and is a regular speaker at conferences and events on the role of technology-enhanced learning. | Gamoteca | Co-created gamification for humanitarian learning | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Kenya, Philippines, Jordan, Bangladesh, India (as well as more countries via digital reach) | Yes | Quicksand (India), ITCILO (Italy), Tech Tribes (Jordan), A2i (Bangladesh), Gamoteca (UK) | Transition to Scale | We have developed a working version of the platform, developed a number of games (content) with local partners and have spent time testing the games with users, incorporating feedback and making them available at scale to our 100,000+ learners on https://kayaconnect.org/. The early stages of the project have focussed on: 1. Developing the gamification platform 2. Developing content with local and global partners 3. Integrating the Gamoteca with Kaya, see coaching example | We believe that human jobs require more and more soft skills while learning for factual knowledge becomes less important. Only an immersive and experience based learning methodology can be really effective in developing and maintaining these skills. | The solution, Gamoteca (http://www.gamoteca.com/), uses multiplayer role playing games for making learning fun, interactive and more human-centric. This will bring innovation to the learning process with new methodologies, content and technology. Gamoteca was launched in 2016 with the main aim of leveraging mobile devices to simulate real-life environments for accessible and locally customisable learning games. Developed in coordination with the United Nations and several international organisations, it was originally implemented for humanitarians to respond effectively to the increasingly complex needs of disasters through the creation of ‘serious games’ such as crisis response training and security simulation exercises. The platform can be used to - easily create and share fun, learning games. - digitise trainings, especially simulations and team exercises - support interactions in realtime and provide feedback - easily create situational games and mobile learning - build on serious games for simulating real-life scenarios - easily design interactive mobile games without being a tech expert A library of games and content has been developed with partners that can be used for trainings, for simulation exercises (security training, fire safety) and soft-skill areas (coaching & mentoring, new staff induction, design thinking). | The proposed solutions are unique in the market due to a combination of the following: 1. MIXED REALITY - The solution makes learning more immersive with mixed reality interactions that benefit from the strengths of both digital self-guided learning as well as human interactions & feedback. 2. MULTI-ROLE SCENARIOS - The solutions allows adding social elements to the learning game allowing for practice-based learning in teams. Situational games and role playing are the best way to learn and practice soft-skills and drive positive behavioural change. 3. NON-LINEAR STORYLINES - The solution allows building on narratives to motivate players to accomplish goals, both fictional and real. Gamification through goals, missions and scores drive collaboration, competition, risk and strategy building. 4. PEER-TO-PEER LEARNING - The solutions allows people to connect through peer-to-peer co-learning activities at scale making learning memorable, engaging and fun | The solution is currently being used by a number of NGOs and UN organisations to train staff, partners and volunteers. These include UNHCR, ITCILO, Save the Children and a local humanitarian organisations and NGOs in Kenya, the Philippines, Bangladesh, India and Jordan. We have worked with over 100 local organisations, and have reached over 1,000 learners. We have integrated analytics tools (e.g. Mixpanel, Google Analytics) to measure user registrations, engagement, game play, feedback, etc. We have also partnered with a tech start-up Quicksand in India to conduct in-person qualitative evaluations. The solution is based on research originally conducted by UNHCR and the Open University of the Netherlands: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-955/papers/paper_41.pdf https://www.eisf.eu/news/applying-serious-gaming-to-humanitarian-security/ | Our mission is to bring this human centred approach back to the digital age and move forward from classic e-learning approaches that build on the tradition of frontal education towards a more personal and social learning experience. We believe that an immersive, contextualized and social learning approach prepares you better for a joyful and productive working life that is rich in personal connectedness. The planned goals and milestones for our solution include; 1. Game players - Reach at least 20,000 new players and over 50 new game creators by the end of 2019. We can achieve this through the integration with Kaya (it reaches over 100,000 learners) and our social media channels (we reach over 1m users on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn). 2. Create new content - Create new content that is locally informed, relevant and exciting. We are hoping to have over 20 new games available through the Marketplace - https://app.gamoteca.com/marketplace 3. Work with the local partners in India (Quicksand), Jordan (Tech Tribes), Bangladesh (Tech Tribes) to further contextualise the platform (e.g. Arabic translation) and develop locally relevant content 4. Build out new functionality in the solution including: - Advances in game design logic - Integration of AR & AI chatbots - Location-based tasks and map monitoring for remote play - xAPI integration with LMS platforms - Advanced game play analytics and evaluations | Short-term resources required: 1. Funding to manage a core tech team of 5 with an average burn rate of about $20,000 per month) for 2020, approx $240K - current funding available till end of 2019. 2. Mentorship to refine the product and content roadmap Mid-term 1. Funding for 2020 and scale the team, depending on growth 2. Funding to work with additional local partners and run co-creation, design workshops and develop local content 3. Mentorship to refine the business model Long term 1. Funding beyond 2020, explore additional investors and partnerships, depending on growth 2. Develop additional functionality, content, partnerships 3. Mentorship to scale the solution | http://www.gamoteca.com/ www.kayaconnect.org www.hpass.org https://www.humanitarianleadershipacademy.org/topics/gamification/ https://www.humanitarianleadershipacademy.org/innovation/gamification/ | 1. Gamoteca intro - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BywBob4Osxk&t=40s 2. What innovation means for the Humanitarian Leadership Academy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzLrReag7A8&t=47s | Shortlisted for Learning Technologies award - https://towardsmaturity.org/2017/09/12/2017-lt-awards-shortlist-sharing-magic-conjured-todays-ld-teams/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
162 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | IBRAHIM YUNUS | RASHID | FEZA SCHOOLS | www.fezaschools.org | MANAGING DIRECTOR | MALE | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | Serving in the field of education for more than 11 years, as a young emerging leader and a teacher by profession, I am passionate and dedicated to provision of all-inclusive quality education, SDG4. Currently as a Managing Director of a successful chain of 12 FEZA SCHOOLS, and a founder and chairman of FEZA ALUMNI and TIME TO HELP Foundations, I run diverse projects inline with Sustainable Development Goals such as Educational leadership, Water and sanitation, Youth empowerment, Girls' education and STEM. I have embarked on a journey to introduce a new SDG hero in sub-saharan Africa, The EDU-HERO, a concept focusing on creating awareness, inspire youngs, raise value and set standards of a quality teacher who will champion the SDGs, for I truly believe that NO educational institution EXCEEDS the quality of its teachers. What Africa needs is EDU-HEROES; quality teacher leaders to champion the SDGs and take role in local communities for a sustainable quality education. Unfortunately, whenever solutions to SDGs awareness are discussed, the role that teachers can play are always undermined. If only could we understand that the most sustainable way of making sure the teachings and awareness campaigns for SDGs is through teachers who spend most of the time with our children, and whom are already placed in those villages in the rural areas, ready to make an impact. If only could we facilitate them and equip them with necessary leadership skills so that they can touch more lives in the local communities. With my ""Teacher Yunus"" nickname and title per say, I am well known as a hero in education. The community around me tells me that i bring a ""Teacher-spirit"" to our daily life. Despite my excellent academic achievement in my basic education, where everyone expected me to become a doctor or an engineer for a better pay in life, I chose to be a teacher, for i believed in the power of education. And i still believe that it is this very same super teacher, that can uphold the teachings of the SDGs to our new generation. I strongly believe that teachers should come from the topmost cream of our society in achievement, and should be nurtured, respected and promoted. I strongly argue that developing quality teacher-leaders is one of the crucial steps towards fulfilling the crucial and sacred course of upholding the SDGs. Edu-heroism starts with me, with you, and with everyone who cares for the future of our globe through SDGs. This is my motivation and my motto! | Serving in the field of education for more than 11 years, as a young emerging leader and a teacher by profession, Ibrahim Yunus Rashid is passioned and dedicated to provision of all-inclusive quality education to the people of his nation, Tanzania inline with Sustainable Development Goals no. 4. Currently serving as a Managing Director of an academically successful chain of 12 FEZA SCHOOLS, Mr. Rashid is tasked with running and managing the institutions to reach their potential in providing quality education and schemed to nurture future leaders of Tanzania. Mr. Rashid is also the chairman and the founder of Feza Alumni Foundation, a network of alumnees of the schools under him, dedicated to serving the society in the field of education and health at the same time synerging their network. Mr. Rashid is also a member of board of trustees of TIME TO HELP foundation dedicated to provision of social aid, donations and community relief projects in Tanzania. Mr. Rashid looks forward to embarking on a journey to introduce a new SDG hero in the Tanzanian society, THE EDU-HERO aiming at creating awareness, inspire youngs, raise value and set standards of a quality teacher-leader who will champion the SDGs, for he truly believes that NO educational institution EXCEEDS the quality of its teachers. | EDU-HEROES for SDGs | The world needs Edu-heroes, Super teachers who will champion the SDGs. Equipped with leadership skills teachers in rural areas can touch more lives! | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Sub-saharan Africa | Yes | Mandela Washigton Fellows (a US funded Young African leaders program) and School board of FEZA SCHOOLS | Transition to Scale | My project involves public school teachers, who are literary civil servants. I had to get the approvals and support from the Ministry of Education of Tanzania, and it required serious paper work and convincement. I have successfully passed that step. The initiation of our project which involves scaling it up is on 11th of November and i already have received professional support from USAID, where a US profession will fly to Tanzania to collaborate with me in this reciprocal exchange program | The problem is how can we enforce and internalize SDGs to our current and the future generation. Apart from all the campaigns for SDGs, i propose a more sustainable, long lasting, with wide range impact solution. Let us use the already in place teachers to champion the SDGs and make it internalized by our children. These teachers know the communities sorrounding them very well hence they can touch more lives outside their classroom settings; if only are they equipped with leadership skills. | My solution works in 10 modules, in a long-term plan: 1.EDU-HERO AND SDGs SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN – Championed by Teacher Candidates in Universities and Colleges 2.MONTHLY EDU-HEROES MAGAZINE – True stories of Teachers and Teaching Profession and their achievements in SDGs 3.LEADERSHIP TRAININGS – For Teacher Candidates in Universities and Colleges and On-Going Teachers. 4.RESEARCH – (a) Extent of leadership skills addressed in the Teacher Training Curriculum in Higher learning institutions in Tanzania, (b) Research on the Impact of Leadership Training to On-Going Teachers (c) Research based on Improving teaching profession and quality education in Tanzanian context. 5. Development of Standardized Teacher's SDG impact Performance Evaluation Index and award high performing teachers. 6.Tuition fee scholarship for brilliant students who opt for teaching profession in undergraduate degree and uphold the SDGs. 7.Incentives for Quality Teachers who have undergone our leadership training and are serving in public schools and making an impact for SDGs. 8.“Edu-Hero App” Mobile Application – To connect Edu-heroes for student based seminars, SDG projects and career counselling, from the extra-curricular scheme provided to them. 9.Televised program and social media coverage on “Edu-Hero App” activities and the impact in SDG awareness campaigns. 10.Curriculum and policy change advocacy for improvement of school facilities, teacher trainings and incorporating SDGs in subjects. | Other efforts might have been done to incorporate SDGs in schools curriculums or try to encourage teachers to teach and uphold SDGs to their children, BUT NONE has THOUGHT OF THE TEACHER AS THE KEYPLAYER in the advocacy for SDGs. My methodology puts a teacher as the center-stage and involves a long term upbringing, nurturing and promotion of such super teachers, quality teacher-leaders (EDU-HEROES) who will champion the SDGs in the long run in the rural areas. These teachers will already been placed in the rural areas, and probably they will be the only literate class of their local communities, hence they will be able to pinpoint potentials, advocate for SDGs to their children and the society in general, improve lives and find local solutions to local problems. My methodology envision a super teacher, who will be able to create new and innovative project proposals and reach out to national and international communities and harness their support in upholding the SDGs in their communities. My methodology envision the highest cream of the nation to take up the call of being teachers, and local ambassadors to sustainable development goals initiative. So it involves a running plan starting from secondary schools to teacher colleges to in-service teachers. Give this proposal 5 years of serious investment and the world will start to see its fruits and impact. | We have an action plan and so far as for the preliminaries, we are making good progress because we are right on schedule. We want our methodology to be embraced by the Ministry of Education so that it becomes part of the government funded initiative in the future. This is because in reality the call to nurture and promote quality teachers should have been the government's initiative in the first place, and we do not want our initiative to be seen as a rival to what the Ministry is trying to do. Therefore most of our preliminaries involved securing proper approvals and blessings from the government organs. Up to this stage our criteria to measure our progress has only been the timeline we had set for ourselves in our action plan. The next steps will now involve different measure of progress, divided into 3 stages: 1. Progress according to the action plan, which include evaluating whether we have reached the target goals in our masterplan for each module, for example the ability to produce two 33 membered clusters of Edu-heroes annually, Reaching out to people in our media and coverage modules and making ""Edu-heroes App"" a functioning and active product 2. Progress according to the feedback from the field, which will involve evaluation rubrics, field responses and success stories as to what extent has the Edu-heroes made impact in their local communities 3. Progress according to how sustainable, long-term and practicable the initiative is, and areas that needs improvement. | The Milestone of my initiative is to see it embraced and fully funded by the government, and this be a role model to all other Sub-Sahara African countries, that it is a right time our governments take a lead to self-fund and sustain our own initiatives, thus playing our part in securing the Sustainable Development goals in our countries. As for the recruits, I will need thrice the current number to able to kickstart all the 10 modules in my long-term plan According to our action plan each of the 33 cohort member (66 annually) should try to touch at least 3 people's lives and making them active and live ambassadors in upholding the SDGs, therefore the projected lives impacted is expected to be at least 2000+ in 5 years time. This number is just the true ambassadors that will be fully functioning, but as to the impact to the community we believe it will be huge compared to the numbers of the villages we have. | Short term: 1. Personnel: Including designer and website developer, Media campaigner, editor, 2 leadership trainers, SDG campaign coordinator, volunteers etc. 2. Logistics: Office, Furniture, documentations and permits 3. Funds: Start-up funds and running costs Medium term: 1. Personnel: Including designer and website developer, Media campaigner, editor, 2 leadership trainers, volunteers, SDG campaign coordinator, researchers, cohort permanent representatives, evaluation team, Television presenter, 2 software developers for Android App, Scholarship and incentives coordinator, Curriculum developer etc. 2. Logistics: Office, Furniture, documentations and permits, permanent venue of trainings, Research center, Server for Android app, Television broadcasting Memorandum of understanding, Scholarship policies, Curriculum and planning think tank 3. Funds: Running costs, Research funds, Software Developer funds, Broadcasting program fund, Incentives and scholarships funds, Curriculum developing funds and piloting Long term: All of the above resources will be needed and in higher scope according to the diversity of the program, however, in the long run the main goal is to have this program fully funded by the government from the annual education budget of the country. | https://www.facebook.com/yunusib https://www.facebook.com/fezaschools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULeBl5ysBEI&t=23s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiGnPQNcsxA&t=105s https://2020educationreportconsultation.wordpress.com/2018/07/04/2020-gem-report-consultation/#comment-24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpX-cdHv_cI&feature=share http://www.eduheroes.or.tz/portfolio | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULeBl5ysBEI&t=23s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiGnPQNcsxA&t=105s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpX-cdHv_cI&feature=share | Best Mathematician in whole region of Dar es Salaam, 1998 & 2001 Bronze Medalist in International Mathematics Olympiad held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 1999 Awarded Best Advanced Mathematics Teacher by the Ministry of Education of Tanzania, 2011 Selected out of thousands applicants to participate in the Mandela Washington fellowship, a Young African Leadership Initiative sponsored by US Department of State, 2018 Awarded as the best debate coach by Tanzania Competitive Rhetoric Organization, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
163 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dhwani | Trivedi | Birla Vishwakarma Mahavidhyalay Engineering College | www.bvmengineering.ac.in | Student | Female | India | India | English | I am a undergraduate student and I always look for daily life routines and problems we face, many a times we see that we are living better life but when we look at other part of the world there are many people who dont have even access to what we do not care at all, so to extend what we have in a very simple way without involving much cost and moving logistics or human aid, if we can use ICT for the betterment and mainly in the field of Healthcare which is part of SDG3 I decided to innovate for the primary diagnosis using tongue examination using AI doctor | Dhwani Trivedi is an Electronics & Communication Engineering student from BVM Engineering College, Vallabh Vidhyanagar affiliated with Gujarat Technological University, Gujarat, India, and currently involved in developing AI based application for educational apps on Raspberry Pi based mobile platform. She loves to be part of Maker activities and keeping herself pace with cutting age AI tools. She is currently involved in learning deep learning and related innovations. She has customized Google Assistant for Education and health. She is keen to contribute to this changing world by her efforts on AI for connected world. Dhwani Trivedi was selected for UNESCO's flagship conference MLW 2018 and presented her proposal on Ethics and AI. She has also been participant for IoT workshop at ICTP, Italy which is UNESCO's category no 1 institute. | AI Enabed Self Diagnosis Predictor Tool Using Tongue Image Capture With Automatic Prescription Generation To Achieve UN SDG 3 | AI Doctor | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Developing countries or any area where primary diagnosis facility is not available | No | Proof of Concept | I have successfully created the data set of tongue and trained my AI model and deployed on Embedded system. The functionality has been tested for many samples. The device has been cross tested with few doctors and it shows quite good accurate result but yet the system is not in the product form. It is at the PoC stage. | WHO says, many people in the world suffer due to basic medical needs. To diagnose the health of a person by observing the tongue which helps for primary diagnosis This addresses to provide an aid to people and doctors to do primary diagnosis from tongue using AI, the hardware is trained using tongue dataset representing various symptoms to identify the disease and generates the automatic prediction suggesting for further medical treatment. AI enabled tongue diagnosis to achieve the UN SDG3. | To diagnose the health by just looking at the tongue hence can predict the overall health of the body as well, it describes overall health of the body system. Change in tongue’s texture, color, shape, size can predict the disease one might be suffering from and also predict which body part might be affected due to it. These days thermometers are found in every home just to measure the temperature to primarily understand the body temperature and helps to do self-diagnosis at primary level, The same way if an AI enabled system can help us to understand the human tongue type, one can easily do self-diagnosis which can help a person to visit doctors in time before the dieses grows much. Hence, to overcome that difficulty an AI enabled health predictor system can be made so that just by clicking the picture of the tongue the machine will be able to predict through transfer learning method of machine learning, what sort of disease a person might be suffering from and might suggest to consult a doctor for further diagnosis. based on that it will generate an automatic prescription which contains the accuracy, type of tongue and predicted possible health problem, later it will be easier for the doctor and the patient for diagnosing the disease it will also helpful for the doctor in making the diagnosis process easier as it is generated by a trained AI model using thousands of data. | There are various tongue related ways to identify the disease a person is suffering from. The tongue is supposed to be the starting point for diagnosing the patient’s health. The prediction is based on various factors which includes the color, textures, and the surface of the tongue. There are various types of tongue except from the anomaly tongue like based on the textures are the Geographical Tongue, Fissure Tongue based on colors there is Yellow, tongue, Red or Angry tongue, Purple tongue, Magenta Black or Hairy Tongue. Depending on the color texture and features of the tongue the prediction is done on the basis of the same. Also, the tongue is considered as a map according to the Chinese medicine which describes that the tip of the tongue is connected to the, the back is connected to the kidney the sides to the liver. Depending upon the different types of tongue the person’s health can be predicted.If the person has red spot on the side of the tongue it might result a person suffering from cancer or HIV, red color suggests that a person might be suffering from acute fever, magenta color describes the deficiency of riboflavin, strawberry tongue represents a scarlet fever or an acute fever hence just a looking a patients tongue the doctor is able to predict what sort of disease a person is suffering from hence the same concept here is applied to train the machine in a similar way. | The work is at the proof of concept stage and can be scaled up easily. The development of prototype is almost finished and in the stage of demo. I can say it is almost 85% finished work. The form factor and the product kind of look can be made very quickly using 3D printed models | This system can be useful for the people that do not have enough facilities especially in underdeveloped countries where are there no doctors available for the primary diagnosis using this app the patient will be able to predict what disease he might be suffering from and as the app does not require any internet connectivity hence it will be really helpful. Technology Aided healthcare device might be a boon for both the doctors and the people who do not have enough facility for basic health treatment and AI might be helpful in saving lots of lives. | Short Term : For accurate prediction of the diseases more data is needed so that the prediction is doe quiet accurately for better diagnosis. Medium Term : More number of test device to get ready for beta testing to users and to doctors Long Term : Availability of portability of devices in underdeveloped countries for primary diagnosis where there are no doctors available hence ensuring healthy lives. | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q_sUJabnVFYvQeX_BNaOGpwWMCt50XIW | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_xVQrhfePDcU2dMbVE3dHVNMTdRWVhJcEJhNEdrMGM4bS1J https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_xVQrhfePDcNm5ZYl90LTJYVWhiRTR1VWVMekFQYXVCVHU4 Media Coverage by Thelma Chikwanha (Paris) :- https://www.thelmachikwanha.com/2018/04/we-need-more-women-in-icts.html | Certification for participating and exhibiting Opalescent Start-up in SSIP International Conference at EDI Gandhinagar- 2019 Start-up Excellence Award by BVM BoGf or Developing the Prototype for Opalescent-2019 Certification of Completion in Workshop on Rapid Prototyping in Internet of Things, ICTP, Italy 2019 Presented at MLW UNESCO, Paris on AI in Education and Ethics 2018 Poster on Identifying the Weight of Potatoes using Artificial Intelligence on Raspberry Pi at UNESCO MGIEP TECH-2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
164 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John | Aggrey | HIRED Consult | www.hiredconsult.com | Founder & CEO | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | My motivations and expectations for applying the Youth Climate Summit are to interact and learn more from a multicultural diverse group of young people, share ideas, collaborate on innovative ways to sustainable Solutions Action and development with the expectations that during and after the program, these ideas will be actionable and implementable and on a larger extent contribute to development and policy framework to tackling issues. In using innovation, I started a social advocacy to raise awareness and encourage more people especially the Youth into backyard gardening (farming). Growing our own food opens up a great learning opportunity thereby reduces the pressure on the environment by commercial agriculture. Start small and plant things you’d really like to eat. This is to support SDG 1, 2, 3, and 13. Backyard gardening (farming) to me is simply living a more self-sufficient and sustainable lifestyle of feeding and protecting the environment. Sustainable diets are protective and respectful of biodiversity and ecosystems, culturally acceptable, accessible, economically fair and affordable; nutritionally adequate, safe and healthy; while optimizing natural and human resources"". - FAO, 2010, Sustainable Diets and Biodiversity. | John Aggrey is a versatile multi-sectorial personality with experiences in the fields of business development, public relations, consultancy, and international projects. Currently, John is the Head of Marketing and Business Development for Psyphertxt Limited, Founder of HIRED Consult, and the Executive Director of HIRED Project USA. John is the Executive Head, Research and Development, PLO Foundation Ghana Chapter. He is contributing to his community through social advocacy to promote Mental Health awareness, Climate Change, Inclusive Youth in democratic good governance, shelter for the less privileged and vulnerable. On volunteer works, he is a UNDP Ocean Action and UNDP Bangkok Hub Online Volunteer, an African Young Leadership Fellow 2018 and Africa Change Maker Fellow 2018, Global Peace and Goodwill Ambassador, and accredited UN Climate Change Teacher. John holds an Executive mini MBA in Leadership and Management and a BSc in Agriculture. The motivation of John is the passion and drive to be part of a growing and success story and be Change Agent for Social and Sustainable Development for improved livelihoods and service to Humanity. He is currently the Speaker of Parliament, 2nd Assembly Democracy Africa Youth Parliament, a UN World Environment Day Hero 2019 recipient In simple terms, John is a Social Intrapreneur. | Feed The Change #BeGreen | Feed The Change #BeGreen | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Ghana | Yes | Masha Boi Bashiru | Proof of Concept | This is because it has already began and there is proof of execution and results. | The time is already spent and the Race to Climate Action is upon us. Agro chemicals when not handled well has the resultant of runoffs into water bodies and used cans or chemical containers end up in the oceans. Also, in empowering the youth to be self employed with meaningful income gave birth to the project Feed The Change in support ending hunger, climate change and wellbeing | In simple terms, it is a call for the youth to embrace organic backyard farming for sustainable diet, where produce (less than 6 months maturity crops and vegetables) are planted to feed the family and surplus sold for income or supplied to grocery stores (building partnerships). The long term of this social advocacy project is continuous call on the youth with success stories to motivate them to engage any and every available piece of land to grow what they eat. This project is scalable to any region. | The new perspective is more emphasis on using one project to support more than one SDG target. This projects supports targets under SDGs 1, 2,3 | The team has been able to harvest some vegetables and fruits planted within 4 month of implementation. This goes to prove the feasibility and viability of the project. In terms of progress measurement, this is based on yield and income generated | Planned goals and milestones include: 1. Community to District Level outreach 2. Adding new team members: two (2) new recruits 3. Projected lives to be impacted: 1,000 and more | Resources needed include but not limited to such inputs as: Short Term 1. Seeds 2. Farming tools to aid soil preparation Medium Term 1. Organic Manure availability Long term 1. Mills | https://hiredconsult.com/ https://hiredconsult.com/backyard-gardening-feed-the-change-begreen/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEDH5ftLukM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEDH5ftLukM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EU5Hm4tLzU&t=1s | UN World Environment Day Hero 2019 UN Climate Change accredited Teacher (Ghana) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
165 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ahmed | Khaled | ""Engineer it"" هندسها | https://www.facebook.com/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B3%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AD%D9%84-%D9%85%D8 | co-founder and instructor | male | Egypt | Egypt | Arabic | English | Spanish | Being part of the united nations is an interesting chance in each one's life especially whom concern about peace making around the globe. UN has some SDG goals that I always tried to take them into consideration during my work in "" Life makers"" organization and my start up ""Engineer it"", those goals are recycling and illiteracy elimination. I have a great passion towards those issues, in detail when I participated in the ""Quest"" competition by Unilever cooperation I outlined my suggestions for a better world depending on Unilever's products that can be recycled. The project that I meant is to augment the awareness of the locals of Egypt about recycling and let them make money also by collecting the products' packets in cyst or a bag and deliver them to the company and give them fees as a motivator to this participation.It was applied in a short range, this helped a lot to get interact with us. The goal was reached successfully step by step and then the awareness of recycling kept moving slowly upward in Egypt. Thanks to the Egyptian people, after the huge success of this initiative, I started another one with Life makers organization which is mainly related to illiteracy elimination, I conducted some meetings with responsible officials in our country as a representative of my organization and we all played a great role in shaping the illiteracy elimination frame which matches with the fourth goal of the UNDP SDG goals. We presented a plan to cover the most regions where illiteracy is widen and by the help of some teachers we properly succeeded in eliminating the percentage of illiteracy to its lowest scale in just 5 years. | 1-Bachelor of chemical engineering in 2014 2-Full time design engineer at UEPM Responsible for designing air conditioning and mechanical ventilation systems for buildings. 3-Part time, Project coordinator at ""Life Makers"" organization from 2012 till present Responsible for scheduling charitable events to help the poor in the community. 4- Co-founder and instructor at ""Engineer it"" start up Trainer and instructor for entrepreneurs who would like to start their own projects and start-ups. Trainer to youth who would like to learn more about UN sustainable development goals. | Engineer it | By engineering, science and technology we will solve Egypt's problems. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Egypt | No | Research & Development | Because we have just started making analysis to our community members depending on our own surveys and the country's data, to target the right audience who would benefit from our seminars. We noticed that youth are the core of the change that we would like to make in our country so we conducted workshops and seminars for them in our main topics then we analyze those seminars by their feedback and the touchable results. | Ignorance of two things:- 1- The UN sustainable development goals. 2-What are the skills each entrepreneur must have to start his business. | By implementing workshops about SDGs and means of education that creates impact, we plan for a better world with no pollution, poverty and discrimination. My long-term goals are:- 1- to sponsor start-ups related to sustainable energy and development. 2- to convince the government to teach students the SDG goals at schools by well designed subjects. | Practice is the unique manner of our start up, we make workshops then we analyze them and finally if they are successful, we make them real. For an example: we made seminars about green houses and there was an entrepreneur who wants to make a project for his village's homes which is ""roof planting"", the project was conducted under both our supervision and the sponsorship of the project which in further made more than 15 houses in the village to get benefits from this project by providing their needs from fruits from their house's roof!. | I think we have delivered to only 30 % of our targeted success because we need to do more training and creating more innovative ideas aligned with practice to make our community more aware and sustainable. The progress in my eyes is still far from our desired goal but we are on the right way, we receive feedback from our clients and this helped us develop our strategy , on the other hand, by attending this summit I believe that I will have some brilliant ideas in sustainability and its teaching that I will work to make those ideas real in our start up. | We want to wide our projects to cover all Arab world firstly, then we may make it wider to all the globe after 15 years from now. We recruit employees who are creative and have the same visions of making sustainable communities. We have goals we wish to reach by 2030 like augmentation the awareness of recycling and eliminating poverty to its lowest levels. | short term resources are : instructors have the same passion of the organization and an echo for our projects. medium-term: sponsorship that would help us move forward. long-term: continuous learning from our members and more impact from our trainees on their acquaintances. | 1- https://www.facebook.com/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B3%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AD%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%B5%D8%B1-179382995493037/ 2- https://www.facebook.com/events/889002618126777/ | Unfortunately they are not recorded but we are working on that by collecting money to buy a new camera with good features. | 1-I was chosen as one of the best 15 students from faculty of engineering by unilever cooperation in 2013 due to my business skills and my solutions to make our world more sustainable especially in recycling field. 2-Business of talent by Unilever cooperation in 2013 during the Quest competition. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
166 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Edwin | Inganji | Usalama Technology Limited | https://usalamatechnology.com | CEO | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | Accessing ambulance emergency services is a big problem in developing countries. The situation is so bad that people do not wait for ambulance but they resort to find other means such as taxis,trucks,bicycles to get to the hospital even in medical emergencies. The value chain to deliver such critical services is completely broken. It's been proven that ambulances if well accessible can save lives. In Africa 6 out 10 people involved in road accidents die due to lack of critical emergency care within the golden hour. Many lives are needlessly lost because of this broken system. I am motivated to be part of the Solutions summit to present this problem and my solution, the Usalama platform so as to attain meaningful partnership to correct this situation in my country Kenya. My software platform is mobile based and is an end to end intergrated system that link people to the full range of public and private emergency response services through one interface and one centralized 24 hour call center, matching people in urgent need with the closest and best equipped vehicles and mapping their routes to-and-from the incident. Usalama has managed to reduce turn around time of ambulances from 3 hours to 15 minutes by utilizing technology to fix gaps in the value chain and reduce cost of accessing ambulances by offering flexible and affordable payment models of $3 per month that meet the financial needs of low income customers. | Edwin holds a BSc in Computer Science and Informatics from Strathmore University. He has a deep passion for programming to create ICT solutions that transform society. He is vastly knowledgeable in mobile and web programming and handles the technical aspects of the product | The Usalama Platform | Your trusted companion in emergencies | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kenya | Yes | Amref flying doctors, St John Ambulance and Nairobi Women's hospital GVRC | Transition to Scale | We launched a B2B model to the market for about a year. We managed to onboard 7000 users and 5 emergency service providers on the platform. Through this stage 2500 distress went through our platform linking survivors of emergency services to help. However we quickly recognized two problems with the model and decided to pivot from b2b to b2c. B2B reduced our ability to scale to meet the demand and it led to inconsistent service delivery. | In Kenya there are three main problems we identified: the value chain for emergency services is broken at nearly every step. There’s poorly functioning and highly disorganized emergency system–from who to call, to how an ambulance finds the patient. Secondly, in emergencies patients who are mostly from low income areas have to make critical financial trade-offs due to the high cost of accessing ambulances and finally trust is currently low, because so many emergency services are underperforming. | To solve this problem, our solution the Usalama platform is an integrated end to end mobile based platform supported by a 24 hour call center that links people to the full range of public and private emergency response services by matching people in urgent need with the closest and best equipped vehicles and mapping their routes to-and-from the incident. Our technology successfully meets user needs by: matching patients to closely appropriate ambulance, offering usage of tuktuk(3 wheeled vehicles) ambulances to access those hard to reach areas, having a centralized 24 hour call center that pools most ambulance and can be accessed via the Usalama app or through a call, offers cheap and flexible payment model of $2 per month compared the hefty annual payments of traditional models, partnerships with insurance companies to offer affordable health insurance, providing well equipped ambulance to address patient’s need, ensuring fast dispatch to a referral facility and taking advantage of navigation tools to ensure accurate and timely service. Our short-term goal is to control 20% of the market within 2 years, in the midterm we aim to be chief provider for on-demand emergency response in Kenya and East Africa serving 60% of our target market within 5 years. In the long term we aim to serve the entire Africa reaching 80% of our target market. | Our unique communication and response model are founded on the following pillars; minimal trigger actions, accuracy in information relayed, reliability and rapid communication turnaround time. This is because, to trigger a distress, the process is reduced to a minimal action mechanism for a victim where, they either; open the app and tap on their distress scenario icon or shake the phone to open the app and trigger a distress message or long press the volume down button for five seconds to trigger a distress. Accuracy is achieved as the message sent out consists of the victims GPS location and all this process are estimated to take a maximum of 14 seconds from victim distress trigger to the point where the message reaches the victims next of kin and nearest rescue resources. These messages are all centrally gathered on an online response portal where the nearest response resources available are coordinated and dispatched from. | In our initial testing we had 4955 users within Nairobi to access the platform and 6 emergency service providers as partners. Of these users 620 got to trigger a distress at least once over a period of 1.41 years. Breaking down further by type we found that 2182 were Crime,31 were Unidentified,187 were Road side request, 343 were Gender Violence and 421 Medical. To measure progress we use the following metrics: Rate of distress- 3.9 per day, User growth-110%, Retention-70%, Churn rate-30%, Successful Evacuation- 63%, Monthly recurring revenue-$3000 ,Turnaround time per agent-14 minutes, Response time-5 minutes, | 1-12 months -50,000 users -Available in Kenya -Lower turnaround time by 15% -Improve successful evacuation by 20% -Hire 50 call center agents 1-3 years -1.5M users -Available in 5 countries in East and Central Africa -Lower turnaround time by 40% -Improve successful evacuation by 60% -Hire 1500 call center agents | Short Term Needs - Access to $150-200k in funding to maintain a 24 hour call center and a marketing campaign. - Access to human resource talent in marketing and finance. - Partnerships with local NGO's and private firms Medium Term Needs - Partnerships with local governments. Long term needs - Partnerships with international NGO's like UNICEF | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.usalamatechnology.application https://usalamatechnology.com/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VobhvQZsyI | Data Hack 4fi- Winner Innovate Counties by UN habitat- Winner Innovating Justice Hiil- Winner Tony Elumelu Foundation- Winner Africa Prize for Engineering and Innovation -Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
167 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mac-athur handy joseph | JOACHIM | Campus henri christophe de limonade | http://www.ueh.edu.ht/ref/index.php/nos-prorammes/1er-cycle/campus-henry-christophe-de-limonade | student | male | Haiti | Haiti | English | French | I am motivated to participate in the UN summit is for me to present a project that I have in mind. It is to create a small village and this small village will be powered by renewable energy (energy). solar). with this little village we will cover the roofs of the houses with solar panels. then, with this energy we will feed the rest of the community. | my name is Mac athur handy joseph JOACHIM. I am born May 04, 1990 in Port-au-Prince Haiti. I am an ing in environment and development of the territory. I live at my parents' home still in Haiti. I am single and I have no children. | solar energy for a better world | our solution is a little innovative for my country (Haiti) since we use oil as consumer energy. So, we are told that we must innovate the mode of cons | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | my solution should be implemented in underdeveloped countries because of these lack of energy product to the households. | No | Transition to Scale | I chose transition of the scale because it is a transition of energy that I consider to do in Haiti. | it solves the problem of blackout that confrotes the country totally. Haiti is the only country in Caribbean where energy is always a luxury thing for households. so, I want to bring my support by starting with this project | my vision is to manage the energy problem in haiti. although with this system there is not a total guarantee but it can produce energy up to 30 years. | it is unique because we will start little by little by creating small villages in each department of the country until we reach the whole country. | we only have the ideas, we do not have economic means to start with the project. therefore, it would be nice if we find a backer who agrees to provide us with the economic means we need for the project. | yes, everybody agree of my project. they say it's will be a good things for the country or community.so ,i will need some people for example ing ect. | we need human resources and equipment. then we need the funds to start with the project | not yet,sorry. | not yet,sorry. | we have not won anything, but we have the idea to bring our support to the disadvantaged people in our country. we want them to live better this is our main goal. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
168 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Benoit | Kamanda Mubenga | Green Vision future | Facebook : CPLAhttps://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=636769896830386&id=598272164013493 | Ceo/PCO | Masculin | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | French | Le monde est confronté à une menacé plus grave que le terrorisme et toutes les maladies existant sur terre, une menacé qui doit rendre chacun de nous responsable face à son ampleur. Partout on en parle et différents ressources sont mobilisées afin de ralentir ou éradiquer cette menace. Cette menace a par ailleurs un autre revers, c'est celui qui apportera une nouvelle vision du développement mondial plus durable. Ma participation au sommet aura pour intérêt de renforcer ma politique et mener des plaidoyer auprès des différentes personnalités afin d'asseoir une politique gouvernementale en République Démocratique du Congo et Afrique qui sera accès sur le développement durable. Mon innovation qui s'appelle GREEN VISION FUTURE, il s'agit d'une vision politique et entrepreneuriale qui consiste dans son volet politique à mettre en place une politique gouvernementale incitative centrée sur le développement durable dans la préservation de l'environnement pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique. Aujourd'hui nul ne peut ignorer que l'Afrique fournit des efforts pour se développer suite à l'énorme retard en terme des infrastructures et des industries mais la question qui se pose est: Qu'adviendra t'il si la quête du développement du Continent Africain n'est pas responsabilisée? Sans doute le Chaos parce que l'Afrique vit encore dans la précarité et dans le sous développement bien qu'elle n'a jamais été l'auteur préalable du dérèglement climatique. Le maintien de la hausse des températures bien au-dessous de 2°C doit absolument commencer par l'Afrique, c'est pourquoi nous allons largement implanter par Green Vision future une politique du secteur Public-privé accès sur les énergies renouvelables comme facteurs de lutte contre le réchauffement climatique et de développement des populations. À ce jour il existe une avancée significative car nous avons pu atteindre l'autorité de l'État afin d'établir des plaidoyers institutionnels en sensibilisant la population ainsi que le secteur Public-privé qui sera le plus touché par ce fléau. Dans son volet entrepreneurial Green Vision future est accès dans la vente des produits et services pour transition énergétique, pour une prévention des risques domestiques et industriels et pour un conseil Bilan carbone des entreprises. Nous avons une vocation d'utiliser toutes nos ressources propres afin de redonner à la terre le sourire afin de mieux développer nos communautés. | Je suis *Benoît Kamanda*; 1) *Médecin généraliste de formation ;* Expert consultant des questions sanitaires dans plusieurs projets (USAID PEPFAR, US Ambassy Beta Ngonga, Conférencier, etc...). *Je suis Expert en préparation des projets de santé.* J'ai une Maîtrise d'études approfondies en Psychologie Générale, Psychopolitique et sociale. 2) Je suis Membre du réseau YALI WestAfrica et fondateur du *Forum d'Actions des Leaders pour le Développement de l'Afrique (FALDA)* à Dakar. *Je suis le Coordonnateur du réseau YALI WestAfrica* 3) Civic Leadership; je suis un *Expert en Renforcement de capacités et consolidation de la Paix; Expert en Gestion et règlement des conflits. Je suis Membre fondateur et Vice-président de Assemblée des Hommes Libres (AHL), structure de droits congolais œuvrant pour les libertés publiques et économiques.* Je suis Consultant des projets Freedom House/USAID sur la participation citoyenne responsable. Je suis un Bénévole Communautaire. Je suis aussi Consultant et passionné des questions sur l'environnement et la luttre contre le réchauffement climatique. 4) Politique *J'ai une Maîtrise en Leadership Politique,* Analyste politique et conseiller politique, Renforcement des capacités des jeunes des Partis politiques et Mouvements Citoyens. Membre des plusieurs réseaux Panafricains et Internationaux. 5) Entrepreneur *CEO GREEN VISION FUTURE* Membre du réseau YALDA. 6) Concepteur rédacteur des projets sociaux et technologiques. *JE SUIS LE PRÉSIDENT DU COMITÉ D'ORGANISATION CPLA - RDC* #PCO #Ghiyada_Africa #PCO_RDC | GREEN VISION FUTURE | GREEN VISION FUTURE, Ensemble, donnons le sourire à la planète. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | En République Démocratique du Congo, Gabon, République du Congo, Rwanda et Angola | No | Research & Development | Il n'existe pas de nos jours, en Afrique Centrale, une innovation axée sur l'entrepreneuriat social en faisant profité des produits et services pour une transition énergétique, pour une prévention des risques I-tech et pour un conseil Bilan carbone. Sans parler du fait qu'il s'agit aussi d'une vision politique ayant pour but d'atteindre pleinement les ODD. | 1. L'analyse et la mesure des émissions de gaz à effet de serre 2. La réduction de la dépense d'énergie 3. L'utilisation des énergies renouvelables 4. La réduction des déchets et la luttre contre l'obsolescence 5. L'optimisation des transports des salariés 6. Le choix des infrastructures et des équipements écologiques 7. Le conseil sur le choix des partenaires commerciaux 8. La sensibilisation de toutes les classes sociales 9. Le mode de travail écolo 10. Le militantisme pour le climat | Le fonctionnement de notre solution dépendra de notre vision et de notre mission. MISSION : 1. Passer des fossiles aux propres 2. Prévenir les éventuels risques 3. Accompagner le public-privé dans la responsabilisation écologique 4. Développer nos communautés VISION: 1. Fournir aux ménages Africains jusqu'à 15 Mégawatts chaque année d'énergies propres 2. Automatiser le monitoring industriel et domestique pour prévenir les risques accidentels 3. Accompagner la transformation des vies des populations rurales et urbaines en favorisant l'accès pour tous à l'énergie propre. 4. Accompagner efficacement les entreprises dans la gestion de leurs déchets 5. Accroître le développement de l'entrepreneuriat et de l'économie Africaine 6. Reduire tres sensiblement l'utilisation des énergies fossiles. En choisissant GREEN VISION FUTURE ce serait: - Respecter la question de santé publique - Économiser face aux énergies fossiles coutant chères - Protéger l'environnement - Autonomiser la femme - Créer de l'emploi vert - Donner un accès pour tous à l'énergie | Notre solution est unique car elle se base sur des stratégies visant à atteindre nos objectifs fixés, entre-autres : - En menant une vaste campagne de vulgarisation sur l'environnement et le réchauffement climatique. Il y a lieu de montrer que seule l'Afrique peut palier ce problème en partant par la RDC qui possède des énormes réserves en tourbières et ressources naturelles capables de limiter ce risque. - En incitant les Institutions à intensifier la réflexion sur le changement climatique et les nouvelles perspectives de riposte. - En menant des campagnes de réorientation vers les énergies propres pour le développement durable - En sensibilisant sur la transition des énergies fossiles vers les renouvelables. - En mettant en place une Fondation sans but lucratif qui va promouvoir la promotion et le développement de toutes les actions en faveur de la protection de l'environnement et de la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique. | La difficulté rencontrée au par avant était celle d'avoir une gouvernance étatique moins regardant sur l'ampleur du réchauffement climatique malgré tous les efforts que nous avions ménagé. Aujourd'hui nous avons su convaincre le Président de la République avec qui nous travaillons sur l'importance des questions de l'environnement dans la politique gouvernementale. Nous sommes en train de développer GREEN VISION FUTURE en menant des plaidoyers institutionnels qui nous garantissent de leur accompagnement pour mettre en place ce projet sur une echelle durable. | J'appartiens à des importants réseaux comme le YALI du département d'État américain et bien d'autres, par lesquels j'ai obtenu d'importants ressources humaines pour hisser au plus haut sommet cette initiative. Outre, l'ohada est venue renforcer la sécurité entrepreneuriale ce qui va permettre au projet de bien s'implanter dans les pays cités plus haut. Et sans compter la création de la zone de libre-échange qui va permettre une intégration rapide de GREEN VISION FUTURE qui se veut être un nouveau courant politique. | Cette solution a besoin des ressources nécessaires pour son expansion sous forme des besoins. Ces besoins sont au nombre de trois: 1. Techniques comme besoin à moyen et long terme 2. Stratégiques comme besoin à moyen et long terme 3. Financiers comme besoin à court terme | Viméo : Benoitkamanda- Présentation visuelle du projet GREEN VISION FUTURE | Viméo : Benoitkamanda- Présentation visuelle du projet GREEN VISION FUTURE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
169 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Fela | Akinse | SALUBATA | www.salubataofficial.com | Creative Director | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | This opportunity would be a great platform to scale our business as it would be an avenue to network with potential industry experts to help drive sustainable business strategies for my team and I.This opportunity would give me a chance to reach my potential in creating a long-lasting legacy which would help drive a colossal impact in the global business space. It will be a great opportunity to impact and localize what I’ve learnt in my community and beyond. We have invented proprietary modular shoes made from plastic wastes which enables you to change as many as shoes as possible with same sole just by changing the flaps, thus significantly reducing the global carbon footprint and cost of wearing at least an extra shoe.With our solution, we would creating millions of jobs on a global scale from the least of the dump pickers, manufacturers and government.Global impact of carbon footprint would become negligible, wastes generated from these shoes would be used to produce same shoe; thus resulting in a circular economy.Lastly, 5% of our profits is committed to feeding children in underserved communities. | Having resigned as a business analyst, I started out as the Founder and Creative Director at SALUBATA.I have won numerous awards including the Forbes Fellowship 2018, the UBER / Lagos Innovates pitch 2019, The British Council Prize for Entrepreneurship, 2019 and the UK Government's Department of International Trade Hackathon, 2019. I have been invited to various platforms to speak at events such as VERSLABS, TEDxYaba, Junior Chambers International and many more. We have been able to garner over 800 recurring paying customers in less than a year of operation at SALUBATA. We’ve also been recently accepted in the Acumen-Unilever incubation for innovative challenge on plastic wastes-as a result of our new proprietary modular shoe concept. These are potential market proofs about the viability of our brand; all of which has been driven by sheer creativity, passion, unwavering beliefs and guts. I am driven by deep intellectual curiosity, hard work and creativity with a rebellious mind and independent spirit. I am a very sharp thinker and even with a more curious personality with great ideas and maverick perspectives to old challenges. Over time, I have been able to out-think, out-work and out-care my peers. For me, success is a by-product and not a goal; an individual with effectual leadership skills necessary for driving humanity. | SALUBATA | Feeding starving children through modular shoes made from plastic wastes. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | No | Proof of Concept | We have invented proprietary modular shoes made from plastics (which is patented). | - More than 5 trillion plastics pieces still afloat! - 381 million tonnes of plastics produced annually! - 90.5% of these plastics wastes has never been recycled! (plastics are converted to plastics = more plastics!;p>0.05) - 100 million children are starved annually! | 0.5kg of plastic wastes = 1 standard shoe 1kg of plastic wastes =2 shoes ~ 381 million tonnes of plastic wastes produced annually =381,000,000,000 kg 381,000,000,000 kg * 2 =762,000,000,000 shoes!!! Our target is to produce 5,000,000 shoes/year Our average shoe is $22.22;profit/shoe is $11.11. 5% is $0.55 ~ 100 million Children go hungry/year = ~ 280,000 children starved/day and 3 children starved/second In a year, we would have contributed $5,550,000 of our profits to the cause of feeding over 1,100,000 starving children, and converted over 250,000,000 kg of plastics to wearable shoes! | Our shoes are made from plastic wastes, they are modular and we commit 5% of the profit on every shoe sold to starving children in underserved communities. | We have finalised the last prototype, which is now patented.We have recently won the award for the UK Department of International Trade Hackathon on social entrepreneurship. | We plan to expand into the United States, United Kingdom, Europe and Asia in a year and start selling franchises in 2021. In a year, we would have contributed $5,550,000 of our profits to the cause of feeding over 1,100,000 starving children, and converted over 250,000,000 kg of plastics to wearable shoes! | Short-term: partnerships with shoe factories in Japan and China, Funding of $500,000 raising via crowdfunding. Medium-term/Long-term needs : raise investment of $3,000,000, partnerships with government and other private entities such as Nike, Adidas etc | AWARDS * Winner of The UK Department of International Trade Hackathon, 2019. https://bit.ly/2XW0EW3 * One of the 100 Most Promising Brands in Africa, Africa Moves, 2019. https://bit.ly/2Yd7RQZ * Winner of The UBER / Lagos Innovates (LSETF) Pitch, 2019. *Winner of the British Council Award for Fashion Entrepreneurship, 2019 https://bit.ly/2XVGDii * TED Talk (TEDxYaba, 2018) https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/28656 * Featured at the Forbes 30under30 Summit in Boston, 2018. | AWARDS * Winner of The UK Department of International Trade Hackathon, 2019. https://bit.ly/2XW0EW3 * One of the 100 Most Promising Brands in Africa, Africa Moves, 2019. https://bit.ly/2Yd7RQZ * Winner of The UBER / Lagos Innovates (LSETF) Pitch, 2019. *Winner of the British Council Award for Fashion Entrepreneurship, 2019 https://bit.ly/2XVGDii * TED Talk (TEDxYaba, 2018) https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/28656 * Featured at the Forbes 30under30 Summit in Boston, 2018. | AWARDS * Winner of The UK Department of International Trade Hackathon, 2019. https://bit.ly/2XW0EW3 * One of the 100 Most Promising Brands in Africa, Africa Moves, 2019. https://bit.ly/2Yd7RQZ * Winner of The UBER / Lagos Innovates (LSETF) Pitch, 2019. *Winner of the British Council Award for Fashion Entrepreneurship, 2019 https://bit.ly/2XVGDii * TED Talk (TEDxYaba, 2018) https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/28656 * Featured at the Forbes 30under30 Summit in Boston, 2018. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
170 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Umang | Majmudar | Goodness And Mercy Missions (GMM) | https://gmmafrica.org/ | UN Online Volunteer for GMM | Male | United States of America | India | English | I am submitting this project - 'After School Program for Underprivileged Children in Cameroon' - on behalf of Goodness and Mercy Missions (GMM), Cameroon. GMM has started its operations in late 2007 as a non-profit organization, aimed at impacting communities in Cameroon, because of insufficient realization of the community’s needs. From Organization's perspective - there is a lack of civil society initiatives for individuals, a precarious situation boosted by the relatively weak economy of the country and Anglophone crisis. GMM sensitizes, create awareness, and educates the community on vital issues plaguing the wellbeing of society. The aim is to help women and out-of-school youth, by developing their skills and creating an emotionally safe place to meet and improve the educational level of young people. The so-called Anglophone crisis has hit Cameroon very heavily - which is a socio-political issue rooted in Cameroon's colonial legacies from the Germans, British, and the French - and which escalated in 2018 into civil-warlike conditions causing a heavy toll on Cameroon citizens. The conflict is fueled by the Cameroonian presidential election 2018, when people fear the government will only find short-term solutions due to International pressure, the crisis might escalate even further. The worst impacted citizens are women, orphans and out-of-school youth. With no political alignment, working under such circumstances makes it even harder to help the needy, when number of people displaced and in danger is alarmingly increasing. Though, in partnerships with representative organizations, GMM has successfully launched several structured and fruitful programs - in English, French & Kom languages, to help the underprivileged community, such as Computer Training, Women Economic Empowerment and Child Sponsorship Programs. GMM operates in a multicultural community, and so program curriculum is designed on 'Make learning fun' motto, with subjects oriented to multicultural, social and economic contexts. Apart from basic school curriculum, major subject areas are - Creative arts, Physical activities, Special interests, Enrichment, Hobbies. We also introduced new topics like gardening, craft work, etc., with hands-on and practical knowledge, as they provide sustainable livelihood. We engage experts at times, who are visiting skilled professionals. Our learners have been employed in both private and government schools, companies and health units. | Teh Francis Yai is founder and director of Goodness and Mercy Missions. He founded the organization in 2007. He has also been involved in other forms of community development initiatives. He was Secretary General of the Association of Baptist Christians for Development in Cameroon, has been President of the Boyo Division Network of Private of Social Structures, an organization under the Ministry of Social Affairs in Cameroon. He organized the movement into a knowledge, skill and opportunity sharing platform. In 2016, he was awarded a scholarship to study in India as a Social Change Agent at BWB- kanthari. There he founded a co-project of Goodness and Mercy Missions called EnKindle Cameroon. The aim of this project was to provide hands on business and leadership training to rural people which discovers and ignites their passions. Teh Francis is a kanthari Graduate, has a Master’s in Ministerial Theology and a BA in Theology. He was born 2nd of May 1977. | After School Program for Underprivileged Children in Cameroon | A Family Of Learning, After School Program by GMM | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Cameroon | Yes | Children of Cameroon, UK; Informatik Afrik, Switzerland; Goodness and Mercy Missions, Partners, UK | Scaling | We have seen better results in terms of our learners who have completed the program. (2016: 78%, 2017: 90%; 2018: 66%) The computer training graduates have been employed in both private & government schools, companies and health units. Others have set up their workshops, which are in service to the community, and a source of income generation. Those who study the Kom language are able to articulate to the local people information, that is for their benefit in a clear and understandable way. | The core objective of this project is to help out-of-school youth from different schools in Cameroon, by developing their skills & creating an emotionally safe place, to help them catch up with the topics they would have learned formally in school. Our greatest desire is to see out-of-school youth have the needed tools and means for a sustainable livelihood. | GMM has trained staff members in English, French & Kom languages, who are committed to help impacted community members to learn the topics they have missed in schools, and help them with the necessary tools through which they can develop sustainable livelihood. We help advertise those who have acquired special skills to people and institutions that need them. Our past learners share knowledge and experience with us periodically. We also work closely with schools, whose children attend our programs, to see their progress, and school authorities acknowledged that children have improved academically. We have received very positive responses from Belo division of Cameroon, where we implemented Women Economic Empowerment Program and Out-of-School Youth Development Programs. We now aim to launch our programs at Jinkfuin region, and we will extend our reach to other rural areas as we progress. | Belo Rural Development Association (BERUDA) does an After school program, which is just an expansion of school subjects. We also introduced new topics like gardening, craft work, etc., with hands-on and practical knowledge, as they provide sustainable livelihood. We engage experts at times, who are visiting skilled professionals. | We periodically measure through tests and exams, every 3 months. The students also do internship of one month. During the final test, they end up writing a project, which is evaluated by our subject matter experts. Number of learners enrolled in - 2016: 41 2017: 73 2018: 80 Number of learners having successfully completed the program in - 2016: 41 2017: 60 2018: 80 Literacy skills target - - Diploma in Computer Software Applications - Certificate in Computer Hardware - Certificate in Itanghikom Language (the Kom Language of Cameroon) - Certificate of Graduation in the different skills learned at the centre for those who complete the course. | We have received very positive responses from Belo division of Cameroon, where we implemented Women Economic Empowerment Program and Out-of-School Youth Development Programs. We now aim to launch our programs at Jinkfuin region, and we will extend our reach to other rural areas as we progress. For the same, we have build our Computer Training Center in Jinkfuin, and we are in process to recruit more staff members. | Our community needs a place where we can provide all our trainings for a long term. We have ICT Center structure ready, and our next goal is to get it functioning thoroughly - wiring, tiles, fans, lights, benches, etc are pending as of now. We are also planning to print out our training related informative brochures, to share with local community members, private and public sectors. Currently, we are aiming to launch our programs at Jinkfuin region, and we will extend our reach to other rural areas of Cameroon - as we progress. | 1) About GMM https://gmmafrica.org/blog/about-gmm/ www.ekcameroon.org 2) Our Progress https://goodnessmercymission.wordpress.com/ 3) World Bank’s Development Marketplace Competition Winner https://anrworld.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/winner-of-world-banks- development-marketplace-competition/ | After School program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr61XljLyY0 Computer Training Center: https://www.instagram.com/p/ByisLklnIhL/ | 1. Winner at The World Bank Cameroon Development Market Place in 2011 and ranked one of the best after the final implementation in 2013 s the 15 organizations showcased their successes at the Hilton Hotel in Yaounde 2. In 2014, GMM has been selected to be Country Partner for the Global Youth Service Day celebrations in Cameroon taking place from 11-13 April 2014. 3. As of 2017, Goodness and Mercy Missions is in Special Consultative Status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
171 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Daniel | Nyabadza | Digitech Group | www.digitechgroup.co.za | Head of Research | Male | South Africa | Zimbabwe | English | We would like to use our innovation to foster increased participation with regards to corporates and society being more inclusive to persons living with visual disability in the work place, and other shared spaces. The technology is using computer vision to assist persons living with visual disability more with a greater degree of navigational freedom and safety. | I am an adaptable, enthusiastic Academic /Research professional who excels at analyzing, prioritizing and supporting key customer accounts. My goal is to take a challenging role in business operations and give efficient and effective solutions and further enhance a company's success and reputation. I am efficient in collaborative, problem-solving and meeting challenging project objectives on time and within budget | Pathfinder smartcane | The technology is using computer vision to assist persons living with visual disability more with a greater degree of navigational freedom and safety | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | All of Africa and parts of Europe, Asia and North America to start with | Yes | Blind South Africa | Proof of Concept | We have proven the concept and got Siemens to sponsor us with technical resources to finish it and as we come to a close we need to raise funding to manufacture for the use with our private beta partners. | We are addressing the need for cutting-edge technology that is affordable for persons with visual disability, to navigate their environment with a greater degree of awareness and safety. | The solution uses speech services and computer vision to factor out and alert the user of major factors they need to be aware of the improve their experience and encounter with the environment, | The unique factor is the ergonomics, user experience and price point compared to the other products on the market. This was designed and informed by the research published by the World Health Organization with regards to living standards etc. | We measure progress by the adoption of partners, the response from organizations we work with with regards to their feedback when we demo our software interface. The other milestones are business goals around our ability to deliver our commitment when it comes to who good technology, that is affordable and non-invasive. | We just entered a commitment with our company mentors to deliver a 50 day plan of a device that is ready for production and demonstrate use cases and feasibility in a controlled environment before we commit to start a small batch manufacturing. | Because we have managed to partner with great organizations and users concerned with the success of the technology that allowed us to get great financing to develop a team, we also have agreed with the manufacturers and need to raise funds for manufacturing and compliance certification etc going forward. The immediate need is financing and access to experts in the patenting space to help us decide whether we should sell our IP to Nokia as per their offer or go to market with our partners | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfxV_aM0p8M https://www.bankingonafrica.com/blog/the-1873-fm-africa-tech-hour-host-nominated-for-bmf-inventor-of-the-year-awards/ https://blog.geekulcha.com/top15younggeeks-meet-dan-nyabadza/ https://ventureburn.com/2018/03/finalists-next-einstein-forums-ci2i-innovation-competition/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfxV_aM0p8M | University of Witwatersrand Navigator Challenge Semi-finalist 2017 Nokia Inventors programme Approved Inventor 2018 Next Einstein Forum 2018 C2i2 Finalist 2018 SAB Foundation Empowerment Awards Winner 2018 Gauteng Accelerator Programme Semi-Finalist 2018 Queen's Young Leaders (Commonwealth Scholar) class of 2019-2020 (to be announced publicly) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
172 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Peter | Emerson | The de Borda Institute | www.deborda.org | Director, the de Borda Institute | male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | Russian | Binary voting is often inadequate. As in Brexit. As in Northern Ireland. As was in the Cold War. As in Rwanda. For a modern pluralist democracy, reducing complex questions to 'yes-or-no?' dichotomies may be at least unwise. Indeed, ""all the wars in the former Yugoslavia started with a referendum,"" (Oslobodjenje, 7.2.1999). Basically, when there are more than two options - which, in any controversy, should always be the case (if the question has been asked correctly) - preferential voting ""is the best interpretation of majority rule,"" (to quote the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Politics). Democracy is in a perilous state. Both in decision-making and in elections, simplistic voting procedures allow for the growth in populism. An individual voter, however, cannot express an accurate opinion if the question has been reduced to two options, 'yes' or 'no'. Therefore, the outcome of many binary votes - like the plebiscites in Scotland, Catalonia and Crimea - may also be inaccurate, or even fake. Accuracy comes if voters are allowed to express their preferences. And compromise is possible only if people may state their compromise option(s). Accordingly, on contentious questions, votes in the elected chamber and/or in referendums should be preferential. Voters should be able to say what they want; but they should also be able to express their compromise option(s). Then, if everyone does exactly that, it should be possible to identify the collective compromise. A voting procedure should not force, it should only encourage the voters to cast their 2nd and other preferences. This can happen if casting a 2nd preference does not detract from the voter's 1st preference. The appropriate methodology is a points system: in a ballot of n options, a voter may cast m preferences; points are awarded to (1st, 2nd ... last) preferences cast according to the rule (m, m-1 ... 1) points; the outcome is the option with the most points. So he who casts only one preference gives his favourite 1 point. She who casts two preferences gives her 1st preference 2 points (and her 2nd preference 1 point). And those who cast n preferences give n points to their favourite (n-1 to their 2nd choice, n-2 to their 3rd option, and so on). The difference is always 1 point. I have used this method of decision-making in conflict zones - NI, the Balkans and the Caucasus - throughout Europe, in the USA, Russia and China. No matter how serious the dispute, it always helps to identify common ground. | Initially a submarine officer, Peter Emerson resigned his commission and went to teach maths and physics in a school for the poor in Nairobi. Three years later, he cycled on a round trip across Central Africa, eight months and 10,000 kms. Next, after a brief spell in Mother Theresa'a Hospital for the Dying in Calcutta, he moved to Belfast: January 1975. He soon became involved in the Peace Movement. In 1985, one week after Rev Ian Paisley shouted, ""Ulster says NO!"" to a crowd of 100,000 outside Belfast City Hall, Emerson and five colleagues stood in silence with a banner which read, ""We have got to say yes to something."" Six months later, he helped to organise a cross-community meeting in which over 200 people could debate any relevant option (if it complied with the UN Declaration on Human Rights). Three independent referees drew up a ballot of ten options; the participants cast their preferences; nobody said no to anything; and sure enough, a consensus was found. In 1991, he invited a Bosnian to yet another consensus experiment in Belfast, at which he first used electronic voting, and he warned of the dangers of any binary plebiscite in Bosnia... six months before their fatal poll. In 1997, after many demonstrations of this preferential points voting, he set up the de Borda Institute. As director, he writes articles, gives demonstrations, presents lectures and publishes books. His most recent lecture tour was a one-year journey, overland, from Belfast to Beijing, with university talks in every country, including Iran and China. | If the problem isn't binary, don't use binary voting. | If politics is the art of compromise, voting should be an act of compromise. So the voting methodology should be preferential. | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Demonstrations of consensus voting have been conducted in Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, China, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Kenya, Namibia, Poland, Russia, Scotland and the USA. | Yes | CiciQ Ireland: https://civiq.eu; Green Party, Ireland; European Green Federation; Nankai University, Tianjin; Dublin City University; the Irish Times. | Transition to Scale | The Modified Borda Count MBC was invented in 1770; the quota Borda System, QBS in 1984; and the matrix vote in 1986. These voting procedures have often been tried and tested, and in many venues. They have been described in umpteen peer-reviewed journals in over half-a-dozen countries. And they have been published in over ten books, initially in samizdats, more recently by Springer (Heidelberg). And the procedures have been electronic since 1991 - the most recent innovation is an app. | Simplistic binary voting and majority rule 'allows' one individual - the premier or president - to have enormous power. In conflict zones, this is often part of the problem. The MBC is non-majoritarian. At best, it identifies the option with the highest average preference. If the MBC were the international democratic norm, single-party or 2/3-party majority coalitions could be replaced by all-party power-sharing governments. So that which is preached - power-sharing - could be practiced. | The rules for parliamentary votes and for referendums are similar. In a parliamentary setting, the elected representatives shall first choose a Speaker and a team of, say, three 'consensors', members of the judiciary to help police the debate. Every party may propose an option. The consensors shall draw up and maintain a list of all options (which comply with the UN Charter) 'on the table', in summary on a computer screen, and if need be in full on a dedicated web-page. If a verbal consensus proves to be elusive, the consensors - like the independent commissioners in New Zealand in 1992 who drew up a five-option referendum - will produce a (short) list of, usually, no more than six options. The MPs may then cast their preferences in an MBC. In any 2-option debate, the 2 options are often seen as mutually incompatible, and the margin of victory may sometimes be only 1 MP in a parliament or !% in a referendum. It's all 'win-or-lose'. The MBC is 'win-win' - no one wins everything, everyone wins something. What's more, in most multi-option debates, the options will not all be totally mutually exclusive of all the others. If the two leading options are 'neck-and-neck' and compatible, the consensors may decide on a composite. If the outcome has a sufficiently high 'consensus coefficient', it may then be enacted. Politics is the art of compromise; the MBC is its science. It should be used to obviate armed conflicts and reach international agreements on climate change. | By the rules of the count, the MBC encourages voters to cast full ballots. As implied above, he who casts only one preference gives his favourite a 1 point advantage over the option he likes the least. But she who casts all n preferences gives her favourite an n-1 point advantage over her least favoured option. So voters are encouraged to cast full ballots; in other words, each is as it were asked to recognise the validity of the other options and to imply that, even if everybody's consensus is for the option they like the least, they will nevertheless accept this outcome as the democratic will. The MBC is indeed inclusive, and the same applies to QBS and the matrix vote. The biggest effect is on the protagonist. She will want her supporters to cast full ballots, and her (erstwhile majoritarian) opponents to give her preference at least a middle preference. So political debates will become inclusive. The MBC by itself is not proportional so, in elections, the recommended methodology is QBS. Next, when a new parliament meets for the first time, the MPs can use a matrix vote, which is based on an MBC and a QBS, to elect an all-party, power-sharing, coalition government. Decisions shall be taken in consensus, either verbally and/or by MBC. {Parliaments often find it difficult to choose even a majority coalition; with a matrix vote however, even in places like Belfast, Beirut or Baghdad, forming an inclusive administration need take no longer than a forenoon.} | Having successfully tested the MBC in numerous settings - as noted, in the United States, Russia and China, and many other jurisdictions in between - and having received the support of various leading academics from many countries, including the three just mentioned, and having computerised the count, we can honestly say the MBC is well-tested. It is inclusive, robust and very accurate. According to Arrow's 'impossibility theorem', there's no such thing as a perfect voting system. That said, some are good, others mediocre and a few hopeless. In theory, the MBC is subject to the irrelevant alternative; but in practice, because the rules stipulate that the options must be chosen independently, this problem is minimised if not indeed obviated. Nevertheless, the de Borda Institute recommends that, in really important decisions - as in national parliaments, for example, and the UN Security Council - preferential votes should be analysed by both an MBC and the Condorcet rule. The latter can be prone to the paradox, but not the MBC; the former to the irrelevant alternative, but not Condorcet. If the MBC social choice analysis of the preferences cast coincides with the Condorcet social choice, all concerned may rest assured that the chosen outcome is a 99.99% accurate reflection of the collective will. The outcome of the vote can be verified by an examination of the voters' profile... and, anecdotally, by the level of satisfaction of those concerned. | The next immediate goal is (a) to publish three further articles in political journals: one in Germany (accepted); one in China (accepted); and one in Britain (under review); and (b) to launch the next book - Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism (Springer, Heidelberg) - in the de Borda Institute in Belfast, at a conference in Brighton (England), at another in Prague, and yet a third in Beijing. Another immediate task is to participate in The Economist's Open Future Festival in Manchester, Chicago and Hong Kong: https://events.economist.com/events-conferences/emea/open-future-festival-manchester/ Other colleagues are now taking up the reins in Ireland, France, Belgium and Germany. Accordingly, the director plans to return to China and the Far East generally, to promote the three Borda methodologies there, while his associates in Europe continue the good work in the West. Hopefully, too, some initial contacts in the Americas will soon follow suit. Some interest has also been expressed in Africa, and maybe affiliate organisations will be established there as well. The first requirement is more international recognition. | As just stated, the most immediate needs are more recognition. Binary majority rule has been dysfunctional in some countries, and a provocation to violence in others. As the prospects of rising sea levels imply that Europe will be the refuge of choice or necessity for millions from Bangla-Desh and elsewhere, it is absolutely essential that European and other countries progress beyond the notion that 'democracy is majority rule based on binary voting'. There are, after all, those political parties like the Alternative für Deutschland in Germany which are waiting for the day when they get levels of support of 50% + 1. The world must, therefore, change to a more consensual polity before the likes of such a take-over actually happen, because otherwise it may be too late. I remain hopeful. The advent of the modern computer makes preferential decision-making feasible, and its introduction into the parliaments and other decision-making assemblies make the adoption of this more inclusive methodology almost inevitable. A further boost could lie in a more precise definition of democratic decision-making in international agreements. | http://www.deborda.org https://debordavote.org http://file.scirp.org/pdf/OJPS_2017042816243705.pdf https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783642209031 | My TEDx talk in Vienna, October 2017 https://www.tedxvienna.at/watch/ontheedge/ My presentation to a joint Irish Times/CiviQ/Dublin City University/de Borda Institute seminar on the matrix vote in Dublin, April 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8b6uUrarhE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
173 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Collina | Nkhambule | TheLittleMentalHealthProject | https://thelittlementalproject.wordpress.com/ https://anchor.fm/ | Blogger/Podcaster | Female | Malawi | Malawi | English | I come from a small country in Africa called Malawi. Where poverty is the order of the day and paying attention to my area of interest is a challenge as society does not consider it a serious problem. When you go to bed hungry and do not have access to education it is very easy to ignore your mental health needs. Mental health is a subject that is rarely discussed in my country; as a result, we have youth continuously taking part in bad coping mechanisms i.e drugs, alcohol and reckless sexual behavior. We have youth succumbing to suicide because depression is not a topic they are encouraged to talk about and Mental health care is not a priority health need in the country. Society does not allow for a stigma-free environment and therapy or mental health services are only readily available to those that can afford them. I want to change this and help my country and Africa as a whole to be mentally healthy so as to increase productivity. I use the innovation of the internet to create as much Mental Health awareness as possible by being vulnerable as someone who is living with a mental disorder. I am a blogger and podcaster and hopefully, in the near future, I can reach to more masses through radio and television as not everybody has access to the internet in my country. But for now, the platforms I use are a good start as I am able to impact people in Malawi and globally from both sites. Why I would like to be a part of the UN solutions summit is because the need to address the Mental Health needs in my country is very urgent. And the UN is a really impactful platform and would make a very huge and significant difference in the work I am doing so as to be able to draw attention to the problem at hand without further delay. I believe health is the great equalizer, we truly have not done anything for our fellow countrymen if all health problems have not been addressed. And I intend to fight for Mental Health to be addressed as urgently as physical health. | I am a young lady aged 26. Professionally I am an accountant. I am currently studying for an online Diploma in Mental Health so I can learn as much as possible about Mental health as my life goal is to advocate for mental health awareness and help those that are silently suffering. I work for an Audit firm. I blog about mental health and run a podcast and a mental health support group. I was born and raised in Malawi. Both of my parents died when I was young. I was diagnosed with clinical depression, PTSD and a bipolar disorder that is why my interest in Mental health because not only have I lived it but I can easily relate to those going through the same. | The Little Mental Health Project | Vulnerability is healing. Let us create a world where difficult and uncomfortable conversations are encouraged for healing. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | For the time being Malawi.Then globally. | No | Proof of Concept | My solution is at the proof of concept stage because I am able to get content out and get feedback. Recently a young man called me crying because he was happy to hear me open up about depression and that helped him not want to commit suicide. The feedback from both the podcast and blog show that this is something that people want to talk about but are not comfortable with. | The problem I am addressing is the lack of mental health awareness in this country. We do not know that we are sick because the only health problems we hear about are physical and not mental. I want to shine a light on this problem and get people to get comfortable with acknowledging that something is wrong and it is okay to get help. The main goal is to reduce the number of Mental health-related suicides. | I encourage conversations through vulnerability. Creating awareness and making society understand that it is okay to speak about the things that society deems unimportant. In africa, we are told we have way too many problems to be depressed but are the many problems we have not the reason for our sicknesses? So my solution focuses on allowing these conversations to happen because that is the only way in which we can begin to address the problem. Granted not everybody can afford therapy or to meet a Mental Health specialist but talking makes a huge difference and just knowing that you are not alone in your struggle gives you a fighting chance. The long term goal is to have these conversations globally . Where everybody is working towards one goal and that is to have a mentally healthy world. Where help is easily available for every kind of individual regardless of financial background. A world where productivity is enhanced because our Mental health needs are well taken care of. A world where stigma because of Mental Health does not exist. | My solution is unique because there is a vulnerability involved. Like I mentioned before I believe people are more inclined to open up and relate better to someone who is not afraid to be vulnerable in order to touch at the core of the problem to create long-lasting solutions. My solution encourages conversations that are often discouraged. And being someone who actually is living with a mental disorder makes it even easier for the masses to relate because they know I am living and surviving every day which gives them hope to do the same. | Progress is measured through the number of listenership and readership. But most importantly through the feedback, several people have come up to me and expressed how their lives have changed through the work I am doing and now perceive Mental Health differently. People want to take care of their mental health and are learning to be a lot more kind to those that are suffering. I am reducing Mental Health stigma a day at a time. There is more that can be done and hope to continue to do more by moving the awareness to the radio so that the listenership is spread even into the rural areas. | The goal is to reach every corner of the globe. We only truly start providing solutions to the things that we are aware of. Global awareness is the ultimate goal. Locally the goal is to be able to travel across the country to different secondary and talk about Mental Health. Bring onboard professionals to help with their technical expertise. Every University and secondary school should have The Little Mental Health Project helping everybody stay healthy mentally while promoting kindness and awareness. The goal is to touch and impact each and every individual especially those in war-torn countries and I understand the amount of PTSD wars bring about. | The resources that are needed to scale and have a considerable impact on this project include;- 1-More volunteers willing to be vulnerable 2-Mental Health professionals 3-A wider platform (Radio, Television, and local papers) 4-Access to lobbying the government to include Mental Health in the school syllabuses at all levels 5-Better podcast recording equipment(Currently use my phone). Most importantly an opportunity to be a part of the UN solutions summit as this will shine a light on the work I am doing and get the conversations started. | https://anchor.fm/collina/episodes/An-introduction-to-the-little-mental-health-project-podcast-e4l7qr/a-aj0usa https://anchor.fm/collina/episodes/Still-Awkward-at-this-e4nrao | https://anchor.fm/collina/episodes/An-introduction-to-the-little-mental-health-project-podcast-e4l7qr/a-aj0usa https://anchor.fm/collina/episodes/Still-Awkward-at-this-e4nrao | I do not have any awards. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
174 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Evangelista | Chekera | Passion Poultry | www.passionpoultry.co.zw | Founder | Female | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | English | At the age of 10 I was involved in the family poultry business. part of my responsibility was to make sure that the chicks were always warm so that we didn't lose any to the cold. The process was painful because I lost a part of my childhood as I was not able to watch cartoons like most of my friends, but I had to assist my family as it was our source of income. One day I decided not to put chicks in the box like I usually did and we lost 50 chicks and I felt so bad because I had cost my family an income. it was at this age that I said to myself I should buy my family something to keep chicks warm which was convenient and easy to use. When I grew up and could not find a job, my only fall back plan was poultry keeping, because it was something I knew in and out, but I didn't want to do it the old fashioned way. I made a couple of the chick brooders for myself, but I also realised that other farmers within my community had the same challenges and they needed my innovation. I need to present my project because I have noticed that this is not for my country only but this innovation has the potential to make a significant contribution within the food industry. This is because small scale farmers will be able to produce more birds easily. This innovation will also help children enjoy their childhood, because in Africa, most families do not employ workers because they cant afford. Instead all family members have to assist, including the children. | Evangelista Chekera is the founder of Passion Poultry, a Zimbabwean start-up that focuses on designing, manufacturing and distributing poultry brooding and slaughtering devices. To date she owns Intellectual Property for the chick brooder ring and the poultry slaughtering cone through African Regional Intellectual Property (ARIPO). Through her innovations she has managed to win local and continental awards, namely the 2019 Green Innovation Hub (Gihub) grant in Zimbabwe and the 2019 WomENG Africa Innovation Fellowship (AIF) in Uganda. This young lady was also selected to be a 2019-2020 Thought for Food (TFF) Ambassador for South and Central Africa. In September 2019 she will be one of the speakers at the Royal Academy Global Grand Challenges Summit, speaking on improving lives through innovations. | Chick brooding device and method | innovative poultry solutions | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Zimbabwe | Yes | Two students one studying Production and Manufacturing Engineering and another studying Marketing | Scaling | To date have sold our device to farmers in our community and we have managed to do trainings. We have sold 50 Units and we have trained 200 small scale poultry farmers in our community. From the testimonies, our products work. Other farmers beyond our community are also interested in purchasing the equipment and are also very keen on having trainings done in their areas | 68% of the chicken we consume in Zimbabwe is produced by small scale farmers. However these farmers are experiencing high chick mortality because there is no readily available chick brooding equipment to assist them in their farming. These farmers according to the Zimabwe Poultry Association keep birds ranging from 100 to 1 500. Currently the ones available on the market do not make business sense, because there are not affordable to such farmers. This is also an African problem | The chick brooding device is made up of three components, namely the brooder ring that is adjustable and can cater for between 25 to 10 000 birds. This is the component that keeps chicks in a confined area so that they do not run away from the heat source which is placed in the middle. The heater is the second component and is powered by a special pyro briquette(green alternative to charcoal) and it produces warmth for a minimum of 6 hours and a maximum of 12 hours. The heat reflector is the third component and it is placed above the heater in order to regulate heat within the brooder. If its cold, the farmer lowers the heat reflector and if its warm, the farmer lifts up the reflector. The heater has a capacity to keep 300 chick warm at a time. This whole process have proven to reduce chick mortality rate by at least 95%, hence increases the income of small scale farmers. Some farmers have highlighted that this device can also be used for small ruminants such as piglets and kids. We aim to make a significant contribution within the food industry through poultry innovations. | This is a unique solution because we have identified a real problem being faced by most small scale farmers. In the process we have co created a solution with them and we continual improve the innovation depending on the real need. Our solution does not need electricity , a challenge being faced by most small farmers in Zimbabwe and most parts of Africa. The device is also easy to clean, foldable and reusable. | So far we have started selling the device, as a full device and as individual components. Farmers have been giving us feedback and they asked if we could start chick brooding training so that they know the whole process of brooding. Our progress is measured by what our customers feedback, one example is that of a farmer who used to lose approximately 35 birds per batch of 100. However after purchasing our chick brooders, she only lost 2 chicks out of the 200 she bought. | One of our goals is to scale up into other provinces in Zimbabwe. As we are doing this, we aim to venture into Bostwana, Zambia, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, DRC. We also aim to raise at least USD25 000 in order for us to penetrate in those countries. We also aim to create at least 150 jobs across Africa. In every territory we are in we aim to have Intellectual Property rights. | We need strategic and implementing partners to scale up. We need Intellectual Property rights. We also need to raise at least USD25 000 per every country we will be in. | https://mobile.twitter.com/passionpoultry http://www.passionpoultry.co.zw https://www.facebook.com/PassionPoultry/ https://spiked.co.zw/evangelistachekeras-greening-chick-brooding-innovation-impacting-africa/ https://www.herald.co.zw/young-inventor-raises-zim-flag-high/ | https://youtu.be/CaQMDApog9c https://youtu.be/3DqyhbUtMBs | 2017 Barclays Boost Entrepreneurship program finalist 2017 ACT in Africa Design Thinking Program 2018 CBZ Young Entrepreneurship Program Northern Region top 20 2019 Green Innovations Hub (Gihub) USD5000 grant winner 2019 WomENG African Innovation Fellowship (AIF) winner 2019 SanBio FemBioBiz Zimbabwe Finalist 2019 Youth Connekt Zimbabwe Provincial Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
175 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kareem | El-Manawy | HydroClean | N/A | CEO | Male | Egypt | Egypt | Arabic | English | I am hugely motivated and aiming to leave a legacy and impact the environment and my community positively. I find my goals in life aligning with the UN’s SDGs. I live by those goals in whatever I could do in my daily life. I was fascinated by the huge opportunities available in the energy sector, that’s when I decided to pursue starting hydroClean | I’m a graduate of Mechatronics engineering and I’ve been working in marketing ever since I’ve graduated. I was always inspired and passionate about how energy could be efficiently used and utilized | HydroClean | Clean energy clean waste | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Egypt | Yes | Labs, governments, manufacturers | Ideation | We still didn’t implement it | Rapidly depleting energy sources | It will provide clean energy with no waste | Hydroclean is aiming to create a hydrogen generator for every region which is a hybrid between a centralized and a decentralized model which in turn will help every region in a country be self sustaining and have an alternative source of clean water | We have achieved all actions we aimed to achieve in the time frame we have put for our selves. We are looking forward to adhere as much as possible to our plan which if happened will enable us to hit the market by early 2021 | -prepare all the resources needed - have a model ready - test a prototype - hire a full team - prepare a market ready generator | - human & technology - funding for development - connections | Not available yet | This will happen by next month | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
176 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | EPIE PROMISE | NGOLEPPIE | HELP FARMERS CAMEROON | WWW.HEFARCAM.COM | FOUNDER/CEO | MALE | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | HELP FARMERS CAMEROON IS AN AGRITECH WEB AND MOBILE APP THAT IS LEVERAGING ON TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE ON THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF COCOA. WE HAVE PUT INPLACE A CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY TO TRAIN COCOA FARMERS AT ALL STAGES OF PRODUCTION,ELIMINATE MIDDLE MEN,BRING ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS OF THE COCOA SECTOR IN ONE MARKET SYSTEM AND ALSO INTERGRATE THEIR FARMS SO THAT THEY CAN HOLD ON OTHER THINGS WHEN COCOA IS FINISHED.WE CATER FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS IN THE SECTOR WE ARE YOUR PROXY. | I AM A CAMEROONIAN AGED 41 AND HOLDER OF A BS IN GEOGRAPHY,I AM TRAINER OF FARMERS FOR GOOD QUALITY COCOA PRODUCTION OF COCOA IN CAMEROON UNDER THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT,I AM INTERNAL AUDITOR FOR UTZ CERTIFICATION I AM MARRIED AND A FATHER OF 2 LOVELY KIDS. | HELP FARMERS CAMEROON | BRINGING TOGETHER ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS OF THE COCOA SECTOR IN A ONE MARKET SYSTEM. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | CAMEROON | Yes | COOPERATIVES,BANKS AND PESTICIDE PRODUCERS | Transition to Scale | IT HAS IMPROVED THE QUALITY OF LIFE AMONGST OUR FARMERS. | END POVERTY THROUGH THE PRODUCTION OF QUALITY COCOA AND OTHER AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES. | WE WORK WITH COOPERATIVES WHOM WE REGISTER AND THEY USE OUR MOBILE APPS HEFARCAM FOR FREE. | GIVEN THE FARMRES ON THE GO TRAINING LIVE ,GEO LOCATION PREDICTION,USE OF BIG DATA,RISK MANGEMENT,YEILD PREDICTIONS | HAVE REGISTERED OVER 50 COOPERATIVES | GET ALL THE FARMERS REGISTERED AS COOPERATORS,WORK WITH ALL THE COOPERATIVES AND MOVE TO OTHER COUNTRIES PRODUCING COCOA | FINANCES, | HTTP://WWW.HEFARCAM.COM | NONE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
177 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rossette | Kyakyo | Slum Youth Rehabilitation And Development Organisation- SYRADO | http://syradouganda.com/ | Executive Director/ Co-Founder | Female | Uganda | Uganda | English | Slum Youth Rehabilitation and Development organization (SYRODO) Uganda is as innovative as the word itself as we use the resources around us to create change using SDGs. It is female-founded and works with the youths in the slums of Uganda who are refugees, young single mothers, drug addicts among others. We are innovative by soliciting funds using social media, we attract the youths with skills to teach youths in the slums practical, hands-on skills. we are also Using waste management solutions to create beautiful arts like bags, flowers among others from plastic wastes and straws. SYRADO Uganda is a not-for-profit organization that promotes Climate Justice, health, education, economic empowerment and peace among youth in slum areas in urban and peri-urban areas in Uganda. This is aimed at improving livelihood. SYRADO is contributing towards SDG 4; 4.4. Which says- By 2030, sustainably increase the number of youths and adults who have relevant skills including technical and vocational skills for employment, decent jobs, and entrepreneurship. It is also working towards SDG 3: 3.6- that strengthens prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol. SYRADO is focusing on slum youth because they are vulnerable yet they can contribute a big labor force to the country. They are most vulnerable to HIV and AIDS, unwanted pregnancies, prostitution, unemployment, and abuse. All these are breeding factors for high crime rates, drug abuse and poor health among the youth. SYRADO believes that when youth are empowered with vocational skills, conflict resolution skills, rehabilitation, and reproductive health awareness, they will be able to improve their lives as well as meaningfully contribute to the economic development of the country. SYRADO works with youth from 13 to 24 years. These include Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW), male youth and children in and out of school and refugees. SYRADO Uganda believes that the heart of climate justice is the understanding that the urgent action needed to prevent climate change must be based on community-led solutions and the well-being of local communities. This is in relation to SDG Target 13.b: Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in the least developed countries and Small Island Developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities. We unlock endless Possibilities. | NameKyakyo Rossette About: Born Again, Activist, sister, Worshiper, Feminist, friend, and SDGs Promoter, Ugandan. •Social Worker •Gospel Promoter •Co-Founder SYRADO UGANDA •Co-Founder JCLabel Uganda •Digital Marketer •Event Manager Passionate about SDGs, Youth development, Poverty eradication, Gospel Music, Digital communication, Community Development, Climate Justice and People’s wellbeing Life Purpose is to inspire young people to understand themselves, develop their communities and live a well-desired life through talent nurturing, rehabilitation and intentional learning. Online Presence:LinkedIn – Kyakyo Rossette Facebook – Princess Rossette Twitter & Instagram - @Princessrossetti Engagement Executive Director – Slum Youth Rehabilitation and Development Organisation (SYRADO) •Digital Marketing Manager – JCLabel Uganda •Youth Leader – Makerere Redeemed Church •Public Relations Manager – Strategic Engagement •Social Worker, Event Manager, Gospel Promoter. Qualifications: Bachelors Degree in Social Sciences – Makerere University •Fundamentals of Digital Marketing - Google •Social Media Marketing – Shaw Academy Memberships Publicity Secretary – Peculiar Investment. An all ladies Saving Group that aims at eradicating poverty among women. •Leader – Proverbs 31 Ladies. Self-help ladies group which earns through digital marketing and Event management. I would like to see empowered young women and girls not only stand up for their rights but to also sustain themselves financially. | Recycling waste to Treasure | Unlocking endless possibilities is what we are looking at, using waste management methods to turn plastics and straws into arts like bagsa and clothes | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | we are currently in Uganda but we are looking at all east African countrries in the next two years as we secure funding which include Uganda herself, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and South Sudan. The Beauty with this innovation, it can replicated. | No | Scaling | Scaling is the procedure of measuring and assigning the objects to the numbers according to the specified rules. In other words, the process of locating the measured objects on the continuum, a continuous sequence of numbers to which the objects are assigned is called scaling. Our Innovation is at this stage simply because we want to measure the impact it has on social development as far as slum youths and the environment are concerned. The input required compared to the outcome and materials | We are hitting two birds with one stone, this Innovation addresses the problem of poverty and climate change. I have no dought that every city in the world has slums and wastes are not well managed just like here in Uganda. The plastic bottles and straws do not decompose and the block water channels. Recycling waste into treasure will give the slum youths entrepreneurial skills, they earn income, stay away from drugs and early marriages while saving the environment. | Recycling waste to plastic involves collecting plastic bottles and straws from the dustbins or water channels depending on where they are dumped, cleaning and flattening them, and then they are using to make various useful products like bags, table mats, doormats, clothes mong other products that can be used by different people in the world. SYRADO Uganda believes that the heart of climate justice is the understanding that the urgent action needed to prevent climate change must be based on community-led solutions and the well-being of local communities, Indigenous Peoples and the global poor, as well as biodiversity and intact ecosystems. This is in relation to SDG Target 13.b: Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in the least developed countries and Small Island Developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities. Climate justice is the understanding that we will not be able to stop climate change if we don’t change the neo-liberal, corporate-based economy which stops us from achieving sustainable societies. It is the understanding that corporate globalization must be stopped. And every day, all over the world, there’re millions of plastic bottles and straws being used and thrown away. They don’t only end up in the landfill but worse than that, in our trenches and Kampala is no exception, where we find plastic waste piling up in the streets. | Our innovation is to help the slum youths especially young single mothers to earn a living become economically empowered while promoting climate justice. Also, my innovation is cost-effective as it only requires training for these young single mothers that I already work with, a simple machine that can be made in Uganda to flatten the straws, and then the ladies themselves can make the buskets, bags among other products which can be sold locally or exported that makes it new perspective. Availability of materials all over the world, these are plenty not only in the slums around the world but all over the streets in different cities which makes the materials to use easy to find. Climate change can not be achieved only looking at big corporations but more importantly communities especially women and youths and this innovation address this. Its replicable factor makes it unique and different youths around the world can easily adapt the innovation and change their lives, through self-employment, economic and political empowerment among others that change in status can cause. SYRADO Uganda at seeing these young mothers situations improve and they are empowered while saving the environment through empowering them, educating them on the safe methods of picking the plastics and straws, training them on how recycling works, awareness of the environment and climate justice and Making different re-usable products from Straws and Plastic bottles. | Our team has done a great job to see this innovation comes to life, the team has done the required research to see that innovation is viable and feasible. We are now on the awareness campaign in different slums in Uganda. we are working with different people who have trained in this type of work lie recycling plastics and straws who are ready to train these young mothers and different slum youths. It is very successful progress as we have all that is need to implement the innovation, the only missing link is funds because we have the documentation and the slum youths ready to start. we have already scaled up the slum areas, the trainers and the beneficiaries of the project. our only hope is that through this, we shall get funding to attain the necessary machines and rentals spaces required to the innovation to take action. SYRADO Uganda at seeing these young mothers situations improve and they are empowered while saving the environment through empowering them, educating them on the safe methods of picking the plastics and straws, training them on how recycling works, awareness of the environment and climate justice and Making different re-usable products from Straws and Plastic bottles. | SYRADO goals are to see rehabilitated, educated and Employable youth in the slum areas in Uganda and then spread to other East African regions, then Africa and the world thus ending poverty in all its forms. To empower slum youth with vocational skills, health awareness and conflict resolution measures for better livelihood. SYRADO is focused on four components including the following; Vocational skills enhancement, rehabilitation, leadership, and mentoring and reproductive health. SYRADO Uganda believes that the heart of climate justice is the understanding that the urgent action needed to prevent climate change must be based on community-led solutions and the well-being of local communities, Indigenous Peoples and the global poor, as well as biodiversity and intact ecosystems. This is in relation to SDG Target 13.b: Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in the least developed countries and Small Island Developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities Climate justice is the understanding that we will not be able to stop climate change if we don’t change the neo-liberal, corporate-based economy which stops us from achieving sustainable societies. It is the understanding that corporate globalization must be stopped by working with communities especially women and youths to bring about climate change and environmental sustainability. | The resources that are most needed are rental spaces to carry out these activities, trainers and administration teams which are already in place and a simple machine to flatten the bottles and straws. the above can also be termed as SYRADO's short term needs. The Medium-terms needs include the offline and online store which where the products can be displayed, service vans to carry the collectors to and from the different fields. The long terms needs will include exportation of the products to different countries to enable these young mothers to earn a living, replication of the innovation in other countries other than Uganda and registration of the SYRODO in those countries according to the laws governing the NGOs. The most important need to is to see young people in the slums change their lives positively while promoting the environment thus climate justice and making re-usable beautiful art products out of waste plastic and straws. | http://syradouganda.com/ http://syradouganda.com/projects/recycling-trash-to-treasure/ https://www.facebook.com/SlumYouth/ https://twitter.com/syradouganda | https://www.facebook.com/SlumYouth/ https://www.facebook.com/SlumYouth/videos/436406760277779/ | we have not yet won any award | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
178 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | SHERIFF | KOLLEH | THE LIBERIA LAW WATCH | https://www.facebook.com/sheriff.kolleh.14 | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | Male | Liberia | Liberia | Arabic | English | French | Spanish | Hereby I wish to apply for the UN solutions summit september 2019 New York City USA. I believed this is a really interesting opportunity for fresh advocate and Youth ambassador to take part in the UNITED NATIONS SOLUTIONS SUMMIT IN NEW YORK CITY USA 2019, In order to complete professional formation and to familiarize with the reality in other countries. regarding my skills thanks to my University and partner organization both local and International and also the government of Liberia, I have acquainted with many of the technologies and languages used nowadays.I am also acting as a member of several students organization, I am familiar with Youth association and youth activism. During my studies I have participated in several local,national and international initiative about young leadership,Cultural diversity,non discrimination and also on many climate change program.I believed that above listed arguments prove my capability to accomplish this assignment in an efficient fashion.I pray and hope that this opportunity be given to me as a delegates to come and represent my country and youth wing as well and organisation as a delegates to the UNITED NATIONS SOLUTION SUMMIT IN SEPTEMBER WILL BE A HIGHLY BENEFICIAL for my passion and personal career and future. | I am passionate in the believed, In Accountancy and Human Resource Development which is essential to the growth and success of any organization that wishes to seal and voluntary devote time and energy., My past and current track record will flow my level of Accountancy and Managing of Organization and Implementation positively and determined to see how best the entity can move forward by knowing the Weakness of Co-Workers within the organization culture, so as to improve the growth of the people who I am working for. If I am accepted the opportunity to work within Your ENTITY, I am going to be a greater assets with the Entity and to see how best I can show case my talent POSITIVELY in my area of Specialization, and will also be willing to serve the organization on the higher peak Voluntarily. I am also the founder of the Liberia Law Watch. and Climate Change Ambassador for the government of Liberia. | Making the world Inclusive for everyone | End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Liberia,Gambia,Benin. | Yes | The Government of Liberia and The Hawa Kromah foundation. | Research & Development | The Project Life Cycle refers to the four-step process that is followed by nearly all project managers when moving through stages of project completion. This is the standard project life cycle most people are familiar with. The Project Life Cycle provides a framework for managing any type of project within a business. Leaders in project management have conducted research to determine the best process by which to run projects. It has been | No poverty.Economic Growth must be inclusive to provide sustainable jobs and promote.Liberia is a small country In west Africa with a approximately 4 million populations and the second poorest country in the world, In my country Liberia we have a population of majority where people is living on less than $ 1.25 a day without access to basics services, | The Liberia Law Watch organization commits national government to end extreme poverty in the Republic of Liberia in developing countries should commit to lifting their citizens above the poverty line, This needs to be underpinned by national mechanisms that target and support people living in poverty. We have setup a plan by the organization advocating,through awareness by telling the Government of Liberia in developing countries must follow through with their commitment to action through national poverty reduction plan,that will seek the welfare of the citizens. | Liberia was decimated by 25 years of gross economic mismanagement and 14 years of brutal civil war. GDP fell by over 90% in less than two decades, one of the largest economic collapses in the world since World War II. This paper explores the challenges in reinvigorating rapid, inclusive, and sustained economic growth in the post-war environment. It stresses the importance of not just reigniting growth, but rebuilding the economy in a way that avoids the substantial income concentration of the past and creates significant economic opportunities to groups that were marginalized and excluded in the past. It examines the new government’s progress so far, including the major steps it has taken in its first 18 months and the unique way that it has organized government-donor relations. The paper traces the extent of Liberia’s collapse compared to other African countries, and examines the patterns of post-conflict recovery in several other African cases as a basis for examining the potential for renewed growth in Liberia. It suggests that Liberia’s recovery is likely to proceed in three phases (i) an immediate phase driven by donor flows and a rebound in urban services, (ii) the renewal of traditional natural resource-based activities, and (iii) medium-term development of downstream processed products, other manufactures, and services that can compete on global markets. The paper argues that the single highest priority for the economy is rebuilding infrastructure, | We trying to partner with some banks that we will show a guarantee,where the citizens have equal access to credit in poor countries like Liberia,Benin,Gambia and I believe with this, it can help create sustainable industries that can combat poverty,as well as help develop this poor nations Liberia.The Liberia Law Watch organization is trying to partner with donors organization by writing a project proposal in aid that will helps to create favorable conditions for the Citizens of those poor countries mention.and catalyzes other resources for ending poverty like private Investment and development finance. | poor, rich and middle-income - to promote prosperity and social well-being while protecting the planet. The Goals recognize that ending poverty must go hand-in-hand with strategies that build economic growth and address a range of social needs including education, health, social protection, and job opportunities, while tackling climate change and threats to biodiversity. The Goals demand that everyone must benefit and that no one must be left behind. In an effort to create awareness and inspire action on the Goals, the the UN Secretariat, UNDP and other parts of the UN system collaborate with a range of partners, including creative agencies, the entertainment industry, media organizations and businesses who are committed to advancing the agenda. Yes we are going o expand in every African market and we are going to recruit the total number of 20 staff members in these countries. | Strategic Planning Characteristics Many businesses develop strategic planning within a short-term, medium-term and long-term framework. Short-term usually involves processes that show results within a year. Companies aim medium-term plans at results that take several years to achieve. Long-term plans include the overall goals of the company set four or five years in the future and usually are based on reaching the medium-term targets. Planning in this way helps you complete short-term tasks while keeping longer-term goals in mind. Short-Term Planning Short-term planning looks at the characteristics of the company in the present and develops strategies for improving them. Examples are the skills of the employees and their attitudes. The condition of production equipment or product quality problems are also short-term concerns. | https://www.facebook.com/sheriff.kolleh.14 | https://www.facebook.com/sheriff.kolleh.14 | Certificate of Achievement on HIV and AIDS The Liberia National Red Cross Society Training Program April 9th 2011 Certificate of Recognition Liberia Refugee Repatriation and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC) April 28th 2017 Certificate of Achievement on Leadership and Success Minset Training. Inspire MC October 13-14 2018 United Nation’s Civil Society Conference ….2019 Real salt lake USA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
179 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Madison | Campbell | Metoo kits | http://www.metookit.com | C.E.O | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | French | UN Solutions summits funnels a regional ecosystem that connects us with great local mentors and provides the structure and mentorship we are looking for. We would love to grow and evolve under the UN Solutions mentorship and build our MeToo kit that could potentially change and impact a million lives. | New York | Metoo kits | A sexual assault evidence collection kit for at-home usage. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | United States , | Yes | Liesel Vaidya- CTO Alexander Campbell-Fundraising | Ideation | We are yet to launch the prototype of our product | Every 98 seconds, someone is sexually assaulted in the United States. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of rape kits sit untested in police departments and crime lab storage facilities across the country in what is known as the Rape Kit Backlog. | MeToo Kit is first to market in that it is the first commercial sexual assault evidence collection kit that can be used at the comfort for an individuals home. With the rise of the #MeToo movement, we saw numerous individuals come forth about their assault, most years later from when the assault actually took place. With the MeToo Kit, we hope individuals who are hesitant, scared or do not wish to report to authorities or go to the hospital right away, still have an option to collect evidence of their assault in a timely manner at the comfort of their homes and report to authorities when they're ready. | The MeToo Kit is a physical box with evidence collection components inside it. It will be accompanied by the MeToo Kit mobile application that will further help the user in the evidence collection process through step by step instructions and tutorials. The application will also collect data for internal usage. | We will be measuring success through the amount of individuals who purchase the box as well as the impact that we are having on global sexual assault survivors as a whole. | We look forward to impacting lives outside the U.S.A and 3rd world countries where there is a high rate of sexual assault cases | We believe the most important resources needed for our idea to thrive is a strong team of passionate staff who understand the vision and are read to see to it coming alive. In the next 3 months, we see be building the prototype of the physical product (the MeToo kit) and the application that accompanies it. In 12 months, we will have a finished product, a bigger team, funding and will have launched to the public. In 3 years, we hope the MeToo kit will have helped women and men all over the the U.S., and also dispersed to a handful of opportune countries. | Website: Metookit.com Youtube video link: https://youtu.be/MEspq-HRPjM | Ted X New York: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWu3GHYDDU | None yet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
180 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | mohamed | ramzy | roots 2030 | https://www.facebook.com/RootsTeam2019 | Founder . Director general | Male | Egypt | Egypt | Arabic | In order to achieve sustainable development goals Decent work and economic growth. Peace, justice and equality | Egyptian citizen from southern Egypt. I am working to build institutions in a developed and structured society that achieves sustainable development | Roots of the Cultural Economy His office is an incubator for the cultural and artistic works of the components of the Egyptian sub-cultures (Nubia - Siwa - Sinai) | Create investment opportunities and build a founder system | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Societies of Sub - Cultures in Egypt | Yes | Ministry of Youth and Sports - Egypt | Ideation | The lack of investment opportunities in cultures and the widening gap between intellectual logic and investor logic. And the absence of a supportive product for the economy | Weak investment in sub-cultures and linking them to the economy in an organized institutional entity | Providing solutions to entrepreneurs and an entity that regulates decent work that supports economic growth. Vision A cultural society supportive of the economy | The conversion of cultural and artistic components to a product supports industry and tourism and creates opportunities for individuals to work more sustainably and systematically | The solution in the rehabilitation and training of human resources of the inhabitants of those communities and launch projects in the form of a trademark and a beautiful form of beauty | The first stage. Training and qualification for the pioneers of various arts small industry. Plastic arts. His friend 's environmental products Targeting Egyptian and Arab society and creating opportunities for partnerships with other countries | Launch Pallet. Equipment and tools Creation of the gallery Platform Industries & Training | https://youtu.be/rt6hG5rK3P4 https://www.facebook.com/RootsTeam2019/ https://www.facebook.com/NubianInvestmentForum/ | https://youtu.be/rt6hG5rK3P4 | Not yet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
181 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Blaise | Aboh | AI Envoy Robotics | http://aienvoy.africa | AI Architect and Innovation | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My motivation to be part of the UN summit, to present a project stems from what has always driven me, to solve real world complex problems. I attended the university, studied Metallurgical Engineering because there wasn't much options at the time. You either wanted to be an Engineer, a Doctor or a Lawyer. I wanted to be a mechanical Engineer, but ended up being moved into Metallurgy. When I graduated, I spent 7 months at home without a job. I had no one to advice me either, no access to a career coach or mentor. All my friends I could reach out to were either also looking for work, or confused and looking for a way out like me. One day i decided to change my resume from Engineering to Creative Design. I got a job two months after. Now you must know that while on the university I was also doing creative design and art to survive. This is what allowed me to get the creative design job. Since then, I have continued to unlearn and re-learn. I have continued to evolve while acquiring more education, new and relevant skills to fit the demands of the environment I find myself in. This is why I built the Modern Learning and Re-education Platform (MLRP) to help thousands of others who are going through what I went through. I am hoping the UN can also see my mission and stand behind me fully to achieve it. | Blaise Aboh is Chief AI Architect and Innovation lead at AI Envoy Robotics which merges automation and conversational AI to solve real world complex problems. He has a B.Sc. in Metallurgical/Materials Engineering and has taken technology related courses in Stanford, and the University of Texas. Blaise is a 2019 Obama Foundation Leader, a Code for Africa Innovation Fellow and Quartz Africa Atlas Award Winner. He is currently working with the Mozilla Foundation to co-design the Mozilla Festival 2019 which has a theme; 'Better Machine Decision Making'. His journey in data started in 2014/15 when designed and deployed a Voter Education and Citizen Engagement for the 2015 General Elections to educate millions of Nigerians. In 2015 he founded Orodata Science and Civic Tech, a citizen focused organization democratizing data towards government transparency and citizen inclusion. Blaises' passion is to understand a range of use cases where algorithms, automation, and Artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance sectors like finance, government, and journalism especially, such as in computational story finding and automated content production. He is also critically researching AI ethics, pros and cons of algorithms, their use and more broadly striving for a comprehensive and unified understanding of how and why unwanted downstream consequences arise. Blaise is also a seasoned investigative and data journalism trainer who in the past 22 months has trained over 1200 journalists and tech enthusiasts in about 160 newsroom trainings, conferences - if combined, are over 800 hours. | Modern Learning - Re-education Platform | The Career Assitant and Talent Accelerator | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Nigeria | Yes | The Nest - A Technology Hub in the heart of Yaba, Lagos Nigeria. Information Nigeria - One of Nigeria's top new generation media/news platform | Proof of Concept | We have built a chat bot to automate conversations, information collection and career advice. The bot (www.mlrpbot.aienvoy.africa) serves both Job seekers and Employers. The employers part has only one dialogue at the moment since its the 'Talent Pool' which the Job seekers part will create that the Employers will choose from. The Job seeker part asks users questions on their field of studies, interests, and suggest jobs, skills required and more. Its all still in a beta testing mode. | **There are no jobs; 21 million Nigerians are currently unemployed as at Dec 2018 according to the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics. **70% of Nigerian University graduates are unemployable; this is mostly due to the lack of skill set required for today's modern professional job demands. More so, a Bloomberg article reported on 30th May 2019 that local recruitment continues to come under pressure due to a new wave of emigration among Nigeria’s middle class. | While unemployment in Nigeria increases, the rest of the world glides into the Next Production Revolution, the Nigerian educational sector is still battling with a myriad of challenges; there's hardly a relationship between enrollment, graduation and tangible industry specific manpower needs. Nigerian university courses and libraries are outdated. Hence graduates are unavailable to get jobs with 'outdated courses studied in their various universities. My solution is a Modern Learning and Re-education Platform (MLRP) in form of an Artificial intelligent ChatBot which engages both job seekers and employers in a conversation, finding out their needs while assisting them with information to fulfill these needs. The platform will leverage Machine Learning and Data Science to understand industry specific manpower needs, make connections between job market data and available university supply of manpower. It will advise undergraduates, graduates, the underemployed and unemployed on modern skill sets to acquire for better career opportunities in today's changing work environment. It will recommend learning institutions where these modern skills can be acquired. Hiring is a huge task, however this platform will enable employees a quick search for individuals who have achieved the set skills needed for the job position. | The solution is using Natural Language Processing and Conversational Artificial intelligence, with an overlay of data science. The new technique is that we are automating information collection, enabling job seekers and employers have a fluid conversation 24hrs, 7 days a week with a machine that addresses their individual challenges. Other platforms ask users to upload their resumes, but our platform does more than that, it had a human variable which is 'advice or 'coaching'. People need a form of career coach, to advice them on the best paths to take, and this bot will be doing that using real-time data from job market places and learning institutions. The methodology is leveraging Conversational AI, and overlaying it with data science towards actionable decisions. | The first iteration of the bot was a resume and eligibility test we did. We pushed out a call for a Business Development Representative job position and asked job seekers to send in resumes using the bot. We received 113 applications in 1 month before we closed the call. 84 of the applicants were male, 29 females. Then we proceeded to analyze the resumes; 71 had irrelevant work experiences, that is, they had no prior Business Development Work experience. 85 had too much personal information, 26 had knowledge lag, that is, different courses of study, but no relevant knowledge gained. 12 had resumes with irregular color layouts and font sizes. This survey enforced the key issues we are trying to address. Going further we are updated the bot to have the following conversation; - It asks about user's designation; either job seeker or employer - If user is a job seeker, It asks about user's field of study, years of experience - It suggests new fields of focus if user is open to a new experience. - Its suggest jobs, based on user's preference from available options - It shows user skill required to bag the job - It sends users page to acquire this skills - And lastly recommends users returns to update profile after acquiring the skills. Currently we are introducing the bot ti users and getting feedback, With their feedback we are making the bot/conversation/process better. | We want to make the platform more with the following features when we get your support. We will add the following feature; Job seeker Dashboard; Resume Upload, Certification Upload, Profile Review, Job notifications and suggestions, work history, education history, skills, Preference settings, Employer Dashboard; Company Profile, Talent requirement, Talent ranking notifications and suggestions, Automated personalized email (APE) engine. Other features; Career page talent widget, Automated Talent ranking widget. JOB SEEKER COUNT: 2,000 EMPLOYER COUNT: 200 JOBS DATABASE: 3,000 RECRUITMENT FACILITATED: 500 CERTIFICATIONS/SKILLS EARNED: 500 We also see ourselves deploying this to Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Namibia and Ghana, countries where we have partners and friends. | Short-term: We will need Initial funding/resources to expand our team, hire more talent who will work on iterations of the product, test the product and push the product in to market. Short-term; We will need access networks, organizations who are interested in and our work and want us to deploy in other regions, and lastly access to new markets. Long-term: Access to partners with data, information on new jobs; partners who are learning institutions; Partners who require talent; and Partners who can provide educational grants/loans/scholarships for participants who cannot afford to pay immediately. | Company website: http://aienvoy.africa Modern Learning and Re-education Platorm (MLRP): http://mlrp.aienvoy.africa MLRP Bot: http://mlrpbot.aienvoy.africa PItch Video: https://youtu.be/KC3QVnu9RiI | Me speaking to a group of media on Data Journalism and the importance of acquiring new age technological skills in 2018; https://www.linkedin.com/posts/blaiseaboh_work-office-business-activity-6530082289320366080--ai0 Managing Big Data With Artificial Intelligence, an Interview on Channels Television, Tech Review. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10HOK7gDhNSh3xKvOwm_n0cbkWx2MBJkw/view?usp=drivesdk | >My Awards and Recognition include; *Obama Foundation Leader: Africa 2019 *FHI 360's Top 60 Innovation for Economic Stability Supported by Rockefeller Foundation 2018 *Quartz Atlas for Africa Award 2017/18 *Code for Africa Innovation Award 2017 *Leap Africa Social Innovation Award 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
182 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nonso | opurum | SOSO CARE | https://www.sosocare.com/ | CEO | male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | opportunity to be part of UN solution summit will mean a lot to us a company. This opportunity will bring us awareness in terms of PR, validate our work with local corporate institution and government, increase my chances to meet mentors and networking and may even offer us opportunity to meet investors. As a social enterprise founder I have always believed that technology that help Africa solve some of her biggest problems.This is part of the believes that informed my decision to start technology companies working to improve healthcare access in Nigeria. in 2017, with dr. Charles, I co-founded www.jaracare.com a medical platform that connects people in remote areas to doctors in other to improve healthcare access. this innovation brought me so awards including UNDP/ RWANDA government digital inclusion award on youth connect 2018, nomination as advocate for youth sexual and reproductive for my work on using technology to improve sexual information to youth. Also in 2018, I cofounded www.maiyegundairy.com – a blog with over 200,000 followers on transparency governance in Africa. with insights from www.jaracare.com i founded sosocare which meets millions can access healthcare online and offline with or without money. No women she die giving another whether the person is rich or poor that is why I'm leveraging through waste recycling to improve access to healthcare and reduce hunger which is used by 96 women in less than 6 weeks we started and another 300 by end of august 2019. By linking garbage to healthcare access and food stamps we are killing 2 birds with 1 stone in addressing poor healthcare access, sanitation and environmental sustainability and access to food | Nonso Opurum is the founder of sosocare which aims to use waste to finance micro healthcare insurance using recyclable waste. He is a former banker, Sales Agent, Web designer and development journalist. As a journalist he worked on media contract with UNIDO for quality infrastructure in ECOWAS which included health and pharmaceutical products on consumer confidence. He is the cofounded www.maiyegundairy.com – a blog with over 200,000 followers on transparency governance in Africa.Within 3 months Nonso founded sosocare it has been recognised by Impact hub in partnership with vodaphone for social innovation, Alibaba global initiative class 7 eFounders for Africa and JCI/ SDSN youth collaboration on innovators for sustainability development. In 2018 Nonso co- founded Jaracare a digital platform which improves access to healthcare. With jaracare innovation Nonso won several awards SABII venturelab 7 startups selected to Switzerland from Africa, digital inclusion Youth connect by UNDP/Govt of Rwanda 2018, he is also a follow LEAP AFRICA SOCIAL INNOVATION for his works on healthcare access as well as advocate on youth sexual and reproductive health with society for family planning Nigeria. He made list of. His work was recognised at the WSIS publication 2018. On the long run he hopes to touch 50 million lives. He holds a diploma, BA and MBA in policy and strategic management from University of Greenwich, UK with other courses in Economic development, Leadership and Healthcare which includes World Bank Basics of Health Economics (2015). | SOSO CARE | sosocare as a social enterprise insurtech uses recyclable waste as financial resource to enable millions of uninsured slums access to health insurance | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria, Africa and Pakistan | Yes | Hygeia HMO, supermarkets, waste and recycle management companies | Transition to Scale | we tested sosocare in 4 cities and 2 countries and it worked very well. within 6 weeks we started 96 women signed up to use sosocare to access quality healthcare and food stamp. we believe with funding within one year we can create health inclsuion for 3 million in Lagos, Kano, Port harcount, Kaduna and Ibadan with population of over 50 million people of which 40% live below poverty line and in slums. | With pervasive poverty, poor healthcare financing and high maternal mortality, healthcare access thus presents a significant economic burden on slums and suburb residents mostly women with unstable little income and for poor pregnant women is considered as expensive luxury. Again,Nigeria generates over 34 million tons of waste yearly and about 20 billion PET bottles of which less than 10% collected and recycled thereby causing poor sanitation, poor healthcare and affecting the environment. | soso care as a fintech social enterprise aims to use recyclable garbage as a financial resource enabling millions of uninsured slum dwellers mostly pregnant women and kids to access micro health insurance, micro capital and gain points on food stamps. Within 6 weeks we started 92 women signed up and started donating waste to us. By linking garbage to healthcare access and food stamps we are killing 2 birds with 1 stone in addressing poor healthcare access, sanitation and environmental sustainability, access to food and micro capital. our long term vision: while we plan to replicate sosocare across Africa and Paskistan. in the next 5 years we hope to improve healthcare and ensure over 100 million Nigerians have access to an inclusive quality healthcare mostly for reducing mostly maternal mortality while ensuring that over 35% of recyclable waste can be collected and recycled. | Currently we are the only Fintech that aim to use garbage to finance healthcare, provide access to micro capital and food stamps which are key problems of the poor that makes us unique. By linking garbage to healthcare access and food stamps we are killing 2 birds with 1 stone a as the solution addresses the needs through the following: •Access to healthcare to reduce infant and maternal mortality in these regions •Improving sanitation & environment in slums and •Creating Jobs for the distribution network and waste collectors •Access to food stamps | We serve the bottom of the pyramid with over 65 million people in just Nigeria. in 5-10 years when we expand across Africa and Asia we may be looking at over 400 million people. To measure impact we use and be using data, feedback from interviews and reviews of present and potential customers. | because we serve the bottom of the pyramid and have tasted our business model which scalable and replicable in over 4 states, cities and countries. We hope to raise money to scale fast so that we can move to bigger cities and states like Lagos with over 25 million people and about 40% living in slums and suburbs.as well as expand across Africa and Pakistan within the next 5 years. | key causes of maternal mortality is poor access to quality healthcare leading to services of traditional birth attendants. by allowing the poor who consider health insurance an expensive luxury to access these service using recycle waste we hope to reach more people. As we are targeting over 40% of 200 million people in Nigeria living below poverty in urban slums and suburbs including pregnant women and kids at the Bottom of the pyramid, because demand for our services like healthcare access and food stamp is very high and waste recycle is growing. by the end of 2019, we are targeting 35,000 people by investing $ 250,000 to setup our process and marketing across main cities. This ripple effect will allow us reach 20 million people in the next 5 years in Nigeria. in summary, key resource needed is funding which will enable us to improve our process. | https://www.sosocare.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHtT0rqRD-A | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxzzSgGkxIE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGRQWQROxgE https://leapafrica.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/announcement-unveiling-outstanding-sip-2017-fellows-the-2018-class/ https://www.venturelab.ch/African-Entrepreneurs-Begin-Training-and-Networking-Week-in-Swiss-Startup-Ecosystem https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2019/Files/Outcomes/DRAFT-WSISStocktakingReport2019-en.pdf http://maiyegundiary.com/2019/01/25/jaracare-made-list-of-global-companies-to-be-recognised-by-un-in-april-2019-at-geneva-2/ https://leadership.ng/2019/03/17/jaracare-collaborates-with-indias-practo-to-reduce-high-cost-of-medical-tourism-in-nigeria/ | https://leapafrica.wordpress.com/2018/10/25/announcement-unveiling-outstanding-sip-2017-fellows-the-2018-class/ https://www.venturelab.ch/African-Entrepreneurs-Begin-Training-and-Networking-Week-in-Swiss-Startup-Ecosystem http://maiyegundiary.com/2019/01/25/jaracare-made-list-of-global-companies-to-be-recognised-by-un-in-april-2019-at-geneva-2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
183 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Faith | Samera | ZimGirlsCode | www.zimgirlscode.org | Founder | Female | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | English | I directly influence Information communication technology policy in Zimbabwe through my partnership with the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education. Through my founded NGO,ZimGirlsCode,a non-profit organization that works with young girls between the ages of 8 and 18, I actively participate in the promotion of young rural women getting into technology spheres involving coding, e-commerce and software through workshops and hackathons. I firmly believe the capacitation of the rural girl child can have a significant bearing on reducing the dependency syndrome in girls in rural Zimbabwe which has seen them fall prey to early marriages. To achieve this, I am training girls in marginalised and less privileged communities about Information Technology through my social enterprise. I am currently in the process of setting up ZimGirlsCode clubs in the 10 provinces existing in Zimbabwe. | Faith Samera is a Youth Business Strategist and a Best Women Rising Award winner for Shoko Hub Unconference 2017. Her passion for technology stems from her current work experience of seven years with the largest telecommunications company in Zimbabwe, Econet Wireless. She is the founder of ZimGirlsCode, a non-profit organization that works with young girls between the ages of 8 and 18 by introducing and exposing them to technology in an effort to broaden and empower them with tools for the modern world. She is a YALI -Mandela Washington Fellow 2017 which consequently earned her a mentorship role under MasterCard Foundation Scholarship where she shares information regarding Transformative Leadership skills and mindsets. She is committed to working with young people in Africa from all backgrounds to ensure that they have access to much-needed information and opportunities that will see them contribute meaningfully to society. | ZimGirlsCode | Developing African girls into creators of technology. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Currently -Zimbabwe. Intend to be in - Botswana, Mozambique, South-Africa, Seychelles and Zambia | Yes | 1.Women in Technology Uganda 2. US Embassy Zimbabwe 3. SolveForXX Hackathons-NY 4. The TechVillage Zimbabwe 5. Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Zimbabwe | Scaling | 1. We have received authority from the national office to proceed with our initiative to implement technology training in schools across Zimbabwe therefore, increasing our capacity to over 10k beneficiaries. 2.We have passed prototype stage and have earned our credibility. 3.We have trained over 120 young girls both rural and urban since ideation. 4.We have attracted global partners in implementing our initiative. | My biggest concern was working for five years in technology with inadequate female representation. After mulling the matter over in my head I started ZimGirlsCode, a non-profit organization that works with young girls between the ages of 8 and 18 and provides career exposure in modern technology. Our mission is to develop an interest in software and technology in young girls, getting enthusiasm and development of solutions for their community through problem solving for economic growth. | 1.We design the ICT curriculum as per identified need and consider geographical discrepancies. We technically meet the girls at their point of knowledge and exposure without imposing a cut an dried curriculum. 2.We then identify the schools to work with as per availability and need and implement the set up of a ZimGirlsCode Club in the school with the help of an assigned patron 3.We engage 2nd year ICT students in the prevailing province's local university to volunteer so that they gain experience. 4. We train the patron and the volunteers over a workshop. 5. Student workshops on selected subjects begin (web design, hour of code, resume building, digital communication skills etc.) 6. Reports are sent through every 3 weeks for evaluation and analysis, identifying gaps and what to focus on. 6. We hold quarterly big hackathons to assess the skills learned and candidates win lucrative prizes (laptops and incubation for advanced skills.) 7. Long term vision is to have more girls on our senior levels selecting technology degrees as majors; we have a vision to give them scholarships to study beyond their local environment and for them to participate in international exchange programs. | The curriculum is adopted from like minded tech hubs globally therefore leveraging international exposure at no cost. Creativity is invoked in the girls, where patrons do not speak at the girls as akin to a classroom setup but allows them to be learning leaders with hands on deck involvement and experience. Our impact has a ripple effect on the community as we create employment across the country's provinces for university students who volunteer and gain experience from the system. Once a club is set up, it is self sufficient and able to scale with minimal supervision from ZimGirlsCode. Computer teachers also receive international exposure and incentives beyond the local experience. Quintessentially, we hone best practises in partnering with countries within the Southern African Development Community (SADC), therefore broadening our expertise and impact. | We have progressed from ideation and acquisition, to retention by prototyping and applying for authority to enter into school premises while building relationships with local and international partners and thus far we have reached scaling stage. Our project has set objectives and for the same, Key Performance Indicators ( KPIs) are set in place for measurement of progress. We measure our progress by setting targets per quarter and through our reports, make a quarter by quarter analysis of the number of workshop attendees. Above all, our progress is measured in impact, from what the girls knew before we interacted with them to how they confidently hone their new gained skill. Reports are safely recorded for future use. | Southern African Development Community (SADC) region countries are our long term target, namely Botswana, South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique. By reason of my status as alumni of the Mandela-Washington Fellowship, ZimGirlsCode has access to American hubs sponsored by the American Embassy in every Sub-Saharan African country, allowing us to hold workshops therein at no cost yet building impact. Our long term vision is to have more girls on our senior level selecting technology degrees as majors and for us to be the providers of the scholarships. We aim for them to participate in international exchange programs. We plan to have a flexible walk in hub for girls' incubation, with 8 permanently employed candidates and representatives from the SADC region too coming through as guest trainers. Our impact will reach 10k in Zimbabwe alone by 2023 and 4k from SADC impact. | Short term:50 laptops, $25k a year for 3 years for Zimbabwe projects : Medium term: Added human resources, $50k for SADC region outreach: Long term : Permanent premises to operate from, 3 year runway: | http://zimgirlscode.org/ https://www.solve4xx.com/2019-partner-profile-zimgirlscode | https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KgTMIf4FD4gg7H08fXx_rf9qoseCi591?usp=sharing https://photos.app.goo.gl/f6wBaesro3fa959F9 | Mandela-Washington Fellow 2017 - Award Best Woman Rising- Shoko Hub Unconference 2017- Winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
184 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Andy E. | Williams | Nobeah Foundation | www.nobeahfoundation.org | Executive Director | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | My work began with the realization that economic development suffers from ineffective decision-making. The issue isn’t just creating innovative technology, or developing a “better mousetrap”. The issue is the lack of a system capable of reliably identifying the best mousetrap and making sure that mousetrap is funded. After that realization I changed directions completely to develop that system. Eventually that effort resulted in this model for artificial and collective intelligence. This model advances current thinking in that every other approach to social impact is driven by a system of decision making that game theory demonstrates has a tendency towards centralization of decision-making and increase in inequality. This tendency causes decisions to align with the interests of the decision-maker rather than with maximizing collective well-being. In doing so decision-making systems without general collective intelligence display a hidden bug that causes individuals in groups to steadily lose decision-making power if they cooperate to prioritize collective well-being rather than competing to maximize individual interests. With a general collective intelligence however, it is individuals who don’t cooperate to maximize collective well-being who gradually lose decision-making power. | Andy E. Williams is an expert in collective intelligence. Andy is a former Acting Associate Partner for IBM Global Services, and former National Technical Manager for Sun Microsystems in Canada. Andy is currently Chairman and CTO of Nobeah Technologies, a startup focused on technologies with the potential for transformative social impact. Andy is also Executive Director for the Nobeah Foundation, a startup NGO focused on raising funds to distribute those technologies on a free or subsidized basis. Andy’s academic background is an undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Toronto, and graduate studies at the University of Toronto in a cross disciplinary program focused on quantum effects in nano-devices. | Collective Intelligence for Impact on the SDGs | Multiplying impact through collectively intelligent cooperation. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Intended to be piloted in Africa and the Caribbean for implementation globally. | Yes | All partners are informal at this stage. Formal partnership agreements are in the works. | Proof of Concept | Have published articles in peer reviewed journals and peer reviewed conferences as part of research and development. Have created a demonstrable example as proof of concept. | General Collective Intelligence can reliably address entire classes of challenges that impact our collective well-being, including human-driven climate change, poverty, lack of access to affordable healthcare, as well as other Sustainable Development Goals. Because it gives us vastly greater ability to solve entire classes of collective challenges like the Sustainable Development Goals which game theory based modeling suggests can't reliably be solved otherwise. | We've developed a model of collective intelligence that combines groups into a single ""super mind"" with vastly increased ability to solve any collective problem, including the sustainable development goals. This collective intelligence increases the impact on such challenges to the point at which impact becomes essentially self-funding at large enough scale to address issues globally, where funding currently doesn't exist to do so now. A number of global initiatives are beginning to recognize the importance of this collective intelligence in achieving impact on collective challenges like economic development as well as climate change and other environmental degradation. Eva Duer of the UN Environment Program leads a global initiative to house and organize the vast body of information on environmental agreements on one platform called InforMEA which aims to provide a "collective intelligence to responsibly manage our environment. The Climate CoLab, a project of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, also seeks to break down the large, complex problem of climate change into a series of more manageable sub-problems. Ban Ki-moon Co-chair of the Centre for Global Citizens and former Secretary General of the UN the keynote address at the World Knowledge Forum (WKF) 2018 whose theme was “Collective Intelligence: Overcoming Global Pandemonium”. | Our case studies show that collective intelligence can not only be targeted at virtually any impact, but can multiply impact on the SDG by up to 750X per dollar as compared to conventional means, and can radically increase the probability of that impact, as well as making that impact sustainably self-funding at a massive enough scale to achieve transformative impact globally. Our game theory based modeling suggests that without collective intelligence entire classes of collective challenges (including many of the SDGs) can't reliably be addressed because the natural tendency in groups without collective intelligence is for individuals to compete to increase inequality by increasing unsustainable consumption. Individuals who do otherwise gradually lose decision-making power and therefore lose ability to influence the decision to behave otherwise. In groups with collective intelligence on the other hand the natural tendency is for individuals who cooperate to maximize collective well-being by conserving resources to gradually gain decision-making power and for this cooperation to confer powerful competitive advantage so that cooperation spreads virally. | After passing the initial review we have been invited by the National Science Foundation to apply for funding to commercialize this innovation. This collective intelligence has transformative implications on all products and services since the concept of General Collective Intelligence is also relevant to all engineering and design. Because General Collective Intelligence defines principles that must dictate all Human-Human and Human-Machine interactions if they are to maximize impact on collective human well-being. These principles in turn dictate how all products and services must be designed if they are to have the ability to maximize well-being, which is required to have the ability to reliably achieve any social, environmental, economic, or other collective impact. | Phase I of the program focuses on agricultural livelihoods. The nation of Antigua and Barbuda has verbally given their support to pilot the program in the Caribbean. Our goal is to engage the remaining CARICOM islands during the Caribbean Agriculture Week festival in 2019. The remaining phases of the initiative focus on building the collective intelligence infrastructure required to radically increase both impact on and funding for the other SDGs. | The initial funding will hopefully be provided by the National Science Foundation. All we require to create massive impact is education and mind share. Our recent innovations in collective intelligence are systems of decision-making that provide a computational approach towards finding opportunities for different organizations and initiatives to cooperate in ways in ways that create the opportunity for groups to radically multiply their impact on any collective goals, where not reliably achievable otherwise. Private investment from investors into achieving the SDGs in countries in the developing world, can be incentivized by impact bonds that significantly multiply impact on the SDGs by dollar in those developing countries for donors. An example of using collective intelligence to multiply development impact the agricultural sector is attached in the addendum (""Improving Livelihoods through Agricultural Value Chains Based on Collectively Intelligent Cooperation""). An example of using collective intelligence to reduce the cost of healthcare to the point at which the cost savings can pay for universal access to healthcare for all is provided as well (“Increasing Access to Affordable Healthcare”). The motivation for investors to participate is the use of these impact bonds to increase projected returns to the point they are sufficiently greater than market averages for the geography and sector, at sufficiently lower risk, so that they reliably incentivize investment. | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cwOUuQbj0eQtbfnquHCK4FVJVRJ56w08 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aFpHxoAFVCGkHyJi-8W0VB5BrLh8K6Qy | https://cipaa-sdgs.org/ | N/A. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
185 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Vishnu | P R | Change Can Change Climate Change (C5) Foundation | www.cpower5.org | Chief Executive Officer | Male | India | India | English | 1. As a member from Global South, I am deeply interested to engage with like-minded individuals/innovators from across the globe. 2. I would like to learn the new trends happening globally on achieving the SDGs, which I could implement in our projects regionally in a more super-local manner. 3. Since my organisation (C5 foundation) is on climate change sector, our work mainly focuses on waste management, rain water harvesting, organic farming, urban Afforestation, community based disaster resilience, and awareness campaigns on climate change mitigation and adaptation. I closely work with the community for all my projects/activities. Hence, general public especially youngsters/students is one of the key stakeholder segments I work with. 4. Bringing back sustainable lifestyle practices among the communities is one of the key values we use for a positive & sustainable global impact. 5. To showcase the policymakers regarding the significance of going back to the sustainable lifestyle without compromising the required development in our daily life. 6. One of the major motivation to apply for UN solutions Summit is that to inspire and motivate a large number of young volunteers and employees in our organisation. If I am selected for presenting our projects/activities in international avenue, they will also get internally motivated to apply for such Summit and present their hidden innovations which mainly focuses on marginalized and underprivileged people in their community. 7. Since my organisation is working closely with the government institutions and the community simultaneously, it will give a huge message to the general public that third world voices are also heard in the global policy making avenues specifically in terms of climate crisis domain. 8. To explore the new platforms and interventions from UN where I could involve the potential young innovators on addressing SDGs. 9. To showcase about the community initiatives happening at Global south countries in climate change sector to achieve SDGs which will be the topic of discussion in upcoming UN climate summit & COP 25. | Currently I am heading the operations and administration of C5 (Change Can Change Climate Change) Foundation, working across sectors such as climate change, slum rehabilitation, tribal development, disaster risk reduction etc. I was able to mobilize volunteers, conducted awareness campaigns, and coordinated flood relief & recovery operations with the organisation in Kerala Floods 2018. I am graduated in Sociology and have a masters in International Business and now a budding social entrepreneur. | Udhyanam (Flower Garden) | Implemented decentralized waste management systems among 25000 households and around 100000 people in Thiruvananthapuram | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Currently, it is implemented in India | Yes | Govt. institutions, district administration, voluntary organisations, youth clubs & student groups | Scaling | C5 was started as a homegrown citizen/community initiative with various stakeholders like Govt. institutions, civil society practitioners, business community, student groups, voluntary organisations etc. It has become a successful model which can be replicated anywhere in the world as a self sustainable medium for public, businesses, and policymakers. After one year of piloting, it has started generating revenue (livelihood for young social entrepreneurs) and has now spreading to new locations | We are addressing the problem of poor solid waste management methods by municipality & in houses. Both biodegradable waste (BD) and non-biodegradable (NBD) waste produced in a house is mixed & collected by the authorities & dumped in landfills. Since we are residing in a small state, we could not afford to have landfills for handling our wastes produced daily. Also, public are not aware about the harmful effects of burning NBD wastes since they are not affected in short-term due to this. | 1. Dumpsite clearance - As part of creating awareness among the public, we clear dumping-sites in the cities with the help of student groups & volunteer organisations. When youngsters with high educational & financial background starts clearing BD & NBD waste, it will create a shock, surprise & curiosity among the neighborhood especially among the adults & other youngsters in the community. 2. Door-to-door awareness campaigns - Our volunteers will conduct orientation and training on how to segregate BD & NBD waste generated in a household or commercial establishment in the neighborhood near the dumpsite (one km in radius; around 500 houses) 3. Collection Mechanism - Women self-help groups are authorized to collect clean and dry NBD wastes from households and deliver it to the Material Recovery facility (MRF) where it is divided into 12 different categories (e-waste, leather waste, plastic waste etc). BD wastes are composted in the household kitchen itself using bio-bins or kitchen bins which are produced free of cost from government or municipal corporation. Long-term vision: 1. Promoting anti-burning culture (no waste is dumped in houses or urban spaces) thereby reducing the carbon emissions. 2. Implementing green protocol in households by practicing 3R concept thereby ensuring zero waste is generated in houses, events, offices etc. 3. No landfills are needed since BD wastes are composted in houses itself and NBD wastes are collected & sent to recycling units. | 1. Existing waste management is of centralized structure which is not a sustainable solution. We are showcasing the tagline as ""my waste my responsibility"". 2. We create awareness among the community in a way that waste should be produced less & it should be treated in a decentralized manner by sending it to recycling units without burning or dumping in landfills. 3. In our dumpsite clearance, contradictory form the normal practice, we are not clearing wastes & dumping it to landfills. We segregate both BD & NBD wastes onsite and put BD wastes in growbags/bamboo pots & wash/clean NBD wastes. Gorwbags will act as a barrier for 41 days preventing from the recurrence of being a new dumpsite while the awareness campaigns & further waste collection mechanism is smooth. Cleaned NBD wastes are then sent to recycling units for further treatment. 4. There is always a gap between the public & govt. in such a way that most of the schemes that the authorities has, are not known by the community. During our door-to-door campaigns, we bridge this gap by making them aware about such schemes. 5. We employed women self-help groups for waste collection from houses so that it will create a livelihood model for them and also women has a greater ability to communicate the harmful effects of poor waste management directly to the housewives. 6. We collect nominal fees from households monthly for NBD waste collection and collect a commission from the recycling unit vendors | 1. More than 20 dumping sites cleared, beautified & ensure not recurred yet. 2. Awareness campaigns conducted on 25000 households and converted 100000 people on sustainable solid waste management. 3. Mobilized more than 5000 young volunteers/students from various institutions & organizations. By giving them orientation, we was able to create awareness among the families of these volunteers too. 4. Thiruvananthapuram corporation staff, other government department officials was made aware about the ill effects of waste dumping, burning culture and the need of creating new policy changes. 5. We are going on the right track as planned last year. We are planning to enter into new locations according to the funds we receive as it is a challenge since funding opportunities in this sector is less compared to other domains. | 1. We are planning to scale up our operations on the Kerala state as whole and also nationally by hand-holding with other like-minded partners , both Govt. institutions and civil society practitioners. 2. Each location needs around 50 women for waste collection and distributions, 500 young volunteers to conduct awareness campaigns in a particular neighborhood and 2-4 project officials to manage the operations/activities in a particular geographical location. 3. We are expecting to impact around 500000 people directly in the 2019-2021 year period. | Short-term: 1. Interventions from global organizations like United Nations since all our projects are running on developing/underdeveloped cities. So if we get such opportunities where we get acknowledged about our projects/work, then we could scale-up very fast. 2. Funding opportunities for projects from global south or third world countries since they will be more vulnerable to the climate crisis. Medium-term: 1. Policy making decisions nationally since India is a culturally diverse country, it is difficult to achieve a uniform civil rule for waste management. More efforts should be put on campaigns in align to the local culture. 2. Conferences/discussions//Gatherings of international bodies in tier-II or tier-III cities in India with specific focus on climate change and how it can be addressed regionally and replicate it globally. Long-term: 1. Green Protocol should be added as a SDGs component at international level 2. Policy making decisions from Govt. of India to find out alternatives for single use plastics. | http://cpower5.org/ -- Company Website https://www.facebook.com/CPowerFive/ -- Company Facebook handle https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oULCrsb5dg3586H-6-uLOmdW1PLvV-A8/view?usp=sharing -- C5 showcase Journal (2018-19) http://sanitation.kerala.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Green-Protocol-DOCUMENT.pdf -- Green Protocol | https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=229262337958267 -- Excerpt from District Collectors Internship video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUBcrY5S7kk&t=16s -- Documentary on Kerala Floods 2018. was Volunteer coordinator in flood relief operations. | Rotary Club of Trivandrum honouring C5 team for project Udhyanam https://www.facebook.com/377289306088642/posts/638769256607311/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
186 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Michele | Bongiovanni | HealRWorld LLC | www.healrworld.com | CEO | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | As CEO of a social impact company directly committed to the SDGs, I believe our work completely compliments your objectives of innovative solutions in the marketplace. Our global database and solutions include the largest database of sustainably-committed small and mid-sized companies in the world and platforms to help educate both SMEs and consumers alike on the SDGs to drive massive impact globally. | Michele is currently the CEO and Founder of HealRWorld LLC, a social impact firm whose big data platform aggregates sustainability information (People, Planet, Profit) on large and SME enterprises to increase the adoption of sustainable products and services both domestically and globally and foster positive change. Michele has led corporate strategy, marketing, and online product development/management for over 20 years in the financial services sector. She launched Dow Jones’ first ever website for Barron’s, and served on the launch team for Smart Money Interactive and the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. She served as Senior Director of Product Development and Innovation at D&B, and led the conceptualization, creation and development of a multi-million dollar online system for real time detection/rating of small business fraud which was patented. She was invited to serve in the first-ever D&B Leadership Management Program and launched the D&B Global Trust Seal. In addition, she served on the Merrill Lynch Global Bank Platform Team leading client research and strategy, led the most comprehensive client data analysis ever performed at the firm, and managed the $2B lockbox product with PNC Bank where she innovated and patented Merrill’s lockbox sales management tool. She also led the Communications Strategy Team for the Merrill Lynch Global Bank Group and served as a VP of Marketing. | HealRWorld | Platform for a more just and regenerative global economy | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | United States and globally via our digital online platform | Yes | Dow Jones & Company, The New Jersey Innovation Institute | Transition to Scale | We have proven our concept and have a major Fortune 100 customer. We also now have interest in three other large global corporations that could help us to market and support our products. | We are a big data and platform company for ES&G data on private companies. Most large data companies focus on ES&G data only on public companies, but our data and platforms serve the 90% of global businesses---the SME marketplace: ▪ SMEs account for over half of all formal jobs globally; ▪ They provide effective solutions to critical development issues, like access to clean energy, water, health services, and education; ▪ They fuel cross-border eCommerce in emerging and developed markets. | We provide our data to corporations, governments, impact investors and consumers so that they can find, invest in, purchase from and do business with companies aligned with social and environmental values. Our vision is to help drive a more inclusive and regenerative global economy via the insights and data that can help create transparency to do so. | The new perspective is that our data and insights are focused on the private sector and consumers....versus large global corporations. | We are in beta on all of our products and seeking to scale now. Dun & Bradstreet leveraged multiple analyses on our data to prove that the HealRWorld database of companies is on average 3X more creditworthy than their peers! This is a tremendous finding we hope to use to drive capital and patronage of sustainably committed SMEs. | Our goal upon our next round of funding is to: 1) Scale our Team to Meet Demands 2) Scale our Database from 1.2M companies to 30-40M in the next 18 mos; 3) Launch our Products to Market at Scale via Marketing and Sales Strategies our funding will support. | Short Term: We are seeking 500K min to scale our team and data Longer Term: We are seeking a full $5M raise to help us scale our solutions to market and finalize three game-changing corporate partnerships. | www.healrworld.com https://vimeo.com/289078544 https://community.healrworld.com/ https://youtu.be/Qcg1fDKCOPw | https://www.dropbox.com/s/qpukwnf1l1048td/WSJ.mp4?dl=0 https://holyseemission.org/contents/events/5cffb5e1a8c2d.php http://webtv.un.org/search/big-data-innovation-to-tackle-human-trafficking-and-modern-slavery/6045829334001/?term=trafficking&sort=date https://editor.wix.com/html/editor/web/renderer/edit/f0ef0450-4a20-4269-ba19-5234c8624b2e?metaSiteId=53a92b88-45c9-4380-abb0-c51e9111fee7&editorSessionId=26405565-8246-5283-b47f-967dcf557cb4 | D&B/Tableau Foundation 2018 Sustainable Innovation Winner 9-18 Sustainable Brands Innovation Summit--6-2018 Finalist New Jersey Higher Education Social Impact Award--Winner 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
187 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ritu dhingra | Dhingra | The NorthCap University | https://www.ncuindia.edu | PHD Research Scholar at School of Law | female | India | India | English | biodiversity and forest needed to be conserved for the coming generations. Planting the forest land with indigenous varieties of plants can lead to a natural expansion of the forest resulting in a growth of the biodiversity, and reducing the forest loss. This activity must be done at a global scale. As it is clear that trees, woods and forests can be a good solution to mitigate climate change. It can also help the society at large to adapt to such a change. As climate change due to human activity is a reality. The forests and forestry can be an attractive part of the solution for extenuating climate change. More so, timber is a renewable source of energy which is a good alternative to the fossil fuels. Trees can help us not only to adapt to the changing climate but also by growing native variety of plants, mitigation of climate change can be observed in a span of time. As trees provide shade, alleviate flooding, and create a valuable wildlife habitat and indigenous varieties of trees help to conserve the biodiversity as well. Since the forests are changing due to climate change and a future planning is required to help them to adapt to the changing climate. | I have been working at a senior level for the past many years and have trained many law students and lawyers in the field of environmental law and policy, national and international as well. I have been managing a legal office very successfully for the last 15 years and know the Nitti gritty of the office functioning from lowest to the highest level. I am a computer expert and have been doing all my official work myself and had never been dependent on any body else. I am excellent orator and speak well even in front of huge audiences. I am an excellent presenter and have been presenting posters , power point presentations at the international levels as well. I have good communication skills and I have been dealing with people from government to non-government to private sector to industrialist for the last 20 years. I have an immense research experience and have been into research for the past many years. Sustainable development, combatting climate change, disaster management, afforestation, ecosystem management, conservation of biodiversity for intergenerational equity are some of my areas of interest. I Have futuristic approach and think ahead of other people. I have interests in traditional knowledge systems, Eco theism, sacred ecology, sacred spaces, eco feminism and understand the importance of all these while also dealing the subject like remote sensing and environmental conservation. I believe in intergenerational equity and want to conserve the environment, the oceans, the biodiversity and this planet and its components on this whole for the coming generations | Ritu dhingra | Grow Natives and Conserve Biodiversity | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | This solution can be implemented in all the countries all over the world. Canada and few more countries are presently following this solution. | No | Research & Development | This solution is being implemented by many countries like Canada and there are many other countries involved in this project. need of the hour is to have a proper policy for this.- Efforts by Ministry Of Natural Resources Ontario, Canada - To Grow Native Trees .Ministry of Natural Resources is helping Local people of Ontario State to understand climate change,US Forest Service is recognizing the need to maintain native plant communities as part of fully functioning ecosystems. | GROWING INDIGENOUS PLANT VARIETIES FOR CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITYNative species are those that occur in the region in which they evolved. Plants evolve over geologic time in response to physical and biotic processes characteristic of a region: the climate, soils, timing of rainfall, drought, and frost; and interactions with the other species inhabiting the local community. The Native plants provide familiar sources of food and shelter for wildlife. | Trees are important tools to combat global warming, because they absorb and store the key greenhouse gas emitted by our cars and power plants, carbon dioxide (CO2), before it has a chance to reach the upper atmosphere where it can help trap heat around the Earth’s surface. All plants absorb carbon dioxide, but trees are the best. | Future smart cities can implement this in the form of vertical forests.According to latest UN report on world populations, it is estimated that by the year 2030, two thirds, of world’s population shall be dwelling in cities. The urban population in the developing countries will double and the areas covered by the cities would be trifold. Implementation of the persistent policies and amendments in the present laws will play an important role for maintaining a balance between the developmental activities and conservation of forests and bio-diversity. I have ideas which have a practical approach and have real concrete solutions for biodiversity, forest and environmental conservation with a futuristic approach. This idea can be implemented in future smart cities also. | an inventory of plants have been made which are native to my native place that is Delhi. This has to be done in each and every country zone wise.Policies to grow indigenous plants should be drafted with an elaborate inventory of all the native plants which can be grown in a particular terrain. And instructions should be given to the municipalities, department of horticulture of each and every zone, nurseries and other plant sources to grow only native plants in their areas. Then may be, in a period of ten years positive results like less of soil erosion, low rate of desertification, a gain in biodiversity and normal and steady weather conditions could be observed. Making an inventory of species of flora and fauna in habitats present in an area as well as noting their mutual relationships . An All Biota Taxonomic Inventory that focuses on a number of key species groups such as termites, arthopoda, repliles,fishes or butterflies etc which are dependent on certain species of trees. An All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory which focuses on the description of all species present in a certain area, which could be native or a foreign variety of flora as well as fauna. This will further explain as to what is the percentage of native and foreign variety of trees. . This scheme be then should be included in present day legislations related to forest and biodiversity conservation strictly stating as which species or genera of plant varieties can be grown in a particular area. | Implementation of the persistent policies and amendments in the present laws will play an important role for maintaining a balance between the developmental activities and conservation of forests and bio-diversity. The research has a practical approach and instead of having theoretic approach, the researcher has tried to give real concrete solutions for biodiversity and forest conservation with a futuristic approach. | Short term needs- Taxonomic data on native plants of a place Medium term- Collection and rearing of saplings of native plants and growing them at selected places. Long term - Implement this strategy all over the world in eco and every nook and corner of the earth. Help of aircrews and drones can be taken to sow saplings in difficult terrains. | Kenya’s Green Belt Movement, which has planted more than 30 million trees in 12 African countries since 1977(UNEP environment for development- Join the Billion Tree Campaign 2014 UN - REDDProgramme from: < http://www.un-redd.org/AboutUN-REDDProgramme/tabid/102613/Default.aspx> http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/nativeplants.shtml http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/eng-trees-and-climate-change.pdf/$FILE/eng-trees-and-climate-change.pdf>. http://africanhistory.about.com/od/glossaryg/g/Green-Belt-Movement.htm http://unfccc.int/secretariat/momentum_for_change/items/7843.php http://www.trust.org/item/?map=as-rains-change-kenyans-turn-to-planting-indigenous-trees http://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r1/plants-animals/plants/?cid=stelprdb5175879 http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/natural_heritage/nativeplants.shtml | https://www.iucn.org/content/trilogy-environmental-laws-ritu-dhingra http://iucncongress.ipostersessions.com/?s=A4-02-8C-9C-90-CA-20-42-C2-5F-1B-EE-F0-53-17-1D http://www.smarttechtoday.com/implementation-of-law-very-important-for-sustainable-development/7400/ : http://www.iucnael.org/en/e-journal/current-issue https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/human-rights-and-the-environment-15546 http://www.wildy.com/isbn/9781788111454/human-rights-and-the-environment-legality-indivisibility-dignity-and-geography-hardback-edward-elgar-publishing-limited (see chapter 31). https://www.iucn.org/content/trilogy-environmental-laws-ritu-dhingra http://iucncongress.ipostersessions.com/?s=A4-02-8C-9C-90-CA-20-42-C2-5F-1B-EE-F0-53-17-1D http://www.smarttechto | https://www.ecolex.org/details/literature/environmental-conservation-indian-traditions-mon-090178/?q=environmental+conservation+-+Indian+traditions&type=literature&xdate_min=&xdate_max= https://www.ecolex.org/details/literature/environmental-jurisprudence-national-and-international-mon-090179/?q=environmental+jurisprudence&type=literature&xdate_min=&xdate_max= https://www.ecolex.org/result/?q=floral+biodiversity&xdate_min=&xdate_max= | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
188 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Helene | Cote | Eco-Advising Chair, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi | ecoconseil.uqac.ca | Director | Male | Canada | Canada | English | French | Sustainability assessment is a growing concern worldwide with United Nations’ Agenda 2030 being implemented. As sustainability refers to the consideration of environmental, social and economic issues in light of cultural, historic—retrospective and prospective—and institutional perspectives, appropriate tools are needed to ensure the complete coverage of these aspects and allow the participation of multiple stakeholders. I present a scientifically robust and flexible tool, developed over the last 25 years and tested in different cultural and development contexts to build a framework for sustainability assessment of policies, strategies, programs and projects in light of Agenda 2030. This tool and process is part of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals Acceleration Toolkit; it is one of the most adaptable, addresses all 17 SDGs and is fully accessible for free. | Biologist and professor in the Department of Basic Sciences of UQAC, Claude Villeneuve has shared his career for more than 30 years between higher education, consulting, research and field work in environmental sciences and he is a biologist. Author of thirteen books including ""Living Climate Change, Responding for the Future"" with François Richard (Éditions Multimondes, 2007) and ""Is it too late? Update on climate change ""(Éditions Multimondes, 2013), he has received numerous awards for the quality of his work including the title of ""scientist of the year 2001 "". He was Director of the European Institute for the Environment Council of Strasbourg (France) (1993-94). He has served as a commissioner or expert in several public consultations. He is currently the Director of the Chair in Research and Intervention in Eco-Counseling. He sat on the scientific committee of the OURANOS Consortium and on the steering committee of the Institute of Energy and the Environment of La Francophonie. He received a Phénix de l'environnement in 2002, the Silver Award for the Canadian Environment Awards in the Climate Change section in 2006, and was named to the University of Quebec's Circle of Excellence. A renowned speaker, he is co-promoter of the Boreal Carbon project to offset greenhouse gases by contributing to research on climate change. | The Sustainable Development Analytical Grid (SDAG) | The SDAG is a robust and flexible tool developed over 25 years and tested in various countries with multiple stakeholders. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, China, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Gabon, Guinea, Haïti, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Sao Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Togo and USA | Yes | Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (IFDD) | Transition to Scale | The SDAG was developed and tested on Policies, Strategies, Programs and Projects (PSPP) at local and national levels from 1988 onwards. It was refined over the past 25+ years accounting for SD practitioners needs for a complete, thorough assessment tool and methodology, able to evolve in accordance with SD conceptualization and deal with its inherent complexity. Training on the use of this tool was provided in a number of countries and now is the time to expand its use. | The Sustainable Development Analytical Grid (SDAG), developed by the Eco-Advising Chair of the University of Quebec in Chicoutimi (UQAC) stemming from the initial work of prof. Claude Villeneuve, allows stakeholders to fully play their roles in assessing sustainability. First created to evaluate simple projects, the SDAG was enhanced and adapted to assess and review the sustainability of any national, regional, local or sectoral policies, strategies, programs or projects (PSPPs). | The latest version of SDAG is a six-dimension analytical tool (ecological, social, economic, ethical, cultural and governance) which can be used to assess the extent to which a PSPP can improve living conditions without adverse effects on other sustainability components. It offers ways to improve a given PSPP, while aiming for continuous improvement. The analysis can be used to set goals, find indicators, make informed decisions and/or find manageable trade-offs and new research questions. SDAG assesses PSPP's performance against targets in order to assess its overall sustainability performance. SDAG’s evaluation process consists of 5 steps: 1) Determining the scope of the analysis and objectives of the PSPP, collecting data on the PSPP 2) Weighting SD's objectives based on their relevance to the PSPP analyzed 3) Assessing the PSPP's contribution to SD's objectives 4) Current and future actions and improvements 5) Interpretation of results and sustainability assessment (an analysis report is produced each time SDAG is used). SDAG software generates 4 types of results: •Weighted average ratings for all dimensions and themes •Prioritizing each objective •Radar charts for all dimensions and themes •Priority issues for each dimensions and themes (including a list of priority interventions to improve the PSPP) SDAG currently covers the five Ps, and every goal and target of UN Agenda 2030. Generalization of its use could facilitate the world’s sustainability agenda. | Amongst SDAG advantages one can note the very broad spectrum of SD stakes covered, its complete and rigorous methodology and its refined interpretation modalities to help decision-making. Using the SDAG allows for a complete interpretation of the results, including looking at the equilibrium between the six SD dimensions and themes, prioritizing the objectives as well as the actions to be implemented and the production of a brief feasibility report. The SDAG’s content stems from international declarations and current SD literature. It is updated regularly, starting with the Brundtland report and including the UN 2030 Agenda. The SDAG tool and process can be, and often is, used as an SD quality control assessment, to analyze National Sustainable Development Strategies and other PSPPs developed with other SD tools. An SD assessment performed ex-ante opens the door to wider considerations and alternative solutions. It also allows for improvements of PSPP right at the planning stage. If performed ex post, it leads to further improvements. SD objectives are crosscutting and may be associated with more than one dimension. All of these are accounted for by the assessment provided by SDAG. Sustainability can allow different views to coexist but must answer to four principles: the normativity, equity, integration and the dynamic principle. The SDAG meets these four principles and can be viewed as the most efficient SD analysis tool currently available. | The SDAG was built on SD principles, themes and objectives based on a review of the proceedings of international conventions, standards such as ISO 26000 best practices, and a diversity of authors. Since 1988, elements and ideas have been collected, crossed, reformulated and the wording has been tested with students, citizens involved in projects and sustainability experts after 1991. For example, the UN SDGs and their targets were introduced in the latest version of the tool launched in May 2016 following a review by twelve experts. Over time, the tool has evolved. After the introduction of the “ethical” dimension in 1992, governance was added to the 2011 version, then the cultural dimension in 2014. These new dimensions were introduced from the addition of new objectives and the reorganization of precedents, with each dimension referring to the satisfaction of specific needs corresponding to Bellagio's principles for sustainability evaluation and measure. The SDAG has been effectively used «in the field» in several countries and for different types of PSPPs. For example, SDAG was recently presented and used in Algeria to successfully review a number of existing national policies and programs. Government officials and national experts were extremely satisfied with the tool. One participant even mentioned that «despite his efforts he could not find any weakness in the methodology and content of the SDAG». | The SDAG has already been included in the UN Sustainable Tool Kit, and used in a number of countries (including Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Canada, China, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Gabon, Guinea, Haïti, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Sao Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Togo and USA). Our objective is to make this innovative tool available in all UN official languages and facilitate its use everywhere around the world to facilitate and measure progress in the achievement of the SDGs. Versions in English, French, Chinese (Mandarin), Greek and Spanish are already available but translations in other languages would be an asset. Although the basic process of the SDAG is simple (a two steps review of the objectives through weighing and evaluation), mastering all concepts and information to fill the grid requires minimal time and a knowledgeable set of stakeholders. Training is thus needed to properly use this evaluation tool. It must be noted that, experience has showed that the use of the SDAG is definitely less time and resource intensive and more efficient than current methods used in reviewing existing development policies and projects or in the elaboration of new policies, programs and projects. The general use of the SDAG could make a significant difference in the quality and sustainability of development policies and projects around the world and improve the quality of life of millions of people. | Short-term •Financial support should be made available for students willing to participate to the program on sustainability analysis Université du Québec at Chicoutimi has created ""Programme court de deuxième cycle en analyse systémique de durabilité"". Details at: https://www.uqac.ca/programme/0737-programme-court-2e-cycle-en-analyse-systemique-de-durabilite/” •Funds for translating the grid and its user guide in the different UN official languages namely Arabic and Russian would be appreciated. Medium-term •Funding to provide training sessions on the use of this tool to different countries and organisations. In recent years, Institut de la francophonie pour le développement durable has funded training sessions in Africa and in 2019, the European Union has funded training on sustainability analysis of public policies in Algeria based on the use of the SDAG. International training program or conferences and workshops could be orgnised in different regions of the world on sustainability analysis of public policies and development projects, similar to what was done for the implementation of the SDGs. A training for the trainers program would rapidly disseminate the use of this tool and specific training for analysts working for international development and funding agencies. Long-term •Promote the use of the SDAG by international development and funding agencies for the selection of priority projects, the improvement of existing projects and the implementation of SDGs. | The website of the Eco-Advising Chair is : http://ecoconseil.uqac.ca/ The most recent paper in English on the SDAG is: Villeneuve, C., D. Tremblay, O. Riffon, G. Lanmafankpotin, and S. Bouchard. (2017). A Systemic Tool and Process for Sustainability Assessment. Sustainability 9:1909. available in the publications/articles section of the website at: http://ecoconseil.uqac.ca/articles-scientifiques/ The SDAG is available for free on the right side of every page of the website as well as the user guide in French and in English | I have been a reknown speaker for quite a long time giving more than 30 conferences a year. A list of selected publication by me and my team at the Eco-Advising Chair can be found at Master thesis: http://ecoconseil.uqac.ca/maitrises/ PhD thesis: http://ecoconseil.uqac.ca/these-des-doctorat/ Articles: http://ecoconseil.uqac.ca/articles-scientifiques/ Project reports: http://ecoconseil.uqac.ca/rapports-dintervention/ Conferences: http://ecoconseil.uqac.ca/conferences-2/ Books: http://ecoconseil.uqac.ca/livres/ | Winner of the followings : • Phoenix Circle in Environment Quebec Ministry of the Environment 2002 • Canadian Environment Prize Climate Change Section 2006 • Circle of Excellence of the University of Quebec 2006 • Prix Alphonse and Dorimène Desjardins Quebec Ministry of International Relations 2010 • Forest Personality of the Year Saguenay Lac Saint Jean Forestry Assocn 2016 • Paul Harris Rotary International Club Medal 2017 • Excellence in Education Leadership Award, Université du Québec 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
189 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nicole | Spieker | PharmAccess-SafeCare | https://www.safe-care.org/ | Director Quality and Director East Africa | Female | Kenya | Netherlands | English | PharmAccess’ mission is to increase access to affordable and quality healthcare for low and middle-income populations across sub-Saharan Africa. Our philosophy was informed by our founder Joep Lange – a pioneer in provision of HIV/AIDS medication to Africa. To help create transparency in care provision and lay the basis for institutionalizing a regulatory framework, together with our partners we developed SafeCare; a practical means to support small and medium health facilities in sub-Saharan Africa to improve the quality of their healthcare provision. SafeCare focuses mainly on public and private health care facilities at the lower end of the market such as dispensaries and health centers, which form the primary health care distribution channels in low-income settings and often struggle with patient safety and quality demands. Capitalizing on the digital revolution, we have developed tools to guide and boost local provider capacities, with the potential to impact millions worldwide. We believe we have developed a scalable, community driven model to improve healthcare provision within sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. However, in order to truly reach its potential, initiatives such as SafeCare require the support of all stakeholders in the health community; hence our aim to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit. | Nicole Spieker is the East Africa Director of PharmAccess and Director Quality of SafeCare. She launched the SafeCare Initiative, started in 2010 by PharmAccess, the Joint Commission International (JCI, U.S.A) and COHSASA (South Africa) and is currently leading the digital innovation agenda of PharmAccess in East Africa. Prior to this, Dr. Spieker was Director of clinical support services at the Aga Khan Health Services, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She holds a PhD in Molecular Genetics from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. | SafeCare: International Standards, Local Solutions | Using digital technology to assess, benchmark and improve quality of care | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Ghana, Tanzania, Nigeria and Kenya | Yes | Tanzania, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria Ministries of Health and National Health Insurance Agencies, external donors | Scaling | The SafeCare approach has been scaled to almost 2500 facilities across sub Saharan Africa. The solution presented is an innovative extension of this approach. The digital technology platform creates efficiencies in the assessment process, provides data on compliance, certification, benchmarking and quality improvement to all stakeholders in the health sector. The platform is ready to be rolled out to existing and new provider and partner networks, across public and private sectors. | Poor quality care has overtaken access as the biggest barrier to reducing mortality and achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) . Ensuring quality health systems could prevent an estimated 2.5 million cardiovascular deaths, one million newborn and 50% of the approx. 400 000 maternal deaths that occur each year. It is thus critical to focus not only on ensuring access to health services but ensuring they are of sufficient quality to improve outcomes, in order to reach the SDGs. | SafeCare, developed by PharmAccess, Joint Commission International and COHSASA, constitutes Isqua accredited standards and a practical approach that tracks, acknowledges and certifies incremental quality improvements in health facilities in resource restricted settings. In line with the WHO Classification of Digital Health Interventions (2.8 ) SafeCare does four things. It rates providers and allows for benchmarking across the health system. It incentivizes quality improvement and shows providers how to perform better. It enables governments to be informed and regulate delivery of care. Finally, it encourages investment in systems often deemed too risky to be worth banking on. The methodology has been used in almost 2500 healthcare facilities across Africa. The SafeCare process has now been fully digitalized, to increase the efficiency and impact of quality improvement in resource restricted settings – for example, the SafeCare tool supports local partners in real time data collection, automatically translating assessment data into quality improvement plans. The tool is hosted on the online Quality Platform, which enables providers to benchmark and provides data on care provision, enabling informed decision making by various health system stakeholders. | Western-style quality standards are not always applicable or achievable, as challenges faced by facilities in sub-Saharan Africa are often different. Health facilities in SSA need local solutions regarding certification and accreditation of healthcare provision, combined with innovative, cost-effective quality improvement support. SafeCare prepares facilities for accreditation based on international (ISQua) standards but integrates local solutions to meet the challenges of developing countries. The standards assess the quality of provided care and allow for benchmarking across the health sector, using mobile phones for data collection. Almost 2500 facilities across Africa have used SafeCare to measure and improve their services, and more than 15 public and private sector stakeholders are using the data for informed decision making on contracting, resource allocation and measuring impact. More than 600 assessors have been trained and qualified to use SafeCare methodology, across Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria. | As of 2019 SafeCare is active in almost 2500 facilities, including 233 in Ghana, 350 in Nigeria, 1033 in Kenya and 672 in Tanzania as well as Uganda. Over 4500 assessments have been conducted, and 760 assessors trained at facilities experiencing 3.8 million patient visits per month. In terms of impact, evaluations have demonstrated on average, 83% of facilities using SafeCare have improved, patient visits in clinics implementing SafeCare increasing an average of 30% over six months. We measure our progress through cycles of learning and analysis, data collected from facilities continuously informing our work. Two rigorous impact evaluation studies have been undertaken utilizing randomized control trials; one in Kenya as part of the AHME (African health markets for Equity) program, and one in Tanzania implemented by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. | To complement onsite assessments and quality improvement activities, SafeCare is expanding the Quality Platform to include weekly QI challenges, benchmarking, sharing of best practices, chatbots and real-time progress information. In addition to the five SafeCare stepwise improvement levels, we are also developing gamification technology. During the weekly and monthly challenges and regarding specific topics as waste management, hand hygiene or HIV treatment protocols, facilities can win ‘badges’ which recognize achievements made. This platform is the first of its kind. The learning content for healthcare facilities to meet these challenges will also be developed and available on the platform, where facilities can share best practise examples to stimulate peer to peer learning. A variety of other stakeholders will be able to access the platform; donors can follow the progress of the facilities they support, governments can access data for informed decision making and resource allocation, investors can access the information for investment risk reduction purposes and companies can use the information for market studies. Facility data will only be shared based on informed consent of the healthcare providers. | The requirements, needs, and design of the platform will be co-created with the health market (healthcare facilities and third party users) during the next steps of implementation. During cyclic introductions of new features and user testing, we will conduct evaluation through Think Aloud methodology regarding features such as the chat bot, digital badges and peer-to-peer learning. At the same time, we will go through a similar approach with third party organizations. Through this monitoring and evaluation process, we aim to create a platform that benefits all stakeholders and offers features ensuring quality improvement, benchmarking and peer to peer learning, as well as investments in and contracting of healthcare facilities by third parties. For long term scaling, we aim to bring this technology in a licensing approach to third parties interested in using the technology and accessing the data. | PharmAccess - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZfK2U76Dv8 SafeCare introduction - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JZZfFS53Jw SafeCare - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuvkV7mIYQk Case study - Jacaranda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2-TWBkcZgE Mobile Technology - putting the patient front and center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYpT9RhfhR0 Journal on quality and patient safety https://www.elsevier.com/__data/promis_misc/JCJQPSQuillivan.pdf Improving quality of care in primary health facilities in rural Nigeria - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2333392816662581 | N/A | 2016 OECD DAC Prize finalist - taking innovation to scale | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
190 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Edrice | Louis | CITHADD (Haiti Technological Innovation Center for Sustainable Development ) | www.cithadd.biz | Technical Director | Male | Haiti | Haiti | English | French | I am more than determined and motivated to participate in the UN summit to present my project for a very important reason that is to provide a solution to the problem facing the agricultural sector of my community. Agriculture is considered the key sector in Haiti but investment is scarce in this area. I want to show through our TechAgrinnov solution, how we can improve the lives of thousands of small farmers but also how we can help the agricultural sector to bring in more money. Participating in this summit will give me the opportunity to make known to the world this solution and to find potential investors who can help us to enlarge our solution for a greater impact. | Originally from Haiti, Edrice Louis is a young 24 year old Haitian programmer passionate about technology and entrepreneurship. ✅ In January 2019, his startup CITHADD was selected among the 200 companies selected for the Caribbean, by CTEP (CARIBBEAN TECH ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM). ✅Winner of two technology awards in 2018: ◾One of the winners of the HACKATHON INNOVATION MEDIAS by the International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF) with the start-up ""Ann Pwoteje"" ◾ The other Award for its startup TechAgrinnov, 2nd prize winner of the Innovatic2018 contest organized by the Sogebank Foundation, a prize awarded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). This startup becomes the first using blockchain technology in the Haitian agricultural sector. ✅ In June 2018, its technological startup CITHADD was selected by the US Embassy among the 25 startups selected for the entire country to participate in the second edition of Haiti Tech Summit 2018. ✅ In 2017, finalist of the contest HAITI CREATIVE realized by the IDB with his start-up CITHADD. ✅ He is Co-Founder and current Chief Technology Officer of CITHADD who represented Haiti and the Caribbean in England during the biggest hackathon organized by HCL Technologies in September 2017. ✅Named a young leader and actor of change by ASIA YOUTH INTERNATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS in 2017. | TechAgrinnov | A mobile application to order traceable local agricultural products and facilitate investment in this sector with our cryptocurrency AGRIKOIN. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Our solution is being implemented in Haiti, more specifically in the department of Artibonite which is our pilot area. | Yes | Our solution has several key partners according to our business model canvas: First, we have a planters federation called KADPAL which has more than 38 associations of farmers together. The Ministry of Agriculture and finally USAID. | Transition to Scale | We believe that our solution TechAgrinnov is at this stage because having been involved in several national and international technology competitions, we had more than two experts who validated our idea and helped us to build our business model. Currently this project has been launched in Haiti, more precisely in the department of Artibonite which is our pilot area. We are working to move our solution to a larger scale to meet the needs of more customers. | In Haiti, According to a report published by the CNSA (National Council for Food Security) in 2018 in the newspaper Le Nouvelliste, which shows that every year more than 40% of agricultural products are wasted and the rate of food insecurity increases by 30% each year. The small farmers who are in majority, have products available but can not sell them easily and on the other hand consumers like hotels, restaurants can not find traceable products and in sufficient quantity. | My solution Tech-Agrinnov is a mobile application based on blockchain that allows users to order easily traceable local agricultural products for their family in Haiti and also allows the diaspora to buy local products for their family living in the country. This platform will offer small farmers a space to easily market their products by mediating with key consumers. Our goal is to become a reference for consumers as a digital platform, enabling them to order local agricultural products of good quality and traceability. This would allow the agricultural sector to make more money and help small farmers produce more. Our vision is to make TechAgrinnov, the Amazon of Haitian agricultural products TechAgrinnov to give birth to Haiti's first cryptocurrency (Agrikoin) dedicated to facilitate trade in the agricultural sector. We have a detailed plan for next 2-3 years concerning this project: First, we are currently trying to win the confidence of planners and consumers of the Artibonite department. We will develop other partnerships in the region that will allow in the next 2-3 years for the project to reach more than 200 associations of planters. | TechAgrinnov revolutionizes the way people are used to consuming local agricultural products. Our project has two innovative aspects: one of them resides in the product supply process as consumers spend a lot of time getting to the market and getting the products. With our tools, we make it easy for them to find the best products with the best price and quantity. We bring them directly to their homes. The other aspect is the use of blockchain technology to ensure the traceability of the products they consume with a barcode containing all the information placed on the products. Already, in the market there are companies that are almost similar. They allow people to find local products. Their process is almost traditional in that they only allow them to be called. In terms of competitive advantages, we have several: First of all it is the trust that we establish with our customers by offering them blockchain based products and also to find good products in sufficient quantity from home without having move.In addition to making it easier for farmers to sell their products, we are developing our AGRIKOIN cryptocurrency which will facilitate investment in this sector to finance smallholder projects. | As part of our solution, our team has made great progress in terms of structuring the team but also in the technical advancement of our solution. Already, we have a signed agreement with more than 38 farmers' associations, moreover we have agreements with hotels, restaurants, supermarkets. This solution has been valid in more than two technological competitions and has already been launched in Haiti. We measure the progress of our solution with the number of download of our application and the orders which multiply. Currently we are working on our Cryptocurrency AGRIKOIN which will facilitate investments in the agricultural sector. | Tech-Agrinnov has several objectives: First, it is to become a tool allowing our farmers to easily market their products. Then it is to become a reference for the population as a digital platform allowing them to order local products of good quality and traceable. Finally it is to become the Haitian Amazon of agricultural products. This solution will impact the lives of thousands of small farmers who have difficulty in selling their agricultural commodities to support their families. TechAgrinnov is starting to enter the US market because according to a study, there is a strong demand for local products by the Haitian diaspora living in the United States. The main beneficiaries of this initiative will be our small farmers who are struggling to sell their agricultural products. Then there are the hotels, restaurants, processing industries that still need these products in large quantities. Finally it is the agricultural sector because by consuming many more local products and facilitating the diaspora to buy local, we will save millions of dollars of products that come from outside. | As short-term needs, TechAgrinnov needs physical infrastructure to facilitate the operations and the good management of our solution. From a start-up fund to start with the purchase of some agricultural commodities from small farmers and finalize our technical solution. In the medium term, we plan to have enough financial resources to train thousands of small farmers to properly conserve their crops. Reinforce our solution from a technical point of view. In the long term, we will need an office that will represent us in each of the 10 departments of the country, then we will expand on the US market because we have a strong Haitian community living in the US market in terms of local product. | http:// www.cithadd.biz/techagrinnov https://haitibiznews.com/techagrinnov-the-first-mobile-application-used-in-agriculture-in-haiti/ https://lenouvelliste.com/article/203447/techagrinnov-la-premiere-application-mobile-utilisee-dans-lagriculture-en-haiti | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9GMKVh5Dww | - In 2018, TechAgrinnov participated in a national technological competition realized by FONDATION SOGEBANK, we were 2nd laureat and received a sum of 5000 $ to start with the project. - In May 2019, TechAgrinnov was one of the five winners of CLE HAITI's Entrepreneurship Contest in partnership with IDB. We have $ 2,000 funding used to work on the effectiveness of our tools. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
191 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Fatima | Chi | L3G's & Associates | www.l3gsbz.com | Independent Accountant | Female | Belize | Belize | English | We as Financial Advisers and Accountant want to eliminate manual accounting and receipting. Going Technical with Accounting. No more written receipts or too much paper that then turns into garbage. | I graduated from the University of Belize obtaining a Bachelor Degree in Accounting in 2008. Then went on the working field in which helped me gained over 9 years experience in the accounting and finance sectors. Observing the demand for proper financial background in the business world she later partnered with her sister to offer freelance accounting services opening doors for clients in Feb 2016. Both founders of our Firm has been inspired and motivated through watching their mom a business woman of her own over 20 years owning a grocery store. Accounting, Finance and Managerial skills is a career that I enjoy while helping other small businesses. Those that start and 6 months down the road are closed due to lack of proper finance Management. I love what I do! | Better Finance Management - AccountingTech | Start up and Small business also need proper accounting, budgeting and finance management. There are many accounting systems that can be implemented. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Belize, Central America | Yes | Co - Founder of Accounting Firm | Scaling | Based on research the need for Proper Finance and Accounting management is highly on demand. We have many opportunities for student graduating with accounting skills and in need for an opportunities. Combining the need and skills we can create more sustainable small business and make an economic impact in our country. Job creation, more tax payable are just few examples of contribution to economic growth. | Business reaching out and catering for small businesses that needs to become more sustainable in our economy. | People will focus less on Accounting once they have implemented a proper accounting system and ensuring the better management of their finances. This will allot more time for businesses to embark in other positive projects and also more job creation and seek more opportunities to be better efficient in our community. Most importantly moving forward from just start up businesses scaling to be sustainable and stay in business | Many firms target for the bigger Company's that are far up from start ups and more stable. Taking time to guide business on a step to step requirement of staying in business and their obligation to the government so that they are not penalized. | In 2016 we did not have a workable office and resources. We have moved to now in 2019 having a improved office that have space for 3 staff. We have acquired equipment such as computers and basic office tools required. | Goals is as follows: 1. BE a Certified Accountant 2. Engage in Education Forum to reach out 3. Increase Revenue to 4. Create more employment 5. Encourage entrepreneurs to step up 6. Be support | 1. Resources and funding to Education and Marketing Campaigns to reach out to the community 2. Exposure to accounting technologies that exist to make business work easier 3. Become a Certified Accountant (Belize do no offer this) 4. Purchase our own Operations Location. This will enable us to expand in office space and employment opportunity 5. Funding to be able to offer these services at a minimal cost to start ups and small businesses that are not able to afford these services. | https://www.facebook.com/L3GsAndAssociates/ http://l3gsbz.com/ We are also on Instagram and LinkedIN (Name: Fatima Chi for L3G's & Associates) | https://www.facebook.com/L3GsAndAssociates/ No other videos created at the moment. | Selected as 1 of 4 participants for YLAI 2018 Reverse Exchange Selected as 1 of 13 participants for a Female Entrepreneurs program training (received an award for outstanding attendance performance At School: Prefix Leader, Orientation Group Leader, Class President | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
192 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Everson | M Jere | Jemtech pvt fuels | Don't have currently | Managing Director | Male | Malawi | Malawi | English | Jemtech aims at curbing climate change and wealth creation through value addition in proper waste management from agricultural residues of which I strongly believe UN is extremely concerned with environmental degradation and poor living standards of some people around the globe especially in Africa and Malawi inclusive. Fighting against global challenge demands strategic coordination and cooperation from around the globe thus connection from UN summit will spur success of this challenging initiative being ignited by Jemtech pvt fuels. | Went to Namitete secondary school in Malawi and completed in the year 2010 Got Indian government scholarship scheme in 2014 and successfully obtained bachelor's degree of Arts in economics from University of Pune India Currently working with Ministry of Finance Economic Planning and Development of the Malawi Government. And also am the Managing Director for Jemtech pvt fuels established in Malawi and will eventually spread across Africa. | Briquettes production | Wealth creation out wastes in Africa for sustainable domestic energy | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Malawi | Yes | Women and youth | Proof of Concept | Got seed funding and striving hard to acquire extra finance to role out operations. | Land degradation, climate change, employment opportunities | Curbing climate change, job creation and creation of green villages in Africa | Providing latest machinery to local growers of various crops for value addition while converting its residues/wastes in energy sources for domestic usages | Got national interest to an extent that some organizations are coming forth to fund its successful establishment | Become leader in briquettes production in southern Africa and create green villages while providing jobs to women and youth | Modern machinery with latest technology Expand contract with key resources partners Construction of extensive storage and plant warehouses | Currently in the process to set up the website | In the development process at the moment | Second prize winner of Total Malawi starterup of the year challenge 2018. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
193 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Trevor | Schonewille | Monkiri | www.monkiri.co | Founder | Male | Canada | Canada | English | Monkiri is focused around collaboration and creating positive impacts. We look to partner with other organizations that are also aiming to create sustainable impact. Presenting my project provides us with the opportunity to increase our exposure and raise awareness of our mission with other leading people looking to achieve the SDGs. We have noticed that these connections can help lay the foundations for tremendous outcomes, and being part of an ecosystem that positive innovation thrives in would be very beneficial for Monkiri. I also want to help other people reach their goals and provide support for different initiatives. Currently, Monkiri helps support other economic development projects by providing their target audience with financial literacy education tools. For example, there is a Women's Development Project in Myanmar that Monkiri is helping support by providing these women with easy access to financial literacy content. This in turns helps create a positive effect on the overall mission that the other organization is running. Working in a collaborative way is important to us. Monkiri is a mobile e-learning platform that focuses on financial literacy and inclusion. Through a mobile application, users can access a wide array of lessons on different financial concepts such as compound interest, insurance, microfinance, mobile money and more. We break these lesson categories down into smaller modules that typically take between 4-7 minutes to complete. This lets users continue their learning on their own schedule. Once a user has completed a module, they unlock a list of the relevant financial service providers. This allows the user to directly see where they can apply their newly learned skills. The goal is to empower users with the skills to make their own informed financial decisions, and then provide them with transparency when they go to make a selection. The moto we have while developing Monkiri is 'Built Global, Tailored Local.' We are building a scalable framework that makes it easy to switch the content depending on where it is being delivered. This also gives us the opportunity to easily work with local partners so that we can localize the content as much as possible. We are doing our initial tests in Cambodia and Myanmar. We plan to expand to other emerging markets and then global. Our goal is to improve global financial literacy by 10% in 10 years, reaching over 600 million adults worldwide. | During my second year of university, I was exposed to the idea of impact investing. Being both financially sustainable and having a sustainable impact on the environment/society was something that just made sense to me. I loved the potential and opportunities that existed in the space, and it sparked my interest. This interest took me on an internship to Kenya to work at an impact investment firm. My role was to help screen ventures, conduct industry reviews and assist companies that the firm had invested into. This is also where my interest in impact investing turned into a passion. In my last year of university, I worked as a Research Assistant, looking at how Institutional Investors can have a positive impact on the SDGs through ESG metric systems. Once I graduated from University in 2018 I took another internship at an impact investment firm, this time it was in Cambodia. This firm's focus was on providing debt investments to microfinance banks across Southeast Asia. My role was to provide analytical support and follow up with the microfinance institutions when they were late on repayments. During these conversations, a common issue was a lack of financial literacy of their end-users. People were not properly protecting their assets or were unable to use more complicated financial products, holding back their economic development. The realization that this was a pain point for both lenders and borrowers is what inspired me to start Monkiri so that users can have a way to easily learn about financial services. | Monkiri | Improving financial literacy and inclusion | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Cambodia, Myanmar, Global | Yes | Aflatoun International, Good Return, ONOW Myanmar, United Nations Capital Development Fund (Myanmar) | Proof of Concept | On August 1 we launched our beta project in Myanmar and Cambodia. For this project, we are evaluating the effectiveness of Monkiri as a financial education tool and the effectiveness of Monkiri as a financial inclusion system. Based on our research and the success of the content that we have sourced from various financial inclusion organizations, we believe that this project will do well in both tests. While we are still evaluating this, we view that we're in the proof of concept stage. | We focus on financial literacy and inclusion. While interning at an impact investment firm, I saw clear causation between economic shocks and microfinance defaults caused by a lack of understanding of financial protections. A step further showed that new, beneficial financial services couldn't be used because of the end-user not understanding how they work and the value of them. A lack of trust from poor understanding also prevents users from adopting formal financial and digital services. | Monkiri is a mobile e-learning platform that focuses on financial literacy and inclusion. Through a mobile application, users can access a wide array of lessons on different financial concepts such as compound interest, insurance, microfinance, mobile money and more. We break these lesson categories down into smaller modules that typically take between 4-7 minutes to complete. This lets users continue their learning on their own schedule. Once a user has completed a module, they unlock a list of the relevant financial service providers. This allows the user to directly see where they can apply their newly learned skills. The goal is to empower users with the skills to make their own informed financial decisions, and then provide them with transparency when they go to make a selection. The moto we have while developing Monkiri is 'Built Global, Tailored Local.' We are building a scalable framework that makes it easy to switch the content depending on where it is being delivered. This also gives us the opportunity to easily work with local partners so that we can localize the content as much as possible. We are doing our initial tests in Cambodia and Myanmar. We plan to expand to other emerging markets and then global. Our goal is to improve global financial literacy by 10% in 10 years, reaching over 600 million adults worldwide. | We focus on creating engaging and useful mobile content on financial literacy. We partner with Financial Inclusion Organizations who have experience creating financial literacy content and optimize their existing content for mobile distribution. We add extra support pieces like animations, skill-testing questions, graphics, financial tools and more to give the end-user the best possible experience. We are also adding both in-game and real-world incentive systems. In-game are things like streaks and badges. The real-world incentives are challenges sponsored by organizations provide rewards like discounts on financial services or free airtime. We wholeheartedly believe that only through collaboration will financial literacy rates improve on a global scale. That is why we're positioning Monkiri to be the bridge between users, financial service providers, and financial inclusion organizations. By aligning the goals of the different actors with mutually beneficial partnerships, everyone is made better off. We will also be providing Know Your Customer and Financial Capability Verification services to add another tool to improve financial inclusion. By creating statistic models around user lesson history and financial performances, we can provide users who would have otherwise not qualified for a financial service because of their lack of financial history and opportunity to demonstrate that they understand these concepts and will be at a lower risk level. | We have pretested the platform with 100 people. We are launching our beta Aug 1, 2019 in collaboration with the UNCDF where we're aiming to reach 5000-15,000 users. We've established content partnerships with Aflatoun International, Good Return and ONOW Myanmar. We're working with some of the largest financial service providers and financial inclusion organizations in Cambodia and Myanmar. We are starting our Financial Literacy Test and Open Market Test where we are partnering with the Financial Service Providers to test the effects that Monkiri has on users. We will be looking at things like behavior changes, product adoption, on boarding times, comprehension levels, comfort, inclusion of a variety of financial products and more. | We are currently in our closed beta testing stage which will last until October 2019 in Cambodia and Myanmar. Once the beta is finished, we will be having our full product launch, making the app publically downloadable on the app store. The portion of the beta project happening in Myanmar is in conjunction with a United Nations Capital Development Fund Financial literacy and inclusion project. Phase one of this project will finish in November 2019. We are targeting to have between 5000 - 15,000 test users during the closed beta. With the full platform launch, we will focus our efforts on scaling nationally in Cambodia and Myanmar in 2020. This will help us refine the content and establish best scaling practices. In 2021 our focus will shift to expanding to other Southeast Asian countries, followed by emerging markets in Africa and South America. The final step will be a global expansion and including developed markets. By the end of 2020, we aim to have 100,000 users on the platform. We plan on expanding our Canada office to also open up a Southeast Asia office to make it easier to bring more local talent onto the team. | Short term (6 Months) - Developing additional partnerships with financial service providers and financial inclusion organizations to increase our presence and open the door for future collaboration. Working with research firms and academics who focus on financial literacy to help improve the rigor of our testing. Medium Term (18 months) - After completing the initial beta project the next step will be scaling. Having access to the capital to do this will be a key requirement. Additional human capital to help meet the scaling demands will also be important, so we plan on having a large hiring round in early 2020. Long term (2-5 years) - At this stage, we'll be looking start our global expansion. Having connections with international organizations, strategic investors, key personnel and funding will be important. | https://monkiri.co/ http://geeksincambodia.com/tag/monkiri/ | N/A | One Young World - Moving Money for Better Scholarship 2019 supported by Western Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
194 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Arif Ullah | Khan | BacBon Limited | www.bacbonltd.com | Executive Director | Male | Bangladesh | Bangladesh | English | Waste Management and Clean City. Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh serving more than 20 million people. Every day people are coming from different parts of the country for better education, job searching, treatment, administrative needs, and many other reasons. Administrative centralization, Business centralization and shortage of enough bypass roads people are coming to Dhaka. Many of them are not aware enough about the cleanliness and hygiene issues of the city. More than 2 million students are studying high school and university. I would like to utilize this young generation for being the safeguard of the city. Dividing into 7 groups of every institute students we would assign them to support our police and relevant team for cleaning the city, reducing traffic jam and solve the city's problem. | I am Arif Ullah Khan, Born in Chandpur under Chittagong Division of Bangladesh. I have completed my Bachelor & Masters from Dhaka University in Development Studies. Last Eight years I have worked in Japan-based e-Education NPO sector under BacBon Limited. Currently, I am the Executive Director of BacBon. I believe with the support of our community we can solve our problem. | Smart Urban Solution | University or High school student can solve the urban problems through their active involvement. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Initially only Dhaka city, later on 3rd world countries | No | Research & Development | It's not innovation, but a solution through an awareness campaign. | Urban hygiene, cleanliness, and spread of disease is becoming a great threat for Dhaka City and also becoming unsuitable for living. | Youth is the key to success of any nations. We have more than 30% of youth withing 18-30 and studying the different level of high school and university. It can be possible to manage problems with their voluntary engagement. | Start campaign, collaborate with NGOs and Institutions and go for implementation. | Still, it is in idea level. Let it grow. | Follow Japan society and ensure Dhaka as a liveable city. | Engagement of Different level institution. | Not ready yet. only www.bacbonltd.com available for educational activities | NA | Not yet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
195 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | JOSE MARIA | COSTA BOTEY | AUGUSTO BELLINI, S.L. | WWW.AUGUSTOBELLINI.COM | CEO | MALE | Spain | Spain | English | Spanish | I would like to join to explain my solution to minimise and prevent the marine and river biota pollution due to micro plastic that is released via garment domestic wash. The micro plastic released to the seas are a huge treat to all people living on the marine resources, and the pollution levels are getting worse as the time goes by. All marine life is currently poisoned by microparticules and solutions are difficult to implement. . | Born in Barcelona / Spain, father of three children. Economy studies at the UB ( Univ. Barcelona) Owner since 1984 of a textile trading company working in several countries all over the world. | textile and footwear wastage marker | A marker linked to the garment or footwear that signals the recommended time to recycle, as using them over this point will pollute marine life | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Spain and the rest of Europe | No | Proof of Concept | Made some sample trials that succeed on the marked objectives. Have shown the solution to key garment retailers and discussing the pilot test points. | Domestic wash is shredding microparticles to the marine biota. Whenever this microparticles are from synthetic material ( polyester, polyamide, acrylic etc), they took long time to dissolve and because of its small size, ends in all kind of living creatures in the seas, rivers, etc. | We developed an information system to help minimise the marine pollution due to garment domestic wash. This system has two parts. The first part is a marker that can be sown or embedded to a garment/shoe that changes the marker original color when the recycle point of a the item is reached. We define the recycle point as the one when the item is starting to throw microparticles on a accelerated mood, most of the time not yet visible to human eye. The color change of the maker is correlated to the the usable life of the item, and every fabric and materials composition has his own marker. The second part of this information system is that, when the color of the marker changes, allows an embedded code ( QR code, Bar code, etc) to be readable by smartphone or any other lector, so the end user can communicate with the brand, the retailer or authority, etc on how to dispose the item to be properly recycled. We built the connecting system via a software platform that identifies each SKU so we can track and inform all parts involved. By putting a marker of the recycling point, we can prevent the excessive shredding of the tiny microfibre synthetic particles to the marine biota. Global impact will be large as there are many countries with huge human population that depend on marine life as livelihood, and the continuous plastic pollution is jeopardising their lives by means of their own health and economic sustainability, as reduced fish catch impairs their means of living. | As far I as I am concerned this is a new approach to the water pollution by synthetic microparticles as qualifies the end user to be responsible consumer of fashion goods, and making them aware that recycle after usable life is a must. | We envisioned the problem of the plastic microparticules not long ago but our long years experience on the textile world made us easy to find a viable solution. Methodlogical rigor is assured by our partner suppliers of the marker. We approached top notch suppliers of yarns, buttons, labels and fabrics, and once the concept was explained and discussed, they used their technological know-how and financial muscle to conduct the relevant tests. At this stage we are sure that will deliver a perfect product for this purpose. We intend to use both thread, fabrics, labels or buttons with this marker so garment and shoe retailers and vendors will have plenty of choices to use this items on their products, and will open a end of the life-recycle communication channel that helps the cradle to cradle philosophy on both sides of the fashion consumer and fashion retail industry. | Main goals are that key European retailers be aware of the solution and use it as a way to reduce the pollution and engage their customers to recycle on an orderly way. Later stage goals are of course the rest of the world retailers and vendors. The staff to recruit is depending on the time to market of each marker, so it will be scaled at a proportionally way of | Short term needs: Mostly human resources on the marketing and sales. The faster we can communicate the solution will be the easy way to find vendors to use it and end customers to require their preferred brands to know he life cycle of the garments they buy. We are planning an investment on this side. For the technical part: On testing, validating and auditing the materials of the markers, we count on our suppliers labs and their own other technical resources, like production facilities of the mentioned thread, button, fabric and labelling. On the software platform we have own capabilities ready, so scaling them will be easy as is a cloud based solution. Med and long term needs: Depending on the success and implementation speed, we should enlarge our marketing and sales teams, as well as the materials suppliers and software and support teams, but we think will be reasonably easy to build. | www.augustobellini.com | none at the moment | None at today | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
196 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Medina | Baitemirova | CLINICAI | https://clinicai.com/ | CEO/Co-Founder | Female | United States of America | Kyrgyzstan | English | Russian | I was born in Kyrgyzstan, a small struggling country in Central Asia, and grew up in a village that was remote in all senses, especially in the case of hospital and health care. Growing up, I witnessed how poverty and unequal access to care further debilitates families and impacts them for generations. After losing several family members myself, I decided to dedicate my time to develop solutions that would help underserved populations to access proper healthcare. In the process, I have realized that due to the complexity of healthcare, it is important to involve people from almost every field: we need politicians, lawyers, business people, scientists, students, and others working on finding solutions. Especially with the rise of automated tools and machine learning, advancements in computer science and other fields mustn't negatively impact medicine and biotechnology. Therefore, my main reason in applying to present a project is to inspire people from various backgrounds, including policymakers, to share with them the possibilities and current developments in healthcare and biotechnology, and to share possible solutions and opportunities for the global community. Moreover, I would like to connect with people who can help us scale further so that our work can impact as many people as possible. In 2016, while working at a large pharmaceutical company, I came across the Global Solutions Program at Singularity University. That program selects 80 people from thousands all over the world and the main goal is to develop projects that use exponential technology and can impact at least a billion of people. As a result of that program, I have found 3 more co-founders and founded a startup, Clinicai, intending to transform healthcare and close the gap between the underserved and wealthy. We have been supported by two venture groups and are getting ready to have our product ready for users in 2021. | I am a Bioinformatician with research experience in molecular biology and gut microbiome in Baylor College of Medicine in partnership with Texas Children’s Hospital in TX, US and Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in partnership with Harvard University. Moreover, I have published in a peer-reviewed top-line scientific journal that is not only nationally but also internationally recognized by the scientific community. My entrepreneurial experience is over 10 years: I started my first company at the age of 17. Currently, I am the co-founder and CEO of CLINICAI Inc, a startup with a goal of transforming healthcare through more affordable and better diagnostics, starting from bathroom sensors. I truly believe that healthcare has to happen at home and that bathroom health tracking can save multiple lives and reduce global mortality from preventable diseases. Prior to Clinicai, I served as a Director of Partnerships at Memomi Labs Inc, an Augmented Reality company that is digitizing the mirror functionality. Some of the most popular applications of Memomi’s smart mirrors are virtual try-on, including makeup. During my time at Memomi, the company became global and is currently working with some of the world’s most well-known brands and companies. Among other accomplishments, I have won the Google/Genentech Scholarship to attend Singularity University at NASA Ames in 2016 and was named an Outstanding Student of Bioinformatics at the University of St Thomas. | Clinicai | Preventative care and early detection through affordable sensors and AI | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | USA, Kyrgyzstan, Countries in Asia and Latin America, Europe | Yes | Singularity University | Transition to Scale | We have completed our first prototype last year, and this year we have been working on manufacturing a device for hospital and user testing. Using the knowledge acquired through hospital testing, we will prepare to manufacture at scale. | Almost 70% of all the deaths worldwide could have been prevented if a disease could have been detected and prevented on time. The main cause of this burden is the accessibility to affordable, highly accurate diagnostics tools. However, in the case of some diseases that have no symptoms in the beginning, people would not know something is wrong, and therefore, will not seek help and diagnostics. | Late disease detection accounts for more than half of the annual deaths worldwide. This is mainly due to a scarcity of non-invasive monitoring tools and health information when needed. Current health monitoring and disease screening kits only provide a one-time measurement, are expensive, or time-consuming. Moreover, in most cases besides regular screenings, people only visit their doctor when they experience extreme symptoms toward later stages. In the absence of symptoms, which is quite often, diseases can quietly progress to stages beyond treatment. This is why it is vital to develop a health monitoring tool that is affordable and requires minimum input from the user. To avoid taking patients’ health out of context, we build a diagnostics ecosystem around each user, inside their homes. We aim to create health tracking sensors for early detection which can be embedded into the regular components of houses. We are starting by building a non-invasive smart toilet platform empowered by biotechnology, sensor networks, and artificial intelligence to continuously track people's health for early detection of colorectal cancer and other preventable diseases. Our long-term vision is to create a complete bathroom and home diagnostics system that can cover any preventable disorder and detect it on time. That would result in a longer lifespan for our users, as well as happier lives, and less medical expenditure. | Our competitors are at-home stool screening kits, such as Cologuard and FIT (fecal immunochemical test). An at-home stool kit is sent to the individual and he/she has to send the kit back with a stool/urine sample for laboratory analysis. It is time consuming, tedious, requires efforts, and provides with a one-time measurement. Moreover, most of the kits currently in the market mainly detect blood, which is not an accurate indicator and limited to certain symptoms or to later stages. The danger is also that people get those done only in the presence of certain symptoms, that tend to appear towards later stages. Our device offers a passive screening method that does not require users to modify their behavior or spend too much time and efforts. Since it is a snap-on device and can go on any toilet, it is easy to install and does not need daily maintenance or recharging. Our device also offers continuous tracking and the user’s health is tracked on a regular basis, therefore, increasing chances of early detection. | We started with pre-clinical studies using mouse models to validate various sensors and test their accuracy. After the validation, we started and completed human clinical studies to determine the accuracy of our device, which was established to be 85%. Currently, we are improving our accuracy by improving optical sensing and our machine learning algorithms. Moreover, we have been backed by two venture groups, B37 and SOSV, to develop the first prototype and test it in real life in a real clinical setting. Currently, we are developing a hospital testing unit. | This year our goals include field testing to finalize the design and function requirements of the device. Field testing is required not only in the US, where we are currently based but also in other countries on different continents, such as developing countries like Kyrgyzstan. Moreover, we will be finalizing our user application and building the software backend for the device. Finally, our goal for this year is to submit 2 more patents on user identification and other applications. Next year, we will work on the regulatory pathway through the new fast track programs offered for companies that use novel solutions such as AI and cloud. We will run studies as part of the regulatory pathway. The year after that, 2021, our major goal is to get regulatory clearance that would enable us to market and sell our device, manufacture our device at scale and finally, offer it to our users. | Our short-term needs are clinical partners to test our solutions in the clinics, hospitals, private practices, care centers, and so on. The main point of this testing phase is to learn as much as possible about the future design of the product, hygiene requirements, user feedback, and physician feedback. Our medium-term needs would be partners in manufacturing at scale and funding organizations and individuals. We will be raising funds to manufacturing devices that are ready to sell. Our long-term needs would be partners for developing other features and applications, besides colorectal cancer. Gut health and microbiome have been relatively understudied areas, and we hope to change that in collaboration with research institutions and clinical parties. Moreover, we will be developing other sensors for bathroom and home use, thereby, covering a wider range of preventable disorders. | https://clinicai.com/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3lbezekl3M | Amplify 2019 Girls in Tech Finalist Killer of the Week, Indiebio, 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
197 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Isaque | Eberhardt | Agryo | https://agryo.com | CEO | Male | Brazil | Brazil | English | I have been working in the data science for agriculture and agriculture finance since 2003, and in more than 15 years almost nothing change in the access to financial services for farmers, they almost have no insurance and any price protection mechanism, and no retirement or savings account at all. In the world banks numbers it is around 500 million small and medium farmers households families around globe. Agryo can push to the people lives a chance to be part of global economy and protect day by day lives of more than 2 billion peoples involved in farmers activities. | CEO and Co-Founder of agryo company, a Data Driven AgFintech with focus in Peer-to-Peer lending to improve farmers access to loans and financial services. Co-Founder of BrGIS data sciences services to banks and financial institutions. Consultant in data science for agribusiness and environmental services at banks CAIXA and Banco Do Brasil, and international organizations UN, UNDP, IISD, and IPC-IG. More than 12 years of experience in data science and big data, spatial modelling and statistical and agent based models for economy. Skills in remote sensing data analysis in environmental and agricultural focus, Geographical information systems (GIS) and code to evaluate crops and crop fields, also, experience of 5 years agriculture management and farmers assistance in technological improvements and financial projects developer for small farmers at Banco do Brasil. PhD student in Transportation and Logistics for agribusiness, Master in Remote Sensing (Earth Sciences) and Agronomist Degree. More than 35 peer reviewed papers in the academic history. | Agryo - data driven P2P AgFintech | Agryo is a data driven P2P AgFintech to connect farmers to financial services, insurance, price protections and trade contracts. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Is currently running in Brazil, the primary focus is Latin America, and in 5 years to move to Africa and Asia. | Yes | Blockchain Founders Fund, ASia Blockchain Association | Proof of Concept | We area at prototype phase with the first loans running on the platform. | Over 500 million small and medium holder-farming households are outside of financial system and no adequate credit. In the developing world, 200% collateral to loan ratios are often required which farmers do not have. Using our proprietary system we pair over 520 inputs and variables such as satellite Imagery and AI to accurately generate credit scores and risk profiles of farmers and their plots, predict yields and monitor the existing farming operations. | Agryo uses its own proprietary algorithm to collect the information over a 520 different variables and process using a AI approach which calculate the credits score and risk assessment of each crop field using for example the satellite data time-series for each plot since the year 2000 to today (19 crop seasons). With this data we can establish the potential for each crop field over time (compared to itself) and measure the risks of that, and compare the crop field against their neighbors (to detect all the possible bad management of the crop field against the other near plots). From this evaluations our CEOS algorithm calculate the credit score and the risk assessment of the plot and attach all the farmers selected plots to their profile and compose the unique value of the farmer to submit the bid by contract. The complete flow once farmer sign to platform; a) they draw the locations of their plots, b) we check all environmental background (about deforestation, if the place do not have any limitation, and so on), agronomic terms (if is a good place to produce the crops) once approved the farmer will can access the contract generation part. In the smart contract part of the platform, and select one of the plots validated and fill 7 fields to define their loan. After that, the contract is submitted to the blockchain and will be available to investors (institutional or retail) which can transfer value to the contracts. | Agryo uses all the sophisticated data technology available to forecast the risk of every potential borrower over their credit score and risk assessment operations for all loans, and contracts are monitored under data algorithms with remote sensing data and others. This is the proprietary solution developed by Agryo and will Agryo to develop other products in like insurance, trade contracts, and hedge and futures contracts and so on. | We have been working for 6 months and in this period we hire the team, design and developed the data science process and the smart contract processing to operate as a lending platform, integrate with the blockchain and start to test. We use agile methods to define, work and evaluate over week basis the development of the platform. | In terms of products and services, agryo is working with the lending business as primary goal; b) the data tailored insurance services as second stream of revenue; c) a savings/retirement account using bitcoin as the store of value for farmers as third service; d) smart contracts crops derivatives (options, futures and hedge contracts); e) trade contracts with physical or not delivery. The agryo roadmap for the next 3 years has X milestones, a) up to January 2020 our platform will be completely mobile (Android and iOS) and with the lending services tested by the pilots which are starting now in South America; b) build the business the first version of the data tailored insurance for crops up to middle of the year 2020 and start pilots in the South Hemisphere crop season after October 2020; c) expand the lending business over the entire Latin America during the 2020 and 2021; d) Start the savings/retirement account using bitcoin as the store of value for farmers over the year 2020 as one alternative for families build their one safety net. | Agryo have until now developed the platform of lending in the data science segment and the blockchain segment. We develop the core data engine CEOS which process all datasets used to generate credit scores and risk profiles of all crop fields of each farmer and after contracted analyze and monitor crop fields under contract. We are in a pilot phase with Cargill Tech Ventures, from the pilot they want to find partner to be the solution to improve their verticals of Credit Rating, Structuring, and Lending in Food and Agriculture, and the selected one will receive investment from Cargill Tech Ventures and will work as partner on the segment. We are working in the improvements of the lending platform and increasing the team before any investment been received. | https://agryo.com Agryo nominee to SDGs Brazil Tech Awards 2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/B0TqbualYbE/?igshid=q9chkgu11y0q https://www.sustainary.org/sdg-tech-awards-brazil-2019/ One video of our prototype https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJGLcBxZzzI&t= | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJGLcBxZzzI&t= | Agryo was nominee to SDGs Tech Awards 2019 https://www.sustainary.org/sdg-tech-awards-brazil-2019/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
198 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | MIchael | Adekoya | BOOKSHELF HUB RESOURCES | http://bookshelfhub.com | CEO/Founder | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I love this project because I believe it would help many youth survive schooling conveniently without fear of the cost of textbooks. The project did not just started. I had been looking for a way to help out on this academic barrier of high cost of textbooks and lecturer handouts which were causes by cost of paper printing since I was an undergraduate till this moment the vision becomes clearer. | Michael Akorede Adekoya is a B.Sc (Education Technology) holder. He graduated from the University of Lagos, Lagis, Nigeria. He was awarded a scholarship Award when in 2008. He is a creative Thinker. He is the CEO and founder of Hesomes Clothing Company. Michael has strong entrepreneurship skills. He had once serves as a Teacher at Stars International College, Ikorodu, Lagos taking Physics.However, Michael had onece been a Volunteer of the VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) of the Ikorodu branch. | BOOKSHELF HUB MOBILE APPLICATION | Bookshelf Hub Mobile Application is a mobile electronic textbook bank for students of the Higher Institutions to help the reduce cost of schooling. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Nigeria | Yes | Paystack, authors and university Lecturers | Research & Development | The project website is under construction, the mobile application is also on construction stage | Textbooks have become an increasingly significant part of the overall college cost debate, as prices have jumped 82%The tertiary-aged population is growing and the national higher education system will see an extra 1.7 million students enroll till 2025. A report by Consumer Advocacy group found that 65% of about 2,000 students say they have opted out of buying a required textbook because of the price. The report adds to evidence linking textbook costs with negative academic consequences. | The Bookshelf Hub Mobile Application will be an online textbook bank which will provide students with the opportunity to accessing enumerable volume of textbook electronically at no cost (for OER – Open Educational Resources books) but would pay a very low amount of about 10% of the actual value of textbook (as a donation to the author). It is our mission to make available for higher institutional students needed academic materials digitally at a very minimal cost. Our Targeted Customers are: 1. Higher institution students between the age of 18 and 34 who are using internet enabled mobile phones (tablet or smart phones) with either Android or Apple iOS who are willing to use digital material for academic support and examinational preparations. 2. Higher Institution Lecturers for their handouts and for their personal use educational materials. 3. Book Authors for their books to be sold at a downscale price considering no paper printing cost. | 1. Bookshelf Hub is user-friendly 2. We give it a very prompt response enquiry feedback. 3. The price we are offering to sell publishers electronic textbook is 10% of the printed copy actual value to be shared between our company and textbook authors in the ratio 2:8 per sale. 4. Textbook availability on request for special request within 48hrs of request. | We are about 70% of the project completion to be launched for business. However, we have done our market research and feasibility studies.We have registered the business name with Nigerian Corporate Affairs Commission and have already gathered the appropriate team fr the project success. The team which includes: A web designer, a database professional, a software developer and a motion graphic artist. We are so much ready for project launching and sustainability. | 1. Launch a simple and user-friendly application on the App store or Play Store. 2. Provide electronic textbooks that can be accessed via the Application. 3. Compress the books to small sizes so as not to occupy much disk space on the user mobile phone. 4. The application users’ can bookmark, highlight and also run quick search on the any book reading. 5. There would be two interface or window on the application; one for students or reader and the other for book authors on which they will operate the application as an account that monitors their uploaded book downloads and equivalent income generated and the money could be withdrawn to their bank account using our partner fin-tech company for payments 5. Quick response to users’ special request which might be a digitally sold textbook by the author while the application bridges the gap between the user and the textbook author. 6. Help Lecturers and/or publishers sell their books at a discounted price while helping them reduce the cost of paper publishing which actually determines the cost of textbooks. 7. Extension of the application to other African countries in 12th month of its launch. | The resources needed for Bookshelf Hub to scale are listed below on period basis: Short Term : We need startup fund equivalent to $150,000 in order to acquire E-Books from and also printed books to be processed and made available for electronic use by users.Also need the fund to run a vast online social media marketing, one-on-one marketing with the Lecturers for their Handouts uploads on the application. Likewise needed for logistics of the marketing team. Medium Term: Investors for seria A fuunding for the business expansion. Long- Term Resources Needed: As time goes on, we would need so much fund in order to to have our independent server with unlimited space which would enable us tro upload unlimited volumes of products or files for the benefit of the application users | http://bookshelfhub.com | NIL | Overall Best Software Student (2007) BRF SCHOLARSHIP AWARD (2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
199 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dennie | Beach | Go Africa LLC | https://goafricallc.com | President | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | What motivates me to apply is to aid Africa to become self sufficient and self sustaining with it resources . I highlight the problem in a simple equation below THE PROBLEM Reducing the cost and complexity of getting African Commodities to the global market on a consistent quality basis at a lower cost to the end consumer Cashews = Africa -> (India, Vietnam or South Asia) + Processing +shipping +(Customs, duties & Fees) -> (U.S. or Europe) + Final processing + handling costs -> Consumer (B2B or B2C) Cocoa = Africa -> + shipping +(Customs, duties & Fees) -> processing + handling charges -> Middlemen -> distributor = Consumer (B2B or B2C) THE SOLUTION (Produce & Sell direct, (Local & Global) Cashews = Go Africa = Consumer (B2B & B2C) = Huge savings (up 30 – 50%) Cocoa = Go Africa = Consumer (B2B & B2C) = Huge savings (up to 30 – 50%) | Dr. Dennie M. Beach – President Go Africa LLC Highly accomplished individual that has led international, and localized, multi-cultural groups to develop, implement, and deliver products and solutions in the multi-million dollar range. Inclusive of P&L, operating, sales forecasting and management. Accomplished professional with US and International experience, Microsoft, IBM, Dell and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Educated in the US. Ph.D. in Public Policy specialization nongovernmental organizations, Masters in Business Administration, Masters in Technology, BA in Economics. Resided and or held long term assignments in India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Fluent in English | Building Food processing Facilities throughout Africa to help the world | Go Africa Commodities processing Facilities in Africa | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Ghana, Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire | Yes | African Development Bank, Agricultural Fast track fund | Transition to Scale | We are currently about to open a Commodities processing Facility in Ghana and we have received a grant of 250,000 from the African Development bank agricultural fast track fund for a similar facility in Nigeria | The Problem Currently most commodities (Cashews, Cocoa, Coffee, etc.) from Africa are exported processed and sold on the marketplace. This process adds additional costs (brokers, shipping, customs, etc). Reducing the cost and complexity of getting African Commodities to the global market on a consistent quality basis at a lower cost to the end consumer Cashews = Africa -> (South Asia) + Processing +shipping +(Customs, & Fees) -> (U.S.) + Final processing + fees -> Consumer (B2B or B2C) | Leveraging Backward integration processes Leverage unique processes, e-logistics, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, agile manufacturing, e-learning, and e-healthcare to maximize efficiencies and time to market. Achieve 70% long term orders to keep the production at ideal capacity to average out on profits while targeting 30% orders for quick high profit short term deliveries. Achieve maximum efficiency and economies of scale to win competition by offering highly competitive pricing to win maximum market share and penetration. Projected rollout schedule of future commodities processing facilities Country LocationTimeframe Investment to be committed Ghana Phase 1Q3CY2019$3,000,000.00 Cote d'Ivoire: Q3CY2020$17,000,000.00 Ghana phase 2: Q4CY2019$7,000,000.00 NigeriaQ4CY2020$20,000,000.00 Kenya: Q4CY2020$6,000,000.00 Cote d'Ivoire phase 2: Q4CY2020$20,000,000.00 SenegalQ1CY2021$6,000,000.00 AlgeriaQ1CY2021$20,000,000.00 CameroonQ3CY2020$6,000,000.00 Mozambique Q4CY2020$6,000,000.00 Zimbabwe: Q1CY2021$6,000,000.00 EthiopiaQ4CY2020$10,000,000.00 South Africa: Q3CY2020$10,000,000.00 South Africa: Phase 2Q4CY2020$20,000,000.00 Nigeria: Phase 2: Q2CY2020$40,000,000.00 Tanzina Q3CY2020$6,000,000.00 Ghana: Phase 3Q2CY2020$20,000,000.00 UAEQ1CY2020$10,000,000.00 Total investment $233,000,000.00 | our solution is modular and allows us to adapt into African environments in a manner that is sustainable and cost effective. Leveraging new and existing technologies to provide an agile and flexible solution. THE PROBLEM Reducing the cost and complexity of getting African Commodities to the global market on a consistent quality basis at a lower cost to the end consumer Cashews = Africa -> (India, Vietnam or South Asia) + Processing +shipping +(Customs, duties & Fees) -> (U.S. or Europe) + Final processing + handling costs -> Consumer (B2B or B2C) Cocoa = Africa -> + shipping +(Customs, duties & Fees) -> processing + handling charges -> Middlemen -> distributor = Consumer (B2B or B2C) THE SOLUTION (Produce & Sell direct) Cashews = Go Africa = Consumer (B2B & B2C) = Huge savings (up 30 – 50%) Cocoa = Go Africa = Consumer (B2B & B2C) = Huge savings (up to 30 – 50%) | we use the process of backward integration and we have been invested in this initiative since 2014. we have been selling nationwide on Amazon since 2016. we are now backward integrating down the supply chain. Will open processing facility in Ghana in the Sept/October time frame ____ Agribusiness (through trading), enhanced by tech. Develop and manage an efficient, cost-effective supply chain (farm—plant—port—retail) •Take advantage of existing large purchase commitments from identified buyers of raw cashews, Cashew Kernels, Cacao and related products (Full container and less than full container). • Produce full container of processed products (cashews, Cacao, peanuts) per day to ensure profitability, operational efficiency and other performance metrics •Develop, Market and deliver Private label retail products to Global Markets on behalf of the Major brands •Deliver current Go Africa retail products to the market via ecommerce, local and direct channels •Expand Go Africa products offerings to include peanuts, blended teas, etc •Develop organic talent in the local market by training and educating local team members in Ghana. This will allow us to pay favorable wages to approximately 50 individuals within 3 – 6 months | •Establishing a local presence in West Africa to expand over an evolving time frame. oTargeted locations with projected opening dates: o Ghana: Sept 2019 (staff 60, lives impacted (5,000) oCote d'Ivoire: Q4CY2020 (staff 120, lives impacted (25,000) oNigeria: Q4CY2020 (staff 160, lives impacted (35,000) oTargeted products (Commodities: Wholesale ): Cashews, Cacao, Coffee, Peanuts, Sesame Seeds, Teas oDirect and via our Go Africa Trading Platform at https://goafricatrading.com •Go Africa Coffee: this product was Launched in July 2016. Go Africa Ground Coffee was launched on 7/14/2017. Go Africa Chocolate covered Cashews & Go Africa Roast Cashews were launched on 3/20/2018 ,more information can be found at wwww.GoAfricaStore.com or www.amazon.com/shops/GoAfricaStore | We would need investment or funding (private or public ) from 3 million - 12 per country location Projected rollout schedule for future commodities processing facilities are below Country LocationTimeframe Investment to be committed Ghana Phase 1Q3CY2019$3,000,000.00 Cote d'Ivoire: Q3CY2020$17,000,000.00 Ghana phase 2: Q4CY2019$7,000,000.00 NigeriaQ4CY2020$20,000,000.00 Kenya: Q4CY2020$6,000,000.00 Cote d'Ivoire phase 2: Q4CY2020$20,000,000.00 SenegalQ1CY2021$6,000,000.00 AlgeriaQ1CY2021$20,000,000.00 CameroonQ3CY2020$6,000,000.00 Mozambique Q4CY2020$6,000,000.00 Zimbabwe: Q1CY2021$6,000,000.00 EthiopiaQ4CY2020$10,000,000.00 South Africa: Q3CY2020$10,000,000.00 South Africa: Phase 2Q4CY2020$20,000,000.00 Nigeria: Phase 2: Q2CY2020$40,000,000.00 Tanzina Q3CY2020$6,000,000.00 Ghana: Phase 3Q2CY2020$20,000,000.00 UAEQ1CY2020$10,000,000.00 Total investment $233,000,000.00 | Thank you, below are links to more information that has been created and/or published recently • Go Africa Overview Please view https://goafricallc.com/go-africa-overview/ • New Go Africa detailed Video please share https://youtu.be/zJPK3epDAF0 • Agility facilities in Africa & Ghana: https://goafricallc.com/go-africa-agility-africa-partnership/ •Dr. Cheikh Traore and Mr. Majeed Iddirisu attended the formal signing ceremony for cashew development in Nigeria at the African Development Bank group’s office in Abuja Nigeria on 5/28/2019. Signing on the behalf of African Development Bank group is Mr. Ibrahima Faal. Senior Director for Nigeria. https://goafricallc.com/adb-aft-grant-signing/ •To further power Go Africa LLC’s multi-dimensional growth, Go Africa LLC / GOAE Trading Limited (Nigeria) are proud to announce our acceptance in Seedstars Family Seedstars and its growth and investment accelerator programs. https://goafricallc.com/go-africa-llc-goae-trading-limited-nigeria-joins-the-to-the-seedstars-family/ Cote D'Ivoire (ivory coast) promo from the ambassador Camara for Go Africa LLC https://youtu.be/fRePp7_0lls | Go Africa Overview Please view https://goafricallc.com/go-africa-overview/ • New Go Africa detailed Video please share https://youtu.be/zJPK3epDAF0 | •Dr. Cheikh Traore and Mr. Majeed Iddirisu attended the formal signing ceremony for cashew development in Nigeria at the African Development Bank group’s office in Abuja Nigeria on 5/28/2019. Signing on the behalf of African Development Bank group is Mr. Ibrahima Faal. Senior Director for Nigeria. https://goafricallc.com/adb-aft-grant-signing/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
200 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Simeon | Martey | Child Dream Foundation | www.childdreamcentre.com | TeamLead | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | Simeon Martey is the Founder and Director of Child Dream Foundation, a youth-led, youth empowerment social enterprise http://www.childdreamcentre.com/ equipping basic educational institutions with innovative approaches in the Literacy and STEM space for global impact. Simeon was part of the 2nd Cohort of the Ghana Youth and Social Entrepreneurship Program organised by the Digital Opportunity Trust (Canada) in collaboration with Ghana Think Foundation (Ghana) and was among the six finalist out of the 24 participants from Ghana to represent Ghana in Kenya in October 2018. Simeon is an Education and Learning Consultant who focuses on solutions, strengthening philosophical and social foundations of basic schools and creating the right network for social enterprises, NGO's and Civil organizations in Ghana and beyond. A Certified Jolly Phonics Professional Trainer and a member of Jolly learning family https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/trainer/simeon-martey/ and a Community of Practice member working with Results for Development and Project Literacy in the Literacy space. Have successfully co-designed two literacy tool kits Parent Engagement Needs Assessment and Storytelling Roadmap to promote literacy globally. Love inspiring children to live their dreams, building partnership, brand, confidence, integrity and perseverance which are needed hallmarks and trademarks of success in every social enterprise journey. | Simeon Martey is an Education and Learning Consultant and a product of University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He studied Psychology and Foundation of Education. He is also the founder and Team Lead of Child Dream Foundation (Child Dream Centre: www.childdreamcentre.com), a Literacy and STEM foundation focusing on solutions; strengthening the philosophical and social foundations of basic schools. Simeon has been teaching with Jolly Phonics since 2016. and has been working with both local and international organisations such as Good Shepherd Schools Complex, #ProjectLiteracy, and with the Results for Development and Digital Opportunity Trust in Literacy and STEM space as a Community of Practice member. Simeon loves inspiring children to live their dreams, building partnerships, confidence, integrity and perseverance which are all hallmarks in every social enterprise journey. | Tamale Children’s Hub | is a duly registered foundation working to improve quality education in the Literacy and STEM space in Northern Ghana and by extension Ghana and Afric | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Ghana | No | Scaling | Recognizing that children needed more structured engagement after school, Child Dream Centre formed Tamale Children’s Hub. The Hub uses Jolly phonics digital programs and African children’s storybooks to build literacy skills. We recognizes that parents have financial and time constraints that prevent them from engaging after school. The Hub allows parents to concentrate on their work by providing an alternative outlet for children to stay engaged. Learn more: https://www.childdreamcentre.com/ | Recognizing that today, 1 in 10 people globally are unable to read and write — more than the entire population of Europe (UNESCO, 2017). The Tamale Children’s Hub is equipoing children and young adolescence with innovative and creative skills in literacy, STEM and entrepreneurship for global change. Learn more: https://www.childdreamcentre.com/ | We work with educational partners and NGO’s to deliver professional training and equip teachers and school staff with innovative skills for effective teaching and learning. Strengthening the Philosophical and Social Foundations of Education; this includes: Literacy and Jolly Phonics training workshop for literacy practitioners in promoting positive parent and caregiver engagement in children’s learning. Curriculum and Scheme of Work training workshop’s Promoting an innovative Administration and School Management Strategies Strengthening the Foundations of Pre - Schools using modern methodologies and technological tools for effective teaching and learning. Promoting Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) awareness and training workshops through clubs in basic schools | Ghana over the years have not embrass innovation and creative in our educational system making many young people lacking basic modern skills for the job market hence our Hub bridge that huge gap between the traditional learning and the 21st century innovative technology to equip it's learners and users with adequate and pratical tools to make global impact. Using modern technological tools to make young people work better with Results. | We have advance from ideation to scaling. Our team have unique skills and creative talents that makes us very unique and focus on SDG 4, 5 and 8 | We looking forward to affect the entire 5 Northern regions of Ghana by 2022 and then the country by 2025. Helping children in basic schools have skills in literacy and STEM and also equipping the teachers with same skills to deliver with excellence. | Basically at the short term we need technological tools and devices to train our users. We also need a grant to reach our beneficiaries since many of these beneficiaries can not afford the services but we are also planning a sustainable module along side to continue operations even with little or no extend funding after receiving our first funding. | http://www.childdreamcentre.com/ https://www.jollylearning.co.uk/trainer/simeon-martey/ https://educationinnovations.org/project-literacy-parent-engagement https://educationinnovations.org/project-literacy-storytelling-roadmap | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v_NQPOJY8r1gZFoMv-SlFF6WqygNbJph/view?usp=drive_web | Simeon was part of the 2nd Cohort of the Ghana Youth and Social Entrepreneurship Program organised by the Digital Opportunity Trust (Canada) in collaboration with Ghana Think Foundation (Ghana) and was among the six finalist out of the 24 participants from Ghana to represent Ghana in Kenya in October 2018. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
201 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Felicia | Olarewaju | OlaFarmHollywood Corporation | http://www.lafarmhollywood.ca | CEO | female | Canada | Nigeria | English | 1. Establish my earth station, licence it and set it up. But not yet in operation. 2. Set up a nonprofit organization to change an existing negative culture, socially and economi ally, on down trodden individual, and that change could impact the whole world, both developing and developed countries. | Born in Lagos Nigeria. Have 4 children. Went to Lady Lak primary school, and then Abeokuta Girls Secondary school. I attended City of Lagos public health nursing school. I worked in the Child welfare Clinic in Lagos, Nigeria from 1969-1973. I attended the University of Lagos, and graduated with a diploma in Social Work in 1974. I had BAH University of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, and the M.Sc in agricultural Economics (incomplete). Then I started to build my own Corporations. | OlaFarmhollywood Institute | Hand on training kind of vocational to displaced | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Starting in Canada | No | Transition to Scale | I set up a goal to get started! | Displacement | It is starting in Winnipeg, Manitoba and the Canada and then outside Canada as funds is available from donations, fund raising, Grant, and loan. | This perspective would change our negative culture on downtrodden individuals! | Obtaining registrations and lobbying for funds! | Goal is to reach other provinces in Canada. | Funds and funds! | http://www.peoplestv.ca | http://www.peoplestv.ca | No award! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
202 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John | Ntonta | Kadiwaku Family Foundation | www.kadiwaku.net | Executive Director | Male | United States of America | Democratic Republic of the Congo | French | What I am doing is an example of my life; I grew up in a village and fell sick at 16, and it left me unable to use my legs. My life became a mess -I had to use my hands for everything (walking, eating, etc.). I understood that the world is full of discrimination because in the Congo if you're disabled, you're considered a witch. I ended up homeless for 5 months. I went to beg for food as always, but I was lucky to run into a childhood friend who brought me to his home. He allowed me to use his computer to play games and watch movies, but I asked him to teach me how to use it. Once I learned, I used it to start doing online courses and I started doing online business (acting as an intermediary, helping to bring buyers and sellers together and collecting a fee for the service or a commission on the resulting sale) - having these skills and income allowed me to build a life for myself, get married and raise my son. I don't want to see people in my situation (people with disabilities) continue to suffer. Now, I am confident I have what it takes to be a successful change-maker, I am working towards bringing the same opportunities I have to people with disabilities in the Congo. | John Kadiwaku Ntonta is coming from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He’s the Founder of Kadiwaku Family Foundation, and, currently, He’s working as President and CEO. John serves as Senior Advisor in the Education Cluster (hosted by UNICEF/DRC) providing technical and strategic support on projects focusing on disability and human rights; as well as coordinating the task force on ‘’Protection mainstreaming’’ in the Democratic Republic of Congo. For the past ten years, John has worked in the field of philanthropy, serving as a consultant to many local organizations and foundations. In June 2018, John won an award from Echoing Green to implement a program which aims at improving the entrepreneurial capabilities of 650 people with disabilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | KFF Entrepreneur Challenge | Supporting Innovations that impact many lives of persons with disabilities in Africa. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Burundi, Kenya, Uganda, DR Congo, Tanzania, Rwanda | Yes | Echoing Green, United States African Development, Handicap International | Scaling | The innovation was launched in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now, it's implemented in 6 countries of the Great Lakes region (African sub-region) | Both in developed and developing countries, PWDs are more likely to be unemployed. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires that State parties recognize the right of persons with disabilities to work on an equal basis with others, including their right to gain a living by work freely chosen or accepted in a labor market. Unfortunately, in many developing countries, no such measures have been taken to help them achieve economic self-sufficiency. | In the light of the relevant economic, social and environmental factors in the great lake’s region (African sub-region), Kadiwaku Family Foundation works towards empowering girls and women with disabilities through the application of the entrepreneurial lenses to enhance their quality of life and living standards. The KFF Entrepreneur Challenge is designed with the purpose of supporting self-employment and entrepreneurship among disadvantaged youth, especially individuals with disabilities, by providing micro-entrepreneurship development services. We will achieve this by improving their entrepreneurship and management skills and by providing them with business support, networking opportunities, alongside the financial award to launch or expand their income-generating activities. The challenge is supporting 10,000 women with disabilities who are known to be very poor and twice victimized as women and also disabled, and who face a range of barriers (such as the presence of stairs and absence of a ramp/elevator, communication barriers, negative perceptions of people with disabilities, and institutional barriers or policies that lead to discrimination again people with disabilities) when it comes to business ownership, and who need entrepreneurial skills and/or assistive devices to successfully start and manage their small business. | KFF combines training with sign language and helps women with disabilities (project participants) to obtain assistive devices and technology to increase project inclusivity. Conflicts in the Great Lakes are dynamic and cause a high level of displacement within and across every national border in the region, which now hosts over one million refugees, mainly from Burundi, the DRC, Rwanda, Central Africa Republic, and South Soudan. The DRC and Tanzania host the largest refugee caseloads in the Great Lakes ‘region with more than half a million refugees in the DRC and over 230,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Tanzania. In addition, around 4.5 million people are internally displaced in the DRC-the highest caseload of IDPs in Africa-while over 400,000 Congolese have sought refuge in neighboring countries. Approximately. 180,000 people are internally displaced in Burundi. | - The eight women’s organizations (including NGOs, CBOs, DPOs, School, etc.) are selected through a competitive process; - The eight-selected organizations have received the financial support they need to implement the entrepreneurial mentorship program and to accommodate women with disabilities during the program implementation; - The eight women's organization are running a 3-months of non-residential and on-site entrepreneurship program to improve the entrepreneurial and management skills of girls and women with disabilities in order to help them launch or expand their business. How to measure the progress: - Direct project beneficiaries participating on pre-identification (Bootcamp); - Direct project beneficiary who complete a business plan; - The number of direct beneficiaries; - The direct project beneficiaries who successfully completed entrepreneurship training; - The number of youth entrepreneurs who received post creation follow-up support; - | - 10,000 women with disabilities have improved entrepreneurial capabilities and they are ready to enter the market either as an entrepreneur or employee by December 2022; - An international event for networking and skill-building will be held on December 3rd, International Day of Persons with Disabilities; - 10,000 women with disabilities have received ongoing business support and tools they need to launch or expand their small business and have access to the KFF Market, and they can use Microsoft programs and know the basics of a computer by December 2022; - A Mobile App and a Website will be launched to connect disabled-entrepreneurs with buyers, suppliers, and business experts by December 2019; - | We need to raise 500,000 USD in grant to have a considerable impact within the region. | https://www.kadiwaku.org/ http://www.kadiwaku.net/ | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdlEG6-E11UaC2cvVBcEpXg | Echoing Green 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
203 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nyan | Avila | Nyan Avila | http://www.aonedatasolution.com | Solutions Architect | male | United States of America | Belize | English | Growing up in a developing countries afforded me many tough challenges. Today, I work with technology to try and create a better future for my family and I. It is also very, very important for me to be able to give back to the community I come from. I would like to be able to assist my community by providing Technical Solution to some of the problems we face as develop country. I am very motivated as there are tons of challenges in my community in Belize, Central America to overcome and I would like to be one of the catalyst to help solve many of these Economic and Social ills. I ask for your assistance. | My name is Nyan A. Avila and I was born in Belize, Central America. I have always been very interested in computers and technology. I currently work as a Red Hat Solutions Architect. I have written several Android App and I have also develop production applications. | Inpertip | A voice or text Language translation and learning Android mobile Application. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Developing Countries | No | Transition to Scale | My solution is in the Beginning stage of the selected innovation stage. | Communication, Communication, Communication! The ability to understand each other is the first step in solving a small problem, must less the enormous ones our world is facing right now. | My solution is a Mobile application that translate between different language and speaks the translated word. It's application and use cases are unlimited with respect to Education, Business, Travel and just every living. | The only solution are not tailored for empowerment. The tool that I built is first tailored for empowerment and creating a better world by giving us the capacity to understand each other. | I have developed the entire application and I need help to scale and keep adding new feature and updates. I will also need the capacity to distribute it to all the people who really needs a tool like this and it is almost always poor people. | Reach at least 100000 downloads in 6-12 months. | Short-term - Financial resource to deliver at scale Increase the team size Medium-term - Financial resource update and feature additions Human Resource - New Hire to help with growth Long-term - Financial resource to Maintain and scale Human Resource | https://youtu.be/fcOkDD8Rxd0 https://youtu.be/GdHTOi-iGis | https://youtu.be/fcOkDD8Rxd0 https://youtu.be/GdHTOi-iGis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
204 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Juma | Kombo | Lyma Tanzania Ltd | https://fs3.formsite.com | Project Manager | Male | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | PROBLEM STATEMENT Cancer is on the rise in developing countries, where about 70% of all cancer deaths occur. Tanzania is no exception, with about 21,000 reported deaths from cancer in 2014 and 35 000 new cases each year. According to the WHO Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, and is responsible for an estimated 9.6 million deaths in 2018. Globally, about 1 in 6 deaths is due to cancer. Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. The prevalence of this disease has led to a rise in remedies with supposed cancer-fighting capabilities, with soursop tea being a perfect example. NOTABLE HEALTH BENEFITS OF THE SOURSOP LEAVES TEA Soursop leaves, the main ingredient in soursop tea, have been studied extensively by researchers around the world. Published scientific research shows the strong potential of this remedy, along with other interesting uses. Here are some potential benefits the plant can bring in the field of human health: Lower the risk of cancer — Soursop’s apparent ability to fight cancer is a major factor in its popularity. The leaves contain acetogenins, which fight cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone. The following medical journals provide an overview of the plant’s potential in lowering the risk of various types of cancers. OUR PROPOSED PLAN Our plan is to establish a min factory to produce Soursop Leaves Tea in meantime we have already start 3,000 are in nursery stage read to be taken t farm, we have acquired 30 acres farm | Juma Kombo Biography My name is Juma Kombo, I was born 43 years ago, I joined primary education in 1984 at Uhuru primary school in Shinyanga Town I completed my primary School Education in 1990 later on in 1991 I joined Lalago Secondary School for secondary school education in 1992 I got transfer to Buhangija Secondary School where I completed my ordinary level education then I joined Buluba Secondary School for my Advanced Secondary School Education in 1995 – 1997 later on in 1998 I joined Collage of Business Education (CBE) for my Advance Diploma in Business Management where I completed in 2001. Immediately after completing my studies in 2002, I joined various Companies dealing with sales and marketing. 2003: Nufaika Distibutors Ltd Post: Sales Rep 2004 – 2009: Vodacom Tanzania Ltd Post: Key Account Manager 2009 – To date: Lyma Tanzania Ltd Post: Managing Director Achievement 1.Assist the Company to rise the fund to buy another 20 acres farm in Njombe 2.Harvest 600 bags of Habanero peppers 2018 – 2019 3.Create an idea of establish Soursop Farming purposely for health context Contact Details Name: Juma Kombo Postal Address: P.O. BOX 34249 Dar es salaam, Tanzania Email: lymatz@gmail.com Phone: +255769249808 | Planting 3,000 Soursop Trees for Combating Climate Changes and Natural Aid Herbal | Our solution is to produce organic Soursop Leaves Tea that will be used as herbal tea, people can enjoy it as refreshment or food supplement | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | In meantime our solution will be available in Tanzania and later on we can spread our wings to the Neighboring Countries | No | Ideation | I think our solution is on Ideation stage because we have everything in place like 3,000 Soursop are on nurseries stages, 30 acres farm all these are in place what we are lucking is enough fund to deploy good irrigation system, min factory machines e.g. willey mill machine, Dryer Oven, Moisture Balance Machine and factory building | Soursop tree has got significance medicinal properties and values that can be used for human body on recent research shows Soursop Leaves is 1,000 times more powerful than chemotherapy therefore with solution we can assist our people to prevent cancerous Diseases by taking this product which is in form of food stuff | We are all aware always in our bodies we feel fatigue while waking up in the morning by taking this product you will become more energetic like a young man at the age 10 - 25 very powerful all the day long. then back to our vision once someone use this product will experience a unique results that embraces his/ her health well being this will be our key penetration point a word of mouth is more powerful once you consume this product you will agree with me its amazing therefore under this advantage we think within two years of operation our product should reach and be available to the global market | Back in ancestors time here in Africa people were use roots and other botany material to cure themselves from different illnesses then it has been adopted by generation to generation now with our solution we need to improve the way it has been used local we need to improve the packing and hygienic | We have already plant 3,000 Soursop Trees are in nurseries since October 2018 we have a 30 acres farm so things in short are moving although with small pace | Our plan is to make our product available to the following region EAC, SADC and COMESA within the first year then later after two year to be available to the rest of the World | In order for us to ensure short term, medium term and long term we need to get assisted on Drip Irrigation system in short term plan, and in medium term Plan we need assistance on construction of min factory for Soursop Leaves Tea production and on long term plan we need machines e.g. Willey mill machine, Dryer Oven, Moisture Balance Machine and Carbon sequestration meter | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8y3Kg5ubwM&t=46s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8y3Kg5ubwM&t=46s | So far there is no any award but we do expect to get them very soon if God wish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
205 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mitchell | Gold | homeplanet virtual university | http://www.homeplanet.org/wpp | chief architect | m | Canada | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | English | I think I have already submitted my proposal for the UN Office of the Future - can you please confirm whether or not you have received it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwJMocKzqtI | submitted | UN Office of the Future | see video | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Canada, NewZealand | Yes | TD Bank, New Zealand various organizations | Proof of Concept | because the UNis incapable of recognizing a good idea - the UN RC System is non functioning and has to be developed. | system of distribution of funds, organizational deficiencies | self funding with the one per cent solution - implementing UNDRIP and the ISO 26000 | gets around the notion of a global tax which some countries have outlawed ie the USA | very little progress as the UN, the UNA's and its UNGC are more obstacles to implementation than cooperative. the system is broken | plan is to implement in the 36 donor countries | need the SG to appoint the UNRC in the donor countries under our direction and control | http://www.homeplanet.org/wpp http://www.homeplanet.org/june2902/MadridDocumentFinal.htm presented at the Inaugural conference of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace this contains many aspects of our current activities and 2001 World Future Society WFSF-Futures Awards Winners: Mitchell Gold and KASAMA-KA Mitchell Gold, of the International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP), and KASAMA-KA, a federation of small fisherfolk in Cauayan, Neg. Occ., Philippines, have recently been chosen as the recipients of the 2001 WFSF-Futures Awards for creating futures-conscious organizations and communities, both for the individual and institutional categories, respectively. They were formally presented with their awards during the 17th WFSF World Conference at Brasov, Romania in September of 2001. Individual contributions: Mitchell Gold, who was nominated by IAEWP founder Charles Mercieca, was cited for his ""1% Solution"" proposal, already supported around the world by such dignitaries as Federico Mayor, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Dr. Young Seek Choue, and T.Y.S. Lama Gangchen, among others. The 1% solution is a voluntary global tax implemented through a Brand Label Marketing Strategy. The program strategy is built around the Culture of Peace initiatives of both UNESCO and the United Nations and satisfies the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual perspectives of individuals. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwJMocKzqtI | won award for Futures conscious thinking in 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
206 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Laurien | Sibomana | Pillar of Health | www.PillarofHealth.org | Founder/President | Mr | United States of America | Rwanda | English | French | I have been working in Rwanda for 8 years with children and youth living with type 1 diabetes, a very expensive condition, and not only it does affect individual patient but also the entire family. Supporting the families to have health insurance is one of the best solutions to deal with this condition, and injecting funds in health systems. With health insurance, also known as mutuelle de sante, a patient only pays 10% of medical services, for instance, instead of $20 a month of insulin, only $2 are needed, and this is a very crucial innovation to save lives of those living with diabetes. | I was born in Rwanda, and have a Masters of Science in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh, PA in 2009. I have been working with children and youth with type 1 diabetes in Rwanda since 2011. | Pillar of Health | Live and thrive with type 1 diabetes everywhere | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Rwanda | Yes | Rotary club, Churches, and schools | Transition to Scale | I have been supporting children with type 1 diabetes per region and I am planning to expand to entire country. | This is crucial to type 1 diabetes care, to reduce poverty in families and at the same time, this will increase funds for health systems. | By supporting individuals with type 1 diabetes, not only does save their lives but also their family members'.Income generating projects will help for sustainability. | Mutuelle de sante concept exists but the population has not been supported/enabled to afford the mutuelle de sante. Also, the type 1 diabetes is a chronic condition that requires a lifelong medication, and therefore,having health insurance is also important for the survival of those with type 1 diabetes. Income generating projects will be key part to this initiative for sustainability of this solution. | We started with less than 100 people and now we have 557 individuals and we are planning for at least 1000 by the end of the year. By next year, we may enroll about 5000. The progress is measured not only by the number of people who are covered but also the frequencies of medical check ups, and and the quality of care received. | we are currently focusing on Rwanda and so far we have enrolled people from 12 districts and we are planning to cover all 30 district hospitals (entire country). We have 7 staff and the plan is to have 15 by the of the next year. Our ultimate goal is to have everyone with type 1 diabetes in Rwanda living in family that is covered. | Funding is always needed, computers, and transportation means. The short term needs is having mutuelle de sante, the medium term is have some income generated and long term solutions is having each family being able to self-support their child/dren with type 1 diabetes to live normal and productive life. | https://www.laroche.edu/uploadedFiles/Alumni/Alumni_Events/Laurien%20Sibomana%20%E2%80%9904,%20M.S.pdf | https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2014/12/23/Pitt-diabetes-researcher-helps-African-children-control-Type-1-diabetes/stories/201412230004 | Distinguished Alumnus at La Roche college from work in Rwanda Activism for Type 1 diabetes in Rwanda by Marjorie's Fund | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
207 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ruth | Lukwaro | Gongali Model Co.Ltd | https://gongalimodel.com/ | Chief Executive Officer | Female | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | I grew up in Suji village, a poor and humble village near the Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Like in most rural areas in Tanzania, families in Suji would drink river water. As a result, I struggled with waterborne diseases throughout my life. In Tanzania 7,000 children die every year due to preventable waterborne diseases. Motivated to alleviate such illnesses and give back to my home country, I pursued Degree MBA in Business. After obtaining my degree, I worked closely with my husband Dr. Askwar Hilonga - a chemical engineer, who invented the Nanofilter, a low-cost water purification system. Together, they entered the Nanofilter into a variety of scientific competitions, which ultimately rewarded fame as well as prize money to fund our own company, Gongali Model Company. Through my innovative business models, I have successfully introduced Nanofilter into the market and it is impacting about 250,000 people in Tanzania. I want to share this success story during the UN Solutions Summit. I hope it will inspire many people around the world, that it is possible to solve our community challenges within our generation. | Ruth Elineema Lukwaro is the CEO of Gongali Model Co.Ltd and Financial Director of TAHUDE Foundation. She also works as an assistant Lecturer at the University of Arusha. She has Four years teaching experience in the field of management and over eleven years of professional experience in business management and accounting after working with a microcredit organization called FINCA Tanzania(as a loan officer), St. John’s University of Tanzania (Internal auditor), and in South Korea at Daewoo Company and Multicultural Family Service Center(internship). Currently, Ruth is working with the University of Arusha as fulltime lecturer, besides being a lecturer at the University of Arusha, she also established her social enterprise called Gongali Model Company Limited (www.gongalimodel.com) and an NGO called Tanzania Human Development Foundation (TAHUDE Foundation). Through her social enterprise, Ruth trains her university students to follow her model of using their education to solve community challenges sustainably. Examples of her managerial and entrepreneurial skills are demonstrated by her networking capacity and projects she attracted and successfully managed: (i) E3Empower (USA) granted $5,426 for 800 W Solar Power and other facilities at the first Empower Community Centre in Gongali (ii) GlobalGiving (USA) gave donation of $15,000 for subsidizing solar lanterns, (iii) USADF Grant $91,000 + $122,507 for Biogas project in pastoral communities, and (iv) GBP 350,000 from HDIF/UKaid for the Adoption of Low-cost water purification system (Nanofilter) project. | Nanofilter (a low-cost water purification system) | Nanofilter, water purification system, waterborne diseases, fluoride, Arusha Tanzania | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia | Yes | NM-AIST, DFID/UKAid/HDIF, USADF | Scaling | We are already in Tanzania and Kenya. Now we got funding from SAIS 2 to scale-up to Zambia | Our solution is the low cost water filter, which we patented and trademarked as Nanofilter®. Nanofilter® will increase access to clean and safe water and consequently reduce waterborne diseases, dental fluorosis, and deaths of children under five. Particularly, it will be a big relief to mothers and girls, who beside other home chores like fetching water and boiling drinking water (for those few who boil water), have to take care of sick family members - if they get sick of waterborne diseases. | Nanofilter selectively removes any water contaminant (bacteria, chemical contaminants, turbidity, organic matter) and produces 20 liters/hour of clean and safe water. It is locally manufactured and customized to local needs. It reduces waterborne diseases and dental fluorosis by increasing access to safe and clean water. The targeted people are reached through establishment of water stations operated by local entrepreneurs who sell water to their community members at affordable price in their local area. The repayments from the water stations is used as a revolving fund to establish more and more water stations and spread the IMPACT across Sub Saharan African countries. At present we are already making impact to 250,000 in Tanzania and Kenya. The innovation is about to scale-up to Zambia, and hopefully, to other countries around the world. We scale-up through the franchisees business model. | We are solving the challenge of lack of access to safe and clean water using the innovative low cost water filter (Nanofilter). Nanofilter is a devices that can be used to treat water at home and/or at the purification site and according to WHO, these devices are referred to as point of use (POU) technologies. These devices offer a solution in areas where a centralized system is not available or ineffective. The POU water treatment technologies that are currently in the market such as BioSand Filters (BSF), chlorination, boiling, ceramic filters, membrane technology, and UV light treatment have major limitations. The devices that are locally made lack effectiveness in purifying water and have demoralized most of their users/customers for not being sustainable. On the other hand, high quality filters imported from developed countries are costly and difficult for people in the under served areas to maintain and repair. Additionally, imported filters are not customized to suite the needs of each geograhical area, thus they are unable to remove specific water contaminants such as fluoride and/or heavy metals - which vary from one area to another. Based on our market survey, the existing locally made and imported filters are not widely adopted in Tanzania. This is also evidenced by the high prevalence of dental fluorosis (in Fluoride affected areas) and high incidence of preventable waterborne diseases. | SUCCESS STORY: •250,000 beneficiaries (people who have been reached with clean and safe water) • 90 NanofilterTM water stations (points where people can buy clean and safe water at affordable price) •517 Households with NanofilterTM (each household has about 6 beneficiaries) •73 Institutions with NanofilterTM including schools in rural Tanzania have already installed Nanofilter system (some institutions like schools have up to 450 people) •90 Employment to young ladies (age 18 - 30) - they work as Operators •15 Employment to NanofilterTM staff - mostly University Graduates •130 other self-employed people / local entrepreneurs, welders, guards, etc. •Publicity for the product and its sponsors: Online views by 2 million people •Beyond Tanzania: 10 NanofilterTM water stations in Kenya - through Savemod Earth Link company as Franchise •More than 2.3 million plastic bottles NOT used due to refill business model •Assured financial sustainability As Nanofilter innovation has achieved commendable results in Tanzania the team is now ready to take the product to other countries. At present (April 2019) there are requests from 12 different African countries and 7 other countries around the world. | We just got funding from Southern Africa Innovation Support (SAIS 2) to scale-up our activities from Tanzania to Zambia | At present we are looking for franchisees in various countries. Investors / donors may also fund for franchisees who will work with us to make impact to other countries, as we do now in Tanzania | Our success story is available on our website www.gongalimodel.com and through many interviews conducted by globally reputable media such as BBC, DW, CCTV, etc. HERE ARE SOME OF OUR VIDEO LINKS (There are many more online): Hilonga with Bill Gates and other dignitaries around the world Because of Engineering https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkjmJ5MyQoE Engineering A Better World Dr Askwar Hilonga, inventor of the Nanofilter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnYccD2VfOA The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4SwfFDxiz4 Can This Filter Solve Tanzania's Water Problem? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Bsnnbw6Gs | A YouTube Video describing Ruth as a positive CHANGE in her community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJKazoVMc0 | We have won 12 different awards such as: First winner: WHO Health Prize through United Arab Emirates - facilitated by Tanzania Ministry of Health, 2019 First winner: Low-cost water filters (Nanofilter) for processing drinking water and sustainable use of plastics through REFILL approach -by ENERGY GLOBE First winner: Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation 2015 First winner: Pitch@Palace Grant: GBP 350,000 from DFID/UKAid through Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
208 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Brij | Kothari | PlanetRead | www.planetread.org | Director | Male | India | India | English | French | Spanish | The Same Language Subtitling (SLS) project is globally the first intervention of its kind for mass reading literacy. It has been thoroughly researched, piloted and proven to work in India and has finally been picked up for national implementation by the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Starting on 15th August, 2019, every major TV channel (and there are 800+ channels in India) has been asked to caption/SLS at least one programme/week and grow this to 60% of its programming in the next 5 years. SLS is expected to give daily reading practice to one billion TV viewers in India, including, 500 million weak and early-readers. Based on scientific evidence on SLS we are convinced that SLS on TV programming would contribute to reading skill improvement, in any country in the South or North. In fact the UK is already leveraging our work in India to promote the use of captions/SLS for reading. See: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jul/21/subtitles-tv-hearing-no-context-twitter-captions Potentially, SLS on existing TV programming and digital video would benefit 2 billion weak-readers globally, and is a cost-effective solution for low literacy countries in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Our primary motivation to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit is to share a globally applicable and scientifically proven solution that India is already scaling up through broadcast policy and the UK is considering seriously. | Brij Kothari is an academic and social entrepreneur. He is on the faculty of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and the founder of PlanetRead and BookBox, committed to scalable solutions for literacy and language learning. Brij’s core innovation is Same Language Subtitling (SLS) on mainstream TV for mass literacy, conceived in 1996 as a student at Cornell University. Following large-scale implementations in eight major Indian languages, his research has proven that SLS causes inescapable reading practice and accelerated skill improvement. Bill Clinton called SLS, “a small change that has a staggering impact on people’s lives.” Through policy advocacy of SLS, Brij aims to help transition half a billion weak-readers, nationally, to functional and fluent reading ability. BookBox is a social enterprise that aims for “A ‘book’ for every child in her/his language” and creates ‘AniBooks’ (animated stories for children, powered by SLS; on YouTube) in more than 40 languages. Brij is an Ashoka Fellow, a Schwab Indian Social Entrepreneur of the Year and was a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University. His SLS work is the recipient of the International Literacy Prize from the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) and awards from the All Children Reading Grand Challenge (USAID), Tech Museum of Innovation (San Jose), the Institute for Social Inventions (London), Development Marketplace (World Bank) and the NASSOM Foundation. He served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Education (2012-2016). | Same Language Subtitling (SLS) on TV and digital video: Reading literacy for 2 billion, globally | Inescapable and lifelong reading literacy for 2 billion | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | India, UK: currently. Especially useful for low-literacy countries in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. | Yes | Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Govt. of India; Turn-On-The-Subtitles (TOTS) campaign, UK. Potentially: Global Innovation Fund (GIF) | Sustainable Scale | Under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPwD) Act, 2016, India's Information & Broadcasting Ministry (MIB) has asked all major TV channels (800 channels in India) to caption/SLS at least one TV programme per week, starting 15th August, 2019. The channels are expected to increase captions/SLS on 60% of all TV programming, over the next 5 years. SLS in India is being scaled through policy, hence, we are in the process of achieving sustainable scale, over the next 5 years | Officially, there are an estimated 778 million literate people in India (2011 Census). Several studies have found that 60% of the so-called “literates” – 467 million people, including school children, youth and adults – cannot read, for example, newspaper headlines or a 2nd Grade text. Most weak-readers will likely remain weak-reading unless they get regular reading practice in everyday life. | Same Language Subtitling (SLS) is simply the idea of subtitling mainstream TV content in the “same” language as the audio. What you hear is what you read. India has one billion TV viewers, including half-a-billion weak-readers. The average Indian watches three hours of TV a day, in a mix of 20+ languages, on 800 channels. The SLS project suggests that all the films – songs and dialog – in all languages should be shown on TV and digital platforms with SLS. Several research studies have found that SLS on audio-visual content causes automatic and inescapable reading engagement among the spectrum of beginning, weak and functional readers. Especially on song-based content, film, folk and music videos, SLS is popular and has been found to contribute to improved reading skills. There is strong evidence from India and other countries that SLS would: 1) raise the reading skills of 500 million weak-reading viewers, 2) improve the language skills of a billion viewers, and 3) provide media access to 65 million Deaf and Hard of hearing persons. India is on the verge of requiring SLS on most existing content on TV. Once India scales up SLS in broadcast policy, we expect other countries to take note and consider scaling up SLS on their existing content too. Our work in India is already inspiring a scale up of captions/SLS for reading in the UK. | 1) We are the first to leverage SLS (or subtitles) on mainstream TV, expressly for reading literacy. Other countries have used SLS for media access and language learning but not for reading literacy. 2) There are few, if any, reading literacy interventions that guarantee everyday and lifelong reading practice. Not even schooling achieves that. SLS is one such lifelong intervention that has been proven to improve reading skills through everyday practice. 3) The cost of SLS is extremely small. In India SLS costs $1 for lifelong reading (70 years) for 4 people. 4) No behaviour change is required. SLS simply slides into existing content that is already consumed by millions of viewers. Eye-tracking studies have shown that viewers cannot but try to engage with the text, and in the process, improve their weak reading skills. | SLS has gone from concept (1996) to policy (2019) in 23 years. Several research-based pilot projects on TV and in classrooms, available in published studies at https://www.planetread.org/slsgroup, have found that SLS exposure leads to improved reading skills among very weak-literates. For example, from 2002-2007, we conducted a study of long duration but low frequency SLS-exposure, by implementing SLS on just one weekly one-hour TV programme of Hindi film songs, telecast nationally on Doordarshan, India’s national/state TV network. Nielsen’s ORG Centre for Social Research drew a large random sample from the states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh and collected the baseline and endline data. Despite the low level of SLS exposure, over a five-year period, 45% of the school children who saw the programme regularly became newspaper readers. Among a comparable group of children who did not see the programme regularly, only 20.2% became newspaper readers. From a point of absolute non-reading ability (inability to decode a single letter in Hindi), the SLS complement to schooling started 32% more children on the path to reading. Among those who could decode some at the baseline, SLS exposure contributed to advancing 36% more children to functional reading ability. The impact from a massive scale up of SLS in Maharashtra is discussed here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-caused-maharashtras-leap-in-reading_us_589d1277e4b0e172783a9a8f | Our primary goal at present is to institutionalize SLS in the entertainment industry in India which implies that: 1) All new content produced after a set date to include SLS on TV. This would be a broadcast policy mandate, under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act. 2) All movie and content production houses will need to incorporate SLS into their production cycle. 3) For content already produced (existing content), funding will be sought to add SLS and then teledcast. 4) Our goal is to make India a model case for a scale up of SLS. We believe that it is the best way to get other governments/countries to scale up SLS through broadcast policy. | All new films and content on TV will include SLS through a policy requirement, under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Act. For all existing films we require: 20,000 films x $600 = $12,000,000 for SLS on the songs and dialog of all existing films expected to be shown on TV, in all Indian languages. Short-term goal (1 year) Policy advocacy of SLS with the Ministry of Information of Broadcasting (MIB) to require SLS on all new content on TV. MIB sends directive to all TV channels for SLS on new content. TV industry works with content providers to include SLS into their production cycle. Mid-term goal (5 years) Work with all film content producers and rights owners to SLS their existing film content. They then give TV channels only films with SLS. SLS added to all existing films (20,000) expected to be shown on TV. Get an independent agency to evaluate the impact of SLS on reading literacy, nationally. Long-term goal Advocacy of SLS in other countries, using India as a model. | Website: https://www.planetread.org Research articles & reports: https://www.planetread.org/slsgroup Videos SBS Australia: https://youtu.be/tOsWToI2PIw Deutsche Welle: https://youtu.be/K7XDMzsLd5o UNESCO best practice: https://uil.unesco.org/case-study/effective-practices-database-litbase-0/reading-billion-same-language-subtitling-india Heads of State Bill Clinton (Clinton Global Initiative): https://youtu.be/juZOlmf9APk Gordon Brown (UN Ambassador for Global Education): http://goo.gl/nP1I7E Narendra Modi (as Chief Minister of Gujarat): http://goo.gl/KzJ2zX Selected media articles 1) The Economist: https://www.economist.com/asia/2015/04/25/a-bolly-good-read 2) BBC: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170920-could-india-use-bollywood-to-improve-literacy 3) The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jul/21/subtitles-tv-hearing-no-context-twitter-captions 4) The Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tv-subtitles-create-literacy-in-india-1400285406 5) Boston Globe: http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/09/19/watch_and_learn/ 6) National Geographic: https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2012/02/22/let-a-billion-readers-bloom-how-bollywood-teaches-literacy-in-india/ 7) Harvard Economics Review: http://harvardecon.org/?p=3694 | Videos TEDxCERN: https://youtu.be/XRP4xfN89Ss Stanford University: https://youtu.be/UZ7aojn79r0 World Economic Forum: https://youtu.be/82Th2412a0A Davos: https://youtu.be/vDmPuAooEj4 Radio interviews: https://www.planetread.org/radio | Winner 1) Early Grade Reading Innovation Grand Challenge, Read Alliance (USAID), 2016. 2) US Library of Congress, International Prize for Literacy, 2013. 3) NASSCOM, Social Innovation Honour, 2011. 4) Indian Social Entrepreneur of the Year, Schwab Foundation, 2009. 5) Tech Laureate in Education, Tech Museum of Innovations, San Jose, CA, 2003. 6) Development Marketplace, World Bank's Global Innovation Competition, 2002. 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209 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jessica | Ho | Museum of Tomorrow | https://www.museumoftomorrow.net/ | co-founder & CEO | Female | United States of America | United States of America | Chinese | English | As we are nearing the point of no return for climate change, all citizens should be aware and empowered to take action. As Museum of Tomorrow's prototype has shown, people are empowered to take action by going through the experiential-learning, solution-oriented exhibits. Current climate change education focuses mainly on the consequences, without giving feasible solutions. Museum of Tomorrow breaks down the gigantic issue into more tangible and relatable exhibits, with statistics that shows personal action matters. All educational exhibits yielded an average of 35% point increase in commitment to change. The statistic was recorded with the 500+ Berkeley visitors in the span of four days. Sharing this innovative form of education with the public empowers change makers to adopt this framework. As UNESCO acutely states: the goal of 1.5°C cannot be achieved without a change in mindsets, which will require enhanced efforts in education, public awareness, science, ethics, culture and communication” (2018) we need as many people embarked on the same page to produce maximum results. By sharing the theories behind Museum of Tomorrow on ""Theory of Planned Behavior"" & ""Process of Experiential Learning"", environmental teachers, informal educators could quickly adopt this framework and start the immediate education and empowerment to foster behavioral change that is needed now. I want to utilize this platform to accelerate the global learning of sustainability action through grassroots efforts. | I am a fresh Master of Development Practice (sustainable development) graduate at UC Berkeley. Understanding the reason to the lack of climate action on a personal level, I spent two years designing and building a social media oriented pop-up museum. I grew up in Taiwan, where resources are scarce due to the islands population and size. As a result, we have developed great recycling systems. I grew up in a school that puts extra emphasis on sustainability, each plastic bag is folded into a neat triangle, each pen or paper lunch box is neatly tucked and rinsed. Each classroom is graded on how we assorted our trash. I became the person in charge of the waste of my homeroom class, and through hands-on learning and leadership, I brought countless awards to my homeroom. That is when I knew I could make a difference. At Berkeley, I've recruited ten dedicated team members for Museum of Tomorrow, received two grants, countless awards/publications and launched the prototype in the span of two years. I am looking to pursue this innovative form of education full-time after graduation. | Museum of Tomorrow | An instagrammable climate change pop-up museum, empowering university students for easy sustainability issues, one campus at a time. | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | United States | Yes | Master of Development Practice colleagues and Berkeley Students | Proof of Concept | After the first four day prototype launch at UC Berkeley, the concept is proven to capture the attention of young people and effectively motivate for change. However, we could not follow through their daily lives to track the actual changes. That is why we developed an interactive text-based intervention system that sends reminders and questions on their daily sustainability behaviors for 14 days. The system will be launched at the next public showing. | Youth can resist serious and repeated CC messages, thus using elements of fun, experience and art that mingle and imbed the educational messages can lower their resistance and promote a more open mindset to CC education (Kaufman, Flanagan & Seidman, 2016). It is also validated that fun exhibits and experiential approaches have a better impact on learning outcomes. After visiting Museum of Tomorrow, the “hopelessness” statistic went down 18 percentage points to 40% (MoT Post Survey, 2019). | Take the process of Experiential Learning as example: Experience -> Observation & Reflection -> Conceptualization & Interpretation -> Application (Sharlanova, 2004) The first stage, experience, the learner does the task without the need to reflect on it. Taking the Bottle Pool for example: Visitors experience the ocean creatures’ physical struggles in finding food due to the handcuff, time constraint, and confusing bottles that are easily confused with jellyfish. In the second phase, observation & reflection: the learner automatically reflected on the experience, most people’s first reaction was: “It’s harder than I thought!” In the third phase, conceptualization & interpretation: the observation and reflection are assimilate into a new conceptual understanding: ocean creatures are struggling harder than I thought because of the plastic bottles, but now I have the chance to win my own reusable bottle to stop contributing to the pollution personally. In the final phase, application: the learner applies the knowledge he/she obtained from the experience in real life situations. When he/she is at a grocery store facing the decision to buy bottle water, he / she will recall the bottle pool experience by the sight of plastic bottles and make the right choice. With this personal experience, and learning that his behavior could actually make a difference, he would adopt more sustainable behaviors in this life. We plan to scale up from local schools to the US and the world. | Because we are a pop-up museum on campus, we’ve come directly to our target demographic instead of expecting them to come to us, and will offer free entrance, and thus hope to engage a broader spectrum of visitors, including those who would not voluntarily take the time or money to visit a museum. This placement and specific focus is a luxury many museums cannot afford, and we’ve designed our Museum of Tomorrow to capture young people's attention through elements of pop-culture, the exhibits are designed to for their behaviors specifically. In the arena of interactive climate change exhibits, our team found the following to be most informative to the landscape the Museum of Tomorrow is entering: There are interactive exhibits on climate change around the world including KilmaX, Climatters, Climate Change Challenge, Our House. Strengths include creative experiences; good volume and quality of scientific data conveyed; good levels of engagement. However, weaknesses include that interaction/immersion is not as deep as Museum of Tomorrow; lack of excitement generated for greater engagement; exhibits are not mobile and only located in one location, as the ticket to enter may be a financial barrier to some. | Social Impact Metrics: MoT has focuses on changing the mindset for climate change mitigation for the pilot launch. As UNESCO stated, “the goal of 1.5C cannot be achieved without a change in mindsets”. MoT has achieved the following impact metrics for the Berkeley pilot, which was measured by a carefully designed pre and post survey on mindset (in collaboration with the CC mindset lab on campus), and calculated by projected reductions on GHG: 1.) 18 percentage point decrease in paralyzed mindset e.g. 58% of the surveyed student population felt hopeless about climate change → 40% 2.) 78% of people reported they will ….. in the post survey Think about environment when making food choices (23% point increase from pre-survey) Bring their own cups (45% point increase from pre-survey) Source sustainable fashion (38% point increase from pre-survey) 3.)Reduce emission on a policy scale -- Adoption of at least one campus wide initiative 4.)Calculated emission reduction at a personal level -- 4,200 tonnes of CO2 mitigated in a year based on 2000 visits We plan to track actual behavioral changes with the text-based intervention system for 14 days after visitors have gone through the museum experience at our next launch. | After the pilot, we are entering the stages of proof and scaling up. We are collaborating with the David Brower Center (environmental art center) to put up more permanent exhibits open to the general public. Visitors will be treasure hunting interspersed exhibits throughout the center, they would self-diagnose themselves based on their current consumption patterns. At the end, we will recommend to them a personalized package of solution and paired with the text-intervention system. We are also in the process of establishing fiscal sponsorship with Earth Island Institute so we could hire permanent staffs to expand our efforts. These include pedagogical counseling to nearby schools, community workshops before we set foot to travel to different campuses. The ultimate vision is to travel around the world. | Short-term: Human capital since some team members have graduated, we are building new exhibits to add to our showcase at the David Brower Center. Medium-term: Financial stability; strategic partnerships. Establishing long-term grants and corporate sponsorships for supporting the human capital, fabrication and traveling fees. Long-term: Scaling partnerships in different areas, before we expand our exhibits, we need to secure partnerships in terms of location and human capital. | Website: https://www.museumoftomorrow.net/ Press: The Promises of Berkeley & Student Environmental Resource Center (SERC) https://www.museumoftomorrow.net/press.html | First promotional video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WFt9efLW2J3Yz7sZp3Cth_Fq0ldhuCPD/view?usp=sharing Launch video: https://www.museumoftomorrow.net/ Jacobs Design Institute Interview: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LOsclUQU9jtn0k1-fwlCvXN6qYCwddHi/view?usp=sharing | My team has won several awards including •Berkeley Accelerator: SkyDeck’s HotDesk Team •Jacobs Design Institute Innovation Catalyst- Ignite Grant Winner •Rudd Family Foundation Big Ideas Contest 3rd Place Winner in Arts and Social Change •Current cohort in the Pursuit Incubator •Semi finalist in Echoing Green Fellowship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
210 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | andrew | kay | Sun Books | www.sunbooks.org | Founder | male | Australia | Australia | English | I was working in a school in rural Uganda for 2 years. The school had no internet, no electricity and one text book to share with 100 other students in the class. Most of the teachers in the school had no educational resources, books, educational tools, but yet an old blackboard and a piece of chalk. A text book was worth a monthly salary for a person. My class was filled with 100 children eager to learn but limited hope for a student to learn without any basic resources. Sadly, most of the kids attended the school for 4 years and learnt nothing. I was amazed they remained still eager to learn. Nearly 70% of the children were illiterate and faced adulthood of poverty, illiteracy and under employment.. As a response to this massive global problem in classrooms, l designed a low cost solution to help address the millions of students eager to learn yet trapped in ""off the grid"" locations. We use a solar panel tablet device, cloud services and a e-book building software. A classroom receives an e-library of 800 books on the tablet and it operates in Rich digital content without or without the internet. We curate a e-library of books and educational content based on the needs of the classroom and teacher. ie local, national and international books, lesson plans, audio books, videos and much more. As long as there is Sun, the tablet device can be used each day in the classroom. With the growing use of smart phones in many rural areas, we also provide extra e-books on an app, so students can access extra reading at home via an app. We are working in Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe. We know there are 20 million classrooms without internet access, electricity and text books. So the issue is massive and no one is talking about the ""off the grid"" learners around the world and how we can use the latest technology to bridge the learning gap. Most solutions are only focused on the schools who are connected to the internet. In many places around the global, the internet is either slow, costly and not available. We are striving to improve literacy and reading outcomes for children in their early years. We seek children to discover the joy of reading. We appreciate the ability to read and change the direction of a child's life. To ship 800 traditional text books to a classroom would cost hundreds of dollars, yet our solution is 70% less than hard copy books. Reading Changes Lives! | Did you know 800 million people can't read a single word? Another 2.5 billion people struggle to read a simple sentence. Low level literacy skills and illiteracy impact young people today and future opportunities. Illiteracy cost the global economy $1.2 trillion each year. Literacy matters! Andrew Kay is the founder of the World Literacy Foundation is a global not-for-profit charitable group, striving to ensure that every young individual regardless of geographic location has the opportunity to acquire literacy and reading skills to reach their full potential, succeed at school and beyond. He is also the organizer of the World Literacy Summit, a global event, which builds greater awareness of the international literacy crisis and allows participants to come together and be united in improving literacy worldwide. The websites of his work are WorldLiteracyFoundation.org WorldLiteracySummit.org SunBooks.org Indigenous.app AprendeLeyendo.com | Sun Books | Reading Changes Lives, Eradicate illiteracy, Reading Matters | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe | Yes | Inyurpocket Software, Uganda Education, Children's Book Publishers | Scaling | We have spent 3 years in testing, evaluating and learning direct from teachers and learners. Now, we are moving to the scaling stage. | 20 million classrooms without internet, electricity and limited access to books. High rate of illiteracy in many rural and remote communities Use latest technology solutions to help children with limited access to education, books and resources. It's a simple low cost solution to bridge the technology gap for many classroom who are ""off the grid"" communities with limited access to 21st century ed-tech services We are mainly focused on ""off the grid"" classrooms | It's a simple low cost solution to bridge the technology gap for many classroom who are ""off the grid"" communities with limited access to 21st century ed-tech services We are mainly focused on ""off the grid"" classroom which have often been neglected and left behind in many of the latest ed-tech developments. The schools in cities and regional centres have better access to basic educational resources, yet many rural and remote schools have little to no books. | The learners in classrooms in rural and remote locations around the globe are mostly overlooked in the fast and rapid changes/advancements in the ed-tech sector. The classrooms without access to internet and no internet connection coming in the next 2-5 years, still remain in 20th century education system. Using ""off the grid"" solutions to bring books and educational content to these classrooms is a new approach to ensure the children don't miss out of new technology advancements | We have conducted ongoing evaluation of the project with weekly measurement and data collected by teachers, students and other key stakeholders. We haven't had the resources to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to use RTI or another groups to undertake an independent evaluation. We test in the reading development of each child using the device. | We plan to grow into 5 new countries in 2020-21 to impact 500 schools. Funding is the biggest need which restrict our ability to grow and expand into new schools. We propose to expand into 8 new schools in Uganda in 2019, 100 in 2020, In Kenya and Zimbabwe we propose to expand in 400 schools in 2020-21 | Funding is our biggest barrier to scale up into more classrooms. We require $150,000 to impact 100 classrooms which benefit 10,000 students. It is a cost of $15 per student to have use of 800 books and 1000 items of educational content. | https://hbr.org/product/rumie-bringing-digital-education-to-the-underserved/316140-PDF-ENG https://theconversation.com/why-nigeria-must-get-serious-about-primary-school-education-119326 https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/hp-school-cloud-brings-digital-learning-to-refugee/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELDWHOSvZ1c&t=29s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy0IAt6mvqo&t=48s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnfkCn9VEsM | Commonwealth Innovation Award 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
211 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Hitesh | BHATT | As an individual freelancer Hitesh BHATT-india | Yet to be established | To eradicate corruption from whole corrupt lethargic stubborn system related water and sanitation. | Male | India | India | English | Corruption free world with sustainable development goals and all inclusive solutions related water and sanitation and domestic electrical connection. | Denied to give bribe to get water and sanitation and domestic electrical connection at my newly built house 25-. Empirical experience and freelancer individual named Hitesh BHATT-india representing individual freelancer. | Corruption free world with sustainable development goals and all inclusive solutions related water and sanitation | Corruption free world | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | India | No | Sustainable Scale | corruption free world and 24,25 years financial losses and empirical evidence that there are financial losses fullfill immediately first than I can draw the line straight turn the table in positive manner. ,. | Denied to give bribe corruption to get water and sanitation and domestic electrical connection at my newly built house earlier 24-25 years ago after toiling hard-work real life situations grass roots empirical experience and financial losses pathetic living conditions in India related water and sanitation. | Corruption free world with sustainable development goals and all inclusive solutions related water and sanitation. | Direct penitration corrupt lethargic and stubborn politicians remove from the corrupt practices system related water and sanitation administration and judiciary official without any wrong motive or NGO registration only freelancer individual named Hitesh BHATT-india empirical experience and financial losses fullfill immediately first than you can change the whole corrupt lethargic stubborn system. | When you people disbursement heavy compensation for 24-25 years toiling hard-work real life situations financial losses fullfill immediately first than you can progress and measure my single affort get noticed . How corruption affects on life to get water and sanitation and domestic electrical connection at my newly built house earlier toiling hard-work real life situations grass roots empirical experience without any public mileage or without any wrong motive for national interest of law INDIA and good cause of world corruption free world. | Corruption free world. | People first mission always national interest of law INDIA and good cause of world corruption free world with sustainable development goals and all inclusive solutions. There is no any organisation or NGO registration only freelancer individual Hitesh BHATT-india representing individual named Hitesh BHATT-india empirical experience. | 24-25 years toiling hard-work real life situations grass roots empirical experience and financial losses fullfill immediately first than I can draw the line straight turn the table and national interest of law INDIA without any office infrastructure and logistics support living conditions and without any delay, law qualified people like me, myself in India. | There is so many documentary evidence during my 25 years toiling hard-work real life situations grass roots empirical experience in India related water and sanitation. | Who will endorsed me in this world and national interest of law INDIA corrupt lethargic stubborn system related water and sanitation and domestic electrical connection at INDIA. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
212 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Edgar | Reátegui | Cooperativa Agroindustrial Cauchera Caynarachi Ltda | https://web.facebook.com/amazonperurubber/ | Ingeniero Agroindustrial | masculino | Peru | Peru | Spanish | Me interesa promocionar nuestro modelo de desarrollo sostenible que parte de la solución del problema de los ecosistemas degradados y su influencia en la salud del planeta. | Naci en mayo de 1974, en una pequeña ciudad de región San Martín, en el Perú, estudie en escuelas nacionales y desde la universidad me interese por la restauración de ecosistemas degradados. Desde el año 2003 trabaje en proyectos de desarrollo para facilitar a familias pobres amazónicas su cambio hacia una economía licita, en territorios influenciados por areas naturales protegidas. Desde el año 2011 trabajo en desarrollar proyectos de restauración de ecosistemas degradados. | Agroforestación sostenible en ecosistemas degradados. | restauración productiva de ecosistemas | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Países amazónicos y países tropicales. | Yes | Asociación DETEC, Asociación Centro María Elena Moyano, Instituto Nacional de Innovación Agraria y Instituto de Investigfaciones de la amazonía peruana | Transition to Scale | realizamos la prueba de concepto y fuinciona perfectamente en poblaciones amazónicas que tienen el problema y buscan mecanismos o estrategias para recuperar estos ecosistemas. | Es un problema la existencia de espacio de terreno con vegetación propia de los ecosistemas degradados que constituyen caldo de cultivo para los incendios forestales poniendo en riesgo la vida y la seguridad de los bienes privados y colectivos. | uestro proyecto introduce un modelo de desarrollo sostenible a partir de la conversión de terreno con vegetación propia de ecosistemas degradados a sistemas agroforestales de especies forestales nativas no maderables con potencial económico por su látex y frutales nativos amazónicos con gran potencial de mercado local y para la exportación, mediante la aplicación de una estrategia innovadora validada y probada en territorios amazónicos con pobladores locales, ex cultivadores de coca, taladores de madera y agricultura migratoria. | Nuestra propuesta es única, debido a la especie forestal nativa empleada para la recuperación de ecosistemas degradados, la Hevea brasilienses y su idoneidad para desarrollarse en suelo extremos como los pastizales, suelos ácidos, por su capacitad de asocio con otros cultivos, su producción de látex que constituyen insumo con gran demanda, 200 años de investigación en el cultivo, la disponibilidad de insumo y bienes relacionados al cultivo y la gran demanda de los cultivos asociados. | Lo medimos en función de las áreas de terreno en proceso de restauración ecológica, numero de arboles de especies forestales en proceso de desarrollo, mejora de los ingresos económicos en los productores, reducción del numero de parches boscosos existentes en un territorio, cambios de actitud de la población participante del proyecto, mejora de los ingresos económicos en las organizaciones de productores, numero de avistamiento de fauna endémica en la zona, etc. | Impactaremos sobre una población de 3,864,000 personas que habitan la amazonia peruana, impactaremos en su cultura productiva hacia la inclusión de las especies forestales dentro de su sistema de producción, lo cual actualmente no es así, impactaremos en el mercado de alimentos nativos amazónicos, por la puesta en oferta de alimentos frescos y procesados, en una segunda etapa impactaremos en el resto de la población de países amazónicos como el Brasil, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia y Venezuela. | Infraestructura para el procesamiento de látex de Hevea brasilienses y el procesamiento de los cultivos asociados, recursos financieros para asistencia técnica, insumo, herramientas y gastos operativos para el escalamiento, investigación e innovación para el desarrollo de productos con caucho natural y asesoría técnica para el fortalecimiento organizativo. | https://web.facebook.com/amazonperurubber/. www.centromoyano.org.pe. www.detec.org.pe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY4TFiAAiJI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY4TFiAAiJI ttps://paginaspyme.com/ficha/20600764749/cooperativa-agroindustrial-cauchera-caynarachi-ltda. | Ninguno. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
213 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jean enock | François | Je ne travaille pas, je suis un étudiant | Pas encore | Pas encore | Homme | Haiti | Haiti | French | Je pense que la meilleure façon de contribuer dans le changement socio-économique du monde serait de faire en sorte de participer dans les activités de la trempe de ce forum de solutions sur les objectifs du développement durable car cela constitue un moyen sûr et efficace de mettre en exergue l'ensemble des apports des individus pour le développement des communautés, ces visions pour les sociétés. Aussi, je pense que ma participation à cette activité me permettra d'élargir le cadre ,de rencontrer d'autres jeunes d'horizons divers vivant des réalités quotidiennes différentes, de faire connaissance avec la diversité des cultures mais aussi des modes de vies de groupes ethniques différents et hétéroclites, et de m'impliquer ouvertement dans la construction d'un monde meilleure où l'équité et la justice sans oublier le bien-être social seront les dirigeants. Mon projet sur l'innovation dans la mesure il vise à faire des connaissances mais aussi des modes de vie traditionnelles des communautés un élément central et clé du développement socio-économique des communautés n suscitant la prolifération des PME/PMI qui sont des conditions vivantes de la croissance économique. Cela permettra la sauvegarde de la vie de ces gens mais aussi de contribuer à la pepépuité des savoirs autochtones aurtout celles de ses femmes. | Je suis François Jean Enock, étudiant à l'Université d'État d'Haïti en Tourisme et patrimoine. Je suis né à Port-au-Prince en février 1999. Je suis également un artiste, danseur chorégraphe. Je suis une personne trèa optimistes qui incite les gens de ma communauté à se dépasser, à être entreprenant mais aussi à définir des priorités. J'ai entrepris plein d'initiatives l'école primaire, participer à des ateliers sur la danse, l'art , la culture mais aussi le climat. J'ai aussi participer à un atelier de rechercher sur les retombées du projet ST-EP en Haïti de l'OMT. Puis récemment, j'ai eu des formations sur le secourisme. Je m'implique, je suis créateur et j'ai aussi beaucoup d'imagination. | AREYTOS-LIVING | J'ai opté pour ce slogan parce qu'il met en exergue le fond de mon projet qui repose sur le PCI ,ce mot Areytos signifie production cognitive,(Taïno) | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | En Haïti mais aussi dans tous les pays où existentent des groupes autochtones. | Yes | Ueh, nos proches. | Research & Development | Je pense que ma solution est au stade d'innovation parce que contrairement à la sauvegarde traditionnelle qui ne fait que stimuler la recherche, le mien va plus loin dans la mesure où il permettra de sérieuser investissement, de lier le PCI et les savoirs des femmes avec l'ethnotourisme mais créer un écomusée vivant et qui saura servir de vitrine aux gens afin qu'ils puissent étudier les diversités culturelles des peuples mais aussi la créativité humaine. | Le problème que ma solution résout celui de la sous-exploitation mais aussi de la sous utilisation des resources culturelles en particulier le PcI mais aussi le MCi. Ainsi, mon projet tâchera de les rendre dynamiques, de catalyser le développement de PME/PMI. De mieux le préserver tout en faisant d'eux | Ma solution repose sur 3 piliers 1- La recherche , la documentation sur le Pci et tout ce que cela amène avec lui. 2-La mobilisation des acteurs locaux dans la transmissions des PCI mais aussi dans sensibilisation sur les questions. 3-Et puis aussi un écomusée, qui constiturera la visibilité nécessaire pour tout ces réalités culturelle. À long terme, un échange pourrait voir le jour dans une perspective de rencontres culturelles, des festival en sou groupe! Etccc | Elle est unique parce qu'elle vise à rendre plus vivant cet héritage immatériel par le biais des écomusées qui seront créés partout qui constitueront un patrimoine à transmettre. Et la persective est la suivante, elle repose sur le tourisme dont l'éthno-toutimse plus précisment afin d'être un vecteur de économique. | On a progressé parce qu'au départ on avait des idées floues! Pas vraiment définies. On ne faisait qu'en parler mais avec la contribution et l'apport de certains professeurs dont celui du patrimoine culturel mais aussi celui de l'Anhtropologie culturelle. On a aussi progréssé dans la mesure où maintenant on sait où se touner quand grand vision.on recherche tel type ou tel d'information! | On projette de se rendre d'abord dans le département du Nord-Est en Haïti afin fe rencontrer les communautés traditionnelles qui ont hérités des pratiques culinaires et artistiques de l'Afrique à l'Époque coloniale française mais aussi en Afrique au Mali afin de rencontrer le peuple Dogon ,détenteur d'un savoir ancestral mais aussi en Australie avec les Aborigènes qui sont gardien d'une tradition qui se perpétuent. | Les ressources les plus nécessaires sont: 1-Les ressources humaines, techniques, les matériels de supports. 2-des bureaux et les accessoires qui vient avec. 3-les suports financiers. | https://unescodoc.unesco.org https://unesco.rog/culture https://wwwifce.fr https://www.cfpci.fr | https://mediakiosque.univ/pau.fr https://ccic-unesco.org https://www.matrimoine.fr | En fait, mon projet est encore au stade d'étude mais ceci n'empêche pas que le gens qui ont eu affaire à notre solution l'approuvait et l'appréciait aussi. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
214 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Syed Zain Mohammad | Abidi | Catalyst | www.facebook.com/CatalystInnovatingConventions/ | Founder | male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | The main subject of interest to me was always food security in my country or should I say food safety which has been a concern for many years. As a Food engineer, I worked full time on many food projects and the one thing that caught my eye was the problem faced by the workers or labors which in turn made me realize that this is one of the biggest problems we never focused on, which lead to many health-related issues in Pakistan and in different countries. My startup focuses on the poor or uneducated labor which deals with many food departments in a food company. The main problem lies in this part of the companies employees group as many labors and workers are uneducated and they come from very poor families who live in the suburbs and don't practically know the lifestyle of a city where the company is located. To explain this more easily, Ill share a little story to all the people reading this essay. I was once an executive in a baking industry and one day I saw many workers preparing for lunch as the time for lunch for almost close, I saw one worker went to a bathroom and when he came out he didn't wash his hands with a soap , he only used the water and without even using the newly placed sanitizers that I placed in the department he started eating his food. So I asked him that did you washed your hands, his reply was ""yes sir I did"", then I pointed out did you used a soap to wash your hands he said ""no sir "" , when I asked him why he said "" In our village we always use water to wash our hands and not a soap because we don't have any"". So I believe the people reading this might have gotten the idea its not the point that they didn't wash their hands with soap but its the lack of education and training which made them think like this because for them it was all normal, now think of that same labor using those hands to make processed food product, causing serious hazards to be incorporated in the food we all eat. So, by looking at this I realized that I need to start a campaign to educate the lower class of workers who are the heart of every company to learn the ethics and food safety procedures as well as the working of each and every single equipment for sanitation and hygiene that what benefit will that thing will bring to them and what they should do each day after specific routines. . This is a great way to minimize food security and health-related issues for the masses as we now are relying on more processed food than organic. | My name is Zain and I am a Food Engineer from Pakistan. I have worked for 3 years in the Food sector of Pakistan and have also taught students of different levels. I love to design and develop machines and robotic systems and I am currently enrolled in a course of A.I. I have also played football with Ronaldinho on the 8th of July 2017 via Leisure Leagues. I love to work on different food-related projects and would like to do research on integrating robotics in the Food sector. | Train the Labor program | Educate the lower working class, to ensure food safety | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | All third world countries where food security and health safety is a must | No | Scaling | We have already trained 2 batches of students comprising of both workers from the lower class and educated students for plant machinery and automation. Our startup has already been shortlisted for incubation and is going to conduct more workshops and seminars for future training. | Educating the labor is the problem we are focusing on, it's hard to get good labor and almost every food production company have uneducated labor who come from lower-class families who don't know the ethics or norms of working in the company. We want to help them to get world-class training in handling stuff and hygiene of a food company. | Training the labor about machine handling and hygiene will help them to effectively work with each other. If for example, we train 100 workers and from those 100 only 20 starts working properly, then the others by seeing those workers will start working like them as well. We need to teach them about how they can help us end the hazards that affect many lives , because they are the major cause of many problems if they don't follow proper procedures than what problems will there families, as well as other families, will face. This realization can only be done by training and conducting seminars for the labors who handle each and every single department, because in the end if they work properly then the risk of health-related issues will minimize significantly. | Instead of training executive, we will train the labor or workers and will give them the importance and the respect they need, so that they get motivated and work effectively. This can only be done if we train them with proper norms, ethics, and knowledge about plant machinery and hygiene, of what to do and what not to do. This will definitely help both the labor and the people above them to mitigate problems and find a proper solution as well as minimizing the risk of health-related issues. For a long time we have trained our executives to rule over them but never trained them, so now its better to train the lower class which handles more than any executive to properly minimize the dangerous risk related to food. | We basically do a 2 months survey and ask the managers about the working effectiveness of the workers, as with this strategy we get to know how much food was wasted and what hygiene issue was solved this helps us realize that our process is working slowly but effectively. | Right now our major target is our own country and we wish others to work on this solution as well because overall it will benefit mankind so if anyone can train labor or worker to perform the task more effectively then he or she should be given the chance to do so. | 1, A place to train the labor or to conduct seminars and workshops 2, Plant hygiene material like gloves, hair nets sanitizers ionizers, etc 3, Resources related to automation for students training. e.g. PLC HMI | www.facebook.com/CatalystInnovatingConventions | Everything is available on the above page although we are working on a website which will be launched at the end of August, for more information people can contact us via social media page that is facebook. | This is our first competition. 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215 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Adunni | Haruna | Ahoiza Adunni Urban Peace Initiative (AUPI) | https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Non-Governmental-Organization--NGO-/africanbourgeois/about/?locale2=en_GB | CEO | Female | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Nigeria | English | I would like to alleviate poverty in West Africa through the development of a tourist hotspot which the pilot could then be rolled out to other regions. | I am a freelance broadcast journalist and researcher, housing manager,model, actress, presenter, poet, singer, author and CEO of Ahoiza Adunni Urban Peace Initiative. | African Bourgeois | Alleviating poverty in West Africa through commerce and Art. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Nigeria | Yes | Engineer Jerome Udnokloi | Research & Development | We are currently putting together plans for the tourist hotspot. | Poverty, inequality, unemployment, Women’s safety. | It works by bringing employment to locally commissioned artists, women and youth - utilising their skills and preventing brain drain on the economy. Long term vision is to build sustainability of the project. | The tourist hotspot has a unique design which can be rolled out to other African/ developing country - regions. | So far, we have some designs eg.TDPs but need Concept designs from Engineer, Architect, Town Planner and Quantity Surveyor. | Planned goals: Build tourist hotspot in rural-town area of Kogi State of Nigeria. Employ locals Encourage tourism Generate income and wealth Share this amongst locals eg. Building facilities such as swimming pools, IT centres and training centres for promotion of self defence for women and health for women and children. Develop the tourist hotspot in neighbouring regions. | Short term $5,000 is needed to compete Concept designs. Medium - partners to okay land for development with local state, long term - funding to be released for building to commence. | https://m.facebook.com/pages/category/Non-Governmental-Organization--NGO-/africanbourgeois/about/?locale2=en_GB | https://ebirareporters.blogspot.com/2015/04/meet-adunni-ahuoiza-england-based_18.html?spref=fb&m=1 | N/A in development stage . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
216 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Isaac | Brenya | Ecovon | https://ecovongh.simplesite.com/ | Founder | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | The paper and wood-based panels industries make use of forest wood as a raw material for their products. The use of other renewable resources such as agricultural residues (coconut husk and sugar cane bagasse) in the production of composite panels (i.e. particleboards, fibreboards) and paper products has recently been considered attractive both from the economic and environmental point of view. The use of coconut husk and sugar cane bagasse can by this way help to protect the virgin forests in regions where there is a shortage of wood. In addition, great quantities of coconut husk and sugar cane bagasse residues are available today in Ghana and other parts of the world where no proper (efficient) uses for these wastes have been found up to day. Both coconut husk and bagasse are rich in cellulose and lignin, which are two major compositions for producing binderless boards. | My name is Brenya Isaac, 29 year old from Ghana and I hold BSc Development Planning from University for Development Studies, Ghana. I am green entrepreneur who runs a startup called Ecovon in Ghana. I have passion for the environment and am always desire to protect and preserve the environment and our forest by helping co-green entrepreneurs who have innovative ideas to get their dreams realized. As a green entrepreneur I have participated and have been finalist in many green competitions including Switch Africa Green Starter 2016, Adansonia project 2016, Ghana climate innovation center and Seed Awards 2017. I was part of 49 candidates in Africa to be shortlisted from 350 submissions to the SAG-SEED Awards 2017; I was also a finalist in the selection process of green innovators in 2017 by Ghana climate innovation center. | Ecovon | Packaging and building materials made from coconut waste | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Ghana | Yes | Ghana Climate Innovation Centre | Proof of Concept | Ecovon is at prototyping stage and it needs an amount of $50,000 to start small scale production. This amount of investment will enable Ecovon to start production and also assist Ecovon to cover the time between first costs and revenue from sales. Ecovon will need and an investment of $50,000- $100,000 during its commercialization stage | In the green building industry there is currently no bio-based paneling board made from 100% natural bio based fibers without added resin (glues), let alone a 100% natural flame retardant panel. Deforestation: The rate of deforestation in Ghana is estimated to be one of the highest in the world after Togo and Nigeria .At an estimated annual rate of 2%, equivalent to 135,000 hectares per annum Urea formaldehyde used as synthetic binder in wood based panel board has health related risks | Ecovon will bring the first non-additive, bio-based, renewable wood product to market which is naturally flame retardant and anti-fungal without added binders (glues). The physical properties are better than comparable engineered woods on the market currently, all which use additives and heavy chemicals to reach additional flame retardant properties while reducing our CO2 footprint, deforestation and enriching the lives of locals in coconut and sugarcane producing developing countries such as Ghana. The board material has been shown to exhibit excellent properties, which are comparable with or even superior to commercial wood based panels. Our product is stronger and more durable, priced considerably less, and greener | 1. Cost: Reduced costs of materials, logistics, installation and recycling 2. Performance: Greater strength, durability and designability, frame retardant, anti-fungi properties over traditional materials 3. Circular Economy: Uniquely reduces waste and increase recyclability 4. Material Health: Does not emit harmful urea formaldehyde nor contain toxic binders or glues | Ecovon will generate wealth and employment/jobs for individuals in rural and urban areas of Ghana at the initial stages of the value chain, mostly youth and women, who will collect, sort and clean coconut husk and sugarcane bagasse for production. By the 3rd year of operation, Ecovon aims to create 100 direct and over 500 indirect jobs. The company aim to create a ―new wood‖ industry from coconut husk and sugarcane bagasse creating value-add for the poorest rural farmers (Bottom of the pyramid) while reducing CO2 emissions and deforestation. Ecovon will also produce cheap alternative building materials for low income earners and poor rural farmers in the country. | Ecovon Plan for coming three years is to withdraw over 2 million kilograms of coconut husk and bagasse from the environment and use them to manufacture fibreboards and save an estimated 500 acres of forest (based on calculations by the Canadian Forestry Association). Coconut husk and sugarcane bagasse recycling also saves 2.5 kg CO2/kg coconut husk and bagasse hence we will be preventing 2,500,000 kg of CO2 emissions further mitigating climate change. Ecovon was shortlisted participant in Switch Africa Green Seed Starter in 2016 Ecovon was also shortlisted finalist in Adansonia project 2016 Ecovon has made to the incubation programme of Ghana Climate Innovation Centre Ecovon was also shortlisted in 2017 seed awards Ecovon has been shortlisted as finalist in 2017 MIT Climate Colab Ecovon has been shortlisted as finalist in Green innovation and investment forum 2018 Next Einstein Forum Ci2i Finalist 2018 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur 2018 Green Africa Innovation Booster 2018 Participant | Ecovon is at prototyping stage and it needs an amount of $50,000 to start small scale production. This amount of investment will enable Ecovon to purchase hydraulic pressing machine and milling machine start production and also assist Ecovon to cover the time between first costs and revenue from sales | https://seed.uno/enterprise-profiles/ecovon http://www.ghanacic.org/clients/ecovon-limited/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brWt7dhuf0A https://twitter.com/UNDPGhana/status/1153633620646596608 | Ecovon was shortlisted participant in Switch Africa Green Seed Starter in 2016 Ecovon was also shortlisted finalist in Adansonia project 2016 Ecovon has made to the incubation programme of Ghana Climate Innovation Centre Ecovon was also shortlisted in 2017 seed awards Ecovon has been shortlisted as finalist in 2017 MIT Climate Colab Ecovon has been shortlisted as finalist in Green innovation and investment forum 2018 Next Einstein Forum Ci2i Finalist 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
217 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chabu Titus | Muchinshi | ACE Smart Technologies Ltd | http://www.acesmarttechnologies.com | CEO/Co-founder | Male | Zambia | Zambia | English | SDG N0 4 motivated me to create a national eLearning solution for free looking back at how difficult it was for me to finish my education. I'm using my education innovation to provide eLearning solutions to all schools in Zambia and the first ever computer based examinations in Zambia. | I'm an accountant who believes innovation is key to most of the UN sustainability goals no.4 especially. | Mwana Aphunzile ( Let the Kid Learn) | Mwana Aphunzile | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Zambia | Yes | Zamtel, examination council of Zambia, ministry of education | Scaling | We piloted our eLearning solution for 1year and the feedback has been overwhelming and the Zambian government who have given the political will to provide eLearning solutions to all schools in Zambia has given me hope to scale the solution country wide. | We have an education shortage as highlighted by SDG N0 4, Zambia has a poor graduating fate for high school levels compared to enrollment hence we are providing a solution for free and free ebooks by longman/ Pearson | Our eLearning solution is a free platform that has past papers from the Examination council of Zambia and we digitise the past papers and pay practicing teachers to provide solutions to all the past papers and long term is to launch the Malawi venture and slow roll out to all African nations and hence provide long life opportunities | Our eLearning solution is free and comes with Africa's most trusted education book provider Longman/Pearson. Its the first ever eLearning solution with digital solutions. | Our eLearning solution is free and ready and is live. | We plan to provide eLearning solutions to all African nations and we shall employ approximately 1,000 in each market/country and this will come as a big empowerment to our under paid hard working teachers. | We want to take it to all schools in Zambia and hence we require funding to pay practicing teachers to provide solutions to all the past papers and pay for hosting our eLearning solution. Our short need is to launch and market the product September 2019 country wide, medium term is to pay practicing teachers to provide solutions to all the past papers and long term is to launch the Malawi venture. | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AQhLzYnsy9Q&t=50s http://www.acesmarttechnologies.com/ | http://www.acesmarttechnologies.com/ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AQhLzYnsy9Q&t=50s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
218 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sam | Kutosi Kusolo | Mwamba Development Agency | www.mwamba.org.ug | Team Leader | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | Having worked in financial inclusion to rural people for a long time, i realized that transforming people from poverty requires thinking out of the box concerning the approaches to adopt. This motivated me to initiate an apex rural financial inclusion model which had never been used any where and this has proved effective in economic empowerment of the rural people in Eastern Uganda. | Sam is currently working with Mwamba Development Agency as a team Leader. Sam has worked in various capacities as a consultant on financial inclusion such as Microsave Consulting as Uganda Country Banking and Financial Services Specialist, aBi Trust/DANIDA as Access to Finance Specialist, Opportunity International - Uganda, as Bank Manager. | Mwamba Apex Model. | This links Village Savings and Loan Associations to the Community Based Organisation which in turn is linked to Mwamba Development Agency | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Uganda | No | Transition to Scale | This innovation has been piloted and its working and feedback shows its the way to go. | The solution addresses the problem of access to rural finance, agribusiness, health, knowledge and skills, housing in the entire eastern Uganda. Eastern Uganda with a population of over 10 million people is home to the poorest people averaging 40% on the entire country. Its a region characterized with mudslide and giggers. | The model addresses rural financial inclusion through the VSLA - CBO - Apex Model. It targets the financially excluded sections of the society through formation of village groups which are then admitted into membership of the CBO, Money saved by VSLA is banked to the CBO collection account in the bank via mobile money. | The uniqueness of this innovation lies in the sustainability. Village savings and loan associations (VSLAs) by nature are formed to exist for one year and later disintegrate after sharing the little savings. This is not a poverty eradicator model - in fact, it is a poverty motivator keeping people in the cycle of poverty. This model links the VSLAs as an entry point in resource mobilization among rural people, link the VSLA to a community based organisation which in turn is under the regional apex and then using these resources to invest in productive ventures which all affect the well-being of the entire household. | So far since January 2019, over 1,000 rural people who previously were not able to save money in a formal bank because of low incomes and are in distant places from the bank locations are savings weekly and their money is collectively banked via mobile money to their CBO account. Progress is measured through weekly member savings forms as well as quarterly CBO meetings. | Establish 35 Community Based Organisations (CBOs) all linked via a web based management Information System to track member transactions in the current 35 districts of Eastern Uganda with at least 200,000 by 2023. Establish at least 4 agribusiness centers of excellency supporting agriprenuers in the region. Recruit at least 78 staff to handle growth. | The resources urgently needed are; 1) Web based Management Information system to link all the CBOs to the apex and track members savings and loans real time. 2) Hardware - Computers ( at least one for each CBO and 1 laptop for each of the team leader and coordinators) 3) At least 5 Motor vehicles to enable mobility of the team leader and regional coordinators in the short run. The region is quite big. | http://mwamba.org.ug | http://mwamba.org.ug | Not yet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
219 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | neil | parsley | none | none | none | m | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | giving poor and species shared freehold would protect both against human predators | thought of this (somehow) mid 60’s and only lies since from u.k. ‘elite’ who do not wish to give up their status so slavery and extinctions increase | earth resources audit | give poor & species shared freehold | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | everywhere help ensues | No | Ideation | total opposition from all u.k. ‘elite’ | raising the standing of poor and all species | with help could do trials | have heard of nothing like it | no progress made | everywhere poorexist | see image ‘posted’ | opposition to this is through all u.k. | opposition thru all uk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
220 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | BRIAN | TURYABAGYE | MAMAOPE MEDICALS | http://mamaope.com/ | CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST | MALE | Uganda | Uganda | English | Advancing the work of SDGs has always been part of me ever since I began my journey as an innovator. This is because I was fascinated at how much impact a simple solution can create for this world in terms of achieving the needed sustainability and solving problems that are still affecting the world. For the UN Solutions Summit, I intend to connect more with distinguished people who I will be able to discuss with more details regarding our work, and forge ways on how best I can advance it to hit the next milestones for my team with the support. I will also seek how to further the work of other exceptional people that are making efforts to accelerate the progress of the world in achieving the Global Goals. In my journey of MamaOpe, I have been at the fore front of encouraging innovation among my peers especially the younger generation. The growth of my startup since its inception (in 2016) and winning the Pitch@Palace contest in 2017 gave me a good audience that I now use to impact more people. As at the moment, I serve as a judge and mentor for the Big ideas Competition where I get to advise upcoming innovators and students in a guided way to help them get their processes right from the onset. I also recently started a campaign at Makerere University's College of Engineering to help students with a passion to innovate solutions for Uganda. I have at this stage been able to assist more than 20 student teams in putting their proposals together, filing for intellectual property and connecting them with supportive institutions to further their ambitions. | As one of Africa's young engineers, Brian together with the MamaOpe Medicals team invented a bio-medical smart jacket that helps doctors identify Pneumonia at a faster rate with increased accuracy so as to considerably reduce the under five child mortality rate, and as well increase the productivity of health workers across Africa. His invention MamaOpe, recently emerged the winner of the Pitch@Palace Africa 2017, was shortlisted by the Royal Academy of Engineering under the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, was profiled by BBC among the five African inventions to watch out for in 2017, and is considered by CNN as one of the 12 African innovations that could change the world. Brian was identified as a Goalkeepers by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for his work that is driving progress towards the Global Goals. He is also a member of QEPrize Global Engineering Ambassadors Network, an international network of young engineers from both business and academic institutions. Formerly, Brian founded SkyApps Technologies Ltd, a software solutions company aimed at development of advanced Artificial Intelligence platforms and android-based solutions. While at the Makerere University, Brian worked on the ""The Pearl Smartphone"" project under iLabs@Mak (Makerere University) where he was responsible for customising the Operating system of the phone; a process which involved writing of kernel drivers to interpret signals from external sensors, modify the android Operating System to incorporate the inbuilt phone apps and design other local apps to be used on the phone. | MamaOpe | A Smart Device to Improve Pneumonia Diagnosis and management | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania | Yes | Resilient Africa Network, Villgro Kenya, CAMTech Uganda | Proof of Concept | We recently completed our pre-clinical trials phase where the device was tested for accuracy in a clinical laboratory setting. The results have been validated and currently being reviewed by the ethical approval board. This is in preparation for the clinical trials phase to test for acceptability and safety. | In 2017, pneumonia was estimated to have caused 2.6 million deaths, these deaths, both in developed and developing countries were highest in the elderly and children under 5 years of age. The diagnosis of pneumonia remains a challenge. Access to pulse oximetry is still low and common pneumonia diagnostic signs such as abnormal lung sounds and respiratory rate are often inaccurately determined and interpreted resulting into pneumonia misdiagnosis, delayed access to treatment and death. | MamaOpe is a multimodal device which aids health workers to make a pneumonia diagnosis. We are developing the MamaOpe jacket to automatically determine and interpret: 1) Respiratory Rate and Lung sounds. To boost the diagnostic accuracy of the device, MamaOpe will allow the input of clinically determined symptoms and signs such as temperature, oxygen saturation, and chest in-drawing to be interpreted in combination with the automatically determined RR and lung sounds. Our approach to diagnosing pneumonia leverages machine learning to determine and interpret lung sounds and respiratory rate from the MamaOpe jacket in combination with clinically determined signs. The clinical determined signed will be entered into a MamaOpe user interface so as to be interpreted in combination. Machine learning enables us to create unique models for the different signs and symptoms for a child with pneumonia and compare these models with ones generated by the child under diagnostic assessment. | Our solution has features for breath rate tracking, abnormal sound determination, cloud storage and tele-medicine support, and is targeted for community health workers. The advantage with it is less costly and requires a low level of skills to operate. This implies that even the health workers with a low level of training can easily use it to make meaningful decisions. | We recently completed our pre-clinical study that involved testing our solution in a laboratory. At this stage, we were able to verify the accuracy of the various components on the device and as well the performance of the product. The process was successful and we recorded 94% accuracy levels and the team is using the captured data to further improve this level of performance. | Clinical Trials phase 1, Clinical trials phase 2, acceptability and usability study, CE Marking, Product Launch in Uganda, Expansion to Kenya and Tanzania Generally, we will position MamaOpe for a global market share. Pneumonia is the leading infectious killer globally. The annual incidence pneumonia is estimated at over 150 million cases worldwide and 11-20 million of the cases require hospital admission. Hospitals, health facilities and clinics both private public owned will benefit from MamaOpe. MamaOpe devices will be required in outpatient as well as inpatient care areas. In Uganda alone, the public health sector has 139 general hospitals, 480 health center IVs and 2400 health center IIIs. The private health sector has over 27 general hospitals and 3,318 clinics around the country. Our commercial strategy will explore both sales and a rental model in resource constrained settings. | Short term needs - USD131,0000 to assist in Setting up an assembly center in Uganda, recruiting medical experts and assistants to help in the clinical trials. Medium term - USD200,000 for CE Marking of our device and manufacture of units for the Product Launch Long term - USD150,000 to cater for expansion within East Africa | http://mamaope.com, http://www.southsouthworld.org/blog/46-solution/1527/biomedical-smart-jacket-mamaope, https://www.mathworks.com/company/mathworks-stories/fighting-childhood-pneumonia.html | https://youtu.be/E2TZSPNsXiY, https://youtu.be/7yxKphLb14g, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-38294998, https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/24/africa/biomedical-jacket-uganda-africa-tech-rising/index.html, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04nb98w, https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/01/medical-smart-jacket-tackles-misdiagnosis-of-pneumonia, http://disrupt-africa.com/2017/03/ugandan-entrepreneur-wins-pitchpalace-event/, https://digestafrica.com/interview-mamaope-inside-bbc-listed-african-invention-to-look-out-for-2017, https://www.fastcompany.com/3066978/this-smart-jacket-helps-doctors-diagnose-pneumonia-in-toddlers, https://pitchatpalace.com/pitchpalace-africa-in-the-royal-academy-of-engineering-news/ | Winner - Inaugural Ericsson Challenge 2015 2nd Runners Up (Global Health Category) - Big Ideas competition (University of Berkeley) 2015 Honorary mention (Scaling Up Category) - Big ideas competition (University of Berkeley) 2016 Winner - Pitch@Palace Africa 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
221 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Arunjay | Katakam | Yooz Global Ltd | www.yooz.cash | Founder | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | Motivated by his passion for financial inclusion and solving poverty, Arunjay is focused on how he can use technology for good, breaking down barriers to democratise money. Arunjay has worked in financial inclusion for the last decade. Along this journey, Arunjay has formulated a plan to solve global poverty. Arunjay believes that we live in a world where there is more than enough money to go around and the only problem is distribution. Technology today allows for the distribution to happen. Cash leakages is a huge issue where funds are currently disbursed. It's ironic given Coca-Cola is distributed to all corners of the world without any leakage. Arunjay has created a model that starts with making one village digital and financially included and then scale to 1,000s of villages. | A highly regarded payment expert with strong strategic and analytical skills, Arunjay consulted with the GSMA Mobile Money programme for five years, where he provided a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of mobile money including analysing the impact of new technologies and business models. As advisor to the Head of Mobile Money, in 2018 Arunjay led the strategy pivot to a Payments as a Platform approach and helped secure $17m funding for phase 4 of the programme. Arunjay helped setup the DFS Lab, and designed the programme to support start-ups in emerging markets. He runs DFS Lab’s fintech bootcamps, five-day design sprints to build and test concepts and has mentored over 20 start-ups, including Nala, Nobuntu, Numi, Pezesha, Pula, TaniHub and Teller. As co-founder and CEO of Yooz, Arunjay is leading a revolution in remittances. With the marginal cost of transferring money from the UK to India reducing to near zero, while incumbents continue to charge high fees – Arunjay is looking to transform the international remittances industry one payment at a time. A true global citizen, Arunjay moved half way around the world from India to Trinidad and Tobago at the tender age of 22 and has visited over 30 Countries across 6 Contents. Arunjay spent the first five years of his career counting beans at EY. | Financial empowerment kit for displaced women | Our empowerment kit provides solar power (utility) to women (gender) along with a mobile phone (inclusion) that is purpose built for financial service | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Madagascar | Yes | Orange Madagascar, HERi Madagascar and TerraPay | Proof of Concept | We have a minimum viable product. A product that already exists and has been tested but which may require further adaptation. The project has carried out market research and some market validation activities and has evidence that there is market demand with an understanding of the model of operation required. The next step is to support the roll-out of the product, to validate uptake of the product and make further adaptations to the product. with an aim to collect actionable results. | A major barrier to digital and financial inclusion for rural and displaced populations is the accessibility of mobile phones and lack of access to a power supply to keep it charged. The persistent gap in phone ownerships has a knock-on effect which limits the growth potential of both rural and displaced individuals. They have to purchase second hand phones, which are unreliable and stop working. Lastly, as basic phones are not designed for financial services, most cash-out disbursements. | Our “empowerment kit” concept aims to test one solution to address the two main barriers to handset ownership, which are cost of a reliable handset and a lack of access to a power supply to keep it charged. The empowerment kit would, through low-cost financing, gives users access to a durable handset designed for rugged usage alongside a solar panel and a battery which act as a charging station. The financing programme has been built on the lessons of PAYG solar financing, where users make repayments through top-ups and in the event a payment is not made, the solar device (charging station) would be de-activated until the next payment is made. By partnering with Orange and introducing a new programme that provides an empowerment kit to displaced women, Yooz will make mobile financial services more accessible and affordable. We want to reach, engage and activate displaced users who are in desperate need of such help. In scenarios where displaced women end up settling or living for many years in camps, our empowerment kit will help them vastly improve their lives by helping bring up their children in a digital world, retain communication with their families from their home country and allow them to supplement their income by receiving international remittances. Additionally products can be provided over time - in 12 months, once they have repaid the empowerment kit, they would have created a credit record which can be further leveraged to provide short-term and long-term credit | 800 million people don't have access to a mobile phone. Off-grid solar has made a great deal of progress in the last 10 years. Our approach is to leverage PAYG solar (off-grid) to provide a low-cost rugged purpose built mobile handset to empower women to be financially included. (1) The products are purpose built and specifically designed for rural and displaced women, many of whom are using a mobile phone for the first time. The handset is rugged, easy to use and has a long battery life. (2) The handset has a simple interface to access Orange Money, helping onboard first-time mobile money users (this is a pre-installed application, much easier to use, vs. USSD strings). (3) An empowerment kit, to solve multiple problems by providing airtime financing will allow users to access digital services with a strong commercial proposition. (4) Currently, no competitors are offering a similar solution. | The first incarnation of this solution was born 4 years ago, and evolved into the current solution through several iterations and mini pivots. The solution is ready to be rolled-out and be validated and if successful has the potential to scale and impact millions of displaced individuals. | The innovation aims to solve a number of use-cases for the target audience (1) make and receive phone calls, (2) use data services, (3) clean solar energy - lighting and charing mobile phone, (4) Payments - make and receive mobile money payments and finally (5) ability receive inbound international remittances at FX rates with no mark up. First goal is to test our MVP with 2,000 women in the next 12 months. Based on our learnings and adaptation to the product, we expect to get ready to scale. This is a very powerful solution that has the potential to impact tens of millions of lives. | Short-term: risk capital to test the MVP. Medium-term: further risk capital and debt financing to fund devices Long-term: debt financing to fund devices. | http://video.yooz.cash http://deck.yooz.cash | http://interview.yooz.cash | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - Grand Challenge Exploration Grant - May 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
222 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nomcebo | Magagula | iREACH | www.ireach.co.za | Managing Director | Female | South Africa | South Africa | English | I am applying to present a project. I have this new technology concept that I believe it will solve two concerns for all cellphone users. The cellphone App is call iReach, it allows you to search for any cellphone user that you want to be in contact with so to be able to have a direct chat with. It will allow users to delete their private conversations and can never be recovered. The App allow users to never loose contact numbers even when phone have been lost or if a person has just bought a new phone. The App is re-downloadable and allow users to retrieve all contacts and conversations and be able to delete whatever if they want to delete. From a previous experience it has really been hard to retrieve contacts when phone has been lost. Also sometimes a person wants to send a very private message then delete without and trace. The App allows all cellphone users to have full control on what they want to keep and if they either regret sending the message, they have an option to delete the message and the other party who is the receiver also gets the message being deleted from their receiving side. | I am a born South African young woman, who has done all her studying phases withing the board of the country. I am a Scientist by profession and currently studying towards Postgraduate Diploma in Project Management. | iREACH | Communinication management through social media. | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Currently it is operating between the boarders of South Africa. However I plan to have it rolled out to the other surrounding countries and be able to have it used globally. | No | Research & Development | We are currently having the APP being downloaded by users and they are starting to use it. From the research done. We have been able to receive positive response from stakeholders and they just could not wait for it to be available on play store so they can start using it for their private use. out of a survey of 50 people informed about the App, 48 of them gave it thumbs up and they can not wait for it to come through. the other two did not have interest. | it allows all cellphone users to have full control on what messages do they want to keep in their message box. also if they want to delete their conversations with the other party they have been chatting too. secondly it allow users to never loose contacts. thirdly it allow users to delete their numbers from the list of people whom they no longer want them to keep their contacts in their phone books. | this is a lifetime solution for all cellphone users. it really allows them the authority to delete their conversations without a trace while also gives them an opportunity to maintain contacts whenever the App is re -installed. it is a solution for anyone who comes across a crisis dilemma and looses a phone if the other user has the App, the existing subscriber can always login and be able to reach to their families and get assisted. | it is indeed very unique. 1. users have whatsapp, but people are able to find one another on whatsapp through their contact numbers, yet with this app they are able to search for each other by name. 2. the app allow users the full control of deleting their conversations and those messages can never be retrieved even by the icloud source of storage. 3. it allow users to maintain contacts even when cellphone has been lost. once a subscriber redownloads the app, all contacts get to be restored. | we are currently at the testing phase and all seems to be in order. the app creation has become a success. we are now rolling it out through advertising. | our aim is not to have this app being only used in South Africa, we plan to roll it out and it be used by other cellphone users globally. | the only resource that subscribes may need it to be in a position of having an Android or IOS phone and access to internet. the rest is upon what the subscriber wants to do in terms of communicating with other users based on the detailed information mentioned above. | website : www.ireach.co.za Play store : iReach | please go through the company website. most of information you need, will be available there. website is www.ireach.co.za | nothing as yet since the App is completely new. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
223 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kennedy | Wanjiru | IQON Innovative Consultants Limited | iqonafrica.co.ke | Managing Director | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | My motivation for applying to be a part of UN Solutions Summit is appreciation of the scale and scope of my innovation (PPPassist). PPPassist seeks to digitize public private partnerships (PPP's) project cycle so as to accelerate delivery of SDG-aligned public services sooner. PPPassist is a cloud-based MIS solution that seeks to unlock 10-30% tech-driven efficiencies in a PPP project schedule and cost. I am hoping the UN solutions summit will provide high-level visibility for my solution which is crucial in digitization of such government driven multi-stakeholder processes, pursuing often large-scale multi-year and high-volume partnerships / projects. | Kennedy Ikonya Wanjiru is the Founder and Director of IQON Innovative Solutions Limited. A 100% youth owned and managed virtual Project Management Office for SMEs based in Nairobi, Kenya. Before starting his company Kennedy has acquired multi-disciplinary experience from work in Kenya's Medical Research Institute (Government), National Commission For Science, technology & Innovation (Government) and Across the World Youth venture (NGO). He holds a Bachelors Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Certification in Project Management, Public Private Partnerships and Corporate Finance Basics. Kennedy, a member of Project Management Institute (PMI) is also passionate about developing solutions that help bridge the policy-practice Gap in SDG aligned areas. | pppassist | Digitalize PPPs, deliver SDG's sooner! | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kenya and Rwanda | No | Ideation | I think pppassist is at the ideation stage because we are currently seeking partners to develop a prototype. | (i) 'Tech-avoidable' delays and costs in Public-private partnership (PPP) projects delay SDG-aligned public services and social benefits in sectors such as agricultural, health, energy, transport, education. Due to the integrated nature of PPP projects such PPP projects have cross-cutting impact in different SDG Areas. E.g Delay in a Water PPP not only delays SDG 6 and but also delays achieving (Target 6.3), (Target 3.9) and (Target 9.4). | PPPassist is a cloud based, management & Information system that provides stakeholders in a PPP Project with 10-30% savings on project schedule and costs. The system digitalizes and optimizes project processes involved in Public Private Partnership project Cycle. Part of the criteria used to qualify any project to be a PPP is the estimated project Cost (usually at least USD 20 Million) and contract period (usually 20 or more years). For instance, The World Bank Group 2017 report indicates that private investment commitments in energy, transport, ICT backbone and water infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries totaled US$93.3 billion across 304 projects. The high transaction nature of PPP projects means that any Project Cost savings would free up significant value of resources that can be useful in supporting other PPP Projects. Additionally, due to the long-term nature of PPP projects, any savings on schedule means that cross-cutting nature of PPP-driven impact on SDG’s is realized sooner. Tech-driven savings of 10-30% on a PPP Project Schedule and Cost would therefore have significant impact in accelerating delivery of SDG-aligned public services. | Whereas there exist generic Project Management tools like MS Project (Microsoft), Primaverra (Oracle), projectmanagement.com and other Project scheduling tools, PPPassist will be different is unique in the following ways; - PPPassist is a Specific solution for Public Private Partnership projects: the solution presents an end to end solution for the entire PPP project Cycle. -PPPassist is an adaptable to Country specific policies and regulations: PPPassist will have flexible features/filters allowing customization to Country/regional specific PPP Needs, polices and priorities. -Role-based access and integration for all stakeholders globally, including but not limited to; (i) PPP Investors (International & Local Commercial Banks, Capital Markets, Equity Funds, Export Credit Agencies, Development Finance Institutions, Bilateral Agencies, Multilateral, Development Banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds (ii) Private Entities (Contractor, operators, financial service provider) (iii) Public entities (Contracting authority, Ministry, regulators, Local governments etc) (iii) project managers/teams, (iii) Consumers (Public access to disposable project information and feedback) -Sustainable revenue model: Since PPP's are usually off-balance to Government (public) contracting agencies the system will generate revenue through convenience fees paid by the private entity players | -Developed lean Business canvas -Solution validation; We have carried out general inquiries with the PPP Unit in Kenya, some PPP partnership advisers from UNDP, UNone (Kenya). The objective was to validate the need for such as a solution. All discussions validate need and made emphasis on a deploying keen approach on how to go about developing the solution and in stakeholder engagement/management (That is why I applying to UN Solutions summit-high level visibility, hopefully engagement and partnerships) -We have registered copyrights for PPPassist under Kenya Copyright Authority | (i) Co-create/develop prototype with strategic partner (high-level) (ii) Pilot/Proof of Concept with 5 PPP projects with total capacity to deliver public services to 100,000 people/year in a developing Country such as Kenya and Rwanda.(each in health, energy, education, transport, agriculture) (iii) Transition to scaling (Implement lessons learnt, full integration and capacity to work in all Countries with clear PPP Acts, Policies and regulations) (iv)Scaling: Capacity to accelerate delivery of public services in health, energy, transport, and agriculture to 1,000,000 people. | Short term Goals: (i) Co-create/develop pppassist prototype with strategic partner (high-level) Needs - partnership with strategic partners such as UNDP or Public-Private Infrastructure Facility (World Bank Group) -Technical ICT4D or Govtech developers/experts (ii) Pilot/Proof of Concept with 5 PPP projects with total capacity to deliver public services to 100,000 people/year in a developing Country such as Kenya and Rwanda.(each in health, energy, education, transport, agriculture) -Partnership with Country PPP Units Medium-term: iii) Transition to scaling (Implement lessons learnt, full integration and capacity to work in all Countries with clear PPP Acts, Policies and regulations) -Technical ICT4D or Govtech developers/experts Long Term;Scaling: Capacity to accelerate delivery of public services in health, energy, transport, and agriculture to 1,000,000 people. Building PPPassist towards a standardization of PPP Project Cycle by PPP Investors such as International & Local Commercial Banks, Capital Markets, Equity Funds, Export Credit Agencies, Development Finance Institutions, Bilateral Agencies, Multilateral, Development Banks, Sovereign Wealth Funds | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vDDo-e_rd4sMvoe-1vxm8krFn5hnVzpZ | N/A | -Not Yet- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
224 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Gamal | Albinsaid | InMed | https://www.indonesiamedika.com | CEO and Founder | Male | Indonesia | Indonesia | English | Through UN Solutions Summit, we want to introduce the innovation and solutions to give all people equal health service. Not all of the people get and experience the proper health service due to some reason, such as the economic background, the lack of professional health workers available, the distance between their house to the nearest clinics/hospitals. Due to some reasons, especially that also happen in Indonesia, we initiate to create InMed. InMed is a health app based on technology that gives easy and fast access to get health service. There is no distinction to its users. Plus, to date, all the services available in InMed are free to use. Through InMed, we want to help all the people, to date, Indonesian citizens, to feel and get the proper health service without worrying additional things, such as the medication fee. As additional information, a lot of Indonesian people are lived below the poverty line that caused them difficult to get the proper health service given by the professional health workers. Eventhough Indonesian government already give the poor/disadvantaged people free health insurance, not all of the clinics/hospitals are giving the health service for them. Besides, through InMed, the users can have the health service just by accessing the app anytime and anywhere. | Gamal Albinsaid, MD, M.Biomed, Indonesia Medika CEO, a young doctor, researcher, technopreneur, and sociopreneur from Indonesia. Gamal is the founder of Garbage Clinical Insurance. Gamal got Mentoring from Cambridge Program Sustainability Leadership. He was invited to Buckingham Palace to dinner with Prince Charles because of his initiative. He has developed some innovative products, such as InMed. InMed: Healthcare Is In Your Hand is a technology-based social enterprise that connects health professionals and health facilities to the community to provide a variety of health services. | InMed | Healthcare is in Your Hand | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Indonesia | Yes | BSMI and STIKES Mataram | Transition to Scale | Because to date, InMed has downloaded by around 9.000 users all around Indonesia. InMed also has active users that spread in all around Indonesia. Related to that, not all of Indonesia's region is reached by InMed, that's why InMed is still trying to scale up to the national scale. | InMed is a revolutionary innovation that facilitates the users to get easy and fast access to get health service without going to the nearest clinics/hospitals anymore. Through InMed, we want to decrease the inequality of health service happens in Indonesian nowadays. Also, since all the current features of InMed is free to use, many Indonesian citizens can have and experience the proper and the best health service given by professional health workers. | InMed is a health app based on technology that can be accessed by the users anytime and anywhere without the limitation of time and distance. Also, the users can experience and get the health service provided by InMed after choosing the most suitable health service available. The user doesn't need to go to the nearest clinics/hospitals anymore to get health service after installing InMed. This innovation of InMed will last as long as the technology is still used by the people. | 1. Through InMed, the users can save the cost to go to the nearest clinics/hospitals 2. The users can save the cost for a health consultation in clinics/hospitals 3. The users can choose the professional health workers as they want based on their preference 4. The users can access and get the health service anytime and anywhere 5. To date, there is no additional cost to have and get health service in InMed 6. InMed help poor/disadvantaged patient to get the proper medication 7. InMed help professional health workers to add their monthly salary by joining and giving health service in InMed | To date, InMed has running two its features: Med-Talk and Med-Fund, and in this September, the main feature that ever existed in Homedika will relaunch as Med-Visit. Related to this, InMed has gained over 9.000 users over Indonesia, and the active users are around 3.000. Not only that, we are gained around IDR 1,5 billion through Med-Fund that has been distributed to 765 patients. | In the future, InMed will activate and launch all its feature to give the best health service that can be accessed easily by the users. Of course, InMed needs funding to pay some costs, especially for a development cost. Also, InMed is still trying to expand the users in the neighbor province to national scale to optimize the benefits of InMed and achieving the goal of InMed that helps Indonesian citizens without any distinction to have and get equal and proper health service. | Funding, and the skilfull staffs. Both of the fundings and the skillful staff is needed for short-term to long-term needs, especially to improve the quality of InMed. | https://www.indonesiamedika.com https://bit.ly/inmeduser https://jatim.tribunnews.com/2018/10/23/dokter-gamal-albinsaid-luncurkan-aplikasi-kesehatan-berbasis-android-inmed-di-kota-malang https://bsmi.or.id/post/bsmi-dan-dr-gamal-teken-kerjasama-konsultasi-gratis-di-aplikasi-inmed/47 https://malangvoice.com/gamal-albinsaid-luncurkan-inmed-aplikasi-panggil-dokter-online/ https://www.viva.co.id/digital/startup/1087165-pakai-inmed-panggil-dokter-ke-rumah-semudah-pesan-ojek-online | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw3Tixc2R-4&t=15s | •Top 10 Creative Business Cup (August, 2017), organized by Global Entrepreneurship Network Indonesia •Top 4 Global Social Venture Competition (South East Asia Region) (February, 2018), organized by Thammasat University in Bangkok •The second winner of Innovation Award (April, 2018), organized by Indonesia Healthcare Forum •The Top 5 of Entrepreneurship World Cup 2019 (July, 2019), organized by Global Entrepreneurship Network Indonesia, Surabaya Government, MISK Foundation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
225 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Luther | Lawoyin | Pricepally Nigeria | pricepally.com | CEO | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My name is Olaleye Luther Lawoyin, I am an entrepreneur with a passion for social impact. I am leveraging technology to build innovative business models and platforms to serve next 1 billion in the digital economy. I believe this is an exciting time to solve Africa’s economic challenges, the vision is to leverage internet technology to bring sustainable solutions that will usher in a new economic models, increase prosperity, inclusion and build social capital at scale. Among many the delude of challenges we face in my country Nigeria and across Africa, I used to be oblivious of a huge problem that affected myself and over half a billion people living in urban African cities until I got married in 2018. Soon after our honeymoon in July, my wife started keeping data on how much we spend monthly on food and daily needs, my wife loves data. A few months after, we discovered we spend over 60% of our income on food and daily needs, it was outrageous. I started to research this and discovered it was a well-defined problem backed by facts from the USDA and the World Bank. The latest figures by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reveals that Nigerians spends 56.4% of their household income on food, the highest in the world. In 2018/19, a team of World Bank economists researched on price levels, the results indicate that African cities are relatively more expensive, despite having lower income levels. The price levels of goods and services consumed by households are 25 to 28 percent higher in Sub-Saharan Africa than in other low- and middle-income countries, relative to their income levels. This problem is further compounded because Africa is rapidly urbanizing, it is in fact the fastest rate in the world. As daunting as this situation is, my team and I have developed a sustainable solution. Pricepally.com is a sharing wholesale e-commerce platform that enables people to shop for food and daily needs in groups, so as to leverage their collective purchasing power and the economies of bulk purchase to save money and time. Our solution amazes us because the more people we can include the cheaper we can get people their food and daily needs We have launched in beta and helped over 120+ low and middle-income families and 4 restaurants save money on their food and daily needs, our app which in development will enable us to do more. We are poised to help over 500 million people facing this challenge in urban Africa cities today. | I was born on the 9th of December 1982 to the family of late Dr. Victor Latunde Lawoyin and Mrs. Omolola Lawoyin. I attended Oritamefa baptist primary school and proceeded to Nesto College Oyo, a secondary school in Nigeria. In 2001, I got admission to Obafemi Awolowo University to study Geology. I came about the internet in 2003 became passionate about the internet and technology, I started learning everything I could, I learned to code and develop solutions, I began freelancing, helping people develop solutions and I started making money at a relatively young age. I realized Geology was not the way to go, it was not fulfilling, I summoned the courage and explained to my family that I was opting out to build my business ideas and study part-time instead. It was tough but they were later convinced I made the right decision. I created my first business and failed, my second business faired better but it eventually closed up, I continued on my entrepreneurial path and created more businesses including Passjamb.com.ng ( a test prep site for Nigerian students) which was sold to a competitor, I created Lucy.ng an on-demand platform for branded merchandise with over $1m in sales today. My most recent venture is Pricepally.com, it is a business that is poised to impact the lives of millions of people at scale. I later graduated from the University of Lagos, 2 years ago with Bsc in Business Administration. I am married to a beautiful wife and we are expecting a baby. | Pricepally.com | The people's shopping power | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, India | No | Proof of Concept | We have conducted a pilot test, launched our beta, made revenue from paying customers, app in production with its launch due in October. | We are solving the problem of the high cost of food and daily needs in urban African cities, due to the deficiency in infrastructure and food production in Africa, the cost of food and daily needs continue to rise. | Pricepally.com is a sharing economy e-commerce platform that enables people to shop together in groups to leverage their collective bargaining power and the economies of bulk purchase to buy more and save more at their convenience. By aggregating demand users can buy food in bulk directly from producers and wholesalers to share, this guarantees them savings compared to buying at retail. It also benefits the producers and wholesalers who are enabled to sell a lot of products faster. Our vision is to help 1 million families middle and low-income families save on their monthly spend on food and daily needs in 2 years. Our vision in 7 years is to help 100 million low and middle-income earners living in urban African cities to save up to 50% of their current spend on food and daily needs, our vision in10 years is to serve 1 billion people across developing urban cities in the world Pricepally.com will foster inclusion and community spirit, a platform that will enable collaboration of people and social capital around a uniting subject of food. We are building our app with this in mind. | Cooperative or group-buying is popular because it is a proven way to save money while shopping, it exists as registered and informal cooperative societies such as trade cooperatives, women groups, student groups, civil service groups, etc. People come together and agree to buy products in bulk to save money. We are innovating this age-old popular culture by using technology to transform the existing model. We are building a platform that connects and enables millions of people to cooperatively shop for food and daily needs in groups. It will significantly improve the lives of millions at scale Our algorithm is designed to enable social interactions that create shopping groups within the user’s network or the Pricepally network by matching users according to similar interests, location, shopping preference, etc. It is a merge of social and commerce, it will be easy and fast to use and it is designed to improve at scale. Pricepally.com will promote inclusion, increase knowledge sharing among users, build social capital and increase prosperity. This creates a new dimension of performance. | We have completed a pilot test of 12 families, launched our beta version on pricepally.com, served customers and delivered customer orders, we have helped them individuals and businesses save up to 23% on their monthly budget on food and daily needs. Our app is currently in development to be ready in October 2019. We measure our progress based on the rate of inclusion i.e user to user invites or ""pally's', Sales and the amount of savings we can help customers secure. We measure the following in detail: Traffic (website visits) customer acquisition cost (CAC) Events (pally's) Sales Delivery Customer satisfaction Average basket size Discounts to customer Gross profit per product etc | We are launching our app and the final version of the website in October 2019 We are planning to serve 250,000 in Lagos Nigeria by January 2020. We plan to expand to other states in Nigeria by September 2020 and other African countries by January 2021, we are targetting Accra Ghana, Cairo Egypt and Johanessburg South Africa. We plan to recruit 22 staff members by January 2020 to serve Lagos Nigeria and many more as we expand to other countries. Our vision is to impact and improve the lives of the next billion digital shoppers in Africa by leveraging a shared economy model to solve their basic needs while making commerce fun. We are ushering in a new economy that will increase prosperity, inclusion and social capital for consumers and producers. Our ten-year vision is to empower a hundred million low and middle-income families in Africa via our digital platform that enables connection and collaboration at scale, increasing prosperity, inclusion, and social capital while making commerce fun. | Talent- We need to employ local and international talents that will buy into the vision, work and drive our growth. We will be hiring about 18 people to fill different roles that will serve our first market Lagos Nigeria in the short term. This will increase as the company grows to about 40 staff members in the long term Partnerships- We need local and foreign partnerships in Nigeria and across the countries we envision to serve, we need partnerships with producers, including smallholder farmers, large scale farmers and enablers in the agricultural sector. In the short term, we are partnering mostly with wholesalers but in the long term, we will directly source from producers so as to get more discounts for our customers at scale. Our partnerships include and not limited to farmers, we will be partnering with FMCG manufacturers and transport logistics companies,. Capital- We need capital in order to scale, we will be raising our seed round of capital in exchange for equity or debt to explore our first market which is Lagos Nigeria, we will also be looking out for grants that can further help us in the short term. In the long term, we will be needing a lot of cash investments to push the business across borders and to open new markets. | https://pricepally.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh5IcBQX0NY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh5IcBQX0NY | We have been admitted to MIT venture scaling Bootcamp 2019. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
226 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Boze | Anderson | Micro Eyewear Inc | microeyewearinc.com | Founder/ CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | The Micro Eyes Platform At Micro Eyewear, Inc. we believe in an Universal Culture and Universal Experience. And through the generations we have somehow alienated and disconnected ourselves personally from the Universe and all its benefits. We're born with microscopic vision, sixty percent of the world is microscopic and can't be seen with the naked eye. And we are connected in every way except visually. Micro Eyes 1 is a line of hi-tech autonomous eye wear, products and services that will enable users to see at Micro and Nano scale 24/7:on demand. | My name is Boze Anderson, and I'm a Visionary, Entrepreneur, Inventor and CEO. My Company is Micro Eyewear, Inc. Micro Eyes 1 is a line of hi-tech autonomous eye wear with microscopic vision. We've planned to reinvent the microscope into wearable technology. Thanks Boze Anderson,CEO Boze Anderson,LinkedIn | Micro Eyes 1 | More than a product an evolution | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Microscopic Vision and Autonomous Eye Wear is new technology no Country has and every Country will want once available. | Yes | Attorney, Engineers, and Market Researcher | Ideation | Because it's a first generation prototype and just scaled to Pre-seed funding stage. | The Micro Eyes 1 Project We're born with microscopic vision sixty percent of the world is microscopic and can't be seen with normal vision. So we've planned to reinvent the microscope into wearable technology. Developing a line of autonomous eye wear and mobile devices that will enable users to access Micro and Nano space 24/7 on demand. | Autonomous Eye Wear Micro Eyes 1 is a method and system for looking at minute objects fast and easy. And small as the eye can see. Our mission is to educate humanity about microscopic vision and how to use it. | Wearable Technology More than a market fit an evolutionary fit Micro Eyes 1 autonomous eye wear with auto focusing and microscopic vision. Will not only increase vision but also improve the IQ and stimulate the analytical side of the brain. And unlike Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality that use computer generated images. Everything you see with microscopic vision is real. | Micro Eyewear,Inc. is a Pre-revenue C Corp. and Tech Startup. Also a Government and United Nations Verified Vendor. With Intangible assets and no debt. Micro Eyes 1 is not only designed for consumers but infrastructures and can be used on earth and anywhere man goes in the Universe. We want to show how microscopic vision can be applied to everyday use. | The commercialization and adaptation of Micro and Nano Space Microlization Governments and Corporations have many initiatives for rapid growth for commercializing Micro and Nano space. But there's no initiatives to educate humanity how to adapt and engage the commercialization. Micro Eyes 1 will take open science to the next level. By opening science to all of humanity. And help humanity initiate and adapt to these environments we've been apart of since before we were born. | We need seed funding, marketing and advertising strategies. To create Universal Awareness and Space Age Lifestyle. Trying to be one dimensional in a multi-dimensional world is no longer feasible in this day and age. We want to break the prehistoric evolutionary cycle and Quantum Leap our evolutionary process. | Micro Eyewear,Inc. and Micro Eyes 1 are public knowledge but not well known. You can Google Boze Anderson or Micro Eyewear Inc and scroll down to different sites for information. | https://youtu.be/5zWyHOD | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
227 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohanoe | Bodibe | BodiChaba Technologies | www.bodichabatech.co.za | Director | Male | South Africa | South Africa | English | By applying to be part of the UN Solutions Summit, we seek to be awarded with an exposure at the global scale. We believe this golden platform will create more opportunities as well as access to available resources from UN Solutions and possibly take our innovation to greater heights. Our innovation is in line with the global vision which seeks to redefine major transformations and manage the new technologies that have been spurred on by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Our innovation will: - Enable government departments (around the world) including all stakeholders to communicate with the public more effectively. - Enable communities to access information and public services. - Create hundred thousands of sustainable business opportunity for Youth ICT Entrepreneurs residing within the respective wards to be leadership within their communities, namely to manage both main and wards websites and also provide Online public services to members of the wards 100% free of charge except the involved fees from the respective government departments. - Enhance Two Way Communication. - Encourage transparency and build informed societies. - Enable governments to save costs for web development services and advertising fees. | My name is Mohanoe Johannes Bodibe. Am born and bred in Sharpeville, South Africa on 4 July. I don't possess a formal academic qualification in the ICT space. However, I am well equipped with the ability to introduce new methods to the existing technologies. ""Creating solutions is my way of life"". My strength in the ICT space is intellectual property. In this space, I was introduced by the former President of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law Mr. Allan Dunlop. Currently, am actively involved in the social entrepreneurship space. Thus far, I introduced a number of solutions, namely: 1. e-Bible. Offline application software that runs on compatible mobile devices for users to access a complete Bible text with a search engine functionality. Year created,2004. Unfortunately, the Bible Society of South Africa copied my copyright work (e-Bible) without my knowledge and my permission. A proof (my email correspondences with BSSA) in this matter also available upon request. 2. Wards Online Programme, 3. Marked Exam Scripts Mobile App, 4. Digital TV Books App. Currently, we are working on the innovation Wards Online Programme. During my time off, I enjoy spending time in the hair salon industry space (assisting my employees in my salon). This also serves as a platform to network with our clients where we share a number of issues from politics to business, etcetera. To keep in touch, my contacts are as follows: Facebook: Motale Bodibe WhatsApp: +27 (0) 81 717 2812 Email: bodibemz@gmail.com | Wards Online Programme | Is a digital communication platform between elected wards councillors and the community they represent. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | We intend to launch the programme in South Africa and ultimately roll out to other countries around the globe. | Yes | My partners are Mr Tebogo Pelo,Mr Peter Mabale and PaygHost. | Research & Development | This simply because, thus far we managed to introduce our innovation Wards Online Programme to the existing technologies: -Ward committees, - Disseminating of government information to the public, - Access to public services. The idea in our development is to disrupt the existing technologies. Furthermore, It will also give countries a unique opportunity to address youth unemployment by adapting the education models to catalyze innovation and upskill youth for digital transformation. | - lack of communication, - Youth unemployment, - lack of access to information, - Inequality, - lack of access to public services. These impacts life negatively to a point where communities show act of aggression against government by protesting due to the grievances caused by lack of communication and other service delivery issues. Geographic areas impacted by our programme includes rural,urban and suburban areas globally. These communities have different needs and wants. | For the ward councillor to get our added value support services with regard to website development for his/her ward. The ward councillor will be expected to contact ward website manager residing within the ward to register the subdomain of the ward,e.g. www.ward14.sharpville.co.za. After registration of subdomain. The ward councillor will work hand in glove with his/her ward committee members and the office of the Speaker (of the municipality) regarding: 1. the drafting of website info,namely info that will be populated on the home page/about us page/services page/etc. 2. collecting info (dataset) from the ward e.g. churches contact details,police station, clinic, SMMEs, schools, creches and NPO contact details, etcetera. After collecting all the required info from the ward, the ward councillor will hand the ward website information form to the ward website manager. At this stage, ward website manager will therefore submit ward website info to our technical team via our current website www.bodichabatech.co.za. Finally, our developers will go ahead with the development of ward website and main site. WOP will generate good income through adverts from big companies,political parties on both main and wards websites. Information from our stakeholders,will be distributed via WOP head office to main site managers to ward websites managers. Finally, ward websites managers will upload info onto the wards websites. Websites managers will get incentives for their services. | Our innovation WOP is unique to the current existing technologies with the following unique selling propositions: - Provide 100% free website development services to elected wards councillors, - Create a sustainable business opportunity for Youth ICT Entrepreneurs (50% male and 50% female) to manage both main, wards websites and also provide Online public services, - Enable communities to access public services directly from their respective wards 100% free of charge except for the involved fees from the respective government department | Thus far,we managed to: - conduct a research about the constitution of ward committee, - draft the menu bar for main and wards websites, - and we have identified wards websites managers and parties who will advertise on our platform, - bring a Durban based ICT company on board to make our innovation a success, - approach members of the community of Sharpeville and a number of municipalities in South Africa and we received a positive response from the high offices within the municipalities. However,having said that they indicated that if we are expecting a financial support from the public purse our request will be processed via tender system,unfortunately the tender approach will deprive our economic rights. | Our long term goal is to gradually rollout our innovation to countries around the globe (USA and UK, etc.) by bringing Youth ICT Entrepreneurs on board to implement WOP in their respective countries. This will create hundred thousands of sustainable business opportunity for Youth ICT Entrepreneurs. It will also give countries a unique opportunity to address youth unemployment by adapting the education models to catalyze innovation and upskill youth for digital transformation. | - Youth ICT Entrepreneurs for their support services to manage both main and ward websites and also provide Online public services to members of their respective wards. - PaygHost Pty. Ltd. for their support with regard to web development services, - Incubation support services,namely office space,coaching and internet connectivity, - Funding, - to form partnerships with government, Note: After 3 years of operation we wanted to have our owned head office in South Africa or USA. | https://globalinnovationexchange.org https://bodichabatech.co.za | No recordingss. | I - Mohanoe Johannes Bodibe won The 2013 Hansa Pilsener Cheers to the Dreamers Campaign. Organized by South African Brewer. Peter Mabale has previously presented in the SIFE national university competition on student entrepreneurship in 2009. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
228 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Samuel | Munguti | Farmers Pride | http://farmersprideafrica.com/ | CEO and FOUNDER | male | Kenya | Kenya | English | My passion and dream has always been transform the world to a better place to live in especially through helping lift populations from poverty and that is why i founded Framers Pride in 2016. I belief an opportunity to share Farmers Pride story in a Global UN summit will give our project the mileage and momentum it needs to reach scale faster and establish valuable connections too | I grew up in rural eastern Kenya, as smallholder farmers, my parents worked hard to provide food and income for our family. Upon completing my education with an MBA degree in Marketing and management in 2016 i was sure it was the right moment to design a solution to address challenges facing farmers in my community. My first business venture was water melon and tomato farming. It was not easy to do this and make money. I actually made losses. I failed because it was hard to get right inputs, services, and information at local shops. I imagined same experience facing rural farmers every day. Looking at how agro dealer shops were managed I saw an opportunity to transform farming through changing how rural farmers access key inputs, services and information. | Farmers Pride | DigiShops for smallholder farmers | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Currently Kenya, then rest of Africa | No | Transition to Scale | We just completed proof of concept through launching 10 village level DigiShops and other 165 under conversion stage and reaching 10,000 farmers directly and now fundraising to scale the solution | Agriculture inputs, services and agriculture information distribution in rural areas is inefficient and poor. Rural Farmers suffer from poor farm production, losses and malnutrition as a result of limited access to quality inputs, services and information. 80% of smallholder farmers in Kenya depend on livestock and crops as a key source of livelihood yet 35% of livestock and crops are lost due to crops fail and livestock death each year because of diseases and bad agricultural practices. | Our DigiShop platform creates new agriculture opportunities to village level farmers to access trusted and dependable information, inputs and services Through DigiShop technology and agrodealer franchising we digitize and professionalize village-level agriculture supply chain systems in order to bridge information, inputs and services gap among smallholder farmers giving rural smallholder farmers and agro dealers tools and opportunities they did not have before to succeed in their farming enterprises Last mile agriculture solutions distribution faces numerous challenges ranging from distribution, access to counterfeit products, capital and management where farmers end up purchasing poor quality products at exploitative prices with limited or no extension and education support. Breaking last mile agriculture supply chain barriers translates to local communities accessing better quality and affordable agriculture services, inputs and information We have 10 DigiShops and 165 other stores at different conversion stages and project to grow to 1000 across Kenya next 5 years to reach directly 500,000 farmers before expanding to rest of Africa | Farmers Pride model uniqueness is adopting franchise model concept and integrating with mobile technology and village youth agents to transform rural agrodealer shops and farmers to increase their income making them more happy and prosperous while contributing more to ending youth unemployment, food insecurity and malnutrition in Kenya and Africa. Other business like regional distributors and non-Farmers Pride stores have been part of inputs and services quality problem that Farmers Pride is addressing | Monthly revenue and financial reporting as well as monthly impact reporting on impact achieved on women and farmer income. We shall continuously build and document lessons to help make right decision right time in terms of what to replicate and what to drop | Projected to launch 1000 DigiShops across Kenya next 5 years to reach 500,000 village level farmers | Currently raising USD 1.m to take our DigiShop network to 200 next 3 years, fill key skills gaps, upgrade DigiShop technology and fund inventory strategy | http://farmersprideafrica.com/ https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2001320189/world-bank-challenge-lists-promising-agri-tech-innovations-in-kenya http://www.ideastoimpact.net/content/kenyas-top-7-climate-innovators-awarded-over-500k-initiatives-increase-resilience | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6gBAuC5q2c https://youtu.be/cIJc5PhvhG0 | D-Prize Global Distribution challenge Prize winner 2017 Climate information challenge winner 2018 NextGen Global franchising competition winner 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
229 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Diri Evans | Benjamin | MP DIRI INITIATIVE | https://mpdinitiative.wixsite.com/mpdiriinitiative | President | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Am applying to be part of the UN Solution Summit as the president of MP DIRI INITIATIVE a community base initiative in the Niger Delta, part of my presentation will be on the goals, vision and mission of MP DIRI INITIATIVE, also I will be presenting some of the major challenges faced by the oil producing communities in the Niger Delta, Climate issues, oil spills, improper waste management and many others. Recent The MP DIRI INITIATIVE have succeeded in educating over 500 locals from each of the five communities on the issue of climate change, waste management, oil spill and sanitation among others. We have used the different medium to seek for partnership from well meaning local and international partners, also we are calling on the United Nations and other partnering organizations to assist us in achieving our goals. | I am Diri Evans Benjamin A citizen of Nigeria, I hail from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Am a graduate of International Relations, University of Nigeria. As a child, I grew up in the Delta community, we experience oil spills and its resultant effects on our land, water ways and agricultural lives. With the above experience I had this vision to work towards helping the affected communities in the Niger Delta by providing good drinking water, educating the populace on the need for proper waste management, water protection, open air defecation etc. I have recently assembled a team of vibrant individuals who share same aspiration to give back to the community. The name of the said foundation is MP DIRI INITIATIVE, as the president, we have succeeded in about five communities so far by establishing our presence, presenting quarterly seminars on the issues and challenges they are faced with daily such as oil spill, climate change, waste management etc. Our next phase is raising of fund to provide good drinking water in the said communities. | MP DIRI INITIATIVE | Provision of good water, encourage sanitation, stop open air defecation, water protection and climate change. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Nigeria | No | Proof of Concept | Because we have started engaging the communities on seminars | We are having challenges raising funds to run and implement our solutions in the communities. | We do more in educating the locals on the effects of improper waste management, climate change, oil spill and sanitation. Also we make other moves by providing them with good drinking water and public toilets in the rural communities. | We give hope to the hopeless. Some of these communities we are reaching out to have been neglected by the government and the oil companies in the region. | We have so far progress to the level of reaching out to the communities, they are currently feeling our impact. | To reach and impact 5000 lives each year. Expand our initiative beyond the present five communities we are currently in, expand our network, as well recruit more staff. Have more partners. | We need funds to get materials to start and finish our project, ranging from water supply to public toilet etc. | https://mpdinitiative.wixsite.com/mpdiriinitiative | https://mpdinitiative.wixsite.com/mpdiriinitiative/blog | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
230 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Pradeep Kumar | Gohil | World Micro Stock Exchange | https://www.linkedin.com/in/worldmicrostockexchange | CEO/Founder | Male | India | India | English | We are startup World Micro Stock Exchange a universal basic income sources alliances will generate big data-consuming of daily crowdfunding, investment, micro shareholding value proposition, and daily profit sharing/booking for poor & middle-class people will pull out self/family/community from any finance or victimization burden and generate in large scale job/skill opportunity. We enable to provide the world's fastest crowd finance model of all kind finance need/indeed of common masses pull out from poverty and become an entrepreneur and increasing (job/skill/partner) all industry will free from all the burden of (sale, marketing, and IPO listing) government will free from all the burden of (political hours & unrest, corruption, economy crisis) | I’m Pradeep Kumar Gohil Sole-Properties of World Micro Stock Exchange a Universal Basic Alliances of crowdfunding & micro shareholding value proposition we expert and support to USA government in largest public, private and government-oriented eco-enterprise application innovators. We awarded in 2010 Nasscom top ten emerge company conclave our ''Antique Bank App'' same venture in name change World Micro Stock Exchange was selected top ten enterprise category of FinTech, RegTech, and Blockchain We awarded in 2013-14 India’s top ten best enterprise developer team organized by Developer Premier League (DPL) Deworx.in, Intel, and Digit. At recently we awarded India's part of the Top 50 Impact Ventures which are in consideration for The BSE Impact-2019 .organized by Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) We participated at TiE NY (ny.tie.org) ""TiE New York Pitch Competition"" has been selected accepted our startup pitch of Universal Basic Income sources alliances venture of World Micro Stock Exchange at Google’s 8th avenue offices (111 8th avenue) We also selected U.S Dept. of Commerce’s Development Agency Minority Business | World Micro Stock Exchange | We are startup World Micro Stock Exchange a universal basic income sources alliances will generate big data-consuming of daily crowdfunding profit | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | At present we are in early stage idea proposed to Indian government and department of SEBI/RBI/UIDIA will allow us trial basis | No | Ideation | We are first to boost the world economy through our big data-consuming next-generation healthy & wealthy habit of daily crowdfunding, investment, micro shareholding value proposition, and daily profit sharing/booking for poor & middle-class people will pull out self/family/community from any finance or victimization burden and generate in large scale entrepreneur will create millions of job/skill and partnership opportunity. | We enable to provide the world's fastest crowd finance model of all kind finance need/indeed of common masses pull out from poverty and become an entrepreneur and increasing (job/skill/partner) all industry will free from all the burden of (sale, marketing, and IPO listing) government will free from all the burden of (political hours & unrest, corruption, economy crisis) | We startup World Micro Stock Exchange only ultimate option to make financially sound to all common masses(consumers as an investor ) finance need and indeed of the big stock exchange (will fulfill their IPO listing within overflow) no one solution yet totally control on all kind risk of poverty, unemployment, finance, and market We are first to boost the world economy through our big data-consuming next-generation healthy & wealthy habit of daily crowdfunding, investment, micro shareholding value proposition, and daily profit sharing/booking for poor & middle-class people will pull out self/family/community from any finance or victimization burden and generate in large scale entrepreneur will create millions of job/skill and partnership opportunity. | We startup World Micro Stock Exchange only ultimate option to make financially sound to all common masses(consumers as an investor ) finance need and indeed of the big stock exchange (will fulfill their IPO listing within overflow) no one solution yet totally control on all kind risk of poverty, unemployment, finance, and market We are first to boost the world economy through our big data-consuming next-generation healthy & wealthy habit of daily crowdfunding, investment, micro shareholding value proposition, and daily profit sharing/booking for poor & middle-class people will pull out self/family/community from any finance or victimization burden and generate in large scale entrepreneur will create millions of job/skill and partnership opportunity. | World Micro Stock Exchange big data franchise, IPO listed Advanced MRP multiple investment and segment compliances of FinTech, RegTech, Blockchain, the segment will reduce all kind risk of poverty, unemployment, finance & market crisis, political hours & unrest | We are first to boost the world economy through our big data-consuming next-generation healthy & wealthy habit of daily crowdfunding, investment, micro shareholding value proposition, and daily profit sharing/booking for poor & middle-class people will pull out self/family/community from any finance or victimization burden and generate in large scale entrepreneur will create millions of job/skill and partnership opportunity. | We need early-stage investment merge/equity partnership to go globally merge with all producer/retailer/government security commission and the big stock exchange will have to apply their all kind IPO listing under our daily profit sharing/ booking with accepting our all kind of portfolios micro shareholding value proposition investor | https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=jBMXltvRtaA&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DfuwJPJ11aJc%26feature%3Dshare | https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=jBMXltvRtaA&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DfuwJPJ11aJc%26feature%3Dshare | We awarded in 2010 Nasscom top ten emerge company conclave our ''Antique Bank App'' same venture in name change World Micro Stock Exchange was selected top ten enterprise category of FinTech, RegTech, and Blockchain We awarded in 2013-14 India’s top ten best enterprise developer team (DPL) Deworx.in, Intel, and Digit. At recently we awarded India's part of the Top 50 Impact Ventures which are in consideration for The BSE Impact-2019 .organized by Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
231 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jean du christ | RUSIGA | Burundi rugby league cooperative | www.burundirugbyleaguea13.wordpress.com | President | Male | Burundi | Burundi | French | Comme notre organisation vient d’acquérir une reconnaissant tant attendu, il est de notre devoir de partager avec les nation unis, nos idées, brouillons mais pouvant servir dans les différents programmes pour sauver la planète. Nous sommes a la recherche d'une aide pour que Burundi rugby league Cooperative puisse créer plus d'emploi pour ces membres et les communautés qui les supportent et encourage dans leur jeu de Rugby League. La Communauté de Rugby League et autres disciplines du ballon ovale comptent approximativement une population de plus au moins 25000 personnes ayant pratiquer le sport du ballon ovale et leur famille sachant que chaque famille est compose de 6 personnes, dans ces familles nous avons réalisé que plus de 90% ne surviennent au besoin de leur famille et pousse leur enfant au travail avant l'age. Plusieurs région ont besoin d'outil de mobilité après récolte Nous heurtons a des problèmes logistique, nous avons essayer de produire le premier cadre d'un véhicule locale pouvant transporter 750 a une tonne de produit a moindre coût pour éviter a nos fermier le coûts de l'enclavement et du coût de change, font que leur produits perde toute valeur marchande Fabriquer un véhicule tubulaire Est africain serait la solution, un moteur Indien ou chinois la valeur du véhicule est réduit de plus de 85% , Avec ce genre de production la manutention des produits agricole, de pisciculture, d'une région en collaboration avec notre organisation permettra de créer des emplois dans les secteur suivant: Production des tubes pour le cadre du véhicule production des tôles pour le parterre du véhicule Production des moteur et ou montage des moteur sur site production des boites de vitesse avec marche arrière Production du câble et de l’électronique de signalisation et phares Des équipes de ventes du véhicule Des équipes de maintenance Des vendeurs de pièces de rechange et des chauffeurs engager chaque année etc. Avec un tel projet nous pensons que le faite de ne pas utiliser plus de 60 container pour déplacer 500 véhicules utilitaire nous aurons contribuer a réduire les difficultés de l’environnement Actuellement ces véhicules coûtent 15000000 BIF un équivalent de 8000 $ Nous avons estimer que le véhicule fabrique localement ne dépasserait pas les 2500 $ avec une vente de plus de 500 véhicules par pour la Pisciculture, les rizerie, les champs de palmeraie éloigné, les site de produit maraîchère, Voila notre motivation principale | 05 rue Mabayi Kinindo BP884 Bujumbura- Burundi COMMUNE MUHA | Une solution pour la mobilité de nos récoltés dans la Plaine de La RUSIZI | mobilite, transport de recolte, tracteur agricole, tricycle, rickshaw, | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Burundi, Congo DRC, Tanzania | No | Research & Development | As we have already produced the frame in square tubes that are produced with raw material the whole centrale and East Africa Only new engine are not available for the follow up of the program | Mobility of goods between region, Employment among the rugby league community in Burundi, Congo DRC, Cameroon.even Roumania other middle income region Tractor are becoming expensive Local vehicle production still has to be regulated but the knowhow is available and it's feasible to produce such small utility vehicles | Our concept is based to how the farmer is losing his crop in Rice field, the yield per hectare is lost during manutation of the crop. Palm oil farmers are seeing lost of their crop because there's no mean of mobility for their crop Fish farmers are not getting the right products for their farms because the fish fingers don't get on farm in time | the reduction of costs, availability of proposed maintenance network Increase of the number of drivers that would be working with the project | WIth a perpetual lack funds it's hard to measure our impact but since announcing the project 2years ago we have seen at least between 20 to 30 young members taking mechanical studies and other trying to learn how to drive tractor and rickshaws | Tanzania has shown many potential opportunities in farms aroung Shinyanga and Mwanza In the Salt Region of Uvinza but our vehicles will need a special coat that will protect them against salt corrosion | Inputs of spare parts, Engine , Gear boxes Crankshaft salaries, Treasuries research and training for our mechanicals Seminara and workshops for our farmers | https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/China-supplier-machine-manufacturers-twin-cylinder_60441284003.html?spm=a2700.7724838.2017203.17.5f5723faK8tl13&s=p http://www.longfapower.com/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_processing https://thefishsite.com/articles/transporting-fish http://www.fao.org/3/AC182E/AC182E04.htm https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/displaced-workers-globalization-mobility-by-harold-james-2017-01?barrier=accesspaylog https://www.bridgestone.com/solution/agriculture/index.html https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone_chassis https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a7/49/5d/a7495d42c5870d974e6f35c8e00cff5e.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.pinterest.com/pin/380976449707259343/&h=597&w=800&tbnid=8o_kdt3rnKNWsM&q=tubular+frame+chassis&tbnh=107&tbnw=143&usg=AI4_-kRvIluJaCSoNV0hm8v6GdxuT0zCyw&vet=1&docid=igBoXj___DcglM&itg=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjliYTS6N7jAhVEyxoKHZjPAPsQ_h0wG3oECAwQBg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDcJLhn68LG_h0ngUoh3EKA?disable_polymer=true | https://www.instagram.com/brlacoop/ on this page we are showing how we are building our network made od young people that we will bring into the project with proper profile and a follow up of their behavior prior to investing in them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh7MXFc37LE We are engaging our organization and precising why we are get involved seriously | none | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
232 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rohan | Ediriweera | Real Realief Heath Aps | http://www.realreliefway.com/ | Research Analyst | Male | Denmark | Sri Lanka | Chinese | English | As an innovative person, I always involving in value chain with better motives of innovation. In core-business innovation, the ratio of knowledge to assumptions is high. I always try to know much about the market, the customer's needs, the competition, and my capabilities. Extending that knowledge to bring something new to the market requires relatively few assumptions about the viability of the idea. Therefore the process for pursuing the innovation should focus on execution and the deliberate extension from the core. In many places around the world, myths and taboos surrounding menstruation have unfortunate consequences, sometimes making girls and women stay home from school or work during their period. One of the causes is lack of access to sanitary pads or proper sanitation. The reusable sanitary pad addresses this problem and offers a sterile and durable solution. An innovative product that prevents infections while also helping to prevent the social isolation of girls and women in third-world countries. | Academic - Bachelor of Science Degree conferred by Marine University of Sri Lanka. (Year 2001-2004) - Diploma in Micro Finance conducted by the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka (1 Year) (Year 2010). - Post Graduate Diploma in Economic Development conducted by the University of Colombo (1 Year)- (Year 2010- 2011). Dissertation on “Provisioning of Micro Financing by Financial Institutions of SL” - Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree (with Merit Pass) offered by University of Coventry in United Kingdom (2016 -2017), was able to achieve highest average of the 2017 spring batch (Batch Top). Dissertation on “Examine awareness and usage of E- Banking in Sri Lanka - Special reference to the Hatton National Bank PLC.” Professional - Diploma in Credit Management conducted by the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka (1 Year) - (Year 2009). CAREER HIGHLIGHTS REAL RELIEF HEALTH Aps, Denmark Presently, I am working as a Research Analyst- Marketing, attached to Marketing Division of Real Relief Health Aps, Kolding Denmark, an entrepreneurial company passionate about providing life-improving and life-saving relief items to people at risk in developing countries. (From Nov.2018- to date) HATTON NATIONAL BANK PLC (HNB), Sri Lanka I worked as a Senior Banking Associate / Credit officer and attached to Development Banking Division, Project Finance and Corporate Banking Division of HNB, largest private sector bank in Sri Lanka, from Dec. 2004. (From Dec. 2004 to Dec.2014)) | Safepad™ | We are still celebrating the wonderful launch of #safepad by @realreliefway - NOW also produced in Bangladesh 🇧🇩 #Its_time_for_action #MHDay19 | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | We are currently servicing most of African countries and several Asian countries. Kenya, Ethiopia,Zimbabwe,Sudan, Malawi, Madagascar, Tanzania,India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal are few of them. | Yes | We are maintaining Long term agreement with reputed organizations such as.UNICEF,UNFPA, UNHCR. | Scaling | Now we are looking forward forward to deploying this at a large scale. Currently we are servicing our product to different states in India and as well other countries at significant scale.We are showing the growth momentum over the years. Our innovative product is a unique and innovatively designed product that offers a safe and infection-free experience to women during menstrual periods, won the Danish Design Award 2018 by the Danish Design Center in the category “Daily Life”. | “Safepad™ is our solution to improve the quality of life of girls and woman globally. It’s the first time an intelligent hygiene pad is introduced to the global market . Safepad™ is a reusable, washable hygiene pad designed with a permanently bonded antimicrobial technology that efficiently reduces the concentration of fungi and bacteria. Thereby reducing the risk of vaginal infections caused by a.o. Candida albicans – also called Candiasis. | The permanently bonded antimicrobial fabric along with a highly absorbent material provides a comfortable and hygienic experience for the women. Safepad is made of a soft fabric material, that offers protection and comfort compared with disposable sanitary pads, made of synthetic fibers that often leads to skin irritation and rashes. Safepad is re-usable and can be re-cycled. Safepad has quick absorbency technology and will not leach. The fabric is made of fibers with the an in-build drying technology. We are committed to serving woman in need of safepads. We challenge traditional solutions to the needs of the world’s poorest as well as common perceptions of how aid and relief efforts are delivered. We innovate existing approaches to combating effects of poverty and reconfigure existing solutions in order to meet future needs. We apply design, technology, insight, empathy and passion into every new product, solution, service or feature.Having these capabilities, we believe that our product will penetrate the new market efficiently. Further Real Relief is continuously involved in developing its products adding more innovative features. Continuous innovation is its one of key values. We hope that our innovativeness will definitely create a new market. | Social/Developmental contribution and Impact “Safepad™ is our solution to improve the quality of life of girls and woman globally. It’s the first time an intelligent hygiene pad is introduced to the global market and we are committed to serving woman in need of new and better alternatives Product as an Environment sustainable product According to the facts, our products are showing more environment friendly features rather than other generic products. Cost Factors Even though Generic sanitary products sell for USD 0.07–0.1 a piece—7 percent less than RR products, usage of RR products is more cost-effective in long run. For instance, if one person uses a generic cheapest product, she has to spend approximately US$ 26 per year, for RR product she has to spend only US$ 3.2 per whole year instead. Therefore according to the calculations, RR products denote a more lucrative situation. . Functionality and benefits claimed The antimicrobial technology is based on a treatment that leaves a positively charged layer on the fabric. This layer will attract and kill the negatively charged microbes, like bacteria and fungi. The treatment does not contain any harmful chemicals. Competitive Price Advantage As mentioned ,we innovated our product at very low cost, targeting developing countries. Therefore we can make a competitive price for any geography. | Team is comprised with multi skilled workforce, including engineers,business development managers, financial professionals, sales group etc. Moreover At Real Relief we CHALLENGE – INNOVATE – APPLY. By making innovative and affordable life improving products and services available to governments, relief agencies, NGO’s, faith-based organizations and private sector donors we are determined to make a real difference for people in real need. We are planning to carry out marketing research on periodic basis. In addition to that we are planning to make a new App in order to link the all four layers. Further we are planning to use our expertise to create new tools for evaluating the situational status. | We challenge traditional solutions to the needs of the world’s poorest as well as common perceptions of how aid and relief efforts are delivered. We innovate existing approaches to combating effects of poverty and reconfigure existing solutions in order to meet future needs. We apply design, technology, insight, empathy and passion into every new product, solution, service or feature.Having these capabilities, we believe that our product will penetrate the new market efficiently. We are planning to expand our product into more African and Asian countries (eg.Sri Lanka, Nepal, Benn, Burindi, Congo etc) where showing good opportunity for our product. | We are planning to expand our business aggressively in coming years. Therefore we have to find a solution for fund requirement. Short term needs - According to the financial projections, We require DKK 2 Mn for our expected project proposed in India. We are having much hope that your prestigious organization will give us a support. Medium term needs - We are planning to expand our production units into few African countries where we can create job opportunities to local community. In order to success this, we have to finance the balance of our proposed project cost. Long term needs - Funds and human capital | http://www.realreliefway.com/ http://www.realreliefway.com/en-us/life-saving-products http://www.realreliefway.com/en-us/success-stories https://www.facebook.com/realreliefway https://twitter.com/realreliefway https://www.linkedin.com/company/real-relief https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2y9S0AroGfVq2CADas6N3g | N/A | SafepadTM won the Danish Design Award 2018 in the category “Daily Life”. Danish Design Award (DDA) is the major annual Danish design event that celebrates the best design solutions and highlights how design can make a difference for our society. We are therefore immensely proud to receive the recognition presented with this award. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
233 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Arjan | Poels | PharmAcccess - Medical Credit Fund | https://www.medicalcreditfund.org/ | Director | Male | Netherlands | Netherlands | English | Founded in 2009 by PharmAccess, the Medical Credit Fund (MCF) is the first and only fund dedicated to financing SMEs in the health sector in Africa. Together with local partners, MCF works to reduce investment risks and improve the bankability of health SMEs through an innovative, integrated approach that combines financing with technical assistance. Since inception, MCF has worked with over 20 local financial institutions in six African countries. In 2017, MCF introduced a digital ‘Cash Advance’ product, designed to enable access to loans through a simple mobile phone. Using this innovation as an extension of our impact, we aim to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit in order to showcase our innovation and learn from others to maximise our impact. | Arjan is the Managing Director of the Medical Credit Fund (MCF). He oversees MCF’s performance, operations and country offices. Arjan joined MCF in 2017 after a banking career of 18 years, 10 of which in Africa in senior executive roles. He has expertise in SME lending, commercial and risk management, development finance and change management. He holds a Master of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering of Delft Technical University, the Netherlands and has a passion for development finance and SMEs. | Cash Advance | Providing fast and transparent mobile loans for health SMEs | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Tanzania | Yes | Local banks in each country, small and medium sized businesses | Scaling | In 2017, MCF launched ‘cash advance’ - a digital loan in Kenya. Via digitalisation, lending small amounts became efficient and scalable, MCF offering loans as small as USD100 (in local currency) and up to USD50,000. In 2018 MCF expanded cash advance to a product called Mobile Asset Finance (MAF), designed specifically for medical equipment purchases. Expansion is planned into Tanzania, Ghana and Nigeria. | Health SMEs in Kenya have inadequate access to working capital. There is substantial time between expenses made (e.g. buying pharmaceuticals, paying rent and salaries) and getting paid (especially insurance claims). This gap can be financed through working capital facilities, however most financial institutions are not interested in financing health SMEs and have stringent collateral requirements. | In 2017, MCF launched Cash Advance, disbursing 612 cash advances to providers in 2018. Cash Advance is a loan product providing access to cash through mobile phones; it is fully mobile, transparent and fast. By dialing *253#, users can access to a loan within 24 hours. After repayment facilities can immediately request a new loan, which 94% of the Cash Advance users already do. Key features of the product include: •Convenient: fully mobile and accessible on feature phones •Flexible and hassle-free: automatic daily repayment based on a percentage of digital revenues •Short processing time (<24 hours) •No collateral required •Short tenor (up to 6 months) •Ranging between KES 10,000 – 5mln (USD 100-50,000) In 2018, MCF expanded Cash Advance to a product called Mobile Asset Finance (MAF), based on the same principles and technology, but specifically designed for medical equipment purchases. MAF allows for a longer tenor (max 36 months) and only requires the equipment purchased as collateral.. With the MAF, also non-medical equipment can be purchased including solar panels, computers or Hospital Management Information Systems. MCF is currently planning expansion of the product into Tanzania, Ghana and Nigeria, and has launched partnerships with Philips and GE. | MCF is a niche player, financing the Sub-Saharan healthcare sector only. The digital loan market in Kenya is rapidly growing, with most loan providers focusing on consumer loans. Fewer focus on digital business-to-business lending (Kilimo Booster, Kopo-Kopo). MCF is the only provider focusing only on healthcare sector business-to-business loans, where – as a result of its presence in the market for over 8 years – it has built trust among healthcare providers as a knowledgeable partner for their financing needs. Cash Advance improves upon traditional working loan facilities, in that it establishes the client’s credit limit on its digital revenues, leaving an authentic data trail. Also, loan repayments are based on (upon the client’s contractual consent) automatic installments from daily digital revenues, making it a low-transition cost, both for the client and for MCF. The product is more cost efficient than traditional loans as it reduces turn-around times from credit application to disbursement from 3 to 6 months, less than 24 hours for follow-up Cash Advances. MCF also combines its loans with technical assistance, using the internationally recognised SafeCare quality improvement methodology. A SafeCare assessment informs health SMEs where their quality gaps are, provides instructions for improvement and supports them in their quality journey. | Progress is measured in terms of: •Total volume and number disbursed since product launch (USD 3.8 million/1,120) •Total CA loan portfolio (USD 850,000, nearly tripled over last 6 months) •Portfolio quality (3.6% NPL) •Number of borrowers (227, at a 94% retention rate) The high retention rate and low NPL percentage are indications for the success of the product in this market segment. Increasing digital revenues, make health SME’s qualify for higher Cash Advances. This concept is well understood with most Cash Advance clients, as most of them qualify for higher Cash Advance amounts for every follow-up Cash Advance (evidenced by an ever-increasing average loan size from USD 2,200 early 2017 to USD 5,500 today). Although most clients have other revenue streams (cash, insurance and corporate clients), an increasing digital revenue stream is generally associated with better overall business performance, as it adds to financial transparency and reduces financial leakages (especially pilferage, estimated to be up to 30% of monthly revenues). | MCF is in the process of introducing the Cash Advance product in Tanzania, Nigeria and Ghana. Each of the countries differ in terms of health sector structure, financial sector regulations, and mobile money technology. However, in all countries we identify a high demand for flexible working capital products. Therefore, product features and technology applied will differ from country to country, with key product characteristics remaining constant: digital money based, mobile phone managed and automatic (percentage) instalments. Current expansion plans for MCF in general include Rwanda, Zambia, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and Senegal, scoping missions currently being conducted. However, MCF will only expand to new countries after having established relationships with financial partners. | MCF is constantly in need of, and actively searching for capital. At this stage, an estimated USD1 million Euros and added expansion to five countries would be ideal in order to further scale our services. | PharmAccess - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZfK2U76Dv8 Cash Advance https://youtu.be/PztqoohWYvE | N/A | Listed under Impact Assets 50 2018 Nomination Financial Times/IFC Transformational Business Award 2017 OPIC Impact Award for Access to Finance 2014 2010 – selected as one of 3 people’s choice winners at G20 SME Finance Challenge – USAID provided USD1m in grant funding 2012 – awarded USD10.6m from OPIC, Calvert Impact Capital, Gates Foundation and Soros Economic Development Fund | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
234 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Robi | Del Rosario | UPROOT Urban Farms | www.uproot.ph | CEO/Founder | Male | Philippines | Philippines | English | Majority of the food in Metro Manila is imported hundreds of kilo meters away. The sad reality is the situation in Metro Manila is the same everywhere in the country, how ironic because we are considered an agriculture country yet we import almost 80% of our food. And due to climate change we are faced with limited to no supply at all, compromising prices and food security. Our goal is to democratise food for everyone by creating GrowHubs or communal food production centers in local communities and provide them access to market through our vegetable subscription program. The great thing about this initiative is that people are more educated on what they eat and how it affects their health, so we don't just help our beneficiaries we are actually providing value to a lot of our customers that is why we have seen a 30% month on month growth of our subscribers. And we have replicated our GrowHub from 1 to 4 already. Our goal in the next 5 years is to produce 100 tons of High value crops all over the Philippines, providing fresh and high nutrient vegetables access to over 250,000 employees as well as empowering 100,000 mothers and partnered with the top 1,000 corporations in the Philippines. | Before I started UPROOT, I had a lucrative transport business. But things made a 180 degree turn, my previous business partner took off with my money and disappeared. Long story short, I was left with a lot of debt and went into depression after I eventually lost my business. One day, while I was putting my groceries at the back of my car, a small boy approached me selling rugs in the streets. I took pity with the small boy, and invited him to grab a bite at a nearby fast food joint. That is when I got to know Dodong more. He was 10 yrs old, both of his parents dint have regular jobs and he had 4 other siblings, so in order for his family to eat, he sells rugs in the streets. The story of Dodong, is the story of most Filipino children, they are forced to work because there is no other choice for them. And that is when I had a light bulb moment, and thought that aquaponics would be more beneficial to these communities. After talking with Dodong, I thought I was the one helping him out, but soon realized that he was the one actually helping me out. And that is when I started UPROOT, to take as much family we can out of poverty, uprooting them to a better life through urban farming. | UPROOT Urban Farms | UPROOT harnesses the power of aquaponics to connect communities to businesses, improving workplace nutrition and creating an economy that benefits all | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Philippines (currently); South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Middle East (intended to be) | Yes | Socially aware corporations, foundations, LGUs, Academe | Transition to Scale | Since launching our vegetable subscription early this year, we have seen a 30% month on month growth in our subscribers. We are also talking to several large companies for us to on board on our subscription list and we are proud to say that we are on track to reach our target goals of 5,000 subscribers per month before the year ends. We have a ready market already, and what we are trying to do is also build on the supply side that is why we are raising money to help us with our scaling plans. | By 2050 global population is expected to reach 10 billion. As the world's population increases, it is expectedthat 68% of the population will live in urban cities. Along with it brings a lot of challenges typical of such gentrification including congestion, and food security. Our current agriculture practices, which uses a lot of natural resources, is not enough to feed the world’s growing population. The need to produce high-nutrient, year round of produce has never been greater than before. | By 2050 global population is expected to reach 10 billion; Asia is expected to have the second largest growth, adding 750 million people. Current agriculture practices, which uses a lot of natural resources, is not enough to feed the world’s growing population. The need to produce high-nutrient, year round of produce has never been greater than before. Our solution is to grow local, fresh, high-nutrient food for restaurants,hotels, and communities. How do we do it? Through UPROOT's Tech Driven GrowHubs, communal food production centers, that provide sustainable livelihood for our communities. Through our vegetable subscription we are able to make food more accessible and affordable to everyone. Creating a circular economy where our consumers, communities and the environment wins. Food supply is not just a problem in the Philippines, and we see a huge opportunity for our solution and impact to positively reach other countries that need it the most. | UPROOT harnesses the power of aquaponics systems to connect communities to businesses, improving workplace nutrition and creating an economy that benefits all. UPROOT provides marginalised communities Food Production Centers or “Grow Hubs”; The community grows high end produce for UPROOT; UPROOT buys the produce at a higher price compared to traders and middle men and then UPROOT provides access to market for the high nutrient produce through our vegetable subscription called Corporate2Cultivate, engaging socially aware corporations to provide their employees access to our healthy vegetables creating a circular economy where everybody – The Consumers, Our Communities, and the Environment WINS. Incorporating the entire value chain from the product (Communities), management of the value chain (UPROOT) to the Market (Companies, Hotels, Restaurants) Our subscribers don’t just buy our healthy produce, they also become part of the solution as well, playing an integral role in the food value chain, through the vegetable subscription, they are able to provide sustainable livelihood to our communities, since launching C2C early this year, we have eliminated over 5,000 single use plastics that are normally used for vegetable packaging. | During our incubation with the Innovation for Social Impact Project, we under went several impact management workshops and had a deep dive impact session with Rabayl Mirza, the Impact Management Specialist at the Business Call to Action, a UNDP initiative to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. They provided us a framework that we can use to guide us in our impact management and help us better understand our impact as well as make better decisions based on data that we have gathered. They gave us tools to help in not just measuring our impact but also quantifying our actions both directly and indirectly to our stakeholders. We used the tools that were given to us to help us set our goals and activities with the outcome in mind. We were able to push through with our set activities with the knowledge that we know what outputs are required for us and the outcome as well as the end goal. The tools helped us map out what activities we needed to pursue and what to scrap, and also help us monitor our projects. One of them was the replication of our GrowHubs, communal food production centers that provide sustainable livelihood to the mothers from our community partners. | Through UPROOT's GrowHubs, we provide sustainable livelihood and address food insecurity for our communities. It also allows us to grow local, fresh, high-nutrient food efficiently for businesses and communities all year round, making prices stable. Corporate2Cultivate is our vegetable subscription where we are able to make food more accessible, available and affordable to everyone. Not only that, we are also able to provide our small holder farmers the needed market by buying produce from them directly, at a much higher price compared to traders. We have recently partnered with one of the Philippines biggest HR Benefits platform (STORM Benefits) they have over 200,000 employees signed up in their platform and have partnered with over 50 of the largest corporations in the country. Soon our vegetable subscription will be included as part of employee benefits of all of their clients, providing our vegetable subscription to over 200,000 employees per month. We are doing a soft trial run this September to about 5,000 employees and we plan to onboard all 200,000 employees by 2021. Improving not just accessibility to healthy produce but improving overall work place nutrition. With this partnership we are looking at delivering over 300 tons of produce per month, empowering over 1,000 mothers across the Philippines, impacting over 200 communities and small holder farmers, eliminating more than 500,000 single used plastics per month that are normally used for vegetable packaging. | We are trying to raise $100,000 in exchange for equity, our target date to raise is by November of this year, this will help us in expanding our team, fill in key position such as Business Dev and Marketing & Sales to reach our target goal of 5,000 subscribers as well as the deployment of more GrowHubs across major cities in the Philippines. Mid term goal is to expand to other countries like Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea who are running out of farmers. Our strategy is to enter their market by 2021 and 2022 respectively. Long term goal would be to get 10% of the $3billion organic food industry in Asia-Pacific. This will help us more families struggling to attain food security not just in the Philippines but in places they need our solution and impact the most. | www.uproot.ph uproot videos https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xJ0ipV5uApIg1cMPWSfGJ-KrXRejgLP4?usp=sharing Articles: https://www.bworldonline.com/urban-farming-company-seeking-to-help-the-poor-one-bayong-at-a-time/ https://uproot.ph/how-social-entrepreneurs-use-science-to-pave-a-way-to-a-better-future/ https://uproot.ph/barangay-aquaponics-can-potentially-solve-the-food-problem-in-the-philippines/ https://uproot.ph/no-hungry-filipino-how-uproot-can-help-in-our-food-production/ https://www.trending.ph/2019/07/improving-lives-through-urban-farming/ https://uproot.ph/way-to-go/ https://businessmirror.com.ph/2019/05/08/poblacion-an-urban-innovation-challenge/ | https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=730878720627946 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoXmrNwUA-g | 2017 1st Philippine Forest Fest (Winner) 2017 ASEAN Slingshot (Finalist) 2018 BPI Sinag Awardee (Winner) 2018 SLUSH Singapore (Finalist) 2018 Pitch@Palace (Finalist) 2019 TOTAL Startupper (Winner) 2019 Urban Innovation Challenge (winner) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
235 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Fred | Gbagbo | University of Education Winneba, Ghana | not available yet | University Lecturer | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | I am a public health specialist with over 12 years work experience in Sexual and reproductive health in developing west Africa countries. During my years of work in this area, I saw a challenge of abortion related deaths and illness due to lack of contraception uptake before or after an abortion which leads to multiple abortion and the associated health consequences. In relation to these I developed and tested an innovative model called Post Abortion Contraception uptake Model which was used in abortion providing facilities and yielded a great impact of reducing repeat abortions. | Dr. Fred Yao Gbagbo, is multi-skilled, multi-talented, highly educated (PhD, MPH, FWACN, PGDTLHE, BSc. SRN) Public Health Specialist with over seventeen years work experience in Sexual & Reproductive Health service delivery, research, quality assurance, training, programming, policy formulation and analysis within public, private and NGO Health sectors internationally. As an advocate for reproductive health rights with specific interest in reducing abortion related deaths and illnesses, he has to his credit various publications and contributions to policy documents on induced abortion. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana. | Post Abortion Contraception Uptake | Increased immediate Post Abortion Contraception uptake from 0% to 90% in one year | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Ghana | No | Proof of Concept | Lack of funding to scale by training providers on the concept | Preventing repeat induced abortions and associated consequences on maternal deaths and illnesses | The solution works by integration of contraception counselling and immediate service delivery into induced abortion services as one package | This solution is unique because there is no extra cost, time and delay in the provision and uptake of contraceptives by clients seeking induced abortion services. By this approach risk of early fertility returns and the likelihood of unwanted pregnancy is prevented, | This innovation was piloted in Ghana for two years in Marie Stopes International Ghana Proramme and some public and private health facilities and has achieved good results. Other Marie Stopes Country programmes have also tried it and found it useful. | This innovation require capacity building on integration of services. There might not been any need for new systems or teams, but just leveraging on existing services delivery structures to ensure sustainability | Funding for capacity building Contraceptives mix Human resource for capacity building | Gbagbo, F. Y. (2018). Post Abortion Contraception Model: A Comprehensive Package For Improving Safe Abortion Care in Developing Countries. Journal of Family Medicine, 1(1), 12. openaccesspub.org | https://fpvoices.tumblr.com/ | None yet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
236 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Akwasi | Appiah | Care Afrique Organization (CAO) | www.careafrique.org | Founder / CEO | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | Sustainable Solution to for Global Impact is what im about; what my organization is about; what i value most to global contribution... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yt7KKwlGWc | ""For the Economic, Educational, Health Development of Africa; Particularly Ghana & West Africa"" ""Sustainable Development; Sustainable Growth"" Infrastructure Development; Vocational Education; Agriculture. | cao_Vocational Project... {Arts & Crafts - IT} | ""Building Contemporary Vocational Skills Capacity"" | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Ghana! Scalable Globally | No | Ideation | I simply do believe we have a niche opportunity that can really sustainably solve current real lacks; gaps; laps; and actually create more opportunity where we currently only see desperation & desolation. Vocational skills need to be the #1 education choice for Africa now thus quickly translated into Jobs; economic opportunity; careers, stem emigration; income; growth & development. Among many other value benefits. | Lack & Scarcity of Contemporary Arts & Crafts skills and IT Skills sets. | With a 10-yr Sponsorship of Funding & Support we can sustainably equip pupils with HOT contemporary vocational skills for today & future labor force. Using unique marketing initiatives we also seek to practically support and engage graduates to quickly translate their newly acquired skills sets into income; jobs; economic gains & opportunity Locally yet be productive Globally... | The uniqueness simply lies in:- Firstly, Lack of contemporary skills; Secondly, Need for such skills locally Thirdly, capability to quickly translate skills into Economic Gain Fourthly, the growing situation of these above mentioned issues Fifthly, to help curb emigration Also the opportunity that exists globally for such skills; growing patronage; increasing market; growing population all add up to exaggerate & boost the opportunity to be created by CAO with UN Solutions help & Support. | We are ready to implement with necessary funding & support commitments to commence & progress to success & achievements. With key performance Measures & Evaluations we are sure to methodologically record progress and report success at each stage of development & growth. | Complete Permanent Building Location Recruit Highly Qualified & Passionate Staff Expand & Grow throughout West Africa & Africa; then perhaps world Successfully initiate sustainable beginning-to-end 2yr-training cycle Implement unique marketing initiatives to smoothly transition skills to $$$ Record and Report Progress; identify strengths & Opportunities; improve upon weaknesses; & strengthen against threats. | Short-Term _ Cash Funding & Technical Support Medium-Term _ Cash Funding; Technical Support; Expert Advise & Coaching; Research, Successful proven track record; credibility; Success rates of Graduates in transitioning skills to economic gain etc.. Long-Term _ Sustainability; Global Business Support; Expert Advise & Coaching; Vibrant Market; Accommodating Environmental Circumstances; Proven success track; Credibility; Strategic Policies & Procedures; Uniformity across Branches; Uphold High Vocational Education Standards; Streamline & Monitoring across regions and units. etc... | www.careafrique.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yt7KKwlGWc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yt7KKwlGWc | n/a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
237 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anthony | Harvey | TAM Ceramics LLC of NY | tamceramics.com | Senior Scientist | male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Having lived in sub-Saharan Africa for twenty years I was continuously aware of the dire problems related to pathogen contaminated drinking water and air pollution around cook stoves. Because of this I developed what are arguably best-practice ceramic water filters and environmentally responsible cook stoves. Both interventions have been implemented in various countries. | I am a ceramic industrial designer focused on environmental health and development. For background please read the article of the following link as well as those of the links within: https://nextbillion.net/ceramics-in-global-development/ | Ceramics in environmental health and development | Water filter systems of granulated ceramics as well as insulating ceramic rocket stoves will prevent thousands of untimely deaths. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Tanzania, Zambia, Nigeria and Liberia | Yes | Rev. Bart Segu, Mr. Stephen Siwila and Mr. Anthony Akpan | Transition to Scale | The water filter systems have been implemented in both Nepal and Kenya. The cook stove project in Tanzania is beginning to flourish even without much funding, simply based on local resources and capacity. | Developers have little idea how ceramic education and technologies can contribute to sustainable projects. Ceramists and ceramic institutions have little idea about the urgent needs in the developing world that can be addressed with ceramics. | Ceramic processes can be applied almost anywhere using commonly available clay and related resources. The traditions of clay workers are widespread even in remote areas, where there is production of such ceramic products as: water storage containers, cook pots and construction bricks. For the long term, ceramic processes and materials provide the seeds of high temperature industry offering prospects of a micro-scale industrial revolution. | What is new is more aptly termed renewal. Because the high temperature processes of ceramics are at the origin of nearly all industry this is arguably the oldest of all industries. Countless livelihoods and the products and services implicit will be created when pursuit of ceramics is embraced. | TAM Ceramics water filter media of granulated ceramics is arguably ready for production and distributions, all process and the product up to standard. Management, however awaits partners in implementation. For introduction of insulating ceramic rocket stoves, implementers in Tanzania are producing these and placing them where needed with little or no outside support. Note an upcoming presentation at the University of Michigan Conference on Sustainable Development, which is expected to arouse interest. | As mentioned projects are anticipated in Tanzania, Nigeria, Zambia and Liberia. | Because ceramic resources are available nearly everywhere what is primarily needed is training and education. For both the stoves and the water filters, however, there will be an initial need for a bit of subsidy for this and importantly for engagement of community leadership. Committees will be needed for maintenance of large scale water filters as well as as behavior change among system users, such as pertain to hygienic practices. For insulating rocket stoves there will be a need for follow up visits to new users among the poor, though viable while stove production will be by their neighbors. | All relevant links are within this article of the University of Michigan online publication, *Next Billion*: https://nextbillion.net/ceramics-in-global-development/ | As above | See the related header of the c.v. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
238 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anteneh | Gashaw | Anteneh Engineering | https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/circular-economy/solutions/8926 | Inventor | Male | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | English | I am applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit to present a project called Smart Green washer https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/circular-economy/solutions/8926 I have more than 50 inventions from green technology to business targeted innovations which you can see via https://contest.techbriefs.com/profile?user=89682 | I have dedicated my life for invention and research because not only I have big dreams but also it is my only way out of poverty. We all have a talent we know or did not find out yet. Mine happens to be inventing. I discovered this talent of mine when I was in second year student during my university life. Starting from that point everything seemed not important except creating new ideas. So, until now I have invented more than 50 inventions which are new to the world and the rest are intended for Ethiopia that will change the life of many people including mine. But because of poverty, theft and many reasons I could not manage to make it. But all that matter is I will never give up. I will invent until and after I become successful. That makes me a strong entrepreneur. My skills are aided with a mechanical engineering degree on design, production and sales expertise. You can find some of my inventions via https://www.herox.com/crowdsourcing-community/antenehgashaw-123126 or https://contest.techbriefs.com/profile?user=89682 | Smart Green Washer | Sorting microfiber generated by washing clothes to be reused for textile companies or plastic lumber and prevent them going to the oceans. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Currently this project is in Ethiopia and I am looking forward to implement in other countries in the near future. | No | Proof of Concept | Currently the mechanism has been tested and showed successful results I have tested the mechanism by mixing micro fibers with water and boiling up the water with home stove and home tools, the water evaporated and the micro fibers remain in the container. This confirms that my design works 100 percent. You can see it via https://youtu.be/Jrc4Xnigg78 | Most of us wear synthetic fabrics like polyester every day. Our dress shirts, yoga pants, fleeces, and even underwear are all increasingly made of synthetic materials plastic, in fact. But these synthetic fabrics, from which 60% of all clothing on earth is made, have a big hidden problem: when they’re washed, they release tiny plastic bits called microfibers that flow down our drains, through water treatment plants, and out into our rivers, lakes and oceans by the billions. | Filtration or separation of microfiber from the wastewater can be achieved by integrating a heater with a washing machine. After the end-user washes the cloth there will be wastewater containing microfiber. The wastewater will be directed to a heating chamber. When the heater is activated the water will evaporate and the microfiber will remain in the chamber since microfiber does not evaporate. Meaning water boils at 100°C and the temperature must reach from 570 up to 600°C before wool will be affected; while polyester melts at 252–292°C and nylon at 160–260°C, wool never melts so it can't stick to the container. The evaporated water will be directed into a small tank for condensation. Condensation occurs when the water vapor in the container is cooled, changing from a gas to a liquid. This process can take place at various temperatures between 0 and 100°C. This water will be used for reuse since the condensed water is clean. Then after some interval, the microfiber can be collected to be sold to clothing manufacturing companies to be recycled and reused. The percentage of this lint can also be used to make plastic lumber. Note that the mechanism will also sort micro plastics found on cleaning detergents or soaps. The world is pushing the idea of no micro plastic in soaps and this will assist in this green movement. You can see the project via https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/circular-economy/solutions/8926 | This devices follows existing principle of property of water and clothing fabrics. So far no one has thought of combining heating mechanism with washing machines to tackle the microfiber problem of the world. This existing mechanism will increase the reliability of the mechanism. There is no one who has similar product to mine so this is new innovation to the world. There is a technology called Cora ball but it is not it is not as effective as this mechanism capturing all the microfibers in a single wash because as you know there can be minimum of 700,000 tiny microfibres in a single wash. This mechanism can sort microfiber 100%. Approx. 2 out of 7 people in the world have access to washing machines. This means if we can manage to install this mechanism in every washing machine we can save a massive amount of microfiber entering into the oceans. This is a very big amount of microfiber because there will be at least more than 700,000 microscopic fibres could be released into wastewater during each use of a domestic washing machine, with many of them likely to pass through sewage treatment and into the environment, according to new research. So, imagine the total. This will assist in making our oceans clean of microfiber. | Currently the mechanism has been tested and showed successful results I have tested the mechanism by mixing micro fibers with water and boiling up the water with home stove and home tools, the water evaporated and the micro fibers remain in the container. This confirms that my design works 100 percent. The market will be global because it impacts on improvement of aquatic food safety all over the world, assist in recycling of micro fibers which the world has not done much progress on, add value to washing machine end users on gaining benefit when washing their cloth, increase the standard of washing machines towards green technology for washing machine manufacturers and percentage of this lint can be used to make plastic lumber. Just over 100 million tonnes of fish are eaten worldwide each year, providing two and a half billion people with at least 20 percent of their average per capita animal protein intake. This is very large numbers and that means all those people are in the risk of health caused by consuming micro fibers in their systems. So, this project has strong market potential. The end users are owners of washing machine device all over the world. The end customers could be household, hotels, clothing manufacturing companies, cloth laundry business and so on that use washer to clean clothes. | The key element for successful marketing is a successful prototype. So the first step is building the prototype. To build the prototype and show my invention to the world, I applied in many innovation platforms. The project has been accepted in many sites and the link for this project are https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/circular-economy/solutions/8926 https://contest.techbriefs.com/2019/entries/electronics-sensors-iot/9471 https://conservationx.com/project/id/340/smartgreenwasher https://www.herox.com/plastika-reparabilis/round/346/entry/21820 https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovation/smart-green-washer My goals is to scale up the invention and go to market. | Currently, I have done all the ground work that is needed to make the invention successful. This include doing testing the mechanism by building a low cost system to demonstrate its efficiency, detailed design of the product for small washing machine waste waster out put, doing cost analysis, search for potential customers and data gathering on end user cost preference. The research has shown me that this product will be one of the projects that will aid on healing of our world and can generate big financial profit. I want potential investors, partners and marketing mentor to scale up the project. | The project has been accepted in many sites and the link for this project are https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/circular-economy/solutions/8926 https://contest.techbriefs.com/2019/entries/electronics-sensors-iot/9471 https://conservationx.com/project/id/340/smartgreenwasher https://www.herox.com/plastika-reparabilis/round/346/entry/21820 https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovation/smart-green-washer | https://youtu.be/Jrc4Xnigg78 | This project is a finalist in the TKF PLASTICS INNOVATION CHALLENGE 2019 https://platform.younoodle.com/competition/2019_plastics_innovation_challenge You can see the attached document in the link for evidence. Also you can see my more than 50 inventions via https://contest.techbriefs.com/profile?user=89682 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
239 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tanzila | Khan | Girlythings | http://girlythings.pk/ | Founder | female | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | I am sure UN Solutions Summit is for individuals who have solution mindset and they are not shy to apply it around them. I am excited to apply for this opportunity to bring myself and my ideas forward. My latest innovation being a platform for women and girls to give them access to healthcare related products and myth-free information. This is what has kept me up for the longest time and I have no plans to sleep for a long time. Empowering women across the world about menstruation and making the next generation of women owning their bodies and loving themselves is my motivation and I want to bring it to UN because I am sure we both share the same. | Tanzila Khan is the founder of Girlythings.pk which is a disabled friendly mobile application through which we deliver sanitary napkins and other products and also urgent menstrual kits to women anywhere in public. She is also the Advisor Entrepreneurship at Hashoo Foundation. She wrote her first book, ‘A story of Mexico’ when she was 16 and then went on to publish her second book, ‘The Perfect Situation’ later. She has sold her books to fund community projects in the fields of disability, women empowerment, education and environment. Her NGO is Creative Alley that trains and empowers the community through events and projects. She launched her company, Iwish to create sustainable solutions to achieve the SDGs. Tanzila has also been a public speaker and Trainer across 17 countries and has been awarded fellowships such as Young Connector of the Future by Swedish Institute and Young Leader by Women Deliver. | Girlythings | It is a platform and community for girls and women to get Feminine Hygiene products anywhere and myth free information about periods | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Pakistan | Yes | Daewoo | Proof of Concept | We have developed 5 platforms to engage with women and girls. Namely App, website, Hotline, Facebook and WhatsApp. We have more than 2000 users and deliver more than 100 orders per month. So we have proof of concept, we now need to strengthen our streams and build a community for women | 100% percent women in Pakistan experience menstruation every month but are unable to access safe feminine hygienic products free of discrimination and uncomfortable shelf buying experience. There is a major lack of education and no platform to talk about menstruation with young girls. There is inaccessibility affecting women. May it be economical or unavailability. This leads to low self esteem, use of unhygienic methods and missing opportunities such as employment and a happy lifestyle. | The solution is to offer a safe space for girls and women, to open up and talk about the changes they are going through. To connect them with authentic information along with delivery of products to them everywhere and anywhere. Our products range from sanitary napkins to general hygiene and health products. Girlythings is a platform that delivers all types of feminine hygiene products to women at home in complete anonymity and in urgency. GT is also a platform that provides myth free health information and connects with services in the local vicinity via our Mobile Application, website, Facebook, WhatsApp and Hotline. | Our competitors include Daraz, Her Ground and retailers such as Alfatah and other smaller stores. Our USP is the comfortable space that covers more than just a shopping experience and gives women a space to talk freely and get connected with solutions instantly at the same time maintaining their privacy. | We are slowly growing and our team is meeting the goals we set for ourselves. | Our three main objectives are: Sales Community Mobilization on all our platforms B2B Collaborations to break the Taboo and stigma Our Marketing strategy includes online and offline tactics. Along with regular online and offline marketing we plan to apply the followings: Regular workshops within institutes to make Girlythings a household name and Go to platform for any support. Giveaways and free consulting by our panel of Doctors, counsellors and psychologists 2) Content generation on everyday situations and capacity building 4) Campus Ambassadors 5) Women support groups, focus groups and meet-ups | We want to expand our IT user experience, buy inventory and improve delivery system. We also need a good budget to plan and execute our marketing strategy which is tricky because of the Taboo nature of the product. | Please find our product Demo here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LU8LBv8K5qh51_UM6kHIJB8ZJcMDORXj/view?usp=sharing Pitch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17t-RUPR85b2DDOQ20sQAiLlXhkNZwjnS/view?usp=sharing | https://zipit.pk/this-pakistani-based-startup-is-making-menstrual-products-accessible-to-women-across-the-nation/?fbclid=IwAR3vfNbzJDiAOVUnnTsuF_mTCxHyTbsApn62Qs1aryG9c-khTByo37lRoqU https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/girlythings-pakistan-period-products-disabilities/?fbclid=IwAR3AWsfcFhVfa2NFH7exNlxX4Nkfbqb7NsCwhMsOyzFXO9tP8jXORjB4Tbc https://images.dawn.com/news/1182647?fbclid=IwAR3baVfpYe2zejUDpnHTlbgW6_JFQ0jAjf_NzwXa_F8BmxyA9yiabjpPOy4 https://feminisminindia.com/2019/04/22/tanzila-khan-girlythings-interview/?fbclid=IwAR2EWREj_utTnVxs_VIPcdYYEhoQ_r5Ucv3FxRQNkAgbrS_RDvbMOU9wVRo https://medium.com/@FP2020Global_20685/two-pakistani-youth-are-speaking-out-on-the-importance-of-inclusivity-in-sexual-and-reproductive-3585b37b487f?fbclid=IwAR1eBSLqKMJzj8nUEZI25MedKrGhX90pZXok8IOwQ9XGhFK7bmOI02EvMEo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrseowoZ3M4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3MXtrpdKPQnhbLC2liJU8ukkDTDVolz9W_LDUZgD_XV9y-XrLGKGesmvA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ0efxIi-nc&feature=youtu.be https://web.facebook.com/watch/?v=804413486612496&_rdc=1&_rdr https://k4health.exposure.co/fp-voices-top-nine-of-2018 | World Summit Award 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
240 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Damilola | Emuze | ScholarX | httpe://scholarx.co | COO/ CO- Founder | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Growing up in Nigeria, I experienced first hand how difficult it is for an average Nigerian to Educate their Children, More often than not parents have to beg, borrow, and in some cases sell priced possessions in the struggle to ensure their children access quality education. I am part of the lucky few who excelled in school and had family that could afford my tuition throughout my education. The experiences my friends faced made me very aware of the problems faced by a high percentage of the population, with this knowledge in hand I promised myself I will do something about. After the completion of my undergraduate degree in Arts, I worked in an IT firm in their Sales, and Marketing division, this gave me the much-needed skills I needed to communicate and interact with people of diverse backgrounds. After some time, I worked in the civil service at the state level, this gave me invaluable first-hand knowledge on policymaking, and what it takes to effect change. With ScholarX my passion for change has been the center of my life. Creating ways in which children from different socio-economic backgrounds can be empowered through education. With the continuous support of partners and sponsors engaged through our work, I know that the students who benefit will be on a better life path, and will be equipped to affect change to the growing number of out of school children. | I am a Nigerian Entrepreneur, one of the Co-Founders and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of ScholarX, an Education financing company that was started out of concerns for the state of Education in Africa, which connects high potential students to educational funding opportunities which ensure they access quality education An avid speaker, women empowerment activist, policy contributor, and winner of Competitions across Africa. Her passion and goals are obvious in the successes she and her team have amassed. ScholarX has gained tremendous recognition, nominations, and partnerships under her lead. ScholarX was nominated by Apps Africa as Best App in West Africa in 2017, and it received the award for innovation and impact at the African Diaspora Investment Symposium in Silicon Valley. Most recently, the startup was selected to join Google Launchpad Accelerator Africa, as well as being one of five global startups chosen to participate in the Qatar foundation’s WISE Accelerator. Prior to ScholarX, She worked as a Consultant with companies such as EBS Africa and The Lagos State House of Assembly where she helped deliver strategies to better grow, and brand the institutions Damilola graduated from the prestigious University of Lagos (UNILAG) with a bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts, and she also has received several certifications including Google Analytics Certification from Google. She is a successful public speaker that has deployed key systems into talent management and acquisition at events across Africa. | ScholarX | Education Financing Solutions by ScholarX | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya | Yes | We have built solid partnerships and collaborations with Qatar Foundation, Google, Sahara Foundation, Moringa School, N-Power, and Liquid Telecom | Transition to Scale | We have a steady stream of Users and Sponsors from all over the world. | The average cost of university tuition in Nigeria is $1000 per annum The average combined household income is $200 per annum, This gap in education financing exists due to the high poverty rate faced by a majority of the inhabitants. It would take an average Nigerian family 3years to save $1000 and due to this more often than not most families cannot afford to educate more than 1 child past primary school which leaves a large chunk of students between the ages 14-30 uneducated. | We view access to Education in 3 parts: Schooling, Learning opportunities, and skills acquisition. At the barest minimum, our solutions ensures that students can get the opportunity to go to/stay in school. We currently have three solutions, a scholarship aggregator mobile/web app which has over 15k local and foreign targeted scholarships, a micro-scholarship crowdfunding platform called Village that helps connect local students who need help with tuition funding and sponsors and a Scholarship management system which targets individuals, organizations and cooperate entities. We create specialized scholarships that help thousands of students through specialized programs such as Mathletes, Spelling bees, STEM programs, gender-based scholarships e.t.c. This model helps us better grow social consciousnesses and at the same time helps thousands of indeed students. Africa's youth population is growing rapidly, however, opportunities to access adequate education and formal skills are declining this is not because high potential students don’t exist, but because accessible financing doesn’t exist. | Through our solutions students in different parts of Africa access funds for Education needs. With the launch of SkillsFund, students will not only access loans, they will also be gainfully employed. Through our products we Source, Recruit, Distribute, Track and Sustain access to Education Financing for Students | Our Scholarship aggregator APP, Crowdfunding Platform, SuccessHub are up and running. Our new skills acquisition solution called SkillsFund is still in the prototyping stage and will be launched in December 2019. | We have connected over $60,000 of financing with high potential students. We’ve done this through a micro-education funding platform in Africa. Yet, given the scale of the problem we know that simple philanthropic donors is not enough. We need a sustainable and scalable solution. We have developed a new sustainable model of donor funding called SkillsFund which generates 5% return from graduates’ incomes. The returns are ploughed back into funding more students, thereby creating a sustainable pool of funds dedicated to education. Our next goal is to build this app onto blockchain, for transparency and accountability to access higher net-worth global funders. Our world-changing vision is to ensure that in 5years at least 1 million African students gain equitable access to quality education through our solutions. | We are working on building more partnerships with Organisations and Multi Nationals, This will help us create more education financing opportunities for our users, potentially create a physical presence in other African countries, and ensure Brand Visibility. | https://scholarx.co https://web.facebook.com/ScholarxPage/?_rdc=1&_rdr https://twitter.com/scholarxEdu https://www.instagram.com/scholarx/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ_nGH1ZosI&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHhS9KJNPAE | AppsAfrica - 2018 Nomination in the Social Impact Category, won by WeThinkCode | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
241 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Hazbo | Skoko | Save-Ideas Pty Ltd | https://save-ideas.com | Founder and CEO | M | Australia | Montenegro | English | I would like to be able to share what I have been working on, researching for 25 years and finally establishing a year ago Web platform for FREE intellectual property protection utilising blockchain technology, where innovators can save, protect, expose and potentially attract investors for their ideas, solutions, art and any there intellectual property they might have. Everyone have at least one idea/solution for betterment of humanity, economic development but only a few have means, knowledge to protect and realise their creativity output. This platform enable anyone regardless of race, education, wealth, background, age, religion etc to protect and realise their creativity. | I am a university professor with 40 years international experience, author of six book and a number of academic journal articles. | Hazbo Skoko | World first FREE intellectual property protection | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Australia, Austria, Argentina, Chile, Croatia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Botswana, Nigeria, New Zealand, Serbia, Sweden, and in addition 32 countries from each continent | Yes | Universities, IT Companies, AI Company | Transition to Scale | Currently we have: - 5100+ users, - 2300+ submissions; - 40-50 solutions realised or in the realisation process; - invested AUD1m | Loosing human creativity due to conventional way of protecting intellectual property. | The ultimate vision is Save-ideas to become a depository of human creativity. | The concept of protecting IP is unique as it is the world first (and the only one concept offering) FREE protection using the blockchain technology for everyone. | I have been working and researching for the last 25 years on this concept. | So far we have Country Coordinators in 52 countries; Our goal is in 3-5 years to be recognised/expanded globally, have millions of users, and tens of millions submitted ideas/solutions, millions of realised ideas/solutions, to re-invest AUD100m through our Global Commercialisation Fund 80% of all proceeds and funds risen into the most disruptive ideas/solutions submitted on our platform. | Short term - financial, HR, ICT, Security and storage needs Mid term - financial, HR, ICT, Security and storage needs Long term - financial, HR, ICT, Security and storage needs | https://save-ideas.com https://save-ideas.io https://www.facebook.com/saveideas/ https://www.facebook.com/SAVE-IDEAS-Argentina-461294344357510/ https://www.facebook.com/Save-Ideas-Hungary-2378400549115705/ https://www.facebook.com/SaveIdeasNigeria/ https://www.facebook.com/saveideassrbija/ https://www.facebook.com/Save-Ideas-Greece-293068914851699/ https://www.facebook.com/SAVE-IDEAS-Argentina-461294344357510/ Slovenia - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1858407297554689/ Turkey - https://www.facebook.com/saveideasTR/ North Macedonia - https://www.facebook.com/SaveIdeasMK/ and many more. Process Videos: https://www.facebook.com/saveideas/videos/852751284887110/ https://www.facebook.com/saveideas/videos/899524910209747/ Concept Video: https://www.facebook.com/saveideas/videos/899511890211049/ | Harvard Business Review Turkey: https://hbrturkiye.com/blog/blockchain-mantigi-kriptoparanin-otesindeki-uygulamalar Krusche and CO Germany: https://kruschecompany.com/success-stories Serbia: inkubator.biz/save-ideas/ Poland: http://www.frp.lodz.pl/chron-swoje-pomysly-za-darmo-nowa-platforma-ipr-projektu-save-ideas/ Serbia: www.ceir.rs Slovenia Interview: http://vfokusu.com/post/337796/intervju-povej-in-zascititi-svoje-ideje-na-portalu-save-ideas Belgium: Knowledge Economy Network a Brief entitled “Protecting a promising business idea via Save-Ideas(C)” on October 13, 2017. Slovenia News Article: Pomurec.com 18.09.2017 http://www.pomurec.com/vsebina/44390/Zascitite_svojo_idejo_na_platformi_prihodnosti_%C2%BBSave_ideas%C2%AB Academic Journal Article: Bancni Vestnik, Ljubljana Slovenia, Letnik 67, Stevilka 12, December 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
242 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rodney | Herrington | Aqua Research LLC | http://www.aquaresearchllc.com/ | CEO | MALE | United States of America | Japan | English | I am a technology innovator in the water space and have developed technologies specifically for those in low income settings and disaster relief. I feel I have a moral obligation to humanity to help save lives and end misery wherever possible. | See CV attached. | Water disinfection | Disinfecting 40 liters per day for a family for 10 years at a cost of US$0.50 per year. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Currently in use in Africa, Asia, Haiti, Central and South America, and other locations world-wide. Our objective is to penetrate the market much more extensively. | Yes | Non-government organizations world-wide. Currently working with many. | Scaling | Our technology has been demonstrated in the field and we have deployed thousands to date, but it needs to be deployed by the millions. USAID recently successfully expedited an environmental assessment for our community disinfection system. | Making water safe to drink from found sweet water sources at an annual cost to an individual or family at a price they can afford. | A simple solar powered low-cost hand-held device that automatically electrolyzes a salt water solution to chlorine and correctly doses the water without any measurement requirements from the user. Moves the safe water solution to the individual or family using common salt. No replacement parts or other consumables. | Electrochlorination is used today but this solution is unique, simple and low cost. Originally developed for and utilized by the US military for soldiers in the field. Poverty in large part is the result of poor politics and lack of economic viability and sustainability. Millions of individuals cannot count on safe water provided by public or community sources. Our technology puts the solution in the hands of the user. Our focus has been to simplify and drive the manufacturing cost down by automating the process for the user so there are no dosing or calculations required, in the same way cell phones have made communications ubiquitous in the developing world. Our solution is designed to be extremely robust and tolerant to abuse. | Our solution is being utilized by non-government organizations world-wide but not extensive enough to reach everyone who needs the solution. Our technology is proven in the field and is extremely reliable and robust. Our objective at this point is to scale the technology. Our feedback comes from organizations who follow up with end users in remote areas of the planet. Our technology can be easily adapted to data analytics to more accurately determine how and where it is utilized, and determine the extent of utilization. | We have developed and proven the technology in the field. Our focus going forward is to expand our sales and distribution channels to allow access by all individuals to the poorest and remotest areas of the planet. We will utilize any resources obtained to hire more sales and marketing staff, work with the development banks and microfinance organizations, develop in-country agents and distributors, set up local manufacturing, and any other techniques to expand distribution to all areas of the planet. We are utilizing all methods to raise the necessary funds to expand this work including equity financing. | Funding is needed to accelerate our activities. Our near term goal is raising the funding to accelerate staff to expand the sales networks we are currently using. Our medium term goals are to set up manufacturing in local countries to support the economy of those local countries, reduce shipping costs, reduce tariffs, and drive costs down via scale up of manufacturing and distribution. Our distribution objectives are to create economic incentives in the local populations to stimulate sales and application of the technology. Our long-term needs are brand recognition as the go-to technology for water treatment in the same way that Apple is the go-to leader for communications. | http://www.aquaresearchllc.com/ http://www.aquaresearchllc.com/video/ https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ib2dzga9emd8yw/H2gO%20Video.mp4?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxq4pppsnlvl9h5/AR%20Stream%20Video%20Final%20072419.mp4?dl=0 | https://www.dropbox.com/s/nfwmk0jg44gy1j8/Condensed%20FOX%20BIZ%20Interview.mp4?dl=0 | Our first generation device was awarded ""Best of What's New"" in Popular Science in 2003. We subsequently developed and deployed this second generation device to focus on the needs of the developing world by eliminating consumables such as batteries, and expanding the range of water volume to be treated. Our community based system, STREAM, and recently completed and expedited environmental assessment from USAID for application in Haiti and elsewhere. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
243 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Henry Mugisha | Bazira | Water Governance Institute (WGI) | www.watergovinst.org | Executive Director | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | The UN Solutions Summit is a summit that brings together different actors and decision-makers that could augment the promotion of our innovation. So bringing the innovation to such international audience enables others to learn from it and possibly to replicate it in their respective countries. Also, we could secure funding and/or investors to scale-up our innovation and take it to another level that is more effective and smarter using modern technologies including android. Our innovation is Aquaponics (integrated fish & horticultural crop) commercial farming that we (WGI) introduced in 5 districts of Uganda (i.e. Kampala, Wakiso, Kamuli, Adjumani & Hoima) as a pilot among urban, suburb and rural smallholder farmers/ households as well as refugee/ internally displaced persons (IDPs) settings for water-use efficiency, food security and livelihoods improvement. We did this with the following aims: making fish and horticultural crop products more accessible and affordable to households; addressing household's nutritional needs - now that nutritional deficiencies are prevalent; enabling households earn extra income from the sales of fish and horticultural products from Aquaponics systems; providing alternative sources of fish instead of natural lakes, rivers and wetlands; reduce human pressure exerted on these water bodies in search of fish; allow the fish to recover from over-fishing activities; contribute to the fish stocks in the wild and the market; take fishing to non-traditional fishing zones (inland fish farming), especially where there is reliable water source (rainfall or boreholes); producing more food with less water or same water and saving water for other uses or food value chains; transferring skills/knowledge and technology for smart agriculture in the face of climate and climate change; supplementing food sources in refugee/ IDPs settings where they traditionally receive common food rations; and developing the fisheries value-chain in Uganda, which is seriously underdeveloped. We are keen at growing the farmers that we are currently working with into some form of cooperative arrangement that will produce and market farmed or wild capture fish. The UN as a body supports improvement of economies of under-developed countries and peoples' livelihoods as individuals, households and communities - by bringing the innovation to the UN summit, We are bringing it to a forum of supportive members and we hope to secure such support for a global impact | Water Governance Institute (WGI) is a non-governmental organization that undertakes research, training and advocacy activities on water, its associated natural resources (fisheries, forests, agriculture, aquaculture, aquaponics, oil, gas & mining) and infrastructure. WGI also undertakes work on climate & climate change, disaster risks reduction, and assess relationships between communities and investment companies as key result areas. WGI celebrated its 11th year of active existence in February 2019. In addition to the key result areas, WGI has been and still is at the forefront of initiating and sustaining non-state actor (CSOs) platforms to advocate for equitable development - one that respects human rights and espouses the principles and practice of transparency and accountability in resource utilization. In this regard, WGI is the founding-chair of the Civil Society Coalition on Oil & Gas (CSCO) - a coalition that brings together 60CSOs to discuss oil&gas issues; and serves as a member of the Steering Committees of Uganda Contracts Monitoring Coalition (UCMC) and Tax Justice Alliance Uganda (TJAU). WGI is the chair of the Uganda Water Partnership Oil & Gas working group. Mr. Bazira Henry Mugisha, the Executive Director of WGI, is an natural resources expert with 25-years working experience. He is passionate at seeing Uganda develop well and engages himself in work that improves governance and peoples' livelihoods. More information about WGI's interventions can be found on this website www.watergovinst.org | Aquaponics (integrated fish and horticulture Crop) farming | Farming Fish and Crops Business Unusual | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Uganda | Yes | USAID, SIDA, Sverige, Netherlands, Zurich, DFID, KPMG, and South Africa Government | Transition to Scale | The numbers of farmers that have adopted the innovation are still very few to form basis for commercial scale production. The innovation needs to be transformed from manual Aquaponics system to automated systems using solar energy solutions to make it more effective, implying we shall be testing different solar energy options on the system. A prototype was developed which needs to be scaled-up. Knowledge and skills transfer on how to manage Aquaponics systems is still critical for scaling. | - Dwindling fish stocks due to over-fishing. Aquaponics offers alternative fish source and recovery of lakes - Demystifying the belief that fish only comes from lakes, rivers and wetlands; - Horticultural crops provide nutrients critical to human health - absence of which causes deficiencies - Most people do not have land fit for farming own food - the innovation creates that opportunity to farm own fish and crops as well as employment for women and youth - Low skills about fish farming | The innovation involves fish-tanks and crop grow-beds filled with sand and/or gravel growth media (NB: in automated systems, sand is omitted). Fish wastewater is drawn from the fish-tank and irrigated on a crop in the grow-beds. The growth media filters the wastewater and allows ammonium (i.e. fish feces & residual fish feeds) to decompose releasing nitrites/nitrates plus mineral salts, which are absorbed by the growing plants. The filtered water, which is cleaner is then returned to the fish-tank in a cyclic manner (closed-loop water recycling system) or used to hydrate a crop in a nearby garden in non-cyclic manner (open-circuit water reuse system), thus using water efficiently. The innovation is designed to be operated as a manual or automated system using solar energy solutions. Our long-term vision is to popularize this innovation until it becomes a common farming practice in Uganda and neighboring countries that share water resources, so that over-reliance on natural water-bodies as sources of fish is minimized. The innovation is designed to be operated in non-traditional fishing areas faraway from natural water-bodies provided there is reliable water from boreholes or harvested rain. The innovation is designed to replace or modify traditional earthen pond fish farming systems that have not been successful as was originally expected. As the innovation's economics improve, it will be modified into a smart option using computer or android monitors and controls. | Unlike traditional earthen pond and cage fish farming, Aquaponics integrates fish and crop farming using the same water in a circulatory or reuse system. The innovation can be established in relatively small spaces on the veranda or backyard of a residence without spoiling the aesthetics. Aquaponics is applicable in urban, suburb and rural household settings, including upland locations away from lakes, rivers and wetlands. Aquaponics can easily be tweaked to fit different conditions including outdoor, inside screen-houses, automation and computer/ android controls. Unlike cage fish farming which occurs inside water-bodies, Aquaponics is an inland farming practice. Cage farming risks polluting the water and the environment due to fish feeds that are added. Also cage farming is more prone to thefts compared to Aquaponics, which units are usually setup in proximity to the household that ensure some degree of security. Our innovation is designed with subsistence, semi-commercial and commercial options based on size from which clients can chose from, making it easily adaptable. | WGI has since 2010 tested the viability of integrated fish and horticultural crop (Aquaponics) farming approach using different sized fish tanks and grow-beds. In 2015, WGI secured 3-year grant from Securing Water For Food (SWFF) - a global challenge award funded by USAID, Sweden, Netherlands and South Africa to take the innovation from incubation to the people. Since then, the innovation has been implemented in 5 pilot districts (i.e. Kampala, Wakiso, Kamuli, Adjumani & Hoima). In order to trigger adoption of the innovation, WGI set up Aquaponics demonstration sites in the selected districts as basis for awareness-raising, technology and skill transfer. The demonstrations were supported by dedicated radio-talk shows and community training on how the Aquaponics works, its benefits and how it can effectively be managed. To-date, a total of 189 farmers/households have adopted the innovation. Evidence from the 189 farmers is impressive and demonstrates that it is possible to commercialize Aquaponics, especially when automated with solar energy solutions. A prototype has been developed that will be released. We measure progress and methodological rigor based on milestones and indicators agreed with the donor. Monitoring and evaluation of project progress, performance and successes was measured based on weekly telephone calls with the farmers and quarterly field-based surveys, including assessing whether the applied methods were effective in delivering the desired change. | Planned goals and milestones include: - Promoting the prototype Aquaponics unit; - Powering Aquaponics using solar energy solutions - Shifting the existing farmers from using subsistence Aquaponics units to larger semi-commercial and commercial units depending on their interest, available space, water availability and affordability of the unit - Building existing and new Aquaponcs farmers into a cooperative out-growers arrangement to augment their access to inputs, technologies, the market and sharing experiences - Develop Aquaponics into ""state-of-art smart"" production systems controlled by computer and/or android monitors producing more than 20 million and 10 million tons of fish and horticultural crop products annually, respectively. - Contribute to the development of fish value-chain as a fully-fledged industry from small-scale fishers (lake & inland) to fish processors and exporters WGI will recruit 60 extension/ sales agents on retainer and commission fee basis to popularize Aquaponics in the country and help build a network of out-grower farmers. Also, an additional 6 project assistants will be recruited for the innovation. The innovation is designed to impact at least 1,000,000 beneficiaries in the next 5 years. | The resources most needed for the solution to scale and have considerable impact include: Short-term - Grant funds to setup Aquaponics demonstration sites in new project districts as well as for training new farmers on Aquaponics, its benefits and how it is best managed for effective results as part of the scaling-up exercises - Capital (venture & interest free loan) to fabricate and market the Aquaponics prototype made from metallic frames & PVC-liner or plastics; - Capital to procure/import and market appropriate key inputs for solar-powered Aquaponics units, including relative low cost high quality fish feeds; - Research grant to develop low-cost high quality fish feeds locally - Capital (venture or interest free loan) to setup fish fingerling production unit Medium-term - Grant Funds to facilitate the formation of Aquaponics out-grower farmers' cooperatives across the various project districts in the country - Capital (venture or interest free loan) to setup a commercial Aquaponics production unit with capacity to produce at least 10 million and 5 million tons of fish and horticultural crop products, respectively; Long-term - Capital (venture or interest free loan) to produce and market low-cost high quality fish feeds locally - Capital (venture or interest free loan) to setup state-of-the art Aquaponics production unit | - organisation website: www.watergovinst.org - http://www.watergovinst.org/test/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=325:empowering-women-using-aquaponics-farming-in-uganda - http://www.watergovinst.org/test/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=363:the-plant-powered-tank-turning-ugandans-into-fish-farmers&Itemid=435 - http://www.watergovinst.org/test/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=367:aquaponics-brings-cash-creates-better-life-for-norah-maridiyo&Itemid=435 - https://securingwaterforfood.org/innovators/aquaponics-farming-water-governance-institute | - https://youtu.be/M3YzMm8O3MM - https://youtu.be/xxvUwm8RF5A - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ip30oW8s7A - https://youtu.be/6k9sPFuEX4g | - Securing Water For Food - a global grant challenge and a joint program of USAID, Sweden, Netherlands and South Africa. https://securingwaterforfood.org/ WGI selected as winner out of 485 global applicants - Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) - a program of USAID, Sweden, DFID and Zurich. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/. 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244 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Duncan | Goose | Water Unite | waterunite.org | Founder | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | Water Unite has identified a simple and scalable solution to raise $5 billion to provide access to clean water and decent sanitation to every individual on the planet while aiming to reduce plastic waste and improve recycling and collection. Working with the largest retailers in the world to capitalize on a 1 cent / liter voluntary micro-levy on bottled water sales globally, Water Unite will address SDGs 6, 12 & 14 while advancing life changing water programs that have initial funding from The Rockefeller Foundation, the Hilton Foundation, and several other noticeable donors. Having already secured two of the largest UK retailers to adopt the levy, we have a $10m commitment to leverage, but we want to scale the level of engagement. The UK Cabinet Office has expressed an interest in this program, as well as GIZ (part of the German Government) to consider opportunities for replication in Germany. When we first shared this concept with Guido Schmidt-Traub, Director of UNSDSN in 2015 before the formal release of the SDGs, he said this program was 'urgently needed'. This was also agreed to by then World Bank Chief Economist for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, By leveraging micro-levies catalytically, and innovatively, we believe the impact of our program could be transformative, and bring together concerted efforts among the private and public sectors, but with the backing and support of the UN as a convener, and networker, we can move much faster. | Duncan Goose has a background in the marketing sector having worked for a number of communication agencies in London, specializing in the FMCG space and later in business development. It was a 2-year motorbike trip around the world that opened his eyes to the challenges many counties and their communities face. Being caught in Hurricane Mitch in October 1998 which killed over 10,000 people and did $6bn of damage became a catalyst for change for him. Duncan’s passion for marketing and interest in the then emerging world of Corporate Social Responsibility led to the development of a bottled water brand called One which has now donated over $25m to fund clean water and sanitation programs in Sub Saharan Africa, impacting on over 3.4m people. It was a speech at 10 Downing Street in 2015 to a group of CEO’s that led to the development of Water Unite – an idea based around One, but pulling together the retail and bottling sectors globally around the shared idea of a 1 cent per liter micro-levy on bottled water sales. An idea, which if achieved at scale, could raise up to $5bn a year to be used for catalytic investments in the water, sanitation and waste management sectors. Duncan has been awarded many times for his work including receiving an Honorary Doctorate and at the time of writing this has just been recognized by British Airways in the Centenary celebrations as a 'Maker of Modern Britain' - one of only 100 people to receive this accolade. They are the people who represent the values that make Britain the creative, open-minded, pioneering and welcoming place it is today. | Water Unite | Helping to deliver water and sanitation for all whilst reducing plastics pollution through a micro-levy on global bottled water sales. | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Uganda, Jordan, Pakistan, Mozambique, South Africa and later this year in India and Kenya, but ultimately, globally. | Yes | The Rockefeller Foundation, The Co-operative Group, Elior UK, GIZ, The Gates Foundation, The Government of Hungary & The Nature Conservancy | Transition to Scale | Water Unite has a proven model, developed in conjunction with a £9bn grocery company with over 4,000 stores in the UK. The Co-Op trialed a number of ways to adopt the levy and found a solution to limit costs while benefiting communities in need of water access. The program also contributes to the company’s CSR strategy. Co-op’s CEO has become an active advocate for the program speaking alongside Minister Radebe of South Africa at a G20 event. Elior is the second retailer to join our program. | We aim to fill the funding gap that exists in the WASH and plastic waste sectors. To make real change, we need a massive increase in worldwide water & sanitation investments - especially long term, patient capital, and capital targeted at the 'unsexy' side of WASH investments. Of the 300 million tons of plastics produced worldwide every year, only 9% are recycled - we want to ensure investments are made in a new “plastics economy” to ensure that plastics never become waste. | By creating a solidarity micro-levy on bottled water sales globally, Water Unite could raise up $5bn a year of 'new' money - money that can be used to fill a gap in the sector. It is simple to adopt and implement and because it is micro by its very nature - ie 1 cent on a $1 bottle of water, it does not impact the consumer, nor the retailer. The retailer either takes the margin hit, passes it to the consumer or the supplier or shares it between all parties. It is flexible and simple to manage and has been successfully tested and adopted by two very large UK-based retailers - now it's about scaling and replicating that adoption globally. Long term, this program can scale to greater heights, and substantially help bridge the funding gap in WASH and plastics, which has been identified by taking smaller initiatives, funded by philanthropic dollars, to scale. Water Unite is truly innovative and exactly fits into the private sector space that the SDG's highlighted needing support from. | The concept of micro-levies are not new. Having private sector investment (or corporate charitable dollars) in the WASH and plastics spaces is not new either. But nothing has been done at scale collaboratively with this sector. Danone, Coca-Cola, Nestle, Pepsico all play in this space, and retailers such as Walgreens, Wal-Mart, Woolworths, Tesco etc all play in this space too - but it's all very piecemeal and not collaborative. Water Unite can unite everyone under a single minded, collaborative action - adopting a 1 cent per liter voluntary solidarity levy designed to fill a funding gap and help achieve SDGs 6, 12 & 14. | We spent two years working with The Rockefeller Foundation to analyze 3 questions – what is the current funding gap to completely address water and sanitation needs (and later plastics recycling), what would that money fund and where would that money live? Our research spanned governments, the private and development sectors and allowed us to scope solutions debated at the Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa, the margins of UNGA and the World Bank Spring meetings, SIWI in Stockholm and around the world. In all cases there was universal agreement that Water Unite was needed. The 'what would it fund' and ‘where would it live’ was identified through work with development agencies and investors in the WASH space, in particular with Lions Head Global Partners. With a Board in place, Chaired by Lord Malcolm Bruce and including Usha Rao-Monari (herself an expect in this sector having set up the Water Resources Group while at the World Bank) as Vice Chair, Water Unite is ready to move to the next step. We have secured two private sector partners (Co-Op and Elior) and at least $10m of commitments and have a pipeline for another $146m a year over the next 1-2 years. We have already been able to fund water programs alongside the Gates Foundation, Germany's GIZ and the Government of Hungary. Our M&E work is being developed with the support of the Board and external partners including those within GIZ. Progress is reported bi-annually against specific KPIs. | 1. Water Unite is a UK based (charity) but with a footprint in the US (501c3) and is in the process of applying to also become a Stichting in the Netherlands this year. 2. We have a goal to bring on at least $100m of donations (from the micro-levy) over the next 12 months through securing more retail partners globally. Water Unite is currently in discussions with retailers in the USA, Europe and Asia-Pacific, including; Ahold-Delhaize, Aldi, Walgreens, Lidl, Kroger, Metro, Loblaw, Sonae, Walmart, Spar, Jeronimo Martins, REWE, Casino, Albertsons, CVS, Sainsbury, Tesco, HEB, Hy-VEE, Wegmans, Coles, Woolworths etc. 3. We have a plan to build out the team to 20 heads (plus have an outsourced investment committee) within the next 12 months - including Finance & Operations, Program and Communications personnel. 4. The 3 current funded programs are expected to impact 4.2 million people and remove 75 tons of plastic a month from circulation. Our intent is to dramatically magnify that impact with additional funds. | Short term: The support of conveners and networks, including the UN, governments, the private sector, and associations (such as the Food Marketing Institute, Consumer Goods Forum, British Retail Consortium) to bring together retailers of bottled water at scale in major markets (North America, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East & Africa) to encourage them to be part of this program. Secondly, some short term, small scale financial support to bolster the organization until it becomes self-sustaining through taking a percentage of income to cover operating costs. These costs are less than $10 million over a 3 year period and reduce year on year. Medium term: The continuing support of conveners to bring together existing and new partners on an on-going basis. Initial focus is on the bigger multi-nationals, but as we start to work with second tier, domestic retailers we still need the support of UN, Governments etc to bring people together. Secondly, working in partnership with development and financing agencies and government to identify gaps in financing that Water Unite can fill. Long term: As with the medium term - but continuing to build out the model across the markets and expand investments in partnership. | Main website: waterunite.org Technical documents available for download (NB the working title for the project was the Global Investment Fund for Water (GIFFW) before rebranded to become Water Unite: Final report: http://bit.ly/31awZ8X Brand standards (for use by corporate partners) http://bit.ly/2Yhm6VT Analysis of WASH Financing needs: http://bit.ly/2JNBP6F Analysis of the bottled water market: http://bit.ly/334uh6o | We have not been actively seeking publicity at this stage, however Duncan has just been profiled in this article http://bit.ly/2GE5lsO and has also been asked to speak at the Future Leaders Program in Boston in October. This conference is for 150 of the brightest leaders of the biggest consumer goods companies in the world. Delegates include; Campbells, Cencosud, Coca-Cola, Colgate Palmolive, Danone, Daymon, Develey, Dr Oetker, EY, ICA, IGA, Lambertz, Lotte, Makro / Metro AG , McCain, Migros, Pepsico, P&G, Sobeys, Tan-Viet & Yamato. | Water Unite has not entered any awards, but Duncan has received a few for his work including: European Entrepreneur of the Year UK Business Awards - Entrepreneur of the Year Medinge Brand With A Conscious Award Greatest Briton Award Honorary Doctorate Beacon Fellowship Award The Paul Harris Fellowship British Airways 'Maker of Modern Britain' - recognising 100 people who've made the UK what it is today He was also selected to run with the Olympic Torch in the 2012 London Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
245 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Shamim | Nabuuma Kaliisa | Chil Artificial Intelligence Lab(Formerly trading as Community Dental and Reproductive Health) | www.cdarh.org | Executive Director | Female | Uganda | Uganda | English | For the past three years i have led and spear headed the inventing and use of artificial intelligence in the elimination of breast and cervical cancer (i developed an artificial intelligence mobile application and the self testing kits for breast and cervical cancer, i feel its a time for the entire world to know about these innovations that have only been common in East Africa. This motivated me and motivates me to apply for this UN Solutions Summit since it is the golden chance if selected i will have to tell fellow youth, policy makers, government representatives and United Nations about the existence of these technologies. | I am Nabuuma Shamim Kaliisa founder Chil Artificial Intelligence Lab , winner of google pitch drive 2019, winner of the 100 start up competition by Africa Moves, Winner of the Hounarable Mention by Mathai Impact Award 2019, Winner of the Takeda Young Enterprenuer Award 2018,Winner of the Africa Enterpreneur award 2018, Winner of the Social Impact Award of AWIEF 2018, Key note speaker at Africa INNOVATION Fellowship, | Artificial Intelligence for Cancer free globe | We provide breast and cervical AI powered e-oncology services to under served community | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Uganda, South Sudan,Zambia,Democratic Republic of Congo, | Yes | UNDP/YOUTH CONNEKT UGANDA | Scaling | Our technology has moved from idea to prototype to a physical product to proof of concept to getting a customer and lastly to moving to the countries mentioned above. This means that had it not passed the first level it would not be where it is now. more to that, it is because it has moved from all these stages and now ready tested by users and trusted in more than one country that we think it is on the scale stage. | Cancers of the cervix and the breast are the leading causes of death among women. According to World Health Organisation,Globally more than 800,000 women die of cervical and breast cancer yearly .Unfortunately Two thirds of breast cancer deaths and 9 out of 10 deaths from cervical cancer death occur in low- and middle income countries .This is highly attributed to Late diagnosis caused by distances,Financial,Privacy and inadequacy of oncologist Barriers . | We have changed the history of how women used to get cervical and breast cancer Oncology services from being tiresome ( in terms of long distances to service centers) ,Time consuming( in terms of waiting for long hours) to being Electronic and Artificial Intelligence Dominated .With our E-Oncology self service platform, a woman ( customer ) accesses services ranging from consultation,interpretation of kits/laboratory results , prescription . medicine delivery services ,Counselling,followup using our Multiple customer handling , Artificial Intelligence, powered Mobile Application(KETI) . We go on to make the whole screening Process complete by availing women with high accuracy,less error prone, Medically Proven ,reliable ,easy to use breast and cervical cancer self testing Kits that check for the Breast tumor and Presence of HPV 16 and 18 for breast and cervical cancer respectively. We have a vision of reducing the number of death by cervical and breast cancer due to late diagnosis globally | We have changed the history of how women used to get cervical and breast cancer Oncology services given by reproductive Health Uganda from being tiresome ( in terms of long distances to service centers) ,Time consuming( in terms of waiting for long hours) to being Electronic and Artificial Intelligence Dominated .With our E-Oncology self service platform, a woman ( customer ) accesses services ranging from consultation,interpretation of kits/laboratory results , prescription . medicine delivery services ,Counselling,followup using our Multiple customer handling , Artificial Intelligence, powered Mobile Application(KETI) . We go on to make the whole screening Process complete by availing women with high accuracy,less error prone, Medically Proven ,reliable ,easy to use breast and cervical cancer self testing Kits that check for the Breast tumor and Presence of HPV 16 and 18 for breast and cervical cancer respectively | We have moved through stages that is ; We first got the idea then made the idea design later we went on transform the idea into Minimum Visible Product that later moved into a fully furnished product that customers pay for . | By end of 2021 we would be covering at least 20 countries in African and 5 Asian Countries . By end of 2021 we would have reached more than 13 million Women with our technology. Our staff will increase to 35 by year 2021. | In the short term ; Financial Resources are much needed since at this time we are scaling all over Africa and this means we need regional Offices ,country offices among other needs and requirements More to that the Human Resource to work in all the countries of Operation ,Carry out Intensive Research for our next version Among others. In the Long Run Human Resource will be the Most Important needed resource needed by company .This will be after capturing the entire Global Market | 1) www.cdarh.org 2)https://www.sautitech.com/startups/shamim-nabuuma-gets-google-support/ 3)https://www.cnbcafrica.com/videos/2019/07/29/how-this-cancer-survivor-is-using-her-experience-to-find-solutions-for-breast-cancer-diagnosis/ 4) https://nguvu.africa/index.php/2019/07/27/chil-ai-lab-wins-google-support/ 5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlhZFWMoSyQ | 1)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlhZFWMoSyQ 2)https://www.cnbcafrica.com/videos/2019/07/29/how-this-cancer-survivor-is-using-her-experience-to-find-solutions-for-breast-cancer-diagnosis/ | 1) Honourable mention for the Maathai Impact Award at the Deep Learning Indaba 2019. 2) Africa Young Entrepreneurs Award Winner 2018 3) Takeda Young Entrepreneurs Award 2018 4) AWIEF Social Impcat Award 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
246 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jessica | Mshama | Nakua na Taifa Langu (Growing with My Nation) | https://www.instagram.com/p/B0DzfKDHJ-N/?igshid=1pl2sjmgf7g9b | Co Founder | Femalie | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | I started the business with my sisters at a very young age. I was obliged to manage all the business and ensure nothing fell to pieces. Out standing mockery and disrespectful behaviors from men whom were employed by the company just because of my age and gender had enlightened me to work even harder to prove that a female is not a weak being. I did not fire anyone rather i kept working with them and setting my boundaries. In few months the disrespect and mockery was history because i had brought the company at its feet and all the men who were employed under the company saw how impactiful i am and begun to respect me not only as their employer but also as a leader. Doing so i have managed to add a few ventures to the company being the beauty parlor and the small industry thus being able ti accumulate more than 30 employees at the very early stages of the company. Through everything i have done, i have managed to inspire teens and youth in general though events i attended as a speaker, through media interviews and through my social media. I have nanaged to be crowned Malkia Ajaye (The Next Queen) by Clouds Media's Malkia Wa Nguvu program that acknowledges all women in Tanzania who are sweating to ensure that a society with opportunities for women is established. So far, i am the youngest ever achieved this award (23) and i believe many girls and women out there are motivated by what i have accomplished | Jessica Mshama was born on 5th November 1995. She is a Tanzanian Entrepreneur, youth Influencer and singer from a sister gospel group well known as J Sisters that includes her elder Sisters Jenifer, Jacqueline and Juliana Mshama. She is the CEO of J Sisters Enterprises and due to the efforts and good work, She was crowned “Malkia Ajaye” (The Next Queen) with the Clouds Media Groups’s Malkia wa Nguvu in 2019. Jessica’s early life and education background She was born and raised in Tanzania and at the age of 10 (2005), she was the youngest singer in J Sisters group. For her primary education, she attended … and again … for secondary education…. Thereafter, she attended….university where she graduated with a Diploma in Business Administration and later a bachelor of commerce specialized in finance from Institute of Finance management (IFM) Awards and Recognitions In 2019, she was acknowledged by Clouds Media as the next queen (Malkia Ajaye) In 2019, she was acknowledged by Business Elites Africa as a social media champion In 2019, she was recognized by Adorable Wedding Affairs as a participant of the exhibitions. | Providing awareness to the society about Cerebral Palsy (CP) | children with CP live under poor environment due to the lack of awareness Tabasamu Langu under the organization will help in spreading awareness. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Currently the solution has begun with Tanzania but it is part of plan to extend the organization and reach the East African boundaries. Currently the organization works in Dar es Salaam but in few months it is under expectations that it will impact many | Yes | I work with Joshua Sultan who is a physiotherapist. I have also in partnership with CCBRT hospital and Clouds Media Group. | Transition to Scale | It has already evelved from an idea and research was already done. So far the organization has managed to reach a single woman with whom we recorded a teatimonial video that rose alot of emotions in social media. So far the organization has begun searching for volunteers who will help in completing the task. | CP is a common problem in Tanzania but however, lack of awareness triggers individuals to relate it with witchcraft and misconceptions. This has not only led to separation of families but also prolonging of poverty and the increase of dependability in the community. Through Tabasamu Langu under Nakua na Taifa Langu awareness about the disability will be given and it will reduce the problem in the community. | Through media programs and workshops, Tabasamu Langu will expose the women, men and the society in general. Some women are un aware about the treatment of the disability so it is Tabasamu Langu that will also bring them close to the solutions and that will not only help treating their children but it will save them from the society’s beliefs about CP and help in maintaining their families. | Tabasamu Langu draws the bigger picture for the people impacted with the situation. Apart from the news paper reportings, no organization has rooted itself in providing the solution to the problem and giving the causative actions and impacts. The new angle is how the problem is planned to be solved rather than just being made public or announced. Apart from the mentioned strategy, Tabasamu Langu works hand in hand with professionals who will adress the problem properly and with credibility. Having multi learning forms is also another strategy where the organization plans to use social media, workshops and mainstream media all toensire that the society learns properly. | So far an inrerview with one of the women is already created and shared through social media. Forma for enrolling volunteers are already submitted and registration of the organization is already completed. | The greater plan is to ensure the organization cross boundaries of nations and reach out to as many children as possible so as their lives too can be changed and provide them with hope of achieving their goals just like other children. | So far a bigger team is needed meaning more people to help in marketing, research, production and even event organizers to help in fu d raising all for the sake of ensuring that the eintended objective is met | https://instagram.com/nakua_na_taifalangu?igshid=1pedw1abz4ix0 https://www.instagram.com/p/B0SdIfqny19/?igshid=1ib4hw1tpfb7r https://www.instagram.com/p/B0yw-eanFgc/?igshid=3nx2qa7tfama | https://instagram.com/nakua_na_taifalangu?igshid=qn2y3d7yzs74 | Malkia Ajaye (Next Queen) by Clouds Media Group 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
247 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | RITA | COOMA BHULLAR | ICCOUNCIL | HTTP://www.iccouncil.com | Chief Executive Officer | Female | United States of America | Guyana | English | My innovation is the Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Campaign for education management and implementation reform programs for beneficiaries to African nationals residing in refugee camps from birth to K12 throguh our education program. MY team ( Dr. Ibrahim Gambari, Ambassador Bukun Onemola,Minister Dr. Mary, Shawa, President Of ICCOUNCIL -Gurlal Singh Bhullar and myself) seeks funding from this innovation program for the 2019 Office of the President of the General Assembly. | I am a seasoned senior project manager with 17 years of professional and operations management experiences which spanned several departments in the international relations and public policy arena. I served as CEO for ICCOUNCIL in New York for 11 years. I was at different times, special adviser and consultant for both Administration, Finance and Economic & Consular directorates, respectively, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for 23 African governments. I have vast experiences in the fields of strategy and project management, financial and operations management, conflict resolution and multilateral stakeholder partnership among governments, corporation and financial industry across Africa, Europe and Asia. I have a unique talent for relationship management, project portfolio management, private sector development, business development, operations management, relationship building and personnel advancement. | Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Campaign | Education Civil rights Movement for African youths for systematice changes | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Pan Africa | Yes | Dr. Ibrahim Gambari ( former UN Under Secretary Genenral), Ambassador Bukun Onemola ( Minister of Nigeria) | Sustainable Scale | We have work on this program since 2010 and have spend 9 years developing it with the following United Nations members -Dr. Ibrahim Gambari (Former Under-secrtary General of the United Nations-Government of Nigeria) - Ambassador Tete Antonio ( Head of the Africa Union)-Government of Angola -Ambassador Bukun Onemola ( former DRP of Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations) | Education deficit among youths residing in refugee camps , adolescent girls education - The Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Campaign will build a bride for student to study from birth to K12. Our team will transform policy at the United Nations relating to education and human development, peace, security, health, food/nutrition for African nationals residing in refugee camps. | The Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Camapign is to be part to be part of the 2019 PGA Education Agenda for the education deficit currently prevalent in the refugee camps across African host countries.We are focusing on empowering youths to stay in Africa and will influence policy to build inter-regional collaboration to establish regional solidarity funding programs to support the free movement of youths across land linked countries within Africa. We want to youths to have access to education health and jobs opportunities. We are inspired from the Schegen Agreement model and our mission is to implement similar plans by influencing policy makers to adopt the Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Camapign. The most profound impact will be our team lobbying the United Nations to establish the #26 United Nations Sustainable Education Permanent Campaign.Since the history of the establishment of the United Nations, Education has never been established as a permanent campaign and we , the Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Campaign team, will impact the migration and refugee issues across Africa and empower youth to remain in Africa with economic and social incentives for generational transformation. The Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Campaign is the Education Civil Rights movement of Africa. | The uniqueness of the solution is the positioning of the education campaign as part of the 2019 PGA education agenda and establishing the #26 United Nations Sustainable Education Permanent Campaign. We are seeking funding to support our program in the 2019 Office of the President of the General Assembly to implement the Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Campaign. | The Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Campaign is a fully development proposal from 9 years of research and over 50 ministers and ambassadors of Africa. We will measure progress when the following is accomplished at the end of the 2019 tenure of the 2019 PGA 1. Establish the #26 United Nations Sustainable Education Permanent Campaign 2. Scholarship track of USD$53,000,000 for refugee youths 3. Policy transformation that promotes human capital investment in Africa ( Africa free trade agreement, Agenda 2063, Agenda 2030 ) 4. Training workshops for policy makers on human capital investment in Africa, early childhood development, adolescent education and overall change in investment strategy that ""Funding Education in Africa is NOT a form of charity ; instead it is economic development). | Planned Goals and Milestones, via 2019 President of the General Assembly, as part of the 2019 UNPGA Education Agenda - the Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Campaign team will expand across 54 countries of Africa to close the ""tap"" in the outflow of refugees and internally displaced African nationals. At the end of 2019 tenure of the 2019UNPGA, we would have worked with Dr. Tijanni Muhammed Bande to provide structural changes across Africa to establish international solidarity collaboration among Africa Regional Economic Communities,Africa Union and ECOWAS to create jobs, education and health resources and opportunities for African youths from birth to college and beyond. | We need funding to implement the program. We have the network and access to the 54 countries of Africa. The funding is to set up in the Office of the 2019 President of the General Assembly for the Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Campaign. 1. Short Term goal- to establish a scholarship track for USD$53,000,000 for youths residing in refugee cams from Quaker high school, colleges and Universities 2. Medium -term goal: Implement the first ever Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Conference 3. Long term goal: Establish #26 United Nations Sustainable Education Permanent Campaign | Pan Africa Sustainable Education Global Campaign TEAM http://www.iccouncil.com/pan-africa-sustainable-education-global-campaign PROPOSAL https://issuu.com/iccouncil/docs/pan_africa_sustainable_education_gl | http://www.peaceevertvimg.org/index.php/english-news/item/266-peaceever-international-tv-interviewed-the-special-advisor-of-the-malawi-mission-to-the-united-nations-dr-rita-cooma | Ghana Entrepreneurial Empowerment Program - First Lady of Ghana - Madam Rebecca Akufo-Addo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
248 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sy | Chia | Bridg•it | https://bridgit.ai/ | Co-Founder | Male | Singapore | Singapore | Chinese | English | Bridg•it closes the gap between innovators, industry leaders, and academic experts, connecting potential collaborators across different supply chains. Our algorithm draws from industry best practices and successful case studies to evaluate the strength of potential collaborations for new sustainable innovations. By making these connections, Bridg•it taps into a smart supply web of materials, processes, and innovations across different supply chains to facilitate a circular economy. | Currently based in Singapore with 7 years of advertising experience working with brands, artists and vendors to create visual and creative experiences online and offline. With deep background in graphic design, I have gradually built my experience towards more digital marketing strategies and its assets creations, tech-driven event experiences, and UX design. | Bridg•it | An AI driven innovation predictor that enables corporates, SMEs, and innovators to collaborate in solving pressing sustainability problems | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | North America, India & Singapore (as starting points) | Yes | Kaia Myers-Stewart, James Souder, Jaadi Fonseca, Jasmine Luthra | Research & Development | Yes it is. We're currently looking into research and finding a development team that can help us assist in making the backbone of our neural network systems viable in research. As for development, we're looking into collaborating with different universities and institutions based in different countries to find cast studies of various successful industrial symbiosis that will be used datasets for our product's deep learning. | We live in a connected world, but in many ways, our resources, ideas, and innovations operate in disconnected silos. Businesses with large supply chains have difficulty managing efficiencies and implementing sustainable innovations. What if companies could save money and resources by developing quality connections within and across supply chains to encourage innovative collaborations, optimize production systems, and meet sustainability targets in a short amount of time? | Our long-term goal is to create multiple industrial symbiosis that are based of various factors like - waste management, transportation and infrastructure, cost estimation etc. | The solution is visionary. And if appropriate - the potential to change the way the world's supply chain systems work. As the gold winners of SDG 12 Track for Unleash 2018 in Singapore, we strive to achieve a goal that marries the best of all existing resources in the multiple supply chains in the world to begin having conversations between one another. Sourcing, distributing, re-purposing large amounts of waste materials to create a interconnected supply web regardless of distance. | We are still in the R&D phase. We've created a sell-in deck for investments and also created a very basic web prototype of our device to show proof of concept. As there are may steps and levels of convincing for this product - we are quite certain to also break it down into a phased approach. | 1) To work with leading experts for prof of concept. 2) Getting the right datasets for the machine's deep learning capabilities 3) Development of digital service 4) Onboarding of various potential partners to create first few successful case studies. We're thinking of starting in India/China - where various large-scale industries do face industrial waste problems. | Our short term need to definitely funding. Since winning Unleash 2018, we have been separated back into our different home countries and have even flew to one another to continue the project. But it has proven to be tough. Our medium term need will be development of the actual machine learning tool using existing data sets. And finally our long-term needs is to scale the business. Using India/China as a starting point - to see what potential areas we can upscale the business, making it attractive for more SMEs, innovators and large scale businesses to get on board the platform. | https://bridgit.ai/ https://sychia.co/Bridg-it (password: united) http://isdata-org.github.io/mapping-the-bioeconomy/CoOccurrenceAnalysis/CircleCoOccurLayout.html | Our presentation in the Dragon's Den for Unleash 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4XC3-LaqG0&feature=youtu.be | Unleash 2018 GOLD SDG 12: Responsible Supply Chain and Consumption | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
249 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mwamed | Sizoomu | Solarpipo | www.solarpipo.com | Co-founder and CTO | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | Energy access in Africa is often equated to just household lighting and other consumption purposes such as comfort and entertainments. But the many people in rural Africa working hard on agricultural and commercial activities to generate income and create employment, cannot do much, because their productivity and growth potential is stifled because they lack access to energy for extended operating hours, mechanization and preservation, higher productivity, job creation and even improved working conditions. But as a backbone for long-term sustainable economic development and energy being at the heart of achieving the SDGs, Energy for Productive Use for rural micro, small, and medium enterprises deserve more focus. That’s why I would like to be part of the UN solution presenters and share with the world about my startup SolarPipo, a platform that can actually scale and change the way energy for productive use is sold to these crucial enterprises by helping energy providers target the right productive use customers! | Mwamed has a combined over 9 years’ experience in PV-Solar Installations, sales, startup management and innovation. Mwamed is a Certified PV-Install+RES within EU level one (Bfz Germany) and an Alumni of Rockstart Smart Energy (Netherlands) | SolarPipo | Energy for Productive Use Leads Generation Platform | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Uganda | Yes | In general they are Renewable energy companies (manufacturers and Distributors), Energy Development Agencies and Small Businesses (MSMES). particular examples include Africa Diaspora Policy Centre, Uganda Solar Energy Association, Village power, SolarNow, | Scaling | Over the past one year, we have generated over 1800 leads which we have connected with energy providers and facilitated over 300 successful electricity connections ranging from irrigation pumps, phone charging, electric powered tailoring, milk cooling to poultry businesses. We have also created a network of 38 mobile agents for our platform and profiled communities and small businesses around 2 refugee settlements in Northern Uganda. And work with 5 solar companies. | The way people,households, small businesses and solar distributors go about purchasing and selling solar products is of great concern. Pre-sale customer information critical to a successful sale cycle and usage of the solar products and systems is unknown, the quality and service of the solar products and systems is not guaranteed, especially the standalone solar systems and incase of any problems, customers cannot easily complain to the solar distributors or vendors. | The SolarPipo platform is an energy demand data aggregation platform generating energy sales leads of micro, small, and medium enterprises in off-grid areas in Uganda. Using the SolarPipo Mobile Agent Network who are our local representatives in communities, we collect real time comprehensive profiles of those who need access to energy and link them to suitable energy providers. We identify the right customers by predicting who’s most likely and willing to buy solar energy using our different data streams. And with our platform we don’t just share ordinary customer intelligence; we tell energy providers, WHAT, HOW, WHEN and WHERE about the customer, removing the guesswork and saving even more time & effort. With this data, energy providers lower their customer acquisition costs by over 60%, increase sales volume by over 50% and 3 times speed up their sales process with our customer intelligence. The opportunities available to data platforms in the energy access sector are unlimited; as a matter of fact the data service can support the entire ecosystem players in the region in one way or another.Also potential international customers can make purchase of this data from any part of the world if they are doing research and find the data relevant to their work. | SolarPipo is a premier platform collecting and aggregating energy demand data and leads of SMEs in the off-grid space in East Africa. SolarPipo competitors include platforms like Odyssey Energy Solutions, Mobisol’s Paygee and own energy companies data collection. We offer a localized service and serve standalone solutions suppliers as well as mini grid developers compared to what thecompetitors offer. We are coming into an industry that is just growing but also in uncharted territory of driving data driven business models and sales decisions by energy providers powered by our premier platform collecting and aggregating energy demand data and leads of SMEs. We know that ease of customer access, comprehensive profiles with data points ranging from energy demand, willingness and ability to pay for solar, lower customer acquisition costs and leveraging on our SMAN agents to onboard and support customers on behalf of energy providers will be our best bet to attract customers and counts as a competitive advantage for us. | SolarPipo platform development has been completed as per specifications laid out but review recommendations and changes are still being implemented as they come in and as we get to use the platform. The platform currently has 1800 leads that have been uploaded from records and matching data. Integrations with USSD code and Toll Free number are pending acquisition from the telecoms. Apart from generating fresh leads, SolarPipo is creating leads by tapping into readily available data on farmer businesses from farmers’ associations like East South AFrican Small scale Farmers Forum Uganda (ESAFFU) matching it with financial information from farmer SACCOs and farmer focused payment and financial records aggregators like Ensibuuko. With the platform in place and serving different energy providers, SolarPipo is positioning itself in the market as a data company enabling renewable energy connections for off grid rural productive use customers. Our customers now range from standalone renewable energy solutions providers, mini grid developers, agencies and investors setting up mini grid projects. | The future of our business lies in the numbers of loyal customers that the business can boast of having, the capacity and competence of the employees, their investment strategy and the business structure. If any of these factors is missing from a company, then it can’t be too long before the company closes shop. We are aware of these factors and we have been able to structure our business to overcome them. Action Plan for Expansion 1.Setup a network of 500 SMAN agents in West Nile and Northern Uganda January, 2020 2.Setup a network of 1000 SMAN agents in rest of Uganda November, 2021 3.Expansion of the service to Rwanda May 2022 4.Expansion of the service to Kenya and Tanzania September 2024 | We are looking for partners to bring our solution to scale and are currently raising €560,000 to service energy providers, grow our mobile agent network to 500 mobile agents and reach our market goals of 50,000 connections by 2021. So please join us on this exciting journey to accelerate productive use of renewable energy which will lead to higher economic growth, increased rural productivity and a rise in rural employment | http://solarpipo.com/ https://www.facebook.com › Places › Kampala, Uganda https://twitter.com/solarpipo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-8Ux8WiUYw https://www.energyglobe.info/uganda2018?cl=en&id=267481 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPsEqEiTAGI&t=32s | https://youtu.be/XlzFP3OihLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_9aBwvI6ac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU5Pk9OjTgI&t=2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw_g6zNfYMc&t=79s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPsEqEiTAGI&t=32s | (SolarPipo) has been recognized as the Energy Globe National Award Winner 2018, Energy Globe World Award 2018 nominee, Rockstart Smart Energy Accelerator 2017 startup, Sustainable Technology for Africa 2018 runner up, USADF award winner and ANSOLE (African Network for Solar Energy) and Recently recognized among the Top 5 African Youth Energy Innovators 2019 by Africa Energy Indaba in association with World Energy Council. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
250 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ronald | Daniel | Composium Group Ltd | https://www.composium-group.com/ | General Manager | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | Our natural resources are being depleted at an exponential rate. We are on the brink of mass migration of environmental refugees. There is a solution to water scarcity and CO2 removal. The positive impact of TELESIS will be to significantly contribute towards accomplishing globally several of the UN SDG's, in fact, 11 of the 17 SDG’s | The founder of Composium Group Ltd. Ron Daniel, was responsible for the implementation of the only two commercial horizontal sub surface Beach wells in the Arabian Gulf, first Durrat Al Bahrain and subsequently Bahrain Business Bay. As a consequence, Ron resolved the intractable infrastructure issues that were jeopardising the viability of both Projects. Ron, however, could see that opportunities existed to transform a very important utility into a game-changing global resource. After 5-years of research and a change to both the design and the construction methods, TELESIS is a significantly improved progression from the ‘Infiltration Gallery’ form of system used on both projects above (also Fukuoka, Japan and Long Beach, California) Significantly less costly method of installation. Optimising the Fluid Dynamics performance to accomplish a uniformity of abstraction pressure across the entire abstraction area footprint, the incorporation of non-disruptive and simplistic maintenance and locating the horizontal drains at a greater depth below the seabed. Further reading, http://www.constructionweekonline.com/article-27495-site-visit-bahrain-bay-district-cooling-plant/ & https://www.desalination.com/articles/wdr-visits-fukuoka OTHER RON DANIEL PROJECTS Design Manager for Qatar 2020 World Cup Designed and built the world’s largest Data Centre for Acer, Taiwan Infrastructure Project Manager,Chek Lap Kok Airport Project & Construction Manager Oil Sector Complex, Kuwait | TELESIS (Greek for the deliberate utilisation of nature) | TELESIS, nature’s supply of water & energy. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | TELESIS is intended to be used in all countries that experience water scarcity and also where there is interest in creating low CO2 emission energy | Yes | Aveng Group South Africa / DIT, UK Gov / DIAM, Oman / EDRC Egypt / Wabag India / Lakson Group of companies Pakistan | Transition to Scale | Ron Daniel has built two precursor versions of TELESIS and the modifications made to development to TELESIS are Tried and tested components. The one exception, our sub surface drain design which accomplishes easy non disruptive maintenance has been validated by Computational Fluid dynamics and the 3rd party who performed this are on record with assurances that our design will perform exactly the same in-the-field as the successful tests | The academics and consultants who have written on the subject of the concept of Sub surface are unanimously in favour. Ron Daniel achieved the promise of the concept (secure, naturally filtered, environmentally harmless) but at a cost exceptionally few can afford. TELESIS completely improves the performance and the affordability and in so doing makes available affordable water plus 24/7 renewable energy | Our sub surface water has lower dissolved solids, etc and consequent desalination economies have an aggregate reduction in production costs of 50% without any Capex premium. Our sub surface water is able to accomplish with considerably more pragmatic methods, the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion objective fruitlessly pursued by several large corporations. Collectively (and uniquely) we now have multiple utilities from just one benign, harmless seawater intake. THIS IS TELESIS | Present day and Precursor intake versions (including my own) are too shallow to acquire constant temperature water and were extremely difficult to access and maintain when or if required. TELESIS resolve both issues. The maintenance is done from the safety and convenience of our on-shore intake chamber and is carried out in an entirely non-disruptive way.. None of our competitors have achieved this benefit. | We are completely ready to go. We are a very young start up but we already have a fair degree of Traction. For example, we were given a chance to tender for a project in Australia (Sleaford Bay) but had to withdraw because the off-shore geology did not favour our G / No-go tests. This is very uncommon and very bad luck for us. Equity Banks we have spoken to (McQuarie, Arcapita and others) are virtually guaranteeing to fund our projects. DIAM in Oman are arranging for us to be on the Tender list for future projects because we are the solution to their increasingly disruptive Red-tide incidences. We have just signed an NDA with Unilever so as to engage with them in connection with future engineering solutions | In the mid term we plan to open offices in 4-international divisions with each regional director responsible for the probity, economy and growth of each division. Sales in Utility production, District Cooling and/or Heating, Electricity generation, Agriculture, Aqua culture and more | Short -term.The funding is in place. All we need now is a client (Farmer, Municipality, Utilities Co. Industrialist, Leisure facility operator, community) who can provide beach access and agree to purchase our services for the next 25-30 years. Medium term expansion will require some additional staff so as to create autonomous divisions | Researchgate: TELESIS explained Website; https://www.composium-group.com/ Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Awe8FaQzes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnZnODrUuw | Guest Speaker, Qatar Green Buildings 2016 | Qatar Business excellence award (MEA) 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
251 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dan | Watson | SafetyNet Technologies | www.sntech.co.uk | Founder & CEO | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | I founded SafetyNet (SNTech) during my final year at university in Glasgow, while I was finishing my MEng in Product Design Engineering. That was around 10 years ago, and I was almost immediately thrown into a world of entrepreneurship with relatively little preparation and having to learn very fast how to turn a project into a viable business that could positively impact the world. 10 years on and SafetyNet now operates as a social enterprise in over 5 countries, with a team of 10 full time employees, a range of prototypes and products and having secured investment in a sector where traditional investors don't spend much time or money. The whole enterprise was built to pursue the goal of making fishing more sustainable, aligning closely with SDGs 2 and 14, and that is still our mission now. Our devices can be used to reduce the capture of non-target fish (juveniles, endangered, unmarketable) and other species in commercial fishing practices by up to 90%. We've achieved a lot of milestones getting here, and the question on my mind as SafetyNet scales up is ""what next?"". I find myself increasingly keen to find a peer-group to turn to for advice, motivation and support, and the UN Solutions Summit seems like an excellent place to make such connections. Beyond this, we definitely need to show our work to policy makers, funders and potential commercial and scientific partners in order to keep moving towards our goal of sustainable fishing. | Most of my life has revolved around trying to figure out how things and people work, which never gets boring. At school, I loved art and design and hated maths, until explained that it could be used to build things and solve problems, after which I studied mechanical engineering at university. Since then, I've: - worked on projects in a wide range of developed/developing countries, ranging from food security to flood defence to economic inclusion. - started and grown a team of Human Centred Designers to bring their skills to the UK space sector through the UK Government's Catapult Network. - started and grown SafetyNet Technologies to help make sustainable fishing a reality in the commercial and artisanal fishing communities. - taught cohorts of students from 8-50+ years old as a tutor and Queen Elizabeth STEM ambassador. - become an uncle four times! I am incredibly privileged to be able to work on massive, complex problems in my career, and it brings me joy every day. I'd love to be able to share my missions and stories with your community, and in turn open my ears, eyes and heart to theirs. | Pisces | The LED light at the end of the bycatch tunnel | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Any country in which fishing activities occur. Currently, Pisces has been trialed or deployed in: UK, France, Spain, Norway, Denmark, USA, Peru, Indonesia. | Yes | NOAA (US), DTU Aqua (Denmark), FROM Nord (France), Cefas (UK), Marine Scotland (UK), EASME/EMFF (EU), Ifremer (France) | Transition to Scale | SafetyNet has now trialed our Pisces devices in 10+ countries around the world, with our first commercial, paid trials underway. We've refined the prototype to the point where we're now scaling up manufacturing from 100s -> 1000s and beginning commercialisation activities. This is exciting but also very new to the team, and we're learning fast. | Species caught in the fishing process that can’t be sold, known as bycatch, is much more than a huge environmental burden. Roughly one-fifth of the global population relies on fish as its primary source of protein, and for more than 20 million people globally, fishing is their primary source of income. While new laws on bycatch can help damaged ecosystems recover, jobs and livelihoods often suffer, as fishing crews don’t have the technology to fish both sustainably and efficiently. | PISCES is a simple to use, affordable LED light emitting device that retrofits onto any existing fishing nets. It helps fishermen attract the size and species of fish they’re licensed to catch while repelling non-target species. How it works: Different species of fish and crustaceans are affected by lights in different ways. Some are attracted and some are repelled, and it all depends on the type of light you use. The device enables fishermen to easily specify the wavelength, intensity, polarization and flash-pattern of the light, to meet their specific needs. Our field-tested technology offers the potential to lower bycatch by 90% and improve fishing revenues by up to 20%. The design meets a huge and immediate global demand for bycatch reduction while protecting the jobs and communities that makeup and are supported by the fishing industry. Various SafetyNet devices have now been tested in commercial and artisanal fisheries around the world. While research continues, the results have so far been extremely encouraging in some fisheries. Tests in the US, Indonesia, Peru, Mexico, Cyprus and Pakistan have been able to reduce their bycatch by 50-90%. Other experiments also show an increase in yields with a fraction of the time and resources. This also has huge benefits for the marine life - static fishing gear becomes more effective, reducing the need for more-destructive techniques like trawling, and nets and fishing pots spend much less time in the ocean. | While other ways of affecting fish behaviour have been explored in the past, light trials remained firmly in the academic sphere of interest. The technology wasn't available to apply it in the ways required for a rough industry like commercial fishing. SafetyNet's innovation has been to aggregate those initial light trials and design technology to extend them further. This has enabled scientists to conduct many more trials using lights to discover which ocean species can be attracted and repelled by different types of lights, which in turn can be applied commercially to change which species are caught or avoided. Light is particularly useful as it can be used very locally to the fishing gear, and its range can be controlled very accurately. This reduces the chance of unwanted side-effects, such as stressing other ocean creatures. SafetyNet's devices also retrofit to existing fishing gears, meaning fishing crews don't have to buy entirely new nets in order to fish more sustainably. Pisces is also backed by a very strong business incentive for fishing crews to use it, as it lowers the chance of fines, can increase target catch and lower fuel consumption. | Pisces is now at the pre-production stage, having progressed through several iterations of prototypes. SNTech's Product team, led by Aran Dasan, have written and circulated a Request for Quote around a range of contract manufacturers in the UK, Europe and China, and are assessing which one to partner with. This manufacturing will be financed as a part of a £1m Seed investment round, recently closed by SNTech. Previous prototypes have been tested for usability (fishing crew feedback after trials), mechanical ability (1000m depth testing, chemical/impact resistance), electronic ability (battery life, circuit stability) and ease of repair/maintenance, among other tests. Multiple business plans and value propositions have now been modelled and iterated with commercial trials partners, in order to validate Pisces as a sustainable solution that represents real value to our customers. This approach will continue as SNTech expands into new markets. Having recently taken investment, we now diligently capture SNTech's performance in order to communicate it to both the Board of Directors and Advisory Board (made up of 9 voluntary members from the fields of science, law, VC, technology and the NGO community). | Staff: - Just hired a Customer Success Manager to help facilitate trials and tech support. - Setting up sales processes and hiring Sales Leads in UK (Europe), US (North America) and Indonesia (SE Asia). Q3 2019 - Interviewing PhD candidates for PhD at University of Exeter focused on fish vision, to build out in-house science capabilities and experimental design. Q3 2019 New Markets: - Ongoing R&D project to use the science learned through Pisces (currently intended for use in developed, industrial fishing sector) and apply it to sustainability problems faced by the artisanal fishing sector in developing countries and markets. Expected prototypes Q2 2020. Production: - Manufacturing supply chain established and able to produce 100s of Pisces units per month, in support of sales and trial activities. Impact: - Aim to sell 150 Pisces units in Y1 (after investment and once Sales team established). - Aim to save millions of fish and other ocean organisms from unnecessary capture every year. - Aim to safeguard fishing sector jobs by providing equipment to enable sustainable and abundant fisheries for coastal communities. Fundraising: - Raise £2.5m for development of new SNTech products, including new sensor-based products and devices, better data analytics and new light-emitting devices. | Short Term (0-2 years) - Great advice from people with manufacturing expertise. - Conversations with policy-makers to begin fitting Pisces into fisheries management processes around the world (post-trials). - Conversations with fisheries managers and scientists (eg, ICES, IOTC) to learn more about bycatch problems in particular fisheries. - Access to distribution partners and networks to efficiently get Pisces to where it's needed, globally. Medium Term (2-5 years) - Further technical staff to extend our R&D, product development and support operations. - In-country offices in key markets. - In-country manufacturing partnerships in key markets. - Policy change/reinforcement in support of use of bycatch reduction devices such as Pisces (eg, Discard Ban). - Better monitoring of fishing operations. - More access to fishing data to refine the use of Pisces in various fishing gears. - Further investment (£2.5m+, likely Series A) to enable SNTech R&D activities. Long Term (5-20 years) - Organisational growth aligned with increased demand for SNTech products and services. - Fully traceable industrial fishing supply chain + more-traceable artisanal fishing supply chain. - Revenues enabling re-investment in R&D and expansion activities. | Company website: www.sntech.co.uk Index Awards 2019 Finalist overview: https://theindexproject.org/award/winnersandfinalists/pisces The Economist: A Technologist's take on the Blue Economy: https://www.woi.economist.com/technologists-take-blue-economy/ Schmidt Marine Technology Partners Grantee Overview: http://www.schmidtmarine.org/grantees-1 SELUX collaboration with FROM Nord (in French): http://www.fromnord.fr/le-from-nord/projets/nos-projets-aboutis MIT 35 Under 35 SafetyNet Description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE1UVQSFyfw&t=5s | Sustainable Ocean Alliance Gala (1:10): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixh322y2ycQ I've spoken at a lot of conferences: - The Money Programme, BBC R4, 2019 - ICES-FAO Light In Fishing Keynote, Shanghai 2019 - MIT Outreach IDE Keynote, Bangkok 2019 - The Economist World Ocean Summit main stage in Mexico 2018 - The Economist Green Business Summit main stage in Abu Dhabi 2018 - MIT Innovators Under 35 Summit Paris 2017 - O'Reilly Design Conference San Francisco 2016 However, unfortunately there's not much video publicly available of my talks! Other interviews and videos may fill in the blanks. | INDEX Award: Finalist (winners announced Sept 2019) Hello Tomorrow: Food Track Winner James Dyson Award 2012: Global Winner Bayer Grants4Impact 2018: Global Winner Pitch@Palace Cohort 7 (2018): 3rd Place Winner Observer Ethical Business Awards: Winner (Innovation Track) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
252 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | ALEXY | ROMERO | MAR ADENTRO DE MEXICO A.C. | www.maradentro.com.mx | Executive Director | Female | Mexico | Mexico | English | Spanish | My principal motivation is to be able to share a Magnifique tool that I have been a witness that transforms critical thinking and awareness in Youth. An innovative project that engages people towards development and change. Nowadays we need different solutions that can motivate, the other part of the population, towards consciousness and action. Its time to act! | 30 años de edad. Nacionalidad Mexicana, originaria de Guadalajara. Lic. en Relaciones Internacionales por el ITESO, Jalisco. Cuenta con una especialidad en Gestión de la Innovación por la Universidad Panamericana. Además de que cuenta con varios cursos, talleres y diplomados en temas de desarrollo humano, organizacional y social. Realizó un Internship en el área de investigación en ONU Habitat Nairobi, Kenia. Durante la universidad fue voluntaria de varias ONG´s. Fue coordinadora general de Fundación Checo Pérez, contribuyendo en la elaboración del modelo de intervención, así como de desarrollo institucional de dicha fundación. Actualmente y desde hace más de 3 años es directora ejecutiva de Mar Adentro de México A.C. organización enfocada al desarrollo del potencial humano de los jóvenes a través de metodologías de alto impacto pedagógico como es El Debate. Ha sido consultora de Organizaciones en el área de desarrollo institucional e impacto social, logrando fortalecer estratégicamente desde el desarrollo sostenible a las organizaciones beneficiadas. Imparte talleres en temas de inteligencia social, emocional, contexto social histórico, responsabilidad social empresarial a jóvenes dentro del Programa “Líderes del Mundo presente para un México Ejemplar” de Mar Adentro de México, reforzando el desarrollo de habilidades blandas en la juventud. Ha participado en diversos foros internacionales de las Naciones Unidas. Colaboró en la elaboración de la publicación “The State of the World Cities 2011/2012” Prosperity of Cities, UN Habitat (2012). | Debate Mar Adentro Programme | Tool that develops cognitive skills, social and emotional intelligence, as well as social knowledge. Builds Agents of Change in societies. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Mexico | Yes | Government, Enterprises, Academia and Civil Society | Transition to Scale | We are developing a method that can give us the possibility to replicate the model in other parts of the world. | Deficient education on youth and children, cero engagement of youth, children and other groups on sustainable development, poor collaboration or cooperation will, low civil participation and high level of inequality. Today the new generation's lack of values and purpose of life, they are confused, do not know whats the meaning of life and they feel overwhelmed with all the problems and conflicts we are living in today's world. | Through debates we awake consciousness in people, we teach them how to communicate, investigate, argument, defend their ideas and create value by building SMART solutions for their community. After we reach that process ""awareness"" we propel youth to act, and to become real Agents of Change. These two phases are accompanied by special training that allows developing the proper skills of a Leader for today's world: Resilience, Negotiation, Problem Solution, Flexibility, Tolerance, Respect, Empathy, Emotional Intelligence, Right Communication, Responsibility, Critical Thinking, Compromise, Creativity, among others. This Programme is preparing the new generations to phase the world it's coming, and to embrace it towards positive development and prosperity. | Debate Mar Adentro has its own methodology and knowhow. It´s different from others because it has its own copyright, impact evaluation and has the power to impact all the SDG´s at once. Its methodology is base on a pedagogical process, and it attacks from the bases of education. Through different debates, youth and children have to talk about diverse issues and problems in our global world and think about possible solutions. The tool raises knowledge and binds that knowledge with desition making authorities. In addition, this program has the ability to link people from different scenarios and realities, unifies societies and teach them how to work together and collaborate toward a major good or benefit. | We are ready! we have the know-how, copyright, and different evaluation of impact prooved. These three main elements have given us proper recognition in our Country. Debate Mar Adentro has won various prizes and appreciation. We know how to coordinate with different sectors in order to build alliances and achieve the best performance and resolution. | Our model looks forward to reaching different communities all around the world. In the short term on a national level, medium-term regional Latinoamerica, and long term worldwide. Right now we are working with high schools and universities at a National level, negotiating with middle schools and primaries in our City. Also, we have planned to bring the program to indigenous communities in Mexico. In the international level, this year we did the first international Debate in NYC on the framework of CSW 63, so we are planning to repeat the model with a major scale in 2020. | Monetary funding and technology. We have created a training system to prepare human resources, we have all the technical know-how, our major challenge its to achieve the monetary resource that can boost the program in other spaces. Also, we recognize the importance of technology, we need to improve our communication system, in order to be able to reach out to different populations. | https://www.facebook.com/MarAdentroAC/videos/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV7nN6M924qUPz1Nal-kjjQ http://www.maradentro.com.mx/ http://www.maradentro.com.mx/transparencia.php?cat=3 | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV7nN6M924qUPz1Nal-kjjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKVvm4gBGb0 https://www.facebook.com/MarAdentroAC/videos/2418685381711303/ https://www.facebook.com/MarAdentroAC/videos/550532435368257/ | Llaves de la ciudad 2003, Guadalajara Contribución al Desarrollo Humano Sustentable, Guadalajara Trayectoria Social como Agente de Cambio, UDG Apoyo que brinda a los proyectos de Formación Académica, Bachillerato Juan Pablo II Compromiso y dedicación con la juventud mexicana, Comisión de Juventud, Cámara de Diputados Comparte tu Voz, H.Congreso Jalisco, destacada labor humanística en el área de cívicas y vencindales, enfocadas a promover la participación ciudadana en asuntos de interés público | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
253 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Zahed | Yousuf | Dialectiq | www.dialectiq.blog | Founder | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | French | I am a passionate peacebuilding professional with over 10 years of experience in conflict prevention and sensitivity in conflict-affected regions. Throughout my peacebuilding career, I have led on issues ranging from access to natural resources and strengthening systems of governance, to youth participation in politics and inclusive economic development. Throughout this time I have been on a personal journey to better understand why conflict happens and to learn about how I can make societies better. I found myself often preoccupied with the narratives that define conflicts such as the root causes of conflict, factors driving violence, weak governance capacity, or cultural practices that often marginalise certain groups. However, as I used ever more sophisticated narratives to define these challenges, I found the common denominator in the search for peaceful solutions remained the same – the need to reshape the power and influence of one stakeholder over another, and to build relationships between them. With this in mind, I began exploring methods and tools to help me understand these relational and power dynamics, strategically navigate them and find solutions to shape them in a systematic way. Here I felt the need for a new approach, one that analyses the source of a stakeholder’s power and explores the factors that build or undermines trust in a relationship. Building on a mixture of conflict theories, I have developed a detailed analytical framework to examine a stakeholder’s different sources of power and the factors that undermine confidence or can build trust in relationships. This framework needed a powerful tool to turn complex data into workable information. Here, peace and development met technology. For this ‘peacetech’ initiative, I joined forces with a software developer and experts in information design to develop a unique visual platform, called Dialectiq. So far by adopting this approach, I have been able to refocus minds to the central elements of creating change - PEOPLE - so we can better understand how they behave, how they influence others and how they relate with others. I believe this peacetech solution will bring the development sector into the future which is why I would like to use this opportunity to share my ideas at the UN Solution Summit so that I can present a new way of having a positive global impact. | I am currently the Founder of Dialectiq, an innovative online visual platform designed to help organisations continually adapt their interventions as they navigate the complex socioeconomic and political dynamics that underpin peacebuilding and sustainable development. Dialectiq is currently being used to support political reconciliation with the Swiss Government in Palestine, supporting youth organisations in Gaza with Swisspeace, conflict analysis in Iraq, as well as developing political strategies in Myanmar, DR Congo and Pakistan. Zahed has over 15 years of experience in over 20 countries affected by violence and conflict. These range from working at local level supporting community led conflict mediation in eastern DR Congo, N Uganda, Honduras and Burundi, to advising multinational extractive companies to integrate conflict sensitive business practices in Uganda, Liberia and Pakistan, to advising government agencies on policy design to improve state citizen relations in Mali, S Sudan, Palestine, DR Congo. Prior to working in peacebuilding Zahed, qualified as a Chartered Accountant during which time he provided financial advice on large-scale infrastructure projects. Zahed also holds a Masters in Violence, Conflict and Development as well as a Masters in Finance. | Dialectiq | A 'peacetech solution' that helps organizations reshape the power and influence of stakeholders, and build relationships necessary for peacebuilding | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | DR Congo, Myanmar, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Iraq | Yes | DFID UKAID, NIMD, Swisspeace, Swiss MFA | Proof of Concept | So far we have developed an initial analytical framework and an initial beta version of the software which we have been testing on projects in Myanmar, DR Congo, Iraq, and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. During this process, we were able to test the process and built up an evidence base on how this approach can significantly improve the way we think and do peace and development. The next stage is to build on this and start developing the platform further so we can scale up. | It is widely recognized that transforming societies is a political process. Current thinking stresses the need for building political solutions. This means paying greater attention to the inner workings of politics such as power, interests, and the subtleties of building coalitions. However, when it comes to practice, there are very few tools that can effectively unravel this complexity and support politically smart programming, inhibiting the ability to be agile and adapt their interventions. | Essential to building peace is building relationships between powerful stakeholders. However there are no practical tools to analyze and explore ways to transform these relationships. Current analytical tools focus on issues and struggle to unravel the complex power dynamics underpinning societies, which make it difficult to compare and prioritize different interventions. Also analysis is also often presented in written form, which means it is static, and difficult to update as the context changes. As a consequence analysis is often sidelined during program design and monitoring reports, which risk practitioners doing harm and failing to understand their impact. The aim of Dialectiq is to help organizations navigate this complex political process, translate their analysis into practice and better understand the impact of their interventions. I have designed a unique analytical framework that examines the factors affecting relationships and identifies the stakeholders with the power and attitude to transform these relationships. This innovative software is a departure from standard development practice as it helps practitioners through a ‘change journey’ turning complex contextual analysis into dynamic graphics that allows them to continually learn and adapt as their programs evolve. | Traditional forms of analysis are often in written report format, static and difficult to update as the context changes. This inhibits their ability to be agile and adapt their interventions as the context evolves. To create more efficient programs and to ‘scale up’ we have created a visual software called Dialectiq to operationalize this analytical framework. This innovative software is a departure from standard development practice as it helps practitioners through a ‘change journey’ turning complex contextual analysis into dynamic graphics that allows them to continually learn and adapt as their programs evolve. Dialectiq provides more in depth and dynamic analysis: The approach has been able to unpick the underlying interests, power and relational dynamics. This meant we are now able to understand people and institutions’ behavior, how they use power to pursue their interests, where there was scope for changing behavior and reaching agreements. Dialectiq is discovering new opportunities for change: This now means the programs can compare different entry points, identify stakeholders that need greater analysis and assess the likelihood of transformation. Dialectiq provides a platform for promoting dialogue: Through the test we found the platform provides an excellent basis for supporting dialogue. Because the approach untangles the complex power dynamics and presents the analysis in a more simple and visual format we can engage a much wider range of stakeholders. | -We have developed an initial analytical framework and a methodological approach which we have been continually testing and enhancing through projects, effectively engaging with development practitioners and donors, partners in governments, private sector and community leaders. We have set up a blog www.dialectiq.blog to showcase our approach and capture lessons learnt; -We have created an initial beta version of the software www.dialectiq.org, capable of creating a project, inputting data on key stakeholders’ attitudes, power and their relationships and visualizing the analysis (see example visuals below); -We have successfully tested the software on the following development and peacebuilding programs: •DFID (UKAID) Private Sector Development Program in DR Congo – Developing a baseline context analysis that explores the power dynamics at National and Provincial level underpinning Private Sector Development to support poverty-reduction through PSD; •Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs in OPT – Designing strategic interventions to support reconciliation between Hamas and Fateh; •Swisspeace – Exploring the role of youth in supporting political reconciliation in Gaza; •Netherlands Institute for Multi Party Democracy (NIMD) – Exploring the role of local political actors to support inclusive policy development in Myanmar; •Clingendael Research Unit – Exploring the role of the Hashd Al Shabi in the future of Iraq. | Ultimately success means that program teams use the Dialectiq platform to build politically feasible solutions and create more sustainable outcomes. During the first phase, we aim to pilot the software on 3-5 programs with different International NGOs working with and through them to develop a more complete version of the software. This will allow us to scale up, as we will have developed a tool that can be more easily adopted by other NGOs and Institutional Donors. During the transition phase success means the NGO that participated in the original pilots will expand the use of the platform across their programs and other NGOs will start adopting the platform. In the second year after the initial pilots we aim for between 10-20 programs to adopt the platform, as well as having 1 institutional donor agreeing to trial the platform on a country program. Once this pilot has been completed at the end of the 2nd year they will then adopt the platform across other country programs and use it as a basis for working with their implementing partners. This will improve the ability of Donors and NGOs to design common strategies and by transforming, relationships will ensure they have a more sustainable developmental impact. Our current team has the capacity to achieve these goals - however, when we scale up we will need to recruit staff to support eh exiting team members. | At the inital stage we will target programs whose primary focus is on alleviating the suffering of those most vulnerable to violence and poverty. This will mean targeting economic development, youth and women empowerment as well as community mediation programs. During the initial pilot stage Dialectiq will target International NGOs operating in areas affected by conflict. So far between 3-5 NGOs have already expressed an interest in collaborating to further develop the functionality and user experience of the platform. We already have a software developer, an information designer and myself in place to carrry out this During the Test and transition phase Dialectiq will target International Donors operating in conflict areas. During this stage we will focus on integrating the platform across an entire country program. This means we can develop the platform on a much larger scale as we engage a greater number of stakeholders, longer time frames and increase impact. So far 1-2 Institutional Donors have expressed an interest to further develop the platform. During the scaling up phase Dialectiq will reach out to the wider development sector, including other NGOs, the private sector, governments as well as other institutional donors. During this phase the emphasis will be on getting organisational buy in to commit time and resources to integrating the approach across their programs. | We have created an initial beta version of the software www.dialectiq.org, capable of creating a project, inputting data on key stakeholders’ attitudes, power and their relationships and visualizing the analysis (see example visuals below); We have created a blog www.dialectiq.blog so that interested parties can follow our journey, read our approach and capture some of the lessons we have learned. A conflict research institution has used Dialectiq to develop their research and subsequently have published a series of articles using the analysis https://www.clingendael.org/publication/iraqs-al-hashd-al-shaabi-four-key-insights. This research has shed a whole new light on the how elite exert control and the stability of their agreements and the risks of violence erupting. | www.dialectiq.blog | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
254 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | FEDRIQUE | PIERRE | ONE CLICK INDUSTRIES | www.oneclick.ht | CEO | M | Haiti | Haiti | English | French | Spanish | OUR FINANCIAL INCLUSION PROJECT: “YONCLICK” We develop a Mobile Application “YonClick” related to our Financial Inclusion Goal for Haiti. Our Mobile Application is conceived to be used with both smart and regular phones. We develop a Payment Platform to showcase a catalog of products and services registered on the App and to be paid through the Payment Gateway we are integrating with our Strategic Partner NATCOM. You can review our App here : https://youtu.be/oH4wBaKjyaM Our vision as a FinTech Startup is to aim unbanked people to play their economic role thank to our Ecosystem (digital wallet, our platform and our safe payments system). We believe that this is now the time to hit refresh in the financial sector in Haiti and allow Women and Rural Population to have access of financial services regardless their social origin, sex and locality.” The mobile technology is Key - and now everyone (or every household) proceeds a mobile telephone in Haiti. With our App will allow the User to : Buy/Pay for goods and services refill account by top-up on (Provider Natcom); receive payment and Salaries; Transfer funds to peers; Our Platform will help Merchants to: Add products and Services; proceed transactions with biometric POS and mobiles Devices; receive automatic direct payment to their accounts (at any financial institution) We partner with the Second Largest Telephone Group of Haiti : NATCOM,SA to bring mobile payment in Haiti. They have a Network of over 2.5M users in all over the country. We are now looking for funding and technical support, we really count on the support from Organizations like yours to make this change possible in Haiti. I truly believe Organizations like yours can support our Financial Inclusion Project and connect us to the resources that can help us make this project to become a reality for Haiti and comply to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). | Fédrique PIERRE est un Entrepreneur Haïtien, Membre Fondateur et Directeur General de la ONE CLICK INDUSTRIES, entreprise Haïtienne de Technologies établie depuis 2014, spécialisée en Digitalisation; Développement d’Applications Mobiles ; Il est Licencié en Marketing et Ventes. Détenteur d’un Master Professionnel en Marketing Direction Commerciale ; Diplômé en Gestion de Projets Grade C.A.P.M. ; en Communication Sociale et en Relations Publiques, en Leadership Organisationnel. Grâce à des Séminaires suivis dans plusieurs pays à travers le monde, Fédrique PIERRE a acquis des connaissances solides en : Technologies Appliquées aux Finances (FinTech), Stratégies de Croissance et Développement d’Entreprises, Planification et Réalisation d’Événements; Communication Stratégique ; Gestion du Personnel ; Relations Médias et Accréditations; et Gestion de Réseaux Sociaux entre autres. | YON CLICK | FINCANCIAL INCLUSION; MOBILE TRANSACTIONS | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | HAITI | Yes | NATCOM | Proof of Concept | because we have a beta version. We now need funds to run a proper server and launch a Pilot Test | Our vision as a FinTech Startup is to aim unbanked people to play their economic role thank to our Ecosystem (digital wallet, our platform and our safe payments system). We believe that this is now the time to hit refresh in the financial sector in Haiti and allow Women and Rural Population to have access of financial services regardless their social origin, sex and locality.” The mobile technology is Key - and now everyone (or every household) proceeds a mobile telephone in Haiti. | With our App will allow the User to : Buy/Pay for goods and services refill account by top-up on (Provider Natcom); receive payment and Salaries; Transfer funds to peers; Our Platform will help Merchants to: Add products and Services; proceed transactions with biometric POS and mobiles Devices; receive automatic direct payment to their accounts (at any financial institution) | because the mobile telephone is the only link to the transaction ecosystem; and the biometric key (fingerprint) is the more secure input our project bring to end fraud in the transaction and give user power to decide how to spend its saving. the POS network we will implement will close gap between users and the ecosystem so the will not have to travel far away for cash-out service. And this will generate financial activities and growth in remote areas. | we have a development team in place. We have now beta version. We now need funds to run a proper server and launch a Pilot Test | will generate financial activities and growth in remote areas. and we will permit users to integrate financial services when we know the conditions and limitations in Haiti for people whom are not living in Port-au-Prince. | we need funds to run a proper server and launch a Pilot Test | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcLFa62Rolyc6UUroOz79EQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQYEWNbKKg0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwmY282MU44&t=6s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuTQP_roaE0&t=384s http://www.lenational.org/oneclick-2-buy-la-nouvelle-application-mobile-qui-veut-revolutionner-le-commerce-electronique-en-haiti/ http://lenouvelliste.com/article/171404/one-click-promet-de-revolutionner-le-commerce-en-haiti http://www.fintechstage.com/in-conversation-with-fedrique-pierre-ceo-one-click-industries/ http://www.fintechstage.com/12-trends-and-themes-12-startups/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuTQP_roaE0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
255 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tatyana | Kanzaveli | Open Health Network | http://www.openhealth.cc | CEO | Female | United States of America | Azerbaijan | English | Russian | I started my company when I was diagnosed with cancer. At that time I realized that there are too many inefficiencies in healthcare that impact lives of many people. We created a powerful platform that could be used globally to improve the healthcare for all people. | Tatyana Kanzaveli has gone from a programmer to senior executive at Big 5 to founder and CEO of a startup company along her 20 year career,recognized as a thought leader, mentor for her ability to guide Fortune 500 and startup companies through business challenges. She’s worked for major companies like PricewaterhouseCoopers and Fujitsu and startups in the early days of the Web. Tatyana has personally helped companies jump from 0 to millions in revenue even during the toughest economic times. She opened new verticals and markets. Today she is the founder and CEO of Open Health Network, the startup in a Big Data, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare space. PatientSphere by Open Health Network has been featured in Venture Beat, Mobile Health News, and other prominent publications. She is a mentor at 500Startups and Richard Branson Entrepreneurs Centre and serves on boards for private companies. She also is licensee and organizer of highly notable TEDxBayArea conferences, she is a frequent speaker at US and International conferences on innovation, entrepreneurship and digital health. Tatyana has been featured in the White House blog , spoke at the United Nations, presented at the first White House Demo Day hosted by the President Obama, did a TEDx talk; keynoted at WEBIT, WSIS and other international conferences. Tatyana has been recognized as one of the top 10 Influential Women in Healthcare IT in 2015 and by Forbes as one of the top 50 women-led startup in tech founders. | PatientSphere | Healthcare Data Exchange Platform | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | United States | No | Scaling | We are already profitable and working with the leading healthcare organizations. | It is very hard for patients to collect all their health data in one place. It is impossible for patients to have a full control of their healthdata: who can do what with that data. It is also difficult to find right people to participate in clinical trials, research, any other outreach and also increase adherence and retention for the ones who started participation. | PatientSphere enables: - patients to gather all their health data in one data dashboard [data from EMR, Apple and Google Health, wearable devices, pharmacy, data they collect via manual input]; - deploy predictive AI algorithms on collected data [preventive] - enable patients to create revocable consent on data sharing. Choose health data they want to share and who they want to share that data with; - enables patients to publish their de-identified meta data so they can be found for clinical trials, research, etc - enables healthcare organizations to create search criteria and terms for engagements; engage with qualified people and even pay people for their health data usage if they consent. | PatientSphere is a first deployed health data exchange platform that uses sophisticated middleware powered by blockchain technology and AI to enable data sharing. | Our solution has been deployed. We are profitable. | We are expanding to Africa, other developing countries. | Short term: funding to recruit talent to sustain our growth Medium Term: partnerships in different countries of the world to secure deployment and support at a local level Long term: strategic partnerships with major healthcare organizations to enable advanced data collection and analytics | http://www.openhealth.cc https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/25/patientsphere-uses-ai-and-blockchain-to-personalize-treatment-plans/ | https://www.ted.com/talks/tatyana_kanzaveli_the_clue_to_start_a_company_revolutionizing_health_care | Award by Health and Human Services | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
256 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | George William | Bakka | Patasente.com | https://patasente.com | CEO | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | I believe trade improves lives. I co-founded Patasente.com an e-merchant platform that enables businesses to buy or sell on credit. We provide them e-procurement, payments and factoring services that enable buyers to buy now and pay later, and vendors to sell on credit and get paid early. To date we have facilitated $ 6.5m in e-procurement, settled $ 2.0m+ in payments and syndicated $ 1.1m+ in invoice factoring. Courtesy of our solution, MSMEs like small holder farmers are able to buy livelihood assets on long payment terms, to sell their output in stable higher priced credit markets and still get paid early. This ensures they produce more, sell more and earn more. Buyers are also able to sustainably buy from them, unlock working capital and hence grow their job creating enterprises. We believe our solution can be used as a case study for leveraging technology to increase access to markets, electronic payments and access to credit among BOP communities. | George Bakka believes that trade improves people’s lives. He founded Patasente an e-merchant platform that enables businesses to buy or sell on credit. It has facilitated more than $ 6.0m in e-procurement, settled $ 2.0m in payments and syndicated $ 1.1m in factoring. He pursued Bsc Quantitative Economics at university, has co-founded 7 social enterprises with 2 successful exits. | Patasente.com | An e-merchant platform that enables businesses to buy or sell on credit. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, South Sudan, DR Congo, Burundi, Somalia | Yes | Funding Partners, XSML, USADF, CIti | Transition to Scale | Our solution has been in the market for 3 years, has generated revenue with profit, and is currently seeking funding to fund scaled growth in Uganda. | Buyers struggle to find reliable suppliers that can deliver a product and wait 30+ days for payment. The vendors- MSMEs- often fail to fulfil them due to either 1) lack of funds to purchase supplies 2) inability to assess repayment capacity of a credit sale client or 3) running out of working capital. Unfortunately, neither can they access supply credit nor financing from banks as they are considered risky. As consequence, more than 80% of the 8million MSMEs in EA fail to trade and collapse. | Patasente.com is an e-merchant platform that enables businesses to buy or sell on credit. We provide them procurement, payments and factoring services that enable Buyers to Buy Now and Pay Later and Vendors to Sell on Credit and Get Paid Early. E.g A Vendor like Cooling Solutions list products that are available on credit sale terms, for example a milk cooler worth U$ 10,000. A customer like Rwambaga Farmers Dairy Cooperative, can order for it, and pay for it in installments over the next 3 months. The vendor (CS) can submit an EarlyPay request to cash out early of that credit sale, and the buyer/customer ( RFDC) can submit a FactorPay request to extend the payment time-frame. Patasente.com finances the requests. We earn by charging factoring, payments and brokerage fees. In 10 years, we aim to have facilitated $ 10b in e-procurement, $ 5b in payments and $ 1b in factoring. | Our primary but rather indirect competitors are e-commerce platforms like Jumia who can easily offer the e-procurement service but are unable as they have been built to be B2C focussed and offer no merchant financing solutions, factoring companies like FACTSAfrica and True Trade that offer trade financing but without payments and e-commerce. Our competitive edge is that we offer MSMEs an integrated package that enables them overcome barriers in the physical trading environment. E-procurement allows them find buyers or vendors easily, the credit scoring allows them assess reliability, and the factoring allows them access working capital- that enables them to shorten or extend payment terms and thus and do more sales. We have also structured ourselves as a platform to offer our service at mass scale because we leverage web and mobile digital infrastructure to reach customers on their mobile phones or computers | To date, we have enrolled 2000+ users on the platform, generated US $ 6.5m+ in procurement, settled $ 2.0m+ in payments and syndicated $ 1.1m+ in invoice factoring- registered a 92.2% repayment performance. We have developed a credit risk scoring algorithm, tested through a research pilot with GGAP- World Bank, that is currently 97% significant. We have 8 employees, have raised $ 400,000 in funding- debt, equity and grants from retail lenders, XSML and USADF/ Citi. The key performance indicators that we measure include; 1) # number of users- MSMEs enrolled onto the platform 2) # total volume of trade facilitated, i.e total value of financed invoices and purchase orders, 3) # number of factored invoices 3) # total amount in credit advanced, 4) # Turn-around time for credit under-writing 5) # Loan Repayment Performance,6) # number of jobs sustained/created and 9) # number of lives indirectly impacted. | Our medium term goals are 1) to grow to 100,000 MSMEs on the platform, facilitate # 100m in e-procurement, settle $ 50m in payments and $ 10m in factoring. 2) Complete the development of our web and mobile applications to distribute our solution 3) Hire 12 more staff to fill the developing vacancies, move to a better office facility and invest in marketing to further roll out our solution. | We are currently raising $ 1,250,000 in investment to capitalize the Factoring Fund ( $ 1.0m), Platform Development ($ 0.1m) and Operational costs ( $ 0.15m) to allow us to achieve sustainable growth over the next 2 years. The statistical significance of our credit scoring algorithm and the electronic tripartite agreements signed on the platform gives us confidence that the Receivables Repayment Performance will continue to soar above 95% and thus grow the factoring volumes. At a conservative 0.1% market penetration, we anticipate the business will reflect at least $ 50m in B2B e-procurement trade volumes, $ $10m in factoring volumes and $ 1.0m in annual revenues and net a 20% profit by the third year. | https://patasente.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlNEDcB3fM&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4yHtwQKCtc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Mvz8m1Txt8&t=119s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQTcDtOzP3U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rT2qyv7l5M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rT2 | USADF Business Plan Competition. Finalist/Winner NIISP GOU ICT Start-Up Competiiton. FInalist/Winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
257 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Confidence | Odionye | Beat Drone | beatdrone.co | Founder/President | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | At age 6 i got to know of the Millennium development goal of the United Nations in 2001; while been taught in school, eradication of Hunger and Poverty struck me the most, the fact that Millions of people globally can't feed 3 times daily. This foundation was the cornerstone of my life's ambition and passion, this has also been the catalyst for the solution my company provides today. The above is my motivation for applying for the UN Solutions Summit to present a project, with the aim to enlighten and inspire the audience. My Project Beat Drone uses precision drones to execute spraying on the farms, engage in crop supervision and mapping of the farmland. This enables the farmer to achieve optimum result, increased harvest yield and lower cost of operations; thus reducing the cost of food in the open market, eliminating hunger and poverty. | Confidence studied Civil Engineering at the Yaba College of Technology, he started his first venture (Download Village) at the age of 15; which he co-founded with his elder brother, download village was created due to the ever growing demand for music, video and game applications on feature phone, way back internet subscription was expensive for the average income earner to have; Confidence and his elder brother used their lunch funds in subscribing to the internet and downloading those contents (Music, Videos, Games etc) for their customers whom have pre-ordered, the introduction of lesser internet subscription made the demand for their service low. In 2014 he started Tranzelu Technology Limited a company that saw the support of UUBO, Audu Maikori, Daniel Oparison Passion Incubator, Diamond Bank amongst others. This company till date has produced project Beat Drone, which seeks to reduce the food price in the open market, increase harvest yields for farmers and reduce cost of producing food on the farm by the implementation of drones in the day to day activities of farmers with Beat Drone. Till Date Confidence has won the below Awards: Innovating justice awards (SME empowerment category) Nominee • Social Good Award • Young African Leaders Initiative by Obama (Technology Issues Category) • E-Nigeria (Best Startup E-Agric) • Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur Grant • Peace First Grant • The Entrepreneur Africa Award 2018 (Tech Startup of the year) • Featured on the Economist Magazine booklet • Winner TechFest by Diamond Access Bank ($15,000) | Beat Drone | Beat Drone | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Nigeria | Yes | Tony Elumelu Foundation, Passion Incubator | Proof of Concept | The technology we are implementing is in a traditional sector, one that is used to heavy inefficiency and more human approach than data driven; we are currently showing them that it works, the economic benefit and efficiency; however in the next 2 - 3 years we will have much more adoption and increased acceptance, this will be the pivotal point of scaling for us. | The death of crops before harvest, inefficient crop supervision and proper spraying of chemicals are the root cause of hunger & poverty as farmer wont be able to meet local food demand; thus forcing supply from other countries which are very expensive. | We use precision drones to execute spraying on the farms, engage in crop supervision & mapping of the farmland. This enables the farmer to achieve optimum result, increased harvest yield and lower cost of operations; thus reducing the cost of food in the open market, eliminating hunger and poverty. To effectively tackle hunger and poverty we have to do 2 things: 1. Increase food production to meet local demand 2. reduce cost of food production to reduce cost of food in the open market. To achieve this Beat Drone is implementing drones on the farm to reduces cost of production and increase harvest yield, prior to using drone technology, farmers in Nigeria relied heavily on traditional means of farming; this resulted poor harvest yield, death of 50% of their crops and high cost of production, the farmers weren't able to meet the local food demand and their production cost was high compared with imported foods, even tho this imported foods weren't affordable either. The introduction of drones in farming processes such as: - Farm Mapping - Crop Counting - Health assessment - Precision spraying of chemicals The drone technology has been able to increase harvest yield by 90%, while reducing cost of production by 60%, this way the farmers will make more money, spend less, which will translate to increased profit and lesser food prices, they will be able to have increase Purchasing Power, while meeting local food demand at a very affordable price, our plan is to scale across Africa. | Our teams extensive research and market know-how is the Unique selling Point; we were able to understand the strategy of our competitors and compare that with market response alongside market problems and traditional solutions. This made us devise our exclusive operational module and long-term vision, most of our competitors are light years ahead of the market and we believe we will walk side by side with them till we get to that point. | We have signed contracts with over 50,000 hectares of farmland in Nigeria, are operating in 12 states across the Nigerian Federation, we have currently finalized construction of our drone factory, a 1,000sqm land mass comprising of 300sqm building and a 700sqm testing area. Lastly we recently singed an MOU with the Top 1 University in Nigeria (University of Ibadan) in commencing a drone academy, which will bridge the gap in the sector and increase skills. Our progress measure are centred on our impacts and ability to increase food production. | Our goal is to increase harvest yields from 30% to 100% on 30 million hectares of the entire 85 million hectares of arable land in Nigeria. Reach over 70 million small-holder frames through farmers association in 3 years, we have commenced this by signing an MOU with the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria and are commencing West Africa's first drone manufacturing plant. Our vision is to see our solutions in most of the farms in Africa, our scaling plan is to expand gradually to Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Madagascar, Mauritius and Algeria in 10 years | Short term needs are Funding up to $400,000 to acquire 30 Agric drones, scale our team members to 6. Mid-Term Funding up to $1,600,000 to acquire manufacturing equipments and other parts, hire factory staffs and distribution vehicles. Long-Term Funding up to $3,000,000 this will be used to scale to other African countries. | Website: http://www.beatdrone.co Advert Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-kx2Zv3ypY | Speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECGhalt0uZY Speaking at TEdX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJuUl7CgzIY Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzKebMuV0cU Interview 2: https://youtu.be/Sw-HB97alxc | Innovating justice awards (SME empowerment category) Nominee • Social Good Award • Young African Leaders Initiative by Obama (Technology Issues Category) • E-Nigeria (Best Startup E-Agric) • Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur Grant • Peace First Grant • The Entrepreneur Africa Award 2018 (Tech Startup of the year) • Featured on the Economist Magazine booklet • Winner TechFest by Diamond Access Bank ($15,000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
258 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Konstantin | Berezin | BrighTap | www.brightap.com | CEO & Founder | Male | Israel | Israel | English | Russian | BwareIT- Israeli Startup that develops BrighTap IOT water meter sensor and WAD - Water consumption and quality* analytics data platform (includes app and web data services). BrighTap IOT water meter can be standalone sensor attached to any standard water tap, pipe or hose and transforms them to a Smart device. In additional BrighTap sensor can be OEM to any device (Tap, Water dispenser). BrighTap combines unique and in-house developed analytic algorithm and turbine technology that measures water flow, with high accuracy. The BrighTap purpose is to inform in real time of water consumption and help user reduce their water bills. BrighTap provides consumed water quantities (liters/gallons, temperature, costs, etc) and quality* (water quality index and Legionella), always in a simple and clear manner on the product’s display, web and app. This data can be tracked via monitoring system. The target is to increase awareness of water consumption for households and organizations. | Konstantin Berezin is Israeli Entrepreneur. He currently serves as CEO & Founder of BrighTap He started his career path in Consumer Electronics establishing Samsung Sales & Marketing Branch office in Israel, and then after the successful career, moved to Hi-tech industry as an entrepreneur. Konstantin took major roles in several Startups companies: CaareSys, Bwareit (BrighTap). Cinema2Go, Zimperium, TMPA Recycling and to name a few. He holds B.Sc. in Business and Executive MBA Integrative Business Management from “The Hebrew University of Jerusalem” He speaks Hebrew & English, and Russian as a mother tongue | Brightap | Smart water meter that saves water | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Will be in UK | Yes | UK Utilities, Unilever and some Tap manufacturers | Transition to Scale | You cannot manage what you cannot measure Brightap able to change water consumption and educate households to use water wisely | There is water crisis all over the world. People are not aware of water consumption and quality. Is this water safe to drink and to use? How many liters are needed to wash a cup or to take a shower? | The BrighTap purpose is to inform in real time of water consumption and help user reduce their water bills. BrighTap provides consumed water quantities (liters/gallons, temperature, costs, etc) and quality* (water quality index and Legionella), always in a simple and clear manner on the product’s display, web and app. The leng term is to reduce water consumption by 15 liters a day for a person | The monitoring and presenting the usage on the tap is unique approach BrighTap combines unique and in-house developed analytic algorithm and turbine technology that measures water flow, with high accuracy. | We developed a prototype and ready to scale up | The first country will be UK and then other EU countries | In short term is to be able to produce devices in large scale, in the long terms is partners such as Water utilities and retail | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubGIDpNcDYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE7SGXQRZfA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEWVDmpjpeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxwyN8D3mgM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svTKIsEBgjo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4zHnokKhUo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWPOOP1Q4x0 | 1st place at Unilever “Ideas for Life”, London 1st place at “Start up of the year” in Global Entrepreneurship Congress in Johannesburg, South Africa Ranked in 10 world’s hottest startups of 2016 by CNBC 1st place at UK water efficiency product awards by Waterwise, House of Lords, London 1st place at IOT for Greener Cities Challenge by Engie, Belgium Finalist in ClimateLaunchpad by Climate-KIC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
259 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nesphory | Mwambai | ORGANIC ILEMBA | http://www.twitter.com/organicilemba | C.E.O | male | Kenya | Kenya | English | Yes as Young people we have inherited a world plagued by the actions of previous generations. But if we change our attitude and stop following the same path our past generation did we will be the hope and our attitude is the greatest asset right now we have. We have to choose a positive attitude which will be infectious around our fellow youths who hang around us for the best of our communities Mindset change is how we youth will secure your rightful place at the head of the table of influence. It’s our time to wear the crowns of leadership because we are the change-makers of today and not just tomorrow and the future. We must then step to the plate and never shy away from taking responsibility and the baton of driving our continent's development in a positive spirit. | kindly refer to the attached below team Profile | ORGANIC ILEMBA | Improving food &nutrition security of Vulnerable Populations in Taita Taveta County,Kenya,through Access to Fishery products | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Taita Taveta, Kenya | Yes | Nailab, Taita Taveta County Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries (Fisheries Department) , Taita Taveta University (school of Agricultural , earth and environmental sciences ) , Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) | Proof of Concept | Our liner pond on our Farm we harvest up to 2,000 fish on every 4months and sale to the community at a minimum price. The liner has lead us to learn the market, Challenges of fish Farming and we believe for us to scale up and increase the access of fish to the communities at a reasonable price will be installing cages. | Despite the fact that fish remains an important diet for over 250 million people in Africa. The provision of adequate essential micronutrients is critical to health improvement in Africa, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). These essential micronutrients play a significant role in metabolic activities and energy storage in the human body, particularly in women during menstruation and pregnancy, and in children during normal growth and development. | We are seeking to raise capital to take our startup to the next stage and we believe $ 85,500 will be idle to start with. Which will enable us to install more than 5 cages on the Lake of (10 x 10 x 3m depth) with this type of a cage can hold upto 32,000 fingerlings.we intend to start with 9,000 fingerlings With the rate of mortality of 10% and survival rate of 90% our estimate harvest per cage will be 8,100 fish. Also purchase of fish Feeds, solar power Freezer container, fish fingerlings then the other goes to labour & staffing. The fund will enable us to generate 60MT of fish each year from the 5 Cages so we can be able to reach 15,000 households including schools which are malnourished. Our target for 3 year is to reach our target of 50,000 households which also includes schools. Estimated income on the 1 cage for fish farming, harvesting minimum of 8,100 fish per harvest whereby price of $2 per kg will generate $24,300 per cage per year and $121,500 for the 5 Cages per year. The cage will generate 60MT of fish each year and our target is to reach more than 200MT per year. | One of the benefits of fish cage farming is the ease of harvesting the fish. Fish may be removed with a hand-held net and processed. Cage aquaculture involves the growing of fishes in existing water resources while being enclosed in a net cage which allows free flow of water. In view of the high production attainable in cage culture system, it can play a significant role in increasing the overall fish production. Cage culture also offers the farmer a chance to utilize existing water resources in which most cases have only limited use for other purposes. | able to create the project goals which is poverty reduction in the context of sustainable development Goals (1, 2 and 3) to reduce child mortality and to improve maternal health. Currently, the project is aimed at Sustainable Development Goal 2 (ending hunger and achieving food security and improved nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture) and Goal 3 (ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all at all ages). | Able to generate 60MT of fish to reach 15,000 households which are malnourished.also to scale by adding more than 20 cages from the profit we will generate from the first phase, so to reach our 3 years target of 50,000 households which are malnourished which also includes schools. | We believe as a young Enterprise such as ours run by youths, partnership, and mentorship from experienced players will create a position for us to accelerate our Innovation, validate our impact and business model, and scale our innovative solution. | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_t-eHk2HWq9T6LDV5CegbkUt34xvzNcI | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_t-eHk2HWq9T6LDV5CegbkUt34xvzNcI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
260 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ignatius | Noronha | Leowin Solutions Pvt. Ltd. | https://www.mozziquit.com | Managing Director | Male | India | India | English | Among all creations of God on this earth only female mosquitoes need blood of human/animal required for their breeding process (not food for them to live) and mosquitoes detect their host to extract blood from even far distance by the smell of carbon dioxide exhaled by people/animals during breathing and get near/inside houses and inside cow sheds/animal live stock farms every day mostly between 5 pm to 7 pm. Once female mosquitoes get near people/cows/animals their extra-ordinary sensors detect the temperature of blood nerves of people/animals and they land on people/cows, extract required quantity of blood and fly away to their external breeding locations to lay more than 1000 eggs on water bodies or on leaves of plants and get multiplied in more than thousand folds within 1 month of life span. To treat/cure any disease by prescribing right medicine first the Doctor has to Diagnose on what is the actual disease. As of date all have failed to diagnose the actual remedy for eradicating all types of Mosquito Borne Diseases which is need of Innovative mosquito trapping device to attract, trap and kill female mosquitoes before they could lay thousands of eggs at external locations instead of the practices presently followed i.e. 1. use of Chemical based harmful mosquito repellents which do not kill female mosquitoes instead mosquitoes get isolated in the room till the chemical power remains in the room and once the chemical power is gone they activate, bite and lay thousands of eggs outside 2. The practice of spraying harmful chemicals to water reservoirs to kill larvae which contaminate water bodies 3. The method of Fogging as mosquitoes do not die instead they move to other side where fogging is not done Therefore the solution is to attract, trap and kill female mosquitoes at lowest cost every day inside every house, in cow sheds, in animal live stock farms and at external locations where mosquitoes breed on a daily basis Our Innovative and Patented ""MozziQuit"" device costing less than $ 4 to manufacture (cost will reduce on mass production) attracts, traps and kills female mosquitoes in large numbers every day at lowest operating cost of less than $ 0.0015 cents only for power/electricity without use of any chemicals or consumables or emission of any UV Radiation of low cost, most economical to use, eco friendly and very effective in performance which can stop multiplication of mosquito population and eradicate mosquito borne diseases | Born on 4th July (the Independence Day of USA) in 1960. Did B.Com. at St. Aloysius College Though not an engineer or doctor or scientist or highly educated the inspiration I got for me to work on the Research and Development of Innovative MozziQuit device is from my mother as I had made firm Resolution in my tender mind to kill and eliminate entire mosquito population at my age of 5 years when my mother answered to my question the reason for swelling in her left leg is because of mosquito bite the Filariasis disease as we all know that mother is the very closest person for small children and every child get revengeful if some one hurt or cause harm to their mother. Though I did Innovation in construction chemicals i.e. material, labour and time saving 4"" thick Specialised Road Concrete of just one day curing instead of conventional expensive 12"" thick road concrete of 28 days curing and few other like waterproofing of RCC Roof Slabs, Retrofitting of deteriorated structures above Sea Ports with Polymer Modified Mortar treatment I got the spark in my mind to the Resolution I had made as a small boy when I personally saw Mosquito Magnet of American Bio Physics Inc. at their Indian distributor in Hyderabad priced $ 2,200/- in the year 2001. Thereafter I worked on R&D to Innovate most economical MozziQuit devie to enable all to buy. See Biography in https://www.ibef.org/download/IBEF-Ideas-May%202014.pdf and video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVkZ8p5Xv9w&t=1s I have already got US Visa B1/B2 stamped on my Passport valid till 25 April 2027. | We can Make the Entire World Free of Mosquito Menace in short span of time by using our Innovative MozziQuit & other advanced Technology which also improve GDP of every Nation by increase in Milk Yield and saving huge yearly Healthcare Expenditures | MozziQuit kill female mosquitoes everyday which reduces mosquito population to provide total relief for all people and cows besides multiple benefits | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Currently existing in India. Intended to be implemented in all 91 countries infected by Malaria | No | Scaling | Developed the moulds in stainlesssteel of 2 Models of MozziQuit i.e. MQ-MAX & MQ-MINI having capacity to produce 25,000 units per month in 3 shifts. Have set up manufacturing unit in leased premise. We have completed test market of both models with tern over of approx $ 72,000 with around 3500 paid customers $ 42 for MAX and $ 21 for MINI. Have incorporated all the improvements needed in MozziQuit based on the feedback from our paid customers along with all Certifications now ready to Scale | WHO states that more than half of World's Population is today at risk by various mosquito borne diseases like Malaria, Dengue, ZIKA Virus, Chikun Gunya, Japanese Encephalitis, Filaria etc. as millions of people die and hundreds of millions of people suffer every year in 91 countries. Mosquitoes are the Worst Terrorists exists on planet. They have killed more number of people than the number of people killed in all the wars. Problem is mosquitoes multiply in 1000 folds in 1 month & bite all. | The only Solution is to trap and kill female mosquitoes every day at multiple locations at affordable cost and put permanent stop to present multiplication rate of mosquito population in order to reduce mosquito population to eradicate all mosquito borne diseases. Innovative MozziQuit device costing less than $ 4 to produce one time cost attracts, traps and kills female mosquitoes every day in large numbers at lowest operating cost of less than $ 0.0015 cents per day without use of any chemicals or consumables or emission of any UV Radiation very safe for people, cows and pet animals to use in houses and in cow shed/live stock farms. Our long term vision is to set up one full fledged manufacturing unit each in all 91 countries at less than $ 1 million investment and set up multiple assembling units at centralised locations at less than $ 0.10 million for maximum number of people could afford to buy and use in their houses/cow sheds We have already obtained 12 Design Registration Certificates from Indian Patent, Design & Trade Marks office. only 3 out of 12 designs have been developed having scope for making other models which could be used at external breeding locations, water logging areas, inside volvo buses, inside aeroplanes, etc. Since the cost of MozziQuit is less and since the daily operating cost is negligible, most of the people could easily afford to buy it to use in their houses & in cow sheds and no burden to governments to provide subsidy to buy MozziQuit. | Chemical based Repellents do not kill mosquitoes. MozziQuit costing less than $ 4 per unit to produce attracts, traps and kills female mosquitoes every day in large numbers at lowest operating cost of less than $_0.0015_cents per day without use of any chemicals or consumables or emission of any UV Radiation resulting in permanent stop on multiplication of mosquito population thereby eradicating all mosquito borne diseases. Cost will reduce on mass production after scaling up. Chinese mosquito traps are harmful to users due to 100% emission of UV Radiation from UV light source whereas Test Certificate from CARRT, USIC of Mangalore University confirm Zero Percent Emission of UV Radiation from “MozziQuit’ qualify as the only one safest Mosquito Trap in World to use without having emission of UV Radiation. Mosquito traps in USA are expensive having risk of fire hazard due to technology of burning Propane Gas to generate carbon dioxide to attract mosquitoes near device Food Grade Powder Additives added in raw material of plastic of few casing parts of MozziQuit while producing in injection molding machine remain in said parts for ever. Light without emitting any UV Radiation gives glowing effect which attracts female mosquitoes along with the temperature equivalent to blood nerves of people/animals generated by the PCB within MozziQuit. Fan installed inside vacuum mosquitoes get mosquitoes collected in collection container at the bottom for disposal of dead mosquitoes. | We started R&D from 2002 to innovate economical, ecofriendly, affordable & effective MozziQuit device the real solution for the present problem of deaths & sufferings from mosquito bites. Have achieved turnover of around $ 72,000 with around 3500 paid customers under our Test Market programme from 2013 done single handed without any external support which enabled us to incorporate upgradation and improvements required to MozziQuit device now to Scale up production to supply for use in all 91 malaria infected countries through WHO. MozziQuit was displayed in 14th Annual Meeting of Roll Back Malaria Partnership to End Malaria - Working Group for Vector Control held in Geneva, Switzerland on 30 Jan to 01 Feb. 2019. On 24th & 28th May 2019 WHO has officially confirmed that MozziQuit is included in the Agenda for Prequalification Process under New Tools Invented for Vector Control and upon approval MozziQuit to be supplied by WHO through their network in 91 countries for use in houses, cow sheds, etc. Evaluation Report issued by KVAFS University of Bidar and Validation Report by Veterinary Hospital both confirm increase in Milk Yield as well as increase in Weight of Cows after using MozziQuit in cow shed have multiple benefits. Final Report on Field Evaluation on Performance of MozziQuit submitted by National Institute of Malaria Research to Indian Council of Medical Research confirm trapping of all species of mosquitoes 100million mosquitoes trapped in 1 device in 3 months | Our Mission is to Make the entire World Free of Mosquitoes and Free of Mosquito Menace by MozziQuit and by other advanced Green Technology made of more than 18 years of R&D efforts. RBM Partnership already estimated cost $ 100 Billion to reduce Malaria in 91 countries to 90% by year 2030. https://endmalaria.org/news/nomination-and-selection-pack-rbm-partnership-board Our goal to Make the World Free of Mosquito Menace in short span of time by our MozziQuit technology is to set up one full fledged manufacturing units in 91 countries and to set up assembling units at multiple locations at suitable locations as and when required to reduce the cost of product within less than total $ 1 Billion out of the estimated of $ 100 Billion with joint participation of public, private and government so that the remaining $ 99 Billion estimated cost could be saved for providing other needs required for people. We wish to DONATE our High Tech Green Technology Free of Cost for all people of World invented during our 18 years of R&D device of less than $ 0.50 cent can trap & kill millions of mosquitoes every day outside every house provided we get INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION AND AWARD FOR OUR R&D EFFORTS TO FREE ALL FROM MOSQUITO BORNE DISEASES IN SHORT SPAN OF TIME. We look for Team Work support similar to the team work to the findings of Wright Brothers for their invention of heavy object can fly in air showed to world in 1903 and we can Make World Free of Mosquito Menace by MozziQuit | Public/private and government participation and support in all 91 malaria infected countries is the most needed resources for our Solution of MozziQuit and Advanced Technologies to scale so that we could achieve considerable impact of 1. Reducing Mosquito population resulting in drastic reduction of all mosquito borne diseases. 2. Providing total relief to all people, cows and pet animals from mosquito borne diseases and even from unwanted mosquito bites. 3. Mostly WOMEN work in cow sheds at bottom of the pyramid level in all countries who could get more daily income from increase in Milk Yield by using MozziQuit in cow shed. 4. All Milk Collection Unions and all Dairies will get additional income from increase in Milk Yield by using MozziQuit in cow sheds. 5. Presently 30% of India's Agricultural GDP is from Dairy Industry and increase in Milk Yield will strengthen further the GDP of all 91 countries from increase in Milk Yield. It is said by Dr. Vinod K. Paul the Niti Aayog Member - Health Section during the FICCI Inno-Health Event held in Delhi on 30/08/2018 that India's present yearly healthcare expenditure is around $ 18 Billion and major portion to pay Mediclaim insurance claims for treating malaira and mosquito borne diseases which could be reduced by use of MozziQuit device in maximum number of houses/cow sheds. Need financial assistance to set up manufacturing unit and to provide awareness to people through NVBDCP, Health departments, WHO and, RBMP | 1. More details in https://www.mozziquit.com 2. Article published in https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=608544 3. https://www.ibef.org/download/IBEF-Ideas-May%202014.pdf 4. http://www.theweekendleader.com/Innovation/2043/a-terminator.html 5. Final Report on Field Evaluation on Performance of MozziQuit submitted by NIMR to ICMR on 21/02/2018 confirming trapping of all species of mosquitoes in MozziQuit besides trapping of more than 2.5 times in number of mosquitoes trapped than comparison trap http://www.mozziquit.com/images/pdf/Final_Report_MozziQuit_NIMR_BNG.pdf 6. Published in NIMR Annual Report 2017-18 in page no. 49 in http://nimr.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Annual-Report-2017-18-Web-FINAL1.pdf 7. Test Certificate confirming Zero % emission of UV Radiation from MozziQuit http://www.mozziquit.com/images/pdf/Zero-Emission-of-UV-Radiation_Report.pdf 8. Evaluation Report by Director of Research of KVAFS University confirming increase in Milk Yield and Weight of cows after using MozziQuit in cow sheds http://www.mozziquit.com/images/pdf/Evaluation-Report-KVAFSU-Bidar.pdf 9. Validation Report issued by Assistant Director of Veterinary Hospital confirming increase in Milk Yield after using MozziQuit in cow shed 10. Poster Abstracts RBMP in event held in Geneva on 30 Jan - 1 Feb 2019 MozziQuit pages 5 & 6 https://endmalaria.org/sites/default/files/Posters.pdf 11. Millennium Alliance/USAID https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqqdLKC1tIc&t=30s | 1. https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=608544 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGHPXyae6sw&t=4s 3. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ignatius+orwin+noronha+mozziquit 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVkZ8p5Xv9w&t=8s 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3GGXLMivq4&t=21s 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGHPXyae6sw&t=6s 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqqdLKC1tIc&t=1s 8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTxr8imwpA 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWNTdytJY58&t=6s 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV7_2kMjfQA&t=25s 11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuLWGxYN7cE 12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQaP4XRrMuo 13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYKnbhFSXP0 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGXba43jD7o&t=1s 14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0kgR3qKVoc&t=2s 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZWXq8js88A&t=144s 16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQtxPUuw1J0 17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB47lScy_ZI&t=13s 18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjz4OyZ8gCc 19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dIcx0mJ_Mg 20. http://tedxiimranchi.in/2017.html. 21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIYNfC1iC_s 22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppDWD3VwxVg 23. https://www.indiainnovates.in/pdfs/Impact-Analysis-Report.pdf Also all Photos and information is in enclosed pdf file Resume of Orwin uploaded under CV or Resume | 1.Nominated for Game Changing Innovator Award in REACH Awards 2019, UAE 2.May 2019 WHO included MozziQuit for Preq. Process 3.MozziQuit displayed at Geneva in RBMP Event Jan 2019 4.Most Pr.St.up MSME Awards 2018 5.FICCI Ex Awards 2018 Healthcare Startup 6.Millennium Alliance IV Awards 2017 7.Nat. Agripreneurs Award 2017 8.SESB Award 2016 9.S. I. Busine Award 2016 10.Displayed at Rashtr Bhavan in Fest of Inno 2016 11.GoldMedalAward in DST-Lockheed Martin 2010 12.ISABestElectr ProdAward 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
261 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anthony Bosun | Osibajo | Osquareteck ltd | www.osquareteck.online | Operation Director | male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Country depending solely on fossils fuel as means of fuel for transportation sector which holds almost 40% of carbon emission. With the dependancy the transportation sector experience huge effect whenever there is problem relating to availability of petroleum products or increase in cost. And finally with the global warning on climate change, ICE (Internal Combination Engine) emits CO2 and also air pollution. | Electrical/Electronics Engineer by profession with experience in power solution with OEM like Huawei Technology and Schneider. Also work both in the Telecom and Energy development arena. Volunteer on waste management program which focus on clean environment and waste recycling practice. | BUGe | Electric Vehicle and Battery Swapping Station | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria, Benin Republic and other West African Countries | Yes | Huaihai Holdings group, EVLends, PANAfrica Holdings | Transition to Scale | Because its a proofing solution in developed countries across Asia, Europe and America. And with much collaboration with technical partners i believe we our at transition to scale stage (Going to market). | Our solution is addressing Climate Change problem, Pollution and monopoly of source of fuel. | it uses LiFePO4 battery packs as source of fuel to run the vehicle over 60-100km for a fully charged battery (48V, 120AH) and discharged battery can be swap for charged battery at the Battery Swapping Station for continuation of operation. Our long term vision is to have more battery swapping station across West Africa. | Charging Station is what is in operation presently and due to power problem in across West African market we are using Battery Swapping Station. Where driver can drive in and spend same time to refuel fossil due at station to see discharged battery for charged battery. In this the battery life span will be longer than using Charging station. | The solution is ready to go to market. | We aim to create new energy source with less impact on climate for both transportation and power sector by 2020. To create over 1000 employment to people by 2021. By 2021 to spread across Five Western African countries. With 80% of our benchhead market we will be saving 916-1000kg of CO2 by 2020. | Human Capital and Funding. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nJBmTV6mcDcIrV9PBSZ58SFe8F7L7KKH/view?usp=drivesdk. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-5oaB7Hc057LR9i6M0TEbrRa3F0Mfek1/view?usp=drivesdk | National ClimateLaunch Pad competition finalist. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
262 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Fayyaz | Hanif | ehealthplanning.com | ehealthplanning.com | founder | male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | According to the demographic survey of Pakistan around 21% & 13 % of girls are married before the age of 18 & 15 years respectively. I belongs from regressive part of Lahore where I can witness that people pushed their daughters in the force marriages then they had two babies before the age of 20 as early marriages trends in Pakistan. Although the family-planning services are available in Pakistan but generally people feel shy to reach basic contraceptives which are pocket friendly in the market as they are restricted in cultural barriers. According to my opinion counselling about child birth spacing and women reproductive health rights is the need of hour. I have always been enthusiastic about research in family planning, as a peer educator and SRH Activist I have reached more than 50 newly wedded couples living in Lahore, delivering information on Family Planning and child birth spacing. To evaluate challenges and perceptions on Family Planning in Pakistan, I am involved in advocacy process, I was also part of the first Family Planning Android App “Bridge the Gap’’ under the project of Women deliver. I had also presented my Poster at International conference on Family Planning 2018. I conducted numerous community event and health camp grounds about the awareness of family planning. I played pillar role in the process of first Family planning android App (Bridge the Gap) with an organization Mashal under the Women Deliver. Now I am doing counseling of newly wedded young males about family planning and child birth spacing. | You will see listed on the enclosed resume, my background in public oratory is extensive. I always remained an active participant in most of the co-curricular activities arranged during my graduation career. I have a wonderful background in Social Activities I participated in a great range of social activities and held roles as supervisor. During those activities I sometimes lead teams and sometimes was part of a team. Taking part in extra-curricular activities provided me with invaluable organizational, public communication and leadership skills. Besides this work experience I had/have been working with different NGOs where I had the chance to serve as community worker to councilor to team member to theater artist. I started work as Peer Educator at the age of 14 with an organization called “AIDS AWARENESS SOCIETY” and then become part of number of Peer Education and Advocacy Programs related to Sexual Reproductive Health Rights, Gender related issues, Family Planning Guideline to young couples, issues related to early child marriages and life skill based education for primary class students through interactive/forum Theater community seminars and public forum. I managed number of Projects in past with the support of different donors and INGOs in Pakistan, in these program I have directly worked with marginalized communities (Transgender, newly wed couples, young generation, domestic working women and girls etc.) Trained them on Peer Education, and formulated “community Interaction Clubs” I managed to bring a positive change in the lives of many young people in Pakistan. | ehealthplanning | Right to Right Information is Right for all. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Pakistan | No | Research & Development | Reproductive Health is an important pillar of the human rights framework and the average results in this thematic area is poor reflector about the general human rights situation in Pakistan. Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. Mostly people feel nervousness when the topic of SRH discussed because cultural norms supposed that Family Planning and SRH is not an appropriate thing to discuss, which consequently restricts people’s choices in this matter. | According to the demographic survey of Pakistan around 21&13% of girls are married before the age of 18&15 years respectively.counselling is the need of hour but due to cultural barriers people don’t feel comfortable to access hospital and family health clinics;herefore, couples suffers a lot due to inappropriate information because they have no access to authentic source of information and in the result of all this stuff they faced crisis in their healthy life or may experience death at the end | The mobile phones are the fastest mode to reach maximum people. Almost 83 Million people in Pakistan have smart phones and rest of the population has Symbian phones as the internet services are affordable in Pakistan. This website www.ehealthplanning.com will help people to get free information about Family Planning and SRH services, so they can take healthy decisions about their lives. The initiative of “e-Healthplanning” aims to engage youth for the awareness about SRH and family planning through 5-6 minute video massage, we engage doctors and health care professional and build 5-10 minute vedio guideline these massages will help people to take healthy decision about thier life, so we can break the misconceptions about sexual health and family planning. There is a large segment of population in Pakistan who can’t afford the expensive private SRH services and there are several organizations in Pakistan like Rahnuma-FPAP, Population welfare center and Mariestopes International working for the provision of SRH services for free. we will provide guidencess to take services. | NA | NA | yet we plan in Pakistan only. | more human and financial need for expand in other local languages Like Punjabi, Pashtoo, Balochi, and sindhi. | www.ehealthplanning.com | NA | NA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
263 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Keneth | Mitambo | STAMP CLEANTECH LTD | https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovation/imu-root , http://www.stamp.co.ke / | CEO/FOUNDER | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | A Social innovator / entrepreneur with 16 years implementing projects in Sustainable livelihoods development and social innovation. Have won numerous awards regionally and internationally due to my work in health innovations. Am a firm believer in communities have the capacity to develop sustainable solutions for challenges facing them. Am a firm believer in community led design thinking process and spend a lot of time mentoring and developing capacities of women and youth innovators. The reason for applying to present at Un Solutions summit is to show case impactful health innovations and how collaborative design work with end users can create a great ripple effect in lives of children within the first 1000 days and their households. Would share on best practices and lessons learnt on the innovation :-Royalty rewards to address barriers to effective uptake and provision of immunization among caregivers:- Incentives for caregivers can increase immunization and address apathy due to Adverse Effects Following Immunization in Kenya rural and urban informal settlements Kiambiu Slum Nairobi , Kiambu rural areas and Kinamba /Ngarua Laikipia West informal settlements | Social Impact Specialist . Award winning global innovator in health and social impact. Am a highly experienced, serial, social entrepreneur , has expertise in user-centered product development, team building, operations management, and stakeholder engagement. Have excelled in leadership, training, Monitoring and Evaluation, consultancy on a technical level, social impact development targeting vulnerable children, women and youths, social development and networking. Holds an MA in community care, HIV and AIDS , MBA in social entrepreneurship. Been lead innovator/ researcher, design thinking process for the Immunisation Royalty program and implementation as well as the stove that sanitise water while cooking.. | ImuRoot :-Royalty rewards to address Barriers to effective uptake and provision of immunization within the first 1000 days after birth in laikipia West, Kilifi ,Kiambu and and Kiambiu Nairobi slums | A healthy and secured childhood | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Currently Kenya. Future Rwanda ,Ethiopia , Congo and Uganda | Yes | OpenIdeo , Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , ICRI-Africa , Elerai Global Services Rwanda , The Little Daughters of St Joseph Laikipia West , National and County Government Kenya (Nairobi , Kiambu and lAIKIPIA. | Proof of Concept | Previously a pilot was carried out in a controlled group of 25 caregivers in Kiambiu slum Nairobi Kenya with children during the first 1000 days of life. There was end users involvement through design work, MEL system for reporting and visualization developed and tested.Hardware developed and tested. Currently sustainability being tested through community led design to improve the innovation, income from e-smart drums /pendant, licensing as a source of income and MEL system synced daily. | Inability of health service providers in Kenya to address After Effects Following Immunization has created a public health problem due to missed immunization leading to high prevalence of preventable disease, increased morbidity, mortality and disability amongst children in the first 1000 days of life. Lack of knowledge regarding the AEFIs from the different vaccines, bad attitude and arrogance from government health workers has resulted in decline in the uptake of immunization and apathy | Royalty program rewards parents for vaccinating their children, secures health records, document adverse effect of the vaccines to inform future interventions. Caregivers are encouraged to name the After Effects Following Immunization using a language they best understand (local dialect) communally spoken. For each record the caregiver earns 10 points redeemable as discount for school fees in ECDE, access partner services and programs, discounts in E-Smart drums and retail outlets selling early childhood products like diapers, art and play materials amongst others. Caregivers are awarded a recognition certificate which lifts their self-esteem, earn respect within the community and those who score highly are trained as community immunization champions. The program has enabled development of I.E.C through community participation in form of visuals and documenting impact on a cloud based system. Caregiver’s feedback is enabling the royalty program expansion to monitor ARVs for HIV management on children, caregiver’s livelihoods ventures, impact of inclusive breastfeeding, feedback loop and growth monitoring for children aged 0-2 years. Impact opportunity to record additional information related to health of the families of the child being immunized, increased adherence to immunization schedule up-to-date Health Management Information System, reduced health costs, and low morbidity among children. Improved HH wellbeing and secured livelihoods in resource deprived settings | Majority of infant’s caregiver in ultra-poor HH are women who are key drivers in relation to the uptake and sustainability of immunization programs during the first 1000 of a child. Previous immunization routines in Kenya rewarded caregivers with mosquito nets for taking children for immunization at health facilities. This was a one off and many caregivers who abused the process by having double immunization of their children in order to get an extra net. Positive observation was whenever the care-givers were rewarded for taking children for immunization they would follow up all the scheduled vaccines. The uniqueness of IMUroot Royalty program is it creates Health management records to monitor vaccines given, Adverse Effects Following Immunization to inform interventions, reduced double immunization, and captures caregiver’s feed-back which informs future interventions for purpose of learning. It builds caregivers levels of understanding, acceptance of routine immunization, address fears and misinformation, and re-establish trust in the routine immunization program. A caregiver traveling only biometrics to access records at any health facility showing child immunization history. Monitoring ARV adherence amongst children, livelihoods venture, impact of inclusive breastfeeding, feedback loop and growth monitoring at home aged 0-2 years enabling caregivers monitor and have say in their child immunization through design process and earns income through e-smart drums | Developed Technology for data collection, visualization and reporting on real time and E-smart hubs (Royalty rewards redemption points) run by caregivers. Caregivers and community leaders Trained on mobilization, and sustainability. Linkages established with key stakeholders and Health service providers. I.E.C Developed through community participation in form of visuals. Measuring progress Documenting and understanding the ecosystem components in immunization evolution to broadly reveal the important support mechanism which forms and influences formation of specific barriers to the health, social impact, actualization of sustainable and transformative immunization strategies. An in-depth understanding of Royalty programs and social innovation in relation to addressing barriers towards effective uptake of immunization through; •Structural Review of the vaccines and immunization ecosystem components to Map the support system for caregivers and children under immunization and underlying features. •Gap Analysis to identify gaps in the current support system for immunization, knowledge, feedback and non-financial support measures/services currently in place to encourage immunization uptake and reduce apathy. •Assessment of the current Royalty program for successful the delivery system of these support measures/services to deep dive into specifics that influence uptake of immunization and vaccines ecosystem at caregiver’s household’s level | Milestones ••Support 5 CSO and organizations working in immunization space in target area at a fee •Raise USD 150,000 to finalize pilot and expand scope •New entries: - Rwanda, Uganda, Congo and Ethiopia. •Recruit a Data Analyst, System administrator and medical social worker. Health indicators •6500 HH with children aged between 0-1000 adherences to immunization schedule through sustained access to vaccines within target areas •Reduction in preventable diseases amongst 15,000 children aged 5 months – 5 years in vulnerable households as per MOH reports. •6500 HH reporting reduction in health costs related to missed immunization in the vulnerable households. •6500 HH affording basic needs and increased school attendance •Reduced morbidity and mortality due to missed immunization among 15,000 •Normal child growth due to reduction to stunting causing catalysts amongst children aged 0-10 years •Achievement of universal vaccine and immunized children in households in humanitarian and marginalized areas. •Improved life expectancy amongst children aged 0-5 years •100 E-smart drums as distribution/ redeeming Hubs and data collection centers established with women and youths owning 75% in collaboration with Stakeholders •Improve on the cloud based data management system that monitors, sales, usage and impact of the immunization in households. | Short time Technical support for Barrier analysis and developing strategies to address them Capital costs: - Technology, e-smart drums construction, I.E.C development: - Technology, licensing and content generation hubs, licensing and content generation Collaborators in refining the innovation and process Finalize the proof of concept Medium time Social Media push (Advertising in the social media) Operations (Salaries for staff, Consumables (internet), logistics Long time Training and capacity for community members, mentors, stakeholders and staff Attending workshops and seminars, partners meetings and hosting networking events Networking Collaboration in exchange of technology and skills Develop the system further to support other service providers in data collection and impact measurements | https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/briefsgates-vaccine-innovation/topideas/royalty-rewards-to-address-barriers-to-effective-uptake-and-provision-of-immunization-in-ecd-centers-caregivers-in-kiambiu-nairobi-slums https://canvanizer.com/canvas/wvkccqOY6LRNS https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovation/imu-root | https://www.facebook.com/E4Impact/posts/our-mba-champion-from-kenya-keneth-ndua-at-united-nations-department-of-economic/1771184262960217/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyemz8z8Ht0 https://vimeo.com/144729448 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiVyc_i56l4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVfYQGBWgRs | Winner :- https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/briefsgates-vaccine-innovation/topideas/royalty-rewards-to-address-barriers-to-effective-uptake-and-provision-of-immunization-in-ecd-centers-caregivers-in-kiambiu-nairobi-slums | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
264 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jean Gardy | Marius | OSAPO | osapo.org | Executive Director | Male | Haiti | Haiti | English | French | Spanish | As Medical Doctor working in the ares of global in a developing country which I think can be used as an engine of development for the developing countries, I think it will be a great advantage for me to be part of the UN solutions Summit. It is also good for me to learn more from the experiences of other people and also sharing my experiences with them as well. I have been developing different strategies for many years focusing in the Socials determinants of Health which has brought some much changes and improve the living conditions of the most at risk in the remotes areas of Haiti. I think this experience need to be sharing with other countries that faces the same problems as Haiti. And being part of the UN Summit to present my experiences with other colleagues might a great opportunity. In the last couple years, I have been experimenting a concept of global Health based on the Socials Determinants of Health where most the activities are concentrated on women and children and provide them the opportunity to create their own living. Because I realize that, the determinants of health can be used as an asset not only to reduce poverty, but also to eradicate the chronic poverty people facing with in the developing countries. | Jean Gardy Marius was born in 1969 in the South of Haiti. Raised with a single mother and at eleven years old he left his mother’s house to go to Port Au Prince to further his education. He hasn’t had chance to go to school in his early age due to lack of resources, because his mother could not afford it. After high school, went to Dominican Republic to Med School. After graduated from Med school, he spent many years working on the field as project manager with different organizations where he gained experiences. And he had a Masters degree in global health with Manchester University in England. He came back to Haiti after almost 14 years outside of Haiti. Since got back, he has been concentrated to improve the Quality of Primary Care. In 2008, Dr Gardy and his colleagues created one of the most innovated NGO, which focuses on serving people who in needs and improves the living conditions of the most vulnerable. Thanks to these accomplishments, Dr Gardy and his colleagues are able to implement one of the most innovated programs base on developing different SDHs and serve over 100,000 people in his country. | The socials Determinants of Health an engine of development for the developing countries. | Improving living conditions in the developing countries by focusing on the socials determinants of Health | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Haiti | No | Sustainable Scale | Well, based on the results that we have achieved in the community, it is evident the changes. The most important thing in this concept is how people being less dependent specially the women under men. And then, it is not very commun in Haiti even the world using a determinant of health to solve the problem of health and economic at the same time in a community. | We are working in a community with more than 52,000 people. Where the basic services are completely limited. Taking about drinking water, Sanitation ,food security and Nutrition, education and basic health care. People can't event effort the cost to 2 USD to go visit a doctor in the community. in 2012 we realized that every 10 pregnant women visited the clinic 80% of them suffered severe anemia. Thanks to this program plant for feeding, we reduce this number from 80% to less than 20%. | By introducing this program in the community, we were able to distribute some specific seeds with high protein and a good value on the market. So, the beneficiaries can use 40% of the production for their own consummation and the 60% will sell on the market for them. So, we sign a contract with the resorts in the area where we can easily sell this portion of vegetable. Thanks to this program we were able to reduce the rate of amen from 80% to less than 20% today and every woman who get involve in this program gains at least 60 USD every month. This program isn't only solve the problem of anemia among the pregnant women in the community, but also provide some revenue to them in order to reduce their dependency under men which is reduce the rate of mother and child morbidity and mortality in the community. Because the rate of malnutrition among the women and children in the community has reduced completely. | In Haiti specially, the government doesn't see the health as an evident factor to develop and grow economic in the country. As soon as we consider health as a transversal element in the social development of the country, we will be able to transform the ecumenic situation and improve the living condition of the population. It is almost impossible to have a sustainable economic without a workforce in good health. So, our approach is using the Health care, specially the socials determinants of health to promote this model and innovate the concept of seeing the health problem by focusing in the clinic aspect. The idea is seeing health problem beyond the clinical aspect, because the situation of health that the developing countries face today, will not being able to solve in the hospital, but in the community where people living. People need to be part of the decision of its health situation and being able to respond for their own health. So, the fact that people are taking care of their health and taking some decisions to afford the necessity of their need, I think it is a big step forward towards reducing the numbers of people living under poverty in the world. The new perspective will be engaging people on the decisions to improving their health and their living conditions by providing them enough tools to guaranty a better future for their children. | Since we have used this model, we have seen so much progresses in the community. We are happy that, we are the first community on eradicating cholera in Haiti thanks to our program. Before the cholera outbreak less than 20% of the people in the community had access to safe driving water, and today 75% have access to clean water. In 2012 80% of the pregnant women suffered anemia when they visited the clinic, today thanks to this program we reduce this number to less than 20%. More than 1600 latrines had built in the community. More 500 women in the community can plant their land and produce enough vegetal to consume and sell on the market. When I see all these indicators, we can conclude that we have archived so much impact with this approach and the indicators tall for themselves to measure the progress of this program. | Based on my experiences working as a field coordinator on the humanitarian approach, this program is one of the most innovative approach I have experimented with. I think the program can fit any other developing countries because they are facing the same situation. My goals in the future is spreading this program to other developing countries that face the same challenges as Haiti and I deeply believe that we can achieve the same level of impacts that we are archiving in this community. Once again, the socials determinants of health are represented a great opportunity not only to reduce poverty in the developing countries, but also eradicate it in the world and create a better living conditions for every citizen on earth. | Short-term: Education. We need to educate people by raising their consciousness on the situation they are living and what step to take to go out of it. Medium -term : Human ressources: Even you have the most innovation ideas without qualify human resources you won't be able to archive anything. So,HR will be playing a very important role in order to create a good impact. Long term: A good program+ HR+ Financial ressources and timing. Sustainability requires times. We cannot build any sustainability program on the short- term. Long-term gives you confidence and reduces corruption. These four elements are very essential to build sustainability. | www.osapo.org | osapo.org or you can also find some of my articles and speeches and my vision on the success of global health in the developing countries. | I haven't got any awards yet. Because I never promote my works. I just posted some of the ideas on social media. But, I think it is time to promote this on the podium of United Nation where more people can be aware of it. I have been invited in many occasions in United States and Canada to give speeches for the Students who show interests for global health and its socials determinants. Hope, United Nations will consider my work and give me an opportunity to share it with the world. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
265 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Musenga | Silwawa | Spot Agro technologies Ltd | https://msilwawa.wixsite.com/spotagro | Director | Male | Zambia | Zambia | English | The world population is growing exponentially. Poverty is on the rise mainly due to outdated agricultural techniques. The answer is to use precision agriculture which ensures the efficient use of inputs for maximum productivity. as a lecturer, rural & Agriculture Development expert,Innovator & entrepreneur, I was compelled to come up with an innovation to ensure the efficient use of mineral fertilisers for productivity, reduced wastage , hence protection of the environment. | Grew up on a farm in Zambia, partially grew up in Botswana, later trained as a General Agriculture practitioner ,horticulturist and Development Studies. Married with three daughters, ardent smallholder farmer, entrepreneur and innovator. set up company in 2014 after winning the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. Currently working in the Government of Zambia as college Lecturer. | On spot Fertiliser applicator | Precision Application of mineral fertiliser | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Zambia, Malawi,Mozambique,Angola,South Africa, Zimbabwe Kenya, Uganda | Yes | Government of Zambia | Transition to Scale | We have conducted a three year R & D activity in Zambia, Malawi,Mozambique and Angola. The implement has been significantly improved from being a minimum Viable Product | Indiscriminate non-precise application of mineral fertilisers | It calibretas the quantity of fertiliser applied into the soil as per crop requirement. It is semi automated , simple to use and activated by the depression of the farmer's hand and the implement applies the fertiliser into the soil in precise quantities consistently throughout the field. | Farmers across africa typically apply mineral fertilisers to their crops by hand. The new perspective or approach is to apply on the spot beside the plant to ensure maximum up take of fertiliser by the plant. To precisely apply fertiliser in such a minner the On spot applicator is the solution. | We have reached scaling and manufacturing of the applicator for market. The responses from the participating farmers indicated that they are ready to pay for the implement. | To commence manufacturing in Zambia and license the technology to other companies in Malawi, Mozambique, Angola & South Africa. Staff will mainly be in the HQ (Zambia) for business and administrative convenience. It is hoped that the project will impact at least 20,000,000 smallholder farming families. | In the short term it is the setting up of a manufacturing plant /workshop in Zambia. In the medium term it is the setting up of a distribution network in the said countries, in the long term it is the licensing agreements in the mentioned countries and expansion to East African markets. The ready availability of the implement to smallholder farmers is key to impact and the ability of local artisana to repair the implement and eventually the capacity of a local artisan to fabricate the implement in their backyards. | https://msilwawa.wixsite.com/spotagro https://youtubemsilwawa.onspotfetiliserapplicator https://msilwawafacebook.law of diminishing returns | https://youtube.musengasilwawa.africa prize focus video | Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation (Royal Academy of Engineering) - runner up 2014 Winner - Askwor Hilonga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
266 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Albert | Rojas | UST Global | https://www.ust-global.com/ | Director | male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Spanish | How to eliminate bias with artificial intelligence, linguistics and machine learning. | Supporting UST-Global North American sales teams architect enterprise solutions for Information Management and the delivery of technical validations. | How to eliminate bias with machine learning | How to eliminate bias with machine learning | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | global | No | Research & Development | Help people ask better questions, better answers. | better questions, better answers. | better questions, better answers. | patent-pending | patent-pending | patent-pending | patent-pending | https://www.ust-global.com/ https://darkdata.xyz/ | https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwxwm8Pngrh/ | patent pending | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
267 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Temitope | Balogun | Espact | www.espact.com | CEO/Lead Creative Strategist | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I would love to be part of the UN Solutions Summit so I can pitch my solution for SDG 8 and 9 to professionals with higher experiences who can give me constructive feedback and professional advice on how to make the solution work better. I would also like to meet like minds who work on similar SDG across the globe so I can expand my network. | Temitope Balogun fondly called Temmy Balogun is a 26-year-old writer and social entrepreneur who is passionate about impacting lives of African youths positively. She has a degree in mass communication obtained from the Lagos State University and currently an MBA student at Edinburgh Business School. In 2016 she founded Espact , a startup using digital media and technologies like website, social media platforms, USSD and apps, to provide informative contents and end to end support services such as skill training, business consulting , branding and marketing services that will help unemployed youths develop solutions to problems in their communities, transform their solutions to businesses, make money from them and employ more youths. The economic development impact of Espact was recognized on the 3rd of October, 2018 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Rwandan Government, so Temmy was shortlisted among the 12 finalists for Youthconnekt Award, an annual award which celebrates entrepreneurs contributing to their country’s development, this earned her an all-expense-paid trip to Rwanda to attend the conference and the award ceremony. Also due to Espact’s impact in Nigeria, she gets invites to speak at youth conferences, summit and facilitate symposium frequently. Through Espact she has interviewed top personalities like Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka on SDGs, Honourable Desmond Elliot, Prominent Fashion designer, Yomi Casual and many more to encourage African youths. Join her on the journey to make AFRICA better. | Espact | An online platform transforming innovative ideas to profitable businesses | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda and Kenya | Yes | Training institutes,media organizations, and business development firms. | Scaling | We have been operating in the western and southern part of Nigeria since inception but two months ago we extended our reach to the northern part and we plan to expand to selected regions in Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda by 2020. | The problem we are solving is the increasing rate of unemployment amidst youths in Africa caused by inadequate decent jobs for the number of employable youths in the continent. The rise in unemployment has led to an increase in crime rate and terrorism amidst them especially in my country Nigeria, this was confirmed in a UN common analysis report (2016) on youth unemployment in Nigeria. Another additional problem is the negative effect it has on the growth of the continent’s economy. | We enlighten and train unemployed youths on how they can develop innovative solutions to problems in their communities through our online platform, then transform the ideas they develop into profitable businesses through the business consulting, branding and marketing services we provide to them. Our vision is to reduce unemployment in Africa to the bare-minimum percentage by 2025 through decent job creation from businesses and innovations. | Unlike others who are solving unemployment with skills empowerment programs and seminars in selected communities, we are focused on providing learning and end-to-end business support services such as skill training, business consulting, branding and marketing services to unemployed youths and business-oriented individuals across Nigeria and Africa who needs to develop problem solving ideas, transform it to a product or service, through the digital media and technologies they love using. Through digital media and technologies like website, social media platforms, USSD and apps we reach people in the rural and urban areas of our target locations. | We are currently working with our minimum viable product (MVP). We measure our progress through the number of people who visit our platform, the number of people who reach out for our services and the jobs created through the process. Since inception reached about 500,000 Nigerian youths and about 100,000 in other African countries through our online platform. We have rendered our business growth services to over 200 youth and entrepreneurs, whose businesses are running and creating jobs for other unemployed youths. Currently, over 5000 youth and entrepreneurs visit our platform for information weekly while about 25 youths and entrepreneurs are using our services monthly. | In the early part of 2020 we plan to extend our reach to Ghana, Rwanda and Kenya employ about a few indigenes as full-time staff and volunteers to manage our operations in each country. We target impacting a total of 300,000 youths in the three countries in our first year of operation because the countries are more technology-enabled. | Short Term: We need fund to develop our platform fully and create more awareness of what we do. Medium: We need strategic partnerships with media organizations, training institutions and business development firms in the countries we are expanding to. Long Term: We need fund to expand our reach in more African countries battling with unemployment and investment partnerships to support youths with less financial resources in developing their ideas. | www.espact.com https://www.facebook.com/espactonline/videos/951037748618117/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ey_ouTSBCGI https://youtu.be/vrtxmgjp4dc | Finalist - 2018 YouthConnekt Award organized by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Rwandan Government | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
268 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mustafa | Kaygusuz | Texas Biotechnology Inc | www.rezfreeinc.com | Owner/Partner | Male | United States of America | Turkey | English | In our age with a rapidly growing world population, it is a fact that chemical fertilizers and pesticides are used very intensively in the agricultural production in order to improve the yield. On the other hand, it is a known fact that the employed pesticides, while destroying the pests of the agricultural production, also remain in the form of residues within the crops, thereby being transmitted to the humans and animals and leading to successive damages as well as resulting in very significant problems in the soil ending with desertification and dead zones. The people get sick as they eat and the soil, being the greatest factory of the world, is being gradually destroyed every single day. With the distinguished scientists team, we use methods and practices of microbiology, biotechnology and relevant life sciences to develop innovative, cost effective, organic solutions that address the sustainable development goals. Our research is concentrated on the degradation of residues of agro chemicals and pesticide residues which are harmful for the consumers and contaminate the environment. While cleansing the residues of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals, we aim on increasing soil health by decreasing soil salinity as well. | I am a graduate of Bilkent University, Turkey and an entrepreneur who invests in biotechnology for more than 10 years.I live in the United States since 2015. My studies and investments mainly focus on clean technology. I own 2 research and one marketing companies, Texas Biotechnology Inc , Houston Institute of Biotechnology Inc.and Rezfree A.S Turkey. I work closely with scientists and growers to find ways for sustainable, cost effective and organic solutions to today's challenges. I have 10 employees, 5 of them are distinguished professors and engineers. Lastly I am the father of two girls for whom I feel responsible to leave a clean Earth. | RezFree | For Residue-Free Agriculture -RezFree- “We're curing the earth” | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Israel, Turkey, Panama, Chile | Yes | Prof.Dr Duran Ustek, Mr Yunus Dogan (Businessman) | Sustainable Scale | We have begun research and development activities in 2008.After making sure of the effectiveness of the products we developed, we decided to establish the first pilot production facility in 2014. Then we scaled it up in 2015 and made trials on bigger lands. After getting very successful results and validations from the fields and from research institutes/universities, now we are opening our new factory in Houston, TX with a bigger capacity and higher technology on September 2019. | Chemical fertilizers and pesticides are used very intensively in the agricultural production however those chemicals remain in the form of residues within the crops, thereby being transmitted to the humans, animals, underground water and leading to successive damages as well as resulting in very significant problems in the soil ending with desertification. The people get sick as they eat and the soil, being the greatest factory of the world, is being gradually destroyed every single day. | It is a reality that the population is growing rapidly, the industrial agriculture companies using increasingly higher amounts of harmful chemicals for the purpose of ‘obtaining more product at a lower cost’, the environment is suffering the disturbance as a chain reaction,but despite all negative effects, the chemicals may not still be abandoned because of the need to feed the growing population. The number of organic products increase each passing day yet it is not enough nor available everywhere, besides it is very expensive, so most people cannot afford to feed their families with organic food. The name of our solution is RezFree : By using a unique product made up of a mixture of bacterial enzymes, peptides and oligosaccharides, we degrade the chemical residues from crops and soil in a very short time (starting from 12 hours), thus we help growers to get ""Residue-free"" products while we enable people to consume cleaner foods inexpensively; hence besides conventional and organic agriculture, we are taking a historic step that will begin a new era named ""Residue-free agriculture"" On the other hand, with the help of those bacterial enzymes we decrease soil salinity so we aim to end desertification which is one of the major problems of the world. | This is a unique solution because all other cleaning agents in the market are helping degradation of pesticide residues only if the residues are on the surface of produce, but the main problem is the residues of systemic pesticides which remain in the inner structure of fruits. Our solution degrades the residues both from the surface and the internal structure of produce. The new methodology of our solution is sourced by the degrader bacteria and mixed bacterial enzymes. The pesticide residues degrade by itself in nature by time. For some of them it takes 2 weeks while for some others months even years to degrade such as DDT which takes 60 years to be degraded. In our methodology we reduce this period from years to hours sustainably. There is no other product to our knowledge which degrades that fast and effectively. Regarding soil salinity; "" Saline soils cannot be reclaimed by chemical amendments, conditioners or fertilizers. (acc to Colorado State Uni) but with our unique product we achieved to reduce EC levels of soil over 50% within 2 weeks in California, Israel and Mexico which makes this innovation unique. | So far we have made tens of field trials and scientific tests in institutes. We have tested over 60 mostly used active materials of pesticides. But every other day new pesticides are launched so we need to continue tests with new chemicals in different climate and soil conditions. In our new facility we have most of the equipments we need, by employing more scientists we are planning to increase the efficiency of the product and find solutions to new challenges. | Starting from US and Canada, we want to expand our innovation to Europe and Latin America then Middle East and Africa. Our goal to get support from UN, European Union, World Health Organization and other related international organizations and let this innovation serve to all humanity. Our first milestone is to have solid contacts in the named countries who will take the responsibility to introduce this innovation in their territories. Meanwhile, we want to make a project with the leadership of UN in the most problematic areas in the world and make pilot applications to clean the contaminated lands. We will recruit more sales people in the targeted territories and more scientists to act faster in coming months. | The most important resource for us will be conducting projects with UN in different parts of the world where contamination is a big challenge. After a few successful applications, this innovation should be presented to the decision makers of countries under supervision of the UN. In the short term, we need to increase the number of field tests in different climate and soil conditions so we need governmental and private contacts in the targeted areas to be validated in those territories. At the same time we need collaborations with the departments of universities which are capable of conducting agricultural experiments in different crops in the same locations applications will be held. Lastly, the registration of the product as a""residue degrader"" must be obtained which doesn't exist now in regulation books of countries now. In the medium term, we need reliable local businessmen and government agencies to introduce the product and increase the awareness of the people against the adverse effects of pesticide residues then promote, market and sell this innovation in the targeted markets while dealing with local governments for cleaning larger areas under their scope. | www.rezfreeinc.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwebDUGtd94 www.reztarim.com.tr https://www.instagram.com/rezfreeinc/ | n/a | n/a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
269 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Matthew | Goldberg | BioLite | https://www.bioliteenergy.com/ | Manager, Fundraising & Humanitarian Aid | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | BioLite develops life changing products that help low-income, off-grid households move up the energy ladder, while also creating distribution and financial pathways to enable access to our products. This second piece of the puzzle is critical as the households that need our products the most are not served by traditional retail models. BioLite is actually a perfect example of one SDG affecting several other Goals. We're focused on Goal 7, Affordable and Clean Energy, but when we unlock energy access for households, we see a chain reaction of benefits that directly addresses a number of other themes of this UN event. Let me get specific here: #13: Climate Action. Each BioLite HomeStove we get into the market offsets 3.5 tons of CO2 and Black Carbon a year. To date, HomeStoves in the field have offset 206,285 tons of CO2 and Black Carbon and have proven that cleaning up cooking fires is one of the quickest ways to impact climate change. #4: Quality Education. The Acumen Fund’s recent Energy Report found that children living in homes with solar lighting (like BioLite's SolarHome 620) studied for an hour longer each night. That’s 5 hours more a week and at least 20 more hours of studying each month. #3: Good Health & Well-Being. According to the World Health Organization, inhaling smoke from open fire cooking is responsible for 4 million deaths a year and is linked to serious conditions like heart disease and COPD. Our HomeStove reduces smoke by 90% so families no longer have to worry about smoke filling the home while cooking meals. #5: Gender Equality. 71% of HomeStove customers previously cooked over an open fire, spending 3 hours a week collecting fuel. The HomeStove is so efficient it requires 50% less fuel meaning women spend less time collecting fuel and more time to focus elsewhere, such as running a business and generating income. At BioLite, our mission is to bring Energy Everywhere: and when we do that successfully, you can see just how much can happen as a result. | Matt heads fundraising, partnership development, and grant implementation efforts at BioLite—a clean energy company that designs and manufactures products that transform the way off-grid households cook, charge devices, and light their homes. A graduate of the London School of Economics, Matt is dedicated to advancing market-based initiatives that expand clean energy access and combat climate change. Matt has previously worked as a researcher and policy analyst focusing on the role of non-state actors in international and national climate policy. At BioLite, Matt has made the leap from analysis to direct implementation—building partnerships and programs that help scale BioLite's efforts to bring clean and affordable energy to households in emerging markets. | BioLite HomeStove | A fan-assisted biomass stove that burns wood like gas, turns fire into electricity, and reduces smoke emissions by 90% and fuel consumption by 50% | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Kenya, Uganda, India, Tanzania, Rwanda | Yes | One Acre Fund, FINCA | Scaling | BioLite has designed, developed, and commercially retailed the HomeStove in East Africa and India. Since 2014, we have retailed over 35,000 HomeStoves to low-income, off-grid customers in emerging markets. | Three billion people cook their meals over open biomass fires. Toxic smoke from these fires leads to over four million respiratory-related deaths every year and release significant amounts of CO2 and produce a staggering 25% of global black carbon emissions. Most households that rely on open fire cooking also lack reliable access to electricity; 1.2 billion people have no access to electricity at all. These families are forced to use dirty, expensive kerosene lamps for lighting. | The HomeStove is a fan-assisted, biomass stove that reduces toxic emissions by 90% and fuel consumption by 50% compared to traditional open fire cooking. The HomeStove co-generates 2W of electricity from the flame using thermoelectric generation, enabling users to charge mobile phones and lights via a USB port. The HomeStove is also compatible with locally available fuels (e.g. wood, cow dung, or crop waste), and consistent with local cooking practices (side-fed operation). It is an all-in-one energy hub for the home, providing ultra-clean cooking, electricity generation, and lighting. The user feeds local fuels – e.g. wood, cow dung, or crop residue – through the side of the stove. Then, they light the fuel much as they did their open fire. The heat from the flame is converted into electricity through a thermoelectric generator. This electricity powers an internal fan, which force-feeds oxygen into the flame, eliminating the smoke, and leading to the near complete combustion of the fuel. The stove generates surplus electricity – enough to charge a mobile phone and provide an evening’s worth of light. At BioLite, we believe in a world where everyone has access to clean and reliable energy. We develop, manufacture, and distribute energy technologies that deliver clean cooking, light, and charge to off-grid communities around the world. We use advanced thermoelectric, solar, and power management technologies to help us fulfill our mission of bringing energy everywhere | The HomeStove is the only cookstove globally that can charge a mobile phone from the heat of the flame, making it uniquely suited to being sold to households without electricity access. Other ""improved"" cookstoves either do not sufficiently reduce emissions, or are not consistent with local cooking practices. For example, “rocket” stoves (Envirofit, BURN, EcoZoom), at best achieve 50% emissions reductions—lessening their climate and health impact—while “fan” stoves (BP, Philips) require external electricity for operation, specialized fuel pellets, and unfamiliar top-fed operation. Furthermore, LPG stoves, though clean burning, are 10-20x cost versus the HomeStove over three years and have poor penetration among low-income households. In comparison, the BioLite HomeStove is the only ultra-clean, biomass stove that can co-generate electricity from the cooking flame to power LED lights and mobile phones. The HomeStove features a design that is both aspirational and durable, while remaining intuitive for BoP users without requiring significant behaviour change to operate. | BioLite's 17-member US-based engineering team has spent the better part of three years reengineering the HomeStove to improve the stove’s performance, cut the cost of product goods, and improve the stove’s durability. We have sold 35,000 stoves in market, and have robust customer feedback to through our in-country call center, in which we survey customers one week after purchase, at six months, and then annually. BioLite is committed to measuring and validating the environmental, economic, and social impact of our operations to ensure accountability towards our social mission. We currently track impact along the following key indicators: Environmental Outcomes (GHG emissions; electricity generation); Health Outcomes (DALY’s averted); Economic Benefits (fuel expenditure); Livelihood Generation (job creation, income generation). This data is collected via post-purchase telephone surveys with every HomeStove customer and in-home visits to a ‘large n’ sample of customers. | Over the course of the next year, BioLite aims to scale the HomeStove to achieve the following milestones: •Expanding our East Africa sales and marketing team which will enable us to launch new partnerships and drive sell-through inside our partners' channels. •Producing collateral for below-the-line marketing activities (posters and banners, wall murals, customer training manuals) inside our partners’ channels. This will support high levels of customer satisfaction and build word-of-mouth advertising for the HomeStove. •Implementing an above-the-line marketing campaign through radio, print, SMS, and outdoor marketing, such as street theatre, and community events. This effort would build on the brand recognition that BioLite has already developed among low-income, biomass-cooking consumers. •Customizing our Android-based software platform used by our disaggregated network of field agents, to enhance operational efficiency and gather highly accurate customer data on benefits and usage. | To date, BioLite has primarily focused on developing our business in Kenya and Uganda where we have existing operations. In the short term, we are looking to raise catalytic grant and equity capital, enabling us to scale rapidly to 4 new sub-Saharan African geographies (Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) by the end of 2020. We would be able to invest in near-term personnel to comprehensively support sales, marketing, and technical service of distribution partners in these high-impact markets, thereby aiding sell-through of our innovative SolarHome product line. We also aim to expand our clean energy technology portfolio beyond residential applications (e.g. cooking, illumination, mobile phone charging) to activities that enhance income generation, productivity, and agricultural resilience. As we scale, BioLite will raise debt capital to support manufacturing costs in accordance with user demand for our products. | https://global.bioliteenergy.com/ https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/biolitewebsite/impact-reports/2018_BioLite_Impact_Report.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ISoY4ri7k&feature=youtu.be https://medium.com/impact-engineered/the-niche-cookstove-with-mainstream-ambitions-d612033ab714 https://eepafrica.org/the-power-of-fire-innovative-business-model-by-biolite/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nrHYxNVHig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlBxA-6nzvc | Our work has also been globally recognized through the following awards: Start-up Energy Transition Award Finalist, 2018; ASME Innovation Showcase Winner, 2017; National Geographic Great Energy Challenge Winner, 2016; World Design Impact Prize Finalist, 2014; Fast Company Innovation By Design Award, 2013; Tech Awards, 2012; St. Andrews Prize for the Environment, 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
270 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ndemba | Endeley | Bresh & Partners Capital SAS | Under Construction | Chair and Consulting Partner | Male | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | Motivation: Day by day millions of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) people and mostly youths are migrating from the rural areas into towns and cities in search for jobs, better trading opportunities, academic pursuits or for tourism. Cameroon, is one of the low and middle income countries in SSA severely hit by rural-urban migration and depopulation of the countryside. Buea city, the (administrative capital of the country’s South West Region) is today one of such emerging cities facing a huge population influx, rapid urbanization, severe housing crisis, upward rental rates, rising youth unemployment and urban poverty, youth delinquency, waste-disposal problems, rising roadside vendors, inadequate water supply, increasing demands on transportation, and energy supply and climate change. We all foresee that by 2030 more than about 55% of the global population could be living in urban areas, and by 2050 it could hit more than 70%. If we are thinking to ensure a sustainable urban future, then now is the right time to address and mitigate such looming concerns which also present great and wide-ranging investment opportunities. Our passion is to grow the social enterprise space that seeks to achieve a triple bottom line returns (financial returns, social returns, and ecological returns) and we established the Bresh Impact Fund ( an investment Vehicle with target size of $23,000,000) to specifically finance private sector-led development projects, entrepreneurial ventures and critical infrastructure that adhere to global standards for socially responsible investing and have the potentials to deliver solutions to the urbanization problems and challenges which will be contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. | Endeley is a Management Consultant, Realtor, and an ardent Social Entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Bresh & Partner Capital SAS. As Chair and Consulting Partner for the development of the Fund he brings over 28 years of experience in strategic planning and private equity management. Endeley in his early years had worked for Government Parastatals, a range of civil society organizations (CSOs), NGOs and private enterprises where he was engaged in leadership and advisory roles for growth and sustainability. He was managing director of Prospecta Company Ltd a civil works Service Provider which had best performance award in land preparation for development of large agricultural estates of the CDC in Cameroon. He was co-founder of ElF-Wood Service Ltd in 2015, a timber exploitation company. Endeley has served CEO of Group Prospecta LLC, a Civil Works Service Provider and Management Consulting Firm between 2014-2016. He is Chairman of BCUF Real-Estate & Housing Cooperative Society Ltd (BRESH COOP-BOD). He is strongly engaged civil politics and an advocate for entrepreneurship development. In his entrepreneurial journey, he has gone through many potholes from which he has learnt from many mistakes and keeps pushing to bring economic development to communities. Endeley exhibits a broad skill set due to his initial studies in Law, Project Planning, Governance and Risk Management Assurance. He holds a BSc in Sociology, Anthropology & Management from Buea University | Bresh Private Equity Impact Investment Fund I, LP (The Bresh Impact Fund), domiciled in Buea City, Cameroon. | Invest in Affordable, Eco-friendly, Multi-Family Commercial Shelters for the underserved and vulnerable SMEs and Free Independent Travelers. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Cameroon | No | Transition to Scale | We have completed the groundwork and have a private placement memorandum –PPM (“Offering Document”) relating to the Bresh Impact Fund I, LP. The Fund is investment -ready. The PPM describes the suitability requirements to join the Fund and is meant to seek for select qualified investors and development partners to help develop or market the Fund. | Our housing solution will reduce the commercial housing supply-demand gap by about 10% from 55% to 45%, to give the city an exponentially different future. Our housing solution will create access to affordable commercial spaces at between 20% to 30% below market rates. This will part of the broader community development strategy to accommodate the increasingly underserved and vulnerable enterprise population (SMEs including Startups with valid business models to serve their local economy). | Through the Bresh Impact Fund, our primary goal is to grow the Commercial Real-Estate Asset Class with affordable A–grade retail, office, serviced apartment and hotel room spaces; that form part of a broader community development strategy to accommodate the increasingly vulnerable and undeserved enterprise population, that will generate competitive financial returns alongside equity buildup, that will facilitate SMEs growth and competitiveness, that will generate streams of jobs for poverty reduction, that will serve the growing middle-low income population, that will stimulate sustainable tourism, that will generate taxes for the local Government over long-term, that will help mitigate climate change with improved technologies, that will enable tenant-SMEs to better exploit their potential and innovative capacities, and that will generate wealth and economic opportunities for future generations if prudently managed. | The core housing plaza project I will make available 203 affordable rentable shelters/ spaces for SMEs –known to employ 2 out of every 3 people in cities. Such SMEs will in turn indirectly generate about 406 jobs, in addition to 60 permanent jobs scheduled to run the Fund and housing plaza. It will make available 104 Units of Affordable, Serviced Apartments and Hotel Rooms for Travelers; that will stimulate sustainable tourism and open other opportunities. It will be built with solar panel, lighting fixtures, heating and cooling systems that can reduce tenants cost and help mitigate climate change. | Our Team has completed the administrative procedures in setting-up the Fund. Drafted an Offering Document/ Private placement Memorandum (PPM) relating to the Bresh Impact Fund I, LP which is furnished to select qualified investors and development partners to solicit their participation in the Fund. Through the Bresh Impact Fund platform, our hope is to combine strengths with institutional investors’, private equity investors’ and regulators and also to benefit from their advisory services, mentoring, and networking to pursue entrepreneurial ventures that will exhibit the good sense in impact investing. | The Bresh Impact Fund target size is $23,000,0000. Of eight (8) key requirements to set up the Fund and execute its maiden core real-estate investment project, the good news is that, seven (7) key requirements have been accomplished by the promoters though bootstrapping with capital invested by the Cornerstone Investor and 1st Limited Partner (Elf- Group). Their contribution is valued at $6,500,00. The pending issue is the requested funding from other investors in the sum of $16,500,000. | Short-term funding needs:- Upon receipt of capital contribution from anchor investor(s) up to One Million USD ($1,000,000) the GP will formally launch the Fund and get on with production of the Detailed Plans for the Proposed Core Commercial real-estate AHC-Project (Architectural and Interior designs, Structural, Mechanical and Electrical engineering plans, Ventilation and Air-conditioning Designs, Energy efficiency and Security designs, and detail cost analysis) obtain the building permits and set-up the project offices. Mid-term funding needs:- Upon receipt of further capital contribution of Five Million USD ($5,000,000), including the initial subscription made by the CsI of $6,500,000 that gives a partial total subscription of Twelve Million USD ($12,000,00), the GP will launch the Core Commercial real-estate AHC-Project and carry on with execution pending other funding of Ten Million USD ($10,000,000) to complete the project. Long-term funding Needs:- Upon receipt of the balance capital contribution of One Million USD ($1,000,000), the GP will officially launch the spinoff investments to build and integrate an e-commerce logistics system platform that will bring more small businesses online, provide them access to the global markets, access to business development support and tap on the opportunities that e-commerce offers. | https://bresh-partners-capital-sas.business.site/ | https://bresh-partners-capital-sas.business.site/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
271 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Arnold | Wendroff | Malawi Handcart Project www.mercurypoisoningproject.org/MALAWI | www.mercurypoisoningproject.org/malawi | Director | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | I first lived in Malawi as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1967 - 1968, and have visited there some 18 times since, for my dissertation research. I soon became aware of the enormous constraint on health and happiness and productivity resulting from the necessity of women and girls to transport water ,firewood, farm inputs, harvested crops, etc. etc., on their heads, and wondered at how the development expert community, all of whom use wheeled luggage, could fail to identify handcart transport technology as the sole applicable and affordable form of wheeled transport suited to the needs of subsistence farming families. Having built some 200 handcarts of various types in Malawi, and a few in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, and having them assessed by a variety of governmental as well as NGO agencies, I am puzzled by their individual and collective dismissal of handcart transport technology as well as their continued failure to even suggest a viable alternative form of wheeled transport. | With my BA in biology, I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi, where I taught science subjects at Livingstonia Secondary School January-June 1967, and worked as a primary school science curriculum developer at Domasi College Science Centre from July 1968-December 1969. I obtained my MScEd in 1971, and returned to Malawi, where I conducted research towards my PhD in medical sociology each summer from 1972-1979, studying traditional medical and sorcery beliefs and practices, and how they interacted with biomedicine and Christianity. My doctorate was awarded by the CUNY Graduate Center in 1985. I returned to do post doctoral research in 1986 and successive summers, and in 1989 became aware of the lightweight handcart as a solution to the transport needs of rural Malawians. I was invited by Malawi's Minister of Agriculture to demonstrate the concept at their primary agricultural research station in 1998, and in 2000, failing to find any purpose-built handcart wheels in Malawi or surrounding countries, I deigned a cart based on two bicycle wheels, and demonstrated it to Malawi's President. I had these carts assessed by the World Bank sponsored Malawi Rural Travel and Transport Program and by the UNDP/Millennium Villages Project at Mwandama Research Village. The AfriCart won first prize in the ""Farm Mechanisation Category"" in Malawi's 2004 National Agricultural Fair. I've written several papers, and have been the subject of numerous news stories in this issue. I've been a major researcher and advocate on the issue of the ritualistic uses of elemental mercury. | The lightweight two wheeled handcart | LIGHTWEIGHT HANDCART FOR AFRCIAN SUBSISTENCE FARM FAMILIES | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Malawi and most other sub-Saahran nations | Yes | Sevral faculty and students at Lilongwe University of Agricultrue and Natural Resoruces (Malawi)_ | Proof of Concept | For reasons that my PhD in sociology is unable to fathom, professional agricultural development community has been extremely refractory and unimaginative with regard to the assessment and implementation of handcarts for the subsistence farming sector, and although recognizing the need for an alternative to headloading, has refused, and not merely failed, to assess, adopt, advocate for, and foster the commercialization of this, the sole possible form of wheeled transport for Africa's farmers. | The problem is the reliance of Africa's subsistence farmers on headloading for all their domestic, agricultural, and marketing needs. They posses no suitable wheeled transport for these needs. The nearest candidate, the bicycle, is unsuited to the transport of bulk materials, as well as being far expensive for most families. The development community has fixated on the use of ox and donkey carts, but these are far too expensive, leaving no viable alternative to the handcart! | My solution, the lightweight handcart is a mature transport technology, used for centuries in the developed world and much of the developing world. Its current iteration is based on the use of two wheels with pneumatic tires and twin ball bearings, on a common axle, which forms the structural backbone of a wooden or bamboo platform or shallow box, centrally fastened on top of the axle, and two handles that can be used to either pull or push the cart. The load is balanced on either side of the axle, so that the operator does no lifting, and can easily transport some 150 kilograms over level ground. It is envisaged as an alternative transport modality to headloading, the current norm through most of sub-Saharan Africa, and many parts of the Indian subcontinent. The commercialization of these wheels and the carts they form the basis of, would literally revolutionize agricultural productivity in Africa, and enormously enhance the lives of the women and girls who are currently the most common transporters of water, firewood, farm inputs, harvested crops, grain to the grinding mill, crop surplus to markets, all on their heads! The enhanced supply of domestic water, put to handwashing, will greatly diminish the current epidemic of diarrheal disease. The long-term vision is for these carts to be produced locally from imported Chinese wheels, and the wooden bodies distributed in knocked down form, as the IKEA model, for assembly at the point of sale. Microfinance will assist uptake. | To the best of my knowledge, that over the past ~30 years, there has been no attempt other than mine, to advocate for the transfer of lightweight handcart transport technology to the subsistence farming families of sub-Saharan Africa, and elsewhere where headloading remains the modal form of domestic and agricultural transport. This old/mature technology is new to Africa, and apparently to the vast msjority of the manifold development agencies working there, even those experts in rural transport, who although recognizing the need for some alternative to headloading, have for reasons unknown, not only failed/refused to assess handcarts as a replacement, and have suggested no viable alternative transport technology, that is one that is appropriate to the needs of subsistence farm families, in terms of their volumetric and weight load capacity, and affordable to their very limited means. This despite the fact that since the late 1980's, they all travel to their third world work sites pulling their wheeled luggage behind them, itself a form of handcart; that is a container balanced over two wheels rotating on a common axle/axis. My proposed solution is in essence a nedwn ""perspective"" enabling the introduction of an old technology, albeit one that is new to most of sub-Saharan Africa. | To some extent, this question is suggesting the need to reinvent the wheel! The ""solution"" to headloading is simply to place the load on a handcart, and pull or push it, doing no lifting, as opposed to balancing it on one's head and walking with that burden on one's spine and legs. There should be no need to measure the progress with ""methodological rigor,"" as it is self-evident that taking the load off the heads of women and girls, and placing it on two state of the art wheels with low-friction ball bearings and low-hysteresis pneumatic tires is vastly easier than headloading, and vastly more efficient in time and caloric expenditure. However in order to placate those who see the need for a methodologically rigorous assessment, I initially, at the invitation of Malawi's Minister of Agriculture, demonstrated the handcart's carrying ability at Malawi's main agricultural research station in 1998, with an official report submitted tot he Minister. No action was taken! Dr. Darwin Singa, my colleague at Bunda College of Agriculture, conducted a rigorous test of the cart's use for transporting water for small scale irrigation in 2007, and concluded that the carts were a valauble mode of transporting not onlywater, but a wide variety of farm inputs and harvested crops. Even a cursory perusal of the term handcart on the internet/web will convince the uninitiated of the utility of the handcart or gardencart, assuming that she had no exerience of wheeled luggage. | Neither I or my colleagues in Malawi are entrepreneurs. Our goal is to convince the aid and development organizations, and UN agencies as UNDP, FAO, UNIFEM, WHO, UNIDO, World Food Program, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, etc., that this transport technology needs to be incorporated into their existing programs wherever possible in order to demonstrate their utility both to themselves, the end users, the local governments, and especially to the commercial sector, so as to convince the latter to import the wheels, axles and fasteners from China, and set up workshops and factories to build the cart bodies, and so make the carts commercially available. The more exposure they get, the more will be sold, just as in the case of manifold useful technologies, from bicycles to mobile phones. The number of projected lives impacted is immense, as every farm family will want one, and with microfinancing could own one. All countries in sub-Saharan Africa constitute the potential market, as well as India and Bangladesh. | The most needed resource in this case, is a change of mindset among the development community, in particular their current infatuation with digital technology, intelligent cell phones and drones, as exemplars, and address themselves to the basics of farming, that is moving materials into and out of fields, which is currently on the heads of women and girls, who, with their menfolk, till the soil with hoes. The short term need is to convince some agency or agencies to demonstrate the cart's utility on a small scale and disseminate their findings. Assessments of various types and sizes of wheels, and durability of bearings and tires needs be made to develop optimal specifications for a range of consumer needs and incomes. Optimal bearing types, tube material, and tire tread material and pattern need be assessed. In the medium term, the results are expected engender further interest and be communicated to the commercial sector, as well as to microfinance providers. The benefits need to be widely touted, as in advertising the carts usefulness, and enlisting the official agricultural extension sector, both governmental and NGO's. In the long term, we need to convince the entrepreneurial sector to import the wheels, components and spares in bulk containerloads, and to establish factories/workshops to manufacture the carts on a large scale. | Malawi Handcart Project www.mercurypoisoningproject.org/malawi ""A Brooklyn Inventor Eases an African Headache; An Inexpensive Handcart Catches On in Malawi, Where Women Have Long Used Their Heads"" By Robert F. Worth, 09/14/02 www.nytimes.com/2002/09/14/nyregion/brooklyn-inventor-eases-african-headache-inexpensive-handcart-catches-malawi.html ""Handcarts for Transporting Water in Sub Sahara Africa -- A Neglected Technology."" Comment , on line PLOS ONE June 22, 2016 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/comment?id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fannotation%2F8742e1b4-204b-4292-993c-0fa5e311bcac “Handcarts: The Most Appropriate Transportation Technology for Transfer to Malawi.” Malawi T2 Newsletter Malawi Transportation Technology Transfer Centre Vol. 1 No. 2 Blantyre, Malawi January 2006 ""Handcarts in Malawi and Sub-Sahara Africa."" Anthropology News. Association for Africanist Anthropology. Guest Column. Pp. 38-39 Jan. 2003. ""Healthier Transport Options"" The New York Times. March 19, 2002. Letter. ""End indifference and bureaucratic inertia"" Akwete Sande Daily Times [Malawi] 04/15/13 http://www.bnltimes.com/index.php/sunday-times/headlines/columns/319-hard-tackle/14730-end-indifference-and-bureaucratic-inertia- ""Cart for all seasons."" C. Chirwa. The Nation August 25, 2000. ""Network Africa"" radio news program. BBC Africa Service. Coverage of the Malawi Handcart Project. Interview by Leslie Goffe on 9/21/02 Broadcast week of 9/24/02. | Sorry, but I could not locate any links to these long ago interviews. ""Network Africa"" radio news program. BBC Africa Service. Coverage of the Malawi Handcart Project. Interview by Leslie Goffe on 9/21/02 Broadcast week of 9/24/02. ""Everywoman"" radio news program. BBC World Service. London. Host Anna Umbima covers the Malawi Handcart Project. Interview 9/17/02. Broadcast week of 9/23/02. ""The World"" radio news program. BBC/WGBH Boston. Host Lisa Mullins covers the Malawi Handcart Project. Interview and broadcast 9/17/02. | In June 2004, the Malawi Handcart Project won the ""Gold Award"" (First Prize) in the ""Farm Mechanisation Category"" at the 2nd National Agricultural Fair, sponsored by the Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce & Industry, held at the Chichiri Fair Grounds in Blantyre June 17-20. The theme was ""Agricultural Fair-Forum for Sharing Technology and Market Information for Economic Development."" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
272 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Innovator Pramod | Stephen | PRAMODSTEPHENANDNAVPRAVARTAKCOMPANY | www.diabetescureprocess.com | Pastor,Writer, Innovator | Male | India | India | English | I written a book ""Your Health Is In Your Mouth"" For metabolic diseases and digestive problems I have printed book and also www.diabetescureprocess.com I written many articles publish by many local and International Journals any people can see in google search Pramod Stephen Sugauli Bihar | Biography Name:-PRAMOD STEPHEN Designation:- Pastor ,Innovator,Writer. Address:-CHRISTIAN COLONY, PO SUGAULI, PS SUGAULI DIST. EAST CHAMPARAN STATE BIHAR, INDIA PIN- 845456 Mob No.:-+91- 9199646455 Email:-pramod_stephen@rediffmail.com acadmic qualification:- Matric S.E.C., Allahabad UP 1973 Arts Compart. . I.A. B.U., Muzaffarpur 1977 Geography 3rd div. Subject of study/research:-Dairy & Health Area of specialization:-Animal feed & Diabetes Notable Contribution:- 1. I prepare low cost animal feed by useless substances like khakahra (dead rice grain) and calcium, maze khari (oil cake) and turmerics certified by NDRI Karnal, Haryana (India). 2. I prepare human medicine by useless substance i.e. bile juice to cure stomach problems digestive problems and other disease also tested by C.D.R.I., Lucknow UP (India) and I filed a patent for the same also. (patent no. 834/KOL/2007) 3. I written a book named ""Your Health is in Your mouth"" on human health to cure diabetes, stomach problems, metabolic disorders, thyroids, piles etc. . . Details of awards/honors received,:- 1. Shristi Samman (2007) - by N.I.F. (Science & Technology) Ahmedabad for low cost Animal feed. 2. Champaran Ratna (2008) 3. Rotary Motihari Lake Town. | Bowels , urine odors and water saving solutions | From the beginning time people go for bowel outside in the fields and when he was doing bowel that time how much time he spend that place he must live | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | India , My innovation is completely new and not spread any where. But ,I want to spread in the world | No | Research & Development | Yes | From the beginning time people go for bowel outside in the fields and when he was doing bowel that time how much time he spend that place he must live in the environments of the bowel odor. And till now after many improvement of toilets we must live in odor of poop in our toilets .we use perfume detergent cake and any kind of chemicals to remove odor but odor mixed with perfume or chemical and disturb our nose to brain and our mood become distress. | Abstract:-A new odor extracting System for urinals of a urine couple able to extract all odors (air) from inside the pot and from the room by the air extract pipe to extract fan. Field of the invention: - The present invention is directed to providing a urinals and toilets room in odor extracting system for removing odors. Because in public toilets and urinals is combined in every places. Back ground: - (1) Human excrements (urine) smells unpleasant and unless carefully disposed of transmit diseases and till now not any kind of urinals having system to remove smell. (2) I saw many urinals in the world and many slandered public toilets, urinals and personal toilets but not found this system all over the world ,because till now the innovation for odor free urinals like this not done. (3) At the time of urinations smell goes to our nose as well as room and we must leave till we will be back from the urinals room .my innovated system suck all the bad gasses with air. (4)The extract pipe must be in urinal and adjust to extract fan and extract fan suck all gasses, air and odor from the urinal room as well as whole House, Homes, Hotel and offices .Because when any place air is less than the air of outside come to fill the gap. (5) We are using many kind of air freshener for making urinal and room fresh and removing gasses but it is also harmful to some extent .By my innovated method smells go outside and fresh air comes inside naturally. | . Many type of Toilets available in the world market They are more expensive and not affordable by all people my designed toilet is chief and less expensive. | I have no team ,I am fighting alone. | I want to share my idea to company they will expand the work. | I need to contact toilets manufacturing company to share my innovations and they provide me. Royalty | www.diabetescureprocess.com but it is only for diabetes .I can send you my design. | only phone+ 91-9199646455 | I got Siristi Samman( awards ) for my innovation Low cost animal feed ,I speech my innovation in 4th World Congress on Digestive & Metabolic Diseases in San Francisco U.S.A. But, I not got any award for above innovation and other innovations. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
273 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mona | Kawoya | Roperfree Social Enterprise | http://roperfree.blogspot.com/ | Co-Founder & Operation's Manager | Female | Uganda | Uganda | English | Roperfree is social enterprise started by innovating Roperfree Mosquito Repellent to provide effective solution in the battle against malaria in Uganda and across the globe and its one of the first mosquito repellent to be made in Uganda with pure essential oils to combat malaria Roperfree Aromatherapy came after the mosquito repellents and the blog will highlight the benefits of the products such as; skincare, body-care, hair care, stories from the public related to relieving joint, muscle and body pains in order to get more customers. AsRoperfree (founder & co-founder) came up with an idea to fight malaria through innovation of Roperfree Mosquito Repellent essential oils to stop malaria in Uganda and the rest of world in 2017 the concept acquired in Canada while founder/husband was doing Business Marketing Diploma at Humber College 2012. | Roperfree is fighting malaria in Uganda using my own innovated Roperfree MosquitoRepellent with pure essential oil is the most rewarding thing I have ever had in life. My husband brought up an idea as we wanted to make difference in people's lives especially the most venerable groups like children below five years and pregnant mothers who suffer bouts of malaria. Roper mosquito repellent saves life. Under Roperfree a social enterprise company we do free malaria sensitization & free roperfree mosquito repellents to the needy. If you want to be our partners in saving more lives from malaria please contact us on the following email: Roperfree@jkasumbas.com | Roperfree social enterprise | Roperfree a social enterprise established to fight malaria and rheumatism in Uganda and the rest of the Sub- Saharan Africa | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Uganda, Congo,Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania | No | Scaling | Sales are increasing due to increased demand and many major supermarket & pharmacies are buying our products. Increased sale online via e-commerce & social media platforms. | There is a great opportunity to explore the use of mosquito control tools beyond nets and spraying alongside social and behavior change interventions to help address these identified gaps in malaria prevention that occur after dark. Roperfree mosquito repellent is fighting malaria by filling the missing gaps because the treated mosquito bed nets and residual spraying have been so insufficient because they lack flexibility. Our products can be used and offer protection 24/7 limitations | The World Health Organization estimates that between 2000 and 2015, the rate of new malaria cases declined by 37 percent globally and malaria deaths fell by 60 percent, with 6.2 million lives saved. Three quarters of those gains can be attributed to interventions such as insecticide-treated bed nets and indoor spraying for mosquitoes. But those interventions are only designed to work indoors While there has been such great progress in malaria control programs which is still hard to eliminate to zero. According to Roperfree research findings conducted during malaria sensitization campaigns, discovered the need to focus on human behavior instead of solely on mosquito behavior. Roperfree research study analyzed data from 62 in-depth interviews with community members, medical workers, supermarket attendants and community/religious leaders conducted in December 2018 and May/June 2019. The researchers also looked at data from night time observation of routine community activities, such as buying and selling at local shops, watching television in public spaces and socializing in small groups, as well as large-scale community events such as weddings and religious ceremonies. The researchers found little evidence of people using protection against mosquitoes outdoors. ""Participants reported that topical repellents were not widely available in the community As one woman who was interviewed remarked, ""When you are outside, you really can't wear the bed nets, can you?"" | Roperfree Mosquito Repellent oils are natural, pure organic, & no reported side effects creating a positive impact by fighting malaria to save lives. Our social business model is to create employment via chain of distribution; Our repellent oils are versatile do not need water, electricity, shelter to function eliminating barriers than other repellents on the market, can be used anywhere which is a competitive advantage to other repellents & preventative methods available on the market Uganda government has been making efforts in malaria reduction by providing interventions such as; insecticide mosquito net, spraying homes with DDT but still malaria cases are still high because there is no viable solution and the free distributed mosquito nets are prone to misuse, don't give maximum protection,mosquito start to bite early & there are only effective during night time whereas the DDT. Is raising severe health concerns. Uganda is agriculture, herbal growth, and other sectors of employment will be created in form of chain of distribution which will stimulate economic growth &development of the country. Malaria sensitization in rural & urban centers is vital whereas income from sales is invested back & searching for new market to lower down the price so as to be more affordable & we are supplying major supermarkets & Pharmacies in Kampala while we are position our product on the Internet to outside world via social media platforms and selling on all major e-commerce platforms. | Roperfree is gaining momentum everyday as new orders and clients come in. We measure the progress from the feedback and the amount of sales we make. Progress of the products are measured on the amount of demand in certain period or season. | We are fighting to eradicate malaria in Uganda and social business model of Roperfree aims at cutting malaria by 50% in the first five years, targeting mainly the vulnerable groups in rural and urban centers such as; children below 5 years, pregnant mothers, the elderly, displaced people & refugees in camps. To achieve this goal we started doing malaria campaigns by sensitize people in the urban and rural communities while offering free resourceful information and Roperfree repellents oils targeting the most vulnerable groups As we envision a malaria free world, our mission is to become a vibrant social responsible organization & getting partnership, distributors for our Roperfree repellent oils for market expansion to cover the whole country. When Roperfree mosquito repellent was getting reputable stand in the market due to its benefits; we introduce Roperfree mosquito Aromatherapy oils to our communities which is helping in relieving body pains such as; rheumatism due to the aging population in the rural and urban centers plus fighting skin infections after realizing that most people in the rural have hygiene challenges which is causing skin infections. So since the inception of Roperfree Aromatherapy we have managed to make reduction in that area and to our surprise aromatherapy oils are moving faster than mosquito repellents due to versatility and benefits. | Resources needed are funds $20,000 only so that we could expand especially in form of marketing strategies and advertisements to cause awareness. The potential customers need to know the product, product knowledge & awareness campaigns are crucial in positioning our products in eyes of our target customer to benefit. Our products are life savior and malaria is still number one killer disease in Uganda and the rest of the Sub Saharan Africa. Roperfree is making a huge positive impact in improving people's health and uplifting economic growth as malaria is always associate with poverty Malaria is costly in all forms from denying people to work, studying or to look for employment when they are sick plus high medical cost bill plus loss of productivity,time and employment, students miss out education due to malaria. | http://roperfree.blogspot.com/ https://twitter.com/RoperfreeBrand https://www.facebook.com/roperfree/?ref=bookmarks https://www.instagram.com/p/B0WXt5AA5Y2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/B0UxdftAXXf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/Bygh82LApkV/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/ByfoSlqA63z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/ByjtAQiAINL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/BzKCrWIAZJ1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/BzKCrWIAZJ1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/BoqphcwA6cm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/BzKCrWIAZJ1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/BuyxYd5jQMw https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8-wqCDniH https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs8-wqCDniH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/p/BrgnsdUj5qB/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17906815267266113/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17973647635122574/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/18024371500027883/?hl=en | https://youtu.be/g5-EH81v9uY https://youtu.be/U_0Ic1HdcPk https://youtu.be/oexXCAmf6K4 https://youtu.be/Ce8qmN2Tzbk https://youtu.be/Zk65DpuyGXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5-EH81v9uY | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
274 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Eucharia Asikaralu | Okafor | Maklumy Technology Services | https://www.facebook.com/maklumytechnology | CEO | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | While we were able to identify that the agribusiness sector in Africa has the potential to offer a US$1 trillion opportunity, there are certain gaps that act as barriers for women and youth to fully engage with this field. About 90% of rural women in sub-Saharan Africa are farmers; they perform about 70% or more of all agricultural production activities, 100% of food processing and utilization and 50% of storage and marketing operations. Maklumy is an Agritech company that fosters entrepreneurship with high impact sustainable agricultural technology and services for the vulnerable population of women and youth in the disadvantaged and underserved communities in Nigeria. We commercialize agricultural technologies and scale up existing approaches by revamping, renewing and exploring farmers capabilities, knowledge and know-how given present and future possibilities. We believe that women are key catalyst to change and the youth will be the drivers of the 4th Industrial Revolution in agriculture that is based on mobile phone technologies; to promote the adoption of climate smart agriculture, precision farming, organic farming with digital financial inclusion.Thus, contribute towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals for zero hunger, poverty reduction, inclusive growth, business integrity, innovation, access to opportunity and global competitiveness. | Mrs Asikaralu Eucharia Okafor fosters entrepreneurship for smallholder farmer’s women and youth by helping them to acquire new skills, experience and expertise to grow their businesses, increase income, build healthier families and more resilient communities with access to banking. She has a B.Sc degree in computer science but started her life career as an ICT teacher in secondary school and later consulted for an international organization in M&E. Born and bred in one of the agrarian communities in the south eastern part of Nigeria with very rich experience and expertise in agribusiness, having apprenticed under her parents from the age of eight years across five various crops value chain. She founded Maklumy Technology Services and with her Maklumy Enterprise Development in Agriculture Initiative (MEDAI) aggregated and manages 250 smallholder farmers in agribusiness. Through her leadership, the smallholder farmer’s vulnerable population of women and youth have experienced significant growth and expanded operations to several locations in all the agrarian communities of Anambra state with digital financial inclusion. She has provided strategic planning, business development and operational expertise resulting in successful execution of projects that is still on-going. She has been an active participant in charities benefiting the grassroots, women and youth and works closely with groups at both the state, national and international level. She is a Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO) Outstanding Women in Leadership Awardee for Community Development in Nigeria. | Maklumy Technology Community Bulk Farming | ADDRESSING FOOD SECURITY BY EMPOWERING SMALLHOLDER WOMEN FARMERS IN RICE PRODUCTION | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Nigeria | Yes | Farmers, Funding Providers, Financial Service Providers, Communities, Governments, Agriculture Intervention Agencies,Fertilizer, Seeds and Crop Care Product Manufacturers. | Transition to Scale | Our business model combines the best of smallholder farmers and commercial farm model to form a hybrid using Africanized Technology adaptation to build Africanized business models. We help farmers understand natural resources (water, soil and broader ecosystem) and how it affects crop yields; organic farming, post-harvest loss management and storage facilities provide digital financial inclusion with access to market opportunities in collaboration with relevant stakeholders. | Maklumy Community Bulk Farming is a highly scalable response to decades of failure to tackle one of the world’s most pressing issues which is Food Security, Unemployment and Poverty by commercializing innovative and sustainable technologies and scaling up existing approaches that is more productive, efficient and environmentally-friendly to grow women smallholder farmer’s business, build healthier families and create more resilient communities with access to banking. | In Nigeria, women constitute a huge portion of the agricultural sector, relative to men; yet, their productive capacity remains constrained and considerably lower, possibly contributing to low overall agricultural productivity. Our approach is Aggregation and acquisition of appropriate technical, management and marketing skills by smallholder women farmers. 2. Facilitation of farmer group production, processing and marketing. 3. Production of varieties that meet farmers need. 4. Value addition to produce before sale where the farmer will command the market. 5. Facilitation of produce contracting/off-taking link methodology, quality produce that can be sold in the international markets. 6. Provision of basic infrastructure for irrigation 7. Facilitation of efficient work relationship between value chain actors and support service providers. Our vision is to reduce poverty and zero hunger while translating and transforming our natural resources, skills and experiences into profit to develop entrepreneurial spirit that contributes to food sufficiency, create jobs and generate wealth for our women and youth. | Our solution focuses on aggregating women smallholder farmers to support effective financing and production practices. Our customized farm management and supply chain software will guide production activities such as land preparation, planting and input application. It will also provide predictive data on yield, production volumes, pricing and other metrics as well as help processors with their buyers plan while ensuring traceability and standards. The real time monitoring of activities in the field will help to optimize the timing and volume of input as well as ensure efficient supply chain integration and minimize post-harvest losses. We have put in place the required storage and logistics infrastructures through partnerships while also developing opportunities for direct investment in the further expansion of this critical element of the value chain. Lobbying and advocacy for policy, intervention and strategy dev’t Private –Public partnership for dialogue and foster investment in the rice sector Market information collection and data dissemination for the sector stakeholders to make informed decisions Organizing, supporting business forum and event promoting rice production activities i.e Farmers’ market. Informing and Training stakeholders in both production and marketing – facilitating capacity building for stakeholders in the rice value chain. Partnership with Research and Development organizations | OUR IMPACT OVER THE YEARS: •Supported 250 smallholder farmers and their agro-service providers in developing their technical capacities. For example: setting up a quality or traceability system, obtaining certification, using new inputs, developing self-assessment, etc Our farmers have the advantage of being part of a network that offers fair pricing and all the support they need to be productive, thereby leading to enhanced incomes and better standards of living for the farmers and building of a more resilient community. •Input providers sell into a highly predictable and reliable ecosystem. •Processors can predict our output and expect high quality produce sourced from a fair market with high traceability and sustainable practices. •Investors and financial partners benefit from an attractive ROI based on our high volume approach, integrated operations, increased efficiencies, and effective risk mitigation. •Rural Communities enjoy increased income and better standard of living which supports a more diversified employment base and reduces the rate of urbanization/migration. •The country benefits from quality employment, food security, import substitution, export opportunities, as well as national security and pride. | Strengthening capacities often means enhancing skills for scale to invest and access to market. Maklumy plans a special training activities in the field to help 1000 smallholder farmers in the disadvantaged and underserved rural communities achieve their goals. Examples of such training are: •Global G.A.P training,Climate smart agriculture,Precision farming and organic farming •Crop Protection and Post harvest handling and Management training Digital financial inclusion, Active trade and information sharing platform Thus far: We have attracted the interest of the Central Bank of Nigeria, NIRSAL, Sterling bank and NAIC in Nigeria and a number of other Initiatives international and local. Another area of the Home grown rice production sub-sector we are challenging ourselves is to develop the supply chain systems in the country and provision of solar dryer for paddy and storage facility We are also currently adopting a developed framework for a domestic accepted standard for the production of Nigeria Home grown rice sector. With proper certification and a National accepted code of practices we believe Nigerian Grown rice can break into European markets and AFCTA free trade zone. . | There is a dire need to provide a solar dryer and storage facility for the rice paddy in Nigeria in order to overcome food wastages and avoid low pricing of paddy.. Over 50 percent of paddy and milled rice produced annually go to waste between Farmgate to market while less than one percent is exported. Improving the post-harvest management infrastructure: (grading, packing, storage and transport/solar drying) will help reduce high post-harvest losses, increase production surpluses, and improve shelf life and quality of paddy moisture content. This in turn will help to stabilize prices in the domestic market as well as substantially boost export to highly lucrative and competitive international markets. Farm Standards- uniformity,Produce standardisation.,Protocol based evacuation process. Group marketing, Hedging against risk.,PPP’s,Fair trade.,Mixed use communities.,Mentor adoption. WHAT IS NEEDED Training to foster standards- high or low Trade routes for rapid/predictable evacuation Storage, packing and presentation Rules(MOU) Stakeholders Good lawyers Agricultural credit, Irrigation facilities, Market access, Roads infrastructure, Effective and efficient extension services to enable them contribute meaningfully to home grown rice production in Nigeria. | Https://www,Facebook,com/maklumytechnology, Https://www.instagram,com/maklumytechnology, Https://www. Linkedin,com/euchariaokafor | Https://www.youtube,com/maklumytechnology, | Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO) Outstanding Women in Leadership Award in Recognition of Contribution towards Community Development in Nigeria. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
275 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Venant | Mligo | MycpdZw & FEED Innovate | www.mycpdzw.org | Program Coordinator | Male | United States of America | United Republic of Tanzania | English | As a public officer in the Tanzania Police Force, my job was so demanding and time-consuming that could not have time for professional development. Once, I got online learning from the Peacekeeping Operations Training Institute, from Richmond, USA. I completed five humanitarian online courses and my employer promoted me. Also, at Mzumbe University as a Students' Welfare Officer, I used social media to create awareness about substance abuse education. The forum helped to reduce alcoholism and other substance abuse among students. These experiences have led me to decide to solve relevant challenges which Nurses are facing in Tanzania. To maintain their professional and update their working quality each year nurses in Tanzania has to do some courses which will make them continue with the work or apply for new jobs. Unfortunately many of them they are not able to attend training because they work in the rural and remote area where are very far from training centers, it is very expensive, very time consuming while patients and their family need them and their salaries cannot help them to pay fees and buy learning materials. A nurse who does not get frequent training is not able to provide good service to the patients. FEED Innovate will use mobile application innovation to address this challenge among Nurses and Midwives. It will provide the Ministry of Health training content for Nurses through a mobile application known as MyCPDTZ. They will be able to study and do their exams through mobile phones. The points will help them to qualify for a nursing license each year. The program has already tested in Zimbabwe where 1336 nurses are registered and continue with their studies. This innovation will make a big impact in Tanzania. | Mr. Venant Mligo is fromTanzania. He earned a bachelor’s degree in education at Mzumbe University. He completed different International Humanitarian Training. He has more than ten years of experience in managing and monitoring student welfare, training, mental health, and substance abuse prevention, and gender-based violence prevention programs. Previously, he worked for the Tanzania Ministry of Home Affairs-Police Force in its division of Crime and Substances Abuse Prevention. Mr. Mligo also has more than three years’ experience as a secondary education teacher. He is the founder of the Youth Education Support Group a community-based organization that provides rehabilitation services to students and youth who are addicted to drugs. He is a founder of FEED-innovation which has a partnership with Mycpdzw-Zimbabwe. These organizations provide health education by using innovation. For the past six years, he has been voluntarily leading a youth empowerment program, teaching local youth life-skills and providing them guidance and counseling. Mr.Mligo is interested in research focused on innovation for health, education, agriculture, climate change, and substance abuse. | MyCpdZw & FEED innovative | MycpdZw in partnership with FEED Innovate brings health education solution to nurses and parents on their mobile phones | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Solution have to be launched in Zimbabwe and Tanzania. Later will be launched in all East Africa Countries and beyound | Yes | FEED Innovate in Tanzania | Transition to Scale | After getting an innovative idea in the year 2018, the team started to make investigation and research on how it will work. Later, the team developed software which worked very well in Zimbabwe. We have 1336 nurses in Zimbabwe who are registered for our services until June 2019. Now we have to scale to Tanzania where the demand is higher than in Zimbabwe. We have partnered with FEED Innovate. Also, will be used to provide substance abuse education. We will reach 30,000 clients by the year 2025. | There is no accessible and affordable professional development for health workers. This solution will provide continuing professional development, access to guidelines and other clinical decision support tools, improved access to modern health education, offline functionality for clinical decision support tools, mobile application in playstore and make CPD points management system to allow health workers submit points electronically to their councils and renew licences online. | It is continuing medical education support which reaches every health worker through innovation. The solution will bring greater access to standardised and modern health education for all health workers through designing the project, launch at national level including stakeholders such as medical councils and the health workers’ associations, train and create awareness of all health workers countrywide on how to use the application and lastly start support learners through coordination. Our vision is to be a referenced provider of world-class medical education. Our mission is to ensure that no health worker is left behind in terms of access to education and clinical education and decision support tools through the use of mobile devices and other telemedicine tools. In the long run, the plan is to offer/deliver modern professional courses via distance learning and reach all medical workers in Africa and beyond. Because of the high prevalence of substance abuse among children and youth in Tanzania, this application in the future will also provide substance abuse education and prevention to parents, teachers, and youth. In the future, it will also provide telemedicine for serving life. | Currently, nurses and other health workers in Tanzania get an education through seminars, workshops, learning centers, and mass media. Every training they attend increases the access for them to get their annual service license and rank promotion. These traditional methods are very expensive, time-consuming, very few, limited to a few workers, patients miss health services, needs may trainers/teachers and uncertain. This innovative solution is better because convenience and improved access to modern health education, available on the website as well as a mobile application in the play store, it has offline functionality for clinical decision support tools, and it is sustainable once implemented through annual subscription by users. It is also, consistency, variance, accuracy, engaging materials, and provides feedback timely. The innovative methodology will not leave behind any nurse. All they will be provided with education and get their annual license. | The team from Tanzania and Zimbabwe started to research the idea in September 2018. The investigation and research displayed positive results in March 2019. Later, the team developed software which worked very well in Zimbabwe. Solution launched on 9 May 2019 in Zimbabwe by the representative of Ministry of Health and Child Care in. We have 1336 nurses in Zimbabwe who are registered for our services until June 2019. We measure progress by counting the number of registered learners and demand of learners in other countries. We also measure by credential from the government and their organs. The Ministry of health in Zimbabwe appreciates our service. Tanzania Nurses and Midwives Council need this service to be provided in Tanzania. We also evaluate the education provided and the tools which are used to provide education. The contents which are inseminated to health workers are provided by the Ministry of the health of the particular country. | The main goal of this program is to use mobile application for providing is to ensure that no health worker is left behind in terms of access to education and clinical decision support tools through the use of mobile devices and other telemedicine tools. The first objective is to bring greater access to standardized and modern health education for all health workers, the second objective is to the management system to allow health workers submit points electronically to their councils and renew licenses online and the third objective is to allow the dissemination of clinical guidelines and clinical updates via mobile. The project will initially start in Zimbabwe and Tanzania but later it will expand service to other countries which have the same problem in Africa and beyond. The project will recruit one projector director in every country. Also in every country will employ ICT system and health experts depend on the needs assessment report in each country. In East Africa, the project will reach 50, 000 health workers from the public and private sector by 2030. | The solution needs training resources and launching the solution in Tanzania. In the short term, the solution will need ICT tools, awareness creation experts. The medium-term the solution will need experts for supervision and in a Long term, the solution will need continuous evaluation. The fund is highly needed in short and medium-term before it can sustain by itself. Initial capital will be very helpful for the solution to be launched and implemented. The solution is hugely needed in Tanzania but resources are the hindrance. | The website of the Solution is www.mycpdzw.org and the play store is mycpdzw | link: https://youtu.be/ut8I9ZR6wns | Two teammates have we have won Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship in public health: Substance abuse education, treatment, and prevention. Also, Health policy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
276 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jeyhun | Hajiyev | Chang Gung University | http://www.cgu.edu.tw/bin/home.php?Lang=en | Postdoctoral research fellow | Male | Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan | English | Russian | My main motivation to join the UN Solutions Summit is to present our project, which is about the development of the puzzle product in an educational context. We have completed the prototype stage and ready to crowdfunding our project. However, we aim to expand our project to the global markets by introducing to wider audiences and building partnerships. | I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Graduate Insitute of Business & Management, Department of Information Management of the Chang Gung University, Taiwan. I have received my Ph.D. degree in the same department, in 2018. My major research interests include digital marketing technologies in education (e-learning, m-learning), banking (m-banking), public services (e-government), optimization methods in supply chain and so on. | Mappy Puzzle | The educational and the most entertaining puzzle for children and all puzzle lovers | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Taiwan | No | Proof of Concept | We have completed the prototype and testing. | We aim to bring the added value to the education of children from the early ages and to the entertainment of all puzzle lovers. Mappy is a geographical map-shaped for children. To make the learning processes more entertaining and non-formal, a map-shaped puzzle can be good choice. It will play an immense role in the learning of nature and culture of world countries with more entertaining way and strengthen the tie between them. It will also help with language learning in a more non-formal way. | Our long-term vision is to benefit from augmented reality (AR) in the near future. Such that, the physical puzzle will be replaced with a digital product by bringing puzzle shapes in 3D format combined with animation, to children and puzzle lovers. This is believed to be a breakthrough step in the table-top games industry. | Our puzzle pieces’ standalone tells a story. For example, the “strawberry” piece refers to strawberry and teaches children what strawberry actually looks like and where it is grown in Taiwan. Moreover, it teaches what is Taiwan famous for in terms of historical sites, flora and fauna, foods, and so on. It guides travelers on their visit to Taiwan regarding the recreation and touristic attractions. It raises awareness on endemic, extinct, and/or endangered flora and fauna (e.g., Formosan black bear, Formosan magpie). | Our team is comprised of researcher, industrial and graphic designer, who can potentially contribute to the project in the current stage, as well as the future AR development stage. We measure our progress and capabilities based on previous experience and achievements. | As we develop a product that represents the geography of the World, we plan to expand the puzzle options to world countries, regions, continents (e.g., Europe, North America, South America, Asia-Pacific, and so on). It will be based on the concept of ""puzzle in a puzzle"". | The main resources we need are co-working space/lab/office that we can work independently, more designers (by considering that each design/creative group is expected to work on the design and scenario-making of one specific geographical region/continent. In addition, we will need AR developers to successfully switch our product to digital content. | https://penpro.wixsite.com/puzzle | https://youtu.be/RK1-MjaLMMI | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
277 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Abdullah | Alam | Institute of Social and Policy Sciences | www.i-saps.org | Research Fellow | Male | Pakistan | Kuwait | English | STRIDE has been designed as an innovation that is changing the lives of many children and families in Pakistan. STRIDE has successfully gathered wider acceptance of the stakeholders because it is cost-effective, conforms to local realities, has stronger community buy-in, is easy to replicate at scale and embed within the existing government systems. The team decided to share our innovation and learnings from the implementation of STRIDE with wider community so that the benefits of the solution can be extended to other marginalized and disadvantaged regions as well. | I possess considerable experience of more than twelve years in education planning, governance and management. My major areas of expertise include education, economics, statistics, mathematics, data analysis and public financing including equitable and gender financing of education. Being part of full time program team at I-SAPS, I have provided technical support for the development of education sector plans of various provinces of Pakistan. I was also the technical lead for the Sustainable Transition and Retention in Delivering Education (STRIDE) initiative of I-SAPS. I have an M.Phil degree in Management Sciences, with specialization in Finance. My major strength is the ability to synthesize diverse sources of information to produce knowledge that has strategic value. I am also part of the research and analysis team for annual report on Public Financing of Education in Pakistan. The report is a regular feature for the last ten years. I have also designed and delivered capacity building programs on education financing and accountability in education sector procurements for government officials, civil society and media. I write for major newspapers of Pakistan. I have authored number of research papers on economics, education, management and finance at international level. I have also been teaching at various levels for over ten years and have been an active member of Students’ Counseling Committees. | Sustainable Transition and Retention for Delivering Education (STRIDE) | Local planning and context-specific solutions to address the challenge of low transition and retention at post-primary level | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Pakistan | No | Transition to Scale | The STRIDE initiative was piloted in 4 districts of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) provinces of Pakistan. After the completion of the two-years pilot program, the provincial governments have adopted STRIDE. Currently, the Punjab government has scaled-up the program to 22 districts (out of total 36) using their own budgets. The KP government has also sustained the intervention in pilot districts through its own funds while it is planning to scale-up the intervention in additional 5 districts. | STRIDE has been designed as an innovation to respond to the challenge of low retention and transition of students at post-primary levels. It also addresses the challenge of aggregated planning at provincial levels where the local level disparities and problems remain hidden and therefore unaddressed. | STRIDE has four major components, which synergize with each other to ensure greater impact. These include local level planning to identify intervention areas, schools and students; establishment of post-primary afternoon schools in existing government schools; provision of transport facilities to those students who are unable to access schools or remain at the risk of dropping out to due to distance barriers; and engagement with school communities and school councils to address the social and cultural barriers, particularly for girls’ post-primary schooling. Since the beginning of the STRIDE intervention in pilot districts, the aim was to ensure the sustainability of STRIDE intervention in the current districts and its scale-up in additional districts. STRIDE successfully gathered wider acceptance of the provincial governments because it is cost-effective, conforms to local realities, has stronger community buy-in, is easy to replicate at scale and embed within the existing government systems. The long-term vision is to ensure that children from disadvantaged backgrounds having poor access to education are provided educational facilities near to their homes so that they are able to contribute towards sustainable development of the country and also earn better livelihoods. | The government spends huge funds on school upgradation and construction of new schools every year. Given the resource constraint, it is likely that many children will remain uneducated because of poor educational supply. The STRIDE intervention identifies areas and students having poor access to education at post-primary levels. Local planning is an integral part of STRIDE intervention which helps identify needy areas and students through qualitative and quantitative information gathering. Local planning is a participatory process and is informed by stakeholders’ meetings, qualitative data gathering and analysis of the secondary data of the education departments. It is also complemented by qualitative data collection which covers various local-level aspects, challenges and community preferences and helps in understanding and developing solutions that conform to the local realities. | The complete solution was developed and implemented in the four pilot districts. During the starting months, progress was tracked and course corrections were done through our internal M&E team. We had also employed our field level staff for supporting teaching and learning process at the school, mobilize community and also monitor activities in the field. However, during the second year of intervention, the provincial education departments included the STRIDE schools in their monitoring systems. From this point onward, monitoring undertaken by our internal team was complemented by independent monitoring done through the governments' own monitoring mechanisms. An independent end-of-project evaluation was also undertaken to gauge the progress and document learnings from the implementation of the pilot intervention. This paved way for the scale-up of the intervention using government systems. | The STRIDE team is providing ongoing support to the education departments for adopting and implementing the STRIDE intervention through their own systems. While the Punjab government has scaled-up the intervention in 22 additional districts and has also earmarked their own funds for the purpose, the STRIDE team is working with the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to adopt STRIDE as a solution for significantly improving student transition and retention at post-primary levels. The team also envisages taking the solution to the other two provinces of the country (and other regions) where student retention and transition is also a bigger challenge. Once undertaken in the other two provinces, it is expected that more than 50,000 children will directly benefit from the intervention. | The STRIDE intervention rests upon local level planning, which is essential for its implementation. Scaling the solution to other regions would require resources to undertake the local level planning to specify needs and identify solutions to implement like higher-level afternoon schools and transport provision. In the short term, funds for teacher salaries in afternoon schools, engaging field/monitoring staff and transport budget will be needed. In the medium term, the government officials can be trained to undertake local level planning to ensure that all disadvantaged and marginalized children are identified and relevant solutions are provided to bring them to schools and ensure that they continue their education. In this regard, resources for building their capacity will be needed. | http://www.ilmassociation.com/Home/STRIDE https://www.dawn.com/news/1436068 https://www.dawn.com/news/1424402 https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/pakistan-local-communities-take-initiative-on-development-by-zara-kayani-2019-03 | https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7evujv https://www.facebook.com/PTIKPOfficial/videos/education-minister-kp-atif-khan-speech-at-launching-ceremony-of-sustainable-tran/1738201239533090/ | None yet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
278 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chaudhary Talha | Waseem | Mad Number | https://madnumber.org | Founder/CEO | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | Being from a technological background I am passionate about using technology for social impact. UN Solutions Summit is filled with solutions and change makers so the learning and the aura of it seems delightful and I'm hoping to gain learnings for the lifetime from it. Global leaders at one place, exchanging idea, collaborations and life long friendships also the importance of the summit for the world are the factors that motivated me to submit and present my innovative solution which is going to encounter poverty. In the past I've launched solutions like Decider which helps Millennials take decision quickly, as daily small decisions can be difficult sometimes and will waste a lot of time and this app is available on the app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/decider-decide-anything/id1326776179. I've also published a tutorial in which I've presented a simplified approach to create an app like PokemonGo and at the end given solution on how it can be used to build different ideas to help people https://medium.com/@ibjects/develop-pokemon-go-type-game-using-google-maps-for-ios-in-swift-4-tutorial-5d68bde3271d. So this is how I use innovation for positive social impact. For me thinking, researching, validating, developing, launching and improving ideas is the cycle of life. | I'm working as a data analyst on STRYDE program by MasterCard Foundation and TechnoServe in Africa and BeniBiz which is also a youth training program in Africa. Working as an atlas corps fellow with Points of Light Civic Accelerator (CivicX) (Now Acumen CivicX) in digital marketing analysis and tools with social ventures across United States and providing part time consultancy to some non-profit foundations in Pakistan. In the past I've worked in social entrepreneurship sector with initiatives like Cafe Entrepreneurship, working with social ventures in US with Civic Accelerator (CivicX) and an ongoing project investorscafe.co we are encouraging young people to start more sustainable social ventures. I use technology for social impact and my focus is on poverty, education and employment in Pakistan. Innovating at ibjects.com we are working on ideas and after market validation we are in process of developing http://madnumber.org/ which is a financial platform that is self sustained by the public and is going to encounter poverty, education and employment issues starting from Pakistan. With a bachelors degree in Computer Science, I've recently finished Data Science and Data Analytics certification from the General Assembly (GA) in Washington DC. My experienced geek side include working on iPhone/iPad and Apple Watch apps development in which I've worked on apps in the sector of medical, healthcare, lifestyle and utilities as a team lead, team mate and as an individual. I also have experience designing UI/UX, especially for mobile apps using Sketch & Photoshop. | Mad Number | A self-sustained financial ecosystem to provide basic income guarantee aimed to encounter poverty. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Pakistan | No | Proof of Concept | Mobile app that we are developing is after validation of idea, tested design mockups and conducting survey for 1 and a half year with beneficiaries and our potential users. We have our own research and also the research on basic income guarantee conducted in the past by the experts of this field. So we have a very strong ground when it comes to proof of concept. | Now-a-days we are so busy in our lives that we don't have time to help the people in need. Poor suffers as we pass by every day. Even when we give money or buy food for them it is only good for a very short period of time and then they are back to having nothing. The result, well the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer and most millennials are confused in understanding how to break this cycle foe equality and for the sake of a better future for this world. | Our solution is a mobile app that raise funds of its own. The user spend time on the app playing a simple number raising game and hence the funds are raise by the app in between and this is the most innovative part of the app as users are not paying a single dollar they are just using the app i.e. giving time and the app is converting this time into funds. These funds are then used to build small businesses where we hire beneficiaries hence ensuring a basic income guarantee. The small businesses we are building will also make profit and this profit will also be added to the funds raised by our app and this gives us a strong ground on self-sustainability. Our long term vision is to have global impact on poverty. The good thing about technology is that it can be scaled or curated for a specific country or community. The beauty of our solution is that a person sitting on the couch at a house in Waterfront Washington DC, will be helping someone in the Tanzania and can see it all happening right on the mobile app. The app build that bridge that is required for us to actually help a poor person get a sustainable life. | Most organizations working on poverty rely on donations and have solutions like doing a food drive or building a shelter house etc. Where we are coming up with a different approach, with a sustainable way of encountering poverty and a solution that is the right fit for the modern era and the future to come. It is based on some of the best researches happened for Poverty like Mincome. Our app raise funds of its own by converting user's time into money. So a different and really easy approach as we are already on our phones, so we are putting solution where our eyes are already at. Another unique feature is anyone can see how much funds they have helped raised and how much funds we have and where it is being spent. This comes out to build a global trust on the system pr providing financial transparency where anyone can take our financial data and can audit it. We are also aiming to build a network where we have a profile of user showing how much good they have brought to the world and they can use this profile to show community service or the contribution they have done to make the world a better place. | We have recently started developing the iOS part of the app as we had the in house skills for that, we have successfully implemented the ad platform using google admob's native ads approach and able to track impressions per user which will help us measure the individual user's impact. Before that we put a comma to the research of problem and solution that we are trying to build with our target users and beneficiaries as we are in process of learning and update our findings in the research. We also have our taken our first beneficiary in and helping him in sending his children to school by taking care of the tuition, this also helps us put the findings in our research. We have spent year and a half just on research and validation. We have launched out blog and have the website up and running to gain traction and from new users and also to spread awareness. We have designed a pipeline model using a project management tool where we are putting things from to-do to currently working on and some other branches as per their status to help us track our progress and see what went wrong and how it'll add or subtract time from the protected timeline. | Planned goals on top priority is to hire Android developer and a full stack developer. Milestone on top is to launch the MVP to be achieved by Dec 2019. Next milestone is to expand to other cities with Pakistan for the first five years after the launch of MVP. To get 5000 families in Pakistan out of poverty. Long term Milestones are to launch the platform in other countries in Africa and South Asia. | For short-term we need developers on board in order to make the process of app development faster. In medium-term we need partnerships with organizations who can help us put the word out and provide mentorship and investments to launch it. For long-term the most needed thing is our strong global network that can help us as we scale to other countries. | https://madnumber.org https://medium.com/madnumber https://youtu.be/hLUuGRRYaVs | https://onmogul.com/stories/mad-number-an-app-to-educate-children | Winner of #ImpactHack by US Department of State - Sep 2018 | Washington D.C. Winner - IATA Air Hackathon 2018, IATA Incubation & IATA AIR Competition 2018 - Jun 2018 - Sep 2018 | Washington D.C. 2nd Place - #SmallBusinessWeek Hackathon by SBA & VISA - Apr 2018 | Washington D.C. Winner - Best Open Source Redeployment at Lahore Civic Hackathon by Code for Pakistan and Code for America - Jan 2014 | Lahore, Pakistan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
279 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nhlanhla | Ndlovu | Hustlenomics Pty Ltd | n/a | Director | Male | South Africa | South Africa | English | I am a 35-year-old born/raised in Soweto. Coming from a neighborhood with a lack of opportunities, the struggle has been employment and development. After leaving high school, being employed(at min wage), and playing my hand at different opportunities as an entrepreneur, I embraced an opportunity to up-skill and qualify as a builder during 2005. My qualification as a bricklayer came as a result of living in a four-room house in Soweto with 12 immediate and extended family members. Having to share such a small living space growing up motivated me to build my own space in the family yard. My bricklaying skills were put to the test while building a formal structure in the backyard, and it is this same structure that is recently used by the family to expand our living space and create a dignified home. From this experience, I saw an opportunity for a business that would benefit others as well, since many families in and around the townships have the same need. From here the idea was born to focus on identifying low-income homes with backyard shacks that could benefit from being replaced with formal durable structures. This would provide owners with better quality homes and a sustainable rental income while alleviating some of the social ills of the community by providing employment to the skilled and unskilled youths of the community. Realizing that the issue of informal structures was a real existing problem became the catalyst for developing the idea into a business. | Nhlanhla Ndlovu is the founder and director of Hustlenomics. He is an experienced builder who got his qualification for bricklaying in 2005 at the Builders training center in Soweto. He is part of the team that will erect the actual structures and managing the technical facet of the business. Njabulo Gova is the partner director in the business who has an architect qualification and vast history and experience in project management. Njabulo manages the administration facet of the company as there is a greater understanding of documentation and managing daily operations of the business. Together, Njabulo and Nhlanhla are able to be efficient bringing together different skills that the business has a foundation on. The organization has also identified skilled/ unskilled youth in the community that will work on a part-time basis to execute the actual projects. This newly formed team started assisting with small-scale affordable housing projects in Soweto. This is when the idea for Hustlenomics was born -- providing both affordable housing options and jobs, not just in Soweto but across townships in South Africa. | Hustlenomics | Providing access to sustainable housing in South African townships. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | South Africa, Brasil | Yes | Hydraform south africa | Proof of Concept | The company is currently being funded through the support of incubator and accelerator programs such as RedBull Amaphiko, Ygap South Africa, Innovation Hub, Orange Corners, 5 for Change and The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Through these programs, we have gained access to small grants to prove our concept and model, along with legal, personal and business development support. This funding is currently enabling us to initiate and complete the pilot project | A lack of access to finance cripples low-income households who wish to improve their homes to accommodate family growth or to provide rental income opportunities. This results in informal backyard structures dominating properties around township communities. due to the expanding housing demand and limited access to affordable accommodation backyard dwellings serve as an affordable and accessible alternative form of accommodation, housing where other forms of housing are not available | Hustlenomics is a for-profit, impact-driven social enterprise that focuses on upskilling and creating opportunities for women and youths by training them to replace informal backyard shacks with durable structures using innovative building technology. Interlocking bricks made from natural soil and recycled construction waste material are manufactured and used to build safe dwellings that fit in with nature while reducing the carbon footprint of the building. Hustlenomics combines the provision of housing with positive socioeconomic and environmental outcomes while cutting building costs by 30%. Low-income households owning informal backyard shacks cannot access traditional home improvement financing. Hustlenomics is an affordable housing provider that offers these households an opportunity to build durable structures in replacement of backyard shacks at no cost to the homeowners. The structures are financed through an innovative shared home financing model where rental income generated from the completed structure is used to pay off the development cost, after which full ownership of the structure is handed over to the homeowner. The substituting of backyard shacks with formal structures that include safe, properly installed plumbing and certified wiring, will allow for improved living conditions that are dignified and secure, and still affordable for backyard dwellers. The project will also enable low-income households to earn passive and sustainable income. | The growing popularity and rapid market acceptance of this new innovative building technology are exciting. Not only does it have a direct and positive impact on recycling rates by diverting large volumes of construction waste (rubble) from our country’s landfills, it also reduces building costs and increases productivity. The project prioritizes the low- or no-income homeowners to benefit from the creation of a passive and sustainable income for them. The focus of the qualifying criteria shifts from the homeowner to the low-income earning tenants occupying the units, thereby providing a means of recovering the cost of the project. This project benefits both the homeowner and the people migrating to cities for employment opportunities. The cost of the project will be recovered from the rentals, making the business scalable in terms of both impact and profitability generated from each construction. Furthermore, the project supports and stimulates employment and entrepreneurship. Given the widespread youth unemployment levels in the country, much focus is placed on how entrepreneurship can spur employment and economic growth in South Africa. Hustlenomics makes a long-term investment in its community and each family that it supports. The company covers all construction costs upfront. It then shares the rental income of the completed units with the landowner until such costs have been recuperated, after which full ownership is handed over. | Hustlenomics innovative business Model is currently funded and incubated through accelerator programs such as RedBull Amaphiko, Ygap, The Bertha Center, Innovation hub. Through these programs (2016-2018) the company has received grant funding and won many national and international awards of approximately ZAR2M to prove its concept and model and to continue to develop its business among them 2018 coins grand challenge 2nd place runner up and 2018 SAB Foundation Social Innovation award winner. The organization has also identified, trained and employed up to 20 unskilled/ skilled youth in the community to work on a part-time basis to build our pilot and proof of concept replacing 2 informal backyard dwelling with 4 formal units. In addition to this, we have also partnered with a local organization called Hydraform who will assist the organization in the development and training of all employees, both permanent and part-time.s. We have an advisory and legal firm made up of three law firms who we consult with to get assistance in the operations of the business. These firms mac Roberts, Norton Rose Fulbright, and Trust law. We have also purchased a bigger brick manufacturing machine increasing our production capacity from 500 bricks a day to 3000 bricks a day. | Our innovative system in construction has resulted in an extremely competitive building system suitable for any type of construction and has been approved and used by relevant authorities in S.A. Hustlenomics will on average build a 4-unit structure per project, these units will accommodate up to eight low income earning individuals who will then have access to opportunities available in urban areas for work, business, or education. Once the structure is erected and tenants take occupation it will mean there will be rental income being generated creating a sustainable living for the homeowner and their family. This income will supplement an already existing low income, if any, Erecting these structures will mean job creation creating at least 5 jobs for each project. This will provide opportunities to the unemployed woman and youth. One interlocking brick manufacturing machine can directly provide employment for up to 20 individuals This project will provide an opportunity, particularly to the women and youth who are unskilled, to gain access to employment in the construction industry that will provide skills and development to them and in turn create a significant number of permanent jobs including beyond the actual project in the areas of supporting services and promoting abundant skills in the townships by absorbing unemployed skilled people such as artisans in the fields of plumping, bricklayers, electricians, welders, and carpentry amongst others. | We need funding injection to go toward the development and growth for the business in terms of the infrastructure(hardware, finance, accounting systems, hr systems, etc.)will assist in putting in place processes that will allow the business to be more productive. acquiring accessories for the brick manufacturing machine to minimize production costs and maximize brick production while generating more employment. we need to purchase an 8 tone mobile truck to transport building materials and brick manufacturing equipment which will make our production line accessible to working and completing the project on-site. The rest of the funds will assist in the developmental and operational costs for the business that will assist in planning and executing the roll-out of 1 project a month for 18 projects (covering both material & labor for each project) to be executed for 18 months. In this period, we will be able to scale up within 12 months From the revenue generated in this period to be self-sustainable and give birth to new projects going forward. The funding will further develop and refine the business model. | https://www.news101.co.za/2018/11/01/sab-innovation-awards-hustlenomics-walks-away-with-r1-3-million/ https://sabfoundation.co.za/stories-1/2019/4/1/nhlanhla-ndlovunbsp-nbsphustlenomics https://coins-grandchallenge.com/winners2018 https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/626/162520.html https://city-press.news24.com/Business/nhlanhla-ndlovu-this-young-entrepreneur-is-changing-the-face-of-the-backroom-economy-20190621 https://www.fin24.com/Opinion/a-solution-to-sas-housing-crisis-is-right-under-our-noses-20181224-2 http://www.hydraform.com/project-sectors/builder/january-2016-builder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykx-hRX4zXA | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIGjUHVGxJI https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ocucN8nLhJdFeP4rEGijqokP5tS2dpvg | Gibs Festival of Ideas finalist 2016 MSA LEAD fellowship final 1/10 selection 2017 Red Bull Amaphiko Academy final 1/16 selected fellowship 2017 Ygap fellowship 2017 final 1/10 selected ekasi entrepreneurs pitching competition (winner) The Innovation Hub Finalist 2017 Bertha Center social innovation 1/5 selected grant beneficiary 2018 COINS Grand Challenge Finalist 2018 SAB Foundation Social Innovation Award 2018 (winner) Gep Pitching booster final 20 selected prize winners | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
280 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Erum | Ansari | Haqooq Ul Abad Pakistan | https://www.facebook.com/HapPakistan/info | Director | female | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | My project is establishment of Futuristic Science Club for kids. Here in Pakistan youth are mostly inclined towards internet surfing and they tend to waste their time in meaningless activities. My project focuses on development of Laboratories where kids specially the teenagers can experiment under our expert supervision . They will be encouraged to innovate and develop entrepreneurship skills. Children often get overwhelmed with the complexities of Science. our aim is to develop fulfilled creative activities in the field of Digital education , Automation, Engineering and Robotics . we aspire to introduce hands on activities so they can relate and learn to enjoy scientific approach, to enable them to be future Scientist and Innovators | My Name is Erum Ansari , I have with me ten years of banking experience. basically a teacher now , in my free time I am actively involved in social work and lead my organization as a convenior Complaint Center. I conduct training sessions on self actualization, Motivation and Making use of Cultural diversity. I counsel troubled teenagers and conduct regular training workshops on paintings and collage making. I am a great lover of nature and feel that I want to make the place where ever I go a beautiful place , so regularly under the umbrella of my organization I organize plantation activities. I also organize recreation activities like hot air ballooning session , Mango party for our team members to keep them focused and motivated Every year i organize a fun filled educational activities Puppet show to showcase their talent. I believe I can bring the change in the lives of people, so I work relentlessly towards my believes. In my day to day live I come across many individuals who are frustrated due to lack of opportunities and funds so I work hard towards helping to overcome their frustrations and sufferings . I believe the children are the future ambassadors and they should be provided better prospects in education to bring innovative ideas and products | Futuristic Science Club | Teenagers have so much energies and imagination which should be channeled towards discovery and creativity | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | This can be implemented all over the world , the children of today's world need more hands on experience with the complex concepts of science. | No | Research & Development | I come across many troubled teenagers , they posses so many energies. . They need a place where they feel important that they are contributing towards a better society. A place where they are allowed to test their curiosity and ideas. the uniqueness of this idea is that they will be encouraged to innovate without being judged on their grades. they will be researching and getting first hand scientific experience. | Pakistan is facing sever financial crunch, One of the challenges of enterprises is to come up with innovation to keep them abreast competition. Our club will be creating talent pool which can do industrial research for big companies. In Pakistan teenagers are not encouraged to work and earn , we will be creating lots of earning opportunities. we intend to make youth aware of the resources we have , specially the solar resource. We aspire to conduct research on solar generation projects. | Its a win win solution for keeping kids active and imaginative. Its a way to earn and start believing in themselves. It leads the path toward self actualization and making dreams come true. Its the mentor ship towards a focused direction and futuristic inventions. Kids are superb at thinking out of box . It creates endless possibilities and opportunities for growth and skills The short termed impact in a community is that I keeps children away from indulging in criminal activities, Kids in Pakistan waste their time in involving in meaningless net based activities. So first and foremost is the useful utilization of time . This can result in personality development and motivation toward acquiring skill and recognition. The global long term vision is the induction of resourceful and responsible individuals , who believe bringing positive change. The future is bright for innovative ideas and creative enterprises. | The solution might not be unique to lots of people, but over here in Pakistan there is no such club that is tapping on the potentials of imagination , curiosity and creativity. Children at very early stage should be introduced towards scientific knowledge. With around 40% of people living under poverty line and majority of kids out of reach of quality education , clubs like this can bring opportunities for less privileged to improve their standards of living and gain firsthand insight into the ways and workings of Science and Technology. | We are at the inception stage, we have designed the feasibility and working of the club. we have developed a comprehensive , fun filled and inquisitive syllabus which children all over the world can benefit from. We have selected a talented team of mentors . We even have collected small amount of funds. | Right now we are only focusing on implementing this plan in our community. We have plans of extending it towards our near rural developments. We have future plan for frenchizing with our neighboring and developing countries. We have developed an in depth resource and course outlines. We have plans of developing team of experts who can train people worldwide and share their expertise. | Our Short Term need is the availability of funds , since we have human resource capital and talent pool our biggest challenge is to meet with necessary funds to start up the venture. Our long term need is to establish a proper place to carry forward research work and broad cast our talent to general public. For this intensive marketing campaign needs to be addressed | https://facebook.com/HapPakistan/info | https://facebook.com/HapPakistan/info | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
281 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lars | Klingsbo | Eezer AB | www.eezer.org | CEO | M | Sweden | Sweden | English | In order for us to scale -up our transport solutions for pregnant women on the African countryside in a safe and affordable way we need to collaborate and cooperate with other actors thats is why such exposure could create new opportunities for all. | My backgrund is in Advocacy work with a Swedish NGO and a I am also an avid adventure motorcycle rider. | Eezer - Motorcycle Ambulances | Eezer motorcycle ambulances for reduction om maternal mortality on the African countryside | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Tchad and Somalia | Yes | Engineering companies that are involved as part of their CSR work. | Proof of Concept | At the moment we have developed the technical solution of ambulance trailer and a digital tracking/monitoring system. We have built 25 units that are on loan to a variety of organizations for learnings on the operational side. We will soon enter the next stage of scaling-up. | “The hospitals were of limited use if women could not reach them.” Hans Rosling, Factfulness In the work to reduce maternal mortality (SDG 3.1) the transport is a known bottleneck. Pregnant women on the African countryside need to be able to get to clinics in a safe and affordable way. | By attaching an ""Ambulance trailer"" to existing small motorcycles pregnant women will be able to reach healthfacilities in a safe way. The drivers will also use a smartphone based tracking app that will collectdata that will form the basis for analysis and development of strategies for operational effectiveness. The vision is to have 5000 units operational by 2030. | There has been similar ""motorcycle ambulances"" developed by different organizations but none have succeded to put it to scale. Our initiative have a systemic approach with a digital monitoringsystem at its core. That will inform marketing and educational activities. Networking and collaboration with other actors within the same field will be a keyfactor to be able to scaleup with speed. | We are currently in a pilotphase where we are field testing 25 Ambulances and its digitaltrackingsystem in Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Tchad and Somalia. We are getting reports and feedback on both the technical and the operational side. After full review and evaluation we will move into next phase of putting the concept to scale. Learnings so far is that the hardware solutions are functioning rather well. But it takes time for some communities to shift their mindset to give birth at clinics instead of at home. Longterm we will be working on two key measures number of operational units and number of transports. Our tracking system will help us collect the data. | The problem of pregnant women not being able to access qualified healthcare due to lack of affordable transportation exists in all Sub-Saharan countries. Primarily we will work in East-Africa in the next phase. (Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Tchad and Somalia) we will add DRC to that list. But depending on how our network grows we will also collaborate with other actors in other countries and give them access to our solutions and systems. An estimated impact is that by 2030 there will be 5000 operational units in the region. If each unit on an average makes 100 transports (Transport to Antenatal check-ups, Delivery, Postdelievey) it will be 500 000 transports a year. Which we believe will be a positive contribution to the reduction of maternal mortality. | Our main need to put our solutions to scale is international network and collaborations with organizations that have their focus on SDG 3.1. Shortterm funding need to come from the international development community but longterm we aim to set-up systems for market driven implementation and growth. | www.eezer.org | None available currently | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
282 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Fiona | Hazell Goldrick | MAD | www.mad.group | Co-Founder | Female | Sweden | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | I have dedicated my career to Making A Difference. Literally. I run a consultancy and an NGO under the name MAD which is an acronym for Make A Difference, and an acknowledgment it is the ones crazy enough to think they can change the world, who actually do! Through the MAD consultancy we support the organisations and institutions that drive the social innovation ecosystem (development agencies, foundations, NGOs). This can be in the form of tailored program design for high impact accelerators and fellowships, training and content development, or strategic advising, coaching and mentorship for the executive team. The MAD Foundation (NGO) supports the impact makers themselves. Supporting them with the resources, networks and leadership capacity to take a pioneering leap within their sector that can drive social change at a systemic level. Through speaking at the UN Solutions Summit we want to create awareness and engage partners in what we believe is the tipping point for systemic shift in scaling of rural sanitation. For this leap we work in partnership with MAD entrepreneur, Sam Malinga, UN Global representative for SDG 6. | Fiona relocated from England to South Africa as a teenager. That move defined the rest of her life. Witnessing the economic inequality of people living in opulence and poverty on the same street compelled Fiona to find a way to bridge the economical injustices of the previous apartheid government regime. As part of Mandela’s first Rainbow Nation generation, she attended university with clarity on the problem to address but no clear career path to achieve it, so studied philosophy, psychology & business, hoping an answer would emerge. Recruited into “Corporate Social Responsibility” sector she advised clients of behalf of WPP advertising agencies Ogilvy & BBDO. Frustrated the communities being served were not represented in the boardrooms, she opted for a more community-led approach. After backpacking across the African continent to work with local entrepreneurs she was recruited by Awethu, South Africa’s largest incubator that aimed to unlock the talent in the townships where she coached a portfolio of entrepreneurs in Soweto. Relocating to Sweden 5 years ago, she established MAD, working with entrepreneurs from over 40 countries to catalyze leaps in social innovation. MAD has supported the growth of social entrepreneurs across Africa, Middle East, Asia and Europe. And developed international incubators, accelerators and fellowship programs on behalf of development agencies, impact investors and NGOs across the globe. | Paid to Poop? What a MAD idea! | Sanitation in Rural Areas: From money pits to renewable revenue sources. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya. | Yes | Sanitation Africa Limited (Uganda). Harvest Moon (Sweden) | Proof of Concept | Feb 2018: Challenge framing with Ugandan sanitation entrepreneur. April - May 2018: 2-stage ideation first brainstormed during an international student hackathon and then refined within an executive think tank of scientists, philanthropists, engineers, researchers, investors and business consultants. July - Oct 2018: Research & Development through on site workshops with partners and local community in Kampala. Nov - to date: Pilot design and fundraising. | Sanitation. A 2,5 billion person problem. Western sewerage infrastructure is costly and wasteful – literally flushing precious water down the drain. Waterless pits are more affordable and efficient – however estimated to still cost 440 billion USD to install. | We aim to flip these money pits into renewable revenue sources that not only provide much needed sanitation, but also spur a self-sustaining entrepreneurial ecosystem that enable communities to thrive and children to be educated for free! In Uganda human waste is being safely transformed into bioenergy and bio-fertiliser. Demand for these bio-products from local farmers can spur a new industry of local sanitation entrepreneurs to process and distribute these products. With schools as the collection facility, and suppliers of this valuable, renewable resource – they form an integral part of the community value chain. The school gets paid when pupils poop! Providing a much needed revenue source for these community schools which can provide the next generation with a free education! Scaling across the world, as the additional revenue generated by one school funds the building of a bio-toilet in another, and so on. This crap way to fund education is what we call a MAD Leap. MAD stands for Make A Difference. The “Leap” refers to Leapfrogging. Just as these markets leapfrogged computers to go from no internet access to mobile and then pioneered mobile payments. We can leapfrog costly sewerage infrastructure to go from unsanitary conditions to being paid to poop and then pioneer free education in community schools. | The key to success for this innovation is the local self-sustaining entrepreneurial ecosystem that surrounds it. All components of the solution are built, maintained and developed by the local community. The bio-toilet is placed in the school. A bio-fertiliser entrepreneur collects the waste and pays the school for the input, delivering the processed fertiliser to a local tree farmer. The school uses the money to cover school fees for a child who would not attend school, buy soap to improve sanitation habits, or lunch for malnourished scholars. At school new sanitation habits are introduced through existing sanitation clubs. Local water entrepreneurs provide water tanks to schools for harvesting rainwater for hand washing. Soap is needed for hygienic hand washing - the antibacterial herbs can be grown by the farmer who bought the original fertiliser. The herbs are then supplied to a local women's group who transform them into soap and sell the soap to the school. In this examples farmers yields improve due to faster growing trees to be sold for fencing and the additional revenue from herb production. Women generate income from soap production, children are taught new sanitation habits. Unlike many solutions that focus only on the tech or product in this case the technology is an important component, however it the community-led economic model that creates jobs and generates revenue for schools that creates the systemic change that will break the cycle of poverty. | We have worked with the community, on-boarded the partners, scoped and costed the pilot, identified the schools. We have developed a Global Advisory Team, that consists of experts and volunteers who contributed to the project. - Scientists have advised on the efficiency ratios of waste to value output. - Impact evaluators for UN programs have advised on the scope, measurement and constraints of the pilot. - WASH philanthropists have advised on the stakeholder engagement and provided partner networks and resources. - Sanitation engineers have advised on the technical needs for different soil types and volumes of waste. - Health professionals have advised on healthy sanitation habits and education methods - Business consultants have advised on the economic model - Farmers have advised on their product needs - Schools have expressed their sanitation needs - Women empowerment groups have volunteered to teach soap manufacturing - Water and Sanitation entrepreneurs have contributed technical and market expertise As we move forward we provide the Global Advisory Team with updates and call on specific expertise as needed (such as impact measurement). As this is a multi-stakeholder project, communication is key in surfacing and addressing challenges as they arise. As we continue to learn we refine, document and communicate our processes. | GOAL 1: Secure Funding & Formalise Team Milestone 1a: Secure 250,000 USD in funding. Milestone 1b: Recruit Full Time Project Team: Project Manager, Project Coordinator and Financial Manager GOAL 2: Implement 12 School Pilot in Mpigi District, Uganda Milestone 2a: Install bio-toilets in 12 schools (impacting 600 students) Milestone 2b: Match supply and demand between schools and farmers (impacting 6 farmer yields and additional revenue streams for 12 schools) Milestone 2c: Train bio fertiliser entrepreneurs and soap manufacturers (creating jobs for 3 entrepreneurs and income for 2 women's groups) GOAL 3: Expand Reach to neighbouring districts and then nationally (Impact numbers to be researched during this stage) Milestone 3a: Enter agreements with ministries of health and education for regional then national roll out. Milestone 3b: Secure scaling funding for expansion of project team and resources Milestones 3c: Facilitate supplier agreements between local communities and farmer cooperatives GOAL 4, 5 & 6: Expansion across East African Markets, Africa and Globally Milestone 4/5/6a: Scope the need and demand for expansion in new markets Milestone 4/5/6b: Secure cross-border strategic partnerships | Short Term: 250,000 USD for 18 month pilot across 12 schools. Project team. Local office. Consulting support: Scientific expertise in optimising efficiency of bioenergy. Economic expertise in supply chain optimisation. Evaluation expertise in impact measurement and stakeholder engagement. Medium Term: 2,500,000 USD for national expansion. Transfer consulting support into in-house expertise. Long Term: The insights and learnings from the Medium-Term expansion will inform our longer term needs. | Article about process so far: https://www.mad.group/societal-perspective-article Our website: https://www.mad.group/we-are-mad Partner website: https://sanitationafrica.com/ Partner, Sam Malinga, UN SDG youth ambassador: https://www.un.org/youthenvoy/youngleadersmeettheleaders/ | Second Round Pitch for TED 2020: https://youtu.be/TgRakJEQs50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
283 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Victor | Odhiambo Wasonga | Garden of Hope Foundation | https://gardenofhopefoundation.org/ | Founder and Executive Director | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | I was born and raised in Kibera slum, Kibera is the second largest slum in Africa and fourth in the world. Growing up in this slum brought me joy and sadness. I saw my mum struggle to take us to school,there were times that I stayed home for several weeks because my mum could not afford $ 5 for school fees. Myself and few other friends were lucky to get educations despite the challenges, but those who were not able to, turned into drugs, crime and teenage girls were forcefully married off by their families because of the challenges they faced. One of my former school mates was killed by through mob justice, because he had turned to crime to meet some of his needs, two of my female classmates then aged 16 and 17 respectively were married off, but their marriage did not last, because of gender based violence. All these experiences motivated me to start a sustainable solution to support the youth in my community, my solution target women and girls, youth and children providing them access to quality education and employment opportunities. As young community leader who has an innovative solution to employment among youth in the fourth largest slum in the world, I am motivated to be part of this UN solutions summit because I believe it will give me an opportunity to share my solution as grassroots level and learn from other change makers who are tackling the same solution globally. As a solutions provider,learning and sharing is one of the key components that can help tackle the challenges poor communities face, I believe that I will not only share my learning, but also learn from the rest of the solutions provider in the summit. | Victor Odhiambo was born and raised in Kibera slum. A first born in a family of 5,he graduated with a Diploma in Computer Repair and Maintenance from Nairobi Training College. He worked as a programs coordinator for Swahiba Youth Networks overseeing the support of 10,000 youth from Nairobi slums get access to employment. in 2014, Victor started Garden of Hope Foundation to respond to the needs of youth, women and children in urban slum and rural communities in Kenya. Since then Garden of Hope Foundation has supported over 30,000 youth, women and girls get access to quality education and employment. .Victor has been nominated to represent Kenya in many International platforms including One Young world Summit, International Leadership Forums among others. Victor has pursued a one year leadership training offered by the Cambridge university institute of continued education after emerging as a highly recommended runners up in the queens young leaders awards. Victor is a 2017 Royal Commonwealth Society Associate fellow, 2019 Young Africa Leaders Initiative Fellow, 2018 One Young World Ambassador and 2019 Acumen East Africa Fellow. He believes that the world will be a better place when someone unlocks the potential of the youths. | Economic Empowerment for Gender Equality in Kibra Slum. | Females in their adolescent stage who become pregnant are often unable to complete primary or secondary education. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Kenya | Yes | Kenya Government, Non-Governmental organization locally and Internationally. | Scaling | The solution was developed in 2016 in one village in Nairobi, Kenya, Kibera slum as a pilot program with 50 young mothers. After the pilot,we did more research and incorporated the lessons learnt and feedback from the participants and other stakeholders. We launched the initiative again in 2017, this time targeting 3 villages with a target of 150 young mothers. In 2018, we had 200 young mothers who successfully went through the program. We believe after this progress we are ready to scale. | Young females in slum dwellings in Nairobi and especially in slums like Kibera face numerous challenges as they transit from adolescence into adulthood. They find themselves in rather hostile environment characterized by unemployment, poor housing, large family sizes, violence, crime, drug and alcohol abuse, poor education facilities and lack of recreational activities. These teenagers are often married off, by their family members and expected to provide for them without any employment skill. | This programme seeks to offer business training and computer skills to equip young mothers with entrepreneurship and computer skills in order for them to engage in income generating activities and successfully. In addition, the project aim to equip the young mothers with employment skills. The leadership component of the programme help the young mothers gain confidence, provide correct information, clarify values and reinforce positive attitudes, and strengthen decision-making and communication skills among the young mothers. Kenya currently has over 49.7 millions people according to the world bank majority are who are youth. The 47 counties in Kenya consist of young people between the ages of 14-25 years. Each year, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) indicate that between June 2016 and July 2017, 378,397 adolescents in Kenya aged 10 to 19 got pregnant. The long term goal of this solution is to build a young mothers vocational training center in at least 7 regions in Kenya. The centres will be tailored towards the needs of the mothers and their young babies. Partnership with various stakeholders will ensure that the young mothers get access to employment opportunities sexual reproductive health services. | The project draws its clients entirely from urban slums and rural communities and it targets those who have been forcefully married or affected by gender based violence. In addition this project also offers the young mothers an opportunity to be reintegrated back to normal education system, a case which does not happen in most solutions. The young mothers are also allowed to bring their babies during the training and a space for child care is also offered. We have partnered with local Garden of Hope foundation partners within the Kibera community leadership, schools within Kibera, churches and the local authority to identify the young mothers. | The solution is currently on the scaling phase having reached reached 500 young mothers in Kibera. The proposed evaluation plan for the project is designed to systematically collect and analyze data as the project progresses. This is to ensure that activities undertaken in the implementation phase of the project conform to targets set. Monthly activity reports are undertaken by Garden of Hope Foundation project officers to independently review progress, identify problems in implementation and make any necessary adjustments so that the project can meet its set goals and objectives. Outcome evaluation exercise are conducted annually to track measures related to desired programs. This entails beneficiary surveys, key informant interviews and focus group discussions. | The project plan to expand to three east Africa countries working with young mothers from local urban slums and rural communities. -December 2020, train and equip 200 young mothers from Kibera(Nairobi) slum with leadership and entrepreneurship. -December 2021, train and equip 400 young mothers from 2 rural communities in Kenya. - January 2022, expand the project to reach 600 young mothers from 4 counties in Kenya -December 2023, construct young mothers vocational training center in 2 locations in Kenya. -January 2025, expand the program reach young mothers from 3 counties(Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda) in east Africa replicating the same model with local context. The project will need staff and volunteers who have worked in the field of gender and community development. It will also need staff and volunteers who are trained family dispute lawyers, professional counselors, business development professionals. By 2025, the projected the project would have impacted the lives of 1,500 young mothers. | As a short-term goal, we would like this project to scale to at least 3 regions in Kenya where many women and girls are affected by early marriage, female genital mutilation and any form of violence. The project will scale through Establishment of women and girls centered vocational training training schools will good facilities to take care of their babies. in 5 years, the project will scale to 10 regions in Kenya through establishment of additional adult learning schools where women and girls who have dropped out of school can get access to quality education. Our long term is economically empower women and girls through establishing a the first women and girls leadership and entrepreneurship institute in Sub-Sahara Africa. In order for this venture to be successful, we would like to partner with like minded stakeholders that will be willing offer resources such as land to build the centers,equipment such as computers, chairs and tables. We will also need different professionals who can help design the center. | https://gardenofhopefoundation.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sudan-future-blue-why-youth-matter-victor-odhiambo/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-much-enough-kenya-mps-victor-odhiambo/ https://wordpress.com/view/victorwasonga.wordpress.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmGBx2H2FcYlu5rr2XuE6tg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp7rlK2t_nE http://globalthinkersmentors.org/victor-odhiambo https://gardenofhopefoundation.org/2019/07/10/our-story/ https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/video/2017/08/21/au-kenya-comment-sensibiliser-les-hommes-aux-menstruations_5174792_3212.html | Pan-African Award for Entrepreneurship in Education East Africa Philanthropy Awards Queens Young Leaders Awards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
284 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Huib | Cornielje | Enablement | www.enablement.nl | director | Male | Netherlands | Netherlands | English | Rehabilitation services and resources are scarce in many parts of the world and even if such services exist, they are often not well accessible to the majority of poor people. A lack of trained professionals in rehabilitation results in reliance on Community Rehabilitation Field workers to provide basic rehabilitation services within the communities. These field workers do not receive the formal education which rehabilitation professionals receive. As such they have to learn from trainings and workshops provided by the NGO sector, from books and from field experience. Our project team’s experience is that CBR workers are often not able to make accurate field diagnoses which is an essential first step in providing the right care and referral that people with disabilities need. In our opinion and from previous experience with existing RehApp chapters field workers would be tremendously supported in their work through an easily-accessible and intuitive approach to making diagnoses, define needs, set goals, and develop action plans. Our innovation “RehApp” is an app for mobile phones that is: -Intuitive and tailored for use by people with limited educational background, -Visual -Open source and free of charge to its users -Operational in an offline setting, -Specifically developed for lower-income countries The project group believes that, with rapid current technological developments and the availability of such technology, the situation can be changed. As such, we believe that this RehApp offers opportunities to: -Reach the unreached; -Better inform people; -Create a long-lasting impact (in terms of sustainability); -Develop features that can dramatically change situations for the better. Within the Rehapp project we will make essential information on disability and rehabilitation available to field staff. The new innovation will be relevant to people with disabilities by increasing their access to better equipped CBR field workers who can offer them better services such as advice, referral, suggestions for using local and appropriate technology to address their needs. These suggestions can be given verbally as well as visually - through providing them with clear self-explanatory visuals which can be downloaded from the RehApp. The hard copies of those (visual) instructions will help people with disabilities and/or their caregivers to find better solutions for dealing with their disability or becoming more informed, mobile, independent etc. | Huib Cornielje is a trained physical therapist and after working for a few years in the Netherlands he worked for 10 years in various community-based rehabilitation programmes in rural and urban South Africa. During those years he obtained a Master in Science of the University of Witwatersrand and a Higher Diploma in Adult Education. After his return to the Netherlands he started working as lecturer Public Health at the University for Applied Sciences Leiden and got a Master in Public Health. Currently he is director of Enablement and is involved in training, research and development in the field of disability and development. His main area of interest is Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR). He published extensively in the field of Monitoring and Evaluation as well as capacity building in CBR. Huib is married with 4 children. One of his daughters is having a learning disability and in fact besides being a professional he also is an activist working hard for inclusion of marginalized groups of people. Huib hopes that within the coming years the Enablement innovation called ‘RehApp’ will reach the most remote places of our world. The RehApp addresses the limited competences of rehabilitation field workers to accurately diagnose disabilities and subsequently address the needs of people with disabilities in various life domains. | The Capacity Building Rehabilitation 2.0 (CBR2.0) project | Within the CBR2.0 project (new) information technologies will enable frontline field staff to develop necessary skills and assist them in providing r | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | the innovation is developed for low- and middle income countries and are currently used in a variety of African and Asian countries | Yes | key partners are mainly the INGO and NGO sector. Examples are projects supported by Light for the World, the Liliane Foundation, CARITAS Germany, ILEP etc. | Research & Development | The current RehApp chapters provide field workers with essential and digital access to rehabilitation information based on different disabilities. New chapters (representing types of disability) and modules (which will focus on assessment, goal setting and monitoring of the intervention process) need to be developed. The added value is that all those involved in the rehabilitation of people with disabilities always have relevant information at hand. | The current approach to the problem entails face-to-face trainings of field workers by the INGO sector and reliance on information from books. While the value of face to face training is not denied, the scalability of this type of training remains limited unless massive numbers of people can/will be trained. Therefore, new way of addressing old problems need to be found and we believe that there is a serious need for widespread (digital) access to disability and rehabilitation information | Innovative solution: The RehApp is a smartphone app which provides field workers with essential and digital access to rehabilitation information, including prevention and promotion. Information that is not only health-related but covers all domains and is based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Unique Value Proposition: The RehApp is a tested, low-cost, open source, developed for lower-income countries specifically, visual, and intuitive app that can be used in an offline setting. Users: The RehApp will be used by field workers, community health workers, and even professionals working in the field of rehabilitation in low- and middle-income countries. Sustainability: The RehApp, once further developed, requires no maintenance or user costs. Social impact: The RehApp is developed from a Human Rights perspective. This means that it for example includes people with disabilities, women, all age groups, and different cultural and religious groups and is ultimately aimed at ensuring that these people can claim their rights and entitlements in the educational domain, the social domain, the health domain, and the livelihood domain. | With this development we serve the field of disability and development where in general field workers do not get much training and where (rehabilitation) resources are scarce. Given that 13 INGO have been supporting this development with small or larger amounts of money it is evident that the field has been longing for this development. Rehabilitation continues to be an underserved area and Information Based Rehabilitation is in our view THE solution to meet the so many unmet needs. The ninety-eighty dream of Mike Miles when he wrote the publication ‘Where there is no Rehabilitation’ comes true 40 years after he wrote this paper! The project group believes that, with rapid current technological developments and the availability of such technology to even the poorest countries in the world, the situation can be changed. As such, we believe that IT offers opportunities to : - reach the unreached; - better inform people; - create a long - lasting impact (in terms of sustainability); - develop features such as modules on assessment, goal setting that can dramatically change situations for the better. Within the CBR2.0 project, (new) information technologies will be developed and applied to making information on rehabilitation available to field staff. At the same time, they will enable frontline field staff to develop necessary skills and assist them in providing rehabilitation in a way that is meaningful to people with disabilities and their families. | Field testing showed that the users use the RehApp in their work for various different reasons and vary in 'proficiency’ level. In Uganda, for example, fieldworkers explained using the RehApp in preparation for home visits, to review information on the relevant disability. Further, many expressed deciding not to visit the families when they were unable to generate ideas for interventions and/or activities to do with children with disabilities and their caregivers. As such, having a better assessment feature/module that would lead to some conclusive goals or ideas for interventions would not only be helpful to them but would also mean that the RehApp would be used during the home visit, to facilitate goal setting for instance. On the other hand, a fieldworker in Vietnam explained using the RehApp with the caregivers directly, to explain and show them what the condition of the child is, what they can expect, do, and so on. Moreover, he reported finding the RehApp very useful when meeting new children, in helping to know what to do. 20 field workers who got training in the use of the RehApp chapter on Cerebral Palsy (RehApp-CP) in Ethiopia. 6 weeks after the introduction - the following feedback received: • Used app 1-5 times a week (n=11) • App had good balance text/illustrations (n=15) • Rehabilitation Cycle was helpful (n=18) • Would use App in the future (n=20) 1 fieldworker stated “This RehApp will continue to the next generation and it is fundamental for knowledge” | Goals - Rehabilitation knowledge is accessible to people in the most remote places in the world. - Fieldworkers in low- and middle-income countries are equipped to adequately respond to the needs of people with disabilities and families. Objectives to 1) enhance the capacity of fieldworkers in low- and middle-income countries to work with people with disabilities within the community: assess their needs; design rehabilitation interventions; provide care and support; make appropriate referrals to services and monitor progress. 2)make sure that the RehApp is integrated into the daily work of the fieldworkers and incorporated in the general community rehabilitation programmes (e.g. training) 3) strengthen the organisations involved in disability and development through the enhanced competencies of their workforce achieved through high quality E-learning opportunities a use of RehApp Milestones: 2019-2022 The RehApp will be made more be visual and intuitive. to be developed: -An information module (current status: 10 disability chapters ready end 2019) -An assessment module (in development) -A goal setting module (planning: 2020) -A module that helps the fieldworker to make decisions about the rehabilitation plan (planning 2020) -A module to keep client/patient records (planning 2020/2021) -A resource module in the form of ‘digital yellow pages’ (planning 2020/2021) - A supporting website with modern E-learning opportunities (planning 2020-2022) | Short to medium term needs -Advise from business innovator with expertise in developing modern E-leaning e.g. with the use of virtual reality options is pretty urgent since we wish to make a start with developing the supporting website and want to make bold steps forwards in terms of the type and quality of E-leaning we wish to offer. Main principle: experiential learning! -IT support for challenging modules we wish to develop for assessment, goal setting, planning rehabilitation interventions, monitoring development. We are in serious need of having an IT person attached to our team for at least 2 years: could be part-time but preferably someone close to our office allowing for intensive face to face discussions. -Support in making animations: some of the interventions we wish to pay attention to cannot be captured in static illustrations. Medium to Long term needs -The development of a solid communication and advocacy strategy especially in the direction of the intermediate users in the field of Disability and Development Cooperation: networks, such as IDDC, Global CBR Network, Global Rehabilitation Alliance, and UN agencies (e.g. WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, ILO) -Research capacity from knowledge institutions | www.enablement.nl https://www.inclusive-livelihood.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Raz9JA5yHMU&t=1s | none | None! We have a small dedicated team which walks the extra mile . | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
285 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Madurendrum | Jeyachandran | I Pour LIfe | https://ipourlife.org/ | Country Director | Male | United States of America | India | English | My experience of working in Ethiopia and East Africa through non-profit organizations taught me a very important lesson. That is unless we address the root causes with innovation, we will not be able to solve the complex social problems that are daunting us for generations. The critical lesson is that a social innovation ecosystem needs to be created to provide innovation opportunities for all system actors to address the ‘wicked problems.’ Especially organizations like the UN take this approach a successful path could be established to attain the sustainable development goals. | Madurendrum Jeyachandran (Jeya) grew up in Tamil Nadu, India, and completed his Bachelors of Science degree in Chemistry from St. Xavier’s College, Madras University in 1968. He has established kindergartens, schools and designed many innovative education programs in East Africa. He has been training teachers and mentoring many stakeholders to achieve 'quality education for all'. Recently he helped to bring around 100,000 out of school children back to school in Ethiopia. He has been a presenter for the Accelerated Learning for Africa project at both Harvard University and Lesley University in Boston. He has held manager and director positions at the following organizations: •Geneva Global Inc., Ethiopia; Hope for the Horn, Ethiopia. •SOS Children’s Village- Somalia, Somaliland, Ethiopia and East Africa. •World Vision International, Ethiopia and Sudan •UNHCR, Khartoum, Sudan | Ethiopia Social Innovation Ecosystem (ESIE) | Ethiopia will create Social Innovation Ecosystem in each of its district within two years to address the SDGs. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Ethiopia | Yes | Ethiopian Government | Research & Development | Our organization has started to pilot the innovation in one of the sub cities of Addis Ababa. Further, the Federal Agency for Civil Society has also expressed interest in this development. Establishing the Social Innovation Ecosystem in this sub city will be the proof of concept which can be scaled up throughout the nation. | The main problem is most of the system leaders and actors do not have any idea of the strength of system thinking and innovation. Everyone in the social development work individually, no collaboration. | 1. Self-awareness: The system leaders and other system actors will identify their mental models and then they will be trained in system thinking and innovation. 2. Problem: They will identify the problems to be addressed 3. Systems: They will identify the gaps in the systems which created the problem. 4. Ideation: They will select the best option. 5 Design : Prototype will be designed 6. Delivery: The delivery unit in each place will ensure that the program is executed 7. Review: The system leaders will review and roll out. | No other solution address all the SDGs like this solution! As I mentioned in the problem above, everyone who are involved in dealing with SDGs is doing it in a individualistic way. This solution is unique because it brings all of them together. For example, Ethiopia has promised to create 3 million jobs in one year and a commission is established for this goal. But the problem there is no system innovation to create jobs on regular basis. They say there are 11 million unemployed in Ethiopia and every year 2 million will be coming to the job market. Therefore, unless an ecosystem is created the unemployment problem wil still persist. | Regarding bringing some of the NGOs in our targeted area is already accomplished. These organization are being trained in youth development program. System thinking and Innovation training for the sub city of Addis Ababa scheduled on August 13. Every week the innovation circles will report to our innovation hub. | -- the Social Innovation Ecosystem (SIE) will be established and functional within three months. -- All the districts under this sub city will establish the SIE -- The Proof of Concept will be taken to the Civil Society Agency to spread throughout the nation. | Short-term Training Expenses to the system leaders Long term Travel and training expenses | https://ipourlife.org/ is our organization link. The links are not yet finalised. | We haven't recorded. The latest conversation was with the sub city administrator Esaya Mhiret. His email Esayasharond12@gmail.com Tel +251 91147 30 38 | Not yet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
286 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Simon G. | Macharia | Mkokoteni Aid Development Organization ( Mado ) | N/A | Executive Director | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | The Economics of Soil Erosion and Restoration of Eroded Land 1. Introduction; Soil is an essential input to farming while soil erosion is the process by which soil primary particles and aggregates are removed and lost from their point of origin by wind or water. This is especially true throughout East Africa, where agricultural production is crucial to development, the livelihoods of the majority of the population depend on the primary sector, and non-labour inputs for the poorest farms are negligible. And yet agricultural land use in East Africa countries often results in the degradation of natural soil fertility and reduced productivity. Soil degradation under farming also inflicts external or off-site costs, through the processes of erosion, sedimentation and leaching. The impacts of land degradation and the depletion of soil resources have profound economic implications for low income countries. Environmental damage results in loss of current income and increased risk, and particularly affects the poor. Degradation of land resources also threatens prospects for economic growth and future human welfare. In the developing countries, empirical research on the economic costs of land degradation is confined largely to analysis at the level of individual farms or watersheds. On-site impacts are most frequently studied, typically by analysis of the effect of soil loss on crop production. Limited data suggest that the impact of soil erosion on crops may be more dramatic in the tropics than under temperate conditions, due to the relative fragility of tropical soils, or more extreme climatic conditions (Kenya Agriculture Climates ). Mado Programs to control erosion in Laikipia, Nyeri Counties - Kenya began early in 2004 and have been very successful. The 3main principles to control erosion are to: use land according to its capability protect the soil surface with some form of cover control runoff before it develops into an erosive force. Mado helped determine how land should be used to avoid erosion: for cropping lands—land management field manuals map and describe the land types in many counties and provide advice on land use and management for each soil type. for grazing lands—maps of soils and land types are available for most areas. Mado conserved cropping practices that maintain cover on soils include minimum and zero tillage practices | Mado started as a CBO and due to its widened scope registered as an NGO ( non profit ) in 2001 under section 10 of Kenya NGOs Act. My organization is practicing environmental sustainability through programming that strengthens the control of people living in poverty and marginalized groups over natural and other environmental resources (land,water,food,forest ) Our community programme approach enables to analyse the root cause of poverty and vulnerability, which includes identifying the use of drugs, environmental hazards . Knowledge and sharing of the best practice among different stakeholders including donors, government, civil societies and private sectors and also parliamentarians influence development cooperation practices in an open voluntary multi-stakeholders forum world wide etc.... The organization has been in waste management practices in both urban and rural areas which significantly reduced energy consumption and green gas emission, especially in recycling and re-using materials. To reduce the amount of garbage brought to the land-fill or dumped into river stream ( Nairobi river ) Mado in cooperation with local government formulated the concept of establishing material recovery centers, which worked their way toward to a City-wide material recovery facility including E-Waste materials.The facility serves as a waste processing and recycling plant that converts biodegradable waste to organic fertilizer....... Equally important is the relation between urbanization and climate change. | Food Security | Agriculture is the engine of economic growth in Kenya. About 75% of Kenyans earn all or part of their income from this sector. ) Agricultural produc | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | East and Central Africa | No | Sustainable Scale | Up to date | As above | As above | Described as above | From community production | I have mentioned | As above | Only Photographs | As above | World Bank through our Kenya Agency Nation Aids Control Council ( NACC ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
287 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nancy | Ayaa | The Youth Hub Uganda | https://theyouthhubuganda.wordpress.com/donate/ | Member | Female | Uganda | Uganda | English | To present a project under the non government organization under which i am a living testimony, it has brought me up, taught me alot and as a living testimony i work for it to motivate more youth through several narratives about my background, from the slums of Kasokoso Kireka Kampala Uganda to a kind of person I am able to do office work, administrational,organise for conferences , workshops, reports , maratthons besides many other activities to run the Youth hub projects. Currently working hard to look raise funds using our designed proposal so that we can put up a Vocational training institution that shall be used to train all sorts of disadvantaged children from Kasokoso regardless of their educational levels but emphasising on skills, like shoe making, tailoring, music art and drama , footwear hand making, some of which we have already started but just looking for ways of at least acquiring our own premises and a few simple tools to use while designing , hand making these items. More to the items we also have African traditionally , shoes, t-shirts , jewelry, handbags, art pieces, of which we need more maintenance to fit in the market and earn some income to sustain the disadvantaged children in the suburbs of Kampala who are every other day witch hunted by city council official without a specific destination but to trenches , water pipes and survival on drugs like i was once living. | I'm passionate about educating young people especially sensitising them about various issues that directly or indirectly affect them like HIV /AIDS, drugs and alcohol, teenage pregnancy. * Sensitisation to create more awareness on environmental conservation for the current climate emergency situation globally. | Craft & Footwear among slum dwellers , street children. | My project is about putting a training facility to avail training in footwear making skills for personal use, commercially raise income for a living. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Uganda | Yes | The youth, people living with disability, instructors, UN volunteers, craft raw material vendors, disadvantaged children, parents, teenagers, councilors, the Facebook community leadership scheme and many other NGOs in charge of the youth. | Research & Development | Ideation ended was before we registered as a full NGO, but now we are registered. Thus research and development.With over 3000 followers (Youth)on our social media handles. We have used UN volunteers online for our research sometimes. Most of the disadvantaged children,street children are already seeking refugee in our hands but with a small space for the start, so hard we cannot accommodate them but just check on them with afew needs from good Samaritans volunteers,well wishers, some companies. | 1.Under development; As a sustainable development goal we plan to re allocated these disadvantaged children to our center off the trenches holes dustbins where they inhabit if some income from commercialisation of our project footwear succeeds. 2.Healthy, alot of foot diseases and accidents surfaces amongst these street children because they bare footwhere they live these like jiggers, athletes in the slums of Kampala. 3.Poverty 4.Unemployment 5.Drug abuse 6.Elitracy | Reallocation of these disadvantaged children to an organised environment or center for the foot wear project To have them skilled in footwear making , traditional hand making products like jewelry,hand bags beside other skills that shall fully keep their minds busy off the city council toucher and drug abusing. If they get the skills and training,these disadvantaged children will be able to sell the products that shall earn them income to meet their basic needs. It is for all types of children regardless of their race, gender, religion political affiliation etc, we are considering the rights of every child may it be the disabled we want them to share equal to e reception care and opportunities . Global impact: Our project is not Limited to the slums of Kampala we have before had volunteers online involved,we plan to avail possibilities beyond online involvement by volunteers World wide but also physically. A lot of research, cross cultural exchange, ideology development from different societies all over the world as an impact thus sustainable development goals. | Our project is set up through a two way project solving multiple problems in the slums community like I have listed ( poverty,ilitracy , healthy and so on) . Craft and foot wear , It fully has been various outcomes, not only the shoes ,crafts, but the use of the foot itself to get involved in other activities like dancing, skating, swimming for the children not only in the slums , of course other children shall also be enticed to join the Youth hub for these same developments. This makes our project very much different from many other centres whose provisions for the disadvantaged children is limited to Education only. That means other drop outs here maybe left out ,,but for the youth hub it doesn't matter which class a child has been too before we put emphasis on skills. We have groomed some boys from that life style to professional photographers by training them on how to take photos regardless of their prior educational background. We have a group of traditional kiganda dancers who are slowly capturing the audience on functions. We have painters, and hand craft making groups, sports amongst others. | The youth hub Uganda was registered in 2017 two years back but checking on our Facebook handle we have over 1.6k youth followers with a daily audience engagement of 147 per week. It was founded by a young man twenty three years now who was selected by the Facebook community leadership skills last year in Africa to go for training and for a scholarship ( fellowship) Amongst a few candidates and n Africa because of the status and rampant growth of this project. When we move around the slums these disadvantaged children call us like their parents ,the attention and need for their relief draws tears out of our eyes ,( they all know us ) like they are every time thinking with hope we are the only way. Sometimes they are sick,nocked or gone through other types of accidents it is our offices they run too even when we cannot afford sometimes to save them in anyway. We are always involved in other activities like at the moment we are organizing for the National Youth week, four months back we were part of the organizer s or the day for the disabled children and after that the HIV Aids candle light dinner. As identified by other non government organizations we are always part of other causes that far. | Craft and footwear for slum dwellers in the streets of Kampala under The Youth hub, As a solution we are targeting beyond Ugandan children since Uganda has in around several other children from neighboring countries in refugee camps ( as a country amongst the ones with higher refugee hostages in the world). Our project is planned to reach that far to the cities outside Kampala like Arua , Kabale ,Kisoro, most of which neighbor other countries like South Sudan , Democratic Republic of Congo ,Rwanda and Burundi. In terms of the Market, craft and footwear project commercially is targeted to fetch the international market via our planned online store to be affiliated to the main website,so as to earn income in all currencies. In addition to the craft and footwear project it has to strive hand in hand with the Vocational training institution where by more staff will be recruited , counselors, Coaches and children all over East Africa. Beyond the craft and footwear, vocational training institution,we in addition plan to widen our projects to online skills training so as to reach out to more disadvantaged children from every where they might be. | Resources needed for the solution to scale and have considerable impact; Human resources these are in terms of finances to afford skills trainers of all the craft, footwear and other vocational training skills. Raw materials for making enough craft and footwear which shall be sustainably enough to constantly supply our targeted customers with enough items. Shoe making machines ,simple ones for the start so as to quicken the processes if compared to use of hands. Atleast for the start shareable ones as they are fully using rudmentaly means to make the project products. Long Beach term _________________ More research and development to improve on the quality and standards of our projects beyond the craft and footwear project. Resources to put up a Vocational training institution in an organised way having brought half an acre for this provision we only need a set up of classes for formalised tutorials. Computers for our graphics students ,photo graphers ,designers , video editors etc. Resources for further expansion as planned towards refugee camps and boarder cities. | https://m.facebook.com/groups/229692110822233?group_view_referrer=profile_browser&_rdc=1&_rdr https://twitter.com/saviobadangayo?s=08 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO7BgYXfGJc @theyouthhub https://twitter.com/youthhubug?s=08 | 1.National schools essay competition on climate change. 2. The Facebook Community Leadership Program | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
288 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Claire | Barnhoorn | AidInnov | www.aidinnov.org | Founder & CEO | Female | Netherlands | Netherlands | English | French | Humanitarian aid worker is, since a poster for a charity run for Ethiopia in first grade, my dream job. I was aged five or six when the great famine in Ethiopia was at it’s heights. On one of the walls in our classroom there was a poster; a charity run at our primary school. A poster with two little boys, distinctive round bellies, hand in hand, dusty background. I came home enthusiastically, “Mum, Dad, I gotta run, and you have to pay me. With this money Ethy and Jopy can buy food, and hence they will not be hungry any longer”. Today, 33 years later, humanitarian aid work is still my passion, dream, moral obligation and ambition. However I have witnessed the shattering of over tens of illusions; changing from an idealist into a pragmatic realist. I have worked for many years in humanitarian assistance in many roles and responsibilities. During those years I have worked with so many dedicated persons in field office all over the world, both UN and NGOs. Now I am back in the Netherlands, and have two young sons (adorable ones as every other mother would say…). These boys ask the ‘why’ questions a gazilion times a day. A question we often fail to ask regarding humanitarian innovation and how we run our operations. Attending conferences and meetups made me realize we just had to change, the way we innovate, the way we search and partner, the way we procure. This is how AidInnov came into existence. With three years into the company, ready to launch soon in Eastern Africa (and soon beyond), I would absolutely relish to bring this to the UN Solutions Summit this year. I can not wait to challenge the problems we are addressing with AidInnov during the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly and discuss possible next steps, partnerships, collaborations and incorporate knowledge with the audience presented. Having the opportunity to discuss and meet so many leading agencies and individuals is a unique opportunity. Presenting this at this stage has been my dream and ambition for this year. | My name is Claire Barnhoorn, and I am the founder of AidInnov, a long-term Humanitarian and a speaker regarding responsible innovation in aid. I have previously held various positions within MSF (Doctors without Borders) and worked as an advisor for various NGOs and UN agencies (like UNICEF and UNHCR), within Europe, Asia and Africa. I have a degree in Tropical Landuse as well as Internatinonal Development Studies from Wageningen University (NL) and a MSc in Humanitarian Assistance (NOHA) from University College Dublin (IE). I work for about 15 years in humanitarian aid with a growing focus on data & innovation. I worked as logistician, project coordinator as well as field adviser globally. People describe me today as a human HDMI – USB cable, standing with and in between humanitarian agencies, developers, data scientists and private sector. I am dedicated to support (data-driven) innovation and enabling improvements in the humanitarian sector. I see it as our moral obligation as humanitarian to provide responsible, professional and ‘fitting’ aid to those in need, given the current possibilities with technology. Hence I founded AidInnov about 2,5 years ago, from a movement for responsible innovation towards the platform ready to grow for responsible procurement and innovation in aid. | AidInnov | Responsible procurement in aid | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | opening in two countries Eastern Africa Q4 (currently in preparation - almost ready to disclose) | Yes | Two leading Humanitarian Agencies, an international operating foundation and leading IT company | Proof of Concept | AidInnov was founded as a movement for responsible innovation, developing an online MVP based on a case with MSF. From the lessons learned of that MVP, the movement grew towards the social enterprise and foundation as we are today. The AidInnov solution as of today addresses 5 issues into one solution, all mutually re-enforcing. Regarding the technological readiness, with the startup grant received, a partnership started with an company to build the AidInnov solution on existing infrastructure. | 5 problems addressed: 1. Duplification of innovation & difficulties in scaling innovations 2. Localization of aid: wanted but for procurement agencies find it difficult to know what is available where, or suppliers find it hard to access this market 3. Focus in aid projects on products rather than solution (packages), incl TCO. 4. Tendering often paper based, no digital workflows 5. 10M NGOs globally, all with their own staff & procurement. Market info hardly shared, or with expert consultants | Currently, agencies spend significant time searching for products, services and solutions. Globally, there is a push for more localized aid solutions and procurement, while at the same time agencies have limited local market visibility. AidInnov will be a workflow and collaboration platform tendering in the aid sector as well as providing an open access catalog of solutions and suppliers of goods and services in the sector. AidInnov allows aid organizations to have a structured, coordinated approach to procurement, saving money and supporting localized aid. AidInnov allow agencies to turn a need into a structured set of requirements that can then be converted into a tender. AidInnov offers two interrelated solutions: 1. Tender platform: a workflow and collaboration platform for procurement and tenders in the aid sector 2. Open Access Catalog: an open access database of suppliers, their products and services for the sector. Unique in AidInnov’s approach is the ability to create a tender or search from scratch based on needs or problem analysis. AidInnov transforms (with build in guidance) these needs into technical and non technical requirements which are suitable for the context in which aid has to be delivered. With this approach, agencies can save up to 10% of their spending, meaning billions becoming available for better spending to reach more beneficiaries responsibly. In addition, the spending will be in increased sustainable and responsible manner. | 1. Methodology: Linking keywords to identified needs, requirements, and solution packages (including total cost of ownership). For example: a user enters the search criteria/word: generator. This will result in the feedback: ""do you need a generator (product) or a power supply?"" If the user selects power supply, questions will be asked. For example: community/facility/household power supply? Based on the specifications several solution packages will be presented. These all include pre-requirements (eg for an incubator: is there 24/7 power available, if not it will be added to your solution package). 2. Approach: These solution packages are ready to tender/procure, thereby incoorporating (field) operations directly into the procurement cycle; based on expertise globally. WIth one press on a button the solution package or product specified can transform into A. a tender to be launched, notifying all local and national suppliers, or B. simple/direct procurement 3. Enabling local businessmen and entrepreneurs to tap into the aid market, and also know as aid agency what is available where. With tenders, local/national/international suppliers can bid on the entire package or on parts of the package, to enable and operationalize the localisation of aid. 4. Provide transparent, audit-able and responsible workflows for tendering, but also able to select criteria (KPIs) for procurement to monitor as agency or donor: for example 50% of food purchased from women owned businesses. | Ideation session have been held, workshops with Agencies, Donors and Suppliers. Multiple test environments being developed. The methodology for linking needs - requirements - solution packages being set technologically. Several key experts in technical domains are working with AidInnov to start 'opening' up subdomains in this way (for example LabTech and Energy). We have a group of globally active humanitarians who test and verify critical procedures within our system and thinking. With the start up grant received recently, we are now working with a technological partner who has a globally rolled out tender platform. With them we work to develop the next phase. As part of external monitoring: We are to build dashboards for the different usersgroups and users within those groups to monitor KPIs. | 1. To open up by the end of Q4 a live and test environment for two countries in Eastern Africa alongside minimum two humanitarian agencies. Fully ready to add more users and agencies in those countries 2. To open up three subdomains by the end of Q4 in AidInnov 3. To recruit 5 additional staff members (domain experts and marketing) by Q1 2020 | 1. Short/Mid term needs - additional financial resources to expand the technological platform to it's full capacity 2. Mid term needs - marketing and communication - to increase awareness of the platform among humanitarians 3. Mid term needs - domain experts (possibly in-kind through partnerships) to open up new domains within the platform (eg Sanitation, Transport, NFI, Shelter, Nutrition, Agriculture, etc) | https://aidinnov.org/what-is-aidinnov/ http://clairebarnhoorn.com/2019/05/29/a-story-of-daring-to-state-ambitions-next-one-up-aidinnov-at-ges2019/ | Application pitch video (30sec) for the GES2019 selection committee: https://aidinnov.org/introducing-aidinnov-for-ges2019/ | We have received the startup grant from the Philips Foundation. Finalist for the DCHI (Dutch Coalition of Humanitarian Innovation) Best Humanitarian Innovation Award 2018. Selected Dutch Innovation for attending the GES2019 as outstanding example of humanitarian innovation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
289 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Bernice | Dapaah | Ghana Bamboo Bikes | http://ghanabamboobikes.org/ | CEO | Female | Ghana | Ghana | English | Having worked previously with the UN and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, I feel like we have a real shot at expanding the Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative into a fully fleshed-out business that has the potential of promoting the UN SDGs for years to come. With my previous experience with my NGO, Bright Generation, my life has revolved around helping people and empowering the less fortunate. From TOMS shoe donations and microloans for rural farmers to bamboo bicycle donations to students who need to travel miles to go to school, my goal in life is to facilitate the development of children through healthcare and education, prevent youth delinquency and reduce social vices through sports, and engage women and youth in agricultural and other income-generating initiatives to enhance their livelihood. These are the problems of the society around me today, I want to do my part in helping these people as much as I can. | Bernice Dapaah, CEO/Founder of Envirotech is described as a sensational Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and Alumni of the Harvard University’s Executive Education Program, Bernice Dapaah is a seasoned Ghanaian with an upward climb in social entrepreneurship. She holds a Diploma in Human Resource Management and Marketing from the Institute of Commercial Management UK and Bachelors in Business Administration from the Christian Service University College in Kumasi Ghana. She has over a decade of work experience in both the profit and non-profit industries. Bernice is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Biodiversity and Natural Capital, which comprises the world’s premier intellectual network, convening the most relevant and knowledgeable leaders from business, government, academia, and civil society to address key global issues. She was also named an Ambassador of the World Bamboo Organization having previously been appointed as a member of the prestigious Global Teacher Prize Academy. She was also honored to receive the World Entrepreneurship Forum’s “Entrepreneur for the World Award” for her impact on society and capacity to change the world. Lastly, Bernice sits on the advisory boards of World Intellectual Property Organization-Green (WIPO Green) in Switzerland. She is skillful in project implementation, monitoring, training, assessments, reviews, baseline surveys, and evaluation. | EcoRide Bamboo Bicycle | GBBI produces affordable and sustainable bamboo bicycles by training, empowering, and employing young rural women in Ghana to produce bicycles. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Ghana | Yes | African Bicycle Contribution Fund | Scaling | After producing over 2,000 bikes and generating revenue for the past 3 years, we have reached a point where our production facilities have been maxed out and we are having to backorder customer inquiries. Our bikes are currently in high demand, but we just don't have the capital, production facilities, and staff to be able to meet the demand of our customers. | Envirotech is solving the problem of finding an affordable, green mode of transportation. Currently, there are very few quality options available to customers that are actually feasible and not ridiculously expensive. In addition, our company also does a great deal of philanthropy by donating bicycles to students in rural communities to help them get to school faster. We also value the empowerment of women and consistently are training and hiring rural women to help build our bicycles. | The EcoRide bicycle comes in 2 forms, either as a frame or as a full bicycle. The frame is built almost completely out of bamboo, bamboo fibers, and epoxy. We only use a small piece of metal for the bottom bracket of the frame to secure the pedals. Because bamboo has a higher tensile and compressive strength than steel, our EcoRide bamboo frame is lighter and stronger than most steel frames and is made out of practically all-natural materials. In addition, due to our manufacturing process, we are able to price these bicycles 40% lower than most of our main competitors. | Although this solution isn't necessarily new or innovative, the way we are creating the bicycles is completely new. We hire a majority of women manufacturers, only use old recycled, second-hand bicycles to build our complete bicycles, and we plant 10 bamboo trees for every 1 bamboo tree we cut down. It's not always the product that is innovative, nor the actual methodology, but the approach that allows for the advancement of a whole community. | I would say we have progressed quite a bit, not only do we have 6 models of the EcoRide bamboo bicycle, but we have also begun branching out and making different products. We currently are in the process of developing a bamboo e-bike and a bamboo wheelchair in order to address the needs of disabled people as well. | Our main plan for growth first consists of securing funding to be able to increase our production speed and capacity, second increasing our marketing and visibility in the international market as Envirotech, and lastly continue to build partnerships and connections with other NGO's and companies that believe in our mission and values. Our marketing strategy consists of targeting specific companies, charities, and NGO's to work and collaborate on events. Currently, we are partnered with the African Bicycle Contribution Foundation and are working on partnerships with a bicycle shop in the US called Franklinton Cycle Works and also with the sporting goods store Decathalon to have our bicycles in stock in their retail stores. The Decathalon partnership is especially key because we not only have the potential of being included in the Ghana store's catalog but also have the opportunity of being signed as a Decathalon brand and be sold in their stores' worldwide. | Short term: We need capital to buy more resources (like epoxy and used bicycles) and hire more staff to start producing more bikes so we can start filling orders. Medium-term: We need more strategic planning and physical capital to begin maximizing and optimizing our production process in order to be more efficient. We would need more rigs and some mentorship on how to complete this task. Long Term: We need to build a new production facility and create relationships with international shipping companies, overseas bicycle businesses, and form partnerships with larger organizations to sustain our impact on our community. | Here is a video that highlights our production process: https://unfccc.int/climate-action/momentum-for-change/women-for-results/ghana-bamboo-bikes-initiative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA3B03Xdw1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_hld8Dus7g | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASY2R16huSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9d6YinLJcg | World Entrepreneurship Award, World Bamboo Ambassador, UN-Habitat/Dubai International Best Practice Award 2014, Global Forum on Human Settlement Award 2014, AFD 100 Innovations for Sustainable Development Award 2013, UNFCCC Momentum For Change Lighthouse Activity Award 2013, World Business and Development Award Winner 2012, Samsung/Generations For Peace Award Winner 2012, 2012 UN-Habitat/Dubai International Best Practice, and 2nd Runner Up 2012 International Road Federation In A Road Awards. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
290 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Peter | Okoth Aluoch | Agrinfo Kenya Co Ltd | agrinfokenyaltd.myfreesites.net | Director | M | Kenya | Kenya | English | I have been an active agribusiness specialist interested and working with smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia. Most challenges facing farmers in these countries are post-harvest food losses and waste management at farm gate and from farm to market because of lack of access to relevant and affordable technological innovations that would help address these challenges while integrating climate smart practices along the value chain. An example is the fruits and vegetable value chain, which is highly perishable and without cooling systems most farmers keep loosing tones of produce every year, a circle that keeps affecting income and food security levels of these category of producers throughout the year. My previous visits to open air markets and discussions with county government of, for example, Nairobi Kenya, have indicated that unless smallholder farmers and the value chain actors are supported with new innovative ideas that will enhance value addition and food waste management at farm gate then our cities will continue to be polluted with food losses. I conducted a project research in Rangpur division, Bangladesh in 2018, looking at the impacts of climate smart agriculture on regional food security and rural development. This research included looking at, among other things, the carbon foot-prints along different value chains (potato, fruits and vegetables, wheat, maize and rice) in the region and how to reduce them from the enterprise development approach. My findings were that there is need to bring innovative ideas that will encourage value addition at farm gate while improving incomes of producer groups. I did a writing on different climate smart approaches for pastoral communities in Kenya and has written an article on smallholder farmer contributions to food security. Based on all these facts, I started working with smallholder producer groups on roots and tubers (specifically Cassava and Potatoes), being traditional crops and whose value chains are abandoned and not commercialized in Kenya. The crops are staple food for majority of Kenyans but they fail to organize the value chains to make it attractive to large commercial processors. I designed a simple solar drier, using white polythene and given one farmer group as pilot for drying cassava chips, a process that really succeeded in reducing the number of drying days from 3 days to 8 hours, not only making them improve quality but also able to process more volumes and meet market demand. | Peter Ouma Okoth Aluoch is a Kenyan citizen, aged 37yrs old and holds an MSc in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security from Royal Agricultural University, UK, with an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Economics from Egerton University, Kenya. With interest in smallholder farming and rural development in Africa and Asia, his experience spreads across innovative value chain design and analysis; business modelling; Sustainable Rural, Urban & Peri-Urban Agricultural Development; Pro-Poor Market System Development approaches; MSME mentoring and coaching; and Digital Agricultural design and development. Peter has served as Agri-Business Development Advisor with different development organizations working with smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia, and conducted different research and analyses focusing on improvement on agricultural value chains. Throughout his service to the communities, he has demonstrated his ability to listen to the needs of the poor farmers, engaging them and other stakeholders to find lasting solutions to agricultural value chain challenges. Peter is currently engaging smallholder cassava and potato farmers in Kenya in embracing the solar drier technology, an innovation that has changed the life of many roots and tuber producers through promoting value addition; increasing incomes and food security level of the farmers. Peter is internally motivated to jointly work with teams to give lasting solutions; a creative thinker, an innovator, public speaker and fast learner who is quick in building teams for a shared learning and effective leadership. | Solar Drier | Changing the Lives of Smallholder farmers through Value Addition, improved quality and increased incomes in a sustained climate smart processing | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Kenya | No | Transition to Scale | We have done the pilot with over three farmer Aggregation centres. One aggregation centre has minimum 200 farmers, processing 4 tons of dried cassava chips a week. There are over 60 cassava aggregation centres already established by other development agencies working on cassava and potato. With the Government of Kenya's roots and tubers strategy, the number of aggregation centres are increasing daily, posing huge market for driers, which currently we can't give to individual farmers. | Farmers use remote ways to dry their produce after harvesting. For dried cassava chips in Kenya, this is mostly done in an open air, next to roads, bushes or children's playing grounds leading to direct contamination of the processed chips by passing animals (pigs, poultry, cows or children). Sometimes the chips become dusty affecting quality. During rainy season, drying takes over 3 days, exposing the produce to further contaminants and heavy labour use. Can now access High value markets | By introducing the solar drier, which is a metal structure of centrain measurement (averagely 20x50ft) covered with either Tapolyne (best quality) or polythene (low quality), and solar pannels errected on top to tap and provide solar energy which is then stored in solar battery, the drier can work well both day and night using the stored solar energy. An inverter for Dc to AC is also installed to make the energy available to power on a drier heater during the night or on a cloudy day. Since the materials are still expenssive for an individual farmer, we group farmers into aggregation centres to increase their access to the drier services, and this helps them: reduce the number of drying days and eventually reduce frequency of exposure to sources of contamination; reduce labour use, and controlled animal entry including flies. For the Global impact, there is highly reduced carbon foot prints by using the solar driers and sustainable use of energy. The driers put the traditional crops on commercial value chains where farmers get access to high value competitive markets paying premium prices for their quality processed chips leading to increased incomes and reduced poverty. More production is facilitated by the competitiveness of the value chains leading to high food security: farmers can eat what they produce or use money from their sales to buy what they didn't produce. Bulky wastes from peeling will be treated for compost manure and sold back to the farmers. | Previously, farmers never dried cassava or potato chips using solar drier. These are believed to be traditional crops, which were treated with traditional ways such as just spreading them on a flat rock, or on mats or on flat ground and compromised quality. The Solution looks like a paradigm shift from traditional way to commercial practice, encouraging farmers to observe quality for target markets, and is an upgrade of the normal green houses used in horticultural production which worked only during a sunny day but couldn't heat the driers at night, and so where they were used without solar panel, the farmers still suffered the consequences of taking longer to dry their chips during rainy and cloudy days. This technology provides for taping and storing solar energy using solar battery, which can be converted and used during the night or cloudy day with lighting facilities around the drier. The farmers don't have to pay for the cost of electricity bill but able to tap on the free solar power from the sun. Interestingly, the drier is not just for tubers or roots only but dries fruits and vegetables as well. | Initially it has been quite tough to continue, owing to the fact that getting enough finance to set up one solar drier of measurement 20x50ft was quite expensive. But after a successful pilot with three Aggregation centres, more interests have come from the farmers who are willing to pay for the instalments for the solar driers. In our pilots, two driers were set up without the Solar panel and solar batteries. What came out was that it took longer for the two to dry completely 1ton of cassava chips to the right moisture content. This make many farmers to like the solar drier with the solar panel and solar battery, but the cost of installing that is worrying to the smallholder farmer. So far, the innovation is fully developed and just need financing to roll it out. Roll out may require payment by instalments for the smallholder farmer groups or selling through farmer associations or cooperatives, and training the farmers on the use especially the youth for knowledge management, and partnering with value chain actors, government or development agencies to ensure their buy-in of the technology. | We plan to cover most parts of Kenya with this innovation before we can move it out to other countries for the next two years. Luckily enough, there is a bigger market for this in Tanzania and Uganda, who are the main growers of cassava in East Africa, but are also struggling with quality management issues during mini-processing of the chips. We will consider having specialists staff on marketing and installation, Supplies management, Training and research and staff on administrative roles. In 2020, we project to reach out to 100,000 farmers in Kenya, both for tubers, roots, fruits and vegetable having greater access to markets, increased incomes and improved food security using sustainable and climate smart processing methods. | Short Term: USD 2,000,000. More is needed on funding of the technology to brand, package, market, register and roll it out to users; Medium Term: USD 1,000,000. Funding to upscale it to meet the needs of the different wider farming community and collecting feedback. Key Expertise needed on responding to some of the specific issues on customer feedback Long Term: USD 500,000 for Research and development. | https://www.agrinfokenyaltd.myfreesites.net | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sojA5dznbEY | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
291 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Martine | Zaarour | Jar Thuraya | www.jarthuraya.com | Architect, activist in sustainable development | Female | Lebanon | Lebanon | Arabic | English | French | As a woman entrepreneur, I am trying to take my idea beyond the borders of Lebanon. As a finalist in the YLP program by UNDP, I got the chance to pitch my project at the regional forum in Tunisia as well as being selected as Arab States representative during the ECOSOC conference in New York and pitching my project in front of prominent institutions such as UNDP, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNWOMEN, and UNDP's administrator himself. It was their encouragement and the trust the UNDP Arab States team put in me that gave me the motivation to pursue my dream and strive to develop my project. In addition to that, being the only Lebanese delegate at the IYF3 in China, hosted by UNESCO Beijing, talking about the importance of culture and heritage and how they play roles in sustaining societies. After the intense and interesting international exposure, I realized that my project has already reached a global platform thanks to all the articles, reviews and interviews the UN news and other institutions have published. The idea is innovative, it uses technology to empower women, youth and rural areas, a concept that can be implemented in any context that fits the criteria and hopefully will be able to expand it internationally. | Martine Zaarour, born and raised in the oldest inhabited city in the world:Byblos, Lebanon, I have spent my childhood dreaming about architecture and heritage, until I graduated with honors from the Lebanese American University in 2014 and I started my design career in Madrid. In 2015, I started working on a theme park project but along side being a full time architect, I co-founded a sustainable development NGO that deals with sustainable solutions and engages youth in activities that spread awareness about the importance of the Agenda 2030. After I found my passion for social work, I decided to expand my work towards women empowerment, youth and the rural areas. The inspiration came from different personal experiences, mainly my grandmother who is the face behind my brand. I am currently the founder of a local startup called Jar Thuraya, a platform that sells homemade food prepared by rural women and teaches youth preparation methods and preservation techniques while boosting rural areas. This idea has been the focus of my life in the last few months and I have engaging in all sorts of conferences and workshops in Lebanon and abroad. My hobbies include the beach, and all sorts of heritage locally and around the world. I am passionate about traveling, meeting new people and learning about new cultures. My dreams are not only limited to succeeding in the business, I would like my project to become a pioneer in social impact, and I would love to raise a family of my own, and live sustainably. | Jar Thuraya | From my kitchen to yours, the startup sends you a taste of home. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Lebanon for the moment | Yes | Lebanese Wanderers: Rural tourism specialists. | Research & Development | At the moment, I am finalizing my marketing strategy, my legal matters, and the deals with the women will be showcasing their products. The launching of the project will be around mid-September. The project is still under development and is currently part of an incubation program that is committed to the success of the idea and managed by prominent consultants in various fields. | I have been watching my grandmother make different sorts of food but I never got my hands dirty in a kitchen.In fact, we as youth were never engaged in food making activities, because we rely on women who are known for these specialties. 80% of Lebanese households consume at least one product/day but 75% of them lack the skills of preparation and preservation. Jar Thuraya tackles the issue of youth detachment from traditional practices that constitute a share of the intangible heritage. | Let me introduce to you JAR THURAYA, an online platform that covers 6 different SDGs and serves three purposes Empower women who prepare traditional food by creating their own personal brand and connect them to a wider market for their products using online platforms and e-commerce techniques Preserve Lebanon’s culinary heritage by teaching the youth traditional techniques online and on spot by hosting workshops and cooking seminars with the women, and promote sustainable tourism by engaging users into learning activities around the villages. The focus on women, youth and rural areas is what makes JAR THURAYA stand out. In order to reach global impact, the concept has to be utilized and implemented in different areas around the world that are struggling with the same issues. However, in the case of Lebanon, being capable of empowering women to help them make money, sell the products and allow the opportunity to expand to an international market is my itself a huge impact for our society and if the projects reaches the international market, the impact will keep on growing. | Even though many startups sell local products around the urban areas, they all lack focus on the creation of unique brands for the women, nor the engagement of youth in their initiatives, nor the importance of sustainable development. In addition to becoming a successful business, Jar Thuraya aims to generate a social impact and highlights the importance of sustainable living and heritage preservation.These criteria don't exist in the projects that are ongoing in Lebanon and sell local food. On the website, users will be able to browse through various women's profiles, read their bios, learn their recipes, watch videos of them preparing the food, buy the products that are sorted by village, women or season. Sign up to activities, culinary workshops with women, book guest houses, hikes and camps, volunteer to attend and help during harvests and meet other users that come from their village and socialize to re-attach themselves to the roots. The platform will also sell hand made crafts and merchandise that is organic and plastic free. | The project started as a women empowerment idea, a mission to help as many women as possible expand their market to the online world and reach a wider audience. During the last few months, the team was capable of drafting a business plan, a financial analysis, finalize the branding and the social media platforms, contacted the women and tried their products and did many surveys to test the interests of the people in the idea. Starting from an idea and reaching the pre-launching phase, I believe is a huge progress since we come from various backgrounds. Also, the progress can be highlighted on a personal level, as a woman at 27, lacking all the skills of food preparation and preservation with limited knowledge about my local heritage, I found myself becoming more engaged in the importance of the preservation message i am trying to send. My progress has been measured by the exposure I am receiving and the positive feedback that has transformed Jar Thuraya from an idea to a business that is about to be launched soon. | Everytime I travel, or any person I know travels, the luggage is packed with Zaatar, Kishk, honey, Jams ...etc. Lebanese people are attached to their food heritage because it became part of the collective memory and their love for homemade goods is resilient. The Lebanese diaspora is assumed at 14 million around the world, my goal is to expand and reach the international market. Give the chance to any Lebanese living abroad to have a taste of home delivered to their doorsteps but hopefully implement the idea in other countries that have the same business model. The team will grow bigger and will include people with expertise in legal matters, marketing and financial studies, however, the seed needs time to grow and all the positivity around us is helping us commit to growth. | At the moment, and with the limited resources we have, the project is running smoothly, however, on the long term more financial support will be needed to expand the marketing campaign and reach more users, develop the website to include all the services and communicate with embassies around the world to collaborate on international exposure. | https://www.facebook.com/jarthuraya https://www.instagram.com/jarthuraya https://www.annahar.com/article/992090-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%AB%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B5%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%A5%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A5%D8%AD%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AB-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D9%85%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D9%86%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9?id=992090&fbclid=IwAR3eHsd63hfGOnOh2dfAg1697JQfv2j2qP_FrUqHLOpKAmwRTE18jGC-i-I https://medium.com/@UNDP/social-innovators-leaders-and-powerful-forces-for-change-bce5c51f3a68?fbclid=IwAR3R3MSOTw72TQ5WGECxi2u7zti8pG7w_tKmj_tvV0JIOB5_s-bMV1dUqoE https://www.facebook.com/YouthLeadershipProgramme/photos/a.244980559410894/448703815705233/?type=3&theater https://twitter.com/asteiner/status/1115327238432489473?s=12&fbclid=IwAR3NJddwyoa3T7EE4Sgmj8vdtpbf1iRPOH35OdKhfyreK_YfG7t_HSeQuCE https://www.facebook.com/YouthLeadershipProgramme/photos/a.244980559410894/428910461017902/?type=3&theater | https://www.facebook.com/UNNewsArabic/videos/571011930075181/UzpfSTkwMDMzNTUwMjoxMDE2MTYzNDk5NzUxMDUwMw/ https://vimeo.com/349320755 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2281975505354497 http://www.arabstates.undp.org/content/rbas/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2019/government-of-japan-and-undp-commit-to-support-young-entrepreneu.html | YLP4 program by UNDP: Finalist in the competition between 120 different startups. Arab States representative for the Youth breakout session by UNDP Arab States at the ECOSOC. Leader of the session of the pitch for the Japanese, Egyptian and Jordanian commission at ECOSOC. IYF3 Lebanese delegate in China Rural Entrepreneurs competition third prize Badael incubation: One of 42 finalists between 1800 projects. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
292 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mrinalini | Rajpurohit | Solecraft ( Genesole Private limited ) | http://solecraft.org/ | Co-founder & CEO | Female | India | India | English | “WHY FASHION ONLY FOR RICH PEOPLE” YOUR REJECTIONS ARE OUR REVOLUTIONS, SAY’S SOLECRAFT There may be a thousand things poverty has made people suffer from, but there is always a bag full of solutions that are worth millions of cherishments. We often wait for ponds to fill before valuing the drops of water it may need. So here we are with our noble and breathtaking venture ‘SOLECRAFT’, where we upcycle and reuse discarded pieces of denim to reproduce eco-friendly school kits and comfortable footwear for our national family, who is in need. We may not be able to reach out to every want of a person, but we as a team are trying to focus on the basic needs of our families’ future. Solecraft is a Social Enterprise with an expedition, questing your support for the necessitous section of the society. To content those children with the basic everyday objects/products, needed in school which they aren’t capable of buying themselves. Our innovative ideas are being put into Solecraft to explore the limits of upcycling pieces of denim. An estimated 300 million children around the world don’t have shoes to wear and they are prone to suffer from soil-transmitted diseases and parasites. Hence, we decided to dedicate our devotion, creativity, and hard work for the upliftment of people who really are in need, by taking a step ahead for the sake of their betterment. Therefore, we may not be able to serve em’ all though, but we assure to serve em’ all that we offer with all o0ur love, respect, and honesty. This startup is just a room of happiness for some now, but our plan is to scatter smiles on the faces of the future of our national family. We took our step, no matter small or big, make sure you take your step too; because at the end it is not the pond that gets filled for all, but the drops of rain that unite together giving it its worth. Our plan is not to deliver the want but to provide with the needs. “To be able to give is always better than just to be” | An epitome of creativity, Mrinalini Rajpurohit, a passionate designer, carving her way to lend a hand towards the upliftment of the society, incorporating her professional background of fashion designing in creating a meaningful and impactful room of thoughts and conviction for the necessitous section. Using the skill acquired through a long period of time to transform discarded garments into sustainable clothing for the marginalized community. | Solecraft | Crafting for souls | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | India | Yes | Marwari Catalyst | Scaling | Solecraft idea started a year back by the motive to serve the children from the Marginalised community, by providing them with the basic school kit. We used to collect the old pieces of denim from the communities and manufactured them by raising funds. During the Ideation stage, we decided to build an organization which is self-sustainable and scalable. In 2019 we have successfully incorporated the organization by creating the team of three as a Co-founder and now with the team, we are scaling. | The Apparel industry accounts for 5 percent of waste and 10 percent of the global carbon emissions which has led to several environmental issues like climate change, Incineration, and land fillings. Raising the temperature and intensifying droughts, climate change could substantially reduce cotton yields and thus make garments production less predictable and far more expensive. For Example, It takes approximately 8000 liters of water for growing cotton to manufacturing a pair of denim. | Solecraft is textile upcycling Initiative that specializes in the breakdown of the garment waste, to produce new products. The organization provides training and employment to men and women from grassroots and fashion designers to recycle the waste garments to produce Innovative products and accessories across Multiple Range. Solecraft current focus is on denim upcycling, the old pieces of denim get transformed into new beautiful products hence creating a culture of recycling and sustainable fashion the company also has a non-profit division which is focused on providing the denim kits to the school children. Solecraft is constantly promoting Circular Economy by minimizing waste and making the most of resources. The good news is that the rise of fast fashion and textile recycling has become a new for-profit business of its own. Due to the lack of individuals recycling behavior for their old and used clothing, We realize, there is a gap that needs to be bridged up by creating a social enterprise. We started Solecraft to bridge this gap and provide an opportunity for individual or organization to be part of the sustainable fashion. We believe that there is a great opportunity for all of us to work collaboratively and mutually benefit from each other. | Solecraft Innovations is in its business model. Solecraft currents major revenue comes from upcycling the old pieces of denim and creating various merchandise that can be sold to various Individuals, Governmental and Non-governmental organization. One of our companies objectives is to serve the Bottom of pyramid segment by identifying their needs and involving local community, for example, we realize, children going to government schools don’t have access to basic school kit, so we have created a school kit ( A Bag, Box and Sleepers ) by collecting pieces of denim and getting it sponsored for individuals. To scale and achieving long term sustainability The company is now working on more than 50 Merchandise that will sell to market via online and offline channels to cater to the demands, also exclusive products are created on order, for example our team is developing a packaging solution to cater to the need for restaurants and online food delivery companies, other examples is the encouraging upcycled Corporate gifting among big organization, engaging volunteer, youth-led organization and NGOs to advocate for upcycling, on every product sold the company will earn a small percentage of the total cost. The company future plan is to collaborate with various manufacturers and fashion brands to provide various upcycling services. Development of Solecraft Mobile application will help consumers to communicate directly and avail multiple services. | Globally only 14.2 % of the textile waste is being recycled. Solecraft’s business model is designed, by aligning the Socio-Economic and Environmental aspects of sustainability, the company is developing an impact assessment methodology, where all the three aspects will be measured by collecting and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data according to segment and regional analysis. For Example, to measure social aspect, the data about denim collections,the number product sold and future demand will be assessed, to measure the economic aspect, the data about the increase in the income of the workers as well as employment generation will be assessed and to measure the environmental aspect, we will be measuring the amount of waste we have been able to upcycle and reduction in the carbon footprint, thus by integrating all these data in real-time using various AI algorithms we will able to measure impact on a daily basis as well. While scaling, We will integrate it with our CRM and Data Management system. Tools like B Impact assessment will be used to measure the impact of the team. | In the next three years, Solecraft's target is to increase the team size from 3 to 50 and generate employment for 1000 craftsman. To create a social impact Solecraft's target is to serve 1 million children by providing them with school kits made by recycling pieces of denim. The company's operation will spread across multiple locations in India, the product selling is already open to the global level, we have started generating revenue. | Solecraft’s strategy is to work collaboratively with the community, We are collaborating with various Private & Public Enterprise to organize the denim collection drive. For Example, We had collaborated with The Book cafe, Jodhpur, by deploying a collection box, where citizens had donated their old denim, we are also encouraging other cafes to run the collection drive, Our team provides them with various guidelines and consultation for example if anyone is donating denim he/she should get a discount as a reward on their bill, this will not only motivate a citizen, also it will encourage more people to donate and add value, the same strategy is with various corporations, universities,schools, hotels and backpackers, and NGOs. Being on a mission to create an economic impact, the company is also planning to collaborate with various local scrap keeper to purchase old denim as a backup option. It will mitigate the risk of scarcity of the material. To make it self sustainable and scalable The Company’s future strategy to streamline the process to tie up with various retailers to become partners in denim collection drive, the company will provide intensive on the target basis. Also, the company is developing a strategic model to collaborate with various E-commerce to provide denim exchange services. | Media link 1 - https://www.patrika.com/jodhpur-news/waste-denim-start-up-for-helping-poor-students-4752671/?fbclid=IwAR3BGxR-BdpAkDNeoP2xQKYhZH0DNGGAHwGWGGf-eiXcHpzh7bt3I69M7fg Media Link 2 - https://www.bepositive.online/solecraft/?fbclid=IwAR1OFP9N1wY2KfZsmKxBDb6BDvJ83SFHVXDWq0arUqsZf8R_63WbhOm6AMw | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z_bKe04q382M3n0BH2Dc2541JwRCRGu_/view?usp=sharin | NA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
293 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Brian | Mutebi | Education & Development Opportunity - Uganda | http://edouganda.org/ | Executive Director | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | I seek to share my story of being the first graduate in my village and going on to build the first scholarship scheme in Africa for survivors of gender based violence and teenage mothers. This was a key solution to the problem I witnessed in my community. Convinced that education is key to transforming lives and the lack of which undermines would be successful lives, but with no donor, nothing, I sold my land worth $1,500 and started the Brian Mutebi Dream Scholarship Fund. That was unconventional; youth of my background do not give away the little they have; they would try to accumulate more. 10 years later, at my charity, we’re making strategic investment in access to education to vulnerable girls and empowering women. We’re Africa’s success story and a classic example of African philanthropy. I seek to inspire the world that it is possible; that each one of us can work out a solution with local resources to problems in their community and make a difference in the lives of others. When I started the Brian Mutebi Dream Scholarship Fund, I only had but a dream. With a Pen and Paper, I wrote down my dream. 3 years later, I incorporated by charity; my dream was unfolding. I have used global spaces in Africa, Europe, U.S. and India to champion the cause for girls’ education, gender equality and women rights and empowerment. I seek to share with the world the inexplicable joy of serving humanity, of being a father to the fatherless, and making a widow’s heart sing. | Brian Mutebi, 36, is the Founder and Executive Director of the charity, Education & Development Opportunity – Uganda and the architect of the Brian Mutebi Dream Scholarship Fund for girls at-risk, survivors of gender-based violence, teenage mothers and HIV/AIDS orphans. He is a Co-founder and Director Advocacy at Girls Flourish, a non-profit that together with UN Women are organizing Uganda’s first National Girl Child Awards that identify, recognize and celebrate communities, organizations, brands, programs and individuals empowering the girl child. Mutebi is an award-winning gender and women’s rights campaigner and recipient of the 2017 Gender Justice Youth Award in Africa. He is a Laureate at the French-African Young Leaders Program, and Fellow at the AU-EU Youth Plug-In Initiative that developed the AU-EU Youth Agenda adopted by the Heads of State and Government in November 2017. In July 2019, Mutebi was appointed on the UN Women Uganda Civil Society Advisory Group. Mutebi has used global spaces in Africa, Europe, U.S. and India to promote gender equality and women’s rights and access to education for socially excluded and stigmatized girls, to Leave No One Behind. He features on the Women Deliver global list of “15 journalists, 15 voices for girls and women” for his extensive writing and advocacy for women’s rights; Commonwealth Young Achiever; Uganda’s “Top 40 Men Under 40,” and in 2018, he named on Africa’s prestigious list of “100 Most Influential Young Africans.” | The Brian Mutebi Dream Scholarship Fund | Education for the socially excluded and stigmatized girls. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Uganda, United States, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Germany and Kenya. | No | Transition to Scale | We already got a clear concept, have already implemented our solution to child marriage in Uganda and got impressive results. The Fund has benefited 30 in primary and secondary schools and at university. The first recipient of the university scholarship, Lisa, 23, a survivor of domestic violence, will graduate next year with a Bachelor of Laws from Makerere University. We have set financial and administrative management processes and systems, ready to scale for greater results and impact. | Child Marriage – In Uganda, one in four girls 15-19 years of age is either pregnant or had a baby. Only one in 10 girls is able to return to school after giving birth but married off to older men where they face higher risk of domestic violence. Teenage mothers are more likely to suffer from obstetric fistula because their bodies are not physiologically mature to handle child birth. The World Bank estimates that Uganda could save up to USD2.7 billion by 2030 if child marriages were eliminated. | How it works Keeping girls in school is the most effective means of delaying pregnancy and protecting girls from child marriage. In 2012, I sold my land worth $1,500 and started the Brian Mutebi Dream Scholarship Fund for girls at-risk, survivors of gender based, teenage mothers and HIV/AIDS orphans. It is the first scholarship scheme in Africa for socially excluded and stigmatized girls. The scholarships cover tuition, stipend to facilitate doing research and other academic expenses; and accommodation, where needed. For the girls formally disowned by their families and socially discriminated against, the scholarships bestow upon them a garment of praise instead of spirit of despair. Long-term vision, global impact Our vision is to make the Brian Mutebi Dream Scholarship Fund the premier scholarship scheme in Africa for girls who otherwise have no hope of attaining an education #LeaveNoneBehind. We launched a campaign to involve top global brands like Coca Cola, LVMH, MTN, to link their products and services to the girl child cause. •A telecom company to come up with a special Girl Child internet product where a percentage of the sales is donated to the Fund. •A personal care brand or supermarket to come up with a special Girl Child gift pack where a percentage of sales is donated to the Fund. •A restaurant, café or hotel chain to run a Girl Child Special Meal promotion where a percentage of the sales go towards the Fund. We seek to give 5,000 scholarships in 10 years. | The uniqueness of my solution is in the story of its founding. While most scholarship programs in Africa and indeed around the world are started by wealth individuals such as Mo Ibrahim Scholarships, Madhvani scholarships, MasterCard among others, I had nothing but a dream to start the Brian Mutebi Dream Scholarship Fund. I sold my land worth $1,500 and started the Fund. That was unconventional. Youth from an impoverished background like myself do not give away the little they have; they would seek to accumulate more. Orphaned at 10 to HIV/AIDS and brought up by my peasant grandmother, I nearly dropped out of school when she could afford no more the cost of my education. Along this difficult journey, however, I met kind persons who held my hand up. Thanks to their support through school, I became the first graduate in my village in 2007! I conceived a dream – a joyful burden on my heart. I wanted to do something that would make a real difference in the lives of people particularly girls and women. My journey of grace had made me understand everyone needs an act of kindness, a hand extended to them so they could realise their dreams. There was no better way than giving an education to they who otherwise have no hope to. The Fund mobilises resources from individuals and institutions, working with a philosophy that the real value of money are the lives transformed. We serve humanity. | We measure progress by the number of scholarships awarded and the lives transformed; the inspiration we provide for social entrepreneurship and the multiplier effect that has. The Fund has benefited 30 in primary and secondary schools and at university. For the girls formally disowned by their own families and socially discriminated against, the scholarships bestow upon them a garment of praise instead of spirit of despair. In addition to formal education, girls get business skills such as making crafts in addition to envisioning and teaching them kindness, forgiveness and inclusivity. Indeed, the first recipient of the university scholarship, Lisa, 23, a survivor of domestic violence, who is pursuing a Bachelor of Laws at Makerere University, wants to become a human rights lawyer to defend the rights of the poor in courts of law. That is transforming lives; that’s making impacting. | Our goal is to award 5,000 scholarships to socially excluded and stigmatized girls and HIV/AIDS orphans in 10 years. We have developed a campaign, the “Be a Partner Be EDOU Ambassador” mobilizing Partners and Ambassadors in individuals and institutions for the Fund. A Partner is he who donates to the Fund. An Ambassador shares this cause with other people in their networks and encourages them to support us. Ambassadors provide that vital link connecting willing hearts to the area of practical need. We launched a campaign to involve top global brands such as Coca Cola, LVMH, MTN to link their products and services to the girl child cause. It is a unique opportunity for top global brands to achieve both business growth and corporate social responsibility through investment in girls’ education. We have secured a partnership with a local tour company to organize annual “Uganda Charity Tours” where Partners and Ambassadors will visit the project in Uganda and do tourism expeditions in the Pearl of Africa. Part of the proceeds from the tourism expeditions will go into the Brian Mutebi Dream Scholarship Fund. 2019/2020, we are registering the charity in Paris, London, Brussels and the United States so we can be able to mobilize resources locally. We shall pull the funds raised and invest securely in treasury bills, stocks, land and real estate to run the Fund sustainably. | Short term needs •We need human resources. We need networks where we can belong, learn and share best practices •Money. We need funds to run our scholarship program more sustainably with greater impact. Medium-term needs •We need technological resources. We need to automate our systems to make it convenient and effective for use by our staff, volunteers and partners. Long-term needs •We need land and investment to run the Fund sustainably for generations. | The man who sold his land to educate women http://bit.ly/1t6upiA Brian Mutebi to touch one child at a time https://bit.ly/2FkjnQ1 “I had no hope for university education” http://bit.ly/29QJBZw 10 years of transforming lives: http://edouganda.org/2019/03/01/in-local-and-international-media%EF%BB%BF/ Brian Mutebi: From jaws of poverty to women rights campaigner https://bit.ly/2IdwjpI “My dream is a joyful burden” http://bit.ly/20usSxO Brian receives Gender Justice Youth Award in Africa https://bit.ly/2qFgUqT 100 Most Influential Young Africans https://bit.ly/2O4eVue | Live cast at the European Commission http://bit.ly/2DBLLNz UNESCO MGIEP #KindnessMatters Conference: https://youtu.be/29-22IvnjRM French-African Young Leaders Program https://youtu.be/v44AM7XL0p0 | •Sep. 2018: “100 Most Influential Young Africans,” Africa Youth Awards (winner) •Nov. 2017: Gender Justice Youth Award, Institute for Justice & Reconciliation (winner) •Nov. 2016: Uganda’s “Top 40 Men Under 40”; The New Vision newspaper (winner) •July 2015: Commonwealth Young Achiever, Commonwealth Youth Council UK (winner) •March 2015: “15 journalists, 15 voices for girls & women”, Women Deliver, New York (winner) •June 2014: Tumaini Awards, Uganda Child Rights NGO Network (Winner). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
294 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | KEVIN | MUSILA | KENYA GREEN SUPPLY LTD | www.kenyagreensupply.com | COO | MALE | Kenya | Kenya | English | I would like to share my innovation with the world by presenting it before top leaders at the UN. My innovation utilizes solar technology to integrate power generation, storage and use. The device is a solar computer, with lighting and charging capabilities for rural homes in Africa. I have tested the device with a few users and am planning ti launch it in October 2019. The devices brings information to rural populations, plus solar power and free-to-air digital TV embedded in the device module. | I was born in 1988 in Kakamega Kenya, went to Kenyatta University for Environmental Planning and Management in 2009. I worked briefly with Kenya Electricity Generation Company, and County Government of Kakamega in 2012 and 2013. I applied to attend for One Young World Summit in 2013 in Johannesburg which I did, representing Kenyan Youths at the conference. I met Marielle Fillit at the conference and to gether we started Kenya Green Supply Ltd in Kenya, later in 2013. I have worked for the company in various capacities including general manager, manager strategy and chief operating officer post that I currently hold. | AllSola Computer | A solar computer with lighting and charging capabilities for off-grid homes. | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ghana, Nigeria | Yes | Marielle Fillit, Business Partner, Kenya Climate Innovation Centre, DFID, Social Mobile Communications US. | Proof of Concept | We currently have a working sample after development and testing for the past three years. We are planning a pilot in October this year to test about 200 kits with real users in Kenya, where we will test the PAYGO database, the battery durability among other aspects. | Approximately 530 million people in residential households and businesses in Sub Saharan African still lack access to affordable and clean electricity. Although we have a variety of solutions on the market, they lack one element or another to fully satisfy the user, who has never had power all their life. The AllSola device seek to integrate power generation and utilization in a smart and sustainable way, which satisfy the user on switching on the device. | Our solution integrates solar home system, a computing platform, a database for lease-to-own management, digital TV and Internet connectivity. The solar home system has a battery to store power then power the functionalities such as lighting (four lights), charging (DC appliances). We have attached a 13.3 inch Android screen to the solar home system for digital TV (chip inside), with education and agribusiness apps, phone abilities and entertainment. When installed in an off-grid home, the user gets instant solutions from lighting, charging, communication and access to information. | Our solution is affordable, with cash and lease-to-own payment options. We are also seeking grants to subsidize the price further. Our solution is a one stop shop for all consumer needs, making it easy for maximum utilization of the power generated. Our solution can be put into productive use when utilized by small businesses for alternative lighting, charging, entertainment and powering DC appliances that generate additional income to improve lives. In addition, our solution offers a computing platform for processing information and research while utilizing solar energy. Further, the solution connects the user to internet opening markets for Telcos and connecting off-grid users to the much needed internet. | Progress: •Completed two pilots and five customer surveys and tests of product components. •Legally registered, tax compliant, with several employees in place, ready to get rolling. We have five full-time employees and three part-time employees. •Negotiated contracts with a Telecom and Finance Company to support PAYGO plan, manufacturer, logistical company and several dealers for distribution, partnerships in place with app companies to provide their content. •Completed patent filing. •Applied for the necessary contracts for trade in Kenya including Type Approval, Vendor License, and ERC waiver on Value Added Tax to be issued before launch. •Support from organizations such as Kenya Climate Innovation Center, Energy for Impact, DFID, UKAID, Power Africa, Tony Elumelu Foundation and Social Mobile Telecommunications. •Spent approximately $250, 000 on design, development and testing. $220000 is equity and $30000 donation. Measuring Progress: We measure progress based on key outcomes and related activities: These include product design (prototype), testing, working sample, fundraising, tooling, software development, manufacture and delivery of the product to the user. We have also put in place mechanisms to measure progress using project management software like Asana to schedule tasks and complete them when done successfully. | We plan to manufacture 200 kits by end of September 2019, launch sales and database by early October in four markets, Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria and Ghana. In the launch we look forward to hiring up to 20 additional employees, make critical partnerships with telecom companies and banks for data and financing. | In our fundraising we are seeking approximately $300000 USD to enable us manufacture a stock of 1000 kits, enough to distribute and learn from use. | http://kenyagreensupply.com/ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T67WEzwYy7dvQj2DtTrYTectsQWYcSMb | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NM6xVcLUq--gOcS2rV8d1mLHhJJ1XaHp | Africa Entrepreneurship Award 2017. Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Seed Capital 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
295 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | OLUWASEUN | ADEKOYA | Optigreen Foundation | https://optigreen.com.ng/ | PROJECT COORDINATOR | MALE | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The battles and struggles experienced in my early life in Nigeria ingrained in me the passion and enthusiasm to significantly add to national advancement, particularly in the area of education. Quality education is a major area that needs urgent attention in Nigeria, currently ranked 171 in the world based on her investment in Education. It was under these tenets that I set up the initiative called GEGAS NG (meaning Get Educated Get A Skill). Lucky me had garnered experience from organizing programs such as public speaking contests and vocational/skill training programmes for high school students while volunteering for Non-Governmental Organizations during my undergraduate days. Our major goal at GEGAS is to help empower primary school, secondary school children and prospective graduates with the digital skills they need to succeed academically and flourish in the industrial world. And also the trades they could engage in to achieve decent work and economic growth (Sustainable Development Goals number 4 and 8 of the United Nations). I believe in an industrialized Nigeria. Industrializing helps generate more revenue. But to industrialize Nigeria, the government needs skilled workers that can handle newly developed systems as the world is now transiting into an era of Artificial Intelligence. | Mr. Adekoya Oluwaseun is an Alumnus and Graduate of Mechanical engineering from the Federal University of Technology Akure with first class honors clinching the Vice Chancellors Award for the Best Graduating Student in his department. He is the Founder of GEGAS Nigeria and a co-founder of UltiCHE Consults, a design agency. Mr. Adekoya is currently a prominent, protuberant and active member of the Academic Transformation Team FUTA, a team organized to equip, encourage and mentor students with a view to achieving academic excellence thereby revitalizing education in Nigeria. Scholar Adekoya served as an intern at British American Tobacco Nigeria and is currently a Graduate trainee at Mikano International Limited. Scholar Adekoya is a beneficiary of the prestigious MTN Foundation Scholarship and YIE-Mentoring Academy. He has won several other academic and non-academic Awards. He is also a public speaker, motivator and a God-fearing Christian with great ardor for the works of God. | OPTIGREEN ENERGY | Optimizing the world’s greenness | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | NIGERIA | Yes | SMILE IN MAKING IMPACTS FOUNDATION | Transition to Scale | Research procedures are almost completed. | Nature teems with life, actively supported by its elements. The importance of a clean environment cannot be overemphasized especially in a developing country like Nigeria where there’s prevalence of infectious diseases caused by decriable environmental practices. Because we believe that the environment possesses so much resources to support our continued existence and prosperity, we take up the responsibility to care for it in a bid to leave a greener world behind. | A simple example of such activities that has affected the planet is the burning of fossil fuels. And examples of fossil fuels are coals, crude oil, natural gas, etc. Fossil fuel are formed from decayed plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. Discovery of fossil fuels has without any doubt changed the world and helped to improve the quality of life. However, the residual impact of activities surrounding the use of fossil fuels are devastating. For instance, land degradation through construction of infrastructures such as pipelines and processing facilities, water pollution through oil spills and leaks, emissions which has led to global warming and air pollution, are some of the challenges presented by activities surrounding fossil fuels. These have raised the question whether humans can sustain the natural resources that make this world planet earth. | A simple example of such activities that has affected the planet is the burning of fossil fuels. And examples of fossil fuels are coals, crude oil, natural gas, etc. Fossil fuel are formed from decayed plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. Discovery of fossil fuels has without any doubt changed the world and helped to improve the quality of life. However, the residual impact of activities surrounding the use of fossil fuels are devastating. For instance, land degradation through construction of infrastructures such as pipelines and processing facilities, water pollution through oil spills and leaks, emissions which has led to global warming and air pollution, are some of the challenges presented by activities surrounding fossil fuels. These have raised the question whether humans can sustain the natural resources that make this world planet earth. | We have gone really far. Even opening a blog where contents can be shared with the general public, read and comments made. | The project will have a great impact on the Nigerian economy, and encourage industrialization. | Money and continuity are needed. | https://optigreen.com.ng/2019/07/17/our-planet/ | https://optigreen.com.ng/2019/07/17/for-a-greener-life/ | NONE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
296 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kevin | Chima | Rex Lumen Nig Ltd | www.rexlumen.org | Founder/Chief economist | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Our Motivation for applying to present at the UN Solution Summit is given the goals of the Un in achieving sustainable development and a better economic society at large and the challenges militating against the efforts of the UN from actualizing this said goal. Secondly, the need for a change in old and recycled economic solution approaches that has yielded little or no significant impact in changing the present economic narrative. The need for an alternative interconnecting economic system. So far we have communicated the theoretical concept of our solution at the Ministry of Budget and National Planning in 2016 that was fully integrated in its current Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, there have been tremendous impact on the lives of people and also businesses. | I am Kevin Chima. I hail from Imo State in Nigeria, West Africa. I attended my Primary School at Town School Obohia Mbaise where i obtained my first school leaving certificate in 1992. In 1993 i proceeded to Mater Ecclesiae Seminary Nguru Mbaise where i obtained my WASSCE in 1999. In 2000 i gained admission into Imo State University Owerri where i obtained B.Sc in Economics in 2004. In 2007 i established Rex Lumen Nig. Ltd a private think tank who take extra steps and task to discover novel and more practical implementable ideas in the areas of economics, electronics, geography, business intelligence and electro-economics/world system dynamics. I am the current founder of Rex Lumen Nig. Ltd. | EM/389 Global economic solution engine | Central economic configuration mechanism | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | In Nigeria and other countries in the long run | No | Transition to Scale | Yes, my solution is at this selected stage, after a 10 year incubation period, the theoretical concept of this engine was fully communicated to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning which further was integrated in the current economic recovery and growth plan of the country(ERGP). And this plan is currently in use to drive the Nigeria economy forward. | The problem our solution intends to address is the root cause of failure in achieving sustainable economy development.The global economy is increasingly interconnected with missing collaboration and coordination which breed out interwoven rapid socioeconomic challenges that has not really been practically addressed by the various old and recycling economic systems nations operate. It is by this premise that our engine proposes an alternative interconnecting economic system that is participatory | This economic solution works by creating a participatory platform where little support is needed from the government and scant attention from the public. This solution works by forming a base for collaboration and coordination, connecting various Government MDA's, Institutions, firms, SME's, MSME's groups, individuals and aligning the interconnecting process through R&D, economic development initiatives, programs that will foster mass employment boost productivity and growth. The long term vision of this solution method is to support and build an alternative interconnecting global economic system that will match up with the increasing nature of globalization. Our future goal is to keep assigning to nations especially LDC's a common base economy configuration formula(using the major key economic components nations hold in common) to generate an interconnected subsystem of the global economic system for effective collaboration and coordination. | This solution is quite unique from other broadband economy solution methods as it is designed under electro-economics( A combination of economics and electronics). It captures the global economy as an abstract phenomenon that is made up of all connecting sub economies( local, state, national, regional, continental economies). The new perspective is that the EM/389 economic solution engine is more of an interconnecting economic mechanism as it discovers the essence of a growing interconnected global economy which is subjected to increasingly interwoven socio-economic challenges, and leverages on the trans formative power of the two possible laws of economic compatibility and comparative advantage. Its configuration formula is unique and can fit other nation's except for economic base designs that will be done by continental degrees of country location. It also uses expert knowledge/artificial intelligence backed by indigenous knowledge engineering bases. | So far we have concluded its 10 years incubation stage, getting all required material, show how and know how of EM/389 economic solution engine. We have just tested the theoretical concept of this engine at the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Nigeria and so far its theoretical concept has been in use, we have recorded substantial progress in our contribution to the economic development of the country. We measure our progress by percentage basis, input and output, calculating the gain factor of our proposed solutions through the engines interconnecting architecture. Our methodological rigor we measure by periodical observations and scenario analysis, input performance basis. | Our planned goals is to expand to different countries applying the EM/389 Global economic solution formula to support governments of nations arrange their various economies using a common base economic configuration formula that enable operating an interconnected economic system that matches the current trend of globalization and its dynamic pattern.( African countries). The essence of assigning a common base economic configuration formula to member nations is to generate a subsystem of each country's economic system and further plug these generated subsystems to generate a regional/continental economic subsystem of the global economic system. In each country we expand, indigenous staffs will be recruited and trained to form and Mann their various economic subsystems. Projected lives to be imparted will grow exponentially as this will increase job rate, provide steady income for the people and increase productivity. Creating a platform for participation both by the government, businesses and the people We would be recruiting and training | In the Short-term: We need substantial funds and technical expertise to build the global electro-economic solution architecture(A large interconnecting engine interface with nuzzles and plug ins) In the medium term: Funds also are required but not as much as the short term funds. These funds will be to augment financial gaps that could emanate from the short term process. The funds will be for advance technology systems(tech giants) and hiring high valued experts. In the long run: We need a pool of funds to continue in the generation of subsystem of the entire global economic system. The systems architecture overhauling, network hosting, refining etc. Funds will be required for the continuous fine-tuning of this economic solution engine on the global scope. | https://ssrn.com/abstract=2792144 We are still working on our Company website and the Solution engine's prototype will be on it when we are through. | At the moment i dont have any available with me as i am far from where i have such documentations. But can be provided in the future upon request | Yet to be awarded. After our final meeting at the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, Nigeria. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
297 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Richard | Marett | Whizz Education Ltd. | www.whizzeducation.com | CEO | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | Improving opportunities for the world’s poorest children is paramount for government agencies, donors and development stakeholders, working towards the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will contribute towards reaching the 2030 Education Goals of universal primary and secondary education. As a global education partner focussed on delivering innovative solutions that improve learning outcomes, Whizz Education is fully committed to supporting the SDGs, which include: -inclusive and quality education for all (SDG 4) -equal access to education for women and girls (SDG 5) -supporting partnerships between government, private sector and civil society that work towards a shared and sustainable development agenda (SDG 17) At Whizz Education, we work with international donors such as the UK Department for International Development (DFID), Ministries of Education and commercial partners globally. We take a holistic, hands-on approach, and are an accountable delivery partner to ensure tangible and measurable outcomes are achieved in striving for these goals. We are motivated by the prospect of convening in a single location with others who are also passionate about delivering change and improving the lives of those that need it most; and having the opportunity to present and discuss ideas with senior policy makers, investors, industry leaders and other global innovators. We see this is a great opportunity to present our mission to others who are passionate about achieving the SDGs and exploring opportunities to work with and learning from other organisations. | Richard co-founded Whizz Education on the belief that every child deserves a learning experience that caters to their individual needs and pace of learning. He has more than 15 years of experience working with schools, governments, ministries of education and donor organisations across the globe to support the organisation’s goal to raise standards in education through innovative ICT and personalised learning. Richard has a deep understanding of product design and innovation and has been actively involved in driving EdTech product research and development. He has a specific expertise in customised adaptive learning platforms for mathematics which address student learning ability, pace of learning and teacher-learning processes. His vision for innovative solutions combined with a human approach to learning and commitment to social impact brings partners together to design and deliver effective models to integrate ICT in education that are rooted in reality. He is passionate about supporting governments to achieve learning outcomes in line with national and international policy and is an advocate of Whizz Education’s mission to enable communities around the world to reach their potential through individualised learning. He has a BA and MA in mathematics from Oxford University. | Maths-Whizz | Enabling communities around the world to reach their potential through individualised learning | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kenya, Mexico, UK, US, UAE, Russia, New Zealand and Thailand | Yes | Avanti, Camara, sQuid, EDT and DLA | Transition to Scale | Our projects using Maths-Whizz are currently active in 8 countries and have reached more than 7,000 schools and over 1,000,000 students worldwide. The largest scale project we are currently implementing is in Kenya (iMlango) to 205 schools with approximately 100,000 students. We would consider at scale being around 4 x this number of schools and sustainable scale being a national roll-out project. | In any given class, anywhere in the world, there is a multi-year knowledge gap between the highest and lowest achieving students, typically stretching to four years by upper primary. In developing contexts, this gap is exacerbated by other challenges ranging from large class sizes, to highly unmotivated and un/under-trained teachers, and to absenteeism by both learners and teachers. It is impossible for teachers unaided to attend to every child’s individual needs consistently. | Whizz Education was founded on the principle that every child deserves a learning experience that caters to their individual needs and pace of learning. Maths-Whizz is the means by which Whizz Education enables teachers to address every child’s individual needs thereby providing every student with a quality learning experience. Our approach to delivering a quality mathematics education uses a blended learning model: (i) teachers provide classroom instruction using a library of digital content contained in Maths-Whizz Teachers’ Resource; (ii) students receive individual logins to Maths-Whizz Tutoring, a virtual tutoring service, through which they receive lessons targeted at their individual needs, constantly adapting at their own pace of learning, which, through a continuous assessment algorithm, provides interactive and engaging lessons, exercises and tests in sequence appropriate to their ability and (iii) Live reports for teachers that inform actions for their curriculum delivery. Whizz Education’s internal metrics consistently demonstrate that students who use Maths-Whizz for 60 minutes per week improve their maths age by, on average, over 18 months in their first year of use. Our long term vision for global impact is to deliver education projects which harness technology to improve learning outcomes and achieve sustainable impact globally. | We are unique in our approach to individualised learning, using adaptive capabilities to simulate the teaching behaviour of a private tutor and target students’ individual needs on the basis of their ability rather than age. The core of our solution focuses on education not technology and incorporates our learning tools into a wider classroom and teaching environment ensuring well-trained teachers’ role is amplified, not diminished, through various capacity enhancement programs and tools. The overarching unique aspect of Maths-Whizz is that it offers a truly individualised and adaptive learning experience - through a process of continuous and automatic adaptation, we ensure that every student receives the right lesson at the right time to achieve measurable learning gains and thereby improving learning outcomes. However, Whizz Education is more than just an EdTech service provider which sets us apart from others. We partner with governments, schools and local stakeholders to understand the challenges they have in achieving inclusive and quality education for all and work together to ensure more children progress through and complete school with measurable improvements in learning outcomes (thereby contributing to the achievement of SDG 4). | Over the past 15 years Whizz Education has progressed from delivering digital resources to individual schools, to developing an adaptive virtual tutor which provides individualised learning to each unique child’s needs and pace of learning. Today Whizz Education implements Maths-Whizz as part of a holistic education focused engagement, partnering with donor organisations, ministries of education, schools and education stakeholders to do so. We are a learning organisation committed to evaluating our own success with routine methods for data-collection and analysis. Learning analytics are collected in real-time, as students are learning, providing immediate access to information and insights. This enables us to monitor and measure the impact of our innovation and proactively transform learning outcomes at the point of need. Whizz Education’s internal metrics consistently demonstrate that students who use Maths-Whizz for 60 minutes per week improve their maths age by, on average, over 18 months in their first year of use. In Kenya, through continuous improvements to the programme design, teacher training and development as well as iterative adjustments to the adaptive Maths-Whizz service, we have observed a doubling of students’ rates of learning in a given year when they are given recommended access to individualised learning with the Maths-Whizz Tutor. | Whizz Education are looking to expand within East Africa, West Africa and Latin America within the next 5 years. We expect to add at least two more countries at the “Scaling” point of scale within the next 2 years. Our long term objective is to implement a national scale project (likely within East Africa) which has a transformative impact on education for the whole country within the next 5 years. Within the next 5-10 years our goal is to have a significant impact on SDG 4 and change the lives of millions of people by providing them with a quality education thereby improving their life chances and contributing to our mission: to enable communities around the world to reach their potential through individualised learning. | Within the short-term, local resources in country are needed for us to start conversations with the right people. As an SME it is not possible for our staff to be in all countries communicating the work we do and talking to governments and Ministries of Education about how we can work with them to strive towards achieving SDG 4. Short to Medium Term: We have identified a need for our education services to be expanded to age 16 (currently 5 to 13) and developed into other core subjects such as the Sciences. For this to become a reality we require more capital to invest back into R&D – this can be achieved by increasing our revenue or seeking investment. This will allow us to expand our education offering and have a considerably higher impact on the lives of those we work with. | Whizz Education Website www.whizzeducation.com From Data to Insight to Action White Paper https://www.whizzeducation.com/resources/from-data-to-insight-to-action/ Whizz Education Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqB11QTaxwo&t=44s iMlango Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ9mI2ywnyg Maths-Whizz Website www.whizz.com Whizz Education Proof Pack https://www.whizzeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/Whizz-Education-Proof-Pack.pdf | Unprecedented Real-Time Data Supports Improved Learning Quality in Kenya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSdABlMHbeg The Future of Maths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Znqk8oaVCd8 Everyone in Your School Could Be a Maths Genius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUpi2r81s00&t=10s | BETT Awards Winner 2019: Collaboration with a School https://www.whizzeducation.com/news/press-release-whizz-education-scoops-another-bett-award/ BETT Awards 2017 – Finalist The Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2017: International Trade - Winner Education Resource Awards 2017 – Finalist Education Investor Awards 2017 – Finalist BETT Awards 2016 – Winner The Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2012: International Trade - Winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
298 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Moepi | Setona | Saya-Setona (Pty) LTD | http://www.saya-setona.co.za | Founder/Innovator | Male | South Africa | South Africa | English | It gives me great pleasure to extend this profile as founder/ceo at Saya-Setona (Pty) Ltd., to you. We wish to proposal our ICT Next-Generation Enterprise Solution. As someone who hails from the streets of Ekurhuleni, with my roots firmly planted in the Free State, I am all too familiar with the township and its flawed foundations. Furthermore, I am acutely aware of two things: firstly, the need for better transparency and government services and, secondly, the proliferation of mobile devices across all South African communities. In 2016, I started Saya Setona, with the ambition of creating a series of next generation enterprise solutions. Our solutions are designed to deliver key systems and technology management services that are vital to ICT organizations in meeting their current and future challenges. Very quickly, I realised the opportunity that exists in South Africa to create solutions, not only for enterprises but for government and, more importantly, for the benefit of the citizens of South Africa. It was at that point that I decided to create a set of mobile services that could be the link between South African citizens and their municipal governments. For me, it was essential that those services didn’t just operate on smartphones but also delivered for citizens with feature phones. | Moepi, meaning ‘Philosopher’ is a soft-spoken entrepreneur, who is boldly taking over the tech space and an innovator who has often been referred to as ‘Diddy’ by colleagues and peers alike. Reasonably so, as his skills and expertise, that he extends into his software company Saya-Setona specializes in security and governance solutions, infrastructure and mobility and is nothing short of exceptional. Winner of the 2017 TEA Business Pitch and the Township Business Innovation seminar, he believes that communication between government and the people is usually amiss or completely absent. Hailing from the streets of Ekurhuleni, with his roots firmly planted in the Free State, this young man is all too familiar with the township and its flawed foundations. Now, we all know and feel the disconnect from a people at grass roots level to the higher powers that be, and what Moepi is doing is bridging the gap between the two. How, you may ask? By the development of a mobile app called ‘Lets Talk’ due to go live in the next few weeks, which fundamentally aims to connect government to the people. This changes the game, quite effectively so, and possibly remedies the lack of accountability that stems from either party not wanting to play their role in bettering communities. As one who is passionate about uplifting townships and introducing technology as a tool to develop and ‘transform ordinary citizens lives’ he has most definitely tapped into the void of service delivery and realizes that inclusion and communication are at the heart of cohesion. | Let's Talk App | ""Putting citizens at the Heart of Governance"" #BathoPele | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | South Africa | Yes | United Nation Development Program SA, South African | Transition to Scale | This project aims to reduce violent service delivery protests by improving communication between citizen and government, improve citizen satisfaction with government, increase transparency in government reporting, and to make policy and service monitoring and evaluation more inclusive with verified citizen engagement. These organisations will also crucially serve as solution hubs for citizens who wish to remain engaged and advocate for citizen led solutions. | Let's Talk App improve communication between citizen and government and as a app for citizen generated data regarding service delivery issues, we have implemented in the Limpopo. The App aims to reduce violent service delivery protests by improving communication between citizen and government, improve citizen satisfaction with government, increase transparency in government reporting, and to make policy and service monitoring and evaluation more inclusive with verified citizen engagement. | The app allows citizens to: •Receive news updates from either the Office of the Premier or the Office of the Mayor related to service delivery •Rate services and learn what the local municipality is doing in their area related to a particular service (screen 2 and 3 from left to right) •Send alerts to local government about service delivery issues and receive a reply (screen 4) •Establish chat groups with other citizens in their wards and with local councillors (screen 5) •Send all functions by SMS if they do not have access to data or a smart phone. Goverment Admins Portal: •The app allows local and provincial government to: •Send live news updates to citizens in a particular geographical area related to service delivery disruptions •Receive real time reports of service delivery complaints related to a certain geographical area to inform engagement with the public •Receive verifiable citizen generated data on service delivery for reporting against Integrated Development Plans and Provincial Development Plans. This data can be disaggregated by age, gender and race. •Receive ratings on services in an area to help inform policy •Establish chats with citizens in a particular area to help inform policy development and issues related to service delivery •Host a tool that can be used for Community Development Worker casework. | The project incorporates a NGO network to act as champions for this initiative. The NGO network will provide training for citizens on how to use this model and will disseminate information throughout their networks. These organisations will also crucially serve as solution hubs for citizens who wish to remain engaged and advocate for citizen led solutions. | Solution completed and published on all AppStore. https://twitter.com/Gov2CitizensApp/status/1154324637481877504?s=20 | UNDP South Africa are currently in the process of formalising the pilot partnership with Rustenburg Provincial Government. If terms are agreed, the pilot will be rolled out in four municipalities: two urban and two rural with all experiencing service delivery challenges. UNDP South Africa in collaboration with Limpopo will develop a baseline of on service delivery protests, citizen satisfaction and attitudes which pilot success can be measured against. Training on the tool will be carried out in four municipalities and the provincial government on how to use the tool and what the project is hoping to achieve. The launch will be held as soon as possible before the elections to ensure the project does not become politicised. | Short-term: - New Skilled employees - Access to devices and software - Roadshow Download campaign. - Phase 2 Scale-up funding R10million Rands Long-Term: - Access to international markets - 5 Years Investment of R100million Rands | http://letstalk.net.za http://cliffcentral.com/360-biz/360-biz-recognising-young-south-african-entrepreneurs/ http://www.saya-setona.co.za/news.html | https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=eCxReWkTB8Yhttps://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2019/01/09/innovative-cities-johannesburg-citizen-led-innovation.cnn/video/playlists/business-innovative-cities/ | Winner of Top 15 Global SDGs Awards Winner 2017 TEA Buisness Pitch of the Year | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
299 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kegan | Allen | N/A | N/A | High School Student | Male | Canada | United States of America | English | We were told to fix the world at a summer camp. | Hi, I'm Kegan. I'm a student. Pls like my submission. | Plan Bee | Humanity messed up Plan A, and now we’re making cities sustainable with Plan Bee. | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Probably Canada and the US. It could expand though. | Yes | They don't want to be named. | Ideation | Because we just thought of the idea, we didn't test it. | Fixing vertical farms to make cities more sustainable. | We put bees in the vertical farms to make them cheaper. By reducing manual labour. | Nobody has thought to work with bees. | We made a presentation. | Haven't thought of that. | Bees and pollen production. | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZTKe-XOdSncBukOaPLXy6LKzgJkt5wcehBA0ffGyNQU/edit?usp=sharing | None, the presentation wasn't recorded. | I thought we did the best of the others, but there was no prize or decision. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
300 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | GAMENE | Sougrinoma Kisito | Quartier Général (asscociation) | Fespocit.org | coordonnateur | Homme | Burkina Faso | Burkina Faso | French | je suis Burkinabé pays d’Afrique de l'ouest qui connaît depuis quelques années des situations d'attaque terroristes et de conflit inter et intra et inter religieux des situations que nous ne connaissons pas il y a de cela plusieurs années. Une situation assez triste qui ne concerne pas que nos dirigeants.Ils recherchent chaque jour des solutions pour lutter cette montée de violence. des affrontement entrainement tous les jours des morts d'homme et des déplacés de population estimée à 200 000 fuyant les combats cela se présente comme une grave crise humanitaire pour les populations en quête d'espoir et de bien-être. Notre solution FESPOCIT- Festival de Pocket Film citoyen est partie de ce constant d'apporter le vivre ensemble à travers des films de poche réalisés par les jeunes et les moins jeunes sur la tolérance religieuse et le vivre ensemble en harmonie et d'un forum sous le même thème dans l'objectif de réunir les acteurs du vivre ensemble sur la même table dans un cadre jeune. De faire le tour de l'ensemble des questions et d'arriver à impacter les jeunes sur ces questions et les rendre ambassadeur du vivre ensemble. Nous voulons projeter notre projet . | Diplôme en géographie Physique, passionné du numérique membre de jury de RFI app challenge un concours continental qui détecte des jeunes talents dans la recherche de solutions dans tous les secteurs en les accompagnant pour la réalisation. Ex-membre et vice-président du Premier FabLab d’Afrique de l’ouest. Cofondateur et président de l’association Quartier Général un centre de prise de décision de recherche aux tours des Nouvelles Technologies de Communication axé dans la lutte contre le chômage des jeunes la quête d’opportunité pour la jeunesse . CEO du festival de pocket Films citoyen pour la recherche et la promotion du vivre ensemble en harmonie et la tolérance religieuse dans les pays de la sous-région ouest-africaine à travers le mobile. Cofondateur de la start up AV-livreurs qui se spécialise dans la vente et la livraison via le numérique. Formateur senior cartographie numérique 2.0 Openstreetmap membre initiateur de l’association Openstreetment Burkina Faso. Fondateur de Fasomap technologies spécialisée dans les collectes de données et production de carte numérique et papier. | FESPOCIT | : Festival Pocket Film citoyen - Pour le vivre ensemble et la tolérance religieuse | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Dans les pays d'Afrique de l'ouest en particulier le Burkina ,Mali; Niger Et Aussi ailleurs le Tchad et la Mauritanie | Yes | Nous n'avons pas de partenariat confirmé sur papier nous eu des accompagnements de l'Etat du Burkina Faso à travers la Ville de Ouagadougou et les Ministères de developpement de l'économie numérique des postes et celui des arts et de la culture / | Transition to Scale | Nous pensons que notre solution est innovante car elle intègre parfaitement les outils numériques; en demandant aux jeunes de s'exprimer à travers le vidéo mobile la production des films par les jeunes le montage et le scénario original et reflétant les différentes manières de comprendre la question de vivre ensemble et la plateforme mise en ligne pour recevoir l'ensemble des vidéos. Pour c'est une première pour nos pays d'Afrique au sud du Sahara. | Festival de Pocket Films Citoyen est né d’une observation de la montée de l'intolérance au Burkina Faso.La montée en Afrique subsaharienne d’une violence qui se réclame de la religion crée un contexte régional nouveau. En effet depuis l’insurrection populaire de 30 et 31 octobre 2014, entrainant le départ de l’ex président Blaise Compaoré. Le Burkina Faso connait depuis lors une situation sécuritaire de plus en plus dégradante et une montée de l’incivisme à tous les niveaux. | FESPOCIT (Festival de Pocket Films Citoyen) est un festival qui vise à transformer le jeune public en acteur et observateur de sa propre vie à travers des films de poches sous le thème de vivre ensemble en harmonie et tolérance religeuse : 1) INSCRIPTION Une plateforme web est mise en place pour recevoir les vidéos des jeunes qui souhaitent prendre part au festival. Les contenus doivent respecter les règles et consignes du festival maximum 5 minutes et traitant le thème de l’édition, un scénario au choix selon la compréhension du candidat sur la question du vivre ensemble et de la tolérance. Durant cette première phase des moments d'échanges et de partages sont établis avec les associations des jeunes et mouvement pour partager les informations et montrer l’importance du vivre ensemble et des formations sur la vidéo mobile. Ainsi trois mois pour cette première phase pour de réception des vidéos de tous Les pays via www.fespocit.org/whatsapp. 2) FORUM Un forum est organisé à Ouagadougou durant la période du 15 et 16 novembre 2019, Le forum se déroule sous forme de conférences et panels, des moments d’échangent sur les questions de la coexistence pacifique. Il réunira plusieurs acteurs notamment les élèves, les étudiants, les enseignants, le monde de la recherche, des journalistes, des acteurs de la société civiles, des responsables politique, religieux et coutumière ainsi que les web-activistes sur les questions de coexistence pacifique. | Au Burkina Faso par exemple il a toujours eu des approches communautaires s'appuyant sur la tradition et la culture pour la recherche de la paix ainsi nous avons des cadres tel que la parenté à plaisanterie qui permet à deux communautés de pouvoir s'amuser sans conflit, avec la transformation du monde actuel et l'avancée du numérique et l'évolution et l'évolution technologique. il nous semble que les méthodes traditionnelles sont en plein essoufflement et il y a lieu de repenser à des nouvelles solutions pour impacter la nouvelle génération sur les question de vivre ensemble et de tolérance réligeuse. Le FESPOCIT se veut être un outil de collecte de données sur des thèmes d’actualités ; une base de données dont le contenu pourra être utilisée pour des analyses et des prises de décisions entrant dans le cadre de la recherche de la paix partout dans le monde. Mieux vaut statuer sur des données que sur des dogmes. | La solution a été mise en place bénévolement par notre association; dans un premier temps pour proposer et soutenir notre pays dans sa quête de paix. C'est ainsi que nous avons eu l'accompagnement des institutions Étatiques pour la première édition. À la suite de cela nous avons adressé des rapports d'activité pour faire ressortir l'ensemble des détails quant au déroulement et la mise en place du FESPOCIT ce qui nous donne des perspectives pour de nouvelles éditions Actuellement nous sommes à la mise en place de la deuxième édition du FESPOCIT pour cette année nous avons pour thème "" coexistence pacifique'"" Pour la première édition nous avons eu 5 vidéo de plusieurs pays Afrique Europe | Objectif général Les objectifs du projet peuvent être résumés en quatre points : Conscientiser Conscientiser les jeunes sur le thème du ‘Vivre ensemble en harmonie et la tolérance religieuse’ afin qu’ils Prennent leurs responsabilités en tant que citoyens à part entière face à ce phénomène. Désamorcer Désamorcer le discours haineux, de plus en plus banalisé chez les jeunes en leur offrant la possibilité de S’exprimer sur le sujet de la radicalisation grandissante dans la société avec leurs propres mots et images. Éduquer Conscientiser les jeunes sur le thème du ‘Vivre ensemble en harmonie et la tolérance religieuse’ afin qu’ils Prennent leurs responsabilités en tant que citoyens à part entière face à ce phénomène. Vivre en harmonie. Nous avons pour objectif de toucher tous les pays d'Afrique qui ont des problèmes de conflit inter communautaire et religieux nous n'avons pas de chiffre en matière d'effectif mais une estimation de travail associatif avec 3 personnes par pays ... | Les ressources dont FESPOCIT à besoin pour une meilleure deploiement pour nous se resument en trois point: - Humaine: besoin de compétence pour soutenir les activités de festival/ - Materiel - finance | L’ensemble des liens. Fespocit.org (En plein réorganisation pour la nouvelle édition ) Facbook : https://web.facebook.com/fespocit.ouagadougou/ Vidéo vainqueur première Edition: https://web.facebook.com/fespocit.ouagadougou/videos/288142478568012/ twitter :@Fespocit_Ouaga https://africa.la-croix.com/au-burkina-faso-fespocit-le-festival-qui-promeut-le-dialogue-interreligieux-par-la-video/ | https://web.facebook.com/fespocit.ouagadougou/videos/288142478568012/ | pour sa première édition nous avons été deuxième à la SNI(http://sni-burkina.net) - semaine nationale de l'internet au Burkina Faso catégorie site web recherche de la paix sociale. Le vainqueur était l'agence nationale de l'eau et de l'assainissement | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
301 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nsabimana | Zaburoni | Kigali Peace Club | not yet | Managing director | Male | Rwanda | Rwanda | English | I am the founder and director of Kigali peace club an organization with mission of Empower and Inspire people for transforming communities a qualified teacher with twelve years of experience and a mentor trainer in charge of training teachers who want to share innovation about E.C.D | I am a Rwandan male aged 35 years, holding a bachelor's degree of Education (arts),single | Quality of E.C.D services for every child | Under this project five E.C.D centers will be constructed and 2000 children will be sponsored in these centers during three years | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Rwanda | No | Ideation | Because not yet starting implementing it. we are still looking funding for implementing it. | My innovation will address quality of E.C.D services for children from poor families where these children do not attend E.C.D schools ( pre primary) all they attend but with difficult situation like lack of well trained caregivers,....... | This innovation is called quality of E.C.D services for every child where I planned to start a model E.C.D center in each province of Rwanda ( five) and each center will have 400 sponsored children and because these children will be sponsored caregivers will be paid and that will lead to quality of services | Other approaches organizations are using they have nursery schools (E.C.D )but for children from rich families who are able to pay school fees so that they can recruit qualified caregivers who will be paid the new perspective is to provide quality of E.C.D services to the children from poor families especially rural areas, providing sponsorship to them and qualified caregivers. | This innovation is at the stage of ideation we are still looking for donors so that we can implement it | Under this project five E.C.D centers will be built with all necessary materials and each will have 400 sponsored children in a period of three years This will take $ 3500000 and with capacity we will go to implement this project in Uganda or Tanzania | For implementing this projects we need $ 3500000 this include money for constructing five E.C.D centers and sponsorship of 2000 vulnerable children during three years ,and one school bus for each centers , children will be taking all services at school, lessons, breakfast ,games.......and transport from that sponsorship. | https://goto.gg/f/31756 https://goto.gg/f/31749 Helping hands for Rwanda - Hundred .org (search on Google) | not yet | i got Bachelor's degree of Education (arts) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
302 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | JOHN PETER | EFFIONG | TOP STAR COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS | www.topstarcollegeschools.com.ng | FOUNDER/CEO | MALE | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Sustainable Development Goal of UN is most Important goal that I am eager working to achieved especially availability of quality education for all and achieved gender equality for women and girls education since Billions of people lack access to education necessary to thrive and contribute to family and society to their fullest potential , These couple with my background having come from a dire poverty background that I always walk barefooted to my primary school in those day growing up in the environment where good childhood development care were not taken or consider to be important really affect my reading ability even up till today.2 having watch the inadequate learning deficiencies that exist between the rich and low income earner parent or the poorest person make me to ask.: How can the school of the future enable all children–even the poorest–to receive not just a basic but an exceptional education? . the wealthy children using cutting edge technology and pedagogy .It is on this note that I established a early childhood Development learning center Education that assist all children to get not just a basic and sound education but an exceptional education one that provide technology access to every body no matter the background including vulnerable /poorest one. ECD was adopted in 2015 as a UN SDGs Goals. Today My organization is developing an artificial Intelligence (AI) Tutor *TeachMe Helper* to vastly Improves the availability of quality education worldwide.This is because a large body research show that each students achieves significantly better learning outcomes in a 1:1 tutoring environment., Our goal is to reach the 150-364 Million children who do not have regular access to education : girls who are often left out of education opportunities, particularly in my countries Nigeria, those with disabilities that prevent success in many schools and those whose schools cannot provides the basic opportunities. In 2017 Peter Diamandis, Executive Chairman of the X Prize Foundation, and author of :* Abundance * Predicted , *Within the next 20 years , the best education possible on Earth will be delivered by AI for free- and the quality will be the same for the son or daughter of a billionaire as it is for the son or daughter of the poorest parent on the planet. This make us developed * TEACHME Helper *. an AI tutor. | John is the Head of Schools and Administrator. He holds a bachelor degree in Chemistry from the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. A visionary/social entrepreneur who has attended at most 5 outstanding entrepreneurship programme across the country. He is a member of Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Alumni network. He has more than 10 years experiences in educational sector. He creates and communicates and implements the organizational vision and mission and overall direction, leading the development and implementation of overall organizational strategy. A founder of TOP STAR COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS AN EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT LEARNING CENTER WITH 5 YEARS EXPERIENCED IN MENTORING AND TRAINING OF STARTUP ENTREPRENEURS. JOHN CREATES IDEAS , DEVELOPED BUSINESSES AND ALSO MARKETING DISTRIBUTION NETWORK. | TEACHME HELPER: A Tutor For Every Child; An Helper For Every Teacher (AI) | Revolutionary Technology software that allows for free access to best practices in 1-on-1 Socratic tutoring and track progress Goals. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Nigeria, Ghana, Mali | Yes | Andela, Century Intelligent Learning, Khana Academy. | Research & Development | The innovation is a software that understand meaning from natural language which is Artificial Intelligent based tutor for every students and Artificial Intelligent -based assistant for every teacher, which will increases learning velocity and teachers productivity .students will get a personalized tutor and teachers will get collaboration on course material, training and support, based on best in - class tutoring practices from subject matter Experts training of the TeachMe Helper Software. | Early Childhood Development Education Was adopted in 2015 as a UN Sustainable Development Goal.Top Star College International Schools will address cognitive stimulation , barrier reduction and learning through personal tutoring delivered by a friendly AI avatar. 200M Nigeria children and 650M worldwide Children under the age of 5 are frequently exposed to technology without adult guidance or open-ended , discovery oriented learning,which are critical for achieving the best learning outcomes in | Since Billions of people lack access to education necessary to thrive and contribute to family and society to their fullest potential . In response Top star college International Schools is developing an artificial intelligence (AI) Tutor ""TeachMe Helper"" to vastly Improved the availability of quality Education worldwide.Teachme Helper is an AI Tutor utilizing both underlying patented and Watson technology , to provided 1:1 teaching through personal devices through Internet/cloud for students with cognitive ages of 2- years/adult which is a tutor for every child and a helper for every teacher. TeachMe helper tutor is built on TSCIS enterprised Mind Platform. enterpriseMind is a 9-Dimensional Hypercube of neural networks and digital processes which covers all 9 dimensions of meaning in language . It is this Combinatorial processing of language at the word,sentence and story levels which forms enterpriseMind natural language understanding. To understand the intents of two-way conversation,all three levels of Meaning must be processed .Then, In consuming textbooks and other written educational material, TeachMe- Tutor can learn facts automatically , at small cost, and then scale this knowledge into a 9- dimensional semantic representation for presentation and formative evaluation of student responses.Kurt Vanlehn First introduced the notion of general dialogue Management for intelligent tutoring | TeachMe Helper Consists of two products based on the same underlying technology: a tutor for every child to be provided as an app to individuals without charge, and an assistant for every teacher , to be sold into schools.Top Star College International Schools will build and released TeachMe Helper, an AI tutor Utilizing both Underlying patented and Watson Technology, to provide personalized teaching via personal devices through the internet/cloud for students with cognitive ages of 2-5 to adult. Top star college partners will distribute TeachMe through existing programs to benefit disadvantaged children everywhere. Teachme will guide students through personalized lesson taking into account each students cognitive age, learning style and what they have already learned. Unlike most search engines or Q/A systems with scripted answers to set questions,TeachME stimulates the way people think and understands the meanings of words, sentences and stories. TeachMe responds dynamically in natural language to each students, using Socratic dialogue to stimulate critical thinking .Teachme assesses students understanding , adjusting her approach and response for maximum effectiveness and learning automatically generate lesson plans, course content and Socratic tutorials and perform real-time students assessment , alerting the student learning objective attainment and teacher productivity and will create predictive models of students learning deficits . | Since we are on Research and Development Stage , We are currently working Hard to have the interface design and template- how TeachMe Helper an( AI ) Tutor for Every Child and An Helper For Every Teacher App would look like through our software engineering team and we want to a similar user Interface and techniques that have been proven testing by the National Science Foundation at the University of Colorado at Boulder, which showed that even scripted computer-based tutoring produces results as good as human tutors. Once Teachme is Tested and debugged , we will roll it out to the 1.5Billions potential English speaking students and teachers everywhere, and people speaking other languages that are already served by our Acquired partners.We strongly believed that TeachMe Helper will perform as we anticipated, we will be able to obtain additional sponsors and access a great deal of Commercial and education customers revenue to support the free distribution and cloud and support services to roll TeachME Out. | Within the next year , Our goal is to reach more billions of people with Teachme Helper an AI Tutor, and to continue to execute our business plan and raise at least $1M to provide fully replicable software robust enough for demonstration that the technology works in pilot groups overseen by independent evaluation teams. we will also identify and begin to partner with other technology solutions providers to solve those portion of the final solution that others are already working on:. we wont wast money/ time on creating technology that already exist , such as : text- to - speech and speech - to - text recognition, especially for young children , non- native speakers of a language, and people with speech defects.visual and auditory emotion sensing and translation of appropriate responses to avatars.avatar animation of lips, facial expressions etc,which is also extremely beneficial for engaging young children. During the next 5 years , we will be raising additional funds to integrate this technology, reaching out to content providers and distributors as partners , and actually performing sales and distribution. These content and distribution partners include:textbook publishers for all ages.Massive Online Open Courseware (MOOC) developers and distributers.organizations engaged in reaching out to refugee, homeless, and extremely poverty stricken populations. | Business Model, Technology, Distribution, Funding and Revenue Model, Talent or board Members, Monitoring and Evaluation, Media and speaking Opportunities. | Jung SY., VanLehn K. (2010) Developing an Intelligent Tutoring System Using Natural Language for Knowledge Representation. In: Aleven V., Kay J., Mostow J. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6095. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LWaz9w7WsA&feature=youtu.be | Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme.- Innovation In Education. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
303 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Christopher | Macek | SystemOne | www.systemone.id | CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | After years working in infectious disease diagnostics in over 40 countries, my company SystemOne has come up with an innovation that solves two critical problems: first, it enables diagnostic devices at central labs to immediately transmit diagnostic results back to the point of care, right to health workers' android or feature phones; and second, it enables those health workers to confirm patients on treatment. This will make an enormous difference in many diseases, but first and foremost HIV, helping solve the ""last 90"" of the 90-90-90 goals for HIV. The back-end platform is called Aspect, and the new app (released in 2019), Aspect Reporter. The app if very simple, designed after years of work in the field to understand how health workers interact with workflows and with technology. We are starting to be recognized for our accomplishments. We have won USAID grants, this year we were selected for the Innovations in Healthcare cohort (very competitive), and we are currently working with Grand Challenges Canada on a grant to deploy Aspect Reporter throughout Nigeria. Our work in TB has spanned over 40 countries, moving over 8,000,000 diagnostic results, and helping strengthen TB programs in Africa, Asia and Central Europe. We believe we are on the cutting edge of using information technology to accelerate the fight against infectious disease, in addition to offering verifiable metrics for global donors/funders. Rapidly moving data from machines to the right people at the right time means we suddenly have a chance to win against diseases. As we say at SystemOne, if information moves faster than infection, then humanity wins. | I ran a contract software development firm, Relyon Media, for roughly 16 years, before co-founding SystemOne and becoming its CEO. Relyon Media worked for global consultancies and governments, designing and building large monitoring and evaluation systems for clients ranging from the US Housing and Urban Development department to the World Bank. | Aspect Reporter | Moving Diagnostic Results in Real-time and Enabling Treatment Confirmation | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Nigeria, The Philippines, Malawi, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Zimbabwe and many more | Yes | Johnson & Johnson, local ministries of health, HIV programs | Transition to Scale | We have piloted our solution in Malawi, and this new version is ready for scale. We are currently setting up scale-level implementations in the countries listed above. | One of the biggest reasons that health challenges are difficult to surmount in LMICs is delays. And one of the biggest delays happens between the time that a sample is taken from a presumptive infected individual and a diagnosis is returned, followed by treatment initiation. In addition to these delays, there is no way to confirm patients on treatment, resulting in a huge gap between the number of samples with positive diagnosis and the number of patients on treatment. | Our platform Aspect (well tested and well used in many countries) is a back-end application that allows health systems to move test results from diagnostics instantly to health workers or others. In other words, suppose a clinic has a GeneXpert, or a central lab has an M2000 diagnostic device. In the past, all results from those diagnostics used to be written in a ledger and then driven to individual sites to be sorted and eventually given to patients (with many errors and losses along the way). Aspect sits on a central server and enables health professionals to tell diagnostic devices to move test data in certain ways. ""Send a text message to Dr. Amala for all drug-resistant TB cases."" Or, ""Aggregate all high HIV Viral Load results and produce a monthly report, then email to the Minister of Health."" We have been doing this for several years successfully in many countries, and have moved over 8,000,000 diagnostic results. Aspect also offers dashboards that help health systems get a quick overview of their diagnostics. Aspect Reporter sits on a health worker's Android phone and 1) receives results instantly from testing devices, 2) searches for certain patients or results, and 3) prompts health workers to confirm patients on treatment (or confirm treatment type). Health systems can now see the gap between positive diagnoses and patients on treatment, focus resources on finding and accounting for patients who are not confirmed on treatment, and track treatment results. | Currently the main way of moving diagnostic results in these infrastructure-challenged places is on paper, in large ledgers. It often takes week before a minister of health knows what's happening in a particular area, and can take months before a presumptive patient gets the results of a test -- during which the individual can be spreading disease instead of getting on treatment. | Aspect has been managing results in LMIC settings for a long time. Aspect Reporter was piloted as a hardware-and-software solution in Malawi in 2017. Then, in 2018, we decided that it made more sense to redesign Aspect Reporter as an app for Android phones, that could even be used with feature phones. The app was completed in early 2019 and currently is in pilot stages in several countries. We measure our progress through usage. Aspect and the first version of Aspect reporter were piloted in Malawi, and during the pilot they reduced result turnaround time by 95% and reduced errors by 100%. | Summer/Fall 2019: national-scale pilot programs in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and The Philippines. Winter 2020: pilot results to be compiled and published Spring 2020: national-scale deployments in high-burden TB and HIV countries. | Short-term: We need to complete our pilots and are working with GCC for Nigeria funding, Gates Foundation for Ethiopia Funding, and we are self-funding some of the pilots. Medium-term: We need to complete at least one study to validate what we and our in-country stakeholders intuitively recognize as a critical piece of the puzzle to make the most of diagnostics and accelerate the fight against HIV and TB, then other diseases. Long-term: We need global funders to insist in verifiable metrics for impact from technology. Our solutions ""turn the lights on"" in previously opaque networks, showing both the successes and shortcomings of certain systems and technologies. We can show where devices are functioning, where users are making errors, and where patients are or aren't confirmed on treatment. We need funders/donors to mandate that certain data form technology be available to report on impact metrics. Such data would enable funders to help those countries optimize their systems and save money and lives, but the data are currently trapped and unusable because funders have not required aid recipients to share. | Aspect: https://systemone.id/aspect Aspect Reporter: https://systemone.id/aspect-reporter Company Web site: https://systemone.id/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5msRWAEIc4 | Innovations in Healthcare 2019 cohort: https://www.innovationsinhealthcare.org/2019-innovator-cohort/ Combating Zika - USAID Grand Challenge (winner in Diagnostics): https://www.usaid.gov/grandchallenges/zika/nominees | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
304 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Florence | Best | Transform Together (c/o Bioregional as Secretariat) | https://transform-together.weebly.com | Executive Assistant to the CEO | Female | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | We are applying to the UN Solutions Summit to present our innovation multi-stakeholder partnership - Transform Together. The partnership was founded in 2015 to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on the creation of a sustainable ICT and smartphone sector by 2030. This ambitious target requires collaboration among stakeholders - public and private, from both demand and market side - in order to make it happen. | Florence Best supports the work of Transform Together through her role as the executive assistant to Sue Riddlestone CEO. At Bioregional Florence supports Sue – and the organisation as a whole - to achieve our goals and create impact. Florence’s role includes developing ways to promote One Planet Living, helping establish new Bioregional Homes developments, and supporting Sue as she creates new partnerships and projects. Before joining Bioregional, Florence worked in the Public Affairs team at WWF on a campaign to promote electric vehicles, and at the University of Cambridge on a project to promote behaviour change around sustainable food. | Transform Together | A multi-stakeholder partnership to achieve sustainable smartphones and ICT by 2030 | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Global | Yes | Finnish, Dutch and German Governments | Scaling | We currently have a selection of members from governments, NGOs and circular economy businesses. We are at the stage of recruiting more governments to develop work on supportive policies and procurement, and beginning to engage with wider industry in to realise our 2030 vision. Having developed outputs such as best-practice case studies, reports on the industry and having attended high-level events, we are now moving onto a new phase of work and action. | Smartphones and ICT have huge potential to drive sustainable development forward, but the production of these devices comes with social and environmental risks. These include; poor working conditions in the supply chain, use of high-risk and conflict minerals, accumulation of electronic waste, use of hazardous substances, intensive use of energy and other natural resources. | In response to this challenge, Transform Together is now building a global partnership for sustainable smartphones and created common goals outlined in our 2030 vision. With our partners, we developing a plan of practical actions for industry, policy and procurement to achieve this vision. | As a multi-stakeholder partnership we have a collaborative approach that looks at all aspects of the supply chain (from extraction to design and end-use) from a range of viewpoints (from locally-based NGOs working on waste management to global governments working at the UN-level). | In 2018 we created a report on the most important issues - as well as potential solutions - for sustainable smartphones. The report considers issues from design to raw materials, manufacturing to procurement, as well as product life extension and end of life. Most recently, we have developed an inventory of case studies that showcase promising solutions to the challenges of sustainable smartphones and ICT. We ensure rigor by being held accountable by our partners who feed into and critique our work and vision, using their unique viewpoints and expertise. | Our key milestone is to recruit ten new governments in the next year to begin working on large-scale procurement-based solutions, and create a small to discuss innovative policy solutions. | Short term: Funding for core activities, engagement from governments and industry Medium term: Expanding the Transform Together team to increase capacities to engage partners, complete activities and monitor progress Long term: Sustained membership from key players in industry and government and continued growth and adaptation of the core Transform Together team | https://transform-together.weebly.com/case-studies.html https://transform-together.weebly.com/smartphones-and-ict.html https://transform-together.weebly.com/news https://transform-together.weebly.com/2030-vision.html | n/a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
305 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alejandro | Suvire | Camilla Inteligente | smartstretcher.info | Camilla Inteligente | Masculino | Argentina | Argentina | Spanish | Deseo presentar mi proyecto perfilado a la ayuda humanitaria. Dado los nuevos rebrotes de ébola en África y demás enfermedades infecto-contagiosas a nivel global es que propongo usar mi camilla (que evita el CONTACTO DIRECTO con la persona a trasladar) favoreciendo en dos importantes aspectos la disminución del contagio. 1-Como parte del EPP (equipamiento de protección personal) sumando un nuevo cuidado para el personal a cargo de los traslados y 2-Evitando entrar en contacto con secreciones de personas enfermas y así disminuir el contagio de esta mortal enfermedad gracias a los beneficios de Camilla Inteligente.. | Soy incansablemente emprendedor, médico y militante activo de la salud pública. | Camilla Inteligente | Es un dispositivo médico para traslado de personas sin contacto directo con las mismas. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Argentina | Yes | Mi padre Francisco, un amigo de toda la vida especialista en logística y relaciones institucionales de nombre Lucas Saldaña | Proof of Concept | Porque antes de salir al mercado y fabricar en escala decidimos este año realizar mejoras (exitosas) respecto a materiales biodegradables y de reciclado. | El problema es que desde la época de los romanos no se innova respecto al traslado de personas. Sigue siendo el mismo concepto de 1 lienzo y 2 palos. Con Camilla Inteligente rompemos 2 paradigmas a nivel mundial 1-Poder trasladar a una persona sin tocarla evitando todo lo que conlleva a la tracción rotación y movimientos que SUFRE la persona en el traslado con los dispositivos actuales 2-Con el bastidor porta camilla 1 sola persona es capaz de trasladar a otra sin importar contextura de ambas. | Funciona trasladando a personas en situación de vulnerabilidad respecto a su salud evitando entrar en contacto, esto gracias a las curvaturas naturales de cada ser humano y a nuestro sistema diseñado para tal fin. La visión a largo plazo para impacto global es nada menos que visibilizar la humanización de los traslados en cada situación que así lo requiera. | Es una solución única porque a nivel mundial no hay otro dispositivo con estas características (no entrar en contacto con la persona a trasladar) Impactando a nivel socio-sanitario con este gran beneficio en pro de la salud integral de la persona a trasladar, es decir evitando generar nuevas lesiones y/o agravando las existentes por las actuales manipulaciones correspondientes a los dispositivos de hoy en día. | Estamos recorriendo el camino de mejoras sustanciales respecto a materiales y no contaminación del medio ambiente durante la fabricación de Camilla Inteligente de hecho un gran progreso medible fue empezar pruebas con materiales reciclados. | La patente de este disruptivo e inovador dispositivo médico esta en Argentina y desde Tel Aviv, Israel Estudio Pearl Cohen se tramita la patente mundial por lo que sin dudas participar de la Cumbre de Soluciones de la ONU New York, deja claro el interés de este equipo de participar en actividades humanitarias donde se requiera pero haciendo foco en África y demás paises donde nuestro aporte ayude a prevenir, evitar, o mejorar el manejo de enfermedades infecto-contagiosas de contacto directo.Como así también HUMANIZANDO el traslado de todo aquel ser humano que esté sufriendo una dolencia. | Apoyo institucional, corto plazo Apoyo económico, mediano plazo Difusión e institucionalización del dispositivo a nivel global, largo plazo | http://www.smartstretcher.info https://youtu.be/DOzQnnrKHXw https://drive.google.com/file/d/15TJsP65jWgBCs3Eyi4Vc4sxBlRToBjDD/view?usp=sharing | https://youtu.be/J_KRlP93wuM https://youtu.be/ZQB9w6WufIo | Finalista mundial de FIRST 72 HOURS UNICEF 1er Puesto Health Contest de Incubando Salud Argentina 1er Puesto en The Outstanding Young Persons JCI TOYP Argentina 1er Puesto en Innovación médica Premio Raices LVDiez Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
306 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | abhishek | chakrala | iCognitive Global | https://www.agri10x.com/ | Chief Innovation Officer | Male | Canada | India | English | I am very passionate about the vision of UN. I would like to present our breakthrough soulition which will transform the roots of the agriculture thereby reducing the global food crisis. Entire World is suffering from various man made problems among them food crisis is one of the major problem that every country is facing. The major reason for this problem is lack of food and it’s because of the lack of farmers. That being said more farmers are needed to feed this world, but most of the farmers are leaving their profession due to lack of resources and loss. There are two factors that’s making farmers to leave their profession. One is lack of market place and the other is lack of quality in produce. Most of the key agriculture players are focusing on only one issue either they are focusing on market place or they are focusing only on improving the quality of produce. But focusing on one problem won’t solve the issue of a farmers. This is where iCognitive Global comes in with our product Agri10X. Agri10X envisions to transform the roots of global rural economy by integrating the entire agri value-chain through digital cooperative platform and blockchain by harnessing emerging technologies which will solve the two major problems faced by the farmer. | Abhishek Chakrala is CIO of Cognitive Social (A Blockchain based Agriculture Platform that can leverage the potential of rural economy). He specializes in innovative corporate strategy, marketing, business development and exceptional service delivery. Abhishek’s diverse background in new product development, commercialization, service delivery, and marketing was built through a series of executive leadership roles with companies in Canada, USA, Singapore and in India. His success spans multiple industries, including consulting, telecommunications, technology and information services. Abhishek led a success story at NASA, he was a winner of NASA Space Race Challenge where he got commercialization rights to commercialize 2 NASA patents. He also got special recognition from European Space Agency for his contributions in managing global wastes using GPS. He received Best Researcher Award of India- for his contributions on Telemetry and Tracking system for MARS Orbiter Mission (Indian Space Agency). Abhishek is honoured by Cognizant Technology Solutions as Best Strategic Advisor. Career Highlights • CIO – Cognitive Social • Judge - SCALE CHALLENGE (Supported by Walton Family Foundation) • Executive Board Member – P24 Ventures • Chief Design Engineer – Tessonics • Executive Vice President – Grainster • Vice President of Engineering – AdvancingX • Advisor – Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) • Board Member – Stratodynamics • CTO – Riderless Technologies • Scientist SC – Indian Space Research Organisation •Technical Advisor – Global Block chain foundation | Agri10X | Transforming the Roots of Agriculture | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | India, Canada, USA, Mexico | No | Scaling | The Project is Scaling in India now. The platform has been built and pilot trails are running the rural areas of North India. We received a great response from Indian farmers. | Food crisis is one of the major problem that every country is facing. The major reason for this problem is lack of food and it’s because of the lack of farmers. That being said more farmers are needed to feed this world Agri10X envisions to transform the roots of global rural economy by integrating the entire agri value-chain through digital cooperative platform and blockchain by harnessing emerging technologies which will solve the two major problems faced by the farmer. | The Blockchain Based agriculture e-trading platform connects farmers and buyers thereby cutting out the middleman.Detailed overview of the product is below https://www.agri10x.com/ | Most of the key agriculture players are focusing on only one issue either they are focusing on market place or they are focusing only on improving the quality of produce. But focusing on problem won’t solve the issue of a farmers. This is where iCognitive Global comes in with our product Agri10X. Agri10X envisions to transform the roots of global rural economy by integrating the entire agri value-chain through digital cooperative platform and blockchain by harnessing emerging technologies which will solve the two major problems faced by the farmer. The products has the following modules Agri10x Global E-Marketplace (Post Harvest) Blockchain & AI powered global E-Market Place E-KYC – Blockchain Powered Digital Quality assaying module Digital Warehouse management Agri10x Analytica (Pre Harvest) Geo-spatial tagging Seed Appointment Crop colony analytics Smart irrigation Satellite Agri10x Fin Smart cards Peer To Peer Finance Crop insurance Agri10x Bank | We have built the Blockchain Based agriculture e-trading platform. We have been building the partnerships and relationships with Farmers Producers organisation in India and running pilot trails. We received a great response from farmers.We will collecting the monthly reports from Farmers Producers organisations and will be working on improving the platform. | We are planning to expand our pilot trails in South India and Mexico by Q2 of 2020. We will working with NASA tech transfer program officials to use some of their technologies for crop monitoring. | The key resources required are partnerships with developing countries to run pilot trails and some investment so the we can scale the platform globally. | https://www.agri10x.com/ https://trade.agri10x.com/ https://trade.agri10x.com/SmartMarketLogin | https://yourstory.com/2019/07/blockchain-agri10x-farmers-agritech-startup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qek99CAt7A0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcRmCnPzm9M https://www.hindustantimes.com/pune-news/startup-saturday-sowing-seeds-of-transparency-on-the-blockchain-platform/story-picIePcTq2dHitXWcRXttL.html | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
307 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Oleksandr | Razumtsev | Project Team ""Dynamic Air Cooling Technology"" | http://airenergy.inf.ua/ | Project leader | male | Ukraine | Russian Federation | Russian | We want and can take part in solving global problems1. Social: - affordable for people coolness in regions with hot climates; - preservation of food, medical supplies; - increase in food production; - reduction of energy costs. 2. Environmental: - reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; - reduction of thermal pollution of the atmosphere. | Razumtsev Oleksandr - a combination of education and experience manager, engineer and philosopher. Ph.D. I studied and graduated from the military school, the faculty of philosophy of the university, a doctoral program. After 27 years of military service, I worked in the securities market, managed an IT company for banks and insurance companies. For 22 years I have been engaged in the development and implementation of innovative technologies in the field of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and ecology. Participated in the creation of technology for membrane separation of liquid hydrocarbon compounds, low-temperature pyrolysis of biomass, utilization of low-grade heat. Currently I am the leader of the Dynamic Air Cooling Technology project. I have 7 patents, 27 scientific papers and publications. My dream is to make the planet comfortable for people. | Dynamic Air Cooling Technology | Dynamic Air Cooling Technology - innovative breakthrough cold generation technology, the complete refusal to use hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | This is a global solution, but you need to start in countries with hot climates. | Yes | SpeedUp Venture Captial Group; National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”; National Aviation University; National Transport University; Institute of Engineering Thermophysics of NAS of Ukraine; Institute of HYDROME | Proof of Concept | 1. Scientific-research works were done, patents obtained (Ukraine and the EU). 2. Preliminary experimental-design works were done. 3. A prototype and evaluation unit of the Dynamic Air Cooling Generator was made and tested. Videos of testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zenFMGfuBlE https://youtu.be/0M3Ufu8GbXI | Global problems 1. Global warming. 2. The increase in greenhouse gas emissions. 3. Reducing people's access to quality food and medical supplies. 4. The increase in energy consumption. | Cheaper and environmentally friendly cold. Dynamic Air Cooling technology uses air as a refrigerant. Artificial refrigerants, such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which have a powerful greenhouse effect, are not used. Dynamic Air Cooling technology prevents greenhouse gas emissions. For example, in every household air conditioner with a capacity of 12 BTUs prevents the emission of greenhouse gases in an amount of at least 3 tons in terms of CO2. For a chiller with a cooling capacity of 10 kW, this figure in terms of CO2 will be at least 12 tons. In general, the transition from vapor compression technology of cold generation to Dynamic Air Cooling technology will allow reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 12% per year. | 1. Dynamic air cooling technology directly transforms air from hot to cold with conversion of excess internal energy without using intermediate working mediums (refrigerants). 2. The technology can be used to quickly and cheaply upgrade existing freezing, cooling and air conditioning systems in order to reduce operating costs, improve environmental friendliness and safety of these systems. 3. Lower capex (by 30%) and opex (by 30%). 27% lower power consumption. | 1. Scientific-research works were done, patents obtained (Ukraine and the EU). 2. Preliminary experimental-design works were done. 3. A prototype and evaluation unit of the Dynamic Air Cooling Generator was made and tested. Videos of testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zenFMGfuBlE https://youtu.be/0M3Ufu8GbXI Dynamic Air Cooling Technology goals are achieved on the basis of: - the first law of thermodynamics; - mechanics of continuous media; - the Bernoulli Act; - use of the process of adiabatic expansion of air; - use of the Joule-Thomson effect. The process occurs in full accordance with the law of conservation of energy for thermodynamic systems - the first law of thermodynamics. | Stages The start of the project is the production of Dynamic Air Cooling Generators for agriculture and the cold chain. The full implementation of the project is the production of Dynamic Air Cooling Generators for cooling reactors in nuclear power plants and other hazardous technological facilities. Regions The start of the project is Europe. Full implementation of the project - the whole world. Staff The start of the project is 30 people in Ukraine. Full implementation of the project - hundreds of thousands of people around the world in enterprises that will have licenses for the production of Dynamic Air Cooling Generators. Solve global challenges 1. Social: - affordable for people coolness in regions with hot climates - preservation of food, medical supplies - increase in food production - reduction of energy costs 2. Environmental: - reduction of greenhouse gas emissions - reduction of thermal pollution of the atmosphere | Only financing the start of the project. The required funding is $ 2.5 million. Further scaling up the project through reinvestment. The project does not need additional resources. Objective of the project: - reduced use of resources; - improving the efficiency of resource use. | http://www.airenergy.inf.ua/ - Project site Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4T157WQETE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zenFMGfuBlE&t=11s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtTyHvcv1Ug&t=5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOxBqKjHcmQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvszLB6UF6o&t=20s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmULRQHSefE&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RESq3BBR31o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP3Wk9DiJhg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb2E8Bj8GaY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_i4Ln12Hb8&t=82s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neYa5eStwzE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydrvXK51d7w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M3Ufu8GbXI | There are no links. | - 1st place in the competition during the Sino-Ukrainian meeting - presentation of industrial projects, Hangzhou, October 2017. - 1st place at KyivTechHub startup 2018, Kyiv, Ukraine. - Winner of European Startup Festival 2019 - Pitching Match London. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
308 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Albano | De Alonso Paz | Consejería de Educación, Universidades, Cultura y Deportes del Gobierno de Canarias | https://elecomopuente.ecie.es/ | Profesor de Educación Secundaria y Bachillerato | Hombre | Spain | Spain | Spanish | El ODS número 4 (Garantizar una educación inclusiva, equitativa y de calidad y promover oportunidades de aprendizaje durante toda la vida para todos) a veces suele malinterpretarse. Se olvida, en esas ocasiones, que una educación de calidad es aquella capaz de convertirse en un motor para la erradicación de desigualdades y en una base para la equidad y la justifica social. En los últimos años, el mundo de la educación, sobre todo en el ámbito europeo, se ha llenado de programas y acciones internacionales entre instituciones escolares que propician la creación de estrategias de trabajo entre alumnado y profesorado de diferentes procedencias. Sin embargo, lo que debiera ser un motor para la inclusión educativa, la diversidad y una oportunidad para propiciar el diálogo intercultural entre profesionales de la educación y alumnado de distintas procedencias, como medio de trabajar en el campo educativo la ciudadanía mundial, un enfoque inadecuado de estos proyectos de movilidad y de cooperación transnacional puede propiciar justamente lo contrario: que pervivan los estereotipos basados en una supuesta homogeneidad, la diferencia y una perjudicial tendencia a que se integren en las propuestas de trabajo instituciones escolares que tienen más recursos para ello y se dejen de lado a aquellos contextos más alejados, diversos y fuera de la Unión Europea. Por otro lado, observamos que las inercias de los docentes y responsables de proyectos educativos de este tipo conllevan que se prioricen lenguas como el inglés o el francés como instrumentos de comunicación vehiculares para los intercambios de trabajos. De esa manera, observamos una doble problemática: en primer lugar, notamos que quedan muchas identidades culturales de contextos minoritarios en situación de desventaja, simplemente porque ese es lugar al que una historia construida desde una posición hegemónica los ha relegado. En segundo lugar, no se desarrolla generalmente a través de estas acciones una conciencia plurilingüe en el individuo. En este nuevo enfoque, debe primar la utilización de la diversidad lingüística como herramienta favorecedora del diálogo intercultural, como por ejemplo la presentación de la lengua no solo con un mero instrumento de comunicación, sino también como un pilar de la relación intercultural. | Licenciado en Filología Hispánica y en Ciencias de la Información (Rama Periodismo) por la Universidad de La Laguna. Ejerzo como profesor de lengua castellana y literatura del cuerpo de docentes de Canarias desde 2006. Me he formado principalmente en los campos de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación aplicadas al enfoque de la enseñanza competencial, métodos de la adquisición de la competencia en comunicación lingüística y aplicaciones didácticas de los medios de comunicación. Participé en el Plan Canario de Evaluación de Diagnóstico de la Competencia en Comunicación Lingüística y tengo diversas publicaciones para la Consejería de Educación de Canarias sobre la elaboración de situaciones de aprendizaje en la materia de Lengua Castellana y Literatura, además de ponencias y comunicaciones sobre competencias clave, metodología de la enseñanza de la lengua española y la literatura, así como sobre la radio y el periódico escolar como recursos didácticos. En 2018 creé junto a tres docentes de mi centro el programa educativo internacional El Español como Puente, que aglutina a más de 1200 estudiantes y a 40 docentes de todo el mundo en un hermanamiento intercultural que pretende convertir la diversidad en una forma de aprendizaje permanente. El proyecto fue presentado en la Real Academia Española y en la Delegación Española Permanente en la Unesco en 2019. El 19 de junio de 2019 fui condecorado por el Rey de España Felipe VI con la Cruz al Mérito Civil, por mi labor en el campo de la enseñanza. | El Español como Puente | Creación de una red de cooperación entre escuelas de todo el mundo basada en el diálogo lingüístico e intercultural como motor para el desarrollo. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Participan en la actualidad en este proyecto unos 30 centros escolares de 20 países diferentes. | No | Research & Development | El Proyecto tiene, como misión prioritaria, la generación de interacciones en múltiples formatos donde primen las propuestas educativas de carácter horizontal en las que todos los estudiantes participantes, más allá de los roles y jerarquías preestablecidas, tengan las mismas oportunidades de aprendizaje a través del diálogo y la unión en la diversidad. | Buscamos despertar desafíos educativos, con el fin de alertar a las instituciones que nos representan sobre las siguientes incógnitas: ¿hasta qué punto el avance de las Nuevas Tecnologías puede estar generando más desigualdades en su aplicación en proyectos educativos de cooperación internacional? Por el contrario, ¿la transformación tecnológica en el campo de la enseñanza es capaz de contribuir realmente a la unión en la diversidad y, por lo tanto, a la erradicación de las desigualdades? | En la actualidad, participan en el Proyecto unos 1300 estudiantes de los cinco continentes. Las posibilidades de éxito, consolidación y exportación de las acciones educativas que se generen a otros contextos que puedan irse sumando a esta innovadora iniciativa dependerá, sin lugar a dudas, de la ilusión y la ganas de aprender que tengan los y las docentes que se encuentren detrás, así como del impacto que haya causado en sus prácticas metodológicas, más allá del mayor o menor apoyo y difusión que se logre por parte de las instituciones, públicas y privadas, que se sumen a acompañarnos en el camino. En caso de que esto último sea así, El Español como Puente debe mantener salvaguardada su idea germinal de transformación como la generación de un proceso que va de abajo a arriba, por lo que la primacía del empoderamiento de los estudiantes integrantes a la hora de gestionar su capacidad de generar de cambios, debe salvaguardarse, puesto que con este espíritu y deseo, nació el Proyecto, y es así como podremos lograr un impacto significativo en la formación de la ciudadanía activa, crítica y participativa que queremos para el futuro. | El Proyecto tiene, como misión prioritaria, como dijimos, la generación de interacciones en múltiples formatos digitales donde primen las propuestas educativas de carácter horizontal en las que todos los estudiantes participantes, más allá de los roles y jerarquías preestablecidas, tengan las mismas oportunidades de aprendizaje a través del diálogo y la unión en la diversidad. Para ello, en la configuración metodológica inicial se parte de los cimientos pedagógicos del aprendizaje colaborativo, por cuanto las acciones que se planifican se nutren de los principios de diversidad y complementariedad, así como la consecución de un producto final como muestra de aprendizaje significativo: el resultado de las propuestas didácticas supondrá siempre una movilización de lo aprendido en una situación inusual o atípica, en la que el alumnado del “centro exportador” contribuye con sus acciones, en un ejemplo de mediación intercultural, a la búsqueda del dialogo, la convivencia y la cohesión social en una comunidad a través del aprendizaje. Integra en la actualidad a más de treinta instituciones escolares de los 5 continentes. Los contextos educativos participantes son variados y van desde centros de zonas suburbiales hasta escuelas profesionales de idiomas financiados por la Fundación Vicente Ferrer, pasando por colegios de zonas rurales de África, centros educativos del Ministerio de Educación del Gobierno de España en el exterior, escuelas públicas, centros privados internacionales... | Aunque los primeros contactos se comenzaron a llevar a cabo en junio de 2018, el Proyecto en sí arrancó formalmente en septiembre de 2018, con el inicio del curso escolar. Dentro del mismo, se han llevado a cabo un total de 19 actividades de distinta naturaleza, repartidas entre septiembre y junio de 2019. De todas las actividades, tres han requerido de desplazamiento físico del alumnado: uno a la Isla de Gran Canaria (España)-Sede de la Casa África-, otro a Madrid (España) -Sede de la RAE- y otro a París (Francia) -Sede de la UNESCO-.. Con la intención de comprender y valor la riqueza de la diversidad social y cultural en los distintos contextos de aprendizaje formal en los que se interviene, en estos primeros meses de ejecución del Proyecto se han planteado y llevado a cabo otras actividades a través de distintos formatos y propuestas, todas ellas bajo la “excusa” de desarrollar de manera conjunta la competencia en comunicación lingüística desde un enfoque intercultural, como forma de enriquecer la propia competencia y de favorecer una conciencia plurilingüe. | Para la consolidación del Proyecto en este primer año de vida, no solo ha sido fundamental la colaboración de otros órganos de la comunidad educativa del centro a la hora de proponer actividades y realizar un seguimiento de las mismas, sino también de otras instituciones externas que se han querido sumar a la experiencia: Ayuntamiento de La Laguna, Real Academia Española (RAE), Fundación Vicente Ferrer, Casa África, Sociedad Canaria “Elio Antonio de Nebrija” de profesores de Lengua Española, ONG “Luz Africana”, asesorías técnicas de la Subdirección General de Cooperación Internacional y Promoción Exterior Educativa, etc. La meta de este modelo que le proponemos a todas estas personas y entidades implicadas se encontrará en la transformación de la forma de concebir la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de todas por parte de todos los agentes integrantes de la red –docentes, personal externo o alumnado-, con el fin de contribuir a la llamada ciudadanía mundial, entendida esta, tal y como expone la UNESCO en Educación para la ciudadanía mundial. Temas y objetivos de aprendizaje, “dentro de un sentido de pertenencia a una comunidad más amplia y a una humanidad común que hace hincapié en la interdependencia política, económica, social y cultural y en las interconexiones entre los niveles local, nacional y mundial”. | En la actualidad, nos encontramos en fase de expansión y consolidación. Está prevista su expansión a: - Colectivos de inmigrantes y personas refugiadas. - Otros colegios e institutos de la zona. - Otros colegios e instituciones educativas del África subsahariana con escasez de recursos. - Otras instituciones educativas de cualquier parte del mundo en donde se estudie español como primera, segunda lengua o tercera lengua. Incrementar los recursos disponibles, el alcance y el impacto de nuestra iniciativa facilitaría el elemento nivelador y la equidad entre los centros participantes, ya que una parte del premio de destinaría a: - Realizar movilidades a contextos educativas con especial dificultad (por ejemplo, los dos colegios que están dentro del proyecto de la República de Benín). - Hacer campañas de adquisición de material escolar y tecnológico a niños y niñas de estas zonas y contextos. - Realizar campañas publicitarias y llamamientos de concienciación en busca del diálogo para el desarrollo. - Diseñar una plataforma digital para trabajar de manera colaborativa todo el alumnado y profesorado incluido en el proyecto. | https://cadenaser.com/programa/2019/03/15/hora_14_fin_de_semana/1552657188_779949.html https://cadenaser.com/programa/2019/02/06/hoy_por_hoy/1549453701_358967.html https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/canarias/20190403/461445153228/un-puente-linguistico-acerca-el-espanol-a-alumnos-de-todo-el-mundo.html https://eldia.es/sociedad/2019-04-04/8-Estudiantes-IES-San-Benito-conectan-alumnos-Senegal.htm https://eldia.es/sociedad/2018-12-10/5-espanol-puente-afronta-camino-solidario-Benin.htm https://eldia.es/sociedad/2019-03-25/4-Jovenes-laguneros-llevan-proyecto-RAE-Unesco.htm http://www.rtvc.es/noticias/el-ies-san-benito-de-la-laguna-lidera-el-proyecto-de-ensenanza-de-espanol-en-20-191415.aspx#.XMNvEuhKjIU https://fvf-manabadi.org/es/comparte/estudiantes-canarios-conectaran-en-directo-con-una-de-las-zonas-mas-desfavorecidas-de-la https://es.iyil2019.org/events/alumnado-de-tenerife-conectara-con-varios-paises-africanos-para-defender-sus-lenguas-indigenas/ http://www3.gobiernodecanarias.org/medusa/ecoescuela/comunicacion/2018/12/11/el-espanol-como-puente-y-el-ies-san-benito-en-tve/ https://www.eldia.es/tenerife/2019/05/28/ies-san-benito-busca-paris/979178.html http://www.rtvc.es/noticias/el-ies-san-benito-reune-a-1200-alumnos-y-40-profesores-con-el-espanol-como-nexo-199480.aspx https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/05/16/africa_no_es_un_pais/1558033250_104960.html | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUMHl2x4zJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSOfRzCDSPo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO21GP6YfBE&t=54s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjqmRzUgXeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNS0Z7VqnE&t=2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK2yUdbuN0o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29il01FYERI http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/africa-hoy/africa-hoy-espanol-como-puente-para-llegar-africa-10-04-19/5134436/ | Cruz al Mérito Civil, entregada por el Rey de España, Felipe V: https://www.eldia.es/sociedad/2019/06/19/rey-entrega-cruz-merito-civil/985442.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
309 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Uwe | Reischl | Boise State University, College of Health Sciences | https://www.boisestate.edu/about/ | Professor of Public Health | Male | United States of America | Germany | English | Rural families in Africa and many other parts of the developing world depend on burning biomass for cooking. These fuels usually consist of wood, dried dung and crop residues, all of which produce high levels of smoke. Exposure to this smoke leads to serious respiratory health problems. The persons most affected are women and their children who spent much of their time in these kitchens. A prototype kitchen design that improves indoor air quality without the use of expensive technologies was developed. Expanding the use of this new design solution into traditional kitchens can provide a healthier environment for millions of women and their children in the future. | Uwe Reischl is a Professor in the Department of Community and Environmental Health in the College of Health Sciences at Boise State University. Dr. Reischl is a public health physician with a focus on international health. He has 30 years of University research, teaching, and administration experience. Dr. Reischl received his undergraduate and graduate training at the University of California at Berkeley where he obtained the Ph.D. degree in Environmental Health Sciences from the School of Public Health. Dr. Reischl received his medical training at the University of Ulm in Germany where he obtained the M.D - Ph.D. degrees in medicine. Professor Reischl has traveled to over 40 countries and currently conducts collaborative research in Peru, Hong Kong, Kenya and Croatia. In addition to his teaching and research, Dr. Reischl has developed a strong link to the private sector focusing on international business development and university and governmental partnerships commercializing intellectual properties world-wide. Dr. Reischl serves on the board of directors of several Idaho technology companies. | Rural Kitchens Without Smoke | New rural kitchen design that eliminates smoke exposure for women and children | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | New kitchen desigh solution is currently being implemented in Kenya | Yes | Eco2librium, LLC (http://www.eco2librium.net/our-team--contacts.html) and Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology (http://www.mmust.ac.ke/) | Transition to Scale | A prototype kitchen has been constructed, tested and is currently being used by families in Kenya. A business plan has also been developed to promote local manufacturing and sale of retro-fit units to be purchased at low cost by local families. The business strategy is based on a successful model developed previously by Eco2librium, LLC, to manufacture, distribute and sell fuel efficient stoves throughout Kenya. | Many families living in rural Africa depend on burning biomass for cooking which produces high levels of indoor smoke. Exposure to this smoke causes pneumonia, emphysema and lung cancer. A new design allows smoke to exit a kitchen freely and reduces the smoke exposure by 95%. No electricity or mechanical systems are needed. Major improvements in the health and well-being of women and children in rural communities around the world can be achieved by implementing such a design solution. | The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that over 2 million persons die prematurely each year as a result of kitchen smoke exposure. The persons most affected are women and their young children. The new design allows smoke to exit a kitchen freely without the use of mechanical means while reducing the indoor smoke exposure by 95%. Major improvements in the health and well-being of women and children in rural communities around the world can be achieved. | Lack of electricity in rural communities prevents families from using mechanical means to ventilate their kitchens. The relatively high cost of stoves that use more efficient fuels such as Kerosene, Propane or Butane has limited their widespread implementation. The inability of the rural poor to access these options has led to an alternative approach for improving indoor air quality. This approach has not been reported before. We believe that retrofitting existing kitchens with an inexpensive design solution will improve indoor air quality for many families and save lives in the future without the burden of financial hardships. | A full-scale operational kitchen, including the new design feature, was constructed in rural Kenya and field tested to determine interior smoke build-up during regular cook-stove use. Measurements showed that the new design allowed all of the smoke generated inside the kitchen to exit without negatively impacting the interior air quality. The new design feature is suitable for mass production and should be available as a ""retro-fit"" attachment for existing rural kitchens. Success will be measured by the number of family businesses that are be established to manufacture the units and the number of units sold to rural families. | The initial focus of the proposed project will be Kenya, Africa. The business model is intended to serve as a ""model"" for other African countries in the future. It is planned that 50 new family-operated businesses will be created in 2020. To sustain these businesses, a total number of 250 units must be sold to local families. | The immediate need will be micro-loans to help jump-start the local manufacturing operations. The loans will be used to establish family operated businesses in addition to subsidizing the initial cost of purchasing tools and materials. It is estimated that US$50.00 will be needed to start up a home business. To assist a family in purchasing a retro-fit kitchen unit, a micro-loan of US$10.00 per family will be needed. | Links to relevant work: 1. Eco2librium: http://www.eco2librium.net/our-team--contacts.html 2. Publication: http://jea-net.com/vol-7-no-1-june-2019-abstract-1-jea 3. University partner: http://www.mmust.ac.ke/ 4. Boise State University: https://www.boisestate.edu/academics-landing/ | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
310 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Abdullahi | Arije | Arije Investment Industries Nigeria Limited | http://www.konbitayiti.globalinnovationexchange.org/organizations/arije-investment-industries-nigeria-limited | Managing Director | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | With SDG solutions for the United Nation members we realized that the solutions have achieved so much to better the universe fundamental problems which we belief our contribution through a solution will help to sustain most of the problems that UN SDG is proffering solutions. | I was born in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, then western Nigeria in 1959. I had my education in Emmanuel Anglican School, 1975, I had my private GCE 'O' Level in 1984 and I my Secretarial Study at Pitman Institute, London. I had been practicing Agribusiness and Industrial Development in 1984. I registered a company in 1992 with Corporate Affairs Commission Abuja. I had developed various Renewable Energy Project and Agro-Industrial Processing Industries in Nigeria. | Agribusiness and AgriTech | Agribusiness, Renewable Energy, water and Health facility | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria, Ghana, Benin etc | Yes | Syngenta Sustainable for Agricture | Scaling | We have prepared a feasibility study on Cassava Plantations and Cassava Products Processing Industries and required some funding to purchase equipment, land and other working capital to develop the project to reduce unemployment among the people in Nigeria. To create wealth for the community development and provide solution investment that people will be able to provide education for the children from primary to the Tertiary level | Provide water, food security, job opportunities for all sundry, provide health care delivery for the rural people in all the countries, and provide agritech services provision for the farmers in the rural area. Provide solar energy for the rural area so that they will have facilities like urban centres in the mentioned countries. | The solution is provide necessary empowerment for people the countries and has long term solutions to impact positive to delivery the essentials ingredients that will have long time development vision for the global impact growth and achievements. | Our solution will be developed at the rural stage where people live on less than 2 dollar per day. We provide water, solar energy facilitate for irrigation and local health centre that will enble the people to have access to primary health care in the rural areas in the countries where to be operating. We also provide AgriTech solution where the farmers in the village will have access to agricultural services on the farms. | We have progress to the point that we have completed a feasibility study and business plan on the Cassava farmers' growers where farmers would be assisted to develop and cultivate cassava with good yield cassava on 1- 5 acre for each farmers. We have a rural office where the farmers are met regularly. We use data collection and service delivery technical to measure our progress on the services on the Agribusiness and AgriTech. | Our planned goals and milestones for our solution to develop products for the local and international markets through Nigerian Export Promotion Council, AGOA through USAID to open markets for our products in the International markets etc. | Resources needed for the solution are equipment, solar energy equipment and plane, pumping machine with solar energy system, vehicle to transport farmers and goods to various markets. and Essentially Funding to pay staff and help secure some other equipment from UK,USA and China. To have access to secure Air ticket through and fro the countries of our operations. | https://ng.linkedin.com/in/usman-bello-7a842351 | https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=26&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjWgri1jOLjAhXVURUIHbA5BfIQFjAZegQIBRAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.propcommaikarfi.org%2Four-partners&usg=AOvVaw1x8mRcz0V2bwHpCqxtBYg7 | Not applicable | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
311 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John | Gachago | EHealth Solutions LLC /AfriDOKTA.com | WWW.AFRIDOKTA.COM | CEO | Male | United States of America | Kenya | English | French | I would actually welcome being on both the Selection Committee and presenting our project for the following reasons: 1. We have developed a mobile health solution (https://AfriDOKTA.com) specifically for Africa designed to help countries achieve SDG3. 2. As CEO/Co-Founder my doctoral research was focused on going beyond implementation to the adoption of technology for the attainment of SDG3 and Universal Healthcare in Africa. 3. We have a passion for the transformation of healthcare in Africa 4. Most recently secured the 2018 Frost & Sullivan Award for the best mobile health platform in Africa in Customer Value Delivery 5. Several publications and presentations on behalf of AHIMA on the strategic application of emerging technologies such as Blockchain, AI and IoT to healthcare with an emphasis on their usefulness to low and middle income countries. | As a strategic leader passionate about healthcare. My lifelong ambition is to leverage my business, clinical and information technology experience in the US Healthcare system to help transform the delivery of healthcare in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), particularly in Africa. While these geographies present unique challenges they also present tremendous opportunities where even small differences in healthcare supported by information communication technology (ICT) can produce substantial positive outcomes. My zeal to help African LMICs achieve the 2015 UN Sustainable Development Goals through effective National E-Health Strategy, Health Information System Policy, and E-health Project Management and Execution, is second to none. | AfriDOKTA. | A hybrid telemedicine-mobile health solution designed to transform the delivery of healthcare in Africa with a view to SDG3. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Kenya and Ghana | Yes | Meridian Health Group, Lancet Laboratories, Goodlife Pharmacies, Neem Pharmacies, Halton Pharmacies, Megascope Ltd, SMART Ltd, OTT LLC. Zollijo Ltd., Beijing China Shine Ltd | Transition to Scale | Engagements with clients such as Bayer, Phillips, the Global Fund and the Kenya Ministry of Health. | 1 to 17,000 doctor : patient ratio Shortage of specialists Long wait times Cost of care Travel challenges due to heavy traffic, distance, and roads to health facilities Counterfeit medication Deaths from otherwise preventable causes | AfriDOKTA connects Doctors, Pharmacies, and Laboratories digitally within a mobile telephony network and the internet. Hence anyone with a mobile phone has access to real-time quality outpatient care. | Besides AfriDOKTA being capability of 2 million consults a minute its is also equipped with the following: Realtime audiovisual consults rather than text messages or phone call messages allowing immediate access to providers. E-prescriptions delivered via text message & email delivered right to the pharmacy and copied to the patient and Dr. E-labs delivered right to the lab closest to the patient and copied to the A mobile electronic but secure electronic health record that captures the entire consult transaction. HIPPA level information security and confidentiality given the lack of proper data protection standards. Clinical decision support to ensure accuracy of diagnosis. Patient empowerment via 3 min education videos based on diagnosis including Malaria, HIV and TB. The platform is built on global standards such as HL7, SNOMED, DICOM. White label capability that enables the solution to be customized for and executed in any country within 90 days or any organization within 30 days. Bodimetrics device that allows patient or community health worker engagement in collecting vital statistics fed into AfriDOKTA via Bluetooth. In addition, we have established strategic partnerships with local organizations. | Engagements with Bayer (Family Planning for Women), Phillps (Primary Care Consults), and Global Fund (Customized consults for HIV, TB, Malaria). | Current market: Kenya Expanision Markets: Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Nigeria Business plan for lives to be impacted and staff hired: Year 2019 - 7.2 million lives impacted Staff per country: 10 + Community Health Workers: 1/5000 users Year 2020 - 24 million lives impacted Staff per country: 12 + Community Health Workers: 1/5000 users Year 2021 - 42 million lives impacted Staff per country: 15 + Community Health Workers: 1/5000 users Year 2023 - 48 million lives impacted Staff per country: 18 + Community Health Workers: 1/5000 users Year 2024 - 72 million lives impacted Staff per country: 20 + Community Health Workers: 1/5000 users | Short Term: Venture Capital infusion to the tune of $5 million to go beyond private label projects and make the platform publicly accessible to the 48 million consumers in Kenya. Long Term: To be determined by the return on investment (ROI) from Short Term above and lessons learned. | Company website: https://AfriDOKTA.com Link to presentations and publications: https://1drv.ms/w/s!Anvdc04-j_vllxRUWt_pcyz1Vvxh 1.“Going beyond Implementation of eHealth to Adoption with a view to attaining UN Sustainable Development Goal 3” https://research.pho enix.edu/dissertation-abstract/going-beyond-e-health-implementation-adoption-attainment-sustainable 2.Rural Healthcare Intelligence. http://www.himss.org/rural-healthcare-intelligence-business-and-clinical-perspective 3.Blockchain Technology for LMICs: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-bitcoin-block-chain-technology-low-middle-income-gachago 4. Strategic Planning for Health Information Technology Oct 5th, 2018 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/developing-robust-digital-strategy-dr-john-gachago/ 5. Distinguishing between the Hype and Reality of Blockchain March 10th, 2018 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/distinguishing-between-hype-reality-blockchain-dr-john-gachago/ 6. How low and middle-income countries (LMICs) can position themselves to benefit from Blockchain Technology! February 28th, 2018 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-low-middle-income-countries-lmics-can-position-benefit-gachago/ 7. Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence (AI) =Block-AI “the Mother of all solutions to Health IT” https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blockchain-artificial-intelligence-ai-block-ai-mother-john-gachago/ | Links https://s.amsu.ng/X0c4ww6qev6N https://www.dropbox.com/s/yfdvw9bsnpvngwo/20190717_191830.mp4?dl=0 https://my.ahima.org/store/product?id=65840 https://wcc.on24.com/webcast/previewlobby?e=1963123&k=DDDF832AEBB84D03FAA3CBFED5C0B46D Presentations 1. 2018 – October 23rd American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Webinar “Going beyond Implementation of eHealth to Adoption with a view to attaining UN Sustainable Development Goal 3” 2. 2018 – May 15thth Benefits of Blockchain Technology: Government of Kenya Taskforce on Blockchain Technology 3. 2016 The application of eHealth in low and middle-income countries like Kenya and Rwanda – Paris, France (Health Level 7 Working Group) 4. 2016 eHealth in Low and Middle-Income Countries – New Orleans, LA (American Health Information Management Association AHIMA) 5. 2015 The importance of Standards like HL7 to health information technology. (Michigan State University) | 2018 Frost & Sullivan Award for Best Mobile Health Platform Africa - Customer Value Delivery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
312 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Angi | Yoder Maina | Green String Network | https://www.green-string.org/ | Executive Director | Female | Kenya | United States of America | English | Imagine a cracked cup represents the community. When resources are poured into the community, it leaks. Thus when the cracks are repaired, resources can be utilized. This is similar to when a community begins a healing process. Today the Green String Network has a proof of concept, a working road map of how we can address the connection between these critical (i.e. impact of violence, trauma, and peace) yet forgotten issues in a scalable, practical yet transformative way. Because we believe our work will bring not only significant change to Kenya and East Africa but ultimately to the global peacebuilding, development, and governance field we would like to come to the UN Solutions Summit. We are a multi-disciplinary team of peacebuilders, community development workers, psychologists, and researchers designing trauma-informed interventions and methods for their evaluation. Our work is focused on addressing trauma as one of the root causes of violent behavior. We seek to understand how trauma and exposure to violence shape identity, memory, perceptions, attitudes, and behavior. An important aspect of examining violent behavior is understanding the nature of resilience. That is, we study peaceful behavior, particularly resistance to reactionary forces and ideas. Our programs support participants in a process of deconstructing the narratives associated with beliefs and histories of conflict and grievances. The gendered nature of the conflict is among the issues examined. This is done through the use of artwork and storytelling. Much of our work is focused on issues related to violent extremism, violent crime, and ethnic conflict. Over the past 10 years, we learned is there is a “Mama Anisa” in every community. She is the person everyone calls when there is a family or community crisis. There are not enough trained ""counselors"" in violence-prone communities to help people deal with high levels of distress. Our movement works to identify and support hundreds of “Mama Anisas”. These mobilizers are the sustainable agents of community resilience and community strength. We want to come and tell their story to the world. | I live and work in Nairobi, Kenya. I am originally from the United States but have recently become a Kenyan citizen. I am the Executive Director of a new local NGO called Green String Network (GSN) based in Nairobi, Kenya. GSN brings together professionals and experts in the field of conflict transformation, governance, trauma-informed healing practices and development of sustainable economic programs. The network encompasses like-minded actors who work on peace transformation, social healing, and economic stability. We are keen on collaborations where local partners own and drive initiatives and benefit from our technical expertise. Our programs are creating opportunities for people currently in Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, and Ethiopia at the most local level to learn about the effects of trauma, begin to heal and come together as a community to plan community-wide activities and structures to support further healing, reconciliation and ultimately a comprehensive national approach to social healing. Angi is currently enrolled as a doctoral student at the Applied Conflict Transformation Studies Doctoral at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Her dissertation is: “Wellbeing and Resilience: A grounded study on trauma-informed approaches for conflict transformation.” The Wellbeing and Resilience approach is a trauma-informed practice-based approach, which GSN is applying currently in the Horn of Africa. | Wellbeing and Resilience: A trauma-informed peacebuilding approach. Kumekucha (KE), Muamko Mpya (KE police) Quraca Nabadda (SO), Yegarachin (ET) | Trauma isn’t just the consequence of violence, it is a source of instability. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, starting in S. Sudan and planning for Eastern DRC and Nigeria | Yes | Key national and local governments, SOYDEN (SOM), Sembe (NG), SambaSports (KE), Pact, Inc (ET) and other CBOs | Scaling | Today we have a proof of concept based on evidence-based research; a working road map of how we do this complicated work in different contexts, environments, and institutions. We are ready to make this commitment. We believe our work will bring not only a significant change to East Africa but also to how international development is implemented globally. | Violence and its adversity is one of our biggest threats: it impacts our well-being, our behavior towards each other, our ability to learn and develop, and even our economy. Taken to the extreme the resulting traumas from violence increases instability, poverty and extremism. It engulfs communities already weakened, exacerbates vulnerabilities, fosters power struggles, undermines socio-economic growth and can eventually lead to violence. | The program is a social healing program designed to promote the process of community healing and social reconciliation within the diverse landscapes where the program has been integrated. Integral to the method is inclusive small group dialogues which are organized by leaders and led by trained Facilitators. The movement is developing trauma-informed structures strengthening resilience to the impact of violence. The movement incorporates low-resource methods building upon cultural practices and traditions. The methodology uses local folktales, case studies, and artwork allowing participants to easily connect and understand complex ideas. It is a volunteer program focusing on providing a safe space for participants to explore issues of violence, the effects of trauma, social healing and dialogue. Key participants include youth, women's groups, GBV survivors, religious leaders, disabled groups like the hearing-impaired, the business community, police officers. It focuses on the transformative power of what is often overlooked - the courage and grace of ordinary people; the communal impulse to be whole again; the will to move past the ravages of violence; and the cultural wealth of traditions and practices of reconciliation. Emphasis is given to narratives which help individuals and groups break the ""cycles of violence"", developing locally-led peace initiatives. Leadership at all levels is engaged in an effort to support the break-away from a victim mentality. | Few organizations have developed sustainable, culturally relevant, grass-root trauma-informed interventions outside of North America. Yet there is a direct link between levels of trauma in vulnerable communities and the challenges faced with justice, reconciliation, security, and overall economic and social wellbeing. Every violent act begins with a thought which is cognitively processed. Yet, as development practitioners and policymakers we ignore how trauma influences attitudes, behavior and our choices. A trauma-informed approach is a foundational building block which most peace, development, and governance programs do not incorporate into their design, development, and implementation. If global leaders, donors, and organizations understood the importance of incorporating a trauma-informed foundation into their work, we believe it would change the way global governance programming is designed, implemented and measured. And it would improve the success of such interventions. | The last 2 years we have impacted over 4,500 participants and over 70,000 indirect beneficaries. We survey participants prior to the implementation of our programs and after. The following results only give a glimpse of the changes we are witnessing. The empirical evidence, though important, falls short in creating a full picture of the transformation participants and communities experience. Nonetheless, the evidence is important for understanding the types of change that are occurring. For more information see https://www.green-string.org/impact Einstein said not everything that counts can be counted and so it is with our impact. We have stories of participants mobilized to stop the violence. During the elections, a coordinator gathered facilitators to go door to door to stop a revenge killing of an election officer who had just been killed. After the program, many of the groups continue to meet to continue the healing or they have organized themselves to address certain issues, like domestic violence, FGM, and police brutality. We have had great stories of transformation from Malindi, KE, where we had 30 members of the deaf community participated. The program helped them address their sense of victimhood and isolation from the larger community. Some members became active in the 2017 election and became the first deaf elections clerks. The program has been culturally and contextually replicated in Somalia, Kenya, and South Sudan and with the Kenyan National Police Service. | Our goal is to move deep to go wide. We want to continue to work in Somalia, go national in Kenya linking the community work with the National Police Service and move beyond the pilot in Ethiopia. In the coming 6 months, we will start work with a local partner in S. Sudan. We recently have had visitors from eastern DRC, northeast Nigeria come to Kenya to learn about the trauma-informed peacebuilding model we are using, in order to think about how they would begin to adapt it for their conflict context and culture. We want to work with others to expand and grow in chronic violence and low-resourced environments. Funding goals for Kenya for the next 3 years is about 8,000,000 for a national community and police program and for Somalia is about 4,000,000 focusing on security actors, refugees, and communities where returnees are returning. Funding Goals for expansion is 15,000,000 (over the next 3 years) New target Implemented Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo (Eastern), Nigeria, Sudan, South Sudan | Our environment is complex. We target unstable regions and conflict zones yet we have had the ability to operate and fulfill objectives. As we begin to expand both geographically and sectorally we believe we would benefit greatly from technical advice in strategic planning and; on how to print quality materials in a cost-effective manner; improving mobile data collection and data security; how to develop our model of networking and partnering with local initiatives authentically; how to be proactive on issues of Intellectual Property (IP); and support for our human resource systems to support the change and growth but also remain trauma-informed as per our mission. We need funds and resources to culturally adapted trauma-informed social healing curriculums for Nigeria, DRC, S.Sudan/Sudan, pilot and evaluate the programs. We want to work through local partners. In each of the locations finding ways to link to security actors (i.e. police, prisons, and judiciary) is important and finding partners who have these relationships will be key. Short-term: We are looking to find longer-term funding for Kenya. And setting up programing in S. Sudan Medium-term: Starting in DRC and Nigeria Long-term: Developing a module of partnership to expand through local partners. | https://www.green-string.org/ Videos Mama Zuria explains her work at the community level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYDc9_6dxyY Mama Zuria's back story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xsKFQFtbdw&t=8s 4 Stories from participants in Mombasa, Kenya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUzDkTuyhog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNesGEKIdX4&t=5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhWBHB_lG8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUXQE-OxNvA An overview of the program on the Kenyan Coast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqoyugRefWU&t=38s An overview of the program in Somalia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXsQtudaC3E&t=4s https://www.facebook.com/greenstringnetwork/ https://www.instagram.com/greenstringnetwork/ https://twitter.com/home?logout=1564674370569 | European Development Days June 2019 -- from 46:30 is my presentation -- When youth and police talk – reducing inequalities through social cohesion https://soundcloud.com/user-410503258/when-youth-and-police-talk Interview at the Paris Peace Forum in November 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcn_v_ZUW7E Webinar. Conference on Trauma And Mental Health In Conflict And Migration. ""What is trauma-informed Conflict Transformation"" -- Nov 208 https://www.cwwpp.org/yoder-lopez.html International Center for Ethno-Religious Mediation Conference October 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEHXa0-lD8U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEuSUUVDHf0 Webinar -- Peace Exchange -- December 2017 http://www.dmeforpeace.org/peacexchange/webinar-15-trauma-informed-conflict-transformation/ | Kumekucha: It’s a New Dawn won the 2019 SDGs in Action Film Festival, coordinated by the UN DESA. Out of 980s submitted this year and we were one of six films selected. Kumekucha won the “Building Peace” category. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/hlpf/2019/filmfestival#winners2019 At the Paris Peace Forum, Kumekucha was selected as an innovative program tackling global governance issues as one of the top 10 programs (out of 121 projects). https://parispeaceforum.org/scale-up-projects/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
313 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Babatunde | Ajayi | Federal University of Technology Akure, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. | www.futa.edu.ng | Professor | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am motivated by the urgent needs of the changing world for the development of efficient and durable alternative to sawn timber that will be suitable for use in housing delivery, electronic industries, automobile industries etc., and which is capable of: providing an avenue to reduce pressure on the forests biodiversity; enriching forest resources; mitigate climate change; control of all form of erosion and flooding; and conservation of wildlife, fruit trees and other micro life forms in the living forest diversity. My research output which borders around harvesting, management and utilization of wastes from bio-materials and plastics for the production of value-added products is germane to meeting the purpose of poverty reduction, increase prosperity and mitigation of challenges arising from climate change.This project will complement the effort of sustainable development that would trigger a lasting transformation of the rural economies. The utilization of bio-wastes in this project has empowered rural populations (farmers) to improve their incomes in an environmentally sustainable manner through the sales of wastes derived from post-harvest processing, assured food security and has been a complementary efforts to the reduction of harmful emission, combating forest degradation and deforestation. Affordable value-added products from this project has proven to be suitable for use in core and low cost housing delivery in Urban and Rural communities of Nigeria. | I was born on 25th Aug., 1955 in Ijan Ekiti, Nigeria. I had HND in General Forestry, PGD in Timber and Material Technology, MSc in Forest Industries Technology and PhD in Wood Science and Bio-Composites Technology. I had served as the HOD of Forestry and Wood Technology Dept., FUTA, Nigeria (2012-2015) and currently serving as chairman or member of various committees in the university. I am currently senior expert on climate change and environment to CTA I have published over 70 papers in reputable local and international journals and presented papers at more than 33 conferences and professional meetings in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa etc. My research focus is on the use of conventional (Wood) and non-conventional bio-materials from agricultural wastes, common weeds, waste paper and other wastes prevalent in Nigeria and world environment to produce value-added panel products using Portland cement, pozzolan, virgin plastic, recycled plastic, and car battery case as binders. I have presented research findings and displayed research products at various places globally including: Exhibit on Innovative Wood Products at the 68th session of the UN Economic Commission Europe/FAO in 2010; gathering of eminent scientists at the XXIII IUFRO World Congress in 2010; World Forestry Congress in 2003 and 2009; the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 2011 and 2012. I also attended the 2017 High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. | Production of Value Added Bio-Composite Panel Products for Sustainable Development in Perpetuity | Value added products made from bio-wastes using plastic wastes, car battery case and inorganic materials as binders. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | Yes | Federal University of Technology Akure, Akure, Nigeria; Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, Ibadan, Nigeria; University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; Raw Materials Research and Development Council, Nigeria. | Proof of Concept | The products have proven to be suitable alternative to sawn timber and other panel products after evaluation of strength, dimensional movement and accelerated ageing properties to meet demand in construction, automobile and electronic industries. Papers on these research output have been published in local and international journals, conference proceeding and presented upon invitation at both national and international institutions. | Environmental Problems - pollution, siltation of waterways, flooding, plastic in the ocean Climate Change - Global warming caused by Over-exploitation of forest resources Poverty - eradication of poverty and increased prosperity Housing - High cost of construction materials, Deficiency in the supply of valuable, economic and well known species Obsolete Engineering and Architectural design - Inadequate modern technology in wood wastes management, processing and utilization | Wastes from wood, agriculture and weed which are valueless are used in manufacturing affordable value-added panel product that have proven to be suitable alternative to sawn timber and other wood products. Recycled plastics, weeds and wastes generated from the forestry and agricultural sector are enormous in Nigeria and the World at large. These can be harvested, processed and utilized to create sustainable wealth and prosperity. The production of value added products from the vast bio-wastes in our immediate environment will minimize pressure on forests, reduce land and water pollution, mitigate climate change, curb siltation of water ways, protect land and marine animals. Establishment of Sustainable Development Goal 18 which will take care of harvesting, processing and utilization of bio-wastes, plastic wastes and other solid waste for turning waste to wealth by every government that makes up the the UN in both developed and developing countries where agriculture is practiced and where plastics are used. | The products are hybrids of organic, inorganic (cement) and plastic (virgin and recycled) raw materials reinforced with assorted wood wastes, weeds and agricultural by-products, using simple, adaptable and innovative manufacturing techniques. The products of these project are unique in that they are made from a wide range of non-conventional raw materials sourced locally viz-a-viz: Yam stem; Maize-stalk & cob; Coconut fiber; Palm kennel fiber; Cassava stem; Banana stem residues; Rice husk; Ground nut shell; Bamboo particles; Eupatorium odorata; Sugarcane waste; Luffa cylindrical; Elephant grass; Cow bone; Water hyacinth etc. The project makes use of wastes that are injurious to human and animal well-being. The project incur little or no cost in the procurement of these valueless raw materials as they are freely available in the environment to our discomfort. These value added bio-composites from non-conventional raw materials are environmentally friendly, easily replicated and can conveniently stand as an alternatives to wood products in meeting the demand for sustainable construction materials for core and low cost housing in rural and urban areas, electronics and automobile industries. | Bio-wastes from wood and agriculture are processed chips and futher reduced into heterogeneous particles by hammermill. This is thereafter screened into fine and coarse particles for multi-layer panel products manufacturing. Particles for inorganic bonded boards were treated to remove the superfluous materials capable of inhibiting the setting and curing of the binder. The particles, binder and additive were mixed together and formed inside a mould. Thereafter, the mattress formed is pre-pressed and pressed to form the final board ready for use. For Plastic bonded composite, pelletized plastics were mixed with both fine and coarse particles to form the board and pressed under heat and pressure. The project is gaining recognition in national and international institution in which researcher and innovator are now publishing article and journals are been funded to match this area of research worldwide. There are improvement over the initial adopted methodology to provide easy manufacturing process with reduced production time and improved measurement of strength, dimensional movement and accelerated aging rating after going through severe test conditions. | -Production of value added boards of diverse characteristics from bio-wastes that will be a household material all around the world. -Testing of value added boards for quality assurance in strength, dimensional movement, biological durability and weathering efficiency. -Upscaling of Production and Commercialization of Products worldwide -Training, workshops, seminars and Capacity Building on production of value added panel products from bio-wastes -Collaborations with other institutions nationally and internationally etc. -Marketing of products around the world -Recruitment of Staffs: Procurement officers, Factory workers, Marketers etc. The project will impact the lives of farmers, builders, artisans, product users, and financial support institutions. | Hydraulic Press Extrusion Machine Hammer mill machine Injection moulding machine Compression moulding machine Universal Testing Machine Wooden moulds Agricultural wastes Recycled plastics Cements Factory building Borehole Electricity Labour Utility Vehicle Small Scale Industry, Medium scale industry and Large scale industry: all these industries can be integrated both vertically and horizontally. | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/12/01/don-proffers-bio-fibre-waste-as-source-for-alternative-revenue-wealth-in-nigeria/ https://guardian.ng/business-services/turning-waste-to-wealth/ http://fwt.futa.edu.ng/home/profile/883 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tGFiO3UAAAAJ&hl=en | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWTyM0QSiww | Best innovative researcher for Local Raw Materials Content from the Raw Materials Research and Development Council of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology at the TECHNO-EXPO 2011 in Abuja, Nigeria (Winner) USD 47,000- for The Pro-Africa program-CNPq/ 1 Pro-Africa Conference. It covers plan of work for African Researchers to visit Brazil for 30 days and Missions of Brazilian researchers to Africa countries (Winner) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
314 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Richard | Hassler | Nature's Natural Solutions LLC | www.foodfreshnesscard.com | Director | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Food Waste is a global $ 5 Billion problem. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that about 815 million of the 7.6 billion people in the world (10.7%) were suffering from chronic undernourishment in 2016. One Third of the world’s food being wasted. Over 1.3 billion tons of food per year is thrown away, which is enough to feed 3 billion people or about 10 times the Population of the USA. After years of trial an error, and a lot of hard work and investment, we developed the Food Freshness Card. Gaining innovation awards and accolades from around the world, an easy to use solution to assist with the trillion-dollar problem of food waste became a reality. The Food Freshness Card was designed and developed to assist inside and outside of a refrigerator. The Food Freshness card is easy use to implement, affordable, and has been independently laboratory tested to increase shelf life up to 50% for many fruits, vegetables, and breads. Our goal is to assist with the global problem of food waste and to help our planet reduce waste by having a Food Freshness Card in everyone’s refrigerator, in all grocery stores and restaurants, and anywhere from farm to fork. Used in Supermarkets: Supermarkets throw away 43 billion pounds of food every year, according to the most recent study. Many stores are now committed to doing better, but grocery store food waste is still a massive problem. Installation of the Food Freshness cards in supermarkets instantly reduces waste over 25% and has saved a supermarket chain on average over $ 6,000 per store per month. Used in commercial Kitchens; In a University test with a commercial kitchen installation of 36 food Freshness Cards saved over $ 10,000 in 2 years and reduced monthly waste on average from $500 per month to $ 38.00 per month. Used in the home: The average American family throws out over $2,000 worth of food per year. The Food Freshness Card works phenomenal in the home and can extend life the shelf life up to 50% for many fruits, vegetables and breads saving families thousands in waste. In regards to Innovation the Food Freshness Card has won numerous accolades around the world, including the coveted Edison Gold Medal Award for Food Tech Solutions and United Fresh Innovation Award Winner for Best Food Safety Solution for 2017, 2018 & 2019. The United Fresh Innovation Awards are voted on by industry experts and the 5,000 + attendees of United Fresh Annual Conference. | The Food Freshness Card was developed by a family owned business dedicated to making people lives better, naturally. Rick Hassler and his son, RJ have been developing unique products for wellness companies and medical practitioners since 2013. The Father and son introduced Natures Frequencies and myriad of new wellness products to chiropractors, naturopathic doctors and medical practitioners around the country. While private labelling and supporting our practitioners, we felt our technology could assist with the global problem of food waste. After years of trial an error, and a lot of hard work and investment, we developed the Food Freshness Card. Gaining innovation awards and accolades from around the world, an easy to use solution to assist with the trillion-dollar problem of food waste became a reality. The Food Freshness Card works inside and outside of a refrigerator, is easy use to implement, affordable, and has been independently laboratory tested to increase shelf life up to 50% for many fruits, vegetables, and breads. Our goal is to assist with the global problem of food waste and to help our planet reduce waste by having a Food Freshness Card in everyone’s refrigerator, in all grocery stores and restaurants, and anywhere from farm to fork. Our family loves inventing new innovative products and currently holds four US Patents. We are continually testing and developing new products to sustain our planet and make your life better. | Food Freshness Card | The Food Freshness Card in the newest US Patented award winning technology in the food world to keep fruits, vegetables and breads fresher longer. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | The Food Freshness Card is used in United States, Europe, Chile, Peru and Mexico. Implementation should be worldwide. | No | Scaling | Our current production enables us to produce 50,000 Food Freshness Cards per week. Worldwide exposure and demand usage will need additional equipment and programming stations. | Food Waste is a global problem with one third of the world’s food being wasted. Over 1.3 billion tons of food per year is thrown away, which is enough to feed 3 billion people or about 10 times the Population of the USA. Between 33-50% of all food produced globally is never eaten, and the value of this wasted food is worth over $1 trillion. Food waste is a massive market inefficiency, the kind of which does not persist in other industries. | The Food Freshness Card is a large hologram that is programmed with longitudinal electromagnetic waves. Our U.S. patented process allows us to modulate these longitudinal electromagnetic waves with different frequencies or frequency spectra. The modulations to these waves target specific strains of bacteria and mold which can inhibit their growth. The Food Freshness Card does not directly kill mold or bacteria but instead creates an environment that can slow their growth rate. Mold and bacteria are main causes of food spoilage, if you can inhibit the rate at which they grow, you can increase the shelf life of food. Our long term vision is a Food freshness card in every household and supermarket, to reduce waste around the world. | The Food Freshness Card is incredibly unique in that it never touches the food, does not emit or absorb gas or ethylene, but can naturally extend the life of most fruits, vegetables and breads. Most shelf life extension products are cumbersome, like controlled atmosphere for shipping pallets or, ethylene gas scrubbers to reduce ethylene. All competitors need to work in a sealed atmosphere and usually in refrigerated areas. The Food Freshness Card is incredibly easy to use, needs no additional hardware or equipment, works inside or outside of a refrigerator, and in an open area. The Food Freshness Card is manufactured under 3 US Patents using quantum physics, Tesla technology and a proprietary formula which has taken years to perfect. Currently, there is no other product in the World like it. | The Food Freshness Card has been independently laboratory tested to increase shelf life up to 50% for many fruits, vegetables, and breads. Quantifiable results in the real world are a huge standard for the food waste reduction. Great Success in Supermarkets: Supermarkets throw away 43 billion pounds of food every year, according to the most recent study. Many stores are now committed to doing better, but grocery store food waste is still a massive problem. Installation of 200 Food Freshness Cards in supermarkets instantly reduces waste over 25% and has saved a supermarket chain on average over $ 6,000 per store per month in waste. Success in commercial Kitchens; In a University test with a commercial kitchen installation of 36 food Freshness Cards saved over $ 10,000 in 2 years and reduced monthly waste on average from $500 per month to $ 38.00 per month. Huge success in homes: With home use we constantly are told that since people have installed the Food Freshness Card, waste is eliminated or cut dramatically. In social media, you can see over 4,500 customers liking our product and some incredible stories and recommendations from customers who saved waste in many different ways. | Milestone recently accomplished, save a supermarket chain over $ 5,000 per month per store Our goals are 1 million Food Freshness Cards in the home. Complete coverage of 3 US supermarket Chains. Expand to worldwide distribution and 10 million Food Freshness Cards. Impact and help 10 Million people save waste! | We are currently manufacturing the Food Freshness Card and greatly satisfying all of our end users, private label customers and resellers. To cover worldwide demand, increased capital expenditure would be to escalate production. | www.foodfreshnesscard.com | Recent Interview after winning Edison Award- https://www.outlookseries.com/vendor_perspective/Food_Freshness_Card.htm Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ndM2cxA970&t=2s | Edison Gold Medal winner for ‘Food Tech Solutions’ April 2019 United Fresh Innovation Awards – 3 Time Winner ‘Best New Food Safety Solution, June 2017, 2018 & 2019’ Food Logistics Awarded June 2017, 2018 & 2019 ‘Top Green Providers’ IMPEX, America’s largest invention show, ‘Grand Prix Award’ IENA Germany, International Trade Fair: Bronze Medal for ‘Best Invention/New Product’ Food Logistics, Awarded ‘Champion, Rock Stars of the Supply Chain’ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
315 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nathalie | Charpak | Kangaroo Foundation Colombia | fundacioncanguro.co | General Director | Female | Colombia | France | English | French | Spanish | Kangaroo Foundation have worked for the evaluation and diffusion of Kangaroo Mother Care for more than 25 years. In the evaluation, kF demostraste that KMC decrease mortality and improve the quality of the survival of the high risk infants. On the diffusion, KF trained more than 75 teams from 35 countries, with more than 80% of success. Some of these countries already diffused the KMC at the country scale. In Colombia, there are 53 KMC programs giving access to the KMC method up to 1 year and cities like Bogota, (10 million of habitants) accomplishes more 90% of access to KMC of these high risk babies. | Dr. Nathalie Charpak is currently the scientific coordinator of the 3 KMC Excellence Centers in Colombia and an attending pediatrician at the Kangaroo Mother Care Program of the San Ignacio University Hospital. In addition, she is a founding member, senior researcher and director of the Kangaroo Foundation in Bogotá, Colombia since 1994. Dr. Charpak received her M.D. from the “Paris Sud” University and her paediatrician diploma from “Rene Descartes” University in Paris, France. She migrated in 1986 to Colombia where she validated her title as Paediatrician and began in 1989 to work on the evaluation of the Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) Method. She is now a Colombian citizen. With several colleagues she founded in 1994 the Kangaroo Foundation (KF) in Bogotá, an NGO devoted to research, teaching, training and direct medical care related to KMC for premature and low birth weight infant. In 1996 in Trieste, Italy she was amongst the group of international researchers, physicians and nurses who created the International Kangaroo Network -INK- an international alliance devoted to collaborating, enhancing and disseminating the KMC Method. Dr. Charpak continues to work as an attending paediatrician in the KMC Program and amongst her research interest are integrative methods for summarizing and placing into action what is known about KMC in the form of an evidence-based practice. Her main research interest is exploring the long term effects of KMC in adolescents and young adults that were low birth infants exposed or not exposed to KMC during the neonatal period. | Kangaroo Mother Method for all premature and low birth infants | Universal access to KMC program for the premature and low birth weight infant from birth up to 1 year of corrected age | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroun, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Ethiopia, Phillipines, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and more | Yes | World Health Organization, UNICEF, Grand Challenges Canada, International Network KMC, Ministry of Health of Colombia, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), Integral Kangaroo Mother Care Program (Colombia), | Scaling | The last world congress of KMC was held in Bogota in 2018. More than 40 countries worked around the diffusion of KMC at country scale. Various developing countries already have the experience to make this diffusion such as Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, Philippines, etc. | Developing countries bear 90% of the global burden of diseases in the world, children and mothers are particularly vulnerable, infant and maternal mortality rates can be 30-40 times and 20 times higher, respectively, than those in developed countries. Around 15 million of low birth weight infants are born each year because of preterm birth, impaired prenatal growth, or both, mostly in less developed countries, and they are associated with more than 30% of the global neonatal morbimortality. | Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) is an evidence-based technology including continuous skin-to-skin contact, establishing breastfeeding and close follow-up after discharge. It is useful for ameliorating prematurity and LBW effects on infant mortality and morbidity, and providing brain development protection. It is easy to implement in all regions and especially in low and middle-income countries, where neonatal units don’t have necessarily proper facilities or have reduced coverage. The model of KMC diffusion we have chosen is “see one, do one and teach one”. We invite health care leaders to be trained in a KMC Excellence Center, implement a KMC program in their home institutions, and afterwards, train other centers in their region and help them implement it. In our years of experience, success of knowledge transfer has been high. However, only a few KMC programs have begun a regional and national KMC diffusion program in their own countries, which should be the mission of the Excellence Center, with a tight support from Kangaroo Foundation. KMC efficacy, cost-effectiveness and safety, when used as a complement to neonatal care in health facilities have been scientifically demonstrated in observational and experimental studies conducted in Colombia, and in both developing and developed countries. Early discharge and KMC ambulatory follow-up clinic, one of the most difficult aspects to implement, has a significant impact on hospital associated costs and risks. | Reducing LBW rates, and the mortality and morbidity associated, has been possible in affluent societies thanks to better standards of life, resulting in healthier pregnancies, and to advanced neonatal care technology. However, this technology is expensive to purchase and maintain, and requires highly qualified staff to ensure safe care. In resource-restricted environments frequent in developing countries, air-heated incubators - where available - should be reserved for the care of sick infants, to allow an adequate cleaning, maintenance and repair. In addition, incubators may give a false sense of confidence and separate babies from their mothers. As a result, LBWI may be subject to poor care: they may be more susceptible to cross infection and milk bronchoaspiration, their thermal control may be inadequate, and they may suffer from poor nutrition and growth. The economic burden related to neonatal care of LBWI is very high and this is a cause for concern both in developed and developing countries. KMC has been shown useful for ameliorating LBW effects on infant mortality and morbidity, nutrition and early development. It has also demonstrated effectiveness and safety, which might be less expensive than usual incubator care for stable preemies. KMC is a process of mothers and families’ empowerment facilitated by properly trained health care personnel. | With scientific research we are constantly improving the KMC method, trying to adapt it according to each setting and publishing these results. To improve the KMC training, we work on the hands on training of trainer, promoting one KMC excellence center by country. We built the KMC e-learning platform, which we need to translate to english and spanish. With the Ministry of Health and World Food Program we built a KMC formation kit. We are performing support missions for new KMC program and certification of quality KMC implementation in Colombia and abroad. We developed a set of KMC access indicators, KMC process indicators and KMC outcome indicators, which we evaluate in each of these missions. | We want to ensure one KMC excellence centers (in one university hospital) in each country, to train and teach to health professionals in all their country. We want to certify in quality KMC these excellence center. This year we evaluated with USAID 6 centers in Dominican Republic, we made a diagnoses and we proposed solutions to improve their practice in KMC all around the country. We are trying to do the same with Ecuador, where we trained 7 hospitals two years ago, but the lack of funding is blocking this project. There are 15 millions of candidates preterm or low birth weight infants each year in the world, we want to give access to at least 50% of these babies. We are confident that with our experience, and in a south-south cooperation spirit, we are able to achieve this challenge with the adequate funds. | For the KMC method to scale, the Kangaroo Foundation need: - In the short-term: we need funds to ensure more human and technological resources to support the KF structure functioning. - In the medium-term: we need to train and support at least 10 African countries, 10 Asian countries, and 5 South-American countries, for the development of their KMC excellence centers. - In the long-term: we want to certify at least all the teaching excellence centers to ensure the quality of the KMC method that these high risk premature and low birth weight infants are receiving. | https://fundacioncanguro.co/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D11yu5sMq6w&t=3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJiQuAmJyoQ http://fundacioncanguro.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Update-of-the-Technical-Guidelines-for-the-Implementation-of-Kangaroo-Mother-Programs-in-Colombia-P.pdf http://fundacioncanguro.co/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2004-KMC-BMJ.pdf Charpak, N., Tessier, R., Ruiz, J. G., Hernandez, J. T., Uriza, F., Villegas, J., ... & Cortes, D. (2017). Twenty-year follow-up of kangaroo mother care versus traditional care. Pediatrics, 139(1), e20162063. Charpak, N., & Gabriel Ruiz‐Peláez, J. (2006). Resistance to implementing Kangaroo Mother Care in developing countries, and proposed solutions. Acta Paediatrica, 95(5), 529-534. ISO 690 Charpak, N., Gabriel Ruiz, J., Zupan, J., Cattaneo, A., Figueroa, Z., Tessier, R., ... & Mokhachane, M. (2005). Kangaroo mother care: 25 years after. Acta Paediatrica, 94(5), 514-522. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXzYr7pzcjw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwg-_kjZBqU&t=206s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSOm4Sdvs6Q&t=16s https://youtu.be/Wi7pW8_LUuk | - Prize Alas-BID 2015 in recognition for the diffusion of KMC worldwide. Washington D.C. - One of the five winners of Save the Children and GSK Healthcare Innovation Awards 2013. - Award Carlos Slim of Health 2012. - Award EXCELLENCE IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION 2010. Special Unit for the South-South Cooperation of UNDP and WHO. Geneva 2010 - Award for ""BEST PRACTICES FOR GLOBAL HEALTH 2006"". Global Health Council, Washington DC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
316 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Obafemi | Abati | Lagos State Government | www.lagosstate.gov.ng | Administrative and Human Resource Officer | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The main motive is to contribute significantly to the evolution of a global community that is safe with common shared values as a community. As a Public Servant in Lagos State with a desire to formulate public policies that would impact positively on the lives of the people of this world and make this planet conducive for human habitation. Also, the desire to reduce conflict to its barest minimum made me to seek for participation to be exposed to first hand information and practices towards peaceful resolution of conflicts at the international level. My participation in this summit will expose me to the latest development within the global politics and new methods developed to resolving global challenges which might be useful at the regional level of government Attending this summit will also provide me the opportunity to enhance my public policies formulation skills thereby improve my capacity building as a civil servant in Lagos State, Nigeria. | Abati, Obafemi Kabir, a civil servant with Lagos State Government in Nigeria with interest in Public Policy Research and Development. | Bilingual Administrative Institution Model: An option not taken | The adoption of bilingual system of administration would facilitate the attainment of the SDD goals before 2030 | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Lagos State, Nigeria | No | Proof of Concept | Bilingual Administrative Institution Model was designed to integrate two United Nations Official languages as the working languages as the state level of administration to encourage common shared values among the citizens of the world and there by creating a strong institutions that can promote peace and development in the world. The proposal had been reviewed by the Lagos State Government and sent to National Assembly for further review for implementation within the public and private sectors. | The Bilingual Administrative Institution Model was designed to remove all forms of obstacle to Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria through the adoption of the use of both English and French languages and sustain economic growth and development. It aims to promote economic integration in Africa and make Nigeria the commercial capital of Africa. It will also build strong institutions that can facilitate policy implementation which can translate to reduction in poverty in Nigeria and Africa. | The proposal was designed to integrate a bilingual service unit within the Administrative & Human Resource Department in all Ministries, Department and Agencies of Government at all levels of the federation to cater for the immediate needs of foreigners usually French Clients to promote the integration of African Economies. The proposal is capable of promoting common shared values among the global citizens ,reduces nuclear threat and rivalries among the five permanent members of the security council as testing of nuclear weapons contribute significantly to the depletion of ozone layers, as well as sustain the global economic growth and development with actions aims at eliminating extreme poverty and unfavourable climatic conditions. The long term vision of this framework is to serve as prelude to one global community with less emphasis on Nationalism. To promote globalization of public policies and create environment conducive enough to sustain growth and development at the international stage. Bilingualism aims to promote Research and Development through cooperation among researchers of indigenous artefacts to promote innovations and inventions. Findings revealed that the adoption of Billingual Administrative Institutions Model has capacity to reduce violence among the State and Non-state actors as citizens with common shared values will see each other as one. The impact of the adoption of Billingualism will translate to meaningful development of the people. | Bilingualim focuses on the use of institutional approach towards finding lasting solutions to global crisis. It aims to influence the environment and the people through established institutions of government at all levels. It focuses on achieving sustainable development, peace and tranquillity with actions aim at ending extreme poverty, protect the planet, guarantees human well being and other millennium goals. It addresses the weaknesses of the muiltilingualism adopted by the United Nations Organisation such as the aggressive rivalry among the permanent members of the security Council, Nuclear threats, wars, extreme poverty and the inability of the Muitilingualism approach to be practised at the other level of government such as the State and local government levels. Bilingualism can also be extended to non-state actors such as the International Non-Governmental Organizations, Multinational Corporations e.t.c. thereby capturing the needs of those who were once neglected. The Bilingualism was conceived to prepare grounds for the adoption of one Universal language which will facilitate the universalisation of economic policies and governance that would guarantee a global political system under one leadership. The Bilingual Administrative Institution Model would promote harmonization of global cultures, traits and values that will promote global citizens of the world with same culture and values that would promote global peace and tranquility | The progress made so far in the development of Billingualism in Lagos State, Nigeria can be traced to the proposed Socio Economic Bill which aims to facilitate the implementations of the stated objectives. The bill had be submitted to the National Assembly and State Assembly in Lagos State in order to domesticate it. The recommendations of the Public Service Office (PSO) in Lagos State for the adoption and implementation of Billingualism in Public Institutions in Lagos State Public Service has been landmark achievements of this Project. Using the institutional approach will evolve a global administrative system that would promote a unified global public institutions designed to produce global citizens with common shared values. Bilingualism will promote unification of public policies that will translate to secured atmospherewhich might lead to economic cooperation, peace and development. | The adoption and implementation of Billingualism by the United Nations Organization through the resolution of the United Nations Assembly will serve as a prelude to the evolution of a global community with common shared values and governance. It tends to correct all the weaknesses of the Muiltilingustic approach adopted by the United Nations and this has been the motive behind this project. Also, Bilingualism was designed for implementation at state and Regional levels of government in other to facilitate the evolution of a global community with common shared values among the people of this plannet | The most useful instrument for the project is the resolution for its adoption by the United Nations Organisation Assembly for implementation at all levels of government and to ensure that at every institution of government there is a bilingualist that can attend to foreign clients using Nigeria as a case study, there should be an administrative and Human Resource Officer that can speak French language who could attend to french speaking clients since Nigeria is surrounded by French speaking Neighbours | No website address | No video | No award | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
317 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tosan | Oruwariye | MaTontine Inc | www.matontine.com | Founder & Director of Strategic Partnerships | Female | United States of America | Nigeria | English | Our motivation for applying to present our project is the opportunity to engage with the different stakeholders who have similar goals to us in trying to improve the financial outcomes of some of the world's poorest people through technology, entrepreneurship and innovative regulation. One of the biggest hurdles we face in Francophone Africa is inflexible regulation, which has really slowed down the growth of digital financial services in the region. We are curious to see how some innovative regulators have resolved some of the challenges they faced. We are also very interested in connecting with investors who care deeply about long-term change and impact. It is not possible to solve the problems we face without ""patient capital"". Investors who have at least a double bottom line: financial as well as social impact. Finally, we are hoping to partner with industry leaders with congruent goals who are able to deploy quickly and at scale. When we think about innovation for positive global impact, we believe in going back to indigenous, African systems that have worked effectively for decades if not centuries and applying technology to them. For us technology is just a means to an end and not the end in itself. This is the reason why we are not an app (even though we have apps). For our innovation we went back a century to a traditional African system that has existed for over a century and used in every African country. It is called Esusu in Nigeria, Naat in Senegal, Njangi in Cameroon etc. Here is how it works: a group of say 10 people with an appointed manager come together monthly and save $10 in a pot and at the end of the month a random draw is done and one person gets the pot of $100. This cycle repeats itself until everyone has gotten the pot of a $100 once. Our innovation is to automate this entire process and incorporate a credit scoring system in order to offer access to small loans and other financial services like micro-insurance based on the credit score of our members (customers). All financial transactions are done using mobile phones and digital money. It turns out that not just African countries, every single developing country has this system. What if you could create a global platform that is a marketplace for financial services for the under-served; backed by the latest technologies:digital identity, Artificial Intelligence, Crypto-currency, Block Chain etc.? That's how you have true global impact! | Dr. Oruwariye is a Preventive Medicine and Pediatric Specialist who Co-founded MaTontine Inc, a Fintech company operating in Dakar, Senegal with a mission to alleviate poverty by facilitating access to financial and related services to women earning less than 5 dollars a day. Dr Oruwariye’s international experience includes Financial inclusion, last mile distribution, innovation and Strategic partnership. She has collaborated with international agencies including WHO and UNICEF on different preventive care models to the rural and poor communities in Nigeria. Dr. Oruwariye brings her expertise in Strategic Leadership, Health Care Quality and Utilization Management to her present role. Her work in the United states has included, clinician, researcher, physician leader and executive manager as the Chief Medical Officer for an ambulatory care organization. | MaTontine | Providing financial services through the digitization of traditional saving circles | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Senegal and Francophone Africa | Yes | Groupe Cofina (Regional MFI); SUNU Assurance (Regional Insurer); Orange Money (Regional Telco); Wari (Regional Money Transfer company) | Transition to Scale | We have successfully proven the concept and are an established company in Senegal with about 6,000 paying customers and a range of partners as listed above. We are also in about 10 regions in Senegal. The next level of innovation for us is to scale nationally with a goal of 25,000 customers this year. We then intend to expand to Côte d'Ivoire next year. | MaTontine seeks to solve a current and challenging problem that exists in Africa and the developing world: how to offer low value financial services (e.g. a $100 loan) profitably and at scale to the financially excluded. The banks and Microfinance Institutions cannot do this with their existing cost structure. Under 25 per cent of adults in Francophone Africa have access to a bank account of any kind. This rate drops to barely 10 per cent in rural areas. | As most of our target population (Francophone African women living under $5/day) are unable to access any form of credit, they instead rely on traditional, informal rotating savings circles called “tontines”, usually managed by women. As these saving circles are operated manually, the risk of fraud and disputes is high, limiting their potential. Our solution is to digitize these century-old traditional, saving circles in order to provide financial services to the poor. We have developed a fully-fledged digital financial services platform with a credit scoring system whereby our partners and us can offer a loans and insurance products based on the behavior of our customers. Our goal is to digitize the poor in order to provide digital services. To that end, our platform has a set of utilities including: biometric capture, member management, services management, credit scoring, transactional & geo-location reporting etc. Importantly, we have created an actual community of tontine users called, Les Tontinaires – every user on our platform is a member of our community. We are in the process of using financial education as the primary tool for building this community. We train the women groups on financial education and then offer them our platform as the key tool for financial management. | Our biggest differentiation is that we are able to offer a range of financial services (loans, health insurance, education savings, food commerce, group savings etc.) and not just credit to the poor via a basic feature phone. This is really important as only 20% of Africans have smartphones. Also, some of the latest research [http://www.portfoliosofthepoor.com/] is showing that just offering micro-credit to the poor does not get them out poverty. Instead they need to be surrounded by a range of financial services specific to their unique needs. | As previously indicated we are at the ""Transition to scale"" innovation stage. We measure progress primarily through the number of members recruited unto the platform and the services they receive from MaTontine. To date we have close to 6,000 members with a goal of 25,000 by the end of the year. Each member is currently has access to at least two products (a savings product and a credit product). We also have other measures of success that include: - Number of tontine managers recruited - Number of rural vs urban members - Percentage of female vs male members - Average number of services used by members - Increased revenues of tontine members & managers - Increased financial awareness and education. - Number of tontine managers certified - Number of financial inclusion programs - Number of partners recruited - Number of “community” managers - Increased access to digital financial services. Finally, we are coming to the conclusion of a comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation program run by a third party consultancy that measures the impact of our solution. The report should be available in November. | We define our scaling strategy as ""Nail it in Senegal. Scale it in Francophone Africa. Grow by acquisition throughout Africa"". To that end we are looking to expand into Côte d'Ivoire next year; the rest of eight-country Francophone regions, UEMOA over the next five years; and Francophone Africa in 10 years time. We currently have a team of 20 people, with two senior operational directors. In the next couple of years we need to recruit a senior management team of about 6-7 people who would help us expand the business across the region. We anticipate a direct headcount of about 140 people in 5 years time across 5 countries. We estimate having 1 million mostly women (90% or our current member population is female) on our platform in 5 years time. Research from the Demographic Dividend indicates that each tontine member would positively impact a further 4 people. So we estimate an overall impact of 4 million people in 5 years time. | Our key objective when it comes to scaling is large scale recruitment unto the platform. To be financially sustainable and have the maximum impact due the ""Network Effect"", we need hundreds of thousands of people on the platform. This requires considerable resources. In the short term we need financing to accelerate our recruitment, as well as partnerships with financial institutions who can provide services to our members (customers) via our platform. In the medium we need very high level and talented human resources. To grow the business we need to be able to attract highly competent individuals into a high performing team that can scale the solution across multiple countries. We also need funding at this stage to provide our own financial services directly to the customer (a B2C model) as well as via our partners (a B2B model). Our long-term goal is to be a pure digital community ""bank"" - the first in Africa. We would like to create digital financial services platform within the existing regulatory framework capable of services 1 million women in 5 years time. This requires significant funding in all areas: regulatory licenses, technology, human resources, product development etc. | https://youtu.be/UzIV7W5EHWE https://youtu.be/5pd5vJQYWe0 | https://cnn.it/2wDOUaB https://bit.ly/2KtTvV1 | Banque Populaire FinTech Challenge 2019 (Winner) GSMA Accelerator Fund 2018 (Winner) CGAP Digital Finance Frontiers 2017 (Winner) Orange Social Social Venture Prize 2016 (Winner) Inclusive FinTech 50 2019 (No winners) Catapult Inclusion 2018 (Finalist) Zambezi Financial Inclusion 2018 (Finalist) Jambar Tech 2018 (Finalist) Village Capital FinTech 2017 (Finalist) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
318 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | RAYMOND ETACHONG | NSO ARREY | GOLDEN HEART FOUNDATION | www.goldenheartfoundation.org | Social entrepreneur | male | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | French | Being a social entrepreneur, my desire to drive and effect change in my community and the world at large emerged from the different social ills present in the African society.Some parts of Africa still lives in the dark ages and they still belief in gender suppression. The ability to innovate is the key to long-term corporate success.Positive innovation means innovating for responsible protect the environment and combat inequalities : I founded the golden heart foundation which empowers the girl child through protection of their fundamental human rights, gender equality,as well as free vocational training | Raymond is a social entrepreneur as well as an ecosystem conservator.In 2015, he worked with the center for biodiversity and environmental conservation where he implemented policies related to environmental protection and conservation. Later that same year, he co-founded AFRICA FOOD PRODUCTION for the production of both food and cash crops for the promotion of healthy families. By May 2017, he founder the GOLDEN HEART FOUNDATION which empowers the girl child as he tries to put both boy and girl at same level in the society. He is a YALI alumni of March 2018, Accra, Ghana. He is currently the chairperson of the foundation | AN END TO POVERTY AND HUNGER THROUGH GENDER EQUALITY AND QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL | Realizing gender equality and the empowerment of young girls will make a crucial contribution to progress across the continent. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Cameroon and Africa at large | Yes | Cameroon's ministry of Women and social affairs, | Proof of Concept | So far there exist 4 young girls under partial scholarship by the golden heart foundation. The foundation also counts a total of 7 workshops on free vocational training. During this workshops, the girls are thought how to bead, how to sow. | In Cameroon and many parts of Africa, the girl child is regarded as an asset. Most parents believe that the girl child should not go to school but get marry and start bringing money home through her husband. These parts of Africa still practice female genital mutilation, breast ironing | In other to fight against these social ills I created the golden heart foundation. To encourage the young girls to go, we place them under partial scholarships of up to 72%. We also offer school materials to these girls so as to ease their studies. To combat female genital mutilation, breast ironing, a series of seminars have been held and are still to continue. this is to educate the ignorant population on the dangers associated with such practices. There have beeen free vocational training sessions where trades like beading and sewing are learned by the girls. In the long run, women get involved equally as men. and we can freely say that the systematic mainstreaming of a gender perspective in the implementation of the 2063 is of utmost importance | I think other change makers simply preach on the necessity and importance of educating the girl child without much of practical work been done. Aside protecting the fundamental rights of the girl child, these girls are encouraged to go to school as all their school materials are provided for. Also, we place them under partial scholarships of up to 72% As a methodology, we assess the impact of entrepreneurship education programs. There will be originality and value, research implications as well as findings | So far there has been a great progress involved in our team work: A total number of 4 already left the secondary while another 4 are currently under scholarship placement. As a social entrepreneur, we have a number of indicators at hand which allow us evaluate a study and infer about its theoretical and empirical contribution such as the assessment of objective scores | Presently the golden heart foundation is based in the political capital of Cameroon. It only empowers Cameroonian girls but future perspectives are to extend in some neighboring African countries where female education is low and the rights of girls are not respected. Countries like Somalia, Niger and Liberia have the highest level of female illiteracy rate of girls between 7 and 16.We look forward to establishing and helping such countries | financial, technical and material resources are need for the solution to scale short-term needs include short-term: working collaboratively to develop school -wide programs medium-term: finances long-term goal: successful career | https://www.facebook.com/@ghfcameroon https://www.goldenheartfoundation.org | https://www.facebook.com/@ghfcameroon https://www.goldenheartfoundation.org | Nominated at Afrikpreneur award, May 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
319 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Carlos | Pereira | Livox International LLC | www.livox.com.br | CEO and Founder | Male | United States of America | Brazil | English | “Living without being able to communicate is like being behind four glass walls. You are able to see others and they can see you; but you are ignored, or worse, talked down to until you stop remembering who you are and why you are important.” -- Rick Creech, AAC user, US Senate testimony The right to communicate is a basic human right and it is the means by which all other rights are realized. Many people with disabilities (including cerebral palsy, intellectual disabilities, autism, Rett Syndrome, ALS, TBI, aphasia, dementia, etc) experience complex communication challenges. Access to communication is foundational for individuals with disabilities. Without it, people experience: - Poor school and post-school outcomes: No student is too severely disabled to benefit from communication supports and services. Research shows that even students with labels of the most significant cognitive and sensory disabilities can learn to use symbolic AAC in six months or less. - Increased risk of abuse and neglect: Risk up to seven times non-disabled persons. The lack of the ability to report abuse or neglect is key. - Challenging behaviors: Behaviors take the place of communication. Once meaningful communication interventions are introduced, challenging behaviors subside. - Poor health outcomes: Poorer health results from being unable to express the common ailments of life such as headaches, tooth pain, muscle aches etc., resulting in later and more intensive, expensive interventions. - Work force participation: Communication is a critical part of workplace participation, even when it is not a part of a specific job task. - Decreased decision making and participation in community life: Individuals too often have little to no control over their daily life and long term decision making, and unable to fully participate in family life as well as educational, employment, social, and civic responsibilities including voting. Federal responses are limited. Laws exist without practical ways to implement the requirements. | My name is Carlos Pereira and I am the father of an 11-year-old girl named Clara Pereira. She has Cerebral Palsy due to a medical mistake during my wife's labor. Since from the moment I found out about my daughter's condition, empowering people with disabilities became a passion for me. When my daughter was a baby I manage to secure foreign investment and we opened a huge rehab center for people with disabilities in my hometown in Brazil. After the rehab center was opened, I saw that my daughter was trying to communicate. That's when I decided to learn how to code to create a software for her. After creating Livox, we could test it with hundreds of different disabled people in the rehab center. This helped me in understanding the different needs of different disabilities. For example, people with autism hate changes. So, if a user has autism, we created an algorithm to prevent changes. This is quite tricky because communication is supposed to be dynamic. So, how can you have dynamic communication and at the same time prevent changes? So, the needs of my daughter and the needs of lots of different people with disabilities drove me to where I am today. There's no such thing as an ex-daddy. So, I just can't stop working to improve the lives of people with disabilities. | Livox | Alternative communication software for the 21st century | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Brazil, USA, Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Argentina | Yes | Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, Google.org | Transition to Scale | As of today, our software is benefiting over 25,000 people with disabilities in 10 countries. We managed to get very good results, especially in Brazil, through partnerships with governments and institutions that work for people with disabilities or learning impairment. We are now focusing on new markets, like the English speaking countries. This is the biggest market but also one of the most challenging ones due to its particularities. | There are over 1 Billion people with disabilities on the planet. They're the group with the highest risk of social exclusion. This is a problem for SDG 4 since most of them don't have access to proper education. Alongside this, it's not possible to have true equality (like mentioned by the SDG 10) if people with disabilities are left behind. Livox is an alternative communication software that enables non-verbal people with disabilities to communicate and to fully engage in a school setting. | Livox is an affordable alternative communication software with incredible technologies that make it work with a wide range of disabilities. Many schools and institutions for people with disabilities are using our software to empower people with disabilities or learning impairments. Livox was born to enable non-verbal people with disabilities to speak, but it is also being used to enable people with disabilities to have access to educational content. The way they interact with the software is through an Android tablet. However, the interaction way may change according to each user's (dis)abilities. So, a person with a severe motor impairment may use his eyes to interact with the software, while a person with a minor motor disability may count on Livox algorithm that corrects imperfect touches. Our long term is to have partnerships with schools and institutions for people with disabilities to make this affordable but effective technology accessible to all. We know this can be done because we did it in countries like Brazil and Djibouti whose populations lack access to technology but thanks to partnerships between us and local governments, now can have their rights respected and can engage in a regular school. | Alternative communication devices often show dozens of items on a single screen. Regular alternative communication devices also fail to meet the needs of people with disabilities. Disabilities vary in type and degree. Most devices are one size fits all. There are at least three ways where Livox is different from others: 1 - Intelligent Algorithms. Livox for someone with Cerebral Palsy will be very different from Livox for a person with Autism, for example. For those users who can't use their limbs, Livox can be used with their eyes. We had a breakthrough when we created an algorithm that uses the front-facing camera of a $100 tablet. Our algorithm enables these users to use their eyes to interact with the software and to communicate. 2 - Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Often an alternative communication software has dozens of items on a single screen so a person with a disability may answer a question or start a conversation. In 2015 we received a $550.000 grant from Google. This grant allowed us to create two algorithms that allow people with disabilities to either answer a question or initiate a conversation up to 20 times faster when compared to regular alternative communication devices. 3 - Evaluations. It's possible to evaluate every Livox user in 5 different categories. So, it's very useful to see their improvement over time. Besides that, Livox is up to 4.000% cheaper than current solutions for alternative communications in the United States. | We have already reached a very high level of refinement in our solution. As of right now, for example, we have three PhDs in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing working on our conversation models. Besides that, we are opening our platform now to enable other people to share their creations with other users. This has huge potential. Imagine a teacher in Brazil creating a way to teach Math to autistic students and sharing this to all Livox users around the world! As of right now, we have a tool in our portal www.mylivox.com to evaluate every person that uses our software. We evaluate each user in 5 different categories: - Oral Language Understanding - Visual Understanding - Auditory Agnosia - Cognitive Agnosia - Behavioral Each user is evaluated when they start using Livox so they can have a baseline score. A ""normal"" overall score would be 100%. A new person with a disability using Livox may have an initial score of 60%. The professionals working with this user may drill down to check ""why"" he has an initial score of 60%. Then, they can see that this student cognition is just 20%. This may help them to decide to work a little bit closer in cognition to improve this user's overall score. | Our planned goal is to establish a firm position in English speaking countries starting with the United States. We also have a joint venture in the Middle East that enabled us to distribute our software in many countries in the region. So, we already proved that our solution may be used in high-income countries as well as in low-income countries. Besides that, our goals for the next three years are: Continue consolidating our position in the Brazilian market to promote social inclusion for those in vulnerable situations. Permanently structure our presence in the North American market with partnerships with institutions for people with disabilities and governments; As of right now, we are giving the first steps on a pilot with UNICEF to implement Livox in three countries of Eastern Europe, assessing and publishing the results. This partnership with UNICEF has the potential to benefit thousands of children with disabilities and learning impairments in dozens of countries; We will expand the use of AI to make technology fit better the needs of people with disabilities and/or people with learning impairments in order to bring new learning possibilities. | As any social impact startup, we face challenges related to growth and how to keep the growth. - Flexible business model structure to meet the need of rich and poor countries; - Structuring of the business model for recurrent revenue. We are studying different business models for different countries and situations. Charge an annual fee? Charge for additional features? We are working on different scenarios to have a fair value proposition for different scenarios - As we expand to more countries, we need to structure our team to meet the global need; | http://www.livox.com.br/en/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/01/this-man-made-an-app-so-he-could-give-his-daughter-a-voice/ https://www.schwabfound.org/awardees/carlos-edmar-pereira https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/teachers-and-educators/solutions/4677 https://www.wpi.edu/sites/default/files/2018/08/17/GPS_GMM_SpeakerSeries_Fall_2018_Poster_web.pdf https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovation/livox https://www.unicef.org/innovation/stories/2018-davos-roundup https://solve.mit.edu/articles/meet-the-solver-teams-introducing-our-teachers-educators-solver-class https://www.youtube.com/user/agoraeuconsigoreamo https://www.facebook.com/livoxtablet | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGOx8glHGDA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRllotV3x00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsrkfTCiam0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuH1Z4xwN5Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB_kp2fh6b0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GN8xJe0m9c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3pog9ofGnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7nl65SjiiY | Best Social Inclusion Application in the World - WSA Abu Dhabi Technological Innovation with the biggest impact - (Inter-American Development Bank) - Washington, DC Invited by PEARSON for Project Literacy to eradicate illiteracy in the world until the year 2030; MIT: Solver Teachers and Educators; Artificial Intelligence for the Betterment of Humanity; GM Award for Advanced Technologies Social Entrepreneur by Schwab Foundation, Davos, Switzerland, Tech for Global Good Award, San Diego, 2017; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
320 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Evan | Thomas | Mortenson Center in Global Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder | https://www.colorado.edu/center/mortenson | Associate Professor and Director | Male | United States of America | Canada | English | Our team's vision of Global Engineering reframes the role of engineers in addressing global development, and posits engineers should be concerned with the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation and shelter. We have demonstrated this novel approach through satellite connected sensors to monitor water sanitation and energy services in low income settings; designing best-in-class sanitation and air quality interventions; leading rigorous evaluations to demonstrate impact; and developing innovative interventions, for example, leveraging carbon credits to unlock private finance to support a public health intervention. Our programs have already begun to reshape the global humanitarian landscape. For example, the National Institutes of Health, the Gates Foundation and the Rwanda Ministry of Health are presently supporting cookstove and water filter studies in Rwanda that are based in part on the findings of our programs. | Evan Thomas is the Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a tenured Associate Professor jointly appointed in the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Departments, and an affiliate faculty in Environmental and Occupational Health at the Colorado School of Public Health. Evan has a PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado at Boulder, is a registered Professional Engineer, and has a Masters in Public Health from the Oregon Health and Science University. Evan’s technical background is in water and air testing and treatment applied in developing communities through to operational spacecraft. Evan’s research has been funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the World Bank, USAID, the UN Foundation, the CDC, the United Kingdom Department for International Development, the Gates Foundation, and others. As Chief Operating Officer of DelAgua Health from 2012-2016, Evan conceived, designed and directed a $25 million dollar public health intervention in Rwanda with the Government of Rwanda. The program reached 350,000 households with cookstoves and 102,000 households with water filters, in over 7,500 villages and 1.6 million people. Evan was a civil servant at the NASA-Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas from 2004-2010. At NASA, Evan was a aerospace engineer working on microgravity fluid management technologies and water recovery systems for spacecraft hardware flying on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. | The Drought Resilience Impact Platform | Ending drought emergencies in the Horn of Africa with monitoring, decision making, and coordinated actions. | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Ethiopia, Kenya | Yes | Millennium Water Alliance, Kenya National Drought Management Authority, Ethiopia Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy | Scaling | Using satellite-connected sensors, our team is currently monitoring the water supplies of over 2.5 million people in arid Kenya and Ethiopia. Our data is being used by local utilities, non-profits, regional governments, national entities and international donors. Previously, in Rwanda, we demonstrated a 10x reduction in water system downtime (from 200 days to 20 days) using our sensor-triggered repair system. | Millions of people living in the drought prone Horn of Africa are facing persistent threat from a lack of safe, reliable and affordable water year-round. Drought emergencies occur when reduced rainfall, exacerbated in recent years by climate change, conspires with with limited community capacity and institutional failures to cause dramatic reductions in access to water for people, livestock and agriculture. | We can end the cycle of drought emergencies in the arid regions of Kenya and Ethiopia. Our Drought Resilience Impact Platform (DRIP) will empower institutions and communities to make evidence-based decisions and take actions that maintain water and food availability during drought conditions. DRIP applies a comprehensive systems design approach to integrate early detection and planning tools with proactive groundwater management to enable drought-prone communities to become proactive and effective managers in the prevention of these humanitarian crises. The DRIP theory of change posits that improved drought indicator monitoring can produce more reliable drought impact forecasts, which, when coupled with a strengthened and informed network of organizations, are then acted upon by communities, governments and international organizations to collectively end drought emergencies. | Our innovation is more cost effective than reactive and expensive short-term assistance measures like water trucking and emergency food aid, and provides a framework for proactive and sustainable drought resilience that has not been previously applied at scale. | Our local and national partners are linking our data to regional water service providers, local government leaders, and national policy makers in order to create an accurate picture of resource availability, and thus improve water services and drought resilience. UCB is currently running impact evaluations in Kenya and Ethiopia focused on improving water access during extreme drought. Our data is being used by local utilities, non-profits, regional governments, national entities and international donors. Previously, in Rwanda, we demonstrated a 10x reduction in water system downtime (from 200 days to 20 days) using our sensor-triggered repair system. Our primary measure of impact will be improved functionality of groundwater boreholes during drought conditions.Further our theory of change includes outcomes that we directly monitor and continually evaluate and learn from. These include: Improved localized drought forecasts Improved groundwater borehole systems functionality Safe water quality Increased stakeholder coordination Water trucking pre-positioning | The objective of DRIP is to be directly integrated with existing institutions and their drought responses. Beyond MacArthur, DRIP could be scaled across drought prone, resource constrained regions worldwide. As we think about scaling, we are deliberate in our vision of DRIP in the Horn of Africa as a leverageable model for regional-scale drought impact. Achieving guaranteed year round water services will serve as the foundation to develop capacity building activities that will shore-up other components of the overall water system. Once the acute stress of a lack of water is addressed, we can expand our work building resilient and sustainable socio-environmental systems. Our work in sustainable water systems delivery, land planning and agronomic advising, and our deep connections with local and regional governments will allow us to build from our initial work to include supporting improved management of surface water, land use planning, and livestock and crop insurance systems. Once we successfully demonstrate that DRIP provides a more cost-effective, resilient, regionally appropriate and scalable solution to drought emergencies, we anticipate scaling and sustaining DRIP with local, regional, national and international resilience and relief budgetary sources. | We seek to scale DRIP from monitoring 2.5 million people's water supplies, to directly improving water security and drought resilience for 20 million people in the Horn of Africa. To accomplish this, bold action is required to align international funding with local performance based contracts to ensure year round, cost effective water service delivery. Our short term needs support to improve water service delivery in northern Kenya and Afar, Ethiopia. Our medium-term needs are scaling our monitoring platform across the region. Our long term approach will require coordinated funding to ensure that water is secure year around across the region. | Please see video and project description - https://www.colorado.edu/center/mortenson/DRIP | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vexw0S_2NDQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrrfPIhb4tI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRs9W33-guk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0IUCMzmtXo | Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency Fellowship, 2015 NASA Johnson Space Center Fellowship, 2008-2009 Finalist, Canadian Astronaut Selection, 2017 University of Colorado at Boulder Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Alumni Award, 2015 NASA-JSC Engineering Achievement Medal, September 2007 International EnergyGlobe Awards, Rwanda National Award, 2007, 2008, 2009 Engineers Without Borders-USA Humanitarian Award, 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
321 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Karen | Hampson | Farm Radio International | farmradio.org | Senior Manager Program Development | F | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | I want to share how Farm Radio International uses the power of radio to address the SDGs and as a tool for good - in these days of fast internet and immediate communications, we forget that radio is still the main source of information for rural citizens in Africa. It is the media which reaches the most people, and does it quickly, in relevant languages, using existing infrastructure and at low cost. Interactive radio is based in existing infrastructures and lives - yet is undervalued as a tool for positive global impact. It is still the best tool for reaching small-scale farmers quickly across distances with potentially life-changing information, tools, dialogues and services. FRI has developed a series of interactive radio-based approaches tailored to achieve different development outcomes: awareness, knowledge; market linkages; adoption of good practice; and changes in attitude and behaviour. The 232 radio stations that Farm Radio has directly partnered with on projects serve an estimated population of 141 million Africans, including 46 million adults in rural areas of 11 countries. In 2017 alone, an estimated 20 million rural adults tuned in to interactive agricultural radio programs in these countries broadcast as part 30 FRI projects. FRI can demonstrate how radio can give women a platform to have their voices heard, increase their confidence and contribute to their civic engagement. Our results consistently show that an average of 20% of listeners take some kind of action after hearing quality radio programs - from accessing new seeds, using weather services or consuming healthy food. FRI supports existing radio stations to develop and improve interactive radio programming, training station staff and providing distance mentoring. FRI has an in-house interactivity system which transform radio into a two way discussion mechanism. Listeners can vote in weekly programs, leave SMS or voice messages, and also register to receive voice or SMS alerts and information. This interactivity allows us to collect data, gauge audience interest, gather content and promote discussion between listeners and policy-makers, scientist or input suppliers. The multi-stakeholder and inclusive approach ensures sustainability and develops networks which strengthen communications and listener-responsive programming | I have over 20 years’ experience in international development, supporting farming communities on three continents. I have worked as a volunteer and in small NGOs focusing on responding to information needs and supporting small-scale farmers to make positive changes in their farming systems. I spent three years in The Phillippines, working on a large international project, followed by two years in Brazil supporting small community medicinal gardens. Preferring to work at the community level, and having a flair for communications, I shifted to writing and sharing materials and experiences through magazine format, and most recently through working with Farm Radio International who focus on using radio for development. After two years in Ottawa and five years in Tanzania with Farm Radio, I am now based in Europe, where I support organizational and program strategy and build partnerships with international organisations and research centres to use radio and ICT-enabled approaches for reaching and engaging with farmers. Karen holds an MSc in Crop Science and a BSc in International Development. | Interactive radio | ICTs for amplifying dialogue and development | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, Mozambique | Yes | Radio stations, governments and content specialists | Sustainable Scale | Our approaches are transferable across countries and cultures as radio is common to all. Interactive radio has proven its effectiveness, a key issue that remains is sustainability of the system. Once a project ends, while some benefits remain and with improved skills and equipment, stations can continue to broadcast effective programs for farmers, the service is often not at the same level or quality, and largely lacks the interactivity element, and farmer focus which is crucial for success. | Access to information and freedom of information and expression is a fundamental human right - but many rural based small scale farmers have no access to information, research results or discussion opportunities to inform their farming practices. Internet, TV, newspapers are still far out of reach for the majority. Face-to-face agricultural extension has not worked, particularly for small-scale farmers, even less so for those in very remote locations, and for women. | Farm Radio International has gathered conclusive evidence that participatory farm radio programming –when it meets standards of quality and consistency – is widely listened to and leads to remarkable gains in knowledge by small-scale farmers, and that specialized, carefully designed programs can lead to uptake of more effective and productive farming practices by up to 48% (on average 21%) of farming families in listening areas. This kind of radio programming can provide tens of millions of small-scale African farmers with vitally important services at a cost of pennies per person reached and as little as $1 per adopter. Our vision is that every small-scale farmer - young and old, male and female, rural or urban - has constant access to quality interactive radio as an effective and responsive agricultural advisory service. To achieve this, we must explore how to move from a project-dependent model that funds sporadic interactive radio programs on a donor-led project basis for time-limited periods, to Interactive Radio as a sustained, consistent, “always-there” model of digital advisory services, embedded in and supported by local services and stakeholders, that meets farmers’ weekly and daily communication and knowledge-sharing needs. | Digital ICTs, which can reach millions of farmers with simple “on-demand” information services right to their mobile phones, seem to address some limitations. But on their own, they do not provide the context, conversation, testimonials, and stories that help farmers evaluate options, make informed decisions, and mobilize for action. They are much less accessible and useful to women farmers than radio, which is listened to by, for example, 52% of rural women in Uganda. Some 80% of African farmers regularly listen to the radio, and some farm radio programs are very popular and effective. With training and guidance from Farm Radio International, and extensive consultation with communities, a radio station itself produces programs as part of their service to listeners. Program content is guided by partners, including farmers, and synchronized with cropping seasons or partner interventions. Farm Radio International provides monitoring, training and feedback to ensure quality of content and presentation. Programs focus equally on the expressed needs and desires of women and men farmers. The goal is for radio producers to create exceptionally good programs that attract a large, loyal audience. | We have tested a variety of interactive radio techniques over the last ten years, and continue to use these as communication for development tools. We measure the impact of the radio programs on various indicators, including changes in knowledge, attitudes and practices of listeners. We use radio coverage maps correlated with household surveys, according to international and peer-reviewed standards. | Radio is a tool for scale and we plan to take advantage of that to reach as wide a population as possible. We currently operate in eleven countries, and firstly want to expand operations in those countries, and consolidate our approach with a particular view to sustainability. This could be done through business partnerships, MOUs with government communications or extension departments, or through a networked approach. Concurrently, we seek to expand into countries where quality interactive radio would have a big impact - such as DRC, Cameroon, Zambia, Sudan. | Key resources needed will be partnerships, buy-in from governments, skilled staff, reliable infrastructure such as internet and electricity. We also plan to expand our use of digital and visual tools, and will need technology and expertise on a large scale. | https://farmradio.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKp8OKHNxrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiZGssi0W7A https://publications.farmradio.org/using-radio-interactive-icts-improve-food-security-among-smallholder-farmers-sub-saharan-africa/ https://publications.farmradio.org/no-program-without-farmers-interactive-radio-forest-landscape-restoration-mount-elgon-region-uganda/ https://ccafs.cgiar.org/publications/delivering-climate-services-farmers-and-pastoralists-through-interactive-radio#.XUL1tOhKhKA | n/a | WSIS Prize 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
322 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Marilyn | Johnson | Brand VO2 | www.brandvo2.com | Chief Operations Officer | Female | United States of America | Canada | English | Everyone needs to engage with and do their part to advance the SDGs - our future depends on it. The SDGs provide an incredible opportunity, through common goals, language, and framework in advancing a sustainable future for all. What is key, is that we collaborate and work together, (vs. working in silos), to truly meet these ambitious goals. As such, we at Brand VO2 are specifically focused on advancing Corporate progress with the SDGs, by helping provide insights as to how connected their brand values and this work is, with stakeholders. Our solution is the creation of the SDG Pulse Report. This is intended to be very easy to use tool for companies and organizations working hard in advancing the SDGs, such that consumers and other stakeholders know and connect with their values and actions. The goal: companies advancing the SDGs are the companies consumers choose because they are aligned with their values, and in the context, understanding and engagement with the SDGs. The SDG Pulse Report provides this information to inform and adapt strategies, easy to use and with minimal to no resources required. My personal mission is to raise awareness and action in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals. Today, after nearly four years of the SDGs being in place, many people still are unaware of them, and further, Companies remain relatively quiet about them. At Brand VO2, we are innovating our technology in an effort to connect Corporate Brand SDG Commitments and Actions, with Stakeholders, to further advance both the awareness and ultimately, the impact and progress towards the SDGs. We are seeking SDG committed, future-forward, innovative partners to work with us in ensuring this tool is useful and impactful in advancing Corporate connection with the public around the SDGs. More Awareness and Connectedness with the SDGs = More Impact and Progress. | Marilyn is an enthusiastic senior leader with over 20 years of global business and sustainability experience. She enjoys the pursuit of big ideas and collaborating for positive impact. As Chief Operations Officer, Marilyn leads all aspects of sustainability operations, helping companies advance the Sustainable Development Goals. With experience working at both large publicly traded companies and in smaller start-up environments, Marilyn’s entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen is driving further innovation and growth for Brand VO2, partners, and clients. Marilyn promotes the SDGs in a number of ways. She spoke on a panel at the Sustainable Brands 2019 conference on the topic of Prioritization and Scaling Action on the UN SDGs. She is also a co-author for the SDG Corporate Guidebook Series, launching in 2020, and enjoys working locally with middle-school children, introducing them to the SDGs. Marilyn launched and led the world-class global sustainability efforts at IHS Markit (Nasdaq:INFO) for 10 years, where the company earned many Sustainability accolades including consecutive years of recognition on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. Marilyn is a regular speaker on Sustainability related topics. She is a certified ISSP-CSP and has been President and an active member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) for many years. Marilyn received her Master’s Degree in Health Science from the University of Toronto; Bachelor’s degree in Biology and a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Health and Education from Queen’s University, Canada. | SDG Pulse Report | Connecting Corporate SDG Commitments with Consumers | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | As a technology tool, can be used anywhere. | No | Proof of Concept | Building off our proprietary and robust back end system (VO2), the SDG Pulse Report is an additional, new and unique capability, modeled and structured specifically using the language and framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. In Alpha stage, with intent to have the Beta ready for launch in early 2020. | The problem: Lack of Awareness and thereby engagement, with the SDGs. Even after 4 years of the SDGs being in place, MANY people still do not recognize or know about them. I believe that this lack of awareness, can be a barrier and/or slow engagement with the great work, opportunity, and impact that the SDGs can have, particularly with the Billions of dollars and additional resources that Companies can and will have. | Our solution is an easy tool for companies and large organizations, to inform strategy such that their SDG investment and efforts are recognized and ideally, engage others to support and join them. We at Brand VO2 do the heavy lifting to gather, analyze and compile in an easy to use format, such that SDG efforts and the awareness by the public, are easy to correlate. The long-term vision for global impact is this: Everyone knows about the SDGs. And, as such Companies SDG efforts become a major foundation for business and engagement!! The vision is that SDGs are fundamental to all business success. Ideally and ultimately, consumers then CHOOSE companies that are genuinely focused on the SDGs, thus further advancing those efforts and a more sustainable future. It flows like this: Companies adopt the SDGs. They prioritize, invest, track progress, make an impact and communicate about their SDG efforts, AND, now, through use of the easy to use too: The SDG Pulse Report - they are able to effectively and easily know where their efforts are resonating and how with Stakeholders, and, where they have work to do on both WHAT they are doing and HOW they are communicating. | While there are many social listening types of tools and capabilities, our differentiator is using our expertise and proprietary IT infrastructure, combined with the laser focus on the SDGs. Additionally, our approach is intended to be done in a collaborative way (vs. simply build and sell), and further, that is easy to use and low cost - thereby increasing the breadth and reach for increased impact. No IT integration. No password needed. Our approach is to design a tool that meets the needs of SDG committed companies, that will further inform strategy without the cost and complexity that is often required to get this type of analysis. | Brand VO2 has built a proprietary and robust back end system (VO2) designed to take thousands of online comments and conversations, and further translate the information into unique and actionable insights that inform strategies to advance brand health. The SDG Pulse Report is an additional and new tool, designed and based off of the VO2 system; however, with additional work in linguistics and modeling to inform specifically regarding language and framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. We also have proprietary tools and capabilities to measure and continue to refine the output, such that the 'noise' that can occur through online conversations and comments is minimized. Our traditional tools filter out 93% of the noise. Currently, the SDG report progress has us at filtering out approximately 70% of the noise, and as we continue development, will continue to get better. We are currently in the Alpha stage of development, with intent to have the Beta ready for launch in late 2019/early 2020. | We currently are set up to capture conversations globally, in English. Longer-term vision is to be able to bring in additional languages as well. The more brands we can incorporate, the bigger our impact will be in advancing both awareness and progress of the SDGs. In addition, as the data set grows with use by many, many companies, this will further enable us to identify which industries are connecting most and having the greatest influence with consumers in advancing the SDGs, along with other tracking and trending metrics of consumer SDG engagement. | To truly scale, requires a modest amount of investment for IT and AI expertise for continued systems development and refinement, linguistics expertise and analysts. And, as we look to expand into other languages, translation tools, and expertise. | https://brandvo2.com/solutions/sdg-pulse-report/ | 2019 Sustainable Brands Conference description (no audio or video available) https://events.sustainablebrands.com/sb19det/conference/speakers/marilyn-johnson 2015 Interview https://vimeo.com/114770533 | Brand VO2 2016: Named a global leader in brand & experience measurement by Forrester Research, Inc. Personal Awards: Corporate Responsibility Superstar Spirit of IHS Award Winner - 1/80 recognized (of 8,000) IHS Leadership Team Award - 1/100 top performers (of 7,000) AIHA Outstanding Individual Contributor AIHA Volunteer Group Service Award IHS Special Recognition Award -1/100 top performers (of 3,500) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
323 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chinedum | Mgbemena | Federal University of Petroleum Resources Nigeria | www.fupre.edu.ng | Senior Lecturer | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I want to share my thoughts and ideas during the UN Solutions Summit on a project that will address six inter-related and interconnected sustainable development goals (SDGs), namely:Goal 1: End Poverty in all Forms; Goal 2: Zero Hunger; Goal 4: Education; Goal 5: Gender equality and women’s empowerment; Goal 9: Infrastructure, Industrialization and Goal 12: Sustainable consumption and production. | Dr. Chinedum Ogonna Mgbemena is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Enhanced Composites and Structures Centre, School of Aerospace, Transport & Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire,United Kingdom between 2016-2017. He was a Research Engineer at National Engineering Design Development Institute, Nnewi, a design development institute of National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI). In 2012, he was a Research Fellow at National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science & Technology, Kerala, India. He completed his studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. He was involved in several institutional projects in the United Kingdom and DST Government of India sponsored project on Natural Rubber Composites. He is the Supervisor of the FUPRE Shell Eco-Marathon Team. He is a member of the editorial board and a reviewer of some reputable SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters indexed Journals. His research areas are Polymer Composites, Modelling, and Simulation of manufacturing processes, Terra mechanics, Reverse Engineering of Automobile parts, Computational Mechanics and Failure Analysis. | End of Life Recycling of Aluminium for the development of automotive components | End of Life Recycling of Aluminum | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Nigeria | Yes | 6 | Transition to Scale | I have already done pilot studies on the project. I have produced prototypes of the end product. | Global warming and the need for cleaner, sustainable communities and cities necessitates a further look into aluminium waste disposal, recycling and re-use in Nigeria. This study intends to develop automotive components from End-of-Life recycled automotive aluminium; this will have a multiplier effect in addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the area of job creation, zero hunger, Sustainable consumption and production, infrastructure and industrialisation. | The long- term vision for global impact is Job creation. Infrastructural development and industrialization in Nigeria. Finally, the need to recreate sustainable cleaner cities and communities. | The inclusion of emerging technologies such as 3D printing, laser-based manufacturing and Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) in the production of the final products. | 1. The objectives of the project are tied to the project milestone and are measurable and time-bound. 2. The day-to-day activities of the project will be well documented. 3. There is daily feedback to the lead partner on the activities 4. The partners have scheduled meetings fortnightly to evaluate the project outcomes and suggest ways to improve on the project. 5. The partners are updated weekly on the development on the project. | Our target is to cover the entire Sub Saharan Africa and create jobs while addressing our identified SDGs | Access to equipment. I need to have a functional induction furnace, Scanning Electron Microscope with EDS facility, X-ray fluorescence equipment, and Optical Microscopy | https://www.fupre.edu.ng/staff/?page=staff_details&name=Mgbemena201703161489674123 | none available at the moment | none | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
324 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Apollo Victor | Bawagan | Industrial Technology Development Institute | www.dost.gov.ph | Supervising Science Research Specialist | Male | Philippines | Philippines | English | As a researcher in my country, I was initially motivated to developed new technologies for providing solutions to pressing needs, especially in the rural areas. We have initially developed biomass gasifiers on a small scale to medium scale for a lot of applications , such as drying, kiln firing, and even food processing. But now, my activities towards biomass utilization is on charcoal briquetting on a village or barangay level which have greatly contributed in the development of many rural communities around the country. I have dedicated my work in improving this technology, even if others would no longer pursue since it is an old technology but I believe, this is an excellent solution in providing alternative sources of energy and as alternative soil conditioner, in the form of biochar"" for countryside development. | I am a Supervising Science Research Specialist and currently Officer-in-Charge of the Chemicals and Energy Division of the DOST-ITDI in the Philippines. Have worked for 29 years in the Institute and have developed over 20 different types of technologies such as biomass gasifiers, modified carbonizers, pyrolysis equipment and even customized burners of sludge and solid wastes. I am currently also, the ITDI Head for Energy Audit in the DOST Program on Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EE&C) for the country and presently conducting capacity building for the regional energy audit teams of DOST for its technical services on energy audit for MSME's throughout the country. | Modified Biomass Carbonizer for Charcoal Briquetting and Biochar Production | Improved carbonization of biomass for sustainable production of charcoal briquettes and biochar. | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Philippines | Yes | Licensed fabricators (Nav's Inc. and L.Angeles Machineries Corp.) | Transition to Scale | The modified biomass carbonizer is currently small scale with a capacity of 8-10 kgs/hour and have also tried to developed a larger scale of 50 kgs/hour but still in its development stage. | There has been several biomass carbonizers developed in the past, but none has addressed the specific requirements in terms of efficiency, reliability and suitability to specific biomass materials. | Our solution is providing a higher biochar recovery with faster carbonization rate and easy to operate carbonization equipment. Additional source of bio-pesticide and/or wood preservative could also be collected from the tar residues of the gas condenser attached to the carbonizer. In its development for commercial scale, we could attain a higher conversion rate for larger applications in charcoal briquettes and biochar production. | Somehow, the solution is unique for its efficiency, compactness and easy operation in the carbonization process for biomass, thus providing a more sustainable approach in charcoal briquettes and biochar production. | We have already conducted several trainings in the different regions throughout the country and continues to do so by participating in scientific seminars and exhibits. We measure our progress and rigor through the DOST customer satisfaction survey forms and via the DOST Regional Offices providing the technology transfer of our technologies. | Our planned goals are to provide as many trainings as we can in other regions throughout the country and hopefully established more charcoal briquetting facilities in coordination with the DOST Regional Offices, as well as biochar facilities in coordination with the Department of Agriculture. | In scaling up, we would need to hire more staff and developed new designs for higher productivity with better automation in the process. | http://www.dost.gov.ph | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzlcQW5DqVQ | 1. Gregorio Y. Zara Medal (Outstanding Technology Commercialization Award for the ITDI RHGC), 1998 National Science and Technology Week 2. Outstanding Creative Research (Likha Award 2nd Prize for the Micro-emulsified Hybrid Fuel), 2010 National Invention Contest 3. Finalist for the Micro-emulsified Hybrid Fuel, Tech Plan Demo Day in the Philippines, Leave a Nest Asia, May 27, 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
325 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Claris | Nadini | Badili Zone Organization | badilizone.org | Founder and Chairperson | Female | Kenya | Kenya | English | I believe that the solutions to the problems the world is facing right now are going to come from the youth who are not only the largest generation in history but can be and already are a powerful and stable force for positive change. As part of the millennials, I believe that I have a responsibility to make the world a better place, and that is the fundamental of why I do what I do to at least ensure that SDG 4 is achieved. I am applying to be part of the UN solution family of change-makers because as a global citizen, global collaboration matters to me. Global collaboration encourages diversity, a valuable tool that can be used to solve global challenges. The world can currently be termed as a global village due to the technological advancements we have experienced this century more than ever before, which enables quick and efficient passage of information. Therefore, once we work together and explore the world as a global village through global citizenship, we will then be able to share ideas with each other, know what is working, where it is working, why it is working, why it is not working in another setting and how we can initiate not only feasible but also sustainable solutions. I am the founder and chair of Badili Zone Organization that provides sustainable solutions that will ensure that every single student from the slums will have easy access to adequate learning materials, guidance and mentorship that will enable them to be educated goal-driven young leaders while accessing financial support to further their education. All this will be geared towards achieving a high-quality education. To sustain our project, we started another chicken raring project in one of the schools called Maendeleo Primary has been really struggling with sustaining itself as a school. At least it is in the worst position compared to the rest, and that's why it became our pilot project. We spoke to the headteacher, and she agreed we start a chicken raring project. We got them a small-sized chicken then they are keeping them till they grow then we will sell. As a business, this is going to raise at least double the money invested. And we agreed so that we can also keep our project sustainable; we will be getting 30 percent of the profit, then the school will get 70 percent. That will happen to any business we start in a school to sustain it. That pan will allow both the Badili Zone organization and the schools involved to be sustainable. | Claris Nadini, a MasterCard Scholar, is an energetic, self-motivated, young leader who is in Second Year Student at Ashesi University, Ghana, studying Mechanical Engineering. At Ashesi University, she is part of the Entertainment Committee under student leadership. Claris currently serves as the founder of Badili Zone Organization based in Mukuru Kwa Reuben, Nairobi, Kenya, that is aiming at ensuring every student has access to quality education to students who have access to adequate learning materials, guidance, and mentorship that will enable them to be educated goal-driven young leaders while accessing financial support to further their education. She did her A-levels in Mathematics, Physics and Further Maths at African Science Academy(ASA), Ghana, which is a new, girls-only Advanced Level school for maths and science. While she was at African Science Academy(ASA), Claris was an Entertainment and Events prefect. She is passionate about politics and believes that there is a future for the African Governance and world leadership in general, hence her motivation to join Kenyan politics later in her life. She loves dancing, watching comedy, reading, socializing, and coding. | Badili Zone Organisation | Creating an informed community to build a transformed community. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Kenya | Yes | Reading Spots, Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, and HOPE Worldwide Kenya | Transition to Scale | We are now preparing to scale, everything we do is volunteer-based. No one gets paid apart from the person who sits at the library to make sure it's used responsibly. Therefore, we are looking at how Badili Zone can create more job opportunities. Apart from that, we want to be able to have more impact on other schools through the mentorship, add other electronics such as computers for research and start other businesses In other schools to sustain them. | My community, Mukuru Kwa Reuben, based in Nairobi, Kenya, has more than 18 schools but only two have libraries that of course, the rest of the schools do not get to access. That leaves us with the main question, what happens to the rest of the schools? This is a big challenge because a lot of students from my community do not have access to adequate learning materials, guidance, and mentorship that will enable them to be educated, goal-driven young leaders. | We provide sustainable solutions that will ensure that students from the slums will have access to adequate and quality learning materials, guidance and mentorship that will enable them to be educated goal-driven young leaders while accessing financial support to further their education. We want to achieve quality education in slums, which is one of the side-lined S.D.Gs as a marginalized area. We have 5 significant pillars; a)Reading Spots We have a reading spot for a safe, peaceful and comfortable learning environment, where the students will access required learning materials b) Financial Support We will be financially supporting needy but bright students throughout their high school life under a unique program that seeks to partner with different stakeholders such as Jomo Kenyatta Foundation (J.K.F). We will be financing business ideas that have the potential of growth, which we get 30% as the schools keeps 70% of the profit to sustain both Badili Zone and the School involved. c) Mentorship We work closely with volunteers from various Universities who volunteer during mentorship sessions, which we currently do three times a month in different schools. d) Guiding and Counselling Some of our beneficiaries have gone through traumatic situations. Therefore, we ensure mental health and peace of mind for efficiency in their general performance. e) Sanitary Towels Our Reading spots will be distribution spots for the sanitary towels for the girls from our target area. | Our solution is unique in terms of people running the organization, the structure, the partners involved, and our sustainability plan. Our committee of nine is 100% youth, and the teenagers turn out to be the most volunteers. The idea of having a community library that can be used by every student/teacher is unique because it is not only able to reach a larger population of students, but also ensures that no one is marginalized with a basis of their background when it comes to accessibility of high-quality education. We have created both local and international partnerships who we work hand in hand with to make sure the goal is achieved. In a span of one year, we have been able to partner with organizations such as Reading Spots Ghana, HOPE Worldwide Kenya, Muungano wa Wanakijiji, Isuzu East Africa, Crown Paints, and Akili Dada. We have a unique sustainability plan that not only benefits us but also ensures that schools in slums can sustain themselves without entirely depending on aid. We work with schools that struggle with providing for their day to day activities. We partner with such schools, and support their business idea as a plan of self-sustaining themselves, if the business is good enough, we give the school capital to start, then from the profits, we only take 30% as the schools keep 70% of the profit so as to sustain both Badili Zone Organization and the School involved. We follow up the businesses and give mentorship to ensure proper running of the company. | Under our five pillars, we have been able to achieve the following; In partnership with HOPE Worldwide Kenya, we will be officially launching our first equipped community library on 10th August 2019 for community use by students and teachers. We secured a scholarship for one of our beneficiaries with Kenya Commercial Bank Scholarship and currently studies at Makueni Girls. We kick-started a chicken raring project with one of the schools called Maendeleo Primary and Secondary School to enable them to sustain themselves. We do mentorship three times a month in different schools within our target area. However, financial constraints limited us from distributing sanitary towels. On impact measurement, for the library, we will have a logbook that will contain statistics on the users’ names, contact, age, time spent, and school attended, as well as check the performance of our beneficiaries, both students and schools. For school-led business’ projects, we will compare capital and profit as well as the amount of improvement the school will have made. For the mentorship, we will look at student social performance through decisions make and their interaction with society. Guidance and counseling and provision of sanitary towels are supplements of maximum participation of students in schools, to be measured by analyzing student attendance records kept by schools. Our methods are vigorous, and therefore, we will make correctly informed analysis on how much impact we are making. | We envision a world in which students from the slums will have access to adequate learning materials, guidance, and mentorship to develop into well-equipped goal-driven young leaders while having financial support to cater for their education. That is our main target as we continue doing what we do. Our mission is what we call ""Beyond Zero,"" because zero number of students will not be able to access high-quality education, and we are aiming to eradicate even the idea of being comfortable with not obtaining high-quality education while living in the slum which is one of the marginalized areas. We want S.D.G 4, Quality Education, as stated by the U.N to be a reality to every student. The organization is currently entirely run by volunteers. We later employ people, with the organization having structured departments that work on the different pillars of the organization. For instance, we will hire a librarian on the ground project analyst and project coordinator in charge of the various components. We will be spreading our services to other slums within and outside Kenya. We will start in Kenya then move to countries such as Ghana, Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania, where we currently have representatives researching the slums in their countries. We are still getting more country representatives all over Africa to do research about the different slums in their country so that when we are moving to other countries, we have enough data to make decisions. | Short-Term Resources 1. Paint to re-paint the library building. 2.Money to buy tiles and pay for the re-innovation of the library floor, raising it to prevent water entry when it rains. 3.Money to pay for the finishing of the library walls. 4.Money to put a ceiling on the roof. 5.Money to facilitate electricity wiring and supplies for library lighting when it’s dark. Medium-Term Resources 1.1 Laptop/Computer and WIFI for student/teacher research and data storage. 2.Money to put a clear glass on one of the sides of the library to control dust and water entry when it rains. 3.Capital to initiate businesses in schools that need a self-sustainability plan. 4.Money to employ a librarian. 5. Small tents to be placed outside the library for educational discussions by students groups or by teachers for a class session in the library with his/her students. Long-Term Resources 1.10 Laptops/Computers for student/teacher research and data storage. 2.Money to cater to some of our volunteers’ expenses, e.g., transport, when they come for sessions such as mentorships. 3. Capital to employ people with the organization having departments that work on the different pillars of the organization. 4.Money to build other libraries in other slums in and outside Kenya to ensure everyone accesses quality education all over Africa. 5.Solar panels to power electricity in libraries to cut electricity costs. Have a full constant pads distribution to our girls’ beneficiaries. | https://www.facebook.com/badilizoneorg/?ref=settings https://twitter.com/BadiliZone https://www.instagram.com/badilizone/?hl=en http://badilizone.org/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTSH2UlwUR8 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DXVnAq1as-BYqsy3HNSuTW1uYLWtyQwp/view?usp=sharing | We have not yet won any awards since we were still actualizing the project, we had all our concentration to make it happen then join other competitions. However, due to the potential of our project idea, we were able to win more partnerships in one year. We work with HOPE Worldwide Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, Reading Spots Ghana, Muungano wa Wanakijiji, Isuzu East Africa, Crown Paints, and Akili Dada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
326 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nina | Fitzgerald | Imbue You Entertainment | www.joeystheory.com | CEO/FOUNDER | Female | Australia | Australia | English | Needed is a human paradigm behavioural shift. Joey’s Theory light speeds, defines and promotes choosing behaviour and love as our greatest strength | Bachelor of Soc Sc Animal training experience Environmental officer Business founder and owner | Joey’s Theory | “The more love you give the stronger you are.” | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | All | No | Transition to Scale | It is proven and now attaining critical mass | None | Desensitises fear, promotes love. New social norms expected. Empowerment of the human species | Braver and bigger | Increased love demonstrated and evidence of new social norms where love is default behaviour | Guided by universe and validation received | Online global UN PR | www.joeystheory.com | www.joeystheory.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
327 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Miracle | Peter | Royalty Academic World | Royaltyacademicworld.com | Founder | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The education sector is my country is suffering much decadence. And I hope to bring a stop to this through this project of mobile education. | I'm Miracle Peters, a native of Ebonyi State, resident in Abia. A lady who sees every opportunity as a means to enhance. I'm passionate about God. I'm passionate about education. | Royalty Academic World | Royalty Academic World is an academic Institute aimed at giving education at all cost. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa | Yes | Impact 360 Nigeria | Scaling | Financial limitations | Educational decadence | It's a life time solution to educational problems | We're doing away with the SCHOOL SPIRIT and we're embracing EDUCATION. | not much ma'am | Ghana South Africa Benin Republic | Finance | Facebook.com/royaltyacademicworld | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
328 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Luc | Zio | Ouaganet | http://www.ouaganet.org | Director OUAGANET | Male | United States of America | Burkina Faso | English | French | I am highly motivated to share my vision of solving hunger and malnutrition as well as empowering women in Burkina Faso at the UN Solutions Summit. My many years of experience tackling extreme poverty in rural communities of Burkina Faso are showing that it is definitely possible to empower women in impoverished villages and eradicate hunger and malnutrition. So, I want to share what approaches I used and how we were able to run programs with the complete support of the communities and that empowered women in the communities. About five years ago, we implemented the goat's program to empower women in the rural community of Napone in Burkina Faso which has been successful and has impacted thousands of women and their families. We used local solutions to tackle hunger and malnutrition to ensure that are supported by the communities, successful and sustainable. Prior to my innovation, women in the rural communities of Napone and surrounding villages did not have their own goats or sheep. Everything was owned by the men who are the head of families. Without their own means of subsistence, it was extremely difficult for many women living in polygamous relationships to be self-sufficient, financially independent and have a sense of belonging in the communities. My innovation consisted of first bringing the communities, especially the men on board of the new philosophy, whose goal is to empower women with goats to raise and be able to make decisions about their livestock. A great effort was put forth to educate the men to accept that we donate goats to their wives and that they will own them and decide when to sell some in order to secure funds that will help them start small business activities, take care of themselves and contribute to the family needs. It was a significant breakthrough especially in these rural communities with an illiteracy rate over 95%. Women are given a goat to raise with the first offspring being given to another woman in the waiting list. Subsequent offsprings are owned by the first women recipients. Each receiving woman becomes also a donor and thus has the sense of making a difference in the lives of other women in the communities. Today, over one thousand women received goats and the multiplicative effect of the goats' offspring increased the overall well-being of women in those communities. | Luc Zio was born in Burkina Faso and went to school in a rural impoverished community lacking everything from clean water to a basic healthcare unit. It's growing up in this community with great challenges that he was early on inspired to get involved in the fight against extreme poverty and especially work to empower women and help to better their living conditions. At age 17, along with a group of students from Burkina Faso and France, they built a maternity clinic in the rural community of Pouni to allow women to have babies in a sanitary condition, thus cutting down the infant mortality rate in the community. After moving to the US for educational purposes, he founded OUAGANET and NGO with the mission of empowering women in the rural areas of Burkina Faso, assisting the communities with clean water needs, education, health and protecting the environment. Luc Zio is a Data Scientist with several years of experience teaching statistics at the college level as well as working in Industry. He published an E-book entitled ""Wood Never Becomes a Crocodile; Baby Chick Never Consults the Sparrow-Hawk: Proverbs & Tales from Burkina Faso by Luc Zio"". Luc Zio is also actively involved in analyzing UN nations datasets about Africa to understand various trends in areas such as health, education, infant mortality, etc. He publishes the results of his analyses in a blog that is read by many people interested in topics related to Africa. | Goats program to empower the women living in extreme poverty in Burkina Faso | If you help women you are helping a village | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Burkina Faso | No | Transition to Scale | Currently, our goats' program is made possible by benevolent donors, such as colleagues, and friends. We don’t have any other partners, large donors or grants that will allow us to transition to the scaling stage where we can create a goat farm and raise the goats ourselves. The next stage will involve creating a permaculture farm powered with a solar solution, equipped with a deepwater well an adopting a social enterprise model to allow the farm to be sustainable. | We are addressing hunger and malnutrition by empowering women with goats to raise for their milk, cheese, and their offspring. In men dominated rural communities of Burkina Faso, women do not own much and as such are vulnerable. Many young women don’t get to attend secondary education due to lack of funds. Young teenagers girls are very vulnerable and often victims of sugar-daddies who exploit them. Our solution restores self-worth and economic independence for women in the communities. | My solution consists of donating pygmy goats to women to raise as a way of fighting hunger and malnutrition and to empower them so that they will achieve some form of economic independence and be able to achieve a sense of self-worth. First, we get the elders of the community and the various religious leaders to understand the program. We explain to the men who are often the head of families that if the program succeeds, it’s their own wives and their families who benefit. A good amount of work is put worth to get men on board and also to explain to women that it is important they take care of their goats by engaging their kids who naturally like animals. They are taught that they should only sell some of the offspring when they are financially in need and not to sell the whole flock. My short and long term vision is to create a permaculture farm to raise goats, poultry, plant vegetables, and trees. This will allow us to provide goats to other communities at a nominal cost and also to use the farm as a training facility where people can learn good practices for caring for goats, milking them and being good breeders. | Right now, there are very few initiatives supporting women with goats to raise that are operating with the objective of empowering women in a given community. They usually select a few women in a given locality and donate some animals to raise and then proceed to others impoverished localities. They are more trying to extinguish a few fires without knowing what’s the cause of the fires and how to deal with their recurrences. Extreme poverty in Burkina Faso has some deep sociological causes and the solutions to tackle it sometimes different from area to area and from the diverse ethnic groups. My solution is unique in a way that we have done the groundwork to bring the men on board, explained the project objectives to the women and got the community to support it. In addition, one important element is that we collect the first offspring of each donated goat that will be donated to another woman waiting to receive a goat. The project is sustainable although the multiplicative effect can be increased if we are able to establish a permaculture farm to raise good breed of goats that will be donated or sold at a nominal cost to help defray the production costs. | We have spent many years perfecting our solution. This includes addressing issues when a few women did not want to give the first offspring to another woman waiting to receive a goat, from situations where for unfortunate reasons, a goat was stolen, died unexpectedly due to an illness or a snake bite. We have formed a committee of women and village elders to intervene when there are small issues that need to be resolved about the goat operations. The local administration is also appraised about our operations. When there is a large operation to give women goats to raise, we invite the committee of women, village elders, and the local administration. This gives importance to each group who then see that it’s important that they help ensure the continued success of our goat program to empower women. We measure our progress by the number of women beneficiaries since the program started, the overall size of the goats' population in the village as a result of our program, the empowerment of women as a result of them being able to make business decisions by selling part of their goats and being financially independent. Many widows in the community have received goats as well as other women who were able to use the proceeds from the goats to launch other business activities or pay for their kids' tuition. | My planned goal is to create a permaculture farm powered by solar technology. The permaculture farm will be a complete agriculture system where the waste of the goats can be used as organic fertilizer for our gardens of fresh vegetables and also the moringa oleifera plants. The leftovers of the harvests and vegetables will be used to feed the goats. By having our own farm, we will be able to select good breed and produce goats at very reduced prices compared to the national market. This is, in turn, will allow offering goats as a social enterprise at highly competitive prices to other communities in Burkina Faso who want to start similar programs of empowering women. We also want to implement a practical training school in our future permaculture farm to train community members on how to take good care of goats. The farm is projected to recruit full time about twenty local villagers and provide them with health benefits and a stable income and will be utilizing the services of local veterinarians. We are planning to recruit several specialists in the area of farming and breeding. They will work to increase our farm business as well as teach practical training lessons on the farm. Locally, we estimate that we can impact approximately 5000 women in thirty-two villages. Nationally and regionally, we will be able to provide training to hundreds of NGO who are looking to adopt similar programs in their communities, in addition to selling the goats to them. | In order to scale our operations, we need in the short term financial resources which will enable us to build the goats shelter, fence the different areas of the farm, install a solar powered system that will be used for lighting as well as powering eggs incubators. In the short term, we also need financial support to create deep water well powered by solar technology as well as installing a drip by a drip irrigation system. In the short term, we will need support to buy good goats breeds. In the medium-term, financial support is needed to expand our shelters as our breeding operation it’s increasing in size and that we are expanding at the national and regional level. For this phase, support is also needed to introduce a poultry operation to strengthen and diversify our operation. We anticipate being self-sufficient in the long term and the only resource we will need advice from experts and support in the form of continuous training. | Donation of goats during International Women Day in the community of Napone, Burkina Faso, (W. Africa) by OUAGANET https://flic.kr/s/aHskTdJwyW SABLE fundraiser to empower women with goats in Burkina Faso https://flic.kr/s/aHskRUyD3X Empowering women with goats in Burkina Faso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAXfqAtrBVc Luc in the community of Napone where the goats are donated to women https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_aK5E1JdfA Empowering women with goats in Burkina Faso http://www.ouaganet.org/gallery/ OUAGANET.ORG site: http://www.ouaganet.org E-book: Wood never becomes crocodile: Tales and proverbs from Burkina Faso https://www.amazon.com/Never-Becomes-Crocodile-Consults-Sparrow-Hawk-ebook/dp/B008E95O78/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=luc+zio+burkina&qid=1564717718&s=gateway&sr=8-1 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_aK5E1JdfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAeYr72v2Yc | Nielsen Cares, Nielsen 2011: I was recognized by Nielsen Cares the global corporate social responsibility program of Nielsen for the work done in Burkina Faso, namely, The goats' program to Empower the women in Burkina Faso. This distinction for the Global citizenship award of the year was the top distinction awarded by the company to an employee engaged in charity work. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
329 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Boone | Bergsma | WeThinkItMatters Inc. S.P.C. | https://wethinkitmattersinc.com/ | Marketing Technologist | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Since I live in poverty, and that poverty was caused by needing life-saving medicine that cost over $250,000 a year for a rare genetic disease I was born with. Since my single-parent mother who was a dairy farmer didn't have health insurance, and after I was diagnosed couldn't get any she was forced to lose everything and move to WA to be poor, where if you had a life-threatening disease and lived in poverty the State would pay for your medicine. So at the age of 7, one year before doctors said I would probably die would moved from a huge beautiful farm in Oregon to live in poverty in Washington so I could get medicine. Growing up in poverty you had to stay in to qualify for life-saving medicine is a broken system, my mom having to lose her livelihood to get help and become a dependant of the State to save her child is wrong. One of my motivations for applying for this is that I am hoping someday to be able to lift my 68 year old mom out of the poverty my disease and healthcare caused her. My other motivations come from growing up in poverty and understanding the damaging effects it has on someone mentally and I would like to help lift others out of poverty through economic development through entrepreneurship. One of the reasons I started WeThinkItMatters Inc. Social Purpose Corporation was to use advertising as a force for good. | https://wtim.co/boone/ | WeThinkItMatters® | Advertise where it will do the most good, (or Advertise where it will have the greates impact) which do you prefer :) | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | I select all the goals because the way our PaaS works in bringing awareness and funding to nonprofits serving all the goals, and we directly benefit many goals the way we oporate, Globally :) | No | Research & Development | I have run a beta campaign over a year ago http://www.wethinkitmatters.com/bridgeworksnwbeta.html and learned what was missing and have been working on V2.0 and doing customer development and validating our value proposition here http://www.wethinkitmatters.com/does-it-matter-to-you-to-know-what-businesses-are-doing-to-support-non-profits.html | The problem is the only ones ""really"" working to make things better are nonprofits, but they lack funding and can't compete in the marketplace where companies are spending over $500 billion a year to get your attention and dollars. And businesses problems is they need to spend on marketing to stay competitive but also are under increasing public eye for the way they are doing business these days. | We leverage money that is going to be spent on advertising and turn it into a digital marketing campaign that brings attention and funding to nonproits, and positive press for the business sponsor. Longterm vision is WeThinkItMatters® will be raising billions for charities within the next 3 years :) and grows from there. | Cause-related marketing has been around since the term was coined for American Express's campaign for the Statue of Liberty, but in all cause-related marketing all the money the business spends to highlight the cause always goes to the AD agency and then the campaign asks people to give in support. The cause-related marketing campaigns helps in that the nonprofit could have not afforded the promotion, but still, all the fundraising is up to consumers, who are already giving17X more than business each year. Our digital marketing campaigns are cause-integrated, in that 60% of what the business spends on the campaign will go to charities. And people don't have to give money to raise funding for nonprofits in our campaigns they only have to vote for a nonprofit involved in the campaign for the nonprofit to get funding | 8 year of blood, sweat, and tears, and a few months away from releasing a V2.0 platform with exciting new features. | Launch V2.0 before the end of the year, go to millions of users overnight trough Techsoup alliance, Sell millions in advertising this year still hopefully :) raise big time awareness and funding for some great causes. | I am working side jobs to pay for the startup cost of this project, so I go spend time doing whatever work I can to make money to work on and invest in www.WTIM.co, so investment or paying customers is what would help me focus on working on WeThinkItMatters®. And it would allow me to hire a team :) | Advertising Agency with our own Cause-Integrate Media Platforms: https://wethinkitmattersinc.com/ https://wethinkitmattersinc.com/the-demand-for-corporate-social-responsibility-csr-in-todays-economy/ Cause-Integrated Marketing campaigns will take place here :) coming soon V2.0: http://www.wethinkitmatters.com Where our members will have their personal profiles, and can earn rewards for sharing and inviting other to join WeThinkItMatters®: https://wtim.co/ https://wtim.co/boone/ More Info: http://causeintegratedmarketing.com/a-billion-dollar-fundraising-idea/ | https://youtu.be/0G1-V5WTc38?t=1817 | Won a prize at Smart Tank, the video link | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
330 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Helena | Puig Larrauri | Build Up | https://howtobuildup.org/ | Director | Female | Spain | Spain | English | French | Spanish | In 2014, I co-founded Build Up, a non-profit committed to identifying emerging challenges to peace and implementing cutting edge solutions that utilise digital technology to scale the reach and impact of peacebuilding programs. Over the past 5 years, through my work at Build Up and thought-leadership on peacetech, I have used innovation for positive impact on peacebuilding programs in the field, across a multitude of contexts. The solution I propose brings together lessons learned and best practices from this experience. Prior to founding Build Up, I worked for UNDP for a number of years on peacebuilding programs, and have a immense respect for the work the UN does on SDG 16. I am interested in presenting the proposed solution to the UN Solutions Summit as a way to re-connect with the innovation ecosystem at the United Nation, and potentially finding ways to collaborate as we scale. | Helena is a governance and development professional with over a decade of experience advising and supporting UN agencies, multi-lateral organisations and NGOs working in conflict contexts and polarized environments. She specializes in the integration of digital technology and innovation processes to civic initiatives. She co-founded and currently directs Build Up, a non-profit that works with civic activists and authorities to identify and apply innovative practices that can prevent conflict and tackle polarization. She is also an Ashoka Fellow. Helena has been invited to speak about civic technology and innovation in venues including SXSW Interactive, Geneva Peace Talks, Geneva Peace Platform, The Hague Institute of Global Justice, IPI Vienna Seminar, Northwestern University, MIT's Centre for Civic Media and the United States Institute of Peace. She previously served on the Boards of International Alert, ImpactHub Barcelona and the Stand-by Task Force, and currently serves on the Boards of Public Sentiment and Elva Community Engagement. | Build Peace Fellows | The Build Peace Fellows program integrates digital solutions to local peacebuilding processes, scaling their reach and impact. | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Current: Myanmar, Yemen, Syria; Past: Colombia, Burundi, Bosnia, Pakistan; Future: Philippines | Yes | PeaceNexus, British Council, International Alert | Transition to Scale | The program started in 2016, working with 3 fellows in 3 local peacebuilding process in Burundi, Colombia and Myanmar. In 2017, we refined our methodology with a further 3 fellows working in Pakistan, Bosnia and Myanmar, and our first country-wide program in Syria. In 2018, we ran a country-wide program in Myanmar. In 2019, we are running country wide programs in Syria and Yemen, and considering how to support country programs to further scale their impact. | The Build Peace Fellows program builds local innovative potential for individuals and organisations embedded in peacebuilding processes. Over one year, the program helps a team take an innovative peacebuilding intervention that uses digital technology to from idea to implementation. We believe the program is particularly important at a time when there is still a mismatch between the push for innovative peacebuilding and local capacities for that innovation to take place in the field. | Over one year, we help Fellows take an innovative peacebuilding intervention from idea to pilot implementation. Fellows also emerge with a strong understanding of best practices in participation and innovation for peace that will allow them to design and manage programs that introduce innovation processes to their peacebuilding work. Each fellowship project comes up with a unique, context-specific solution to a common problem: how to get more and different people engaged in peace processes. In other words, we offer multiple innovative solutions to a common problem that many peacebuilders recognise as a core challenge in their work. Over the years, we have worked with fellows to develop an interactive data platform to support dialogue between youth and authorities in Burundi, build a GIS-based water dispute management system for the most arid areas of Pakistan, or create a Facebook chatbot to discuss non-violence with Syrian youth. Our long term vision for global impact is to create a network of peacebuilders empowered to extend the reach of their initiatives through digital technology. We believe this network will be in a position to connect with and influence high-level policy and mediation processes. Already, some of our fellows are beginning to exert this kind of bottom-up influence to build peace. | Three things about our approach are unique. First, we have developed and field tested an approach to human-centered design of technologies that is specifically tailored to peacebuilding challenges. Our methodology combines conflict context assessments, stakeholder analysis and conflict sensitivity with strategic communications, ideation and prototype development. Second, we have collected over the years a plethora of examples of peacetech projects that can help guide fellows and connect them with others facing similar challenges and applying similar solutions. Third, we take a unique approach to accompaniment. Once selected, each Fellow is assigned a Build Up staff who acts as their lead mentor. Through monthly calls, regular email communication and visits to their project location, the mentors provide project management support, technical advice and hands-on problem solving. This approach ensures that the training, grant funding and networking opportunities we also provide are deeply embedded in the ongoing work of the organisation. | We have so far accompanied 13 fellowship projects to completion. Each fellowship project has its own M&E framework that measures the impact of innovation on the individuals involved in developing it, the direct community of beneficiaries interacting with the innovation and the wider context in which the innovation is deployed. We also run regular evaluations of the program approach to fellowship, allowing us to adapt and improve our support with feedback from fellows. | New countries: Philippines, Lebanon, Sudan Staff: two facilitators / project managers for each new country | In the short-term: funding for two additional fellowship programs in 2020 In the medium-term: funding for four additional fellowship programs in 2021 In the long-term: a multi-year grant to allow us to work with the network of fellows over several years and scale through the involvement of past fellows in delivering new fellowship programs | Organisation website: https://howtobuildup.org/ Project page: https://howtobuildup.org/fellowship/ Process videos: https://youtu.be/R5OFiiI6eqc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t4COIH7das&t=17s Report on innovation in Syria (background for fellows program): https://howtobuildup.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/INNOVATIVE-PEACEBUILDING-IN-SYRIA-II.pdf | https://www.peacetalks.net/pt-videos/helena-puig-larrauri-technology-as-a-tool-for-peace/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrZNPlFfLj0 | In 2018, I was recognised as an Ashoka Fellow In 2015, Rodrigo Davies and I won the award for our essay ""Building on Open Data and Information Technologies: The Future of Resources, Narratives and Collective Intelligence for Development."" In 2014, the Build Up team was named as one of the top 100 innovators using technology to drive social change around the world. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
331 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Edwin | Anyolo | CTLKenya/Ripple Tech and Innovation Academy(R.T.I.A) | www.ctlkenya.org | Founder. | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | French | Being a young leader and Youths based in Kenya, Ripple tech and Innovation Academy works towards creating the conditions for youths to practice, practical innovation mindset and skills that will set them, their company, organization, private sectors and societies in a revived directions and their new edge which will inspire other to join in creating change. I would also like to participate and get an opportunity to boost my entrepreneurial know-how and exposure of the UN and have an opportunity to come back home and change Kenya and all of Africa, and get an opportunity to learn, share and connect with great innovators and leaders.I would like to present my Project and Service offered by R.T.I.A. | Edwin Anyolo has three years of experience in non-profit organization, and he has a Degree in Community Development from St: Paul’s University Kenya. Edwin has participated in various development Programs including, Women tech-makers hosted by Google’s (https: www.womentechmakers.com 2018.Participated in Common Purpose Training in Nairobi and to Sri-lanka 2017, www.commonpurpose.org.He attended Baku World Forum of Young scientist in Baku Azerbaijan to talk about safe water and joint approaches of young scientists globally. He has attended Fred Forum in Barcelona Spain Sep 2016, and selected as the best young leader doing great work to transform communities, Previously Edwin worked with world concern international as a data entry officer, where he was in charge of entering data in computer data base from Somalia, South Sudan, and Daadab refugee camps respectively. Edwin focuses on working with small youths and underprivileged individuals in the communities to find sustainable solutions. A YALI Alumni,in Kenya,After Participating in World Youth Forum in Egypt 2019, as a delegate in Model Arab African Summit (MAAS), Currently Mr. Edwin Anyolo is the founder of Community Transformation Link Kenya and Ripple Tech and Innovation Academy, that works on Design/Moonshot Thinking that helps to solve global challenges we face in Africa and also in Communities of Kenya, to meet sustainable development goal number 4,Quality Education,8,Decent work and Economic Growth, and 9,Industry Innovation. | RIPPLE TECH AND INNOVATION ACADEMY.(R.T.I.A) | DESIGNING FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Kenya,Tanzania,Uganda. | Yes | University of Nairobi,Kenyatta University,Sigalagala technical college. | Scaling | Ripple Tech and Innovation Academy,is at the stage of innovation as we help to design innovative solutions that transforms and give youths ideas to create and provide sustainable solutions in their societies,organizations,and communities.The world is full of challenges and problems, and it needs to up skill and systems aren’t going to change until we do. R.T.I.A, presents a program that bring change in Africa and across the world.. | In Kenya the rate of Unemployment is very high and the most affected are young people from Universities and Colleges. Ripple tech and Innovation Academy is mandated to reduce the rate by training more than 30 million youths by 2030, to meet and support the Africa Union and UN,goal of Job creation.In Kenya majority of youths are conned in their little saving in exchange of jobs. These video shows all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZxOg1oEvJc Design is all that we need to solve these program. | Our solutions is to provide the foundation of Design where RTIA designers pull from old wisdom and the latest research that creates immersive and flipped learning, the learning of theory through practice which creates fast-paced understanding while solving real challenges and contributing to society while we are at it.The participants undergo Design/Moonshot Thinking which is a creative digital approach towards Problem solving. After the process the participants are able to come up with Innovative solutions for the identified challenges in Communities, businesses and personal lives.Our plan is to scale globally in East Africa by training more than 5 million youths by 2021 and creating solutions for challenges in our communities and provide employment for themselves and others. | Considering the program descriptions for the range of programs that focuses on youths, we are very delighted to say that our workshop would is relevant and very significant to all the programs but with very different and unique approach for each that will carry after program. Participants are the ones who identify challenges and come up with solutions themselves. | Its almost six(6)Months since we started our program on Design.We have trained more than 1500 youths in 3 Counties of Nairobi,Bungoma,Kakamega in Kenya.Creating innovative solutions and creating opportunities for youths and also others. | Our aim is to provide training for more than 30 million youths by 2030, to meet and support the Africa Union and UN,goal of Job creation.In the next 5 years we would have trained 10 million youths and scale across Africa and mostly East African Countries.These will be done through identifying challenges in rural and urban slums in African countries,and design innovative solutions to solve them. | Our short term resources are material for design,as in many cases we found it hard to get them.Our medium term needs is partnership with other innovative and great design companies such as MIT and many more.Lastly our long term needs are financial resources.These is Key as we want to scale in different countries.Its a challenges as many solutions needs to be implemented and lack of resources hinders the process. | www.ctlkenya.org https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=community%20transformation%20link%20kenya&ref=eyJzaWQiOiIwLjA5MDA4ODc1NjAyMjM2Mzk5IiwicXMiOiJKVFZDSlRJeVkyOXRiWFZ1YVhSNUpUSXdkSEpoYm5ObWIzSnRZWFJwYjI0bE1qQnNhVzVySlRJd2EyVnVlV0VsTWpJbE5VUSIsImd2IjoiYmVlMDlmOTNmYTczMmNmYTU5YTFjYjZkOWY0NTBkMzg5MjQyNGU0OSIsImVudF9pZHMiOltdLCJic2lkIjoiMDMyYWI0ZGYyNGMyMDM2NzFhNjlkN2Q4NDYzN2FmNTAiLCJwcmVsb2FkZWRfZW50aXR5X2lkcyI6bnVsbCwicHJlbG9hZGVkX2VudGl0eV90eXBlIjpudWxsLCJyZWYiOiJicl90ZiIsImNzaWQiOm51bGwsImhpZ2hfY29uZmlkZW5jZV9hcmd1bWVudCI6bnVsbCwiY2xpZW50X3RpbWVfbXMiOjE1NjQ3Mjg2MzI3ODF9&epa=SEARCH_BOX | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTEKGSgW9kA&list=LLoE-qL8UkCNMqY364q3VaiQ | CERTIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS. Participated and awarded Certificate from Sankalp Feb 2019 For Entrepreneurs in Nairobi. Participate on Girls Summit April 2019 Lukenya Gateway. Participated and awarded certificate from World Youth Forum in Egypt as a MAAS by His Excellency President of Egypt Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Participated and Awarded Certificate from YALI RLC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
332 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Edward | Booty | Allied World Healthcare (Allied World Asia Pte. Ltd.) | www.alliedworld.healthcare | CEO | Male | Singapore | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | I worked in rural medicines distribution in Novartis and saw the issues with access programs, before going back to the UK and working for the National Health Service. I saw the inefficient systems and drive towards digital, which many lower-income countries cannot afford to do. I wanted to do something that mattered to moved to Singapore and set up Allied World Healthcare to enable universal health coverage - tackling the fact that essential products are often too expensive, and the cost of time and travel to traditional primary health facilities is often more costly than the medicine or health service itself – adding to the burden of lower-income communities. From a supply of care perspective, it is fundamentally not economically viable for traditional health infrastructure (clinics, pharmacies, etc.) to reach dispersed rural populations as there isn’t enough population density to sustain this infrastructure. Spiraling lifestyle disease burdens and shifting population demographics with more senior citizens is met with a lack of government funding and resources. This poor access and high-cost system for communities means basic health conditions get left longer and worsen – becoming more costly over time. This is specifically true for Non-Communicable diseases, which now account for 70% of deaths worldwide and are equally prevalent in lower-income communities that lack the diagnostic facilities/treatments. We now want to gain recognition for our work in this space. | Following his graduation from the London School of Economics, Edward’s career has focused solely on healthcare and technology, with experience spanning consulting (business and IT, operational improvement and technology deployment) and business development. Through his work for both public and private organisations, Edward has gained a comprehensive understanding of the healthcare sector. He was a leading member of the healthcare practice at Capgemini, a global IT consultancy firm, leading the UK Digital Health Practice and being the youngest ever person to report to the Board. He then was an independent digital and strategy consultant to the UK National Health Service, working on a number of billion-dollar transformation and operational improvement programs. In 2016, he moved to Singapore and founded an award-winning digital health startup, Allied World Healthcare, which connect lower-income communities to healthcare support and services. | Reach52 | A suite of technology applications enabling last-mile community health access | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | The Philippines, Cambodia, Singapore | Yes | We have implemented our service with Temple Garden Foundation in Cambodia, and will soon start working with KHANA as well | Transition to Scale | We have successfully launched in the Philippines and Cambodia, supporting over 50 communities access healthcare support (including connecting to government primary care, coordinating local community health outreach programs, and delivering a range of discounted or free products from private sector through our marketplace). The team has grown and we have hired more senior talent to help us scale within current countries and beyond, adding new global partners (Novartis, Sandoz, Gilead, Allianz) | 3.5 billion people on our planet lack access to Universal Health Coverage (World Bank, World Health Organisation, 2018). There is a lack of health professionals in South East Asia, and they are concentrated in urban areas. The Philippines and Cambodia, our key markets at present, have ~80% out-of-pocket payments for healthcare, as do many other low-and-middle-income countries. Traditional primary care infrastructure cannot reach rural areas, and is unaffordable. We enable UHC and SDG3. | Allied World Healthcare connect underserved communities to essential healthcare support and services, using a range of suite of custom-built, offline-first Android apps to enable members of the community to become 'navigators' of local services and support. We collect data to understand community needs, run events and outreach programmes based on this, and then integrate private sector products (bought in bulk, for a discount), creating an affordable marketplace of products and services for the world’s poorest that fills gaps in public sector health delivery. We also have apps for health worker education, strengthening local systems; and starting a new tech product for last-mile delivery management. Our vision is to create an affordable, accessible health service for 250 million people. We will do this by using our apps and processes to empower existing, embedded NGOs to implement our service (and get a sustainable revenue stream, and free digital tools from us), and through digital channels (Facebook, who we have partnered with to build chatbots and ad campaigns to sign up to our service and get health support, access to services, and access our marketplace of treatments. We want to realign public-private-patient partnerships and build a sustainable model that allows patients to access local support, government to stretch their limited resources further into communities, and private sector to open up new customer segements with affordable pricing. | •Use of digital technology that are designed to work offline to be able to navigate in communities with little-to-no mobile reception. Our apps are purpose built for last-mile health and build for offline-working, peer-to-peer syncing •The combination of this technology with focus on people (community resident empowerment, health worker capability building, patient experience programmes) giving an ‘integrated, end-to-end last-mile patient journey management’ solution •All of our strategies are informed by localised community data collected via our digital platforms (which is currently non-existent or are hidden in paper government records) and our other market research efforts. •Community ownership and training, not external service provision. We aim to enable the women in communities to be Access Managers, creating good jobs and future sustainability •Our business model seeks to combined social impact with opening up emerging markets to businesses looking to sell discounted products and creating true shared value and public-private partnerships. •We are completely data driven, whereas many social interventions lack this. Our programs can vary from village to village based on their local needs and health issues. •Regional / global applicability of our core model and framework, where many social innovations are country-specific •Management of the whole patient journey, as we are not looking at single/narrow health intervention but tackling the root cause of health inequality | We have tested our model in 50 communities which centres around award-winning, offline-first apps that allow us to scale faster and have digital and data at the heard of our service and social impact strategy – where many other NGOs or traditional organisaitons rely on ‘manual’ processes: •Curis, for connecting communities and health information, events, appointments and data collection. Basic teleheatlth. We are also integrating Facebook Messenger chatbots for users to sign up, get support, etc. through their Messenger chat. •MediConnect, for health worker information, education, training and collaboration through education content and courses for Community Health Workers. •Pica, the marketplace of partner products and services, helping people order free-and-affordable health products, and we are looking to integrate payments into this. •DisperGo for last-mile tracking of deliveries from the pharmacy and distribution of products into remote areas. •IDIAH for data integration, interoperability and data analytics and reporting across all four platforms. All of these products are built and deployed. We also have sourced 187 discounted medicines, 7 insurance plans, and a number of other NGO marketplace products. We measure progress through tracking the app activity data and our core metrics (e.g. financials, number of Access Managers) monthly - automating our measurement. We conduct feedback sessions with communities, as well as social impact assessment. | - Next 6 months: build partners and revenue, close our first round of funding after our 'crowdsourcing' start-up phase to bootstrap and sell commercial revenue, add products to our marketplace, keep connecting Philippines and Cambodian communities to our network. Build our tech so we have a 'core framework' that comprehensively enables the patient journey. We will look to launch in another country through a ‘partner led’ implementation (defined in the next question). •12 months - expand our countries without South and South East Asia, mature our team and leadership further. Keep building partners and enabling sales/access for large businesses (which enables affordable access to our communities). Focus more on data and advanced technology applications (chatbots, machine learning/automation/AI and eWallets for cash-based communities). •24-36 months - expand into larger markets and another continent once our service is stable through Partner Implementers (see answer below, currently have opportunities in Zimbabwe and Uganda, and a lot of interested from the Bolivian and Chilean Ministry of Health), keep building innovative tech designed for emerging markets (offline first, etc.). Hit 20 million users. Our key growth drivers are the number of engaged users on our platform, the number of affordable products we can offer them and sales. This can be broken down further into more process-improvement metrics (e.g. average order value, level of engagement with our service). | We need: Short term - To improve our leadership team and advisory board, and associated governance - Hire more developers and invest in our product - Transform our brand, external impact measurment - Finish our digital B2C services (self-service through Facebook Messenger etc) so we can scale faster and for lower cost Medium term - More Implementation Partners to use our apps and implement our service model, to grow our reach faster and support other social organisations - Series A funding and securing scale-up capital - More pharma and other private sector partners to solve other health challenges we are seeing (Hepatitis epidemics with no real global efforts to tackle it, weak infrastructure/diagnostic facilities, improve human rsources etc) Long term - International expansion team for new markets and continents - Renew leadership team for greater scale - Extensive hiring in new markets for local support (e.g. technology helpdesks in local languages etc) | www.alliedworld.healthcare https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=582150115633249 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=957331734475960 https://www.facebook.com/alliedworldhealthcare/videos/2200459790196820/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9_-YSD57VE&t=207s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R3m_xXMmG8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL6YfpI0VEjhstFewCqWhcP0OZhDA9apck&time_continue=54&v=tNq0ct-1idE https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1941297092554190 | - Singtel Future Makers in 2017 (a leading Telco in South East Asia), also winning the regional program in 2019 - Accenture's HealthTech Innovation Challenge Asia Winner, Global Finalist - United Nation's World Summit Awards Singapore Nomination for Healthcare - Facebook's Startup Station Singapore (Facebook's Asia accelerator program) - Part of UHC2030 (the World Health Organisation, World Bank and World Economic Forum organisations for private sector organisations enabling UHC) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
333 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | sraju | kanumuri | kkr ks charitable trust | https://smartvillages.tumblr.com/ & https://kkrkstrust.wordpress.com/ | founder | male | India | India | English | My innovation is not creating new product or solution etc but creating SDG HUB CENTER in each country ,city , town district sate etc This center will act as hub for global innovations solutions reach local communities likes SEZ , or SDG centers which will act as skill center , culture center , citizens needs center, Sustainable development center, mall , culture center , sevices solutions center , manufacturing hub , marketing hub , human rights hub , etc one way it is SDG Center for each district which makes citizens have sdg and also as lively hood center based on local SDG . All citizens don't need all SDG based on main 7 SDG needs for each 1 million people create build these SDG trade / innovation / culture / lively hood center . All citizens use best innovations world wide , their own innovation tools , collaborate knowledge skills etc to make them self sustianble innovators and also make SDG as part of their life to save eco system and also make them live in prosperous life make local as flat save their resources use knowledge etc Creating co -operative corporate SDG communities or digital villages smart villages to become self sufficient . Re use knowledge innovations expertise funds revenues etc locally barter them to life happily. OPEN SDG KNOWLEDGE COMMERCE make Ecosystem around them . | ksraju is internet veteran , as ICT expert , Telecom expert he his team members global internet experts telcom experts advised gov and multi stake holder to build early stage Isp , telco's , Tech centers etc contributed to society in the areas of solar power , skill centers , SDG in villages by creating Smart villages based on SDG rather smart cities , shard to create Global recycling hubs , one of 1s to write about creating cloud biz , net will think and act ( A1) , Digital high ways , Give free led lights to villages houses etc Road map to India written in 2014 was used by used by Indian government and so many local governments As Social activist , anti corruption , human rights , net neutrality , freedom of expression RTI activist empowered so many citizens , students , self help groups woman villagers etc My 20 yrs head thoughts ideas gave lot of impact . For example net will think act is AI , and human brain pulses used for future communications , Global open ai brian net etc Next internet is "" INTER ECO ECHO NET "" . this future . one of 1st told to create water , rail , road grids in India also economic hubs in each areas based on local expertise. as reluctant innovator , social activist , SDG human making others to have create SDG in their home. , | connecting next 3.4 billion based on 7 SDG | grow your own food , knowlede , helath , security , shelter , happiness in your own commnity , house disttict | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | In State of AP smart villages was created. Still lot to be done at macro level baed on our model wewant to create SDG SEZ HUBS Which covers SDG as part of over all living governance , servics needs etc NO GOV WITH OUT SDG GOV. NO SERVICES SOLUTIONS BASES | No | Proof of Concept | The proof of concept is created and also SDG HUB DESIGN Is created. We shared our model to like minded people world wide. Also in process of creating global partners who are innovators, visionaries , youth , investors . self help groups , entrepreneurs , stake holders etc We dont want to re-invent wheel , with existing innovations services solutions kick start one global SDG SEZ . Then replicate IT, then create a tool or App etc based on needs we must create make them practical .SDG Nations. | my solution is addressing the basic needs of every human needs and eco system needs. 1) open knowledge 2) food 3) energy 4) shelter 5) Security 6) Earning 7 ) happiness 8) serving each other serving life mother eco system 9) human rights all are equal . 10) Universal SDG , LOCA SDG | IF global countries , biz , governments are building hotels , Malls , Roads , villas . entertainment centers , Manufacturing hubs , casinos , yatchs etc why cant people governments , citizens , private sectors build SDG hubs , SEZ in each District which will give impact on Over all citizen needs. MAKE EVERY HUMAN FOLLOW IMPLEMENT SDG. Also make banks governments , religious heads , schools , universties , media , TV , products manufactures etc implement SDG. Make Villages cities implement SDG at grass root levels. Make innovations based on SDG . SDG PRODUCTS SERVICES ACTS Is new goal of all governments. MAKE SDG as part school teaching innovation start up hubs etc This will give real impact at grass root level . like tech hubs, Banks we can have SDG BANKS , SDG citizen services centers etc SDG INNOVATORS ENTREPRENEURS CENTERS BIZ centers , malls , shops , action centers etc for Eco system is impacting by people using plastic waste , sewage etc CREATE LOCAL SDG BASE RECYLING HUB which wont make cities polluted. Recycle drainage water use them as water to plants other cleaning purposes or make fertilizers etc Stop water seas rivers contamination. make People ECO SAVING ACTORS ,. MAKE them responsible . ECO SAVING TAX.. | all united nations and other stake holders common goals are same. But in reality we need SDG fulfillment Economic zones service solution zones centers or parks or SDG hubs, All ready all over the world innovations solutions services are in place which is giving impact results. Use them implement them around this create new Innovation which is real methodology of having SDG MALL / TECH CENTER OF FULLFILLMENT SEZ. BUILD THESE BULDIING CENTERS AS TECH CENTERS make people use them work in them to give results. around this create new products solutions innovations etc affordable SDG services solution for all with existing resources innovations experts vision teams people etc | we created our blue print . We measure of progress reached to raise funds , create global partners who are innovators , solution , service providers , partners open stake holders to be part of this center which will act as bridge to connect all citizens to make their life as SDG Citzens. This model is to create SDG SEZ or SDG INNOVATORS CENTERS HUBS Where all people become members either they are service or solution providers or users or self help SDG citizens workers or solution providers. Pending creating global partners local partners , fund raising to build one pilot center then replicate world wide as SDG franchises or SEZ centers or SDG Fullfullment hubs, | Planned goals 1) create global partners who created innovations solutions giving impact. 2) sign MOUS 3) make members 4) create local partners 5) Share center information with all services solutions in place . about infrastructure solutions services covering all main 7 SDG 6) Raise funds 7) Build center hub to launch services | Over all project costs we estimated 8 to 10 million dollars. as short term we are raising 2 million m mid term 4 million . This project cost changes based on place country city area etc We are open to global partners stake holders ideas. we want to create SDG BANKS . SDG SERVICE CENTERS , SOLUTION CENTERS , SDG SEZ ( Shopping , manfacturing ) , SDG SKILL CENTER SDG consumers innovators etc in one place. one way SDG DISNEY LAND oR SDG SEZ . | These are models we are sharing to kick start our plan https://smartvillages.tumblr.com/ ( basic frame work ) https://www.smart.ap.gov.in/ ( old government used our foundation model ) https://kkrkstrust.wordpress.com/ ( our vision) https://indiagov.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/road-map-for-india/ most of governments are talking in reality no body is acting . only visionaries , real innovators ecosystem lovers , people who want to serve all good people 5 elements will take action sacrifice life to make next 3.4 billion to save mother earth make countries peace and prosperity. Trillions of dollars are getting wasted . Let us remove waste from our life save resources save happiness save eco system in our houses our mother earth. My next innovation is next internet which is "" INTER ECO ECHO NET "" not only humans connected but entire eco system aniamls trees earth space air etc make them happy make them live in peace and prosperity . | we shared our models spoken to lot of people . Even press covered us. our models we can share in pdf or papers we have written, | we never looked for awards . we looked for solutions shared our models papers project plans empowered people stake holders to make their life as sdg.s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
334 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Khalid | Hashi | OGOW EMR | https://www.ogowemr.com/ | Founder | Male | Canada | Canada | English | The UN Solutions Summit will give us a unique opportunity to highlight our work to a global audience. This platform would also serve as an opportunity to share and hear experiences and best practices with our peers. Our hope is to identify areas of collaborative action with other leaders as we all work towards advancing Sustainable Development Goals. OGOW EMR is an award-winning digital health start-up dedicated to improving healthcare delivery in Somalia through innovation, collaboration, and efficiency. I was inspired to innovate after my first trip to Somalia in 2017 where I met my grandmother for the first time, and had the first hand-encounter with the condition of healthcare services in the country. Despite having no background in medicine or computer science, I was awarded 1 of 5 Winners in OPEN IDEO’s Innovation Challenge and received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The challenge received participation from 128 countries. We incorporated specific SDG #3 targets and indicators into our model and designed programs to support progress towards them. OGOW EMR aims to support and strengthen health systems (target 3.c) in Somalia by offering digital solutions to practitioners in Somalia to address complex challenges and prevent communicable disease (target 3.4) and improve both access to healthcare and the delivery of vaccines (target 3.8). Through our research, we discovered that one of the most significant obstacles preventing the delivery of maternal immunization campaigns-a factor in these high mortality rates- is a lack of accessible data. Our solution is designed to enable practitioners to send out timely notifications to ensure all women and girls are informed about the vaccines offered at each hospital. Our built-in (SMS) feature allows hospitals to send out text message notifications informing patients in their database of impending immunization campaigns. Our portal offers assessment forms for prenatal and postnatal forms accessible to practitioners in the Somali-language. The system is also designed to be extremely affordable to the financially most challenged hospitals. Dr. Salah at Kaaran Community Medical Center based in Mogadishu partnered with us to improve patient outcomes by tracking immunization rates and reaching patients who need specific vaccines. OGOW EMR provided his practice with free ready-to-use solutions for generating patient lists; reminders for order sets by running query-based reports. | Khalid Hashi is the founder of OGOW EMR, a provider of digital health solutions designed to improve health outcomes in Somalia. The innovative concept by Khalid was recently selected as a Top Idea in OPEN IDEO’s Innovation Challenge and received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As an invitee in Somalia’s first ever tech summit, Khalid presented his innovation which is currently being used by medical workers in Somalia to improve health-care delivery in the country. His solution was also selected for World Humanitarian Innovation Day to spur collaboration between investors, experts and deserving projects from around the world. Khalid was inspired to innovate after his first trip to Somalia in 2017 where he met his grandmother for the first time, and had the first hand-encounter with the condition of healthcare services in the country while accompanying her to a hospital. | OGOW EMR | Our primary goal is to improve health outcomes in Somalia by offering health solutions that are easy-to-use, customizable and in the Somali language. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Somalia | No | Proof of Concept | Our solution currently can be accessed as a software or secure web-portal. Our framework provides easily deployable interfacing capability on all platforms as the backend is developed. The seed-funding we received from The Bill and Melinda Gate’s Foundation will be going towards the launch of a mobile version of our solution. This effort would be a first in Somalia to help bridge the gap between rural-urban care settings. | Somalia has one of the worst health indicators in the world. Following the 1991 civil war, Somalia's infrastructure, including its health systems, was destroyed. According to UNICEF, under-five and maternal mortality rates are the highest in the world; 1 in 8 Somali children die before they see their fifth birthday. Health workers lack effective tools to track and monitor immunization programs. Furthermore, caregivers are unaware of the benefits that come with routine vaccinations. | OGOW provides digital solutions to monitor diagnoses, treatments and trends to minimize the harm caused by outbreaks of communicable diseases. Our solution is easy-to-use, user-friendly and collaborative, making it easy for health works and caregivers to coordinate the delivery of immunizations with healthcare organizations. Our system was designed with the aim of providing maximum usability to the end-users. This means that all features, tools and reports can be can be accessed in the Somali language. OGOW EMR assigns each patient with a unique medical record number (MRN) to facilitate long-term patient care. The vaccination scheduler tool available on the portal creates an immunization schedule for each patient. Additionally, our solution grants caregivers’ access to check medical history, upcoming vaccination dates, and pertinent health-related tips. Our Vaccination Management Tool creates an immunization schedule for each patient. Our built-in (SMS) tool allows Frontline workers to send out nudge notifications informing patients in their database of impending immunization campaigns. This is intended to speed up notification time for vaccination availability as well as to warn pastoral communities of impending infections and to advise them of available preventative precautions. Our long-term impact is to strengthen Somalia’s immunization program by ensuring that all caregivers are notified of vaccination campaigns. | During our market analysis, we came across one competitor and learned that the platform was not available in the local language. OGOW was designed with the aim of providing maximum usability to the end-users. This means that all features, tools and reports can be can be accessed in English and Somali. Our team uses a human-centered design approach to ensure that our solution is usable and useful by focusing on end-users. Before we launched our platform, we dispatched volunteers to three representative areas of the Somali Republic to consult with as a wide a sample of future potential beneficiaries on how best we can make OGOW as user-friendly, most accessible, culturally sensitive, and most effective public health innovation tool in the country. We also consulted with the authorities in these regional states and the national capital on how best to make OGOW beneficial to women and children and especially in the area of vaccinating children from the above-mentioned killer diseases and how to counter anti-vaccination propaganda wherever its source. Following these consultations, we added to our original software enabler features designed to demystify children vaccination. Our portal provides tools for practitioners to improve infant vaccination coverage by reaching patients who need specific vaccines. Further, caregivers will be aware of the schedules of vaccinations and will be sent notifications to visit their practitioners. | Our team developed, designed and tested our electronic medical record system to test for operational readiness. We have a software developer on hand to develop the application, run tests and fix bugs. OGOW’s seamless encryption solution provides a secure, cloud-based way to store and share clinical files. This past October, I was invited to present OGOW EMR services in Somalia's first ever Tech Summit in Mogadishu, backed by local innovation hub iRise, the Federal Government of Somalia, the United Nations and other partners. Through this platform, we connected with hospitals and medical students across the country. Our startup was recently selected to present at Innovate4right’s World Humanitarian Innovation conference. We will monitor this by evaluating our screening tool and SMS program adherence. Our leadership team established a steering committee comprised of local Somali doctors and academics that are respected throughout the medical field in Somalia and throughout the Somali diaspora. The committee was established to ensure that OGOW is well executed, ethically operated, professionally monitored and reviewed throughout the period of implementation. We plan to develop a consortium with community organizations, WHO, GAVI and Ministry of Health to scale up our activity and outreach to caregivers and practitioners across Somalia. | OGOW objective is to be accessible to all users irrespective of device in use, technology or ability. Our platform offers customized language solutions to meet the specific needs of resource-constrained communities. Dr Ghulam Shabbir at AO Trauma Centre based in Rajanpur Pakistan reached out to learn more about our program and how we can best support his practice. By Dec 2019, we plan to enroll and train 10 hospitals in Mogadishu and nearby villages, and by Jan 2021 we plan to replicate our model in other parts of the country. We will monitor this by evaluating our screening tool and SMS program adherence. We plan to develop a consortium with community organizations, WHO, GAVI and Somalia’s Ministry of Health to scale up our activity and outreach. We intend to refine and evolve our solution by conducting beta tests, consultations, and need assessment interviews. OGOW’s Mobile App was invited to launch at Somalia’s Annual Tech Summit supported by the Federal Government of Somalia. This year the summit will attract more than 2,000 attendees including Somalia’s government, business community, donors and the private-sector. We plan to develop a well-designed curriculum on how to effectively use OGOW to increase efficiency and heighten the quality of patient care. OGOW intends to deploy local Community Champions to introduce offline resources, vaccination messages and public health initiatives to rural communities. | We intend to refine and evolve our solution by hiring on an additional developer. Funding received from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will allow us to launch a mobile and offline version of our portal solution. This effort would be a first in Somalia to help bridge the gap between rural-urban care-settings. Our award-winning solution will launch in October at Somali’s largest tech summit, bringing together the latest innovations and leading-edge technology alongside today's most influential visionaries. We are in the process of developing a well-designed e-learning curriculum on how to effectively use our software to increase efficiency and heighten the quality of patient care. Funding will allow us to conduct community mapping and need assessments throughout Somalia. We plan to collaboratively work with public, private, and social sector organizations. Since we have a common goal, our success will motivate other partners to collaborate with us and further improve the health services provision through our platform. Key resources: Refinement: We intend to refine and evolve our solution by conducting beta tests, consultations, and assessment interviews. Development of Mobile version: Extend contact for in-house developer to design, refine and deploy our solution in different platforms. E-learning Portal: Develop a well-designed curriculum on how to effectively use OGOW to increase efficiency and heighten the quality of patient care. | https://www.ogowemr.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuWbh4pR0qA&t=17s https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-app-measles-somalia-1.5200670 https://www.thestar.com/edmonton/2019/07/02/this-edmontonian-has-created-an-electronic-medical-records-system-for-hospitals-in-somalia.html | https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.5198570 | Awarded Top Idea in The Bill and Melinda Gates and OPEN IDEO Immunization Innovation Challenge Awarded Top Innovations of the Year: 2019 by The Infection Prevention Strategy Shortlisted Dubai Expo Live’s Innovation Impact Grant Programme. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
335 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Illac | Diaz | Liter of Light | www.literoflight.org | Founder and Executive Director | Male | Philippines | Philippines | English | Our technology reduces reliance on complex international supply chains, empowers local markets, and provides tailored products by building them at the “hyperlocal” level. Furthermore, by making this an open-source technology, we are able to share our knowledge and training materials through the internet, social media, and online tutorials. Anyone with a desire to become a part of Liter of Light and deploy our solutions in their communities can do so. This approach enabled us to scale and expand our impact without the high costs typically associated with a centralized movement. We have created opportunities and momentum to engage in innovative services while operating in a sustainable way. By empowering local suppliers and supporting the infrastructure required to maintain the lights and develop innovative designs, we are building a stronger bottom up approach to a clean energy and low cost connectivity in the village, something that will become increasingly important as climate change affects diverse communities. This grassroots approach that puts the power (literally) back into the hands of the people is going to make large, centralized initiatives obsolete. Rather than depending on imported, patented, and expensive technologies, our grassroots movement embodies the principle that anyone can become a solar engineer. We are quicker, more nimble, operate at much lower costs, are the first ones to respond, and the permutations for further innovations are infinite, since we are grounded in south-south principles, open-source learning and skills sharing. We believe that participating in this year's UN Solutions Summit would be an acknowledgement of the importance of solutions like ours to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In attending this program, we would like to partner with other Solutions awardees and the broader UN Solutions Summit community to encourage a multi-sectoral approach to sustainability, incorporating the nexus of solutions for energy, food, water, and shelter. In the process, we can showcase the power of innovations from the Global South in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We expect to get a lot of value from the sessions with experts, and to have a space to explore scaling models for our work. We are driven by serving the community, but are looking for guidance and feedback on how to make this work even more sustainable. | Illac Diaz is a social entrepreneur working to empower communities in the Philippines and around the world through several pioneering programs in rammed earth, bamboo, and PET plastic bottle construction.He founded MyShelter Foundation in 2006 to promote grassroots sustainable development through capacity-building and employment-generating projects. Introducing groundbreaking social enterprise, appropriate low-cost technologies, and alternative construction in the Philippines, MyShelter Foundation has pioneered projects such as the Pier One Seafarer’s Dormitory, Design Against the Elements (DAtE) competition, and Bottle School Project. Illac realized that while he could build innovative, sustainable structures, he had no way to light buildings constructed far from the electrical grid. His solution to this challenge led to the Liter of Light movement. Illac’s latest venture, Liter of Light @ Night, is the world’s first grassroots green lighting program bringing low-cost, zero-carbon solar bottle bulbs to underprivileged communities worldwide. By empowering local entrepreneurs and marginalized groups like prison detainees and trash pickers, this initiative shows how simple solutions powered by human hands bring the green revolution to the bottom 99%. Illac’s vision is to improve one million lives a year and to reframe the way people think about solutions to climate change not as a product of industrialized nations, but as a gift that developing countries can share with the rest of the world. | Liter of Light | Our community-built pop-up solar lighting utility creates green jobs, teaches green skills, and empowers local communities. | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Philippines, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Senegal, South Africa, Kenya | Yes | Salesforce, Pepsi, Enel, and other corporate partners in each country. | Scaling | Since we began with Liter of Light @ Night at the end of 2013, we have been able to empower over a million homes in almost 30 countries around the world. We have proven that our solution works and have achieved a certain degree of expansion. Now we want to work on really scaling up to other countries across the Global South who are looking for local solutions to tackle energy poverty. | Over one billion people around the world do not have access to clean and sustainable energy. While the cost of solar power has decreased, current solutions bring technologies to energy-poor communities through top-down approaches, importing consumer models without turning over skills or ways to repair the technology. The result is continued dependence on imported solar solutions, and a lack of capacity to scale that becomes even more severe during national disasters. | The Liter of Light redesigns solar lighting for the developing world. Our simple, two-step technology creates local jobs, teaches green skills, and empowers energy-poor communities. Rather than depending on imported, patented, and expensive technologies, our grassroots green lighting movement embodies the principle that anyone can become a solar engineer. Most solar solutions currently available promote expensive and inappropriate solutions that neglect local development realities, with up to 70 percent of costs going to logistics. On the commercial side, products are designed not be repairable, putting beneficiaries in a loop of expensive dependency on microcredit. Through producing easily repairable solar lights with locally available parts, Liter of Light increase communities’ self-reliance by integrating a livelihood model with the capacity to quickly assemble lights rather than diverting almost 70 percent of production costs on logistics from overseas. Our solar products are built and assembled at 1/3 of the cost of other products on the market, including about 20% which is retained as a livelihood, with all output produced given to the village. The next five years is to expand into new business models of village-wide mesh networks from solar streetlights. | The Liter of Light @ Night is a community-built solar battery kit for solar reading lanterns, mobile chargers or street lights. Micro solar panels, solarettes and other electronic parts, which are widely available, are assembled by local communities and women's cooperatives. With a simple circuit panel, drill, and soldering, a solar LED night light is built and installed. This makes deployment in energy-poor or disaster areas quicker as solar products can be built from local parts, using local skills, all while creating a livelihood in the process. Our primary business model in the community is training a cooperative group of five women on how to build our technologies. Our approach is inspired by other proven sustainable business models like the Grameen banking model. Rather than providing them with financial capital, we seed them the materials and tools required to build their lights. Upon completing their training, the women are able to sell what they produce the solar reading lanterns, including a suggested 20% retainer fee which they keep for when which they use to pay off the initial capital investment. A competing product with the same specific components with finished manufacture would cost almost three times the cost. The other complementary business model would be for one store to have a central 50- or 100-watt panel that will be a central recharging station where the store owner can recharge the solar lamps for a fee. | Since we launched Liter of Light @ Night at the end of 2013, we have empowered over 350,000 households around the Philippines; engaged over 2,800 youth volunteers, and worked with hundreds of womens’ cooperatives in creating livelihood and micro-businesses. We now want to work with our captured markets to see how our latest innovations, including a wireless LAN repeater system, can serve them in new and needed ways. Social impact: Safety: prevents fires and inhalation of toxic fumes from kerosene lamps. Environmental: Reuses discarded plastic bottles from being thrown away and upcycled to locally built and easily repairable solar lighting systems. Sustainable: Manufacturing and parts are all local and abundant Open-source: Liter of Light has installed lights in over one million homes around the world through a decentralized, open- source, and crowd-sourced system. Carbon-offsetting: WWF (Philippines has computed the carbon emissions restricted emissions: (http://www.co2list.org/files/carbon.htm) Carbon footprint for the manufacture of one incandescent bulb = 0.45 kg CO2. Electricity consumption is approximately 0.77 kg CO2 per kW·h, so a 50W bulb that runs for, let’s say, 14 hours a day for 30 days releases 16.17 kg CO2 a month, or nearly 200 kg a year. Moreover, approximately 90% of the power consumed by an incandescent bulb is emitted as heat rather than visible light. | In producing easily repairable solar lights with locally available parts, we increase communities’ self- reliance by integrating a livelihood model with the capacity to quickly assemble lights rather than diverting almost 70 percent of production costs on logistics from overseas. By making assembly and installing solar lighting affordable with easily built micro-solar house lights and street lights, we empower these local communities to be part of the solution and not just left in the dark. Our next phase of the project, which includes creating ""e-libraries"" using wireless LAN repeater systems in our street lights, is intended to not only empower communities with public lighting, reducing the incidence of crime by up to 70%, but also enable them to access critical educational materials and messaging services. More than one billion people globally are not connected to the internet. Enabling people to connect to the internet is seen as the modern medicine against poverty in slums, since being connected enables people to access opportunities and information for livelihood. We want to move Liter of Light @ Night into its next phase through scaling up locally built decentralized wifi systems through Local Area Network (LAN) connections. Embedded in our existing street light technologies, the LAN ""e-libraries"" enable people in the community to communicate through messaging and access basic information and educational materials, even after natural disasters or conflicts. | Our technology reduces reliance on complex international supply chains, empowers local markets, and provides tailored products by building them at the “hyperlocal” level. Furthermore, by making this an open-source technology, we are able to share our knowledge and training materials through the internet, social media, and online tutorials. Anyone with a desire to become a part of Liter of Light and deploy our solutions in their communities can do so. This approach enabled us to scale and expand our impact without the high costs typically associated with a centralized movement. We acquire customers by working directly with our corporate partners, volunteers, and network of technical schools across the country to identify the communities that do not have access to electricity. These are our initial customers. As we develop relationships with them, we have begun to create or innovate our solutions to see how we can continue to serve them in more ways. We have already proven our concept and scaled our community-built solar lighting solutions - home lights, mobile charging systems, and street lights - to over 350,000 homes in the Philippines. We know there is a market for our existing solutions. We now want to use this opportunity to find out how to scale new innovations that enable villages outside of big cities to access new means of livelihood through access to light, information, and messaging services. | Three links to short videos of our installations: Senegal: http://tinyurl.com/gttkgxf Malaysia: http://tinyurl.com/zxtkooa Brazil: https://tinyurl.com/y79cea76 http://mashable.com/2016/10/20/a-liter-of-light/ - Mashable, October 2016 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/plastic-bottles-electricity_us_596e64f4e4b0000eb1968bb5 - Huffington Post, July 2017 http://uk.businessinsider.com/liter-of-light-poor-homes-communities-old-recycled-plastic-bottles-solar-technology-clean-energy-philippines-2017-6 - Tech Insider UK, June 2017 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO-MtRE3lOI - Illac Diaz, ""Light In a Bottle"", TEDx Maastricht https://www.goodnewspilipinas.com/illac-diaz-liter-of-light-solar-lighting-mission-the-full-story-good-news-pilipinas-tv-exclusive/ - Illac Diaz interviewed about the Voyage of Light, our recent campaign where we completed a 100-day campaign in partnership with Peace Boat (www.peaceboat.org) to empower 19 port communities around the Global South, including starting new chapters and partnerships in Madagascar, South Africa, Namibia, Argentina, Easter Island, and Samoa. | 2019 Silver Award in Humanitarian Innovation - Edison Awards (USA) 2019 Top Global Innovations – Dubai EXPO2020 2017 Top 100 Youth-Led Solutions – United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) 2015 - Winner, Zayed Future Energy Prize (Non-Governmental Organization) 2014-2015 World Habitat Award | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
336 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Saifuddin | Sepehr | Microcis | www.microcis.net | Founder/CEO | Female | Afghanistan | Afghanistan | English | Girls in our country are struggling for education. They love to study, collaborate and interact with their peers but unfortunately, the situation is not ready yet. There are a plethora of conservative families, militants and people who don’t agree with girls to educate. Unfortunately, physical schools built are mostly destroyed or if exists, appearing outside or joining educational programs are extremely hard for many girls in the country. We are working on a technology solution that is solving this issue at the greatest margin. Our solution is a localized e-learning platform that is available for iOS, Android and Web which helps students (users) to share, interact and collaborate. They can know the new education opportunities and programs and or they can start a class and ask others to join. We have special messages for families to awareness and let them know the importance of education for girls. According to a report which lead me to start this startup and help girls, “Zero girl graduated from Helman province schools in the last 18 years” and this is horrible news. In our country people see boys education way important than girls education. We have millions of uneducated women who are raising at least 4 children, those children are most likely not going to school and educated people are influenced easily which leads to a worse effect on the society, country and the world. I have two reasons for wanting to participate. The first is that I think this summit will help me grow as a person. The second is that I truly believe I have something to contribute: I can share my solution and find people who want to facilitate education access to different parts of the world. by being there, I can also bring unique insight, perspective, and a positive, collaborative attitude. Moreover, this is a great opportunity to learn about different cultures, and share with my network, enrich my knowledge through our multiple session platforms as well as have fun in side activities. | My name is Saifuddin Sepehr, I have born in Farah Province of Afghanistan in 1991. I am an accomplished entrepreneur with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and more than 6 years of professional experience in leadership, startup funding, and technology solutions. I have also done extensive research on blockchain technology and its usage to fight against corruption, facilitate businesses needs and identity recognition. I have started my career by founding Microcis, an ICT company providing localized solutions to small and medium businesses as well as providing ICT skills training to empower women and help jobseekers learn new skills and find jobs in the private or government entities. Microcis Panda Accounting is an example of projects I have managed which is currently being used by thousands of companies all around the country and is localized in national languages. We trained more than 1000 job seekers in the ICT and placed more than 500 of them for new jobs which 45% of them were women. I have been a Computer Science lecturer at Herat University. Besides my technical and management expertise, I have great volunteer experience. I have contributed in several IT, localization, and society needed projects including the localization of Microsoft Windows to Dari and lead of Afghanistan Map Makers to chart the unmapped territories of Afghanistan. I am a forward thinker and problem solver. In 2019, I won the Hack4Integrity award for providing the best solution fighting academic corruption and plagiarism in Afghanistan in the Hack4Integrity UN hackathon. | Maktab | Maktab is a localized social e-learning platform in Afghanistan that combines e-learning, social networking, emotional intelligence, and game theory. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Our solution is currenty only for Afghanistan. We are alreay in the production mode and providing services. Our apps are available to downlod from the App Store and Play Store. | Yes | My partner is my wife. She dedicated her life to help other girls have access to education. She has more than five years of volunteer and entrepreneurship experience related to women empowerment startups and activities. | Transition to Scale | We have recently published our apps on the Stores and now available for download. We are developing and extending our content generation and review teams to our main offices and major cities. We still receive feedbacks and improving our systems. Our key team members are not yet trained or received hight level and important training and we are working to facilitate these and many more. | Currently, resources available on the internet are mostly in English or other foreign languages. Therefore, due to the language barrier, these educational resources are not usable by the majority of the students in Afghanistan. Girls belonging to conservative families are not allowed to go to school, participate in courses, or collaborate with their friends on their projects. | The goal of our business is to promote education among the youth of Afghanistan with the main focus on girls by providing them with the necessary educational resources for free in Dari and Pashto languages to make the educational content more accessible to them. Maktab also provides a social networking platform where the learners can communicate and learn from each other. The students can add friends, share posts, ask or answer questions, challenge each other in a subject in real-time or start a poll. Maktab enables girls belonging to conservative families and those who are not allowed to got to school to learn and interact with other learners from their homes. | Most programs existing in our country are not technology backed and are completely physical for some part of the country which still people faces challenges. Fortunately, due to the US and World help in Afghanistan, the Internet and smartphones are widely accessible and usable all around the country. We try to help everyone have access to education, communicate with other learners, find and conduct courses and education programs and request others to join and learn through a technology solution. Our goal is to make every home a school for learning, by conducting awareness about the importance of education to every family and person. We connect people from different cultures and mindsets from all around the country to communicate and let others know about them. Maktab uses Artificial Intelligence to learn user preferences from their ages, the courses they have taken, the posts they have liked, or the quizzes they have participated in, to deliver the content or resources that they are interested in and are more suitable for them and help them learn about different field of studies in the universities. We will also conduct paid and unpaid mock university entrance exams (Kankor) to help the prospective college students prepare for the national university entrance exams. The users will have to pay a small amount of Maktab’s cryptocurrency to participate in mock exams. | We are working on this solution since 2015, and this is founded by my spouse and me. We have built the team starting from hiring intern girls and boys most of them in the third or last year of the university. They have different backgrounds of education, we speak 5 national languages and people in our team has different cultures from all around the country. People behind this solution are no the best software developers, marketing and content generators in the country. We also recently started providing software and mobile application services to other companies around the country and we have helped Afghanistan Hloding Group Inc. in the development and publishing of HesabPay online payment and BBR ride-hailing apps. | Currently, we have offices in Herat and Kabul provinces and started to expand in there other major cities of Afghanistan like Balkh, Kandahar, and Jalalabad and will recruit new staff with a focus on women empowerment and gender equality which we believe that girls have abilities that are completely needed for our success. We will start working on some agreements with educational institutes and universities to promote and help us in reviewing contents generated and published on our platform. | for the short-term, we need some staff training in different related technologies like AI, ML, Blockchain and Digital Marketing. We need some training for founder in the management and team building as well as participating in some startup tours and events to learn from others, share experiences and networking. As there are many groups and people either in the government and the society who are completely against people and initiatives related to women empowerment and girls education and even technology and internet, therefore, we need more secure offices in the country for our med-term needs. We will also need to have access to some management and entrepreneurship accelerator programs. In the long-term, our goal is to cover child-education by printing some fun materials that teach children the basics and also children between 6-12 to have access printing materials related to computers and other sciences using visualization and stories. We will also provide physical skill training to women and fresh graduate girls to learn some skills and different areas like ICT, Marketing and Business and help them find jobs in the private or government entities. | https://www.microcis.net https://www.maktab.edu.af/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_E_HmnE0fo&t=11s https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=af.edu.maktab https://apps.apple.com/us/app/maktab-%D9%85%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A8/id1414781649?ls=1 https://cbnet.com/news/an-encouraging-movement-in-afghanistan/ https://af.shafaqna.com/fn/39127 https://khabarnama.net/blog/2019/07/07/how-an-afghan-technologist-on-creative-business-cup/ https://www.avapress.com/fa/news/187781/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%BE%D9%84%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%86-%D9%85%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A8-%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AA-%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AC%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%87-%D8%AE%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A2%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B4-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%87-%D8%B4%D8%AF%D9%86%D8%AF | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySHPxLmXawY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzUrq2IfW18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nrZauUOQI | 1. DEWAE, MCIT Best Solution Award 2015 2. National Winner, First Position Award, Creative Business Cup Competition, 2018. 3. Special Award, CBCup19, Global Finals, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
337 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Deepak | Pareek | Agritrace Technologies Hub Pvt. Ltd. | www.digi-agri.com | CEO & Co-Founder | Male | India | India | English | As an innovator, it feels pleasure always to represent your innovation at the best possible forums. So, UN Solutions Summit will definitely provide a platform for people like us to showcase their innovation in front of Global People through which its presence can be informed to everyone. Also, it will give the opportunity to network with the greatest experienced minds from the globe and learn from them. Our solution, Digi Agri is focused on empowering farmers for growing more crop - per drop, per acre and per dollar by using cutting edge digital technologies. Agriculture is having issues of Food Security, Agrarian Distress & Climate Change. We have created the solution which provides actionable insights to every ecosystem player to provide their services/offering in a better way for the farmers. The farm plan provided by us to farmers will help them to know what to grow, how to grow and when to grow so that it can reduce usage of inputs for decreasing cost of cultivation, increase in yield and at the same time the insights & monitoring about crop health during cultivation will help them to access better marketplace. | Deepak is a well-decorated serial technopreneur who created one of the most respected AgriTech companies, Digi Agri and MyCrop and in past founded one of the most innovative Social Data Analytics platform, HnyB and Angel Incubator for enterprising engineering college students, HnyB Tech-Incubations. Deepak was honored as Technology Pioneer 2018 by World Economic Forum and is currently a member of various World Economic Forum communities including Future Food and Industry 4.0. Deepak is also a member of the Expert Panel of the World Economic Forum on Digital Transformation. Deepak is a well-published author with seven published books on technology and business. He also writes articles on technology areas including User Experience & Adaptive Designs, Cyber Security, Robotics & Drones, Big Data & Predictive Analytics, Autonomous Systems & Artificial Intelligence, Wireless & Internet of Things, Mobile & Web Applications, SATCOM & Telecom, and Social Media & Cloud Computing. Deepak has been profiled by reputed publications/media including Forbes, Nikkei, Channel News Asia, YourStory, Nasscom Research, Inc42, Business Insider to name a few. Deepak is a regular speaker of global repute with honour of speaking at events of high repute including World Economic Forum ASEAN - Hanoi, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of Champions (Mini-Davos) – Tianjin, AP AgriTech - Visakhapatnam, ASEAN Marketing Forum – Jakarta, Geospatial World Forum – Hyderabad, Sustainable Food Systems – Bangkok, Better Rice Initiative – Vietnam, NGTech - Salt Lake City, Vibrant Gujarat – Gandhinagar, etc. | Digi Agri | Digi Agri focuses on more crop - per drop, per acre,per dollar by making agriculture digitally transformed. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Nepal, Bangladesh | Yes | Huawei OpenLab | Scaling | The idea initiated in March 2017 after which it was successfully piloted in different countries of Southeast Asia as MyCrop brand. Now, with the evolved version as Digi Agri, we are focusing on digital transformation in Agriculture using cutting edge technologies to serve every ecosystem player of agriculture. Already, we are at the pilot stage in two districts of Rajasthan state. So, overall the proven innovation has shown an impact on the farmers that is why it is at the scaling stage. | Global Food Security, Climate Change and Agrarian Distress are three big challenges in Agriculture. Farmers do not get high productivity, access to market and access to credit/finance. There is only information but not an insight for them. The cost of cultivation is very high. | Digi Agri collects on-ground data about farm and farmer along with the third party data of weather, commodity prices, yield, etc. It also collects agronomic data with crop & pest patterns. All this data goes into our Machine Learning Algorithm to provide actionable insights to all. We tell farmers what to grow when to grow and how to grow based upon their contextual data. For, agribusinesses we optimize their supply chain. For NGOs, we help them to benchmark their activities of the project. For Government, the insights help for policy intervention. Our product AgFin which is for Agriculture Finance and developed on top of Digi Agri provides real-time contextual credit rating of farmers for Banks & Financial Institutions. Our long term vision for global impact is to improve the profitability of 1.8 billion smallholder farmers by leveraging innovative digital technologies and traceability with Blockchain. Also, to control the food security our R&D focus is on vertical farming like Hydroponics & Aeroponics. | Our solution can be directly deployed on-ground with the farmers as we collect multiple data points for contextual datasets to understand each and every farmer. Whereas other solutions are more focused on either technology or platform but with limited data points and limited on-ground execution. Multiple data points help us to create a rich analysis of farm/farmer data. We serve all type of farmers to help them increase their profitability whereas most solutions available right now are focused on serving large farmers. We have a holistic solution which is highly customizable with the possibility of multiple deployments options, on-premise, public/private cloud. | Digi Agri solution has reached to the level where, by Machine Learning algorithms using Tensorflow and RASA, we can help farmers recommending what exactly is right for them and available for them. Also, we are able to integrate third-party data from IoT, Drones, Satellite, etc. We have created a chatbot using AI/ML for the farmers to assist them as per their requirement. Agronomy wise, our R&D is focused on Hydroponics and Aeroponics. | 2019: Registered Farmers - 2,250 & Revenue - 0.05 MIL US$ 2020: Registered Farmers - 30,000 & Revenue - 1 MIL US$ 2021: Registered Farmers - 110,000 & Revenue - 5.7 MIL US$ 2022: Registered Farmers - 363,000 & Revenue - 25 MIL US$ 2023: Registered Farmers - 932,000 & Revenue - 86 MIL US$ 2024: Registered Farmers - 1.7 MIL & Revenue - 205 MIL US$ | Most critically, we need on-ground team/resources/fund support from the partners wherever we launch our solution. 2019: Agripreneurs - 30 & Amount for Expenses - 1 MIL US$ 2020: Agripreneurs - 300 & Amount for Expenses - 3 MIL US$ 2021: Agripreneurs - 1,000 & Amount for Expenses - 8 MIL US$ 2022: Agripreneurs - 3,000 & Amount for Expenses - 17 MIL US$ 2023: Agripreneurs - 7,000 & Amount for Expenses - 36 MIL US$ 2024: Agripreneurs - 12,000 & Amount for Expenses - 53 MIL US$ | Website: http://www.digi-agri.com AgFin for Agriculture Finance - https://youtu.be/mUDC2TnxlRY Digi Agri for Farm & Farmer Management - https://youtu.be/8ZbOszTVkTQ Digi Agri Farmer App - https://youtu.be/CI41tpdBLiQ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwoix2Qj07w https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=734384697001637&id=403557550537 | MyCrop solution was honored as Technology Pioneer 2018 by the World Economic Forum. AgFin product of Digi Agri was awarded as runners up at Grow Asia Hackathon 2019, Singapore. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
338 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tochukwu, Edwin | Emelone | Control-D | http://controld1.simplesite.com/ | Founder | male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | French | 60,000 Metric Tons of Cassava Tubers is lost annually in Nigeria at Pre-Harvest stage and this is caused by Pest Infestation and Diseases of the Cassava crops; Imagine, if this huge loss is averted, and the 60,000 Metric Tons of Cassava Tubers fully harvested and processed into Garri, Fufu, Tapioka, Cassava Flour and/ or even exported from Nigeria. There will be enough Cassava food Variety for the over 190 million Nigerians to eat daily and also enough to be exported that will grow the economy of Nigeria. This is what Motivated my Team and I to establish Control D. Control-D provides Notification Messages, Analytics and Advisory Support (Extension Services) to Chiomas Cassava Farm and Cassava Processing Center; to enable them control various pest and diseases such as Cassava Mosaic Virus affecting Cassava Crops on their farm. This services from Control-D have enabled Chiomas Cassava Farm and Cassava Processing Center increase the quantity of Cassava Tubers they harvested in their farms in Abia State Nigeria from 2 Metric Tons in 2017 to 12 Metric tons in 2018 where ordinarily, they would have again, experienced another Pre-harvest losses of over 10 metric tons of Cassava tubers in their usual procedure to Pest and Disease infestation that same year. They successfully processed these additionally saved 10 Metric Tons of Cassava Tubers into Cassava Flour, Garri, Tapioka and Fufu to serve over 800,000 Low Income Families in Abia State in 2018 as against 250,000 low income families that they served in 2017. | Emelone Tochukwu Edwin (35 Years), Founder of Control-D, a Madonna University Biochemistry Graduate, a Cassava Farmer with over 4 Years’ experience and in charge of sourcing for improved species of Cassava Stems from Agricultural research institutions in Nigeria. | Control-D | Agritech | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Nigeria | Yes | Npower Agro Volunteers | Scaling | Control-D is an online Platform that helps Cassava Farmers in Nigeria defeat Pest and Diseases. 60,000 Metric Tons of Cassava Tubers is lost annually in Nigeria at Pre-Harvest stage and this is caused by Pest Infestation and Diseases of the Cassava crops; Imagine, if this huge loss is averted, and the 60,000 Metric Tons of Cassava Tubers fully harvested and processed into Garri, Fufu, Tapioka, Cassava Flour and/ or even exported from Nigeria. | Control D is solving the problem of Pre-Harvest losses experienced by Cassava Farmers in Nigeria, Caused by Pest Infestation and Diseases of Cassava Crops. | How CONTROL-D Works. 1). We collate and analyze Data from Cassava Crop Farmers in Nigeria. 2). SMS $ EMAIL: We Notify and Advise Cassava crop farmers in Nigeria of Possible Disease Out-Break and Pest Infestation; Using information from our Data base in making Projections. 3). NEWS: Inform Local News Media. 4). Provide Extension Services and Advisory Support. In 2018, 2,000 Cassava Farmers in Nigeria registered and are currently accessing all the services we provide on Control-D Platform; we hope to have 15,000 Cassava Farmer in Nigeria fully register and also access all the services we provide on Control-D platform by December 2023;so as to comfortable reduce to 0% Pre-Harvest losses caused by Pest Infestation and Diseases of the Cassava crops in Nigeria. | CONTROL-D Provides Cassava Crop Farmers in Nigeria with Notification Messages through SMS, Email and through Control-D App, Analytics and Advisory Support to help them anticipate disease out-break for the Cassava crop on their farms and ways to prevent their spread. Although Currently, Control-D App is not Compatible will all Device; However, by December 2019, we are re-Launching a re-branded Control-D App that works well with all device when installed. | 1). Over 2,000 farmers in Nigeria will be served annually. 2). 60,000 Metric Tons of Pre-Harvest losses caused by Pest Infestation and Diseases of the Cassava crops will be Saved annually. 3). $5,000,000 in Value will be saved by farmers in Nigeria annually. | In 2018, 2,000 Cassava Farmers in Nigeria registered and are currently accessing all the services we provide on Control-D Platform; we hope to have 15,000 Cassava Farmer in Nigeria fully register and also access all the services we provide on Control-D platform by December 2023. | Control-D is sourcing for an Investment Support of $20,000 Only. With this support, we will achieve the following: Purchase on Lease, 2 Hectares of Land (30 Plots) in Aba Abia State Nigeria; which will be leased out to Cassava Farmers who sign Up to Control-D Subscription Model for Land Lease each Planting Season. Build a Control-D App that is compatible with all device by December 2019 at a total Cost of $2,000 only. | Control-D Link-- http://controld1.simplesite.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tochukwu-emelone-13637972/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_LO7xbNtLI https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MrCJPQo_UkvrVQRjqKIKGrH3aK3cQv39/view?usp=sharing | 1). 2016 Bank of Industry (BOI)--Youth Entrepreneurship Support Program (YES-Program) Award Winner (https://www.boi.ng/yes) 2). 2016 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Award (TEF Award 2016; https://www.tonyelumelufoundation.org) ; Award Fee $5,000, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
339 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rachel | Mountain | Energise Africa (Lendahand Ethex) | www.energiseafrica.com | Head of Communications | Female | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | I am a passionate believer that human ingenuity can meet the immense challenges that are currently being faced by humanity in the face of climate change and tackling the SDGs. However, our track record and successes to date have been patchy and now more than ever we need a concerted effort to focus everyone's attention on using the next 10 years to drastically reduce our carbon emissions and truly put the SDGs at the centre of all our decision making. I believe that my experience of working with the largest carbon market project developer, a leading NGO in the field of finance and deforestation, over 90 banks as part of a programme of work with UNEP FI and most recently two of Europe's most successful impact investing platforms gives me a unique perspective about what it takes to innovate for a positive global impact. To date the traditional models adopted by governments, multi-lateral development banks and private sector financial institutions have according to the Overseas Development Institutes recent report delivered minimal progress on blending finance and filling the significant investment gap needed to combat climate change and deliver on the SDGs. I believe that technological advancement and increasing motivations of citizens who know how important these issues are and want to act now to deliver real and lasting change is a major turning point for change. Energise Africa is an online impact investing platform that enables everyday people through the use of finance and technology to invest from just £50 in sustainable solar businesses operating in Africa, who as a result of this low cost finance can then provide pay-as-you-go solar home systems to low income families who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford to access life-changing solar electricity. Although currently the platform focuses on helping to accelerate the achievemnet of SDG 7 in Africa and supporting action on climate change there is no limit to the other sectors and geographies that this approach could be expanded to to disrupt and innovate the current status quo - putting individuals firmly in control of their money and using it to catalyse action on climate change and the SDGs. In addition, this unqiue approach has also benefitted by innovating in the ways insitutional monies are blended alongside individual investments piloting match funding, first loss capital, guarantees and default pools so that for every £1 invested by instituions a further £3 is invested by individuals. | Rachel joined Ethex & Energise Africa 2017 & is in charge of all marketing & communications activities - connecting everday people with sustainable businesses that need affordable finance to scale & grow in order to tackle climate change, address social inequality & build resilient communities. Combined both Energise Africa & Ethex have raised more than £80 million in investment for more than 90 organisations from a community of 17,000 invidiuals who want to use their money to generate social, environmental & financial impact. She has over 20 years of marketing and communications experience, particularly focused in the areas of green and sustainable finance. Most recently Rachel developed & executed marketing & communication strategies to promote the mainstream integration of ESG considerations into loans, equity, fixed income and insurance products of over 90 financial institutions and organisations as part of a joint programme of work between the Natural Capital Finance Alliance, UNEP FI and Global Canopy. Prior to this, Rachel was also responsible for marketing and communication strategies at several leading organisations including; EcoSecurities – a low carbon project developer (formally a subsidiary of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co) and the Climate Market and Investment Association (CMIA) which represents the interests of financial institutions in the delivery of climate investment policy and market mechanisms. Rachel holds a MA (Hons) in Business and Marketing from Heriot-Watt University and a Diploma in Marketing with the Chartered Institute of Marketing. | Energise Africa | enabling everyday people to invest in solar businesses - providing pay-as-you-go solar home systems to low income families in Africa | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Mali, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal, UK | Yes | UK aid, Virgin Unite, Good Energies Foundation, P4G, Lendahand and Ethex | Transition to Scale | Energise Africa is currently 22 months old & has raised £10 million in investment from 2,000 investors, enabling 12 solar businesses to provide 360,000 people with solar energy across 10 sub-Sahara countries, mitigating 78,000 tonnes of CO2 per year & having already paid almost £3 million back to investors. Energise Africa was also recognised by 20 governments at Mission Innovation as one of 100 clean tech solutions capable of scaling to deliver 3 gigatonnes of avoid CO2 emissions by 2030 | At current rates of investment, the UN estimates that SDG 7 will only be achieved by 2080 in Africa, 50 years too late. Low cost consumer credit does not currently exist in Africa, where 600 people have no access to energy. If solar businesses do not provide affordable payment plans then there are no other viable options for these families. However, to be able to do this then these businesses need to be able to secure $2.5 bn of additional financing over the next 5 years according to GOGLA. | Energise Africa is the product of the joint efforts of Ethex and Lendahand, two of Europe’s leading online impact investing platforms. Energise Africa demonstrates how UK-based everyday people can provide affordable finance for pioneering solar businesses operating in Africa to accelerate universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. Energise Africa makes it possible to start investing with just £50 in solar businesses installing systems in rural, Sub-Saharan African homes – allowing “pay-as-you-go” flexibility to low income households across Africa, bringing clean energy alternatives to families otherwise dependent on kerosene or diesel. The long term vision over the next 3 - 5 years is to expand Energise Africa enabling everyday people across Europe to invest in more sustainable businesses operating across the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. With the right funding and instiutional investment to blend alongside individual investors Energise Africa aims to raise a further £100 million in investment to enables a fruther 1 million people across Africa to access affordable solar electricity which would avoid 1.2 million tonnes of CO2 emissions being released into the atmosphere. The intention would also be to expand our focus to support the achievement of other SDGs in other geographies through mobilising small money from everyday people, at scale to deliver the investment flows which will be needed to deliver global impact. | No other company in the UK is using the power of ‘Fintech’ to connect a rapidly developing retail impact investing market to support the expansion of pay as you go solar in Africa. Energise Africa is using accessible financial products such as bonds and the Innovative Finance ISA and a low minimum investment of just £50 to bring mainstream social and environmental investment to everyday people. No other company is blending public & private institutional money with retail investment to de-risk investment opportunities in order to make them accessible to everyday individuals. In particular innovative approaches such as match funding, first loss capital, guarantees & default pools are being utilised to give individual investors protection and are achieveing blended finance rates of £1 of insitutional investment to £3 in retail investment. No other company is providing individual investors with a direct connection with their money and enabling them to track the social, environmental and financial impact that their money is having on the lives of people in Africa via a personalised portfolio environment. Energise Africa puts people in control of how they use their money. No longer do they have to put up with being told by their banks that this isn't possible or invest in funds that only ring fence bad practices. As a result of Energise Africa everyone has the capabiilty to get involved in impact investing with easily accessible and highly transparent investment opportunities. | The Energise Africa platform is almost 2 years old and is financially regulated by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority, so there is significant oversight and rigour in the investments we list and how we market those investments. In addition, we have a number of key partners and have established a series of Key Performance Indicators to track our progress which include: - Total amount of investment made via the platform - Total institutional investments vs retail investments - Number of people who now can access affordable solar energy - Tonnes of CO2 avoided per annum - Number of businesses / jobs created via productive use solar - Amount of repayments made to investors - Number of invesment raises - Number of solar businesses provided with affordable finance - Number of African countries covered - Number of people registered on the plafrom So far the team has generated £10 million in investnent, from 2,000 people, via 76 invidual raises for 12 solar businesses, putting life-changing solar electricitry within the financial reach of 360,000 people, across 10 African countries and avoiding almost 80,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions. | Over the next 1 - 2 years we plan on expanding the number of solar businesses we provide finance to more than 25 and significantly increase the number of sub- Saharan countries that those business operate in from 10 currently to 20. Our intention over the next 3 - 5 years is to enable everday people from across Europe to be able to invest from £50 in Energise Africa with priority markets being Holland, Germany and the Nordics. We aim to develop more financial mechanisms such as a retail fund, credit default pool and guarantee so that we can signficantly scale up investments from individuals and successfully blend this with more finance from donor governments, foundations and institutions to achieve rates of £5 : £1. By expanding both our pipeline of investable solar businesses and enabling ordinary people from across Europe to be able to invest from £50 and use small money to catalyse action on climate change and the SDGs we aim to provide a further £100 million of investment into the roll out of decentralised renewables in sub-Saharan Africa putting solar electricity within the reach of a further 1 million people across the region and avoiding 1.2 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum. | In the short term Energise Africa needs more resource to increase the number of investable opportunities coming onto the platform. Networking with organisations like the GEF and UNDP to determine what early stage businesses and projects would benefit from this kind of funding would be advantageous. In addition, we need to promote and educate people about the role that money plays in climate change and how individuals have choices to invest small amounts of money directly in sustainable businesses - a major policy recommendation which was made by the European Commission's High Level Working Group on Sustainable Finance. Traditional financial institutions are not providing people with the products they want and the transparency they need. Finance and Technology is enabling organisations like Energise Africa to disrupt and innovate to do just that. However, there is a lack of awareness that these choices exist so a high profile campaign educating and empowering citizens to use their money for good would be very beneficial. In the medium term, Energise Africa requires further funding from donor governments to launch investment propositions in other EU countries, as well as funding to develop more innovative financial mechanisms to protect investors and significantly scale the blended finance that our platform can deliver to really accelerate the achievement of SDG7 and action on climate change. | 1) Energise Africa Website https://www.energiseafrica.com/ 2) Partnering for Green Growth - Energise Africa was one of the first start up partnerships to receive funding. to accerlerate green growth. https://p4gpartnerships.org/partnership/energise-africa 3) Articles in the Guardian Energise Africa has been profiled in the Guardian on several occasions for its pioneering work from an impact investing perspective. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/jul/06/ethical-investing-energise-africa-a-solar-scheme-with-the-power-to-change-lives https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/15/invest-solar-energy-energise-frica 4) Articles and videos in Global Citizen Energise Africa worked with Global Citizent to educate their movement about the need for people to take control of their money and use it in a way that can support action on climate change and the SDGs. https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/impact-investment-what-is-it-how-to-make-money/ https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/women-solar-energise-africa-impact-investing/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=uk&utm_campaign=general-content&linkId=69342761 5) UK Government announcement about funding for Energise Africa https://www.gov.uk/government/news/british-expertise-boosts-innovative-solar-technologies-across-africa 6) Energise Africa Youtube Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd5-vqH9ZH0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFaAkjW-kU0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0pJp1Xc10Y | I have spoken at a number of different events and also participated in several interviews. Below are some of the media outlets I've had coverage in and online videos and I was also asked by P4G to represent Energise Africa at the 2019 World Economc Forum. - BBC Radio 4 interview on ethical investing (May 2019) - DFID's Transforming Energy Access event (April 2019) - Why social Enterprise online summit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqxcHwBK6Bg&feature=youtu.be (March 2019) - Putting practical action at the heart of the World Economic Forum https://good-with-money.com/2019/01/25/putting-practical-action-at-the-heart-of-the-world-economic-forum/ - Mobilising Money, Foresight Climate and Energy (January 2019) | Energise Africa (Lendahand Ethex) was recognised by 20 Governments as one of 100 clean energy solutions that had the potential to scale to deliver 3 gigatons of avoided CO2 emissions by 2030 https://www.misolutionframework.net/solutions/mi4/name?page=3 In addition Energise Africa has been entered for the Zayed Sustainability Prize and the UK's Civil Service Awards in 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
340 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kossivi Nevaeme | ADESSOU | Global Network of Civil Society Organization for Disaster Reduction | www.gndr.or | Regional Development Coordinator | M | Senegal | Togo | English | French | Despite multiple efforts the world leaders, and others actors are deploying everyday, we seem not be able to make our effort going beyond the needs of the environment and the human being. Actors are always surprised of the way the different events hit the sensitivity of human being. Global efforts are done and the world has shown that though different views exist, there is possible to join hand and work together to save the planet. However, those efforts have shown their limits either because of lack of ambition or because of geopolitics and its implications. By coming with the idea of integrated approach of the global frameworks, I am expecting to suggest a practical way we can achieve in a very short time and with less money than usual, some great steps in resoling the degradation of the environment and its impact on humanity that totally, depends from the environment. This experience is at its main beginning but entities we have been talking to seem to believe in coherence. Some experience conducted in some zones provide great outcome and we believe that decision makers should own this process and integrate it in their country development plan. This is about shifting the paradigm and changing the way we used to do things up to now. I strongly believe in the need to think and apply coherence as a strategy offered to the world to achieve a lot in a very short time left. This is the reason why, I am eager to share our understanding of coherence and if needs be connect decision makers with others actors who can support for a concrete and applicable coherence strategy in the field. | I am Adessou Kossivi, with backgroung in litterature and analysis. I have also developped capacity in International Environmental Law. With 10 years of experience in environment as a broad them with focus on climate change and Energy, Youth and Development and Disaster Risk Management, I have crossed and conducted some analysis on the huge activities government are doing, the great expertise that exist and the lack of result we are all facing when it comes to solve the urgent problems of the planet. I have worked in Togo, Mozambique and currently I am based in Dakar, Senegal where I am working as the Regional Development Coordinator for Global Network of Civil Society Organization for Disaster Reduction. For the last 5 years I played a significant role at this position trying to gather CSO views and connecting CSO with governments. I have developed great expertise in Capacity Building, Project Monitoring and Negotiations | Coherent implementation of the Post 2015 AGENDA | In following through the global development agendas such as the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), CO | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Thailand, Philippines and Chilie | Yes | GIZ, Colleagues, | Research & Development | It is at stage of innovation as it is something people should learn about, understand and adopt. | This solution can solve many others problems the current actors are going through - Duplication of activities - Duplication of resources and energy - Inefficiency of actions due to silos | This solution can work at short term if the process is owned by the actors | The solution is unique as it is a multi actors, multidisciplinary approach | The research are conducted in the fields and some findings exist | We expect a support of financial partners to spread the solution in 8 countries in the western and central Africa. | - Political will, - Finance and - Competent human resources | https://www.gndr.org/programmes/coherence.html | Not available | Not yet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
341 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joweri | Namulondo | Zenith Pads | In process | Team Lead | Female | Uganda | Uganda | English | My motivation is rooted from the need to present my unique and innovative solution, Zenith pads to key decision makers and the entire world at the UN Solutions summit. I would like to share with the world how my innovation Zenith pads is keeping girls in school in rural Uganda. As an innovation, these pads are made using simple tools such as fibre and sowed locally by teen mothers using their hands. Zenith pads is solving menstrual cahllenges by providing women and girls with a sustainable solution to manage their periods with pride, honor and respect. Zenith pads is an innovation that seeks to promote menstrual hygiene management among adolescent girls and young women in Uganda. It is important to note that menstruation affects every woman in the world for as long as they are reproductive age. I would like to present to the world how Zenith Pads as an initiative is tackling menstrual stigma and discrimination as a way of keeping girls in school. Zenith pads provides a comprehensive package including pads, disposal bag, period pain management information with the entire menstrual kit well packaged in a wallet bag. | Joweri Namulondo is a 23 year old Ugandan female social innovator, feminist, sexual reproductive health and rights advocate and an SDG champion working to advance sustainable development goals 3, 4, 5, 16 and 17. Joweri holds a bachelors degree in social sciences from Makerere University and currently pursuing her masters degree in Democracy and Development studies from Uganda Martyrs University. Due to her overwhelming passion for women and girls's rights, Joweri founded Zenith pads to provide sustainable solutions to women and girls to manage their periods with pride. | Zenith pads | Periods with pride and honour | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | At the moment, Zenith pads are sold in Uganda. However, zenith pads envisions being sold every where in the world. | Yes | Assorted Trends Africa, Buwagi Teen mothers club, schools | Transition to Scale | Zenith pads is at the translation to scale stage because it was unveiled to the market in April 2019. Currently, the production rate is 100 pads per week and there is a plan to increase production rate to at least 500 pads per week by January 2020. Also, there is a plan to increase capital stock of the innovation from 500 USD to at least 1000 USD by January 2020 | Menstruation is common female experience that every woman of reproductive age undergoes. Girls and women rely on unclean products like old cloth, toilet paper, leaves, papers which are unhygienic, uncomfortable and risks their reproductive health. This commonly affects school children.1 in every 4 girls in Uganda miss school due to menstruation and miss school 4-5 days every month. This increases their likelihood of school dropout, child marriage and hampers their future economic opportunities | Zenith pads employs simple product technology to offer women and girls a sustainable solution to manage their periods. They are locally made by a teen mothers club of 5 members. A menstrual kit comprises of 3 re-usable pads, a storage ransacks, brochure with information of how to maintain proper menstrual hygiene and period pain, well packaged in a wallet size cloth bag. The entire kit is sold at 3 USD whilst for school girls, we sell them individual pads at a half a dollar which is cost effective and easy for them to afford compared to the available menstrual products on the market. Zenith pads is eco friendly because the kit comprises of a storage ransack where a girl or woman can keep her used pad before washing. These pads can be used for a period of up to 12 months. The pads are packaged in a wallet size cloth bag which makes it easy and comfortable for one to carry. This is the uniqueness of this innovation because it also enables a woman or girl to break the stigma surrounding carrying a pad. So far, Zenith pads has reached 100 school girls with reusable pads. In the long them, Zenith pads envisions a world where no girl misses school due to menstruation; a world where every girl full harnesses her potential career and economic dreams. | Zenith pads Menstrual Kits are reusable sanitary pads designed to provide ultimate feminine care to women and girls. The pads are ultra-absorbent, natural, extra soft with a good scent which makes them unique from other re-usable pads on the market. Zenith pads do not cause skin irritations and rashes which are commonly caused by disposable pads. The new methodology used by Zenith pads is packaging the menstrual kit in a wallet size cloth bag because the kits can be carried anywhere comfortably and proudly without any one knowing. On addition to the providing sanitary wear, zenith pads also break stigma and discrimination surrounding menstruation. Similarly, zenith pads also provide information on general menstruation hygiene management including period control and sanitation. All this is provided on the brochure that is incorporated within the kit. The other new perspective is that Zenith pads has two packages; (1) menstrual kit (2) individual pads. The two packages are priced differently and hence it gives one a chance to select one of their choice. | Zenith pads started production in April 2019 and currently, the product is on the market. We have secured partnership with 3 schools and 2 non-government organizations whom we supply our product to. We have so far sold over 1500 pads and we hope to scale up and reach more girls with zenith reusable pads. Progress is measured by the increment on the number of kits produced; supplied and the revenue that accrues from the sale. | Zenith pads will be a fully registered company and fully certified with the Uganda National Bureau of Standards by May 2020. Additionally, we plan to increase on the production rate to at least 200 menstrual kits per week, secure 10 partner schools to be supplied to, penetrate the informal market targeting women and girls out of school hence will recruit an additional 10 teen mothers. Wholesomely, we aim at increasing our reach to 10000 girls and women both in and out of school. | Short term: Training for trainers so that I can train and recruit more teen mothers in production Materials used in making zenith reusable pads including 5 sowing machines, paper templates and cotton fabrics. Medium term Registration with Uganda Registration Service Bureau and a certificate of incorporation Certification with Uganda National Bureau of Standards Long term Five-year strategic plan 2020-2025 Additional finance of USD 5000 to invest | https://web.facebook.com/Zenithpads/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://namulondojoweri.wordpress.com/2019/05/20/priotise-period-pain-management-and-leave-no-reproductive-girl-behind/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60V6Wrzkvj4&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1wf0DnT1STbRNIBw8h2j_NBI46KmKk9yBRKU3-JqPPhMC55q6MlL0C23I | Global peace Ambassador by Global peace chain December 2018 Young African Leaders Initiative YALI by YALI Regional Leadership center Nairobi October 2018 Youth delegate to the Africa Health International Conference in Kigali 2019 by International Planned Parenthood Africa Regional Office Adolescent and Youth delegate to Partners Forum in New Delhi December 2018 by the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, Adolescent and Child Health. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
342 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rita | Luthra | Women's Health and Education Center (WHEC) | http://www.WomensHealthSection.com | President | Female | United States of America | India | English | LINK (Learning Innovation Network for Knowledge Solution) Access Project - To provide access to reproductive health research worldwide. The WHEC Global Health Line aims to establish with programs in low- and middle-income countries, to improve maternal and child health, in collaboration with the developed countries, of mutual benefit and mutual respect, through its LINK Access Project. We have been instrumental in developing the syllabus for the continuing medical education curriculums - currently serving in 227 countries and territories and providing access to evidence-based research and research initiatives in wide variety of women's and children's health and well-being projects and program. Currently we are serving 14 million healthcare providers every year worldwide. Our activities and action is placing public heatlh on the agenda and it is catalyzing collborative networks - cutting across disciplines, sectors and borders. WHEC provides free access and educational programs to Least Developed Countries (LDC), identified by UNDP. The use of information science and telecommunications to support the practice of medicine when distance separates the caregiver from the patient is the way forward to make medical care more affordable and more accessible in every country. A strong and vital health workforce is an investment in health for today and the future. It has profound effect on all the citizens of the world, political, social, and economic systems. | Dr. Rita Luthra is President of The Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) which is NGO (non-governmental organization) in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. She has worked with various international organizations, such as the UNA-USA, Peace Corps, Population Council and World Health Organization. She has 25 years of expertise in the project/program development at the National and International levels with various respectable international organizations, and innovative health technology systems such as telemedicine, online distance education and various e-Health management systems. She was born and grew up in Rajasthan, India and currently resides in Massachusetts, USA. She received her education and medical degree (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) M.B.B.S. from University of Rajasthan, Jaipur (India) in 1974. M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) in Obstetrics and Gynecology, in 1978 from The Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh (India). After finishing the residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Boston, MA (USA) she received Fellowship in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, in 1986. Currently working with the UN and WHO on various initiatives to achieve Universal Health Care (UHC) and improve maternal and child health. She is Editor-in-Chief of the e-learning publications: http://www.WomensHealthSection.com and WHEC Update. | LINK Access Project - To provide access to reproductive health research worldwide | The philosophy behind this purpose is based on the belief that continuing education is a life-time commitment requiring knowledge of current trends. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | We are currently serving in 227 countries and territories and all of UN Member States | Yes | United Nations and the World Health Organization | Sustainable Scale | Yes, This initiative with the United Nations was launched on 24 October 2002. We have steadily made progress and our popularity is growing fast with US Education system and other countries' educaitonal system. Established in 2001, The Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC) undertakes initiatives with the United Nations (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO), to achieve the hopes and dreams of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with special focus on Maternal and Child Health. | To improve Maternal and Child Health; Supports various international policies, such as Health21 - The health for all policy framework, to ensure the use of health impact assessment (HIA) To provide information / data healthcare providers need to work more efficiently and effectively; To provide healthcare providers best-practices, evidence-based medical knowledge available to practice medicine in the field and even in rural areas. | Our e-resource is devoted to promote health and educational projects and programs in collaboration with the UN and WHO; and it is created by researchers, experts, governmental agencies and other specialists who have professional knowledge of a particular field and have accumulated information and data about it. Policy implications of big data in the health sector - Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a fast emerging area in Information Technology (IT) in healthcare. Increasingly massive data collections are being used for both clinical improvements and population health advances. WHEC is working with Health & Education related links and networks. | Our e-resource is available in all 6 official languages of the United Nations. To compile WHEC Practice Bulletins 50 academic journals are researched and our Physician's Board identifies and compiles the reviews for clinical management of the patients. We hope our efforts contribute to improved and informed care. WHEC Publications contains high quality independent evidence for health care decison-making. It includes numerous access options including via keyword. | We are currently serving in 227 countries and territories. We serve about 14 million subscribers every year. The data is collected every day and the impact factor is calculated every month. The Yearly Project Summary report is distributed to all the partners. See UN DPI •UN Document – Annual Project Report – February 2017 (page 4) http://www.womenshealthsection.com/content/documents/Announcements_6_Feb_2017.pdf We need assistance with the fund development | We have plans to expand our educational projects and programs in the rural areas and with the Least Developed Countries. •WHO | e-Learning Publication: WomensHealthSection.com http://www.womenshealthsection.com/content/documents/WHO_PMNCH_and_WomensHealthSection.pdf •PMNCH (Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, Child Health) | WHO | WHEC Member Since May 2011 http://www.womenshealthsection.com/content/documents/PMNCH_Membership_Since_2011.pdf | The Women’s Health and Education Center (WHEC), grounded in the vision of equality as enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and achievement of equality between women and men as partners and as beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action, peace and security. The healthy future of society depends on the health, education and technology literacy of today’s children, women and communities. Gender equality, including in education, is a condition for development. Fully open-access with no article-processing charges. We welcome everyone! •Our initiatives are also posted on CSO Net (Civil Society Network) on Projects on World Map ID # 364; title: Continuing Medical Education for the Globalized World. https://esango.un.org/irene/?page=viewContent&type=2&nr=364§ion=2 •Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy – WHEC’s Commitments, Action & Progress http://www.everywomaneverychild.org/commitment/womens-health-and-education-center/ | http://womenshealthsection.com/ •2019 UN Document – Commission on Population and Development Economic and Social Council, E/CN.9/2019/NGO/3 Title: Affordable contraception counseling and services to improve compliance and achieve 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda http://www.womenshealthsection.com/content/documents/N1901016.pdf •2019 UN Document – Commission for Social Development Economic and Social Council, E/CN.5/2019/NGO/1 Title: Ending Child Marriage and Protecting Vulnerable Girls & Women https://undocs.org/E/CN.5/2019/NGO/1 •2018 UN Document – Commission on Population and Development Economic and Social Council, E/CN.9/2018/NGO/2 Title: Building the Capacity to Care http://www.womenshealthsection.com/content/documents/N1800296.pdf In 2018 at High Level Political Forum (HLPF), she presented WHEC Global Health Line’s (WGHL’s) LINK (Learning and Innovation Network for Knowledge Solutions) Access Project – To provide access to reproductive health research worldwide, at UN Headquarters, New York (USA). Available @ UN Web TV: http://webtv.un.org/watch/player/5807660229001 | 2018– We had organized, participated and presented in 2018 Side Event during HLPF (High Level Political Forum) at UN Headquarters, New York (USA), Room # 5, this LINK (Learning Innovation Network for Knowledge) Access Project: To Provide Access to Reproductive Health Research Worldwide; title “Effective tools employed by Major Groups and other Stakeholders in the 2030 Agenda, implementation, follow up and review SDGs Learning, Training and Practice.” Available on UN Web TV: http://webtv.un.org/watch/player/5807660229001 | 1.2018 UN DPI NGO Tuesday Chat Series In collaboration with UN DPI and UNICEF Title: Why Do Child Marriages Still Exist in Today’s World? https://outreach.un.org/ngorelations/sites/outreach.un.org/files/article_files/chat_17_april_2018-_rsvp.pdf Discussion: https://outreach.un.org/ngorelations/content/dpi-ngo-chat-series-why-do-child-marriages-still-exist-todays-world-17-april-2018 Please visit Letters of Support Page: http://www.womenshealthsection.com/content/whec/letters.php3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
343 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Craig | Beech | Peace Parks Foundation | www.peaceparks.org | New Technologies Programme Manager | Male | South Africa | South Africa | English | I have been involved with Peace Parks Foundation for the past 19 years. In sharing input, support, knowledge, innovation and the transfer of capacity to many practitioners and stakeholders from all sectors in natural resource utilization, I feel a small contribution has been made. The way in which the Foundation has spearheaded and facilitated Transfrontier Conservation efforts dramatic impacts have been made on landscape conservation, protection of biodiversity and how improvements have been made to the livelihoods of communities living in and adjacent to these networks of protected areas. With the onset of the 4th Industrial Revolution, I feel that by integrating and bundling technologies in creative and innovative manners, not only will further benefits flow, but the opportunity to exponentially impact and disrupt these sectors is the primary driver and objective of mainstreaming technologies. By presenting some of the approaches have employed and look to deploy through imminent Proof of Concepts and trials, sharing this knowledge, networking and garnering knowledge from other similar presentations can only drive innovation and solutions to assist with data gathering and reporting on the SDGs. | Craig’s role at PPF is to provide strategic technological expertise to Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) within the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The approach the Foundation has taken is to adopt new and emerging technologies, while developing and driving ecological solutions focusing on landscape conservation level objectives. Additional support programmes that the New Technologies PPF work towards are those of Combatting Wildlife Crime, Geospatial Solutions, Community Development Programmes, and improved Tourism experience platforms. | Clean Energy to the Rural Household (CeTTH) | Crowd Carbon offsetting through the Blockchain to supply Clean Energy to the Rural Household | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Mozambique; Zambia | Yes | SunSynk | Proof of Concept | We have clearly defined the specifications of the project. We have a clear business case which accounts for the Carbon Trading, the development costs of the Clean Energy Ecosystem to be installed for each housled, and we have the Blockchain development defined within a Cloud environment, and about to receive the Internet of Things device to measure and transmit the data to cloud for the measuring of and the use of Clean Energys. | Peace Parks Foundation's (PPF) New Technologies Programme (NTP) offer communities and protected areas access to cost effective, clean energy solutions. We propose the use of clean energy solutions to communities subsidised by donors and funders. This is lighting up rural households, reducing hazardous and toxic fuel use and offering a first of its kind DC induction stove for cooking. Creating a safe and contained small household electrification solution. | The clean energy solution is installed at rural/ community household level. Which includes the following. Solar Panels; Battery Stack (storing solar power for use after sunset). Two to 4 LED Lights with suitable length cables for household and room lighting; ); USB Charging ports to charge feature & smart phones and radio to be run from battery pack; an Induction single plate stove running directly from 48v; and a Smart Control Unit (SCU) – this is housed within the battery assembly - a neatly bundled unit, the electronics of which will measure solar irradiation stored. It is required to offer battery life remaining for lights/ charging and cooking respectively. This unit will communicate over WiFi; /GSM and the Internet of Things (IoT) which can transmit data on daily / weekly or monthly usage and statics to a cloud server. The data in the cloud will be linked to green projects and algorithms will calculate carbon equivalents of the energy use, and the saving of fossil fuel use, all enabled and secured in a cloud environment. Rural households will evoke social tithing and carbon offsetting from developed urban folk to support the procurement and long term use of these clean energies in rural homes. | The carbon equivalents which are sequestered through the use of these clean energies will be sold as carbon credits to willing crowd buyers and the equivalent value of money will be paid to each household. Each household will have procured the solar equipment by means of a loan, and this will be paid off by the mere use of the solar ecosystem. Once the loan amount has been repaid, each individual home will then be able to generate an additional income through this funding and support mechanism. The database and systems architecture will be run in the cloud, backed by Blockchain technology to invoke accountability, transparency and irrefutability. The Smart Control Unit employs IoT and Machine-to-Machine data transmission to autonomously calculate energy harvesting and consumption and convert to carbon equivalents. The “proof of work” is determined by the unit and what it has been used for -charging and running of devices, and fossil fuel free cookstoves. Smart Contracts within the Blockchain will allow for the social-tithe financial transaction to take place, if all compliances are met and certified. In addition, trust and security of these transactions, and carbon credits accumulated and traded are securely stored in the permissioned blockchain. Further benefits of this are the reduced burden of fees associated with auditing and brokerages as are incurred through other carbon trade projects. | We have the solar equipment installed in a contained test environment. We have the prototype DC induction stove connected and trialed to run for a couple of hours of cooking. The Smart Control Unit prototype is under development and should be in production in early September. The permissioned Blockchain has been designed according to this projects needs, requirements and specifications and will commence development within the next 2 months. By September the entire workflow will be operational in a simulated environment, and then migrated into the Blockchain, as they development matures. Standard project management, monitoring and reporting is being undertaken together with the enablement of an online dashboarding web application to showcase all associated metrics. | Prototype testing will commence in a secure contained environment during the course of the next few weeks. On boarding and configuration of the Blockchain will take place during this time. Refinements and adjustments will be made. Once we are happy with the entire ecosystem and its ruggedness a Proof of Concept (PoC) will be trialed in Mozambique to 100 households. These houses are a part of a resettled community from Limpopo National Park in Gaza Province of Mozambique. This Field-based PoC will be run for a minimum of 6 months in 2020+ and once we are happy with results, we will look to scale and prioritise deployment and implementation within Southern Africa's 10 priority Transfrontier Conservation Areas. Franchising of the concept and solution during this time is also envisaged. | Short Term: Preparation for PoC: 1) 100 Bundles of the Solar Ecosystem for each household. $600 (US) per bundle 2) Smart Control Unit Prototype to Production: $10 000 (US) 3) Cloud and Blockchain Development: $100 000 (US) Mid Term: Scale to Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park Additional funding and production support of 10 000 units Long Term: Support to all Transfrontier Conservation Areas in southern Africa 100 000 units Business Model and Franchise Model development $250 000 (US) | https://www.peaceparks.org/ https://peaceparks.org/how/new-technologies/ https://www.peaceparks.org/gis/ https://www.peaceparks.org/how/combating-wildlife-crime/ https://www.peaceparks.org/microsoft-enables-south-african-npos-to-drive-greater-impact-through-digital-transformation/ https://www.peaceparks.org/enlisting-microsoft-azure-in-the-fight-against-rhino-poaching-2/ https://www.peaceparks.org/new-technology-transform https://www.peaceparks.org/conservation-agriculture-farmers-on-the-move/s-protected-area-management/ https://www.peaceparks.org/training-videos-for-simalaha-community-conservancy/ | None compiled or related specific to this CeTTH project as yet. | None as of yet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
344 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Martyn | Cowsill | MicroGen Renewables | www.microgenrenewables.com | Director of R&D | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | French | The traditional method for identifying sites where run-of-river hydropower can be installed, is lengthy, expensive, and results only in individual sites being developed one at a time. This prevents widespread exploitation of run-of-river hydropower because individual sites cost roughly $100k to buy and to install. This is far too expensive for rural off-grid communities in the developing world, but ironically it is not expensive enough for impact investors who are not interested in such small ""ticket size"" - they usually insist on investment sums >$10m. So hydropower, despite the fact that it has the lowest ""levelised cost of electricity"" of any technology, suffers from ""pilotitis"" i.e. the phenomenon whereby Africa is littered with individual hydropower installations with no hope of scale. From satellite, however, using state-of-the-art earth observation technology, we have surveyed all of Uganda's rivers and have identified 1,352 sites where the same 20kW ""EasyHydro"" kit would be suitable. This brings significant economies of scale for the first time to the hydropower industry, but more importantly, it triggers real interest among the financiers. We can now present to them an investment portfolio of $135m. In partnership with the Uganda Rural Electrification Agency, we now have the opportunity to provide hundreds of off-grid rural communities with the dynamics of mini-grid technology. 20kW mini-grids can power a new milling machine, a commercial refrigeration unit (for crops), a briquette-making machine, plus 100 homes, plus the local school and the local health centre. The economies of scale in the installation of hydropower equipment allows us to provide each community with $30k of agricultural produce processing equipment (APPE) Together, the supply of ""productive use"" quantities of electricity, along with APPE, are a catalyst for job creation, post-harvest crop waste reductions, value-added crops and a more ""bankable"" project for prospective investors. Rather than worry that they will not get their Return on Investment, the investor sees improved profitability in what were previously subsistence farming communities. | Martyn Cowsill is the founder and Managing Director of MicroGen Renewables. He has a thirty-three year career history of business development and marketing in both service and manufacturing industries. He has a postgraduate qualification in professional B2B marketing (Lancaster University Business School 1999) and has won Chamber of Commerce Export awards for his work in developing new overseas markets and in new product development from TRL1 to TRL9. His work since establishing the company has been focused on the development and improvement of energy-efficiency and renewable energy technologies among a like-minded but independent group of SMEs in the UK, work which has given him an excellent grounding in international collaborative R&D projects and the management of project expenditure. MicroGen Renewables owns the Intellectual Property to the satellite-based earth observation technology known as ""ISMO"" which is at the heart of mini-grid proliferation in Uganda. He is married with two children, speaks French and German, and spends his spare time running round the house ""switching the bloody lights off!"" | Super Mini-grids | Enabling self-sustaining micro hydropower mini-grids at scale | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Initially we work in Sub-Saharan Africa | Yes | Smart Villages (www.e4sv.org), Uganda Ministry of Energy ""Rural Electrification Agency"" | Transition to Scale | We have completed a 2-year ""proof of concept"" in Uganda, in which we completed the development of the satellite-based earth observation technology and identified sites where the ""Super Mini-grid"" concept would be suitable. We now seek to roll-out this technology through a replication of the business model. | Soar PV mini-grids of the size needed for ""productive use"" of electricity (i.e. >15kW) require large battery banks. Despite the improvements in battery technology over recent years, the conditions, under which mini-grids operate in Sub-Saharan Africa, are extremely demanding and usually result in a premature end to battery life-cycle. They are very expensive to replace. Hydropower does not need batteries, but could not reach ""scale"", as explained above. | The traditional method of developing run-of-river hydropower (as described above) results in the design of hydropower equipment to suit an individual site. Each design is bespoke. This prevents economies of scale. Our approach is to reverse this aspect. Instead of designing equipment for the river, we begin with a hydropower ""kit"", then we find places where it will fit. From satellite we can identify first the technical requirement of run-of-river hydropower: a) the gradient of the river needs to be as steep as possible so as to create ""head"", and b) the river flow (quantity of water) needs to be sufficient all year round to power the turbines. Next we identify the economic viability of the sites by measuring the distance from river to the community (we include datasets of schools, health-centres, trading centres, houses) so that the costs of power poles and cabling can be controlled and mini-grid lay-out can be designed using satellite imagery. We can also exclude any environmentally sensitive sites (e.g. national parks). Because the technology relies on satellite-based earth observation technology, we can repeat the work done in Uganda in any country in the world. | There is nothing innovative about hydropower - this is one of the strengths of our business model. Hydropower turbines are a very mature technology which has some advantages over other electricity generating technologies. The innovation lies in enabling scale. By enabling scale we gain access to finance. Through scale and the standardisation of equipment and of installation methodology, we provide a platform from which to develop and sustain the service & repair elements of the supply chain that are usually weak and underdeveloped in developing countries - with the prospect of hundreds of mini-grids to support, the supply chain in all its forms .and can be replicated in large numbers. But the main innovation is in the inclusion of electrically-powered agricultural produce processing equipment with which to make ""productive use"" of the new electricity supplies. | The development of the satellite-based technology began in 2012. In partnership with the University of Leicester (UK) and with funding from the UK Government's ""Innovate UK"" programme, we have taken this technology from TRL1 to TRL8. Full commercialisation has not been possible yet due to the innovative nature of our business model. The private sector investor network has more than enough money to make widespread use of this technology possible, but those investors still need to see proof that by providing electricity and machinery to a remote off-grid community in Sub-Saharan Africa, we can boost the economic activity of that community and thereby put the farmers in a better position from which to pay for the electricity (the sale of electricity in sufficient quantities is the key to ensuring a return on investment). Technically, therefore, the concept is sound. We have field-tested the identification of multiple sites where micro hydropower ""Super Mini-grids"" would be a) technically feasible, b) environmentally acceptable, and c) economically viable. The next stage of development (to TRL9) comes with proof that this business model stimulates the kind of economic activity required for mini-grids to be self-sustaining | Each Super Mini-grid will connect a minimum of 100 households, but more importantly it will connect 3 - 5 ""productive users"". A plan being developed now with the Rural Electrification Agency of Uganda provides for 400 such mini-grids, to be installed over a six year period, at a total Capex of $43m. This kind of scale requires the development of a mature and robust supply chain within Uganda, but it also enables that development. Simultansous to this work in Uganda, we are already in discussions with the Nigerian Rural Electrification Agency for replication of this work at a large scale (it is estimated that the potential for similar 20kW turbines is more than 6-fold that of Uganda). | The enabling of large numbers of micro hydro mini-grids is an innovation which disrupts several aspects of the mini-grid industry. Replication of the work in Uganda for other countries is now technically possible, but requires a change in paradigm among those agencies within the hydropower industry (installation teams, manufacture at scale) and those within the global effort to improve ""Access to Electricity"" (A2E). Short-term needs: finance to enable the first ten Super Mini-grids, and to measure and record the economic impact among those ten communities over a minimum 12 month crop cycle. This first stage requires more than the simple funding of ten mini-grids ($1m) - it also requires $1m to facilitate the necessary community engagement, benchmarking of community economic activity, and early stage support of new enterprises in those communities. Total cost: $2m over a 36 month timescale Medium-term needs: access to energy-efficient electrical appliances (both industrial and domestic) that will boost further the impact of the 20kW supply. Access to international conferences and trade shows at which the message about Super Mini-grids can be brought to the attention of decision makers. Annual costs are approximately $100k Long-term needs: expansion of service offering to include satellite-based services for crop optimisation, deforestation monitoring, illegal mining etc. with which to further enhance off-grid rural community life. | https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/press/press-releases/2015/april/big-data-technology-finds-ideal-river-locations-to-generate-hydro-power | none available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
345 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kurt | Soderlund | Safe Water Network | safewaternetwork.org | CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Safe Water Network was originally founded by the late actor-philanthropist Paul Newman and prominent civic and business leaders who advocated for increased corporate social responsibility. We recognized that the complexity of the safe water challenge required an integrated approach, with programming that targeted each dimension of the challenge. Safe Water Network launches demand-driven water treatment facilities that produce high quality water sold at affordable rates. In addition to providing a sustainable service, SWEs provide livelihoods and leadership opportunities for community members, and anchor safe water education. While we are not the only organization to implement SWEs, others tend to operate at a very small scale (<100 SWEs), and provide services unaffordable to a bottom of the pyramid market (pricing water at 600%+ of our SWEs). Unlike other water non-profits, including those that use a decentralized and/or enterprise approach, we occupy a unique space between implementer and influencer. To position the SWE model as a long-term and adaptable solution that can achieve significant positive impact on millions of people globally—rather than a passing trend—broad challenges must be addressed, well beyond issues of operating in developing markets. We work to stimulate solutions that overcome sector-level barriers of scale and sustainability by working across to advance an active competitive market for SWEs that will benefit millions of people around the world. | I am the founding CEO of Safe Water Network and a member of its Board of Directors. I have applied both my private sector and not-for-profit experiences to develop the organization’s market and growth strategies and conceive of the organization’s business models to address the considerable challenges of fragmented, base-of-the-pyramid markets. I also built Safe Water Network’s international presence, which now includes offices in Accra, New Delhi, and New York City, supporting multiple field initiatives and market development programs. My initial experience with international challenges and not-for-profits was as special assistant to the president of the New School University in New York City, where I supported several new initiatives, including the university’s international programs and the president’s work as Chairman of Human Rights Watch. This included travel to nearly all countries in East and Central Europe and Central Asia, with a focus on the role of civil society in transitional governments and economies. My private sector experience includes co-founding NorthStar Partners, a business development consultancy in healthcare, and an internet start-up spun out of Marketing Corporation of America and funded by leading technology firms. I have degrees from Cornell University and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. | Small Water Enterprises for Sustainable Safe Water Supply | Small water enterprises are locally owned and operated businesses that provide communities with a safe, affordable, and dependable supply of water. | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Currently we operate in Ghana and India; however, our long-term goal is to facilitate the replication of the SWEs model globally. | No | Transition to Scale | We have implemented over 370 SWEs providing access to safe, affordable water to over 1.4 million people. By demonstrating the model at credible scale, using our SWEs to serve as a living lab to test innovations to improve financial viability and operational sustainability, and building the evidence base, we are making a compelling case for governments and funding agencies to adopt SWEs as a priority water supply solution and unlock opportunities to scale up the approach across the globe. | Despite billions of dollars invested, safe water still remains inaccessible for over 2.1 billion people globally. While the number of water points has increased in the last decade, critical factors have been overlooked, resulting in poor sustainability, unacceptable water quality, unreliable service, and water tariffs either too low for financial viability—the ability to cover operations, management, and long-term maintenance through revenues from sales—or too high to be affordable to the poor. | Our SWEs are community-level water treatment and sales facilities (branded H2OME! Stations in Ghana and iJal Stations in India) that balance market principles – payment for water; high-quality, reliable service; financial incentives; and operations and maintenance costs covered by revenue—with increasing sustainable access to affordable safe water for the poor. The initial SWE investment covers standard technology, civil works, community engagement, and operational losses in early years. To provide long-term access to safe water, SWEs must be able to cover operating expenses (OpEx) and sustainability requirements from revenue, while maintaining an inclusive price point. As sales increase and per unit costs reduce through economies of scale, SWEs earn enough revenue to cover OpEx and contribute to reserves. The initial investment can be leveraged as SWEs expand through neighborhood distribution points and household connections, helping meet the needs of growing peri-urban and small town populations. The global market for SWEs is estimated to be 1 billion people. However, unlike other water non-profits, including those that use a decentralized and/or enterprise approach, Safe Water Network does not aim to be solely field implementer. The purpose of our field implementation is not expansion, but rather to build persuasive evidence and develop the necessary sector resources to address systemic challenges and scale the model up globally. | SWEs serve small towns and peri-urban communities, often called the “missing middle,” as they are largely underserved by formal development efforts of donor agencies, NGOs, and governments; their median size (3-10K people) overwhelms the use of small-scale technologies such as hand pumps, but does not make economic sense for an urban utility. Alternative water supply in such areas (including free, often contaminated sources) are either priced for upscale markets and/or are unable to maintain sufficient service or quality levels. Our solution is unique in its balance of financial viability and a commitment to affordability and inclusivity, with prices no more than 3% of daily income for 20L of water (per UNDP guidelines). The SWE model views community members as consumers, rather than beneficiaries, functioning as key players in the success of the SWE model: they provide the consumer market for SWEs, generating cash flows to ensure sustainability. Our methodology includes establishing the local resources to support the entire value chain to ensure long-term reliability and accountability, including water committees that ensure reliable quality and affordable pricing. SWEs are geographically clustered to receive ongoing operations and maintenance from a Field Services Capability (FSC). The FSC is funded by service fees from the SWEs, generated through water revenue. SWEs also contribute to a Maintenance Reserve to cover costs for major repairs and parts replacement. | Our robust M&E program uses a data-driven approach to assess optimizations to improve SWE performance and build evidence around requirements for long-term sustainably meeting community and consumer safe water needs, generating insights that inform adjustments to our own programs, as well as documenting and disseminating these learnings to the broader water sector. We collect and analyze qualitative and quantitative data on a range of parameters to understand performance, using remote and mobile monitoring for real-time data, daily finance and operations logs, externally validated water quality tests, baseline and endline surveys, interviews, field observations, and other participatory methods of data collection. Comprehensive monthly Station performance reports are used to isolate operational bottlenecks, prompt course correction, or identify successes through an adaptive management process. All SWEs are monitored against key performance indicators: •Financial viability: 95% of SWEs cover local operating costs from water revenue after one year; 95% contribute to monthly maintenance and repair funds (for SWEs older than a year) •Reliability: 100% of SWEs operate at <5% downtime on average over an annual period •Water Quality: 100% of SWEs produce water meeting relevant WHO or national water quality guidelines •Affordability: 100% of SWEs sell water at prices affordable to people living on <$2/day | As Safe Water Network continues to implement SWEs in Ghana and India, we are focused on strengthening the financial proposition of the model and sharing strategies to strengthen financial viability through optimizations. This work centers on the design and implementation of operational, digital, consumer, and financial innovations that will reduce operating costs and increase consumer penetration and sales. Specifically, we will are targeting two key goals: improving operational efficiency through digitization of payment and monitoring systems; and boosting revenues through increased consumer participation. We will also apply innovative finance to optimizations that increase operational efficiency and revenue generation. At the same time, we putting in place mechanisms to facilitate our longer term objectives of SWE scale up through replication. There are numerous local governments and local and global NGOs that have struggled to expand water services as rural communities grow into small towns and as internal migration spreads urban water supply challenges into peri-urban areas. They are keen to adopt new evidence-based solutions for providing their beneficiaries with sustainable safe water supply, including SWEs. By creating standardized tools and processes and providing capacity building and technical assistance, we can enhance the capacity of both public and private implementers to apply the SWE solution, without having to invest in bespoke technology or methodology. | In order to achieve a resilient and compelling financial model that validates and bolsters our long-term vision of broad SWE replication to scale, our short-term needs include financing for financial, technological, and consumer innovations including hardware like prepaid meters, automatic taps, and solar systems. In addition, given our FSC model for ongoing operations and maintenance services, we need grant funding to continue building out our portfolio of financially viable (though not quite investable) SWEs that can collectively generate sufficient revenues to support sustainable FSC services. In the medium-term, we are seeking funding and partners for small projects to test and refine our replication strategy, wherein we would work closely with another implementing organization in Ghana or India to adopt and adapt the SWE to their water programs, as well as the resources to support the build out of IT systems and technical assistance capabilities to efficiently and effectively facilitate scale. We also need support on how best to shape our policy and advocacy work to generate buy-in from governments and policymakers in the SWE model. Over the long-term, we need to resources that focused on the complex, diverse, and often intangible work of sector-building and network engagement, including funding for dedicated staff, amplification of our knowledge products, and opportunities for thought leadership. | https://www.safewaternetwork.org/ https://www.safewaternetwork.org/our-model http://digitalterminal.in/news/our-consumers-use-smart-cards-that-are-preloaded-with-a-convenient-ticket-size-for-the-purchase-of-water/12343.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lJfgzkLmkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_83M9tv5mc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfNC3IK0SAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnld0w86Krs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me7fORM8D1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFtYHG9j5U0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhRJlN-D4tM https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microware.waterqualitytool http://washfunders.org/blog/safe-water-network-improves-operations-through-mobile-data-collection-and-management/ http://www.thesff.com/solar-powers-water/ http://www.cgap.org/blog/pay-you-drink-digital-finance-and-smart-water-service https://www.safewaternetwork.org/sites/default/files/Combined%20TA%20Toolkit%20-%20Low%20Res.pdf | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdn3iIP4VTk&feature=youtu.be https://southword.thestate.news/interviews/2018/03/22/india-could-be-the-model-to-the-world-for-safe-drinking-water https://www.safewaternetwork.org/team/soderlund https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRvkLZBL4mI | Nominated for the Skoll Social Entrepreneur of the Year One of 50 semifinalists for the 2018 Drucker Prize Four four-star ratings from Charity Navigator One of 34 “Bold Solutions” from Charity Navigator and MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change competition Winner of 2016 Classy Award for Social Innovation Candidate for the 2013 edition of the 'Water for Life' UN-Water Best Practices Award India CSR Award and Golden Peacock Award for partnership with Honeywell Hometown Solutions | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
346 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Funkola | Odeleye | DIYLaw Technologies Limited | www.diylaw.ng | Co-founder & CEO | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Our motivation for applying to be part of the UN Solutions Summit is to share our work with an influential audience that can can compliment and propel our efforts in reducing unemployment by fostering entrepreneurship. Almost 50% of the 200 million population in Nigeria fall in the 18-35 age bracket and available jobs for this vibrant demography are a drop in the ocean in comparison to the number of young people vying for the them. At DIYLaw, we believe that entrepreneurship is the most sustainable solution to unemployment as entrepreneurs create jobs for themselves and for others. To this end, we have created an online platform to make legal services accessible and affordable for micro, small and medium enterprises. We also provide free and simplified legal and business resources in the form of animations, explainer videos and short articles on topics that are relevant to every business owner. By solving the problem of access to legal services, we are, in our own little way, creating an enabling environment for entrepreneurship to thrive in Nigeria and this in turn promotes decent work and economic growth. By this, we are also mitigating one of the challenges that limit Nigerian entrepreneurs from competing with our peers globally and are creating access to justice. Till date, we have worked with 5,400 businesses who have gone on to create over 20,000 jobs and we have resolved 45,450 justice problems. | Funkola Odeleye is the Co-founder and CEO at DIYLaw and also the Corporate-Commercial and Intellectual Property Lead at The Longe Practice LP (TLP) - an entrepreneur focused law practice. She has a background in commercial & corporate law firm practice with years of in-house counsel experience in investment banking. Funkola’s legal experience prior to founding TLP and DIYLaw cuts across capital markets, investment advisory, compliance and securities. Funkola has a Masters in Finance and Financial Law from the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London in addition to her LLB from the Lagos State University and BL from the Nigerian Law School. Funkola was the 2019 Sub-Saharan winner and Global Finalist of the Entrepreneurial Award of the British Council Study UK Alumni Award. She is an Obama Leader, having been chosen as a 2019 Obama Africa Leader and also an Innovating Justice Fellow of The Hague Institute for the Innovation of Law (HiiL). Funkola believes that entrepreneurship is the most sustainable solution to unemployment and she is passionate about mentoring and developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Nigeria. She keeps a food blog and loves to cook. | DIYLaw | Legal, simplified. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Nigeria | Yes | Organisations that work with and train entrepreneurs, Small & Medium Enterprise friendly banks and Universities | Transition to Scale | DIYLaw launched in 2015 and we exited public beta in 2016. Since then we have launched a second version of our platform and acquired over 138,000 users. Till date, we have provided over 50,850 services in total. | There are over 37 million micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria and 99% of them are unregistered. Access to and high cost of legal services is one of the major challenges faced by Nigerian entrepreneurs and this discourages them from formalizing their businesses. Inability to access legal services limits expansion, job creation, access to finance and the growth of the MSME sector which is critical to economic growth and development. | We have developed a technology platform where we provide automated business-related registration services, such as business registrations and intellectual property protection. Our platform also houses automated legal documents, balanced and fair contracts and free, simplified legal and business resources on topics essential for entrepreneurs; these free resources are made into easy-to-understand formats such as lists and animations. Automating these services and creating an online platform makes legal services always available and accessible by anyone in any part of the world. This also makes it affordable as we have relieved users of the need for transportation costs, travel time and legal consultation fees for simple legal problems. In addition, we provide a directory classification system and lead generation platform for lawyers where people can search for a lawyer on our platform by location and expertise, thereby also providing jobs for lawyers. Our long-term vision for global impact is to reduce unemployment in Nigeria to the barest minimum by the year 2030 and to also increase Nigeria's ranking to top 20 in the global index for Ease of Doing Business. | The alternative to our service is traditional law firms. Small businesses typically find law firms out of reach in terms of costs and distance and find the services confounding. With our solution, we have been able to simplify not just the process but also legal topics so that users understand and learn before they purchase a service. Our platform is also accessible at any time of the day and any day of the week, quite unlike law firms, as it is online. Finally, by automating our services, we have dispensed with passing on professional and time-based costs to the user, as is the norm with law firms. | Our solution launched 4 years ago and we exited public beta a year after that. However, we are constantly in development and launching new products for our users. We measure our progress by monthly monitoring of unique visits to our platform, user sign-ups, services purchased, reading and downloading of our free resources and the number of lawyer-client relationships we have been able to facilitate. We constantly seek feedback from our users and they let us know the kind of new products, agreements, services or articles they would like to see on our platform. With this, we set a target for the number of new articles and new services to include or launch as the case may be, periodically. | Our growth plan is to ensure that our current customers stick and ultimately to expand to other African countries. To achieve this, we are currently building products that will ensure recurrent income which we plan to launch by Q4, 2019. We also plan to increase the number of organisations and banks we work with to gain more clusters of users. We are on track to sign on 2 more banks by the end of the year and 5 more in 2020. We are building a network of lawyers, people with knowledge of the business terrain and other service providers in other African countries and we hope to be able to leverage on these relationships in 2020 by launching in Uganda and Kenya. | The resources we most require to scale and increase our impact are human capital and financing. In the short term, we require more developers or technology exchange from counterparts in more technologically developed countries. We also require some financing in the short term to give us more runway while we continue to develop more products and foster more partnerships. In the medium term, with increase in the demand for our products, we will need to hire more operational staff and a Chief Financial Officer (our Accounting is currently outsourced). We will be looking to market via traditional means as we currently only leverage on word-of-mouth, referrals and social media for our marketing. Long term, we will need resources to expand to other countries in Africa in form of employees in the countries we would be expanding to and funding for our expansion. | https://diylaw.ng/ | https://twitter.com/SustDev/status/1130557376111812609?s=20 | - DIYLaw emerged 1st place in the HiiL Innovating Justice SME Empowerment Challenge for East & West Africa in 2015 - DIYLaw was 3rd place winner of Pitch@Palace Commonwealth in 2018 - We were also one of 10 winners of the United Nations Science, Technology and Innovation Challenge and were invited to exhibit at the United Nations Science, Technology and Innovation Forum in May, 2019. - We have been named as finalists for the Innovation Award of the African Legal Awards 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
347 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lazarus | Dokora | Zimbabwe Schools Water and Agriculture Project | www.zimswap.co.zw | Trustee | Male | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | English | Spanish | The ZIMSWAP Triple P Model has been used for positive global impact by providing a solution that reduces food insecurity as well as the rate of climate change while contributing to increased health and academic outcomes for scholars as well as supporting sustainable livelihoods.The Solution's Summit presents an opportunity for ZIMSWAP to share with policy makers, fellow innovators and potential donors the work it is doing in Zimbabwe. It will also be a platform to receive critical input for improvement. | Dr. Lazarus Dokora is a Trustee of the Zimbabwe Schools Water and Agricultural Project (ZIMSWAP). He is also a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Zimbabwe, specializing in Communication and Media Studies and teaches up to Masters levels. A former Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Dr. Dokora is credited with ushering in a new curriculum in schools emphasizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The introduction of the interdisciplinary STEM model in Zimbabwean schools was also a step forward in ensuring that Zimbabwe keeps pace with the rest of the world, and that its citizens could competitively innovate to bring solutions to the problems confronting the world. Dr. Dokora was a member of parliament for Rushinga and Founder and Director of Rushinga Development Association established in 2006, to upgrade his constituency and ensure that it would keep pace with developments through building new schools and dip tanks. Dr Dokora is also passionate about student welfare, and this prompted him to partner with ZIMSWAP in ensuring that a viable and sustainable model was developed to implement a home-grown school feeding policy in schools. He has also contributed to African Development as Head of Delegation for the African Caribbean Pacific ACP-EU Delegation as well as the Vice President of the Forum for African Parliamentarians for Education. His other accomplishments include publication of the poetry book Voices, in 1995 as well as contributing to the book And Now the Poets Speak written by Zimunya and Kadhani (1982). | ZIMSWAP Triple P Model | Innovative Partnerships for Climate Friendly and Sustainable Livelihoods | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Solution currently implemented in Zimbabwe with intention to scale up to other countries in Africa | Yes | Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (Zimbabwe) and Meeco Group (Botswana) | Transition to Scale | The Triple P solution has already been successfully implemented in more than 140 schools and communities in Zimbabwe. ZIMSWAP has strategically exited some of the schools and they are now self-sufficient, and continue to run the project successfully. In addition, the project is now at a stage where there is need for blended finance (aid, commercial and pension fund loans) to transition to scale and reach other markets such as Botswana, Namibia and Swaziland as well as achieve greater impact.. | The solution addresses food insecurity in Zimbabwe through access to potable water. As a result of climate change and subsequent droughts, cases of poor nutrition have increased leading to stunting, absenteeism, poor retention, academic failure and consequently unemployment of youths, especially girls. ZIMSWAP provides water and renewable energy to support agricultural and sanitation activities to avert these problems, while inculcating agricultural skills and supporting sustainable livelihoods | The ZIMSWAP Public-Private Partnership (Triple P) approach is a unique model that accelerates the achievement of 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals outlined above. It is a partnership between ZIMSWAP and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education of Zimbabwe to innovatively reduce the impact of poor nutrition on scholars. The partnership was initiated in recognition of the constraints that government had in channeling funds for other supportive programs for schools that would ensure a conducive and holistic environment for scholars to attain quality education. Through this partnership, ZIMSWAP provides boreholes and solar-powered irrigation systems so that schools and communities have access to water for sanitation and agriculture. ZIMSWAP agronomists work with schools and communities to ensure appropriate crops for the type of soil and rainfall pattern are grown, as well as skills transfer for the implementation of the project to community members employed to run the project. The schools become change agents for climate action, hence spreading awareness and momentum to their communities. In the long term, it is envisioned the project will reduce the use of non-renewable energy, therefore impacting globally by reducing the rate of climate change. ZIMSWAP's intention is also to expand the project to include neighboring countries as well as other African Union member states, thus creating momentum for use of renewable energy and reducing the rate of climate change. | The Triple P approach to sustainable agriculture solutions is a cross-cutting model that fills the space between the commercial and governmental approaches. It is a holistic and high impact project that not only produces nutritional outcomes but responds to several of the sustainable development goals as it addresses issues of climate, education, gender, hunger and poverty through its implementation. The model is not purely commercial or governmental, and the fundamental weakness in both approaches is that they do not capture the marginal communities and bring them into the mainstream of development. In addition, the governmental approach has limitations in terms of budget allocations vis a vis the scope of the problem which is beyond the ability of most African countries to adequately address. In Zimbabwe, currently 4.2 million children in 8700 schools, the majority of which are in rural areas, require the intervention ZIMSWAP is implementing, and government cannot meet this demand. With financial support, however, ZIMSWAP has the capacity to initiate, monitor and handover the projects to communities in an empowering and sustainable manner. | Since 2015, the Zimbabwe Schools Water and Agriculture Project (ZIMSWAP) has assisted more than, 90 000 school-going children as well as surrounding community members, ensuring access to solar energy and clean and safe drinking water. As a result, since the inception of the project, schools have run viable projects in production of market gardening vegetables such as beetroot, cabbages, green pepper, kale, potatoes, as well as good crop yields of maize. Oriel Boys High School is a regular supplier of cabbage, lettuce and onions to Bon Marche supermarket in Chisipite, Harare. Glen View 5 Primary School produces fabriola cabbage, bananas and strawberries and supplies to surrounding markets. Alabama Primary School in Mashonaland West produces beans, maize, potatoes and tomatoes. Fatima High School in Kwekwe (Midlands) has successfully turned the project into an income generating company of the school. It supplies beans, cabbage, carrots, lettuce onions, potatoes and tomatoes to its own kitchen as well as to other boarding schools in the area. In Matebeleland Province, Hamilton High School's horticultural project provides vegetables to a supermarket chain in Bulawayo. In addition, ZIMSWAP has created employment opportunities for communities surrounding the schools where projects have been implemented, and this has particularly benefited women. Scholars also have an opportunity to learn a practical skill and also take agriculture studies from abstract to reality. | Greater coverage of schools using the Triple P model is planned locally. To date, ZIMSWAP has been successfully implemented in more than 140 primary and secondary schools in Zimbabwe. The concept has been proven to work and has significantly improved the lives of close to 100 000 Zimbabweans in both rural and urban areas. As a result, ZIMSWAP wishes to expand its reach to 1000 of the most needy schools in the country at a cost of approximately $15 million. This will include 100 schools that were devastated by the impact of Cyclone Idai that hit Zimbabwe in March 2019. These schools suffered significant damage with over 250 boreholes and 18 urban and peri-urban water supply systems having been damaged and in need of rehabilitation. Scaling up of the project is also envisioned to include entry into neighboring countries and the rest of Africa. It is also envisaged that as a result of this project, products can be sold to European markets and earn foreign currency for the country. | In the short-term, ZIMSWAP requires an injection of finance to expand the blended model of financing as well as the scope of the project locally. There is need to procure capital to augment staff complement as well as the current fleet of vehicles which include drill rigs. These resources will ensure that the planned goals and milestones into neighboring countries and foreign markets will be realised. Having achieved national coverage, ZIMSWAP intends to expand to neighboring countries in the medium term. Implementation in other African countries, will have a mitigatory impact particulalry with regard to weather patterns originating from neighboring Mozambique and South Africa that have devastating consequences in those countries as well as Zimbabwe because of its proximity to them. In the long term, ZIMSWAP will assist schools by opening up foreign markets for the horticultural project. This will require financial resources in the initial phase of the transitioning period to the value of USD $15 million to support research and development activities as well as technical support for scale-up of current projects to produce enough to supply those markets. | http://www.zimswap.co.zw/ | https://youtu.be/ZiRiCX3O7A4 | Participant status in inaugural 2018 AU Innovation in Education Expo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
348 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | MAMADOU | BARRY | ACTION SOLIDAIRE INTERNATIONAL | www.action-solidaire.org | DIRECTEUR EXECUTIF | M | Senegal | Senegal | French | It would be a great opportunity for me and my organization to take part of the UN Solutions Summit to present the solutions that our organization has developed in Senegal in the field of processing of fish products. These solutions that we developed in Senegal have had a real impact in the fight against climate change and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. It also has an impact on the preservation of the environment and the economic empowerment of women and girls | I am a Financial Engineer and Organization Management Specialist. Thus, as part of my career in NGOs, I acquired various skills, particularly in the field of climate change as a specialist and also in the field of energy as a trainer in gender and energy approved by ECREEE. Currently, I am at the head of an NGO, member of the Senegalese civil society called Action Solidaire International. This organization works mainly on the issues of climate change and access to renewable energy and energy efficiency. | Fumoir Parpaing | The stove is rectangular in shape. It is equipped with a fence removable, easy to clean and heat resistant and with Galva sheet lid. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Senegal, Gambia, Togo and Guinée | Yes | Our keys partners are ECREEE and PROGEDE2 | Transition to Scale | .The loading capacity of the stove is 1250 kg with a yield of 35 to 50% achievable thanks to the economy on the fuel and the duration of production. The life of the stove is 10 years. Stoves features help reduce women's smoking and braising tasks, lids are lightweight and removable, and have sliding doors. Removability of racks also allows a good cleaning of the stoves after use | Women who process fish products are more affected by traditional smoking practices that cause a lot of smoke pollution and impact their environment, their income and especially their health. Our solution aims to alleviate the suffering of women and girls in the smoking activity, reduce the lung diseases they suffer and also fight against climate change | The Parpaing stove allows women processors of fishery products to be able to exercise their activity without being exposed to the smoke and with a very short cooking time around 06 hours instead 24 hours. The stove has 05 compartments with a production capacity of 1250 kg. The use is simple and allows to have a good product with an increase in income for women. With few fuels, the stove helps fight against deforestation. With long-term use, these stove will be able to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the reduction of pollution. The kiln will also help preserve forests that are threatened with abusive cutting. | This solution is unique in that it allows at the same time to improve the smoking practice of women processors of fish products, to fight against the pollution due to the smoke that emerges, to reduce pulmonary diseases to which are exposed women and reduce the use of wood as fuel. The new perspective is to replicate the solution in neighboring countries such as The Gambia, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bisseau and other ECOWAS countries | Our team has really progressed especially in the mastery of the solution. The process of implementing this solution requires rigor and know-how. We have a team that perfectly master the solution. | Our solution will be deployed soon in countries like The Gambia and Guinea Conakry. We are looking for new partners to carry out this project. We will recruit people including women in these countries that we will train to achieve this solution | We need enough financial and technical means to make the solution much more impactful. Our needs in the short, medium and long term remain financial and technical means | https://youtu.be/8ie9eeQY50U, | https://youtu.be/8ie9eeQY50U, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
349 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John | Coonrod | The Hunger Project | en.thpbd.org | Executive Vice President | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | For the past 42 years, I've been privileged to meet and learn from many of the greatest innovators in the Global South - from Y.C. Yen to A.T. Ariyaratne to Wangari Maathai to Bernard Ouedraogo to Ela Bhatt. Their wisdom and innovations in gender-focused community-led development have served as the starting point for The Hunger Project's programs in 16,000 villages worldwide, and were inspirations for my launching the Movement for Community-led Development during the 2015 SDG Summit. Today, there are 62 INGOs in the Movement and national chapters in 12 nations working to transform the prevailing top-down, silo approaches to development to one that truly represents human dignity and agency. | John Coonrod is the Executive Vice President of The Hunger Project, where he is responsible for research and advocacy. He works closely with the President and CEO on all aspects of strategy, including programs, fundraising and communications and is based in Washington, DC. He is a leading spokesperson for the organization and has been interviewed on BBC, CNN and NBC television. John is an expert on bottom-up, gender-focused development and decentralized local governance who has lectured at the United Nations, Columbia University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), New York University (NYU), Princeton University and the United States Air Force Academy. John serves as co-chair of InterAction’s Food Security and Agriculture working group, as advisor and board member to a number of emerging international NGOs. John became The Hunger Project’s first volunteer in March of 1977, joined its staff in 1985, and has participated in the development and implementation of all of its programs. John grew up in the Midwest and was trained as a physicist at Stanford (BSc) and the University of California-Berkeley (MS, PhD), during which time he was active in the civil rights and anti-war movements. He worked as a research physicist at Princeton University from 1978 through 1984. As a physicist, he was involved in the design and construction of the High-Energy Astronomical Observatory satellite, the first whole-body CAT scanner and the first tokamak designed to achieve a break-even fusion reaction. | SDG Unions in Bangladesh | Gender-focused, community-led methodology for achieving the SDGs in rural Bangladeshi communities. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Bangladesh | Yes | IFES, NED, British Council, Aga Khan Foundation | Transition to Scale | The strategy is currently implemented in 180 clusters of villages (union parishads) of Bangladesh - of 4500 nationwide - and external evaluations have shown its success. We are in discussion with the planning ministry, bilateral donors and other civil society actors for scaling it up. | Ineffective and corrupt local governance and limited economic opportunity in Bangladeshi rural villages. There is a prevailing mindset of clientelism, dependency and gender discrimination that leaves people resigned in the face of poor public services. | The SDG Union Strategy creates an effective 3-way partnership between a well-mobilized community, its elected union-parishad representatives and government functionaries with an expressed commitment to work together to achieve the SDGs locally. THP pioneered a series of actions such as Open Budget Meetings, Ward Assemblies, Participatory Planning and the training of citizens in making right-to-information requests that are now incorporated into the local government law, but rarely implemented. The process begins with an intensive workshops that are both transformative and educational on how the machinery of participatory democracy should function. It builds grassroots civil society from the bottom up, for women, youth and the ultrapoor. It then facilitated the process of villages setting and achieving local goals through collective self-reliant action across all sectors. Our long-term vision is to build a consortium of civil society organizations that can facilitate this process in every village, coordinated in every district. | Many NGO projects fail to build on the constitutionally mandated structures of local government and are therefore not sustainable. This approach is fairly unique in taking a comprehensive and inherently sustainable approach that addresses social and economic development, good governance and sustaining peace simultaneously. | Every SDG Union sets its own targets and reports on them - via an online web-based system - every month. We measure our progress against a set of localized SDG goals, focusing especially on SDG5 and SDG16 as pillars to solve the others. We carry out internal and external outcome evaluations based on household surveys that have been published in peer-reviewed journals. | We have a 2030 roadmap/strategic plan that focuses on the key electoral cycle of 2021-2026. We would like to ensure total coverage of all the unions in at least one district in each of the 8 divisions of the country by that time. | The SDG Union Strategy currently costs about $1 per person per year for the 2 million people currently participating. ($25,000 per union per year). This cost can be reduced somewhat as scale grows. The mid-term goal mentioned above would expand from 180 to 570 unions, thus requiring approximately $14m per year. One challenge in Bangladesh is weak fiscal devolution - long term, we are advocating for at least 20% of public budgets be devolved to the union parishads, which could allow this program to truly reach national scale. | Program website: https://en.thpbd.org Scientific article: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/114/21/5401.full.pdf Process video: https://youtu.be/aMkAvyKMFxs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=AWEzsbg5rTE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
350 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | ABEL | ABDULLAHI | GAP INTERCESSORS MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL | www.gapintercessors.net | INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT | MALE | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am of the intention to present and speak on a pressing thematic subject matter bordering on force migration and the growing menace of refugees and IDPs in most developing Nations and its political and economic bearings in the present day. | I hail from of a minority tribe (Ebira) in central Nigeria, and am married with four Children, all living in Nigeria.I am a renowned and passionate leader, and a social and political activist. I currently run an Advocacy humanitarian NGO that spread across over sixteen African Nations with aims of taking pragmatic initiatives towards attaining to a lasting and durable Global peace, and making our society habitable for human living. Empowering the youths to attain a sound and qualitative product and becoming resourceful in nation building, thus translating to peace initiatives to facilitating open democracy within Africa and francophone nations in West Africa region. | DEALING WITH TERRORISM, THE BEDROCK OF INCREASING REFUGEES CRISES AND FORCE MIGRATION IN DEVELOPING NATIONS | #Terrorism and force migration | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | WEST, NORTH AND EAST AFRICAN NATIONS AND MIDDLE-EAST NATIONS. | Yes | USAID | Transition to Scale | We have the political will, the human resources, and collaborative partnering mechanism, and working alongside with some faith based NGOs within the regions affected. | Ideological war, gender based issues, and the basic educational needs to de-radicalize our teeming youths within the Nations concerned. | Our campaign have to be overheated and spread to the hearing of major actors, and as well as joining hands with member nations by working through our mechanize strategic blueprints until it becomes a global worries carry out by many agents of change. | We have a comprehensive packages of how we going to launch out those exercises. | The approaches are tactical some are openly pragmatic while some are slightly technical beyond human reasoning. It is handsomely innovative with new initiatives and ideas. | If our innovation is well supported we have lots of areas to explore and new moves to make and integrate to make a better ingredients to yielding faster results within a short period of possibly 3-5 years framework | Good time management, human capital resource personnel, funds, security resources and rehabilitation in strategic places of our choice. | Owing to security situations and the sensitivity of our work we don't publicize our works on the web, our website is hacked and linked to our targets. pleases, to this extent we are very sorry. We cannot refer you to any proofs that may endanger of lives and the secret programs. For the sake of offences, this is enough. | I don't have anything like that. | Non. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
351 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ian | Tansley | The Sure Chill Company Ltd | www.surechill.com | Co-Founder | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | I have been a passionate advocate of renewable energy and sustainable technology for over 30 years working mostly with rural populations in poorer countries to improve quality of life through the provision of enabling technologies. I've worked with schools, colleges and universities to inspire younger engineers and scientists to become engaged with the challenges of improving opportunities for the poor. My most important invention to date, The Sure Chill Technology, which is incorporated into thousands of vaccine refrigerators around the world, has the capacity to protect the vaccines for over 36 Million children each year in over 49 countries. My current work is to develop a range of technologies and techniques to further address unmet needs of the disadvantaged. | I've been working on the deployment of clean energy technologies in developing countries for a little over 30 years. This has included power from sun, wind and water and has almost always focused on the humanitarian benefits of the technologies and sustainable business models. Examples range from Heat Storage Cookers for Himalayan villagers, using excess hydro-electric energy to store up in the form of heat for cooking, through mini-grid wind energy in Zimbabwe for small businesses and a wide variety of solar powered systems for communities, water pumping, schools, hospitals and remote health posts. I have always remained close to the deployment of the technology, working as far as practical with end-users, engineers and local entrepreneurs to ensure that the ideas are as practical and sustainable as they can be. | Sure Chill | A game-changing cooling technology enabling previously imagined access to the benefits of refrigeration | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Currently 50 countries, mostly Africa but also Asia. The technology can also be deployed in industrialized countries | Yes | Shell Foundation | Transition to Scale | The technology has been included in commercially available Vaccine Refrigerators for 10 years and is currently running in thousands of refrigerators in over 49 countries, mostly in Africa and Asia. The medical refrigerator range is high performing both in terms of pin-point temperature control and resilience to intermittent grid power. We have built demonstration models for other sectors like retail cooling and are currently working to bring the technology to mass market in the domestic sector. | Refrigerators bring economic and health benefits, particularly to women and children but conventional refrigerator technologies are unsuited to unreliable grid power or its off-grid alternative which is solar energy. Sure Chill's key selling features are accurate temperature control and resilience to long periods without power. Improving the quality of food has obvious health benefits but the ability to cool also has the potential to improve the experience e.g. cold drinks | Sure Chill uses two outstanding properties of water. Firstly, when frozen it has the ability to store large amounts of energy in quite a small space and, unlike any kind of battery, it can the 'charged' and discharged an infinite number of times without wearing out. But ice has a problem because it risks freezing the items being stored - this is a particular problem with vaccines but many foods are badly damaged by freezing. Water's second and most important property is that it has unusual density charateristics - Its heaviest at 4C. This means if you heat water up it gets lighter (see it rising in a hot saucepan) but ice also floats. For instance if you pour a glass of water and add ice. It is also very low cost to deploy since it's principle working element is plain water. | Conventional refrigerators rely on access to constant power - to control temperature they allow temperature inside to rise and fall to trigger the cooling circuit to come on and turn off. This means that not only do they fail quickly in the absence of power but their temperature is constantly varying. It's common to use ice to provide a buffer but this is too cold for most things you find in a fridge, that don't tolerate being Zero Centigrade or below. Food, vaccines and pharmaceuticals all want to be between 2 and 8 C. Other materials can be used instead of ice. Typically these have 'freezing' points higher than Zero and are referred to a Phase Change Materials (PCMs) but these are very expensive and take up a lot of space inside a refrigerator (they are also often highly flammable). Ice is better than PCMs because it is very cheap, very clean and has a much higher energy density. Sure Chill is able to use these positive attributes by exploiting water's other unique property - that it is heaviest at 4C. This produces a self-regulating system that uses natural convection to deliver a steady 4C to the produce in the fridge - never any colder or hotter. The amount of ice in the system can be tuned to the application. In models currently made the fridge can continue to operate without power for anything from a few days to a few weeks. | This is a technology rather than a single solution so it can be applied to a wide variety of applications from medical refrigerators to commercial coolers and domestic appliances. Each of these areas and more besides are in various stages of development, the pace and progress being, to a large degree, driven by the appetite for the technological advance in the real-life market. The dynamics of all the markets is different and our business model varies from B2B, B2C right through to an outright licence. The team responding to this market stimulus comprises 12 highly qualified engineers and physicists, many of them chartered engineers with more than one degree in the relevant subjects. Activities range from design, build and test of full size prototypes to the deployment of complex Finite Element Analysis (mostly COMSOL) to enable more in depth understanding of the application. We have a number of dedicated environmental chambers, each capable of controlling ambient temperature and humidity to mimic the conditions in the field. Our engineers are also carefully selected to be well traveled adding further to the breath of knowledge in the team - many of them have spent years living and working in our target markets. We operate a quality control system (ISO 9001) and keep up a high standard of filing and record keeping of results. How far are we from exploiting the technology to its maximum potential? I'd say about 20% of the way so far! | Our proven medical refrigeration in both on- and off-grid locations, mean Sure Chill has received interest from some of the world’s largest brands looking to use our cooling technology in other major commercial sectors. We plan to start deploying our technology into products serving the mass consumer markets, primarily to the vast populations of countries with no access to cooling products, whilst maximising benefits of time-shifting energy in developed countries. In 2019, we more than doubled our team, particularly in R&D, to help accelerate the development of other applications for our patented technology, and plan to open an office in Africa. We continue to build our market share in the off-grid and weak-grid vaccine refrigeration market via the CCEOP program and UNICEF whilst also exploring other routes to market including the military and veterinary. Using the World Health Organisation’s Vaccine Management criteria, we know that one of our vaccine refrigerators can serve a population of 250,000. To date we have deployed more than 6000 devices, which have a lifespan of 10 years each. If we conservatively assume that we are reaching 10% of the population for each refrigerator and multiply by 10 years, we are already impacting the lives of over 150M people. Introducing our technology to the off-grid domestic market, will considerably increase those who will be positively impacted by our technology. Potential customers are in the 10’s of millions across Africa and India. | Access to talented and experienced teams will help us to accelerate the iterations of our technology to market, meaning key populations who currently have no access to reliable and accessible refrigeration will be able to gain it's benefits. We would like to develop the technology iterations concurrently, and to do this we need to have the most efficient and flexible processes and relevant expertise in place, supported by relevant commercial teams in country. In the short term this manifests itself in access to investment to recruit the right teams and facilitate production developments, in the medium terms this is about consolidating the expertise and extending the breadth of reach in country. | http://www.surechill.com/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/businessclub/10700254/A-fridge-that-keeps-its-cool.html http://www.surechill.com/sure-chill-trusted-to-equip-entire-cold-chain-in-mali/ http://www.surechill.com/sectors/global-health/ https://vimeo.com/surechill/technology https://vimeo.com/251839075 | https://www.cat.org.uk/podcast-ian-tansley-on-working-with-renewables/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2-a-new-way-to-keep-things-cool/id1341492494?i=1000406973986 | $1.5 Million Grand Challenges Award Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WINNER May '14 Most Innovative New Cold Chain Tech Cold Chain Global Forum WINNER USA Oct '15 Innovation Award Institute of Engineering & Technology WINNER UK Nov '15 Gold Medal Advancement of Refrigeration Inst of Refrigeration WINNER UK Feb '16 Health Technology Future Planet Awards WINNER UK May '17 Sustainable Energy and Health Ashden Awards FINALIST London Jan '19 Board of Trade Award DiT UK Trade WINNER May '19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
352 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | NASIRU | SANI ANGO | NAFZAIMAR ENTERPRISES | www.nafzaimarenterprises.org | CEO | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Well, my motivations for applying to the UN Solutions summit to present a project was initially i have that passion in water business and provide clean drinking water to the masses since the government alone cannot provide for all | An indigene of Magama local government area of Niger State attended primary school in kontagora Niger State bachelors degree in Metallurgical Engineering in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, currently a civil servant and happily married based in Gombe State, and a lover of entrepreneurship | Provision of clean drinking water to Gombe and environment | Provision of bags of satchet water through retail | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | NIGERIA | No | Ideation | Why i think my solution is at the stage of ideation is currently i am into satchet water retail but i am trying to expannd to start production of satchet and bottled water since my business has been registered and good logo with acquisition of land. | The problem my solution is addressing is problem of thirst by providing clean drinking water to the masses at affordable price | The solution work by drilling bore hole and process the water to the final distillation , packaging and sell the product either in bags or bottle for consumption. | We are going to use an equipment called reverse osmosis membrene which not all water producing factories use, because it make the product clean, odourless and, tasteless | I can say business is scaling because the business is registered with a logo designed and a land acquired already | If i can start production i believe by 2025 my product will go outside Nigeria and expand by opening more branche to employ more staff | For a start the project will require $30,000 in order to build a bungalow, drill a bore hole, get water distillation equipment and water sorage tanks, a van, a generator and start up expenses running cost for a short term, while for a medium term is to expand and open more branches in Nigeria also to be a number one water provider in the whole North East Nigeria and for long term to expand outside Nigeria and employ more staff before 2030 | The company has no website yet but a storage emulated video from my mobile phone http/ /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/VID_20190605_164955.gp.0.3MP 640 X 480 34MB | The company has no website yet but a storage emulated video from my mobile phone http// /storage/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/VID_20190605_164955.gp.0.3MP 640 X 480 34MB | I have been applying for grants from Tony Elumelu foundation, African Young Entrepreneurs but could not get, some time i will reach near to the final stage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
353 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anthony | Muthungu | TotoSci Academy | totosci.smartbeaver.co.ke | Chief Executive Officer | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | I believe UN Solutions Summit is all about bringing people from across the globe together and who share a common goal which aims to make the world a better place to live. My innovation is meant to increase the mobility of blind people who are isolated from our society. I believe it’s my responsibility to fight for them. I believe it’s my responsibility to see for them and I believe it’s my responsibility to make them feel that am out there for them. I take it as my responsibility to make sure they are safe and their mobility is all time monitored by their respective caregivers. I make it my responsibility to ensure I become the link to their needs and at their urgent attentions moments. Am always there for them when no one is around. Currently am working with Kenya Society for the Blind where am piloting my artificial intelligence assistive device that is meant to make the blind people more independent. | Serial Entrepreneur, Innovator and an Educator who impact people’s lives scientifically. Nominated, Shortlisted and Awarded during Transformational Business Awards 2019, Special Category “Innovating for Disability” with my innovation “AlexCane” An assistive device that increase the mobility of blind people held in London (UK) and organized by Financial Times and International Finance Corporation (World Bank Arm) held in 13th June 2019. Winner of Kenya National Innovation Agency 2019,Participated and Awarded during Leaders in Innovation Fellowship 2019 organized by Kenya National Innovation Agency, Royal Academy of Engineering and Newton Fund held at London (UK) on February 2019-Oxford University. .”AlexCane” was the innovation that made me get the nomination. Nominated and Awarded at Advancing Health Care Innovations Africa 2018 an event organized by Emory University (USA) held at Johannesburg (SA) on July 2018.”AlexCane” was the innovation that made me get the nomination. Nominated and Awarded as the Face of Kenyan Science 2018 in an event organized by Next Einstein Forum during the Africa Science Week held at Radisson Blue Hotel Nairobi on December 2018 in partnership with National Commission of Science Technology and Innovation (NACOSTI) and Kenya National Innovation Agency (KENIA). Nominated and awarded as Top 40 under 40 Men by Business Daily Africa 2018 December. Nominated, shortlisted, awarded as a finalist in Hardware Innovation Competition by American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2018 (United States of America)-(ASME) | AlexCane | Virtual care to the visually impaired. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kenya and Central Africa first. | No | Proof of Concept | We are currently running pilot test at Kenya Society for the Blind. We are on our 5th prototype since our development cycles are as per the user feedback.We are not tiring until we get what they want and not what we want. | Blind people find it hard to navigate on their own. This calls for a sighted person or a caregiver who acts like an aider in order to increase their mobility. The blind person depends so much on this sighted person lowering his own productivity with that of the sighted person as well. Back in the communities, the blind people are considered not able to do anything hence isolated from responsibilities and others. | We are developing an Artificial intelligent walking cane for the blind. This device is capable of detecting either static or moving objects at a distance and pass the message to the blind person via vibrations at the grip. This increases their mobility. The cane is also able to send its real time location of the blind to the caregiver mobile phone back at home at any given time. This reduces the caregiver anxiety when the blind relative is not home on time or not known of where he/she is. The cane as well describes the person /object in front of the blind person and pass the message via audio communications .This is able through the use of google assistant and google locations to provide the location of the blind and also assist in identifying objects and materials. This reduces isolation and increases the independence of the blind. 15% of world blind population live in Africa. This is our target market with global figure of 253 million blind people. | The cane is also able to send its real time location of the blind to the caregiver mobile phone back at home at any given time. This reduces the caregiver anxiety when the blind relative is not home on time or not known of where he/she is. The cane as well describes the person /object in front of the blind person and pass the message via audio communications .This is able through the use of google assistant and google locations to provide the location of the blind and also assist in identifying objects and materials. This reduces isolation and increases the independence of the blind. | We are currently running pilot test at Kenya Society for the Blind. We are on our 5th prototype since our development cycles are as per the user feedback.We are not tiring until we get what they want and not what we want. We have 5 members who we are doing the pilot with them. | We aim to finish the development of the final product by the end of this year 2019.Infact we look forward to travel with the final product to this event in September 2019.We aim to reach 1,000 blind members in Kenya before mid-next year 2020 through Kenya Society for the blind. By the start of year 2021, we aim to extend hand to our neighboring East African Countries. | We are in need of electronic components and a long lasting battery. Fabrication is also needed to make the canes grips and tips. Currently we are recycling plastics and melting them and we are then molding the canes and grips. In future we need to own a large 3D printer for mass production. We are also in need of huge cloud base storage to hold our users data and which is safe. We are looking for partnerships with major mobile service providers who can issue us with simcards that are free from subscription for both users and their caregivers. | https://www.nation.co.ke/news/education/Zetech-student-South-Africa-science-forum/2643604-4679772-g6tu9kz/index.html https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/corporate/tech/Smart-cane-for-people-with-poor-eyesight/4258474-4599190-ji3dyt/index.html | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUoP-5y86yE https://www.facebook.com/IFCwbg/videos/458717701560603/?epa=SEARCH_BOX | Transformational Business Awards 2019. Shortlisted for a Special Award Category ""Innovating for Disability"" Leaders In Innovation 2019.(Royal Academy of Engineering) UK Health Met Tech Award 2018. Demo Africa Innovation Tour Winner 2018. 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354 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | neil | parsley | none | none | none | male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | none as only lies in seeking allies | thought of this mid 60’s | e.r.a. | list of all living creatures (live). | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | with help many | No | Ideation | never found any allies | stopping avgrandisement | remains to be seen | nothing like it noticed | never found help only ever criticism from uk ‘elite | poor areas of poor lands | allies | can’t | only ever cricisms. from U.K. ‘elite’ | none | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
355 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Farhad | Wajdi | Ebtakar Inspiring Entrepreneurs of Afghanistan Organization | www.ebtakar-iea.org | Founder/Executive Director | Male | Afghanistan | Afghanistan | Chinese | English | Coming from a country with almost 54% of its population living below the poverty line, a country fraught with massive unemployment and inactive workforce, and a country which is considered to be the second most dangerous country for women, I was always curious to know why couldn’t Afghanistan embrace sustainable change and development despite being a major recipient of foreign aid for the last 18 years. My intrinsic motivation towards finding out the root causes to Afghanistan’s miseries led me to explore more of the country. And what I found during my travel to different parts of Afghanistan and communicating with local people was a similar narrative on development “we need more aid”. People preferred to depend on Aid money rather than doing something of their own. They wanted to enjoy the fish but didn’t want to know how to fish. With the recent massive cuts in the aid money, and uncertainty with despair on the rise, my quest for finding sustainable solutions to my people’s problems had just begun. It was a quest until I learned about Social Entrepreneurship and I saw it as a perfect tool to lead sustainable development in the world’s most vulnerable societies. After doing a thorough research I designed a first of its kind social business initiative “The Zero-Carbon Food Carts for underprivileged Afghan Women” with a mission to contribute to achieve 7 SDGs simultaneously and in a sustainable manner. The project aims to achieve ""Zero Hunger, No Poverty, Gender Equality, Reduced Inequalities, Climate Action, Clean and Affordable energy and decent work and economic growth"" The initiative is a first of its kind in Asia and it has the potential to be replicated and upscaled in other conservative, fragile, male-dominant, war-struck, and less educated communities with a mission to empower women, eradicate poverty, break gender stereotypes and culture barriers, to raise awareness about climate change and to inspire people towards using clean and affordable energy. Being based on a social business model, with only one time investment the business can sustain and expand itself to reach to more beneficiaries and to make a wider impact in the society. Looking for its possibilities of expansion, presenting my solution on how to achieve SDGs in War countries, at UN Solutions Summit will help me gain international support for my newly launched initiative back home. Also, the support will help me expand the initiative in another countries as well. | Farhad Wajdi started his leadership journey when he was only 14 years old in a small refugee town in Pakistan. His strong belief in education helped him to build a school which refrained 800 refugee kids from child labor . While returning back to Afghanistan, Farhad was overwhelmed to witness widespread gender inequality which kept depriving Afghan women of their very basic human right to education, health and freedom. Therefore, Farhad established “Ebtakar Inspiring Entrepreneurs of Afghanistan” an NGO aimed at eradicating poverty, gender inequality, and violence against women from Afghanistan through social enterprises. In addition, Farhad runs a social venture and a consultancy firm with a mission to raise funds for incubating social business ideas that can lead sustainable change in rigid patriarchal Afghan communities. In 2018, the European Commission named Farhad as one of their EDD Young Leader, and recently, he was selected as a Thomson Reuters Foundation Scholar. In 2019, Farhad was selected as the Asia Foundation Development Fellow for the “Emerging Leadership for Asia’s Future Program”. And most recently, Farhad has become one of the Asia Society's Young Leader where he will connect with the wide network of the Asia Society to implement his newly launched social business initiatives. Farhad envisions to pioneer social business ideas that, in a sustainable manner, can turn aid-dependent, fragile, conservative and unequal Societies into self-sustaining, empowered, democratic, and equal Societies. | Zero-Carbon Food Carts for underprivileged Afghan women | An innovative social business model to empower women, remove poverty, educate people on climate change and inspire them to use clean energy | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Indonesia | Yes | UNDP, SGP/GEF, Private Sector and Government of Afghanistan | Transition to Scale | The traditional food carts we built for women were hard to be moved by women alone. Due to social stigma attached to working women in Afghanistan, many men refused to help women cart vendors to move the food carts from their kitchen to the place of food distribution. It was a very disappointing situation for our beneficiaries. Therefore, we changed the traditional food cart into Zero-Carbon/ Solar-Powered food Cart to help our beneficiaries do business independently, fearlessly & peacefully. | Involving women into a male-driven occupation has brought a dent into the social spheres of Afghanistan. It is leading sustainable change by enabling women to do business equally. Also, since Afghanistan has one of the least literate population, the initiative educates people on Climate Issues on specially designed food wrappers. Moreover, since the half of Afghan population lives below the poverty line, we provide cheap and healthy street food in poor communities to refrain people from hunger. | We have brought Afghan women into an occupation which is street food vending and which is typically considered for men with a purpose to create friction for social change. With once no women dared to become a food cart vendor, our initiative has motivated hundreds of Afghan women to start doing businesses fearlessly and peacefully. Moreover, our beneficiaries are obliged to raise enough funds to expand the number of Zero-Carbon food carts from 35 to 170 in 15 months. We deliver street food in specially designed food wrappers which contain local messages to educate people about climate change. This becomes vital in a country where people burn plastic, coal and firewood to heat up their homes in winters due nonavailability of gas & constant power. Due to large combustion of fossil fuel, it becomes suffocating to breath in winters in the capital city making people getting different chronic diseases. So, on a daily basis through our carts we will educate 1400 People about climate change. this will inspire them to take collective action for climate protection. Moreover, the street food we provide is mainly consumed by poor communities. which removes hunger from those communities. Having gained great result of social change and development from this initiative, we want to expand this initiative in other male-dominant and unequal societies as well. Our vision is to design more such projects that can contribute to achieve many SDGs simultaneously and in a sustainable manner. | When it comes to designing women economic empowerment projects, almost all donors tend to limit women's access to the home-based businesses . Even though it helps Afghan women economically, but it doesn't give visible results for social change in Afghanistan. Because of huge gender gap between men and women the culture of suppressing women and depriving them of their human rights remain widespread. therefore, we went against the grain and designed a project that was not typically expected by the society. A woman serving street food was a like bomb that fell into our society. People started to call this initiative against our culture and Islam and our beneficiaries were threatened and harassed by some conservative people. Confronting the friction we built for six months finally made us to witness change. With the support from local leaders and religious scholars helped us to gain local support for the project. And our beneficiaries don't report any case of harassment and threats anymore. This is an example of how to lead sustainable change at grassroots level. On the other hand, educating people on eco-friendly food wrappers becomes vitally important for a poor country like Afghanistan where we don't have public funds available for such activities. The Food wrappers contain simple messages to educate people on Climate Protection. And finally being based on social business model, the initiative can upscale and sustain itself over a period of time. | We have raised 50000 USD from UNDP/SGP/GEF and 100000 USD from private sector investors . The funding will enable us to produce 35 Zero-Carbon Food Carts, a women-run kitchen and a parking space for the carts. The funds will also be utilized to train the beneficiaries on how to ride the food cart and how to prepare street food. We have successfully patented the technology in our Ministry of Commerce and Industry. We are given milestones to be achieved by the UNDP and we measure our progress on how far we have achieved our milestones. Quantitatively, we take average of customers buying our street food. On a daily basis we will provide food supply for 40 people on average and which becomes 1400 people visiting our food carts on daily basis. the food carts will be placed in different locations soon and a volunteer will be assigned to help our beneficiary in the first two months of the operations. We are in contact with the Afghanistan National Environmental Protection Agency to design simply yet influencive messages to educate Afghan on Climate Issues. | Estimated Quantitative results: 1) 2.5 Million people will be educated on Climate Change, climate protection in Six Months through specially designed food wrappers 2) 35 sustainable businesses will built for impoverished women 3) 2.5 Million rural poor will be helped to escape hunger in six months. By feeding them healthy, hygienic and cheap street food 4) The current beneficiaries will raise enough funds in 1500 months to produce more 170 food carts Estimated qualitative results: More people will get inspired from the Zero-Carbon food carts model and they will have inclination towards using renewable energy to meet their small power consumption More women will start doing male-driven businesses without having fear for being stigmatized harassed or threatened New countries where we will expand our operations: 1) Pakistan 2) Jordan 3) Indonesia | Strong Networks on international level are highly needed to scale up this model in other regions and continents and UN solutions summit is a perfect platform to make life-long networks. Our Short term need is to register a branch of our NGO in the USA in order for us to gain access to international funding opportunities. Our medium term goal is to find reliable partner organizations to expand the Zero-Carbon Food Carts model in their respective countries as well. While our Long-term need is to gain Local Governments Support for the project which will help us to implement it as the national scheme of Poverty Eradication, women empowerment, and leading sustainable change and development. | http://www.ebtakar-iea.org/get-involved/ https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20180731/451058341258/el-joven-que-creo-una-start-up-para-luchar-por-la-igualdad-de-genero-en-afganistan.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=vida&utm_campaign=lv http://www.europapress.es/sociedad/noticia-tienen-ver-gallinas-igualdad-genero-afganistan-20180722185542.html https://www.reuters.com/article/us-business-conference-ethics/perfect-time-for-ethical-businesses-to-drive-social-change-idUSKCN1NK2PL?fbclid=IwAR20-j9Ngt8E8QbdI8LPh4h-L414uMdooAo54_K21lOARj6HvkwBEk708ao http://youngleadersfordev.org/04-quality-education/2018/05/social-enterprises-gender-equality/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-9lNlQph_Q&feature=youtu.be https://www.facebook.com/europeaid/videos/1695967203812176/ https://www.facebook.com/SDGaction/videos/10155823858167496/?t=7 http://www.mtv.de/videoclips/oczla9/ff0ac9a5-8d8a-49d0-b4f1-becbd2ae4ccc | Best Social Enterprise Award by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Best Social Enterprise Award by Afghanistan Expo Center Global Good Fund Fellowship Semi Finalist The Chanel Brand Scholarship Holder for one yOung world summit UK The Asia Foundation Development Fellowship holder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
356 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Laila | Soudi | Stanford University | refugeeresearchproject.stanford.edu | Project Lead | Female | United States of America | Jordan | Arabic | English | French | Presenting at the UN Solutions Summit would enable me to access to a network of stakeholders whose buy-in is necessary for the advancement of our project. We represent a global mental health project that, at its core, empowers women refugees to deliver mental healthcare to members of their own community. We are a team based out of Stanford University that is working to address SDGs. If we're going to do it successfully, we need to work in partnership with policy makers, industry leaders, fellow entrepreneurs, and the general public to implement our project. This community of like-minded individuals, ready to leverage their individual strengths to advance innovative solutions, is present at the UN Solutions Summit. Growing up in Jordan to a Palestinian refugee mother and a Syrian father, I learned firsthand the disparity in access to healthcare on behalf of refugees. After moving to the US, I vowed to build my own capacity, so I may enable access to mental healthcare for those most vulnerable at home. As such, I established the Stanford Refugee Research Project to leverage the resources of Stanford to empower refugee communities in the Middle East. As part of our project, we established innovative programs that allow for our students to serve as college admissions advisors and/or coding technical mentors to children/adolescents most vulnerable at home. | Laila Soudi is the Founder and Project Lead of Stanford University’s response to the global displacement crisis. The University’s response launched when Laila reached out to President Tessier-Lavigne of Stanford and urged him to give her funding to start this initiative. Prior to this, Laila served as a global mental health researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Stanford University School of Medicine, where she worked to better understand the mental health of Syrian child refugees exposed to trauma and torture. Originally Syrian and having lost family and friends in the ongoing Syrian War, Laila has been working extensively with displaced individuals across the Middle East and Europe. An advocate of refugee health, Laila has published about the refugee crisis in Stanford Medicine Scope, Huffington Post, SF Chronicle, Washington Post, and the Guardian and has spoken about the neglected role of mental health in humanitarian aid to a variety of audiences, from medical doctors to top US government officials. She holds an undergraduate degree in neuroscience/psychology from UC Berkeley and a graduate degree in global health from UC San Francisco. | Sana Relief | Empowering women refugees to deliver mental healthcare | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Syria | Yes | SAMS, Johns Hopkins University | Research & Development | Our team has established partnerships for program design and implementation, having ideated (through an iterative process) the innovation over months. We know the specific population we will target (Syrian women), our beneficiaries (Syrian children), and the clinical intervention (CETA). More work is needed on-the-ground to modify the clinical intervention to ensure cultural appropriateness. Also, more work is needed to clarify logistics, including how women will be paid for their services. | Eight years into the Syrian Civil War, the mental health needs of children (ages 5-18) across Syria are immense. There is a veritable shortage of available mental health professionals to address these needs, leaving children without access to care. Leveraging community-based resources by training and supervising Syrian women to deliver needed mental healthcare would increase access to care amongst vulnerable children. | The most hard-to-reach children in Syria have the least access to mental healthcare. We propose training women from conflict-affected communities in CETA, a scientifically-based modular, multi-problem, trans-diagnostic approach created for use by lay providers that addresses depression, anxiety, trauma, safety risk, aggression, substance misuse, and violence. By training and supervising women from the community to deliver CETA, we will create a) better access to b) comprehensive care for children who need mental health services. In turn, those few available physicians will then treat only those with psychosis/suicidal intent. A select number of CETA providers will be receive extensive training to become CETA trainers, thereby eliminating the dependency on outside specialists to train/supervise future cohorts. Once a substantial number of trainers/supervisors/counselors is established, we would like to explore the possibility of assisting these women in creating a business in which they charge a small amount for therapy, thereby enabling a self-sustaining model. This model may be replicated in any country across the world where there is a shortage of mental health professionals. The underlying vision for this work is to ensure those most vulnerable amongst us have access to quality mental healthcare. | In some areas in Syria, there is access to a few mental health professionals. In some low-resource areas, through the WHO mhGAP, some general physicians have been trained to detect symptoms and refer to the few specialists. That said, there remains a shortage of clinicians available to detect and treat mental health symptoms. Mental health programs often focus on a single problem and have set sessions that everyone receives. The CETA model is bold in that lay counselors learn to treat a wide range of problems by flexibly using the program. CETA has been shown to be more effective than single-problem focused and shows higher effect sizes than dual-problem programs like PM+. This is the first intervention in Syria devised to empower women from conflict-affected communities to detect and treat a wide range of mental health symptoms in children. | At this stage, we are conducting the necessary research to implement this project. During the lifetime of the innovation, we anticipate developing the capacity of 50 Syrian women in the detection and treatment of mental health symptoms amongst children in Syria. Their ability to counsel will be based off training and ongoing supervision assessments administered by local and remote supervisors. We anticipate helping contribute to the financial security of 50 Syrian counselors who, before the onset of the grant, did not have a source of income. Each counselor will be compensated $3 per session, and supervisors will be compensated more for additional responsibilities. By the end of the innovation (pilot), we anticipate having reduced mental health symptoms in a cohort of 2,150 children/adolescents (1075 girls and 1075 boys) in Syria, as measured by two clinical assessments (CBCL/YSR and PTS) pre-, intra-, and-post the 8-12 counseling sessions. Furthermore, we will have additional mental health capacity in Syria by training 50 lay providers who are trained to assess mental health symptoms and provide counseling. Over 3-5 years, we anticipate training at least two Syrian women as CETA trainers, fully certified to train other supervisors and counselors. By expanding our program, we anticipate having a reduction in mental health symptoms on behalf of more children in Syria and a larger workforce of women able to train, supervise, and serve as counselors. | June 2020: focus groups with 20 children, 20 women in Syria (specific location TBD early 2020) to identify mental health problems and how to effectively deliver CETA (location, transportation, compensation, etc.). 50 women will be recruited for training. July 2020: 50 women trained on CETA for 10 days by 2 trainers from Johns Hopkins, where CETA was developed. From this group, 10 women will be identified and provided with additional supervision training. These supervisors will hold weekly group supervision: (1) “practice groups” for 2 months (July-September 2020) in which counselors review CETA components and role-play the steps. This is also the time where local providers make cultural modifications. (2) counselors will have weekly supervision while they see 1-2 cases. Remote supervision of the supervisors will be conducted by CETA trainers on a weekly basis via video. All counselors will be trained on video-conferencing technology (TBD) and the data storage platform (TBD) used for all encrypted clinical data by Stanford University. Sept 2020-Oct 2021: each counselor will treat 60 children, reaching a total of 2,400. For each counseling session, for a total of 8-12 sessions based on symptom severity and need, a counselor will be compensated at least $3. Those exhibiting psychosis or acute suicidal intent will be referred to a physician with our partner organization Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS). Nov-Dec 2021: Stanford will wrap up and analyze program effectiveness. | Needs all through-out: financial resources to implement a pilot and, subsequently, to scale this program. Short-term: Johns Hopkins trainer to teach CETA, a cohort of women refugees who want to be trained, and child beneficiaries. Medium-term: immediately after the end of this implementation program, we need Stanford resources to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention, Johns Hopkins CETA trainers to train women counselors to become trainers. Long-term: we need sustainable financial support to invest in a business that would enable local communities to treat themselves. furthermore, we need support from policy makers who could push for governmental support to further the global mental health agenda. | refugeeresearchproject.stanford.edu www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/global-mental-health/talk-therapies/common-elements-treatment-approach/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/jul/25/mental-health-development-refugees | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3-EQDt_5Mw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjPTaliHyg (arabic) | Velji Emerging Leader in Global Health Innovation (Consortium of Universities for Global Health): winner Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award (UC Berkeley): finalist Jengyee Prize- Leadership for a Better World (UC Berkeley College of Engineering): winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
357 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | ONESIME | Muhimuzi Jimmy | Fountain of Hope | hopefountainmi.webs.com | Projects Director | Male | Malawi | Democratic Republic of the Congo | English | French | First of all refugees are most vulnerable people in the world. When I arrived in Dzaleka refugee Camp, I initiated a program of micro-project in the Camp to help refugees get a self-reliance. I started two small types of microloans: Cash loan where with small capital we are giving small capital to a group of five people with a lowest interest and especially targeting Single mothers. Another type is a loan of pigs, where we give a loan of pig and he returns two baby pigs which will be given to others. Along this micro-credit program, 60 new business were created and 20 existing business boasted. Hence, you can understand that I have helped many refugees relying on themselves especially during this period when UNHCR rations have been reduced in the camp at the rate of 60%. The camp is surrounded by poor Malawians villagers estimated at 50,000 people and the camp is hosting a population if 40,000 people. If I can be empowered by enough capital, I can be reaching at least 3650 loans per year which will change the lives of almost 14,600 persons. If I am given a chance I wish to eradicate the poverty in the Camp and install the culture of self-reliance. With my bachelor degree in Financial Management, I am sure that a refugee and Malawians poor can rely on themselves and be above to meet basic needs through the service of micro loans program. We are also investing in education through Early Child development, Primary schools and we have already assisted 1250 refugees. we are also willing to build a model school. To sustain our program, we also undertake income generating activities. Thanks and regards. | Born in 1989 in the South-Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I am a motivated young man with social welfare and holding a bachelor degree in Financial Management. Being orphan from war which is shaking my country, I have gained enough life skills which shaped me to be a good leader. I am politically oriented and will to hold the highest position in my country so as to change the lives of my fellow citizens. I am married and father of one kid and adhere to Protestantism as religion. | Eradicating poverty through micro-loan and education | We are coming in service to most vulnerable and marginalized people by insuring their self-reliance and provide education to children. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Malawi | Yes | Jesuit Refugees Service, Card and Social Imoact Incubator | Scaling | Because we are already operational and have reached some of the goals. however, it is scaling because we are still at low stage and have not attained our full objectives | The problem we are trying to solve is the poverty and illiteracy for the most vulnerable and marginalized especially refugees, women and children through out micro-loan program and education | It is consisted of giving small microloan to refugees who group themselves into a group of five persons to make a security of the loan. We train people in the business management and those who present a viable business project are given a loan to create or boast business. The long term vision is to have an established micro-finance on the service of rural population and most vulnerable people to improve their lives at the highest manner possible. If we receive a capital of 250,000.00 USD, we will be able to give 3650 loans per year with impact on lives of 14.600 if we consider that each family beneficiary of a loan is composed of 4 persons. In three years we can give 10950 loans with impacts on 43,800 lives.Our education program offer per year 300 children in 3 years we can reach more than 900 but our vision is to build a model school. | Others community Based organizations concentrate their goals on human rights and addressing only . It is unique because it is impacting directly the lives of refugees. it is difficult for refugees to get capital to start business , with this project, the refugees are empowered with starting capital for business. It is unique because we are offering education free of charge and feel the gap left by the UNHCR implementing partners. we have palpable results which anyone can see and appreciate. | Our team is on perpetual training of our vision and mission. our progress is measure by the outcomes on the services delivered, like the number of loans, number of beneficiaries, amount lent, amount reimbursed, number of students and number of scholarships offered. | obtaining a capital of 250000 USD which can help us to cover the whole district of Dowa and we are targeting to open o model school with a research center sanctioned by internet connectivity at our big site located at Lilambwe village. We expect to high a micro-credit Manager, Risks and compliance Manager and recruiting secondary school teachers | For the Micro-loan program the needed capital to have considerable impact is 250,000UD while for the education program is 100,000 Usd which makes 350,000 USD, The main resources will be direct construction of facility infrastructure to accommodate the projects and run the activities indeed. The operations cost, administration and research will be reduced at the lowest rate to help invest on direct products. Resources needed are: land, construction material, 2 vehicles, stationary, 20 computers, books, desks, 3 printers, tables, internet connectivity, solar panels, Human resources, | hopefountainmi.webs.com Facebook page: ''Fountain Of Hope, Non-profit Organization"" | Facebook page: ''Fountain Of Hope, Non-profit Organization"" | Best Refugee CBO led by refugees | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
358 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | JUSTICE | OFFEI | SIKADAN MICROCREDIT SERVICES | www.sikadanhomes.com | Founder & MD | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | My resolve to starting a Microfinance (microcredit services) in Ghana was informed by my core passion as a social entrepreneur with a keen objective of using financial solution and technology to solve socio-economic problems within communities for low-income populations in developing countries in Africa. As a result, i have been able to develop products tailored to meet the needs of low-income households in Accra; impacting over 100 individuals within our communities. These interventions have attracted the attention of recognizable awarding body and international Investors. I am very convinced that platform such as the UN Solution summit will enable me to pitch our innovation SIKADAN HOMES to the right audience for the right support. SIKADAN HOMES is an innovation that has the sustainable model to impact millions of low-income households in Africa with regards to affordable housing solutions. It will also help curb the rising number of slum dwellers in Africa. | Justice Offei Jr. is a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur, an award winning entrepreneur, a keynote Speaker, Advisor and futurist. He graduated as a petroleum engineer from KNUST, Ghana and currently pursuing a blended Masters pathway at MIT in Economics. He serves as the PRO and International Relation for the Ghana Chamber of Young Entrepreneurs(GCYE). He is a mentor and representative for FasterCapital, a Dubai-based venture incubator. He also serves as a partner and contributing writer for TANOE Business. Justice is a 2017 & 2018 FORTY Under 40 Award Nominee, a columnist for Modern Ghana and Ghana web and a writer for Entrepreneurs of Colour (EOC) Magazine in USA and EVANGEL Magazine. He is the founder and managing director of the SIKADAN Microcredit Services and the Host and founding president of Africa Entrepreneurship Dialogue (AFED). His passion for entrepreneurship made him sacrifice his petroleum engineering profession to start his own business. This selfless passion has driven him on a national campaign for the enactment of the Ghana Startup Act for entrepreneurs in Ghana. | SIKADAN HOMES | It is a digital platform that delivers decent, safe and affordable accommodation for low-income households including slum dwellers in Ghana. | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Ghana and to be expanded to Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Kenya | No | Proof of Concept | This innovation has been piloted via our loan products for low-income workers and with the findings of our Google Analytics Market Survey and the market validation by meqasa.com , Proof of Concept is a more justifiable stage for this innovation. | Landlords in Ghana do not accept monthly rent payment. According to iBAN Sector Study Reports in Ghana published in 2016 by GIZ, only about 1% of households are able to afford the cheapest houses offered by formal developers. According to the same report, about 1.5 Million low-income households need affordable housing solution with about 12.4 Million Ghanaians living in slums according to UN Habitat Report. . | It is a digital platform that delivers decent, safe and affordable accommodation for low-income households including slum dwellers in Ghana. It is an optimized way of matching landlords to tenants and eliminating the additional costs incurred by virtue of agents and yearly advance rent charges. This platform allows Users to search for their kind of room, request for inspection and upon approval, choose a payment plan to settle their rent. There are Available types of vehicle, upon request, to convey your luggage to your new location. Every tenant would be assigned to a property officer who will be responsible for the management of any related property issues; inspection, check-ins, painting, fixings among many others. Our business model is simple; we pay all the total cost of the rent for our users(tenants) who cant pay and asked them to choose a payment plan to settle us at a very low cost. We take 10% commission from the Landlords per each rented accommodation and 2% interest per month from our users for the Payment plan. According to UN Habitat report,about 12.4 Million Ghanaians are living in slums. The provision of Safe and affordable accommodation is a tool for development and social equality. Our core vision is to create a sustainable affordable housing solution for low-income households in Africa, aiming at reducing the upward trajectory of slum dwellers. Starting with Ghana and replicating in other African countries. | This innovation is one of a kind in Ghana because none of the property marketing firms provide repayment plan for renters (tenants). SIKADAN HOMES is the only platform that allows Users to search for their kind of room, request for inspection and upon approval, choose a payment plan to settle their rent with available delivery option , upon request, to convey your luggage to your new location. All our competitors are keen in just listing properties to enable users to search, buy or rent for all class of households. | Progress So Far: 1. The Piloting of SIKADAN Homes without the digital platform; over 20 low-income households have already benefited 2.Template for the digital platform has been designed and ready to be fully developed and launched to make us more accessible www.sikadanhomes.com 3.Ongoing Google Analytics Market Survey in Ghana https://forms.gle/LQzSa3jbrsZK481N6 | Expected Achievable Targets 1st Year 1. Launch SIKADAN HOMES in Ghana 2. Engage our first 15000 users in Ghana 3. Recruit our Property Officers across the regions of Ghana 2nd Year 1. Expansion 1- Rwanda 3rd Year 2. Expansion 2- Nigeria | Short Term needs: 1. Funding to fully develop the digital platform and launch it 2. Funding to augment our lending pot Medium-Long term Needs: 1. Research & Development support to study the market in other African countries especially Rwanda and Nigeria to enable us to expand to those countries. 2. The needed Partnership support to aid in our expansion | 1. SIKADAN HOMES Customer Satisfaction: https://youtu.be/NzaCpk1xxhQ 2. SIKADAN HOMES Intro :https://youtu.be/fsqs-GgK9gA 3. Project Website : https://www.sikadanhomes.com/ Technical Articles : 4. iBAN Study Report (By GIZ): https://www.inclusivebusiness.net/media/5 5. https://meqasa.com/accra-housing-guide 6.https://technovagh.com/2018/03/22/meqasa-state-of-housing-accra-2017/ 7. https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/EPoverty/Ghana/AmnestyInternational.docx 8.https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2018/04/01/state-of-slum-dwellers-in-africa-critical-pdg/ 9. Housing Finance in Ghana http://housingfinanceafrica.org/countries/ghana/ | 1. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1528570967252635&id=377188029057607 2. More other Radio Interviews (Recordings are available) | 1.Ghana Startup Club 100 Recognition Award 2017 https://thestartupnetwork.tanoe.org/gsc100/ 2. Ghana Startup Award 2017 Nominee https://ameyawdebrah.com/nominations-open-2017-ghana-startup-awards/ 3.Forty Under 40 Awards (2017 & 2018 Nominee) http://www.40under40awards.com.gh/nominee-list 4.Young Entrepreneurs' award 2018 Nominee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
359 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John | Chia | Commercial production of cocoa pod breaking machine | https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-chia-2b705b124 | Production engineer | Male | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | I am an Agricultural Engineer and I have skills in conceiving ideas and developing them. It has always been my desire to safe my community tirelessly by providing them with technology that can help them enhance farming. Since I spend most of my time with farmers, I had always had the inspiration to look into their problems by being curious and asking them from time to time. From the inspiration gotten from cocoa farmers and their need to have a machine that helps facilitate work, I came out with a design for a cocoa pod breaking machine which breaks cocoa and seives automatically. Hearing about the UN summit, it made me feel that it is a chance for me to get access to showcase my innovation to the world and also help me to have access to finances and philanthropists. Coming from Africa, in one of the world's highest cocoa production countries, Cameroon, I believe that being a part of this summit will have me on a spring board to be able to compete at the international level. Africa stands as the highest region in the world that produces cocoa but unfortunately, no machine has been made(successfully) so far regarding this product to increase the level of production. There being a part of this summit, motivated me to love to take part in order to make other Nationals such as Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria as some of the world's cocoa top producing countries. It also motivated me to showcase my competitiveness. | This project started up as a final year project in 2018. Living in a region faced with the Cameroon anglophone crisis, I tried to do my research in very hard ways as my research test needed cocoa pods which unfortunately were to move from the south west still in the affected area of the country. Coupled with these hard times, I managed to succeed amazing in my tests. In November 28th 2018, I competed in the regional level in the Regional Delegation of Scientific Research and Innovation, Bamenda, and came out as the third prize winner as an innovator in the Region. Meanwhile, we are still waiting for the national level where I will meet 30 other researchers from all around the 10 regions of the country. In May 11th 2019, I defended The University of Bamenda, at the National University games in the domain of Cameroon students ingenuity and talent contest(CSITC). Amongst 14 (fourteen) different Universities that were competiting, I came out as the overall best in the domain of agriculture and I was awarded a golden medal and a trophy coupled with a cash prize of $1200 USD though the University is still in the keeping of the cash prize. I was awarded a certificate of excellence for defending The University of Bamenda at the national level with an outstanding grade. | Cocoa Pod Breaking Machine/ breaks and sieves automatically | Cocoa Pod Breaking Machine is a machine which breaks cocoa and seives automatically reducing the stress, time and injury incurred by cocoa famers. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoir), Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Uganda and other cocoa producing countries. | No | Transition to Scale | This is because this innovation is already at the level of producing in larger quantities and supplying to customers. Test results and recommendations have been carried out already. We have been reaching out to farmers and their reactions to this innovation are generally very positive. We have also reach out to some famers through phone calls, TV shows and radio interview and many people actually love the stage at which the machine is. | This machine is solving the problem of poor quality in production, Time consumed in breaking Cocoa Injury on farmers and the product (seeds/beans) Low quantity of production Poor post harvest technology. | Cocoa pod breaking machine breaks cocoa and seives automatically. It has two main Chambers. The breaking chamber and the sieving Chamber. Cocoa pods are put in through the hopper and it moves into the breaking chamber. When the cocoa is broken, it moves down through a funnel into the trouler(sieve) under the force of gravity. In the trouler, the seeds/beans are separated from the husks ( chaffs). Seeds/beans fall out through the perforated pores on the trouler while the husks goes out through the other end of the trouler. The machine is powered by a petrol engine. This power source was chosen because most of the cocoa farms in Africa are located out of the electricity. The machine has a capacity of breaking one tone within two hours, a job done by ten serious farmers within two days using manual methods. The machine breaks the cocoa without destroying the seeds/beans. This machine in the long run, will provide employment to most of the youths living in cocoa producing countries in the world. For insurance, the machine can be used by a young man to break cocoa to famers and get paid. Also, we believe that this innovation will help to keep youths back in their local areas where they grow up to take cocoa as a profession taking into account that breaking of cocoa has always been regarded by them as a drudgery. Moreso, since cocoa breaking has been a problem to most youths, this job has been left to old men and bringing in a cocoa pod breaking machine, it will attract youths. | This solution is unique in that, it is very rapid, that is, producing one tone within two hours which is actually a job that is often done by ten serious and active farmers within two days at least. The machine breaks the Cocoa and sieves automatically which is a very good advantage in addition to it's rapidity. With the object of this machine being to reduce drudgery and reduce the rate of injury on farmers and the product, the machine breaks the cocoa without destroying the seeds as opposed to the traditional methods which breaks the cocoa and destroy the seeds and also injure the famers. As compared to other machines, it is rapid, breaks and sieves automatically and it is cheaper. It reduces the time consumed in breaking Cocoa. | We are already at the of gaining access to supplying the product at the market level. The product is already seen by farmers and appreciated for its purpose. We are also at the level of getting contracts with Nationals and international famers who are will to partner with us for the sell of the machine. Ghanaians are already interested and we are hoping to get contacts in Côte d'Ivoir and Nigeria which are the major cocoa producing countries in the world with Cameroon inclusive. We measure our methodology to be almost at the level of full success when we finally sign contracts with the above popular cocoa producing countries. We also measure that we are going to gain a very vast customers market as we target birth the small scale and large scale farmers. Meaning that, our product can actually be purchased by a least cocoa producer who could produce at least one tone! Our system can be changed to suit large scale farmers and therefore there's hope that we have a bigger customer based. | We planned to go to other countries unfailingly by next year. This will first of all begin with the most popular cocoa producing countries in the world as named above. Since one of our aim is to see that youths gets engaged in doing useful jobs, we hope to recruit many youths to be part of the move in one way or the other to see a successful business. Considering that we have to move to four other countries apart from Cameroon, our projections to impact other youths is 1500 to 2000 youths. Meanwhile in Cameroon, in addition to the workers currently, we hope to employ close to 500 youths to engage in this move. Aspire to have this number of employees because we are projecting to also produce machines that will transform cocoa from the primary stage to the tertiary stage for direct consumption which again will get more youths employed. | At mean time, the resources needed are finances to help sign international trade documents. Business travels to initiate deals in country's out of our current country. Vehicle for the transportation of machines to deliver to farmers. In the lounge term, this will require other technology to improve on the effectiveness of the machine and creating long lasting contracts and permanent employees. Also, machines required for workshop is needed for this purpose. | https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-chia-2b705b124 | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnr9hdAafDY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VeQLs7neksc | I have worn a third prize at the Regional Delegation of the North West Region, Bamenda, Cameroon. I also won a first prize in The National University games in the domain of Cameroon students ingenuity and talent contest by defending The University of Bamenda. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
360 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mihir | Prakash | AidData | www.aiddata.org | Senior Research Analyst | Male | United States of America | India | English | I am an urban planner and a public policy professional who recognizes that cities are the key to achieving the SDGs and minimizing our carbon footprint as mankind. Over the course of my career, I have worked largely on identifying gaps in current social sciences knowledge and devised ways to innovate in my space to bridge those gaps. The innovation that I would like to present is our work on developing a decision toolkit for cities to optimally leverage their revenues and maximize achieving SDG 11 and its targets. | Mihir Prakash is a Senior Research Analyst at AidData where he works on a wide range of research including sustainable urbanization, sustainable development goals, climate change, urban resilience, data for development, GIS and financing the SDGs. Prior to joining AidData, he worked worked with a variety of organizations to produce policy-relevant research, including the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Columbia University, the World Bank, Arizona State University, and the Indian government. Mihir holds a Masters in Public Administration - Development Practice from Columbia University and a Masters in Urban and Environmental Planning from Arizona State University. | Counting the Costs | To achieve Goal 11, we need to know what it would cost! | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Bolivia, India, Cote d'Ivoire, Colombia, Malaysia and Sweden | Yes | UN-Habitat | Proof of Concept | We are launching the results of our 6 country pilot at the UN-General Assembly this year. We will showcase our 'proof of concept' methodologies designed to determine holistic costs of sustainable urban development for any city. Our work is a bottom-up costing methodology that takes an urban planning approach rather than the macro-economic approach to costs estimation. This has not been done before and would give more comprehensive and accurate estimates. | Estimates of resources needed to achieve the SDGs are either global or national. They disregard the power of local resource mobilization. Current discourse either focuses on how cities can financial innovations such as public-private partnerships and municipal bonds, or it talks about how many people are living in poverty. We want to bridge this gap and define pathways to determine how much resources are needed to address what SDG11 target for which city/country context. | We dissected SDG 11, from an urban planning lens, and identified distinct thematic areas that need interventions. Within each thematic area, we map out various dimensions of achievement. For example, for housing we consider: safe, adequate, affordable, accessible and with basic services. Then we define what achieving sustainable housing for all in cities would look like in 2030 and determine its cumulative and incremental annual cost. We believe that with this, cities can better plan how to spend their resources over time as well as identify which thematic areas could be addressed through public-private partnerships and loans, versus which areas require public funds. Achieving the SDGs, including goal 11, would require mobilizing both public and private resources simultaneously. Our project enables cities to determine how much and how. So far, we have completed our work on 6 countries. We want to present our work, gather feedback and scale up to ALL countries. In the process we also create new datasets that are publicly available and freely distribute our methodology for decision making use. Our partner, UN-Habitat, is committed to utilizing our tool for its technical lending and capacity building efforts with partner municipalities. | Typically in this space, costings are done at the national level and do not provide city-level data and estimates. This creates a lot of ambiguity towards actual resource allocation within the country. Our approach is bottom-up. This means that our results are more accurate and also have better application prospects. With our results, we expect both national governments and local governments to be able to better administer their limited resources and harmonize their efforts towards achieving the SDGs. | We have finalized our methodologies for 5 thematic areas out of 7 based on both thematic and country experts consultation. We developed a timeline for data collection and measure our progress based on how much data has been gathered for each city in any of our 6 countries. We are about to disseminate our draft methodologies and initial cost estimates for an internal review among UN-Habitat and AidData technical experts. We have already shared our results for Bolivia with the UN-Habitat country office in Bolivia for their feedback. During the UNGA events and at your summit we would like to share our work and invite external reviewers to evaluate our work and also provide feedback. This will add a second layer of robustness to our work and also spread awareness and buy-in. | Our short-term goal is to further refine our methodology and test our results with partner governments. This will take place through 2019 and early 2020. In early 2020, we also want to raise funds to continue this work and expand to another 20 countries. At current capacity, we estimate being able to deploy our methodology to 60 countries over the course of a year. This includes data collection, compilation, validation and analysis. Our host organization, the College of William and Mary, has a large student labor force that can be mobilized quickly as funds become available to rapidly scale up work. We are also developing training documents and QC/QA protocols for students and student managers that would be hired for future scale up. | We need partnerships and raising awareness about this work as a first need. We are looking for platforms where we can showcase this work and gather momentum from professionals in different countries who are involved in advancing the global goals at all levels of administration. We want to test our assumptions and the validity of our results. These are our short term needs. In the medium to long term, we would require resource commitments from funding partners. | https://www.aiddata.org/blog/what-would-it-cost-for-our-cities-to-be-sustainable-by-2030 http://docs.aiddata.org/ad4/pdfs/UN_HABITAT_2019_Discussion_Paper.pdf | https://kjzz.org/content/534501/un-takes-first-ever-look-sustainability-american-cities | This is an applied academic project. So we have not pursued awards. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
361 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jairo Esteban | Correa Vargas | BOSQUE NEGOCIO AMAZÓNICO BIC SAS | www.bosquenegocio.com | General Manager | male | Colombia | Colombia | English | Spanish | Since 2019 as a result of this alliances, I am the representative of BOSQUE NEGOCIO AMAZONICO BIC SAS (BNA), which purpose is the sustainable development of an Amazon Forest Conservation Business, including the production and commercialization of sub products of the forest, primarily with the Association (AIZA), but in expansion to other regions and communities, in order to give economic autonomy, strengthening their own government, their institutionally and show the world a sustainable development towards climate change with ancestral cultures. | Architect from University Piloto of Colombia, with experience of 16 years with emphasis on urbanism and sustainable projects, framed in processes with communities on their own models and governments. Most significant thesis in renovation. Experience of 10 years working with indigenous and communities in Latin America, on the development of projects with governments and international cooperation. Most relevant outcomes with Kogui Malayo Arhuaco reserve in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta and in the Amazon with the ASOCIACIÓN DE AUTORIDADES INDIGENAS DE LA ZONA DE ARICA (AIZA), working with UNODC and representing them at the UNGA 2018. Formally Legal representative of FUNDACIÓN ORIGENES ANCESTRALES (FORAN), which aims to develop programs that implement self-sustainable ecological models based on the ancestral cultural approach and in line with respect for mother earth. | Bosque Negocio (forest protection business) | It is a combination between the sustainable use of the by-products of the forest and the commercialization of carbon credits. Its purpose is to asses | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Phase 1 Colombian and Peruvian Amazon, Phase 2 Latin America, Phase 3 Asia | Yes | Asociación de Autoridades Indígenas de la Zona de Arica (AIZA), COINPA, FECONAFROPU, Banca de inversion sostenible, Fundación Orígenes Ancestrales (FORAN), NY DECLARATION ON FOREST, UNDP. | Sustainable Scale | The economy is currently based on the optimization of resources without renewal, the economy has to turn to the economy of renewal of resources. With the mechanisms of economy 4.0, economic autonomy is developed with a Sustainable Connection Business Model, through research and technical; production of forest products, carbon credits as the main and native sustainable by-products; closing the economic circle with the commercialization and marketing. This model can be replicated worldwide. | Climate Change. Global warning Lank of Water. The contamination of rivers caused by mining Temperature change. world is evidenced by the drastic changes of temperature Deforestation of forests.Illegal logging of forests by external entities to the communities and the lack of resources for their protection Industrial impact. Contamination of different industries by the consumption of fossil fuels protection of ancestral cultures. lack of resources. | A BosqueNegocio is the evolution of an AgroNegocio The concept of AgroNegocio was born in the 50's, under the conjunction of the evil green revolution (indiscriminate use of agrochemicals to raise the level of greenhouse gas emissions).soil productivity at the cost of its resilience) and industrialization 2.0 (first machines not precisely of clean energy). Today, in the context of climate change, we need a new paradigm that responds to the crisis of global deforestation and projects us towards new global markets. A Business Forest is then the economic valuation of the forest and its ecosystem services. Where Climate Finance has effectively made conservation more profitable than mono-crops or livestock, and industries 4.0 are at the service of sustainability. ...and the Amazon Business Forest is the first of this new species. This sustainable model can be replicated worldwide to the communities, to achieve an economic autonomy, for the strengthening of their life plan. | BOSQUE NEGOCIO AMAZONICO BIC SAS (BNA), whose structure is framed in a self-sustaining circular economy, guided by the following pillars: 1) research and modernization with educational institutions, strengthening its own model; 2) production system with carbon credits (VERSs) as main and native sustainable productive projects, and closing the sustainable economic circle, 3) commercialization and marketing of the products. With the formulation of THE BUSINESS PLAN ITSELF and THE ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN, as a strategy for the achievement of the objectives of the company, running the activities necessary to develop each of the pillars indicated, through: joints within the Economy 4.0, impact projects sustainable economy, climate change and coordination with educational institutions (conventions, congresses, events, agreements, among others). Investment plans for the capitalization of the company with different entities in the national and international order are organized. in this way the model would be skimmed worldwide, to do the implementation to the communities and have an economic autonomy, to strengthen their self-government and the protection of their culture. For 2020 the projected results for this B Corp in which AIZA holds 60% of equity (and where 88% of total income stays at the community), is over 20M USD just on carbon credits. | April 2018 the thought was articulated between AIZA with the coordinator Francisco Garcia and FORAN with the representative Jairo Esteban Correa of the mechanism for economic autonomy. In September 2018 he is invited as representative of the Indians communities to the world assembly; in the event NY DECLARATION ON FOREST, he is presented with Camilo Santa of the Banca de Inversion Sostenible, with the presentation of forest business and the economic model is articulated. in the month of December the agreement between AIZA and FORAN is realized to initiate the processes of business. in the month of January, the Banca de Inversion Sostenible joins to create the business. in the month of February 2019, Bosque Negocio Amazonico BIC SAS is created. in March 2019, the company's own business and environmental plan is developed and agreements are made with universities for technology and research; an agreement is made with the certifies of carbon credits with the company South Pole. In April 2019 the agreements with investors are made; in this month the socialization with the community of AIZA is made, and the documents are signed with the certifies, in the month of May the presentation is made in the university EAFIT of BNA; This same month the company participated in the event FINANCE FOR GLOBAL NATURE SUMMIT in the city of Edinburgh and the presentation of BUSINESS AMAZON FOREST, as a result of NY DECLARATION ON FOREST. In the month of June 2018 the environmental congress in AIZA. | - Restore and conserve through the commercialization of Carbon Bonds, 1'443.152 hectares of Amazon native forests in Phase 1, 3'000.000 hectares in Phase 2 Colombia, Peru 1.000.000 hectares in Phase 1, Peru 3.000.000 hectares in Phase 3, Mexico 1.000.000 Phase 1 and continue with approaches in Latin America and Asia. •Develop the business green of Camu Camu, Sacha Inchi, Amazonian cocoa, among other crops native and wild, with the strengthening of the local infrastructure for the processing of products, marketing and marketing. •Cooperate with economic empowerment of the community to strengthen its institutions, life and its own Government plan. •Present to the world a self-sustaining, focused on protecting economic model to the mother earth, with the knowledge and wisdom of the ANCIENT CULTURES. | Type of funding required: short-term Phase 1 Colombia, Peru 1M UDS medium-term Phase 2 latin Amarica 20M UDS long-term needs Phase 3 Asia 50M • 70% Working Capital. • 30% Pre-‐purchase Fund of raw material fortransformation. | - www.bosquenegocio.com - https://bancasostenible.la/ - http://www.foran.tk/foran.tk/ - https://www.carbonpricingleadership.org/news/2018/12/17/cop24-carbon-pricing-champion-award-winner-carbon-pricing-leadership-coalition-secretariat - https://nydfglobalplatform.org/ - https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/news-centre/announcements/2019/green-finance-leaders-convene-to-develop-financial-solutions-for.html - https://medium.com/project-heather-blog/finance-for-nature-global-summit-may-2019-c662e51dc66c - http://www.eafit.edu.co/agendaeafit/Lists/agenda/DispForm.aspx?ID=4349 - https://www.globalethicalfinance.org/ethical-finance-week-2019/ - http://www.minambiente.gov.co/index.php/decreto-926-de-2017 | https://youtu.be/UTPVKhAZxfY https://youtu.be/fG4rlSwoNkE https://youtu.be/wXbKXHwSKKY https://youtu.be/LJCHBsVSGB8 | recognition of NY DECLARATION ON FOREST recognition of UNDP recognition of GLOBAL ETHICAL FINANCE INITIATIVE recognition of University EAFT recognition of University SERGIO ARBOLEDA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
362 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Charlotte | Kerba | Flames | babalwakerba@gmail.com | Student | Female | South Africa | South Africa | English | I'm involved in a networking group in my country even as now, whereby the youth make changes via presentations. | Single Matriculated in 2009 Orphaned 1 dependant Stay with my grandmother Studying Writer/ poet | Game changer | I adapt quickly to situations & can work well individual or within a group | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | International and national | Yes | Romeo Roman and Ricardo shumi | Research & Development | I've only invested my time in getting to mingle with other change drivers,still learning | Reckless Living in youth,homelessness& unemployed & drug abuse | We do outreaches- to build centres so that people may stay out of trouble | We arrange transportation for people to come& help with food | Good because young & old attend | Would love to work & connect with other motivators from abroad,Canada, Germany,London, England, France | Funds for project planning, stationery for posters | www.activate.co.za | www.activate.co.za | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
363 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | William | Ascencio | jhu unfilipinas | @bocho.inc | Internet Creator | male | Mexico | El Salvador | English | French | Spanish | Nsa dhs cyber security honored causa research biomolecular and other human intakes and behaviours | @bocho.inc#mangolife | human body regeneration through Happy | #mangolife #mangorelajado | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | México AND el Salvador | No | Transition to Scale | Already to much carbon consumption ask me on wrascenc@gmail.com remember wate.org #who #mangolife it's delicate to measure correctly help with examples too. Later | Water and food depletion mainly ocean based solutions and weed | Social media impact. Human race health awareness and solutions. | Not done the data is Dynamics and microbios touch of social. I need a Samsung n9 seems to work best. You know better send it. Mind and body or it does not work. #breathe#yoga #greensolution | 4 years almost alone new cellphone please. Most people don't have a clue about health. Tips are for free quoted from a friend | Some kind of viable solution of distributing info and productions values and scalesmship it too people with the proper scada and cyber security n9 Samsung Galaxy has a stylus that works smart battery works every where. | Present tense or no reality the solution is there not just data have to live in it.by all kenasndo not ruin it More like excellent cases as Galapagos. A note9 is all I need tomsend realtimemdata without moving a rock. | Ig @bocho.inc wrascenc@gmail.com maybe Facebook @pocampos google amiba82 #samsung | Read above | NSA n DHS from Amu apus presidents round table and the thismsxhools provost said something funky too. Can't use too much social media. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
364 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Natasha | Freidus | NeedsList PBC | needslist.co | CEO | F | Canada | United States of America | English | French | Spanish | It would be an extreme honor and privilege to meet other humanitarian solutions this September at the UN Solutions Summit, to share the unique story of NeedsList's trajectory over the past three years, and to gain inspiration from our fellow innovators. NeedsList is a global B2B marketplace connecting local nonprofits with INGOs and corporate donors to create efficiency and transparency in crisis relief. We offer real-time information sharing and tracking tools to first responders from vetted charities and make this data available to the private sector in order to engage their communities in direct, measurable, authentic giving. Our platform provides a transparent way for corporate partners to quickly and easily meet real needs for real people. Think of us as a wedding registry for aid. We see ourselves as disaster relief for the 21st century - tech enabled, locally powered, transparent, direct, and run by women. Over the past two years, users on NeedsList have directed over $1,000,000 in resources to hundreds of nonprofits in over 20 countries. We recently were named as recipients of the Grand Challenges Humanitarian Innovators award for our ""NeedsBot"", a chatbot aggregating needs from the field by allowing first responders to text in needs in real-time. We've partnered with companies including Starbucks, WeWork, and TripAdvisor to foster this new model of direct and transparent aid. This fall, we're scaling up our model with the launch of NeedsList 2.0 - an improved version of our platform based on testing in the field over the past two years. In addition to registering needs, NGOs and businesses will be able to list offers of products and services with the intention of continuing to support local economies. The Solutions Summit is a perfect opportunity for us to share what we've learned, connect with other innovators, and announce new functionality and features. We're looking for feedback and potential partners from UN agencies, NGOs and the private sector. | Natasha Freidus (Co-founder/CEO) is a social entrepreneur with two decades of experience developing, marketing, and implementing tech for good initiatives. Natasha completed her Masters in MIT in 2001 with a focus on the role of tech for change and has been designing, developing, and implementing technology programming ever since for a wide range of public, non-profit, and private sector organizations including HP, the YMCA of the USA, MIT, and the State of Arizona. She built NeedsList, along with co-founder and COO Amanda Levinson, out of passion for a problem she faced personally when coordinating local relief in response to the refugee crisis in Europe. Natasha and Amanda know this space inside and out and have built critical partnerships at a time when there is greater recognition for the need for tech enabled tools for disaster relief. Natasha has spoken on humanitarian innovation at a range of events including innovation summits for the Canadian Red Cross, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the Blockchain for Social Impact Summit. She grew up in the US, and most recently moved from France to Toronto. | NeedsList | Real-time tools for crisis response | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Uganda, Kenya, US, Canada, India, Bangladesh, Greece, France, Italy, Turkey, Syria, UK, Germany, Iraq, Malaysia, South Sudan, Colombia, Sweden, Norway | Yes | We have a range of key private, public, and nonprofit partners including hundreds of other organizations innovating aid (51 Labs, Talent Beyond Boundaries, etc.) - funders like USAID, large NGOS including IRC and STC and corporations like TripAdvisor. | Proof of Concept | NeedsList began in the ideation stage in early 2016 in response to the refugee crisis in Europe. Over the past three years we have iterated on the concept, onboarded hundreds of nonprofits, earned revenue, expanded to include disaster relief, closed a seed round, established critical partnerships in multiple countries, and facilitated over one hundred thousand needs met. We are in the process of rebuilding our platform and chatbot to move from proof of concept stage to transition to scale. | In times of crisis, it is extremely challenging to know what supplies, information, and human resources are needed on the ground. Current data collection tools are outdated and incredibly inefficient. Companies and funders want to help, but they don’t know where or how. We cannot continue to rely on the same systems to communicate needs during crisis. We can, and should, be using technology to better understand, predict, and meet needs from those who know best, local aid organizations. | At the core of NeedsList is a real-time needs registry. Nonprofits use our real-time tech tools to efficiently communicate what types of supplies, funding, and services are urgently needed from the ground. First responders can either text in needs through our chatbot, or use our web-app. All needs are aggregated into a central database, accessible to our members. Business to business tools: We offer a trusted, transparent platform to companies to meet humanitarian needs and track their impact in real-time. Business can also offer discounted or donated services and products to nonprofits to support local economies. We recognize that SMEs are also affected by natural disasters - they can post needs or offers through our platform. As we think towards the future, AI and machine learning will form the cornerstone of our work. What if it were as easy for first responders to add to their “NeedsList” from a dynamic catalog, as it is for you to add movies your Netflix wishlist? We believe that aggregating data from the local level has the potential to fundamentally transform our existing crisis response system through disintermediation. Our vision is for NeedsList to be the primary needs data gathering, matching, and prediction tool in multiple geographies around the world. Because we will be better able to accurately predict resources for any given disaster, crisis response will become more efficient, with the right resources getting to the right people at the right time. | We are the only technology enabled platform providing real-time tools to communicate urgent needs in times of crisis. This is essential for tracking supplies and volunteers, compliance for funders, facilitating private sector engagement, and providing donor impact reports. We’re also the only “all in one” whereby local organizations can not just request supplies or services, they can directly fundraise. And yet - Needslist is not just a tech platform. Our corporate and nonprofit members are at the forefront of building resilient communities and shaping the future of tech-enabled crisis response. We’re building an ecosystem of partners committed to the transformation of a new model of disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. We bring together a unique blend of on the ground experience and long term vision for the use of exponential technology. We know that for overwhelmed first responders to adapt a new technology, it needs to be as simple as using Whatsapp. For the past two years first responders from vetted organizations have logged needs via our webapp, simple Google forms and spreadsheets. Moving forward, improved tools will support local ecosystems of preparedness, response, recovery and long-term recovery. | NeedsList formed in August of 2016 as a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation - clearly designating double bottom line, commitment to profit plus purpose. Less than a year later, the company launched a bootstrapped platform on World Refugee Day, 2017. Since then, we quickly expanded beyond direct refugee aid to deploy for disaster relief in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and most recently, in Mozambique. NeedsList has been recognized internationally as a startup tackling the challenge of global displacement. Impact metrics are central to our process - we measure our impact in multiple ways on a monthly basis; - Number of members - nonprofits and businesses using the platform - Number of needs listed - Number of offers and needs met - USD of resources directed to local communities. In addition, for the pilot and testing of our “NeedsBot” through Grand Challenges Canada we have a number of additional metrics approved by USAID. | NeedsList plans to hit over 1 million dollars in needs met in 2019 and over $3.8 million in 2020. (non-cumulative) with over $1.5 annual revenue by end of 2020. Membership Roadmap: Q3 – 4. 2019. Focus on North America. Testing offers and payment systems and building out membership base. 2019 targets: 800 nonprofits and 100 businesses with focus on larger companies. Q1 -2, 2020 Developing tools to log small business needs and ramping up small business membership in North America beginning in Southeast and Southwest US, California through strategic partnerships and networks. Q3-4 2020 Scaling in North America and growth in either Western Europe, East Africa, and/or Latin America. Product Roadmap Q3 2019: finalizing and launching NeedsList 2.0 with emphasis on B2B and needs to offers matching. Q4 includes refinement of data model and tagging for machine learning. Q1-2 Predictive AI for both natural disaster occurrence and predicting needs. Intelligent natural language processing (NLP) features, customizable for users. Data analysis and visualization. Q3-4 Mobile deployment of Smart Aid Assistant with improved NLP in an SMS chatbot, voice memos, and leveraging existing image recognition and integration with other databases. (i.e, IBM risk insights, weather, census, etc.). In order to achieve these goals we are bringing on a marketing manager, sales associate and chatbot developer all full time this autumn, 2019. | NeedsList is ambitious - we know it’s a tremendous challenge we are tackling and first and foremost, growing our strategic partnerships will be paramount to our success. We are looking for the following: - Technology partners to help us expand our development and integrate. - NGO partners who will continue to test, iterate, and learn along side with us. - Suppliers of urgently needed products and services who can become preferred suppliers and assist with global supply chain issues. - Mobile providers to help us refine and deploy chatbot on multiple platforms. - Private Sector Networks to help us get the word out and deploy. - Funders to help meet urgent needs in a new way. All of these partnerships are critical to success - and will be needed at every stage of our process. Longer term, machine learning will ultimately allow us to better predict specific humanitarian needs based on minimal user input and contextual data to ensure greater efficacy in crisis response. As we build out our AI tools, we'll need big data partners as well to assist with processing and data analysis. | https://needslist.co/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agoQ2L6xQ6Q https://www.forbes.com/sites/annefield/2018/09/30/humanitarian-aid-platform-gets-first-hand-lessons-from-hurricane-florence/ https://hypepotamus.com/companies/needslist/ https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/06/17/durhams-needslist-lands-1m-for-its-real-time-needs-registry/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km6ZwB1p92U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eslxpczz5bg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQlkQzSLgoU | NeedsList was awarded the Grand Humanitarian Challenges Award in 2019 as well as the social impact award for Visa’s Women in Business competition. We were included in the Pope’s Laudato Si Challenge Top 15 Companies Making Impact recognition in 2018, won the audience award at Forbes Innovation Week’s Social Enterprise Pitch Competition in 2018, won first place in the Village Capital FinTech Accelerator Competition in 2017, and were featured finalists at the 2019 SXSW Innovation Challenge. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
365 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joel | Ifill | DASH Systems | www.dashshipping.com | CEO | male | United States of America | United States of America | English | We marry the benefits of autonomous landing and low cost drone operations with the range, speed and cargo capacity of existing air assets to allow deliveries anywhere in the world an airplane or helicopter can fly over.This is significant as the areas were completely cut-off from all ground transportation and with no power or comms most typical drone applications over 50 miles from the capital were not feasible. We performed all this in record time for non profit customers wanting to help their local communities. Implementing our method directly reduces the carbon footprint of aircargo by reducing harmful waste and under utilized assets. Air cargo is an ""indirect"" shipping method which means airplanes often fly overhead and land at airports to be put on a truck to be driven back to the final destination. Due to speed, air cargo is also under utilized with an industry average load factor of only 43% by using our technology we fill planes with packages and payloads destined for areas in between major airports and allow significant ground mile avoidance and better utilization of current routes to reduce ground and air miles by up to 50%. Also as we launch cargo the airplane becomes lighter and saves more fuel resulting in approximately 2-5% direct fuel savings per flight. | Joel Ifill, CEO of Dash Systems is an engineer focusing in manufacturing and high reliability automated systems. Joe Caravella is an affordable roadable aircraft company founder and semi-retired rocket scientist. Benjamin Schnau is an established Sales and business developer who worked with air cargo companies in the past. | Dash Systems | DASH Systems perform humanitarian deliveries by launching hyper accurate UAV gliders from cargo airplane helicopters and drones | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | USA, Europe, Africa, Asia | Yes | Neatbrand - Drone manufacturer | Scaling | Delivering enough food to feed 200 families for a week during hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. We performed all this in record time for non profit customers wanting to help their local communities. We have ongoing operations with Non profit Search and rescue groups in the gulf region Including the Use of smaller UAV based drop systems to resupply rescuers or stranded persons. WE have performed deliveries in 6 states, activated for 3 hurricanes and have delivered thousands of pounds commercially. | Our solutions makes is possible for our target group to deliver precisely, efficient, faster and lower in cost in areas that are hard to reach or wouldn't be delivered frequently. From humanitarian missions to commercially delivered packages, our solution is flexible to adapt to any situation anywhere in the world. | We are using our own developed universal mission planner software which calculates the exact drop point for the package by measuring windspeed, vehicle speed and height of the vehicle. It can be used for drones, planes, pretty much any flying vehicle. Combined with our automatic drop mechanism the customer is able to accurately drop the package where needed. Our own package hardware therefore is also fitted with a gps sensor to not just drop it exactly but also locate the package at any time. Our own developed packages today can carry weight from 1 to 20 pounds today. The robust structure of the DASH package makes is possible to deliver also critical goods. | We have a patented and demonstrated method of allowing any cargo airplane to safely and legally launch cargo and land it within an area smaller than a helipad. We do this by utilizing low cost reusable UAV gliders that land the package instead of landing the entire airplane. The result of this action is a drastic reduction in ground miles and aircraft miles to satisfy the same cargo delivery. We are using our own developed universal mission planner software which calculates the exact drop point for the package by measuring windspeed, vehicle speed and height of the vehicle. It can be used for drones, planes, pretty much any flying vehicle. Combined with our automatic drop mechanism we are able to accurately drop the package where needed. Our own package hardware therefore is also fitted with a gps sensor to not drop it exactly but also locate the package at any time. Our own developed packages today can carry weight from 1 to 20 pounds today. The robust structure of the DASH package makes is possible to deliver also critical goods. | We are using our own developed universal mission planner software which calculates the exact drop point for the package by measuring windspeed, vehicle speed and height of the vehicle. It can be used for drones, planes, pretty much any flying vehicle. Combined with our automatic drop mechanism we are able to accurately drop the package where needed. Our own package hardware therefore is also fitted with a gps sensor to not drop it exactly but also locate the package at any time. Our own developed packages today can carry weight from 1 to 20 pounds today. The robust structure of the DASH package makes is possible to deliver also critical goods. | We are about to hire more engineers as we are moving on to the next stage of development. We secured funding and are now able to the solution even further. From a geographical perspective we are expanding into the Alaska, European and Asian area as the demand for our solution is increasing in these areas as well due to difficult landscapes to reach. | We would like to further develop our solution meaning investing in the development of hardware (drop mechanism and packages) and software to scale it more effectively getting it ready also for the commercial sector in the long-term. We therefore need to hire more engineers, develop the solution even more for then reaching more potential organizations and delivery operators supporting them to deliver critical goods to people for example after hurricanes or earthquakes. | http://www.dashshipping.com https://www.voanews.com/silicon-valley-technology/disposable-delivery-drone-goes-where-other-services-do-not https://www.thedrive.com/tech/15287/puerto-rico-is-a-testbed-for-emergency-drone-cargo-deliveries https://www.fastcompany.com/40478304/in-puerto-rico-these-volunteers-are-dropping-supplies-by-parachute https://www.elvocero.com/actualidad/ayuda-humanitaria-que-cae-del-cielo/article_c8bc1c8c-be98-11e7-91da-8762b3e382d8.html http://digitalla.net/robots3/ https://www.scmp.com/presented/tech/topics/dashs-epic-rise-top/article/2170835/us-start-scoops-top-prize-epic | https://www.voanews.com/silicon-valley-technology/disposable-delivery-drone-goes-where-other-services-do-not | Winner of Elevator Pitch Competition (EPiC) 2018 presented by Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) HardwareCup competition finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
366 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sergio | Lopez | Rayo Bioenergía | rayobioenergia.com | CEO | Male | Mexico | Mexico | English | Spanish | México is currently at the starting point of a new era towards a more sustainable future provided that it will be able to make the necessary changes in its policy structures, initiate collaborative efforts and pursue an inter-institutional vision. It would be an honor to present our vision and solution on how México can emerge out of a system of continuous wastage of organic material towards a self-sustaining ecosystem. My company Rayo’s aim is to move México towards a development model that abolishes the devastating effects of overexploitation of natural resources by transforming organic waste into new primary material. However, visible through our network of partners, we believe we cannot do this alone. We believe that collaboration is key and this is also how our business model is set up. Only through participation of society, policymakers and the private sector together can we reach the targets for 2030 in México and globally. Joining the UN Solution Summit would give us a platform to highlight the importance for México to restructure their policies to increase the possibilities for companies actively working on the SDG, receive input for possible business cases and open the road to potential investment. We want to work with big business and small communities, but are still developing a viable model. My participation would present Rayo with the opportunity to generate and intergenerational dialogue between fellow entrepreneurs and youth to further develop this to create greater long-term impact. Our goal is to be a key player into leading México towards a circular economy and the summit would be the unique stepping stone to reach it. | I grew up in México, Guadalajara, but I’ve always had my eye on the world. Since I was a kid, I was passionate and committed to the environment. When I was six I was already out on the street collecting rubbish. I founded my first company at 17 and have not left the innovation ecosystem since. I choose to study marketing in 2011 because I believe that it was essential to learn how to be able to convince “the normal person” why we should move to a more sustainable world. I kept developing myself through training on how to start a business (internationally) and was part of the entrepreneur network of my university. I was also selected for the ELITE leadership training. To expand my borders I went to Argentina to do the administration of a non-profit that helped the homeless of Córdoba. In 2014/15 I formed part of the committee that organized the global climate march in Guadalajara. In 2015 I founded a startup focused on converting residual cooking oil into biodiesel. Learning more about biofuels and residuals, I saw the huge need for México to handle its wastage. This gave rise to my current company Rayo Bioenergía in 2017. México still needs to make big changes to the point of a circular economy, so I’ve kept myself active in this movement. I am a proud member of the Méxican network of Bioenergy, the clean green tech momentum of México, of the sustainable leaders against climate change and founder of the association for a sustainable México. I believe that only through working together, education and public/private integration, we develop México towards a sustainable future | Rayo Bioenergía | Transforming organic waste into new high value primary material | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Currently in Mexico ready to build the PoC. Target country for 2020 is Spain which is in the initiation phase (potential business case). In both México and Spain we are still looking for funding. We anticipate expanding to Latin America by 2022. | Yes | Hermanos Porta: Sugar biomass plant, Secretaría de Energía: Development of fragmentation, Nettenergy: Forestry biomass plant, Green fluids: Lab-on-a-chip, MIT / Unreasonable México: Administrative support | Proof of Concept | We are applying existing technologies on new applications. Due to this risk and high cost of installation (up to 4,000,000 USD), potential clients are asking for a PoC. We are in the last stage of development (detailed engineering design) and looking for investment to set up prototype plants (PoC). Working with the “Secretaría de Energía” laboratory, we are pioneering globally in the further fragmentation of the final products to obtain e.g. polyphenols, indicating a time-consuming process. | In México, 52% of the solid waste generated is organic products. Most ends up in landfills, generating emissions, contributing to global warming and greatly affecting people’s wellbeing. The handling of waste is an economic burden for all working with organic products. E.g. with our pilot case the mango, farmers don’t have space to dispose of the residues. Moreover, due to the growth of México’s industry, the exhaustion of its natural resources and demand for energy is ever-increasing. | Our business model is all about partners; Linking global knowledge to local problems. Through our (international) partners, we are able to offer 3 types of products: 1) plants that transform forest biomass into biopesticides (25%), fertilizers (10%), biofuel (25%) and gas (40%) through pyrolysis. 2) plants that transform sugar biomass into biofuel (ethanol) and gas through fermentation. Both plants use their own gas as fuel and are able to 100% capture the materials created from the input. Moreover, we customize every plant to the specific organic material of the customer. Lastly, we also developed 3) lab-on-a-chip, which is a micro laboratory to check in real-time customizable parameters of the processes in the plants but can also be used separately. How will Rayo make money? The plants are either rented or sold and we will sell the final products on a commission basis. Currently, we are also working with a Méxican laboratory to further develop the fraction of the final products. There are positive signs that we will be able to obtain higher-value products such as polyphenols, Isoprenoides, pectin, activated carbon, and lignin. Polyphenols, for example, are used in cancer treatment. The long term vision is to have self-sustaining ecosystems where outflow (waste) goes back into the cycle and is re-used as a primary material for other production processes or products. This way the world does not exhaust its natural resources and can sustain a growing population. | In México, the processes currently used to process organic waste are not technologically advanced. As mentioned before, most waste ends up in a landfill and only a fraction is transformed into gas through anaerobic digestion or burned, releasing more CO2. We are connecting different types of bioenergy processes known globally, and intending to apply them on specific areas/products of need in México. We differentiate ourselves in México as we are able to generate income out of waste, by selling the final products, instead of a cost, this is currently not considered. We also differ by offering the opportunity for communities or lower-income customers to rent the installation, which makes it more accessible to the parties in need. Where we are pioneering globally, is combining different types of processes (physical, biotechnological, thermochemical and chemical) to elevate the already existing processes to obtain products with an even highest added value. | For every plant, we follow a four-step process to go from concept to implementation: laboratory tests, conceptual engineering design, the basic engineering design, and the detailed engineering design. For both the pyrolysis and fermentation plant, we are in the fourth phase; which means the specification of the technicalities of the installations, materials, the precise layout and the installation team in detail. This means that for both projects we are at the stage of setting up its pilot. Although the technologies were already existing, we had to test and modify the installations to fit the specific products of need. Concerning further fragmentation, we are still in the laboratory test phase. Our product lab-on-a-chip is fully developed and ready for implementation. | Our focus first lies on the sugar biomass plant in Zamora, Michoacan. We are planning to have the processes prototype plants up and running in 2020. After the PoC, we will start scaling. We have the potential to impact millions of lives either indirectly through decreasing the CO2 emissions or directly through creating employment opportunities. Namely, having 3 plants will avert releasing 10560t of CO2 and 6990t of methane. With the cash flow obtained, we will grow the team and invest in further research on the fragmentation of the final products in 2020. Whilst we will be researching this fragmentation and potential applications, we will extend our network to other Latin American countries. This region is still highly focused on agriculture and similar to the Méxican market. We are also currently talking to farmers in Spain who face similar problems of limited space due to their organic residues. We are looking for companies that can supply us with a Proof of Purchase to ensure investors that the final products will be bought. When this all comes together, our next milestone is to set up a plant in Spain in 2020. Next, we are looking to start manufacturing plants in México to bring down the cost, making the solution more available for those in need. Following this is the centralization and performance of the second stage of valorization of the final products both in Spain and México. In 2022 we want to extend our reach and enter Latin America | What we currently need is financing in the form of investors or grants to set up the PoC plants. We also require support and advocacy in the bioethanol sphere in México as using ethanol as a fuel is facing resistance by traditional fuel companies. Short term: We are seeking to raise a capital amount of 1,000,000 USD to set up the first sugar biomass demonstrative plant and 200,000 USD to employ a team for Rayo that manages the installation and cover operating costs to enable Rayo to grow. This will us to convince the clients we have in the pipeline and scale Rayo. Medium-term: we would look to raise another round of financing (800,000 USD) to get another demonstrative plant up and running in Spain. During this time we would be looking to extend our network of partnerships to easily insert the new materials obtained back in the supply chain. Long term: we expect by this time, the income realized from the sold plants will be enough to sustain the company and we have all the keys to finance and build plants throughout Latin America. | http://rayobioenergia.com/site/ https://www.nettenergy.com/index.php/en/pyroflash-plants https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_-p2yR_DINplFhkLTijNRMaZQlwR5dJF?usp=sharinghttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_-p2yR_DINplFhkLTijNRMaZQlwR5dJF?usp=sharing | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr-IVDxTs2U | Regional winner of the Heineken Challenge in México (2018) National finalist and regional winner Clean tech challenge México (2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
367 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Robert | Sztybel | SaraConnects | saraconnects.world | Founder | m | United States of America | United States of America | English | Remote and vulnerable persons and families are unable to receive timely personalized information or alerts; forced to spend inordinate time queuing for food, healthcare, aid and services. Some remote populations are without access to radio or otherwise inadequately serviced with educational infotainment or notified of critical services available within travelling distance.Governments and organizations have no accurate methodology for improved logistics, alerts and assistance to vulnerable peoples. There is no efficient communications and management solution connecting these masses at the lower end of the economic spectrum with individualized attention and care. Relief organizations are challenged to manage at-risk populations and unable to implement logistical efficiencies to improve operations and communicate with those in their care and protection. Meantime, many well-intended solutions in development assume smartphones and wireless broadband readily pervasive and ubiquitous. That's simply not reality in emerging regions around the world. Many regions are severely backwards with Internet penetration well below 30% due to poor infrastructure, gender discrimination, poverty, illiteracy, displacement or war. 3.8 billion humans are without Internet connection today or access to educational, life-enhancing information. When billions of handsets can't connect to the Internet, don't change the handsets... change the Internet. Vulnerable families possess little but most have a mobile phone. Smartphones are rare; expectation of wireless beyond 2G near nil. Phones vary by OS and carrier yet all are capable of voice call or text. SARA is a universal cloud-based AI browser connecting any phone of any tech to personalized interactive info by voice and audio while enhancing logistical capabilities of humanitarian actors. I have already set out to acquire prospective business partners to address some of the world's most immediate challenges in health and education. I need help to shine a light on this greater and most severe, not-ending-anytime-soon crisis of information outreach and connection to more than half the world's citizens without any alternative means of access. This is a global problem already of great concern to elements of the UN and our global community. An audience before the summit would be most impactful in helping draw attention to this quickly curable problem using current infrastructure, pervasive personal devices and SARA cloud AI technology. | Robert Sztybel is an expert in mobile tech, product design and user experience. He has been an impassioned evangelist for a telephone-centric interface to AI & content to reach those not fortunate enough to use or afford smart devices. Robert previously invented, designed and launched mobile hardware and software solutions for IBM, Targus, Pernod Ricard and others. He was part of the original IBM team that brought ThinkPad into the world as industrial design team leader and brand spokesperson. His product designs for Targus spawned the mobile lifestyle retail category now common to virtually all stores, and transformed a cut-and-sew carrying case maker into the worldwide mobile accessories leader. He has guided the mobile transformation of global enterprises like Pernod Ricard and oversaw the marketing transformation of law firm marketing agency Good2bSocial. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Management & Technology Program, Robert holds degrees from both the Wharton School of Business and the School of Engineering. He is author of two issued US patents and founder of SaraConnects, a startup intent on changing humanity by connecting the unconnected and delivering the world’s information, education and audio entertainment to anybody with any telephone. | SARA - Connects the Unconnected | When billions of handsets can't connect to the Internet, don't change the handsets...change the Internet. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Instantly compatible worldwide to all phones everywhere; near term opportunity in Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africa | Yes | InfoView Data Solutions Group Ghana: http://www.idscorpgh.com/ | Proof of Concept | We have secured two US patents and built a fully operational workstation-based proof-of-concept to demonstrate a telephone-call-centric interactive radio experience with touch-tone navigation and control interface and all personalization, computer processing power and storage in the cloud. Excellent data gathering and mining capability but remaining current feature set is limited, as is platform scalability. Voice recognition, artificial intelligence not yet enabled. | 3.8 billion are unconnected to the Internet, living in regions where infrastructure, poverty, literacy, gender, other hurdles cap penetration below 30%. Yet basic GSM proliferates. Up to half this population is unbanked. A preponderance of this otherwise unconnected population possess basic phones. It may take decades for high speed wireless to become pervasive and new devices affordable to billions not currently connected. SARA connects them NOW by phone with a cloud-based ecosystem of services | We target forgotten technology that just so happens to be the most entrenched pervasive technology on planet earth, available to more people in more regions than any other communications platform: the common telephone. User experience is immediately as familiar as AM or FM radio...except SARA is a personalized interactive equivalent accessed by dialing a conventional voice call or sending a text from any telephone. SARA is a smart personalized AI cloud-based internet immediately pervasive and freely available to entire populations wherever deployed. Optimized for/compatible with all phones: wired phones, basic phones, feature phones, smartphones. 100% compatible with existing and future telecom infrastructure be it POTS, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G+. Accessed by mere voice call or text; controlled by voice and touch-tones. No need for new device or costly high speed broadband data. No technological hurdles to instant adoption and use particularly in regions where gender discrimination, literacy, aging, poverty, poor infrastructure or temporary refugee displacement complicate conventional Internet access. SARA delivers audio books, news, sport, music, education and wellness alerts. It even supports blockchain solution for banking and mobile e-commerce tool for anybody regardless gender, age, literacy, income, citizenship or condition of local infrastructure. SARA enables any telephone to provide smartphone-like interactivity, services and transaction capabilities | SARA challenges an absurdity in the current strategy to connect the world. Convention has deemed accessing information requires hi-res display, keyboard, local processor and memory all connected to high speed wireless. The presumed mandate for mobile broadband and smart devices blinds most to exploration and deployment of alternative interactive solutions that might deliver more immediate benefit to our most vulnerable populations NOW using devices they already possess. Earliest computer interfaces were visual by necessity. We used keyboards to speak to computers because they were the only input device yet conceived. At first machines spoke back in punch-cards and printouts, then evolving to video screens because punch-cards and printouts were untenable limiters to advanced computing. Our video-centric interface to computers has caused us to arrive to the point where smartphones – with processor, display, local memory – are perceived to be required to visit and enjoy the mobile web. This broadband, processor-intensive video-centric web is inaccessible to billions. Does the Internet really require devices with video, keyboard, memory and processor to be impactful to humanity? Surely a good portion of the world’s knowledge can be imparted via audio…after all, audio remains the most pervasive wireless information protocol in use over the past 110 years. You needn’t look further than your AM/FM radio receiver to perceive a model for wireless audio information dissemination. | We have secured two US patents and have a fully operational workstation-based platform to demonstrate an interactive radio experience and user interface with all personalization and storage in the cloud. Since then we have focused on securing prospective solutions partners and designing potential go-to market applications for the technology. We have developed two distinct initiatives with prospective partners: Education: Partnership with InfoView Data Solutions Ltd the Accra company behind the School Information Management Solution (SIMS) that uses mobile technology to revolutionize education in Africa by transforming the administration of schools and addressing the information gap between schools and parents. Half the parental population they service are unable to access children's information because they haven't smartphones, literacy or available wireless infrastructure. SARA will close that gap and allow access via telephone interface to the school cloud. Health: Each year 1.5 million children in developing regions needlessly die due to lack of immunization against preventable diseases. SARA is collaborating on a separate yet synergistic initiative with Not Impossible Labs and Pfizer to connect and educate the disconnected via their telephone handsets to defeat the last mile crisis impact – bringing people to vaccines they require while authorities collect valuable data that can be used to better anticipate demand, logistics and distribution of precious inoculations. | We are prepared now to build the full scale product: a cloud-based AI service for broad pilot within a region to instantly connect an at-risk local population using existing infrastructure and devices they already possess. We contemplate first launch in Ghana - SaraConnects, in partnership with InfoView, will design, develop and deploy the gCall SARA smart cloud platform for integration into SIMS. We expect to expand into several additional countries across sub-Saharan Africa serviced by Infoview. gCall™ Powered by SARA™ will be the feature phone equivalent for the gBook app; a universal portal to school services optimized for all telephones to guarantee access for all parents and families regardless their device, their income or their own literacy. gCall will incorporate human voice prompts and synthesized voice into a friendly personalized audio-optimized telephone platform with rich interactive features that permit a parent the same access to a child’s report card by phone and archived records – facilitating more frequent and intimate teacher/parent interaction. gCall machine learning AI will record and learn from any listener interaction to improve service, personalize features and enhance the user experience. We intend to add educational content, news, sport and health services as adoption ramps in each country deployed. We hope to integrate Vaccines: Not Impossible information and logistical services to combat the last mile crisis in league with governments and NGOs. | We seek technology partners with expertise in human/machine interfaces (eg. voice recognition, speech-to-text), AI, cloud computing, search engines and Internet services to join us in developing the universal SARA telecentric browser. Short term: Through our partnership with Infoview we offer meaningful content to attract countless thousands of visits daily to improve education outcomes and parent-teacher contact. However we are seeking partnerships to license and deliver broader streaming audio content - music, audio books, news, sport, comedy, language learning, female empowerment and training - to enhance offerings, extend people's listening and educational experience through the telephonic platform. (medium term objective). Investment is necessary to field a small strategic operational management team to proceed. We anticipate hiring several employees in each country to which SARA is deployed for local support, content licensing administration, client relations. Partnership with telecom carriers is ideal; particularly if cloud hosting is included. Data sharing with telecom carriers enables advanced SARA location services and enhanced capacity management; relationships are not required to launch a successful first pilot or wide-scale production service. Longer term, partnership with banks preferred but not required to create trade ecosystem. Basic telephones can serve as effectively as smartphones for personal banking, purchase transactions, local barter and trade. | Website: http://saraconnects.world/ Why SARA: Essays explain the huge technology gap separating the unconnected - https://www.thenational.ae/business/technology/as-5g-takes-off-2g-and-3g-still-stay-underutilised-says-itu-director-1.792731 - http://saraconnects.world/mobile-broadband-everywhere/ - http://saraconnects.world/five-billion-handsets-cant-connect/ - http://saraconnects.world/connect-world/ - - https://www.devex.com/news/want-to-reach-the-world-s-poorest-design-for-dumb-phones-90993 - https://www.wired.com/story/global-internet-access-dire-reports/ Slide deck: https://youtu.be/ZUk9ZIYzxY8 Our first partner Infoview: http://www.idscorpgh.com/ Application: Education - http://saraconnects.world/report-card-by-phone/ Application: Health Awareness - http://saraconnects.world/last-mile-vaccine-crisis/ Application - Community Health - http://saraconnects.world/people-to-vaccines/ Application - Bank the Unbanked - http://saraconnects.world/blockchain-bank-unbanked/ Our Second Partnership initiative: Health and the Vaccines Crisis http://www.me.gatech.edu/News/Capstone_Spotlight_Not_Impossible_Labs https://www.pfizer.com/science/vaccines/global-impact/our-impact-on-innovation | Podcast Radio Interview: SARA Founder Robert Sztybel with Chuck Jaffe on the Money Life Show: https://soundcloud.com/sara-connects/170801-big-interview-too-with-robert-sztybel | Issued US Patents 7567846, 8214067: Interactive audio content delivery system and method - Robert Sztybel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
368 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kevin | Wheeler | The Kaizen Company | http://www.thekaizencompany.com/ | Chief Executive Officer | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | The mission of The Kaizen Company (Kaizen) is to create and deliver innovative services that empower individuals and organizations to achieve excellence. Kaizen would like to be part of the UN Solutions Summit because it is a space where like-minded innovators from all sectors come together to celebrate and learn from our successes and challenges. A bit about Kaizen: we are a small business with big ideas, driven by a corporate structure that encourages innovation. Kaizen catalyzes locally-led institutional improvements, facilitates peer-to-peer learning, spurs entrepreneurship, and provides sustainable opportunities for people around the world. Our company name, Kaizen, is a Japanese concept meaning ""ongoing improvement at all levels, at all times."" The way organizations in development get funding is by billing consultants. So, to get more funds they bill more consultants. However, the incentive of organizations to do this runs counter to the ultimate goal: sustainable, locally-driven development. . Kaizen has become a pioneer in the field of supporting competitive innovations through a market systems approach to scale. Besides Learning Links, the innovative solution that we would like to present at the summit, Kaizen has other projects that tackle development issues creatively. The Securing Water for Food (SWFF) Technical Assistance Facility (TA Facility), which is run by Kaizen, is a hybrid incubator-accelerator funded by SWFF. At present, the TA Facility provides direct support to a total of 40 innovators operating in 35 countries. In Zimbabwe, we lead a diverse consortium promoting healthy behavior through design, production, and distribution of a feature-length film, interactive card game, and audience engagement strategy. Every day Kaizen constructively challenge development norms and break them with new solutions. | Dr. Kevin Wheeler brings a diverse private sector, science, and international development background to his role as Kaizen’s Chief Executive Officer. He has led Kaizen’s work in governance, energy, environment, education, and economic growth in the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. He is experienced in organizational development, business process engineering, financial innovation, and building communities of practice. Prior to joining the Kaizen Company, Kevin worked for the Boston Consulting Group where he focused on risk analysis and business process efficiency in the energy and telecom sectors. Kevin holds a BS in geology from Brown University, a PhD in petrology from Columbia University, and has studied Arabic at the University of Damascus in Syria. Kevin is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT) through the International Society for Performance Improvement. | Learning Links | The “Lyft” of Learning: An innovative model that connects literate adults with out-of-school children for learning | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Currently in Liberia, Hope to implement in other countries in Africa, South Asia and Latin America | No | Scaling | Learning Links currently has 1,739 Learners and 286 Tutors and is actively recruiting girls and literate women in Bong County to join this innovative alternative education program with the goal of reaching 2500 girls over the life of the project. The initiative has also developed a robust and efficient operating model that complements a proprietary information technology platform that is ready for use with many more beneficiaries. | Liberia has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the world: 31% for 15-19-year-olds. The rates are higher in Bong County where about half of all teenage girls have given birth or are pregnant. Pregnant girls often quit school, fall behind academically, face difficulty re-enrolling, and find themselves and their children further trapped in cyclical poverty. The Ministry of Education lacks an avenue for dropouts to continue learning and return to school; Learning Links fills the gap. | Learning Links is an innovative model that taps into an existing and underutilized teaching resource: the 1 in 5 literate and numerate women in Liberia. Learning Links uses a gig economy business model, mobile technology, and real-time data analysis to guide, monitor, and reward teaching in small groups. Learning Links recruits and tests literate and numerate women in Bong County, Liberia to serve as Tutors to girls who quit school (Learners). Tutors train in the Government of Liberia’s Alternative Basic Education Curriculum and use daily SMS-based evaluation questions that the program uses to track progress and provide Learners with participation and performance-based micropayments. Learners work with us to create individualized learning plans to re-enter school or vocational training using their micropayments to supplement school fees. Thus, girls learn literacy and numeracy skills, and underemployed Tutors receive modest compensation based on Learner’s performance and participation. Our long-term ideal vision for the Learning Links model is to improve basic literacy and numeracy for more than 100 million out-of-school children by 2030. The “demand” for this model is immense - nearly 1 in 5 children worldwide are out of school. Likewise, the “supply” is great, even in low-literacy areas there are almost always functionally literate adults who are under-employed and eager to contribute to their communities. Learning Links efficiently connects local supply and demand. | Learning Links is a unique application of the gig economy business model to providing access to education to out-of-school children. It is synthesis of four essential elements: 1) literate and numerate women in rural communities trained as Tutors, 2) an Alternative Basic Education curriculum from the Liberian Ministry of Education, 3) SMS-based daily quizzes and monthly exams to measure learning progress, and 4) financial incentives based on student engagement and demonstrated learning. While all four of these elements have been used individually in programs for providing education to out-of-school children, Learning Links is the first time they have been combined together into a single incentive-based education model. | Learning Links has been a pilot for over two years. As of July 2019, the program has 265 learning groups that meet three times per week. These groups serve 1,739 Learners in 38 communities in Bong County. Learning Links has developed and refined a data collection, storage, and analysis system which generates and evaluates hundreds of SMS-based quizzes per day, sends feedback to Learners and Tutors via SMS, then calculates learning progress and incentives earned. We have also improved outreach, recruitment, training, and support meths that complement the technology. This has led to cost savings that make Learning Links a cost-effective model for providing this type of education service. Learning Links measures progress in two ways: number of enrolled Learners and Tutors and demonstrated literacy and numeracy learning progress. We measure progress real-time by evaluating Learner performance on SMS-based quizzes and exams. At the end of learning sessions, Tutors send a code that corresponds to material covered in class that day, via SMS to the Learning Links system. The Learning Links system then generates three-question SMS quizzes for each Learner based on the material. The system automatically sends feedback to Learners based on whether their quiz answers are correct or not. Concurrently, the system measures learning that has taken place (i.e., % of correct quiz answers) and the number of participating Learners, learning groups, and Tutors based on SMS traffic analysis. | Learning Links is a USAID funded project with a close out date in May 2020. By May 2020, Learning Links will have enrolled a total of 2,500 Learners and 350 Tutors throughout the length of the project. Based on the strong success of Learning Links in the first two years of implementation, we have applied for additional funding to extend the pilot project’s duration by one year and to expand the geographic scope in Liberia. If awarded, we will use the funding to expand into the adjacent county: Nimba. Longer term, we hope to expand Learning Links across Liberia to serve as the primary mechanism for providing access to education for out-of-school children. Furthermore, we hope to replicate the model elsewhere in Africa, and also in other geographies such as South Asia and Latin America. Since Learning Links is a highly scalable model that is also cost effective, our goal is for the model to become the major tool for providing education support to out-of-school children by 2030. | To achieve scale and fully capture Learning Link’s potential impact, we need the following general categories of resources: Human resources: since the Learning Links model still has room for refinement, and also needs to be adapted for every environment, future implementation requires staff that are highly creative, data driven, entrepreneurial, and dedicated to education. As the model matures its implementation may become somewhat more formulaic, but in its current state it requires exceptional staff to implement and refine it. Financial resources - real or in-kind: the current marginal cost for a learner is approximately US $300/year. to increase impact we would need financial resources to expand the number of learners in the program. Alternatively in-kind contributions that could reduce the operational costs of recruiting and training Tutors, and/or reduce the costs of sending thousands of SMS messages per day could enable the project’s funds to go farther. Furthermore, since there are fixed costs associated with running the IT system and managing the project office - these costs would decrease on a per student basis at greater scale. Short-term and medium-term needs: Learning Links is in need of financial resources to run a second pilot in a new country. Long-term needs: we would need funding and community support to fully refine and scale the Learning Links model around the world. | http://www.thekaizencompany.com/project/learning-links/ | n/a | Finalist in Fast Company magazine’s World Changing Ideas 2017 Honorable Mention Fast Company magazine’s World Changing Ideas 2018 USAID Small Business of the Year awarded 2017 Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America 2017 Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America 2016 Finalist in the UNDP “Capacity is Development” Knowledge Fair Society for International Development (SID), Washington Chapter Lightning Talk Finalist 2019 SID, Innovation in Development competition 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
369 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mina | Ogbabga | World Largest Lesson/Club17Africa(SDGClub) | Www.club17africa.org | Director | FEMALE | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My motivation for applying is primarily because it fits perfectly into pur vision to create awareness,promote advocacy and get many to move from debate to action. Our target innovation is landmark interculturak collaboration collaboration between the World Largest Lesson(Project Everyone ) from the west and the Club17africa initiatives. The project seeks to put in place a youth driven SDG club process where youths have their capacities built as sustainability leaders across schools,communities and INTERNALLY Displaced camps.The project from one club with partnership has risen to having over 240 Clubs across the Nigeria in target locations all driven and sustained within youth teams.Develolment education is the key strategy for delivery.Youths are trained to identify a problem,design a sustainable solution and share lessons learned with a wider audience for scalability,reliability and sustainability. Lessons plans to guide the plans of the students and create awareness on the SDGs are shared on a weekly basis and after the 5 lessons the student teams submit their innovative solutions and are rewarded region by region with an overall African winner.Tiday we also have Couhtry Level Colubteers across Africa committed to building a more prosperous,peaceful and Sustainable future | My name is Dr Mina and I hold a PhD in Sustainable Development Studies.A graduate of local National and Internatiknal Institutijns like the University of Cambridge United Kingdom.Harbard University,Indiana Univeristy Purdue University amongst others. Our innovation in the SDG club has not only expanded our cross cultural partnerships but also built for us a strong team of collaborators with one vision to mainstreaming youth participation in the SDGs and enhancing youths ability to be problem solvers. The innovation has inspired sk so many to taking action and complain less while acting more the various goals are at various points priority fo a variety of students communities and vulnerable youths who from fighting for justice to designing waste to wealth solutions to making their world a better place.Pur ICT portion of the work managed by Belouga and a growing linkage with Microsoft connects the Leaders across the various clubs via an online platform and makes them take strategic action for a prosperous world | SDG Clubs initiative across Africa(Club17Africa) | Youth driven SDG initiative | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Now in Nigeria and all other African Coubtries soon | Yes | UNESCO,Ministry of Education,Office of Special Adviser on SDG in Nigeria,World Largest Lesson-Project Everyone,Center for DevelopmentSupport Initiatves,Belouga,Communities,Schools,INTERNALLY displaced Camps and teams ,Country Level olunteers across Count | Transition to Scale | Our project the SDG Clubs started in 2015 has been the first and strategic model to getting youths to take the lead in the achievements of the SDGs.Specifically,the SDGs Club has not only attracted huge collaboration for scale up but have been tried and tested as one strong means of getting a huge population of the society to play an active role in their own development process .Emerging leaders in the promotion of sustainability.Youths are identifying problems and preferring innovative solution | It is addressing A.The dirth of understanding of the SDGs amongst youths B.The challenge posed by climate change and thus building the capacity of emerging leaders in identifying environmental challenges and designing innovative solutions to addressing priority challenges C.Addressing the huge gap in youth participation in SDGs Addressing need for Development education to be Minstreamed into Schools curriculum Addressing need for Development education to be Minstreamed into Schools curriculum | The Solution deploys the after school club strategy .This is where youths across schools,communities and Internally displaced camps are grouped and their capacities built to be emerging leaders in the awareness,advocacy and act for SDGs.Club members are trained to identify priority environmental and related challenges in their schools and communities and design innovative strategies to addressing these problems.The winning entries submitted are rewarded with a variety of prizes including small Grant's to address the target challenges.Designing world class and cross culturally friendly resource materials to helping education in and out of school is one of the key points of the initiatives as these materials have helped shaped the problem.aolvijg and team building skills of youths to being active Development partners . The projects mainstream Heads of camps,schools and communities who work collaboratively to sustaining the projects.So from one club,the initiative now has over 200 clubs across the nation and over 50 planned across Africa.The long term vision is to mainstream Sustainable Development education into the school curriculum as each SDGs have their places in the subjects.Teachers serve as centre coordinator and the after school clubs are mainstreamed into the overall schedules of the schools.At the end all African schools will have the club and then build a movement that will make Africa lead in the achievements of the SDGs and in meeting the targets/indicators | Reaching the vulnerable and unreached. THIS includes those in vulnerable camps like internally displaced camps ,Communities . With the message of the SDGs makes it unique It's a cross cultural project that involves Partners across the world with one shared vision of promoting youth participation in SDGs awareness advocacy and action. Its unique interns of its ability to get grassroots design solutions to their own problems. For so many other reasons including finding innovative partnership across the world.Its easy to sustain and the methodology deployed is a too familiar school club strategy with a stronger innovative twist. Its unique in the materials provided which has greatly aided scalability,reliability and innovation. Its unique in the growing movement across africa of youths interested in being a change and moving Africa into a phase of prosperity and sustainability. The method is mainstreaming youths across all phases of the project from conception to monitoring and evaluation Allowing youthsbtake the lead and using online and offline platforms in teaching and connecting youths across Africa.The Belouga platform is a key platform that has strong potential to ensure the lesson plans reach many more schools in countries that are hard to reach and with the Microsoft teachers,their capacities are built.The project is limitless...and with a strong huge impact on lives across the world as it addresses the core areas of the haves and have not | We have gone far and at this point it is about scalability and Replicability. We measure progress through the numerous ore workshop questionnaires .Post workshop questionnaires. RESEARCH materials designed and so much more. The quantitative researches have proven a strategic means of getting feedback and reshaping and enhancing the process. We can easily measure progress.emg from one school we now have over 300 schools each independently ran but strongly connected through the network .Schools and communities anywhere in the world can buy into the process and implement .Also teachers play a huge role and have training opportunities launched to aid their delivery of the project. We have tried and tried and tested the initiative and today it's a leading mobilising factor for the SDGs and problems and solutions Re direct responses that speaks to the target and indicators of the SDGs | Yes.East africa is the next target We.will expand across all major schools and target communities Revise the manual and commence the Annual SDgs day We will expand on the SDGs Club challenge and recruit more Couhtry Level Volunteers We will increase network and collaboration BETWEEN african schools and schools communities and Camps in the US and across Asia and Europe. We want to build a strong movement of youths taking the lead in pushing for and achieving the SDG | Training material Video editing tools Documentary material Laptops and computers SDG Boards Vehicles SdG brand materials like Tshirts and Fez caps for a massive SDG world movement day Writing materials Software Music makers for the anthems and pledges Food supplies and related materials for displaced victim Talents in graphic art work and african arts Internet access | Www.club17africa.org Www.worldlargestlesson.org Project everyone | Http://Www.club17africa.org | So so many Winners of the most innovative youth initiative by CLEAN up Africa International Winners of the SDG initiative of the Year | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
370 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Diana | Sierra | Be Girl, Inc. | https://www.begirl.org/ | CEO and Co-Founder | female | Mozambique | Colombia | English | Spanish | “What I like most about these pads is that somebody, somewhere loves me because she made these beautiful pads for me and I feel proud to be girl.” These words – written to me by 13-year-old Alphosine in rural Tanzania – were the spark that inspired me to create Be Girl five years ago, with a promise to replicate that feeling in every woman and girl. Because everyone deserves to feel loved, celebrated, and proud. Since then, we have placed over 60,000 of our sustainable, quality menstrual products in the hands of girls across 30 countries. In 2018, we tested our first-ever markets-based initiative in a low-income market by selling Be Girl products at affordable prices in Maputo, Mozambique. I have been personally overseeing this initiative for the past year to introduce Be Girl's sustainable, premium menstrual products at affordable prices. Why? Working to innovate markets with alternative products and solutions is our long-term vision to make opportunities accessible to everyone, whether it is in the form of a panty or the job to sell it. We cannot disrupt the status quo unless we invest in girls’ access to products, information, and body ownership. When a girl can own her body and feel comfortable in her own skin, she can have the confidence and ability to move and access the full range of opportunities available to reach her full potential. This is true impact. | Diana Sierra is the Co-founder and CEO at Be Girl. Originally from Colombia, Diana designed Be Girl’s patented universal pocket technology (used in Be Girl’s flagship PeriodPanty™ and FlexiPad™ products) and the SmartCycle® menstrual tracking tool. Diana built her career in industrial design as a consultant, working for almost 10 years at multinational companies and firms such as Smart Design, Nike, and Panasonic. She has worked in Africa and South America on improved designs for cookstoves, soil testing devices, and women’s empowerment programs through business and design. Diana holds a Master of Science degree in Sustainability Management from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Industrial Design from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. As CEO of Be Girl, Diana leads the brand and strategic direction of Be Girl to maximize business growth and impact. Currently, Diana resides in Maputo, Mozambique, where she is overseeing the company’s first low-income markets-based initiative. | Be Girl PeriodPanty™ | Empowerment by design. Be Girl redefines periods through girl-centered products, education, and period-positive messaging. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Mozambique (registered business) with products having reached users in 30 additional countries globally through partnerships | Yes | Our funding partners are Grand Challenges Canada and UNFPA. Our key implementation partners are FDC Mozambique, SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, WaterAid | Transition to Scale | In 2018, Be Girl received Transition-To-Scale Phase 1 funding from Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) to pilot our emerging markets model in Mozambique: to create access to menstrual protection by leveraging age-appropriate education and period-positive messaging to prime the market. After a successful pilot, Be Girl received a second round of Transition-To-Scale funding from GCC through December 2020 to complete transition to scale within Mozambique and prepare for global scaling. | Inadequate menstrual health is perpetuated by 1) lack of access to adequate products and 2) stigma and lack of access to information. Poor menstrual health and hygiene management (MHHM) affects girls’ mobility and confidence, which inhibits their equitable participation in society. 2 billion girls and women around the world are of menstruating age. If access to adequate MHHM is not addressed effectively and at scale, gender inequities will continue to perpetuate and hinder progress toward SDGs. | Be Girl created, prototyped, and field-tested a patented sustainable menstrual product, the PeriodPanty™, a 2-in-1 panty with pocket technology that holds absorbent material for menstrual flow. The product is uniquely designed to meet the needs of girls and women in LMICs: it is easy to wash and dry, resists mildew and stains, and lasts 2+ years. The 2-in-1 design was developed after early tests of a prototype (a reusable pad) revealed that many girls struggle to afford underwear in addition to pads, rendering pad solutions useless. To address the menstrual market gap, Be Girl tested a business model in 2018 in Mozambique designed to sustainably reach low-income consumers without relying on donations or long-term grant funding. This innovative, markets-based approach has the potential to expand access to affordable, quality menstrual products to girls and women. To address demand-side barriers, Be Girl has developed a period-positive marketing strategy to “rebrand” menstruation as normal and positive through partnerships with influencers, messaging campaigns, and an adolescent menstrual education campaign. Be Girl’s approach is a scalable and sustainable model that revolutionizes menstrual health by delivering high-quality, sustainable, desirable products to girls and women in LMICs, improving confidence and mobility throughout menstruation, thus removing menstruation-related barriers to girls’ and women’s full participation in society. | Sustainable: Be Girl products are reusable and last 2+ years, obviating the need to buy expensive disposables every month. Disposable pads are neither a long-term nor sustainable solution, posing cost, monthly access, and environmental challenges at scale. Be Girl’s 2016 product test found that 90% of girls preferred the PeriodPanty™ to disposables. Cost-effective: Be Girl keeps prices as low as possible for LMIC consumers while delivering premium products (e.g., consumers in Mozambique would pay nearly 4 times as much for disposable products compared to PeriodPanties™ over 2 years). User-centered design: Compared to reusables, Be Girl’s product fabrics are more breathable and comfortable, last longer, and better resist stains. They require less water to clean and dry significantly faster than other reusable pads, with thick layers of absorbent material prone to mildew. Be Girl’s product pilots found that users were more comfortable drying the PeriodPanty™, as the design did not carry the same stigma as products that clearly look like menstrual pads. A 2017 PSI market test found an overwhelming preference for the PeriodPanty™ compared to a common reusable pad. PeriodPanties™ are designed to be beautiful and fun for girls to wear, which encourages uptake and actively combats period stigma. Be Girl’s quality materials and exacting standards meet global market expectations: we believe girls and women everywhere should have access to the same high-quality menstrual products. | The PeriodPanty™ has undergone multiple stages of prototyping and field-testing, revealing that consumers want and are enthusiastic about them. Feedback from Be Girl’s 2017 market study conducted in 7 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa found that 87% of respondents were willing to switch to Be Girl products. Be Girl assesses our innovation in two ways: 1. Assessing Be Girl’s theory of change (TOC) regarding impact: Our TOC maintains that when girls and women have access to quality, sustainable, reliable menstrual products, their mobility and confidence will improve. This increases their ability to more equitably access and fully participate in opportunites for education, skills building, and social capital, thus improving overall well-being outcomes. Pilots in 2015 and 2016 in Ethiopia and Somalia found positive indications that access to PeriodPanties™ improves girls’ mobility and confidence. In 2019, we will further test these linkages through a more rigorous study with comparison groups, etc. In the next 5 years, we seek to undertake a formal evaluation (e.g., RCT) to test improvement over time. 2. Assessing Be Girl’s market approach: To determine business viability over the next year and a half, we will collect sales data disaggregated by channel, location, and price. We will use this data to develop a trajectory for break-even as a business and assess progress accordingly. Second, we intend to improve our systems for generating feedback from paying customers at scale. | Following the successful Transition-to-Scale pilot with Grand Challenges Canada in 2018, Be Girl has recently established a permanent office in Mozambique and hired an initial team to lead forth a dual strategy of social impact and commercial operations. By the end of 2020, we expect to achieve the following milestones: -Complete a study in Mozambique (supported in part by UNFPA) that will further test the linkages in Be Girl’s TOC and incorporate the following elements: cluster sampling, comparison groups, and inclusion of both rural and urban participants; -Establish at least one partnership with a national or multi-national distributor to increase market access to Be Girl PeriodPanties™; -Expand nationally in Mozambique to include at least three urban locations; -Conduct sales analysis on business viability in Mozambique, both generally and specifically to lower-income consumers, outlining a trajectory towards break-even as a business; and -Conduct a market analysis and select 2nd market for expansion beyond Mozambique (currently considering South Africa and Angola). | Short-term (until December 2020): Be Girl must match grant funding from Grand Challenges Canada 1-to-1. As of July 2019, Be Girl has only raised 40% of required match. This budget is needed to cover salaries for the team in Mozambique, the large inventory required to establish partnerships with major distributors, operations costs in Mozambique, comparison-group study support, and market assessments in South Africa and/or Angola. Medium-term (2-3 years): Medium-term funding, a mix of investment, grant, and revenue, will be necessary for and dedicated to continued support for operations in Mozambique in addition to laying the groundwork for expansion into new market(s) and manufacturing inventory for scale. Long-term (3+ years): Be Girl will replicate and scale its markets-based model in strategically identified emerging markets based upon experience and learning in Mozambique. Replicating the model in a new market requires resource investment in brand awareness and demand generation, as well as personnel, operations, and inventory costs. In addition, within five years, Be Girl aims to undertake a rigorous evaluation (RCT or similarly effective methodology dependent on study design) to test improvement over time in defined educational, social, and emotional outcomes while controlling for other factors, which will require dedicated resources. Resourcing will continue to follow a hybrid model, with a gradual shift towards a venture sustained by revenue. | Be Girl Impact Site: https://www.begirl.org/impact/ #NothingStopsYouPeriod period-positive video about the PeriodPanty™ in Mozambique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swm0eD6L1WY&t=2s About Be Girl video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCR0s6bKyfI Empowering Women by Design article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/empowering-women-by-design_b_4861332 | 2019 El Pais: https://elpais.com/sociedad/2018/12/03/actualidad/1543834542_473075.html 2019 Pact for Impact: https://www.facebook.com/begirl.org/videos/475934122951505/ 2016 TedX Tysons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WitDAehKXa4&feature=youtu.be 2015 NPR https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/16/414724767/people-are-finally-talking-about-the-thing-nobody-wants-to-talk-about More press: https://www.begirl.org/press | 2017: Index Project Award Nomination https://theindexproject.org/award/nominees/1185 2015: Spark:Health Spark Award Winner http://www.sparkawards.com/galleries/index.cfm?entry=0004C60F-0279-482B-8373E5111DFBE3F3 2015: A’Design Award Silver Social Design Award https://competition.adesignaward.com/press-release.php?ID=40343 2015: SOCAP Social Entrepreneur Scholarship http://socap15.socialcapitalmarkets.net/get-involved/social-entrepreneurs-socap15/ More awards: https://www.begirl.org/press | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
371 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Salim | Hammoud | InmaTech Consultants | WWW.Inmatech-SA.com | Executive Director - Strategic Planning & Development Management Life Cycle | Male | Saudi Arabia | Lebanon | Arabic | English | It is always great honor & pleasure to share & associate with Top Executives. Extensive track record in Innovative Programs & Emerging Technologies, Smart Cities & Connected Communities, Artificial Intelligence & Cyber Security for Multi-Billions-Dollars Multi-Discipline and Multi-Sector Mega Projects. The focus is on the Industry Best Practices & Services in major Business Models aligned with Strategies (Development, Planning, and Execution) characterized as Creative Strategies & Initiatives with Fit-For-Purpose Transformations for End-To-End Solutions. Thus, forming an Impressive Portfolio serving all Organizational & Functional Levels (Strategic, Tactical, Operational), and covering both Government/Private Institutional Settings spanning Regional & International Markets/Sectors of the Economy. | Dr. SALIM M. HAMMOUD Strategic Planning; Business Management – Practices & Services Consultant Development Management & Integrated Facilities Management. PERSONAL DATA Lebanese, Married with Three Children, Excellent Command of English and Arabic EDUCATIONAL Ph. D. Applied Scientist / Engineer; Technology Management Sciences & Operations Research; The George Washington University, Washington D.C., United States; 1980. M. Sc.; Computer Sciences & Operations Research; The American University, Washington, D.C., United States; 1976. B. Sc. / M. Sc.; Applied Sciences & Engineering; The Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon; 1972. Diploma; Marketing for Senior Executives; Institute of Management, USA; 1982. Leadership in Investment & Management, with Competencies in: Leadership, Empowering Job Design, Delegation, Innovation, and Maintaining Strong Positive Links. Providing Class-A Quality Integrated Services covering: 1. Development Management Services (Project Life-Cycle Management) (Commissioning & Handover). Design, Development and Execution of: Integrated Facilities Management & Energy Management Services. 2. Smart/Intelligent Facilities Management Services (Systems & Solutions) (Measurements & Controls). Design, Development and Execution of: Integrated Smart, Low-Current, and Data Centers Services. 3. Integrated Facilities Management - IFM (Practices & Services) (Systems & Procedures). Development and Execution of: Strategies/Plans leading to High Quality, Risk-Free, Safety Health Environment of Services Delivery Management and Integrated Systems Solutions. | Master Planning - Integrated Holistic Development Management & Facilities Management Life Cycle | Holistic Integrated Resources Management Services Offerings in Development Management & Facilities Management Life Cycle for Connected Communities. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | MENA Regions and Other Int'l Regions | Yes | Investors, Developers, Associates, Master Planners, Strategists, and Facilities Management Practitioners throughout the Development Management Life Cycle. | Sustainable Scale | Success is the KPI in many different Settings, Sectors, and Markets; as well as, Multi-Sector Multi-Discipline Mega Projects starting from Concept Master Planning throughout the Development Management Life Cycle, as well as, the On-going Facilities Management (Operation & Maintenance) i such a Niche Market of Value Engineering, Quality, and Sustainability of Health & Safety Environments. | Adhering to highly visible critical Innovative Feasible Solutions with Int'l Standards & Codes towards Securing a Healthy and Safe Facilities and Environments. The Model can be applied to all Sectors of the Economy. | Advocating, Educating, and Implementing such Model(s) at Universities, Organizations, and other Developmental Institutions. A Global Strategy is under consideration... | Yes Indeed, it is a Unique Solution (Practices & Services Models) that can be applied to any Developmental Program or Project (with various Disciplines & Specialty Areas). For Example, University can adapt such Model i their Executive Programs as well as, a Common Program that can be easily Integrated with Existing Schools (Business, Technology, Engineering and Medicine) that cater to Programs of Developmental Nature and Facilities Management.... | All are Experts in the Specific Discipline and Sector with minimum of 10 years of Consultancy & Execution. Dashboards and KPI's are the two models we use to perform on-going Monitoring & Evaluation towards guaging Progress and Performance. | This is part of our upcoming Global Strategy and Plans with detailed Initiative for New Markets and Regions that spells out all procedures for Recruitment, Training, and Workshops. The Solution Presented is a promising unique Resolution to the Global unemployment phenomena and job growth in vital Sectors of the Economy. | Human Resources (People) is the most important dimension that govern such success. Integrated Resources Management and Enterprise Resources Capabilities are deemed to exist in order to facilitate Program Expansion and Execution. Not to exclude the Financial and Operational Resources required. Capacity Planning for Needs Assessment and Resources Availability for (Short-, Medium-, and Long-) Term are also Key Factors in Planning and Implementing of the Solution. | Not Available and Not Applicable now... Will be available and provided as Progress Goes Forward in Incorporating such Solution to any Economic Development Organizations and Institutions. | Interview were presented in USA June 2016. Stanford University GES 2016...(Al Yuwm media - Facebook Link) Link -1: Http://www.facebook.com/alyoumshow/videos/vb.111519887909/10154227443637910/?type=2&theater USA TV Show Washington D.C. Capital Hill ... (Al Yuwm media Tv - Utube Link) Link-2: Http://youtu.be/XM-schCP1fI | Achievements Services Delivery Practices in major Industries. QA, HSE, TQM, and FM Development & Execution. Standards & Practices in all Phases. IFM/HSE Practices & Services for Maintainability & Sustainability. Frameworks & Models for FM based on facilities & industry. Early Stages Discussions with Real Estate Developers & Master Planners for the urgency of IFM Consultancy Services. Proactively Advocating with Authorities for HS&E and sustainability in Facilities & Communities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
372 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Oluwatoyin | Aladegbami | Legal resources law office / Sharing Passion Nigeria Initiative | www.sharingpassion.com | Principal partner | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | HOW UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY CAN PROMOTE AND ACCELERATE TRANSFORMATIVE SDG ACTION IN INNOVATIVE WAY (TOURISM) Abstract The 2030 Agenda recognizes the critical role played by the tourism sector, which accounts for one tenth of global GDP and employment. The sector also has a direct impact on efforts to achieve other Goals, such as eradicating poverty, advancing gender equality and protecting the environment. The United Nation (UN) General Assembly has invited the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) to “facilitate the organization and implementation of the year, in collaboration with Governments, relevant organizations of the United Nations System, other international, regional organizations and other relevant stakeholders”. As one of the largest and fastest-growing socio-economic sectors of our times, tourism can stimulate economic growth, create decent jobs and business opportunities, helping millions of people escape poverty and improve their livelihoods. With the right policies in place, tourism can contribute to gender equality, the preservation of ecosystems and biodiversity, the protection of natural and cultural heritage, and offers solutions to many other pressing challenges our world is facing today. An inclusive and participatory tourism can spur dialogue, foster mutual understanding and support efforts toward building a culture of peace. In the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the International Year (IY, 2017) was a unique opportunity for fostering a change in policies, business practices and consumer behavior for a more sustainable tourism sector. The UN general Assembly must be committed to tourism development in order to harness the potentials of five key areas such as: Inclusive and sustainable economic growth, social inclusiveness, employment and poverty reduction, resource efficiency, environmental protection and climate change, cultural values, diversity and heritage mutual understanding, peace and security. Therefore, the Secretary General, in consultation with Member States, should prepare a report which outlines critical milestones towards the attainment 2030 sustainable tourism development goals. The report should equally clarify institutional responsibilities and provide guidance on annual themes, on a sequence of thematic reviews, and on options for periodic reviews. Keywords: Tourism, sustainable development goals, innovation, transformation | My name is Oluwatoyin Aladegbami, born on 27th July, 1977 at Ile -Ife, Osun State. I have my elementary and secondary education at the Obafemi Awolowo University. I am presently a Legal Practitioner engaged in private law practice and a PhD student. I also run an NGO called Sharing Passion Nigeria Initiative anchored toward assisting other break barriers of limitation via our several segments which cater for various needs like support and visits to homes of the less privileged, organizing free entrepreneur training classes free of charge to the educated unemployed so as to enable them create a stream of income, free training classes for children of the lower cadre amongst others. I graduated with my first and second degrees in law at the Obafemi Awolowo University and later proceeded to take Masters degree at the University of Ibadan - in Development Practice; I also have a Masters degree in Christian Leadership at the Redeemed Christian Bible College. I love to learn new things so I try so much to get myself involved in academic research and I also love to put smiles on the faces of others through little acts of kindness. | A report | Critical milestones | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | All the countries that have signed in on the implementation of the SDG | No | Proof of Concept | To create critical milestones, the UN must have the ideation of what the problems are and what is to be done. | The problem is the inability to implement certain policies toward the actualization of the SDG. The suggested solution will be to create milestones (timelines) to be adhered to after much deliberation on the trending issues at hand. | It will work out in a slow and steady manner. The short term effect will be the creation of a rejig in the mindset of those directly involved at the echelon of affairs with the need consciousness to get things in the right perspective and the long term effect will be the zeal for the implementation of policies agreed upon by the lower cadre through seriousness of those high up. | The uniqueness of this solution is the timelines that will be effectively utilized as a tool for achieving result and the innovative way of making correction for top bottom approach. | Not long at all I measure it based on the results on gets from other similar works ongoing here. | It will be a continuous process that will be remodeled as time goes by | Electricity and internet facilities so that all hands can be on deck regardless of one’s location. Eg virtual meetings | www.sharingpassion.com | www.sharingpassion.com | None for now | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
373 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Emeka | Nwachinemere | Efarms | https://www.efarms.com.ng | Head, Corporate Strategy and Investments | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | In Sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture accounts for 64 percent of the labor force and 75 percent of the people who survive on less than $1 per day work in the agricultural sector. Through our agri-financing and agri-training services, we ensure that smallholder farmers overcome the challenge of poor access to finance to expand their scale of operations and increase their income earnings; and empower youths/graduates with best agricultural skills. Our aim is to improve the average income of smallholde farmers in Nigeria by 50% and we hope to finance 1 million smallholder farmers and empower over 10,000 youths post-funding. And we are achieving this using our peer to peer investment Platform, which is purpose-built for scale. Presenting what we have done, and what we hope to achieve at the UN Solutions Summit would be invaluablt to us. First, it would increase the visibility of our startup, attracting prospective partners as well as investments to us. It would also attract other people with suggestions as to how we can achive our goals faster. | Nwachinemere is a goal driven, innovation and technology enthusiast with a passion to transform Africa into the hub that feeds the world by creating, packaging and deploying value across Africa's business value chains. He is the Founder of Kitovu Technology Company, First place winner of the 2017 Ideas for Action Competition which involved 743 sector diverse teams from 118 countries around the world. Nwachinemere is a multi-award winning serial entrepreneur who has founded and co-founded companies like Livingstone Mega Industries, Food Bank Buycrowdy and Standard Cassava Processors. He is a fellow of both the Social Innovation Program of Leap Africa and Fate Foundation, and is a recipient of Total Startupper Awards for Innovation and Nigerian Innovation Awards in 2016. A 2015 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program Alumni, he was recently named part of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering Innovation Awards 2018 shortlist. Nwachinemere is a graduate of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he studied Mechanical Engineering. He has also received specialized trainings on business and Entreprenurship from Enterprise Development Center, Pan African University, Lagos and has over 5 years of experience in the Nigerian Business ecosystem. He has a dream that one day, extreme poverty and hunger would be eradicated from Africa and the world, and places high premium on leveraging technology, innovation and business best practices to solve the plethora of problems that bedevils the world. He is a writer and public speaker with interests in governance and advocacy. | Efarms | Efarms is an agricultural focused fintech company using technology to unlock finance and markets for smallholder farmers. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Senegal | Yes | AFEX Commodities Exchange, Technoserve, Kitovu Technology COmpany | Transition to Scale | In under 18 months of operation, efarms has provided financing for over 2000 farmers while enabling 747 middle-income people to create additional income for themselves through investments to agriculture. This underpins the fact that we have achieved product-market fit and all that is required is scale. | 75% of all people who live on under a $1 a day in Nigeria are smallholder farmers, who are financially excluded and living in conditions of extreme poverty and hunger because they don't have access to tailored finance that could enable them access quality inputs and achieve better yields. In addition, Nigeria's middle class make up 23% of the population, and every day, their ability to meet their needs keeps thinning out. It is this challenge that we have taken upon ourselves to address. | Efarms uses a peer to peer investment platform to raise funding for smallholder farmers from people and organizations with disposable income, who are looking to create additional income sources for themselves. Our vision is to be the largest agri-finance organization in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2028, transforming Africa into the hub that feeds the world by leveraging the power of the sharing economy to drive sustainable agriculture. Five years from now, we would have a presence in 10 African countries, driving finance to work for smallholder farmers by galvanizing different interest groups and stakeholder to be vested in the future of food. Our aim is to improve the average income of smallholder farmers in Nigeria by 50% and we hope to finance 1 million smallholder farmers and empower over 10,000 youths post-funding. | Efarms is an inclusive investment platform and unlike our competitors who target high net worth individuals, our platform is designed in such a way that everyone regardless of their income bracket can invest if they choose to. We also apply data analysis and machine learning to identify and engage prospective investors based on the user profile of our existing clients. We also provide our farmers with quality inputs, extension, as well as access to markets so as to ensure that they not only achieve high yields but also have market guarantees. | We have helped over 5000 farmer households increase their yields by providing them finance which not only enables them to increase their farm holdings but also ensured that they achieved better yields using yield-improving technology while getting guaranteed access to the market. They are able to double their incomes within three years of working with us. In addition, we have enabled 763 middle-income individuals to earn over 15% extra income per investment cycle, ensuring that they are able to meet their needs. We measure our progress using some very clear metrics like number of farmers financed per month, amount of financing raised per month, the average daily income of farmers, average yield per hectare, etc | For the next 12 months, our top three goals are 1. To empower at least 5000 farmers by training and funding their projects with capital of about $500,000 raised from farm investors 2. To acquire a Finance House License and launch new financial products that allow everyone invests. 3. To raise equity investment of about $350,000 To track our goals, we track and measure the following metrics 1. Funds raised per month 2. The number of farmers funded per month 3. The number of successful projects completed per month 4. The average annual income of farmers 5. Average yield per farm By September 2019, we plan to expand into a new countty; Benin Republic and we also plan to introduce the trading of commodities on our platform. | We are looking to raise financing that would enable us acquire post harvest handling infrastructure, logistics capabilities, as well as a finance house license that enables us build and deploy more finaical produts. | https://www.efarms.com.ng | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAbU_m4VEhs | Winners, Pitch Agrihack Award for Innovation in 2017 Winners, FCMB's Pitch Perfect e-Savings Award in 2019 Finalists, Africa Innovation Fellowship, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
374 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Andrew | Kroes | Because International | becauseinternational.org | President | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Our nonprofit (Because International) is honored to present our project in application to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit. We believe that simple things can make a big difference in the lives of individuals and families living in poverty. When our founder lived at an orphanage in Kenya in 2008 the leaders struggled to provide shoes that fit for their kids. He was inspired to design the ideal footwear for kids living in poverty around the world. He envisioned footwear that is ultra durable and that can also grow with the feet of growing kids. It took years to make the idea a reality and now, for the past 4 years, we've worked with partners to get footwear to nearly 300,000 kids in over 100 countries. Our model is continually changing and, as we move forward, we’re focused on distributing in relief settings, while producing locally (production has begun in Ethiopia and Kenya) and introducing our footwear, where appropriate, in local markets for purchase. We want to make sure we use our innovation in the most impactful way while reducing negative side effects of the traditional handout model—paternalism, dependency, and negative impacts on local markets. And our mission has also evolved to help others make their ideas for innovative products a reality. Through our Pursuit Incubator, this year we will work with 20+ entrepreneurs located in areas that struggle with poverty to bring their ideas to reality and their innovative products to market. | Our founder Kenton Lee and myself (Andrew Kroes) have been best friends since we were 7 years of age. After he live in Kenya and returned, he told me about his idea. We were both starting careers in other industries at the time. He started a church and worked at a local university. I began at a tech startup where I would work for 8 years. But we started a nonprofit and began to develop the idea. Eventually the idea became a reality and in 2015, we received a lot of media coverage which allowed us to raise several hundred thousand dollars and focus more time and energy on the product and the organization/mission. I was able to bring my experience from helping build a startup from 20 to nearly 500 employees and my leadership and operational skillset combined with his vision and ability to connect with donors and partners and together we've grown the team and evolved our model over time. https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewkroes/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenton-lee-0b51906/ | The Shoe That Grows | The Shoe That Grows is the only growing footwear for growing feet. We believe every child in the world deserves a pair of shoes that fit. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Our largest focus is Kenya and our shoes have been distributed in over 100 countries | Yes | We've worked with over 1,000 partners who have worked to get our solution to families in need | Scaling | We've been consistently improving our solution while getting it to families in need for 4 years. We've had consistent year over year growth in financial support and product distributions. We're excited for a cheaper alternative design to be released soon which we believe will allow us to further scale and also refine our model to focus on true relief situations. We are also beginning to introduce our solutions for sale in local markets as opposed to following a more traditional ""hand-out"" model. | The Shoe That Grows in its simplest form provides long-lasting footwear for kids and families who have faced a humanitarian crisis and are in need of basic necessities—food, water, shelter, clothing. In non-crisis settings, it still provides children with long lasting footwear which, in certain situations, can provide the protection needed to walk in their environments, travel long distances to attend school or do chores, or even complete a uniform required to attend school. | Our patented design (winner of 2018 Patents for Humanity awarded by the USPTO) allows for adjustment of our shoes/sandals at the heel, toe, and sides, providing 5 sizes of adjustment. Durable materials and construction means it can last for years, providing a long-term solution. Our long-term vision includes local production in areas that need our footwear the most, as well as introducing it for sale in local markets while considering any negative impacts that could result. And finally, we are using the support and expertise we've gained while bringing our solution to market to connect with and support entrepreneurs living in impoverished areas who have their own ideas for simple, innovative products that can solve daily issues faced by those living in poverty. We call this our ""Pursuit Incubator"" and we've started with cohorts in 2019 that will support more than 20 entrepreneurs. | Our solution is unique in its design and function. Although others have shared a belief and vision that small things can make a difference—and that, more specifically, every child in the world deserves a pair of shoes that fit—we take a different approach. First, we're concerned that in many cases kids are given shoes that are outgrown or fall apart in short periods of time, with no plan for how they can receive their next pair. Our footwear is designed to solve a need sustainably over longer periods of time. Additionally, we're concerned with the traditional handout model and the potentially negative outcomes associated with paternalism, creating cultures of dependency, and undermining true development. We are continuing to evolve our model to help ensure our footwear is only provided as a hand-out in situations where relief is immediately needed in crisis situations. Furthermore, we believe innovative solutions belong in local markets, affordably available and stimulating local economies. | Although we've spent over a decade perfecting our design, we're continuing to develop the solution so that no matter the specific need or world region, this is the ideal footwear for those struggling with poverty. Given that the solution and distribution model are closer than ever to being realized, we're beginning to devote resources to measurement of impact. This will include a potential large scale study of the need and impact of footwear when people face a humanitarian crisis (natural disaster, refugee situation, etc.) as well as a study on the potential need for footwear by a child that may not be facing an immediate crisis, but lives in poverty. Additionally, we're considering impact on a local market when a product is brought to market and how we can specifically tailor our role in the process to maximize community develop and reduce/eliminate potential harm that can be done through our third party involvement. | Although our footwear has been getting to hundreds of thousands of children for years, we're continuing to develop both the product and the process used to get it to them. We're working on a lower cost version that will cut production costs by about 75%. We're working to establish additional relief partnerships with major relief organizations that serve various world areas. Our goal is to have these relationships established and footwear ready for any potential humanitarian crisis where tens of thousands of pairs can rapidly be provided to those suffering. We're also in the process of geographically focusing on some local markets in Kenya. This will include producing locally, doing business with local sellers of goods, and introducing versions of our footwear to local markets. In order to reduce or eliminate potential harm done, this will require us to really listen and understand various dynamics. This includes understanding local footwear suppliers (competitors that could be harmed), local labor markets (impact of increased labor competition), and local needs and tastes in footwear. This work will also further enable our ""Pursuit Incubator"", where we come alongside local entrepreneurs who have their own dreams and ideas for products and see what we may be able to contribute to help them succeed. | We have the personnel in place to find and negotiate additional relief partnerships and have begun the process of better understanding the nature of their work, relief products they need, and how our footwear fits into those needs. However, funding will continually be a bottleneck. With the relationships we already have, these organizations largely rely on gifts in kind as opposed to having budgets to pay for the goods. We've been able to fund many of these gifts in the past, but to satisfy our vision of always having 10,000+ pairs paid for and ready in case of a crisis, they must be funded, produced, and ready to deploy. The impact research and studies described previously will firstly need the right person who has experience in this area and understands how to do research and measure impact appropriately. Ideally this person would have the technical expertise and also live or have lived in an area like the ones we are studying—understanding local culture and context. We'll need to fund this position and also fund the research studies themselves. Finally, there are other funding needs associated with continued design and development of our solution, taking our footwear solution into local markets, and the development of additional product ideas our Pursuit Incubator. However, we continue to make progress in these areas and are putting funding plans into action. | https://becauseinternational.org/the-shoe-that-grows High level videos about our nonprofit - https://vimeo.com/332475403/8ddab2aa7a, https://vimeo.com/346303001/e81de7afed How it works (shows an older version of our design) - https://vimeo.com/229920505 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpFb7eGt-4g&t=2s https://www.cbsnews.com/news/expandable-shoes-aim-to-keep-up-with-kids-growing-feet/ https://www.today.com/video/for-kids-in-poverty-a-shoe-that-grows-with-them-551518275741 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-9kbsK7_4c | 2018 USPTO Patent for Humanity winner - https://www.uspto.gov/about-us/news-updates/uspto-announces-2018-patents-humanity-winners 2017 Classy award winner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzcePOOgHyA Kenton Lee 2016 Idaho Innovator of the Year - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1673344969662452 Katerva Awards Category Winner: Behavioral Change (for Expandals, our commercial version for sale to families here in the US) - https://katerva.net/awards/category-winner/1968-expandals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
375 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Carolyn | Cross | Ondine Biomedical Inc. | www.ondinebio.com | Chairman and CEO | Female | Canada | Canada | English | At Ondine, we have developed potentially the world’s most powerful, topical antimicrobial for use in humans. At a time when drug resistance has been deemed a top 5 global health threat, it kills all pathogens, including superbugs, in minutes. Microbes are unable to adapt or resist its mechanism of action. We are a small, 27-person company and see the UN, with its global reach and influence as an important way of accelerating awareness and adoption of this life-saving technology around the world. It has been proven in several years of use and tens of thousands of treatments at 2 beta sites in Canada where it has already conservatively saved two 747-planes worth of people from potentially devastating infections. The technology now needs to go global rather than sequentially, which requires a different kind of model and the support and endorsement of global organizations like the UN. Its cost effectiveness combined with its efficacy makes this a truly accessible and sustainable solution to the growing infection problem not just for developed countries, but for the entire world. The 2016 UK Review on Antibiotic Resistance projects that within 30 years, unless new solutions are found, more people will die from infections annually than from cancer, diabetes, and cholera combined. We cannot wait the usual adoption time to get this important technology out there. | Carolyn Cross is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ondine Biomedical Inc. Ms. Cross has over 25 years’ direct experience with early stage companies and 30 years’ experience with public market securities. Previously, Ms. Cross was responsible for managing pension, pooled, mutual and private client funds as a Vice President with Royal Bank Investment Management Inc. Ms. Cross is a Board Member and Treasurer of the International Photodynamic Association and recently was nominated to a second term on the National Research Council of Canada. She sits on several corporate boards as well as the Advisory Council of the University of Windsor’s Odette World Health Innovation Network (WIN) and is a past Board Member of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Ms. Cross was awarded the Meritorious Service Cross by the Governor General of Canada and is a recipient of awards including the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Award from the Government of Canada, the President’s Award from the Women Presidents’ Organization, the Wendy MacDonald Entrepreneurship Award from the Vancouver Board of Trade and the Innovation and Global Growth Award from The BMO Financial Group. | Steriwave ND nasal photodisinfection | Infections avoided in minutes, without antibiotics. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Currently in use in Canada, approved in the EU, and going through approval process in USA. Goal is to be implemented globally. | No | Transition to Scale | Steriwave ND nasal photodisinfection in use for several years in hospitals in Canada. It has proven to significantly reduce surgical site infections by eradicating a broad spectrum of infection-causing pathogens that reside in the noses of patients and caregivers, from where they are easily transmitted to wounds, surgical sites, hospital surfaces, and other patients. We are now building our sales force and expanding production capacity to sell to more hospitals and in additional countries. | Steriwave ND nasal photodisinfection targets a major unaddressed source of healthcare-associated infections: infection-causing pathogens residing in the noses of patients and caregivers. As a result of nasal colonization, patients are at increased risk of auto-inoculating, or seeding, their own wound with the invasive pathogens living in the nose. This is of particular concern in people undergoing surgery or who are immunocompromised, such as those in ICU, undergoing dialysis, or chemotherapy. | In 6 minutes of treatment, Steriwave ND decolonizes the nose of bacteria, fungi, and viruses, significantly reducing risk of infection. Treatment is typically administered by a nurse, who swabs each nostril with our photosensitizer formulation, then inserts disposable nasal illuminator tips, lighting the area with a specially calibrated cold laser for 2 minutes. This process is repeated once to ensure complete coverage. Steriwave ND kills microbes through oxidative disruption of the microbial cell membrane with no known adverse effects. Microbes are unable to adapt, eliminating concerns of resistance formation. Adding Steriwave ND to existing infection control measures has demonstrated up to 78% reduction in surgical site infections and millions of dollars saved annually in healthcare costs. It can be used for surgical, trauma, ICU, central line and immunocompromised patients. This broad applicability is rare in the medical device and drug development world where a product is typically limited to one indication or disease. In addition to Steriwave ND, other applications of the photodisinfection platform are under development: treatment of chronic sinusitis, treatment of burns and wounds, and disinfection of endotracheal tubes to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Our vision is that Steriwave ND and these other solutions are deployed around the world to save lives and reduce suffering, eliminating infections without the use and risks of antibiotics. | Unlike current alternatives, Steriwave ND solves the following critical challenges facing the world’s healthcare systems, allowing them to improve patient outcomes while simultaneously saving time and money: •Ability to kill all types of infection-causing bacteria, viruses, and fungi, including superbugs •Rapid efficacy, decolonizing in minutes rather than hours or days •Ability to decolonize more patients without the need for costly testing •Ability to use as often as needed without harmful side-effects or resistance formation •No patient compliance issues No other nasal decolonization option can do all this simultaneously. Steriwave ND takes only minutes to administer, is well tolerated by patients and easily incorporated into hospital workflows, eliminates the need for microbe identification, and costs a fraction of the infections it prevents. For example, Steriwave ND has been shown to provide 90:1 savings versus cost in spine surgeries. | Steriwave ND nasal photodisinfection is completely developed and market ready. We have proven the technology, business model, and training protocols and have had it in beta sites as pre-surgical standard of care in 2 leading Canadian hospitals for nearly 8 years. The results have been remarkable and have convinced us that Steriwave ND needs to be in hospitals and clinics around the world. Over 50,000 patients have been treated, hundreds of infections prevented, and tens of millions of dollars in infection costs avoided since initial deployment. Recent analysis by Vancouver Coastal Health of the impact on spine surgery infection rates at Vancouver General Hospital led the study group to recommend routine use of Steriwave ND for the prevention of surgical site infections after finding: •78% reduction in the rate of surgical site infections in spine surgery patients •1 infection was prevented (average $100,000 cost savings) for every 18 patients treated •Annual cost savings of $4.24 million from the avoidance of spine infections •No adverse events were associated with its use These findings were presented by the study group at the 2019 Annual Scientific Conference of the Canadian Spine Society, winning the 'Debbie Scarlet Award for Best Paper.' Earlier this year we onboarded another hospital that now uses Steriwave ND as pre-surgical standard of care for all its major surgeries. The head surgeon recently notified us that they have had no surgical site infections since. | Our priorities for the next 24 months are to: •Complete the FDA approval process, targeted for 2021 (already have been granted Qualified Infectious Disease Product status and Fast Track) •Prepare for launch in the USA •Sell and implement 5 to 10 additional hospitals across Canada •Integrate into the National Health Service in the UK. This requires significant funding, which we are actively pursuing. The funding levels we are able to achieve in this timeframe will dictate how rapidly we can expand (team, production, sales, applications). Pending sufficient funding to do so, we would also like to: •Conduct additional clinical trials to demonstrate the patient and pharmacoeconomic benefits of using Steriwave ND in additional patient populations such as ICU, dialysis, and long-term care and expand adoption into these areas. •Further advance the other photodisinfection products in our pipeline and begin their FDA approval process. Once established in the UK, we plan to expand throughout the EU and look to get into the Middle East. As we identify the right partners, we would like to see manufacturing and distribution in the countries of Africa, Asia, and South America. Steriwave ND is a breakthrough solution to treat millions and eliminate unnecessary infections without adding to the rising rates of antibiotic resistance. We strongly support saving antibiotics for when they are truly needed | Our most critical need is for capital to ensure we can complete the FDA work as planned, increase production and sales capacity, and scale Ondine to be able to sell and support hospitals internationally within the next 3 years. We are looking to raise $15 to 20 million in the next 6 months and another $30 million by the end of 2020. The addition of another $50 to 100 million beyond that will allow us to advance another 1 to 2 photodisinfection products through the FDA in parallel and prepare them for launch into the North American and European markets. These are relatively small sums compared to those required typically for new drugs. This is because we have already significantly de-risked the technology through its multi-year use in Canadian beta sites and the resultant real-world data demonstrating safety and efficacy from the over 50,000 patients treated. However, raising these funds is proving more challenging than anticipated as Ondine and Steriwave ND’s state of development (early revenue) means we don’t fit the typical investment stage categories. Thus, our other major needs are regulatory expediency and policy and endorsement support at the national and international level to drive rapid widespread adoption. We ask for the UN’s involvement and support directly or via connections and introductions to help us shortcut the typically fragmented and lengthy healthcare adoption processes. Patient lives and millions in avoidable infection costs are at stake. | Ondine website (https://www.ondinebio.com/) Spine results abstract (abstract #75, found on page S60) (http://spinecanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/CSS-Abstracts-2019-publication-CJS.pdf) Initial results at Vancouver General hospital (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25171975) Study proving no resistance formation (https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/7380/73803H/Absence-of-bacterial-resistance-following-repeat-exposure-to-photodynamic-therapy/10.1117/12.822834.short?SSO=1) | 3-minute video of MRSAid (Steriwave ND brand in Canada) in Vancouver General Hospital (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-evtuCjJy0) Canadian MLA Ralph Sultan speaking to the British Columbia legislature on Carolyn Cross and MRSAid (http://ralphsultanmla.ca/bcltv_videos/mla-sultan-carolyn-cross/) Carolyn Cross & Leanne Carlson Discuss Periowave™, Ondine’s first photodisinfection-based product which has since been sold to fund the development of Steriwave ND (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy2fMXZuAOU) | 2019 winner - a TIPS Top Innovation, The Infection Prevention Strategy 2019 winner - Debbie Scarlett Award for Best Paper, Canadian Spine Society 2019 finalist - PwC Vision to Reality Awards 2013 winner - Innovation Award of Excellence, International Consortium for Prevention and Infection Control 2019 winner - YWCA Women of Distinction Award for Entrepreneurship & Innovation 2017 winner - Enterprising Woman of the Year award 2016 winner - Governor General of Canada Meritorious Service Cross | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
376 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Gabriel | Igbinovia | IndexPortal Globe | www.indexportalglobe.com | CEO / Lead Developer | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | In a world of evolving technology there is space for everyone with great ideas to invent something extraordinary. What is in short distribution is the opportunity, partnerships, systems and platforms to sale such products in Nigeria. I spearheaded the creation of a unique solution with robust features that have the capacity to solve current and evolutionary administrative challenges in the educational sector in Nigeria and I believe that the UN Solution Summit is the right place to showcase such solution. I have used technology as machinery to created meaningful employment for myself and for a couple of other people that work within the brackets of my team. I and my team have made Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution of international standard available locally and affordable to School Administrators in Nigeria, thereby reducing the need for foreign exchange purchase in my catchment area and building confidence in African tech players and products. | Plot 16 Block 56, Chief M.I. Okoro Avenue, Lekki Phase I | IndexPortal Edu | Enterprise Resource Planning Solution for School Management | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Nigeria | Yes | Ubakasi Ikechukwu, Joe Omatseye | Transition to Scale | The Solution has been fully tested, debugged producing error free outputs. It is finding its way fast into Lagos private school sector/market. Feedbacks on the services it offers are currently complimenting the development effort, and the spade of user-referrer reflects our value before profit business model adopted to market the solution. We have released two versions of the software already, and are working on a new update by the end of September. | The solution solves the following problems: Reduction in cost of managing a school efficiently using standard technology; the integrated fingerprint bio-data capturing tool and Android installable App handles students' welfare and security; Efficient administration of staff books; quality of life and more time dedicated to learning for students; proper documentation of daily account and one-click account auditing; student progress report generation; Punctuality; it bridges administrative gaps. | The Solution is a flexible, intuitive and a secured School Management Suit designed to digitalize and optimize management performance using a Relational Database Model. The solution provides dynamic interfaces for the following: registration of students and staff; electronic attendance/logbook; one-click debt reminder messaging; computer based test C.B.T (enabling students to sit for tests, common entrance and exam on the computer. The system marks students scripts and outputs the grades); students results and broadsheets; payroll; billing and accounting (receipt and invoice generation, discounts and bill exceptions, fees record and tracking of school debtors); notification for birthdays of student, staff and parent; electronic notes and assignment; etc. It is scalable, customizable and user-friendly. It also provides an interface for parent to view and print students notes, assignments and results from any mobile device remotely. The solution processes data either online or offline. The offline model only connects online to synchronize the management record. In this information-volatile era, our effective strategy is to continually improve, incorporate and create new modules that will support the demands of subsequent evolutionary sessions. Hence, as our clients’ need add up we are already at work to meet it. | The solution is tailored to suit the Nigerian Market. I and my team understand the cost implication of doing business in Nigeria and went on to design a solution that will make school administration efficient with less investment made in the technology that will help to build this. The solution also took into account the little details needed to make school administration smooth like Child tracking for parents and School, Attendance, Child Pickup identifier etc. What is mostly obtainable in the software space are dedicated system modules to attend to one or a few area of administrative processes at a time, this method increases the number of software needed to manage each client's needs and places demand for extra hand to administer the different systems. It also result in data duplication, and ultimately in resources depletion. The solution is an Enterprise resource Planning software suit with integrated modules that support school administration at its evolutionary layers. | I and my team, so far, have successfully built a working Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) model with dynamic features to automate the different school administrative arms. The solution is currently being used by tens of clients in Lagos Nigeria and the neighboring states. The solution as had two updates released in a spade of one year and a few months, and work on a later update is in progress. We are currently running a free demonstration and three months free trial campaign to raise awareness of its necessity to practitioners in the education industry. We have created different packages and have assigned cost to each package based on the current market price of each module/services offered by the solution. The effectiveness of the system, error free outputting, User's feedback, the scope of operation, security , backups, portability, adaptability with different mobile devices, user friendliness, speed, customer support facilitator/systems, server space, etcetera, are some other apparatus we use to value the solution. | There are over 5000 schools in Lagos Nigeria over 90% of them from our research are run manually. This percentage is true for the country too with over 20000 schools. Our goal is to reach out and get 40% of these schools to plug into at least one of the solution package by year 2023. The successful completion of the last versions of the software only marked the beginning of a new update. With each successful version released, work on a newer version begins in line with global best practices and the evolving nature of technology, hence, staff strength will increase in the proportion of the business growth and demand at each point. | The Solution being topnotch in design requires targeted marketing and physical marketers to compliment the social media marketing which is the major means it is being marketed now: Radio and Television adverts, wide range paid social media ads, flyers and magazine distribution are other means of advert needed to further boost awareness of the uniqueness of the software Marketing Infrastructures like vehicles and driving personnel will be a necessity as the solution-demand radius widens; new Offices, trained personnel, Programmers and increased allowances commensurate to the responsibilities individuals employed are saddled with, are projected need in perspective. | The company's website: https://.indexportalglobe.com; the project test sample login page is: http://.indexportal.net/ipgsch. Username and password are required to login. Other projects include: https://linsanonline.com; https://charistcommunity.com | https://web.facebook.com/igbinovia.gabriel/videos/1640109449378448/ https://web.facebook.com/igbinovia.gabriel/videos/1638161502906576/ | None for now. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
377 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alejandro | Solis | DAI Global | www.dai.com | Senior ICT Specialist | Male | Costa Rica | Costa Rica | English | Spanish | I've been working in the Development Sector in Central America since 2003, starting as a United Nations Volunteer and specializing as an ICT specialist. I strongly believe that the local talent combined with new digital tools will address old problems in the agriculture to face issues like hunger, climate change and health. What we (we are a team) created is not a digital tool, is a community of development that impacts positively in the farmers and society. | Alejandro Solis is a Digital Architect for DAI’s CDA. Mr. Solis has more than a decade of experience analyzing, designing, and launching digital platforms across LAC. His work in the region includes development of Centro Clima, a regional climate information center for Latin America, currently serving 5,000 farmers. He has also supported various projects in Honduras, including leading a digital readiness assessment of the education system and an assessment of the digital use and habits of Hondurans with disabilities (see page 3). Mr. Solis has also conducted extensive research in Peru and Colombia in support of digital transformation initiatives that will be funded by USAID. He started his path in development as a United Nations Volunteer in Honduras. Prior to joining DAI, Mr. Solis implemented projects for the IDB, NASA, and the WB, all related to the application of digital tools in service in support of achieving sustainable development objectives. In 2017, his publication on Centro Clima was included in the ICAP and IDB report titled Bienes Publicos Regionales. Two years earlier, Mr. Solis was nominated to MIT’s “Innovators Under 35” in Central America. He has been a keynote speaker at several conferences in the region, including the ICT4D conference in Central America, Sustainability Ecology and Evolution conference, and AmeriGEOSS Week 2018 in Brazil. | Coffee Cloud | Using data through mobile tech to adapt the coffee to climate change | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica | Yes | ANACAFE, ICAFE, UNEX, CAPUCAS | Transition to Scale | The solution has over 5000 active users and an improved version is about to be launched, there is demand from other countries and organizations for using it. | Coffee Cloud places key climate information and crop recommendations into the hands of coffee farmers. Over time, this application evolved into a broader digital project that not only provides information but also helps producers monitor the health of their crops. | The solution was built adhered to the Digital Development Principles, which allow the solution to be open and data-driven, this allow the users in the different countries to have a development community to create new modules. Coffee Cloud’s managers are constantly improving the tool, creating new modules and adaptations to better tailor its information to the interests of each of their organizations. Other institutions in the agricultural field—including the basic grains and cocoa sectors—have expressed interest in adapting Coffee Cloud to their products and ecosystems, given the easy implementation of the tool and the opportunity to tailor it to the agronomic interests of each crop in each environment. Cloud Coffee remains in the hands of its administrators in each country. DAI abides by the Principles for Digital Development, including the mandate to “reuse and improve,” where projects are encouraged to adapt existing products, resources, and approaches to their unique circumstance, rather than starting from scratch. In line with this principle, DAI hopes Coffee Cloud can be adapted and replicated in other projects and sectors, so that the international development community can continue to learn, improve, and generate impact for the world’s marginalized populations. | DAI applied a design thinking methodology, engaging coffee farmers as users and as the fulcrum of the design process. Two farmer workshops generated the initial inputs required to develop and implement the tool. Mapping possible users: Aiming to understand the national and local context, DAI mapped potential users to grasp the dynamics of the decision-making processes throughout the coffee value chain and ecosystem. Digital context: DAI sought to understand what similar tools are common at the regional and national levels, as well as their strengths, weaknesses, limitations, integration possibilities, and opportunities for expansion. Social stimulus: With the aim of involving civil society, the RCCP participated in NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge Hackathon. Human-centered design: The design process focused closely on farmers. Through design thinking workshops, DAI sought to define farmers’ requirements and their social, economic, and technological conditions, as well as their interaction with other farmers, ensuring that the tool would respond to these factors. Agile implementation: With all necessary information about users and requirements defined, DAI contracted a team of software development specialists, including a project manager, three software developers, and an expert on agrometeorology. Testing and launch: DAI tested stable versions of the app in the field with farmers. | Absolutely, we accomplished the first version with a great success. Now we are working in the next version to be ready in September 2019. We had specific indicators to meet, prior to start its implementation. These indicators demonstrate the level of success we had on implementing the tool. | Yes, we have a long path to go, we have the support from the different coffee organizations of all Central American Countries planned goals are: 1. Bring on-board at least 3 more countries 2. Interoperate with the regional Risk Management System. 3. Scale the solution up to 50000 users. | Short term: Developers time, training, marketing and promotion. Medium term: Private sector engagement. Long term: Special devices and IoT integrated. | http://www.coffeecloudapp.com https://assetify-dai.com/pdfs/digital-coffee-cloud-eng.pdf | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9iUjrXRVBU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmoDeLIq7q0 | MIT’s “Innovators Under 35” (Nomination) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
379 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Valeria | Rodríguez Codina | Taste & Travel | www.tasteandtravel.com.mx | Managing Director - Co-founder | Female | Mexico | Argentina | English | Spanish | I’m passionate about social entrepreneurship and positive that, as business leaders, we can make both revenue and impact at the same time. It'd be an honor for me to present our project: Taste & Travel: Traveling with Local Taste and Social Sense. We firmly believe that we can change the lives of many people through our innovative culinary tourism social enterprise. From local farmers and producers to independent professional, amateur or traditional cooks from local and indigenous communities. When traveling, most people like to get immerse in the culture, learn about the traditions and spend time with local people. Our goal is to develop a platform to offer international travelers the best travel experience connecting them with local taste local farmers, producers, chefs, foodies and traditional chefs. At the same time, local people can generate direct revenue for themselves without so many intermediaries. | I'm a 44 year old Argentinean woman living and working in Mexico since 2013. Cofounder and managing director at Taste & Travel. I'm also the Chair of the WPO (Women Presidents' Organization) in Mexico and OWIT (Organization of Women in International Trade). I'm married and I have 4 children. My mission is to demonstrate both men and women that the sky is the limit. | Traveling with local taste and social sense | Connect international travelers with local producers, chefs and traditional cooks to enjoy the most memorable and social travel experience. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Latin American countries. We now just operate in Mexico but having a platform could enable us to scale to other countries in Latam. | Yes | Culinary Schools, Culinary Associations, Government Agencies | Proof of Concept | Because we have done some amazing culinary experiences but we still need to do more to consolidate and to develop the platform to scale. As start up, we have a strong limitation to budget and staff. | Travelers want to eat local food and meet and connect with local people. Local producers and traditional cooks need to generate more income. We expect to connect the supply with the demand to offer a unique culinary travel experience plus a huge social impact in communities. | Travelers will directly connect with local farmers and cooks to book their local experience directly from the Taste & Travel platform. Our long term vision is to scale the project to create a strong global impact, specially in those countries in Latin America where culinary traditions are strong and where we can help communities of local producers and traditional cooks. | There are several companies offering online culinary experiences, however, they do not include the social value in their value proposition. They just connect chefs with travelers. Our solution aims at creating and adding social value to the whole travel experience. | We have developed and tested several experiences for groups of women with traditional cooks, specially in locations such as Oaxaca, Puebla and Merida. However, this has been under the traditional business model of our travel agency, without giving the visibility we desire to producers or cooks. | 2020: Mexico consolidation - Launch platform to scale - increase staff to 5 - impact 50 producers/ cooks (and their families) 2021: Regionalization stage: Peru, Colombia and Argentina. Increase staff to 10 - impact 200 producers/cooks (and their families). 2022: Expansion into Central America and rest of Latam. Increase staff to 20 - impact 1000 producers/cooks (and their families) | Short-Term: Technological development - Marketing Medium-Term: Staffing - Marketing - Growth strategy Long-Term: Talent Retention - Marketing - Sustainability | http://www.tasteandtravel.com.mx | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdTQcwJx3Vg | 2018 Sectur Award (Tourism Government Agency) for quality and social impact | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
380 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Heather | Beem | Practical Education Network | www.practicaleducationnetwork.com | CEO & Founder | Female | Ghana | United States of America | Chinese | English | The Solutions Summit will be a wonderful platform to share the work we are doing to achieve SDG Goal #4. I look forward to sharing the work towards positive global impact I have done through innovating in business and STEM in my 4 years on the ground in Ghana. I look forward to hearing about and learning from others who are in the same broad arena. This gathering of perspectives and solutions will be a fruitful ground for sparking new ideas and collaborations. | Heather completed her PhD in Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where she fell in love with hands-on learning. She co-founded the D-Lab: Education class, mentoring dozens of students in international education and engineering projects. For the last 3 years, she has been leading Practical Education Network in their mission to make practical science classrooms the norm in West Africa. | Practical Education Network | PEN equips Ghanaian STEM teachers to deploy hands-on, inquiry-based pedagogies in their classrooms using low-cost, locally-available materials. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Ghana | Yes | Ghana Education Service, Ghana Association of Science Teachers, Varkey Foundation, UNICEF Ghana, National Council on Curriculum and Assessment - Ghana Ministry of Education | Transition to Scale | We have engaged more than 3,000 teachers, all of who have been paying customers. We are now transitioning to grow beyond our one base of operation in Greater Accra to the other regions in Ghana. | ""Chew and pour"" is the phrase most Ghanaian students use to describe their science schooling. Rote memorization is the main pedagogy employed by teachers. 80% of the STEM teachers we surveyed cite the lack of materials as their main challenge preventing them from making their classes practical and interactive. | PEN trains STEM teachers to learn to source low-cost, locally-available materials and form them into experiential pedagogical tools that they can deploy in their classrooms. PEN has compiled hundreds of hands-on activities made from locally available materials and mapped them to the Ghanaian national curriculum. Through partnerships with the Ghana Education Service and Ghana Association of Science Teachers, PEN organizes district-wide workshops for JHS and SHS science and math teachers. Our long-term vision is that practical, interactive classrooms would be the norm in West African STEM classrooms. | Most STEM initiatives are direct-to-learner models. Rather than seeing the teacher as a side stakeholder, PEN views the teacher as the agent of change and force multiplier - each Ghanaian public school teacher reaches about 100 students per year. Other teacher training organizations exist, but they lack syllabus-specific curriculum, leaving even the brightest teacher feeling limited to the chalkboard after the training is over. | PEN has trained 3,000 teachers and equipped 100 local level trainers across Ghana and Liberia. We have run our program in all Districts of Greater Accra and in parts of Eastern, Volta, and Northern Regions. Through a combination of in-person interviews, remote surveys, and classroom observations, we measure our impact. We look across multiple indicators including proportion of teachers employing practical activities more frequently, student enjoyment of STEM, increase in students' critical thinking and increase in student STEM scores. One teacher called our resource manual ""my second Bible"". Through an impact-controlled trial run over the course of one academic year, we measured a 97% increase in student exam scores and an increase in student attitudes towards science, as opposed to attitudes decreasing over the year, as measured at the control schools. | By 2025, we aim to reach 20,000 teachers across 3 Regions in Ghana and pilot our initiative in Nigeria and Sierra Leone. | Short-Term: personnel to expand operations to new regions Medium-Term: relationships with partners to scale Long-Term: relationships with partners to scale | www.practicaleducationnetwork.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdY0o3koAoc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL6_MAjHtFs | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4gJaNIoxrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEQD-ucYk7k | MIT SOLVE - Winner (2018) The Gratitude Network Fellowship (2018) MIT D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship (2016) Growth Mosaic Education Challenge Winner (2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
381 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Prakash | Tyagi | GRAVIS | www.gravis.org.in | Executive Director | Male | India | India | English | Russian | I am applying for the Solutions Summit to present a project/model that my organization is working on in order to improve the nutritional status of rural communities in the Thar Desert, India. Malnutrition is one of the most critical health and development challenge in India and globally and we believe that the solution to the problem lies within the community by introducing a simple and cost effective technology. Micro-nutrient malnutrition is a significant problem in Rajasthan where 70% of children 5-59 months of age are anemic, and only 29% and 1% of children 6-35 months old consumed vitamin A rich foods and iron foods in the last 24 hours, respectively. Further, only 23% of women 15-49 years old in Rajasthan were found to have consumed fruit at least once a week. GRAVIS, an NGO working in the Thar Desert, India, has introduced an arid horticulture model that is contributing to improved nutritional status of rural communities. Over 5,200 arid horticulture units have been set up till dates which are benefiting over 13,000 households and nearly 90,000 people. Their health and income levels have improved. We want our model to get visibility which will help us in finding more resources as well as the model may be replicated in other arid and needy regions of the world. | Dr. Prakash Tyagi is the Executive Director of GRAVIS and Founder-Director of GRAVIS Hospital. In his academics, he has studied Medicine and International Public Health. He has also been the recipient of a Fulbright-Humphrey Fellowship to study global health at UNC Chapel Hill, received a Ford Fellowship to study non-profit management at Columbia University in New York and has studied public policy through a Fleishman Fellowship at Tarry Sanford School of Duke University. He has supported various non-profits working on health and development aspects nationally and internationally. With his global health experience, he has contributed to various international forums and has written extensively on major global health issues and priorities. Dr. Tyagi is an active development practitioner and public health professional and has contributed significantly in the fields of maternal and child health, geriatrics, HIV, TB and occupational health through his writing, research and field work. As the Executive Director of GRAVIS in India, he has been leading the organization since last 14 years. GRAVIS reaches out to about 1.2 million people living in poverty with its work and has helped formation of over 3,000 Community Based Organizations. | Addressing malnutrition through Horticulture in the Thar Desert, India | Arid horticulture with rainwater harvesting can make transformative changes to health and well-being for communties livinf under poerty | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | India | No | Transition to Scale | We have set up over 5,000 arid horticulture units till date that are well received and making a significant impact. We believe the model is ready to be scaled up in may more villages and communities. The need still is very large and our technology is easy to replicate at a larger scale. | The Thar Desert is home to about 27 million people, making it the most densely populated arid region in the world. 80% of people living in the Thar depend on agriculture as a primary livelihood. The arid climate and droughts lead to water insecurities that challenge agriculture and livestock activities and further food insecurity. To address the issue of micro-nutrient deficiencies, GRAVIS works with vulnerable households to establish arid horticulture units. | These units are small plots near the home, managed by the household, where a variety of fruit trees are raised, primarily for household consumption with surplus being shared with neighbors or sold in the market. Households may also establish kitchen gardens within the horticulture unit where they can grow vegetables. The principal outcome of the proposed project is increased availability and access to micronutrient-rich fruits and vegetables at the household level. Following are four areas through which these units impact: 1.Water Management With scanty annual rainfall, water security is a major challenge for people living in the Thar Desert. To address this development issue, GRAVIS trains beneficiaries on water management and constructs irrigation systems, such as pitcher- and drip-irrigation, to conserve horticulture unit water usage. 2.Dietary Diversity We do not encourage GMO or hybrid seeds because we seek to preserve the biodiversity and traditional varieties of local plant species Seed banks are used to preserve rare and indigenous species of food crops. 3.Household Savings Homegrown fruits and vegetables enable households to spend less money on purchasing these products in the market. Direct beneficiaries often share their surplus products with neighbors. 4.Income Generation Households may sell surplus horticulture unit products in the local market to generate additional income, which can contribute to household savings. | The central project innovation is to utilize horticulture units as a micronutrient delivery system to increase dietary diversity. Horticulture units are located close to the home, and are managed by the household. The products are primarily used for household consumption, and surplus products are shared with neighbors. This innovation differs from micronutrient supplementation, an existing approach that provides micronutrient supplements to mothers and children. Unlike direct micronutrient supplementation, the horticulture units have the potential for nutrition benefits beyond the direct beneficiaries. For example, when households share surplus fruits and vegetables with their neighbors, they are increasing the accessibility of these foods for other families. In comparison, nutrient supplementation programs are limited to direct beneficiaries, and have a smaller reach. Further, the savings acquired from home production of fruits and vegetables can be allocated to other household needs such as medical care, education and investment. | GRAVIS has a multi-layered monitoring mechanism. On the ground level community based organizations and our field teams assess project progress regularly and feedback to GRAVIS office. The next level of monitoring is GRAVIS office team and experts from GRAVIS Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). The third level of monitoring and evaluation is when we invite experts and evaluators from various institutes. Maternal and child malnutrition have significant consequences for survival, disease incidence, healthy development, and economic productivity. The project addresses both the short and long term aspects of poverty alleviation and development. In the short term, horticulture units and kitchen gardens enhance food security and dietary diversity, as they provide a source of fruits and vegetables for the direct beneficiaries, and indirect beneficiaries (who receive surplus from garden households). Further, the direct and indirect beneficiaries realize money savings, as there is a decreased need to purchase fruits and vegetables from the market, and they can generate income from the sale of surplus products. Beneficiaries can then allocate these savings to other household needs. The project aims to enhance beneficiaries’ dietary diversity and micronutrient status. This is particularly important for mothers and children because adequate nutrition is necessary for healthy development that contributes, in the long-term, to healthy development and economic productivity. | We aim to expand our horticulture work in different States of India first and then in other countries. We are in the process of finding recognition and resources for scale up. With the impact of climate change, we see food insecurity is spreading in many other Indian States like Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. We are planning to expand to those States to replicate the model. As a future goal, we envision setting up partnerships in neighboring countries of South Asia and East Africa where the need of such an intervention is highly relevant. On a global scale, we hope to be a resource organization for any organizations willing to take this intervention up in their communities. | We are now seeking funds to expand horticulture unit activities under a comprehensive horticulture unit-specific project. Additional funds provided will be used to expand our reach to isolated and vulnerable households, and construct horticulture units and provide associated trainings. GRAVIS has piloted integrating drip-irrigation and pitcher-irrigation techniques with demonstrated success. Therefore, in addition to fencing and seed/sapling inputs, the additional funds will contribute to increasing the number of horticulture units that use drip-irrigation. GRAVIS has considerable experience in constructing horticulture units, having set up over 5,200 horticulture units to date. Therefore, GRAVIS will maintain the horticulture unit activity model while scaling up its reach to vulnerable communities. Beneficiary selection criteria will remain as previously discussed. Additionally, beneficiary households will be selected from villages where GRAVIS has a presence and thus, has developed rapport with the community and community leaders. After selecting project beneficiaries, GRAVIS will provide the initial horticulture unit and water management trainings, as well as health meets and check ups. GRAVIS will continue to follow-up with beneficiaries and monitor progress throughout the project period. | Website www.gravis.org.in | Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxkaRLwsujg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q6O0hVO6Bo | -Indian Merchants Chambers (IMC) Award, 2005 -Anadi Kamal Award of Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI), 2005 -Ram Krishna Dalmiya Award, 2006 -Americares Spirit of Humanity Award, 2011 -Finalist in the Times of India Social Impacts Award in Livelihoods category, 2011 -Giving back 2015 CSR Award as best NGO in environment category, 2016 -Jamnalal Bajaj award of 2017 to founder Shashi Tyagi -Finalist in the Equator Prize, Equator Initiatives Award of UNDP in 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
382 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Arulchelvan | Sriram | Anna University | https://annauniv.edu/ | Associate Professor | Male | India | India | English | As a faculty member, I have always believed in overcoming new challenges and growing by imparting knowledge to others. I have wholeheartedly accepted the chance to teach, engage in academic research, awareness creation and developmental activities. Post my career as a journalist in Tamil language newspapers in Chennai, India; I completed my Ph.D. from Anna University in Media. This was followed up by a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the University of Aveiro. I participated in many workshops, training, researches, conferences, etc. As part of my duties at Anna University, I have assisted in the development and instruction of many courses relevant to Journalism, News Reporting and Writing, Communication for Development, Media Research. I also completed many research projects and surveys. I have advocated for Media and Information Literacy, Fake News, Better Sanitation, Health and Hygiene, Scientific Temper and Youth Development. Fifteen years of service in outdoor education has seen me help many young people gain awareness, leadership skills, and self-confidence. I have also worked closely with the UNICEF, Government Departments, and NGOs for whom I led many different after college programs and developed hands-on activities. During my research, extension activities, I have found that fake news is creating lots of problem to the common man as well as society. So, I started to create awareness on fake news through Media and Information Literacy movement. This initiative is created a great impact on the youth, especially students. I wish to share my experience and to extend this initiative to other parts of the world. | Dr. S. Arulchelvan is the Associate Professor in the Department of Media Sciences, Anna University. Earlier, he worked as a Journalist in leading Tamil dailies. He has been awarded FCT Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship from the University of Aveiro, Portugal and The Graciano Lopez Jaena Fellowship in Community Journalism by the University of Philippines. His specializations are Journalism, Development Communication, Educational, and Community Media. He has been passionately engaged in several research projects with the support of UNICEF, Department of Rural Development, Government of Tamil Nadu and other international and national agencies and he completed ten major and minor research projects. He authored few books and published more than 50 articles in reputed journals. He has also presented papers and participated in various national/ international conferences. He had been invited as an expert for several workshops and he has organized many workshops and seminars. Moreover, He is in respectable correlation with prominent Indian and foreign professional associations. He is serving in the editorial board of many research journals. In addition to teaching, he is also the Curriculum Development Coordinator and has developed and written course material for various subjects like journalism, news writing, and development communication among others. He has successfully guided eleven Ph.D., scholars in earning their doctoral degrees and is currently guiding more others. He is serving as a member of the Board of Studies in many colleges and universities. | Countering Fake News through News Hygiene Practice and MIL Capacity | End Fake News with News Hygiene and MIL Capacity | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | India | No | Research & Development | News Hygiene and MIL Capacity Project has experimented in the field both journalists and youth groups. It received very good appreciation from the journalists and youth. It needs to be revised and go for full service or commercialization. | Disinformation/ Fake News is false information which is intentionally created to harm/mislead a person, group, organization or country (Cherilyn and Posetti, 2018) for the vested interest like race/ ethnic, political, election, financial, ideological gain, etc. Now, internet and social media are the main source of disinformation which easily misleads them to making wrong decisions in voting, creating violence, spreading radical ideas, etc. | To educate people, we are providing capacity development on disinformation to the youth. The target group is selected from different colleges who are studying under various programs. Information is provided about nature, process, elements, effects, and ways to cross-check disinformation every week for the period of three months. After the intervention, we test their knowledge gained through the training. To provide authentic news to people, we are making standardization news procedures in consultation with editors/journalists. Through this, we create a “news mark” for authenticated news called “News Hygiene/ News Health”. It is a practice which helps for clutter-free news gathering, writing and delivering of facts to readers. In addition to that news grading procedure was followed to grade the news items as only fact/opinion/interpretations added/ etc. That will further help the audience to understand news credibility. | Youth now can easily identify fake news/ disinformation. If they are having some doubts on facts of news items, they are trying to identify the facts using various techniques. Regard to the “news hygiene” concept, some journalists are following in their newsgathering, processing, and dissemination work. 1. In this area, other existing initiatives are corporate-driven. So their believability is less. 2. They are not applicable to regional contexts and interest. 3. We are doing in a large number of youths in different geographical areas. 4. We are involving a group of people from the public, not from industries. | This initiative is implemented in Chennai city of Tamilnadu, India. We have conducted much capacity-building training. Through this | This module will be extended to all over the country (India) as well as other countries. Since it is a project, we will recruit around 50 research associates and a few hundred volunteers. Later, it will be produced as a video/ MOOC lecture and delivered online. Surely, it will positively impact several millions of people and a few thousands of journalists. | Human resource, cameras, studio facilities, network connectivity, server, space for training in different places. | At present, there is no work is uploaded online. Now we are conducting training programs for journalists and youths and conducting pre and post-test. | At present, there is no work is uploaded online. 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383 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chandni | Rajendran | Tactopus Learning Solutions Pvt. Ltd. | https://tactopus.com | CEO | female | India | India | English | I am an experience designer and now social entrepreneur working towards equal access to education for children with blindness. I developed a novel learning system that integrates the sense of touch, sound and vision (where possible) to create a multi-sensory, playful and engaging way for blind children to learn independently and expand their access to knowledge. I now run a company that makes audio-tactile books and resources, and in the first year of operations, we've deployed in 10 schools and 18 resource centres. We're working towards creating comprehensive early learning material for all children to be able to access education without barriers. | Chandni runs Tactopus, a design-led social enterprise that makes mixed reality learning experiences for children with vision impairment and learning disabilities with an inclusive and playful approach. She graduated from the Masters Program in Interaction Design IDC, IIT Bombay in 2017. TEDx speaker and India Inclusion Fellow. | Tactopus | Multi-sensory Learning for Children with Vision Loss | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Primarily India. Developing school relationships in Singapore, US, UK. | Yes | Social Alpha, and IDFC FIRST Bank, funding partners | Transition to Scale | We have arrived at a product-market fit and we have demonstrated the efficacy of the solution in the market, and teachers' enthusiasm in integrating this learning system in their classrooms. We are at the stage where we need to operate at a higher scale, with government partnerships supported by policy, with larger scale program sponsorship for low-resource schools, and with the help of educational influencers who can recommend the use of Tactopus system to special educators more widely. | How do blind children learn science and math at school, if they only have access to braille (text) and audio? Even simple concepts like the water cycle, or complex diagrams like the combustion engine require visual imagery, which blind people have no standard access to, making their education severely limited. We work on this precise problem, by creating a multi-sensory system to help children learn with alternate senses of touch and sound. | There are two parts to the tactopus learning system. The tangible and the digital. Tangibles include books, cards, game elements with tactile, textured or raised images that can be perceived by the finger tips, so blind children can access them. The digital component is a smartphone app using computer vision to detect which page a child is reading, or what cards have been played, and it provides an integrated, seamless audio experience in sync with the tangible. As a digitally enabled, independent learning tool, schools can do more, empower children with life-skills, curiosity-driven learning and foster higher expectations from children. | Play is a surprisingly scarce commodity among children with disabilities, as it's often the first point of exclusion in childhood. Bringing a playful, positive approach to the learning is a key component of our approach. Our products make it possible for children with blindness to perceive images, while listening to audio effects and stories augmented through the app. The tactile flashcards create active learning guided by a voice companion. Our design process is driven by principle of universal accessibility, while the content direction leans largely towards playful learning over traditional textbook learning. | There are quantitative and qualitative aspects to our impact targets. Quantitatively, we are tracing the number of blind schools empowered with our tech and resources, number of children who go to inclusive schools, who can use our products to bridge gaps and cope with the peer standards, and number or resource centres that can make our products part of their rehabilitation process. Qualitatively, we would like to measure attitude changes, perception of blindness, if people recognise the potential in children with blindness, etc. | Immediate goals: to deploy smart classrooms in 800 blind schools in India, and 2500 schools with children with developmental delays and learning disabilities. Mid-term goals: we have had organic in-bound demand from the US, UK, Singapore. We want to tap into these markets more actively, as it will help reach profitability sooner by operating in resource-rich markets, enabling us to focus on the more active process of ensuring impacting resource-poor markets. | 1. We have done a needs analysis of the schools in India that have shown active interest in using our products in classrooms, but do not have the funds to do so. Our plan is to work out a subsidised program for such schools, and create a non-money currency system to make school managements earn access to our products. We are seeking funds to cover the subsidy. 2. Capacity building. Much of our manufacturing is currently outsourced at high prices. To reach operational efficiency, we are looking to set up basic manufacturing processes in-house, and create more employment opportunities for people with disabilities in the manufacturing arm of our work. Any cost optimisation will help us provide better costs to our partner schools. 3. Content creation. Cost to create content for learning needs for grade 1 has been $70,000. Our target is to create learning material for early learning, up to grade 3. While we are getting better and faster at it, we see potential to accelerate the process if it did not have to depend on revenues, and could be funded by an external source to make parts of it open source for the community. It would also fund the community contribution program to involve more stakeholders in the creation process and democratise it. We are working on network resources to reach nodal decision makers and education influencers. We would also benefit from government policies that support inclusive education. | https://youtu.be/2YJy_PWy750 https://www.tactopus.com https://www.facebook.com/tactopus/ https://www.instagram.com/tactopus_learning/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/tactopus/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaandni/ https://newzhook.com/story/21499 https://www.thebetterindia.com/178695/bengaluru-tactile-books-graphics-education-disability-india/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nppjy-DdPS8 . https://www.ted.com/talks/ms_chandni_rajendran_inclusive_design_a_multi_sensory_approach . https://youtu.be/Ylt67aR4DIo?t=2160 . https://youtu.be/kchAd6EkVxo . | India Inclusion Fellowship, 2017. NIDHI Prayas Grant for Prototyping, Winner, 2017. Young Innovator Award from Chief Minister of Maharashtra, 2017. Finalist at IxDA Awards, Lyon, France, 2017. Inclusive Innovation Award by Bangalore Chamber of Industry and Commerce , 2018. Winner, Global Ed-Tech Startup Awards, London, Sponsored by XPrize Foundation, USA, 2018. Maharashtra Startup Week, Pilot Program Winner, 2018. TiE Global Summit Q-Glue Design-Led Entrepreneurship Award, Runner-up, 2018. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
384 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Gezire | Tembo | Alliance of Youth Entrepreneurs | http://www.ayezambia.org | Trainer of Trainers/ Consultant | Female | Zambia | Zambia | English | My motivation for this application is to enhance and broaden skills in development of youths economically as well as promote decent work. In partnership with the Accountability Advocates of Zambia, we developed a step by step framework of holding governments accountable to the commitments made to them. Through this the Youth have used that framework especially for SDGs 8&16. We have also taken a step as an Alliance to train youths in the rural setting in a financial literacy training using a simulation game board to gain an understanding of the business setting especially for the startups. We have also highly advocated for Community Savings Groups as a way of helping youths borrow funds at the lowest rate in comparison to the high rates of the banks. Through this the alliance we have seen business startups blossom. It is for this reason that we want yo be part of the UN Summit to gain more experience as well as have a feel of what other countries have experienced. The UN summit will also accord us the opportunity. | As a Young Person I strongly believe that youth should be frontiers of development at all levels. Having been an Accountability Advocate for the Sustainable Development Goals under Restless Development I have a vast network in skills that affect the youths globally. I am a also a Global Leader Alumni under the Youth Power Network. I am a Youth Peace Ambassador under the Global Peace Chain. I was also part of the youths that led a breakaway session at the Commonwealth Summit for 2018 on youth led accountability on holding leaders accountable to the commitments. | Youth Economic Development through Village Banking and Investment | Yes the Youths can have Economic Development and Financial Literacy. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Zambia | Yes | The Youths in General, the Alliance of Accountability Advocates | Transition to Scale | This is because we have tested and it and we have evidence of training. We have trained over 200 people in the rural setting in Financial Literacy and have seen evidence of over 60 Community Savings Groups in the past year. | The problem is the high levels of Youth unemployment in the country and low entrepreneurial skills among the youths. Hence the solution wants to go beyond advocacy of decent work but to train the youths in ensuring that they have control over the own economic development. | The solution works ensuring that the issue of youth unemployment and enhance financial literacy. The Alliance will work with government institutions as well as corporations in the support of youth development through provision of Internship, Mentorship as well as support in youth innovations as through Social Corporate Responsibility. | The uniqueness is that the youths are partnering with the government and corporations in ensuring the economic development. Through the Financial Simulation Game Board the youths have a practical feel of the business world especially for business startups. | The team has done the formulation of the framework and now have trained over 200 in Financial Literacy. | We plan to scale up from Lusaka to other provinces that is Kabwe and Chipata with reaching out to about to over 500 youths. With an increase in 10 staff members. | Short Term Partnership with other Corporations that is public and Private Medium Term Funds to train in the New Districts that is Kabwe and Chipata Long Term Set up online Data base and application to have access to the training and services that can also be assessed by other countries | http://www.ayezambia.org | http://www.ayezambia.org | Financial Simulation Game Board Trainer under Bank of Zambia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
385 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ben | Jeffreys | ATEC Biodigesters International | www.atecbio.com/en | CEO | Male | Cambodia | Australia | English | Biogas for small scale farmers has a global potential of 205 million households - bringing clean cooking and improved farming through fertilizer to benefit over 1 billion people. To reach this opportunity and make a significant impact in SDGs 1, 7 and 13 the right technology must be combined with the right enterprise model. ATEC* Biodigesters International is an award winning social enterprise that has already launched the world's first patented plug and play biodigester in the world. Following this, ATEC* has furthered innovation in the sector by launching in 2019 the world's first patented paygo for biogas - opening up the opportunity for small scale farmers to pay off the systems over time using the latest technology in mobile money and attracting millions of millions investment into the sector. This technology also has potential for other paygo solutions such as LPG, natural gas, water and irrigation. ATEC* is now looking for partners to take this technology global and see the UN Solutions Summit as the ideal opportunity to raise the technology's profile and awareness. | Ben is the CEO of ATEC Biodigesters International with over 12 years experience in managing teams across social enterprise, international development and corporate sectors. Previous roles include National Development Manager at School for Social Entrepreneurs, Product Development Manager at Oxfam and Regional Sales Executive at Westfield Ltd. Ben also has a Bachelor of Business with first class honours from Queensland University of Technology. | ATEC* Biodigesters | Reach 1 million systems by 2030 with world's first patented paygo for Biogas | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Fiji, PNG, Thailand | Yes | iDE, USAID, DFAT, SNV, Grameen Shakti, EnDev | Scaling | - 1,300 systems installed to date in Cambodia, including pilot units in 6 potential expansion countries - Full supply chain and team of 40 staff in Cambodia - Recipient of multiple awards - Sankalp Southeast Asia Social Enterprise of the Year, DFAT Frontier Innovators, DBS NUS Runner-Up Social Enterprise of the Year - Closed Series A equity round 2017, now closing US$1.6m Series B to introduce world's first patented paygo for biogas. - Full governance structure of board and committees in place | •Biomass fuel (wood, charcoal, dung) is used by around 3 billion people across the globe. The use of biomass fuel is also one of the biggest silent killers in the world, being responsible for over 3.6 million premature deaths per year - globally more than malaria. •Overuse of chemical fertilizers is of significant concern in developing countries. 62% of soils in Bangladesh are degraded and 43% in Cambodia, the world will run out of topsoil within 60 years. | •ATEC* produces, sells and distributes high quality rural household biodigesters that provide 500-1500L of biogas for cooking per day plus 20 tons of organic fertilizer for farming each year. ATEC's product is unique in that its patented design is the world's first that can be installed in challenging environments (flooding, earthquakes, cyclones etc.) which effect up to 90% of rural communities as well as being commercially scalable to be sold through existing retail channels. •We then cost share with the distributors promotional teams within the province who conduct village meetings and follow up with leads combined with targeted Facebook advertising. •Distributors install systems (ATEC certified and QA managed), then 90-day aftersales program is managed centrally by ATEC through CommCare CRM system. •ATEC also sells to NGOs and corporate partners who buy the technology and partially subsidise the cost to targeted households, typically low income in remote locations. •Since launching our market pilot phase in July 2016, 1,300 units have been sold which led to $1m Series A investment round August 2017. 99.5% of systems are operational (ATEC survey, 2018) with 98% customer satisfaction rate (SNV, 2018) •ATEC's vision is to expand to at least 5 countries and 1 million systems by 2030 to make a significant impact in the SDGs, see link below https://bit.ly/2yAq5gS | •World’s first patented plug-and-play biodigester that can be installed in any environment (https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2018102847A1/en?assignee=atec+australia-international&oq=atec+australia-international) •World’s first paygo for biogas (https://patents.google.com/patent/AU2019900645A0/en?assignee=atec+australia-international&oq=atec+australia-international) •Leveraging impact investment markets to support scale-up through equity and paygo through debt financing | - ATEC* is currently closing a US$1.8m equity impact investment round and will be raising US$5m in debt over the next 5 years for paygo which we can highlight as part of our blended finance approach to driving SDGs 1, 7 and 13 through market-based approaches. - ATEC* units last forr 25 years and ATEC* tracks impact on each. Below is the forecasted lifetime impact of the 1,300 units installed to date: •12.5 Billion litres of renewable biogas (66 KwH equivalent) •642 million kgs of organic fertilizer •97,800 tons of greenhouse gas reductions •7,000 tons of forest wood conserved •$17 million net income increase by families •32 million hours freed up from collecting and using wood, with highest impact being for women •Removal of Kitchen Air Pollution | - Close US$1.6m Series B equity round by Sept 2019 - Expand team in Cambodia to 100 staff by Dec 2019 - Achieve Cambodia break-even of 200 units/mth by end 2020 in Cambodia - Raise US$5million in debt for paygo by end of 2020 - Commence Bangladesh team by Jan 2020 - Move into 3 further markets by end of 2022 | - Securing of debt through impact and insitutional investors to underwrite instalment payments for small scale farmers - Secure production and distribution partners in 5 countries - work with private sector experts in supply chains, engineering and marketing | Website https://www.atecbio.com/en How a biodigester works video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPyRdD1FrVw ATEC 2030 vision strategy linked to the SDGs https://bit.ly/2yAq5gS Paygo announcement https://mailchi.mp/7b63fb84eddc/atec-to-launch-biogas-paygo-first-units-installed-in-bangladesh-launch-of-commcare Technical Specifications M4 unit https://ewb.box.com/s/sg8tpn28je6rcmamr9k9ocvme9bzs8nu How a biodigester works video ATEC M4 patent https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2018102847A1/en?assignee=atec+australia-international&oq=atec+australia-international ATEC paygo patent https://patents.google.com/patent/AU2019900645A0/en?assignee=atec+australia-international&oq=atec+australia-international | ATEC overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujNpkKXgiHE&t= Reuters News story on ATEC* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=safhYnjkIWg ATEC 2030 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjJgG7umGQ8&feature=youtu.be ATEC Impact Through Enterprise video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GttIbMZr8Ws&feature=youtu.be | DBS NUS Asian Social Enterprise Runner-Up 2018 DFAT Frontier Innovators Winner PFAN Impact Investment Global Seminar - Winner 2017 Top 100 Social Entrepreneurs of 2017 Sankalp Southeast Asia Social Enterprise of the Year 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
386 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kiran | Sethi | Design for Change | https://www.dfcworld.com/SITE/ | Founder / Director | Female | India | India | English | Design for Change (DFC) believes that children, if given the possibility, are natural innovators that can find cost-effective and direct solutions to the pressing challenges the world is faced with: environmental protection, cultural heritage preservation, bullying, etc. All of the problems that are tackled fall within one of the SDGs. That is also a reason that DFC has been considered by the UN as an essential step in reaching the SDGs. Kiran Sethi is the founder of Riverside school in Ahmedabad, India and the founder of Design for Change. In her own words: “When children are born they go from crawling to walking then talking … and then when they’re telling us I CAN we send them to school where we tell them now you have to listen to us …Through FIDS many children in different countries have understood that they don’t need permission to make the world a better place.” The driving idea is that a mindset for sustainability can be fostered in children using empathy and compassion. For the last 10 years DFC has been building this mindset through a simple four step framework using design thinking that has now been successfully used with 2 million children in 65 countries. Using this framework children have created an impact in their own communities, which have directly contributed towards progressing the Sustainable Development Goals.The The framework is accepted all over the world because of its flexibility and non-prescriptive nature. By becoming part of the UN Solutions Summit and presenting the idea to a variety of engaged stakeholders, we hope to continue spreading this I CAN Mindset to as many children as possible around the world - advancing the children’s impact towards the SDGs. | Design For Change (DFC): is a global movement that cultivates the ‘I Can’ mindset in every child. DFC was born out of the conviction that children are not helpless, the optimism that change is possible and the belief that they can drive it. It equips children with the tools to be aware of the world around them, believe that they play a role in shaping that world, and take action toward a more desirable, sustainable future. Children get an opportunity to be recognized not only for their academic achievements but also for being socially aware and proactive change agents. DFC offers a simple 4 step framework to help schools foster a learning environment using the 'both, and’ model – nurturing both Content and Character, Passion and Compassion, Doing Good and Doing Well- by Design and not by chance. Partners and children are enabled to explore various challenges in their local context and draw out solutions using the simple and easy to apply FIDS (FEEL-IMAGINE-DO-SHARE) framework. Using this framework, children are encouraged to ‘Feel’- any situation that bothers them, ‘Imagine’ - a way to make it better, ‘Do’- put into action the change and finally, ‘Share’- their story of change with the world to inspire others! FIDS helps to develop the much required 21st Century Skills in children, builds their social and emotional competencies and promotes employability skills. The most critical feature of Design For Change initiative is that it is not only simple and constructive, it is open-source, accessible, adaptable and replicable. | Design for Change | FIDS for KIDS | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Bhutan,Brazil,Chile,China,Colombia,France,Hong Kong,India,Israel,Macau,Peru,Portugal,Singapore,South Africa, Spain,Taiwan,USA,Uruguay,Mexico,Denmark,Japan,Lebanon,Phillipines, Qatar,Zimbabwe,Angola,Ireland,Malaysia,Netherland and 30 more countries | Yes | National Institute of Design, Institute of Design at Stanford, IDEO, Good Project, World's largest Lesson, Teach for All | Sustainable Scale | As the organization was getting started, a TED India talk by Kiran in 2009 helped put launch DFC into the global spotlight.However, most central to DFC’s success in scaling so quickly to global operation is the inherent flexibility of its program, focusing on creating a mindset rather than stuffing children’s minds with content. | Schools are providing outdated pedagogy that hinders the development of critical thinking, innovation and collaboration. The current approach to education is dogged by the 'either, or' model where schools focus on a content heavy, test-oriented methodology or towards a feel good social emotional program. This one size fits all approach measures success by academic outcomes rather than student wellbeing, and leaves to chance the core objective of creating Citizen Leaders with employable skills. | Design for Change uses design thinking at its core, to shape the belief in children that they are not helpless, that change is possible and they can drive it. Embedded in this framework are the skills that the global education community has identified as critical in order to thrive in today’s world. Design for Change is offering the world a magic formula! A simple four step framework to make every child graduate with the I CAN mindset – not by chance – by design!We call this magic formula - FIDS for KIDS!! FEEL – empathy – nurture the heart IMAGINE- ethics – grow the head DO – excellence – use the hands collaborative action and agency SHARE – elevation – inspire hope – I can , now you can too! Applying Design Thinking in Education has helped schools re-imagine their curriculum so that children can do Good and do Well and graduate with both passion and compassion. Design for Change’s vision and mission is to empower all children with the I CAN MINDSET today! To develop the skills and mindset that cultivate empathetic and collaborative leaders capable of scripting a desirable future. DFC believes in investing in the child’s voice NOW. By cultivating Empathy, Ethics, Excellence and Elevation or the 4Es through the simple design thinking framework of Feel Imagine Do Share (FIDS), DFC builds the 'I CAN' mindset in every child. | Giving responsibility to children to identify problems, choose optimum, viable solutions and implement solutions and then share with the wider community heightens children’s confidence, sense of ownership and a sense of accomplishment to further unleash their “I CAN” super-power. Project based learning is already existing in education but the focus within the current paradigm is on the content that children learn through these projects, not on the change in mindset towards more confidence, empathy and problem solving. DFC helps in also changing the mindset of adults to believe that ‘age has nothing to do with competency’. Children as young as 6 years of age are solving day to day problems they face as individuals, as a family or as a community. Teachers following the FIDS framework start believing that children are not helpless and that change is possible and children can drive it. The annual ‘BE THE CHANGE’ Conference by the children, of the children, and for the children, is a platform for showcasing the inspiring stories of change. It offers a simple yet constructive tool of FEEL, IMAGINE, DO and SHARE (FIDS FOR KIDS). This framework co-relates empathy with FEEL, ethics and engagement with IMAGINE, Excellence with DO and Elevation with SHARE. | Since its inception in 2009, the global movement DFC has empowered over 2.2 million students and over 67000 teachers, in over 60 countries to say “I Can.” Because it is a framework and not a prescriptive curriculum it has inspired and enabled schools around the world to adapt it and contextualize to their own setting with visible impact. DFC measures its success both qualitatively and quantitatively. Research conducted by The Good Work Project at Harvard, an institute DFC has been affiliated with for years, has reaffirmed the impact of the DFC curriculum on the development of skills such as collaboration, creative thinking and empathy, with positive impact on children’s academic scores as well. ( Harvard impact study: https://www.dfcworld.com/SITE/Research) Results of a pre and post assessment conducted by The Good Project at Harvard showed that the DFC curriculum “has been able to increase average student’s empathetic ability, as measured by choosing problems that affect others, describing multiple viewpoints, and keeping the stakeholder in the center of designed solutions. And finally, the clearest finding is that students improved in their ability to design interventions that keep the stakeholder in the center.” Research in progress with ASSET (Assessment of Scholastic Skills through Educational Testing), India, a skill-based assessment test, will help DFC determine the impact on academic scores of the participating students. | The I CAN Marketplace is currently being launched to globally scale the local impact of the children’s solutions. Over 10 years, Design for Change has received over 30,000 solutions by children from over 65 countries which have addressed 10 global goals. We have created an online platform which has the 100 of the boldest, most creative and easy to replicate solutions that can be taken to SCALE. This Marketplace is a unique opportunity for Industries, Corporates, Institutions, Schools, Municipalities and Governments to invest - not money - but their intent, bandwidth & capabilities to SCALE the solutions that the children have designed. As an extension of the DFC model and the Riverside school, Kiran and team have begun working on an interactive, customizable online-offline training & sharing space, for School Leaders and Teachers anywhere in the world. Platform called the – ‘I CAN School platform’ Via this platform the idea is to offer to the world a ‘I CAN approach’ to school education (pre-K to grade 12). I CAN Platform intends to address the NEED FOR quality and comprehensive school education in terms of the capacity building, methodology, school administration, strategies and practices. This is planned via providing a menu of options under each of the six building blocks of an 'I CAN School' Ecosystem as given in the video below! You tube link to the explainer video ‘I CAN School platform’ - https://youtu.be/LMNQj96hbZg Platform link- https://theicanschool.com/ | The most urgent short term needs are financial ones, which would enable us to fund the salaries of our employees (especially the international salaries) and to hire additional people in Madrid to work alongside DFC’s CEO. This would significantly assist our ongoing operations and international expansion. The medium-long term needs for us, as DFC Global, and our local partners in each country are access to the networks and relationships within education that have the potential to open up more schools, teachers and children to the FIDS methodology. Introductions to key government and private sector stakeholders in education (including policy makers) would allow more children to be exposed to this empathetic and empowering I CAN Mindset. Furthermore, to enable us to keep measuring our progress and impact and ensure our methodology and practices are up to date, additional research would be needed in the long term. This would require financial and scholar support to obtain the necessary researchers, tools and grants, and to conduct the studies themselves. | Website: https://www.dfcworld.com/SITE Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/icandfc A champion of learning through play- https://youtu.be/Tbe9LTOj-no 1 week Toolkits- https://www.dfcworld.com/file2015/oneweek_challenge_toolkit.pdf 1 month Toolkit- https://www.dfcworld.com/file2015/DFC_one_month_curriculum.pdf Global partner Toolkits- https://www.dfcworld.com/SITE/toolkits Social media Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/icandfc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/icandfc?s=08 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dfcworld/ Video links of Stories of Change from DFC global Stories of change from different countries - Video Links 1. CANteen for All (Chile): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS1qnVcHpkA&list=PLOS7LSVwOyfKRlkAjEm27d0mrSuwQVFUv&index=12 2. Let Me Feel your Face (Taiwan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qfv9RNxMFEk 3. Resolving Conflicts (Brazil): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSlgThhzGEQ 4. Bamboozled (Bhutan): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH_Ff_iTfcc&index=16&list=PLOS7LSVwOyfKRlkAjEm27d0mrSuwQVFUv 5. Together we can make change possible (Spain): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV_43CF5pOY 6. Response-ability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-wGyQrnEro | Global Teacher Prize Top 10 finalist- https://youtu.be/HkOlfkXXtXk Ted Talk by Kiran Bir Sethi- https://youtu.be/7Y2sj_G4Njg Lego interview - Kiran Bir Sethi- https://youtu.be/BVpFwRwvbMc Ashoka Interview- https://youtu.be/mva3sqoVQVY Global Leadership award- https://youtu.be/UpQk-_Qye7U | Winner of Lexus Design Award 2019, in Pune in January, 2019 Awarded the Times Power Women 2018 Award for Education Reform by Ahmedabad Times in May, 2018 Awarded the Light of Freedom Award, at the Global Leadership Awards by Vital Voices,U.S.A. in April, 2018 Awarded the Qimpro Award 2017 for Excellence in Education, in November, 2017 In October, 2017, Design for Change (D.F.C.) has been recognised as one of the 100 most innovative educational programmes in the world by HundRED.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
387 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Altho | Njovu | Kilimo For Life (Farming For Life) | http://www.kilimoforlife.com/ | C.E.O and Co-Founder | Male | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | I am motivated by finding a way to solve and overcome challenges facing my community, as it gives me a sense of personal satisfaction and accomplishment that I can look back and say “I have achieved to make a better living for someone with the little I had”. I am also motivated by feeling that my country’s development starts with my personal development. For example: After volunteering at University Horticultural garden from 2016-2018, it gave me a chance to meet with number of farmers from nearest village who came to seek for technical advice from the unit, that made me think of solution to their problem, until at the end of 2018, I found Kilimo For Life agro-company that aimed at educating and equipping Tanzanian and African farmers on modern farming skills, through this company I have been able to impact over 700 farmers in Tanzania. My innovation for this company has currently impacted only 8 regions out of 26 regions present in Tanzania but my team and I are looking forward on implementing our technological solution through Smartphone Application that shall be able to solve number of farming challenges fast and efficient and most important reach all 26 regions in Tanzania as well as serve other African countries. You can also view this short documentary on what I have been doing “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaPJolBCgFc” | Altho NJOVU is an Agricultural specialist, C.E.O AND Co-Founder of Kilimo For Life agro-company (Farming For Life) with a two of successful experience in educating, mentoring and transforming small scale farmers and new farmer to market oriented farming. Altho specializes in Agricultural technologies and regularly reaches and conducts seminars in different farmers’ villages in Tanzania as well as to observe and learn ground level farmers’ challenges, such as field challenges (pests and diseases), agronomic practices, and marketing challenges that his farmers face, because of that he has accumulated a lot of experience on farmers’ problems and has been visionary towards proposing and implementing solution for these challenges. He has worked with ETG Export and GS Agro as Sales Agronomist for two years. He is strong believer in the power of positive thinking and flexibility in the workplace, Altho regularly develops and propose innovativative ways towards success of his team toward serving their Tanzanian and African communities. He believes African development is responsibility for every African starting from their personal development and attitudes towards success. Altho enjoys watching TEDX Talks, reading books and watching movies but can also be found playing football | HELPING TO SOLVE FARMING CHALLENGES FOR FARMERS TO BE ABLE TO FEED THE FUTURE, FIGHT POVERTY AND AGAINST AIDS. | ""Picture African Agriculture, Picture Wealth"" | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | As for now our team serves only Tanzania due to shortage of resources as we are looking for investor, we are intending to Serve more than 5 African countries. | Yes | Actually I have a team who are Mr. Abas Mpinga, Ms. Irene Meta, Mr. David Yombayomba, Mr. Tumaini John and Mr. Pius Mgaya but also we are looking forward to work with USAID as I have scheduled an appointment with their office. | Proof of Concept | Because,We did IDEATION by spoting the PROBLEM. After forming team,we proposed solution of having agro-company for solving these problems, which led us to Research&Development for validation,working in rural communities gave us time to Sympathize farmers.Our interaction with farmers and learning from them as validating the proposed solutions.May 2019,we started redocumenting a proposal.Hence now at Proof of Concept Phase we're doing prototype test while looking for investor for this project. | 1.Tanzanian small scale farmers lack reliable educational farming information and lack timely inputs supply. 2.The agricultural extension officer to farmers served ration in Tanzania is 1 extension officer:1000 farmers 3.Farmers have few market options due to lack of market information from different places prices which gives a chance for Crop Auctioneers to benefit more than farmers. 4.Plenty of office people in urban have enough capital for farming but they lack time to do so. | Our solution work as follows: 1.Launching of our Smartphone Application that shall be able to provide: weather data, articles on modern farming of different crops,linking a producer with market buyer or final user, use Artificial Intelligence(A.I) to detect and propose solutions for solving pest and disease problems. 2.Establishing website where office people with capital can fund non-capitated farmer, the investor invests his capital which shall enable to provide a non-capitated farmer with all the inputs the crop requires and mentoring his production which after selling the harvest, investor gets his initial investment +35%, farmer gets 50% and the company is left with 15% of the profit for project sustainability. 3.Establishment of Agricultural Demonstration Center, we have requested the government to offer 20Acres where different farming activitieswill be done in modern way where youth&women groups can use this center as learning unit by seeing,doing and information seeking. 4.Establishment of School farming clubs, currently we are running 4 farming clubs for secondary school students where they are introduced on opportunities present in agribusiness industry at younger age and learn by doing urban farming skills such as farming of vegetables on jute bags,we believe by targeting these younger groups we are creating highly skilled and experienced future farmers through employing themselves through the skills they acquired. | The uniqueness of our solution is brought by the followings: 1.Our solution has involved with young people especially secondary school. 2.Our solution has aimed at joining power with our government efforts to boost agriculture sector, our application shall also have special forum for governmental extension officers all over Tanzania to interact and exchange experience (its need is valid). 3. Our solution involves running a huge Demonstration center 4.Our solution shall link farmer with profitable market directly by excluding crops auctioneers. 5.Our solution has focused more satisfaction of small scale farmers 6.Our solution has aimed at serving whole Africa but starting from Tanzania. New methodologies are: 1.Running secondary schools farming clubs. 2.Running Farming demonstration center 3.Conducting seminars in villages to spread the word of our Application and capitals they can acquire from us. 4.Since number of farmers have no smartphones, we intend to partner with network companies where farmers shall be given phones incorporated with our Farming Application in it and the loan shall be paid after selling her crop at reasonable price through our guidance. 5.Requesting to number of interviews as possible because we believe people tend to forget, so the key is the frequency they hear about the solution (product) | Since 2018, my team and I have been serving these farmers of different villages and over 700farmers have benefited from us while reshaping the operation and business model towards providing quality agricultural services for solving these farmers’ challenges. May 2019, we were done with customer studying phase (sympathizing), as for now we are doing our business proposal (aimed at sustain the project) and community service proposal (aimed at empowering government effort to this sector where by Agricultural Extension officer and students shall freely benefit from our services) documentation, furthermore, I have been reaching different offices and Hubs to seek for mentorship as well as ways to get an investor. Lack enough I have been granted an appointment at USAID Offices in Dar es salaam, Tanzania under Feed the Future Program. Since we started we agreed to to use 1) Number of beneficiaries of our services 2) Feedbacks from our customers’ satisfaction 3) change in production scale for our farmers registered 4) Number of Investors registered in our company 5) Number of Partnership we get. We agreed these to be as our key metrics for evaluation of our impacting, the first three metrics have been so far used, but since we launched our services for research purposes hence we didn’t charge beneficiaries and we have not yet gotten investor so 4 and 5 have not been implemented yet. When we started in 2018, we were serving less that 20 farmers but now we have reached over 700 farmers. | As our team always think globally, our goals have aimed to become able to make good farming and business environment for every small scale farmer in Africa starting from home (Tanzania) then expand into other nearest countries around East Africa while performing need assessment in other countries as well. Our team believes in flexibility as well, our milestone for our solution also included to incubate innovative youth’s in solving African challenges as well as recruiting agricultural graduates as internship to facilitate them to gain experience because as for now most of them fail to get job because jobs require at least 2-3years experience so through our program they shall be able to engage themselves in our production activities, trainings and seminars during their holidays so as when they graduate they have been accumulated enough skills especially those not taught in school like Business skills, Selling skills etc. As for now our team has Agricultural experts, Business and marketing experts and IT Experts which makes us strong so far but as project will expand we shall need more talented, innovative and passionate people in these sections. We shall also need some experts in Proposal and Grants writing. We believe after getting fund and operate smoothly, over 20,000 farmers will be benefiting from our services in Tanzania by 2024. | In order for the project to scale and have considerable impact, the following resources are highly needed: 1.OFFICE, as it was stated before that we have been using our own funds in impacting these communities we couldn’t afford to pay for office rent, if we could have an office it could have helped us to be more formal and official even to our beneficiaries, as for now they just have to make a call for meeting anywhere appropriate. 2.GREAT MENTOR, most of innovative companies has made it because of having great mentors since they have been in the industry long enough to have accumulate experiences and challenges, we believe having a great mentor is one of the crucial asset we need for us to succeed. 3.SKILLS, as It was mentioned above that our team have Agricultural experts, Business and Marketing experts and IT experts, I believe, the project still lacks some of important skills including Project Management in which I wanted to engage in a training but it was too costful for me ($500/week), Proposal and Grant Writing (Currently I have hired and paid $450 for documentation of Project Proposal from Non Team member). 4.FUND, So far we have been using our own fund to get things moving which has made us to be able to fail implementing certain services like Smartphone Application development. 5.AGRICULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE, In the Demonstration Farm we shall need machines like Tractor and tools like High Tunnel etc By acquring these we belive we shall be able to impact more. | ""http://www.kilimoforlife.com/2019/06/hasara-ya-matunda-mengi-kwenye-kila.html"" ""https://web.facebook.com/altho.njovu/posts/2037129173059306?comment_id=2041906789248211¬if_id=1562249947004162¬if_t=feed_comment"" ""https://helptohelp.se/students/altho"" ""https://www.ja.se/artikel/56149/ny-svensk-modell-for-utbildning-av-lantbrukare-i-tanzania.html"" ""https://www.instagram.com/p/BvdbuxiFeWn/"" ""https://www.instagram.com/kilimo_for_life/"" | ""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaPJolBCgFc"" ""https://vimeo.com/manage/351748748/general"" ""https://vimeo.com/manage/351749423/general"" | So far it is until this year that we have been able to up apply for number of oppoertunities, innovations and awards for this project as well as to seek visibility. We believe by the end of the year we shall be short listed and won in different start ups awards especially those impacting peojects including to attain SDGs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
388 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Veerendra | Raju | Quahog Life Sciences Pvt. Ltd. | http://www.quahoglife.com/ | Founder/CEO | Male | India | India | English | The idea of starting Quahog Life Sciences is to be able to prevent cases of death which occur due to missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis. These deaths that happen due to lack of information or decision assistance can be solved by monitoring/ tracking health parameters and be able to analyze to provide assistance to health care decision makers like doctors and care managers. To make this possible, we are developing a holistic semi-supervised AI platform , which can predict scenarios helping in averting cases that arise from accumulation. We believe that such a platform can help patients in developing countries where cases of death is primarily because of resource unavailability (shortage of doctors) or in cases where data is stored in isolation and care givers have no access to insights. The motivation behind participating in the UN Solution Summit is to explore opportunities or partnerships that have similar goals. Since we are looking for seed funds to finish the development of the platform, we thought we might find relevant people through the event, who have similar goals | 13 years of entrepreneurial experience building and servicing technology products in business domain. Veerendra is also the founder of Plumb5, an AI based marketing automation platform, which today has more than 100 customers, including both Enterprise and Medium sized customers, with a cumulative revenue of $3M over 8 years. Plumb5 customer base includes Walmart (India and South Africa), Aegon Global, Kotak Insurance, Unilever SouthAfrica, Tyme Bank SouthAfrica, and Godrej Group among its marquee customers Prior to starting up Plumb5, he founded Growthbox and Iris Interactive, developing solutions for clients such as Microsoft, Cognizant, Allergan, ITC Infotech, Manipal Group, Ipsen USA and others Veerendra has developed 3 unique relational networks for Business, Medical and Robotic Application, which are designed for real-time machine learning. He has a patent(pending) in real-time scoring of customer behavior for state based automation. | Quahog Health DS | Predict to Prevent Diseases | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | We intend to implement this in India | No | Research & Development | We qualify ourselves under Research and Development as the Knowledge graph and data connectors are still under development. The knowledge graph which requires an integration of 12 different biomedical databases, is ready with 5 and 7 more databases are still under progress. For data connectors, we are working with a medical device manufacturer to collect blood analysis data into the platform | The problem we are trying to solve is death due to missed diagnosis and lack of doctor’s attention. There are several cases of death or disability due to missed diagnosis or due to poor patient doctor ratio. The solution provides patients with mobile app which tracks multiple parameters from various sources to be able to predict and prevent scenarios at an early stage. The patient's health can be monitored by doctors remotely and can recommend strategies to prevent them | The solution is an AI based prediction platform that connects to multiple data sources for unique health parameters to gather data periodically or in real-time to assess changes in health parameters of an individual. The platform provides the user with an app to record health data either by explicitly entering into it or through collecting data directly from IoT devices or through other digitization techniques. The advantage of the system is that it can learn with every new unique pattern and with time, possess the knowledge of multiple specialties, learnt from doctor interactions. Such a system can be in a position to recommend right strategies. Not only does this prevent misdiagnosis but also be of help to patients living in remote areas with least access to doctors (like Tanzania) to quickly respond with high level strategies or quickly connect to the doctor network | The solution is unique in its approach to deliver highly accurate insights. The solution uses a hybrid AI solution, which uses two main modules An Expert System, which integrates 12 biomedical database into one explicitly declared graph. The advantage of the graph allows in immediately identifying the signalling pathway when a particular symptom or a variance in compound concentration (test report) is detected. The solution uses the expert system to match and analyze deviations. A streaming ML Pipeline - The other feature of the solution is the patient memory. The patient memory is created for every individual patient which analyzes data values received and stores them as states in the memory. These memory has all the key information of the patient past history. Whenever new data is collected, the new data is matched with the expert system for deviation and the deviation information(diagnosis) is updated to the patient memory for the prediction and prescription modules | Patient Data Integration Layer (Module Complete) Expert System (45% of the Module Complete) Patient Analysis Modules String Generator (20% of the Module Complete) Diagnosis Module (45% of the Module Complete) Prediction Algorithm (Spatial) (90% of the Module Complete) Prediction Algorithm (Temporal) (50% of the Module Complete) Attribution Model (90% of the Module Complete) Prescription (Recommendation Module) (80% of the Module Complete) Data Connectors (25% of the Module Complete) | Product Goals Product Version 1.0 - September 2019 Product Version 2.o March 2020 Product Version 2.1 July 2020 Product Version 3.0 Dec 2020 Business Goals 100 Users in India by March 2020 1000 Users in India and 100 users in 2 African nations by Sep 2020 5000 Users in India and 1000 users in 2 African by Mar 2021 0/1500 characters | Resources that is needed to make an impact would involve Short term - integrating with more data collection devices and strengthen dev team Medium term - funds to build awareness Longer term - funds to market in different geographies | http://www.quahoglife.com/ https://medium.com/@quahoglife/unified-medical-data-platform-for-highly-accurate-diagnosis-predictions-and-prescriptions-bfef3e601f8d | We have no video/audio recordings as yet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
389 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | DENNIS | ALVAREZ | IC MOTORING TECHNOLOGY, INC. | ICGREEN.PH | CEO | MALE | United States of America | Philippines | English | To present the IC GREEN TECHNOLOGY for acceptance by the community of nations to combat global warming caused by unwanted accummulazation of carbon dioxides in the atmoshpere thus principally inducing heat in the atmosphere... | Dennis Alvarez, a Certified Public Accounontant in the Philippines and a company audutor has fallen interest to one of his client product, the engine oil. Keen on improving lubricants so as to control smoke emission prevalent in the Philippines, he put time and effort to formulate what is now the IC Green. He is from Baknono, Bayambang, Pangasinan and a product of government schools, the last at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila where he was honed on his inquisitive attitude to search for the best applications for whatever comes in his way. He is a government scholar.e He is an active member of the member of the FILIPINO INVENTOR SOCIETY | IC Green Technolgy | Save Fuel, Save Engine, Save the Earth | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Philippines, US | No | Sustainable Scale | The IC Green Technology was verified to have been able to suppress/remove/cut carbon emission as this lubricant has made engines operate at a low-friction enine, increasing its combustion and leaving no unburned fuel, thus without resulting to carbon and this DIRECTLY RESPOND TO GLOBAL WARMING, there is way to zero out / control presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. THUS, to say it must reach all at this time, then IT MUST. TIME IS RUNNING OUT. LET US REDUCE HEAT IN OUT MIDST. | Global warming - IC Green Technology has been able to suppress carbon emission from the very source/process it is coming from, the internal combustion. Depleting Fossil Fuel - With sustained use of fossil fuel, a well-maintained engine, with low-friction lubricant, ie., IC Green, will provide additional power increasing mileage on its capacity Save Engine - with low-friction whereby metal-to-metal slidings inside the engines, it zero outs wear and tear as can be | A motorist has only to appy the solution by mixing it at a warm engine by at least 10 minutes as this works well on heated engine. The formulator wishes that it is encouraged to all motorist world over as they the prime contributor of carbon dioxides across the globe and all other users of IC-RUN ENGINES | This technology which principal components comes from renewal source addresses the problem where it emanates, the internal combustion engines. with low-friction-enhancing lubricant, engines of whatever make, can be applied with the formulation and what has been observed in all testings, the carbon-emissions in even dilapidated trucks, sedans, SUVs, jeepneys WERE ALL ELIMINATED. | THE IC GREEN TECHNOLOGY has been recognized in many INVENTOR'S EVENTS. Users have passed emission tests... It must now be applied to all. THIS IS OUR RESPONSE TO GRETA THUNBERG'S CRY IN THE UNITED NATION PLENARY. | IC GREEN WAS PRESENTED TO CERITOS, CA, USA. It is being marketed there. But what is more necessary is for Governents to implement project/system that applies this TECHNOLOGY TO ARREST CARBON EMISSIONS in all nations.... Fossil Fuels are still tobe utilized but there must be this SOLUTION. It now lengthens the life of the fuel, oil businesses shall be retained. | TO CREATE IMPACT, we can have government to implement program, even a pilot program , in order to benchmark a CITY. Once a template of success has been observed, then a widescale implementation can be organized. To the formulator, the concern of Greta Thunberg on her generation and the next STANDS AS THE PRIORITY over other considerations. Remember, he too has his generations to secure... | ICGREENAMERICA.COM ICGREEN.PH.COM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UEspfcUGYY(ACTUAL TEST - ZERO OUT CARBON EMISSION) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI257Vw4Lkc (INTERVIEW)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxilbX25ATo&t=86s (LTO EMISSION TEST) )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMXn7pyTEU4 (IC GREEN EXPLAINED) | Inventor Dennis C. Alvarez / IC Green Technology 2014 INPEX GOLD AWARDEE, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2015 IENA, Nuremberg, West Germany - Bronze Medalist 2017 ICAN, Toronto, Canada - Silver Medalist 2011-2013 Hall of Fame, Filipino Inventor Society | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
390 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Muhammad | Imran | Qatar Computing Research Institute | https://mimran.me | Scientist | Male | Qatar | Pakistan | English | Disasters and emergencies often bring unanticipated situations for the members of public and formal response organizations. During such times, access to rapidly changing information plays an important role to understand the situation as it unfolds. However, information scarcity, especially in the early hours, hinders this task and ultimately delays response operations. Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are gaining the attention of both formal response organizations and affected individuals. People use social media to share a variety of information online including requests for help, and other urgent needs such as food, water, and shelter. This online information can be useful for humanitarian organizations if processed timely. We have developed Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Response (AIDR) technology to aid disaster response and management. AIDR uses machine learning techniques to automatically process textual messages (e.g., tweets) and images into humanitarian categories such as reports of needs, injured or dead people. The platforms work in real-time to collect and analyze data on social media to help humanitarian organizations gain situational awareness and extract actionable information. AIDR has been deployed during many disasters and emergencies for humanitarian aid. | Dr. Muhammad Imran is a Research Scientist and the lead of the Crisis Computing team at the Qatar Computing Research Institute of the Hamad Bin Khalifa University. His interdisciplinary research focuses on natural language processing, text mining, applied machine learning, and stream processing areas. He analyzes social media communications during time-critical situations using big data analysis techniques such as data mining, machine learning, and deep neural networks. Dr. Imran has co-authored 13 journal articles, 4 book chapters, and more than 50 conference and workshop papers in top-tier venues including ACL, SIGIR, IJHCI, ICWSM, WWW, ASONAM, and ACM HT. Three of his papers received the “Best Paper Award” and two “Best Paper Runner-up Award”. His work has been featured in several international media including The Wall Street Journal, Nature, New Scientist, BBC News, WIRED magazine, Forbes and also many regional media including Gulf News, Gulf Times, and The Peninsula. Dr. Imran has delivered several keynotes and invited talks at international conferences and organizations. Dr. Imran has served as an editor of four special issues in international journals and program committee of several prestige conferences. Furthermore, he established and led several important collaborations with regional and global stakeholders such as UN OCHA, UNICEF, and Education Above All. Dr. Imran has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at QCRI (2013-2015). He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Trento in 2013. | Artificial Intelligence for Digital Response | Extracting timely and useful information from social media for crisis response and management. | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Qatar, Nepal, USA, Chile, Italy | No | Scaling | The social media world is very agile. Topics change rapidly and continuously. During an ongoing disaster situation, urgent needs of affected people change overtime e.g., depending on the phase of the disaster. To cope with the drifts of concepts in online social media streams, AIDR combines machine learning and human computation together to build computational models which get updated with the help of active learning techniques as more human supervision become available. | The information available on social media is timely and potentially useful, however, making a sense of it is challenging. E.g., time-critical analysis of social media streams requires processing millions of messages arriving at high-velocity, real-time parsing of brief and informal content, handling information overload, determining information credibility, and prioritizing useful information. AIDR collects and classifies social media data in real-time to find useful and actionable information. | AIDR employes state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to process textual and imagery content on social media. The system uses active learning to smartly and efficiently use human supervision to get machine learning models updated. AIDR can handle several disasters and emergency events in parallel to have a high global impact. | AIDR is specifically designed to scale up the abilities of human workers by intelligently removing noise from the data e.g., in the form of duplicate and irrelevant messages. AIDR allows its users to define and customize classifiers. For instance, many humanitarian organizations are interested in learning about injured or dead people, infrastructure damage, urgent needs of affected people in terms of food, water, shelter, utilities, money, etc. Depending on information needs, the user defines categories in AIDR. AIDR also processes images posted on social media during disasters. One of the core tasks, among others, that we are working on is automatic damage assessment from images. Disaster damage severity detection is an important situational awareness task through which humanitarian organizations estimate the scale of the disaster and accordingly plan response and reconstruction efforts. Critical infrastructure that is severely damaged gets high priority while repair or reconstruction. | AIDR is being improved by fixing bugs, improving the efficiency and scalability of existing modules and also implementing new features. Given the fact that AIDR has a large userbase on the web, ADIR is being used and tested to its limits. A team of dedicated scientists and software engineers specifically focus on the development of AIDR. | We are working on several new directions to extend the AIDR system. I'd like to specifically mention three here. The first and most important one is the real-time mapping of social media posts. We are working on developing real-time maps capable to carry millions of data points to offer humanitarian organizations the ability to visualize what is happening and where through an interactive map dashboard. The second one targets on extracting critical entities from social media data. Those entities include people, locations, and organizations that are being mentioned in the data. This will help crisis managers to determine what, where, when, and who. The third work focuses on the development of an interactive dashboard to visualize social media images in real-time. | Short-term: more labeled data to train machine learning classifiers; software engineers Medium-term: software engineer, better infrastructure (GPUs) Long-terms: Distributed highly scalable infrastructure | AIDR link: http://aidr.qcri.org/ Crisis Computing team blog: https://crisiscomputing.qcri.org/ Lead website: https://mimran.me/ 2015 Nepal earthquake deployment featured in Foreign Affairs: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/nepal/2015-06-01/virtual-aid-nepal New Scientist features our work with UNICEF: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2083044-ai-helps-answer-thousands-of-health-queries-in-zambia-via-sms/ Publications: https://crisiscomputing.qcri.org/publications/ | Some of my presentations: https://www.slideshare.net/mimran15/presentations | - Grand Prize Winner at the Open Source Software World Challenge 2015 - Winner of the WISH Innovation Competition (2016): AIDR-SMS technology wins the innovation competition organized by the World Innovation Summit for Health 2016. - Awarded on the World Intellectual Property Day award: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce Qatar and Qatar University (2017) awarded our AIDR technology for its impactful utilization for improving lives during disasters. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
391 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chinelo | Njekwu | Hetaved skills academy / Lily Hospitals Limited | https://balancedlivingacademy.blogspot.com | Pharmacologist / quality improvement officer | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | There is a heavy burden in my heart to change the world. Hunger, poverty, gender inequality, combat climate change, has taken over the world of man. The theme of my project for the SDG is ""SDG for 2030 agenda - It is possible"". Hence, I want to preach the gospel of ""It is possible "" to all human race. Every body should be carried along, nobody should be left behind.. Together we can make vision 2030 possible with the 17 goals as our mission. Hetaved skills academy has created a platform for innovation and positive global impact in Nigeria. | I Njekwu Chinelo, a Nigerian, from south east in Ekwusigo local government Area Of Anambra state. Born into a family of seven (7) children, a Pharmacologist / quality improvement officer, currently working with Lily hospitals limited (I. S. O and COHSASA certified) a singer/song writer. A graduate of pharmacology and therapeutics, department of pharmacology and therapeutics, faculty of basic medical sciences of Delta State University Abraka Delta State Nigeria with dispatch number NYSC/BA/DSU/180551. | SDG for 2030 agenda - It is possible | SDG for 2030 agenda - It is possible describes the 17 goals with emphasis on poverty, hunger, gender inequality and combat climate change | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | This project is currently in Nigeria and I intend to implement this project all over the world | No | Sustainable Scale | I think this project has a strong and powerful message it's communicating to the world. | This project describes the seventeen (17) goals but made emphasis on #goal1, #goal3, #goal5, #goal13. | The solution to my project works by continuously singing the song at every SDG programs and conference The long term vision for global impact is in line with the vision of the SDG 2030. | Similar projects has been executed in the past but my project and it's approach has never been seen or heard with the unique message it's conveying to the world. The new perspective / methodology is ""IT IS POSSIBLE "" | Hetaved skills academy has ensured that this project gets to the national level in my country (Abuja, Nigeria). The progress of this project has gone above 50%) | Developing countries in Africa such as Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon etc. I would like this project to expand into international markets in America, United Kingdom, Dubai, and Asia. I would recruit 5,000 staffs across the world and their lives will be greatly Impacted positively. | 1. International platform to present my project (song) 2. Relief materials 3. Donations/ financial aid 4. Partnership 5. Sponsors | https://vimeo.com/349495109 | https://vimeo.com/349495109 | Lily hospitals Limited - Best Private health care excellent award in Nigeria - July 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
392 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Papa ngoumba | Sene | LAIMRI sarl | www.laboratoiredemetrologie.com | Manager General | Masculin | Senegal | Senegal | French | Le projet que nous soumettons permettra à la population ouest africaine de prendre conscience de l'importance de surveiller la pollution de tout type que ce soit. Ils comprendront que l'on peut surveiller la pollution et la degradation de l'environnement par des moyens simples et efficaces et faire des propositions pour l'amelioration de la production des entreprises ouest africaines vers une production responsable et durable | Master1 en telecommunication, prix talents du monde de l'UEMOA, membre de lead africa (cohort 17). Ambassadeur volontaire des albinos du senegal | Laboratoire International de Metrologie et Regulation Industrielle | Accompagner, conseiller, pour une production durable en afrique | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Sénégal | Yes | Les entreprises ouest africaines, les gouverment et ong qui sont en afrique de l'ouest | Transition to Scale | Parce que nous mettons à la disposition des entreprises ouest africaine des solutions qui leur permettent d'evaluer leur impact environnemental dans le domaine de la production pour prendre des mesures plus durables, ainsi que les populations et les institutions publiques à surveiller, corriger et prendre des mesures dans le domaine environnemental, marine et au niveau des produits vendus à la population | Notre solution permet de prendre en charge les pollutions de l'air, de l'environnement. La qualite des appareils utilises dans la productions des industrie extractive et miniere et propose des mettons et appareils durables pour mieux conserver l'ecosysteme et l'environnemznt où ils evoluent. | Notre systeme fonction par une analyse des outils deja existante pour leur correction, amelioration ou changement pour le respect des normes environnementales mondiales. Proposes des appareils adaptes à la productions durables des entreprises ouest africaine et veille par les biais d'appareils adapter au respect de l'ecosysteme miniere, aquatique et forrestier. | Le systeme est different des autres en ce sens qu'elle se veut inclusif et participatif met en avant l'interet des population en accord avec les entreprises et industries qui sont installées dans l'environnement immediat des populations. Notre systeme aussi est adapter aux realites ouest africaine et prend en compte la preoccupation communes des antagonistes pour les amener à se l'approprier dans le but d'une production, consommation, exploitation forrestiere et aquatique durable. | Notre equipe a bien progresser dans la conscientisation des entreprises privés ectravtives et minieres car nous avons comme partenaire 70 % de ces entreprises ouest africaines. Les produits consommes sont aussi plus surveilles et les entreprises petro-chimiques qui sont nos clients sont de pluus en plus respectueuses de la verification periodique de leur appareils de production et de toute leur chaine de production. Notre rigueur methodologique nous a poussé à etre plus organiser et credible pour amener les potentiels partenaires à adherer à notre projet | Nous sommes dejà present au senegal où se trouve le siege du projet, nous avons aussi un bureau au mali et en guinné conakry, burkina et au niger, nous envisageons d'etre plus present dans ces pays et ouvrir d'autres bireau au benin, congo brazza, cote d'ivoire et nous nous preparons à avoir les certification iso 9001 et 14000, nous envisageons aussi de recruter des agents terrains qui seront charges de faire la collect des données de mesures pour meilleurs exploitations des resultats à temps réel. Par nos actions nous projetons à reduire considerablement la mauvaise qualité des appareils de production ainsi que l'utilisation abusive des ressources miniere et allieutique dans la sous region ouest africaine. | Nos besoins sont l'accompagnement à lobtention des differents certification iso 9000 et 14000, l'amelioration du laboratoire de metrologie avec les appareils et logiciels. L'equipement d'appareils mobile pour effectuer des mesures sur le terrain et la formation des agents dans les domaines specifiques comme la pollution des eaux marines et l'evaluation des la faunes et flore sous marines. | http://laboratoiredemetrologie.com/, http://www.rfqm2019.com/speakers/papa-ngoumba-sene-dg-laimri/, https://www.linkedin.com/posts/papa-ngoumba-sene-2aa21b22_visite-technique-pour-verification-dun-si-activity-6538706106733199360-iDod | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/papa-ngoumba-sene-2aa21b22_visite-technique-pour-verification-dun-si-activity-6538706106733199360-iDod | Finaliste sems en 2014 à dakar, premier prix talents du monde organiser par l'UEMOA 2013, seclection pour impact lab au maroc du 26 au 01 septembre 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
393 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alex | Shkor | DEIP.world Inc | https://deip.world/ | CEO | Male | Belarus | Belarus | English | Russian | Science is a major source of innovation. Any breakthrough, either it’s in healthcare, or AI, has to have a scientific foundation. And science is the foundation to drive innovation and to support Sustainable Development Goals. With DEIP we want to support the most prominent ideas and Our motivation for applying to be a part of UN Solution Summit is the belief that we all have the common goal and we are able to help each other on the way to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all and UN Solution Summit is the best place to exchange the ideas and get a professional feedback. | Previously I was a CTO in IT-service company for 6 years and had an R&D department there. About 2 years ago we reached 100 employees and we were doing very well when I decided to leave. I wanted to do something impactful and always was thinking where I could apply my knowledge and expertise for the most impact. That is actually how we with the team of like-minded people came up with the idea to help innovators, scientists to be recognized - it is from the one side, from the other side - how we could help grant-givers to identify the most prominent ideas, which could bring scientific breakthrough and support them on early stage. Almost 2 years ago with my partners, we have founded DEIP. – a tech entrepreneur with 9-year experience in distributed systems architecture design; – 6 years was CTO of Paralect (IT Service Company, 100+ employees) – exit; – developed scorum.com (top-20 most usable blockchains) – exit. Member of Blockchain for science (Berlin), was invited as a speaker or lecturer to 10+ international conferences and universities, among them ETH Zurich, Global Graphene Development Conference, Vienna Cryptoeconomics to present DEIP crypto economy and mathematical model, and to share his expertise with blockchain research groups. the author of articles about the distributed system, especially CQRS and Event Sourcing. His articles about these concepts are already for 6 years are most popular in Russian speaking segment of the internet. https://habr.com/ru/post/146429/ https://habr.com/ru/post/149464/ | DEIP | Blockchain Technologies for Accelerating Innovation | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Belarus, Norway, Germany, Canada, USA, Estonian. | Yes | Marie Curia Alumni Association, Blockchain for Science, Open Science MOOC, Belarusian State University Blockchain for Social Impact, | Transition to Scale | Operating a global public DEIP Testnet, with participants from 12 countries under “load & stress” for six months. Running a number of pilot projects. Among them: pilot for Eurodoc, an international federation of 29 national associations of researchers. Designing a pilot for Mary Curie Alumni Association. | 1)The problem of access to the results of existing scientific research. 2)The problem of evaluating the quality of research. 3) The problem of financing science (large operational costs) | DEIP is a Blockchain Solutions for Accelerating Innovation. On DEIP researchers can conduct research projects, fundraise for it, get incentivized expert reviews, disseminate results, and be rewarded for their contribution to the science. With DEIP we are creating a decentralized research platform for and governed by researchers. Our mission is to help organizations, governments, and the whole society to unlock as much as possible of innovation potential from the available capabilities. Through utilizing the most advanced technologies we provide a digital ecosystem to identify the most prominent ideas and individuals, allocate and distribute resources to support them to achieve the most impactful results. Our long term vision for Global Impact: we believe that open access to scientific knowledge can foster scientific breakthrough and help to achieve most of the Sustainable Development Goals. DEIP open innovation platform is designed to provide the sustainable finance model for Open Science, help young researchers and scientists to get a financial and reputational reward for their contribution to science. | Through our unique technology, we create a digital ecosystem to 1) identify the most prominent ideas and individuals 2) allocate and distribute resources to support them 3) to achieve the most impactful results We propose the unique possibility to both unite all science organization under the common platform achieving interoperability and also introduce a comprehensive to measure the efficiency of investment into R&D. This has been achieved by the blockchain platform with modular architecture. It allows to customize a solution for each agency, agent-based simulation framework - allows to invent new economic model and grants distribution model and verify them very fast. No direct competitors. Indirect competitors are solutions for optimizing certain parts of the research funding or publishing process. DEIP differs from them by offering: -a full suite of business solutions -a larger degree of automation -cheaper transactions -better scalability -better security -more transparency | 1. Technology is ready and deployed. 2. NDA Smart Contracts are ready 3. IP tokenization functionality is ready 4. Open Innovation Platform integration is ready 5. Desktop App is ready Our technology is the DEIP blockchain: – Developed specifically for DEIP – it allows not to depend on any infrastructure providers and save maintenance costs; – Free transactions (4 000+ per second); – Enables transparency and reliability for each organization unit; – Smart-contract system for automation of all kinds of processes. Among the advantages of our technology are: – End-to-end infrastructure. DEIP is not just blockchain, it is a comprehensive infrastructure that includes off-chain data cluster, user interface framework – everything needed for the fast and efficient implementation of our solutions into any enterprise – Modular architecture. It makes blockchain-based solutions highly customizable: you can add or change any functionality or business process. – Scalability. Technically, DEIP enables thousands of participants to join the blockchain network – all fast and without overheads. | • The white-label solution of Open Innovation Network for 10-20 non-profit scientific organisations (similar to Marie Curie Alumni Association) • White-label solution for Open Innovation Network and IP protection for 10 R&D Enterprises working in fields complied with SDGs. • Implementation of DEIP technology for efficient grant distribution process with 5 grant givers in Europe and USA | Short-term: to increase awareness in the community of the current problem in science. To increase the awareness in the scientific community about alternative models for review and funding, promote the idea of Open Science and Open Innovation. For this, we need access to different media and support among decision-makers and influencers. Feedback from the scientific community. Medium-term: Resources for the further development of the solutions for organisation and enterprise, customisation of the interface. Team expansion: Dev: 15; Sales 18; Marketing 10 Long-term: Financial and human resources. | Website: https://deip.world/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/deip/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DEIPworld/ Eurodoc Interview with Alex Shkor of the Decentralised Research Platform DEIP: http://www.eurodoc.net/news/2019/interview-with-alex-shkor-of-the-decentralised-research-platform-deip Q&A: How blockchain can help scientists. Interview with Artyom Ruseckiy, Chief Operating Officer at DEIP: http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/science/q-a-how-blockchain-can-help-scientists/article/536960 An article ""5 new blockchain solutions for scientific workflows"" https://medium.com/deip/5-new-blockchain-solutions-for-scientific-workflows-54ea504de4ec | Video ""Crypto-economy for science: automated grants distribution models | Alex Shkor "": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBAKCEfW7H8 Video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krys3lL0-FE&t=3s | – One of 20 finalists of the SmartDubai Blockchain challenge, among 700 applications from 79 countries (2019), First Place: ""Quantstamp"" - USA; – The best blockchain startup at Emerge – the biggest tech conference in Eastern Europe (2018); – One of the winners at the Venture day, international tech conference (2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
394 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | yosr | naiiri | Volunteer ONU | https://www.un.org/fr/ | designer and volunteer | female | Tunisia | Tunisia | Arabic | English | French | M'y innovation is to create on same plateforme for sustaible solution to designer craftman craftwoman and student a digital plateforme not sell online but to expose and to meet on the real life | Designer | #ERROR! | plateform marketplace | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | 2 | No | Transition to Scale | Simple and innovate | to equal accès to développement econimic | growth economic | other approches exist but its unique vecause solution solve problem global way | 5years ago i send all m'y time to devellope this solution and with méthodologie | is développés on africain but for Europe marketplace | need short tem to have a partener a fiancial partener Médium terme is to launch this solution Long term is to growth Level by level | Dont have a link yet | dont have a link en english | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
395 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Amouzou | Bedi | KFDWB | http://knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org | CEO | M | Austria | Togo | English | French | We are young non-governmental organization based in Vienna, Austria. Our vision is to empower local citizens to know, understand, secure and enforce their roles, responsibilities, and engagements in the success of the SDGs in order to reach a better world – a world of economic and social justice. Therefore, KFDWB recommends skills and knowledge at the core of UN SDGs & Agenda 2030. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at its Coordination and management meeting of 6 June 2019 adopted the recommendation of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to grant special consultative status to our organization, Knowledge for Development Without Borders (KFDWB). KFDWB has developed videos using e-learning software to describe each SDG and what skills and development training can contribute towards their achievement. The contribution of KFDWB in this regard is explained and celebrated. Below you can find a series of videos (Video materials that demonstrate how skills and development training helps young people to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda) which explain how knowledge and skills are essential to achieving the UN SDGs Agenda 2030. The advantages of skills and knowledge for young people in the developing world are highlighted especially. KFDWB believes that empowering these young people and putting skills and knowledge at the heart of the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda, go hand-in-hand. KFDWB aspires to be a trailblazer in promoting effective ways of putting the SDGs into practice. See more at: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/2017/12/28/un-sdgs/ | Mr. Bedi is IT Application Manager by KPMG Austria from June 2009 till June 2018. He is responsible for the 2nd - level support for the standard and individual Business software used, Contact person for key users from the departments, Survey of customer needs, Monitoring, analysis, resolution of daily applications operations errors, Conducting software tests and deployment, updating of IT documentation, Coordination of internal and external partners etc. Focus areas: Business Operations (IT, process, quality, support, customer satisfaction). I am currently working by Post Austria in the area of IT operations. Mr. Bedi has also interest in information and knowledge for sustainable development. Certain of my papers as well as my books are focused on knowledge for development. Mr. Bedi is the CEO and Founder of KFDWB with Headquarters in Vienna Bedi's blog: http://amouzoubedi.blogspot.com/ | Skills and knowledge at the core of UN SDGs & Agenda 2030 | Putting Skills and knowledge at the core of the implementation of UN SDGs & Agenda 2030 linking with a creation of regional social Academy | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | West African countries | Yes | Local NGOs, Development agencies and Universities | Proof of Concept | We have recently achieved with success our proof of concepts. For more details please visit the Programmed agenda of the proof oft he concept: URL: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Agenda-programmed-proof-of-concept.pdf, and the picture taking during the prrof of concept: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/2017/10/14/pictures-of-our-skills-for-development-training. | Based on the experience we have gathered during our past trainings, there is an urgent need to give attention to other issues around access to training information, and knowledge format that go beyond connectivity, such as relevant content and user capabilities. Both hard and soft factors must be addressed in order to enhance participation and achieve positive outcomes for all. | Through our lessons learned from the past trainings, emerges the necessity to create a physical academy to facilitate the access for all to educative resources and business skills, both in the digital world as well as in the real world. Our Physical Regional Academy in West Africa will deliver skills and knowledge training on a regular basis and facilitate field experience opportunities there such as work placements, coaching and mentoring. This will empower the local community and encourage growth. KFDWB’s Regional social Academy West Africa will link up with potential Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and open education resources institutions. We aim to research, select and develop available and online open global and local knowledge resources and platforms and adapts the most suitable knowledge resources for development and translate them into knowledge for development and skills for training materials based on the targeted local environment. KFDWB Transfers the selected training resources into local practices followed by on field practices, coaching and mentoring that are tailored to 2030 Development Goals. | KFDWB takes advantage on a hybrid innovative knowledge and skills for development training approaches (offline and online approaches) based on Pivotal Response skills and knowledge for development Training processes and on a community-based platform technology linking with the creation of a regional physical Academy in West Africa. In implementing the above mentioned projects and other sustainable development initiatives, the use of Virtual space and physical space play an essential role. Not only does the physical Academy in West Africa help to organize, conduct our online, offline trainings, but also supports all members in exchanging views, information, learning-material, contacts via our online community platform (prototype: http://forum.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/) and helps them to keep up even after finalization of a training. To stay connected and not get forgotten or disoriented again is the main goal of this sustainable approach. KFDWB is open and flexible to explore any potential cooperation with development agencies, governments, private sector and individuals that are sharing & supporting our vision for global and local community's knowledge and skills for development for gender equality and sustainable development worldwide. ~ Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given the chance to understand, know and play his or her role in sustainable development. | Based on our successfully proof of concept, we are very encouraged to move to funded projects, because we recognized that the needs for such trainings are very high and our team has already gathered the necessary experience for putting these actions on a broader scale. The possibility to network and gets the funding and to implement this project would be therefore a very important step in further development of our organizational actions and the strategic plan of the organization See more at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8JLU7rlf29tMW95bTJwVFBkNGs/view KFDWB - wins currently a Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) that shows that what we are doing is worth. We are very encouraged. | With the creation of the regional academy, we will have more opportunity to cover all the west Africa countries. Through our offline and online trainings, the full potential of ICT for sustainable development will be realized. People who lack ICT skills, knowledge and understanding are limited in reaching out opportunities: jobs, business development and management, information sharing, SDGs, online courses, issues of health, legal, Women’s rights, climate change, peace, addresses, institutions, gender equality, companies etc. Consequently, we are contributing to enabling all persons to freely to participate in the cultural life of the sustainable development community, enjoying the arts and sharing in scientific advancement and its benefits | We are very encouraged to move to funded projects and networking approaches, because we recognized that the needs for such trainings are very high and our team has already gathered the necessary experience for putting these actions on a broader scale. The possibility to network, to have potential We are very encouraged to move to funded projects and networking approaches, because we recognized that the needs for such trainings are very high and our team has already gathered the necessary experience for putting these actions on a broader scale. The possibility to network, to have potential partners, get the funding and to implement this project would be therefore a very important step in further development of our organizational actions and the strategic plan of the organization. | You will find Reporting of each training and a short video of our engagement on http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Agenda-programmed-proof-of-concept.pdf We have delivered successfully trainings which lead to a pressure of the creation of our regional academy proposal (See elevator Pitch on:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1867C7mFbzacU6NpL4q9kVg0siX2BOlSp/view or video on: https://youtu.be/ZfWzSKFu79s ) to respond effectively to the development challenges of the local communities On the following links you can access to our development tools: http://www.knowledgefordevelopmentwithoutborders.org/2019/02/08/development-tools | Mr Amouzou Bedi, CEO of the NGO Knowledge for Development without Borders (KfDWB) demonstrated how “by pairing global ICT networks with low-tech devices like pen and paper, we can overcome last-mile challenges and barriers. We are of course seeking to create enabling conditions for the use of ICT, but by working closely with civil society and local communities we are able through these hybrid networks to meet urgent local needs”. Resources available on: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/member-states/single-view/news/ethical_dimensions_of_the_information_society_linked_to_sust | Our project wins the approval of Europa Union on capacity4dev: Project page: https://europa.eu/capacity4dev/aid-support Project wiki: https://europa.eu/capacity4dev/aid-support/minisite/human-development-what-it/ethics-ict-sustainable-development Our project volunteerism program wins also the approval of Federal Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection Austria. URL: http://www.freiwilligenweb.at/de/organisation/development-aid-supportknowledge-development-without-borders-kfdwb | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
396 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Muhammad Amir | Khan | Association for Social Development | https://asd.com.pk/ | Chief Coordinating Professional | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | Our innovation, that we want to present, has enabled the Punjab health department (Pakistan) to develop and evaluate contextualized interventions for integrated diabetes-hypertension and chronic lung care; arrange the province-wide public-funded scaling of evidence-based NCD interventions; then also enable the district health offices to coordinate the implementation of integrated care in a developing country context. The key phases of the innovation are: 1. Development – contextualized care-products were developed, through a “Technical Working Group” (led by the Director General of Health Services Punjab), for delivering integrated care of: diabetes-hypertension, asthma-COPD and smoking cessation. The care-products included: case management desk-guide, doctor training, paramedic training, patient counseling tool, and recording/reporting tools. 2. Evaluation of the three NCD care interventions was conducted mainly through four cluster-randomized controlled trials and method-mix process evaluation studies. All these results have already been published in open-access peer-reviewed journals. 3. Scaling of the three NCD care interventions to >150 public hospitals has been managed through mobilizing public funding for province-wide implementation in 36 districts of Punjab. During first two years, this has benefited (i.e. register and treat) > 450,000 NCD cases; expected to reach > 1 million by the end 2020. (Note: The innovation has recently been submitted to “Million Lives Club”) | • For more than two decades, I have been working with multiple disease control programs, to supplement their development, research and implementation-scaling of integrated care interventions in Pakistan. o Development include: integrated care delivery protocols and products for TB, MDR-TB,TB-HIV, malaria, diabetes-hypertension, chronic lung and tobacco cessation, early child development, and hepatitis care interventions at public and/or private facilities. Most interventions have already been scaled, through donor and/or public funding in one or more provinces of Pakistan. o Technical assistance:development of strategic and program plans and project proposals for donor & public funding. o Research:multiple randomized controlled intervention trials, process evaluation, costing and qualitative studies – mostly published in reputable peer-reviewed journals. o Scaled implementation of donor-funded integrated care intervention e.g. ongoing MDR-TB at 12 PMDT sites and PPM-TB in 13 districts of Punjab (GFATM);and multiple other completed projects on TB and malaria care in Pakistan. • I have experienced: o serving multiple national and international committees e.g. GFATM CCM (vice chair);IUATLD (vice president/ board member), WHO CSTF member. o providing consultancy to the government and development partners within and outside Pakistan (e.g. Afghanistan, Sudan) • International awards i.e. Princess Chichibu Memorial TB Award (individual) and Karel Styblo Prize (organization) | Contextualized integrated care of selected non-communicable disease conditions in Pakistan | Moving towards universal coverage of NCD care in a developing country: experience of developing and scaling integrated care interventions in Pakistan | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | In Punjab province (i.e. ≥110 million people), Pakistan | Yes | 1) Directorate General of Health Services, Punjab, Pakistan; 2) Nuffield CHID, University of Leeds, UK; 3) International Development Research Centre, Canada; 4) Prevention & control of Non-Communicable Diseases Program, Punjab. | Scaling | The evidence-based contextualized integrated care interventions for diabetes-hypertension, asthma-COPD and smoking cessation have already been scaled at about 150 secondary-level public hospitals in all 36 districts of Punjab. In the first two-years of scaled implementation, around 450,000 individuals suffering from selected NCD conditions have been benefited. In the next phase, the interventions are to be expanded to primary-level public and private healthcare clinics in the whole province. | We have high burden of non-communicable diseases (mainly diabetes, hypertension, asthma, COPD, and smoking). In reference to SDG target 3.4, WHO recommend universal coverage of integrated NCD care. However, the Provincial Directorate of Health in Punjab was found lacking: a) evidence-based contextualized protocols and products for integrated NCD care; and b) public-funded program to coordinate implementation of contextualized NCD care in all 36 districts (i.e. total population of 110 million). | Our solution has enabled the Directorate General Health Services (DGHS) Punjab to: a) develop (through DGHS-led technical working group) and rigorously evaluate (i.e. trial and method-mix studies) the contextualized interventions for integrated care of priority NCD condition; then b) plan and mobilize public funds for a provincial program to coordinate scaled implementation in whole of Punjab. Around 150 public hospitals covered; to further expand to > 350 heath centers and private clinics. | The innovation was meant to achieve the integration of NCD care delivery and management support tasks into the routine health services arrangements. The key unique aspect is public-private partnership to: a) develop and evaluate contextualized care protocols and products; then b) assist DGHS to plan, mobilize public funds, and establish a provincial program to coordinate scaled implementation; also c) publish >8 scientific papers to disseminate evaluation results and the scaling experiences. | The progress so far has been: 1.Contextualized products for integrated care of diabetes-hypertension, asthma-COPD and smoking cessation have been developed through DGHS-led technical working groups. 2.The effectiveness of these contextualized interventions has been measured through separate cluster randomized controlled trials on integrated delivery of: a) diabetes care at public facilities; b) hypertension care at private clinics; c) asthma and COPD care at public facilities; and d) smoking cessation at public facilities. 3.The feasibility of these contextualized integrated care interventions has been measured through separate method-mix process evaluation studies and costing analysis of: a) diabetes care at public facilities; b) hypertension care at private clinics; c) asthma and COPD care at public facilities; and d) smoking cessation at public facilities. These trial and feasibility study results have been published in peer-reviewed journals. 4.The strategic plan and proposal for public-funded scaling of these evidence-based interventions have been developed; and public funds secured to establish a Provincial NCD program to coordinate the scaled implementation of NCD care in 36 districts. 5.Technical assistance priority needs have been identified, through DGHS-facilitated consultations. This is currently being used to explore/negotiate, with technical and development partners, the work further required for enhancing the program coverage and performance. | The planned priorities for continued work on integrated NCD care include: 1.Assist the provincial program to move towards achieving universal coverage by expanding the integrated NCD care to more than 350 rural health centers and 700 selected private clinics (i.e. an average of about 20 private clinics per district) in 36 districts of Punjab. To achieve this, possible donor and public funding is being explored. 2.Assist the provincial program to address other identified priorities for an enhanced program coverage and performance. Consultation with development partners (e.g. USAID, DFID, JICA), based on TA priority needs, will help mobilizing support for the development and evaluation other NCD interventions. 3.Assist the Ministry of National Health Services Regulations and Coordination to share the evidence based care-packages with other four provinces of Pakistan; also encourage them to replicate the public-funded NCD Prevention and Control Program experience in their respective provinces. 4.Explore sharing the evidence-based care products with other countries in the region, for possible adaptation to the country context and then use for country-wide coverage of integrated NCD care in the respective country. The package has been informally shared with public and WHO officials in Iraq; along with technical assistance offer to adapt and scale in Iraq. The facilitation of WHO EMRO will also be solicited for possible expansion in one or more countries in the region. | The integrated NCD care interventions have already been expanded to around 150 secondary public hospitals in Punjab; and during the last financial year (July 01, 2018 to June 30 2019) more than 350,000 NCD patients got diagnosed and registered for public-funded treatment. To further the NCD care agenda in Pakistan and elsewhere, we will need: • An enhanced public funding in Punjab is required to sustain the ongoing integrated NCD care at public hospitals and expand the care coverage to 350 rural health centers and 700 private clinics in the province. Any supplement donor funding will help expedited scaling of integrated NCD care at RHCs and/or private clinics. • Assistance, of in-country technical and development partners, is required for: o Other four provinces to prepare plans and mobilize public funds for the respective provincial NCD program to coordinate the scaled public-funded implementation in each province o Punjab province to develop and evaluate contextualized interventions for other known non-communicable conditions e.g. general life style change, mental health, road side injuries, cancers etc. • Assistance, of international technical and development partners, is required for: o Other country programs in the region to plan and adapt these integrated NCD care-packages; then scale the implementation through respective health care systems. o Country programs and partners in other regions to access/ review the care-products for possible relevance to their context | Website is: https://asd.com.pk/ Publications: •Action to stop smoking in suspected tuberculosis (ASSIST) in Pakistan: a randomized controlled trial Annals of Internal Medicine May 07 2013; 158: 667 – 675 •An intervention to stop smoking among patients suspected of TB - evaluation of an integrated approach. BMC Public Health 2010; 10:160. •Effectiveness of delivering integrated COPD care at public healthcare facilities: a cluster randomised trial in Pakistan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen18X101634 •Feasibility of delivering integrated COPD-Asthma care at primary and secondary level public healthcare facilities in Pakistan: a process evaluation. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen18X101632 •Delivering enhanced cardiovascular (hypertension) disease care through private health facilities in Pakistan DOI:10.1186/1471-2261-13-76 •Enhanced hypertension care through private clinics in Pakistan: a cluster randomized trial. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen18X101617. •Delivering integrated hypertension care at private health facilities in urban Pakistan: a process evaluation. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen18X101613 •Effectiveness of an integrated diabetes care package at primary healthcare facilities: a cluster randomised trial in Pakistan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen18X101618. •A process evaluation of integrated diabetes management at primary health care facilities in Pakistan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen18X101612) | We have made numerous oral presentations at national and international conferences or other scientific gatherings. However, we do not have any of these speaking engagements recorded (that can be shared as desired). | The awards won so far include: • Karel Styblo Prize (2010) – recognition of organization TB control achievements • Princess Chichibu Memorial TB Global award (2018) – individual recognition of research, development, and implementation support The solution has been: • recognized (2016) as best case study on integrated NCD care development in EM region • submitted to Million Lives Club (to benefit >1 million NCD cases by Dec.31, 2020) • being considered for AG Fund Prize nomination (by DGHS) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
397 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Hannah | Mbugua | Mental Sanity Haven Foundation | Mental Sanity Haven Foundation | Ceo | Female | Kenya | Kenya | English | My sustainable development goal that am focusing on is SDG 3 which talks about good health and wellbeing of people ,my love and passion for SDGs has grown for years now ,the key objective that Mental Sanity Haven Foundation has done is that it has being created by youths who are passionate with the SDGs and this has being able to do great Impact to around 600 youths and it will be such a great opportunity to present my project to UN solution summit to make them believe in my world changing solutions | Hannah is one young passionate ,hardworking ,intelligent girl who believes in finding solutions to the problems affecting us in this world ,she is currently studying at Zetech University. She loves doing research and also she is passionate about the 17 SDGs she believes that she can make a change in this world .On 11 July 2019: I emerged being one of the overall finalist at the 2019 #Mylittlebigthing SDGs innovation competition Mental Sanity Haven Foundation (helps in creating awareness in mental health issues through various activities I am the champion of SDG 3( which our main focus was urgent action to Mental Health issues change)Some of her upcoming project is Talk Talk Mental App . | Talk Talk Mental App | Talk Talk Mental programs which includes the App | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Currently we have being able to reach out only in Kenya but I would like to reach out to many African countries that are largely affected with Mental Health Issues | No | Research & Development | Because currently we are doing research on the development of Talk Talk Mental App and how we will develop it to give good quality services to the user | Mental Sanity Haven Foundation is focusing on mental health issue specifically on Mood disorders like depression and bipolar also we have being able touch on substance abuse disorders .The main purpose of Talk Talk Mental App is that it would be able to detect someone's mood and it will give solution on what the user should do next . | The main purpose of Talk Talk Mental App is that it would be able to detect someone's mood and it will give solution on what the user should do next and this will reduce the risk of suicidal cases happening and bring great changes to the community and I believe that this app and Mental Sanity Haven Foundation mentorship programs will impact millions of people suffering from Mental health issue | Firstly what makes us unique is that Mental Sanity Haven Foundation is developing an App called Talk Talk Mental App this app will be able to detect someone's mood and have solutions on what do next it is specifically for people who are suffering from mood disorders which are depression ,bipolar and many more, also we pass our message through art which includes creative films ,spoken word ,music and other forms of art to pass information and create awareness to people about mental health issues | So far Mental Sanity Haven Foundation has being able to impact 600 youths through our mentorship programs and mental health events and during this mental health events we pass our message through art which includes creative films ,spoken word ,music and other forms of art to pass information and create awareness to people about mental health issues also we have had strong campaigns to address mental health issues as this is not well carted for in our country specifically mood disorders and substance disorder since these are the most leading issue in our country .and i believe Mental Sanity Haven Foundation has the potential of bringing solutions to people who are suffering from mental health issues and the upcoming mental sanity haven project is the talk talk mental app. | To encourage the active involvement of users of mental health services. To educate the community in how to eradicate stigma associated with mental health. To give the community affordable and accessible mental health services. Encourage people to know their mental health status | Key resources: Human resources: psychologist, psychiatric, social workers, volunteers, mentors, trainers Virtual resources:hosting of Websites, blogs, social media platform, help lines Physical resources: Office space, posters, roll up banners, flyers, brochures, office supplies. Financial resources | https://www.facebook.com/notes/zetech-university/it-student-shines-in-national-sdgs-competition/10158659474514148/ https://www.facebook.com/113489969147/posts/10158658086759148/ https://www.facebook.com/113489969147/posts/10158643003109148/ | https://youtu.be/ElqX2v8-lvk https://youtu.be/pUP1cnIRong | On 11 July 2019: I emerged being one of the overall finalist at the 2019 #Mylittlebigthing SDGs innovation competition Mental Sanity Haven Foundation (helps in creating awareness in mental health issues through various activities I am the champion of SDG 3( which our main focus was urgent action to Mental Health issues change)Some of her upcoming project is Talk Talk Mental App . | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
398 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mahesh | Moodley | Independent | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahesh-moodley-30441739 | Software Developer | Male | South Africa | South Africa | English | I believe that my ideas will provide a new perspective in solving all socio-economic problems humanity has has faced. It will allow other solution providers a frame work to initiate their ideas and proposals | My name is Mahesh Moodley. I am a South African national. I hold a Bachelors degree in business science with economics as a major from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. I also hold a Bachelor of technology in Information Technology from the Durban University of Technology. I am currently employed as a Software developer. | Achieving post scarcity through global information systems | This proposal provides a solution to allow humanity to make decisions based on enhancing sustainability as opposed to monetary gain | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Since it requires global consideration from all countries and the solutions put forth are radical no implementation has been made | No | Ideation | It requires feedback from others liked minded individuals. Furthermore the solution requires to implemented at a global scale thus requiring assistance from all countries of the world. | The monetary system is the root cause of all humanities problems as it imposes behavior of optimality. I propose a new system without the monetary system.This can be achieved by implementing a global information system in order to manage our consumption and production activities within a framework of sustainability. | A computerized will facilitate the management of humanities production and consumption needs withing a framework of sustainability thus removing the need of a monetary system that advocates competition and optimaility. | Other solutions use the framework of the current system requiring them to be profitable and sustainable, which in many instances are antagonistic. | The proposal is still in the ideation stage | Creation of Information frame one and two and associated infrastructure, so that data can be captured to aid in the transition process and make ready it’s use in the new world order. Assemble a global team of engineers, scientists, doctors and individuals who share a similar ideal to this proposal Identify energy creation technological constraints, both renewable and nonrenewable, these constraints will determine the length of the transition, furthermore it will determine the length of our forecast decisions(given the constraint of energy we then will have to determine the life we can lead i.e.: where we can go, what we can do and what we consume) Gather information on all people and resources across all countries Medical experts to identify dietary and medical services needs so that goods can be created and made available Engineers to build and construct structures to provide housing, food, water, medical services, education and electricity Find substitutes to nonrenewable resources or find scientific methods to strengthen nonrenewable resources so that they can be essentially indestructible in their use; for example: to strengthen rubber tires , preventing metals from corroding, reinforcing buildings to be resistant to environmental effects Build production and distribution centres or convert existing civil structures Provide goods and services in advance given demand using predictions that are based on current day demand levels. | Computing infrastructure, Engineers , scientists, medical experts | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1kVxIRnYbbmeXFjdkdaTFpzV3c | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1kVxIRnYbbmeXFjdkdaTFpzV3c | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
399 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | amad | nabi | Fruitchise | www.fruitchise.com | CEO | Male | Poland | Iraq | Arabic | English | Nowadays, Iraq and Kurdistan's region are in really serious economical and political crises and we believe that the main reason is because it is an oil based country. There is a big gap of supply and demand in fruit industry in Iraq and Kurdistan. Iraq and Kurdistan has a land area of 43412 hectares and currently agricultural land of 9300 hectares Iraq has 646k tons of dates, 72k tons of oranges, 4000 tons of sour and sweet lemons, 200k tons of pomegranates, (7k grape in duhok),. Approximately 2.5 million Iraqis require emergency food assistance, according to the 2019 HNO. Unfortunately about half of this number mentioned above are wasted due to not having fruit processing facilities and not having someone that connect farmers with suppliers. Our impact will be social enterprise that will do business in fruit industry and will be the supply chain management enterprise that connect farmers with suppliers and processing of farmers fruit that is wasted in most cases. Our enterprise will supply chain management and have few unexpensive facilities like fruit dehydration and ect.. to support farmers, provide jobs, make profits. We are market driven, impact centered, and profitable. | Amad Nabi, From Iraq, Author with published books, 24 years old graduate of American university of Iraq sulaymaniyah and graduate of Poznan university of Technology in Poland with double certificates of Engineering management and business. I am always passionated about bringing the change to the society. Always worked in different activities and volunteering for years with participation in different sustainable development projects. below I attached my Cv with few certificates. regards, amad nabi | Providing jobs | Fuitchise | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Iraq | No | Proof of Concept | Well, we are in cooperation with big compnaies, farmers, and also the goverment and we started operations of getting the land and we provided to the market the dehydrated fruit that worked well with us and we proved out concept but we have to scale it and start operation on base of providing more to society and impact. | There is a big gap between supply and Demand in Iraq in fruit industry and most of the fruit is wasted or sold in cheap price due to not having storaging facilities and fruit processing facilities such as dehydration and ect.... . Our enterprise will supply chain management and bring few inexpensive fruit processing facilities to help find solution to this problem. | it is a social enterprise work as supply chain management and fruit processing enterprise. The long term is building infrastructure of agriculture, providing more than 5 thousand jobs, more than 4 million people will benefit from our project, and it will promote and motivate farmers to keep farming since Fruichise will secure they wont have waste. | There are not any solutions for this specific problem in market yet. | We already started operations and we got the positive feedback and support from Poland, Iraq and Kurdistan's region where we are now: 1-Fruitchise got a land donation of 5000 Square metres in Duhok to build thier facilities. 2- We started operations and calculated the costs of construction in our visit to Kurdistan-Iraq with Beshlin company. That will cooperate with us in construction. 3- One of our team member Kaja Bursa is currently in Netherland to be more familiar about technology. 4- We are in business deligation and partnership with Fruit and food wholeselling companies ( Largest companies in Iraq ) that will cooperate with us once we bring the products to market. 4- We talked with many farmers about the idea and we got them on board 5- We managed to get the goverment suport for such projects that will contribute to improve people’s life. 6- Our project got public suport and it was a news of more than 10 newspapers and Tv s 7- All marketing research and prove of concept are done. | Our target market for processing facilities is Iraq and Kurdistan's region For exporting facilities ultimately we expect to export our products to Poland, Norway and UK. | Short term needs for us are land which we already have, facilities and infrastructure to start. Labor, goverment support, and educating the society about our products In long term we are going need partners in different countries, increase number of facilities, and better systems to manage the people that are going work with us. | www.fruitchise.com but it is under construction. Part of Our enterprise is agricultural supplements for farmers which we established polish company for that Vizpire SP. Z.O O www.bvitafresh.com | http://www.basnews.com/index.php/ar/economy/kurdistan/511241?fbclid=IwAR17jS_kv5Q_XZrwUXeH-BHO-WPQsXlzDxCOKtxoT3qbQxRGzYyO8-kJP-U https://www.put.poznan.pl/ru/node/2145?fbclid=IwAR3U-cbJiTJ7ef4OKCk73D9a57ADTkNjLWtXgAiqK-6f3TlVlrE9Vh-7KXo http://lapere.net/?p=33515&fbclid=IwAR0ppc6QFjRa2nfsulR1kSWuL5Ge49ZDml_Mu5HCbbOJC6XejCwWZEFhe-U https://www.facebook.com/zawita.media/photos/a.343582906035477/772443719816058/?type=3&theater https://www.facebook.com/KrgPoland/photos/a.274165502768786/1096228027229192/?type=3&theater | We got certified for our project by Hult prize foundation and got certificate signed by bill clinton. Also we got an award from Poznan Univertisy of Technology, Award from KRG goverment. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
400 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Randeep | Singh | InformDS Technologies | www.doxper.com | Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer | Male | India | India | English | The research of today has to be translated to medicine of tomorrow and this is the mission that I am on! There is a general understanding that data is the new oil. However the evolution of health systems in 135+ countries where data does not exist cannot be the same as developed markets. In my current capacity, I am the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at InformDS Technologies Private Limited, India’s fastest growing digitisation solution for healthcare. We are helping plug the EMR gap where > 95% of doctors still capture patient records using pen and paper. Our flagship product Doxper is an AI powered data capture solution that allows doctors to instantly digitise their case sheets using a digital pen and encoded paper. The solution can be fully integrated with existing EMR systems. Very early on in our journey, in 2017, Doxper was recognised by MIT Solve at the United Nations as an innovator impacting the Chronic Disease space. Today we are serving over 3000 doctors, 15 large corporate hospitals and have digitised over 2.5 million unique patient records - unprecedented for a market like India. I believe I, and we at Doxper can use our experience and success in India, and contribute globally in strengthening data collection for health systems, at all levels of care. | I have 18 years of rich interdisciplinary experience as a researcher and engineer in Precision Medicine, Next Generation Sequencing, Bioinformatics, Healthcare, Robotics, Image Processing, Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence. Apart from my home base in India, I have worked in and/or travelled to over 20 countries in senior research leadership positions for SAP Labs and Philips Research. I graduated from India’s premier research university IIT-Bombay with integrated Bachelors, Masters (1993-98) and PhD (2001-06). In my current capacity, I am the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at InformDS Technologies Private Limited, India’s fastest growing digitisation solution for healthcare. | Doxper | Instant digitised healthcare | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Currently in India. Piloting in Singapore, Egypt and South Korea. | No | Scaling | We are serving over 3000 doctors, 15 large corporate hospitals and have digitised over 2.5 million unique patient records. Our system is capturing 450,000 case sheets per month and growing. This is unprecedented for a market like India. | Clinicians in 135+ countries are not typing into electronic health record systems as they reduce patient attention and increase burnout. Lack of digitisation has led to non-existent or extrapolated analytics. | Doxper's core workflow: 1. Write with Doxper digital pen on regular encoded paper. 2. Data syncs with app on phone or tablet in real-time via Bluetooth. 3. Processed in cloud with AI powered handwriting recognition. 4. Optional: Zero workflow change and downtime for hospitals. Intuitive integration with existing HIS/ HMIS. With our ‘zero behaviour change’ approach, we are seamlessly digitising healthcare data, currently missing in India and other developing economies. Today, we are helping doctors and hospitals digitise to improve their operational, clinical and patient engagement outcomes. In the near future, we believe insights from this rich, longitudinal and demographic specific data will i. empower providers, payers and policymakers to improve efficiencies, reduce fraud and respond faster to disease outbreaks ii. accelerate cures for cancer and other complex diseases with real world data | 1. Zero behaviour change for doctors. Minimal training required. 2. Zero workflow change and downtime for hospitals. Intuitive integration with existing HIS/ HMIS. 3. Existing options like typing, tapping or speaking add to doctor’s cognitive load, increases burnout and increases patient consultation times. 4. Our proprietary handwriting recognition algorithms speeds up data transcription and coding, generating previously unavailable clinical and business insights. | We have strong product market-fit in India, with both independent clinics and corporate hospitals. As part of our product roadmap, we are now beginning to build solutions for payers, pharma and policymakers, to help them better leverage data insights in real-time and at scale. We measure our progress by the growth in active users (clinicians across care settings), the number of clinician case sheets generated, the number of patients served and the number of follow-up visits facilitated. | Our goals in terms of market expansion and product roadmap in the next 18 months include: 1. Scale fast and further capture market in India - triple current base to 10,000 doctors 2. Expand to SE Asia, South Asia & Middle East with selective partners 3. Continue improving our AI/ML handwriting recognition engine to allow free-form text by clinicians to be digitised in real-time at the point of care. 4. Pilot solutions for payers, pharma and policymakers, to help them better leverage data insights in real-time and at scale. 5. Digitise the health records for 10 million unique patients | Short Term Developing use cases and proof of concepts in SE Asia, South Asia, Africa & Middle East. Medium Term Developing use cases and proof of concepts for digital solutions for payers, pharma and policymakers. Long Term (Ongoing) We currently get about 450,000 handwritten documents every month. We need assistance co-developing a ML engine which is scalable enough to universally understand doctor's handwriting. | Company Website: http://doxper.com/home/ | Winner of MIT Solve Challenge at the UN for Chronic Disease: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqsatdJLiCM&t=1s | K-Startup Grand Challenge (South Korea) - Finalist, Dec 2018 Nasscom Emerge50 (India) - Winner, 2018 The Asia Pacific HIMSS-Elsevier Digital Healthcare Award (Australia) - Finalist, 2018 MIT UN Solve Challenge (US) - Winner, 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
401 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Victoria | Botnaru | NGO ""Terra-1530"" | https://www.facebook.com/terra1530/ | National Agency for Social Assistance, senior specialist of Service of social assistance and rehabilitation/recovery institutions; Projects Coordinator of the ”Terra-1530” | Female | Republic of Moldova | Republic of Moldova | English | Russian | On December 14, 2012, the Vorniceni Village Council, Republic of Moldova, approved a decision(nr. 8/16) concerning changing the destination of a land area for the purpose of arranging of a square, this constituting one of the objectives of the Socio-Economic Development Strategy of Vorniceni village. The Decision of the Village Council to plant trees on the respective public plot was taken due to the mutual initiative of the local civil society and the ""Terra-1530"" NGO. From the very start more partners were committed to finding a solution for a community problem of global importance... 2. Entrepreneurial activity as well is not developed in our country. Moldova being one of the countries of former Soviet Republic remains to be one of the poorest countries in Europe. Youth involvement in economic life is reduced, due to limited access to financial resources and an unstable business environment. Most youths believe they have no chance at a better paying job, or a secure future in the country. 3. Forests provide a lot of diverse benefits to societies. Besides the fact that wood processing and forest products provide significant contributions to the development of national economies, forests play a major role in maintaining the natural ecological balance. Unfortunately, Moldova has the lowest percentage of forest area in Europe- 11.4 % (374,500 ha). The capacity of Moldova’s forests to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is about 2,230,000 tons per year. Forests substantially contribute to reducing soil erosion and landslides. The protective role of the forests is of vital importance for Moldova because of substantial alternating temperatures that occur, frequent droughts and shortage of water, lands ‘propensity to slides and a decrease in soil fertility up to 40-50% due to the erosion processes. The multitude of benefits conditioned by forests is inexhaustible. A reckless attitude towards the forest’s role for the ecological balance may cause irrecoverable damages with a very serious negative impact on the welfare of the modern society and, to a greater extend, on the future of the next generations. For this reason, sustainable forests and forest vegetation management became a priority for individual countries and for the global community in general; again, it becomes extremely important because it provides the protection of the environment for our descendents to inherit it. Solution - afforestation, for example, Vorniceni square. | The non-governmental organization “Terra-1530” has been registered on June 30, 1999. We have the mission to instruct and strengthen rural communities’ capacity on Sustainable Development. We are working in an economically and socially disadvantaged region, focusing mainly on the teenagers. We consider that youth has the power to change the situation. Objectives – setting up an informative centre consisting of: a periodical, Internet – café, local television; the use of the newest informational technology; the preparation of the public in taking decisions on environment issues; the development of the rural tourism; the protection of the land owners’ rights; supporting reforming process of the local public administration, and other activities that don’t run counter to the law in force. Activities: Starting with 2000, we have been continually publishing the independent periodical ADEVARUL (Truth), newly in three languages: Romanian, Russian and English. On 6-11 October 2006 we have organized the ""VI European Youth Water Parliament"", in VadulluiVoda – Moldova. (http://www.terra1530.md/files/7parl.pdf). At the International Awards for Liveable Communities (October 22-30, 2011, Seoul, Korea), NGO ""Terra-1530"" has won the 3rd place in the Bursary Awards section, presenting the projects implemented in Vorniceni village (headquarters).http://www.livcomawards.com/2011-awards/winners.htm “Terra-1530” has NGO consultative status with United Nations. | Local Action - Global Impact | The forestation will constitute our response to the Global Warming phenomenon. | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Moldova | Yes | Vorniceni mayoralty, First, partners such as representatives from the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Moldova, Academy of Science of Republic of Moldova, Institute of Forest Researches and Arrangements, and State Ecological Inspection. | Sustainable Scale | It is an opportunity for more than 5000 inhabitants of Vorniceni village to participate in the project implementation particularly those working abroad that may contribute financially. 2. There are more and more discussions about ecological education in Moldova today but there is a stringent lack of a real model. The respective square, arranged in Vorniceni with the participation of international experts, may become such a model. https://www.facebook.com/groups/410323769049392/ | The main idea is to reconstruct the square in Vorniceni Village in the way to create a beautiful place for rest and to provide new work places. The long-term goal is developing of a green area with an international importance. The short – term goal is to make an ecological inspection to cut the old and damaged trees and to plant the new ones (autumn). | The forestation of the above mentioned land area is a part of the Social-Economic Development Strategy of Vorniceni village for the following 20 years. All of reconstruction works and square maintenance are carried out in the partnership with local public administration (The duties of parties are prescribed in a special regulation), Ministry of Ecology, Institute of Forestry and other organizations. This territory (square) is considered as a public territory, fact that must be considered as a very important one. For our pity Local Public Administration and the State in general have no funds for cleaning and developing of a park and everybody hopes on funds from abroad. A beautifully arranged square; financial and forestry audit; solution of a prior problem of the Socio-Economic Development Strategy of Vorniceni village; a model for ecological education and a best practice. The arrangement of the square will be the first step in the preparation of a Local Plan of Environmental Development. | The main problem we are trying to solve consists of two main points: lack of work places for youth and lack of green spaces for rest. The development of the project is going to be done in several steps: creating of a project (already done), building of small architectural forms (pergolas, pavilions, benches, and fountain) and walk roads; planting of trees, and creating of "" owerbeds, providing of wireless Internet. e main customers who will benefit of the solution are villagers and of course every person coming to visit the place for having a rest. Another pro# t is further appearance of similar green zones all other the world. An indirect pro# t of such places is providing of a new way of thinking and perception of the world by the youth. From the very start more partners were committed to ! nding a solution for a community problem of global importance. | If we speak about the innovative sides of our project we can mark that no country in the world has samples of such projects. ereby we can be an international example for creating of such squares all other the world, that by-turn will initiate in landscape gardening of a planet. More other creating of green zones like this provides sustainability of green spaces and uni# cation of all existing green zones, which in such counties as Moldova are placed separately one from another. The results of creating of a square are really in"" uential. First of all these are creating of a place for rest, cleaning of a territory, new work places, uni# cation and broadening of green spaces. Of course our project is being at the initial stage now because of lack of # nancial resources but we hope somebody will be interested in it in the same way we do and this problem will be solved. Plan to measure results. Over a period of free years a$ er planting of square the representatives of Forest Research Institute will control the plantation and its quality. Also there will be supplied the necessary care of all the planted trees and shrubs. For providing of this care we will involve people from the village (new work places). | Creation of a square will also provide the exchange of experience with other countries, which allows us to involve new financial resources at an international level. | Financial resources... | https://www.facebook.com/groups/410323769049392/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-k43RoJ3oc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmLekc1Gij0&t=7s | At the International Awards for Liveable Communities (October 22-30, 2011, Seoul, Korea), NGO ""Terra-1530"" has won the 3rd place in the Bursary Awards section, presenting the projects implemented in Vorniceni village (headquarters).http://www.livcomawards.com/2011-awards/winners.htm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
402 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jean Okapi Tshipamba | BULOBA | Power electric cd | Facebook/power electric cd | Engineer | Male | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | English | French | My motivation for applying to be a part of the UN solution summit to present a project and to serve as committee member,I am chairperson of power electric cd that operate in Drcongo, it's construction company,that use ,and propose a green energy to the people who is staying to the village and they don't have a capacity to get a clean water or electricity ,we present them a solar energy so that they can use it to pump water from the bore hole ,or to lightning there home or yard by using Solar panel,that why I want to present this project to UN so that we can reach millions of people who is in deep poverty to get access to a better life by using Solar energy,they can use it for there farms , pumping water with it ,and doing something alse with it , because people who are living in deep poverty it very difficult for them to come out of it ,if the UN is not helping them, millions of people around the world they don't have access to electricity,we can help the by giving them or showing them solar energy,for them to do something and to have a normal life, because with that solar energy they can use it to get access to the Information using a radio ,TV or a phone ,and a big problem is the hospital , there's some hospital they don't have electricity and people are dying because there is not electricity, women are giving birth in darkness ,there is not electricity in the ICU and people are dying,but we can save millions of life by giving them this kind of energy, solar energy and showing them how to use it. | My name is John okapi Tshipamba ,I am a Congolese living in Drcongo ,in the province of haut Katanga ,I from a family of seven persons and I am the first born,my father is name is Andre Buloba and my mother is Bitshilualua Marie ,I have a degree in electrical engineering from the university of Lubumbashi ,I have also certificate from an English school , because I went in South Africa to study English,and I have a nine years of experience as an engineer,I worked in South Africa ,in Drcongo,in Zambia as an engineer and I have a good back ground in my field ,for me a member of UN summit,. | Ending poverty by using Solar energy as Electric power solution | We can save millions of people by giving them a Solar energy kit for them to be connected with the world,and they can use it for other activities suc | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | My solution is now in different countries in Africa ,like South Africa, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Drcongo, Tanzania they are using Solar energy for farms,to pump water ,to produce food,to lightning there houses ,to create some activities for them to gain somethin | No | Transition to Scale | Because millions of people they don't have access to electricity for them to do something ,to end poverty , hungry, jobless etc..in giving them this energy they will be capable of doing something for them live a better life ,even where there is war we can present to the younger one the kit of solar energy and show them what to do and they will do it, instead of going in rebel groups and waist their life and become a criminal and end their life in prison, this is good solution to end poverty . hu | My solution is addressing to the UN for the better of the people on earth. | My solution work with a green energy for the better of the people. | With this solution we can end poverty , hungry,and stopping you people to become a criminal,in giving them a kit of solar energy for them to create an activities for them to survive. | My team is progressive, because we have a lot of people that appreciate our solution and they are using it also. | My goals are to go around the world and save life of people by giving them this energy so that they can prosper also by doing something with it. | I need the resources necessary for the solution to rich many people around the world,that why I want to present it to the UN ,and the UN support it for the better of the people. | You can see my work by using a Facebook, Facebook/power electric cd. | You will see them on Facebook/power electric cd. | It my first time to do it ,I haven't an award yet. But it's coming. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
403 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Hadeel | Anabtawi | The Alchemist Lab | www,thealchemistlabkids.com | Founder & CEO | female | Jordan | Jordan | Arabic | Our project has been operating in Jordan since 2013 with a mission to empower girls and boys with the right skills to help them create jobs and compete on local, regional and global level. Our programs varies from school discovery trips to camps and workshops and our activities start from a science experiment up to VR trip inside the human body. We have won different awards for our work that advances UNSDG's specially Good education as we believe that Good education is about training the mind. We have specific focus on STEM as it is the future skills that will generate future problem solvers. We have specific program that is addressed to young girls in less fortunate areas where we aim to bridge the gender gap in STEM careers. In Jordan, girls outscore boys at the age of 15 however their participation in STEM careers is less than 30 %. Our activities are designed to give the children the best experience as they are interactive ,designed to utilize all their senses, according to their attention spans and also encourage questioning and creative thinking. We are currently designing some content to support teachers and educators so they can adopt our expertise and curriculum in their villages and inside refugee camps. We believe that this will help us scale our impact outside the capital in Amman and also outside Jordan. By presenting our project, we wish to give our idea more visilibity and be connected to impact supporters for the middle east and who are interested specifically in villages and refugees. | I am a Social Entrepreneur in the children & girls empowerment field. A certified life coach, teachers’ trainer on interactive teaching methodologies and the founder of The Alchemist Lab in Jordan. I received DVF international award 2019, WE Empower award 2018 (a global business competition for women entrepreneurs who leverage their business to advance UN SDG's and a Vital Voices fellow 2017. Studied Industrial Engineering at University of Jordan and Masters in Business Administration at University of Leicester. I am also selected for GSBI program by Miller center for social entrepreneurship/ Clara University in San Jose. I am a member of different innovation and entrepreneurship focused association in Jordan and I sit on the board of business and professional women association which is focused on empowering women in Jordan. In addition, I launched a 10 minutes radio segment addressed to children called “Everything is possible” which aimed to address life challenges & empower children. | The Alchemist Lab | The Alchemist Lab is a social enterprise focused on building children's capacity in creative & critical thinking with focus on STEM. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Jordan | Yes | Our project is registered as a company for profit. I am the founder and I have another two women partners, Majda Labadi, Mona Rimawai. We work in less fortunate areas through grants from different organizations local and international like Mercy Corp | Scaling | It is tested in the market and have reached more than 34 K children since launch. We have passed break even and We are currently looking for ways to scale our impact through developing online solutions and teachers training. | -Lack of creative & critical thinking skills training at schools. According to WEF reports in the region, our educational systems have been slow in adopting STEM education thus leaving children behind in the global skill set shift. -Girls in the region outscore boys in STEM at age of 15, however their participation in STEM careers doesn’t exceed 29 %. -Lack of online Arabic content for STEM training and curriculum | Our solution is an academy that provides offline & online well-tailored programs and workshops that train children & youth from age 5-17 years old on the skills, specifically creative & critical thinking & STEM. We have programs that are specifically for teachers. And a program specifically for girls-Go Girls- to encourage them towards STEM careers. Our vision: Shaping the future of the Middle East by upgrading children’s education and developing their 21 century skills! | Our value proposition: For children aged 5-17 years old, The Alchemist Lab offers a wide & flexible range of activities directly and through schools that encourages children towards STEM addressed to different age groups tailored and connected to their educational needs. How is it Unique: - We start very early at the age of 5 and we cover the full range of ages in levels. - Our activities are diverse starting from a science experiment up to VR. - Our curriculum is in both Arabic and English so it can reach easily less fortunate areas in our region who speak only arabic. - We provide teachers training for sustainability. - Our methodology is fun and uses drama and games in addition to hands on for young age. | The solution is already implemented. We are currently at the stage of documenting the curriculum in Arabic and preparing the teachers training in addition to the online content. | Our goals are: - To expand outside Jordan and will start with the gulf region; UAE, Saudi arabia and Qatar - To recruit people for business development unit as well as educators for content. - Our aim is to reach 1 million children in the region by 2022 | - Financial support to develop the online content and to recruit people to help us scale. - Digitization and franchising expertise. | www.thealchemistlabkids.com www.facebook.com/thealchemistlabkids Our channel on you tube is The Alchemist Lab for children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ja7Mrvp5AM https://www.facebook.com/aminutemarvel/videos/425269951563065/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6kwEi3stOU https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ9Djh9Qlt7taMwdCwJoaTg | see above | - WE Empower award 2018 (a global business competition for women who levarage their businesses to advance UN SDG's, the award received in the UN during UNGA) - DVF international award. - Shortlisted for GESS innovation in education - Shortlisted for business woman of the year locally by Bank Alitihad. - Nominated for entrepreneur of the year by Jordan business! 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404 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chuang | Liu | Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences | http://www.geodoi.ac.cn | Professor | F | China | China | Chinese | English | Quality and timely data are most important for understanding how reaching the UN SDGs, the data and knowledge about the SDGs in global, regional, national and even local scales. The Global Change Research Data Publishing & Repository (GCdataPR) has been published and free shared the data since 2014. More than 600 datasets published and more than 1,800,000 visitors, more than 44,000 IP users downloaded the data cover 94 countries of the world. These data indicated how the environment changes in different scales. | Dr. LIU Chuang, Professor of IGSNRR, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of Global Change Research Data Publishing & Repository, Executive Chief Editor of Journal of Global Change Data & Discovery. She is secretary general of Big Data Committee of Geographic Society of China, Vice Chair of Expert Committee of China Group of Earth Observation, National Remote Sensing Center of China, Ministry of Science and Technology of China. She is the founder and leader of CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology, Internationa Science Concil) Task Group in Developing Countries, and CODATA Prize recipient (2008), she also is the leader of the GCdataPR, the UN WSIS Prize (e-science, Champion, 2018). | Global Change Research Data Publishing & Repository for SDGs | Share data for Goal 13-14-15 | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | China, as well as world | Yes | Geographic Society of China | Sustainable Scale | More than 44,000 IP users and more than 1,800,000 visitors from 94 countries in all continents used the data during the last five years, the global land cover data in 30miters resolution in 2010, the global coastlines and islands (including more than 600,000 islands and isles or rocks data) in miters resolution (the minimus area of the isles or rocks is 6m2) in 2015 are most valuable for understanding what is the stage of the global environment. | What is the stage for reaching the SDG Goals 13-14-15 in 2015? Where, how and why the changes from 2015 to 2030? | Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Geographical Society of China (GSC), China Associate for Sciences and Technology (CAST), Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST) are joint support the project, which is awarded to be the Innovation Project of the Digital Publishing Expo of China 2018, Big Data Exellent Practice Top 50 (only one in resedrach and education) in 2016 and UN WSIS Prize (e-Science, Chaimpion, 2018). The GCdataPR is the World Data System Regular Member since 2016, National Data Center in 2019. | There are three unique innovative way to make it success, they are: (1) Focuse: the project is focused on the global change field, it covers more bread content, such as geography, natural resources, climate change, desaster, ecosystems in either local or regional or global scales; which focused on the Goals 13-14-15 (2) bottom up methdology: all the data and knowledge are provided by scientists and with peer review, in which the data quality can be controlled and the data can be trusted; (3) open data policy: the open data policy and the web platform make the data easily to be accessed by intenet. | The solution works now through 4 years efforts, it will play more active and positive role in the comming years, sincnce the project is a long term project promissed by CAS and MOST. | We are woring on rhe six year plan (2020-2025). According this plan, at least 5000 datasets (now is 600+) will be published and open to all. The data contributores will increased from 900 (now, 12 countries) to expanded to 2000 (cover at least 30 countries), the users could cover 150 + countries (now 94). | Besides the finacial support, which CAS and MOST already did and committement to continure to do so during next six years (2020-2025), the international communication platform is needed., both in short-term, medium-term and long-term. Such as meetings, training for young people, and even web platform. | (1) Project website: http://www.geodoi.ac.cn (2) Liu Chuang, Enhancing the Joint Efforts on Data Sharing in Developing Countries Speech at the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting, New York, July 2, 2015, http://www.geodoi.ac.cn/WebEn/HTML_INFO.aspx?Id=fd7ff861-6921-4f0e-bf2d-d309f47bbe19 (3) Liu Chuang, Acting Locally and Networking Globally, http://www.geodoi.ac.cn/WebEn/HTML_INFO.aspx?Id=adb4ab6c-ff25-4036-8b8d-3db1d6d4e4fb (4) Data Sharing Principles in Developing Countries (The Nairobi Data Sharing Principles), http://www.geodoi.ac.cn/WebEn/HTML_INFO.aspx?Id=74edd4fc-c076-466d-88a1-247ba9ce643e | Xu Guanhua, A New Milestone of Scientific Data Sharing in China - Speech at the First National Conference on Global Change Research Data Publishing and Sharing, http://www.geodoi.ac.cn/WebEn/doi.aspx?Id=863 | (1) Big Data Exellent Practice Top 50 (only one in resedrach and education) in 2016 (2) Big Data Exellent Project by Big Data Expro. of China 2017 (3) Innovation Project of the Digital Publishing Expo of China 2018, (4) UN WSIS Prize (e-Science, Chaimpion, 2018). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
405 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dr Lal | Singh | Himalayan Research Group (HRG) | www.hrg.org.in | Director | Male | India | India | English | Success of the innovative mountain solar water and space heating systems designed of locally available material and installed with by rural artisans in India Himalayan Mountains for efficient usage of fuel wood/dung with mitigation of household carbon emission and women drudgery was the main motivation. Burning of fuel wood/ dung in houses for cooking, water & space heating increases indoor pollution and contribute to household carbon emission on the one hand and degrade forests in the vicinity of human settlement in the mountains. On average each household of five members is clearing 10 cubic meter forest/annum to meet their domestic needs of fuel. This pace of consumption of fuel and emission is not only contributing to forest and environment degradation but also affecting the health of human beings with increasing pressure of fuel collection and indoor pollution level. This situation needed immediate solution to achieve efficient utilization of the biomass and preserve forests for cleaning air in present time and sustain forests for future generations. Installation of these customize solutions provide opportunity of employment to local artisan and improve lives of mountain people. This set of solar water and space heating systems was observed to contribute to the achievement of 9-SDGs and address their 27 targets. Technology possess potential to solve local issues of sustainable development with sizeable contribution to the global impact if scaled to implement in 50% households of 10 million households of Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) alone. Technology and design is cost effective, easy to install and maintain. System cost one third the cost of commercial system of the same capacity and work efficiently in sub zero conditions of the Indian Himalayas during winter. Availability of hot water in difficult areas increases health and hygiene of women and provide opportunity of leisure time and opportunity of livelihood in time saved of fuel collection. 1000 households possessing 5000 population covered till now with the installation of these systems in two states of IHR. | Dr. Lal Singh is founder Director of Himalayan Research Group (HRG), a Non Government Organization, established in 1997 with a mandate of scientific innovations and technology transfer for community development. HRG has office cum lab at Shimla and field station housing Mushroom Compost Unit and other field facilities at Village Dhangiara in District Mandi. Under the leadership of Dr. Singh, HRG’s initiatives of community development through technology innovation and transfer are supported by different national and international agencies. Since 2005, HRG is one of the organizations supported under prestigious CORE support programme of Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India. Dr. Lal Singh is responsible for coordination of activities in different fields which mainly include solar energy use in domestic energy needs, button mushroom cultivation for livelihood, medicinal and aromatic plants cultivation for conservation and rural enterprises, floriculture for agriculture diverisfication, vermiculture biotechnology for agriculture productivity, fungal biotechnology for product development, fodder development and Household & Agri-tourism for household enterprises. While working with the Himalayan Research Group, Dr. Lal Singh is instrumental in development of S&T business models for sustainable rural livelihoods. During these years Dr. Singh visited USA, UK, Canada, Thailand and Finland on invitation to work these fields, training and deliver invited talks. | Mountain Solar Water and Space Heating Systems | Solar Making Mountain Smile | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Mountain Solar Water and Space Heating Systems installed in 1000 households of two states namely Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir (Ladakh) | Yes | Department of Science and Technology Govt. of India, National Mission on Himalayan Studies of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Govt. of India, Himachal Council for Science Technology and Environment HP | Scaling | 1000 mountain solar water and space heating systems (900 for solar water heating and 100 for space heating) installed in two North Western Indian Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir till date. Proposal for installation of 1500 systems submitted under National Mission on Himalayan Studies of Ministry of Environment Forest &Climate Change through GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development Almora and is under active consideration. | High dependence on fuel wood and dung in cold deserts poses a potential threat to the ecology, health and involve women drudgery in fuel collection. Collectively water and space heating was assessed to consume more than 50% of fuel wood/dung which consume maximum time of women in collection. Installation of solar water heating system was observed to save on average around 40% fuel wood/dung in water heating. It is estimated collectively these systems mitigate 4.9 MT carbon/annum/household | IHR climate remains cold during maximum time in the year. Houses and water usage need regular water and space heating using fuel wood and dung cake. Present innovation of solar energy to provide water and space heating solution to the mountain community with cost effective, maintenance free solar systems designed by local artisan using locally available materials. Water in solar water heating panel is filled manually as in winter pipes supply freeze. System water coil hold 18.0 liters of water and is heated to 70-80 oC within 30-45 minute of solar illumination during sunny days in winters. Household can draw 100-120 litres hot water in clear sunny day without burning fuel wood or dung cakes for water heating. Specially designed cold water inlet with antifreeze and silt drainage outlet was fitted for better efficiency. Solar space heating panel is same as that of solar water heating panel without water coil. The panel is fixed on south facing wall of the living room with air vent at the lower and upper end. When black absorber sheet of the panel is heated with sun through glazing, air between glazing and absorber sheet is heated and moves up and enter through upper vent in living space. Vacuum is created between glazing and absorber space and cold air enter here from room. This way an air siphon is created and room air is heated 12-15 oC higher than outside climate temperature without any active use of energy source. Vision to cover 50% IHR households with sourcing of funds. | Mountain households live in difficult areas where temperate during winter is in sub zero conditions (minimum may be at -30oC). This condition exists for 3-4 months when there is urgent need of hot water and space heating in the region. Commercial system of water heating with glass tube fail to operate and freezing crack tubes and systems fail to withstand this harsh climate. Household lack piped water supply and in this freezing temperature piped supply is not possible. Commercial system requires 3-4 2m for installation. Commercial system fails to operate with manual filling. No solar system is available in the market for space heating. Artisan fabricated innovative mountain solar water and space heating systems were developed to overcome these issues. Mountain solar water heating system requires 1.5-2.0 2m for installation with dual provision of filling (manual and piped) keeping in view the availability of supply. Systems work efficiently in subzero conditions with provisions of night drainage of water to prevent freezing. System is more efficient in terms of water heating than commercial system and free of complicated installation and post installation maintenance which can easily be taken care by the household members and require no specially trained technical person as is required for commercial systems. Systems can be easily installed by the local artisan or household member. With little knowledge and tools household members can fabricate their own system as well. | 1000 units of these systems were installed during last five years. Maximum time in these years was on testing and designing. Systems installed are of 3rd generation and are working to the desired level of performance and maintenance. Now this is the phase which is requiring high investment to scale up and is quite testing for the team to commercialize these systems for installation with community investment or with linkages to Developmental Programmes of the State and Central Government. Planning is taking place at different level for achieving this and team is optimistic to scale up keeping in view the performance at household level in 1000 households. It was quite difficult to achieve the installation of 1000 units but cooperation or the community and donor departments made this possible and team is grateful for their encouragement and cooperation. Limited successfully operating solar water heating systems in the mountain region with low positive demonstration effect resulted in limited adoption of the commercial technology. Successful demonstration of the artisan fabricated mountain solar water and space heating systems in last 2 years in cold deserts of Ladakh and high altitude areas of Himachal Pradesh in India provided very successful technology to meet the water and space heating requirement. This increased awareness and interest of the mountain people and government agencies in these systems and resulted in installation of about 1000 systems. | Aim is to cover around 50% households in IHR out of about 10 million in India with further expansion to adjoining country of Nepal and Bhutan. As per the need of hot water and space heating in Himalayan region round the year high volume of fuel wood is needed and these systems are bound to provide efficiency. Setting up of fabrication facilities in different Himalayan States of India for popularization of the system is required to scale up and demonstrate the technology to achieve the solutions for the local needs with global impact. Proposal developed for installation of 1500 such systems in four state namely Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh is submitted under National Mission on Himalayan Studies and is under consideration. Discussion with other funding organization and other partners is also regularly taken up for scaling and expansion of the initiative with motive of contributing to achieve the SDGs and their target. Initiative is also contributing to the Govt. of India voluntary carbon emission targets. If scaled to the 50% household coverage in IHR at some time of time will go a long way in addressing the country's agenda of Carbon emission. | Financial resource is needed the most to scale any initiative and same is true in our case as well. Development model adopted in recent time requires lost of effort to make the initiative sustain and work keeping in view the heavy financial investment by the government in community development programme. Until and unless the initiative like ours is also not adopted by the front-line government departments it is difficult to achieve desired scale of application to have the impact. Therefore, to generate funds to scale is the top priority on the short terms to cover as much as needy households in the mountain regions of India to demonstrate this successful technology application for the over all development of the community and environment. Competing at the forum like UN is to get some guidance and support to take up the initiative across the country to nearby nations like Nepal, Bhutan and (cold Asian, European and North American) other similar cold nations where such applications will be successful. Long term need is to set up the facility for rural artisan in different regions for setting up of the fabrication enterprises which will provide employment to the local artisan in designing and innovation in these systems to further improve efficiency and scale. | http://hrg.org.in/award.php http://digicookies.com/2017/09/11/solar-tech-warmth-ladakh-homes/ https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/himachal/solar-heaters-to-rescue-of-remote-villagers/636363.html http://solarinnovations.org/Blog_Details.aspx?BLGCatID=Blog_14 http://www.climatesamurai.com/solar/himalayan-research-group-wins-innovation-award-for-solar-water-heating-system/ http://dsttara.in/InnerPages/Technology_Details.aspx?TechnologyId=2176&Title=COST%20-EFFECTIVE%20SOLAR%20WATER%20&%20SPACE%20HEATING%20SYSTEM%20FOR%20MOUNTAIN%20AREAS(2014)Phase%20II&Category=Energy%20Lighting%20And%20Fuel&NGOId=17&NGO=Himalayan%20Research%20Group%20(HRG) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiZ8RLciQ_Q&t=3s | Himachal Pradeh State Innovation Award (2016-17) for Dr Lal Singh and Himalayan Research Group (HRG) for Developing Mountain Solar Water Heating System –“Solar Hamam” in 2018. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
406 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Bernadine | Uzoh | Asabe Shehu Yar'Adua Foundation (ASYARF) | https://www.asyarfs.org | Brooklyn Coordinator | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | French | To discover innovative solutions to alleviate Sustainable Development Goals (1) No Poverty, Help the Less Privileged and be a voice for the poor in the UN Solutions Summit. | I Bernadine Akwele Uloh Uzoh is a Nigerian, born into a Royal Family in Aboh Kingdom (Ndukwa North L.G.A) Delta State. On the 14th of April 1975. I started my Primary School in Lagos State, Nigeria then traveled to Lome Togo for my Secondary and Higher Institution. Immediately after my higher Education, I relocated to the United States of America where I became a Parents Association Leader Volunteer with Edward Gould Academy after several years with the Edward Gould Academy. I came back to Nigeria to reunite with my Family after which I moved to South Africa for Evangelical work then traveled back to the States where I finally joined Asabe Shehu Yar'Adua Foundation and currently working with the Foundation as a Coordinator in Brooklyn New York. | INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS THAT ADVANCE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL ONE (1) NO POVERTY | Poverty is deadly, more vicious than we think. It has indisputably been one of the leading forces stunting economic and social development. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | United States of America, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Senegal, Togo. | No | Research & Development | The solution is on the Research and Development stage. | Goal 1: No poverty Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possession. Absolute poverty, extreme poverty refers to the complete lack of the means necessary to meet basic personal needs such as food, clothing, and shelter. | By encouraging Regional Farming, Vocational Skill Development, campaigning against Corruption in every form, Make Amendment to some of the Traditional Laws and Policy affecting alleviation of Poverty in Rural Areas and Communities. | We are approaching No Poverty from the Local Communities and Rural Areas where the problem is standing with the poor and the marginalized. | At the Research and Developmental stage at 90%, there will be the possibility of innovation and unique ideas and solutions. | Involved more local Communities, create awareness, sensitization programmes, training and retraining of staffs with the team members. | Translators for non-English speaking Communities, Security and Logistics. | https://asyarfs.org/asyarfs-touching-lives/ https://asyarfs.org/our-gallery-2/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emLDVJGXEj4&t=5s | ICON OF NATION BUILDING AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA FROM WEST AFRICAN STUDENTS UNION PARLIAMENT [WASUP] HEART FOR THE POOR AWARD FROM CITINET AND GEORGE KERRY FOUNDATION DIAMOND AWARD FROM TODAY'S PEOPLE INTERNATIONAL HONORARY ROTARY AWARD FOR EXCELLENT AND HUMANITARIAN FROM ROTARY CLUB SARDAUNA LEGACY (AWARD OF EXCELLENCE HONOUR) FROM NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN NIGERIAN STUDENTS More Awards are available on https://www.linkedin.com/in/asyarf/ on Honours and Awards. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
407 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Johan | van Tonder | Agustin Equity Management | www.agustinem.net | Founding member and General Manager | Male | South Africa | South Africa | English | The World Economic Forum recently reviewed country readiness for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Predictably the leadership board is dominated by the industrialised world. Sadly, almost no emerging market countries have developed the potential to leapfrog. Unless a concerted effort is made between involved stakeholders, their near- total demise in manufacturing is inevitable. A developed manufacturing industry is a powerful instrument to stimulate economic growth, provide sustainable employment and economic development in a country. Although sorely needed in emerging markets, the means to develop it is severely challenged by these developments. Our project, called i4xM, has embraced this challenge, by answering the tough question: How might we connect inventors, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and institutions to leverage exponential thinking, technologies and know-how to accelerate growth and improve competitiveness in emerging market manufacturing industries? i4xM is a private sector non-profit company forging alliances with profit-driven businesses, promoting impactful disruptive development across the following industry sectors: •Biotechnology •Organic water purification •Township economy entrepreneurship •Accelerated agricultural development •Nutraceuticals •Hydrogen economy and renewable energy •A new South African OEM for green energy heavy vehicles •Advanced next generation automotive components •Nano technology fertilisers •Advanced titanium production and fabrication industry We are submitting this application to the UN Summit to attract awareness and investment interest in a major drive across developing BRICS countries to create much needed new industrial development in emerging markets. The new industries being developed strongly support the UN’s sustainable development goals. The scale of development is intended to create new companies with a reasonable chance of commercial success in global Supply Chains they serve. | I am a highly skilled Engineering, Innovation and Executive management professional. My approach centres on unlocking the power of breakthrough concepts into high quality business ecosystems and then developing people to excel in business and life as they become more effective. Amongst some of my achievements rank: •Structuring and developing the application for a new SEZ programme in South Africa centred on agro-processing and the production of nutraceuticals, supported by organic farming methods and exclusive use of renewable energy and water technologies. It will create 100 new businesses of international significance, of which at least 50 will be owned and managed by previously disadvantaged people from local communities and employ nearly 500 000 people; •Structuring and leading implementation of an Integrated Supplier Development programme to support the development of Black Industrialists in South Africa; •The management of the development of a new corporate head-office for Citibank in South Africa, to serve as regional head office for Southern and Eastern Africa; •Implementing a global internet-based banking system in 36 countries as well as reengineering a global credit availment process; •I built a highly automated production plant for the South African Mint. I designed coinage solutions for other countries and supplied them with their needs through exports from the South African Mint. Exposure to industries include mining, banking, consumer foods and beverage, IT, finance, engineering, manufacturing, and telecommunications. | Institute for Exponential Manufacturing (i4xM) | i4xM exists to crystallise disruptive exponential innovations into commercially vibrant businesses as future manufacturing industry leaders in EM. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | South Africa and neighbouring SADC countries, India, Brazil and Russia | Yes | Private sector VC, Matter Innovation (for Township programme), ISCDC (learning solution) New Development Bank and other DFI's (once bankability is achieved) | Transition to Scale | We have demonstrated the concept through 5 separate innovation programmes in collaboration with governmental and private sectors entities. i4xM compiled an industrial development programme recently adopted by the Manufacturing Working Group of the BRICS Business Council that will use our methodology to develop eight significant new industry programmes based on 4IR technologies across BRICS countries, starting with South Africa. | Almost no emerging market countries have developed the ability to excel in 4IR. Unless a concerted effort is made between involved stakeholders, their near- total demise in manufacturing is inevitable. i4xM has embraced this challenge, by answering the tough question: How might we connect inventors, innovators, entrepreneurs and institutions to leverage exponential thinking, technologies and know-how to accelerate growth and improve competitiveness in emerging market manufacturing industries? | Our approach centres on two levels of parallel activity, namely •Discovery •Definition and Implementation Discovery We facilitate coordinated industry dialogue between key ecosystem players to define opportunities for viable industry transformation. Specific activities include: •Framing Manufacturing Industry Sector MTP (Massive Transformative Purpose) •Ecosystem stakeholder alignment with MTP across 6 communities covering: 1.Government structures 2.Educational institutions 3.R&D institutions 4.Our own NPC members 5.Existing and emerging industry players 6.Commercial implementation partners with skills and money •Identifying aspirational and capable Industry Partners •Designing ecosystem partnerships B. Definition and Implementation: Our objective is to link viable business transformations to industry transformation by means of our Innovation Partnership programme. Parallel running activities include: •Defining business MTP, viable new business concept •Designing Combinational Innovations based on Exponential Technologies •Defining and demonstrating a new Viable Business (Markets, Products, Funding, Resources, Recipe to Build) •Launch enhanced and new businesses with fully funded MTP implementation Plan •Implement the MTP plan •Support MTP realisation through ecosystem participation and active MTP monitoring This approach is being launched in South Africa but has been accepted for deployment in BRICS countries under auspices of the BRICS Business Council. | Many innovation programmes in South Africa and most other SADC and BRICS countries (as distinguished from countries in the developed industrialised world): •Focus on the development of new scientific ideas and technology (called innovation) despite viable alternatives being readily available •Existing governmental support provides limited funding but •This approach fails to commercialise new businesses, often leaving inventions at TRL (Technology Readiness Level) 6 or lower with no clear path to commercial success. Our contention is that the technology to solve our greatest problems already exist or is being developed at a rapid pace by very advanced players specialising in their field. What is required is a better way to utilise and direct these inventions to address the problems we need to solve. To that end the i4xM methodology developed by our team is focused on: •Creating commercially viable solutions based on •Combinational innovations founded on exponential technologies at TRL 7 or higher •Owned by industry partners (whether existing or emerging) capable of supporting defined rapidly scalable industry disruptions •Supported by capable ecosystem technology, management and financing partners •With direct access to growing global Supply Chains. | 1.Documented solution, comprising: 1.1.Purpose of i4xM 1.2.Developmental impact 1.3.Unique value proposition 1.4.Manufacturing ecosystem business model 1.5.Exponential business development model 1.6.Accelerated innovation methodology 1.7.Programme governance 1.8.Revenue model 2.The programme was calibrated with existing business partners across 5 industry sectors in RSA. Case studies documented. 3.The programme was adopted by the BRICS Business Council (BBC) during 2018. It included 8 exponential manufacturing industry development programmes with initial deployment in RSA involving an investment of US$ 20B over a 10-year period. Some of these include: 3.1.Organic waste water treatment supporting industry development otherwise deemed non-feasible due to a lack of water 3.2.Accelerated deployment of advanced agricultural programmes utilising organic farming methods supported by advanced exponential technology- based management systems 3.3.The deployment of a hydrogen industry providing green energy technology for stationary and mobile solutions 3.4.The development of a local OEM to produce heavy vehicles utilising this technology 3.5.Development of advanced IoT-based manufacturing capability owned by local communities to supply new generation components to emerging mobility industries 3.6.The use of nano-encapsulation technology to manufacture programmable fertilizers in support of organic farming methods | A. Discovery layer Most critical aspect in the short term. Current focus over the next 24 months include: 1.Accelerated agriculture, agro-processing and nutraceutical production. The regional and cross-country MTP has been quantified and incorporated in the recently designated SEZ programme, now entering detailed design phase 2.Township economy MTP, incorporating social currencies based on cryptocurrency technology and virtual market ownership. This programme has entered its POC phase with 3 pilot programmes demonstrating viability 3.Creation of a hydrogen energy industry for RSA, including infrastructure and mobile solutions for green heavy vehicles Discovery work in support of the BRICS programme will be deployed over a period of three years. B. Definition and Implementation Our forecasts for the current 3 programmes (SADC only) are summarised in the table below: Programme Phase Team size Jobs created Lives impacted Geographic focus Programme 1 Yr1 to Yr3 25 15 000 75 000 SADC Yr4 to Yr6 50 35 000 175 000 SADC Yr7 to Yr10 60 40 000 200 000 SADC Programme 2 Yr1 to Yr3 40 6 300 91 350 RSA Yr4 to Yr6 50 17 000 280 000 RSA Programme 3 Yr1 to Yr3 25 20 000 120 000 RSA | A. Discovery layer 1.Resources needed: Programme leaders 1.1.Status: Available, but we cannot afford them now 1.2.Headcount: Short term 3, Medium term 6, Long term 8-10 2.Committed US$750k own funding to date. Future funding needed to support team and discovery programme: 2.1.Short term US$1.5M pa for 1 year 2.2.Medium term US$3.0M pa for 2 years 2.3.Long term US$5.0M pa for 2 years The Discovery programme becomes self-funding after year 5 through contributions from ecosystem companies created through the i4xM programme. B. Definition & Implementation The identification of suitable business partners from local existing and emerging companies form part of the i4xM business model. It may be prudent to team up with existing or emerging global players for some of the programmes; such cooperation is welcomed. Our biggest challenge is to find funding to support the BFS (Bankable Feasibility Study) work required before significant investment in the EPCM (Engineering Procurement Construction Management) phase can be sourced. The latter is more accessible but there is a dearth of suitable VC investors in emerging markets to fund BFS work. Early polling for the EPCM phase indicated strong investor appetite, provided BFS has been completed. The local market pays a 3-fold premium for completed BFS work. The total estimated BFS investment for the BRICS programme is US$130 Million over a 5-year period. Detail available upon request. | 1.Overall solution summary at: https://www.i4xm.net 2.Our current flagship programme is the Nkomazi SEZ. The innovation aspects are being managed using the i4xM programme. A detailed description of the programme can be found at: http://www.dti.gov.za/invitations/Nkomazi_SEZ.pdf 3.Aspects of the learning programme are available at: https://iscdc.io/ 4.The Township Economy programme social currency pilot can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ2LTH7EVXE&t=1s Further detail articles and login credentials available on request. | Presentation material at: https://www.cgcsa.co.za/downloads/#1542708501018-08a07bba-41a1 Links to previous conference presentations still being awaited from host organisations and will be added later. | We were a finalist in an application for funding from the South African government Department of Finance during 2017, when we applied under the name of the CSIR. The Jobs Fund had previously disbursed funding to them and did not want to increase their exposure. I do not know who the winner was. i4xM was since registered as a wholly private sector NPC with no links to the CSIR or any other government organisation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
408 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chandrasekaran | Jayaraman | Watsan Envirotech Private Limited | www.watsan.in | Founder & Director | Male | India | India | English | Our aim is to use technology as a fulcrum for providing the most affordable and effective drinking water and sanitary solutions.To improve the living standards of at least 100 million families within the next three years by providing the most efficient, electricity-free, affordable water filters and ready-to-fit toilets, ensuring a dignified, happy and healthy life. By applying to be a part of the UN solutions summit helps us to reach more needy people and getting validated by UN is a credit to us. | Chandrasekaran J is a National level topper in Plastics Technology from Central Institute of Plastics & Engineering Technology (CIPET) with almost 25 years of industrial experience. Runs 4 startups, 1. Watsan Envirotech Private Limited to provide electricity free low cost water purifiers and turnkey solutions to make toilets faster and durable (www.watsan.in) 2. Custom Parts Online his parent company, helping innovators design, prototype and make their products (www.custompartsonline.com) 3. Ancient Heritage Conservation Private Limited, to restore ancient heritage structures using ancient science and engineering, restore and rejuvenate the heritage loving culture for the country. 4. Cureall Medicare OPC Pvt Ltd, makers of low cost diagnostic and medical aid kits. | Natural terafil water purifier and Ready to fit modular toilets | Water and Sanitation for All | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India | No | Sustainable Scale | Watsan Envirotech was started with an objective of harnessing technology to make affordable solutions for providing clean drinking water and sanitation. we have been focusing on building up a low cost, electricity-free, maintenance-less, Zero water wastage water filter. specifically add-ons like arsenic and fluoride removal filters. We also build toilets without sand, water and cement, but with glass fibre waste, which otherwise would end up as landfill, recycled and reused to build toilets. | Statistics reveal that still 74% of the Indian populace do not have access to clean drinking water. This is turn increases child mortality, men not able to go to work, thereby bringing huge cost load for hospitalization, purchase of canned water, loosing and many intangible ill effects. Open defecation poses a serious threat to the health of children in India. Women and girls face shame and a loss of personal dignity and risk their safety if there is no toilet at home and wait for nightfall. | Watsan Envirotech was started with an objective of harnessing technology to make affordable solutions for providing clean drinking water and sanitation. Since 2013, we have been focusing on building up a low cost, electricity-free, maintenance-less water filter and have been successful in making in-roads by providing the filters to many rural and urban slum households, schools, child care centers and old age homes. Having given 2,20,000 households our all variants of purifiers, the standard, arsenic and fluoride removal systems, we have been able to give potable water, hence healthier life to at-least 1 million people of the country considering a family of 4 to 5 members. This includes empowering them with more man hours to go to work, earn better, children to go to school and learn better, reducing their cost to health and not paying to doctors. Specifically arsenic and fluoride alleviation even-though talked about a lot, no tangible product has been given to the last mile, which we only have done in INDIA in a measurable level. We also build toilets without sand, water and cement, but with glass fibre waste, which otherwise would end up as landfill, recycled and reused to build toilets. | Natural Terafil Filter 1. Even though big players like Unilever and TATA are there, they do not sweat to reach out to last woman in the last mile which we do. So we are not really worried about the competition. Also we tailor make purifiers which alleviates the local problem like iron removal, fluoride removal and arsenic removal as well. 2. Electricity-free, maintenance-less, zero-wastage water, retains mineral, removes pathogens, soluble iron, turbidity and odor. Also region specific filters like arsenic and fluoride removal water filters. Low cost. 3. We sell through GOI approvaled PHEDs, NGOs, CSR Project and direct to customers only. Modular Toilets 1.Less time consumption for completion than the conventional Reinforced Cement Concrete (RCC) toilets (the work gets done in 2 days whereas conventional toilet in RCC takes at least 15 days) 2. Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) toilets and Roto-moulded cubicles made in High Density Poly Ethylene (HDPE) that are available in the market do not address the problem of green house effect, as they have single walled structure 3. The huge supply demand gap of 17.5 Crore toilets ( 10% of the total need) has been bridged 4. Cost effective than the conventional RCC 5. Non-corrosive and lighter in weight 6. Cannot be robbed and sold for the benefit of scrap selling, as FRP does not have scrap value 7. The design has minimal joints so that the structure looks neat, elegant and monolithic | From the time of inception, first year was completely dedicated for research and development of the products. From second year orders started supplying to PHD's , NGO and direct customers. From next year turnover doubled. On further research on water brought in arsenic and fluoride removal water filter. Later we added pesticides removal, now working with various universities for textile dye removal, river remediation, all using biological remediation and cleantech solutions. | Our targeted market is to reach every household where drinking water is not potable. AP and Telangana, Punjab, Assam and other North East states as one cluster, West Bengal, Karnataka. - five top states where water alleviation problem is on the high. Similarly we have started piloting in many African countries, South America, other South East Asian Countries and setting partners over there for reaching out to BoP there. We have so far impacted 2,30,000 households in India, covering almost all states. Our large size community purifiers have been given to the Border Security Force at Wagah and Kargil. We have replaced the R.O machines using automated Terafil large size filtration which does not waste water, need no electricity. We are planning to employ at least 50 women across the country as Social Change Makers - covering all states, so that they become educators reaching out to women and children in villages who suffer drinking unsafe water and defecate in open, then become skilled testers of water with our to-be-developed App, in which the water report can be entered on which the company will develop tailor made purifiers suiting to each geography. | Man power, Source raw materials like pottery clay, m-sand, sand or equivalent, water, saw dust in any place we anted to start the nano-clay filter medium manufacturing unit. Short term plans: Our existing plant is good enough to sustain PAN India supplies. We only need to employ rural unemployed women, entrepreneurs to start with, to educate their brethren the need for safe and quality drinking water and to have decent toilet, to improve health from all spheres. So we will focus on getting at least 1 woman from each state, that is 29 states in India, similarly at least one representative from each country, suffering from water woes. Long term goal: Localize, scale up, penetrate local market by starting the manufacturing hub there in each country, thereby reducing dependency on imports, and encourage rural employment. | http://watsan.in/ http://newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/article1442773.ece − http://tinyurl.com/cdg3bdj Videos on the water purifiers: − https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhII0kIZO58 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wsEXbQmSQDo http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TY_62UW3Uqc http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3KsyalVceDw And in International columns and blogs http://www.socialenterprisebuzz.com/2014/05/29/selling-affordable-water-filters-to-thebottom-of-the-pyramid/ http://nextbillion.net/blogpost.aspx?blogid=3925 and http://nextbillion.net/blogpost.aspx?blogid=3926 Listed in Asia for Good web site: https://www.asiaforgood.com/social-enterprise/watsan-envirotech | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6n856wsHppA64vAn2nBRQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58JksPlOq8c&t=810s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_gWpETotu4&list=PLVl53pebUunz2NkxfySug-FG21cwpsJPv | - Waterpreneur Award from FICCI- 2018 -CII -Best Innovation startup 2017 - MA Grant from FICCI-USAID 2015 - Gold medal IIIF 2016, - Winner of CAETS-RAE, London, Engineers for better tomorrow – Video Competition. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhII0kIZO58) - Finalist in Global Clean tech programme GCIP-UNIDO - 2016 - 2 national awards on innovation - Power of Ideas- ET–CIIE-IIM Ahmedabad- Grant Winner – 2016 - Fellow of RAE, London, LIF. Other credentials: http://www.watsan.in/gallery.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
409 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Beatriz | Gonzalez Mendoza | UN-Habitat | http://capacitybuildingunhabitat.org/ | Consultant | Female | Kenya | Mexico | English | Spanish | I believe that attending the UN Solutions Summit will be an opportunity for me to learn about other ongoing worldwide efforts in providing innovative solutions for SDG compliance. Furthermore, the Summit will be a platform to share the lessons learned during the process of conception, implementation and scale-up that the project I coordinate has shown in more than a year of operation. I am confident that the space provided by UN Solutions will facilitate the creation of new networks with different stakeholders who are working on similar projects to mine, and in addition, it will encourage the search for synergies in our efforts towards expanding and maximising the impact of our solutions. Over the two years that I have been working at UN-Habitat, innovation has been at the core of my work. By innovation, I mean not only technology but also looking for alternatives in proposing solutions and shifting the paradigm of mindsets that are often ingrained. The main innovative project has been the Consultation of Sustainable Cities and Communities in Latin America, which utilises mobile applications and online platforms to empower citizens to participate in decision-making and public policies in their cities, as well as to increase their awareness of SDG11. This project aims to turn Latin American cities into smart cities through more well-informed citizens committed to their cities. | I am an urban planner of Mexican nationality focusing on innovation, smart cities, citizen participation and capacity building. I hold a BSc in Management and an MA in Cities and Global Development. After completing my studies, I co-founded a non-profit organisation in my hometown, aiming to provide training and consultancy to civil associations to maximise their scopes. In 2017, I joined UN-Habitat, and since then, I have been involved in the management of the UN-Habitat UNI Initiative and in the implementation of the “Accountability systems for measuring, monitoring and reporting on public policies in Latin America”. Additionally, I coordinate the “Global Urban Lectures”, which according to Making of Cities, the videos have been featured as one of the best MOOCs in Cities. During my work in the UN system, I have become familiar with the knowledge management systems allowing me to explore different alternatives and innovative ideas to knowledge transfer to the various stakeholders I work with. Hence, I am sure that the multicultural environment where I am working and my previous experiences working and studying abroad are suitable for participation in the UN Solutions Summit. I have experience working/studying in countries such as the USA, Iceland, Germany, Mexico, United Kingdom, India, Kenya, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. I am fluent in Spanish, English and basic Portuguese and German knowledge. | Sustainable Cities and Communities Consultation | A consultation platform for holding urban leaders accountable placed in the hands of citizens | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | The project is currently being implemented in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. However, discussions have begun with Argentina to explore possibilities for implementation. | Yes | Colab (Brazil) and OS City (Bolivia and Peru). | Scaling | The project emerged as an activity for a workshop held in Peru in March 2018. Due to the success, we decided to convert the activity into an online survey in April 2018. In June 2018, we developed the platform (which we currently have) in Brazil, collecting the perception of nearly 10,000 citizens. In March 2019, it was decided to implement the consultation in Bolivia and Peru, turning the platform and survey into a regional tool, available in Portuguese and Spanish. | In LAC, about 80% of people live in cities. The Sustainable Cities and Communities consultation is a platform that serves as a transparency tool for citizens to provide substantive feedback to local authorities and decision-makers. The feedback helps to create public policies that are more responsive to challenges of urbanisation in an efficient and integrated way, from the perspective of the city inhabitants. | The consultation consists of 29 questions related to the indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11) on Sustainable Cities and Communities, used to compare citizens' perception of the current state of the city in comparison to that from two years ago. Once the questionnaire has been completed, the respondents will be able to view their answers and compare them with the average of their city and their country. In case the consultation starts with some cities and not at the national level, the country average would only include the participating cities. The visualisation helps to generate a better understanding of the diagnosis of the city according to citizen perception. The results of the first stage of the consultation were presented during the first UN-Habitat assembly on 28 May 2019, generating broad interest among the audience and attendees of the event. In addition, it was agreed to replicate the consultation every year in Brazil until 2030 with the same period and in the same months (October-January); with the aim of being able to compare the variants of citizen perception at the local and national levels, as well as the advances that Brazil and its cities are making towards SDG11. | The consultation showcases the realisation of the SDG11 in Latinamerican cities through the lenses of citizens, demonstrating that new channels of communication that involve citizens in decision-making can generate and validate a significant amount of data and information on policies and their results on the ground. Furthermore, the project proves that innovative consultative processes with limited resources can be optimised to scale up citizen participation to capture their views on the effectiveness of public policies that affect their lives. Citizens' collaboration and transparency are the best tools to improve public management, and the consultation ensures that the dialogue with the population happens quickly and efficiently, allowing the results to be measured, facilitating the evaluation of public managers. | The progress of the consultation can be measured by the impact it has had and the interest of other countries and cities in joining the initiative. It started as an activity on flip chart paper for a training workshop, and since then, the consultation has become a standardised tool that has been used in 3 countries and is currently available in 2 languages. The data has been presented in a report and has been delivered to the mayors of the cities that had the strongest participation, as well as key actors of the Brazilian cities. The publication is currently in the process of being translated into English to provide further dissemination. In the case of Bolivia and Peru, the report of the first phase will be presented at WUF10 in Abu Dhabi. Similarly, we have been able to measure the impact of this, as more municipalities, NGOs and private companies have joined to collaborate with us and make possible the implementation and dissemination of this consultation, despite the economic constraints that the project has. The project has also been presented as an example of UN-Habitat innovation through the ED, has been representative of UN-Habitat in the UNIN network. Furthermore, it has been presented on national television in Brazil, and has participated in various international meetings such as the UN-Habitat Assembly, the most important Smart Cities forum in Brazil, and has been invited to participate in the Forum on Sustainable Cities in November 2019 organised by ECLAC. | The next goal of the project is to achieve broader participation in the second phase in Brazil, which begins on October 1 and runs through January 31. As mentioned above, the first phase involved almost 10,000 citizens from 826 cities. In the case of Bolivia and Peru, in August, the first phase began with a focus only on the cities with which the project works. It is intended that this stage will be a watershed in the countries for the following year to replicate the consultation at the national level, as has been done in Brazil, and thus be able also to have a national panorama of citizen perception. Similarly, it is expected that this first stage will generate so much impact that a replication of the consultation can be agreed until 2030, as agreed in May 2019 in Brazil. In expansion, it is expected to be able to materialize the proposal with Argentina to implement the national consultation in 2020. Additionally, in Colombia, discussions have also begun with a Swiss foundation working in Medellin to explore implementation options in the city with a youth involvement approach (with which the foundation works). It is hoped that more countries will join the initiative to transform the tool into a regional tool (in Latin America) as well as to achieve further implementation in other regions of the world. | The consultation has been created and funded through the Project ""Accountability systems for measuring, monitoring and reporting on public policies in LAC"" which ends on May 2020. Hence, the resources will be cancelled as soon as the project comes to an end. In the short term, therefore, we are looking for donors who can help fund the consultation. The resources needed are only for the dissemination of the consultation and greater citizen participation. The platform has already been created, and there is no significant cost over the years. In Brazil, it was agreed with Colab that they will look for sponsors to achieve better dissemination and have committed to replicate the consultation with their resources. In Bolivia and Peru, we have worked closely with the municipalities, and it is expected that once the dialogues are established with the first results, an agreement of cooperation can be secured for the continuity of the project. Our medium-term goals are to continue disseminating the relevance of the platform in different international spaces, with the aim of seeking partnerships to continue the work in current and new countries. Similarly, in 2020, the results will be presented at WUF10 and at the forum on sustainable countries organized by ECLAC. In the long term, reports will be produced that reflect how citizens' perceptions have changed over the years, and that will serve as support for the reports to be presented on the compliance of Agenda 2030. | https://new.unhabitat.org/project/citizen-engagement-to-localize-sdg11-accountability-in-latin-american-and-the-caribbean https://new.unhabitat.org/sites/default/files/documents/2019-06/consultation_on_sustainable_cities_fa_low_res_25.05.pdf https://drive.google.com/file/d/15drJCyiVi9gwJ_NGg2LLxbpnRQKOOQwa/view <iframe src=""https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FPrefeituraMunicipaldeNiteroi%2Fvideos%2F442854919601944%2F&show_text=0&width=260"" width=""260"" height=""476"" style=""border:none;overflow:hidden"" scrolling=""no"" frameborder=""0"" allowTransparency=""true"" allowFullScreen=""true""></iframe> https://drive.google.com/file/d/15drJCyiVi9gwJ_NGg2LLxbpnRQKOOQwa/view https://www.cnm.org.br/comunicacao/noticias/cnm-apresenta-atuacao-municipalista-em-maior-evento-sobre-cidades-inteligentes-da-america-latina https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnership/?p=29756 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfVid_ij7HA&t=3s | https://www.facebook.com/PrefeituraMunicipaldeNiteroi/videos/526461001220941/ (min 55) Unfortunately, I don't have any link or video where I'm speaking in English. | The consultation has been selected and featured as good practice by UNDESA. 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410 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Obiora | Obetta | Betas Integrated Technologies | www.betas.com.ng (Under Construction) | Director | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My name is Obetta Obiora. I am passionate about community development and entrepreneurship. The UN Solutions Summit is a platform that will enable me to launch my idea and ingenuity on the global stage. I am motivated to apply for this opportunity because I want a voice from a local community in south east Nigeria, an abandoned enclave, a people forgoten by successive leadership and are left to fed fro themselves over decades, to be heard. As the second University graduate in the entire community of about 400,000 in population, among the generations of people;e that have lived in the very community. We are a people known for agriculture and our story has not been given audience because the farmers continue to experience poverty and successive unproductive years due to lack of basic information, basic amenities to support them. This scenario is common in most rural communities in Nigeria at large. I developed this mobile phone technology service called Agrisence to bridge the gap between rural farmers and modern farming methods through access to credible farming operations. I believe that the future belongs to young people who are standing up to make a difference in their communities through innovative enterprise. This is why I am lunching the Agrisence first, in my locality, then to other parts of South East Nigeria and beyond. The Agrisence service is on prototyping stage, and we have used the information we have on modern farming to reach out to local farmers in the community and the impact is unprecedented on the output from their farm this year. this is as a result of the credible information we where able to provide for their corn and vegetable farming operations. | Born on Agust 8, 1983, in Enugu state, Nigeria. He has worked in a couple of firm including the African American Institute of Financial management in Onitsha, Anambra State as a marketing personnel. He gathered a wealth of knowledge in Marketing. He is skilled in Computer Graphic Designs, and in digital Printing Technology. Heis the head of operations, Betas Integrated Technologies, Markurdi Benue State. He holds a National Diploma in Science Laboratory Technology and a Higher National Diploma in Science Laboratory Technology, specializing in Physics and Electronics. He is currently a Post-graduate student of NACETEM-ObafemiAwolowo University Ile-Ife, Enugu Study Center. He is a team leader and likes working with a team. He is a prolific writer, a dynamicproject manager anda tech enthusiasts. He likes innovative challenges, creative writing and cooking. ENTREPRENEURSHIP He is an entrepreneur by training. He is the founder of Betas integrated Technologies, an agro-processing start up, registered in Nigeria. Currently developed the sachet brand for Tiger Nut Milk. Processing different species of fish (Drying) and packaging for export. | Agrisence | Farming with Precision | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Nigeria | Yes | Airtel Communications Nigeria. | Proof of Concept | It is at the proof and development stage because we are yet to purchase the USSD code from a telcos which will enable our service to go live. By the the time it goes live, we would be able to reach more farmers with the service by simply dialing the code and following the protocols (Language selection, Crop type, Activity, etcv) | Limited access to information stands as a root challenge, most small scale farmers especially in the rural communities face today in the South east and Nigeria at large with most farmers missing out on new and improved farming methods which greatly limits their output. | The Agrisence is a mobile phone based technology which deploys credible text and voice messages to farmers. It is a USSD technology that will enable the rural farmers to have access to precise improved farming information via (English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) on 60 crops and 20 farm animals in our data base for improved productivity. | Provides Credible voice messages to farmers in local languages. Offers precise information on 60 varieties of crops and 20 farm animals. Flexible weekly subscription of 20 naira per session. Technology, works in any kind of Mobile phone (Including feature phones). | *Manually engaged 70 on-site farmers with Agrisence Service. *Concept Developed *Prototype (Demo) (Currently being Created) | GROWTH PLAN OVER THE NEXT 6 MONTHS *Complete Development of the database with Software *Purchase of the USSD Code *Launch of the product Live for commercial operatoins *Strategic Marketing and free usage tutorial with rural farmers in Enugu state | USSD Code from Telcos (Short Term) Central Work/Service Station (Medium Term) Mobility for Marketers and Grassroot Mobilizers Short Term) Customized mobile phones for the Agrisence technology (Long Term) | Not Available for now. | Not Available for now | Startup Nigeria <hello@startupnigeria.ng> To:obiorad@yahoo.co.uk 11 Jun at 08:37 Hello Entrepreneur Congratulations!!! You have qualified to go into the Virtual Training Stage of the Startup Nigeria program. 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411 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Isaac | Akinola | Irock Geo-Water Services | www.irockgeowater.com | Project Coordinator | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Everyday over 1000 boreholes are sunk across Nigeria yet their is need for more but unfortunately more than 60% of these boreholes does not last the test of time due to lack of professional supervision. Fortunately those that can give professional supervision are wandering in the street as unemployed Geoscientist. We need a bridge and a solution to this. Meanwhile, Nobody will remember you for benefiting from a solution provided by others, but history will never forget you for the solution that you provided. The numbers of years you live does not count but the numbers of years you touched while on earth. UN Solution Summit has always taken the bull by the horn. And to render a lasting solution to a problem it is better to take the bull of that problem by the horn. Many believed that until they have huge amount of money they cannot start some business. With our new innovation into geoscience world many now have the confidence that it takes to build a business. With YOUDRILL many youth don't wait for old age before they can provide portable water for their community and also reduce unemployment rate. | Akinola Isaac Afolabi born on 15/05/1988 is a young and vibrant Nigerian geoscientist with biased mind for groundwater and youth empowerment. He has been into borehole drilling business from a tender age of 17years while he was an undergraduate of Mining Engineering and still in the business. He had supervised more than 1500 domestic boreholes and over 20 industrial boreholes spread across the country. | YOUDRILL | Solution to Global Borehole Failure and Youth Unemployment | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria, West Africa, Africa and the world | No | Research & Development | All the borehole drilling operation, borehole failures and unemployment rate information have been gotten. And percentage of borehole failure across Nigeria is known. | Youth Unemployment Lack of potable water supply Alarming borehole failure rate. Unprofessionalism in Project | As a win-win approach all participanting member of the scheme see it as their own. And it can be easily replicated in other sector of the economy and the UN goal. | It target the key players in the sector Focus on a sector at a particular time Empower the youth for the future and not just immediate financial remuneration | We have reached the stage at which the selected key player in the scheme can come in and play their roles. 85% of them have already showed interest. | Goal. Involved 1. Government agency. 2 Professional bodies 3 Foreign partners 4 International Agencies | Readiness of all party involved to olay their role accordingly. Quarterly accessment of the progress of the program | https://www.irockgeowater.com https://www.dropbox.com/s/3t9wdywuyii8we2/YOUDRILL2019.pdf?dl=0 | https://www.dropbox.com/s/mbh07m3tumh9gye/VID_20190803_105429.mp4?dl=0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
412 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Saad | Farukh | Smart Labour | www.smartlabour.ae | Founder | Male | United Arab Emirates | India | English | I would be honored to attend the UN Solution Summit to present my project, Smart Labour. I am located in the UAE and grew up as an Indian expat in Dubai. I have seen the city grow in the past 20 years with unbelievable investment in technology of the future. Yet, I also saw one population left behind in the wake of digital innovation and connectivity: the blue-collar migrant workers. They come to the GCC region for hopes of a job that can provide a better life for their family. They may stay here anywhere from two to twenty years. With a low income and long working hours blue-collar workers have little time or money to learn the skills necessary for the future of work. That is where Smart Labour comes in. Smart Labour is a mobile and web application that provides blue-collar workers in the UAE with free, guided education right on their smart phones. The learning content focuses on skills labourers need today to be ready for the future, like English language skills, driving skills, and Life Coach support. The videos are in multiple languages (Hindi, English, Arabic), less than three minutes long, and on a simple intuitive mobile platform. The best part of the app is the gamification aspect, which rewards workers for learning. Workers receive points after finishing a course and those points then go towards food and talk-time telecom vouchers. In addition, the Smart Labour application also has an Engagement Section where workers can submit their innovative ideas. Our innovation in this sector hopes to support migrant upskilling and labour mobility in the GCC region in order to provide a better life for a population that is more than half of the UAE. | An IT professional & founder of Smart Labour, the exclusive app for labourers. Have over 20 years of experience in IT and have been involved in large-scale projects that involve getting the best out of technology and people. Have worked with people from different countries and cultures and am always keen to learn from babies in cradles to the oldies in armchairs and everyone else in the middle. The CV has more details on the specific project related work | Smart Labour | An educational mobile application enriching the lives of blue-collar workers in the GCC. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Currently in the UAE with plans to expand to the entire GCC region. | Yes | Accenture Middle East, Ministry of Human Resources and Emiritisation, Mohammad Bin Rashid Innovation Fund, Expo Live 2020 | Transition to Scale | We have seen success with implementing small scale projects in this population and are looking for more support and partnerships to scale the project to include more labourers in the UAE. | There are currently 2.2 million blue-collar workers in the UAE that do not benefit from the digital connectivity that the UAE is known for. We are enriching their lives by providing them with digital literacy and vital education with the engagement of the local community and employers. Over 90% of the workers have a Smart Phone and we don't have platform specifically for blue collar workers and there is a need to upskill workers to improve digital inclusion | We provide low cost, inclusive, and relevant educational materials to the UAE's blue collar workforce through an easy-to-use mobile application. Learning is incentive through a rewards system that gives users points for watching videos which can then be redeemed for telecom or food vouchers. The topics touch on labour laws, skills development--like language training--and UAE culture. The platform ensures that labourers have free access to information that eases their life in the UAE, whether that is teaching workers about life in the UAE, allowing them to hone their English skills to communicate with clients, or learning how to save money for their future goals. Our long-term vision is to support the current generation of blue-collar workers in the GCC, while preparing future generations with skills that will allow them to have more choices. The Smart Labour application supports the current workforce with educational content, while we also have opened 3 schools in rural India where many blue-collar workers migrate from. In this way, we can intervene earlier to ensure the future generations are prepared. | The blue-collar workers in the GCC do not have many opportunities for upskilling or education outside of their job. Yet, even if this free education existed, many do not have the time to go to physical locations. Having this information in a guided and easily understandable mobile application with gamification aspects incentives workers to learn skills in small batches. This helps them save time, while allowing them to learn something new that is relevant to their lives in the UAE. In addition, many in this population own mobile phones, but only use these phones for social media or calling their families. The Smart Labour app thus teaches them basic digital literacy through use of the platform in order to teach and prepare the workforce for the future. There is currently no one in this space that is looking for sustainable solutions to prepare this workforce for the changes in work driven by digital development. | The Smart Labour application is available in the google play store and apple app store. In the past year we've had a 56% increase in downloads and increased engagement in learning from the blue collar workforce. We measure our progress firstly with our mobile platform where we track users, voucher redemption, and learning. In addition, we track various KPI's dealing that ensures we are running a sustainable social enterprise. | We plan to expand into more countries in the GCC region, specifically planning to go to KSA once scaled in the UAE. We recruit from the blue collar workforce continuously to support development and facilitate trust in our platform with the workers, and plan on hiring more software developers in the future to integrate AI innovations on our platform, with the help of Accenture ME. We plan on impacting at least 100,000 blue collar workers in the next 5 years, in addition to opening about 10 more schools in rural India. | In the short term we are seeking sponsorship & impact funding to help us reach out to different segments and establish the mechanics to make Smart Labour a fully sustainable social enterprise. We also need strong support from Government stakeholders and blue collar employers to implement Smart Labour in various sectors like Government, construction, hospitality, manufacturing, retail sectors to fine tune Smart Labour to make more meaningful impact. We also need more software professionals, researchers, implementation teams and more blue collar ambassadors from labour accommodations as we scale up In the medium and long term we need revenue from paying customers & human resources to scale up Smart Labour. We also want to create a rich content repository based on an accurate skills of blue collar workers in the GCC and finally the revenue to help us build 100 sustainable schools in rural areas from where workers come to the Middle East | https://www.smartlabour.ae https://www.youtube.com/watch=xug75AJdj0k https://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/dubai/this-smart-app-teaches-workers-to-face-stress-with-smile https://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/dubai/indian-expats-app-brings-smart-dubai-to-workers https://www.instagram.com/smartlabouruae/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.smartlabour&hl=en https://apps.apple.com/ae/app/smart-labour/id1062647626 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aGvRGIqRr8 | https://www.smartlabour.ae/#/awards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
413 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | MOHAMMAD INNUS | KHAN | DESHPANDE FOUNDATION | https://www.deshpandefoundationindia.org/ | Director of Agriculture Initiatives | MALE | India | India | English | Deshpande Foundation Hubbali Sandbox was founded in the year 2007 in Hubbali, Dharwad District, North Karnataka. Applying a ‘bottom-up’ approach to build scalable solutions, the Foundation’s Sandbox is an empowering ecosystem that aims to nurture grassroots social innovation and development through encouraging an entrepreneurial culture in the community. Aligning with the goal of Deshpande Foundation to impact 1.1 billion people of India through our grass root innovations working in different areas like Agriculture, Edu-Skilling and Entrepreneurship , we thought to represent this idea at global level which will help to impact at larger level through global recognition's and partnerships. Need of the solution Small and marginal farmers account for 86.2% of all farmers (126 million farmers) in India (10th agriculture census 2015-16), but own average land of just 0.6 hectares. Moreover, about 60% of total net sown area comes under rainfed lands thus having water poverty. India ranks first in rain-fed agriculture, both in area and value of produce. Over the years, farmers in rain-fed areas have been facing several adversities such as climate variability, crop failure, non-remunerative prices, etc. Nearly 90 % of Karnataka’s 31.8 lakh ha rabi area is in the northern region, among the worst-affected by drought and water stress. Nearly 60 % of Karnataka was drought-hit for 9-11 years between 2001 and 2015 (2017 KSNDMC report). There have been three years of severe and protracted droughts since 2015. More than 33% of the talukas are ‘highly’ or ‘very highly vulnerable’. Intervention – Farm Pond Addressing this critical need, DF has initiated the Agricultural Farm Pond or ‘Neer Sinchana’ program in 2014 which aims to harvest enough water to cultivate at least 1 additional crops in a year in the semi-arid region of North Karnataka. Since 2014, we have constructed 4,500+ ponds with help of earth excavators, irrigating over 15750 acres, impacting about 21000 lives across 4 districts of Karnataka (Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, Belgaum) and 2 districts of Telangana (Siddipet, Nalgonda). This program has now become a demand-driven program under which different sizes of farm ponds are constructed on farmers demand and based on their needs. | I was brought up in the Mewat Brij region of Rajasthan, state in Northern India. Rajasthan is mainly famous for Thar Desert and most of the area in state is under water distress. My father was also a farmer and I have observed how water plays a critical role in a farmers life. Their total income of Agriculture is only dependent on rain. I was the first person in the family to get graduation. Because of farming background and seen water distress in my own farmland I always have a thought how we can solve this problem.My father was our power and motivation. He had a vision for us before we had one for ourselves. I went on to pursue a Masters in Political Science from Rajasthan University.After hearing from a friend about Horticulture tour by ICAR Delhi, I applied and got selected for the same in 2004.This provided the opportunity to travel across India, enabled me to build a rich network and unbreakable confidence. Curious and excited to work on the field for witnessing a bigger social change. I started working field coordinator in SST- PRADAN, reputed NGO in India for a INR 4000 per month salary. After knowing about Deshpande Fellowship Program (DFP) from a friend I applied and got selected for the fellowship program. After this because of my dedication I was offered as program manager for Agri Inittiative at Despande foundation. Working since 2012, currently working as Director of Agriculture leading team of 310 people.I am currently pursuing Acumen fellowship which focuses on building a pipeline of leaders who can understand what it takes to create lasting change. | Neer Sinchana( Farm Ponds) | Alleviating Water Poverty from the lives of farmers | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | INDIA | Yes | Morgridge Family Foundation, LTI(Larsen and Tubro Infotech),TATA Trust, Marico Foundation, Hitachi Payment Services | Transition to Scale | Our solution has reached Transition to scale. Since 2014, we have constructed 4,500 ponds with help of earth excavators, irrigating over 15750 acres, impacting about 21000 lives across 4 districts of Karnataka (Dharwad, Gadag, Haveri, Belgaum) and 2 districts of Telangana (Siddipet, Nalgonda), INDIA. This program has now become a demand-driven program under which different sizes of farm ponds are constructed on farmers demand and based on their needs. | Water scarcity in rainfed areas of INDIA. These rainwater harvesting structures(Farm ponds) help farmers to restore rain water and provide water for crop cultivation and impacting in several ways to the community. Small and marginal farmers account for 86.2% of all farmers (126 million farmers) in India (10th agriculture census 2015-16), but own average land of just 0.6 hectares. Moreover, about 60% of total net sown area comes under rainfed lands thus having water poverty. | Benefits of farm pond Helps farmers by storing rain water to provide adequate, reliable, long-term water supply, and hence ending vulnerability and uncertainty of rain-fed farmers •It is a one-time investment which provides localised water and food security for many years by enhancing the crop productivity and climate resilience •Water harvesting allows timely sowing and irrigation of multiple crops, helping farmers to maximize their yield and correspondingly increase his/her income by 2 to 3 times minimum and even in many cases upto 5 times. •Generates employment opportunities for on-farm labour during all seasons, preventing migration and making the owner of the farm-pond a rural job-creator •Helps in conserving the natural resources like soil and nutrients apart from water conservation •Helps in preserving soil erosion Impact of 4500 Farm ponds constructed till now •4500 farm ponds(> 5x increment income 20% farmers, 3x income increased 30% increment, rest 2x increment in come). •More than 21,000 lives got benefited through rain water harvesting on farm land. •More than 15,750 acres of land got impacted as farmers got security in terms of water availability for crop cultivation. Long Term Vision To impact 1 lakh farmers in coming 5 years through our this initiative in rainfed areas of INDIA. | Unique Value Proposition of Farm pond •Stakeholder involvement (Farmer, Gram Panchayat (Local Government), community etc) throughout the project. •Cost sharing model is designed for this program in which farmers take care of 50-60 % of operational cost and expenditure varies depending upon farm pond size. This brings sense of ownership among farmers leading to higher socio-economic impact on community. Rest cost is taken care by our Deshpande Foundation •Every 40 hours we deliver a farm pond which is quality water pond such that it does not need any maintenance or desilting upto7 to 8 years. •Community ownership makes this program more efficient with the involvement of local government ( Gram Panchayat) •Hence it’s a life long solution lasting more than 7 to 8 years. •Scalable and sustainable economic model leading to high impact at ground level. Benefits of farm Pond of size 100*100*12(L*B*H) feet •Can irrigate 3-5 acre land for 6 months. •Can harvest about 33 lakh litres of rain water •One extra crop per season can be cultivated •600 person hours generated directly •It reduces migration as it induces employment for locals | Started in 2012 with a team of 6 people, the Agriculture team of Deshpande Foundation has reached upto 310 employees in the current financial year. Neer Sinchana was started as a program to make farm ponds (rainwater harvesting structures) in 2014 at Deshpande Foundation, Hubbali, Karnataka India. Starting with a team of 3 people under this program, now it has become a team of more than 50 employees dedicated for this solution. We have rigorous process/ methodologies for construction of farm pond 1. Area selection, need analysis 2.Panchayat meetings, Identify the lead farmers 3.Gram Panchayat (Local Government) sends request letter to Deshpande Foundation 4.Individual application of Farmer 5.Site selection 6.Farm pond construction There are several ways in which we do our impact analysis 1.By doing case studies of farmers and observing the changes in cropping pattern 2.3rd party impact assessment of the program 3.Data validation (crop yield/productivity and cropping pattern changes) 4.Geo tagging of farm ponds to monitor the scale 5.Feedbacks from the farmer regarding the initiative by doing FGD( focused group discussion) | Now Deshpande Foundation Agriculture Initiative has reached a stage where this solution is ready to scale and we have planned to reach 1 lakh farmers in next 5 years. Currently working in two states of India, future plan is to scale this initiative in various states based on the need and demand in rainfed areas of India which is about 60% of total net sown area. To reach 1 lakh farmers we would need 740 more employees. This will impact in several ways 1.It will generate employment and hence reducing migration for local people 2.Will harvest rainwater about 250 billion litres 3.More than 5 lakh lives of will be impacted 4.About 3500 billion person hours will be generated directly through this initiative giving employment to local people 5.It will enhance biodiversity of the surrounding. 6.More than 3.5 lakh acres of land will get impacted as farmers got security in terms of water availability for crop cultivation. | Short term Needs Human resource Collaboration with the various stakeholders including local government, state government and national as well as global partners Financial resources (40 % cost per pond by our partners) Technology for scaling and monitoring Medium term Needs Research on scalability and future possibility for new areas expansion New methods to use innovative ways to reduce the intervention cost and increase the efficiency of the program Long term needs Bringing this solution into main stream such as a part of research for different educational global institutes and pushing this initiative at govt. policy level to impact more people. | https://www.deshpandefoundationindia.org/trustees-page https://www.deshpandefoundationindia.org/initiatives https://www.deshpandefoundationindia.org/agri-initiatives/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJlAcE4Gexw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj8Syn2rUCI https://sustainabilitynext.in/new-top-report/the-khan-who-builds-30-ponds-a-day/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/innus-khan-a4801732/ | Received acumen fellowship 2019 https://acumen.org/blog/meet-the-2019-fellows/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
414 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Brian | Iselin | slavefreetrade | http:// slavefreetrade.org | CEO | Male | Switzerland | Australia | English | After 17 years of anti-slavery operations in 50 countries, I started slavefreetrade largely out of frustration at existing methods of tackling modern slavery and human rights issues. With a goal of creating a global economy of goods and services that have harmed nobody in their making, slavefreetrade operates the world's first Human Rights Compliance Platform. A cloud-based platform, it discovers and maps entire supply chains, uses a zero knowledge app to assess and monitor human rights conditions in workplaces, communicates with consumers via a smartphone app about the human rights record behind a product, mobilises campaigns for products to become compliant. | The President, Founder, and CEO of slavefreetrade, Brian Iselin is an ex-soldier and Federal Agent, who has worked counter-slavery operations in around 50 countries in the last 17 years. Before that, Brian served as an Australian Federal Agent for 13 years in Australia, and China, specialising in organised crime operations and intelligence. | slavefreetrade | World's First Human Rights Compliance Platform | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Global - the platform is built to be geographically agnostic | No | Proof of Concept | We have been building the solution for 2.5 years, and the platform is now live with the first clients coming. We have a number of corporations joining the platform now and a large number waiting for us to be able to onboard them. We are successfully extending reach from businesses only to all forms of organisations, including universities and government procurement. Sales and marketing remain the principal constraints. | Our goal is to end modern slavery in supply chains, done by assuring human rights compliance in workplaces globally. Modern slavery is about clusters of human rights issues. Real time assessment and monitoring of conditions is the only model that works; audit & certification is a failure on human rights. Human rights issues in workplaces extend from the obvious child and forced labour, through to issues such as sexual harassment, gender pay gap, racial and religious discrimination and more. | Organisations register in the cloud-based Human Rights Compliance platform. It runs three processes; 1) values alignment/legal compliance; 2) horizontal enrolment of all staff, and 3) vertical supply chain discovery and mapping. The platform asks human rights questions of every member of staff of every worksite in an orghanisation through the entire supply chain, in real time on a continuing basis and assembles the data. The results are distributed to different audiences e.g. consumers via consumer app, procurement agencies via global sourcing initiative, Issues found are remedied. Audits are conducted to calibtrate the platform. A consumer app reveals the human rights record of products in real time in their phone - can scan and campaign for products to become slave-free. The vision for global impact is creating a market so intersting and viable that more and more organisations are drawn to it, and it becomes the new normal to have to provide human rights compliant goods. Ultimately, human rights goods and service will become the norm instead of the exception. | The only demand-side human rights and modern slavery mechanism. Creates a collaborative community of good businesses working together. The world's only zero knowledge app for interaction with staff. Not punitive; 100% constructive, identify and remedy issues, so businesses gravitate to a growing market for compliant goodsand services.The only comprehensive, complete loop solution. A behavioural loop, we bring good actors together, working together to maintain the community standard. We enable compliance with legal frameworks such as UK Modern Slavery Act, and mitigate risk with real, live data. The only consumer app with real, interactive, live data on the human rights record of every supply chain participant, and campaigning feature. A Partner Program that consultancies augment their offering and ""sell"" human rights compliance (makes human rights compliance pay for the first time in history!) 15x layers of integrity around the data collection process, to ensure accuracy, with built-in threshold of 99% CI and 4% MoE. Product and gepgraphically agnostic; truly global. Works equally for investors, as investees are treated as suppliers, Live data and real, meaasurable impact against human rights performance indicators. World's first social label with human rights framework, and live data. World's first comprehensive human rights framework defining decent work through international human rights law, operationalised down to specific questions asked in real time of primary sources. | The platform is now client-ready. Small producers to large banks, insurance companies and investors, are under negotiation right now. The finance industry are esp. keen to use our platform for the S in their ESG. Data is assessed in real time, and we monitor in our adminstrative dashboard. Impact footprint data is also live, and we can view in seconds, for example, how companies n Bangladesh have improved over time against any of the human rights principles such as freedom of assocation. Impact has never been measurable in this level of detail, globally. If, for example, we want time lapse of how freedom of association has progressed in workplaces globally from 2019-2021, the platform is geared to generate such reporting. The consumer app including the feature for consumers to campaign for goods they want to see slave-free, and the e-procurement plug-in so procurement agencies have a shortcut to assessing the human rights credentials of tenderers will, pending resources, both be ready by the end of summer 2019. The outcomes of the continuing assessment in every worktsite are automatically tested against a 99% CI and 4% MoE threshold. Data is all live so impact os demonstrable. A company CEO sitting in Copenhagen can watch in real time in their dashboard the change in human rights performance as answers come in. The platform alerts them to issues, e.g. sexual harassment, in real time so they can take immediate action. | The projection for 2019 is 1000 organisations in the platform, providing around 100-250,000 staff in the system, with around 25 million questions live in the field, We are already planning on proving the concept on each tier of the supply chain; some primary producers, some manufacturers, some labour supply firms, banks, investors, and retailers. We aim to have 5 universities in the platform by the end of 2019; one each in UK, US, Canada, Australia, and Ireland. We further aim to have 5 x municipal/state/city procurement agencies in the platform by the end of the year, forming a user group for the continuing development of the e-procurement tools. | We immediately need 1) coders/devs, 2) sales and marketing staff and budget 3) communications staff and budget 4) PR staff and budget 5) a platform for to reach potential platform entrants (sales) in different fields, including a UN agency, 6) IT licences for our platform tools, incuding Microsoft products. 7) Travel budget for international sales and promotion. 8) Champions from public and private sector to take the leap to become human rights compliant. | Main Website: https:slavefreetrade.org | Ignite Zurich Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EUPz8TirOI Interview: http://www.senseandsustainability.net/2019/06/25/an-interview-with-brian-iselin-founder-and-ceo-of-the-non-profit-slavefreetrade/ Podcast with WWF: https://media.consensys.net/state-change-44-shining-a-light-on-slavery-eeae67594af3 Review: https://medium.com/@impactchainlab/10-social-impact-thought-leaders-of-2017-we-can-learn-from-in-2018-311be01cc43 Podcast: https://edsnidercenter.org/inctank-podcast-brian-iselin/ Blockchain use case: https://medium.com/@brianiselin67/the-forms-of-blockchain-slavefreetrades-use-case-84cf34c4e2c1 Review: https://www.iofc.ch/stories/brian-iselins-fight-against-modern-slavery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
415 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John | Lennon | LetsBuildaBetterJamaica.com | LetsBuildaBetterJamaica.com | None | Male | Jamaica | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | The SDGs are not legally binding but most countries have signed up to these promises. This is an opportunity to hold all signatories to account. If taxpayers money was used properly we would have better education globally. Parliamentarians have promised quality education and climate action so let's make sure that they all put in place the policies to deliver them. Jamaica is recognised internationally for having a 91% alignment with the 17 global SDGs in the national development plan, Vision 2030. But what is the point of 91% alignment if the contents are questionable? SDG4 is undeliverable. Education is not cheap and requires dedicated funding but financing is conspicuously absent. SDG7 is titled ""Renewable Energy"" but includes LNG and oil exploration. My goal is for a quality education system that delivers equal opportunity to all and it is achievable by using renewables. State owned solar powered schools is a solution but it is absent from the VNR. Our education system is grossly unfair being dependent on wealth and location. The parliamentarians admit to ""educational apartheid"" (http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/end-educational-apartheid-says-bunting-phillips-draw-inspiration-from-past-achievements-to-continue-progress_137981?). Rural schools are not fit for purpose so children whose parents can afford it must travel hours to go to a good school: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20170704/rural-students-battle-stressful-transportation-challenges. Investing in renewables ""kills two birds with one stone"" - additional funds for education and tackles climate change. It would also create a green generation. | I have dual citizenship, Jamaican and British, and live in Montego Bay. I am very passionate about the environment and it's inextricable link to education. I want to create a transparent renewable energy industry that pays a living wage and all profits are used to benefit the island. I studied chemistry at University College London followed by a doctorate in synthetic organic chemistry. I did not work in my field but my education was instrumental in getting me to where I am now. I know the importance of quality education. I spent my teenage years in Jamaica before returning to the UK. We were poor and that experience has made me who I am. I know from experience that being poor can have lasting physical effects. I loathe poverty with a passion. I see it everyday and it is unnecessary. Education is the key to eradicating poverty and better education is possible. | Solar powered schools | State investment in renewables | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Global | No | Transition to Scale | There are schools that are partially powered by solar power and 2 have reported payback periods under a year: http://www.ardennealumni.org/d7/ardenne-energy-savings-project; http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20140509/lead/lead1.html. I emailed an economics professor at Temple University and he wrote the following: Given your figures, it certainly seems like the facts are on your side, I can't come up with any solid logic for keeping schools on the grid given these numbers. | High schools are responsible for paying utility bills. Jamaica has electricity rates amongst the highest in the world that is worsened by a weak and depreciating currency. This is disastrous for education. Rising energy costs impoverishes schools, makes school fees a necessity and has created an economically tiered education system. Schools function in daylight hours and taking them off the grid is the most logical step for funding SDG4. It would also impact numerous other SDGs. | The government must pay to power schools so do it prudently: taxpayers money should be used to service fixed term debt and not pay rising electricity bills forever. It is like home ownership: replace rent with mortgage repayments. Schools would immediately have more money, school fees could be eliminated and choice would not be based on affordability. Schools could expand and make money. And this could be delivered without additional cost to the taxpayers. In fact, it would immediately aid the economy. I recently presented my proposals to members of a branch of UNA-UK and this was their comment: The idea has potential financial, educational and of course environmental impact. Rolled out across the tropical world and indeed elsewhere it could reduce school fees and boost access to education (especially for girls), reduce carbon footprints and set an example for non-educational sectors to emulate. I agree. There is no reason for any government to ignore the viability of solar power. The cost of panels has plummeted: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181120073818.htm. In the US the payback period is between 6-8 years. When one considers the low cost of electricity in many of the 50 states the payback periods for countries in the tropics would be significantly lower. | It costs nothing and does not need charity. Governments simply need to be prudent with taxpayers money. Financing can easily be found: The IMF, the World Bank and the IDB have mandates to lend for such investment. IRENA. Many philanthropists such as Bill Gates would readily help. Worldwide governments are using what is killing the children's planet to power classrooms. Add insult to injury, education suffers because money allocated to educate is used to do this. Solar powered schools would help bridge the funding gap for education and impact other SDGs. Worldwide education is suffering from severe underfunding which UNESCO estimates to the region of USD39 billion per annum: https://www.dw.com/en/unesco-264-million-children-dont-go-to-school/a-41084932. If necessary, the private sector would only be needed for finance and installation. Anyone with money can do this, it requires no intellect: one employs solar contractors and after paying them you own the facility and collect lease payments from the school. The investors would borrow the money and use a fraction of the lease payments to service the loan thus making a profit. That is not good fiscal management of taxpayers money. So the state should borrow the money (if necessary), make fixed term repayments - not indefinitely pay lease payments - and own the facilities. | There has been no progress because the government wants private sector investment. The government has my proposals but refuse to provide any feedback. The PM said the following: ""Jamaica is naturally and irrevocably aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals and at p.m. opportunity we reaffirm our commitment to achieving them."" https://jis.gov.jm/jamaica-committed-sustainable-development-goals/. That is not the case. | My goal is for every nation to investigate the economic viability of renewables. Vision 2030 is not about making profits. For instance, the economics of the waste-to-energy industry should be to pay a living wage and make enough money to repay loans. The UN recently tweeted that the SDGs will need $5-7 trillion annually. That cannot be achieved through charity, aid and the private sector. The SDGs will fail miserably in their current guise. They could succeed if universal and regional solutions are created, agreed upon and wherever the economic viability of renewables is proven, governments 'forced' to adopt them by global petitions, referendums or the likes. A nation's VNR is a promise to everyone on the planet, not solely to it's citizens. To succeed Vision 2030 will require government compliance with public participation which is supposed to be part of the inclusive process: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/topics/information-integrated-decision-making-and-participation. | The only resources that I require are UN support and endorsement. | https://news.energysage.com/understanding-your-solar-panel-payback-period/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181120073818.htm https://LetsBuildaBetterJamaica.com https://greenworld.org.uk/article/how-solar-power-can-boost-jamaicas-school-budgets Canary https://www.thecanary.co/feature/2019/03/05/campaigner-seeks-to-end-jamaicas-educational-apartheid-with-renewable-energy-system/ http://www.ardennealumni.org/d7/ardenne-energy-savings-project http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20140509/lead/lead1.html http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20140602/news/news1.html | None | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
416 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Raymond | Okethwengu | Community Uplift and Welfare Development(CUWEDE) | https://www.cuwede.org | project coordinator | male | Uganda | Uganda | English | Well, I worked with a number private organizations and companies and in that there ahs been a number of challenges that made me quit jobs quite several times and some of those challenges include; Poor work conditions like poor accommodation; poor feeding, overworking, etc. No job contracts / job contracts terminated by the management without clear reasons and no compensation. Poor remuneration strategy. Poor communication especially from superiors to inferiors and sometimes vice versa. Lack of motivation/ no overtime compensation. Lack of job promotion. Sexual harassment especially girls before jobs or for any other benefits. Corruption, favoritism, tribalism, discrimination whereby preferential family and political connections pose a disadvantage to most youths, as only those people who are well placed in society have access to decent jobs/positions. Lack of training. Lack of protection to hazardous chemicals/equipments/fumes that pose a threat to health of the employee. Most of those challenges are affecting youths at work which called for faster attention interventions measures, creative and innovateive ideas in order to help cub the rate of human rights and labour law violations. I had to create legal procedure line, tracking tool to check on most activities at work in order to realize progress or failure and youth saving and loan scheme at no interest rate. | I Raymind Okethwengu is a Ugandan aged 27 living with both parents. I'm Cathilc and my major languageis English and unmarried. Seeking opportunities with great challenges and responsibilities where my experience, knowledge, skills and abilities will add to any community, reputable organization with special emphasis on development, planning and contribute positively to the organization’s goals that I work in. Currently coordinating the above project activities | VISIONARY YOUTH SUMMIT | creating a population of visionary youths with an aim of looking forward to great ventures and self-reliant | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | The solutions are currently operating in Uganda, intended to be on the whole of East Africa and implemented globally in case we get financially well | Yes | The key partners are: japan water forum, global green grant, Center for Governance and Economic Development (CEGED) , Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) | Proof of Concept | The solution is at that stage simply because we are somehow drained financially and we also tend to interfere with the government policies because most of the private employers are mostly government officials, so under such circumstances when we're trying to handle such cases there's either intimidation or bribery which lowers our performance at certain point point in time but other intervention measures are progressing on well | The major project concern is about the governance and performance program and in that we felt concerned to find out why the number of idlers is rising up. we got to realize that workplace challenges are the major challenges just I've outlined above. | The solution is working by evaluating the activities progress and then creating in more new interventions to help integrate for progress and creating a very strong coordinating unit and monitoring team. The solution works in a way of collaboration with other partners and coordinating with the government in order to help reduce on the number of idlers and the long term vision globally is that we look forward to creating a partnership with other organizations that are having related objectives to reduce human rights and labor laws violations. | The uniqueness is simply the tracking tool that helps monitor the work progress and its related challenges and how to address them. The legal line created has made it quite easier for the youths to kind of have their problems tabled thus giving them hopes in life because it has been extended nearer to them. The saving and loan scheme | A number of cases have been handled and resolved according to the previous evaluation and report from the monitoring team which showed great progress and quite a number of feedbacks have been received from the beneficiaries | Working with a wider group of stakeholders to support youths in building and creating quality life through innovations, entrepreneurship and leadership skills. We're planning to have expanded up to the whole of East Africa. The number of staff we are aiming at recruiting might rise probably up to about 30 because we are planning to have numerous activities. The beneficiaries will have to reach up to 10,000 people but it won't stop there but it will rise up to more than that due to the needs that will arise depending on the project sustainability. | The resources that are needed to scale up the project concept are people to help run the project with a wide range of developmental minds, funds to help facilitate the activities of the project. The establishment of the vocational institute that will help educate the youths on number activities at low payment with an aim of skilling and mentoring the youths into resourceful and skillful youths | http://www.cuwede.org (yet in the process) The five program Logic approach of CUWEDE We are sorry – kind-hearted, and feel very bad about the degrading situations that the young people find themselves in. In this way, we are inspired to contribute citizenship values – voluntarism and patriotism; the spirit of unselfish concern for the welfare of young people. We are simple – simple people putting together a simple operation that runs like a simple business – has very efficient procedures, easy to understand and is tight on spending. This allows openness, trust and transparency. We are small – small is beautiful, but with innovative and at times crazy ideas – acting locally but thinking globally. But all these, managed by a young and enthusiastic team of staff, still trying to ask “Why the small and slow pace of grassroots Development with all these funding, program and approaches?” We are strong – bold and confident about ourselves and our capabilities to make the case (at least) and make the move (at most) for children’s’ rights. But we shall enable young people to exercise their rights correctly and professionally. We are serious – connecting young women and men, professionals and leaders to creative and innovative ideas nationally and globally, through the interchange of ideas, skills, and information. We are positional, competitively and firmly placing ourselves for the challenge | http://fb.cuwede.com | We've so far won awards from •The Global Green Grants (USA) •Japan Water Forum (JWF) The Lord's Terrace | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
417 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jeffson | Lormeus | A3groupcimpagnie | https://a3-group-compagnie.business.site/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=referral | Centre informatique espace de travail | Homme | Haiti | Haiti | French | Premièrement. Je suis un entrepreneur donc mon entreprises a été créé parce que dans la communauté que je vis ils avaient grand besoin d' une maison d' un imprimerie (sérigraphie) de la étant. J'ai élaboré un projet et maintenant. Les entreprises. Les business man. Les personnes ils sont heureux par rapport au services que nous leur offrons. | Je suis Haïtien. Je suis née a saint-Marc et j'ai fait mes études. Je vis avec ma famille Je suis entrepreneur Serigraphe Informaticien Techniciens en télécommunications Et motivateur (coach ) | Haïti tech Développement | Développé la technologie en Haïti et servir tous les Haïtiens et aidés apprendre a s'en servirs | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Haïti et les pays moins développer | Yes | Norisner Joseph. Estimé Elando.Neuwshda Oreus | Research & Development | Vue au besoin de la nouvelle génération. Et. Pour le développement du pays. Cette solution pèsera A plus de 55 pourcent tell que L'éducation La Santé L'agriculture Gouvernementale Et aussi au niveaux ecclésiastique. | L'énergie, l'internet. Ses chose le coeur même de la technologie au dans la solution. nous Proposons des méthodes efficace et dutable pour resoudre ces problèmes et donner un accès. Fiable et illimité a cette génération dans ce domaine . | Implantation des centres informatique a chaque département équipé d'ernegie electrique de l'Internet a haut débit. A long terme investis dans l'énergie écologique Travailler pour transformer l'énergie solaire en énergie. Electrique | En Haïti cette solution est unique par rapport aux autres projets et nos sondages nous sommes. Unique pour la transfomation de l'énergie electrique et aussi. L'implantation des centres informatique. Et aussi la capacité et la responsabilités envers la nation pour les servirs Cela fait de cette solution l'unique en son genre. | Nous travaillons avec vigueur et ardeur pour que cette solution soit financé et mis en réalisation Une année et demi. Suffira pour mettre en marche cette solution. Grace a l'effort de l'équipe. | des recherche seront effectuées.. Et aussi. Des appel d'offre et ces personnes auront aussi des formations mise a niveau . | Immeuble. Équipement matérielles. Énergie electrique. Véhiculé de transports. Matérielles informatique Ressources humaines. | https://www.facebook.com/A3groupcompagnie/ https://a3-group-compagnie.business.site/?utm_source=gmb&utm_medium=referral | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=If8BQJ0UWAQ&t=92s | Finalist concoure peach . Du forums spiral sucess Gagnante. Sammar Oreus. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
418 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | VINCENT MING FUNG | CHIN | Non governmental organizations | Nil | Volunteer | Male | Malaysia | Malaysia | Chinese | English | I apply this for everyone I want better place to everyone I want everyone more beautiful,harmony,peaceful Everyone unite for humble and simple,not overload If this is for my personal,I will never for this. I can not attend,my message can spread other Better place to everyone Unite for beautiful,harmony,peaceful Everyone humble,simple Concern and contentment,not overload Heal the world for everyone | I was born in poor family I came from villages I love history,traveling,volunteering This become part of my way I am very concern about world situation I had ever discover about globalization and unity when in school I used to be minority in class,where they are different background,maybe race or religion I chaired as vice monitor in class I participate in many volunteering activities Asian Para Games volunteer Asean Youth forum,kl marathon United Nations volunteer,e.t.c | Better place to everyone | We are one | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Everyone in this world | No | Transition to Scale | We are now in an uncertain and unstable We must make it better place to everyone Everyone unite for beautiful,harmony,peaceful Humble and simple,thanksgiving Concern and contentment to all | People heart human being in this world uncertain and unstable They might suffer Business economy about payment purchase There is lot more we can do Attitude and peace in mind Better place to everyone | It humble and simple,not overload It is not for personal It everyone unite Everyone not focus in anything Everyone more focus in living and survive more reliable and released A place where no dangerous,no discrimination,no hatred,no jealous,no violence Everyone for the future and next generation We are nothing We are not for anything We are for better place We are one | It is not about how much we had It about we everyone living and survive with humble,respect,thanksgiving,not overload Everyone unite for future and next generation It Simple It very touch to everyone | Everyone count People heart human being inclusive We unite for nothing We want everyone living and survive more reliable and released This is beautiful,harmony,peaceful It depend in everyone desire Family harmony,country beautiful,world peace everyone | Everyone not for anything Purity for everyone living and survive unity The place everyone humble,respect,thanksgiving,not overload Concern and contentment We unite for better place No more uncertain and unstable We are one | It just that simple Family harmony,country beautiful,world peace everyone This is not about personal resources This is about everyone for future and next generation From humble to thanksgiving No one left behind It long term and very inclusive to everyone | It more focus in everyone better place Not only in business economy payment purchase Everyone focus in the desire to peace | I am focus in humble,respect,thanksgiving,not overload Not about how much we had It about everyone inclusive Everyone concern and contentment Everyone unite for better place | I am not focus in any award I am not for anything I just what everyone more reliable and released | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
419 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | kwera | faith | Quera innovations smc-LTD. | www.quera.co.uk | CEO | female | Uganda | Uganda | English | my motivations to attend the latter is to acquire more skills in leadership,make more friends,acquire more political awareness of my environment and acquire social capital to enhance my innovation considering its going to be an international acclaim one day,Above all i find the UN an impressive organisation that helps preserve the worlds unity and peace it also promotes justice and equity which is an amazing to affiliate to be attached to as a person. More to add I belong to STI( science and Technology innovation ) as of the the 2015 SDG goals hence forth relating to the above affiliation through the summit would be a breathe taking opportunity. | My name is kwera Faith Brenda am ugandan by Nationality,Munyakole by Tribe am 30 Years born to Mr and Mrs Byamugisha born and breed in Kampala Uganda.I used to be a banker now am a human resource Manger to an IT firm in ntinda.went to Makerere University Business school and acquired a bachelors degree in Human Resource mgt. | Quera-Tickets on the Go | Quera Tickets on the Go is a web and cinema mobile application used to enable endusrs to book for tickets at the comfort of their location. | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Uganda | Yes | Tonny Elumelu foundation | Transition to Scale | it because a fully fledged prototype was launched and ready to transition this month for scaling. | The problem am solving is enabling cinemas cost cut on printing paper for cinemas hence reduces costs and yet again avoid queues for corporates with busy schedules hence providing a beautiful cinema arts experience | my solution works by end users downloading the application and hence using E-Commerce platforms like visa cards ,mobile money and other related E finace platforms to this effect.. | The methodology i will be using is a ""one stop centre"" for movie arts,previously cinemas used to use physical tickets to enroll clients now aluminium or e tickets will be used with my solution hence avoiding queuing up. secondly movie trailers and financials of the cinemas will be displayed on this application which as not there previously. | We done with a fully fledged prototype considering we tested and launched the product this month.and is up for scaling. | I plan to head to East Africa (Kenya,Tanzania,Burundi and Rwanda ) by the end of the year then expand to Africa as a whole then the world as a whole.The human resource will completely depend of the market mileage. | finical resources are most needed to scale to do explicit marketing and building systems for other countries | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SK4ZtaVYnH9CU9nQOuB4OeQTMbJiVbpT https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SK4ZtaVYnH9CU9nQOuB4OeQTMbJiVbpT | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SK4ZtaVYnH9CU9nQOuB4OeQTMbJiVbpT | TEF entrepreneur 2019 -5000 USD | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
420 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | BEDPRAKAS | SYAMROY | Independent Reasearcher | No website | IAS(Retd) | Male | India | India | English | My exposure to the Millennium Development Goals' implementation process inspired me to publish a book on India's Approach towards Sustainable Development Goals in the last quarter of 2018 to enable the country stakeholders to make possible use of the same .It also deepened my academic interest on the implementation process . Further, while writing on a Full Paper on 'The search for better Implementation Process of Sustainable Development Goals' to be presented for the Sustainability &Development Conference , 11-14 October ,2019 at the Michigan University, I came across certain areas that needed wider address by the Sustainable Development Community, world wise. Earlier , I had contributed very often at different fronts of the UN Solution Exchange Forum, coordinated by the UNDP , New Delhi .I intend this time to contribute my understanding,insight and experiences,as a call to para 52 of the Sustainable Development Summit Declaration, to the great process of implementation and reshaping the humanity's journey towards Sustainable Development Goals through the policy forum of the UN Solution Summit. | Born on the 16th April,1947 in West Bengal, India ,Bedprakas Syam Roy spent his childhood in the suburb of Kolkata Metropolitan area and passed the Higher Secondary Examination in 1963 from Ramkrishna Mission Boys' Home School,Rahara,West Bengal. He got his BA (Hons) in Economics in 1966 ,MA in Economics in 1968 and LL.B in 1969 from the Calcutta University. He did his Ph.D from the North Bengal University in 1987.He started his career in the West Bengal Civil Service (1970) and was then selected in the IAS (1989 ).He is specialized in development administration, decentralized planning and state planning .After retirement, he served as a Member of the Third State Finance Commission, West Bengal.He authored eleven books and several articles. His current interest is Sustainable Development Goals. He is married and has a daughter.He now lives in Salt Lake,Kolkata,West Bengal,India. | The search for better Implementation Process of Sustainable Development Goals | Planning and Implementation of SDGs through Sustainable Development Functions format both for the Government and other partners | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | World wide, including India | No | Research & Development | An universally acceptable implementation model of Sustainable Development Goals has yet to be firmed up even after three years. The country governments have been following traditional approach on planning in the MDGs ways. A SDGs based planning of I7 SDGs is required for all programme partners along with its regulatory functions .The Sustainable Development Functions, a refined model of Development Function, intends to serve as the medium of planning of the 17 SDGs . | Goal wise planning is not in vogue in planning domain and it is impossible to plan unless goals are transformed into development function . The 17 SDGs are to be transformed into the format of Sustainable Development Functions to serve as a tool of SDGs planning with rational economic reasoning .Further, it will enable to design Sub-Plans for the child, the persons with disabilities , the women, the aged, vulnerable social groups and for the disadvantaged locations. | The concept of Sustainable Development Functions have been embedded in the planning format itself ,a kind of ready reckoner , which will enable the SDGs planners to find the inter linkages of one goal to another goal or multiple of goals. Planning for programmes/schemes interventions , convergence with compatible schemes could be worked out easily.The resource allocations could be done rationally among all the multitudes of schemes. When all the countries adopt this format of planning, it will enable the High Level Political Forum of the Economic & Social Council to see whether programme interventions of any country were comprehensively and rationally addressed or not . | The concept of Sustainable Development Functions is unique in the sense it has not been used as a medium of planning for 17 Sustainable Development Goals anywhere up till now .It will also help to focus on regulatory functions along with planning functions separately. | The concept of Sustainable Development Functions and its formats have been designed . It had not been used till date. | I intend to share it with the NITI Aayog, the coordinating agency also for the SDGs in India | No costs are involved in accepting this solution of medium of planning. | I regret to state that I do not have any link in support of my solution. However,I mention some websites where my publications could be seen,namely, 1.The Niceties of District Planning-www.gyanbooks.com 2.State Planning-www.conceptpub.com 3.India's Journey Towards Sustainable Population-springer.com 4.India's Approach towards Sustainable Development Goals-www.kalpazpublications.com | I regret to state that I do not have kept any links to videos or audio recordings in support of my speaking engagements. | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
421 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jean-Claude Paul | DEGBE | ONG PADJENA | http://www.ongpadjenabenin.blogspot.com | President | Masculin | Benin | Benin | French | Le projet d'orientation scolaire et professionnel est l'évier d'autonomie pour la jeunesse, cela se fera plus pragmatique par trois mentor un mentor de suivi et évaluation pour suivre le jeune comment il evolu et un mentor de spécialiste de profession qui fait des entretiens aux jeunes pour le motiver et lui donner des direction comme un jeunes qui est reconnu pour devenu médecin est suivi par un mentor médecin en entretien par moment et le troisième mentor est un professionnel dans une entreprise chez qui le jeune vas en stage pendant les vacances pour acquérir des compétences. Et ces trois mentors sont différent selon le domaine d'activité de chaque jeune même pour les jeunes qui veulent entreprendre, et si possible transmettre ce projet en application mobile et site Web pour en faire un vrai l'évier pour aider chaque jeune à choisir une profession ou entreprendre ou pour des études en harmonie avec ses potentiels et acquérir des connaissances approprié afin de faire une carrière de passion. | Il est un homme de paix, Jean-Claude Paul DEGBE est né le 14/02/1985 à Cotonou, Il a étudié jusqu’en classe de la terminale D au Complexe Scolaire Clé de la Réussite, il a continué dans la vie active en tant que restaurateur et à travailler dans plus hotel et restaurant dont Atlatic Beach Hotel et Dream Beach Hotel, il a une nouvelle orientation professionnel et il est actuelement Technicien Frigorifique. Il est un entrepreneur, qui offre les prestations d’insttallation, réparation et entretien des climatiseurs et frigos par sont Ets FRIGORIFIQUE SERVICES. Depuis 2014 il s’est mit au service de la jeunesse en aider les jeunes demunis de sa communauté qui veullent continuer avec les études mais dont les parents non plus de moyens financière pour finnancer leur étude. il fait l’insertion de ces jeunes démunis par une bourse professionnelle au lyéce Coulibaly de Cotonou dans l’éducation professionnelle par L’ONG PADJENA (Participation Active des Dirigeants Jeunes Elites Niant l’Aboulie). Il est aussi membre de plusieur organisation internation, tel que Together2030 pour les ODD, Internet Society et membre de l’Eglise de Jésus-Chirst des Saints des Derniers Jours et Young africa leader member. | Aider chaque jeune à acquérir des compétences selon sont potentiels pour choisir sa carrière | L'éducation est un comportement | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Bénin | No | Sustainable Scale | car cela est un vrai outil pour aider chaque jeune à avoir une passion pour les études et avoir une carrière de passion, cela va révéler le potentiel de chaque jeune | Les élèves ne savent pas pourquoi ils étudient, les élèves ne savent quoi devenir après les études, il y a plein de jeune non scolarisé sans métier qui ne savent pas quoi fais nous avons plus de 500 jeunes qui ont le bac qui change les filières sans savoir lequel les convient nous avons des adultes qui travail dans un domaine sans passion et cela sans production rentable pour l'entreprise voilà une liste de la cause | C'est par du mentoring du coaching et stage professionnelle tout en faisant le suivit évaluation, cela va permettre à chaque jeune de faire une carrière de passion selon ses potentiels et crée de la richesse, et permettre aux entreprises d'avoir un personnel de qualifier et une bonne production selon leur objectif | Ceci est une expérience pragmatique pour chacun des acteurs qui travail en synergie pour un résultat meilleur à tous comme je principe UBUNTU du Président Nelson Mandela | Nous avons juste faire une phase pilote et sur 10 nous avons 4 succès réel | cela va créer une main d'oeuvre qualité et important et une bonne production pour les entreprises de plus tous étant autonome, nos familles seront dans la joie | C'est par un cadre stratégique tous les acteurs vont travailler pour élaborer cela ensemble ainsi que des bailleurs de fond | http://www.ongpadjenabenin.blogspot.com | http://www.ongpadjenabenin.blogspot.com | Le succès de 4 sur 10 élèves qui obtenu leur diplôme | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
422 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohamed | Dhaouafi | CURE | https://dhaouafimed.wixsite.com/curetunisie | CEO | Male | Tunisia | Tunisia | Arabic | English | French | As a social-driven techno-preneur, I founded CURE after visiting a hospital in Tunisia where they take care of children with amputation, I met an 8-year child who was electrified and lost both his right hand and leg, he was in pain, and his mum was so in a very bad situation since they cannot afford to buy a prosthetic hand for him. That day, I took a decision to address children with amputation who did not have access to these devices because they are not made small enough, because their parents cannot afford to supply them with it since it is so expensive or because existing prosthetics will not reflect their personality and preferences to make them feel proud of having such devices. I took the decision to give them more than a device, but a way to inspire the world with their positive differences. In CURE, we need as much support as possible and that's why we are applying for the UN Solutions Summit since we are working on 2 of the SDGs (Healthcare + Reducing inequalities). In fact, being in such summit surrounded by DOers and change-makers will inspire us and will be a great opportunity to find potential partners and collaborators for both development and expansion. Moreover, this summit will help us get access to more resources that we urgently need to accelerate our operations and reach out to more children with amputation who are in an urgent need all around the world and especially in Africa and in the Middle East such as Syria with the war that left more than 80 000 injuries. Briefly, this summit is going to be a unique and fruitful opportunity for us because our idea is more than a device, it is about empowering children to overcome their fears, upsets, lack of confidence so they can succeed and inspire the world. | Mohamed Dhaouafi is the founder and CEO of CURE (https://dhaouafimed.wixsite.com/curetunisie), a bionic company that works on developing 3D printed bionic hands and making it more affordable, accessible and customizable for children with amputations. In addition, it works on developing disruptive and mobile rehabilitation solutions for marginalized and rural areas where access to such services is impossible. Mohamed Dhaouafi is very passionate about entrepreneurship and youth empowerment and his entrepreneurial journey inspired him to co-found found ZETA HUB, (https://dhaouafimed.wixsite.com/zetahub), the first early-stage incubator and capacity-building center for university student in his city Sousse. He holds an engineering degree in electronics and embedded systems, a certificate of Leadership and conflict resolution from Montana State University in USA and a master degree in Management of NGOs from Tunis Business School. Since 2015, Mohamed was devoted to community service and to social impact and his devotion allowed him to be part of more than 60 national and international program and event as participant, a panelist, a speaker and as a trainer. He was awarded by multiple international organizations and embassies such as the UNDP, Tony Elumelu Foundation, US Embassy and many others. Mohamed is a MEPI SL 2016 alumnus and an Obama Foundation Africa Leader for 2019. Check his personal website for more information : https://dhaouafimed.wixsite.com/tunisia | Your disability is your superpower | 3D printed bionic and customized hands for children with amputations | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Tunisia (Currently implemented) / Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, South Africa, Libya, Syria, KSA (Intended to be implemented) | Yes | Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Sousse / association tunisienne de traitement des brûlures et des plaies | Proof of Concept | We worked on multiple iterations of the R&D of the prosthetic and after many tests and continuous improvement, we finally reached our proof concept with the needed features. | More than 30 million persons worldwide are upper-limb amputees with 35% children and only 5% of them have access to prosthetics because of a high price that can reach $100 000. Moreover, children need a new limb every 6 months until growth complete. Through the different ages for an amputee, many difficulties will appear. Therefore, academically, children will face difficulties to integrate schools like their peers. Psychologically, most of amputees lose hope, happiness, and self-confidence. | We are a bionic startup; we aim to empower children to overcome their fears, upsets, lack of confidence to make them inspire the world. For that, we provide them with bionic hand which is 3D printed, stylish and sleek, controlled by muscles so no need for surgical intervention to implement it, easy to use, adjustable and recyclable so they can just 3D-reprint another hand easily, looks like their biological hand with the privilege to add removable customization to it like covers, LEDs, fashion details… We are also developing a virtual reality-based serious game that will allow children to play while going through rehabilitation and training and while having the opportunity to virtually customize their bionic hand. This kit will be composed of an EMG sensor (muscle sensor) and a VR headset and will allow both children in rural areas to have access to rehabilitation and doctors to have objective outcomes and follow in distance. This prosthetic is going to be the cheapest one in the regional market compared to any global solution within the bionic prosthetics and the price is going to be around the 2000 USD. For a long term vision, we dream to have the first world excellency center for people with disabilities where they can get what they need of technological solution, social and psychological assistance but most importantly a training for a year to learn skills and acquire more capacities to inspire the world and be the new super leaders of their countries. | First, our approach is more than a device to sell but a completely affordable empowerment package for every child with amputation. We connect with each child so he/she shares his dreams and ambitions, her/his preferences and personality specification. Then, we provide them with a bionic hand which is 3D printed, controlled by muscles so no need for surgical intervention to implement it, easy to use, adjustable and recyclable so they can just 3D-reprint another hand easily each time they grow up without being obliged to buy a whole new hand, looks like their biological hand with the privilege to add removable customization to it like covers, LEDs, fashion details… We are also developing a virtual reality-based serious game that will allow children to play while going through rehabilitation and training and while having the opportunity to virtually customize their bionic hand. This kit will be composed of an EMG sensor (muscle sensor) and a VR headset and will allow both children in rural areas to have access to rehabilitation and doctors to have objective outcomes and follow in distance. Finally, we will work with children to improve their skills by coaching them and by connecting them with partners that will help them go further with their dreams and ambitions such as being a model with a fashion brand, playing piano with a famous band or to get a scholarship in a well-renown university. | We developed our solution in a collaborative way where all stakeholders took part of the development of the solution : Doctors, amputees, mentors, technical department, product design department,financial department. We identified several progress measurement criteria such as : -Technical : We fulfilled our technical contraints and we fabricated the proof of concept -Clinical : We made and still make clinical tests to validate our results in partnership with doctors -Financial : We raised seed funds from big donors who trusted our vision and us such as UNDP and Tony Elumelu Foundation -Business: We built a solid structure and a multidisciplinary team that can sustain the work because we are more than a technical solution, but a globally driven startup | Our planned milestones are : -ASHOKA social startups label for our startup CURE by 2020 -Raising our first round of investment by the end of 2019 -Key hires by the end of 2019 -Expanding to new countries in the MENA region by 2020 -1000 impacted child by the end of 2022 | Our main needs are divided into 3 levels : -Partnerships: we build and still building a solid network of stakeholders in the region in order to facilitate our access and implementation so we need more endorsement to partner with international organizations and institutions. -Funding: we are working on a fundraising strategy (investment, grants, donations, philanthropy money, sponsorship…). We need more funding to cover our expenses and to accelerate our operations especially the R&D in order to reduce costs and reach more people in need. -Strategy: we are building a strategic plan to democratize the access to our services and products with the cheapest price in the easiest way. We need more mentoring from experts and consultancy to optimize our work and to be more efficient. -Marketing: we will work on promoting inspiring stories of children with disabilities who challenges their disabilities and succeeded. We need more empowerment and support to reach out to global market. | -One of the demonstrations of our previous prototypes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldruOI67Ovw -Youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkQUcS_EH005casTHsgmmlw -Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/curetunisie/ -Website : https://dhaouafimed.wixsite.com/curetunisie | -One of the demonstrations of our previous prototypes : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldruOI67Ovw -Meeting with the previous president BCE (May he rest in peace) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Z77rN19us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqOk-YpWhB0 -Pitch at the Tony Elumelu Foundation Forum 2018 in Nigeria : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFPYCc-mG0 -Speaking about the project : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWx8Lq9diIg -Pitch at the Startup night Africa in Berlin with Lionesses of Africa in partnership with the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNdo7juYel8 - | -Obama Leader 2019 with my solution -1st place in “YAS! Open Innovation Challenge” by UNDP during the Africa Youth Conference 2018 in Kenya -Tony Elumelu Foundation program 2017 grantee -Winner of the “Innovation Challenge” by WorldLabs -One of the 10 finalists during Arab Conference startup pitch competition at Harvard Business School in 2017 -Invited and honored by the Tunisian president Baji KaÏd Sebsi -“Most investible” social startup in the Yenching Social Innovation Forum in China in 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
423 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Federico | Restrepo | Energía Vectorial | https://www.instagram.com/evectorial_co/ | Co founder | Male | Colombia | Colombia | English | Spanish | I lived outside of Colombia for about7 years, and when I landed in Medellin, I couldn´t breathe normally. I felt too much pollution in the air. I also saw how my parent and my sister were taking my niece to nearby cities because of the pollution and how she was getting sick. So, I started investigating about air pollution and a huge contributor to it is urban transport. Therefore, I decided to do something about it. Electric mobility is too expensive for people in Colombia, The Renault Zoe is about 30.000 USD and the GDP per capita of Colombia is almost 6.500 USD... So we need a different approach to this issue if we want the next generatios to be able to live. I join with some friends and we researched about conversion to Electric and we saw potential as currently the cost is 10.000 USD per conversion, with the batteries being about 60% of the total cost. As tech progresses, that cost will go down and we will be able to democratize electric mobility and decarbonize mobility in cities I am applying to be part of the UN Solutions Summit, because I believe we can change things by rethinking how we approach the most pressing issues. We would like to connect with others to support us in growing this solution and make it accessible worldwide | Federico is a 30 year old that has worked for several years on Youth development and recently supporting the UN´s Sustainable Development Goals. He has a Bachelor´s degree in Marketing, M. A. in Marketing and Sales Management and currently studying M. Sc. In Sustainable Development. Federico has always been an active person, looking to make the world a better place. He was part of AIESEC, where he led the organization as the Global VP Strategy 2016-17. He created the global initiative Youth 4 Global Goals which mobilized so far +100.000 young people for the SDGs and has been nominated as the best mobilizer campaign by the UN. During his time in AIESEC, he worked with the Asian Development Bank in regional projects focused on youth development and with the African Development Bank equipping young people with skills and competencies for employment. He is also part of Global Shapers, where we works in a Gender empowerment project that aims to support young girls in the buildup of their professional careers. Co-founder of 2 start ups focused on Sustainable mobility and Project head of Young Planet, a joint initiative with WWF Colombia that aims to evolve the social service in the country through a Technological platform to focus it on the SDGs. He is also codirector and founder ofImpact Hub in Medellin, Colombia which runs a couple of incubation and acceleration programs only focused on supporting start-ups with direct impact on the SDGs. | Energía Vectorial | De-carbonizing mobility | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Colombia and expansion to Latam and Africa | No | Proof of Concept | So far we have successfully converted +5 piston/Gasoline-powered cars to electric vehicles thus reducing the carbon footprint. We have already understood the details of what it entails to convert small and medium-size vehicles and also with many miles of a road test to check the performance. | In 2005, the WHO ran a global study, concluding that Asia and Latin America have higher concentrations of PM10 than Europe and America, mainly due to its growth in industrial production and the use of low quality fuels Emissions per source in Colombia: 60% for fixed and 40% to mobile; due to issues of exposure and health affectation, it is important to put the alerts on transport. Main cities have an average concentration of 27ug/m3, above the maximum permissible value in Colombian 25ug/m3 | We take any pistons/gasoline-powered vehicle and convert it into an electric vehicle. It cost a third of a brand new electric vehicle. This way we are democratizing electric mobility as we make it cheaper for mid-level income families to get into this new technology and accelerating the adoption of electric mobility in cities. Through partnerships with Banks and insurance companies, we can work towards conversion loans that are paid through the money previously spent in the gas for the car. Imagine a city where Public Transport and both low-level and mid-level income families can be part of electric mobility, reducing the use of fossil fuels and cleaning the air in cities. This would reduce health related issues that currently take out 5% of the GDP of cities like Medellin. Our focus is to scale this solution in major cities across Colombia and Latam so we can de-carbonatize mobility | Low cost access to Electric Mobility making it affordable to anyone to be part of the solution for climate change. It is unique as we bring together several technologies and sectors to make this happen: electric engines have been around for a while, and through partnerships we can make this easily accessible. | We have already successfully converted +5 vehicles, so we already have a standardized process. The next step is to install a measuring device in the vehicles that allow us to measure the miles the vehicles is running to measure the CO2 that is not being released into the atmosphere because of the conversion The idea is to start measuring the conversions not just by the number of conversions but by the prevention of CO2 released into the air | By 31st December 2019 2 full time staff hired 10 more cars converted By 31st Dec, 2020 10 full timers 200 Cars converted 5 public transport buses converted 2 new city in Colombia By 31st Dec, 2021 25 Full timers 1500 Cars converted Franchise model developed and deployed 3 new countries | The main needs 1. Cash to set up the Workshops 2. Skilled HR to scale the operations 3. Advise and support to develop the right managerial structure Current workshops can be adapted and we have already trained other people on how to convert cars We need support and counsel on how to develop a franchise model for the organization and focus on improving the conversion process and the technologies attach to it so we can focus on opening new countries and cities. Short Term: 1. Set up a fully electric conversions workshops 2. Partnerships: Banks, insurance companies, Cities (for charging stations) 3. Lobby legislators for regulations on conversions Medium Term: 1. Franchise Model developed 2. International relations strategy for opening new countries 3. Set up a R&D lab Long Term 1. Intercontinental expansion | https://www.vehiculoselectricos.co/energia-vectorial-convierte-su-carro-de-gasolina-a-electrico-en-medellin/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4CPBHj0UQk https://www.evwest.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=40 https://evshop.eu/en/conversion-kits/96-1642-100v-88kw-ev-conversion-kit.html https://es.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-electric-car-conversion-kit.html?switch_new_app=y https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/ev-car-conversion-kit.html | None so far | Google LaunchPad Medellín Impacto2030 from Impact Hub Medellín | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
424 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Abeiku | Hammond | Project Lab | N/A | Founder | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | I believe that as a young Ghanaian, I have an obligation to work in ways I can to ensure that development and progress is achieved in my country and the world as a whole. I am actively involved in the Model UN sphere and train many young ones in that regard. I believe that experiences from such conferences should not just end as such but much more must be done to ensure that the youth are engaged in projects that are directed at implementation of various solutions. Through my writing, I have worked with organizations such as Scribes Poetry, Pasyance and Pearple to help less privileged groups with regards to SDGs 1, 2, 3 and 4. Growing up in Ghana, I have seen various activities take place with impunity that are gradually destroying the land, ocean and climate and so I believe it is imperative that action is taken now to avert further disaster. | I am a UN Youth Ghana SDGs Ambassador and currently a National Service Personnel with the Americas Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of Ghana. I graduated from the University of Ghana with a Bachelors' Degree in Sociology and French. I am passionate about issues of International Relations and Development and seek to take further courses to advance my knowledge and understanding of the subject. | SDGs Project Generator Hub | To increase awareness on climate action and aid the youth in setting up projects aimed at achieving the SDGs. | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Ghana | Yes | UN Youth Ghana, Pearple | Research & Development | It is at the stage of Research and Development because we are currently compiling facts and figures to aid in grasping the full extent of the problem. Also we are now initiating contact with the schools, institutions and partners who will be involved. | The youth, especially those in the Senior High Schools, are being left out of the Global Goals agenda in Ghana mainly because they are seen as very young. Climate Change is quickly becoming an uphill climb not only for Ghana but the world as a whole. Our environment cries out for help as our actions and inactions continue to render her weaker and weaker on a daily basis. Plastics and other forms of non-biodegradable waste are killing life on land and water. | The goal of this project is to take Senior High School students in Ghana through intensive training on SDG 13 (with 14 and 15 as subsets) with methods such as lectures and presentations on the key indicators of these three goals, practical examples and stories, research and assignments and group discussions. This is only the first part, even though it is equally as important as the second part. Now, students, drawing inspiration from the lessons picked up during the training sessions work together in small groups to come up with feasible and innovative ideas that are aimed at solving the problems arising in relation to these SDGs for implementation. These youth learn from a very young age about prevention methods and in the long run this brings up a new age of society who are more aware of the steps to take to prevent problems of this nature. | The main unique perspective is that this project, unlike other projects serves as a hub or platform for the generation of other projects. In other words, this project is not an end in itself but will bring a large number of greater projects to light. The uniqueness of this methodology is that through training, the youth are guided to establish more projects. Also, the solution is unique because it targets children who are often sidelined when it comes to discussions with regards to the SDGs. This throws the spotlight on them and help us discover untapped ideas with regards to the SDGs. | Even though the pilot has not been launched, we have started with an extensive social media campaign that seeks to raise awareness on the Sustainable Development Goals and all the accompanying key indicators. The progress of this first phase would be measured by interactions on the social media platforms in the form of likes, retweets and comments (engagement). The second phase of interaction with students in the various High Schools will be measured by the number of projects established and the level of feasibility of these projects. Quarterly evalution of projects the children develop after awareness creation has been done will be carried out. | The planned output for projects is 4 or 5 in the first year. We estimate that over 1000 lives will be impacted by the projects. The projection for expansion into other countries is realy long term, however. | Human resource and source material for research are most needed to carry out this solution and have considerable impact. The above-stated will run through all terms. However for medium and long term, there will be more additional need for resources including the necessary tools that would facilitate the implementation of some of the projects to be selected. | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UHHZlMbyZYWlbecRvL-FbXgGqSDxFrPLD_2Rv6WdLs8/edit?usp=sharing Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProjectLabGhana Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/ProjectLabGhana | N/A | My project, SchoolAid was a finalist for Harvard Resolution Project | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
425 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Synka | JyteDavis | Rome Business School | romebusinessschool.ng | Content Developer / Sales and Marketing Officer / Corporate Relationship Support | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Over time, my passion for social impact has grown into a drive to cause significant change. In the university, I became active in two international organizations which gave me a platform to design and execute social impact development projects with students across the globe and they are ENACTUS and the Hult Prize. I was able to help create, develop and commission 4 projects during my school year which are; Palm wealth project: Aimed at improving and advancing palm oil production in West Africa through the fabrication of locally made machines. I functioned in the role of community relations and handled social challenges facing the success of the project. UBI Farms: This is an agro-engineering project focused on harnessing solar power to run controlled farm modules aimed at solving food insecurity in urban cities. I was involved in developing a sustainable business model for the project to ensure we are able to run it from concept till it gets to the consumers. Project Limitless: Focuses on reducing the chances of foot infection by making shoes for less privileged children. The shoes are made from waste tyres which clears the environment of waste tyres. In 2 years, the impact of the project has reached about a 1000 students. Project Recreate: Focused on turning waste plastic bottles into bio-diesel through an in-house fabricated machine with an additional environmental preservation benefit of reusing waste plastics. In the past one year, the technology of this project has enhanced to fabricating a machine that crushes pet bottles and moulds the crushed quantity into bricks. With this new advancement, we have done several quality tests and commenced the use of these pet-bricks to building roads in Ogun state, Nigeria. I was involved in the core management of this project, harnessing resources to make it work. In 3 years, the impact has reached over 2000 lives and supporting the commencement of 10 businesses of our target audience thus improving livelihood. I am motivated by the challenges facing our global system today and the urgent need to proffer solutions to them and this is what forms the crux of my desire to be part of the UN Solutions Summit. I believe that being part of the summit would be a defining moment of my life that would open me up to more global solutions for global challenges and also I would have the opportunity to meet and share ideas with change agents across the globe. | My name is Synka Jessica JyteDavis. I a Nigerian graduate of International Relations at Covenant University. I attended Royal Girls’ Academy where I did not just get quality high school education but I was also well groomed in etiquette, soft skills, proper communication skills, relationship management, public speaking and the basics of leadership. I attended Covenant University and four years in school, I was engaged in different development activities, workshops, trainings and was opportune to hold different leadership positions while working closely with the school management to ensure smooth running of the school at all levels. While doing all this, I was also very intentional about balancing my priorities to ensure I graduate with a very good grade and I was able to meet this goal as I graduated with a Second class upper division on a CGPA of 4.24/5. While in school in also created time to inter in 2 different companies and was able to leverage the opportunity to gain experience and sharpen my skills. I currently work with Rome Business School where I have sharpened my skills while working as a content developer, administrative official, sales and marketing support and also involved in corporate relationship management. I am driven by the power of social impact and its effects on any country. Over a number of years, I have acquired experience in the line of social development, humanitarian work, United Nations SGDs advocacy and social entrepreneurship, all with the sole aim of solving societal issues and creating livelihood through social development projects. | ECO bag | The Eco bag is a temperature retention bag that retains the temperature of substances put in it for 72 hours. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa | Yes | Healing Heart Foundation, Covenant University Center for Entrepreneurial Development Studies, Frozen Food Trade Union, Enactus Covenant University, Hebron FM. | Transition to Scale | This proposed project has been on going since 2017 and I believe it we are currently in the transition to scale stage because have rested the product on a pilot phase with a single individual beneficiary who has attested to the proof of concept, after which we moved to empowering 150 women in the production of the bag and ensured quality control. At this point, we are looking to bringing it to a wider market with added purposes which is beyond just serving the needs of small businesses. | The proposed project seeks to profer solution to the present issue of environmental waste, low supply of electricity while maximizing business profit by creating sustainable means of livelihood for women, harness poor electricity supply and address environmental conservation by creating sustainable communities living in balance with the environment. | The Eco bag is a temperature retention bag that retains the temperature of substances put in it for 72 hours. The bag is designed to use its major power source which is the strofoam placed in between the inner layers to prevent heat loss by trapping in air molecules responsible for convection and conduction and this process explains the temperature retention purpose of the bag. Currently, the bag is serving as a solution to the low supply of electricity to serve small and medium scale businesses thus improving business profit and storage of perishables. Also, it serves as a means of empowerment and sustainable livelihood to our beneficiaries. However, on a long term, the bag will not just be substituting electricity for small and medium scale businesses and empowerment for women at grass root, its functions will be improved for blood transportation, organ transfer, vaccination and immunization purposes. | The ECO bag is unique from other approaches and products that exist on this space because of its shelf life, retention capacity, technology, flexible shape and size and available of production materials The shelf life of the bag is 3 years and lasts longer than other available products in this space. It's retention capacity is 72hours which is 3 whole days and that is way longer than the normal food flask that is only able to retain food temperature for only 5 - 7hours. The technology or substance used for temperature retention is a Styrofoam which is unique to just this product and even goes an extra mile to serve as a means of environmental preservation as the Styrofoam which causes environmental pollution is being put to effective use while preserving the environment. The bad is customized to meet all needed designs as it can be produced into any shape or size ranging from big sizes to medium to small to hand bags to baby bags, etc. The production materials are easily accessible and assembled this causing for ease in production. | The bag was designed with an aim to create a substitute for electricity to serve Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). In two year of being actively involved in the development process of the bag, we have moved from ideation to the research and development stage where we conducted all necessary testing and proof of capacity to work effectively in the capacity it has been designed to work. Our pilot phase gave us the opportunity to test the bag capacity to improve business yield through perishables preservation and increased sales and through this our beneficiary attested to a significant rise in her monthly profit and also client base. We moved on to the empowerment of 30 widows in its production thus giving them a source of livelihood and also a means to test the market for the demand of the bag and this brought us with high demand in production. Which means that people want the bag and it is serving it's purpose. In just two years, we have been able to maximise the bag to empower a total of 150 widows who now have sustainable source of income and are also contributing by mass production of the bag, to give a solution to the low supply of electricity to serve small and medium scale businesses this improving business profit and storage of perishables also theres incrrase in demand for the bag by small and medium scale enterprises. | The planned goal for the bag purpose is to advance it's functions to be improved for blood transportation, organ transfer, vaccination and immunization purposes. We also plan on spreading the reach of the bag to deep local areas in different African countries such as Kenya and Rwanda and South Africa to function in the advanced improvements and also help in transportaion of agricultural produce in the next 2years. We intend to increase staff capacity by 70 skilled individuals in each country. In 3 years, the projected lives to be impacted is a sum of 25000 people directly and 10000 people indirectly | Resources needed on a short term are: temporary production site, immediate production materials such as - manual sewing machines, threads, machine needles, scissors, tapes, waste flex banner materials, zippers, Human resources- target beneficiary (Women) and skilled trainers, supply of waste Styrofoam Resources needed on a medium term are: bigger production site, more advanced supply of Styrofoam through partnership with Styrofoam producing companies, sewing machines, threads, machine needles, scissors, zippers, constant supply of leather material. Resources needed on a long term: permanent production location, ware house, larger supply of Styrofoam and substitute temperature retention material (currently under research), automated production materials such as factory machines for bag production, basic bag production materials, highly skilled man power, bulk supply of leather materials. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_h_nMFvmU2JX6jTdI_LFoZuFQXt7t1v3/view?usp=drivesdk | https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DLEgrUzI4lPQ&ved=2ahUKEwibi5WW-ebjAhUdTRUIHR56BJMQtwIwBnoECAcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0yFIdz2L5N1a4GTcJ7yMf- | Enactus National Competition - (finalist) 2nd place in Nigeria Hult Prize Lagos Nationals - Finalist Most influential and impactful female of the year (2018) - Winner 25 Under 25 awards (Social Impact Segment) - Winner 2nd Best Position Paper at Babcock Model United Nations Conference | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
426 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Amitsinh | Vaghela | Erath Carbon Foundaton | www.earthcarboninternational.com | Founder | Male | India | India | English | Amitsinh Vaghela, the founder of Earth Carbon International, developed a carbon footprint calculator to educate clients about their energy usage. More than 37 customers have signed contracts and 100 are waiting for the portal to be rolled out to adopt it. Earth Carbon has reduced carbon footprints by 34,000 tons since 2014. We have completed 37 projects. We are encouraging clients to compare their emission changes with world targets, Country's INDC's and 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Providing solutions & needed direction leading to cleaner sustainable earth for habitable future of next-generation by creating awareness, concrete actions & commitments towards major climatic uncertainties causing socio-economic inequalities. What Do We do? We at Earth Carbon believe to address every molecule of carbon. Efforts in totality can reduce emissions and pave the way towards sustainability. Earth Carbon is the brainchild of the NDTV Mission Energy Campaign winner (Residential Category), Mr. Amitsinh Vaghela-Vakil. What started as a hobby to adopt a carbon-neutral lifestyle, took the shape of a full-fledged Startup aimed at climate-change. Basically, Earth Carbon is a portal that guides its customers to attain sustainability through UN- Approved programs such as... . Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) of a country to UNFCC. ● Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Programs. ● Sustainable Development Goals.(SDG's) Main Four Caetgories: · Residential · Manufacturing · Service · Government Organisations. Latest UNFCCC http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/ Emissions due to following Activities : Energy 25% , Agriculture 24%, Manufacturing 21%, Transport 14% , Building 6%, Miscellaneous 10% | SKILLS Energy Modelling: Long Range Energy Planning Tool - LEAP, Clean Energy Management Software - RETScreen, Life-Cycle Management software - SIMA PRO, Energy Management Software -EFFECT, System Advisor Model -SAM. Reporting Standards: GHG Protocol, Carbon Trust UK, SDG, AICHI Targets, India's INDC, World Bank Sectorial Benchmarks. Reporting FrameWorks: Global Reporting Initiative GRI, Carbon Disclosure Project - CDP.net, International Standardization Organisation - ISO 14001, Indian Green Building Council Accredited Professional -IGBC AP, Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment -GRIHA. Funding: Practicing Nationally Appropriate Mitigating Actions NAMA, UN proposals. • Carbon-Intensive marketing, connecting clients to Emission with Energy, Water & Waste. executing Emission inventory & sustainability reporting. • Undertaken Financial Modelling in Social Sector, Fundraising, and connecting Donors, Managing Risk for development by the World Bank group. • Significant experience in monitoring and evaluation in developing country INDC, SDG’s, Target World Footprint. • Experience in Introducing NAMA policies in thinking and working politically; building strategic and effective working relationships with Indian government, industry and community stakeholders; and identifying solutions to sensitive political and cultural issues with the bottom’s up approach. • Practicing GHG Protocol & Climate Change Solutions. • Completed 37 Contracts from target 100 customers. •Reducing more than 4500 Tons of GHG annually. • Training with Dr. Charlie Heaps for Energy Modelling. | Climate change Portal | Optimizing use of Natural Resources with Indian Organizations through accomplished climate programs. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India, United Kingdom, Australia. | Yes | Solar power plant Suppliers, Wind Pump Manufacturer, Biogas Plant Manufacturer, Water Conservation Implementors, Architects, Hydrologists. | Transition to Scale | We have completed 37 projects with a target of 100 projects before we start negotiating with State Governments to work in the Education sector. As a NAMA Practitioner, we understand the volumes and pitfalls of the same. In the next 3-4 months. List from government departments who have availed subsidy in renewable energy projects becomes our potential database for interest in renewable energy programs. Our Foundation continues to explore door to door presentation in Water Conservation. | Currently, Climate change awareness is so wide that out of 10, 7 person wants to contribute to the problem. These enthusiasts have the will and budget to support the cause. They need step by step guidance in setting goals and achieving them. Our portals collect basic energy usage, lifestyle details of customers providing them current & future goals with solutions. Suppliers of technology mitigating emissions with world targets, INDC's & SDG's fulfilled due to their actions. | Sun gives rains, the earth provides food, animals prey upon to survive their existence. Humans take fresh air, Sunlight, Rainwater, Use earth but fail to pay back to nature. In Hindu Holy book Bhagwad Gita ""he is a thief who takes free resources but fails to pay back"" If you type carbon footprint on the Internet you will come across more than 1200 websites offering carbon footprint very few will take to the mitigating footprint. This website provides your current carbon footprint and offers mitigating solutions by buying third-party certificates. The users have a chance to over pollute next year as spending few dollars will exempt him from being a polluter. Carbon Emissions has increased so fast that there is little chance to reverse the repercussions. We had to come up with direct solutions rather than cautious actions. According to statistics, we humans emit 764 tons of carbon every second; making it 7 tons of carbon per person annually. With a rise in the population, we are on the verge of exhausting natural resources. To see the change we have to change. According to another survey, 90% population of the world aspires to be carbon-neutral today. 60% of the households are capable of it, but sadly, only 6% have achieved it! Mainly that’s because of technical aspects such as synchronization with natural resources and maintenance. Earth Carbon specializes in Ready-made solutions for the majority of sectors with an intent to reduce carbon emissions in real-time. | Currently, people want to be carbon neutral but do not know where to start. We handhold them by measuring their emission footprint, Providing tailormade solutions, implementing UNFCCC recognized solutions. We supervise, monitor & Evaluate the performance of technologies leading to sustainability in Energy Water & waste. During this journey, we provide online data to customers in contribution to SDG's, World Target, Individual footprint, local incentives. Existing practices/products from other approaches that exist in this space: https://www.carbonfootprint.com https://unfccc.int/climate-action/climate-neutral-now When it comes to mitigation, we are the only organization providing mitigating solutions with assured output, correct technologies, saving cost and time. We offer CDM methodology leading to carbon credits. We provide Carbon credits directly to customers rather than selling third party CDM Certificates. We allow customers to understand how important their contribution is as their actions are recognized by the Local Community, Their Country, United Nations. Their small contribution is making the change globally. Assured reduction of Carbon Footprint • Portfolio of energy-efficient appliances • Tailor-made solutions based on customer behavior/habits/lifestyle under different seasons • No installation pains • No after-sales or servicing headaches (vs. in-house installation) • Pay for what your budget suits you / Pay as you save • Customer data is Online. | We measure carbon footprint, resources saved, Money saved for the common man to participate in our programs. 1. % of Individual Savings compared to World svaings Targets. 2. Number of Contributions to Country’s INDC committed to the United Nations. 3. % Of Sustainability Achieved in Energy, Water & Waste. 4. Contributions to 17 Sustainable Development Goals. 5. Kwh of Energy Saved by Low Watt Appliances, used in our projects by customers. 6. Kwh Of Energy Saved by use of LED Bulbs. 7. Kwh of Energy saved by Solar Thermal application, Solar Water heating. 8. Kwh of Energy generated by Solar off Grid & Grid connect. 9. Solar Steam for cooking, Sterilization & Laundry. 10. KL of Rainwater Harvested for Drinking. 11. KL of Fresh Water saved by Waste Water Recycled. 12. KL of Fresh Water Savings by Waterless Urinals. 13. KL Of Rainwater Recharged/Percolation of Ground Water Table improving water tables. 14. No fo LPG Cylinders saved by the use of Biogas Generated from Waste Water. 15.No of Trees Planted. 16. % of overused Earth’s resources. Modules also record Emission, Resources, Social results as per Country's targets submitted to UNFCCC. | Planned Goals and milestones for our solution: We plan to work in the United Kingdom by end of 2020 with a staff of 7-9 person projected lives impacted in the first year 5000, 2nd year 15,000, 3rd year 25,000 + Australia in early 2021 with staff of 12-14 person, projected lives impacted 1st year 3500-5,000, 2nd year 12,000=14,000, 3rd year 20,000-22,500 GCC Countries by the middle of 2020 with a strength of 7-8 person, projected lives impacted the 1st year 2500-3000, the 2nd year 8000-9000, 3rd year 15,000+ Currently, we synchronies with the country’s development goals submitted to UNFCCC, e.g for India we have the following goals and milestones for our solution: NITI AYOG targets for SDG1: SDG Global Target 1.2 aims to reduce at least by half the proportion of the population living in poverty according to national definitions. According to the Tendulkar Committee estimates, poverty rates in India stand at 21.9 percent. 10.95 has been taken as the national target. Milestone: % of the population living below the National Poverty line.2 example: Worldwide, the provision of some form of universal health coverage is regarded as a basic component of social security. Percentage of households with any usual member covered by any health scheme or health insurance Target is to cover 100% Population by 2023. INDC Submitted with UNFCCC gives us data to set up goals and impacts as a whole. More People would try and contribute to the goals with simple figures available to them. | Short Term: Access to Government Policies and websites to compile the progress of Government data. Which can be compared with current efforts by our clients. Medium Term: Renewable energy data generation for different technologies from Official websites to correlate customer generation Long Term: Comparision with baseline scenarios with projected data. Leading to carbon neutrality and sustainability in natural resources have an impact on Employment, Social Justice, Sustainable Energy, Water & Waste. Each client impacts more than 5 sustainable goals by UNFCCC. Reducing Poverty, Education for all, Water and sanitation for all. We provide services backed by-product output. How our concept impacts reduction of GHG are available on our website: www.earthcarboninternational.com By creating a baseline scenario, encouraging customers to mitigate by adopting UNFCCC certified methodologies. We measure 3-year emissions for each customer. Emission reduction is one of our indicators, reduction in energy bills, improving on profits without increasing turnover. By preparing a resource balance sheet. | https://youtu.be/HgFz-jfhakE https://youtu.be/ST8GXXsfc3s https://youtu.be/FJSM0og-ReQ | https://youtu.be/Dmb0ioWxTKA https://youtu.be/mRQ7FJWFn18 | https://youtu.be/DrXOEpTkakA https://youtu.be/_cCksklmvs8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
427 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | WISDOM | IKPECHUKWU | wizwish international farms | www.greenfreshng.com | CEO | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The aim of our company is to solve the issues of buyers going out of their comfort zone to buy foodstuffs. Also, we aim to solve the issues of rural-urban migration, aging and bad look of farmers, we encourage financial inclusion of the rural areas which will enable rural dwellers to start using banking facilities for their transactions, connecting food stuff sellers to a bigger market where they can sell to millions of people through the internet with the aid of Smart Phone or Computer, we encourage local foodstuff sellers to appreciate technology and start sending their children to school. People can buy fresh foodstuff at their comfort zone and indirect and direct job employment will be created. People will have access to fresh foodstuff that is nutritious at affordable price. Broadband, ICT literacy rate in Rural communities in my Country will increase and youths will utilize the opportunity of selling their farm produce to millions of people without renting or owning a shop in the conventional market. | My name is Wisdom Chinedu Ikpechukwu, I am 29years old, single a graduate of Electrical Engineering from Federal university of Agriculture Makurdi Benue State and currently working with Federal Ministry of Communications Abuja, Nigeria. Wisdom like reading and watching motivational books, his role model is Mr. David Cameron former British Prime Minister | Greenfresh Nigeria | Fresh foodstuff item delivers at your doorstep | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Nigeria | No | Ideation | Because I have not registered it with Nigeria Cooperate Affairs Commission, the website is still under construction. Also, am still negotiating with fresh food vendors in Nigeria and the Logistics Company for delivery | Our company want to resolve the issues of buyers (customers) of fresh foodstuff leaving their comfort zone to buy what to cook and eat. We also, want to solve the problem of rural to urban migration. Aging and bad look of farmers Nigeria, encourage financial inclusion in the rural areas. Greenfresh Nigeria want to connect fresh foodstuff sellers to bigger market where they can sell there product/farm produce to millions of people through the internet. | The solution works by the buyer login to our online platform where we already vendors of different kind of fresh foodstuff available and choose or order the food stuffs he/she wants, without actually going to the market and we'll deliver it to them in the address they provided when registering within few minutes and maximum of three (3) hours for perishables while for others that are not perishable depending on quantity maximum of three days. We ensure that the food stuff are fresh, neatly package and it is deliver to the clients address. At the point of delivery it is expected of the client to give us feedback for management review of the company's performance. My long term vision is to spread to other countries of the world with this idea, and also to be exporting our local agric food abroad, employ more young and success hungry youth like me. | Greenfresh is basically an online fresh foodstuff market, we have a team of youths that are hungry for success and our idea is unique due to our ability to partner with local foodstuff sellers in the market which includes women and young girls, so as to handle the perishable side of our business also our time of delivery and ability to partner local farmers has given us boost to be successful. Our new method is that when ever a product is delivered, the client is to take a picture photograph of what is been delivered and upload it in our page so as to share his/her experience with us. In the case of wrong or bad products, our company will refund the client there money and the vendor that issue such product will be blacklisted and deleted from our platform. Our office is strategically located around one of busiest markets in Nigeria. Our knowledge of ecommerce business is an essential part of our success | We have progress tremendously in the area of Software and Application building, advertising and awareness creation for foodstuffs vendors, and others. | We hope to establish our company in some other neighboring countries so as to employ youths, encourage foodstuff businesses and promote indigenous food. We hope to use our idea to minimize if not stop rural to urban migration and development of the rural communities. We also want to boost employment through Agriculture. We hope to employ over 1000 persons within the next few years. | Short term needs: Office space in one or two markets in Abuja, furniture, 4 motor-cycle for delivery, 3 laptops, online advertising, employment of 3 permanent staffs on full time and 8 causal staff on part-time. Mid-term: Office space in thirty-six (36) states of Nigeria, 100 motorcycles for delivery, 37 Delivery Vans, over 150 Laptops for my staffs, online advertisement , employment of over 36persons on a permanent basis and 200 on casual, furniture and official car for supervision Longterm: office in Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa, Senegal and Egypt, office furniture, Over 1000 delivery motorcycles, over 600 Delivery Van, over 1000 Laptops for my staffs , online advert in reputable companies websites, 100 cars for both local and international supervision, an agro export license for exporting of agric food around the world | www.greenfreshng.com | www.greenfreshng.com | Tony elumelu alumni 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
428 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | TEMIJUOPELO | ALUFA | IMPERIUMIX NIGERIA | www.imperium.org.ng | Co-Founder/CEO | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | It is virtually impossible to be in our world today and ignore the immense leaps mankind has made with technology. I believe that the solutions driving real changes today are those that leverage on technology. For technology to be useful it must not only solve current problems in our environment but also create opportunities for future solutions. One area I believe this can come to light is in education i.e. the ability to use technology to make education more accessible and current. This is what our idea does by changing the way students access information in Nigeria. | I am a student at the Nigerian Law School (undergoing vocational training) and a law graduate of the University of Ibadan. I was a former Justice in the Law Students' Society Judicial Council, UI; former brand ambassador of Legally Engaged and former brand ambassador for the Bank of America Merrill Lynch. I represented my faculty and university in several public speaking competitions and was the President and Speech Coach of different literary and debating societies in my university. I was also Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee that formulated a pioneer constitution for the Augustine Nnamani Chambers, UI. I have written several other papers in different areas of law like international humanitarian law, ADR, amongst others. I hold a certificate in International Human Rights from Université Catholique de Louvain. I co-authored ""Black & White: A Compendium of Legal Thoughts."" I am a co-founder of ImperiumIX Nigeria and a co-creator of LegaLIT App (Nigeria's 1st Student Starter Pack). | The LIT App Series | Empowering Resarch Culture... | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Nigeria | Yes | Olamide Oyebanjo; Charles Banigo; Onwuegbuchunam Franklin; Oladokun Abiodun; Kosisochukwu Udeh; Kolawole Ayobami; Olalere Asamu and Okoro Franklin | Proof of Concept | Our solution is at the proof of concept stage as we are still test running the feasibility of the idea and its workability in a functional educational system. We are examining its reception with students and we realise that some features of the application still need to be worked on. | From interviews with students, we realized that certain problems with students in Nigeria: poor examinations; no access to a hub of academic resources; little or no information on organisations to intern; little knowledge on writing dissertations; low number of personal tutors to teach students; forgetting courses and group meetings. There may independent solutions for each of these problems, but no technology in Nigeria has been created that solves all the problems on a single platform. | The LIT App Series are a series of apps specially modified to meet the needs of students in different fields of study; from Law to Medicine to Pharmacy to Arts and Humanities to Veterinary Medicine, etc. To test run the viability of this idea, we created a beta version of the app for law students in Nigeria, with the brand name – “LegaLIT” (available for android devices on Google Playstore). It provides six major features: Student Planner: Planning your courses and group meetings. Practice Questions: Access to practice questions. Acts and Laws: Access to Acts and Laws in that jurisdiction. Internship Information: Access to internship information in different organisations in that jurisdiction. Dissertation Writing: Access to research writing guides. LIT Forum: Connect to other Student users of the app in real time. The most important service introduced to the LIT App Series is the “LITutor Feature”. This is a tutorial service where individuals versed in various fields of studies may be privately and gainfully employed by applying to be tutors of students desirous of private tutorial sessions. Through this means, we can help the needs of students who need private lessons by connecting them with individuals willing to provide such services. Our long term plan is to see the App model replicated in other schools in other countries such that it can benefit students in those countries as well. | This solution is unique because it utilizes technology in a different way in the domain of education. It recognizes the fact that the use of applications in cellphones is a daily occurrence amongst youths and also recognizes how students seek to learn with ease. Hence, the App makes education easily accessible, interesting and engaging and also goes further to connect students; creating employment for them. | As mentioned in the above field boxes, we have created a beta version of the app for law students in Nigeria to test run the viability of the idea, with the brand name – “LegaLIT” (available for android devices on Google Playstore). So far, it has received good reviews from students which are visible on Playstore. We measure our progress by seeing whether or not we have reached the set goals as laid out in our timeline for full completion. | We plan on expanding to other African Countries like South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, etc. and possibly other countries outside Africa. With the features of the app and the beauty of the internet, we can impact a lot of lives. If the app model is replicated in other countries this will enable us recruit ambassadors in those countries (as we have done here in Nigeria) who will showcase the values of our organisation. | Basically, financial and human resources. In the short term, we need to be able to employ and pay for the services of good tech professionals who can help us fine tune the features of the app to a world class standard. This is because we designed the beta version of the app based on our limited knowledge of design. For the long term, we see our app heavily used by students around the world which will cause us to need proper technological resources to accommodate such number of students. | 1) www.imperium.org.ng/legalit3apk (You can also download our solution from Google play store with the search phrase ""LegaLIT"") 2) https://storytellersnaija.com/legal-and-lit/ 3) http://imperium.org.ng/category/news/ | 1) https://youtu.be/UBokqwQ9SjI 2) https://www.africa-legal.com/news-detail/pushing-the-boundaries/ | None. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
429 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Yolande Marie Clémence | FRANCK MARIE CHARLES | Niger | Iphec10@yahoo.fr | Student | Female | Niger | Niger | French | What is important to me is to share my project idea at the united nations summit in order to find technical and financial partners for my project and contribute to the achievement of sustainable development objectives in my country by creating jobs, improving maternal and child health in Niger as well as reducing the effects of climate change at the national and international levels. | My name is Yolande Marie Clémence AGBO, currently a Marketing Communication student at the Institut Privé des Hautes Études Commerciales in Niger. Nigerian, I was born on September 28, 1991 in Niamey, daughter of Franck Marie Charles AGBO and Salamatou DJIMA. After graduating in 2013, I enrolled at the university ABDOU Moumouni Niamey to continue my studies in sociology. In February 2019, I was laureate at the company project presentation contest at Empower'her Niger where my project is in the process of being incubated. | Niger Cashew nut (Anacarde) | The Niger Anacarde project is a company producing and processing cashew fruits, commonly called Say touri-izé in Niamey. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Our project Niger Cashew Nut (Anacarde) will be implemented in Niger | Yes | Our potential partners will be the youth and women's associations, the Niger farmers and the agronomic centers,audit firm, suppliers of raw materials and material resources, the organizations that fight against malutrition and deforestation. | Research & Development | The Niger Anacarde project is an innovative project in that it transforms cashew apples into natural juice, cashew nuts into a nutritious paste for children and pregnant women and into infant flour. It also transforms the shells of cashew nuts into organic charcoal by pyrolysis and finally the waste resulting from the processing of apples is valorized in cakes for cattle. | The problem that our project solves is that of the low production of the cashew apple in Niger.This is explained by the lack of assisted natural regeneration, ignorance of the nutritional and energy values of cashew fruits in Niger. and ignorance of the adaptation of cashew to poor soil and a hot, dry climate. | Our company offers: natural juices to quench thirst and increase sources of income - Organic charcoal from cashew shells as a source of energy for cooking and preserving the environment - Infant flours and nutritious pasta to improve maternal and child health -cake cakes for livestock to diversify animal feed Our project fights against the excessive cutting of the wood and contributes to the reduction of the emissions of greenhouse gases, our products constitute sources of natural vitamins (A, B1, B2, B6, C) for pregnant women and children . | The Niger Cashew (Anacarde) Project will be the first company to produce and transform cashew fruits into natural juice, nutritious paste for children and pregnant women, grilled walnuts, infant flour, vinegar, cattle cakes and organic charcoal. The company will consist of a planting center for cashew, a processing unit, a storage unit, a packing unit, a cooking and shelling unit and a control laboratory.. | As the project is in the process of incubation, no sample is yet available but our team has already met farmers in Niger, some resource persons at FISAN level and developed the business model of the project. Currently we are developing the business plan. To measure the success of our project we will make satisfaction surveys, prepare summary reports per year, audit, put up suggestion boxes in supermarkets, shops. We will also do surveys to know the number of items sold per year, the number of customers per city and the turnover per city | We will first develop and market our products in the city of Niamey, then we will have subsidiaries of our company for the accessibility of our products in other regions of Niger. We will recruit young people and women to strengthen empowerment of young people and women in Niger. Our company will have international opportunities for more visibility | Our short-term needs are the search for financing and linking. In the medium term, we need the human, material and financial resources, and in the long term we need networking for the search for international markets. | https://mobile.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2083383821760339&id=100002662253123&_rdc=1&_rdr | https://twitter.com/AgboRosenn/status/1122487712131559426?s=08 | Our project was selected at the competition incubator center of Niamey February 12, 2019 at Empow'her Niger | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
430 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohammad Nasir | Meerkhil | AWAL- Development and Transformation | www.awal.xyz | Strategy Associate | Male | Afghanistan | Afghanistan | English | I am a fresh graduate of computer science and have been working with a team in Afghanistan with the help of a company in the US (AWAL LLC) to promote the global sale of Afghan handmade products. I believe the UN Solutions Summit is a platform to gain ideas from experts on how to scale this company. Also, AWAL's custom solution would bring in opportunities to bring in local African and Asian handicraft markets into our platform. I have been following the UNSS very closely over the last few years, and I believe our work would be very well received.It will also add a lot of value to the platform if we can interact with global trade, business, and development professionals from around the world. | Mohammad Nasir is a fresh graduate of computer science. His major interest and passion is technology. Bring innovation, development and positive impact on the society through technology. Since his early teenage years He have had a strong interest in the world that he lives in; wanting to understand where his and others’ places can be and are in society; not just locally but globally. So he decided to make himself a part of positive change in the society. He further focuses on the study of modern technologies, and its possible implementation in under-developed, fragile and conflict-affected states. 2017-Now Nasir works with a team in Afghanistan with the help of a company in the US (AWAL LLC) to promote the global sale of Afghan handmade products.' Involvement: Nasir was part of the Internet Governance Forum (IGFA) where the presenter from ICANN presented the NextGen program. | Aseel | ASEEL: Everything Handmade | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Currently (Afghanistan, United States, Canada) Intended (Global) | Yes | AWAL Development | Transition to Scale | We have developed a mobile application available in the Apple IOS Store. We have also established and tested our supply chain having sent around 1 ton of handmade goods from Afghanistan to the US. We have more than 15 partners that produce handmade goods in Afghanistan working closely with us. Currently, we are looking into developing into different platforms (Android, Web) and using our remaining budget to market our goods globally. We wish to scale to include more vendors from more countries. | 90% of the global e-commerce is done in 10 of the world’s most developed countries (Shopify). Underdeveloped countries lack postal infrastructure, robust supply chains, and payment systems to participate. These countries produce traditional handcrafts normally highly valued.With no access to those markets, precious handcrafts are sold at fraction of their value or are labelled as originating from elsewhere. To deliver product to developed countries, indirect paths must be taken with no benefit. | The three main areas that we have innovatively solved are below: 1) Connecting Afghanistan to global consumers: For last mile delivery we have produced a solid mobile application and a web interface that can compete with any of the world’s best ecommerce sites. It is now easy for anyone around the world to download the app and buy products directly from Afghanistan. The app conveys the stories of the artisans, the product information, accepts any card-based payments, PayPal etc. We also plan to use Virtual Reality (VR) for some lines of our products such as carpets, home décor items, and handmade clothes that would showcase our products to potential customers. 2) ASEEL’s supply chain: We have designed a custom supply chain that connects seamlessly, partnering with DHL to accomplish this. At a discounted price of 76%, we ship the products out of Afghanistan and a second partnership with FEDEX allows us to easily send products from Afghanistan globally. This integration between the vendors, the supply chain, and the app gives the customers an amazing experience where they will be able to track their packages in real-time. 3) Payments: Our team consists of experts that have pioneered the mobile payments technologies in Afghanistan and with our local presence in Afghanistan we are now able to pay these vendors in 7 days after their first sale by using mixed methods of mobile money, bank transactions and in-person deals. | Currently there is no platform for people in Afghanistan to sell handmade products globally. Given its landlocked location and lack of a sustainable supply chain, Afghan artisans are limited to selling their products to secondhand sellers in Pakistan and India. These products are usually tagged as made-in-Pakistan and sold in other parts of the world with their own prices. Previous USAID and other donor programs have established the air-corridor for Afghanistan or have done business to business matchmaking. Our more effective approach connects the buyers directly to the sellers through a state-of-the-art mobile platform to ease the transaction. The international market is tailored in a way that only the biggest firms survive. The goods are produced in bulk and distributed in bulk. The internet commercial market is taken over by giants such as Amazon, Ali Baba and Walmart that are purely concentrated on volume and recognized brands. At the same time, people to people transaction of goods through sites such as eBay do not cover the most part of the world and can’t be considered a replacement for an actual market. There has been a lot of improvement on supply chain throughout the world but it is yet to be leveraged for the global good and everyone’s benefit. | Proof of Concept Viability. We went through a study process in the US and Afghanistan for a proof-of-concept assessment for a mobile platform that would connect local artisans to global consumers. We traveled locally throughout and worked with 15 vendors to invite them to test our concept with us. As partners, they were made to understand if they want to access to are app they would have to become ready for international markets. They have taken action to enroll into the platform and start selling through us. In the US, we went through a similar study involving US e-commerce platforms such as Etsy, Wish, and others. We also did concept testing by going live at three events, including Afghan Nights in Virginia, Passport to DC at the Afghan Embassy, and an official launch at the Afghan Embassy. Prototype App. We have in-house developed a mobile application with a state of the art back-end software that provides end to end solution for buying products in Afghanistan, enrolling partners, publishing the products, and accessing the supply chain. A customer can order products and make online payments to be delivered directly to them. Through the app, a customer can create a profile, save preferences, access sales and discounts, get alerts on new products, and order products The ASEEL Mobile Application and the Back-end (Ferni) is tested multiple times with our current customers and partners, both remotely through US customers as well as in-person at the aforementioned events. | Our goals is to provide employment opportunities in developing countries and contribute in women empowerment. Our first pick up destination is Afghanistan where we provided employment opportunity to about 300 artisans who work for our suppliers. We are going to expand our operation to other countries, such as India. We are planning to choose Kashmir as our second pick up destination because there are expert artisans like the ones in Afghanistan who manufacture beautiful and unique handmade products. Moreover, there some other countries such as Thailand, Morocco, Turkey, and Uzbekistan with expert artisans who can produce quality handmade products. As we are expanding our operations so we will need to recruit new employees in host countries in order to run our operations smoothly. Milestones will involve not only the new countries but also establishing supply chains and teams in these countries. | Recognition. Our efforts have focused on a limited social media presence and by word-of-mouth. If we do not reach more customers globally, establishing a buy-and-sell infrastructure involving multiple countries, high end designers, and large volumes of sales will be difficult. A short term strategy is developing the app on other platforms. A mid term strategy will use global promotional events to increase visibility. Standardization. Most of our vendors have never interacted with global markets. Ensuring the consistent quality of goods is key. One of our mid-term solutions has been to train Junior Professionals (JP) based in Afghanistan on business practices, customer interaction, in addition to writing, English, accounting, etc. With more long-term funding, these JPs will grow into the core team to oversee the transition of ASEEL into an internationally-compliant business. Volume. In Afghanistan, handmade goods are usually made individually with very little standardization. Challenging the artisans to produce collections instead of items will be a short term strategy. A long term strategy involves scaling their businesses to produce large quantities with standard quality. Lack of capital. We need capital to increase our supply chain in the short term. With medium and long term funds, we will can establish the platform and increase sales that to become self-sustaining. Growing at scale will allow us to support more artisans from Afghanistan and other countries. | Https://Aseel.xyz (Website of the app) Https://awal.xyz (Website of the firm) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAw5VULQo60 (Story by Voice of America) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HV3fkHZJqs (Aseel ad) https://www.awal.xyz/awal2018/ (Agreements in Afghanistan part of the AWAL Conference) https://www.awal.xyz/the-truly-global-e-commerce-connecting-artisans-from-underdeveloped-countries-to-the-global-consumers/ (Story on ASEEL) https://businessdna.af/aseel (Story on ASEEL) https://twitter.com/Embassy_of_AFG/status/1131355018525904896 (Afghan Ambassadors message on the launch of the ASEEL platform in the embassy) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aseel-everything-handmade/id1439360950 (Apple Store) | Afghan Entrepreneur of the Year - BusinessDNA Magazine Young Global Changer - G20 Best Solution for Jobs - G20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
431 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Iksan | oetama | Tenogo | http://tenogoinitiative.org/ | DIRECTOR | Male | Indonesia | Indonesia | English | Tenogo Initiative Energy is part of the development of human civilization on past, present and future. At present human needs for energy sources to help human life continue to grow. Energy issues become a problem that faced by all countries in the world. The dependency of fossil base of fossil energy era has now shifting to the use of renewable energy source that have more sustainable for our future life. Reduced fossil energy usage, resulting in the development of research on renewable energy (renewable energy) that is clean and friendly to the environment. At present various studies up to the implementation stage have been carried out on energy sources derived from solar (solar), water, wind, waves, biodiesel and so on in order to find energy sources to replace fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal. TENOGO ENERGY is an initiative created by Wibisono, Iksan Oetama, and Rhama Wijaya in early 2018 which focuses on research and development of renewable energy sources, by creating discoveries of energy sources that can be used for various uses (multipurpose) for example to be used as driving a generator that can generate electricity, as a driver of industrial machinery as a vehicle engine drive, as a driver of a water pump, as a propulsion of water vessels and so on. At present TENOGO ENERGY is focused on conducting research by optimizing the earth's gravitational power to be able to produce energy at low cost and can be easily implemented in various fields, weather and places. We hope our motivation and effort can be part of future solution. TENOGO ENERGY hopes that the researches will have a contribution and benefit the people. | Tenogo are: Iksan Oetama Study & Experiences 1995 -2001, Brawijaya University, Indonesia – Economics. 2001 – 2005, Procurement Assistant Manager at Henkel Indonesien, Indonesia. 2005 – Current Entrepreneur Wibisono 1964 -1967, IPB, Indonesia – Fishery 1972 – 1977, Civil Technics Fachhochschule für Bau Und Vermessungskunde, Germany. 1977 – 1980, Drafter at Rotring werke, Riepe werk KG, Germany. Rhama Wijaya 1969 -1977, Trisakti University, Indonesia – Mechanical Engineering Jakarta - Indonesia | Tenogo G10 - gravity energy source | Tenogo G10, is an energy generator that uses gravitational power for all purpose and terrain | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Indonesia | Yes | Government, Farmers, Industry, Electricity company | Proof of Concept | We are in the final stage of Proof of Concept Tenogo G10. The prototype of energy source already run with good energy output, but we need to done more optimization to go to next stage of Tenogo G10 to be readi to be scale. | Tenogo G10, is addressing energy issues. We can say it is one of the best and cleanest alternative for renewable energy since the machine do not have dependency on any circumstances such as height, weather, wind and solar. Tenogo G10 has the capability to transform its kinetic energy output to run energy generator if the aim is to create electricity, or it can be an energy source to run industrial machine like conveyor or blender, it also capable to shift its energy to be use as water pump. | Tenogo G10 can reduces energy/electricity cost, reduces greenhouse effects & pollution, slower global warming. We as Tenogo need more strategic partnership to make this great idea happen, relation is not only base in profitable in commercial aspect but more in humanity value and equality principal for people to have cheap and clean energy access. We believe if all stage of Tenogo G10 is done right, we would like to see Tenogo G10 deployed in those remote area or even in the cites of the world. | The unique of Tenogo G10 are: - Can be deploy in any circumstances are with no need requirement of height, weather, wind and sun light/solar. - Tenogo G10 machine is cheap and simple because its a knockdown energy source machine. - It can be stacked bottom-up or parallel side by side energy resources machine. - The biger size of Tenogo G10, the bigger energy power output. - It can be connected to electricity generator or alternator, so electricity is the output. Tenogo G10 principally is a kinetic machine that create continues movement of wheel base on gravity power. It is very different with current existing energy resource machine that use fuel combustion to create output or power for engine. | We are now in the Prove of Concept (POC) stage. We need 2 or 3 more years to bring Tenogo G10 to Scalling stage, then deploy/implementation to go to sustainable Scale. Our strategy and method is to looking for strategic partnership to make it happen. We still need support in financial help to make all the stage is done correctly and appropriate, to make sure Tenogo G10 is the future solution for energy resources. We also want to cooperate with any government or cities to be our pilot projects for cheap and clean energy in the future. | In 3 years we hope Tenogo G10 is already to produce in mass production stage and ready to be an alternative energy resources for the market and can be implemented in developing countries with limitation in energy resources. Next year 2020, we want to go Tenogo G10 in Scaling Stage, and to be ready for production in 2022. We will also looking for more funding to make sure it will happen with strategic partnership with venture capital, government and industry. It could give best value to cheap electricity. In pursuing that goals, next year we will recruit additional team with a specialty in mechanical engineering design and material design. We will make sure that Tenogo G10 can be deploy in remote area with knockdown features, simple design, and strong made in material to be able run in long time but with light weight. So, in the era of future battery storage, Tenogo G10 will have best compability as the source of energy. | We need more assist and guide from engineering perspective to made Tenogo G10 go to next level of development such as funding and integrated industrial relation. In short term, we need more fund to fill the engineering expertise gap and patented the idea internationally. Medium term, we want to have strategic partnership with big and established energy industry. Long term, we want to partnership with any country that have energy scarcity with limited ability in energy infrastructure development to deploy Tenogo G10 in their area or country. Tenogo G10 can be a cheap alternative to make better living for their community/people. | http://tenogoinitiative.org/ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a_ttfmKgxM_z-htdZzt2ocfg9D_XefZB | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a_ttfmKgxM_z-htdZzt2ocfg9D_XefZB | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
432 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | ASMAA | BENACHIR | Au Grain de Sésame | www.augraindesesame.org | Founder and Manager | Femelle | Morocco | Morocco | Arabic | English | French | My professional experience and the needs observed around me led me to develop in Au Grain de Sesame (AGS, social enterprise) an artistic training program ""Empowering women through ecological art and diversity"". Based on an innovative technique of recycled paper, tested at ""Au Grain de Sésame"" as part of the AGS ""Rabat Cultural Exchange Program"". A program that has been a real success for over five years and whose excellent results have improved the lives of both beneficiaries and participants while bringing human change through exchange and cultural training. Given the positive impact and the encouraging results obtained, at present, my desire is to make more of it available by transforming it into a solution accessible to all thanks to new technologies. e-WomenEcoCraftMaking (e-WECM) aims to be an e-platform for developing the capacity of women artisans to transform them into effective actors of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). And this, following several steps: Step1 : Mandatory training in design, online, free and accessible to all. With non-compulsory elective training (literacy, basics in management and marketing, ...) Step2 : Networking The craftswomen put their story online and the products they have developed and are networked with designers of various origins and students from national and international partner schools and universities, volunteers wishing to work with them or to work with them to improve their product. Thus women can be supervised for the improvement of the design, the production process, the study of the fair sale price for their ecological and durable products developped. 3 - Sales platform Following a very simple process and after successfully completing Step 3, women artisans can sell online their products developed during Step 2. The platform's role will be to connect craftswomen with shops and buyers around the world. Passionate about my work and determined to make it evolve in the framework which corresponds to it best, to present it to the audience of UN Solutions Summit, will increase its visibility, while enriching my knowledge and my network by the exchange with other participants while having access to potential Acceleration Partners. To give my solution the best chances to evolve and be realized in the best possible conditions, and thus become a real global solution, helping to improve living conditions and better live together. | After developing in my artist’s studio an innovative process using recycled paper I launched in 2013, the eco-friendly art training workshop at Au Grain de Sésame. Marginalized craft Moroccan women from the Rabat and Salé medinas who participate in this program create ecological and durable product design. The program works to improve women’s social and economic circumstances while at the same time spreading awareness on the importance of environmental conservation and encouraging eco-friendly behaviors. AGS, therefore, became an arts and ecological design social company which works in the framework of sustainable development with the ultimate goal of empowering women through art. From 2016 to 2017, I joined the UNIDO (United Nations Organization for Industrial Development) REVIS Project, which worked with artisans from the northeastern region of Morocco to develop training in product design, quality control, and market access. Through these successful experiences, and the work I have done on the ground, the awareness of the use of new technologies, in the process of artistic creation becomes a necessity, in the face of growing globalization. Also, I strongly believe that the art supported by new technologies, can be used as a powerful tool in development and search for new ecological and sustainable artistic products, but also in human capital development and thus contributing to sustainable socio-economic development. | e-WomenEcoCraftMaking | e-learning Art Craft ecology durable sustainable diversity social inclusion empowering employement | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | MOROCCO | Yes | 1-Jossour, Forum des Femmes Marocaine : NGO for Women Rights. 2- Worcester Polytechnique Institute, Worcester USA : school of engineers 3-Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, Providence USA: school od Design 4-Thaqafat NGO: for cultural exchange progr | Transition to Scale | The training program AGS has to date, granted the training of over two hundred marginalized women artisans from different regions of Morocco Positive results and recognition, demonstrating that our ecological art education program contributes to launching sustainable development initiatives in respect of diversity. A proved local solution to current environmental challenges, which currently targets to reach a greater number of women in an environment of cooperation and global level exchange. | With the globalization of markets and its new demands, the craft sector, although with a high potential for employability and social integration, remains unsuitable and faces new challenges. A sector where craftswomen remain marginalized for lack of adapted training which would otherwise enable them to develop projects around innovative and ecological products. Products that would improve their living conditions by exchange, interacting, sharing and understanding. | Our vision: A global impact for a sustainable future in a peaceful world A vision based on the search for a constant balance between opportunities and risks while maintaining good operational performance and strategic positioning for the positive growth of our solution. To develop and advance our solution, we will use the Global Sustainable Development Goals as a framework Our approach : It is part of sustainable development, as part of the vision of our solution. With clear short- and long-term performance and positioning objectives conducive to growth. Strategy: A short-term strategy to set up and launch our solution. A long-term growth strategy that gives our solution access to more and more adherent women artisans, while capitalizing on the growing demand for greener, safer and more sustainable products, and on a study of opportunities and risks related to the market of the sustainable economy. Certification: A constant search for certification for eco-friendly and durable products developed by craftswomen will provide them with quality assurance. Partner Engagement: Active engagement of the partners is essential to establish a positive climate of work of cooperation in the exchange and the sharing of knowledge and know-how. | A learning platform by bringing together the necessary resources to transform women artisans in precarious situations, from different countries, from different cultures and origins, into effective actors of sustainable development working within the framework of UN's Sustainable Development Goals ( UN's SDG). A solution resulting from the fieldwork of more than five years, with craft women worker from different regions of Morocco, and with the effective support of local and international partners (Universities, schools, NGOs, companies, Institutes, Government Institutions, ... ). With training work also based on innovative recycling techniques, allowing the production of handmade, ecological, sustainable and exceptional handmade craft products. Increasing women's incomes, while raising awareness of the socio-economic issues of the environment and diversity, as a source of wealth and better living together. An evolutionary solution that remains attentive to progress in new technologies, the evolution of eco-friendly and sustainable handmade craft markets, constantly looking for new partners that can strengthen our solution. Evolving within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals, our solution puts at its heart the artisan woman, while taking into account the change in consumer behavior towards a more ecological and sustainable consumption, and works in an environment of cultural diversity, exchange and learning and listening to each other. | The first step of the project is to launch rewarding training for women artisans in a context of global exchange and respect for environmental and human values, so as to transform them into effective actors of sustainable development and make them leaders in their community, has been successfully achieved. This led us to the second stage, aiming to develop the first step on a global scale, using new technologies. A second step corresponding to the e-WECM solution that we propose and which is currently in the phase of the business idea. Our solution is progressing in the form of targets to be reached. Based on assessments, we set our priorities, manage our business and report on our performance areas as follows: • Training, • Craftswomen, • Products developed, • Partnerships for sustainability, • Market Access, • environment and climate • sustainable purchases • Team The results obtained, guide us to define our opportunities, risks, and impacts: - Opportunity to strengthen our positions by constantly improving our solution under the UN's SDG and increase the performance of our team by keeping it motivated. - Risks mainly based on the choice of revenues that must be developed in a fair way and will fund the platform, but also on our ability to adapt to the evolution of the sustainable handmade craft market, - Impacts on women artisans and their communities, customers, and people involved in the solution. | The launch of our solution will be based initially, on three types of milestones that will make the process of creating the e-WECM platform faster and more efficient: • A review plan: regularly consulted in order to regularly readjust the chosen strategy, forecasts and budget. A regular and essential step to review the progress achieved in the implementation of the strategy and tactics, such as the development of a new marketing campaign, the increase in the number of registered craftswomen, partners and customers. • Assumptions validation: In the first phase of the project implementation, it will validate or readjust the training modules given with the real needs of the craftswomen, the effective participation of partners and the adequacy of the support provided with the needs and capacities of the of women, but also the expectations of an international clientele in handcrafted, sustainable and environmentally friendly products. • Implementation: Once the validation step of the initial strategy has been achieved, the implementation of the solution will start according to the following steps: -Reinforced our team with qualified persons on a web developing, marketing and communication, management and finance, training, -Creation of version 1 of the e-WECM platform, -Test version 1 of the platform with 20 volunteer women artisans, -Launch of the final version of the e-WECM platform, -Development of marketing materials. | To contribute to the implementation of the e-WECM solution, the necessary resources are in the short term: - Human Resources: a work team, companies providing services, consultants, travel, - Material Resources: computer and audiovisual equipment and hardware, software, site fees, local, administrative operating costs, the layout of premises, supplies, consumables, - Financial, In the medium term to allow the solution to progress: - Human Resources: work team, travel, - Hardware Resources: site fees, local, administrative operating costs, supplies, consumables, -Financial resources, In the long term, the solution must be self-financing and must generate the revenue needed to cover the costs necessary for its sustainability and development. | www.augraindesesame.org https://web.facebook.com/augraindesesame.page/ https://web.facebook.com/groups/Marcheecobio/ www.pinterest.com/augraindesesame www.pinterest.com/asmaabenachir https://www.youtu.be/XIfn_xYZuwQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of8I3itBie8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBMbIUge-oQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOedld60kQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLVKZgAvI-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSscXQ_0QXA | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcoqovmiDvg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0Wl06Jw-j0&feature=player_embedded https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156495837069551 | In 2013, Au Grain de Sésame was the recipient of the SEED prize, a United Nations Initiative for the Environment. In September 2014, I have awarded the Museum Connect Project organized by the American Museum Association (AMA) and supported by the U.S. State Department for Cooperation and Education, for a cross-cultural art exchange program that involved in it marginalized US and Moroccan women and also US and Moroccan students. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
433 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ronald | Ondari | Ronpack chemical industries limited | N/A | Chief Executive Officer | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | To enhance values of commitment, engagement and solidarity in educating the mind and working towards a solution in promoting welfare and advancement of poor, marginalized, displaced and suffering communities. | I, Ronald I'm the Chief Executive Officer of; Ronpack chemical industries limited. Renowned researcher with diverse experience of skills in about capacity building interesting with minority's population among other important thematic areas. My professional expertise is anchored in ethics, centered on service and pledged to excellence in service to humanity in equal measures making extra- ordinary contributions towards alleviating human suffering. Backed up as a direct support professional with dynamic leadership, interpersonal, communicator and managerial skills. | Sericulture farming | Silkworm Rearing as a means of training, capacity building, Acedemic & social research, gender analysis and advocacy of SDGs goals. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda | Yes | Local Communities and well wishers ( friends) | Research & Development | Because of working out for the solution, my objectives are basically at the research stage due to doing capacity building as gendered activities hence the training needs a well trained personnel to undertake the tasks, thus i think that we're going through the development stages at the same time offering great insights into contemporary discourse on sustainable consumption and production patterns, gender equality empowering all women and girls with full productive work and employment for all. | We're addressing gender inequality, women empowerment and unemployment for all in community. Advocacy on well established government policies. Highlighting lack of capacity and insufficient technical skills on silkworm rearing. Addressing lack of domestic demand for finished products due to unclear goals in quality and minimal product awareness. | Recommending proper agronomical practices use to increase yields, intensive research required on available species of mulberry in given location - as outcome of successful production. Need for skilled labour in mulberry growing and silkworm rearing for high production thus impacting global economy. | This solution is unique because it has a potential of serving as a supplement to the textile industry in the aforementioned countries(Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda) due to the dwindling cotton production. A new perspective is that sericulture has the potential of poverty eradication and economic empowerment especially for women and populous youths of this nations because it is a labour intensive venture. | The development of this solution depends on; Mulberry a plant that is grown for silkworm rearing, it's the exclusive food for the silkworm- which during its larval life is reared for silk production. It ( Mulberry) forms basic food material for silkworms, the mulberry leaves production is essential for organizing sericulture on sound economic lines. An estimated one metric ton of mulberry leaves is necessary for rearing its one case of eggs which yields about 25 kgs to 30 kgs of cocoons of high quality. This progress can be measured by the growth and thrive of mulberry plant in this country (Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda) due to very good climate conditions that are favorable for mulberry plants. | Planned expansion in the neighboring country(Tanzania) which has similar climate conditions to the experimental area of Rwanda - despite fact that sericulture has been in existence for a while ago in Kenya. Launch of new marketing brands, promotions, distribution and sales to achieve top of mind recognition with partners and stakeholders sharing new approach to challenges, capacity building and staff members trainings in revelence to new stakes At the most a third approximately 2.2 million people lives of the Nairobi population will be impacted. | Learning new skills through information and educational materials. Time management of production process. Enhancing value addition to product and effective communication with the clients Gradually move the market standards upward to march the global markets descriptions. Becoming a global supplier to the world class economic powerhouse. Stability of the financial system of the corporation. Apply for financial support through grants or seed funds ( venture capital) Be a super producer thus financial stability of the corporation Empowering the staffs on production improved knowledge of the product. Production of quality work with creative ideas to shine in the entrepreneur field Have a base for making influence on marketing, supply and prices negotiations. Coaching the local communities in the product area. Automating the production line to reduce unit cost. Improve service provision to be ranked the best corporation to provide them and generate more revenue. Have positive impact on the planet earth. | https://www.bidnetwork.org/about/ Sericulture Farming by Ronald Ondari - Ronpack chemical industries | N/A | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
434 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ines | Ayari | My brand : Aynes | https://www.instagram.com/aynes.contact/ | Founder | Female | Tunisia | Tunisia | Arabic | English | French | Since I joined AIESEC , my vision has completely changed, I saw closely what our community suffer from as in different countries around the world . I worked in a department where we assured for volunteers internships with different associations that worked on SDGs, we worked with different categories of people ( poor, needy,disabled, uneducated). I lived in this department experiences full of pain but also full of joy to accomplish something for our country. i consider Working on SDGs a mission that I should go for it to make my country and the world a better place to live. When i found the form of the UN Solutions Summit i didn't think twice to apply and be present in this summit to suggest the idea of our team, listen to other ideas , get inspired by them . The presence beyond this Summit will with no doubt give me more experience and will help me to develop myself and my career so far. | My name is Ines Ayari. I'm 21 years old, i was borned and raised in Tunisia. I had my bachelor's degree with 15.37 / 20 average and I just got my licence in Medical Biology in the high school of sciences and technics of health. In my schooling I joined AIESEC the international mouvement by youth and for youth, i worked in the Incoming Global volunteer department, we assure the experience of the volunteers in Tunisia from different countries, also I worked many projects about the SDGs, I was an organiser of a competition for Tunisian teenagers to come up with an idea of a start-up to solve a problem and help reaching the SDGs . In my family we are six, my father is a private employee and my mother is a housewife. I have 3 siblings. I call my self an ambitious supergirl who never stop working on her personal development. I am interested about the entrepreneurship, what help me to create my Brand 'AYNES' specialised in handmade Tote bags 'Eco friendly' with a Tunisian touch of brodery. My strengths are hard worker, self motivating and dedicated towards my work. Also I am a good learner as well as teacher. I don't like to say my weakness but I like to say scope for improvement that is I won't leave any ask in completely, I believe in my self and I want perfection in everything. My ethic is 'I never neglect an opportunity for my improvement '. In the future, I see myself as an independant woman who has achieved something in her life that can inspire people. | Heakers | Heakers means healthy sneakers that will help to count the number of steps we make each day because we don't accord attention to physical activities. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | It can be implemented in all countries around the world. | No | Research & Development | For our solution we developed our business case , we identified our scope and our project stakeholders too but we still creating a workflow document also searching and gathering resources , estimating the budget of our solution etc... we are in the planning phase to develop our solution. | Nowadays, we don't accord too much attention to physical activities so we don't make enough steps to be healthy, thanks to a study made by blog fitbit, we discovered that we should make 10000 steps a day for a fit body. One other study showed that the average of daily steps in different countries USA,France, Germany and UK is less than 7000 steps, which causes a serious problem especially for countries that suffer from health issues. | It is a solution that will count the number of steps we make each day . Our sneakers will contain a button to open or close and 3 buttons for 3 options: bikes, hiking and jogging . It will be connected to smartphones to count directly the number of tours by bicycle and the number of steps , it will encourage also to use bicycles instead of cars. | As we all know, there are applications that count the average of steps daily but it was determined that they did not fit perfectly, but gave an approximate total. If an application with pedometer shows a lot of steps, the user knows he has moved a lot. If the result is less, instead of remaining slumped on the chair, better get up and go for a ride. Also apps can count the steps automatically even if the user is in the car due to the vibrations that it make. The new perspective is that our product will count directly and exactly the daily steps. | Since a year, we have been working, searching for the development of our solution , we measure our progress by the challenges we overcame, by checking our short term goals . We still analysing our market and our potential partners. | We aim to ask for a financial help from BTS in Tunisia, also to contact tunisian shoe factories . We will need support from health organisations for example for a Realistic and scalable marketing strategy since marketing is so crucial to promote our service. We should hire and train a solid team . That will help us to reach a significant number of sales in Tunisia. As a long term goal we aim to rich more clients by promoting our service to new markets in different countries all over the world , we will ask for the help of media. People should become aware and give more attention to physical activities and the benefits of our sneakers . | For our solution we will need : In a short term: financial help from BTS in Tunisia. Collaboration with shoe factories in Tunisia. Digital support from media. In a medium term: support from health organisations. In a long term : support from the government to promote our solution in different countries around the world. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Umt_K5yL8RM2-p-qwiyCGm4VOSfZTjYi/view?usp=sharing | Http:// | We were Winners of the first price in the event 'Start-up Competition 3.0'. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
435 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | MOUNTAGA | KEITA | Tulip industries | www.tulipindustry.com | Founder & CEO | Male | Guinea | Guinea | English | French | I would be honored to be part of the UN Solutions Summit in September 2019 for several reasons: 1- First, I would like the World to acknowledge that we can do it from Africa, we can innovate and contribute to humanity's progress. The interactive green kiosks manufactured by my firm help developing countries leapfrog in terms of Governance, access to quality healthcare even in remote areas, reduce corruptions and facilitate cross-border training /knowledge sharing. 2- Second, the trip may help meet key leaders and decision makers who may decide to deploy Tulip's solutions in their countries. 3- Innovating a E-health kiosk, with its consultation/diagnostic capabilities, will certainly help developing nations catch up in providing quality healthcare, and help developed nations solve the issue of ""medical deserts in rural areas. Moreover, the QR code encrypted prescriptions printed from the E-health kiosk helps hinder parallel/fake medications markets. | Mountaga Keita is a Guinean born inventor, Founder and CEO of Tulip Industries. He has revolutionized lately the African high-tech industry by innovating a world class and multiple Award winning interactive green kiosks, which target Government, Education, health, Agribusiness and security segments. He was a laureate of the 2017 Guinean Digital Week, recognized in Rwanda by the African Innovations Summit (AIS 2017) as one the 50 Best innovations in Africa for 2018. In late 2018 he received from the African Intellectual Property Organization’s World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO’ Gold Medal for the contribution of his innovations to his country socioeconomic development. And Recently he received several Awards at the Geneva International Inventions Fair (47eme Salon International de Genève): The French Inventors Association Gold Medal, the European Inventors Association Award, and the Geneva Fair Gold Medal in the technology category. Before 2014, Mountaga Keita was a US banker and international project manager based in Washington DC. He has more than 10 years of experience in advising investors concerning investment-related matters. For many years, he was a senior Personal Banker at Bank of America Corp. in the State of Maryland and Manager at SunTrust Bank Inc. in Washington DC. Mr. Keita was educated in the U.S, holding two graduate degrees - Master of Science in Contract Management & Procurement, Master of Business Administration and Diploma in Negotiation at Harvard Law School- with much of his work involving investments, negotiations and management. | E-Health Interactive kiosk | Our green energy interactive kiosk helps Practicians perform consultations and diagnostics directly or remotly, and print encrypted prescriptions. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Developping countries and any developped country facing issues of ""medical deserts"" | No | Scaling | We started building E-health kiosks for Guinean Doctors, and faced a higher volume of order worldwide after a prime time TV documentary on Ivory Coast national TV (RTI1). We are actually boosting our production capacity by modernizing it, in order to increase our daily outputs from 20 to 120 kiosks. Additionally, we are implementing a global distribution channel through partnerships and franchises in various countries (Africa, Europe, Caribbean islands). | The E-Health Kiosk is: * Tele-Consultations/diagnostics to improve the quality of health services * Create encrypted Patients' digital records * Reduce Medical evacuations/transfers of patients from hospitals to hospitals * Print encrypted QR code prescriptions to hinder fake medications market.. * E-trainings for Doctors and nurses regardless of their locations, with 3G web connectivity. * Doctors can work regardless of the public energy grids, with a small solar panel (3 days energy autonomy) | Our solution of E-Health allows Doctors to consult/diagnose patients on site or remotely, print their encrypted QR code prescriptions, get patients' files and consultations historic. We aim to provide most developing countries with our E-health solution to resolve inequalities in terms of health infrastructure between developed and developing nations, allowing Doctors to interact in real-time regardless of their locations, E-trainings are thus facilitated and patient would be able to get quality medical care even in remote areas (covered by 3G GSM network) | * SYNERGY: Eight peripherals (pulse oximeter, digital stethoscope, Thermal camera, Digital endoscope, ultrasound scanner, Microscope, tensiometer and a digital scale). All peripherals are managed via our All-In-One application software platform, which is ergonomically designed to allow any Doctor to handle peripherals easily and get patients' vital signs data into their medical files. * ENERGY: The device is a green energy kiosk, with 220 Volts and 12 Volts both enabled It runs on a 30W solar panel, which charges the internal batteries (3 Days autonomy). * DURABILITY: The kiosk is built using durable materials, such as steel and vandal proof touchscreen. *FAST DEPLOYMENT: the solution can travel in the back of an SUV, be deployed wherever a GSM 3G connectivity is available, and carry medical consultations at will, retriev e patients medical file digitally and create remote/joint consultations of patients with other Doctors located elsewhere.. | The team was trained and certified according to the firm rules and regulations. We are actually in full production of the commercial version of the medical kiosk ""Octopus"". We designed last year a workflow process and use CRM (Bitrix24) to manage every employee's assigned tasks, interactions within the firm and potential clients. At last, each employee has KPI and a quarterly performance review. | Our short term goal is to deploy 100 E-health kiosks within the next 6 months in Guinea. In a medium term we intend to obtain all required certifications for other African countries, along with certifications for the EU market within the next 12 months. By December, the overall personel will be boosted from 35 to 50 employees, mainly hired in the welding and IT department. In Africa alone we intend to impact its 1.2 billion souls, as health care facilities deploy the E-heath kiosks for Doctors E-trainings and patients medical consultations. | With the firm's initial seed funds we managed to produce up to 20 units per day. With additional funding, within 3 months, we will scale up production to 120 units or more per day. We need to invest into laser and plasma cutting tables, along with robot welding arms for labor intensive and risky welding tasks. | http://www.tulipindustry.com/ https://magazinedelafrique.com/uncategorized/guinee-mountaga-keita-pdg-de-tulip-industries/ https://guineematin.com/2019/07/29/la-banque-mondiale-chez-tulip-en-guinee-ce-genre-dinnovation-cest-le-futur-dit-hafez-ghanem/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlAnyvQr5Xs&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcqEsybzGnY&t=2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9y_PCwhYe4 | * 2017 Laureate of the Guinea Digital Week, * 2018 Ranked as one of the 50th Best innovations in Africa by the African Innovations Summit (AIS 2018) *2018 ""World Intellectual Property Organization"" Gold Medal * 47th Geneva Int'l Inventions Fair 2019: - French Inventors Association Gold Medal, - ""Grand Prix des inventeurs europeens"". - Geneva Inventions Fair's Gold Medal in the technology category. * Received the ""African Achievers Award"" in the UK House of Commons in July 2019. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
436 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chewe Fredrick | Mulenga | Psychealth Zambia | https://psychzambia.com/ | Programs/Business Development Director | Male | United States of America | Zambia | English | Over the years, I have taken various strides in bringing sustainable solutions to the mental problems affecting young people in Zambia and significantly working with my fellow peers to eradicate the stigma associated with mental health. For example, at Psychealth Zambia where I work, I helped put a team of young trained psychologists together who provide non-drug therapy to the locals in order for them to attain the highest standard of mental health and wellbeing, and enjoy better quality of life. This was necessitated because mental illness still constitutes a large proportion of the burden of disease in Zambia, affecting a broad spectrum of the population including children and youth. As an ambitious young African professional, I have always taken immense interest in leadership, and management programs and conferences and significantly the impact that the skills gained from such programs contribute to my work in mental health and gender issues especially amongst women and girls in disadvantaged communities in Zambia. I see the UN Solutions Summit as a unique and exciting opportunity in improving and building capacity on my skills and knowledge. I believe that this summit will create new networks and enhance the already existing ones hence fostering lifelong business alliances and partnerships towards a common goal of improving the lives of the youth, women and girls around the world and Zambia in particular. Additionally, I will have an opportunity to share my work. | Chewe Fredrick Mulenga is an Atlas Corps Fellow and a Chevening Scholar with over 9 years of experience in programme management, business development, project management, advocacy and community mobilisation. He is passionate about mental health and work regarding Gender and Women issues. Chewe is a co-founder of Psychealth Zambia, board member of Strongminds Zambia and was Zambia’s youth entrepreneur representative to the Tokyo International conference on African Development. He is currently serving as a Research and Programs Fellow at Promundo-US, where he supports a wide range of research, programs, and advocacy activities related to gender and masculinities. Working across sectors, such as health, violence prevention, and economic empowerment, Chewe participates in the development and implementation of gender-transformative programming, conducts desk research, and runs qualitative and quantitative analyses to effectively disseminate Promundo’s work through written materials, presentations, and partnership building. Chewe has a Bachelor of Science Degree obtained from the University of Zambia and a Master of Science Degree in Management and International Business from Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom. | Tilitonse Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) Community Outreach Programme | Tilitonse provides free psychotherapy services to female survivors of sexual and gender based violence in poor urban communities in Zambia. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Poor Urban Communities in Zambia. | Yes | Ministry of Health and Strong Minds Zambia | Transition to Scale | In 2018, we partnered with a local bank and provided free psychotherapy services to 60 survivors of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Misisi, a poor urban compound in Lusaka. Further, in 2019, through various partnerships, we managed to screen 1800 women for depression provided therapy to 300 survivors of sexual and gender based violence and other vulnerable women and girls. what we now need is replicating this innovation to other communities. | SGBV, particularly against women and girls, is one of the most prevalent human rights violations in the world. It undermines the health, dignity, security and autonomy of its victims, yet it remains shrouded in a culture of silence. While SGBV knows no social status, poor people have fewer avenues for redress and psychological help in the event that they suffer violence. There is high prevalence rate of sexual assault in these communities yet they lack access to mental health treatment. | Our programmes overall goal is to help women and girls who have experienced sexual and physical violence achieve positive mental health outcomes through increased education. The aim is to reach 5000 women, girls, boys and men by the year 2021. We achieve these targets by conducting mass awareness campaigns on SGBV and the need for mental health support in these poor urban communities. Through a process of screening, we then identify the women and girls that are survivors of SGBV and provide psychotherapy services to the through mobile Tilitonse clinics. We then set up community mental health groups that enable survivors provide support to each other through group therapies and also link them to local organisations and service providers. The primary stakeholders are the female survivors of SGBV while secondary stakeholders being community youth, community leaders and community health centres staff. The long-term vision is training health staff and community members on psychological first aid that will enable them do the screening themselves and also integrating these services into already existing community health structures and clinics for sustainability. this will lead to more people accessing these services hence women and girls living dignified and healthy lives. I believe that the proof of a better world will be in the dignity of its people, and tackling mental disorders is one way of securing that dignity | One of the biggest challenges poor urban communities in Zambia face is the lack of access to mental health treatment as community health centres and clinics do not provide for this and also that there aren’t enough organisations supplementing government efforts regarding mental health awareness and treatment.. Our approach is unique in that firstly, it is mobile and therefore takes these services directly to the survivors in their communities. Secondly, we offer our services free of charge and as such any person in the community regardless of their financial situation can access them. Further, at the core of the campaign is the use of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as the main approach to holistically respond to both psychological and social needs of individuals, a first of its kind in Zambia. This approach effectively deals with the mental disorders that are a result of sexual or physical violence. We believe that survivors need psychological services to be able to cope and recover from the trauma. Lastly, most community members and significantly SGBV survivors depend on church leaders for support regarding prevention, treatment and how to cope with mental health. However, the said leaders are also incapacitated as they lack training and information on mental health. Our approach proposes a new system that will train community leaders and selected community youth on mental health screening, psychological first aid and create a local referral network for counselling. | PsycHealth Zambia was founded in 2014, it has grown from having two employees who are the co-founders to 14 members of staff. Our current annual turnover is at USD 20,000, compared to USD 1,000 at inception. In 2018 alone, we provided psychotherapy to 321 individual clients, conducted a series of mobile therapy clinics in various prisons to 330 juveniles in conflict with the law. We also intervened in 7 suicide cases. Further, we partnered with a local bank and provided free psychotherapy services to 60 survivors of Sexual and Gender Based Violence in Misisi, a poor urban compound in Lusaka. In 2019, through our various partnerships, we screened over 1,500 women for depression, Our community flagship programme, Tilitonse has so far screened and provided therapy to 300 vulnerable women and girls, with the overall goal of reaching out to at least 5000 female survivors of SGBV with mental health services and setting up at least 10 community mental health groups by the year 2020. We have established ourselves as a private mental health facility that provides research, training and mental health services that are accessible, affordable and of good quality in line with international standards. The Tilitonse programme is one of the most sought after in the country by both the survivors and collaborating partners. We measure our progress and impact using continuous monitoring surveys, monitoring and evaluation methods and the KAP survey model. | The Tilitonse campaign will reach a wide range of women and girls in the selected communities to encourage open discussion of the impact of SGBV and to seek redress for survivors. Survivors will be encouraged to seek help and the community at large will be sensitized on the effects of GBV and the importance of mental health. For Misisi compound alone, the overall goal is reaching out to at least 5000 female survivors of SGBV with mental health services and setting up at least 10 community mental health groups by the year 2021. This will require an improved human resource and as such, we are targeting a recruitment exercise of 20 psychologists and 30 community members. Thereafter, the programme will select up to four other poor urban communities with the goal of reaching 20000 female survivors of SGBV and setting up 40 community mental health centres. This will be achieved through the Tilitonse 100 fellowship. As there are very few institutions that train people on psychotherapy, the Tilitonse 100 aims to develop a cadre of highly skilled psychotherapists from community members to serve their communities. This will contribute to the human resources for mental health in Zambia. We plan on recruiting and training 100 fellows for this scale-up programme. | For the Tilitonse Health Corners (Counselling rooms), We will liaise with the community health centres to provide safe spaces (rooms) within the health centres that are confidential and will not raise stigma. The project will need some comfortable chairs and tables for creating a conducive therapy environment. The mass recruitment and training of the Tilitonsde 100 will require the engagement of training facilitators and training centres to make this viable. Also, it would require resources such as mobile campaign materials such as mega phones, tshirts, caps and reading materials. Further, Psychealth Zambia has in its employ 11 members of staff. These professionals are committed to providing the most personalised, integrative, and skilled mental health services and training available. As the Tilitonse Campaign is part of the PHZ programme, staff will take systematic turns to visit these communities. Regarding the Community Youth Volunteers, Psychealth Zambia will lobby organisations and institutions in the corporate sector using their corporate social responsibility budgets to fund the sourcing, training and engagement of local youth as community youth volunteers. Psychealth Zambia will partner with the Governments health ministry and already existing local and community organisations to effectively train the community leaders and selected health centres staff. | https://psychzambia.com/tilitonse/#gbv https://www.facebook.com/psychealthz/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/psychealth/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprfo0iAuHg | N/A | Young African Personality of the Year in the top 35 under 35 youths in Africa. 2019 Atlas Corps Fellowship. United States. 2019 Board Member, Strong Minds Zambia. 2019 Chevening Scholarship to pursue a Master of Science Degree in the United Kingdom. September, 2017 •Awarded Zambia's Youth Entrepreneur Representative to the Tokyo International Conference on African Development. 2016 Zambian Government Bursary Scholarship to pursue a Bachelor of Science Degree at the University of Zambia. 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
437 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Aline | Sara | NaTakallam | https://natakallam.com/ | Co-founder & CEO | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | French | The UN Solutions Summit brings together initiatives from across the globe who, along with their teams, are achieving progress towards addressing the Sustainable Development Goals. Being a part of the UN Solutions Summit would give NaTakallam the opportunity to meet and connect with innovators whose values and missions align with those of NaTakallam and its entire team. Not only that but since we believe in the power of partnerships and we are keen on not reinventing the wheel but leveraging the power of various stakeholders to generate deep sustainable impact; NaTakallam hopes be able to further its network of policy makers, investors, industry leaders, and fellow entrepreneurs to help grow our mission. While NaTakallam has achieved a lot to date, we are still struggling on a few critical aspects, such as marketing, tech, business strategy and are always looking for people to support us in such areas. Through the network of NGOs and international organizations which are part of UN Solution Summit's network, NaTakallam would be able to find new partners that can refer potential candidates and be our financial partner. This would allow Natakallam to have a greater impact over a larger number of locations and communities. Since its launch in 2015, NaTakallam has generated over 1,000,000 USD in sales, of which over 600,000 USD were directly self-generated by the refugees through our platform. We’ve gone from a very specific start, learning and prototyping ideas with a focus on Syrian refugees teaching Arabic over Skype, to steadily and successfully diversifying our services, adding other languages --French (with refugees form Congo DRC, Burundi, Guinea), Persian (with Iranians and Afghans) and Spanish (with Venezuelans and Central Americans). Not only that but we also curated programs in schools and universities as well as translation services, finding a point at which commercial opportunity --which can enable scale--and profound impact meet. Our traction is already evident, with 6000+ unique users worldwide, presence in 200+ schools/universities, and 80+ translation clients. Our impact can be summarized into these three points: 1. Narrative about refugees and integration shift and become positive. 2. Refugees are able to restart their lives through access to employment opportunities. 3. Users gain unique insight into the refugee crisis and feel they can make a direct impact on refugee livelihoods. | Aline Sara is the co-founder and CEO of NaTakallam, a social enterprise that connects refugees and displaced persons with work opportunities in the language sector through the freelance economy. Lebanese, born and raised in New York, Aline graduated with a psychology degree from Tufts University in Boston. She then moved to Beirut and worked in conflict resolution and human rights before transitioning into journalism, focusing on human and women’s rights and wider socio-political affairs before, during, and after the Arab Uprisings. In 2012, Aline returned to New York for her masters in International Affairs at Columbia University. She then worked as an international election observer in Tunisia, Guyana and Haiti. In 2015, in light of the challenging work situation for the million+ Syrian refugees in Lebanon, and while searching for ways to practice her own Arabic skills, Aline came up with the idea for NaTakallam --to hire refugees as online tutors-- which has grown into a larger social enterprise working in multiple languages and communities. To date, the venture, which is disrupting the way we typically think of humanitarianism/international development, has provided over $600,000 in cash to displaced people worldwide. Besides income to refugees on the one hand and a service to students and clients on the other, NaTakallam helps foster intercultural exchange and raise awareness around the daily challenges of fleeing conflict zones, notably through its academic partnerships with schools and universities (including Columbia, Duke, GW, Tufts, Yale and more). | NaTakallam | NaTakallam offers language services: translation, online language tutoring, and cultural exchange services, delivered by refugees & displaced persons. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Afghanistan, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Congo (DRC), Costa Rica, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Netherland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uni | Yes | - NGOs Arcenciel (Lebanon), Re:Coded (Iraq), IRC (Global), the IOM, UNHCR- Costa Rica + Trinidad & Tobago, PASO Colombia, Proyecto Habesha - Private sector companies include Skype/Microsoft, WeWork, Ben & Jerry’s - Universities including Yale, Columbia. | Transition to Scale | We've accomplished an incredible amount of traction and impact using minimal/basic technology. Therefore, the transition to scaling will happen through tech support and mentorship. Ideally, we would scale up through technology by revamping our website to make it more user-friendly and maximize its efficiency. This would allow Natakallam to have a greater impact over a larger number of communities; going from organic sales to a full on strategic plan for marketing and sales, including B2B & B2C. | The majority of refugees & displaced populations are in host countries where they are not given the right to work. Even when resettled to countries with a right to work, they face significant linguistic & cultural barriers to employment resulting in the challenge where millions of highly educated, forcibly displaced persons, find themselves with no access to an income. NaTakallam leverages technology to solve the challenge of millions of educated displaced persons with no access to an income. | Our business model is based on freelance livelihood opportunities to refugees and IDPs on working on our platform as language tutors (which we call conversation partners) and as translators. NaTakallam has a commission based business model, with a fee of about 30%. NaTakallam's fee covers its own internal operations, marketing and outreach activities, tech development, as well as the recruitment and the training of conversation partners. Refugees and displaced persons working as teachers, tutors and conversation partners earn anything from $10 to $70/hour and NaTakallam actively monitors what each makes on a monthly basis to bring them as close as possible to the minimum monthly wage in their country of location. For language learning and cultural exchange seeking clients --including individuals, schools & universities, as well as organizations/corporations--, sessions are purchased in various bundle options, 5 and 10 hour packages, at a rate that ranges from $13-$225 per hour,of which NaTakallam retains 30-40% on average. Translation services are charged on a competitive per-word rate,of which roughly 30% goes to NaTakallam. To date, we’ve earned over $1 million+ in revenue in sales, with $600,000 directly into the hands of refugees. In five years, NaTakallam plans to be serving on a yearly basis 1.5k refugees and 20k learners/customers--including individuals and organizations (universities, schools, corporates, NGOs). | NaTakallam is among the first enterprises to use the gig economy and user-friendly technology to support refugees with income access. This solution relies on the fact that many refugees have access to technology, and that working through the gig economy allows them to legitimately earn an income despite being barred from the local economy for various reasons. NaTakallam’s uniqueness lies in its multidimensional impact: income generating but also psycho-socially benefiting. Refugee tutors/translators, beyond the income, get marketable skills, a restored sense of dignity and purpose as well as a network of friends, worldwide, as illustrated in a France24 video by one of our tutors who states that NaTakallam is his “window into the world;” all while giving users affordable, tailored language practice. NaTakallam is innovative due to its accessibility; anyone with a stable internet connection can access the platform and engage with our language services. NaTakallam is also the first organization to enter the education space, universities and classrooms with the use of online technology. Our uniqueness and innovation is also rooted in (1) our humanitarian nature/deep understanding of the refugee/international development space, (2) competitive pricing (3) diverse services (4) a robust network of academic institutions and NGOs. The idea has grown and we are beyond belief of what the organization has achieved. We’re also happy to have inspired other similar initiatives. | To date,160 forcibly displaced individuals in 26 countries have engaged in NaTakallam conversation sessions with over 4,500 users in 85 countries. Overall, refugees and displaced persons have self-generated over $600,000 through more than 40,000 hours of sessions through their work with NaTakallam. Over 40% of the displaced persons we work with use NaTakallam to support themselves financially while pursuing educational opportunities. For more than 60% of them, NaTakallam sessions are their only source of income. Finally, more than 75% of our beneficiaries reported gaining skills in digital communication and employment, teamwork, and western business culture and standards. We have developed metrics and KPIs that will challenge us to grow over the next two to three years. Many are tied to our individual impact, partnerships, and NGO clients. Amounts disbursed to refugees Number of displaced persons (conversation partners) hired Retention rate for conversation partners Number of female conversation partners hired Number of displaced persons making the minimum wage or better in their host location Number of language learning clients Retention rates of language learners Numbers of hours sold Number of University + K-12 clients Number of people engaged through academic initiatives Number of translation clients Number of corporate clients | Through its solution, NaTakallam is currently serving on a yearly basis 100+ refugees as well as 2500 language learners (individuals and school / university students combined). We are yet to launch our technology, which we consider will be a game changer in our impact/scalability. With the upcoming deployment of the platform in 2019, which will relieve a lot of manual labor and enable a much larger number of signups/larger clients, we will then be much more proactive with marketing, and get a sense then of the real potential, based on marketing and significantly enhanced user experience. As of now, more conservative estimates we are making is that in one year, will be serving on a yearly basis 200-300 refugees and around 3000 learners. In five years, NaTakallam plans to be serving on a yearly basis 1.5k refugees and 20k learners/customers--including individuals and organizations (universities, schools, corporates, NGOs). We're also exploring the technologization of our translation department, which has grown mostly with NGO clients, but just last spring, signed its first major private sector client. As we continue recruitment more and more refugees, we're also exploring ways of using AI to accelerate the process. As we ramp up technology, quality, and capacity, we will go from mostly organic sales through press and word of mouth, to a full on strategic plan for marketing and sales, including both B2B and B2C. | We have a product with a customer base and proven success, and we are looking to scale with the launch of our automated user interface and website--which currently remains very basic. While tech is the enabler, it is now, at our stage of growth the most urging need that will help us move to the next stage. Our short-term need is definitely the tech that will help us scale, and the move on to more proactive marketing/communications/sales. As for the longer-term need, it would be a full on strategic plan for marketing and sales. As we revamp and improve our tech and user-experience, the need would be to work on getting more B2B and B2C sales to be able to provide more refugees and displaced persons with more employment opportunities and, in return, create more impact globally. | https://natakallam.com/ https://www.fastcompany.com/40419618/you-can-learn-arabic-and-empathy-by-connecting-with-refugees-on-skype https://www.marketplace.org/2016/05/19/world/start-sparks-conversation-syrian-refugees/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/arabic-learning-refugees-natakallam/ | https://www.facebook.com/UNHCR/videos/vb.13204463437/2335947819754830/?type=2&theater https://www.newsdeeply.com/womensadvancement/articles/2017/10/12/the-tech-entrepreneur-turning-syrian-refugees-into-virtual-teachers https://www.france24.com/en/video/20160921-us-discover-na-takallam-start-employing-syrian-refugees-teach-arabic | •New Vision for Development Selectee at World Economic Forum -United Nations General Assembly, September 2017 •Top 100 Global Educational Innovation, HundrED, Finland 2017 •Winner, OpenIDEO Bridgebuilder Challenge, Top 5 winners (out of 660), July 2017 •1st Place Winner, World Bank Youth Summit, “Rethinking Education for the new Millennium” November 15-16, 2016 •Winner in the “Education” Category- MIT EF Pan Arab Innovate for Refugees Competition - October 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
438 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Melesse Temesgen | Leye | Aybar Engineering PLC | www.aybareng.com | CEO | Male | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | English | The reason why I am applying here is because I want my innovation to be promoted and scaled as widely as possible. The summit will help me meet with different people of varying experience and positions. I expected some of them to be interested in scaling my innovation. The local impact of my innovation has been increasing crop production among smallholder farmers particularly in Ethiopia with a future plan to introduce the innovation to other African countries for increased crop production.. My innovation reduces soil erosion is a regional impact. Climate mitigation is the global impact because the innovation reduces methane emission while increasing CO2 sequestration. | The innovator, Dr Melesse Temesgen Leye, graduated in agricultural engineering with distinction, in 1984 and was recruited to work as a researcher in the Ethiopian Agricultural Research institute in the department of agricultural mechanization research. He got his MSc degree in 1987 from UK specializing in soil-machine mechanics. He worked as a researcher and director of the agricultural mechanization research program in Ethiopia for the next 15 years. He did his PhD (2002-2007) in The Netherlands focusing on the relationship between tillage and rain water management. He served as Assistant Professor (2008-2012) at Addis Ababa Institute of Technology in Ethiopia. He was a post-doc research scientist between 2009-2011. In 2013, he established Aybar Engineering PLC. The company develops agricultural implement prototypes, tests the same in the field and manufactures matured prototypes for sale to smallholder farmers. He has since been the CEO of the company. | Aybar Broad Bed Maker | An agricultural tool that drains excess water from waterlogged vertisols to allow crop production | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Ethiopia with a plan to move to Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda in the next 3 years with ong term plan of covering the whole of sub-Saharan Africa | No | Transition to Scale | We have so far manufactured and sold more than 100,000 units but the channel of distribution and retail has not been properly established. That is why I say we are in transition to scale. | The problem is stagnation of water on the surface (waterlogging) of black soils (vertisols) making the land unavailable for farming or giving low yields when cultivated. In Ethiopia alone there are 7.6 million hectares of land covered with vertisols out of which farmers effectively cultivate only 1.9 million hectares mainly because of waterlogging problem. The current cultivation system causes soil erosion while wetting and drying cycles cause production and emission of a potent GHG, methane | The innovation is an agricultural tool used during planting. The tool shapes the land such that a series of broad beds and furrows are created. The crop grows on the bed while the furrows drain the excess water away. The excess water is usually stored in ponds and used later either for irrigation of vegetables or animal drink. With this technology farmers reported up to tripling of their crop yields. In addition, farmers were able to grow q second crop (chickpea) after harvesting wheat thus producing two crops per year. In some cases the excess water when stored in ponds allows a third crop grown during the dry season with the pond water. | Farmers usually leave the land bare until the rain stops in September when they plant chickpea. So, they miss the previous 3 months of the rainy season. Previous attempt to develop a similar tool by a consortium of national and international research institutes (1984-1996) failed as farmers rejected the tool because it was too heavy (both for the farmer to carry and the oxen to pull), ineffective in shaping the land and also because it was unstable during field operation. Attempts by the ministry of agriculture to promote the technology was not successful. Aybar BBM was invented several years after it was concluded that it is not possible to develop an acceptable tool for this purpose. Aybar BBM is light, stable, and easy to pull by a pair of oxen. The innovation was immediately accepted and adopted by farmers who nicknamed it 'Yetneberk' meaning 'where have you been?' | The tool has been manufactured and sold to farmers. We have so far sold more than 100,000 units. However, since we found the government distribution approach to be less efficient, we are looking for a better channel especially through the private sector. However, the private retailers and distributors demand us to extensively promote the technology. We currently sell directly to farmers but this method has not been efficient though because sales are limited to nearby farmers. | We are at the moment looking for partners who would help us with scaling the innovation. Once we make the company strong at home we intend to move to Nairobi from where we plan to cover Kenya and the neighboring East African countries. Later on, we will cover the whole of sub Saharan Africa. | Resource required for scaling is money. We need the money to promote the technology. At the moment, we feel that the technology has not been properly promoted. Studies have confirmed again and again that the benefit that farmers get from using the innovation is several folds (up to 100 times) of its price. But since it has not been properly promoted the sales have not grown as expected. Cost of promotion is high because farmers live in remote rural areas incurring large amounts of travel expenses. Once properly promoted the demand will be so high that many distributors and retailers would like to be engaged. We have not included the cost of promotion in the price of the tool. If we do, the price will be high and since the cost of promotion drops sharply within a couple of years, illegal competitors will enter the market and start manufacturing the product. These competitors will not spend much on the promotion of the technology and hence their price will be lower than ours. With poor law enforcement in Ethiopia it is not easy to hunt and bring these competitors to court. So, the best way of keeping them away is by keeping the price of the tool low as it is the case at the moment. So, there has to be a financial support for the promotion of the technology as kick start so that the cost of promotion of the technology is not included it its price. | Our website is www.aybareng.com Please refer to the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melesse_Temesgen https://www.eas-et.org/user/198 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgTUAUsk_HU | African Innovation Prize for the highest social impact in 2014 Inaugural awardee of the Securing Water For Food project | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
439 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Zilma | Reis | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais | https://skinage.medicina.ufmg.br/index.php/pt/ | Project Coordinator / Associate Professor - Medicine | Female | Brazil | Brazil | English | Gestational age is the most important marker of newborn survival. Prematurity leads the causes of neonatal death and accounts for half of the cases of neurological impairment in children. The correct identification of the chronology of gestation at birth, when clinical parameters and ultrasound are inconclusive or do not exist, can direct decisions for the best care with the baby. For this, we developed the Preemie-Test, an innovative technology that evaluates the maturity of the skin through its reflection in light, estimating the gestational age at birth. Methods for gestational age detection after birth used currently manage a margin of error of about three weeks. Our goal is to reduce this margin significantly. We developed a disruptive technology to assess the gestational age of a newborn, just touching the skin of the newborn for a few seconds. The device called Preemie-Test is ease of handling, transportation, and compatibility with the restrictive conditions of premature neonates are determinant in the development requirements of the solution. The reach of technology is inversely proportional to the cost of implementation. An affordable solution has the potential of a social impact multiplied. We believe that with the success of this project, the attempted management of the risk of mortality and severe complications will be improved. Health care of the newborn is sensitive issues to the gestational age, which involves temperature maintenance, ventilatory support, transport to a neonatal intensive care unit, and the early treatment of respiratory distress syndrome, the most severe complication of premature birth. | Zilma Reis is a Medicine Doctor (1988), Master of Medicine (1993) and Ph.D. in Medicine (2002) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, when he obtained PhD-sandwich grant in Germany, PROBRAL 113/00 (CAPES / DAAD). Statistics specialist by the ICEX-UFMG (2008). Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow with CAPES scholarship at the University of Porto, Portugal (2011). Associate Professor in the Department of Gynecology Professor and Obstetrics, the Post-Graduate Program in UFMG. Physician in the Hospital das Clinicas, UFMG. Researcher at INCT NanoBiofar since 2008. Researcher at the Center for Health Services Research and Technology (CINTESIS - Portugal) since 2011. I am the coordinator of the Medical Informatics Centre of the Faculty of Medicine since 2012. Vice-president of the Brazilian Society of Health Informatics (SBIS). Awardee at the 14th. Round of Grand Challenges Explorations of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2015). With the team Newborn Skin-age, it was selected for Building Global Innovation Program by ISCTE-IUL - MIT, 7th Edition, 2016 and Venture Well (2017). Stars in Global Health Awardee - Grand Challenges Canada 9th Round 2018-2019. I am experienced in Maternal and Child Health, and Medical Informatics, acting on the following topics: medical informatics, scientific methodology, and women's health. | Preemie-Test | Gestational age detection by light to support the health care at childbirth | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Low and medium income countries (Brazil, Mozambique, Malawi, Haiti and India) | Yes | Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation; Grand Challenges Canada; FAPEMIG-Brazil; Fiocruz-Brazil | Transition to Scale | A new medical device has been developed to carry out the Preemie-test, an innovative approach used to estimate gestational age. The feasibility study provided a mathematical model to predict pregnancy dating, based on the newborn’s skin reflectance adjusted to clinical variables (R2 =0.828, p<0.001). The validation step is ongoing. The register number at the WHO Clinical Trials Registry is RBR-3f5bm5. We expect to finish it in seven months when the device will be ready for industrial production | The day of birth is the riskiest for newborns. The complications of prematurity during childbirth are generally preventable through qualified healthcare. Most of the infant mortality and morbidity takes place in countries with low resources and a scarcity of health facilities. Without reliable information on the gestational age, actions to preserve the potential for survival of the newborn can be neglected. Current methods of dating pregnancy remain a worldwide challenge due to the high costs. | The solution addresses one answer to support a big global health problem: the quality of care at birth and neonatal period, facing the doubt or unknown on the chronology of gestation. The device has three components: a power source, unit control, and an optical sensor. Only the sensor touches the baby skin, and the backscattering luminance is quickly acquired. The unit control process the signal offering the value the gestational age and in red and orange backlight on as the signal of severe and moderate prematurity respectively, while green color is related to term > 37 weeks. The approach is noninvasive, automated, and it can be used wherever birth happens, by the health workers, midwives in health centers as at home. Anywhere when a baby is born with less than 2.5 kg, birth attendants need warnings to timely support him and make decisions as refer the baby to the hospital. Premature babies need more attention to survive. Without critical care, the newborn viability could be neglected, as well as his potential for a healthy life. According to WHO every year, around 15 million babies are born too early, and 1 million die due to prematurity complications, and this number is rising (WHO, November 2016). Most of the children's lives could be saved with cost-effective care implementations with prematurity identification. | The current methods to assess the gestational age during prenatal care or at birth have disadvantages, and they are inefficient to impact the global challenges around the delivery of care for premature newborns. The gold standard for determining gestational age is the obstetric ultrasound assessment during the first trimester. Inaccurate menstrual period date or lack of early ultrasound assessment can result in inappropriate care. Without correct information, the consequences are inadequate caring at birth, misclassification of preterm and post-term neonates, and inaccurate percentages of small for gestational age infants. The new disruptive innovation, the Preemie-Test, was developed to be affordable and useful for newborn’s prematurity risk mitigation. The Preemie-test output is automated and usable wherever birth happens. The device could be used, with basic instructions for caregivers at birthing locations, without previous expertise, as is needed to perform obstetric ultrasounds or neonatal maturity scores, approaches that depend on healthcare professional skills and experience. It is an innovative technological approach, easy to manufacturing, achieving scalability with a cost-effective budget. The device is small, like a pen, reusable, and disinfectable. The output of the device alerts with red color the very premature newborn, and with orange color the moderate-late premature. There is no similar solution to timely detect prematurity at birth. | The timeline of the project called ""Skinage"" started in October/2014 when the idea won the Grand Challenges Explorations Round -14th. The bench research, needs identification, and design steps progressed, with a counterpart of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Market and user understanding were early introduced in the project. Intellectual property is deposited in Brazil (2016), India and the USA (2019). The clinical and regulatory step is the ongoing phase since 2018, supported by the Brazilian Govern. The clinical trial aims to test the efficacy, effectiveness in real-life situations, and safety of the new medical devices. In July/2018 an international clinical trial gathering Brazil and Mozambique application won the Grand Challenges Canada - Stars Award in Global Health 9th round. In this stage, product development and testing are well underway and the delivery focus shifts toward preparing for launch. We are a group of academic scientists, post-graduate students, consultants of different areas as medicine, physics, engineering, and informatics. The best scientific evidence, research protocols, and clinical practice in Perinatology have based the R & D of this product. Scientific publications, international meeting, accelerator programs have occupied the agenda of the participants. WHO compendium of innovative health technologies for low-resource settings (2018) reported Skinage project among the hall of the promisor approaches for impacting the global SDG. | Plan for Introduction: such a step requires a long-term and sustained investment of time and resources to achieve global scale and maximized health impact. The Preemie-Test will target the following low and middle incoming countries: Brazil, Mozambique, Malawi, Haiti, India. The device can use government distribution logistics through its health agencies. Milestone 1: Devices manufacturing in cooperation the industry (2020). Milestone 2: | Priority activities must include necessary regulatory approvals, developing manufacturing capabilities of licensed companies, establishing distribution channels, organizing demand generation strategies. We plan a post-market study to foster the introduction in hospitals, birthing house, and emergency transport services, providing training, and preparing other elements needed for a broad introduction. Our group of work has already an approach with Pan American Health Organization PAHO to gather efforts for the birth scenario introduction of the Preemie-Test in Latin America, mainly in the countries with the higher infant mortality. Regarding Africa, the Hospital Central de Maputo - Mozambique is a research partner for the device validation, supported by the Gand Challenges Canada and Fiocruz-Brazil. | Articles: 1 - Newborn skin reflection: Proof of concept for a new approach for predicting gestational age at birth. A cross-sectional study https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0184734 2- Skin thickness as a potential marker of gestational age at birth despite different fetal growth profiles: A feasibility study https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196542 3- Prematurity detection evaluating the interaction between the skin of the newborn and light: protocol for the preemie-test multicentre clinical trial in Brazilian hospitals to validate a new medical device https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/3/e027442 4- Skin thickness dimensions in histological section measurement during the late-fetal and neonatal developmental period: A systematic review https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/srt.12719 5- Light scan to determine skin age. World Health Organization. (2018). WHO compendium of innovative health technologies for low-resource settings: 2016-2017: https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/274893 6 - Premature or small for gestational age? An international multicenter study evaluating a novel device that analyses the photobiological properties of the newborn's skin. Conference: 4th WHO Global Forum on Medical Device. 2018 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.16106.77765 Project-home: https://skinage.medicina.ufmg.br/index.php/en/ Licensed (non-exclusively) by the University to BirthTech Company: https://birthtech.com.br/ | Preemie-Test validation: https://youtu.be/zP7s_xBi6KU First-steps: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8LyHXgYUDrNZEZwU3BKR0xlcG8 The University report: https://www.facebook.com/tvufmg/videos/1819607291430297 | 1 – Grand Challenges Explorations Round 14 - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2015, US$ 100,000 (Grantee No. OPP 1128907). 2 – FAPEMIG-Brazil, 2015, US$ 50,000 AUC-00031-15. 3 - FAPEMIG research grants, the Visiting Researcher Grant BPV-00333-15 (2015) and the PPM-00073-16 Mining Researcher PPM-00073-16 (2016). 4 - Brazilian Ministry of Health - US$200,000 funding, 2018, pivotal multi-center study in the country. 5 - Grand Challenges Canada - Stars in Global Health 9th round - US$100,000, 2018. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
440 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | PATRICK | OFOSU AGYEMANG | AGRO INNOVA COMPANY LIMITED | agroinnovagh.com | CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | MALE | Ghana | Ghana | English | We believe in programs that are ready to make a diverse impact to bring change in the world we thrive in. So any organization that believes in creating a change for humanity to make the world a better place to solve all forms societal problems needs to be applauded. At the end is about creating meaningful measurable impact for the ecosystem around us. We believe this program would be bring about scaling , growth with an excellent perfect execution who would last long for mankind better being technology marrying agric, finances, energy, etc. And we believe the UN is not stopping until the perfect technological infrastructure in all its corridors of operations. | Patrick Ofosu Agyemang is Co Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Agro Innova Company, an agtech company using cutting edge techologies to maximize efficiency in Agriculture. He’s a computer science graduate from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology and believes in using his creative skills and diverse technical experience in solving problems of today. He’s impactful and innovation driven with passion for agtech development In Africa. Im a results driven and strategic person believe in creating meaningful and measurable impact in every in environment that i found myself. I thrive very well in an environment that has innovation and creativity marrying each other for diverse excellent execution with regards to any scope of work. I as technical person i believe in solving real life problems with simple and easy step approach for diverse outcome | FBSInnova | A functional application To help smallholder cocoa farmer to learn, plan, monitor, budget and diversify with maximize yield making them agripreneur | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Togo, Liberia, Tanzania, Benin etc (19 African countries in the Farmer Business School Programe) | Yes | GIZ (Farmer Business School Advisory Facility), Kosmos Energy,Ghana , Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers (Ghana Poultry Project), MEST(MEST Incubator, Accra Ghana) Ghana Cocoa Board , Ministry Of Food And Agriculture ( MOFA ,Ghana). | Transition to Scale | According to Agribusiness4Change Conference - Report, Ethiopia May, 2019 FBS goes digital: FBSInnova Application a new digital application that AgroInnova Company Ltd. developed with support from SSAB. To this effect, FBSInnova has Education Hub, and the FBS tools ‘Cropping Calendar’ and ‘Money-In/Money-Out’. From the report The purpose is to assist farmers in the daily application of FBS tools to their business and thus to help them to do better business as agriprenuer | FBSInnova - A functional, modular smartphone application that helps smallholder-farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa have on-demand access to Farmer Business School tools and information, plan and efficiently manage their crops and diversify their production for increased profitability and improved livelihoods. Educational Hub (Offer curated technical advice), Cropping Calendar, Plan towards upcoming activities, Track overall seasonal activities) Accounting ( Informed decisions on finances). | FBSInnova, a new digital application that AgroInnova Company Ltd. developed with support from SSAB. The purpose is to assist farmers in the daily application of FBS tools to their business and thus to help them to better business. To this effect, FBSInnova comprises the Education Hub, and the FBS tools ‘Cropping Calendar’ and ‘Money-In/Money-Out’. The Education Hub provides farmers with technical advice on good agricultural practices and updates that are crucial for doing sustainable business. The Cropping Calendar supports farmers in performing activities on time and reminds them well of important operations ahead. The Money-In/Money-Out module helps to budget farm enterprises, to record and monitor expenditure for production and revenues from sales and to determine whether the result is a profit or a loss. In a future scenario, the tool shall ideally be carried out on an international scale and must therefore be adoptable to various country contexts, including diverse crops and individual conditions for any activity planning. As for now, the application is currently in its pilot phase, but such further country-specific information will be made available soon. Complementing analogue FBS and GAP trainings, the FBSInnova application will reinforce impacts on incomes (SDG 1), food security (SDG 2). | Our solution is industry specific aiding in easy access of timely info on seasonal cropping calendar for best practices able to track their individual crops, per crop, per plot, per cropping cycle. Schedule and track their activities and providing financial insights. Readily validated market research from the Farmers Business School, GIZ (Partner) across 19 African countries over 24 Agricultural value chains where over 1.3 million smallholder farmers have been trained making the solution conforming to standards in any local context | Farmer Business School (FBS) goes digital: FBSInnova, a new digital application that AgroInnova Company Ltd. developed with support from SSAB. The purpose is to assist farmers in the daily application of FBS tools to their business and thus to help them to do better business. To this effect, FBSInnova comprises the Education Hub, and the FBS tools ‘Cropping Calendar’ and ‘Money-In/Money-Out’. The second pilot phase is currently underway, after which the FBSInnova application will be launched in Ghana. Thereafter it will be possible to adapt the app to other value chains and country contexts. Next phase is implementation of sustainability models or strategies being Financial Inclusion (Credit Scoring Algorithms for Farmers ) Agricultural Insights Transactional Charges on Agro Input Linkages Marketing Linkage of produce This would make it an end to end solution from sourcing to production through the standardize approach having the state of the arts technological infrastructure factored. | App Prototype Developed and Piloted and implemented in Ghana, Next is other Anglophone countries like Nigeria, Liberia etc and The App is Adjusted To Francophone Countries as well all being partnered GIZ Farmers Business School Trained and Scaling Across Sub-Saharan Africa and the entire African Continent to make the daily farming activities and operation and lives of the smallholders farmers easier making them agripreneur. Is 'Agribiz4Change' | We are helping farmers improve their productivity, we’re streamlining supply chain efficiency and helping them diversify their income for improved livelihoods We’re creating shared value for all the key actors along the agricultural value chain by bridging the data gaps and maximizing supply chain efficiency. In the long term Agro Innova would be increasing tremendously in streamlining supply chain efficiency processes by maximizing created shared value for all key stakeholders along the agricultural value chain with big data through robust state of the arts technologies to help achieve full, productive and decent work for all men and women in agribusinesses by making sure they have equal access to industry knowledge and information in real time to help them make informed decisions, foster innovation and entrepreneurship to improve their livelihoods. With this our food security is assured and would be focused on helping poultry farmers produce food sustainably by providing them with timely information on Good Agricultural Practices. Because we believe in living in an ecosystem where there is shared industry insights knowledge to help achieve decent work and growth to increase our productivity in all chains of operations to live in an environment where there is seamless flow of information to empower and improve livelihoods in an integrated environment where Strengthening of operational activities and services are coordinated in a seamless manner | https://agroinnovagh.com/ https://fbsinnova.com/#/ | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwA_gLmve2rNSG9PTjVNUzVnVWxweVpkc0l5ZHV2WWdhNlEw/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q_kOOYyN7B63URvsSCa2FH9FQl8bBIwB/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwA_gLmve2rNZlM1TlNyQkttRHFVamg5WXFJS2xYNm5DMHR3/view?usp=sharing | Kosmos Innovation Centere, Agrictech Challenge 2017 GIZ Farmer Business School Mobile Challenge For Smallholder Cocoa Farmers, 2018 Pitch Agrichack,Advance Category 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
441 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Franklin | Murillo | Social Progress Imperative | https://www.socialprogress.org/ | Global Network Director and Agenda 2030 Lead | Male | Ecuador | Costa Rica | English | Spanish | We believe we have a very useful tool to advance the SDGs. We have seen this all around the globe. | Doer and leader at a community and global level with more than 10 years of experience. Working at the intersection of social entrepreneurship, sustainable development, and innovation, leading programs and advancing partnerships that disrupt traditional approaches to social and community development to foster and scale inclusive and thriving societies. | The Social Progress Index | The Social Progress Index (SPI) captures social and environmental outcomes related to all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a simple but rigo | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Globally, in special the most populous countries and the G20. | Yes | INCAE Business School, Institute of Competitiveness India, Cognitio in Iceland, Fundación Avina in South America, Skoll Foundation, Viva Trust, Deloitte, etc. | Scaling | In the 6 years since the Social Progress Index was first launched, it has been adopted by government and business leaders in more than 45 countries as a key resource for guiding policymaking, investments and actions to advance social impact. As a proven tool with the credibility and infrastructure in place, the Social Progress Index is positioned to scale to new geographies and go deeper in current locations to support the measurement and localisation of the SDGs. | The SDGs are an ambitious commitment by the world’s leaders to improve the wellbeing of all people and ensure environmental sustainability. But measuring progress towards the 17 distinct goals is a major challenge as barely one-third of the SDG indicators are currently measured in a rigorous manner for most countries. The Social Progress Index captures outcomes related to all 17 SDGs in a rigorous framework and can address this core measurement challenge at the national as well as local level. | The Social Progress Index works as a rigorous tool to measure the SDGs. It provides a simple but concrete and actionable snapshot of a community or country. It reveals unseen needs, as well as opportunities to achieve sustainable development. We want to see more communities, businesses and countries using the index to measure and advance the SDGs. | As a complex set of goals and targets, the SDGs intrinsically pose numerous implementation challenges. The SPI is the first-ever measure of social and environmental outcomes independent of, but complementary to, measures of economic performance. Currently, the SPI measures outcomes related to all 17 SDGs and reflects 131 out of 169 targets in one framework, providing a systematic, empirical foundation that can inform the 2030 Agenda and addresses 4 challenges: Collaboration: Thanks to its comprehensive framework, which can be easily understood by diverse stakeholders, the SPI represents a shared foundation for collective impact projects. Localization: The SPI can be adapted to any level of geography and any sector, from communities to metropoles to public institutions to businesses. This ensures that SDG implementation accounts for and address local context, needs and challenges. Measurement: According to the latest communication by the Expert Group on SDG Indicators, barely a third of the 200+ indicators can be measured in a rigorous manner for most countries. Using 51 indicators from both UN sources and independent assessments, the SPI provides a comprehensive estimate of SDG performance even where the formal indicators do not yet exist. Aggregation: Because it was designed as a composite indicator, the SPI can provide a snapshot of a country’s overall progress towards the SDGs in a way that the goals themselves, with their array of unweighted indicators, cannot. | The Social Progress Index methodology was developed by leading experts from top universities, including Harvard Business School and MIT. The methodology was initially used to create a global Social Progress Index, now in its seventh year, but has been successfully applied across 45 countries and revealing the true state the society for more than 2.5 billion people. The index as a policy solution has been tested on five continents by governments and business leaders, providing insight into topics as varied as sustainable tourism, workforce development, and development projects, in addition to its use for SDG monitoring and evaluation. Because of the relative newness of the Social Progress, the full impact of index adoption has yet to be fully captured, though early findings (as indicated by updated SPI data after a policy change or investment decision guided by the index) are strongly positive. Further progress will be measured by updated iterations of existing indexes that capture progress made, as well as by the continued expansion and adoption of the index as an SDG-monitoring and planning tool worldwide. | Goal 1: Scale application of the Social Progress Index as SDG progress tracking tool. This will be achieved through targeted engagement with top officials and key influencers in at least 10 globally significant countries and regions, including Australia, Canada, Colombia, the European Union, India, Mexico, Paraguay, South Africa, UK, and US, to demonstrate the efficacy of utilizing the SPI to drive a more equitable and thriving society. To support this effort, the Social Progress Imperative with conduct pilots, develop subnational indexes, organize workshops and roundtable discussions, engage peer influencers, publish related white papers, and release an annual study of SDG progress calibrated based on the SPI will be used to support this effort. Goal 2: Scale application of the Social Progress Index to support the localization of SDGs. This will be achieved through collaborating with the Social Progress Imperative global network and establishing new partners to design, test and scale SPI-based planning and monitoring tools to support SDG localization. Efforts will focus on more than 15 cities of different size and economic conditions in Latin America, the European Union, India, and Africa. | Expanding the application of the SPI to help countries and communities around the world advance the SDGs is game changing, but requires investment in the Social Progress Imperative and our partners in the near and long term. A modest expansion of our research and program team is required at the onset to design and drive global strategies and coordinate partners while maintaining methodological rigor and capturing what works in accelerating social progress. A larger investment is needed to build the capacity of regional and local partners on the ground with key influencers crafting evidence-based policies and allocating resources that drive inclusive and thriving societies. In the medium and long term, we need access to more timely and disaggregated data on existing and emerging challenges to better inform decisions impacting people and planet. This includes better data on homelessness, violence against women, prevalence of mental health issues, inclusion and acceptance of LGBTQIA, and environmental degradation, supported through investments in primary data collection (e.g. surveys), purchasing privately held data, and advocating governments and businesses to prioritize and standardize the collection of critical data. An investment in IT systems will also enable the massive data set collected from local SPIs to identify predictive insights and facilitate scenario modelling to allow decision-makers to more accurately evaluate opportunities, assess risks and support planning. | All our information on SDGs could be found here: https://www.socialprogress.org/about-us/sdgs | Social Progress Imperative CEO Michael Green presents new research using the SPI to assess progress towards achieving the SDGs: https://www.ted.com/talks/michael_green_the_global_goals_we_ve_made_progress_on_and_the_ones_we_haven_t?language=en | NA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
442 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Burton | Dorley | Youth in Action for Peace, Development & Justice Liberia | www.libimun.org | Executive Director | Male | Liberia | Liberia | Chinese | English | French | My motivation started since the existence of the organization in 2016 that made lots of indelible impact to society. The issue of poor waste management was a major problem in my country. When you walk around people throw waste everywhere and because of this it has been observed overtime through assessment that the sickness rate has increase. We decided to raise awareness in communities and schools donating trash cans as a means of alternatives for waste management, and today this project has made an impact and people are now managing their waste because they heard the message and the decrease in sickness and diseases has happened. We needed to look at the world recycled as an organization while telling others about waste management and then we figure out that plastic pollution has become more in our waste so therefore we embarked on another project call “Say no to Pollution” with this we collect as many plastics as possible and take it also to the recycling company to sell as a means of promoting our project, which is a sustainability plan. We also went to marketers, telling them about the effects of plastic to humans and the environment, especially to the marine ecosystem. It destroys the biodiversity leaving nothing for the future generation and if we want a sustainable livelihood we have to take action now by mitigating the usage of plastic and use paper bags, engage in the 3 rs of waste management which are recycle reuses and reduce In order to promote green living. | Burton Dorley is an innovative environmental activist, graduated from the Soltiamon Christian High School in 2012. He holds an Associate of Science Degree in Environmental Science and a bachelors Degree in Environmental Science from the Stella Maris Polytechnic majoring. He works as a Project manager of the Conscious Environmental Youth Alliance established on the basis of promoting to the sustainable development goals, thereby creating an enabling environment for man and nation coexistence. He had an opportunity to represent Liberia at the Tunza Youth Conference in Bandung Indonesia in 2011; Expert Presenter at the International Conference on Climate Finance in Dhaka, Bangladesh; The Ghana International Model United Nations and the Babcock International Model United Nations in 2017. He has 3 years of expertise in MUNs program, as a MUNer, he served as a Rapporteur for the Babcock International Model United Nations in Lagos, Nigeria & President to the UNICEF Committee Session at the Ghana International Model United Nations. Because of his passion for the environment he was awarded as Tunza Youth Ambassador and Green Champion. He believes that “Education is the only tools a person can use to transformed the world” | Burton i-toilet company | This innovation tends to solve the issue of poor sanitation and hygiene practices in communities thereby adding green energy usage reducing emission | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | This innovation is to be implemented in Liberia, from assessment found out the increase in sickness and diseases due to poor sanitation practices. | No | Ideation | Addressing the issue of waste in Liberia is very key to achieving good health and well-being for all. My country produces high voluminous of domestic waste that is not being cared for in terms of proper management. Other thinks that burning the waste will help keep the environment safe but however it is destroying the environment and contributing to climate change impacts. I believe that implementing this project will transform and lot of life and even provide jobs for a lot. | The report, “Overflowing Cities: The State of the World’s Toilets 2018,” reveals that in addition to the 1,620,000 people in Liberia practicing open defecation, urban dwellers living without improved sanitation is equivalent to 72 percent, while 500 plus children died from preventable diseases. “One child dies every two minutes from diarrheal diseases caused by dirty water, poor sanitation and hygiene. Upon this backdrop, we decided to combat this situation through our social venture project. | Over 1,000 thousand homes in urban slums are lacking of sanitation (toilet facilities, which leads to serious health problems, including cholera, diarrhea and malaria. The Burton i-toilet Project tends to build i-toilet facilities across Monrovia that will be used by people, who paid money for the usage. It will be located in specific locations and easy access to the public. SECRET SAUCE The secret sauce of the B i-toilet business is the maintenance. We will connect a bio-digester, which is simply a tank which digests organic material biologically. The bio-digester will digest the wastes from the commode and transformed it to methane gas that will be used as cooking gas, sold on the market at an affordable price. | In 2010, the formal City Mayor of Monrovia, Madam Mary Broh constructed public portable toilets in order to help with the Sanitation problem, but now those toilets can’t be seen anywhere due to poor management. The B Social Venture Company will put into place measures, using strategic management for the maintenance: Functional Bio-digester to produce cooking gas Effective management and volunteers Hand washing Facility 24 hour access to public We will construct those modernize i-toilet facility that will be self-flush to improve the sanitation & hygiene practices. There will also be a bio-digester connected to the i-toilet to transform those waste to gases and be used in gas tanks for cooking. A very little amount will be paid as a means of sustainability mode for the business, while adding plastic recycling too. | My team is at the stage of prototype and explaining it to other donors for support. We will measure our success if afforded the necessary funds to get the equipment to start the project. | After the successful implementation of this project in Liberia, we intend to expand it to other neighboring countries such as Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast to be able to transform lives. This project is a social venture therefore we intend to employ professional and non-professional people to be able to work together for us all to achieve the sustainable development goals by 2030. | To be able to start, we will need the bio-digester tankers, in the medium term we will need more i-toilets to be all around Monrovia and in a long term, we will need a recyclable machines to be able to recycle non-biodegradable waste. | www.libimun.org https://youtu.be/yL-Qyds1rBI https://youtu.be/UloqSX24iUg | https://youtu.be/44Bk-LJLBN8 | HULT PRIZE NATIONAL COMPETITION WINNER GREEN CHAMPION OF EARTH | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
443 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sharon | Gal Or | Ting Global | https://ting.global/ | Global Cultural Ambassador | male | Israel | Israel | English | Do we need ears to know when there is disharmony in the melody or we simply need to understand the principal of harmony? Does a humpback whale has to choke to death in the ocean just for us to realize that throwing away our garbage to the sea is wrong? Why wait for the world to end to know we have to be responsible for our actions? If we want to survive on Earth, we have to completely change our mindset and the way we educate, consume energy, maintain agriculture, manage water, talk to our neighbors, and more. TING GLOBAL allows and simplifies the process of ideation in an era where mankind is facing many grave challenges. There is a great need to nurture and cultivate students and entrepreneurs to develop independent thinking and how to think together and to encourage them to come up with new, fresh and innovative ideas and solutions for a better world. Our first and foremost motivation is to deepen the ability of the younger generation to ideate and eventually to bring viable and tangible solutions in the spirit of the UN's 17 SDG challenges. | Sharon Gal Or. A multi-disciplinary social and business entrepreneur; leading training programs for students, educators and senior executives; Author of various articles and books in the fields of innovation, ethics and futurism; lecturer in various international circles, advisor on education to government, non-profit, education and art bodies. | Ting Global | Innovate Through Play - an Online-to-Offline social platform for education in innovation. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | TING GLOBAL currently operates in Israel and it has received the approval of the Israeli Ministry of Education to operate through the Israeli educational system. Having said that, TING GLOBAL's ultimate goal is to serve as a global solution | Yes | schools in Israel, Israel ministry of education and young social impact entrepreneurs, | Proof of Concept | TING GLOBAL's concept and theory has been in development for the past two years. Now that TING GLOBAL has entered the POC stage and received the formal backing of the Ministry of Education, it can begin to penetrate into the system and build a viable and sustainable digital platform in order to fulfill its potential and significant contribution. | TING GLOBAL believes that the usage of icons and symbols can become the future global language which will assist in the thought process of ideation. As the younger generation becomes more aware and conscious of the current and long-term global challenges TING GLOBAL has the ability to make them passionate to learn and ideate for innovative and sustainable modern solutions. TING GLOBAL is the spring-board for bringing together the visionary and creative minds to bring solutions for the UN 17 SDG. | Innovate Through Play - an Online-to-Offline social platform for education in innovation. Our mission is to connect and inspire the world. Ting Global Interactive Ideographs Table is an open source taxonomy for the future work space. This framework provides common structure and language for young minds to e-meet, share their main topics of interest and collaborate creating mutual activities and ventures. Pilot: Ting Method for Multidisciplinary Thinking for Improving Creativity, Independent Thinking and Collaboration in Projects between School/s Students. Objectives of the initiative: Harnessing each country’s DNA and the United Nations Global Goals to inspire, nurture, and bridge global cross-cultural innovation Creating global cultural community; nurturing the connection between Israel and the Diaspora through online platform based on shared language. Developing values, creative thinking skills and infrastructure for creating revolutionary ideas to global impact Releasing group power to encourage and increase the sense of belonging, value, and motivation of each of the participants | TING is a unique ideation generator. Each student marks three (3) main topics of interest from the interactive table, those students whom sharing the same 3 topics of interest will be linked as to form ting groups. Goal would be coming up with innovative ideas to strengthen the bonds between students from various countries in educational, environmental and social fields. Being able to ask questions independently is not trivial. What if we could find the connection between the identity component of each and every one and the ability to innovate? Using TING method we could measure the link between the identity type and innovative thinking | We are still at the planning stage e.g. what data and how is it best to collect and connect. The way we measure is by the quality and quantity of new ideas coming from each student through Ting thinking method, at least three original ideas per student in sum. The students with the best ideas will be granted with extra finance and mentorship as to bring their ideas to life. | Developing the digital system will allow us to expand worldwide and reach to anyone with access to the internet and a desire to share their ideas for a better future. | SHORT TERM-implement implant the method in the education system needs: To present the thinking method and running workshops in various conferences worldwide To be present in more schools and students To develop the global community of Ting Global cultural ambassadors in various countries To partner with other global organizations, schools and academia MEDIUM TERM-the digital platform Ting ultimate solution is the open source digital platform which will be a social network for sharing and marketing innovative ideas. we will need; Initial capital for building up the system and the team LONG TERM-Creating a new ecosystem the digital platform will help us Collecting data and Providing solution for complex challenges we will need: AI and big data technologies blockchain technology and currency IP legal protraction active users | https://ting.global/ https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/draw-someting-of-the-future/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tings-interactive-symbols-table-sharon-gal-or/ https://finder.startupnationcentral.org/company_page/ting-global https://www.jpost.com/In-Jerusalem/TING-about-it-572614 https://www.israel21c.org/ting-card-game-uses-israeli-ingenuity-to-spark-creativity/ | https://youtu.be/_SQ1YG-2eqw | not yet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
444 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Eucharia Asikaralu | Okafor | Maklumy Technology Services | https://www.facebook.com/maklumytechnology | CEO | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | In Nigeria, women constitute a huge portion of the agricultural sector, relative to men; yet, their productive capacity remains constrained and considerably lower, possibly contributing to low overall agricultural productivity. There is no software application that grows food; we need to empower more women to improve their ways of life and their livelihoods. This can help a lot in preserving natural resources, growing food in sustainable ways and living in harmony with nature. We believe that women are key catalyst to change and inform and train our farmers to adopt climate smart agriculture, organic farming and precision farming with digital financial inclusion while the youth will be the drivers of the 4th Industrial Revolution in agriculture that is based on mobile phone technologies. Our approach through community bulk farming creates self-sustaining ecosystem including crop insurance and specialist farm management support to de-risk investment and assure decent return to investors and farmers while increasing production and maximizing yield. Maklumy was incorporated in September, 2014 but started operation in January 2016 and is headquartered in Abuja, with branch office in Anambra state, Nigeria.Maklumy’s client base is as follows: Rice, yam, cassava and horticulture producers (farmers), Processing companies, Off-takers and Agro-input providers.Maklumy aggregated, coordinates and manages the 250 smallholder farmers clustered in 8 communities in Anambra west LGA of Anambra state, Nigeria for the past three years till date. | Mrs Asikaralu Eucharia Okafor was born and bred in one of the agrarian communities in the South eastern part of Nigeria with a very rich experience and expertise in agribusiness, having apprenticed under her parents from the age of eight years across five various crops value chain. She has a B.Sc.degree in Computer science but started her life career as an ICT teacher in secondary school and later consulted for an international organization in Monitoring & Evaluation of various projects. She founded Maklumy Technology Services and with her Maklumy Community Bulk Farming; coordinates and manages 250 smallholder farmers of the Uwaoma Anambra West Farmers ‘Cooperative Union aggregated from 8 communities in Anambra west LGA, in Anambra state. As a YALI Network Volunteer member, trains the students on agribusiness through her Maklumy Enterprise Development in Agriculture Initiative (MEDAI). She has provided strategic planning, business development and operational expertise resulting in successful execution of projects that is still on-going. Through her leadership, the smallholder farmer’s vulnerable population of women and youth have experienced significant growth in their businesses, improved their livelihoods in a more resilient communities with digital financial inclusion. She has been an active participant in charities benefiting the grassroots, women and youth and works closely with groups at both the state, national and international level. She is a Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO) Outstanding Women in Leadership Awardee for Community Development in Nigeria | Maklumy Technology Community Bulk Farming | ADDRESSING FOOD SECURITY BY EMPOWERING SMALLHOLDER WOMEN FARMERS IN RICE PRODUCTION | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | Yes | Farmers, Funding Providers, Financial Service Providers, Communities, Governments, Agriculture Intervention Agency, Agro input Suppliers. | Transition to Scale | Our business model combines the best of smallholder farmers and commercial farm model to form a hybrid using Africanized Technology adaptation to build Africanized business models. We integrate into our projects, technologies and services that help farmers understand natural resources (water, soil and broader ecosystem) and how it affects crop yields; organic farming, post-harvest loss management and storage facilities provide digital financial inclusion partnering with relevant stakeholders. | Maklumy Community Bulk Farming is a highly scalable response to decades of failure to tackle one of the world’s most pressing issues which is Food Security, Unemployment and Poverty by commercializing innovative and sustainable technologies and scaling up existing approaches that is more productive, efficient and environmentally-friendly to grow women smallholder farmers business, build healthier families and create more resilient communities with access to banking. | Our approach through community bulk farming creates self-sustaining ecosystem including crop insurance and specialist farm management support to de-risk investment and assure decent return to investors and farmers while increasing production and maximizing yield. Our operating model is as follows: 1. Aggregation and acquisition of appropriate technical, management and marketing skills by smallholder women farmers. 2. Facilitation of farmer group production, processing and marketing. 3. Production of varieties that meet farmers need. 4. Value addition to produce before sale where the farmer will command the market. 5. Facilitation of produce contracting/off-taking link methodology, quality produce that can be sold in the international markets. 6. Provision of basic infrastructure for irrigation 7. Facilitation of efficient work relationship between value chain actors and support service providers. Thus, contribute towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals for zero hunger, poverty reduction, inclusive growth, business integrity, innovation, access to opportunity and global competitiveness. Our vision is to reduce poverty and zero hunger while translating and transforming our natural resources, skills and experiences into profit to develop entrepreneurial spirit that contributes to food sufficiency, create jobs and generate wealth for Nigerian women and youth. Our focus is on Rice, yam, cassava and horticulture. | Our customized farm management and supply chain software will guide production activities such as land preparation, planting and input application. It will also provide predictive data on yield, production volumes, pricing and other metrics as well as help processors with their buyers plan while ensuring traceability and standards. The real time monitoring of activities in the field will help to optimize the timing and volume of input as well as ensure efficient supply chain integration and minimize post-harvest losses. We have put in place the required storage and logistics infrastructures through partnerships while also developing opportunities for direct investment in the further expansion of this critical element of the value chain. Lobbying and advocacy for policy, intervention and strategy development. Private –Public partnership for dialogue and foster investment in the rice sector. The company is anchored on the following guiding principles which are to govern the implementation of all our projects: Partnership, Engagement, Synergy, Mutuality, Empowerment and Reciprocity, Accountability, Integrity, Inclusiveness. | Maklumy aggregated, coordinates and manages the 250 smallholder farmers clustered in 8 communities in Anambra west LGA of Anambra state, Nigeria for the past three years till date. IMPACT OVER THE YEARS: •Supported 250 smallholder farmers and their agro-service providers in developing their technical capacities. For example: setting up a quality or traceability system, obtaining certification, using new inputs, developing self-assessment, etc Our farmers have the advantage of being part of a network that offers fair pricing and all the support they need to be productive, thereby leading to enhanced incomes and better standards of living for the farmers and building of a more resilient community. •Input providers sell into a highly predictable and reliable ecosystem. •Processors can predict our output and expect high quality produce sourced from a fair market with high traceability and sustainable practices. •Investors and financial partners benefit from an attractive ROI based on our high volume approach, integrated operations, increased efficiencies, and effective risk mitigation. •Rural Communities enjoy increased income and better standard of living which supports a more diversified employment base and reduces the rate of urbanization/migration. •The country benefits from quality employment, food security, import substitution, export opportunities, as well as national security and pride. | .Thus far: We have attracted the interest of the Central Bank of Nigeria, NIRSAL, Sterling bank and NAIC in Nigeria and a number of other Initiatives international and local. Support smallholder farmers and their agro-service providers in developing their technical capacities. For example: setting up a quality or traceability system, obtaining certification, using new inputs, developing self-assessment, etc We are currently adopting a developed framework for a domestic accepted standard for the production of Nigeria Home grown rice sector. With proper certification and a National accepted code of practices we believe Nigerian Grown rice can break into European markets and AFCTA free trade zone.The company is anchored on the following guiding principles which are to govern the implementation of all our projects: Partnership, Engagement, Synergy, Mutuality, Empowerment and Reciprocity, Accountability, Integrity, Inclusiveness. | There is a dire need to provide a solar dryer and storage facility for the rice paddy in Nigeria in order to overcome food wastages and avoid low pricing of paddy. Over 50 percent of paddy and milled rice produced annually go to waste between Farm gate to market while less than one percent is exported. Improving the post-harvest management infrastructure: (grading, packing, storage and transport/solar drying) will help reduce high post-harvest losses, increase production surpluses, and improve shelf life and quality of paddy moisture content. This in turn will help to stabilize prices in the domestic market as well as substantially boost export to highly lucrative and competitive international markets. Farm Standards- uniformity, Produce standardization, and Protocol based evacuation process. Group marketing, Hedging against risk, PPP’s, Fair trade, Mixed use communities. Mentor adoption. WHAT IS NEEDED Training to foster standards- high or low Trade routes for rapid/predictable evacuation Storage, packing and presentation Rules(MOU) Stakeholders Good lawyers Agricultural credit, Irrigation facilities, Market access, Roads infrastructure, Effective and efficient extension services to enable them contribute meaningfully to home grown rice production in Nigeria. | Https://www.facebook.com/maklumytechnology Https://www.instagram.com/maklumytechnology | Https://www.youtube.com/maklumytechnology | Lift Above Poverty Organization (LAPO) Outstanding Women in Leadership Award in recognition of contribution towards Community Development in Nigeria. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
445 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Carl | Bielenberg | Village Industrial Power | www.villageindustrialpower.com | CEO/CTO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | French | The technologies developed by Village Industrial Power are the culmination of more than 40 years of work in Africa and the US in the twin fields of crop processing and biomass energy. They have the potential to increase farmer incomes in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, while increasing food security and reducing carbon emissions in the fresh food value added chain. It is for the purpose of sharing this perspective and opportunity that I would like to be part of the UN Solutions Summit. After graduating in Mechanical Engineering from MIT (1975), I began an around-the-world hitch-hike, which ended in Cameroon in 1976. There I found a job as resident inventor at the National Centre for Studies and Experiments in Agricultural Mechanisation (CENEEMA) in Yaounde. I assisted small farmers to develop prototype equipment, mainly for crop processing. In 1977 I created the Better World Workshop in Bafoussam, Cameroon, to manufacture and continue to design such equipment. In 1985 I was recruited by Appropriate Technology International (subsequently EnterpriseWorks Worldwide) as their Small Farm Equipment Specialist. This job included travel all over Africa to identify local entrepreneurs and innovators with promising ideas, as well as to Asia to find technologies relevant to Africa. This resulted in the spread of the treadle irrigation pump, invented in Bangladesh, to a large number of countries in Africa, and the Kenya Jiko charcoal stove to Senegal, and subsequently more than one dozen West African countries. It also resulted in the invention of a number of hand and engine powered oil seed presses, which have been widely adopted in many sub-saharan countries.. I became involved in biomass energy in 1990, seeking a solution for clean economical heating in the US Northeast, and for motive power in villages in Africa. Partnering with Messersmith Mfg., I designed and installed about fifty automatic biomass heating plants in US public schools, while developing power solutions for off-grid villages in Africa. Village Industrial Power was launched in 2015 to sell village combined-heat-and-power (CHP) plants in Africa. These are made in India and currently commercialised in Kenya in combination with a high performance dryer for perishable food. | 1975: Graduated BSc, MSc, Mechanical Engineering (Course 2), Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1976-78: Inventor in residence at CENEEMA (Centre National d'Etudes et d'Experimentation du Machinisme Agricole), Yaounde, Cameroon 1978-81: Owner/founder of Better World Workshop, a small agricultural equipment manufacturer, Bafoussam, Cameroon 1981-85: Homesteader, Calais, Vermont. Employed part time at Ordway Electric Machine, a designer and manufacturer of granite working machines, Barre, Vermont 1985-1986: Employed as Small Farm Equipment Specialist, Appropriate Technology International 1986-1996: Founded and Operated Better World Workshop, East Calais, Vermont, designing and testing bio energy technologies for rural development. Consultant to EnterpriseWorks Worldwide (formerly ATI). 1996-2016: Partner in Better World Energy, representing Messersmith Manufacturing in the design, installation and servicing of automated biomass boiler plants. More than 50 plants installed, heating public schools, public and private colleges, and hospitals in New England. 2015-present: Co-founder and CTO of Village Industrial Power. Conducted field testing and application development for VIP's biomass CHP technology in Benin, Tanzania, and Kenya. Applications include grain and perishable food drying, dairy processing, and providing thermal and electrical energy to rural health centres. Manufacture of VIP CHP and perishable food dryer initiated in Pune, India. Sales of VIP's and food dryers initiated in Kenya in 2017 are still underway. | Village Industrial Power | Heat and Power for Crop Processing, using biomass residue fuels | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India, Kenya, sub-Saharan Africa | Yes | FactorE Ventures, Shell Foundation, EEP, Transparent Food Technologists (Pune, India) | Transition to Scale | We conducted field trials in Africa since 2014, followed by early sales in Kenya starting in 2017. This was accompanied by sustained efforts to eliminate mechanical defects, and reduce the cost of production by design simplification and manufacture in India. Food dryer developed in Kenya has been greatly simplified to reduce cost and increase durability and ease of use. We have a growing sales pipeline in Kenya while first new generation VIP CHP's and food dryers are about to ship from India. | VIP CHP provides off-grid communities 24/7 access to productive heat and power without relying on costly and polluting diesel fuel. This is important for adding value to farmers crops, food preservation, water supply, and health care. VIP CHP can replace diesel generators in solar-diesel mini-grids. Our food dryer enables farmers to add value by preserving perishable crops. This provides employment to rural women and nutritious foods to refugees, school children, and other vulnerable people. | VIP CHP is a steam power generating plant which is one meter by two meters in size, and is transportable by pickup truck. It has a unique design steam boiler of unusually strong construction, enabling safe operation by farmers and village mechanics. It has a unique design steam engine which does not require oil lubrication of its piston, thereby allowing recycling of water to reduce water use and reduce boiler corrosion. The power of the engine turns a generator to make up to 10 kW of 3 phase power, while the low pressure (< 1Bar) exhaust steam can be used for water heating, pasteurization, community cooking, and crop drying. VIP's perishable food dryer is similar to a wind tunnel, in which high velocity heated air passes between closely spaced perforated trays holding food slices. It enables 150 kilograms of fresh food at 90% moisture to be fully dried in four hours, regardless of weather or daylight. Low drying temperature (<45C) preserves food nutrients and enhances flavour. VIP's technologies greatly empower small producers of highly perishable foods (mango, banana, avocado, tomato, fish, milk) by enabling these foods to be preserved without grid power and without cold chain. On farm food drying vastly reduces transport weight (typically 80 to 90% reduction) and avoids spoilage, thereby greatly reducing the carbon footprint of the farm to consumer value added chain. We see this as providing a huge impetus to agricultural investment and improved nutrition. | Our customers (currently only in Kenya) have all had previous experience with food drying, typically using open air or plastic sheathed green houses for solar drying of foods on elevated trays. These customers are typically farmers or groups of farmers who are frustrated by low market prices for perishable crops that are seasonally super abundant on local markets. They have found solar drying to provide inconsistent quality and low productivity, increasing the cost and reducing the market appeal of dried foods. They are drawn to the VIP solution because the quality is consistently excellent, not at all weather dependent, and the cycle time from fresh to dried product is reduced from several days to under 6 hours. The principal obstacle to the adoption of our technology is cost. We are striving to reduce the cost through manufacture and sales in India. Furthermore, we are finding many funding agencies in Kenya to be attracted to the opportunity presented by efficient food dehydration, and therefore eager to lend for this purpose. Farmer cooperatives and SACCO's are also seeing this as an attractive investment. VIP also anticipates building portable (trailer mounted) food dryers with self-contained VIP CHP for grid autonomous mobile food drying. This will enable small producers to rent a food dryer, and learn about its benefits, before deciding to purchase one. | Early field trials in Kenya showed a five to seven fold value addition was possible by dehydrating fresh mango for local consumption. This enables farmers to be paid approximately twice what they typically earn at present when selling fresh mango (about 20 Ksh vs. 10 Ksh per Kg). The balance of value addition pays for labor for washing, peeling, and slicing fruit, fuel for powering the VIP, and equipment amortisation and operator cost. VIP has learned from three years work in Kenya that large scale adoption of efficient food dryers by small farmers will require the development of domestic markets for dried foods. We are working to expand the nascent market for dried fruit from high-end supermarkets to a much larger middle class market by involving street vendors in marketing dried fruit. On-farm drying enables a 50% to 70% reduction in dried fruit cost, relative to factory drying, due to greatly reduced transportation and food spoilage costs. Preliminary indications are that the lower dried fruit costs that are feasible with our technology (<$.01 US/gram) will be attractive to middle class consumers. Our success is measured not only by the number of dryers and VIP CHP units we sell, but by the money earned by our customers. | Milestone 1 (mid- 2020): Sales of ten dryers and VIP CHP's in Kenya Milestone 2 (mid-2021): Sales of 20 dryers per year in Kenya; profitability of at least 10 dryers (as indicated by <3 year ROI) achieved. Milestone 3 (mid-2022): Sales of 40 dryers per year in Kenya and Uganda; profitability of at least half of dryers sold. Milestone 4 (mid-2023): Sales of 100 dryers per year in East Africa; profitability of at least half of dryers sold; profitability of VIP Kenya. Upon achievement of Milestone 4, approximately 1000 part time jobs will have been created, primarily involving rural women, 5000 tons of fresh fruit will be dried per year, reaching about 1% of Kenyan consumers. This can be considered to be a secure foothold, from which further growth can be achievable by internal and export market development, and geographic expansion outside of East Africa. | Our immediate need is a $135,000 US cost share to an already signed grant for 305,000 euros. In 2020 we expect to need about $500,000 for market development in India and $500,000 for market development in Kenya. These amounts could again be needed in 2022, after which operations in India and East Africa should be profitable and self-sustaining. Funding for geographic growth, particularly to West Africa, could be envisioned in 2023. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHEDaoP1GQE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0JJ1gMlPLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy-ED3FHERc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_t6KmMHQo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnkBqNWiZpM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj-59k9n8ts&t=8s | December 2013: Sub-awardee of $1 million grant from USAID Powering Agriculture. July 2015: Recipient $450,000 investment from Factor E Ventures, Fort Collins, Colorado July 2016: Recipient $1.3 million grant from Shell Foundation January 2018: Recipient $400,000 grant from Shell Foundation October 2018: Selected recipient 305,000 euro grant from EEP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
446 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | VALERIE | RED-HORSE MOHL | SOCIAL VENTURE CIRCLE | svcimpact.org | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | FEMALE | United States of America | United States of America | English | I am the Executive Director of Social Venture Circle (“SVC”) and for over four decades, SVC has been dedicated to an economy that is regenerative, just, and prosperous for all. SVC confronts the challenges we face as a global community and believes the way forward will require moving beyond sustainability to regenerative systems, expanding diversity to include true social and economic inclusion, and broadening the definition of every venture’s success beyond profits to growth that benefits everyone. We have currently identified the control and facilitation of institutional capital as a gross inequality that must be addressed (less than 4% is provided to women led and diverse managed funds). Since the 1980’s, SVC has served as a facilitator and capacity builder incubating a host of companies and organizations that are tackling society’s most pressing challenges, including non-profits such as B Lab, American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), Net Impact, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), Opportunity Collaboration (OC), BALLE, and Social Venture Institute. Additionally, SVC’s pioneering members include businesses focused on social impact such as Ben & Jerry’s, Eileen Fisher, Honest Tea, Kind Bars, Birkenstock, Seventh Generation and more. Through education, mentoring, seminars and events, SVC has supported thousands of ventures, incubating dozens of new networks, and facilitating over $250 million worth of impact investments and donations into purpose-driven organizations. | VALERIE RED-HORSE MOHL, of Cherokee ancestry, is the Executive Director of Social Venture Circle and also the owner/founder of Red-Horse Financial Group, Inc., and has more than 30 years of in-depth experience in the financial services and investment banking industry holding seven FINRA registrations including General Securities Principal (series 24) and Municipal Securities Principal (Series 53). Red-Horse Mohl has raised and structured over $3 billion in capital for institutional clients with a unique expertise serving Native American tribal nations. She is also the owner/founder of Red-Horse Native Productions, Inc., a film and television production company primarily focused on bringing important social impact documentaries to the screen for which Red-Horse Mohl has produced, written and directed. Red-Horse Mohl was inducted into the NAWBO (National Association of Women Business Owners) Hall of Fame in 2008. She serves on the Board of Stanford University’s Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and teaches a Stanford course on Entrepreneurship for Social Impact and Racial Equity. Red-Horse Mohl earned a B.A. with Cum Laude honors from UCLA, has been married to former NFL football player Curt Mohl since 1982 and the couple has three children. | DIVERSE FLOW AGGREGATOR | Increase institutional capital into funds managed by women and diverse managers thereby increasing the flow of capital to diverse businesses. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | United States | Yes | Opportunity Collaboration | Research & Development | In a very short period, (by interviewing large funds as well as diverse managed smaller funds) we were able to ascertain that one of the specific barriers to WDAMs receiving institutional capital is the minimum requirements of many funds related to total AUM. This led to our creation of the aggregator fund of funds solution. | The asset management industry is a cornerstone of the global economy; approximately $70 trillion globally (USD). Asset managers facilitate the movement of capital from investors to entrepreneurs, growing ventures, and restructuring enterprises.There is an extreme lack of diversity in this important industry. The Knight Foundation 2017-18 study concluded that women and minorities were dramatically underrepresented. Women-owned, and Minority-owned firms represent less than 4% industry assets. | By identifying specific gaps and barriers that decrease access to institutional capital to women and diverse underrepresented minority asset managers (hereafter referred to as “WDAMs”) SVC proposes to utilize its key strengths, skillsets and access as a non-profit longstanding impact investing network to solve specific barriers to access and thereby increase the flow of institutional capital to WDAMs in specific, immediate and measurable ways. SVC has created a “fund of funds” model to act as an aggregator applying for institutional funding to be deployed into diverse asset managers. As a non-profit, SVC is not charging a carry or traditional double layers of fees that are a detractor to funds of funds models. The idea for our model was launched when it was brought to our attention by an African American woman fund manager who met all the qualifications for a certain institutional capital funding except the minimum total Assets Under Management (AUM) requirement. By serving as an aggregator fund of funds style manager, we will then be able to allocate the money to deserving women and diverse underrepresented minority fund managers who do not meet the minimum AUM dollar amount requirements but are experienced, successful, impact dedicated and meet all other requirements. Our long term goal for global impact is to move the AUM of women and diverse managers globally to 25% of private equity funds (from less than 4% currently). | SVC proposes to solve the total AUM minimums by aggregating several WDAMs together in a fund of funds model but without the double layers of fees that have historically been a deterrent to funds of funds utilization. Existing Private Equity and Private Debt Funds of Funds models designed to facilitate capital to smaller diverse deserving funds are typically managed by for profit enterprises seeking profit sharing (a carry) and double fees in addition to the individual funds’ fees. These fees are a monetary deterrent and the model has not proven successful. As a non-profit with fund management as well as staff with financial expertise, SVC has developed a new aggregator model that serves the same purpose without double fees as we would only seek a minimal service administration fee similar to a fiscal agent. We are not aware of any other entity offering this model. | SVC has created one aggregator model for one application to a large funder and included seven women managed funds, each one addressing one of the 17 SDGs in their investment strategy. We hope to continue identify more funders and WDAMS so we can replicate this model to other large institutional funders and scale widely. We will measure the success by not only the amount of capital facilitated to the WDAMs but then also the additional diverse impact companies funded as a result (and the SDGs addressed throughout). | We plan to launch in the U.S. then expand to the U.K., and Europe for institutional funding and expand to Africa, India, Mexico and South America for the WDAMs funds. | Short Term: We need to identify additional partners and capacity building general administrative funding. We’d like to implement at least 5 aggregator models in the U.S with 7-10 WDAMs benefitting from each. Goal of capital flow is $500 million Medium Term: We’d like to expand to 15 aggregator models in diverse geographic regions; Goal of capital flow is $1 billion Long term: Global diversification and increasing overall AUM in Private Equity by women and diverse led funds to 25% (~17 billion) | SVC Website: https://www.svcimpact.org/ | Valerie Red-Horse Mohl SOCAP 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV7sKmRkEKU&list=PLJw5R-2X_x2tZWw99AG4AWrdxazg-Ls8l&index=31 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
447 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Haytham | Dbouk | Innovating Green Technology | www.igtlb.com | Founder & CEO | Male | Lebanon | Lebanon | Arabic | English | The program consists a great opportunity to develop our startup further, this is due to the fact that it will offer us the visibility required and thus will introduce us to the appropriate network we need for our development. Moreover, this program will enhance our skills and will improve our planning strategies and prepare ourselves for the upcoming stage of this everlasting journey. | I am an Electrical and Computer Engineer, passionate about revolutionizing green technologies, my goal is to overcome challenges, seeking success. WORK EXPERIENCE Innovating Green Technology,Founder & CEO, 2016 – Present A startup aiming to transform the field of renewable energy S. & A. S. LTD (Security & Automation Systems), Internship, 2016 American University of Beirut, Research assistant, 2016- Present EDUCATION M.E. - Electrical & Computer Engineering - “Bandwidth management among a swamp of Tele-operated robots” American University of Beirut B.E. - Electrical & Computer Engineering (graduated with distinction Fall, 2016-2017) American University of Beirut Applied Math minor Control and Robotics minor | Innovating Green Technology | IGT develops green energy systems and improves the efficiency and reliability of already existing systems. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Lebanon, Egypt, GCC | No | Transition to Scale | We installed already 40 PRO-Shield units and we are preparing another 82 units in addition to preparing for our expansion in Egypt accordingly. Solar Heated Poultry House: we implemented 2 systems in Lebanon and we are preparing for our first system in Egypt. Grey water treatment system: we are implementing this innovative system in Baaloul camp in BEKAA in Lebanon; this camp that has around 400 individuals and gives between 12000 and 15000 liters of waste water per day. | PRO-Shield: Solar water heater devices heat water passively from sun radiation up to 95 degrees Celsius causing the solar water heaters overheating. Solar Heated Poultry House: The cost of heating a poultry house is majorly increasing the cost of food production. Solar based waste water treatment unit: integrate a sustainable and autonomous model for rain and grey water management in addition to make use of this amount of water for irrigation and heating purposes. | IGT develops green energy systems and improves the efficiency and reliability of already existing systems. IGT has a rigid team with various experiences capable of developing green energy systems and improves the efficiency and reliability of already existing systems. IGT has products/services including: 1- grey water treatment units 2- solar heating systems based on solar water heaters with innovative control scheme 3- PRO-Shield which is the first solution capable of solving the overheating problem faced worldwide by solar water heaters worldwide. It is smart shield mounted on any solar water heater regardless of its size, type and brand. It increases the efficiency of the system, increases its lifespan, and saves water. 4- electricity backup systems Our team is formed of Electrical, and Civil engineers in addition to an expert with over 25 years’ experience in the renewable energy field, who have the necessary capabilities to design and continuously develop our systems. | PRO-Shield is the 1st solution capable of solving the worldwide overheating problem faced by residential solar water heaters. The application of the solar heaters in poultry houses has been debated in scientific research and applied in several university projects. Various successful stories on the application of solar heated poultry farms have been heard of. To mention one evidence is the solar heated poultry houses at Laurel, Delaware university in the united states. This application had solved many concerns on rising in the energy costs, growing concerns of a cleaner environment, rising consumer food costs, this application had solved these concerns. Adding to this, the payback time to this project is less than five years. However, one of the problems faced while applying this prototype is the need to change its batteries from time to time. Comparing it to our prototype (solar water heaters), there is no need to use batteries, it has a long life span, and it has a higher efficiency. Grey water treatment system: provides high quality water for irrigation and domestic uses on all levels according to national and international standards; this is continuously monitored and updated by our system's utilization unit. Moreover, the solar tubes used in our system has a very long lifespan and are isolated (using vacuum) from microbes and any intruding instance. | We installed already 40 PRO-Shield units and we are preparing another 82 units in addition to preparing for our expansion in Egypt accordingly, through contacting the appropriate partners there and executing the required market validation. Solar Heated Poultry House: we implemented 2 systems in Lebanon and we are preparing for our first system in Egypt. Grey water treatment system: we are implementing this innovative system in Baaloul camp in BEKAA in Lebanon; this camp that has around 400 individuals and gives between 12000 and 15000 liters of waste water per day. The system treats the resulting waste water and transform it into a water safe for irrigation; this system in a sustainable system relaying on photovoltaic cells which uses the available sun radiation to power the system and fulfill the heating need for the disinfection part of the system. | We are planning to establish the appropriate partnerships and agreements with the national and international solar water heaters’ dealers and manufacturers as well as the poultry houses owners to adopt this technology to increase their competitive advantage through increasing their systems efficiency. Then we plan to conduct the governments and the organizing authorities of the countries which consists the major market for our technologies in a win-win strategy which enhances their efficiency and profits. Our expansion plan: By 2018: we started targeting the market in Lebanon By 2019: we will be targeting the market in Egypt By 2020: we will be targeting the market in GCC By 2023: we will be targeting the market in the rest of the MENA region By 2025: we will be targeting the market in Europe | We mainly need 2 things: 1) The appropriate connections which will can pave the way for the required partnerships with the governments or the private sector, required to develop our technologies into a worldwide solutions that will revolutionize the food and heating fields. 2) The required funding and thus the appropriate investors to apply our planned journey and expand map. | http://www.igtlb.com/ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TdPrDgv7CYEAYy_m8zkuRMKMhL-v0hQl https://drive.google.com/open?id=12ObcYu5pVFds8bFC7vKfwMmjLXbz1bJ- https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cCOhFnf8lE3XDEZAam9lWMNNdgPzTn6e https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Zji_eQDRZwXpTqCft2-8JBjZC_WCz0At | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FXXa_9P1pbC46Y-n0fOYtvORJD5Lnk3_ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VCkx3Ayblo1mejaVtvy2n6WV1p5Zmxym https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Pt57w40nHzd_CvbSxd_hdsKKqc2YTRh1 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xGZuKshkcRaWr2x7PvmOACSSPnr5Ru4E https://drive.google.com/open?id=1spS9cVFrNaWnfA0dgP9ykjkNThpmv94s https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Kzif6BcYGt0tg52tQMrQOmhzEJIP44UM https://drive.google.com/open?id=1P2ateDQr-HEhQVKTDPSlBcrU13Ix1wU9 | PRO-Shield awards/grants: 1) Finalist in the MIT Water Innovation Prize , 2019 2) Top 4 in Harvard Startup Competition, 2019 3) Cesvi MSMEs support program, 2018 4) Top 10 in the International Hult Accelerator in UK, 2018 5) Injaz AlArab Best Product of the Year by PEPSICO, 2017 6) Injaz Lebanon company Program, 2017 7) Nawaya Impact Lab competition, 2017 8) Kafalat ISME grant, 2016 Solar Heated Poultry House awards/grants: 1) SDGs call for proposals by UNDP, 2019 2) LIRA, 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
448 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | CLARO | ZABLAN | A.D. TECH GENIUS CORP. (ADTECH) | http://crowdpointsight.com | Business Development Director | Male | Philippines | Philippines | English | Value through Technology Innovation is the key to citizen's engagement towards sustainable service delivery. It espouses transparency in government delivery of services. This will result to timely dispensation of much needed resources from government and more collaboration from the citizenry who primarily benefits from the services. Tracking information shall ensure that the right service is served by the right government agent or agency during the citizen's time of need. That is what CrowdPoint delivers. It allows the citizen to provide ample feedback to guide government agencies and officials to focus its efforts on their objectives, and that is to provide services to help citizens. It is much like a service request monitoring tool where both citizens and government field agents have access to the same service requests. CrowdPoint shall direct the request to the right field agent. Both citizen and field agent responsible for lodging and resolving the request shall be reward by the system with points. These points shall then be converted to merit awards for field agents and consumer goods items for citizens. | Claro ‘Tatu’ C. Zablan Jr. is a veteran IT solutions delivery practitioner. Finished his business management, Masters in Business Administration at the De La Salle University (DLSU). Also took IT Project Management Course at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). Transitioned from sales to the project management & solutions delivery profession. Was project manager during the delivery of the Phil Business Registry system (www.business.gov.ph) of the Department of Trade and Industry. Did projects for local teleco industry that includes identity access mgt. systems, storage & big data appliance platforms & web services (integration) appliance deployment. Involved in deployment of network monitoring systems for banks, adding location information of insured properties (longitude / latitude) to the asset profile(s), integrating about ten (10) key info systems for loans, funds management, repossessed asset mgt , etc. Worked as client engagement exec for Net4Site, reseller of SAP products for logistics & mfg. He led teams that provided membership web portal of professional organizations, like the Integrated Institute of Electrical Engineers (IIEE) of the Phil. Worked as Special (Promotions) Projects Mgr for the Continuing Medical Education (CME) program of Medical Doctors at Boehringer Ingelheim Philippines Inc. | CrowdPoint | Unified, Scalable & Ubiquitous Feedback System | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Philippines, | Yes | Dr Francis Aldrine A. Uy, Engr Donato G. Santiago | Transition to Scale | CrowdPoint is already available for commercial use. Target adopters are major cities in Metro Manila Philippines. | Efficiency is the end result of the CrowdPoint. Proper government unit resources shall allocated for the most impact in government service delivery. CrowdPoint is scalable at the city level and national government. It can go as high as the ASEAN region implementation level. | Government & Citizen Engagement through a unified, scalable and ubiquitous information system platform provides timely feedback and action on requested services on the feedback messages. CrowdPoint aims to provide efficient way of delivering services. Government allocated funds and internationally donated funds shall have greater impact to the community. Therefore more available resources to the community. | CrowdPoint motivates citizens and government field agents to deliver services on time through incentives. The completion of service is not imposed but encouraged. CrowdPoint does not use special tools. The system software is the key for its success, not special gadgets or equipment. CrowdPoint can adjust to scale depending on where it is deployed. It is also flexible since it can be used for government services, project management implementation & visiting tourist security. Emergency Medical Services, Security Services, Traffic Enforcement, Fire Protection Services, & National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Services can be orchestrated by CrowdPoint. | CrowdPoint is a cloud application that is already deployed and ready for use. | Scale up operations from the city / municipal level to the national level (Office of the Cabinet Secretary). Once on a national scale, the system needs regional hubs to manage the workload. This means getting local IT resources per regional hub. CrowdPoint will also need business development staff to solicit consumer goods coupons to companies who would like their products advertised in the mobile app. It also needs an evaluation committee to sift through the data for awarding field agents. | CrowdPoint needs access to cloud servers Once CrowdPoint scales up, it will need larger data storage capacity, redundant servers & disaster recovery servers. To maintain the software platform, CrowdPoint shall need topnotch database administrators and applications developers. CrowdPoint shall also need a top shelf campaign manager and business intelligence crew to use the big data to further fulfill CrowdPoint's objectives. | http://www.crowdpointsight.com https://www.facebook.com/crowdpoint/ | https://www.facebook.com/crowdpoint/ | World Summit Awards (WSA). CrowdPoint was selected as the 2017 Best National Digital Solution, on the Government & Citizen Engagement Category. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
449 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | IJEOMA | UGWUDI | Be-In-Health Foundation | www.bihefoundation.org | C.E.O/ Founder | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | In the past two and a half years, our non-profit; Be-In-Health Foundation has provided FREE healthcare services and medication for people living in rural under-served communities in Nigeria with great focus on chronic diseases like Cardiovascular Diseases, Cancers, Diabetes and Respiratory Diseases. We provide referral linkages of the diagnosed cases to nearby health centres and government hospitals for improved/further care, thereby integrating patients into existing social and health care systems through referrals. Be-In-Health Foundation also conducts self-care management education programs to raise awareness about non communicable diseases and help the people become more accountable with regards to treatment and management of their conditions. We also provide training for volunteers, health workers and community members on best practices. This is to ensure sustainability of our projects and ensure provision of quality services to beneficiaries. Telehealth is the next frontier in medical care. In the not-too-distant future, telehealth will be such an integral part of the medical experience that there will be no difference between healthcare and telehealth. Because telehealth is a more effective way to reach out to people living in underserved areas in Sub Saharan Africa, we decided to take our service a notch higher by providing this type of care for people living in rural communities,hence modifying our organisation to become a social enterprise. We have carried out our research and are ready to start running our telehealth clinic beginning with Ohekelem community,South East Nigeria.We chose to provide care for people living in the rural areas because these are the groups of people who lack access to care. They are also the ones in real need. These people do not have health insurance and most times die of preventable illnesses. Because I have lost close family and friends living in rural areas to chronic diseases(which could have been prevented but for lack of care),I feel drawn to these groups of people who are somewhat helpless in this regard. I believe that healthcare access shouldn't be the right of privileged few.I envision a world where the global community and its leaders will strive to establish conditions for all individuals and communities to achieve their full potential for health and well being..This is my own way of contributing my quota to ensure that this happens . For this reason,I am applying to present my project at the UN Summit. | Ijeoma Ugwudi is a licensed Medical Laboratory Scientist with over a decade of experience in Laboratory Medicine.She runs a non-profit in Nigeria known as Be-In-Health Foundation (www.bihefoundation.org) which provides free healthcare services and medication for people living in low-income neighbourhoods and rural communities with great focus on Non-Communicable (Chronic) Diseases (NCDs) like respiratory diseases, Cancers, Diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. The organisation’s interventions also include advocacy/raising awareness (including self-care educator programs), screening and providing support systems by way of patient referrals to local general hospitals. In addition, Be-In-Health Foundation provides water and sanitation facilities to rural communities that need them. As the Executive Director of Be-In-Health Foundation, Ijeoma is responsible for designing new high-impact partnerships, managing relationships with important external stakeholders, and serving as an internal and external ambassador of the initiative. She is currently a Grants Advisor with “The Pollination Project”, a nonprofit based in California,U.S.A.She is a member of the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP). Ijeoma was formerly the Head of the Laboratory Services Department of the Nigerian Navy Sick Bay,Okoko in Lagos, Nigeria.In 2017, she became one of the 100 young Nigerians selected for the prestigious Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders where she trained in Civic Leadership at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. | Rural telehealth Clinic Solution | We provide affordable telehealth (out-patient) care for people living in rural/underserved communities in South Eastern Nigeria who have no access | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Nigeria | Yes | WiCis Health (https://wicishealth.com) | Proof of Concept | Our project is at POC stage because we want to demonstrate that it is possible to run a telehealth service for people living in rural areas.There are very few entities running telehealth services in Nigeria but most of them focus on people living in the (big) cities.Prior to this now,our non profit arm has provided free care for rural dwellers.We chose this group of people because they are the ones in real need of access to healthcare.Our goal is to expand this service to other rural dwellers. | In rural areas in Nigeria, there is massive shortage of doctors in health centers (https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/shortage-medical-personnel-tougher-times-ahead-nigerians-2/), making it impossible for people living in rural areas to have access to proper assessment and treatment without having to travel several miles to the cities to see a doctor.Solving this problem is important in a place like Nigeria where linkage to primary healthcare providers at the grassroots is a serious problem. | Our solution is a telehealth (outpatient) clinic to serve 2500 people (500 families)living in rural Ohekelem community,South East Nigeria in order to reduce mortality and morbidity among this population.Patients will be able to access doctors who are situated anywhere in the country and are available to consult with them via peer-to-peer video conferencing.We shall collaborate with the Government Hospitals in the cities for the purpose of referrals.Referrals will be made for patients needing specialist care and patients needing surgeries since we will operate as an out-patient center.This is the only telehealth clinic in Nigeria providing this type of care for people living in rural areas . Our solution is innovative as it has other properties which include: -Automated charting system, which charts vital signs automatically making it easy to monitor the progress of the patient. -Combine customized forms, video conferencing and vitals in a single screen. -Use of electronic health records system which is a more efficient and modern way of storing patient information as opposed to keeping paper files. -An appointment scheduler which helps patients know the particular time the doctor will be available to see them;this solves the problem of long wait-times. In the future ,we also plan to incorporate surgeries as part of our services. Our long term vision is to be the foremost provider of digital health services to people living in rural areas in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. | Our model is a “Software as a Service (SaaS)”, this means that the software is accessed online , rather than being bought and installed on individual computers. It can be used by a hospital or health center staff to attend to patients. Data is saved in the cloud,so there is no risk of loss of data. Also, because the system is cloud-based, there is no need to install or maintain any software. Our solution is not only restricted to keeping Electronic Health Records (EHR), it covers the entire medical workflows. Eg: it can serve as common sticky points in the perioperative process like pre-op screening, patient engagement, communication, and document management. You can also engage your patient with HD video and if needed you can even see his or her vital signs live after he/she has been sent home in case of difficult or high-risk cases. This is a major difference between our model and that of our competitors. Our tele-health model can provide solution for ambulatory surgery centers, it can also be used to provide post-operative follow-up at home. All of our forms and live data are easy to implement, easy to use, and easy to integrate with existing workflows. Typically, any one can use it, whether in the rural or urban area. Each element of our solution can work alone or as part of the full Ambulatory Surgery Careflow Solution. This is also another major difference between our model and that of our competitors.Health records are also better kept using this model. | We currently have a team of two doctors, one pharmacy tech and one lab tech. We have also secured a facility in the proposed location(Ohekelem community) to start operations. WiCis Health (https://wicishealth.com) is partnering with us on this project. Our goal is to spread across ten sub -Saharan African countries in 10 years. Use of our model will encourage patients in rural areas to go to hospitals,since they won't have to travel long distances. They will also experience shorter wait times.It will also discourage use of traditional medicine. We shall measure our progress by monitoring the number of people who attend clinic and how effective the use of our model is. By our projections,we hope to : i) reach out to 2500 people (500 families) during the proof of concept phase. ii) reach out to 25000 people (5000 families) by the end of year 1. iii) reach out to 50000 people (10000 families) by the end of year 2. | Our plan for scale up is to expand to other communities in other states in South East and South West Nigeria.We currently have a team of 2 doctors, a pharmacy technician and a laboratory technician.We shall be recruiting more personnel as part of our plans to scale up.Each clinic will have access to at least 2 doctors,one pharmacy and one lab technician.We hope to continue to build our own team to handle the increasing population of people in need of care in the coming months. Our plans for expansion after the first two years also includes engaging in simple general surgeries(like appendectomy,myomectomy and hernia surgeries). •Our projection is to increase impact by 100% and employ more staff from by December 2020. By our projections,we hope to : i) reach out to 2500 people (500 families) during the proof of concept phase. ii) reach out to 25000 people (5000 families) by the end of year 1. iii) reach out to 50000 people (10000 families) by the end of year 2. Our plan for deploying this idea and scaling this project also include getting as many government (and private) hospitals as possible to sign up to use our telehealth model. This we will achieve through aggressive marketing, organising seminar presentations in primary, secondary and tertiary heath institutions . This will also serve as a source of extra income for us. | SHORT TERM NEEDS Space: We would need our own location/ operational base to site the clinic. We already have a possible location, in Ohekelem community in South-East Nigeria. Expertise: We have our doctors,trained and licensed to practice in Nigeria and other community health care workers who will be on site to log in and schedule all hospital visits and appointments. Equipment: We would need laptops and smart mobile phones for use at the clinics, we would need internet access, power source(generators or solar inverters) and very basic hospital equipment for an out-patient clinic. MEDIUM TERM NEEDS Our plan for deploying this idea and scaling this project include getting as many government (and private) hospitals as possible to sign up to use our telehealth model. This we will achieve through aggressive marketing, organising seminar presentations in primary, secondary and tertiary heath institutions. To achieve this ,we would need to hire more personnel for the purpose of marketting and public relations. LONG TERM NEEDS People: We will need to engage our team of a minimum of 5 doctors and 5 health workers per facility. We would be happy to sell our franchise to interested persons who can operate according to our standards. For example, our interventions are for people living in rural areas first. We will also need to establish our facilities in other parts of Sub -Saharan Africa. | http://www.bihefoundation.org https://www.facebook.com/usembassynigeria/photos/a.10150195489589874/10155640349549874/?type=3&theater | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJQkiC8onEU&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfpyzjcEqYo&app=desktop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI9pqCYN-Ow&feature=youtu.be | In 2017, I became one of the 100 young Nigerians (out of 22000 applicants) selected for the prestigious Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders where I trained in Civic Leadership at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA Other than that, Iwe have not received any other awards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
450 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sucurro | Gomes | ----- | ----- | Multi-skilled engineer | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | India | English | I love my mother earth and I am ready to extend my help to save it from corrupt politicians and industrialist, one way or the other get it out of danger. | --- | To reduce carbon foot print | It will save electricity, material, chemical, water, space and labor. | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Mostly throughout the industrial countries across the globe. | No | Ideation | To be honest I am trying this project of mine for the past couple of years. I contacted many top US Air-conditioning companies and in the UK, but no one responded back. I was ready to go with these companies for open innovation. I had again asked companies in the UK via twitter if they are willing to work with me, and again that was the end of the road at the same time many company managers say they are ready to fight global warming but how??? | I have an idea in the Centralized Air- conditioning field, where I need to modify a bit to save electricity, chemical, water, building space, labor, etc. In return, It is going to be environmentally friendly. It will save a complete floor of the building whereby this space can be used for flying cars of the future, where top company bosses will lend on directly on to the building topmost floor and get to their office. Near future construction of high rise building will have to adopt changes. | After modifying the Centralized Air-conditioning system it will definitely redefine air-conditioning and save electricity, chemical, water, building space, labor, etc. In return, It is going to be environmentally friendly. It will save a complete floor of the building whereby this space can be used for other purposes. Present industry revolution is at 3.8 at it keeps on changing as automation and artificial intelligence is the future trend of the century. If this idea of mine is successful then the Air-conditioning companies can promote eco-friendly Air- conditioning system throughout the world. | Need to modify the present Centralized Air- conditioning system. | Present it is just the idea, and I don't have much finance to play with this project. | If this is successful then it can be promoted throughout the world. | As I said this project only needs to be modified, materials are available. | I don't have any of this. | I don't have any of this. | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
451 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | AMOS | OBI | HETAVED SKILLS ACADEMY FOR INNOVATIONS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP | https://hetaved-skills-academy.teachable.com | PRINCIPAL INNOVATOR/DIRECTOR | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | In line with my passion to make positive impact in the world and as one of the global innovators selected and endorsed by the UN STI since 2016, I am very eager to participate and contribute my innovations to the advancement of the SDGs. Still, my DIGITO EDU-PRENEURSHIP entrepreneurship education innovations model has been endorsed as one of the leading digital entrepreneurship education in Africa by the Africa Union. This could be seen and viewed at: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d2hs3jwafz1yh6/Africa_Education_Innovations_Handbook_2018_final.pdf?dl=0. Or still further confirmation at https://www.dropbox.com/s/lcsfsh6i6ay3dnb/AFRICA%20UNION%20INVITATION%20LETTER%202019.pdf?dl=0 Again, I have initiated and innovated on the course of studies INNOVATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND GREEN ENTERPRISES which is now being offered in various universities in Nigeria to promote the Global Goals achievement by 2030. My other book on: SKILLS FOR SDGs-PRENEURSHIP is being used as a model on training, mentoring and empowering citizens in Nigeria, Africa and global on how to turn the Global Goals into local sustainable businesses. This book and others could be acessed at: https://www.amazon.com/author/amosobi. My other invention of Organic Floating Fish feed has also been Patented by the Federal Government of Nigeria to empower small holders farmers in Nigeria for sustainable living. | Dr. Amos Obi - Principal Innovator/Director, HETAVED SKILLS ACADEMY FOR INNOVATIONS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, is an inventor, Social Entrepreneur and a Creative Writer. Academically, Amos is versatile with wild studies and experience in Pharmacology, Science Technology, Computer/Digital Science and Theology. In 2016, Amos through his HETAVED SKILLS Innovations was selected and endorsed as one of the global innovators for the SDGs by the UN STI forum. He has also been endorsed by the African Union-AU as an Education Innovator in Africa as well as a recipient of the Google Africa Digital Scholarship. His wealth of knowledge and Creative productions are available and could be accessed at: https://www.amazon.com/author/amosobi Or https://www.youtube.com/c/AMOSAOBI | DIGITO EDU TECH HUB | Digito Edu Tech is an innovative approach to digital entrepreneurship education for training, mentoring and empowering youths and women . | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Nigeria | Yes | Africa Union-AU, Google, Federal University of Petroleum Technology Effurun- FUPRE, National Open University of Nigeria, Technical and Vocational Board, Delta state, Delta state Polytechnic Ogwashuku, and etc | Transition to Scale | Presently, we have done the research and developed the idea on DIGITO EDU TECH HUB with proven results. Our partnering organizations especially universities and higher institutions are already implementing this unique idea towards student training and empowerment . We have various groups and individual results that are ready to scale up. Presently, this idea could be conveniently scaled up towards mass education as a unique solution in Africa and Global. | DIGITO EDU TECH HUB, is well designed as a unique solution to solving the problem of lack of Technical Digital Entrepreneurship Education in Africa. Today, many youths and women in the continent and other parts of the world are living in ignorance, poverty, hunger and with injustices . But these problems could be solved with sound digital entrepreneurship education. Hence, this concept is the cure and solution to the problems of access to quality entrepreneurship education today. | DIGITO EDU TECH HUB, works as a digital class room for training, mentoring and empowering participants in a LEARNING- WORKING and EARNING platform. Through expert and professional deployment of digital educational techniques, various experts of ICT and Digital entrepreneurship are taught and well practicalized towards empowering the masses. Through this unique model, dynamics of digital entrepreneurship culture and practices are inculcated. Thus, apart from the Learning- Working and Earning process, the participants are empowered to create new jobs, new income opportunities as well as improved their access to quality education without borders. Basically, the requirement for this unique DIGITO EDU TECH HUB to be scaled globally are - Expert Instructors, Computers/Laptops, Internet connectivity. With those in place, DIGITO EDU TECH HUB is a read solution to cure the problems of Ignorance, poverty, hunger and injustices with lack of access to quality education today. We are set and ready to implement in 1000000 communities and empower ten million people in Africa and global with DIGITO EDU TECH HUB through strategic public and private partnership . | The innovations and new approach through DIGITO EDU TECH HUB that make it different from other solution and models being offered are: 1- This is a blended approach to education and entrepreneurship through the digital tools and technology 2- It is designed as a Learning-Working and Earning Platform 3- It is universally available and applicable though online, offline and digital medium 4- It is easily deplored and scaled with trained personnel, computers and internet connection 5- Digito Edu Tech Hub is no doubts, the cure to ignorance, poverty, hunger, idleness, injustices, unemployment and poor quality and lack of access to education today. | The concept DIGITO EDU TECH HUB, has been greatly researched, applied and deplored to over 5000 beneficiaries with outstanding results. We started with smaller units of participants in a classroom setting. There after due to the effectiveness and results, we scaled it up into bigger setting and further into whole school settings. In all, the results and outcome has been so evidence that there are presently so much demands for setting up the model in different places, communities and schools. We have entered partnership with public and private institutions and bodies like the African Union, Google Digital Africa as well as notable Universities and other institutions in Nigeria towards scaling up this unique model. Again refer to: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lcsfsh6i6ay3dnb/AFRICA%20UNION%20INVITATION%20LETTER%202019.pdf?dl=0 | Presently, in order to accommodate the increase in demand for implementation of DIGITO EDU TECH HUB, we have commenced the recruitment and training of 50 additional volunteers who could be sent to set up and deploy this unique entrepreneurship educational hub. We are also reaching out to other institutions, universities, as well as other countries in Africa for the scale up and deployment of this unique model. Our online and digital facilities for training and scaling up globally is as well being deplored for more beneficiaries across the globe. Please kindly refer to https://hetaved-skills-academy.teachable.com | To scale up this DIGITO EDU TECH HUB entrepreneurship educational model, we shall need the following resources such as: 1- Trained manpower as expert instructors and volunteeers 2- Computers/Laptops facilities 3-Internet connectivity 4- Space in form of classroom settings | Please kindly refer to : 1- https://hetaved-skills-academy.teachable.com 2-https://www.youtube.com/c/AMOSAOBI 3- https://www.amazon.com/author/amosobi 4-https://www.dropbox.com/s/lcsfsh6i6ay3dnb/AFRICA%20UNION%20INVITATION%20LETTER%202019.pdf?dl=0 | Please refer to: 1-https://www.youtube.com/c/AMOSAOBI 2--https://www.dropbox.com/s/lcsfsh6i6ay3dnb/AFRICA%20UNION%20INVITATION%20LETTER%202019.pdf?dl=0 --https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d2hs3jwafz1yh6/Africa_Education_Innovations_Handbook_2018_final.pdf?dl=0 | We have be selected , recognized and endorsed by 1- Tony Elumelu Foundation for for African Entrepreneurs Seed Capital- 2018 2- Google Africa Digital Scholarship 2017 3- UN STI endorsement 2016 as among the 270 global solution and Innovation 4- Endorsement by the Africa Union-AU as an Education Innovation for Africa -https://www.dropbox.com/s/3d2hs3jwafz1yh6/Africa_Education_Innovations_Handbook_2018_final.pdf?dl=0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
452 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | K. Nirmalchandra | Shetty | Shri Krishna Research Centre | https://in.linkedin.com/in/dr-k-nirmalchandra-shetty-84062466 | Director | Male | India | India | English | The magnitude of road traffic crashes is alarming - 1.35 million deaths and 50 million people seriously injured annually. Over 3,700 people die on the roads every day. 93% of road traffic deaths/injuries occur in low and middle-income countries. The socio-economic burden affects families, communities, and nations, globally. It cost most countries 3% of their GDP. Overwhelmed with this calamity and pondering for solutions, one day while driving I realized because of serendipity, that the A-Pillar blocked the Field of Vision of the driver and could be a principal cause of road deaths/ injuries. My theoretical research enabled me to come out with an ‘innovative visionary solution’ which could help improve the field of vision of drivers and thereby prevent road crashes drastically, and help save millions of lives from road deaths/injuries globally. In November 2006 I sent letters to UN, WHO, UNECE, World Bank, UNRSC, vehicle manufacturers, etc. highlighting the problem created by the A Pillar and the Visionary Solution. The UN Decade of Action 2011-2020 for Road Safety’s aim was to reduce road deaths /injuries by 50% by 2020. In spite of global efforts, road deaths increased from 1.25 to 1.35 million annually. My main objective for applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit is to create awareness about the importance of this vital solution and to collaborate and implement it for effective & sustainable global road safety to save millions of lives on the road. | Director, Shri Krishna Research Centre for Innovative Theoretical Research. Focuses on developing new concepts by challenging dogmas that could lead to effective, breakthrough solutions towards solving major global problems. I believe serendipity and empathy play a major role in finding breakthrough solutions to problems facing humanity, such as the global road safety crisis. a) Conceptualized ‘Innovative visionary solution for road safety’, which could help save millions of lives from road deaths/ injuries globally. b) Challenged the dogma in science and developed a new fundamental theory that both parents (gender equality) are equally responsible for the gender of the offspring. It also resulted in a novel concept of inheritance of ancestral and parental chromosomes. This fundamental theory could open new vistas of research in cell biology, human reproduction, genetics, heredity and may help in finding the solution to some genetic disorders and cancer. The article, ‘Inheritance of chromosomes, sex determination and the human genome – A new paradigm’ appears in the journal Gender and the Genome [2018]. | Innovative Visionary Solution to Resolve Global Road Safety Crisis | An innovative solution to save millions of lives from road traffic deaths/injuries globally | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | The application of this solution is worldwide, especially in low and middle-income countries which have narrow roads and dense population and contribute to about 93% of road traffic deaths and injuries. It will benefit all road users. | No | Research & Development | In 2006, we wrote to global bodies (UN,WHO, UNECE, etc.), about ‘A’ Pillar problem and solution. UNECE wanted it sent via Indian Government. It didn’t work. Auto manufacturers urged we patent first. We didn’t want to, on humanitarian grounds, so talks ended. We did basic tests to confirm the problem. Our retrofit solution was promising. More tests need approval and funds (to alter car design). We seek UN support for this, and to help convince world Governments about this change. | The problem: UN has been trying to halve deaths and injuries due to global road safety crisis, but with little success. Perhaps wrong problems were addressed. We believe a vehicle design flaw is the major cause of deaths and injuries, which has social and economic effects to the extent of 3% of GDP costs. My solution: the problem caused by A Pillar can be solved with a design change for new cars and retrofit device in existing cars. It can help reduce road crashes and save millions of lives. | Our Research Finding: The major cause of road crash deaths/injuries is the blind region caused by the ‘A-Pillar’ in vehicles. It is a critical area in the field of vision of the driver. Clear field of vision enables the driver to take timely action to avert crashes. This crucial factor has not been addressed so far, though about 90% of crashes involve some form of human error. Proposed ‘Innovative Visionary Solution’: A breakthrough in road safety is attributed to serendipity. It addresses the blind region caused by A-Pillar. Modifying A-Pillar for new vehicles and retrofitting existing vehicles using the visionary solution, would help overcome the blind-region caused by the A-pillar and improve the field of vision of drivers worldwide. Long - term vision for global impact: This visionary solution can save millions of lives from road traffic deaths/injury globally by improving the driver's field of vision. It will also help in reducing the socio-economic cost to families, communities, and countries because of road crashes. It will help in meeting the SDG target 11.2. | The UN’s Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020) initiative focused on speed, drunk-driving, and post-crash factors like seat belts, airbags, child restraints, crash tests, helmets, rapid medical help, etc., in addition to 8 pillars of SDG 3.6. The aim was to reduce deaths/ injuries by 50%, from 1.25 million in 2011. Oddly, that number increased to 1.35 million in recent years. Despite persistent global efforts, road traffic crash (RTC) deaths/injury numbers remained unchanged or even marginally increased. We are still grappling to find a solution to this problem as current measures have not given desired results. We believed the wrong problems were focused on and identified a problem we believe is a major contributor to RTCs. Often, major problems have simple solutions. One such unique solution (serendipity) is our ‘Innovative Visionary Solution’– a breakthrough in road safety. It aims at crash prevention, which is more advantageous than focusing on post-crash factors. The new perspective: Our research helped identify a major cause of global RTCs, viz. the blind region caused by A Pillar in vehicles. Modifying A-Pillar for new vehicles and retrofitting existing vehicles with specific gadget according to this solution will improve driver field of vision, enabling the driver to clearly spot signal lights, vulnerable road users and objects like tree, etc. A key factor in averting RTC related deaths, and injuries, as ~90% of crashes are believed to involve the driver. | Limited tests conducted by us with cameras, revealed the A-Pillar obstructing driver field of vision. The blind area covered by A-pillar grows with distance away from the vehicle – a major cause for road traffic crashes (RTCs). Our solution to overcome A-pillar blind spot needs: (i) Redesign of ‘A’ Pillar in new vehicles (ii) Retrofit of existing vehicles. Initial feasibility study was successful. We found our solution can considerably reduce RTC deaths and injuries. Our objective has been to bring our solution to the attention of global bodies and auto manufacturers, hoping they will help drive the change. Soon as the visionary solution was conceived in 2006, we wrote to UN, WHO, World Bank, UNECE, IRF, auto manufacturers, etc. in November 2006. Till date, they are to consider the A-pillar as a major problem. We followed with another round of letters/emails in 2015, urging need for urgent action. We also tweet regularly to these bodies and other influencers, appealing for action. The problem is yet to be addressed, resulting in no decrease in RTCs. Collaboration and involvement of global bodies like UN, WHO, World Bank, UNRSC, UNECE etc., research institutes, vehicle manufacturers and governments is key to take this solution forward. The UN Solutions Summit is an ideal platform to help create awareness about the critical problem and this vital solution, and to forge partnerships to implement the solution and solve the problem globally. | Preliminary study: Initial, limited tests undertaken by us with cameras, revealed A-Pillar’s obstruction to field of vision as a major cause of road traffic deaths/injuries. The visionary solution is an answer to this problem. Phase I (6 months): Presentation at UN Solutions Summit can help create awareness about the problem and vital solution. A detailed comparative study is proposed, using vehicles, with A-pillar design modifications, those with retrofitted solutions and existing vehicles. Findings will be submitted to UN and global bodies; a foundation on which a global change process can begin. Phase 2 (12-18 months): Use above research findings to partner with global bodies, world governments and NGOs to retrofit existing vehicles. Use global bodies to help convince auto manufacturers to incorporate ‘A’ Pillar design change in new vehicles. Phase 3 (24 months) With reduction in global RTCs, we will need global bodies like UN, WHO, UNECE, World Bank, etc. to help bring about regulations for permanent design changes in ‘A’ Pillar in vehicles to improve the driver’s field of vision. New vehicles to take advantage of the new design for ‘A’ Pillar and retrofitting all existing vehicles throughout the world to bring about a drastic reduction in road crashes. Projected lives impacted: We believe our solution can help save millions of lives every year from road traffic injuries/deaths and help make roads safe for all road users. It will help countries save billions of US$. | We seek association, network and a grant from UN to create awareness of magnitude of the ‘A’ pillar blind spot problem and execute our solution to dramatically reduce global road traffic crashes (RTCs). Short Term: Conduct field research in India and 2 countries (one developing, one developed), as most RTCs occur in developing nations (150,000 killed annually killed in India). The study will provide data on the problem and impact of our proposed solution. 4-month study in India at a cost of ~USD 140,000 (test with 4 vehicles with modified ‘A’ pillars, 4 unmodified, and 4 retrofitted vehicles). 4 research personnel overseen by a project manager will collect and analyse quantitative, qualitative and video data. Funding is for buying 12 used vehicles, road authority approvals, remodel /retrofit cost, fuel, salaries, maintenance, office rent, etc. Findings will be submitted to UN and other global bodies. Similar studies undertaken in 2 more countries. Medium Term: Above data will help make a stronger appeal to world governments for a two-pronged change solution: (i) Retrofit existing vehicles (ii) New ‘A’ pillar designs for future vehicles Appeal to global bodies like UN, World Bank and WHO to support implementation. Long term: Ensure global solution implementation to help UN realize its SDG 11.2 target. Continue studying global impact (lives saved, economic savings, etc.), while finding other risk factors towards the next goal of taking RTCs closer to zero. | UNECE, World Bank, IRF, and auto companies have acknowledged our solutions to this problem since November 2006. Our letter ‘Global Road Safety Crisis - Innovative Visionary Solution I & II dated November 2006, March 2007 and July 2015 highlighted the problem and my solution; addressed to all world bodies involved in road safety (copies can be furnished if required). Some replies we received: • Maryvonne Plessis – Fraissard (Director, Transport & Urban Development Department, World Bank): “In this regard we would recommend that you undertake more research to strengthen your proposals and support their claim for further consideration” • Michael A. R. Bernhard (Permanent Technical Committee on Road Safety, IRF): “Thank you for your information and suggestion to enhance road safety. The IRF will take this idea on board when discussing the road infrastructure aspects.” • Juan Ramos-Garcia (UNECE Transport Division, Chief of Technology Section): “I would like to recommend you contact the head of the Indian delegation in WP.29, to whom you can submit and discuss your proposals. India, if so agrees, can submit to WP.29 or to its Working Parties any proposal that India considers improves vehicle safety. Please, find below the address of the head of the Indian delegation in WP.29”. | I have been drawing the attention of global bodies during United Nations Global Road Safety Week and at other times regarding this solution, through direct correspondence mentioned earlier and through my tweets relating to global Road Safety and my solution. The links to some such tweets/replies are: https://twitter.com/DrNirmalShetty/status/902552087652732928 https://twitter.com/DrNirmalShetty/status/1031613237907714051?s=19 https://twitter.com/DrNirmalShetty/status/1071126872682102784?s=19 https://twitter.com/DrNirmalShetty/status/1021604816982818817?s=19 https://twitter.com/DrNirmalShetty/status/863682456641294338 | None so far | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
453 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Martin | Duenas | Online Ideas Exchange Hub - Onix Hub and Venture | www.onixhub.com | Founder/CEO | Male | United States of America | El Salvador | English | Spanish | The UN Sustainable Development Goals is one of the most important programs of our generations. We all should do our part to contribute to successfully achieve them. The Online Ideas Exchange Hub (OniX) is aggregating the public and not-public research information to accelerate research ideas to market. OniX accepts ideas from a wide spectrum of research areas, including: Health Sciences, Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Engineering, Agriculture, Energy, Space, Transportation, Climate Change, Food and Nutrition, Farming, Fisheries, Social Sciences, Public Health, Artificial Intelligence, Software/Hardware, and others. OniX is a global research hub that connects innovators, investors and partners to bring technologies to market faster for positive impact in our communities. | Publications Funding unfunded NIH research applications Martin A. Dueñas, Isabelle Bisceglio and James Pannucci http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/8/331/331ed3/tab-article-info Funding Research Through the Online Partnership to Accelerate Research (OnPAR). Martin A.Dueñas, MPA. IsabelleBisceglio, PhD https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452302X1630122X Therapeutic angiogenesis: a comparative study of the angiogenic potential of acidic fibroblast growth factor and heparin. TK Rosengart, KT Budenbender, M Duenas… - Journal of vascular …, 1997 - Elsevier Therapeutic angiogenesis: a comparative study of the angiogenic potential of acidic fibroblast growth factor and heparin.TK Rosengart, KT Budenbender, M Duenas… - Journal of vascular …, 1997 - Elsevier | Online Ideas Exchange Hub | OniX - a global research hub connecting innovators and investors to bring technologies to market faster for positive impact in our communities | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Global | No | Transition to Scale | OniX was launched in January 2019 and it is in the process of partnering with several organizations to start selecting research projects to fund. It currently has 1+ millions ideas from over 2 thousand universities and over 100 thousands technology companies. | Research ideas are scattered around the globe, but there is not single portal that captures all of them. This stifles innovation and slow the progress of ideas to market. OniX has launched a portal with access to global research ideas, in addition, OniX has added research publications, patents, clinical trials, and research news, to make make OniX a one-stop shopping innovation hub. OniX is agnostics and it accepts ideas | OniX is hub that is aggregating global public and not-public research information. OniX makes the hub available to organizations and industry to find ideas that relates | What makes OniX unique? 1) Only company aggregating global research information is any field 2) Partnering with universities globally to have access to not-public information, i.e, new ideas, unfunded research applications, intramural funding, new investigators and fellows ideas, and others 3) Working directly with all industries to use OniX as source of innovation and competitive intelligence 4) Highlighting ideas in all geographical areas including South America and Africa, EU, AUS, Asia | Solutions has been built and it is now in the market with: - 1M+ ideas from universities, startups, incubators, research parks and others - 30M+ research publication and currently adding: - 2K ideas weekly - 100M Patents - 600K+ Clinical Trials - 1B+ research news Measure progress: 1- data in OniX hub 2- Partnerships 3- Memberships | Goals: 1-Continue aggregating and expanding data 2- Full development of artificial intelligence platform to expand the hub capabilities Milestone 1- 10, 25, 100 partners - we are up to 10 partner universities 2- 10, 25, 100 industry members - we are talking to 25+ Staff 1- To be hired in Asia, Africa and the EU Project life impacted - Millions | Resource needed Short: - More data - More exposure - Marketing Medium - More data - Artificial Intelligence portal - Staff - Marketing Long-term - Staff - More Marketing | https://onixhub.com/ | Poster at JNJ TB Innovation UN meeting | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
454 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Laura Filbert | Zacher | Equitech International, LLC dba EQUARES Energy Company | www.equaresenergy.com | CEO | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Conventional propulsion of large marine vessels, such as super cargo container ships, super oil tanker ships, aircraft carriers, and the like are powered by fossil fuels. All of these vessels are major sources of pollution and are detrimental to the environment. Conventional power plants are also environmentally abusive and harm the world economy with high costs and the increasingly dwindling natural resources. Biomass materials in the form of carbonaceous waste on the other hand is increasing annually and becomes the most abundant and bothersome to the environment as well as having a negative impact on the world economy. In addition, land use is harmed by continually expanding landfills for such waste. Shipping and most other forms of transportation are becoming less economical as a result of the high cost of oil and other fossil fuels. The oceans are being choked with algae and other sea biomass and these sea biomass materials are considered a form of an oceanic nuisance or pollutant. There is a growing need to begin to switch fossil fuel to other available sources of fuel to power large ships. There is also a need of making beneficial use of solid waste materials as well as unwanted sea pollutants. EQUARES Energy Company (EEC) and I, the CEO, are motivated to submit a project to the Solutions Summit by our mission to ""work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone"" (RB Fuller). The owners of our company were inspired by R. Buckminster Fuller's design science challenge to solve the problems of the world. Our team members have worked together to prove combustion-free, emissions-free waste-to-energy systems technology (based on steam reforming waste) and solar regenerative fuel cell systems technology (originally for NASA). Our comprehensive innovation uses renewable energy to produce combined heat, cooling and power, and prevents waste from entering oceans. On land, it eliminates the accumulation of waste into landfills, prevents waste from entering streams and lakes and it sequesters processed carbon into soil amendments. We developed a patent for applying our technologies to ships and the shipping industry to collect and use waste to power ships and clean up waste in places facing enormous waste problems. We received a positive review from a major shipping corporation after we attended the London shipping conference on energy efficiency in 2014. | Laura Filbert Zacher Equitech International LLC and EQUARES Energy Company (EI – EEC) CEO, executive committee member, co-chairman alternate, 2610 Tennessee Ave. St. Louis, MO 63118 (314) 772 6047; cell: (314) 650 9681 e-mail: laura.zacher@equaresenergy.com. Laura has led all efforts to develop Equitech International LLC and its wholly owned subsidiary, EQUARES Energy Company (EI – EEC) since being recruited to EI in 2009. Her work includes working closely with EI member scientists and architects and partners to preserve and manage EI’s patents, communicate EI’s solutions to others, prepare proposals and bid on renewable energy solicitations. Laura led the effort to establish the EEC subsidiary to market and install advanced renewable energy systems technology, including solar installations for EI’s solar partners. Laura has 15 years’ experience as a senior executive project manager, including responsibility for budgets and resource allocation. Prior to working for EI – EEC, she served as a senior manager on many projects in the St. Louis region, IL, MO, and VA, including large capital projects. Her senior level project management work included analyzing economic impacts, planning for risk mitigation, identifying and establishing key stakeholders, planning stakeholder communications, developing project budgets, project financing and project requirements, negotiating contracts and managing construction activities and reimbursements. After receiving her Bachelor's and Master’s degrees from the University of MO she pursued post-graduate studies in economics. | E-Microsystem Marine Shipping Design and Fuel Solution | Process and system for converting biomass materials into energy to power marine vessels | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | E-Microstem Marine (E-MiM) vessels would travel to all international ports; the steam reforming system technology that supports the E-MiM currently operates in Canada and is available in the U.S.; it can be developed anywhere in the world. | Yes | Whiting Turner Contracting Company with Bradam Energies, as supplier of steam reforming system technology to accompany our patented ship design | Proof of Concept | Conversion of carbonaceous waste to synthetic gas without combustion has been proven already with steam reforming technology. Steam reforming system equipment can be purchased and installed on land, and in this proposal might be portside industrial facilities. Our E-MiM patent is needed to apply this breakthrough technology to ocean faring vessels, cargo ships. EI plans to work with design engineers to build a pilot E-MiM vessel that can be presented to ship designers as proof of the concept. | The E-Microsystem Marine patent is designed to solve two problems simultaneously: 1. Finding a productive use for the growing accumulation of land-based and sea-based human activity waste (including massive gyres of plastic), and 2. Developing renewable power for large marine vessels without the problematic environmental releases of either liquids to the sea or greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. | The E-Microsystem Marine vessel patent is designed to process waste stored in the hull as well as pick up waste in the ocean, especially in ports with significant coastal waste problems, and in locations where plastic has accumulated, i.e., the five major gyres in the world. The biomass is conveyed to an on-board biomass storage facility and converted to synthetic gas in an on-board no-combustion gasification unit to create hydrogen-rich synthetic gas that is converted to renewable natural gas or further separated and refined to be used as fuel for fuel cells to power the marine vessel. A portion of the biomass can be harvested from the sea and removed by on-board biomass removal means that strains the biomass from the sea water and flips the biomass into a holding bin before being conveyed to the biomass storage facility. A portion of the synthesis gas is converted to useful products, such as liquid gas. The residue from the conversion process is a carbon-rich residue that is useful for soil amendments all over the world. The remaining products are off-loaded at port facilities where biomass waste materials are again loaded on-board and conveyed to the biomass storage in the hull to power the ship to the next destination. The long-term vision for EI’s patent is to provide a sustainable system for fueling ocean travel and to clean up the trash that is currently threatening ocean wildlife. | Currently most ships are being fueled by crude diesel that must be extracted from increasingly difficult-to-reach sources. The current system of fueling ships contributes to pollution through emissions and effluence dumped, unchecked, into the sea. Our proposal is to provide the cargo and super cargo ships currently using crude oil / diesel with a synthetic-to-renewable natural gas or fuel cell-grade hydrogen solution – one that makes productive use of another world problem, solid waste from human activities. | The steam reforming (conversion) of carbonaceous materials to synthetic gas has been proven by our team members and is currently operating. The application of our steam reforming patent that calls for installing steam reforming equipment on board ships to convert human solid waste stored in the hull of the ship is new. Designing ships to pick up solid waste floating in the sea and deliver it to the on board steam reforming equipment is new. Both applications are described in detail in the company's patent. We are currently seeking equity investors to assist us in taking the solution from patent to pilot in the laboratory, then scale it up. We are interested in licensing our technology to new, and retrofit, ship designers. We measure our progress in demonstrating the soundness of the no-combustion (no incineration) steam reforming waste-to-energy system by showing reduced and eliminated toxic emissions when utilizing waste to create fuel and energy; similarly we measure our progress by showing reduced and eliminated toxic effluence (dumping of waste that would enter the ocean ecosystem). | Our goal presently is to develop the patent within the United States and work with U.S. shipbuilders to bring it to scale. We have also approached Maersk in Denmark and are waiting for a reply. We have selected two systems design engineering firms that would be capable of assisting us within the U.S. when we have the financial support to move forward. Both are familiar with the concepts of steam reforming solid waste to synthetic gas that can be further processed into renewable natural gas and fuel cell-grade hydrogen. Lives projected to be impacted by the adoption of our proposed form of fueling ships include both humans and creatures within the ecosystems that will be impacted by cleaner and cooler air and oceans. | The current cost to build a portside power plant and 2.5 acre light industrial facility operated by a steam reforming waste-to-syngas energy system (processed to renewable natural gas) is $162 million, including the cost of land and waste-shredding & sorting equipment. We have worked on the concept of installing a steam reforming system on the deck of a cruise ship that would convert all on board solid and sewer waste from travelers and crew to renewable natural gas for the purpose of providing all of the electrical needs of the cruise ship. This would be an interim step towards the long-term goal of applying our patented ship design. This medium-term option requires additional cost estimation that would come from developing design documents and issuing bid packages. Installing a steam reforming system on a ship that loads waste into the hull is estimated to cost $116 million. The cost to design an existing ship to be retrofitted with the intake and waste-delivery system also requires additional cost estimation. We recommend designing a portside power plant and light industrial steam reforming waste-to-energy facility and adding the costs of designing for the medium and long-term shipping solutions to that proven process. We estimate the design work for all three phases to cost approximately $20 million. | Equitech International LLC dba EQUARES Energy Company has the following company website: https://www.equaresenergy.com/ The project site for promoting the use of steam reforming systems in shipping is: https://www.equaresenergy.com/shipping/ Our ship design patent is available in pdf on the following webpage: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/07/65/04/174fd2b50e316e/US7556736.pdf | We do not have any recordings to present at this time. | Equitech International LLC dba EQUARES Energy Company won the Missouri Clean Energy Ameren Award in 2014. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
455 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Thurman | Small | Small Designs (in the D. D.) | none | Civil Designer | male | United States of America | United States of America | English | My idea is a direct result of the great recession of 2008. Prior to that I had been content to work in a cubicle designing roads, sewer, water and storm drains to meet local specifications. Designs being assigned to me had gotten larger over time. Some developments were bigger than small towns. When the layoffs began it was the larger projects that were cancelled first. After being laid off the first thing, for me, was to adjust my finances to help me through the downturn. As the downturn continued, I adjusted my finances again and again. I concluded that the people in charge just weren’t that bright. Every where you looked there was plenty of things that needed to be done but nobody was coming up with solutions of how to do them. I began looking in to providing my own solutions. On the https://www.grants.gov/ website there are grants available to people if they can design a solution to a targeted problem. Looking over the website, I decided my knowledge was most applicable to water conservation in arid regions. After talking with engineers in the field about possible designs. Searching on google earth for desert areas near the sea with low elevations and looking at the geography of the Danakil Depression I started a corporation “Small Designs (in the D.D.)”. From the articles of incorporation “The purpose of this corporation is to promote, inform and implement Civil Sustainable Designs for arid regions.” It’s ironic that this region could become a source of food for millions. | I was born in Casa Grande, spent early life in the cooler parts of Arizona, Flagstaff and Sedona. Most of my early school years were in east Mesa. Jobs I have learned from include but are not limited to: 1.Mechanics helper (for dad), learned a lot about having the right tool for the job and how a lot of mechanical things worked. 2.Herdsman learned a lot about nutrition and raising cattle. 3.Drafter worked my way up to civil design with over 20 years of working on civil development projects. 4.Currently working as Civil Designer for commercial projects in Maricopa County. My school experience was not well directed. I made it to the 500 level of classes for a chemical engineering degree. Due to my grades, I went back to farm work, but it was mindless repetitive work. I tried a tech school for AutoCadd, this was my calling. Making the dean’s list, I graduated the CAD Institute. Getting into Civil Drafting, creating 3D models for earth work analysis on large projects was rewarding. During the great Recession, I decided to find a better career instead of only contributing to “urban sprawl”. Spending much of my time reading about new concepts in designing for the future. Trying to develop some sustainable designs of my own or providing improvements to existing sustainable designs. I started, “Small Designs (in the D.D.)”. From the articles of incorporation “The purpose of this corporation is to promote, inform and implement Civil Sustainable Designs for arid regions.” | Sea Inlet | Make the desert wet again. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti | No | Ideation | Although Carl Hodges implementation from 1998 – 2003 of saltwater farming proved most of this concept worked in the same area using a 3-mile-long river. It is just a conceptual design to take the water past the land bridge, pipe it down through several generators, run it in and around the depression for hundreds of miles, creating many saltwater farming streams. and then in the last stage, allow the water to evaporate across the vast expanse of Danakil Depression that needs to be proven. | This improves the area in and around the Danakil Depression by providing: 1.Jobs 2.Electricity 3.Food like shrimp\prawn, fish, Salicornia and honey 4.Fodder for cattle and sheep 5.Improved local markets 6.Income from exported goods 7.Improved air quality by using CO2 and expelling O2 8.Wetlands for birds 9.A reforested desert area 10.Environmental cooling effect 11.A flow of water from the sea 12.Humidified air 13.Locals with the resources to improve their own lives | About 120 miles southeast of Asmara, near the border of the North & South Red Sea Zones, the land bridge that divides the Red Sea from the Danakil Depression is less than 20 miles wide. Using of a few structures, the Red Sea will made to flow into the Danakil Depression in a controlled manner. Box culverts near the Red Sea to keep the inlet from widening and allow safe travel across the canal. As the canal carries the sea water to the Desert, the deepest cut would be about 100 ft. On the Desert side, a dam or headwall for controlled release of the water, as it is piped through hydroelectric generators. Fish and shrimp can be farmed along the length of the canal. The lake created by the dam would be a great place for a fishery. The edge of the lake can be used for other types of saltwater farming. The water from the dam can be piped to a lower point and then released through a hydroelectric generator. After generating electricity, the Seawater can flow for hundreds of miles of fishing, shrimping and farming, like other saltwater farming previously done in Eritrea. Finally, the water will flow into wide areas of the Danakil Depression allowing it to evaporate. This project would be taking water from the oceans and letting it evaporate in the Danakil Depression. The water vapor would condense in areas surrounding the Danakil Depression or blow away and condense elsewhere. In effect creating one of the largest man made water purification systems ever. | I am proposing “Carl Hodges sea water farms” with three improvements: 1.How the seawater gets to the first shrimp/prawn pond in a series of saltwater ponds. (proven) started by pumping the seawater into tanks above sea level. (proposed) Channel the seawater passed the land bridge that separates the red sea from the Danakil Depression to a headwall or dam, to control the release of the sea water piped to a hydroelectric generator (70 ft+-) bellow. This creates electricity to be used for improved living conditions and for storing and processing the produce. (improvement) instead of using fuel and pumps, electricity has been created. 2.Aerating the ponds. (proven) done with motors used to splash the water or by pumping more seawater up to the tanks. (proposed) piping the seawater next to the ponds means having seawater under pressure for multiple uses. Including aerating the ponds through a nozzle or fountain. (improvement) no motors or fuel needed. Different nozzle types can modify the aeration of the water. 3.When leaving the system. (proven) some of the fertilizers used are in the water as it goes back to the sea. (proposed) as the water leaves the last pond it flows to evaporation ponds. (improvement) none of the fertilizers get into the local eco system and some of the nutrients can be recovered. summary It cost more to start but, greening the desert by taking water out of the sea can become an ecological wonder as it is scaled up to cover thousands of square miles. | The Sea Inlet project is based on just a few very sound concepts. 1.Water flows down hill and this can be used to create electricity. 2.Carl Hodges, Seawater Foundation’s system for revitalizing desert regions using seawater, does just that, revitalizes desert regions. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=carl+hodges+&&view=detail&mid=F6B9929E831002F9AFADF6B9929E831002F9AFAD&rvsmid=54234FC6E983590D31FC54234FC6E983590D31FC&FORM=VDQVAP 3.Removing seawater from the sea will help with the effects of global warming. 4.Removing CO2 from the air will help to reduce the effects of global warming. 5.Increasing biomass in the soil helps with future cultivation. 6.Providing jobs for people improves their livelihood. 7.Producing food where it wasn’t being produced before helps decrease starvation. 8.Seawater can’t be polluted by water that evaporates away from the sea. As for my quantitative research in developing this project in Eritrea, I haven’t progressed as far as previous attempts to make major improvements in the area. Finding a partner is critical to future development of this project. The project has been stalled until gathering data from the area is possible or a Partner is willing to work with me on this. | Goals and future developments. Previously 1.Set up nonprofit corporation “Small Designs (in the D. D.) Currently 2.Get funding and/or guidance for implementation of a project in the Danakil Depression. Future 3.Accurate surface model needed for creation of construction documents. 4.Partnering with companies and countries for continued progress. 5.Work with engineers, scientists and governments to generate: a.Pre-feasibility study, feasibility study. b.Develop possible project structures for implementation. c.cost estimates. d.Construction documents. e.Land acquisition. f.Initialize project. g.Monitor and adapt as project grows. 6.By having a source of seawater under pressure available by turning a valve, would make other considerations possible. a.Using the electricity generated to run a desalination plant. b.Develop a school for finding uses for seawater, testing new concepts would be more practical. c.In lower levels of the depression, water cannons could be used for mining. d.And many other possibilities. 7.On a large scale the changes to the environment, in this arid region would become a terraforming event. Having water put into the atmosphere as fast as the sun can evaporate it, has a natural cooling effect. And will be the creation of the largest water purification system by man, adding to local rainfall. Creating a new source of fresh water for the region. 8.This project would apply to almost all of “The Sustainable Development Goals” providing a big step forward. | Finding a partner with good development skills in Eritrea is essential for further development of this project. A digital terrain model will be needed for design purposes, in order to: 1.Design a path for the water to flow 2.Identifying good locations for placement of hydroelectric generators 3.Find the best locations for ponds 4.minimize the amount of dirt that will have to be moved 5.identify areas where soil samples will be needed to determine the grounds stability. As the project is being developed, additional needs would be: 6.Partners both government and engineering, for project development 7.Gathering data for: a.Soil reports b.Subsurface water quality studies 8.Feasibility studies 9.Cost estimates 10.Land acquisition. Starting the project will require: 11.Equipment 12.Materials, the costs can be greatly reduced where the subsurface water is already saline, water can be moved in open trenches (no need for pipes) and lining ponds wouldn’t be necessary. The use of concrete can also be minimized by using natural features. 13.Workers a.Construction workers b.Farmers c.fishermen d.Technicians e.Managers At some point the project will become self-sufficient producing: 1.Electricity 2.Jobs 3.Food 4.Financial resources 5.Clean air 6.Biomass in the desert 7.Cooling effects 8.Bird sanctuaries It will be removing: 1.Sea water from the oceans 2.CO2 from the air | This helps to clarify my proposal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Hodges From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Description of Carl Hodges and his ideas. https://circulatenews.org/2017/04/a-story-of-regeneration-and-reforestation-from-eritrea/ Article by Nick Jefferies, dated August 7, 2017 A concise description of Carl Hodges implementation from 1998 – 2003 of saltwater farming. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Saltwater-Farm-Irrigates-Desert-On-Eritrea-Coast-2941102.php Kurt Shillinger, Boston Globe Published 4:00 am PST, Sunday, March 18, 2001 Description of saltwater farming river at the time it was being implemented. Videos by Howard Weiss https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=carl+hodges+&view=detail&mid=54234FC6E983590D31FC54234FC6E983590D31FC&FORM=VIRE Carl Hodges talks about the benefits of sea water forestry farming. Results are qualified and quantified. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=howard+weiss+salt+water+farming&view=detail&mid=64F3B38E470DE32BA1E764F3B38E470DE32BA1E7&FORM=VIRE Carl Hodges explains sea water forestry. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=howard+weiss+salt+water+farming&&view=detail&mid=1B8FBC877CBA604508AD1B8FBC877CBA604508AD&rvsmid=64F3B38E470DE32BA1E764F3B38E470DE32BA1E7&FORM=VDQVAP Greening of Eritrea 17 minutes, introduced by Martin Sheen. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=howard+weiss+salt+water+farming&view=detail&mid=630015BFEE02380F4109630015BFEE02380F4109&FORM=VIRE Seawater Farms Eritrea: Beginning - 11/98 - 7/99 | none | none | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
456 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Shimrit | Finkel | ECOncrete Tech Ltd | https://econcretetech.com/ | CEO | Female | Israel | Israel | English | Driven by a vision of creating sustainable, resilient coastlines worldwide, I have dedicated my academic research and business ventures to developing innovative solutions for ecologically enhanced coastal and marine infrastructure. The concept, now transformed into an applicable line of products for the multibillion marine construction market, is based on reducing the ecological footprint of breakwaters and seawalls, while increasing their structural performance and resilience. I have co-founded ECOncrete in 2012 with a vision of bridging development and sustainability. As the company’s CEO and Chief Scientist, I grew the company from 2 to 20, after raising 4.7M UDS, with initial sales in the US, Europe, and Asia. Growing up near the beach, marine biology was the natural path for me; a passion and a profession, that has taken me to over 30 countries, diving and exploring coral reefs, mangroves, kelp forests and more. But I've also seen growing devastation. Reefs utterly destroyed. With over half of humanity concentrated around coastlines, coastal development is inevitable. And climate change impacts like rising seas and increased storminess are driving coastal hardening. About 70% of coastal defenses like breakwaters, and seawalls are concrete, resulting concrete jungles replacing natural shorelines, reducing biodiversity and productivity. This is what inspired ECOncrete. An environmentally sensitive technology that brings concrete to life, with a perfect balance between ecology, strength, and sustainability. The patented innovation is based elements: a unique concrete composition, complex surface textures, and tailored 3D designs. Together, they induce the growth of rich and diverse marine plants and animals on concrete based coastal and marine structures, while increasing their strength, and reducing its ecological footprint. The enhanced marine growth of oysters, corals, and alike on ECOncrete structures, not only improves the marine environment, it forms a natural layer of defense on the concrete, making it more resilient and adaptive to rising seas and harsh weather. Moreover, ECOncrete provides a huge carbon offset. Through the bio enhancing admix made nearly entirely of byproducts on one hand, and, through the enhanced growth of calcifying organisms like oysters and coralline algae on ECOncrete units that create an active carbon sink. | Dr. Shimrit Perkol-Finkel is the co-founder and CEO of ECOncrete Tech Ltd, a world leader in bio-enhancing concrete technologies that provide for the first time both superior strength and ecological benefits. The company has deployed its products successfully in 6 counties over 6 seas. Recently, ECOncrete was honored as a #10 most innovative company in its region by Fast Company, and #13 of the top 50 women led companies by Forbes magazine. Shimrit has over 20 years of experience in the field of Marine Biology and Ecology, diving and exploring different environments in over 30 counties. Shimrit specializes in sustainable management of urban marine habitats and is considered an expert in ecological engineering of man-made coastal and marine infrastructure. She has led several large-scale and long-term projects like the EU funded MarUrbe project in Italy, and a waterfront enhancement scheme in Brooklyn Bridge Park NY, and was involved in the ecological design of the federally funded “Living Breakwaters” SCAPE Team Project. In September 2018 Shimrit was selected as a We Empower awardee for her achievements in advancing UN Sustainable Development Goals, representing UN region Western Europe and Other including North America. This May, she was awarded the prestigious EU Women Innovators award, and, was noted as one of Fast Company’s 2019 top 100 Most Creative People in Business. Shimrit holds a B.Sc. in Life Sciences, M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Zoology, all from Tel-Aviv University, and has conducted a post-doc in the University of Bologna, Italy (EU Marie Curie Fellow). | ECOncrete | ECOncrete - Bridging Development and Sustainability | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | ECOncrete is currently applies in 6 countries across 6 seas, with installations in 28 locations including NY, NJ, FL, UK, NL, France, Monaco, Germany, HK, and IL. ECOncrete technologies will soon be also implemented in California, Canada, Australia, India | Yes | Dr. Ido Sella is my co-founder | Scaling | ECOncrete already has initial sales, and is currently transitioning from relatively small demonstration projects to fully scaled mega-infrastructure projects. In fact, this September, we are expected to sign a contract for our first full scale project in NYC. Our products are part of a the design of a coastal defense scheme called Living Breakwaters, to go into construction in fall 2019. | With over half of the world’s population concentrating along coastlines, accelerated coastal development which inflicts severe stress on natural ecosystems is inevitable. Combined with growing threats of sea level rise and increased storminess, coastlines across the globe require hardening through concrete structures. Concrete,accounts for over 70% of coastal infrastructure, and is considered a poor substrate for biological recruitment, hostile to marine life. | ECOncrete is bringing innovation to the highly traditional field of concrete and coastal construction, through a series of bio-enhancing concrete admix and science-based designs which provide encourage the growth of rich and diverse marine plants and animals onto concrete structures like seawalls, breakwaters, piers and anchoring systems, while increasing structural performance and complying with all standards for marine construction. The core innovation is a suite of science-based bio-enhancing concrete admixtures, complex surface textures, and 3D designs that act in synergy to increase the ecological value of breakwaters, seawalls, pier piles and alike, while improving their structural performance. ECOncrete aims to revolutionize the coastal concrete construction industry, with a win-win solution that brings concrete to life. The technology helps translate the UN SDGs into concrete actions, helping build resiliency, biodiversity, and richness to our coastal cities, ports, and working waterfronts world-wide. | To date, coastal infrastructure like ports, dykes, and piers have been build with little or no consideration to the coastal and marine environment. As regulations typically only require an EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment), damages to marine environment are assessed, but nothing is done to mitigate them. In certain countries like the US, a mitigation fee is applies to offset damages. Yes restoration efforts, if any, are nearly always done off site, away from the impacted area. ECOncrete brings a completely new approach, where environmental considerations are embedded into the planning, design, and implementation of coastal and marine infrastructure. Instead of thinking of these urban seascapes as marine deserts, ECOncrete brings like, functionality and aesthetics by helping natural assemblages thrive. By harnessing natural processes, the technology allows for a win-win situation, enabling coastal protection and development, in a truly sustainable manner. | The technology is fully developed, underwent a long term and large-scale validation study, and is currently being implemented in coastlines across the globe with installation in 6 countries, across 6 seas, in 28 locations. After initial sales, and after raising nearly 5M$ in equity investments, we have a team of nearly 20 people, including (as of a year ago) marketing and sales people, helping us spread the word and make a change. Our measures of success and rigor on a technological level is measured by concrete standards on one hand, with our concrete admix undergoing strict measurements as required by the concrete industry (compressive, tensile strength, chloride penetration and alike). ECOncrete complies with EU, US and Australian standards. On a biological and ecological level, we measure our performance in comparison to “grey” standard, Portland cement based concrete elements with respect to species richness, biodiversity, percent live cover, accumulation of calcium carbonate (which translated to carbon offsetting), and ratio between invasive and native species. On an impact level perspective, we feel that we have already made a huge change by raising awareness to the topic among decision makers, planners, designers and engineers across the world. But this is only the beginning. In the future, we will measure our success by miles of environmentally sensitive urban coastlines, improved fishing yields and resilience of coastal systems. | Within a few month, we are expected to manufacture, for the first time, over 2000 units of our tide pool armor and ecological armor unit for a mega infrastructure project in NY (Living Breakwaters project - 9 breakwaters to protect the coastlines of Staten Island). After 4 years of detailed planning and engineering design, this would make our first real flagship project. In addition, we have recently signed a contract with the Port of San Diego, to develop a new tide pool armor design, and a contract with the Port of Rotterdam for a new quay wall solution, to help build better port infrastructure. We are confident these will help us expand our activities significantly. In addition, in Spring 2019 we've deployed a demonstration ECO Shoreline solution in HK, with collaboration of the HK government and academia, to test more sustainable solutions for man-made coastlines of land reclamation projects. Finally, we are in active negotiations with some of the leading players in the global cement and concrete industry, towards partnerships that can take the technology to the next level, of mass production and full commercialization more efficiently. | In order for our solution to scale we need internal resources to expand our market grasp, through efficient business development. We also need to expand our amazing team with quality people to help us scale and deploy the technology across the globe effectively. On a short to medium term, we will need to develop more industry partnerships in order to produce in scale, and to service the global market. We are currently focusing on US and EU, but have already started first steps in Australia, HK and India. We will need effective partnerships to go into more geographic regions. On a long term, we will need to continue working on raising awareness among all relevant stakeholders. Politicians, managers, decision makers, entities like USACE, NOAA and their global equivalents have to help by developing regulations that will enforce environmentally sensitive technologies, mandatory for any significant coastal development scheme. We will need the UN/world bank to advance in the same direction especially in developing countries and disaster prone areas. Together, with time, we can make a change in the way our future coastlines look and function. | Website: https://econcretetech.com/ Company Story Video https://youtu.be/TlfIGwXJqs4 Technology Video https://youtu.be/KanmayUa2ME Product pages https://www.dropbox.com/s/s6ub05kxx9di074/New_Brochure_online_all_products_March_2019_Tech.pdf?dl=0 Technical pages https://www.dropbox.com/s/q6e6pplf5zg24ij/ECOncrete_Tech_Technical_All_June_2019.pdf?dl=0 Company Presentation https://www.dropbox.com/s/ooqcbhl6idpw82r/ECOconcrete_Presentation%20March%202019.pdf?dl=0 Case Studies https://www.dropbox.com/s/vv0cnloaf4y2vx3/ECOncrete_Case_Study_All_Tech_Jan_2018.pdf?dl=0 Carbon Footprint Reduction https://www.dropbox.com/s/m1zf3qps8f9xcy5/ECOncrete_Case_Study_Low_Carbon_Footprint_Aug_2017.pdf?dl=0 Offshore Applications https://www.dropbox.com/s/y86cywosxxofzxx/PP_ECOncrete_Offshore_Applications_Jan_2019_Inc.pdf?dl=0 Other useful links: Biomimicry: https://youtu.be/2kJhro78igw BALI https://youtu.be/pX6Dz4RFKfg Living Breakwater – Going into construction in fall 2019 with ECOncrete technologies https://stormrecovery.ny.gov/learn-more-about-living-breakwaters-project http://www.resilientbayarea.org/the-field-operations-team/ Sinking Cities https://dai.ly/x6wo3yg Science Times https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/23197/20190711/startup-upgrades-concrete-ocean-friendly-building-material.htm# | i24 https://youtu.be/5-gPt9B6aME EU WI2019 https://youtu.be/xLB-Zqd-VCA Think Teck Hawaii https://youtu.be/lNs1eWUHBts | Ocean Exchange - Finalist 2011 EISP 8200 - winner 2014 Won World Science and Technology Innovation contest China 2015 Won Green Pitch Competition 2018 Awardee - We Empower 2018 - women promoting UN SDGs Fast Company - #10 Most Innovative Company 2019 Forbes - #13 of 50 women led companies crushing tech 2019 Finalist W4C Tech Challenge 2019 Winner EU Women Innovators Award (2019) Winner - Female Actor - GreenTech Festival (2019) #22 of Fast Company's 100 most creative people in business | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
457 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Marvin | Tumusiime | ENVenture | www.enventureenterprises.org | Program Officer | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | East Africa is awash with foreign renewable energy companies accessing cheaper capital overseas, disadvantaging local entrepreneurs who simply cannot access the same on similar terms. When foreign energy companies are awarded with large-scale financing, it’s true that ultimately the consumer will benefit from accessing clean energy, which is the target of the Sustainable Development Goal 7. However, ENVenture believes that true sustainability is locally led. We seed finance and train local community groups, womens groups, disability groups, and youth groups to ensure inclusive and sustainable energy access for the most marginalized and rural people in Uganda. | Aneri Pradhan is the founder and executive director of ENVenture. Over 12 years of experience working in energy access and emerging markets.-Well-rounded experience working in both start-ups, non-profits, and Fortune 500-Serial entrepreneur. First launched a small clean energy distribution business (EcoLife) that was acquired by a localsocial enterprise in Indiain 2010that is still operating today. Second, launched and grew ENVenture, a non-profit incubator for small clean energy distribution businesses in Uganda. The program has now supported 85 clean energy distributors who have reached 75,000 people with energy access. Third, launched a new software company called ENVision mobile that provides data analytics and business intelligence on micro-retailers in emerging markets. worked in 15 countries in Africa and Asia on last mile clean energyadoption, focusing on clean energy entrepreneurship and fintech. Formerly, I worked at Facebook on their Sustainability and Connectivity Lab, prototyping new social impact technologies. Previously, I served as an Energy Access Officer at the United Nations Foundation, spearheading grassroots entrepreneur mobilization for the UN Sustainable Energy for All Initiative. Marvin Tumusiime joined ENVenture in 2017 as a fellow and later became the program officer in charge of monitoring and evaluation, research and communications. He is an energy economist with a masters in energy studies from the university of dundee. Most recently, he was selected by AE4H to speak at the Innovation Lab in Ontario on energy access issues in Uganda. | ENVenture | To create sustainable clean energy enterprises in the last mile | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Uganda | Yes | 90 of the 10,000 registered Community Based Organisations in Uganda- Our key partners have created last mile energy enterprises selling affordable cleantech products. The key partners are Initiative Uganda, Self Help Initiative for Development, Ug Empower | Sustainable Scale | Our business model provides energy loans and repayments enable create a lending pool for new entrants into our program. ENVenture’s loan fund is sustainable, earned at interest, and re-lent to new CBOs. Our main sources of income include interest from the loan repayments, with the remainder being grant-based. The innovation in our revolving loan model allows ENVenture to continue accruing impact without having to fundraise significantly for our activities. | The problem is three layered; first is the lack of energy access for 85% of Uganda's population. Second is the inadequate last mile distribution of cleantech product. The third problem is the lmited support for last mile local enterprises in terms of finance and capacity building to enable social change. | ENVenture empowers rural cooperatives to set up their own clean energy businesses in the last mile. This is done though low cost clean energy loan financing, capacity building through training and physical mentorship and mobile technology through our app, ENVision that eases and encourages quality book keeping for better business performance monitoring. ENVenture’s potential for scale and replication is enormous. Each CBO supported employs 5 people and is enabled to sell 200 products annually, reaching 1200 people in their community. According to our estimated number of distributors to be incubated, we estimate we can reach 300,000 – 750,000 people with clean energy access annually in five years, allowing for deeper penetration and local employment. | ENVenture’s innovation lies in tapping into Uganda's powerful network of Community Based Organizations to reach rural, base of the pyramid consumers. ENVenture’s Theory of Change is to leverage existing local structures to provide access to energy to the last mile through creating sustainable enterprises. Because financial literacy is extremely low in these areas, ENVenture also developed ENVision mobile, a simplified picture-based bookkeeping application that works offline in rural context. | We count number of enrolled CBOs by the number who has signed an MoU with ENVenture. The number of retailers launched by each CBO who has received investment is then counted. If a CBO drops out of the program, this affects the enrollment figure. The % of CBOs generating profit is ascertained from their loan repayments. The number of people adopting clean energy is based on data collected from our 12 suppliers x 6 (average household size in Uganda). Last, we ask the CBOs in our portfolio after they have attended ENVenture’s bootcamp whether they have started any new businesses. For additional indicators: Total amount invested is the total lending pool of financing provided to CBOs from ENVenture. The number of people trained is by counting the number of people that attend ENVenture’s bootcamp. The number of ENVision mobile app users is the number of people who have downloaded the app. The number of jobs created is the number of shopkeepers and sales agents subsequently hired by the CBOs to run the businesses created. We collect their information, age, and gender. The total income saved by beneficiaries is information gathered from the suppliers for their products. As of June 2019: 91 CBOs supported, over 72,000 people have benefitted from access to clean energy saving approximately $2.6 million per annum on fossil fuel expenditures, In addition, the 70 CBOs have created 465 jobs in the villages (70% obtained by women) and offset over 26,000 metric tons of CO2. | ENVenture’s potential for scale and replication is enormous. Each CBO supported employs 5 people and is enabled to sell 200 products annually, reaching 1200 people in their community. According to our estimated number of distributors to be incubated, we estimate we can reach 300,000 – 750,000 people with clean energy access annually in five years, allowing for deeper penetration and local employment. | Our Short-term Goal: is income generation for CBOs through sales, measured by the number of distributors generating profit by use our application. The short-term goal is 1 Million Uganda shillings of revenue per month per CBO in our network. Our Intermediate Goal: is increased access to clean energy in the communities, measured through product sales and estimated number of people impacted. The goal is 200 products sold per CBO per year impacting 1200 people. Finally, our Long-term Goal: is that CBOs utilize ENVenture’s learnings and distribute other impactful goods, which is measured by the number of other businesses that are launched post-ENVenture program. We also measure the impact on women’s economic empowerment through jobs obtained, CO2 offset, and amount saved from fossil fuel expenditures. This goal is roughly 1-2 other businesses launched per CBO in our network. To do this, we need grant funding that will enable this to continuously scale. | https://www.seforall.org/news/women-energy-entrepreneurs-need-financing-to-reach-vulnerable-populations https://www.enventureenterprises.org (company website) https://medium.com/@_ENVenture (Blog) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT3AVJcAgvw&t=23s | https://podcast.changemakerforum.com/enventure-ep-11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT3AVJcAgvw&t=23s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bb7tGItMh0 | Recognized as Renewable Energy World’s Top 40 under 40 in solar, winner of the Vodafone Wireless Innovation Prize, an American Express Emerging Innovator, Wild Gift Fellow, member of Forbes Nonprofit Council, Unilever Young Entrepreneur Finalist, MIT Solve Finalist, and recipient of the Global Social Benefit Incubator | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
458 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Eli | Cohen | Ayala Water & Ecology | http://www.ayala-aqua.com/ | CEO | Male | Israel | Israel | English | For over 30 years Ayala has developed a set of sustainable planning and practical tools, the Natural Biological System (NBS) technology, that address and solve all aspects of purification, recycling and conservation of water, soils and air simultaneously, The NBS technology holistic approach towards water and watershed management, using Thermodynamic laws and nature-based cutting-edge solutions that breaks the Water-Energy Nexus and reducing to Zero the dependence on fossil Energy and human maintenance. Ayala’s vision is to transform the approach to watershed management towards global water security and regaining global environmental balance through sustainable design. We offer solutions that are long lasting, decentralized, energy-free, reducing carbon footprint, efficient, economic, and aesthetic. The Design which was implemented in locations across the globe gives solution simultaneously for sewage treatment, flood prevention, aquifer recharge, carbon footprint reduction and provides water security in Macro and Micro watersheds. For remote communities and villages around the world Ayala developed the Portable Modular NBS (PNBS) which supply good water from contaminated sources and treat sewage to protect the aquifers. This Energy-maintenance free solution provides water security in places where no other solutions are available. Human dependence on Energy and man-made technologies has proved to be extremely dangerous and The NBS natural technology in a ""game changer"" which provides the alternative. | Through more than 30 years of experience Eli Cohen, Ceo and founder of Ayala Water & Ecology, has provided a cutting-edge ""game changer"" solution to the world's environmental issues. Eli's combined background in ThermoDynamic science and water farming and keen understanding of the rhythm of nature's laws and components gave birth to completely nature based holistic design approach and powerful landscapes reducing man made dangerous by-products while simultaneously solving air pollution, water scarcity, carbon foot print, floods and more. The Natural Biological Technology (NBS) developed by Eli provides solutions to Urban, Industrial, Agricultural zones, rivers and lakes, remote villages and communities. His company designed and implemented hundreds of projects around the world including: Urban Watershed management - New-Delhi, Nice, Bangalore, Hyderabad; Rivers: Yamuna, Arkhavathi, Musi, Yarkon, Yavne; Agricultural zones, Industries: textile, Sugar, distilleries, dairy farms, Oil, Hydrocarbons, Radioactive, refinery, power station, wineries, pharmaceutical,cosmetics, landfill leachate, municipal wastewater treatment, “active” landscape engineering, flood prevention, lake rejuvenation, reservoir buffering. He developed Ayala's portable and modular, pre-fabricated Natural Biological System and serves as a sustainability expert for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the Latin American Branch of the World Bank, a member of the Green Building Council of India, member of EU committees for phytoremediation solutions. | The Portable-Modular Natural Biological System™ (PM-NBS™) Smart, flexible, decentralized water treatment | PM-NBS treats source water to regulation quality filling a major gap in remote areas in need of good quality water where no other solution is feasible | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Worldwide | No | Transition to Scale | Ayala’s main goal is to use natural, energy free tools to restore balance to the environment. The company has successfully introduced the Natural Biological System™, a sustainable nature-based technology for treating sewage and waste streams and restoring watersheds worldwide and is working on its portable version to respond to the needs of the population for quality water availability and to scale up production to provide a much needed solution where no other one is feasible in remote areas. | Lack of access to clean water: Today 844 million people have no access to clean water. According to the WHO 80% of all people without access to safe drinking water around the world live in rural and remote areas. Lack of clean water has serious effects on health, 1.8 million children less than five years-old die every year from water related disease; one every 20 seconds and over half of the world’s hospitals beds are occupied with people suffering from illnesses due to contaminated water. | To comply with SDG 6: 'to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all' it is essential to provide a reliable, onsite water purification system capable of treating any contaminated water source to the appropriate hygienic quality fit for human consumption, capable of functioning on its own, with minimal to no human intervention (no manpower, no chemicals, no energy) and with minimal infrastructural needs to be applicable to remote places. It should not only supply clean water from a polluted source, but also manage wastewater and protect clean sources from future contamination. The PM-NBS™answers all these demands: it is an engineered ecological system that treats sewage or source water to regulation quality, simultaneously purifying water, soil, and air; applicable to practically all pollutant sources (urban/ sanitary, agricultural, industrial), working in all climatic and environmental conditions. In the PM-NBS™, natural physical, chemical and biological processes occur all at the same time thanks to the existence of: a) Chemical-aggregates with natural or engineered minerals and active surfaces, b) Physical-gradient of substrate sizes, surface textures and porosity, and c) Biological-specialized plants and additives to support a healthy microbiome and promote contaminant degradation, sequestration and volatilization. The PM-NBS™ is engineered in modular units that can be fully assembled at any location reachable by truck. | The Portable Natural Biological System™ (P-NBS), a nature-based technology for treating sewage and waste streams, rehabilitation of water bodies and rebalancing watersheds, provides the most cost-effective solution for fresh water scarcity in rural and remote regions where no other feasible solution is available. It is portable, modular, mobile, fast and easy to install, does not require energy or high maintenance to operate, and supplies high standard quality water in any part of the world. The P-NBS™ will disrupt the decentralized packaged wastewater treatment systems market with a 50% lower CAPEX and 95% lower OPEX compared to conventional treatment technologies due to its lack of need for chemicals, electricity, or mechanical parts, and its 3 times longer lifespan bringing much needed clean water to remote and rural areas. The main advantages include: • Single unit includes separation, treatment and irrigation overflow compartments- extremely fast setup and installation • Sustainable engineered technology, gravity powered, resistant to human and environmental impacts • Effluent parameters: BOD,TSS <10 mg/L. Natural treatment system able to meet strict regulatory targets for unrestricted irrigation (including complete elimination of pathogens). • Minimal maintenance schedule - no technical staff is needed. Thus the main advantages of PM-NBS over competing technologies rely on the easy installation, its portability, its zero energy and minimal operational input. | With the EU project BRIGAID’s support (https://brigaid.eu/consortium/) and funding in part from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 700699, AYALA established its first improved full-scale version of the PM-NBS™ using a specific lightweight environmentally benign aggregate that can be tailored for individual cases to add to the flexibility of the system. The updated prototipe was tested with the support of this project. Results on selected water quality parameters provided quality parameters below the accepted standard maximum level of concentrations for good quality water (e.g. COD < 70 mg/L; BOD <10 mg/L and TSS <10 mg/L), even attaining 99% removal of coliforms. Further support to ihas been provided by funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, SME instrument phase I, under grant agreement No 854782 to further explore the needs to adapt the PM-NBS and carry out a feasibility study to take the solution to the European market. https://sme.easme-web.eu/?b=973648462 | The global market for decentralized wastewater treatment in counted in the millions. Our primary objective is to start market penetration in rural and remote areas in Europe and expand from there. Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA), all belonging to the European WHO Region, lack adequate access to water services. Indeed, more than 4.3 million people still rely on surface water as their primary source, posing severe risks to health. The main reason of this inequality is of economic nature, given the low economic capacity of the mentioned areas in public infrastructure, the investments in water services are addressed at the highly populated areas. In spite of huge investments in WWTPs and infrastructure, it is estimated that by 2030, more than 22 million CEE inhabitants will not be connected to centralized WWTPs. The discharge of untreated wastewater from the rest of the small settlements significantly contributes to pollution of surface and groundwater compounding the problem. There is a potentially very large market for distribution and implementation of portable (modular) natural nature-based wastewater treatment systems in this region. Our goal is to achieve a market penetration for M-NBS in Eastern European and neighboring countries so that we manage to service 5 % of 62 million people in the region without access to sanitation Europe in the next 5 years and we expect to create 15 new job positions during that time and train several local teams. | Resources need on the short term include support for establishing connections to disseminate our solution in relevant nature-based platforms and committees supporting sustainable solutions around the world and to establish long term cooperation with relevant stakeholders (policymakers, investors, philanthropists, entrepreneurs) to help us introduce the solution to the desire markets. In addition we would need financial support to establish a primary R&D team for the optimization of the PM-NBS industrial design adapted to market needs in different sites regarding water sewage quality, water reuse needs and social needs identified in site surveys and implement pilot studies to test the solution in different scenarios and conditions. Medium term needs include support to prepare and carry out a full commercial and marketing plan for the promotion and implementation of our solution in the designed areas and beyond, promote early adaption of the solution, establish connections with relevant suppliers to ensure the establishment of a quality supply chain for the solution that would help scaling up production under strict quality standards. | Company web site: http://www.ayala-aqua.com/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AyalaWaterTech/ PM-NBS Brigaid project Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7azrMP1pYY Ayala's active landscape for urban solutions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYgvy3alwLk&feature=youtu.be | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7azrMP1pYY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYgvy3alwLk&feature=youtu.be | Ayala received support in part from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 700699. SME Instrument Support Ayala received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, SME instrument phase I, under grant agreement No 854782 to further adapt the P-NBSTM and take it to the European market. https://sme.easme-web.eu/?b=973648462 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
459 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joshua | Ebin | Jumela Limited | https://jumelaservices.wordpress.com/ | Co-founder | Male | United States of America | Nigeria | English | We are inspired by the need to deliver a transdisciplinary solution that intersects through a spectrum of twenty first century challenges. By recycling organic waste, we anticipate to reduce environmental sanitary costs, minimize negative effects & reduce poor sanitary conditions costs, create an organic soil conditioner, boost food productivity, reduce unemployment plague, and create a soil specific deficiency organic fertilizer. Our motivation is to create a value-chain for deliberate waste recycling, the desire to diffuse recycling practice over time when a critical mass adopts the product, and contribute to environmental sustainability to make an impact in the African region. The general theme of our venture is focused on the agricultural industry and cuts across six out of the seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs). Our venture contributes to no poverty, zero hunger, decent work and economic growth, agricultural industry, innovation and infrastructure, sustainable cities and communities as well as responsible consumption and production. Our venture addresses issues like : Direct and indirect job creation (unemployment issue), Reduce prevalence of littered waste fruits and crop, Sub optimal disposal of agricultural waste, Increase effectiveness and efficiency of waste management, Reduce cost of waste management, Reposition the African fertilizer industry, Increase food production, Promote economic diversification from creation of spinoffs. These issues are important for: Inequality reduction and a contributing factor of economic growth, Reducing pathogenic diseases instances, Increasing the effective use of agricultural waste, Strengthening productivity and waste management systems, Improved operations management which reduces waste management cost, Better redefining the concept of fertilizers in the mind of local farmers, Organically increase food production, Diversifying economy through spinoffs such as Biogas extraction from compost decomposition. Affected stakeholders include: The general public who will experience a cleaner environment, Younger farming generation who will have a better orientation on environmental sustainability, Farmers who will be better informed about agricultural waste management, Government who will waste spend less resources. So far Jumela has empowered over 25 families in Kuje, Abuja by creating economic opportunity to youth who are enabling us develop infrastructure to scale up organic compost production to 25 MT. | Joshua Ebin is a Petroleum Engineering MSc graduate from Texas A&M University. As a child born and raised in suburban Nigeria, he was fascinated by where the energy used was sourced and how communities develop. He began his STEM career in his home country, Nigeria, studying Geology at University of Calabar where he achieved an outstanding overall sophomore student award. He later came to the United States where he graduated from the prestigious Georgia Tech in 2016 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering focused on energy industry. He has professional experience as a Manufacturing intern, Environment Health and Safety Engineering intern and completions engineering intern at world class multinational energy corporations. His research includes combustion, fluid dynamics and petroleum geomechanics at UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech and Texas A&M University respectively. Joshua loves to travel, learn about other cultures and work on SDG projects to create value for the people he meets through human capital development and problem solving. He is a 2018 youth delegate to the UN Youth Assembly and a global citizen passionate about working towards achieving SDGs. He is working on a non-profit for Africans in Diaspora for collaboration in the areas of energy integration, agriculture, and safety technology in Africa. Joshua is also the Co-Founder of Jumela Limited, a Nigerian agro-technology venture specializing in the development of novel products by recycling locally available material using technology and innovation to meet customer investor needs thereby creating value for society. | Jumela Compost | Agricultural advancements as a means to achieve sustainable development goals 1,2,8,9,11 & 12 | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Nigeria, Ghana, | No | Transition to Scale | Having succeeded on a small scale, we are in the process of scaling up to large quantity compost production for market entry. Our next immediate milestones includes to purchase equipment and infrastructure, to increase compost production capacity, to conduct laboratory composition tests for benchmarking with current market compost products, and to launch our website and trial app. Our venture target seeks to access 14,000 of the ~ 14 million farmers within the next one to two years. | Nigeria is home to around 80M farmers with abundance in perishable agro- produce that can constitute food waste management-pollution problem. Northern-Central farmers are saddled with increasing rate of low crop yield, plant nutrient, soil deficiency, dependence on chemical fertilizers with associated environmental-health hazards. Jumela addresses this paint point by plant based compost production using plant-food waste in large quantities for farmers and general consumer use to chieve the SDGs. | Our venture addresses issues like: Direct and indirect job creation (unemployment issue), reduce prevalence of littered waste fruits and crop, sub optimal disposal of agricultural waste, increase effectiveness and efficiency of waste management, reduce sanitation cost and waste management burden on the government, reposition the African fertilizer industry, increase food production, promote economic diversification from creation of spin-off projects. Our current project Jumela compost culminates in direct and indirect jobs for skilled and unskilled individuals and enterprises. For direct jobs, we will list the services of science based “new graduates” in the field of Biochemistry, Crop & soil science, etc. to conduct research and provide scientific advisory services. Farm hand skill sets will be recruited to support sourcing for waste, pre-processing and processing activities. For indirect jobs, the services of fabricators in the local community will be engaged in crafting specific machines & engines to be used for grinding, turning related activities, production of bags for packaging, graphic design, branding etc. The demand for and use of waste fruits as part of our feedstock will create a “market” in waste gathering which in turn will raise the consciousness of “no littering” by creating “stipend income for keeping waste” by fruit vendors and others involved in generating this waste. Farmers will earn a token for organizing their waste, effective use of their farm waste. | Chemical fertilizers have become less effective in improving agricultural yield. A number of organic brands such as Grand Humivet for livestock and Grand Humus from Rising Era Dynasty Inc. based in the Philippines are making a strong entry into the Nigerian fertilizer market. Also Gloval Group a Nigerian owned firm is producing a variant of organic supplements for crops and fertilizer. However, our social venture is unique because our product is entirely plant based, can be designed to meet specific deficiencies, nutritional profile needs and can be used in combination with chemical fertilizers or other organic supplements made by other firms. Our product is produced from aerobic decomposition of waste fruit (fruit peels, decaying or decayed fruits), dry leaves, ash, egg shells, agricultural wastes, bone meal, saw dust, cut grass, twigs etc. Also our transdisciplinary product with its impact on the environment, the general public, the government, job creation positions us an indirect competitors with the aforementioned fertilizer products and entities. Our venture’s product stimulates scientific thinking in creation of other new products by inventors that will either compete directly or indirectly with us for increased effectiveness and efficiency in this sub-sector as well as the creation of new ventures for sustainable agro-environments | Progress will be measured by quantitative and qualitative variables. The quantitative variables, include a measure of the total volume of production per time, the efficiency of the quantity of feedstock input used in production runs, waste minimization in production, allocating cost of machinery in production runs, allocating cost of energy in production runs. Qualitative measures include the dexterity in production, improvements in the look and feel of our product, improvement in the management of the decomposition process, improved storage methods, transportation methods, and in application for optimal yield. Data collection methods include interviews and questionnaires for farmers, customers or end users, observations in our in-house experimental garden, focus groups on users with large mono cropping and mixed cropping farms. Documenting correlated and uncorrelated researched information with outcomes from our experimental farms. We plan to generate a detailed annual report regarding our progress, quarterly briefs for stake holders towards: continuous improvement, quality control, competitive positioning, viability and profitability determination. We have produced over 500 kg of Jumela (plant-based) compost for our individual small scale customers in Abuja who have confirmed improvements in their crop performance. Our test customers see more crop improvements using JUMELA compost compared to previously used regular fertilizer. We are scaling up for market entry | So far, we employed a few temporary farm hands, data recorders and conducted experiments to produce and test compost. We also designed our company logo, filed a patent for our unique compost invention and started the process of registering our venture with Corporate Affairs Commission in Nigeria. We have produced over 3 bags of JUMELA compost for a few test customers which consists of two 20Kg and a 5Kg bag. Our test customers have seen more crop improvements using JUMELA compost compared to previously used regular fertilizer. Our next immediate milestones includes to purchase equipment and infrastructure that will enable us to double our compost production capacity, to conduct laboratory composition tests to quantify and correlate our compost composition to high crop yield performance and for benchmarking with current market compost products, and to launch our website and trial app. Our venture target seeks to access 14,000 of the ~ 14 million farmers within the next one to two years. Through effective marketing strategies and partnerships with the public sector and international economic development organizations we plan to double market growth within three to five years. Beyond 5 years, we expect to enter in other national markets in Africa. | Our next immediate short term milestones includes to purchase equipment and infrastructure that will enable us to double our compost production capacity, to conduct laboratory composition tests to quantify and correlate our compost composition to high crop yield performance and for benchmarking with current market compost products. Our midterm needs include funding to finish up the development of infrastructure needed to begin scaling up compost production in Kuje, Abuja. This includes cost for building composting chambers, workspace, mini-security, barricades, farm tools, compost testing equipment. We will also be looking for resources to manage compost feedstock,, production and distribution logistics. In the long term, our venture target seeks to access 14,000 of the ~ 14 million farmers within the next one to two years. Through effective marketing strategies and partnerships with the public sector and international economic development organizations we plan to double market growth within three to five years. Beyond 5 years, we expect to enter in other national markets in Africa and to launch our website and mobile application to facilitate logistics, customer needs and efficiency. | PRESENTATIONS: (1) Stanford Africa Business Forum Application: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1c2mveOqN5Jz8b7PzBI5nTNmrNkvhzh6p?usp=sharing (2) UN Solutions Summit Jumela Materials https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oMGg5QjX6l4ZMvg46OG2xIfyR7KozGBr?usp=sharing (3) Websites https://jumelaservices.wordpress.com/ https://jumelaservices.wordpress.com/message-from-jumela/ https://jumelaservices.wordpress.com/philosophy-core-values/ https://jumelaservices.wordpress.com/keys-to-success/ https://jumelaservices.wordpress.com/evolution/ https://jumelaservices.wordpress.com/our-policies/ | SPEAKING: (1) Tony Elumelu Foundation Application: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MjyU95dMOh5iky1q86ukCxNuX0ymkQ-y?usp=sharing (2) Youth Assembly Alumni Impact Challenge Speech Coming up August 9, 2019 in Washington DC (link will be available after speech) | First Place (Winner), 23rd Session of the Youth Assembly Global Impact Challenge - Organized by Friendship Ambassador Foundation (FAF) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
460 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jean Claude | Gouesse | Keeram Technologies ( Moja Ride) | mojaride.net | Cofounder | Male | United States of America | Côte D'Ivoire | English | French | The United Nations estimates that the urban population of Africa will reach over 500 Million by 2035 and yet as of today over 70% of the public transportation in African cities is provided by fragmented privately owned minibuses. These vehicles are most old, unsafe and unreliable. In 2001 I was an intern working at an Insurance company in Abidjan. One evening I had to stay late at work to finish a memo due the next day because I did not have a personal computer so finishing the work at home was not an option. By the time I was done, there were no more buses to get me home. I walked over 10 Kilometers to get home. Almost 20 years later, people are still mostly walking to get to places, not by choice but because either they cannot afford transportation or transportation just not available. Today, as a co-founder and CEO of Moja Ride, we are working to provide accessible, reliable and affordable transportation to African cities. Moja Ride aggregates all modes of transportation and connects them to demand through a unified payment platform. This data-driven platform will help African city dwellers find, book and pay for the most efficient modes of transportation. The platform will help make public transportation safer by providing information on the drivers to the riders and vice versa. | Jean-Claude Gouesse, CEO & Co-Founder Mr. Gouesse is a Risk and Casualty Insurance Manager and a Computer Network Specialist. His passion for IT and social-entrepreneurship came alive in 2002 when he started ICOM Technology, a VOIP-enabled CallShop solution provider that served 50 local call shops in Côte d Ivoire, West Africa. In 2013, Mr. Gouesse cofounded eCash Express the first start-up in to introduce NFC based digital payment in Cote d’Ivoire. The company received the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation GCE grant to test the proof of concept of their smart prepaid debit card. Upon successful conclusion of the proof of concept, the solution was deployed as mobile fare collection solution in Abidjan by BOUTTIC technologies, a company also cofounded by Mr. Gouesse in 2016. Mr. Gouesse’s extensive business consulting experience in Africa and America provides him with the unique ability to detect opportunities and design innovative solutions from aggregated technologies that effectively address his clients’ needs. Keeram Technologies is thus the result of years of experience in technologies development and deployment for the betterment of the least fortunate. Keeram is derived from Arabic meaning noble, great and honest. Our aim at Keeram Technologies is to profitably accomplish good for the emerging markets through technologies and capacity building. | Moja Ride | Moja Ride helps African city dwellers find,book and pay for the fastest and most affordable ways to go from point A to point B in their city. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Cote d'Ivoire | Yes | Taxis and minibus drivers unions of Adjame, Cocody, Yopougon | Proof of Concept | Moja Ride is currently being deployed in Abidjan in 4 of the 10 municipalities and we serve only four shared taxis routes, two minibus routes and three ferry lines for a total of 2100 customers and 600 drivers enrolled. This represents a very small scale for the 5 Million population of Abidjan. We are also testing our revenue model as well as the commission model for our agents who distribute our solution. Though the early response from the population is very promising, we are still testing. | In Abidjan, like many other African countries, public transportation mostly provided by shared taxis and minibuses mostly owned by private entities and individuals. These vehicles provide no information to travelers and they mostly rely on cash for fare payment. The opaque mode of operation leads to artificially high fare, poor and unsafe travel conditions which contribute to long travel time. | Moja Ride facilitates the payment, the booking and the management of all mode of transportation to achieve end-to-end, door-to-door journey planning. Our vision is to aggregate all modes of transportation in any African city and provide a payment solution that works across modes of transportation so the travel can access all available transportation services from a single App. To achieve this vision, first, we provide the consumers with a smart card for fare payment. Those with a smartphone and reliable data access can also use the Moja Ride App. We then provide the drivers with a Mobile App and an NFC capable smartphone or NFC dongle so the consumers can tap and pay for their fare. We then leverage the payment data to map out the transportation network. We can learn also about how many kilometers the typical minibus drives in a day which is critical to prepare for the transition to electric vehicles in the future. Moja Ride will help in the long term provide African cities with reliable data needed to plan a modern and greener transportation system to mitigate the increasing air pollution in their cities. Globally Moja Ride can become a model for a modern transportation system in an emerging market which could impact the lives of over 500 Million people in Africa alone. | The uniqueness of our solution resides in aggregating all modes of transportation and connecting them through a unified payment solution which utilizes all existing payment solution. The data-driven approach helps city planners, riders and transportation service, providers. We prioritize larger capacity vehicles and greener transportation. The other mobility solution such Uber-like companies and the moto-taxis tend to add more vehicles to the cities with a revenue model that deprive the already low-income taxis drivers of more revenue by collecting commission as high as 25% of the fare. At Moja Ride, we work with the drivers and the union to create a digital financial footprint which will help them acquire cleaner vehicles while providing operational efficiency through our data-driven platform which helps drivers drive less and earn more. | We have developed and deployed our Mobile Fare Collection Application in Abidjan for minibuses, shared taxis and traditional ferries at a small scale. We measure our progress in terms of the number of users, their numbers daily and monthly transactions as well as their trust in the system by tracking the amount they reload on their fare cards. The data is generated from our system with no third-party review at this stage. We are however partnering with analytics and credit scoring companies to provide a deep analysis of our data. | Our current milestones are to create a point of presence in all 10 municipalities in of Abidjan and reach 1 Million transactions per day. Once our system is tested at scale we will expand to Senegal, and all 8 countries of the UEMOA zone before planning to expand to Ghana and Nigeria. We are currently adding one new taxis station a week with a staff of two new agents. To cover the city of Abidjan, we will need as much as 400 agents aided with 10,000 independent resellers to ensure consumers have easy access to fare card and reload at any grocery stores in their neighborhood. As the cost of mobile data decreases, we will increase the mobile App self reload capabilities for riders. | In the short term, we need capital to improve our platform and expand. In the medium and long-term, we will need more capital along with the support from local authorities to improve the regulatory framework for electric vehicles which we plan to deploy. Access to renewable energy such as solar for the charging stations also requires some changes in local laws or exemptions from current laws. | http://mojaride.net/ https://www.facebook.com/mojarideofficiel https://twitter.com/moja_wallet https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkm6U9IMVjDDDMYkfHiJRag | http://disrupt-africa.com/2019/04/how-ivory-coasts-moja-ride-is-bringing-mobility-as-a-service-to-abidjan/ https://entrepreneurclub.orange.com/project/moja-ride https://www.techawk.com.ng/2019/03/01/meet-moja-ride-the-mobile-app-disrupting-cote-divoires-public-transport/ | https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant/smart-mobile-prepaid-debit-card https://www.sente.link/portfolio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
461 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lan | Jin | Green City (Shenzhen) Public Service Co., Ltd. (GCPS) | http://www.hk-imcc.com/ | President | Female | China | China | Chinese | International Mayor Communication Centre Limited (IMCC, also known as the International Mayors Communication Centre) is an NGO in special consultative status with ECOSOC. In September 2016, the IMCC established Green City (Shenzhen) Public Service Co., Ltd. (GCPS). In November 2017, GCPS founded the Open Green City Laboratory (OGCLab). The OGCLab advocates and practices the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. We keep reaching out to stakeholders, promoting policy dialogue, and sharing best practices using our low carbon and efficient networks. On January 16, 2019, “Change the City — the Forum on the Construction of Shenzhen National Innovation Demonstration Zone for Sustainable Development” utilized the OGCLab’s state-of-the-art high-tech mobile conferencing capabilities to innovate the world’s most efficient conference model with the lowest carbon emission, featuring the interaction between local citizens and global leaders including Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Vice-Chair Dr. Youba Sokona. This forum turned out to be a great achievement and milestone of the OGCLab’s development. This innovative form of meeting was applauded by various Chinese media. A total of 31 mainstream media institutions, including Xinhuanet and People’s Daily Online, had a lot of coverage to a potential audience of 680 million on how the OGCLab used technological innovation to implement the 17 SDGs, revitalize global partnership and prove to the world China’s implementation of President Xi Jinping’s commitment to realize the vision of sustainable development, which he made at the UN Development Summit in 2015. The OGCLab is drawing the attention of more and more potential partners and funders. Our written statement to the 2019 ECOSOC High-Level Segment introduced the solution, and the statement was circulated worldwide through the website of the UN. We also submitted the solution in response to the call for innovations for the fourth annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum) held at UN Headquarters in New York in May 2019, and the page of our solution is now kept on the website of the Global Innovation Exchange (GIE). By presenting the project to the UN Solutions Summit, we would like to share with more people how we are committed to innovation to promote the SDGs. | With over 30 years of professional experience in urban operation, NGO organization operation and global partnership network construction, Ms. Jin Lan is a senior local government public relations expert, green journalist and UN NGO leader. 2005 to present: Founder and executive director of the International Mayors Communication Centre Headquartered in Hong Kong, the International Mayors Communication Centre (IMCC) provides serves all over the world, with the mission of spreading the world’s urban culture. 2008 to present: Founder and permanent secretary general of the Global Mayors’ Forum The Global Mayors’ Forum (GMF) has the vision to communicate culture for global sustainability. 2002 to present: Consultants to 312 cities worldwide She has been advocating the concept and practice of sustainable urban development. 2016 to present: Founder and president of Green City (Shenzhen) Public Service Co., Ltd. (GCPS) She established the world’s first “Open Green City Laboratory” (OGCLab). | Open Green City Laboratory (OGCLab) | The OGCLab is a green networking platform where global ideas, technologies, products and funds are connected sustainably to advance urban sustainable | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | China, United States, Britain, France, India, Kenya | Yes | International Downtown Association (IDA), United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Cityscape Global, World Urban Campaign (WUC), ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability | Transition to Scale | Our solution is actually implemented, drawing attention of more and more potential partners and funding. We make use of our high-tech mobile conferencing capabilities from time to time. We held a roundtable forum on climate change, green finance and urban technological innovation on January 16, 2019, which was attended by IPCC Vice-Chair Dr. Youba Sokona and other notable experts in person or online, with an online audience of 15,600. | Unsustainable development practices have undermined our ecosystems. Chinese President Xi Jinping has committed to becoming a global statesman in the implementation of the SDGs and to demonstrate China’s ability to do so in the Shenzhen demonstration zone for the SDGs – the principal focus of OGCLab. We are reaching out to concerned stakeholders, organizing scientific and technological forums, promoting policy dialogue, and sharing best practices using our low carbon and efficient networks. | The OGCLab has taken precautions to reduce its carbon footprint by adopting efficient electrical, heating, and air conditioning systems and by holding online seminars and workshops limiting national and international travel whenever possible. In February 2018, the State Council of China approved the request of the Guangdong Provincial Government and the Ministry of Science and Technology to build a national innovation demonstration zone in Shenzhen for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Shenzhen-based OGCLab aims to implement the agenda, especially Goals 4, 8, 13 and 17 of the 17 SDGs. We will bring together global city stakeholders such as decision makers, NGOs, scientists, business leaders and financial experts. | We integrate the Internet, audio visual conference equipment, China’s training and education software and mobile high-definition LED screens to enable unlimited numbers of trainees or observers to participate. Our programs can be accessed through any PC or smart phones anywhere at any time as long as they have access to the Internet. This system can connect enlightened urban leaders, stakeholders, practitioners, and teachers, and learners all over the world in order to promote awareness, and professional knowledge. | On January 16, 2019, IMCC hosted “Change the City — the Forum on the Construction of Shenzhen National Innovation Demonstration Zone for Sustainable Development”, and commissioned GCPS to organize the forum, which utilized the OGCLab’s capabilities to innovate the world’s most efficient conference model with the lowest carbon emission, featuring the interaction between global leaders and local citizens. The mobile video device collaborated with the conference software system that had served the G20 Hangzhou Summit, and it took only 11 hours to be technically ready for the forum. The forum was held in a 69-sqm conference room renovated from an old factory in OCT LOFT, one of China’s best pilot zones in cultural industries. IPCC Vice-Chair Dr. Youba Sokona attended the forum and interacted with 15,600 citizens online, sharing the details of the UNFCCC COP24 in Katowice, Poland. Sustainability experts, green finance investors and Shenzhen citizens spent five hours discussing low-carbon travel, green industries, green finance investments, employment and technological innovation. Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former IPCC Chair Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri delivered an 18-minute speech from thousands of miles away through video connection. His speech was well received by the 29 attendees present at the meeting. We are working to find more partners to hold more online seminars and workshops. One of the major rigors is to involve more people unaware of the importance of the SDGs. | 1) To advocate environmentally-friendly office supplies and building materials among local governments, large enterprises and public sectors. 2) To promote green finance and boost green industries. 3) To create a sustainable university, using the Internet and the most advanced remote education software to achieve the 17 SDGs. It will subvert traditional teaching and realize lifelong education at the lowest cost, with one teacher giving lessons to 1 million students. | We need more partners, talents and funding for the solution to scale. In the short term and medium term, we want to recruit senior project promotion specialists, senior international public specialists, green finance researchers, and sustainable urban planning researchers. In the long term, we need approximately US$26 million in funding. | https://undocs.org/en/E/2019/NGO/119 https://undocs.org/fr/E/2019/NGO/119 https://undocs.org/es/E/2019/NGO/119 https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovation/ogclab https://esango.un.org/civilsociety/simpleSearch.do?method=search&searchTypeRedef=simpleSearch&sessionCheck=false&searchType=simpleSearch&organizationNamee=International+Mayor+Communication+Centre http://www.xinhuanet.com//money/2019-01/21/c_1210043393.htm http://xjr.people.cn/n1/2019/0118/c416168-30576952.html http://www.dutenews.com/shen/p/87915.html http://www.hk-imcc.com/index.php?case=archive&act=show&aid=480 http://www.hk-imcc.com/zh/index.php?case=archive&act=show&aid=463 http://www.hk-imcc.com | https://www.iqiyi.com/v_19rqr9gjbo.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
462 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Esther | Edward | Inpad Initiative | Nill | Co-Founder/Project Director | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | To build a more world United in purpose , a world with Zero poverty, and even distribution of wealth, a world where peace and justice reigns , a place where everyone has access to opportunities irrespective of their race , religious and cultural backgrounds , it is essential that all stakeholders give their all especially youths like me . In furtherance of my passion to make contribute to society , I would like to be a part of the United Nations Solution Summit because it is a platform for me to show the world the Innovative solutions i have developed to solve the scourge of poor menstrual hygiene in the health sector women and girls in underserved Communitees are ladened with everyday across the world whilst also solving the menace of plastic pollution through harnessing technology and utilizing natural resources to develop Eco friendly, non plastic degradable hygiene and quality sanitary products. In the world today , research shows that 800 million women go through menstral period everyday and about 500 million women can not afford adequately sanitary wears due to the high level of poverty across the glove. Moreso one pack of sanitary wears available in the global market comprise of over 50 percent plastic and is equivalent to 4 non degradable plastic bags which is a source of environmental pollution in the world I would love to be a part of the solution summit to share my ideas on how to utilize natural resources to make Eco friendly sanitary wears, learn from other solution providers , network, form partnerships and synergies during the programme. | Esther Edward is a ChangeWarrior, social Innovator and Creative Writer . She is also the Co-Founder of Inpad Initiative , a youth led organization aimed at tackling poor menstrual Hygiene challenges young girls and women in marginalized communities face by producing Eco freely menstrual hygiene products. She is also the team lead of Lagos without plastic which aims at solving the menace of plastic pollution by harnessing the power of technology and community effort Esther is also Programs Director at Iranwo Foundation where she focuses on developing and coordinating programs that promotes Girl-Child Education, Woman Empowerment and Economic Empowerment in undeserved and Marginalized communities across Lagos, Nigeria. Esther holds a Bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature . She is also a Walter Carrington Youth Fellow and A young African leader initiative fellow (YALI) . She keenly believes that everyone irrespective of their race, gender, religious or sexual orientation deserves equal access to opportunities and that more youths should have active roles in public leadership. She is an experienced Radio broadcaster, News Editor and Radio host.She is a creative writer and also loves to collects ArtWorks in her spare time. | Inpad Initiative | Kwa upendo wa Afrikan girl | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Nigeria | Yes | Omobolanle Jennifer Tonia and Lotenna | Research & Development | This solution was birthed in June 2019 and is still in the research and testing phase due to the depth and intricacy involved in bringing the idea into actualization and also due to low amount of funding. | Around the world ,800 million women menstruate daily and 500 million women lack adequate sanitary wears. Moreso, 80% of women in prisons are forced to go through their menstrual period without access to sanitary wears In addition, 50 percent of the material used in making sanitary pad is composed of plastic and a single pack of sanitary pad is equivalent to 4 non-degradable plastic bag hence a major cause of environmental Pollution. The Inpad Initiative is the solution to these problems | The Inpad Initiative works as a social enterprise where young girls living in marginalised Communitees will be giving these products for free and wen I. Prison would also have access to the reuseable version of these products while other variants of these products will be sold in the market at a very affordable price . | The uniqueness of our products lies in it's originality.as opposed to other products ,we aim to use 100 natural materials that are desolveable and degradable by harnessing technology to convert water hyancinth and banana fibre into our products. | In June 2019,. The Inpad Initiative was birthed as a solution to solve menstrual hygiene challenges girls and female prisoners go through every month .lwhilst solving the menace of plastic Pollution In July we began testing for natural materials that could be used to replace plastic found in menstrual pads We discovered water Hyacinth and banana fibre were ideal replacements for current trends available in the market . | 2020-2021 :. Nigeria Market : we aim tk have penetrated the entire Nigerian Market by the end of 2021and have ensure that all girls living in marginalised Communitees and female prisoners have access to our products for free while other variants of our products will be sold at affordable prices to ensure Sustainability. 2021-2023-West Africa : By 2023 we aspire to have branched into the west African market and that 65 percent of girls living in West African have access to Eco friendly (reuseable) sanitary wears for free 2023-2025 : Africa at Large : By 2025 we hope to have links all over the Africa continent especially those places undergoing economic crises so girls are not deprived of their basic human rights | Water Hyacinth Banana Fibre Wool African Ankara textile Sewing machine | Nill | Nill | Top Ten ,Pitch Againts poverty , Nelson Mandela Day Organized by United Nations in Nigeria and the South Africa Embassy Top Ten , SDG 16 Innovation Challenge organized by Accountability lab Member of the winning Team , Young Africa Leadership Initiative Pitching contest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
463 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nathalie | Green | Doconomy | www.doconomy.com | CEO | Female | Sweden | Sweden | English | At Doconomy we share a vision of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. We want to provide this by offering a mobile banking service (DO) with a conscious, where your spending and your savings are measured by its impact on the planet, both negative and positive. Now all this need to be done in collaboration with others. The climate crisis know of no boarder nor should the solution or the alliance of the willing aiming to tackle the problem. DO is a radical new tool and innovative solution addressing the climate crisis. It has the first card with a CO2-emission limit, stopping you from overspending, not based on available funds but on the impact caused by your consumption. The innovation combines three functions. The ability to measure the impact of every transaction (Åland Index), the set CO2-emission limit calculated per country/capita, and the payment system integration of CO2-emission limit overriding the accounts financial credit level. The technology blocks transactions exceeding the CO2 limit, disables the credit card and notifies the cardholder. This and many other innovations in the DO app, described below, is how we aim to have positive global impact with a focus on, but not limited to, SDG 12, 13 and 17. | Nathalie Green: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalie-green-6092922 Background Doconomy / DO In 2018 Doconomy launched a service called DO, a mobile banking service linked to a payment card, creating a profile of a user’s consumption-based climate impact. This profile is created by applying an impact value to categorized products and services (using Åland Index). The platform allows the user to track, measure and offset their impact through a number of options while providing insights to support behavior changes, through conscious consumption. There’s a definite, data substantiated, emotional driver connected to climate change, but there’s a lack of concrete solutions and tangible tools that engage and activate consumers. All in all DO is a radical new innovative tool against climate change resulting in awareness, user adoption and productive new partnerships. Key dates in the development process? 2018, March, tech pre-study with Ålandsbanken 2018, June, Tech dev of first platform 2018, September, negotiations with UNFCCC 2018, October, com-launch of Doconomy platform 2019, February, MOU from UN 2019, March, Approval from Mastercard 2019, March, Tech dev IRL CO2 limit 2019, April, Production start with Gemalto 2019, April, Launch of DO Black | DO by Doconomy | A mobile banking service for Everyday Climate Action | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | In 2019; Sweden, Finland, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France and US. | Yes | Mastercard, Bank of Aland, UNFCCC, Thales, Standard&Poors, Stockholm School of Economics and Gravity Labs (MIT) | Proof of Concept | We have already over 7 000 people signed up to Doconomy and are now in the stage of proof of concept, aggregating market traction, in order to substantiate our investors deck and transition to scale. | We have 11 years to reduce carbon emission by 50%. This is why we developed DO. We want to enable and encourage behavioral change. It should be easy to manage consumption and savings, as well as choose a more sustainable lifestyle. Reducing emissions with 50% before 2030 is a huge undertaking. From now on, every action counts. | Doconomy provides with DO Everyday Climate Actionin several ways. All based on three core principles: 1. Track & Measure your CO2 emissions 2. Reduce your negative climate impact 3. Compensate for remaining impact Our offering: • Climate smart savings account DO offers a climate smart savings account with an interest rate that includes climate compensation. Make you savings automatically work for good. UN certified climate compensation With DO you can compensate your carbon footprint in UN-certified projects that reduce, avoid or remove greenhouse gas emissions. • Track your daily carbon footprint Use the DO card and track your CO2 footprint with the app. It uses the Åland Index to identify the CO2 impact of every transaction. • Invest for positive impact DO collaborates with innovative asset manager and offers investments in funds aiming for good returns for both you and the planet. • Secure & encrypted banking service Our security systems are of the highest standards and covered by the insurance deposit scheme at our partner bank Ålandsbanken. • The planet's only loyalty program Offset credits can be used to compensate for the carbon footprint of your purchase. You can direct it to UN-certified carbon offset projects, or invest in sustainable funds. | There is no other service offering the same functions as DO by Doconomy. However we aim to partner with any bank that want to enable their clients to do everyday climate action as well. | We have already developed the solution. Release of the app and carbon offsetting is in August Release of the automated card application platform is in September Release of the investment platform is in October | Markets: In 2019; Sweden, Finland, England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France and US. In 2020: Rest of Europe + Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. In 2021: Tbd Impact: 50 million people engaged 500 million tonne carbon emissions offset Every 50th card transaction calculates the true cost of carbon | Short term: A. Network of collaboration to distribute the service i all relevant markets. B. Funding to support expansion. C. Recruiting local teams in all the markets we aim to enter. Medium Term: A. Access to and distribution of impact investment instruments in developing countries of the world. Long Term: A. Content around everyday climate action building the movement and substantiating the offering in collaboration with partners around the world. | DO Black https://vimeo.com/344031104 Docnomy https://vimeo.com/333506053 UNFCCC https://vimeo.com/333505731 Voices about Doconomy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_PdWaCcSa4 | DO Black https://vimeo.com/344031104 Docnomy https://vimeo.com/333506053 UNFCCC https://vimeo.com/333505731 Voices about Doconomy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_PdWaCcSa4 https://doconomy.com/ https://sustainablebrands.com/read/finance-investment/mastercard-doconomy-launch-the-future-of-sustainable-payments https://www.fastcompany.com/90344150/this-credit-card-wont-let-you-buy-anything-else-after-youve-hit-your-annual-carbon-limit https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidebanis/2019/06/05/this-eco-friendly-credit-card-puts-a-limit-on-your-carbon-emissions/#52c17333538a | Winner at 2019 Cannes Lions: Creative eCommerce SDG, climate action SDG, partnerships for the goals SDG, Sustainable consumption and production Innovation, product/service Sustainable Brands finalists, Initiative of the year | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
464 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | David | PIERRE JEAN | SOSIAC | www.sosiac.net | CEO | Male | Haiti | Haiti | English | French | UN Solutions Summit is an international activity. SO, as the CEO of SOSIAC and the owner of the SIGETIC Solutions. It's the technological product's that we want to share in this summit. SO we are so motivate for getting success with this project because after several researching, we discover that SIGETIC will be the best App in the year that providing solutions in project management for private companies, embassies, NGO, Town hall and public companies. We've already planning that SIGETIC will provide a lot jobs in the world and helping some governments en private sector. | My name is David PIERRE-JEAN, I am 33 years old and I have a master degree in project Management. Currently, I'm the CEO and co-founder of SOSIAC, that's a company were working in 3 key sectors, Agriculture, Technologies and Engineering Solutions. I have some skills in project management, Engineering solutions, Accounting, Finance, Human Ressource, Volunteer etc. Professional and personal skills Coaching Cluster and innovative entrepreneur Ability to facilitate contacts and communication Ability to work on pressure and with rigor Sense of responsibility, initiative, action and leadership. Ability to work in a team Ability to propose strategic and political solutions | SIGETIC | SIGETIC is an integrated management system were developed for companies and local authorities | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | The first implementation is for Haïti, after Caribbean area, Americas, Europe, Africa | Yes | URVDJH, CEMA | Proof of Concept | SIGETIC is the best management software in the year. We believe on that. It offers a range of services in Accounting management Operations, Tax, Budget, Human Resources, Payroll, Asset Inventory and Mapping. At this stage, SIGETIC is very special. It’s the only technological product that offers all those range of service | SIGETIC provides solutions for those kind of problem: 1. Accounting Management Operations 2. Customer Management 3. Tax Management (Taxes) 4. Planning and Budget Management 5. Human Resources 6. Payroll Management 7. Inventory 8. Mapping | SIGETIC is a web application available for download and configuration. To get an access to this software, you need to go to the following link: www.sigetic.net There is a web version where the customer can access directly and create his own account for working. Then, it can be adapted to several categories of private companies, services, NGOs, embassies and town halls by providing solutions in Accounting management Operations, Tax, Budget, Human Resources, Payroll, Asset Inventory and Mapping. That's a new management revolution in the software industries. SIGETIC has a long-term vision for global impact 1st: we intend to work against corruption and helping good governance of its aspect of traceability in our transactions through SIGETIC Using. 2nd: Then we are going to finance up to 10% on global sales of SIGETIC to some international organizations such as the United Nations Fund for the South, global warming and others for social project in agriculture, education, health, environment, water management etc. 3rd: In the educational sector, we will propose sustainable development and also organize a SIGETIC scholarship contest every year in order to finance the studies of young people around the world in the most prestigious universities around the world. Part 4: Reduce the risk of poverty across certain regions of the world while financing blockchain projects in the agricultural field in collaboration with SIGETIC | At this stage, SIGETIC is very special. It’s the only one technological management's product that offers all those range of services. Available in four (4) languages: English, Creole, Spanish and French. It can be marketed in more than 100 countries around the world Our methodology is consist to provide a unique solution in the market by founding a system getting two (2) networks : Investors and Sellers. a) INVESTORS: SIGETIC has a investment funds of 600,000. US Dollar. This fund is divided in 10,000 Shares of 60 US Dollar per share. We consider an investor like Any legal entity or physical entity that has the capacity to invest a minimum amount of 10 shares or 600 Dollar US in the investment fund. b) SELLERS: All the SIGETIC sellers will benefit direct commissions between 10% to 20% on each sale and additional indirect commission from their own network. So, to become a SIGETIC's seller, the person must be an investor or must buy a SIGETIC's franchise for 100 US Dollar. The SIGETIC has a lot of sales plan. some of them include package with: Life Custom’s license, Custom Servers and Installation, Free website, Web Version and CD + Free Update, Coaching and training, Access installations, Free internet for 2 years or 6 months, Free hosting for 5 years and VPS access, Free maintenance and follow-up for One (1) year, Access to a quantity of computer and network cable. For other details, please refer to the SIGETIC document in attachment. | Our team is very motivated. At this time we are at 90% of the development of this technology. The grand launch is scheduled for August 21, 2019 in Haiti, specifically at the BEST WESTERN PREMIER hotel from 10:00 AM to 15:00 PM. This launch will be in the presence of representatives of the private sector, the Haitian government, representatives of foreign embassies and consulates, international organizations, public companies, town halls, students and other professionals. Our methodology has been developed with exceptional rigor in order to avoid certain risks in the context of this project. We are proud to measure our progress to the long journey we have since the conception of the SIGETIC idea, since December 2013 towards its materialization during this year 2019. That's at the end of the 2017 we started with the phases development of SIGETIC with a team composed of programming engineers and other technical staff. This august, we will make its grand launch to the general public to move to the stage of global financing to allow new investors and sellers networks. Investment in SIGETIC has an annual rate of return between 35% to 40%. | We are planning to launch the project in Haiti, after we will sale it around the world form the Caribbean area, Americas, Europe and Africa. SO we will create more than 5000 jobs in our network sellers and other technician were working in network cable, internet connection, computer programming, etc. and we will plan for getting some partnerships with telecoms companies around the world were working in internet services for our customers. After, we will support social charity project with a part of the SIGETIC income for helping some NGO were working in agriculture, education, water management, environment, health etc. | The resources we need for the solution to scale and having considerable impact are a lot of customers for the SIGETIC using and investors for buying the available shares At the end we need money and partnerships. In the Short term, we need green partnerships with national and other international companies for selling the SIGETIC's franchise and to built some networks sellers for getting success. So, we have an expenses budget for those marketing cost. In the medium term, SIGETIC will have an office or some representatives in each country that we are doing business with. This strategy will help us to have more customers in our network and we will earn more money and more success. In the long-term, we will need green partnership with other company to made management robot for enterprise solutions and risk management | Product Name: SIGETIC Developed by: SOSIAC Sector: Management and new technologies Key partners: URVDJH, CEMA Company website: www.sosiac.net Product's website: www.sigetic.net/ https://web.facebook.com/SOSIAC-145656992665534/ | https://web.facebook.com/dpierrejean https://web.facebook.com/Sigetic-465669027332561/ | SIGETIC was the Winner in Technology category in the Tabare contest organized by the organization URVDJH, July 6, 2019 in HAITI. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
465 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joan | Nalubega | Uganics Repellents Ltd | https://uganics.wixsite.com/uganics/ | CEO | Female | Uganda | Uganda | English | I faced a lot of challenges as a child growing up in an orphanage with no parents and constantly got sick of malaria. I became a victim of bullying, missed school very often and I always wondered why I kept on getting the disease, yet I slept in a mosquito net. I almost gave up on life. My pain as a child became my strength over time to find a way of fighting malaria to save millions of children that are going through the same experience as I did. Soap is an everyday product even extremely poor families in Africa use almost daily. Uganics provides organic mosquito repellent soap in East Africa at the same price as ordinary soap through a social business model. Being a social entrepreneur in Africa feels like swimming against the stream. I receive comments: “You need to patent” or “You can become rich”. The public does not understand: my main motivation is to solve the challenge, I had been affected by myself. People “stealing” my idea would mean that others also contribute to a malaria free world, which is my overall purpose and I have dedicated my life for it. Presenting and being at the UN Solutions Summit is important to us as it gives us the opportunity to connect with other key change makers motivated to spread social innovation and turn ideas into action. By joining forces our actions can be leveraged and our visibility increased to inspire and mobilize others. I hope to use this opportunity to identify synergies and potential partnership possibilities in order to increase the positive global impact of Uganics and make our solutions accessible to more vulnerable groups across Africa to contribute to Zero Malaria by 2030. | My name is Joan Nalubega, I founded Uganics in 2016, a social enterprise contributing to reach a malaria free world. I believe in winning the fight against Malaria and I am passionate about making my country and continent a better place. In 2015 due to pressure from my extended family, I joined university to study a bachelor’s in marketing. After some time, I realized my calling to start with my project idea without a degree. I chose to drop out and got the opportunity to join Social Innovation Academy (SINA) that supports marginalized youth to turn their ideas into social businesses. Many have judged and blamed me for dropping out of university, while most Ugandans never get even the chance to attend tertiary education. Many of my friends and family members, even up to now, have never believed in me that I will succeed. I continued with my path, even with the pressure around me. I am glad I stayed true to myself and I am employing now the first workers who actually have university degrees. I am a Tony Elumelu fellow for the 2017 class and was the 2nd runner up at the 2018 Anzisha Prize. I have a Certificate in Applied Social Innovation from SINA and I have been recognized by Initiative Teilen, a German NGO. Since 2016, I am volunteering at Jangu e.V the organization which sponsored me throughout high school as an orphan, supporting other orphans from the same Children’s Home I grew up from. | Uganics Mosquito Repellent soap | A malaria free world is possible | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Uganda | Yes | Health Partners Uganda, Health Entrepreneurs and Mpigi District Health Officer | Transition to Scale | Uganics has gone through all the above stages before the transition to scale. We started with the idea in 2015, made research and development with support from Makerere University laboratories in Uganda and Mannheim University in Germany. In 2018 we acquired certification from the National Drug Authority. We have a growing market with higher demand than we can currently satisfy. We are subsidizing 25,000 soaps every month for the poor through sales in tourism. | Malaria remains one of today’s major global health challenges. It perpetuates slow socio-economic development and poverty. In Uganda, malaria is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality mostly children below 5years. We have 16million cases reported mostly rural people lack access to protective measures. The socio-economic impact of malaria includes treatment costs the poor cannot afford and long distances to reach health facilities. Severe malaria further impairs children’s learning ability. | We are committed towards eradicating Malaria in Uganda and reduce malaria deaths of children by 20% in the next 3 years by making our soap affordable through having two distinct customer segments. Tourists in East Africa have high fears of malaria and like a natural way of preventing mosquitoes during their stay. Therefore, we sell our certified soap to price insensitive resorts and hotels with a high profit margin to cross finance and subsidize our sales to price sensitive rural mothers at the exact same price as ordinary soap. Tourists enjoy a locally made and organic repellent soap in their bathrooms while rural mothers can protect themselves and their children. The vicious cycle of poverty is broken without needing to incur behavioral changes or depending on donations. 1 Kg sold to a tourist subsidizes the sale to 15 mothers. 1Kg sold to Hotels and Lodges on wholesale subsidizes the sale of 8 products to rural mothers. Sales targets of 29,000 Kgs to tourists and 70,000 Kgs to lodges/resorts/hotels by end of the year allows us to subsidize sales to 1 million rural mothers. With on average 6 children per woman this will reach and protect up to 6 million children. Our herbs and oils are procured from local female farmers. Uganics thus also simultaneously empowers women by providing them with income and economic independency. Our long-term vision is to have Malaria eradicated by 2030 through an everyday organic consumer product, even the poorest families can access. | Our product, unlike other solutions offered against mosquitoes, except the effective mosquito nets that do not protect all around the clock, in form of commercial mosquito repellent sprays or gels, does not contain high concentrations of the health hazardous DEET. These products are also are not recommended for long term application, are not available in rural shops and are unaffordable to the average Ugandan mother living in a rural malaria affected village. Local producers of essential oils have promoted the repellent effects of their products but with pricing at more than 10 USD/100ml, it is only affordable to the middle and upper class, generally less affected by malaria. Uganics is natural, effective all around the clock and safe for long application, accessible and affordable to even the poorest families through our social business model. | We developed a natural solution that we derived from utilizing P-Methane-3, 4-diol (PMD) and local and organic ingredients. Our soap works for 6 hours against mosquitoes. Our product has been medically certified by the Government of Uganda and tested for its active organic ingredients to repel mosquitoes by the University of Mannheim. We are working with local health centers and District Health Officers to avail our services and products to the communities at a cost that is affordable to them. We are working with hospitals to track impact, specifically in the reduction of malaria cases from the health centers monthly and annual reports. In addition, we keep records from families and communities we reach through the number of bars distributed and subsidized for poor families. We record history and current malaria statuses one on one with the users. All results are followed up on with attended communities. This supports us to understand our contribution. We have conducted follow ups on 10,000 families and reports from 4 hospitals in 2 districts The number of products subsidized per month is an indicator for the speed at which we are approaching our vision. | Our overall goal is to reduce malaria cases by 20% in Uganda and 5% in East Africa by 2023. Our capacity at the moment impacts 30,000 people each month. In the next 12 months, we aim to impact at the least 200,000 a month. In 3 years, we want to impact at least 5 million in Uganda. We want to have established 10 extraction centers by 2024, each employing 25 women to grow the herbs and extract the essential oils. In the core team, we aim to recruit 8 more people to take on core roles in product development, business development and malaria awareness creation. Through a franchise model, we aim to establish Uganics products in Kenya, Rwanda and Congo by 2021. We also aim to get local and international ambassadors to support awareness campaigns. | Short term needs (protecting 6 million children in Uganda from Malaria in 2020) Uganics is at a stage where it needs to scale up its soap production and oil sourcing from local female farmers. Due to our still limited production capacity, we have missed large and interested customers such as big hotels or even UNHCR and its partners in humanitarian response, responsible for soap distribution for over 1 million refugees in Uganda, where Uganics would offer hygiene and malaria protection at once. We aim to establish partnerships with organizations that already support the poor and have broad access to respective communities to make our products accessible to people that need them the most. Mid term (to reduce malaria cases by 20% in Uganda by 2023) We need an international organic certification and complete regulatory and safety assessments to be able to export Uganics soap in larger quantities to Malaria effected regions and to tourists worldwide, who subsidize sales to the people who most need our soaps. Long term needs (Malaria eradicated by 2030) Collaboration and coalitions with other international players fighting against Malaria to combine efforts. This would include also distribution partnerships to access hard to reach areas. Setting up of an advanced production facility in Uganda and local production sites in all Malaria effected regions globally. | https://uganics.wixsite.com/uganics/ https://thisisafrica.me/africans-rising/joan-nalubega-uganda-mosquito-repellent-soap/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBEDGyDrAmI (Uganics TV Commercial for Tourists) https://globalpressjournal.com/africa/uganda/handmade-soap-keeps-malaria-carrying-mosquitos-away-uganda/ (Global Press Journal) https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/agents-for-change/when-college-is-out-of-reach-this-academy-trains-ugandans-to-be-entrepreneurs (PBS Newshour Article) https://www.facebook.com/brutamerica/videos/343969186400852/ (Brut) https://www.sdgphilanthropy.org/UGANICS-Combats-Malaria (SDG Philanthropy Forum) | Anzisha Prize Pitch Competition 2018: https://youtu.be/nn7oX26jOr4?t=6313 FightMalaria Interview https://blog.fightmalaria.co.uk/five-minutes/the-woman-fighting-malaria-with-handmade-soap/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be-V_jJMfMA ( Interview at Anzisha ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejlHYqiColk&t (Al Jazeera) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5utnlixkz98 | Finalist for Africa Innovation Challenge 2019 and invitation to World Economic Forum on Africa (Sept. 2019), where winners will be announced. 2nd runner up of the Anzisha Prize, winning a grant of 12,500 USD in 2018 Echoing Green Fellowship (Finalist 2019) The Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (Grantee 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
466 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Thorsten | Kiefer | WASH United gGmbH | www.wash-united.org | CEO & co-founder | male | Germany | Germany | English | It's absolutely unacceptable that in the 21st century, millions of women and girls all over the world continue to be excluded, stigmatised and held back from realizing their full potential because of a normal bodily function without which none of us would exist: their periods. When WASH United first integrated the issue of menstruation in a large scale sanitation and hygiene campaign in India in late 2012, we were shocked to find just how taboo the issue was even among senior government officials. When we looked at the global level, we found that the issue of menstruation was shrouded in an almost complete silence and completely neglected at all levels. Building on WASH United's background in innovative campaigning around sanitation, we realised that in order to break through the taboos and silence, it would require a new type of collaborative campaign that would bundle the efforts of all organizations and individuals fighting to normalize periods at a given point of time. Our idea: a global day to catalyze awareness and action. The average duration of the female cycle is 28 days, with an average 5 days of bleeding. Hence, 28 May - Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day). In mid 2013, we shared this idea with partners and everyone encouraged us to do it. So MH Day was born. Applying design thinking and agile management principles, over the past 6 years we have managed to grow MH Day into a powerful global movement that creates collective impact at scale. By 28 May 2019, when we celebrated the 6th global MH Day, the movement had grown to more than 530 partner organizations, including global actors like UNICEF, UNFPA and the World Bank, but also hundreds of small local NGOs. Around MH Day 2019, the partnership organized >700 on-the-ground MH Day events to break the silence and raise awareness, educate girls and catalyze government action on MHM. Global media published >2,200 content pieces about periods around MH Day, and people around the world - including celebrities like Kourtney Kardashian and Akshay Kumar - made more than 114,000 contributions on social media using MH Day hashtags, reaching more than 317 million people with positive messaging about periods. In India, one of the countries with the biggest taboos, MH Day was trending. In terms of concrete action, as part of MH Day 310 organizations committed to educate 41.4 million girls about periods this year - 52% increase from 2018 goals. We're only in year six. We can achieve a lot more. | Mr. Thorsten Kiefer - Founder and CEO, WASH United gGmbH Thorsten is convinced that we can make periods normal and achieve safe drinking water, sanitation and good hygiene (WASH) for all people by 2030 and WASH United exists to help make it happen. A lawyer by training, Thorsten started his career working for a Geneva-based human rights organisation, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights to water and sanitation and the German Institute for Human Rights. In 2010, Thorsten started WASH United. Under his leadership, WASH United has helped to educate more than 2 million girls and boys about menstrual hygiene and WASH and reached more than 1 billion of with positive taboo-busing messaging on menstruation and sanitation. WASH United’s work has been recognized through numerous international awards, including the 2018 Shorty Awards for the Menstrual Hygiene Day initiative. Since 2012, Thorsten is an Ashoka fellow. Thorsten holds a LL.M. degree in international law from the University of Amsterdam. | Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day) | A global advocacy platform that catalyzes awareness and action towards a world where women and girls are no longer held back by their periods. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Menstrual Hygiene Day is a global initiative. In 2019, we had on-the-ground activities in more than 70 countries. Every country participated in the digital campaign. | Yes | MH Day has >530 partner organizations, including UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank, Global Citizen, WaterAid, WSSCC, World Vision, IFRC, P&G and many more. | Scaling | We selected ""scaling"" because with more than 530 partner organizations, >700 events in more than 70 countries and a digital reach of >317 million people, MH Day has already reached significant scale. However, we believe that there still is huge potential for further growth. | Poor menstrual hygiene caused by a lack of education on the issue, persisting taboos and stigma, limited access to hygienic menstrual products and poor sanitation infrastructure undermines the educational and income earning opportunities, confidence, health and overall social status of women and girls around the world. As a result, millions of women and girls are held back and kept from realising their full potential - for themselves, their families, their communities and their nations. | WASH United as the initiator/coordinator of MH Day is responsible for campaign strategy and planning, development of campaign materials (on-the-ground and online) in multiple languages (E, F, ESP, Arabic, Hindi), coordination of and support to the network of >530 MH Day partner organizations, strategic global level partnerships, global-level media engagement, campaigning on MH Day global channels, monitoring &, reporting and, external representation. We provide MH Day partners with free high-quality white-label campaign materials (event posters and banners, content for social media, etc) and capacity building support (eg webinars), making it extremely easy for big and small organizations around the world to organize local MH Day events and participate in the global digital campaign. the global campaign in turn increase the relevance of the issue at the national level and makes it easier for local partners to engage decision makers and get the attention of local media. Our long-term vision is that by 2030, periods are a normal fact of life. Period-related stigmatisation and exclusion are where they belong: in the history books. To achieve this goal, we are now transitioning MH Day to an ongoing campaign where the broad global campaign around 28 May is complemented by more specific thematic campaigning all year round. | MH Day is unique because it is the only global campaign to make periods normal. In terms of methodology/approach, MH Day is different in that it consequently harnesses the power of collaboration to leverage resources and create collective impact at scale. There are two key levers we are harnessing: (1) Enabling local action at scale: Especially smaller organizations often have limited capacity re campaign strategy and development of high-quality campaign materials. For MH Day, we provide MH Day partners with a broad portfolio of ready-to-use campaign materials for on-the-ground events and digital campaigning for free. These materials can be co-branded and adapted to maximize ownership. Rather than everyone investing time and resources to create different scrappy campaign content, everyone gets the same quality content for free. This means that partners can focus their time and resources on what they do best: activating communities, organizing powerful local campaign events, engaging local media. (2) ""one campaign"" = media uptake As partners around the world ""sing as a choir"" and use the same key visuals, hashtags and headlines, MH Day becomes one coherent and highly visible global campaign. That makes it relevant to global and local media who pick it up and amplify it. The methodology/approach described above enables MH Day to achieve campaign outcomes for a fraction of the cost of a traditional campaign. | While MH Day is now fairly well-developed in terms of overall campaign strategy and approach, we strive to continuously further improve it based on results and feedback from partners in order to further grow its impact. We measure progress through a combination of tools. For one, we capture the number and outcomes of local on-the-ground MH Day campaign activities through event reports partners submit to us. In addition, we engage in comprehensive monitoring of social and digital media channels using meltwater, a professional media monitoring tool, to track the results of our global-level campaigning. Our collective impact is summarised in an annual MH Day impact report which is available on the MH Day website. | Planned Goals and Milestones: In six years, MH Day has grown from zero to >530 partner organizations, >700 on-the-ground events in >70 countries, >2,200 pieces of media coverage, >317 million people reached, and commitments to educate 41.4 million girls on menstrual hygiene. By 2025, we aim to achieve >600 partner organizations, >1,000 on-the-ground events in >100 countries, >3,000 pieces of media coverage, >500 million people reached, and annual commitments to educate 200 million girls on menstrual hygiene. By 2030, we aim to achieve >700 partner organizations, >2,000 on-the-ground events in >140 countries, >5,000 pieces of media coverage, >1 billion people reached, and annual commitments to educate 500 million girls on menstrual hygiene. To sustain and further grow the impact of MH Day, we now need to grow the capacity of our team. More concretely, we plan to recruit a communications manager, a social media manager, 2 additional partnership managers (to support NGO, government and private sector relations) and a celebrity relations manager. | To sustain and further increase the impact of MH Day, including turning it into an ongoing campaign that raises awareness and drives action on menstrual hygiene all year round, we need financial resources to strengthen the capacity of the WASH United team that makes MH Day possible. Short-term need (by 2020): additional USD 300,000 per year. Medium-term need (by 2022/3): additional USD 700,000 per year. Long-term need (by 2025): additional USD 1.1 million per year. | https://menstrualhygieneday.org/ http://wash-united.org/ About MH Day: https://www.facebook.com/MenstrualHygieneDay/videos/1269571096496101/ Campaign video 2019: https://www.facebook.com/MenstrualHygieneDay/videos/629175464268013/ Most succesful campaign video so far (8M views): https://www.facebook.com/MHDayIndia/videos/1786633478333200/ Joint article with World Bank, P&G, etc: https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/its-time-for-action-period Joint article with Catarina de Albuquerque, CEO of the Sanitation and Water for All (SWA) partnership https://time.com/4795611/menstrual-hygiene-day-period-education-resources/ | I only have one recent recording that addresses Menstrual Hygiene Day: Podcast with Kaospilot about the benefits of systems thinking: https://open.spotify.com/show/5EBc46YOwVNLMuI7CYqQxy | Shorty Award 2018: https://shortyawards.com/3rd-socialgood/menstrual-hygiene-day-2018 Lego Foundation & Ashoka re-imagine learnung challenge: https://www.changemakers.com/play2learn/blog/just-announced-10-reimagine-learning-challenge-champions Ashoka fellowship 2012: https://www.heimat-der-changemaker.de/fellow/thorsten-kiefer/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
467 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Francis | Mbewe | Kukula Solar | https://kukulasolar.com/ | Founder & CEO | Male | Zambia | Zambia | English | I am passionate about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and having an opportunity to meet like-minded change makers from across the world motivates me to put up this application for the UN Solutions Summit. I believe the summit will help me renew my passionate to do more in my communities as we work towards building a better world for all. I also believe meeting with other change-makers during the UN Solution Summit will make me exchange ideas and learn how together we can build a world we all dream of. Since 2016, i have been working with last-mile communities, helping them displace kerosene usage and embracing new technology. I have developed an innovative distribution model to ensure that people living on less than $2 a day can afford to own a durable, warranted and affordable solar products. Through this innovative model, we have managed to put over 3,000 solar lamps in the hands of families living on less than $2 a day within 2 years!. Through this distribution innovation, we are posed to reach more than One Million people by 2030 with life-changing products and will also help save our planet from global warming by saving over 3 Million CO2 emissions! | A serial start-up founder, Francis works as CEO at Kukula Solar, a eco inclusive social enterprise that is accelerating rural communities access to clean off grid energy to empower women and girls in Zambia and Malawi. Since 2016, Kukula Solar has distributed over 3,500 solar products to women and girls, enabling women to do business for longer hours and girls to study when night falls. Francis was awarded the Mandela Washington Fellow in 2017, Tony Elumelu Entreprenuer in 2017, Engineers Without Borders- Canada, Kumvana Fellow 2016, Young African Leadership Initiative- YALI RLC Fellow 2016, Obama Foundation Emerging Leader 2018 and the recently selected winner of the UN Seed Award 2019! In the next 5 years, Francis expects to lead a team at Kukula Solar to recruit 1,000 women and youths as solarpreneurs and empower them with the skills they need to build a micro business distributing solar lanterns and earn an income. He also expect Kukula Solar to have distributed 500,000 solar lanterns to hard-to reach communities so that they can help each family living on less than $2 a day save approximately $150 every year. Environmentally, Kukula Solar expect to have saved over 125,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions thereby reducing the effect of climate change. | Accelerating Rural Communities Access to Clean Off Grid Energy | We are social enterprise based in Zambia, distributing solar products to people who need them most: the millions living in poverty in rural Zambia. | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Zambia and Malawi ( We are in talks with Partners in Uganda, Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo to implement our solutions in those countries) | Yes | Greenlight Planet-USA, Angaza, Seed Award, United States Africa Development Foundation, Obama Foundation, Tony Elumelu Foundation | Sustainable Scale | We have distributed over 3,000 solar lamps and gaining traction from other communities and countries. Currently in Zambia,we have request to distribute in two other provinces and we also have request to distribute in Malawi,Uganda,Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo.Our innovation has been tested and proven to work for people leaving on less than $2 a day and this can be seen through the award and fellowships we continue to win and admitted to. Additionally,we have a team ready for scale! | There are nearly 600 million people in Sub Saharan Africa living in energy poverty and the vast majority of these people rely on kerosene for lighting. Use of kerosene has direct adverse effects relating to a person's health, safety and general-well being. When kerosene is burnt, it releases particulate matters, carbon monoxide, sulpher dioxide and various nitrogen oxides. Exposure to this has effects on a Person’s health, primarily an increase in the risk of respiratory infections. | Our Solution is a distribution network of life-changing products to people who need them most: the million living in poverty in rural communities. We make this possible by distributing the products through our Rent-to-Own model, allowing families living on less than $2 a day own durable, warranted and money saving solar products. To make sure we reach the people who need the products the most, we make sure that we recruit Solarpreneurs who go with the products straight to families' doorsteps, educating customers about products and providing a payment plan to fit their budget. Our long term vision for global impact is to lift people out of poverty through distribution of life-changing products. | Our solution is very unique because we help people living on less than $2 a day transition to clean solar energy by removing the financial constraints that can make this transition challenging. Through our Rent-to-Own model, we make solar lanterns and Solar Home Systems available to poor and low-income families at the price of kerosene they no longer need. We also partner with traditional leaders in rural communities to set up Solar Recharge Stations to enable families, regardless of their income, to access solar lanterns and to therefore displace kerosene lamps forever. Kerosene lamps are unhealthy, dangerous, expensive to run and bad for the planet. | Our team has progressed from just an idea to concept, solution and now delivered the solution to the market for customers to start benefiting from it. We continue penetrating new markets with our ready to market solution and are more than ready to get to other countries in sub Saharan Africa in the next 5 years. We measure our solutions progress based in the number of solar units we have distributed so far, number of people impacted, money saved by helping families switch from kerosene lamps to our solar units and also tonnes of CO2 emission saved. Currently our progress data shows that we have managed to distribute over 3,000 solar units to under-served communities, impacting over 20,000 people and helping families save more than $900,000! We have helped save over 1,800 tonnes of CO2 emission in 3 years, that's a total of 1,800,000 Kgs! | In the next 5 years, we plan to expand into Central Region of Malawi and distribute 200,000 solar products to people living in hard to reach areas. This will have a direct impact on 1.2 Million people in Malawi and will save families income up to $60 Million for switching from kerosene lamps to solar lamps. We plan to help 800,000 school going children to continue to read and study when night falls. We plan to help 400,000 women and men to increase hours of trading. We plan to recruit 500 women and youths as solarpreneurs, enabling them to earn a decent and acceptable income to support their families and invest in their micro businesses and communities. Our goal is to save 150,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions in the next 5 years! | Our short-term resources we most need at the moment is financial resources in form of impact investment or a grant for working capital to restock the inventory and reach out to more rural communities we are currently serving.We have a demand of 2,000 for solar products but we do not have the capacity to supply because we do not have enough working capital to meet the demand. Our medium term needs is a well trained Human resources. This will be to train and invest in our solarpreneurs who work everyday to distribute the solar products to hard to reach communities. Training them in ethical leadership, marketing and negotiating skills will help them grow their micro businesses and increase their income. Our Long-term needs is emotional resources who will act as our support system as we continue working towards distributing 1 Million solar products to last mile communities. These resources maybe mentors, or professional groups passionate about clean energy and in particular solar energy. | https://kukulasolar.com/ https://youtu.be/xOJUIcSN1tY https://youtu.be/SJbO9QWceWc https://youtu.be/kDZnYnxiBDA https://youtu.be/dZhParBRcFU https://youtu.be/A_bT3Uhqhmw https://youtu.be/dQPTrY9pRJw https://youtu.be/eYU5KP0gFkg | https://youtu.be/4QyNtUIhuTI | UN Seed Award 2019 for Eco Inclusive Social Venture Winner 2019 United States Africa Development Foundation (USADF) Youth Led Enterprise Winner 2017 Global Good Fund 2017 Finalist Tony Elumelu 2017 Entrepreneur Yunus & Youth 2019 Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
468 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Samson | Abioye | Neco | www. Mynecoexams. org | Subject officer | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am a victim of sexual harassment,and I have been able to overcome this trauma,so I seek to use this opportunity to educate the public on the cause of sexual harassment and how to overcome it by early sexual education. | I am a young citizen of Nigeria and a high school graduate of human kinetics education, I have worked as a teacher in different schools and have adequate skills to impart knowledge, I have handled sexual education in different schools so I seek to channel my range of experience in educating the public. | Ending Sexual harassment through early childhood sexual education | #end #sexual #harassment | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Nigeria, Niger, Ghana,U. S and many other countries having this problem | Yes | friends | Ideation | Its what I have experience,so I believe with my ability to overcome this trauma I can help others who has not been harassed not to be,and also help those who are victim of this trauma out. | It's channel at delivering people living with emotional trauma as a result of sexual harassment - Ensure healthy lives and promote healthy living for all ages. | I have held a training for some set of youth and there was several testimony of freedom from this trauma. | Because I used to be a victim,so I can easily help with my experience. | We have series of testimonies. | Yes we have a global vision so we are going to be employing many more people. | We need finance and tutor from interested organizations | Not yet available. | Not yet available. | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
469 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Hunny | Bhagchandani | Torchit Electronics Pvt Ltd | https://mytorchit.com | Founder | Male | India | India | English | TorchIt our company has always aspired to work towards an egalitarian society where every human being gets equal opportunity and the right kind of toolkit to excel. With our products we have always had the same mindset. Saarthi provides the opportunity to the visually impaired/blind community to seek empowerment, independence and employment through gaining access to a simplistic, effective and most importantly the world’s most affordable assistive navigation device. The device has been designed keeping in mind the blind community is not used and doesn’t have inclination towards complex solutions based on AI but having said that to instil confidence it is essential for the device to be effective thereby we improved the device to be 99.7% accurate in obstacle detection and most importantly since 90% of the Differently Abled community comes from the Low Income Household, it was quintessential for us to keep the device costing which is very affordable. Our motivation has always been driven to provide the Differently Abled community to have a more independent and empowered life. | Hunny Bhagchandani, Founder of TorchIt, social innovator with a keen sense to bring change to the society by empowering the differently abled community with the Power of Independence. Growing up in a modern Sindhi business family in Ahmedabad, Hunny acquired the traits of being compassionate while also bringing economics to everything where if a thing is not effective and sustainable, it wouldn’t survive the test of time. Pursuing his Bachelors in Industrial Engineering from Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU), India with an internship at a social organisation brought him to the idea of Torchit, Social Tech startup, empowering differently abled community by providing Innovative and Affordable assistive solutions. Through constant support from professors, mentors and fellow entrepreneurs he developed and implemented the idea to a way of touching millions of lives. He is Leadership Innovation fellow at Royal Academy of Engineering, UK; also, fellow at Enabling Toys, MIT Media Lab, US. The idea behind TorchIt remains to bring innovative products for Differently Abled community, so they can lead their lives independently. | Saarthi – Providing vision for the visually impaired to help them live an empowered and independent life | Saarthi is the world’s most affordable, simplistic and effective assistive navigation device. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India, Kenya, Tanzania, Bangladesh, South Africa, South Korea, | Yes | Blind People Association, Africa Union for the Blind, National Association for the Blind | Scaling | We already have more than 20,000 lives impacted through the active impact of the usage of the device in the daily lives of the users of the device. We are working on tying with more and more impact partners to take the product to different parts of the world so that we can have impact stories coming about from across the globe. | 285 million visually impaired across the globe face multiple problems in their daily lives ranging from day to day indoor and outdoor travel, to getting fair employment opportunities and even feeling left out in the society. A Visually Impaired person can’t move around independently just because of the fact, he/she fears from the fact of getting lost or meeting an accident on the road, due to the fact that their vision is acutely compromised. | Ideated as something that comes to the rescue of millions of visually challenged people across the world, and that can change the mindset of normal people towards person with visual impairment. ‘Saarthi’ is hand-held device developed by team Torchit. It can be used to maneuver around obstacles they encounter in their surroundings on a day-to-day basis. Owing to our mission of empowering visually challenged, this product has been made highly accurate and quite economical with respect to the price, ensuring that most people will derive its benefits without spending too much. ‘Saarthi’, is our first innovative product and used by visually impaired people to sense their surroundings and navigate their way through life. We attached highly accurate sensors to the device in order to perceive obstacles and provided feedback in the form of a buzzing sound and vibrating sensations. A powerful battery and microcontroller were used to make it more efficient and long-lasting. Useful in all different situations, i.e. indoor, outdoor mobility. Through Saarthi, we are promoting independence to the visually impaired person to move around, gain confidence and even get recruited to support his/her family, thereby minimizing more and more families falling prey to the vicious circle of BOP. Torchit targets to empower 1 million differently abled community in India and overseas over the next 5 years | We believe that in the era of technological advancements, everyone should be able to get benefits of it. And also better equipment with more functionality providing more comfort is what makes people happy. Technology till now has been pretty biased towards the disabled people as they are derived from the contemporary technology and are stuck with the mainstream one. Torch-It expects a number of other companies to enter this space but most of them will initially focus on generating revenue which will limit their opportunity to create the ‘true value’, which we feel is the element which people demand and require. Most of the competitive devices fail to provide technologically advanced and accurate devices. Moreover, our marketing strategy aims at helping the blind get the product at a relatively very low price and also helping the people with that revenue by coordinating with CSRs, government schemes and NGO’s. We are creating a community of 'Saarthi' Users like 'Saarthi family' so our end users are directly connected to each other, and also we are giving them updates regarding Govt. schemes, job openings, competitive exams, readers – writers support, etc. This makes our model unique and also it will attract more customers. | We have already provided our product in the Indian, African, South Korean and the States market with more than 20,000 active users. We mark our progress with the following metrics: Active users of the device Families touched/Lives empowered Geographies where we have reached and are actively looking for impact partners User stories for support gained and feedback Enquiries for the device from various countries | We have already touched some developed and even developing countries but in the next 3-5 years we want to reach to more developing economies including Ethiopia, Tanzania, Philippines, Kenya, Middle East and other markets so that we can spread awareness and develop an active userbase in these markets. We also intend to deploy more and more active visually impaired community members for product assembly and user training. | We are actively looking for Impact partners for connecting with the right stakeholders in the sponsor, beneficiary and state ecosystem, while we are also actively looking for visually impaired assembly workers and trainers who contribute majorly in the product manufacturing as our 70% of the device is manufactured and assembled by the blind/visually impaired workforce. Our short term needs are to identify developing economies where the product impact is sought, the mid term goals are to look for impact partners and towards the end we look for stakeholder connections and projects for execution. | Website: https://mytorchit.com/ Torchit linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/torchit Torchit fb: https://www.facebook.com/torchitt/ Torchit Twitter: https://twitter.com/TorchitLtd Torchit - Saarthi, An assistive mobility aid for Visually Impaired (Testing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVzj88MxP1w | 1.TorchIt - upstart empowering the visually impaired (English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCPmnDDZFqs 2.Torchit - Saarthi Users (English): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRugxBHDq-4 Podcast: https://hubhopper.com/episode/ep-05-interview-with-hunny-bhagchandani-cofounder-at-torchit-1558996710 http://www.coe-iot.com/blog/ai-for-an-eye-makes-the-world-better-for-the-visually-impaired/ http://iceviwestasia.in/news/a-new-mobility-device-for-persons-with-visual-impairment/ https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2019/07/dilipbhai-a-beacon-of-hope/ https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2019/08/saarthi-carving-a-better-future-for-thousands-of-visually-impaired/ https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2019/07/torchit-empowering-vision-beyond-sight/ Blind People Association Letter for Product: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I2OasPlRHK--57hgkvEwQwhyh9wB8phU/view National Association for the blind letter for the product: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R-TILQzb3uGnLZVrFM44RKmRz1rg2PWP/view Yourstory: https://yourstory.com/2019/06/k-start-challenge-opened-doors-startup-torchit DNA: https://www.dnaindia.com/ahmedabad/report-visually-impaired-people-receive-torch-lit-sensor-stick-by-startup-saarthi-2552513 Modi Book: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yedoljebWTxSQzQYXJTKaCeBZJaYQUyM/view MIT certi: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16q5g2w1hYO-Rds5todAzVW0WA0-Dq8kz/view Awards: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DSXyv10zI-PvwbmAfxvilA5QDgzUuvCn/view News Hook: https://newzhook.com/story/22651 | Millenium Alliance Award, Round Five; India Innovation Growth Programme 2.0 40+ state and national level awards TOP 7 Wellbeing startup, Hello Tomorrow Paris, TOP 25, Startup Istanbul 2017, TOP 6 Startup Awards, CNBC Venture. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
470 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mphatso | Chembekeza | corpsAfrica | https://www.corpsafrica.org | Volunteer | Male | Malawi | Malawi | English | My motivation for applying for the UN solutions summit is for exposure and to build networks that cross borders of my nation Malawi. Malawi is a developing country whose economy is highly dependent on agriculture as are many other countries in subsaharan Africa. However the crop production levels have decreased in my country due to several reasons but most especially because of infertile soils and over reliance on rains. For the former reason, there is high dependency on chemical fertilizers to produce the sufficient crops including maize, soya, beans and tobacco for both substistence and commercial use. However, the regular farmer(living on less than $1/day) in the rural areas cannot afford these fertilizers which range from $27 -$30 per bag. Similarly, though there are many rivers and lakes in my country less than 20% of potential irrigation land is utilised. Nevertheless working as CorpsAfrica Volunteer in rural Kasungu, I was exposed to an innovative idea that was being implemented by a tobacco farmer in the community by the name of Khetwayo Sambo. He was making his own organic fertilizer by mixing compost manure with a small amount of chemical fertilizer. Since it was one man, we linked him with a Farmers club so as to upscale the production and supply to the larger community. These bags of organic fertilizer are as effective as chemical fertilizer but can be made from locally available resources including compost manure,maize bran, water and small quantity of chemical fertilizer. Henceforth they are being sold at $9 per bag of which the majority of the community can afford. Most importantly this Project funded by CorpsAfrica has equipped the Mchenga Farmers club comprising of 16 members with equipment including wheelbarrows, shovels, sackbags, solar pump, gumboots, maize seed, chemical fertilizer and sprayers so as to startup a fertilizer making company. The club is also irrigating 2 acres of land using the solar pump which has a maize, cabbages and mustard So in conclusion., I apply to be part of this UN solutions summit because I believe this idea of organic fertilizer is beneficial to the typical African rural farmer who has low crop yields due to the failure to apply the expensive chemical fertilizer to his/her field. | I am Mphatso Greevin Chembekeza, a single man aged 27 from Lilongwe, Malawi. I hold a Bachelors degree in Arts Humanities acquired from the University of Malawi, Chancellor College. After completing my undergraduate degree, I worked as a short term consultant with World Bank-Malawi helping in as a survey assistant for three months in 2016. After this with a passion for education I went to the border district of Nsanje were I teamed up with three other and invested the money I saved from the World to run a Secondary school for 2 years . The school eventually closed due to various financial constraints and I joined as a headmaster at Master Key Secondary school. It is from this job that I volunteered with Corps Africa in rural Kasungu where Ive just completed my service on 31st July 2019. I also served as president of our cohort and was awarded two honors as th Peoples Volunteer and Most innovative project(Mchenga Organic Fertilizer project) My volunteering experience has strengthened me to understand that community development is best administered when its community led not imposed. So i have a an asset based community development mindset where the human is at the centre of his own advancement | Mchenga Organic Fertilizer product | The solution is to provide the rural farmer access to affordable locally made organic fertilizer that will increase crop production | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | It is Malawi only | Yes | CorpsAfrica | Transition to Scale | It is on transition to scale because the implementing team, Mchenga Farmers club hasnt yet started producing the final product of organic fertilizer. They are in the stage of producing raw materials including compost manure and maize bran. Currently, they have made compost pits that will be ready mid September and they are currently irrigating maize that will be ready end September. Thus they will start mixing and selling the organic fertilizer in October to the larger community | It is the low productivity of crops by farmers in the community due to the unfertile soils that require fertilizers for peak performance. For instance the majority of farmers produce less than 15 bags per acre. This is so because the available fertilizers are expensive that most of the rural communities cannot afford. With majority of the rural community living on less $1/day, most families fail to buy the imported chemical fertilizers that range between $27-$30. (2.5 bags/acre of maize) | This solution empowers the rural farmer to produce their own fertilizer using locally available resouces including compost manure, maize bran, water and chemical fertilizer. The mixture takes the ratio of 40kg maize bran to 40kgs Compost manure to 40 litres water to 5kgs chemical fertilizer. In terms of application, 5 bags of organic fertilizer can be applied to 1 acre of maize and produce 30-35 bags of maize. This mixture is approved by the Malawian Ministry of Agriculture and European Union(OCP). This innovation is for smallholder farmers in Malawi and beyond who aim at having high crop yield from affordable, cost effective and environmental friendly organic fertilizers. The potential is very high for different African rural communities that learn from the Mchenga Organic fertilizer business and emulate it within their communities. This might be the difference that would uplift their livelihoods through generating of income and availability of food. | The uniqueness of this solition is that it can be easily emulated in other communitiies at ease. Moreover its potential for economic gain to the beneficiaries of Mchenga Farmers Club is very big. It is led by community members and has high potential of sustainablity so long as all required equipment is available for smooth production | The team has achieved several milestones that are to make sure that there is a steady production of organic fertilizer to meet the high demand in the community. Firstly, the 16 club members underwent compost manure training from which each member has made 1.5m ×1.5m×1.5m to be ready in mid September 2019. Secondly, the club did organic fertilizer making from which they made 10 bags of organic fertilizer. Additionally, they are irrigating 2 acres of maize from which they expect to produce maize bran by end September 2019. In mid October they will start producing with an goal of at least 150 bags of organic fertilizer that will be sold during the rainy season in that starts in December 2019 | The project site is in Kakwale community with over 800 households who depend on growing crops for food and income. So the project plans to produce enough organic fertilizer that can be supplied to all potential customers at an affordable price. The project also seeks to reach national markets by opening branches in all regions of the country. | The short term need is to construct a building consisting of a factory, warehouse and shop for sales and production. Currently the farmers club is using a building that has been offered in kind by one member of the club which doesnt reach the standards. The second short term need is to supplement the club with safety clothing including face masks, gumboots and worksuits. The medium term goal is to provide the club with chemical fertilizers that will assist in up scaling production so as to aid production. Moreover the procurement of larger scale irrigation equipment that will cover more land to grow maize to produce more maize bran. Currently the club is using a portable Majipump solar pump with a radius of 100m to irrigate the 2 acres of land. | 1.Mchenga Organic Fertilizer Project Summary- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HEvzEv8uy1auK_PhOfeOi2yDhgh9eO-_/view?usp=drivesdk 2. Mchenga Organic Fertilizer Project proposal- https://drive.google.com/file/d/12LQ2YQ-nEbpyirC32kNZ6Bvf0pOs8ONS/view?usp=drivesdk 3. Project gantt chart- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UT5o0fkGQnV7PrajDbAt7IyUiAB7iq_F/view?usp=drivesdk 4. Project M&E plan- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ur1lG2IxIY0YttEuhuC12nFowf7P7m8l/view?usp=drivesdk | Not available yet but a documentary is being produced of the project that will be uploaded on https://www.corpsafrica.org | The project won the Most innovative project award by the CorpsAfrica Staff My fellow volunteers awarded me the Peoples volunteer award. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
471 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Abdul-Rahaman | Yussif | Pumping is Life Ghana | www.pompenisleven.nl | Project Manager | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | I have the passion in using my knowledge and skills to designing, developing and implementing innovative solutions in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) development sector in Ghana. I have been involved in these activities since 2007 and I believe I have gained a lot of experience relevant to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Through my experience in the use of Geophysics survey for sitting of tube wells, I innovated a solution for increasing water supply in communities with difficult hydrogeology where the geophysics profile indicates very low or lack of groundwater resources. This innovation is rain water harvesting and so far three models are provided in scale with different capacities ranging from 1.5 cubic meters to 80 cubic meters. The water from these systems are used for drinking, small scale drip irrigation and for artificial aquifer recharge to mitigate the climate change scenario of reduction in groundwater recharge by a rate of 25% by 2030. So far over 250 rain water systems have been constructed for households, schools and health centers in the Northern communities of Ghana. I have also innovated the use of rope pumps to supply water for small scale drip irrigation and livestock farming to increase household food and income. So far 2 pilot projects have successfully implemented and 30 are in the process of being scaled up to benefit over 50,000 people in the coming 2 years. I have also experience in the marketing of household water treatment and safe storage using the innovative try and buy approach to increase safe drinking water at the point of use. I have established an indepedent HWTS supply chain network for 10 rural communities with 20 members consisting of 50% female and 50% male. This gender parity enabled us to use the D-CAP initiative for the buying and recovery of sales revenue. This project enabled 200 BOP households to increase their access to safe drinking water, whilst the supply chain network provided livelihood to members and the switch reduced plastic waste. With above plethora of experiences which I achieved through active stakkeholder engagements, donors and policy frameworks i believe now is the time for me to share my experience on a world stage of solutions where I can also learn and gain additional international experience. I believe that this can contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. | I am Yussif Abdul-Rahaman and I am 35 years old Ghanaian from Northern Region. I like family and I am married with three children. I reflect a varied personality including practical common sense, self discipline, ambitious and the qualities of a reflective learner and compromising conflict resolution style. I am also determined, an implementer and a complete-finisher and I like working to the highest standards. I just completed an international course in Wetlands, Integrated Water Resources Management and food security as an OKP fellow at the Wageningen Center for Development Innovation in the Netherlands. I also hold an online certificate of Environmental Public Health from Tulane University and University of Alabama in the United States of America. Locally in Ghana I am a former student of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, University for Development Studies and Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. I am an active member of Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council and the Rural Water Supply Network. For the past 10 years I have been working in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in Ghana through the use of innovation to solving critical WASH related problems. I am interested in innovations that improve on local economic development using appropriate technologies. Thus far I have innovations in rope pumps, manual drilling technologies, rain water harvesting and recently the marketing of household water treatment and safe storage products to the Base of Pyramid. These solutions have benefited 120,000 people | Improving local circular agriculture economy through local fecal waste management | Provides motivation for households to safely dispose their fecal matter and the use of fecal matter for organic fertilizer production and application | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Ghana | No | Proof of Concept | The concept of circular economy in Ghana is currently starting and only visible in urban areas. I believe that a circular economy in the rural areas that is local, shall be based on their main agriculture driven local economy. A feasibility showed that the generation of fecal matter as an ingredient for production and marketing organic fertilizer can motivate households to construct and use latrines. Whilst this is feasible we are trying to prove it practically in local areas. | Globally 2 billion people do not have basic sanitation and in Ghana over 26 million do not have access to basic sanitation despite several government, CSOs, NGOs and CBOs efforts for the past decades. Over 66% of this population are in rural areas whose main livelihood is agriculture. The current state of agriculture relies on inorganic fertilizers which are costly against the background of low and seasonable income earners constantly sucked by the disease burden of poor sanitation. | The solution is to safely manage household fecal matter to produce organic fertilizer for households to apply in their farms. The shares households hold in the management is to produce the input fecal matter. Households can only collect fecal matter through latrines. Therefore households constructs and use their latrines through the Community Household Latrines Supply Chain Network (CHLSCN). The CHLSCN uses appropriate technologies to construct a complete three seater latrine at a price of US$ 290.00 with a flexible payment plan for BOP. The latrines are designed for annual emptying of the sludge and transported to the organic fertilizer composting and production center. The center produces the organic fertilizer at an estimated price of US$6 per 50kg against the inorganic fertilizer of US$23 per 50kg which is currently being subsidized to US$12. The organic fertilizer is sold at a price of US$4 per 50kg to participating households and the US$2 represents payment for their raw material as fecal sludge that is used for the production of the organic fertilizer. Excess organic fertilizers are sold through the market. The global impact of this solution is for over 45 million people in the following vision areas: 1. increase in access to basic sanitation services in premises 2. promote sustainable agriculture production and consumption 3. promote local economic growth with productive employment At country level this innovation can be an exit point for the current subsidies. | The concept thus far demonstrates its uniqueness in the following areas: 1. It is based on an inherent motivating marketing incentive of US$2 per 50 kg of organic fertilizer produced for households who have constructed and currently producing fecal sludge. This motivates households to invest in the construction of their latrines as against the vague CLTS and local sanitation bye-laws which over the past 10 years and decades have failed to motivate households to build their latrines even with subsidy programs. 2. The solution improves on the local economy through employment in the community household latrine construction network, organic fertilizer production and marketing unlike the other solutions that brings in outside ideas that contributes little to the local economies. This solution also contributes to sustainable agricuture and consumption patterns of households. 3. Promotes Circular Economy at the local level: This solution converts fecal waste into organic fertilizers. The value created promotes local circular agriculture economy valued at about US$2 billion on annual basis. The current solutions of CLTS and other measures provides only one stop solution which ends up threatening the environment. 4. The new methodology is to establish and demonstrate functioning models of this solution to market the idea to other local areas. The solution was developed through participatory processes and its implementation shall involve local stakeholders as much as possible. | The local level stakeholder analysis have been conducted by the team using the participatory matrix and Goal Oriented Project Planning methods. As a result all the stakeholder characteristics, shared visions and linkages have been established. Feasibility study of the solution have been conducted in the areas of the deployment of the solution, ways of establishing the community household latrine construction supply chain network, establishing the fecal waste treatment and organic fertilizer production and finally marketing the organic fertilizer. It also includes the product quality standards protocols. The model to deploy the solution also include measures to break the adoption barriers of organic fertilizers using models to demonstrate the relevance of organic fertilizers as nutrients for plant growth. Also it is believed based on records that government subsidies on fertilizers are not sustainable and bedivlled with several setbacks such as smuggling and corruption. And our search indicates that there is very high government appetite in solutions that can serve as a sustainable exit points for the ending of the current debilitating fertilizer subsidies. The concept model and theory of change have also been design with the participation of major local stakeholders. All these progress have been put together in the form of a project proposal. The proposal includes monitoring, evaluation and learning plan to measure indicators that shall determine progress and success. | The goals of the solution include: The goal of the solution is to improve on the health and well being of households in local communities through increasing their members access to basic sanitation at their premises. The other important goal is to improve on the local circular agriculture economy through the management of household fecal waste generated as a result of their increased access to basic sanitation by using fecal sludge to produce organic fertilizers. The specific objectives of the solution are: 1. by end of December 2030, 45 million people's access to basic sanitation is increased through the construction and usage of latrines in their premises in the West African sub region. 2. by end of December 2030, 25 million farmers' access and usage of organic fertilizersincreased in the West African sub region. The Milestones 1. The pilot project launched in Ghana with: a. Establishment of the Community Household Latrines Construction Network business, b. Establishment of the Fecal waste treatment and organic fertilizer production Center c. Establishment of the demonstration farm models using organic fertilizers d. Establishment of the organic fertilizer marketing scheme e. Sell the first 20,000 bags (50Kg) of organic fertilizers in 5 local communities 2. Scale the project to more than 2000 communities in the West African sub region | Short term Resources needed to scale We need resources in the short term to organize the project within a year period and to use 2 years to start operations. Within the 1 to 3 year period the following resources are needed: 1. Human resources: We need 3 staff to start the organization process and because we are going to run the project using the results base management approach, we are going to hire the services of facilitators. 2. Material resources: we also need facilitation materials, transportation, workshop venues, and tools 3. Financail resources: we need this resource to organize all other resources needed and also for the intervention areas of setting up the latrines construction supply chain businesses, the fecal waste treatment and organic fertilizer production center and the marketing scheme which includes the demonstration model farms. This resources are needed to set the priorities, goals and objectives in the form of a strategic plan that spells out our short, medium and long term goals. Medium Term resources needed Within the medium term between 3 to 7 years we need resources to start full scale operations. The resources needed is financial to put all the parts of the project model into concert. We need financial resources to build a quality control program, service contracts and building our capacity to scale to other countries Long term resource needs: Within 7 to 10 years above we need resources to deal with competition and branding. | The links below show cases some works I am engaged in www.linkedin.com/in/yussif-abdul-rahaman-a119aa22 www.facebook.com/PS.WASH.R/ | I share below youtube links about my video speaking engagements a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvLHbuZ-8Sg b. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3AZsCvSTgM c. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC-__6vJ5rI | I have being awarded the following base on the work that I am doing: 1. Netherlands OKP fellowship 2019 to participate in Wageningen Center for Development Innovation's short course on Wetlands, Integrated Water resources management and food security between 3rd June 2019 to 21st June 2019. 2. Water and Development Alliance (USA) 2016 scholarship to attend the Kampala WASH symposium in Munyonyo in June 2019. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
472 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jennifer | Confidence | Global Pillars | https://www.facebook.com/GlobalPillars/ | Executive Director | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | As a young research fellow and a social entrepreneur, I realised that there are more young people willing to help in tackling global challenges than there actually are. I am motivated by the deep desire to build a strong youth base of social entrepreneurs who would go on to tackling social issues. I see skills building and collaboration as very important if the growing youth population of Africa must effectively engage in advancing the course of Agenda 2030. Also, I am motivated to share what my team and I have set out to achieve and our believe that adequately equipping young social entrepreneurs with skills relevant to their chosen social entrepreneurship paths, collaborating with relevant institutions to give them on the job field experience of at least 3 months and collaborating with them if need be to execute their projects, may be the best hope Africa and the world at large have at realizing the SDG’s. I use social media as a tool to campaign for global good in the areas of gender equality, religious tolerance and child labour. | I am a graduate of international Relations and Strategic Studies and currently pursuing masters in policy and development studies. I am a graduate research fellow with the centre for African American Research studies. I was raised in the small town of Umuanyagu in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State of Nigeria. This town was previously torn with inter-communal violent conflicts that always manifested in loss of life and property. All I ever wanted as a young child was to go as far as possible away from the town and all its chaos. This childhood experience left a desire to contribute to the areas of global peace and security which in turn motivated me to study international relations and strategic studies. I am a social entrepreneur and an advocate of gender equality. I am a believer and a crusader of religious tolerance. Currently, I am studying in the northern part of Nigeria, with manifestations of religious conflicts, gender inequality and other social imbalances that I wish to see change. The desire to see changes in the various areas that I could not at once attend to motivated me to establish a network of young social entrepreneurs known as Global Pillars. Global Pillars is set to yearly host a summit of its young social entrepreneur members. The need to further crusade the social entrepreneurship agenda birthed the Youth Hub, which will be an Academy training young and aspiring social entrepreneurs in the areas of social work, humanitarian work, peace building and conflict resolution, civic leadership, and technological innovations | Youth Hub | youth power, skills empowerment, global pillars. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria and a spread to other African Countries | No | Proof of Concept | Youth Hub is at this stage because though we have articulated how the Academy will function, taking into consideration the fields of training and trainers, administrative team, prospective collaborators, volunteer and sponsors targets, while working closely with the advisory team of Global Pillars on it, we are currently, carrying out a final overview deliberations on it, which is supposed to come to an end by September. | Most aspiring social entrepreneurs lack skills necessary to address the problems they wish to proffer solutions to. The Youth Hub is an incubation capacity building initiative of Global Pillars geared towards equipping these young and aspiring social entrepreneurs between the ages of 21 and 29 through Training and Support in their quest to contribute to their communities and the world at large by tackling global social issues through innovative means. | Yearly, aspiring Social entrepreneurs between the ages of 21 and 29 will be admitted into the Youth Hub Academy in a training and support scheme in the fields of social work, humanitarian work, peace building and conflict resolution, civic leadership and technological innovations. The training will comprise of teaching, coaching, internship opportunities and a task to proffer solution to global problem of choice. While the support includes professional guidance, collaboration, access to prospective partners and access to funding opportunities. Global Pillars through its Youth Hub is set to awaken in them a passionate heart to serve humanity and to bridge the gap between desires to tackle and proffer solutions to global challenges and actually tackling and proffering these solutions through an incubation system of capacity building in aspiring social entrepreneurs. The long-term vision for global impact of the Youth Hub program is to build for the world an army of social change makers passionately attending to global issues. | Our solution is unique because we are adopting the ripple effect technique by raising an army of change makers by building capacity in them and have them advance to passionately work to help in achieving the global goals. The new perspective is the change makers army idea of building capacity and providing them with unique opportunities of on the job field engagement and then releasing them to the world to take up global challenges in their chosen areas. | We have been able to articulate how the Academy will function, taking into consideration the fields of training and trainers, administrative team, prospective collaborators, volunteer and sponsors targets We have worked closely with the advisory team of Global Pillars on this and we are currently, carrying out a final overview deliberations on it, which is supposed to come to an end by September. At every stage, we ensure to objectively evaluate it and its potential effect on the plan. | Youth Hub is geared at building capacity in aspiring social entrepreneurs each year with 2020 as starting year and a starting number of 50 youth. Each fellow is expected to execute a social project of choice as a partial fulfilment of the requirement of completion of the training. Fellows will be charged to impact the lives of at least a person a month by social activities and innovations which for the first year have an expected result of at least impact in the lives of 600 people (50×12 = 600). The Youth Hub’s impact in the first year will be capacity building in 50 persons + an expected ripple effect in the lives of 600 people making a total of = 650 impact minimum for the first year. We expect to expand to other African countries to replicate after establishing a strong base in Nigeria. With a team member currently from Burundi, we will be taking in more team members from other African countries as we progress. | For the now, there is the need of Professionals on ground that will work with us in building and training these aspiring entrepreneurs, organizations willing to offer them internship training for a minimum of 3 months and Funding partners whom are very essential if the Youth Hub must scale effectively. In the medium term, we would be needing involvement from professionals around the world through the online medium as we have plans to include distance learning. In the long term, continued collaboration and support from organizations and professionals. | https://www.facebook.com/GlobalPillars/ | https://www.facebook.com/GlobalPillars/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
473 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Yelyzaveta | Glybchenko | Color Up Peace | https://sites.google.com/view/lisaglybchenkoartist/home | Founder of Color Up Peace, Student | Female | Ukraine | Ukraine | English | French | Russian | When my home region Crimea was annexed from Ukraine, it was time for me to go to university. I decided to study Political Science and International Relations at the American University in Bulgaria to make sure no other country has to go through what Ukraine is still enduring and so that no other teenager has to watch their life plans crash and has to redo everything from scratch, like I did. I wanted to help the displaced Crimeans and the refugees from Eastern Ukraine integrate into the Ukrainian society and live side by side with or within the renewed Ukrainian identity. To deepen my knowledge in the area, I have pursued a second, self-designed major - Identity and Peacebuilding. While working on my senior project now, I am looking into the local peacebuilding initiatives not only in Ukraine, but also in Cyprus and Jordan, to draw knowledge from different communities. I have traveled through these countries and participated in various peacebuilding initiatives, from lectures on unity to tango nights in the buffer zone between Cyprus and North Cyprus and arts for peacebuilding projects in Jordan. The self-designed major gave me the opportunity to innovate and combine my two passions: conflict resolution and art. While undertaking my independent studies in Design as Politics, I have already started working in the area of arts for peacebuilding. I launched the project Color Up Peace that invites people from all over the world to submit photos representing peace, which I later turn into coloring pages. The idea behind this is to break the political stereotypes about countries shaken by conflict – that they are always grey, lifeless, colorless, sandy, and dusty. This way, filling out a coloring page is giving hope to those living in conflict zones; it is seeing beyond the media stereotypes; it is stress relief; and it is reaching out to build a true connection between people of different social and cultural backgrounds. Nobody around me is doing what I do, the visual peace area is rather under-researched and arguably under-practiced. I want to change that. We should learn from artists how to build visual peace and artists should learn how to use their art actively for social change. | Yelyzaveta Glybchenko is originally from Ukraine. She is currently studying towards a Master’s Degree in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research at Tampere University in Finland. Her research and practice interests include visual arts-based mediation and reconciliation techniques, conflict resolution, sustainable development, circumpolar studies and Middle Eastern studies. Lisa enjoys doing art and graphic design, volunteering, learning foreign languages (currently eight), and organizing TEDx and peace conferences for youth. | Color Up Peace | Collective art-making for social chnage and peace building | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Ukraine, Finland, South Africa, world-wide | Yes | Photographers who submited photos, volunteers | Transition to Scale | Color Up Peace is transitioning to scale as I am designing a visual arts-based peacebuilding training and publishing a coloring book based on the project. So far, Color Up Peace has reached about 30 countries in online activities. The challenge is to transition to face-to-face interactions in the form of trainings, exhibitions and workshops in multiple countries | The solution is addressing the need for sustainable peace and inclusive societies, as articulated in SDG 16. As it started in Ukraine in the light of external aggression, the project aims at teaching Ukrainians about inter- and intra-personal conflict resolution techniques based on artistic methods. Globally, the solution works to break stereotypes and facilitate dialogue between cultures while sharing the vision of peace. | Color Up Peace is an artistic project with a social dimension. It invites people from all over the world to submit photos of what peace represents to them. Later, these photos are turned into coloring pages - for others to color and share the visions of peace. Color Up Peace gives its participants the opportunity to redesign the visual culture as a social experience and empowers them to become creative change-makers. To take a photo representing peace, to share it with the world, to see it turned into a coloring page, and to refill the coloring page with own vision of what the world should be – are all stages of identifying the areas for improvement in the society through collective artwork and creating a goal by and for the participants. Color Up Peace uses the power of artistic expression and visual communication to inspire dialogue, equip participants with creative tools to understand the world and to allow those who are interested to explore and develop each other’s creativity. The project does not only work to dismantle stereotypes about communities, conflicts and cultures, but also about art itself. At Color Up Peace, we believe art to be a critical tool of dialogue-oriented communication, deep engaging with the world (by working with the head, the hand and the heart), and transformative imagination. The project envisions to create a series of arts-based peacebuilding trainings, exhibitions and a fund to sponsor small-scle projects on art for social change. | The focus of peacebuilding usually falls on the actions of the leadership of given groups and the economic relations between those groups. That way, the grassroots are overlooked and sustainable peace is harder to build. Color Up Peace focuses on inter- and intra-personal conflict resolution with engagement of both reason and empathy. The Visual arts-based techniques allow for transcending of the political, cultural and linguistic barriers for an effective type of communication. As such, the emphasis is on the fact that we are BIGGER than the conflict and that the conflict no longer defines us. Collective artwork inspires constructive dialogue and teaches participants not only to talk to each other and themselves, but to create pieces of art together. Just like creating those pieces of art, the participants can go on to create new networks and projects in their home communities. Color Up Peace develops along with original research on strategic arts-based reconciliation and visual arts-based mediation, conducted by Yelyzaveta Glybchenko as part of her undergraduate and now graduate degrees. | Color Up Peace now has a big online platform that brings together participants from around 30 countries. I have conducted coloring sessions in Finland. I got a chance to present Color Up Peace during the 2017 Alive Peace training in Leysin, Switzerland, the 2018 Youth in Art training in Cagliari, Italy, and the 2018 You Create training in San Esteban de Gormaz, Spain. In 2019, I received a Future Leaders Exchange Alumni grant to conduct a visual arts-based peacebuilding event based on Color Up Peace in Kyiv, Ukraine. At the same time, I am working to create and publish a Color Up Peace coloring book and to organize an exhibition based on it in Kyiv, Ukraine. This year, with Color Up Peace I have become part of Arts Twenty Thirty programme. It is a flagship initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solution Network - Youth which brings together artists from around the globe to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The progress of Color Up Peace, so far, is measured by the amount and content of feedback from the participants as well as grant donors. The feedback has always been positive and highlighted the innovative and creative approaches to peacebuilding – something that is rare to see and experience. Once the coloring book is published, the success of the project will also be measured by the amount of books sold and money raised in such way to finance the trainings of Color Up Peace and small grants for the participants to implement follow-up projects. | 1) Visual arts-based peacebuilding trainings in Ukraine and Finland 2) Color Up Peace exhibition in Ukraine 3) Recruit volunteers in Ukraine 4) Publish the Color Up Peace coloring book 5) Raise funds to support Color Up Peace activities and small-scale projects by participants of the trainings | Short-term needs: 1)the opportunity to print coloring books (self-publishing) 2)funds raised to organize an exhibition and a creativity corner with coloring pages - Kyiv, Ukraine (venue is confirmed) 3)venue for the visual arts-based peacebuilding training (in progress) Medium-term needs: 1)recruiting volunteers for the distribution of coloring books to children affected by conflict in Ukraine 2)securing funding for a second visual arts-based peacebuilding training 3)recruiting volunteers for conducting the training Long-term needs: 1)securing funding for the follow-up projects of the training participants 2)attracting more photo entries to create a second coloring book 3)raising awareness and interest in the visual arts-based trainings in other countries (currently considering Finland, Jordan, Georgia, Egypt) 4)creating a permanent Color Up Peace team | 1) https://sites.google.com/view/color-up-peace/home?fbclid=IwAR2jjCoMYQOXm0ZbAURR1QZGLfmnzqjW99MbUdVptCzgH57b4y2XOnIXq18 2) https://www.facebook.com/coloruppeace/ 3) https://forcreativegirls.com/yelyzaveta-hlybchenko-art-peace-building/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFQph19Bpf0 | Future Leaders Exchange Alumni Grants 2019 - winner CIEE Exchnage Alumni Grants - semi-finalist European Stipends - Special Achievement Award 2016 - winner Talev Research Funds 2016 - winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
474 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Opio | Obwangamoi David | gnuGrid Africa | http://gnugridafrica.com | CEO | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | I’m looking forward to learning, adopt, network, connect and share. Entrepreneurship is a learning curve, there is so much knowledge from the UN solution Summit there to learn from that could shape further the way we are doing things. In eight years of my entrepreneurship journey, I have come to learn that the only way to succeed in business is through collaboration and continuous learning from other people who are doing the same or different activities in the field of life and businesses. This summit has the potential to bring together individuals and organizations that are creating impactful solutions, to exchange ideas, best practices and thoughts. This will be the platform like no other through which I will have the opportunity to share my story about my business and also be able to listen to other inspiring stories. For the last 8 years of innovating, I have experienced the power of creating sustainable solutions. My first startup, Ensibuuko is enabling access of over 1 million smallholder rural farmers to financial services in rural Uganda and beyond. It has repurposed the financial inclusion and it has given hope to the BOP population. gnuGrid, through its pay-go and hardware solution, Solarsentra, it’s driving energy inclusion and energy transition through data. Businesses and household’s communities are thriving because of an enabling environment to access to financial and energy services, because of the solutions that I have created. | David Opio is a Ugandan entrepreneur of 31 years, who built to scale Ensibuuko – (his first startup- founded in 2012), a fintech provider of solutions to the village banking sector in Uganda. He’s the co-founder and CEO of gnuGrid Africa, a cleantech startup that is driving energy inclusion and energy transition through data. He holds a degree in quantitative economics (majored in finance) with honours from Makerere University – a top Ugandan University and has spoken at international conferences on the need for locally grown solutions. He is a self-taught software engineer, electrical engineer and currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering. He is self-driven, inventor, pro-active and with vigour to create disruptive solutions to solve the world’s pressing challenges. | Solarsentra | Driving energy transition through data, pay-go for the last mile community, energy access to all | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Zambia, Walawi, Nigeria, and other African and Europeans Countries | Yes | Uganda Energy Solar Association (USEA), Grandstaget, Ministry of Energy (Uganda Gov't), Uganda Police - department of Engineering and Logistics, Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) | Scaling | Our solution is at scaling stage. We are done with the pilot phase which was intense, insightful, full of learning and discovery. We tested the business model, made iterations based on the feedback we got from the customers. We based on the feedbacks to consolidate both the product/solution and the business model. At this stage, our solution can fit into several markets and it is business model is scalable from one market/country to another, with just a few tweaks. | In Uganda, over 30 million people lack access to clean and affordable electricity. Solar energy has in recent years become the main source of energy for such households in off-grid communities. However, the industry is stagnated by initial cash payments, paper tools and poor-after-sales-services. We’ve learned that many companies are unsatisfied by a number of elements of the current solutions: Many of them are incompatible with each other - they are either tied to a specific solar manufacturer | gnuGrid Africa has a core offering of a PayGo solution, including payments and customer management, combined with a unique hardware component. The PayGo solution meets the needs of solar system providers in Uganda for operationalizing their sales, delivery, and payments on a high availability infrastructure. The hardware is a circuit board designed to monitor for tampering and usage and to provide the unlock /lock mechanism standard in PayGo solutions. The service offering differs from other providers in the market in both pricing and capabilities. In some sense, the Company benefits from following behind other PayGo providers that have offerings in the market. Unique to our service is the concept of credit scoring to identify the best customer and to filter out high-risk customers. We leverage strong data analytics to prompt actions on the part of operators to better manage equipment and customers. Fundamentally we anticipate that PayGo models are shifting away from the “four businesses in one” that dominated the first years of the PayGo industry. Today, there is a long tail of organizations that need PayGo systems as a white-labelled solution. | The service offering differs from other providers in the market in both pricing and capabilities. In some sense, the Company benefits from following behind other PayGo providers that have offerings in the market. Unique to our service is the concept of credit scoring to identify the best customer and to filter out high-risk customers. We intend to leverage strong data analytics to prompt actions on the part of operators to better manage equipment and customers. | Solarsentra is currently being used by 10 solar companies in Uganda that have over time accumulated a customer database of 150,000. The data analytics tools which are embedded into our solution helps solar companies to shift the direction of decisions within their organizations. The PayGo capabilities in our solution are enabling the last mile population to acquire solar kits on the rent-to-own basis. The PayGo allows low-income earners mostly smallholder farmers to make partial seasonal based payments for solar systems to the solar companies that are using Solarsentra Through this arrangement, 150,000 last-mile people and small scale businesses have acquired clean and sustainable energy. We are counting and still counting that 600,000 people in different households are benefiting from our solution. The circuit board energy sensors can remotely detect system failure and predict active maintenance. This is saving both the customers and solar companies to incur unnecessary costs and sudden system break-down. Solar Sentra provides credit scoring to the buyers of solar systems that later on can be used to access financial services from banks. | To facilitate clean energy access to 300,000 house-holds in Uganda and Kenya by 2021, this will be achieved through recruiting potential solar providers in Uganda and Kenya that are willing to use pay-go as part of their go-to-market strategy, to grow gnuGrid current revenue from $4,000/Month, to a minimum of $10,000/Month, this will be achieved by recruiting more solar companies which will eventually bring more solar users on board, to raise $500,000 in series A funding, this will be achieved by consolidating the current investment opportunities we have. We have two investors on board who have already committed $50,000 seed funding. We want to make sure that the investment yield results that can prompt more investments from the same or even other investors. All this will be achieved through building a winning team that is passionate about the solution and the impact we are creating. | My main challenge is raising investment from venture investors. I have raised investment in the past but investors’ choices vary with the different business types. I need help with building a strong business and value proposition case that can attract a good investment. Potential networks and interests, I need to be introduced and recommended to different personalities who are interested in CleanTech startups/businesses. I am looking forward to partner with individuals and companies that champion access to clean energy through technology. I need connections to data scientists who can help build more robust visualizations of data to better reshape the business decisions of solar energy providers. | http://gnugridafrica.com https://web.facebook.com/gnugrid/ https://twitter.com/gnugrid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNNU3O4UQtI&feature=share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5y7wTj6mUI&t=5s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7VSPYkV88E&t=22s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AT6YCZ2-GM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGoRKvzoSEU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndU4VAqwkqo | Overall winner for ICT4Ag Awards in 2013 organized by CTA, Investor Choice Awards – 2015 organized by Sankalp, second runner-up for Unilever & Ashoka’s Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards hosted in London in 2014, winner for Change makers and More - Ashoka - 2015, World Mobile Summit Awards – 2015 & 2016 respectively, ICT for Development Awards or ACIA Awards – 2017, ICT for Innovations – Young Achievers Awards, Makerere University Community Leader Award, Fledge, AMEX and Traction. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
475 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Andrew | Kibe | FenoAnd Creativity | N/A | Founder | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | When it comes to rape and female genital mutilation (FGM), there is a silent epidemic in Kenya. The majority of sexual assaults are not reported to the police and perpetrators of sexual violence are less likely to go to jail or prison than other criminals. It is often the marginalized people within a society that are underrepresented, and their significant stories usually differ from those less marginalized people. Therefore, the reality of what goes on at the marginalized is hardly heard and known. My motivation for this application mainly comes from the accumulated years (5) of frustrations after coming up with an innovative technology solution to fight these two crimes and not making any headway with it. I have approached organizations, powerful individuals and even the Ministry of Information and Technology in vain. The experience has shown me how greed, selfishness and fear are at the heart of decision making in my country. I believe my observations in Kenya represents generally developing countries. I feel if someone involved with UN is to hear about my idea and buys into it, I believe we will make this world safer for women and men vis a vis these two crimes. I believe Governments will be forced to listen just like they did for SDGs and there is a very high chance they will implement this solution. My motivation is my vision and that is to reduce rape in the whole world by over 75%. | Andrew Kibe is a co-founder of DistinctUS Consultants. He consultants & trains risk management. He is also the founder and CEO of Dreamers Club Africa, a children and teens club that partners with schools and aims to foster skills in money management, investments & entrepreneurship. SDGs are also taught in addition with a goal of setting up a yearly SDGs School Competition. His was instrumental in setting up a robust risk management framework for the Kenyan Derivatives Market & convincing the Governor of Central Bank of Kenya of its soundness which lead to the signoff to commence the market. He is known to come up with initiatives that involve community-based actions to make this world a better place such as blood donation, raising funds for cancer patients among others. His values are founded by his belief that the purpose of life is to demonstrate what humans already know intuitively within. That is acting out of love, for he believes that love is all that there is & therefore who humans really are. His career is strongly being driven by this more than ever. Outside of his work, he is a husband, a father and mentor to many children and teens. He enjoys watching nature & entrepreneurship, loves to swim, listen to music & travel. He also volunteers to teach teens entrepreneurship at an NGO that enrolls poor students. The world is bleeding & few great women & men have stepped up to stop the bleeding. They get wet but chose to stay wet. Andrew has chosen to be one of these few. | Rape and Female Genital Mutilation Reporting System (RFGMRS) | Let’s Stop The Tears … Justice For Victims | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Kenya will act as the pilot project for developing countries, then scale to other developing countries | No | Research & Development | The solution is at the research and development stage simply because I lack funding to develop the system. Secondly, I have not found an institution, organization or individual who believes in my vision and is willing to assist in realizing this vision. Finally, there appears to be resistance from the norm hence the needs of an influential organization, especially towards Governments. | The problems are – rape, female genital mutilation & accuracy of the data collected. When it comes to rape, there is a silent epidemic in developing countries. The majority of sexual assaults are not reported to the police which is a major concern. Perpetrators of sexual violence are less likely to go to jail or prison than other criminals and this has encouraged them. On the contrary, the victims have been left helpless. Also, is no ways of validating the existing data & some are contradicting. | The solution is to build an IT system composed of three platforms – mobile app, USSD app and website application. In partnerships with police/chief camps, hospitals, prosecutors and independent body which acts as a watchdog, the platforms will be integrated to include these stakeholders. A victim/third party with information of a rape can report a case using any of the three platforms which is then flagged to all stakeholders. The system will have inbuilds actions and timelines for each stakeholder to ensure justice. Through GPS, the nearest police stations, chief camps and hospitals will be notified of the reported case. The police/chief camps are to treat this as a 911 call and need to act accordingly. Failure to which the system triggers a red flag and this escalates to the senior police officers. Nearby hospitals are to record in the system once the victim is brought in and submit medical results which then the prosecutor can take-up. The framework is that the system is able to hold someone accountable. This will naturally introduce efficiency and a change in attitude on how these cases are treated and perceived. The system will give the victims a voice by reducing the fear of victimization, especially boys & men who are not mentioned anywhere. The public can participate by aiding police in search of perpetrator who go missing. Real time data and analytics can be pulled out in real time. The long-term vision is to reduce rape by more than 75% across the globe. | Below are some of the uniqueness and effectiveness of the system: 1)Using technology to fight rape in the whole country 2)The system will change the perception around rape and how it is treated giving these cases the attention and seriousness they deserve 3)Become the voice of the voiceless (girls, women, boys and men) without fear of being victimized or even intimidation especially from the perpetrators 4)Provide real time data and analytics that reflect the true picture of what goes on in the marginalized world 5)This real time data will naturally flag out the hot spots where rape is even encouraged as a form of punishment 6)Real time data stored in the cloud and can be accessed at a click of a button. 7)Real accountability on authorities required to deal with such cases. 8)Drastic increase on rape and FGM reported cases by giving the voiceless a platform to speak. 9)The App will provide a social section for the nation to be talking, sharing ideas, updating issues on rape and FGM. They will be able to follow reported stories, raise complains where authorities are seen not to do anything and so on. 10)Photos of perpetrators can be uploaded by police for tracking purposes. 11)Educate victims on the steps needed to be taken for each case. 12)Easy to connect victims to the needs professional help and ways of integrating them back to the society 13)Educate the general public to change the current perception so at to walk hand in hand to reach the vision. | In terms of progress, the only thing I have managed to do is assemble a team that can build the system, that is a developer and a database expert. Presently, what we have is the workflow design of the entire system. With some assistance we can build a prototype for demonstration purpose. I also approached a police station and spoke to its head police officer. He assured me of supporting to push it to his seniors for implementation once I build the prototype. However, the progress can be measured from the planned goals stated in the next question. Once the system is up and running, the progress will be compared using the following parameters: 1)No of reported rape and FGM cases vis a vis the existing data for starters 2)No of perpetrators caught relative to No 1 3)No of victims who have undergone medical checkup before the critical time period required, after and those who do not undergo medical checkup 4)For all the reported cases, follow up on the progress and track those that receive justice and those that do not and reasons behind why 5)No of public participating in this system The feedback from these parameters will be used to close the loose ends and retested over and over until we have a seamless system ready for scaling to other countries. The system will be built with real time data analytics. Therefore, periodic reports will be generated. | Goal 1: Build a prototype (3 months) Goal 2: Develop partnerships with key stakeholders (2 – 5 months) Goal 3: Scale prototype to a full system which can handle 2 counties and test. Create awareness and educate citizens in these counties Goal 4: Pilot the system in the above 2 counties. (3 months) Goal 5: Add two more counties and pilot test. (3 months) Goal 6: Implement fully in Kenya for a year and ensure every school, church, temple, mosque is in partnership or at least supporting this vision. Goal 7: Invite other countries to come and learn from Kenya while working with the Kenyan team. Kenya team to help these countries set up the system in their countries and aid them run with it until each country is able to stand by itself. Goal 8: Increased rape and FGM reports cases in Kenya by 50% and they system to be in at least 10 countries. What are the projected lives impacted? Taking Kenya as an example, The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights in 2006 found that a girl or woman is raped every 3 minutes. It is also reported that only 8% of rape cases are reported. According to these statistics, we can draw the following conclusions: 1)480 women are raped every day which gives 175,200 a year. 2)38 women out of 480 report these cases every day which gives 14,016 a year out of 175,200. 3)442 women do not report in a day and 161,184 in a year do not report. This are the projected lives that will be impacted. | I have not yet dedicated time to structure the needed resources. However, below are the pointers: Short-term (1st year & focusing in Kenya as a pilot country) 1)Support from a powerful organization & Government. 2)Capital; 3.1To build the prototype and the system to handle Kenya. 3.2Needed for technology equipment’s to ensure all stakeholders are integrated into the system. 3.3For trainings the stakeholders. 3.4For setting up an NGO, it’s office and operations of running it with maximum 10 employees. 3.5For creating awareness across the regions where the pilot tests will be conducted. Medium – term (2nd – 5th year & focusing in Kenya) 1)Continued support from powerful organization & Government. 2)Capital; 2.1To continue supporting and maintaining the system. 2.2To ensure all stakeholders are equipped with the necessary technology tools to play their parts. 2.3For creating awareness across the country and get everyone involved. 2.4For running the NGO office. 2.5To implementing the system in at least 10 other countries. 2.6Supporting these countries in any way to ensure they are able to stand by themselves. Long-term (5th year and above) 1)Continued support from powerful organization & Government. 2)Ensure each of the 10 countries plus Kenya with over two years’ experience has to support at least one new country each year thus creating a tree diagram of expansion. 3)BY the 10th year, the vision should have been achieved. | I do not have any links to share for my solution given the explanations above. However, I will be more than happy to share with you the architecture of the system in a PDF format if you can provide me with an email to send. | I do not have any links to share for my solution given the explanations above. However, I will be more than happy to share with you the architecture of the system in a PDF format if you can provide me with an email to send. | Again, from explanations above, no awards! However, if I get to present this idea at the UN Summit Solution, please feel free to ask me this question after 5 – 10 years. I think I will have a bucket of them 😊 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
476 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Henri | Nyakarundi | ARED | www.a-r-e-d.com | Chief Executive Officer | Male | Rwanda | Kenya | English | French | As native Rwandan who moved to the US in 1996 as a refugee, studied computer science from Georgia State University. After graduation i soon realized my calling was an entrepreneur at heart. Over the next 10 years i founded and developed trucking and construction businesses in both the US and Burundi. However, the green sector is my true passion. I have been developing ARED for the past seven years, and as of 2013 when I returned to Rwanda to startup this company full time. With ARED i built a mobile solar kiosk business-in-a-box solution that provides last energy connectivity and digital solutions at the base of the pyramid (rural and refugee areas)- while operationalizing a micro-franchisee model that creates economic opportunities for women and persons with disabilities who operate the hubs while serving their communities. For over 10 years, i have been a well-respected voice on entrepreneurship in Africa, renewable energy, innovation & technology impact and more.... As a mentor, speaker, strategist on social entrepreneur in Africa, I am able to shed the light on some of the challenges in the African marketplace, but also the key solutions needed to solve some of the major challenges we encounter today as a continent | Henri Nyakarundi is the founder of Rwanda-Headquartered ARED Group. ARED stands for African Renewable Energy Distributors. As HaaS, a “Hard-tech as a Service” social enterprise, that expanded to Uganda making it its second market. Henri is a graduate in Computer science from Georgia state University in 2007, and later moved back to Rwanda in 2013, “to develop a project that was really dear to me called ARED.” ARED, a business in a box solar kiosk, ""empowers mostly women and people with disabilities using a micro-franchise business model."" Henri is a well-respected voice on entrepreneurship in Africa, renewable energy, innovation & technology impact and more.... As a mentor, speaker, strategist on social entrepreneur in Africa | ARED mobile Solar Kiosk | ARED is a mobile solar kiosk business-in-a-box solution that provides last energy connectivity and digital solutions at the base of the pyramid | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Rwanda and Uganda | Yes | 1) GreenTech Capital; 2) Gray Matters Capital; 3) World Vision International; 4) Microsoft; 5) German ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety | Scaling | ARED, since its founding in 2013, has evolved as a company- from ideation to high investment into research and developmen, by 2015, had three mobile kiosks prototypes. The concept was successfully tested in Rwanda providing last energy connectivity&digital solutions at the base of the pyramid. And made our first expansion to Uganda in 2017, we at the phase of scaling to more markets in Africa to provide social-economic opportunities for rural communities, particularly women and disabled persons | The UNCHR 2016 Connecting report- mobile phone/internet access is as critical to rural populations’ safety and security as food to provide access to vital information and communication and unlock opportunities to local/global communities. Over 71% need connectivity services but lack of affordable mobile-network to access information is high, also limited energy-access, inadequate capacity opportunities and high unemployment- ARED is solving. | Through ARED kiosks, communities can access last-mile digital and connectivity services like financial inclusion through digital payments, Wi-Fi connectivity, Free digital content, and energy connectivity services, while creating socio-economic activities in rural areas. Our vision is to impact over 10 Africa countries and millions of community populations in ending poverty, promoting inclusive economic opportunities | ARED’s principal uniqueness is in the two innovations which are; 1) smart technology and 1) Inclusive business process. Our business-in-a-box mobile solar-kiosks enables communities to access last-mile digital and connectivity services under a one-stop point enabled by solar-power- affordably and within their proximity- making our model uniquely accessibly affordable. Secondly another key game changer is the inclusive business process; our inclusive micro-franchisee business model entails recruitment, training, and monitoring of micro-franchisee (100% youth, 80% women and disabled persons) to operate the hubs while serving their communities | ARED has invested immensely since 2013, into research and development to develop a complete solution that tackles over six sustainable development goals. We have partnered with different organizations like GreenTech Capital, Gray Matters Capital, World Vision International, Microsoft, German ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety. The solution has been recognized at the World stage as one of the best renewable energy innovations and business processes, being recipient to numerous accolades like; Energy Globe Award, The World Award for sustainability, Africa Disapora Market place, Seif: Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives and Foundation award, Siemens | Stiftung award, Post code Green challenge 2017, MIT Inclusive Technology Challenge 2017 and ICT for social good award. Also getting international media coverage from CNN, Aljazeera, DW, CCTV Africa, BBC, CNBC Africa, and the New Times | ARED has expanded and now operational in two countries- Rwanda and Uganda. Over time we have implemented projects with global organisations like International committe of the Red cross and World visions. The solution has been recognized at the World stage as one of the best renewable energy innovations and business processes, being recipient to numerous accolades like; Energy Globe Award, The World Award for sustainability, Africa Disapora Market place, Seif: Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives and Foundation award, Siemens | Stiftung award, Post code Green challenge 2017, MIT Inclusive Technology Challenge 2017 and ICT for social good award. Also getting international media coverage from CNN, Aljazeera, DW, CCTV Africa, BBC, CNBC Africa, and the New Times | Thes are the key resources needed to scale and have considerable impact; 1) IoT development; 2) Mobile Application Development; 3) Mobile Network Partnerships; 4) Tech Capability Recruitment. ARED's goal is to improve our technology, and build the right partnerships to make inclusive impact, and also to scale- funding and investment is key. | DW video coverage: http://www.dw.com/en/in-high-demand-solar-kiosk-in-rwanda/av-39001746?maca=en-Twitter-sharing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQjgf1FtbPg CNN video coverage: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/09/19/african-start-up-ared-spc.cnn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXQ8idr5yZY Al Jazeera coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsX9Ycdzaeg | DW video coverage: http://www.dw.com/en/in-high-demand-solar-kiosk-in-rwanda/av-39001746?maca=en-Twitter-sharing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQjgf1FtbPg CNN video coverage: http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/09/19/african-start-up-ared-spc.cnn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXQ8idr5yZY Al Jazeera coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsX9Ycdzaeg | MIT Inclusive Technology Challenge 2017, Energy Globe Award, The World Award for sustainability, Africa Disapora Market place, Seif: Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives and Foundation award, Siemens | Stiftung award, Post code Green challenge 2017 and ICT for social good award. Also getting international media coverage from CNN, Aljazeera, DW, CCTV Africa, BBC, CNBC Africa, and the New Times | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
477 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alexander | van der Kleij | Solar Dew International | www.solardew.com | Marketing and Product Development manager | male | Netherlands | Colombia | English | Our motivation is that we see a growing issue surrounding water scarcity and lack of access to clean drinking water as a result of high salinity and chemical contamination. This is especially apparent in rural areas and during emergency situations. With the innovation Solardew has developed we see an opportunity to provide a sustainable solution for these issues and drastically improve the living conditions and health of families and children in these regions. | I am and industrial designer focussed on sustainable design specifically for the base of the pyramid. I have conducted a number of projects in China, Bolivia, Madagascar and Pakistan with a focus on context research, focus groups and creative sessions with end user groups. I chose to focus on small scale desalination and water purification given the growing need and the lack of solutions. I have been involved in all phases of the development of Solardew's products starting from the membrane and technology development up to the product design and preparation for manufacturing. At the same time I have been involved in developing the business plan and finding local partners with whom we intend to collaborate when bringing the product to the market. Please allow me to send you my CV as soon as I return from holiday. My apologies for the inconvenience. | SolarDew | Low cost solar water purification and desalination products for households and communities in rural areas | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Developing countries where water scarcity is an issue | Yes | Chile, TYSA; Oman: Global reliance;, Kenya : forthcoming; Senegal: identified and basic agreement | Transition to Scale | Several years development, proprietary supply chain developed and in place, tests in independent laboratory in Vietnam successful, field tests on laboratory scale, demonstrations on site (Oman, Chile) planned for September 2019 together with independent research institute. Ready for production first series, scale up to mass production prepared. | Pollution, climate change, population growth resulting in high levels of contamination and/or salinization of drinking water sources are expected to affect 5 billion people by 2050 (850 million people 2018) . For many currently no affordable water purification solutions are available, likewise in the aftermath a natural disaster. Buying or fetching (young girls) water of unknown quality far away, bottled water,(500 billion bottles/year), is no sustainable solution for drinking water problems. | Roof mounted units (""plastic bags"" in housing) separates all pollutants (chemical, biological, salt) from the pure H2O by only using solar radiation.(membrane distillation).Production is around 6-8 l/m²/day. The low cost system will make high quality drinking water available at minimal investments in areas were healthy water is not (yet) available, in disaster areas, or as replacement of bottled water. Global impact planned : by 2030 1 million people served (SDG 6), improving health(SDG 3), and Climate action (SDG 13) only solar radiation used. | #Functionality: desalinese and purifies water from all sources in one step by only using solar radiation.(Reverse Osmosis : decreasing efficiency with increasing salinity; use of energy--> CO2 emissions. #Is no hybrid solution(such as PV panels with RO), simplifies operation and maintenance reduces investment cost) #Simplicity: no moving parts; rations: practically maintenance free(membrane replacement only after 3 years) life time of installation 15 years. No requirement of a regular supply of spare parts or separate power source. #Point of use: can be roof mounted or as modular system centrally installed for small communities, or as foldable system directly installed to provide safe water in disaster. #Low cost: low investment and low operating cost producing water for 1- 2 € cents/litre.(lower than small scale RO installations) #No other small scale/point of use desalination systems on the market (PRODES 2010; indirectly confirmed in 2018 by Humanitarian Desalination Challenge of the MEDRC) ) # Efficient use of solar radiation (regeneration) compared with other systems: # Continuous high quality water output independent of season. | Serious research carried out during several years to develop technology; SolarDew staff assisted by Univ. professors in membrane technology, thermodynamics and industrial design; proprietary membrane and low cost production technology using mainly mass produced materials and parts. Extensive laboratory test in house (long term testing) technology and functionality is validated by independent laboratory. Technology and production system is fully tested and ready for field test/demonstrations. | Goals: Project impact/ supply: by 20130 1 million people served. 2019: field tests ( 2- 3 countries) 2020: demonstration project in community and by the end of the year, production 1st series 2021-2023: start (outsourced) mass production in Europe. Countries: Chile, Oman, Kenya Senegal, later South Africa Production foldable emergency system: depends on demand Staff increases gradually from 3.3 FTE to 13.5 FTE (production outsourced) | Local Partners for marketing and distribution (already 2 contracted, 2 in pipe line) Funding for tooling and equipment €450 000 in 2020 and €1 mill. for mass production 2022 (incl. Working capital) Funding for Operation cost rising from €200 000/year in 2019 to €600 000/year in 2022. | Www.solardew.com | https://vimeo.com/96387581 | Glass point innovation spur, innoenergy, Global entrepreneurship summit GIST competition (runner up) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
478 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Fabrice | Aganze BASHIGE | Kivu Energy and agriculture | Kivu Energy and agriculture | Coordonnateur | Masculin | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | French | notre action est axé principalement sur l’autoconsommation et la gestion des matières organiques pour couvrir les besoins en combustibles et d’éclairage en interne. Il s’agit d’autoconsommation remplacants les vecteurs d’energie actuels (tels que le bois de chauffage , le charbon de bois) pour une alternative plus propre et continue. - Nous établissons un contexte viable et efficace pour l’utilisation généralisée des technologies à base de biogaz pour chauffer et cuisiner. - nous valorisons également la bouse en l’utilisant comme combustible sous formes des briquettes. Dans cette option, Notre méthode consiste à sécher la bouse, la carboniser pour éliminer toute fumée et odeur possible et enfin cuisiner avec. Nous valorisons également les écorces du fruit du palmier à huile que nous appelons ""ngazi"" nous les carbonisons et l'utilisons comme braise. Nous avions conçu une sorte de brasero adapté à ces écorces. Nous recyclons des petits ventilateurs retrouver dans des appareils électroniques pour ventiler ces brasero dont l'énergie provient d'un petit panot solaire. Toutes ces solutions pour pousser la population rurale à renoncer à l’abattage des arbres surtout pour preserver le parc national de kahuzi biega car ses alentours est notre zone d’action. Ma grande motivation est le fait de contribuer à la preservation de l’environnement et generer une source de revenue pour moi et mon entreprise entière. Ma motivation vient également par le fait qu’il répond à plusieurs objectifs et cibles du developpement durable : 1,3,7,9,12,13,15 et 17 de l’ONU tel que presentés dans le nouvel agenda de developpement durable. Et aussi par ce que j’aide d’une facon ou d’une autre à : Assurer une meilleure protection des ressources naturelles et renforcer la couverture forestière A assuré la gestion durable de l’environnement par adaptation et diffusion des meilleures pratiques et des technologies du biogaz domestique et la bouse comme combustible. A amélioré des conditions de vie de la population. | Je suis Ir civil de formation avec spécialité en structure et ouvrage d'arts. Je suis défenseur de l'environnement, j'ai monté une entreprise de production et promotion des énergies renouvelables et l'agriculture. Nous construisons des digesteurs à gaz et pratiquons l'élevage. | Le biogaz, une énergie propre | Le biogaz est un mélange des gaz résultant de la fermentation anaérobique de la matière organique. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | En RDC, BURUNDI, RWANDA, TANZANIE, UGANDA, CONGO, RCA | Yes | Comité de l'auto-prise en charge à la base (CAB) | Research & Development | Par ce que, nous ne sommes pas encore parvenu à conserver notre gaz provenu de la bouse de vache et d'autres déchets biodégradables et où produire de l'électricité avec | Assurer une meilleure protection des ressources naturelles et renforcer la couverture forestière A assuré la gestion durable de l’environnement par adaptation et diffusion des meilleures pratiques et des technologies du biogaz domestique et la bouse comme combustible. A amélioré des conditions de vie de la population. | Mon action porte sur l'auto-consommation et la gestion des matières organiques pour couvrir les besoins en combustibles et d'éclairage en interne. Nous établissons un contexte viable et efficace pour l'utilisation des technologies à base de biogaz en remplacement du bois pour chauffer et cuisiner. C'est à dire à partir de la bouse de vache et d'autres déchets biodégradables nous produisons du gaz pour cuisiner à travers même un réchaud adapté que nous fabriquons localementet. Et aussi pour éclairé en interne. Ma vision est orienté à la protection de l'écosystème du parc national de Kahuzi Biega qui est trop menacé par l'abattage d'arbres par les habitants environnants. Par conséquent mon entreprise se bat pour promouvoir le biogaz pour produire de l'énergie de cuisson pour ces habitants car ils sont presque tous éleveurs | Cette solution est unique par ce qu'elle a plusieurs impacts comme sur le plan énergie pour cuisiner, éclairage en interne et fertilisants naturel des sols Les besoins essentiels de l’homme sont l’eau, la nourriture, un habitat et l’énergie. Dans les ménages une part non négligeable d’énergie consommée pour cuisson quotidienne de la nourriture est satisfaite par le bois de chauffe ou par le charbon de bois. Les conséquences directes de l’utilisation du bois et/ou le charbon de bois sont : Une pression sur la surface boisée en corrélation directe avec l’augmentation de la population, ce qui accentue le réchauffement climatique Les impacts négatifs sur les conditions de vie, principalement les femmes et les enfants qui sont obligés de grimper sur des arbres à la recherche du bois, tache épuisante et dangereuse Les risques sanitaires, des maladies oculaires, pulmonaires et cutanées dues aux fumées que dégage la combustion de ces bois La rareté du bois, ce qui entraine des conflits entre familles et la hausse de prix de ce combustible sur le marché | Le progrès pour mon équipe devient de plus en plus accentué car ils sont convaincus eux même des différents bienfaits du biogaz ce qui n'était pas le cas au début. | Notre grand cible est d'abord l'Afrique centrale, nous voulons impacté toutes les populations villageoise et éleveurs d'Afrique centrale. Nous allons recruter 500 jeunes, les former dans cette technologie | Pour ce faire, il nous faudra trouver un épurateur à gaz afin de séparer le méthane des autres gaz, des bombonnes pour la conservation et des groupes électrogènes à gaz pour produire de l'électricité | Page Facebook: Kivu Energy and agriculture | Page Facebook: Kivu Energy and agriculture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
479 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ajay | Singh | None | Under construction at academia.edu | Self-educated Research Scholar (Ethnology & Spirituality) | Male | India | India | English | I am applying to present a project that specially designed to advance the SDG 4.7 (through academia) targeting the SDG 16.a to encourage the world community to achieve the UN-SDGs by time. We believe, there can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable developments. Thus before seeking any positive result from the implementation of the SDGs, we will have to pay devout attention for the solution to the complicated questions that confront the world’s leadership and all religious instructors who thirst for a unanimous conclusion for global security in the current predicament of nuclear proliferation, terrorism and war, within the context of the moral crisis in political ethics and among the rise of religious conflicts so far. In fact, leadership is an embodiment of public perception that navigates the community on basis of their own vision and views. Here what we propose is an intellectual innovation highlighting the focal point of SDGs 4.7 to redefine the public perception (through academia) as we do need to build trust between all cultures, norms and mores without disgracing the belief of any humankind, as we do need to achieve the SDGs 16.a encouraging all to adopt and enshrine the core value of SDGs according to the need of this contemporary world. I have just submitted this innovation at the “Global Innovation Exchange” https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovation/promoting-un-sdg-4-7-quality-education-to-achieve-sdg-16-a-peace-for-the-success-of-sdgs-4425da96-01e3-4918-bde0-59ba41f09955 and at the “SDG Knowledge Platform for good practices. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnership/mypages/?page=editPartnership&id=29187 Presently I am looking forward for recommendations and partners; for its worldwide implementations. | Self-educated research scholar (Ethnology &Spirituality) His creation reveals the true facts of all the world’s leading religious teachings within scientific insight, following the history of humankind, without disgracing the belief of any humankind and to perpetuate the basis for peace according to the need of this contemporary world. It is specially designed for academia, to fill the intangible gaps between social development and economic development following the basic ideology of the UN – SDG 4.7 as an essential need to achieve the SDG 16.a for the success of SDGs by time.. He believes, presently it is impossible for the scientific, religious or political insights to redefine the human conscience and unite the world for sustainable global peace. Within these circumstances it’s only the graces of literature that can bring changes in human perception as ever. The greatest aspect of literature is that it enthralls our mind and spirit from childhood to the end of our lives. It is a major part of our intellectual heritage, as important as our scientific and professional heritage; it influences our system of thought and throws into relief our genetic nature. It is the treasure house of human wisdom that guides our life toward whatever final home our political or religious belief directs us. Biography published at January 2013 - http://brainprick.com/a-lethal-journey-towards-enlightenment/ | An Intellectual Innovation to revitalize the implementation of SDGs worldwide. | A simple solution that serves the basic potential that we do all need to accelerate the concrete actions for the success of SDGs by time | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | This innovation is not designed for any specific community, sect or nation. It is the real solution that we all do need to unite the world community beyond their “inherited system of thoughts” for the betterment of all humanity | No | Ideation | Any creation out of our imagination is a part of an innovation. Though innovations of scientific and professional insights are unanimously accepted, but the ethical innovation for solution of the complicated issues that confronts the human conscience is an aspect of Ideation that needs clarification at every stage of its implementation. Thus the provided solution is at the stage of innovation under consideration searching a sufficient and appropriate platform for its implementation | Today the world’s biggest problem is to get united for sustainable global peace. In fact it had been always lethal to write or address in favor or against the institutionalized faith of humankind divided by several religious strictures. This solution is addressing about our negligence to sustain the basis for global peace and reveals the focal points that we do need to unite the world beyond the “inherited system of thoughts” for an integrated action to achieve the SDGs by time. | Presently many complicated questions confront the world’s leadership and all leading religious instructors who thirst for a unanimous conclusion for global security in the current predicament of nuclear proliferation, terrorism and war, within the context of the moral crisis in political ethics. At the forefront, the world community is baffled by the mean to prevent global warming. On other hand, we have developed weapons of mass destruction that could destroy the world beyond our imagination. Within these worst circumstances, any attempts to achieve the SDGs constitute a professional and political business in actual fact. Thus I have tried to present the solution by revealing the basic truth of the existence of humankind, following the history of humankind right up from its origin, within scientific insight that brings all the leading religious definition in one notion. It contents the intellectual information that academia needs to enlighten the world about the true facts of the crisis in the institutionalized faith that empowers the various forms of racism and radicalization that creates the basis for intolerance and violence failing the power and sources of humanity and peace. Furthermore this is what we do need to strengthen the United Nation as a body to aid in formulating a straightforward and direct relation with the public of all the member state to unite and encourage them all to achieve the SDGs leaving no one behind, | With the all 193 Member States of UN, we do have lots of NGO and Civil Society organizations dedicated to implement the SDGs leaving no one behind. But over last four years after the SDGs was fully crystallized, yet we do need a strengthened global commitment to end conflicts and displacement and tackle root causes for war and to stand together for tolerance, gender equality and human rights. This is what first of all we do need to create the conditions for private sector developments and long term investment that would generate sustainable economic growth, decent work and prosperity in rural areas and to fully adopt the Paris Agreement on climate change. I mean without peace and social diversity, it is impossible for the world community to pay devout attention to achieve the SDGs by time and the responses of the world’s leadership and all peace makers for sustainable global peace are fragmented among the people divided by several political and religious strictures. Till now our commitments for sustainable global peace, are embroiled in mazes of several ethics for peace, making all the peace process patchy so far. Perspective of our solution is dedicated to motivate the present generation by a more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life regardless of race or religion and to enshrine the spirit of SDGs as the basic potential that all we do need save our own existence on this planet. | I don’t have any team for the development of this solution. This proposed solution is an intellectual innovation, fruition of a life time meditation to find out the basis of our negligence for peace and humanity, a research on ethnology and spirituality to redefine human conscience for global unison as we do need to save the existence of humankind on this planet. This solution is dedicated to strengthen the United Nations, made by the world for the betterment of our future generations. Yet I am on the way to connect the UN administration for their permission and recommendation for its worldwide implementation through academic resources. Presently I am looking for support from experts of literature, but I don’t have any institutional support or support from any government or an organization to measure the progress and its methodological rigor. I would be glad to share about this solution in detail as needed. | The Goals and Milestones of this solution are dedicated to expand the core value of SDGs among all people, encouraging them all for the success of SDGs leaving no one behind. In fact, all the 17 goals and its 169 associated targets are interlinked, but the way of its implementation are fragmented making the involvements of the Civil Societies, MGoS , NGOs and other stakeholders patchy so far. Thus immediately we do all need a sufficient and appropriate solution, to motivate all the stakeholders in one notion for an integrated action to achieve the SDGs by time. This solution is not designed for any specific community, sect or Nation. It is a simple message that contents, historical and all religious theories in one notion to unite the entire world beyond their inherited system of thoughts on basis of humanity and culture of peace and social diversity. Presently we are seeking support from expert translators to represent this solution in language of the nation were we do want to implement this intellectual innovation. It had been always lethal to address in favor or against the institutionalized faith, so I have represented this solution in short form of literature, to expand a modern theory of peace without disgracing the belief of any humankind and through academic sources and the market of literature as well. This project is still in process, no information about its impact | First of all we do need some experts of literature from United Nations and the team engaged with “UN Perception Change Project” of UNOG to finalize this project for implementation. Thereafter recommendation from the world’s leading religious instructors to implement this solution in form of literature to have considerable global impact. This is all what we do need to represent this innovation to strengthen the United Nations providing the basic potential to the UN administration that they need to advance its disarmament agenda within a basic theory to advance the culture of peace for the success of UN-SDGs by time. ( I would be glad to submit the full proposal in detail if needed ) Personally as a victim of the corrupt system in Indian administration, I do need Justice and security to introduce myself as the innovator of this solution. Some financial support as medium-term loan to purchase equipments to communicate with the global community and to strengthen myself to build up a team (partners) to raise global awareness about the core value of SDGs as an essential need of this contemporary world. | I am continually raising this issue time to time at Linkedin.com (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajay-singh-a8206b42/ ) and other social media. Furthermore at (https://www.allhumanitynetwork.org/members/1181777 ) The concept of this innovation had been published at (http://www.author-me.com/fict15/agilia1.htm ) Trying to reach the UN entities through this petition ( https://www.change.org/p/define-the-un-perception-change-project-as-the-basic-potential-of-un-sdg-4-7-quality-education-to-achieve-the-un-sdg-16-a-peace | I don’t have video or audio recordings of my statements. ”In fact beautiful speeches are not effective than the concrete actions, plans and commitment to accelerate the implementation at ground level leaving no one behind. Presently the people of the world do not want half measures or empty promises they are demanding transformative change fair and sustainable which might ensure the safety of the future generation.” (A remark from UN Secretary-General’s addressing the opening of High-Level-Political-Forum Ministerial segment 2019) Here I would like to state about our negligence in implementing the Goals No. 4, 16 and 17. To implement the Goal 4, we have lots of resources to ensure quality education, but we do not have a strategic plan for promotion of culture’s contribution to sustainable development. For success of Goal 16, it’s the time to delineate a new method for academia to build inclusive institutions to lead the world on path to peace and social diversity. Without appointment of a Minister of SDGs to motivate and monitor the implementation of SDGs, it is impossible for all the Member States of UN to advance Goal No 17 in actual fact. | We can’t get any award for an innovation till it is presented for competition. I am still struggling to get a platform to build up a team to present this solution in a proper way. Recently I have been appointed as Minister of SDGs at “The Kingdom of Atlantes” ( A new State in formation ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=ffmb4_aKR9g | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
480 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Maraka | Lefera | Central University of Technology | www.cut.ac.za | Part Time Lecturer | Female | South Africa | South Africa | English | My name is Maraka Lefera former wellness worker (Peer educator) MSM/LGBTI Intersex programme coordinator, which stands for Men having sex with Men/ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender. Currently am a part-time lecturer in the Faculty of Management Sciences at the Central University of Technology, Free State, (CUT) South Africa. Besides lecturing I work closely with LGBT students on campus and off campus on my own will, by educating students and learners about what it means to be LGBT individual. The reason am doing this is because through my past job experience, I have discovered how the society, teachers and peers discriminate and stigmatise LGBT people.I am a hard worker and reliable towards LGBT people to that extend last year one of the Psychologists from the local school referred on learner who did not accept his sexuality to me for counselling and for sensitisations sessions To date most of LGBT individuals that I have worked with have self-confidence and they are comfortable in their own sexual identity or orientation. I have confidence if given the opportunity to present my idea it will enhance my abilities and enabling me to implement established inclusive programme that will address LGBT individual challenges and promoting HIV/Aids education through the power of sports | Maraka Lefera works as a part time Lecturer at Central University of Technology (CUT) Free State South Africa. She holds BTech degree Human Resources Management from CUT and have just completed her master’s in human resources management at CUT waiting for the degree to be confirmed. The title of her dissertation was sexual diversity management by SMMEs owner/managers in the Mangaung Metropolitan Area, Free State.She describes herself as a change agent, hard worker, dedicated and selfless global leader who has made human progress her business. Maraka is Enactus CUT alumnus and CO-Faculty advisor and in 2016 she was awarded Enactus South Africa Junior Alumnus of the year. Enactus is an international non-profit organization which was founded in the United States of America in 1975. Active on more than 1600 university campuses in 38 countries, Enactus teams create economic opportunities in their communities by organizing educational outreach projects to effect positive change. She is also a human rights activist and she has served in leadership positions of different student organisations from her first year at Central University of Technology also served as Student Representative Council member in 2013 and was recognised as the best SRC member during her term at the annual Vice Chancellor leadership awards. She believes that her purpose in life is to contribute in a greater good of humanity through community upliftment projects her involvement in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender cause. | Inclusive Programme | #countmein | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | South Africa | No | Ideation | I want to implement sexual orientation education programme in high schools and communities. I strongly believe that it would be a good thing if the community, young people and teachers are educated from early stage about different sexual orientations especially on what it means to be LGBT individual There is no education available in high schools or existing knowledge of others experiencing similar emotions, many young people just suppress their feelings. | The problem that the solution is addressing is lack of education about what it means to be LGBT individual. There is no sexual orientation in schools especially focusing on LGBT and this leads to teachers and learners being judge mental towards LGBT school children. It is sad because schools could act as a brilliant environment to learn about everything in the world including sexuality. This could be a place where LGBT children ask questions and clarity . | The solution will be in a form of education where by a curriculum will be developed and be implemented in schools and in the communities. The programme will have a series of games and activities that will allow learners and teachers to explore sensitive issues in relation to sexuality. LGBT individuals, professionals and teachers will be trained as inclusive coaches to deliver the curriculum in high schools in the communities. This programme will create fun, friendly and safe environment in which leaners and teachers share their feelings and beliefs about sexuality. This will result in to knowledge increase and develop healthy attitudes and behaviours concerning sexuality | Currently there are no such programmes in schools most of the programmes that are in place are community based and they to do have a curriculum. This will be the first curriculum on sexuality that will be piloted in Bloemfontein schools which will be delivered by LGBT role models, professionals and teachers that will act as coaches.The teachers professional and LGBT individuals will attend a five day Inclusive programme Trainers of Trainers (TOT) course in which they will learn about teaching Sexuality and HIV to learners and community through inclusive programme. TOT participants will gain facilitation skills, knowledge and understanding of sexuality and HIV. After the completion of TOT these participants become inclusive coaches equipped to deliver the programme in schools and communities. | Currently waht am doing is teaching about sexuality when requested by different people. There is no formal programme in place. I am in the process of finilising the curriculum that will be used by the coached once the programme is fully functional. | The plan is to pilot the programme in Bloemfontain schools through the approval of Department of Basic Education. After the pilot stage there will be extesive consultation with the different stake holders on how the programme can be improved. The next phase will be implemented in companies because at this day in time some businesses still makes it harder for LGBT employees to achieve work-life balance. | Short term resources. Funding that will be used to recruit and train coaches that will be implementing the programme. Stationary that will be used during training and during programme activities.Lap tops for Monitoring and evaluation purposes. Transport fare for coaches during programme activities. Catering during training. Long Term Office Space Office Equipment Vehicle that will transport the coaches. Recruitment of other coaches during programme expansion | Currently there is no link available. | Currently there are no links I only have pictures to use as evidence | No awards yet. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
481 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Aurélie | Debusschère | World Indigenous Tourism Alliance | www.winta.org | Europe Agent | Female | France | France | English | French | As an indigenous tourism specialist, I have been able to work in contact with all stakeholders of the tourism sector, from travelers to UN bodies, experiencing the whole systemic approach to find innovative ways to use the system's complex mechanisms for the good. My journey to explore the aftermath of tourism activity is guided by indigenous elders, spiritual leaders, indigenous women and western specialist in human psyche, offering a systemic vision of the human experience on Earth through the prism of travel, adding unexpected and meaninful information enriching economical data collected in previous research. Indigenous techniques explore systems with a holistic vision, all elements being interconnected, therefore believing that all aspects of our civilisation have to be considered as a whole to work in balance. On behalf of the World Indigenous Tourism Alliance, our team and members, I want to apply to be part of the UN Solutions Summit to present our pilot project, share our 10 year research on this specific topic, to welcome inputs from experts, invite stakeholders involved in the tourism sector, to start operating a worldwide system immediately changing the paradigm, regarding the state of emergency we are facing with global warming, putting in the front line indigenous protectors. Even if called ""pilot"", our project is starting with the support of decades of experience, key partners, and will be an open and ethical laboratory on the field in a permanent discussion with indigenous communities and the travel sector. We will be setting up our methodology and be able to immediately connect with UN experts to travelers and adjust the whole supply chain. Most significantly, it will start supporting key indigenous communities in their struggle to survive on threaten and stolen lands. In our system based on a collective and united mechanism, with the support of western travel agencies and tour operators, we will indeed have access to a supposed thousands of travelers, which we can drive to strategic places directly supporting indigenous protectors. We are anticipating the rise of travel trend around indigenous experiences that can put a deadly threat on indigenous cultures or support them to restore our planet. | Please find my online CV : https://www.linkedin.com/in/adebusschere Indigenous tourism specialist and humanist photographer, Aurélie Debusschère is the first World Indigenous Tourism Alliance agent based in Europe (French Alps, border of Geneva). Aurélie has spend 6 years in an immersive stay in boreal forest with the Atikamekw people in Quebec, a social experience leading to a deep understanding of the colonialist system's aftermath (loss of identity, change in spiritual practices...) embodied by life on a reservation. Promoting an ecotourism project on Atikamekw ancestral lands to European travelers and operators has brought emerging solutions to restore indigenous pride and quality connection to the land by younger generations. Creating a worldwide indigenous network in the last 10 years, Aurélie has worked on independent research to explore innovative and lasting solutions to support Indigenous Earth Guardians, based on the combination of ancestral knowledge and wisdom with mastering the mechanism of the western world. Aurélie has moderated the first Indigenous Tourism Seminar at ITB Berlin 2019 (World leading travel trade show) and has given several conferences at the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin about Indigenous tourism for peace. She has been WINTA representative during the last 2 years at UN events such as the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (side events). She has created her own NGO called Native Immersion, an educative platform for travelers about indigenous destinations. | Support and Protect Indigenous Earth Guardians through Travel | Engage the travel industry towards Earth regeneration through worldwide support of Indigenous People | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | In countries counting recognized indigenous groups. | Yes | Native Immersion - Visit Natives - Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada - Western Autralia Indigenous Tour Operators Council - Travolution NGO - University of Lapland | Proof of Concept | We have signed a MOU between 3 organizations : the World Indigenous Tourism Alliance (indigenous NGO), Native Immersion (Global Educative platform about indigenous cultures for travelers) and Visit Natives (Tour Operator with indigenous staff). Our pilot project is to start from August 2019 with already all tools and methodology ready to apply immediately on the field. Our first step is to build a shield preventing the predatory tourism industry to destroy indigenous most vulnerable cultures. | The travel industry has become a world economic powerhouse, reaching 1.4 billion international visitors in 2018, according to UNWTO. The growth of tourism will exceed that of all other international retail and service sectors in the coming years. Too often in collaboration with state governments, local governments,corporate interests and certain NGOs, the industry has done great harm to Indigenous groups in the name of conservation and tourism development, attacking the most preserved areas. | Our solution is a concrete method (Indigenous Tourism Engagement Framework) to give practical expression to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at all levels of the industry, from international institutions to travelers. We educate and provide special tools and guidelines through workshops to travelers, indigenous communities, tour operators, governmental agencies to bring the ethics alive and strategically organize for an efficient support of indigenous tourism. We are starting to do field study with indigenous communities in order to use the powerful presence of travelers to protect and aquire ancestral lands. Regarding the special pilot project focusing on preventing abuse on vulnerable indigenous communities, WINTA will be the expert advisor (educator & regulator), Native Immersion the B to C educator and Visit Natives the ""Root Operator"". Worldwide resellers interested to invest the sector will be able to book experiences through us without harming communities, plus get through our compulsory educative process. Our long-term vision is to bring the whole tourism industry, at least key stakeholders such as international air travel organizations, transport companies, to get actively committed in supporting indigenous communities (funding program). This initiative plans to balance their impact and give the natural world ancestral custodians better chances to restore the health of our planet. | We have been able to live and travel the world until now thanks to the presence and work of indigenous peoples around the world, despite the fact they represent about 5% of worldwide population. Without them, we simply face extinction. Our solution is unique because it has been created by the successful alliance of indigenous and non-indigenous experts, then validated by indigenous peoples themselves. Most of the solutions offered are often under a colonialist perspective, that is part of the paradigm shift we want to support. Indigenous intelligence, including indigenous women's vision, has to be considered to solve modern issues with ancestral knowledge. Our solution to support indigenous communities empowerment through travel and tourism ventures is unique because we are using globalization's good side to connect ancient and modern worlds to create peace, conscious travelers, responsible humans and sustainable livelihood for all. The methodology we use educates all stakeholders about the power and potential of indigenous tourism, but with guidelines and tools to develop projects in an indigenous perspective. According to the UN, honouring indigenous rights is one of the most essential initiative to save the living on Earth. | Our Indigenous Tourism Engagement Framework methodology is fully ready and has been entirely created by the World Indigenous Tourism Alliance indigenous team. After signing the MOU in July, we are about to start applying the process from Mid-august with Native Immersion (NGO) and Visit Natives (TO). Travelers guidelines are under conception. We have discussed at the latest Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN, Geneva) with University of Boulder (Colorado, US) law professor to create a research project that will support our work with international laws. We are also under discussion with OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development) in Paris to work on a specific data project for indigenous tourism they would be able to provide to measure our work and methodology effectiveness, following their recently published ""Linking Indigenous Communities with Regional Development"" report. We would have then acamedics, experts and global organizations that would support the implementation of our methodology, with accurate and quality data. | As an organization working with volunteer workforce, we would plan the following goals to broaden our impact : - Find permanent funding to hire our expert staff - Work in partnership with academics (universities) to involve interns - Give specific workshops and conferences aside of the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP, geneva) to train indigenous and government delegates about indigenous tourism - collect the first data of our pilot project to share with the industry and invite them to join the project The projected lives impacted can very quickly be of thousands, since WINTA has a network of 400 members in 61 countries. If we could provide our workshops, methodologies, expertises and open bookings to our indigenous destinations, we would have about 10 experiences to offer in 2020, 25 in 2021 and 50 from 2022, directly connecting indigenous communities with supportive travel projects. | The most needed resources are funds to support indigenous communities in need, funding we could obtain with : - full booked agenda of our workshops by governmental agencies, academics or tour operators (short term) - the support of the International Air Travel Association, the tourism transportation sector and the tourism industry in general to manage our own funds immediately leading to educate all stakeholders, including communities (medium to long term) - strategic alliances with other international and philanthropic organizations (long term) | Please find the websites of WINTA and partners for the pilot project : World Indigenous Tourism Alliance : http://www.winta.org Native Immersion : http://www.nativeimmersion.com Visit Natives : http://www.visitnatives.com You can find WINTA's resource library and reports : https://www.winta.org/resources Video of WINTA Tourism Workshop in Indigenous communities of Chile, with our local partner Travolution : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9VHwt-usBo | Please find videos of the latest events we have moderated and organized : - World Indigenous Tourism Summit, New Zealand 2018 : https://vimeo.com/271225083 - Berlin Economic Forum, Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, March 2019 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XErnjrIiY1U Archives 2013 : - ESTC talks of our Chairman Ben W. Sherman : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHX6Rqqb7b4 | Funding support from the Minstry of Foreign Affairs of Finland (Finland development aid) Booking Booster top 20 short-listed candidates 2018 Nomination for the Nordic Impact Accelerator 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
482 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Orginga | Darming | NET IMPACT MONROVIA PROFESSIONAL CHAPTER | net.org | President | male | Liberia | Liberia | English | My motivation us be par of the events will give me ideals and back to share wit others.Truly creative people have developed their ability to observe and to use all of their senses, which can get dull over time. Take time to “sharpen the blade” and take everything in. Innovation is based on knowledge. Therefore, you need to continually expand your knowledge base. Read things you don’t normally read. My perceptions may limit your reasoning. Be careful about how you’re perceiving things. In other words, defer judgment. Practice guided imagery so you can “see” a concept come to life. Let My ideas “incubate” by taking a break from them. For example, when I’m working on a big business project, one of the best things I can do to take a break from it is play my guitar or the flute for a few minutes, or take a ride on my motorcycle. It shifts my brain into another place and helps me be more innovative and creative. Experience as much as you can. Exposure puts more ideas into your subconscious. Actively seek out new experiences to broaden your experience portfolio. Treat patterns as part of the problem. Recognizing a new pattern is very useful, but be careful not to become part of it. Redefine the problem completely. One of the lines I’ve been sharing for the past few decades is: My r problem is not the problem; there is another problem. When you define the real problem, I can solve it and move on.” After all, if you had correctly defined the real problem, you would have solved it long ago because all problems have solutions. Look where others aren’t looking to see what others aren’t seeing. Come up with ideas at the beginning of the innovation process ... and then stop. Many times we come up with several ideas and start innovating, and then we come up with more ideas and never get a single idea done. At some point you have to turn off the idea generation part of the process and really work on the innovation and execution part in order to bring a project to life. | I was born in the remote forest where never since God made us not seen energy are illiterate modern technology .99% population does have access to energy. | Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | poverty energy | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Liberia | No | Research & Development | I think solution is at the stage of innovation I selected above Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. | Lack of funding is killing the development of people minds where high rate poverty is on the increase of Liberia. | solution work, and what is the long-term vision for global impact where each and every one has to be part it. | Energy efficiency of buildings has been identified as a core element in facing the climate change and the scarcity of energy resources. The energy supply system for a building is, especially with view on thermal interrelations, a highly complex and heterogeneous system that emerges jointly with the building construction, the user's behavior, the weather conditions and the surrounding energy and price policy to a real system-of-system. The building control system as the “intelligent instance” of the System of Systems (SoS) takes a special role in realizing the potential of the joint operating constituent systems due to the energy efficiency of the building or district. We apply SoS as an innovative engineering approach to a complex energy system. | Called quantitative and qualitative research. Quantitative research is the systematic investigation of phenomena using statistical, mathematical, or computational techniques. It is verifiable by means of observation or experiment. A body of practices, procedures, and rules used by those who work in a discipline or engage in an inquiry; a set of working methods: the methodology of genetic studies; a poll marred by faulty methodology | We work to leave a positive impact on the planet and I am truly excited about the inauguration of Global Innovation Exchange development means we have now reached the 100% renewable energy milestone three years ahead of target. Together with our partners, we intend to continue investing in renewable energy to help create a better future for the builders of tomorrow,” | Projects grant programs implementation to reduce poverty in beloved Planet for livI have always categorized my career into short term and long term goals. It is beneficial as well as promising. I have work ed for several years on the same principle. Surely I have a list of goals prepared for this job position. My short-term goals are fairly simple. I want to settle down in the new work environment as quickly as I can. It is necessary to adapt oneself to a new environment for better performance. Apart from this, my long-term goals are to grow into the job. Progress is the key. I want to see myself extracting every single drop of experience as I move ahead. These are not just goals but a guideline that I have to follow. In the end, it can be advantageous to me as well as this organization.livihood. | http:www.net.org | none | none | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
483 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Frank | Dehnhard | Global Environmental Solutions Institute | www.glesi.org | founder | m | Germany | Germany | English | I have studied electrical engineering and architecture to reduce emissions by refurbishing buildings to passive house level. I have energy saving ""in my DNA"". 2005 I became Germany's first ""Energy Champion"" from the German Environmental Ministry (BMU) and German TV. But I realized after about 10 years that this work is great but will not save the world. Even several lectures I held to the public made no difference: There were just 15-20 people coming and they were nearly experts already. We did not reach those who have no clue and who need sustainability/climate education. in 2009 I went to my beloved glaciers in the Alps again and was shocked to see the melting and the desperate efforts to cover the ice with white sheets. I felt I had to look for a global solution. First I thought about writing a book: ""1001 solutions to save our planet"" But I realized: Who would read that? Perhaps 500 energy nerds. But certainly not the 99% who should read it. And if I write it - after 3 years - 50% would have to be updated. Climate change and energy knowledge are changing so fast. So it was clear: I would have to develop an online platform to solve the two largest obstacles that prevent change: 1. reach the 99% who need the knowledge and motivation to change their habits 2. provide a sustainability navigation system to guide the lay people, lost in green washing - especially consumers - to act sustainably. For the first task we use first class entertainment and high rewards (1 million jackpot). To reach the maximum participation we add ""multi level marketing"" for prizes (you win 10% if your enlisted friend wins) and will partner with The Climate Reality Project, facebook and google, the UN etc.. We will use Virtual Reality to make the movies even more immersive, interactive and eye opening. For the navigation system we use Augmented Reality for informing the shoppers about the footprints of products - and better alternatives - at the point of sale and make Business as Usual history. It also will use Artificial Intelligence, location technology, blockchain / IoT for supply chain and social media. Further more it will use and generate Big Data. This will also help the UN to monitor improvements in SDGs and carbon emissions. | First I studied Electrical Engineering with focus on medical technology at the University of Bochum. After 5 years work at a medical technology company I planned to change my job to save the climate and energy waste. One of the largest areas are buildings and their energy uptake of heating/cooling. For that I also studied Architecture on top. I worked at the U of Lübeck as lecturer for Building Physics and at the U of Kiel in a research project for renewable building materials before starting our own energy practice SOLARC in 1999. We completed about 3000 energy related projects since then. Since 2009 I have been working with a few international colleagues and Universities on USERS and founded GLESI to push this solution and to find partners. Especially at the UN. | Universal Sustainability Education and Reward System - USERS | Raising awareness and motivation for action for SDGs | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | First Beta Test in Germany and EU, then roll out globally | Yes | University of Lübeck, U of Kiel, Potsdam Inst. for Climate Impact Research, CSYAN | Transition to Scale | We have developed a running prototype and it has been tested at the University of Kiel inside a larger German BMBF funded research project: TRANSKOLL. The results have been encouraging. Those who were using USERS had twice as many sustainable products in their shopping cart as those who did not use USERS. Now we have to implement some more features, collect more data and then start an international “real-lab” Beta Test before the global roll out starts. | We have just ONE PROBLEM on our world. That is our wrong, destructive behavior. Other ""problems"" are just symptoms. That is valid for ALL SDGs! From hunger to climate, from inequality to wars. The task is to change the knowledge, motivation and habits of some billion people to act sustainably because many still deny facts, don't understand the urgency or just feel not prepared and too small to change anything. They live in “social filter bubbles” and politicians and media are denying facts. | To reach a billion lay, often disinterested people it needs irresistible incentives for extrinsic motivation to open “social filter bubbles”: First class entertainment in combination with winning high rewards for participation and action will be attractive for nearly everyone. Adding intrinsic motivation from peer groups, celebrities and communities will encourage the participants to join this global movement to save our future and planet. But even if everyone wants to save the world and act – we can’t because there is not the information available that we need or it’s just green washing. Especially in everyday shopping and procurement. The universal sustainability navigation system will guide consumers and purchasing agents to the products and services with lowest SDG footprint. Individually adjustable preferences allow a personal optimum. Augmented reality helps at the shelf and while looking at leaflets, the online guide while shopping at a PC. New E-commerce features make the platform very valuable for retailers, who will pay for the service. The data will come from independent laboratories. The manufacturer pays the tests without influencing the results. Scientists evaluate and rank the products. This system allows changes in footprints over time (seasonal food) and location specific (transport). Big Data allows anonymous analysis of consumer behavior and changes of SDG-footprints over time. Artificial Intelligence helps to select the best personalized product results. | For the awareness, education and motivation part there is no real competitor. MOOCs or webinars are just for really interested SDG fans or students. Web pages or scientific papers have the same problem. Documentaries like ""Before the Flood"" or ""Racing Extinction"" are single events that are forgotten too fast and don't show what each of us can do. The big picture and hints for the proper action is missing. There is no other platform offering high rewards and great entertainment if you care about the SDGs to save our future and the planet. And there is no platform for everyone to get the information we all need and to merge global movements and NGOs like FFF, WWF, 350.org etc. to get stronger. The sustainability navigation system has a few smaller competitors. But not one of them helps save time and money and is connected to the brick&mortar shops in real time. None is neutrally testing the products. They rely on ingredients printed on packing or on CSR reports of companies or few tests from third parties. Most are just for a very small product category like cosmetics or fish.... Usually they rely on barcode scanning which is very cumbersome and time consuming. None is using Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence which allows results without removing of products and search for barcodes. So there is no comparable IT platform for everyone to get educated and motivated and also offers personal guidance in shopping and sustainable life. | After the basic idea was born and the holistic approach had been constructed on paper we started to produce an example movie for the awareness part: ""Harry Potter and the curse of mankind"". This had been a medley of some hundred scenes of Harry Potter 1-5 where Harry shows the 100 million fans what they should do to save the world. It is of low quality up to now but is enough to show the idea. A HTML page had been set up to show a typical questionnaire for part I. Just in time the smartphones became more popular and powerful enough to develop the Augmented Reality APP for the navi system with software developers from the University of Lübeck. This prototype has been tested at the University of Kiel (marketing department) and had as result a near doubling of more sustainable or more healthy products in the shopping cart. We expanded the AR APP to buildings and menu cards and travel leaflets. It is universal. USERS can be used to rank any product - from an apple to a sky scraper. Without any confusing labels or seals (though they can be used in the background by the server for ranking). USERS has been nominated for the Crossboder Innovation Prize by the Böll foundation August 2019. The next step will be a larger real-lab test where the difference between answers before USERS-1 and after the education will define the effect of learning and motivation to act and the difference of shopping without navi system and with navi will show how USERS-2 makes shopping sustainable. | The awareness system is nearly ready (about 2 months development) and just needs great videos and a new homepage. So when we get funding (up to now it has all been paid 100% from personal savings which are empty now) 14 videos will be selected for the education part, some will be adapted and some new produced to reach the public and motivate to act. For part 2 we want to add some more features to the APP and connect to the cashier systems of the main supermarket stores in EU and USA. Parallel generic footprints are calculated for the most important product categories. Not all SDG aspects will be implemented at that time (missing data) but at least carbon emissions. A Beta Test will be run to prove the system in everyday life. After that the work for official global launch will start. The product data has to become more precise. Many tests will have to be performed. But for the global launch of part 1 there will have to be several own new productions which makes USERS quite expensive. But if done correctly it will earn back the invested money in short time. | Both parts are very large and disruptive projects. For that we need a collaboration with leading alliances to be strong enough to oppose ""Business as Usual"". A main role should play the United Nations - as mother of SDGs and to stop climate change. But all attempts to get in touch and find open minded staff has been a failure. So even if USERS should not be one of the winners please hep us to find UN staff to discuss how USERS can help the Paris Agreement and Agenda 2030. The UN has all contacts we need to make USERS a main solution to curb climate change and solve the SDGs in a few years! The Users Beta Test will need about $350.000.- The launch of part II will need about $4million and the launch of part I about >$50million. After this first investment the second part will earn enough to pay for further movies and the IT system in the following years. There are many “giving pledge” billionaires who want to save the world and many companies that will profit from the transformations and so it should be no problem to find this financial help. | The basics of this project can be found at www.glesi.org Inside are also the main videos for both parts. A recent compilation that shows Greta, Antonio Guterres at al. who “demand USERS”: tinyurl.com/yxb7lbfo Further examples are here: Menu card reader https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kfb7SiUj5uNt0C7rgQOQn4ehotbXSFeX (goal: hotels reward guests with the recipe for vegetarian menu and offer small vegetarian test servings for meat friends to show ) The energy pass 2.0 - using Augmented Reality (in German) to double building refurbishments: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MNx5OmgutgpOwpMCNbA2IGT5K66U4apa | Despite of my lectures there are not many recordings. Especially not in English. At COP23 there has been one recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1AWmpomvgY without recording: http://www.luebeck.de/aktuelles/presse/pressedienstarchiv/view/2005/11/050915L/ | Winner 2005 Germany's Energy Champion (ZDF - Energiesparmeister) by German Environmental Ministry and German public TV https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7840/682734 http://stadtzeitung.luebeck.de/archiv/artikel/id/18878 Nomination for the Böll Crossborder Innovation Reward August 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
484 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Francine Marie Georgette | FRANCK AGBO | KRB Niger | krb@krbconseils.com | water and sanitation engineer | Female | Niger | Benin | French | The Sustainable Development Goals have always been at the center of my concerns, which has led me to take training in water and sanitation engineering and develop a mobile application to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals 1, 3, 4 and 16. I would like to have the opportunity to present my project and share my innovative ideas at this summit and to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa by reducing the unemployment rate and increasing the literacy rate across my project. | FRANCK AGBO Francine Marie Georgette, engineer in Water and Sanitation, Nigerien nationality, born on 13/07/1989 in Cotonou. Daughter of AGBO FRANCK Marie Charles and DJIMA SAKA Salamatou. She lives and works as a trainee in Niger and has been interested in entrepreneurship since 2017 and won the AU Niger Challenge prize on 4th July 2019. She is the founder of the Aid-Migr project and the Allodocta project in Niger | Aid-Migr | It is a mobile application that raises awareness of the risks associated with illegal migration and allows socio-professional reintegration. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | The Aid-Migr project will be implemented in all regions of Niger and throughout the region of Africa | Yes | Our potential partners are organizations working in the field of migration, companies, associations, municipalities | Research & Development | In Africa and Niger in particular, no application talks about migration and how to reduce the risks associated with it, which is why the Aid-Migr application was developed. Aid-Migr aims to raise public awareness of the risks associated with illegal migration in French, English and local languages in Niger. In addition, it includes other features such as legal, medical and psychological assistance for migrant victims of trafficking or violence. | Migration is booming in Africa, particularly in Niger, where thousands of migrants from all over Africa are trying to cross the desert. This has led to the creation of migration networks and human trafficking. Despite the efforts made by the authorities, migrants are still trying to escape and ignore the risks of clandestine migration. | Aid-Migr is simple and easy to use, just download the application in google play or apps store.The mobile application has the following features: - Awareness-raising feature that raises awareness of the risks associated with illegal migration in French, English and local languages of Niger, - Functionality of medical assistance that allows migrants to move towards medical centers and medical care structures, -Social assistance functionality that directs migrants to housing and social care services, -Functionality of legal assistance that directs migrants to the administrative and legal structures, -Persional integration feature that allows migrants to apply for job opportunities; scholarships and calls for projects, -Functionality of psychological assistance that supports migrants who have been victims of trafficking, violence or who have lost everything during an emergency, -Functionality of voluntary return assistance for migrants wishing to return to their country of origin, -Migrant space functionality to enable migrants to keep their personal data and share their experiences with other migrants, -Functionality that focuses on Niger's cultural sites and sites. The long-term vision of the Aid-Migr application is to facilitate the professional integration of migrants and reduce the unemployment rate and all forms of violence | Migration is booming in Africa, particularly in Niger, where thousands of migrants from all over Africa are trying to cross the desert. This has led to the creation of migration networks and trafficking in human beings. Despite the efforts of the authorities, migrants are still tempted by the exodus and ignore the risks of illegal migration. | Our project has moved from the idea stage to the project stage thanks to the coaching of ANSI Niger, IOM and the partnership of the agency Mougani. The success of our project will be measured thanks to surveys (to have the number of satisfied users per year), thanks to the number of downloads per month and per year and annual reports | The goal of our project is to reduce the unemployment rate and the forms of violence in Africa. Our specific objectives are to guide and inform migrants to the appropriate services in terms of migration. Our operational objectives are to sensitize the pop evaluation on the risks risks related to the illegal migration, to publish on the interface of the application of the scholarships, the job offers, the offer of voluntary, voluntary or calls for projects,provide migrants with an electronic directory and a space for data retention and sharing of experiences. We will first develop and launch our application in Niger and then in the region of West Africa and finally throughout the region of Africa.Our employees will be accountants, logisticians, sales agents, secretaries, sociologists, project coordinators, investigators, .. | Our short-term needs are coaching, mentoring, financial resource Our medium-term needs are coaching, mentoring, financial, material and human resources. Our long-term needs are coaching, mentoring, financial, material and human resources. | http://www.nigerhopegivers.org/project-details/9 or https://aid-migr.bitrix24.site/?ts=1564677393# | https://youtu.be/56R115N_k6E | Award UA Niger Challenge (Our project received funding of 3,000,000 CFA francs from the World Bank at the African Union Summit held on 5-8 July 2019 in Niger). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
485 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Hamish | Finlayson | Moonshot Industries.global Pty Ltd | http://www.tripletand asd.com | CEO and Founder | M | Australia | Australia | English | 1% of the world’s population, about 74 Million people and growing every day, is living with autism. The rest of the world doesn’t understand it, therefore is afraid of it and we need to fix this The cost of autism care this year to the world is over $4.5 Trillion Many people with autism, like me, struggle with day to day life and social skills that the other 99% of the world may take for granted, like crossing the road safely, or taking a bus or train to work or school and find it difficult to use the services in some way We need to reduce these costs to society, VR and simulated apps are a perfect way to do this to allow people on the spectrum more independence and to learn life and social skills in a safe environment Creating a world that leaves no-one with autism behind is a natural investment to make the world a better place My moonshot project has 3 phases to it like any good rocket launch. My launch phase has been really good, with a new app, great crowd funding and global media attention. My VR app has been seen on BBC, Ch7 and Today Extra In flight right now is, trying to find new partners, expand onto various VR platforms and look for new funding sources. The moonshot landing phase is the final phase, where technology solutions for autism are being used by the community. The ultimate aim of my project is to reduce the costs of autism for people with it and their families | Hamish Finlayson – educator, app developer, community champion Technology lover Hamish began to develop app games as a way to inspire young people to save turtles and stop littering the oceans when he was 10. After the success of his LitterbugSmash suite of environmental apps, the then 11-year-old shifted his focus towards apps that educate the community about autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which he lives with. Hamish placed a global spotlight on these issues at the US Government’s Global Entrepreneurship Summits in Silicon Valley and Hyderabad. Hamish’s apps have won numerous technology and community awards and attracted worldwide media coverage. Hamish’s work has been featured in a 2018 BBC Brightsparks documentary about teen entrepreneurs making a difference globally and his work has also gained him entry into Facebook’s FbStart program in 2016 and annual F8 Worldwide Developer Conference in 2019. Last year, Hamish was honoured to be picked as a Commonwealth Games baton bearer for a segment of the Townsville relay for his services to the environment and autism community. Now 14yo, Hamish is developing apps to educate people about the autism spectrum, help them to read emotions and manage stress and using virtual reality technology to make life for people with autism and their caregivers easier. In his spare time, Hamish enjoys playing the guitar and piano, and having fun with his dog, Schnitzel. | ASD&Me - Transport Pathways | TransportPathways - VR/mobile life & social skills solutions to leave no-one with autism behind | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | My apps helping people with autism are in use in 54 countries. There is no reason why the VR and mobile solutions cannot scale globally and solutions tailored for developing nations. Natural target markets are countries with high mass transit systems, | No | Proof of Concept | Our launch phase has been really good, and validated our concept. This was both for general services to help people with autism but also using virtual reality.Used research from industry partners that shows using VR can improve the skills for people with ASD and make them more independent. Eyetracking is important to create data about gaze patterns so we can learn where people on the spectrum look, compared with others Early prototype apps are available on iOS and Android and via Oculus Keys | Transportation accidents are the leading cause of death in 15-29yos and we need to fix this. My VR and mobile apps create a safe simulated environment for people with autism to learn this important life skill in a fun way. Using VR simulations is a great way to learn and will also help reduce stress & time burdens for caregivers. It can be expanded to cover other important life & social skills people with autism struggle with like emotion recognition, taking public transport, job interviews etc | I have also used research from industry partners like TobiiPro and Hao2.eu that shows that using VR can improve the skills for people with ASD and make them more independent. Eyetracking is important to create data about gaze patterns so we can learn where people on the spectrum look, compared with others. This is important for crossing roads and also how people with autism look at signs, displays, timetables and interact with other people. My next phase is all about building my VR skills and building some VR solutions There is also a lot of cool stuff VR apps and games can do to teach people with autism new social skills and new life skills. I conducted a short three month trial with TobiiPro from Sweden to convert my Transport Pathways app to HTC Vive and add eyetracking capability. Currently, my VR app is also working on Oculus Rift and is Oculus Go ready. I also aim to add avatars and AI to make my apps more realistic and immersiv, cover more transport modes and introduce multi-player modes - including a caregiver mode that will help with assisted learning and social interaction The moonshot landing phase is the final phases, where VR technology solutions for autism are being used by the community and at schools or by charities helping people with autism as a cheaper and more cost effective way for people on the spectrum to learn these skills | To develop my solutions, I did a lot of research, I checked out the Autism CRC in Australia and UK research about the different strategies to help people with autism. I checked the app store myself for different types of apps and also thought about how autism impacts my daily life and spoke to people in my hometown and used online surveys. We spoke to the Autism CRC, Stanford Uni, Bond and Duke Uni and some cool start-ups trying to help people with autism. I’m now in touch with other specialist companies like Oculus, Hao2.eu, TobiiPro in Sweden and HTC Vive to find ways to use VR to help people with autism. Quite a few studies show that using VR to teach people with autism skills like crossing the road or taking a bus makes it easier for them to do this in real life. Most of these solutions are still at research phase and have not been designed for mass market adoption or release on scalable platforms like my apps. Also, I bring my unique lived experience with autism and gamification strategy approach to design of the app - solutions for ASD by people with ASD | Refer to progress updates in earlier responses. We are now in discussions with a local Uni to look at some qualitative trials to assess solution validity. | Next stages are focussed on conducting a proof of concept trial supported by a local uni to refine and finalise a working prototype. Check out this 60second pitch video for a broad idea on my plans and ambitions: https://youtu.be/LHsdeldJgpo | The main cost is device headsets and looking at ways to have these treated as having therapeutic value to be covered by health insurance. Support for more rigorous trials to validate skill level improvements is also needed to ensure the outcomes can be generalised to improvements in day to day tasks | http://www.tripletandasd.com https://www.tobiipro.com/blog/understanding-autism-with-eye-tracking/ https://youtu.be/rZQl9fuAmPg https://youtu.be/YjwLlk3uEr0 https://youtu.be/LHsdeldJgpo https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UWyqhMUBL0V2ILhrCtU_XCinotNvyPF3?usp=sharing https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20180228-this-13-year-old-makes-apps-to-teach-others-about-his-autism https://youtu.be/awl0PzlUPVc | Check the video recordings in this Google Drive link (not all of them are online anymore) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/105-cHW8GMzOL5PVHz9nc2GQaQcZOfp43 https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9HHYevNZ083LTVFXzZna3hSaW8 | FbStart 2016 - invited to enter bootstrap programme for Facebook for my apps helping people with autism Chosen as Commonwealth Baton Relay Holder for Townsville segment in 2018 for my work helping people with autism 2019 Finalist, NSW Department of Transport Pitchfest Invited by US Government for GES2017 summit - youngest entrepreneur in the world invited Invited by Facebook to attend F8 2019 Developer conference | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
486 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sulax | Shah | Shree Kamdhenu Electronics Pvt Ltd | www.akashganga.in | Promoter and Director | Male | India | India | English | I believe UN solutions summit is an appropriate platform to showcase our work to other fellow innovators and important stakeholders of developmental arena. It will be an opportunity to cross-learning and knowledge sharing event wherein we will learn different models of innovation and possibly replicate the models in our own country for greater good. | I, Sulax – an Electronics graduate with Masters Degree is an Indian residing in Anand known as Milk City of India for its AMUL revolution. Since graduating, I had an urge to plough back my knowledge to benefit the rural people. 3 decades ago such thinking was considered an Odd thinking. However the urge pushed me & luckily, I could find a platform of vibrant dairy cooperatives in villages. Interacting with stake holders I sensed an opportunity to amalgamate the knowledge of academics, work experience, wisdom with need of participating farmers. A system to test milk producers daily supply of milk to replace conventional method was the possible answer. The problem was such a replacement should not only win the confidence of the participants but as well be sustainable. The solution need not only be dynamic in terms of delivery using appropriate technology but it had to be continuous in terms of deployment, acceptance, support & fulfilling the never-ending demands of every stake holder - the challenge was accepted. Thirty years now, I have actively engrossed myself in delivering systems from simple microprocessor-based data processing platform to the recent ones using iOT & Cloud based platforms keeping all stake holders well aligned with generations of technology. Delivering solutions using contemporary technology across a span of 3 decades I have always ensured to deliver majority of the benefits to the Milk Producers who by all means remain an important stake holder of the ecosystem. | AKASHGANGA – Automatic Milk Collection Systems | AKASHGANGA – Simple ICTs in the lives of rural milk producers | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | India, Nepal, SriLanka & Vietnam | No | Transition to Scale | What started as a pilot project in 1996 is now a full scale pojrect with installations at more than 9000 rural village locations which are running this solutions twice a day to collect milk from farmers. We have covered @5% of the market segment as of now and still requires efforts to achieve major coverage for the solution. | Farmers in rural India deposit milk to Milk Collection Point. Qty & Quality assessment of milk is manual & inaccurate. Record keeping is inefficient and prone to errors. Milk may turn sour due to extended wait times in hot weather. Unethical practices also prevail. Poor infrastructure results in delayed payments. With appropriate ICT systems we delivered fair value of milk, Accuracy, Error free efficient data storage, improved milk quality, mutual faith & transparency with timely payments. | Using simple but appropriate technology the project aims to benefit the farmer community in the following ways: 1)Delivering accuracy with higher return to the participating Milk Producers 2)Provide better & sustainable supplementary livelihood through dairying 3)Create a clear, vibrant & transparent system through ICT leading to a higher awareness revolution in interactive communication systems to a community with more equitable, social & economic wealth 4)Spread effect of technology like ICT to such a large under privileged population. SKEPL started computerizing Milk Collection Points operations as early as in 1997, and since then has already installed over 10000+ systems across Pan India, Nepal, Vietnam and Srilanka. Having established a track record for high quality products and services over a span of 20+ years, AKASHGANGA is now an accepted and established brand name in the dairy sector. The brand is further enhanced by its user-friendly service and strong after-sales support. The company aims to make milk production data and information available online, thereby streamlining production planning, improving management communications and bringing transparency to operations. The long-term goal is to become the IT backbone for rural milk producers, helping to improve the quality of milk and deliver enhanced benefits to the Milk Producers who are at the bottom of Pyramid in the ecosystem. | AKASHGANGA is innovative as before its launch milk collection was done manually. There was some scope for manipulation by the milk testers and collector (the so-called administrators) in quality and quantity of milk. AKASHGANGA introduced microprocessor-based system dully integrating Electronic weighing Scale, Electronic Milk Tester, a data processor, and a printer. Each farmer is identified through a Unique ID number written in an identification (ID) card. This system helps in faster collection of milk, reliable and accurate measurement of fat and weight, and speedy payment to the farmers. However, it lacks complex data analysis. To obviate this AKASHGANGA further introduced PC-based milk collection systems. Such system uses a PC instead of a microprocessor. It has the capability to store individual milk collection details, undertake yearly analysis of data, facilitate complete financial accounting of the cooperative society, maintain records of cattle feed, ghee and other local milk sale of the society and maintain records of the member’s assets. Not only limiting to this, Akashganga is now offering iOT based solutions with Cloud Platforms to upload, process, manage, analyze, view milk producers real time data on a centralized portal apart from delivering Reports for online payments directly to Farmers account using digital platfrom and payment gateways. | The team over a span of about 25 years has always maintained pace with the technology and delivered solutions to the participating community using contemporary dynamic latest technologies. Till this time we have successfully managed to delivered solutions across Microprocessors, Microcontrollers, Embedded Platforms, all hardware platforms from PC AT486 to PC i7, across all Operating Systems from DOS to Windows 10. Since last couple of years we have also introduces iOT based solutions with Cloud Platforms and demonstrated the benefits of the same to all stake holders of the ecosystem. The beauty of the delivered solutions is that our entire team of @100+ is well trained and managed to maintain our delivered solutions. For a small organization like us it is always challenging to manage and deliver solutions with the pace of the global technological leaders and there by maintain the same with our support team and that too at RURAL level and for the community which is more or less illiterate. We have not limited ourselves to deliver only ICT based solutions for Milk Collection Points but have also managed to deliver Milk Testing equipments for measuring Fat and SNF with Ultrasonic Technology which will by and large help Indian Dairy sector for improving the Milk Quality. | Akashganga’s acceptance in India has demonstrated the potential of technology to impact livelihoods in poor rural communities & even illiterate or semi-literate people will accept and use ICT-based systems when they see tangible benefits from systems deployed in easy-to-use manner. Project appeals to mass population by delivering real value & is self-sustainable all across on its own. This was experienced by AKASHGANGA when it successfully unearthed following realities on rural population: a)Automatic Milk Collection Systems were accepted by rural masses once value was realized. b)Private enterprise is essential to make such mammoth projects to thrive on a sustainable basis. c)The workers at Milk Collection Point (MCP) are semi-literate but are totally adept at working system. d)All MCP using AKASHGANGA have spent money from their own coffers. Akashganga has shown that rural citizens will accept technology if it benefits them in tangible ways and is deployed in a purposeful and easy to use manner. Private sector enterprises, such as Akashganga, can play an important role in providing direct benefits and expanded opportunities to poor communities and they can do so profitably. Akashganga has also demonstrated that ICT can be used as a catalyst for synergies between social development goals (a better deal for dairy farmers) and business objectives (profitability of Akashganga). | Project is highly scalable, at least within India, since basic milk cooperative structure is replicated throughout country. AKASHGANGA can be replicated all across as it thrust on use of simple but appropriate technology for Milk Collection Points (MCP); delivers significant value & uplifts life of rural masses with millions of farmers dependent on dairying as supplementary livelihood. Started with 5 locations 25 years back, AKASHGANGA is currently implemented at more than 10000 locations. This fact itself demonstrates adoptability and acceptability of ICT for development and its transferability. The staff of MCP (who are also members of society) operates system, speedily and accurately. Managing trained men power, motivating them to cater to Rural villages on 24x7 through out the year to deliver training and after sales supports is the biggest challenge we are facing. Needless to say that if we want to expand and deliver our solutions across majority of the Milk Collection points we need a good support team with dairy domain knowledge who can provide effective and timely support to our installations. We seek support with which we can put in place such a team across a vast country like India and manage it to keep pace with technology which is changing almost everyday. We seek funds and technology especially to manage trained man power which will help us to deploy and cater to ever growing demands of the systems. | Our Website: www.akashganga.in Links: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3242948.stm http://smartceo.co/technology-for-diary-farming/ https://yourstory.com/2013/09/akashganga-sulax-think-different https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/presscenter/pressreleases/2013/04/16/companies-work-to-employ-india-s-poor-business-call-to-action-announces-new-initiatives-during-g20-inclusive-business-workshop-in-mumbai.html | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDAJcDmS1eE | 1996 Winners at National Level Agritech & Trade Fair 2001 Winners of global ICT Stories Project Competition sponsored by infoDev & IICD (the Netherlands) 2003 Project designated Best Practices by UNDP India. 2004 Invited by World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) at Geneva to showcase the ICT solution 2005 Awarded GOLD Category in e-Business for MANTHAN Award (affiliated to World Summit Award) 2010 Nasscom Social Innovation Award | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
487 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alexander | Quaisie | Verifie Health Limited | myverifieapp.com | Chief Executive Officer | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | Our innovation involves providing convenient and confidential education, counseling and screening services for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in an attractive, non-stigmatizing package which encourages young people to screen for such infections and be proactive about protecting themselves from STIs including HIV as well as seeking early treatment for them. We do this through the extensive use of social media and our mobile app, Verifie App, which is used to convenient and confidentially book for screenings (whether home call or in a clinic/hospital) or consult a doctor or medical professional on any queries concerning one's sexual health. Last year we screened 1,399 of which we referred 45 hepatitis B and 7 HIV positive individuals including 2 HIV/Hepatitis B co-infections. Currently, 11 Hepatitis B patients are on treatment with 10 on observation due to low viral loads. We also have 4 HIV are on treatment with 1 reaching viral suppression. This was done in collaboration with public and private hospitals/clinics. The first version of our app received more than 1000 downloads on both App Store and Playstore. Our innovation makes it possible for people who have often been stigmatized due to their sexual orientation or profession namely LGBT community and Female Sex Workers to seek quality sexual health services without discrimination as faced in other health institutions. These feats were recognized by NAZ London who awarded us the nOSCARS Global Impact Award in 2018. | Alexander is a medical practitioner who is also an advocate for good sexual health. He works with one of the leading occupational health organizations in Ghana, Claron Health International, where currently, aside his clinical duties, he spearheads screening activities for some of the biggest firms in Ghana in oil and gas as well as other corporate organizations. Alexander is a graduate of Central University with a BSc. in Physician Assistantship as well as a certificate in sexual and reproductive health and Legal and Ethical Issues in Healthcare from the Medical and Surgical Skills Institute, Ghana As an enthusiast of technology he strives for the use of tech and innovation to solve many health challenges in Africa. Having founded Verifie Health Limited and lead innovator of the internationally acclaimed award winning sexual health app, Verifie App, Alexander is challenging the social stigma attached to STIs and sex in general in a difficult climate where talking about sex is almost a taboo. He is looking to stimulate interest and commitment to regular sexual health counseling and testing especially in the youth through innovation to help curb the increasing spate of sexually transmitted infections and contribute to worldwide efforts at ending AIDS by 2030. | Let's Have a Quickie | Affordable and confidential STI education, counseling and testing for young people at their convenience | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | We are currently in Ghana however we intend to replicate model throughout Africa within the next 5 years | Yes | UNAIDS Ghana, MDS lancet Ghana, MTN Ghana, National AIDS Control Program Ghana | Transition to Scale | Our concept has been tested and proven in 3 tertiary institutions amassing more than 1000 tertiary students wanting to know their STI status many for the first time. Each time we have tied to improve our model to be more efficient, useful as well as enjoyable for our clients. With this success achieved, our intention is to reach even more young people in and out of tertiary institutions by expanding our reach to more schools as well as public gatherings of predominantly young people. | The spate of health issues such as infertility/subfertility, ectopic pregnancies, HIV, Hepatitis B and other STIs as well as unplanned pregnancies continue to rise in many young people due to; 1. Unknowingly engaging in risky sexual behavior 2. Sexual health services not being easily accessible 3. Inconvenient and expensive reproductive health services 4. Lack of holistic approach with regards to Sexual Health 5. Soliciting unqualified medical advice 6. Stigmatization and discrimination | Verifie addresses a dire need of the youth in Africa which simply aren’t met. Current intervention plans addressing STIs and HIV are unattractive, inaccessible and inconvenient to young people. They also often neglect other important aspects of sexual health. Verifie offers a fresh approach by leveraging on its youthfulness and understanding of the dynamics of the present day millennial to provide fun and relatable ways to get the youth excited about their sexual and reproductive health through the use of influencers, social media and an app. In addition, we provide convenient options such as home calls and a friendly non-discriminatory environment for minorities such as LGBT community, men who sleep with men and female sex workers. Verifie is committed to expanding throughout Ghana by establishing youth friendly centers to offer sexual and reproductive healthcare services to the various communities and will also serve as a safe space for men who sleep with men and female sex workers as well as people living with HIV. We intend to make Verifie a household name when it comes to Sexual and reproductive Health and STI prevention. We intend to replicate and expand to other countries innovating to address the individual challenges they present. Within 5 years we want to screen more than 500,000 people transforming more than a million lives as regards to STI prevention and treatment and contributing to ending AIDS by 2030. In so doing we will employ some 5,000 medical personnel. | Verifie incorporates technology in the form of a mobile app on smartphones which are ubiquitous to young people today. The app is a safe and reliable way for one to ensure they are always updated as regards their STI tests as well as their partners. It's a safe way to ensure your partner has really taken an STI test, when he/she took the test and when next they are due for another test. This way it encourages young people to be more proactive in safeguarding their sexual health and that of their partners. Verifie App also provides confidential online consultation with doctors and health experts via secure instant messaging. In addition, we offer convenience in the form of being flexible enough to offer home calls for STI tests as well as convenient clinic/ hospital testing which can also be booked from the app or website. Our pop up stands at universities and festivals and gatherings of young people emphasize confidentiality by providing makeshift rooms for testing and counseling, something which most screening programs tend to overlook. | We have tested this model in various public spaces from universities to open markets as well as outdoor music festivals targeted at the youth all with great success. Our app has been tried and tested in our target audience many of whom utilized the consultation feature within the app. The app has gone through a number of stages and is currently under beta testing for deployment on the various app stores in September. We collect data from clients which is aggregated and securely stored and send survey forms to assess their experience in order to gauge our interventions and further improve on it. | Verifie is committed to expanding to 3 major region in Ghana by end of 2020 replicating our business model and enabling us to undertake more 'let's have a quickie' projects in order to reach and affect the lives of many people. We intend to make Verifie a household name when it comes to Sexual Health and STI treatment and prevention in all health institutions in Ghana, and become internationally recognized as a premier health institution by the USAID, WHO and UNAIDS. In line with that, we work towards becoming available outside Ghana and covering Western, Central and especially Southern Africa by 2024. Currently, research and groundwork are under way to set up in Nigeria by 2021 We intend to replicate and expand our activities in such a way to conform to individual country laws and customs yet innovate to address the individual challenges they present. Within 5 years we intend to screen more than 500,000 people transforming more than a million lives as regards to STI prevention and treatment and contributing immensely to ending AIDS by 2030. In doing so we will employ, on full time and on part-time basis, more than 5,000 medical personnel and volunteers in 5 African countries establishing about 50 centers across these countries. | Short-Term (2 years): 1. Tech support/ Software development and management for scaling up Verifie App in order to reach more people 2. Financial support ($50,000) in order to establish centers in Ghana. 3. Support in terms of association with international bodies such as WHO, UNFPA, USAID etc.. Medium-term (5 years): 1. Financial resources to replicate and sustain innovation in 4 or more African countries ($200,000) 2. Continuous support in terms of association with international bodies such as WHO, UNFPA, USAID etc.. Long Term (10 years) 1. Continuous support in terms of association with international bodies such as WHO, UNFPA, USAID etc. in reaching most countries in Africa 2. Financial resources ($2,000,000) in reaching new areas and sustaining project | Website: http://myverifieapp.com Social Media Pages: https://www.instagram.com/verifieapp/ https://twitter.com/veri_fie https://www.facebook.com/Verifieapp/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_puWZvy5pbIIOzlPa_CmcA/featured?view_as=subscriber Founder explaining Verifie Concept: https://youtu.be/3Jmyh6Efo_s Public Service announcements: https://youtu.be/9uCXBZ0gJLE Events: https://youtu.be/Xe0tGrzAoxs https://youtu.be/ih1bCSVpY58 https://youtu.be/CnfSJgwsVZo https://youtu.be/jp1bBaZaCRo https://youtu.be/D1aOgr47TH0 https://youtu.be/4WxYhB3pfu8 | Founder explaining Verifie Concept: https://youtu.be/3Jmyh6Efo_s Public Service announcements: https://youtu.be/9uCXBZ0gJLE Events: https://youtu.be/Xe0tGrzAoxs https://youtu.be/ih1bCSVpY58 https://youtu.be/CnfSJgwsVZo https://youtu.be/jp1bBaZaCRo https://youtu.be/D1aOgr47TH0 https://youtu.be/4WxYhB3pfu8 | 2018 Global Impact Award at nOSCARS by NAZ London - Winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
488 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | George | Feneberg | Needs-based dollar | www.needs-based-dollar.com | Founder | Male | Canada | Canada | English | Take the number of money supply in the world, which is estimated at 80 trillion. The population is approximately 7 billion people. 80trillion/7billion=11428 So, take as an example the entire world had a centralized monetary bank. It would set this 11428 as the base amount where this variable sales tax equals zero, knowing this to be a functioning number for now. Eventually, the base can be manipulated downward by not allowing tax to be zero and thinning the money supply, or upward by simply increasing the base. Then you would budget, say, 1 trillion for a month of global public services, in this hypothetical global union scenario. It could be adjusted to fit the public needs sector; therefore, guaranteeing all public services funding. Then when the 1 trillion, or whatever amount needed for public services, is added to 80 trillion we get 81trillion/7billlion=11571. Okay this represents a 143 increase per person. This is the only time the variable sales tax increases from zero meaning the variable sales tax on luxury products and services increases spontaneously with increases in the money supply ratio by a proportionally set average tax rate. The average rate is divided further into different categories of products holding different demand sensitivities to changes in price and variable sales tax rates. More exclusive luxury goods and services should carry higher than average tax rates. This rate should be estimated on previous public expenditures of those products so that by the next period, the 11571 should have decreased as close as possible to 11428. As the decrease occurs, the variable taxes will decrease within all categories. The rates of these decreases will be the job of those employed at central banks. Here, we can see how this a much more controlled system. The decrease occurs because any tax revenue is immediately removed from the system. This automatically adjusts to population changes. It can be used on a national level the same way as done with this global hypothetical example. | 155 East 18th Street apartment 208 | a needs-based dollar | The revolutionary economic model of the future | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Canada | No | Proof of Concept | implementation stage when people wake up. | global master-servant systems | It will literally fix the world. Wake up and take me seriously. | Nothing this place is a run by a debt dollar which is a master-servant system | All in my head just need the attention of central banks. | waiting for you people... | media un summit exposure | www.needs-based-dollar.com | www.needs-based-dollar.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
489 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jon | Kapp | Community Systems Foundation | www.communitysystemsfoundation.org | Executive Director | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | I am writing this application on behalf of our organization, Community Systems Foundation (CSF). CSF implements data-driven strategies to ensure that no one is left behind. We provide innovations in data analytics, information technology communications, governance, programme monitoring, and transparency. CSF implements 70 to 80 data-driven projects in 30 to 40 countries per year. We are striving to expand options by building capacities in ways that lead to good development outcomes sustained by responsible development processes. In recent years, our work has supported UN reform - particularly to strengthen collaborative, accountable and transparent planning, monitoring and reporting of UN contributions to the SDGs. We feel strongly that a similar solution could make a significant impact on national efforts to achieve SDGs. Examples of our projects include: OpenEMIS – a high-quality Education Management Information System (EMIS) designed to collect and report data on schools, students, teachers and staff. The system was conceived by UNESCO, and developed by CSF, as a royalty-free system that can be easily customized to meet the specific needs of countries. EQUIST – a health sector data modelling tool, designed in partnership with UNICEF to support the development of data-driven, equitable strategies to save lives. CSF’s role included Portal Development; Data Visualization; Data Management; Advisory support to Modelling; System Integration and System Hosting, Support and Maintenance. and, the aforementioned: The Global UN INFO platform – designed in collaboration with UNDOCO to support the UN Country Team in the planning, monitoring and reporting of UN contributions to National Development and the SDGs. CSF’s role included Portal Development; Framework Design and Development; Tagging System Design and Development; Data Aggregation; Dashboard Design and Production; Report Design and Production; System Integration; | Community Systems Foundation is a non-profit organization registered in the USA in 1963 with more than five decades of experience in research and technical assistance to communities and governmental agencies in collaboration with international development partners. CSF is contributing to innovations in policy development, programme design, information technology innovations, programme monitoring, evaluation, institution building, and management training. Mr. Jon Kapp is an experienced international development expert with focus on education and development statistics. He has first-hand perspectives on delivering education in a wide range of contexts. Mr. Kapp in supporting education initiatives on behalf of UNESCO & UNICEF, where he contributed to the United Nations Girls Education Initiative in East Asia and provided technical support and advisory services to governments in their drive towards Education for All. He has been involved in the implementation of the OpenEMIS Initiative. Mr. Kapp was instrumental in the establishment of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics Regional Office in Bangkok, Thailand and supportive of the Education For All Regional Mid-Decade Assessment across Asia and the Pacific. In 2009, Mr. Kapp joined CSF providing technical and management support to the UN DevInfo project. He supported the implementation of projects in over 120 countries, working on data management and dissemination in health, gender, environment, poverty reduction, emergencies and education. From 2015, he took on the role of Executive Director based in the New York. | Data for All (DFA) Monitoring | A Platform for Planning, Monitoring and Reporting Results | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Belize, Guyana, Jordan, Maldives, Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Uganda, 16 FGM countries, 70 UNCTs, Arab States | Yes | UNDCO, UNESCO, UNICEF, UNFPA, IGAD, League of Arab States | Scaling | Through multiple implementations, including through support from UNDCO, IGAD and UNICEF/UNFPA, DFA Monitoring has transitioned through ideation, research and development, to proof of concept and transition to scale. The solution is currently scaling through expansion through UNCT worldwide and through Member States with expressed needs for system strengthening. | DFA Monitoring aims to strengthen systems to build facilitate effective planning, monitoring and reporting on national priorities and SDGs. Organizations lack a mechanism and platform for planning and monitoring comprehensive actions. Units tend to work in silos create barriers and inefficiencies – within organizations and with development partners. Additionally, large sets of data are often fragmented and have not translated into evidence-based decision-making. | DFA Monitoring strengthens results based management and has proven to contribute to more effective and efficient collaboration, accountability and transparency in planning towards the realization of the SDGs and the 2030 Agenda. DFA Monitoring supports the a vision of an integrated, federated national planning, monitoring and reporting platform. This platform will serve to eliminate silo'ed planning and monitoring processes, while strengthening data and statistical systems for evidence-based policy formulation. | DFA Monitoring treats planning, monitoring and reporting of national priorities holistically, rather than through traditional fragmented approaches. The solution provides a means to engage partners in a strengthening statistical systems, which are in turn linked to national and sub-national planning processes. DFA Monitoring aims to address common conditions across Member States: -Government stakeholders lack a mechanism and platform for planning and monitoring comprehensive actions toward Strategic Priorities -Planning and Monitoring Silos create barriers and inefficiencies – gov’t-to-gov’t and with development partners -National Development is multidimensional but most Statistical Information Systems are fragmented -Large data sets are available, but not always linked to monitoring or evidence-based decision-making -Limited mechanisms exist to engage civil society and private sector in plans to achieve National Development Priorities -Capacity gaps limit use of data in planning and decision-making at all levels. | DFA Monitoring is currently a fully functional platform, built on a generalized open source software tools for monitoring the SDGs. DFA promotes greater interoperability within the ecosystem of socioeconomic statistics by complying with international standards -> Open Data: DFA endorses the concept that public socioeconomic human development data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. Open Source: DFA is built with open source software in compliance with the Common Development and Distribution License to promote collaboration and sharing of innovations through a community of users. Data Documentation Initiative: DFA supports the international DDI standard for describing socioeconomic data produced by surveys and other observational methods to help document the source of the data, including its conceptualization, collection, processing, distribution, discovery, and archiving. International Aid Transparency Initiative: DFA supports the IATI standards for publishing information on development cooperation activities in a transparent, timely, comprehensive and forward-looking manner, with a focus on how national development programmes use donor funding. Open Geospatial Consortium: DFA collaborates with the OGC community in the use of open standards for geospatial content and services. | In 2019, DFA Monitoring will be introduced to support planning, monitoring and reporting of regional efforts to eradicate multi-dimensional poverty across the Arab States Region (22 countries). DFA Monitoring will be introduced to the Ministry of Education, Jordan to support the monitoring of the new Education Sector Plan. It is anticipated that UN INFO - an adaptation of DFA Monitoring - will continue to be rolled out with UNCT worldwide to support strengthened approaches to planning and monitoring the UNDAF / UNSDF. | Short term: Financial resources to: 1) strengthen communication and outreach 2) support country implementation, especially in LDCs where financial resources may be limited. Medium term: Financial resources are required to: 1) establish a global reference group, code repository, support center with knowledge base and technical resources to support country implementation. 2) build global and regional partnerships to facilitate implementation. Long-term: Financial resources to maintain and further enhance the platform solution, while ensuring technical assistance remains available to strengthen capacities at national and sub-national levels to utilize the system for results-based management. | https://www.communitysystemsfoundation.org/ https://www.communitysystemsfoundation.org/impact/un-info-a-data-for-all-adaptation-driving-global-un-reform https://www.communitysystemsfoundation.org/impact/openemis-guyana-monitoring-education-sector-plans-with-openemis-monitoring https://www.communitysystemsfoundation.org/impact/a-solution-to-monitor-and-report-on-progress-against-the-arab-regional-multidimensional-poverty-strategy https://www.communitysystemsfoundation.org/impact/report-unfpa-unicef-regional-fgm-workshop https://www.communitysystemsfoundation.org/impact/sparking-a-data-revolution-through-ministry-level-strategic-plans-in-cote-divoire https://www.communitysystemsfoundation.org/impact/national-planning-monitoring-and-reporting-webinar | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTW8AhX3VeU | n/a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
490 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Barry | Finette | THINKMD, Inc. | www.thinkmd.org | Founder, President | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | I am highly motivated to present at the UN Solutions Summit the current and potential impact of THINKMD's newly developed, validated and implemented frontline and clinic digital mobile health (mHealth) clinical risk assessment, triage, treatment and followup platform for low and middle income countries. This technology has been shown to increase health care quality, access and capacity by a variety of end-users that include minimally skilled frontline community health workers, pharmacist, nurses, and school teachers. THINKMD's integrated data analytics and visualization platform uses acquired data to significant improve user and program monitoring and evaluation as well as population health monitoring and disease surveillance. The initial implementations of THINKMD's technology has been shown to have significant impact for users compliance with WHO clinical guidelines, increase productivity, quality health referrals, key warning signs and increase in lives saved per worker based on the LiST tool model. In addition, there has been a significant decrease in training and supervising cost with THINKMD technology implementation. There is strong evidence that THINKMDs technology will serve as an ""accelerator"" to scaling with quality primary health care delivery with a sustainable financial model leading to significant health impact. This technology would be of key interest to country leaders and Ministry of Health leaders who want to use next generation technology to sustainably scale with quality there primary. health care delivery programs and to meet the SDGs health goals. | Barry Finette MD. Ph.D, DTM&H., is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and an Attending and Teaching physician in the Pediatric Inpatient, Emergence Medicine and Critical Care Division at Vermont Children’s Hospital at the University of Vermont Medical Center. He is also the Director of the Global Health and Humanitarian Opportunity Program at the University of Vermont. He has 30 years of experience as a Pediatrician in the areas of emergency; critical and acute care medicine, as well as 30 years of experience as a basic, clinical and translational research scientist. Over the last 10 years he has focused his work in the areas of Global Health and Humanitarian Assistance. He has participated in numerous research, clinical missions, as well as medical and humanitarian capacity building and disaster relief missions in Uganda, Ethiopia, Peru, Jamaica, Bhutan, South Africa, Ecuador, Philippines, Congo, Cameroon, Togo, Benin, Bangladesh, Zambia, Nigeria, South Africa, Indonesia, and Burkina Faso. He is also the Founder THINKMD, Inc., a Vermont based “social impact corporation” that focuses on developing next generation healthcare solutions. THINKMD’s has initially developed a digital mHealth clinical assessment and data analytics platforms to expand quality healthcare to everyone, everywhere. THINKMD’s initial products are integrated, mobile point of care clinical assessment, triage and treatment tool and a data repository, analytics and visualization platform that can be used where the humanitarian need is greatest. | THINKMD integrated clincal assessment and data analytics platfrom | Expanding quality healthcare capacity and access to everyone, everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | THINKMD's solution is not limited by any geographic boundaries and is thus a global health solution. Currently implemented in Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Zambia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, South Africa, and Nigeria. | No | Scaling | THINKMD technology's initial implementation was 18 months ago with Save the Children in the Razer Bazar slum in Dhaka Bangladesh with 10 community health workers. Since that time we have scaled to 8 countries, >600 frontline workers, with over 125K clinical encounters covering a population 1M. By the end of 2019, we are projecting to be in 12 countries, with over 1200 frontline workers covering a population of 3M. | We are are addressing the following problems: 1. Increasing global shortage of. healthcare professionals 2. Quality frontline clinical integrative assessments for most important clincal conditions. 3. Limited healthcare capacity by frontline health workers in low and middle countries. 4. Limited healthcare access. in low. and middle income countries 5.Sustainble mHealth technlogy that can promote scaling of primary healthcare delivery programs | THINKMD clinical assessment logic is unique compared to all others being deployed in low- and middle-income countries. It utilizes a Bayesian weighted cluster pattern recognition approach as opposed to the limited and binary decision tree approach outlined in The WHO guidelines and other decision tree protocols. THINKMD's clinical logic approach also eliminates any subjective decisions required by current standardized guidelines. Our logic approach transforms how a doctor gathers and analyzes clinical data points acquired from patients onto a simple to use digital platform and generate integrated clinical risk assessments as well as triage, treatment and follow-up recommendations specific for each patient. This new logic and user interface results in a significant decrease in the amount of training required to teach frontline health workers to do WHO guideline compliant assessments that are more accurate. This was demonstrated following 2 years of validation studies perform with 8 partners that included Ministries of Health, academic partners and international health organizations (UNICEF and Save the Children) in 5 countries (USA; Peru; Ecuador; Burkina Faso and Bangladesh) where we found that clinical assessments generated by frontline workers using THINKMD's platform correlated with physicians assessments of the same patients between 85- >95%. The goal is to put this logic in the hands of everyone, everywhere to allow primary health programs to sustainably scale. | Our logic is unique in a number of different ways from other approaches in our space: 1. Uses a Bayesian pattern cluster logic physician based logic approach to perform integrated clinical risk assessments. 2. Its accuracy has been validated over a 2 year period in over 900 clinical evaluations demonstrating that frontline health worker generated clinical assessments and triage recommendations after only a few hours of training correlated between 85- >95% to physicians seeing the same patients. 3. Unlike other digital mobile health (mHealth) being deployed these validation studies were peer-reviewed and published in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0869). 4. Usability and acceptability studies of THINKMDs clinical assessment platform showed that >80% of its users ""highly"" recommending it (Net promoter score; >80). 5. It is a web-enabled platform which is operating system (OS) agnostic which allows it to be used on and mobile digital device that can download a website. It also is fully functional off and online. 6. THINKMDs integrated visualization and analytics platform allows for sophisticated user and program M&E monitoring as well as population health monitoring. 7. Has been shown to increase WHO guideline compliance up to 60%; increase warning signs capture by 50%; 2-fold; increase number of patients seen; decrease training cost by 50%; decrease supervising cost by 50%; increase lives saved. | Please see above: Over the last 18 months we have further our technology in a number of ways. 1. Increased the populations groups to include: Newborns, Children 2 months to 5 years; Youth and adolescents 5 - 15 years (only such digital mHealth platform to include this age group); prenatal and postnatal women. 2. Made significant backend architecture changes to allow for required localization customization such as language and clinical content and technical offerings. Based on current deployments we have customized for the following languages; English, French, Spanish, Arabic; Zulu,Bengali, Indonesia dialects. Once translated adding a new language platform occurs immediately. 3. We have also recently adapted our platform to a direct to consumer platform that is currently being distributed by the mobile operator Vodacom in South Africa. 4. Over the last year we have expanded the end-users from frontline health workers to physicians, nurses, pharmacist, school teachers and families. 5.We continually measure and analyze data gather by use of our platform and are involve with a number of impact studies based on our deployments. We study both clinical and economic impact and employ modeling tools such as the Lives Saved tool (LiST tool) and economic modeling tools developed by MSH. | In the next 6-12 months are planned goals and milestones include: 1. Additional country expansion to Nigeria, Haiti, Mozambique, Uganda, Ghana, DRC, Mali, Burkina Faso and Tanzania. 2. Expansion of number of frontline health workers from 500 - 2000. 3. Expansion of number of direct to consumers from 3000 to 150K. 4. Population served from 1M to 3-5 M. 5. Need to recruit 3 software engineers; 1 UI/UX engineer, 1 data management engineer, 3 data scientist; 2 Public and Global health masters in Public health; health economist to work on our sustainable economic health modeling. | Since we are health technology innovation company and not the implementor our needs are consistent for various time frames. Our most current need is growth capital to allow us to build our internal team as well as provide the runway needed to deploy approved and contracts under negotiation with Ministries of Health, and large international health agencies and development groups such as DAI, Save the Children, FHI360 and CMMB. | 1. THINKMD website: http://www.thinkmd.org 2. Manuscript: https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.18-0869 3. Article: https://dai-global-developments.com/articles/qa-barry-finette-on-the-hopes-and-challenges-for-thinkmds-life-saving-mhealth-platform 4. Article: https://www.devex.com/news/how-a-new-digital-partnership-can-improve-health-care-services-in-developing-countries-91989 5. Innovations in Healthcare cohort: https://www.innovationsinhealthcare.org/ThinkMD.pdf 6. | Video: https://youtu.be/DRzs7LvC9DU Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIAzVdpjmVQ | DAI-USAID innovation into Action Challenge Winner: https://www.dai.com/news/innovation-action-challenge-winners-chosen Vermont Tech Jam: Innovation Award and Start up award: https://techjamvt.com/2016/10/announcing-the-winners-of-the-2016-tech-jam-awards/ Mulago Fellowship award: https://mulagofoundation.org/fellows/rainer-fellows Innovation in Healthcare 2019 Cohort Award: https://www.innovationsinhealthcare.org/2019-innovator-cohort/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
491 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Eskender Mulugeta | Ayele | Food Secured Schools Africa (FSSA) | https://sites.google.com/view/food-secured-schools/ | Founder, project director | Male | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | English | The UN summit is especially relevant to my professional expertise, and therefore I would high appreciate to be given an opportunity to attend this event gathering professional from all over the World to combat hunger! Our past work focused on promoting the establishment of school gardens in various schools in Addis Ababa as well as Oromia Region with the main objective to combat malnutrition and to ensure that the most vulnerable beneficiaries, children, have access to nutritious and safe food in their schools. FSSA has achieved some significant progress since its establishment in 2018. Our impact since the inception of the idea to found a social enterprise committed to the promotion of school gardens and food secured schools throughout Africa in 2016 contains of the successful implementation of 7 school gardens which now provide fresh vegetables and hence improved nutrition and health to the students. In average one school garden impacted the lives of up to 500 children in terms of providing good nutrition, a good learning tool for all kinds of subjects and the necessary capacity building for practising sustainable agriculture. Over the nearly two years period, the seven already-established school gardens had an impact on the lives of about 3500 children in Addis Ababa and Oromia Region. Furthermore, the parent-led school gardens impacted the lives of the 200 engaged parents by providing them skills training, entrepreneurial thinking, improved livelihood as well as a new sense for environmental awareness and sustainability. As a side effect of the parent-led school gardens, the 200 parents became food secure as they can keep the surplus for their own. FSSA’s activities also impacted the life of around 50 teacher who were involved during the implementation of the school gardens and the sustainable management of its activities. Hence, seven school garden (if parent-led) can reach up to 200 parents and involve more than 50 teachers. Since it inception, FSSA has generated change for 3500 plus 2,200 marginalized community members. Overall, beneficiaries were impacted in terms of good nutrition and food security | I, Eskender, am the Founder and project director of Food Secured Schools Africa (FSSA). I have B. Sc. in Agronomy from Mekelle University with a lot of experience in Uganda, South Sudan, DRC and Ethiopia in the agriculture sector. I am passionate about Agriculture. I want to make a paradigm shift on Agriculture In Africa. My dream is to see zero hunger in Africa. My role model is former Secretary General Mr. Koffi Anan. He had the big heart for African small holder farmers, and he launched his foundation in 2007 (Koffi Anan Foundation) to combat hunger and reach out the framers in Africa and make a difference in the continent by organized and mobilized the farming community especially small holder framers. Food Secured Schools Africa (FSSA) is a Social Enterprise that believes African schools could be bread-basket by promoting school gardening and agricultural teachings. FSSA will be source of motivated, passionate, and modern farmers. FSSA aims to combat the challenging problem of food and nutrition insecurities in our Africa. In Ethiopia 1.3 million students are in the school feeding program run by the government for elementary schools. The relevance of the work of FSSA is vital in this regard as it aligns to the vision of the government to provide nutritious and fresh food to students in elementary schools in Ethiopia. We are producing healthy, safe vegetables using available lands on school compounds while involving the students in our school garden program activities after school lessons. | Food secured schools Africa | The children benefit primarily by having access to nutritious food supply through the school feeding program. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Ethiopia, we want scale up to East African countries, such as Somalia, south Sudan, Djibouti Uganda and Kenya and DRC | Yes | Reach for Change Ethiopia’, AgriProFocus Ethiopia, | Transition to Scale | . There are as many as 1.3million children in elementary schools currently in the school feeding program but there is also a low culture of people wanting to get into the agricultural sector. This has resulted in the rise of malnutrition and the general need for the school feeding program to be implemented by the government. we a want scale up in to different regions so we are in transition to scale | Our past work focused on promoting the establishment of school gardens in various schools in Addis Ababa as well as Oromia Region with the main objective to combat malnutrition and to ensure that the most vulnerable beneficiaries, children, have access to nutritious and safe food in their schools. FSSA has achieved some significant progress since its establishment in 2018. | FSSA is committed to creating sustainable solutions for the creation of school gardens that’s why we follow the objective to develop stakeholder-specific exit strategies for each school garden project. FSSA has a clear project cycle plan and exit strategy to slowly hand-over school gardens to the local people by establishing committees as well as youth-led (through environmental clubs), school-led (teacher, gardener, committee), parent-led (marginalized parents of students) or community-led (marginalized community members) school garden projects. The design and implementation of the school garden projects are carried out in cooperation with the relevant stakeholder with the objective to create effective solutions for the integration of school gardens in each school. For more information about the creation of local ownership and FSSA’s exit strategy for each school garden project please review the school garden profiles on our website (https://sites.google.com/view/food-secured-schools/) or contact us via email (eskyau@gmail.com). FSSA plans to develop a standardized catalogue of services and learning opportunities in form of capacity building workshops which can be provided to interested community leaders, government officials and other actors inside the schools. In the future, FSSA will continuously improve its monitoring and evaluation system to guarantee that the school garden projects are align with the Memorandum of Understanding and project cycle plan. | By introducing sustainable waste management and recycling mechanisms in the school compound FSSA aims to improve local food ecosystems. Composting plays a vital role in the sustainable land management. Through the composting workshops, FSSA successfully raised awareness for this issue within the schools and local communities. The long-term objective is to enhance the partnership with a German research team focused on the establishment of dry toilets and the proper composting of human waste using biochar. The final objective is to link the school gardens to the research project ultimately creating more healthy soil using the valuable nutrients from the humus, which is the end product of the composting process. Furthermore, FSSA improved food ecosystems by fixing the atmospheric carbon dioxide with the help of the plants grown in the school gardens. By doing so, the school gardens play a vital role in reducing greenhouse gas emission and other pollutants in the city. By the promotion of school gardens and home-grown school feeding programs, emissions caused by the transportation, the food supply chain as well as the industrial agriculture are reduced. By favoring local procurement instead of international procurement local food ecosystems are strengthened. FSSA is committed to creating sustainable solutions for the creation of school gardens that’s why we follow the objective to develop stakeholder-specific exit strategies for each school garden project. | Our past work focused on promoting the establishment of school gardens in various schools in Addis Ababa as well as Oromia Region with the main objective to combat malnutrition and to ensure that the most vulnerable beneficiaries, children, have access to nutritious and safe food in their schools. FSSA has achieved some significant progress since its establishment in 2018. Our impact since the inception of the idea to found a social enterprise committed to the promotion of school gardens and food secured schools throughout Africa in 2016 contains of the successful implementation of 7 school gardens which now provide fresh vegetables and hence improved nutrition and health to the students. In average one school garden impacted the lives of up to 500 children in terms of providing good nutrition, a good learning tool for all kinds of subjects and the necessary capacity building for practising sustainable agriculture. Over the nearly two years period, the seven already-established school gardens had an impact on the lives of about 3500 children in Addis Ababa and Oromia Region. Furthermore, the parent-led school gardens impacted the lives of the 200 engaged parents by providing them skills training, entrepreneurial thinking, improved livelihood as well as a new sense for environmental awareness and sustainability. As a side effect of the parent-led school gardens, the 200 parents became food secure as they can keep the surplus for their own. | FSSA plans to develop a standardized catalogue of services and learning opportunities in form of capacity building workshops which can be provided to interested community leaders, government officials and other actors inside the schools. In the future, FSSA will continuously improve its monitoring and evaluation system to guarantee that the school garden projects are align with the Memorandum of Understanding and project cycle plan. Furthermore, FSSA aims to improve the status of environmental education at schools in close cooperation with other actors of the civil society with AgriProFocus as one example. We hope that with the reform of the educational system and the reintegration of agriculture in public school curriculum, school gardens will gain importance in providing nutritious school meals and capacity building of the next generation. To have a sustainable school –assisted parent – led school garden in Addis Ababa and beyond To support the school feeding program To use the garden as teaching tools as learning comes alive in the school garden. Any subject can be thought in this dynamic and hands-on the environment, from reading to science, math to nutrition, it’s all possible. To create well passionate hardworking students in the future. To catalyze the environmental protection agenda. Minimize carbon emission . | FSSA is committed to creating sustainable solutions for the creation of school gardens that’s why we follow the objective to develop stakeholder-specific exit strategies for each school garden project. FSSA has a clear project cycle plan and exit strategy to slowly hand-over school gardens to the local people by establishing committees as well as youth-led (through environmental clubs), school-led (teacher, gardener, committee), parent-led (marginalized parents of students) or community-led (marginalized community members) school garden projects. The design and implementation of the school garden projects are carried out in cooperation with the relevant stakeholder with the objective to create effective solutions for the integration of school gardens in each school. For more information about the creation of local ownership and FSSA’s exit strategy for each school garden project please review the school garden profiles on our website (https://sites.google.com/view/food-secured-schools/) or contact us via email (eskyau@gmail.com)FSSA’s activities include the promotion of equality and inclusion as we are working primarily with women in the parent-led school gardens. Furthermore, women and marginalized community members take part in the capacity building workshops empowering them economically but also socially. | https://sites.google.com/view/food-secured-schools/ https://twitter.com/OrDaniely/status/1146793046643814400 https://twitter.com/OrDaniely/status/1139533227847294976 https://agriprofocus.com/post/5c2f7ae226b72a2d63084653 https://www.linkedin.com/in/eskender-mulugeta-19062499/ partners are Don Bosco Technical Vocational Training Institute in Agri Pro Focus Ethiopia Addis Ababa, CIAI - Per tutti i bambini del Mondo, and the office of the Ethiopian Educational Bureau. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZV_WTRdiYw&feature=youtu.be i have attended the flowing international conference Kotebe Metropolitan University is hosting an international research conference on the following themes: · Urban Agriculture, Food and Environment · Health and Education · Urban Infrastructure and Institutions · Economic Development and Social Welfare Over 100 research papers will be presented on the above topics by local and international researchers. We invite international gusts from academia and development organizations to attended our conference which will be taking place on 1&2nd August ,2019 at UNECA in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. | Reach for Change Ethiopia’ an international charity organization based in Stockholm, Sweden. FSSA received generous support (40.000 ETB) by the organisation after winning the social enterprise award in 2018. FSSA has joined the organisation’s accelerator program receiving different capacity building training(www.reachforchange.org) Ignite Africa challenge(https://igniteafricachallenge.org/) we where the finalist 2nd( top two ( held at Indonesia embassy at Addis Abeba ,ETHIOPIA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
492 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anna | Kydd | SHM Foundation | shmfoundation.org | Director | Female | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | Spanish | The mental health challenge in low and middle income countries has recently received significant coverage. However, it is often represented as an absolute care gap, with shocking statistics about the low numbers of mental health professionals – e.g. there are only two psychiatrists in Sierra Leone (WHO). Though these statistics ring true, this framing of the problem risks sensationalising and simplifying the issue through a (western) biomedical lens. It ignores the many diverse ways in which mental health care is being provided within communities in low resource contexts – and the people providing it. We believe that new ways of approaching mental health need to be shared on the global stage. There is expertise, innovation and impact at the grassroots of communities around the world. In South Africa, Phola provides art therapy for trauma victims. PDO Kenya train prisoners in basic CBT techniques so they can provide care to fellow inmates. CCMHP have established a mental health system for the whole of Benue State, Nigeria, by training community health workers to run mobile clinics. The culturally inflected nature of mental illness – its complexity, associated stigma and the diverse ways it is understood globally – means there is no one solution to this global challenge. That’s why these locally embedded organisations are so important. With their holistic understanding of context, they are often uniquely equipped to engage people in meaningful, culturally sensitive ways. Fostering these interventions would allow health systems to reach the most marginalised communities. Still little known and recognized, this innovative approach to mental health care, born and developed at community level, needs resources and visibility. I lead a project called Ember that provides support to grassroots mental health organisations across the world in order to strengthen, sustain and scale up their work. | Anna Kydd is Director of The SHM Foundation and oversees all of the Foundation’s work. She has considerable experience working in the area of mobile health in Latin America and Africa, and was the co-founder of one of the Foundation’s first projects – Zumbido, in the state of Jalisco in Mexico – which developed support networks for those living with HIV/AIDS via the mobile phone. Building on the success of this project, in partnership with Yale School of Medicine and the University of Pretoria, the model has been expanded to South Africa with the development of mobile phone support groups for HIV-positive pregnant women and HIV-positive adolescents. She is now in the process of adapting this model globally to a range of health conditions where mental health plays a key role. Anna has carried out research into how network digital communications can provide opportunities for social change, and regularly collaborates with universities and research organisations in the field of technology and development. Before her time at The SHM Foundation, Anna worked on research projects for a variety of environmental, public and human-rights organisations worldwide including the Food and Agriculture Organisation, UNESCO in Ghana and the Fairtrade Labelling Organisation. Anna’s educational background is in environment and development, with a Master’s in Planning and Development from the Development Planning Unit at University College London. | Project Ember | Supporting innovation in global mental health to grow and thrive. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Guatemala, Pakistan, Nigeria. | Yes | Mental Health Innovation Network of the LSHTM Centre for Global Mental Health and WHO. | Proof of Concept | We’ve learnt many things from the process of piloting Ember's methodology in 2018 with six innovators in global mental health, but there are three insights in particular. 1. It’s not all about scale. There is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to mental health. 2. There is immense innovation and resourcefulness at the grassroots. scaling up their work such as lack of resources, know-how and networks. 3. We need a wider range of voices in the global mental health space. | One in four people will develop a mental health condition in their lifetime. Yet in many parts of the world, people living with mental health conditions have no access to treatment. Their experiences are complex and vary across cultures and geographies. As a result, there is no panacea for global mental health, no vaccine that can be rolled out universally. | health systems and to reach the most vulnerable populations, people across the world are responding to the needs of their communities by developing powerful, grassroots interventions. These community-based innovations are uniquely equipped to overcome stigma and engage people in meaningful, culturally sensitive and lasting ways. However, they face serious barriers to sustaining and scaling up their work. Often operating in isolation and without any visibility, these pioneers lack networks and resources. This is stopping millions of people benefiting from powerful mental health interventions. Ember exists to support grassroots mental health organisations to overcome these barriers and expand their reach. | Using our Ember Health Check methodology and a toolkit of participatory approaches, we listen to their needs and identify the areas where they face problems. Then we work with them to co-design solutions, linking them into a global network of mental health practitioners so that they can share and benefit from this varied pool of expertise. Ember’s approach is transdisciplinary. We are academics, technologists and business people, anthropologists, creatives and practitioners. Our diverse perspectives form a rich well of insight that supports and strengthens organisations according to their specific needs. There is no singular solution to the global mental health challenge. Nor is there a single way to expand mental health services. Achieving universal mental health coverage cannot simply be done through scale-up. We must also sustain what is working, adapt and adopt models for new settings and, where possible, transform existing strategies so that they can fulfil their potential. Only by pursuing each of these strands can we move towards a world in which everyone has access to the mental health care they need. This is what Ember is setting out to do. | Over the course of 2018 and 2019, we set out to pilot Ember and worked with six innovations, who were often reaching the most marginalised communities. Their diverse, innovative methods are centred on the people they work with, drawing on local expertise and grounded in a deep understanding of their communities’ needs. Buena Semilla runs women’s circles in indigenous communities in Guatemala to offer a safe space to share, learn and find a collective source of strength and support. CCMHP trains community-level health workers to run mental health clinics across Nigeria. FaNs for Kids educates families of children with developmental disorders in Pakistan to support and advocate for their needs. PDO Kenya works to raise awareness and destigmatise mental health conditions, while providing peer-to-peer support. Phola uses storytelling and art to empower people who’ve experienced trauma in South Africa. Tunnel Light is developing ways of supporting children with autism and their families in Ghana. We measure the impact of our work through the Ember Health Check - a diagnostic and evaluation tool that allows us to assess the progress of innovations we work with across eight key domains. | In July 2019 we will be putting a call out to identify five community-based mental health organisations/projects working in low- and middle-income countries to partner with Ember over a 12-month programme of activity that aims to: •Build their capacity in strategic areas •Increase their visibility and attractiveness to funders, and create links to potential funding sources •Improve the evidence base for ‘what works’ in community-based mental health care The support Ember provides includes: building capacity in fundraising, communications and impact evaluation; rebranding and design; research and business strategy; legal advice; and brokering relationships with useful partners, nationally and internationally. All support delivered will be tailored to the needs of each partner organisation, depending on their specific strategy and context. | In the short term, we are seeking in-kind partners to provide the innovators we work with legal, design, research and evaluation support. In the medium term, we are looking for resources to support our team to increase the number of innovators we work with from 5 each year to 10. In the long term, we are looking for unrestricted funding such that we can set up a 'fund' and make grants to the innovators we work with. | embermentalhealth.org | N/a | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
493 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John Piermont | Montilla | Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay (KGPP) Inc. | http://www.projectpage.info/my-river-of-life | National President | Male | Philippines | Philippines | English | I am writing to be considered to present or survivor engagement initiative known as the River of Life Initiatives or ROLi dedicated for victims and survivors of violence, illicit drugs, crime, exploitation and slavery. I strongly believe that this project promotes equity and inclusion for key populations living in debilitating conditions and health illness in order to contribute to the SDGs particularly Goals 3, 10, and 16. I want to scale up the long-running initiative, the ROLi which I helped developed across the country and across the World and share my life story of which I have struggled to obtain support from the government and international organizations to put me back on my feet. (https://www.earthcompany.info/john-pierre-montilla-street-children-philippines-2/). My interests is dedicated in key population engagement and empowerment for most at risk and vulnerable populations. I have developed frameworks, tools, and practical methods that promotes meaningful engagement among key affected populations for prevention of HIV and AIDS, substance abuse, crime and violence among marginalized group. Promoting the “no one left behind” imperative of the SDG 2030 Agenda, the MEPA and ROLI was showcased through various workshops and conferences during six (6) International AIDS Conferences inferences (2008 Mexico, 2010 Vienna, 2012 Washington DC, 2014 Melbourne, 2016 in Durban South Africa, and Amsterdam in 2018). I also shared as a resource speaker during G20 Session on Delivering Health for All: Resilient Health Systems for Sustainable Development, Hamburg Germany, June 2017 entitled ""Engagement for Equity,"" . In 2014, I also presented the same project in a USAID-SIDA-sponsored Civil Society Co-creation Workshop, in Istanbul Turkey and as presenter, enhancing a victim-centered approach on trafficking victims in the Asia-Pacific region. United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) of which is 2018, the same project was recognized by UNITAR one of the Best Practice The World Health Organization in 2015 selected the ROLi as a good practice example of service delivery to key populations in the consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations. Page 83 #81 of: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/255610/9789241512534-eng.pdf | Johnpierre started his leadership career at the Department of Social Welfare and Development's UNLAD Kabataan Program in 1998 which led him to found the Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay (KGPP), a national grassroot organization of male survivors of violence. He was a Feed the Hungry scholarship recipient of the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) which enabled him to complete his B.S. Biological Sciences degree at West Visayas State University in 2003. After graduation, he immediately pursued a leadership and management career with KGPP as its founding Executive Director until 2010 and as President to date. He was one of the Global Laureate Awardee of the International Youth Foundation in 2005 participated in the JICA Japan-ASEAN Youth Invitation Program in 2006. He was selected as Asia21 Young Leaders Fellow of Asia Society in 2010 for his work on HIV, illicit drugs and violence and was selected by the US Department of State as recipient to the IVLP on Community and Human Rights in 2014 for his human rights work. Johnpierre specializes in survivor engagement particularly among at risk and vulnerable populations. His frameworks that promotes meaningful engagement among marginalized groups and has been recognized as good practices by the IYF, UNAIDS, and the WHO. Based in central Philippines, he travel across the globe to facilitate workshops and provide technical assistance to local governments, community groups, civil society organizations on his human rights advocacy. At present, he work at Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office-6. | Meaningful Engagement of People At Risk (MEPA) Process: The River of Life initiatives (ROLi) Experience | Engagement for Inclusion and Equity | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Philippines | Yes | Domestic: Community Management Institute, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), Philippine National Police, Philippine National AIDS Council. International: CIVICUS, Asia Society, International AIDS Society, ARLT Foundation | Transition to Scale | The MEPA and the ROLi is a high impact and low cost intervention in the Philippines. Although not yet evaluated, the initiative is currently in the process of evaluation and through the conduct of an action research, the initiative was recognized as a case study of good practice by the World Health Organization in 2015. Started in the year 2012 through the Starbucks Youth Action Grants, the ROLi has reached over 8000 youths across the country and implemented in selected highly urbanized cities. | Health and social ills that comes with globalization continues to surge and continue to affect impoverished communities. Lack of representation results to little power to fully shape own response that is truly meaningful and engaging. Unable to directly represent own interest in the local, national, and global response, their ability to influence relevant policies and effective programs is rendered limited or perhaps absent and large number is at the vicious cycle. | The MEPA Process and the ROLi methodology combines various methods of learning to influence behavior change and delivery of services from partners and law enforcement personnel. Metaphor and symbols are used to spur conversations of life encounters, games to encourage engagement , appreciative and group collaborative work to cultivate shared goals and decision-making. it offers strategies and tactics integrated with elements of game playing in the context of risk reduction (e.g., risk scoring, competition, collaborative work, and completion of tasks and quests) that help drive behavior change and interaction with service providers. In this sense, ROLi has a vision of nurturing and modeling leaders from the at-risk community and through them cascade the values, competencies and life skills they have acquired to their peers and successors. The learning and social process adapted by ROLi comes with the conviction that knowledge alone does not suffice behavior change but in combining a balance of competencies and realistic transferable skills that equip disadvantaged and marginalized populations to create solutions that immediately address their own vulnerabilities and risks in their daily lives. We envision ROLi as a high impact and low cost intervention dedicated for key populations that are left behind for them to be meaningfully engaged in addressing the issues that affects them and their contribution in achieving the shared development goals of the society at large. | The MEPA Process employed by ROLi is inspired by by the MIPA/GIPA and the Denver principle in the field of HIV/AIDS response. Uniquely, ROLi is expanded to the larger ""At risk Communities and Key Populations that are affected not only ny HIV and AIDS but also the precursors of HIV and AIDS which we dub as VICES or Violence, Illicit Drugs, Crime, Exploitation and Slavery. The highly stigmatized nature of these social ills renders affected key populations to have poorer access to health and psycho social interventions. Uniquely, the ROLi provides a set of creative tools administered through peer-facilitated and adult-supervised workshops to address specific risk behaviors on a peer-to-peer basis. It aims to promote behavior change among and between members of peer groups especially those in high risk environments . The tools are powered by blending appreciative inquiry approach in peer facilitation, artistic creativity in transforming risks, and group decision-making. The results helps clients getting access to government services and also provides government service providers tools for their case management. It provides psychosocial support and aftercare programs that involve the individual, his/her family, and the community to facilitate full social reintegration of victims and survivors to the society. It also complement government interventions that is already available in social and health service institutions. | ROLi as a new methodology that comes with the conviction that knowledge alone does not suffice successful behavior change programs but in combining a balance of competencies and realistic transferable skills from communities of survivors to address common and shared vulnerabilities and risks. ROLi anchor its methods on two main theories of learning, namely: Participatory Education by Paulo Freire which asserts that empowerment in the truest sense can result only from full participation of individuals affected by a problem or health condition and that continuous dialogue is the most effective means for them to plan and implement solutions to address problems and the Social Learning Theory and the Reciprocal Determinism by Albert Bandura that posits that individuals or groups can model behavior and influence the values and behaviors of the larger group. While MEPA is the process, ROLi is the methodology used to promote change through a tool known as the Young Key Population (YKPop) Scorecard that is used for self-assessments, group workshops, and referrals for health and psycho-social interventions. We measure our impact through: 1. strengthened existing survivor groups to work hand in hand with local service providers, 2. employ community facilitation through various mode of outreach strategies , 3. increased uptake to life-saving health and psychosocial services from the government, and 4. strengthened representation in local government decision-making bodies . | Although cited as a good practice by the WHO, yet was never evaluated, the tools never been standardized and the process not yet manualized as requirements to become an evidence-based method to promote, sustain and scale up behavior change, our goal that by 2025, ROLi will be recognized as an emerging methodology and to put science into our work to generate scientific evidence for its effectiveness and relevance. By 2030, we target to recruit at least 60 volunteers, 10 core staff, and implement ROLi in ASEAN member countries and diaspora communities from the overseas workers across the globe and reach 10,000 clients across pilot areas. We are seeking financing from international donors in order to implement our expansion and program scale up and we need at least 100,000 USD to make this happen | Currently we are still donor dependent in the implementation of the ROLi and we are planning to incorporate social business in order to generate internally generated cash flows to secure a stable financial base for our core management team. Short-term needs • Funds for evaluation and action researcher in order to standardize its tool and develop an module in order to be successfully shared to other as we bid to put science into our work •Develop instructional material for the Meaningful Engagement of People At-risk (MEPA) Framework as ready reference for advocacy and awareness campaign to promote survivor engagement and present during conferences and learning and development activities Medium-Term •Establish a mechanism that recognizes victims / survivor groups in the existing anti trafficking structures and engagement of the local government and its providers by virtue of existing laws and policies • Develop short documentary films and digital story telling as methods of victim empowerment, training and advocacy, and fund raising. Long-term •Develop as social business plans: (1) ROLi Training venture between survivor-leaders and civil society champions and government (leadership program), and (2) an aftercare and post recovery Facility for Vulnerable, At-risk and Victims of Trafficking based in Guimaras Island in the Philippines which is currently on its first phase development | 1.) You can find more about ROLi in our project page at:: http://www.projectpage.info/my-river-of-life 2.) World Health Organization in 2015 as a good practice example of service delivery to key populations in the consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations. Page 83 #81 of: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/255610/9789241512534-eng.pdf https://ph.news.yahoo.com/crossing-river-life-005044814.html | Asia 21 Philippines Leadership Series: FEU Manila https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXR712sQy1k https://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/filipino/en/audiotrack/men-are-victims-too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNXemwoj_Sk | 1. Third Prize Winner, 2017 Post-Training Best Practices, Human Security Category, Enhancing a victim-centered approach: identification, assistance and Protection of trafficking victims in the Asia-Pacific region. Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals through South-South and Triangular Cooperation. UNITAR CIFAL Jeju International Training Center 2. River of Life Initiatives Program, Case Study of Good Practice, World Health Organization 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
494 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Devendra | Kumar | Ladli Foundation Trust | www.ladlifoundation.com | Founder & CEO | Male | India | India | English | To make the idea global and inspire people to contribute through their efforts rather than donating money . | profile Born in Slum of Delhi, Devendra embarked on his journey at the age of two when, his parents left him and his 3 days old infant sister at his aunt. At a very young age, Devendra started to earn his living to look after his family consisting of his sister and aunt. At 9, he used to sell balloons, By 10, he was working as Chhotu at a chemist shop, for a meagre amount of Rs.200 monthly, while continuing his schooling. At the age of 13, he has devoted his life and started his Social Journey was a result of his concern for fellow youth, who had their entire life to live, but were trapped in the vicious circle of substance abuse. he crusaded against pharmacists from selling addictive drugs without prescription. His diligence bore fruits, and he rehabilitated more than 1500 youngsters through his innovative idea of involving substance abuse addicted unemployed males into Kabaddi Sports and their volunteering at religious places. His combat with dowry demanding family, for his sisters marriage in the year 2010, switched his social journey to the welfare of uneducated girls, who couldnt afford schooling, orthodox mentality of the society that does not believe in girls education. Thereafter, he started his grassroots research to evaluate the statusquo, of destitute unmarried girls, that has ultimately led him to establish the LADLI FOUNDATION His constant efforts and undying spirit through innovative initiatives are an assurance for a positive change in our country. Its perfectly good to believe that this man is going to be the portent of revolution in our country | ivOLUNTEER | LETS COME TOGETHER AND DO SOMETHING GOOD | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | OUR SOLUTION IS TECHNICALLY DRIVEN AND he application is available/accessible to anyone and everyone from any part of country and the world to link, privileged with underprivileged and human to other human. | No | Sustainable Scale | Because the operation of the project is in the cyber domain, the project is scalable to an everlasting limit. Second, because the project has something to do with community creation, the aspects of growth are only upwards. further as the idea pretains to today's time we think our solution can sustain the upcoming challenges very well as it is designed very well keeping in mind the the indicators whoich would attract the today's youth to work towards these common goals. | Our solution basically addresses the problem of means required to work for the society and hence is based on the idea that every individual should be able to publish and put forward their ideas catering to sustainable development and is able to reach the masses in one go. The main problem to be taken into consideration is that we lack the platform where like minded individuals can come together and showcase their ideas about building up a society which caters to the development goals. | We wish to connect over a billion people through social activities in the longer term with providing them with a space to know, to discuss and to network with socially motivated individuals of society. The tangible benefits will be that organisations will get to work together and know each other and individual unsung heroes. The app will create a united community of socially driven people as works, achievements and opportunities in the same are scattered and unexplored. Because the operation the project is in the cyber domain, the project is scalable to an everlasting limit. Second, because the project has something to do with community creation, the aspects of growth are only upwards. Third, because of challenges we are facing now and challenges we are like to face in future(climate change, gender differences), a need of social network is imperative. Collaboration and integration are going to be the future necessities of day to day operations. the solution having no restraints in terms of time and space can have massive impact globally , as it will be able to impart the knowledge,ideas and perspectives from every corner of the world bringing out the best and most effective way to bring changes in the lives of others and in the society as a whole. | The idea of project is joining dots and community formation. So this idea can be used in any geography, demography and social space till the time the idea is limited to connecting individuals. Members of a particular demography can create an application and network amongst individuals of that same demography. For e.g.- An application of Taxi Drivers across India where they can interact, learn and discuss problems and their solutions. Our project is a standalone project but a part of the larger idea, i.e. creating a community of individuals who are socially responsible, aware and drive the solution differs from others ,Considering the same our project works on the methodology of one for millions and is of the view that if even one idea clicks the rest of the individuals we are able to create awareness in the society further initializing a boom in the society in the aspects of equality, health and total well-being of the community. Another unique approach applied here is the use of social media in a way which attracts the youth of today and at the same time is able to create an impact at societal level. | the team has developed the application and has been using it in the inner circle to check its usability and also working to avoid future grievances. The application IS BEING MONITORED ON DAILY BASES BY A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS AND A MECHANISM IS BEING DEVELOPED TO RECOGNIZE THE WORK OF ALL THOSE WHO ARE WORKING EXCEPTIONALLY ON THE FIELD TO BRING ABOUT THE CHANGE IN THE SOCIETY FURTHER CONNECTING TO THOSE WHO WISH TO SEE A CHANGE IN THE WORLD. THE METHODLOGY APPLIED TO IT IS ALSO UNDER EVALUATION , TO CHECK HOW FAR ONE IS ABLE TO REACH AND GENERATE A CHANGE IN THE MINDSETS F THE GENERAL PUBLIC. fURTHER ,To measure impact, we will use google analytics and associated software to evaluate posts, reposts, app members, individual feedback and other things. Small feedback forms on the same along with grievances and redressal column will work as tools for measuring impact. | For this application to succeed, we need resources not just monetary but HR with technological acumen and understanding of scale development. We wish to achieve the same by raising funds through opportunities available in CSR space and paid promotions on our social space. WE further plan on Connecting a million people on application; sharing vision of individual social responsibility.We need app developers to make application more user friendly, bug free and interactive. We also need motivated individuals who understand social space to the best and are capable of increasing outreach. Providing platform to individuals to not just be connected but also engage in socially productive activities such as volunteering opportunities, events and others. Resources to organise meets of different stakeholders to get them on board and enhancing and updating user experience to sustain application.Developing a community of social workers, enthusiasts and enterpreneurs to network and work collaboratively and cohesively. Promotion and partnership are key aspects of collaboration and cohesion. For such works one will need financial resources, outreach and a team dedicated to the Application. | The most important resource the application needs is an App Developer who can create the application and update it in accordance with user experience.(Long-Term) App will need a team of content writers, social media marketeers, chat assistants and content approvers to check activities on the app and update blog section and media handle and website of application.(Long-Term) Financial Resources and Human Resources are comparatively less for running an Application, as most of the work can be done as work from home and without an office set up. hence these resources are required to boost up the presence of the application and essentially to make it reach to the required long term goal. (Medium-term) To recruit new people, build networks of collaboration and funding and look after finances of the application.(short-term) Most importantly the solution requires the mark of authenticity and credibility to fulfill the common goal and this can only be fulfilled when a renowned organisation or community accredits it for its functioning and provides it with the required felicitation for making it a source of social advancement in the society. | https://www.facebook.com/IVolunteer-Mobile-Application-703985190043272/?modal=admin_todo_tour, | NA | No, as the solution is a new initiation by our organisation but we surely believe that it can bring a revolution if given the right guidance and approach and can bring a long-lasting change. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
495 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Asad | Abbas | Shock Preventor | http://fambzzhh.com/ | Undergraduate Student | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | To be able to present our idea at such a prestigious summit has been my aim for a long time. Our project is an application of IoT and aims to reduce the hassles that one faces while shopping at crowded places, either big malls or your local grocery stores. What we are doing is nothing new and has been done before but if my company is supported in working towards the said aim, it will definitely benefit us human beings in our everyday lives. | My name is Asad Abbas and I am an engineering undergrad student. I was born in Peshawar, Pakistan and currently reside in the federal capital in the same country. | Shock Preventor | Our solution provides an automated shopping process where the customers won't have to wait in long queues at the end of their shopping time. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Pakistan, currently but with ample support, our aim is to make the solution as globally helpful as possible. | Yes | Dr. Amir Rashid Ch, Asst. Prof. COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan | Research & Development | We began working on the said solution in the month of March this year and thus we are currently in the R & D phase. | Most people when they go for shopping, encounter either one or both of the following two problems: Long queues at the billing counter and difficulty in finding the product that you are looking for. Our project provides a solution to these problems by introducing an automated billing system that is both safe and efficient in comparison to the conventional shopping procedures that we are used to. | We have made an on-cart shopping screen that computes our current bill and looks out for any cases of dishonesty with the help of camera vision for object recognition and weight measurement for cross checking our final bill. | Most of the solutions that have been presented prior to ours are merely theoretical and provide only an automated billing system. There is little to almost no mechanism for theft protection and cart automation and thus, our solution is unique from other approaches in the aspects. | We are currently in the Research and Development stage and are working to make a working prototype as soon as possible. | We are aiming to pitch our solution at a global level and are working rigorously towards the said aim so that we can benefit as many people as we can. | We need technical support if we are to successfully complete our solution. Moreover some financial help would also prove beneficial. | http://fambzzhh.com/ | http://fambzzhh.com/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
496 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alessio | Nanni | Occupy Italy Animals Onlus | https://sanctuaryoftheherbivores.org/ | President | Mal | Italy | Italy | English | It is now widely held and shared opinion that the current world as a whole has reached the end of an era with a dramatic apocalypse and full of contradictions its forces in the field produce so much destruction and little creation. The alternative is the utopia founded on the cooperation of credible forces that can design an “Ecological Society” alternative to the “Consumption Society” The current model of society has reduced the thinking and action of man, referring to a thinking material that has no connection with the body of man being pure “quantity”, losing every dynamic consistency of principle of every relationship, natural and social instaurable by man. Reappropriating criteria of choice commensurate with the recognition of the cosmic complexity of the human subject, therefore, the general criterion must be that of the definition Qualitative of the design of the “Society. The “Ecological Society” is the “Utopian Society” that is really built from the aspiration to Truth to Freedom of Justice – with Actions aimed at promoting a better world. A world, that is, where respect for nature and the environment in which we live and respect for animal creatures such as living beings, sentient beings and human friends prevail. In short: an ideal world that becomes real with everyone’s commitment. Community of oxygen multipliers.: immersed in nature, follow us and join us to support growth, innovation and social cohesion. . Systemic thinking applied to natural ecosystem services, to achieve sustainable community development, #SDGs --------------- SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES Here is our story: fighting climate change and improving the relationship between human nature and work with biodiversity. Repopulation of agricultural areas (fight against poverty): we wanted to adapt fully to nature, we climbed the path walking surrounded by vegetation, we reached the summit, the scenario made our case. Looking at the situation, I deduced that biodiversity had to be the best ally, I started to make an alliance with present life forms (essential for life on Earth). An alpine meadow, I created the access roads, and with them the islands of {biodiversity, I knew and admired the creatures you showed, meeting me along the streets of the place (a meadow surrounded by woods). I quantified the accessible resources including the slightest disturbance to adaptation (amalgamation). | Artist Creative. and activist with many passions, from Activist. Environmentalist. Animal Rights. Human Rights ,Political Interests . to environmentalism to MicroNations Blogger & Social Influencer -Alessio is currently working on a series of projects to raise awareness and accelerate changes that would protect the entire planet’s inhabitants, both humans and animals. He is founder of a political party in Italy working for animal rights, and seeks to one day establish a seastead to advance the party’s objectives through demonstration instead of argument. Global Goodwill Ambassadors (GGA)#Italy | Community of oxygen multipliers | to support growth, innovation and social cohesion. Mission: restore disused agricultural land, regulate organic rules, sustainability | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Currently is in Italy Implemmentation in Africa & Asia and rest of world | Yes | Community . Istitutions , associations, People | Transition to Scale | Community of oxygen multipliers.: immersed in nature, follow us and join us to support growth, innovation and social cohesion. Systemic thinking applied to natural ecosystem services, to achieve sustainable community development, #SDGs 15 | Mission: restore disused agricultural land, regulate organic rules, sustainability (manual agricultural work) sharing, integration, participation, collaboration, management of existing resources, for the benefit of all, including future generations. Fight against poverty. Essential for life on Earth. Meadows surrounded by woods. Amalgamation. Legitimacy. Farmer and Director of the Earth. Creative. Social innovation.To adapt. Biodiversity. Manual agricultural work.nAdaptatium, collaboration! | SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES Here is our story: fighting climate change and improving the relationship between human nature and work with biodiversity. Repopulation of agricultural areas (fight against poverty): we wanted to adapt fully to nature, we climbed the path walking surrounded by vegetation, we reached the summit, the scenario made our case. Looking at the situation, I deduced that biodiversity had to be the best ally, I started to make an alliance with present life forms (essential for life on Earth). An alpine meadow, I created the access roads, and with them the islands of {biodiversity, I knew and admired the creatures you showed, meeting me along the streets of the place (a meadow surrounded by woods). I quantified the accessible resources including the slightest disturbance to adaptation (amalgamation). Assessment of resource position (creative): Thus, the new world around us has imposed itself to observe the real and immediate future, the squirrel has taught us how to face the long winter, collect food and store, collect dry wood and cram, our collective action in biodiversity, enriched our conscious rationality, we live in harmony with nature. | The job is therefore to help nature, serving with the necessary slowness, with gentleness and gratitude, respecting the times ... Political management of the localization of agricultural resources (legitimacy): of all the occupations of the inhabitants was agriculture best expressed by the historical record and also the most important. Who asks ""why?"", The answer is: agriculture can be understood as an indispensable resource, the earth, developed with our help (more precisely of the farmer and director of the Earth). Assessment of resource position (creative): Thus, the new world around us has imposed itself to observe the real and immediate future, the squirrel has taught us how to face the long winter, collect food and store, collect dry wood and cram, our collective action in biodiversity, enriched our conscious rationality, we live in harmony with nature. Improvement of local resources (social innovation): over time, our adaptation work has increased our sense of civic duty, helping nature, serving the ecosystem, a social, cultural innovation. Semi-subsistence farms (adapting): farms that produce mainly for their own consumption and the Community. Since our community can provide valuable help to adapt a new life, climate change is a warning, dexterity, creativity, simplicity, human strength, elementary knowledge of the mastery of the movement, in a framework of social cohesion catalyzed by a single common denominator , the earth. | 4 years of research, sustainability has shown that it is acceptable and precisely what the biosphere, the immune system of the terrestrial world (biodiversity) receives and preserves. Development and innovation policy, they must consider and encourage innovation, practice and civil society to grow a human model of immune activity in symbiosis and synergy with nature. It is about creating natural habitats that serve biodiversity in ecosystems. In practice we create many islands of biodiversity Oasis. Habitat where insects, migratory birds and all the other animals live their ecosystem service UNDISTURBED. #EKOSISTEM❤️✌️ Support the Sanctuary of the Herbivores. Improvement of local resources (social innovation): over time, our adaptation work has increased our sense of civic duty, helping nature, serving the ecosystem, a social, cultural innovation. Semi-subsistence farms (adapting): farms that produce mainly for their own consumption and the Community. Since our community can provide valuable help to adapt a new life, climate change is a warning, dexterity, creativity, simplicity, human strength, elementary knowledge of the mastery of the movement, in a framework of social cohesion catalyzed by a single common denominator , the earth. | Implemmentation in Africa & Asia and rest of world Community of oxygen multipliers to support growth, innovation and social cohesion. Mission: restore disused agricultural land, regulate organic rules, sustainability A strategy for a new coexistence between man and animal to organize a less anthropocentric society. "". It means you can't kill humans but also animals, insects, microbes, ants and all living things. It is sacred everything is alive "" Legitimacy. Farmer and Director of the Earth. Creative. Social innovation.To adapt. Biodiversity. Manual agricultural work. fighting climate change and improving the relationship between human nature and work with biodiversity. Repopulation of agricultural areas (fight against poverty): we wanted to adapt fully to nature, we climbed the path walking surrounded by vegetation, we reached the summit, the scenario made our case. Looking at the situation, I deduced that biodiversity had to be the best ally, I started to make an alliance with present life forms (essential for life on Earth). Cooperation Patner GLOBAL FORUM FOR THE DEFENCE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION CAMEROON P.O.BOX 198 LIMBE. SOUTH WEST REGION REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON. 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497 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Helen | Davies | Futurepump Ltd | www.futurepump.com | Marketing and Communications Manager | Female | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | “I dream to be a vegetable dealer for this area, before in the dry season I could not grow anything, but this year, with the solar pump it has been good” – Ann, Kenya. Ann is just one of the thousands of farmers benefitting from a Futurepump solar pump. I have been a member of the Futurepump team since 2014 when we sent the first four solar pumps to Kenya, since then I have grown with the company, we have now sold over 6,000 solar pumps across 15 countries. My motivation comes from experiencing the truly life changing impact this sustainable innovation can have. Directly working with farmers I’ve seen crops grow, incomes increase and businesses boom. Solar irrigation really is a solution that changes lives. But solar irrigation is still relatively new and novel to smallholder farmers. For this innovation to gain traction and reach the rural, Bottom of Pyramid (BoP) farmers who could benefit from this solution the most, there need to be an increased number of valuable conversations around solar irrigation. This includes discussion around the technology itself, the market, distribution methods, after-sales support, and how to successfully deliver this to create global impact. The opportunity to present a project at the UN Solutions Summit is one I certainly would not want to miss. The opportunity to share the progress of solar irrigation in developing markets and share our plans for the way forward to increase positive global impact and change the lives of the 500 million smallholder farmers worldwide. | An environmental scientist by background I joined the Futurepump team in 2014 when solar irrigation using solar photo-voltaic was just in its infancy. Since then I have developed specific skills related to project management and business growth as Futurepump has grown through research and development and transition into scale. Currently, I am based in Futurepump’s head office in the UK, and I manage our marketing team as well as leading communications with investors and overseeing the collection and analysis of technical and impact data gathered by our field teams. | Futurepump solar irrigation pumps | Solar powered irrigation for the world’s one-acre farmers | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Mali, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Nepal, Ethiopia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Senegal, The Gambia… | Yes | Distributors based in each country. Key distributors: Kenya, Davis & Shirtliff; Uganda, SolarNow | Scaling | Futurepump has now sold over 6000 solar irrigation pumps and we work with distributors in 15 countries. Our revenue has been increasing year on year however we have not yet reached break-even. Our work continues to focus on scaling up our factory in India to cop with increased and more regular orders as we forecast to reach break-even late 2019. | As climate change ushers in erratic rainfall patterns and global demand for food increases, the world’s 500 million smallholder farms are looking for new ways to reliably water crops and maximise production. Current methods of irrigation either consist of backbreaking manual irrigation or expensive and polluting petrol or diesel pumps. Neither of these current options are sustainable or scalable to meet the ever-growing demand for food globally. | Futurepump’s innovative design principles are simplicity, efficiency and durability. Futurepump solar pumps are the highest performing solar pumps at a price point specifically designed with the smallholder in mind. It is a reciprocal piston pump which is, in energy terms, the most efficient way of moving water. The pump is designed to be robust and farmer fixable – essential on rural farms. We also provide cutting-edge remote monitoring with each pump. From a web dashboard, we can monitor key vital signs of each pump, anywhere in the world. It means we can be agile and proactive in our after-sales support. We are the first solar pump company who can offer this combination of high-tech monitoring and quality product. The long-term vision for global impact through solar irrigation is sustainable scaling of our business through ever decreasing technology prices and increasingly lean distribution methods. Our mission is to make the opportunity of solar irrigation easily available to all rural, BoP smallholder farmers globally and to create and develop trust in the market through reliable and innovative after-sales support. | Existing solutions for smallholder irrigation are unsustainable. Manual irrigation, using bucket or treadle pumps, is laborious and inefficient. Fossil-fuel powered pumps can be bought relatively cheaply for $200 but, in addition to producing CO2 emissions, lock farmers into recurring, volatile fuel costs (over $300 a year). These methods only alleviate farmers’ dependence on rainfall to squeeze their other resources—in effect “cancelling out” any benefits. Futurepump’s direct competitors in the solar pumping space currently market solar pump systems costing several thousand USD, pricing which is out of reach of the BoP market. At the other end of the scale, low cost submersible solar pumps are entering the market; however, initial indications show these having short lifetimes in the field and only 50% the performance of Futurepump solar pumps. We are unique in that our sole mission is to reach a product which fits the BoP market both in price and in innovative customer support. Through the use of new technology, the increased prevalence of smart phones in developing markets and learning from market disrupting companies such as Uber and Amazon we propose to dramatically change the way that smallholder farmers access irrigation technologies. If we can succeed in this mission, solar irrigation becomes a clear, sustainable option for smallholder farmers and fossil-fuel pumps will become a thing of the past. | Within Futurepump research and development is on-going as we are continuously working to improve the product and our distribution networks. However, after several versions of the Futurepump solar pump which have gone through rigorous laboratory and field tests we have reached a design which we were happy to scale. We have now sold over 6000 units across 15 countries in Africa and Asia and have a strong pipeline of new companies in new territories ready to join our distribution network. Our progress is continuously monitored in several ways. Business performance is measured through units sold, revenue and re-orders (when a county distributor sells out of the product and re-orders more this shows success in this market). Technical progress and impact are measured largely through the remote monitoring system included on ever pump as standard. From the data that comes in daily to our servers we can study electrical performance and usage data of the pumps and infer volumes of water pumped, CO2 saved, and pump utilisation. Our field test station in Western Kenya is also experienced in the collection and analysis of both technical and social impact data for new products looking to enter the market. The team here consists of project managers, electrical and mechanical engineers and social scientists who ensure that all new Futurepump solar pump models are tested to the highest standard before they go to market. | A significant milestone for Futurepump is to breakeven on sales alone, we are on target for this and project to meet this milestone before the end of 2019. Over the next year we are looking to expand to more counties in Africa and Asia and also to enter the South American market. We propose to work with another 9 distribution partners in 9 new countries soon (Senegal, Namibia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, South Sudan, Benin, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador). We project that this will make solar irrigation available to over 3,500 more smallholder farmers in new markets (impacting over 17,000 lives assuming one solar irrigation pump per household with five members on average). | Short term resources required are increased investment and resource into on the ground marketing and distributor support. Solar irrigation is still a novel idea, there needs to be more work done to educate farmers into solar irrigation as a sustainable alternative to their current irrigation practices. It also needs greater promotion to encourage smaller agro-vet dealers to take on stock of irrigation pumps. If you visit Kenya, for example, you can find a petrol pump for sale in every town – this is the scale that solar irrigation needs to reach. Medium term, we are looking to invest heavily in our factory in India to prepare for scale. We have plans to build a new manufacturing facility where we can handle greater volume of product and also bring in house more processes rather than relying on external vendors. This will increase our capacity, lead times and quality. Long-term investment is required into innovative distribution methods utilising smart phone applications to mobilise an increased number of remote sales agents and allow quicker response to maintenance challenges in the field. Showing this support to farmers and sales agents remotely will set up Futurepump as a trusted, reliable and desirable irrigation product manufacturer. But to gain this trust the technical and design work required for this proposal will require significant time and monetary resource. | https://futurepump.com/ http://www.youtube.com/c/FuturepumpLtd | None available | Ashden Award Winner for Sustainable Energy and Water 2017 https://www.ashden.org/winners/futurepump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
498 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Abhinav | Mathur | Million Sparks Foundation | http://millionsparks.org/ | Founder | Male | India | India | English | We would like to be a part of the UN Solution Summit and present details of our work, progress and impact. Our intervention can be scaled globally to help achieve not only SDG4 but also impact other SDGs. While we have been able to successfully scale till now we would need a lot of advice, partnerships, guidance and support to scale further. We look to connect with several innovators, solution providers, and other attendees for their support and advice. I have set up Million Sparks Foundation (MSF) a non-profit to continuously build capacity of teachers, and school leaders that serve low income and underprivileged communities using a Mobile App Platform ChalkLit. Our vision is to impact life and learning outcomes of 300M students through 10M teachers by 2025 and scale globally. We want students to have academic skills and also gain life skills, critical thinking and problem solving, skills that are necessary to succeed in the future. They should know the roles they, their families and communities can play to address pressing problems being faced by the world (SDGs). ChalkLit provides enhanced curriculum aligned lesson plans, pedagogically focused topic based trainings - both scholastic and co-scholastic, and a peer-to-peer personalised social micro-learning network where educators are provided an AI driven personalised feed on best practises, new pedagogical and conceptual knowledge, interesting ideas, activities, opinion polls, and education news. | Dr. Abhinav Mathur founded MSF in 2016 to impact continuous capacity building of teacher and school leaders working for Government and Low Income Schools that cater to underprivileged and low income segments in India through a mobile app centric platform called ChalkLit. He has previously worked in large corporates 24+ years and in his last assignment, he served as the Chief of Strategy and Technology for a USD 2Bn SPICE Global group which included companies in the telecom operator business, mobility, VAS, finance, healthcare, entertainment and education. SPICE Global was present in 30 countries. Before this he setup and led India's first incubator where he setup 12+ companies over a period of 8 years and successfully exited from several. He also held leadership positions in telecom after starting his career with C-DOT in 1992 where he designed, developed and set up India’s first GSM Mobile Network and Intelligent Network. He has B.E. Computers from NSTU, a PhD in Telecom from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Lucknow. He is extremely active with several initiatives that focus on the implementation of SDGs and work in the circular economy and regularly contributes to these efforts on a pro bono basis. He is an advisor to the board of 5 private companies. He has made several angel investments in early stage startup companies and is regularly invited to speak at conferences and features on television on shows around technology, innovation, social development and startups. | ChalkLit : Mobile application platform for continuous capacity building of teachers and school leaders at scale | Impacting SDGs and the life and learning outcomes of 300M children by capacitating 10M teachers and school leaders by 2025 | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Malaysia, Indonesia, Phillipines | Yes | Our grantors- Google.org, Central Square Foundation, Gray Matters Capital, Measurement & Evaluation partner- Mission Measurement, State education departments/ nodal body of teacher trainings in the states of Delhi, Goa, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgar | Scaling | We have impacted 125K+ teachers from 45Kschools and have built a team of 40+ committed individuals experienced in education, pedagogy and technology. Our platform has been tested and validated at scale. We are partnered with 6 states and have received invitations from 5+states to start our program. We have 5 Indian NGOs who are using our platform to scale their offline programs. We have also received interest from countries like Nepal, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Philippines and Africa. | Capacity building of educators in India is broken, institutions rely on offline trainings focused on scholastics. Teachers are not prepared for problem solving, critical thinking, SDGs - skills important for future. Convenience, or personal preferences of teachers are not considered and there are no networking opportunities. Offline trainings cannot scale to cover all educators in absence of quality trainers, infra, or budgets and don't provide scale, quality, convenience or frequency required. | Million Sparks Foundation (MSF) has developed “ChalkLit” a mobile application platform to provide online continuous capacity building to teachers and school leaders at scale globally. ChalkLit provides curriculum aligned content in multiple languages. in the form of lesson plans and annual plans, it provides trainings for educators on both scholastic and co-scholastic topics and also enables a peer-to-peer social microleaning network. We are strongly focused on life skills, Sustainable Development Goals, gender, problem solving skills, and critical thinking. It allows state education departments and other NGOs to upload content and run their official training programs in a completely online or blended mode. It also provides detailed usage analytics and user insights. The peer to peer social microlearning network allows educators to share challenges, best practises amongst each other. The AI driven personalized feed curates new pedagogical and conceptual knowledge, interesting activities in classrooms, opinion polls, education news, SDGs, and content to reinforce learning from previously attended trainings. MSF has developed comprehensive communications, tools, and processes to ensure high completion rates of the trainings offered to teachers. We have trained 125K+ teachers on the platform impacting 10M+ children. We aim to impact 1M teachers by Dec’20 in India, and 10M teachers by Dec’25 globally to impact the life and learning outcomes of 300M students worldwide. | Offline trainings cannot scale to sufficiently train 10M educators in India or the 70M teachers globally owing to lack of quality trainers, infrastructure, or budgets and are unable to meet quality, convenience or frequency required. Organizations such as KhanAcademy, Meghshala, and TeacherApp, have developed mobile apps to distribute their own content requiring teachers to download multiple apps, have limited content options and a UI/UX that does not evolve. ChalkLit has a unique platform approach that aggregates content from multiple sources including state education departments, NGOs, content developers, and OERs to run official state trainings and provides an AI driven personalized microlearning social network. We have developed a comprehensive 11 point framework that we populate with both scholastic and co-scholastic content. We integrate with enterprise messaging and notification engines, and a call center with human agents that continuously engage with trainees, and respond to queries which coupled with an interactive gamified experience ensures 90% completion rates. The architecture of the ChalkLit backend server allows for scalability and is highly adaptive. We regularly review the platform and iterate it for improved experience and scale. Our approach has been found to be both scalable and replicable and has been successfully used across six states in India and is presently being piloted in Rwanda Africa and there is interest from several south asian countries. | We started with development in Jan’16. The first product was released in Mar’16 with only lesson plans and the social network. In the past 3 years, we have continued to iterate the UI/UX and have included teacher training, annual plans, support services and communications to ensure greater completion rates, and have created multiple channels on the now personalised wall. We have included a comprehensive teacher support which includes a callcenter with human agents, SMS, email based interactions and an automated chatbot for interactive teacher support for query resolution. We have also added a backend that allows third parties to add content and access their usage statistics. The platform has been proven in the field and supports 135K+ teachers across 6 states. We create product roadmaps and follow agile methodology for development. We hold daily standup meetings where teams share progress and challenges. We continue to seek feedback and inputs from leading tech leaders in our professional network. We have an inhouse QA team for both technology and content teams who ensure that the deliverables meet the quality expectations. We encourage our state partners to conduct independent research to evaluate our impact and also share a tool for classroom observations developed in partnership with Mission Measurement a Chicago based organization focused to measure social impact. We are now working with JPAL and planning a Randomized control trial for our intervention. | Our short term goal is to impact 1M teachers by Dec’20 in India these will impact 50M students annually. We are aiming to scale to 400K teachers by Dec’19 and are on course for the same. There are a total of 1.4M teachers in the states that we are partnered with and are in active dialogue with several states that will increase this number further. We are also developing programs for pre-school which will add more than 1M educators and starting to support vernacular content. We will need to expand our technology team and our fundraising teams and increase our global fundraising efforts. We will develop a solution to accelerate content curation and teacher generated content especially in vernacular languages. Our medium term goal is to impact 10M teachers by Dec’25 in India, a few countries in Africa and South Asia, this will impact 300M student annually. We have conducted a small pilot in Rwanda with the Africa Institute of Mathematical Studies. We will expand in more countries in Africa and South Asia. We will have to recruit a chief technology officer, a chief product officer, a chief business officer, and a team to develop AI/ML solutions. In the long term we will continue to expand and will impact 25M teachers by 2030 which will impact 500M students annually. This will require us to continue to invest in technology and recruit a team to support our international expansion and will need us to establish global funding partners and consolidate our revenue streams. | -To achieve our goals we will require funds. We will need USD1-2M p.a. till Dec’20, USD 2M scaling to USD 5-6 Mn p.a. by Dec’25. Subsequent funding depends on scale but will not exceed USD 10M annual. -In short and medium term we need to invite several advisors and mentors that will provide us support and guidance to help us realize our goals We will need to invest in our team and tech throughout this period to improve our products and services, and automating most processes. -In the short term we are partnering with universities and corporate volunteer programs to augment our technology resources especially for our work in AI/ML where we would also have to hire few full time resources in the short to medium term. -In the short to medium term we will have to create a platform for rapid vernacular content development taking cues from quality international OER sources In the short term we will partner with renowned research organizations such as JPAL, Brookings, IDInsights etc to measure and evaluate our programs to validate our approach to ensure universal acceptance of our program -We will also partner with several content partners and encourage them to load their content on our platform for both scholastic and co-scholastic content to deliver to teachers. This will include NGOs who will use our platform to scale their presently offline interventions. In the medium to long term we will need to establish presence internationally either directly or through local partners | http://millionsparks.org/ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chalklit.learning&hl=en_IN http://millionsparks.org/impact_report.html | There are no videos available with us for the various keynotes and talks at some major conferences that Abhinav has spoken in. Attached are videos of Abhinav speaking at different Television Shows of NDTV around Technology, Trends, and Startups. NDTV is the most trusted brand of India and is a National Channel and the list includes individual debates, panel discussions and expert speaks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlxbF5X0YZ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGN457C1xrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8GRY2nzYgc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZLKUDpYlcI&t=550s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTo6FWg3kNs&list=PLN8CaK0kzmufoebs1BrQEWF3aGe6Gius3&index=5&t=560s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdIi5-jd2B8&list=PLN8CaK0kzmufoebs1BrQEWF3aGe6Gius3&index=12&t=575s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZpd6BbtsuQ&list=PLN8CaK0kzmufoebs1BrQEWF3aGe6Gius3&index=13&t=580s | -Selected for Dasra’s Social Impact Leadership cohort of 2019-2020, July2019 -Winner- Innovation category at the BETT Asia 2019, March2019 -India winner- Best edtech startup at the Global Edtech Startup Awards 2018 and felicitated at Learnit Conference, London, Jan2019 -Runner up winner-Gray Matters Capital’s Calibrator program, Dec2018 -Finalist- Digital Social and Economic Empowerment category at 9th India Digital Awards organized by Internet & Mobile Association of India, Jan2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
499 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | kashaf | wajid | Comsats university (islamabad) | http://fambzzhh.com/ | student | female | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | we want to work with UN Solutions Summit and be part of this Committee . | i am Electrical Engineering student at Comsats university Islamabad . | Funding | Creation Watcher | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Pakistan | Yes | kashaf wajid , salman amir , qazi hassan ul maab , emaan sheikh | Research & Development | We are solving all these three problems by making a product creation watcher which is a device used for pregnancy monitoring with different feature . | 1. Image processing 2. Budget Management 3. Time Management | This product is unique in this way that, this is not yet launched or made at national level but in international market it is available with very few features in it. The already made projects only have kick counts or contractions counts. Another already made project had a feature of counting the heart rate of fetus. | The main target of this product is usage for pregnant women and hospitals at a lower level along with all the homes . The sensors that are selected will monitor some of the physical changes in the body like HB100, optical sensor , LM35, accelerometer etc. the heart-rate of mother will also be monitored via ad8232 . | Our product is in progress and prototype will be completed soon . Well the unfair advantage of the product is it will hopefully provides a better solution to the problem described above in a really decent budget and will be a market capturing device/system. The main target of this product is usage for pregnant women and hospitals at a lower level along with all the homes . | . The proper channel will be decided after the completion of prototype . Our product is in progress and prototype will be completed soon . | 1. Image processing 2. Budget Management 3. Time Management | •http://www.ijarset.com/upload/2018/june/34-IJARSET-Akshada.pdf •http://academicscience.co.in/admin/resources/project/paper/f201804041522832644.pdf http://www.bellybelly.com.au/articles/pregnancy/pregnancysymptom-sign-of-pregnancy •https://psnet.ahrq.gov/webmm/case/338/monitoring-fetal-health •https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6048658/ | N/A | none | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
500 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | SAQIB ALI | HAIDRI | HUM News | www.humnews.pk | Correspondent AJK | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | I am a working journalist from Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Pakistan administered Kashmir) which is a conflict area between India and Pakistan. This area remain deprived of many basic needs including Indian administered Kashmir, even in this era when some countries are going to introduce 5G, most of these areas do not have even telecom facilities while some of the other urban areas have limited telecommunication signals and still rely on 2G internet services. My project is for the provision of all those facilities according to SDGs 2030 agenda and as being administered by Pakistan who is signatory of SDGs, this region is still deprived of such needs. it includes SDGs 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,11,12,13,14,15 and 17. I have been highlighting many of these goals that create certain issues through broadcast Journalism. I am also one of the pioneer member of SDGs forum for AJK whose patron in Chief is the President AJK. I have been endeavoring to highlight such issues so that this region with the total area of 13297 sq miles with the total population od more than 4 million could easily achieve these goals by 2030 and can set an example worldwide that if our Youth is dedicated to achieve these goals which is also more than 60% of our total population then we can definitely achieve these goals. I also disseminate information and issues on social media to apprise the masses and I am quite hopeful that If I get this opportunity then my motivation will not consist of just one person but collective motivation of many youngsters who lives here and through their feedback to me via social media. | Saqib Ali Haidri is a 29 years working Multimedia Journalist, who have worked in different Media outlets including TV, Newspapers and digital. Masters in Business Administration and also enrolled as a Student in Masters in Mass communication. Social media activist and attended many workshops, seminars and other functions as Youth activist and Journalist. | Achieving Goals in AJK | Want to achieve SDG Goals by 2030 through disseminating its importance via social media and to become the first exemplary State in this regard. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kashmir , Pakistan | No | Ideation | People in Kashmir are often unaware of SDGs, so by apprising them through mainstream media and social media and developing an urge to accomplish these goals in AJK is the main theme, when a majority of youth will be enrolled at every nook and corner of this region and when each and every one would be well known to these goals then this region could become the best example to achieve SDGs. | The basic facilities of which most people are deprived of here when start availing such facilities and when they will start realizing that by achieving these Goals we can become the most developed State around the globe will not only make its status significant but this region will be an example of achieving SDGs in meantime. | As stated earlier, over 4 million population, more than 60% population is Youth and if we could be able to enroll about 10000 youngsters as volunteer from different areas and they will be linked through social media and those who have these facilities will endeavor to disseminate this information to others in rural areas then everyone will start realizing and it will give positive impacts and I believe that by educating our youngsters about SDGs we can easily come to solution of achieving SDGs in AJK (Kashmir) | This region is a conflict area and people are almost despondent for having even basic facilities and when the start realize that by achieving just these 17 goals we can change our lives and they will distribute these goals as targets and by building social pressure on incumbent governments to achieve SDGs is the most significant way to achieve these goals by 2030. | When these SDGs info and theri updates will be monitored and updating monthly basis and the youngsters will be rewarded according to their work and that would not cost a hefty budget but as the unemployment ratio in this region is more than 15% and most of then are literate even graduated so when they will have knowledge and their work will be rewarded then their motivation level will rise and by presenting every single work on social media will urge others to do the same and hence we can get far better response within an year and so on. | The Goals stated above are among planned goals and when we have more volunteers and among those volunteers, the better aspirants will be selected as team leaders and they will be paid according to their work and this state is new for this project as I mentioned earlier that still many areas do not even have the telecommunication facility. | Initially! a well motivated team in all (10)districts of the State , who will start disseminating information about SDGs and enrolling volunteers at the beginning for this cause. I beleive within in next 3 to 5 years, It will be one of the largest team working for SDGs in a region and its long term achievements will be the first state to achieve SDGs by 2030. | https://www.humnews.pk/author/saqib-haidri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkX3rsVPpUA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryxx0fRyAtM | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryxx0fRyAtM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkX3rsVPpUA https://www.humnews.pk/author/saqib-haidri | I have won the best reporter award in 2016, Alumni of Centre of Excellence Journalism Pakistan from Kashmir Youth Facilitator in National Youth Summits. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
501 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lara-Zuzan | Golesorkhi | WoW e.V. / University of Portland | www.wow-withorwithout.com | Executive Director and Founder (WoW e.V.) / Assistant Professor Political Science and Global Affairs | Female | Germany | Germany | English | French | We firmly believe that migrant communities must be involved in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of policies that are to govern them. The mismatch between policies and migrant experiences poses a challenge to achieving Agenda 2030, particularly as it concerns the nexus of migration and gender. This mismatch exhibits itself in a persistent space, figuratively and literally, between affected communities and governing bodies. By bringing together migrant communities, non-state actors, and state actors to strategize around Agenda 2030, the Forum for Migration, Gender, and Justice (FMGJ) seeks to shrink spaces for good. Our motivation to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit is premised on our aspiration to push forward a grassroots, community-based approach on the global level. FMGJ is an initiative by WoW e.V.. WoW e.V. is a non-profit human rights NGO that addresses intersectional discrimination in the German labor market.Our approach is innovative in that we target four key stakeholders in our work: employees, employers, society, and politics. This multi-stakeholder approach, which is also reflected in the FMGJ, is premised on our belief that justice necessitates an egalitarian trajectory in problem-solving. We acknowledge that achieving Agenda 2030 is only possible through shared agency, representation, and accountability. As an initiative by WoW e.V., the FMGJ adopts this innovative, justice-based principle in addressing a crucial issue of our time. | Dr. Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi (Founder) is a scholar-practitioner who established a non-profit human rights NGO (WoW e.V.) while completing her Ph.D. at The New School for Social Research. Her expertise lies in migration, gender, civil and human rights. Through her advocacy, she has pushed for more inclusivity in the German labor market at the European Commission and the United Nations, as well as on the federal and state level in Germany. Lara-Zuzan currently holds a position as Assistant Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at the University of Portland, OR. In 2019, she was awarded Faculty of the Year by the university’s student body association and has received several grants to further her research agenda. Lara-Zuzan’s recent work focuses on refugees and sustainable livelihoods. Shana Sanichar (Co-Founder) is part of the Internationalization team at WoW e.V. She is currently completing her Master of Science in Public and Urban Policy at The New School. In her work, she focuses on the relationship between migration, labor, and climate change. Through her passion for social justice, she has been involved with various grassroots organizations, including Amnesty International USA, the New York Civil Liberties Union, Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project, and the New Sanctuary Coalition. Shana is currently employed as an immigration paralegal. | Forum for Migration, Gender, and Justice (FMGJ) | Forum for Migration, Gender, and Justice - shrinking spaces for good! | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Although the FMGJ currently operates out of Europe and the US, the forum has a global scope. The structure of the FMGJ allows for global exchange around SDGs at the nexus of migration and gender - irrespective of geographical area. | Yes | Kota Alliance | Ideation | We are currently in the ideation phase as we finalize the structure and framework of the FMGJ. In 2019, we will present our concept at the UNCSC, during the UNGA and the SDG Summit, as well as at the EU Anti-Racism Week and the Global Refugee Forum. At these gatherings, we plan to meet with various stakeholders to further develop the FMGJ. These feedback loops help us concretize our next steps and get us ready to launch in 2020. | The FMGJ addresses issues of agency, representation, and accountability within decision-making processes on the global level. From our experience as a local, grassroots organization (WoW e.V.), we find that migrant communities lack agency, representation, and accountability in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of policies that are to govern them. The FMGJ seeks to change that by bringing together migrant communities, non-state actors, and state actors to strategize around Agenda 2030. | The Forum is an engagement-based initiative; it provides an online and offline platform that shrinks spaces between migrant communities, non-state actors, and state actors. The Forum is open to all that share our vision of a grassroots, community-based approach on the global level. Online Platform: The online platform is organized around the 17 SDGs. Each SDG (or a cluster thereof) is assigned an SDG Intergroup Coordinator (IGC) that facilitates exchange between migrant communities, non-state actors, and state actors. The IGC also organizes the quarterly virtual townhall meetings in which forum members discuss the development, implementation, and evaluation of sustainable livelihood strategies for migrant communities. Offline Platform: The offline platform is organized around our annual meeting during the UN CSW. At this meeting, we discuss current topics surrounding Agenda 2030 in panels, workshops, and working groups. We also establish commitments to be achieved within the year and present findings from our annual assessments and reports. Virtual presence at the meeting is provided! This kind of information sharing and exchange allows for innovative solutions to be created and for a more egalitarian policy-making space to be created. The long-term vision of the FMGJ is to establish a Center for Migration, Gender, and Justice that provides a space for these exchanges to take place year-round. | Methodologically, the FMGJ is unique in that it physically and virtually shrinks spaces between affected communities and governing bodies. What makes the forum stand out is that it shrinks spaces not only vertically within the hierarchy of decision-making, but also horizontally across the globe. The forum connects affected communities and governing bodies within host countries, and between host countries and origin countries. Regarding new perspectives, the forum is unique in that addresses each SDG in its complexity relative to the nexus of migration and gender. The intergroup structure facilitates a focused perspective on current issues within SDG implementation and hereby enables forum members to create sustainable livelihood strategies for migrant communities by involving these communities in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of policies that are to govern them. As the forum aligns itself with Agenda 2030, it directly contributes to achieving it. However, it doesn’t end here. The set-up of the forum is future-oriented and can be replicated across time and place. This forward-thinking strategy is intentional. The contributions of the forum towards Agenda 2030 are not only contributions to a 10-year plan (2020-2030); they are indeed contributions to the future with the establishment of a Center for Migration, Gender, and Justice that provides a platform for achieving Agenda 2045. | The solution is currently in its ideation phase with a planned launch at the 2020 UN CSW. Progress and methodological rigor are measured specific to stakeholder targets: migrant communities, non-state actors, and state actors. Migrant communities: membership and participation in forum activities (i.e. quarterly townhall and annual meeting); agency, representation, and accountability in the development, implementation, and evaluation of sustainable livelihood strategies for migrant communities; exchange with non-state actors and state actors Non-state actors: membership and participation in forum activities (i.e. quarterly townhall and annual meeting); agency, representation, and accountability in the development, implementation, and evaluation of sustainable livelihood strategies for migrant communities; exchange with migrant communities and state actors State actors: membership and participation in forum activities (i.e. quarterly townhall and annual meeting); agency, representation, and accountability in the development, implementation, and evaluation of sustainable livelihood strategies for migrant communities; exchange with migrant communities and non-state actors In the first 5-year phase (2020-2025), we will conduct SDG case study analysis of the impact of the forum. After evaluating this first phase, we adjust accordingly in the second phase (2025-2030) with the goal to establish a Center for Migration, Gender, and Justice by 2030. | In our efforts to contribute to Agenda 2030, we have established a 1-yr plan, a 5-yr plan, and a 10-yr plan. Each plan carries significant milestones: In 2019, we focus on finalizing the structure and framework of the FMGJ and on presenting our concept to various stakeholders for feedback. Our 2019 goals/milestones include conceptualization and presentation of the FMGJ. In 2020, our main milestone is the launch of the FMGJ at the UNCSW. 2020 is particularly fitting for this launch as it celebrates Beijing +25 and 5 years into Agenda 2030. We hope to leverage on these global benchmarks in order to gain members. Our 2020 goals/milestones include launching of and membership recruitment for the FMGJ. Over the following five years (2020-2025), we repeat a cycle of membership recruitment while conducting annual assessments and reports. To gain members, we continue to present our work across institutional levels. In this phase, we also conduct our annual assessments and publish our annual reports. Our 2020-2025 goals/milestones include membership recruitment for, assessment of, and reporting for the FMGJ. From 2025 to 2030, we repeat a cycle of membership recruitment and fundraising. This 5-year span is crucial in that it leads up to the planned establishment of a Center for Migration, Gender, and Justice. This phase also includes our annual reports and assessments. Our 2025-2030 goals/milestones involve membership recruitment, fundraising, and reporting for the FMGJ. | Our short-term needs concern human resources, marketing funds, and participant grants. For our 1-year plan, we have already secured human resources. We however lack funding for marketing strategies and participant grants. Both are crucial to the launch of the initiative. For our first 5-year plan (2020-2025) / medium-term resources, we need further human resources, marketing funds, and participation grants, as well as a fundraising strategy and research funds. The latter three are especially important in this phase. Research funding will be used to conduct our annual assessments and reports. With the growth in membership across the globe, we also need to ensure that participant grants are adequate and readily available. At the heart of the initiative lies the ability to have migrant communities at our annual meetings. This is only possible if we can provide grants for travel and accommodation. Similarly important is the establishment of a fundraising strategy to become self-sustaining. For our long-term needs, and hereby for our second 5-year plan, a sustainable funding strategy is needed to create staff positions and to establish the Center for Migration, Gender, and Justice. Staff positions may include Policy Advocates, Community Organizers, Lawyers, Economists, IGCs, Marketing Specialists, Social Media Coordinators and more. | Website: http://www.wow-withorwithout.com Twitter: @ WoW_eV Instagram: @ #wowwithorwithout Facebook: WoW – WithorWithout YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk193i5zKBy8NFx6Y0n93uA https://academicimpact.un.org/content/%E2%80%9Cwhat-matters-job-market-what%E2%80%99s-head-not-it%E2%80%9D-2015-un-making-hate-diversity-contest-winner-%E2%80%9C https://www.upbeacon.com/article/2018/09/un-global-summit-professor https://www.globalpeoplesummit.org/team/lara-zuzan-golesorkhi https://medium.com/global-peoples-summit/fellow-in-focus-dr-lara-zuzan-golesorkhi-8ec85c104ed1 http://www.dw.com/de/mit-oder-ohne-kopftuch-egal/a-18688721 http://www.unric.org/de/pressemitteilungen/27583-studentin-aus-deutschland-gewinnt-mit- ihrem-with-or-without-projekt-20000-euro-preisgeld-bei-un-wettbewerb-zur-vielfalt http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.integration-die-scheu-vor-dem-kopftuch- nehmen.03513734-0e66-406f-ae94-98055f930669.html http://m.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/wirtschaft/projekt-wow-hilft-musliminnen_-arbeit-zu-finden- 13295243.html http://www.focus.de/regional/baden-wuerttemberg/gesellschaft-projekt-fuer-muslimas-junge- deutsche-gewinnt-un-preis_id_4915524.html http://socialresearchmatters.org/lara-golesorkhi-muslim-women-in-employment/ | http://webtv.un.org/search/briefing-to-announce-the-winners-of-the-unaiunhate-foundation-co- sponsored-diversity-contest/4324203658001?term=UNAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIAr3q9QM48 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHFx442ahSI https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk193i5zKBy8NFx6Y0n93uA | 2015: Winner Global Diversity Contest of the UNHATE Foundation and the United Nations Academic Impact. Finalist international competition for young Muslim entrepreneurship (Zahnräder Netzwerk). 2017: Finalist Stuttgart Citizenship Award Deutschland- Land of Ideas Integration Heroes Stand Up Award 2018: Finalist Special Impact Award (KfW Foundation and Social Impact) Community Award (KfW Foundation and Social Impact) Million Chances Award | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
502 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rianna | Puno | Edukasyon | www.edukasyon.ph | Head of Public Affairs | F | Philippines | United States of America | English | At Edukasyon, we envision a society where youth are empowered to make better-informed decisions about their education, career and life, so that they can attain a sustainable and fulfilling future. With our mission to engage and empower Filipino Gen Z youth, we have built the largest online education technology platform in the Philippines, enabling student access to thousands of opportunities locally and abroad (senior high schools, colleges and universities, online learning programs and scholarships) and highly relevant content that equips them with knowledge and skills to become successful young adults who can meet the challenges of our evolving society. Our online approach is supported by an education ecosystem, comprised of ~500 educational partners and ~50 institutional partners (corporations and foundations) that help address various youth needs throughout their education to employment journey. Edukasyon currently reaches 10 million students each year; roughly half of Filipino students aged 13-24 with internet access have now used our platform. We hope to share our platform with mentors and other impact-driven delegates at the Summit, with the goal of exchanging ideas and insights that can lead to more meaningful solutions for global education and youth development. | Rianna Puno is an experienced communications professional and joined Edukasyon in 2019 as Head of Public Affairs, managing media, PR and stakeholder relations. Before moving back to Manila last year, Rianna spent nearly a decade working at PR agencies in the US. She has partnered with clients in the healthcare industry on brand storytelling and milestones, executive visibility and thought leadership, media and stakeholder relations, crisis management and digital/social media programming. She completed her studies at Cornell and NYU, and is now happy to be applying her experience to create social impact back home in the Philippines. | Edukasyon | An education technology platform empowering Gen Z youth to make better-informed education, career and life decisions | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Philippines, with potential expansion to other Southeast Asian countries | No | Scaling | Edukasyon was established five years ago. Our platform now reaches 10M students each year and we have worked with 500+ educational and institutional partners to co-create programs that benefit Filipino students. We are looking to scale further by exploring new student services (e.g. financial support, counseling) and ways to reach and engage new users. We are also seeking new partners across different sectors who can share their expertise and help prepare Filipino youth for the future of work. | In the Philippines, lack of access to educational resources has contributed to negative outcomes for the youth. ~70% of those who graduate high school each year don't go on to complete a college degree due to dropping out, lack of financial support or lack of guidance. Those who complete a tertiary degree tend to be underprepared to enter the workforce: 20% of the total unemployed in the country are college graduates who are perceived by employers to lack entry-level skills and qualifications. | Edukasyon’s platform offers universal value to all students in the Philippines, regardless of gender, socioeconomic class, age group or geography. We enable free access to the following resources: (1) A comprehensive, searchable database of thousands of educational options available to Filipino Gen Z youth, from local colleges to online course providers to study abroad opportunities; (2) Inquire and apply features that allow students to directly connect with education providers; and (3) Relevant content for school and career guidance and soft-skills education. We see Edukasyon becoming the go-to platform for the youth’s education and career needs, aggregating all services for youth empowerment in one free online platform. We will connect the youth to schools, foundations, financial aid providers and corporate employers. We plan to evolve from a monthly-usage website to a daily-usage mobile app with key engagement features that not only inform and educate the youth, but also engage them meaningfully, empowering them to make informed decisions on their education, career and life. Our long-term vision is to help elevate the youth so that they themselves are equipped to create global impact. | Most models that exist in this space only address traditional academic education, i.e. accessing colleges and universities, online degrees, etc. Edukasyon applies a more holistic approach to education – including academics, soft skills development, career exploration, life choices – and engages a broader network of partners, through which we believe we can truly empower students and set them up for success. | Our platform has been active for more than five years, with constant development as we evolve our technology and work with various partners. Since 2016, we have seen a 50x increase in monthly users (now 1.5 million visitors monthly) and a 3x increase in our premium school partners/subscribers (now more than 500), which have also resulted in 1.2 million school inquiries and 21,000 applications facilitated through the platform. Our user growth has been a result of students’ organic online searches and word of mouth (with almost zero marketing spend), highlighting how our solution is already addressing an existing need. | We are currently developing major updates to the technology platform that will allow us to better engage with students, provide greater value (e.g. skills development, career exploration) and track our overall impact. Ongoing updates are also aimed toward increasing the personalization of recommendations and content, to ensure students get individualized advice that enables them to make choices best suited to them. We plan to continue our local expansion, strengthening our newly-established teams in Cebu and Davao, the next two largest regional hubs in the Philippines. With continued growth of our team, platform and partnerships, we hope to reach the majority of Filipino Gen Z youth. Once we have made more concrete and measurable impact locally, we hope to explore applying our solution to other countries in the region that have similar challenges and needs. | To support the growth of our platform, team and impact, we are currently raising equity investments for our Series A round. We also hope to maximize resources in research, data and analytics, to allow us to better understand trends and needs from our target market. Finally, we hope to access and collaborate with more mentors and partners across all sectors (locally and outside the Philippines), so that we can continue to bridge gaps in education, career and lifelong learning. | www.edukasyon.ph | NA | Select awards for Edukasyon and/or Edukasyon Founder/CEO: EdTechXGlobal All Star Awards (2019 Impact Category Finalist), ASEAN Youth Social Entrepreneurship - ASEAN Youth Social Entrepreneurship Award (2017 Winner), Financial Times/IFC Transformational Business Award: Achievement in Sustainable Development with a focus on Education, Knowledge, and Skills Global Winner (2017 winner), French Tech - French Tech CCE First Prize, ASEAN representative in CES (2017) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
503 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | MINTEMBA | KASOGO | GS Tech! Africa | www.gstechafrica.cd | Président Directeur Général | masculin | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | French | Objectifs du Projet 1.Ce projet a pour objectifs majeurs dont : Contribuer à épargner la vie à deux millions des populations riveraines du lac Kivu exposées au risque d’explosion des gaz (CH4 CO2). Diminuer le risque de pollution de l’air, de l’eau de la surface et probablement l’eau de nappe de la région de Grand Lac. Contribuer aux recherches sur l’écosystème du fonds du lac Kivu. 2.Et parmi les objectifs spécifiques : Contribuer à l’exploitation du gaz méthane de manière à répondre aux besoins énergétiques domestique dans les ménages de la population riveraine. De mettre en place un mécanisme des suivis réguliers de la production et de la consommation du gaz méthane. D’effectuer de recherche scientifique dans le but de découvrir d’éventuelles formes nouvelles de vie microbiennes qui devront contribuer à la santé de la population. Mettre en place un réseau écologique entre les trois lacs disposant du danger limnique en Afrique centrale (Nyos, Manoun et Lac Kivu). | Je réponds au nom de Mntemba Kasogo Stéphane, je suis ne le 25 mai 1997 a Bukavu, de la nationalité congolaise/célibataire, je suis étudiant a l'Institut National de Bâtiment et de Travaux Publique a Kinshasa, je suis le fondateur de GS tech! africa une jeune structure œuvrant dans le domaine technologique, environnemental et de recherches scientifique baser en RD Congo et concepteur du projet : Exploitation du « gaz méthane » du lac Kivu comme mitigation au danger qu’il peut engendrer au profit des populations riveraines, je suis un passionne de la science, technologie et un gestionnaire de l'environnement. | Exploitation du « gaz méthane » du lac Kivu comme mitigation au danger qu’il peut engendrer au profit des populations riveraines | « Ensemble luttons contre la pollution pour un avenir meilleur et durable » En luttant contre la pollution de l’air, de l’eau et du sol nous contribuo | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | en République Démocratique du Congo et le Rwanda | No | Ideation | oui, parce qu'il permet de contribuer de répondre a plusieurs des 17 objectifs du développement durable notamment les solutions 3,6,7,9,12,13,14,15 et 17 | Optimisation de l’utilisation l’énergie gazière à la place des bois de chauffes dans le ménage et contribuer à la protection de l’environnement. Une réduction du taux de gaz dans l’atmosphère, dans l’eau et dans le sol. Prévention du risque d’explosion limnique. Implantation des centrales électriques pour la production du courant électrique. Etudes et recherches sur le système écologique du fond du lac. Sensibilisation de la population dans la gestion des ressources naturelles. | présentement je ne suis qu'au niveau d’idéation. ce pendant la vision global consiste a contribuer a prévenir le risque d'explosion par consommation du gaz méthane, de contribuer a la protection de l’environnement par l'utilisation des ces gaz méthane par lieu comme source d’énergie en remplacement de bois de chauffe. | Dans la région environnant le Lac Kivu, à part le projet KivuWatt du Rwanda qui est industriel et qui vise la production d’énergie, il n’existe pas encore un projet similaire au mien. Notre projet vise à prévenir l’explosion des Gaz (CH4 et CO2) qui menacent la vie de plus de deux millions d’habitants, de la faune et de la flore environnantes, mais aussi et surtout de la recherche scientifique sur les fonds marins dans son aspect physique, biologique, chimique et géologique recherche | Non applicable car nous restons encore au niveau de la conception | Non applicable car nous restons encore au niveau de la conception | Non applicable car nous restons encore au niveau de la conception | Non applicable car nous restons encore au niveau de la conception | Non applicable car nous restons encore au niveau de la conception | Non applicable car nous restons encore au niveau de la conception | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
504 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Teferi | Tafa | norwich University | www.Norwich.edu | Visting professor | Male | United States of America | Ethiopia | English | I want to share how we can solve third world food problem. | Short biography Teferi Nigussie Tafa is a visiting Professor at Norwich University. He is a prominent Oromo novelist, scholar, and movie maker. In addition to publishing the first (and so far only) scholarly analysis of Oromo-language novels, he has also published several of his own novels in the Oromo language, including the Award winning Jaalala Dhuga, by Macmillan Publishers in London and produced Qondalticha, a satire film. His research interests ranges from nationalism, literature, and film studies. | Rain maker drone | I call this project the rain maker (Robistu). What I want to do in this project is to construct a cheap drone that fetch water from a river or lake an | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | third world | No | Research & Development | lack of money and partner | famine and poverty. | my long term vision is to ensure food security of poor people. | There is acute water shortage in dray area. The main reasons are: there is no water access in this dry regions. An attempt to build pipe line is very expensive and un affordable. As the same time an effort to build canal and dam in this area is very expensive. The other challenge is; water lose due to high temperature. Half of the water lost on the way before it reaches its destination. The long distance it goes the more it gets expensive and lost. So building canal and dam help a little to tackle with third world food shortage. To add more canal building requires to collect many people together where the water is available. That mean it doesn’t take water to those who need it but incarcerate those who need water to certain places. So the purpose of this project is to take water to those who need it with affordable price without losing much water on the way. | I have tried to contact some people for partnership and help and it is on discussion. I am taking online course about Drone. | for the test I can do it here in USA and I probably need 5 workers. | drone, water crops like teff and fertilizers etc | sorry I don't have yet. | https://wagner.edu/english/english-news/visiting-scholars-ethiopia-wagner-college/ | Macmillan readers Award | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
505 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Todd | Brown | SMA Prep | https://www.o2.education/ | Outreach Director | male | United States of America | United States of America | English | It has been repeatedly stated that outbreaks are curbed or stopped by educating the population of a stricken area amid the dilemma. Imagine a world in which an infectious disease outbreak occurs in a given country anywhere in the world, and students of all ages have been prepared through their schooling. My motivation is sparked by the need for universal collaboration using a coordinated curriculum for outbreak awareness and response. Due to the perpetual threat of infectious disease, we have created an open-source curriculum exposing students to the basics of outbreak response. The curriculum is scalable and utilizes vertical integration from rudimentary to the use of high-end technology that culminates in an as close to a real infectious disease outbreak that one can experience without the threat of sickness or death. Operation Outbreak (O2) is an innovative platform for STEM education on infectious diseases and outbreak preparedness created by Sarasota Military Academy Prep school and the Sabeti lab at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. This platform integrates an academic unit covering relevant science and humanities subjects with a culminating “outbreak simulation” experiential learning activity. This activity replicates a real-world outbreak scenario and guides hundreds of students on how to respond through a coordinated effort and use of technology, teaching them biology and public health in the process. There is a definitive need for this platform as it fills an academic and experiential void within schools around the world. O2 provides real-world experience for students of all ages that is repeatable and scalable to adapt to each and every location around the world. This platform that has been piloted for the last four years in the U.S. is a novel approach to outbreak awareness and response that has begun to garner attention from schools around the U.S. the world. Ultimately, by being proactive through education and creating an open-source experiential learning platform, we can not only save lives and capital but also educate and engage people of all ages. | Todd Brown is Doctor of Higher Education, winner of the Ignite Education Innovation Award, the Henry Ford Innovator Award, three Teacher of the Year Awards, a U.S. Congressional Teacher of the Year, and a nominee for the CNN Heroes award by Harvard University in the last four years. He has also been selected as a Sustainable Developmental Goals Ambassador for the United Nations. He is the founder and President of The Inspire Project and was recently named to the Advisory Board to Faulu Academy in Kenya, Africa. Dr. Brown has secured grants from Toshiba, L’Oréal, Voya, Florida IB, and the Sarasota Education Foundation. He is currently collaborating with Harvard, MIT, and the Discovery Channel as well as multiple people around the globe including Canada, Israel, France, Uruguay, Tanzania, and Nigeria. In the last year, he has been invited to speak at global conferences in Saudi Arabia, Ireland, Egypt, China, and the United States. His most recent work will appear in WIRED magazine, presenting at the International Baccalaureate Global Conference, and becoming a Fellow at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. | Operation Outbreak | Operation Outbreak (O2) is an innovative platform for STEM education on infectious diseases and outbreak preparedness | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | United States, China, Vietnam, South Korea | Yes | Sabeti Lab, Broad Institute, SMA Prep, Inspire Citizens, Center for Disease Control, L'Oreal USA | Transition to Scale | We have successfully established proof of concept work through a four-year pilot in the U.S. Through the continued efforts of our partners, we have developed a scalable, workable model that is adaptable to any organization or school ranging (thirty people to over one thousand). The interest in our solution-based curriculum is growing exponentially to fill the need for this experiential learning platform in nations such as the U.S, South Korea, China, and Vietnam. | The Journal of the Royal Society Interface reports the number of outbreaks around the world has steadily risen over the last four decades, with 2018 having close to 11,000. This ongoing issue that continually costs the international community millions of lives and billions of dollars annually. Integrating this curriculum on a global scale would establish a longitudinal educational platform improving understanding and elevate activism specific to disease awareness and outbreak response. | The curriculum is instituted within schools and communities through didactic teachings. Ultimately, individuals are placed in an experiential learning game-based activity in which they will have to deal with an outbreak simulation. Individuals are split into several groups based on interest. These groups are government, military, triage doctors, epidemiologists, body team, media, and the general population. The pathogen is then released into the community via a sticker-based system, or the Bluetooth app via electronic devices. The individual groups must work together to solve and defeat the pathogen to save themselves and the general population. The government is provided capital to fund various groups, and the general population is split into families in which they have to take care of and feed throughout the experience. This creates an economic model that simulates a more realistic model of society amid an outbreak. The experience is entirely student-driven, providing opportunities to apply what has been learned as well as to hone their soft skills including collaboration, communication, problem-solving, and conflict management while being under duress due to human causalities and time. | Currently, there is not a platform that exists anywhere in the world to this degree in which students can safely experience an outbreak and actively, in real-time, test their skill sets. While there are computer-simulated models to build and observe pathogen spread through a preset population, there is not a game-based model that can simulate in real-time the human experience during an outbreak safely. The integration of the app (the only one of its kind in the world) and Bluetooth beacons heightens the learning activity by simulating an actual airborne pathogen. This platform, because of its realism, illustrates the social-psychological component that cannot be found in a computer model. The ‘threat’ of the pathogen and potential for mortality alters human behavior and is a highly necessary component to provide a better understanding of awareness and response models. This platform also offers an opportunity for individuals, schools, and organizations to run pre and post simulations, collect meaningful data, and heighten immediate and long-term engagement through understanding in an otherwise unsafe environment. | We have designed, based on previous studies on Experiential Learning Programs (Scogin et al., J Exp Ed, 2017), qualitative and quantitative evaluation procedures to be implemented at each one of our partner schools. These procedures will comprise of: * Semi-structured interviews with consenting students and teachers, all to be conducted on the school campus and recorded verbatim. * Analysis of observational data archived via video cameras, voice recorders, and field notes. For this purpose, the video recordings conducted by hired professional videographers during the day of the outbreak simulation would provide important observational data. All parents will be asked to give informed consent to the use of their children's observational data. * Pre- and post-outbreak student surveys (including numerical sores), conducted through the O2 app itself. This novel possibility will allow us to obtain a unique student-centric evaluation of great importance to quantify engagement with the educational contents and experience (U.S. Dept. of Education, OET 2016). We will apply a convergent-parallel mixed study design (Creswell & Plano Clark, Sage LA 2011) for interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data, combining grounded theory (Strauss & Corbin, Newbury Park CA 1990) for analysis of qualitative data, and MANOVA analysis of quantitative scores. | Currently, the initial expansion phase of the project is establishing strategic partnerships with many selected K-12 and college educational institutions in the US. Further pilots will run in Idaho, Colorado, Massachusetts as well the continued use at SMA. These pilots will result in new participants, and most importantly, in increased awareness among educators and the availability of outcome data to support further deployments. We are planning to document the activities at these schools and make the materials available on the O2 website, as well as through the media channels of our partners (Inspire Project, International Baccalaureate, and Broad Institute). We are preparing applications for grants from the National Science Foundation's Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program to secure funding for the development of additional elements of the platform and conducting a systematic research study of the educational outcomes. There are other opportunities for gaining recognition from the educational community, such as the Reimagine Education Award, which we will be pursuing in the coming months. These ongoing efforts are aimed at further developing the O2 platform, generating documentation and evaluation data, and reaching out to potential users. Regarding upcoming steps, in particular with the adoption of O2 outside of the US, we are planning pilots in South Korea, China, and Vietnam, soon. | The short-term needs for expansion are access to schools and organizations around the world, creating as many pilots as possible for data collection as well as build an open-source network for the participants. We have laid out our short- and long-term goals to create a more robust understanding of what is needed to scale our platform in a repeatable and reputable manner. Our main short-term goals are to partner for a higher level of technology development and pilot O2 at new educational institutions. Long-term, our goals are to offer valuable learning, training, and research tools for schools and organizations through experiencing infectious disease outbreaks at scale, without any risks for the participants, using available mobile technologies. O2 will evolve into a flexible and robust platform that participants around the world can adapt to their specific settings, use to teach and bring awareness about infectious diseases, prepare members of a population in the response measures to an outbreak, and help with the generation and collection of epidemiological data. The evaluation methods described in the short-term goal would be useful to measure the success in at least some of these goals. It would be extremely informative to contrast quantitative measures of educational impact and user engagement across different regions in the US and the world to better understand how these kinds of educational tools need to be adapted to specific social and cultural settings. | https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-disease-simulation/ https://www.o2.education/ http://blogs.ibo.org/blog/2019/07/26/operation-outbreak/ https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20190314/pandemic-simulation-takes-over-sarasota-military-prep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNDctKnIoWM https://www.lorealusa.com/media/press-releases/2018/august/changing-the-face-of-stem https://news.oursma.org/2017/09/26/harvard-prof-dr-sabeti-teams-with-sma-prep/ https://news.oursma.org/2017/10/03/sma-preps-outbreak/ https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20160311/outbreak-epidemic-simulation-at-sma-prep | https://www.mysuncoast.com/video/2018/12/28/suncoast-teacher-todd-brown-talks-inspire-project-suncoast-view/ | Winner Ignite Education Innovation Award Winner (1st Place) Henry Ford Innovator Award Winner Teacher of the Year Awards(3) Winner U.S. Congressional Teacher of the Year Selected Sustainable Developmental Goals Ambassador(United Nations) Nominee CNN Heroes Award(Harvard University) Winner Toshiba Grant Winner L’Oréal: Changing the Face of STEM Grant (3) Winner Voya Grant Winner Florida IB Grant(4) Winner Sarasota Education Foundation Grant Selected Fellow at the Center for Disease Control | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
506 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohammed Hafiz | Yahaya | TI-KATARI COMPANY LIMITED | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammed-hafiz-7a71a2171/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3BaFQaiEthQHKExrcXmZCPeg%3D%3D&licu=urn%3Ali%3Acontrol%3Ad_flagship3_feed-identity_welcome_message | Founder | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | I have created an opportunity to transfer plastic waste into environmentally friendly, socially acceptable and economically viable products using simple cost-effective technology. I have been able to collect sachet water (pure water) waste from the streets and other public areas in Tamale, northern Ghana and converted it into raw materials for making pillows and poufs. Pure water(sachet water) serve as a source of portable drinking water for the people, Sachet water has also created more jobs opportunities to the less privilege people in deprived areas in developing countries. On average, Ghanaians drink two (2) to four (4) sachets of pure water. However, the conditions of West Africa, levels of education and lack of awareness of environmental issues lead to careless disposal of the sachets into the environment. Over 250 tons of plastic packaging waste is produced in Ghana daily leading to (often very extreme) pollution of the streets, beaches or sewages. This does not only hinders the views of the environment but more importantly negatively affects both fauna and flora of Ghana, or adds a significant share to the causes of seasonal flooding.Disposal of the plastic waste in which the water is presently bagged has been a major source of concern as consumers simply litter indiscriminately after use.Particularly in the northern regional capital city of Ghana, Tamale, where over hundreds of metric tons of solid waste is generated daily. | My name is Yahaya Mohammed Hafiz born and raised in the northern region of Ghana, Tamale. I was born on the 27th June, 1989. I completed Kalpohini Senior High School in 2009 and studied Agricultural Science as a course. I also completed Eqwiphubs Ghana entrepreneurship program in 2018. I take advantages of every challenging opportunities to develop and advance professional career as a goal achiever. I also see every opportunity as a learning platform by which I can acquire more knowledge and skills to build a better future for myself and my motherland, Ghana. | DROSSY HME | DROSSY HOME runs on a mantra that “each and every one of us has a contribution to keep Ghana clean and safe, to make it a better place for us all” | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Ghana | No | Research & Development | Because the company has been able to come up with a successful pillows which is been given out to three (3) people for testing and their approvals are all positives. | Improper disposal of plastic waste (sachets waste) and its hazards to human life and the environment Ghana, especially northern region, Tamale. | DROSSY HOME produces pillows and poufs. For now, the company collect sachet waste from the streets and other public places in Tamale to make its products, but in the long-run the company plans to buy large quantities of sachets waste from individuals who collect the sachets off (water sachets, fan milk, fan ice and fan yoghurt sachets) from the various locations in Tamale for sale. The sachets is shredded, washed, dried and placed inside tailored pillowcases and pouf cases (made up of local cloth materials sealed inside with low density foam material). DROSSY HOME vision is to be renowned for being the best advocate of plastic (sachets) waste recycling center in Tamale metropolis in the medium-term and the entire northern region and Ghana in the long-term without harming the society and individual health. | There is no organisation in the northern region of Ghana that engage in this kind of initiative. It is the first of its kind. But in Ghana as a whole, there is only one initiative called ""Trashy Bags"" which also use the sachet waste to produce bags and it is located in the capital city of Ghana, Accra. | DROSSY HOME team have been in progress as they keep collecting the sachet waste from the streets to ensure that the company does not run out of raw materials for making its products. The designing team have also been doing well by coming up with different forms and designs of pillows and poufs. | DROSSY HOME plan to offer training to interested young people in the Tamale metropolis and across the country on how to make the products with sachets waste, in this case the company is creating job and employment opportunities among the youth as well as preventing the environment from pollution. | 1. Shop space will be needed for the running of the organisation. 2. Use of a motorbike will be necessary to pick up large bags of sachet waste as well as to deliver the completed products to customers, perhaps wholesale buyers and when selling door-to-door. will require motorcycle accident insurance. 2.Sewing machines(2)and its accessories , low density foam materials, shredders, water tank (for storing water for washing sachet), cloth and leather materials,large water basins will also be necessary for washing, shredding and manufacturing of DROSSY HOME products. 3. DROSSY HOME will also need to register its organisation. | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3BoLSeQMtrR4aAEuSBm2UFbw%3D%3D | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQZ2jiANwVesQ7kRmIFOUbw/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=1&view_as=subscriber | 1.Awarded as one of the best D.S.R. in northern region (Alzulphar/MTN Yendi) 2.Appointed as an acting coordinator by my employer in my area office (Alzulphar/MTN Yendi) 3. 4.Awarded as one of the best acting Sales Coordinator in northern region (Alzulphar/MTN Yendi) 5. 6.Recommended as a best sales assistant (DOODO ENTERPRISE) 7.Recommended and awarded as a best personal assistant by my employer (Proprietor, Jana Rabania E/A Primary School) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
507 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | ARMELLE | SIDJE TAMO | PRA (Product Related to Agricultural sector) | https://pragricole.wordpress.com/ | Founder and Chief Executive Officer- CEO | Female | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | French | For me attending this summit is really a dream and that I strongly believe will become reality. My strong desire is to reduce the destruction of the environment caused by non-biodegradable packaging, to change the living conditions of young people in my community, to create wealth for Cameroon, Africa and the world; to empowering rural woman.This summit is a good way to address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is a powerful means of exchanging experience not only with other global innovators coming from different horizons and mentalities, but also with people and companies even more experienced than me. These exchanges will certainly allow me to better progress in my company, to better develop innovative solutions to the major problems facing the people of the world. It is also a way for me to be inspired by extraordinary solutions in progress to our most complex challenges in the world and inspired others people. It is beneficial for me to attend this summit because my presence will allows to relay the exchanges and learning gained during this summit to hundreds of young people here in Cameroon. Indeed not only my employees of the company PRA will benefit from these exchanges in an indirect way, but also hundreds of young people with whom I trade in fairs, radio, schools during entrepreneurship events organized in my country. My presence will allow others to gain from my modest experience as a young woman entrepreneur. It is also a way to present our biodegradable packaging, interact with potential customers and partners, to adapt our product to suit a future win-win partnership and to show how youth can be the change that they want to see in the world. Our innovation consist of transforming banana plantain stems into biodegradables packaging (Shopping bag, cardboard, rolls of paper).By doing this we address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to : •Climate change (We reduced carbon on atmosphere by proposing biodegradable packaging inside of plastic packaging); •Ensure healthy lives (contribute to reduction of death of 7 million people worldwide each year who died because of pollution) •Economic growth (Turnover and profit generated); •Reduce poverty and create well being (Through jobs created and wealth); •Sustainably manage forests (Promote used of waste of banana plantain in the field to replace woods-reducing deforestation) •Empowering rural women (One step of transformation process will only be done by rural women) | Computer engineer and farmer, Armelle is a young entrepreneur. After more than 5 years of experience as a network and telecommunication engineer, she decided to start in the field of agricultural transformation.Her love for the agricultural sector, environment, her ardent desire for wealth creation for Africa, the empowerment of rural women are the basis for the creation of her company. This company produces plantain and transforms banana plantains stems into biodegradable packaging( Shopping bag, cardboard; rolls of paper).In her entrepreneurial process, she and her team won several awards and did several training: * top 23 of Young African Entrepreneurs RUFORUM (Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture),* YALI-RLC dakar and Accra,* Second price of the best of innovation during the national days of small and medium enterprises in Cameroon... Her vision is that through the success of her business she will be a source of motivation and inspiration for young people and rural women who have given up and no longer believe in their ability to be the change that they want to see in the world. To relax, when she is not listening to music and or dancing/clubbing, she do community service. Indeed, contributing her own little to the growth of her community makes her feel good and accountable. That is why she often participate in group programs such as the plastic recycling campaign ,yearly donation of blood, woman entrepreneur exchange. | TRANSFORMING BANANA PLANTAIN STEMS INTO BIODEGRADABLE PACKAGING (Shopping bag, cardboard, rolls of paper) | FROM BANANA WASTE TO PACKAGING FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMY, YOUTH AND RURAL WOMEN EMPOWERING | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | CAMEROON, IVORY COAST | Yes | Co-worker partner (Fandom Teukem Martial, Tamto Tadie Amelle Bertin, Aboudi Ekomo Alvine Bibiane, Bassoro Bouba) * Plantain farmer producer on ONGOT region *Chinese and india Equipment manufacturer | Proof of Concept | When the idea was born in our mind, we followed trainings to improve our skills. We carried out documentary research, business plan, business model, marketing studies, Realized surveys in the form of questionnaires for the market. We make several versions of packaging, have prototypes tested by potential customers on the market. Prototypes of packaging in the form of shopping bags have been made and quality improved is in pending. We also demonstrated the viability of the business model. | How can a country each year *contribute to the death of 7 million people worldwide because of pollution? *produce 19 million tons of carbons due to plastics waste and banana stems abandoned in the field? *be the African-Caribbean-Pacific’s largest banana producer and yet can’t efficiently use the waste from banana production-stems to replace wood, reducing deforestation? We will empowering rural women, create wealth, and will be a source of inspiration for young who give up. | In the field, a plantain diet takes 12 months to produce its first diet. After this, diet is harvested every 5 months. Therefore we have stems that is available every 5 months (When farmer harvest, stems are abandoned in the field). The rural woman will provide us our raw material, with banana fiber extractor, they will transform stems to fibers. A vehicle will bring fibers in factory to finalize the process of transformation into biodegradable packaging. This harvest will be done twice a month. Once the packaging is ready we will put on the market through retailer and wholesaler in Douala and Yaounde cities. In order to motivate the youth, and raise awareness about the protection of the environment by our solution, we will participate in conference and fair once a month. Our long-term vision (5 years) is: •be number one in biodegradable packaging in Cameroon with a production of 1,122,000 packaging(Shopping bags, cardboard rolls of paper): Economic impact •Carbon removed: 412 tons (Environment impact, lives saved) •Turnover 333,174$ (Economic grows) •Expand our activity in other country (IVORY COAST) •Open 10 new stores over Cameroon and IVORY COAST •coming up with a more efficient corporate culture, developing strategies with strongly positioned strategic partners, and new market penetration strategies •Extend other products from banana waste like domestic gas and candles •Impact 104,530 lives through jobs generated, people sensitized, customers, training, environment. | OUR UNIQUE VALUE PROPOSITION (KEY OF SUCCES) The innovation of this project lies in: TIMELINESS, QUALITY, and COST-EFFECTIVENESS. Indeed, the above triangle of our innovation model highlights 3 main points: •Reduction in the supply time for raw materials (TIMELINESS). The wood used to produce paper packaging generally takes averagely 15 years for reforestation. But plantains stems used are available every 5 months, once we harvest the plantain. In the worst case, plantation-suckers take an average maximum of 12 months to mature its first plantains. •With its design, colour, and physical looks close to that of wood, plantain trunks once transformed into packaging are solid, and pretty. Most especially, they are biodegradable. And hence, of excellent QUALITY. •The high availability of low-cost raw materials (with annual production of 4,000,000 tons of plantains in Cameroon), and the simplicity and speed of the technical transformation used, all make our products have very competitive cost in the market. Hence, our production COST-EFFECTIVENESS. Having measurable experience in what we do, coupled with our love for it, doing it with determination, perseverance, self-sacrifice, and our specific concern about gender, are key elements that differentiate our team from all other project leaders of the same kind. | When I look back and look today I am proud of myself and my team as we move forward. Certainly we did not reach 100% our planning a few years ago but each year, we get closer to our vision. The GANT chart put together at the start of the project idea is respected and monitored monthly at 80%. For measuring our progress we used our key performance indicators. Some samples of the development of the solution are: • From a team without any real training in the activity they wanted to lead, to an equipped team: Training in agriculture and plantain processing, leadership, entrepreneurship, business, safety. • From a team carrying an idea without funding to a team that won prizes that allowed them to buy two equipments on the whole so it needs. • From a team without a prototype of packaging to a team with prototype packaging in constant improvement and test • From a team with no market to a team with prospects ready to buy their packages • A team so no one believed in their ability and their project; to a team that has won more national and international awards entitling them to training and awards • From a shaky team to a confident team • From a company without legal existence to legal document | SHORT GOALS-1 YEAR •Move from manual to mid-industrial stage buy purchasing 3 mains equipments (improving the quality and reduce cost of our packaging) •Trade to sell our products on the local and international market •Collect 50 customers testimonials •Recruit staff: accountant, marketing and communication manager, security agent and temporary employee •Achieve the following target Projection target: 102,000 shopping bags Use as raw material: 3600 plantain stems (4 hectares of exploited field) Carbon removed: 41 tons Turn over: 51,712$ Profit: 4,534 $ MEDUIM GOALS-3 YEARS •In the first six months of our second fiscal year, we will secure additional financing in the amount of 34,334$ for launching our second line packaging •Maintaining a productive and positive employee environment by one training per month, and salary growth •Monthly training of 10 young rural women on transformation process and entrepreneurship •Raising two product quality and certification labels •Achieve the following quantified objectives Projection target: 514,500 shopping bags, cardboard, rolls of paper Carbon removes: 215 tons Turn over: 185,097$ Profit: 78,902$ LONG-TERM GOALS-5 YEARS •be leader in packaging in Cameroon with a production of 1,122,000 packaging •Open 10 new stores over CAMEROON and IVORY COAST •coming up with new market penetration strategies, •Extend other product from waste: domestic gas, candles •Impact 104,530 lives through jobs generated, customers, training, environment | SHORT-TERM •Networking (Partner, advisor, mentor, young innovator, Investor , ….) •Equipment: Hollander beater, Banana fiber extractor, Fitness accessory (printing, shredder…) •Accessory of transformation: (cubitary, sieve, coal fireplace, ...) •Media visibility on TV, Radio, web •Staff: Accountant, marketing and communication manager, security agent, temporay gambit (Web designer, environmentalist, Administrative partner….) •Industrial electrical wiring •Arrangement of the premises and arrangements (Cloisoning ...) •Vehicle and motorbike for packaging delivery and raw material collect MEDUIM-TERM •Networking (Partner, advisor, mentor, young innovator, Investor , ….) •Media visibility on TV, Radio, web •Equipment for new store (Table, computer, office accessory….) and to extend production •Staff: Shop assistant… •Extend vehicle and motorbike for delivery and raw material collect •Trainer for rural woman and youth •Company packaging certificate (CEN / TC 261) LONG-TERM •Networking (Partner, advisor, mentor, young innovator, Investor , ….) •Best quality certification on company and product (ISO, British Retail Consortium (BRC), Codex…) •Partnership with our partner to extend company in IVORY COAST •Creation of key partnerships with companies more experienced in the transformation of plantain ,candles, domestic gas (FIB AND CO) •New equipment and strategies for gas domestic and candles production •Training for new skills for board of directors and employees | COMPANY WEBSITE https://pragricole.wordpress.com/ PROJECT PRESENTATION * General project presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuSDChAZs6E *Project presentation during Young African Leadership Initiative Regional Leadership Center (YALI RLC) SENEGAL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-xoWHrAUQQ *1 minute pitch of top 23 ruforum best young African entrepreneurs 2018 during ministerial meeting KENYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxdMZYdXolU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTwZXzom5Uk *Company pitch investor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-6QF5aOPpg&t=3s ARTICLES •Young African Leaders Initiative(YALI) Alumni Innovation Fund (YAIF) - 2nd Call Final Shortlist https://meetalumni.yaliwestafrica.org/eventsx/yali-alumni-innovation-fund-yaif-2nd-call-final-shortlist/ •winner of the 2018 Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture young african entrepreneurs competition announced https://blog.ruforum.org/2018/10/06/winners-of-the-2018-ruforum-young-african-entrepreneurs-competition-announced/ •DECEMBER 2018 AFRO REAL INITIATIVE SPOTLIGHT http://afrorealinitiative.org/meet-sidje-tamo-armelle-afreins-spotlight-for-december-2018/?fbclid=IwAR1AgSM6aM_P00X53dh2m03_qo05kroDiMOX6gmOw6_T_T9_sAMUpVopQcI | SHARING PRA EXPERIENCES DURING MASTER CLASS ON ENTREPRENEUSHIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ay-lWn1x8 Humanitarian TV (HTV) reportage during the master class organized by Francoise Puene (SIDJE TAMO ARMELLE founder of PRA was invited to share her experience as a young woman entrepreneur) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPh0lJsmiZA SHARING HER BUSINESS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP EXPERIENCE IN A PODCAST BY EASYREPET https://anchor.fm/easyrepet/episodes/EP2--Des-troncs-de-bananiers-aux-emballages-bios-e2uuoq?fbclid=IwAR2FVFKZLnzfK2z68qfMNGuuuMLcVpaOxKhLah209TYjwllTn_6lquf2MPE | *Leadership/Business/Entrepreneurship training by Young African Leadership Initiative Regional Leadership Center-winner *23 Best African Entrepreneurs by RUFORUM-winner *Second prize of best innovation during the national days of small and medium enterprises in Cameroon (2nd)-winner *EMPRETEC United Nations training-winner *Selected for Incubation center program by Ecole Pratique d’Agriculture de Binguela(EPAB)-winner *Cameroon Leadership Academy(CLA) training-winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
508 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Adina | Khamitova | Regulus Robotics Machine, LLP | https://robotprostore.kz | CFO | Female | Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan | English | Russian | Spanish | The whole institution of the UN has always been a beacon of global human meaningfulness to me. I have seen and was lucky enough to experience its global legacy and impact during my Bachelors and Masters Studies in the UK and Sweden respectively, my internship at WHO Europe in Denmark, and my entire professional path. To me, this opportunity to become a part of the UN Solutions Summit is not just an important, but an essential move, which I know will lead to that truly global impact and most exemplary development of our project - ""STEM+P"" - a sustainable, equitable and quality model of STEM education for girls - in the nearest future. Now is the very right moment to empower all girls and women with a view to achieving gender equality. This can only and must only be done with the help of innovation. The way we use innovation lies in the custom-tailored and innovative way we create resources, educate, and empower girls on their journey to master STEM disciplines. This in turn promotes their lifelong learning opportunities and professional development in disciplines that have already become popular and will be in higher demand in the future - those that will drive the innovation and global sustainable development of the future. At the moment, the majority of girls and women are missing out on a learning opportunity in STEM field. Based on our research and conducted focus groups, girls lose interest in STEM by the age of 15 despite their attraction to and their personal accomplishments in the field. This happens because the entire local STEM educational system in CIS countries appraises and supports predominantly boys and men, thus girls simply lose motivation to pursue and persevere as there is no adequate support targeted towards them in particular. Our innovative educational system is not about being against one gender or splitting the two. Our STEM+P project is about applying our innovative, sustainable, equitable and quality model of STEM education for girls to wisely and most effectively utilize and combine the best capabilities in both male and female genders to give rise to positive, global and united impact for the better lives of everyone. | WORK EXPERIENCE: 2017 - Present Co-founder, Chief Financial Officer, Regulus Robotics Machine, LLP, Almaty, Kazakhstan 2013 - 2015 Chief Research Scientist, Research Management Department, JSC “National Research Center for Cardiac Surgery”, Astana, Kazakhstan 2013 English-Russian-English Interpreter, Pexel Research Services, UK EDUCATION: 2015 - 2017 Master of Medical Science with a major in Public Health Sciences - Health Economics, Policy and Management, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Achieved degree class: Pass (A) (Swedish Grading System) 2011 - 2013 BA (Hons) Business Management, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (240 credits) Achieved degree class: First Class (A) Pass with Distinction 2010 - 2011 Diploma in Business and Management, EF University Preparation Abroad, London, UK Combined Foundation and First Year Degree Programme Achieved degree class: First Class (A) Pass with Distinction TRAINEESHIP: 2017 Traineeship, World Health Organization (WHO), Division of Information, Evidence, Research and Innovation, WHO Regional Office for Europe (RoE), Copenhagen, Denmark (3 months) PUBLICATIONS: Du, X., Khamitova, A., Kyhlstedt, M., Sun, S., & Sengoelge, M. (2018). Utilisation of real-world data from heart failure registries in OECD countries - A systematic review. International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature, 19, 90-97. doi:10.1016/j.ijcha.2018.02.006 | ""STEM+P"" educational system for girls | A sustainable, equitable and quality system of STEM+P education for girls | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia | Yes | EXPO WOMEN Kazakhstan, MARS ACADEMY Azerbaijan | Proof of Concept | In June 2019 we finalized the research and development stage of our innovative STEM+P educational model for girls in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Now, since July 2019 we have been working on a pilot project - a scaled down version - to demonstrate the feasibility of our innovative model to deliver the target goals of attracting, engaging and delivering quality tools of STEM knowledge and experience to girls in Almaty, Kazakhstan. | STEM workers play a key role in the sustained growth and stability of the global economy. STEM education creates critical thinkers and enables the next generation of innovators. In CIS countries the percentage of girls engaged in STEM is 8-12%, as opposed to the remaining 88-92% taken by boys. Most girls lose interest in STEM despite their accomplishments in and attraction to the field by the age of 15. This creates a problem of missing out on professional opportunities and inequality. | We strive to both provide and change the understanding of WHAT STEM exactly is and HOW girls can use this knowledge in their high education and professional development to play an active part in the creation of the positive global impact. To achieve this we have developed a unique STEM+P educational system for girls. The key quality of the system is its holistic, sustainable and personalized approach. Our system includes a personalized interest identification through a knowledge-based decision making. This means that girls are not being attracted to STEM field with a view to simply presenting them with another new emerging field, which they may or may not like, or may or may not turn into an accomplishing career path. Our STEM+P educational system enables the girls to make a knowledgeable and conscious choice about their interest in STEM and, importantly, it gives them the resources to apply this received knowledge and experience in real professional life and share it. Later on these girls will inspire and help grow a new generation of happy, accomplishing, and self-sufficient women, who know WHAT exactly and WHY they are doing what they do with both their professional and personal lives. This is our long-term vision for global impact. In ""P"" part of the STEM education we also teach phycology, philosophy, sexual and physical education. This allows to empower and grow girls into self-sufficient human-beings that are able to make a positive global impact in any field. | There is no STEM education in any country in CIS market that is designed to empower and encourage girls. Our research and development stage (focus groups, questionnaires, interviews) has showed that girls do express much interest in STEM field, and, importantly, they do consider the possibility of pursuing a career in STEM. However, due to a boy-oriented perspective, any classroom, any STEM school, any STEM competitions, and STEM-related degrees in higher education institutions in these countries are yet represented by boys mostly. Thus, our STEM educational system is the only system that is based on our unique teaching and learning methodology that aims to empower girls in STEM field. The new perspective also lies in our system that has a unique holistic and sustainable model. This means that we don't just focus on education, we also focus on HOW to apply this education in real life. We apply a personalized approach in combination with the best available innovative and technological resources in STEM education. This allows a girl that educates with us to get an understanding of WHAT STEM exactly is, WHY she likes and takes interest in STEM, WHICH STEM area in particular she want to be involved in, and HOW she can use this understanding, knowledge, and experience in her real professional life to make a positive global impact. Thus, we help our girls to make a conscious choice in their journey towards their personal professional development in global arena. | We spent 7 months on our research and development stage, which was finalized in June 2019. This included both primary and secondary research. We conducted some very inspiring focus groups and interviews with girls, parents, teachers in STEM that. proved that our project is of high necessity and has a great potential not only on a personal level but also on a country-level. Our market research showed that there is a big gap with STEM education for girls, as it does not exist at all in CIS market, despite our research-proven demand. At this time we have a developed a business plan; finalized our unique teaching and learning methodology; recruited and educated teachers that will educate the girls in our school; and since July 2019 have been preparing a pilot project to test drive the methodology in practice. | Planned goals and milestones: Stage 1: Pilot project; Stage 2: Analysis of pilot project; Stage 3: Integration of our unique STEM educational system in five secondary and high schools in Kazakhstan and a concurrent development of an online platform to enable an online STEM education for girls based on our unique methodology; Stage 4: Opening of an independent supplementary offline STEM school for girls in Kazakhstan; Stage 5: Expansion into Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia by late 2020. Projected lives impacted: >100,000 girls - short term; >1 mil girls - long-term | Short-term: financial investment Middle-term: international partnerships, financial investment Long-term: international partnerships, financial investment | https://youtu.be/EPeFt72ccVI | https://forbes.kz/leader/30_moloje_30_1525341811/ - in Russian (second to last) | 1. Forbes Magazine “30 under 30” List 2018, Forbes Kazakhstan - winner; 2. Global Swede Award 2017, given by the Gov-nt Offices of Sweden honoring int. students who excelled in a combined area of academia, innovation and entrepreneurship, Sweden - winner; 3. Best Graduating Student on BA (Hons) Business Management 2012/2013, Newcastle University, UK - winner; 4. Student Award for Outstanding Performance in Final Year on BA (Hons) Business Management 2012/2013, Newcastle University, UK - winner. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
509 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jordan | Masys | Kiipo Co., LTD | https://www.kiipo.com | Co-founder | male | China | Canada | English | French | Kiipo is a health-technology social enterprise focused on increasing healthcare accessibility. In 2015 we had launched Ethiopia’s first Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system, and what ended up being the world’s first full-circle EMS system using cloud-based location technology. We were able to create a solution that would allow to implement and operationalize 911-type services in any region in Sub-Saharan Africa, with a system able to continuously adapt itself to unique infrastructure challenges (ie. frequent power outages, cellular data network outages, etc). There are currently over 900 million people living in Sub-Saharan Africa without proper emergency medical services. With our solution scalable by nature, we dream of providing any community in these regions, from rural to urban, the capability to establish their own Emergency Medical Services, and save lives along the way. The UN Solutions Summit would provide us with the platform to hopefully connect and create dialogues with other regions in Sub-Saharan Africa that are interested in launching emergency medical services. We have a proven, self-sustaining, scalable solution, with life-saving impact, all we need is help connecting us with the key decision-makers. | Jordan Masys is Co-founder of Kiipo, a health-technology social enterprise aiming to make the most advanced health technologies accessible to all. At Kiipo, he leads everything business, from strategy to operations and execution, leveraging the disruptive nature of technology innovations—fields including AI, Machine Learning, IOT—to tackle the world’s healthcare disparity. Prior to founding Kiipo, Jordan was one of the founding team members of Nordic Medical Centre, one of Ethiopia’s leading hospitals. During this time, he championed the idea to create an Emergency Medical Services system for the country. With a background in systems thinking, his efforts led to the successful creation and launch of Ethiopia’s first full-circle EMS system. Jordan is also the founder of two nonprofit organizations, PhysioQ, a platform that promotes medical science breakthroughs with its physiological data collection toolkit, as well as the XResearch Coalition, a citizen science platform for medical research, in partnership with Harvard Medical School’s Center for Dynamical Biomarkers. | Kiipo Emergency Medical Services (EMS) | Providing any community in Sub-Saharan Africa, from rural to urban, the capability to establish their own ‘pop-up’ Emergency Medical Services (EMS) | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Ethiopia | Yes | Nordic Medical Centre (Ethiopia), Harvard Medical School's Center for Dynamical Biomarkers (DBIOM) | Transition to Scale | For over 3 years, Ethiopia’s first full-circle Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system has been operating in Addis Ababa serving a pilot group of under 10,000 residents. Currently, in discussions with the Ethiopian Government, Kiipo is looking to help establish an official National EMS capability, aiming to expand the service to the entire greater Addis Ababa region (~9 million people), with the goal to provide all 107 million Ethiopians access to emergency medical services in the near future. | With a population of over 107 million people, Ethiopia does not have a 911-type centralized Emergency Medical Services (EMS) dispatch center or the infrastructure in place to provide relatively quick emergency services. In a country where street names are limited, it becomes nearly impossible to accurately describe the location of an emergency. Along with unreliable infrastructure, it would be impossible to simply import an EMS system from another nation into this fluctuating environment. | With time playing a critical role in any emergency response, having the ability to be immediately located could be the difference between life and death. We enable anyone with a mobile phone to be located regardless if the often-fluctuating cellular data (3G/4G) network is down, while also connecting users, dispatchers, and ambulances via various specified Apps and modules. Focused on adaptability, simplicity, and efficiency, our platform was specifically designed to continuously adapt itself to Sub-Saharan Africa’s unique infrastructure challenges. This enables everything from a country-wide dispatching system to a simple ‘pop-up' EMS system for rural regions with little resources. To accompany the system, we help create the localized operational protocols alongside local medical professionals and launch a training team (comprised of EMS experts, paramedics, etc) that provide the necessary training for the staff utilizing the system. We believe in empowering local communities to run their own emergency medical services. We help provide them with an EMS capability - including the technology, the processes, and the initial training and monitoring. There are currently over 900 million people living in Sub-Saharan Africa without proper emergency medical services. We dream of providing any community in developing regions, from rural to urban, the capability to establish their own Emergency Medical Services, and save lives along the way. | In a country such as Ethiopia, where street names are limited, it becomes nearly impossible to accurately describe the location of an emergency. Along with unreliable infrastructure, including frequent power outages, road closures, and cellular data network outages, it would be impossible to simply import an EMS system from another nation into this fluctuating environment. Our solution is a unique blend of new technologies and applications. It is the world’s first full-circle EMS system using cloud-based location technology, enabling anyone with a mobile phone to be located regardless if the often-fluctuating cellular data (3G/4G) network is down, while also connecting users, dispatchers, ambulances, and hospitals via various specified Apps and modules. Furthermore, in utilizing various existing technologies, from smartphone GPS to telecommunications networks to cloud infrastructure, we have managed to consolidate a multi-step dispatching process into a single step. But more importantly, our resilient system has the ability to adapt to the unique infrastructure challenges of Sub-Saharan Africa, making it possible to launch a country-wide dispatching system to a simple ‘pop-up' EMS system for rural regions with little resources. But most importantly, we believe in empowering local communities to run their own emergency medical services. We provide them with a full-solution EMS capability - including the technology, the processes, and the initial training and monitoring. | For over 3 years, Ethiopia’s first full-circle Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system has been successfully operating in Addis Ababa serving a pilot group of under 10,000 residents. This also ended up being used by the diplomatic missions from Australia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the EU Delegation to Ethiopia, the EU Delegation to African Union, as well as by organizations such as the NATO Joint Force Commands Naples. Furthermore, in 2017 we successfully ran an expansion pilot program in Dallol, in rural Ethiopia, in order to test our effectiveness in operationalizing the EMS system in new geographies. This confirmed that our system was capable of functioning anywhere in rural regions. With our data analysis expertise, we track all key metrics such as vehicle response times, dispatching efficiency, dispatch reports, efficiency tracking for both individuals and teams, patient outcomes, etc. This is extremely important when assessing the system’s performance or improving current standard operating protocols. Scalable by nature, our system can be operationalized in any location. We are currently in discussions with the Ethiopian Government looking to help establish an official National EMS capability. We’re aiming to expand our service to the entire greater Addis Ababa region (~9 million people) within the next 18 months, with the goal to provide all 107 million Ethiopians access to emergency medical services in the near future. | Having operationalized Ethiopia’s first full-circle EMS system for over 3 years, we are currently in discussions with the Ethiopian Government, looking to help establish an official National EMS capability. We’re aiming to expand the service to the entire greater Addis Ababa region (~9 million people) within the next 18 months, with the goal to provide all 107 million Ethiopians access to emergency medical services in the near future. With the proven capability of our EMS system, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health (FMOH) has taken steps over the last year to establish a National EMS Division. It has procured more than 1000 ambulances, with another 2000 ambulances currently under purchase, and has also started to plan to build its first Emergency Call Centre in Addis Ababa. Our plan is to roll out EMS access to the public in phases, as we increase our capacity to effectively operate EMS Dispatch centers throughout the country. Within 3 years of having launched the Addis Ababa Dispatch Centre, we expect most of the major cities in Ethiopia to have EMS dispatch centres (serving ~20 million people), with aim of having upwards of 50 million people having access to emergency medical services within 5 years. With our EMS system scalable by nature, and over 900 million people living in Sub-Saharan Africa without proper emergency medical services, we dream of providing any of these communities, from rural to urban, the capability to establish their own Emergency Medical Services. | With our solution having been proven and successfully operationalized for over 3 years, our operational capabilities are quite mature. Our solution is ready to scale, however, our biggest hurdle lies in establishing efficient dialogues with new regions across Sub-Saharan Africa. Having the support of large organizations who could help connect us to the right decision-makers in all these regions would be vital. Short-term: Help identify new regions in Sub-Saharan Africa that are open to launching Emergency Medical Services. Medium/Long-term: Help connect us to decision-makers in new regions. | Over the last 3 years, the world’s first full-circle Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system using cloud-based location technology has been operating in Ethiopia. https://www.nordicmedicalcentre.com/news/ethiopia-ems-system/ Kiipo Reaffirms Goal of Providing 107 Million Ethiopians Access to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) on the 3-Year Anniversary of Ethiopia’s First Full-Circle EMS System. https://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/11/prweb15917506.htm Emergency Medical Services: Ethiopia https://www.kiipo.com/ethiopia.html | Video files of our most recent keynotes have not yet been released. They should be available by mid-August 2019. Keynote speaker for TRANS 2019 - Asia’s largest Healthcare Innovation symposium - Link: https://www.transhs.asia/ - June 29-30, 2019 - Over 3,000 attendees Keynote speaker for Design For Taiwan 2019 - How to Create Impact - Link: https://www.facebook.com/designfortaiwan/ - June 26-28, 2019 - Over 1,200 attendees | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
510 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Usman | Javaid | Ricult | www.ricult.com | CEO | Male | United States of America | Pakistan | English | My motivation for applying to be a part of the UN Solutions summit stems from the fact that this summit would attract some of the brightest and smartest people interested in trying to make the world a better place, from all over the globe. This gives startups like Ricult and founders like myself to get their ideas validated, challenged and exposed to a community which shares the same values as me and Ricult, especially in the context of achievement of Sustainable Development Goals. secondly, it also gives me and Ricult the exposure at an international stage and the ability to showcase the work that Ricult is doing by helping the bottom of the pyramid farmers in developing countries. Ricult is a Data Science /Machine learning startup out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, operating in Thailand and Pakistan. Ricult currently helps smallholder farmers access (i)bank loans (ii)actionable agronomy, pricing and weather insights (iii)access to end buyers, through the mobile phone. Ricult has built an agriculture ecosystem with its partners including banks, processing mills, telecom operators and agribusinesses, thus creating a free flow of information in an otherwise opaque business environment. This helps the farmers reduce information asymmetry and negotiate better deals with the existing intermediaries including lenders and crop buyers, translating into a 17% increase in profitability and a 22% increase in productivity. Ricult also provides diagnostic and predictive analytics using its proprietary algorithms rooted in Machine Learning and AI, using Satellite Imagery and advanced weather models. The other stakeholders also benefit from Ricults data by allowing them to make more informed decisions about yield forecasts, farmer risk profiling, and credit scoring, extreme weather and flood assessment, and customer acquisition, thus improving their operational efficiencies. Ricult is currently working with 30,000 smallholder farmers and plans to scale up to 100,000 by the end of the year. | I am one of the founders of Ricult. I have 17 years of experience selling fertilizers with Exxon, dealing with dairy farmers in Nestle and launching Easy Paisa, the world's third-largest feature phone-based mobile banking business targetted towards the underbanked in Pakistan. In 2014, I decided to quit my cushy job and went to MIT for an MBA. In MIT, I kept on refining my idea, recruited my co-founding team and registered the company. Academically, I am an Engineer and a double Masters in Business Administration and Innovation. The other 3 co-founders are Aukrit, Jonathan Stoller and Gabriel Torres. | Ricult | Ricult is a Data Science and AI platform that collects farmer data, analyses and monetizes data to empower the agriculture ecosystem. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Pakistan and Thailand | Yes | Telenor, Jazz telecom, KTIS Sugar Mills, Bank of Agriculture Thailand, Thai Wah Mills, Habib Bank Limited, FINCA Bank, British American Tobacco, and 30,000 farmers | Scaling | We currently have 50,000 farmers using our platform, which will increase to 100,000 in the next 6 months. On the other hand, we have already partnered with 4 banks, 11 food processing mills, and 2 agribusinesses to sell the data/insights to. All these customers are paying us for the data/insights. | Ricult works with smallholder farmers earning less than $3/day. They face the following problems (i)easy access to affordable capital (ii)access to actionable agronomy insights (iii)access to pricing information (iv)access to buyers. Banks have an issue in identifying the right farmers and monitoring them in a cost-effective way, agribusinesses have an issue in forecasting crop yields for efficient supply chain, processing mills have an issue in identifying geographies the best crop quality | The Ricult platform provides access to farmers through a mobile phone to (i)apply for a bank loan (ii)get actionable agronomy insights - Optimal Sowing Time/Harvest Time, Hyper-Local Weather updates, pest alerts, etc. (iii)get real-time crop pricing information (iv)get access to end buyers for selling their crops at a better price. The data collected from the farmers is processed by our Machine Learning and AI platform, using advanced Satellite Imagery processing, Advanced Weather Analytics, and Agronomy Analytics. The insights generated through the Ricult platform are then sold to processing Mills, Agribusinesses and Banks, which in turn helps farmers get better prices for their produce, get access to bank loans and get access to end buyers. Our long term vision is to launch the platform globally. We are currently operating in Thailand and Pakistan, and are already receiving requests from Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and India to launch our platform there. Since our technology can be used remotely, there is a very strong possibility that Ricult becomes a regional player in the next 6 - 12 months, and then a global player in the next 36 months. | The Ricult solution is unique in the sense that it addresses the entire agriculture value chain from pre-sowing, sowing, growth, harvest, and post-harvest stages of the crop. The Ricult platform helps farmers access bank loans, farm inputs (seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides), agronomy and weather insights, optimal harvest time, access to crop pricing and selling. Secondly, the Ricult platform is mobile phone agnostic. The farmer does not necessarily need a smartphone to access the services. For non-smartphone farmers, Ricult has an IVR/Robocall model which provides the same services. Thirdly, the Ricult platform is not a one-dimensional service, it is helping in building an ecosystem by integrating Banks, Agribusinesses and Processing Mills and farmers, by providing an easy flow of information that benefits everyone. Fourthly, Ricult is combining cutting edge technology including AI/ML and blockchain, with on the ground presence, which tremendously helps in validating our models. 90% of our team is local and works very closely with the farmers and the other stakeholders to modify our results. Most of the other approaches currently existing in this space are generally one dimensional, focussing on just providing basic information to farmers. | The Ricult platform is currently operational and is being used both by farmers and paying customers. However, as with all technology, we are always conducting R&D on new features. Our Ricult app is already available on the play store. We measure our performance on the basis of (i)registered farmers (ii) usage activity levels (iii)customers (iv) revenues (v)prediction accuracy. | 1. Number of registered farmers - 500,000 by Q4 2020 2. New countries - Vietnam, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India - Q4 2020 3. New team members - Data Scientists - Q4 2019 4. Social Impact Study - Q4 2019 | SHORT TERM 1. Funding - we are currently raising a US$1 Million bridge round 2. Customers - global agribusiness customers operating in Pakistan and Thailand MIDTERM 3. Strategic partners - UN, FAO, IFC, Better Cotton Initiative LONG TERM 4. Access points into new markets | www.ricult.com https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613698/digital-farmhand/ https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/resources/e-commerce-in-agriculture-new-business-models-for-smallholders-inclusion-into-the-formal-economy/ https://www.techjuice.pk/pakistani-startups-raised-over-317-million-of-investments-in-2018/ http://news.mit.edu/2018/ricult-thailand-pakistan-farmers-1115 https://www.raflearning.org/sites/default/files/learning_brief_5_-_data_analytics-final.pdf?token=g6FuZCx4 http://thailandtatler.com/generation-t/2018-list/aukrit http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/these-12-startups-are-reimagining-the-asian-workplace-and-workforce/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDuquUvPZ5w&t=26s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTm1w42zFWA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_eKQeWu3Mg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ERjkAAHsE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXWkW4QHaZg&t=3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqgS68Q35cQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t7aKRMnduU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMR3M8AZN8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYOtnUCk4w0&t=222s | 1. Winner - Fintech Disrupt Challenge 2016 (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Karandaaz) 2. Winner - MIT Food & Agribusiness Prize 2016 3. International Award 2017 - Innovative Ideas & Technologies in Agribusiness (UNIDO/ITPO) 4. Global Social Ventures Competition 2017 - Winners Asia/Oceania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
511 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | DAHABO | ABAGARO | MINISTRY OF HEALTH( KENYA) AND BIFTU( CBO) KRCS | https://www.redcross.or.ke & https://www.facebook.com/biftuke.org & https://amref.org/kenya/ | COMMUNITY NURSE/MIDWIFE | FEMALE | Kenya | Kenya | English | Its my great pleasure to be part of the UN solution summit where I will be able to meet and exchange innovative ideas with exceptional people to achieve sustainable development goals. I am a community midwife working in rural pastrolist community working on SDG 3, Target 3.1 '' By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births. The journey to this innovation begun the year 2015 when my County Marsabit was named the worst County to give birth with maternal mortality of 1,127 per 100,000 live births. It hit me so hard that most of the maternal deaths occurred in rural set up, the kind of set up I work in. I narrowed down to my self and asked my self; how better can I change the trend? I took up community ownership and made a dialogue to find why our mothers die giving birth. Community being the biggest stake holder, pointed lack of transport to reach health facility, cultural believes pregnant women should not eat nutritious diet to prevent featus from being big hence anemia sets in, lack of skilled deliveries, poor antenatal care follow up. I came up with a road map, selected interest groups like traditional birth attendants, local leaders, women groups, community champions doing door to door advocacy on maternal child health. High number of unskilled births, lack of sterile instruments and knowledge to conduct delivery leading to infections. Through my initiative of ''OUR MOTHERS OUR RESPONSIBILITY'', I was able to secure 600 sterile mamas kit for our rural pregnant mothers. A kit contains sterile blades gloves,2 clean sheets, sterile umbilical cord clamp, a soap and sanitary towel that really helped mothers and the number of sepsis dropped. In partnerships with Kenya Red Cross, we work with mother to mother support groups, we developed M-health platform where pregnant and lactating mothers were enrolled and is used to provide them with health information and reminders on when to attend clinics and this greatly decreased defaulter rate during followups. We were able to work with communities and local leaders to find solution for the means of transport (motorcycle) where a motorcycle is allocated to each village that will ferry pregnant mothers during labor pains. This has enabled high number of skilled deliveries. I was able to setup free equipped maternity unit that serves as a shelter for pregnant mothers from far and inaccessible localities thus making the facility, ""a home away from home"". | Dahabo Abagaro, is a nurse midwife by profession, founder of BIFTU a community organization that works with the community to bring better social change and promote maternal health and girl child in a rural marginalized patrol community. she is a champion against female genital mutilation and early child marriage, a cultural practice that is highly practiced. She holds a diploma in Nursing and Midwifery from Kenya Medical Training College. She previously worked at Dadaab refugee camp, the largest camp in the world and through her best initiatives,and being in-charge of maternity unit, supported the roll out of safe motherhood program that resulted increase in skilled deliveries by 50% in 2015 and 8% increase in use of contraceptive use and resulted in her being nominated and celebrated during world Health Worker Week in 2015 and 2016 Respectively. Dahabo also serves as a member of area advisory committee on matters of community interest. She is a mentor, a counselor and a motivational speaker. She mentors school children and youth in their career development. She is a champion for AMREF health Africa in fighting female genital mutilation, child early and forced marriage and increasing the value of a girl child in rural pastrol community. | Intergrating community level health advocay with mobile technology in support of skilled delivery | Our mothers, our responsibility. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Marsabit County Kenya. | Yes | Ministry of health Kenya, BIFTU(CBO), Mama Guyo care; Amref Health Africa in Kenya, Kenya Red Cross | Proof of Concept | Its because I am still learning from all the challenges in implementing the strategy especially integrating mobile technology, as I ride on the experience gained in the roll out of Safe motherhood program during my work at Dadaab Refugee Program. I have built trust in community and I used the data/ information I already have at the ground level to monitor and measure progress towards attaining 100% transition to skilled delivery especially in Sololo ward where I am implementing the concept. | The solution addresses the high number of maternal mortalities that are preventable in rural community contributed by lack of access to health facilty, poor antenatal clinic follow up, high number of unskilled deliveries, lack of transport for mothers to reach health facility during labor, the negative cultural norms and inability of the pregnant women not to make decisions specially at critical areas like delivery. | Integrated community Health advocacy with mobile technology aims at raising number of skilled deliveries by empowering rural communities in Marsabit County Kenya. The solution will promote community sensitization and awareness of the community health issues, enable the community to be well oriented with health information packages, promote community participation, organization, coordination and networking resulting in positive sustainable behavior change leading to better understanding of themselves. The solution aims at creating safe deliveries, prompt detection and referral of cases during antenatal screening, training of traditional birth attendants so that they detect any danger signs, distribution of sterile mamas kit that has sterile blade, gloves, sheet, soap and sanitary towels to promote hygiene and prevent sepsis that result from use of unsterilized instruments, registering pregnant mothers on M-health platform that will keep on reminding the pregnant mothers on good health tips, time for reviews and this will empower them with information thus reducing the number of defaulters. Setting up a full equipped maternity unit that will serve the rural pastoralists. Mothers from far are admitted one week to their expected date deliveries providing them ''shade'' at no cost thus increasing the number of skilled deliveries and reducing maternal and neonatal mortalities since they are closely monitored and managed by skilled personnel for a minimum of twenty four hours. | The solution is unique because the community takes ownership of the initiative and as the tag line, our mothers our responsibility. It is also down up approach starting from the lowest level of door to door hence touching every soul in that rural community. The catchment is divided into five units, each units is represented by a team of safe motherhood promoters consisting of one mother, unit elder and two champions to monitor the progress and be the focal point for the clients from the units. It's also unique as it integrates mobile techonology to stregthen and beef up local solutions championed, owned and implemented by community members guaranteeing sustainability and also providing solution that is scalable in most in remote and resource scarse communitie across the globe. The use of mobile technology also reinforces positive health behaviours already provided at the health facilties and sets reminders that have been missing as most of the mothers in this communities are extremely busy attending to family daily chores and attending clinics more often are overtaken by events or forgotten. | Its now three years into ground field and we have monthly dialogue with the community to see the impact of the initiatives, from the data that we generate at the health facility also showed that the percentage of skilled delivery has risen from 34% to 81% from when we started the program. We also have a project steering committee comprising of the Ministry of Health, developemnt partners to include Kenya Red Cross, AMREF health Africa, BIFTU, and local political leadersship, who we Biannually meet to discuss progress towards targets as Auspice in the monitoring and Evaluation plan. The interventions has been building overtime and in 2018 we were able to open the maternity Unit to improve access to skilled delivery services and linked to the community level demand creation where they are now full aware of the importance of health seeking behaviors and pregnant mothers know the the danger signs in pregnancy and the need to consitently attended antenatal care. The use of mobile techonlogy has also enable the care provides and the facities health care workers and pregnant mothers to provide feeback on routine basis on the interventions being implemneted. | Our plan goal is to extend the innitiatives to the larger marsabit county first. Training of more traditional births attendants that fully understands the danger signs and do prompt referrals of cases, community to take ownership fully for better achievement of the goals, to have a fully equipped mobile van that can reach hard to reach areas to serve the women since sometimes, ferrying using a motorcycle is a challenge due to some condition which can not warrant that kind of transport. The maternity unit that is in place also lacks a medical doctor and only working with four midwives and plans are we recruit a medical doctor to ease the referrals for emergency cases like Cesarian section. We have also shared progress with the county government of Marsabit on the used of mobile technology and we envisage that if the interventions compliments most of the health services, positive behanviours can be enhanced and there is room to scale up to the wider communities in the Northern corridor of the Republic of Kenya. | Human resource like more midwives, more trained traditional birth attendants. We need a well equipped ambulance that will facilitate the activities specially when it needs urgent referrals for obstetric cases, midwives to be empowered on emergency obstetric and neonatal skills, improving on tracking our women and possibly by use of GPS system to track our pregnant mothers since most of the rural women are pastrolist and keep on moving around in serach of pasture for their livestock hence sometime end up loosing the contact. The program also can be enhanced especially in areas with coverage of mobile network and where access to information and limitation of health workers coverage. With additional resources and partnership with mobile services providers the concept can be expanded to meet the needs of pastrol communities. | Throughout the time of implemention, we have been able to organise an arrray of activities on our social media platfoms and also on partner platforms and websites with the links below; https://www.facebook.com/biftuke.org/ ; https://www.facebook.com/Kenya-Red-Cross-Dadaab-Refugee-Operation-541900402538955/ https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019-01-30-marsabit-elders-religious-leaders-join-community-group-in-fgm-fight/ | https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2019-01-30-marsabit-elders-religious-leaders-join-community-group-in-fgm-fight/ https://www.irex.org/people/dahabo-abagaro-bagajo https://www.facebook.com/MandelaWashingtonFellowship/posts/this-world-refugee-day-wed-like-to-thank-our-mandela-washington-fellows-who-serv/638559063009342/ | Mandela Washington fellowship award 2016, USA. Midwife of the year award celebrated during International day of health workers week. Kenya red cross celebrated midwife 2015 and 2016. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
512 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Francois | Sonnet | ElectriCChain | www.electricchain.org | Business Developer | M | Andorra | Belgium | English | French | Spanish | ElectriCChain is an Affiliate to the SolarCoin Foundation which aim it is to deliver SolarCoin to solar power producers as an incentive for creating more solar energy accross the World. SolarCoin is a member of SolarPowerEurope, the European Solar Association and of IRENAs coalition for action. SolarCoin also runs several projects with UNDP and at is a member of the Climate Chain Coalition, UN-sponsored. | The SolarCoin Community is composed of solar experts, financial experts and bitcoin enthousiasts. It has been running the project since Jan 2014 with its own low-cost low carbon Blockchain (POS Algo). | SolarCoin - A digital asset to enable the global energy transition | SolarCoin is the worlds 1st (solar) energy based currency with own open-source low-cost low-carbon POS blockchain and is available to solar producers | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | SolarCoi is active currently in 80+ countries and (should be made) available to all 215+ countries worldwide | Yes | SMA solar, UNDP... | Sustainable Scale | The SolarCoin digital asset is now available to (any) solar power producer and solar (monitoring/inverter) companies through a. simple online forms, b. open-source APIs - these have been trial-tested with over 5.000 solar installs in +80 countries and over 15.000GWh of solar energy have received SolarCoins. | SolarCoin addresses the need for additional (quickly deployed) solar power incentive. It could also, in future, become a digital currency (ie bitcoin produced by solar power producers) | Solar power producers can register their installation to the SolarCoin program by adding it (and filling the forms online) and downloading a Wallet. This is a five minute process. Solar monitoring companies, O&M providers and Asset Managers can add the SolarCoin API to their dashboards and claim SolarCoin for their monitored solar installs with minimum development. | SolarCoin is unique in providing this token of value to solar power producers. The concept is that solar owners by parcitipating to the network would help create value in holding these SolarCoins, thereby increasing the profitability of solar investments. | 5years in the making and gaining traction with : UNDP, IRENA, SolarPowerEurope as observing institutions. SolarCoin is now available to SMA (worlds largest solar inverter company) clients through the Sunny Portal dashboard. SolarCoins have been claimed by (one of) the worlds largest solar fields and ACWA Power (large middle-east IPP) is running the program. | The goal is to hand SolarCoins to the owners of the 10.millions solar installs existing with the help of solar inverter/monitoring companies | Regulation on crypto-assets at global scale ; market awareness of blockchain tools | www.electricchain.org www.solarcoin.org Over 200 articles available online among: https://www.irena.org/newsroom/articles/2017/Dec/Building-innovation-networks-to-transform-the-energy-landscape https://sma-sunny.com/en/claiming-your-solarcoins-on-sunny-portal/ https://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/news-centre/news/2018/UNDP-solar-currency-exchange-to-power-up-Moldovan-university.html https://www.acwapower.com/news/acwa-power-becomes-first-utility-scale-generator-to-adopt-solarcoin/ | Some are available directly from youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=solarcoin | https://medium.com/@nick.gogerty/solarcoin-joins-a-i-blockchain-awards-nominees-list-59f0b657c6c2 SolarCoin wins award at Malta Blockchain Congress | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
513 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Toyin | Oyewole | Internet Technologies Limited | www.net-technologies.com | Co-Founder | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Provide us a platform to showcase our solution to prospective sponsors from donor countries | I graduated from the University of Lagos, Nigeria with a B.Sc in Finance, in my over 30 years work experience I have worked in different functions ranging from accounts and finance to business development and strategy. I am touched my the loss of human dignity that poverty subject people to and have always had an abiding interest in bringing about economic development | Internet initiative for development | Empowering Municipal Councils in LDCs for Local Economic Development | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | In all developing countries with a significant diaspora population | No | Ideation | We are in the process of getting sponsors for the project | Improving the capacity of municipal councils in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to deliver services and making them more accessible to their people. This is expected to enhance their ability to work towards the timely attainment of the SDGs and make their operations more transparent | Municipal councils all over the world perform essentially the same services, but their capacity to deliver on these services differ very widely and this has a telling impact on their people, the pace of local economic development and the chances of attaining the SDGs The project would be pairing Municipal councils in the beneficiary LDCs with municipal councils in the funding donor country for capacity building supposes. The project would also be mobilizing the diaspora population of the municipal council to support the local economic development efforts of the Council with their technical skills, their professional contacts and their financial resources. Information on the Municipal Council would also be placed on the internet for the interest of other parties that might be interested in engaging with the Council whether humanitarian, business or other purposes | Its a low cost triangular cooperation initiative that aims to empower the beneficiaries themselves to be the key drivers for the local economic development effort in their locality. With the cutbacks been made in ODA, this would be a very welcome intervention | It has undergone several modifications and improvements over the past couple of years in light of the unfolding realities in the international development space | Our initial goal is to roll it out in our first country, and then scale it to other countries. Expected project duration is between 2 years for small countries, to as much as 5-7 years for large countries with a large number of Municipal Councils. Since all citizens in the country belong to one municipal council or the other, it is expected to impact all citizens of the beneficiary country. | The availability of sponsoring donor countries (or even provinces/states, like in the United States), whose municipal councils will also mentor the municipal councils of the beneficiary country. | https://1drv.ms/b/s!Akt-Ko-Pg7a7qFxwX6i1796UITQy?e=mJlFcv | Not applicable | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
514 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Khadija | Jallouli | HawKar | www.hawkar.tn | Founder & CEO | Woman | Tunisia | Tunisia | Arabic | English | French | I'm applying to be part of the United Nations Solutions Summit to present our startup's sustainable solution for people with a physical disability to make the freedom of mobility accessible to all! We are providing an accessible, adapted and sustainable smart electric vehicle for people with reduced mobility to overcome the lack of adaptation of infrastructure and public transport in Africa and the MENA region and to allow people with disability to go to work, study, shop independently. | I'm the Founder & CEO of HawKar, I have experience in team leadership and project management and I'm a person with reduced mobility using a wheelchair and being in a wheelchair I always had difficulties to move long distance every day so I decided after completing my studies to start solving this problem. | HawKar | Smart electric car for the disabled | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Tunisia, Africa and MENA region | Yes | ACTIA Group and other technical subcontrators and suppliers in the automotive field | Research & Development | We have developed a standard prototype and we are currently working on the design, the adaptations to different physical disabilities and the smart driving system. | The infrastructure and public transport are not adapted for people with disability in Africa and the MENA region and it's hard for them to move a long distance every day to go to study or work. HawKar's solution overcomes the shortcomings of the public transport and the bad infrastructure to include people with physical disability in society. | HawKar is a one sit compact and smart city car, directly accessible in a wheelchair and adapted to different physical disabilities. It will allow every physically disabled person aged from 15 to 64 years old to move freely and with complete autonomy into long distances and to be part of the society. | Our main competitors are: - Sellers of electric scooters: Compared to HawKar they are not secure because they are not covered and they are not made for long-distance. - Sellers of big combustion equipped vehicles: Compared to HawKar they are polluting, they are expensive as they cost the price of the vehicle + the adaptations and you need to move from the wheelchair to the sit to drive while HawKar is compact and directly accessible in a wheelchair. - Sellers of similar cars that only exist in Europe and the USA: They are not easy to buy for people living in Africa and the MENA region and they are not 100% adapted to different physical disabilities. | We have half of the prototype and we are about to start developing the smart driving system and the adaptations to different physical disabilities. The team is composed of 2 Founders (CEO & CTO) 2 product designers, 2 Mechanical Engineers and one Electrical Engineer surrounded by qualified technical partners and mentors. We have potential costumers that are following our progress and we are consulting them to know their exact need. | We have 3 Goals: 1) We will put the basic plans of the vehicle in open source with the possibility of subcontracting and selling of specific parts. 2) We will sell the whole standard and adapted vehicle. 3) We want to integrate people with disabilities in everyday life and also in the work as we want to recruit them to work with us. Our target market is Africa & the Middle East. | - Short-term needs: More technical partners to develop a semi-autonomous driving system and Grants to finalize the full prototype. The open-source platform will be created at the end of this year. - Medium-term needs: Investment to start the pilot phase. - Long-term need: Another round of fundraising to recruit and launch the product. | Company website: https://www.hawkar.tn Company's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC20WoE0bZKI-skA1gaZygQA | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1tu6ubfMIdgQaJcBN74uvBHYHO8ExIiK | - Demo Africa 2018: http://hawkar.tn/index.php/2019/06/28/lions-innovation-tour/ - MIT Arab Startup Competition 2019: http://hawkar.tn/index.php/2019/04/01/mit-arab-startup-competition/ - GES 2019: http://hawkar.tn/index.php/2019/06/28/global-entrepreneurship-summit-2019/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
515 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Corrin | Varady | IDEA Digital Education | https://www.ideaonline.com/ | CEO | Male | South Africa | Australia | English | We help schools and governments to turn hardware into learning environments. IDEA was established to create globally-competitive students across Africa, Middle East and South East Africa with engaging and outcome-driven content to improve the transformation and democratisation of education to historically marginalised communities. I applied a number of years ago before we had proven that our product works in delivering education proficiency outcomes. Now I am back, motivated by our learnings, both in the development of our digital solution and the six-phase implementation strategy we have developed to assist teachers, educators and parents optimize the integration of technology in education. Our schools in South Africa are 100% home language across five national languages; all schools are quintile 1 and 2 performing schools (poorest performing academically) and exist in the highest crime per capita, peri-urban and rural districts in the country. We have recently received a mandate from the Ministry of Education, South Sudan and the World Partnership for Educational Innovation in South Sudan (WPEI) to deliver our K12 and teacher solution first in Juba-based schools and then in the conflict-affected non-urban regions. Our partner on the project in Microsoft but we are leading the deployment, to begin in September 2019. With projects such as these, we are committed to illustrating how our solution can deliver on educational impact for students in all environments around the world. | Dr. Corrin Varady founded the global digital education company, IDEA Digital Education in 2015. As the Company's current CEO, he advocates for the importance of providing high quality digital resources to emerging-market students in order to truly democratise education. Corrin has finished a Masters of Finance (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Italy / University of New South Wales, Australia), Masters of International Relations (London School of Economics) with First Class Honours and a PhD at the London School of Economics. His book, 'Vigorous Self Defense', examines the role of Western leadership in peacekeeping missions in the Middle East. In 2007, Corrin founded the World Youth Education Trust (UK, Tanzania and Australia) to support the education of marginalized students across East Africa and where his most significant work focused on the reintegration of child soldiers into education programs. In 2014, Corrin was featured in the international documentary, ""The Road to Freedom Peak"" a journey that followed himself and a former child soldier as they rode bicycles across Uganda. The documentary was premiered by Fox and Netflix with critical acclaim. Corrin was an Associate Researcher at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon and lectured at the University of Cape Town and Witwatersrand University. He was named the Ambassador for the Australian Graduate School of Management in 2016. Corrin was an Australia Day Ambassador for the New South Wales Government. In 2019, Corrin was the Chairperson of the Education Innovation Summit in South Africa. | IDEA Digital Education | Digital Interactive and data driven education content created to democratize education and allow all students to achieve content mastery in STEM . | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | South Africa, Botswana, Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ghana, Egypt, Saudi, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, , Bangladesh, UAE, Lebanon. Kenya, Rwanda. | Yes | Microsoft, Jane Goodall Institute and University of New South Wales. | Transition to Scale | We have proven our product works in user engagement, average STEM proficiency increases of 35% and user satisfaction in Southern Africa. Our focus now is to use our global learning matrix to grow into other markets and to further develop our technology so that it allows us to turn our interactive content into a globally aligned, personalized learning solution. Our key transition goal is to reach more global markets without our current traditional, operations-heavy footprint. | Low literacy, low equity, non-democratic access to quality education and poor foundational content knowledge are realities for students and teachers in the low-income parts of Africa. Undertrained and overwhelmed teachers mixed with the assumption that all students are self-directed learners means the majority of students and schools struggle to break the performance ceiling. Spiraling through basic education, students are not given a fair opportunity to compete in a global economy. | IDEA works as a device agnostic, online and offline, technology solution that provides a live, unique learner-login interactive content, assessment and reporting platform. So we have created it all. The IDEA suite of products launched with over 1800 curriculum topics, 34,000 animations, videos and interactive activities as well as over 10,000 assessments. an outcome-driven, core curriculum, easily accessible digital K12 content solution that is focused on ESL students through self-paced and self-directed content. We teach students how to teach themselves, and train teachers to become learning facilitators rather than content masters as we drive both through digital, feedback oriented, interactive and engaging content. We run the entire process: from planning, change management in school mindset, training of teachers, implementation of student content, digital professional learning, monitoring and evaluation as well as academic and operational reporting. In 5 years we want to have 20 million students and teachers across our three key regions: SSA, ME, SEA with our head office out of Johannesburg, and satellite regional customer and sales offices. | The IDEA solution differentiator is that we are completely interactive, and data driven (every piece of content drives feedback and proficiency data) and we work in an infrastructure agnostic environment. Our Unique Identification (UID) tracking structure allows us to see what we could do better such that we can amend the content and informs a student or teacher of where they need to focus their remediation or extension. We currently record all user content usage from pixel coordinates, right and wrong answers & click intervals to be able to inform truly individualized and adaptive learning through a ML framework. We work in both online and offline environments, having enabled a ‘live’ environment in rural and remote schools while providing the same IDEA content and analytical solution. We strive for a global education solution, written by local and global educators but still meeting the very specific government syllabus requirements. That means we are not a platform, we are not assessment, and we are not just content but all of the above. Our analytical services offering means that we work closely with provincial and national government, Departments of Education and Ministries of Education to drive digital transformation, deployment and implementation efficacies. Our global curriculum matrix means we deliver global-best in STEM learning outcomes but aligned strictly to the government framework of curriculum and assessment. | We have completed our first two versions of our solution. We have sizeable government school and low-income private school traction and our product is being used by over 189,000 students on a daily/weekly basis and 1,040,000 subscribers within the school term. We have completed all Science, Mathematics and English from K-12 and all 130 professional learning courses for teachers. Through our government deployments, we had to pass 3 specific audits: 1) Curriculum performance and alignment; 2) Technical and operational and; 3) School efficacy and engagement. We passed all of these and with a recommendation for the program to be scaled up from the two provincial deployments onto the national Department of Basic Education’s government portal. Our 2018 baseline to summative results showed a 20-30% increase in numeracy and literacy at Grade 1-3 compared to students who either undertook another program or no program at all; an average of 35% increase in scientific literacy in Grade 8 students and our top performing schools moved up two quintile positions in their systemic results, with the top IDEA school having received a 99% pass rate in mathematics for their primary school students. We have increased our assessment rigor by partnering with local education services NGOs for independent testing, which we expect to see at the end of 2019 in the final year government systemics. | As a part of our scalable transformation strategy up until 2023, we will be opening operations teams alongside our existing Johannesburg and Nairobi office, in the Middle East and South East Asia. This plan is determined by three key things: 1) Global Product Alignment, 2) Student Success and Implementation, 3) Territorial Universal Funding. Our product plan is to take our existing, deployed content and transform the home language accessibility of it for multiple markets (“translanguage”) which we have completed research alongside the University of Cape Town. Also in 2020, we will personalise learning through an AI framework meaning every student’s learning journey is unique. From a student success point of view, we have already started globalising our delivery and success having run our team out of South Africa and servicing East Africa. In September 2019 our first 25 schools will be launching in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia and UAE) and South East Asia (Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia). And finally in developing our funding pipeline, we work on a universal, unlimited content usage costing meaning that we align to Department of Education’s mandates to create and deliver successful digital content programs and at the same time reduce the prohibitive nature of monthly or annual subscription. We created our product for low-income government school students and our business model reflects this. | Our most needed resources are funding, school group channels (or Ministries) and. In the short term we have just received US$2mil of funding to assist our East and Southern African deployments. In the medium term we are seeking US$5500 per school per annum with a long term goal of structuring a five-year, universal unlimited license which is between US$2mil-$20mil depending on the size of population (e.g. South Africa has undertaken a US$6mil 3 year universal license). The current funding for the establishment of our regional offices outside of South Africa is our first priority. We have spent the last 12 months as one of 40 organizations in the Stanford Seed Transformation program on a scholarship provided by Stanford University. We have also been selected by the Agence française de développement for their Social Impact mentorship program for 2019. These programs and partners have helped us identify, adapt and solve the remaining organizational scalability challenges. We have identified $10mil in funding required over 3 years to enable us to execute our global transformation strategy. This means we will have our globally ready education product with an implementation and scalability plan up until 2023, that will allow us to reach the 20 million students and teachers. | https://www.ideaonline.com/ https://vimeo.com/347094458/3c8c71a5ba https://www.educationinnovationsummit.co.za/speaker/corrin/ https://sandtonchronicle.co.za/222551/new-school-subjects-prepare-sa-fourth-industrial-revolution/amp https://www.dailysun.co.za/Success/how-digital-education-will-help-matrics-to-pass-20190319 https://mg.co.za/article/2019-05-17-00-focus-on-digital-content-for-teachers-and-schoolchildren http://www.702.co.za/articles/341907/4th-industrial-revolution-how-sa-can-avoid-excluding-an-entire-generation | https://youtu.be/KrsqblnirJY https://www.cnbcafrica.com/videos/2019/07/31/what-is-the-real-answer-to-youth-unemployment-in-sa/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmxMbdAwCQ&t=107s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7FUX_dSiKg | •The ED Tech Cool Tools Finalist 2019 •Kids Discover Educator of the Month •Google CS First Partner South Africa •UNSW Young Alumini Award •Rise Global Growth Business 2017 •Australian Graduate School of Management Ambassador | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
516 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Abdullah | Kitchlew | Fambzzhh | http://fambzzhh.com/ | Engineering Student | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | Our project is a Multiplayer Online Virtual Reality game and the system associated with it. The goal in our mind is to make this product cheaper and available to all so more people will have access to the virtual reality gaming system we are designing. Also it makes the game more interesting and users of all age group can participate and run in the virtual world which is really good for health. Its a system which cannot be specified just as a gaming system but our omni-directional treadmill allows a person to run miles in a virtual world while being stationary. Our game can be used for military training. It can also be upgraded to a point where we use it for education where a user moves in a virtual world to be able to learn new things and experience more. | I am an Engineering Student in my Last Year. I take participation in a lot of physical and social activities. As a sports person it gives me a sense of hard work and competitive attitude towards my goal and working on it all as a team as I consider a team as a backbone of a body which needs to climb a hill. I have been a part of AIESEC in Islamabad and I have been sending students to all across the globe to do volunteer work and work on UN SDGs to meet the AIESEC 2020 goal. | Intrusive Sprint | VR Gaming for everyone! | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Pakistan | Yes | Fambzzhh group. | Research & Development | We are doing research on how to make the Virtual Reality System more interesting and how it can be used for different fields. | Ensuring healthy lives and promote well -being for all at all ages. | Our gaming system is targeted towards people of all ages from kids to adults and even old people. Most gaming system nowadays are making the users more lazy as users sit in a same position all day while playing their favorite games. Whereas our system allows the players to move freely and participate while playing their favorite game in a more immersive environment. This is not just good for their gaming-experience but also for their health. Moreover as its a Multiplayer system so more people will be interested in our product. | Our system is unique as our system contains an omni-directional treadmill while allows players to me in multiple directions while being in a stationary position. This treadmill will be cheaper than those available in the market and more consumers will buy the product with the best quality in an affordable price. Moreover there are a lot of gadgets which will help the player to get a better gaming experience. | We have developed the product and we are working on to make it more cost effective and more fast to avoid any delay. | Once our product taps the local market and we get the initial reviews we will be able to export our product globally. | First of all we will be needing funding to expand our product on a large scale. Also we will be needing more partners to help us getting our product globally. | http://fambzzhh.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/Fambzzhh-345664516238832/ | None yet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
517 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mhlangeni | Chiiko | Safe Motherhood Alliance | www.safemotherhoodalliance.com | Co-Founder/ Business Developer | Male | Zambia | Zambia | English | My motivations for applying for the UN Solutions Summit are to learn from people on who they are shaping the future and how I can to use those solution where applicable in my home country Zambia. My innovation has been implemented through my company Safe Motherhood Alliance which is established to advance and improve safe births by developing a simple, low-cost, ‘Baby Delivery Kit’ for ‘pregnant women’ in Zambia that will be used during childbirth. Our product is providing a positive impact because it increases the chances of survival at birth for both the mother and child not to mention the fact that the kit is affordable, sterilized, packaged and convenient for usage at child birth as the total number of births as at end of 2017 came to about 683,000. The items contained in the kit include gloves, blades, umbilical cord clamps etc. We are also developing a mobile Health (mHealth) service that uses USSD and an OTT application with API’s that can communicate to collect data and carry out medical diagnostics via machine learning using the information provided so as to enable pregnant women to access the medical information they need. | Co-founder, Mhlangeni Chiiko, Programs Manager and Economist. He the Monitoring and Evaluation officer for Safe Motherhood Alliance providing our impact reporting so that we are able to monitor the effect our kit has on the communities that we work in. He is a YALI Alumni RLC SA Cohort 17 where he attended under the Business & Entrepreneurship track based at UNISA Graduate School of Business in Johannesburg and The Innovation Hub in Pretoria, in May 2019. He is also a winner of the BongoHive Discover programme for the best Social Impact Startup and an Alumni of the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation (APEI) 2019 Cohort. | Baby Delivery Kit | Increasing the odds of survival of a mother and child at birth | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Zambia | Yes | RReal, Vitalite | Ideation | Safe Motherhood Alliance has distributed over 1,000 baby delivery kits in 6 health clinics and health institutions in Zambia, trained 50 caregivers (traditional birth attendants) directly impacting 1,000 new mothers and newborns; and we have received queries from Malawi, Zimbabwe etc as our products are not only relevant in Zambia, but also in other developing world markets. Safe Motherhood Alliance has managed to crack open the complex Zambian health market as a small social enterprise. | In Zambia, only 63 percent of births are attended to by a skilled health worker at health institutions. Further, socio-cultural factors compound such that many children are taken late to health facilities and pregnancy is not given special care. Knowledge about pre-natal care is low. The main problem that exists is that there is lack of access to reliable affordable, sterilized and accessible materials that will enable a safe childbirth such as a surgical blade, umbilical cord clamps etc. | Safe Motherhood Alliance works as a social enterprise meaning that it employs business techniques to create a positive social benefit in the community. This is extremely essential in that it helps keep the business sustainable and we do so by charging $10 per kit sold. This is more affordable as compared to the alternatives who are local chemists who charge an average of $30-$50 per kit sold that saving each household at least $20 per kit sold. This is essential to communities in Zambia as 57% of its 3,012,965 households live in rural settings with them having an average household income of $81 as at end of 2015, thus a price reduction of that magnitude will be of great use to households in low income settings. Our overall goal includes working hand in hand with the Ministry of Health (MoH*) and Government of the Republic of Zambia to reduce maternal, neonatal and infant morbidity and mortality with our mission to help significantly improve maternal and child health in Zambia through the provision of safe, affordable, comprehensive baby delivery kit, training of traditional birth attendants and the delivery of simple lifesaving solutions as well as by providing sensitization through TBA’s who we train on safe birthing techniques via our curriculum. | Safe Motherhood Alliance works as a social enterprise meaning that it employs business techniques to create a positive social benefit in the community. This is extremely essential in that it helps keep the business sustainable and we do so by charging $10 per kit sold. This is more affordable as compared to the alternatives who are local chemists who charge an average of $30-$50 per kit sold that saving each household at least $20 per kit sold. This is essential to communities in Zambia as 57% of its 3,012,965 households live in rural settings with them having an average household income of $81 as at end of 2015, thus a price reduction of that magnitude will be of great use to households in low income settings. | During our pilot project which started in 2017, Safe Motherhood Alliance distributed over 1,000 baby delivery kits in 6 health clinics and health institutions in Zambia, trained 10 caregivers TBA’s directly impacting 1,000 new mothers and newborns; and we have received queries from Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa thus, validating our products are not only relevant in Zambia, but also in other developing world markets. Of these 1000, 200 where distributed at Kanyama clinic in Lusaka province through our TBA’s and that established the basis for a microcosm of our study. Research estimates that adherence to clean birth practices in facilities reduce maternal mortality from sepsis by 55% and reduce neonatal mortality from infections by 27%. We used the logic model to measure our impact so as to ensure that necessary factors are considered. We measure our social impact in terms of number of traditional birth attendants we have trained on clean birth practices and number of baby delivery kits we have distributed to pregnant women in our target areas thereby increasing access to clean birth practices and quality of care; improving uptake of clean birth kits; and decreasing rates of infection. Ultimately with improved health, underprivileged women have more time, money and opportunity to lift themselves and their families out of poverty | Safe Motherhood Alliance has distributed over 1,000 baby delivery kits in 6 health clinics and health institutions in Zambia, trained 50 caregivers (traditional birth attendants) directly impacting 1,000 new mothers and newborns; and we have received queries from Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa thus, validating our products are not only relevant in Zambia, but also in other developing world markets. Safe Motherhood Alliance has managed to crack open the complex Zambian health market as a small social enterprise - to date, Safe Motherhood Alliance has generated 10,000 USD in revenue, maintains a 20-30% profit margin, expecting to breakeven in 2020 and achieve profitability in 2022. | Given the success of the pilot project we are planning on scaling not only the number of delivery kits but training for the TBA’s as well. What is clear is that they have been vital to our organization as whole because they are the agents on the ground who ensure that the message is disseminated. Therefore, a plan to scale the training of TBA to at least 50 birth attendants over a period of one year has been put in place as they are the key to getting the word out about mother and child health at a more personal level. They are pillars in their communities and are able to provide counselling to mothers in their time of need thereby strengthening their support systems. In addition, in the event of an emergency i.e. if a woman is too far from a health facility and there is no nearby transportation, they are capable of carrying out the delivery themselves with the material we provide via the contents of the kit. The logic is that the success of the project in designated parts of Lusaka and Siavonga can be scaled to the rest of the nation so that we can have birth attendants available to assist new and expectant mothers in communities more so where medical personnel are unavailable. | -www.safemotherhoodalliance.com | https://web.facebook.com/AfricaPrize/videos/2456054754614728/ Kindly skip to 24:19 for my pitch at the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation (APEI) in Kampala, Uganda on the 4th June, 2019. | -BongoHive Discover Social Impact Pitch Competition (2017); BongoHive Launch Accelerator winner (2018) $1000, -SAIS Slush Challenge Zambia Finalist (2018) $5000 Africa Prize 2019 Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
518 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alishba | Arshed Khan | COMSATS University Islamabad | http://islamabad.comsats.edu.pk/ | Student | Female | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | Being a student from a developing country which is facing the consequences of climate change and slow rate of reforestation i and my group members felt the urge to come up with an innovative solution to it. As UN Solutions Summit is an in initiative where people addresses about the solutions to problems, I felt motivated to apply in it to present my idea and project that addresses SDGs, on an International Forum from Pakistan. Moreover the reason is to address the world about the challenges that Pakistan is facing and the solutions on which it is working to overcome these problems. | I am a student of BS Electrical Telecommunication Engineering from COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan. I was born on 15th December 1999 in the district of Charsadda, a backward area of KPK but I have been living in Islamabad for last 19 years of my life with a purpose to get a quality education. After doing O-levels and A- levels from Roots College International, I applied in COMSATS in BS Electrical Telecommunication Engineering pursue a professional degree. Currently I am a regular student of 7th semester and I am working in FAMBZZHH under the supervision of DR Amir Rashid on a project named Ababeel. | ABABEEL (Reforestation Drone) | From eye level to sky level, we are the efficient and effective guardians of | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | the solution is intended to be implemented in Pakistan first and later in countries like Indonesia, Nigeria, Philippines, Ghana and all other world countries that are facing the problem of deforestation. | Yes | Dr Amir Rashid , Miss Tayyaba Shafaq, Abdul Rehman, Rehman Javed and Ietasam Mehdi | Proof of Concept | The idea was approved by our supervisor after which i with my team did a detailed research on the already existing solutions to the problem, hardware and software components needed for our solution, total cost and market value of our product, future impact and results. We are now making and designing our product in order to field test it and to gain an early assessment of its potential therefore i think my solution is at the stage of ""Proof of Concept"". | Deforestation is resulting in alarming conditions. The loss of ecosystems and the climate change are the major problems world is facing.Deforestation has resulted in loss of flora and fauna as well as in soil erosion.Moreover the results of deforestation are the global warming, floods,food insecurity and loss of natural resources.Planting trees is slower than being cut down and the process is much slower and relatively expensive. | in our solution we are making an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle that would first gather terrain and fauna information of an area with the potential for reforestation and then a 3D map of that area would be produced.It would then follow the planting route using its GPS navigation system and would precisely fire the biodegradable seed pods with germinating seeds of different species at a rate of 10 seeds per minute. Later the drone would also perform the plant audits. The camera attached to the drone would also perform the scanning of the land and the fertility of soil would also be checked digitally. | •The plantation is fully automatic. •The drone would also gather and keep the data of total number of plants being planted in different months at backend server. •The drone would also be used for patrolling purposes. •The camera attached to the drone would give a live coverage of the area along with the scanning of land and would do fertility check more efficiently for reforestation and agricultural purposes. •For user‘s information the drone would also give weather updates and Gps location on the mobile app. •Above all the product is designed to be relatively cheaper than the possible available products in market. | Our team worked out on the mechanism for computer control gun to fire seeds and has ordered the components that are needed to design it so that soon we could build our gun. side by side we are working on its ardunio coding and on Android app for multipurpose.Our team has almost completed the drone. We are progressing according to our Gantt Chart and in weekly meetings we discuss our proceedings with our supervisor. We aim to complete our product by end of September for initial testing purpose. | we planned to launch our product into our local and national market first. Also we planned to sell our product to after attaining the stage of ""transition to scale"". •Department of Forestry and Climate. •NGO’s. •Universities and various other institutions. •Environmentalists. •Local communities and General Public. | A durable quad copter Frame for long - term Pixhawk Autopilot Flight Controller 4,1400kv Motors for quad copter for short term purposes and Electronic Speed controllers Batteries Telemetry GPS Module Multispectral Camera long term usage. Gun (designed by our own selves) for short, mid and long term usage. Seedpods Carbon Fiber Propeller | http://fambzzhh.com/ https://web.facebook.com/Fambzzhh-345664516238832/ https://www.instagram.com/fambzzhh/ | nil | not yet won any award for our solution. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
519 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Gabdibé | GAB-HINGONNÉ | Action pour l'Education et la Promotion de la Femme | https://web.facebook.com/AEPFTchad/ | Coordinatrice Nationale | Female | Chad | Chad | French | Each person has the potential to be extraordinary. Often, you just need the right opportunity and the right context. Our new connected world brings technology and resources for everyone to do extraordinary things for society. Women and girls do not have access to health care and basic education, and do not enjoy equal treatment at the professional level. They are vulnerable to segregation in economic, political and social decision-making and are often victims of violence and discrimination. This situation is unacceptable and we must remedy it by using all the means at our disposal. ICT seems to be one of the means we have for empowering women (girls). ICTs will play an important role in achieving gender equality and empowering women. Through ICT, women and girls can access important information for their productive, reproductive and community roles and obtain additional resources. Access to ICTs allows women to have a better voice in their communities, in governance and globally. ICTs also provide women with flexibility in time and space, which can be particularly attractive for women facing social isolation. | Geographer and teacher, specialist in Educational Technology and Training (TICEF). I am National Coordinator (President) of the Action for Education and Promotion of Women (AEPF-Chad). | ICT for the empowerment of women and girls | Access to ICTs can enable marginalized populations to be better heard by decision-makers. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Chad | Yes | Ministry of Posts and ICTs, Civil Society Organizations, Mobile Telephone Companies. | Scaling | The digital divide between developed and developing countries is enormous, the gap between men and women is immense. How can we achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) if a large part of the world's population has no idea and information about these SDGs and therefore are not involved? | In many developing countries, the illiteracy rate is close to 70% and the Internet access rate less than 5%. These people are unaware of the decisions made to improve their situations. African women and especially women in sub-Saharan Africa face the challenges of climate change. They do not understand this phenomenon of climate change. They are not sufficiently involved in finding solutions to face the phenomena of climate change, for they are the first victims | Governments must be encouraged to provide quality education for all. Access to the Internet must be a right. Create and improve Internet access infrastructures. Fight Internet cuts and improve the good governance of the Internet. Girls and women must have access to ICTs and the freedom to use them. ICTs allow everyone to have access to the same information and this allows citizens to control the work of their rulers and decision-makers. This leads to an awareness that can have lasting effects. | This solution is a prerequisite in achieving the SDGs. The new perspective is to ensure that a large number of the population is educated and especially that they have access to the Internet to enable them to access information useful for their development, empowerment and fulfillment. It's about doing advocacy work with governments and policy makers. But we must also sensitize, train (empower) the population on the improvement of their conditions and their roles as actors of change and development. | At the moment, our work is limited to awareness raising and training at the local level. Our direct beneficiaries are high school girls and leaders of women's organizations. We have been doing this work since 2013. Since this year, we have more than 800 girls and women in ICT. | Objectives and milestones for your solution? (For example, any new country or market in which you will develop, the staff you will recruit and the projected lives impacted?) * We are a national organization. Our goal is to get the government to integrate the Internet into learning and teaching activities. We want to expand our activities throughout the country (Chad). We want many women and girls to have the desire to train in ICT. We have a competent team to do the work. | What resources are most needed for the solution to evolve and have a significant impact? Please include your needs in the short, medium and long term. * We need significant human resources, access to the Internet, a room maultimedia. In the medium and long term, we need a mobile training center, a kind of large bus equipped with computer equipment and connection to the Internet to travel in remote areas. | https://web.facebook.com/AEPFTchad/ https://twitter.com/AEPFTchad https://web.facebook.com/gabdibe.gabhingonne https://twitter.com/GABHINGONNEGabd | https://youtu.be/TWGOKOAIiu0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
520 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Angesom | Teklu | Brandeis University | https://cyc.brandeis.edu/people/angesom.html | Research Associate | Male | Eritrea | Eritrea | Arabic | English | We are two aspired Social Entrepreneurs from the African continent. We meet at a graduate school and our paths has crossed soon due to our passion in finding solutions to pressing problems facing the people in our respective countries. Since, September 2018, we have been working on different solutions to various problems but finally decided to work on this project of transforming Landfill to household energy. We are interested to be part of the UN Solutions Summit to present our ideas at the global stage. Through this project, we are interested in solving energy scarcity- one of the African continent toughest issues , while at the same time contributing to clean environment and healthy ecology as well as making life better for millions of disadvantaged people in the continent through the creation of for-good for-profit businesses. Our small project is a microcosm of the biggest effort to realize the Sustainable Development Goal and make the world a better place. | 1. Angesom Teklu is a Research Associate at the Center for Youth and Communities at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. Angesom is working with the Center on University-Community partnerships in Ethiopia. Before joining Brandeis University, he worked in the nonprofit sector with a specific focus in youth development and social entrepreneurship.His areas of Professional interest are Social entrepreneurship Youth Development, Social Justice, Civic Engagement, Human Right Advocacy, and Project Management. 2. LAETITIA SALAMA BAHATI is a Fulbright scholar from the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is currently doing her masters degree in conflict resolution and coexistence at Brandeis University. She previously worked on programs addressing conflict resolution, gender based violence, internally displaced people and refugees. She also has a deep interest in Social Entrepreneurship Ideas that find solutions to social problems in her homeland in Congo and across the African continent. She works at the intersection of social justice and economic empowerment. | Trash Mining Lab | Trash to Energy | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Eritrea, DRC | Yes | The Eritrea Electric corporation(EEC), Asmara Municipality, Ministry of Energy & mines | Proof of Concept | Our business idea is transforming a dump site (Landfill) into an energy source (household energy) that will be used for cooking and other household energy needs. Our project aims to harness this Landfill Gas (LFG) by mining the already present methane gas due to years of decomposition. | The current waste treatment of Eritrea is a disposal of waste materials by burial which is the oldest form of waste treatment. The years of waste is creating a health problems to the nearby residents by becoming a breeding ground for disease-carrying vectors and the buildup of methane has been creating fires and explosion hazards as well as a smoke pollution. Moreover, methane is a greenhouse gas that has 21 times of carbon dioxide greenhouse potential. The other problem is energy scarcity. | To mine the gas, we will close a portion of the landfill (known as a “cell”). Instead of the gas going into the hair, it will be processed and converted into renewable energy resources such as pipeline gas which will then be put into cylinders as cooking gas to serve communities. To do so, we will drill a vertical well in the waste and connect those wellheads to lateral piping that transports the gas to a collection header using a blower or vacuum induction system. We then transfer the gas into a processing site to remove all moisture, trace components, and CO2..This will produce a methane with a heating value of near 1000 BTU/scf, equivalent to natural gas. This methane will then be transported through a 200 m pipe to the already available LPG gas filling and distribution plant to be filled into the steel propane/LP cylinders available in the market to retailed into households. | In Eritrea 80% the household energy is sourced from Biomass (Wood and cow dung) (UNDP,2017). Using Biomass for energy is environmentally destructive and unsustainable. Therefore there has been a recent shift to LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas). However, LPG , which is imported by hard currency from abroad is very expensive, limited in quantity and unreliable. (UNDP,2017). Our solution is however local, cheap and environmental friendly. Moreover, it will provide a solution not only to energy scarcity and socio-economic factors associated with it, but also solve the current environmental pollution, health hazards and greenhouse emissions posed by the current landfill in place. We will also revolutionize west treatment systems in Eritrea and provide meaningful employment to folks who depend on garbage collection for their livelihoods. The benefits of the project is that it will reduce odors and any other hazard that comes with the emissions of LFG, at the same time preventing the methane from going into the atmosphere and contributing to global climate change. This program will not only change people’s lives but also create jobs within the communities and way beyond. In addition women will not spend time to collect firewood and exposed to indoor pollution caused diseases. | We have conducted a baseline assessment, onsite rapid assessment, an environmental impact assessment, a benefit-cost-analysis, a 10 years complete financial analysis and a site visit. We have also discussed with different partners (The Eritrea Electric Corporation(EEC), Asmara Municipality, Ministry of Energy & mines) and potential stakeholders/funders of the project (African Development Bank Scaling - Up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Countries and Global Environment Facility). | Our short-term goal is to initiate a pilot project in the Eskarico Landfill. Once this goes successful we want to expand the project into the 6 landfills in the biggest cities of Eritrea. In addition we want to expand the usage of the harnessed Landfill gas into electricity, industrial use and CNG vehicle fuel. The next stage is to implement the project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, starting with the capital Kinshasa and expanding to other cities as well. In the meantime we want to train, support and invest in young entrepreneurs from other developing countries to replicate the project in their specific country. | Our short-term need is a recognition and endorsement from recognized bodies that will facilitate partnerships and attract stakeholders. We also require seed funding or alternatively loans to initiate the project. Our medium term needs are investors as we implement our pilot project and ready to scale we require investors to support our expansion. Our long term needs are partnerships with different stakeholders to expand the project to other countries in Africa. | http://wca2014.org/forestry-and-farming-a-way-through-aloe-vera-the-green-gold-amongst-us/#.XUZC9-hKg2w https://www.newleaderscouncil.org/alumni/angesom-teklu https://heller.brandeis.edu/relational-coordination/partners/directory.html#!biz/id/5aea1b4bafd69180203ca10f http://localpathways.org/local-pathways/ https://www.entrepreneurship-campus.org/members/angesom/ https://www.changemakers.com/users/angesom-ghebremeskel-teklu https://issuu.com/brandeis/docs/heller-impact-fall-2018 https://www.semesteratsea.org/2012/12/19/announcing-the-spring-2013-presidential-scholars/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WYerKMHjJY&t=73s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gekvg0dCHno&t=1851s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
521 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Abdikaiym | Zhiyenbek | freelancer engineer | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt9r5YL4sqChXNul25FPo0A | environmental engineer | male | Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan | Russian | I grew up in South Kazakhstan in Central Asia. The region is arid and semi-arid meaning very dry climate zone. Therefore, water is scarce and we have infamous Aral Sea next to us which causes many health issues. It is one of biggest disappearing lakes in the world and ecological catastrophe that was caused because of not sustainable water use, especially for crop irrigation. Water scarcity is one of the global issues of the world. According to many scientist worldwide, due to water scarcity there might be a water war in Central Asia. Five countries such as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan have been disputing water allocation since the collapse of Soviet Union. Similar to refugee issues in Europe, water in Central Asia can cause dramatic trans-boundary conflicts. Around 80 % of water is consumed by agricultural sector and most of the people survive producing agricultural products. Above mentioned issues has not been solved in last 25 years. There have been 27 projects in terms of only one river - Syr Darya. However, no regional solutions were successful and no regional agreements are signed by all 5 countries. In last years, scientist add Afghanistan and Pakistan to Central Asian countries as they are the upstream of the rivers. Water issues in Central Asia can cause conflicts or even wars among them. This trans-boundary issue needs to be solved by modern methods and one of them is mathematical optimization. So called ""win-win"" scenario has be achieved using mathematical optimization and modeling the water resources. The results produces several optimal alternative solutions (of sharing water) which can be used by high level decision makers. Thus, considering all participant and optimizing the water allocation we can solve regional trans-boundary water issue. | I did my bachelors degree in Environmental Protection at South Kazakhstan State University in Shymkent. Then, I did my masters degree in Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. After returning to Kazakhstan, I joined many international and regional water resources related projects such as CAWa (Central Asian Water). I have done both field works and modeling. I have collected field data along the Syr Darya river in 2018. I do hydrological and agricultural modeling for last 4 years. Last years, I adding artificial intelligence and machine learning tools into water field and using them for optimization purposes and forecasting. | Participatory and sustainable water resources management in Central Asia using mathematical optimization | Share water resources in Central Asia as ""win-win"" scenario using mathematical optimization and modeling. | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan | No | Sustainable Scale | Such complex trans-boundary water issues as in Central Asia, requires a comprehensive modern solution. Mathematical optimization and modeling can solve issues considering the all the stakeholders and their interests and the ecosystem as a whole. This kind of solution considers simultaneously millions of combinations of alternative solutions and find the most optimal ones for all. | ""Win-win"" scenarios can solve many issues at the same time: - solve river downstream ecosystem and biodiversity issues - solve conflicting interests among countries, dams and cities. For example, dams want to release more water during winter, but city will get flooded. - considering all the stakeholders: farmers, water bodies, governments, ecosystem, downstream and upstream - solve trans-boundary water issue which might cause water wars | It is a comprehensive decision making tool. This tool can produce several optimal solutions for water sharing. For example, farmers, dam and city. Dam wants to release water during winter times and make money producing electricity because demand for electricity is the highest in winter. However, in the downstream there is a city which can get flooded. In summer, farmers want water for irrigation. 3 interests and 3 conflicts in sharing water. Similar situation exists for the region level for five countries in Central Asia. If the issue is not solved by ""win-win"" scenario, regional agreements cannot be achieved. This is the optimal way to get agreements signed regionally, because all the stakeholders are happy with their share. | The method used modern numerical modeling methods and artificial intelligence methods. Hydrological and agricultural modeling are done by conceptual and physically-based models depending on the availability of the observed data. | I am currently developing a web version of the tool, so that is easy to demonstrate. Mobile version will also be produced later. | The plan is to show the examples during the international water meeting in Central Asia. High level decision makers need to be convinced. So far, they are skeptical about ""win-win"" scenarios. Because of ""hydro-egoism"" - trying to use as more water as possible and short term win. | short-term: support to show in high level water meetings medium-term: support to show in river basin council meeting long-term: promotion of the method in regional decision making | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt9r5YL4sqChXNul25FPo0A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiMh0p8B0xE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxT9su8vjKo | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
522 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Linton | Wells II | George Mason University (GMU), Community Resilience Lab | https://crl.c4i.gmu.edu | Executive Advisor | Male | United States of America | Angola | English | For years I have been interested in how to use innovation to reduce pressures for migration and marginalization, enhance “all hazards” emergency preparedness, and improve the resilience of critical infrastructures, both domestically and internationally. Resilience is defined not just as bouncing back to a pre-crisis status quo, but also leveraging the stresses and shocks to wind up stronger afterwards (""Be prepared to bounce forward better""). These concerns apply to areas in developing countries with youth bulges, to under-served communities in the developed world, and even to more affluent communities where critical infrastructure disruptions can impact wide areas or key functions. Accelerating rates of technological, social and climate change, along with population growth and concentration, put pressure on businesses, governments, and security structures. Solutions need integrated public-private, whole-of-society, trans-national approaches. In response, in 2017 I helped stand up a Community Resilience Laboratory (""the Lab"") at George Mason University (GMU), near Washington, DC, building on earlier work at the US National Defense University (NDU). The Lab's vision is that communities world-wide can create life-changing social and economic opportunities through locally led, bottom-up, resilience and sustainability initiatives supported by cross-cutting approaches and effective, replicable models. The Lab builds on efforts I have led since 2007 through a global knowledge-sharing network called STAR-TIDES <www.star-tides.net> that now has several thousand nodes, from universities in Asia, to NGOs in Europe and Africa, to parts of the US government. These supported first the MDGs and now the SDGs. The focus on communities stems from a study of the impact of automation and artificial intelligence on labor markets. For many developed countries with aging, declining work forces and relatively high skill, re-trainable workers, the technology can be a good deal. But what does it mean for the youth bulge areas of Mid-East/North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia if tens of millions of young people have no entry level jobs and hence no stake in the ""system""? The Lab's focus is on communities since the nation often is too large, and the family too small, to build local entrepreneurship and business development opportunities, while improving disaster resilience. Community approaches also can leverage common standards of dignity, justice and fairness. | Dr. Linton Wells II has extensive experience in building sustainable resilience, in domestic and foreign disaster relief, and in support to peace operations, as well as cybersecurity. In 2007 he helped to found the STAR-TIDES global knowledge-sharing network <www.star-tides.net>, which is now a part of the Community Resilience Laboratory at George Mason University (GMU). The Lab is working with the People-Centered Internet (PCI) on ways to “put humanity at the center of the Internet.” Dr. Wells also has broad civilian government leadership experience in national security affairs, including service as acting U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration and Department of Defense Chief Information Officer (CIO). From 2010 to 2014 he led the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, a research center at the U.S. National Defense University, and emphasized converging, accelerating technologies, complex decision-making and multi-disciplinary approaches to civil-military relations. He also was a career naval officer. Dr. Wells was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1946. He was graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967. He attended graduate school at the Johns Hopkins University, receiving a Master of Science in Engineering (M.S.E.) degree in mathematical sciences and a PhD in international relations. He is also a 1983 graduate of the Japanese National Institute for Defense Studies in Tokyo. Dr. Wells has written widely on security studies in English and Japanese journals. See also <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linton_Wells_II> | Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC) | Community-led initiative for resilience and sustainability | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Globally, in under-served communities in the developing and developed world, e.g. youth bulge areas of MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa, and Appalachia. Trials have been done in Appalachia and Puerto Rico | Yes | Trans-disciplinary GMU colleagues, STAR-TIDES network members, the People-Centered Internet | Proof of Concept | Since 2017 the Community Resilience Lab has coordinated two programs: Collaborative Community Resilience (CCR) and the Global STAR-TIDES knowledge-sharing network. It has done studies and pilot projects in Appalachia, Puerto Rico, and Japan. The Lab allows STAR-TIDES' broad knowledge-sharing capabilities to be focused on specific communities. Next steps will be to build community capacity to sustain resilience after grants end and students graduate, and lay the groundwork for scaling. | The lab addresses pressures communities worldwide face about migration and marginalization, and the need to enhance “all hazards” emergency preparedness while improving understanding of infrastructure dependencies. It will work in developing countries with youth bulges, under-served communities in the developed world, and even in more affluent communities where critical infrastructures are at risk. Such challenges are compounded by accelerating rates of technological, social and climate change. | The distinguishing features of the Community Resilience Lab, and its follow-on Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC) include: (1) concentrating on bottom-up, community-led approaches, (2) addressing resilience in comprehensive and measurable ways, (3) integrating the impacts and policy implications of converging, accelerating technological changes, and (4) including practitioners with field experience. -RASC will build on the Lab's community partnership approaches. It will augment project-specific skills with global knowledge sharing. C-RASC will draw trans-disciplinary talent from across GMU and diverse external partners, including experts in governance, sociology, economics, several kinds of engineering, and scientific analysis. Research will include basic, translational and applied efforts at multiple scales (multiscale)—from international and national, to regions, to specific communities. C-RASC supports the SDGs and reinforces GMU's Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE). Its approach shifts from top-down models to bottom-up engagement, from a focus on one-or-two topic areas to the full scope of the problem, from stovepiped solutions to trans-disciplinary collaboration, and to SMART milestones. The long-term vision is that communities world-wide can create life-changing social and economic opportunities through locally led, bottom-up resilience and sustainability initiatives, supported by cross-cutting approaches and effective, replicable models. | The Lab uses a five-part approach to coordinate activities that normally would be stove piped: (1) a focus on communities—each project begins by listening to a community’s narratives about its needs, (2) global knowledge sharing, (3) innovative economics if traditional markets aren’t working, (4) integration across several inter-dependent infrastructures (or “platforms”) such as power, shelter, water, food, ICT, and nutrition, and (5) trans-disciplinary research and teaching. Governance is key. These are supported by enablers of success, such as: narrative and story-telling, both to understand community needs in their cultural context and to translate technical analyses into terms that elicit local support; systems thinking; resource-raising strategies; education and training; finance, logistics; and digital enabling technologies such as geospatial information systems (GIS), identity management, distributed ledger technology (like blockchain), climate science, and big data analytics. The Lab also supports real world events as appropriate, such as disaster relief. Although the Lab has a broad overall focus, each Lab project emphasizes the interests of the community in question. Located in GMU's School of Engineering, the Lab also has close ties with the Colleges of Science and Health & Human Services, and the Schools of Business, Conflict Analysis & Resolution, and Policy & Government. This lets resilience questions be addressed in both technical and policy detail. | Based on 2017-19 pilot projects in Appalachia and Puerto Rico, and since 2007 through many STAR-TIDES activities, a multi-scale coordinating framework has been developed to implement projects based on local engagement and leadership. It helps stakeholders evaluate community needs and combine several “platforms for innovation” (technologies and other tools) into capabilities that meet those needs: (1) Identify a set of high-level regional needs for increased resilience that would benefit from the Lab’s approaches. Regions include developing and developed areas as outlined above. (2) Localize to specific communities, assess local narratives and storytelling practices for “everyday indicators” of resilience, validate needs, and compare to existing resilience models. (3) Develop community-led, bottom-up, local solutions through a dialogue with the community, not simply imposing “our” approaches by fiat. (4) Integrate platforms and develop capabilities that incorporate everyday indicators, using diologic methods to integrate marginalized perspectives and build trust across groups. (5) Measure, Assess, and Adjust as needed. Iterate. These steps support SMART milestones: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely. As in most complex problems, solutions are likely to be iterative, so going-in assumptions must be documented meticulously. Since 2007 STAR-TIDES has supported technology development with open-field tech demos. The 13th will be at GMU from Sept 30-Oct 2, 2019. | Measurable 5-year goals are to: - Build Trans-disciplinary Research and Teaching Capacity. Catalyze and grow a committed trans-disciplinary research and teaching team to develop plans that make a difference for diverse communities, engage with stakeholders, and teach. Provide sustainable funding and effective facilities. Train a generation of trans-disciplinary, community-engaged researchers, teachers and practitioners. Publish results. - Develop a Multiscale Research Framework. Refine the Lab’s present Systematic Implementing Framework into a widely accepted model of community-led resilience initiatives in diverse environments. - Help Plan Solutions. Help to develop plans for community-led, bottom-up, locally focused resilience solutions in complex situations with SMART milestones. - Support Solution Execution. Provide evidence-based support to increase local capacity, develop local leadership, produce results, and build a trusted network of stakeholders to carry out further projects. We will next explore tailored projects in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, and Puerto Rico, as well as using the existing STAR-TIDES Japan network to examine support to elderly populations in remote communities. We also will leverage a new MOU with Ateneo University in the Philippines. As experience grows, we will look at opportunities in the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa, but it will be key to find local interlocutors. Center growth will be paced by research grants and external sponsors. | Short-Term (1 year) needs: - Funding to set up the C-RASC structure and refine the Systematic Implementation Framework. Develop experience in using SMART milestones. File grant proposals. Funding amounts will depend on internal resources plus projects won. Build partnerships with organizations associated with resilience and the SDGs. Medium Term (2-5 years)--resources to execute the above goals: - Build Trans-disciplinary Research and Teaching Capacity. - Develop a Multiscale Research Framework. - Help Plan Solutions with SMART milestones. - Support Solution Execution Long Term (10 years): Sustain C-RASC as a trans-disciplinary Center of Excellence (CoE) having tangible impacts. Resource, Research, Publication, Teaching and Partnership Targets Column 1: End of Yr Column 2: Projects u/w Column 3: Sponsored Research u/w Column 4: Available for C-RASC Researchers Column 5: Cumulative # of Projects Completed Column 6: Cumulative # of Pubs in Peer Rev or Published Column 7: GMU Courses using CRASC Concepts Column 8: External Partnerships Formed C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 1 3 $750k $300k 0 2 3 1 2 5 $1,750k $700k 2 5 5 2 3 6 $2,250k $900k 6 8 6 3 4 7 $3,250k $1,300k 10 12 6 4 5 8 $4,250k $1,700k 14 16 6 5 Each project also is evaluated against its own community's objectives. | - Community Resilience Lab website: <https://crl.c4i.gmu.edu> - Community Resilience Lab Overview 190715 <http://star-tides.net/documents/community-resilience-lab-190715-overview> - STAR-TIDES website <http://star.tides.net> - Resilience: Building an Essential Corporate Capacity, July 10, 2018, <https://blog.nacdonline.org/2018/07/resilience-part-one/> - Applying Innovative Learning to a National Security Problem: Addressing the Challenges of Job Replacement by Automation and Artificial Intelligence, <http://armypress.dodlive.mil/files/2015/12/Innovative-Learning-Web2.pdf> - Valued Sustainable Services: Building Partnership Capacity through Collaborating Approaches, <https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/defensehorizon/DH-75.pdf?ver=2014-03-06-114916-860> - From Haiti to Helmand: Using Open Source Information to Enhance Situational Awareness, <http://star-tides.net/documents/haiti-helmand-using-open-source-information-enhance-situational-awareness-and-operational> - STAR-TIDES and Starfish Networks: Supporting Stressed Populations with Distributed Talent, December 2009, <https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/defensehorizon/DH-70.pdf?ver=2014-03-06-114912-377> - Transformational Initiatives in Civil-Military Environments: STAR-TIDES and Maritime Environments, Linton Wells II with Walter Christman, June 2009, <https://ndupress.ndu.edu/Portals/68/Documents/Books/CTBSP-Exports/Crosscutting-Issues-in-International-Transformation.pdf?ver=2017-06-16-112714-487> | - ""Resilience and Innovation in the “Age of Accelerations,” Linton Wells II interview with Mr. Thomas L. Friedman, presented April 26, 2018 at George Mason University conference on “Innovation In The “Age Of Accelerations:” Global Resilience And Cyber Knowledge Networking” <https://vimeo.com/265819135/bfb6aef5a0> -The STAR-TIDES Model of Innovation, Sustainability, Resilience, & Global Impact in the Time of Severe Climate Change & Increased Violent Weather Events [Emerald Planet Television 9.23.18] <http://www.emerald-planet.org/?p=16045> - STAR-TIDES Technology Demo 2015, (1) Shelter <http://star-tides.net/videos/star-tides-technology-demo-2015-shelter>; (2) Power <http://star-tides.net/videos/star-tides-technology-demo-2015-power>; (3) Medical Technology <http://star-tides.net/videos/star-tides-technology-demo-2015-medical-technology> - Radical Inclusion to Improve Decision-Making, NDU Lincoln Talk, August 14, 2014, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW6CBhKDIIo> Although this refers primarily to military decision-making, a text of a commercial version is at <http://star-tides.net/documents/better-outcomes-through-radical-inclusion-text-business-audience> - Promoting Sustainable Solutions to Populations in Distress 2012 <http://star-tides.net/videos/iccm-2012-dr-linton-wells-promoting-sustainable-solutions-populations-distress> - Additional STAR-TIDES-related videos available on Google and YouTube | - The Community Resilience Lab is a finalist in a GMU-wide competition to be elevated to a trans-disciplinary research center--The Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities (C-RASC). This will be under GMU's new Institute for a Sustainable Earth, led by Tom Lovejoy - The C-RASC proposing team currently executes an annual average of $2.7m in research grant funds. - Linton Wells II was awarded Johns Hopkins University Woodrow Wilson Award for distinguished public service in 2008. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
523 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Flávio | Quembo | Mozambique Political Science Association (AMCP) | NA | Vice-President | Male | Mozambique | Mozambique | English | Having been the founder and president of two very strategic associations in Mozambique, the Mid-Technicians Professionals Association (ATEMP) and the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs in Mozambique (ANJE) I have designed and implemented several programs that led to the employment and the creation of many businesses by local youth. Through that I was invited to the International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) from the U.S Government as well as been invited as a speaker in many international events. Yet, as I was constantly challenged to influence positive policies that could exponentially increase the number of people, not only youth, who could start and grow sustainable businesses in the country, I realized that I was facing an even bigger problem with global origins and impact. Having my country rated as authoritarian by ""The Economist"" gave me a starting point to begin researching innovative mechanisms (theory and practice) to better understand human beings, their behavior and their needs in the context of Globalization. I am therefore, applying to be part of the UN Solutions Summit, because there could not be a better place for me to share my findings, my proposal and find the necessary support to improve my research in order for all Governments in the world to adopt the concept of development I am proposing. | Quembo is a Political Science graduate, Vice-President of the Mozambican Association of Political Scientists (AMCP) and Member of the International Association of Political Scientists. He is a young businessman, founder and former President of the National Association of Young Entrepreneurs (ANJE) with about 14 years of professional experience in employment promotion and youth entrepreneurship, leading youth movements at national level, empowering youth in entrepreneurship and life skills, and formulating strategies in partnership with the Ministries of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Labor, ILO and other relevant organizations. Besides traveling the world, he has been a speaker in several national and international conferences. | HUMAN SUSTAINMETER | Measuring and Diagnosing Global Sustainability Level - 2018 | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Global solution | No | Proof of Concept | I have reflected upon the problem I am trying to solve and dicussed my idea of a book with several local and international political scientist through some universities, the Mozambican Political Science Association as well as the International Political Science Association. I have researched classic and contemporary books on social and human sciences, as well as other fields such as medicine to better understand how ecosystems, diagnosis and medication processes work | Faced with inhuman conditions created by a utilitarian economic and political culture that scorns the usefulness of man and exploits natural resources in a non-renewable way that creates an imbalance in sociobiodiversity with harmful impacts on the planetary ecosystem. It's this imbalance that leads to: un-sustainability condition listed by the SDG, as a direct consequence humanity is affected by what is established as an “inhabitable earth/ hellcity” as opposed to an ideal ""happinescity"". | The solution proposed is a book containing information on social, economic and political systems in place all over the world, the strengths, the weaknesses and a theoretical and practical proposal for decision makers to adopt a new ecological culture in relation to the exploitation of non-renewable natural resources. Despite all scientific names adopted to different political systems, we consider that the first model adopted by all countries in the world (and still adopted by some) was essentially a theological culture - centralizing the means of production in a minority, endowed with a theocratic ethics and a feudalist spirit, which was then replaced by a democratic ethics and capitalist spirit that centralizes power in the hands of a majority but not the totality. This work defends the need to adopt an ethics and spirit more compatible with all inhabitants of the earth, an ecological culture that defends values of an ecocratic ethic and an entrepreneurial spirit capable which focus on differentiating the utility of all beings and hence guaranteeing a balance in the utilitarian reciprocity among all. Thus, this work aims at analyzing the state of human sustainability in the world in 2018 and estimates, that given the context of globalization, the Humanity Sustainability Index in 2018 is around 30%, pointing out the knowledge of human reality and decentralized institutions as factors needed to achieve the optimal 100% human sustainability - HAPPINESCITY. | There have been several articles, publications and books from renowned authors, both classic and contemporary addressing the same issues as this work. In addition, the MDG and currently the SDGs are an attempt to solve global sustainability problems. I believe that there are three particular innovation factors to my work. The first is that unlike the SDGs that focus on isolated secondary policy and programs that can be randomly adopted by different countries in the pursuit of specific goals, my proposal is more holistic and centralized on the need to reflect on the main law ""the constitution"" as well as address the problem as a global agenda, that needs a change in the mindset and behavior of all earth habitants. The second, which is more specific, is related to my ambitious goal of measuring humanity sustainability levels and attempting to make social/political sciences more precise, by attributing percentages raging from 0 to 100% to the current state of sustainability based on ""participation of all beings"" in the ecosystem as key indicator. The third and last is that considering that we living in a context of globalization where problems and challenges are shared we need to find a common understanding of our ""WORLD CONDITION = HUMAN SUSTAINMETER"" and not EUROBARROMETER or AFROBARROMETER. | We have progressed to writing the book in Portuguese and we are currently revising, editing and translating to English. We can within this month begin to test and compare with other related books, studies and Indexes, such as the 2018 Democracy Index. To ensure methodological rigor we are using a number of indicators, including objective score, that help us evaluate and infer on our theoretical and empirical contribution. We are also making sure that while we refer to existing related theories, that there is no plagiarism, and that it becomes clear what is the innovation in process and idea that we are bringing. In addition, the endorsement of this work by international renowned political forums and scientists will be a great measure of progress and methodological rigor. | Our main Goal is to be able to positively influence the UN and all Governments in the world to adopt an ecocratic global constitution that will lead to the eradication of inequalities through an ecocratic ethics and entrepreneurial spirit. With the presentation of this new global relationship culture model, my hope is to refresh socio-political and economic debates having in account the preservation and sustainability of the planet. Among key milestones are publishing the book, translating to several languages, launching in international events, influencing both the UN and Global Governments to adopt the model proposed. | In the short term I need experts who can assist me in improving my work so as to ensure it is implementable by global Governments and that the UN endorses and leads the process; In the medium term I need support to translate and print my work in all possible languages to be discussed by Governments, Politicians, Universities, Businesses and Civic Society organizations all around the world. | https://www.portaldalideranca.pt/lideres/entrevistas/3762-flavio-quembo-poderemos-vislumbrar-um-novo-mocambique https://noticias.sapo.mz/actualidade/artigos/jovens-empresarios-da-lusofonia-vao-criar-confederacao-empresarial https://issuu.com/revista.capital/docs/capital_85/55 https://www.dw.com/pt-002/%C3%A9-poss%C3%ADvel-um-empreendedorismo-em-mo%C3%A7ambique-fora-da-frelimo/a-18109250 | I don't normally keep record | National Social Entrepreneur 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
524 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Michael | Hands | Inga Foundation | www.ingafoundation.org | Program Director | male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | Spanish | I began the scientific research that has led to this solution in the mid 1980s. At that time, the scientific literature could not adequately explain why soil fertility in the world's humid tropics would fail so quickly after the rain forest had been cut and burned. The scientific literature at that time was inconclusive or contradictory. Following field work in Costa Rica, I investigated the Phosphorus chemistry of soils taken from slash-and-burn sites and also adjacent forest. I found a solution to the problem and was able to explain the contradictions that had hindered progress in seeking an alternative and sustainable agricultural system for poverty-stricken subsistence farmers in the humid tropics. The fundamental questions were: Given that the tropical rain forest is the most biologically productive ecosystem on Earth, why is it that once slashed and burned, the soil cannot support more than one or two crops of basic grains? How does the forest achieve such high productivity on some of the world's most nutrient-poor soils? Availability of soil phosphorus proved to be the key factor in sustainability of cropping. These findings were the main topic of my Cambridge thesis and became the core of a successful bid for research funding from the European Community (1988). As a Research Associate of Cambridge University, and in collaboration with the University of Costa Rica (UCR), I began the first of four consecutive research projects with a controlled slash-andburn operation on 2 ha. of lowland secondary rain forest in Costa Rica. We began long term investigations into the phosphorus (P)-ecology of conventional slash/burn agriculture and the agroforestry system known as ""alley-cropping"". 7 years' continuous trials and lab. data upheld the P hypothesis and produced a sustainable alternative to slash-and-burn in acid rainforest soils. Alley-cropping using trees of the genus Inga emerged as the only system with promise of sustainability; with the proviso that the system requires small and regular supplements of rock phosphate. We had found the solution to a problem affecting perhaps 100 million families in the world's humid tropics. Inga Foundation was founded in 2007 as a UK-registered Charitable Trust to implement hat solution. This submission reflects Inga Foundation's ongoing ""Land for Life""Program based upon those years of research and development. | Research in Cambridge and in Central America. 1985-88 Research Associate University of Cambridge. UK. 1988-2002 Founder/Trustee and Secretary. Inga Foundation: 2077 to present. Program Director. Inga Foundation's Land for Life Program in Honduras. CA. see cv below | Land for Life | A sustainable alternative rural livelihood to slash and burn in the world's rain forests. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, DR Congo, Rep. of Congo, Laos | Yes | Fundación Hondureña de Investigación Agrícola (FHIA). IUCN (Meso and South America). Honduran Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MiAmbiente). Centro Universitario Regionál del Litoral Atlántica (CURLA).. | Scaling | Inga alley-cropping lies at the heart of an integrated and sustainable rural livelihood: The ""Guama Model"". This is comprised of: Inga a-c for food security in basic grains. Inga a-c for cash crops. Tree crops associated with more widely spaced Inga as their only source of biologically fixed Nitrogen. Reforestation with valuable tropical hardwoods. The aim in 2012 was to begin establishing these with families pa. up to about 200. and thus to demonstrate scaleability at landscape level. | Slash-and-burn subsistence agriculture has fed millions of families over past centuries; today it maintains some 250-300 millions of their descendent families in poverty; and its widespread failure is an underlying cause of rural-urban migration in the tropics. The consumptive process by which forest cover is converted to invasive grassland, over vast swathes of former tropical forest, is estimated to be contributing between 1 and 2 billion tonnes of carbon (C) annually to the atmosphere. | Inga alley-cropping is the result of a radical rethink of the whole problem of food security in the acid, leached soils of the rain forest zone. Slash and burn agriculture cannot be intensified as other agricultures were in the Green Revolution. We took lessons from the form and functioning of the rain forest itself. The system uses the soil restorative qualities of these resilient trees, combined with soil mineral supplements. We know of no other system capable of restoring the fertility of sites with a history of slash and burn of over a century. It is a mulching system using tough green material, grown in situ, to provide weed-suppression and physical protection from climatic violence. The system proved itself resilient to the the worst impacts of the 20165-16 El Niño events; and was the only subsistence system to do so. The Guama Model itself addresses positively 11 of the 17 SDGs and has no negative impacts on the remaining 6. This is only possible because the system is remedial of soil degradation that has already occurred and that it only requires readily available resources. Inga Foundation's (IF's) strategy has been to create a ""critical mass"" of families, concentrated in our 2 target river catchments, successfully using the system to achieve food security; secure incomes; resilience to climatic instability and autonomy. The system should then begin a spontaneous self replication. We now have 300 families and 100s more asking for the system. | As outlined above, the strategy is the result of a completely radical rethink of how biological systems work in the context of food production. The complete and permanent physical protection provided by annual pruning and mulching of Inga foliage mimics the protected environment of the forest floor. The Inga a-c system was pioneered by the Cam Inga projects and its implementation in CA is being pioneered by IF. The system provides 100% weed-control via: Shade from the Inga canopy as the system develops and suppression under deep, resistant mulch. The vital surface soil is protected from violent rain storms and direct solar radiation. These factors are vitally important. The system provides food security, firewood for the kitchen and soil conservation. We have evidence from farmers that streams below Inga systems run clearer and for longer as soil moisture is conserved. No other system can achieve these. In one sense, the new methodology is that, instead of relying on modern (and unaffordable) technologies (GMOs, etc.), the approach took a conceptual ""step backwards"" to learn from the rain forest itself; and then found a way of mimicking the most productive ecosystem on Earth. Once successfully implemented by a family, the system contains the germ-plasm of its own replication. No artificial Nitrogen is ever required; but we have found that, in the most degraded soils, the Inga need mineral supplements to achieve site-capture. Rock-P, Dolomitic Lime and K-Mag | IF's 10-year Land for Life Program, outlined above, began in 2012 and aimed to establish all 4 components of the Guama Model with 200 families by year 10. One strategic objective is to have established the model at landscape scale in order to convince decision makers in international agencies (eg. UN GEF, GCF, etc.) that the model can be replicated and scaled out to achieves regional impact. The intention was to phase out further extension work and to use IF's 12-ha. demonstration farm at Las Flores in the Cuero valley as a teaching and training facility to assist in a massively scaled-up regional initiative. We are now in year 8 of the Program and have over-achieved the field work objectives. However, lack of core funding has caused the suspension of capital projects (eg buildings) at the demo farm. Although the original objective saw us ceasing further extension work at 200 families, we now have around 300 in various stages of adoption and/or use of the Inga system. Demand from their neighbours is now overwhelming our ability to satisfy that demand. With a recruitment target of 40 families per year; and with 4 model components to establish; progress is measured by simple criteria: number of families with or without one or more component. Priority has always been given to Inga a-c for food security in basic grains. Families are free to choose any combination of the model; on any area of land. Many prefer fruit trees (Rambutan, Avocado, Cacao) to reforestation. | To complete the Land for Life Program by the end of 2021. To present the Guama Model, at landscape scale, as sustainable best practice for rural families in the humid tropical regions of South and Central America and the adjacent Caribbean. To secure funding for infrastructure on IF's demo farm at Las Flores in support of a long-term regional teaching and resource facility (eg: Inga seed bank, etc). Collaborating institutions and individuals are replicating Inga a-c in 11 other tropical countries, as outlined above. We expect this to grow. Demand for Inga seed from Las Flores is now massive and a high proportion of our time is spent in receiving visitors. We foresee a hugely expanded program in Honduras and have already held training workshops for government nominees. | Short term: Funds to complete year 8 of the program Medium term: Funds to complete the 10-year program and to fund capital items such as teaching facilities, accommodation, vehicles and professional staff. Long term: There is an obvious requirement to bring this revolutionary technology to the attention of major international funding agencies. Professional help will be required for this. | http://www.ingafoundation.org Hands, M. R. 2004. El uso de Inga en Cultivo en Callejones; una alternativa sostenible comprobada a la agricultura migratoria en el Bosque Lluvioso. Invited co-author in: Cordero, J. and Boshier, D. H., (eds.): Árboles de Centroamérica: Un Manuál para Extensionistas. OFI/CATIE. Oxford. UK. Hands, M. R. June 2002. Alley-Cropping as a Sustainable Alternative to Shifting Cultivation. Final Report. Project HND / B7-6201 / IB / 97 / 0533(08). Tropical Forests Budgetary Line. Commission of the European Communities. DG I. Brussels. Hands, M. R. 1998. The uses of Inga in the acid soils of the rain-forest zone: Alley-cropping sustainability and soil regeneration. In: Pennington, T. D. and Fernandes, E.C.M. (eds.) 1998: The genus Inga: Utilization. Royal Botanic Gardens. Kew. England. Hands, M.R., Harrison, A.F. and Bayliss-Smith, T.P. 1995. Phosphorus dynamics in slash-and-burn and alley-cropping systems on ultisols in the humid tropics. In: Tiessen, H. (ed): Phosphorus in the Global Environment: Transfers, Cycles and Management. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment. SCOPE/ UNEP publ'n no. 54. John Wiley & Sons. Chichester. Hands, M. R., Bayliss-Smith, T. P. and Bache, B.W. 1993. Experimental Alley-cropping systems in Lowland Tropical Rain-forest sites in Costa Rica: I; Biomass production. Report to the Commission of the European Communities DG XII Science and Technology for Development. Brussels | Video recordings on: http://www.ingafoundation.org see links below: | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/nov/28/climatechange.climatechangeenvironment IF. Finalist: http://www.thestandrewsprize.com/finalists/2014 IF wins SOLVER status.: https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/carbon-contributions/solutions/27 https://foodtank.com/news/2017/09/17-organizations-fighting-hunger/ winner: https://www.ifoam.bio/sites/default/files/mike_hands_reduced.pdf www.fao.org/cfs/cfs44 Honduras July 2016; "" Land For Life"" winner www.energyglobe/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
525 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Pardis | Sabeti | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | www.sabetilab.org | Institute Member | Female | United States of America | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | English | Poor health affects every aspect of life. It leads to reduced quality of life, both while the individual is critically ill and throughout their lifespan by limiting education opportunities, and straining social relationships. These dynamics are exacerbated when high-quality health care is inaccessible, as is the case for an unacceptably high proportion of the world population. In the case of infectious disease outbreaks, the effect goes beyond the individual’s illness alone; the spread of disease perpetuates the cycle of poverty, contributes to existing global inequity, and has a catastrophic impact on the environment. We have seen the devastation that infectious disease outbreaks cause first hand. Our and our collaborators’ experiences over the last decade has made clear to us that the world is largely underprepared to respond to--much less prevent--the next global pandemic. So, we are working to revolutionize infectious disease outbreak response and preparedness worldwide. We will do this through three interrelated aims: The refinement of field-deployable diagnostics and surveillance tools that can determine the exact cause of viral illness at the point of care The investment in local researchers who can leverage pathogen surveillance techniques to understand existing pathogen circulation patterns and predict the next local outbreak The establishment of federated Sentinel Sites that promote open collaboration, calibrate response initiatives, and serve as resources for government officials and other stakeholders in the event of an outbreak We are applying to present at the UN Solutions Summit because—while we have designed and deployed pilot projects at various west African research sites—we understand that in order to be truly effective, outbreak response initiatives must be global in their scope, and aligned in their mission and values. The UN Solutions Summit is unique in its dual provision of a world stage, and the chance to connect with dynamic partners who share our commitment, vision, and drive. We believe that with our deeply-established working relationships with researchers in outbreak-prone regions, the scientific advances we have made as a product of these partnerships, our collaboration with groups whose expertise supplement our own, and our mission-based approach to pursuing health equity, we are well positioned to strengthen west African health systems, and raise the quality of life for all who live in the region and beyond. | Dr. Sabeti is a computational geneticist with expertise developing algorithms to detect genetic signatures of adaption in humans and the microbial organisms that infect humans. Her lab’s key research areas include: (1) Developing analytical methods to detect and investigate evolution in the genomes of humans and other species (2) Examining host and viral genetic factors driving disease susceptibility to the devastating and deadly diseases in West Africa, Ebola Virus Disease and Lassa hemorrhagic fever. (3) Investigating the genomes of microbes, including Lassa virus, Ebola virus, Plasmodium falciparum malaria, Vibrio cholera, and Mycobacterioum tuberculosis to help in the development of intervention strategies. (4) Determining the microbial cause of undiagnosed acute febrile illness. | Network for Viral Surveillance and Outbreak Response in Africa | Building a network that empowers African researchers to prepare for, respond to, and prevent infectious disease outbreaks. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal | Yes | Redeemer’s University, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, (Nigeria); Kenema Government Hospital (Sierra Leone); Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (Senegal); Liberia Institute of Biomedical Research (Liberia); Tulane University, (USA) | Transition to Scale | Our network has completed numerous proofs of concepts. We have developed genomic and related technologies, established in-country capacity, and founded education programs that invest in local talent, providing critical support in active infectious disease outbreaks. Our efforts over the last decade have given us a roadmap for outbreak response initiatives; we are now poised to leverage this expertise to scale our programming and partnerships, and serve countries, continents, and the world. | Clinics often are ill-equipped to diagnose, treat, and trace viral pathogens, and the framework for coordination is lacking. This creates a scenario prime for an outbreak that could spiral into an epidemic. Fortunately, we believe a solution is on the horizon, and we believe our group leverages the expertise of international collaborators, and hundreds of African scientists and clinicians to identify, track, and treat viruses. | Our network will establish a clear and robust surveillance and detection process for looming outbreaks and enable a more swift response. This dexterity can help save thousands of lives. The network will deepen existing collaborative relationships, leverage experts with deep knowledge in west Africa, and train local researchers to take the lead in detecting and preventing outbreaks in their regions. We will build with the understanding that “an outbreak somewhere can become an outbreak everywhere”. While we anticipate the most transformative impact to be felt by the millions of people who suffer from already decimated health systems, and countries that heavily rely on foreign agencies for outbreak detection and response, we are committed to ensuring that our programming is accessible by all, and can be implemented in any region of the world. Though intended to be deeply rooted in west Africa, our network will serve as a base to deploy resources to other parts of the continent. Once we have a system that has been tested and validated, we can scale to satellite sites in other parts of the region and potentially other parts of the world. | Our solution invests in communities, and attends to both the social and biological factors that influence outbreak response and preparedness. Our proposal is inherently innovative. We combine cutting-edge genomic technology (e.g., CRISPR) with cloud-based data science to address an age-old problem that has suffered from a lack of true innovation for far too long. We are proposing to place these transformative technologies in the hands of local health care and public health workers in some of the world’s highest-risk countries—the people who are best positioned to interpret the information and take swift, efficient action. Our approach will be perpetuated as the system creates a “virtuous circle”, in which communities and stakeholders benefit from their participation in the network. This in turn deepens their investment in the project and encourages its sustainability. With this cycle, we will no longer be limited to mobilizing response efforts after an outbreak has occurred and escalated to the level of a regional emergency. For the first time ever, we will have a pathogen surveillance system that allows us to get out ahead of outbreaks. Our heightened productive capacity will allow for the dissemination of early warnings regarding emerging threats in West Africa, and the clinics in our network will serve as sentinels for the rest of the world. In this way, our efforts can reduce the risk of the next global pandemic. | In an effort to preempt and stop pandemics, we have assembled a global team of pioneers who recognize the need to empower local communities, and to cooperate across many sectors. These partners have made numerous key advances in the global response to the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak and beyond. As examples, they: led the initial diagnoses, clinical description, and genomic characterization of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Nigeria; trained 5,000+ frontline health workers while managing five Ebola Treatment Units; equipped 1000+ frontline workers with a digital mobile platform; developed novel machine-learning algorithms, visualizations, and diagnostic tools for disease monitoring; built a news platform to centralize information; launched a multimedia awareness campaign in Nigeria reaching 20+ million people; and designed and built state-of-the-art hospitals and laboratories throughout the developing world. We measure our progress by our many quantitative outputs, and validate our rigor through numerous high-impact publications in top journals including Science, Nature, Cell, and the New England Journal of Medicine. Underpinning these achievements is our mission to change the framework of outbreak response. This is best exemplified by our call for early and broad data sharing, and our emphasis on response efforts that center around roots in the community, rather than parachuted aid. We are excited to build on the momentum that our initiatives and approach have generated. | We have recently developed SHERLOCK, a CRISPR-based, field-deployable diagnostic technology, with which new assays can be rapidly designed to target high-priority viruses. We will first target Lassa fever, a high-priority viral hemorrhagic fever endemic in West Africa, then Dengue virus and malaria, for which better diagnostics are critically needed. We will also implement a cell phone readout for SHERLOCK to feed the results directly into surveillance data systems, and build a cloud-based data-sharing system to enable rapid data analysis and interpretation by local public health authorities and outside institutions. In parallel, through establishing advanced metagenomic sequencing centers of excellent in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Senegal, we will map out the full set of pathogens causing acute fever in west Africa. These maps will provide a framework to detect changes that signal a new threat, perform modeling to anticipate the spread of disease. New diagnostics and therapies will be created from our efforts to detect all microbes present in some 10,000 samples from patients at clinics across these countries. By the project’s conclusion, we will have enabled hundreds of African scientists and clinicians to identify, track, and treat viruses -- a major step toward solving one of the continent’s most devastating problems. We will also have shifted the international approach to outbreak response and preparedness. | Resources for this project could be directed across three mutually supportive aims. 1. Scaling research capacity in country. We aim to apply state-of-the-art design to the research and clinical facilities in the three countries that were most affected by the 2014 Ebola outbreak (Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Liberia) as well as a bordering country that felt the reverberations of the outbreak (Senegal). Through this aim, we will ensure that each of our local partners has the tools they need to formulate rapid and effective response initiatives. This will be critical to achieve in our work’s early stages. 2. Generation and dissemination of outbreak data. Both funds and intellectual capital will be directed toward pursuing research initiatives that will inform outbreak preparedness, prevention, and response. We will simultaneously design innovative platforms that will leverage increasingly-powerful digital tools to streamline data-sharing. 3. Coordinating efforts. Both effort and resources must be dedicated to the global coordination of initiatives if we are to develop a federated model for outbreak response, and build upon the successes of individual research teams. Through this aim, we will align values, share best practices and technology, and cultivate synergistic pursuits. This sort of cultural shift will be achieved across many years and diverse partnerships. | Organization Websites: https://www.broadinstitute.org/ www.sabetilab.org www.acegid.org www.vhfc.org Education Outputs https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDJAWnHexRotNMQQ3jB-97g Technical papers https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29700266 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30718881 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26276630 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30332564 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25214632 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/338/6108/750.long https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0004549 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(18)30121-X/fulltext | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8RxjxdUulE https://time.com/5574168/doctors-ethical-medical-miracles-time-100-summit/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VygPoVFc5zM https://www.packard.org/insights/grantee-story/packard-fellows-spotlight-dr-pardis-sabeti/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biPbDl7rRq0 | International Women's Day Honoree: International Institute of New England winner, 2019 National Academy of Science, Richard Lounsbery Award winner, 2017 Blavatnik National Award finalist, 2016 TIME 100 Most Influential winner, 2015 TIMEEE Person of the Year winner, 2014 The Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science winner, 2014 National Geographic Emerging Explorer winner, 2013 Ellis Island Medal of Honor winner, 2013 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader winner, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
526 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sheraz | Abdul Hayee | Young Sustainable Impact | http://ysiglobal.com/ | Team 6: Researcher | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | The motivation to attend UN Solutions Summit is to present a project related to SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production. The name of the project is “Plant-a-Plate” that aims to replace the plastic food packaging with the biodegradable germinating food packaging. Plastic packaging in the food industry is one of the major causes of pollution and accelerate the climate change process. I have done projects related to SDG 12 and 13. The purpose to work on these two SDG’s is to create awareness and provide alternative solutions to plastic production in developing countries. Plant-a-Plate project is currently in prototyping phases which is almost completed as prototypes are tested through different aspects. In 2018, working with Asia Pacific Youth Exchange in the Philippines, I created another project related to SDG 13 to reduce the impact of flooding in mountain areas by initiating the project “Wall of Change” that use plastic bricks to make the walls around civilians houses. Innovation is a key to implement the projects related to Climate Change as these projects require new technology and a new strategy to have the potential to grow exponentially. The plant-a-plate project uses advance Laser cutting technology, Germination that helps to fuse plant seeds in the paper during production and Origami technology that eliminates the use of bonding chemicals for the papers to convert it into packaging box. Currently, in Pakistan specifically there is no such innovative project and Pakistan needs to tackle plastic pollution and ban plastic packaging to ensure sustainability in the environment. The plant-a-plate project has a potential to change the food packaging industry in developing countries and ensure the sustainability at large scale in upcoming years because most of the countries are now implementing a complete ban on single-use plastic. | My name is Sheraz and I am the Co-founder of Plant-a-Plate startup. I graduated as a Mechanical Engineer in 2016 and has worked with the UVO Corporation a freelance company as a researcher since 2017. I have a great interest in sustainable development goals specifically SDG 12 and 13. I have done projects related to these SDG's and my goal is to make an impact in this world by replacing plastic products. Currently, I am working with YSI and have established a company along with my team members. I have significant experience as a researcher and product development. Furthermore, I am a book worm and love to read. My goal is to make a positive impact on the people and ensure sustainability in the packaging business in developing countries. | Plant-a-Plate | We're a startup creating an alternative to plastic & Styrofoam disposables, using Agro-industrial waste such as Wheat and Corn husk. | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Pakistan and Mexico | Yes | Young Sustainable Impact Organization | Proof of Concept | Plant-a-Plate project is currently at the Proof of Concept stage of the innovation because the prototypes were built and already tested with the potential consumers. The Business Model Canvas and the Value Stream Mapping is developed to get the overview of making the product at an industrial scale. Now, the project is at the stage of transition from prototype to a fully functional product and that requires financial funding, collaboration with key patners and establishment of workshop. | Plastic production has increased rapidly over the years, and it has a negative impact on the environment as it takes 400-500 years for plastic to decompose. The food industry uses single-use plastic packing especially the street vendors and takes away restaurants. Styrofoam boxes and cups are widely used by the street food vendors and end up in the landfills and cause pollution. We are targeting these plastic products and aim to replace it with Biodegradable Germinating Origami Packaging. | The solution to plastic food packaging's such as Styrofoam boxes and cups is Plant-a-Plate boxes and cups. In our product, the material used is completely biodegradable as we are using Wheat husk and Corn husk along with Food graded lime and recycled paper. The raw material is treated with the fresh water and then boiled to get rid of any impurities under high pressure. The sheets are formed with the mixture and then they are cut in the form of different designs as per customer requirements to make the origami boxes and cups. During the manufacturing of paper, no industrial chemical is utilized and 90% raw material used is Wheat or Corn husks as they are widely available in Pakistan and Mexico. To make it more sustainable and to create a significant impact on the environment, we have used germination technology in the paper. Through this, we are able to add plant seeds into the paper, so after customer use our packaging and if they clearly dump it into their lawn or garden then the plant will grow from the packaging as it contains seeds and wheat or corn husks works as a fertilizer for the seeds to grow into a plant. The long-term vision is to replace the use of styrofoam food packaging from the world and replace it with Plant-a-Plate packaging because styrofoam has devasted impact on environment and wildlife. Recently, animals were seeing eating styrofoam as some of them mistake these white looking object like a food. | The biodegradable plates and cups are available in the market but they are not successful in replacing the plastic packaging. Plant-a-Plate packaging has the potential to replace Styrofoam packaging from the market. The plant-a-plate packaging is naturally biodegradable means it does not require specific treatment to decompose as most the companies make biodegradable compostable products but they require special treatment plants to decompose them and it is an expensive to process and hard to implement in the developing countries. The prices of current solutions are extremely high as compared to the prices of plastic products due to which most of the biodegradable products have failed to get the attention of the customers. Plant-a-Plate packaging offers reasonable prices and products can easily compete with the price of conventional plastic products. The existing solutions use molds and need high-tech recycling plant to ensure sustainability in the company. Our methodology is different as we don't use any chemicals so we don't require any high-tech recycling plant and our products can easily biodegrade at normal temperature and pressure. Origami technique is used instead of relying on the molds as molds are expensive and require regular maintenance, so we have focused on using the Origami technique to give the consumer the wide range of choices regarding their designs. Use of germination in the packaging makes it more valuable and unique as compared to existing solutions. | Our team has successfully tested and validated the prototype with the local street food vendors. We have recently achieved this milestone as testing of the prototype was a critical stage. We had to design the boxes specifically for street foods widely consumed in Mexico and Pakistan. We measure the progress of our solution by keeping the record of each phase and completing each phase within a specific deadline. We are working in parallel, as while we were validating and testing our prototype, we also worked on developing the website and social media network. Now, we are talking with the Key partners to get the attraction of the investors to turn this solution into a scalable business. | Milestone 0: Prototyping, Testing and Creating Website (Completed) Milestone 1: Meetings with the Investors and packaging companies to get funding for the company. Collaborating with Environmental activists to create awareness about the plant-a-plate packaging. Milestone 2: Establishing the Workshop in Pakistan and Mexico to start producing Plant-a-Plant packaging. Milestone 3: Hiring skilled workers, Autocad expert for Origami designs, Machine Operator, Accountant and Establishing supply chain. Milestone 4: Moving from local street vendors to local Take-Away restaurants and then focusing on Global food chains. Milestone 5: Partnering with companies in Southeast Asian countries to make an impact globally. | Short-Term resources: Funding for the workshop, Contracts with the suppliers regarding raw material, Hiring skilled workers. Medium-Term resources: Financial funds for machinery, collaborating with the Restaurants, Logistics for distribution in different cities and social media marketing for creating significant awareness and impact at large scale Long-Term resources: Going global require a lot of legal work so establishing company in Southeast Asian countries most preferably Vietnam and Thailand. Establishment of Global Supply Chain and Partnering with the different consumers. | https://www.facebook.com/Plant-a-Plate-Disposables-2327483887521894/ Kindly open the following link in Miro. It contains the Mind map of our project, it is a bit confusing but it gives the overview of how we came up with this solution and what different techniques and methodologies were used to create the solution. https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kxwWxlM=/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU0ZVLouj-c&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1pmxv6zmDdK3VCqShv_Kwj2T0AHXXHlIgs-VE1_bD5o6MXY89qq-gCdaM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
527 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | swati | maheshwari | SAVE A MOTHER | https://saveamother.org/ | CEO | FEMALE | India | India | English | Its known fact that “ poor health constitutes suffering and deprivation of the most fundamental kind” (quoting from UN india website ) and we know that SDG’s is a critical step to combat the same . Looking at territories like India where health performance as not been as desired and the gap between SDG’S and current situation still stares at the face, frugal healthcare solutions in terms of products as well as processes are the key . Furthermore, rising healthcare costs in the advanced economies in the face of anaemic economic growth and stretched government finances, indicate that many of these innovations could also be used to address healthcare needs in advanced economies as well. We shall like to share one such frugal solution developed by our organisation Save A Mother (SAM) with the esteemed UN Solutions Committee. Our frugal innovation is based on the fact that the health systems strengthening often seeks supply side solutions to healthcare problems by providing more resources. Community led demand side solutions are under explored. SAM,works with the consumers as change-agents to improve community health seeking behaviour and create informed demand. We focus on the demand side of healthcare by improving health-seeking behavior, which is the least expensive method of reducing the disease burden of a community. We keep people at the centre of all our efforts and focus on bottom up approach . We have developed an Effective Social Persuasion model for social behavior change, which creates intelligent demand from the community. We understand the importance of innovating , evaluating and replicating ; we have successfully tested and replicated the solution in 10 different locations (districts in India; more than 1800 villages ) in the last 11 years directly impacting over 1,150,000 million people and as per our estimate over 1 million people have indirectly been impacted.Our locations are at bottom 10% of income groups in district . We work with the poor and vulnerable communities who lack education, income, assets, status, and access to healthcare. Many belong to minority and marginalised sections. We follow every pregnant woman and infant ,reproductive age group women and married couples 18 years to 49 years; adolescent girls of age group 10 to 18 years, children under 5 years of age. We target the family and contacts of all TB patients .We deliver at an annual cost of approximately 25 cents per capita of total population in the area. | Dr Swati Maheshwari is Internal medicine specialist with more than 15 years of experience in clinical and administrative field both in India and abroad .She works with almost all stakeholders like Government , NGO’s , corporate houses ,research foundations and private healthcare providers and has diverse and functional expertise of healthcare needs . Her work has covered varied health aspects from manual scavengers, hygiene in school going children , prevention and early detection of common diseases , menstrual hygiene , water sanitation , cancer awareness , TB control , population stabilisation to mother and child health. She is also Senior Technical committee member of “India Nutrition Program “ flagship program of Plan International ,Reckitt Benckiser and Maharashtra Village Social Transformation Foundation ( initiative of Rural Development department ,Government of Maharashtra, India ) The program aims at Transforming 1000 villages in Maharashtra focusing on child malnutrition and infant mortality She is also a social entrepreneur ;having curated and produced popular health show “ Dr swati Show “ on Indian television and other digital portals; to develop awareness as an effective tool to promote behaviour modification and health seeking practices . She has been part of many other health centric programmes on television . She works with Save A Mother organisation,currently working in more than 1000 villages at various locations across India focussing on capacity building , strategic planning , program monitoring ,training field workers and building partnerships . | Effective Social Persuasion Platform | Health is an individual and community responsibility and healthcare is a right. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | India | Yes | Population Foundation of India, Deshpande Foundation,Deshpande Foundation Ek Soch, India | Sustainable Scale | On average, we have reduced maternal mortality by 90% and infant mortality by 60%. Like In 167 villages of Gadag , Karnataka in past 6 years, MMR has decreased to 17.2 from 364 and IMR has decreased to 5 from 46 Marriage of girls under18 years of age has become almost zero Contraceptive use increased from 28% to 62% Unmet need for contraception decreased to 2% from 10.8 % TB detection rate increased 3 times Trained 37,000 volunteer health activists in villages who are available to community | Communities with poor resources suffer from high burden of diseases, which are either preventable or curable. We address many such problems: Maternal health, Child health, Population stabilization, Adolescent health, TB control and Malnutrition. We develop frugal solutions for the poor. We focus on demand side of healthcare by improving health-seeking behavior, which is least expensive method too.We bring about social behavior change, which creates intelligent demand from the community. | We have developed an Effective Social Persuasion Platform ; low-cost platform persuades community to modify its health-seeking behavior. It is simple, sustainable and scalable with speed. Its based on two assumptions: • Health is an individual and community responsibility; ownership of this responsibility promotes health and empowers community to demand healthcare rights. Denial of responsibility transfers burden of solution to external agency to provide a supply-side solution, which is expensive. • A sustained campaign can persuade community to modify health-seeking behavior. Peer to peer nudge is more effective than provider-client persuasion method. It uses following steps for behavior modification. • Develop simple messages • Train community volunteers as health care leaders • Deliver messages as stories, illustrations, videos and entertainment education • Community creates own culture-specific messages as songs and slogans • Reinforce positive behavior by illustrating sickness events which could be avoided • Community leaders take over to own the program after 3 to 5 years. • We solved unmet need for contraception by improving supply chain.We appointed 292 sales depots, run by village women, where contraceptives are readily available below market price and protects their privacy too. Model is not just scalable but scalable with speed , turn around impacts shown by vulnerable and marginalised communities reiterate that global SDG's are achievable targets. | Awareness is often assumed to be equal to behavior change. In practice, it is not so. Prevalent awareness-building programs merely touch the surface without translating into measurable behavior change. Our program is a multi-step process, where awareness is one of many steps for a sustainable behavior change. • Our field workers are from the community where they live and work. They are available 24/7. We take health to the village center and to the doorstep of recipients. • We promote ownership of both health and healthcare. We believe, health is an individual and community responsibility and healthcare is a right. • Our program has no predetermined endpoint. Our repetitive training continues until we meet our targets. We conduct 8000 to 9000 public community meetings annually in each district. •We develop a cadre of volunteer village health activists who take over the program after we succeed. • We also develop a cadre of social entrepreneurs, who sell contraceptives, sanitary pads, and nutritional products to village women ,making it easier for them to access without their privacy getting compromised and ensuring availability as a continuous process rather than intermittent . • Ours is a sustainable peoples program, which makes the health system more responsive. • We are able to bring about positive health outcomes at an annual cost of approximately 25 cents per capita of total population in the area | We have successfully tested and replicated the solution in 10 different locations (districts in India ; more than 1800 villages ) in the last 11 years directly impacting over 1,150,000 million people through maternal, child health and TB control programs We are able to exit from 25% of villages successfully after 3 years, 50% after 4 years and 75% after 5 years. The volunteer community leaders are able to run program with help of public health workers. We define our objectives, activities, outputs & outcomes before start of program. We measure monthly / quarterly progress against all these parameters. We do a baseline and end-line evaluation of each program. • Collect real-time data from field community meetings and household surveys. The field workers upload it on smartphones and to our MIS system. We collate and review data every month in our office. • Validate our data from field visits, published data from various sources including government and unpublished data of local government office. • Also compare our outcomes and impact with similar programs run by government and other private organizations. • External evaluation: SIGMA, a research-based organization in Delhi has evaluated our population stabilization program through baseline and end line Evaluation. • International Institute of Health Management and Research, Delhi has evaluated our maternal and child health program • Our funding partners have monitored our programs by field visits regularly. | Muzaffarpur District, Bihar ,India has had annual breakout of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) for the past many years, causing many deaths among children. The first case of AES in Muzaffarpur district was recorded in 1995. There were 143 deaths in 2013, 355 in 2014 and claims lives every year . But in 2019, published reports say, close to 500 patients with suspected AES were admitted to hospitals and over 150 children died in summer. The cause of the recent outbreak is unclear. Poverty , malnutrition, low birthweight and anaemia are contributing factors. SAM is expanding its work this month in Minapur block of Muzaffarpur to reduce deaths due to AES 25% annually over three years. Minapur block, 80 Km north of Patna, has an estimated population of approximately 4000,000, living in 152 villages .SAM will also improve maternal-child health, adolescent health, reproductive health and family planning.SAM will target all women of reproductive age,adolescents ,children below 10 years and all pregnant mothers with other objectives of Reducing IMR by 50% ; reducing MMR by 80% ;Increase complete immunisation rate of children to 90% ; Improve weight for height by 50% ;Reduction in under 18 marriage of girls ;Improve contraceptive acceptance by 50% in 3 years. We shall be recruiting more staff and collaborate with local SHG groups and public health workers to collectively work towards the larger goal of achieving target SDG's . | We need support for Short term needs : Developing technology, using entertainment-education and gamification for behavior modification Upgrading our MIS system and developing community interface for more effective communication Expansion of internal staff capacity More effective tools for training our staff and volunteers Mid term needs : Collaboration to learn from others. External evaluation of our programs. Marketing our solutions to others Long term needs : Cross sectoral integration More local solutions and effective methods for transformative education Use of technology in the early detection of NCD at the community level. Financial resources (public or private ) to scale up the program exponentially in a vulnerable population | WEBSITE https://saveamother.org/ https://youtu.be/Cq1W8yodDpY https://youtu.be/dTbqUF4PTQU https://youtu.be/H3OZyyuPsdo https://youtu.be/6571_D_cR3c | www.drswatishow.com | SAM work was featured in Guardian ,May 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/12/we-no-longer-die-in-childbirth-how-indian-villages-saved-their-mothers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
528 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Muhammad | Ahsan | TERAWATT Energy | www.terawatt.pk | Internee/Student | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | I am an engineering student who wants to bring innovation through technological advancement. I have done a number of projects related to my degree and provided solutions to many problems faced in daily routine. I am working on an idea, which needs to come in attention in order to bring some ease for the patients who needs intensive care at home. | I am a steadfast, hardworking and a creative Engineering student who is always willing to accept and face new challenges. I have a deep interest in technological advancement. I love to learn new technologies. I have an in depth knowledge of C++. I have also developed websites and Android apps for different firms in the past one year. other projects that i have worked on are mentioned in my CV attached below. | Comatose Patient Monitoring System (CPMS) | CMPS will provide high quality health care services to the patients who need intensive care at home through an android application. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Pakistan | Yes | My Partner is my class fellow. We are currently in 7th semester of Electrical Engineering. | Research & Development | I came up with this idea in the start of july 2019 and started working on it immediately. I collected all the necessary information and all the sensors that will be used. I think that my solution is at the stage of Research and Development because i have just completed the research work. | Designing an Integrated Comatose Patient Monitoring System which sends data to an Android app as it is difficult for doctors or family members to monitor manually and can become almost impossible to keep updates of a patient at hospital or at home. | My Solution will consist of a device which will measure different parameters of a comatose patient's body like blood pressure, body temperature, pulse rate, finger movement and eye blink. It will send this data to an android app through a WiFi connection. The Patient's room's AC and lights will also be automated through sensors and an individual can also control them manually. By doing so, the doctor or any individual of the family can monitor the patient from anywhere on an android application. | We have read many research papers and studied the work done on comatose patient monitoring system before. Each one of them provides just 2 or 3 services. My solution combines all the services in one place with the addition of patient's room automation. | My team has done all the research work, we have done the part of patient's room automation, we have tested the sensors for room temperature, body temperature and finger moment. We just completed the basic structure of our android app and connected it to the database. We have divided our project in 4 parts, the android app, the sensor testing, final prototype and the documentation of the project. android app and sensor testing is done. | This solution is being developed for the patients who need intensive care at home or in clinics and need to be monitored on regular basis. We will target the medical industry first in Pakistan and than sell our products abroad because it will be an efficient, low cost, easy to use and portable product. | The sources we need are the sensors that will sense different parameters of a patient's body. And a good working environment to develop our solution. | The link to our working android app is given below. We have uploaded some garbage values in database jest to test the proper working of the app. The app also shows the notification when a patent blinks his eye or moves a finger. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V9n9g65-kr-aDhvMlQffrLYREMChBm98/view?usp=sharing | Any recording of our speaking engagement or interview is not recorded yet. We are planning to do this after completing the prototype by the end of this month. | I have never submitted my projects for any awards before. This is my first Experience of bringing my work to the world's attention. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
529 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Muideen | Lamidi | Intercontinental Cowery Farm Product LTD | www.icfplivestock.com | Founder | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | In Nigeria the conflict associated with cattle rearing includes but not limited to the following: There has been a long history of animosity between land-owners who are mostly subsistence farmers and the local Fulani herdsmen. • Fueled by the religious conflict that can lead to civil unrest among Muslim and Christian • The farmers have accused that grazing on their lands cause damage and destruction to their crops which is their main source of livelihood while the herdsmen have maintained that they have the rights to graze their cattle. • This long term animosity has been escalating in recent times resulting in fights that have claimed lives and properties. • The local communities and government are becoming increasingly hostile to the local herdsmen and the herdsmen are beginning to move further into the interior to avoid these skirmishes • The cost of beef and dairy product keep skyrocketing and becoming unaffordable to low-level income citizen • Small business owner especially woman in the industries cannot afford to purchase cattle and resale to end consumer, which resulted in the loss of income to cater for families. Our cattle ranch innovative system consists of training of smallholders livestock farmers implants to maximize cattle performance, processing of cassava chips feed, pasture preservation, as well as the hydroponics, sprouting fodder feeding system which has been proven to be one of the most sustainable options around in recent times. Our motivation is to ensure the availability of better meat at low cost for the masses. This innovative method of cattle ranching also provides job opportunities for people especially youth and women. Women are normally not able to travel to the northern region to buy cattle because of the lack of capital and commitment to family; especially their children. This innovation gives them access to quality beef which they can resell to the end consumer. without a doubt it is clear that our innovation is for the benefit of people, to increase the standard of living; provide job opportunities; increase security as well as provide a learning hub for other entities who may benefit from the innovation. | Muideen Lamidi MBA, MSc, PMP. A result-oriented Project Management consultant with over 14 years internationally experienced in coordinating and managing development projects, focused on global issues, SDGs. Known as a strategic thinker with a reputation for developing innovative ways to solve problems and build solidarity with stakeholders for sustainable change. Education Background: • Masters of Business Administration MBA Bradford University UK 2016 • Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute 2015 • Project Management Certificate, University of Toronto 2011 Area of Expertise: Organization Development, Environmental sustainability, Business development, and expansion, Project Management, Training & Supervision, Monitoring & Controlling, Quality Assurance, Planning & Organizing | Sustainable Cattle Ranch solution for Africa | Opportunity for All | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Nigeria | Yes | Higher Institution in Nigeria, Canadian Union Forage, | Scaling | For over 2 years we have embarked on research and development, practices that involve rearing of cattle using sustainable methodology, the result has been very wonderful, we have been able to record growth based on the method, our farm grow bigger within a year, we are currently in the expansion process of our facility to be able to serve our customer. | >The local communities and government are becoming increasingly hostile to the local herdsmen > The cost of beef and dairy product keep skyrocketing and becoming unaffordable to low-level income >Herdsmen vs landowner and crops farmers > peaceful coexistence >Lack of Training, know-how for smallholder’s livestock farmer to increase productivity >Small business owner especially woman and youth unemployment. | Our cattle ranch innovative system consists of implants to maximize cattle performance, processing of cassava chips feed, pasture preservation, as well as the hydroponics sprouting fodder feeding system which has been proven to be one of the most sustainable options around in recent times. This will increase the availability of healthy meat and dairy products at low cost for the masses. This innovative method of cattle ranching will provide job opportunities for people especially youth and women. This program will give them access to quality beef which they can resell to the end consumer. Another but very important solution our cattle ranch system provides is the promotion of peaceful co-existence within the community, as our solution provides train to Fulani cattle farmers on how to use the same system of enclosed cattle ranching thereby reducing the conflict between local farmers and Fulani herdsmen. To put this in perspective, in Ekiti- state, between 2013-2016, an estimated 1,878 lives were lost, with several wounded and over 200 people were missing, an estimated N95 billion worth of properties including schools and hospitals were destroyed resulting in a negative impact on the indigents' economic and social life. Our innovation will also help to increase crop production as a direct consequence of the absence of cattle grazing on farmland; this will ensure that more farm produce reaches the markets and ultimately, the tables of poor Nigerians. | Our innovation provides essential food that is a source of protein for young and old people. Our organization is a registered company and interested in developing our region local community. Currently, communities operate an open market system where beef is displayed openly and this open display attracts flies - often leading to contaminated meat. Consumers often end up getting sick from meat consumption and there is a high number of people living with all short of diseases without adequate medical treatment We are dedicated to providing a product that is safe for the consumers. We plan to establish more distribution centers strategically situated in neighborhoods within the communities - these distribution centers will have cold rooms where the beef and dairy products will be stored at safe temperatures. Currently, the only places where safe meats and dairy are sold are usually high-end supermarkets usually patronized by wealthy individuals - poorer individuals have no choice but to go to the open markets and purchase the unsafe alternative. The uniqueness of our solution includes the provision of cheaper, safer alternative to beef products sourced from the open markets. Operationally, we open and operate standard cattle ranch system across many states in Nigeria, that will provide employment opportunities, income generation for individuals and government, the training center for farmers. | Prove-of-concept viability: Our project concept is viable based on our feasibility studies which reflect the need for a new system of meat and dairy production, meat distribution and women/youth empowerment in livestock rearing and market chain. The present economic transformation agenda of the Nigerian government has focused its priorities on five major sectors, of which agriculture is foremost. Studies indicate public acceptance of our planned method of sustainable beef production and our current activities at the farm is yielding positive results in terms of growth and market demand. Commercial Viability: The study shows that Nigeria can easily support the consumption of the equivalent of one million hamburgers a day, with over N200 billion in annual income for the business. However, the current set up of farm management and meat processing facility is a major problem, coupled with conflicts between herdsmen and landowners. Causal-Impact and cost-effectiveness : Under the traditional system, the cattle are feed on natural grass, which require moving flocks for miles to find pasture, with the feeding becoming harder during the dry season, which often results in weight loss and sickness. Our innovation eliminates these processes proving itself to be cost-effective. Considering the increase in demand for value-added dairy products such as butter, cheese, ice cream and yogurt, our innovation is positively impacting the growing population of Nigerians. | Our plan is to cover the whole country within 5 years afterward considering export | The main resources we need to be able to scale is grant/ loan availability. | www.icfplivestock.com | Not available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
530 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Zartaj | Waseem | Pakistan Space Science Education Centre (PSSEC) | www.pssecm2m.com | CEO & Co-Founder | Female | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | PSSEC's mission is about bringing a positive global change with respect to STEM Education by disrupting Education to inspire and empower the upcoming generations for pursuing Science and STEM Careers and developing 21st century skills required for the future jobs. We are working towards 5 of the 17 UN SDGs through our EdTech initiative, they are 4, 8, 9, 10 & 17. We have observed that there are many space science and astronomy museums around the world but space science education centers are not there. There are very few like NASA’s Space Science Education and Victorian Space Science Education facilities that have been offering great space science related programs for a long time now. The idea is to empower the Mars Generation with the knowledge of Space Science and use it as a means of inspiring them to study Science, Math and STEM. We’re also popularizing STEM among girls by involving girls and women in our programs as participants, workshop facilitators and by training teachers, who are mainly women. | I’m a software engineer turned into a passionate Tech Entrepreneur who wants to make the children’s learning experience productive, engaging and empowering. I spearheaded the introduction of Robotics in Pakistan for children and was one of the founding team members of Pakistan’s 1st STEM Education organization, Robotics Labs. As of today I’m an International Award Judge at FIRST Global, National Organizer of World Robot Olympiad, Robotics Trainer and Coach for FIRST Lego League teams. World Robot Olympiad (WRO) - Pakistan page http://wro-association.org/countries/overview-countries/asia-australia/pakistan/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zartaj-waseem-15544021/ | STEM & Space Science Learning Portal | #EmpoweringTheMarsGeneration | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Pakistan, Thailand, China, Indonesia, U.S. and Europe | Yes | British Council, U.S. Consulate, Italian Consulate, National Incubation Center, Pak Alliance for Math and Science | Transition to Scale | We think that it is at the stage of transitioning to scale because we have in 15 months of operations validated our idea by executing our Space Science focused STEM Programs for over 3,500 students, 500 teachers and over 6 schools including one in Bangkok, Thailand. We're coming up with an online platform; STEM Learning Portal, which will give students access to the year wise, school curricula based STEM experiences using Space Science as a vector. | Our solution is addressing the huge problem of STEM skills gap and millions of jobs remaining unfilled due to lack of the required workforce. | We plan on partnering globally with some of these organizations but our partnerships are not only limited to these only: - Victorian Space Science Education Centre, Melbourne, Australia - International Astronautical Federation - UNICEF Ventures - UNDP - SpaceX to propose establishment of SpaceX Educational wing | Our USP is the online platform, there are other Science related apps and online resources however our solution is a curriculum based Space Science & STEM Learning Portal with Teachers Guides (videos and lesson plans). It is an Annual Subscription Model for schools who can adopt the solution and run it on their own. This does not only benefit the students and teachers but also the community as a whole. We will be having partners globally to give them access to this portal. | The solution's idea and execution plan is complete. We need to expand our team, and start development of the Online Platform and meanwhile market the solution. We also plan on adopting a public school to establish it as a model Science/STEM School by employing the STEM methodology as a core teaching practice. | In order to implement the online platform we will expand into new markets such as: other cities of Pakistan, China, Dubai, Thailand, Indonesia, U.S. and UK. This would require a team of developers, marketers, besides the design and development team and educators. | We have a plan for the execution of this project which can be shared upon request. Short-Term goal is to secure funding to cater to the cost of Staffing, Equipment, Marketing and other outreach activities. Introduce our program to over 100 schools in 2 years. Introduce Mars Rover Engineering Competition for schools. Adopt a public school and transform it into a model Science School. | PSSEC Journey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtUmCMUYqQk Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/pssecm2m Website: http://www.pssecm2m.com Mission to Mars - Thar 2.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j237i-VOs5w Twitter handle: pssecm2m FIRST Global Media interviewed Zartaj Waseem at the FIRST Global Inaugural Games held in D.C. July 2017. Scroll upto 4:20:03 (hh:mm:ss) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddh0kF-DbSk Video Interview by RJ Barira Faisal Khan at British Council Pakistan, Lahore Library, July 2018 https://youtu.be/qCQ13XXb2Yw STEM Education - A Pedagogical Tool - Talk at Habib University, Karachi, November 2017 https://habib.edu.pk/HU-news/stem-education-a-pedagogical-tool-to-teach-students-in-a-digital-age/ | ***LINKS OF ONLINE PUBLICATIONS & VIDEO COVERAGE*** FIRST Global 2017 Newsletter - Vol Spot - Coverage on her outstanding volunteer role in FIRST Global Inaugural Games in D.C., July 2017 https://us15.campaign-archive.com/?u=54c94894f3683ac2f78902228&id=56af452386 FIRST Global Media interviewed Zartaj Waseem at the FIRST Global Inaugural Games held in D.C. July 2017. Scroll upto 4:20:03 (hh:mm:ss) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddh0kF-DbSk Video Interview by RJ Barira Faisal Khan at British Council Pakistan, Lahore Library, July 2018 https://youtu.be/qCQ13XXb2Yw STEM Education - A Pedagogical Tool - Talk at Habib University, Karachi, November 2017 https://habib.edu.pk/HU-news/stem-education-a-pedagogical-tool-to-teach-students-in-a-digital-age/ An article on Woman-Led Space Science Education in Pakistan - PinQ Magazine https://pinqmagazine.com/2018/08/19/mission-to-mars-and-space-science-zartaj-waseem/ Women Engineers Pakistan - STEM Role Model https://www.womenengineers.pk/blog/pakistani-women-in-space-zartaj-waseem-pakistan-space-science-education STEM360 Advisor http://stem360.pk/team.html RoboKids Pakistan Advisor http://www.robokids.pk/board-of-advisors.php | Recently secured 1st Runners Up award at the #SheLovesTech 2019 Pakistan National round. Participated in Standard Chartered Pakistan's Global Women In Tech initiative and qualified to be a part of the 1st Cohort to receive mentoring and training to devise our solution - May to JUly 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
531 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Simon | Kebede | Vote Le Ethiopiaye Charitable Organization | Currently in progress by Science and Technology Innovation | Manager | Male | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | English | I'm writing this short filling, as if I stand in front of the participant of the summit. Now days, it is common to hear children wishing to be prime Ministers of their own respective nations. And hearing such a wish from your own child is an inspiring and tantalizing topic. I am a father of two daughters named Madot and Maramawit. Hearing my elder daughter Madot, Ethiopian, six, KG 3G intelligent student aspiring to be a prime minister was stupendous. Apparently, our children and grandchildren are ignorant of Ethiopian history, civics and workings of the government. She puts a burden on my back. Even though the educational system for civics and ethical education call for civics instruction to create a citizenship of informed and Civic minded community members, students can not be expected to develop a sense of civic responsibility if they don't practice practically the core chapter that preserve democracy. The main purpose of civic and ethical education can be considered as the formation of civil qualities on the basis of new knowledge, skills and values that help individuals to solve emerging problems, adapt to changing socio-economic and political conditions, represent and protect their Constitutional rights and interests, respecting the interests and Constitutional rights of other individuals. Therefore this interactive and participative natured education should be learned and nurtured bystudents themselves by conducting free and fair elections in schools which mirror as close as possible to the process of conducting national elections. Because mostly elections are not working across not only Ethiopia but also our continent. UN is an institution who is rich in democratic values and history. The sun never sets in UN Empire. I would be more than glad if I present my project. Yet lack of democracy is a major challenge for our continent. Ignoring and refusing to recognize election results and cede power, push term limits, trend of loser parties crying and calling for reruns after elections, political interference and vote buying before polling day are major factors. Th | Simon kebede Tessema Father of two daughters named Madot and Maramawit. Working on privately as a Consultant on taxation and finance. I established a charitable organization named Vote Le ETHIOPIAYE on June 12, 2019. It has fundamental code of ethics. Theses are gender equality, independence and probity, effectiveness, independent, transparency, respect, partnership, participation, children's right. | New Student, New Africa, New World | Learning election process in schools can only serve to bring about greater participation when these teenagers and children go out into the world. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | On September 2019 it will implemented in Ethiopia. At the beginning of 2021 it'll be implemented in the rest of African nations. | No | Proof of Concept | Because the innovated idea is created on June 12, 2019. | Ignoring or refusing to recognize election results and cede power, Widespread electoral irregularities and fraud, Push for term limits, Trend of loser parties crying and calling for reruns after elections, Effectiveness of electoral boards (institutions) and regulatory norms Political interference and vote buying before polling day are major factors. like Omar Bongo (Gabon 42 yrs), Muammer Gaddafi (Libya 42 yrs), Joao Bernardo Vieira (Guinea-Bissau 31 yrs), Lansana Conte (Guinea 24 yrs), etc | Student Voting Voting is the most important civic responsibility, is a learned social behavior. The founding precept of African nation’s education system is to preserve and promote a democratic society. African students must learn first-hand about the power to influence changes in our society. Therefore, apparently learning the election process in schools and at home can only serve to bring about greater participant who adopt smooth transition of governance when these teenagers and children go out into the World. In the long term our organization envision African students who build democratic core values freedom, equality and security through active participation in clubs. | Politics affects everything we do: the water we drink, the air we breathe, the quality of the roads upon which we drive, the amount of taxes we pay, just to name the few and finally the kind of education our children and grand children receive. Students should run for a role in student elections and they could be the voice of students. They must decide the student union position role suit them and collect their nomination form at the office. Parents/guardians and students sign in the nomination form and the students submit it back to the office. The candidates convince students to vote for them. Finally, elected students should fulfill their promises by working hard. Voter students become familiar with skill centered elector rather than tribe or religion. Above all, they take lesson that ensure the smooth transition of student governance. All students should benefit from this research paper and every school should assign a responsible person (focal person) who makes a maximum effort: To promote and create environment that encourages student active participation as an integral part of student development. To re-assess and ascertain the role and relevance of student governance and re-install its dignity. To encourage in outreach programs for the benefit of the broader community. To revive the culture of reading, writing and research within students. To develop proper channels of communication that advances the inputs of all stakeholders. | All the government offices accepting our solution. It's a brilliant idea. It's a noble idea. It is a great idea. If you successfully implement your project, you will collect a novel price in the subject of democracy. Finally, I look forward your initiative admiration from UN. | Up bring and nurture democratic cultured students from early age who preserve and promote democracy. They induct the purpose of civic & ethical education by forming civil qualities on the basis of new knowledge, skills and values that help individuals to solve emerging problems, adapt to changing socio-economic and political conditions, represent and protect their rights and interests, respecting the interests and rights of other individuals. Boosts their skills such as leadership, driving change, decision making, influencing, multi tasking, organizing, communicating, negotiating, responsibility, accountability, running effective meetings, managing budget, representing, participating, interacting, planning, debating, questioning, creating, openness, preparing remarkable speech, just to name a few. Generally it is totally unique and expansive working. Promote equal representation of women in leadership and honor women’s contributions towards restructured and transformed student governance. Students become hard worker who potential accelerate their academics to success without being a victim from lack of democracy and ethical problems, thus they bring down their families poverty level. | Administration Cost Salaries Admin & Fin 2,824,050 Tansport All 324,000 Income Tax 1,552,890 Gov Pension fund 647,790 Office Chair & Table 32,000 Desk Top Computer 24,000 Lap Top Computer 30,000 Video Recorder 30,000 Stationery Supp 10,400 Legal Fees 12,000 Cleaning & sanit supp 11,000 Wi-Fi port 6,000 Stablizer 1,500 Electricity 12,000 Water 12,000 Telephones 81,600 Internet 58,800 Postage 6,000 Audit Fees 9,000 Audio Visuals 108,000 Office rent 360,000 Advirtising Costs 90,000 Meeting & conference Exp 200,000 Books & Reference Item 16,800 Bank service charges 3,000 Staff Kitchen Supp 12,000 Staff Development 24,000 Licensesv 2,000 Repair & Maint- Equip 6,000 TOTAL 6,506,830 Operational Cost Salaries 1,512,060 Rep. cost all 240,000 Vehicle 9,000,000 Printer 9,000 Printer 42,550 Printer Toner 14,720 Domestic Travel 18,000 Local Travel 12,000 Air Fare 45,000 Travel Perdium & Accomoda 3,983,750 Translation Services 40,000 Honoraria 352,000 Clearing, Transit cost 120,000 Continuing Educ 494,000 Marketing 99,000 Consultation Fee 25,000 Rented 1,828,000 Parking Fee 15,600 Insurance - Vehicle 60,000 Interpreter 24,000 advisor's Fee 264,000 Uniform 915,200 Sport equip 3,370,400 Agricultural hand tools 667,920 Stationery Mat 369,292 Fuel and Lubricants 990,000 Repair and Maint - Vehicle 198,000 Electoral mat 572,000 Media Equip 484,000 Computer 459,800 TOTAL 26,225,292 TOTAL PROGRAM COST 32,732,122.00 | http:// press.et/english/? p=4063&fbclid=IwAR3kN2qVwljrXWoife8y4 https://www.ethiopianreporter.com/article/15188?fbclid=IwAR0u5h94A2f7rAcf_aZaBjwhj6_X2etbjPD8mZU1OHBcHY5qJ_HnvFxGu84 https://www.press.et/Ama/? p=7039&fbclid=IwAR2Px25bEBl72ybDm8N | Yes I had an interview with ETHIO FM 107.8 radio. 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532 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | PATIENCE | ILEM | TEGGOW OBASE NKAMI GLOBAL FOUNDATION | tobasenkamiglobalfoundation | Civil servant | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | TEGGOW OBASE NKAMI GLOBAL FOUNDATION Is a nonprofit privately owned organization It is a community base organization that tale for the Elderly persons; and capacity Building for Caregivers to the Elderly persons, coming from a minority group in Nigeria, the flooding conditions of communities that are near the riverine area has displaced most rural community dweller's; the most affected group of persons are Elderly persons between the age of 64 and above. This group of persons are the nonworking group faced with ageing challenges and cannot help themselves; being displaced by flood they are subjected to adject poverty, no medical and no good houses, cloths and other necessities of life. Village like Assiga Beach, Imabana Beach, Ekori Beach, Ajere Beach, Anong Beach and owankande to mention a few in Cross River State of Nigeria are suffering terribly by flood. The purpose of applying for this Grant is to see how Homes can be built in the uplands for this people especially the Elderly persons who are exposed to adject poverty without shelter aid people die because of hardship caused by flood. No medical care, no comfort. Crying from a minority neglected group, I pray God will use you to help my people, I am writing directly from one of the villages I mentioned. This project of building Nursing homes for Elderly persons who are displaced by flood in this part of the world, will bring sustainable development and employment to our youth and reduce hunger, crime, poverty general. | Pastor(Dr/Mrs) patience ilem was born and brought up by late Mr&Mrs Obono Itam of Assiga Afrekpe in Yakurr local Government Area of Cross River State Nigeria. She is a widow with five(5) children. Studied special Education in the filed of Learning Disabilities and had a Masters Degree from university of Jos (Plateau State) Nigeria. Has a PhD in psychology studied Ecclesiastical law and obtained Degree of philosophy in Ecclesiastical law at Tam-light Christian university Indiana affiliate - Port Harcourt, Rivers State Nigeria. Ordained and licensed minister of the gospel of Christ minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ, by Bishop Episcopal international. With a compassionate heart she is given to caring and capacity building, and she has the ability to coordinate and manage behaviour from the special training she had received from various institution's, with the fear and reverence for God in her an experience in ministry, she is capable of executing project of care giving and capacity building. | CARE FOR ELDERLY PERSONS AND CAPACITY BUILDING FOR PRIMARY CARE GIVERS | To provide free medical and non medical care for elderly persons both male and female in a conducive homes, have a training center for caregivers. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Nigeria | Yes | Mr. Thosam John Usang ( Secretary). Miss. Faith simon (member/trainer on TB case findings. Mr. James Eteng ( pharmacist) . Dr Egoze Egoze ( medical Doctor) | Proof of Concept | TEGGOW OBASE NKAMI GLOBAL FOUNDATION Have supported the well been of the elderly within it's domain and have been embarking for free medical outreach,and have been given scholarships to various individual within the state, TEGGOW is know for it values which have brought broad sensitization on gender Equality. TEGGOW have established a forum for women within and outside the State to promote the voice of the Aged women around the country TEGGOW is known for its good work. | The aging population is increasing worldwide. Nigeria is affected by such increase and Cross River State is not exempted. The elderly persons fall between the age's of 60 years and above this group of persons formed the nonworking group. These a group of persons are faced with challenges associated with aging and without people who understand such challenges are abandoned in villages to die they are subjected to various challenges like medically, financially and socially etc. | There is much evidence that when nursing home are built and equipped for elderly care, and centers for capacity building it will bring solution that alleviate the poverty level of the elderly in this area since they will be put in a central place for feeding, treatment and general care giving. Evidence of improved life and standard of leaving since TEGGOW OBASE NKAMI GLOBAL FOUNDATION started outreach picture specks. See happy elderly persons after treatment and given relieved package of foodstuffs. Formal academic evidence Dr. Mrs. Hope Ilanye Bellgam of university of port Harcourt Rivers State: In her book care for elderly persons center ( Geriatric center) proposed model for Africa. State that ""they is need for nursing homes as solution to elderly persons"". Elderly persons are increasing in number and are very important part of the population that makes use of health and other facilities. Population aging is also a global issue and is on the increase. The united (UN) in her world assembly on aging 2002 held in Madrid Spain 8 to 12 April 2002, addressed and established a world political declaration and Madrid international plan of action on aging. This document Jade established a guiding policy's on aging and related issues worldwide. The united nation (UN) has predicted that older persons (60years and above) may make 42% of the world population by the year 2025. Nigeria elderly persons are mostly called witches and wizards. | Generally in Cross River State of Nigeria, they is no nursing home for the elderly persons, no advocacy for capacity building for caregivers until TEGGOW OBASE NKAMI GLOBAL FOUNDATION started the advocacy and outreaches to the elderly persons and capacity building in this area of the world, with constraints in financing the project of outreach become difficult hence the decisions of building homes in the 18 local government of Cross River State came to mind. If this project is executed the solution will bring a desired outcome of improving the leaving conditions of the elderly persons, reduce poverty level of the area, create positive impact on the value of aging. It is an honor to care for those who once cared for us. It will change the mentality of the local people who see the elderly persons as witches and wizards. Service to humanity, sympathy and empathy will transformed, impact and cause positive change in the life of the people around us. It will bring personal development by improving our skills it will bring respect and appreciation of our elders. Through team work and constant innovation we can achieve much our solution will make us a seed in the love and care of the elderly persons in Nigeria making aging an enjoyable and dignified experience. | The organization has a team of qualified educators, medical Doctor, Nurses and legal officer, Trained nonmedical staff who can execute and manage the project. The principal director is a special Educationists in the field of learning disabilities, a license pastor from Bishop episcopal international world mission organization. The organization has a visiting geriatrician and hope to employ a permanent one. The secretary is vast in computer technology for transactions through Media services. Warden, cook and other services like security are well covered with qualified personnel. The principal organization responsible for receiving and taking accountability for any grant funds, as well as providing the direction control and supervision for the project remains TEGGOW OBASE NKAMI GLOBAL FOUNDATION. | The homes will be built to accommodate both persons with disabilities, and easy access to aid for specific and general disabilities. Employment for staff, partners and consultant are all inclusive. Already TEGGOW OBASE NKAMI GLOBAL FOUNDATION has one of our pastors as a blind man who actively participate in mission outreaches ministering effectively in one of our outreach center in Ekori, in Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River Nigeria. The project will have both deep and intense broad impact on large population and geography. The elderly persons are primary beneficiaries. On capacity building caregivers who are going to be trained and given certificate and employment will be beneficiaries. Why the society generally will be beneficiaries because families will be affected positively and united. | Innovation of having a fund generating exporting business to sustained the vision, the organization can have a Palm kernel oil mill for PK oil to supply to company that produce soap and other things that need the oil to generate funds to sustained our vision all we need is partners that can help us fund this project to actually take good shape; not in outreach form as we are doing it. We need human resources partners who can assist in training nonmedical caregivers, who can assist us with good architectural design picture of homes for elderly persons with inclusive for persons with disabilities that can accommodate 50 persons in each of our location. Such designed should have medical units separate and a training center separate in the same compound, human resource partners for innovation plan for sustainability. TEGGOW Have 60 plot of land that was given by the community because of the NGO good work in supporting and creating revival within the aging process, TEGGOW need funds to build a bigger nursing home for the comfort of the elderly and the internally displaced persons. | https://youtu.be/b4nCWDZRU9o | https://youtu.be/ZnXFZrQ6nPg | The organization is just established ( 14/February/2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
533 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Princess Deborah | ADINKRA | LoveEducation.com | www.loveeducation.com | Lecturer | Female | Ghana | Ghana | English | French | I am applying to be part of the UN Solutions Summit to present a project because it has always been my dream to present a project or a speech at the UN general Assembly. As a lecturer I have always discussed the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals with my students for a better understanding and also to propose solutions for a better implementation of the goals in their communities and the world at large. I am currently developing a educational project that has as a foundation the forth sustainable development goal of the UN. I would be very glad if I get the opportunity to be part of the selected people. | I am Princess Deborah ADINKRA. I am a lecturer and marketing officer in one of the private universities in Ghana. I am also a public speaker inspiring students and young people to be innovative and creative. My vision is to raise young leaders who will take charge of their generation by educating them on how the world keeps changing and inspire them to be proactive, problem solvers for a better world. My mission is to open a school with a curriculum that redefines education and defines what quality education should be. | Redesign Education and Redefine Quality Education | Educational systems need to be redesigned and quality education to be redefined in an ever changing world. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Currently, the solution is intended to be implemented in Ghana. I am at the early stage of the whole project looking partners to support. When fully developed and implemented other countries will be considered. | No | Research & Development | My solution is at the stage of innovation selected because research is still being conducted for a better implementation. All is being done for mobilization of resources: human, financial and technical resources. | The world keeps changing. Every field of work and business is evolving. Education therefore cannot be left out. Educational systems and policies must be reviewed. New teaching and learning methodology must be considered and quality education must be redefined. In some countries in Africa, the educational system does no longer address the need of the people especially the masses. This has caused the problem of unemployment which keeps increasing. Education must be planned towards the future. | Looking at the current trend in the world concerning the unemployment rate, one could see that there is a need for redesigning of curriculum and subject to meet the needs of graduates and school leavers. My solution focuses on entrepreneurship, financial literacy and independence. It happens that many are dependent on government to employ them after school. Job seekers become sometime so frustrated that they fall into serious depression. I therefore see the need to make entrepreneurship, financial literacy and independence core subjects and major courses in our educational system and process. We are not going to just teach by defining them but engage students in the practical aspect of them. So entrepreneurship and financial literacy need to be included in the curriculum from the lower classes to the upper classes. Students and learners need to embrace them early enough in order to understand their value and their practicality. | It is unique in the sense that it prepares students to be more proactive, creative and self-employment conscious. It also inspire and encourage them to better prepare themselves for the job market. | We are still at the planning stage mobilizing resources. I have used this methodology in my class as a lecturer to inspire my students and made see the importance of thinking outside the box. The question I made them to ask themselves is: What will happen if after school you find out that the job market is not ready to welcome you. Students have to understand and grab the possibilities of their field study so that by the time they complete school they will be ready to face the current challenges of our world. | The planned Goals: - To finish research and development of project - To continue with talk show with students - To establish school for better implementation - To To expand programme to schools in other countries with the concept of entrepreneurship and leadership. Milestones: Participate at a seminar as guest speaker on the theme of ''Entrepreneurship and Business for the 21st century youth in 2018 and ''The concept of leadership for the 21st century youth in 2019. | My most needed resources are: -Short -term: Technical and financial resources -Medium-term: Infrastructure: school buildings, classrooms with whites and interactive boards, furniture such as students desks, chairs, cupboards, computers, computer labs, libraries, human resources -Long-term: More classrooms, vehicles for school buses, | Websites under construction | Only photos available for the meantime. | Solution under examination, no award yet. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
534 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jack | Oyugi | Biofit feeds | www.biofit.co.ke | C.E.O | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | For the last 10 years in my college studies and career job at the University of Nairobi Kenya, I have been engaged in research activities and bringing innovative solutions to challenges that affects our nation. My research findings and innovations has shed light to global pressing issues such as food security and climate change. This is inline with United Nations mandate to take action on issues confronting humanity. My current innovation ' Turning water hyacinth menace in Lake Victoria Kenya to sustainable livestock feed', has changed lives. From the past, riparian communities along lake Victoria have gained accessed to clean water and food from the lake. This changed when water hyacinth invaded the solely livelihood lake Victoria. We took research to possible ways of converting the water hyacinth weed to livestock feed. Of today, we have successfully come up with products that not only give affordable livestock feed to smallholder farmers but also helps in clearing the lake. This solution has created jobs to 50 women and youths and also 20 fishermen a long lake Victoria who would have suffered when hyacinth weed has denied them the opportunity of fishing in lake Victoria. Our efforts has been reorganized globally and we have created partnerships with NGOs such as SNV Netherlands and institutions such as Royal Academy of Engineering United Kingdom. Under this partnerships, our objective is to reduce the infestation of hyacinth weed in East Africa water bodies while producing animal feed to serve dry areas in East Africa. Am highly motivated when I see communities get access to water and affordable food. But not just food, but safe organic food that will reduce chances of uprising diseases like cancer and increase their life expectancy. Beside innovation work, as stated earlier I work in the department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Parasitology University of Nairobi. Here my duties are diagnosis of veterinary pathological cases and samples, research work and teaching to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Farmers bring their live or dead animals to the department for clinical pathological examination and they go happy since we give solutions to the challenges they face to increase their production. It is for this innovations and career path, that i bring forth a solid findings and share my experience to the world. | Am Jack Oyugi, born from a humble background and raised in remote area of Western Kenya. My was a father was a watchman earning $ 20 a month. This was not enough to feed the 12 children they had. This also meant that we could not get proper education. This never limited my ambitions and career, when I got the opportunity to attend Kenya primary school education, I worked hard, passed well and secured a scholarship for secondary education. Life was not easy but still manged to pass the Kenya Secondary Education. I later joined University to study Bachelor Science in Biotechnology. While studying here, I also managed to get support from the government to study Diploma in Applied Biology. It is in college that I started innovation. My first innovation' Hydroponics Gardening' gave the university $10,000 grant.Have also have a certificate in Entrepreneurship from Boccoini University in Italy . My first job as a Manager was at Mariakani Dairy Technology Farm Mombasa where I worked for 3 years. I was able to increased the farm milk production from 100 liters to 400 liters a day after 2 years. I also introduced technologies that solves feed challenge focusing on proteins such as 'Azolla culture Technology.' My good work landed me a job to the university of Nairobi where I currently serve.Here, I have gained accessed to laboratories, facilities and research team which have greatly contributed to my innovations and research. Am also the founder of Biofit feeds. From the humble background to a world class innovator, I dedicate myself to give back to my society. | From water hyacinth menace to food | A happy cow | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Kenya | Yes | Our key partners are; 1. Royal Academy of Engineering United Kingdom 2. SNV Netherlands 3. Kenya Climate Innovation Centre. 4. Kenya National Innovation Agency. Some of these partners has funded the project and helped in commercialization of the project. | Scaling | Biofit was started and launched in 2017, we did proof of concept, testing and piloting in 2018. Our findings were; the feeds were safe for animal consumption, the feeds increased milk production in dairy cows by 20%, and generally the farmers decreased their cost o production by 30%. We then patented the technology and started production is small quantities. Currently, we harvest 10 tons of water hyacinth a day for feed production. And we secured $100,000 grant for commercialization. | Why should livestock die in Kenya during drought yet there is plenty of water hyacinth in lake Victoria. Our solution is a double edged sword that solves livestock farmers challenges of inadequate, low quality, and high cost of livestock feeds. We achieve this by integrating water hyacinth menace into sustainable livestock feed. Water hyacinth is a free floating, highly multiplying water weed, which has curtailed fishing and transport activities as well as contamination of the lake waters. | We are using biotechnology to process hyacinth weed to obtain 70% protein for livestock feeds. This protein is used to fortify animal feeds to give different feeds such as dairy meal, poultry meal, fish pellets and pig mash. The protein has been tested locally and internationally in Netherlands Eurofin laboratory and found high quality and safe. By doing this we look in replacing soy protein which expensive. Water hyacinth is harvested from the lake, roots removed, the stem and leaves cleaned. It is then chopped into small pieces using a cutting machine. It then passes through three processing phases; 1. Steaming- It is steam boiled at 100 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes. This reduces microbe contamination and renders it soft for fermentation. 2. Fermentation- Steamed hyacinth is inoculated with high fermenting fungi which digest it to give nutrient media for cultivation of single cell proteins. The by products are sold as soil conditioners or fertilizer. 3. Single cell production- The harvested media is used to culture yeast and algae that grows rapidly to form biomass of protein cells. The cells are harvested, purified, dried, and packaged as aqua protein. The aqua protein is high in protein and sold to livestock feed industries for compounding different livestock feeds. We also formulate different feeds which we sell to small holder farmers. Our vision is to be Africa leading single cell protein producing company, expand from Kenya to Africa and beyond by 2030. | We are providing alternative way of providing cheap protein for feed. Traditionally people tilted land to produce feed like soy bean protein. 1. Our feed is cheap at $0.5 per Kg compared to soy at $ 0.8 per Kg 2. It is high in quality with crude protein of 70% compared to soy at 45% 3. It is organic and safe - co synthetic boosters/chemicals used in production. 4. It does not compete human feed 5. It does not produce emissions or green house effect. | We are are a team of 4 scientist who are committed in providing solutions to daily challenges our society face. Am a Biotechnologist and supported by a Vetenerian, Animal Science expert, Veterinarian and Crop scientist. We started in 2017, launched the project with research and proof of concept and started production in 2018. Currently, we harvest 2 tons o hyacinth weekly for processing. The journey has never been easy but we have managed to maintain production and supply of feeds to our customers. We have created partnership and collaborations a long with current being Royal Academy of Engineering UK. Other partners who have been involved in product and business development are; Kenya Climate Innovation Center, Intellecap and University of Nairobi. We evaluate the business through quarterly meetings and review of books of accounts. | Our goals is to expand to East Africa, that is Uganda and Tanzania by 2020. Sinse ce lake Victoria boarders these nations, we project to impact large number of lives who stay along lake Victoria basin in these nations. We also intend to market our products and export to other regions by 2030. We will also increase our work force and recruit more staff to help in increase in production, marketing and sales. | We need finances to bring modern machinery and equipment for upscale. We also need to create partnership that can lead to us opening to new markets in Africa and beyond. Lastly, we need investors who can come on boarder to help us in full realization of our vision to reduce hyacinth in lake Victoria as well as providing affordable feed to farmers. | 1. Company website- www.biofit.com 2. https://youtu.be/5uuO61Mjt0E 3. https://www.lepoint.fr/afrique/kenya-dans-sa-dynamique-d-innovation-rien-ne-se-perd-tout-se-transforme-25-06-2019-2320789_3826.php | 1. https://youtu.be/5uuO61Mjt0E 2.https://youtu.be/nb1MCZ6D97M 3. https://youtu.be/jr2BjeTdp-0 | 1. Newton fund/Royal Academy of Engineering- Leaders in Innovation Fellowship 2019 2. Kenya innovation Agency 2019- Commercialization grant $ 45,000 3. Usaid/Feed the Future program/SNV 2017/2018- proof of concept grant $ 30,000 4. Tony Elumely Foundation 2018- Seed capital $ 5000 5. National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation- Seed grant $ 1,000 6. Finalist at Sankal Africa, Nutreco feed challenge, Africa Award, Young water fellowship and Agriprofocus. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
535 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Shola | Mese | Shola Mese Foundation | www.sholamesefoundation.org | Advocacy Drive | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I have a knack for creating vocational skills centre and over the years i have been able to train over 10000 youths in skills acquisition especially in Information Technology, Fashion designs, Catering, Welding and Fabrication to mention but a few. The essence is to discourage youth from going into drugs and illicit substances. | Deacon (Dr.) Shola Mese (JP) was born into the family of Elder Mese on the 14th day of September, 1966 at Koko, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta State. He attended Catholic School 2 now Ogedegbe Primary School, Warri and then proceeded to Iwere Grammar School, Koko. He is a holder of Diploma in Law from the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Criminologist from University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration from Evangel Christian University of America, USA. He is the Chairman / Managing Director of Focus Guards Security Limited, owners of SPRANT Limited. He is the Founder of Shola Mese Foundation which is into Service to Humanity, Crime Reduction, and helping the drug addicts through skill acquisition vocational programs. He has been in the security industry for over a decade and is a well-known brand in the sector, with a tremendous amount of good will. An astute businessman, he has succeeded made FBI Security Limited into the biggest and best known security brand in Delta State, and one of the fastest growing brands in Nigeria. Dr. Shola Mese’s success in the security industry is an attestation to his hard work, professionalism and commitment. He has been recognized as one of those who have contributed towards peace in the Niger Delta, especially in the areas of security, job creation and empowerment. He has held several appointments; he was Security Coordinator to the past regime of Dr. Ewetan Uduaguan on security issue that led to the disarmament of ex-militants in Delta State as a Security Consultant. H Thank you… | Rehabilitation through modern day Technology for Drug Addicts to have a Healthy lifestyle | Neuroscience is an added advantage in Drug Treatment | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | No | Sustainable Scale | Because innovations brings out the best in any individual and so we believe collectively we can address issues that are more of concern to bring about solution | The major problem we are addressing is to ensure people are engaged wisely so that they don't go into the intake of illicit substances that would destroy their future. We must address the issue of addicts being recidivist. | Our solution is a long term and a continuous one. We train, educate and always ensure that we monitor for evaluation. | Approach is '' LISTEN FIRST AND ACT WISELY'' | About 70% progress and it is evident of people we have brought out from the street through our skill innovations program | Our Mission is to bring the Confused, Bartered, frustrated and Misled persons, individuals back on track, rescuing them from kidnapping, hire-assassins and other form evil / social vices in our society. There are better and genuine ways of earning a living and we at Shola Mese Foundation intend to bring it to its minimum, youth involvement in crime rate in our society and to make the world a better and healthy place for all. OUR VISION To reduce crime rate in our society by giving genuine service to humanity, showing love, care, and understanding to our youths, shaping, restructuring, rehabilitating and most of all empowering them through our skills acquisition programs to become great and better leaders of tomorrow. | It is a long term needs... SHOLA MESE FOUNDATION ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT REQUIRED TO RUN THE CENTRE (PROPOSED BUDGET) S/NEQUIPMENTSQTYRATE (N)AMOUNT (N) 1.FASHION DESIGN AINDUSTRIAL SEWING MACHINE1N150, 000.00N150, 000.00 BINDUSTRIAL WEAVING MACHINE1N140, 000.00N140, 000.00 CWARDROBE & HANGERS1N50, 000.00N50, 000.00 TOTALN340, 000.00 2.BARBING SALON AWASHING BASIN1N25, 000.00N25, 000.00 TOTALN25, 000.00 3.WELDING & FABRICATION AIRON TABLE1N20, 000.00N20, 000.00 BHIGH BEAM1N30, 000.00N30, 000.00 CTOOL BOX1N35, 000.00N35, 000.00 TOTALN85, 000.00 4.GRAPHICS & COMPUTER AINTERNET RATAR & DATA1N35, 000.00N35, 000.00 TOTALN35, 000.00 5.ARTS & CRAFT ASEWING MACHINE (PROTEX)1N150, 000.00N150, 000.00 BFILLING MACHINE1N30, 000.00N30, 000.00 CPRESSING MACHINE1N25, 000.00N25, 000.00 DLASING PLIER1N3, 000.00N3, 000.00 EBIG MAKE UP CASE1N25, 000.00N25, 000.00 TOTALN233, 000.00 6CATERING AKITCHEN SHELF1N35, 000.00N35, 000.00 BBIG WORKING TABLE1N35, 000.00N35, 000.00 CKITCHEN WALL HANGERS2N5, 000.00N5, 000.00 DOVEN PAN FOR BAKING4N10, 000.00N40, 000.00 EAIR EXPELLER1N25, 000.00N25, 000.00 F4FT DEEP FREEZER1N120, 000.00N120, 000.00 GWOODEN CHOPPING BOARD2N2, 000.00N4, 000.00 HCAKE MIXER1N20, 000.00N20, 000.00 IBIG COOKING POTS2N10, 000.00N20, 000.00 JSTARCH POT FOR DEEP FRYING1N5, 000.00N5, 000.00 KBELJUIM INDUSTRIAL GAS1N45, 000.00N45, 000.00 TOTALN359, 000.00 GRAND TOTALN1, 077, 000.00 This budget is subject to review by the board… Many thanks | Please kindly visit our websites on www.sholamesefoundation.org Many thanks | You can find such videos and recording on our websites... www.sholamesefoundation.org | Best Awards on Drug eradication from World Mission Award from Government Agencies etc | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
536 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Maria | Popo | AMP10x | amp10x.co | Founder | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Right now we are facing globally a time where watchdog reporting and even everyday citizens need accessible, affordable data that enables justice for all. The need for data is critical not only for spotting injustice, but also for enabling innovation at all levels of society. It must not only be available to rich corporations. Freedom of information is a human right. My personal journey started at Stanford where I have spend the last year in a fellowship. I spent some of my time to better understand Stanford's Democracy and Journalism initiative. In particular, I was interested in Local News that can have the great impact on local communities but are struggling financially with limited resources in most cases. I spent 10 weeks in an Investigative Reporting course and was amazed how most of the time was spent trying to gather and analyze the data. It made me think about improving the process in a simplified, accelerated low-cost way. In parallel, I discussed with others if there was a way to help local news to: 1. Increase their revenue. 2. Gain trust and engage more closely with the population they serve. 3. Partner with their communities to power up high functioning watchdog neighborhoods. Those closest to problems usually know the most about them and have important insights. So we engaged to design and develop an MVP data analytics tool using AI focused on providing advanced capabilities to local news organizations. Part of our vision is to create lite versions for individual users and non-profits. Our expectation is a powerful tool that cuts the high costs of commercial data analytics solutions so that it is accessible to all. We have some great advisors to help us advance the tool for a limited launch this Fall as the back-end development. My team of advisors includes a former US Ambassador to the UN, NPR Board member, head of Stanford's Journalism and Democracy initiative and several Reporters. | Maria Popo is a C-level entrepreneur recognized for leading several successful global technology startups within Foxconn, 3Com and 3M plus two companies from the ground up. Ms. Popo acquired double-digit market share from F100s with only 12 people. She built out technology and sales teams that grew her company from $0 to revenues of over $1 Billion. Maria was also an executive in an Asian multinational with over one million employees and $100B in revenue. Maria is expert at launching new internal businesses and associated technologies, while balancing a drive for growth with fiscal responsibility and emphasis on driving the highest possible ROI. Ms. Popo is a 2018/2019 Stanford University fellow in their Distinguished Career Institute where she is on a behavioral science and technology pathway focused on social impact. She mentors women and minorities in their pursuits of launching startups or technical careers. In Maria's spare time she runs, hikes and explores. | iReporter | Freedom of information made accessible and affordable to all. | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Launch in US initially but quickly scale to other countries that allow access to global news and data sources. | No | Proof of Concept | The core data analytics engine which uses machine learning is complete. We already know we can serve businesses and news rooms that are using other approaches. We say we are at Proof of Concept stage since we would be the first organization to provide news organizations a new way to engage with their communities through data in conjunction with increasing their revenues. Our goal is to launch a pilot with one or two news partners in the October/November time frame. | The problem: Local News is having trouble sustaining itself due to the high costs of data analysis and competing media. In parallel, consumers don't trust the news thanks to prevalent ""Fake News"" rhetoric which is fueling divisiveness at all levels. There is a fight against misinformation which translates to the importance of accessible investigative and public affairs reporting to all in support of new and sustainable innovation. | Project: iReporter – Freedom on information made accessible and affordable to all. Objective: Ensure that data is not a luxury only for the rich so that data can be a tool for justice and innovation at all levels. Product Description: iReporter is a simple-to-understand, low-cost tool that enables deep searches and synthetization of data. Our Data as a Service, Software as a Service Textural mining and similarities/association tool can ingest data from many sources including a powerful web-scraping engine. With simple drag and drop features applying machine learning and AI for deep learning and search patterns are made simple. NLP enables global use of the tool. We have found initial interest in iReporter doing the following: •Incremental Revenue for Local News and Non-Profits through consumer subscriptions for their services. •In addition to gathering textural news data the tool would also: oScrape multiple URLs with a click and provide comparative analysis and indexing scores. oSimple drag and drop features applying machine learning and AI for deep learning so search patterns are made simple. oBe downloadable into formats of the consumers choice (or we could provide one) such as excel, csv and publicly available visualization tools. | Currently there is no low-cost, fast way that I know of to easily extract and process data. Reporters are writing Python scripts and utilizing a variety of other one-offs. As for consumers, they are not engaging and accessing data at all because it's too complicated. We've taken all the manual processes to create a simple drag and drop automated process. We can: - Scrape multiple URLs with a click and provide comparative analysis and indexing scores. - Simple drag and drop features applying machine learning and AI for deep learning so search patterns are made simple. - Be downloadable into formats of the consumers choice (or we could provide one) such as excel, csv and publicly available visualization tools. There is no web-scraping tool on the market that we know of that also has the advanced capabilities of textural data mashup except for large commercial solutions. The tool has the following capabilities: API engine. Model viewer controller. Data integration. Front-end tool to read and then feed systems. Textural analytics with machine learning. Every query panel from a different data source. Textural data mashup. Saved to repository on database backend. Added machine learning. Similarities between textural content. Textural algorithms choices. Deep search (put in a paragraph). NLP translation. Sentiment analysis Blockchain capability Spark in memory | What we have described has already been developed. The core is very solid and ready for testing. Where we need work is in the user interface and user experience. This area will be further developed after the initial testing and pilots. We measure our progress utilizing a Lean methodology to measure technical, business milestones. We are also designing Social Impact KPIs to ensure the focus is on optimally serving communities and making a difference. | Brief Overview Launch: - Two states for US Pilot in October/November. Based on results deploy to next region. - We think Europe would be the next target markets but realistically we need to conduct at least 100 global interviews to determine where it will be most useful for the second phase. If we conduct at least 10 interviews a week, we can discover this rather quickly. KPIs: - Number of news organizations that sign on - Number of subscribers - Average length of subscription - Impact to local community - Measure UN Goals #9, 11, 16 & 17 | Short-term needs: UI/UX developers: 1 local BE Dev: 1 (overseas sourcing) Funding Medium-term needs: Administrative support More storage Customer Service Regional representation Customer Service Finance/Compliance Funding Long-Term Needs: More storage Build out infrastructure and scale Funding We can limit our sales/marketing costs as news agencies will take this on as part of their implementation to revenue process. Thus our main work will be around technical maintenance and roadmap. It is our objective to make Local News the face to consumers so that we can focus on the product and keep costs as low as possible. | https://www.amp10x.co/ iReporter backend login: http://jd.greenscott.com:8095/RIToolkit/home.html Technology: Part 1 - https://youtu.be/_57XWvIoEFU Part 2 - https://youtu.be/tBfWhUkIaKk | 1. 2019 Extraordinary Women podcast: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kami-guildner/extraordinary-women-radio-with-kami-guildner/e/56126215 2. Tech It Out Keynote Panel with ABC News Anchor & SVP Comcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHC3U1rlSF8&t=12s 3. Women in Tech 2019 Lightning Talk: https://youtu.be/z5wHlYW27Bs | - 2018: 20 Female Founders to Watch, Boulder Bits - 2015: Most Powerful Women in Cable, CableFax One of 100 women in cable - 2013: Woman in Technology - Multichannel News. Selected as 1 of 4. - 2012: Top 50 Fastest Growing Woman-Led Companies, WPO and American Express. Came in 8th. - 2011: Woman of the Year, Women in Cable. 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537 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | EUGENE | FAISON | DGridEnergy, LLC | www.dgridenergy.com | CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Our motivation is base on addressing the need for food security and the critical need for the cold chain to improve health, nutrition, and economic development. | Mr. Faison has worked in more than 50 countries around the world providing technical assistance, communications and marketing services. As a social entrepreneur, he has led companies that have conceptualized and implemented major campaigns for United States Agency for International Development, GlaxoSmithKline, Nike, The World Bank, Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation, Zain Mobile, ImagineNations, and more. These business initiatives have focused on investment promotion, agricultural development, and import/export promotion. Mr. Faison is the driving force behind global sales and marketing of the Solar Cool CubeTM. | Solar Cool Cube Products | Preimier Cold Chain Solutions Provider and manufacturer | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Zaambia, DRC, Kenya, Rwanda, South Vietnam, Haiti, South Suddan | Yes | Internaitonal Food Research Policy Institute, Outback Power, Global Cold Chain Alliance, Global Off-Grid Lignting Associaton | Transition to Scale | Developed a robust pipeline from 13 countries with deployment and installations occurring or installed. | Lack of energy and no cold chain knowledge or infrastructure. | Solar-powered with energy storage via batteries to run a modular and expandable 20m3 walk-in refrigeration system call the Solar Cool Cube, Solar Milk Chiller and Solar Ice Maker. Systems can freeze and are managed via cellphone. They are remotely monitored. they have LED Lights and USB ports to bring light and additional income by charging cell phones in off-grid areas. Extensive warranties and training to create employment and jobs for women and youth. | Highly efficient, hurricane rated, dependable and warrantied for 10 years. | We are actively selling and deploying in Africa. Opening new markets and seeking quality in-country partners. Developing new products to expand our cold chain solutions. | We are in the midst of a capital raise to enter new markets, acquire new staff and expand our operations and processes. | Our short term needs are sales. We need quality in-country partners. Our mid-term needs is capital to allow us to move from CAPEX purchase to a financing model and payment. Our long-term need is enough financing to establish a leasing operation. | https://vimeo.com/276493135 SCC_SellSheets English _v5 (003)5.19.19.pdf (6.6 MB) Shared using SecuriSync 20m3.jpg (92.8 KB) Shared using SecuriSync CoolCube Presentation R10a_SC7.24.18.ppsx (27.3 MB) Shared using SecuriSync Cool Cuber RFQ Questions on letterhead.docx (85.2 KB) Shared using SecuriSync Cool Cube General Specification.pdf (370.6 KB) Shared using SecuriSync 3PL InfographicDGrid.11.27.18.docx (1.6 MB) Shared using SecuriSync | https://vimeo.com/276493135 | Semifinals in Global Cold Chain Challenge Finalist in Energy for Access Research Fund-Award Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2019- Hague | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
538 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Fateh | HADDAD | GLOBAL BUSINESS | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1523277597889337&ref=br_rs | Business Manager | MALE | Tunisia | Tunisia | Arabic | English | French | I create a new company named GLOBAL BUSINESS at 2014 and i participate in the world congres of JCI I participated at Jappan congres with the begining of global goals 2015-2030 . So i create a new system of business to help new global business persons to be the new leaders of markets in theirs countries (North of Africa.) this new system of business has a new methodology : Systematic Approach and Research -Action . i work to find how to help young people to create new network of business between them and build a partenaireship with public organizations and private companies (women business persons)25-40 ages. my participation in this program is to give an application summission into global innovation Echange. - After the fondation of some groups in Tunisia , i started at 2011 until 2014 by organizing of some activities with youth groups the leaders:students ,the president and members of many organisations and deffrents fealds of organisational activites i created a project of national administration reforme to more understand the important social and economic broblems and i startd by :The Training Academy for Leadership in Negotiation Techniques in the Investment System) Established a local company and organization operating in Tunisia, linking states, organizations, institutions, companies, government, local and international bodies, experts, student youth, working youth and the Senate. And representatives of the people over 3 years. - Established a brokerage company in the financing of public and private projects and interfere in investment at various stages. -Established a private organization of investors and investment negotiators for the country and Africans to cooperate with Europe, Asia and the Arab world and build a solid economic base. -A women's organization has set up works to develop the capacities of girls and women to build institutions and companies that women decide, implement and develop to participate in local development, family and childhood. -Working to participate in national and international conferences to build experience in business management and development of investment systems and economy in a sophisticated scientific way subject to contemporary development. - Intervening in the reform of the systems of companies and economic establishments that suffer from export problems and the financial adjustment of the balance of the economy. | fateh haddad member of JCI past president 2011. 15 years experience working with youth groups and arts and business director of youth house sychology, dynamic of groups(arts,informatic.travels,coaching) create a new company named: international network company of business persons and investment that we invest in Africa some goverments and persons hom need financing intervention - organistional experiences at impact acheave and share youth experiences . Working to participate in national and international conferences to build experience in business management and development of investment systems and economy in a sophisticated scientific way subject to contemporary development. - Intervening in the reform of the systems of companies and economic establishments that suffer from export problems and the financial adjustment of the balance of the economy. | creation of a new global network of ""global business young persons"" in africa to build a new power of develpment . | global business system,program,organization and campany. 4D . PPP(Partnership Public Private) | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Tunisia Algeria Maroc Sénégal Benin Cote-d'ivoire JORDONIE | Yes | INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT GROUP | Scaling | i have 5 years that i work about this program from 2014 in germany ang 2015 in Jappan and i beleave that the global goals will be the only sollution for all in the world such as the stroung problem of all times is the poverty the first goal . youth persons have all cappacities to change and they can if we help them in our world in Africa and arab world we have strong powers ans skills (women and students). and we can put end to violence problems with innovation of our visions to the futur | - Dispersion of university efforts, government, economy and real needs of young people. - Lack of interrelationship between education, training and business systems among youth and -- governments and the aggravation of unemployment. - Lack of employment opportunities for women and their participation in the decision. - Lack of business culture and independent work. - Lack of strategic action and lack of networking between systems . | Training young people to choose their specialties according to their abilities and demands of the labor market and learn to send private institutions and work networks between local, regional and international systems. How does your solution work, and what is the long-term vision for global impact? * This proposal deals with the intervention of the systems in the field of agriculture, industry, trade and services and interferes in the adjustment of government work and the opening of areas of renewal in production. In the short term: Renewal of the base of organizations, institutions, private, educational and university institutions. Microfinance for young companies. Intervention in companies and the launch of major projects to help develop individual income. Linking networks between regional countries in the common economy and linking continental and international cooperation. Long term: Eliminate the differences between the economies of countries and raise the standard of living of peoples in the Africancontinent and its readiness to develop international cooperation and eliminate the problems of poverty and technological and developmental gap. | Include human and social sciences and train on social responsibility and civil work to develop and strengthen the capacities of the community groups in scientific research and field applications and involve women in the modification of decisions and the organization of time and work in the way of creative thinking in the medium and long term | - Creation of Youth working groups, public staff and experts. - Revolving resaerchs cycle of work fields - Coordinates are adjusted in the field because they are field solutions compared to the progress of years and product development according to the situation and the social climate and the development of new laws. - Link scientific reference (method of research-action and systemic approach) to the solution adopted theoretical and field applications and linking this method to the overall goals 17 and at the same time the association with institutions, organizations and businesspersons and laboratories specialized in the areas of work and local development and sustainable (17 goals). - To turn to the corporate(business persons and companies) sector to contribute to social responsibility and intervention to participate in sustainable development and help young people to develop the economy and contribute to the efforts of governments in the development of networking and the elimination of social differences. - creation of a new economic system of peaceful investment (encourage the new creative iniciative and strategic financing projects) | -Tunisia. -Nort Africa (maroc algeria tunisia)100 million citizens beneficiaries consumers . -this sollution needs : Experts specializing in economics and finance Experts in humanities, psychology and sociology. Experts in the environment, community and technical applications Youth Science Experts | How does your solution work, and what is the long-term vision for global impact? * This proposal deals with the intervention of the systems in the field of agriculture, industry, trade and services and interferes in the adjustment of government work and the opening of areas of renewal in production. In the short term: Renewal of the base of organizations, institutions, private, educational and university institutions. Microfinance for young companies. Intervention in companies and the launch of major projects to help develop individual income. Linking networks between regional countries in the common economy and linking continental and international cooperation. Long term: Eliminate the differences between the economies of countries and raise the standard of living of peoples in the African continent and its readiness to develop international cooperation and eliminate the problems of poverty and technological and developmental gap. | The Training Academy for Leadership in Negotiation Techniques in the Investment System has been awarded the Best Development Project of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1523277597889337&ref=br_rs | The Training Academy for Leadership in Negotiation Techniques in the Investment System has been awarded the Best Development Project of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
539 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | NDEYE DAGUE | GUEYE | SECTION FEMININE ASSOCIATION NATIONALE DES HANDICAPES MOTEURS DU SENEGAL | courants de femmes.org | teacher | femal | Senegal | Senegal | French | J ai été motivée a présenter un projet a UN Solutions Summit car j ai participé en 2018 a la rencontre de haut niveau sur les ODD et j ai animé un panel sur l ODD 11. Vu que les activités que je mène cadrent avec les ODD,cela m a motivé a présenter un projet ( lutte contre la pauvreté avec l insertion des filles et femmes handicapées ,accés a la santé;la sécurité routière pour les personnes handicapées,les villes inclusives,le combat pour l éducation inclusive ,la formation des filles handicapée en vue de l égalité des sexes...) | Elle n’a jamais cessé de se battre contre les obstacles socioculturels qui empêchaient la promotion des personnes handiapées, et en particulier des femmes handicapées. Son plus grand choc ,c est quand elle a été exclue de l école normale pour cause de handicap.Ce qui l a poussée a mener le combat contre l injustice dont sont victimes les personnes handicapées et les femmes handicapées en particulier. Elle rejoignit alors en 1984 l’Association Nationale des Handicapés Moteurs du Sénégal et dirigea la première section féminine de cette structure dans le but de prendre en compte les besoins spécifiques des femmes handicapées. Elle devint représentante des femmes au sein de la Fédération Sénégalaise des Associations de Personnes Handicapées (FSAPH), qui regroupe environ vingt six associations avec différents types de handicaps. Grâce à elle, le mouvement des femmes handicapées installa des antennes dans l’ensemble du pays. Elle a fait de l’éducation et de la formation des filles et femmes handicapées son cheval de bataille et ce, en partenariat surtout avec le ministère de la femme et certaines ONG. L’autre défi concerne la santé liée à la reproduction de la femme handicapée motrice : Plaidoyer pour la gratuité de la césarienne, l’accessibilité physique des structures sanitaires… Ndéye s’est aussi beaucoup investie dans les campagnes nationales de vaccination contre la poliomyélite et dans la lutte contre les préjugés Elle a eu des distinctions au niveau national et international Ndeye est actuellement membre du conseil d’administration d’Humanité & Inclusion. | PROJET D INSERTION ET DE REINSERTION DES FEMMES HANDICAPEES DU SENEGAL | L égalisation des chances est possible pour tpous : a force d engagement,de persévérance,nous parviendrons a la promotion des femmes handicapées, | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Notre projet est actuellement mise en oeuvre a Dakar au Sénégal .Elle est destinée a sélargir au Mali,au Burkina Faso et au Bénin. | Yes | Humanity &Inclusion,Sight Savers et les ministéres de la femme et de la santé ,les structures de formation professionnelle come l école internationale de coiffure,la chambre des métiers du Sénégal | Transition to Scale | Notre innovation est au stade du processus de mise a l échelle car nous avons commencé et eu certains résultats :en 3 ans 170 femmes handicapées ont déjà été formées dans divers corps de métiers,elles ont été aussi renforcées en genre,leadership, santé de la reproduction etc 30 projets mises en place et plus de 20 activités renforcées. Plus de 100 causeries ont été organisées pour sensibiliser les filles et femmes handicapées.Nous devons étendre le projet au niveau des autres régions du pays | Les femmes handicapées en majorité sont analphabètes n ont pas un métier la plus part s adonnent a la mendicité Ce projet veut régler les problémes suivants: -la pauvreté des femmes handicapées - leur analphabétisme la méconnaissance des droits leur chômage leur manque d information Les préjugés qui entourent le handicap l inaccessibilité physique des structures sanitaires,le cout élevé des prestations, les accidents de la route la non application des lois pour les personnes handicapées | Œuvrer pour les enfants handicapées puissent étudier normalement(plaidoyer pour la mise en œuvre de l éducation inclusive ,accompagner le processus de mise en oeuvre de l éducation inclusive -Mettre en place des programmes de formations pour les filles et les femmes handicapées dans des métiers qualifiants -Renforcement des capacités des femmes handicapées dans le domaine du genre,du leadership,de l entreprenariat féminin ,l appropriation des lois et conventions concernant les femmes handicapées -Causeries et conférences sur les violences faites aux femmes -Mise en place et renforcement d activités génératrices de revenus -œuvrer pour une application correcte de la convention et de la loi d orientation sociale des personnes handicapées A long termes,nous visons la promotion et la protection des personnes handicapées;leur autonomisation -la mise en place d entreprises viables | L approche est innovante en ce sens que nous avons mis l inclusion en avant ,en commençant par sensibiliser ,former les femmes handicapées leurs parents et quelques proches pour obtenir leur adhésion,leur mobilisation. Nous avons ensuite precher par l exemple pour leur montrer que c est bien possible d obtenir l égalisation des chances.Nous avons intégré d abord le système avec tous ces manquemenst,ensuite nous avons mené un fort plaidoyer pour que le système nous prenne en compte en intégrant les réseaux et plateformes de femmes pour mettre en exergue l inclusion.Nous avons soit intégrer certaines écoles de formations existantes ou bien nous avons travailler avec les formateurs de ces écoles pour éviter les problèmes d inaccessibilité de certaines infrastructures. Pour la mise en place des activités génératrices de revenus,nous avons prôné l inclusion pour certains en mettant a profit les parents ou proches dans l exécution de certaines taches du projet. Les causeries et conférences voient la mobilisation de toutes la communauté | Le projet a beaucoup progressé:on note une émergence de femmes handicapées leaders dans chaque région du pays. Les femmes handicapées s activent dans tous les cadres de développement existants au niveau de leur localité. Dans toutes les régions et tous les départements ,des tructure de femmes handicapées ont été mises en place pour coordonner les activités des femmes handicapées. Celles qui ont été formées participent a des foires au niveau national et même international pour vendre leurs produits . La formation en plaidoyer a permis aux femmes handicapées de porter le plaidoyer pour la ratification de la Convention internationale sur les droits des personnes handicapées(a l occasion de la journée internationale de la femme Édition 2010) . On note aussi l emergence de femmes handicapées entrepreneurs,elles ont leur petites entreprises qu elles gèrent depuis quelques années. Certaines connaissent maintenant les structures de financement et elles s octroient des crédits qu elles parviennent a rembourser pour fructifier leurs activités. | Ce projet permettra de recruter 70 personnes au niveau national pour sa mise en œuvre dans toutes les régions et le renforcement a Dakar.,le revenu de ces personnes recrutées permettra d impacter plus de 400 personnes Il y aura des rencontres d échanges d expériences,échanges de produits ,réseautages; Des rencontres seront organisées au niveau sous régional avec des femmes handicapées de pays limitrophes s activant dans les mêmes domaines et les bonnes pratiques peuvent etre dupliquées dans les pays limitrophes. Les séances de plaidoyer peuvent permettre l application des lois qui va impacter sur un grand nombre de personnes handicapées; La campagne sur l éducation va permettre de scolariser plus de 300 enfants handicapées en deux ans. L implication des femmes handicapées dans les campagnes de prévention routière va permettre l amélioration du transport pour les personnes handicapées(respect des chaises réservés dans les transports publics,meilleure prise en compte des personnes handicapées dans les transports publics | -Ressources Humaines qualifiées :renforces les capacités des femmes handicapées pour leur donner un savoir faire (420 femmes handicapées au niveau national c est a dire 30 femmes handicapées a former par an dans chaque région du pays )dans les métiers de la restauration,la haute couture,l artisanat d art ,l informatique... -Le renforcement de capacités de 1500 femmes handicapées au niveau national dans des domaines comme l approche genre;le leadership ,l appropriation de la Convention Internationale sur les droits des personnes handicapées ,de la loi d orientation sociale et de la Convention sur l élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination a l égard des femmes La mise en place de 400 projets générateurs de revenus et le renforcement de 100 projets existants(sur une durée de 3 ans) ,les projets collectifs a grand impact seront encouragés.. -Nous avons besoin de ressources financières pour renforcer le plaidoyer et mieux agir sur l éducation des filles handicapées( ateliers sur l éducation inclusive ,sur l octroi des états civils pour les enfants handicapés) 150 Causeries et sensibilisation sur la santé de la reproduction des femmes handicapées SOIT UN BUDGET TOTAL DE 675 Millions de francs cfa(six cents soixante quinze millions de francs cfa ) en trois ans - | http://www.sentv.info/actualite-nationale/socitete/421-depistage-du-cancer-chez-les-femmes-handicapees-une-initiative-salutaire-selon-ndeye-dague-gueye-dieye.html www.coutantsde femmes.org http://blog.handicap-international.org/influenceandethics/2018/07/13/feedback-without-safe-and-inclusive-mobility-no-sustainable-development/portrait-dague2/ https://fr-fr.facebook.com/pages/category/Nonprofit-Organization/jokoosnde/posts/ | http://geantesinvisibles.e-monsite.com/pages/toutes-les-interviews/interview-de-ndeye-dague-gueye.html https://fr.allafrica.com/stories/201803080792.html http://www.courantsdefemmes.org/Debats/PortraitMmeNdeye/MmeNdeye.html https://senego.com/senego-tv-affaire-asp-handicapee-le-comite-national-des-femmes-handicapees-du-senegal-va-se-constituer-partie-civile-pour_710224.html | Je suis innovatrice ASHOKA DEPUIS 2002 .Je suis passée a plusieurs sélections avant de devenir innovatrice J ai reçu le prix de l alliance internationale pour les femmes TIAW, World of Différence en 2012 pour le travail que je méne pour la communauté des personnes handicapées J ai reçu plusieurs prix au Sénégal: Femme Pionnière par le gouvernement du Sénégal Femme Modèle par le Forum des Éducatrices Africaines(FAWE) Femmes Bâtisseurs par le Musée de la Femme Henriette Bathily de Gorée | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
540 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Gary | Lewis | SeaQuestration | SeaQuestration.com | Founder | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Global Climate Change: The earth is warming at a faster rate than anytime in agrarian human history due to CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. This will create flooding, disease, starvation, displacement, heat deaths, extreme weather and extinctions on a scale never experienced. We convert atmospheric CO2 into food. Most of the deaths and relocations would be people in lower socio-economic countries. Our technology uses common materials and wave action to create significant marine life in existing and expanding ocean 'deserts’ to over-fishing, . This increases populations of high value endangered pelagic fish species (e.g. blue fin tuna), and removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in significant quantities. Our process is scalable and can remove world-wide atmospheric CO2 to pre-industrials levels. SeaQuestration’s primary purpose is to restore the oceans power to maintain the health and equilibrium of our atmosphere, save fish stocks, and provide low cost protein to world economies.Our primary purpose is to revers climate change, save marine life in over-fished oceans, and make high quality protein available to challenged socio-economic communities. Our management approach is to use a very small team and demonstrate the SeaQuestration concept from the already validated prototype to a scalable system. We have relevant experience using exotic materials in harsh environments, including space and the ocean. We have the data from a working field test, validating the concept of a wave-pump driven CO2 sequestration solution. Our core values are: 1. Sustainability - collaborating to return the planet to a sustainable atmosphere that will allow both natural and agrarian (farming) processes to function as they have for 6,000 years. This will allow the earth to renew resources (plants and animals. 2. Equity - help underprivileged human communities, nations, populations, and endangered and economically important animal species. Our leaders have each worked on projects in excess of $100 million, and over 100 people, in finance and aerospace, such as trash into energy projects, manned-space hardware, and ocean environments. | 2008 to Present: Refining IP that sequesters CO2 while creating economically significant biomasses. Our technology uses common materials and wave action to create significant biomass in existing ocean ‘deserts’, located in USA Economic Exclusion Zone. This both saves and utilizes endangered pelagic fish species (e.g. blue fin tuna), and removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in significant quantities. Using natural processes, it reverses ocean acidification and sequesters CO2 from further heating the atmosphere. We have data from a fielded test. 2005 to 2011: Developed and own IP to transfer waste into energy with ~99% efficiency. Additional technological benefits from this IP include soil remediation, nuclear remediation and sequestration, medical waste, and e-waste with full metal recovery. | SeaQuestration | A simple scaleable solution to reverse climate change and increase world-wide food supplies by removing atmospheric CO2 and increasing marine life. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | The open ocean | No | Proof of Concept | SeaQuestration already has a field test with data proving that creating a biological pump in an oligotrophic environment creates a biomass that will sequester CO2 in the form of particulate organic carbon (POC). Our goal for is to continue design on field hardened full-scale pump units, and prove the concept will further the increase of fish stocks, sequester CO2, and provide a scalable solution to remove all the additional atmospheric CO2. | Global Climate Change: The earth is warming at a faster rate than anytime in agrarian human history due to CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. This will create flooding, disease, starvation, displacement, heat deaths, extreme weather and extinctions on a scale never experienced. We convert atmospheric CO2 into food. Most of the deaths and relocations would be people in lower socio-economic countries. | Our technology uses common materials and wave action to create significant marine life in existing and expanding ocean 'deserts’ due to over-fishing. We lift marine snow to the surface of the ocean in oligotrophic zones. This increases populations of high value endangered pelagic fish species (e.g. blue fin tuna), and removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in significant quantities. Our process is scalable and can remove world-wide atmospheric CO2 to pre-industrials levels. SeaQuestration’s primary purpose is to restore the oceans power to maintain the health and equilibrium of our atmosphere, save fish stocks, and provide low cost protein to world economies. | Very few solutions involve air capture of CO2, or use an already existing natural mechanism (The Biological Pump) to solve climate change. By energizing The Biological Pump, we can: 1. Return CO2 levels to pre Industrial Era levels. 2. Burn the remaining fossil fuels as new energy technologies come online. This will allow citizens of emerging economies to flourish without being 'punished' for the last 150 years of CO2 emissions in the 1st and 2nd world. 3. Return weather patterns to pre Industrial Era norms, which coincide with the agrarian growth and stability of the human race over the last 6,000 years. 4. Restore the oceans ability to help moderate our climate. 5. Create sustainable fisheries | SeaQuestration already has a field test with data proving that creating a biological pump in an oligotrophic environment creates a biomass that will sequester CO2 in the form of particulate organic carbon (POC). | Our change approach, validated in manned space trials (the most difficult environment), is to use a very small team and demonstrate the SeaQuestration concept from the already validated prototype into a scalable system. We will deploy a multitude of units that are identical in specification to document the scaling approach. The core team will solidify our unique small set of requirements, complete designs with the majority of work done by contractors using Commercial Off The shelf (COTs) hardware, and then function as system integrators. The deployment team will install the system into a test bed ocean location. Once installed, the system has the built in data collection and streaming capability to provide the core team data on CO2 levels derived from environmental changes to nitrogen, oxygen, and other sampled metrics. From the data collected on hardware and environment, we will refine our hardware design and deployment strategies for greater efficiency in CO2 sequestration and harvestable fisheries. From there, we can calculate the size of the SeaQuestration hardware coverage to 1. remove atmospheric CO2 faster than it is being generated, and 2. provide inexpensive protein yet maintain sustainable ocean fisheries. Our goal is to limit or eliminate the anticipated 100-500 million human relocations, starvations, and deaths as a result of climate change and sea level rise. | Engineering Manufacturing Development: We anticipate a core team of about 5-10 personnel. The team’s approach is on implementation and execution. The leadership of the team will provide the clarity of the vision on the implementation and focus of simplicity of design, and purpose. There is no new technology development, simply and increase in reliability and efficacy of the manufacturing readiness levels of hardware. $10 million. Units will be deployed during the Low Rate In Production (500 each) manufacturing period. Deployment will be off the coast of Hawaii. Data is collected regularly using un-manned systems as well as overhead visual surveillance. Collecting data and performance of the deployment systems is part of our ongoing learning and monitoring program in sequestering CO2. $10M Full Scale Production would focus on the increase in concentration of CO2 conversion and sequestration per hardware and systems from LRIP. This creation of a micro sea environment would further substantiate technical claims and allow for ocean inspection of increased life and activity. Economies of test collection and use of SeaGliders, overhead observation with aircraft and within site monitoring with localized small boats will also become more economical in the scale up. We will field 12,000 units at 500 per month for 24 months. Based on current data, this should yield 75 million metric tons of sequestered CO2, and approximately 200,000 metric tons of protein. | Seaquestration.com | https://youtu.be/pED6zpxOBWk | XPrize Corsia Carbon Competition: Round 2 selection | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
541 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Moyinoluwa | Anifowose | BEE'54 INTEGRATED LIMITED | www.bee54.org | Business|Entrepreneurship|Empowerment | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Ever since I was little,i had loved creative and innovative ideas, I was always fascinated when I see systems that provide solution to real time problem. Therefore, I enrolled in a high school focused on technology that gave me plenty of general knowledge regarding technology. As soon as I finished high school I was given admission into a university to study electrical electronics where when I got to my fourth year in the school, I did my internship and was exposed to innovative projects like automatic home system, GSM based security system, ultrasonic bond man stick.Working as an intern then was quite challenging and I learned so much every day while I was working, improving myself daily. Even though i had passed through the processof an intern in the aspect of electronics,i knew that there is more to entrepreneurship which made go after acquiring the skills of becoming an entrepreneur and working towards eradicating umployment in Africa. This is meant to done by creating massive employment opportunities through strategic agent supply of various commodities across Africa. However, am sure that being a part of the UN solutions summit will give me the ability to present my project to the world and it will also give me the ability to gain a lot of knowledge from the programme. Therefore, I am hoping you will take my application into consideration for your programme and give me the opportunity to be part of this | ANIFOWOSE MOYINOLUWA MARY was born on 19th of December, 1998 in Akure, Ondo state,she is from Ekiti State,Nigeria. she graduate from Liberty Nursery and Primary School, Akure, Ondo State in the year 2000 then went to Futa Staff Secondary School Akure, Ondo State and graduated in the year 2008, she had her undergraduate in Federal University Of Technology, Akure where she studied Electrical Electronics Engineering. She has experience as an intern in Interwired NIG Ltd ,centre4tech,Nigeria,Student work experience programme (swep 2), Positive FM (102.5 FM) - Akure, Ondo state. She has the following skills Good communication skills,Time management,Loyalty, Honesty, Dedication ,Hardworking and Supportive. She is a member of the Nigerian Universities Engineering Students Association(NUESA),she is also a member of the Nigerian Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineering Students(NIEEES), She is currently the Human Resources manager at BEE'54 INTEGRATED LIMITED | Business|Entrepreneurship|Empowerment | Our solution involves business ,empowerment and entrepreneurship which exist to create jobs in Africa . | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Africa | Yes | African young entrepreneurs | Proof of Concept | It is at the stage of innovation because it solves real time problem of human being by providing the commodities they want at their door step by them just communicating to us via the Mobile App or website. | Our solution exist to solve the problem of poverty in Africa through business and entrepreneurship empowerment. | It is working gradually by we practicalizing it, we have started but we haven't gotten to our final destination.. Long term vision is to create massive employment opportunities across Africa through strategic agent supplies of commodities. | The new perspective or methodology is that people's time can now be exchanged for their money, they get any commodity they want in less than 10minutes just by ordering for it via their phone and the closest agent receives the message that client in need of goods ,so he go to the nearest store to get it and get it delivered on time..The main goal is to meet people's needs as quick as possible.. | We are progressing gradually but i will say we are still on 30% if we are to measure it.... | BEE'54 plan to take over Africa We exist to invest in Commodities, real estates and technology | The most needed resources is money to scale the business up and to make it have considerable impact. | Http://www.bee54.org | Http://www.bee54.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
542 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Oluwatosin | Adekoya | GETAIKI LIMITED | http://getaiki.com/ | Founder | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Being a part of the UN Solution Summit would be very much instrumental in promoting our work and enhancing the reach and coverage of our impact to create economic inclusion and financial independence for African youths. As the company approaches the growth stage, we desire to promote our cause by leveraging and being a part of programs and initiatives that champion advancement opportunities for innovations. We can benefit immensely from the mentorship opportunities, media publicity, funding, training and partnership opportunities with UN’s valuable network of technologically inclined organisations necessary to scale our impact. At Getaiki, our key motivation is eradicating illiteracy and unemployment. Our operations are jeered towards making education affordable and accessible to all regardless of socio-economic background. As well as providing employment opportunities for underprivileged young persons in Africa by equipping them with 21st-century technical skills to help them live above the poverty line. | Oluwatosin Adekoya is a Software engineer with over 10 years of experience. His childhood years were spent in Lagos, Nigeria where he got his primary and secondary education. He studied computer science at the Federal University of Technology, Bauchi and was a recipient of the Vice Chancellor’s awards for the most outstanding student in 2007 to 2011. He is also an alumnus of the Lagos Business School. Over the past years, he has worked in several professional capacities with both local and foreign organisations like Targeted Technologies LLC New Jersey, USA; Development Exchange Centre, Northern Nigeria; and Dirrond Limited, Lagos Nigeria. In addition to the above, he built Notelier.com; a hotel platform, data later acquired by Hotels.NG. Some of his other works are; a campaign website for the Californian gubernatorial candidate, Gavin Newsom; and a City development and Data mapping app for the CITY OF POWAY. His on-going mission and commitment is developing solutions to end illiteracy and unemployment in Nigeria and Africa. Presently, he serves as Andela’s Regional Mentor for North East, Nigeria. He is the founder of Getaiki, an on-demand technical support company and resides in Jos, Nigeria where the company is headquartered. | GETAIKI | Getaiki is a platform for training and connecting underprivileged young people to technical support jobs. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Nigeria and other African countries. | No | Proof of Concept | Presently, we are monitoring the training of our first cohort of technicians. Our website through which customers would request services will launch the ending of August. In the meantime, we get customer patronage through advertisement on third party online platforms. In order to test and track customer receptiveness, we receive a selective amount of request so as to avoid an overwhelming workload of requests on our growing technical team. | In Nigeria, 34.9 million are unemployed or underemployed and 1.1 million out of the 1.5 million that apply for tertiary institutions yearly cannot get in. Illiteracy and unemployment are at an alarming rise in developing countries and widespread mostly among the youths who constitute the majority of the nation’s workforce. This is a catalyst for poverty, such that 86.9million Nigerians live in extreme poverty. | We are building an alternative to college education system that trains underprivileged young persons in technical skills. After their training, we connect them to technical support jobs around the world. We designed a 3-dimensional approach; Getaiki Champion, Getaiki Beta and Getaiki Global. Depending on the mode of training and contract between Getaiki and the trainees. Getaiki Champion and Beta go through a blended curriculum; our online courses and physical classes at our community learning hub. After being trained, Getaiki Champion joins our network of technicians and earn 70% on each service request assigned while Getaiki Beta secures employment outside the Getaiki network with our help and for a period of two years, we take 20% of their salary. Getaiki Global go through our online courses and get charged an optional premium fee of $0.99 for support and certification. This 3-dimensional approach helps to scale impact and revenue. Our long-term vision -Make education affordable and accessible to all irrespective of social or economic status. -Eradicate illiteracy, unemployment and poverty in all its forms. -Replicate and expand our business and impact to other African Countries. -Grow our online technical learning platform to have a global reach. -Grow the revenue of the company by scaling customer patronage globally. | -At Getaiki, we are building an alternative to college education, the first of its kind. Our technicians are sourced majorly from underprivileged young people who do not possess skills to make a living due to the competitiveness and difficulty associated with getting a college degree in Nigeria. -We make technical support much more affordable for individuals and businesses by connecting them to our network of talented and affordable technicians. -Getaiki is built on a for-profit system. We generate revenue to sustain operations even as we keep impact in focus. -Our solution promotes 4 of the SDG Goals; 1,4, 8 and 10. -Our model is a two-pronged mechanism designed to make education affordable and accessible to all, as well as a follow up to ensure that our trained technicians have the opportunity to apply their skills and earn to live above the poverty line. -Our website runs with a proprietary algorithm, an artificial intelligence system which speeds up operation and efficiency. It computes customer requests and ensures they get paired promptly to the most suitable and available technician. | The business has generated 24,010USD revenue. The first cohort of our technicians is currently in training. Our engineering team has been working on the construction of our website which will be launched by the ending of August. We currently serve 43 individuals and businesses (customers) with our technical support services. We have 6 persons on the team. At Getaiki, we measure progress is measured by; -How much revenue the business generates to sustain its operations -The number of underprivileged youths we successfully impact through our technical skills training and connect to jobs. -The number of customers we serve and with our services. | In five years we plan to; -Generate 5 millionUSD revenue. -Serve 250,000 customers (individuals and businesses). -Partner with Payment Providers with global reach to ease processing payments from international customers. -Reach 4.7 million young people through our blended and online curriculum. -Establish 55 community learning hubs -Secure legal counsel on international trade laws and policies to serve our international customers better. -Patent our proprietary algorithm. -Increase the Engineering and training team -Hire people for sales and marketing roles -Develop our online learning platform | -Partnership with global Payment processors to improve processing receipt of payment from international customers. -Secure server resources from Amazon. -Finance, power, data to provide sufficient training space and structures for enough young people. -Knowledge of international legal framework and policies. -Partnership with like-minded organizations concerned with educating through technology. -Recruitment of the right, competent trainers and engineering team to cater to the target number of youths we aim to serve with our solution. -Partnership with local and international media. -Patent of our proprietary algorithm. | http://getaiki.com/ | https://youtu.be/FIF2pvIlzTE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
543 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Balázs | Néemthi | Taqanu | www.taqanu.com | CEO | male | Germany | Hungary | English | Learning about UN solutions summit opened an opportunity to present our new solution. While we are working on to offer a technical + hardware solution, the can solve identification and payments in refugee camps and similar temporary settlements regardless of connectivity, we understand the need to showcase our tools for the broader community. By working with marginalized people and enabling them to access basic needs via digitalized methods we are able to provide a streamlined experience for both supported and supportee at the same time. | During the last 3,5 years, I had the opportunity to be the founder and chief executive officer of a growing identity operation, Taqanu, with a strong focus on identity lifecycle of Refugees. The project originated from the European refugee “crisis” to find solutions for digital and social inclusion of the newly arrived. Taqanu has gone through several iterations enabling the team to establish and contribute to the knowledge base of what a “good ID” system for the underprivileged should and could operate. Since the early days, Taqanu is working in the space of decentralisation with a deep interest in novel tools like blockchains and distributed ledger technologies. The company was among the founding companies of the Decentralized Identity Foundation that led to the creation of a new W3C standard, DID or decentralised identifier. Leading Taqanu also empowered me to present concepts at a global stage for varying audiences from deep technical audiences (Self-Sovereign Identity) to on-site implementers with a prerequisite to use appropriate language. The list of stages including but not limited to: UNHCR IDecosystem, G20 – Germany; Smart Communities Coalition, TENT partnership, KNOW Identity, EIC in Munich, Money 20/20, Nikkei and more across domains including financial inclusion, blockchain and identity. | one.me | payment and identity solution for marginalized communities | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kenya, Ethiopa | Yes | UNHCR Ethiopia, Smart Communities Coalition | Research & Development | The team (extended team of 5) are working to align our understanding of the current situation on the target locations and adjust and develop the required tools to meet those requirements. As we are still waiting for a green flag from our partners we are more reliant on bureaucracy than our ability to deliver the solution. | Refugee camps and similar settlements lack accessible/affordable solutions to manage a minimal format of identity and use a traceable payment mechanism. The situation these people find them self seize them from even the lowest levels of dignity. | The core idea came from our background in blockchain technology. We realized that while blockchain solves many problems opaque services face, it has an inherent issue in places with lack of connectivity. Therefore, one.me is being designed to act as a distributed technology architecture. It is based on the early days of street phones that were capable to deduct certain amounts from the user's phone card. The same methodology is applied in our service only using 21st tech and equipment. The solutions consist of a personal inexpensive ""phone card"" (NFC chip-card) issued to every member of the community by the overseeing organisation. These cards can host print, therefore if the situation is not urgent a low-resolution picture and name can be printed on the cards for authentication purposes. The card is charged with the user's basic information (as data) and with vouchers/e-money regarding the internal processes of the compound. Vendors are equipped (or own) an android OS phone with the capability to read/write through NFC technology. Once a service is finalized the cardholder authenticates her/himself towards the vendors' app. Later on, the vendor synchronized with one of the central computers that take the log of all transaction (and runs a fraud prevention engine) and in exchange for the amount of e-money spent at his location, the organisation pays in cash or makes a bank transaction. The same method is used for identification. | It is fundamentally different from already existing solutions as it aims to provide identity and finance over the same technology framework that has the capacity to operate under very limited circumstances as well as under the best possible technology and infrastructure availability. Hence these features, the solution can be deployed across all possible uses cases with an incentive (microloan model, later) for vendors. | We are in a slow, ongoing conversation with our partners that is currently our biggest bottleneck moving forward. Most of the technology we use is already open-sourced and modifications and overall architecture will be also made open source once we have a proof from a working service. We target to measure all aspects of our operation from the time of instalment to the last data point possible to create an automated system that is capable of handling all required services. | We intend to get into the testing phase before the end of 2019 at one of our locations. Once testing is done we will expand our team and effort to reach a larger audience and automate processes currently done by team members including set-up, communication and delivery of hardware. Additionally, as a service provider for locals, we are likely to be required to be represented at some locations as we grow. In terms of growth, based on current experience, will likely be related to the uptake of our service by different agencies and organisations working in the space, however, we foresee to operate on 5 locations by the end of 2020 | Partners. Our largest set-back is the speed of which organisations are working in the space. All other aspects required for growth can be achieved via scaling the organization. | one.me is a solution we have not talked about in public before. https://www.taqanu.com/ is the company behind. | keynote on refugee identity at Europe largest identity conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q0yPVw3TXo re:publica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R23f-azMZ1Y TEDx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQCr747v-AA podcast with Dave Birch: https://www.chyp.com/podcasts/balazs-nemethi-taqanu/ Bai business podcast: https://www.bai.org/banking-strategies/article-detail/podcast-how-an-award-winning-fintech-disruptor-creates-financial-and-societal-change ReBank podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQdHwOZf14w | Only available for Taqanu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
544 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Milena | AMARAL | Neovili | www.neovili.com | Founder & CEO | Female | France | Brazil | English | French | Spanish | With more than 22 years of professional experience in listed corporations, I realised that this is time from our business community to expand their value creation and capturing in other dimensions than the economics and the SDG’s are an opportunity for it while helping our society to address the global challenges. Recognised by my peers to use my entrepreneurial, innovative and diplomatic competences to envision business for the good, I decided to embrace the sustainability challenge for the Fashion Industry. My advocacy, inquisitive mindset and leadership when at the corporate world, ignited one leading organisation I worked for to build a set of projects that are now culminating in concrete results. I had the occasion to foster the project that led the organisation to neutralise 100% of the carbon emissions emitted from their operations, reforesting 100k hectares in Amazonia. Moved by my values and advocating for the causes of abundance, progress and technology for the good, I nurture a network that includes thought leaders in the technological, scientific and academic hubs (from Silicon Valley to Europe). I’m convinced that I posses the business background and leadership to influence the stakeholders involved in the challenge I choose and this is the reason why I’m certain to create value in the next UN Solutions Summit presenting our Neovili solution. | Milena is a General Manager with international expertise in procurement, sourcing and buying within retail chains in the wider Fashion, Luxury Goods, Beauty and Accessories sectors. During her business experience, she had the opportunity to lead projects with multiple stakeholders, complexes dynamics, interests and results-driven. Working in matrix organisations, she had been exercising her systemic vision and repertoire during these years, and she is able to have a fluent and consistent dialogue with experts and technological profiles leveraging on her empathy, listening skills and orientation to the goal. She’s an immigrant with multicultural experience (Brazilian with Spanish passport, having worked in two continents) and fluent in 4 languages. Renowned to be visionary and inspiring, she led direct teams and organisations to go beyond what was projected, leading by purpose. Her primary background is artistic (bachelor degree in violoncello), where she learnt to have discipline and resilience. She complemented her education with a MSc in Fashion and Luxury Management at the IFM (Paris, France) and an Executive MBA at the IMD Business School (Lausanne, Switzerland) where she integrated the hard and soft skills needed to thrive in the business world. A continuous learner, pro-technology for the planet, Milena advocates for the use of the growing power of technology to address the global challenges. | Neovili | Making the environmental and social footprint assessment accessible, on a mission to accelerate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Europe and Brazil | Yes | The SUSTAIN Research Unit from the LIST (www.list.lu) | Research & Development | We challenged the market-fit having conversations with more than 30 organisations in the Industry and showing them our mock-up. We have the key partnerships in order to develop the product ready to the market and we are discussing with key players to establish a consortium to pilot the platform. | We tackle the lack of assessment of the environmental and social wellbeing in the Fashion Industry. Because of its granular, complex, linear and uncontrolled supply chain, the Industry does not have a quantitative picture of its impacts, being unable to reduce it. One cotton t-shirt uses land that is not used for cultivating food and litres of water that is not serving the local population. These are aspects that are worth to be known in the journey to address the sustainable development goals. | Neovili proposes an automated platform which will enable, in perspective, the scale-up of the practice of Environmental and Social LCA for the Fashion Industry. If the Fashion Industry was a nation, would be considered the 7th global power in the world not without letting an environmental footprint and negative social impacts behind their huge exponential growth. The practice of environmental LCA is already a reality in many other Industries. The Social Lifecycle assessment (S-LCA) integrates the appraisal of human well-being indicators into the analysis of the lifecycle of a determined manufactured product, completing the vision of its impacts on the environment and on the society. To this aim, a consequential logic will enrich the assessment bringing to the table the positive and negative impacts occurred as consequence of the changes relative to, e.g., the introduction in the market of a socially and/or environmentally responsible products. This approach is fundamental when envisioning the transition to the circular economy as it enables the concerned actors to acknowledge the impact that the circular system will have on the market and will support the decision-making for the actual implementation of restorative measures in the system. Finally, a dashboard with the progress towards the chosen SDG’s will help the brand to monitor its progress, bringing clarity to what’s progressing positively and what needs to be improved. | Today, measurement to the environmental footprint and social impacts in the Fashion Industry could be provided either by the indexes organisations or the providers of generalist LCA software. In the first case, the methodology is slightly different. They are weighted, privileging one dimension of impact in detriment of others. In the case of the providers of generalist LCA software, they are running with preconceived and estimated models based on data aggregations that aren’t Industry related and which could lead to results that could have distance from the reality. Our solution will run with data that is Industry-related, with predictive analysis for the scenario modelling and recommendations for the environmental product declaration / development and integrating the scope of SDG’s as a target for the brand to pursue. The brand will prioritise 1-3 SDG’s where they can have the biggest impact and they set the targets in the dashboard to automatically monitor it against its historic data and the nation averages. The dashboard will only run if the brand integrates the historic and the system will understand that there is a challenge to be pursued (fostering the gap to be filled and the attainment of progress for the SDG). The Neovili platform proposes to co-relate only the indicators that are strictly corresponding to the targets mentioned in the SDG’s in order to avoid mismatch about the measurement. | Neovili challenged the market fit with the platform mock-up and is currently working to prepare its market entry. Showcased at the last edition of the CFS (may 2019), Neovili had the occasion to exchange with 15 organisations among Burberry, Lane Crawford and Guess. Current discussions with the Richemont Group targets to ignite a first pilot for the next fiscal year. In parallel, Neovili is pursuing a conversation with the FHCM calling for the Industry related dataset constitution. We measure our process against our internal kpi’s such as # of letters of intention, # of pilots, quantity of Industry-related data verified and integrated in our proprietary dataset. The monitoring is done weekly and monthly. | Our focus for the next 6-months is threefold. Our priority is to be product-ready with a first version of the calculator and a first version of the proprietary dataset. We aim to go-to-market and have a first co-creation with one organisation and end the semester with two upcoming collaborations for the next year. In parallel, we will continue to build the competences in LCA, S-LCA and SDG’s address and enrich the team maintaining the LCA practitioner position and operation. To support this plan, Neovili is seed fundraising 100K€ that will be allocated in 60% for the calculator and dataset development and in 40% for the SG&A. The KPI’s are the attainment of the objectives (the first version of the calculator and dataset, 1 pilot, 2 upcoming collaborations in Dec’19, 1 LCA practitioner and 100K€). Our primary target market is the French market that represents 1/4 of the total global fashion market and to expand further in Europe. When the prototype implementation results conclusive, the Neovili organisation and the scientific partner will continue its development towards a commercial solution, using other fundings sources targeting specifically this range of technology development (e.g. the SME instrument of the European Commission). Neovili will ensure the final exploitation of the platform (following a Software As a Service and consulting business models) in order to progress with its maintenance and further development. | We already mapped a financial need of 1.7mio € in 5 years perspective for the commercial platform development with the use of predictive analysis and blockchain. Coming backwards, as mentioned before in the short-term (6 months) we are seed fundraising 100K€ for the prototype development. For the next stages, we will raise another 300k€ for the product implementation and the hiring of technical resources and another 500K€ in three-years perspective for the second product implementation with IoT and blockchain features to gather information and secure the transactions and storage. It will be key to count with relevant data, in order to integrate quality information to the algorithms that will be delivering assessments based on these premises. Human resources, technology and financial resources are of course crucial to make this journey happen. | Company website: www.neovili.com Copenhagen Fashion Summit: https://copenhagenfashionsummit.com/innovationforum/#modal_id_Neovili | Recommended by Station F: https://medium.com/station-f/10-greentech-startups-at-station-f-not-to-miss-df8cc7445554 Teasing video: https://vimeo.com/337111200 Speaking engagement at the CFS: https://omny.fm/shows/american-fashion-podcast/222-copenhagen-fashion-summit (at the 41.03min) Milena Amaral will be part of the panel opening the “October Days for Sustainable Development Days” promoted in the next 16-18 Oct by the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg, to discuss about Sustainability and the Fashion Industry. | Neovili was among the 20 finalists at the 2018 Global Fashion Award promoted by the H&M Foundation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
545 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tapiwa Norah | Kandiado | TNM | www.tnm.co.mw | Enterprise products supervisor | Female | Malawi | Malawi | English | my motivation for aspiring to be part of the upcoming UN summit is to be exposed to driving force by other youth and young leaders across the globe who are working towards different solutions to solve problems affecting the world at large. In addition, i would want use the opportunity to show case what my country is capable of delivering to the world, a lot of young people in my country have the ideas and the passion to bring about change, but they are not given the necessary opportunity to let help them realize their potential, and the ideas grow and die with them, without being executed, which is a set back, as most of these ideas, can positively impact many lives. Furthermore, I would want to encourage, young people in My country to work tirelessly on their dreams, upon return from the summit, i plan to use my experience as part of encouragement to them, especially young people living in poverty in typical villages in Malawi, to dream of being part of major changes, across, the globe, as they are potential citizens, who can play a major role in contributing for change, i would like to stand as a role model and assure them that, change is possible, for the better at all levels. | I am a young lady born in 1994, i posses a bachelors degree of science in Information Technology from the university of Malawi. My passion has been learning new skills and applying them to positively change the world around me and beyond, and that has led me to initiate a start up company, named Blue Berry AI systems, that is intended to bring technological solutions, using Artificial intelligence. Blue Berry is a newly founded company and its yet to make a mark for itself. Besides that, i work as an enterprise Products Supervisor under Innovation department at Telecom Networks Malawi,a service provider. My ambition however is to proceed with working establishing my company, and working towards coming up with solutions, using Artificial Intelligence. | Blue Berry, Health Intelligent system | Tech-intelligence for Health | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | The solution is currently being developed in Malawi, but intended to be applied across other countries mainly in Africa. | No | Research & Development | Currently the solution is being developed, through prototypes and tested at possible stages to get results, and we are still adding information to the system via further research. | In my country, Malawi, the doctor to patient ratio is high,hence most people don't have access to quality health service,from basic assessment to first hand treatment, which affects lives, and contributed to the high death rates.we come up with an idea to allow clinical officers,to give first hand quality treatment by aided diagnostics on Malaria in Children between the age 0-12. The systems first trial shall be in the rural areas, where the number of assigned medical doctors is at zero. | The system shall be able to rule out different stages of malaria in a child, from early stage to severe stage, through number of algorithms that shall be fed into the system. Clinical officers would be guided on the first hand treatment that the child needs. Going forward we hope to partner with organizations that are using technology in medical sector, i.e. usage of drones to our timely delivery f treatment in had to reach areas, like malaria and lab apparatuses, and clinical officers shall be able to work using the intelligent system, as a guide. This being quite a big project we hope to expand through positive feedback from our first prototype and or implementation of the whole system to other parts of Africa. | The system is primarily applying Artificial Intelligence which is still in its early stages in Africa and even way too new in Malawi to be precise. Malawi has not totally, if at all, applied artificial intelligence in its development strategy, but we believe this can be used a great deal to solve a diverse aspects of development, we believe AI is a turn around for Health and of course other sectors if embraced. | The idea is in research stage,though some development has been done, the development i and research, i would say, its been a slow process than i would have loved it to go, this is because Blue Berry has just been founded and most of the process that are required to achieve greater results mostly need money, which has not been at our disposal at the moment, but we believe, we will still make strides going forward. | Going forward, we look into expanding, after successfully implement the first start up. our goal is to influence Africa and other countries outside Africa. | We need a lot of research in order to successfully implement the idea, this requires a team of people, to execute the information to form the database of the system, this comes with cost as these people need to travel, across Malawi, understand different activities that happen in the laboratories and diagnostic process. we also use the internet net to get other information which all comes with cost, so i would say, Funds and human capital for the implementation. | https://www.facebook.com/BlueBerryCo2017/?modal=admin_todo_tour we have all the hope that by the time the idea is selected for attendance at the summit, we shall have alot to show case as a project. | https://www.facebook.com/BlueBerryCo2017/?modal=admin_todo_tour | We have not won any award, as we have just started, but i believe by being part of the UN solutions summit, we are yet to be recognized! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
546 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Oluwaseun Ayodeji | Osowobi | Stand to End Rape Initiative (STER) | www.standtoendrape.org | Executive Director | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My motivation for applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit is largely rooted in my desire to contribute towards the elimination of all forms of sexual violence in Nigeria and globally. Since its inception in 2014, STER Initiative has led efforts to advance Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR), advocate against gender-based violence and provide medical, legal and psychological support to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Nigeria. STER adopts a comprehensive approach to advocating for gender equality and eliminating gender-based violence in Nigeria. First, by working with communities to generate sustainable homegrown solutions to the issues of gender-based violence that impact the broader society, then by partnering with local and national groups on systems-level prevention and intervention activities, and finally, by working with survivors of sexual violence and their families to help them recover from the related trauma. At the core of all STER’s programs and activities is the goal to advocate for a society where women and girls are empowered to equally contribute free from violence. Over the years, we have designed and implemented various program efforts which cut across Advocacy, Awareness, Prevention, and Psycho social support. Initiatives for Change: The Consent Project is our most recent solution to drive the future of gender equality and freedom from all forms of sexual violence. The holistic model of prevention education utilized in this program adopts a survivor-centered, trauma-informed and gender equity approach to engage individuals and communities in promoting behaviors, attitudes, and social norms that prevent against sexual violence in formal and informal settings. The Summit offers a unique opportunity for our organization to bring much-needed attention to The Consent Project as an innovative, community-based, grassroots solution to preventing sexual violence. As a platform for progress and possibility, the Summit offers an ecosystem and network of support to amplify and enable the scale-up of our innovation via both private and public channels. Additionally, the Summit provides an opportunity to expand our understanding of pressing global issues, learn about ongoing innovative efforts to promote positive change and identify those spearheading these efforts. This allows us to develop new motivation, enthusiasm, ideas and insights to address challenges in our work by listening to others discuss their ideas. | Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi, who is the 2019 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year, is the Executive Director of Stand to End Rape initiative (STER), a youth-led organisation founded in 2014, which advocates to end Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV), championing policy advocacy, providing psychosocial support to survivors, while working with communities to develop homegrown solutions to SGBV. Oluwaseun’s work focuses on achieving SDGs 5 and has reached about 200,000 Nigerians. As a survivor, Oluwaseun revolutionized the conversation on rape culture in Nigeria and created a support system for survivors. To institutionalize this support mechanism, she works as part of Civil Society Organisation coalitions with the Nigerian government for the passage of Laws that protect the rights of Nigerian women and girls. She has led projects on SGBV prevention and response, economic empowerment for survivors, HIV counselling and testing, teaching boys and men to actively participate in ending SGBV, and promoting gender equality. In 2017, Oluwaseun facilitated HIV Counselling and Testing for about 1000 adolescents and 2000 community members in Lagos State, and trained about 100 Healthcare providers in 20 Government Hospitals and Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCs) in Lagos State on sexual violence response. Her work also addresses the intersection of sexual violence and poverty, unsafe abortion as well as providing support psycho-social support to vulnerable groups in Nigeria especially the LGBTQ community and those living with mental health conditions who experience sexual violence. | Initiatives for Change: The Consent Project | A comprehensive prevention education program to promote community responsibility and mobilize action to prevent all forms of sexual violence. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Nigeria | No | Transition to Scale | Impact evaluation evidence from the pilot in 5 cities with about 400 people shows a proven impact of the innovation at the individual and community levels. Participants reported significant attitudes and behaviors change to adopt gender equitable social norms and prevent sexual violence against women and girls. Additionally, the process evaluation conducted reveals the innovation is positioned to deliver significant social impact and has the potential to sustainably scale in Nigeria. | Sexual violence is a major health concern as at least 70% of women and girls experience sexual violence across their lifespan. Factors influencing sexual violence in Nigeria include lack of awareness and prevention practices, inadequate institutional response, victim-blaming attitudes and rape stigma. Sexual violence has direct and long-term consequences for the general wellness of survivors including HIV/AIDS incidence, teen pregnancy, deaths by abortion, reproductive and mental health issues. | The consent project developed by STER employs a more holistic and interactive model of consent education. The project utilizes videos, images, and role playing to spark conversations about respectful relationships, the importance of consent, how to ask for and give consent in friendships and dating relationships, bystander intervention, and help-seeking for survivors. Additionally, the model explores alternative narratives to a culture that teaches toxic masculinity and emotional expression through aggression and entitlement. It also emphasizes bodily autonomy and sex positive information about healthy intimate and/or sexual engagement in a variety of relationships. Adaptations of the program curriculum are specifically tailored for children and adults within formal and informal spaces. Participants gain improved ability to negotiate sexual engagement, assess when consent has been given, respect the personal boundaries of other, and safely intervene. Long-term vision: To build a culture of mutual respect and care that promote healthy relationships and social norms that prevent sexual violence. To move towards securing gender equality and recognition of women’s rights by encouraging bodily autonomy, power, and independence of the woman and girl child. To increase community access to sexual violence information and resources to lessen harm. To decreases the rate of sexual violence and improve the overall health of individuals, families, societies and the nation. | Existing prevention education models in this context often emphasize rape avoidance and rape resistance solutions where women and girls are given strategies and recommendations about how to be careful, minimize their risk of sexual violence, and what to do should they be attacked. While these models are well-intended, they may increase the fear of rape, restrict women's activities, contribute to victim-blaming, and under-emphasize community and social responsibility in preventing sexual violence. In contrast, The Consent Project employs a prevention model that adopts a gender equity perspective, is survivor-centered and trauma-informed. We adopt a holistic approach by actively engaging communities, holding men accountable for their privilege, encouraging them to acknowledge complicity in a system that privileges their gender, and develop their roles as allies. We emphasize community responsibility by exploring the impact of sexual violence beyond the individual level to include families and communities. While our prevention program doesn’t target survivors specifically, survivors are in the audience and our efforts support survivors’ needs, prevent victim blaming, and do not re-traumatize survivors. Additionally,our program adopts an intersectional lens and actively includes those who identify across the spectrum of gender identities that includes, but is not limited to male, female, transgender, and queer. | Our team has successfully designed and implemented the consent program in 5 communities with about 400 participants. In developing our methodology and curriculum, we utilized theoretical insight from three evidence-based prevention education programs developed in the United States and adapted the materials accordingly to ensure relevance to the Nigerian context. To design the curriculum, we also consulted with key stakeholders and beneficiaries which included male, female, and gender non-conforming community leaders, elders, parents, youth, adolescents, and sexual violence survivors in various spaces. Additionally, all program implementation staff complete mandatory training and refresher courses to learn how to facilitate the program with an emphasis on social justice ethics and responsibility. To measure progress and methodological rigor, we conduct impact evaluations of sessions. In every session, we assess participants' knowledge about and attitudes on sexual violence before and after the prevention program, as well as personal experience with sexual violence, and their knowledge about the resources available for help in addressing sexual violence. Our data is gathered using pre-program and post-program survey questionnaires. We are working to develop a follow-up qualitative evaluation. We plan to conduct individual interviews with participants to better examine their perspective of the program and its perceived impact on long-term attitude and behavioral change. | The pilot of the consent project was implemented in 4 cities in Lagos State and 1 city in Ogun State, Nigeria. Scale: STER Initiative plans to scale the consent project to 3 new cities in Lagos, Ogun, and 2 new States (Abuja and Oyo) respectively in year 2020. The estimated number of primary beneficiaries is 1200 people. The estimated number of secondary beneficiaries is 3600 people for a total of 4800 beneficiaries by the end of the year. To accomplish this goal, we have set project milestones which include: Evaluation: Conduct a follow up qualitative evaluation to solicit feedback from participants. Design: Utilize qualitative and quantitative evidence from pilot to update program curriculum and improve program delivery. Fundraising: Solicit and receive project funding to the total amount of $100,000 USD to support implementation. Employment: Hire staff and recruit volunteers in each of the proposed states where the project will be implemented. Staff persons to include 1 project manager, 4 project team members/facilitators and at least 3 volunteers in each state. Partnership: Identify community based implementation partners such as schools, religious organizations, and workplaces. Implementation: Generate project plan for selected cities in each state and implement consent project. Monitoring and evaluation: ongoing data collection and analysis to report on outcomes, analyze progress and improve program. | Short-term needs: This phase has been accomplished. The Consent Project has been developed, tested and piloted successfully through the investment of STER Initiative. Programs sessions in 5 cities have already been completed with about 400 beneficiaries. Medium-term needs: 1. Scale the program by identifying the potential implementing partners in the proposed states and hiring program staff. 2. Funding the project which includes training new staff; salary of the project managers, facilitators, and evaluators; set-up equipment, running expenses (management, transport, rental, materials). Long-term needs: 1. Develop a mobile team unit that can travel to various locations to scale the program at a lower cost and access communities in vulnerable, wider and more remote cities. 2. Scale the program to the other 33 states in Nigeria and at a global level. 3. Develop a youth train-the-trainer leadership network to enable youths in local communities gain the skills and expertise needed to facilitate the training and implement it in their communities as an approach to encouraging community engagement and ensuring sustainability for long-term social change. | Company website: http://standtoendrape.org/ Videos from the Consent Education Project Sessions: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/igib4ii6373136k/AADrl7m1ELjCrBnS17SfVbzZa?dl=0 A technical report of the project pilot is in preparation. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsh3DMdF9oc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNnDgYdhScg&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4O75RSzRa0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulAiVB4e9ok&feature=youtu.be | 2019 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year Winner 2019 JCI Top Ten Outstanding Young Person in Nigeria Finalist 2018 The Women Deliver Young Leader Winner 2017 100 Most Influential Young Nigerians 2017 The Future Awards Africa Prize for Advocacy Winner 2017 The Future of Women Africa Social Impact Award Winner 2017 Queen’s Young Leaders Awards Highly Commended Runner-Up 2015 The Best Use of Social Media by an NGO in Africa Winner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
547 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chukwuemeka | Oyiana | Jobniche Marketplace | http://jobnichemarketplace.com/ | Co-founder & CEO | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am applying to be part of the UN Solutions Summit because it affords me the rare and valuable opportunity to present my AI-powered platform before a global audience of investors, industry experts and entrepreneurs.in order to receive bespoke mentoring, funding, networking opportunities and external technical assistance from deep tech experts. Our AI-powered platform has created 1052 jobs from connecting 252 freelance graphic designers, 164 web developers, 210 photographers, 413 janitors, and 13 app developers with 1,225 early-stage entrepreneurs and businesses in Lagos and Accra. Historically hard-to-reach informal workers have been matched with employers on our platform that uses data-driven algorithms embedded in Natural Language Processing to match the right freelance candidate with the buyer using keywords in the job description posted by employers with keywords in the profiles of approved providers. Our integrated e-learning platform has lead to the up-skilling of 200 freelance workers, where enlisted freelancers who do not meet our minimum skill requirement take online courses from our key partner, Udemy before they are recruited into the platform. Besides matching tech and artisanal labour with demand, our platform also up-skills freelance talents to suitably equip and position them for hands-on employment and gig opportunities. | Chukwuemeka Oyiana is a digital marketplace entrepreneur with 8 years experience in developing sales and marketing channels for businesses. He is the co-founder and CEO of Jobniche Marketplace, a Nigerian-based technology startup that matches tech and artisanal labour with demand, which directly addresses Africa's youth unemployment. He graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife where he received his bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics. Chukwuemeka's expertise in design and user experience has helped entrepreneurs and early stage businesses build their brands and achieve high sales growth. He is an alumni of the Tony Elumelu Foundation and a recipient of the African Entrepreneurship Award, an annual award given by the BMCE Bank of Africa Group to innovative technology startups in Africa. | Jobniche Marketplace | An AI-powered platform that connects unemployed talents with work. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Nigeria, Ghana and Sub-Saharan Africa | Yes | 1. First Bank Nigeria - our escrow service provider. 2. Accenture - helps to vet our freelance workforce during on-boarding. 3. Udemy - helps to upskill our freelance workforce. 4. Vocational schools in Nigeria as a source of recruiting informal workers. | Transition to Scale | Our solution went through 12 weeks incubation at the Tony Elumelu Foundation in 2018, where we worked with Accenture to innovate our solution from Proof of Concept to minimum viable platform that enlisted and gained validated learning from 100 early adopters in Lagos, Nigeria. In the second quarter of 2019, our number of registered users grew to 1052, where we recorded an average compound monthly growth rate of 35% and top line revenue of $27,148, which demonstrated a product-market fit solution | Jobniche addresses the problem of youth unemployment in Nigeria and Ghana, which has a large, untapped workforce of over 30 million unemployed talents who do not have an avenue to utilize their skills and lacks the entrepreneurial infrastructure from access to market, to customer service and payment management. | Jobniche is an AI-powered platform that uses data-driven algorithms embedded in Natural Language Processing to match tech and artisanal labour with demand. It addresses the youth unemployment problem using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning applications to unite unemployed talents and businesses into a single ecosystem to give and capture value by buying and selling digital skills and services. Our platform works with the transaction dynamics of buying and selling, and serves a two-sided customer segment of buyers (entrepreneurs, SMEs), and providers (freelance tech talents and artisans). Unemployed talents are lead to our platform from Google and social media touch points, and are prompted to sign up as providers where they are vetted with Accenture-designed test kits. When buyers post a job on demand, the system's algorithm matches keywords from the job description with keywords in the profiles of approved providers and presents the buyer with the right candidate. Providers get notified of a job posting via SMS or email and logs in to communicate with the buyer, charging a service fee. The provider executes the job after payments have been made and upon completion receives 80% of the service fee from our escrow account as payout, while we retain 20% as our matching fees. Our long term vision is to be the world's trusted go-to platform for Africa's top talent. | 1. Our platform uses data-driven algorithms embedded in Natural Language Processing to identify and match buyers with the right freelance talent based on the job description presented by the buyer and data in the provider’s profile, significantly cutting the time buyers spend searching for the right talent, and the time unemployed talents search for jobs. This algorithms also predicts service categories of interest to repeat purchasers based on their previous user sessions and recommends the right freelance candidates that can execute the job. This predictive model helps to increase our purchasing customers’ user experience, which results in the increase of our average order value, AOV. 2. We have a compensation model - an inbuilt Acceptance Level Upload System that fully compensates freelancers during buyer rejections of executed jobs which works by paying a freelancer the amount obtained from dividing the service fee a buyer paid by the number of times the buyer accepted an executed job before rejecting it. On most freelance platforms, freelancers end up with nothing during job rejections, or when buyers request for refunds of their payments after transactions, which leaves the freelancers short-changed and unhappy. 3. We have a proprietary digital fitness application that identifies the level of freelancers' skill and expertise during and after on-boarding. 4. Our platform curates the top 5% of freelance talents which gives us a competitive edge. | We have a minimum viable platform undergoing refinement, where we use qualitative and quantitative user interactions and customer feedback to modify and upgrade the platform. We utilized the problem-centric entrepreneurship approach of directly talking to potential customers to find out the degree, scale, causes and symptoms of their pain points, which we used to develop our minimum viable platform to gain validated learning from early adopters in a build-measure-learn feedback loop. In measuring our progress, we use the validated learning gained from our customer interaction and use of our platform and how it creates network effect using key metrics like revenue, retention rate, customer acquisition cost and customer lifetime value. | Milestones for Q3 2019 • Draft, review and evaluate Scope of Work for the mobile version of platform. • Set up online community of 10,000 members. • Create image and visual contents to engage potential customers with organic social media posts. Milestones for Q4 2019 • Raise $150,000 from grantors • Hire Security Audit Consultant on contract • Hire marketplace platform consultant on contract • Upgrade platform to increase user experience • Automate freelancer onboarding process Milestones for Q1 2020 • Build an email list of 5000 potential customers • Enlist 1000 freelance talents • Launch mobile version of platform • Hire 3 supporting full-stack developers • Hire 3 supporting sales officers • Develop 'Jobniche Loans and Skill For Business' platform Milestones for Q2 2020 • Develop ad campaign and customer acquisition strategy • Launch paid ad campaigns across social media and Google touch points • Hire 2 accreditation job officers • Hire 2 loan officers • Carry out key performance reviews • Launch 'Jobniche Loans and Skill For Business' platform | 1. Expert advice / technical assistance / incubation 2. Access to finance (Grants, equity, seed funding) 3. Marketing and raising of company/organization profile 4. Access to skills training and capacity building 5. Bespoke mentoring and executive coaching | http://jobnichemarketplace.com/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHHLduHBXuA | 1. Winner, The 2018 Tony Elumelu Foundation's Certificate of Achievement + $5000 grant 2. Award Finalist, 2018 edition of the BMCE Bank of Africa's African Entrepreneurship Award | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
548 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nicholas | Marange | Youth Development Initiative Trust | www.yditrust.org | Director | Male | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | English | My motivation is driven by a sad past experience. When i was in high school, the girl i had a crush on was raped by 3 unknown men on her way home from town. The rest of the story is heart breaking. This incident only had driven me to be the founder of YDIT. YDIT intends to develop a mobile application that will be open for public use. The application will allow users to mark city and residential hotspots were women have been abused. The app will aggregate responses and collaboratively work with the police, civil society, and relevant stakeholders to combart women abuse. According to our base line survey, this mobile application will be acknowledged by many women entities and in the long run it will be implemented in various countries. | Born in a family of four boys, being the first born child has mounted too much pressure in the name of acting by good example. I come from a strict Christian background. I come from a very disadvantaged family where my goal oriented character has reached me this far. | SoS City women | City Safe Women | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Zimbabwe | Yes | NGO's, Government and interested individuals | Proof of Concept | Research has proved that the innovation has impact and is sustainable | Women abuse | The solution will advice citizens , police and organizations on hotspots were women are vulnerable. This will be evidenced ny real time feedback through a mobile app that will aggregate and inform the civil society on areas where women are being violated and induce corrective or deterrent measures. This mobile application will be adopted in many countries and will be replicated to address other social crimes. | The mobile application will increase the availability snd accessibility of feedback strategies that protect women and young girls. Such feedback will enhance strategic interventions towards protecting women and young girls | The team has managed to source a reputable company that will develop the mobile application and offer support. Progress will be used by automated monitoring and evaluation programs that will be embedded in the mobile application. | Once the project has kick started in Zimbabwe, YDIT will advocate for the implementation of high risk countries such as South Africa were high numbers of abused women and young girls are reported. The organization will not recruit additional permanent staff but will work with occasional volunteers. This project will save thousands of women from various forms of abuse and make them reach their full potential in life. | Core funding Technical assistance | http://yditrust.org/ | https://www.facebook.com/YDITRUST/ https://youtu.be/AY7-E0iRaQ4 https://youtu.be/fr4x1JwI3WI | None yet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
549 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Elizabeth | Nalugemwa | Kyaffe Farmers Coffee | https://socialinnovationacademy.org/enterprise/kyaffe-farmers-coffee/ | Founder/CEO | Female | Uganda | Uganda | English | The UN Solution summit will help me meet and network with other innovative change makers who will learn from me and I will also learn from them on how to build sustainable communities through our solutions that tackle the UN Sustainable development goals. Through presenting my solution too will give me a chance to represent SDG 1, 5 and 7 fully with fully energy and potential. By training women to convert coffee waste into a commercial,environmentally-friendly and profitable byproduct. Our innovation has increased employability of women, reduce sexual abuse and harassment by 60% caused during the long trekking of approximately 20km for women and children in local communities in such for firewood and has helped to save the cutting down of trees since our coffee briquettes have become an alternative to charcoal and firewood. | I am a 24 year old social entrepreneur, an Obama Foundation Leader Africa holding a diploma in business administration and a certificate in social applied innovation. I am a fun of reading and i care about the environment and a life of a woman. My hope for tomorrow is to see 100% empowered women and a safe, clean and healthy environment. | Kyaffe Coffee Briquette | Kyaffe Coffee Briquette increases employability of women through training them to produce renewable fuel briquettes from waste coffee husks. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Our solution is currently implemented in Uganda | Yes | CURAD, PEACE CORPS and Social innovation Academy | Transition to Scale | Our solution is at the stage of innovation because we have a finished branded that we have created used in the community and generate revenue that runs the enterprise. | Women in Uganda run the daily risk of rape and violence during their daily search for wood to cook. This increases every year by 75%. Uganda is at a risk of losing all its forests if deforestation continues at its rate. Deforestation is rampant due to poor rural and costly electrification making 89% of Ugandans to use firewood and charcoal as the main sources of fuel. The declining forest cover has resulted a fire wood deficit hence increased burdens on women and children who collect firewood. | Kyaffe coffee briquette trains women farmers to produce ground coffee briquettes made out of coffee residues locally .These are used for cooking in local communities hence reduced trekking of women in the unsafe forests in such for firewood, increased employability of women and reduced the cutting down of trees. Women convert waste into a commercial, profitable byproduct, which is environmentally-friendly, affordable and economical alternative to firewood and charcoal and can be distributed widely within Ugandan communities. The trainings to women to produce briquettes will reduce sexual abuse and harassment by 60%, long trekking of approximately 20km for women and children in local communities in The consumption of briquettes in local communities as a source of fuel, will help reduce the cutting down of trees by 15% hence preserving the environment. for firewood and save the cutting down of trees. | Our briquettes don’t involve any raw materials as wastes of charcoal/ trees like other briquettes on the market. We use coffee residues as a raw material that is an available resource in the community since it is the main crop grown. Our sustainability of production is high. | Our team has continuously grown from two to five full time core members, 10 employees and 2 volunteers. We have learnt to work together and focus on solving the major big challenges we share. We have managed to do research on the product development, market analysis and created something that is typically designed for the people. A solution that is to benefit lives of both people and animals. | We plan mechanize our production and be in the right position to have a high production of the briquettes. We plan to start with ten machines, reduce the work load but still involve women.(manual machinery) We plan to reach far reach areas in Uganda like in far East, West , North and South. For example we would love to conduct a training in the biggest refugee Settlement in Uganda called Bidi Bidi to help involve women and have a source of fuel for the community. We would love in one year to have over 15000 lives transformed through training and in the right position a reliable source of fuel from coffee residues and plastic waste. | In a short term, we need mentoring, marketing tools, connection, manual machinery,staff. In a medium term we need marketing tools, facilitation for sensitization program, Skilled Employes and in a long term we need more machinery, connection on how to expand to different countries. | https://kyaffecoffee.wixsite.com/website https://web.facebook.com/KyaffeFarmersCoffee/ @Uganda-best -Coffee | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5crRqMWT84 | Winners (2018) Obama Foundation Leaders:Africa Best New Coffee Product, Curad/Swiss contact National Innovation Challenge StartHub Africa Hidden Talent Award Agrifood Open Innovation Award, Italy Winners (2019) Women’s Stop Hunger Awards, Paris Seed Award Finalist Finalists (2018) Women in Africa Ye Global Awards Thought For Food, Brazil | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
550 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anigbogu | Stanley | Artechubs / Energy HQ | http://artechbase.com/ | Ceo | Male | Morocco | Nigeria | English | French | I always believed in a better world , where there is peace and joy where we all live to make impact and make our planet a better place. Its because of this believe and the passion I have burning inside me ,I came to understand to change the world you have to start with changing yourself and your family, society , country then the world . I found out the best way to make impact is by identifying the problems the world has and finding solutions to them, at that point you have made an impact. The best way to solve these problems is with our talents ,gifts and skills these are the foundation on which solution finding is built on.i will be able to help access to materials and information that will help improve my career , it would also be a life changing opportunity to meet great ambassadors from different countries in Africa. I will also be able to share my experience of my past projects and solutions that i have to certain problems in Africa. It will mean a lot to me because i live to make impact where ever i go.Always believed in a better world,where there is peace and joy where we all live to make impact and make our planet better. Because of this believe and the passion I have burning inside me,I came to understand to change the world you have to start with changing yourself family,society,country then the world.Found out the best way to make impact is by identifying the problems the world has and finding solutions to them,at that point you have made an impact. | I am a young innovator and entrepreneur and very talented 19 years of age from Nigeria, attended high school at Christ The King College Onitsha. I started off as a young boy,I started with a small firm ''Artechubs'' at the age of 17 in which I train school students/pupils in innovation and problem-solving in the society. I became an employer and a CEO of two firms; ''Artechubs'' and ''GO GREEN AFRICA''. We collect plastic waste and sell to recycling companies. I designed and developed a device that could convert plastic to cooking gas. I made my first million naira from both ventures at 18. Everything changed when I got a scholarship to study abroad, I had to drop my business for my co-founder although having 20% of the annual income was a hard decision but in life you have to make sacrifices during though moments. While here in Morocco to study chemical engineering, I found out that Morocco had their fair share of problems too, that is when I got to believe that ''An entrepreneur will always be an entrepreneur regardless of where he goes''. i have won a hand full of awards and certificates of participation since my stay in Morocco and Nigeria . | Artechubs | Prepare the leaders of tomorrow for tomorrow | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | already in Nigeria and Morocco plan to expand in Hungary ,Ghana and Russia | Yes | Edu fun Nigeria | Scaling | I had 15 schools registered I had around 150+ students participating , 3 of our best schools represented the state in national science fairs came out second in the whole Nigeria. Artechubs had a lot of achievements in the state .'Artechubs'' at the age of 17 in which I train school students/pupils in innovation and problem-solving in the society we are still growing and planing to expand our business. currently started in Morocco with a tour around the villages in morocco. | The educational system in Africa doesn't create the room for talent growth in students, basically teach them what has happened not what is happening.hence this leaves the students unprepared for the future,This leaves the world with struggling dreamers and problem solvers.The lack of access to electricity greatly reduces the teaching resources and classroom materials.same applies to students,also tend to use candles and lanterns to study and end up developing health issues and low performance. | Artechubs was specifically designed to help train students who have potentials in technovation , creativity , design , art , writing and other set of skills , our primary beneficiaries are the students due to being provided with this program they are tap into their skill set and discover their talent and this is something the normal educational system provides. These students involved in the program have a higher chance of becoming great in life due to the information,motivation and inspiration provided.The aim of my firm is to help students discover their talents and explore their potential , create this environment for these students would create a room for dreams, these dreams would and could lead to solving world social , environmental , health problems .Artechubs is also working on developing techniques that will making learning easier for students and more adventurous. We are also finding new forms of energy to electricity for students in rural developing areas. we went further to develop a device that runs on thermal energy to produce electricity which is stored in an accumulator, this technology can help provide electricity to rural areas using orange peels. we are planing to expand and get more schools and companies along with countries under our firm. | what makes my venture innovative is because am an innovator ,inventor and a dreamer and so are my team members.the aim of our venture is not all about starting a business and making money , we wanted to give the students what we weren't given in school , motivation about our talents,dreams, goals and life, we are able to impact students and enable them understand they can achieve anything they set their minds on. the materials, tools and teaching aids we uses are made by us we create our materials this makes us understand what the students need to be dreamers and achievers, we provided a certain amount of information that helps us connect with the students and find out their skill set and level. we process then follow up each student based on their learning pattern this helps us not to leave any student left behind . the source of energy we are aiming to discover will be new and based on our own invention and Technics. | The first aim of Artechubs for our next step is rapid expansion and publicity , we hope to stabilize our business growth with the scale of resources we have. our aim is to start lending not only knowledge , motivation , materials etc but to pass out support to this young talents not only in my state nor country but the whole world . we hope to impact and produce more problem solvers , artists , writers ,inventor , poets and leaders. firstly we would acquire an office employ more workers to our team. media growth is our aim to gain publicity and it has a wider scope to reach out to people the internet not only has negative effects but we could use it to our advantage to provide the valid information to students world wide . currently am developing app that for more data and information collection from our students .our users experience was amazing ,in fact the impact rate we predicted was surpassed by the result we got .The students development was fast under three weeks 60% began coming up with ideas , designs and prototypes, in the art sector their writing skills and drawing was improving at a faster rate to, their class teachers said that students involved in the program performed better in class than the rest , statistical improvement in their academic performance in general. It was amazing we even got an increase in our pay checks , not only that our students started representing the school in debates, essay competitions ,quiz and science fair exhibitions. | our App will be lunched by December 2019 we hope to raise money from the downloads , inclusive of our website and media platforms . expanding the number of schools we have under our program can drastically improve our net worth , we hope to start a tv show where we speak on topics the improve learning in school. we will hope in the next three years to have our organisation in five countries. we plan to circulate our device to rural areas to help students gain access to electricity for their studies. | The challenges we are facing is the number of our students is increasing drastically and we dont have the sufficient resources to match the number we are gaining to our programs , we also need to acquire a head quarter, the reason for the slow expansion of our company is due to lack of resources and man power and skills. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtFH4KwO7K4&t=80s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-wKRN374nM&t=23s https://www.artechbase.com/ https://www.globalnewsbase.com/2019/03/meet-stanley-anigbogu-nigerian-teen-who.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hdsUCMiTSU&t=190s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhZT9Sk_JhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qavCk2uaN2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoyQLetoP-M&t=79s | http://topnewstv.com.ng/2019/08/02/exclusive-interview-with-inventor-and-innovator-stanley-anigboguinventor-of-the-mosquito-magnet/ https://www.artechbase.com/always-believed-in-a-better-world/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B0wSrM4HQNP/ https://www.instagram.com/stan__lee_e/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6EilClNwxQ&t=90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyD4lALhk2U | winner of students innovation challenge 2018 Nigeria 4 times winner of state science fair Nigeria regional finalist google science fair 2018 winner of Anambra talent show 2018 Nigeria Awarded scholarship to morocco 2018 best student innovator 2017 Awarded for impact by morocco government 2019 third place in project presentation at the African youth summit 2019. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
551 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dayn | Amade | Kamaleon | https://www.tabletcomunitario.org | CEO | Male | Mozambique | Mozambique | English | As a Mozambican and having lived in Africa all my life, I am aware of the challenges that constraint the development of the communities, especially of those living in remote rural areas of my Country. And it is impossible to stay indifferent. I have devoted my career as an entrepreneur to try and come up with technological solutions that could actually and effectively tackle real problems of day to day lives of the African People. In this endeavor, I have created the Community Tablet, an African Solution to African day to day problems. The first Mobile Digital School to be patented. | Dayn Amade is the CEO of Kamaleon Mozambique and the creator of the Tablet Comunitario – also known as the Community Tablet, a mobile technology platform that can be towed by a vehicle or non-vehicle to rural communities with the purpose of increasing digital inclusion. Dayn has defied many odds by providing the infrastructure to facilitate affordable access to the Internet in communities with little or no digital literacy skills. Through the program “Creating the Mozambican Scientist of Tomorrow” supported by the World Bank, he introduced the Community Tablet to rural communities from the South to the Centre of Mozambique. Under his leadership, the commission team from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the World Bank witnessed women, youth, the elderly, the private sector, and academia coming together to embrace technology. In mid 2017, he signed an agreement with the University of Eduardo Mondlane to work with their psychology and sociology departments to co-create online civic education content, that takes into consideration the values and beliefs of each community. His passion and drive to finding solutions that improve people’s lives, along with his proven ability to lead strong teams, brings significant value to the African digital transformation. Dayn has been invited by the Duke of York to the Pitch@Palace, has presented at the E-learning Africa International Conference on ICT and at the Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi. | Community Tablet (Tablet Comunitário) | A solar powered, robust, mobile digital school, that aims at taking education via digital tools to remote populations in Africa | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | The Community Tablet has been operational in Mozambique since 2016. Our next goal is to scale up to neighbouring Countries (Zimbabwe, Tanzania). The Community Tablet has to potential to be implemented in every Developing Nation | No | Transition to Scale | Since its launch in 2016 with a pilot project in the Province of Inhambane, we have improved our product and have tested it in different Provinces of the Country through the implementation of different projects. We have now patented the platform and work together with institutions such as the Ministry of Education and Human Development of Mozambique, Bank of Mozambique, National Electoral Commission, the World Bank, USAID. We have won awards, including Southern Africa Best EduTech Award 2018 | Bringing knowledge, information, education and awareness in an effective way, using digital tools in the remote areas, we empower communities and help them make better and more informed choices. Most of the biggest challenges that hinder Africa's development derive from lack of information, particularly regarding health and sanitation. With effective information we contribute to the people's well-being and are saving lives while bridging the education gap and the digital divide. | The Community Tablet is a robust crate that can be towed by any vehicle or animal traction and is prepared to reach remote rural communities with difficult road access. It does not depend on any utility provider as it is solar powered and internet is via satellite. The platform comprises 4 large touch screens made of hard glass that can be used for browsing and have all the functionalities that a normal computer has. Software is adapted to the populations' needs and circumstances. It is user friendly and adapted to all members of the communities (including the visually handicapped through voice to text and text to voice system and the deaf through sign language). Animation and gamification are used to deliver messages in an effective way. Messages are customized according to the needs of each segment of the targeted population. Quizzes are used to assess the effectiveness of the delivered messages. The feedback is collected on spot, from each individual, and we assess who has learnt what and how. On the other side of the crate there is a 110 inch screen with loud speakers for live videoconferences. Our advantage is to be able to add software to the platform for additional services. We are currently creating the E-Vaccine or taking blood samples through digital health identities, creating data cards to track vaccine history and help identify trends and widen campaigns. The same we plan to do during election process. For civic education and digital voting for more transparency | The Community Tablet is the first mobile digital school and has recently been registered with the UK Intellectual Property Office. It's a unique, innovative platform that aims at bringing technology to the remote rural communities in Africa, to bridge the education gap and the digital divide, that allows better reach and inclusivity and delivers the greatest impact of the messages delivered. In these remote areas traditional awareness programs are usually implemented, including leaflets distribution which are not as affective nor environmental friendly. Distribution of regular tablets is expensive and one cannot control the way they are used, can be damaged or sold for other purposes. Our solution is effective, engaging and has no direct competitors. We are connecting remote rural communities with the rest of the world, investing in the universal understanding of behavior change with tailored messages that are at the core of the Sustainable Development Goals. For each campaign or initiative we collect feedback data on spot which allows to the effectiveness of the messages delivered and of the aid programs which is also one of the main concerns of donors and NGOs. When community members answer to quizzes or play videogames, the system analyses and processes the answers giving us the Big Data. That allows continuous improvement of the campaigns in the remote communities. | This solution is in continuous development as its potential is immense. From a crate with touch screen we successively added other components such as the large screen, loud speakers, webcams. Also in terms of software. we are adding software to successively cover the SDGs topics. Our methodology is measured through the feedback we get from our installed intelligent systems and by our partners. After each campaign we submit a Feedback Data Report which is subject to thorough analysis by a board of advisors. But, most importantly, we get the feedback from the communities through the games and quizzes applied after the messages delivered. And the results of those ""tests"" allow us to constantly adjust, either the software, or the messages themselves. So far, the feedback has been positive and we have been praised by national and international entities alike. With this platform, we help donors to effectively assess the impact of implemented campaigns adopting a digital approach to enable greater data capture and measurement in terms of behavior change. | After having the Community Tablet registered with the UK Intellectual Property Office, we plan to expand to other Developing Countries. In Mozambique, we have impacted over 2 million lives. We have been focusing on awareness campaigns on Public Health. We want to go one step further with the E-Vaccine. Not only in terms of the personal health data recording, but also in terms of preparing the Community Tablet with a cooling system storage, according with the WHO requirements to actually be able to deliver vaccines (with the help of professionals). The other step is the voting system to promote transparency during elections. Digital voting in the remote rural areas would minimize fraud and contribute to Good Governance. The idea is to have different Community Tablets for different areas of intervention. The possibilities are endless are the platform is adaptable for all circumstances providing the required software is installed. | The resources needed are clients. Our clients are International Organizations, NGOs and International Development Agencies. We need our platform to be publicized and to be known. When it happens, we believe it will be hired by other countries and by more institutions. In the short-term, we would like to implement the new software for e-vaccine and voting. In the medium-term, go to the neighboring countries already with that software. In the long-term, we would like to be in as many Developing Countries as possible. And we believe it's possible as we own the patent. | https://tabletcomunitario.org/mz/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClsKmkM5ZQRe2ENH-nx0TQg https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/may/20/simple-mistakes-big-impact-man-with-tablet-for-making-aid-better-kamaleon-community-tablet-dayn-amade https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48232058 http://digitalinclusionnewslog.itu.int/2017/01/16/community-tablet-brings-digital-devices-to-remote-communities-in-mozambique/ https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/innovative-community-tablet-brings-digital-literacy-to-mozambique-300388468.html https://www.upsbatterycenter.com/blog/community-tablet-hauled-by-donkey/ https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/544/155646.html https://face2faceafrica.com/article/the-community-tablet https://www.itnewsafrica.com/2016/12/mozambique-kamaleon-brings-internet-access-to-remote-areas/ | https://wetransfer.com/downloads/ad8c98f4edd2a12d1530363a653bcfae20190803193110/15c77a90a8136597aef67d0563d0b13520190803193110/47be48 | - Pitch@Palace Commonwealth (Finalist) - Selected to pitch at St. James Palace (2018) - Regional Southern Africa Startup Awards (Winner) - Best EduTech Startup (2018) - Southern Africa National Awards (Winner) - Startup of the Year (2018) - Southern Africa National Awards (Winner) - Best Social Impact Startup (2018) - Southern Africa National Awards (Winner) - Best EduTech Startup (2018) - African Union - Recognition as one of the Top 50 Innovators in Africa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
552 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sarah | Tuneberg | Geospiza, Inc. | www.geospiza.us | Co-Founder & CEO | Femal | United States of America | United States of America | English | We participated in the Colorado Solutions Summit in 2018 and found the experience powerful and deeply impactful on the direction of our business. Our whole team is super excited at the prospect of participating the a global UN Solutions Summit. We can only imagine that the collaboration, learning, and positive effect on the direction of our business will be magnified. Our world is facing as grave situation with climate change and climate disaster. We believe that reducing C02 emissions is crucial, but only part of the equation of fighting climate change. We believe that organizations must also be strategic about their climate disaster risk. Geospiza’s Decision Pathways platform analyzes and visualizes risk for climate-exposed businesses, enabling decision-making in the face of deep uncertainty. Our cloud software platform enables organization to understand how climate change might affect complex supply chains, distributed workforces, major infrastructure projects, and global customer distribution and the make data driven decisions about about reducing the risk. As organizations face increasing pressure to measure, track, and report on their climate exposure, Geospiza provides user-friendly, real-time, audit-able solutions that go beyond single point in time reports. With Sustainable Development Goals 13 and 11 at our core, we would be grateful for an opportunity to participate in the Solutions Summit. Thank you for your consideration! | Geospiza Co-Founder and CEO, Sarah Tuneberg is passionate about harnessing data, analytics, and technology to solve complex challenges. After more than a decade in emergency management and public health, Sarah founded Geospiza to transform the way climate risk decisions are made. Sarah leads our interdisciplinary team of problem solvers focused on developing data-driven, evidence-based solutions, models, and processes that reduce risk and enhance resilience, especially for the most vulnerable. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Georgia and a Master’s degree in Public Health from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. | Geospiza Decision Pathways | Geospiza’s Decision Pathway platform analyzes & visualizes risk for climate-exposed organizations, enabling decision-making in the face of uncertainty | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | We intend to serve the global community. Currently, our customers are within the US. We are launching a first engagement in Japan within the next quarter, and are rapidly expanding. We are looking forward to working with Small Island Developing States. | Yes | ICF | Proof of Concept | We have a working Minimum Viable Product and are working with pilot customer to evaluate the validity and benefit of our solution. | The consequences of climate change have been rapidly brought to present-day reality via the increasing number and complexity of disastrous weather events. Organizations need help understanding the comparative hazard risk to make new investment decisions, limit potential losses, and increasing stakeholder well-being. On the horizon, mitigating long-term climate effects require planning, budget, and decision time-frames that start now. | Our software as a service (SaaS) application utilizes a model of models approach that draws on the best scientific studies available and allow our customers to visualize their risk and plan for the decisions that must follow. | Current efforts to understand climate risk involve expensive, one-time assessments that lack flexibility and long-term value. Existing solutions, focused on services and paper reports, do not provide ongoing monitoring and data-driven decision linkages that are needed to take action overtime and in the face of deep uncertainty. As currently road-mapped, Geospiza's solution will have five distinct product features that aid climate-exposed organizations to make decisions in the face of deep uncertainty. These product features include: 1. Visualizes assets--structures, people, investments, strategic regions--on a map; 2. Visualizes asset vulnerability to intensifying hazards and changing climate conditions; 3. Alerts you to the assets, asset grouping, or region with the highest risk scores to allow you to take action before it's too late; and 4. Creates Decision Pathways which maintain business flexibility by sequencing potential actions and linking them to defined trigger points. Audits progress against planned Decision Pathways to serve as a system of record. | Currently our team of software engineers and data specialists are building out two of the five features listed-- the ability to upload data in order to visualize your assets on a map and the ability to create Decision Pathways -- which will make up the minimum viable product of our solution. Additionally, our first product to market visualizes the vulnerability of people to multi-hazard scenarios, which positions us well to visualize hazard and climate risk for organizational assets. We plan to implement a model-of-models approach in order to take the most rigorous climate models that already exist and make these resources available to our customers in one place. Research on these models is also already taking place. Once the minimum viable product is deliverable to our clientele, we will simultaneously send this product to market to validate its viability as we continue developing the additional product features. We will measure our progress and methodological rigor via the following methods: - Best-practices of agile software development and product management; - Use peer-reviewed research to validate our Decision Pathways methodology; - Use leading climate studies to validate climate indicators; - Feedback from key advisors for both software development and climate adaptation; and Market success, product usability, and feedback from our clientele. These inputs will help us measure our progress and methodological rigor, allowing us to iterate as feedback cumulates. | First, in order to achieve continued growth and rigor in the field of data modelling, we are recruiting additional data scientists to help integrate the best open-source climate models and integrate the newest climate and hazard data into our platform. The goal to reach this milestone is September 2019. Second, We are currently engaging three pilot customers to validate our solution. Our goal is to convert these three pilots to full annual subscription in early 2020. Third, we will develop a complete product offering of our software solution, as described above. The goal of this is January 2020. Fourth, we plan to raise seed funding of $3.5M in order to allow our startup to grow. This fund raise will also provide us with new advisors in the field and clarity of our product's value proposition. This will also allow us to expand our staff and advance our product at a faster pace. The goal to reach this milestone is July 2020. Fifth, we hope to expand our market reach to be equally distributed across North America, Europe, and Asia. While we currently have good sales leads in both Europe and Asia, our primary source of clientele is currently housed within the United States. This global expansion for our clientele is a milestone we hope to achieve by January 2021. | Our most acute needs are divided equally between our ability to recruit and hire qualified, talented team mates and funding our product development. Very much two side of the same coin, building an exceptional team requires significant financial resources and our ability to generate revenue is dependent on having amazing people with whom we co-create incredible software. We anticipate recruiting and fundraising to be our primary challenges in the short, medium, and long-term. We believe in customer driven solutions in software development, so are always looking for forward thinking customers interested in engaging with Geospiza on a proof of concept or pilot. We also feel the pressure of living in a country where the official position of several Federal and State agencies, and the opinions of many potential customers, is that climate change is not human caused or, often, even real. In order to scale we need to be a global enterprise from the start. Mentorship and guidance about how to build a global company are something we are actively seeking. | - Company website: https://geospiza.us/ - Product overview: https://youtu.be/Whq6hAXVmeA - Our approach to climate adaptation: https://economistclimaterisk.com/sarah-tuneberg - Our CEO, Sarah Tuneberg’s, TedxMileHigh talk: https://youtu.be/zmanP8WDNwQ - Scholarly articles regarding the framework we use (Adaptation Pathways): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.polsoc.2016.05.002 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937801200146X?via%3Dihub#! | - Techstars Boulder 2018 pitch event- https://youtu.be/4Y_6VBQno18?t=5751 - TedXMileHigh - We know how to save lives in disasters - why don't we? (June 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmanP8WDNwQ&t=7s - PBS - Street Level Startups Video (June 2019) https://www.cpt12.org/startups/ - CBS4 - Denver Startup Week Credited For Denver-Based Company’s Success (9/24/18): https://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/09/24/denver-startup-week-geospiza/ | SXSW Startup Pitch, 2019 Chloe Capital, 2019 National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research Award, Phase I Techstars Boulder 2018 Downtown Denver Partnership Entrepreneur of the Year Award, 2018 Denver Startup Week Elevator Pitch Competition, 2018 Colorado Solutions Summit (as GrandView): https://coloradosolutionssummit.splashthat.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
553 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Given | Mwangosi | Greentechs-tz | www.greentechs-tz.com | CEO | Male | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | Each year the number of schools is increasing in Tanzania, this have resulted to large number of students Compared to the number of teachers. The number of teachers employed per year is not corresponding to the New students enrolled in primary and secondary schools in Tanzania. Eventually this have causes Teachers to become overloaded with the tasks related to students progress including preparation of students academic reports each term, as the result parents are not getting their children's academic progress reports on time and in some schools no reports at all.Also the free education has led to some challenges such as failure of schools to pay for student's ID cards(the monthly capitation for this purpose is small), so many schools have failed to provide ID cards to the students, this have raised some problems to the students especially in transportation costs (Students without ID cards pays more in public transport), Following these problems I decided to develop the computer application that replaces the manual preparation of students academic reports, auto generating the students' ID cards, auto-Processing of leaving certificates and more.With Elimu Soft, now teachers uses less time dealing with reports preparation, parents are getting their children's reports on time, schools produces students ID cards with high affordability within their capitation budget, Also schools can produce the leaving certificates and other more without the need to pay for designing. Elimu Soft office have changed the situation in all schools using it, to support the government in provision of free education we don't sell our solution, we freely install and train teachers to use it. We only benefit from the opportunities generated as the result of using our solution/application. Following these Efforts Elimu soft office was among the forty innovations in Africa nominated and named as ""The solution with the most sustainable impact to create jobs and improve lives in Africa"" by AEAwards in Casablanca Morocco 2017/2018. To me I believe innovating in educational technologies may bring the great impact and revolutions in education.I would like to share my experience with global audience on what I have achieved and make them understand that ""Any one can do anything for The Sustainable development in the world"" | Given Mwangosi Is 32 years old African entrepreneur using computer based technologies (ICT) to positively impact education In Tanzania pre, primary and secondary schools.Following his creativity he was the only youth from East and Central Africa in education category and among the forty youths from all countries in Africa nominated by African Entrepreneurship Awards, hosted in Casablanca Morocco for AEAwards of 2017/2018, hence after he was named ""The entrepreneur with the most sustainable impact to create jobs and Improve lives in Africa""-AEAwards. Given is also the Global Goals Youth Champion as awarded by UN-Tanzania Offices in 2018.. | ELIMU SOFT OFFICE(Telidata-Store) | Elimu soft office(Telidata-store) Is an offline application that simplifies preparation of students academic reports and auto-generating of ID Cards. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Tanzania | No | Scaling | Elimu soft office also known as Telidata Store, started as Idea on my teaching experience,I researched the problem, set the plan, developed the solution, tested it and now my solution is already used in 42 school to address the problem.It is in scaling stage because Already we have installed our application in 42 schools(initial customers) within 2 months, and now we are looking to increase customers to 150 this year and start making profit with our innovation early in January 2020. | Currently Tanzania schools are preparing the students academic reports manually.Each teacher is almost using more than 61 hours to prepare the students academic reports each year,(This time could be used for other curricular activities). Most public schools fails to provide the durable students' ID Cards due to low monthly capitation received to support free education, This affects the students especially in transport facilities(The students without ID Cards pays more transport fare) | Elimu Soft Office (Telidata store) Replaces manual preparation of students progress reports, hence facilitates the work by automatic generation of the students' academic reports,Students' ID Cards,school leaving Certificates,and the certificates of performance to the best performing students class-wise per each class. | While Others are expensively selling their solutions to schools for more than TZS:1,000,000/-(Excluding annual service fees), Which makes many Tanzania schools fail to afford the prices hence avoiding to use those applications,We neither sell nor charge any fee to use Elimu Soft Office In simplifying the intended tasks,We only benefit by using the opportunities generated by Elimu Soft Office in its operation at a particular school.Apart from Students progress reports and leaving certificates which can be printed at the host school(After being generated from our application), we take Bid to print the students' ID Cards and new students photographing(From these alone one schools pays us more than the amount others are charging per year as the activation fee. | The solution(software) is yet developed, and to-date after successfully testing, it is arleady installed in 45 schools within 2 months in Dar es salaam TZ. To me this is a good start and it is a clear indicator of success. | 1. May to December==>Piloting Elimu Soft Office(Preparing the market for Profit starting from January 2020. 2. January 2020-.......(nstalling our solution+making business 3. Expanding the market to other countries, This will, also be associated with increasing employees to cover the demand. Dar es salaam have more than 650 Schools. My GOAL Is to reach 150 schools initially with more than 90,000 students who will be impacted following the ESO nnovation. | Due to lack of capital currently I'm working from home. as I have explained to make great impact especially in public schools I'm not charging any fee to use my solution, I install it in school computers and freely train the teachers to use it, I'm only benefiting from the opportunities generated by Elimu soft office(Telidata-Store) like Printing ID Cards(generated by my application), and photographing the new students(for uploading the photos to Elimu soft Office and making the hard copy photos for other official procedures.We also print the living certificates(auto-generated from Elimu Soft Office) From This Explanation It Is Clear that We need the following to make the meaningful impact: 1. Large spaced Office for accomplishing all these purposes. 2. High Resolution Cameras. 3. PVC Cards Printing Machines(We make durable PVC ID Cards per each student) 4. Fast Speed Lamination Machines 5. Cards Cutters 5. PVC Sheets(For printing the auto generated ID Cards from Elimu Soft Office) 6. Fund for running the business(Running costs) The medium Term needs includes:Capital to establish our business in other regions of Tanzania(currently we have based our focus in Dar es salaam city alone. Long term needs: includes developing an online application that will address the similar problems in international level this will simplify its distribution and make more impact in education to many other countries. | https://www.greentechs-tz.com | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuYYrsv3Ozs | 1. AFRICAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARDS(AEAwards)-Finalist (Hosted in Casablanca Morocco) in December 2017. 2. Global Goals Youth Champion- Winner in 2018. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
555 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | ABIGAIL | ANANI | OYE FOUNDATION | www.theoyefoundation.org | FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | Female | Ghana | Ghana | English | My life and work experiences has been my greatest motivation in shaping my life and career goals. Growing up as a child in a small village in Ghana, I experienced the kinds of challenges that confronted the poor and vulnerable in society, I saw the frustrations on the faces of teachers in such communities who did not have basic teaching and learning materials to ensure that children receive quality education, I also saw school children struggle to learn at night because our community had no electricity to power households as well as many of them drop out of school at very early state of their education. These issues and many more and the desire to find solutions to them have motivated me to pursue a career that would empower the poor and impact their lives positively so that collectively, we can have a world that does not leave anyone behind especially children. My motivation to be part of the UN Solutions summit is to share my ideas, gather further knowledge in the field from the many experts that may be present so that upon my return back to my country, I will be more empowered to impact my team so that collectively we can help more vulnerable children through our educational intervention. As an organisation our primary aim is to also contribute to the global efforts at achieving the Sustainable Development Goal 4 on education. | Abigail Anani is a graduate from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, with an MA, Mass Communications Degree, and a Bsc. Degree from the University of Ghana, Legon. Abigail is currently the Founder and Executive Director of OYE Foundation, a local Non-Governmental Organization(NGO) with the mission to improve the welfare of people especially children, by being at the forefront in designing and implementing developmental projects and programs that can create a change within deprived communities and better the lives of the vulnerable. The primary focus of OYE Foundation is working to eliminate the barriers to quality rural education through the promotion of Literacy and reading skills in rural public basic schools as well as the empowerment of women and girls. Prior to setting up the NGO (OYE Foundation), Abigail worked with the C&J Medicare hospital, a renowned private medical center for over 4 years. holding several positions. She also worked with the African Center for Economic Transformation a non-governmental organization with the focus on polity advisory and research across Africa Abigail has professional experience in FMCG, Health insurance, Customer service, Sales/Marketing and Administration, as well as NGO Operations & Management. She also has excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a strong passion for the development of her country, and indeed the whole of Africa and beyond. Abigail is looking build a career to become an international development expert. Her satisfaction is achieved when the lives of others become better. | Read 4Life Initiative | Towards a brighter future. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | We are currently implementing the solution in communiyies within the regions of Ghana with far advanced plans to scale it across countries with the west African sub- region and beyond. | Yes | Fruitiere De Dotation Campagnie Foundation in France. | Transition to Scale | Currently, we have implemented the project in schools within selected communities in Ghana. The concept have been proven to create change in the academic performance of children in such schools far more significantly than before the intervention. We are at a stage of extending to schools other rural communities beginning September, 2019 for the 2019/2020 academic year in Ghana. In addition, my team and I have received a number of request from school heads that want the program in their school | My solution, which is the Read 4Life Initiative, is addressing the issue of poor academic performance among rural school children due to their inability to read. This is is a major challenge to the education of children in a sense that many of them are forced to dropout of school prematurely at the primary level or are unable to continue after completing junior high school due to poor academic results. For the girls, teenage pregnancy and child-marriage is what they fall pray to mostly.. | OUR MODEL (READ 4LIFE INITIATIVE) Reading Clinic: To ensure that children get enough time to read, reading clinics are held in all beneficiary schools every other weekend. This approach to reading is very exciting and it attracts many of the children. A child is provided with 3 story books per an academic year to support their reading activities. Peer- peer teaching also encourages the children during reading clinics such that, the more smarter/intelligent children are paired with their weaker colleagues for assistance. Home Visits: As part of our efforts to achieve the set goals on reading skills improvement, we have a team of trained senior high school and university graduates who visit each primary school child at home at least twice in a week after school for further reading lessons. The villages have been demarcated into territories and the field officers are assigned to each one with averagely 22 children to visits in a week. This model is unique, and it fosters a stronger relationship between the children and their teachers. INTER-SCHOOLS READING&SPELLING COMPETITION ANNUAL Reading &Spelling competitions is the climax of the academic year’s work. The competition is held among the program participating schools over the academic year. At the end, excelling pupils are awarded with scholarships The primary objective of the inter-schools competitions is to motivate the children to do their best in taking their reading lessons very serious. | Read 4Life Initiative is a unique intervention in many ways. 1. The program is concentrated in rural communities to benefit the deprived and vulnerable in society and to ensure that No child is left behind in their right to access quality education regardless of where they leave. 2. The program provides regular training activities for rural school teachers to build their capacity with regards to contemporary teaching methods and tools. 3. The program engages parents regularly to educate them about the importance of education to change the economic status of their families. With the education. 4. Regular reading clinics are held in all beneficiary schools to engage children in reading 5. As part of the Read 4Life program Model, beneficiary are demarcated and home teachers are assigned to children for daily after school reading lessons. | My team and I have developed this over the last 3 years but have implemented it fully over the last 2 years. The solution is at stage ready to be scaled up to benefit other communities or country aside Ghana. Progress is measured by the following methodology 1. An initial baseline assessment against which progress of the solution is measured termly and at the end of each academic year. 2. The program is refined as we go, so that evaluation is part of the project activities 3. The program is also evaluated at agreed milestones regularly to ascertain the needed outcome. 4. Impact surveys are also regularly conducted to assess progress made. | Currently, we have plans to scale up the program to several rural communities in the various regions of Ghana. In the near future however, we hope to move to other African countries beginning with those in West AFRICA. Also, the expansion will come with recruiting more people who can compliment the effort of teachers by assisting rural children to build their reading capabilities for better learning outcomes and the achievement of their future goals. Regarding the the program's ability to make impact, our currently projection shows that with the right funding, over fifty thousand rural basic children would be impacted by the next five years. May more impact can be achieved with more funding support and available resources. | The resources required to scale up this solution are as follows Short -term Resources 1. Books 2. Teaching and Learning materials 3. Finances 4. Mobile vans to serve children living in very remote communities 5. Book kiosk Medium-term Resources 1. Finances 2. Community Libraries 3. Renovation of dilapidated classroom blocks 4. Provision of play grounds for early graders. Long-Term Resources 1. Finances 2. Building of school blocks to serve communities with no schools currently 3. Provision of other school infrastructure 4. Focusing on all round early childhood development strategies. | website: http://www.theoyefoundation.org Instagram: @oyefoundation LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/abigailanani | http://www.theoyefoundation.org | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
556 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anthony | Gair | The Equality Engine | [set up project on LinkedIn or folder on google drive] | software engineer | male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | I have one working invention in use which is a energy saving device that has helped reduce climate change in industrialised countries at www.thermionix.com. However I have experience of intercultural work in relation to promoting energy saving behaviour and running fair governance elections in BME cultural organisations. | I have worked as a software engineer for 20 years. I am also an experienced FE lecturer. | The equality engine | A platform to record and block chain references and provide secure, reliable, standardised information for anonymous interviews | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | At first in English speaking countries and then more widely as languages are added | No | Research & Development | We are still coding it up and designing the architectue | Discrimination preventing access to employment by race, sex, creed, gender, social strata and disability. Failure of organisations and employers to properly provide references in cases of sexual harassment or ""fallings out"" with employee. Loss of contact with former employers due to time passed in looking after home and family. Cultural misunderstandings due to employers in different communities having different terminologies and standards to describe ex-employees' roles and achievements. | Equality in employment. Recording of references, experience and volunteering on block-chain, to be used in conjunction with sympathetic interviews by third parties who would carry out thorough but non-discriminatory interviews on behalf of hiring company. | The approach gives the employee power over their own employment reference information once that information has been verified by the employer. This would be the first use of block chains to improve the lives of individuals who are currently discriminated against by former employers who refuse a reference for spurious reasons. It would also offer improvements to employers such as lower employment fraud and a more diverse workforce. | We compare our solution to other work that is being done in this area, and consult our contacts who are disabled or otherwise severely disadvantaged. | We plan to start this project in English speaking African countries, where we know that employers have severe problems in obtaining reliable references about prospective employees. We would work with an NGO in Africa. We would need to ensure that we consulted an expert in employment law within each participating African country. | Short term - wages for a full time software developer for 3 months to produce the initial blocked chained referencing system prototype. At this point (medium term) an African NGO would need to become involved and we would need to hire a second programmer to design the booking system and finalise the referencing system. At the final stage we might need other NGOs to advice on specific issues - e.g. cultural sensitivity issues in relation to particular religious groups - and to help us roll out and market the system. | [Share through google drive] | Anna Heyman (co-applicant) being interviewed on Rebel Radio in 2011 about the Transition Town initiative and social trust: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iKvlWSUCauzqwRHKkqWmnDhzOEWg3RSN | Personal. Newcastle Science City competition 2010, Singularity prize runner up 2017. See the ability not the disability 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
557 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jonathan | IKETE YENGE | Projet d'accroissement de niveau des ménages | https://www.standardlivingfundsproject.org | Member | Male | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | English | French | My motivation to apply to attend the UN Summit of Solutions is that I am the bearer of an innovative project whose achievement will positively impact the lives of thousands of people in developing countries. Knowing that there will be audience of senior policymakers, investors, philanthropists, fellow entrepreneurs, and members of the public, i believe that my participation in this summit will undoubtedly be an opportunity to find opportunities for the realization and the implementation of the project. Indeed, in 2014, I participated in the international essay contest organized by the Gobal Development Network in partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The competition focused on the future of development assistance, as 2015 was set for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. It was about thinking about how to reinvent development cooperation for the post-2015 period. This is how I will get into this field and finally design this financing instrument aimed at improving the standard of living of households in developing countries. poverty and the reduction of inequalities in developing countries. Thus, Inspired by the idea of development aid as presented in the speech of President Harry Truman before the US Congress in 1949, I will be led to establish a parallelism between the notion of development aid and that of the entreprise. This is how I will develop an entrepreneurial vision in the realization of development. | Since 2014 I am interested in the issue of financing for development after having participated in the essay competition on the future of development assistance organised by Global Développent Network in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This is how in 2015, I left my studies in business management at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Kinshasa to concentrate on research on financing for development in order to design a new and effective financial instrument in the fight against poverty and the reduction of inequalities in developing countries. And in 2016 I will enroll in the Higher Institute of Statistics of Kinshasa for studies in the statistical sector. In 2018, I will be selected to participate in the UNCTAD Youth Forum in Geneva, unfortunately I do not get the visa to enter Switzerland. Currently I am member of the UNCTAD Youth Forum Kinshasa / DRC pool. I lead a small group of 4 people where we work for the realization of the project. During these five years( 2014- 2019) my work was: * in the understanding of the field of financing of development, * the design of a project for the creation of a financial instrument for the fight against poverty and the promotion of growth, * the improvement of this project according to the context and international requirements of the financing of the development * And the research of the donors able to finance the project. | Fonds d'accroissement de niveau de vie. | Fight against inequalities by capitalism | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Low income countries | No | Proof of Concept | We say that we are in the proof of concept phase because we have already gone beyond the idea generation process. We have already made the basic idea of our project clear. We also gave ourselves time to increase our knowledge in this area to adjust the project by taking into account various factors related to development cooperation. We now have a draft of the business model of our future company which demonstrates the feasibility and the possibility of real application the idea. | Our solution addresses the problem of standard of living of poor households in developing countries. Standard of living refers to the quality and quantity of goods and services that people can get or buy. Our solution proposes an inovative financial instrument which impulse consumption capacity of poor households in low income countries for more efficience of development assistance. | In the long-term the vision is to create a development bank with a financial instrument that targets household income in order to boost their consumption capacity and thus increase the economic activity of the country. The idea is to exploit the growth potential of low-income countries by creating a middle class. Indeed, the emerging middle class in developing countries plays a decisive economic role, as it is an engine of growth. Based on the notion of multiplier effect, in economics it is assumed that the variation of one of the components of demand causes a higher variation in national income. So Knowing that poor households have a high propensity to consume, we will be a financial institution that inflates household income for consumption. As a financial institution, we will raise funds in the financial markets.The ideal being to be financed at the lowest cost possible, we would better preffered to be financed by funds from development aid because of its concessionality. To repay funds borrowed in the markets, we will have two main sources: * Economic agents whose added value will increase as a result of increased household consumption, will pay a kind of fee whose amount will be calculated based on the influence of fixed costs on the profitability of their activities. * the bank will also operate in the financial markets of the country in which it operates. Mainly in the money market and the financing of SMEs. | Here, we assume that low-income countries are in a period of economic depression. We see underdevelopment as a situation of economic recession that needs to be addressed.Keynesian theory asserts that in such period, monetary policy and fiscal policy can have a positive role to play in mitigating fluctuations in the business cycle. * Fiscal policy can lead to a budget deficit that can result in new government borrowing during the year, These borrowings feed into the government debt. We propose in our solution a recovery method that does not increase public spending. We will provide financing to households and businesses without intervention from the state budget. The debt service will not be the business of the government but the business of the development bank. * Monetary Policy ""inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can only be generated by an increase in the quantity of money faster than that of production"" We propose in our solution an increase of the money supply which is accompanied by an increase of the production of the companies. Indeed, the bank will finance households income and SMEs. Moreover, unlike a consumer loan that is granted by a credit institution to the extent that the borrower is able to repay it, we have here a financing instrument for household consumption that does not depend on the capacity repayment of these households. | Our solution started from the search for an effective approach to the fight against poverty. And it is by considering the distribution of poverty in the world that we have defined this approach. Indeed, the distribution of poverty in the world points out that the lack of economic and social progress coincides with poverty. Countries with weak economies also have a high poverty rate. Hence for us, the eradication of poverty is particularly the search for economic development of the least advanced regions, the increasing of the standard of living of the populations. Moreover, inspired by the idea of development aid as presented in President Harry Truman's speech to the US Congress in 1949, we were led to establish a parallelism between the notion of development aid and that of business. Thus, by an analogical approach, we have developed a liberal vision in the realization of development. Then, throughout the development of the solution we use the analogical method. So it was a question of how to apply the thought of economic liberalism that concerns the private sector to the problem of the macroeconomy which concerns the role of the State. Our progress is measured by the fact that we currently have a business model (a business-specific document) that addresses a macroeconomic reality. | * The general objectives of the solution is to reduce the number of people living below the poverty line and the income inequalities in the world. To achieve these goals we envision to create a multilateral bank focused mainly on financing the poorest households and all the supply chain of goods and services consummed by these households; to set up a sort of royalty based on the influence of fixed costs on the profitability of the compagnies. As Results, we will have the expansion of sources of financing for development, the increase in living standars of households in developing countries, a new tone in private sector efforts in poverty reduction, the participation of a large number of households in the financial markets what will be another form of economic and financial inclusion. *For the feasability of the project, we will use mobile payment. That is, households will receive their money and make payments from their mobile phones. This will allow in particular to trace their transactions. *As part of our activities in the financial markets (particularly money market), the financing of SMEs in rural areas will be part of our specifications. *The project can be developed in any low-income country. Indeed, the number of poor and the weakness financial market in these countries are the key factors for the success of the project. * The bank will have representation in the partner countries and will recruit people to carry out its activities. | For the implementation of the project we will need technical and financial resources. In the short term, we need to do a feasibility study. Considering that we are already in the drafting stage of the business plan, the feasibility study will provide a clearer definition of the return on investment (ROI) for probable approval and financing. For a significant impact, we will need a large audience. That is, opportunities to present the solution to as many potential donors as possible. In the medium and long term, the success and impact of the project will depend on the partnerships that will be concluded with the following parties: * Donors of official development aid Since we suggest that these loans be concessional in order to avoid exorbitant interest rates, development donors who are members of the Development Assistance Committee will be effective partners. *Governments. Since the solution is about macroeconomic aspects, cooperation with the governments of the beneficiary countries is essential. *Entreprises Partner companies are those that produce goods and services consumed by households in accordance with the COICOP divisions and groups selected. However, given the notion of multiplier effect, the partnership will cover the entire supply chain linked to the production of these goods. * Telecommunication companies offering electronic wallet services. This cooperation is important for the traceability of the use of funds by the household. | https://www.standardlivingfundsproject.org | https://youtu.be/AL2tzTmMdPA https://youtu.be/y3V9nI64ApQ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
558 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jocelyne | Agbo | Farm On Wheels Enterprises | http://farmonwheels.org | CEO | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | it is true that the internet and cellphones has made things like global training, and education a possibility but most of the farmers we work with don't have smart phones or phones at all, no internet access in their community, don't know how to use a computer or a smart phone and most importantly, do not speak, write or understand English. What they do know how to do best is to listen. They don't own smart phones or computers, but 99% of them own transistor radio. This is how our radio training program was born to reach small holder rural farmers across the country through radio training programs that will be conducted in local dialect to enable these farmers have access to training and updates on modern farm practices and proper application methods, weather, new farming technologies and how to use these technologies, integrated pest management systems etc as i found out that they have no access to quality farm inputs, when they do, they have no idea how to use them. With this project, Over 30 million small holder rural farmers will be trained and get information across the country and at least 10% of the African rural population will also benefit from these training programs when implemented across the continent. This motivated us to summit this project and want to be part of the UN solution summit, to draw attention to the fact that even though that the internet, smart phones and computers can reach millions of people, there are groups of people that needs the resource that these technology brings but do not have access to the internet or know how to operate smart phones and computers or even how to speak any other language except their local dialect but we can use the basic technology they have access to which is the radio, to provide these resources to them. | Jocelyne Agbo is a social entrepreneur who has with over 7 years experience as a skills acquisition facilitator, distribution channel expert and value chain addition strategist. She is a Mandela Washington Fellow, a Tony Elumelu alumni, and a D-prize award winner. She did a business and entrepreneurship study at University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA, has also gone through several entrepreneurship training courses with African Management institute(AMI), Kenya business school, Buccioni university Milan, Italy and currently concluded the Santa Clara university GSBI program. | Farm On Wheels | Empower the Farmers, feed the world | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Nigeria | Yes | 1) Niger state mechanisation and Development agency (NAMDA). 2) International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. 3) Premier seeds. | Transition to Scale | We implemented out pilot project which was successful, then we used the information we gathered to implement the proof of concept confirmation stage which is also quite a success and we are currently working towards using the data gathered to scale up operations. | There are two major challenges that has kept small holder rural farmers below poverty level: 1) No access to farm resources such as quality seeds, fertilizer, agro chemicals, training and credit facility making them experience as low as 40% yield due to reusing seeds and no/wrong application of fertilizer and agro chemical. 2) post harvest loss due to no proper storage facility and/or market linkage forcing them to sell their harvest below cost price loosing an average of 30% in income | Farm On Wheels distributes quality farm inputs such as improved quality seeds, fertilizers, agro chemicals directly to small holder rural farmers in their communities, train them on proper application methods, provide access to credit facility and facilitate market linkage. This enables them reduce cost of production, increase production capacity, yield and income. We have trained 4,623 small holder rural farmers and provided access to farm inputs, credit facility and market linkage to 320 of them by going from one community to the other and working with the farmers one-on-one, but it is not enough as 50% of the Nigerian population are rural dwellers and about 70% of them are small holder rural farmers that needs these training. So our long term project is to reach small holder rural farmers across the country through radio training programs that will be conducted in local dialect to enable these farmers have access to training and updates on modern farm practices and proper application methods, weather, new farming technologies and how to use these technologies, integrated pest management systems etc. With this project, Over 30 million Nigerian small holder rural farmers will be trained and at least 10% of the African rural population will also benefit from these training programs when implemented across the continent. We will also partner with international and government organisations to provide them with inputs, credit and market linkage. | Our solution is uniqe because we approached the problem using a method different from others because;- 1) We provides a comprehensive package of agricultural resources to small holder rural farmers which includes quality seeds, fertilizer, agrochemicals, training, credit facility, storage and market linkage, directly to their communities, on credit at 0% interest rate and the loan is recovered in farm produce. 2) We conduct our trainings in local dialect and will also conduct the training in local dialect through a radio training program 3) facilitate market linking them to agro processing companies. | We have successfully implemented our solution in 2 years having trained 4623 small holder rural farmers and distributed inputs to 320 of them, we recorded these results:- 1) High trust level between Farm On Wheels and the farmers 2) 100% loan recovery rate 3) High number of farmers turnout for training We have also developed our solution to include agricultural extension officers who works with our farmers from within their communities grouping 50 small holder rural farmers to 1 extension officer. | Strategic initiatives that will enable us reach thousands in input distribution and millions in training of small holder rural farmers at low cost includes:- 1)Seed multiplication:- this will reduce cost of inputs by 40%, increase customer base and sales and ensure quality of seed distribution to 2000 small holder farmer. 2) Radio training program:- will provide training in local dialect to small holder farmers in hard to reach communities across the country training and giving updated information to over 10 million rural farmers across the country. 3) FOW Online trading platform:- this platform will connect small holder farmers across the globe to off-takers, agro processing companies and individual commodity bulk buyers. 4) fertilizer blending:- this is a market that is not saturated as there are few local blender while agriculture provides 70% of jobs and contributes 25% to our national GDP, This initiatives will require to hire more agricultural extension officers, agronomists, IT team and operations officer for each initiative. | Short term: A minimum of $200,000 in funding is needed to hire more staffs, implement seed multiplication and radio training program within Nigeria and across Africa Medium Term:- resources needed includes funding to hire our IT staffs, build our online commodity trading platform Long term:- Resources most needed are funding, experienced chemical engineers for fertilizer blending, license. | website: http://farmonwheels.org facebook: https://web.facebook.com/FarmOnWheels1/?_rdc=1&_rdr twitter: @farmwheels | http://agriwavestv.com/video/?vid_id=6&catId=3&phrase=Talk%20Shows | 1) D-prize award (winner) 2) Alquity transforming lives award (finalist) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
559 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | bk | ngejane | Peniel Impact Investment | https://bngejane.wixsite.com/peniel | Co-Founder & CEO | Male | South Africa | South Africa | English | in Africa, the age group of between 15 - 64 years grew by 25% between 2000 - 2008, from 443 m - 550 m, that is 2.7% p.a and is set to reach 1 billion by 2040 (World Bank 2011a), only 73 million jobs were created between 2000 - 2008. there is a ‘doubling effect’ when you compare the estimated 30% unemployment of 2000 to the one of 2050. The working group more than doubles in the 50 years, which means although the unemployment rate might look flat, but the number of the unemployed more than doubles in correlation to the population growth, from the estimated 140 million of the year 2000 to 317 million in 2050. if disruptive intervention is not implemented and these numbers persist, we will be conducting the dumbest experiment in the history of humanity, honestly, I can not think of anything dumber. “If we are to bring the broad masses of the people in every land to the table of abundance, it can only be by the tireless improvement of our means of technical production” ABRAHAM LINCOLN. it is common knowledge that lack of financial capital (money) is not the prevailing reason for low impact, but rather a lack of knowledge and networks. However, the last two forms of capital are time-bound! !inelastic and not scalable! we are creating a smart enterprise & investor, by augmenting corporate functions with frontier technologies across; HR, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Procurement, Legal, Production, Product Management, Facilities, Risk & Compliance, Strategy, Communications, General Management, Customer Services, R&D, Marketing, Operations, IT & Ethics. The technologies include; Drones & Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Directed Acyclic Graph, Sensors & Internet of Things, AR/VR, Data Analytics and any other technology that can accelerate the achievement of sustainable development goals. because, according to Peter Diamandis of Singularity University, when you digitize something it enters exponential growth, it becomes easy to access, share and distribute, and escapes human limitation bound. (digitizing and augmenting management consulting). | bk is a skilled management consultant with over 14 years of experience supporting enterprises from conglomerates like Vodafone to augmenting start-ups. He is a certified internal auditor (CIA), having trained with KPMG in Africa. bk has spent a significant portion of his career in areas of operational efficiency improvements and monitoring and evaluation. over the last three years, he has been learning and aggregating exponential technologies that can improve the quality and impact of social enterprises and impact investments. he is most excited about the ""Law of Accelerating Returns"" which will accelerate the adoption of technology in impact investing. | smart impact ""The Vulcan"" | we are creating a smart enterprise & investor, by augmenting corporate functions with frontier technologies. We are aggregating technologies across dr | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | South Africa | Yes | Catalyst for Growth, Global Impact Investment Network (GIIN), Intelligent Impact, Bertha Centre For Social Innovation, Dalberg Global Advisors, JP Morgan Foundation, Singularity University GSP, WeRobotics, Street Global VC. | Transition to Scale | we use third-party technologies across all corporate functions, most technologies are either at the beta, post-beta and scaling stages. while we were at the proof of concept stage, we commenced with the engagement of strategic partnerships for the transition to scale & scaling i.e. Catalyst for Growth, Singularity University - GSP and others. as such we anticipate a leapfrog to scale. | according to Andrea Böhmert from Knife Capital VC ""Capital in the broader sense of things, as in tier 3; which is knowledge, networks, and funding - is but a much richer description of capital. (therefore capital = knowledge + networks + money) It is common knowledge that lack of financial capital (money) is not the prevailing reason for startup failure, but rather a lack of knowledge and networks. However, the last two forms of capital are time-bound! !inelastic not scalable! | we are creating a smart enterprise & investor, by augmenting corporate functions with frontier technologies across; HR, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Procurement, Legal, Production, Product Management, Facilities, Risk & Compliance, Strategy, Communications, General Management, Customer Services, R&D, Marketing, Operations, IT & Ethics. The technologies include; Drones & Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Directed Acyclic Graph, Sensors & Internet of Things, AR/VR, Data Analytics and any other technology that can accelerate the achievement of sustainable development goals. with a Moonshot of augmenting 60-72 million MSME's out of the estimated total of 445 million globally (Worldbank). with the focus on improved productivity, increased business expansion, improved business management practices and entrepreneurial skills, increased formalization, improved working conditions and increased income from the business. | “If we are to bring the broad masses of the people in every land to the table of abundance, it can only be by the tireless improvement of our means of technical production” ABRAHAM LINCOLN. the singularity is coming! we are focused on the SDG's with a singularity lense. technology for good is still at its nascent stages. we are creating a smart enterprise & investor, by augmenting corporate functions with frontier technologies across; HR, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Procurement, Legal, Production, Product Management, Facilities, Risk & Compliance, Strategy, Communications, General Management, Customer Services, R&D, Marketing, Operations, IT & Ethics. The technologies include; Drones & Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Directed Acyclic Graph, Sensors & Internet of Things, AR/VR, Data Analytics and any other technology that can accelerate the achievement of sustainable development goals. the current management practices are outdated and not easy to measure and monitor. | 1. third party service provider listings (done) however ongoing. (we partnered with the worlds number 1 in the listing and aggregation game). 2. service provider product testing (we have tested more than 1000 solutions to date) however ongoing. we ask the question, does the solution address any of our market challenges? 2. strategic partnerships development is ongoing. (we have a quality listing of global partners with distribution abilities; GIE, Local2030, UN Foundation, Shift7, UN Solutions Summit, Results 4 Development, Digital Impact Alliance, UN Women, WeRobotics, BCorp, Global Compact, Zindi, WiMLDS, Ocean Protocol, Singularity University & Catalyst 4 Growth). we focus on the quality of the partner, measured according to the knowledge and networks they can assist with. 3. data aggregation and analytics (o/s). we seek to strengthen this leg through the Solutions Summit. 5. scaling & sustainable scale (o/s). we seek to strengthen this leg through the Solutions Summit. For us, the most important issue is the quality of the partner and the strength of the relationship. measured according to the knowledge and networks they can assist with. | Goal 1 - (Innovation Experts: Consultants, Marketing Resources, Office space Incubation through Local2030, advise from experts on how to get to goal 2). to be exposed and share strategic thinking and fresh ideas for tackling the global challenges that shape our world. To connect with global policymakers in order to surface evidence of what works. To access networks that seek to stimulate new thinking about innovation and reform that can help modernize the UN’s ability to deliver its core mission. To spend more time with innovative implementors and doers. Goal 2 - (Hire at least one consultant, one researcher, one part-time marketer/ consulting firm to assist with the workload using revenue generated from below activities & start raising series A). to gain experience with at least one enterprise across the following impact sectors: Good Health and Wellbeing, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Clean Water and Sanitation, Affordable and Clean Energy, Decent Work & Economic Growth, Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, Sustained Cities and Communities, Reduced Inequality, Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate Change, Life Below Water, Life and Land, Peace Justice and Strong Institutions, Partnerships for the Goals & Zero Hunger and No Poverty. Across the African continent. Goal 3 Use the intelligence developed from the experience above to build telemetry (dashboard) that surfaces the intelligence per sector and across sectors. (Raise an impact funding round AA) | Short-term - strengthening our partnerships and networks with (UN, UN Foundation, Global Innovation Exchange, Shift7, GIIN IRIS+, Results for Development, Local 2030, UN Solutions Summit, Digital Impact Alliance, UN Women, WeRobotics, BCorp, Global Compact, Zindi, WiMLDS, Ocean Protocol, Singularity University & Catalyst 4 Growth). Medium-term - Leverage of the relationships above to source clients with at least one enterprise across the following impact sectors: Good Health and Wellbeing, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Clean Water and Sanitation, Affordable and Clean Energy, Decent Work & Economic Growth, Industry Innovation and Infrastructure, Sustained Cities and Communities, Reduced Inequality, Responsible Consumption and Production, Climate Change, Life Below Water, Life and Land, Peace Justice and Strong Institutions, Partnerships for the Goals & Zero Hunger and No Poverty. Across the African continent. Medium-term - use the resources (financial & track record) obtained from goal 2, to source impact funding in order to expand revenue sources and develop internal specialists. Long-term - Use the intelligence developed from the experience above to build telemetry (dashboard) that surfaces the intelligence per sector and across all sectors. | https://www.linkedin.com/in/bkngejane/ https://bngejane.wixsite.com/peniel | https://issuu.com/bngejane | We only started engaging media (awards) 3 months ago, it's still early day. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
560 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Bashir Shatima | Mustapha | MEDMUM AND INFANT CARE | NIL | CEO | MALE | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I Bashir Shatima Mustapha is the founder of MEDMUM AND INFANT CARE an organisation that favours not only me but the entire society at large. I has been working tremendously even due to the fact he is still a student to work out maternal mortality rate in Nigeria. I Bashir Shatima Mustapha has been on this project for the past five years now. Over two years, I have developed a significant process to connect mostly people in the rural area to have quick access to medical treatment through the use of SMS (short message service). I Bashir Shatima Mustapha believes strongly that the rate of maternal mortality can reduce when there is a full guideline to the pregnant mother’s on how she can take care of herself and the infant through SMS and mobile application. I Bashir Shatima Mustapha wants to be part of these submit for the development of the globe at large to contribute with all my effort for the solution of individuals achievement. | My name is Bashir Shatima mustapha i was born in the year 31/07/1993 in a town Azare, Bauchi state. I'm the CEO and founder of MEDMUM AND INFANT CARE. i'm still a student studying in Bayero University, Kano studying Medical Radiography and Radiological Science. | my solution lies on the rate of maternal mortality. | For the rate of maternal mortalty to reduce their most be adequate skilled health worker and adequate facilities in the rural areas. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | in Nigeria, due to the fact that individuals pregnant mothers living in the rural areas have less access to medical during and after child birth. | No | Transition to Scale | when the solution is effective applied most especially in Africa and basically in the rural areas where individual pregnant mothers does not have access to medical treatment. it will reduce the rate of maternal mortality in the rural areas very effectively. | 1. Inadequate skilled health personnel 2. Lack of availability of resources and materials in the rural areas. 3. increase in the level of maternal mortality rate. 4. lack of good water 5. hungry and starvation | We were able to help pregnant mother's to have access to skilled care before, during and after they give birth. With the free seminar and workshop set up periodically help the nurses and midwives for improvisational process if there is lack of available of material in process of delivery. | due to how we were able to connect people in the rural areas with clinics which available and nearest to them and by giving them awareness on the important of visitation of the hospital during pregnancy and for the health personnel in the rural areas to be able to improvise if their is lack of availability of materials. | Based on the rate of mothers and other medical personnels that connect with our program and the kind of testimonies getting from individual really spark my interest on the business. Most of the rural communities we have visited have reach a level of awareness on important of visiting the clinics or hospital for proper medication and on the important of buying proper delivery kits for avoidance of different diseases that are encounter due to discordant use of materials. | Yes indeed, Developing the medimum and infant care Mobile App with a mobile app landing website page and getting potential users to subscribe to our newsletter and having access with a significant code for direct SMS from all the Nigerian widest communication companies. It will take six months to reach this milestone. | Updated health facilities are types of material needed and adequate skilled health workers are also needed. The basic challenge my organisation have is lack of finance. | NIL | NIL | NIL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
561 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | MICHAEL | EGWU | DESTINY SCH OF HEALTH TEC LTD (DESOHTECH) | http://www.desohtech.edu.ng | CHEW | MALE | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | DESOHTECH is dedicated to save and productive motherhood cum community, provision of human resources for health, and minimizing unemployment rates Nigeria. Each year, over 300,000 women and one million babies die in childbirth in Africa. They die at home and in unequipped facilities – from skilled staff shortages, post-partum bleeding, infections, and botched abortions by back-street doctors/personnel. Meanwhile, over 1 million children die in childbirth in Africa. A mothers' death pushes a family deeper into poverty, and daughters are often pulled from their studies to take care of the household. Nigeria and other developing countries are on daily basis, facing a looming shortage of community health & allied-health workers, poorer health status, culture and belief system, poor health literacy, poor and ineffective communication, social exclusions, lack of education and low educational levels, poverty/induced poverty, low socioeconomic status and a near to lack of social sector development are the bane of education and underdevelopment in virtually all sectors. Desohtech is in the education sector with a mission to address this injustice. It is an exciting and undying motivation of a fulfilled mission of promoting SDG 3 & its goals realizable by 2030. Impacts with global reach: •Self-employment and employment generation opportunities for our graduates and other teeming youths. •Health-preneurs who are self-employed can now send other members of their families to school, improve their families standard of living and impacting their communities. •Contributing to the community health and allied-health workforce staff shortages facing Ebonyi State and the Nigerian nation through our health training and promotion programmes. •Improved health literacy to curb the incidences of tropical health diseases such as Sleeping Sickness, STDs/STIs, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Lymphatic Filariasis, Leprosy, et al. •Public Safety. •Mothers and girls are now knowledgeable on the self-administration of misoprostol for the prevention of PPH at home-birth; en route or at facility-based when there is no skilled attendant available. | I am Egwu Michael Okoh. I hail from Afikpo-North Local Government Area, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. My in-depth knowledge and experience I can bring to bear on these lifelong learning and training investment include, ND in Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW) training for 3years, ND in Science Laboratory Technology (SLT). Others are Certified Entrepreneur from CBN/SOUTH-SOUTH Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC), Calabar; Medical/Patient's Counselor with Unity Hospital, Vandeikya, Benue State in 2010, and college of health administration and management garnered while working with my uncle that owned Unity Hospital, Vandiekya LGA, Benue State and Gilead College of Health Technology, Vandeikya, Benue State, etc. | Training of Community Health & Allied-health Workers | Health Promotion, Health Restoration | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | NIGERIA | Yes | NGOs, Religious Organizations, Government (Local & State) | Proof of Concept | Due to high concentration of health staff in urban areas by government; inability of government to follow up and/or check staff transfer as routinely expected, lack of human resources for health (HRH) and also encouraging staff with incentives in order to make them tolerate working in rural areas is the reason for our innovation which is training of health workers to address gross shortages & unequal distribution of health workers, especially in rural areas with the most population. | SDG 3 & Its Goals, Gross Shortages of Health Workforce Staff and the inequalities in the distribution of these health workers. Poor health literacy and promotion campaign. | STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAMMES: The Certificate and National Diploma (ND) programmes in each department are terminal programmes, and are structured to last for 1,2,3,6 months to 1year, 2years (Four Semesters) and 3years (Six Semesters) respectively. The Higher National Diploma (HND) is also a terminal programme, and is to last for 2years (Four Semesters). Furthermore, for each of the programme, each semester shall consist of 15 contact weeks of teaching which includes: practical exercises, examinations, quizzes, tests, etc. These programmes incorporates regimented periods of Supervised Clinical Experience (SCE) and Supervised Community Based Experience (SCBE) (for Community Health) and Supervised Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) (as for other departments), which shall last for a total period 12weeks in each academic year. Long-term Vision Statement: To raise at least one expertise in health, particularly in low-income families and far underserved communities who will advance our commitments to excellence in outreach and engagement through community health & allied-health education training programmes that educates the individual, community about their own health and wellness and encourages them to actively advocate for the health and wellness of their fellow neighbors of all ages; transform the quality, safety and affordability of patient-centered community-based healthcare service delivery. | Our programme is the first of its kind and the first privately-held school of health technology in southeast Nigeria. Some of our training programme is short like in the case of training TBAs, MHAs, ANC Providers and CHEWs as the case may be. This training duration has a huge multiplier effects on an urgent health system cum workforce staff sufficiency in harnessing SDG 3 & its goals. Unlike our competitors, we are specially saddled with a specific objective to provide training so that TBAs/VVHWs, MHAs, ANC Providers, CHEWS, among other health related personnel can effectively:- •Assist clean deliveries (without risk of infection), including safe delivery of the placenta. •Evaluate pregnant woman; detect danger signs before, during, and after following childbirth, and provide timely referrals. •Use the information and referral system properly. •Give first aid in obstetrical and neonatal emergencies in the community. •Provide immediate care to the normal newborn and apply infant first aid should a complication occurs. •Advance distribution of misoprostol for self-administration. In our new perspectives to teaching, we use multiple methods of teaching (linguistic, visual, auditory, kinesthetic) to reach students, so that no one is left behind. We have achieved these so far with the introduction of technology - a teaching innovation for improved students performances. | We have trained more than 2876 TBAs in 40 Development Centres across Ebonyi State. We have trained 835 CHEWS and other staff in the last 3years. Our training progress in measured by the performances of our graduates in public & private health cum other sector service areas. The numbers that are self-sufficient and has started and running their own small scale drugs/pharmaceutical stores; offering consultancy services in the health sector; quick job placements in several parastatals, among others. We achieved this with the prescribed training methods approved by National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) in Nigeria and UN. | Our planned goal is to make a material contribution to SDGs-based poverty reduction strategies with inclusive operational strategies for scale-up such as training large number of community health and allied-health workers and retaining them to complement the 1million workers needed by 2030 to massively expand the health workforce in some developing nations like Nigeria in order to solve recurrent social and environmental challenges facing communities, people, businesses, education and healthcare in a more entrepreneurial way. Milestones: To trained 10,000 TBAs every year i.e. 2020 to 2030 To train 1,500 CHEWs and other health staff every 2 to 3years To create 10,000 decent direct jobs and 30,000 indirect jobs every year by 2020 to 2030 To recruit, retrain and retain 500 health staff every 2years to drive our mobile healthcare system by 2022. To impact 300,000 lives directly or indirectly. To establish a new school of health technology in Rivers State, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria by 2023. | Vehicles, Bicycles, Motorcycles, Drugs (assorted), Uniforms (assorted), Medical & Lab equipment, reagents, chemicals and disposables, staff ranging from Doctors, Nurses, Midwives, Pharmacist, Med. Lab Technician, Environmental Health Technicians, Nutritionist/Dieticians, etc | NONE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYxHTVn0-2w&feature=youtu.be | Friend Of The Community Award by Former IKWO LGA PHC Director in Partnership with IKWO LGA, EBONYI STATE in 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
562 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joel Saboi | Mvula | Rusangu University Research & Innovation Student Association (RURISA) | https://www.msuyouthsummit.com/schedule/#session Poster Community B 8 - ‘A Hybrid Triple Helix Approach’: Making Education Humane Again | Teaching & Research Assistant | Male | Zambia | Zambia | English | ‘The Hybrid Triple Helix Approach’: Mentorship, Community involvement and Research is the framework to improve education practices while addressing community needs. I founded the Rusangu University Research & Innovation Student Association (RURISA) which employs apprenticeship; Allied learning, entrepreneurship and research to improve community livelihood. Put simply, we are using SDG#4 to counter another 13 SDGs. I founded the Rusangu University Research & Innovation Student Association (RURISA). RURISA is built on 3 pillars: (i) introduce, facilitate and promote student centered interdisciplinary research, (ii) community involvement (iii) mentorship programs. Through our outreach programs we have learnt that Secondary school pupils and Youths in the community are indeed passionate about addressing the challenges in their community but lack the knowledge and skill to pull it off. Inability to seek and forge collaborations, partnerships and exchange programs through grant proposals is a major setback.Put simply, there are no systems to work with in improving the quality and access to education i.e no University in Zambia has an office of Undergraduate research. Coming from Sub-Saharan Africa entails one has to put in double the effort given the ‘questionable’ education attained from the region as compared to the non-negotiable international standards. Several Universities in the industrialized world have denied me acceptance in part because of being schooled in this regions. Making an objective assessment, one may quickly realize that their refusal is justified. I see that during international conferences and symposiums when my ability to keep up is merely as a result of my tireless efforts and not necessary skills my system of education imparted in me and yet I still fall short. The level of competence among those trained by our system is unacceptably low and yet Education at any level is really hard to access. While the Youth may have the zeal and passion to make and be the change they seek, their skill set doesn’t meet the task before them. One would effortlessly note the Governments’ lack of commitment by the lack of infrastructure, materials, human resource, continuous professional development, fellowships and grants. As a result we continue to lose brilliant and committed Youths to the industrialized world because of our system not facilitating their growth. This has continues to derailed the progress of this regions. | Joel Saboi Mvula is the founder and Senior Student Advisor of the Rusangu University Research and Innovation Student Association (RURISA) where he develops, coordinates, and leads the research, mentorship and community service programs.His goal is to make quality education accessible to all, which in turn cultivates sustainable development. Joel also served as a teacher, Teaching and Research Assistant. Being a Brain enthusiast, Joel not only volunteers in Mental Health facilities but also works with pupils and teachers on matters of mental wellness and the infinite possibilities that come with mastering the brain. Joel is an advocate for lifetime learning as seen his love for reading, Languages, History, Music, Basketball and travel. | ‘The Hybrid Triple Helix approach’: Making Education Humane Again | ‘The Hybrid Triple Helix Approach’: Mentorship, Community involvement and Research. We are using SDG#4 to counter 13 SDGs. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Zambia, USA, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa | Yes | Michigan State University Global Youth Advancement Network, Andrews University, Zambian Govt Ministries | Proof of Concept | We already have guiding principles, a constitution 123 officers including Faculty and Staff as well as the student executive board. As founder of the association I was invited to Global Youth Advancement Summit as well as the UNLEASH Innovation lab 2019 on the basis of this. Currently, we are at Proof of Concept in that we are using Rusangu University and the Southern province of Zambia as our testing ground before we can scale up to the rest of the country and the region. | Sub-Sahara has the largest number of out-of-school children, highest adult illiteracy and innumeracy also lack of affordable and quality technical, vocational, tertiary education. Lack of quality education deprives youth of opportunities to improve their livelihoods and contribute to their communities. There are no systems to work with i.e no University in Zambia has an office of Undergraduate research. We continue to lose committed Youths because of our system’s inability to facilitate growth. | Education has the potential to propel development. However, high unemployment rates and the heavy costs that come with accessing quality education have since placed questions on whether attaining a higher education is worthwhile as it is no longer an insurance policy to an improved and comfortable livelihood. Etzkowitz (1993) cites university-industry-government as instrumental in the Triple Helix Model to foster economic and social development. Universities are better placed in initiating desired social changes. Thus, Mentorship-Community Involvement-Research will serve as approaches of 'A Hybrid Triple Helix' to address education accessibility and quality, which in turn, will prove to cultivate development. Collaboration with established universities improves academic practices placing students at schools to mentor pupils, especially girls. This STEM training incorporates young scholars in community projects by engaging them in research and applied learning thereby improving access to quality education for all. | ‘The Hybrid Triple Helix Approach’ is employing customized solutions that are cause and need driven; inter-connectivity, interdependence and partnerships. In the face a Global leadership crisis the onace falls squares on the shoulders of the youth to forge their future because they are the leaders of today and are responsible to make and be the change. Also, the methods being used are empowering the youths as the central human resource by using mentorship, community involvement and research to ensure self-sustainability. ‘Hybrid Triple Helix Approach’ is using SDG#4 to address the remaining ones. Using Universities as the first port of call, the hybrid triple helix approach facilitates undergraduates’ engagement in community projects on an SDG of their choice under the mentorship of a researcher/ practitioner as well as teams from established universities. While undertaking projects informed by research, the undergraduates also mentor primary and secondary school pupils. Not only does the Hybrid Triple Helix Approach’ counter SDG#4 but also lay a platform for recruitment for enthusiasts of other SDGs. | ‘The Hybrid Triple Helix Approach’ places priority on having our endeavors informed by research. Despite being less than a year old, we already have guiding principles as outlined by the three pillar of the Rusangu University Research & Innovation Student Association (RURISA); mentorship, community involvement and research. We have also have officers placed in all the ten committees of the association. Furthermore, we have established the mentorship with Andrews University as well as the Michigan State University Global Youth Advancement Network. We are already underway with SDG community involvement project of SDGS numbers ……. | It is our goal to reach the most rural of districts of Zambia providing mentorship to the secondary and primary schools. Start community supported training programs to compensate for lack of access to education and facilities. Seek grants to partner with the private sector to invest resources in the development of educational tools and facilities. Seek collaborations with other the government, universities and NGOs to carry out research on both policy and practice of education among marginalized groups. | Our needs vary from shortage of teaching and support staff to lack of material and infrastructure to support the learning process. Specific needs include 1. Partnerships with established universities for mentorship purposes and exchange programs 2.Collaboration with international NGOs on research and Innovation on education practices. 3. Machinery for Technical and Vocational Education 4. E- Library resources 5. Government intervention in policies that promote family's support towards school going children. | Poster Community B 8 - ‘A Hybrid Triple Helix Approach’: Making Education Humane Again https://www.msuyouthsummit.com/schedule/#session | Poster Community B 8 - ‘A Hybrid Triple Helix Approach’: Making Education Humane Again https://www.msuyouthsummit.com/schedule/#session | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
563 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Augustine Anderson | Tembo | CurverTECH IFG | http://curverstechifg.co.zm/ | Director | Male | Zambia | Zambia | English | We have a high regard for the United Nations core activities in trying to make our planet a safe place to live in, through the progression of the innovative Sustainable Development goals such as ending hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition with the promotion of sustainable agriculture, and ensuring access to affordablue, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. We consider these great efforts being advanced by the UN as a shared value and we greatly welcome this opportunity to showcase our work and innovation with an organisation that is leading the future in the wellbeing of humanity and the planet at large. At the same time, CurversTECH IFGs' main core business is to help Smallholder farmers acquire the appropriate innovative technology such as irrigation, seedling facilities, production skills and smart off-grid solutions for energy that will help them increase productivity in the agriculture sector. With this proactive style in the agribusiness sector, we strongly believe we would fit in really well especially in this role of ending hunger with the provision of clean, reliable and sustainable new energy for all. | Augustine Tembo is a result driven leader, horticultural business development specialist with more than 10 years of experience in the international and domestic agriculture industry. He has worked in both the private for profit and non-profit development sectors. He has provided Agribusiness mentorship to hundreds of small holder farmers and SMEs, and start-ups across Zambia. Augustine has also led several market-based, pro-smallholder commercialization projects in Zambia and has consulted for several private and international development agencies including the Land O Lakes projects, DFID / Private Enterprise Program (PEPZ), Women for Change, and Premier Greenview Farm (PGF) across Southern Africa. As a dynamic trainer, he has designed and led numerous trainings, based on adult learning methodologies, on Agricultural value chain Designs and Analysis, Business Planning, SME Business Development, Financial Management, Cooperative Management and Governance. Augustine has extensive project management and fund management experience with over five years of being involved in the management of various funded projects, with donors from USAID, Danida, and DFID. Currently as founder and CEO of Curverstech IFG, he has co- managed and coordinated the activities for expanding the Business net in the agribusiness sector. | Smart Farm | Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Agribusiness | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Zambia | Yes | Haygrove and Lima Agro consult | Transition to Scale | We believe our solution is at the ""transition to scale stage"" because we arleady have a product and we have sold it to farmers, though there could be some few innovative products which we want to bring on the market in the near future such as the solar and wind powered mobile markets for the youth. | CurversTECH IFG’s primary focus is on improving productivity in the agribusiness sector by bringing sustainable agro - technologies of high potential benefits closer to farmers and entrepreneurs so as to end hunger and promote clean sustainable energy for all. Most farmers in the urban and rural periphery do not have access to national grid and hence we are trying to bring solar irrigation system, and clean energy solutions closer to them and improve agricultural productivity in these areas. | Mainly our way out is to reach all clients across the agribusiness value chain stretching from the farm to the retail entrepreneurs at the market place who include: Small to Medium Scale Farmers, Emerging Farmers, Commercial Farmers, Government, Developmental agencies, Non-governmental organizations, Farmer associations, bulking and retail SMEs. This has been achieved through the provision of our products and services which are far-reaching solutions to farmers in the areas of farm irrigation with clean energy, seedling facilities and production skills that help farmers to stay in production all the way through. Our mobile vegetable carts which we are yet to be introduced on the market will offer an efficient way of safely moving fresh produce faster to the doorstep of the consumer thereby reducing on post-harvest losses and increasing the number of jobs for the youths. Through our services in trainings and consultancy, Farmers and organisation are able to use the skills and knowledge acquired to improve productivity and make well-informed decisions in their areas of undertakings across the value chains. Our long term vision is to grow our company across Zambia and the Sub-Saharan region, and reach out to more than 2,500 farmers in the next 5 years and further create 5,000 direct and indirect jobs across the agribusiness sector. | Our solution is more different from our current primary direct competitors which mainly include the two companies in Zambia: AMIRAN INTERNATIONAL (https://thebestofzambia.com/orgs/amiran ) and Green 2000 Ltd (http://www.green-2000.com/home.html ) who are mainly in agro chemicals, greenhouse construction and commercial irrigation systems. Basically our indirect competitors are a small bits of retailers engaged in the supply of solar systems and irrigation systems though they don’t have a strong relationship with the end user who is the farmer. CurversTECH IFG is so unique and different to its competitors in that its main core objective is to provide sustainable and innovative solutions with handholding back-up services to its clients across the agriculture value chain, from production to distribution. We strongly believe that our client’s success is our great success, and it’s for this reason that makes CurversTECH IFG to consider and treat every client as being part of our great team. Furthermore, we have introduced different payment models with more affordable terms for the small scale farmers. | Our solutions are reliant on a research which was done some 4 years ago unearthing a number of challenges smallholder farmers are facing. These findings impelled us to build this concept with a primary focus on increasing productivity in the sector. Farmer participation with the introduction of our products has extensively grown there by increasing the volumes of fresh vegetables being produced. This added produce requires an alternative market alongside the chain stores. Currently, the only alternative markets in place are informal markets which have no cool chain management systems in place with inappropriate packaging and storage containers. It is this situation which has given us another opportunity to introduce mobile market platforms with vegetable delivery services that are more suitable for youths to engage in vegetable mobile retail enterprise. The key indicators we are using to demonstrate the impact of our work is by measuring the number of farmers adopting to our new climate smart technologies in both irrigation and Good Agricultural practices by moving away from fuel powered pumps and generators. The other indicator is on measuring the percentage of farmers that have increased the production of high value agriculture products throughout the year by using our products and services. Furthermore, we are looking at the income generated and the number of jobs these farmers have created throughout the year by using our services and products. | Zambia has 2,800 MW of installed electricity generation capacity of which 85% is hydro based. National access to electricity averages at 31% with 67% of the urban and 4% of the rural population having access to power according to the Power Africa Fact Sheet by USAID. The report therefore translates that over 7.2 million of households who are mostly smallholder farmers in the rural and urban periphery have no access to any form of power to support their agribusiness ventures. Moreover they lack skills and alternative technology to support their agribusiness endeavours in production and post-harvest management. CurversTECH IFG is persuaded by these statistics to being more innovative in changing and improving the value of its services and products in the agribusiness sector. By increasing the benefits of our customers we expect to grow our market share by 25% in the next 5 years. We expect to achieve this through enhanced relationship models and by appealing to other audiences and demographics across the Sub Saharan region. This will further increase our staff to over 20, and will help us reach to 2500 farmers and create over 5000 indirect and direct jobs. CurversTECH IFG’s international policy includes its expansion across the Sub Saharan countries in the near future. Our set targets are to first penetrate the Malawi and Mozambique markets for our mobile vegetable carts, irrigation and off grid solutions and later create a network of agents in Angola and Botswana. | Our major challenge is in getting materials used for manufacturing our products such as electronic hardware and software as they have to be imported from Israel, India, China and UK. Our long term needs include electronic hardware and software, creating new international partnerships with key suppliers, while our short and medium term needs are to increase the Smart farm demonstration centres across the country. However we are trying to mitigate this challenge through partnering with other key players in the industry such Lima agro consult and Haygrove Ltd. | http://curverstechifg.co.zm/ | Currently we have no recordings of video or audio from our speaking engagements | Augustine Tembo, ELECTROMAGNETIC ENGINE (1996) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
564 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Shey vitalis | Mbunkur | Better Future For All Association | nor yet available | Founder | Male | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | French | My work as a servant and community leader started in 2016 when I did a six-month voluntary service with a non-profit organization in Cameroon that was creating awareness and implementing the Global Goals. After seeing the hardship and challenges people go through on a daily basis. Since then, I had been carrying out voluntary services with both national and international Organizations and in 2018, I decided to register my organization so as to reach more people in need of help. I have so much passion for working to achieve a better life for all. I once met a widow crying in front of a pharmacy because she was unable to buy the drugs prescribed for her 8-year-old daughter here in Cameroon. After my investigations, I identified the following problems: there are not enough pharmacies in the country, little information about which pharmacy will carry a drug, once a drug is located, the cost of purchasing it is unpredictable and varies significantly in price from pharmacy to pharmacy. And getting a pharmacy to call for a medication or pharmacies that operate until dawn is a difficult process. I am working on a project called PHARMAFAST is an accurate and cost-effective Mobile Application where people will be able to locate nearby pharmacies, know the exact pharmacies where to buy their medicines at a given price, and pharmacies that open during late hours. PHARMAFAST`s value proposition is to bring pharmacies and hospitals closer to the public to serve more lives. | SHEY earned a BA of engineering in Fashion and Clothing obtained in 2015 from the Higher Institute of the Sahel and a bachelor in history from the University of Maroua, Cameroon. Vitalis is the Founder of Better Future For All Association (BFFA) which is a social enterprise with the aims of promoting vocational skills and entrepreneurship to young Cameroonians. So far, (BFFA) has trained 675 youth where 70% of the trainees were Internally Displaced Persons. SHEY is also a volunteer coordinator representing Africa Youth Human Rights and Citizenship Development Initiative which is spearheading human rights education, SDGs and entrepreneurship in Africa. In 2016, he was the SDGs city Ambassador representing Opportunity Knock Your Door and he is a YALI Cohort 3 alumnus, (Regional Leadership Center Lagos) where he obtained a certificate of leadership in Business/Entrepreneurship in 2017. In 2018, he was awarded a certificate of recognition by Youth Human Rights and Citizenship Development Initiative and Youth for Human Rights International for promoting entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Development Goals in Cameroon. Efforts, determination, resilience, persistent, perseverance and working for a better world is my way. | PHARMAFAST | PHARMAFAST, Making Life Easy | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Cameroon | No | Research & Development | PHARMAFAST is a novelty innovation in Cameroon. The formulation of this App is consistent with the enterprise customer-first philosophy, where we are doing things not the way we like, but focusing on what the customer wants, where they want it and in the exact platform. Such a medium that brings pharmacies and hospitals closer to the public does not exist in Cameroon because users used the traditional method which is moving and searching for medicines from one pharmacy to another. | My solution addresses the difficulties in locating nearby pharmacies, little information about which pharmacy will carry a drug, once a drug is located, the cost of purchasing it is unpredictable and varies significantly in price from pharmacy to pharmacy and getting a pharmacy to call for a medication or pharmacies that operate until dawn is a difficult process. These have led to further health complications and many have lost their lives as they move from one drug store to another searching. | PHARMAFAST is an accurate and cost-effective Mobile Application where people will be able to locate nearby pharmacies, know the exact pharmacies where to buy their medicines at a given price, and pharmacies that open at late hours. PHARMAFAST`s value proposition is to bring pharmacies and hospitals closer to the public to serve more lives. With just a click on our smartphones, patients and users would be able to know all the necessary information be leaving to pharmacies and hospitals to get medications. Information such as distance from their present location to nearby pharmacies, know the exact drug shop that has the medicines they are looking for rather than wasting time and money moving from one pharmacy to another, and also know pharmacies that operate until dawn. According to the SDGs report found under Goal 3, ``6 million children die every year before their fifth birthday in sub-Saharan Africa``. We have the means to turn that around and make good health more than just a wish. Technological progress helps us address big global challenges such as creating jobs and becoming more energy efficient. The more connected we are, the more we can all benefit from the wisdom and contributions of people everywhere on earth and the more we invest in innovation the better we bridge the digital gap, promoting sustainable innovation which are all ways to facilitate sustainable development. | There are some similar Apps such as; pharmacies Douala and Med Index but have lots of drawbacks. Both Apps has only phone numbers of some pharmacies and are only accessible in Douala and Yaounde. Also, their language of instruction is only French and those that do not understand French cannot use it. I only discovered these App during my market survey, due to no publicity of the owners, the majority do not know of the App. To be able to compete with these two, our Unique Selling Proposition is to create an excessive advertisement for people to be aware of the existence of PHARMAFAST and bring hospitals/pharmacies closer to the masses, make PHARMAFAST available in all over the national territory and other African countries, would be available in different languages, and would equally have all the features to assist users to get all the useful information and directives. This implies that with PHARMAFAST Mobile App, there will be no language barrier, access to nearby pharmacies and hospitals with drugs available at a given price. | We have carried out a market survey in the country in hospitals, with health practitioners, pharmacies and also meet with individuals with a survey questionnaire to get the following information: if the problem is worth solving, know if PHARMAFAST will remedy the challenges, and know if Pharmapreneurs and hospitals would partner with us and if they will be able to pay a token for the services we will be rendering to them. The research results indicated that the problem exists and about 55% believed that PHARMAFAST will be a good solution to address these challenges if it is well developed and managed, and 40% of pharmacies have opted to partner with us. | Out of the ten regions found in Cameroon, we have carried out market research in six regions and the results obtained are very positive. December 2018 to May 2019: carried out market research in Littoral, Centre, West, South, East, Adamawa regions. Our five year`s vision is April till date: Market research ongoing in the remaining four regions. September 2019: Request for a patent right; October 2019: Build/ready of PHARMAFAST prototype; October to December 2019: Testing of the App and Media coverage and publicity all over the national territory; March 2020: Availability of legal documents; March 2020: Launching of PHARMAFAST Application; April 2020: signing of a partnership contract with pharmacies and hospitals; Introduces door to door delivery of medication to patients and users with the use of bikes and bicycles Continuation of excessive publicity in media houses, online, organize workshops to create awareness of the existence of PHAMAFAST. 2021: Marketing research and seek for partnership in different countries; 2022: Extension of the project to the CEMAC countries; 2023 to 2025: Introduces PHARMAFAST in Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Togo, Republic of Benin, Ivory Coast. We plan to recruit App developer, ICT technicians, marketers and communication officers, accountants, and administrative staffs, | PHARMAFAST short-terms, medium-terms and long-terms resources are: Financial resources to registering a business name, obtaining a business telephone line and printing business cards, publicity, patent rights and other costs to ease the functions of the enterprise. Human Resources: The success of PHARMAFAST is heavily reliant on the talent and strength of its employees. The hiring of experienced professionals with track records of excellence within their area of expertise ensures that the mission and goals of the company will be carried out efficiently and with competence. Educational Resources: One of the greatest things for our term is to gain as much education as possible. By understanding our competition and gaining an in-depth knowledge of the domain and enterprise, and I and my team will be better prepared to make smarter decisions regarding the direction of her firm. Physical Resources: This includes a proper workspace, working telephone line, adequate information systems, and effective marketing materials. Emotional Resources: To maintain our sanity as well as stay motivated, it is important we have a support team that can give us inspirations and guidance as needed such as partners, mentors, and coaches. | https://youtu.be/h_XhvbXlR7A | https://youtu.be/h_XhvbXlR7A | PHARMAFAST won the 5th edition of the Wimbum Community Grant of $1.500 as the best social idea for 2018. This competition which is organized by JERRY SARL Company is a yearly community award to encourage start-up social entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs and civil leaders of the Wimbum ethnic group of Cameroons. Our idea was also selected by Orange Venture and Entrepreneurship challenge 2019, we are still waiting for the final results. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
565 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Charlie | Grosso | Hello Future | www.hellofuture.io | Exec Director | Female | United States of America | China | Chinese | English | Our goal is to transform the refugee experience --- from being stuck, alone and forgotten to connected, empowered and hopeful. And we have found a way to do that. The promise of the Internet is that it will democratize information and access, thereby empowering billions of people worldwide. People can access information that will better their lives, create new economic opportunities, enhance their education and express themselves. Digital literacy is a linchpin in the fulfillment of this promise. Connectivity is essential. Refugees flee leaving everything behind but they will not leave without their mobile. UNHCR’s report “Connecting Refugees” confirms that refugees spent upwards of 20% of their resources data. Everyone is on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, yet they do not know how to do a Google search. They experience the Internet as observers and not participants. After a year-long research and in-field fact-finding on how refugees use the Internet, Hello Future’s innovative curriculum blends essential digital skills with proven solutions in education, entrepreneurship, and creativity. Our program is designed for adolescent refugees and implemented through a project-based learning environment for high impact outcomes. Our program is designed to be portable, adaptable and scalable. After two rounds of pilot implementations in Arbat Camp with Syrian refugee youth, we are seeing a significant increase in both digital literacy as well as confidence, motivation and positive views of the future. Knowledge is like a virus and we believe by targeting the youth, who are the most vulnerable and at-risk, we can deliver “patient zero.” By encouraging a peer-to-peer learning mindset we can empower the youth who have completed our program to pass along their learnings to the greater community. I would love to share our findings and our innovation with UN Solution Summit. | Charlie has 20 years’ experience as an entrepreneur. Founding her first business at the age of 20, she went on to be a successful advertising photographer working with Lexus, Nike, JC Penny, Comedy Central and more. As a creative director, her clients include Paramount, Variety and FX. In the last 10 years, she’s traveled and toiled in over 80 countries, working as a writer, photographer, filmmaker and consultant specializing in strategic management and program design for social enterprises, tech/media companies and NGOs. She is an Edmund Hilary Fellow, Kravis Moonshot House Fellow and part of + Acumen Community for Social Innovation. Hello Future culminates her lifelong passion for innovation and social justice. | Hello Future | Bridging the Education Gap | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Iraq | Yes | STEP (UK NGO) | Transition to Scale | We have completed two rounds of a pilot test in Arbat Camp, located outside of Sulaymaniah in Iraqi Kurdistan with Syrian refugee youth. We are seeing significant outcomes from our students, including a 98% increase in higher-order thinking skills (per Positive Youth Development matrix). Our core product, our curriculum is ready to be shared with more implementation partners, there are a few we are already in conversation with and start to scale for greater impact. | Protracted stay for refugees is complex and involves many interconnected issues. The current system looks at individual issue areas and solves for them in silos. We pioneered an innovative solution that will generate long-tail impact in areas of gender equality, economic development and improve education overall. | Design Thinking is a core aspect to our curriculum. It has a well established track record in technology start-ups, social-impact innovations and it is taught in over 200 Universities across the US. For this project the students were asked to name problems they would like to solve in their community. Our students named some major issues, including gender discrimination, child marraige and corruption. As they go through the Design Thinking process, they have to iterate their proposed solutions repeatedly while taking into account community feedback and insights. We ask the students to iterate until they arrive at a solution they as a group are capable of carrying out. In the beginning each group’s proposed solution required intervention from outside actors, NGO, government and etc. At the end of the process, they have deconstructed these major problems into smaller ones and come up with a solution that requires no outside actors. As a result, our students feel empowered to solve issues in their community and pursue their own personal dreams. We seek to reclaim a generation from the devastation of displacement, to empower them to become self-sufficient and self-realized, to alleviate the burden on host-countries and enable smoother integration. | The overlap in a Venn diagram is the heart of innovation. Hello Future’s innovation comes from a creative combination of proven solutions. Solutions and methodologies that are being taught at tech-incubators, prestigious fellowship programs, creativity, and entrepreneurship. All of it is grounded in basic digital literacy which is essential in this modern economy. We adopted from Waldorf Education, we borrowed from Montessori, we added the best of what we’ve experienced first hand as entrepreneurs, fellows and career communication specialists. Hello Future’s curriculum touches upon our student’s need for psychosocial support and trauma reduction while perhaps not knowing how to ask for these specific kinds of support. We teach the youth the basics of entrepreneurship as a means of empowerment and prepare them for additional economic development opportunities that is offered by other humanitarian aid organizations. All the while, we empower them with basic Web 2.0 skills that are essential for modern work. Throughout the program, we begin to train the youth in critical thinking, perhaps the most essential soft skill of all. The innovation is the who, refugee youth, and not the what or the how. | Our initial pilot (2017) was meant to be a proof of concept and market fit. The pilot had 100% retention rate and 80% completion rate. Students were asked to complete a series of projects, both as a group and individual throughout the 5-week program. In a post-pilot focus group, the majority of the students still use at least one application that was taught during the initial pilot. In 2019, we partnered with Columbia University’s SIPA program and developed a series of measurement and evaluation tools which we implemented for our next session, summer of 2019. In this most recent session, we had a 100% retention rate and 97% completion. In addition, as per Positive Youth Development matrix, in a self-reporting by the students of before and after, there is a 58% increase in confidence, 44% increase in motivation, 47% increase in positive view of the future and 98% increase in higher-order thinking skills. By the project-centric nature of the program, the students start from not having an email account or ever created a single slide presentation to being able to send professional emails with attachment and fluent in Google suite of productivity tools. We measure by a set of M&E tools created for us by Columbia University and we measure our student’s comprehension of the skills through their execution of each project. | Hello Future is ready to expand after the success of our 2017 & 2019 pilot. Currently, we are testing the efficacy of a longer light-touch follow-up session (8 weeks) and a peer-to-peer learning process. We would like to continue our commitment in Arbat Camp (Iraqi Kurdistan) while expanding into other areas in Iraq (Mosul), Iraqi Kurdistan (Erbil & Duhok), Lebanon and Jordan. There are two paths of scale and it can be done concurrently. In a B2C model we are the direct service provider for the youth. We would partner with another NGO whose already on the ground, thereby have the trust of the community as well as a facility, and Hello Future staff would deliver the curriculum to the youth. In a B2B model, our curriculum would be open source and we would train the implementing NGO’s staff in how to deliver our curriculum and they would carry out the instruction. We would continuously update the materials and provide instructor support as needed. By the end of 2019, both our primary curriculum and follow up session materials will be ready for a B2B roll out. By the end of 2020, we will have two additional NGO partners (either B2C or B2B) and closed $750,000 in funding, operating in three locations. | Funding and additional partnerships are most needed for Hello Future to scale and have considerable impact. Short term, funding is critical for the next round of implantation and expansion. In a A targeted and rapid expansion of program scaling to multiple countries, Hello Future would benefit greatly in the medium and long-term from a partnership with a large NGO (e.g. UNHCR, UNCIEF, USAID, IRC) with presence and, programming and funding already in place in already in these locations as well as funding. Such a partnership would allow us to reach a larger number of refugee adolescents with a broader impact, as well as expand the hiring of more local experts (instructors, teaching assistants, translators, etc.). | https://www.hellofuture.io/ https://www.arbatnews.com/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FcAr8tdFPw | Edmund Hillary Fellowship Kravis Moonshot Fellowship Semi-Finalist for Echoing Green 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
566 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Bryann | Avendaño | ScienteLab / Clubes de Ciencia Colombia | www.clubesdeciencia.co | Director STEM education | Male | Colombia | Colombia | English | Spanish | I lead “Clubes de Ciencia” Colombia. Our mission is to expand access to high quality science education and to inspire and mentor the future generations of scientists and innovators in Colombia through international scientific networks. We focus on STEM education for children in underprivileged zones of Colombia and peace building using scientific education, bringing scientists from abroad to Colombia and thus hoping to engage children into STEM and become future agents of transformation. We grew from 15 clubs in 2015 to 88 clubs in 2018 after I arrived from GCL and then we reached our 2019 funding goal. We are connected with Science Clubs International (Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Mexico). We impacted in Colombia alone more than 6,000 kids and 200 scientists. We have alliances with more than 300 institutions and work with more than 25 volunteers scientists. Absolutely, GCL gave me professional business skills that I never knew how useful they would be for my non-profit organization. Also, connections with colleagues from different countries in Latin America led to future partnerships and we have been able to link our organizations and have a collaborative impact on the region. I realized that all the personal work that United Nations, allowed me to bring new ideas to Colombia, push me to the next level of my professional goals and confront my fears in order to make them my motivational tool for advance. Finally, experience UN headquartes will me show up in a politically-based context and with others Social business enterpreuners. I am projecting many possibilities and new points of view that now encourage me to become more active in my country as an agent of change, as I consider, all the people at UNO are: from the academic and social sectors to the political one. UN Solutions Summit represented a great opportunity, not just for me but also for children and teachers of my country, of whom I am their voice. | I got tow Bachelor degrees in Science: Biology and Ecology, also, I studied a Posgraduate course about data science and modelling for natural resource management at CIRAD montpellier France and I earned a Posgraduate diploma at the famous global competitiveness leadership program at Georgetown University. PhD Candidate in Natural resources Engineering in New Zealand. Lead STEM education program for kids in rural areas and underprivileged zones of Colombia. Also, I am a Data Scientist, facilitator of community-based decision-making processes and leader in STEM education for Teach For All in Latin America. I have extensive experience in research, education and consultancy for rural development. Academic training duties include: data modelling, decision-making and scenario planning. My main interest lies data-based support and consultancy using participatory design thinking methodologies. Also, innovation for a diverse range of public policies like science-based business, rural education, and social appropriation of science and technology. | Science Clubs Colombia: Transformating Scientific minset since youth | We improve and promote the access to quality STEM education for children and youth in Colombia | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Paraguay and Spain | Yes | Global: Science Clubs International, UNESCO for Peace program. In Colombia: Teach For All, Department of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia Colciencias, National Learning Service SENA. | Sustainable Scale | My aim is to bridge scientist and a new generation of children and young people to encourage other children and teenagers to lead science projects and impact on their communities in rural areas of Colombia. It has been replicated from Mexico to Colombia, following Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Brazil. I am working as ambassador in Ecuador. Al in all, we impact almost 20,000 kids and young people in Latin America. | Latin America llack of the number of scientists, IT professionals, engineers and mathematicians because there is a gap between what young people think about a STEM carreer and what a STEM career is in the reality. In my country. STEM education is a need to be solved. This project will impact on: quality of Education, gender equity (encouraging STEM vocations on Girls and Women teenagers), environmental policy and natural resource management. | We adress the wrong minset about science and technology as a career using hands-on education. More than +9000 children and young people among unprivileged schools and rural communities in Colombia.They will be lead to be the next generation of rural researchers for natural resource management and also, guarantee that not only STEM education skills, but also social-emotional skills will be opened throughout the project. In the near future, they will be the agents of change for the communities and they will join me to a big program about rural STEM education, choosing science and technology careers and impacting in the large time lapse to the country as a development challenge: improve scientific vocations for rural development. We will change the minset about science and technology careers and we will encourage girls and unpriviledge children to see STEM careers as an option for them and their local communities; bringing real scientists and changing the latin america rol model like gansters or soccer players (In Colombia) for Nobel Prizers and Future scientists. Also close the gender gap in STEM. | There is no a biigest program as Clubes de Ciencia in Colombia. This is the first and major STEM initiative of the country and Latin America that use an unique education methodology that is hands-on, use project-based learning and combine those with a real scientific experience in which young people are in touch with real scientists and they are living together what science is. This program connect more than 300 organizations including Universities, Private companies and Public organizations. We lead a poweful idea, not just an organization: We want to lead the transformation of Colombia using science, technology and innovation, cultivating and mentoring the next generation of scientists of the region. | We grew from 15 clubs in 2015 to 88 clubs in 2018 and then we reached our 2019 funding goal. We are connected with Science Clubs International (Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Mexico). We impacted in Colombia alone more than 6,500 kids and 500 scientists. We have alliances with more than 300 institutions and work with more than 25 volunteers scientists. Our next milestone: in 2020 we want 200 clubs divided into regional, industry and tecnoacademias. Three innovative programs inside Clubes. Regional: Going to the boundaries of the country, Amazonas and Guajira. Industry: using adapted methodologies for working in a club inside the industry and Tecnoacademias; linking our program with tertiary education. | Four new countries in South America: Argentina, Ecuador, Chie and Uruguay. Three countries in Central America: Guatemala, Honduras and Salvador. Three innovative programs inside Clubes. Regional: Going to the boundaries of the country, Amazonas and Guajira. Industry: using adapted methodologies for working in a club inside the industry and Tecnoacademias; linking our program with tertiary education. +9000 students impacted in Colombia and +600 scientists working with us. | Connect with STEM sector and STEM education initiatives to potentialize the impact. Connnect with global networks who are working on Education programs. United Nations recognize as a UN solution. | www.clubesdeciencia.co www.scientelab.org www.delabalcampo.org | Videos: https://www.colciencias.gov.co/sala_de_prensa/videos/clubes-ciencia-2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPTjENBoR-w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSk-OjekIc4 More in our YouTube Channel: Clubes de Ciencia Colombia | UNESCO for peace recognition Georgetown University - Global competitiveness leadership program project seal Innovative education congress Key Note Speakers Girls in STEM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
567 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chinenye Justin | Nwaogwugwu | Macjames Global Resources Limited | https://macjamesglobal.com/ | Managing Director/Innovator | male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am motivated to present my solution, SaferEx - Multiaction Water Purifier, at the Solutions Summit to showcase my innovative solution, attract partners/investors, and make more global impacts in providing clean water and sanitation (SDG6), especially in Africa and developing countries. In Nigeria,59,500 children under 5 die yearly due to poor water and sanitation. 59 million people do not have clean water(WaterAid Nigeria). Contaminated water can transmit diseases such diarrhoea, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and polio. Some 842,000 people are estimated to die each year from diarrhoea as a result of unsafe drinking-water, sanitation, and hand hygiene, and yet the deaths of 361,000 children aged under 5 years could be avoided each year if the risk factors were addressed (WHO). Our solution, SaferEx, are being used in Nigeria, Botswana, and South Africa. In the last five years, over 15,000 users who face the problems of waterborne diseases (typhoid fever, diarrhea, etc) and salt-activated sicknesses (high blood pressure, hypertension, etc) from intake of salty borehole water are healthy for their daily jobs and death from these diseases/sicknesses are reduced. Technical Data Sheet (TDS) of SaferEx link: https://macjamesglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/TDS-for-SaferEx-Multiaction-Water-Purifier.pdf and Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS): https://macjamesglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/MSDS-for-SaferEx-Multiaction-Water-Purifier.pdf In Botswana, We have signed partnership agreement with Stubhub (Pty) Limited of Plot 15512, Broadhurst, Gaborone, Botswana and through them, the Botswana Water Utilities Corporation (WUC) tested SaferEx with river water in different locations, the tests and analysis confirmation results were successful. Preliminary approval by WUC have been given after initial tests results and the final approval is expected after factory visits and international certification. We have jointly incorporated a company, Macjames Stubhub (Pty) Solutions Ltd in Botswana for easy manufacturing and supplies to WUC, the Mines, Southern African Development Community (SADC) markets, and to reduce logistics costs. In South Africa, O3 Water Solution (Pty) Limited, 86 Pitzer Road, Glen Austin, Midrand, South Africa, imported SaferEx for purification of Benoni Vlei water (season pond) in Midrand, South Africa for a project involving treating the turbid water - to disinfect,coagulate,sediment and clarify, ""in a single application and unit process"". | I am Chinenye Justin Nwaogwugwu, a registered Chemical Engineer by Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) and a member of Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE). I had my B.Eng degree in Chemical Engineering from Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria. An advanced trained Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) personnel by Nigerian Institute of Safety Professionals (NISP). I received entrepreneurship and innovation management training from Doug Richard's School for Startups, London; PAN Atlantic University/Enterprise Development Centre, Nigeria; Source Institute, United Kingdom, and Tony Elumelu Foundation, Nigeria, etc. I have single-handedly and jointly researched, developed and manufactured over 60 chemical products being used in water treatment, households, institutions, farms, oilfields, and other industries from 2003 to date with award-winning innovations and recognition in Nigeria, Africa, UK and USA. The Managing Director/Founder of Macjames Global Resources Ltd and Macjames Ikiomoye Technologies Ltd, (http://www.macjamesglobal.com) and Macjames Stubhub (Pty) Solutions Ltd, Botswana. I have over fifteen years practical experience in research and development, manufacturing, Water treatment, Environmental services, Client Services, etc, These include Manager level at Zinga Nigeria (a subsidiary of Zingametall, Belguim), Teesquare Limited, Bisty Nigeria Ltd, Oil& Industrial Services Limited (OIS), etc I have lectured and trained over 12,000 professionals and tertiary institution students in various fields of my profession. | SaferEx - Multiaction Water Purifier | SaferEx purifies unsafe borehole/ well/containerized water in a single application and unit process; disinfects, coagulates, sediments and clarifies. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Nigeria, Botswana and South Africa. We intend to expand to other subsaharan African Countries. | Yes | O3 Water Solutions (Pty) Limited, SA,; Subhub (Pty) Limited, Botswana; Macjames Stubhub Solutions (Pty) Limited, Botswana | Scaling | Our solution is in the scaling stage of innovation because we have concluded User Experience (UX) tests and iterations for improvements, and started implementation in three countries; Nigeria, Botswana and South Africa where the applications have been successful. | In Nigeria, 59,500 children under 5 die yearly due to poor water and sanitation. Globally, 842,000 people die annually from diseases caused by unsafe water and sanitation(WHO) SaferEx - Multi-action Water Purifier in a single application and unit process by mixing, removes the contaminants to make the water safe by disinfection, coagulation, sedimentation, clarification, and removing heavy metals, salts, colour, odour, taste, Fluoride, Iron, etc using containers or treatment plant. | SaferEx is a pure liquid that purifies unsafe borehole/well/containerized water by mainly physical and chemical means. It can be used in; (A) Simple water containers/tanks/vessels for household and small-scale water purification (B) Installed water treatment plant for household and large scale municipal water treatment. When SaferEx is mixed with the unsafe water in a tank (eg. 5ml SaferEx to 20 Litres unsafe water); (1). It disinfects,killing the disease-causing organisms (pathogens) in the unsafe water. (2). It coagulates organic and inorganic contaminants in the water. (3). It sediments gathered contaminants;suspended particles,metals (Iron,Manganese,etc), salts and other impurities to the container bottom (4). It clarifies the water;removing colour,odour,taste and impurities (5). It Keeps the contaminants at the container bottom for easy filtration/decantation (6). The filtered/decanted safe water is stored for use/distribution (8). The bottom of contaminants,mainly in their natural states,are disposed of It is affordable and easy to use by simple instructions. It reduces the costs of treating water and facilities maintenance by at 35% by reducing unit processes/chemicals,clogging,scales,among others as a pure multi-action liquid. Our long term vision for global impact include partnerships and collaborations with international humanitarian and non-profit organizations (Unicef, USAID, etc) to implement our solution in many parts of the world where it is needed. | Our Innovation, SaferEx is a multi-action liquid solution that purifies unsafe borehole/well/containerized water ""in a single application and unit process"" by disinfection/killing pathogens, coagulation, sedimentation, and clarification ; removing colour, odour, taste, Iron, Fluoride, Nitrate, etc using available buckets/containers/tanks or water treatment plant to mix with the unsafe water in given ratio. The SaferEx purified water meets World Health Organization (WHO) standard for safe water. Our competitors include; (1). Waterguard, WaterCare, Hypo/Bleach, and their likes (Sodium Hypochlorite water disinfectant) - which only disinfects the unsafe water. (2). Makers of Aluminum Sulphate (Alum) flakes - which coagulates and sediments only particles and impurities. (3). Make of Various Filters - which remove impurities/particles of specific sizes or used only for small scale water purification. (4). Mini Water treatment plant - which is expensive, involves many stage processes and treatment chemicals and therefore affordable by the rich. SaferEx is affordable and easy to use by simple instructions. It reduces the costs of treating water and facilities maintenance by about 35% by reducing unit processes/chemicals, clogging, pipe scaling, among others as a pure multi-action liquid. SaferEx can be used in small, medium and large-scale water treatment. | SaferEx Innovation use in Nigeria, Botswana, and South Africa. In Nigeria, over 15,000 users who face the problems of waterborne diseases (typhoid fever, diarrhea, etc) and salt-activated sicknesses (high blood pressure, hypertension, etc) from intake of salty borehole water are healthy for their daily jobs and deaths from these diseases/sicknesses eliminated. Over 30 corporate organizations have used SaferEx. Tests and treatment of unsafe borehole water treatment with SaferEx in some states in Nigeria with highly contaminated ground water/borehole/well water which include Lagos, Rivers, Kano, Ebonyi, etc in collaboration with Nigerian Federal Ministry of Water Resources who has performed tests in the different locations and approval in progress. We have partnered with Stubhub (Pty) Limited of Botswana. The Botswana Water Utilities Corporation had performed tests with SaferEx on different River water and given preliminary approval pending factory visits. We jointly incorporated Macjames Stubhub Solutions (Pty) Ltd, Botswana, for easy manufacturing and supplies to WUC, the Mines, Southern African Development Community (SADC) markets, and to reduce logistics costs. In South Africa, O3 Water Solution (Pty) Limited, Midrand, South Africa, imported SaferEx and used for purification of Benoni Vlei water, to disinfect, coagulate, sediment and clarify. | Plans to increase market share; (1). Using increased internet/electronic media to reach more of our target customers/partners in Nigeria/Africa by the end of 2018. (2). Partnering with more distributors and wholesalers in Nigeria and Africa. (3). Reaching out to more financial investors to expand and meet demands 2018 - 2022. (4). Expanding our factory in Nigeria as sustainable demand grows (5). To give franchises to viable companies in other African countries from 2019. (6). Getting manufacturing contracts from humanitarian organizations, etc (7). Getting all the required international certifications (NSF International, ISO, etc) to be able implement our solution in the countries. Our solution are currently being implemented in Nigeria, Botswana and South Africa. We intend to implement it in Kenya, and most countries in Southern African Development Community (SADC), East African Community (EAC) and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) in the long term through partnerships and franchises. For our newly incorporated Company , Macjames Stubhub Solutions (Pty) Ltd, we intend to recruit 5 permanent staff and 5 contract staff for a start. We will partner with non-governmental and humanitarian organizations, distributors, etc, to reach more people with unsafe water challenges in Nigeria, Botswana, South Africa, kenya, in the medium term, and other ECOWAS and COMESA countries in the long term. | (1). Using inexpensive channels to send our innovation to target partners/customers for market awareness and field trials followed by marketing and distribution agents in such African countries. (2). Partnerships: getting and partnering with distributors and wholesalers in such African Countries for marketing, promotions and distributions and sales to retailers and consumers. (3). Establishing factories in such countries as sustainable demand grows, and possibly giving franchises to viable companies/partners. (4). Getting sponsors for manufacture-for-donation orders from relevant humanitarian organizations, Government agencies, etc for the needy and those in emergency situations in such countries. | (1). Company website: https://www.macjamesglobal.com (2). SaferEx Technical Data Sheet link: https://macjamesglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/TDS-for-SaferEx-Multiaction-Water-Purifier.pdf (3). SaferEx Material Data Sheet Link: https://macjamesglobal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/MSDS-for-SaferEx-Multiaction-Water-Purifier.pdf (4). SaferEx factory and demonstration video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jz1o0IOhO8 (5). SaferEx demonstration video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arJsUoh4LNI&t=335s | (1). Presentation link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmBSChPetIY&t=17s (2). SaferEx demonstration video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arJsUoh4LNI&t=335s (3). Royal Academy of Engineering, UK written interview Link: https://www.raeng.org.uk/grants-and-prizes/international-research-and-collaborations/africa-prize/news-and-updates/january-2018 | (1). Federal Government of Nigeria Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria programme 2012 (Winner). (2). Tony Elumelu Foundation 2016 (Winner). (3). Unilever Foundry Ideas ""Clean Water Challenge"" Global competition 2016 (Winner) Link: https://cleanwaterchallenge.ideas.unilever.com/Page/Home) (4). Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation by Royal Academy of Engineering, UK 2014/2015.(Among 12 semi finalists) (5).Nigerian Growth and Employment (GEM) Project by World Bank and Partners (Winner) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
568 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Noella | Ekezie | Ellae Central | https://ellaecentral.com/home-new/ | Co-founder | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Addressing a global challenge such as youth employment requires a global platform. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), the youth unemployment rate in Africa is expected to exceed 30% in 2019, and young people will continue to be 3.5 times more likely than adults to be unemployed The potential is however enormous, young people are motivated but without fields of action. At my company, we recognize that investing in these youth by developing their creative and digital skills is a win-win strategy: It addresses the skills gap by increasing young people's employability, creating quality jobs, and sparking innovation across all sectors in the digital economy. We are therefore honored to have the opportunity to leverage a global platform such as the UN Solutions Summit to propagate our vision and solution to this issue. | Noella Ekezie is the Founder & Creative Director at Ellae, the foremost and award-winning integrated creative, brand, digital and marketing communications agency in Lagos, Nigeria. At Ellae, her design and brand building expertise have seen her execute projects for both Fortune 500 companies and challenger brands including organizations such as the USAID, BASF Germany, the Nike Foundation, Google Inc, Exxon Mobil, Cognizant, Citi Bank, Union Bank, Sterling Bank, Keystone Bank, Paga, Wakanow and many others. Noella has succeeded in building a leading integrated agency with world-class standard where she applies a strategic approach involving in-depth research and insight analysis, and idea conceptualization in creating solutions to client’s needs. Noella schooled at the prestigious Parsons School of Design, New York and also at the Harvard Business School, Boston. She was recently appointed a grand jury member in the Design category at the 2018 edition of the Lisbon Advertising Festival, Portugal. She has also received global recognition and awards for groundbreaking work, including Gold and Silver awards at the 2016, 2017 and 2018 editions of the annual Transform Brand Awards Middle East and North Africa (MENA) held in Dubai, UAE. Additionally, she has been listed as one of Nigeria's Most Inspirational Women by The Guardian. | Ellae Central | Subsidized Online Creative Education for Africans. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Currently in Nigeria and intended for all countries across Africa | No | Proof of Concept | We are still at the proof of concept phase due to limited funding. We have been self-funded from inception and have authored 17 dynamic courses on Graphic Design, Illustration, Motion Graphics and 3D Design and are currently piloting in private beta to the hundreds of designers in our immediate design community. We intend to upgrade the website to more scalable technology and update its feature set based on the feedback once we raise capital. | Sub-Saharan Africa is a hotspot of youth unemployment – extreme youth bulge demographic dynamics (Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to have the world’s fastest population growth between now and 2050 and the highest youth population) are met with only slow growth in formal employment. We recognized this problem from the beginning and decided to create a startup that could help improve the lives of young people in Africa through digital skills education. | Ellae Central is an online education platform where a new generation of creative and digital professionals will be trained to develop and refine creative and digital skills such as graphic design, digital illustration, 3D modeling and motion graphics with a first-mover advantage in the Sub-Saharan African market. Unlike large platforms such as Udemy and Lynda.com, Ellae Central’s highly curated courses are project-based, adding pedagogical value and giving students the opportunity to build portfolios as they learn. Our main purpose is to offer accessible high impact creative and digital education to everyone who has the desire to improve personally and professionally and in the long term make digital education affordable and accessible to audiences that otherwise have no options in the market. | Ellae Central has a first-mover advantage in the Sub-Saharan African market as an online educational technology platform created solely for creative and digital skills Unlike large platforms such as Lynda.com, Udacity, Udemy, Skillshare and Youtube, Ellae Central offers highly curated courses which are project-based, adding pedagogical value and giving students the opportunity to build portfolios as they learn. Other video-sharing platforms like Youtube have an extensive reach however lack the curated course component and offer no certifications or guided pathways to building a digital career We also have a startup mind: focused on accelerated growth and we target low/middle class populations. Furthermore, we focus on educational results; on our platform, there is e a One-on-One virtual mentorship component for users leading to accelerated growth in their chosen fields. Our Careers component offers students the ability to specialize in a particular area, develop their own career paths and leave fully equipped with the skills to succeed in the real world. Finally, our courses are developed by the best industry professionals, and after completion of a course, all students receive a certificate. We also intend to integrate a hiring partners program, where we will develop agreements with top creative agencies in the region, in order to offer job placement opportunities to our top students. | We have authored 17 dynamic courses on Graphic Design, Illustration, Motion Graphics and 3D Design and are currently piloting in private beta to various market segments and hundreds of designers in our immediate design community. We intend to upgrade the website to more scalable technology and update its feature set based on the feedback. Our key performance indicators include feedback from our beta testers and student success to ensure the accurate development of the chosen skill. | The future success of the African continent lies to a large degree in its ability to hone the skills and talents of its ever-growing youth population and our mission is to drive this educational change and progress. We are currently beta-testing our platform and expect a full-fledged rollout before the end of the year. In the next year, we intend to raise $250,000 in seed equity investment and scale to $30,000 in monthly revenue, a 13 people team, +100 published courses, +100k users and expand our coverage to other African countries as the platform matures. We also intend to (1) Recruit a New Education team; in charge of developing Ellae Central´s Methodology, based on practical training to accurately develop in-demand skills. (2) Deploy internal course productions, we will take control over the production of courses (3) Launch iOS and Android apps so students are able to watch their classes on the go, and download for viewing without a wifi connection. In 2 years we have a goal of $1m in revenue and 400k students. | Short-term: Acceleration and access to global platforms like the UN Solutions platform to develop a sustainable growth engine and enhance the vision to a more global approach. Mid-term: Raise a seed round of $250,000 to expand our team, publish courses and drive marketing as a high priority. Long-term: $500,000 to scale platform to other African countries, and reach our goal of $1m in revenue in 2 years. | https://bit.ly/2ZwoJj9, https://ellaecentral.com/home-new/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53m0FVd7PTE, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDRcDGUcUaos8InvEUlGJAQ/videos (my Youtube channel) | Grand Jury Member in the Design Category, Lisbon International Advertising Festival - Sep 2018 Recipient, Nigeria's 100 Most Inspirational Women, The Guardian - Aug 2018 Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards in Best Visual Identity at the Transform Awards, Dubai - 2016, 2017 and 2018 Mentor, the Cherie Blair Foundation Mentor, For Creative Girls Mentor, the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
569 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jane | Fisher | Monash University, Australia | https://www.monash.edu/ | Head of Global and Women's Health | Female | Australia | Australia | English | Learning Clubs is a world-first cluster-randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention addressing women’s physical and mental health, their parenting, infant health and development, and gender-based violence and empowerment in a resource-constrained setting. Our project is to improve women’s health, infant’s health and development in resource-constrained settings by providing stage-specific essential information through both physical and online parenting programs. | Jane Fisher, Professor of Global Health, is Director of Global and Women’s Health and Head, Division of Social Sciences in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She is an academic Clinical and Health Psychologist with longstanding interests in the social determinants of health, and healthcare participation. Her research has focused on gender-based risks to mental health and psychological functioning from adolescence to mid-life, in particular related to fertility, conception, pregnancy, the perinatal period and chronic non-communicable diseases; and on parenting capabilities and early childhood development in low- and high-income settings. She has completed major epidemiological studies in clinical and community settings in Australia, Vietnam and Nepal, nationally funded intervention trials, and has supervised more than 50 research higher degree and postgraduate coursework candidates to completion. She is an expert technical advisor to international agencies including the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund. | Learning Clubs for the first 1000 days | Learning Clubs to improve maternal and infant health and infant development in rural Vietnam | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | The Learning Club project has been tested and then implemented in rural Vietnam. It will be recommended to replicate in low- and middle-income countries. | Yes | Research and Training Center for Community Development, Vietnam | Transition to Scale | Based on our local evidence in Vietnam, in 2013, we conducted a pilot study of the Learning Clubs Innovation (Phase 1) which was found to be acceptable, feasible and positive impact on maternal common mental disorders, and child’s development. In 2016, we implemented a cluster randomised controlled trial: Learning Clubs for Women’s Health and Infant Health and Development to test the effectiveness of the Learning Clubs Innovation and a business plan (phase 2). | Pregnant women in resource-constrained settings, especially Vietnam experience malnutrition, poverty, gender-based violence, depression & anxiety and inadequate access to health care and social protection. These risks lead to adverse maternal outcomes. The preterm birth rate is double that in high-income countries. Babies exposed in-utero or early life to these risks have significant decrements in cognitive, motor and social-emotional development, setting them on poor trajectories for life. | The Learning Clubs intervention is a structured programme that combines perinatal stage-specific essential information, learning activities and social support in accessible facilitated community-based groups of women. The intervention comprises 20 educational modules, delivered in face-to-face groups at a community centre and in one home visit from mid-pregnancy until the end of the first postpartum year. The evidence-informed content has been drawn from interventions to address individual risks: maternal nutrition, mental health or parenting capabilities, infant health and/or development or gender-based violence and empowerment which have been tested in RCTs in other resource-constrained settings and supplemented by our deep knowledge of local risk factors and health and social protection systems to ensure cultural sensitivity and appropriateness. All content has been checked for alignment with current national perinatal programmes in Vietnam by the Maternal and Child Health Department of the Ministry of Health. As a whole, the intervention will meet the five pillars recommended by the WHO for programmes to improve maternal and child health and address the Goal 3, 4, 5 of the SDGs. The project will provide robust evidence to inform national, regional and international policies and practices to optimise the health of the poorest women and the early development of their children. | This is to our knowledge the first trial to address eight risks to the early development of children in a multicomponent intervention in a resource-constrained setting. It places an explicit focus on addressing the health and psychological needs of women who are pregnant or providing primary care for infants and young children and the principle that consideration of women’s needs and rights requires respectful prioritisation in endeavours to improve the growth and health of children. In this intervention, the benefits to women and their children of freedom from interpersonal violence, valuing of unpaid work and gender empowerment are addressed directly. The intervention is informed by comprehensive local evidence, a long-standing international collaboration among a multidisciplinary group of bicultural investigators and detailed cross-national protocols for implementation and governance. It has been developed in close collaboration with potential users and stakeholders. Feasibility, acceptability and preliminary evidence of impact have been established in pilot-testing. The intervention and the trial have the support of the national Ministry of Health and the Ha Nam Provincial Department of Health in Vietnam and the approval of all local auspicing authorities. | Target Beneficiaries: The project has been delivered to around 600 pregnant women and their partners and family members in 42 rural communes in Vietnam with the participation rate of nearly 90%. The project also trained 126 community-based facilitators and 26 supervisors and developed three family manuals and four facilitator guidelines. Nearly 40 posters and 30 DVD clips were produced for the operation of the Learning Club. Business model: We have delivered the intervention to three channels. First, there have been nearly 100 urban families using our face-to-face package. Second, we have introduced the online parenting program to industrial zones with 2 million female workers with a co-pay method. Third, several non-government organisations have been contacted to buy the whole package of both implementation and research materials. | Research purpose: • The Learning Club cluster randomized controlled trial will be completed by 2020 • Key messages of the intervention will be integrated into existing national programs in Vietnam since 2025 • Advocacy activities for replication in other low- and middle-income countries from 2022 will be conducted Business model: Achieved by 2021 • The face-to-face service will be provided to 150 urban families • The online parenting program will be sold to at least one factory which has around 2000 women • The whole package will be sold to two international non-government organizations Human resource: By 2020 • One sale and marketing manager, one sale staff will be recruited, • One designing company will be hired | For a sustainable purpose, the project will be self-sustained using the three strategies of the business model. The project will be paid by urban families, and co-paid by factory workers. For equity purpose, women who are poor will be provided the key messages of the project through the free maternal and child health program of the Vietnam Ministry of Health. In addition, non-government organizations will also contribute to implement this project in disadvantaged areas. | http://rtccd.org.vn/en/learning-clubs-for-womens-health-and-infant-development-phase-ii/ | http://rtccd.org.vn/en/learning-clubs-for-womens-health-and-infant-development-phase-ii/ | Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) – Saving Brains Initiative (2013) Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (2015) Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) – Transition to Scale (2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
570 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Vali | Einbeigi | Not have | Not have | Not have | Male | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | Iran (Islamic Republic of) | English | Better flying. | I am vali einbeigi.I am from iran. I live in bojnurd city.I study medical science, but I attempt to trying engineering. And I have an innovation now .that can do flying better. | The eagle of the sky | Better flying | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Global.iran | No | Ideation | Because I dont make it yet. | Better in balanc.that need small environment | It work truly. | In dynamic | Not | Global | I want to make my innovation engineering. | R | D | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
571 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Cynthia | English | Global Scribes: Youth Uniting Nations® | www.globalscribes.org | Founder I CEO | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Motivation: Privileged Visibility. Increased exposure to 193 nations. Credibility. Exposure to Ambassadors, Ministers of Human Development, Education and Cybersecurity, international Philanthropists, global organizations, and people specifically passionate in setting our global youth–our future stewards of humanity and our planet–up for success, is important to scale Global Scribes: Youth Uniting Nations® (GSYUN). I believe the UN Solutions Summit can shine a light on our solution which is building a sustainable network of our future household, community, corporate, country and global leaders. Future decision-makers who will listen to one another, compromise and drive our SDG goals for the benefit of 'we, not me'. GSYUN engages all connected youth, ages 8 - 25, regardless of gender, intelligence, socio-demographics, physical attributes and helps to increase the self-empowerment and self-efficacy of our constituents through positive youth development. To turn the tide of global chaos, re-entrenchment, and social isolation, to help create a safer world, a more equitable world, and a world filled with reachable possibility for all, we are using the power of technology for positive youth impact. Scribers World™️(SW™️) is a ‘Creative Hub for Global Youth’ that engages stakeholders across the ecosystem of educational and professional development. It is an EdTech platform that empowers our global youth (Scribers) through intelligent connectivity, encouraging them to take charge of their own learning and Create. Connect. Collaborate. across borders - to become Youth Uniting Nations®. To date with no formal marketing, we have touched the lives of 2000+ youth from 45+ countries. Now we need support to build Scribers World™️ our for youth, by youth App & web portal to scale for youth from every country in the world. To share the words of one of our Scriberss: ‘Global Scribes gives us a platform to interact with other people our age from all around the world. Not in many parts of the world do we see people of different cultures and nationalities communicate with each other. Global Scribes breaks this stereotype. We all have something to contribute. One may be a storyteller. Another may be an inventor. Some may be artists and other mathematicians. When we work together, we sure can make a change. Individually we are a drop but together we are an ocean. We must work together to spread love and peace’ – Keya, Scriber from UAE | Cynthia English is the Founder of Global Scribes, Inc which fosters a unique mission of catapulting past rhetoric, politics, religion, and socio-demographic segregation to allow ALL youth to be Youth Uniting Nations® through global friendships and shared virtual inter-cultural experiences. Cynthia first embraced the fusion of Technology and Humanity in 1998, creating ‘great dates’, a reality television show, virtual interaction, & merchandising platform picked up by the Hallmark Channel. She graduated from The Marshall School, University of Southern California, attended Aspen Writers Conference, Oxford University's School of Continuing Education for Creative Writing, and Duke University’s Executive Leadership for NonProfits. She has been a speaker at the International Education Conference–NAFSA–on Technology & Humanity, and at iEarn's International Conference & Youth Summit 2017 in Morocco. Honored as one of 150 GES+ 2016 & 2017 global entrepreneurs selected by the White House & State Department, Cynthia’s life of adventure, challenged by change, continues to evolve her passion for people & world cultures as she explores cultural interchange in every corner of the globe. Trekking solo across El Camino, in an about-face from her high-glamour fashion roots, she learned how to survive with one change of clothing, the shoes on her feet (and her pink flip-flops), thus opening doors to an entirely new world of adventure brimming with freedom, more privilege, and everyday miracles. Today, she devotes her life to open doors of possibility for all youth through Scribers World™️. | SCRIBERS WORLD™️ - Create. Connect. Collaborate. | Youth Uniting Nations® | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | GSYUN is a virtual solution, our goal is to reach youth in every country of the world. | Yes | Deutsche Telekom, SAP Next Gen, Global Citizens Association, global schools | Transition to Scale | Scribers 1/ have left and asked to return, 2/ bring their own family and friends onboard, 3/ have taken the initiative to launch GS Clubs in their schools, 4/ have taken ownership, 5/ Teenagers have been with GSYUN for 2 - 3 years, 6/ we cannot accommodate the numbers of schools, organizations, and individuals asking to join. We are ready to scale, but we need our virtual private platform SW™️ built (thus transition) to accommodate cyber-secure growth with AI and key back-end elements. | A divided world with global re-entrenchment; Social Isolation among global youth; Employment skillsets Our leaders of tomorrow need to keep pace with technological advancement & acquire needed skillsets for employment: learn adaptability, cross-cultural understanding, cultivate critical thinking, practical, management and leadership skills through experiential learning, and the ability to recognize opportunities for innovation in the face of challenges–qualities potential employers rarely find. | Through communication–interaction; Through interaction–knowledge; Through knowledge–understanding; Understanding illuminates and allows us to create a closer world. Scribers participate in five steps & ‘Global Chatstream’ to Create. Connect. Collaborate.: Step 1: Write. In English the best you can & In your native language. Monthly GS Spark word. Express your creativity in prose, poetry, music lyrics, script. Read to discover similarities & differences; Step 2: Selfie: Your words, Your voice: Bring to life your Step 1 contribution. A person behind the black & white text; Step 3: The Life I Lead. 3 - 7-minute film. Who are you? A human being, being human–just like me; Step 4: GSYUN Teams: discover your passions, talents, interests, & Scribers who share them, while virtually bringing to life a real project in alignment with one or more of the SDG goals; Step 5: Core Call: Scriber led weekly video chat, strengthening bonds in real-time communication Special Opportunities: film festival submissions; interviewing global professionals; FAAF interviews; TEDx; partner youth roundtables; Junior Boards; Hackathons... Long-term Vision & Global Impact: decreased social isolation; employable youth; equality; cross-border job opportunities; mitigating negative consequences of migration; connected, aware & actualized global citizens who stand together for humanity and our planet; communicate, listen to one another, compromise in the face of challenges; think 'we' vs 'me'–peacebuilders | Unique Features: youth-led “space of possibility” & community on&off the tech grid; Youth-Driven: designed with Scriber ideas, desires, demands; Scribers contribute first-hand to maintaining a safe, fun!, trusted environment; self-and-backend regulated community; youth-only forum for engagement and learning; Scriber created golden rules and values; experiential learning; safe, trusted environment; discover personal talents and passions. Scribers virtually collaborate, innovate and support one another one-to-one, and one with many; opportunity to create life-long relationships; No end date–stay connected for life–SW™️ alumni in Scriberati Salon(chatroom); be GS Ambassadors representing global peers in interviews (Daniel Libeskind), as youth board members (GEN U), on-stage (TEDx), publish books, submit to festivals (Blue Ocean Film Festival Honourable Mention); ; Access: integrating AI power, ALL connected 8 - 25-year-olds may be Scribers; The Program provides a global interactive environment with no politics, religion, or segregation; opportunities for youth to identify similarities, learn from diversity, believe in equality, become conscious global citizens; design innovative cross-border community solutions through constructive interaction; Collaboration across public, private and corporate sectors creating data-driven programs and solutions. Scribers World™ leverages the power of entertainment & cutting-edge technology embedding Edtech and communication tools for good. | Five years in, 2,000+ Scribers from 45+ countries in our community, some with 3+ years of personal testimonials, with academic research behind us, approval by Ministries of Education and Cybersecurity, combined with the inability to accommodate the youth, schools and organizations who wish to join or bring their constituents onboard because of our current lack of bandwidth. With an almost natural 50/50 female/male constituency, with female and male GSYUN Team Leaders, and with growth happening despite our lack of capacity, our solution for an innovative global community is working. GSYUN is driven by our Scribers merging their aspirations for SW™️ allowing them to take ownership, responsibility, & pride in their own platform. The prototype for the App, the back-end architecture, and the on-the-ground strategy for roll-out is complete now we need the resources to build, launch, and scale. Technology for Positive Youth Impact. Prepared in collaboration with The University of Maryland’s START program, our Lit Review concluded 'GSYUN prepares their constituency to be conscious global citizens, ready to influence society for the better', reporting decreased feelings of vulnerability and social isolation and increased self-efficacy. With SW™️ up and running, 4 pinpointed KPI's namely: self-efficacy (assets), beliefs in the future (assets), prosocial involvement (enabling environment), and youth engagement (contribution) will be measured. Happy & engaged Scribers equal success. | Current: 2000+ Scribers in 45 countries 1 Year: 250,000 Scribers 100 countries recruit 20 staff members 3 Years: 5,000,000 Scribers in 160 countries recruit 7 staff members 5 Years: 8,000,000 Scribers goaled to reach every country Goals 1/ Year 1 Raise $1.2 million USD necessary to build, launch, and scale Scribers World™️; 2/ select global partners & collaborators; 3/ Scale includes connecting deaf, blind, disabled, marginalized, hospitalized, refugees and the 'unconnected'; 4/ Scribers create and measure their GS Team project goals against the success of the SDGs; 5/ Via KPI metrics see social isolation/stress/vulnerability in youth decline; 6/ Streamline GSYUN Business to Education to Business: With GSYUN future trend data, Business partners/collaborators may aid Education partners strategically plan their curriculum knowing skill-sets needed by students for employment; 7/ Sponsors Job Board; 8/ Global Summits. Step 6. The tactile experience. Scribers together. Milestone? Knowing when Josh (now 9) is a global leader steeled to win the rights of XXX for his country regardless of the consequences to others, once in situ, is reviewing his airtight strategy when he casually looks above the designator plates of USA, Russia, China, India...suddenly recognizing Scriber friends–""Archana! Pedro! Sven! Lilly!"" Stepping to the podium he remembers 'we, not me' and shifts his goal to one of compromise and a 'win' for all. Youth Uniting Nations® That is GSYUN success. | Our current #1 need: $1.2mm the estimated cost to build, launch, and begin scale. Although the build cost of SW™️ is $275,000, we need to have the team and resources in place to launch and begin scale. Finding trusted global partners and philanthropists willing to invest for a long-term ROI in a pioneering platform using technology (which we believe is the 'teddy bear' of today’s younger generations and going nowhere) as the springboard and foundation, while embracing our 'for youth, by youth' ethos without wanting to take control takes extensive networks, time, and possibly resources we don't currently have. We need the network to raise the money. We need to build Scribers World™️. 3-years total need: $8.6mm. Growth to 5million Scribers will include robust networks of Ministries of Education and schools; early accelerated growth we are not anticipating could affect our budget/cost structure, namely cloud costs; slower growth than anticipated could delay revenue-driving metrics; as re-entrenchment plays out, progressive cultural values (regarding gender, girls/social-demographic education, and technology accessibility) in certain countries could stall or reverse; depending upon our rate of acceptance and saturation we might face language barriers; and we may also face unforeseen pivot points as governing of the internet takes on legislation and our infrastructure framework is challenged by the need of other professional skillsets to keep GSYUN in compliance. | https://www.globalscribes.org , https://youtu.be/Osm4MeuQpyQ, Going Global with Scribers World™ [Full Version] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7HbXM_uENo&list=PLeiZCiVneK9BVi_HuDm69B41FCt0RUQOp, https://youtu.be/m8xlUWT9z2A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ_nI0Anah4&feature=youtu.be, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px9E84F29dw&feature=youtu.be, https://youtu.be/7gGFqa1V5S4 | https://youtu.be/4SS2nHFyLgU GLOBAL CONNECTIONS TELEVISION WITH BILL MILLER https://youtu.be/cJQzIRhT8tQ GTstreamathon Devin Thorpe https://shesabosspodcast.com/2017/01/26/ep-23-cynthia-english-ceo-founder-of-global-scribes-youth-uniting-nations/ https://www.givingtuesday.org/blog/2017/04/womenwhogive-cynthia-english-ceofounder-global-scribes | GES 2016/2017 PeaceTech Accelerator finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
572 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Awa | Ndiaye | Njureel ( Giving birth) | www.njureelservices.com | Ceo and co-funder | Female | Senegal | Senegal | English | French | Young woman entrepreneur, I always said that I was a bicycle I will be the wheels to represent one of the most important levers of development for my continent if the rest of the bicycle represented all the challenges that our countries face daily. My motivation to take part in this training is above all to share our innovation, which is part of the third sustainable development objective '' Health and well-being for all '' and responds to a real need that actors have trouble doing. face in my country. Then meet potential investors, partners and others like me who develop extraordinary solutions for a better world. I hope selected to take full advantage of this exceptional opportunity to take full advantage of collaborative experiences, networking especially exchanges with experts. | I am a friendly and dynamic young woman of 22 years organized and with the taste of the job well done. I had this year my license in digital economy at the ESMT Dakar with a certification in digital management of Google (2018). I had to do several internships, notably as assistant trainee in marketing and institutional development at ESMT Entreprise (2018). I was also vice-president of the Junior Enterprise ESMT in charge of team management and coordination management of the various departments of the company (2018-2019). Entrepreneur, I am laureate and member of the ICT girls Senegal community . I am proud to be an ambassador for the digital member of the Senegalese Women in ICT Association (FESTIC) I am an alumni of the recent cohort of GIZ innovation Factory 2019. I do also several training courses in leadership actually for exemple with African Women Entrepreneurship Senegal 2019 (U.N Embassy Program).I was fortunate to be one of those young project leaders to be received in audience by the President of the Republic of Senegal who congratulated us for all our initiatives. I have been laureates of national competitions, one of which is to represent my country in Brussels (HackTheGoals) organized by Enabel. | Njureel (Giving birth) | Njureel is a telemedicine platform ( the 1st in Senegal) for regular and ongoing monitoring of pregnant women in rural sub-Saharan Africa by a doctor. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Countries in sub-Saharan Africa to reduce the gap in access to health care between rural and urban areas, but also to participate in the inclusion of digital and female leadership by providing the targets of our solution. | Yes | NTF4 | Research & Development | We are at this stage because our solution is in full process of realization. We have already begun to generate interest in our targets and the support of some of our stakeholders. Due to the socio-economic realities of our country, and in order to better meet our targets, we always collect the maximum amount of information that will allow us to better understand the needs of our targets. | Africa has the highest maternal and neonatal mortality rate each year. According to the WHO, a woman in sub-Saharan Africa dies every 2 hours, giving life a percentage of 32%. We believe that this is due to a lack of monitoring of the health status of pregnant women in rural areas who are far from health centers and do not have better medical assistance during pregnancy | Notre système de télémédecine fonctionne comme il convient: les femmes enceintes en milieu rural, un suivi médical personnalisé à travers les constantes, une bonne gestion de son calendrier de grossesse avec des alertes et des rappels de dates importantes , the detection of the general officins of plusing ... Pour les médecins, le canal de consultation supplémentaire à distance du suivi de l'état de santé de leurs patients afin d'échanger avec eux sur leur état de santé Pour prendre contact avec son médecin via notre plateforme, il est possible de communiquer avec son patient via notre plateforme. cas de rendez-vous médical. This is a suivi of the future grossesse.Our long-term vision for a more global impact is to optimize the work of midwives or physicians as well as half of health facilities that are not operational due to lack of staff or lack of equipment to be able to provide management of emergencies and other complications related to pregnancy. We also associate agencies and other relevant stakeholders to improve Mother / Child health. | Njureel est la première plateforme de télémédecine dans notre pays destiné uniquement au suivi régulier et constant des femmes enceintes. C'est un système évolutif capable de répondre aux besoins des médecins et des patients d'une manière efficace à travers : Les recommandations de traitement optimal grâce à des interactions virtuels patientes-médecins et le suivi constant de informations santé patientes. Le profilage patient de façon personnalisé Des recommandations adaptées à la santé maternelle La détection rapide des situations où il est indispensable d’avoir recours à un médecin. La facilité d’utilisation de notre plateforme qui se fera en plusieurs langues notamment les langues locales | Our team is progressing optimally and efficiently. We believe in the impact that this project can have and we give ourselves body and soul to achieve it. despite our weak means we work in a great dynamism and have already developed the alpha version of the solution that we presented as an exhibitor at the first edition of the innovation fair in our country and which had a great success in front of the President of the Republic of Senegal. We are working on the beta version of the solutions that we intend to finalize shortly. | With our solutions, we first sampled targeted areas to study the needs and behaviors of our users and the acceptance of our product. On which we can improve our solution and launch the final version. We also associate the project with the women's governing bodies of the godmother community to create mothers communities and to launch the discussion awareness caravans. We plan to acquire several partners and also recruit volunteers to help us implement our action plan. | We need a place where we can work full-time on the project, material resources (eg computer hardware, medical equipment), cars for team travel, strategic support, financial and human resources for the full implementation of the project that we already consider very high impact given the needs of our community. | https://njureelservices.com/ https://www.socialnetlink.org/2019/04/e-sante-awa-ndiaye-lentrepreneure-qui-veut-sauver-lafrique-avec-sa-startup-njureel/ | Unfortunately, all the interviews that I did are just a short newscast, a high tech section or private conferences | third prize in the National Women Entrepreneurs Competition (Girls in ICT) First prize in the Hack the Goal Senegal contest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
573 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | amjad | umar | ICT4SIDS Partnership (#8005) and Harrisburg University | httpp://ict4sids.com and http://harrisburgu.edu | Chief Architect of ICT4SIDS and Director/Professor of ICT at Harrisburg University | male | United States of America | Pakistan | English | We are employing the latest digital innovations for rapid and massive implementation of SDGs by using an integrative R&D approach with very good results. INTEGRATIVE APPROACH: utilize systems engineering principles, agile methodologies and computer aided planning toolsets based on latest developments in AI, Blockchains, Big Data Analytics, and Additive Manufacturing. Our goal is to: a) Rapidly deploy Smart Hubs for massive implementation of SDGs around the globe in health, education, public safety, public welfare, food and agriculture, utilities, and sustainable communities; b) Assure and support collaboration of smart hubs with each other to form sustainable global villages (SGVs) that provide location and topic specific services of high value to their users; c) Develop an agile user-centered methodology that concentrates on high success rates based on user buy-ins; and d) Engage in research to develop a powerful computer aided planning, engineering and management toolkit that fully supports the aforementioned methodology. RESULTS: We have launched over 60 smart collaborating hubs in 12 countries. We have also developed a powerful toolkit called SPACE (Strategic Planning, Architecture, Controls and Education) that supports our methodology and produces a smart collaborating hub within a day. In addition, we have developed an SGV Lab for highly innovative future research. The Lab consists of over 400 smart collaborating hubs that span 80 countries. | Dr. Amjad Umar is the Chief Architect and Director of the UN ICT4SIDS Partnership (#8005) that is using the latest digital innovations to help the underserved populations in the areas of health, education, public safety and public welfare. He is also Director and Professor of ISEM (Information Systems Engineering and Management) Programs at Harrisburg University and a Fulbright Senior Specialist on ICT. He was previously Adjunct Professor of Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. His 20+ years of industrial experience includes a senior management position with Bell Labs and consulting/advisory positions with governments and industries around the globe. He has also developed and taught graduate level courses in ICTs at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan, Fordham Graduate School of Business, and Peking University. He has published eight books and more than 50 research papers in his areas of specialization that span computer aided planning, smart enterprises, intelligent systems, enterprise architectures and integration, mobile computing, and information security. He is using most of his academic knowledge and industrial experience to develop smart hubs in different parts of the world that collaborate with each other to support underserved populations. He holds an M.S. in Computer and Communication Engineering and a Ph,D. in Information Systems Engineering, both from the University of Michigan. | Rapid and Massive Implementation of SDGs through Computer Aided Planning, Engineering and Management | ICT4SIDS Partnership: Smart Collaborating Hubs for Rapid and Massive Implementation of SDGs | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Bangladesh, Haiti, Ghana, Maldives, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Solomons, Togo, Tanzania, USA | Yes | NGE Solutions, Inc (a startup), Harrisburg University of Scence and Technologies, Duroseau Management Inc, GTG Services | Scaling | We are currently running a B2B Lab of a Sustainable Global Village with 400 smart hubs located in almost 80 countries that can collaborate with each other. We have taken this academic lab experience and launched over 60 hubs in 12 countries. This has been done by a self funded team of 7 people. We have published results and want to scale at a much broader level. To go farther, we need external funding. | We are attempting to address the following difficult challenges: C1) How can specialized & localized SDG services be provided globally, C2) How can localized communities collaborate with each other for a wider global impact, C3) How can the high failure rates of 60-80% be reduced, and C4) how can the SDGs be implemented rapidly at a massive scale globally. Our smart collaborating hubs address C1 and C2, our agile methodology addresses C3 and our computer aided planning toolkit addresses C4. | Our solution addresses the aforementioned challenges C1-C4: CI: SMART HUBS TO ADDRESS SDGs: Each smart hub provides highly specialized region specific low cost and high impact SDG services. Specifically, each Smart Hub supports the following powerful portals: an Administration Portal for business collaboration and project management, an End-User Portal that directly supports SDG specific activities of the end-users, and a Capacity Building Portal to educate the Hub-Masters to become entrepreneurs (more about it later). C2: SMART GLOBAL VILLAGE (SGV) FOR REGIONAL GROWTH: Our smart hubs are designed to collaborate with each other to form a Smart Global Village (SGV) for the Underserved Populations. The collaborations occur between smart hubs located in small islands, small towns and isolated communities. C3: USER-CENTERED AGILE METHODOLOGY FOR RAPID & MASSIVE IMPLEMENTATION: This methodology is based on free pilot projects so that the poorest populations and young entrepreneurs can participate. This user-centered methodology get user buy-in and produces a complete smart collaborating hub within a day at a success rate of above 90%. C4: ADVANCED “HUB FACTORY”: We have developed a Hub Factory that supports the aforementioned agile planning methodology. This factory uses an extensive array of latest developments in digital innovations for deployment and management of our growing SGV (60 hubs in 15 countries at present) and is being used in capacity building. | Our solution is unique in the following ways: FIRST: We are using the latest digital innovations for rapid and massive implementation of SDGs globally by using an integrative R&D approach. SECOND: We have very good results such as the following: we have launched over 60 smart collaborating hubs in 12 countries. We have also developed a powerful toolkit called SPACE (Strategic Planning, Architecture, Controls and Education) that supports our methodology and produces a smart collaborating hub within a day. In addition, we have developed a Smart Global Village (SGV) Lab for highly innovative future research that consists of over 400 smart collaborating hubs that span 80 countries and cover SDGs 1-13. THIRD: we use an integrative approach instead of point solutions -- We utilize systems engineering principles, agile methodologies and computer aided planning toolsets based on latest developments in AI, Blockchains, Big Data Analytics, and Additive Manufacturing. FOURTH: The following Four Pillars to support our vision: a) Smart Hubs that provide location specific SDG services of high value to its users, b) a collaboration system between the smart hubs for maximum regional and global impact, c) a user-centered agile methodology based on free pilot projects so that no one is left behind, and d) the powerful SPACE environment that produces a smart collaborating hub within a day. We have not seen an integrative approach like this for SDG implementations. | As stated previously, we have gone through Ideation, Research & Development, Proof of Concept, and Transition to Scale stages. Most of progress has been made in the last 10 months. Based on the lessons learned and the results obtained, we are in the Scaling Stage at present. We used a systematic breadth first approach which allowed us to launch smart hubs almost anywhere in the world for most of the SDGs from 1 to 14. This has been possible primarily because of the SPACE Environment that has the following powerful capabilities: a) Patterns and Knowledge Repositories that span 12 sectors that include agriculture, education, energy, health, public safety, public welfare and other vital sectors that are at the core of SDGs; b) Gamifications and Simulations that are used extensively in education and capacity building/training of hub masters; c) Decision Support and Planning Tools that systematically guide the users through various decisions in strategic planning, architectures, integration, acquisition, security, controls and project management activities; and d) Specialized Tools such as the SDG Advisor and an Entrepreneurship Portal. All these capabilities are used in our agile methodology. SPACE has been tested and used extensively in university graduate courses since 2015. Extensive details about SPACE have been published in academic conferences, journals and books. See [4, 5, 6, 7] as an example. | We have accumulated a large repository of over 400 smart collaborating hubs that span 80 countries as a result of teaching graduate level courses on enterprise planning, architecture & integration. This is a very interesting B2B Lab for highly innovative future research and deployments. Encouraged by our results, we have implemented a fraction of this Lab in reality (only 60 hubs in 12 countries). This is primarily due to staff and financial limitations (we have a team of 7 people and our projects are self funded). Simply stated, we would like to implement our B2B Lab in reality, i.e., 500 hubs in about 100 countries that cover 14 SDGs for major impact. Our planned goal is to first deploy our hubs in all SIDS and LDCs, thus hopefully impacting millions of people, especially young entrepreneurs. We have learned, for example, that managing smart healthcare hubs provides good job opportunities for nursing students, managing emarkets for solar panels is appealing to young students in Africa, and running a 3D printing hub appeals to young fashion designers in Solomons. Basically, these smart hubs can provide tremendous job opportunities to youth. We have found that many smart hubs should be installed in community colleges in SIDS and LDCs to educate students about how to form and run a small business. We explore this idea thoroughly in the next 3 years. | Our top priority is to focus on SIDS and LDCs in the next 3 years especially to educate students about how to form and run small businesses by using these hubs. By 2022, we would like to have 300 such hubs in the SIDS and LDCs -- we currently have 60 in 12 countries. In 2020 (short range), we want to focus on SIDS-LDCs in Africa and the Caribbean with special attention to entrepreneurial hubs for health, education, disaster resilience, fisheries, agriculture, climate and other vital sectors. In 2021 (midrange), we will concentrate on the Pacific, Indian Ocean, and South American SIDS and LDCs. After 2021, we will work with any underserved population wherever they need our help. We can maintain our modest efforts as long as needed without any external help but need to expand our team to 10 fulltime staff (some of our current staff is part-time). The total cost for this expansion is $400-500K per year for a 3 year plan. An additional $500K per year would be highly desirable to support the deployed hubs ($6K per year as a seed money to the hub master and $4K per year for the IT infrastructure cost, approximately). We have learned that a modest investment in the hub masters dramatically increases the chance of success. With the funding of about $1Million per year, we will improve our skillset, methodology and the SPACE platform dramatically for a highly visible impact. More detailed information on this topic will be provided if needed. | [1] “Smart Hubs for Rapid and Massive Implementation of SDGs” http://www.ict4sids.com/newdoc/ICT4SIDS-002-Smart%20Hubs%20-Key%20Results-March2019.pdf. Note: This report includes several video clips [2] UN ICT4SIDS Partnership, UN Registered Partnership No:8005, Website: http://ict4sids.com. Note: this site, heavily supported through video clips, has tremendous information of value to this report. [3] SPACE – A Computer Aided Planning, Engineering & Management Environment, developed by NGE Solutions. Website: http://space4ict.com. [4] Umar, A., “Smart Collaborating Hubs and a Smart Global Village – An Alternative Perspective on Smart Islands, Towns and Cities”, IEEE Conference on Technology and Engineering Management, June 2018. Link: http://ict4sids.com/newdoc/IEEE-TEMS%20SmartHubs-Final.pdf [5] Umar, A., “Computer Aided Strategic Planning for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals”, International Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, ISSN: 2394-3661, Vol-4, Issue-12, December 2017. Link: http://ict4sids.com/newdoc/IJEAS-SPACE4SDGs-Published-Final.pdf BOOKS IN PROGRESS: [6] Umar, A., “Computer Aided Strategic Planning for Digital Enterprises”, Ingram Publications, Target Publication: Spring 2020 [7] Umar, A., “Computer Aided Architecture and Integration of Smart Enterprises”, Ingram Publications, Target Publication: Summer 2020 | NOTE: This submission contains results since January 2019. I have not talked about it lately. | we have not competed for very many awards yet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
574 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alexander | Barrett | iFinca | https://www.ifinca.co/ | Founder | Male | Colombia | United States of America | English | It would be an honor to represent iFinca and speak concerning 13 million global coffee farmers from developing nations and share with UN Solutions Summit our solution to the current coffee pricing crisis which is causing untold difficulties in many impoverished communities in developing nations. And the opportunity to share our excitement and passion for our solutions to the SDG's we aim to solve. | The desire to give back is what inspired real estate expert and serial entrepreneur Alexander Barrett to start iFinca™, a web and mobile application startup that leverages blockchain technology to simplify the coffee supply chain while giving farmers more equitable pay. Barrett’s path to founding iFinca was unexpected. After completing a mid-career Executive MBA at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, Barrett decided to take a sabbatical year to learn Spanish and consider a career pivot. He found his way to Medellin, Colombia, where he immersed himself not only in language, but also in the local culture. He toured coffee farms and connected with generations of coffee farmers, learning about the significant challenges they faced with continuously dropping prices for their beans. The market was becoming unsustainable for many, with younger generations opting out of the farming business or needing to supplement income with several jobs to support their families. As a natural problem-solver, Barrett sought to create a solution to these challenges by connecting farmers to the existing supply chain. His approach revolved around greater transparency up and down the supply chain and fair equity for the farmer in the process. This is what led him to develop iFinca’s digital CoffeeChain platform and application in 2018. | iFinca CoffeeChain | Connecting Farmers | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica. | No | Transition to Scale | We have completed the web/mobile application and have tested it, internally. In the next few weeks we will be starting our pilot program. And if the pilot program runs with few technecal issues and bugs, we will be launching our mobile application in the Andriod and iPhone applications stores in October 2019. | Coffee is in a crisis—because coffee is traded as a commodity, its price depends on the market, which means that, right now, many farmers are forced to sell their coffee for less than what it cost to produce. Farmers are actively losing money when they produce coffee, and many have been forced to lay off workers, sell their farms, and encourage their children to abandon the farm and look for more lucrative work elsewhere. | iFinca is a social enterprise startup that aims to simplify the coffee supply chain and provide coffee farmers more equitable pay for their beans. iFinca's web and mobile application leverages blockchain technology to record every step of the supply chain process, from harvest and mill to café and consumer. This level of transparency allows for greater accuracy and accountability at every turn—an approach that ultimately can double or triple the amount of money farmers earn per pound of product yielded. It also enables industry partners, consumers, and other interested parties to track coffee shipments and prices paid at all major transactions from farm to cup. iFinca’s emphasis on better pay for farmers stands to revolutionize the coffee commodity market—where profit margins for farmers have dwindled over the last few decades to the point where coffee farming is no longer a sustainable endeavor for many farming families. iFinca’s approach maximizes accuracy, efficiency, and profitability at every link on the supply chain. The end result: Delicious, ethically-sourced coffee consumers can trust. | No other solution in this sphere provides a platform that connects all players within the coffee supply chain. The majority of farmers even in the poorest countries have access to mobile phones and many of the younger generation have access to smartphones. Current trends suggest that this will only increase. As more users become connected the ifinca platform will increase in value. The methodology is to truly connect rural coffee farmers to the global supply chain. Empowering them with better access to information and decision-making capabilities. While also providing consumers with complete transparency and access to information about the product. Being a third party allows for an unbiased approach for verification. | We have built the technology and tested the beta version of our blockchain mobile application. All corporate and legal documents and requirements have been completed. We have obtained 3 separate trademarks to protect our proprietary platform in the United States, Canada, EU and UK. The next milestone will be a successful pilot program and then the introduction of our mobile application to the coffee industry through the Android and iPhone applications stores. Our true measure of progress and success will the number producers, their families and communities we touch and better their lives. | Currently, we are working with the Colombian coffee producers, but with a successful pilot program in September 2019 our bilingual (English & Spanish) mobile application will expand quickly into Honduras, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Cuba. Then the next new markets will be the Asian and African countries. In each new country we will set up local offices and hiring additional employees. Potential lives impacted directly is estimated at 150,000,000 and indirectly due to profitable farms spending within their communities – another 250,000,000. | Short-term: we need assistance building relationships with governments and the organizations within each country that can aid us to bring this technology to the farmers and the coffee industry. Medium-term: we will need introductions to various forms of capital to scale up our platform globally. Long-term: We hope with the success of our mobile platform that long-term we will be able to give back all those who contributed to our success of this social enterprise project. | https://www.ifinca.co/ https://www.ifinca.co/38 | https://youtu.be/SlIZ2guZWUE | 2019 Best New Product at the SCA Coffee Expo (Boston, USA) - 5000 exhibitors attended | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
575 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Albert | Manero | Limbitless Solutions | limbitless-solutions.org | President | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Our team founded Limbitless Solutions non-profit to design and deliver 3D printed full electronic 5 finger dexterity bionic arms at no costs to families. To date we have provided devices to over 20 families primarily in the USA and one in both New Zealand and Brazil. We have presented our story highlighting the resiliency of children born with congenital limb loss in an effort to change attitudes and stigma around disability. Starting as a student group project, we have now secure clinical trials at 3 medical institutions in the USA including Oregon Health and Science University, Wolfson Children's Hospital, and Mayo Clinic Florida. Our videos and website featuring the bionic kids have been shared in nearly every country in the world and we have received positive messages from parents globally encouraged and hopeful that we can expand our device deliveries for their country due to the significant need. I presented in 2018 at the United Nations summit on Day of Person's with Disabilities advocating for a change in how we support individuals with limb differences and the global need for more affordable and accessible devices. My hope is to present our project to the UN Solutions Summit so that we might find the right partners and advocates to create safe environments for device customization globally and the support to scale our production. These efforts will provide a stronger platform to change stigma around limb reduction, in particular for children globally who may not have the same chances for life or success due to their disability. This is particularly challenging for girls with limb reduction, where the intersection of disability and gender exasperates both sets of stigmas and disadvantages. | My name is Albert Manero and I am the President of the Limbitless Solutions non-profit based at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA. I completed my PhD in mechanical engineering while developing the non-profit. My research is focused on developing accessibility medical devices including bionic limbs and a patent allowance for a hands-free wheel chair device using face muscle controls. From starting as a student project, we have now developed partnerships with multiple medical institutions including Oregon Health and Science University and the Mayo Clinic Florida to test and evaluate our devices for patients with congenital limb loss and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. I completed the Fulbright Research Fellowship as part of my PhD work with the German Aerospace Center, living in Germany for one full year. This was my real introduction to globally minded research. Following the completion of my degree, I participated in the Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program with the National Academy of Engineering in Washington D.C. This introduction to science policy was focused by my mentor, primarily focusing on how to engage previously underrepresented demographics in engineering/STEM focuses. Now running the Limbitless Solutions research laboratory, I work to build an inclusive environment focused on the end user of our technology. Our mission is to return function, expression, and the independence that follows using our technology as a platform to communicate that everyone belongs. | Limbitless Solutions bionic arm | low cost full dexterity EMG bionic limb with interchangeable expressive designs | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | United States of America (current) with global expansion | Yes | Oregon Health & Science University, University of Central Florida | Scaling | To date we have developed custom 3D printed devices for 22 families, primarily in the USA and also in Brazil and New Zealand. We have transitioned from prototyping phase to now in clinical trials at medical institutions in the USA. These trials will provide the data to support our submission to the Food & Drug Administration, whose approval will allow distribution in the USA and support global credentials to work in conflict zones and emerging countries. | Access to functional prosthetic limbs for children is very complex in the USA and globally. High costs (~50K USD) combined with complex growth rates often exclude children from receiving a device. Doll plastic devices, human replicas, have very high rejection rates by children. We are working to create customized and modular, highly expressive and functional bionic hands and arms designed collaboratively with the child using it. Access to these devices can change career and life trajectories. | Our bionic arm used a 3D printed structural core with individual motors in each finger. Each finger can be actuated using electromyography (EMG) sensor placed on a muscle group on the limb with the amputation. Using a single sensor, a child using the device can perform many types of grips or gestures to better interact with the world around them. Using 3D printed modular parts, it is much more efficient to resize spacer parts when children outgrow the device. The unique colorful and expressive designs, in partnership with major video game and character brands, are interchangeable and provide the wearer additional confidence and personal expression. Currently the design is under clinical trials in the USA to evaluate the impact to quality of life for children using the device as well as the use case and effectiveness in daily tasks. Over the next two years, the clinical trial data will be submitted to insurance companies and the Food & Drug Administration for market clearance and insurance reimbursement in the USA. This should provide a low cost solutions, with hopeful insurance reimbusement, for the 35,000 children in the USA alone with congenital limb loss and the 500,000 children and adults in the USA alone with acquired amputations. The long-term goals include working with the United Nations and USA embassies around the world to establish safe and secure local customization/printing sites with local staff to provide devices for conflict zones and emerging countries. | Our device is unique due to the use of 3D printing and custom electronics. This allows the bionic device to be manufactured exceptionally affordably and with modular growth plates that allow for simple growth modifications. We are uniquely positioned as a non-profit based at a university, allowing us to pursue impact over financial gain. We have partnered with the largest industrial 3D printer company to develop the technology, which is more resilient in high temperature and humidity that comparable approach. Our custom electronics are uniquely designed for robustness and simplicity, allowing for easy calibration with a traditional internet connected mobile phone. Additionally, instead of creating devices that mimic photo-realistic human form, we have designed for expression and vibrant art. This produces a change in how communities view the individual with limb difference as well as for the user providing much stronger affinity to the device as opposed to what others may have viewed as a defect or shameful loss. | Our team reached a major advance by starting the first of their kind clinical trials in the United States, after working with our initial 20 plus families during our prototyping phase. The clinical trials have a robust developed methodology established with the hospital partners, evaluating daily task effectiveness and quality of life impact over a one year study. This data will be submitted to the regulatory Food and Drug Administration for clearance to distribute at scale, a key metric for success. Our team measures the real impact of the device by the feedback from the parents of children using the device and learning of the day to day use and effectiveness. | Our planned goals include completing our current USA clinical trials for the first 25 children (two established bionic arm device trials), improving the design based of the user and family feedback, and establishing new clinical trials around the USA to support over 100 children. The data from the initial studies will support our approval for FDA market clearance so that we have the approval to distribute to families around the USA. Financially, we hope to leverage these successes to gain more philanthropic and corporate funding to advance our work and support more children at no cost to their families. Currently we are developing the adult version of our device to support more people in need. With successful deployment and regulation in the USA, we plan to expand to support the global need in emerging countries and displaced families from conflict zones. Our belief is that all children are equal and worthy of having these supporting devices made, without their families being financially burdened. We would like to scale first to 100 children in the next two years, then 500 children and 50 adults in the following year, and subsequently to 1000 total individuals in the following year as we expand to make a global impact reality. | Our current resources include funding to support nearly 50 children in the USA, and a few hospital partners spread across the USA to conduct the work. We are in need of some financial resources to renovate a new larger research and manufacturing facility to expand our impact and undergraduate student research experience in the short-term. In the medium term, we are working towards additional funding to support the next group of 50 children (approximately 10,000 USD per child supported for 1 year clinical study for a total of 500,000 USD). This number will decrease with economies of scale and more geographically spread medical host sites. Long term we will need financial support for injection molding molds and production of scaled up device components (electronic and plastic) to support distribution globally to safe zones for customization. The full cost projections for the long term scale up are still being identified and vary based on the global partners we will have access with. | limbitless-solutions.org https://3dhope.pixieset.com/lsi-overview/ https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/9/1641/htm https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/12/iron-man-robert-downey-jr-gives-child-bionic-arm | https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Bionic-arms-empower-kids-to-express-themselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36-izfw8D1c https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org/press/news-press-releases/albert-manero-disability-should-not-be-an-option-we-need-to-engineer-hope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuH29lmpskA https://www.ucf.edu/news/ucf-alumnus-present-united-nations-monday/ https://efests.asme.org/news/february-2018/engineering-low-cost-prosthetics-for-kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEx5lmbCKtY | STEAM Innovator Award (Winner) TIAA Difference Maker Award (Winner) Blackstone Launchpad (Finalist) Florida Governor’s Champion of Service Award (Winner) Michelle Akers Award for Global Recognition at UCF (Winner) Florida Blue Sapphire Award (Finalist, Awardee) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
576 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Olusayo | Adeleye | SUPPORT TOWARDS ADVANCEMENT NETWORKING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN FOUNDATION | www.standfoundationng.com | Executive Director | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I come from Nigeria, which is today considered a developing country. I am passionate about seeing my country evolve from being called 'developing' to being called 'developed' and i believe that being a part of the UN Solutions Summit will give me an opprtunity to showcase the potentials that we have in this Nation , in general and what my organisation is doing in particular to see this becoming a reality. | Olusayo Adeleye is a Legal Practitioner, Public Speaker, Women and Children’s Rights Advocate and an Etiquette and Protocol Consultant. With over fifteen years post-call experience, she bagged her Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the prestigious University of Ibadan in the year 2001 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2003. She started her career as a young banker with Oceanic Bank in 2006. She was called upon to take up an appointment with the government of Oyo State in 2011. She served in various departments including Protocol, Public Affairs, Administration and she was the official speech-writer to the wife of the Governor of Oyo State between May 2011 and May 2018. Ms. Adeleye is a Women and Children’s Rights Advocate and this she pursues passionately through her Non-Governmental Organisation, the SUPPORT TOWARDS ADVANCEMENT NETWORKING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN FOUNDATION aka STAND Foundation which has as its main objectives, the empowerment of women and helping them actualise the fullness of their potentials as well as the recognition, protection and enforcement of the rights of children, especially the girl-child. She is also a passionate SDG Advocate, Mentor and Trainer having conducted several online and physical trainings on the SDGs. She is also the initiator of the STAND Delivery Kit under the Abiye Safe Birth Initiative, a project that distributes free delivery kits to indigent pregnant women. She is also the initiator of the GirlEmpowerHub, a vocational and life skills training hub for girls. | Sustainable Development Goals Advocacy Project (SD-GAP) | ""bridge the gap, leave no one behind"" | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | No | Proof of Concept | I have chosen this stage because we are currently testing our ideas to see if they are actually sustainable and can serve the purpose for which they are designed. We have up to date trained and issued certificates to almost two hundred people on the SDGs and have been able to identify and further train 5 SDG Champions. | There is currently a dearth of information in the hands of the people in Nigeria about the SDGs and if this is not addressed, all efforts to leave no one behind in achieving the goals will be efforts in futility. This solution is therefore all-encompassing as it is designed to address the knowledge gap about the SDGs which can be fatal if not properly addressed by bring knowledge about the SDGs to people in different strata of society. | This solution is a simple yet, effective one. It is a combination of online and physical advocacy that involves breaking down information about the dynamics of the SDGs in a manner and language that is simple enough to comprehend while also giving corresponding action plans to enable trainees become SDG champions as well in their communities. The training is targeted at both individuals right from primary schools to tertiary level as well as organisations to enable them include SDG compliant policies in their workplace policies. These training programs are conducted both online and in physical learning environments and also taken to rural areas with information disseminated in the local languages. In the course of the training SDG Champions are identified and given more in depth information so they can step down the information received in their communities , monitor progress levels and give feedback from time to time One important focal point of this advocacy program is the training of legislators and all those responsible for law making and policy formulation to know about the SDGs and how they can localise them through legislation for greater effectiveness. The 2030 Agenda is to leave no one behind. The long term vision of this solution is therefore to ensure that everyone in Nigeria is informed about the global goals and they know what to do to in their own little corners to actualise them both locally and globally. | The unique methodology of this approach is the introduction of online advocacy training in addition to physical training. What we usually have is physical training which limit reach and are usually cost-intensive. These online trainings have a wider reach and are less expensive to run. In our pilot online training, which was conducted to test-run the idea, we had participants from Ethiopia, Namibia, London as well as from different States in Nigeria. We might not have had such a robust participation if it was a strictly physical training. | As mentioned earlier, we are still at the test-run stage. We are still fine-tuning our ideas and developing training materials suitable for each identified category of trainees as well as setting SMART goals for the project. Progress for this project is measured by the number of persons we are able to train and which sectors or areas we are able to cover and the resultant action and reorientation in the targeted societies in terms of compliance with and commitment to actualise the global goals. | The Ultimate Goal for this solution is to ensure that No One is Left Behind and that Agenda 2030 becomes a reality for Nigeria and globally. To this end, we plan to expand our physical and online trainings first to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and as we make progress we plan to extend to other continents. We currently have five staff working on this project but as we make progress, we intend to have 2 members of staff in each State of Nigeria and for each country we are able to generate enough traction, we intend to have a country representative and 2 staff members each initially and then employ more if need be, as events unfold. In a world with about 7 billion people, we have an initial target of reaching 1 billion people globally both directly and through our SDG Champions all over the world. | Our needs for this project will include 1. Access to further in-depth training on the SDGs for the SDG Mentors/ Trainers. 2. Resources, materials and toolkits to facilitate the training for beneficiaries. 3. Audio-Visual equipment such as projectors, laptops, microphones and speakers for physical trainings. 4. Human resources in terms of additional staff. 5. A fully equipped building to be used as an SDG Resource and Training Hub. 6. Vehicles for transportation of staff and equipment to training locations. 7. Extensive publicity support to let the world know what we are doing in terms of SDG Advocacy. | https://standfoundationng.com http://nigeriannewsdirect.com/ngo-trains-105-youths-on-job-creation-across-the-country/ https://tribuneonlineng.com/230659/ https://nnn.com.ng/2019/07/31/maternal-mortality-5-000-pregnant-women-receive-free-delivery-kits-in-oyo/ | https://www.facebook.com/standfoundng/ https://www.facebook.com/oluade.oladoja.7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
577 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Muhammed | Azam | Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization (SPARRSO) | www.sparrso.gov.bd | Member (Research) | Male | Bangladesh | Bangladesh | English | Lightning emerged as a new natural disaster in Indian Sub-Continent. This entire region is prone to lightning because of its complex topography, killing many people every year. It poses a major threat as an increasing number of people are losing life due to the natural disaster every year. According to the press report more than three thousand people died of lightning in Bangladesh during the last decade. Actual fatalities would be higher because of under press reporting. The total casualties of lightning strikes could be even higher than that of other weather-related disasters like flood, landslide and drought in Bangladesh. Most lightning deaths and injuries occur due to lack of awareness. This is happening when people are caught outdoors in the summer months during the afternoon and evening. Most of the victims are the lone employed person in their families. It is observed, casualties are increasing because of a lack of awareness among people. We find that most illiterate and lack of knowledge about lighting as well as thunderstorm and they assume it as a supernatural phenomenon or God’s fury. Awareness is crucial to reduce the toll and its harmful impact. This project involving United Nations and the government and NGO needed to mitigate the menace. This project can be apply in the global perspective especially countries where similar socio-economic condition of Bangladesh are prevailing. I believe if the project gets support from United Nation and it's allied organization this multi functional solution can be apply in other countries and we can save human lives by disaster risk management which is one of the major target of the UH Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). | Muhammed Azam, Joint Secretary of Bangladesh Government now working as Member (Research) 0f Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization (SPARRSO) , Ministry of Defence. He has joined Bangladesh Civil Service on January 21, 1986. He earned graduation and post-graduation degrees from Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka in Physics. During professional life he has performed duties at the various ministries including Education, Environment and Forest, Information and Science & ICT. He was Information Technology Ambassador in Bangladesh of Korean Agency for Digital Opportunity (KADO), Government of the Republic of Korea. He has joined World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) Geneva on 2003 and Tunisia on 2005 as a member of Government delegation. He also attend at the Global ICT Forum of World Summit Award on 2004, Seoul Digital Forum in South Korea on 2005. He has imparted various training courses including Technology and Science Policy in Korea on 2002, E-Government SI Course of KADO on 2006 and Effective Governance for Sustainable Development at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He was resource person in the Digital Opportunity Forum organized by KADO held in Jakarta Indonesia on 2007. He is Member of Bangladesh Physical Society, Dhaka Officers club, Bangladesh Civil Service Information Association and Bangladesh Civil Service 1984 Association. He has been awarded best Idea Award of National Application Competition of Bangladesh. | Lightning Detection and Public Awareness System to Save Human Lives | Be Aware of Lightning to Save Your Life | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Geographically, Bangladesh is the most lightning-threatening country in the world. Compare to the number of global fatalities, highest number of people die in this country because of lightning. The mortality rate is increasing day by day. Usually people d | No | Proof of Concept | I have selected the proof of concept stage because this concept is new and innovative. For sustainable disaster risk reduction, I want to establish a multidimensional solution as the lightning is an unpredictable disaster and there have some unknown factor. I have to proof the innovated idea in the context of our social and economic condition applying available resources and techniques. Proven success will lead the policy planners to take large scale project in future. | Lightning is a dreadful disaster of Bangladesh and gradually the fatality rate is increasing further. It’s not possible to prevent lightning, rather we can reduce fatal rate by applying appropriate method. Most of the fatal incident takes place in open field while farming or in water land during fishing due to lack of awareness of the victims. This multidimensional approach can be fruitful solution to provide early warning and motivate grass root people to remain safe place during the disaster. | This multidimensional solution will implement in 3 steps: Step-1: a)Lightning archive data will be collect from satellite and various online-offline sources to identify the location of most lightning strike areas b) Database of stakeholders Step-2: In dry season motivational campaign and activities will be conduct at the identified areas to create public awareness. Motivational publicity contents are- a) Visual -Movie, Drama, Documentary b) Audio-Song & Music c) Print-Poster & Leaflet Motivational activities include a) Courtyard meeting b) Sensitizing workshop c) Press briefing Step 3: To detect lightning during real time raw data will collect from satellite, rudder and detection sensors and it will be send to central data analyze centre for analyzing to identify probable lightning strike areas. A signal with voice and text message will be generate and deliver to the stakeholders of those areas by internet base electronic device (IoT). In this case most potential stakeholders are personnel (Imam and Muezzin) who stay always at mosque. On an average there has at least one mosque in every 500 sq. areas. Immediately getting the signal, stakeholders will go for action to alert people by loud speaker which are being use at least five times in a day to call Muslims for prayer congregation. This is a global issue as most of the countries especially developing are facing this challenge, so this multidimensional approach model can be apply to those countries save human lives. | I consider this solution as a unique solution because an extensive online and offline search was conducted to review the availability of this type of multidimensional solution. But I did not find any similar solution. However, I observed that most of the country’s meteorological departments are forecasting on lightning in broad area basis by procuring data from space satellites, ground base radars & remote sensing sensors, and broadcast warning by electronic media. But this idea to create real time alertness and awareness among the people especially people who are illiterate and living beyond the electronic and social or community media coverage at the grassroots level applying local appropriate method is absolutely new. Utilization of the cutting edge information and communication technology, lightning warning message will be delivered to a device “Things of Internet (IoT)” which is will be install at local institutions like Mosque and other worships. Also exploitation sensitized human resources & loud speaker for motivating people instantly on an emergency basis to restrain themselves from going outside especially in the agricultural field or water bodies and remain at safe place during the disaster, is totally an innovative idea. | According to the road map of this project, we have started our journey recently. At the very outset we have arranged a brainstorming session to formulate the Project Concept Paper (PCP) of this multidimensional solution. Our team is working on to collect data of lightning from archive (1970 to till date), information of lightning fatalities from the district administration, press media and other sources. We are also framed a comprehensive work plan and to develop the motivational publicity contents. | The project will directly address the following targets of the United Nation’s SDG Goal-13: Target 13.1: Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries; Target 13.2: Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning; Target 13.3: Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning; The project will also attain the Goal-3, where it was stated that “Strengthen the capacity of all countries, in particular developing countries for early warning risk reduction and management of national and global health risk”. Apart from these the SDG Goal-11 regarding the disaster risk reduction strategy will also be addressed by this project. To attain this targets initially a pilot project of this solution will be implement at the most lightning threat area Sunamgonj district one the 64 districts of Bangladesh. As the lightning is a fatal disaster is a global issue, this multidimensional solution will be apply in other lightning prone areas of different countries of the world. | Short Term Needs-a) 20 Lightning Detection Sensor (LDS);( b) 5 Cinema Van with video projection unit; c) 1000 High Volume Loud Speaker; d) Necessary Software and hardware for data receiving, analyzing, processing and dissemination centre; e) Antenna to receive data. f) 1000 Things of Internet (IoT). g) Equipment for motivational publicity contents productions; h) Network Connectivity. Medium Term Needs-a)1000 Light Detection Sensors; b) 2 ( Two) 3U Cube satellite with lightning detection related operational payloads for lower earth orbit . c) Medium scale ground station; d) 200,000 pieces of loud speakers; e) 200,000 pieces of IoTs. f) Necessary equipment for broadcasting system; g) Required equipment for capacity building Capacity building of human resources;h) Network Connectivity; Long Term Needs- a) Geostationary satellite; b) Necessary equipment for arresting lightning; c) Devices to detect lightning at least 4 hours earlier; | My organization is Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization. Website- www.http://sparrso.gov.bd/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TooABV1M3o&feature=youtu.be | Best Innovation Award of national mobile application competition organized by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Government of the People's Re.public of Bangladesh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
578 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Raza | Abbas | Pathway Global Career Institute | In process | CEO | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | First of all, it is an honor to apply for UN Solutions Summit-2019, I am grateful to the UN Solutions Summit team for providing this wonderful global opportunity for prospective candidates to share their knowledge and SDG work at an annual catalytic gathering of intellectuals that are working tirelessly for the execution of SDGs in their respective regions and countries. There are various reasons to apply for the UN Solutions Summit. First of all it will be an excellent learning opportunity to co-learn, un-learn and re-learn from global, regional and country professionals that have excelled in SDG’s implementation. In the development sector in our region sadly there are few co-learning opportunities of this magnitude so this is a great opportunity especially with a global perspective the UN Summit platform will inspire professionals to further excel in SDG’s implementation in their respective countries. In today’s knowledge era, synergy, mutual collaborations and partnerships are the pre-requisites to excel in SDG’s implementation this can be achieved by hopefully attending the UN Solutions Summit. Our pioneering inclusive work on career education in Pakistan has led to a wide range of innovation for positive global impact; we ensured our programs are assessable and affordable. Programs are available via distance and on-line as well. I speak on SDG’s areas via webinars for global and national audiences and conduct cross cultural researches to build bridges and innovation. | Mr. Raza Abbas has worked at leading institutions, organizations and associations at senior leadership positions in Pakistan and globally. His servant leadership has strengthened institutions in diverse industries. He walks his talk: collaborating in 6 continents, currently serving on the Boards of leading global professional career development associations: Asian Regional Association For Career Development-ARACD: Director Pakistan, Asia Pacific Career Development Association- APCDA: Country Director Pakistan and International Associational for Educational and Vocational Guidance-IAEVG as Editorial Board member, delivering keynotes, executing ground-breaking researches, consulting, profiled in global best-selling book; The World Book of Hope, executed SDG’s impactful reform projects and inspired countless people across the globe. He is the Pioneer of Professional Career Education in Pakistan. He earned the International Career Practitioner Award by National Career Development Association in June, 2019 and Outstanding Career Practitioner Award by Asia Pacific Career Development Association in May, 2017. He was selected by UNESCO for its annual flagship entrepreneurship education meeting as one of the leading Social Entrepreneurs in Asia in 2018 and 2017. He graduated with dual degrees from The University of Arizona, USA. | Inclusive Career Teacher Education- Hope Based Career Development | Inspiring people to find meaning, purpose in their lives through hope based career development leading to employment /entrepreneurism for underserve. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | The SDG’s mentioned above are currently in implementation in Pakistan, we are in the process of scaling it for implementation in Asia, Middle-East and South American regions. | Yes | Schools-Public & Private, Colleges-Public & Private | Transition to Scale | In several years, we have successfully gone through all phases: creation of successful idea, research and development with diverse stakeholders, proof of concept of idea and executing programs in Sind province and in Pakistan. We are planning to transition to scale our evidence based program to emerging countries for students and teachers to find meaning, purpose in their lives through career teacher education hope based career development leading to employment /entrepreneurism. | Currently 63% of Pakistan population is under 30. Career Teacher Education is a growing need for talented yet direction-less students that hardly have career direction as we have acute shortage of qualified career teacher educators in the region. Investing in career teacher education leads to regional peace, reduces school drop-outs, promotes higher enrollment in higher education, engage futuristic youth work-force, and most importantly career teacher education contributes to UN- SDG’s. | One of the challenges of students in Pakistan is that they lack career direction and have less job opportunities. This evidence based program helps students find career direction as per their interest, aptitude, skills, temperament and futuristic career scope from their teachers which will lead to employability and job creation as well as leading to strengthening the economy. It will educate students on which industries have jobs and which careers fields will have futuristic jobs as well as job creation. This evidence and practice based training program is imparted to teachers and they transmit to their students which integrate the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainable development. Climate Change is a serious challenge in the region with the recent heat waves the students and teachers of this program also initiated a Tree plantation drive. The project integrates Sustainable Development Goals: (SDG) Goals 1,4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16. After successful execution in Pakistan we are now in the process of scaling to countries such as Brazil, Costa Rica, Qatar, Iraq and Azerbaijan. We hope to inspire countless lives! | Our program is evidence based it is developed after conducting a qualitative research and meeting with diverse and important stakeholders such as Employers- Public & Private, Educators-Public and Private Sector, Parents, Teachers, students and Philanthropists on career teacher education . The teacher trainings content is based on experiential learning, case studies, blended learning, futuristic careers, role plays and simulations so teachers receive a holistic learning experience to make a profound impact with their respective students for progressive careers leading to sustained livelihood. | As an energetic team we have done well in Pakistan and in a decade we have impacted lives of 100,000 students, teachers and employees. We measure the progress of our program through feedback forms that we provide to our stake-holders: Students, Teachers and Educators. We are humble to share that we have constituently earned excellent feedback not just nationally we have been globally recognized from eminent career scholars, practitioners and consultants. | After successful execution in Pakistan we are now planning the transition to scale to the following new countries: South America-Brazil, Costa Rica, Middle East- Qatar, Iraq and Asia: Azerbaijan. Projected Lives to impact: 100,000 Staff we plan to recruit: 1.Social Media Influencers 2.Community Mobilizers 3.Technical Advisor Governance 4.Technical Advisor Education 5.Technical Advisor Capacity Development Education 6.Monitoring & Evaluation Consultants 7.Technical Advisor Communication & Outreach 8.Administration Officer 9.Finance Officer 10.Management Assistants 11.Interns 12.Security Officer 13.Computer Advisor 14.Drivers | Short-term: Human Resources, Finance Medium-term: Human Resources, Finance Long-term: Human Resources, Finance | i) Inclusive Career Reforms: http://www.asiapacificcda.org/page-1862263#Inclusive ii) Acknowledgement by UNESCO: http://www.asiapacificcda.org/Pakistan#UNESCO iii) Instilling Hope: Ground-Breaking: http://www.asiapacificcda.org/October-2015/#Pakistan: iv) Global Career Luminaries Interviews: United States Perspective https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/distinguished-global-career-luminaries-6th-interview-raza-abbas/?trackingId=UNjnzMTTTcyxMWY2DwPP7Q%3D%3D v) Evidence from one of the sessions: https://www.facebook.com/LawrenceCollegeOfficial/posts/career-counselling-sessions-by-mr-raza-abbasmr-raza-abbas-is-a-well-known-career/1686486748140329/ | i. NCDA International Career Practitioner Award: 2019 Raza’s Acceptance Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACNxgHNF9lc&feature=youtu.be ii. Career Development Conference- Raza’s Video Session via Distance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pSEjfAUQFY iii. Dr. Anthony Scioli’s Endorsement for Raza- Ground-breaking Work on Hope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XQ_xqAIOno&t=53s iv. Raza’s Interview at one of Pakistan’s largest professional Platform: (In Urdu) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0MoOeWqYRE | International Career Practitioner Award: National Career Development Association: June 26, 19, Swera Award: Certificate of Appreciation: Exceptional work, 23 Feb, 19, Outstanding Career Practitioner Award: Asia Pacific Career Development Association: 23 May, 17, Teaching Award- Aao Parhao- ""Come Teach"" an initiative of Express Media Group(Partner of International New York Times), February, 15, Alumni Diversity Award- Arizona Blue Chip Program, Oct 10, 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
579 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Saurabh | Agarwal | Deeper Learning Innovations Pvt. Ltd. | https://edcaptain.com | CEO | Male | India | India | English | UN Solutions Summit presents a platform for partnerships. There are a number of solutions that require more partnerships than anything else to solve problems and achieve SDG targets. Our solution is one of them. SDG4 cannot be reached until we actively engage with the two biggest influencers in a child's life: parents and teachers. Teachers and parents need to become better educators and this is what we are aiming to achieve through partnerships and bringing knowledge of all educators on one platform and make it freely available to all others. | Saurabh is a life skills educator who has more than 10 years of experience in working in the development sector. He is a Harvard and IIT Alumni and has worked in public sector consulting through PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte and The World Bank. | EdCaptain | A 21st Century Education Platform for Parents & Teachers | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | India | Yes | Local School and Educators | Proof of Concept | EdCaptain will completely transform the way we prepare our teachers and parents to teach – with readily available resources, activities, tips and discourse on teaching and learning with other teachers. Additionally, the teachers would feel acknowledged and proud to join this movement of teaching revolution. We are currently building partnerships for knowledge sharing as we believe a teacher in Boston can also benefit from teaching ideas of a classroom in rural India. Knowledge sharing is key. | - Limited access to high quality, relevant content for teachers - No peer learning opportunities: Individual teacher’s techniques that work often exist as isolated pockets of excellence. There is no transfer of such knowledge from one teacher to the other beyond the same school or district. Can a teacher in India share a teaching technique that can be used by a teacher in US? - Parents as a teaching resource are currently underutilized throughout the country. | EdCaptain’s goal is to provide the two biggest influencers in a child’s life, the parents and the teachers, with the know-how and tools to teach life skills to all children (in age group 4 to 14 years). This is proposed through a web platform that will offer 3 key services to parents and teachers: (1) Do-it-yourself (DIY), fun, experiential activities for life skills with videos and instructions that teachers and parents can do with children at school or at home; (2) access to life skills related articles and other content from global educators and parents; and (3) an interactive community forum where parents and teachers can ask questions and share experiences related to life skills. | While there are a number of ed-tech solutions for content consumption by children, solutions to make teachers and parents better educators for life skills education are still needed. EdCaptain is trying to address this gap. | While we have built the technology solution, and are now in the process of collaborating with educators to share their content freely on our platform. We will be measuring the progress in the short, medium and long term through different means of engagement. | We plan to reach atleast 5 million educators in the next 2 years and thereby impacting more than 10 million children lives through better life skills education. | Partnerships with educators across the globe to share knowledge on this platform. | https://edcaptain.com | https://vimeo.com/336286564 | EdCaptain has been selected one of the innovative ideas under the Grand Challenges conducted by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and has received a grant from them. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
580 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nitin | Seshadri | D2NK Team | https://d2nkteam.wixsite.com/restshare | Student | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | A colossal amount of food is being thrown away every single day while millions of people go hungry without even a single meal a day! RestShare is our idea to have restaurants share their leftover cooked, un-served food with soup kitchens so that food insecure people can have a healthy meal. To implement this idea, we created the RestShare mobile app that connects the restaurants with soup kitchens through volunteers that can help deliver the food. We hope for a future when no one has to go hungry in the world. | We are an enthusiastic Science and Innovation team from New York. Our team is called D²NK, which stands for our names and our motto: Design Into Knowledge. We use our strengths in research and technology and work on various STEM initiatives to build devices for specialized purposes and write mobile apps to solve all types of challenges. Our aim is to use technology to make a difference in the lives of the people and community around us. Our RestShare initiative was selected as a Finalist at the Paradigm Challenge 2018 contest. We were selected as Future Innovators for our AI4VI wearable sensor at the Healthcare Design Competition at Johns Hopkins University, Maryland. We participated as part of a First Lego League team and won several awards including Core Values Award at the Razorback Invitational at Arkansas where teams from more than 40 countries participated. Team Members: Nitin Seshadri, Age 15, Sophomore at Somers High School, Somers, NY Deeya Patel, Age 16, Sophomore at Hackley School, Tarrytown, NY Divek Patel, Age 15, Freshman at Hackley School, Tarrytown, NY Karan Keerthy, Age 13, 8th grader at Briarcliff Middle School, Briarcliff Manor, NY | RestShare - Save More, Eat More! | An initiative to connect restaurants and soup-kitchens to feed food-insecure people through technology | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | United States | No | Proof of Concept | Once we came up with the initiative, we pitched our initiative to a few local restaurants and other stakeholders. While receptive to the idea, the owners and managers were not ready to participate given some liability issues as well as parent company directives. There are similar efforts that some restaurant chains have started themselves but those are limited to their corporate level policies and practices. | Over 100 million lbs. of food are being thrown away every day from leftover cooked, un-served food at restaurants. At the same time, there are millions of people that are not able to get even a single proper meal a day. In 2010 alone, 14.5% of households in the United States experienced food security at one time or the other - that’s over 17 million people! Worldwide the numbers are much higher. We created RestShare to make a difference in the wellness of such food-insecure people. | RestShare is about connecting people to food. Our project connects restaurants, soup kitchens, and volunteers in an easy way to both reduce waste at restaurants and enable food insecure people obtain a good meal. First, it starts with restaurants that can share a list of extra foods that they might otherwise throw away. Next, soup kitchens and other establishments can request food that they might need from the list. Lastly, volunteers can help out by transporting the food from the restaurants to the soup kitchens. We have created an iOS app that helps facilitate this sharing in a very easy, real time, and intuitive manner. The app is available on the Apple App Store. We hope our innovative idea will benefit food-insecure people and our communities. Our RestShare website is at https://d2nkteam.wixsite.com/restshare | Rather than traditional ways that simply did either an awareness campaign for reducing waste or encouraged people to volunteer and donate food to the needy, or other isolated campaigns, we went a step further and provided the RestShare framework within which it becomes easier for multiple entities to connect, get involved, and, in the process, make a positive improvement in the lives of food-insecure people. Our easy and intuitive mobile app takes the entire initiative to the next level by taking advantage of the widespread use of smartphone in today’s environment. Furthermore, it does not depend on any one organization to coordinate or supervise but rather entities can connect with one another as needed in a distributed fashion that harnesses the power of everyone to provide an efficient network. | We feel there will be a definite improvement in the lives of people that rely on the soup kitchens and other charitable establishments for at least a single meal in a day. The impact can be ascertained by the increase in contributions to the soup kitchens. We spoke to a few restaurant owners and managers in our community who were extremely receptive to the idea and gave their perspective on the issue. They felt that this idea can really make a significant impact but they are not yet ready to participate given the issues of liability and reputation if food were to get spoiled and causes any undesirable side effects. They suggested that an important factor would be to get the local government or officials behind the initiative to explore using the good samaritan principle to cover liability issues for restaurants. Once we get the initiative running we can measure by the number of restaurants and soup kitchens that actively participate in the program. We can also measure by the increased number of people that benefit from these donations. | Our immediate goal is to explore whether we can sign up a few restaurants in our local region to spearhead the initiative along with help from local government or non-profit organizations. Once in operation, we would like to measure the impact on the local communities as stated above to learn from and improve our solution. Alongside, our goal is to also do some fundraising to help in publicizing our initiative as well as do some community outreach to help bring in more participants. | The most important short term need is to get some local government officials and non-profit organizations to help seed the idea in the community and provide cover for the liability issues such that restaurants can participate in our initiative. This is the most important resource or requirement that is required for our initiative to take hold. We believe once it is established in a local region, it can really then scale up to a bigger geographical area as the concept by itself does not require any resources and it just relies on the restaurants & soup kitchens to participate. The mobile app is available for anyone to use and that is the only investment required. If the effort really scales up to a very wide scale across the state or wider, then we will need additional resources to operate the appropriate servers to support the mobile app for everyone. | Main website for our Initiative is at https://d2nkteam.wixsite.com/restshare Our project page has details on our efforts and our outreach activities. | A video of our initiative and our smartphone app can be viewed at https://youtu.be/jGwxetmEE_A | 1. Finalist at the Paradigm Challenge 2018 competition. https://www.projectparadigm.org/ 2. Honorary Mention at Student Competition on Solutions for Future Earth 2019 conducted by Molecular Frontiers Journal https://www.worldscientific.com/pb-assets/wspc-site/mkt-landing-page/Molecular-Frontiers-Journal-Announces-Winners.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
581 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Francis Aldrine | Uy | Mapua university | mapua.edu.ph | DEAN of the School of Civil, Environmental and Geological Engineering (CEGE) | Male | Philippines | Philippines | English | As a naturally inquisitive problem-solver, researcher, and author who can conceptualize, visualize, and solve problems, Dr. Uy is highly acknowledged in the area of Civil Systems. Through his directorship in numerous and diverse professional organizations, Dr. Uy continues to actively engage in activities that will propel international recognition and global mobility of Filipino engineers. His active involvement in good governance and policy-making as a member of various government agency committees allows him to shed light on significant and pressing issues of the community. The USHER technology, evidently, is a pride of Dr. Uy and his team. Bringing light to disaster resilience and disaster risk reduction is this engineering project’s goals and they are currently making significant steps to achieving these. The tangible and beneficial actions towards the country and the WORLD community, including the very fabric of USHER technology’s ideology, make it an outstanding engineering project. Strengthen the structures, make UN countries earthquake-resilient, and save every life possible. This is USHER technology’s ultimate purpose- to save lives. UN countries, unfortunately, are at high risk of disasters including the feared earthquake. Looming and surrounding the very depths of these countries are the Pacific Ring of Fire and the oceanic trenches permanently threatening the safety of everyone around. If USHER technologies can contribute to the countries’ resilience and essentially lessen the risk to damage and loss of lives, then it has truly performed to its highest potential. More than bringing pride to the country and the world community, Dr. Uy and the USHER team wish to be instruments of the community’s resilience and safety. As a team player, leader, and engineer with a strong social consciousness, Dr. Uy has always been on the side of science which is community vigilant and ceaselessly innovates ways to make this planet a better place to live. What makes an engineer outstanding? More than being incessantly curious is the drive to provide the society a kinder and better future. That future is the future Dr. Francis Aldrine Uy holds in his dreams. | Dr. Francis Aldrine Uy is a graduate of B.S. Civil Engineering at the Mapua Institute of Technology. He earned his M.S. Civil Engineering degree major in Structural Engineering at the Technological University of the Philippines. In 2011, he completed his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering major in Transportation Engineering program at the University of the Philippines in Diliman. He has been a faculty member of the School of Civil, Environmental and Geological Engineering of the Mapua Institute of Technology since 2001. He was appointed as OIC of the school in November of 2007 and was confirmed as Dean of the School in 2008. He is currently the Dean of the School and has led his colleagues in acquiring ABET, PACUCOA, PTC and CHED COD-COE Accreditation. It can be highly noted that the Civil Engineering program is the first Level IV PACUCOA accredited CE program, 1st CE PTC Accredited program and the 1st ABET Accredited Program of its kind in East Asia. Dr. Uy has been an advocate and prime thinker on Transformational Outcomes-Based Education (OBE). In 2014, he published a book entitled ""Outcomes-Based Education: Critical Issues and Answers with no other than the father of OBE, Dr. William Spady. Dr. Uy. He has also published numerous Transportation Engineering researches and a currently a member of the EIA Review Committee of the DENR. He is also a member of Division IV of the National Research Council of the Philippines as Transportation Systems and Structures Specialist. | Universal Structural Health and Evaluation System (USHER) | A 24/7 Structural Integrity Monitoring System that will USHER safer and more resilient cities and communities. | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | USHER Technologies is currently implemented in the Philippines and soon other ASEAN and UN countries. | Yes | The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and Mapua University | Sustainable Scale | The beginnings of USHER came from a Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) funded research project called Smart Bridge. To date, USHER is on the stage of commercialization. | Disaster preparedness and infrastructure resilience cannot be ignored any longer. In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development including 17 Sustainable Development Goals.USHER addresses a global disaster problem which has existed before civilization itself which impacts millions of people. USHER aims to be a direct arm of developing communities in its sustainability through practical innovation. | The USHER System is composed of two parts: the device/accelerometer and the USHER Platform. The system, designed to fully comply with the DPWH IRR requirements, can satisfy the need for data retrieval, interpretation, and storage. Data gathered from structures are remotely transmitted through the internet to the USHER Platform. The platform can then be used by building officials and structural engineers to monitor structures under their jurisdiction. Further, USHER can send alert messages (in the form of emails, SMS and public announcements) in the occurrence of an earthquake or any structural damage detected in the building. The USHER device is a Structural Health and ERI that is: ●Easy to install ●Cost-effective ●Low maintenance ●Locally fabricated ●With readily available parts ●Designed with specifications based on DPWH Guidelines The USHER Platform allows remote monitoring of a structure’s structural integrity. Some of its features include the following: ●A decision-support tool for building owners, Structural Engineers, LGU Building Officials, and the DPWH ●Wireless data retrieval, storage, and archiving ●24/7 data access ●Alarm System (e.g. SMS, e-mail) ●Automatic data interpretation based on thresholds ●Public Announcement (PA) System The solution of USHER Technologies may be applied not only in the Philippines, but of the world! | The USHER devices installed in buildings, bridges, and other structures form wireless sensor networks. The acceleration data of the structures shall be recorded locally in the devices and transmitted wireless via SIM-technology to the cloud for remote storage in the data center. Recorded data may be viewed using the web portal and accessible to authorized users. Each USHER device is configurable by updating embedded threshold levels based on the structural models and/or historical data of the structures. Depending on the number of USHER devices installed within a structure, the devices will form a cluster with a central device installed with a wireless modem. Data gathered from the cluster of devices are then transmitted via the cloud and received in an off-site control station. Depending on the preference of the clients/end-users, the control stations may be housed by the client or gathered data be retrieved and stored in a central data center. Data that reaches the control centers are linked to a web portal which displays the map with locations and information about the structures including its structural health, location of the USHER devices within the structures, reading of each USHER device, and others. | In addition to on-going and upcoming DOST-PCIEERD and DPWH-funded research projects, USHER is planned to be implemented as a Spin-Off company through a DOST-PCIEERD program called Funding Assistance for Spin-off and Translation of Research in Advancing Commercialization (FASTRAC). The spin-off aims to validate and determine the appropriate business model for the USHER System. As a developing country continuously threatened by earthquakes, the need for an innovative system in the Philippines that monitors the structures’ integrity is imminent. Imagine the significance of USHER, an ERI that can keep an eye on a structure’s integrity while you’re sleeping. The 24/7 monitoring feature gives a remarkable insight into safety. Does this building need reconstruction? Which part is compromised? Is the building still safe after an earthquake? The implication on time, effort, and certainty of safety is at stake. The USHER project aims to answer all these questions with more accuracy than its ERI predecessors and the ones existing in today’s market. The USHER project truly is a solution-based engineering innovation. | USHER envisions growth and application of technology not only in the Philippines but also abroad. As the Philippine sis envisioned to have a nationwide monitoring agency/ group that enables 24/7 assessment of infrastructures, USHER hopes to provide the tech in ASEAN and UN countries. | USHER started from research and development as mentioned provided by DOST of the Philippines. As we progress to commercialization, funding is needed to enable mass production of the USHER units and supply it to the minimum price possible just to sustain fabrication. | Website: http://www.usher.ph/?fbclid=IwAR1ObOfK4pvma7fPf1CWLm7RXD1UrjxZORj8XPHKx3cS3HbxoX89X5GUOJM#/home FB Link: @ushertechnologies Messenger: https://m.me/ushertechnologies?fbclid=IwAR0c82pzeQGelQcTaMserN7kKISjZcqQUjFToMFWOrb7FDWtnf6ilM9Hv6Y Email: faauy@usher.ph | DEMO link: http://usher.ph/demo/#/ | 1.2019 Outstanding ASEAN Science Diplomat given by ASEAN Science Diplomats 2.Winner of the World Summit Award 2018 3.2018 Outstanding R&D Award on Special Concerns given by the Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development- Department of Science and Technology 4.First Place in the Royal Academy Engineer’s Leaders in Innovation Fellowship by the Royal Academy Engineer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
582 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Patricia | Williams | Global Health Services Network | http://ghsnllc.com/ | President and Founder | Female | United States of America | Argentina | English | French | Spanish | By participating, I hope to raise awareness of the dire need for increased capacity, quality, and empowerment of nursing staff in middle- and low-income countries as well as share our solution to this problem. Throughout my 30-year career in international healthcare development, I have gained insight into the challenges of improving the quality and access to healthcare in developing countries. A critical factor to the success of a clinic, hospital, or healthcare system is the quality of nursing staff. However, in places like Myanmar, Nepal, and Ethiopia, limited access to nursing education stifles capacity and quality. Additionally, many of the nursing methods and techniques taught in existing schools rely on rote memorization, and encourage their primarily female students to primarily take orders rather than be part of a dynamic decision-making team. Identifying this need, I developed the American Nursing Institute (ANI), a degree-granting nursing school. In addition to providing students with nurse aide certificate, RN, and continuing education programs, ANI empowers students by making leadership, critical thinking, and English-language skills central to the curriculum. By emphasizing these elements, ANI both, increases nursing capacity and empowers women to be leaders and decision-makers. So far, ANI-Myanmar, Myanmar’s first private school of nursing, has over 150 students, and additional ANIs are currently being developed in Oman, Ethiopia, Iraq, Vietnam, and Nepal. | Patricia Williams was born and raised in Asia and has spent her 30 year career in international health. She founded Global Health Services Network with the intent of supporting private and public healthcare systems and improving health outcomes of global communities. Her experience includes international work in more than 27 countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, including Vietnam, Libya, Bangladesh, Kenya, Guam, and the United Arab Emirates, among others. Her work has included leading the development of hospitals ranging from 40 to 350 beds, a learning organization and system structure for the Ministry of Health of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, planning for a women and children’s hospital in Abu Dhabi, the hospital management for a 310-bed hospital in Bangladesh, conducting a hospital management strengthening program for 6 hospitals of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, among others. Ms. Williams is a Fellow of the American College of HealthCare Executives, received her Masters of Science in Health Care Administration from Des Moines University and a dual Bachelor of Science in Biology and Communications from Ashland University. Ms. Williams currently serves on the Advisory Board of Danat Al Emarat Hospital in Abu Dhabi and on the Board of Trustees of a pediatric palliative care and hospice organization in the United States. She has been appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to the Eastern Michigan District Export Council and is multi-lingual. | The American Nursing Institute | Sustainably improving healthcare by educating and empowering nursing professionals to be world-class patient-centered care providers and leaders. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Iraq | Yes | Universities, private hospital groups, etc. | Scaling | Healthcare organizations and stakeholders across the developing world are recognizing the importance of increasing access to quality nursing education. As a tested and innovative method of addressing this need, ANI has attracted serious interest from multiple organizations across several regions. Additional access to regional stakeholders and investment in tools like tele-education will help ANI scale to over 10 countries by 2028 and produce over 10,000 ANI-alumni worldwide by 2035. | With limited access to nurses and nursing education, developing nations face a shortage of millions of nurses, making access to healthcare difficult and costly for patients. Part of the reason for this shortage is a lack of capacity within existing nursing education programs. Additionally, these programs themselves do not emphasize critical-thinking, leadership, and English-language skills, all of which are critical to empowering nurses to be leaders and decision-makers. | Through a partnership with Eastern Michigan University College of Health and Human Services and Ashland University, the American Nursing Institute (ANI) develops and manages schools of nursing, in compliance with local regulations and governing bodies, in countries with need. Locations are determined by a local partner, who co-owns the respective ANI and is familiar with the local needs and regulations. ANIs are fee-for-service; however, students have the opportunity to be sponsored by local healthcare organizations who can subsidize their education and provide employment after graduation. Critical-thinking, leadership, and English-language skills are central to the curriculum at each ANI, giving students the tools to be leaders and decision-makers. Not only are students empowered in the classroom, rigorous clinical lessons and study abroad opportunities in the US also set ANI apart as innovative among nursing programs in the developing world. Additionally, as more locations are developed across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, students, who may otherwise not have access to international networks, will have the chance to research and collaborate with fellow students from different regions and cultures. ANI is made sustainable through an effort to identify, train, and mentor certain students who show promise as nursing instructors. This will allow future students to identify with and learn from ANI alumni who are highly-trained and understand the local culture. | In many middle- and low-income countries, nursing education is typically either not available or dated in its approach. In Myanmar, for example, standard nursing curriculum is decades old, and based on the premise that nurses are subservient to other healthcare providers. As a result, nursing students in the country are denied valuable tools and lessons that can improve their ability to deliver care and be empowered as individuals. By making critical-thinking, leadership, and English-language skills, along with critical didactic and clinical lessons, central to the curriculum, ANI provides an innovative and empowering education for students, many of whom are women. In fact, by empowering them both as individuals and professionals, our female students gain the tools and understanding that allow them to provide effective care for patients while also serving as examples for other young women in their communities. | Since its founding in 2016, ANI-Myanmar has developed into a dynamic and comprehensive institution, providing a number of nurse aide and nurse education programs. Indeed, our program has attracted attention from a number of organizations and stakeholders across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, which has resulted in the development of ANIs in Ethiopia, Oman, Iraq, Vietnam, and Nepal. While our growth has served as validation, we also rely on the feedback of students and local healthcare organizations who serve as both clinical sites and employers for our students. Additionally, input and guidance from local nursing and midwifery governing bodies has helped determine the regulatory benchmarks for our students and graduates. We are proud of our progress so far, but understand that we must continue to collect and learn from feedback in order to continue to pursue our mission of educating and empowering nursing professionals to be world-class patient-centered care providers and leaders | With locations in Oman, Ethiopia, Iraq, Nepal, and Vietnam already in development in addition to our existing ANI in Myanmar, we are confident that we will achieve our goal of opening 10 ANIs in 10 different developing countries by the year 2025. In conjunction with this goal, we are aiming to produce at least 10,000 ANI-alumni worldwide by 2035, creating a global network of quality nurses with leadership skills. From this alumni base, we plan on staffing existing and future ANIs with world-class nurses and educators. Not only will this directly address the global shortage of nursing staff by increasing the capacity of nursing education, it will also empower generations of women across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to be leaders, role-models, and decision-makers in healthcare and their communities. By improving the nurse-to-population ratios, the impact of ANI and its alumni on healthcare in the developing world will be exponential. | Critical factors to the success of the program include: A commitment to maintaining a consistently high standard of education, elevation and recognition of the nursing profession as a desired career choice, and access to high quality faculty, resources and teaching materials. Many of the locations where we strive to implement this program do not have strong and consistent internet access and for this reason, we rely on in person contact hours as well as materials. Establishing a clear understanding among all program participants (funders, students, faculty) is critical to ensure alignment in the program mission and metrics for success, as well as an understanding of the role of nurses as a critical part of the patient care team. One of the most critical resources required, is the opportunity to educate other healthcare leaders (owners of hospitals, leaders in the ministry of health, doctors) of the importance of teaching nurses leadership skills and allowing them the opportunity to utilize their critical thinking skills to improve healthcare processes for improved quality and efficiency. Nurses can help minimize waste as well as impact quality if they are allowed to express their voices as part of the patient care team. | http://ghsnllc.com/services/american-nursing-institute/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDK4bg1GTmE | Ashland University Special Achievement Award (2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
583 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Katherine | Clayton | OmniVis | http://www.omnivistech.com | CEO / co-founder | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Coming from a scientific and health background, I knew that I could use my skills in a unique way to help work toward the sustainable development goals. Therefore, from my PhD research, I developed novel algorithms to be used for sensitive disease detection. When I learned about cholera, I saw a huge gap where science could be used to aid in the elimination of a tragic yet highly treatable disease. Working toward cholera elimination through proactive detection in water, SDGs #3 and #6 are at the forefront of my biotech company, OmniVis. In partnership with the SDGs, the Global Task Force for Cholera Control (GTFCC) has a roadmap to eliminating 90% of cholera worldwide by 2030. The UN Solutions Summit has likeminded individuals who are dedicating their careers to solving some of the biggest world issues, from gender equality, to climate change, to ending poverty. Therefore, I want to be part of this unique group of people to share our stories, experiences, and how we can work together toward the Sustainable Development Goals. I know how important it is to meet people throughout the world to solve difficult problems, together. The UN Solutions Summit sets the stage for such an opportunity. Honest feedback from those who have worked around the world is essential for making innovation become reality and change societal outcomes. I think that the UN Solutions Summit is a venue to provide such a unique opportunity for constructive feedback. | Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Katherine pursued a BS and MS degree in Biomedical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Due to a personal experience with her family member as a 7-year-old, she dreamed of having a career where she could change health outcomes. So, she tailored her graduate education toward appropriate technology with an emphasis on disease diagnostics. In 2017 her and her co-founders started the company, OmniVis. OmniVis designs field deployable technology to rapidly detect the cholera pathogen in water samples to prevent wide-scale outbreaks. When Katherine is not working on OmniVis, she likes to travel, garden, cook, read, and hike. | OmniVis | Power of the lab in the palm of your hand. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Bangladesh, Kenya, Haiti | Yes | Code for Africa, icddr,b, Emerging Pathogens Institute | Proof of Concept | OmniVis designed the device and did over 500 tests to verify sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, lower limit of detection, and selectivity of the device. We took the device to Dhaka, Bangladesh for an initial 6-week pilot study to assess both scientific capability as well as user-centered design and feedback. Therefore, we are making iterations to reflect user feedback and piloting the device this fall. | Current cholera detection platforms are time intensive, costly, and imprecise, exacerbating widescale disease outbreaks throughout the world. This disease causes approximately 3 million cases across the globe each year and wastes $2 billion annually in treatments and lost productivity that could be avoidable through early detection. | OmniVis’ hardware device and single use disposable test kit (razor/razorblade model) attaches to a smartphone and reduces the detection process from 3-5 days down to 30 minutes, more accurately and affordably than other solutions on the market. Additionally, OmniVis’ data gathering & reporting tools provide insights over disease hotspots; enabling earlier warning before wide scale outbreaks occur. Long-term OmniVis wants to improve lives and lower infectious disease burden worldwide. We believe that by providing cholera detection, we are supporting access to clean food and sanitation. Lack of access to safe water widens the gap of inequality due to the number of water-related illnesses that may affect vulnerable areas. Promoting clean water efforts with our device will make local and international aid agencies more inclined to tackle water remediation as they will be able to specifically pinpoint where to provide resources. This lowers monetary burden and labor hours and increases the safety of individuals who are undergoing other life-threatening conditions in crises. We designed our device to have interchangeable chemistries to detect for other diseases. By detecting diseases early, we can go beyond clean water (#6) and health (#3) but work toward gender equality (#5) and promote more economic opportunity (#1) as people will be able to work rather than stay home. | OmniVis was developed during the CEO's PhD along with her 3 co-founders, who were her academic advisors. Looking at the field, they saw that there were no other commercial devices that were on the market to detect for cholera in environmental water samples, at the point of use. Traditionally, cholera detection in environmental water samples has been performed by water sample collection, alpha peptone water enrichment, TCBS streaking, cell isolation, Lysogeny broth isolation, serology, and polymerase chain reaction. This method takes months-to-years for scientists to learn and perform, while being expensive. However, it is highly accurate. The alternative methods are lateral flow assays, which are simple paper-based dipsticks that change color when cholera is detected. These lateral flow assays are designed only for stool samples (not water), are only 65% accurate, and provide no data generation. OmniVis demonstrated innovation with their technology in two ways. The first is through the method in which they detect for cholera. OmniVis uses proprietary algorithms to detect for cholera presence. The second innovation is in the data. Our technology uses a smartphone to map and time-stamp the detection events, analyze the data and store it on a cloud-based platform with a personal log-in portal, and send automated data notifications to NGOs, governments, community leaders, or other participants. Data can be used to be proactive in disease outbreak control. | The research behind the OmniVis measurement system started in Spring 2013. Since then, we have had over 30 undergraduate, master's, and PhD engineering and global health students work toward the development of this solution at Purdue University and University of Notre Dame. OmniVis spun out of Purdue in 2017. We measure our progress and methodological rigor through journal articles (20 conference papers/presentations, 4 published scientific papers, 2 scientific papers in preparation, 2 patents pending), field studies (1 6-week study in Bangladesh completed), and the ability to raise funding to continue our research. In the future, we will continue to measure our progress through data points collected for cholera, number of sites that are remediated, number of lives improved, and number of lives saved through cholera detection and prevention. Further, we will assess how many employment opportunities we provide throughout the world and students we support. | - Fall 2019 - pilot in Bangladesh and Haiti - Winter 2019/2020 - pilot in Kenya - Winter 2019 - contracts with 3-4 customers - Spring 2020 - find larger manufacturers for technology - Spring 2020 - initial sales to customers - Fall 2020 - scaling-up of manufacturing - Fall 2020 - small-batch manufacture a bacterial concentrating unit - Spring 2021 - start beta testing next water testing kit - Spring 2021 - work with new partners and countries in addition to current ones for cholera testing - 2023 - start clinical trials for blood tests - 2025 - FDA approval for blood testing of 1-2 diseases - 2027 - expand on disease testing in blood - 2030 - be part of GTFCC goal for 90% cholera cases eliminated worldwide - 2030 - vet and food testing kits | Short-term: In the next few months, OmniVis will iterate on their device design based on user-feedback from a 6-week beta test in Dhaka, Bangladesh with icddr,b and University of Notre Dame. We will manufacture a small number of units and test the device this fall in Kenya, Haiti, and Bangladesh. Medium-term: OmniVis will commercialize their device in Spring 2020. OmniVis will leverage weaknesses in the existing water testing market. Revenue streams include initial hardware investments ($1000 each) and recurring revenue of individual test kits ($10 each). Due to the low initial costs (1/2 start-up cost, 1/10th cost per test), the expected volume of mobile testing, the quality of our product and interdependence of hardware and testing kits, we expect a high level of volume and long-term customer loyalty. Long-term: Phase I will allow OmniVis to establish a presence and foundation in the waterborne testing market. By changing the chemistry in our test kit, we can detect a variety of diseases (bacterial, virus, parasite). For growth, we will leverage our knowledge and platform to expand into blood-based clinical testing. We have shown success in detecting bacteria related to sepsis, HIV, malaria, and dengue. | Website: https://www.omnivistech.com Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RviI21EJTfA&t=10s Scientific Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38056-7 Scientific Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.analchem.7b03513 Company Blog: https://medium.com/@OmniVisTech Company Twitter: https://twitter.com/OmniVisTech | 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Vw5UxY4XM&t=76s 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75MkCbzErMo 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6jzDOYLkXU | - World Changing Idea - Fast Company - 2018 - Gifted Citizen 2018 - Halcyon Fellow 2019 - Project Entrepreneur 2018 - LEAP through Global Good Fund 2019 - 1st Place AMPLIFY Girls in Tech Pitch Competition and BioLOGIC Innovation Awards - 2nd Place Indiana Biocrossroads (2018) and Schurz Innovation Contest (2016) and Cisco Live! Spain (2019) and Burton D. Morgan Business Plan Competition (2017) - Cisco Global Problem Solvers 2nd Runner-Up 2017 - Grants - NSF, NIST, Humanitarian Grand Challenge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
584 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ankita | Jain | Help Sapiens | https://kitajain.wixsite.com/helpsapiens | Founder / CEO | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Spanish | I am a 16 year old now however when I was a 14 year old in my high school, I decided that it was time for me to make my impact on the world that encompassed all the SDG Goals because the future belongs to the children of today! And lo and behold, Help Sapiens was born! Help Sapiens is a non-profit organization that I started in hopes of both growing my local teen community back at school and having an even greater impact on the society that we live in today. One of the primary issues that Help Sapiens is concerned with is the importance of mental health and how we as a society can overcome the stigma around it and learn to support those who suffer from mental conditions and disorders. In recent years, I have been working with another non-profit organization that promotes yoga and all its effects; physical health, mental health, social health, and more. Through my collaboration with this organization, I have had the privilege to teach yoga and mindfulness techniques to kids of several age groups, backgrounds, and abilities. By doing so, I have been able to teach both yoga and meditation to several young children diagnosed with ADHD, ADD, and more. In order to address the issue of teen mental health, I went on to start my own mindfulness club at school. Through the club, I was able to spread messages of body positivity, self-worth, calmness, and more to more to my fellow stressed-out peers. Through the duration of the club, members were able to maintain a journal in which they could pen down their inner thoughts and save for later, we often practiced 10 minute meditations during our lunch break, and so much more. While this may not be affecting society at a large scale yet, I am working my way there one step at a time by making a difference in my local community back home. | After being an avid yoga enthusiast for 10 years, I worked to earn my yoga teacher’s certification in 2016. Once I received this recognition, I began to wonder how I could apply my skills in music, dance, and yoga along with my interest in teen mental health and positive psychology to the real world, and more importantly, how it could bring about a better change in the world. However, as I realize that teens themselves need to be self aware of stress and the consequences associated with it, I started this organization. Through this experience, I have not only been able to share my experience of yoga and mindfulness with my peers, but have also been able to witness how speaking about such prevalent issues in today’s society that concern the future generation are becoming increasingly necessary to maintain both physical and mental health. | Address Wellbeing and World Peace by Addressing mental health | Helping humanity - one step at a time. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | The solution is currently implemented in the USA however I intend to spread the solution across the world | No | Transition to Scale | This innovation is in this stage because this idea was inspired a couple of years ago when I attended a conference at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. I see the ability to scale after having rolled out the solution to a number of children by hosting various classes in a controlled environment and seeing the positive impact that it has had on the children | I have seen first hand that most of the challenges that the humanity faces are not caused by nature but are caused by humans themselves. The reason for inflicting harm on humanity by humans? Lack of mental peace and stability which only extrapolates as the humans transform from youth into adults and I strongly believe that we can address the long term challenges only if we are able to address the mental health challenges that the youth faces today. | As a 14 year old in the high school, in the Silicon Valley, I discovered that most of the work pressures that the parents face at the work add to the pressures that the teenagers faces at school. These pressures impact the way that a teenager behaves ie. early depression, obesity, drugs, gang violence and finally shootings at various cities. These finally lead to teenagers becoming child-soldiers and participating in wars across the world. The best way to mitigate the doomsday scenario that is pretty prevalent in the world today ie address SDG Goal #3 is to address the mental health challenges that the youth faces because we cannot change the other pressure triggers. Therefore, my solution is to address the mental health of the youth across the world, irrespective of where they are - in the peaceful areas of Scandinavian countries or the war-torn areas of Syria by helping them through a structured meditation and self-awareness course which helps them with their self-esteem and also eliminates the flash-triggers that lead to violence. These guided exercises are not only for the youth but for adults as well because the way to global well-being is via self-peace My long term vision for global impact is for me to be able to work along with the UN to promote the idea of HelpSapiens so that we have better and healthy people across the world who can then focus on the other SDG Goals and have an overall success. | This initiative is unique from those of other organizations / companies since many individuals tend to focus on one of the two extremes: focusing on completely different SDGs that may appear to be more urgent, or focusing on the same SDG but with an alternative approach. A lot of organizations / companies may propose technological innovations that strive to beat the last, when in reality, the best way to solve this issue is already with us - mindfulness. I believe that practicing yoga and integrating mindfulness techniques in one’s day-to-day schedule can ensure a much healthier life going forward. | When I started working on HelpSapiens, with the fact that I am a 16 year old and a certified yoga instructor, I did not have the capital or the use-cases to document success. Therefore, I reached out to local yoga institutes to initial classes for children, youth and adults with special needs. I structured my curriculum in a manner that required the participate to attend weekly classes (along with homework) for a 6 month period. Over a period of time, there was a remarkable difference in the children with special needs (ADHD) where they were able to perform a large number of their day to day tasks. This made me formalize my curriculum and therefore roll it out to a large number of classes across the area that we live in | As previously mentioned, the initiative has not impacted 100s of 1000s of people however the underlying philosophy is over 5000 year old which has always resulted in success every time all the time. I have had major progress, such as teaching yoga to kids with special needs, starting my club at school, etc., have significantly contributed to making this nonprofit the way it is today. Going forward, I hope to teach in war-torn areas, natural disaster areas as well as in areas where there is peace and also speak about the importance of mental health awareness, the stigma around it, and what the community can do to change the way society perceives mental health issues as a sign of weakness. | The only resources that I need for this goal of my organization to be fulfilled is cooperation from Government organizations, NGOs and individuals in our society to work towards a healthier lifestyle. The reason to apply is to seek your help and support and eventually a platform where I, a 16 year old, can leverage to bring a well being world ! Yes, there are other resources that may prove beneficial include yoga / meditation teachers, apps that promote mindfulness and meditation, etc. but I see myself standing in front of people and teaching them how to overcome their mental health challenges! | https://kitajain.wixsite.com/helpsapiens | https://kitajain.wixsite.com/helpsapiens | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
585 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Grant | Kendzior | TO | Kyebandofablab.info | Implementer | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Spanish | A partnership with the United Nations has been our dream for the last 15 years. We deeply admire the global community who are collaborating towards peace. It is a great honor to have been able to work together with UN representatives on recent projects and the opportunity to speak at the UN Solutions Summit will help catalyze our team's project. We are applying to the Summit to get international support to scale our positive impact globally. Our team has used innovation for a positive global impact in extraordinary ways. Mike Zuckerman has created over a hundred free-spaces around the world, ranging from refugee camps in Greece to high-tech spaces in Silicon Valley. Nate Petre has developed a method to 3D print a surfboard from ocean plastic and sargassum seaweed. Grant Kendzior has implemented the power of business as a force for good in projects from rural Guatemala to Wall Street. We are working together to use innovation in our current project, TO: Make. This project is built to the needs of each community it serves, and engages experts to achieve an innovative approach from multiple angles. Recently, in a matter of weeks, we built an innovative strategy and launched a new project that uses upcycling to help alleviate poverty and plastic waste in Uganda. We combined forces of experts from multiple industries and backgrounds and quickly brought together a team to create TO:Make. | Grant Kendzior is a purpose-driven social entrepreneur raised between the mountains of Montana and the beaches of Florida. Grant has always been a passionate environmentalist and has a deep visceral bond with nature. He will leave his imprint on the world by inspiring others and creating positive global change, using the power of business as a force for good. He received a Bachelor's degree in Business Management and a Masters degree in Entrepreneurship from the University of Florida. Nathaniel Petre is a global citizen born in Taipei and traveled globally. Nate is a PhD candidate in the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London. His current research is a progression from his engineering work towards examining the viability of creativity in manufacturing. In particular, he is focused on how additive manufacturing methods allow for more creativity in manufacturing for design and distributed digital manufacturing. Mike Zuckerman is from Silicon Valley and is an expert at creating Freespaces and has created hundreds of spaces where local community members can gather to create. Mike believes that the current system of international aid is broken and we need to actively create many alternative prototypes... and fast. Mike has used this to fuel him to continue to work directly with those in need to best serve their greatest needs. Mike connects major philanthropies, corporations and individuals with the local communities to best serve their needs. | TO: Make | TO: Make’s Fab Lab turns plastic waste into items of utility as part of a global solution to alleviate poverty. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Uganda, Senegal, Guatemala, Bangladesh, India, United States, Switzerland | Yes | Nate Petre, Mike Zuckerman, Nachson Mimran, To.org, Mattel, African Leadership University, You and I foundation Rachael Ferguson, Karen Korponai, Farai Munjoma | Transition to Scale | We have successfully launched a highly functioning proof of concept by demonstrating our ability to retrofit a shipping container into a state of the art upcycling laboratory/learning center in 5 days with all local labor in Kyebando Kampala, Uganda. It is turning out new ideas every day, ranging from wind turbines to eyeglasses. We are now working on scaling the concept so that we can retrofit containers in advance to maximize time on the ground and make a replicable system. | As Leila Janah says, “Talent is equally distributed but opportunity is not.” To: Make Fab Lab’s combat several problems simultaneously. It addresses the plastic pollution epidemic that plagues our planet and also fights poverty by providing opportunity to those in need. We know that some of the most resourceful people in the world are currently living in poverty and this project allows them to upcycle their community’s plastic waste into items they truly need. | Our solution is a state-of-the-art upcycling Fab Lab and computer/learning center built in a customized shipping container that provides inspiration and opportunities for the locals. Our Fab Labs have all the necessary components to take trash off the street and upcycle it into much needed items. We outfit the Fab Lab with a plastic shredder, a filament maker, 3 3D printers, 8 computers loaded with software, a projector, whiteboards, and all the tools needed to turn plastic waste into creative ideas. On top of this, we built a complete plastic sorting, washing, and drying system to upcycle efficiently and effectively. Our Fab Labs are currently and will continue to change the lives of countless community members by educating them on how to use cutting edge technology and giving them the tools and resources to build solutions to their problems. The Fab Lab’s empower and embolden the free-thinking needed to shake the world. Our Fab Lab in Uganda is inspiring the community to envision their own futures. It has cultivated their imaginations of what is possible and you can only imagine how these children will impact the world now that they have had this experience. Our long-term vision is to simplify upcycling and provide opportunity to millions of disadvantaged community members globally. We plan to roll out thousands of Fab Labs around the world to provide opportunity and agency to those most in need, while educating the world on the possibilities of upcycled plastic. | Our solution is not inherently unique but our application is. We are combining several unique machines into one secure building with free access to those most in need globally. These tools are not proprietary, but we are making sure that they are in the hands of those with the most need. There are others who have shown how to upcycle plastic waste but access to this technology is limited. We are offering a new perspective by bringing these machines to the people who are most in need in this world. By equipping the resourceful and creative impoverished community with NASA grade technology to make their wild ideas into tangible items made from plastic waste in their community we have seen radical social and environmental progress. We are helping tap into the brainpower of the 4 plus billion people living on the bottom end of the economic pyramid and unleashing their creativity. By focusing on this unique group of people we are confident we can help make a substantial dent in the economic disparity between classes and change the outlook of millions of people living in poverty. In order to harness the talent and spirit unique to each community, we use an innovative approach that engages the local community to create a positive impact. We let the community vote who is in charge, what the rules of the lab are, and democratically organize who can use it. This method has proven very successful in our pilot and we are optimistic it will be replicated as we scale this project globally. | Our team has made substantial progress in the development of our solution. We have successfully piloted this solution in Kyebando, Kampala, Uganda. We have inspired creativity and trail-blazed a new narrative around refugee settlements, truly showcasing the incredible talent amongst refugees and other community members who are living in poverty in Uganda. We have transferred skills and empowered locals to innovate and create items of utility. The residents who now utilize our Uganda Fab Lab have upcycled thousands of pounds of plastic waste into items of utility via 3D printing. We measure our progress in the amount of plastic waste being diverted from landfills or littering our ecosystems, the number of people inspired from our Fab Lab, and the number of unique inventions made at the Fab Lab. The community members of the pilot Fab Lab in Uganda have created wind turbines, gears for engines, eyeglasses, toys, and much more. The methodological rigor that went into this solution includes 9 years of boots-on-the-ground experience by Mike Zuckerman, in Uganda. He has earned the trust and respect of the local community and truly has mastered the art of creating free spaces around the world. His unique skill set, combined with Nate Petre's expertise in turning plastic waste into items of utility via 3D printing, has made this whole project possible. Grant’s business and management experience facilitating projects across borders has made this project scalable. | We will launch Fab Lab 2 and 3 by the end of 2019. We intend to install these Fab Labs in impoverished communities around the world. We plan to have 5 Fab Labs operating in refugee communities around the world by the beginning of 2020. Our focus is to divert plastic waste from landfills and turn them into items of utility. Our milestones are the tons of plastic waste we divert from entering landfills and littering our natural ecosystems. The main milestone for our project is the number of lives impacted. We have already seen outstanding results by inspiring communities who witness the Fab Lab as it opens their mind to what is possible and how they can make a positive impact on the planet. Providing a sense of agency and giving an opportunity. Our goal is to expose 100,000 people to this technology by 2020 and scale that up to a million people by 2022. One of our secondary goals is to help local community members start businesses around the items they make in the Fab Lab. Our third major milestone is to help start 20 businesses by 2020 and 200 by 2022. | The main resource needed for our project to scale in the short term is international diplomatic cooperation. We can outfit the containers at a reasonable cost. The equipment is abundant and we already have partnerships with manufacturers. Local labor is inexpensive and readily available. We have established relationships with several major corporations and institutes of higher learning that back our project. Our main hurdle is having a governmental connection to fast track the customs process and support our efforts with local municipality resources, such as electric, water, and internet. Working in refugee camps is a difficult bureaucratic process that we would like to simplify through partnerships with host countries. In the medium-term, our project is going to need more local partners to help with the implementation and facilitation of our Fab Labs. It is vital to have organizations who are already tapped into the pulse of the community and can help run our Fab Labs in perpetuity. We have established funding from some key international organizations and private donors. In order to reach the long-term scale that we are seeking, we will require additional funding to amplify our impact. | Project Website: https://www.Kyebandofablab.info | To see more information on project and video please checkout https://www.Kyebandofablab.info Below are some clips of our speeches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx0h6j_ipC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctt7cMG14kk https://youtu.be/3XmA9SWjPnQ | Winner: TO Creative Activist Winner: TogetherBand- Life Below Water Representative Winner: University of Florida Sustainability Case Study Class- Most Sustainable Winner: University of Florida Sustainability Case Study Class- Highest Score on B Corporation Assessment Finalist: Echoing Green Fellowship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
586 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Leisa | Hirtz | Women's Global Health Innovations | www.wghi.ca | Founder, Executive Director | Female | Canada | Canada | English | Innovation is at the heart of everything we undertake at Women’s Global Health Innovations. Nowhere is there a greater need for innovation than finding solutions to problems that entrench the lives of adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) to live in perpetual poverty, especially those living in the global south. Improving the lives and health outcomes for AGYW globally should be our number one global focus. If half of the world’s population is prevented from reaching its fullest potential due to structural barriers all of humanity is negatively impacted. There is no guarantee that greater global peace and security will be observed with the achievement of global gender equality but there is little chance of it being achieved without it. Our innovations are is in menstrual, sexual and reproductive health (MSRH), products, rights, and education. Millions of adolescent girls and women worldwide lack the knowledge, support or means to manage their MSRH with dignity. Stripped of dignity, AGYW are denied a voice, therefore, have no agency to govern their own lives. AGYW’s voices are needed for positive shifts in the gender narrative. They should possess the right to speak on their own behalf, to be part of the solutions to their own problems. From ideas shared by the AGYW, we innovate. Specifically, through Scientific Research and Evidence-Based Data, we have developed an innovative menstrual cup. The bfree cup is physically antibacterial. A biofilm cannot form on its surface. It requires no water to wash or to be boiled between menstrual cycles to sterilize. Clean water is a precious resource that is rarely attainable in urban slums and refugee settings. We’re currently implementing a project in Northern Uganda’s Pagirinya Refugee Settlement supported by funding from UNFPA Innovation to introduce the bfree cup and with user input and feedback continue with the development of our innovative bfree duo. The bfree duo is a Multipurpose Assistive and Preventive Device being developed in partnership with the Population Council’s Center for Biomedical Research at Rockefeller University in New York City. I have had the honor and privilege to meet, listen to and dialogue with AGYW living in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya and the refugee settlements in Northern Uganda. I wish to be their voice at the UN Solutions Summit, a voice that has and will continue to use direct end-user influenced innovation for positive global impact. | I have worked for over 30 collective years in clinical healthcare delivery, research, product design, development, and program implementation. In 2013, I founded Women’s Global Health Innovations (WGHI) to realize my mission to be a dedicated social impact entrepreneur and passionate innovator in the development of AGYW’s menstrual, sexual and reproductive health products, health promotion educator and international team builder. | Smart User Inspired Menstrual, Sexual and Reproductive Health Products with Knowledge Support | User-centered in design menstrual, sexual and reproductive health and rights solution for adolescent girls and young women living in LMICs | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Uganda, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Costa Rica | Yes | WoMena, Days for Girls, PHAU, Femme International, the Kenyan Girls Guides Association, the Population Council's Center for Biomedical Research, UNFPA Innovation, UNFPA Uganda, War Child Canada | Transition to Scale | We are currently in production and beginning to develop our supply chain and distribution channels. In June of 2019, we showcased and introduced the bfree cup to the world at the Women Deliver Conference held in Vancouver, Canada. Our booth was one of the busiest in the entire venue. The bfree cup garnered tremendous attention from both the private and public sectors seeking partnerships for global growth. We currently are in negotiations with a few of these. | Our solution is addressing the global need for dignified, healthy, safe, affordable, low environmental impact, waste management friendly solutions for adolescent girls and young women to manage their menstrual, sexual and reproductive health with agency and pride along with the knowledge of their individual rights and bodily autonomy. The taboos and structural barriers that are holding girls back must be directly addressed and changed to improve health, psychosocial and socioeconomic outcomes. | Our idea is to deliver, in collaboration with our collaborative partners, a 21st-century menstrual education and innovative product, the bfree cup. The bfree cup is the only physically antibacterial menstrual cup available. It doesn't require water to wash or to be boiled between menstrual cycles to sterilize. The bfree cup is made from 100% medical grade silicone. It contains no chemicals, microbicides or bactericides. It has been rigorously researched and tested. One bfree cup lasts for 10+ years. Our innovation holistically addresses the widely reported lack of basic information on menstrual hygiene and health education inclusive with the lack of safe, affordable, low environmental impact, waste management friendly products developed to counter the negative impact on the girls' and women's psychosocial and personal health outcomes. Single-use disposal menstrual pads are not a sustainable solution. We have a solution that girls and women in LMICs are beginning to uptake, use and report positive outcomes. The lack of dignified waste management solutions for menstrual pads and lack of water to wash reusable pads or boil traditional menstrual cups for girls and women in LMICs needs to be addressed. We've developed a holistic program that addresses these challenges while supporting market-based sustainable scale. | Women’s Global Health Innovation is a for-profit private sector entity with a strategic business model focused on market-based development building capacity within the MHM sector using and exploring innovative means to better ensure business sustainability. Our proposed innovation is a holistic process addressing the complexities of Menstrual Health Management (MHM). It includes training of trainers, public engagement and MHM education with the introduction of the reusable, low environmental impact, antibacterial bfree cup specifically developed to address the complex challenges faced by AGYW in LMICs relating to access to water to wash and boil traditional menstrual cups. Additionally, waste management systems are currently inefficient to deal with the bulk of menstrual pad waste or to incinerate in an environmentally safe manner. Girls report engaging in high-risk transactional sex to afford their monthly supply of disposable pads. The high adolescent pregnancy and HIV rates amongst adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa may directly correlate with the challenges of girls have to effectively, affordably and with dignity manage their menstrual period. Dignified solutions for waste management of pads are needed. Pit latrines are rendered dysfunctional due to the bulk of disposable pads further reducing the number of functioning toilets and spaces for girls and women to meet all their MH and other sanitation needs. The bfree cup is a zero-waste solution. | Our products and programs rely on rigorous science, research and are evidence-based. Environmental sustainability is inclusive at all levels of development along our value chain. Innovation in product development, delivery methods, monitoring, evaluation, data analysis and modes of dissemination support the core of our mission. We actively collaborate broadly with membership and participation in associations, coalitions, international conferences, including, membership with African Coalition for Menstrual Hygiene Management and the Reproductive Health Supplies Coalition. Our collaborative on the ground team is MHM sector leaders who have individually and collectively engaged in robust, creative and effective MHM innovative program and product development, promotion, and implementation. WoMena consists of public health experts specializing in creating supportive environments for innovations who have introduced menstrual cups to 90+ communities in Uganda. PHAU, a youth-led organization, works to increase awareness and sensitization on MHM and adoption of safe Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health behavior and practices through informative public engagement activities. Days for Girls is an INGO with a mission to increase access to menstrual care and education by developing global partnerships, cultivating social enterprises, mobilizing volunteers, and innovating sustainable taboo-shattering solutions. Days for Girls has already reached more than one million girls. | Our program will build evidence to support the elimination of the taboos surrounding menstruation, improved MSRH knowledge along with greater uptake of the menstrual cup as a fundamentally life-improving alternative for menstrual health and hygiene management. We will bring greater illumination to a subject that remains difficult to talk about. This silence compounds the challenges for dignified solutions. The taboos surrounding menstruation negatively affects millions of AGYW's lives globally. Countries and markets we currently have opportunities to expand include Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, the DRC, Nigeria, and Costa Rica. At scale, our goal by the year 2025 is to reach 500k-1M AGYW with the provision of bfree cups and supporting MSRH education. Each year we will increase these numbers with a milestone of doubling. By 2030, we will have reached 3-5M AGYW making an impact on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially goals, #5 Gender Equality, #6 Clean Water and Sanitation, #12 Responsible Consumption, and Production. To achieve these goals, we will build on our program, formally document, disseminate and scale within the humanitarian and development sectors including monitoring and measuring the impact an innovative menstrual product will have on the sanitation sector. | Short-term resources most needed for the solution to scale for the greatest most enduring impact is working capital to deliver our holistic MSRH programming and product solutions. Capital is needed to produce, market and promote the bfree cup innovation, hire staff, and develop distribution channels. Funding would assist in scaling more effectively and efficiently while supporting continued rigorous innovation, research, and development. As a for-profit social enterprise, WGHI aims to be sustainable in the medium-term supported by established procurement from multinationals and INGOs. The ability of these organizations to expand education along with product distribution will result in exponential growth in the number of AGYW reached with the innovation. The need at this stage will be the establishment of committed procurement and education provision partnerships that will continue to grow leading to long-term solutions to meet the MSRH needs and rights of AGYW globally. | http://www.wghi.ca https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBrwaSTEM_W1yIYmpZghqmQ https://readymag.com/OCIC/936649/31/ https://www.facebook.com/womensghi https://twitter.com/leisahirtz https://www.linkedin.com/in/leisa-hirtz-8b188a8/ https://www.facebook.com/SheEOWorld/photos/a.2137771586273030/2137833842933471/?type=1&theater https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/youth-srh/top-ideas/an-innovative-menstrual-sexual-and-reproductive-health-commodity-with-knowledge-support-delivered-efficiently-from-the-lab-to-the-last-mile/comments https://grin.news/inside-canadas-innovative-women-s-health-start-up-2e6a1c4c36ce https://www.canada.ca/en/status-women/news/2019/05/backgrounder--canadian-partnership-for-women-and-childrens-health-canwach-bursary-recipients.html | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC7IAcrY48o&t=14s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-b7RLUk8fY&t=42s | 1.Grand Challenges Canada 2014 Stars in Global Health 2.OpenIDEO + UNFPA Innovation Challenged 2018 Young People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Challenge 3.WSSCC Innovative Challenge 2018 Gender Equality in the Wash Sector, Dakar, Senegal 4.SheEO 2019 Finalist 5.StartUp Canada Pitch 2019 2nd Place Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
587 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joanna | Kocani | goFolks | https://www.gofolks.net/ | Founder and CEO | Female | United States of America | Albania | English | goFolks has the potential to do good and positively impact the lives of millions people living in the developing world by helping them tap into the existing global activities and experiences industry and access income otherwise unavailable to them. goFolks is attempting to address the global development goals by creating a platform where locals across the world can host - for income - travelers looking for more personable local experiences. Our message is simple: goFolks dials travelers deep into local life and brings income to everyday people. | Joanna Kocani and Molly Douglas met in grad school. Entrepreneurial, committed to economic empowerment, and with backgrounds in international development, they brainstormed ideas for social enterprise startups. Four years later, they’re back to build Jo’s latest brainchild - goFolks. Jo works on sustainable tourism development, and Molly works on tech and innovation in economic development. They love travel, culture, and Instagram. Together, they can best tackle the market need goFolks will fulfill. | goFolks | Digital marketplace connecting travelers and locals in developing countries for spontaneous daily lifestyle experiences on the go. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Albania, Turkey, Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Morocco | No | Proof of Concept | We have conducted market research via social media outlets and have determined a need and demand for our product. Provided the online marketplace, we are at the stage of registering user to prove the feasibility of our concept. | With Instagram urging us to abandon itineraries and ‘travel deeper,’ today’s traveler seeks authentic lifestyle experiences on the go and off the beaten track. But easy, trusted access to a deeper level of local life - in places less traveled and at a moment’s notice - is limited. Travel experience providers in this space are fragmented, site-specific, and often offline. On the flip side, people in communities off the beaten track lack robust economic opportunity and access to growing markets. | goFolks is an online marketplace connecting travelers to everyday people for a plethora of socio-cultural experiences at the heart of local life - wherever they go and whenever they want. Users can easily sign up to buy and sell immersive lifestyle experiences on a trustworthy, mobile-friendly platform. Local hosts post activities, from daily chores to traditional holiday gatherings; travelers search on their phones for something cool to do at the drop of a hat; and the money goes straight into the pockets of the hosts. We plan to launch in the Mediterranean, specifically the Balkans, Turkey, and Morocco. The long term goal is to expand to other regions across the globe. We have identified demand for our platform in both urban and rural parts of the United States, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Central Asia, East Africa, Pakistan and India. The global tours and activities space is currently valued at $150 billion and expected to reach $183 Bn by 2020. We have valued our addressable market at about $25 million. This estimate is at the lower end of the potential market capture. Our long term vision for global impact is to bring this market into the underdeveloped and developing world and help marginalized global citizens become access this market. | The goFolks platform is unique from existing approaches that exist in this space such as Airbnb and TripAdvisor in that it facilitates person to person (P2P) business model as opposed to Airbnb’s B2C model or Tripadvisor’s marketing of existing businesses model. goFolks will provide an opportunity to millions of people living in rural areas or the underdeveloped and developing world where economic opportunities are scarce to connect with the global activities and experiences market and financially benefit from it. Locals will be encouraged to make their daily lifestyle activities or socio-cultural experiences available for interested travellers to join in for a charge. Our findings have shown that the notion of receiving payment for socio-cultural or lifestyle experience is relatively new in the developing world and is still being tapped into. To overcome this challenge goFolks will be giving local hosts the option to donate their potential income to local infrastructure projects such as schools, local hospitals or other public projects that would improve local infrastructure. Travelers will also have the option to donate to local nonprofits for a plethora of issues that negatively impact local communities. Our nearest competitors offer highly-structured, formal interactions with local hosts taking the role of tour service providers and leaving a gap in immersive experiences. Our platform will facilitate interaction with host’s daily activities. | We have conducted our market research and determined a global demand for our product. Furthermore, we have been contacted from potential hosts across the globe, including outside of launch region with a high interested in joining the platform. goFolks was incorporated in Delaware on September 2018. We began to conduct our research to determine market potential by promoting our concept on social media, specifically Instagram. We began our campaign in late October 2018, and we have about 3,000 followers to date. This is with regional restrictions. We are measuring our progress and methodological rigor through the interest our followers are demonstrating for our product by the interaction they have with our concept directly through Instagram. We realized that determining market potential through social media may not appear to be a reliable approach. However, knowing this we have attempted to verify the loyalty of our followers to the goFolks brand by engaging with the followers directly. | During the first year we hope to recruit 1500 hosts and 500 travelers across the Balkans as well as in less popular travel destinations in the East Coast United States. The majority of the hosts will be located in Albania, Greece, Montenegro, Macedonia, Turkey and Morocco. The average price per activity will be no less than $30 per hour per person. Our goal is that within 5 years to have at least 7500 hosts and travelers actively using our platform. We will reach our users online via social media, complementary content tools, and industry partnerships. Via these channels, users will route to our website (eventually, app), where they can buy and use our product - the goFolks digital marketplace. | We are in need of tech expertise (whether in the form of training or new team members) in the goFolks design and launch process. We are specifically looking for resources that could help us develop the an app that would allow users to sign up for membership and search or host activities on the go. Although our current team has substantial experience and background in international development and establishing cross sector partnerships for economic growth, we lack the technical skills needed to develop the online platform. | goFolks has a strong social media presence and could be found by searching gofolk.s on Instagram. goFolks' Instagram account is representative of the types of activities that we hope to promote. | We have purchased a domain and are in the process of developing a website that is still under construction. The website is: https://www.gofolks.net/ | Not applicable. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
588 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Umar Faruk | Kabir | High court of Justice, Katsina State Judiciary | None | Magistrate/ District Court Judge | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | Arabic | English | My motivation for applying for the UN Solutions Summit is that it would enable me to learn and to strengthen my knowledge and skills. This would facilitate my access to internationally-recognized best practices in the administration of criminal justice system, humanizing offences and offenders, human right laws and protection, and laws pertaining to children and young persons. I would also develop and maintain beneficial and respectful networking and mentorship relationships that will be of great significance to my primary and volunteer works. I expect to bring to the fellowship my wealth of experience in the administration of criminal justice system in Africa and, in particular, in Nigeria. At the end of the summit, I will return home, having benefited from transformative experiences and ready to implement new knowledge, skills and networking in my work in the administration of criminal justice system that will also be exemplified in my primary and constitutional responsibilities. The applications of these experiences will also show in my volunteer work, which will extend to youth and professional mentorship. My vision for this world is simple. I firmly believe that I will make the world a better place through my efforts to see that justice shall not only be done, but manifestly be seen to have been done. | Every day I work steadily, enthusiastically and passionately to serve humanity through the administration of justice, without fear or favour. Following the completion of a Bachelor of Law (Degree) from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria with a Professional Qualifying Certificate from Nigeria Law School Kano Campus, I began to practice law in different settings. I am currently a Magistrate at Senior Magistrate Funtua where I preside over cases provided under the Penal code, Cap. 96 Volume 3, Children and Young Persons Law Cap. 23 Volume 1, Coroners Law Cap 33 Volume 1, District Court Law Cap. 39 Volume 1. (In civil matters, I am referred to as ‘District Court Judge’ not a Magistrate), Road Traffic Law Cap. 120 Volume 3. These Laws are created under “The Law of the Katsina State of Nigeria, 1991.” Magistrates courts are generally courts of summary jurisdictions for purposes of quick administration of justice. As I have gained various experiences, I have developed a passion for learning about, planning and implementing projects involving alternative dispute resolution (ADR) as well as those related to prison system reforms. At the center of these is corruption. | ADR as a panacea for justice delivery and eradication of corruption in the judiciary | My most significant personal commitment, initiatives, achievements and contributions are directed towards eradicating corruption in our judicial syst | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | To address the above, I have granted bail to approximately six hundred (600) inmates awaiting trial, sentenced to payments of fine (instead of imprisonment without options) to over two hundred (200) convicts, delivered fifty (50) judgments and hundred (10 | No | Research & Development | Because its base on my personal commitment and undertaking for making difference. | As I have gained various experiences, I have developed a passion for learning about, planning and implementing projects involving alternative dispute resolution (ADR) as well as those related to prison system reforms. At the center of these is corruption. My most significant personal commitment, initiatives, achievements and contributions are directed towards eradicating corruption in our judicial system. | My most significant personal commitment, initiatives, achievements and contributions are directed towards eradicating corruption in our judicial system. My strategy for addressing corruption is through constant and proactive measures of employing the options of ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) to the willing litigants, granting bails to accused persons charged with bailable offences and taking the extra step of informing them and their sureties of the free nature of the bail. I do this without any financial inducement, and normally in the presence of all staff and police officers, prosecutors and police orderlies who might have entertained the thought of demanding for financial benefits from the accused person or his relatives. The idea of granting bail also helps to alleviate the horrible state prison congestion which already violates human rights. | Personal appraisal and examination. | By assessment and monthly reporting of my work schedules to the management. | I would like to extend to other African countries with similar judicial systems to Nigeria and will be working on the wider network and connection I have had built over the years in the course of my volunteerism and activism. | Grants for piloting prison welfare projects and travelling sponsorships. | None | None | 1. Prison Ambassador; for prison decongestion effort (2015 Judiciary Staffs Award) 2. Magistrate of the year; for judicial ethics and zero tolerance to corruption (2013 Magistrate Association of Nigeria MAN Award) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
589 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Neil | Cox | SoundQA Solutions Inc. | www.soundqa.com | co-Founder CEO | Male | Canada | Canada | English | The UN Solutions Summit will be an ideal forum for making connections, identifying partners, accessing expertise and refining our plans for a global initiative to address deficits in concrete quality assurance in many regions. We believe that our new Strike-it™ technology and products can be an important enabler for this initiative: they provide a fast, effective, economical means of performing strength testing when conventional methods are not viable or not used. With improved quality assurance, catastrophic structural failures such as were observed in Haiti in 2010 can be greatly reduced. This is a complex multi-faceted challenge that requires education, local empowerment and product dissemination to influence and change construction practices. The desired outcomes will only be achieved if this program is picked up and championed by local people and adopted by individuals, companies, regulators and non-governmental organizations that are active in building construction in the region. Our solution can be a basis for viable concrete strength testing everywhere, and we need partners, collaborators, resourcing, and expert advice to make it happen. | Neil Cox: Dr Cox obtained a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of BC in 1989. After working in industry for two decades focusing on communications and digital signal processing, he founded a telecommunications security products company in 1996 and lead it for 7 years. After, he joined the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) to champion the new accredited electrical engineering undergraduate degree program. During his tenure at BCIT, he collaborated with several BCIT faculty members and numerous students on R&D to develop non-destructive testing methods for masonry, leading to the founding of SoundQA Solutions. James Booth: Dr. Booth has over 30 years of R&D experience in both private industry and academia. His work has focused on generating novel sensor technology and the refinement of international standards. He is a co-founder of SoundQA Solutions and is one of the researchers who established the technology being commercialized by SoundQA through a multi-disciplinary collaboration effort at BCIT. | Strike-it™: The Sound of Strength | Empowering communities worldwide with a viable means of ensuring that strong concrete and masonry is used in construction. | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Low resource and developing regions where concrete quality assurance is lacking, especially in earthquake-prone regions. | No | Proof of Concept | We have a minimum viable product for testing of concrete and masonry units based on R&D conducted over the past 8 years by a multi-disciplinary team and numerous students at British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). Excellent results have been obtained through modelling and experimentation, and the products and technology are ready for a transition to scale. However, proof of the concept that this can be a game-changer in low-resource regions requires validation through field trials. | Testing of concrete and masonry in many regions is sadly lacking, and, the use of weak materials in construction can have catastrophic consequences. For example, in the order of 300,000 people died in the Haiti earthquake in 2010, and many more were made homeless. Contrast this with an earthquake in Chile in 2010 which released 500 times more energy but killed only 521 people. Even without an earthquake, structures built out of weak, untested masonry can be unsafe and prone to collapse. | The Strike-it™ method is a new non-destructive method of measuring the compressive strength of concrete and masonry units (CMUs) using the acoustic impulse response of CMUs. It does not require expensive bulky equipment or specialized facilities and can quickly and easily be done at the work site. The sample under test is placed on a soft surface and gently struck at a prescribed location with a simple light-weight striker. The sound produced in response to the strike is recorded on the Strike-it™ Tester, and the sound signal is analyzed to estimate the CMU’s compressive strength. Overall, the test takes only a second or two to complete and very little preparation is required. Finally, records of completed tests can be saved, recalled and analyzed through a web-based database management capability. While there are many factors that contribute to the inadequacy of the QA in many regions worldwide, the Strike-it™ method provides an exciting means of addressing the problem. When combined with education about proper testing and building practices, and empowerment of local people, the Strike-it™ method can bring about improvements in the strength and safety of buildings in these regions. The appalling levels of death and destruction that were observed in Haiti can be greatly reduced. | Strike-it™ is distinctly different from the current methods of measuring compressive strength of concrete. The standard method in developed regions is to perform destructive testing on a few concrete masonry units (CMUs) taken from a batch of CMUs. Equipment required for destructive testing is often not available or accessible in low-resource regions as it is bulky and expensive to acquire, install and maintain. Operators require specialized training and protective gear, and selected CMUs must be transported to the testing facility which may be far from the work site. Existing non-destructive tests have distinctly different principles of operation than Strike-it™. None of these methods provide a comparable combination of accuracy, efficiency, economy, and simplicity. We have filed for a pending patent which covers much of the Strike-it™ technology. A notable advantage of the Strike-it™ technology is that it can be implemented on a common cellphone or tablet computer. These are powerful computing platforms that are ubiquitous and have been greatly cost-reduced for mass-market applications. While it may be preferable for pragmatic reasons to sell complete Strike-it™ testing kits, we have the option of distributing the Strike-it™ software application without the computing platform: the only hardware that we would supply is a simple striker. All of the other test methods require purpose-built hardware. | Our technology foundation is strong. For simple shapes we draw on the established physics of vibration of solids. For more complex shapes we use finite element analysis (FEA). Our experimentation has involved comparing Strike-it™ results with compressive testing for samples with a range of strengths. We have further confirmed our findings through testing of cylinders and CMUs obtained from industry. The predictions derived from physics and FEA, combined with experimental results, give us good confidence in the validity of our method. Field trials are needed to further validate the method and to gain insight into the user’s expectations and acceptance of the method, and to identify factors for which calibration is needed. With respect to product development, we are at the minimum viable project stage. We have a functional App that runs on Android and iOS computing platforms. The App analyses the sound signal produced by striking the sample under test and produces an estimate of strength. It also allows the user to save records of the tests. We are also introducing a server and a web-application which facilitates aggregation, analysis and archiving of records from multiple testers. Regarding potential partners, we have interacted with Builders Without Borders Canada over several years: BWB supports building and education projects in Haiti. We have also discussed the project with the local office of Lafarge Holcim. | This initiative will be rolled out as follows: 1) Partner Identification: We will establish a broad network of partners and collaborators. We will create a framework for engagement of partners, and enter into discussions with selected organizations. Our goal is to have working relationships with a partner in one or two regions within 6 months. 2) Education Material: We will engage partners in preparation of educational material about building practices, and assist them in incorporating material related to the Strike-it™ products. 3) Initial field trials to low-resource regions. The purpose of these trials is as much to establish relationships and understand the local construction industry as it is to prove out the Strike-it™ products. We plan to work with partners that are well-connected, respected and currently active in the region. Current prospects are Haiti and Nepal, though other countries will be considered. 4) Refinement: Lessons learned from proof of concept and field testing will be used to refine the Strike-it™ products, improve the education material, and improve their alignment with the needs of the region. 5) Engagement of regional champions: After successful initial field trials in a region, we will approach regulators and industry professionals to recommend improved building practices. Education material will be shared with local trades educators for inclusion in their curriculum. We will also prepare for broader distribution of Strike-it™ Testers. | An exciting aspect of our initiative is that broad global benefit can be achieved without a large deployment of purpose-built hardware: The solution can be run on ubiquitous cellphones or tablet computers. This greatly reduces the overall cost of implementing the solution. It is also helpful that it takes very little time and effort for people to use the solution; adoption can be rapid once people are persuaded of the benefit of participating. At the outset, SoundQA may need to implement minor software refinements and hardware packaging for the field trials. Partner identification, relationship management and travel will also be required. Details for resourcing and execution of trials will be established in discussion with initial partners, including support for travel, supply of testers, production of education material and other items. Ultimately the solution will be championed within communities by local champions. Buy-in from local governments (municipal, regional and national) can serve to effect change to construction practices and regulations. Foreign aid and government assistance may be needed to stimulate the uptake of the solution and overcome barriers to participation. Broader dissemination of the solution can be accomplished through repetition of the processes of partner identification, trials, refinement, and local empowerment. Additional R&D may be needed in future to address other needs related to concrete quality assurance in low-resource regions. | [1] SoundQA Solutions Inc. website: https://soundqa.com/ [2] N. Cox, J. Booth, S. Brzev, D. Kennedy, and B. McEwen, “Method and Apparatus for Non-Destructive Measurement of Modulus of Elasticity and/or the Compressive Strength of Masonry Samples,” Patent Pending, 2018. http://appft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html [3] J. Booth et al., “Non-Destructive Acoustic Evaluation of Masonry Compressive Strength,” presented at the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering AGM, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2017. https://www.academia.edu/35817508/Non-Destructive_Acoustic_Evaluation_of_Masonry_Compressive_Strength [4] J. Bown et al., ""The Effects of Adjusting Aggregate Fineness and Mix Proportions to Produce Concrete Masonry Blocks of Various Strengths"", presented at the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering AGM, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2017. https://www.academia.edu/35817464/The_effects_of_adjusting_aggregate_fineness_and_mix_proportions_to_produce_concrete_masonry_blocks_of_various_strengths | None yet. | None yet. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
590 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Injy | Johnstone | Ms | adapt-action.org | Director | Female | New Zealand | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | Adaptation for the world’s poorest cannot wait and there is no better place to kickstart this, than the UN Solutions Summit. The opportunity to pitch Adapt-Action at the Summit assist with the project’s potential to meaningfully impact billions of lives worldwide. As such, it helps cut through the bureaucracy that’s involved in a project of this nature and scale and as such help to speed up its implementation. A key part of this opportunity is being able to Adapt-Action, to potential partners whether they be NGO, IGOs or Government. In this way too, momentum, connection and capability is built so that Adapt-Action can reach who it needs to, as soon as possible. Adapt-Action is relevant on a global scale, which further highlights the importance of presenting it at the UN. Adapt-Action prides itself on innovating for a positive global impact. Unlike other adaptation projects which are costly, have lengthy implementation times and are primarily seen first world- Adapt-Action focuses where the need is most: the 80% of Humanity that lives on less than $10 a day. Because the world’s poor are already the most vulnerable to climate change impacts - and so adaptation solutions have to be practicable on a local community level. Adapt-Action does this in both the education and action components of climate adaption and thus helps communities to meaningfully adapt to climate change on a zero or microscale budget. | Injy Johnstone is a New Zealand Fulbright Scholar currently undertaking her LLM in Environmental Law in the United States. Injy founded Adapt-Action after working with a Antioquia Presente in rural Colombia on climate adaption where it became apparent that despite the communities being most at risk, no one had told them what climate change was and crucially what they could do about it. Injy has been part of the United Nations Youth Sustainable Development Solutions Network, where she has promoted the SDGs at all levels- including at both the 71st and 72nd UNGA sessions in New York. Injy is also part of UN MGCY and in July 2019 co-authored the New Zealand’s NGO sector’s response to New Zealand’s VNR. Injy wrote the climate policy for Colombia’s largest disaster relief NGO and has also been the Administrator of New Zealand’s largest Youth Climate Organisation, Generation Zero. Injy has worked as a Climate Policy Analyst for the New Zealand Government and has undertaken and presented scholarly research in both climate law and science; including at the International Conference on Sustainable Development at Columbia University in 2018. Injy presently sits on the board of the Endangered Species Foundation and advises the New Zealand Ministry of Social Development and the National Commission for UNESCO on youth issues. Injy holds a First Class Honours Degree in Law and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Economics. | Adapt-Action | Unlocking the adaptation potential of the world's most vulnerable communities. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | All countries. | No | Ideation | Adapt-Action is still at the ideation phase, as we are gearing up for our official launch at the UN NGO Conference in Salt Lake City at the end of August 2019. As part of the ideation phase, Adapt-Action is developing its online infrastructure, including our website and Adaptation 101 pamphlets. Adapt-Action is also reaching out to partners in order to both educate them on what Adapt-Action is, and why the project is necessary. | 80% of the world lives on less than $10 a day; these people are also the most at risk from climate change. Despite this, the majority of the world’s adaptation efforts have been channelled into expensive, time-consuming projects in the developed world. For the majority of the world, there is no tangible plan for what grassroots adaptation could look. Additionally, there is an absence of localised education and options for adaptation- further threatening the security of those most vulnerable. | Adapt-Action works through assisting communities to adapt themselves in ways that are practicable to them. There are two key components in this journey: education and action. In terms of education, Adapt-Action will provide materials and training that is accessible and relevant. This means, far beyond the UN’s 6 Official Languages- materials will be available in over 100 languages and in a format replicable for local dialects. Training of “adapchampions” will be done in the affected village, town or region to ensure the continuity of local adaptation efforts. The training will include both identifying the major risks that a given community faces, as well as what their options are- given their resource constraints. The action component involves the communities turning the educational aspect of Adapt-Action into concrete actions. This means harnessing their available resources- whether it be materials, time or labour and implementing adaptation solutions.These could range from everything digging better drainage ditches to educating the community on early warning signs of natural disasters- whatever helps the community to mitigate the climate risk that they face. Adapt-Action’s vision for long term impact is for every person in the world to have the opportunity to adapt to the climate risk that they face. From an organisational perspective, this means having regional hubs of excellence, where best practice education and solutions are amplified and implemented. | Existing adaptation projects focus on large scale engineering responses to climate change. While these are useful and have their role, the reality is that these are expensive, take a long time to plan and implement and are not practicable for the majority of the world’s people. Adapt-Action’s unique methodology is that it starts in reality- by focusing on what the day to day reality of the community that wants to adapt is. From this understanding not only can you undertake best-practice adaptation because you can identify the specific risk that the community faces but also what’s practicable given the resource constraints. Unlike other adaptation projects which tend to be top-down, engineering heavy, expensive and located in Developed countries. Adapt-Action focuses on simple, effective, and zero-low cost solutions, that work for those populations who are most at risk from the effects of climate change. This different approach means that the communities become empowered to adapt themselves, and as a result that any adaption is sustainable. | Our mission from day one, has been on how we can get the information out there now- given the urgent need to adapt the world now. Adapt-Action has built our web, email and social media platforms in preparation for our official launch at the 68th UN NGO Conference in Salt Lake City in August 2019. As part of this launch preparation, the first draft of our pamphlet to be translated into over 100 hundred languages has been done and the website is regularly updated. Adapt-Action’s progress is measured against our strategic vision- with the next step being securing partners in our vision for accessible adaptation solutions. Progress can be measured in volume of partnerships and the geographic spread of them. Adapt-Action intends to measure its impact in a number of ways including: disaggregated numbers of people supported to adapt, numbers of adapchampions, and volume of communities reached. Similarly, impact will be measured in terms of traffic to our web platform and use of the materials it contains as well as in terms of the solutions themselves- including the volume and impact of them in Adapt-Action communities. Adapt-Action currently has a sustainability policy which covers its economic, social and environmental responsibility as an organisation- to which it will be held to. When the organisation is of appropriate scale, this will also involve periodical auditing and reporting of the above metrics as well as a review of the efficacy of the project in each quarter. | 1. Email/Web/Social Media Platforms developed- In order to immediately have available a hub for grassroots climate adaptation education and actions. 2. Draft Pamphlet ‘Adaptation 101’ translated into 100+ Languages and put live on Adapt-Action.org 3. Officially launch Adapt-Action at the 68th UN NGO Summit in Salt Lake City, United States on the 26th-28th of August 2019. 4. Formalise Adapt-Action’s expert advisory group from Engineering, Development Studies, Architecture, Disaster Management and Humanitarian, Agricultural backgrounds and direct them to generate and review evidence based, zero/minimal budget localised adaptation solutions. 5. Formalise partnerships with NGOs, IGOs and Governments, including securing first tranche of funding for our proof of concept. 6. Test proof of concept- Implement the full Adapt-Action approach in 5 communities of differing size in the Himalayan Region of India, TBC. 7. Based on the results of the proof of concept, modify and scale Adapt-Action as necessary. | Short Term In the Short-Term, Adapt-Action’s needs are find partners with a shared vision of helping the world to adapt whether it be implementation or research partners. Examples of implementation partners would be NGOs and IGOs in related areas as well as Governments and Local Authorities. Research partners are needed to join our technical advisory group and continue to review and refine Adapt-Action’s catalogue of best practice grassroots solutions to adaptation. Medium Term In the Medium- Term, the resource need will shift to technical funding and support in order to run Adapt-Action’s proof of concept. This may include funding the operational costs of the proof of concept, supplying human talent to the project or assisting with an independent review of its efficacy. Long Term After Adapt-Action has refined its project for maximum efficacy, in accordance with the results of our proof of concept, the next resource needed is more partnerships. This is in order to unlock the geographic potential of Adapt-Action and our mission to ensure that everyone in the world has the opportunity to adapt to climate change. It is also to ensure that operational costs associated with scaling up are met- including the costs of establishing regional centres for excellence, training local adapchampions and operating the hub of community-based solutions. | https://adapt-action.org/, https://unesco.org.nz/climate-change-reflections-comparing-colombia-and-new-zealand/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/injy-johnstone-a47868117/ | https://www.niwa.co.nz/videos/injys-odyssey, https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/supreme-youth-award-former-dunedin-uni-student, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaRpNm9fcKs&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1_qzTa4vqbJhJRAoT1qDsNgYD8xxhb6N8KKErP-FFto3tWqHv_oo61s5A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elglOL41ZCU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3954BrVzkA | 2019 Fulbright Science and Innovation Scholarship 2019 Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Latin America 2018 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Local Hero Award for Wellington 2018 Senior Supreme Winner at the National Youth Awards 2017 Highly Commended Queens Young Leaders Award 2013 ANZ Lead and Inspire Award 2013 Supreme Winner of Trustpower Youth Leadership Awards. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
591 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sergio | Medina | RISE | https://www.rise-int.org | Founder and CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | French | Spanish | We are applying to the UN Solutions Summit because we have designed and built an innovation that can improve the lives of millions of refugee children. We are using technology, design, business, and social impact to advance SDGs, and we believe that the UN Solutions Summit will provide us with a platform to share how we might create change and build support to scale our innovation. We have created a mobile-first software application to accelerate the delivery of humanitarian aid, such as school-based meals programs, to children living in refugee camps. We have successfully tested our software in Kakuma, with support from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and OpenIDEO, and we want to scale it to help more children. What we have built is entirely new and we are innovating and building upon valuable expertise already existent in the field. Our introducing a digital coordination tool is replacing an entirely manual process that we are optimizing through the application of technology. The global refugee crisis is so large that it is impossible to effect global change using manual coordination systems. We are optimistic that with the introduction of digital tools that connect and interconnect aid agencies, we can accelerate humanitarian aid services to the many millions of refugees who are displaced and who are in need of life-saving assistance. | Sergio has developed his child protection domain expertise through work at multiple international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and UN agencies, such as UNHCR and UNICEF. Throughout his career and fieldwork, he has scaled innovative programs for the coordination and delivery of child protection and humanitarian aid. After multiple deployments and witnessing the considerable problems that impact children in refugee camps across East Africa, Sergio founded a social enterprise, RISE, to build and deploy innovative digital solutions to intractable challenges. RISE seeks to accelerate the delivery of humanitarian aid to refugee children by designing and building digital tools and new ways of coordinating services for aid agencies. Sergio holds a BA from Rice University, an MSW from Columbia University, and a Certificate in Social Entrepreneurship from Stanford Business School. He is currently an EMBA student at MIT Sloan where he is also a Fellow at the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship. He has received numerous awards for his work including recognition as an OpenIDEO Global Innovator all in pursuit of the RISE mission. With an amazing team at RISE, and in a supportive community at MIT, Sergio looks forward to engineering equitable access to humanitarian aid for refugee children worldwide. | RISE | Building technology to accelerate humanitarian aid for refugee children | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Kenya, Jordan, and Bangladesh | Yes | Lutheran World Federation (LWF); UNHCR; and WFP. | Transition to Scale | Our solution is at the Transition to Scale stage because we have proven that the RISE platform works. After three international pilots, we are confident that we have software, a team, and an organization that is capable of global scaling. In the past year, we conducted an extensive pilot in Kakuma, Kenya where we tested our software’s field readiness. We can now assert that it has the capability to accelerate the delivery of school meals and impact education at scale in Kakuma and beyond. | The delivery of humanitarian aid to refugee children is hindered by the lack of technologically advanced tools built for emergency contexts. The lack of efficient tools impedes the ability of aid agencies to expeditiously deliver services for the approximately 7.4 million school-age worldwide. These delays pose detrimental, yet avoidable, negative effects on children's well-being and challenge our collective ability to achieve the SDGs. | Our innovation is a mobile application that elevates the efficiency, transparency, and effectiveness of service delivery in refugee schools around the globe. Our software facilitates the work of field staff by streamlining, and where possible, automating their day-to-day tasks related to school-based meals programs. The result is that children will receive school meals more consistently, which incentivizes school attendance, thereby supporting educational outcomes. The software allows multiple users to access data collection and reporting tools. For example, teachers use the app to take attendance. Cooks access the app to prepare school meals based on the data teachers collect. Administrators access the metrics tool to have a detailed view of their operation. Stakeholders overseeing the entire operation also have the opportunity to identify bottlenecks in service flow in real-time and deploy resources to resolve identified challenges. Everything is performed straight from a mobile phone, which is the only ubiquitous device in camps. Our platform has the potential to transform and modernize the delivery of humanitarian aid. Our long-term vision is to deploy our platform to refugee camps around the world and accelerate aid for 7.4 million refugee children. To achieve our long-term vision, we are on a pathway to first implement our 5-year goal to increase food security and educational access for 50,000 refugee children according to our detailed scaling plan. | In addition to our use of cutting-edge cloud and mobile technology, our innovation is unique because we provide powerful tools for the aid ecosystem. We have built mobile app interfaces for multiple roles within implementing partner agencies, as well as for UN partners who provide monitoring and support. By utilizing this systems-level approach, we are taking into account the complexity of aid coordination that involves multiple agencies. Some implementing partners use apps that address the needs of a subset of workers and some use generic data collection tools to design surveys for data collection offline. These tools do not operate on a systems level and are not centralized to ease the challenges of complex coordination. We have built a platform with a common core set of features that address the similar needs of multiple aid workers. The RISE innovation shifts the trend away from small investments in tools with a narrow impact to a technologically advanced system that benefits the entire ecosystem. Our innovation will save time and resources for users providing last-mile services, and translate that time savings into faster humanitarian aid delivery. By bridging the interests of different user groups and making it possible to integrate with existing systems, RISE can help agencies cut costs on one-off innovation efforts, amplify collaboration, and accelerate impact for refugee aid agencies everywhere. | RISE has successfully completed a Proof of Concept and we are on a pathway to scale. We have completed tests of our innovation in Lesvos (Greece), in Berlin (Germany), and most recently in Kakuma (Kenya). Throughout every stage of our project, we have sustained a practice of assessment to measure our progress and guide our steps moving forward. We currently consult with Global Knowledge Initiative (GKI) and DFAT to deliver point-in-time monitoring, evaluation and learning methodologies. We collected qualitative and quantitative data from our field pilots that informed baseline, midline and endline evaluation criteria used to gauge near-term impact. By design, the majority of these measurements are collected through our app. The same API used to deliver key metrics to the user can be used to calculate the impact our platform has on an agency’s outputs. Our impact metrics are built-in to the software. As we deploy our application at scale, we will first document an agency's historical rates of service delivery and build their capacity to evaluate program impact. This practice will allow us to evaluate our impact on program performance as agencies use our platform, providing the powerful capability to use data to show the impact our tool has on service delivery. This data-informed utilization of assessment methodologies will continue to be applied to our innovation every step of the way along our pathway to scale. | RISE is following a 5-year plan on our pathway to scale for our attendance and school meals innovation to first build the common core of the platform and to hone functionality. Our goal for the end of year 1 is to fully deploy the app at one school in Kakuma, impacting 2,000 students. In year two, our app will expand to two more schools - reaching 4,000 additional children. During year three, we will add more schools to reach full integration in one camp for a total of 10,000 children. We will then accelerate our scaling process over years four and five to reach an additional four camps. At that stage, RISE will be immersed in scaling our technology and we will have successfully integrated our platform in five refugee camps. By the end of five years, we plan to have impacted approximately 50,000 children. Additional milestones include those associated with app development, deployment capacity building, further roll-out and testing, and operational scaling. We intend to deploy a team to schools at additional camps in Jordan and Bangladesh to test for universal applicability in year 1. Throughout our scaling, we will build organizational capacity by hiring staff who bring complementary and diverse sets of skills, such as those with expertise in monitoring and evaluation. As well, we will invest in building partnerships with aid, UN, and government agencies who are involved in responding to the global refugee crisis. | To move towards scaling our innovation at the global levels to which we intend, there are three categories of resources we need: investments, partnerships, and engagement. We need sustained and substantial financial investment at the beginning stages of our growth, and we are implementing a fundraising plan to reflect this need. Building upon the investment that DFAT made in our initial testing, we recently submitted a grant application to USAID Development Innovation Ventures and MIT Solve. We are engaging foundations, corporations, and individual donor to create a diverse funding stream. To scale our innovation in the medium and long-term, we first need the financial investment to hire staff, fund large-scale testing, and widespread deployment. We also seek to deepen our initial partnerships with the Lutheran World Federation, UNHCR, and WFP in Kenya. We also seek to establish high-level partnerships with UNHCR and WFP headquarters so that we can have critical access to additional tests and deployments in specific countries and camps. RISE would benefit from presenting on a platform, such as at the UN Solutions Summit, to elevate our message and place a call to action for people, organizations, and others to get involved in our work. Networking and marketing opportunities are critical to us being able to increase awareness build community that will help us reach our potential for global impact. | RISE website: https://www.rise-int.org RISE app tour (on our website): https://www.rise-int.org/tour The RISE MIT Solve innovation page: https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/community-driven-innovation/solutions/8445 Our MIT Solve Video Submission: https://vimeo.com/345387315/70995f7c32 Our OpenIDEO innovation page: https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/education-emergencies/top-ideas/enterprise-software-to-increase-educational-access-for-refugee-children Video created at DFAT/OpenIDEO Innovation Bootcamp (early iteration on our software): https://youtu.be/HVw1nieekE8 | Pitch by Sergio Medina at MIT Legatum Center Demo Evening: https://youtu.be/wdlSrcDOMuI | Jacobs Social Entrepreneur Fellowship - winner MIT Sandbox Innovation Venture - winner MIT PKG Center Fellowship - winner The MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship Fellowship - winner OpenIDEO/DFAT Education in Emergencies Challenge - winner The Gratitude Network Fellowship - winner Singularity University - Global Grand Challenges - finalist UN General Assembly Special Accreditation - Global Compact for Migration - recipient Global Labor Organization Fellowship - winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
592 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Happiness | Boms | Greene Happy Home Care | https://web.facebook.com/www.ghhcare/ | Executive Director | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | This will motives me in impacting more way to oriented my youth and add value to my community development project, With over a quarter of population remaining below the age of 29-45 of youth/women, investment in today’s youth population, particularly for young women, can achieve demographic dividend assuming that investments in health, education and decent jobs are guaranteed. There needs to be a deliberate effort to invest in young people living in rural areas and to establish mechanisms and platforms that can be utilized by this cohort. In conflict- and violence-affected contexts, young people are commonly perceived as either perpetrators or victims of violence with young men usually assumed to be the primary perpetrators and young women the primary victims, especially of sexual and gender-based violence. Yet the lived realities of young people in these contexts are much more complex than these stereotypes suggest. Some young people may be both direct victims and perpetrators of violence; others may be neither, but instead have to use their skills and resources to survive and support themselves and their families. This analysis holds the same for your fellowship to achieve democracy. Concerns by some practitioners and policy makers regarding youth vis-à-vis their role in politics and conflict are ambivalent | I, Boms Happiness chijiago, is the President, Executive Director of Greene Happy Home Care Nigeria. Greene Happy Home Care is a registered corporation that works with women in capacity Building project for Community Base development in Nigeria. It engages in community development, and women economic empowerment program. We advocate on Health, and Support visionary gender equity. We transform and promote economic value in various communities through programs that Advance the livelihood of women, addressing economic development through creating a significant social-economic improvement in Capacity Building. The overall aim is wealth creation using Programs that fights against families struggling, hunger and Disease to eradicate poverty. I relevant workingknowledges experience in Personnel, Administrative, and Management jobs too. I am a graduated and I have Post Graduate (PGD) in Business Management in Post Graduate School, Rivers State University of Science & Technology Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt Nigeria, in 2006 and I havecomple a course in Masters Degree in International law & Diplomacy. | The challenge of Economic Development in Gender Stereotype effect in Nigeria | the opportunities they need to become agents of peace, If they are mobilized in organized manner; Youth can really bring about great change in their l | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | No | Research & Development | The overall goal is to create an enabling environment for the youth in the region of River State Niger Delta Nigeria so that they can be self - dependent, contribute to the development of the area and be an active participant in development effort of the nation. Enage in Enterprenuors business leadership oeners and Digital technology and create jobs for youth etc | The economic problem is lack of employment opportunities. Even though youth population is dominant in the town, there are no enough jobs to absorb them and there is very high unemployment.. Common social problems are lack of informant communication technology internet training and Entrepreneurs training inadequate social facilities (health, education,) To explore the common problems they face, thus participating in the emergence of sustainable solutions future is possiable. | This initiative lifts up and advances the work of exceptional teams already developing innovative solutions that address the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It shows that people already have extraordinary solutions in progress to our most complex challenges. The gathering serves asresources and talent around solution-makers | Learning, Research work, Training and Development | Menitoring and Evaluation team management | Activities and goals of the project The overall goal is to create an enabling environment for the youth in the region of River State Niger Delta Nigeria so that they can be self - dependent, contribute to the development of the area and be an active participant in development effort of the nation. Enage in Enterprenuors business leadership oeners and Digital technology and create jobs for youth etc Specific objectives are to inculcate entrepreneurial skills in the youth, to make youth self-employed, and initiate the youth to be engaged in leadership activities, small business (micro-credit revolving fund), vocational skills training, a didactic cinema, ICT enterprises and other similar innovative and creative projects 1)Training the youth on entrepreneurial skills. 2)Establishing computers andinternet business center. 3)Provision of credit services. 4)P5)Forming youth’s network of Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies 6)Civic education and leadership training 7)8)To run a literacy school 910)To promote community development through support to local community initiatives to improve the standards of living of the population. 11)To support training in Agriculture and ecomerece onlin shop 15)To empower local communities to search for and identify ways of addressing their developmental needs through educating and supporting young people to become effective agents of change. 17)To promote gender equality through equally participation in all development activities | . Expected output in Long-term output and Short term output 1)170 Youngsters obtained training on entrepreneurial skill. 2)115 Recreation and computer and internet business center established. 3)170 Youngsters obtained revolving credit. 4)170 Youngsters obtained civic education, leadership skills, gender based violence training 6)200 Youngsters obtained computer and internet training 7)Exported local made products 8)Reduced poverty, illiteracy and unemployment 9)Promote youngsters rights 10)Promoted cultural heritage and tourism activities Laptop English and Science literature books Fax machine, scanner, photo colored printer Monitoring and evaluation Photocopy materials and publication Equipment Sewing machinesSets of construction work tools Sets of hairdressing toolsCarpentry tools We will request for financial support and individual contribution | https://web.facebook.com/www.ghhcare/ | https://youtu.be/ttHLHrR8KxA | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
593 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Issaka Abdou-Razakou | KIRIBOU | IDD | www.iddbf.org | Study and research planer | Male | Burkina Faso | Togo | English | French | The mean reason for applying is to share my experiences in the fight against violent extremism in young envirenment in Burkin Faso and meet resources people who could be coaches for me. I am also to build a strong network with those you are providing sustainables solutions on Target 16 of UN Sustainable Development Goal. We used geoinformation technology analysis to educate, develop cognitive, social emotional and behavioral understandings among youth. By this process, we enable them to analyze local, national and regional issues related to peace and violent extremism through cognitive skill. Understanding of local problems and development of a sense of belonging to common humanity throught social emotional skill already created a climate of peace. All these allowed them to take aware of the danger of extremism violent in Burkina Faso Local areas, what has changed behavior in young people. They have begun to analyze, flee speech extremist and taken committement for peaceful and sustainable societies in Burkina Faso. | KIRIBOU I. Abdou Razakou is a young leader from Burkina Faso. Ingineer of Geomatic, he's a study and researche planer at Initiative for Sustainable Development (IDD) in Burkina Faso. He's committed to achievement of United Nations Sustainable Development on target 16 at 2030. He's used geoinformation technologies product to involve and motivate young people to stand for peace in Burkina Faso. | myPEACE | Commit to Peaceful and Sustainable Societies. | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Burkina Faso | Yes | Ministry of Human Rights and Civic Promotion | Transition to Scale | Our project aims peaceful and sustaible societies. It's an innovative solution fighting against extremism violent and corruption. Extremism violent involves young people who are already tagets and vulnerable to being recruited by the extremists. The traditional straggle against always involves the military, use of army. Howewer, violences against violences always lead to violence. Therefore we mush change a strtegies. | The main problem we are fighting is corruption and extremism violent, which are intimately connected .Corruption violates principles of unequal opportunities, makes religion a refuge from injustice. Countries suffering violent extremism in Africa lead the most corrupt countries. There's not enought of geospatial databases to improve the accuracy of local developpement decisions which is increasing corruption and extremism violent. | Our solution works by sensitization, training on corruption and its consequences on local, national and regional development using cognitive, social emotional and behavioral competneces. We are using Geinformation Science to explore an economic potential of local areas. Production and selling local thematics maps. We also makes understand young people the opportunities of entrepreneurship, and the need to preserve peace in order to be able to benefit from it. In long-term we will disign and implementing geospatial databases to improve the accuracy of local developpement decisions. We will implement an information collect application on corruption, denouncing violent acts in real time using social network. These actions will bring culture tranceparency and respectability, and makes youth citizen's eve. Our vision is to create a dabases on corruption to strengthening extremism violent struggle. | The unique solution for this problem is to develop cognitive, social emotional and behavioral skills among young people related to corruption, violent extremism. The new perspective is developing civism, global citizenship, and develop a strong institution or law. | We started this solution 4 years ago by conferences on civism and active citizenship at high schools and colleges. We begun in the areas where there was violence in schools. We deed an activities report. We evaluated and measurement direct impact two times on one year (6 months each) of each activities. We organising radio games and contests on peace and social cohesion in partnership with the Ministry of human rights to measure indirect impact. The rigor lies in the leadership and reporting within the comimittee and Ministry of Human Rights | We aims to expand our project in Mali, Niger where we have also extrimism violent. This actions will begun with our gathering information with digital application. | In short term we need a coach and training on transparence culture, Medium term we need computer materials, Create a (build) a training center of Geoinformation Science and Technologies, leadership and citizenship. | www.iddbf.org | https://youtu.be/0GeOnzMNr6A Yough entrepreneurship training link in partnership with JCI Burkina in Local municipality of Burkina Faso with | Best project award decerned by Junior Chamber International (JCI) Cerificate of recognize and encouragement by the high commissionner of kouitenga province. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
594 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ogwang | Robert Rapsy | Karamoja Action Against Malnutrition | https://robertrapsy0776.wixsite.com/karamojaactionagai-3 | Project Director | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | The motivations to me to apply to be part of the UN Solutions Summit and more specifically to present a project is due to the following, Since the region is stroked by high levels of poverty associated with hunger that threatens humanity in entirely the whole region, So there was need to fight poverty and hunger among the people, this gave me a foundation to base my fight on and these were the Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2 of which all are addressed to reduce poverty and hunger respectively. Having these two threats seriously affecting humanity gave me strength and courage to rise up and work more harder to rescue the all region from these depressions to humanity, Also being selected a millennium fellow for the class of 2019, a family that works hand in hand to share ideas and knowledge on how to develop the world , this motivated me further to have the work of this project since I have peers whom I can consult and have myself solving the problems that affects most livelihoods and in the end secure health and wealth for the upcoming generations. Being a person that loves to work with people specifically to solve problems that affects livelihoods also placed a strong motivations to me and work to reduce to loads caused by poverty and hunger to the people of Karamoja region. | I was born to a humble family of 7 children by Mrs. and Mr. Aben John Leakey in rural country village, Kawang, Abim district, Uganda in 1997. After which I later joined Alerek Primary School when I was 6 years for primary one and after changed to a missionary founded Catholic School where I completed my Primary Leaving Examination in 2010 and then later joined Abim Secondary School for Uganda Certificate of Education and obtained 26 aggregates with a first grade, I also in this same year represented the school for the 2014 Uganda National Mathematics Contest and attained 252nd position nationally. I later on continued for Advanced Level of Education in year 2015 with a combination of Biology, Chemistry and Agriculture and got 11 for 20 points from this same school and was then taken up on government scholarship under the district quota admission scheme for a Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition at Makerere University and still up to date I am studying this course. While at Makerere University, I was elected as the deputy speaker for Ethur Makerere Students' Association as one of the associations that brings students of the same origin together, also will at Makerere University, I was taken as the member of the United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network for the class of 2019 at Makerere University Kampala. | Karamoja Action Against Malnutrition. | Health and wealth for the future Generations | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Uganda, the northeastern part, Karamoja. | No | Ideation | The project titled Karamoja Action Against Malnutrition came as an idea to provide solutions to the major problems affecting this region, the high levels of under nutrition within the region caused by poverty and unreliable rainfalls that disrupts food production activities pricked me to have such a innovation launch to improve the livelihoods for entirely the whole region and for the reason that no actual work put in place except paper work qualifies this innovation to be an idea. | This project is addressing problems of; 1. Low level of households food to sustain lives as a result of low levels of education on proper ways to address households' food production problems. 2. Lack of women empowerment to address most of the households problems since they are the care takers of most homes. 3. Poor agricultural practices that do not favour the regional unreliable rainfalls. 4. High levels of undernutrition within the region to the children under the age of 5 years. | The solution will provide knowledge and increase households food production to reduce hunger and poverty through engagement of families in small scale businesses to address problems that threatens humanity in many rural communities of the entire region of Karamoja. This will be put in action through; 1. Households sensitization on activities that are targeted to address most of the households' problems. 2. Introduction of crops that thrives well on the semi arid climate of the area. 3. Ensuring active participation in activities that provides enough food through increased households food productions. 4. Encouraging participation in small income generating activities to provide small amount of finances to address small family problems and ensure increased school attendance for all children in entirely the all region. The long term vision for this project on global impact is to provide citizens that are able to address their problems with limited dependence on outside aids. Secondly, the project will have a great impact on a population of over 7,000 people which constitute a part for the global total population. Improvement of the livelihoods for all the households in the region constituting a large population to the overall global population. | The project is unique as a solution to world' s biggest problems which are poverty and hunger in way that it addresses the community problems through participatory developmental activities that provides and creates to people knowledge and skills to lead their own lives instead of making them dependants as the most approaches have always been with the same strength and believe to fight poverty and hunger when addressing these issues in the region. The solution will encourage and ensure active involvement of households in activities targeted to eradication of poverty and hunger than providing them with food stuffs or aids that will make them highly dependant and lesser strength to address the key issues that leads to poverty and hunger that affects most of the households in the entire region of Karamoja. Also the solution is unique in a way that it operates at household's level rather than generalization which is common to most solutions provided by other solutions that come in to address the problems of Karamoja. | The solution has been addressed to various stakeholders and many have approved it to be a better solution to address the United Nations SDGs 1 and 2 because they are one of the major threats to humanity and because of it's strategic goals of operations. The solution have been put already in the paper and referenced as the greatest initiative to address the problems affecting Karamoja region of Uganda. The measurement of the project's progress is based on; 1. The households' assessments to determine the levels of hunger and poverty within the households. With the aim being on reduction of all levels in all the households to less than 10% within five active years of completed action. 2. Increased the population of women empowered as they are the Care takers of most homes through continuous education to provide them with practical based knowledge and skills to address most of the households problems. 3. Increased Level of youth participation in the project activities since they are the agents of positive change in most rural communities of Africa. | The project goals are as follows; 1. Reducing households levels of hunger and in the end malnutrition in the form of undernutrition to less than 10% in entirely the all region. 2. Increasing women participation in activities targeted to eradication of poverty and hunger since they are the key care takers of most homes. 3. Increasing youths participation in development activities as the drivers to development. Since the protect intends to impact the lives of more than 7,000 people within the region, it will have a very big change to the world with improved livelihoods as the outcome of the project plans and goals. The project also intends to increase more women and youths with a population of over 5,000 for each sides to enhance achievement of the planned development goals of the project as per the sustainable development goals 1 and 2 of the UN. | For this innovation to scale up and have it tackle the two goals above, the following short, medium and long term needs for the project. 1. Nine (9) field offices at each of the district in the region to ensure adequate supervision of the solution activities 2. Farm inputs and implementation, seeds of maize, sorghum, beans, millet etc and small garden tools like hoes, rakes, ox ploughs to enable run most of the agricultural activities easily. 3. Transport vehicles for all the 9 fields offices for adequate and timely supervision of the field activities. 4. Experts in the field of agriculture and nutrition to provide knowledge to people and enable meet the plan goals of the project activities. 5. Entrepreneurs or Economists to provide knowledge and skills to the people to start and run small scale businesses as per the project plan goals aimed at fighting poverty. | https://robertrapsy0776.wixsite.com/karamojaactionagai-3 | There are no video or audio recordings for this project yet. | This project has not won any award yet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
595 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Raj | Rajakumar | Spontivly | https://www.spontivly.ca/ | Co-Founder | Male | Canada | Canada | English | Our motivation for applying to the UN Solutions Summit is two-fold. Firstly, Spontivly has applied an innovative approach to solving the problem of loneliness and social isolation by revising existing technology to be more intentional and effective at creating meaningful connections. Secondly, we believe the UN Solution Summit is an excellent platform to spread awareness of our solution as it aligns to the UN SDGs, it uses innovation and partnership to engage millennials to help tackle social isolation and loneliness. Innovation is at the core of this solution because it uses technology for positive global impact. | Raj joined Alberta’s Industrial Heartland Association (AIHA) in May of 2018 in the newly created role of Transportation & Infrastructure Planner and is responsible for stakeholder liaison and planning oversight of pipeline corridors, road transportation, and rail. Raj completed his Bachelors of Urban and Regional Planning from Ryerson University and holds a certificate in Project Management from the University of Toronto. Before joining AIHA, Raj worked at Edmonton Public School Board’s infrastructure department, where he developed a 10 year facilities plan and 3 year capital plan for school build growth needs. Prior to this, Raj held positions in long range land use planning in public sector organizations overseeing projects pursuant to downtown revitalization, internal planning guidelines, and current development. Raj has international experience working on public space revitalization projects in developing countries and co-founded a tech startup centered on solving loneliness and social isolation by curating experiences to people. | Spontivly - Know what’s happening, wherever you are. | Building socially inclusive communities using technology | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Currently the focus is Canada and USA with plans to implement in Europe within the next 2-3 years. | Yes | MacEwan University, Edmonton Economic Development & Trade, City of Albert and Northern Alberta Business Incubator Society | Scaling | Spontivly is currently in the scaling stage of innovation because we have done the necessary market analysis and invested time into building and establishing partnerships. Our solution has buy-in from diverse stakeholders but cannot scale to the next level without capital. | Humans are social beings who rely on strong and meaningful connections in order to live a good quality of life, yet there is an increasing trend of loneliness and social isolation, particularly among millennials - the fastest growing generation. Loneliness has health consequences ranging between mental and physical health, sometimes both. The Mental Health Commission of Canada estimated 1.2 million children and youth in Canada are affected by mental illness. | Social isolation and loneliness is on the rise yet solutions that are accessible and affordable are difficult to find. Leveraging technology as a means to mitigate isolation and loneliness is an untapped opportunity. Spontivly plans to redefine what integrated communities look like around the world with metrics on user engagement to build better communities which put the social well-being of citizens at the core of planning. Spontivly has the potential to drive change that could reserve the epidemic of loneliness by creating and connecting citizens to experiences happening in real time. Spontivly aims to integrate people into communities, help solve loneliness, and help individuals easily engage and connect through the use of technology. Spontivly is a mobile platform which allows users to discover, connect, and coordinate experiences and activities in real-time with like-minded individuals. The mobile platform utilizes geo-spatial technology with future plans to integrate AI. | Spontivly has applied an innovative approach to solving the problem of loneliness and social isolation by revising existing technology to be more intentional and effective at creating meaningful connections. Existing mobile applications which utilize geospatial technology do not provide curated information based on extracted location information to end users. Spontivly is designed in a way which incorporates a streamlined user interface for an activity-creation system that relies on community input to allow for users to discover hyper-localized experiences, events and activities. This approach has allowed us to develop a mobile product that uses GIS mapping as a key component, while integrating geospatial data with user-inputted data to provide meaningful information and interaction. Current technology platforms in the event/activity space aggregates randomized content to the end user, where countless time is spent finding what to do in a user’s free time. Spontivly curates information that is relevant and enticing to users based on their interests, schedule and network, cutting the challenge of finding what to do, time and effort spent, and scheduling among friends and colleagues. No existing platform has this level of caliber to curation and gamification to the end user. | Our team has completed extensive market research and customer validation in qualitative and quantitative analysis such as interviews, surveys, and focus group. We have been developing the technology product simultaneously based on testing and customer feedback. Our measure of progress has been selling our product our target markets - post secondary, tourism and municipalities. We are at a point where we are raising capital to assist in scaling our product further and opening it to markets in the USA. Our measure of rigor has been peer review of our processes by our advisory committee. We have chosen key advisors in the industry to assist us in being strategic, tactical and methodological in our processes but overall solution. | We intend to hire two people under our business development team to assist with scaling into the east and west coast regions of the USA in Q1 2020, and hire two people for our marketing and communications team to handle public relations and marketing efforts in Q1 2020. Additionally, we want to bring our current team members full time and hire on full our development group we are outsourcing. We are currently raising capital and closing in on our seed round to help accomplish the above milestones in regards to recruitment. Target market is primarily on the east coast of the USA due to market size and key relationships we can leverage. We intend to build our web platform in Q1 2020 and build on our artificial intelligence and facility booking component in Q4 2020. User growth forecast is proposed to be 42,249 based on conservative estimates, accessing 4 municipalities in Alberta, and partnering with 14 institutions. | The most needed resources for the solution include capital, business development, and partnerships. In the short-term, Spontivly needs capital in order to recruit, and to invest in business development. In the medium-term, Spontivly needs to invest in building more partnerships and growing its user base. This includes dedicating resources to attending conferences and speaking in different capacities to build awareness in new networks and communities. In the long-term, Spontivly needs to introduce AI and understand how to best utilize the collected data to build better and more sustainable communities. | https://www.spontivly.ca/ https://www.edmonton.com/articles/spontivly-aims-to-cut-through-the-noise-bombarding-your-social-calendar https://roundhouse.net/stories/spontivly/ | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/guest-building-community-app-ft-anthony-nagendraraj/id1340684895?i=1000445042203 | Part of top 20 Alberta based startups chosen to be part of Connections in Silicon Valley program in San Francisco. Hand selected to exhibit at Collision 2019 in Toronto (largest tech conference in North America). Inducted into the Alberta Government’s TAP program that aids startups to export product. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
596 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Frank | Stadler | Griffith University, School of Medicine | https://www.griffith.edu.au/griffith-health/school-medicine | Research Fellow and Chief Investigator, Humanitarian Grand Challenge | Male | Australia | Germany | English | I would like to represent my team at the UN Solutions Summit to share our work and drive the development and implementation of our innovation: Medicinal maggot laboratories for compromised healthcare settings. Wounds are an emerging and underappreciated NCD-healthcare problem around the world: 1) Worldwide, 425 million people have diabetes and up to 106 million of these develop foot ulcers over their lifetime, often repeatedly leading to amputation and loss of life; 2) Approximately 5% of all cancer patients present with a malignant or treatment related chronic wound at some stage - these are often painful, odorous, leaking and highly ostracizing; 3) Over 80% of road traffic accident injuries in LMICs require surgery and in over 80% of cases this is wound debridement, the removal of dead tissue. Many of these injuries become infected and require long treatment and repeated debridement; and 4) Disasters result in terrible wounds and while the media focuses mainly on the death toll, the long-term wounded with chronically infected wounds are fast forgotten. The total number of people injured in the 2010 Haiti earthquake is estimated to lie somewhere between 110,000 and 300,000; Maggot therapy is the treatment of wounds with fly larvae to remove dead tissue, control infection and promote healing. Maggot therapy is practiced in the US and Europe but patients in many low- and middle-income countries have no or very limited access to maggot therapy services. Practitioners make healthcare decisions based on the efficacy, availability, cost and practicality of therapies such as maggot therapy. Poor logistics systems and -infrastructure result in a lack of access to maggot therapy for patients. Our R&D and implementation work is going to break this cycle. It is our mission to make maggot therapy available everywhere and to everyone who needs affordable and efficacious chronic wound care. We conduct R&D necessary to provide maggot therapy services where effective and affordable wound care is needed to save limbs and lives. We want to make a difference but understand that we cannot do this alone. The UN Solutions Summit would allow us to share our innovations, achievements, and plans for the future with the UN, the UN Foundation, shift7, and the Global Innovation Exchange, as well as the many acceleration partners. Our hope is to find partners that share our passion for better wound care in underserved communities. | I am a biologist, research manager, project manager, entrepreneur, and the first to investigate maggot therapy supply chain management. I have also extensive expertise and experience in science communication and interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. I have pursued research in biomimetic societal adaptation at the Department of Business Strategy and Innovation, Griffith University, where I also completed my doctoral research in supply chain management for maggot therapy in compromised healthcare settings. This work empowered me to form a research group and successfully apply for CA$ 250,000 'Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge' funding. As the chief investigator I lead our team of researchers to develop medicinal maggot laboratories and maggot therapy solutions in conflict and other compromised healthcare settings. Before I started to tackle the humanitarian logistics challenges of maggot therapy, I coordinated and managed a multi-million dollar portfolio of climate change adaptation research projects at the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Australia. I have also established and operated Bugs N Slugs an invertebrate education and consultancy business. My current side business SIMILITUDE (https://similitude.org) allows me to take advantage of consultancy opportunities other than those related to maggot therapy. | Medicinal Maggot Laboratories | Shipping container laboratories and do-it-yourself laboratories for the production of medicinal maggots in disasters, development and conflict. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Our laboratory solutions will be global in reach, wherever medical supply infrastructure and community resources are insufficient to treat acute, chronic and infected wounds: LMICs, conflict regions, and disasters. | Yes | Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge (a partnership of USAID, DFID UK, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands) administered by Grand Challenges Canada. | Proof of Concept | While maggot therapy has been shown to be a highly efficacious and inexpensive treatment, the development of production laboratories for compromised healthcare settings is new and requires out of the box thinking. Nobody has tried fitting medicinal maggot production into a shipping container, nor to empower isolated conflict affected communities to establish their own production with local resources. This requires some R&D and proof-of concept work before it can be tested and rolled out. | The burden of wounds globally is growing rapidly due to 1) chronic ulcers (pressure-, diabetic- ,venous- and tropical ulcers), 2) injury and trauma (traffic accidents), 3) post-surgical complications, 4) palliative care (cancer), 5) disaster wound care, and 6) related to these the rise in antibiotic resistant microbes. Highly efficacious and affordable wound care is still out of reach for billions of people due to lack of access to healthcare or the cost involved in seeking treatment. | Maggot therapy is the treatment of wounds with living fly larvae to remove dead tissue, control infection and promote wound healing. It's clinical efficacy has been demonstrated. Even under unhygienic conditions it can be extremely beneficial when benign wild flies colonize wounds (myiasis), but for clinical treatment the species and quality of flies needs to be controlled. This is best done when medicinal fly colonies are reared in an insectary and prepared for medical use in a laboratory. Medicinal maggots are highly perishable and need to be delivered and applied to the wound within 48 hours of production. This is not possible where transport infrastructure is poor or non-existent. Therefore laboratory solutions need to be developed that bridge these obstacles and allow medicinal maggot production close to the point of care. Shipping containers are robust and can be transported to almost anywhere in the world. It therefore makes sense to convert one of these into a combined insectary and laboratory. For communities that are too remote or isolated for even a shipping container, we want to empower them to produce safe medicinal maggots with resources that are available to them. We develop visual and multi-lingual guidelines and instructions that can be accessed via mobile phones. Our long-term vision is that aid organisations and governments will use our ready-made container labs and hard-to-reach communities our DIY solutions to provide limb- and life-saving wound care. | Wound care in compromised healthcare settings is challenging at the best of times. Even well equipped medical aid organisations such as MSF or the ICRC find it difficult to treat chronic wound infections in low-resource settings. Treatment options are often limited to 1) repeated surgical debridement, 2) antibiotics with rapidly fading efficacy in the face of widespread antibiotic resistance, and 3) very basic wound dressings consisting of dry or wet gauze bandages. These healthcare settings are also often hard to reach and regular supply with high-quality medicines is difficult or not possible at all. Our medicinal maggot laboratory solutions will ensure supply of reliable quantities and quality of medicinal maggots in the most impoverished or hard-to-reach locations. The container laboratory can be stationed alongside field hospitals or in provincial centers to supply the wound care needs within easy reach of these hubs. The do-it-yourself (DIY) maggot laboratories will empower any isolated community to produce medicinal maggots with available resources. In essence the capacity to produce a highly efficacious wound therapy where it is most needed is an innovative solution to a persistent logistical problem. It also addresses the supply limitations imposed by the highly perishable nature of medicinal maggots. Our solutions will save limbs and lives around the world where surgeons are few and resources are scarce. | The objectives of our current Humanitarian Grand Challenge project are to 1) Develop and test a prototype shipping container laboratory capable of producing sufficient medicinal maggots for the treatment of approx 250 wounds per day. Progress: We have identified and partnered with a container modification engineering company, completed the preproduction phase, and fabrication will commence shortly. The prototype container laboratory is expected to be ready for testing in October/November 2019. 2) Development and testing of do-it-yourself laboratory solutions for conflict-affected communities to build and run medicinal maggot laboratories with local resources. Progress: We conducted end-user consultation to identify the local resources in conflict and other compromised healthcare settings. We are now building sample low-resource laboratory- and insectary equipment for testing which will commence approximately at the end of Sep and will be an ongoing adaptive process of iteration and improvement. 3) Development of richly illustrated multi-lingual information resources such as patient and practitioner information sheets, standard operating procedures and guidelines to enable end users to operate the container laboratories and DIY laboratories. Progress: We collated technical information, established design specifications, and development of information material is under way. In Aug/Sep we will begin shooting instructional videos. | Goals and milestones: > Ongoing: Awareness raising and promotion of maggot therapy and medicinal maggot production solutions to international agencies, governments and NGOs. > August 2019: Development of a professional online profile for the project. > September 2019: Participation and representation at the UN Solutions Summit. > Late 2020: Launch of the first book published by UTS ePress, providing guidance on maggot therapy supply chain management especially in the compromised healthcare setting. > 2020-22: Partnering with humanitarian and government agencies for field testing and M&E of solutions and the development of a mobile phone app to support production and maggot therapy information dissemination. E.g. the Humanitarian Grand Challenge program has substantive scale-up funding allocated for successful and promising projects. > 2020 onward: Establishment of additional research and development programs for advanced production and treatment solutions, in collaboration with engineering and medical device development partners. > March 2021: Completion of the Humanitarian Grand Challenges project and medicinal maggot production solutions for the compromised healthcare setting. > Latter half of 2021: Deployment of the container laboratory for conflict or developing country field testing, monitoring and evaluation. > 2022 onward: Scale-up. Manufacture / supply of container labs. Training programs for operators. | Short-term (now to early 2021): > Additional funding to expand our medicinal maggot laboratory R&D efforts. > Implementation partner buy-in for the testing, monitoring and evaluation of our solutions in the field. Medium-term (early 2021 to 2022): > Additional funding to >> test the container- and DIY laboratories in the field. >> establish additional R&D to improve maggot therapy treatment with limited resources. Long-term (from now to 2030): > International development / business consultation and guidance to support scale-up. > Buy-in through awareness raising, promotion and implementation support from the United Nations, the World Health Organisation, ministries of health and aid agencies. > WHO-supported/promoted harmonization of medicinal maggot production- and maggot therapy regulations across low- and middle-income countries. | Humanitarian Grand Challenge website: > https://humanitariangrandchallenge.org/innovator/maggot-therapy/ Scientific articles: > https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/prehospital-and-disaster-medicine/article/maggot-debridement-therapy-in-disaster-medicine/CB15B5C1318A5B6C58091CA567E89D65 > https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/mve.12397 > https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JHLSCM-02-2017-0003/full/html Blogs: > Stadler F., P. Tatham and R.Z. Shaban (2016) Maggot debridement therapy in disaster medicine and development aid. HUMLOG Blog, Hanken. https://www.hanken.fi/en/blog/humlog/maggot-therapy-disaster-medicine-and-development-aid > Stadler F. (2017) World-first research on maggot debridement therapy in humanitarian aid. https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=122001453834156;res=IELHEA Media: > https://app.secure.griffith.edu.au/news/2018/09/26/250000-grant-for-griffith-researchers-sending-medicinal-maggots-to-war/ > https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/jan/10/maggots-could-be-sent-to-syria-by-uk-to-help-clean-wounds > https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/01/10/maggots-sent-war-zones-government-clean-wounds-save-limbs/ > https://nypost.com/2019/01/11/maggots-to-treat-wounded-soldiers-in-war-torn-syria/ Dedicated website with project info: A dedicated website for this project is under development and will be online by the end of this month (Aug 2019), in time for the summit. | Radio interviews: > Saturday Extra, ABC Radio National: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/maggot-medicine/6740874 > ABC Sunshine Coast: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/sunshine/programs/breakfast/frank-stadler/10451582 > Newspaper / online interviews: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-12/could-maggots-take-over-from-antibiotics-for-wound-care/10483450 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
597 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Iain | Walker | newDemocracy Foundation | www.newdemocracy.com.au | Executive DIrector | Male | Australia | Australia | English | My motivation is to present what we think is the best idea for solving the hardest problem facing the world: how to find agreement and take a shared decision. The one common element across all challenges is that we rarely lack the technical understanding of what to do, we lack the ability to bring along an array of different populations and representatives behind hard decisions. I run a research foundation which explores how to do democracy better. The answer lies in a mechanism many places use today in their criminal courts: juries. Asking juries of people drawn from all walks of life to explore evidence and then find a common ground position offers a complementary ""bolt on"" to our parliaments to help them more palatably take long term decisions. Over the last 8 years i have led 22 demonstration projects with various levels of government proving that this will work in practice. We'd love the chance to share this insight. | Iain Walker has led the newDemocracy Foundation (Australia) since 2011. newDemocracy is a founding participant in the global Democracy R&D group (https://democracyrd.org/) which works with other practitioners to explore the merits of similar trials being conducted around the world. | Citizens' Juries will empower parliaments who need to take global decisions | Global decisions will come when we recognise that ""all politics is local"" | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | It is widely implemented in trial projects on every continent. | No | Transition to Scale | We have run sufficient demonstration projects to understand the nuances of operational aspects when it works with real people. We have worked with quite senior politicians and our advocacy (in Australia and the UK) is reaching more senior levels. | Global agreements to act on wicked problems such as climate change invariably make little progress. We suggest the problem in this is that representatives of governments engaged in these discussions cannot show a link to local populations which creates an opportunity for domestic policy arguments which prioritise perceived risks to local populations and result in a disinclination to act. | Our solution works by randomly selecting 50-150 members of a population and deeply immersing them in a topic for 40-60 hours spread across a number of months. Where public opinion asks people what they think when they havent been thinking, this gives people a chance to consider multiple sources and then work together to find a common ground position. This works because the people come from all walks of life and are not the usual people seen in public advocacy: and as a result they are a unique political asset. When we show people from many backgrounds explaining how they think a problem should be solved it comes with greater resonance than having a politician explain it. Our long term vision for impact is that (a) it is a simple matter for any parliament to add on to how they make decisions today and (b) can be scaled up to a global decision with fundamentally the same methodology. | Many democratic advocates are seeking to use online technologies to ""count votes"" and build support. We contend they are solving the wrong problem. We think our problem to fix is that our decision making system are overly responsive to shallow public opinion. If you share that view, then you come to see online technologies as large public opinion machines. Instead, we are building ways for people to read, question and think - and stand alongside elected politicians to share what they have learned (and thus why a hard course of action may need to be followed). | We have been doing this for a decade and know the methodology works. Our progress is measured in two ways: more politicians commissioning work, and more decisions being taken which are based on a jury recommendation. In terms of process rigour there is one simple rule: if citizens think a process has a bias then they will refuse to stand in front of their recommendations. But when they are sure that they ""own"" their decision they are willing to discuss challenging ideas in public and create space for elected leaders to lead. | Our goal from this speaking opportunity would be to find a national level project in the democratic reform field. Peru remains a country of immense interest where we have had some contact at a national level and where this would be a critical impetus to action. | We need voice. The projects are not excessively expensive: what is needed is the ear of politicians who are willing to trial a new approach. So whether short or long term, what we seek is the ability to reach decision makers and show that they have additional options when it comes to solving hard problems which require the citizens' active consent. | https://www.newdemocracy.com.au/ https://www.newdemocracy.com.au/category/library/our-work/ https://www.newdemocracy.com.au/videos/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBPTuKEUVG8 | For disclosure, we are recipients of a grant from UNDEF to produce a Handbook on 'Democracy Beyond Elections' and to deliver three demonstration projects (South America, Asia, Africa) as part of this contract. We are hoping to use this forum to amplify this opportunity. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
598 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Uche | Onuora | HITCH | https://hitch.video | Co-Founder/CEO | Male | Canada | Nigeria | English | My young son is on the Autism Spectrum. Prior to his diagnosis, I spent 15 years developing technology solutions in the knowledge access and educational space, and built up an extensive network of customers, partners, and enablers in Nigeria. Despite my best efforts to leverage my broad knowledge in the field, after 1 year of trying various options in Nigeria to help my son reach his fullest potential, and facing a glaring lack of educational and other resources to help him, my family and I moved to Canada 4 years ago. Inspired by his therapy regimen, I leveraged access to world-class Canadian R&D/technology assets, to solve a pressing problem I had identified regarding secure, affordable, and reliable access to beneficial educational resources in emerging markets like Nigeria. Going back to the University of Waterloo and graduating with a Masters of Business, Entrepreneurship, and Technology (MBET) degree, enabled me to meet my co-founders. We were also inspired by our MBET social entrepreneurship class and teacher, to catalyze an expansive and globally impactful model for HITCH. From lessons learned validating our initial hypothesis, we’ve focused on tackling the general problem of accessing world-class educational, vocational, and empowerment resources to improve learning outcomes in Africa, starting in Nigeria. We're using this anchor channel to deliver digital programming that embeds the SDGs [programming focus encompasses Goals such as Quality Education (4); Gender Equality (5); Affordable and Clean Energy (7); Decent Work and Economic Growth (8); and Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure (9)] at its core, alongside conventional curriculum subjects and topics. More broadly, we're building a Machine-Learning-based platform for customized curriculums, applicable to underserved markets. We provide students and teachers with world-class digital educational and vocational video-driven resources, aligned to local curriculums and textbooks to meet pent-up demand. We're leveraging schools to create an “industries without smokestacks” model to foster the “education to future-of-work”, ""education to energy access"", and “education to gender equality” linkages early in the learning lifecycle, prioritizing energy access (especially in rural areas) and in-demand skills, to shape local economies and communities to power Africa's future, alongside conventional curriculum-driven modules, gamified content, and applied vocational/entrepreneurial learning. | Uche Onuora lives at the intersection of arts and technology. He’s a serial technology entrepreneur and aspiring poet who believes in the need for interdisciplinary efforts to synthesize education and technology, because of the potentially beneficial impacts on society. He grew up in Nigeria, and experienced problems around information access in emerging markets firsthand. He worked directly for 15 years in the knowledge access and educational technology space in Nigeria, and helped develop the Nigerian Government’s USD$400 million Abuja Technology Village high technology cluster project in 2004. He also worked on a Nigerian Government sale of 30,000+ houses, worth over USD$2 billion. Uche is a seasoned educational technology entrepreneur, and has managed various human capacity development projects including conceptualizing and executing HITCH’s initial customer acquisition, go-to-market strategy, and cultivating its innovation ecosystem of strategic partners. He developed a comprehensive educational crisis intervention report for the Minister of Abuja FCT in 2005, and managed vocational training and training support for the first batches of Ex-Niger Delta militants from Nigeria, in South Africa, under the Nigerian Government’s Amnesty Programme in 2010/2011. His formal education spans undergraduate and graduate studies in Information Systems (BS, Delaware State University, USA); Business, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (MBET, University of Waterloo, Canada); and Media and Entertainment (Advanced Management Program, IESE Business School, NY, USA). | HITCH | An educational platform for African schools | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Nigeria, Uganda, Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, rest of Africa | Yes | Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (https://wise.uwaterloo.ca); Waterloo Global Science Initiative (http://www.wgsi.org/); Teach for Nigeria (https://teachfornigeria.org); 1 Million Teachers (https://www.1millionteachers.com) | Transition to Scale | We’re in 14 schools in Nigeria, with 2,000 students/teachers, with a further 10 schools in Nigeria and 2 refugee camp locations in Uganda in progress. Long-term, we will drive HITCH to millions of teachers and students across thousands of African schools. This transition to a scaled deployment is based on a sound business model and the sustainability imperative of deploying to users (e.g. students and teachers), via paying anchor customers (schools and other organizations). | In Africa, it can be a nightmare for teachers and students to find educational resources. Currently, primary source of content comes from local textbooks, but they don’t always have the depth of knowledge teachers and students need. When teachers want to go beyond the textbook, it can be challenging to find relevant and trustworthy resources online, not to mention on a slow and unreliable internet connection. On top of all this, it is common for the power to go out, cutting them off completely. | We target customers in Africa (like schools), to reach users (like teachers and students), which cater especially to disadvantaged students, via a Machine-Learning-based platform for customized curriculums, applicable to underserved markets. We provide world-class digital educational and vocational video-driven resources, aligned to local curriculums and textbooks to meet pent-up demand, and use this as an anchor channel to prioritize, deliver, and embed SDGs programming into conventional educational curriculums. We solve this problem by allowing students and teachers in African schools to advance beyond their current resources and graduate to using world-class resources to improve learning, vocational, and entrepreneurial outcomes. By providing each school with a solar and battery-powered video hotspot that stores and delivers world-class educational videos locally (over WiFi), our platform is always up and running for users, regardless of local internet or power. And so, we're leveraging schools to create an “industries without smokestacks” model to foster the “education to future-of-work”, ""education to energy access"", and “education to gender equality” linkages early in the learning lifecycle, prioritizing energy access (especially in rural areas) and in-demand skills, to shape local economies and communities to power Africa's future, alongside conventional curriculum-driven modules, gamified content, and applied vocational/entrepreneurial learning. | We’re uniquely addressing the embedding/mainstreaming of SDGs programming and empowerment options, into conventional educational curriculums, for improved societal learning and impact; especially chronic gender inequality and women/girls disempowerment, which fuel societal indifference and/or individual inclination to pervasive sexual discrimination, harassment, exploitation, assault, and rape, across much of Africa, starting in Nigeria (its largest but most unequal economy). We are building a comprehensive sustainable digital operating system for Africa’s pedagogical supply across millions of schools, for millions of teachers and students. We are using this to shape the minds of Africa’s youth to reclaim an SDGs-compliant future, with credible empowerment options for millions of women, girls, and youth, as well as prioritizing preemptive programming for redressing rampant sexual violence against them. Current approaches include myriad SDGs stakeholder engagement activities, processes, and frameworks, as well as gender equality and mainstreaming advocacy, training, and lobbying by local and international agencies at various levels of society. We’re leveraging educational gaps to plant a pervasive network for changing hearts and minds early on in schools, and then sustaining it at scale across society. We hope to redress obstacles to SDGs mainstreaming, such as massive women and girl disempowerment, by changing the basis of educational operations in millions of schools. | Beyond an initial pilot of HITCH units to 14 schools in Nigeria (with about 2,000 students and teachers), and an expansion to a further 10 schools in Nigeria and 2 refugee camp locations in Uganda, to reach an additional 2,000 students and teachers, we have not had formal testing conducted yet. Our current implementation assessments consist mostly of anecdotal feedback and direct/indirect observations and inferences of engagement data (related to anonymized student and teacher usage metrics) which we log securely,. Our focus is on both quantitative metrics (i.e. total HITCH deployed units, uptime, total video views, completion rates, total video playback hours, total content use hours, time, location, etc.), AND qualitative impact metrics, to determine engagement with videos on the platform. This leverages videos (and other content) as pedagogic Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) tools for gauging learning outcomes, to ensure that users watching the videos (and using other content) have measurable takeaways (may be measured via quizzes, checklists, follow-up questions, facial recognition tools, etc.). Due to difficulty in isolating impact generated by education interventions, Teach For Nigeria will conduct testing to likely include a blend of qualitative and quantitative metrics to establish impact, and apply suggested SDG measurement and reporting, alongside the potential for implementing IRIS metrics for education and gender equality. | Alongside delivering world-class educational resources to underserved markets in Africa, HITCH promotes inclusive growth in all of our operations. We’re starting in Nigeria, where we hope to be in 3,000 schools over the next 18 months. However, our plan is to expand across Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Liberia in the mid-term in West Africa. To this end, we anticipate hiring/training 250 youth (especially women and girls) from the deployment localities. The positions will help develop high-value technical and business skills for the women and girls we engage. Projected breakdown of positions: 100 Content Production; 50 Content Curation; and 100 Monitoring & Evaluation + User Support (to develop M&E assessments, testing for users, and embed platform use within the local context). Our long-term strategic objective is reaching 150,000 African locations (low-income and public schools, refugee/IDP camps, faith-based gatherings, etc.) serving 20 million+ youth by 2024. This scaled deployment is contingent on a sound business model, which is at the core of the HITCH sustainability imperative of deploying to users (e.g. students and teachers), via paying anchor customers (schools and other organizations). | We’re seeking $1.5 million over the next 18 months, to catalyze the transition to scale period, with a substantial investment into the initial capital needed to cover hardware costs, including assembly and shipping of HITCH units, as well as hiring the necessary local talent to aid in production. Also, the initial capital costs will cover onboarding passionate Nigerian educational content producers (mostly women and girls), providing the necessary training, studio space, equipment, animation software, and support, to develop 400 gender equality videos and corresponding course content. Further capital costs include provisioning software (end user app) to succinctly organize and distribute the content, as well as corresponding focus groups of intended audiences and stakeholders, in order to guarantee the maximum relatability and penetration of the programming. Focus groups will include students, teachers, administrators, parents, and most importantly, school counselors and therapists, and will ensure that the videos are aligned with the local context and are appropriate, as well as effective, in conveying the intended themes. Other funds will cover operational expenses and payroll throughout the testing period. The goal will be real-time adjustments to the content and programming (i.e. revamping modules as engagement data is collected) and the local curators and monitoring and evaluating experts who will be embedded in the institutions with whom we are working. | HITCH Website: https://hitch.video HITCH UK DFID DEEPEN Case Study: https://hitch.video/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/DEEPEN-HITCH-Case-Study.pdf HITCH Onion.io Case Study: https://onion.io/hitch-case-study/ HITCH MEDA Article: https://www.meda.org/meda-blog/entry/all-hands-on-deck-for-international-social-enterprise | HITCH Communitech Connect Interview: https://youtu.be/goVWcwiEeuM HITCH Corridor Demo Day NYC Pitch: https://youtu.be/Ze7L3w6esvs HITCH True North Stinger: https://youtu.be/7aPABhs4Rws HITCH Velocity Fund Finals Pitch: https://youtu.be/cfopx9x4lLo HITCH HAX Shenzhen Demo Day Pitch: https://youtu.be/ASX0SNdmCbg | Velocity Fund Finals Winners Announcement: http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/2018/07/130000-awarded-to-bold-new-startups-at-22nd-velocity-fund-finals/ AC JumpStart Winners Announcement: https://www.acceleratorcentre.com/news/accelerator-centre-announces-ac-jumpstart-program-cohort-9 CDMN Soft Landing Award 1 Announcement: https://cdmn.ca/story/fall-2018-cohort CDMN Soft Landing Award 2 Announcement: http://cdmn.ca/story/press-releases/spring-summer-2019-soft-landing-cohort | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
599 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Matthew | Holland | Synergistic Creations, Inc. | https://www.myknktd.com/ | CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Synergistic Creations has a unique product which we believe can change the world. Profound belief in this technology and in its ability to further the common good is precisely why our team came together. We are comprised of persons from many professional disciplines who have despaired at what ‘is’, and have designed ‘what can be’. The number of global crises is overwhelming at this point in time; humans are collectively inundated by problems needing solutions and the solutions, to date, have not been very effective because they address one problem, or a set of problems, without addressing the core issue—a lack of connection and engagement. Synergistic Creations has developed a technology which will change that paradigm. The technology is currently in market in the behavioral healthcare and chronic illness domains and other iterations of this technology are being developed to address crisis situations and catastrophic event response. The technology is so versatile that it is also being developed to track children in foster care and other sub platforms will provide resource information for local communities. The applications are endless while the foundation is always the same—connecting people to what they need when they need it and providing the opportunity for ongoing engagement into safety and wellness that is not available at present. | Matthew Holland, CEO of Synergistic Creations, is a healthcare professional (18 years in 3 different US states) turned technologist. Having been a provider doing direct care, supervising resident programs, and being in administration, he saw, first hand, the increasing caseloads, the ever-increasing demands of the work, and the exponential loss of practitioners due to burnout. He knew there had to be a more efficient and effectively manage the work and that technology was the key. The problem was that there was no ‘technology’ available that actually reduced the workload. So, he created a platform that did. KnKt'd Health is a remote patient monitoring and engagement platform that connects providers and patients between care appointments, helps to cultivate the patient/provider therapeutic relationship, bolsters patient engagement and brings in robust data of the type that has not previously been available. Matthew continues to advocate for change in the healthcare system on advisory councils and committees. He is published on the Pulse and on The Huffington Post and continues to write on Medium and as a thought leader for the Transformative Technology Lab in Palo Alto, California. Matthew is frequently an invited speaker at seminars about the changing landscape of behavioral and physical healthcare and the new era of technology, funding and the need to be responsible in the ways we build and mine data through technology. | KnKt'd Health ~ CEVR ~ ASAP ~ CP-RAL ~ CEVR SINGULARITY | Synergistic Creations ~ Continually Reimagining What is Possible, By Putting Our Faith in Accomplishing the Impossible | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | North America | No | Scaling | The technology has proved itself in the healthcare domain; the catastrophic event response platform has been selected for implementation in a multi-state federal grant and is awaiting funding in Q3 2019. | We are currently addressing chronic illness, mental health and addiction through the first platform. Our other platforms are designed for citizens, governments, and countries, and will provide immediate information to assist with disaster response, catastrophic events, and resource acquisition. It is available via smartphone or computer and we have envisioned its availability via a solar powered kiosk in areas where personal technology may not exist, or, when electricity is not available. | Our long-term global vision is to provide the ability for all people to be connected and engaged with themselves, with the people around them, with the resources they need, and with their communities; locally, regionally, nationally, and globally. The technology allows people to make those connections, and, allows service providers and emergency responders to address needs in real time. In healthcare, people have access to modules to engage in their own care (symptom/condition management, tracking and reporting), prevention and health promotion services, information and local service/resource dissemination, and linkages to service providers who can respond to needs via a provider portal which monitors client-specific information. The disaster response platform and sub platforms connect victims/survivors with responders, services, and resources, and are interconnected to provide alerts and notifications to circulate critical information immediately, as well as to provide resource information such as locations for shelter, food, water, medical supplies, etc. The technology also allows for surveys to be conducted to assess efficacy and satisfaction with the services provided. It is elegant in its simplicity, its ease of use and in its ability to collate and disseminate data to both users and responders. | Our solution is unique in that it addresses the lack of an all-encompassing technology which can address the myriad of diverse global issues--all having their roots in the lack of ability to provide and disseminate information immediately and to assist people in getting what they need when they need it regardless of what that ‘need’ is. A governmental entity needing to coordinate a disaster relief plan and conduct drills, a hurricane victim needing to know the location of clean drinking water, a school principal needing to alert staff and local emergency responders of an active shooter on campus, a governmental entity needing to provide immediate information to the public, a citizen with behavioral health conditions needing a real time response from a service provider or just needing to check in, a victim of a catastrophic event wanting ongoing support through a virtual community, the applications are endless. This technology is infinitely scalable, the base code is versatile in its ability to adapt to identified needs and agile in terms of response time from conception to implementation. | The conceptual, development, beta testing, and proof of concept are complete on one platform. The technology is validated across four healthcare arenas; the base code is being adapted for two significant areas of need in catastrophic event response. The versatility of the technology is clear; each time we encounter a situation that would benefit from this type of solution it has been able to be adapted to meet the need. We measure our success by those we serve and by our partnerships and collaborations. We use a continual and progressive feedback loop to constantly review established benchmarks and evaluate progress. Customer satisfaction is a critical component of this evaluation; we are in continual contact with the product users to ensure that the experience is positive, also, to provide product upgrades or to modify platform modules as the customers’ need for information is refined through use. | We are working with local entities currently and see the potential for much, much more. The applications to which this technology can be applied expand with each conversation. Our core team is in place and we are poised to expand personnel as necessary in order to implement this solution wherever it is deployed. Our approach is simple; meet with the user to pinpoint specific goals and needs, tailor the solution to those needs and train local persons to assist with implementation and ongoing support. Synergistic Creations manages all data, de-identified if needed for compliance with privacy laws, and provides the technical support and system updates/upgrades as modules are revised or designed. The number of lives which can be impacted is infinite; all that is needed are the resources to implement accessibility to the persons and entities using the technology. | Short term—financial resources for personnel and development to tailor the solution to the identified goals and needs of the user Medium term--provision of direct access to the user populations to smart phones and computers—or to kiosks in areas where personal technology or electricity/internet access is not widely available Long term—ongoing monitoring of the use of the technology to assure that its applications are not being misused by being corrupted or by ill intent. The integrity of data use is of utmost importance. Ultimately our longest-term vision is the establishment of a non-profit corporate arm to seed-fund positive social impact concepts to support self-sustainability and positive social growth across the globe. | Matt Holland LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-holland-ceo-co-founder-veteran/ Product website videos https://www.myknktd.com/KnKtdbySynergisticCreationsH264.mp4 https://www.myknktd.com/newvideo.mp4 2016 Mental Health America B4Stage4 https://itnproductions.wistia.com/medias/tnw79ukmnw Articles and Blog Links https://medium.com/@mathewholland86 https://www.huffpost.com/author/matt-489 https://medium.com/transformative-technology https://medium.com/transformative-technology/when-mental-health-goes-digital-5d1bed493cff Achievements: • Matt launched 3 successful pilot programs in the State of Oregon, that continue to flourish to this day • He has worked on multiple occasions in helping bring forth new state rules, regulations, along with numerous colleagues • Included in Best Practices for State Behavioral Health Planning Councils as pivotal member in obtaining a functional combined State Block Grant Council (2014) • Credentialed in High Fidelity Wraparound model • Matt has helping multiple agencies he has worked for become more person centered in their approach in providing care • Speaker and presenter at many healthcare related events | KnKt'd Health Wildcatters Pitch Day 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn2kuK7hEl4 Matt Holland, KnKt’d, Dallas New Tech 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZm1dzMn0gI 1 Million Cups 2016 https://www.1millioncups.com/dallas/presentations/knkt-d-behavioral-health-11621 Addiction Professional Summit 2016 https://vendome.swoogo.com/apsummit-anaheim/speakers Matt Holland KnKt’d Dallas New Tech 2017 http://launchdfw.com/2016/12/02/bigdnt-november-knktd/ Multiple Lunch and Learns in Northern Nevada 2017 http://newlyfesolutions.com/ Oliver Wyman Health Innovation Summit Immersion Tour Startup Showcase 2018 https://health.oliverwyman.com/2018/10/what-to-expect-at-this-year-s-oliver-wyman-health-innovation-sum.html Rise of the Rest Dallas, Texas 2018 https://thedec.co/events-programs?q=&month=2018-05 Population Health Summit 2019 https://events.medcitynews.com/invest-population-health/speakers/ HCCL Innovation Summit 2019 https://business.hccl.biz/events/details/2019-healthcare-technology-innovation-summit-540 | OEN Interview https://www.oen.org/2016/10/03/knktd/ Funding Sage https://fundingsage.com/business-startup-spotlight-knktd/ Zebra’s Unite Bronze Level Community Member https://www.zebrasunite.com/ Transtech Alumni https://www.transformativetech.org/ Project Healthcare Alumni https://www.ec.co/ph-2018-lookbook Venture Out NYC Alumni https://ventureoutny.com/programs/healthtech Health Wildcatters Alumni https://www.healthwildcatters.com/ AEAP Anti-Terrorism Grant, funding Q3 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
600 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Marly-Joseph | Desir | Aide pour l'Humanite | http://www.aphuhaiti.wordpress.com | Executive Director | Male | Haiti | Haiti | French | My motivation is always to create a better future for Haiti This motivation guided to apply to be a part of the UN Solution Summit for presenting my project.In my opiniion innovation is the way to change the statu quo.Since Haiti is a poor country the best way for creating positive glogal impact is to come with new perspectives. | I'm educator ,founder and Executive director of an organization:""Aide Pour l'Humanite""partners with people in Haiti especially the vulnerable and those facing poverty to help them achieve their full human potential. | Developing Entrepreneurship ar the school level | We enable underpriviliged students to be independant! | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Haiti | Yes | College La Renaissance | Sustainable Scale | Because our solution permit our students to become independent by education provision is currenntly implemented and is being sclaled in Haiti.It is progressing very well even the capital needed ,that's why we have not introduced in the counteyside | We need to introduce the project in the contryside of Haiti at present. to provide financial inclusion for underprivileged students.But we neen more funds. | We enable students to be independant through education provision in the domain of entrepreneurship for a better sustainable future.We use financial inclusion to provide educational for underprivileged students.r | It's unique since we are working with students. .We help them to create their own business and to become independant through financial inclusion. | We are progressing a lot since we permit 40000 underprivileged students to become independant through education provisions for a better future by using financial inclusion. | We need to introduce the project in thecm countryside like Jacmel ,CapHaitien,Cayes,Artibibonite... We have now125 employees , we will need to recruit more professionals to implement the project in the countryside. | We need more enployees for vworking with the students in the countryside in short term,medium- term finances,long -term euipments. | APHU-Orange Innovation http://www. aphuhaiti.wordpress.com | Please visit the link of CAA College Art Association New York ,USA www.caa.org | Travel Grant Recipient 2013 CAA Travel Grant Recipient 2916 CIMAM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
601 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohammad | Sabo Keana | Almajiri Child Rights Initiative | www.almajirichildrights.org | Team lead | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My motivations to be part of the Summit is to share how I have used technology to inspire actions for the education and social inclusion of over 10million children. Also to learn new skills to advance and sustained the SDGs Nigeria has the highest number of out of school children in the world. About 13milion According to national statistics. Over 70% of these are Almajiri children in Northern Nigeria under a currently unregulated system that teaches children Qur'an education. Many factors have connived to create and sustain the Almajiri practice that has continued to exclude children. But the greatest culprit in maintaining it is lack of accountable governance, as its utter invisibility even as the children under its grip are visibilized on the streets and out-of-school across the North as their tattered clothes, unshoed feet, and the ever-present begging bowl make them hard to miss. I used technology to bring to serve as an advocacy platform to 1) brings critical visibility to the plights of these children using SDGs and 2) mobilizes ideas, resources and critical mass and stakeholders to a) force Government action and ensure adequate government oversight on the structures of Almajiri and b)to provide education, clothing and food intervention for the excluded children. The advocacy has led to government actions to include plight of these children in policy decisions whose lack of education and social inclusion could be of great socio-economic and security implications in the future. | Mr. Mohammed Sabo Keana (MSK) is a young selfless , courageous and a leading member of a new generation of civic advocates for open government and social justice change poised to make an indelible mark on Nigeria's governance and sustainable development. His inspirational Advocacy for Almajiri children has recently inspired the whole nations forcing the Government to make an apportant Pronouncement that will save lives of millions of children trapped and abused in an intergenerational practice entwined in culture and religion for generations. Mohammed is the team lead/founder of ‘Almajiri Child Rights Initiative’ an advocacy platform that holds government accountable, amplifies the call for social inclusion of vulnerable children in Northern Nigeria. A Humanitarian and a volunteer , passionate about social justice and good governance. He studied microbiology as first degree, but most of his works and experience has in area of social work. He has a certificate in social norms, social change and recently, enrolled to study master’s in development studies. He has presented before the national assembly, African Union and United on the Almajri child rights crisis. He is a recipient of 2019 UN SDGs Action Award (Germany), Ambassador for Peace by Universal Peace Federation (USA) Negotiation and Conflict Management Group (NCMG) International Peace Builder award(Nigeria) and a fellow of LEAP Africa. Mohammed’s goal is to inspire policy change that increases investment in child education and protection of their fundamental human (children) rights. | Almajiri CHILD Goals | Community Learning Almajiri School (CLAS) for Education and social inclusion of vulnerable Almajiri children | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | Yes | Nigerian parliament, MacArthur Foundation, UN SDGs Action Award, | Proof of Concept | Introducing and achieving education, nutrition , decent shelter , healthcare for Almajiri children who are under an unregulated system entwined in culture and religion needed first information intervention to enlighten the locals to adopt reforms that is inline with sustainable development goals , secondly there's also the need for policy changes to ensure solutions are sustainable and institutionalise within community. These two steps have been achieved hence solutions can be implemented | Nigeria has the highest number of out of school children in world about 13million (UNICEF). Over 9 million are children called Almajiri under unregulated traditional system where parents send their children far away to learn religious education. The system lacks capacity to provide food , clean water, healthcare and formal education. Almajiris are condemned to menial jobs as adults , widening inequality and recycling poverty in an endless manner, hence victims could be vulnerable to radicalism | The seeks to use a community driven approach to achieve the education and social inclusion of millions of children through a Government Community Partnship GCP . The approach is to introduce reforms using the CLAS model ( community Learning Almajiri School) to integrate both formal and informal education with skills and technology hub within the community. This approach will address education of millions of children and will serve as idea incubation production/ hub for Nigeria and Africa | The unique approach of addressing the out of school phenomenon of Almajiri children using the CLAS model is the financial and administrative Sustainability structure and the Idea/skills incubation/innovation hub component of the model. This model will use the religious center as entry point and integrate both Education type and introduce innovation and technology hub to provide basic services within the community . Resources needed are sourced from the government community partnerships ( GCP) , with less dependent on donors. Basic reforms to ensure adequate nutrition, decent shelter and healthcare are provided. Previous approach are without the above mentioned structure that can guaranteed a long lasting solutions to the cultural and religious fears and impactful education and skills set for technology development of the society. | We currently enrolled 40 children into school using the CLAS approach . The resistance from religious and cultural system have been minimal , partnerhship has been good. Lack of community driven social welfare scheme has hindered progress of implementation as funds were inadequate to continue with the number stated. Also the other components are yet to be incorporated . | The Almajiri Education is practice in 17 northern states with population of over 70 million and is the most common Education type among local communities. This model will be replicated and expand to these communities. The practice is also common in some Africa countries like Niger , Chad and Senegal which could also adopt the approach. With the CLAS model in each communities, no child will be left behind or trapped in intergenerational practice that deprived them of basic children needs | Immediate resources needed is a development of a community social welfare software that mobizes resources within community and government to finance the model The short term resources needed are funds to demonstrate standard/ physical nature of concept , equipping of the skill and technology hub. Medium term is to replicate same in another community to confirm impact and efficacy of Idea. Long term resources is to Partner with Government to scale up models across community. | Clas model( breaking religious barrier) https://youtu.be/qu8R6bLXGPw https://youtu.be/CQotQWN_2xY Conditions of Almajiri children https://youtu.be/Pqnj_EQmk2o Living conditions https://youtu.be/KWBDAROL2dc | Presentation at UN SDGs Action Award Germany https://youtu.be/EalsEeqD7eM Presentation at Nigerian Parliament https://youtu.be/lENSbJWnu30 Personal statement . https://youtu.be/43M66Lr2CzA | 2019 UN SDGs Action Award (Germany) Ambassador of Peace award , Universal Peace Federation USA. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
602 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John | Mak | MM Community | www.mmcommunity.co | Co-founder | Male | China | China | Chinese | English | MM Community (MMC) is keen to participate in the UN Solutions Summit - we believe our ethos is closely aligned with the mission of the Summit. As a civic engagement solution aimed at bridging government expectations and citizen demands, we aspire to create a platform that catalyses achieving the 17 Global Goals. We believe our participation would be a fitting complement to the goal of the Solutions Summit. This Summit convening will gather talents and experts from around the world for cross-learning and knowledge transfer. We believe while many of the impact solutions in our world are directed at the first 16 Goals, few ride on Goal 17 on Partnerships, which in our view is crucial for success in achieving the other Goals. Our model builds on civic-government partnership and has the potential to shift citizen behaviour for lasting impact. These experiences and insights would be valuable to other participants and we in turn would greatly benefit from other areas in terms of fundraising, digital literacy improvement and frugal innovation. Finally, we hope to obtain valuable networks, exposure and publicity for scaling up our impact and smooth implementation of our model at greater scale. | John Mak is a civic leader, social entrepreneur and network curator based in Hong Kong and Myanmar. In 2017, he co-founded MM Community, a social venture that seeks to revolutionise community development processes and civic engagement channels via crowdsourcing technology, enabling the Government to issue low-interest project-based government bonds to local citizens. Separately, he has also supported the capacity-building of ministers and civil servants in Myanmar. In 2018, John was selected as an inaugural Obama Foundation Scholar. Prior to his entrepreneurial work, John has broad experience in the public sector ecosystem, including at a Hong Kong-based think tank and a global communications agency. He has also undertaken internships in both Houses of Parliament in the UK, the Administrative Service of the Hong Kong Government, the Judiciary, the District Council and the political section of a media organisation. John sees himself as a bridge between sectors, cultures and across generations. He is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, an Asia 21 Young Leader and a former TEDx speaker. He obtained his Master's degree from The University of Chicago and holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Durham. | MM Community | MM Community is a civic engagement solution that enables individual citizens to crowdfund community projects, with government repayment at completion. | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Myanmar, to potentially be expanded to other countries in Southeast Asia | Yes | Justin Chan | Proof of Concept | In designing our solution and model, we have completed extensive stakeholder and community outreach, ranging from federal ministers and municipal civil servants, to foreign business executives and local legislators. We have completed 4 small-scale pilot projects in urban, suburban and rural townships to test citizen response and feasibility of our model. With positive feedback, we are now designing a full-scale experiment in partnership with the government, Oxford University and IPA. | 1. Extreme centralisation and the absence of mature civil engagement channels: As citizens have no place in the planning process, the government is unable to identify local priorities, resulting in local needs being unmet/underfunded. 2. Widening infrastructure investment gap (US$4.7 billion p.a.) due in part to Myanmar's longstanding capacity and budget deficit. 3. Lack of signalling and impact measurement tools for international donors to identify projects with broad-based local support. | The model aims to mobilise local resources, both in terms of idea generation and initial project cash flow, to expedite community infrastructure development. The core concept of the model is that the users would be the funders of the infrastructure. We aim to achieve this via a project-based government bond. Citizens would first submit their project ideas via our crowdfunding platform, where we would subsequently direct the message to the relevant departments within ministries. Once the government approves the project, local citizens would then provide the required initial cash flow for the project via crowdfunding. If both the target number of local contributors and the funding target are reached, the projects would be implemented. Upon completion, contributors would receive 100% repayment from the government at the maturity of the bond. With our model, fundraising can be done at low to 0% interest rate (compared with 8.6a5 current sovereign bond rate). We believe this is achieved by a shift of financial incentive to infrastructure gain at a local level. Another feature is that our model ensures every successfully funded project is inherently social validated, as ‘skin in the game’ from local users generates a much more powerful signal than a simple vote to show that there is genuine demand for the infrastructure, and in turn the high usage rate. With tweaks based on different local contexts, our model could be replicated across developing countries in the world. | We help governments reprioritise local agendas/budgets in communities by leveraging residents’ local knowledge and needs. By allowing local users to crowdfund community projects they desire, we help to bridge effectively government funding with citizen expectations by allowing the most desired projects to be funded. The mechanism encourages local participation on local issues that their representatives or governments might otherwise neglect. Early cash flow crowdfunded by citizens speeds up community development, and will be fully-repaid by the government at project completion. Crowdfunding also creates powerful social validation as financial contribution from citizens sends a stronger signal than a simple vote. Local user's financial contribution is a strong counter for concerns over infrastructure abandonment and under-utilisation commonly observed in international philanthropic projects. The model opens up an attractive alternative to international donations and matching funds. | Our work has been endorsed by the Chief Minister of Yangon Region, and we have been working closely with a network of local Members of Parliament since 2017. Since our launch, we were selected to join the University of Cambridge's Social Venture Incubator and the Hong Kong Cyberport Incubation Programme with funding support. Four pilot projects were successfully completed in 2018 in rural and urban Yangon for proof-of-concept. An aggregate of over 230 local citizens contributed to building three small school libraries, two fences around drinking water ponds, an outdoor playground and eleven street lights. Each project costs around USD 1500. The projects have provided clean water for a village with 4000 inhabitants, reading materials and facilities for 500 primary school students and urban lumination in one of the busiest roads in Yangon. We are currently monitoring usage and utilisation to measure impact. We have also been invited to participate and/or exhibit at various international forums and conferences, including the Copenhagen Democracy Summit and the Paris Peace Forum. | Within 2020, we hope to achieve a number of milestones both institutionally and growth-wise. Scale and Proof-of-concept: To have signed a formal MOU with the Yangon Region Government and completed the first batch of pilot projects in partnership with the University of Oxford, Innovative Poverty Action and the government. Market: By 2020 to establish contact in Mandalay or another region besides Yangon. Team: To expand our team from 5 to 7 and to establish a local office and team in Yangon. Advisory Board: To expand our international advisory board from 3 members to 6, including expertise in technology, digital literacy and civic engagement. Impact: To have at least 1500+ citizens participate on our platform, with community projects impacting over 60000 citizens. Entity: With the passage of the new Companies Law in Myanmar, our goal is also to establish and register a business entity in Myanmar to ease our cross-border operations. | Short-term Needs: - Financial Resources (Development and Testing Grants) - International Exposure and Publicity - Mentors and Advisors in Digital Literacy and Technology Medium-term Needs: - Network and access to donors, advisors and development experts - International Exposure and Recognition Long-term Needs: - Mentors for growth - Funding for scaling up - Market knowledge beyond Myanmar | Website: www.mmcommunity.co Deck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/107HCScpvvTWW15EVGMdOexdnNfzyqeUX/view?usp=sharing | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ponRphrVv1E | Asia-Pacific Business Forum (2018 Exhibitor) The University of Cambridge Social Venture Incubator (Incubatee) Cyberport Creative Micro Fund (Winner) Cyberport Incubator (Incubatee) The University of Chicago Social New Venture Challenge 2019 (Finalist) Paris Peace Forum 2018 (Selected Project - 120 out of 800+ Projects) Tarrson Fellowship (Winner) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
603 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Paola | Santana | Social Glass | https://www.social.glass | CEO and Founder | Female | United States of America | Dominican Republic | English | Spanish | My main motivation to present what we're doing at Social Glass is the desire to show the world how to solve government problems from a different approach. We are creating the new breakthrough in government systems, building a software ecosystem powered by Artificial Intelligence to digitize, streamline and scale good government processes and decision-making. MICRO is the first product of our software ecosystem. It's an e-commerce marketplace for fully compliant, fast, and paperless government micro-purchases, to allow governments -- the biggest purchasers in the world, allocating over 15% of their GDPs in expenditures -- to improve public procurement processes, maximize taxpayers’ value for money, increase the quality and variety of products and services acquired on behalf of citizens, and simplify decision-making for public employees. | Paola Santana is a lawyer, public procurement expert and tech entrepreneur, creating the world's next political system after democracy. She's the founder and CEO of Social Glass, a software ecosystem using Artificial Intelligence to power high-performing governments. Previously, she co-founded Matternet, a Silicon Valley company pioneering drone logistics networks. Under her leadership, Matternet engaged with The White House, US Congress, FAA, and NASA to enact the first drone regulation in the United States in 2016, and became the world’s first drone delivery platform authorized for permanent operations over a populated city in 2017. She co-established the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court, and worked at the National Elections Court coordinating the Elections Litigation Chamber. She has also collaborated with the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the OECD, developing striking public infrastructure projects and strategic partnerships integrating exponential technologies. She’s best known for her ability to create things from scratch at the intersection of the public, private and regulatory domains, and for her track record introducing cutting-edge technologies into highly-regulated markets. Her most recent experience includes co-drafting the public-private partnership enabling the first multi-state Hyperloop system in the United States. | Social Glass | Software Ecosystem Powering High-Performing Governments | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | United States of America | No | Transition to Scale | Social Glass is in the business of simplifying every single government operation, one product at the time, starting with micro-purchases. With our first solution, MICRO, we aim to create a category-defining product that nails government procurement. We aim to prove this with a paced approach to understand product-to-market fit, and then scale the solution if we get customer validation. To this day, we have added some government agencies to our pilot program and have obtained some funding. | Governments are the biggest purchasers in the world, and still, most countries don’t have streamlined and integrated procurement systems, which means they make slow decisions for suboptimal solutions, in not very competitive processes, with poor accountability, no traceability of the governments funds, and little control on the final price of each purchase. | An online, highly-competitive marketplace for government purchases could help procurement systems be more aggressive, accessible and transparent by default, eliminating barriers of entry for suppliers that traditionally wouldn’t know of, or participate in government contracts. With the increased variety on the offer and quality, better products are purchased on behalf of the public, improving the value for money of the goods, and building accountability into the process. Specifically, with MICRO, our first product, governments can: buy, contract or rent goods, services or spaces that are under the micro-purchase threshold from businesses or individuals that are MICRO-verified. With MICRO, we aim to create a category-defining product that nails government procurement and establishes a new blueprint for delightful, simple and scalable government solutions worldwide. | Our competitive landscape analysis unveils that there is no current solution that is — -- A global, e-commerce marketplace focused on micro-purchases -- To buy, contract or rent goods, services or spaces -- From verified, cross-checked, rated and best-priced suppliers -- Offering an end-to-end purchase experience and on-demand delivery -- In an aggregated channel with all transactions, ratings and analytics --- With AI optimizing for public best value opportunities -- And where this powerful product is free and part of a bigger ecosystem powerful products for governments Micro is: ‣ First-of-its-kind global e-commerce for governments and suppliers. ‣ Not Just Buy — But also contract or rent goods, services, and spaces. ‣ Best Price — For governments, guaranteed or matched by suppliers. ‣ On-Demand Delivery — Of goods from local suppliers. ‣ Compliant — Only verified suppliers that meet local requirements and aren’t debarred or blacklisted can sell. ‣ Smart — Proprietary AI algorithm sorting public best value options. ‣ Secure — Encrypted transactions, electronic payments, and the capability to configure different access and approval levels. ‣ Simple — Intuitive, simplified and guided purchasing processes. ‣ Paperless — All documents and transactions are digitally generated. ‣ Mutually Accountable — Allows government and suppliers to rate their purchasing experience and performance. ‣ Optimized for Businesses — Reducing barriers of entry in the government market. | Our team has developed a powerful product that's stable and ready to use. We started our Pilot Program at the beginning of the summer to help government agencies simplify their procurement operations, reduce barriers of entry for local businesses, and assist public employees in making the right purchasing decision, every single time. We aim to prove this with a paced approach to understand if we have product-to-market fit, and then scale the solution if we get customer validation. To this end, here are our projections: - Transactions Volume — USD$ 1 MM /mo in Q4 2019 - Potential Revenue — USD$ 500k in 2019 - Government Users/Cards Target — 8,602 by Q4 2019 - Government Users/Cards Spend Target — USD$ 153 /mo by Q4 2019 - Revenue growth — 21% /mo steady from Q4 2019 | We aim to have Micro being used across the different US government agencies and later on expand to Latin American countries like Brazil, the Dominican Republic and others where there's a big need for transparency in government and where this solution could have an even bigger impact. - Initial Target Customers — US government agencies and their suppliers. - Initial Niche — Admin, office, groceries & general supplies category: Low-budget, high-frequency, daily goods; purchases are made by low-level staff from local governments; using the micro-purchase, petty cash or miscellaneous budget. - Marketplace Plan — Onboard government agencies’ top suppliers, and show them how they can purchase their usual items with a couple of clicks using MICRO. | At this moment our most needed resource is funding. The goal is to use this money to cover the costs of hiring our full time team in San Francisco, California that's going to be improving our product and developing the negotiations necessary to scale our solution. Our long term need will continue to be funding but also advisors who can connect us and help us develop the conversations and negotiations. We currently have 4 advisors who have lead key government agencies, designed groundbreaking products, developed cutting-edge technologies, and helped humans explore outer space: Jim Williams, Marc Shillum, Dr. Yvonne Cagle, and Steve Yankovich. | Company website: https://www.social.glass/ Demo video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZ4KS7XV0_6MQKOxJy9MQ6YsG5-H4BXZ/view?usp=sharing | Social Glass is recognized by Gov CIO Outlook Magazine as one of the top 10 e-Governance Solution Providers in 2019 — an annual listing of 10 companies that are at the forefront of providing e-Governance solutions for the hashtag government sector and impacting the hashtag marketplace: https://e-governance.govciooutlook.com/vendor/social-glass-micro-an-ecommerce-marketplace-with-government-users-in-its-dna-cid-406-mid-43.html Paola Santana: A New Mode for Transportation Where There Are No Roads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umjY6ihvl7M | We've received the following recognitions: - Named Top 50 Women of Power in Central America and the Dominican Republic, by Forbes Magazine - Distinguished Recognition 2018, by the New York State Assembly - Named Top Game Changer 2018, by Revista Mercado - Innovation Awards Winner 2017, by the ADME - Named Top 30 Tech Leaders 2017, by Revista Technology - Gov CIO Outlook Magazine as one of the top 10 e-Governance Solution Providers in 2019 - Startup of the Year at SXSW (semi finalist) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
604 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Castello | ZODO | NGO JEVEV (Jeunnesse Et Emplois Verts Pour Une Economie Verte) | Notre Mur facebook : https://web.facebook.com/jevev.totin *Notre Page :https://web.facebook.com/Jeunesse-Et-Emplois-Verts-Pour-Une-Economie-Verte-1060235560689559/ | Project and Program Manager | Male | Benin | Benin | French | In West Africa, climate change has caused an annual decrease of nearly 40 to 60% in the flow of large rivers; this caused the spread of water hyacinth. In Benin, in the valley base of Ouémé, the second richest after the Nile, but unfortunately not valued so far, the presence of hyacinth on the surface of a large part of rivers and lakes causes a very strong seasonal eutrophication of the river and a fatal anoxia to the fishery resources on which depend more than a hundred species and a large part of the economy of the region. The growth of water hyacinth often reaches alarming levels of infestation in Benin's rivers and streams. This biological invasion generates multiple negative impacts on biodiversity, the functioning of ecosystems, economic activities and the health of populations. Similarly, it is clear that the invasive presence of water hyacinth induced fishing and cumbersome fluvial transport that allows the flow of agricultural produce to surrounding markets do not occupy a place of choice. In order to control the expansion of the phenomenon, reduce its consequences and find a solution to pollution of these areas by the anarchic use of chemical fertilizers in these areas and solve the problem of degradation of cultivable land we developed the collection of water hyacinth by local residents by setting up an economic sector for the sustainable development of hyacinths through aerobically composting. Local farming communities are very interested; they turn a problem into an opportunity. Passionate about sustainable agriculture I send this innovation and I participate in this competition to show the world that there are in the developing countries young people who are committed and leads concrete actions in the direction of sustainable agriculture. I want to show the world this technology so that the regions affected by the scourge of water hyacinth can know that from now on they can value this water hyacinth and make them income-generating activities. Show agriculture that there are already more responsible and ecological ways to produce a lot of healthy and quality while preserving the land for future generations. This allows to make known our community and to allow it thanks to the help of the scientists and the young people of other regions, together to lead to the elaboration of the specific composts in order to boost the yields more efficiently while preserving the quality of the soil and agricultural products | Holder of a professional diploma in plant management and production and seed obtained at the National Agricultural University of Porto-Novo (former National University of Agriculture Kétou) with the mention Très-Bien, several other training received from the French Institute for Sustainable Development; Senghor University, UN Habitat, and the Young African Leaders Initiative in the field of youth, water, sustainable development goals, results-based management. Nature lover I am committed to the NGO JEVEV (Youth and Green Jobs for a Green Economy) to defend the most vulnerable, the voiceless, promote green innovations and respect the environmental principles through the teaching green economy in different community of Benin. I am part of this youth that ensures a permanent citizen watch against a democratic model that teaches no program of respect for environmental principles, but protects the destruction of vegetation cover through overexploitation of fauna and flora. Now a specialist in green economy issues, I advocate for exponential activism in campaigns for the SDGs and climate change. Club President know and Protect Nature JEVEV COVE. Today young agricultural consultant of the World Bank through its Framework Program of Support to Agricultural Diversification in Benin. Today I have to my credit several articles published on Médiaterre, IUCPN, Reporterre which testify of my investment for the agricultural world. Co-author of the book Innovative Integration of Mucuna spp in the system of maize cultivation '' published by the Journal Editions Universitaires Européennes | Water hyacinth an economic sector for lakeside communities in Benin and Africa | African green gold | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | In all countries where hyacinth is a plague Benin, TOGO NIGERIA KENYA SOUTH AFRICA SENEGAL ETHIOPIA | Yes | Belgian Association ANAMA, French Federation of Clubs Know and Protect Nature (FCPN) | Transition to Scale | More than 1450 farmers are trained and already using this innovation. The Agricultural Diversification Support Framework Program in Benin has asked us to act as a consultant to train farmers in the commune of So-Ava. The GIZ through the valorization of the community experiences in the framework of the 2030 agenda and the Ouémé Department Direction of the agriculture of the breeding and the fishing are committed each one for the capitalization of the latter on the national and international plan | Reduce waterborne diseases caused by water pollution by this plant Reduce congestion and promote free movement Facilitate fishing activities The pickup activity generated by this innovation comes to create another source of income for the community The transformation of this hyacinth into compost and its commercialization comes to offer a new source of sustainable income generating activity To solve the problems of soil degradation due to the misuse of chemical inputs | The present innovation involves the transformation of water hyacinth collet into organic manure. In fact we have turned the water hyacinth into a dual function compost. It initially has a fertilizing effect (provides the nutrients needed by a crop to grow and contributes to the regeneration of soils and increases its capacity for water retention). The second role is its biofugal ability to repel insects and pests crops (including Alternaria solaniet Polyphagotarsonemus latus) protecting crops against them. In a spirit of experience sharing and synergy of action we want to make this innovation available to FAO so that it can be used in all the countries where hyacinth can have access to this innovation. What is being capitalized by the FAO and that we can make available to farmers around the world this compost that will contribute to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. Organize training in other countries around the world to train producers in the world. this innovations. | This project is inspired by ancestral farming techniques now abandoned in favor of fertilizers and chemical pesticides. In fact, we have turned water hyacinth into a dual function compost. A multi-purpose fertilizer and biofuge product. It initially has a fertilizing effect (provides the nutrients needed by a crop to grow and contributes to the regeneration of soils and increases its capacity for water retention). The second role is its biofugal ability to repel insects and pests crops (including Alternaria solaniet Polyphagotarsonemus latus) protecting crops against them. The raw material is available and almost free. The water hyacinth green composting activity is a dual purpose innovation: it contributes to the preservation of the environment while reducing the ozone depletion effect of agricultural chemical inputs (chemical fertilizers and chemical pesticides) and improves the productivity of agricultural land used for market gardening. We would like to be able to renew our center, its rudimentary equipment and distribute the compost in our own biodegradable packaging | Our beginning in 2016 we started with only one way of making this compost. Today the team has three manufacturing technologies adapted to all areas. Production of compost in pit and on the ground for non-lacustrine areas. The manufacture of compost on stilts adapted to wetlands and people living on water in the image of the city of Ganvié in Benin. At the date today we have deepened our research and have set up three different types of organic manure based on hyacinth. So we have compost juice, compost tea and compost in the solid state (state of origin). The impact we have today can be measured through our different solicitations for consultations, foras, workshops in the image of the invitation received by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa in Ghana, the numbers of producers using this compost which keeps increasing, the trainings organize at the place of the producer. And our different competitions at the national and international level. The different articles write about our innovation in national and international newspapers and the different capitalisations that are made. The number of people already using our innovation and the ability of our community to embrace our innovation. The degree of satisfaction of lake communities with the decluttering of lakes and the resumption of fishing activities are all data that allow us to appreciate the progress made by our innovation. | The objective here is to contribute to the promotion of the green economy through the promotion of green entrepreneurship. We therefore want to make this water hyacinth a green economic sector and contribute to the implementation of sustainable land management techniques and adaptation to climate change. It is here at the national level to flood the 77 common of our compost to satisfy about 250000 farmers. An implementation of our innovation in other countries such as Togo is possible and has already begun through our contact with the association SOSVOL TOGO. In addition to Togo Ethiopia, Kenya Nigeria are countries where we are planning to implant ourselves. This innovation contributed to improving the living conditions of lake dwellers. This initiative creates income-generating activities for women. if it organizes itself into a cooperative or group it could not only make money in the process of collecting water hyacinth but also produce itself compost. This initiative that we are putting in place allows young people to seize an opportunity for entrepreneurship through a large-scale production of water hyacinth compost and whose demand is only increasing. | In order for our innovation to be sustainable in time and space, we need to develop infrastructures for the valorisation of magic compost. Forged a lasting partnership with investors who opt for sustainable agriculture. The actual manufacturing materials we use need to be improved in order to start mass production. This is a motorized boat to promote a collection of record water hyacinth. Improve the means of transport from the banks to the composting site. This could be a sheeted car or van that can hold a lot of water hyacinth. Drilling is required at the composting site to ensure the availability of water. Because we use at their present tank water but being at a great distance from our composting site. Expansion of our composting site to promote greater production. It is also a question of forging a new partnership with the farmers of ecological and organic culture at the regional and international level for the exports of our products. Support our innovation for certification to promote these exports nationally. | Notre Mur facebook : https://web.facebook.com/jevev.totin *Notre Page :https://web.facebook.com/Jeunesse-Et-Emplois-Verts-Pour-Une-Economie-Verte-1060235560689559/ Au Bénin, l'invasive jacinthe d'eau est aussi devenue un « or vert » https://reporterre.net/Au-Benin-l-invasive-Jacinthe-d-eau-est-aussi-devenue-un-or-vert Une plante invasive aux multiples vertus - 24 Heures au Bénin https://24haubenin.info/?Une-plante-invasive-aux-multiples-vertus-19859 Du compost pluriactif à partir de la Jacinthe d'eau (Eichhornia crassipes) https://nextgen.iupac2019.be/.../du-compost-pluriactif-a-partir-de-la-jacinthe-deau-eic... TECHNIQUE DE COMPOSTAGE DE LA JACINTHE D'EAU https://www.leabenin-fsauac.net/.../Tatiana-Koura-fiche-technique-production-compos... Castello ZODO - Médiaterre https://www.mediaterre.org/membres/CastelloZodo/ Des alternatives concrètes pour une économie ... - ATD Quart Monde www.atd-quartmonde.org › Travailler et apprendre ensemble www.initiativesclimat.org/Toutes-les.../Un-compost-magique-pour-les-paysans Un compost magique au Bénin cergy.lesincroyablescomestibles.fr/compost-magique-benin/ Son compost magique invité à la COP23 - Le Parisien www.leparisien.fr/.../son-compost-magique-invite-a-la-cop23-13-11-2017-7389018.p... France24 : https://youtu.be/5rnUf_pmnSU https://youtu.be/mc8nJqIC990 Les Observateurs - France 24 - Un ""compost magique"" au Bénin pour ... https://www.facebook.com/FRANCE24...compost-magique.../1457522694287524/ | Grande finale des talents de la 19ème à Porto-Novo Quatre ministres ... www.quotidienlematin.net/article/contenu.php?id=947 https://youtu.be/g2Bi5i7geS8 https://youtu.be/mmlSGupyNBU https://youtu.be/pQtCfHYQX8U http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20180617-benin-comment-remplacer-sacs-plastiques | 2nd Prize of the International Competition Prophetic Economy Award 2018 won on November 2nd 2018 in Italy Prize for the best youth organization in the field of the environment 2018 awarded by the GNINDEHOUE Foundation Best Actor for the Protection of the Environment of the BELA (BEST ENVIRONMENT LEADERS AWARDS) Competition 2018 1st National Prize for the Blue Economy 2018 awarded by the Benin National Water Partnership | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
605 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Soraya | Fouladi | Jara | www.joinjara.com | Founder & CEO | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | I and my team are on this planet to create a huge system change through access to quality education for all. Education and access to quality information is the root solution for undoing many of today’s modern-day issues and dismantling the negative effects in history so that we can achieve our SDG’s and get closer to living in a world of peace for all. This has been my life’s mission, and I have learned that in order to see into reality quality education for all, it requires partnerships, knowledge sharing, innovation, and co-creation. It requires the world coming together to make this change. Being part of the UN Solutions Summit to present our initiative, would enable us to share our knowledge and learn from others and co-create the future this world needs, that we all need, so that everyone can have their human rights and we can get closer to achieving peace for all. Our innovation is the Jara Unit - a crank-powered and solar-powered personal IoT education device that can enable children to learn anytime, anywhere in remote communities such as post-disaster zones/refugee camps. The Jara Unit is a long-term viable alternative learning solution for students to learn anywhere at any time - in under-resourced classrooms and out of school. The Jara Unit is very durable with a screen and pushbuttons. It can teach educational content in any language and has a speaker that teaches literacy. It is updatable and can pull data. The average tablet/smartphone falls short of the specs needed to teach an updatable K-12 education for children in refugee camps and post-disaster zones, so we are building the Jara Unit to fit this gap in the market. Lack of access to adequate infrastructure , means of transportation, resources will no longer prevent children and adolescents in vulnerable settings from receiving a quality education. Education technology of this capacity is non-existent, making Jara the first of its kind. We at Jara, have pledged to design and build our solution in parallel with what our users want, in the way they want, while preserving their cultural roots. We believe everyone deserves a chance at a quality education and therefore, a chance at a thriving and empowering life. | Soraya Fouladi is the Founder & CEO of Jara - an organization that builds personal IoT education devices so that out of school children in post-disaster zones and refugee camps can learn anytime, anywhere. Since she was a teenager, Soraya has designed her life so that she could gain the skills to one day, make Jara a reality. After attending the United Nations International School to gain a global education, she went to university for electrical engineering to understand how to build what is now the Jara Unit, where she also designed and manufactured products from prosthetics to wearables. She gained experience in designing and implementing systems and programs through writing curriculum for K-12 robotics, directing the largest technology-education camp of 500 campers and 60 staff members at Stanford, creating a fundraiser for disaster relief called Jamming-for-Relief, and designing and implementing effective systems as Supervisor for an electrical engineering innovation laboratory. Soraya also was a business management consultant for a government technology commercialization organization that had 72 portfolio companies. Her technical capabilities, along with her leadership and management experience, paired with her commitment to Jara’s mission, ensures that Soraya and her team will see Jara to its maximum impact. Soraya and Jara’s work have been recognized by: Forbes, Cisco, Samsung, Skoll, SOCAP, and more. | The Jara Unit | Jara scales quality education to children in post-disaster zones/refugee camps through the Jara Unit, a personal off-the-grid education device. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nepal | Yes | Gorkha Foundation, currently forming partnerships with digital education content creation organizations, large NGOs, Governments, and Corporations. | Proof of Concept | We are backed by 7 years of research proving this methodology of teaching effective for vulnerable off-the-grid communities, we have built and tested prototypes, we have interest from over 10 countries for implementation, we have our launch in Nepal set-up for when we are ready, we are currently in R&D to finish the final hardware design, we have spent years designing our systems to be able to scale quickly & effectively while maintaining cultural roots to reach the 2030 SDG education goals. | We are in a global education crisis with 262M out-of-school children and 1B children in poverty. With the increase of climate disasters, we will have an increase of out of school children. If we continue without scalable education interventions like Jara, by 2030, half of Earth’s children will lack basic skills for the modern workforce which will result in a global unemployment crisis, poverty, and instability. We believe in empowerment and agency for all, & that starts with quality education. | There are many use-cases for the Jara Unit: -Education for children in post-disaster TLCs (temporary learning centers) & children in generally under-resourced classrooms globally in remote communities -Education for children who are out of school i.e. child laborers, refugee children, women who cannot leave their homes, women who must stay out of the classroom while menstruating, & more. -Literacy education for all ages & more. In each country we implement, we do research, validation, a pre-pilot, a pilot, then launch. We hire local teams full-time to be the faces of the organization, to do distribution, maintenance, updates, and more. In the example of children in under-resourced classrooms, the teachers integrate the Jara Unit in the classroom. Often times in TLCs (temporary learning centers) that are used for years at a time, there often are not enough teachers and the educational material the kids have are not adequate. In Gorkha, Nepal at the TLCs, children often spend 75% of the day doing self-study where they redo workbooks they have already completed. They instead, could be each using the Jara Unit. The Jara Unit acts as a textbook, workbook, and quizzing device. At home, it also acts as a tutoring device. We aim to be implemented in every country who wants Jara. Our long-term vision is for every child and human on this planet who can benefit from a culturally relevant quality education who is not currently getting that, to be able to receive that through Jara. | We have designed the Jara Unit alongside communities we are looking to empower. The innovation in the Jara Unit is two fold. The first is in the way the product is designed. The fact that the Jara Unit is a low cost IoT device & can operate without any kind of infrastructure is new. We chose to include crank+solar-power specifically to be able to reach the most remote communities who have limited access to electricity & internet. The second innovation is on the content side, several previous initiatives did not take into consideration the culture relevance of their product by designing content that was not relevant to the children. Jara partners with local digital content creators to design content based on each country’s national curriculum. Average tablet/smartphone: • Breaks easily • Requires on-the-ground power source • Is too expensive for a child to own • Is often taken from the child to be used for non-educational purposes The Jara Unit is: -Durable -Charges off-the-grid -Updatable without internet -Designed in a low-cost way to decrease theft -Designed for the specific purpose of education -Gamified content to ensure use -Content that spans beyond what is needed for exams -Distributed & maintained by locals We know where we fit in the ecosystem of education for children in under-resourced/disaster-affected communities, due to extensive research. We have designed our initiative to thrive with partnerships as we tackle our mission of educating children globally. | As we mentioned above, we are backed by 7 years of research proving this methodology of teaching effective for vulnerable off-the-grid communities, we have built and tested prototypes, we have interest from over 10 countries for implementation, we have our launch in Nepal set-up for when we are ready, we are currently in R&D to finish the final hardware design, we have spent years designing our systems to be able to scale quickly & effectively while maintaining cultural roots to reach the 2030 SDG education goals. There is currently very little data on that status of education in remote regions globally. For impact measurements, once we launch we will be able to pull data consistently through each Jara Unit on how each child’s education progress is going and have our local Jara Ambassadors aggregate the data on in-classroom educational outcomes (some Jara Ambassadors are the in-class teachers) We will look at: -Internal Jara Unit quizzing results -How much they have progressed in each subject within the Jara Unit -How their quizzing results have changed for in-classroom quizzes -Community Development as a result of Jara Unit community development courses -Employment rates as a result of a child learning with the addition of the Jara Unit And more Longterm we will be able to regionally analyze: -National Exam Passing Rates -Graduation Rates -Employment Rates -Economic Growth -Community Development And more | 2019 - Finish R&D of the Hardware and finish designing all of our systems for a culturally sensitive scaling once we launch 2020 - Launch in Nepal 2021 - Scale to 2-3 more countries 2022 - Scale to 3-6 more countries 2023 - Scale further to reach the 2030 education goals Continue scaling and adding more use-cases of the Jara Unit such as for disaster response, identification for refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers, a tool for digitizing business documents in less digitized communities, and more. Throughout this process we will be partnering with local communities, NGOs, Governments, and Corporations. We will not rest until we have reached and have a successful outcome for every out of school child and child in under-resourced classrooms… then we will also be working on using the Jara Unit as a tool for the other use cases. | Short-Term: -Funding to finish R&D and launch -Partnerships with digital education content organizations -Partnerships with accredited NGOs, Governments, Corporations -Building out the team further -Refining our board Medium-Term: -More Partnerships -Closing purchase-orders with NGOs, Govs, Corporations Long-Term: -Efficient International Distribution Channels -Large scale manufacturing -More Partnerships And more | Website: http://www.joinjara.com/ Jara Unit Demo: https://youtu.be/S9zH6RPZkdw Nepal Research Deck: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MAQiVa6b0FBBNK8-PD-aUhuXJSequP8q/view?usp=sharing | I will be speaking at the United Nations for International Day of Youth on August 13th, the live-stream will be on UN Web TV Samsung (Youngest speaker): https://tinyurl.com/SamsungJara Forbes: https://tinyurl.com/ForbesJara Oxford Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZqTye56u1o SheCatalysts Transcribed Podcast Interview: https://www.shecatalysts.org/episode-01-soraya-fouladi/ | Grand Prize Winner: Best Education Technology Innovation out of US & Canada - Reimagine Education Grand Prize Winner: Cisco Live Global Problem Solvers Melbourne First-Runner Up Winner: Cisco Global Problem Solvers Winner: SOCAP Entrepreneur Scholar Finalist: Westly Prize Finalist: 1850 Bold Pioneers Competition | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
606 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | VIRENDRA | RAWAT | GREEN MENTORS | www.greenmentors.in | DIRECTOR | MALE | India | India | English | Sustainable Education is only solution that can create solutions of all challenges in the world. I am the fonder of Sustainable Education having School is USA,Middle east and India. I have created a community of sustainable solutions providers through my Green Schools and Green Universities , who are doing presenting amazing solution of every small or big challenges in the world specially in the areas of Health care, technology, Film making, manufacturing, textile and fashion, Food science, transport, Energy, and Water. | I born in a poorest farmer family in North Indian State Uttrakhand , some how studies with limited resource but created an alternative model of education driven by laws of nature that allows every student to use his or her full potential to make the planet sustainable again. i am a Mentor transformed many Schools and Universities as Green School and Green Universities which are presenting new generation sustainable solution of every challenge that comes in their life | Sustainable Education- Solution of all Global Challenges | Sustainable education only inspires students to innovate and create sustainable solutions of every challenge world is facing | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | INDIA, USA AND UAE | No | Scaling | The Content is ready , proven and now scaling to the world | QUALITY EDUCATION FOR ALL CLEAN WATER FOR ALL GREEN ENERGY FOR ALL CLEAN AIR FOR ALL AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE FOR ALL NATURE FOR ALL | STUDENTS LEARN SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS IN IN GREEN SCHOOLS AND GREEN UNIVERSITIES. AFTER LEARNING THEY CREATE SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS FOR VARIOUS AREAS AFTER CREATING SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS THEY PRESENT TO THE MARKET PLACES AND INVESTORS WHEN INVESTORS COMES IN THEY TAKE SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION TO NEXT LEVEL | THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO SOLVE GLOBAL CHANGELESS OTHER THAN NATURE INSPIRED SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS | WE ARE SCALING IT GLOBALLY | EVERY COUNTRY AND COMPANIES ARE APPROACHING US TO FIND SOLUTION FOR THEIR CHALLENGES. | A NATURE INSPIRED TEAM OF CREATIVE INDIVIDUALS | http://www.greenmentors.in/ | http://www.greenmentors.in/ | I have received many Awards for my contribution in education. and making green differences in India. listed in my brief profile. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
607 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Roussoudane | Djakeli | GiveInternet.org | https://giveinternet.org/ | Co-Founder | Female | Georgia | Georgia | English | GiveInternet.org is a nonprofit platform where anyone can sponsor monthly Internet fees and laptops for underprivileged high school students living in refugee settlements, rural areas and poor families. We started our project a year ago in IDP/Refugee settlements and rural areas of Georgia 2 years ago. With monthly recurring donations from our 600 online donors and additional support from corporate donors like Ernst & Young, Huawei, etc., we have given Internet access to more than 300 students. We are now incorporating a US 501(c)3 nonprofit to attract US & international donations and working on expanding operations to the Middle East and African countries by collaborating with partners on the ground Presenting our project at the UN Solutions Summit would help us raise our profile, expand our network and eventually secure more funding necessary for scaling. | I am a Co-Founder at GiveInternet.org - a non-profit platform where anyone can sponsor monthly Internet fees and laptops for underprivileged high school students living in refugee camps, rural areas and poor households. The social startup originated a year ago in IDP/Refugee settlements and rural areas of Georgia and is now positioning for scale. At GiveInternet.org I mainly work on fundraising and digital engagement. For four years I have also been working as the head of localization at an education non-profit Educare Georgia on a mission to provide access to free world-class education to anyone in Georgian. As a Khan Academy and Code.org language advocate, I work on proofreading and quality assurance. I also have 5+ years of experience of working with English and Georgian texts as a freelance translator and proofreader. I'm a Master's graduate in Higher Education at the University of Oslo with an academic interest in equitable funding of higher education. | GiveInternet.org | GiveInternet.org is a nonprofit platform where anyone can sponsor monthly Internet fees and laptops for underprivileged high school students | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Georgia | Yes | Corporate partners who sponsor laptops like Ernst & Young, Huawei, BDO, Bank of Georgia; Local Internet Service Providers; Local schools; EdTech partners like Khan Academy, Code.org, Lingwing, etc. | Transition to Scale | With monthly recurring donations from over 600 local online donors (through our Georgian platform www.charte.ge), we have given Internet access to more than 300 students. We are now positioning for scale by working on incorporating a US 501(c)3 nonprofit to attract US & international donations. | More than four billion people around the world do not have Internet access. Today we live in a knowledge economy where Internet use has become a key factor in determining whether people succeed. The economic and social development of nations depends on how well they acquire, transmit and apply the available information. But the existing disparities in Internet penetration create an atmosphere of unequal competition. | GiveInternet is a nonprofit funding platform on a mission to help disadvantaged high school students realize their full potential by giving them Internet access. The platform allows anyone to sponsor monthly Internet bills, devices and online mentorship for high school students living in refugee settlements, rural areas and poor households. By relying on a multitude of partners and free resources and services and affordable devices (Google Chromebooks), our project is very cost-efficient. By relying on recurring donations from 500+ online donors with good retention rates and additional support from corporate donors like Ernst & Young, Huawei, etc., we also have a relatively steady source of income. Today we are incorporating a US 501(c)3 nonprofit to attract US & international donations and working on expanding operations to the Middle East and African countries by collaborating with partners on the ground. | GiveInternet.org is the only crowdfunding tool for increasing Internet penetration in the developing world. Our model ensures that supporting connectivity through online donations is simple, smooth and transparent. It only takes 3 minutes to register as a donor after which all monthly payments are automatic. Most of our donors tell us that they understand that the Internet is a monthly cost and they are therefore reluctant to withdraw support and deprive the students of connectivity, thus giving us good retention rates. Our platform is also very personal - the story of each student is documented on the website and we continuously try to find outstanding participants of our project (take a look at our success stories - https://giveinternet.org/en/success-stories). By relying on a multitude of partners and free resources and services and affordable devices (Google Chromebooks), our project is very cost-efficient. | We have provided devices and Internet access to over 300 students. We have over 600 monthly recurring donors. Through our platform, our project has raised over $47,000. Through additional fundraising, we have acquired $45,000 from corporate donors. To measure the impact of Internet access, we’ve conducted quantitative and qualitative studies on the Internet behavior patterns, performance and beliefs of our beneficiaries after receiving our devices. School homework, exam preparation, watching films and communication seem to be the most frequent activities online. 42% of our students use the Internet to learn a foreign language. 53% of our students have taken up an online course. 80% reported that they now dedicate more time to education and personal growth. 65% of our students reported that they are now more interested in school subjects. 83% reported that they have less difficulty in understanding school subjects. 81% of students reported that they are now able to do homework more efficiently. 74% of our students report that they now have more confidence in their ability to achieve success at school. | In the next year, we plan to start attracting international donations and cover most of the refugee settlements and villages by the Russian line of occupation in Georgia and give Internet access to an additional 300 families. In 5 years, we plan to expand operations to at least 3 more countries and give Internet access to several thousand beneficiaries. | In the short term, incorporating a 501(c)3 is a necessary step in our expansion. Without having established a US nonprofit, we are unable to integrate Stripe or Paypal (unavailable in Georgia) into our website and therefore have to rely on our partner TBC Bank to process payments. As TBC is a Georgian bank, it creates two issues: 1) it fails to process some international transactions and 2) it transfers users to its external TBC page, which can create confusion or skepticism for international donors. Without a 501(c)3 status, we are unable to compete with other tax-deductible charities or apply to a large portion of grants. We have already arranged for a law firm to lead our legal efforts to register as a 501(c)3 nonprofit. The only obstacle is a source of funding - overall we require $3000 to complete the legal process and we also need to find and recruit members of our board. In the long run, our biggest obstacles are a) sources of funding and b) a network of partners in other countries. We are continuously applying for grants and reaching out to potential corporate partners and expanding our network through projects like the Y Combinator startup school. | https://giveinternet.org/ Our website http://bit.ly/2QwQ1R5 2018 Activity Report | https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/community-driven-innovation/solutions/6646 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
608 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Andreas | Dr. Bluethner | BASF SE | www.basf.com | Director Food Fortification & Partnerships | Male | Germany | Germany | English | BASF is a leading chemical company offering high performance products and innovative solutions to nearly every industry. Over the course of its longstanding history, BASF has strived to balance economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. The corporate commitment is deeply rooted in the company’s sustainability strategy, which emphasizes processes with value-to-society targets along the whole value chain. In 2003 BASF launched a new initiative to combat micronutrient deficiencies in developing countries, where malnutrition is considered as a severe public health problem. Over the past 16 years, BASF’s Food Fortification Initiative has supported and continues to support a vast number of food fortification programs in more than 40 countries all over the world. As part of the Food Fortification Initiative, BASF introduces sustainable solutions onto the market which significantly contribute to ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition and promoting a sustainable agriculture. By presenting BASF’s Food Fortification Initiative at the United Nations Solutions Summit we aim at creating a lively exchange of success stories, lessons learned and partnership opportunities. As catalysts of change and innovation BASF seeks to be an inspiration for future champions so that together we can continue to add proven value to society. Besides presenting our solution, Dr. Bluethner would be pleased to serve as a member of the Selection Committee. | Dr. Andreas Bluethner, born 1971 in Frankfurt/Main, heads BASF’s Food Fortification Initiative and is a visiting lecturer with the University of Mannheim and the European Business School in Wiesbaden. He holds a degree in business administration, a PhD in International Economic Law and published on the topics of international law, sustainable development, nutrition and business. Dr. Bluethner’s working experience includes the private sector, namely Bosch and Baker McKenzie with engagements in the areas of strategy development, international law, multi-sectoral partnerships and inclusive business models. His public sector experience includes the German Federal Foreign Office, the BMGF-funded charitable foundation Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) as well as United Nations Organizations such as UN HABITAT, UN Global Compact and UN Volunteers. For the past 16 years, Dr. Bluethner has focused on the development and operational implementation of high-impact nutrition partnerships with BASF’s Food Fortification Initiative as its founding Director. Since 2018 he is a founding Advisory Council Member at the WFP Innovation Accelerator in Munich and a board member of the supplementary nutritious food producer Mani+ in Guatemala City. | BASF Food Fortification Initiative | Food fortification is the practice of deliberately increasing the content of an essential micronutrient in a food in order to combat hidden hunger. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | BASF’s Food Fortification Initiative addresses micronutrient deficiency in over 40 countries around the world with high prevalence of malnutrition. | Yes | WFP, GAIN, SUN/SBN, Nutrition International, German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ), Technoserve, UNICEF, Helen Keller International, Business Fights Poverty | Sustainable Scale | The Food Fortification Initiative supports access to affordable, nutritious foods enriched with essential micronutrients for populations at risk of micronutrient deficiency. With our initiative we have reached the stage of sustainable scale. However, BASF strives for innovation to develop cost-effective and sustainable solutions that address challenges along the food value chain. We are engaged in numerous projects at the stage of ideation in collaboration with key stakeholders such as the BMGF. | Around two billion people – almost one third of the global population – suffer from micronutrient deficiencies, or ‘hidden hunger’. Women of reproductive age and children less than two years specifically need iron, folic acid, vitamin A and zinc. These nutrient deficiencies can contribute to increased morbidity and mortality among mothers and children. Hence, an adequate supply of micronutrients is crucial to a child’s development, especially during the first 1.000 days of life. | According to cost-benefit analyses of the Copenhagen Consensus 2012, investing in bundled micronutrient interventions is the best investment to increase global welfare. The fortification of staple foods is a proven and sustainable solution to improve the nutritional status of a large portion of society, including the poorest and most needy segments of the population. Food Fortification itself is the practice of deliberately increasing the content of an essential micronutrient in a food. To achieve this, staple food producers add selected key micronutrients such as vitamin A to foods regularly consumed by a large proportion of low-income population groups. These foods commonly include edible oil, cereal flour, sugar, salt, and condiments. The BASF Food Fortification Initiative offers product solutions, technical assistance and scientific capacities to contribute to reducing micronutrient deficiencies. BASF is engaged in food fortification and food safety projects in over 40 countries worldwide and works in multi-stakeholder alliances to ensure a sustainable impact. The permanent solution to control micronutrient deficiencies should be through modification in patterns of food production, consumption and distribution. These can be done through the application of agricultural or horticultural and educational alleviation strategies. This long-term strategy should be started along with and complementary to micronutrient interventions such as food fortification or supplementation. | BASF manufactures high-performance products for the fortification of staple foods that meet exceptional requirements in stability and efficacy even under extreme climatic conditions. Because micronutrients such as Vitamin A are highly sensitive and quickly lose their efficacy under the exposure of UV light, oxygen, high temperatures or moisture, the stability of vitamin A in the product is extremely important and may even be decisive for the maintenance of health. With approximately 10.000 employees working in BASF’s laboratories, we have achieved a unique level of technical expertise that is valued by local food producers and other stakeholders alike. As a science-based company, BASF has constantly invested in providing need-driven innovation to local food producers to cost-effectively fortify staple foods within a sustainable business model. Over the past 16 years, we have achieved scale in one of the most relevant areas of global health and development. Assessments suggest that the broad reach of BASF’s Food Fortification Initiative is worldwide unique in terms of social impact and value to society. | In collaboration with its partners, the BASF Food Fortification Initiative has reached more than 600 million people at risk of malnutrition in more than 40 countries around the world. BASF works successfully within systemic multi-stakeholder partnerships such as the Strategic Alliance for the Fortification of Oil and Other Staple Foods (SAFO), which has reached more than 100 million people across Asia, Africa and South America. As the success and sustainability of food fortification initiatives is subject to numerous factors and requires the engagement and collaboration of different stakeholders, BASF measures the country-specific progress by setting the essential steps of food fortification initiatives into a temporal context. Starting with multi-stakeholder dialogues to sensitize local government, the private nutrition sector and consumers for the importance of adequate nutrition, food fortification programs continue with gathering malnutrition data and the conduction of technical trainings with the industry. Based on this, international agencies and national organizations provide policy advice to local authorities on enabling standards and frameworks for voluntary food fortification. Finally, effective and sustainable food fortification programs are consolidated within a mandatory food fortification legislation. An effective system of quality control is key to assure compliance with standards and regulations and to achieve a public health benefit in low-income populations. | Despite the many lives BASF’s Food Fortification Initiative has impacted, there are still around two billion people suffering from micronutrient deficiencies around the world. As we strive to contribute to combating hidden hunger, BASF will continue to invest into broadening and deepening our impact. The nutritional status tends to be particularly low in countries that have suffered from public health emergencies, poor security situations, and environmental, political and economic crises. To significantly reduce micronutrient deficiency in such high-need countries, the BASF Food Fortification Initiative is planning to expand to new countries such as Burundi, Kongo, Mozambique, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The technical assistance of food fortification programs in new countries is enabled by the economically sustainable business model of BASF. Besides broadening the scope of countries, the BASF Food Fortification Initiative will focus on innovations in digitalization to increase compliance within existing mandatory food fortification programs, which are of great importance to reach low-income population groups. There, effective quality control systems with time efficient data generation, management and feedback are needed to assure compliance with standards and regulations. In collaboration with its research alliance partners, BASF is aiming to leverage its digitalization competence in order to co-develop and implement cost-effective digital QAQC systems. | According to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, nutrition-related factors contribute to about 45 percent of child deaths under the age of 5. However, nutrition has been a widely neglected area of global health and development, accounting for less than 1 percent of global foreign aid. Presumably only a very small amount of this share is invested into public-private partnerships, resulting in a neglection of technical needs and opportunities. In the short-term, BASF’s Food Fortification Initiative requires public-private partnership engagements with mutual investments. High-level events such as the Nutrition Summit 2020 provide suitable platforms to promote public-private partnerships. Making food fortification mandatory and thereby creating nutritional value for all income groups requires the engagement of local government authorities, public interest organizations and local food producers in the medium-term. Moreover, to assure adherence to local food fortification legislation, technical and financial support is needed. The resourcing of public interest organizations providing guidance to diverse government entities enables the development of norms and standards regarding effective quality control systems. There is a long-term need of strengthening the technical and strategic expertise of partnership management within public institutions. Overall, scaling up the investment in nutrition is required as there is a high impact of intervention which is yet largely underfunded. | https://www.basf.com/global/de.html https://www.basf.com/global/en/products/nutrition/human-nutrition/food-fortification.html https://nutrition.basf.com/en/Human-nutrition.html https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-bluethner-9401381a/ https://www.wbcsd.org/Programs/People/Social-Impact/Resources/BASF-Fighting-malnutrition-with-fortified-staple-foods https://businessfightspoverty.org/articles/basf-se-food-fortification-initiative/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5kTdvPpIBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds4YcxAXkfQ | Responsible Business Awards by Unilever & Business Fights Poverty 2014 – (‘Big Tick’ winner) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
609 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mario | Aguilera | Tespack | www.tespack.com | CEO and Founder | Make | Finland | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | English | Spanish | Tespack was born with the idea that everyone should be the master's of their own energy needs, that everyone should be energy independent. And that is what Tespack is here to do: to provide access to affordable, clean energy for everyone regardless where they are based. By providing access to electricity, we are enabling access to education, sanitation, clean water, etc. As energy is the enabler. By being born in Bolivia, in a country where still large part of the population lives in rural areas without no access to electricity and thus no access to education, I witnessed first hand the importance of energy and access to it. This served as the main reason for creating Tespack and making a positive impact, in tackling some of the key challenges we are facing today and pushing for UN SDGs. With Tespack, we have created innovative energy solutions by combining latest tech, solar and smart Iot in powering rescue workers, people living and working in rural areas, scientists, outdoors people and in general everyone regardless where they are from. With our Solar Smartpacks, we entered the market and started working with some of the leading companies, governmental entities and NGOs so that today, we have developed a completely new, patent-pending tech solution we call Solar Media Bag, something we created in collaboration with Plan International. With our first prototypes tested and used by Plan workers in Ethiopia, we have been able to witness and support local teachers and rescue workers ' work in off-grid regions by powering them. With Solar Media Bag, we can ensure that children and youth can be taught and educated without access to electricity as our Solar Media Bag comes with projectors, speakers and solar panels for creating energy while with GPS tracking and anti-kidnapping features, teachers and workers can stay safe. As of today, we have already collaborated and worked with NGOs such as Save the Children in Sudan and UNHCR in Jordan as well as with Finnish Foreign Ministry and their embassies, in providing our first version of Solar Bags for powering locals. We have also worked with a non-profit in India, Kashmir region and supported the powering of a school of over 450 students who previously did not have electricity and thus could not be able to study, not to mention teachers had difficulties in reaching the schools so with our Solar Bags, they were able to carry all needed. | Mario Aguilera is the founder and CEO of Tespack. He is originally from Bolivia and has his background in special forces, economics and renewables. Prior to Tespack, he used to work for the Bolivian Embassy in London as an economic and political advisor after which he started his own companies in trading and manufacturing thus gaining years of experience in working in the Asian market. Prior to Tespack, he worked as a co-director for a renewable energy company. Mario has over 15 years of experience in renewables, production, manufacturing, sales and international trading and he has over 4 different patents and patent-pending under his name as a recognised innovator in his field. His work has also been published by the Finnish Foreign Ministry. Mario has won numerous awards such as being the winner of Startup Turkey 2017, White Bull 2017, New Energy 2017 and DITAC innovation award. Mario has been chosen as one of the Top 4 Entrepreneurs by Forbes Midas List Billion dollar company maker Neal Dempsey. Mario was recognised as one of the top entrepreneurs in USA and was featured by FOX in a reality TV show. Due to his knowledge in wearables, hardware, renewables and technology, Mario has been invited as a keynote speaker at top tech events including Hardware Massive, White Bull and Red Herring while he serves as an advisor for Foreign Ministries of Finland, Bolivia, Kazakhstan and Taiwan. Mario collaborates with the largest startup accelerator in Korea as well as with the Government of Korea in order to mentor and advise local startups and aspiring entrepreneurs. | Tespack Solar Media Bag | All-in-one solution combining solar, IoT and tech for providing access to education in rural areas. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Finland, Ethiopia, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi, Laos, Mozambique, Jordan | Yes | Plan International | Proof of Concept | We have created the first prototypes of solar media bag (and filed patents for this) which has been tested and used by Plan International. We have developed the first versions of the product for Plan International who will be testing and using them in 8 different African countries. Now, we are in the need for further developing the solution into production ready, viable version to be utilisded by all other NGOs. | There are currently 1B people without access to electricity while 300M people are out of school. Access to education and affordable, clean energy are one of the main SDGs for the UN to tackle. Our solution addresses both problems: by creating a technology solution that utilises solar and IoT, is made for teachers and rescue workers to be able to turn any space/room into classroom, we are providing a new opportunity to educate and bring education to most rural areas. | Tespack Solar Media Bag is an all-in-one solution that combines latest tech, solar, IoT and anti-kidnapping features, made for rescue and humanitarian agency workers as well as for teachers in rural regions. SMB comes with projector, speakers and modular power banks (120 000mAh) to charge laptops and all mobile devices. SMB can power projectors and speakers up to 8 hours and this way, any teacher can show quality visuals in any space/room. SMB is easy to deploy and can be carried inside airplane due to our patente-pending technology and electronics. With 80W solar panels, SMB can be fully charged from the sun in few hours. With GPS and anti-kidnapping features, SMB can be tracked all times and teachers can be kept safer. IoT allows teachers and rescue workers to track energy generation and how much energy has been created from the sun (supporting reduction of CO2 emissions). With our Solar Media Bag, local teachers in remote areas and rescue workers can easily work in any region and thus educate chidlren and youth in any area that are off-grid. More children can be educated by using green energy and thus reducing overall CO2 emissions and there is no need to rely on electricity or grid that is typically required for teaching. By working with NGOs like Plan International and UNICEF we are looking into reducing the number of children out of school and making a positive impact by educating 100 000 children in rural regions, in a period of 1 year thanks to our network and tech. | We have created a new, patent-pending modular electronics systems for battery storage that allows our power banks to be carried inside airplane (in parts) and once landed, to combine them together and thus creating 120 000mAh power bank charging up to 300W of devices. This reduces any deployment time and there is no need for car batteries that are harmfuld for environement. With our solar technology, we provide extremely durable, high efficient solar panels made for extreme usage for creating energy fast from the sun. By connecting as many panels together as needed, we allow each rescue worker to create their own solar power plant and reducing the amount of devices/panels needed to be carried (sharing economy idea). With our IoT, we can track all energy created with our solar panels, how this energy has been used and what devices used it. Collect real data on usage of green energy. We have also created new patent-pending ultra-fast charging technology that charges a power bank of 2800mAh full in 8 minutes; a technology that does not exist and something we would implement in next version of SMB. We use different chemistry to allow fast charging. It is also safer (non-cumbustible) and we have incorporated smart IoT for tracking all energy generation and usage. There is currently no other similar technology in the market. Our goal is to create first viable prototypes for the power bank and take this into producttion (we already have first protos ready for this technology). | We have already developed the first working prototypes for our solar media bag being used and tested by Plan International in Finland, Ethiopia and Uganda and in the next 2 weeks, they will be using it in Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi (in addition to 3 other countries in Africa). In addition to this, prior to solar media bag, we have been using our solar panel which we have developed (high-efficient, durable & light) for being used by UNHCR in Jordan and by Finnish Embassy in Colombia among other customers. As a company, we have been developing mobile energy solutions for the past few years and focused on improving our power electronics and solar tech while developing our IoT solutions. Hence we have been testing and working in the field with our technology and ensured it has been made for extreme usage, for rural areas and for rescue workers. Prior to solar media bag, we launched our solar bags to the market utilising high-efficient solar panels and powerful power banks that can charge laptops and all other smaller mobile devices. These products (smartpacks as we call them) have been used (and are being used) by companies such as Vodafone, Intersport, Finnish Foreign Ministry, Save the Children and others. Thus we have the expericen and background in our technology. | In the next months, we will launch our first solar media bag prototypes together with Plan in 8 different African countries including Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda and Ethiopia among others. We are in talks with other NGOs such as Save the Children and also with UNICEF who has showed their interest in including our solution into their supplier catalogue. Our goal is to expand our team, raise further funding and thus be able to further develop our SMB into production ready product so we can expand this to new markets and new customers. By being able to further collaborate with our partner Plan International, we are looking into educating 100 000 children in the coming year while expanding and beginning working with other NGOs in rural regions. Our next goals are launching solar media prototypes in Africa during Augusta, hire more technical personnel in Costa Rica as part of our expansion, begin collaboration with UNICEF during Autumn 2019 and continue collaboration with Save the Children and start a new project with them. We will also provide our power electronics for UNHRC in Jordan with whom we will start a pilot in Jordan during August. | Our first goal after having finished our working prototypes developed in-house in our RD offices, we will launch them with Plan International in Africa for testing and getting further feedback which will allow us to move forward with our production. Short-term needs: Provide first protypes for Plan Intenrnational during August for being used in Africa. Hire local talente in Costa Rica as part of our local RD team and expansion. Fundraise for production and for fulfilling our agreements and collaboration needs with NGOs. Medium-term needs: Further expand our team with sales and marketing talent to support expansion and further collaboration with other NGOs. Focus on getting new partners for using our SMB and starting new pilots in other countries. Develop production ready SMB and production capabiltiies with our team and with the right partners for expanding further. Long-term needs: Having our whole RD team located in Costa Rica. | Company website: https://www.tespack.com Solar Media Bag Presentation: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1laDnR1aLlvBcs48XUIh-DYAjd1dlKxLv Articles: https://www.fingo.fi/ajankohtaista/uutiset/repusta-sahkoa-ja-raportointi-verkkoon-digitaalisia-ratkaisuja https://thenextweb.com/business/2019/02/19/here-are-the-5-hottest-startups-in-finland/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_mtBC1DBBI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtlBzYjNmi4&t=25s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYzkMEONvTo&t=35s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtqxZJvOgGE | Winner of Startup Turkey 2017 Best Energy Startup in EU (winner) in 2018 by EP and EC Top 5 Tech Startup in Finland by TNW in 2019 - winner Winner of DITAC Award in USA 2017 Top 50 Tech Startups by Hello Tomorrow 2016 - finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
610 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Semanta | Gautam | Youth Action Nepal | http://youthaction.org.np/ | Secretary | Male | Nepal | Nepal | English | I am a young professional and have duel Master degree in Political Science and Rural Development, and I have more than 15 years working experiences in the fields of grass roots level, Human Rights, Social Justice and other youth and children related issues, Social mobilization, Decentralization, Sustainable livelihood, Enterprise Development, Conflict transformation and Peace building, Policy advocacy on Internal displacement people(IDPs), and Extensive practical knowledge and experienced on USRAP(United States of Refugees Admission Program)- RSC South Asia. Currently, I am working in the NGOs Youth Action Nepal (YOAC-2003) based in Kathmandu, Nepal as Program Manager since Oct 2018. I have also worked in the International Organization of Migration (IOM) Damak, Nepal as RSC-South Asia-Project Assistant-Case Management. IOM-Nepal is working for the Resettlement Program for Bhutanese Refugee in the United State of America including other seven countries since January 2008. Before that , I have been worked in Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC)- Bases Nepalgunj in the capacity of ""Program Assistant "" for the ""Conflict Mitigation and Peace Building Programme"" and“Conflict Mitigation through Empowerment of local communities' project” supported by European Commission(EC) and leading for the designing, management and implementation of the overall activities of the programme, which is being implemented in the selected six different conflict affected districts of Mid-Western Development Region Banke, Bardiya, Surkhet, Pyuthan, Dang and Jajarkot of Nepal through the Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) to development. INSEC is a national level human rights organization, working in the 75 districts of Nepal. Before this, I worked as a ""Youth Training Coordinator"" for Youth Action Nepal, assists for organizing the youth training session, youth work camp for Peace Building, Labour Migration workshop, Sexual and Health Rights, I also worked as ""Youth Volunteer"" in Student Partnership World wide (SPW) formerly , now Restless development in the field level for about 8 month in Sunsari District , to organizing the child and youth focused program like health education, civic education as well as focused group discussion on health education with the Deprived Women in the target community. Hence, being above experienced I would be best candidate be part of the UN Solution summit. | Mr. Semanta Gautam is currently working as a Project Consultant at Youth Action Nepal. Mr. Gautam has more than 15 years of professional experience. He has worked with national and international organizations such as International Organization for Migration (IOM), Informal Sector Service Center (INSEC), Youth Action Nepal, and Restless Development under various responsibilities. His major areas of expertise include Refugees and Resettlement, Migration, Human Rights Documentation, and Peace education. Furthermore, he has good skills on network building and event management. Mr. Gautam holds two MA degrees, first one in Rural Development and second one in Political Science from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. | Girls Volunteerism Crisis in the United Nations | If girls has equal access they will lead the role and responsibility equally as well. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Nepal | No | Ideation | Its the idea that solved the to crisis of empowering the girls and women in the global society. | Girls and women are the key part in the nations but they have not treaty equally considering this fact they discrimination comes out every where. Context of Nepal,we can see this figure The National Youth Policy, promulgated 3 years ago recognizes that the youth population (16 to 40 years) constitutes approximately 40.3 per cent of total Nepali population. This means the youth in Nepal have a significant demographic share and can be considered the drivers for change and development of Nepal. | Equally treated should be start from your home..society and nations then it automated influence in all sector which can play the global impact. | Its simple..just you can start from your home..school and working place and your nation . | We conduct the online survey and paper survey in each two years..so that it can show the real progress of this. | Make social user groups in the nation and campaign in the world | Resource will be ask from Governmenet because its not small project and its big project which can deliver the big impact as well. | http://youthaction.org.np/ and My role Job Role: Program implementation and documentation about Labour Migration Project i.e. drafting concept note, proposals, and event reports. Draft and finalize project case stories and human interest stories (HIS)in coordination with respective team. Scriptwriting, captioning and write narration required for short videos for the organization. Develop and update organization profile of the program. To facilitate in strategic planning of awareness and advocacy program including organization strategy. Compile evidence to publish book, booklet, brochure as required for the program and organization. Prepare tracking sheet of all activities, prepare minute of the meeting and follow up all activities of advocacy and awareness Develop contents for the monthly and quarterly newsletter. Develop contents for promotional activities i.e. social medias (facebook, twitter) and official website. Support self-advocates to write down articles on electronic and other print medias Compile all the events in the monthly and quarterly basis for annual report. Play the advisory role of Executive Board in the Organization. | http://youthaction.org.np/ | No thank you. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
611 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ruchi | Singh | Cerelia Nutritech Pvt Ltd | https://www.cerelianutri.com/ | Co-founder & CTO | Female | India | India | English | India’s high economic growth and increasing food production have failed to transform the nutritional status of its population. Approximately 50% of the female population of 15-49yrs in India is anaemic. The existing interventions to tackle maternal anaemia is through oral supplementation – tablets, pills, food fortification, etc. The idea for this frugal innovation has originated from a 7 month social immersion, in the Indian State of Odisha, funded by BIRAC (Govt. of India) to identify gaps in maternal and child and develop interventions for the same. It was observed that the last mile delivery of many interventions to tackle malnutrition have yielded low results due to non-adherence. Observing that malnutrition is the base cause for a majority of the problems, Cerelia embarked on a journey to create a frugal, everyday use product to tackle the problem of anaemia and in general, malnutrition. All of the oral supplements that are ingested via the mouth should pass through the liver to be metabolized and for the API to be bioavailable to be absorbed into the bloodstream. The oral bioavailability of these bioactives is limited because of: (i) restricted liberation from drugs, supplements, or foods; (ii) extensive metabolism or chemical transformation during passage through the GIT; (iii) low solubility in intestinal fluids; (iv) low permeation through the intestinal cell monolayer; and (v) efflux from epithelium cells. Routine iron medications have side effects including bowel discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and constipation. Perception of the iron pill as a drug only to be taken during serious illness is also another cause. Food supplementations have socio-economic and patriarchal conditions force the women to eat at last after the men, kids. Cerelia is developing a novel transdermal technology to enable delivery of multivitamins into the blood stream directly using a moisturiser as a vehicle. This woman first & friendly product requires minimal to nil training for usage, eliminates the psychological perceptions of tablets/pills and enables increased usage. The Global Nutrition Report states that working on nutrition will directly help achieve 12 out of 17 SDG’s. Cerelia’s vision is to augment global efforts for achieving SDG 3 by engaging the 3 “A”s – ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist), ANM (Auxiliary nurse midwife), AWW (Anganwadi worker) of Indian healthcare to ensure the last mile delivery by integrating the 3 ‘A’s of Indian healthcare. | Ms. Ruchi Singh is a Pharmaceutical professional by degree and technopreneur by passion. 5 years of experience in pharmaceutical product development. She strives to translate her knowledge of science into products for making lives healthy and happy. With a passion for building innovative products, she co-founded 2 start-ups to solve problems in healthcare with technology. Currently, Ruchi Singh is the CTO of Cerelia Nutritech. She brings her research experience in formulation development of novel drug delivery systems, stability studies, QbD based product development, FDA regimes, IP and also responsible for the design, sales and distribution strategies. She was also a Director for Relicus Healthcare Pvt Ltd; a Mumbai based pharmaceutical startup involved in manufacturing, sales and marketing of pharmaceuticals. | Vitamin Loaded lotion for Micronutrient deficiencies | Delivering nutrients through skin into blood for tackling vitamin deficiencies via cosmetic applications | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | India, SE Asia | No | Proof of Concept | With funding from Grand Challenges Canada, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & Pfizer India, we were able to develop and establish lab-scale and pre-clinical stage validation for the technology. Studies with vitamin B12 have exhibited 67% more relative bioavailability as compared to the oral solution. In another study folic acid exhibited an absorption rate of 23 microgram/cm2 through Strat-M which is an artificial membrane mimicking skin. | Malnutrition, consisting of foetal growth restriction, stunting, wasting, and deficiency of essential vitamins and minerals adversely impacts child survival. Globally, 45 per cent of under-five deaths can be attributed to undernutrition. Globally, it is estimated that 1/3 of the global population suffers from malnutrition. In India, 1 in 3 children are stunted and approximately 50% of pregnant women age 15-49 years are anaemic, an indicator of poor nutrition. | Our frugal innovation is an alliance between the Over-the counter (OTC) and the cosmetic category. Our patent pending technology – CereDerm® is based on scientifically established principles of transdermal delivery which enables delivery of nano encapsulated micronutrient particles directly into blood through skin using moisturiser as vehicle for delivery. Oral micronutrient formulations (capsules and solution) have been marketed for a long time. Our product has the advantage of less fluctuation in absorption and blood plasma concentration, visual assurance of compliance, and convenience for patients with difficulty swallowing. Our product can be applied once/twice a day to a clean, dry, hairless, intact skin area. The product provides dual benefits of moisturizing the skin as well as maintaining the micronutrient reserve in the body. Delivering micronutrients in the form of a daily use, cost¬ effective manner would enhance the economic status by increasing the productivity and impacting the lives of 55.3% women (15-49 years); 67.15% children (6-59 months). The outcome envisaged would be increased awareness for usage of preventive healthcare, usage and acceptability. The quantifiable positive impact would be increasing the demographic dividend, reducing the health costs to individuals and the country and helping workforce of the country. The public benefits are significant: it reduces health care costs, spurs the economic development. | As per our analysis, transdermal solutions exist, but they are not approved by the regulator and are sold as dietary supplements, mainly as patches. Our product would be sold in the OTC category with regulatory approvals and dispenses WHO/UNIMMAP recommended doses. Delivering OTC benefits combined with moisturising effect is a prime differentiating factor. Patches are prone to increase local irritation at the site of application due to prolonged use. Contact dermatitis may also occur. Vitamin sprays are prone to wastage. We have filed a PCT (Ref no. PCT/IN2018/050133; 08 March 2018) for our patent and the patent has entered Indian national phase as of April 2019. We have also entered national phase in US (Ref no: 16469162 dated 13 Jun 2019) and Australia (ref no: 2018229636 dated 13 Jun 2019). Oral micronutrient formulations (capsules and solution) have been marketed for a long time. Our product has the advantage of less fluctuation in absorption and blood plasma concentration, visual assurance of compliance, and convenience for patients with difficulty swallowing. Our product can be applied once/twice a day to a clean, dry, hairless, intact skin area. | We are in pre-commercialisation stage and not in the market yet. Currently, we are in TRL-4, Late Prototype stage and are undertaking pre-clinical and toxicological studies using animal models for statutory clearances, as we intend to launch as OTC product by 2021-22. Cerelia is in the process of onboarding partners for its roll-out. We had preliminary early-stage, informal discussions with various NGO’s to understand whether this idea/product can be marketed. Key decision makers at organisations like Population Council of India, Triggerise India, have expressed interest in piloting/testing the product, subject to statutory approvals. We also had initial discussions with the Indian State Govt. of Odisha, Directorate of Health Services for piloting in the State of Odisha. Technical partner for evaluating data are GMP/GLP, NABL, OECD approved who follow standardised protocols for generating and evaluating data, which is then submitted to CDSCO, India for regulatory approvals. Piloting partners would prepare an impact analysis protocol that would statistically provide insights into the acceptability, usage and impact of the product. | As of submission, we have completed lab scale validation of the technology and products for safety & efficacy studies. During the next 6months, we would be validating our technology through animal studies and are looking to raise capital for validation in humans. Further on, we would be completing the requisite regulatory compliances; onboard doctors and forge partnerships with various players for supply chain management, pharmacies & online OTC products for sale of products. Initial product launch would be in India and then scaled up to other SE Asian countries. | We would be operating as Virtually Integrated Pharmaceutical Company Organization, with B2C model. Hybrid business models may also be considered as we would generate high value IP from licensing the technology. In the short term, manufacturing partners would be identified and onboarded. Further on, partners in various SE Asian countries would be onboarded for manufacturing, impact measurement, Govt agencies for inclusion, philanthropic organisation like UNICEF, JHPIEGO for extended rollout. | a.https://www.cii.in/PressreleasesDetail.aspx?enc=CL9pSTtB1Hk7CWC94/o1oU7ZVPteV2SPPthd4eqICEI7TPQHL5GvNFplPdBiAmhiSpvG/3MFJQ/tJ7BbH5NyV3TlUY2YPy9YKbLsvRWWrF4gZfVLHVDlALkLMaHn5xZx8sHvBcb+BxXeqnrMB1uVJkxSt6iCzdNC+TT8Xf8LZlI= b.http://www.iitd.ac.in/content/startupiitd-catering-nutritional-needs-various-segments-0 c.http://www.grandchallenges.ca/grantee-stars/1808-17607/ d.http://www.tata.com/article/inside/elbow-engineers-emerge-winners-of-tata-social-enterprise-challenge e.http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31814&articlexml=Founded-in-November-2015-GIVING-WINGS-TO-IDEAS-02072017017057 f.https://yourstory.com/2018/11/10-out-30-startups-accelerated-by-apis-gets-selected-at-slush-tech-congregation/ g.https://www.prnewswire.com/in/news-releases/cowe-seaside-startup-summit-goa-takes-big-step-towards-development-of-global-startup-ecosystem-676791303.html | a.https://youtu.be/GVxlUdrOwdw b.https://youtu.be/65ORTO7ocWc | a.2019; Finalist; Falling Walls Lab India 2019 b.2019; Selected as ""Global Top 500 DeepTech startups"", Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge 2019. c.2018; Finalist; Representing India in “Slush 2018” in Helsinki, Finland. d.2018; Winner; ""Top Startup Award in Biotech and Pharma 2018"", under the CII Startupreneur Awards 2018 at CII Global Future Business Forum 2018. e.2018; Felicitated by Smt. Mridula Sinha, Governor of Goa on International Women's day by COWE & Seaside startup summit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
612 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ben | Smilowitz | Disaster Accountability Project - SmartResponse | www.smartresponse.org | Founder and Executive Director | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | We can improve the effectiveness of hundreds of millions of dollars of disaster relief and humanitarian aid by expediting localization, incentivizing transparency, and improving oversight. We are uniquely qualified to advance this solution because we are truly independent of the aid community and hundreds of local NGOs spanning over 50 countries, states, and territories have already self-registered and voluntarily shared data to advance this effort. We recently launched SmartResponse.org, a tech-based innovation, built by hundreds of volunteer developers around the world. The information collected via survey from NGOs around the world is used to smartly curate localized and data-driven “how to help” lists so donors can make more informed donations about which organizations to support after disasters. SmartResponse is not another donation platform as we do not process or handle donations on behalf of registered organizations. We do not take a cut and we are not another intermediary. Donors support each organization directly. Improving how funds move after disasters can help address the unhealthy power dynamic between international organizations and local groups and reduce the need for intermediaries that often delay and divert funds after disasters. This solution can also significantly exceed the 25% localization goal advanced by the Grand Bargain. The world can do much better. After the Haiti and Nepal earthquakes, Disaster Accountability Project published reports on the NGO response. The findings were sobering: The wrong organizations often raise the most donations after disasters. A solution to this problem is unlikely to come from the institutions, agencies, and organizations that need to change themselves. As an independent watchdog of disaster relief and humanitarian aid, Disaster Accountability Project is uniquely qualified to pioneer a solution. So we did! | Ben founded Disaster Accountability Project (DAP) after witnessing first-hand the failed Katrina response while managing high-volume Red Cross relief sites along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Since founding DAP, the organization successfully advocated for the creation of the FEMA Office of Disability Integration and Coordination, investigated emergency planning surrounding 19 U.S. commercial nuclear power plants, improved the transparency of nearly two billion dollars of aid after the Haiti and Nepal earthquakes, and filed a successful complaint that compelled the release of $4 million in recovery funds to families that lost their homes after Superstorm Sandy. DAP’s work has received global media coverage and Ben's op-eds have appeared in the Washington Post, CNN and Detroit News. In 2017, DAP launched SmartResponse.org to improve the effectiveness and transparency of humanitarian funds globally. A veteran organizer, Ben has led local, state and national issue campaigns, written and passed legislation, and created the first statewide youth cabinet. Ben received degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and University of Connecticut School of Law, where he served as President of the Student Bar Association. Soon after starting DAP, Ben received an Echoing Green Fellowship. | SmartResponse.org | Improving the effectiveness and transparency of global disaster relief and humanitarian aid. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | All: Haiti, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Philippines, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Liberia, Puerto RIco, Turkey, USA | No | Transition to Scale | In just over a year, 300+ groups have already self-registered from 50+ countries, states, and territories. Most are voluntarily sharing information. SmartResponse curated localized “how to help” lists following Cyclone Fani, Hurricane Barry, and the recent monsoon floods in Nepal, Bangladesh and India. At this moment, SmartResponse is ripe for scaling. By the end of 2020, we aim to have over 2,000 groups registered and have actionable, localized lists following disasters around the world. | Globally, local groups receive as little as 3% of the amount donated after disasters. The World Humanitarian Summit’s Grand Bargain aims for 25% by 2020. Most funds raised by outside groups are delayed and diverted before a much smaller amount reaches local groups. This causes an unhealthy power imbalance where outside groups (with minimal local contacts) have more resources than local groups and even local governments. This problem is not going to fix itself and innovative solutions are needed. | The moment a disaster happens, SmartResponse smartly curates localized and data-informed “how to help” lists so donors can have immediate information about the groups operating locally. More informed and direct donations can improve the effectiveness of hundreds of millions of dollars of disaster relief donations per disaster, allowing aid to reach survivors faster. More resources will allow more local groups to lead in all aspects of the response, relief and recovery phases, hire more local staff, source supplies locally in local currency, and choose which outside partners to engage. SmartResponse allows groups to register for free and share information via survey from an online dashboard. The information shared is made publicly available. For many local groups around the world without a website, this information may serve as their only online presence. When disasters happen, SmartResponse curates localized and data-informed lists using a transparent algorithm that sorts groups based on factors that include the type of services provided, locally hired staff, and completeness and recency of information shared. This information is actively and freely shared with media to inform “how to help” lists, donors (CSR, foundation, and individual), governments, coordinating bodies such as the UN, survivors, academics, and other stakeholders. SmartResponse is not an intermediary and does not process donations on behalf of registered groups. Each group handles its own donations. | There is no independent, global platform that curates “how to help” lists after disasters. Unlike crowdfunding platforms, SmartResponse does not charge groups for listings or process/take a percentage/fee from donations made to registered groups. An independent platform, SmartResponse is not an intermediary or gatekeeper. SmartResponse is a public service to expedite localization of resources and improve how hundreds of millions of dollars move by collecting and sharing data, incentivizing transparency, and prioritizing groups on the platform by their proximity to each disaster, the services they provide, and their connection to communities they serve. All information collected is made public for the benefit of stakeholders. There is no similar platform that curates data-driven, localized lists because others require organizations be registered in the U.S. (Guidestar) and have over $1 million budgets (Charity Navigator), or earn revenue from donation volume (GlobalGiving) balancing an interest in processing more donations vs. transparency and donation worthiness. Others (Center for Disaster Philanthropy) are information gate-keepers and manage funds. They want donors to donate directly to them so they may release funds to groups of their choosing. Interaction’s “Haiti Aid Map” after the 2010 Haiti earthquake highlighted its INGO members’ activities. It was more of an advertising platform than anything transparency oriented and did not advance the localization agenda. | Beginning in 2016, hundreds of volunteer web developers and designers from around the world collaborated to build SmartResponse. Over 40 volunteers are still involved in making improvements, adding features and fixing bugs. Other volunteers focused on identifying organizations in dozens of countries and states to invite to register. Currently, over 300 organizations have self-registered from over 50 countries, states, and territories and most are sharing information on the platform. Some leading locations include Pakistan (40 organizations), India (30), Puerto Rico (25), Nepal (23) and Bangladesh (18), Haiti (14), Philippines (9), Indonesia (6), Mexico (6), Liberia (5), Colombia (5). With additional support, we aim to reach 2,000 organizations by the end of 2020. We measure progress by assessing the growth of registered organizations 1) overall and 2) by location. We also measure progress by the percentage rate of registered organizations 1) starting and 2) completing their SmartResponse surveys/profiles. As more organizations register and the data availability for each disaster globally becomes more reliable, we will measure by 1) the number of donors utilizing the platform, 2) the increase in funds raised by local organizations, and 3) media utilization of SmartResponse data for the generation of “how to help” lists. | We hope to add more groups in the Caribbean, island nations, Indonesia and the Philippines, expand coverage of Africa (especially to include countries dealing with Ebola and recent cyclones) and Latin America. Staff recruitment goals include: At least one NGO Outreach role to assist with registering more groups in more locations. At least one CSR/Foundation Engagement role to assist more donors in utilizing our “how to help” lists after disasters occur. One Communications/Marketing role to help ensure our “how to help” lists are utilized by media and inform post-disaster reporting. Ultimately, we also need to professionalize web development roles as relying on a volunteer team is not long-term sustainable. We will require significantly more resources to on-board one or two full time developers. We also plan to implement a revenue model that maintains our independence and preserves our values. Information collected will remain public and free and we will ask larger donors to subscribe to specialized reports. More than 350 million people are impacted by disasters and conflict globally. Meanwhile, billions of dollars donated to improve conditions and reduce suffering are under-utilized. Imagine the impact if more resources reached local groups and their communities. Not only would these resources benefit those directly impacted by disaster, they would also strengthen the community groups in impacted areas and allow them to lead in both recovery and future mitigation. | SmartResponse needs capacity building support to scale right now to become self-sustaining within two years. Short term: We need funding ($500,000 USD) to add at least three positions. 1) NGO Outreach, 2) CSR/Foundation Outreach/Business Development, and 3) Communications/Marketing Medium to Long Term: As the platform grows, we will likely need additional, regional roles for 1) NGO Outreach/Support, 2) Information Oversight and Quality Assurance to monitor and oversee incoming data from organizations, 3) CSR/Foundation Outreach and Business Development to expand donor engagement and increase utilization of SmartResponse data, and continue implementation of the revenue model to keep up with the platform’s growth, and 4) at least one or two full-time, full-stack web developers to ensure platform reliability/stability and address bugs, enhancements and new features. Once a few key roles from the “Short Term” category are added, we anticipate becoming self-sustaining within two years. | Project website: https://www.smartresponse.org/ SmartResponse Updates: https://updates.smartresponse.org/ Article mentioning SmartResponse https://www.salon.com/2019/03/31/disaster-relief-done-right-4-mistakes-people-make-when-trying-to-help-after-a-disaster/ News story mentioning SmartResponse http://disasteraccountability.org/2017/10/30/91317-circa-news-hurricanes-harvey-and-irma-are-reminders-of-red-flags-raised-over-red-cross-transparency/ Volunteer Acknowledgement Page: https://www.smartresponse.org/volunteers News Article in Puerto Rico: https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/locales/nota/smartresponseformaunaredparaconectaradonantes-2457284/ Guest Column on Donor Network Website: https://thegathering.com/the-importance-of-local-response-in-disaster-recovery/ Academic Conference post session abstract: https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2017/abstract/poster-session#smartresponse-a-new-online-platform-to-ensure-help-reaches-those-who-need-it-most Article published Southasiadisasters.net, issue #178, Title: Avoidable Deaths. Available for download here: http://www.aidmi.org/publications.aspx Prior to Launch of SmartResponse Reuters News Story: http://disasteraccountability.org/2015/09/21/92115-reuters-exclusive-global-charities-accused-of-misleading-public-on-nepal-quake-aid/ Al Jazeera Op-Ed: Deceptions of Disaster Relief in Nepal http://disasteraccountability.org/2015/07/02/7115-al-jazeera-america-the-deceptions-of-disaster-relief-in-nepal/ | All clips are about aid transparency/accountability and prior to the launch of SmartResponse. Panel: Monitoring Disaster Response (post Nepal earthquake) Aid accountability and the role of citizens and institutions Harvard Chan School of Public Health September 26, 2016 Start at 4:49:00 https://mediasite.video.harvard.edu/Mediasite/Play/25edfd5855024d13b0383044e1e6488f1d Radio France International https://soundcloud.com/radiofranceinternationale/live-on-live-benjamin-smilowitz-disaster-accountability-project?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=email June 2016 Al Jazeera: Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan (#1) http://disasteraccountability.org/2013/11/14/111413-al-jazeera-america-typhoon-haiyan-relief/ Al Jazeera: Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan (#2) http://disasteraccountability.org/2013/11/17/111713-al-jazeera-america-typhoon-haiyan-relief/ Fox News O’Reilly Factor: Where did the money go for Hurricane Sandy Victims http://disasteraccountability.org/2013/01/24/12413-oreilly-factor-where-did-the-money-go-for-hurricane-sandy-victims/ Short Radio clip after Superstorm Sandy https://nj1015.com/sandy-charities-slowly-distributing-aid-audio/ | Awarded prestigious Echoing Green Fellowship for work on Disaster Accountability Project. 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613 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Masoomali | Fatehkia | Qatar Computing Research Institute | https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/research-groups/social-computing | Research Assistant | Male | Qatar | United Republic of Tanzania | English | Poor data, especially in developing countries, presents a challenge in monitoring the progress of Sustainable Development Goals as well as providing stakeholders with information needed for targeting programs and interventions. Where available at all, data may lack high-resolution sub-national granularity, suffer from long time lags in updates and may not be dis-aggregated by gender or age. To address this challenge we investigate how anonymous and aggregated data from social media advertising data can be used to provide estimates of important development indicators. With regards to SDG1 we investigate how social media advertising data can be combined with satellite imagery data for the purposes of poverty mapping. | Growing up in Tanzania, from a young age I experienced the challenges of life in a developing country. Having had the privilege of completing my undergraduate studies in the US, I would like to use the skills that I have developed through my education to advance the development progress of developing countries around the world. I believe that access to timely information and data provides an important ingredient to the success of the SDGs as it enables relevant parties to make informed decisions with regards to the goals. In my work as a research assistant at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), I research the potential of novel data sources such as from social media advertising data to complement traditional surveys in tracking of development goals; work has touched on SDG1, mapping poverty at high spatial resolution and SDG5, mapping the status of digital gender inequalities in countries where data is lacking through gender inequalities observed in social media presence. It is my hope that such work can be used by development agencies and other stakeholders to aid them in their work. | Combining satellite imagery and social media advertising data for poverty monitoring | Big social and satellite data for poverty monitoring | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Intend to implement for Philippines and India | Yes | UNICEF Innovation and Thinking Machines (a tech startup based in the Philippines) | Proof of Concept | We developed models to predict measures of poverty from surveys using aggregated estimates of social media users with various device/network connections in the Philippines; working to extend this work to other countries (India) and to combine with satellite imagery. Initial results suggest: (i) combining social media data with satellite data outperforms either data set individually, and (ii) it might be possible to use social media data to make demographically dis-aggregated poverty predictions. | Scarcity of data on poverty for developing countries. Satellite imagery data combined with social media advertising data can provide a low cost complement to traditional survey data with the potential to map poverty at high spatial resolutions and which can be updated at greater frequency than surveys. In addition, social media data could potentially be used to provide predictions dis-aggregated by demographic attributes such as age and gender. | Using machine learning, we train predictive models that use social media footprints of a given location and features extracted from satellite images to predict survey data based measures of poverty, currently provided by the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS). For social media footprint, we use anonymized and aggregated estimates of the proportion of social media users in a given location with access to a variety of device types (including the latest high-end Apple and Samsung phones) and network connections (such as 4G and WiFi). These estimates are provided by Facebook’s marketing API. Features are extracted from Satellite images using artificial intelligence techniques developed in the academic literature; such features can capture a variety of socio-economic features visible in the image such as access to infrastructure or land usage types. We have tested the use of social media data for poverty mapping in the Philippines and are currently working on extending the geographic scope of the analysis to other countries such as India. We are also investigating whether combinations of features from satellite imagery and social media can further improve the estimates being made. Our long term vision is that satellite imagery combined with social media advertising data can provide a complement to survey based measures to be used for poverty mapping and monitoring initiatives especially in data-sparse contexts. | Past research has studied the use of satellite imagery data for mapping poverty (such as work done by researchers at Stanford University and UC Berkeley) whereby machine learning techniques are used to extract features from satellite imagery that are used as socio-economic proxies for predicting survey based measures of poverty. We contribute to this space by including the use of aggregated and anonymous social media footprints acquired from social media advertising data which capture the access to device types and networks connections. The advantages of using social media data include the potential to acquire demographically dis-aggregated data that could be used to make dis-aggregated predictions of poverty. Moreover, the addition of social media data could enable updating of estimates at low temporal resolutions as socio-economic changes may be captured through changes in the adoption and usage of device types and network connections. | We have performed data analysis and scientific validation of this approach of using social media data for poverty mapping in the Philippines; analysis is in progress on the combination of satellite imagery and social media data and on expanding to other countries such as India. We follow similar procedures reported in the research literature whereby we evaluate the approach by looking at predictive performance on historic data from past surveys. | Our near term goal is to further explore the scientific aspects of this approach and to validate the results in a broader geographic context. In the long term we hope to be able to reach out to implementation partners on the ground who could benefit from access to such types of data for the purposes of planning and monitoring progress. | What is most needed is to develop a network of partnerships with organizations and implementation partners to enable the deployment of this approach for larger scale use. | https://www.slideshare.net/IngmarWeber/using-advertising-data-to-model-migration-poverty-and-digital-gender-gaps Concerning partnerships, we’ve also engaged the World Bank and Dalberg Data Insights for a joint initiative: https://sites.google.com/view/poverty-mapping-initiative | NA | Data2X Big Data for Gender Challenge: in another related project where we use social media advertising data for monitoring SDG5: https://data2x.org/big-data-challenge-awards/ (The link appears to be broken; there is this archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20190422215024/https://www.data2x.org/big-data-challenge-awards/#digital) [Winner] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
614 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Fakhira | Najib | POWER99 Foundation | http://power99.foundation/ | Chief Executive | Female | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | Our motivation to present in UN Summit as Broadclass Listen to learn is to address issues identified in the 2016 SDG conference. Summit can help Power99 efforts by connecting us to relevant stakeholders (funding partners, technology development partners, social proof advocates, industry authorities, policymakers, permitting agencies and more) Program directly serves more than 200000 children, communities and accessible to more than 10 million due to publicly broadcast. In a bid to standardize the quality of education and access to valuable learning content, intervention purports to improve learning outcomes at maximum possible low cost yielding both short-term and long-term socio-economic impact. In the short run, improved student grades, attendance and confidence levels are expected to be observed in the classroom. Educated children are more likely to be employed and contribute to the economy The following described its successful response to the UN mandate: DW“minor revolution in the field of education"" in Pakistan https://www.facebook.com/broadclass/videos/840549059396551/ BBC http://www.bbc.com/urdu/multimedia/2015/04/150429_broadclass_amber_ak UNESCO lists it as the only project in Pakistan in 'WHAT'S WORKING?http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002351/235152E.pdf Program addresses security and safety, even in far flung and inaccessible areas. The content broadcast is accessible to all and therefore not seen as a threat. Children, teachers and community learn universal themes and implement these within the wider community. Themes such as tolerance, cooperation, participatory citizenship and peace are implemented in the classroom and by community participation as helping hands such as planting trees, celebrating diversity and engage in friendship projects. This project is an example of promoting global peace starting with promoting it in the community.It greatly broadens access to unbiased global information not only in local languages but especially in English thus, heavily influencing perceptions of the West and impacting openness towards economic growth and values.Teachers have improved English skills, pedagogical practices and have been provided with access to materials and other resources.Communities have benefited from job and business opportunities, such as the making of materials, books, radios etc. This project is an example of adding economic value to the community but adding long term opportunities in the national and international areas | Fakhira Najib, an internationally recognized leader pioneered Broadclass – Listen to Learn"" Interactive Radio Instruction program in Pakistan. She is currently serving as CEO of Power99 Foundation. she is an educationist by profession and has more than 20 years professional experience in the field of Education development, Community Mobilization, and strategic planning of projects with Governments and Organizations like; USAID, UkAid & DW . She has organized and developed communication strategy for 2005 earthquake affected and displaced kids for FM 99. Produced special programs for the earthquake affected kids on trauma and developed plan of action to ensure gender sensitivities in the broadcast. During her career at Children Resource's International She had been nominated from Federal government to work as a part of international trainer's team from Hungry, Ohio and Boston University to train in service teacher She has worked with Higher Education Commission of Pakistan for the incorporation of its ready to teach faculty courses as reference material into the course outline of Bachelor and Master of Education curriculum. She was part of National ECE Curriculum review team. She attended five members round table conference during First Lady Mrs. Laura Bush visit to Pakistan. She has represented Pakistan in Bangkok for workshop on curriculum designating. She has also got training on creating child centered classrooms in Washington DC,. She received media management training from Radio Netherlands Training Center Helviursum, and is US women journalists program Alumni | Broad Class – Listen to Learn | Broadclass is an outreach program to improve the quality, equity and inclusiveness of education and is a viable route for achieving SDGs | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Pakistan | Yes | District radio stations are our partners in this program. | Scaling | Power99 Foundation have a successful working model producing results and impacting learning outcomes. Number of formal and informal evaluations and third part report by UkAid have demonstrated its potential for scale up The cross cutting themes of the content are based on universal principles for basic education that makes it relevant to other cultural and geographical scenarios too. There is a demand from federal, provincial and district governments for scale-up/expansion of the program | Pakistan faces a critical education access and learning challenge about 22.6 million children overall 49% of population of girls are out of school and 34% of student’s dropout before completion of Primary. ASER Report 2018, revealed that around half of the Grade 5 students have not reached Grade 2 levels of learning Education is plagued with rote memorization,, limited teacher training Especially worrying is the lack of parental/ community participation & schools function in isolation | Broad Class – Listen to Learn delivers daily 45-minutes radio broadcasts that promote active learning and designed to improve educational quality and teaching practices in formal and non formal settings including religious Madaris. Radio lessons guide teacher and students through activities, games, and exercises that teach carefully organized knowledge and skills. The program uses three ""P's"" (Presentation, Practice and Performance) and inclusive learning materials. With the geographical, environmental and energy-resource constraints in mind, special wooden radios with rechargeable dry batteries, built-in sound system, USB/memory card options were Locally designed and provided to classrooms. The core element in the intervention is complemented by face-to-face 40 hrs teacher training, ongoing technical assistance, community support and advocacy. An assessment mechanism is put in place and administered annually to measure student performance as the result of these interventions. The program successfully works with all stakeholders in marginalized communities ensuring that quality education is imparted to everyone who seeks it so that s/he may gain the knowledge and the capacity to benefit from this investment whether in the form of gainful employment or the ability to think critically and be a useful citizen of the society impacting global peace, security and economics. | A child-centered, holistic, culturally relevant approach, Broadclass Listen to Learn is based on the principle that effective education needs to be active, interactive and relevant to children and their families. In many areas in Pakistan, education methods are didactic and little adaptation for the learning styles of young learners. The program has been designed in such a way that it responds to all the diverse needs of the learners. Many active learning approaches are employed e.g. cooperative learning, listening/ speaking exercises, riddles, sound games and role plays. The pedagogical techniques have been devised in such a way that they incorporate social, linguistic, cognitive, and emotional contexts. The content of the program ensures social and cultural relevance as well as its academic goals. To address issues of gender equity radio characters Gul and Teacher Ameena as female role models challenged stereotypes. Dialogues and stories throughout the series encourage girls to be confident of their ability to learn and contribute meaningfully to society. The program design ensures involvement of all stake holders at every step of implementation. Due to public broadcast and wide accessibility, program makes educational input accessible to remote and highly mobile populations on a sustained basis. The use of low-cost technology has resulted in widespread uptake by schools which experience difficulties with school attendance and teacher engagement in new teaching practices | The team progressed in possessing years of working experience with child-based learning projects in communities and designing creative learning module, content and materials on education and life skills for school children according to their age group and needs Started from the piloting of IRI program in KG – Grade I of public schools in one district only for 4,963 Beneficiaries, Broadclass Project has reached 200,000 students now and trained 2,803 teachers in child centered teaching methodologies across Pakistan in both formal and non formal school settings even in religious Madaris. It has also developed and distributed content and material including 200 IRI lessons, 3000 teacher’s guides, 3000 Radio sets and story books for teachers, students and education officials in Urdu, English and regional languages for upper grades including Grade I till III. Program design has built-in mechanism/tools to measure progress and methodological rigors through qualitative and quantitative data. The team regularly monitors implementation of program through both formative and summative assessment using various tools including classroom observation, students assessments form, Teacher’s reflection sheets, Parents’ survey (target vs control) and testimonials and data is cross verified / validated in the field by physically visiting targeted schools, scrutinizing attendance register and verifying teachers’ information etc. | Our goal is Proliferation of Broadclass methodology across communities in different provinces to turn it into an indispensable student-centered learning tool. Increasing dependence and reliance on Broad Class can be used as leverage for political buy-in to ensure continuity of the project and foster long-term commitments by governments. This goal is supported by the mutually-reinforcing components of teacher continuous professional development, media advocacy, and the engagement of communities. The organization plans a two pronged strategy for the scale-up. Horizontally, the program is currently serving 200,000 people concurrently; the program will be scaled up in other district every year which will increase number as 255,668 in a year, in five years, the project will have directly benefited 4,704,616 people across 4 provinces of Pakistan. Vertically, to turn the Broad Class program into a brand supported by different product lines mechanisms such as an online resource or web portal. This idea can evolve into a mobile app in the long-term that can be monetized via ad serving to keep the cost free We'll also look into partnering with publishing houses and teacher training institutes to make the content either available for teachers for a low-fee or subsidize the running costs with third-party partnerships and thus make the reach the biggest audience and Gain financial autonomy by exploring alternate sources of revenue. | POWER99 Foundation needs both technical and financial resources for the solution to scale up, Our challenges are financial and networking as the government decision-making apparatus is laced with bureaucracy, creating hurdles and delays. This causes impediments in program buy-in and timelines secondly shifting donor focus and financing but the organization have the requisite domain expertise and technical capabilities to deliver end-to-end IRI solutions all over Pakistan as according to third party evaluation by UkAid The cost per student is halved by doubling the number of beneficiaries Preliminary pool of lessons is in place, the setup and content creation costs have been borne by Power99 Foundation. Initial outlays or capital expenditure is the largest cost of IRI programs. We can build on our strength to develop content around other social issues and training domains to expand our reach to millions.in five years. In Short term(Year 1 and 2) program needs 16,343,340, impacting 383,502 beneficiaries, Medium Term (Year 3 & 4) 30,020,086 impacting 1,534,038 beneficiaries and for Long Term (Year 5) program will need 14,242,744 impacting 2,787,106 beneficiaries to implement it in all 4 provinces of Pakistan | Website: https://www.power99.foundation Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/broadclass/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTK26dGn2m-3B3_NRTVUBrQ Broadclass process video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1c0nTe-oX0 UN symposium on Language, SDGs, and Vulnerable Populations, paper presentation as “Sustainable Success in Pakistan”2017 Broad class has been featured in Hundred Innovation Summit’s article “Five of the best HundrED 2019 Global Innovations” https://hundred.org/en/articles/five-of-the-hundred-2019-global-innovations-in-their-own-words-part-two Broad Class is documented as Resource Pack by UNESCO (ARNEC) http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ecce/what-we-do/ecce-teacher-development/innovative-pedagogical-approaches-and-tools Success story on trauma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h4KS29W52w&t=30s Young Bloomer Bilal’s story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBGZ26S1oKM&t=91s Inclusive education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlDk5jXgXhQ Education in emergencies-Broad Class Listen To Learn OpenIDEO https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/education-emergencies/selection/education-in-emergencies-broad-class-listen-to-learn Listen and learn: Initiative to improve primary education https://tribune.com.pk/story/715997/listen-and-learn-initiative-to-improve-primary-education/ A Bee and a Butterfly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr2NzRESXpc Fly Mithoo Fly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlFFUgOIkrg Peace Pledge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXsTG_D1MkI&t=11s | STI Forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KSqEaRfgV0 Ilm ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwsCs98qoH0&t=28s presenting ""Broad Class - Listen to Learn"" Interactive Radio Instruction program at ""HundrED Innovation Summit - The World's Most Inspiring Innovations of 2019"" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLXCdcv85ls HundrED Webday Webinar: https://hundred.org/en/articles/how-can-radio-broadcasts-improve-educational-quality-equity-and-inclusiveness-fakhira-najib-mohammad-zubair-hundred-webday Broadclass on alghad tv: https://www.facebook.com/youmjded/videos/2602423116455731/ | Winner of 4th Annual Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs 2019 at UN headquarters Winner of TESOL The Mary Finocchiaro Award for Excellence in Nonpublished Pedagogical Materials 2018 winner of Hundred's Most Innovative projects for Quality, Equality and inclusiveness in Education Winner of GDN award for Most Innovative Development Project, 2016. One of the nine best practices in ECCE in Asia-Pacific region innovative pedagogical approaches by ARNEC, 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
615 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | NGOYI | Gonnat | 3G SARL | www.3grdc.com | CEO | Male | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | French | I’m applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit in order to present our project. A results driven, self-motivated and resourceful managing director with a proven ability to develop and strengthen management teams in order to maximize company profitability and efficiency. Experienced leading and growing all sectors of a business to make it a dynamic and progressive organization. Possessing excellent communication skills and able to establish sustainable and profitable relationships with customers, suppliers and stakeholders across the world. We are using mobile technology to solve mothers, neonatal and infant lives by increasing demand and access to maternal and children health in undeveloped countries. We developed SaveMe that is a digital healthcare solution with 3 components including: 1. Comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services; 2. Monitoring of pregnancies and 3. under 5 children’s immunization, growth and nutritional monitoring. Thus our solution wants to be unique by the mobilization of the caregivers / mothers and their relatives / neighbors in order to involve them in the tracking and monitoring of maternal and child health services. This in order to increase the demands and access of maternal and child health services and thus reduce the number of maternal and infant deaths. | I was born in 1986 in Kabinda in the present province of Lomami in the DRC and got Bachelor in Economic & Social Law in 2012. I’m a social entrepreneur influenced by the living conditions of the people in his immediate environment, Gonnat NGOYI has always longed to improve the lives of the citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Growing up in a town called GOMA. Joined a sensitization team for the fight against poliomyelitis and AIDs encouraged by his late Dr KABUNDI and staging an end of the year closing play in his sixth grade that focused on the theme of negligence to medical care, arts and computer science. After this experience, Gonnat became fascinated with computers as a means to create solutions to the problems in his community but unfortunately, he did not have the opportunity to acquire the necessary skills because at the time his community was caught in a war between rebels in the area. This resulted in the cutting of internet access in his community between 2010 and 2015. For a long time, GONNAT never trusted youth entrepreneurship programs, however, the Tony Elumelu Foundation Program changed his way of thinking. Through the TEF Program, he gained a proper understanding of how to truly run a business. Prior to this time, he had brilliant ideas but wasn’t armed with the skills he needed to excuse them. Over the course of the 12-week program, he learnt that ideas are nothing with proper planning, organization and leadership. Additionally, the seed capital gave his business the financial capacity required to execute his ideas. | SaveMe | Reducing barriers to childhood development through digital health technology | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Yes | Kyeshero Hospital | Proof of Concept | We have developed a prototype that we are searching to launch for a pilot project. | Yet, there are still nearly 20 million unvaccinated and under-vaccinated children in the world today. These children are at risk of serious illness, complications, and death. This negatively impact on childhood’s school attendance and cognitive development. In DRC, this problem is also due to the distance caregiver has to travel in search of vaccination and the risk of being raped, especially when traveling from one locality to another. | SaveMe is an immunization and growth tracker and an immunization cold chain logistic deliver geo locating caregivers to deliver vaccines in rural areas. An immunization home delivers associating mobile technology Ֆ cold chain logistic that insure that every children are immunized. SaveMe is a kit composed of the following elements: 1. A mobile application using Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) technology that does not require the internet or a smartphone with the following features: - Record all births and customize vaccination schedules for each child as well as track that the child is vaccinated at the best time. - A GPS system allowing immunization providers to geo-locate the caregiver that the child needs a vaccine to reach him either by his address or by the location of his GSM. 2. A refrigerated bike powered by a 12v dynamo to maintain a favorable temperature for vaccines during the delivery of vaccines in rural areas where the road is impassable by vehicles. 3. A balance to track the growth of the child. | We combine GSM-based mobile technology and logistics in vaccine home delivery in rural areas. Instead of the mother traveling miles in search of vaccines with the risk of being raped, SaveMe is responsible for identifying children who need this or that other vaccine and delivers it at home using the GPS system. | Our team prioritizes provision of technology-based solutions that improve system development, tackle problems and improve efficiency. The team’s diversity & experience working in public health field in DRC through the international organizations makes the team a perfect fit for purpose. AS TECHNOLOGIST, we have access to excellent technical and professional networks. Our peers are available to augment our core abilities. AS LEADERS, we see where people are ""stuck"" in their lives and show up in a meaningful way. We understand the value of being ""present"" and listening to others. AS ENTREPRENEURS, we have a passion for seeing and understanding the big economic picture before building previously unimaginable technologies. In the end, we want to SERVE! Our team of programmers and doctor volunteered their time and effort to develop this solution and made the decision to continue to make improvements based on the needs of users and the technological evolution that is always dynamic. | September 2019- June 2020: Pilot project execution and Pilot project’s feedback implementation, - Third quarter of 2020: Official launch - Last quarter 2020: Expand our solution to accommodate other devices such as mobile, tablets running both android and iOS operating systems. - Mid-quarter 2021: Boost brand awareness in Africa | To scale our solution and get more impact, we are searching for sustainable partnership and for 250000$ including the pilot project expenses (15%) and 85% for the scale. | http://www.3grdc.com | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT0i056DBkg | The Tony Elumelu Foundation, winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
616 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Achyuta | Samanta | Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences | www.kiss.ac.in | Founder | Male | India | India | English | The greatest challenge for policy makers and stakeholders in the development process is to bring about social change by ameliorating the socio-economic conditions of indigenous people. Scheduled tribes/Indigenous people constitute the weaker section of India’s population. The human development indices of the tribal shows that their condition continues to be much lower than the rest in terms of tangible parameters like education, health, income, etc. To eradicate poverty and bring the tribal population to the mainstream development process preserving their culture simultaneously through empowering them, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences was started in the year 1993. Education is in its core always. The institute started with only Rs. 5000/-(100 USD) has now become the largest residential tribal institute in the world providing free and holistic education from kindergarten to Post graduation, a home for 50,000 tribal children (27,000 existing students, 12,000 graduated and 10,000 students in KISS satellite centers in 10 districts of Odisha). Through this model, indigenous youth are transformed into change makers of their community. Our objective and initiatives are aligned with SDGs. The Solution Summit would be a great platform to invite attention of great policy makers to think, evaluate the innovation applied by Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences using education as a tool and help us to expand this model to other geographic location across the globe. Through the dedicated effort of Dr. Achyuta Samanta, Founder of KIIT & KISS for establishing these two biggest institution, now more than 100,000 people have received employment directly and indirectly. His effort, has created 100 successful entrepreneurs across India. Prof. Samanta has been working relentlessly to achieve Zero poverty, Zero Hunger and Zero Illiteracy. | Prof. Achyuta Samanta, the founder of Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences(KISS) was born in the year 1964. He has lost his father at the age of four struggled poverty and hunger, but now is an iconic educationist, an emblem in service to humanity, a beacon of light for social transformation, and a redeemer of the fallen, the oppressed and the marginalized leading a simple and sacrificed life as a bachelor. He has obtained his Master Degree in Chemistry in 1987 from Utkal University, Doctorate Degree in Social Science and started teaching at the age of 22. He has over 30 years of teaching experience. In the year 1993 he has founded Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences and Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology. He has served as a member of two apex Educational bodies of India, University Grants Commission(UGC) for two consecutive terms (2008-11 & 2011-14). He is currently the Honorable member of Parliament (Loksabha). Honoured with National award for the welfare of children 2016 by Govt. of India. He has been conferred with 35 honoris causa doctorate awards from prestigious universities across the globe. He was decorated with Gusi Peace prize, the highest civilian award from Bahrain besides over 50 national and international and over 200 state honors and accolades. | Eradicating poverty through holistic education | Through education marginalized too can excel | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | The KISS model is currently working in India. Situated in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, the eastern state of India, it reaches out to tribal communities across the state and its neighbouring regions. KISS was started when there was not adequate awareness about pro | Yes | KISS is a NGO and a University which is registered under Govt. of India Act. KISS has forged partnerships for value addition with different philanthropic, corporate, academic institutions, Governments, UN Bodies, Foundations to achieve its goal. Kalinga I | Sustainable Scale | Education as a tool used at KISS to eradicate poverty from tribal community. KISS adopts trickle down and bottom-up approach to assess the poverty situation, plan the solution, its implementation and evaluate its impact for empowerment. KISS is tribal and marginalized need centric and also demand driven. It provides holistic education with employability. It is now scaling up with sustainability in mind and creating change agents who work in their community after education. | Poverty affects the life of indigenous people. Indigenous communities in Odisha, India, is one of the most marginalized and deprived sections of the society. The tribal youths join anti-democratic radical movements against Government of India. KISS works on addressing issues like child marriage, superstitions, diseases, food security, sustainable employment, KISS bridges academics with industry and development of entrepreneurial skills. It provides need based cultural component in education. | Kalinga Institute of social sciences has been committed towards the holistic development of under-privileged indigenous children since the inception in 1993. Eradication of poverty has been the institutes primary goal, and education, nutrition, health, and skill development are the four pillars to achieve that goal. Even before the sustainable development goals were adopted, KISS has been trying to build a better and sustainable future for indigenous children. KISS is also committed towards a greener planet. It empowers the life of tribal children through residential holistic education. It helps in preventing youth to join extremist movement which promotes peace. In the longer-term vision KISS visualize to make a stronger generation of tribal people equipped with knowledge, basic life skills, access to services and basic amenities and stronger and just community. It will ultimately have impact on peace, reduce gap within society. | The largest tribal institution of the world providing free residential holistic education to more than 27,000 children.Within one campus education, sports, vocational learning, are provided. All the initiatives at KISS are aligned with sustainable development goals and agenda 2030. The concepts of the SDGs and their focus on the 5Ps are deeply embedded in the work of KISS. The following areas reflect the principles of the 5Ps at KISS. People- Indigenous children at the institute speak multiple languages. The mother tongue-based multilingual education bridges gaps between students from different communities and preserves culture and tradition of tribal groups. Planet- Our mega kitchen produces 100,000 meals every day and uses steam to prepare food in an energy efficient manner, which reduces carbon footprint. The kitchen is supplemented by solar energy and a biogas plant running on organic waste. Prosperity- The vocational training programmes increases the employability of students and empowers them to be entrepreneurs Peace- The life-skill education programme empowers students to mobilize their communities to fight superstitions, social evils, and crate awareness about reproductive health. It has curbed armed extremist movement in the region. Partnership- The institute collaborates with multiple agencies like civil society bodies, corporates, foundations etc. for students. These enhance their quality of education and life. | Since from the inception of KISS, it has an impact in the lives of indigenous people. The tangible progress are: Bridging the language gap: For some language is a road to upward mobility and for others it is a barrier to even the marginal life of choice and dignity. Slow shift to the mainstream language without disturbing the roots by KISS is seen as a determinant of access to resources to alleviate extreme poverty and hunger. Breaking Intergenerational Poverty Chain: Quality education concomitantly with vocational training (earn while you learn) keeping in view the present economic trends and market potential has enabled them to remit some money back home and have gained suitable employment or become self-employed. Reaping the benefit of ‘Holistic Education’ and defying stereotypes: Innovative learning materials like using ICT tools, IEC materials for the indigenous tribal adolescent students, storytelling, interactive multimedia sessions, life skill education, English Access Classes, Coaching classes, vocational activities etc. adopted by KISS has made the students successful in both academic and non-academic sphere. Holistic education with a playful and interesting learning atmosphere at KISS has been successful in arresting drop-out. The spill-over effect has also stopped child labour. Methodology: •Assessment by independent evaluating agencies •Research Scholars like Fulbright Scholars from US have worked on the impact and effectiveness of KISS model. | This is a holistic comprehensive model which can be used as an innovative tool for eradicating poverty from society. This model is aligned with sustainable development goals and targets the key problems persist within community. It is based on the simple theory of educating the people, make them stronger equipped with knowledge, skills and develop them as change agents. driving by the core idea Building equitable and just societies this model has successfully reached to many lives. After successfully and sustainably reaching out towards its goals which was set before, KISS proposes to change more lives using this model. In this process, KISS model was replicated in new geographic location with joint partnership and collaboration with philanthropic organisation. Within India new chapter were started in New Delhi and process for setting up a new chapter in Mumbai, Maharashtra was already started. In the year 2018, a new chapter of KISS was started in Dhaka, Bangladesh. KISS focuses more on replicate this unique model in new tribal inhabited geographic regions rather than expansion. In this process, philanthropic organisations came forward to bring this concept to new locations. KISS envisages on the plan of starting new chapters in different parts of the country and it considers on the plan of expansion with its new chapters in different countries of Africa like among Masai tribe in Kenya and other continents. | This is a unique model at its core. Since its inception it has an impact in the life of indigenous people. It operates through collecting resources, adding value to it and using its resources at its best. This model sustains on its resources such as human resources & financial resources. To implement this model human resources are the key. To create a pool of stronger human resources equipped with knowledge and prepared physically and psychologically is important. Financial resources are essential to adding value to this model. The KIIT group of institutions which is self-financing and generates revenue provides financial sustainability to fully free KISS. This is a unique KIIT-KISS ecosystem which provides sustainability. Resources available with core Govt. can be sourced to implement the programmes effectively. As a major drive resources, available with philanthropic organisations and corporates will play a vital role on scale up this model. | KISS Website- http://www.kiss.ac.in Mega Kitchen-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8tlwnyl86o KISS Overview-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=994pEHh_yec Articles on KISS http://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/columns/columnists/suhel-seth/Why-India-doesnt-know-Achyuta-Samanta/articleshow/46566323.cms - MUMBAI MIRROR, Suhel Seth http://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/education-for-poverty-alleviation-achyuta-samanta-115083100021_1.html - Business Standard http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/the-idea-of-kiss-2/- Indian Express, Bibek Debroy http://www.thehindu.com/in-school/signpost/a-beacon-of-hope-for-odishas-tribal-children/article5780038.ece- The Hindu http://gulfnews.com/news/asia/india/achyuta-samanta-redeemer-for-tribal-children-1.1435417 http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/education/achyuta-samanta-elected-indian-science-congress-president/article8072788.ece - ISCA President https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/welfare-of-the-impoverished-to-remain-at-core-of-my-work-achyuta-samanta/articleshow/63228990.cms http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/bhubaneswar/now-ive-a-wider-canvas-to-augment-my-social-work.html | Dr. Achyuta Samanta had the honor of addressing on auspicious occasions •Addressed as Key-note Speaker (Universities for Poverty Alleviation) a gathering of Vice Chancellors in Madrid, Spain (July-2015) •The only educationist from India to be invited to Oslo Education Summit, Oslo- sensitized world leaders about the role of education for eradication of poverty (July-2015) •Global CEO Meet, New York •UNDP, Jaipur •UN Headquarter, New Delhi •Stars Symposium, China Interviews / Speeches: https://youtu.be/u9G1w9262MI https://youtu.be/Eg-IWTK8t9M https://youtu.be/_Gu3DLAFeYE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr0bGK5h1XE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e0pxA4WtzI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z9D0CSfwk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4385lzQf4E | KISS has received 3 Guinness World records, Limca book of Records, Energy Globe award . Dr. Achyuta Samanta was conferred with 35 Honoris Causa Doctorate Awards. National Award for the welfare of children 2016 by H.E. President of India, GUSI peace prize international, Gandhi Seva Medal, ISA Award for service to Humanity, the highest civilian award from Bahrain, Qimpro Platinum Standard 2011 Award for Education, Hall of Fame Award, Pride of India Award 2016. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
617 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Olin | Lagon | Shifted Energy | shiftedenergy.com | Chief Technology Officer | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | After serving in the US Military and the PeaceCorps and traveling to over 20 countries, I observed growing inequality and injustice in the energy sector. Globally, I saw that the wealthy were being incentivized to join programs with solar panel tax breaks and electric vehicle benefits at the cost of and subsidized by all ratepayers, many of whom cannot participate in these programs themselves. Energy injustice is a significant growing problem. So I became determined to find a solution that would allow more people to contribute to the climate change-curbing clean energy revolution. Without using tax incentives or other subsidies, our solution uses 100% market forces to engage under-served communities by retrofitting their existing electric water heaters into energy storage assets for the electricity grid. The more people who participate, the larger the benefits for everyone. Our simple solution supports utilities by offering grid stabilizing services and energy storage that allow them to add more intermittent solar and wind power to their grids; simultaneously, our solution ensures that more members of our communities can fairly and justly contribute to the renewable energy transformation. | Olin Lagon struggled through school attending four public high schools on Oahu, dropping out at one point and completing an alternative learning track. He went on to the University of Hawaii where he graduated Summa Cum Laude with BBAs in International Entrepreneurship/Accounting and a Multidisciplinary degree focused on general engineering and innovation. Since high school, Olin has been a serial social entrepreneur, innovator, and community organizer, currently focused on clean energy. He founded multiple companies, nonprofits, and an educational foundation. He invented and launched the first commercial crowdfunding service which scaled to channel $100 million to fund causes worldwide before being acquired. He holds multiple patents and his designs have been adopted by numerous Global 1000 companies and institutions like MIT. His inventions have been adopted by Global 1000 companies across five very different industries. His community service includes the U.S. Navy, the Peace Corps, and numerous nonprofits. He’s a past Petra Fellow (Center for Community Change) and East West Center Fellow (general engineering and Asian industrialization). Part Hawaiian and Filipino and raised in public housing, Olin lives in Kalihi Valley with his wife and two young sons. | Grid Maestro and Tempo | Accelerate renewable energy integration and bring equity to under-served communities by converting water heaters into valuable energy storage assets. | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada | Yes | Elemental Excelerator and Hawaiian Electric | Scaling | We recently signed our first major contract to provide over 2 MW of energy for load control with 100% of our devices being deployed in disadvantaged communities. We are currently negotiating similar deals with three other utilities. Multiple third-party lab tests and utility pilots have been completed, which validated all our technology claims and prove that we can do what we say what we can do. | Our solution addresses two major problems: 1) Energy injustice. Our solution allows anyone with an electric water heater to participate. 2) Grid stabilization services. Wind and solar, the most commonly used renewable energies, are not constant nor predictable energy sources. Our device provides the balancing and stabilizing services that utilities need In order to provide constant, predictable service to their customers. | By controlling water heaters, we can redirect their aggregated energy load to turn on during the times that utilities have a surplus of intermittent renewable energy to be absorbed; and conversely the fleet can be turned off during times when utilities need to curb energy demand. The hot water remains hot for use later without consuming more electricity. The thermal storage utilized by water heaters is many times more efficient and economical than the chemical storage used by batteries.As utilities integrate more intermittent renewable energy into their grids, these services will be increasingly essential. We are ready to enable the world’s largest controllable load to help grid operators around the world integrate more intermittent renewable sources at significant cost advantage over competing technologies. With about half of the world’s homes using electric water heaters, there’s vast global potential to support renewable integration in a way that is equitable and inclusive to disadvantaged communities. | While grid-interactive water heaters (GIWH) are generally less expensive and more environmentally-friendly than other storage solutions, our specific GIWH solution is unique in the way that we integrate worldwide IoT (internet-of-things) communications into our controller. This allows us to place it into any home without needing the resident to provide connectivity. This also means that we can stay connected even when the residents change. No other GIWH offers the ability to do this. We have the only worldwide integrated chip. We also applied for an international patent that allows our technology to be mounted away from the water heater, thus allowing us to preserve warranties and eliminate plumbing problems from our solution. Importantly, competing GIWH technologies modify water heaters, which void warranties and often lead to significant maintenance costs and services. Our go-to-market strategy is to work with property managers, so we can scale quickly and ensure that we reach our target population of under-served and lower-income residents. | To succeed in the highly regulated utility industry, product and service providers must successfully complete extensive testing and certifications by third-party testing agencies and the utilities themselves. Our product has worldwide UL and ETL certifications. We’ve completed successful pilot programs with independent utilities in Australia, Canada, Hawaii, and the continental US. As a vote of confidence from our utility customers, our pilot programs have matured to larger scale field test deployments in real-world conditions with residential customers. In Hawaii, we have completed several pilots and field test programs, leading to complex commercial negotiations that were completed in January 2019 and is set to be deployed later this year. We have been developing our solutions for energy justice since 2014. In 2016, we installed almost 800 GIWH systems from various manufacturers and operated that fleet for two years, learning everything we could about the industry and the existing technologies. From this work, we invented a scalable, compassionate solution. We have filed for a global patent for our core technology. We have been mentioned in prestigious publications such as Popular Science and Microsoft’s Technology review and were part of Microsoft’s keynote speech at their annual Development Conference. Our technology has been validated at the highest levels, and we’re just getting started. | In the next 24 months, we intend to have 5 large-scale commercial projects in Canada, the US, Australia, New Zealand, and Brazil. Each of these deployments have the potential to deploy from 10,000 to 100,000 units per year. Our two year goal is to deploy over 1 million GIWH units to provide more than 1 GW of grid services capacity. We also have an aggressive product development roadmap that includes load controls for a range of residential and commercial devices. These developments would take advantage of our artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to accurately forecast and reliably control loads to maximize efficiency and energy storage capacity. Our goal is to facilitate massive integration of renewable energy by engaging all sectors of the population so that everyone benefits from the renewable energy transformation. | In the short-term we could use 1) greater exposure and understanding of our solution. In some cases, policies are being written to include only batteries for grid balancing options and unfortunately excluding the possibility of GIWH; 2) we would like to make more contacts and connections with grid operators around the world and learn how we can be more relevant and responsive to a variety of local conditions. In the medium-term we would like 1) to expose more policy makers to our solution so they know it is a legitimate and simple pathway to combat energy injustice; 2) access to compassionate capital so that smaller grid operators can leverage forms of capital to be as inclusive as possible with their roll-outs instead of courting people able to afford installing solar panels on their roofs; 3) to meet experts in different regions to customize our solution to local regulations, laws, and markets; 4) to perfect our manufacturing to continue to lower the costs of our products to utilities while being mindful of the cradle to cradle supply chain. We expect that as we scale, we can lower the price without sacrificing our values of protecting the environment and workers’ rights; 5) to recruit the right people that will help us continue to scale our company. | https://www.shiftedenergy.com/ https://www.particle.io/customers/case-studies/shifted-energy-is-driving-the-energy-economy-to-100-renewable/ https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-land-of-surf-sun-and-startups-5-promising-energy-companies-working-in#gs.u98nyg https://www.popsci.com/can-we-stop-using-fossil-fuels/ https://news.microsoft.com/transform/how-your-humble-household-water-heater-just-might-save-planet/ https://www.whatdesigncando.com/stories/meet-the-clean-energy-challenge-winners-moonshot/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg6ZjalXQBA https://video.pbshawaii.org/video/long-story-short-leslie-wilcox-long-story-short-olin-lagon/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j4rmT1MyV8 | 1) EPRI 2017 BIXPO Invention Award for best in class in the International category (World’s largest electric power conference) 2) Featured in keynote address at the 2016 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto 3) Elemental Excelerator Portfolio Company, a leading energy and infrastructure accelerator. 4) Selected as the only grid services company for Village Capital's Energy: US 2016 cohort. 5) What Design Can Do: Clean Energy Challenge Moonshot Award | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
618 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tabassam | Raza | Philippine School of Business Administration, Manila & DRRM and EPWMD Office, Quezon City Government | https://www.psba.edu | Associate Dean and Director DRM Unit & Technical Adviser DRRM and EPWMD Offices | Male | Philippines | Pakistan | English | Quezon City (QC) of the Philippines has an Innovative Science and Policy Framework (SPF), a platform primarily developed to localize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at municipalities and cities levels. In reality I have been advocating and trending it since 2014. Certainly, the progressive application of this tool is generating significant outputs in achieving SDGs of the QC as pilot Local Government Unit (LGU). The unique SPF is proven to be globally-effective cross cutting tool for achieving the Paris Agreement, SDGs, and targets of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Its successful implementation resulted in Local Risk Sensitive Sustainable Development Action Plan. Indeed, it is called as Local Climate Change Action Plan (LCCAP) 2017-2027 mandated to be prepared by each LGU under the Republic Act (RA) No. 9729 of the Philippines. I have developed the SPF and played pivotal role in its implementation to develop said action plan. Thus, i realized its potential for localizing SDGs that are meant to create positive global impact. Considering the mandatory status, successful development of LCCAP 2017-2027 and available tool and expertise, I was motivated to give it push and visibility not only in the Philippines but also at global level. Essentially, the participation in well esteemed UN Solution Summit 2019 will give this innovative operational framework visibility in the gallery of tools and instruments in achieving SDGs. Further, the inclusion of this unique SPF in the summit as a good example that can be easily replicate globally will defiantly promote the approach of achieving SDGs using think locally and act globally approach. | prof. Dr. TABASSAM RAZA is Associate Dean of Graduate School of Business (GSB) and Director of Disaster Risk Management Unit, GSB, Philippines School of Business Administration (PSBA) - Manila, Philippines. He is also the Special Technical Advisor of Quezon City Government, Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office. Dr. Raza has multidisciplinary academic and professional Expertise i.e., Risk Sensitive Urban Land Use and Sustainable Development Planning; Climate Change (CC) Adaptation and DR Financing (Ph.D. and MA in Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Philippines, Diliman (UP-D)); Disaster Economics and Allied Knowledge Management in Developing and Capacitating Institutional setup and Policy Design (Doctor in Business Administration DBA, PSBA); Knowledge Support Procedure in Investigating Environmental Hazard Prone Areas (MS Geology, UP-D); and Application of Technical Knowledge in Analyzing and Mitigating Hazard Prone Areas (M.Sc. and B.Sc. Applied Geology, University of the Punjab, Pakistan), and Civil Engineering (BSCE, UP-D). Further, Dr. Raza has more than 20 years progressive experience of working internationally as Government Adviser, Senior Director, Associate Dean, DRM and ICT Projects Expert, and Technical Director. In addition, he had worked for multilateral organizations such as ADB, WB, UNISDR, UNDP, DKKV-FFO Germany, JICA and EU-DIPECHO funded projects. He has proven to have versatility, Intellectual leadership and strategic skills. | Localizing Sustainable Development Goals through Climate Change Action Planning | Developing locally impacting universally in changing climate | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Philippines, Quezon City. It is intended to scale up in the Philippines and later through Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in 7400 Cities and 120 countries | Yes | Quezon City Government of the Philippines | Scaling | the above innovative solution is fully implemented by Quezon City Government in term of developing Development Sectoral base local climate-change action plans (LCCAP). Further, 159 other Local Government Units (LGUs) also have LCCAP ready to modify. The rest of 1540 LUGs can be scheduled through a project in scaling this solution. The same concept can be further expand through Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, a coalition of over 7,400 cities spanning more than 120 countries | At present, the solution is addressing cross cutting problems, faced by around 3 million citizens of Quezon City in achieving local SDGs, due to the threats, exposure sensitivity, and vulnerability of the elements at risk brought about by Climate Change (CC)-related hazards such as extreme weather events, rise in mean temperature, and sea level rise. These problems also includes natural Disasters’ risks (DR) posing unprecedented impediments in achieving SDGs form local to national levels. | The solution addresses challenges posed by the Climate Change Phenomena and Natural Disaster impacts in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The solution is flexible and fashioned towards enhancing key areas needed to achieve the SDGs at local level through bottom up approach that feeds into national SDGs thus, establishing globally-effective tools as foundations for achieving Paris Agreement, Sendai Framework objectives, and Sustainable Development Goals up to 2050. | The solution is very unique as it is a combination of top bottom and bottom up approaches. Further, it solves cross cutting problems related to Climate Change Phenomena and natural disaster impacts that are posing significant challenges in context of each country in achieving their SDGs. In fact these problems are much localized and seek the involvement of front-liners. Thus the local direct and indirect stakeholders’ contribution is paramount in resolving such difficulties. However, the methodology to operationalize the SPF is essentially required a substantial amount of scientific data to understand challenges and achieving SDGs. But in order to capture these scientific jargons, the project developed very simple laymanized instruments to guide the involved front-liners on how to use seven modules each with simple step-by-step procedures that bridges the scientific knowledge and procedure to language that is understood by the entire community. The new perspective here is gender-sensitive participatory process where every stakeholder get an equal chance to be involved in the planning and preparation of the QC-LCCAP 2017-2027. Thus, it is unique and innovative in producing results which are usually need existing three different methodologies to achieve SDGs. | The team was able to identify the Quezon City’s Climate Change-related phenomena, Disaster Risk exposure, and sensitivity as well as its Challenges in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Particularly, it identify extreme weather, impacts on seven climate change-related priority areas (Food Security, Water Sufficiency, Environment and Ecological Stability, Human Security, Sustainable Energy, Climate-Friendly Industries and Services, Capacity Expansion) that usually hamper the sustainable development in urban areas. Further, the team also assessed the impact of these challenges (seven priority areas) across five sectors in local sustainable development context of the Philippines, i.e, Social, Economic, Infrastructure/Land Use, Environment, and Institutional, which, altogether covered more or less 17 SDGs. Finally, the team was able to develop sectoral based solutions, so-called Programs, Projects, and Activities (PPAs). The progress of the the methodology was measured by by evaluating the if appropriate strategies were formulated. In this case communities were able to find the strategies to achieve the goals by providing 125 Programs, Projects, and Activities (PPAs) in combating the climate change impacts and ensuring sustainable development. | Thus, most of the cities and municipalities in the country are preparing their own Local Climate Change Action Plan (LCCAP). However, these LCCAPs lack alignment towards SDGs. Thus, a supplementary approach is developed by the authors of this project which enabled Quezon City to devleop its unique LCCAP that caters towards the SDGs segregated into five development sectors aligned with the National development sectors and climate change indicators.Thus, the LCCAP produced in this project is an exemplary bottom-up approach that can easily be replicated throughout the 146 cities and 1,488 municipalities of the Philippines.This approach is flexible and can be fashioned towards assessing the threats, exposure sensitivity, and vulnerability of the elements at risk of other similar local governments units and its challenges towards SDGs in other countries. A comprehensive plane can be prepared in partnering with other organization involved in resolving cities problem such as initially with Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, a coalition of over 7,400 cities spanning more than 120 countries. | The partnership with other Cities is main ingredient to scale this solution. The key towards urban sustainability, climate resiliency, and promoting livable communities is through understanding the impact of CC events on seven CC-Priority Areas and their action as driving forces to sustain five Development Sectors in the Philippines’ context. In fact, the QC-LCCAP 2017-2027 defined 125 PPAs segregated to: 60 on immediate-term (to be implemented in less than one year); 32 on short-term (to be implemented from 1-3 years); 17 on medium-term (to be done in 4-6 years); and 16 on long-term (need to be executed in 7 years) basis. Thus, implementation of these PPAs will ensure the Sustainable Development and CC-resilience of QC. Indeed a detail feasibility study can be done to estimate the financial requirements to accomplish the short medium and long term PPAs. The indicators for evaluating the success and impact towards SDGs can be defined to eventually see the impact of these PPAs in achieving SDGs | http://www. http://www.psba.edu http://drm.psba.edu/ https://dev.iwcconferences.com/program-tool/assets/uploads/Netherlands-Poster-Final.pdf http://ic-sd.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/08/180815-Abstract-Book.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/searchqs=&authors=tabassam+raza&pub=&volume=&issue=&page=&origin=home&zone=qSearch http://unsdsn.org/icsd/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/09/170917-ICSD-Abstract-Book.pdf http://www.un-spider.org/book/5154/4c-challenge-communication-coordination-cooperation-capacity-development | https://www.unisdr.org/conference/2019/globalplatform/programme/ignite-stage/view?id=998 https://youtu.be/VaEl3lEoVF4 https://youtu.be/6DtiUlsXhYY https://youtu.be/nw8rFt2H5I8 https://youtu.be/jP3SSwKOcjE https://youtu.be/B_8d9eAbFHk https://youtu.be/jCydu13-bPc https://youtu.be/hwXmtKxVDnM | Philippines is a champion in developing and implementing risk-sensitive land use and development and is awarded with the Seal of Good Local Governance for two consecutive years along with other awards. This is due to the presence of substantial skill, significant technical, and financial capacities. It envisions itself to be model of effective governance and responsible leadership, working in partnership with the citizenry in building a Quality Community. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
619 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alessio | Nanni | Blue Med Islands L.T.D | https://dropmed.org/ | Ownwer Creative Director | mAle | Italy | Italy | English | It is now widely held and shared opinion that the current world as a whole has reached the end of an era with a dramatic apocalypse and full of contradictions its forces in the field produce so much destruction and little creation. The alternative is the utopia founded on the cooperation of credible forces that can design an “Ecological Society” alternative to the “Consumption Society” The current model of society has reduced the thinking and action of man, referring to a thinking material that has no connection with the body of man being pure “quantity”, losing every dynamic consistency of principle of every relationship, natural and social instaurable by man. Reappropriating criteria of choice commensurate with the recognition of the cosmic complexity of the human subject, therefore, the general criterion must be that of the definition Qualitative of the design of the “Society. The “Ecological Society” is the “Utopian Society” that is really built from the aspiration to Truth to Freedom of Justice – with Actions aimed at promoting a better world. A world, that is, where respect for nature and the environment in which we live and respect for animal creatures such as living beings, sentient beings and human friends prevail. In short: an ideal world that becomes real with everyone’s commitment. | Artist Creative. and activist with many passions, from Activist. Environmentalist. Animal Rights. Human Rights ,Political Interests . to environmentalism to MicroNations Blogger & Social Influencer -Alessio is currently working on a series of projects to raise awareness and accelerate changes that would protect the entire planet’s inhabitants, both humans and animals. He is founder of a political party in Italy working for animal rights, and seeks to one day establish a seastead to advance the party’s objectives through demonstration instead of argument. Global Goodwill Ambassadors (GGA)#Italy | TEMEA Project Trans Express Mediterranean Europe Africa & DropMed _DMX | The Oceans and Sea as a Solution for Human Ecological Progress. ""We Shape the Future of Architecture and Technology in the Floatings City. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | list State and City in the of Mediterranean Sea #Gibraltar #Spain #France #Monaco #Italy Slovenia Croatia#Montenegro #Albania #Greece #Turkey #Cyprus #Syria #Israel#Lebanon #Egypt #Lybia #Malta #Tunisia #Algeria #Morocco and rest of World | Yes | Community . Istitutions , associations, People live in the area the mediterranea Sea | Transition to Scale | TEMEA Project proposes a new way to move people and things. imagining flying machines and autonomous cargo drones in the Blue skies with this innovative system of transport between the mainland and the sea it could break down 75% of the flights allows a new way of traveling, without having to wait for ship and plane times, you can leave at any time Accelerate sustainable development and advance the ‘Green/ Blue Economy’.""We shape the future of architecture and technology of the floating city | Creating New Economy (Blue Economy) and converting the fisheries economy into tourism economy. Creating Cities in the space of the sea to lower the consumption of land area. New jobs. Use of new technologies. a new innovative and ecological transport system. The Oceans and Sea as a Solution for Human Ecological Progress. | Participate with Your Creativity and help Change the World. The Oceans and Sea as a Solution for Human Ecological Progress. ""We Shape the Future of Architecture and Technology in the Floatings City. In the Mediterranean coasts all live around 360 million people each could participate in both the construction and use of this new infrastructure. Starting to Create their own New Crypto Portfolio Currency Ethernum Token DropMed _DMX, starting to create its own savings fund In DMX that can then be used for Participation in the construction with its own share of investment and therefore owned in proportion invested in the Total expenditure of the entire Infrastructure or to be used for services and products offered by the entire network and Project TEMEA DropMed _ DMX _ # CryptoCurrency of Mediterranean Sea & TEMEA Project Trans Express Mediterranean Europe Africa The plan is to build 13 Floating Stations / Smart City with 60 meters of side. 5 levels / floors. apartments offices. Warehouses and maintenance of exhibition areas. Public areas and services.5 levels. Apartments of 15 _ 25_ 50_ square meters. Offices of 50 _ 100 square meters. Warehouse and Maintenance Areas. Medical Assistance, Exhibition Area Logistics Area ""Public Areas and Services Rescue Unit"" Drone Airport and Logistics and a Fleet of 500 Drones With Autonomous Mobility. | The TEMEA Project can play a role in the development and cooperation of safe and efficient techniques for human exploration of the oceans. analogous to the exploration of the Space. The Blue Economy is the Ocean Economy development with the principles of social inclusion, environmental sustainability and innovative and dynamic projects . Accelerate international sustainable development and advance the ‘Green / Blue / Space Economy’. Influence positively and accelerate. with service and training solutions. a new way for the Ocean / Earth / Space movement. The Project with the ambitious objective of ""Promoting the competitiveness of transport systems, supporting research, technology transfer, collaboration between research centers, universities and businesses, spreading innovation among companies in order to favoring employment, the ecological floating stations as well as the innovative transport system can offer a range of services all made respecting the environment. It is our belief that humanity should start looking for innovative solutions in the sea and oceans. our role is to prepare the ground for building and participating in the project. The project involves the development of a transport system with a system of autonomous and safe flying drones. and Smart City / Floating Islands / Ecological Used for anchoring boats and ships the autonomous drone flies with people from one station to the next Station. | The strategy for building with a shared economy. a Coin crypto to be used throughout the Mediterranean Sea area DropMed _ DMX _# CryptoCurrency of Mediterranean Sea & TEMEA Project Trans Express Mediterranean Europe Africa Token Exchange Network The T.E.M.E.A project is a new form of development, Transport system, tourism, commerce and the ""Ocean Economy"", the next frontier of humanity. Configurable Station System #ConfigurebleRouteSystem | This transport system would be possible to use it in all areas of the earth for connections between the islands and the mainland with intermediate Stations / Cities depends on the distance and development of drone batteries. hopefully a viral construction of the system by many companies. every single Floating City is expected hundreds of workers. more hundreds of people and companies that can have activities on board . The Project with the ambitious objective of ""Promoting the competitiveness of transport systems, supporting research, technology transfer, collaboration between research centers, universities and businesses, spreading innovation among companies in order to favoring employment, the ecological floating stations as well as the innovative transport system can offer a range of services ranging from hotels, restaurants, bars and offices, all made respecting the environment. It is our belief that humanity should start looking for innovative solutions in the sea and oceans. our role is to prepare the ground for building and participating in the project. The T.E.M.E.A Project is a new form of development of Tourism and Commerce and of the ""Blue Economy: it explores a model in which the Partnership includes different stakeholders, with different roles. Our program is to develop tradable plans for a new transport system that meets the needs and desires of residents, investors, developers and ""host"" nations. | Organize the first phase for the dissemination of the project and the collection of one billion euros in a shared economy | FaceBook Official Page https://www.facebook.com/transexpressmediterraneaneuropeafrica TEMEA Collaborative Economics Project https://www.facebook.com/CollaborativeEconomicsProject/ TEMEA Project Community / NetWork Group TEMEA Project Global Social Venture https://www.facebook.com/TEMEA-Project-Global-Social-Venture-325650578218685/ TEMEA Project Mediterranean Drones Airport System https://www.facebook.com/Temea-Project-Mediterranean-Drones-Airport-System-1135435669945149/ Strategic Partnership Development TEMEA Project https://www.facebook.com/Strategic-Partnership-Development-TEMEA-Project-277343646434841/ Technological Partnerships TEMEA Project https://www.facebook.com/Technological-Partnerships-TEMEA-Project-427754357630717/ NetWork Global Social Venture TEMEA Project https://www.facebook.com/NetWork-Global-Social-Venture-TEMEA-Project-1866143866774159/web Site https://dropmed.org/ https://www.facebook.com/DropMedDMX DropMed DMX .Fund ICO Landing Page https://betoken.fund/getrichquick/ico/?ipfs=QmaUDXB1diSYH6fyz61xvBnoCB9XDba1CY3pndimhFyJEQ web Site https://dropmed.org/ https://www.facebook.com/DropMedDMX 1.2 The T.E.M.E.A project is a new form of development. Transport system. of tourism, commerce and the ""Ocean Economy"", the next frontier of humanity . DropMed _DMX Token Contract Andress link https://etherscan.io/token/0x6b62037d707b9126c249aefb35e2109e95324bb5 Contract Creator Link https://etherscan.io/address/0xadad02ec05d2057c338d3922d05fa08ff12c8285 | https://www.instagram.com/p/Bph8KM4HLnv/ https://www.facebook.com/seasteading/photos/a.10150275835577760/10156758896017760/?type=3&theater The plan is to Build a Multiple Floating Stations/City .Floating city with 60 meters of side. 5 levels / floors. apartments offices. Warehouses and maintenance of exhibition areas. Public areas services. DropMed ""Token DropMed allows holders to exchange goods and services in the TEMEA Project ecosystem, other ecosystems, and between themselves. Blue Med Islands will exclusively provide goods and services in exchange for DropMed where it is legally able to do so, including – but not limited to – purchase or rental of dwellings on seasteads, Multyproperty , Timeshares on Seasteads, seasteads for outright purchase, services for people and businesses located on seasteads, such as business registration, administrative services, utility services, transportation, shipping, service industry activities 1 Alfa Station Air Drones Port System 2 Aphrodrite Station Air Drones Port System 3 Atlantis Station Air Drones Port System 4 Calypso Station Air Drones Port System 5 Neptunes Station Air Drones Port System 6 Nimph Station Air Drones Port System 7 Oceanus Station Air Drones Port System 8 Omicron Station Air Drones Port System 9 Pharus Station Air Drones Port System 10 Poseidon Station Air Drones Port System 11 Proteus Station Air Drones Port System 12 Pulsar Station Air Drones Port System 13 Triton Station Air Drones Port System | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
620 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | ANIFA | ZIMO | Eduquality | www.eduquality.com | CEO | Female | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | French | I’m applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit in order to present our project. A results driven, self-motivated and resourceful managing director with a proven ability to develop and strengthen management teams in order to maximize company profitability and efficiency. Experienced leading and growing all sectors of a business to make it a dynamic and progressive organization. Possessing excellent communication skills and able to establish sustainable and profitable relationships with customers, suppliers and stakeholders across the world. We are using mobile technology to solve educational issues, especially improve quality education by curriculum sharing in undeveloped countries. Eduquality will enable communities in underdeveloped countries to benefit from a good quality of education that will enable them to meet the challenges they face. It will also enable them to fight against social and economic inequalities. Tangible results that we would like to achieve during this program: - Learn how can we build a catalytic fundraising and a sustainable partnership with potential partners, - Better develop pilot studies and schools trials to check and analyze teachers performance, - Define go-to-market strategy: first to private facilities, then to public facilities through the government. | Bachelor in Educational science in 2017. I’m a social entrepreneur influenced by the living conditions of the people in his immediate environment, ANIFA has always longed to improve the lives of the citizens of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Growing up in BUKAVU town, started her career as teacher in 2015. After 2 years, I was promoted as head of schools were I’ve got 3 years of experience that push me to propose this solution. For a long time, Anifa never trusted youth entrepreneurship programs, however, the Tony Elumelu Foundation Program changed his way of thinking. Through the TEF Program, he gained a proper understanding of how to truly run a business. Prior to this time, he had brilliant ideas but wasn’t armed with the skills he needed to excuse them. Over the course of the 12-week program, he learnt that ideas are nothing with proper planning, organization and leadership. Additionally, the seed capital gave his business the financial capacity required to execute his ideas. | Eduquality | Connecting undeveloped countries schools to those of developed countries to share their curriculum for insuring quality of education. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Democratic Republic of the Congo | No | Research & Development | We are building activities designed to facilitate individual faculty members, teams of researchers, and central research administrations in attracting extramural research funding, creating relationships, and developing and implementing our solution. | In most African countries, the quality of education has become a central issue. Most of educational institutions lack the educational documents and resources related to scientific research. This impact on the quality of education in developing countries and it is a global challenge decried by the United Nations in general and UNESCO. This situation keeps students stuck in a stalemate that does not allow them to respond effectively to the problems of current and future generations. | A digital platform promoting mutual aid between less developed teaching institutions and those of the most developed teaching systems on: the drawing up of lesson plans at each level, production of teaching aids, exchanges on teaching activities and methods, consultation on control/examination topics. Teachers with a less advanced education program will be able to connect with colleagues whose system is more developed to share the curriculum. It is a laboratory of daily preparation of lessons allowing teachers to update their lessons according to the scientific evolution. This allows heads of schools to monitor the performance level of teachers. We provide a tech-driven solution leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. Eduquality platform is intended to solve the problem of schools partnership and curriculum sharing. This use of technology makes us highly scalable and accessible to reach a large number of people. We're developing a natural language processing algorithm and a machine learning engine to analyze topics of lessons and to build a content recommendation engine. As this continues to grow (which is at a fast pace), our algorithms and chatbot experience will improve significantly, and be able to provide content and nudges in anticipation (and not retrospectively), and continuously improve the content through the process. | We provide a tech-driven solution leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. We're developing a natural language processing algorithm and a machine learning engine to analyze topics of lessons and to build a content recommendation engine. | We have experience of more than 5 years as head of schools. More, the skills our solution team has that will enable us to attract the different resources needed to succeed and make an impact: AS TECHNOLOGIST, we have access to excellent technical and professional networks. Our peers are available to augment our core abilities. AS LEADERS, we see where people are ""stuck"" in their lives and show up in a meaningful way. We understand the value of being ""present"" and listening to others. AS ENTREPRENEURS, we have a passion for seeing and understanding the big economic picture before building previously unimaginable technologies. In the end, we want to SERVE! Our team: 1. CEO: ANIFA ZIMO, Bachelor in Education Science with an approved experience of 5 years as Head of Primary schools; 2. CTO: Luc ILUNGA, Bachelor in computer science with a proved 2 years of experience as developer; 3. Advisor: Donnatien BISAGA, Bachelor in educational science with a proved 15 years of experience as educational inspector. | September 2019- June 2020: Pilot project execution and Pilot project’s feedback implementation, - August 2020: Official launch - January 2021: Expand our solution to accommodate other devices such as mobile, tablets running both android and iOS operating systems. - Mid-quarter 2021: Boost brand awareness in Africa. | To scale our solution and get more impact, we are searching for sustainable partnership and for 550000$ including the pilot project expenses (15%) and 85% for the scale. | None | None | The Tony Elumelu Foundation, grantee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
621 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anncarol | Karanja | Ecohub Solutions | https://www.ecohubsolutions.co.ke/ | Founder | Female | Kenya | Kenya | English | Waste is very abundant globally because it is generated in almost all human activities. Being a passionate environmentalist, the rampant cases of environmental degradation commonly occasioned by occurrences of drought and flooding due to climate change have become of concern to me. I decided to address waste management with the broader aim of curbing environmental degradation, loss of biological diversity and poor public hygienic conditions. My vision is to eliminate these vices by eliminating burning of waste to reduce greenhouse gases, avoid chemical treatments in septic tanks and pit latrines, discourage littering in cities for public health and encourage conversion of waste into useful biofertilizer. The biofertilizers reduce application of expensive chemical fertilizers which contaminate water bodies, release greenhouse gases and poison the food chain. I am motivated to make this application because I have a working prototype and my innovation has also been recognized by Kenya National Innovation Agency. I have applied for this call in order to get a platform that will widen the scope and intensity of the impacts of my solution on the globe. I hope to gain resources, skills and knowledge that will help in pushing forward my goals towards sustainable development and life styles. Waste management is known to be a big challenge globally especially in developing countries where most regions have no sewerage systems making septic tanks and pit latrines very popular. Proper structures for garbage collection are also lacking. My products have so far improved hygienic status of several households and schools. I have decided to address waste management with the broader aim of curbing environmental degradation, loss of biological diversity and poor public health conditions. My vision is to reduce these vices by eliminating burning of waste to reduce greenhouse gases, eliminate chemical treatments in septic tanks and pit latrines, discourage littering in cities to ensure public health and encourage conversion of waste into useful biofertilizer for soil conditioning by farmers to reduce application of chemical fertilizers which contaminate water bodies, release greenhouse gases and poison the food chain. My motivation for applying My solution has so far improved the hygienic status of various households and schools who have used my products. My community has become more aware about the need for environmental protection through activities of my company. | II am a female Kenyan entrepreneur and innovator. I am very passionate about applied entrepreneurship. My academic background is Environmental Biology and I have a Master of Science degree in Environmental Microbiology. My journey to becoming an entrepreneur started when I realized that there was a huge gap in solid waste management. In Kenya, urban residents were raising concerns about littering that was going on in various cities. Garbage went uncollected and when collected some of it was disposed through burning, a method that causes global warming. Being a compassionate about the environment, I decided to provide a solution by inventing organic products which are able to accelerate and enhance degradation of organic waste in an efficient, affordable and ecofriendly manner. | No burning and no chemicals on our waste | Get rid of garbage heaps instantly | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | It is currently in Kenya. I intend to expand to other African countries in future. | No | Transition to Scale | I have a working prototype which has been recognized by Kenya National Innovation Agency. My market research data shows that the demand for my solution is very huge. I have already established a company, Ecohub Solutions under which we are offering the solution. The company has a website and an office. I have so far recruited one staff with whom we are carrying out market research and selling the products as we lay out structures for the business. | The problem being addressed is poor waste disposal: littering, burning of waste, use of chemicals on waste and high cost of hiring exhauster services to empty septic tanks and pit latrines. Burning solid waste releases greenhouse gases which cause global warming and harm human health. Chemicals used in septic tanks and pit latrines have side effects. On the other hand, disposing solid waste in dumping sites has challenges because it takes up a lot space which leads to land scarcity. | My innovation is based on using microorganisms to rapidly and efficiently get rid of organic waste from the environment. Microorganisms with ability to rapidly breakdown waste are obtained and formulated into products of both liquid and powder form. The products are used by adding into septic tanks and pit latrines or applying onto heaps of solid waste after which the products eat up the waste. The products breakdown waste within a short period of time without releasing greenhouses gases like burning and use of chemical additives do. My solution is effective in mitigating climate change. It also eliminates public health hazards associated with accumulation of waste on the environment. My products also convert waste into nutritionally and microbially rich quality bioorganic fertilizer useful for crop farming. The project will be scaled by introducing the products in other countries. The project will also be expanded by offering trainings on integrated waste management. Scaling the project has very high potential because most developing countries have major problems related to waste management. My solution will eventually achieve global impact in the long term because waste management is known to be a big challenge especially in developing countries. Most regions in developing countries have no sewerage systems making septic tanks and pit latrines very popular. | My solution is unique because the products act rapidly unlike decomposing waste naturally or applying chemicals which end up killing essential microorganisms that would breakdown the waste. The products are ecofriendly, affordable and easy to use. The ingredients used are of advanced genetic variability. They are well adapted to local conditions and are formulated using unique carriers materials that prolong their shelf life. They are novel because they are not known to have been used before for similar purposes. My solution is also very innovative because traditionally, solid waste is burnt or put in dumping sites to decompose naturally. Burning waste contributes to global warming while natural decomposition takes long periods of time leading to littering and filling-up of available space. The solution is also innovative because it allows value addition of the abundant and locally available organic waste through converting it into useful bioorganic fertilizer. The solution eliminates the need for expensive exhauster services for emptying septic tanks and pit latrines. Septic tanks and pit latrines are commonly used in developing countries due to absence of adequate sewerage systems. | I have a working prototype which is currently being tested in the market. My innovation has been recognized and awarded by Kenya National Innovation Agency. I have established a company named, Ecohub Solutions under which the business will be conducted. I have so far recruited one staff with whom we are carrying out market research and analysis. The products have been introduced in several schools, colleges, residential apartments and private residential homes in Nairobi in Kenya. With time, we will introduce the products throughout Kenya. Progressively, we will start converting solid waste into bioorganic fertilizer for sale to gardeners and smallholder crop farmers. We measure progress and methodological rigor using several parameters such as: •The number of units sold over time. •Positive feedback from customers. •Increased customer pool and revenue. •Positive feedback from relevant stakeholders in environmental issues. •Evidence of reduced environmental degradation such as less littering. | We will scale the project by introducing the products in other countries that are experiencing challenges related to waste management. The project will also be expanded by offering training and consultancy services on integrated waste management. Progressively, the organization will venture in producing high quality bioorganic fertilizers for sale using the biocatalysts. These activities will gradually be replicated in several developing countries in Africa and beyond. Scaling the project has very high chances because most developing countries have major problems related to waste management. We also plan to incorporate a section for social entrepreneurship to be creating awareness against environmental degradation in schools and local communities. | There is need for funds to obtain the following: Short-term •Recruiting more people to supply the much needed labour. •Setting up a production facility. •Carry out marketing. •Purchase of equipment and production materials. Medium-term •Establishing advanced distribution structures and channels. •Setting up additional production facilities. Long-term In the long term, scaling will be to sell the products to other countries which will come with need for more resources and structures. | https://www.ecohubsolutions.co.ke/ | https://photos.app.goo.gl/Vz62cGpzEAKwvnLK8 | Kenya National Innovation Agency Award 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
622 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mayank | Midha | GARV Toilets | www.garvtoilets.com | Partner | Male | India | India | English | There have been concerted efforts towards solving the crisis around access to sanitation in the developing world, through the help of multilateral organisations but the support towards alternative and innovative sustainable solutions that can be scaled at a rapid pace has been minimal. We have developed an indestructible and smart toilet solution, specifically for Urban, peri-urban settings to replace the conventional public/community toilets in developing economies. We have gained appreciable traction in India through multiple CSR, NGO, government projects with installation of 721 toilet systems across multiple geographies in the past 3 years. At the same time, the demand for self-sustainable toilet systems and business models is huge, when only in India about 5 million urban slum households lack access to basic sanitation apart from the deprived populations across countries in Africa and multiple distressed populations in numerous refugee camps. Being able to present our solution at the UN solutions summit would provide us the platform and the required voice such that it reaches the decision makers and they understand the need to adopt innovative, sustainable solutions that holistically address the needs of the under served communities. | GARV Toilets is the brainchild of Mayank Midha. An experienced Electronics engineer with a MBA degree in Rural Management from one of the premier management institute of India, IRMA. A large part of his career has been dedicated to social projects and manufacturing. He has handled multiple manufacturing projects for Telecom, Renewables, Farm Equipment, Heavy machinery and HVAC equipment. After his degree in Rural Management, he had developed a knack for development of hardware products that could benefit the BoP communities. He had to shut down his renewable energy start up after 2 years of stiff competition from Chinese products, subsequently he was looking to develop a viable product which solves the real-world issues. While on a trip with his wife (Megha Midha) in India, they both realised the real shortage of clean and hygienic public toilets. After some primary research, they realised the gravity of the problem is staggering especially in the underserved communities. Megha, is an experienced software engineer with 14+ years of multi-national corporate experience. She has managed large scale projects with expertise in internal resourcing and allocations with variety of clients. While developing the GARV toilet product Megha pitched in with the idea of using software for real-time monitoring of toilets. Both Mayank and Megha are equal partners in the company. | GARV smart toilets | The Future of Public Sanitation | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India, Bhutan, Ghana | Yes | We work with local government organisations under Clean India Campaign (Swachh Bharat Mission), reputed NGOs and CSRs like Aga Khan Development Network, United Way, Coca Cola foundation etc for implementing projects on ground. | Transition to Scale | GARV has deployed 721 units across multiple geographies, projects implemented in India have also seen replication in Bhutan and Ghana. 95% of our installations are located across five states in India. With our current installations we have reached out to over 110,000 people every day. We believe that there is immense potential to grow and develop a sustainable business model around provision of integrated WASH services and we are on our way to test that model in North India. | Globally 2.4 billion people lack access to basic sanitation services. According to WaterAid, 774 million Indians lack access to adequate sanitation, 76 million lack access to safe drinking water and 1.4 million children die every year because of unsafe sanitation and water. Densely populated communities pt for risky behaviors for sanitation &drinking water needs due to lack of proper infrastructure. Even if facilities are available, they are vandalized, filthy, unhygienic and eventually useless | GARV Toilets is social enterprise that provides Smart Sanitation Solutions to underserved communities in urban and peri-urban areas in developing countries. We provide integrated water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) facilities through our Smart Sanitation Hubs. These hubs house our smart toilets, bath facilities, drinking water facility, laundry services and a business kiosk where basic health and hygiene products can be sold. GARV’s Smart steel toilets are portable, durable and maintained through automation. The steel structure and fittings ensure that the toilets are not vandalised. The Smart Technology used in our toilets, differentiates us from our competitors. IoT sensors collect data on usage, toilet functioning and user hygiene behaviour. It also activates auto flushing and floor cleaning depending on malodour percentage. Data can be visualised on a web-based dashboard which can be accessed by concerned stakeholders. By providing a multitude of services at the same place, we become the one stop shop for the needs of the slum community. By landscaping the area around the toilets, we have been able to create an attractive space to engage the community. This has helped us remove the negative perceptions associated with toilets and transform our smart sanitation hubs into a recreational spot for slum dwellers. | At the product front our USP is the usage of automation and smart technology for regular maintenance of WASH assets. RFID (radio frequency identification) and IoT (Internet of Things) devices help us in real-time tracking of functional status of toilets, showers so that we get to know if there are any malfunctions with equipment, or some spares that need replacement. Further, by detecting specific malodour percentage, we are able to trigger self-cleaning and flushing of toilets and floor areas. Another aspect of data collection is to get insights on user behavior, we get to track total toilet,shower, water usage and simultaneously record percentage of users flushing the toilet or washing hands. This aggregate data helps us work with the communities in long run for behavior change towards hygiene. Moreover, towards the business model, we are the only smart sanitation solutions company working with local government bodies with long-term service contracts for provision of Integrated Smart Sanitation centers that acts as one-stop shop for all hygiene needs of underserved communities in urban slums. This model helps us in having multiple revenue streams and subscription based services to end users. | Our solution is developed and deployed in multiple geographies, serving various under privileged communities. Over the past few years of our operations, our smart toilet products were very well accepted in multiple geographies, we installed over 700+ toilets in various terrains, 3 different countries, and generated enormous feedback from multiple segments of users. Few prime reasons for availing services through our products that the users continue to mention is the unique design and regular automated hygiene management. Communities, which were used to open defecation practices, subscribed to our services due to availability of clean and hygienic facilities, 24X7. During our pilots and impact assessment studies, we identified that there is a need for an integrated approach to the provision of water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. By providing these services at a community level than at an individual level, we realized that we can successfully overcome the infrastructural challenges that exist at the bottom of the pyramid. Around our Integrated Smart Sanitation Hubs, along with our innovative structures we create green landscapes such that the ‘filthy space’ yuck factor that is generally associated with a public toilet is nullified and the users are able to imagine the centres as recreational one-stop shop for hygiene needs and community engagement. Once the users are able to experience the delivery of consistent hygienic services from the centres they subscribe to it. | Following are our goals for the next year: 1.Expand the Smart sanitation hubs model across one metro city. 2.Directly impact 100,000 people through smart sanitation hubs. 3.Improve the health status of targeted slum communities. 4.Expand our presence in smart city projects. 5.Roll out a mobile money platform for subscription of WASH services. Following are our goals for the next five years: 1.100 Smart Sanitation Centers in India and Ghana 2.Reduce health expenditures of targeted communities communicable diseases. 3.Roll-out proactive detection of vector borne diseases through installation of smart bio-sensors in bio-digester tanks. 4.Work with governments in detection and prevention of communicable diseases by provision of data points on our smart dashboards. | Eco-system Support: As we operate in developing economies, most of the times there is a ‘lack of funding’, ‘lack of political will’ and regulations that support the businesses in the sanitation domain. We have entered in two markets India and Ghana where the whole eco-system is supportive of the sanitation infrastructure. The governments have been focusing on improvement in this sector and have now begin to encourage innovative solutions. We are now proposing long term public private partnership contracts for 10-15 years to set up Smart sanitation hubs on build-operate-transfer mode. Financial Support: Setting up the Smart Sanitation Hubs at the outset requires substantial capital expenditure. We need to raise capital in the form of debt/convertible-debt or grants to set up the hubs under the existing contract. We also have an option to partner with an asset financier who could be a HNI, Donor Agency, Bank etc. and finances the capital investment for our assets. The operational costs are borne through revenues generated from pay as you go services offered. Once the hubs are operational, as per our estimations every site would break-even in a span of 18 months and be profitable for the balance period of the service contract which is for 10 years. | http://www.garvtoilets.com/ https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/two-indian-start-ups-bag-honours-at-global-manufacturing-summit-in-russia/article28388891.ece https://www.unilever.com/about/inspiringaction/unilever-young-entrepreneurs-awards/awards-2018/mayank-midha/ https://sustainablebrands.com/read/product-service-design-innovation/how-smart-tech-is-bringing-toilets-to-the-masses-across-the-developing-world http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190208-tackling-slums-by-making-them-better-places-to-live-in https://nextbillion.net/energy-entrepreneurs-grid-india/ https://www.dutchwatersector.com/news/eight-winning-african-entrepreneurs-to-pilot-their-water-innovative-ideas https://swachhindia.ndtv.com/5-innovative-toilets-can-change-face-sanitation-india-4153/ https://www.ircwash.org/blog/indestructible-and-smart-public-toilet-innovation-india http://www.ennovent.com/garv-toilets-innovation-meets-sanitation/ http://bigbetinitiative.com/innovating-indestructable-and-tech-based-toilets/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU5Wt2q9mkA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy8pSw-z9iE&t=85s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YepYj2B9lmw | - Winner of GLOBAL MAKER Challenge 2019, Mohammed Bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity, UAE – July 2019 - Incubated by IIT-Kanpur Invent Program -April 2019 - Winner of UNILEVER Young Entrepreneurs Award 2018 by Unilever and University of Cambridge - GARV Toilets won the Sanitation Innovation Accelerator 2016 competition organized by ENNOVENT (Austria) and IRC WASH (Netherlands). - GARV Toilets was awarded the SOCAP16 scholarship. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
623 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Aung | Min | Building Love among Religions | Face Book Group <Building Love among Religions>https://web.facebook.com/groups/274568739397857/ | Organizer | Male | Myanmar | Myanmar | English | After submitting my solution ""Engineering World Peace"" in 2016 and published a book in 2017 and another in 2018, I found out that the world is very poor of sincere souls for ""Engineering World's Peace"" and the ""Building Love"" approach is not enough. Especially among religions. So I visited universities, met rectors, professors and lecturers. I believed we need new method of teaching for developing sincere professionals for ""Engineering World's Peace"" and ""Sustainable Development"". Especially in the fields of Philosophy, Psychology, Anthropology, History, Religious Study, Political and Social Sciences. Fail to do so; the peace and development efforts will not be effective. May have negative effect. For that reason I started discussing with philosophers and psychology professors in Myanmar. Also I tried to reach world class philosophy and psychology experts through twitter by sending tweets whenever there is a chance. In July 2019 I attended the International Conference on “Managing Challenges during Myanmar’s Transition”. I raised a question to the first panel, ‘’Building Trust’’, regarding building trust between Civil Society- Universities and Military for managing challenges. The chair agreed it is very important and later asked me to submit a paper for next conference in 2020. Also the professor from Yunnan University stated in his presentation that trust building is important for Myanmar. So I prepare an abstract paper and send to Myanmar Institute for Strategic and International Studies and Australia Myanmar Institute for their comments. They both respond positive. Since Australia, Yunnan and Myanmar Universities are interested in ""Trust Building"" I thought of trying to unite all universities in the world for same idea and promote it for ""Engineering World’s Peace"". If Australia, China and Myanmar Universities work together, it will not be difficult to organize more universities and institutions to join hands in the process. United universities concept for ""Engineering World's Peace"" and ""Sustainable Development"" by developing sincere and dedicated sound professionals could be possible soon. If enough universities could be united to develop sincere and dedicated sound professionals, all peace and development works all over the world will be more efficient and effective. That could be the answer to end all major humanitarian problems and bringing peace and development sooner. | When storm Nargis hit Myanmar in 2008 I experienced that something very big is missing in our country and the community. Trust. So I tried to build trust among humanitarian partners and NGOs since. Then I start ""Building Love among Religions"" movement to build trust among various religions, arranged numerous multi religious meetings in the name of “Building Love among Religions”, published 1000 copies of ‘The Book’[The Most Sacred Teachings of Religions About ‘Metta’], distributed free to religious and political leaders in Myanmar. I determined to make that book ‘The World’s Best Book’. I declared it at the National Religious Leaders’ Forum on the 26th of March 2016. Summit Park View Hotel, Yangon, Myanmar. I told the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul that commitment and start Engineering World's Peace by Building Love among Religions movements. To build trust between Religious movements and other civil society movements for Peace and Development for the whole world. In August 2016 I submitted “Engineering World Peace” as a solution for UN Solution Summit. Ref; 10045525. In 2007 I published a book name Building Love among Religions for Engineering World Peace. ISBN 978-3-659-89908-9, A year later in 2018 second book with the same name with additional title Sincere Souls Search- Second Step of Second Phase of Chapter One ""Making the World's Best Book"". ISBN 978-613-9-82647-6. Then I started organizing universities to study Engineering World's Peace. Philosophically, Psychologically and Technologically. United Universities movement to study Engineering World's Peace. | United Universities for ""Engineering World's Peace"" | Global study to develop ""Engineering World's Peace"" | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Myanmar, Australia, China | No | Transition to Scale | At an international conference held at the University of Yangon, Myanmar, July 2019, I found some academic institutions are interested in building trust. The Australia Myanmar Institute, Myanmar Institute for Strategic and International Studies, and Yunnan University. I am discussing closely with the two institutions and preparing a paper for Building Trust. Soon I will contact the Yunnan University and other universities and institutions to join hands in the process. | The world is short of sincere souls. I found none for Engineering World’s Peace. Now, some are engineering wars. The humanitarian needs are escalating. Trust is deteriorating everywhere. Global SDGs could not achieved without enough sincere souls. My solution is to develop sincere and dedicated professionals in every fields through developing new method of teaching to nurture sincere and dedicated peace and development professionals. Psychologically and philosophically sound for specific tasks. | Divide and rule is commonly used management technique everywhere, throughout history. It develop mistrust which destroy harmony, peace and development. By building trust among the divided and uniting them for the common noble cause such as ""Engineering World's Peace"" is the solution to achieve all development goals. By uniting universities all over the world will give the world enough sincere souls to build trust all over the world for needed sincere sound professionals for peace and development works. No university is working on engineering world's peace nor uniting all universities. If every country have a university working for ""Engineering World's Peace"", and such universities are cooperated and united for effective and efficient teaching and learning, peace and development works all over the world will be more efficient and effective. Humanitarian needs will be greatly reduced. If United Universities and United Nations could work together for world's future, ""World's Peace"" will be certain. Not just possible. United Universities is not impossible since some institutions are interested in working for trust building. If we can work together on “Method of Teaching Trust Building” it will not be impossible for teaching building love. Among Religions, Political Parties, Races and Nations. All we need first is to find and develop sincere philosophers and psychology professors to develop effective method of teaching ""Trust Building"" among divided bodies. All over the world. | This solution is targeting the universities for all the available subjects and more. Also, it intend to utilize research experience and capability of the universities to create new subjects like ""Engineering World’s Peace"". Not one or two universities but as many as possible. That is unique. The world today is, because of those who had dream of future in the past. Philosophers, Scientists, Engineers etc. But no one have thought of ""Engineering World's Peace"" seriously and sincerely enough. WHY? No university had teach and train the students to dream of it. The only way to produce such professionals globally is through ""United Universities"" approach. A university may produce sincere and dedicated professionals for a country, a race, a religion. But for the whole world, all races, religions, 'United Universities"" approach is the only sensible mean. Without such professionals, and the advancement of AI and relevant technologies, the wars, conflicts and humanitarian needs will be escalating. It is urgently needed to pool the world resources for developing new ideas to effectively harness the AI and relevant technological improvements from destructive applications. Sincere souls search and development by united universities concept is the answer. Intellects, thinkers, philosophers, psychology professors, scientists, engineers and all necessary service providers, who will dream of building peace and sustainable development for the whole world. | I have organized some face book and messenger groups for awareness raising “Engineering World’s Peace”, “Building Love among Religions”. Discussions with professors of Philosophy, Psychology, Anthropology, History and International Relations were carried out. Also contacted some universities by emails, tweeter and visiting them. Now I am trying to engage in the international academic seminars and conferences. By discussing with the professors of philosophy, psychology, science, arts, technology, medicine, and rectors of arts and sciences universities, Technological Institutes, Cooperative Universities and medical association, I measure the progress and methodological rigor by assessing the others' reactions. Now I am discussing with two Institutions for cooperation and will contact more soon. The number of institutions, universities, organizations and groups cooperating in the process will be the measure of my progress. The universities taking necessary actions for research, learning, curriculum preparations for graduate and post graduate courses, and teaching of relevant subjects will be the proof of the methodological rigor. | Preparation of a paper on trust building between civil societies, universities and military of Myanmar is started and will submit to the international conference held in 2020 January. The conference 2020 is co- host by Australia Myanmar Institute and Myanmar Institute for Strategic and International Studies. I hope to get better cooperation from both hosts for Myanmar Universities. In the preparing process we will try to invite some universities from both countries and more. After the paper is prepared and accepted we will find some universities to work for degree courses. Bachelor of Engineering World’s Peace or Bachelor of Sciences and Arts for Trust Building or Master of Education for Engineering World’s Peace or Trust Building. All Peace workers and developers will be contacted for inputs as well as jobs for the outputs. The graduates from such universities. Starting with Myanmar Universities and expanding to Australia, China and other countries. In the near future, the whole world will have at least a university in every country to teach and train sincere and dedicated professionals for World’s Peace and sustainable Development. Philosophers and psychologists are key professionals in starting of this solution and will need at least a dozen each in every country. During curriculum preparation, the impacted lives may be negligible but once the outputs are working in relevant jobs, the impacted lives will be the whole world. | Universities, institutions and authorities, keen to learn and work for Sustainable Development Goals and/or Peace, with interest in developing philosophy and psychology schools and departments, are most needed for the solution to scale and have considerable impact. To find and persuade such peoples and institutions may need reasonable financial support. Short term need is cost of finding, contacting, interviewing, discussions, communicating, recording, publishing, distribution and office works. Meetings, forums, seminars and conferences have to follow. Once some universities agreed to cooperate on the solution, the momentum can be accelerated to full scale. Uniting Universities worldwide for common and effective method of teaching and assessing Philosophy, Psychology, Technology and other relevant academic subjects with common goal. Engineering World’s Peace and Sustainable Development Goals. Preparation of curriculum and courses for degree and post degrees may need funding supports. Universal agreement upon curriculum and assessment methods may cost most. Co-operation of UN Agencies, Civil Society Organizations, Philanthropists, Foundations, Business Enterprises and Governments is the long term need. | AMI Website http://aummi.edu.au/conference-2020 Email conference2020.ami@gmail.com Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aummi.edu/ MISIS Website www.myanmarisis.org Email khinmaung.lynn@gmail.com Application for Solutions Summit 2016 has been successfully submitted. Reference # is 10045525. ISBN 978-3-659-89908-9 “Building Love among Religions” for “Engineering World Peace” Second Phase of Chapter One ISBN 978-613-9-82647-6“Building Love among Religions” for “Engineering World Peace” Sincere Soul Search-Second Step of Second Phase of Chapter One “Making the World’s Best Book”. Face Book Groups “Building Love among Religions’’<https://web.facebook.com/groups/274568739397857/>; “Humanitarian Engineers”<https://web.facebook.com/groups/231579796967010/>; ‘’Engineering World Peace”<https://web.facebook.com/groups/580761065411790/>[Web Page<https://web.facebook.com/engineeringworldpeace/> | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
624 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Faruk | Ddungu | Kilema Tusetuke | www.kilematusetuke.com | CEO | MALE | Uganda | Uganda | English | I Am Ddungu Frank, born 23-06-2018 (24years) Ugandan. The year 2011 was such a turning point in my life that left me physically lame. After surviving a terrible motor accident I got to feel what the disabled persons pass through emotionally, mentally and psychologically. Aside from the pain I went through the long term scar that has rather been disturbing as friends started isolating me and fearing just to seat next to me because I could smell and couldn’t ease myself without help. I was helpless and witnessed loneliness, abandonment, and self- criticism as I reached a point where I hated myself. I have experienced and know what being disabled means, fortunately I got back to my feet, can walk, run and also climb trees though not like before. I had a dream of playing soccer but it has gradually flopped. It’s such a situation that inspires me each day that passes by to work hard and fight stigma amongst people like me through art thus promoting employable skills and creating job opportunities hence advocating for self-esteem, confidence and independence. Society looks at the disabled as individuals who can’t do anything, a disgrace, burden and source of misfortune according to African culture. Basing on such grounds I came up with “KILEMA TUSETUUKE” as a voice for us the disabled. | I am Ddungu Faruk 25 years old and a citizen of Uganda. I was born in mpigi dsitrict on the 23/06/1994 and raised in Kampala district Makindye division by Nakizito Zam and Kabuddungu Francis. i had my primary studies from Biotec primary school,Ssingo secondary school for o level, St Marys s.s Nkozi for a level and later pursued a Bachelors Degree in information technology at Uganda Martyrs University Nkozi. I am the co-founder of KILEMA TUESETUKE, a company that helps to boost abilities of persons with disabilities,a social entrepreneur, an I.T specialist, activist, environmentalist and artist.I love traveling,making new friends as well as acquaintances, listening to music and new developmental ideas. | KILEMA TUSETUKE (realising abilities) | MY DISABILITY DOESN’T DEFINE ME., always persons with disabilities are over looked and isolated yet they are purposful persons in our community. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | the solution is currently applicable in uganda but there is hope to move it tp different african countries till it reaches the globe. | No | Proof of Concept | the solution is at the proof of concept stage because its already in existence, has already been registered and now readily spreading the gospel of realizing abilities of persons with disabilities as well as conserving the environment. through recycling. | our solution looks at empowering persons with disabilities to engage in the sociopolitical, economical,cultural and economic activities of the community. it also embarks on innovation through recycling of waste paper,fabric and plastic in office ware and other useful objects like flower vessels.in the long it it not only improves the esteem of persons with disabilities, but also provides them with an opportunity to lead their lives as they can have an income thus conserving the environment. | Kilema Tusetuke empowers persons with disabilities with artistic skills of recycling of waste: paper, plastic bottles and fabric into beautiful pencil, pen, mark holders, flowers vases, and bed lamp holders. However this not only reduces on the poverty levels of these persons but also ensures a sustainable environment. Persons with disabilities are likely to face more risks and vulnerabilities along their life cycle, as well as face barriers resulting in limited participation therefore at Kilema Tusetuke we advocate for the rights of these persons, train them with different artistic skills through recycling of paper, plastic bottles and fabric to make office ware and other desirable products like bags, vessels and dishes, gardens etc. Furthermore at Kilema Tusetuke we promote innovative mind-sets amongst the disabled, inspire them to start small and grow big through recycling initiatives hence reducing poverty as well as sustaining a tomorrow environment from waste. | Through our initiative weequip the disabled: men and women, youth and the girl child with the new techniques of coming up with good quality office ware and vessels by recycling of waste paper, plastic and fabric. The uniqueness, affordability and durability of our products make it an exceptional. Each vessel is at shs.10,000ugx as it can be accessed by every Ugandan even the low income earners.Through continued research we plan to come up with fantastic ideas so that we not only remain in business for a long time but also take advantage of the market share. Our customers are our first priority in case of product improvement or change thus bridging the gap between the business and clients.At Kilema Tusetuke we have built a good and effective business contact between our employees and clients, we hope to do or make a smooth jungle into the business world.. Since students, offices, hospitals and universities are our target market, an information system has been put up that has helped us attain both positive and negative comments something which has pavied way for improvement and innovation. | Our team has done a great job towards bringing to attention that disability doesn't mean inability. first we saw the registration of the company, created different social platforms in a verge to promote our initiative.a Facebook page, what-sap, Instagram and twitter(kilema tuesetuke). However we have done social out reaches to homes of the disabled while spreading the gospel of innovativeness as well as promoting the environment through the recycling propaganda.Similarly we are building on our workforce employed more youth in the production department. | kilema tusetuke looks forward to be the one stop shop or supermarket for artistic objects in Uganda that upholds sustainability of the environment as a priority through its recycling initiative. however the uniqueness is the fact that ours are made by these our fellow disabled persons with their very innovative and highly creative mindsets.we hope to create an avenue for the disabled persons where they shall feel happy to engage in their own world without discrimination. we believe we shall create change in the diverse lives of these persons both locally and internationally. | short-term resources Plastic bottles Identification cards The disabled persons(human resource) The youth Papers i.e. receipts Color Buckets medium- terms Water supply Electricity/ solar Trainers. Marketers. capital. long-term land for the home of the disabled offices vehicles. | www.kilematusetuke.com | https://instagram.com/kilematusetuke?r=nametag https://twitter.com/@kilema Tusetuke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
625 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Marielle | Fillit | Kenya Green Supply Ltd. | www.kenyagreensupply.com | CEO | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | As a former advisor to the UN SE4ALL program, I discovered my current career path of selling off-grid solar home Internet solutions for the rural poor. I started my business with my Kenyan partner, Kevin Musila in 2013, and since then we have been innovating on household ergonomic devices to provide energy and Internet for all. With continuous improvement on product, prototyping, software and hardware development, and partnership strengthening, we have been able to bring our products into over 200 households to provide energy and the Internet. We are current | Marielle is a NYC native with extensive experience in renewable energy and sustainability. Marielle attended the Univerisity of Pennsylvania from 2003-2007 and majored in International Relations and Economics, and wrote her thesis on the effect of human rights policy on Sino-American relations. Marielle worked as a Federal contractor for Accenture until 2011, when she completed a Masters in Public Administration with a focus in Environmental Science and Policy. From 2011 to 2013, Marielle worked for the Secretary General's Office under Secretary General Ban Ki Moon to initiate the Sustainable Energy for All Programme as a contractor. In 2013, Marielle and Kevin began their journey of bringing electricity to the people of Kenya, a mission that has lived on since. | AllSola Solar Computer (Internet Solution). | All-in-one device for Rural Electrification and Internet (A solar computer with lighting and charging capabilities for off-grid homes). | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Ghana, Nigeria | Yes | Telkom Kenya, Equity Bank, Kevin Musila, Business Partner, Kenya Climate Innovation Centre, DFID, Social Mobile Communications US. | Proof of Concept | We currently have a working sample after development and testing for the past three years. We are planning a pilot in October this year to test about 200 kits with real users in Kenya, where we will test the PAYGO database, the battery durability among other aspects. | Approximately 530 million people in residential households and businesses in Sub Saharan African still lack access to affordable and clean electricity. Although we have a variety of solutions on the market, they lack one element or another to fully satisfy the user, who has never had power all their life. The AllSola device seek to integrate power generation and utilization in a smart and sustainable way, which satisfy the user on switching on the device. | Our solution integrates solar home system, a computing platform, a database for lease-to-own management, digital TV and Internet connectivity. The solar home system has a battery to store power then power the functionalities such as lighting (four lights), charging (DC appliances). We have attached a 13.3 inch Android screen to the solar home system for digital TV (chip inside), with education and agribusiness apps, phone abilities and entertainment. When installed in an off-grid home, the user gets instant solutions from lighting, charging, communication and access to information. | Our solution is affordable, with cash and lease-to-own payment options. We are also seeking grants to subsidize the price further. Our solution is a one-stop shop for all consumer needs, making it easy for maximum utilization of the power generated. Our solution can be put into productive use when utilized by small businesses for alternative lighting, charging, and entertainment and powering DC appliances that generate additional income to improve lives. In addition, our solution offers a computing platform for processing information and research while utilizing solar energy. Further, the solution connects the user to internet opening markets for Telco’s and connecting off-grid users to the much-needed internet. | Progress: •Completed two pilots and five customer surveys and tests of product components. •Legally registered, tax compliant, with several employees in place, ready to get rolling. We have five full-time employees and three part-time employees. •Negotiated contracts with a Telecom and Finance Company to support PAYGO plan, manufacturer, logistical company and several dealers for distribution, partnerships in place with app companies to provide their content. •Completed patent filing. •Applied for the necessary contracts for trade in Kenya including Type Approval, Vendor License, and ERC waiver on Value Added Tax to be issued before launch. •Support from organizations such as Kenya Climate Innovation Center, Energy for Impact, DFID, UKAID, Power Africa, Tony Elumelu Foundation and Social Mobile Telecommunications. •Spent approximately $250, 000 on design, development and testing. $220000 is equity and $30000 donation. Measuring Progress: We measure progress based on key outcomes and related activities: These include product design (prototype), testing, working sample, fundraising, tooling, software development, manufacture and delivery of the product to the user. We have also put in place mechanisms to measure progress using project management software like Asana to schedule tasks and complete them when done successfully. | We plan to manufacture 200 kits by end of September 2019, launch sales and database by early October in four markets, Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria and Ghana. In the launch we look forward to hiring up to 20 additional employees, make critical partnerships with telecom companies and banks for data and financing. | In our fundraising, we are seeking approximately $300000 USD to enable us manufacture a stock of 1000 kits, enough to distribute and learn from use. | http://kenyagreensupply.com/ https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T67WEzwYy7dvQj2DtTrYTectsQWYcSMb | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NM6xVcLUq--gOcS2rV8d1mLHhJJ1XaHp | Africa Entrepreneurship Award 2017(Finalists). Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Seed Capital 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
626 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | BIENFAIT | MUBALAMA | Green Mind Initatives (GMI) | http://www.bienfait-mubalama/fb.com | Executive Chief Officer | Masculin | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | French | Learning from others is my prior leadership trait. During the UN solution summit, I will be able to share my solution that combat climate change and promote sanitation in the context of my country DRC. I will have the opportunity to hear innovative solutions from other engaged young leaders and world decision makers’ engagement to orient and accelerate sustainable solutions that help to attain sustainable development in 2030. I will learn from UN environment experts and develop new approaches that help to scale up my daily activities upon my return in my home country. In the world that faces currently different troubles as such climate change and bad health conditions, i developed an unparalleled alternative source of cooking briquettes and bio-sand healthier toilets that respectively allow reducing the deforestation impact on the environment and feces mismanagement for hygiene and sanitation. By planting yearly 4450 agro-forestry trees, this project enhances forest protection and reduces gas emission in atmosphere. Having different point of you from other young leaders upon my solution ensures to improve rationally and protect the planet for young generations. This program (UN solution summit) helps me to complete my potential in my active field. I will be happy when looking back my younger age the impact of small answers i initiated that making greener and healthier the planet for generations to come. | BIENFAIT MUBALAMA Emmanuel is a young leader living in Bukavu eastern DR. Congo. He was born at Walungu territory, December 25th 1993, son of MUBALAMA Alphonse and CIKWANINE Jeannine. He is married to SIFA RWASHA Edith. They have three children. BIENFAIT is graduated in Rural Development with much concentration in Regional Planning. He is actively engaged in community development four years ago. He worked in local and international organizations as such CDE Great lakes (blogger); le Potentiel high school (teacher); Food for the Hungry (survey staff); UJID (cofounder); projet KALIBA (agricultural supervisor); Wazee Wetu asbl (trainee); AEPIFHA (handicapped women trainer on handcraft); ROJEPAC a youth led organization that trains young unemployed handcraft and agri-business entrepreneurship to tackle poverty (cofounder) etc. Since he ends up his bachelor 2018, in his actual organisation Green Mind Initiatives (GMI), BIENFAIT is engaged to tackle climate change and sanitation troubles in his country by valorising human feces as alternative source of cooking energy that combats deforestation and manufactures bio-sand healthier toilets to promote sanitation and hygiene. BIENFAIT followed trainings for building his leadership capacity and participated in regional young leadership programs; Student For Liberty (Bujumbura), RUFORUM (agribusiness program), UNFP (workshop on gender inclusion), etc. For more information regarding him, please refer to his PHP. | Cooking briquettes from human feces and bio-sand toilets, combat climate change and promote sanitation in Bukavu | Solution proposes cooking briquettes from human feces and manufactures bio-sand toilets in Bukavu. It combats climate change and promotes sanitation. | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | The unparalleled solution is intended to be implemented in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. | No | Research & Development | The Economist, Joseph SCHUMPETER said we can innovate in 5 ways (innovate a new market, a new product, in new equipment; improve the existing product and new production substance). My solution is innovative because it valorises waste (human feces) that is more neglected and feared by producing alternative cooking energy. And brings a never existed sustainable solution of bio-sand toilets to those living without healthier toilets or who don’t have much space to grub toilets in Bukavu. | Due to Rapid Population growth, World energy consumption increases from 524-630 quadrillion Btu in last 10 years (USEPA). 80%World Energy comes from non-renewable resources which cause deforestation. There must be alternative for Clean Energy resource, Bukavu is concerned. Cooking briquette from human feces is a solution. 892 million people on planet don’t use toilet, waste. Bio-sand toilets facilitate waste reduction and hygiene promotion. These will solve cooking energy and sanitation issue. | With more than 1,000,000 people (Mairie 2015), Bukavu uses 90% of non-renewable energy to cook (mainly firewood and charcoal) and produces a medium of 400 tonnes of feces daily. Some families use electric, gas or solar fuel for domestic energy needs but is not sufficient. The solution consists to collect feces nearby partner families. Collected feces will be carbonized and transformed into cooking briquettes. Briquettes will be sold for U$ 0,3/kg. The bio-sand toilets will be manufactured and sold for U$ 100/piece. Primarily this project will be located at CHABARHABE a strategic position that facilitates to deliver product, services and provisioning. Real and rentable, this project will generate U$ 62,600 of benefit for the organization yearly. Then, project will cover the project needs with finance support from the government and the engagement of all stakeholders. 4% of the organization revenue will be oriented to multiply and plant 4450 agro-forestry trees to scale green spaces that fight deforestation and bad gases emission in the atmosphere. The long-term of the solution pretends to install sewers around the town to collect professionally feces and evacuate waste from producers to the transformation industry. Becoming a state professional partner in DRC in sector of sanitation and hygiene is the great vision. Once the project is completed in DRC, i pretend to extend it in all Africa through knowledge transfer, expertise exportation and enlarge the market sustainably. | In DRC, Small companies are available which mainly working in charcoal and firewood. Mostly electricity and gas are expensive, solar panel fuel too but my solution will utilize the Human feces as fuel for cooking and i provide healthier bio-sand toilets. Most of projects are not covered financially under the national programme, majorly projects leaders are self-made. Mostly projects are not providing alternative for healthier toilet access, product that solution offers. In Bukavu, entrepreneurs only do focus on plastic, other organic waste and they forget human excreta. So these Solutions will differ in terms of project design and the collaboration with the government Urban Development Plan priorities. Our new methodology remains in availing bio-sand toilets that facilitate feces collection and accessible to children and old persons. Valorising a neglected and feared waste, the solution permits to defer from others and respond to the demand in cooking briquettes by making the planet greener and greener. Some toilets will be installed on the public spaces to increase feces collection and enhance sanitation and hygiene access. Many organization failed their mission because they put the government apart from their activities (they consider the government as enemy). This solution takes in account the government’s role for its real success in time and resources. | In the conception step (July 2018); i invited 3 closer friends with whom i shared and developed the concept. 6 months later December 2018, we organized the first conference (58 persons attended) that permitted to collect and analyse people understanding regarding the new type of human feces cooking energy and the bio-sand toilets in Bukavu. Participants were 66% delighted to hear innovation that helps to fight deforestation and promote sanitation sustainably. 22% said it was impossible to stand up the kind of project because it goes beyond the young people group’s competences and it is a unique responsibility of the government. We were not disappointed by that speech. Presently, team is composed by 7 people (3 girls and 4 guys), we are defining orientations, resources and we keep doing feasibility studies. The progress is remarkable in the way that we opened a bank account (Finca). Pilot activities were done in last April 2019. We are determined to come up this impactful idea that tackles climate change and sanitation troubles in DRC and in the World. Rigor is ensured because to all technical meetings, each of us attends in time and each one’s tasks are well ruled. We are writing projects proposals for fund (2 already forwarded) for finding partners who can concretize this unparalleled and impactful project with. This dynamic and innovative team is progressing collaboratively to see its idea wearing a concrete existence. | Project will create positive impact on the population living and livelihood. It will create Social, Economical, and sustainable impact on stakeholders at least 500 household yearly, government, project team etc. It will help to save 17,4 -20$/mouth for a single family (economical). A single family will substitute 120 kg firewood by 62 kg human feces briquettes monthly and will use 1 healthier bio-sand toilet for 30 years to reduce respectively emissions of CO2, NH3, SO2 and volatile organic compounds to the atmosphere. Toilets protect the soil against degradation when spading traditional toilets. 4450 agro-forestry trees will be planted over 2 hectares yearly to enhance forests protection (Sustainable). These trees contribute to stabilize climate by consuming bad gas in atmosphere CFC, CO2 and generating oxygen O2. If the government takes care of this initiative, planted trees can generate carbon credits (that generated income too). From small briquettes and toilets manufactory, it will create 15-66 new jobs in 3 years. Trees planting will be monitored in partnership with Local Development Committee (Social). Project plans to sensitize 1200 families to use alternative cooking fuel and healthier toilets for fighting deforestation and sanitation matters yearly. I pretend in 6 years to extend this project in DRC’s towns (Goma, Kindu etc) before moving to other neighbour countries (Burundi etc.) by exploiting existed resources and knowledge transfer. | Any project successful completion depends upon the projection execution. Project execution will depend upon the factors like financial support, engagement of the project team, stakeholders’ mobilization, and government accompaniment. So in the short-time and medium-term (3 years), project will try to cover project activities such as project design, buy ongoing production equipments, this requires U$ 88,000 for the ongoing budget. In the long-term, the solution after generating revenue U$62,600 will need supplemental funds to extend the project in provinces and other African countries (new market). Additionally, the capacity building of the pilot team project is useful to strengthen the work methodology and layout the result. The solution welcomes anybody, government or organization, by any means to support the project (technique, material, knowledge transfer, financial, ect). The solution pretends in the long-term to become a professional partner of African states to manage waste (human excreta) to fight deforestation and improve sanitation and hygiene. So, financial resources are needed to impact sustainably the economic, environment and social lives of global habitants. | https://youtu.be/Du6ITI03hQA I am very sorry for the video quality, but i hope the sound gives the necessary of my message. I wrote an blog that i shard in the Centre for Development for Enterprises Great Lakes site in French, you can find it here : https://centrefordevelopmentgreatlakes.org/index.php/2019/04/24/Bukavu-morcellement-des-cimetieres-et-si-on-laissait-les-morts-tranquilles/? fbclid=lwAR1VAD2tmhdHZC8wWzV93EL93nYdHEuzSvnNQ153YComRDMYnDmY_PmltXcfbclid=lwAR1VAD2tmhdHZC8wWzV93EL93nYdHEuzSvnNQ153YComRDMYnDmY_PmltX | https://youtu.be/Du6ITI03hQA | In 2017-2018, i was awarded by Bourse d’Excellence Cimpunda (BEC) a fully funded scholarship based on the merit of young leaders who make distinction in the field of development studies. This merit was evaluated on the year academic score, with more than 70%. I was the unique student from my university to be awarded among the 6 selected in Bukavu. My solution is contested the Rebranding Africa, innovation time 2019. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
627 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rudaina | Haddad | Al Marj for training anddevelopment | www.Bookagri.com | CEO | Female | Jordan | Jordan | Arabic | English | My motivation is to reach a global institution that could play a role in positive change towards the inclusion of farmers and farming communities in many countries in the world in the tourism industry. Farmers are the agricultural, heritage, gastronomy, society values...etc guards centuries ago. They preserve nature and land through many experiences that they could share with civilians who forgot and need ""Back to nature "" experiences. What could be more than creating agri tourism destinations that could solve many of nowadays problems of unemployment, sale of productive land, immigration from villages to cities, industrial production and pollution, un organic farming, losing the heritage...etc We have solved the problem by creating three agri tourism destinations in Jordan in three Governorates with 30 different farmers of both gender and reached more than 300 people by including them in the tourism industry that we branded and call Bookagri. | I was born in Zarqa/ Jordan 9/8/19968 I have finished my BA in English literature and Masters degree in English Literature from the Jordan University in 1997. While studying, I worked as a freelance tour guide in Jordan with an A+ classification. I got married in 1996. I have three kids ; two daughters and one son | Bookagri | Create new destinations for agri tourism in rural areas. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Jordan | Yes | farmers of women and men who are service providers in the project | Scaling | Because we started with one destination with 10 different experiences in Balqa Governorate and now we are expanding to North Governorates in Jordan; Jerash and Ajluon to include another 20 different agri tourism experiences with the local farming communities there | In Jordan, creating new agri tourism destinations with unique experiencing will give the option to tourist agencies, tourists, locals, expats to interact with the local culture in Jordan which will allow many SMEs to grow and self employment to grow by developing more skills, services and use of natural resources to generate income which will help fight poverty, enhance economy & agriculture, sustain production and empower women farmers and their families. | Bookagri works in Jordan through the awareness sessions, training to interested farmers, visitation to the farms and gardens, application of activities in the farms and gardens in the concept of agri tourism, marketing and sustainability of tourists buying the experiences developed with the farmers. All is branded by Bookagri and downloaded to www.Bookagri.com and soon on the Mobile App of Bookagri. The long-term vision is to have a platform for most agri tourism business in the world where farmers could have customers using their agri tourism services that offer paid for experiences that could raise the farmers income and drive farming families towards more effort and self employment in the rural areas rather than leaving every thing behind. | Al Marj for training and development created an inclusive round product that has packaged tours, B&B, food product, crafts, and Bookagri website & Brand that is the umbrella of all agri tourism destinations in Jordan. Al Marj has achived a lot by following a strait forward method; It has approached many active and young farming associations and did many awareness sessions about the importance of agri tourism after which verification of the best matching places and people that apply with the concept of agri tourism activities were chosen to validate the first activities. Funding by BEST USAID project to do Bookagri's first agri tourism destination in Balqa/ Salt with 13 different partnerships at the local community followed. Now we are developing the other two destinations in North of Jordan to expand Bookagri and create a difference in our farmers lives. | We have reached another two Governorates in developing two new destinations that include many agri tourism services as packaged tours, B&B at the farmers homes in the rural areas, Food product and hand crafts development with new environment friendly packages. We have now 300 families benefiting from the project on sustainable basis. At the same time many success stories happened because of bridging the gap between the civilian society and the rural one; many SMEs were created through the linkages Bookagri brought to the farming community through including them in the tourism industry. | Bookagri as a brand is intended to be the umbrella and platform for all agri tourism businesses and services provided by farmers interested in this concept to be reachable by customers looking for agri tourism experiences. So, new markets for Bookagri will be Middle East, Africa, Aisa, Latin America, Far East, Europe, USA and Canada by starting regional offices or representatives of Bookagri that would attract agri tourism experiences to be present on the platform to be booked and be reachable for clients. The other goal is to keep developing more agri tourism destinations, not only in Jordan but also in other countries by signing agreements to do the needed training to those interested to create a bigger impact on peoples lives as we did in Jordan | Since we have the knowledge of how to create agri tourism destinations in countries of need, what is needed to scale is to have the right linkages to expand the idea and more funds to speed the job. | https://www.facebook.com/bookagrijo https://www.theswitchers.eu/en/switchers/jordans-farmers-agritourism-begins-backyards/ http://bestprojectjo.org/content/bookagri-opens-new-doors-um-al-amad-and-addira http://english.alarabiya.net/en/blog/2016/11/02/Jordan-bound-tourists-now-have-the-chance-to-try-real-farm-living.html | https://deskgram.net/explore/tags/TheSwitchers https://m.facebook.com/story_fbid=1611288019017363&id=1862618314028920 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
628 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Collins Frank | Owani | Imaging the World Africa | www.imagingtheworld.org | Program coordinator | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | Whereas global mortality rates are still high with particular pronounced rates in many Low and Middle Income Countries, health infrastructures and equipment are still inadequate. Simple diagnostic imaging modalities like portable ultrasound that can guide management are grossly inadequate. With our model of task shifting ultrasound to frontline workers like midwives and nurses, we hope that many lives of pregnant women and babies could be saved. Uganda has been the site of most ITW activities to date, but many more people could still benefit from this solution if it is replicated in more undeserved communities across the world. Tentatively our immediate expansion is to Malawi where on invitation of the Ministry of Health and partnership with an NGO (Warm Hearts Foundation) are on verge of rolling out this innovation at selected health facilities in Malawi. ITWA has implemented its ultrasound technology based model with 10 Health Centre III's and partnerships with various hospitals in Uganda, training over 200 front-line health workers, performing over 300,000 patient scans;a quarter of which identify complications- many of them life threatening and require specialized interventions. Ultrasound at lower rural health centers has also shown significant improvements in health facility utilization for example we have seen an increase in antenatal care attendance of about 70% with subsequent increases in deliveries. The ""magnet effects"" of ultrasound services has also resulted in an upward spiral of testing and treatment for co-morbidities of pregnant such as malaria, worms, HIV, infections, hypertension and anemia. The model have been piloted for highly specialized conditions such as screening for Rheumatic Heart Disease, Breast Cancer, TB and pneumonia with remote expert interpretation. The Government of Uganda is taking note and in June 2019, the Ministry of Health released information and plans for its upcoming annual Reproductive Maternal Newborn child Adolescent Health Symposium highlighting the need for portable ultrasound at lower level health center IIIs. From our experience and impact, sharing this innovation with other innovators at the summit will be of immerse importance to other innovators and policy makers in addition to helping ITWA learn from similar/other innovations for bettering the same. The summit with also provide a platform for possible collaborations geared towards replication and scale up. | Head of Operations – Imaging the World Africa Mr Collins completed his bachelor’s degree at Makerere University Kampala, majoring in organizational studies. Following this he worked for a private company, Gromup Uganda Limited in Kampala, as a sales executive. In September 2009 he started consulting for Imaging the World Africa in Uganda as the co-leader of the ITW Logistics Team, directing our pilot project in Kamuli District. In 2011 he was appointed the project coordinator for Imaging the World Africa and head of operations. | Integrating Ultrasound imaging into remote lower level health centers through tasking shifting imaging to midwives/Nurses in rural Uganda. | Integrating antenatal ultrasound into rural lower level health facilities | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Uganda, Malawi and Tanzania | Yes | Rwenzori Center for Research and Advocacy | Scaling | Over years we have implemented the solution in various settings across Uganda, learning and modifying the solution. We have by far implemented the solution at 10 lower level health facilities and performing over 300,000 scans in the past 10 years and witnessing a 23-30% change in clinical management basing on ultrasound findings.With these successes we have published a number of papers that indicate that basic antenatal ultrasound can be performed by midwives with concordance rates of 90%. | Uganda and Malawi all suffer from relatively high rates of maternal and infant mortality; in Uganda most maternal deaths are due to hemorrhage in pregnancy and obstructed labor for which ultrasound can aid management. Whereas WHO recommends an ultrasound for every pregnancy, many pregnant women do not have access due to complete unavailability in many health facilities (53%) coupled with the inadequacy of imaging specialists, many of whom are concentrated in urban settings. | Properly performed and interpreted ultrasound imaging is a proven technology offering immediate and often life - saving benefits to expectant mothers, newborn infants,through gestation dating, identification of number of babies and other complications;which aid birth planning and management. The WHO recommends that every pregnant mother receives at least one prenatal ultrasound. Our solution involves training midwives and nurses rural lower level health facilities on how to perform basic obstetric ultrasound. They are further trained on how to perform sweeps by moving the transducer on anatomical areas of interest across the abdomen. These captured sweeps are compressed by a proprietary software VICAT and are transmitted with the same image quality to a secure server where specialists anywhere in the World can review them as a Quality Assurance mechanism. Any discrepancies in findings between the sonographer/radiologists and the midwives are immediately communicated to the Point of Care for management decision. Our long term vision for global impact is to partner and collaborate with various institutions, researchers and organization to ensure that the solution is scaled up to cover the remotest of places where mothers die due to complications whose management would have been altered if they had an ultrasound during pregnancy. As an advocacy mechanism, we have contributed to the publication of 11 peer-reviewed research papers and 23 presentations at international meetings. | A number of organizations have tried to implement ultrasound at health facilities through the donation of scanner units and one off training. The game changer in our solution is the aspect of continuous supervision and training that we offer to these clinics through out the entire period of our partnership. This is per WHO recommendation that task shifting ultrasound to midwives/nurses must be accompanied by appropriate training and continuous supervision. Through our tele ultrasound program all scans performed by nurses/midwives are remotely reviewed by specialists which enables our training team to identify weakens and thus follow up training and continuous professional development. Our perspective is that for ultrasound to be task shifted to midwives/Nurses there needs to be a tech enabled platform such PACS to enabled specialists have a look at actual images being performed by midwives at point of care clinics. This will direct subsequent training and ensure quality diagnostic imaging. | We have so far been working on the solution for the past 10 years and implemented it in 10 health centers. This has however been with a lot of back and forth adjustments, for example we initial focused on just training health workers in capturing sweeps only and wait for an expert report. However this was faced with challenges of long waiting times by patients due to delays in getting feedback from the experts. This was mainly due to poor network connectivity in the past that forced us to redesign the solution to teaching basic interpretations accompanied by an expert review report. Currently midwives/Nurses at partner health centers are taken through a 6 weeks training in basic obstetric ultrasound with final assessments after the training. Additionally every scan that is performed is transmitted and reviewed by fully trained sonographers for concordance in results discrepancies are communicated back to the point of care facility for management recommendation. We have also embedded a data collection database (RedCap) that compliments the captured sweeps with a point of care written report; this bolsters monitoring and QA. Further the RedCap database enables us track patient details and outcomes at each health facility. | Uganda and Malawi are primary countries for scale up of the ITWA model In addition to Uganda and Malawi, the ministries of Health in Tanzania,Namibia and Kenya have expressed initial interested in the ITWA model. As a secondary part of this scale up project, ITWA will use grants/ Funds from foundations/ Companies to establish partnership and plan for expanding into at least one of these countries as well. Uganda has been the site of most ITW activity to date,but many more people there could benefit with planned expansion. At the invitation of the Ministry of Health in Malawi, ITWA has partnered with an NGO Warm Hearts Foundation in Malawi to kick start the program at selected health centers in September 2019. With this expansion, ITWA will employ a project coordinator,(2)Trainers and IT lead who will set up the project and foresee the project activities at these health facilities. In Uganda we are working on a collaboration with Ugandan and USA Rotary Clubs, the American College of Radiology Foundation, and Imaging the World (USA) to setup 20 more clinics in the next 3 years. Balancing appropriate utilization with demand, busy Health Center IIIs perform approximately 2,000 scans per year. Each scan during pregnancy has at minimum two patients. With these additional 20 sites we will be reaching 40,000 mothers and newborns per year, or 200,000 lives over five years | Majority of our needed resources tend to be long term in nature since our solution is not a one off: Trainers: depending on the scale of implementation trainers might be short term/medium term/Long term. These are personnel with advanced degrees in sonographer/Radiology who are directly responsible for continuous training and Quality Assurance. Connectivity is important, as it enables transmission of captured images by nurses/midwives via VICAT software. VICAT is designed to work in low bandwidth environments characteristics of most LMICs. Cellular phones are the main means of communication between rural providers, Patients, ITWA quality reviewers, and providers at referral hospitals. Business Models for sustainability; where a small fee- deemed affordable by the facility and in consultation with community stakeholders- pays for operations (power, gel, cleaning supplies, security and infrastructure) and wraparound services for ultrasound equipment including servicing ,site monitoring and ongoing training and supervision. These are the needed throughout the running of the project. We do offer these needs and inputs for the first year as the sustainability model takes shape. Human resources and equipment: Human resources include midwives and clinical officers who work at rural health centers; community Health Extension Workers/Village Health Teams. Hardware components needed for expansion include Ultrasound devices, laptops computers, cell phones and data modems. | https://www.imagingtheworld.org/ https://socialinnovationinhealth.org/case-studies/imaging-the-world-africa/ https://www.philips.com/c-dam/corporate/about-philips/sustainability/healthy-people/fabric-of-africa/programs/Low-cost-teleradiology.pdf https://www.grandchallenges.ca/grantee-stars/0286-01/ https://heart.bmj.com/content/heartjnl/early/2018/11/10/heartjnl-2018-313810.full.pdf https://www.philips.iq/en/a-w/innovationandyou/article/full-video-story/infant-mortality-uganda.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4296687/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb13zOmcTf0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vasvuxQJc8A https://youtu.be/hnfAAi7jOIQ https://youtu.be/vEEm06r-mWo https://youtu.be/-iH__2geqrs https://youtu.be/Td027ccw_-o | Social Innovations in Health Initiative- Top 5 social Health Innovators 2018. 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629 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Valter | Cumbi | Source Code | www.source.co.de | Executive Director | Male | Mozambique | Mozambique | English | We are motivated to present our project at the UN Solutions Summit, as it is a project of great relevance to Mozambique as it has helped half a million of Mozambicans gain access health information for free. We believe the project may arouse the interest of some donors/investors and they may help us improve the platform to continue to benefit Mozambican citizens, and perhaps have an interest in using our platform in other countries. Our innovation has a major impact on the lives of Mozambican citizens. Thanks to it, many citizens have started to adopt healthier lifestyles to avoid getting disease,they can identify the symptoms of some diseases and they can now locate the nearest health facility | Specialties: Project Portfolio Management; Project Management; IT Governance; Solutions Design; Software Engineering; Security. - Proven results in aligning commercial and IT arms of the company; - Over 10 years experience in Telecommunications and over 15 years experience in all facets of Software Engineering; - Highly driven manager with proven ability to visualize the “big picture” and simultaneously decompose and tackle complex issues. | PENSA (Educational Health Information Platform) | Providing health information & services to the under-privileged, without barriers: free and on every operator and phone (via USSD). | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Mozambique | Yes | Ministry of Health | Transition to Scale | Because the applicability of our innovation and its impacts on society has already been proven. Mozambican citizens are already using the platform and through the interaction between citizens and the Ministry of Health it was already possible to verify the frequent health problems. In order to reach self-sustainability, though, we need to scale from around 5,000 daily visits to 20,000-50,000. With these numbers it will be much easier to create new revenue streams. | The vast majority of Mozambican citizens have limited access to pertinent health information, which adversely affects their capacity to: •Prevent disease acquisition & dissemination; •Identify symptoms that require further medical attention; •Adopt healthy lifestyles; Many factors contribute to this problem: •Low physician density; •Inadequacy of conventional technologies: -TV & Radio – many citizens don’t own TV’s or radios; -Internet – reaches only 10% of the population. | PENSA (Health Information Education Platform) aims to provide all citizens with free health information through the mobile phone (dialing * 660 # in any of the mozambican operators) and the website (www.pensa.org.mz). This will be able to: -see symptoms, precautions and general information for various diseases; -see information on maternal health, baby development, and vaccines; -get contact details for health facilities; and more. Through USSD (a technology available on all cellphones) we avail to citizens pertinent push & pull health information provided by the Ministry of Health (MOH), and even employ the MOH call center to respond citizen's questions. This is particularly relevant given the costs and distances required to reach the health facilities, which often deters the underprivileged from going until their health issues is very severe. Our platform ensures that the remote citizen is aware of health issues, and this was recently tested when we alerted the population during a rabies outbreak. | According to the telecommunications regulator, over 80% of Mozambican adults have access to cellphones, and a great portion of adolescents. This turns cellphones into the ideal vehicle through which to deliver push and pull information. In our country, similar to many African countries, the vast majority of cellphones are not smartphones, meaning they cannot download/install apps. Given this constraint, as well as lack of Internet/data in rural areas and the limited money and resources available tothe under-privileged, we developed a solution that allows us to prepare health information on a web interface and avail it to the under-privileged and last-mile citizens via a technology that is viewable on all cellphones: USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data). | The team has developed the solution, on time, and within budget. It adheres to the best software development practices and is open to extensibility. | We aim to reach about one million people over the next 18 months and ensure our sustainability. To do this, we need to further publicize our platform and partner. In the first half of next year, we plan to introduce voice and information service in the local language. This will allow more people to access the platform. We also plan to achieve self-sustainability by creating a revenue stream through clinics and pharmacies as well as civil society that wants to promote health services and events through our platform | To take our innovation to the next level of scale, we need support in these areas: -Needs Assessment/Business Diagnostics -Monitoring & Evaluation/ Impact Assessment -Sales -Market Research and Expansion Strategy -Marketing/ Communications -Business Service -Fundraising/Investment Readiness/Financial -Partnerships | http://www.pensa.org.mz | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
630 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Shema | Kevin | UMUTI | N/A | Co-Founder & CEO | Male | Rwanda | Rwanda | English | French | A couple of years ago, I saw an opportunity in the government's ban on polythene bags and also recognized the growing environmental problem, which is mainly a significant problem facing the forestry industry and products. We were also pushed by the high demand for paper and its products, which is fast growing everywhere. Due to increasing awareness among the public on environmental protection, and people preference for eco-friendly products has been growing. All-State institutes and countries have started using eco-friendly paper products for their everyday stationery items and replace all plastic and synthetic items like bags with paper products. With these challenges in mind, we seized the opportunity after that and made a detailed research on a solution which will be Unique, environmentally friendly, innovative and free of chemical in the world and using sustainable, and significantly more straightforward than wood-based products. Banana tree fibers were identified as readily available, renewable, and abundant secondary raw materials that could be used as alternative fibers. The primary goal of mine of attending the UN Solution Summit 2019 is to get a networking opportunity with the fellow innovators and as well as experts from the UN. Further, I am eager and interested to learn from decision-makers across governments, business, and civil society and getting the platform of showcasing my venture to them will make a significant impact on my business to the next level. However, not only opportunities I will benefit, but I will also take advantage of learning through the international discussion of issues like sustainability and the environment, by which I will apply in the future. Also, sharing ideas and interacting with global network thinkers in the Environment conservation sector will open my mind further, challenge and motivate me to make a difference by building sustainable and impactful solutions to the environment. | I am a driven, 23-year - old person who works hard to achieve my goals. I have always been able to overcome obstacles and follow things to completion in my Entrepreneur business trip, and this is due to the love and passion for learning new things and desire to escape the comfort zone with a view that is unconventional in changing the world. In March my team and I ranked the second in the Hult prize Dubai regional, In May we ranked the 2nd runner up in the Reinvent Hackathon by Garage48 an Estonian foundation, and I was awarded a student venture program star award at African Leadership University for the 2018-2019 academic year. | UMUTI | Umuti is a Green enterprise that uses banana and plantain trunks that are left over after harvest to create eco-friendly paper packaging bags. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Over the past 12 months, we have been focusing on piloting in Kayonza district, Rwanda, and has been a fantastic success. Between our 5th and 7th year, we will be scaling to Nigeria and Ghana as they are one of the front producers of banana and plantain. | Yes | Compound55, African Leadership University, and Fonerwa | Proof of Concept | We managed to create the research and made documentation on our venture, after the study, we started by prototyping, and now we have a ready prototype which confirms our stage of innovation. | Annually, about 93% of papers produced, around 372 million tonnes, come from timber. The Scientist Union states that wood products, including paper, are liable for roughly 10 percent of total deforestation, and even that deforestation accounts for nearly 12 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Continuing at this rate, which is most likely, it will take less than a century to deplete the entire rain-forest. | UMUTI uses a completely sustainable renewable fiber source (i.e., banana tree trunk), which does not contribute to the destruction of natural or purpose-plant forests and does not consume chemicals or water during production. The process is also much more environmentally friendly since it does not contain water and no chemical additives; hence favoring low energy consumption. Even though they are 100% wood-free, which makes them most eco-friendly, they are also a new concept with outstanding quality and elegant, where its beautiful design shows hours of dedication. We are the only company that pays for collecting waste banana trunk, thus minimizing waste. For a decade, our company is expected to create 10 000 jobs, while reducing the use of plastics by 50 percent and the rate of deforestation by 12 percent. | The raw material is renewable, sustainable, farm waste and accessible and available all year round The harvesting and delivery of farm products are much cheaper than logging and wood chipping remote forests. No pulping means no chemicals, no water, and significant savings on energy usage. The process is neither labor intensive nor energy intensive. It is flexible and ductile, and because of aging, it can not readily tear, fold, or become fragile and weak. Compared with other same products, our products look sturdy, strong, and durable. It’s 100% recycled and 100% natural thus safe for our environment. Since it is wood free, makes it the best market candidate as the world is pushing a green world. Our products are water resistance making it non-permeable and will not transmit grease, oils, solvents or moisture, even at low thickness. The process is also much more environmentally friendly and produces significantly lower costs than comparable products. | We have a talented team; By which we benefited through the skills, we acquired from the creation of our venture, where 95% of our work is performed as a team for the sake of delivering great work. By using our work plan as a way of assessing if we are riching our targets and goals. Currently, we know the competitive landscape, we know how to build scalable systems, and we know how to grow a profitable business. We also address potential barriers that we may encounter, by scheduling conflicts due to personal or work-related issues & technological boundaries, for each person may be on a different level in this area. The members and the leaders of the team have to gain confidence by fulfilling their duties, tasks, and obligations. In our team, communication is a crucial factor in our team dynamics. We have therefore decided to set rules for the team, such as checking out the team daily or night, complete assignments as prearranged & discussed, as well as, do our best to attend scheduled team forum chat-room sessions. We have decided to set up slack instant messaging and WhatsApp messaging group for some communication. For emergencies, we have exchanged personal information like phone numbers and private emails. Plus, our team leader can & should be notified in case of emergencies. We also evaluated our strengths & areas for improvement. Which helps the team when it comes to planning for our goals and objectives. | Over the next 6 months, we will be engaging in building partnerships, obtaining licenses, and fundraising campaigns. We will also take part in making the team for the operation of the business. A bulk of 2020 will be used in setting up our facility, to start production by December 2020. And between our 5th and 7th year, we will be scaling to Nigeria and Ghana as they are one of the leading producers of banana and plantain in Africa. Our next milestone makes the market test where we will send the product to the client and get feedback from them and know the value they want and how UMUTI can deliver that value at the right cost and strategy to be implemented to satisfy customers need. For a decade, our company is expected to create 10 000 jobs, while reducing the use of plastics by 50 percent and the rate of deforestation by 12 percent not only in Rwanda but also in some other parts of Africa. Banana planters will value a waste product and increase the production of bananas. Furthermore, In our process, we will be saving between 17 and 20 tree and 3 cubic yards of landfills space and results to 74 % less air pollution and 35 % less water pollution than tree paper. | With 400,000 USD we can establish UMUTI processing factory in Rwanda, but with 1,000,000 USD we will be able to set up 3 UMUTI factories across Africa. Of which $35,000 will be used to launch 9 Umuti centers in three different locations across the Eastern Province and western province. $15,000 will be our working capital to finance more future purchase orders and say yes to more sales increase over the next two years. And a $45,000 to expand our workshop by building a factory which will enable us to produce on a large scale and satisfy our market. We also need to purchase these different machines which include Rag Chopper, Hollander Beater, Hydraulic press, Calendering machine, Cutting machine, Weighing balance and others | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMhCJvzG5U https://www.newtimes.co.rw/business/six-students-start-out-entrepreneurial-journey http://www.pullpic.com/umuti_rw https://twitter.com/UMUTI_RW | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEegDtJOuuA&t=10s | UMUTI has been the first runner up of Hult prize on campus, and also ranked the second in the Hult prize Dubai regional. We also got a chance of exposure to other various innovative competitions such as Garage 48 Hackathon where we ranked the third, and our CEO was recognized as the best Student venture program star at African Leadership University for the academic year 2018/2019. Furthermore, we were the finalist at Ignite Africa Challenge in Rwanda. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
631 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Brett | Field | Fedgroup | www.fedgroup.co.za | Chief Innovation Officer | Male | South Africa | South Africa | English | Logic and reason have failed to motivate the broader global community into combating our very serious global and environmental challenges. This was again confirmed by MITs Barack Bekerwits at Kinnernet just this week. Understanding that returns are the primary motivator for initial investment required to scale a platform we have made creating Impact Investment products on our platform. I have an absolute passion for our environment and the beautiful people who inhabit it. I put this passion into action by trying to make it easier for the two to live in harmony alongside our complex global political and financial ecosystem. Using the SDG framework I try build products and platforms that can leverage each other in order to address multiple SDGs. Further the design and architecture of these products and platforms have been built with customization as a priority to allow for them to be quickly reworked to tackle other SDGs with new opportunities or partners as the present themselves. | N/A | Impact Farming with IOB (internet of bees) layer. | Make money while doing something big | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Currently in South Africa, we intend to implement globally | No | Scaling | In the last 8 months we have had 65 000 downloads and scaled our platform to 10 000 impact investors in the South Africa market alone. Note: This is despite the current challenging sociopolitical environment in South Africa further complicated by our economic crisis which is often in a technical recession. | Access to credible and honest impact investment product for investors. Support, skills development and business opportunities thus reducing inequality. Finance to entrepreneurs and existing qualifying farmers. Sustainability through product listing requirements. Local job creation and gender equality. Promotion of female entrepreneurs and skilled and unskilled labor. Climate change through research and data analysis. | We have simply created a platform that allows someone to buy an individual asset on a sustainable yet commercial farm. All farms need to satisfy our 3 strict impact requirements. 1: people, either local job creation, skill development or similar. 2. Environmental, must be sustainable, save water, generate clean energy, save the bees or similar 3. Ecomic, it must boost the local economy. As we add more impact products to our platform we are able to give investors a choice to make money while knowingly or unknowingly addressing the SDGs. As we continue to refine and scale our platform we will take it global. Further layers such as our Internet of bees layers will gather data to tackle even more SDGs on a global scale. In addition future versions will include an angle investment layer which allows for investment in up-skilled workers to start their own local business and list on the platform. For example: a person is up skilled through our beekeeper training program. Then pitches to become a beekeeper business owner. Once angle investor is secured they receive a bee business in a container which is fully equipped to start their business. They immediately begin production and list on the platform. The angle investor earns a return. The platform provides tools for management and performance insights and access to experts. Off take of honey is ensured via the platform. The new business owner is very likely to succeed due to the structure and support the platform provides. | Access: Our entry point allows investment as low as $20. This allows ANY investor to make an impact while earning financial industry beating returns. Broad SDG inclusion: our approach is leveraging multiple points to include a wide range of SDGs. Unique research: Our IOT layer on the beehives is allowing us to gather large amounts of data which is being layered onto other data sets and fed into our machine learning layer. As we have no defined research hypnosis we are on a journey of un-tainted discovery with an intention to use bees as environmental sensors in what we call the Internet of Bees to see what they are able to tell us. Potentially they will be able to assist in predicting climate change rates, fires, ecology health and more. The discovery has just begun. The implications could be enormous. All while increasing bee populations. We have added over 8000 beehives and swarms in 8 months and not yet close to even satisfying the local demand. Agricultural finance: the model allows existing farmers meetinf the impact requirements to extract capital from their farm assets / crops to scale their operations without the need for traditional finance. | From conceptualization of the idea to our current scaling position we have developed with our in-house development team without external investment. All progress is monitored via a live data and insights layer. The progress is advanced by leveraging live team performance inputs into our self developed gamification layer. | We intend expanding into a number of African countries and have started discussions with potential European and US partners to scale into Europe and USA. We believe the impact is not only in the product but also the core staff creating and running the platform. Recruitment is intended to be local to the areas of operation. | Short term: Exposure and speaking engagements. While we are scaling exposure adds credibility to the platform that assists in converting downloaders into investors. It also allows for constant interogation of our approach, product and platform to ensure we design most effectively and in-line with our vision. Access to environmental and sustainability experts, scientists and thought leaders to assist us in ensuring we refine our products and the platform. Medium term: partners and investment. As we scale beyond our borders we will need credible partners and investment. Access to agricultural experts and economist to ensure our growth and efforts are maximized in the best direction and in line with local and global demands. Long term: large scale investment to make a truly global platform that tackles an increasing number of SDGs, gathers and actions data, publishes research that progresses our ability to make verified progress on our SDGs. | https://www.fedgroup.co.za/ventures/impact-farming https://www.fedgroup.co.za https://youtu.be/uEfd8zBVopA https://youtu.be/Zcf56C8mil4 https://youtu.be/mKzP-B9U4C0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWqd_Sh17tA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiPIRjXjKIE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xth6tJ2pDw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPkbN4fAeT4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uRALi3kDCY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rKzo0UMVBk https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd4zZ98jzEow8Zs_HwXXygg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CDM0u5VPEg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUImfFpKn7M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q62V7d3ipoE | I am media trained and have done a number of speaking engagements but not that are recorded or have video links. I will happily present and record something if required. | PMR Awards – Two Diamond and One Gold Arrow award 2019 (won) Finalist – Apps Africa Awards (Nominated) Nominated – Best Impact Agribusiness Investment Partner Africa 2018 (Nominated) Nominated - Beneficiary Fund/Trust Administrator of the year. The Imbasa Yegolide Awards 2017 (Nominated) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
632 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Solomon | Bwire | Makerere Innovation Society | https://www.facebook.com/MakerereInnovationSociety/ | Founder and Executive director | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | I hereby would like to state my motivation to present my project and be part of the UN Solutions Summit 2019 organized by the United Nations Local2030 Hub for Sustainability Solutions, UN Foundation, shift7, and the Global Innovation Exchange at the UN Headquarters in New York in September 2019 The summit is especially relevant to my professional expertise and for my project which is driving at advancing the SDGs, and therefore I would highly appreciate to be given an opportunity to participate in this event gathering professional from all over the World. I have used Makerere Innovation Society to impact children and the youth in Uganda through wealth creation strategies. We have trained students in different institutions in Uganda, equipping them with innovation and entrepreneurship skills and we are currently incubating ventures which will by June 2019 become successful companies to create jobs for the youth in Uganda. As a special added value of this event I find the opportunity to network with other professionals, senior policymakers, investors, philanthropists, fellow entrepreneurs, and members of the public from all over the World, which is an exceptional opportunity for horizontal exchange of experience. I perceive this also as an occasion to familiarize with good practices as a channel for my personal development and the development of East Africa. I am confident you will find my application as a worthwhile investment. My participation at this summit is a wise investment and will pay off for years to come. “Building a greener future, a better future for all must start by listening to youth voices and working with young people. Together, we can leverage innovation and emerging technologies to make a difference for young people and deliver on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” Guy Ryder, Director-General, ILO. | I was born on 24/04/1992 in Busia district in Uganda and was raised in a middle income family headed by Mr Saul Wesonga and Mrs Florence Wesonga. I attended my primary and ordinary level secondary education in my district of birth and later moved to Kampala to complete my advanced level secondary education at Our Lady of Africa SS Namilyango in 2012. I was admitted to Makerere University Kampala in 2013 where I attained a Bachelors degree in Computer engineering 4 years later. I graduated in 2018 and started running my own company in Uganda( PSJ solutions and technologies), worked with different organisations. I founded Makerere Innovation Society in 2018 and I am currently working towards achieving the vision of the society till date. I am a second born of 9 children with both parents still alive | Promoting innovation and active entrepreneurship in schools, colleges, vocational institutions and universities to fuel the creation of jobs in East Africa | Creating the future of students | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Uganda | Yes | Makerere University, Africa Code Week Uganda, Makerere Innovation & Incubation Center, Resilient Africa Network, Enabel in Uganda, Ministry of Education | Transition to Scale | We carried out our first pilot phase in 2018 which is supporting final year students at the engineering school of Makerere University, 2 vocational institutions, 4 secondary schools and 2 primary schools in Uganda. We are reaching out to more institutions this year as we grow and we are targeting students in all regions of Uganda to benefit from the program which will see 5 public universities, 100 secondary schools, and 50 primary schools part of the society by the close of 2020. | The youth in Uganda are trapped in a very difficult situation of unemployment which is on a rampant increase close to 2.8% and has always caused us untold suffering and living under poor conditions. More than 600,000 youth graduate from tertiary institutions to compete for only about 8000 jobs available every year. The education system in Uganda focuses more on creating job seekers rather than job makers. Joblessness remains the fundamental cause of the social evils associated with unemployment. | Makerere Innovation Society is a network of passionate innovators in Universities, vocational institutions, colleges, secondary & primary schools in Uganda. The society proposes an initiative to create more job opportunities for the youth in East Africa through promoting innovations & active entrepreneurship in Universities, Colleges, Vocational institutions, Secondary & Primary schools. The society is made up of two categories of innovators; the first category are the advanced teams made up of university & vocational institution students, and the second category are the ordinary teams made up of primary & secondary school students. Advanced teams are created by bringing together 10 individuals offering different courses at the university to work on a particular venture from idea stage to the level when they become a successful company. If each start-up can create 50 new jobs, then 50 advanced innovation teams when supported can create 2500 new jobs annually from each tertiary institution. The ordinary teams are trained to come up with brilliant potential ideas, acquire prototyping & presentation skills, project & business management skills, ICT skills, and science & art skills, among other skills needed to thrive in the 21st Century. Our vision is to create knowledge-based entrepreneurs who will create enough job opportunities to make East Africa the best home for university graduates by 2030 | The government of Uganda is trying to create more employment opportunities through promoting more foreign investments & industrialization in the country, more business incubators are being put in place to support start-ups. However no strategy has been put in place to build a strong foundation of innovations in Uganda. Trees whose foundation is poor always yield poor quality or no fruits at all, they are always washed away by the floods and destroyed by the storm. This explains why the existing approaches have failed. The broad concept of innovation embraced by Makerere Innovation Society emphasizes the need for a better match among the 3 levels of education in Uganda; primary, secondary & tertiary education. This involves laying a strong foundation that even the Nile cannot wash away. Our unique curriculum and wide range of activities to support the young people through wealth creation will see youth unemployment becoming a story to forget within 5 years. The society activities include but not limited to; information sessions, life & leadership skills training, co-creation workshops, research study, innovation & entrepreneurship mentor-ship, product/service prototype development & trial, sustaining, scaling & diffusion, project management workshops, artificial intelligence and embedded systems training, art & craft workshops, capacity building, ICT & science workshops, youth innovation camps, innovate Uganda week, innovation debates, innovation fellowships & exhibitions. | In 2017, we realized the problem of unemployment was worsening in Uganda, most of us were victims of this disaster since we had just completed our first degrees and were looking for jobs tirelessly. When we failed, we started thinking about how we might create jobs for ourselves and our fellow youth out there then we came up with the idea of growing our ideas into successful business ventures. We analyzed our challenges and needs, we used the proposed strategies to drive our ideas to real solutions and it worked, most of us came up with start-up companies which were able to employ at least 20 young people by the close of 2017. We started imagining a world where all graduates are job creators and during this imagination, we identified a lot of gaps that required filling in order to achieve our dream. In 2018, we carried out research studies in institutions located in different regions of Uganda, then in December 2018 we carried out our first pilot phase trial with a 4 weeks kids innovation camp at Makerere University and it was promising. In March 2019, we rolled out the program to Makerere University students and there is already a great impact, we have created 37 innovation teams so far with the limited support we have from the University and other stakeholders. We have been basing on the first phase to come up with a complete curriculum and set of activities required to achieve our vision. We aim at impacting the whole of Uganda by 2020 and East Africa by 2022. | We plan to promote more of job makers than job seekers among the youth in East Africa, at least 60% of university graduates should be job creators. As we train more trainers and expand our management team, we plan to train & equip university & secondary school students in East Africa with entrepreneurship and innovation skills. Our activities are to support young people to come up with & develop solutions to a variety of problems in the economy. The society plans to bridge the gap between the existing education levels with Innovations & active entrepreneurship. We need support to aid us in scaling to the whole country and to East African countries. | In the next two years, we plan to extend our activities to all regions of Uganda and we target to have 200,000 children and the youth benefit from this program. This will cover 6 public universities, 15 vocational institutions, 200 secondary schools and 100 primary schools in Uganda. We need financial resources to cover our budget of 400,000 USD which will facilitate the activities of this action, we are also seeking more partners who believe in our vision to support us through mentor-ship programs to the trainers and innovators. In the next 5 years, we plan to construct 4 innovation hubs in 4 regions of Uganda which include northern, eastern, west Nile and western Uganda. This is aimed at promoting equality among all regions. We plan to expand our innovation initiatives to Kenya and Tanzania, engage 600,000+ children and youth, equip 10,000+ trainers and mentors. We shall be able to sustain all the activities in Uganda, we shall only be seeking for support to implement the action in Kenya and Tanzania In the next 10 years (by 2030), we plan to further access to innovation workshops and resources to 5 million+ children and youth across East Africa. The target countries include; Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi, Southern Sudan, and Malawi. We need support in form of financial resources, partnerships and collaborations with concerned stakeholders, and more equipment in form of computers, tools and product development materials. | https://www.facebook.com/MakerereInnovationSociety/ | https://youtu.be/6DnMANqKUbs, https://youtu.be/VGvJKnNF7lY, https://youtu.be/z6OYE5ePok4, https://youtu.be/aV928qVYccU https://youtu.be/ewzhObxuETk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
633 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alberto | Arredondo Barreto | Green Technologies | https://www.dropbox.com/s/7haq92v3znr7xey/PICHTDECK%2020190805-10P.pdf?dl=0 | Founder/ Innovator | Male | Nicaragua | Nicaragua | English | Spanish | Hello everyone. Thank you for your time, and I invite you to know my adventure. My name is Alberto Arredondo, from Nicaragua. I am an entrepreneur and founder of Green Technologies; Hybrid startup, it is a model of growth at a scale and financial self-sustainability. Our main job is the manufacture and distribution of new technologies for access to healthy water. Since I was a kid I went to the park to play soccer near my house and I saw that the other children left the water fountain always open, I always wondered if one day the water from that tap would finished, and it did. The most abundant resource, it is gone. In 2013, Central America suffered the worst drought in its history. Animals died, crops were lost and people had no water to drink, diseases were everywhere. Being cheaper, a soda, than a bottle of water, affecting our food security. That is why our adventure began in 2014, inventing Shagara purification water tank, developing a process of research, development and innovation. Nicaragua, in a region that invests ""0"" percent in research and innovation, our adventure has been difficult, expensive and long. Now we are one of the most promising innovations in Central America. | Alberto Arredondo, a proactive, dynamic, visionary and passionate about innovation and sustainable development person. It was named by MIT innovative under 35, Social Entrepreneur by Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mr. Arredondo, elected by the IMF & World Bank, among young leaders of tomorrow en 2011. In his career he has been a social leader, a strong supporter of social change, civic organization and promoter of sustainable development in Central America. Has participated as a speaker at conferences and goodwill ambassador for international events . His career as a social entrepreneur was presented in 2014, formed a project Green Technologies, a social enterprise innovation, Among his scientific projects was the creation of Shagara purification water tank, a system made by the unification of natural materials, which aims to be in every household in Latin America in 2030. Alberto Arredondo, is author of the book ""I entrepreneur"". The idea of founding a social enterprise, for mitigating the effects of climate change and promote youth economic empowerment and self-employment. | Shagara Purificacion Water Tank | Shagara is a 3 in 1 device. Collects, purifies and stores, has an effectiveness of 99%, is used by the gravity or solar pump | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nicaragua | No | Transition to Scale | We are currently launching a market test edition, is a tank with portable filter, 250 liters. It is an assemble system, that stores, collects, and filter water by gravity, eliminating, odor, color and bacteria, is a low cost and multi-purpose solution. Soon, we have plans to design the Shagara Smart Tank prototype, which will be a sustainable high-tech device, capturing water, recycling, storing, and distributing water efficiently throughout the house. | For an example, Imagine that the water you drink has a bad taste and infects washing your food, that same water can contain bacteria and viruses, which generates diseases such as cholera and diarrhea; 1.8 million children drink water contaminated with fecal matter, 2000 die every day due to the lack of safe water and efficient sanitation. it's a limited resource that you do not have every day, because of the inequalities that exist in your society and you only earn two dollars a day | It is a unique product with multiple functions, including the supply of drinkable water for housing, storage for emergency situations, as well as a contribution to the value chain of agriculture, treating water for irrigation of crops, that most of the time water that is used contains pesticides and chemicals. Collection: Rainwater collection, drinking water collection and collection of other alternative sources, with a multi-connection design, obtaining more than 3 types of sources to supply and store 1 cubic meter. Storage: its housing is an ergonomic design of 260 gallons, expandable, can be made with polyethylene and/or GFRP, extending life 50 years, ideal for leasing. Purification: It has a nanofiltration system with a long service life of up to 2 years with a 99.9% effectiveness, high flow rate of 300 gallons per hour, its cartridge spare parts are universal, for the sustainability of the product anywhere in the world. The objective is to change the storage tanks around the world, through our water purification tank, we consider that this product evolves. It is a friendly system that collects, purifies and complements other products, is a harmonious system with its surroundings, improves it and diversifies it. | Shagara is a sustainable partner innovation, because it affects circumstances of everyday life, such as obtaining the vital liquid, which is not at the service of the whole society - a universal human right - and with this contribution it is possible to transform realities and improve living conditions by providing a new product that meets 3 basic needs of the inhabitant: Storage, Safe Water and Lower Cost (Affordable and accessible). | Our adventure continues after 5 years of hard work, distributing water filters, making prototypes in an artisan way, trying different ways of filtering water and drawing more than fifteen designs. We have come to obtain two viable products ready to contribute to the construction of a better world. How? We are a unique community of high performance, dedicated to continuous improvement with unusual levels of productivity and service, our team is made up of young people, who have decided to take this adventure, mostly without a salary, with the vision of belonging to a team that will be revolutionizing services and products in residential water purification, with a new model of social innovation in entrepreneurship project. | For 2019, we expect to manufacture a 1000 units of our tank with a portable filter, which will be sold at an accessible price with a profit margin of 25 percent. To generate income for the construction of our Shagara factory and to obtain 1.2 millions for our master plan. We currently carry out a crowdfunding campaign of$ 55,000 in Indiegogo. 2022- We will able to demonstrate that our greatest weakness was our strength, validating our market and product strategy: storage and purification system, we expect an income of 150,000.00 per year, which allows us to be subject to credit and a We negotiate with capital funds with greater competitiveness to build our assembly line. 2023- Our main goal with shagara purification tank, is to install our manufacturing factory and to sale licenses for the manufacturing with local companies in Mexico, Central America, and other countries. 2030- Our goal is to reach Ten Million beneficiaries in the year 2030. | We entered to compete to a very important market, the storage tank manufacturer of the region invoices 343 Million dollars and the bottled water industry 14 Billion Dollars, in a region where the water crisis is approaching in 2022, and we we have the solution to the problem. Everyone will want to make a water purifier tank and everyone wants to buy one. | http://www.innovatorsunder35.com/innovator/alberto-arrendondo http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/economia/379062-alberto-arredondo-convencido-empresas-verdes/ https://www.technologyreview.es/tr35centroamerica/1607/alberto-arredondo/ http://revistaescueladenegocios.net/alberto-arredondo-fundador-de-green-energy-technologies http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/375246-nica-ocho-jovenes-que-seran-premiados-sus-innovaci/ http://www.lavozdelsandinismo.com/nicaragua/2015-12-08/el-nica-alberto-arredondo-crea-primer-purificador-de-agua-sostenible-en-nuestro-pais/ http://www.cdcs.com.mx/informate/ganadores-premio-cemex-tec-2016 https://issuu.com/revistacomercio/docs/comercio-84 | Emprendedores social Cemex https://youtu.be/_5w8lpN3sME Pitch Eco Reto 2016 https://youtu.be/pyi7E9UfNO4 Innovadores Menores de 35 https://youtu.be/27uMBjqrnX4 | Latin America Green Awards, Top 500 of companies in Latin America Energy Globe Award One Young World/ Lenovo, Social Innovation Prize MIT Tecnology Review, Innovator under 35. TecMonterrey / Cemex, Social Entrepreneur United Nations/ UNCTAD, Global Entrepreneurship Week Geneva ""Youth Entrepreneurship Pitching"". Unilever/ Alterna, Innovation Challenge SOLA Centroamerica 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
634 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alexandra | Clare | Re:Coded | https://www.re-coded.com | Co-Founder & CEO | Female | Turkey | Australia | English | French | Across the world’s 35 conflict zones, 75 million children are being denied an education and a prospect for future employment, especially in the digital economy. Re:Coded wants to shift this paradigm by providing a blueprint for bridging the education employment divide for vulnerable youth and by training a diverse workforce outside of traditional talent pools. We are planning to scale our model of education and employment across the MENA region in the upcoming years. Presenting our model at the UN Solutions Summit would allow us to network with like-minded organizations and senior policymakers all operating in the same sphere, assisting with our expansion plans outside of the countries in which we already operate. Additionally, the networking opportunities with fellow entrepreneurs would be instrumental in enabling us to understand how best to effectively scale our work and share our lessons learned. We also hope that by attending the Summit and the in-person accelerator sessions, we will be able to increase our exposure, contribute to the community and help us to make connections with funders, partners and potential board members. | Alexandra is an humanitarian and development innovation expert with over 8 years experience launching and scaling programs at the intersection of conflict resolution, technology and education. Before co-founding Re:Coded, the largest coding bootcamp for conflict affected youth in MENA, she launched the first humanitarian innovation accelerator at New York University, helping organizations design and implement technology solutions for conflict and disaster affected communities. Alexandra has previously worked in humanitarian advocacy and law working for the UN Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Human Rights Watch and the UN Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Alexandra is a lawyer by training and was awarded a Rotary scholarship for her Masters in International Affairs at New York University. She also holds a Law Degree from the Australian National University where she was recently named, Young Alumni of the Year. | Re:Coded | Training conflict affected youth to become the technology leaders of tomorrow | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Turkey, Iraq, Yemen and Egypt | Yes | GIZ, Western Union Foundation, SAP, Slack, Microsoft, ConsenSys, Flatiron School/WeWork, Coursera, MSI, Techstars | Proof of Concept | We have already piloted our program and the results have shown us that we are ready to scale our project. After implementing 10 coding bootcamps across 3 countries, we have proven that there is proof of uptake and there is both a need and want for this type of programming in the region. | Ongoing wars have displaced millions & job opportunities for conflict affected youth are few & in the informal sector where the pay is low & exploitation is high. Yet, globally, there are millions of unfilled software engineering jobs & the technical skills gap in MENA is over 40%. This challenge is partially rooted in the growing mismatch between youths’ skills and employer needs. With the average length of displacement at 26 yrs, there is a need to invest in new education/employment models | Re:Coded fills this void with a learning accelerator that provides conflict affected and vulnerable youth with digital and professional skills training. Re:Coded’s approach focuses on two key aspects: a blended learning model and market relevance. In blended learning, courses are online, but students complete them in the classroom with the guidance of trained instructor. Through market research and testing, Re:Coded ensures that curriculum content and the methodologies teachers use are applicable to employers’ actual needs. Instructors simulate a real working environment and facilitate projects that require students to apply what they’ve learned. Furthermore, Re:Coded connects students with leading companies through employer only demo days, speed dating and networking to facilitate students’ transition into the workforce. By connecting talent with opportunity, Re:Coded empowers graduates to bring change to their families, tech companies, and communities across the MENA region. | In addition to being the first organization to bring the concept of coding bootcamps to war-torn areas, we also run Re:Coded Labs - a digital agency staffed by our top graduates. 50% of the profits generated is reinvested back into our education programs, to fuel our mission/growth. The beauty of this model is that Re:Coded is able to provide economic opportunities to refugees & allows our graduates to gain job experience, earn income, build portfolios, & contribute to local communities/economies. Moreover, our model is a different way of approaching education - 1. We use state of the art learning techniques using a technology-based curriculum, enabling us to keep our costs low & scaling possible. 2. We have an integrated apprenticeship program. Students build MVPs for clients worldwide with support from our team. These clients have first right to hire our talent (30% conversion) & students graduate with work experience & project portfolios. 3. We evolve our curriculums to best meet employer demands/fill voids in education systems. 4. Our innovative soft skills & professional development training helps students thrive in the job market. 5. With our in-depth career support fellows have an opportunity to get one-on-one support for their career goals & advice on how to refine their CVs, search for a job, & build their online presence. Re:Coded also links students to mentors for practice tech interviews. | We believe that Re:Coded’s model is the future of education. By teaching conflict-affected youth how to code & preparing them for jobs of the future, we will help them to get purposeful employment, earn above average salaries, & reduce negative coping strategies. How do we do this? This is achieved through our innovative model that combines education with practical real-life skills training as well as long-term mentorship & career support. By fostering the development of local tech communities in the areas in which we work & supporting our students through their entire educational & professional journeys – we help them to become more competitive in the job market. In order to measure the effectiveness of program activities, our teams collect data on learning outcomes & student performance which is reviewed on a weekly basis to ensure that our efforts are focused as possible. We measure how well a developer comprehends computer science & how effectively they translate that understanding into their projects. We also measure how well our students integrate values & how effectively they communicate. After graduation, we track job outcomes over 3 - 24 months. How are we doing? Of over 200 graduates, nearly 90% found employment within 6 months of graduation + on average, their salaries tripled. 12 graduates have started their own businesses & created jobs. Job creation is one of the greatest drivers of poverty reduction. 100% of our graduates would recommend the program. | We are currently ramping up recruiting efforts to hire & onboard key positions that will help us to build out our in-house technical & soft skills curriculum as well as develop partnerships in the private sector to create a bigger pipeline for employment opportunities for our graduates. Next year: ~1,500 We hope to increase the number of beneficiaries & graduates across all of our current Re:Coded programs by 800. We also plan to expand geographically in MENA with potential opportunities to expand in either Jordan or Egypt. We plan on formally launching Re:Coded Academy - an online learner platform which includes learner guides, customized career-prep, leadership & job readiness curricula through a mix of video content & text & assessments. The platform will also include access to some of our new technical curriculums including blockchain. This online platform will also enable our model to be replicable across all countries that we work, ensuring our model is ready to scale. In five years: ~7,000 We plan to increase the number of youth that we train by at least 10 & to expand into new markets outside of MENA. We not only plan to substantially increase the number of our direct beneficiaries, but our indirect beneficiaries will increase tenfold as our students’ communities continue to benefit from the training outcomes & benefits of being part of the Re:Coded network/community. | We are planning to scale & grow rapidly throughout MENA & the resources that we need to scale our solution are: Partnerships This opportunity to participate in the UN Solutions Summit would allow us to network with like-minded organizations operating in the same sphere to assist with our expansion plans outside of the countries where we already operate. We also hope that presenting at this Summit increase our exposure, helping us to make connections with funders & potential board members. Financial Until Re:Coded Labs is fully operational & generates a more sustainable income, Re:Coded is reliant donations for our operations. This inherently limits team growth as our team is employed on a project basis. We would love to generate enough revenue that we can cover our core operational costs to enable us to scale sustainably. In the past year, staff members have been brought on with expertise in grant-writing & marketing which will allow an opportunity for Re:Coded to access new funding & revenue streams in order to sustain & grow our operations. Legal Operating as an NGO in some country-contexts in the region has proven challenging. We often face bureaucratic challenges & this has hampered our efforts to break into new markets such as Egypt. With increased access to both financial support & opportunities for visibility, we will be to work directly with a lawyer familiar with the bureaucratic processes in the region or get insights from similar organizations. | https://www.re-coded.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zz37qh0Rg&t=1s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO-y_66RxJw https://vimeo.com/326485680 https://www.facebook.com/riseupsummit/videos/riseup18live-x-startup-scene-interview-hub-ft-alexandra-clare-co-founder-of-reco/1963034687109898/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMUvm6n-bOM https://distantjob.com/blog/podcasts/breaking-cultural-barriers-with-marcello-bonatto/ | Google RISE Award Finalist for MIT Innovate for Refugees Award 2019 Blossom Hill Fellowship 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
635 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Atta Ur | Rehman | Fauji Foundation | www.fauji.org.pk | Manager Marketing and Synergy Development | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | I have 10 years of professional experience. Following are my professional designations Manager Marketing Synergy & Development Fauji Foundation Head Office March – To date Project Management Specialist Mega Software, Holland Dec, 2018 – March, 2019 Manager Planning & Development Department Sep, 2012 – Nov, 2018 Planning Officer for Awareness Campaigns Development Dimensions Society Jun 2010 - Feb, 2012 | I am a young professional working on education sector. I have successfully executed key assignments for the projects of United Nations, DFID UK, DAI UK, World Bank, Al-Aman Group UAE, Fauji Foundation and Government of Pakistan. I have also completed professional development programmes from LUMS, Oxford UK, and MIT USA. Currently I am doing PhD from a reputed university of USA via distance learning program. | Clean & Green Campaign (CGC) via Education Sector | Civic Awareness in Education Sector to mobilize students to achieve the goal of ""clean and green earth"". | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Pakistan, UAE and Malayasia | No | Research & Development | Controlling environmental issues with technology by engaging academia is an innovative approach as well as a noble cause. A unique dashboard will be develop for the protection of trees, water and air quality. Performance will be monitored by the student via android/iOS applications. | Environmental issues include deforestation, air pollution, water pollution, noise pollution, climate change, pesticide misuse, soil erosion, natural disasters and desertification. These serious issues need special attention and solution. A larger population of this world is enrolled in schools, thus academia can play a vital role in addressing the grave concerns of environmental pollution. | As far as Methodology is concern. A complete administrative and electronic process has been devised to engage academia for the protection of environment. 1) There is a user login to register for the CGC ""Clean and Green Campaign"" 2) There is a mobile Application to keep complete record and to provide facilitation. 3) There is a complete social media marketing plan as well as social media has more than 2.5 billion users in the world. 4) There is a monitoring and evaluation mechanism. 5) There is a dashboard to analysis outcomes. | Following are the unique aspects: 1)Use of Technology 2)Mobilization of Academia 3)Developing responsible citizen 4)Protection of Earth 5)Community Engagement 6)Use of Social Media 7)Use of Monitoring Dashboards | Initially campaigns will be launched at Union Council (Smaller Geographical Unit) then extend to cities and province level. There is a monitoring and evaluation mechanism and there is a dashboard to analysis outcomes. | Following are the milestones: 1) Achieving plantation of 1 million trees in first quarter 2) Achieving 4 million tree plantation in 1 year. 3) Developing civic sense 3) Ensuring cleanliness 4) Extending this campaign towards neighboring countries 5) Community engagement via social media | Environmental Research IT Skills Social Media Marketing | http://www.fauji.org.pk/fauji/ https://megasoftware.nl | https://www.facebook.com/ata786/media_set?set=a.10210371565079153&type=3 The Above link of my visit to UK, London Parliament for my solution. | My Solution has numerous recognition at National Level and I have listed my achievement in my CV based on this proposal. I became Finalist of World Essays Writing Competition on the basis of this ""Solution"" and got selected for Global Diplomatic Forum London UK because of my ""Solution"". Moreover I was selected for International SDGs Conference Youthopia for by this Solution. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
636 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Babajide | Oluwase | RenewDrive | www.renewdrive.com | CEO | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I believe the UN Solutions Summit will give me a great opportunity to interact, meet and greet with an audience of investors, fellow changemakers, policy makers and members of the public who will bring additional insights to my work. I also expect the in-person accelerator sessions will help me further assess my leadership skills and its effectiveness in reaching my personal and professional goals within stipulated time. Through RenewDrive, we design, develop and deploy low-cost, solar-powered storage solutions that maximize fruits and vegetables shelf-life and enable farmers and vendors supply quality produce to the local market at the right time whilst ensuring better returns. Till date, RenewDrive has three operational hubs in Nigeria providing storage service to more than 40 customers on a regular basis. RenewDrive has saved over 16 tons of fruits and vegetables that would rather have ended in landfills to contaminate soil, ground water, and pollute debris in surrounding area. | Babajide Oluwase is a social innovator with 5+ years’ experience working at the intersection of environmental advocacy, business development and clean-tech solutions to provide robust economic growth and a higher quality of life to much of the underserved population. He is the Founder/Team Lead of RenewDrive, a startup that works predominantly to provide access to affordable energy solutions. In this capacity, Babajide coordinates the company’s strategy formulation and oversees everything that relates to operations, including revenue and growth. Babajide is a Sustainable Solutions Africa 30 under 30 Fellow, a Tony Elumelu Foundation Fellow as well as a trained Sustainable Business Entrepreneur from Engagement Global, Germany. He has worked with cross-cultural teams across the globe through on-site and virtual platforms to proffer sustainable solutions to social problems. | Ecotutu | access to low-cost storage solution | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Nigeria | Yes | Nigeria Climate Innovation Center | Proof of Concept | Based on the outcome of the need assessments conducted and in synergy with farmers’ cooperative, we have identified central locations and deployed three units of Ecotutu to demonstrate its value proposition to farmers. This is helping the team further understand our customers’ peculiarities and needs, and how best to position for long-term impact. | Nigeria loses over 45% (>$12bn) of its food produce per annum due to lack of storage facilities - Large part of agrarian population still doesn't have access to electricity - Farmers loose income due to of lack of storage facilities; they are forced to sell as soon as they harvest as they cannot store - Huge losses during gluts - Most conventional cold storages do not meet optimum storage condition requirements for varied crop. | Our solution, Ecotutu, addresses these problems by availing farmers and other cold-chain stakeholders with on-farm solar cold storage systems where they can store their produce at optimum conditions increasing the shelf life. The same can now be sold when the prices mature. It is a win-win situation for farmers who end up earning up to 80% more and end customers who benefit by stable prices. Our primary targets are farmers with land holding of over 1 acre, belonging to places devoid of electricity. These are majorly growers of fruits and vegetables. With unique thermal storage, battery-less backup and intelligent control system, the product is affordable yet efficient and reliable. RenewDrive aims to expand across markets in Africa and Asia, with the ultimate goal of fixing the agricultural supply chain and providing low-cost storage access to 300,000 farmers by 2024. We plan to scale by working with key partners to increase access to our storage systems in a decentralized format across communities/regions. We also want to lower the prices of our services to make it even more affordable. | RenewDrive’s competitive advantages are our ability to operate in power-deficit areas and the flexibility to provide storage as a service to farmers and vendors that cannot readily afford outright purchase of existing alternatives. We provide the option of pay-as-you-store for as low as USD 0.45/crate/day hence, saving farmers and vendors up to 40 percent in profit annually. Our solution is wholly designed and developed locally which helps us to compete favourably in price against imported cold chains as well as facilitate job creation for women and youth. | During a series of community-led programs to access energy need in selected communities across southwest Nigeria, my close-knit team witnessed first-hand how loads of fruits and vegetables were wasted few days after harvest. Further examination of the problem and how it’s been addressed confirms that only the mechanized farmers could afford a power generator and refrigerator large enough to store their produce till they get a good deal/market. To assess the demand for cold storage solution, we developed a small-scale pilot to store fruits and vegetables without electricity. Over the next 9 months, the pilot achieved significant result and gained interest from major stakeholders in the agric space. And so the idea for Ecotutu was born. As a close-knit team that combines the rigor of research, engineering and business, we have explored various phases of the project including ideation, development and testing of the first prototype; launch of the first major pilot; and the eventual commercial operations starting from Nigeria. We measure our progress by setting up and monitoring tailored goals and milestones with each member of the team, whilst ensuring strict adherence to deadlines. | 1. Impact study of Ecotutu - Q4 2019 2. Patent filing - Q4 2019 3. Spread of commercial operations across Nigeria - Q3 2020 4. Team expansion and recruitment for five (5) key positions - Q2 2020 5. Expansion of commercial operations to West Africa - 2021 6. Low-cost cold storage access to 300,000 farmers - 2024 | 1. USD 200, 000 scale-up fund 2. Linkage to market 3. Human resources | https://www.renewdrive.com https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vBtX50JDHIy_yEcrkxR6Ii2vVsvuXsXh http://earthcharter.org/news-post/ecyl-start-creates-ecotutu-solar-powered-food-storage-farmers/ https://www.dw.com/en/doing-your-bit-renewdrive-and-the-power-of-solar-energy/av-44235297 https://en.reset.org/blog/ecobox-solar-powered-food-saving-solution-made-nigeria-12042018 | https://www.facebook.com/GlowInitiative/videos/2083149835315341/ | Sustainable Solutions Africa 30 under 30 Fellowship - Winner Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Fellowship - Winner Earth Charter Young Leader - Winner George Ayittey Platinum Prize - Winner Climate Launchpad Nigeria 2018 - Finalist 2016 British Council Business Innovator - Finalist Youth Climate Action Challenge - Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
637 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Greg | Packer | Bowville p/l | dont have one | Concept designer /Innovator | Male | Australia | Australia | English | I have designed World first technology for mine clearing robots. Being an expandible excavator bucket ,mounted on a robot uses radar to detect IED sending the signal via satellite back to the bucket telling it where to dig ,the bucket then crowds back over the mound grabbing the IED and removing it without anyone getting killed or injured and taking less than 15 minutes. There are 100million mines out there that need cleaning up, the bucket costs around $3500 and can fit on a bobcat if necessary.So no need for a robot costing $450,000. | Designer Innovator of all types of technology including the expandible bucket. We also have a design for an Atomic Hydrogen reactor ,non nuclear. It runs SCO2 turbines ,Fuel cells, andTurboexpander,generators and reuses the hydrogen fuel,zero pollution. Also we have new designs for electric waste trucks incorporating side robots,supersonic power pack s for household power,uses water as fuel.Fully computerised Algae plant.My resume is on Linkedin | Expandible excavator bucket for landmine extraction,the bucket is aluminium. | Our product can be mounted on a telescopic arm on a robot or small bobcat with radar mounted underneath this retracts away when the explosive is found | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Not yet on the market ,looking for Companies or Armies to buy a license off us and use Worldwide | No | Sustainable Scale | Our product is ready for manufacture and use being an ex-bucket manufacturer for 10 yrs. | We need to contact companies into de-mining ,even though we have spoken to a few,witing to hear back | Explained previously | Our product is unique because it is expandible ,being a World first allows the machine to grab the mound holding the IED and removing it .Removing the explosive safely,saviing lives and people being injured. | Our product is now ready for manufacture. | We have meetings with a retired General in a fortnight who has contacts all through the armed forces World Wide. | We have spent approx $28000 over 30yrs building prototypes. Now looking for an equity partner to inject money or manufacture under license. | we have some our future products that we have designed ,waiting to be developed and for future investor /partners,on Linkedin. | None. | Not yet on the open market | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
638 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chirag | Virani | Sparkle Innovations | http://www.sparkleinnovations.in/ | Co-founder | Male | India | India | English | By presenting my project at the UN Solutions Summit, I would like to spread awareness about problems faced by millions of girls and women in India due to lack of access to sanitary pads. Besides gaining valuable insights and mentorship for maximizing our impact, we hope to get connected with UN representatives and NGO partners who are making a positive impact at the grassroot levels in underprivileged communities across the globe or conflict areas such as refugee camps. We would like to reach those areas directly to donate sanitary pads to girls in need so that they can participate in school, engage socially and carry out daily activities with dignity. When I was 23, I launched my first fundraiser which planted the seeds for an NGO, United World Foundation and a start-up, Sparkle Innovations. After completing my postgraduate program at UC–Berkeley, I took a gap year to put my engineering and business skills to a good use while traveling, teaching, staying at orphanages and working with different NGOs in Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam, South Africa, India and Costa Rica. I participated in a number of outreach programs which included medical camps, HIV counseling, teaching and feeding programs. I personally witnessed the problems millions of girls and women faced during their periods. Girls missed school and women missed work simply because they could not afford sanitary napkins. In fact, they used unhygienic old rags, plastic or ash to manage their periods. Our Initiative: Over 200 million girls and women in India without access to sanitary pads miss up to 50-60 days of school or work every year. They use rags or ash during their periods, risking infection. It is a leading reason for higher school dropout rates of adolescent girls than boys once they reach puberty. We have developed affordable, plastic free and chemical free sanitary pads made from bamboo fibre, banana fibre and corn starch that biodegrade completely within 6 months of disposal. Conventional sanitary pads contain up to 90% plastic and other harsh chemicals that cause irritations, rashes, UTIs and do not biodegrade for 600-800 years after disposal. With “Buy One, Give One” initiative, we donate a pad with every Sparkle purchase. Other manufacturers simply press predetermined quantity of fluff pulp to form a thick, uneven, uncomfortable and inefficient sanitary pads. With our advanced small-scale air-laid technology, we produce ultra-thin sanitary pads by evenly distributing fluff pulp. | I have completed Mechanical Engineering from McMaster University, Canada, Master in Business Administration from Ryerson University, Canada and post-graduation program from UC-Berkeley, the USA. With over seven years of work experience from Canada, USA, Europe, and India, I co-founded United World Foundation and Sparkle Innovations. United World Foundation (UWF), an 80G tax free certified Indian non-profit organization, aims to build poverty-free, healthy, gender-balanced, equitable, eco-conscious and inclusive humanity. UWF aims to reduce inequity by aligning long term strategies and vision to shared Global Goals of sustainable development. At UWF, I guide the vision and strategic direction of the foundation. My key area of focus at UWF is to identify unique challenges that are not effectively addressed by the market or the government and to develop strategies that address those issues. Through UWF Menstrual Hygiene Program, we distribute sanitary napkins to underprivileged girls and women in rural communities to reduce school dropout rates, increase number of workdays and prevent diseases. At Sparkle Innovations, I overlook product design, manufacturing and business development. Along with conducting market research and managing distribution channels, I work with NGOs that focus on grass root level solutions by providing them sanitary pads at subsidised rates. Through Sparkle, we aim to provide natural and effective sanitary pads to underprivileged girls and women in India. Out of 350 million women in India, around 80% of women don’t have access to sanitary pads. | Sparkle Innovations | Transforming banana stem agro waste into all-natural sanitary pads and 100% organic fertilizer | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | India | No | Transition to Scale | We have successfully developed and tested all-natural sanitary pads using our small scale modular machines. We have donated over 50,000 pads directly to girls in need through Manvilas Charitable Trust and United World Foundation. By selling over 50,000 pads and donating 50,000 pads, we have eliminated 350 kg of plastic pad waste. In terms of reducing agro waste, we have transformed around 450 tonnes of banana stem waste into 1 tonne of banana fibre and 5000 litre of 100% organic fertilizer. | Over 200 million women in India without access to sanitary pads use rags or ash during their periods, risking infection. Many of them miss up to 50-60 days of school or work every year. Conventional sanitary pads contain around 3.5g of petrochemical plastic with every sanitary pad releasing around 21 grams of carbon dioxide in the process. They contain up to 90% plastic and do not biodegrade for 600-800 years after disposal. Burning the plastic pad releases toxic pollutants in the environment. | We aim to provide healthy and affordable period products to 350 million girls and women in India. We are the first company in the world to use a combination of bamboo fibre, banana fibre and corn starch in a sanitary pad. Bamboo fibre is naturally antibacterial and super-soft. Banana fibre is highly effective at locking away menstrual fluid. Corn-starch based bio plastic serves as a compostable alternative to plastic. Sparkle pads do not contain plastic, artificial fragrances, heavy metal dyes or other harmful chemicals. Compared to commercial pads that do not biodegrade for 600 years, Sparkle pads biodegrade within 6 months of disposal. With Sparkle, we aim to eliminate around 100kg of pad waste per woman, in her lifetime. With only 1 in 6 women using sanitary pads in India, around 150,000 tonnes of pad waste is generated per year. If all of 355 million women start using pads, it would result in around 1,000,000 tons of pad waste annually. Since Sparkle pads biodegrade in just 6 months, we have the potential to eliminate 1,000,000 tons of pad waste per year. In India, there are around 800,000 hectors of banana tree plantations which results in 64 million tonnes of banana stem agro waste after each harvest. We use this agro waste to produce biodegradable sanitary pads and organic fertilizer. Banana farmers earn extra income each harvest by selling banana stems. Through our “Buy one Give One” initiative, we donate a pad to a girl in need with every Sparkle purchase. | Background of existing technology: Paper industry has been converting lignocellulosic materials similar to banana fibre into soft pulp by breaking down or modifying the fibre structure for many decades. In Africa, banana fibre has been used to make sanitary pads using similar processes. Our innovative business model for producing cost-effective biodegradable pads: Increasing the production of raw-materials: Current banana fibre extraction machines have very low production capacity with high wastage-ratio due to inefficient design. We have developed auto-feed machines with speed controllers, conveyor belts, brushing unit and drying unit with four times the production capacity and twice the fibre yield compared to existing machines. Reducing the cost of raw-materials: As a by-product of fibre extraction process we recover nutritious banana stem sap to produce advanced 100% organic fertilizer. Since we utilize all the components of banana stem, our overall cost of raw materials decreases. Improving the quality of sanitary pads: Small-scale manual sanitary napkin machines simply press predetermined quantity of fluff pulp to form a thick, uneven, inefficient and uncomfortable absorbent core. With our small-scale air-laid technology, we can produce ultra-thin super absorbent core. Our controlled air flow and suction technology evenly distributes the fluff pulp to form an ultra-thin core that is supper efficient at absorption and retention of menstrual fluid. | With Sparkle, we aim to support circular economy by positively impacting women, agriculture, local economy and the environment. During product development stage, we interacted with 1200 women to understand key problems they faced during their periods. Our surveys measured different performance parameters such as pad design, size of the pad, pad thickness, softness, dryness, absorbency and disposal. According to their feedback, we made multiple modifications in our machines, manufacturing processes and design parameters. Our impact can be measured quantitatively by our production, sales and donation of sanitary pads. In terms of fighting social and cultural stigma surrounding menstruation and spreading awareness, our impact can be measured qualitatively through number of NGO collaborations and seminars in schools, colleges and remote villages across India. So far, we have donated over 50,000 pads to girls in need through Manvilas Charitable Trust and United World Foundation. By selling over 50,000 pads and donating over 50,000 pads, we have already eliminated over 350 kg of plastic pad waste. Through our banana fibre extraction operations, we have provided extra income to over 100 farmers. We have also reduced around 450 tonnes of banana stem waste, extracted 1.5 tonne of banana fibre and produced 5,000 litters of 100% organic fertilizer. When farmers use our cost-effective organic fertilizer, they reduce the use of toxic fertilizers that are harmful to the environment. | Globally, the feminine hygiene product market is expected to be worth over $36 billion by 2024. Indian feminine hygiene product market is expected to reach US$ 522 million in 2020 growing at a CAGR of more than 6% (Source: Euromonitor). We aim to capture 3% of the total Indian market in the next 5 years. With our current technology, our production capacity is 1500 sanitary pads per day (3 pads per minute). In 2019-2020, we aim to produce around 420,000 pads. We aim to donate 210,000 pads and sell 210,000 pads. In 2020-2021, we aim to upgrade our current manual sanitary napkin machine by adding advanced sensors, semi-automatic ultra-sonic welding rollers and semi-automatic gumming units. Adding advanced modules to our current machine would require capital injection. Our semi-automatic machine will have the estimated production capacity of around 30-40 pads per minute (10 times our current production capacity). Our annual production target is over 2 million. By upgrading our manual and semi-automatic machines, we aim to donate over 1 million pads. 2021-2024: we aim to implement fully automatic servo sanitary napkin machine with a production capacity of around 400 to 500 pads per minute. With successfully installed fully automatic machines, our production capacity would increase exponentially. Beyond 2020, we plan to get connected to global NGOs or UN representatives who are active at the grassroot level in conflict zones to donate sanitary pads directly to refugee camps. | The global feminine hygiene product market is a multi-billion dollar industry that is dominated by a handful of large corporations. They manufacture non-biodegradable sanitary pads made of plastic and other petro-chemical by-products. We have worked very hard to develop a natural product that is highly capable of disrupting current market. In order to maximize our overall impact, we need help in following areas: Mentorship: We are looking for advisory board members with experience in scalability and commercialization of upcoming brands with high potential for growth. We seek mentorship and guidance to grow our business on global scale and have maximum possible impact. We also wish to get connected to a network of investors in the circular economy space for capital injection when we go for automatic production line. Networking: After spending three years in R&D and product development, we are ready to share our innovation with the whole world. We seek to get connected with other teams who are passionately making a positive impact in the world by supporting circular economy. We also seek to discover influencers who can help us with increasing our visibility on a global platform. Impact Maximization: We wish to get connected to NGOs or representatives from the UN who are working towards solving humanitarian crises around the world. We hope to directly donate sanitary pads to refugee camps or health camps through NGO partners who are active at the grassroot level. | Sparkle Innovations Website: http://www.sparkleinnovations.in/ Sparkle Biodegradable Sanitary Pads Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2m1M930sdY | I do not have any video or audio recordings from my speaking engagements or interviews at the moment. I have attached a few public links from reputed institutions who have recognized some of my work. McMaster University: I graduated from McMaster University, Canada with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. The university has shared some of my achievements on university’s official “Alumni Spotlight” page. https://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/spotlight/alumni/chirag-virani-beng-10 Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council of India (GJEPC): GJEPC invited me as a guest speaker to inspire young students to use innovative ways of doing business using e-commerce and other digital platforms in India. https://www.gjepc.org/admin/calendar/1444441409_POST%20ACTIVITY%20REPORT-%20E-Commerce%20-%2026%2006%202018.pdf | Ryerson University Alumni Award: I received the Alumni Award for achieving notable success in professional life after graduating from MBA. Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life: During my MBA at Ryerson University, I received this award which is given out to 1 out of 200 students. Award for Highest Grade in the Graduating Class, University of California – Berkeley: During my graduate program at UC- Berkeley, I received this award with a GPA of 4.0/4.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
639 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ogechi | Nwonye | Green Axis | http://Greenaxisng.com | Co-Founder / Head of Communication and Publicity | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My motivation stems from childhood, seeing how bastardized the environment was and still is, and no one is doing anything about it breaks my heart. I grew up in a very dirty environment, where we treated malaria and typhoid on a monthly basis. I later discovered it was due to the environmental saturation of waste, and seeing how unconcerned many people around me were as at then, I told myself I had to do something unique that would have an impact and make room for a change, especially seeing children who lack access to a good environment like me dying, suffering of various airborne diseases. I was opportuned to leave my childhood environment for graduate studies, with the thoughts bombarding my mind, I discovered my path shortly after an incidence that nearly took my life during my schooling days in campus. I was admitted of a terrible typhoid, that took over a month before I recovered fully. My time in the hospital gave me a golden opportunity to discover that counts of people were admitted and treated of typhoid and other related environmental diseases daily. A step further to inquire about the high rate of the incidence of typhoid and related environmental diseases pointed at low standard of living and environmental pollution as the cause. Shortly before I concluded my degree program I met some like minded persons that shared the vision of improving the livelihood of people and create a waste free environment. After some years of research, we kick started our idea of getting rid of waste from source and in return give back foodstuffs and other desirable items. We got to kickstart our innovative idea of going to homes to ask for their waste, that way solving the quest for the amount of dirt going to landfills. With time, we learnt about recycling of the waste we have collected so far from households and we delved into it. We then started working on our idea fulltime, we even gave it a name 'Green Axis' which is a social Enterprise that promotes environmental sustainability, socio economic development and community health. We are focusing on improving the access to waste management service, poor waste disposal culture within our communities, using a low cost sustainable model alongside technological approach to tackle the problem. | I am Ogechi Mercy Nwonye, I have a Bachelor of arts in Philosophy and a masters degree focused on International law and Diplomacy. I am a wife, mother and an entrepreneur. I have about 4years work experience in Sales/Tele-Sales/ Customer service. I am a co-founder to Green Axis. I Head its Communication and Publicity Department. I am a positive fellow, who sees light at the end of a tunnel, I love to read about things happening in the world, research, travel, sing and dance. I am creatively unique and I have an outgoing personality. | GREEN AXIS TRASH2CASH | Environmental Health, Recycling, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, Waste Management | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Nigeria | Yes | Otubelu Precious and Amu-Nnadi Obinna | Scaling | We have successfully set up 2 waste collection centres in 2 communities in the southern region of Nigeria. Recovered & processed over 600 tonnes of waste since inception, rewarded participants with over $5,000, giving foodstuffs & other desirable items.We have registered over 500 households, 10 business institutions in our initiative while we created over 8 job opportunities. We intend to extend our services throughout the sub Saharan Africa with focus on underserved communities in 5 years time | Green Axis uses a low cost collection model to recover solid waste in urban slums & process them into near virgin plastic pellets, plastics bricks, plastics interlocking tiles, hard pressed boards and numerous educational art work thereby providing 100+ job opportunities for unemployed youths and women. The initiative is aimed at tackling the issue of climate change through reducing the level of environmental pollution by establishing a formal and structured waste collection system. | We partner with neighborhood provision stores to provide essentials food stuffs based on preference in exchange for households waste that are generated daily. We engage waste pickers now called “field officers” who with the aid of carts collects the recyclable materials from the doorstep of households, weigh and reward households for their recyclable material, then convey recyclable material to our nearest service center where they use our proprietary technology to process the recyclables into valuable products and near virgin materials. Our vision statement is to be a substantial proponent of the transition from African’s low participation in waste recycling to the use of efficient waste management technology and delivery of zero waste status. | The waste recycling marketplace in Nigeria is operated informally, characterized with 5000+ waste pickers who struggle to efficiently recover the large volumes of waste generated daily. 80% of Nigerian manufacturers down-cycle recyclable materials because of the poor collection structure used by scavengers. Our conservative estimates value the waste recycling opportunity in Nigeria at $7million and nearly 50% of garbage generated daily is recyclables. compared to them we establish market value for currently worthless waste stream by adding low-value waste types into our collection and processing services e.g textile and rubber tyre waste. The new perspective is that we establish market value for currently worthless waste stream by adding low-value waste types into our collection and processing services e.g textile and rubber tyre waste. We collect recyclable waste from households/small scale scavengers, convert it into raw materials and sell to remanufacturers. We sell an average of unit of 20,000kg monthly at an average price of $1/kg costing us an average of $0.2/kg to sell and produce with overhead cost of $2800 monthly and Our present management team focuses its efforts on creating awareness campaign within our target market, promoting our product, creating Face-to-face contact and directly supplying to our customers. | 1) Ridding the environment of toxic substance thereby creating a balanced ecosystem 2 Improved wellbeing of the inhabitants who are directly affected by the menace caused by diverse environmental pollution 3 Livelihood of the people improves marginally by incentives given for their waste they recycle with us. 4 Massive creation of Jobs as a result of recycling activities in various communities. 5 Green Axis has diverted over 600tonnes of waste from landfills | Presently we operate in 2 communities where we employed natives of the community in our collection and processing processes. This model ensures seamless establishment of our centres and activities in other region we plan to scale into. Basically, we would integrate similar strategy and ensure that we work with over 75% of natives as management staff and majority of our collection officers natives of the communities/region. | To extend our waste management services across the 6 geo-political zones in Nigeria. We are currently operating in Southeast, but the demand for our services is growing at an average of 9%. We intend to boost our activities by setting up more collection centres and furnish the old ones with state of the art equipment that would ensure proper and complete treatment of waste and enable us achieve a zero waste status in over 1000 communities in Africa and provide women and unemployed youths with job opportunities and daily food supply. We create alternative income source especially for sit at home women. Green Axis initiatives employs a sustainable model that is replicable from one geographical region to another and aligns with the SDG's of the United Nation and it is aimed at achieving a circular economy that would in return promote economic growth, prosperity and improve the well being of the people. Favourable government policies and government support. Investments from individuals or corporate, this would enable us produce other relevant machines and also set up additional service centers. Public enlightenment would generally educate the public to partake in our recycling activity. We would also need funds to set up a 500 tonnes /per day waste recovery facility And to site 20 recycling hub/centre across 5 states. | http://Greenaxisng.com | https://youtu.be/_axREnZ9Mmw https://youtu.be/UyYMDWyuNEw https://youtu.be/L4mw9mylPk4 | 1) The Pitch Nigeria by Sterling Bank Winner 2) African Entrepreneurship Award, rated most likely business to Succeed in Africa. Finalist 3) South/South East Angel Investment Network 2019 ( Deal Day) Winner 4) Fate Foundation [AEP 62. EEP 22]. 2018 Finalist 5) Genesys start zone incubation program Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
640 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Francis | Aforve | AF MAP WORKS | http://afmapworkservices.com | CEO and Founder | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | The imminent environmental challenges such as climate change, land degradation, pollution etc. has thrown a major challenge in the socioeconomic activities in Ghana and the world as a whole, there is therefore the need for experts in system modeling and in the analysis of spatial data for example, Geographic Information System (GIS) in Ghana. These observed challenges motivated me to register an organization immediately after my national service with the Forestry Commission of Ghana in the year 2016 so that I can contribute my quota to help tackle the above mention challenges. Now AF MAP WORKS provides climate change adaptation campaign and education and Geographic Information (GIS) System training programs to farmers and students, most especially those in the farming communities to enable them utilize GIS in farming. About two thousand farmers are now adhering to the use of GPS devices in farming. Due to these contributions in the above mentioned areas, AF MAP WORKS was selected by GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation (BMZ) Germany to participate in the African Tech and Entrepreneurs Afrolynk Conference in Berlin, Germany in August 2018. Represented by Prince Akoto, the chief operations officer (COO) for AF MAP WORKS. (www.make-it-initiative.org/africa/cpt_startup/afmap-works). Now there is an ongoing mapping infiltration characteristics project at Vea using double ring infiltrometer in the Bongo district of Ghana. This project, when completed will enable about one thousand farmers easily determine when to plant their crops, when to irrigate, how to irrigate and the type of irrigation methods to employ since infiltration capacities in the various areas will be mapped and determine after the project. Attending the UN solution summit will give me the opportunity to appreciate and be motivated to carry out more innovative solutions to advance the SDGs. It will also give me the opportunity to talk and network with likeminded people. | I hold B.Sc. Environmental Science, University for Development Studies, Tamale Ghana and other certificates from United Nation Institute for Training and Research (Unitar) in National Adaptation Plan: Building Climate Resilience in Agriculture, Introduction to International Environmental Law, Climate Change and Human Health, Climate Change and Children, Climate Change and Cities. Before becoming the registering AF MAP WORKS, I served at the Environmental Protection Agency Koforidua, Forestry Commission, Kade and Ghana Water Company Limited, Koforidua. The experience acquired in the various fields are what I am using to pilot AF MAP WORKS in GIS Applications and also help train the youths to gain an expertise knowledge in GIS that can be best utilized in climate change adaptation campaign in Ghana. | Climate smart solution. | Climate change is real, stopping it completely may take centuries but adapting to it with the use of GIS applications is quiet a dream come true. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Ghana | Yes | Ministry of food and agriculture, Ashaiman district Ghana | Research & Development | AF MAP WORKS is in research and development stage because there is the need to develop and improve upon our innovations in order to meet the myriad demands of the society. There is therefore unarticulated needs that must be meet in the society, which is why there is an extensive ongoing research project on mapping the infiltration characteristics at vea in the Bongo district of Ghana. | The imminent environmental challenges, most especially climate change has brought about unexpected decline in the agriculture sector of the Ghana’s economy. Farmers after their farming season, lost miserably in their investment due to poor crop yield as a result of crop pest invasion and inadequate rainfall due to climate change | Our innovative solution help farmers by providing training workshops in GIS application and climate change adaptation campaign. Students are also benefiting extensively due to the urgent need and the crave for technological advancement in our societies this days. With our solution farmers therefore communicate to us using unstructured supplementary service data. This makes communication easy. With this solution, the soil infiltration rates and capacities of the farming communities are first of all determined using double ring infiltrometer; this helps them to know the types of crops to plant, when to plant, how to irrigate and the type of irrigation methods to use. We also advise them to use crops that have high yielding potentials, disease resistance, drought resistance and early maturing. The long term vision is to be the leading innovative solution provider in GIS and climate change adaptation in Africa by the year 2030. | The uniqueness of our solution stems from the determination of infiltration rates and capacities in the various farming communities before the engagement of the farmers in the GIS applications. Testing the infiltration rates and capacities of these farming communities affected by climate change before major planting season enable the farmers to easily determine which type crop varieties to use. This also enable farmers to adapt to climate change. USSD is the number one medium for communicating with these farmers. The GIS training workshops enable the introduction of technologies in farming, for example a vegetable farmer can measure his/ her piece of land using a handheld GPS device and can also easily determine the planting distance of his/her crops. | measure your progress and methodological rigor? * Apparently, the team is carrying out an extensive project on mapping the infiltration characteristics in three farming communities in the Bongo districts of Ghana. The team have created awareness to about 2000 farmers on climate change campaign and trained about 500 of them including students in GIS applications in agriculture. This made AF MAP WORKS selected by GIZ on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation (BMZ) Germany to participate in the African Tech and Entrepreneurs Afrolynk Conference in Berlin, Germany in August 2018. Represented by Prince Akoto, the chief operations officer (COO) for AF MAP WORKS. As a result of our training programs and methodologies use in testing the first of all the soil infiltration capacities and rates, and providing technical advice, the farmers have witness an extensive increased in their crop yields | Actually we have planned to hit the international arena in the next six years, since this requires much dedication and hard works, a lot of measure are ongoing to meet this goal. It is the ultimate goal of the team to impact hundreds of thousands lives within 2030. Although we a team that are passion driven and have the willingness to make an impacts, it is therefore imperative to increase the team’s number from ten to sixteen | Since our solution involves the use of technology and human resource, we therefore need advance training with an international experts to acquire more requisite knowledge in this area in order to meet high demands of the growing societies. | http://afmapworkservices.com | https://vimeo.com/351938505 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
641 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | victor | Boyle-komolafe | Capture Solutions West Africa Ltd | www.givo.com | Director | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | We are applying for th UN solutions summit as a place to present our product – GIVO to the world. GIVO (Garbage In, Value Out) has been developed with support from Coca-Cola, the Fate Foundation and the Government of Netherlands (through the Orange Corners program) and its potential for impact is tremendous in the circular economy space. GIVO has at least seven direct SDG’s it helps communities overcome on a problem (PET collection & recycling) that affects all the developing countries and more than 60% of the world’s population. By presenting it at the UN solutions summit, we hope we can showcase this product to representatives in other parts of the world that have this same problem, discuss their regional peculiarities, understand how we can spread our work across these countries and scale up our solution faster. Through our solution, we have used innovation for impact in the following ways: Clean Tech –Our solution uses very little power and the minimal electricity needed is generated by a simple solar energy solution which makes it a 100% off-grid and 100% clean solution. Inclusion of IoT: Our solution uses IoT to track, process and guide the entire system. Some of the IoT Hardware, for example; the Smart Shredder, was created specifically for this solution (it helps reduce PET bulk prior to off-take by Aggregator) Software- WeightCapture, our proprietary software solution which has been used to manage weights and collection activities along various value chains in Agriculture and logistics has been customized for use in the circular economy. We have created IoT, apps and Web backends as part of this solution. Financial Inclusion via digital payments – As a fully digitized platform, we also are pay and receive money digitally. As part of our solution, we offer basic financial services to our customers and improve the financial inclusion among our bottom of pyramid users. GPS and Geo-Location: We provide convenience for every customer (i.e individuals, waste pickers and off takers) by incorporating GPS and geo tagging technology. This enables them to find a franchisee nearby to transact with. This is especially key for off-takers as it enables them maximize resources more effectively in an environment lacking adequate infrastructure. | Victor Boyle-Komolafe is a Social Entrepreneur with passions for technology, agriculture and the circular economy. After 10 years of living in North America and Europe, Victor moved back to Nigeria in 2012 with a mission to create impact in the low income populations of his motherland. He is a graduate of the University of Liverpool, with a B.A in Accounting and Finance. He is also an ACCA chartered accountant and cut his teeth professionally working as an associate with KPMG for a few years. Victor is the co-founder of OjoroKitchen, founded in 2014 as a social enterprise that works with small holder farmers in the south west Nigeria. He is a co-founder in GIVO, a technology company that powers the circular economy by facilitating PET collection. As an entrepreneur, he has been the recipient of several awards and prizes including the Tony Elumelu Foundation 2015, Global innovators Summit 2016 LEAP Africa Social Innovator 2017, AIS Top 50 Innovators 2018 among others Victor lives and works in Africa, with his base in Lagos, Nigeria. He is currently working on scaling GIVO solution across Nigeria and the other West African countries. | GIVO - Garbage In, Value Out | Powering the PET Circular Economy | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Nigeria Kenya Bangladesh India Benin Cameroon Chad Côte d'Ivoire Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea | Yes | Coca-Cola, Fate Foundation, Chronos Prime | Proof of Concept | Our solution is at this stage of innovation because we have completed the software and hardware development and we are currently in the midst of our Pilot study. | The primary problem we solve is PET recovery within the waste value chain. A break down of the problems include: -15b units of PET consumed annually without any discernible way to dispose or recycle. - Cultural habit of not sorting waste at point of disposal - Not sorting waste at point of disposal leads to loss of PET value - Unorganized and inefficient waste management infrastructure - No reliable data on PET consumption & recycling - Lack of Job opportunities within recycling space. | GIVO is an IoT, app and web based solution which fully automates and digitizes the PET recovery process. A GIVO set consists of Hardware (scale, android, printer, shredder and solar power solution - all IoT) and software. How does it work ? - Each GIVO set is operated by a Franchisee - Public/Waste pickers in the area bring their PET to the franchisee - The franchisee identifies the customer (using the android) weights the product (using the Iot scale). - Once the product value is confirmed a payment (N20/kg) is automatically done to the customer. - At end of the day, the franchisee sorts PET collected according to type before feeding it into the (IoT) shredder creating a new product 'shredded PET' which has a value of N120/kg. - Once the shredded PET collected reaches a threshold (say 100kg), a pick up request is automatically sent to the relevant aggregator, detailing the quantity, value and product location. - When the aggregator picks the product and verifies the value, he then pays GIVO (N120/kg) which is shared 25:75 between the GIVO platform and GIVO franchisee. - Every detail of this process; stakeholders identification, payment processing, logistics planning, product weighing etc is fully digitized and can be accessed via a dedicated back end. As each GIVO collects at least 12 tonnes of PET annually, we want to have 50,000 units across sub-saharan Africa within the next 5 years, collecting 90% of all PET consumed and providing 150,000 direct & indirect jobs. | We are different from our competitors in the following ways: -Digital solution: Every part of our solution is technology driven. From stakeholders identification, payment processing, logistics planning, product weighing etc. It is fully digitized and automated. -PET Focus: The PET market generated an estimated 15 billion units locally in 2018 and increasing yearly. This is our target market and it gives us clarity of focus. -Material Sorting: GIVO ensures proper sorting at primary collection by including Franchisees for quality control which improves the overall value and quality of the shredded output -IOT Hardware: Our inclusion of hardware to the recycling solution is unique and it helps the overall integrity of the solution. It also helps with optimizing deposits for customers and collections for aggregators. -Job Creation: Through GIVO we empower entrepreneur’s by provide an end to end solution which caters for everything from client payments, transportation and market linkages. Each Franchisee can earn from $4000 - 100% off grid powered by solar. The new innovations we are introducing via GIVO include: - Software: Our proprietary software WeightCapture which is used extensively in Agriculture for managing collection activities - IoT: creating an IoT shredder which reduces PET volume by 75% prior to Aggregator pick up thus reducing transport - GPS/ Geo-location: Using GPS/ Geo-location to optimize customer convenience for PET deposit and aggregation. | Right now, we are in the pilot phase of the GIVO solution. The timeline for the product development are as follows: - Project Conceptualization, November 2018: In response to a competition on PET recovery sponsored by Coca-cola Africa called EPIC. http://hybrgroup.net/epic/ - Project Planning & Requirements, April 2019: As an EPIC Coca-Cola competition winner, we were involved in a four days of meetings with various stakeholders along the PET value chain. - Designing Prototype, May 2019: Based on discussions, we designed solution flow. - Software Development, June 2019: Completed the software development and customization of the solution. - Testing, July 2019 (Ongoing): The software and hardware for GIVO are being debugged. - Pilot Deployment, August 2019: Deploying 3 units of our GIVO solution across Lagos state for Pilot. - Pilot Results, September 2019: Results (including social/ environmental impact) of the pilot. End of Pilot. | Planned goals and milestones include: Pilot (Aug to Sept 2019) - We are undertaking a pilot during this period. Staff Recruitment (Sept to Dec 2019) - We need to recruit key staff to ensure the smooth running of for GIVO as we launch into the market. This includes HR, developers and admin staff Product Launch (January 2019) - We intend to launch GIVO in January 2019 in at least 50 locations on the Lagos Island. These 50 locations will collect 600 tonnes of PET annually, from about 5 million residents, leading to a CO2 saving of 3600 tonnes annually. These locations will produce 150 direct and indirect jobs for the community, ensuring earnings of at least $150 per month each for each of the participants. As we are relying on a franchisee model, we expect that we will get more franchisees as they see the financial and environmental impact of our solution after it launches in January. By partnering with us, Franchisees can expect to earn from $4000 annually. By the December 2019, we expect to be in 500 locations across Lagos state. | The following resources are needed for GIVO to scale & have considerable impact. In the short term; the resources needed include: Product testing and development: We need resources to enable us test and develop the product to the best version it can be. We need expertise to ensure that our product is flawless and has a perfect market fit. We are currently solving this problem by being part of the Orange Corners program, an incubator funded by the Dutch Government. In the medium and long term, the key resources needed include Staff - Such as HR, developers and administrative staff. We need human resources to constantly improve the solution, help with the marketing activities, engage our customers and stakeholders, vet the potential franchisees and ensure the successful running of the platform and services Publicity- We need the right partners to publicize the impact of the solution which will lead directly increase deposits, franchisees and thus increase further the overall impact across the world. Funding - For GIVO to scale and have considerable impact, we need funding to execute. So far, we have been a self funded organization. For us to reach the heights of where we want to be, external funding is necessary. | www.givo.com https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IrKNDLVyS0QiefDyvgquSGIVZIJgsO-d | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRZUI6A9wSY&rel=0 | Orange Corners (Winner) https://www.orangecorners.com/nigeria/ FBStart Accelerator (Finalist - Ongoing) https://cchubnigeria.com/fbstart/index.html | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
642 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Olajide | Ojeniyi | Jennings Creations- Afrimart | http://www.afrimart.com.ng/ | Principal Strategist | male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My specific aims for applying is to deposit of my personality in the organization, empower myself enough to develop my country, gain exposure by learning more about entrepreneurship, expand my professional network and actively study the dynamics of business development. The program will give me the right exposure in team working and make me work co-operatively, across cultures and organizational boundaries to achieve shared goals. | I am a dynamic individual with a passion for research and innovation. I have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Lagos State University. I have attended extensive leadership and management courses from Pan-African University, GE Garage, Daystar Leadership Academy and Centre for Enterprise Development and Action Research. On the short term I am gaining hands-on experience in business by collaborating with others to tackle socio-economic problems in Africa. | Afrimart | Distribution and exportation of Agro-Allied produce and African heritage products via ecommerce. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Nigeria | Yes | Kendall Kaye Art, USA. Out Door Cinemas, Namibia. | Scaling | We have been in operation for two years and we have had over 400 clients. | To boost the African economy by earning foreign exchange through distribution and exportation of agro produce to Europe, Asia and America. To empower and scale up sales for local African farmers and manufacturers. Our Vision for community development is to use a portion of our profits to organize free trainings for local manufacturers and local farmers on the use of ICT and modern innovation for their various venture. | Afrimart is a one-stop heritage e-commerce platform focused on providing seamless services with the highest level of customer satisfaction-With a variety of products like; African Antiques, Crafts, Traditional Music Instrument, Artifacts, Traditional Wears, Traditional Games and Agro-Allied products. This is a new business initiative, the very first of its type for this category of African heritage products. Our target customers are tourists, researchers, re-sellers and distributors of Agro-Allied products, international small and medium and large scale farmers and Africans living in the diaspora. Creating this platform has solved the problem of indirect purchase, fraud and delayed delivery. My personal ambition with Afrimart is to build the enterprise to be a successful and well recognized social enterprise in Africa. My vision is to use Afrimart in sustaining the production of African heritage products and Agro-Allied products which will boost Agribusiness on the continent. Our Vision for community development is to use a portion of our profits to organize free trainings for local manufacturers and local farmers on the use of ICT and modern innovation for their various venture. | This is a new business initiative, the very first of its type for this category of African heritage products. Our business model is to distribute and export these products via our eCommerce platform mainly to earn foreign exchange into the economy. | Concerning the exportation of our heritage products, we have signed a partnership agreement with firms in the United States and Namibia. We would be glad to provide copies of these agreements at your request. We measure our progress by the satisfactory remarks from our returning customers. | Our next milestone is to create a branch in Gambia and Estonia as well as recruit more staff. Our Vision for community development is to use a portion of our profits to organize free trainings for local manufacturers and local farmers on the use of ICT and modern innovation for their various venture. | Our most needed resources are funding, training, networking and mentorship. | http://www.afrimart.com.ng/ https://www.itnewsnigeria.com.ng/2017/05/25/nigeria-innovation-summit-2017-digitalpr-wire-emerges-official-media-partner/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icrum43XaYQ | USPF Hackaton (2019)- Finalist Lagos Immersion (2019)- Finalist World Bank Gem Project (2017)- Winner CYFI Youth Governance Ambassador (2015)- Winner Nelson Mandela Leadership Award (2015) – Winner Youth Enterprise with Innovation (2011)- Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
643 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Maninder Singh | Bajwa | Espranza Innovations Pvt Ltd | www.iscuela.com | CEO & Founder | Male | India | India | English | I would like to present my work and project as I feel that we at Espranza have been able to build a workable, scalable model to increase the levels of learning in school going children making specially the ones in public schools in semi urban and rural India. We have been able to clearly show with data the impact our project has so far had in over 4000 schools in my state of Punjab in India. Currently we are working in collaboration with Punjab Government and Rotary India’s organisation Rotary India Literacy Mission (RILM) to digitise and digitalise all 19,272, government schools across the state. This project is covering 100,000 + teachers and 4 million + children. Out of these we have already completed implementations in 4000 schools. In parallel we have also started work with state government of Madhya Pradesh. The impact in these schools as received by teachers and collected data shows that this model and template of digitisation can work in developing countries facing similar challenges in the Education system. | Maninder Singh Bajwa, is a first generation social entrepreneur, building IT products and services in the Education Sector. After completing his Software Engineering from Monash University Melbourne, he floated his EdTech company, Espranza Innovations, at the age of 23. It was in 2013 that one of his product, “iScuela” (K-12 self learning platform) got recognized, firstly at World Education Congress in Mumbai and then it went on to win “Overall Winner”, for addressing, UN MDG : “Education for all” at World Summit Youth Awards held under the framework of UN. Post the awards he was invited to become the Ambassador for World Summit Awards. Maninder and his team were has worked with Coca Cola India for their Support My School Campaign, as knowledge partners. Maninder' startup is collaborating with Rotary's Literacy Mission and Government of Punjab to digitise 19,000 schools over the next 2 years. The main aim of this multi-stake holder collaboration is to provide quality education to children studying in rural schools, using technology. Maninder is also involved in adding a new dimension in learning with Augmented Reality. Maninder was invited to attend Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos in 2017, as 50 young change makers. He was also invited to Annual Meeting of New Champions in 2016 and also in 2018. Maninder was selected in the Top 30 under 30 list of a leading Daily, Hindustan Times. | iScuela | Quality Education for all | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Tanzania | Yes | Rotary India Literacy Mission and Government of Punjab | Scaling | As I write this, we are working in collaboration with Punjab Government and Rotary India’s organisation Rotary India Literacy Mission (RILM) to digitise and digitalise all 19,272, government schools across the state. This project is covering 100,000 + teachers and 4 million + children. Already more than 4000+ schools have had at least 1 classroom digitised.100,000 government school teachers will be receiving access to a mobile app, which will act as ready reference, by September 2019. | The biggest challenge we are trying to solve is building the apt human capital by providing people with the right knowledge and skills that enable them to create value in the national and global economic system. We want to start this from the school level by delivering high quality education to children in semi urban and rural government schools in India. Currently the levels of learning in these kids is very poor and needs to be worked on right away. | We believe that preparing the human capital of tomorrow has to start at the school level and with the help of technology we can overcome many challenges like lack of teachers or low levels of learning in schools, specially the public schools. With our platform iScuela we are aiming to provide high quality education to students providing them with stronger foundations and clearer concepts. iScuela is made available to public schools as an In Classroom teaching aid and a version is also made available to students to access, what they learnt at school, on their low cost smartphones at home. For public schools and their students this platform is offered free of charge. We are currently implementing this in Punjab, After one year of the project’s execution we will have very useful data of usage patterns and behaviours which will form an integral part of the impact assessment. The impact assessment will be a comparative study with the baseline stats collected before the implementation of the project and stats analysed after 1 year of the project’s execution. We believe iSceula is scalable specially in India and other developing countries as we are on the verge of a digital revolution. India alone is seeing immense growth in adoption of smart phone devices. These smart devices are being fully supported by the continuous increase in internet penetration and data access. These factors are making a very conducive environment for growth of e learning. | There are some organisations trying to similar initiatives from big corporate giants such as Wipro foundation to smaller initiatives taking place at the district levels. We are happy many are tying to solve this problem as it is not something one organisation can tackle it needs many many more. However the approach we have adopted has very quickly made us the only initiative which has received approval from two state governments. Our solution engages multi stakeholders, with public sector, private sector and social sector working together to solve the problem. We also are the only organisation in the state of Punjab to have highly localized and widely accepted platform. We are also proud to be a platform that is multilingual with our offering already available in Punjabi, Hindi and English. We can claim to be the largest such platform in the country. We have been able to make the project financially viable and still making it available free to teachers and students of public schools. | Now that our platform is successfully functional in 4000+schools we can safely say it is stable and achieving the said objectives. The team has worked immensely hard and after going through many iterations over the last 6-7 years we have reached a stage where we can say we have finished the development stage and now we are in the maintenance and updating stage which will keep happening as technology keeps getting better. Over the last 6-7 years while we kept trying various approaches we have learnt immensely and have been able to clearly define all our processes and now we can confidently say that we can go into a new demographic and have the platform ready for that place localised to their language in 12-15 weeks from the day we start. | We have been able to establish a working model and have showcased that by successfully implementing it in 4000 schools across Punjab, going forward this number will be taken to 19,272 schools having atleast 1 digital classroom. In Madhya Pradesh the project entails us doing 15000 schools in collaboration with Rotary India Literacy Mission. There is no doubt in my mind that after executing such large scale initiatives and proving worth of the platform we will be duplicating the model across many states across India. The reason I say this is that the two states Punjab and Madhya Pradesh are very different as both speak a different language, have different culture, different regional choices and curriculum, proving the point that this platform can be localised and but yet is generic enough for it to be scalable across various demographics. In 2 years time I see iScuela in all the 19,272 schools in Punjab and 10,000 schools in Madhya Pradesh, in hands of 100,000 teachers and in the hands of 1 million children. Moreover I would want to atleast be able to teach 10,000 adults through our adult literacy program. Apart from this I would also like to start implementing iScuela in 2 new states. While doing this we would also like to make our platform available in two more Indian languages and take the total to 5 from the current 3. | Shot term needs have to include more support from social organisations and corporate sector to add more value to the platform that we are implementing. Activities such as impact analysis to student engagement programs can be done regularly with more bandwidth and more collaborations. Medium and Long term goals, as with all projects more funding makes the project implementations faster and more speed to the audience means we get to learn and gather feedback faster and iterate faster. Apart from funding we want to be able get platforms to showcase our work so that we can build partnerships to execute this platform in many demographics. Each demographic where this platform is executed. | Project Website : www.iscuela.com Process Video : https://youtu.be/KW5VG3HUlkQ On ground implementation video : https://www.dropbox.com/s/8gauqecu05ke8i0/iScuela%20On%20ground%20implementation.mp4?dl=0 | https://youtu.be/zVYAuioh6LI | 1. Invited to attend Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in 2017, Davos as 50 young change makers. 2. Invited to attend and present work at Annual Meeting of New Champions in 2016 & 2018. 3. Selected as a finalist in the 2019 EdTechXGlobal Awards 4. Overall winner of World Summit Youth Awards, in the Education for All category held under the framework of MDGs of UN in 2013. 5. Winner at the World Education Congress for the category, ""Best Use of Mobile Technology for learning"", in 2013. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
644 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | GERALD | ESEMONU | ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY INITTIATIVE | environmentalfriendlyinitiative.org.ng | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR | MALE | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I consider this UN Solutions Summit a great opportunity I need for the exposure and experience that would boost my leadership roles and potentials on my work to tackle climate crisis solution. I am hopeful the event will offer participants a time of self-exploration, gaining and making deep connections with like-minded people from all around the world. I would like to connect mostly with Climate leaders, donor agencies and development organizations working on Climate solutions in line with the solution strategies of SDGs goal 17. Climate change is an urgent problem in the local and global communities and solutions will be fast-tracked through local, regional and international linkages and support. I am concerned about the warming climate and have developed a concept strategy for youth as my solution contribution. I am reaching out to the key stakeholders with this solution requesting for support. Due to financial challenge, I am engaging some young people via WhatsApp group platform on the issue of climate crisis and solution. | Gerald is the Executive Director of Environmental Friendly Initiative (EFI), the Rivers State Coordinator of some Civil Society Organizations localizing and facilitating the realization of the SDGs. He is an alumna of Global Shapers Community: a global network of inspiring young people working together to address local, regional and global challenges. With over 10 years of experience working in the development sector as Climate Volunteer Leader, Technical Project Coordinator, Research Assistant etc, Gerald works with the realization that leadership must be exerted wherever one finds himself and that true leadership begins with true self-awareness and a leader can only lead as far as he has gone. He has obtained Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Management Science with specialization in Human Resource optimization. He delights in team work and posses excellent interpersonal skills and Computer/Internet Skills and enjoys outdoor recreational activities such swimming, football, discussing with friends on solution to social issues. | Strategic Youth Engagement Towards Tackling Climate Change in Nigeria | Climate change is the most critical issue and central to the Development Agenda and young people whose future is greatly affected | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Nigeria | Yes | National Youth Service Corps Members, African Climate Reality Project Leaders | Proof of Concept | I started off outreach advocacy with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) last year. After months of follow-ups, the NYSC studied the concept note and training manual of the project and approved a pilot take-off of the initiative in May 2019. Transition to Scale the next phase. | Climate change is a global problem and this makes it challenging for people especially young people to connect to it and get involved. However, realities of climate change is felt locally and will be around for decades and centuries to come. Despite this reality, it has not garnered the interest it should by the young people considering it is their problem more than anyone else. Getting the young people interested and engaged will be addressed through this solution road-map. | What Nigeria and perhaps the global community needs is to localize the challenges and solutions on climate change in a way that ordinary people can understand and participate through knowledge building that can be transformed to practical solution. The solution of this project is to advance the activities of the NYSC on SDGs and Environment through its Community Development Service (CDS). Climate change is to become a more focused engagements that will enable the young people get more involved, interpret and sustain the activities into beneficial outcome and foster idea flow among young people. Activities in the club will feature climate change understandings, mitigation and adaptation strategies at the different regions, portraying climate change not just as all doom and gloom, but also, as a career and business opportunities. Ensuring the long-term sustainability will enlist the following tactics: -Yearly activity report from the clubs; -The clubs are domiciled in the school communities complementing existing clubs and part of Community Development Services (CDS) of the NYSC overlapping each batch of corps members posted to the schools yearly; -Concerted efforts will be directed at consolidating and enlisting strategic partners (Geography and Environmental related subject teachers) to get involved in the activities of the club; -There will be periodic events organized at the state, region and federal levels to increase visibility and impact of activities. | Climate change in Nigeria has not been packaged in a way ordinary people can get involved and bring in local solution. It is global problem that needs but local and international ideas. Different meetings such as conferences, researches have been undertaken. The online campaigns especially on the social media have raised the awareness level in terms of reach but has not sustained interest and engagement. The issue of climate change requires active engagement considering that it is now a hard-felt reality in Nigeria and globally. | We have secured the partnership with the NYSC with clear role of responsibility. We have visited their 2 offices in Abuja and Benue. This visits have explore more ways of ensuring the project success in terms of school mapping and selection and engagement of more stakeholders At the moment, attention is focus on financial support for actual kick-off in September, 2019. In the meantime, we visit the corps members at their group meetings and conducting training online. | The planned goal for this project is to increase engagement of young people in tackling climate change in a beneficial way from their personal backgrounds. The objectives include: -To increase young people’s climate change awareness as global citizens; -To engage the young people at their local and regional levels based on challenges and solutions about climate change; -To connect young people to share ideas on climate adaptation and mitigation from their respective regions, increasing community grass root movement acting as a force-multiplier, advancing the cause of climate solutions through partnerships and networking. Milestones include: Training of NYSC CD’s officials and the selected Corps members; Mapping, selection of pilot schools from the geo-political zones; Formation and activation of clubs featuring registration; Commencement of activities in the clubs; Monitoring, reporting and managing change. | Robust youth friendly website with resources and links GSM with internet access Communication and Transportation stipends Promotion/learning material | The NYSC scheme is primarily designed to inculcate in Nigerian Graduate Youth the spirits of selfless service to the community, and to emphasize the spirit of oneness and brotherhood of all Nigerians, irrespective of cultural or social background. It was to reflect the country’s diversity in terms of gender, geography, religion and expertise. It is well-structured to cover the breath and length, rural/urban of the Nigerian society comprising of geopolitical regions, states and local governments areas with Corps members each service year for this project. Each service year, about 300,000 youth with age limit of 30 years old at the time of graduation from tertiary institution are mobilized to participate in a compulsory national service. Last year, the number of rose by 53,000 graduates, bringing the new figure to 350,000. The Corps members are paid monthly by Government of Nigeria Through the CDS programme, many Corps members were able to construct bridges, health care centres, classroom blocks, market stalls, culverts etc. They carry out projects like HIV sensitization, adult literacy campaign, extra-mural classes for students, road safety campaign etc. Corps members are participate in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) activities in their respective host communities. The focus of this project is on Goal 13. kindly visit https://www.nysc.gov.ng http://environmentalfriendlyinitiative.org.ng | https://youtu.be/7vcnrbBllnw | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
645 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Samuel | Worwui | Wamrock Ltd. | www.wamrockltd.com but currently undergoing reconstruction | Executive Director | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | I am motivated by the desire to proffer solutions to at least 25% of the chronic world decent affordable housing deficit problem through a solid Climate Change mitigating solution that has a huge social, environmental and economic benefits for the rural and the urban poor and for the benefit of the low and middle-income households in the world. Additionally, the UN Solutions Summit is a great platform for us to showcase our innovations to the world, leverage on the vast experience of the world body, as the UN and also learn from other innovators, network with other businesses and forge collaborations with great actors in this field to solve these complex problems. Through this platform we will be able to add my voice to solving some of the problems adversely affecting our world. I have used innovation for positive global impact by acting as IFC EDGE Expert and IFC EDGE Auditor accredited to design and Audit green buildings in over 140 developing economies of the world. | Engr. Samuel Kwaku Worwui, a Fellow of Institution of Engineering and Technology, Ghana and an experienced Professional Civil and Building Construction Engineer; IFC EDGE Auditor; IFC EDGE Expert; GIS & Remote Sensing; CAD & BIM Expert with twenty (20) years of progressive working experience in project conception, design and supervision in the Architectural, Engineering & Construction industry. He has expert knowledge in construction supervision and IFC EDGE Audit. He is also an independent Accredited EDGE Expert and Auditor for IFC – World Bank Group – EDGE Program. He also assisted in all designs and implementation of resettlement housing projects involving three planning schemes consisting of over 500 resettlement houses with all the infrastructure facilities for Newmont Ghana Gold Ltd. He was also involved in the structural design detailing for religious, community and social infrastructure for John Van Nostrand & Associates on 750 housing units Atuabo/Akuntase Resettlement project at Tarkwa for Goldfields Ghana Ltd. Samuel also led the acquisition, digitization and analysis of satellite photography for Newmont Ghana Gold for land access and resettlement housing projects at Ahafo North with a total area of approximately 520km2 also for Newmont Ghana Gold Ltd. He has also provided similar services for Adamus Resources – a Gold Mine in Ghana - through Intersocial Consulting Ltd. and for the Metorex Group Gold mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia also through Intersocial Consulting Ltd. | Bamboo Composite Climate-Smart Decent Affordable Housing Units Construction Technologies | Bamboo Ecological City - The City of Ecological Civilization Where the 3Ps Reign - People, Planet and Profit | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Ghana | Yes | INBAR, Ghana; BARADEP, Ghana; Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) - FORIG; CSIR-CRI; CSIR-SRI; CSIR-BRRI; Ghana Permaculture Institute; Ankur Scientific, India; Safi Sana, Ghana; Asali Bali, Bali, Indonesia | Research & Development | Our Team has done 90% of the research and development activities required to determine our final major material components designs and the main composite material design for the Bamboo Composite Housing Units Construction technologies. And these research and development activities we have undertaken so far, are based on scientific and few practical works undertaken by our Team of top technical experts and scientists in Bamboo Resources, Materials Technology, Biochar, Soil, Climate Engineering. | •25% of the world decent affordable housing deficit problem; •Reduce the Housing Units cost by 50%; •Eliminate Cement in the construction; •Develop “Bamboo Ecological City” using the Bamboo Composite Housing Units construction technologies, with every household, commercial, light industrial and recreational plots planted with natural food forest based on Permaculture principles. That will help generate additional income for each household to enable them pay for the cost of the housing units. . | We want to solve 25% of the world chronic decent affordable housing deficit problem with our Solution. Beginning with 25% of Ghana's 2.0 million decent affordable housing chronic deficit problem; using Ghana's abundant Bamboo, Clay, Lime resources as our primary composite building materials. We are developing an innovative BAMBOO ECOLOGICAL CITY with innovative holistic Climate-Smart Decent Affordable Housing Construction Technologies to solve global housing deficit problem by reducing the current housing construction cost by about 50%; our technologies are being purposely developed to mitigate and adapt/build resilience to climate change and the same time alleviate poverty and rural-urban migration as well as reducing our youths zeal to travel abroad for greener pasture leaving the greenest pastures behind – BAMBOO THE CLIMATE HERO AND PROSPERITY CHAMPION. We would be using the Bamboo waste materials to power the Gasification Plant to supply electricity for the ""Bamboo Ecological Cities"". We would be using the organic and faecal waste materials from the ""Bamboo Ecological Cities"" to produce biogas for electricity generation. The General Layout the Bamboo Ecological City will be based on Permaculture principle and natural food forest ecosystem. The typical layout of every plot that contains housing units, commercial, industrial, recreational facilities within the ""Bamboo Ecological Cities"" will be based on Permaculture principle and natural food forest ecosystem. | •No Cement will be used in the construction of the buildings however, the buildings will be earthquake resistant, in order to reduce the cost of the building and also mitigate climate change since world cement production generated around 2.2 billion tonnes of CO2 - equivalent to 8% of the global total in 2016; •This innovative Bamboo Composite Climate-Smart Decent Affordable Housing Units cost 50% less the cost of the current housing construction cost and will mitigate climate change; •This is innovative will eliminate waste completely throughout the construction and the operation life-cycle of the facilities; •Bamboo Corrugated Roofing Sheets with an integrated-photovoltaic cells, to avoid the current system of installing a separate photovoltaic cells panels on top of the roof; •The Biochar that will be the by-product from the Waste-to-Energy systems like, Biogas production to electricity for road and its associate ed construction activities. | Our Team has done about 90% of the research and development activities required to determine the final major materials designs and the main composite materials design for the Bamboo Composite Housing Units Construction technologies. And these research and development activities we have undertaken so far, are based on scientific and practical works undertaken by our Team of top technical experts and scientists in Bamboo Resources, Materials Technology, Biochar and Soil, Climate Engineering, etc. | We will become the Ghana’s largest Bamboo ecological city developers by 2025. We are poised to building five hundred thousand (500,000) decent climate-smart affordable housing units in twenty (20) ecological cities across 50,000-acre (20,234-hectare) portfolio spread across the sixteen (16) regions in Ghana, including Ahafo, Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Northern, North East, Oti, Savannah, Upper East, Upper West, Volta, Western and Western North. These Bamboo Ecological Cities are going to provide climate-smart decent affordable homes, educational, healthcare facilities and industrial parks within a well-planned ecological urban environment, delivering ecological roads and utilities such as renewable power, water and sewerage to our ecological communities. We will become the Africa’s largest Bamboo ecological city developers by 2030 by first of all expanding into Ivory Coast, then to Nigeria before expanding to the other parts of Africa. We will be building 12,500,000 decent climate-smart affordable housing units in 500 ecological cities across 1,250,000-acre in Africa. We will finally become the World’s largest Bamboo ecological city developers by 2050. We will be building 500,000,000 decent climate-smart affordable housing units across the globe based on franchise principle. | We will need a minimum amount of USD1,500,000 to start active work on this very important project. However, we will need need USD100,000,000 to build our first city. We will become the Ghana’s largest Bamboo ecological city developers by 2025. We are poised to building five hundred thousand (500,000) decent climate-smart affordable housing units in twenty (20) ecological cities across 50,000-acre (20,234-hectare) portfolio spread across the sixteen (16) regions in Ghana, including Ahafo, Ashanti, Bono, Bono East, Central, Eastern, Greater Accra, Northern, North East, Oti, Savannah, Upper East, Upper West, Volta, Western and Western North. These Bamboo Ecological Cities are going to provide climate-smart decent affordable homes, educational, healthcare facilities and industrial parks within a well-planned ecological urban environment, delivering ecological roads and utilities such as renewable power, water and sewerage to our ecological communities. We will become the Africa’s largest Bamboo ecological city developers by 2030 by first of all expanding into Ivory Coast, then to Nigeria before expanding to the other parts of Africa. We will be building 12,500,000 decent climate-smart affordable housing units in 500 ecological cities across 1,250,000-acre in Africa. We will finally become the World’s largest Bamboo ecological city developers by 2050. We will be building 500,000,000 decent climate-smart affordable housing units across the globe based on franchise principle. | Our Website is being reconstructed - www.wamrockltd.com | Our Website is being reconstructed - www.wamrockltd.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
646 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Fransje | van der Waals | HealtheFoundation | www.healthefoundation.eu | executive director | female | Netherlands | Netherlands | English | French | 2019 was the year that Health[e]Foundation’s activities became full circle. We started in 2003 as the first NGO bringing knowledge transfer to health workers in Africa using the blended learning method. An e-learning program in combination with onsite training. In 2010 we introduced a training app and provided it on tablets for community workers to inform and prepare adolescents for a healthier future. Now sixteen years later we provide mothers and their families, with the app MyHealth@Hand on which healthcare workers can transfer her own health data to promote not only self-management, but also patient-centred health care by enabling them to initiate contact with health workers when needed. The app MyHealth@Hand for (expecting) mothers in urban and rural settings is combining individual medical data with additional weekly information for themselves and their new-borns. With the app, we improve access to care to mothers and their children. Each individual will have continuous access to their own medical information, whenever and wherever they are and can share it with healthcare workers when needed. Involving women in their own care will reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. | Fransje van der Waals received her MD degree at the University of Amsterdam in 1978 and her PhD degree from the same University in 1995. She was a Fogarty Fellow at the Child and Family Research Branch, National Institutes of Health, USA in1978/79. In 1981 she was board certified in the Netherlands as a general Practitioner. From 1987-2001 Fransje van der Waals was assistant professor and head of the Women’s Health Studies Department, Amsterdam University Medical Centre. Since October 2014 she is appointed as full professor in Global Health Education at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre. Fransje van der Waals published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and published five books between 1983 and 1997 on subjects concerning women’s health. She remained active as general practitioner and is a partner in a general practice in the center of Amsterdam for thirty seven years. In 2001 Fransje van der Waals started at the International AIDS Therapy Evaluation Center, as manager of the Family Study of Antiretroviral Therapy , a study on AIDS treatment for families in rural India. Since 2003 she is the founding director of Health[e]Foundation, a distance computer based training program for health care workers in low income countries involved in treatment and care of HIV/AIDS patients. The blended learning programs: HIV[e]Education, Pediatric HIV[e]Education, TB[e]Education, Mental Health and HIV[e]education, Female&Family[e]Education and Health[e]Community (focussing on prevention) are given to over 35.000 healthcare workers in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. | MyHealth@Hand | An app women to store personal data, information and tools to ensure a healthy start in life for new mothers and their offspring | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Surinam. | Yes | App development: Elagem and I62, Implementation with TASO, PharmAccess, Perisur, and local hospitals | Proof of Concept | We started with the idea in 2017 and assessed the need with health workers and women in Senegal, Rwanda and Uganda. After developing a clickable prototype in 2018 we assessed the use in Ghana, Rwanda and Uganda. In 2019 the Minimal Viable Product was piloted in July in Uganda, is now tested in Tanzania before piloting in September. Lessons learned and adaptations will be used in pilot in Kenya in November 2019. Focus group interviews and data obtained via the app will provide proof of concept. | Personal medical data in Africa is scattered across hospitals and clinics. As a result patients face higher medical risks that are entirely avoidable.This is especially acute for pregnant women who miss reliable health data to share with medical professionals to ensure safe pre-and-post natal care. MyHealth@Hand is a dual app between healthcare worker and (expecting) mother. Via a safe QR code they can share medical data. Mothers can also enter personal data ( mood trackers, newborn' s health). | MyHealth@Hand will empower millions of women to own their personal health data and use these to lead healthier, safer lives. Expecting mothers will be informed with weekly informative messages concerning pregnancy, delivery and care of their newborns. Post delivery birth control information will promote spacing of future pregnancies. Direct interaction with their health workers from Q and A, making appointments to emergency calls The global impact will be to limit preventable deaths of women during childbearing age. Yearly 200.000 women die in Subsaharan Africa often due to lack of antenatal care and/ or unattended deliveries. MyHealth@Hand will help women to take their health and that of their children in their own hands women, it promotes prevention and empowers them to find help and medical support when needed. Their own healthcare workers will be available via the app and can give direct support when needed. When help is needed elsewhere, the women can share their personal information with other health workers who can see the available medical history on the screen and can act accordingly. The health of the newborns included from growth curve, illnesses as fevers and diarrhoea to vaccination status. | The apps concerning pregnancy and health, most developed for Europe, USA and Asia are lacking issues that play an important role in African countries like malaria, HIV, and cultural norms Also these apps are not fit for local internet access and digital literacy. This double MyHealth@Hand for healthcare workers is unique since it combines medical data, direct interaction of clinicians and expecting mothers and weekly information and tools for the mothers to be. Advantage for healthcare worker Improving treatment, instant review of updated health profile before making assessments and communication with patients through app before and/or after hospital visits. Hospitals can upload relevant client data, ensuring patients to have accurate help consulting a different hospital or clinic. For mothers: Continuously store and update medical data from treatments, tests and medical appointments.Share accurate data across hospitals and clinics. Benefit from ongoing guidance and support through the smartphone. The new perspective is direct interaction between healthcare workers and patients, not only both share the medical data, also in communication with questions, appointment reminders and women receive informative weekly messages during their pregnancy and can add personal information. The app will replace the often misplaced paper information booklets, that cause redundant tests and examinations. The continuous informed women and hospitals will ensure efficient delivery and care. | In 2018-2019: App development, testing the Minimal Viable Product in Uganda Tanzania and Kenya In 2019-2020: Availability and use of the app in a limited number of Subsaharan African countries A sustainable business model for scale up Expansion of available translations of app to allow large scale market entry From 2020 onwards: Integrate value of MyHealth@Hand by integrating with medical data systems and mobile payment systems and a better quality of care by finding the best available health facility through the app. Implementation will be first via collaborating hospitals, their trained midwives will sensitise and enroll women, following groups will enroll by word of mouth, influencers, media and health insurances. Methodology to assess progress will measured in the first pilots with results of local focus groups and reporting from hospital staff. Planning of further data collection will be for quantitative data information within the app as well as google analytics. Qualitative data will be obtained by interviews of users and with questionnaires send out for additional qualitative assessments. A dedicated data manager and epidemiologist will ensure continuous analysis and reporting of the status of users. | Next to East Africa (Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya) the app will be translated to be used in Surinam in 2020 and Ethiopia 2021 Local staff in the head office in Amsterdam will be recruited to collaborate with Industry 62 to continuously update the content and expand the app for instance to integrate with local health data systems and insurances. Next to the local staff in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya new representatives and local staff will be recruited in each new country, to interact with hospitals and local midwives to promote the use of the app. To reach out to the available market in Uganda Kenya and Rwanda ie 15% (English/ internet) of the 25.166.220 women between 15 and 54 years of age ie 3.774.933 women. We can realize 12% of the the obtainable market in three years ie 452 991 women. This will result in a in half a million healthy pregnancies and a good start in life of the newborn. Since this is the perfect time: African smartphone uptake continues to soars and the awareness of women's health issues are rising dramatically, we do not doubt the above achievements. After our experiences in knowledge transfer and information sharing starting in Africa in 2003 with computer based learning and introduced apps 2010 with a quick and successful uptake and continuous implementation. | Business constraints are Low ability/willingness to pay of users (women): Limited budget Low/medium ability/willingness to pay of users (hospitals, healthcare workers): Limited budget for innovation Fuelling our vision: we are currently seeking €700.000 to secure the next 36 months of development and growth Adjustments 2019 1000 users € 25.000 Scale up 2019/2020 10.000 users € 325.000 Integration 2021 onward 452.991users € 350.000 Funding 61% Technology, 24% Deployment 7% Overheads and 8% other Future sources of income Subscriptions: hospitals and women, insurers, linking to mobile payment systems Advertisement: health industry and insurers, Selling data: variety of stake holders, research ministry of health | http://www.healthefoundation.eu http://www.myhealthathand.org https://www.industry62.com/case-stories/2019/5/8/myhealthhand https://www.soaaids.nl/nl/professionals/congres-2018/programma/workshopronde-2/3_supporting_the_last_mile_with_digital_efforts | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clRMQMhAQD | NA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
647 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Richard | Kalungi | Home Doctors Uganda | www.homedoctorsug.com | Medical Doctor | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | I will be grateful if I attend the UN Solutions Summit because this shall present me a great opportunity to present the work my team and I have done in the area of reducing disease burden in our community. I shall ably present our idea of Home Doctors Uganda, which is an all-inclusive and holistic health care delivery system that provides health services in the comfort of people's homes. This in essence directly addresses SDG 3 which is about promotion of people's health and wellbeing. The summit shall hopefully avail me, a great opportunity of meeting new people and growing my networks, thereby study and learn from the already advanced and comprehensive American health system and therefore gain the much needed exposure and knowledge for improving our health sector back home. I also long and hope to gain skills and knowledge in identifying needs in our communities as well as management aspects such as people engagement, product and service development, people satisfaction, communication and social impact measurement. I believe that still through networking and interactions with like-minded persons, I will acquire skills and appreciate how health based solutions are run elsewhere, how challenges are addressed and also share my experiences. I hope to acquire Leadership skills which will enable him lead his team better, and encourage them to work together for prosperity and transformation of our communities.. This will enable better engagement of the population with effective health practices and therefore promote health through prevention and early diagnosis. I shall equally become better at health education and talk shows and also be able to pass on skills of management to his team at Home Doctors Uganda and many other health workers. | I am a dedicated, organized individual with a sound academic background in Medicine and Surgery. I am a passionate medical doctor, health enthusiast, Rotarian, an entrepreneur and a Tony Elumelu Fellow. I have strong interpersonal skills, I am an excellent team worker, keen and very willing to learn and develop new skills. I am reliable and dependable and often seek new responsibilities. I am experienced in and passionate about management work and public speaking. I completed my medical degree 5 years ago, at Makerere University and I am also a graduate of an Entrepreneurship for Impact MBA from Uganda Martyrs University and Catholic University of Milan. I, together with a robust and qualified team, are running a social enterprise called Home Doctors Uganda which reaches out to patients in the comfort of their communities. I believe that since 70% of diseases are preventable, and therefore passionate about promotion of disease prevention practices through creating awareness by working with Rotary clubs, sensitization and health education through the many health talk shows I do on radio and television. I am this charismatic and passionate leader holding student leadership positions while at the university, leading hospital teams in early working life and recently within Home Doctors Uganda and Rotary Uganda. It is the passion exhibited while performing tasks in each of the above that has allowed for growth, promotions and awards in each of the portfolios held in the different organizations. | Home health care | Home Doctors Uganda is a social enterprise based in Kampala, Uganda with a mission to provide holistic and inclusive home health care services. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Uganda | No | Transition to Scale | We have over the last one year ably built our idea and made 300 home visits and reviewed close to 500 patients and their family members equally provided with routine medical checkups. We are therefore a stage of transitioning to scale our community social impact such as improved health seeking behavior, job creation for health workers which will improve their living conditions and training to further improve on their knowledge. | We are solving the problem of poor health seeking behavior and poor accessibility of proper health services for the people. The challenge is important because it has greatly affected the level of care our people our receiving. There is also late diagnosis of illnesses, soaring self-medication and also growing numbers of unqualified practitioners taking advantage of patients in the community. It also leads to late diagnosis of disease and succumbing to otherwise preventable illnesses. | We provide an extensive doctor-patient conversation and come up with a plan ofmanagement or way forward on the patient's health condition. We currently work in partnership with mobile laboratory, nursing, physiotherapy, pharmacies and ambulance services to ensure that the patient's needs are fully addressed in their comfort. We have set our basic home health care visit to a range of between $25-$35 and this is for a doctor going into the patient’s home, assessing their medical condition and coming up with a way forward for management. We hope that by working through a network of medical doctors, we shall set uniform prices and also maintain quality of service irrespective of where a patient makes a booking from. We also individualize our packages to further cater for specific conditions such as pregnancy, end of life care and non-communicable diseases among others. We provide a minimum of 1 hour discussion with medical doctor and our customers therefore enjoy direct follow-up and contact with our doctors in the comfort of customer’s home or workplace, as well as reduced costs with continued use of our services. We provide free Blood pressure check-ups for family members to the paying client. Our clients and/or customers pay either before or immediately upon receiving our services and medical doctors go out to provide services directly to our customers. | We employ both business to customer interactions as well business to business relationships. We leverage technology through conducting virtual conversations with our customers but also using digital health platforms to follow up and review our patients. We work in partnership with home laboratory and nursing companies to further improve diagnosis and continuing care for our patients. Our services are provided through different packages of home health care, health education and digital health platforms, and provide an alternative healthcare delivery system which takes effective health solutions to persons in their homes. This also allows for holistic management of patients thus addressing their psycho-social concerns in addition to the physical ailments. We are able to maximize the services of a single doctor through providing quality services to up to 6 people in a homestead. Our customer acquisition strategy is largely through presentations on conferences, radio and TV health talk shows, health education sessionsand digital marketing where provision of information gets us new customers and hence widen our customer base. Periodic review calls and messaging through our digital health platforms are routinely made to all our customers in order to make a follow up about their recovery process and/or response to treatment hence feeling them feel cared for and subsequently become loyal customers. | Home Doctors Uganda is now fully registered with the Uganda Registration Services Bureau and has also fully acquired necessary licenses to operate from the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council. The Co-founders are both graduates of Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery from Makerere University, who have now been in medical practice for 5 years. The board of directors plays an oversight role, and it comprises 6 members with Dr. Robert Lukande, a Consultant and senior university lecturer, serving as its Chairman. The co-founders serve as Managing Director and COO respectively and head a management team which also consists of CTO, CMO, Legal Adviser, HR and CFO. We now have 15 medical doctors on our grid to help deliver our services. We have conducted 77 Radio/TV talk and hence ably demystified myths and misconceptions on health. We have also conducted 54 phone call consultations and 39 social media/website doctor-patient conversations and 305 home doctor visits, with each impacting an average of 4 family members hence promoting routine medical checkups and drug adherence. Our work has got us recognitions from Young Achievers Awards and the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship program grant and all these have promoted our services. | We plan to benchmark with successful home health care companies in other countries and also train our medical doctors in proper home health service provision. We intend to provide ambulance services for our patients especially in times of emergency care, so that they not only reach health facilities faster but also receive ample medical care while being rushed there. We hope to have a Television show in partnership with the NBS Television that will burst myths and misconceptions on health but also promote our services. We hope to continue working with private companies through corporate social responsibility reaching out to persons within the informal sector, through services. We shall be working with or partner with organizations into digital health solutions, as we look towards incorporating these services into our work. In the next 6-10 years, Home Doctors Uganda shall hopefully grow into a leading brand and provider of home doctor and digital health services in East Africa, Great Lakes Region and Africa with the highest market share and business centers in such areas of operation. The path to achieving this lies in the company’s core values as well as advancement in technology, employment of strategies and acquisition of mobile health equipment and mobile service vans for international standards. | Our company is currently facing 2 major challenges; There is slow adoption of the service given that it is a new idea. We hope to further increase our brand visibility in the faces of our target customers, hence increase our bookings and revenues. Lack of access to capital, we hope to improve our access to various forms of funding and investors. This is to support marketing and promotion, training and recruitment of medical doctors, and acquire various tools to aid the implementation of our mission. We hope that through UN Solutions Summit, Home Doctors Uganda shall get a platform to show case our work and have access to opportunities for collaboration and partnership which shall then grow the value of our business hence attracting funding, and reaching out to more people and communities. | https://web.facebook.com/homedoctorsug/photos/a.407091743010613/536789576707495/?type=3 https://web.facebook.com/homedoctorsug/photos/a.407091743010613/542301796156273/?type=3 https://web.facebook.com/homedoctorsug/photos/a.407091743010613/479906155729171/?type=3 https://web.facebook.com/homedoctorsug/photos/a.407091743010613/466107103775743/?type=3 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UldRrRfHv0 https://youtu.be/lwpe-DqbH5Q | Young Achievers' Awards Best Social Entrepreneurship Finalist 2018 The Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Award 2018 Best Supportive Idea in Rotary Health Programs 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
648 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Walters | Arrey | Brain and Brawn Drain Reversal (BBDR), Inc. | www.bbdrinc.com | Founder/CEO and President | Male | United States of America | Cameroon | English | French | I am a Wildlife Biologist and Social Forester by profession. During the mid 1990s while working on my bachelors thesis funded by the German Agency for Technical Corporation (GTZ), I was opportuned to work with local communities around the Mount Cameroon Project (MCP) region to find out ways in which the local communities could be involved in the management of their ""Good Given Resources (Genesis 1:26-30)"". The results from this study revealed that the local communities can sustainably manage their forest and its resources if given alternative sources of income (from sale of forest products) and protein (from forest products and meat consumption). This study together with other works from local, national, and international experts recommended that the MCP region be made a national park because of the following advanced reasons: It has the highest peak at 13,435 feet (4095 meters) in West Africa located at 4 degree 13 minutes North and 9 degree 10 minutes East; it is an active volcano; it hosts a variety of ecotourism potentials; and it is part of one of the eight biodiversity hotspots of the ""Gulf of Guinea Forests"", with a rich, diverse, and partly endemic flora and fauna. The government responded favorable after a decade by creating the Mount Cameroon National Park with a total surface area 58,178 hectares, through decree number 2009/2272 of the Prime Minister on December 18, 2009. The research employed the use of rapid and participatory rural appraisal as innovative methods to collect data for the study. These innovation assisted in the conclusion derived in the study that the local communities in the surrounding periphery of the park can take part in the collaborative management of the park. It has created a positive global impact by attracting numerous international visitors, donor agencies, with limited financial involvement from the government except in the payment of its personnel. Through the results obtained, four publications in reputable scientific journals have been released by the principal investigator and his university advisors. The study is regarded in Cameroon as the pioneer to propose innovative measures to eradicate wildlife-crops conflict in the MCP region. | Born by a hunter (father) and farmer (mother), the knowledge of wildlife and forestry was enthrone in me with a passion. That is why I decided to pursue wildlife and range management at university level. Upon graduation, I was employed by three different international organizations (Wildlife Conservation Society, WCS; World Wide Fund for Nature; and German Agency for Technical Cooperation, GTZ), working at different conservation sites in Cameroon. From 1996 to 2000 my role was to organize, plan, and execute community projects that encouraged local communities to participate in the management of their natural resources by providing alternative sources of livelihood at these sites. In search of greener pastures in the western world, the solution provider was blessed to move to the United States of America in 2000 where he became a naturalized citizen along the years. The goal of this investigator has been to return part of his ""American dream"" to the land of his forefathers. With this in mind, came the name: ""BBDR, Inc."" formed to initiate the return of products and services back to African territories by sons and daughters who immigrated to the US and other countries for greener pastures and refused to return to their fatherland. With the hope of improving the quality of lives of their fellow citizens and family. This was a far fetch ideology. It is against this premise that the solution entitled: ""Green Disposal Of Plastics and Rubber Containers In Douala, Cameroon: A Pilot Project"" was envisaged to start this revolutionary trend for immigrants worldwide to emulate. | The Green Disposal And Recycle Of Plastics and Rubber Containers In Douala, Cameroon: A Pilot Project | A Pilot Project Demonstrating The Proper Disposal And Recycle Of Plastics And Rubber Containers In Cameroon | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Cameroon | No | Ideation | We are at the level of Ideation because as the name of the organization predicts, those of us who came to the USA and to chase the American dream needs to give back to our mother land. So from October 16, 2018 to July 8, 2019, we visited Cameroon to find out what we can do to positively impact the lives of the people of Cameroon. We realized that Douala was a very convenient location for us to start a pilot study as indicated above. | Douala being the economic capital and largest city is experiencing environmental degradation and pollution of its water resources due to the improper disposal of plastics and rubber containers. It also has the potential of accepting more people from the two English speaking regions that fled the political crisis, thereby increasing its problems of crowded rivers and slow moving streams by these containers, thereby destroying aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. | Bearing in mind the vast wastage of plastics and rubber containers, it is hope that this pilot solution will help to principally sensitize the population to see the dangers of improper disposal of these containers; secondly it will help to change the way the inhabitants dispose of these containers; and thirdly, it is hope that the containers will be recycled to produce other products used by the inhabitants of Cameroon. Since Cameroon has no industry to recycle these products, the solution team will outsource partners to recycle the containers overseas and resell the recycled materials or products produced at moderate prices back to Cameroonians; or work with the government of Cameroon to create a favorable environment for such organizations to do business in Cameroon. During the first phase of the project, the world will be sensitize about the importance of recycling of plastics in Cameroon and Central African (CEMAC) region. When the pilot project succeed, more and more companies will be interested in partnership and hence the global impact. Seminars like this, conferences, and symposiums will be organized regularly on a global scale to discuss the problem and sort for solutions. One of such solutions to be proposed will be for community watch groups to be created that manages the disposal and recycle of used plastics and rubber containers using the procedure and process exemplified in the BBDR's pilot project. | During the nine months period (October 2018 to July 2019) of conducting recognizance surveys, observations, and holding meetings with local population and government dignitaries, we found out that similar solutions were ongoing but were not fluid. There were very limited number of locations for the containers to be dropped off and picked up but they were never picked up during our entire stay in the country. The drop off locations were not evenly distributed across the city and its environs. The population was never sensitized about the purpose and use of the drop off locations and the dangers of allowing the stock piling of containers. This approach is improper and should never have been used. What BBDR, Inc. intends to do is to have warehouses where these products will be picked up and dropped for onward movement to the areas they will be recycled or arranged to be shipped. Secondly, it is hope that we sensitize the population on drop off locations, pick up days and times, and the dangers of not disposing such containers properly. The new methodology plans to get all inhabitants of the city involved in the planning, implementation and evaluation of the project. People must be aware that it is for their own benefit that these plastics are removed from the environment to prevent far reaching repercussions. The citizens are already aware of specialized locations to drop off domestic waste which is being picked up by Esiacam even though it is not constant. | Bearing in mind that the entire lifespan of this solution is five years with the possibility of renewal and extension, the team has just concluded with the ideation or initiation phase. We are very happy with the progress so far obtained. It is a very realistic and doable solution. We are now looking at the next phase which is the implementation or execution phase that deals with research and methodology, analysis of the results obtained, and interpretation of the results obtained. It is hoped that this phase will last for three and half years to obtained maximum benefits. The last phase, evaluation will run for slightly one year. The results obtained if favorable will be used to make bold decision whether to continue with the solution or not; and help amend areas that need improvement. Measurement of the progress will be based on knowing the total number of containers dropped off at each pick up locations per week and multiplying it by the number of drop off locations in the city. These results will be compared with the estimated number of products in containers consumed per week by Douala residents as reported by companies selling and producing products in these containers. If the number of products consumed and reported by sellers is lesser than the number of containers collected from drop off locations in a week, then the methodology is perfect. If the reverse situation occurs, the methodology and strategy implemented needs to be reviewed and augmented. | The overall goal of the solution is to demonstrate that the proper disposal and recycle of plastics and rubber containers in the economic capital and most populated city of Cameroon is vital in reducing environmental degradation and pollution of water resources that plague the metropolitan city of Douala, Cameroon. Its specific goals are: To reduce these effects at 50 percent level during the first five year span of the project from 2020 to 2025; to educate the inhabitants of the city on the dangers of improper disposal of these containers; to enumerate the dangers caused by these containers to the environment and its resources; to change the mentality of the city’s inhabitants on how to dispose off these containers; and to work with the government and other organizations to sort out ways to reduce the dumping of these containers. The milestones of the solution deals with a variety of events during the first five year span of the solution. They will be in three different and distinct sets distributed in phases. The first set to be applied in phase one of the solution will duel on proofing the concept being used through testing and launching, design of the project, and procurement of working materials. The second sets will be centered on communicating the plans and decisions to the community and the processes involved in every stage of the solution. The third and final sets will be very complicated because they will serve as checks and balances at every level of the project. | Initially the solution team needed to raised personal funds to embark on the trip to the Central African country of Cameroon after discussing at length with interested volunteers in that country. While in the country, all short-term needs of the team (transportation to trouble areas of the city, hosting meetings, feeding, and lodging) were paid for by team members from the United States and volunteers based in Cameroon. The medium-term needs for the solution will include 100 build in stands distributed through out the city to serve as drop off locations, collection site to be donated to the course by a volunteer, sign and information boards for sensitization of the public, running radio and television campaigns on the solution, and volunteers to vive for the course. The long-term needs of the solution include: building of a permanent plant for collecting containers, buying tricycles to use for pick up, employing hourly and salaried workers, and paying outside evaluators and auditors of the project. The medium and long-term needs of the project will be financed through anticipated funds from international donors like the United Nations agencies and foreign institutions working in Cameroon, the city of Douala, and the private sector. That is why the life span of the project is from 2020 to 2025. | The vision of this solution has been greatly impacted by the lack of funds to fortify our ideas and projected solutions to the problem under investigation. This organization is newly conceived and this solution is the first to be undertaken to create an impact to the society of Cameroon for a name to be made. We hope that we will be able to secure the necessary funds to undertake the study. We have photos and videos of the problem in particular areas of the town that prompted the team to considered the city as the pioneer research site of the organization. The website and registration of the company is still underway and will be completed once finances are available. Once these issues have been resolved, the videos and photos we have on hand will be uploaded into the solution's website. Until that happens we are not able to provide links to the progress of the project. | The vision of the company initially was to serve as a return of favor to the government of Cameroon who lost more of its inhabitants to the western world in search of greener pasture. So videos and audio recordings of the speaking engagements and interviews of interested parties was not really utilized on a broad scale. The few audio and video recordings obtained can be sent to you in any other means other than through a link. We look forward to hearing from you on how this could be channeled to you for inclusion into this post. | It is a fairly new solution in the economic capital of Cameroon where the population influx generated by the political crisis in the Anglophone regions have drastically impacted the use of plastic and rubber container without proper disposal. It is hope that, before the next summit of 2020, the solution would have gained positive grounds that will enable us to win world wide recognition and awards for what we are rying to pursue. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
649 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Shilpa | Malik | Bioscan Research Pvt. Ltd. | https://bioscanresearch.com | Founder and Director | Female | India | India | English | Our solution is perfectly in line SDG i.e. Health and well being. 50 million people become victims of Traumatic brain injury every year in the world. Around 60% of them never return to normal life, not because of lack of treatment, but because of delay in detection. Current solutions like CT scan are not preferred by patients at an early stage when the symptoms are mild. This delay in detection not only decreases the chance of survival but also reduces the possibility of positive outcome post surgery. We present this project as the most effective solution to the problem. The founders have experienced the above-mentioned pain points within the family and have been moved by those as those were life-threatening and yet could not be cured. Founder, being an ex-scientist of Defence R & D department- Govt. of India, had come across a technology that can be adapted to develop a solution for this problem. So being so close to the problem and also the solution it feels to be a moral responsibility to contribute our to save lives and make this world a better place. The impact that can be experienced by the implementation of this project is multifold. The same is elaborated below : Society: Every minute, 57 people are either dying or becoming disabled in the world due to traumatic brain Injury. If we diagnose the injury early through Cerebo, we would impact 3424 lives per hour. A large proportion of these people are in their most productive age and many a time, sole bread earner of the family. Assuming a four-person dependency, the device would impact the livelihood of more than 13000 people per hour. Employment: we would create jobs for hundreds of engineers and doctors for development of these devices. We would give thousands of jobs to the unkilled people by training them to operate these devices in remote and rural India. Also, many jobs would be created for sub parts supplier. Environment: Usage of our device would reduce radiation generated by CT scan machines. The indirect impact includes reduction in the electricity consumption in usage of CT scan/MRI machines. CT scan machines consume 700w to 1900w in low power mode and between 2.3 to 6.25 kw in stand by power mode and power consumed by air conditioners. Whereas, our device does not need any air conditioning and the power needed per scan is in the range of .01w which is negligible as compared to CT scans. | A former scientist from DRDO, she worked on Pilot Display Systems and interfaced with Radar Team. She has more than 11 years of Experience in technology development with more than 5 years of experience in photonic instrumentation. She graduated as a Computer science engineer from NIT Jamshedpur and completed PGDM in Communication Management & Entrepreneurship from MICA Ahmedabad. She has also undergone sprint training in hi-tech entrepreneurship from Technion, Israel and a market access development program from Carleton University, Ontario, Canada. | Cerebo(TM) | Fast, portable, non invasive brain hemorrhage detector | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | India, Thailand, Canada, Ethiopia | Yes | I2R Design, K&S Partner, TechShlok, IITK | Proof of Concept | The final product is ready. We have completed the regulatory compliance for launch in India. We have also completed clinical testing at Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad (Asia’s largest public hospital) with 100% sensitivity to detect hemorrhages. We are currently working on CE certification. | 50 million people become victims of Traumatic brain injury every year in the world. Around 60% of them never return to normal life, not because of lack of treatment, but because of delay in detection. Current solutions like CT scan are not preferred by patients at an early stage when the symptoms are mild. This delay in detection not only decreases the chance of survival but also reduces the possibility of positive outcome post surgery. | Bioscan Research has developed a handy, non-invasive, a fully automatic system for detecting intracranial haemorrhage in 2 min. These three characteristics make it ideal to be used as a screening device. Since it is handy, it can be carried around easily, and also can be deployed onsite. Since it is fully computerized, it does not require any special skills to operate it. It can be used by a layman with 20 min training. Since it is non-invasive, based on NIR Spectroscopy, it can be used multiple times without causing any harm to the patient. Such a device when deployed in trauma centres, emergency departments and ambulances will save the lives of millions of patients whose brain injuries go undiagnosed. Our device will impact the lives of people directly by ensuring the detection and hence the treatment within the golden hours. This will reduce the mortality and disability rates among the traumatic brain injured patients. It will allow the victim and his or her family to lead a normal life. Since the injury affects the most productive age group, it will impact the economic outcome of India in the long run. Our intervention impact will be computed objectively based on the weighted average of the number of people that we send to hospital accurately for further diagnosis and the number of people we send home accurately. | CT Scan is the gold standard for intracranial bleed detection, however it has limitations for mass screening because it is non-portable, exposes a person to high energy radiation, and needs a radiologist to interpret the result. In absence of CT Scan, a neurological examination is conducted by paramedic staff. But when the patients are mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic they do not go to CT centres and neurological examination in the absence of symptoms are poor indicator of hemorrhage. Our device can overcome these challenges because it’s portable, non invasive and provides an objective assessment of presence of intracranial bleed. Innovation’s unique competitive advantage: Fast detection: Takes <2 min to scan the head and indicate the presence or absence of hematoma Periodic screening without any side effects: The radiation used is non-ionizing and the power density is so low that multiple scans be done without any side effects Operating ease: The product is intuitive to use. With minimal training, any volunteer (from villages or small towns) could be trained to use it Portable: Since it is battery operated, the device would be easily carried around Fully computerized: The device does not require any result interpretation, so it can be utilized by common men to test one another Affordable for mass adoption: The evolution and availability of laser diodes and integrated circuits at an affordable price has made it possible to make these devices for masses | We have developed the industrial design and the final product. However, we are planning to deploy it by October 2019. Technically we are at TRL-9 in terms of development. We measure te development of our solution/device in phases/milestones. It has always been a challenge to believe in something that is not in existence and is solving a huge problem. However, in order to establish the efficacy of the solution, we have conducted clinical trials under authentic third party that is technically qualified to evaluate.The results have been 100% conforming. Our progress has been really swift as we have been able to develop the device with dedicatedly devoting 6 years of the team that working exclusively on the R & D of this solution. | In next 2-3 years, we aim to deploy the device in India US Europe and Middle east. In phase 1, we would deploy 100 devices in India since we have the regulatory clearance. By January 2020 , we would obtain CE and hence commercialize the device in Europe and Middle East post that. By June 2020, we aim to get IRB clearance in US for piloting the device with US army. By March 2021, we aim to get FDA clearance for commercialization in USA and then to the rest of the world, especially in Africa. We are also developing an intraventricular hemorrhage detector for preterm babies. We aim to test the first prototype in India Starting April 2020. | In order to have a maximum impact our solution needs to be made available at the right places at the right times. These places include Old age homes where elderlies are likely to fall or slip remote locations in developing countries that have limited access to healthcare facilities especially in trauma and neurology, to schools where children play in open grounds and susceptible to falls and head injuries. The list is endless, however, our needs are mentioned below : Short Term : We need access to Hospitals, Trauma centres and ambulance operators where we can deploy our devices and serve immediate and improve the treatment outcome of brain injuries. WE also need funds for manufacturing of large number of units and logistics for the same. Medium term: As we also plan to expand to various countries across the globe so we need some global as well as local partners for deployment of the device and service of the same. Again, we will also need funds in order to evaluate various partnerships, travelling, legal and admin paperwork, I.P. protection etc. for sustainable implementation. Long Term: Eventually we want to deploy our solution/device in multiple countries based on the need. This will require the support from Governments so that the device can be made available to the underprivileged in the developing (and developed) countries. Of course , even in this case we will need financial support to be able to cater to the requirements of various nations. | https://bioscanresearch.com | https://youtu.be/ZioZQuj42M0 | StartHealth 2017, Innocity Pitch at CIIE, India Israel Innovation Challenge in Healthcare, Top 4 startups in India by Lufthansa Runway to Success, TIE-BIRAC WinER, BIRAC BIG Grantee, Top 15 Winners of Qualcomm Design Challenge, Winner of world’s top innovations, BIND 4.0, Winner of Infosys Startupreneur Award, Top 50 innovations of the world, XYNTEO, Top 3 Success Startup Stories by NASSCOM CoE-IoT, Top 5 BIRAC grantee for Ignite UK, Best Incubatee company in healthcare by ISBA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
650 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Bernard | Olayo | Hewa Tele | http://www.hewatele.org/ | Founder | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | It was 2012. World over everybody was rushing to realize the targets laid down in the Millennium Development Goals. In western Kenya, a small group of people were wracking their brains on how to make oxygen, a simple but an essential medicine, readily available. Their idea was simple: disrupt the supply system, change the story. I was fortunate to be a part of this inspiring group. Hewa Tele is the brainchild of this thought process. It breaks the stranglehold of one Multi National Company (MNC) in the business of oxygen in the region by introducing innovative partnerships including the government and private sector. As a founder and Chair, I have been building a social enterprise that has impacted over 3,000,000 lives in the struggling healthcare environment of Africa. I say it is struggling because why else would oxygen, which is abundant all around us, be so precious and rare for medical purposes in Sub-Saharan Africa? Lack of Oxygen is estimated to cause the deaths for 122,000 children with severe pneumonia each year. It could also help reduce the 292,000 women dying during childbirth annually. This, despite the drug being a part of therapy for over 100 years and a WHO-recommended essential medicine for over 35 years. Today, children and pregnant women in Kenya can breathe easier. Hewa Tele, which works on a PPP model, and already has 3 plants running serving more than 150 health facilities in a catchment population of slightly more than 10 million people. HEWA TELE manufactures and delivers cheaper oxygen to even remote facilities. To date, Hewa Tele had saved 50,890 lives (live saved- #of people using oxygen for life saving procedures) and improved 51,334 lives (lives improved- # of people using oxygen for medical procedures). Majority of whom are children and women of child bearing age. To meet our targets, a lot still need to be done. The UN Solutions Summit provides a voice for us to amplify this impact and to find common ground and collaborate with other innovations from around the world. For, the lack of affordable medical oxygen is not Kenya’s problem alone. If Hewa tele alone has been able to set up 3 oxygen plants, covering 47% of the total Kenya counties, make deliveries safer in 188 health facilities every year, then imagine the hope it can bring for thousands of lives lost at birth. | Fresh out of medical school, I worked in remote islands in Kenya, tough areas where no one wants to go. Sometimes I was the only doctor for 16 islands with no health services and highest HIV prevalence (26.0%). I joined Harvard for public health training I set up Center for Public Health and Development 8 years ago to help bridge gaps in the healthcare system. CPHD has over 28 staffs — including experts in marketing, researchers, doctors and engineers. Our aim is to leapfrog access to oxygen. Working from Africa, being a part of the local environment, and having relationship with key local functionaries help us find solutions that are inclusive and sustainable. We then look for partners. Local problems, local insight, local solutions with global partners. We have teamed up with the government and a host of international partners including UNICEF, Grand Challenges Canada, DFID and GE Foundation to set up a social enterprise to develop a sustainable oxygen manufacture and delivery system. We have created a one-stop biomedical solutions shop to prevent faulty equipment gathering dust in high-volume health facilities. We have catalyzed national-level neonatal protocols and introduced a whole new set of anesthetists from an existing and trainable workforce. We have introduced CPAP, a low technology and low maintenance life-supporting device for children in respiratory distress and created a line of champion users and trainers to maximize and sustain its impact. | Hewa Tele | Every breath counts | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Kenya, Rwanda, Malawi, Somalia | Yes | GE Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, County Government, National Government, UNICEF, DFID | Transition to Scale | When Hewa Tele started, it was only one plant covering western region. To date, we have installed 2 more plants in Nairobi and Nakuru counties covering almost half (47%) of the counties in the country. More counties have been in contact discuss on the possible increment in the of oxygen plants across various counties. | In the 2 minutes that you take to read this paragraph, 6 children will have died of pneumonia. Every 20 seconds, a child dies of pneumonia. For this child, oxygen can be a matter of life or death. In Sub-Saharan Africa, oxygen is expensive and its supply erratic. Hospitals frequently run out of stock and physicians are forced to ration its use. Studies show 25% of facilities here never have oxygen available and 32% have an irregular supply controlled by the MNC | Hewa Tele is a unique and revolutionary solution for oxygen supply that brings this essential drug within the reach of health professionals at all levels. Hewa Tele, which means “abundant air” in Swahili, is an indigenous social enterprise and addresses the hurdles to producing, delivering uninterruptedly, and servicing affordable and reliable oxygen to facilities that previously did not have. This reduces costs and training of health workers on using locally produced Oxygen. It pairs a very cost-effective technology for oxygen production and works on a public-private partnership (PPP) model to ensure sustainability. It disrupts the existing business model by decentralizing the oxygen production, using alternative technologies to lower costs, creating a cost-effective hub-and-spoke milkman distribution model, improving oxygen infrastructure in health facilities, and having a strong health facility-based training and maintenance component to the comprehensive oxygen package. The problems which Hewa Tele tackles are neither unique nor limited to Kenya and the region. Maternal, neonatal and child mortality are concerns that most developing nations have been battle. Our solutions can be applied and scaled up in any geography with similar context. In the long run, we see our solution improving access to affordable healthcare by bringing together diverse stakeholders and creating high-impact social ventures. We aim to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all. | Hewa Tele has been possible through a PPP (a first such venture in this space ruled by a monopolistic private market) with the local government to ensure greater penetration of the market while the private sector partners handle the headache of maintaining, delivering and training — 3 components necessary to initiate, improve and continue administration and optimal usage of oxygen. Total solution: Hewa Tele provides all the components needed to have a working oxygen procurement system: the oxygen itself, accessories to administer the drug, training, maintenance, and monitoring. Sustainable structure: Hewa Tele operates as a PPP with representation from government, hospital and private stakeholders in the governance structure. This allows the model to be self-sustainable and locally owned. Training and maintenance: Hewa Tele provides health workers training in the proper use and administration of oxygen, and maintenance. The team has locally based biomedical engineers to maintain the plant and its operations. So, hospitals effectively outsource the greatest risks – plant maintenance and operations – to a private entity designed to deal with these issues. A plant that is properly maintained can provide oxygen for 15-20 years. The capital costs are met through grant money or debt while operations costs come from revenue from sales after approximately 18 months. The result: all hospitals have access to highly subsidized oxygen supply | Hewa Tele would have remained just that, an idea, had it not been for the coming together of the right partners with the same vision. From watching newborns die gasping for breath to hearing the lusty cries of premature babies in the same setting. We launched Hewa Tele in 2014, with the hope of reaching 2 to 3 counties in Western Kenya. Today, Hewa Tele has 3 plants in 3 counties and is able to deliver oxygen in 22 counties, 188 health facilities, and cover nearly 700 km. This has impacted over 3,000,000 lives. It was the moment of truth when the Hewa Tele model was adopted by global public health leaders such as UNICEF and Grand Challenges Canada in other countries in Africa. The Siaya county in Western Kenya alone has been supplying oxygen at 40% cheaper prices to 8 counties and more than 50 facilities. The social and financial returns of the initiative have been encouraging, prompting more than 15 counties in Kenya wanting to be a partner. The team has selected 2 new challenging counties with high maternal and child mortality figures to scale up the program. The approach has already been applied in Rwanda, and the Hewa Tele team is hoping to take it to other countries in East Africa in the near future. The oxygen solution has also got traction in the global community and is part of an oxygen alliance participated by Clinton Global Initiative, UNICEF, CHAI, Gates Foundation, Just Action, Masimo, and several other organizations united to ensure oxygen for all. | The initiative impacts health facilities (public, private and faith-based), healthcare workers and the millions of critically ill people. Around 16 million women and children can be benefitted alone in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda, with a special focus on pregnant women and children under 5. The next steps are to find the right investment instrument for scaling beyond Kenya and in the region to show adaptability of the model while ensuring the solution remains locally contextual. A broader engagement with respective governments will also go a long way in ringing in policy-level changes in order in propel oxygen therapy from the sidelines to the core of critical care management. The next phase of the Hewa Tele initiative includes: Development of national strategy for oxygen scale-up Mobilization of resources for ongoing implementation Exploration of different investment instruments Growth in volume of oxygen manufactured and sold Increase Kenyan coverage to 100%. Expand to other countries in the East and Southern Africa region – the team has conceptualized new locations for expansion in Malawi, Uganda , Tanzania , Ethiopia and Somalia . | The resources most needed for all our social enterprise solutions are capital and marketing. While Hewa Tele, our oxygen solution, has already broken even, the profits are enough to keep the program sustainable. To scale it up in the rest of Kenya and other countries in the region, the program requires affordable capital to set up oxygen plants and expand the team. While local governments have shown keen interest in partnering, most of them are unable to co-share the initial costs. Short-term needs to transition this solution to scale include funds for setting up new plants (could be grants, affordable debt, equity or a combination of different instruments depending on location ). Medium-term plans require additional staffing, funding for new plants and evaluation team. For long-term plans, to implement Hewa Tele in other countries of Africa, we need more partnership engagement. We hope to generate enough revenue by then to set up plants independently. Funding is also required for improving documentation best practices and thorough research into oxygen provision and impact in Africa, an area that is very much neglected despite oxygen therapy being critical to reduce deaths of children due to the top 6 causes of mortality. | http://www.hewatele.org/ | 1.https://youtu.be/_sCHcYFZAE0?t=4 2.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPvo10XvOfM 3.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAG8b5TyaxA 4.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3-ieDhq50Q 5.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UcrzTy8W6O5fHgqwLIv5QmoA | Aspen New Voices Fellow 2017 Part of the Nest 360 Award ( Co-funded by BMGF, ELMA Philanthropies, MacArthur Foundation and Child Investment Fund Foundation – CIFF) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
651 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dr Charles E.M. | Ruyembe | KARIBU CULTURAL CONTACT (KCC) | under-construction | Board Chairperson | Male | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | My innovation titled creative artists, creative entrepreneurs and technology is well stipulated in my PhD thesis (Queensland University of Technology) link: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/82090/ and then as well put on a link to my innovation profile on GIE: visit: https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovation/creative-artists-creative-entreperenurship-and-technology In using the innovation for positive global impact, I have released a book titled, “ Strategies for youth employment in Tanzania: A creative Industries Approach” visit: https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/strategies-for-youth-employment-in-tanzania/isbn/978-3-330-31846-5 and as a Tanzania and taking forward the innovation, supported by BEST-Dialogue and CHIMABA Sanaa Group (a coalition) , I recently have been conducted an evidence based survey titled “Assessing creative industries for policy making in Tanzania” aimed at identifying policy barriers in doing business within the creative industries sector so as to meet the objective of making Tanzania a semi-industrialized country by 2025. I have been doing some advocacy, dialogue with policy makers and creative entrepreneurs so as to make them understand entry points to the creative industries approach and its implications to meet the national industrialization agenda and the criteria for what the UN Envision 203 is looking for. | Dr Charles Enock Mulimba Ruyembe (PhD in Creative Industries) is a teacher by profession, a creative expert, a consultant in the arts, cultural and creative industries sector, a researcher and writer. As a teacher, I taught in many Primary Schools, Secondary Schools and Teachers’ College in Tanzania from 1972 to 1987, then joined the National Arts Council of Tanzania as a desk officer from 1988 to 2013. In the Council, I saved as an Arts Administrator and cultural expert in the Music Department then headed the Department of Fundraising and Endowment of the Council. I have extensively worked with local CBOs and NGO including individual artists, Arts Associations and Foundations on various arts, cultural and creative industries policy and issues. I latter went in UK for my further studies (Master in Culture, Creativity and Entrepreneurship at the University of Leeds (2008/2009). Then, I pursued a PhD in Creative Industries in Brisbane, Australia at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) from June, 2011 to March, 2015. Soon after the studies, I was given a contract appointment (a Lecturer and did assist in development of the Arts curriculum in line with Higher Education Qualification Sub-Framework (HEQSF) and Creative Industries at The Arts Faculty – Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), Pretoria, South Africa (1st March, 2015 to 31st August, 2016. I now in Tanzania work within the creative industries sector as a consultant, Board Chairperson, researcher and writer. | Entrepreneurship, Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) and Workforce Development | Creative Artists, Creative Entrepreneurs and Technology | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | This solution is currently aimed to be implemented in Tanzania, but the scaling-up will be to East Africa. Hence, all share the same challenges of youth unemployment, lack of understanding the potentials, contribution and application of the concepts so as | Yes | The key partners incluse Global Innovation Exchange; CHIMABA Sanaa Group an NGO (acoalition) based in Dar-Es-salaam, Tanzania and BEST-Dialogue | Research & Development | The solution is at the stage of innovation due to the fact that the linkage between “creative artists, creative entrepreneurship and Technology” is a new idea aimed at boosting creativity and innovation and creative occupations. The solution suggests on revisiting and broadening the arts, cultural and creative industries and reforming Vocational Education and Training and Creative Workforce development policies so as to cater the needs of the 21st Century. | The problem this solution is trying to address is “how can understanding of the relationships between “Entrepreneurship, Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Workforce Development” initiatives help in diminishing youth unemployment challenges and enhance the cultural and creative industries sectors’ contribution to economic development and GDP?” | The solution “Entrepreneurship, Technical and Vocational Education Training and Workforce Development” when integrated help in nurturing talents (human capital) within young people. Through education and learning, the reinforcement of old ideas can be done and do help learners to find sustainable ways solve existing problems and enhance social relations as carriers of knowledge. Therefore, the solution focuses on creating a knowledge-based society. Hence, through this process a long-term vision for global impact include, individual creative artists acquire creative entrepreneurship knowledge and skills for appreciating and adapting to their environment, realises her or his full potential, enhances his ability to create, being imaginative and innovative within the artistic occupational categories. Through creative enterprise education young people are likely to acquire skills, in production, services, creative businesses and management for their personal development and therefore they have sustainable careers. In that regard, future policy and program interventions are observed accommodating well-stipulated ways for promoting creative entrepreneurship skills to equip young people with right knowledge for the betterment of their lives and economic development. | The solution is unique due to the fact that firstly, creative enterprise is an emergent field of knowledge in the Tanzanian context and many East African countries. Secondly, creative enterprise education has the ability to provide young people with adequate knowledge, skills and opportunities for their personal development and contribution to creative economy development. Thirdly, the linkages between “ “Entrepreneurship, Technical and Vocational Education and Training and workforce development” initiative seems to be the best solution towards youth unemployment challenges as a global issue, best solution to young people’s future skills within the business and labour market scope. The new perspective or methodology is linked to how this innovative idea seeks to nurture human capital and test new ways to tackle unemployment challenges to youth. The methodology responds to poverty alleviation initiatives as one of SDGs because it cherishes human development trends through the promotion of creativity and innovation, hard work, professionalism, entrepreneurship, and enhancement of creative career pathways. | Up to the moment far from having in place the research report: https://www.morebooks.de/store/gb/book/strategies-for-youth-employment-in-tanzania/isbn/978-3-330-31846-5 We recently worked on the development of the solution by assessing cultural policy and related policies in place. Through Advocacy and communication strategy we did conduct an evidence-based study from August 2018 to March, 2019), and the deliverables include, a research report document is in place that creates an evidence-base, a Policy Position paper and policy brief documents are available repacking findings, and dialogue have taken place with policy makers, stakeholders and high level government officials within related Ministries and Institutions and now we are doing a follow-up on policy reforms so as to create an enabling environment for the solution thorough implementation. | Goals 1: To raise understanding of the potentials, common concerns of the creative industries sector, propose policy directions and the entry points to the creative industries approach Milestones: oTo hold 10 meetings and workshops with stakeholders and policy makers in 7 strategic zones in Tanzania to enhance networking and dialogue oDevelop a social media platform as a new way to disseminate information, validate existing study reports and collect new inputs Goal 2: To reduce the degree of unemployment among young people in Tanzania and East Africa Milestones: oTo provide 10,000 creative artists and creative entrepreneurs in Tanzania with relevant information creative industries value chain, marketing, funding, copyright issues and enterprise education oTo assist 500 creative artists/entrepreneurs in learning how to effectively apply their human capital in helping to engage successfully in self-employment Goals 3: To effectively use existing Vocational and Training centres and Cultural Institutions in helping creative entrepreneurs to learn and attain enterprise education Milestones: oTo provide a 4 week training program for 200 Trainers (ToTs) as volunteers to train other creative artists and creative entrepreneurs by the end of 2020 oTo teach 7000 creative artists and creative entrepreneurs in Tanzania how to engage and evaluate changes in their creative works and businesses by the end of 2030 | Short term: Training rooms for volunteers/ stakeholders; stationary (paper/duplicating machines/photocopy; laptops/Tables and chairs, Personnel e.g. trainers and budget Medium term: Buildings/spaces for training; exhibitions, festivals and performances/rehearsals. Personnel; Facilities; Equipment’s such as laptops; projectors; Tables, Chairs, Photocopiers; advertising and promotional materials and Budget/running costs Long-term: Established premises for the solution; training resources; volunteers or personnel as trainers; facilities; equipment and supplies and Budget | The links related to my solution: https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovation/creative-artists-creative-entreperenurship-and-technology | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6FZTpGZOOg | 3 October 2013: IGNITE 13 Conference at QUT: “Sustainable creative career development pathways for young people in Tanzania: A case study”. Best paper. http://www.ijsse.org/articles/ijsse_v1_i9_366_377.pdf 24-26 July 2013: conference “Sharing Cultures” in Aveiro, Portugal “Integrating Intangible Cultural Heritage elements and learning strategy: A case study”. Among 10 best papers. Available: http://www.ijhsd.greenlinesinstitute.org/volumes/2015/IJHSD_2015_V04_01_Ruyembe_149_157.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
652 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Johnny | Miller | Unequal Scenes | www.unequalscenes.com | Speaker/Photographer/ Storyteller | Male | South Africa | United States of America | English | As a photographer living in the world’s most unequal country (South Africa) and as a citizen of the world’s most unequal rich country (USA), I am uniquely positioned to bring awareness about inequality with my photography project Unequal Scenes. I created this innovative project in 2016, which uses drones to visualize the world's most unequal divides. The research, essays, speaking engagements and fellowships that have followed on from this have made Unequal Scenes a powerful project which has grown into a community, a community which at its core has the strategic principles of See-Acknowledge-Act. Governments, universities, students, NGOs and everyday citizens have used Unequal Scenes to See and Acknowledge what inequality means, and media has been very supportive to spread that message, including placing my image on the cover of Time magazine and many dozens of interviews and inserts. Now the focus is to Act. The world is in crisis. Inequality is symptomatic of a callousness and disregard for humanity that is located on every continent and addressed in all the UN SDGs. I intend to continue to grow my project with supportive partners in multiple areas, including inequality, climate change, and migration. With the platform of the UN Solutions Summit and the various meeting opportunities during that week I hope to take my project to the next level of impact. | Johnny Miller (b. 1981) is a photographer, journalist, and founder of Unequal Scenes and africanDRONE – a pan-African NGO. He is based in Cape Town, South Africa, and is provokes conversations on inequality and hidden power structures through his art and various other projects. Johnny is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the London School of Economics, a BMW Foundation Global Responsible Leader, and a News Fellow at Code For Africa. | Unequal Scenes | An art project focusing on revealing hidden structures of power and inequity in the world today. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | All countries where inequality exists | Yes | Code For Africa, Atlantic Institute, BMW Foundation | Transition to Scale | Unequal Scenes has grown from a single Facebook post into a global visual currency of inequality in only 3 years. I have worked tirelessly to research, create, and iterate to grow this project into what it is. africanDRONE was created in 2017, and several partners are at the point of wanting to support the growth of this from a photo project into the next level, which is a community of artists, changemakers, and visionaries tired of the status quo and wanting to lead people to Act. | Economists almost all agree that extreme inequality – for example, the rapid accumulation of wealth in the USA by the top 0.01% – is bad for the economy, bad for the majority of citizens (even the rich), and bad for social cohesion. Inequality pulls at the fabric binding us together in a social contract with the state. Inequality is poorly understood, poorly acknowledged, and there is rarely a consensus on how to ""fix"" it. | The solution is to use the See-Acknowledge-Act rubric to create a foundation for change. See - if people cannot ""See"" a problem, they will never acknowledge that it is harmful. One of Unequal Scenes' biggest success has been showing people what inequality looks like, in one simple image. These images hav been used by dozens, perhaps hundreds of people and organizations to quickly and effectively communicate the problem visually. This artistic element is at the key of my work. Acknowledge - Seeing is not enough. In order to create change, one must understand that the problem is harmful - that inequality is ""bad"". This is the hardest element of the project. Since there are so many competing views on the way economies should be structured, inequality is often poorly understood, or left to professors and academics to explain (poorly) through confusing and sometimes misleading data such as GDP and the Gini coefficient. By focusing on targeted messaging, to the average person (the average consumer and the average voter), we target those who have the power to shift the status quo if they were to act en masse. Act - Finally, we encourage our partners to motivate their communities to Act, in every and any way they know how in order to reduce extreme inequality. I intend to work diligently in the upcoming phase of the project to refine what methods can be ""Acted upon"" and make those easier for our readers to find. | We celebrate all organizations seeking to reduce inequality and create a healthier, fairer, more equitable world. We support reducing or ending inequality in such varied fields as economics, gender, race, inter-nation, indigenous, climate, etc. I believe that Unequal Scenes is unique in that our artistic approach and focus on See-Acknowledge-Act sets us apart because we have created a sticky visual aesthetic which works very well in the age of social media and near-constant bombardment of messaging. We also know that with our platform and footprint we have a responsibility to act quickly, to act ethically, and to learn from other more established organizations in the space. We honor organizations who approach us to use our imagery in non-commercial ways, even if they cannot pay. We endeavour to use new technology, such as drones, and reach the middle-class consumers with innovative, engaging, exciting content...content that is relevant to them. We deliberately create change-making content and seek to partner with others who do the same. We also are non-dogmatic and non-prescriptive in our approach, and remain flexible and open that we may not have all the right answers, or that our method could change in the future. | We have created a website, written dozens of interviews, spoken at length at dozens of conferences and events, built networks and partnerships and founded an NGO to amplify our impact in Africa. We measure our progress based on media impressions, use cases, policy impacts and feedback from institutions. I am funded by Code For Africa as a News Fellow and have two other Fellowships which encourage me and support me through their networks, mentoring, and funding opportunities. We have reached a point where we would be able to scale with our current partners and significantly amplify our impact, and for that we would need a whole host of institutional support and guidance. | Yes, Unequal Scenes as a project dedicated to See-Acknowledge-Act has the potential to be a platform for which many issues can be discussed and in which users can be channeled towards meaningful action. This means that goals in the future will be an increase in content - visual and written - on the website and in other associated channels. We will partner with a strategic content partner in order to upscale this part of the project - which will involve a significant amount of creation, editing, and curation, for which staff will need to be hired. Moreover, partnerships with policy makers and agencies and NGOs active in the space will take time and resources to pull together. We see this as a worldwide project with worldwide impact. We hope to continue to create innovative content which will help explain and end inequality and other SDG-related problems that the world currently faces. We intend to leverage our networks of partners to exhibit our artwork widely in the next year, including major exhibitions in Israel, USA, France, Belgium, and South Africa. We intend to continue to work with our exhibition partners and local partners in each place to make sure that the artwork is accessible to all and is contributing to healthy conversations. We intend to produce a book in late 2020 which will serve as a printed store of information that we create online. | In the short term, we need to hire a content assistant / editor, a business coach/strategist, and a fundraising specialist. In the medium and long term, as our organization grows, it will require the sort of infrastructure that any startup has. Mentorship will be key. Partnership with other visual innovators, artists, economist and policy makers will help us refine our approach. As visual media will be key, we will also act as a content producer, with the requisite technical overhead necessary to create photography, videography, and digital assets to meet our needs. Lastly, we intend to vastly broaden our reach through a network that we will build through hashtags, branding, and community leaders who can champion Unequal Scenes in their own networks. We want to be inclusive, relevant, and impactful, and as a global organization we will need local collaborators to make that happen. This is why we believe that partnerships with youth-led organizations such as SDG-aligned media orgs and content producers is so important. We want to bridge the gap between our audience and the specialists in the field. Our goal is to be the most relevant source of information worldwide for inequality visualization and action. | https://unequalscenes.com/ https://unequalscenes.com/about-contact https://time.com/5581483/time-cover-south-africa/ https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/feb/21/roads-nowhere-infrastructure-american-inequality https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/apr/25/unequal-scenes-drone-video-sums-up-global-inequality http://www.thisisplace.org/shorthand/slumscapes/ https://africandrone.org/ https://africandrone.org/academy https://impakter.com/africandrone/ https://unequalscenes.com/press | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpfMMKT_4jw&t=2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qlxEPkyvqI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5g-B__Xpco | https://unequalscenes.com/awards-exhibitions BMW Foundation Global Responsible Leader Senior Fellow – AFSEE (London School of Economics) Innovate Africa Grant Winner - 2017 Code For Africa News Fellow – 2016-Present Center Project Launch Grant - 2017 M. Reichmann Grant - 2017 LensCulture Emerging Photographer Award - 2016 Istanbul Photo Awards – First Prize - 2017 D&AD Next Photographer Award – Shortlist - 2017 LifeFramer Editor’s Pick – 2017 Data Journalism Awards Shortlist – 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
653 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kylie | Fisk | International Women's Development Agency | http://www.individualdeprivationmeasure.org/ | Research Fellow | Female | Australia | Australia | English | Working in the field of data for human rights is inherently complex. My role as a researcher in a rights-based organization is to gather the evidence needed to advocate for change for the most marginalized globally while working alongside governments who fairly request sovereignty over the data and statistics collected by their own agencies. All social researchers want to see tangible outputs from our projects, while also needing to be protective of the relationships upon which ethical research with marginalised communities are based, including the need for privacy when requested. Devolving barriers to data access, use, and understanding, so that communities can advocate for themselves, while also providing protections for both governments and participants, involves navigating complex environments and balancing competing needs: that is, it requires innovative solutions. How will we know who is being left behind in global development? What do our measurement methods tell us about who and what we value? What would anti-poverty interventions look like if we didn’t centre money in the measurement of poverty? The UN Solutions Summit is the ideal forum in which to explore these questions – which are technical, political, and philosophical – and for myself as an early career researcher, an opportunity to learn from other pioneers about how they negotiate the spaces within and between power, technology, and the politics of data, where meaningful change is made possible. | Kylie Fisk is a Research Fellow leading the technical and research program implementation of the Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) at the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA), including analysis and identification of strategic priorities, gaps, and trends in gender statistics to inform program focus; identifying and establishing IDM pilot countries for implementation; providing program-wide technical support for generating multidimensional gender statistics via primary data collection; and advocacy for gender-sensitive and intersectional poverty measurement national, regionally, and globally. Prior to commencing her role at IWDA, Kylie worked as a research and statistics consultant across multiple projects across the Asia Pacific region. Her 2015 PhD applied social psychology theory to the topic of post-conflict governance through large-scale quantitative fieldwork. She has published across social psychology, governance, policy, and science communication journals, and is a frequent speaker at conferences, global forums, workshops, and public events. | The Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) technology platform | An interactive tool enabling a broad range of user insights into data from a new, gender-sensitive measure of multidimensional poverty | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Philippines, Fiji, Indonesia, South Africa | Yes | The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Australian National University; National governments and statistical offices | Proof of Concept | Currently the goal is to ready the IDM for global use by April 2020. The IDM Technology System is a key enabler of the goal by removing barriers to scale through provision of a custom-built platform providing diverse users access to the data insights of the IDM. Insights from a Fiji data-collection are available in a prototype. The prototype has been built to test the capabilities of the platform and gain feedback from stakeholders prior to completing the full IDM technology platform. | Poverty is currently measured at the household level, hiding the circumstances of individuals within households. It also focuses mainly on money, or a limited range of other aspects of life such as education, ignoring other dimensions important to poor men and women. Economists estimate up to 30% of inequality occurs within households - so centring poverty measurement at the household level may actually be leading to global underestimates of poverty and inequality. | The SDGs are an opportunity for women’s rights advocates to ensure that the representation of women is codified in measuring global progress, including addressing inequality inside the household. The development of the IDM – the first individual-level, gender-sensitive, multidimensional measure of poverty and deprivation – will reshape the approach to measuring multi-dimensional poverty and understanding global inequality, putting individuals at the centre and making it possible to see who is poor, in what ways and to what extent. The vision is not only to change how poverty is measured, but also how it is understood, discussed and addressed. The IDM will provide a means of assessing poverty at the individual level across fifteen dimensions, identified through participatory research with women and men living in poverty. The IDM Technology System is key to realising the IDM vision; it is fundamental to ensuring insights into the individual experience of poverty are available to all. It will support the collection, storage, and security of the large quantity of data the IDM generates, it will enable research teams to access and analyse data while also providing intuitive, easy access to public users of the data. Importantly, the IDM Technology System will present the insights that can be gained from individual-level, gender-sensitive poverty measurement with compelling data visualisation. | The Individual Deprivation Measure (IDM) is unique in a number of ways: first, the dimensions of poverty collected via the survey tool were developed through participatory research with poor men and women, meaning we can be confident that we are measuring what matters to those who poverty elimination interventions are intended to target. Second, the few poverty measurement tools that go inside the household are focused on measuring one or two individuals - whereas the IDM measures all adults in the household, revealing the full extent of intrahousehold inequality, so we know no one is being left behind. Third, the IDM is focussed on intersectional measurement, arguing that it is not enough to know about just the difference between men and women, but between older and younger women; or men with and without disabilities. By collecting information on these at the individual level, IDM data can be disaggregated by sex, age, ability and geographic location. Finally, the technology prototype highlights key insights from data collected in Fiji and enables detailed exploration of the data. Empowered with the information the IDM can provide, governments and organisations can make more effective policy, programming and investment decisions to ensure no one is left behind. | The IDM has been developed over three key phases. The first included a multi-sectoral research partnership undertaking participatory research with ~3000 individuals living in poverty in 6 countries. The second phase was a pilot to test the tool emerging from the participatory phase. The third and current phase of the IDM program is a collaboration between the International Women’s Development Agency and the Australian National University with strategic funding from the Australian government through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. To date, IDM data has been collected in a range of countries including: Fiji, Indonesia and South Africa. In May 2019, the IWDA IDM team partnered with the company Vizzuality to develop a prototype of the IDM Technology System using IDM data from Fiji. Methodological refinement, and testing the tool in different contexts, and for different development purposes, will be ongoing until 2020. The program has a monitoring, evaluation and learning framework (MELF) to guide our M&E. We report on progress six monthly and undertake a range of other learning and evaluative processes including partnership health checks, annual reflections and stakeholder consultations. An Advisory Group also exists to provide feedback and guidance on the development of the Measure over the lifetime of the program. The technology platform will build from the characteristics of the prototype and incorporate the feedback of stakeholders to best meet their needs. | The current phase of the IDM concludes in April 2020. A pipeline of interest exists for further data collection efforts. The technology system will be a vital contribution to being able to reach scale by acting on this interest and enabling further uptake and use of the IDM survey instrument. In addition, the team is focused on how we can best use the technology to accompany those actors who have undertaken, or who wish to undertake, an IDM study to make the most of the policy and program insights arising from the IDM data. Finally, the technology system will also contribute to improving the enabling environment for change in poverty measure. As a program focused on changing the way that poverty is measured, the IDM survey tool, supported by the technology, will enable the team to work with early adopters and use the demonstration effect to expand the pipeline of interested users and create feedback loops of data availability, engagement, and trust that support uptake at scale.. In the short term we will need to consolidate feedback from stakeholders on the prototype to refine the requirements of the more extensive build. The development of the full system provide further functionality, stability and scale-ability, enabling readiness for global use and the IDM to be ready for global use. | The IDM technology system is an enabler of uptake for IDM data and will support progress towards changing the way that poverty is measured. The IDM program has resources to support the initial development of the technology platform. Beyond April 2020, however, there is considerable scope for resources that enable the IDM to act on the pipeline of interest for further data collections and to build the technology system to allow for an increasing, and increasingly diverse set of actors to engage with IDM data. There is also a need to expand the capability of the technology system in line with a growth in data sets. Short term we will need resources to maintain the system and enhance the capabilities, including staying at the forefront of privacy and security. In the medium term we will want to continue to gather user feedback and build improvements into the system that meet user experience expectations. We will also want to increase the data visualisation as data sets grow and manage the APIs so that IDM insights are accessible through other platforms as well. | https://iwda.org.au/ http://www.individualdeprivationmeasure.org/ | Panelist, Duncan Green book launch, 'How will change happen in a post-truth world?"": https://rdinetwork.org.au/events/how-will-change-happen-in-a-post-truth-world/ Dancing at the UN Global Forum on Gender Statistics in Tokyo, 2018: https://twitter.com/pabseck/status/1062658519894114304 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
654 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dr Arvind | Kumar | India Water Foundation | www.indiawaterfoundation.org | President | Male | India | India | English | India, once a water-surplus country, is now a water-deficit in the wake of fast depletion of its groundwater resources and pollution of surface water resources including its river systems. With 17% of world population and just 2.5% landmass and 4% of water share, India also faces a big challenge in managing its water resources due to turbulent weather patterns emanating from climate change. To preserve the ‘Intrinsic value of water’, propagating ‘Thinking Beyond’ conventional methods and employing Nature Based and Science Based Solutions can sustainably manage and restore ecosystems which provide environmental sustainability and human well-being taking into account dynamic inter-linkages between ‘Climate Change and Water’. Tackling water-related problems requires putting people first. This will help in attaining the targets of SDGs. SDG 6 is a gateway to fulfill the provisions of SDG Agenda 2030. Water-related problems cannot be tackled through technological and engineering solutions alone but must include ‘Soft Approach’ of capacity building through sensitizing, incentivizing and galvanizing the people in water and environment sectors, like water conservation, judicious use of natural resources. Currently, our JalMitra (Friends of Water) promoting public movement and Integrated Approach towards conservation, protection and management of water resources espoused since our inception are being executed as national policies. | I am the President of the India Water Foundation (IWF). On the basis of our work on water conservation at National, regional & sub-regional levels, we have been accorded Special Consultative Status with UN-ECOSOC, Observer Status at the Governing Body of UNEA, Observer Status with UNFCCC and member ofCTCN for Southern Asia. I am on the Board of Governors of the World Water Council. I specialize in ecosystem-based adaptation, water-energy-food nexus, emphasizing inter-linkages between water, environment and SDGs. I am a member of ‘National Wetlands Committee, MoEF&CC, GOI, member Technical Advisory Committee for India's Third National Communication and Biennial Update Reports to UNFCCC, member of the Meghalaya State Water Resources Council and Meghalaya council for Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Member of the General Body of CAPART, Member Working Group on Water Resources Development and Management New India @75, NITI Aayog, GOI. In Sikkim,IWF is collaborating with Government of Sikkim in water resources, Sustainable Development ¤tlyworking in Aspirational Districts of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. I am conferred with 40th Matrishree Media Awards for my contribution as journalist & Achievers Award for contribution towards environment protection by India Eye international human rights observer. IWF has for two consecutiveyears won the Water Digest Water Award under the Category “BEST WATER NGO in 2017-18 (WATER EDUCATION)&2018-19 (Water and Sanitation) | ‘Achieving targets under SDG 6 through keeping a people focused integrated approach’ | People focused integrated approach empowering local communities to preserve Ecological Security through Equity and Judicious use of resources. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | All India basis and at the regional level-Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar. | Yes | Govt of Meghalaya and Sikkim; Department of NCSTC, Ministry of Science and Technology,GOI ; Department of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Jal Shakti,GOI and international agencies like UNEP, etc | Sustainable Scale | The ideation of the concept has been transitioned to scale starting from Meghalaya and tailoring and replicating in states of Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand keeping clear linkages between Water and sustainable development and its impact on people’s livelihoods. This new perspective of nexus between water and climate change and its indispensability for tackling climate-induced and water-induced calamities will be emphasized. | Water is a key component of sustainable development &ecosystems are inextricably linked with water. We are aiming towards convergence of institutions, local stakeholders and government to create a web of networked governance to envisage new innovative models where key learnings of water friendly model can be tailor made, scaled or replicated. | Our solution is based on the perception ofWater connects policy areas, economic sectors and societies and a tool for cooperation and building trust. The essence around the vision of ‘Jal Mitras’ must be translated into actions through Convergence, Cooperation and Collective efforts.We have empowered around 50,000 Jal Mitras and reached billions across the globe and wish to take success to least developed areas and countries through capacity building and outreach programs.This conceptualized idea a decade back have been visible through creation of separate Ministry of Jal Shakti and ‘Jal Shakti Abhiyaan’, calling for social public movement towards water conservation and even our Hon’ble Prime Minister’s call of Integrated Approach has been rationale to optimize water resources. Learnings from Meghalaya, active dissemination of knowledge &information and learning as specified in Integrated Water Resource Management, Water-Food-Energy Nexus and Ecosystem based Adaptation approaches have been further implemented in Sikkim and Pan India level. Policy formulation on initiatives like Namami Ganga, Air Quality, Wetlands have been translated into actions under Government initiatives. We are encouraging participation of locals making a way for mainstream, equal and inclusive society making women, youth, children move towards climate resilient solutions by integrating different aspirations of the blocks, districts at the grassroot level. | Uniqueness of this solution from other approaches lies in its being all-inclusive, comprehensive, gender-specific, cost-effective. Attempts were also made to preserve traditional practices, community reservoirs, like Mission Green in Meghalaya, institutionalization of the Basin Management mechanism, judicious use of natural resources were addressed through Integrated Basin Development and Livelihood Programme (IBDLP). It is necessary to bridge the gap between the social, economic and environmental pillars of sustainable development. Integrated approach incorporates a paradigm shift from passive to active partnership model, involving grass root participatory governance and calls for “Progressive restoration of water-land-biomass balance and improved livelihood for which Actors-Sector synergy is the key to integrate water resources management into their climate adaptation and mitigation strategies. Tangible outcomes were witnessed through market access, water & Hydro-electric power cooperation, building transportation corridor, enabling successful South-South cooperation. The success of Ecosystem Based Adaptation, being taken into national policy by countries like Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar. Meghalaya has also secured ‘the cleanest village in Asia’ and finds itself in UNDP Good Practices Resource Book 2015. Our efforts at national and regional forums in changing perception of the people from treating water as a commodity to treat it as a basic need and exercise it as a right. | We entered into partnerships with likeminded CSOs, Ministries and synergizing our work with ongoing Government’s endeavors. We are advocating knowledge exchange, dissemination, capacity building and strengthening participatory governance. By making communities own and manage their own ‘local resources’, the most important socio-economic objective of ‘Community Empowerment’ is being achieved. We are enabling to promote socio-economic and environmental inclusion, having holistic impact on the society covering inter related dimensions of livelihoods, capacity building and making plans deliver into actions. Realising the SDGs implementation in Meghalaya first, IWF is encouraging tailoring Science and Nature based solutions in Sikkim, Aspirational Districts of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to disseminate their social responsibility to the environment by becoming Young Green Change Makers’. Strengthening motivation and morale of communities through knowledge management, awareness and partnerships to augment their requisite skill sets and create a valuable asset for themselves have enhanced the spirit of ‘entrepreneurship capacity’.We are also promoting grass root innovations through our experiences at UN and other international forums with good eco practices, knowledge communicating and realizing at Ground Zero. | As a catalyst, we try to galvanize the people in water sector by generating heightened awareness amongst them about water conservation, judicious use of water, inculcating in them the practice of rainwater harvesting and keeping surface and groundwater resources free from pollution. We shall work amongst the people at the grassroots level to identify the roadblocks to sustainable development and helps overcome them and transform their lives and their futures. Envisaging Innovative models to secure ‘water infrastructure’ to strategize and adopt best Eco practices like Nature Based Solutions to bring Mainstream and Balanced Development with strong emphasis on community knowledge bottom-up planning process is being espoused through Jal Mitra and Integrated management for judicious water management. Government is making efforts towards ‘water conservation, preservation and management’. The current trajectories based on ‘sectoral or silo approach’ have failed to attain the goal of sustainable development in the region for want of capacity building of the stakeholders, convergence, cooperation and coordination between actor and the sector. The issues surrounding India’s water scarcity – demand and supply, management, pollution, impact of climate change, and solutions existed which could be tackled by the civil society could synergize scattered efforts in a collective way to ensure water security, food security and energy security to facilitate sustainable development. | Resources like capacity building technological and engineering solutions, Knowledge support, Access and Availability to water resources, Policy & Governance, Partnerships and Stakeholder networks are required to bring visible impact. By 2022, we would assimilate knowledge and balance in society by addressing water concerns and strengthening opportunities of improved livelihood and ensuring water security and achieve targets set under New India at 75. We are hinging on sensitizing, incentivizing and galvanizing model the people by way of raising awareness on water quality, Eco education at schools, engaging the public representativesto act as a ‘Catalyst of Change’. We also look ahead to supplement Government’s vision of making India a $1 trillion economy as underlined in the Agenda 2.0 By 2030, we envisions the attainment of the 17 SDGs, key components of sustainable development goals into national policy at local, provincial, national and regional levels by assimilation and dissemination of wit and wisdom from local to global level. We are influence policy makers through key inputs on climate change being a member of Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for India’s Third National Communication and Biennial Update Reports (BUR) to reduce greenhouse emissions and reduce carbon footprint. By 2050, we assume to translate the above plans into 100% actions to bring Balanced & Sustainable Development in a single platform. | https://www.indiawaterfoundation.org/, http://www.icid.org/icidnews_14_1.pdf (Environment plus Approach) http://www.unep.org/ourplanet/june-2017/articles/rights-rivers, http://smeworld.asia/Money.aspx?Money=Money-131/arvind+kumar#.XUgXCugzYdV, http://www.riob.org/pub/INBO-25/files/assets/basic-html/index.html#27, https://www.tribuneindia.com/…/how-to-reclaim-o…/795244.html https://www.medcindia.com/upload/MEDC%20Digest%20June%20201920190607103254.pdf,fbclid=IwAR13baeZ0QOofC5NTdUA3ljEy3YPeX47IfpdGUD54HdwxJK4fYjG6_k5uFQ, http://unsdn.org/2016/08/29/economic-inclusion-and-environmental-sustainability-case-study-meghalaya/, http://epaper.theshillongtimes.com/story.aspx?id=21865&boxid=123423268&ed_date=2019-6-02&ed_code=820009&ed_page=14&fbclid=IwAR3Nkfhm3dj_P3TJe-OsLkkYAzJnwftVjYOSnLj844Owi4faqWtNfCI8pYc#.XPOi0HXgN3U.facebook, http://epaper.theshillongtimes.com/epapermain.aspx?pgno=6&eddate=2019-7-28&edcode=820009&fbclid=IwAR3zL57EF3tt92lnjzk3eB-BiHLIzGMII2mBbXE2mdkTTQq-aK4PBE9kcjE, http://oneindiaonepeople.com/the-meghalaya-approach/ http://www.sac.org.bd/archives/publications/Water%20Energy%20Food%20Nexus.pdf http://www.focusglobalreporter.org/need-for-new-water-policy-2/, http://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/Policy%20Dialogue%20on%20Regional%20Cooperation%2C%20Connectivity%20and%20Inclusive%20Development%20in%20South%20and%20South-West%20Asia%20-%20Regional%20Cooperation%2C%20Human%20Development%20and%20Water%20by%20Dr.%20Arvind%20Kumar.pdf | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccoh1CYo4m0 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooNXubPOxrQ , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5unwiaNwIIw , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJAqaNY64A | I am conferred with 40th Matrishree Media Awards for my contribution as journalist, Triveni Award for the contribution in the field of Environment and water in May 2015 and Achievers Award for contribution towards environment protection by India Eye international human rights observer. IWF has for two consecutiveyears won the Water Digest Water Award under the Category “BEST WATER NGO in 2017-18 (WATER EDUCATION)&2018-19 (Water and Sanitation) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
655 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | bertin | IKOUMBOU IKOUMBOU | ASSOCIATION GABON INITIATIVES JEUNESSE | https://www.facebook.com/IKOUMSS/ | Président | Masculin | Gabon | Gabon | French | I am an actor of Gabonese civil society who has been fighting poverty and exclusion for 20 years with my association gabon initiatives jeunesse, I promote economic initiatives for young people in under-integrated neighbourhoods or villages through awareness campaigns on the theme of entrepreneurship to encourage them to take charge of themselves, we use these opportunities to identify promising ideas that we transform into collective or individual projects. We assist young people in the acquisition of approvals and other administrative documents. Our last activity is the setting up of an urban agricultural farm for a young mother. see video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0UuMq5xtn8 The project I want to present has a major character for Africa because it aims to enhance the value of non-timber forest products from the Congo Basin that are used as natural food or medicines by indigenous or native peoples. These products rot by the billions of tons each year in the forest due to the lack of an intelligent harvesting system and processing structure to serve the world at large and effectively fight hunger, malnutrition, obesity, anaemia and other non-communicable diseases. Some of the most consumed products are plants for food, they are culturally important as part of traditional dishes or nutritionally as a source of vitamins. There is a considerable diversity of plant food in the forest. Vegetables such as sorrel Begonia spp. Hibiscus spp. and someMelastomaceae and kumbu gnetum spp. Vegetable fats and oils come from Andok irvingia gabonensis, afopoga oleosa from afane panda oleosa and Moabi baillonella toxisperma Fruits such as Amvout Tricoscypba spp. the atom Dacryodes macrophylia, the ofoss pseudospondias longifolia and the abam gambeya lacourtiana. Nuts like hazel coula edulis. The prototypes of these products already exist in an artisanal form, our ambition is to structure the manufacturing processes, market and technological benchmark to refine the design of products -Analysis and construction of business models / business plans to define our positioning -Definition of strategy, techno-economic analysis, process structuring, identification of partners to deploy our solution / business model on a large scale -Assessment of the environmental and socio-economic impact | I am an assistant operating inspector, holder of a technological baccalaureat with a commercial technical option, I held the positions of rail operations controller, site manager, safety manager at the Transgabonais railways before taking up the position of team leader in the mines, store supervisor in the agri-food sector and logistics specialist in public transport. I have benefited from training in Project Management (sylvia bongo ondimba foundation), associative network management (South France coordination), business management (AGOA 2015 forum), implementation of public-private partnerships, urban infrastructure management and social entrepreneurship (World Bank Institute will course) I received the AGOA 2015 civil society award, I am a member of the Gabonese network of non-state actors for community development in rural areas, Business Fight Poverty, GlobalinnovationExchange and Food Innovation Network. | valorization of forestry products from the Congo Basin | Healthy eating | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Gabon, Congo DRC, Congo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome | Yes | Food tech accelerator , Benevty , Obama Foudation | Ideation | In the African context, the transformation and standardization of natural forest products is a real revolution because these products are until now consumed raw or processed traditionally and in small quantities. This without the mastery of dosages, rules of hygiene, standards and certification. the manufacture of innovative products from these natural products will allow the arrival on the international market of new nutritive or curative products in the form of food or food supplements. | 821 million people are now hungry and more than 150 million children are stunted, threatening the Zero Hunger goal According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 report, released today, new evidence indicates that the number of hungry people in the world is rising, with 821 million people worldwide. This regression means that more needs to be done to achieve the Zero Hunger goal by 2030. | We decided to put this project in the form of a social enterprise called BIO Natura Gabon at first and we will create similar companies in all countries of the sub-regions where the project will be replicated. The structures we intend to create will serve the entire community in terms of employability, food security and rural youth attachment to curb the phenomenon of massive emigration to the West.Europa and América Our goal is to create jobs, to financially empower people through reforestation activities, harvesting products in the forest, to promote responsibly and rationally our forest products that have for most important nutritional and healing properties Our ambition is to fight hunger, malnutrition, obesity, anaemia and non-communicable diseases. | Our project is unique because the innovative products will be manufactured according to the African uses to preserve the flavor and to promote the African know-how in order to bring an innovation in terms of new products, in term of feasibility and new forms of food technology from African knowledge. | Our team has already realized the identity card of the products, it has identified the various techniques of artisanal design it works to adapt them to the industrial context. We have also developed collection, preservation and packaging techniques. We also work on different forms ex liquid, jam etc ... to give to different products | We will recruit 140 people per country in the processing, transport and distribution chains, we intend to empower about 50,000 people per country through the system of collection of products in the forest because the company intends to buy raw materials from rural populations . We also plan to put a monitoring and reforestation program in place to not only train the population on healthy harvesting methods to protect our forest ecosystem, but also to settle plants far from the villages and facilitate collection, which will have the effect of plant new forests, replant endangered species for roots, vegetables, etc. We plan to establish a strategic partnership with the World Food Program and other NGOs that fight against hunger and malnutrition so that our products reach the most needy in priority while allowing African and global households dispose through the fair trade system or AGOA. | We want to set up a plant biotechnology laboratory with a phytochemical unit, we need funding for short term -Carrying out feasibility, market and benchmark studies to refine the design of our project. -Analysis and construction of business models / business plans to define our positioning -Strategy definition, technical and economic analysis, process structuring, identification of partners to deploy our solution / business model on a large scale. -Environmental and socio-economic impact assessment In the medium term buy the various equipment and build a processing plant and hire the staff And in the long term deploy our business model in the countries of the sub region concerned by the project. | .https://www.facebook.com/IKOUMSS/ https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/work-of-the-future/solutions/2974 https://vc4a.com/members/ikoumbou-ikoumbou-bertin/ | https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=video+resine+okoume+bertin+ikoumbou | AGOA Civil Society Award for Leadership and Business 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
656 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Carmen Danae | Azor | Global Mangrove Fund | www.globalmangrovefund.org | Founder, Global Mangrove Fund | Female | Dominican Republic | Spain | English | French | Spanish | My motivation for submitting a project to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit 2019 is survival, together with a deep passion and love for natural ecosystems. I'm inspired to continue to nurture and explore the intrinsic value of our lost connection to the land, to the sea and to the rest of the biota we share the planet with. I remember the first time I walked into a mangrove forest in the Dominican Republic, with the local fishermen and Ornithologist Dr. Wayne Arendt, I felt like I had walked into the most majestic and holy cathedral of the earth, that had been abandoned and utterly polluted with all kinds of trash from our everyday consumerist lives. Plastics, Metals, Bulbs, Shoes, bottles, all glistening with the scattered light coming through the leaves, the sounds of birds I had never heard before, the reflections in the water. A true and magnificent experience of horror in nature. I am convinced that through multidisciplinary collaboration, we are able to succeed in even the toughest challenges. Innovation and collaboration are necessary in order to solve our climate crisis. Implementing natural, simple and innovative approaches, with an eco-centric framework, at a global level, is where I believe the real & impactful solutions exist. Collaboration between governments, non-governmental organizations, and communities that depend on mangroves for their livelihood will be critical. | Danae was born in 1989 in Madrid, Spain. Growing up as a Diplomats daughter, moving every 2-3 years to a different country, growing up in Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Mexico, Spain, USA in New Orleans, NYC & Los Angeles. She began her environmental activist career in 2016 working with international Ocean Conservation Organization: Parley for the Oceans (www.parley.tv). Successfully launching Parley's network and operations in the Dominican Republic. She currently holds the position of Director of Parley in the Caribbean and is also a senior artistic collaborations manager and head of musical collaborations. Her work on the ground in the Dominican Republic has been instrumental to Parley's success in the DR, building the local team and bringing together the local inter institutional collaboration network of local NGOs, the public and the private sector. She is an expert at collaborative processes and complex decision-making scenarios under pressure. Her background as a creative and diplomatic world traveller make her a strong candidate for international and inter-institutional cooperation projects, creative thinking and problem solving. Danae is assertive, passionate, determined and diplomatic, she holds a vast network of contacts around the world. She has a strong sense of urgency to her environmental work, and a vision that we can solve our biggest problems through creative, interdisciplinary collaborations and the empowerment & education of women, girls and youth. | Global Mangrove Fund | International Climate Action through female led Mangrove Restoration, Reforestation and Monitoring. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | The Mangrove Project will begin implementation in the DominicaThe Mangrove Project will begin implementation in the Dominican Republic where I have been based for the last 16 months, working with the local communit where mangrove forests exist or existed. | Yes | Peter Godart PHD Candidate Mechanical Engineering at MIT, Chandra Giri Scientist Specializing in Remote Sensing & Sensor technologies in mapping and monitoring of Mangrove forests, Wayne Arendt Ornithologist | Research & Development | We are between the Ideation and R&D stages. We are building the core team & Board of Advisors who will enter into the final stretch of R&D for the technology that will be used for monitoring.The POC stage will be implemented in the DR in the form of a Pilot at the Ramsar recognized Lower Yuna Mangroves. The importance of mangrove forests to fight not only climate change but also poverty, hunger and storm resilience has already been proven but govt efforts to protect them haven't been successful. | Mangrove Forest Coverage has been halved in the last 40 years. Emissions by mangrove forest deforestation account for 1/5th of the total global deforestation emissions, resulting in economic damages of US$6-42 billion annually. The Solution is directly addressing Climate Change. “At the present rate of loss, the world faces a real risk of losing the services provided by mangroves entirely in the next 100 years “. (Duke, N. C. et al. A world without mangroves? Science. 317, 41–42 (2007). | Global Mangrove Fund is a nature based solution that works by funding education & green job opportunities for women, indigenous groups, and coastal communities, for mangrove conservation efforts in equatorial, tropical and subtropical regions around the world. Quantifying the value & creating a market for the many Ecosystem Services that Mangrove Forests provide as life-support to millions of people around the world. Mangrove Restoration, Reforestation and Protection are 3 simple and cost-effective ways to fight climate change, hunger, inequality and poverty. Sequestering massive amounts of CO2 as Blue Carbon - 1000 tonnes of carbon per hectare for thousands of years. At the same time, we will be giving green employment opportunities to the most marginalized in developing countries who are already seeing and experiencing the devastating effects of climate change first hand. The long-term vision (2030) for global impact is to expand this fully scalable and nondisruptive business model of international cooperation allowing individuals, businesses, corporations and local governments to offset their CO2 emissions by purchasing Blue Carbon Credits which are then directly and transparently invested into the various Mangrove Projects. Mangroves are found In 123 countries, but 90% of them are located in just 10 developing countries. The goal is to operate and fund mangrove projects in these 10 countries by 2025 and in the top 15 by 2030. | What makes the Global Mangrove Fund unique from existing similar approaches is that we are fully integrating 9 of the SDG’s with a 2030 goal to scale up, operate and fund projects in the 10 countries where 75% of the worlds Mangrove forests still exist. The perspective, being a nature-based solution, with a direct focus on seeking out, educating, employing and consequently empowering the women and indigenous members of the communities living on coastal villages close to mangroves in tropical and subtropical developing regions around the world. Over 100 million people live within 10km of a Mangrove Forest. By not focusing strictly on a carbon-cenrtric approach, the GMP is unique for its eco-centric approach which enhances conservation efforts on biodiversity, costing only $1 more, making this methodology not only about carbon credits & offsets, but also about endangered species & biodiversity conservation, and about addressing poverty and gender equality, by providing sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, with full and productive employment, education, and consequently food and livelihood security. Collaboration between governments, non-governmental organizations, and communities that depend on mangroves for their livelihood will be critical for our success. | We have made substantial progress in the early stages of development of the plan; brainstorming, researching, analyzing and communicating with key local stakeholders. For the last 12 months I've been listening carefully and immersing myself in the local Lower Yuna Mangrove adjacent/coastal community in the Dominican Republic, going with them to the problem areas, ie. a landfill located within the national park next to a stream where cows live and eat from the burning mountains of plastic and trash. The biodiversity in these areas is extremely high, valuable, beautiful and very much endangered. I’ve been listening to the community, to their every day problems and struggles, how the amount of fish has depleted in the last 30 years drastically, they are all fishermen and women that work deskilling the crabs and shrimp. I’ve travelled with them along the 15km estuary that is the lower yuan mangroves & los Haitises National Park. brainstorming, researching, analyzing and communicating. The Global Mangrove Fund will be an international coalition. | Our Vision and Goal for 2030 is to fund projects in 10 countries where 75% of the remaining Mangrove Forests Worldwide still stand, and to aim to replant the 50% original cover that has been lost globally in the last 50 years. At the same time, advancing the Sustainable development goals # 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 13, 14, 15 & 17. A global plan for the protection, restoration and reforestation of mangrove forests by empowering the women, fishermen & youth living in the adjacent coastal communities. The first milestone step would be to succeed in the Dominican Republic where mangrove forests (even when protected by law) are under serious threat by anthropogenic deforestation, tourism expansion, pollution and unsustainable agricultural practices. The next step would be to expand to the top 5 countries where mangrove forests exist in Latin America: Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia. In terms of projected lives Impacted, we currently have 120 million people living in developing countries who directly depend on these Ecosystem Services for their survival, so these are the lives that we would be directly impacting. | The resources needed for the solution to scale and have considerable impact are global scale reach and funding. Global emissions of CO2 by mangrove forest deforestation account for 1/5th of the total global emissions per year. If protected, they will continue to operate as huge carbon sinks that also provide a wide and valuable range of ecosystem services that protect the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people around the world, The worlds mangrove forests hold over 4bn tonnes of Blue Carbon in their soil and biomass. Short Term: Funding for R&D, update field soil tests, updated RIS, tech prototype, build local team. Medium Term: Support from UN & Governments of countries where we'd be operating. Long Term: Global Support & Awareness | Please note our website is currently under construction* www.globalmangrovefund.com https://www.parley.tv/updates/2018/7/17/state-of-emergency-santo-domingo https://www.parley.tv/updates/2019/4/12/in-praise-of-the-humpback-whale https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/17086/1/Duk2007a.pdf | none currently available online | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
657 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | NAOM | MONARI | BENA CARE | www.benacare.or.ke | MANAGING DIRECTOR | FEMALE | Kenya | Kenya | English | I am applying to the UN solutions summit mainly to benchmark with successful enterpreneurs and leaders to build our service and products. We run a home nursing agency that mainly helps the patient intergrate their lives back home from hospital.We also have a medical bracelet for every patient which monitors vitals of the body(temperature,blood pressure,heartrate)These devices can be accessed remotely by a doctor using an android app. This we believe has made a positive impact to the 151 lives we have touched in Kenya. | Naom Monari is the founder of Benacare Limited, a centre of home nursing excellence which helps to integrate patients with life limiting illnesses back into their lives though managed student volunteers, qualified nurses, physiotherapists and other clinical professionals across Kenya. Before fully devoting her time to Benacare Limited, Naom was a student nurse who was actively involved in voluntary health works and creating innovative solutions for healthcare. A mentionable solution involves remote monitoring of patients by doctors through the use of electronic medical bracelets that monitor patients’ vitals and a mobile app that gathers the data centrally. This has helped make lifesaving decisions through data insights. In April 2018, at a contest dubbed Business Start-up Clinic hosted by a Ghanaian Firm Platinum Solutions, Naom Monari bagged the most outstanding entrepreneur award after she was overwhelmingly voted for across various social media platforms. Being the Managing Director of Benacare LTD, Naom has spearheaded tremendous company growth in a span of less than two years. Benacare LTD currently employs 67 practitioners on part time and locum basis and 21 other employees who serve on fulltime. | BENA CARE | intergrating patients with life limiting illnesses back into their lives at home,seamlessly | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | my solution is currently available in Kenya. | Yes | bellevue hospital,mcfinely healthcare,ygap | Transition to Scale | We have tried and tested the idea.Now we are employing people and the business revenues are good and the business pays its dues comfortably | Healthcare and hospitalization has become expensive and is bankrupting families in Kenya both financially and emotionally. People are in need of a better option in terms of quality care and affordability | we provide quality,affordable and compassionate homenursing services to patients with life limiting illnesses at the comfort of their own homes.We do this in order that we help intergrate this patients comfortably into their lives.We also have a medical bracelet for every patient that monitors vitals and can be accessed remotely by a doctor using an android app,thus enabling us to make life saving decisions | We don't just offer home nursing services,we have a strong follow up sysytem of using the medical bracelet to monitor patient vitals from home | We have sold 151 medical bracelets served 197 patients in two years we measure our progress by number of patients and employees | we aim to spread in East Africa by 2022 recruit 430 employees in 2022 and impact 1200 lives in 2022 | short term Travel exposure and bench marking with the best service providers funding medium term exposure to network with health service providers funding Design support | www.benacare.or.ke | https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Meet-Naomi-Munari-the-award-winning-young-nurse-from-Kenya-659640?fbclid=IwAR1s2dM8jmT4Eqp1CZSfqQjzexyyz6WiKkyO969KDba9Ej6fQ3lkQVDeEHQ&channel=D1 | OUTSTANDING ENTREPRENUER OF THE YEAR 2018 IN THE BUSINESS START UP CLINIC-KENYA WINNER OF NAIROBI STEW IN NOVEMBER 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
658 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jonas | Klevhag | The Bridge Forum | https://thebridge.se/ | Founder and Facilitator | Male | Sweden | Sweden | English | The Bridge Method is as unique as it is simple as a concept. Yet it is not an easy story to tell. The method connects world class technology and research with quantified SDG challenges and its local stakeholders around the world. It allows for fast and iterative solutions to find their way to self-sustaining pilots at very limited risks and budgets. The method's versatility and simplicity gets in the way of telling the story in an effective way. It would have been much easier if we had a well defined innovation within a specific challenge topic. Our world-changing innovation is a process and as such represents a mindset rather than a technology. The attention and reference to the UN Solutions Summit would allow us to spread the method with greater reach and gain momentum to establish a viable business model bridging our current reality with a sustainable tomorrow. | M. Sc. in Mechanical Engineering by training, script writer by trade and entrepreneurial business developer by habit, Jonas Klevhag has spent more than 20.000 hours connecting and associating vastly different disciplines to address complex challenges. Together with his team at The Bridge Forum, he taken the idea of turning southern Sweden and Eastern Denmark into a prototyping garage for sustainability challenges around the world, into a platform for interaction, inspiration and action. 10 years were given to the automotive and packaging industries as an engineer, turning technical complexity into compelling stories of groundbreaking improvement. The next 10 years went to national television and radio as a script writer for comedy and entertainment. This was also the start of an entrepreneurial career. The following 10 years combined the first two careers into advisory for innovative start-up companies in southern Scandinavia. | The Bridge Method | Southern Scandinavia as a prototyping garage for the world. Small steps for quantum leaps with local incentives and world class technologies. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Sweden, India, Czech Republic, Liberia, Zambia, Rwanda, Scotland | Yes | Region Skåne, Capital region of Copenhagen, Max IV, ESS, CR Competence, Challenges Group, Content People and 200+ companies in the Nordic | Proof of Concept | The Bridge Method has been verified as uniquely valuable in a number of pilot projects in Asia, Africa and Europe. Collaborative solutions have been defined as business model pilots, but not yet found the necessary funding to continue with full implementation. These projects have demonstrated the need for collaborative solutions based on local and external stakeholders, but so not been fully scaled for impact. The Bridge Method is therefore yet to be proven as a self-sustaining business model. | Cities around the world all have their unique sustainability challenges and they are always a combination of disciplines, stakeholders and local contexts, linked together. They cannot be adressed by simply applying technology or pre-built systems. Since most approaches are technology or topic based, challenges often see little impact with respect to the real issue. This means that societal development projects often shut down after the initial funding, or they struggle with long time to impact. | To achieve measurable impact, the real challenges must be the origins. Around them the real stakeholders must be identified. Only by re-framing the challenge together with local stakeholders, can viable and self-sustaining solutions be developed. The Bridge Method offers these abilities as a lean process to frame challenges, inventory available skills and incentives and suggest multiple collaborative solutions. Two continuous processes are run in parallel: - Scouting and quantifying challenges in an international scope - Adding new skills and technologies to our Bridge Network. The skills and incentives are then connected with the challenges to develop and prioritise a multitude of simple solution pilots. With an initial effort of one man week we help the challenge owner assess and understand their challenge better and propose a pilot project based on relevant metrics. The workshop results are summarised in a brief report stating the reframed challenge, the available skills and incentives and 5-10 collaborative concpets. It also suggests the 1-2 most favorable solutions to be piloted, based on metrics such as Impact potential, Feasibility and Viability. Through this rapid way of working The Bridge Forum is able to connect the strong ecosystems of life and materials science in southern Scandinavia with pressing issues in cities and regions across the world. | In two ways. First the strict focus on quantifying challenges in their relevant contexts. When most development approaches claim to be challenge oriented, The Bridge Method takes it one step further and quantifies the value of the problem solved. Each patient that can avoid chronic kidney failure saves the healthcare system 50 kEUR / year. Electrifying 20% of rural Liberia is comparable with a 350 MUSD renovation project of the national hydro plant. Without knowing what it would be worth for each stakeholder to achieve a solution, it is impossible to know what it would take to get them involved. Secondly the short time to impact. Rather than looking for solutions with maximum impact, The Bridge Method prioritises solutions that can be implemented in short time and then have the ability to iteratively sustain themselves to greater impact. When many societal development projects spend a lot of time bringing multiple partners together to write applications for public funding, The Bridge Method encourages the first two stakeholders that have incentives to collaborate to take a first step and then build the business model with additional partners from there. These two features allow The Bridge Method to address complex challenges and involve multiple stakeholders at very limited budgets and risk. | The Bridge Forum has built its network, method and platform for inspiration during the last 5 years. The methodology is based on principles for lean and agile development proven in the entrepreneurial scene and honed for its societal purposes during several projects, each leading to new learnings feeding back into the method. Today the method consists of: - 1-day workshop flow, usually gathering 5-15 local and 1-3 Scandinavian stakeholders - Documentation templates formatting the workshop results into a 10-page report suggesting multiple solutions and prioritising the three most promising. - A continuous process for harvesting quantified challenges around the world, currently with 40+ societal challenges in the pipeline. - A network of 300 Scandinavian companies bridging the gap between the strong ecosystems of life and materials science in southern Scandinavia on one end and societal impact on the other. | As we execute the method around the world we add stakeholders and members to our Bridge Network. This has initiated Bridge Forum hubs in Liberia, Zambia, India, Czech Republic, South Africa and Scotland. Around Edinburgh we have started to explore the possibilities for a larger hub based on a key partner and their large network of SMEs. As our network grows with each event, the hubs are enabled to interact between themselves. The most obvious example emerged between Bangalore and Lusaka around the challenge of household waste management. Following our business plan we aim to have achieved the following goals in three years: - The Bridge Network to have 2000 members with skills and incentives clearly defined - Quantified and published SDG challenges representing a business or societal potential of EUR 5 billion per year - Raised a fund of at least EUR 2 million for seeding Bridge collaboration projects. - Established southern Scandinavia (The Bridge Region) as an agile and high tech prototyping garage for other places' sustainability challenges. | In a short term perspective (12-18 months), The Bridge Forum is looking for EUR 200.000 in funding to continue to run and develop The Bridge Method and its Network in pursuit of a self-sustaining business model. The medium-term plan (36 months), is to complete at least 10 Bridge collaboration pilots. The Bridge Method has proven its value when it comes to identifying stakeholder incentives and possible collaborations towards self-sustaining solutions. To help the suggested pilot projects becoming implemented, however, small seed funding would reduce time-to-societal-impact significantly. EUR 10.000-50.000 is usually enough to enable these projects. There are currently seven such pilot projects ready to launch, representing a total budget of EUR 250.000. The long-term goal (48 months) is to establish a fund for seeding Bridge collaboration pilot projects. For this we need help to get connected with the large international impact investment networks. Seeding a project is not only an altruistic action of good. It also allows for the investor to get return on their investments through societal impact bonds. | - The Bridge Forum website: https://thebridge.se/ - The Bridge Method page: https://thebridge.se/method/ - The Bridge Summit 2019 page: https://thebridge.se/initiatives/the-bridge-summit-2019/ - The Bridge Backåkra Forum (pdf): https://drive.google.com/open?id=13lPoRmcTrrs3JhS8hfrotGMXh8FOfmG3 - The Bridge Markets challenges (with videos): https://thebridge.se/markets/ - The Bridge Lusaka Waste (pdf): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n-5wqBRPVJMjz1soPK75cHVW7NwzSmtT - The Bridge Lusaka Water (pdf): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tqXRzM878lSxprHGrFF5zqmkxrTbYYW1 | https://youtu.be/1UglIPQrVmA | Sten K Johnsson scholarship 2017 (https://www.stenkjohnsonsstiftelse.se/en/utdelade-stipendier-2017/bildning/) Selected to present and facilitate at COP22 in Marrakech: https://thebridge.se/initiatives/cop22/ Selected to present and facilitate at COP23 in Bonn: https://thebridge.se/initiatives/cop23/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
659 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | GEORGE DAVIS | BILALI | Tomsk Polytechnic University | https://www.facebook.com/george.bilali | Graduate Engineer, Student | MALE | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | As a global goals champion personally working on goal number 7, My passion is to see society advancement and development since in mostly African countries there are serious Energy problems and I believe that the UN Solutions Summit will help to show on how my solution can solve the energy problems for good and advance my solution to all stakeholders. My goal is to research and utilize the practical knowledge that I have so as to meet the goal number 7 by 2030 in effort to create a clean and transformed World. | George is a responsible Youth with a strong passion to contribute and volunteer Professional skills to the society for the national building. He is a registered graduate Electrical and Electronics engineer by The Engineers Registration Board of Tanzania (ERB). George is among the new generation of goalkeepers driving progress towards Sustainable development goals and personally working on goal number 7-Affordable and Clean energy. George is passionate about society advancement and development since in mostly African Countries there is a serious Energy Problem. He believes this challenge will be achieved by being agent of change in his community. He has made a high level commitment to his electrical and electronics education, having been mentored and coached by several of the most highly acclaimed engineers in the industry. He was recently honored with the First prize winner Atoms Empowering Africa youth video Competition 2018 for his contribution as a youth to the Nuclear Industry. In his spare time, George enjoys a good happy hour with friends and seeking adventure in the outdoors. George hopes to attend his Master studies in September 2019 where he will major in Nuclear Science and Technology. He has always been very dedicated and hardworking when trying to achieve his goals. He does not give up easily; George’s future is bright as long as he keeps his strong faith and remembers what is truly important in life. | Combined Nuclear and other renewable Energy. | Clean Energy a race to Win on Cliamte Action | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Sub Saharan African countries | No | Research & Development | The decarbonization of the electricity sector is central to tackling climate change: global electricity production accounts for 40% of total emissions and is still dominated by coal and gas (63% of total production). Decarbonizing the electricity sector is a considerable challenge. The latest scenarios set the bar very high, aiming for a total decarbonization of the electricity system by 2050 Despite massive investments, renewable energies alone are not enough to achieve the decarbonization. | Climate change is the most significant threat to our planet today and yet just three years after the Paris Agreement the world is significantly behind in meeting its climate goals. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the impacts of global warming reaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels sends a clear warning that this increase may be exceeded by 2030 – 2050. I'm convinced that for the benefit of the planet, This solution must be included in the climate conversation | My idea is based on research project, Nuclear power is recognized as a low-carbon source of energy, and the median lifecycle emissions from nuclear are 12g /kWh, similar to wind energy. Keeping the existing nuclear fleet in operation and adding new capacity can help the world reach its climate goal. My innovation is by combining renewable with nuclear energy, making up a significant part of the world’s future energy mix, Nuclear energy is available today and deployable on a large scale, with over 450 reactors in operation across 30 different countries. In 2018, the global nuclear installed capacity reached for the first time 400 GWe, accounting for more than 10% of global electricity production and 30% of global low carbon electricity production. Electricity is a major serious problem in Africa when African Countries combine Nuclear energy with other renewable energy sources this will help the continent to reach both climate and energy goal. More than 60 percent of CO2 emissions have been avoided globally since 1970, equivalent to five years’ worth of CO2 emissions from the electricity sector. Since Nuclear is the second largest source of low-carbon electricity after hydropower. Accounting and considering combined Nuclear and renewable will combat climate change and its impacts and hence the world will play its role on Sustainable development goal number 13- Climate Action. | International experts have stated that all low-carbon technologies will need to be mobilized in order to stop climate change, The ability of combined renewable and nuclear energy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has already been demonstrated already. The European countries which have achieved a rapid reduction in emissions from electricity production (Sweden, Switzerland, France), are those with a large component of nuclear and hydropower. For instance, France, which produces approximately three quarters of its electricity from nuclear, has the lowest per capita emissions of the seven largest industrialized countries (G7). From this lesson it’s very possible for African countries to embrace peaceful uses of atom by going more further step through combining both Nuclear and renewable energy which can be performed following special technical advice Hence NUCLEAR ENERGY A RACE TO WIN ON CLIMATE ACTION. | The solution is on the research development phase which is considably to have tremendous impact when the countries take it serious, all I need is a voice up platforms where it could be taken serious so as to create a United clean and transformed World. | To be extended in all African Countries to have impactful solution and hence solve energy problem which in turn help the Wolrd in fighting the Climate issues | For the solution to have considerable impact , stakeholder should consider this for Implementations in each country in the energy sector | https://rosatomafrica.com/en/press-centre/news/teams-from-south-africa-nigeria-and-tanzania-are-awarded-first-prizes-of-atoms-empowering-africa-you/ | https://youtu.be/xwLNSfX1z2w | First Prize winner 4th Annual Atoms Empowering africa youth video Competition 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
660 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Gijo | Jacob | Nil | Nil | Innovator | Male | India | India | English | My innovation is named as Safer Hil Ascent Hill Hold. My Innovaton is related to the automotive sector but have a huge impact on the climate change. We can reduce the rate of global warming by reducing CO2 emission. This reduces the rate of the sea level rising, acid rains and many other environmental issues by related to air pollution. The feasibility study had been conducted on small working models to demonstrate the working principle and that was very successful. The idea is having the major advantage as the CO2 reduction by a greater extent. On rough estimate, the CO2 reduction will be 6.25 billion kg per annum for India Moreover this innovation is very good safety device. This innovation makes driving stress free, more safer and easy for the learners, beginners and the experienced persons | I am Gijo from India. My family consists of self, wife and our son. I am a Mechanical engineer by education I have worked Information Technology sector for around 11 years Currenty I am working for the fullfillment of this project | Safer Hil Ascent Hill Hold | A Tiny Innovation for Huge Impact on Climate Change. | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | First India and then all nations around the world where there is a lot of automobiles are there | No | Ideation | As the feasibility study had been conducted on small working models to demonstrate the working principle, it is in the ideation stage. | The problem addressed by the solution is the air pollution generated while starting any vehicle on a hill inclines | My innovative solution for preventing the auto rollback of vehicles on hill inclines does not require any power for operation. The long term vision of this solution is to reduce the air pollution and create a better environment for living creatures. Moreover this will make the driving stress free, more safer and easy for any drivers. | The following list of advantages make my innovation very unique from the existing solutions 1. No Power Requirement 2. No Air pollution 3. No fuel consumption 4. No Wear and Tear of brake shoes 5. No Delay for the activation 6. No Delay for the deactivation 7. One time activation for many start & stop on climbing the same hill 8. Easy to operate 9. Easy to manufacture 10. Easy to maintain 11. No need of brake fluid or brake system 12. More safer compared to the current system 13. No electronic, electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic or mechanical circuit 14. No chance of slipping due to moisture as brake shoes & drums/discs are not used 15. Failures due to electrical or electronic faults will not occur 16. Operation can be done manual or automatic 17. Stress free driving 18. Longer life for engine and clutch 19. A simple system 20. A standalone system 21. Supports climate change control | The feasibility study which was very successful, had been conducted on small working models to demonstrate the working principle. I am trying to get some financial and other support for this project to take this further ahead. I have collected data related to the annual vehicle kilometers in India to get a rough estimation about the reduction in air pollution. | The planned goals is to reduce the air pollution in different nations in a similar way to that of India, to get a better environment with respect to air for all living creatures. | Short Term need I need financial and any other support for designing, manufacturing and trials of this device in any vehicle Medium Term need I need financial and any other support to participate in expo to exibhit the same Long Term need I need financial and any other support to take this further ahead to be recognised globally, so that the air pollution due to these situtation(vehicle starting on hill incline) is reduced by a greater extent. | The following link is for the youtube presentation of small working model to demonstrate the working principle https://youtu.be/I2Gub9L3ea4 | https://youtu.be/I2Gub9L3ea4 | Certification for the participation in SWITCH Global expo which was basically for the electrical engineering innovation. My innovation was selected as it has a huge impact on environment even though it was not from the electrical engineering. The Expo was organized by Government of Gujarat and Federation of Gujarat Industries | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
661 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | ASHA | CHANDRA | ALL INDIA WOMEN’S EDUCATION FUND ASSOCIATION (AIWEFA) | www.aiwefa.org | PRESIDENT | FEMALE | India | India | English | “Khadi Goes Global” is a specially crafted implementation plan inspired by the global 2030 roadmap for development for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It links national initiatives of the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises through its implementing arm, the Khadi and Village Industry Commission for creating awareness of the product at national and international fora and generate a dis-aggregated database of artisans who register with AIWEFA from the estimated 8.84 million people engaged in khadi weaving, spinning and related work. Khadi is a sustainable, ethical fabric that conserves energy, reduces greenhouse gases and has a low-carbon-footprint. Ranking next only to agriculture, spinning and weaving khadi cloth encourages a continuity of tradition and preservation of distinctive arts, while allowing spinners and weavers to work within the environs of their own homes. It provides gender parity wages for equal work, it recognizes women as workers, carers and citizens who can express their needs to prioritise, design and implement a transformative approach to address structural constraints and power relations in markets, families and communities. At the United Nations, the SDG linkages and khadi have been showcased through panel discussions, exhibitions, fashion shows, films, booklets and publications. Of specific benefit for women in this precarious time of climate change, economic instability and inequality, this rich solution presents a template for development and the role khadi can play in women’s economic growth, structural transformation and combating climate change. A cross pollination of this good strategy could be tailored for the nations states of Asia and Africa. | AIWEFA (All India Women's Education Fund Association), an NGO, was founded in 1929 under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi to inculcate a scientific temper in women's education. In 1932 AIWEFA established the Lady Irwin College, New Delhi. AIWEFA campaigns nationally and internationally through its field projects, seminars, workshops, conferences, publications and networking to bring about a sustainable approach to human development and advancement of weaker sections. AIWEFA has been granted the “NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC)”. AIWEFA accepted the role of Regional Coordinator of the U.N.'s Informal Regional Network of NGOs (NGO IRENE). AIWEFA has been conferred the Observer Status with UNFCCC. AIWEFA has administered the Nina Sibal Memorial Award since 2003 to encourage organisations using innovative methods for the empowerment of children with disabilities. The award carries a cash component, trophy and a citation. AIWEFA has completed 91 years of community service particularly among women and children. In recent years, AIWEFA’s programs include national conferences “Transition of Women from Education to Full Employment”, “Ensuring Healthy Lives and Promotion of Wellness in Old Age” and the national “Khadi Goes Global” initiative; college and school workshops on cyber security, prevention of drug abuse and intergenerational bonding. Grassroots initiatives include “Promotion and development of handicrafts from locally available resources” in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. | Khadi Goes Global“ | Empowerment of rural women to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Development | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | India, ASEAN and BIMSTEC nations | Yes | Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) | Transition to Scale | 8.84 million artisans are with the Khadi Village and Industry Commission. Those who register with AIWEFA would be categorised according to their capabilities with skilling, capacity enhancement and linking with designers and markets. The database, a pilot project for artisans and a permanent display site for products will bring together the expertise of UN, regional and national government agencies, civil society and the business sector for women’s economic empowerment. | The programme saves water resources, is zero carbon footprint, preserves the distinctive arts and would lift nearly 1 million women out of the cycle of poverty and bring them into the organised sector. The model cluster would address quality control and the EXPOS would open markets in neighboring nations. A permanent one-stop khadi, handloom, handicraft exhibition and sale centre under the UN logo would be open to public and visited by Heads of Governments, especially from Africa and Asia. | India has the highest number of unemployed rural women, and as the messiah of peace, Mahatma Gandhi said, “There is no better way of industrialising the villages of India than the spinning wheel”. This enterprise on the indigenous charkha has the potential to lift women out of the cycle of poverty and ill health while economically empowering them. The first solution is to recognise those among the 8.84 million persons in the khadi sector who register with AIWEFA. Data on these artisans, several of them women, will hugely impact effective linkages between crafts, capacities and markets. A pilot project with organised Self Help Groups would encompass a template of indicators to achieve the 2030 vision of leaving no one behind. A permanent display of khadi, handlooms and handicrafts for marketing and sales would connect weavers with markets and sales At Khadi EXPOS Ambassadors and High Commissioners would be invited Asia and Africa to showcase khadi as a very low per capital investment enterprise. The Hon’ble Prime Minister’s Certificate of Excellence will award master weavers and crafts persons. Khadi purchase will be a matter of conscience as it is not tested on animals and promotes a culture of beauty without cruelty; it will provide the most marginalized with decent work, enable women’s collective power, improve their nutritional status and save the planet’s most precious resource-water. | Khadi, a fabric of the future, is natural, environment friendly, using indigenous materials with vegetable dyes, conserves water and follows a ‘farm to cloth’ sustainable model. It provides a global outlook to a national initiative to provide home-based decent work, acknowledge unpaid care work, enable women’s collective power, recognise the need for gender financing for rural women A database, artisan cluster, permanent display and the EXPOS provide a 360 degree sustainable solution from the grassroots to the UN to leave no one behind and save precious water resources. The database will maintain all records with the registration of women weavers and help to link crafts persons with markets to ensure fair prices. A model artisan cluster would incorporate the SDGs. A permanent display for the Preservation of Distinctive Arts in handloom, handicrafts artifacts for public viewing and for visiting Heads of Government. Artisans under the umbrella of AIWEFA will display their products at the venue. The EXPOS, the North East Expo of 8 states being the first, will coordinate the Handloom and Khadi Industry and open up trade and commerce with ASEAN and BIMSTEC nations as their respective Embassy/High Commission will be invited to encourage Khadi Diplomacy and Tea Diplomacy. Fashion shows, B2B meetings and panel discussions will promote Khadi and the Prime Minister’s Award and Certificate and trophy for the best women weavers will be presented. | “Khadi Goes Global: Empowerment of rural women to achieve the 2030 agenda for development” is the third initiative since 2016 as AIWEFA consolidates women's economic empowerment through khadi and taking national efforts to the stage of the United Nations. At these gatherings of 193 nations, partnerships and programmes were held with Asian, African and South American participants to bring programme strategies incorporating women's voices and Good Practices towards the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. These case studies demonstrated the common nature of the problems faced by the women of the global south, and the urgent need to create economic employment opportunities. In 2019 nationally and at the UN linkages between weavers and designers were showcased through fashions shows, films, panel discussions, publications and exhibitions. For the database, discussions with leading Indian technical and digital educational institutions have begun; the North East EXPO on 2nd and 3rd. November 2019 from which data about the North East will be collated and ASEAN and BIMSTEC representatives will be attending. The Pilot Cluster is being identified and the formation of the Self Help Groups commenced, alongwith purchasing and spinning and weaving on the hand-free low cost pedal charkhas . | Handicraft and handloom artisans in India are estimated to be more than 10 million. AIWEFA seeks to reach almost a million women, thus impacting the lives of that many households. Though the Khadi and Village Industry Commission and the EXPOS, AIWEFA will create a database of artisans who register under the umbrella of AIWEFA identifying targets for production in specific areas like domestic and international markets and divide the work-loads according to the skills of the workers. Artisans’ skill education would include weaving, both traditional and modern as a means of livelihood and self-employment. Expert weavers have been identified to engage with younger generation learners. Documenting, assisting, patenting of traditional and indigenous motifs, designs and color-combinations would be provided and AIWEFA will set up a permanent model cluster to showcase the skills and products at a permanent site for viewing by the general public and as a must visit venue for Heads of State on state visits. Staff that will be recruited will include women involved in the supply chain, quality checkers, packers, saleswomen at Display Centre with staff at the Export division. Exchanges between the ASEAN and BIMSTEC nations will be ongoing. The new countries where Khadi and handloom products from the Display Centre and from the clusters under UN logo will be marketed will be Luxemburg, Scandinavian countries, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and ASEAN countries. | AIWEFA has created awareness of khadi nationally and at the UN. The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and te Khadi and Village Industry Commission have endorsed this programme. All interlinkages to create a database of artisans registered with AIWEFA are in place. Identification of Self Help Group model will be completed soon, with provisions of impact study alongwith capability development, quality check and capacity building. Deliberations with the Government agencies are continuing for a permanent space to exhibit the distinctive arts with markets and sales. North East EXPO is being held in November 2019 with 8 states and the Governments of ASEAN and BIMSTEC nations. AIWEFA seeks resources from UN Solutions to invite and support a 5 member AIWEFA team from India to participate at the UN General Assembly during September 2019 to present Khadi Goes Global among world leaders. The programme pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 150th birth anniversary, commemorates 100 years of his association with khadi and celebrates 91 years of AIWEFA established under the inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi. To mark the Indian Prime Minister’s address at the UN General Assembly, AIWEFA seeks support to hold a Khadi fashion show, in his presence, with the UN Secretary General as the Chief Guest and present the pilot project. | The AIWEFA website : http://aiwefa.org/ Compendium 3 : http://aiwefa.org/publication/ Khadi Goes Global booklet : http://aiwefa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Brochure-of-Khadi-Goes-Global.pdf FICCI FLO newspaper coverage : http://www.ficciflo.com/events/khadi-goes-global-conclave-celebrating-100-years-khadi/ | Ms. Asha Chandra : President, All India Women’s Education Fund Association (AIWEFA), New Delhi, India . Technology access for new employment opportunities in a world we women want. CSW62 URL : https://www.facebook.com/aworldwewomenwant/videos/1021907724610070/?t=77 UN Webcast of CSW: ""Khadi Goes Global"" - Empowering women through sustainable production and consumption - CSW63 Side Event, 11 Mar 2019 . URL : http://webtv.un.org/search/khadi-goes-global-empowering-women-through-sustainable-production-and-consumption-csw63-side-event/6012699606001/?term=&lan=english&page=22#.XJO-WZM2tr5.twitter | AIWEFA is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations; has accepted the role of Regional Coordinator for the United Nations NGO Informal Regional Network (UN NGO IRENE) for India; has Observer Status with the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC) on Climate Change. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
662 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tihana | Smitran | Amulet Nordic | www.amuletnordic.eu | Founder & CEO | Female | Croatia | Croatia | English | In 2030, the year of the UN SDGs, children we are raising today will become grown-ups – young-decision makers who will be able to shape the world around them. Since I was a child, I had a dream of creating businesses and projects that will empower children all around the world - this is how my story as a Founder and CEO of two companies focused on empowering society through innovative technology, UN SDGs and media began. I am motivated by the opportunity to getting closer to the hearts, minds and souls of our youngest generations and making them think, feel and change for the better by educating them on all the SDGs through edutainment (education + entertainment), as this is the only way to truly reach children – by having fun. As the founder and CEO of Amulet Studio and Amulet Nordic, I have established the three main strategic goals: strong international partnerships, high-quality of creative work and innovativeness in the creative-tech industry which is visible through continual growth of the companies and high-quality and impactful global portfolio worth millions of dollars that affected people's lives on the international scale. Previously, I was in charge of impactful project such as creating the most efficient campaign with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia in all European countries members of Eurotransplant in 2010, raising the donor rate in Dalmatia (south Croatian region) for 400%, leading best socially responsible campaigns on global competition, collaborating with Horizon 2020 School of Medicine, University of Zagreb project, creating awarded Augumented Reality campaigns and IPs that are devoted to changing lives of young girls and boys from all over the world by educating them on all SDGs - and to act now. | Tihana Smitran is a founder, CEO, Creative Producer, Innovator and in short - an awarded businesswoman devoted to sustainable development, creative-tech and global projects educating children around the world whose projects are recognized and supported by SDGs advocates, European Comission, The World Bank in Croatia, International Chamber of Commerce in Croatia, Chamber of Economy in Croatia, Accelerators in Estonia, established personalities and many more. Chosen U.S. Department of State’s Professional Fellow in 2019. Awarded with 'Best Startup Female Entrepreneur' of the year in 2017 for her achievements, diverse perspectives and positive leadership proven through her companies Amulet Studio and Amulet Nordic as a Founder and CEO. Results-oriented, decisive leader with proven success in new market identification and innovations while focusing on creating people-centred sustainable business and empowering young women around the world with projects aiming to raise awareness on global challenges. Completed with honors and Summa Cum Laude Master's Degree in Finance – Economics and Business International programme from the Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb. Holds diploma and certificates from Vienna University of Economics and Business, Erich Pommer Institut, and United Nations Academy. Multiple times awarded with prestigious Rector's Award and Dean's Awards for scientific papers, achievements, exceptional academic performance and scholarships. As an outstanding student and awarded young researcher in Economy, Tihana participated as a Teaching Assistant. | MaNaBu – Innovative Platform for a Sustainable Future | How to teach children to act on global challenges while having fun? The answer is – MaNaBu! | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Developing in Croatia and Estonia, advancing in the U.S. and Switzerland, distributing worldwide. | No | Proof of Concept | MaNaBu is at the stage of advanced, late research & development while entering the early stage of having Proof of Concept while having covered its seed capital, style guide, business plan, etc. After its first successful testing in Croatia in 2018, the pre-production stage is ready to reach its end by 2020. By the end of 2020, MaNaBu will have 26x2'' episodes completed for the worldwide, free out of cost distribution to children that will boom in 2021, gathering millions of impacted lives. | UN SDGs Programs are estimated to be worth trillions by 2030, yet the global market still lacks a suitable international edutainment platform and brand designed for children and families to educate on SDGs - more than 99% of the population still does not know the meaning of SDGs. MaNaBu is the best alternative to every failed or low-success model of teaching SDGs to the children with proven success while affecting millions of young lives both in developed and non-developed countries. | MaNaBu (in Japanese: „To learn“), an innovative edutainment platform for children aged from 5 to 9, their parents and educators to help them understand global problems through entertainment – and to act here and now! MaNaBu carries a global mission – teaches and encourages actions on all the 17 UN SDGs through a universal and visual language that requires no translation or synchronisation. Children all around the world can enjoy language agnostic web series, interactive games and fun, catchy songs while offline campaigns could impact both developed and non-developed countries, including indigenous peoples by creating a careful and impactful approach. More than 293 million people via online platforms such as YouTube, VOD, TV, App Store/Google Play, etc., without including the rest of the territories as well as offline models. MaNaBu brings to children the UN SDGs pinpointed main problems of the world we live in, especially Goal 4: Quality education is an ideal starting point and it’s our foremost important goal to educate because all the stated problems are human-centred and it affects all other 16 goals. Education helps people understand the world better and leads to changing behaviour. MaNaBu is primarily backed by Amulet Nordic, a startup based in Estonia builds meaningful content and creative IPs with multiplatform potential for global audience, focused on a children, that changes the world through entertainment by educating audiences with IPs of the future. | Sustainable social entrepreneurship project as MaNaBu is fully sustainable with multimillion revenue per year that can directly affect more than 300 million lives, as well as children in non-developed countries through 10% profit division towards promoting equal education. The revolutionary idea of connecting more than 200 worldwide organizations, companies, non-profits, established personalities into a movement that will gather MaNaBu Community and MaNaBu Actions into real-life measures towards a healthier planet. The beauty of MaNaBu lies in its simplicity where every child from every nation and culture can understand it. With is short and flexible episode format that is easily adaptable to almost all media platforms, as well as, offline is reachable to audiences across the globe as subjects cover a wide range of globally relevant problems with its three main characters, Ma, Na and Bu, who are created to serve as animated ambassadors for a global cause. They are compassionate and lovable, determined to help our planet while travelling around the globe and encountering the most relevant global issues - kids develop an understanding for the world problems, learn to empathize with all who are in need and find out how to make a small contribution. | Over the two years of pre-development that took approximately hundreds thousands dollars of the seed capital, we have completed a Proof of Concept that was successfully tested among the targeted group while spreading partnerships and collaborations on worldwide levels including groundbreaking non-nationalistic visual concept recognized by EUIPO as a trademark. MaNaBu was officially presented at the Political Forum at the UN headquarters in New York (July 2019) as a part of the Croatian National Strategic Program managed by the Croatian Chamber of Economy and is supported by International Chamber of Economy (UN Observer mission). The World Bank shows intention for support as well as UNICEF which would ideally be in charge of the quality and children-content control. MaNaBu is supported by and advised by its MaNaBu Ambassador, Marc Buckley, who is an Official UN SDG Advocate and UN Resilient Futurist, Academy-award nominated Sten-Kristian Saluveer, Showrunner for Academy Awards John Heinsen, Advisor to the Dutch Council and venture capitalist Guido Van Nispen and Dr. Dragan Primorac, former Croatian Minister of Science, Education and Sports. Testing of MaNaBu cartoon characters was held at the kindergarten in Zagreb, Croatia in September 2018 among 78 children. The highest percentage of children declared that they really like the characters, Ma (83%), Bu (67 %) and Na (48%) and songs about the characters, Ma (94%), Bu (82%), Na (78%). | MaNaBu will primarily be a global online platform with later on offline campaigns and projects focused to impact both developed and non-developed markets by connecting with organizations, investors, grants and by using its own source of revenues: 4 types of revenue streams guarantee self-sustainability, opening offices in Switzerland and the U.S. including hiring at least 2-3 new employees in the first year. MaNaBu is a mission with a goal: 10% of total profits will go to the MaNaBu Foundation dedicated to promoting equal rights for children all over the world. Projected 23 million views in 2021, 65 million views in 2022, 163 million views in 2023 and at least, in total, 97 million people reached and impacted by 2023 on just one platform (to compare, weekly active YouTube kids’ viewers = app. 8 million, with over 30 billion views in the app to date - most of those views are being spread across cartoon and song channels). Best projections are showing that impact could affect 47 million people in North America (16%), 31 million in Europe (11%), and 215 million in Asia and Oceania (73%), approximately 293 million people in total via online platforms such as YouTube, VOD, TV, App Store/Google Play, etc., without including the rest of the territories. The global Edutainment market size is expected to grow from $2.5B in 2018 to $11.3B by 2028 at a CAGR of 16.1%. In total, Edtech markets are predicted to reach $252 Billion by 2020, i.e. around triple than what it was in 2013. | In order to reach millions of children worldwide, MaNaBu seeks support in International organizations such as the United Nations and UNICEF as well as financial investment of minimum $700,000 for the second Seed round that will enable opening offices in the U.S., Switzerland and production of the first season with 26 episodes, including platform that will open more working places for hiring. This investment will allow us to reach a further $3 to 5 million dollars financial injection from our other investors and grants interested in participating that will result in developing offline MaNaBu campaigns for non-developed regions in Asia-Pacific region, while gathering stabile revenue income in millions which will be poured into opening MaNaBu Foundation as well as spreading MaNaBu trademark worldwide – on a mission to truly become a global project devoted to teaching children, encouraging their positive development and actions towards UN SDGs. 2030 will result in millions of new leaders that will have the tools, knowledge, community and skills to take care of the planet and to pass it to new generations. | MaNaBu Presentation for the High-Level Political Forum at the UN Headquarters (July 2019): https://vimeo.com/349850490 Password: manabu2019 MaNaBu Website: http://www.manabu.eu/ Amulet Nordic: http://www.amuletnordic.eu/ Amulet Studio: http://www.amuletstudio.eu/ | Tihana Smitran, 'Best Startup Female Entrepreneur' Winner Speech: https://youtu.be/B8lfyuOmhQI Tihana Smitran, 'Best Startup Female Entrepreneur' TV Show Interview: https://youtu.be/Mm8NTB-G-DU | SOLUTIONS AWARDS Winner: Storytek Accelerator for Future of Content and Innovation Hub PERSONAL AWARDS Winner: U.S. Department of State’s Professional Fellow 2019 Winner: United Nations Academy for Diplomacy & International Relations 2019 Winner: 'Best Startup Female Entrepreneur' in Croatia 2017 Winner: Cartoon Masters Scholarships for TV Series Financing, Transmedia and Interactive Animation, Creative Entertainment Rector's award for the best scientific paper 2008 on Venture Capital | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
663 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Meseret | Warner | Ignite Investment | www.Igniteinvestment.com | Managing Director | Female | Ethiopia | Ethiopia | English | Ignite Investment is a growth accelerator and investment advisory firm specializing in facilitating resources for Ethiopian SMEs, especially women owned enterprises, and building their capacity to efficiently utilize these resources and run their businesses more successfully. Ignite Investment has devised an integrated methodology for sustainable growth of SMEs and as result create job opportunity. First, we effectively develop the business and managerial skills of the SMEs. Next, we efficiently facilitate the financing that they are seeking using an integrated capital sourcing scheme. It includes an innovative and unique approach of a diaspora crowdfunding platform complemented by local Ethiopian Investors Network and other investors to crowd as well as encourage the confidence of the African diaspora investors. Ignite Investment’s provision of innovative and unique solutions to enable SMEs to thrive in the economy is already making an impact both in encouraging inclusive and sustainable economic growth through the SMEs it works with as well as the society at large. For example; one of our clients, a woman owned enterprise, has more than doubled its revenue in the last two years. The company has grown its revenue from $ USD 200,000 to half a million and has increased its staff from 12 to 33. This not only created employment opportunities for 21 young and marginalized groups including 13 of them for young women, but also has an impact in each of their families through increased income. Our focus will remain in creating inclusive and sustainable development of SMEs and as a result multiplying employment opportunities directly or indirectly by the firms Ignite works with and those working in relevant value chains in different economic sectors. | Meseret Warner is the founder and managing director at Ignite Investment, a growth accelerator specializing in facilitating resources for Ethiopian SMEs, especially women-owned companies, and building their capacity to enable them utilize these resources and run their businesses successfully. Our principle emphases is the inclusive and sustainable development of SMEs to create job opportunities for all. Meseret is also currently serving as the president of the African Women's Entrepreneurship Program, Ethiopia Chapter. She is a former refugee who returned to her home country to make a difference by committing to job creation and women economic empowerment. Meseret has worked with several companies in Ethiopia including Addis-Africa International Convention & Exhibition Center public and private partnership Share Company and was able to mobilize over 400 diasporas to raise millions of dollars for the project. Before returning, Meseret has participated in Bizdom Cleveland startup accelerator in the United States. Previous roles include working as a programmer, analyst and information manager at Statistics Canada; global affairs Canada; and a communication, facilitation and information management specialist for UNOCHA that included working with different donors and governments in some of the most fragile and challenging environments in the world. Meseret Warner is an entrepreneur with a background in IT, economics, and globalization; and holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Mathematics as well as a master’s in Globalization and Development. | Ignite DiasporaFunder | Igniting the African Diaspora for Impact Investing | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Initially, the Ignite diaspora funder platform will be launched in Ethiopia because of the research done and concept proving process being assessed in Ethiopia. It will then be scaled up to Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Nigeria the following three to five years. | Yes | Includovate - innovate for inclusion, Gender expert to work on the women economic empowerment section. Technology Expert to oversee the technology side of the business. Currently in discussion with several partners such as FSD Africa, Enterprise partners. | Transition to Scale | The Ignite Diaspora Funder solution is an extension of what Ignite Investment has been doing for the last 3-years. We have been engaged with potential diaspora investors, software provider & how we plan to customize it for our needs and discussions with EQIQ (Mauritius based fund administrator) for facilitating the capital raise & investment structures. We have mobilized the majority of requirements and are in the process of seeking the needed funding to launch the platform and start operations. | Ethiopian SMEs, particularly women-owned SMEs lack access to finance to grow their businesses and fully participate in the economy because of limited sources of financing and business competencies to enable them to utilize alternative sources of capital. The relative nonexistence of capital markets makes the challenges of SMEs more severe in Ethiopia despite their critical role for both job creation as well as encouraging the inclusive and sustainable economic development of the country. | The execution strategy of this project is based on both integrated and sustainable underpinnings. The approach includes three components. First, carefully identify SMEs that are viable, scalable and have the vision, as well as the potential, to sustainably support their growth potential. Then, the SMEs capacity is developed to make them investment ready to ensure SMEs become an attractive investment opportunities for an on-line based diaspora investors market. Second, facilitating financing through crowdfunding platform to potentially bring a large number of small amount investors into the Ethiopian SME financing market. Equity investment through SPV structuring by using the existing regulations to provide shares of an SME will be the process. Utilize the teams’ strong ties with the diaspora communities, memberships of diaspora organizations and forums to market the platform. Maximizing on the proven track record of mobilizing 100s of diaspora & local investors raising millions of USD for a project in Ethiopia. Last, oversight of investment is key to encourage other investors to join and crowd more diasporas giving them more confidence. Our vision is creating inclusive and sustainable development of SMEs that both enhance women and youth entrepreneurs and multiply employment opportunities. Our principal emphasis will remain enhancing the solution to encourage inclusive economic growth and gender equality | SMEs lack of access to finance has been identified as one of the major obstacles for a thriving private sector in Ethiopia and Africa in general. This challenge is exacerbated by SMEs lack of business and managerial skills. Therefore, effective intervention that integrates both challenges is needed. Our solution is developed as a result. Integrating elements and innovating markets to create a new source of capital. There are many service providers that make SMEs investment-ready only leaving SMEs to find financing themselves. There are other that solicit capital for SMEs. However, because of commercial banks dominance, reliance on collateral-based lending and others, the vast majority of SMEs are excluded. Our solutions include capacity development to enable SMEs competencies to access finance and run their businesses effectively. Our unique capacity development strategy seeks to embed an expert in the targeted SMEs to devise individualized mentoring and coaching programs. This is complemented by innovative capital mobilization solution through a diaspora crowdfunding platform to potentially bring a large number of small amount investors. This strategy will play a critical role in bridging the gap of SMEs relatively smaller investment need and the supply of relatively bigger investment in the market. Integrating investment oversight will encourage more diaspora investors who may be hands-off investors because of geography. This is unique and a first in the market product. | Our solution is implemented through different components and measured by set milestones. So far, we have fully developed the required elements of each component. First, how to identify viable, sustainable and scalable SMEs and get them investment ready has been done. It has been tested and used in the incorporated company, Ignite Investment. Our team is working with www.fundraisingscript.com for developing the crowdfunding platform including customization, identity check, payment system. We have engaged fund administrator EQIQ for capital raise & investment structuring. We have also done team requirements especially for the investment oversight and engaged with recruitment firms. We have also done research to understand our target market and how to reach them including becoming a member of the California based African Diaspora Network. We have proved the concept by first working with another project seeking capital raise by soliciting diaspora investors individually. Able to mobilize over 400 diasporas and raised millions of dollars. We are already mobilizing the diaspora through our own strong link to the diaspora community as some team members are diasporas too and other means. We are currently seeking funding to start executing these strategies and launch the platform in the next 3 to 6 months. As mentioned, we measure our progress by the achievement of set targets such as set partnerships, ready to execute processes, how many diasporas have been contacted and so on. | 1.Raise 500,000 USD – by October 30, 2019 2.Recruit IT, investment and marketing managers – by November 30, 2019 3.Recruit additional 6 team member – by December 20, 2019 4.Launch the Ignite diasporafunder platform – Latest January 30th, 2020 5.Lives impacted: a.The first year: plan to fully fund and help grow 10 to 12 SMEs making sure we have at least 60% to be women-owned businesses. We plan to create up to 2,300 job opportunities for women and youth the first year alone. b.Year two: the inclusive and sustainable growth of 24-30 SMEs could be achieved. In addition, 5,040 to 6,300 job opportunities can potentially be created. | The most important need at the moment is funding, followed by human resources. 1. Our immediate need is to secure at least 300,000 to fill the most important positions, at least three of them. Incorporating the platform in Mauritius or Rwanda. Form the critical partnerships, payment methods, identity check, and SPV structuring. Travel to at least two or three major diaspora concentration cities to solicit and mobilize the first few potential investors. 2. In two to three years, we would like to secure additional 500,000 to increase our staff. Identify and develop at least 100 SMEs to become candidates to raise funds in the platform. Forge partnerships with philanthropy and donor organizations to participate in the crowd investing encourage more diaspora crowding. 3. The long term plan is to expand to Ghana and Rwanda within 5 years and to Kenya and Nigera within 7-years. It is also very important for us to develop a good business model to sustain itself making profits within this timeframe. | http://www.igniteinvestment.com https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VqCxooa9Fz-FV69XKZ-oF_xaAfs5qq9H | N/A | As an entrepreneur, Meseret Warner has participated in Bizdom Cleveland in the United States; a startup accelerator program and was a finalist. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
664 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jazmin | Chi | Nivet Language School | https://www.nivetls.com/ | Founder | Female | Mexico | Mexico | Chinese | English | Spanish | We believe that having an opportunity to share our idea, the story why we started it and transitioned to be online and the outcomes that we have achieved so far, can help us to reach people that could be interested in giving quality education, thus possibly build partnerships, investment opportunities or receiving advice from more knowledgeable people that could give us insight in how we can keep it growing. As well, to have a network of contacts of people like-minded that are currently working in changing the world through their specific projects, can help us to broaden our horizons and ideas. We are looking for guidance, mentorship, exposure, network and possible resources in order to scale our work faster. | https://www.jazminchi.com/ I am a writer, speaker, teacher, mother, poet and business woman. I founded Nivet Language School https://www.nivetls.com/ in Mexico because I have been a teacher for 7 years, 2 in Russia, 2 in China, 2 in Mexico and this year online. I am also the founder of the School for Global Leaders LevGrow https://www.levgroweducation.com/ which is a franchisable model of education for children ages 0 to 12. I have published 18 children’s books and with my team, out of the books we create songs, audiobooks and games, which are educational materials. I also enjoy giving back to society through all my ventures by donating our educational materials to children in orphanages and low income schools so they can keep preparing and changing their lives through education. I am a speaker in topics such as education, personal development, maternity, parenthood and family and I had given talks, conferences and seminars in the following countries: USA, Colombia, China, Russia, Japan, Mexico and Poland. Starting the last week of August I will start studying my second Master in Education in the strand of Technology, Innovation and Education at Harvard University. So we can keep developing all these efforts. My first master was also in education in the strand of Cultural Diversity. Thus, cultural diversity is extremely important for us so we can connect the world and open horizons in the minds of all our students. | Nivet Language School | Connecting the world through languages, technology and innovation. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Actually working in: Mexico, Russia, USA, China, France, Germany and Japan. Intended to expand to: Colombia, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. | Yes | Akina Shu(https://issuu.com/nivetschool/docs/02_biography_akina_shu_20190802) I worked in English education field for 8 years. 5 years of making English Proficiency test, 3 years of publishing books regarding IELTS and EIKEN. | Scaling | We have been working for the past two years and we have a proven track of students which have been improving so much in their language abilities. We already started, but to keep growing we want to create our own platform. By creating our own platform, we can expand to other countries and systematized everything making the process easier for everyone involved. We also want to develop our own materials. This is why we believe our school is ready to scale to the next step. | QUALITY EDUCATION TO PEOPLE IN DANGER AND VULNERABLE SITUATIONS, AS WELL TO PEOPLE IN GENERAL THAT WANTS TO ACQUIRE A NEW LANGUAGE ABILITY In 2017, we started as a language school in Rio Bravo, Tamaulipas, Mexico which is dangerous city, due to the drug war killing many lives. A huge problem was that many students canceled school because of shootings. Therefore we decided to transition from onsite to online classes. By doing this we were able to invite teachers from abroad. | https://issuu.com/nivetschool/docs/nivetwork Intro video of the way we work: https://vimeo.com/265825793 The solution works as following: We give education online to places such as Reynosa-Rio Bravo, where is very dangerous to go out, so students do not miss their classes and still keep preparing themselves. In places such as Japan and other countries where access to education and safety conditions are good, we offer education online to make their lives easier so they can adjust classes to their most convenient time without worrying about traffic and more, with the benefits of being personalized classes for them. And with the profits of all, we spread knowledge to underserved areas where there is no access to technology by creating “study cafes” where students can go and receive online education for free. We also want to reach population in vulnerable situations such as orphans. Our long term vision is to have our own platform and expanding it to other countries so more people can start learning languages online. In the social focus, you can see the following chart: https://issuu.com/nivetschool/docs/our_social_focus We want to build these ""study cafes"" to give equal educational opportunities to all, no matter they come from places where there is no easy access to technology but we want to do bring it so people can start wider, brighter and broaden opportunities. | In Mexico, online education is still a new approach. For places with difficult and tense situations such as those amidst the drug war, we are a very appealing solution to keep improving personal skills through the acquisition of languages. For safer markets, what we can offer is flexibility and personalization instead of standardization. Students can choose their most convenient time and do not have to deal with traffic or to have to go to a building since they can have classes from wherever they are as long as they have a realiable internet connection. These ideas make our services appealing to people who want to keep developing themselves. | So far we have a proven track of students that have been benefitted by language acquisition even the difficult situation that we currently face in Mexico. An example are: Ramiro Loo and Marifer Esparza. Mexican students who came to us without speaking any Chinese and nowadays can give short speeches in chinese. You can see their testimonial here: https://www.nivetls.com/ To see their improvement makes us understant that our efforts are bearing fruits. But we know there are areas where we still can improve, such as building our own platform and offering our own materials. This will allow us to offer more opportunities to our students and teachers and to follow a systematized method. | August 2019- May 2020 Create our own materials by levels. For this purpose we will recruit 2 more persons to help Akina to develop the materials. We already have illustrators and we both are editors from our previous publishing experiences. Create our own platform: For this purpose Jazmin will recruit 2 to 3 more persons once in Boston, to help to develop the platform. We will also partner with Tomorrow´s Sound Productions team in Venezuela, who are going to develop all materials related to audio, song and music. They have been working for over a year with Jazmin in her audiobooks and songs, so we know we can trust and they are efficient. In our social focus, please refer to this table: https://issuu.com/nivetschool/docs/our_social_focus We expect to impact at least 100 students per week, at each location, once we open the study cafes. This is because the capacity will be 10 students per session and we can have 10+ sessions per week. Besides keeping the classes with our students in the north part of Mexico where the drug war due to the organized crime is still taking many lives and threatening the safetyof our students, therefore with our school, they can remain safe and still have their classes. In safer markets and with easier access to technology, we expect to keep growing by offering more flexible and convenient classes, one-on-one and personalized for the students. Due to the nature of the business which is online, we expect to have a broader impact. | At this moment, what we most need is: August to May: 1.Create our own platform. For this purpose Jazmin is going to start a Master at Harvard in the Technology, Innovation and Education strand so can focus on build it. 2.Create our own materials. For this purpose Akina is going to start crafting and developing into levels so we can do our own books, audios and more. We will start with English which is the most demanded language at this moment. ASAP: 3.Mentoring. Although we know our markets, have the know-how and a team that back up us, we would like to have people that is wiser and with a broaden view that we can approach to them to ask for guidance and advice. This could help us to take better and more assertive decisions. 4.Exposure. In order to get more students so it is possible to keep reinvesting the profits so we can achieve the goals described above. 5.Resources. Since we have been working reinvesting all the profits, if we receive capital to invest we know where to allocate it already, therefore we can achieve these goals above mentioned in a faster way. By covering all of the above, we believe we can start developing our “study cafes” in underserved areas, and instead of going personally, we can simplify the efforts and multiply the reach and benefits through technology. | https://www.nivetls.com/ Please scroll down to see the whole website. You will be able to see: Explanation of the way we work, expalnation of how to start classes with us, many testimonials of our students and pictures of the social impact we are doing and our products in the online store and store from the government where we also have our products. This is a 4 minutes introduction of our whole work: https://youtu.be/K-J1uCXDI5M | https://youtu.be/sypOWuhiVnc https://anchor.fm/akina-shu/episodes/Shushus-Room--Mexico-Edition--e4mfih https://youtu.be/KKaPVQCqNr4 https://www.jazminchi.com/noticias | Winner: 2017 Tamaulipas State Youth Award in Academic Performance FAO Award 2017 as Outstanding Young Person from the State of Tamaulipas. Mexico “Scholars of Change” 2014 international competition of Walden University. Five world winners. United States, 2015 2013 Tamaulipas State Youth Award in Entrepreneurship Finalist: Women in Business Challenge, 5 world-finalists. Holland, 2013 Recognized as a “Lince de Éxito” (Lynx of Success) by the Universidad del Valle de México 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
665 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Thomas | Ongasa | Train Them 2 Fish Congo Asbl | www.tt2fworld.org | President Train Them 2 Fish Congo Asbl | Male | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | English | French | Without funding from partners or outside resources, Train Them 2 Fish Congo was born as a faith based nonprofit led by a pastor who saw the weight of poverty in different communities. In July 2012, the first action of Train Them 2 Fish offered Free health care to 3,000 patients in one week in the City of Bukavu, Eastern D R Congo. The Free health care covered Dentistry, Vision care including free reading glass distribution, Women and children health on boy from a very poor was taken to a nearby hospital for surgery and his bill was paid by Train Them 2 Fish that very first week. Medical Professionals were recruited from the US to work with local doctors and nurses as volunteers. We were using schools and churches to offer these health cares in different communities. At the end of this very first activity, 18 disabled people were identified among the beneficiaries as the most vulnerable to empower. They were crawling with their legs and hands on the ground. Train Them 2 Fish raised fund to train them how to sew since they were able to use their hands. After six months of training, each one of them received a sewing machine with material as seeds to start their business and get out of the street from begging. Six people from the first beneficiaries of the free health care and sewing project are now self-reliable owning their homes. Since 2012, Train Them 2 Fish has been providing free health care to vulnerable people in communities every year. From the South Kivu province to Kinshasa, via the new Province of Bas-Uéle. The Project has grown to include mobile clinic units in Kinshasa where services are offered once every month. More than 40,000 Patients have been treated by the mobile clinic project this covered primary health care including major surgeries like brain surgery to remove tumors, community health workers training and empowerment. We also do malaria screening and treatment to the mass in communities. Some beneficiaries have received training in micro finance, family business and vocational training and some have received seed funds or material to end poverty. Gardening and forming training provided to others in rural areas to ensure food security. | Ongasa Aikabo Thomas, was Born on December 6, 1974 at a rural Village of Danga, County of Bambesa, the Province of Bas-Uéle in DR Congo. My Parents were farmers. My Dad was what we call now Community Health Workers trained by missionaries. My two parents passed away when I was sixteen years old, both of them died the same year. My dad from a heart attack, and my mom from tuberculosis. I continued to grow ground nuts to support my high school education and Accounting certification. After My Accounting certification, I worked for a Business man for three years. He offered me his generosity and send me to the seminary for my theology education where I graduated with a BA in Science and Theology. I served as a Pastor in the upper and Lower Uéle. Seeing the needs, I gave my local church the vision to start a local nonprofit called Congo en Action pour la Paix, CAP in short to provide nutrition to malnourished children in Isiro and provide vocational training to young people to keep them away from delinquency. I served as a regional Representative of Bantu Hope Inc. a us based nonprofit in Congo for 3 years. Served as a Board member for ADRA and Co-founder of Train Them 2 Fish International and founder of Train Them 2 Fish Congo. I have a Master's degree in Organizational Leadership from Adventist University of Africa in Nairobi Kenya. | Mobile clinic as a key to community development | Free community health care to the underprivileged to ensure the well being and provide access to health | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Currently in D R Congo, intended in Congo Brazzaville, Central Africa Republic | Yes | Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social affairs of DRC, Seventh-day Adventist Church | Proof of Concept | The Mobile Clinic and community free health care is not included in the National Health development plan of DR Congo and this plan does not include to pay Community health Workers. Train Them 2 Fish is doing has successfully used the Mobile Clinic and is paying the CHWs. The result are proved an impact in improving health care and increased the number of patients going to hospitals from 22% to 26% at Kikimi health Zone in Kinshasa. We are advocating the concept to be adopted by Health Ministry. | The DR Congo is known as one of the poorest Country in the World where the majority leaves with less than $1 per day. 70 % of the population have no access to health care for lack of money. There is health insurance in the Country. the few who have access to health need to pay cash in advance to receive care. The Free health Care program using mobile clinic is building a bridge between Communities and barely existing health care institutions. | In Collaboration with local Health Zone and Trained Community Health Workers, the mobile clinic of Train Them 2 Fish reaches people who can not have access to health care. Health Zone leaders identify poor communities and Community health Workers are help to identify sick people unable to go to hospitals for lack of money. Mobile Clinic brings quality medical care to them free of charge, and connects them to nearby hospitals for long term follow-up under the supervision of Community Health Cares. Train Them 2 Fish pays the bill to those partners hospitals through CHWs, who also receive a small stipend to motivate them. CHW also provide health education in Communities. The Long Term vision is to provide financial autonomy to community health workers and upgrade their skills, enabling them to provide first aid including, rapid malaria screening in communities; Build and equip Community Health care site in every Health Zone under the supervision of a medical team and community health workers; Build a Poly Clinic where health care will be accessible and available to low income people; Use mobile clinic and medical boats, and run a pharmacy for self-sustainability | My solution is unique because it is using the community approach bringing quality health care and qualified doctors to poor people in communities. Health care is made available and accessible to the underprivileged. Other existing approach are centralized in health institutions but we reach communities where they are and then bring them to health institutions and we go beyond health care by helping our patients to become self-reliable financially, and to help them from starvation. We reach people where they are. We provide health care, connect them to health institutions, win their confidence, assess the needs in their communities, including teaching them financial education, vocational tand agriculture training. Train Them 2 Fish believe medication without good diet, or food security means poisoning people. The Mobile Clinic project of Train Them 2 Fish is a package promoting the well being and self-sustainable change in poor communities. | From one city (Bukavu) to the capital city Kinshasa and also the providence of Bas-Uéle; In 2012, 3,000 to more than 40,000 patients were taken care off. in 2019; from 22% to 26% of the population attended health care at Kikimi health Zone in Kinshasa, We measure our progress by those figures and the approval of the Ministry of Health, who have partnered with us and have provided 3 Government owned mobile units/vans to be used by Train Them 2 Fish. The Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Social affairs, and the ministry of Plan for D R Congo, investigated and assessed our practices and services and have been appreciative of our performance and contribution in order to reduce mortality and morbidity in different communities we have reached so far. | The Goal of Train Them 2 Fish is to be the best organization providing mobile clinic packages to all 35 health Zones of Kinshasa and to cover every single health Zone in D R C; Our dream is to train and equip more than 1,000 Community Health Workers by 2023, and more in the future; to reach out and change the accessibility of health care in DRC from 30% to 70% by 2030, and to provide free health care to 30,000 people ever year. We aim to duplicate this approach, and bring it to Congo Brazzaville, Central Africa Republic and Gabon. | Community Health Care, and medical professionals, social workers, Psychologists and Community Development Agents (Human resource) are urgently needed, including medication, well equipped mobile units, and a medical boat. Medium-term needs include a well equipped Poly-Clinic in Kinshasa, which should be available and accessible to all. And the Long term needs including more human resources, and materials mentioned above to duplicate and expand the Train Them 2 Fish innovation model, That would be used in the regions and countries mentioned above. | Opération""SANTÉ YA OFELE"" initiative de l'Asbl train them two ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLs2uxl7cso | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi-xflzzpyE Action Santé Ofele 2018 à Kinshasa avec Pasteur ONGASA | No award win so far. 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666 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Muhammad | Hussain | University of Agriculture Faisalabad | http://www.uaf.edu.pk/ | PhD scholar | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | With increase in environmental issues globally like global warming, green house effects, plastic pollution and special emphasis on climate change, its becoming an increasing trend for environment protection and awareness. We are group of PhD Research team that are providing guidance and awareness among the people so that every single person can play his role to sustain clean environment and better future for the coming generations. We have striving for improving quality index of life of people while keeping environment priorities on top of list. We have a vision for pure and protected environment for the upcoming generations. Project pure is a non-governmental and non-profit organization of research scholars that comprises of different environmental experts. Environmental microbiologist, climate change expert, environmental chemist, geochemist, carbon sequestration expert, soil health and plant nutritionist are among our working body. | Project pure is Pakistan unity for rescuing environment organization. It is non profit organization for providing sustainable environment by protecting and promoting the environment. Its consist on PhD scholars with different backgrounds. | Project pure. Pakistan unity for rescuing environment | To protect, pure and promote the environment. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Pakistan | Yes | University of Agriculture faisalabad. And punjab education department. Environmental protection department. | Proof of Concept | Pakistan and world affecting by climate change and the peoples in developing countries like Pakistan event don't know about how human activities changing earth environment. So it's an innovative work to aware them. | Deforestation Water scarcity. Public awareness. Sustainable development goals. Educational reforms. | Each positive step by peoples will save the life on the earth of others. Trees plantations and other all inputs by our team will be being implemented at na national level. | First all members are research scholars. They are knowing daily innovations and scientific work on the environment and climate change this is self funded and non profit. | Our team visited big number of cities people's are joining us daily basis. Its not our success its society success. | We need international platforms to need mentors for our work. We want to expand our work. We are planing infrastructure at different cities. | We need mentorship. Financial assistance. | Face book page Projectpure007 We have published some material in international journals about our work. | All things are available on Facebook. | University award. Society building award. Invitation by future leader Congress Thailand and Asia Leadership Program manila Philippines Forum. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
667 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Aimee | Ansari | Translators without Borders | https://translatorswithoutborders.org/ | Executive Director | Female | Greece | United States of America | English | In 2015, TWB developed the first crisis response translation network for the Nepal earthquake. It’s been deployed in over 20 humanitarian crises since. In 2015, TWB and Microsoft developed their first commercial grade MT in Swahili. We learned that corporations were not going to maintain the systems and that by allowing them to build the MT, we could not improve it ourselves. In 2016, TWB’s language services team translated 1 million words; now managing over 20 million words per year. In 2017, TWB developed basic MT for Kurdish languages for use in Greece. We learned that the user interface was important for responders and that off-line and voice capabilities were critical. Voice TM (2017-18): TWB launched its award winning voice-translation memory system. Language technology is moving quickly. But it is rarely put to work to help marginalized people; people who speak languages that Google and Microsoft aren’t interested in, will fall further behind in their ability to get information. In 2018, we started Gamayun, the language equality initiative. We work with technology corporations, linguists, content creators, non-profit organizations and donors to develop the data to build engines so that the most marginalized will be able to get the information they need and want, when they need it and want it, in a language and format they understand. We are applying to the UN Solutions Summit to increase awareness on language and get support to advance Gamayun and our mission. | Aimee Ansari was appointed Translators without Borders’ (TWB) first Executive Director in 2016. TWB had a team of three full-time staff members at the time. Three years later, TWB has over 70 staff members and annual turnover has increased by almost 1000%. A natural “disrupter,” Aimee saw the potential use cases for TWB’s innovations, hired an excellent team and put new thinking to work for the most marginalized. Aimee has over 20 years of experience in leadership positions in large humanitarian and development organizations. She led UN programs in Kyrgyzstan, Yemen, and Bangladesh, focusing on economic empowerment and microfinance. She has also worked in humanitarian crises from the Tajik civil war to the earthquake in Haiti, the conflicts in the Balkans to the Syrian refugee crisis and the conflict in South Sudan. Aimee has worked with Care, Oxfam, Save the Children and the United Nations. | Gamayun | The language equality initiative | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Gamayun is intended to support marginalized people worldwide. Initially, Gamayun will focus on Swahili, Hausa, Tigrinya, Levantine Arabic, and Bangla, in addition to the languages in which we currently have work in Bangladesh, Nigeria, Kenya, and the DRC | Yes | Microsoft, Cisco, the American Red Cross, Mercy Corps, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) and International Rescue Committee (IRC) | Proof of Concept | In 2018, we piloted Gamayun by building a machine translation model in Levantine Arabic for the World Food Programme. The goal was to understand the concerns shared in their language by Syrian refugees. Translation was 39% faster and performance improved by 4-10.7% in understanding, grammar and terminology accuracy. This year, we will lay the foundation to build and test a scalable model. Our ambition is to replicate this model for many more languages not available in machine translation today | Over 75% of the world's 781 million illiterate adults are in South Asia, West Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Women represent two-thirds of illiterate adults globally. With voice recognition, the information needed to help lift them out of poverty, get educated and understand healthcare information is so close. But that information is not in their language. The language technology (voice recognition and machine translation) exists. But it’s not being developed for the most marginalized. | Our aim is to radically change two-way communications for the most vulnerable by scaling machine translation for marginalized languages to unlock the voice of millions currently unheard. To start, TWB and its translator and editor community are creating a basic content set (in text and voice) that will be used as the foundation. From this core, additional content sets may be added based on local needs – health care for a specific disease, for example, or vocabulary for refugees resettling in a new country. This source content will be translated into targeted languages to continuously build parallel datasets. These datasets will be used in training machine translation engines and automatic speech recognition (ASR) tools. The next step is to work with technologists to ensure MT engines for humanitarian purposes are developed and made available. TWB will guide the process of developing fit-for-purpose engines for specific integrations, as well as encouraging broader development of more ‘off the shelf’ engines for marginalized languages. | Gamayun is uniquely positioned to have immense impact on the wellbeing of the most vulnerable communities because: Gamayun is not a standalone isolated initiative. It is a language platform that will support all international development and humanitarian initiatives to better communicate with the people at the core of their work. Whether in health, education, crisis relief or economic empowerment, speaking in a language people understand is key to building trust, real understanding, and learning. Gamayun will be built by Translators without Borders, the only global non-profit organization to focus on marginalized languages and technology. We dedicate all our efforts to ensure information that matters to people is shared with them in the language and format they understand. We have ten years of growing experience. We work with a community of 28,000 translators in 200 languages in more than 100 countries. We partner with 125 non-profit organizations in international development and humanitarian aid across the world. We have the support of 50 companies from the language and localization industry as well as from tech companies. | In 2018, TWB began putting the framework of Gamayun in place, interviewing potential partners for use cases, securing interest and advice from technologists, and beginning the first small-scale project. This year, we will take the next critical step: creating a replicable model that can scale in years 2-5, while also continuing to build evidence in order to ensure sustainability. TWB hired a program manager and computational linguist to lead the initiative, and language leads for 5 marginalized languages; the Gamayun Core Corpus has been developed. Two partners, the HHI and the Travis Foundation have been secured to provide data (audio and text) to build MT models in Kurmanji and Tigrinya respectively. As these engines are developed, they must be tested for accuracy, quality, and level of efficiency within various applications. TWB will focus on efficiency and utility. In terms of efficiency, we will evaluate whether the use of MT allows for more translation into the key language, testing both experienced translators and ‘amateur’ community members, and looking at speed and quality i.e. fluency and accuracy. In terms of utility, we will review whether it improves the ability to communicate in two use cases. The first will be Levantine Arabic, looking at MT’s ability to integrate user generated content from Syria into protection monitoring (with IRC). The second is to be determined. The standard metrics for developing MT will also be used, namely BLEU, TER and ChrF3. | Given the iterative nature of Gamayun’s innovation approach, TWB will advance in “next stages” to ensure sustainability and on-going quality improvements. Each step takes into account the need for agility. Over the next five years, TWB will build voice and text automated translation systems for at least 10 languages that technology companies don’t serve although they’re spoken by over 500 million people. There are five essential phases to Gamayun: Phase 1: Create replicable model - Define the Gamayun core corpus - Develop tools and anonymize content to ensure data protection - Translate and record the corpus - Upgrade TWB’s current platforms, particularly for voice capabilities - Develop key indicators and monitoring and evaluation system - Set up initial tools for language technology framework Phase 2: Retraining and adapting the system; foundation for sustainability - Optimize workflows - Evaluate first year to ensure that the content is right, right system, adjust - Launch the first 2 MT engines - Develop business model Phase 3: Expand and build sustainability -Market analysis for MT and MT integration -Launch next 3 languages; continuous adaptation of 3 original engines -Review of progress, evaluation Phase 4: analysis, findings - Analyze scale strategy - Make the engines available to other non-profit partners Publication of findings - Outreach and development Phase 5: move to scale - - at least another 5 languages | Funding is most needed to develop Gamayun to transition it to scale. Developing and maintaining the voice and text data require the largest resources: Tech & Language staff Developing and maintaining data This includes the upgrading of TWB’s systems, dataset translation and recording, developing the MT engines, data collecting and hosting infrastructure for text and voice and the development of the speech synthesis engine. The next largest resources are the field testing. This includes support to our partner organizations for integrating and field testing the MT. Other resources needed include management, legal support, evaluation, workshops, meetings, in addition to communications and advocacy work. | In The Economist - Nov 15, 2018 - How language problems bedevil the response to crises https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/11/15/how-language-problems-bedevil-the-response-to-crises In The Lancet - May 2019 - Editorial: The true meaning of leaving no one behind https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(19)30176-7/fulltext In NewsDeeply - April 1, 2019 - How Rohingya Refugee Children Are Torn Between Languages https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2019/04/01/how-rohingya-refugee-children-are-torn-between-languages In Devex - March 27, 2019 - 'Chanjo'? Ebola warnings puzzle communities in Goma https://www.devex.com/news/chanjo-ebola-warnings-puzzle-communities-in-goma-94538 DeLuca, E., Kemp, E. (2018). The words between us: How well do enumerators understand the terminology used in humanitarian surveys. Translators without Borders. https://translatorswithoutborders.org/the-words-between-us-how-well-do-enumerators-understand-the-terminology-used-in-humanitarian-surveys/ Forthcoming: IBM J. Res. & Dev.; Kreutzer et al. (2019). Improving Humanitarian Needs Assessments through Natural Language Processing https://www.dropbox.com/s/yuogx55s0qui2st/IBM_NLP_v18_noTC.docx?dl=0 Bansal et al (2018). Low-Resource Speech-to-Text Translation https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/Interspeech_2018/pdfs/1326.pdf https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/D18-1103 https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N18-1032 https://aclweb.org/anthology/D16-1163 | How to change the world through language whilst sitting on your sofa | Aimee Ansari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYcYVVNe_O4 2016 ATC Summit Keynote | Aimee Ansari https://albionlanguages.com/the-view-from-the-atc-language-summit-2016/ 2019 LocWorld Pre-Keynote | Aimee Ansari https://locworld.com/speakers/aimee-ansari/ NAFSA 2019 Conference & Expo: When Disaster Strikes: How We Can Help Using Language and Communications Technology | Aimee Ansari https://www.nafsa.org/conferences/nafsa-2019/spotlight-presenters | UNHCR innovation award, honorable mention, 2018 https://www.unhcr.org/innovation/innovation-awards/ TAUS game changer innovator award, winner, 2018 https://blog.taus.net/iconic-translation-machines-and-translators-without-borders-win-taus-game-changer-innovation-contest-awards-2018 LocWorld process innovation challenge award, finalist, 2019 https://pic.locworld.com/giulia-tarditi-wins-the-6th-process-innovation-challenge/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
668 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | CHIKONDI | MPHAMBA | University of Malawi-The Polytechnic | Under costruction | LECTURER | FEMALE | Malawi | Malawi | English | Despite of my current position as a lecturer (which involves teaching, research and consultancy) at one of colleges of University of Malawi – the Polytechnic, i am so passionate about poverty reduction through women and girls empowerment. During my free time i work as a volunteer at open arms orphanage (where I teach and feed the kids), conduct mentorship programme in secondary school and I sponsor young girls in secondary school using my income. Because of my efforts in poverty reduction through women and girls empowerment, i was selected under Young Africa Leadership initiative (YALI) to be trained in Civil Leadership where i learned how to write proposal, how to establish and operate a civil society organisation in order to achieve a set goal through advocacy, transparency, and authentic leadership. I strongly believe that am the best candidate for UN Solution Summit Programme because of my involvement in social and economic development activities which are very instrumental in the development of the community/national/world. I hope to bring first-hand experience on challenges young women face to get education in Malawi (a representative of developing country) and some community best practices to curb school dropout because of early marriages, which will be vital information for SDGs. | I write to apply for UN Solution Summit. I am a female social scientist aged twenty-nine, working as a lecturer at University of Malawi, The polytechnic where i also holds a position of deputy head of Land Surveying and Physical Planning department. I hold a Master’s Degree in Engineering Surveying and Geodesy and a Bachelor’s Degree in Land Surveying from the University of Nottingham and University of Malawi respectively. Because of my passion on girls education, I started to fund less privilege girls to attaint secondary school education knowing that “when you educate a woman, you educate the community/nation/world”. One of my success story; the first beneficiary of the fund got selected to one of the constitute college of the University of Malawi, the Polytechnic to pursue Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration. In two years’ time I plan to establish a foundation, where I would like to continue sending more girls to school and equipping both women and men with business skills and giving them a start-up capital based on their commitment to change their financial status. | JANE MPHAMBA FOUNDATION | Provisional of education to girls or women in oder to eradicate poverty and empowerment (Financial independent) | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Malawi | No | Research & Development | Research and Development: enrolled the project with an aim of getting feedback on how best to deal with the problem of low transition rate of girls from primary to secondary school. Even though its on research and development stage, we are able to get positive feedback with our initial strategies. | Educated and skilled population will help Malawi and even other developing countries be on the pathway to achieving accelerated economic growth and SDG's. To achieve this Malawi needs to improve the transition rate of population from primary to secondary and from secondary to tertiary level, which is at 16% and 8% respectively and girls have the lowest percent compared to boys. Hence the introduction of my foundation to contribute towards achieving SDG's | Its based on paying school fees to potential and less previlage secondary schools girls. Encouraging the girls with their education and career talks, sometimes it involves the parents or guardian of the girls based on any other issues affecting the girl child education, for example issues of early marriages. For the global impact, other countries can emulate the strategies used in Malawi to send girl child to school and even improve from what is working for our country. | Provisional of fees and mentorship programme to improve girls education approach has been there for the pass years, but this time around we are working together with the teachers and parents of the students to encourage them to allow the girl child the opportunity to be educated. Mostly in Malawi, the mentorship and fees funding are available to urban schools, but this project is implemented in the rural areas because 81% of Malawi population lives in rural areas | I have volunteers whom together we work tireless to make use that we reach out to the common girl in Malawi. So far I have 4 girls am supporting with my own income and four mentorship programme in different rural schools. Its hard to measure progress now because the project its in the early stages, but will be able to define progress after some years based on the school drop out statistics and transition rate from primary to secondary and secondary to tertiary level in the area of our operational. | As of now am concentrating on Malawi, hoping to expand to other countries through partnership with Non Government Organisation which can emulate our strategies. | Short-term: Money to go to different schools, apart from paying school fees, provide incentives to best and improving students to encourage them, more volunteer Medium-term: To become fully operational in Malawi through registration, have a website where it can be easy for other partners to identify the foundation, Increase number of funding beneficially, having mentorship programme in more remote areas Long-term: Have our own structures for operational and other branches in remote area to be easily accessed, adverts in newspapers on scholarship, inclusion of business and entrepreneurship workshop, having computer laboratory where students can learn how to use the computer and learn other programming languages at an early stage during school holidays. | No website, I just have photos | No website; still work in progress | I was selected under Young Africa Leadership Initiative (YALI) to be trained on Civil Leadership because of my initiative to improve girls education. I was seleted again under Global South Academic Network Scholarship to participate in Social Science Data Analysis, to improve my research analysis knowledge knowing that my work will at some point require use of data or statistics to implement other decisons. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
669 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Hloniphani | Dube | Oupost VR | www.outpostvr.com | Computational Physicist | Male | South Africa | South Africa | English | I believe with the right tools communities anywhere in the world can climb out of poverty. What is needed is a deliberate and consistent effort whose purpose will be to eliminate the conditions and culture that keeps communities locked in poverty. In the era of big data, I believe machine learning can be integrated to solutions to pinpoint some of the problems areas which would have been difficult to do if data was analysed using old methods. Application of machine learning to geospatial analysis and GIS gives governments real time insights into where resources are most needed. | I have worked in research and industry in applied sciences since 1995 and was part of the Analytical andEnvironmental Sciences group that investigated and confirmed pollution. We developed and optimized analytical methods for specific trace metal analysis. I then joined the Cardiovascular Pathophysiology & Genomics Research group in June 2001. We looked at the link between cardiovascular diseases and genetics in people of African Ancestry. I genotyped and optimised methods for genes of interest. I also extracted DNA from blood samples, modelled the link between particular genes and cardiovascular diseases in people of African Ancestry and was part of a team that did modelling and remodeling of heart characteristics under different stresses in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR). I worked in the School of Pharmacology at Wits where we analyzed plant extracts from plants used by traditional healers for active healing ingredients using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Gas Chromatography (GC). I then joined the Experimental Group at the School of Physics at Unisa in 2015 as a Post Graduate Researcher . My research focuses on using upconversion nanophosphors to cool materials. It is primarily aimed at cooling quantum devices with particular interest on quantum computers. I have joined Outpost VR as a Computational Physicist. I am tasked with using quantitative expertise, computational physics knowledge and machine learning to identify opportunities in which Outpost VR can position itself as a leading player in data science. | Application of AI to governance and service delivery | The machines will help you | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | South Africa , Zimbabwe | Yes | Binary Labs, South African government | Proof of Concept | We started recently and we believe in 3 months time, we'll have a working solution. We exhibiting at Govtech 2019 a South African government initiative whose goal is to apply new technologies to sustainable development. The solutions we are providing can be applied anywhere in the world. | We propose using machine learning to geospatial and health data to help governments departments optimise service. Geospatial Analysis is used to monitor deforestation, water levels and animal movements. We have have used open source geospatial data for analysis and we are working at applying machine learning to geospatial data analysis and combining that with health data. This will automate insights gained from analysis and speed up decision making. | The solution makes use of machine learning to geospatial data and health data. The idea is to have model train a computer how to analyse and another to train a computer no NLP and then combine the two to gain insights from the data. | From my knowledge, there are not many solutions that used a hybrid network of CNN models and RNN models to address optimisation of services delivery. The solution applies deep learning which according to Andrew Ng is a superpower that can be used for the good of humanity. | We trained CNN for object detection and segmentation as well as LSTMs for NLP separately but not both of them for one solution. We have a working architecture ready but are not finished with the training. We also need more data to train and validate created models. | 31 August: Working models ready 30 September: Production model ready 31 October: Model in production and ready to use | Data is the most important resource we need for our machine learning models. Second to data is compute resources. Gaming laptops and cloud credits. For impact we'd want our models to be deployed in the cloud to be accessible to anybody who can make use of them. | www.outpostvr.com www.github.com/hloniphanidube | https://www.linkedin.com/in/limukani-hadebe-12554133/detail/recent-activity/posts/ | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
670 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John Peter | Archer | Gather | www.gatherhub.org | Cofounder and Partnerships Director | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | We turn data into toilets to change lives. A significant part of our work is demystifying the role that data can play to achieve the sustainable development goals. We would love to participate in the UN Solutions Summit and champion the progress of our project partners, share our plans for creating new geospatial insight that leads to action and invite opportunities to work together. A significant part of our success story has been collaborating with others from inside and outside of the sanitation sector. We would use our presentation at UN Solutions Summit to champion collaboration as a driver of turning innovative ideas into action. Collaboration has been a core value for us since we first launched Gather in 2016. In the last year alone, we have worked with over ten organisations and 40 individuals to use explore how we can use data to end the urban sanitation crisis. | I am passionate about data-led system transformation that shifts the needle on our generation’s greatest challenges. I currently focus on urban sanitation because toilets change everything. I cofounded Gather in 2016 to help the urban sanitation sector use interactive maps that tell them who should build what where in areas of greatest need. I have helped build an award-winning team of visionaries, and am most proud of the diverse partnerships that we have created to bring people and data together to help some of the most disadvantaged people across the world. | Gather: | Turning data into toilets to change lives | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Madagascar | Yes | Loowatt, Municipality of Antananarivo, and Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor | Proof of Concept | In October 2019 we are set to launch our first Sanitation Data Hub in Antananarivo (to insight from sanitation and contextual non-sanitation data into action that changes lives) and the Sanitation Data Commission (to create a data standard so that organisations can share sanitation data and know who is providing what service where for who). | 2.5 billion people live in cities without access to a safe, working toilet and this leads to fecal contamination of water sources. 50% of hospital beds in the Global South are occupied by people with preventable diarrheal diseases. Sanitation organisation rarely record the location, type of toilet or the amount of waste the same way. As a result, data cannot be shared and municipalities cannot make informed investment decisions on where to improve access to sanitation and public health. | Gather's award-winning Centre for Sanitation Analytics has pioneered how to take location data and turn it into sanitation insight. The Centre’s analysis helps decision-makers to better understand the sanitation crisis and act to tackle it more effectively. We do this in two ways. Our Sanitation Data Hub in Antananarivo, Madagascar is transforming how municipal, utility, private and non-profit sanitation organisations collect and share data. The Hub’s online, geospatial dashboard will improve accountability for investment decisions to expand local sanitation services and enable coordinated, collaborative action to improve local public health. Our goal is to help the municipality to reduce cholera and diarrhoea for 350,000 people before scaling to improve sanitation across the city and launching similar Hubs in Zambia, Ghana and Kenya. Our Sanitation Data Commission is creating the first global data standard for the location of toilets, volume of waste and transportation of waste for treatment. The adoption of this data standard will allow organisations ranging from local municipalities and sanitation providers to the World Bank and Gates Foundation to share data for the first time and create accurate, actionable baselines in any city across the world. This will hold the global community to account for achieving the global Sustainable Development Goal for sanitation. | We consulted extensively as part of the design process for the Sanitation Data Hub and Sanitation Data Commission to ensure that there no other similar initiatives happening within or between the government, private or non-profit organisations. No organisation has created a global standard for urban sanitation data, nor proposed a methodology for cross-sector data collaboration at the municipal level. Our work builds on lessons learned by similar initiatives for water data. The Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) has established international definitions for the provision of water and sanitation services, and the Water Point Data Exchange (WPDx) has created a global standard for the collection, sharing and use of rural water point data. Several fantastic tools for data collection exist. One tool, mWater currently lists a data standard for water points in its library. We have asked them to list our data standard for urban sanitation so that mWater users can easily adhere to it. | Gather has recently launched a unique partnership in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. For the first time, we have brought together the municipal government, utility company, private and non-profit sanitation providers. We will be working with our local partners to transform how they standardise, collect, manage, share and analyse data; enabling them to collaborate, build data capacity and share best practice. We have previously trained young people to map household sanitation for 180,000 people in Nairobi in Kenya; launched a demo of an online global platform for data sharing; and hosted the world’s first data dive for urban sanitation, which assessed on sanitation services for 370,000 people in Lusaka, Zambia. Our work is scrutinised by a panel expert advisors including specialists from Google, UNICEF and Restless Development. We also frequently publish our findings at conferences for sector-wide peer review. work was been presented and published at events hosted by Columbia University in New York, the Royal Society of Medicine, the University of Loughborough and the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina. | June 2020: - Launch of geospatial visualisation for 350,000 in Antananrivo including model of using contextual non-sanitation data to help identify where sanitation services are needed the most. Active use by three local organisatios. - Launch of initial data standard with endorsement from two global networks, international monitoring body and one major funder December 2021 - Geospatial tool for entire city of Antananarivo, population 2 million. - Data standard for entire sanitation value chain with annual increase in year-on-year adoption of standard and percentage adherence to the standard. 2022 - Replication of geospatial work into three other emerging cities with target population of 5 million. | Short-term: - Success in creating a geospatial dashboard for Antananarivo - The endorsement of our data standard by key early adopters. Medium-term: - Continued adherence to our data standard; - Platform to share findings across the sector; - Route to financial sustainability. Our funding model currently philanthropic giving with grant funding. In the future, we want to become the global benchmark for all sanitation investments in emerging cities. Long-term: - Playbook for replicating lessons and success in Antananarivo into other emerging cities across the world. | https://www.gatherhub.org | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33-oFyt66sw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFPpf4qOhGk | Second prize winner: World Bank Ideas for Action to Implement Sustainable Development Goals, 2019 Winner: Forbes 30 social entrepreneuers under 30 in Europe, 2018 Finalist: Comic Relief TechforGood Award for Africa 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
671 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | David | Bell | SDG One | http://sdg1.net/ | Trustee | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | SDGs are facing an unresolved $2.5 Trillion annual funding gap since they were adopted in 2015. On its 4th anniversary the cumulative funding deficit will hit $10 Trillion. This is despite; a) SDGs offering impact investment opportunities worth at least $12 Trillion, &, b) the world being awash with money; estimated to be almost a quadrillion, & at least $50 trillion of which is sitting idle on sideline earning nothing or a negative yield. Available stats indicate that without a big push, we won't meet any of the SDG targets by 2030. President of the last UNGA stressed that ""time is running out for finding SDG financing solutions, and that urgent and bold actions are required."" UN Secretary General Guterres also expressed his concerns. ""We need to act urgently to drive progress."" SDG One, a non-profit acquired a novel influence-based crowdfunding tech (ZeroCash) that exclusively uses influence of staked assets to generate funds to fund projects without risking anything. Assets remain parked in investors secure account at all times. Implemented on a fast blockchain, it's highly scalable & only limited to the quantum of assets staked. So far in our experiments ZeroCash has delivered at least ≈20% APR. With the influence of 193 UN members, and ≈50 trillion idling away, ZeroCash can not only fund the SDGs but bring decent ROI to those investors. SDG1 team hopes participation in the UN Solutions Summit may bring us to the attention of UN members, SDG stakeholders & influencers. | In the last few years, I have been given opportunities to be involved in my passion. My passion revolves around helping the less fortunate have access to additional resources they normally would not have access to. With the technology we possess, resources can be spread in order to alleviate the current SDG Funding Gap of $2.5 trillion per year and ultimately provide assets to companies or individuals that are working so hard to do something to solve the SDGs. Websites: http://algoshare.net/ http://sdg1.net/ Please check my CV. Thanks | ZeroCash: Highly Scalable Influence-Based Solution For Mobilizing Idling Trillions To Crowdfund SDGs Risk Free | Making The Influence Of Idling Trillions Work For Funding SDGs | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | The solution operates in a decentralized ecosystem, and therefore global in nature. However, since the platform will be open sourced for adapting to regions and countries to cater to the diverse multi-trillion dollar SDG funding market. | Yes | The tech was invented by Blockchain OÜ (www.bc5.eu), R&D provided by Autonio (www.auton.io) & ZeroMile (www.zeromile.net), 100s of influencers/curators participate in a trial to fund Prosperist (www.prosperist.net) as first influence-funded project. | Transition to Scale | Discovery of ZeroCash was serendipitous in late 2017 while the inventor was remotely helping poor with small funds generated by using his influence only (no cash) on a blockchain. Realizing this could scale up to fund projects/startups by involving other influencers/curators, he built a prototype & filed a patent on this crowdfunding 4.0 tech. So far data collected shows ZeroCash can generate 19-44% APR risk-free on assets staked in secure investor wallets. See http://zerocash.net/pre-alpha.html | We are addressing the core SDG challenge that impacts all 17 goals - the multi-trillion funding gap. It's the mother of all SDG problems that's derailing the 2030 Agenda goals, making them impossible unless something ""urgent and bold"" is not done. SDG1 is deploying ZeroCash tech to mobilize the trillions idling in private sector to fund SDGs profitably & risk-free. ZeroCash generates funds merely by using the influence of assets while keeping them secure in owners' custody. A win-win for all. | ZeroCash is a radical new influence-based approach to crowdfund projects without funders actually ever having to give up control of their assets/cash. It monetizes the funder influence & uses it to generate new funds & use such funds to acquire stake in projects. Yes, acquiring something of value without actually parting with cash! It sounded impossible. So, before claiming anything, we put the concept to work. So far we have been able to show that monetized influence generated funds at varying rates, but never falling below 19% APR. Check: http://zerocash.net/pre-alpha.html ZeroCash generates self-executing smart contracts that are validated by blockchain's consensus engine, & as a new block is recorded & added to the permanent ledger, new funds are generated to reward the peers, who are either; 1) influencers who stake their assets(influence), or, 2) the block validators who validate (mine) the blocks, or, 3) the fundees who seek funding for projects. A significant proportion of new funds are assigned to a funding pool, which funders use to pledge support to fundee projects in lieu of fundee project equity. So essentially funders/influencers park their assets on the platform and still earn equity stakes in SDG projects. With trillions potentially available globally for staking, the ecosystem can expect a much higher return than we are currently seeing on a low volume platform. ZeroCash is highly scalable limited only by quantum of assets available for influence staking. | ZeroCash is radically different & unique from anything out there. It's next generation crowdfunding & a quantum leap from anything in the space. This is how it is summarized in a pending patent: ""This invention relates to a novel decentralized computer-enabled platform and system for incentivized and equitable sharing and monetization of influence amongst peers for raising funds for novel projects without anyone actually having to pay for it in monetary terms. More specifically it discloses a new generation of crowdfunding 4.0 platforms that do not involve or risk cash investments in any form of fiat currency or crytocurrency, but exclusively use influence of peers to fund projects. It is also a means of impact investing to plug the annual funding gap of trillions that's hampering United Nation's Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals (SDGs). Such impact investing exclusively uses the influence of SDG signatory countries, their nominees or sustainability stakeholders from private sector or a combination thereof to crowdfund global sustainability projects that include but not limited to UN's SDGs or China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)."" Since ZeroCash is not an incremental innovation comparing it with anything will be futile. Nevertheless the new methodology in a nutshell is: Decentralized blockchain powered platform that lets fundees post their projects, investors use their monetized influence to fund projects, & curators curate good projects on behalf of investors. | Zerocash inventor's first objective was to prove the concept as it was very difficult for anybody, let alone a seasoned economist to comprehend a concept that tends to defy the very laws of economics. Proof of concept was achieved early last year. The next target was to test the concept in real project funding setting on a small scale and collect data on range of returns on staked influence assets. Prosperist signed up to become the first project to use the ZeroCash method of fund raising. Hundreds of peers (both influencers & curators) joined the initiative and contributed to the valuable data we collected. The data consistently shows an ROI of 19–44% over one year period. All this was done on Steem blockchain on Steemit.com platform. The methodology allowed us to learn a few things about ZeroCash: 1. ZeroCash is impossible to acheive without a blockchain. 2. ZeroCash can only be enabled by blockchains that are at least 3rd gen & beyond with almost 0 transaction cost & high throughput. 3. ZeroCash uses only a tiny fraction of Steem capacity so it is highly scalable on a fast blockchain. A patent application was filed in 4th quarter of 2018, and development of standalone ZeroCash platform on blockchain has been initiated. The next version will continue to use Steem, but eventually it will be moved on a specially designed blockchain being developed by Blockchain 5.0 OÜ. In short if any of SDG stakeholders wish to use ZeroCash, a custom platform can readied in 6 months. | Our immediate goal is to complete our first client project (Prosperist) funded. A few more influencers joining the campaign will make it faster. A seed funding of $200,000 will muster enough influence to get it funded in 3-6 months. It will also help us launch a Beta within the next 6 months. Medium term goal is to attract a collaboration from at least one of the UN member countries & launch either country specific or region specific or global platform for funding SDGs. Also establish partnerships with fund mangers, investment bankers & brokers. The traction & funding will attract more global attention & more funding ($1-2 million Series A in 12-18 months) to move the platform to our own blockchain. Our longterm goal is very ambitious- to become primary mobilizer of trillions of dollars of capital lying idle globally offering them attractive terms to fund SDGs. See https://medium.com/@drfazal/influence-of-the-idling-trillions-61f173c1232c Currently all 17 SDGs are lagging behind due to deficient funding; The cumulative gap in funding has now escalated to $10 trillion. If SDG1 is able to cause a dent in the funding gap it will not only help to bring some of the SDGs back on track, but impact a large population, which looks impossible with the current state of affairs. Finally A civilization that lets TRILLIONS worth of influence idled away on the face of extreme hunger & poverty can have only one excuse for such indifference — IGNORANCE. ZeroCash takes that excuse away. | On one hand the ZeroCash technology is very unique with unusually large potential market size running in trillions of dollars, but on the other hand the business model largely depends on some very influential entities such as UN, its member countries, and other SDG stakeholders. Without support from these powerful players the solution can never reach a scale to have a desired impact on the masses. It is this realization that drives us to the pursuit of a place in UN's SDG Summit 2019 in New York on September 24-25, 2019. The attention, such an event can bring to ZeroCash and SDG1 is precious, and makes realization of our other medium and long term needs within reach. Considering that, at least arguably, SDG1 provides scientifically sound preliminary evidence that its technology can indeed offer attractive motivation to those in private sector who are hoarding trillions of dollars, some of them even at the expense of negative yield, it deserves to be heard at the SDG Summit 2019. Also considering that there is no other option on the horizon, competing or otherwise that addresses the serious problem of the funding gap, other than resigning to fate, SDG Summit audience deserves to know about SDG1. For all the above reasons SDG1 deserves a chance to present its technology before the decision makers from around the world, who can review the technology and perform their own due diligence to decide if SDG1 deserves to go to the next level. | SDG One and partner / collaborator websites: Solution Provider Site: http://sdg1.net/ Technology Site: http://zerocash.net/ ZeroCash Funding Site: http://zerocash.net/pre-alpha.html Development Partner Site: http://bc5.eu/ Trial Support Site: https://zeromile.net/ Fundee Project Site: http://prosperist.net/ Articles on ZeroCash & SDG: 1. https://medium.com/@drfazal/zerocash-a-radical-challenge-to-the-principles-of-economics-296641beb285 2. https://medium.com/@drfazal/blockchaining-the-world-out-of-poverty-959ea48d754b 3. https://medium.com/@drfazal/zerocash-how-in-the-world-is-that-possible-8d8914791d68 4. https://medium.com/@drfazal/influence-of-the-idling-trillions-61f173c1232c 5.https://medium.com/@drfazal/zeroloss-nano-financing-for-poverty-eradication-cd433ca43c54 | https://steemit.com/steemit/@sharonomics/prosperist-xviii-zerocash-talk-at-international-innovation-and-training-ecosystem-forum-xi-an-china David Bell ZeroCash Keynote Speaker,, International Innovation & Training Forum, Xi'an China | None so far | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
672 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Peter | Odwee | Stack Online Trade Show | www.stackonlinetradeshow.com | Research and Product Developer | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | French | Presenting an online platform with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) aspects is a motivation factor in the application to become part of the UN Solutions Summit. The growing list of corporate companies and environmental issues are large and complex. This requires urgent solution to counter the threats that are imposed to the environment. | Since the company started operation the team behind the company has positioned itself as an online exhibition platform, where customers could be driven to businesses that they could buy from directly. Our focus is on maintaining a vast selection of companies with ESG structures to protect the environment and contribute to the upholding of UN Sustainability goals. | ""Environmental Sustainability of Virtual Exposition"" | Virtual trade shows are greener and lowering environmental impact is an increasing important goal for many companies. | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Uganda | Yes | Corporate companies and the government. | Research & Development | To position as a company with ESG structures the company still requires product or service improvement of it's current offerings. Stakeholder orientation to sustainability issues and Public Relations(PR) needs to be aligned with that of public and private entities. | There is a growing demand for plastic usage across Uganda and the East African region at large by manufacturers. This has led to massive product package processing lines using plastic by Fast Consumer Goods Manufacturers (FCGMs). In a bid to protect the environment some of the corporate companies have incorporated ESG structures. However the challenge is to create a consistent awareness campaign about recycling projects. | Our solution will work by building an effective ecosystem for ESG corporate and community action to protect the environment from plastic disposal of waste. | Exhibition of company products and services online is unique in the e-commerce sector in the East African market. Our value proposition is to impact the value chain across all sectors in the economy. This by directing the buyers to the sellers to undertake any sort of transaction between the two parties involved. | The team has tremendously progressed in the development of the ""Environmental Sustainability of Virtual Exposition"". We use set milestones and benchmarks to measure our progress and the methodological rigor. | -To partner with FCGMs to create awareness about disposal and collection of plastic waste for recycling purposes. -To assist in setting up an ESG ecosystem and infrastructure in place. -To widen consumer and community access to ESG information and Sustainability Development Initiatives(SDIs). | -In a short term the project needs technical resources and skills to undertake the project at full capacity. Partnerships will also leverage the capabilities of the available skill sets and resources the company implies. Access to funds will also be a critical input in the medium-long-term needs of the project and the company. | https://stackonlinetradeshow.com/ this link highlights our teams progress to digitally profile companies. As the team undertakes Research and Product Development processes to fully ope rationalize ""Environmental Sustainability of Virtual Exposition"" ESG campaign. | https://stackonlinetradeshow.com/ | So far as a team we are still in the Research and product Development stage or processes. Hence, we haven't been engaged in any awards or competition. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
673 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Binayak | Acharya | THINKZONE | www.thinkzone.in | Founder and CEO | Male | India | India | English | The UN Solutions Summit will offer me ever continuing intellectual capital which I will be taking back to improve my enterprise. The Summit will help me get connected to fellow achievers and stakeholders who are striving to build a sustainable society. It will also provide me with a structured opportunity to be exposed to the challenges involved in scaling up social impact organizations. I will get great managerial insights from the deep knowledge of the unique challenges faced by people working on different areas of social development. I really want to a part of this platform where knowledge can be shared towards building a more inclusive eco-system for sustainable educational enterprises. Being a leader of a social start-up and striving continuously to make it successful, the program will give me a chance to meet with people who can support me in taking my enterprise to the next level. Apart from this the UN Solutions Summit will provide me with the appropriate exposure to reach out to a global audience who can recognize our positive work at the grassroots. We have already created tremendous positive social impact at ground and now want to take our work to the next level by being able to share our story with the world. | I am the Founder of the venture backed enterprise - ThinkZone. I am a Laureate Global Fellow, MassChallenge Alumnus and a CEMEX-TEC global social entrepreneur. I have worked with the World Bank as a Global Education Practice Consultant. I have also been associated with Unitus, a venture capital firm as a Startup Scout and with Larsen & Toubro as a Technology Developer. An alumnus of Xavier Institute of Management - India, I am passionate about inclusive development and have worked widely in BoP markets for several years. My background spans in the areas of Early Grade Education, Impact Investment, ICT4D, Public Policies, Education Technology & Skills Development I belong to Odisha, which unfortunately has one of the worst HDIs. My thinking of what I want to do in life have been affected from my firsthand experiences of the massive societal inequality happening around me. Despite receiving a decent educated, it used to hurt a lot for not being able to do utilize it effectively. Continuing with a plush corporate job would have been ideal but taking a life changing decision to work in the left-wing extremism affected areas on several pro-people initiatives gave me a wider perspective on the true meaning of ‘sustainable development’. ThinZone has been born from many heartfelt interactions I had with youth across left-wing extremism affected places, of how their fates could have been different had they received a good education early on! These real-time experiences showed me that education has the potential to change lives and the future of a country. | THINKZONE | Improving learning outcomes of children in underserved communities using a technology-enabled school-in-a-box approach | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | India | Yes | Gray Matters Capital, MassChallenge, UnLtd India, BPCL - Govt of India PSU, Department of MSME - Govt of Odisha, Villgro and DFID, Kolibri - Learning Equality, D-Prize, International Youth Foundation, GSBI, NSRCEL - IIM Bangalaore | Transition to Scale | ThinkZone has already provided ‘level-based’ quality early-childhood & primary level education for 4,000+ children at under $1.5/month per child & has simultaneously empowered 200+ women educators across remote villages of India. ThinkZone asset-light technology enabled working model helps us to implement programs at minimal costs. We currently implement programs directly & the overall action plan is to work via public and private organizational partnerships to multiply our impact rapidly. | In India, according to latest government statistics we have managed to enrol 97% children in schools. But leading non-profit Pratham has found out that over 40% of students drop out before the age of 12. Imagine being asked to read long paragraphs and tested on it without ever getting the chance to learn the alphabet; or having to solve mathematical equations, without knowing numbers. That is the struggle of over 25 million children in India everyday who suffer from serious learning crisis | Our award-winning social enterprise ThinkZone implements an affordable technology-enabled ‘School-in-a-box’ education-solution which is aimed to bridge the learning-gaps among children from underserved communities. We do this by empowering community educators, school teachers and public childcare workers to deliver quality early-childhood and primary grade education programs by following the Teaching-at-the-Right-Level approach (an MIT evidence-based pedagogy). Using offline technology, proprietary teaching activities, low cost learning resources and class management tools, trained educators deliver standardized level-based education programs to improve learning levels of children. This will be the very few times where a localized tech-based pedagogy is being built for first generations learners and for improving the skills of facilitators who come from a limited education background. ThinkZone is a social enterprise operating out of one of the poorest states of India (Odisha) and is building a community enhancement model that incorporates the mission of providing quality education via technology and using an integrated approach of empowering women to become changemakers in their communities. Technological enablement of education is inevitable. The overall goal is to replicate our work in the public system by training local childcare workers and community teachers to deliver effective early-grade education programs, thereby exponentially scaling our work at minimal costs. | Why Current Solutions Don’t Work: The existing education solutions present is of poor quality and following the age-based curriculum leading to children falling behind in their learning levels. The few good quality existing solutions present are not sustainable or scalable in the long run due to over emphasis on brick and mortar based learning. Need for a Disruptive Solution – THINKZONE: ThinkZone is creating a scalable model of technology and community interventions that can be adapted to the local context. Our working model has the following USPs which the current solutions don’t have: i.Quality Learning: Level-appropriate focussed on children’s learning outcomes and not on capex (buildings, benches, tables etc) ii.Affordable: Program-based and Technology-enabled, replacing the brick and mortar model iii.Accessible: Community-based approach leveraging the local talent(women) and knowledge iv.Scalable: Unit profitability ensures no disruption to education and fast expansion OTHER INNOVATIONS: I.Our innovative, asset light ‘school-in-a-box’ based model is readily implementable in difficult to reach areas where the necessity of quality education interventions is absolutely necessary II.As we all know that till date, the rural hinterlands in developing countries still lack reliable internet access. Our operational model, the major part of which includes offline technology will help instructors to implement quality and effective education programs | So far 4000+ children have received quality education, reporting a 50% average increase in learning levels. The impact of a students’ increase in their learning have been measured across 3 age-groups (2+ years, 3+ years and 4+ years) & 4 different skills of physical, language, memory & social for the Early Childhood Program. Similarly, for the Primary Grade Program, the learning levels have been measured across arithmetic & language skills, which have been divided into five levels (Grade 1 to 5). With 90% re-enrolments & 10 % dropout rates along with a coverage area of 300+ villages, we have an operational impact at a substantial level. Our programs have ensured a 50% increase in the students’ pass-out rates from entry level to the next. More than 80% of the children enrolled in the primary grade program over a period of one year have jumped two levels up from their existing learning level(Ex:- From Level 1 to Level 3 in maths and language). Similarly 90% of the children enrolled in the Early Childhood Program have developed 6 of the 7 required learning parameters over a period of one year under the 4 required skills (physical, language, memory and social & emotional). Our social impact metrics are: - % increase in the learning (reading & arithmetic) levels of children over the period of one year - Improvement in class attendance over the period of one year - % increase in the skillsets of educators - % children who have moved up from their existing learning level | ThinkZone is a social impact first organization. All the profits will be recouped back to improve our program operations along with scaling our programs in newer geographies. We have created an asset-light model with lean operations to make sure that the surplus capital is specifically used to work on pre-targeted strategic goals like grassroots training of trainers, content refinement and community outreach to multiply social impact. We have identified 3 key strategic goals which are essential for scaling our impact. These are: 1.B2B Collaborations and partnerships for program implementation (For reaching out to large number of beneficiaries at minimal costs 2.Product Enhancements (Technology & Content) 3.SMS-integrated community-based subscription model implementation (Additional Revenue Plans) The below road-map mentions the key milestones for scaling our social impact: Dec 2020: Enhancing the existing technology platform that would be relatively easy for educators with limited technology exposure to use(accessible technology) Mar 2021: Developing localized curriculum focusing on training educators on technical and non-technical skills. Developing advanced vernacular content for first generation learners Jul 2021: Improving learning outcomes for 20000 kids and increasing outreach to 2000 villages Nov 2021: Increasing community outreach using feature phones technology by directly engaging with 100k families regarding their wards' education goals | 1. Access to patient finance capital for working on our strategic goals 2. Access to potential partnership opportunities with large private organizations and public/government departments 3. Global marketing/branding support to showcase our work with a larger audience 4. Right mentoring opportunities to further refine our operational model | https://www.thebetterindia.com/177321/odisha-education-app-innovation-world-bank-india/ https://inc42.com/startups/putting-the-power-in-the-hands-of-women-how-thinkzone-is-empowering-women-children-with-a-digital-box/ https://yourstory.com/2019/03/world-bank-odisha-edtech-startup-bharat-thinkzone-oqvta8xonk https://thelogicalindian.com/my-social-responsibility/creating-women-changemakers/ https://www.edexlive.com/happening/2017/nov/09/zoning-in-binayak-acharya-is-providing-high-quality-early-childhood-education-support-to-rural-are-1551.html http://www.orissapost.com/skilling-needy-through-think-zone/ https://www.eletsonline.com/digitallearning/thinkzone-to-empower-300-women-micro-entrepreneurs-in-rural-odisha/ https://www.indianweb2.com/2019/02/21/odisha-based-thinkzone-raises-104k-from-gray-matters-capital-to-create-jobs-for-women-micro-entrepreneurs/ https://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/sectors/cuttack-based-social-enterprise-thinkzone-aims-to-empower-300-women-micro-entrepreneurs-in-rural-odisha http://www.bhubaneswarbuzz.com/updates/education/how-this-odisha-based-social-startup-is-%E2%80%8Baddressing-learning-crisis-in-villages-creating-women-micro-entrepreneurs https://techobserver.in/2019/02/21/cuttack-based-startup-thinkzone-raises-104000-from-impact-investor-gray-matters-capital/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgpRC29T-L8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhSWbmL1f4E&t=32s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIViymOZqGs&t=62s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzFWeyG2yYM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnTmhQgF6KE&t=15s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-X6fFBdJHY&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHVGrEk1DcM&t=11s | World Bank Youth Summit Winner - Social Enterprise selected among the top 0.5% workable solutions to end global poverty, Mass Challenge 2018 Global Winners-Selected among 10 of the world’s highest impact start-ups, Selected among 20 Laureate Global Fellows for the year 2017(International Youth Foundation), D-Prize 2017 Grant Winner for increasing access to proven poverty interventions, CEMEX-Tec 2018 Award Winner(Mexico) and selected among top 15 social enterprises across the world | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
674 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Spiwe | Chakawa | CHIEDZA CHILD CARE CENTRE | www.chiedza.org | Executive Director | Female | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | English | After attending the Shift7 presentation in Oxford in UK in April, I realised that I had a lot of experience in working with vulnerable communities who would benefit from the innovations or opportunities presented by various innovations including technological innovation. I have been working in the non- profit sector for 17 years and throughout my time, have realised that a lot of challenges can be solved if innovation is promotes. I am interested in participating in the selection committee to enrich the selection process through my understanding of social problems especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where innovation in the social development sector has been lagging. My experience include working with the elderly people, working with young persons in HIV, sexual reproduction and vocational training. I have also worked with orphaned and vulnerable children that are chronically ill, with disabilities, out of school, cared for by the elderly or poor parents. I have also worked with parents in trying to build economic resilience in addressing poverty at household level. In all this, the major struggle has been, how can we go beyond the normal to address these realities at community level. I am so much interested to be part of the innovation space from any angle. This will enrich my understanding and provide me with an opportunity to explore other ways of addressing the social challenges faced by people in their day to day lives. My experience as a former Advocacy Manger and now Executive director positions me adequately with the strategic, analytical and open mindedness required in the selection committee. I have a good understanding of English, sound analytical skills, and pay attention to detail which will be instrumental in reviewing the applications. I have adequate exposure to different environments and will be able to relate with most issues presented from different parts of the world. In my work experience I have visited USA, UK, and 10 African countries. I have been participating in high level meetings and making contributions such as the Continental Conference on Early Childhood Education in Africa which was held in Kenya in October 2018. I strongly feel I have adequate experience and skill to be able to handle the tasks required as a election committee member. | 37 Strachan Street, Ardbennie | not applicable | not applicable | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | not applicable | No | Sustainable Scale | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | not applicable | not applicablenot applicable | not applicable | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
675 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sebastian | Groh | ME SOLshare Ltd. | https://www.me-solshare.com/ | Managing Director | Male | Bangladesh | Germany | English | Spanish | SOLshare created a revolutionary new approach to bring affordable solar electricity to everyone in Bangladesh and beyond. At SOLshare we came up with a way for people turn their excess solar electricity into money with zero hassle. On top of that they can purchase more power on the go whenever they want, on the flipside they get to invest in more power generation and trade it off for a handsome return with minimal risk. This led us to install the world's first cyber-physical peer-to-peer (P2P) solar sharing grids, and this of all places in remote areas of Bangladesh. The innovation driver here was the acute energy poverty problem at the base of the pyramid. Leveraging a base of over 4.5 million solar home systems in Bangladesh, SOLshare, represents the AirBnB of the energy access world, has been developing the principle on how solar energy can be traded with the help of IoT devices. The rationale behind the SOLshare’s work was to create a bottom up change. The formation of microgrids has the potential to create real infrastructural change to the energy sector of Bangladesh while at the same time providing affordable energy to those without energy access. SOLshare’s product, the SOLbox which is the main point of connection within the peer-to-peer grids has created entrepreneurs from consumers and prosumers of solar energy. This innovative business model can ultimately create a larger uptake of renewables within Bangladesh and be applied globally to positively impact the future of energy. Rural villagers have been turned into prosumers sharing their (excess) power. This modular infrastructural approach allows grids to grow dynamically while ownership of, and the assets themselves are distributed. We believe that the solar smart peer to peer (P2P) grids we are building in Bangladesh will be the future for utilities globally. For this, the World Economic Forum announced us as a part of their 2018 cohort of the most innovative start-ups in the world. The promotion of clean renewable energy within off-grid rural areas has reduced and even removed the use of dirty nonrenewable sources of energy which many people relied on before having access to energy. This has in turn reduced carbon emissions as well as helping people reliant on dirty nonrenewable sources of energy have better health. | Throughout my career, I was exposed to a variety of innovative energy solutions & shortcomings. I was most amazed by the solar home system program in Bangladesh with its close to 5 million installations. It became clear to me that access to electricity is critical for a remote village, but it is the flexibility & profitability of energy usage that provides the key ingredient for innovation and change leading to sustainable development. Passionate to drive the 5D's, Decentralization, Decarbonization, Disruption, Democratization & Digitization, in 2013, I became a Stanford Ignite Fellow from Stanford's Graduate School of Business. I completed my PhD from Aalborg University (Denmark) and the Postgraduate School Microenergy Systems at the Technische Universität Berlin researching the role of energy in development processes. Over the past ten years I've published a book and multiple journal articles on the topic of decentralized electrification in the Global South. Since 2014, I have been working as the CEO and co-founder of ME SOLshare Ltd. along which I also an associate professor at BRAC University Business Scool. On behalf of SOLshare, I received the Intersolar Award for Outstanding Solar Businesses and the UN Momentum for Change Award, both in 2016, the 2017 Start-Up Energy Transition Award from DENA and the 2017 UNDESA Powering the Future We Want Energy Grant, along with Grameen Shakti. I was further selected into the SE100 2017, a list of the top 100 Social Enablers around the world. In 2018, I was featured in Ashoka 's Leading Social Entrepreneurs' list! | SOLbazaar | An energy trading platform that empowers users to make money from the sun while providing affordable access to clean energy for everyone. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | We are currently working in Bangladesh and India and will further branch out to South Africa in the future. | Yes | Grameen Shakti, Friendship and the Rural Development Academy; Char Development Research Centre | Transition to Scale | SOLshare currently has 25 micro-grids installed across Bangladesh and 2 installed in Assam, India. We are currently poised to scale up our solution across Bangladesh and India while we further develop our technology and our solution to provide a holistic approach allowing for the use of productive use appliances and billable Wi-Fi throughout our platforms. By the end of 2020 SOLshare will have 100 micro-grids installed across India an Bangladesh providing energy to over 10000 beneficiaries. | A billion people around the globe still have no access to electricity. SOLshare's energy trading platform provides affordable access to clean energy to the energy poor living in off-grid remote areas. Those unable to afford solar home systems, using nonrenewable polluting sources for energy such as kerosene, diesel and firewood are able to access clean energy through our platform. Users are empowered to be consumers, producers or prosumers trading the excess energy from their solar home systems. | The way SOLshare’s energy trading platform functions is with the help of several Internet of Things (IoT) devices which includes SOLshare's own Wi-Fi towers, SOLboxes and our back end (data center). The SOLbox (a bi-directional smart meter which allows buying and selling of energy), is the point of interconnection at every household within the SOLgrid. The data collected from the SOLbox (data on the amount and cost of electricity consumed) is sent to an ESP (Wi-Fi chip) which then sends the data to SOLshare’s backend through Wi-Fi towers set up within each SOLgrid. Firmware in the backend translates the data into a usable form which is then used to analyze and improve any performance issues. SOLshare's dedicated data team are constantly working to further improve user experience and minimize technical issues. Data collection and analysis is a big part of what SOLshare does to ensure that our users are happy with the results of the product. Our long term wish is to is to see a systemic change from our work. This includes further integration of more productive use appliances, an increase in women entrepreneurship and more alternative income generating activities. This has already begun on a small scale as well as increased resilience, more economic returns and improved livelihoods, all because of the SOLgrid. We believe our solution is the future of utilities globally. It will change the way we see and use energy. | What makes SOLshare stand out above all the rest is our product. Our energy trading platform is the key to the future of energy. This standalone platform is a viable product that has potential global applications. It could remove the need for power companies in the future and be the push towards renewable energy that is needed right now. It's can be a self sustaining environment and could do wonders in developed countries as well. We believe in creating change using a bottom up approach and thus we work with the energy poor. SOLshare's believes that its bottom up approach will sustain and ultimately increase the uptake of renewable energy throughout the country. Our work is directly in line with the sustainable development goals 7, 11 and 13. We are working to provide affordable access to clean energy, creating sustainable communities and doing climate action. We have helped our users switch from polluting means of energy to clean energy directly reducing carbon emissions. Meanwhile they are able to access a more reliable source of clean energy at a far more reasonable price than they were spending on unclean energy. | SOLshare already has a functioning solution which we are constantly working to make better. Our currently installed 27 grids are serving over 2500 beneficiaries. As we are a technology start up we measure our progress through our data. That is why our data solutions and analytics team have such an important job in analyzing all the data which comes in from the field. It allows us to make our targets and then work towards achieving them. | Goals for us include set targets that we must reach in terms or energy trading volume What we expect from our technology in terms of meeting our goals We have completed our pilot in India successfully and now intend on further expansion, in the future Africa is also on the horizon We are in the process of hiring more people and as the work load continues to increase so will the number of people By the end of next year we hope to impact over 10,000 people | The highest priority for us is creating a high quality sustainable energy platform with global applications. Our first step beyond Bangladesh was our pilot grids in India which have worked out well. Further data accumulation will inform of any additional improvements that will have to be made. Currently our focus is in rural off-grid areas working with energy poor communities. With time we would like to ensure that our grids can connect to the national grid and potentially feed energy back. This is something that we are also looking into. This will help us further accelerate our growth. short-term: more funding/grants/investments until we are at break-even medium-term: more investments in R&D and more people will need to be hired long-term: successfully implementable business and data plan that will lead the way for further expansion to new frontiers. | https://www.me-solshare.com/ https://www.me-solshare.com/me-solshare-won-the-1st-prize-for-empowering-people-network-award-2019/ https://www.me-solshare.com/the-3-stages-of-a-country-embracing-renewable-energy/ https://www.me-solshare.com/desa-powering-the-future-we-want-energy-grant-2017-for-solshare-in-partnership-with-grameen-shakti/ https://www.me-solshare.com/elsevier-and-the-international-solar-energy-society-announce-the-renewable-transformation-challenge-winner/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTnIGAHPh93AX69NpNbZfVw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvXxRwTlBe0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a60Maa1u2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=658S6mGt3cI&t=10s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kz0qI8QE6A&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgEL6P2galI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSBmYKJWFl8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KIqSB4fuAQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIiOdxepDaI&t=1s | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTnIGAHPh93AX69NpNbZfVw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvXxRwTlBe0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a60Maa1u2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=658S6mGt3cI&t=10s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kz0qI8QE6A&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgEL6P2galI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSBmYKJWFl8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KIqSB4fuAQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIiOdxepDaI&t=1s | Empowering People Award 2019 Clean Tech 100 list 2019 Free Electrons Accelerator Program 2018 Microsoft 2018 Airband Grant Fund 2018 GIZ-Endev Innovation Competition World Economic Forum Tech Cohort 2018 BASIS National ICT Awards 2018 Bangladesh 2018 MIT Inclusive Challenge Asia 2018 IKU Award (BDI) & (BMUB) 2017 UNDESA Powering The Future We Want Grant 2017 Renewable Transformation Challenge 2017 Start-Up Energy Transition Challenge 2016 UNFCCC Momentum for Change Award 2016 Intersolar Award | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
676 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Franz | Busse | Hala Systems | www.halasystems.com | Chief Science Officer | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Hala is a social enterprise founded to save civilian lives in conflict zones, to combat disinformation, and to bring accountability for war crimes. We are a technology company specialized in security and advanced analytics. Specifically, we use a combination of technologies -- machine learning, internet of things, mobile apps, cloud computing, advanced algorithms -- to create a system that warns civilians at risk of harm, so they can take life-saving action, as well as collect, preserve, and analyze data recordings of those threats and events, to better inform local and global stakeholders who can work towards long-term solutions with better information. We have already saved hundreds of lives, reduced trauma for hundreds of thousands, and supported UN and other INGO responses in Syria, and hope to use our technology innovations in other dangerous locations around the world. We want to present this solution to leaders throughout the world, so they know about our capability that can help build peaceful and inclusive societies. | Dr. Franz D. Busse is Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of Hala Systems, Inc. His primary expertise is system engineering—specifically in architecting, analyzing, and developing life-critical technology systems. Hala Systems is a for-profit social enterprise that develops technology to save civilian lives in war zones. Dr. Busse has been part of the conceptualization and development of a variety of life-saving technologies at Hala, including remote sensors, advanced algorithms, a cloud-based service-oriented information portal, communication networks, and mobile applications. Dr. Busse comes to Hala from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he worked over 14 years in a variety of technical and management roles for projects related to disaster response, mobile and web-based situational awareness tools, alternative energy, satellite systems, missile defense, border patrol, and radar systems. Notably, while at Lincoln, he helped establish the Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Response (HADR) Systems Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He also led development of PHINICS—a web and mobile-based situational awareness and collaboration tool for disaster responders. He was also a member of a Harvard-MIT team that responded to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. As personal interests, he writes fantasy novels, and enjoys sports and the outdoors. He lives in Holladay, UT, is happily married, and has five amazing children. | Sentry | Protect Everything That Matters | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Currently in Syria and Yemen; intended to be implemented in any country where civilians are at risk of danger--in other words, globally. | Yes | Syria Civil Defense, Sanaa Center | Transition to Scale | Hala has been operating in Syria for nearly 3 years. We have demonstrated the proof of concept, have saved hundreds of lives, and reached millions. This summer, we have started a pilot project in Yemen. We are now transitioning to scale; we are both improving the technology to make it more robust and scalable, as well as making connections to move into new regions. | Civilians suffer in conflicts. They are killed and injured by armed actors, forced to flee from homes and communities. Conflict disrupts markets and economies, leading to starvation and disease. Mistrust grows, environments suffer, and minorities face repression. Disinformation causes confusion and thwarts justice and accountability. Those who would help lack information about conditions, risks, and needs, limiting their effectiveness. These are the problems we will help solve. | Sentry can provides monitoring and alerting services with a system built on five steps: 1) gathering information from multiple sources, 2) preserving a hash of the information on a trusted ledger, 3) validating the incoming information and determining its trustworthiness, 4) processing the validated data to gain actionable insights about the situation, and 5) disseminating data and processed results across a variety of channels. Sentry was first applied to warning Syrian civilians of air raids. Observers use a mobile app to report aircraft launching from airbases or headed toward civilian areas. These observations are sent to Hala’s cloud-based server, where they are validated, and then used to predict where the aircraft is headed. Then Hala issues warnings, both over social media channels (where it has hundreds of thousands of subscribers), as well as by activating air raid sirens and warning lights. Finally, reports of air attacks in social media and from news sites are collected, and correlated with the aircraft observations. So far, Sentry has saved hundreds of lives, and its data has been used in several UN reports. The long-term vision is to adapt and grow the Sentry system to help protect civilians, empower first responders, provide situational awareness and decision support for global stakeholders, and combat disinformation in regions around the world of violence, fragility, or natural risk and especially where their own governments are failing to protect them. | Sentry uses three primary channels for collecting information: 1) remote, unattended wireless sensors; 2) mobile apps that are provided both to trusted observers as well as civilians at large to report relevant events, and 3) use artificial intelligence to find relevant reports in open sources, such as social media and new sites. This information is gathered and immediately preserved by saving a hash on a trusted ledger. It is then fused, and the trustworthiness validated through corroboration. Once validated, the information is analyzed and then disseminated through web portals, mobile apps, and written reports, so that both tactical users (such as warning civilians to take cover from imminent danger) as well as strategic users (such as informing policy makers or the UN of acts of violence against civilians). It is the fusion of the multiple types of information that makes Sentry unique and powerful. For example, a Facebook post about an airstrike may not be trusted, but when combined with a sensor detection of an explosion, it then becomes more Furthermore, the use of AI and the advanced algorithms for aggregation and validation are crucial innovations that turn raw data into actionable information that can save lives. Finally, the integration of an end-to-end with careful attention to the user experience, turns a technical curiosity into a tool that is relied upon daily by many local and global stakeholders. | We have three general dimensions that we measure progress: technology development, number of theaters, and impact in those theaters of operation. For technology development, we measure our progress based on the delivery of products and features, and how well those products meet acceptance criteria. We have already made tremendous progress, with a fully integrated end-to-end airstrike warning and reporting system. It includes multiple mobile apps for collecting observations, prototype sensors for testing, AI-based social media scraping tools, prototype preservation technology, Insight web portal, monitor web tools, several analytics packages, and automated report generators, and sirens and warning lights (with relays and solar kits) deployed in Syria. For theaters, we are deployed in Syria, reaching well over 2.3 million civilians, and reporting data to the UN and several NGO and government entities. We have completed an initial pilot project in Yemen as well. For impact, we measure our impact both in quantitative analysis of our outputs and reviews of casualty numbers, as well as formal and informal internal and 3rd party surveys of stakeholders. Within Syria we have made tremendous progress, including: by one 3rd party measure a 71% reduction in casualties where Sentry was actively used; 116,000 observations collected; evidence for war crimes for 80 airstrikes; 300 reports issued; $163 per DALY prevented, for just a sampling of some metrics we use. | Based on the three dimensions described in the previous question, here are the planned goals for the solution: 1.Technology Development a.Insight 2nd generation: Q4 2019 b.Field operational remote sensors: Q1 2020; deployed Q2 2020 c.Cognition cloud-based real-time AI framework (2nd generation): Q1 2020 d.Automated validation algorithm for social media: Q3 2020 2.Theatre expansion a.Full operations in Yemen Q4 2019 b.2 other theaters of operation Q4 2020 (possibilities: Libya, CAR, South Sudan, Ukraine) 3.Output and impact performance (within Syria by Q4 2020) a.Number of civilians reached (direct & indirect): 3M b.Number of facilities with warning systems: 100% increase in next year c.% airstrikes accurately warned: 90% d.% casualty reduction per attack (from baseline): 50% e.Quantitative indicators of usefulness to stakeholders: i.Subscribers to Insight (100% increase), ii.citations of work by UN and INGOs (year-over-year 100% increase) Qualitative reports of usefulness to stakeholders from formal and informal surveys of civilian population in theater, first responders, and global stakeholders (UN, NGO and government partners) | Hala has three on-going needs to scale and achieve its fullest impact. These are: 1) funding, 2) access, and 3) local partners. Ongoing funding is required for Hala to achieve its mission. Developing technology, acquiring and deploying equipment and software, operating and maintaining the system, supporting outreach and training, coordinating and collaborating with local partners, monitoring and evaluating performance…all of this requires funding. Our primary users are civilians suffering in war zones, who cannot pay for these services. Hala does receive funding from several governments interested in helping stability, but the need is always greater than we receive. We also need access to other conflict zones. We are well established in Syria, and are building relationships in Yemen. However, we need to have the right connections for authority to act in other conflict zones around the world. We seek to work with other INGOs, the UN, and governments who are trying to make positive impacts in areas where civilians are in danger. We need their assistance in gaining access to those regions. Finally, Hala’s model is to develop tools that empower local civilian organizations to build security in their own communities. Where ever Hala works, we always start with identifying local partners in the conflict area to work with, train, and build their capability. We need trustworthy, respected, local partners in conflict zones that we want to operate in. | https://www.halasystems.com -- Here you will also find links to videos articles, and other resources as well. https://www.halainsight.com -- This is for the web portal. | While I have an extensive and diverse experience in public speaking and interviews, in most cases they have not been recorded. Where they were recorded, those videos have not been publicly released. | Humanitarian Grand Challenge Transition-to-Scale Award Recipient (2019 - winner) 2017 Global Grand Challenge Award Recipient, 2017, Singularity University Global Summit Technology for Development (Tech4Dev) Challenge Winner, 2017, Global Innovation Week PeaceTech Accelerator Member, 2017, PeaceTech Lab Creative Destruction Lab Accelerator graduate, 2018, University of Toronto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
677 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Yassine | BENTALEB | CItizenUp | https://citizenup.co/ | Founder & Chief Humanity Officer | Male | Morocco | Morocco | Arabic | English | French | - Sharing Experiences and Learn from best practices - Media Exposure - Community Building and Engaemenet - Strategic Partnership (Foundation, Assoications, Media,..;) | Yassine is an Entrepreneur and Consultant, with a strong interest in Youth Empowerment, Civic Engagement and 4th Industrial Revolution. He holds a Master of Engineering in Information Systems. After his Master in 2010, he joined IBM for 5 years as a consultant in the MEA consulting by degrees program, before taking on role of Project Manager in IBM ITS team, then Sales leader with IBM STG Department. Yassine holds the IBM GTS Growth Market Unit General Manager Award due to his engagement, personal responsibility in all relationships and dedication to customer success, Between 2015-2016, Yassine Joined Enactus then Amideast as entrepreneurship Consultant and Program Manager to teach and coach hundreds of youth on entrepreneurship. Those experiences enabled him to sharpen his entrepreneurial and analytical skills and tailor his business acumen, which resulted in pivoting to open up for new opportunities. In April 2017, Yassine founded “Millennials Consulting”, which aims to provide integrated solutions for a Better Understanding, Integration and Impact of Millennials . In June 2018, Yassine founded “CitizenUp”, a an intelligent Platform that Engage Citizens & Organizations into social & societal actions based on their Interests & Availability. Yassine is a member of the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. He is currently founder of #TheMoroccanButterfly initiative a Digital Identity to empower & Inspire youth throughout small actions (Butterfly Effect) and Build Sustainable Projects with and for ihssan #إحسان (Excellence & Mastery). | CitizenUp | CItizenUpCitizenUp, an intelligent Platform that Engage Citizens & Organizations into social & societal actions, challenges and missions based on thei | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Morocco; | Yes | Impact Lab / MakeIT in Africa/ ZERO Hunger/ | Proof of Concept | - User discovery done (as part of the design thinling) - Prototype deployed and Tested - Traction - POC Deployed and tested | 30% of Moroccan Youth (15-24y) are NEETS (Non in Education, Employment Training) Citizens in Morocco spend 5% of their free time in volunyteering (Some citizens do not volunteer because of lack of trust and / or transparency, information, people) 87% of citizens choose products (same quality/price) that support a cause and 1 of 5 customers enalize or award of brand if suporting a cause Companies lack tools to have a reporting, communication and management tool for their Philanthropy/CSR programs | CitizenUp is an intelligent online platform that engages citizens and organisations by matching them with volunteering actions, challenges and missions, based on their interests and availability. The start-up aims to transform philanthropy, SDG and Corporate Social Responsibility action into SMART Social Impact – impact that is Showcased, Measured, Awarded, Reported and Tangible and Reported. CitizenUp takes a citizen-centric, community-based and impact-oriented approach to achieving this, allowing volunteers to help out at their own pace and to the best of their abilities and available capacity. Through gamification, the platform encourages people to be ‘Citizen Heroes’ – engaged volunteer citizens! | Social Platform for Impact Gamified Experience Volunteering based on interets and availability Pre-designed Actions Citizen Centric Solution | Prototye deployed and tested Q1'2019 Traction: Users: 200 volunteers Actions: 100 achieved/ongoing Partnerships: +4 Assocations Pilot/MVP Deployed: Q3'2019 Major KPIs: * Return On Engagement *Proof Of Impact *Volunteering hours *Volunteering Economic Value *Nb of Volunteers | Q3'2019: Countinue Community Building and Engagement Q4'2019:Mobile App deployment and CitizenUp launched publicly Starting 2020 : Geo Expansing in other countries | Strategic partnerships Funding (Solution deveopment and scaling) Human Ressources (IT, Communication,Community Engagement) Media Coverage and Exposure | https://citizenup.co/ https://make-it-initiative.org/africa/cpt_startup/citizenup/ https://www.worldsummitawards.org/person/yassine-bentaleb/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA6Apj7OQqk | - Winner of Arab Digital Innovation Forum 05/2019 (Beirut Lebanon) by World SUmmit Awards - Arab Youth Startups MarketPleace 05/2019 (Dubai, UAE) by Arab Youth Center - Finalist :Total Startupper of the year /2019 - FInalist: Inwi Days 2019 (1of8 African Startups) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
678 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | fanayajo | Oluwasegun | Cruitical | Cruitical.com | Product designer/Founder | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My motivation for applying for the UN solutions summit has to be the fact that I've got a solution that is a painkiller and a financial enabler. I've put all my sweat into validating this product and from potential users they really love the solution.i want to give the Nigerian youth a voice and hope even after they have been rejected. I want to use this opportunity to meet other link minded people from other parts of the world. Make vital partnerships that'll further help us achieve educational and decent work goals. Our goal is to build an Africa that has successively bridged the gap in the employment market by leveraging technology. I need this opportunity to learn and explore because i have never been out of the country. | My name is Fanayajo Oluwasegun Damilare, grew up in a small town in Lagos called Coker. I graduated from the university of Lagos where i studied civil and environmental engineering. My entrepreneurship journey started as a result of frustration. Frustrated that my government have failed to be accountable for the simplest and basic things that needed to be implemented especially in the educational sector. I have managed a business while in the university called Airand as in Errand, a delivery solution to help student businesses deliver their goods to their end consumers. My strongest trait has to be creative and critical thinking. | Cruitical | Cruitical is an automated platform that re-assesses qualifications of rejected job applicants and re-promotes them to a client base of organisations. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | We are currently launching in Nigeria by August 2019 and extending to the rest of Africa starting with Ghana, Rwanda and south Africa. | No | Proof of Concept | According to our primary metrics we've been able to acquire potential users who really love the solution we are bringing to the job market. Currently we are meeting up with potential users to gather data to help us build a product that gives them a swell user experience. We ask them questions using the Mom Test, that can also help us know how much to charge them and make product market fit. | Nigeria’s population is projected to double by the end of the 21st Century. Currently, more than half of the population area is below the age of 25. 47% are unemployed. Everyday 8 in 10 job applicants are rejected at interview phases. Imagine after spending to drive traffic of candidates to your company and after thorough interview you pick one, what happens to the rest? shouldn't something be done about them? This was what birthed Cruitical. | We are a tech consulting company and what we've done is sensitized HR's to refer these rejected candidates and also give us review why they rejected the candidates to us in exchange for commission (with the permission of these candidates). These candidates get an invite from us to come sign up courtesy the HR the referred them. These rejected candidates are then vetted and re-assessed on our automated platform, if after the vetting we find that these candidates need brushing they are connected to mentors and tutors from leading industries. Lastly, after brushing up we re-promote them to our client base of organisations. Our vision for global impact has to be | All we have in the market right now are job listing platforms, we discovered candidates related better to contents because we are cognizant of the fact that these people are humans and needed to be treated as such. We saw a market in the rejected candidates, normally after rejection they have to wait and wait for another job posting without lead and that''s where we come in. While waiting depressive thoughts can find their way in and can lead to suicidal thoughts because they feel worthless and the number of years spent in the university to get a degree only to graduate and can't secure a job which seems to be a waste of life for them. 1. It is a painkiller 2. It is simple to follow through 3. It drives value into the employment pipeline 4. It has secret sauce which leverages on technology 5. it is easy to monetize | We've just finished building the MVP which is going to launch this August 2019. What we've learnt from our potential users is that they really love the solution and can't wait for it to launch so that they start benefiting. From our interviews we've been able to iterate the features and build something just for them which is going to be easy and effective to use. 5-10 user engagement every week. | The goals is to amass 1m+ engagements and users for the next two years whose lives will be impacted. Enter into the personal development market by partnering with existing learning platforms to integrate their APIs with ours so we can refer rejected candidates to complementary courses to upskill them wherever they lag. We also plan to extend to Rwanda, Ghana and other parts of Africa before going global. | Short term will be technical : Co-founders Medium term : Funding Long term will be Partnership with big bodies e.g UN joining us to help stop depression as a result of rejection. | Cruitical.com | cruitical.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
679 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Keith | Frome | PeerForward | peerforward.org | Co-Founder; CEO; Executive Chair | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | My motivation for application is to bring PeerForward's youth activation story and solution and the youth activators themselves to the world stage to discuss how this youth- led methodology that leverages the power of positive peer influence can be scaled and adopted to address relevant challenges around the world. Youth activation represents a cresting wave of education reform. Youth Activation develops when high school and college students choose a challenge, create a solution, and implement the solution with adult allies and peers. The traditional educational paradigm sees students as problems to be solved rather than as problem solvers; in conventional schools, teaching addresses student deficits rather than leverages their assets; students are viewed as empty vessels to be filled with curriculum rather than partners who identify meaningful objectives and bring relevant tools and energetic dispositions to bear. In a school powered by Youth Activation, students are full, potent, creative, empowered partners in the educational process. Research shows that Youth Activation achieves greater school outcomes than schools that do not practice the technique. For instance, PeerForward high schools use Youth Activation to increase college access metrics. A case-controlled study performed by the University of Pittsburgh showed that PeerForward high schools completed 26% more federal financial aid forms than control schools resulting in the acquisition of $13M more in aid. In a similar study, PeerForward high schools increased 4-year college enrollment rates for low-income students by 17 percentage points. These studies validate decades of research (see below) showing the positive peer effect on educational achievement. Youth Activation is therefore a mindset and a method. Youth Activation has not been recognized or systematically implemented in schools, but it has tremendous potential to accelerate school and community wide outcomes in multiple domains, including specific health and wellness objectives. Youth Activation calls for a shift from personal agency to communal agency where youth solve problems with and for each other rather than circulating as disconnected atoms within individual orbits. Youth Activation also requires a hard-nosed training involving sophisticated performance management skills and tools pursuing quantifiable goals in the same ways the most effective businesses determinedly drive quarterly profits. | Keith Frome is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S., religion and education), and Columbia University (Ed.D., philosophy and education). He is the Co-Founder of College Summit and was its first Chief Academic Officer. In 2014, Dr. Frome became College Summit’s second CEO, leading the organization’s design, restructuring and launch of its student-driven college success program, PeerForward. PeerForward has led the youth activation movement in U.S. education and in 2019 was awarded the Lumina Prize for the best innovation in higher education. PeerForward was also featured in the India edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review as the leader in the U.S. in movement to scale innovation by cutting costs. As an educator, Dr. Frome designed the expansion of the King Center Charter School to become a K-8 school on the east side of Buffalo, NY. The school’s mission is to create a college-going culture for young children and middle school students. He led the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded College Knowledge Challenge resulting in the launch of 19 free post-secondary navigation apps. In 2014, The College Knowledge Challenge was featured by the White House as one of the top educational innovations of the year. Dr. Frome is the author of two award winning books on education and is the co-editor of The Columbia Book of Civil War Poetry (Columbia University Press, 1994), which the Wall Street Journal named as one of the top five war poetry books of all time.. | PeerForward | PeerForward leverages the power of positive peer influence and the method of youth activation to drive measurable school-wide improvements. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | United States | Yes | Deloitte, Fossil, Facebook Education, New Profit, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 96 U.S. low-income high schools, 800 11th and 12th grade peer leaders | Scaling | PeerForward evolved from College Summit pioneering the innovative strategy of reducing costs in order to scale. It cut College Summit's cost per student from $656 to $59, increased the number of students served by 75% and demonstrated statistically significant impact. The key was to focus solely on peer influence which simplified implementation. The Gates Foundation has just invested $1M to create PeerForward Affiliates throughout the U.S. PeerForward is expanding to college campuses in 2019. | PeerForward applies youth activation to increase educational pathways to a thriving life for low-income and first generation youth. Educational attainment is key to opening the doors of opportunity in the U.S. and throughout the world. Degree holders are more likely to be employed, to smoke less, to volunteer and vote, and to live longer lives. Hence, reducing the educational attainment gap between high income and low income citizens is a civic, economic and public health issue. | We work with partner schools to select influential students to form a team comprised of four 11th‐graders, four 12th‐graders, a school staff member who serves as an Advisor, and a professional PeerForward Coach who has been specially trained in youth development, community organizing techniques, and school system engagement techniques. The seniors on the team and the Advisor are trained at transformational summer workshops held on college campuses. Student leaders learn not how to apply to college, but also how to lead their classmates to do the same. They create an implementation plan and then return to their high schools to conduct four campaigns throughout the school year. Each campaign drives 4 SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely) goals: 1) completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA); 2) applying to at least three post-secondary institutions; 3) teaching the connection between career aspirations and academic decisions to 9‐11thgraders; and (4) improve an urgent school climate issue. The Peer Leaders lead the work – setting goals, gathering data to measure campaign success, creating and organizing events, utilizing social media, and reporting back to school administrators on progress. They meet with their PeerForward coach weekly to review leading indicator data and make campaign adjustments. They also identify their most vulnerable classmates and provide them with instrumental assistance as well as resource referrals. | If a basketball player performs flawlessly leading in points scored and rebounds snagged, but her team loses, she loses. If an actor brings the audience to tears but his co-lead forgets her lines, the play fails. If one salesperson exceeds her sales goals but her company loses money and folds, she loses her job. In the military, you live and die by the bonds of your platoon. In schools, though, every student strives for themselves bearing no responsibility for the outcomes of their classmates. Employers critique the U.S. education system because it does not produce workers who have the ability to cooperate, to work in a team, to listen, to empathize, to take personal responsibility, to care about the fate of your colleagues. If education is preparation for life, and life is lived within the context of a team (job, family, community), we need to teach in a way that students and teachers succeed and stumble together. Though there is basic agreement on the elements of comprehensive student development and how each is necessary to create the conditions for a thriving life, there is still not a school operating system that integrates the domains. These domains – physical health, mental health, identity and belonging, social-emotional skills, academic skills, and cognitive and executive functioning, and healthy, reciprocal relationship building - tend to be taught separately. What if we began to learn how to harness the power of communal agency as a school organizing principle? | Since restructuring College Summit as PeerForward, we have tested and refined our method and are now beginning, with an investment from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to credential U.S. educators to implement it in their communities as PeerForward Affiliates (PFAs). We believe we can do the same, inexpensively, for educators globally, establishing PeerForward Affiliates in countries attempting to create an equitable educational equilibrium. We have registered the efficacy of youth activation through 2 University of Pittsburgh case-controlled studies on the FAFSA completion rates of partner high schools. Completing the FAFSA is a key indicator of enrollment and persistence in higher education. Using U.S. Dept. of Education data and propensity scoring, the study found that PeerForward high schools experienced a statistically significant higher rate of FAFSA completion than very similar schools without a peer influence solution. In the 2016-17 academic year, PeerForward schools had a 26% more FAFSA completions than similar schools. In 2017-18, PeerForward schools again registered a statistically significant 15% higher FAFSA completing rate, unlocking an additional $7M. In addition, the researchers found that PeerForward high schools had a 17 percentage point greater 4-year college enrollment rate than the control group. We have correlated impact with a simple set of implementation fidelity indicators and are now ready to marry management with these predictive measures. | Our ultimate goal is to have the U.S. education system adopt youth activation as its operating system. At present, 100 PeerForward teams implement in 96 high schools impacting 89,000 students in low-income communities. We plan to grow through the creation of PeerForward Affiliates (PFAs) in local school districts and to add a PeerForward in College offering on 2 and 4 year post-secondary campuses to address college completion issues. Our goal is to maintain direct implementation of 100 PeerForward teams; launch 5 college campuses in fall of 2019; create 2 PFAs in the fall of 2020. By then, we would be impacting 115,000 students per year. Thereafter, we aim to launch 2-5 new PFAs each year and 5 new college campuses each year, adding approximately 20,000 or so new students annually. As we grow and take on more credentialing work, we would need to add a PeerForward coach for every 13 new peer leader teams, but we would not have to add additional overhead to the extant training platform thus maintaining our fixed costs and reducing our reliance on philanthropy. In addition, through our youth activation advocacy work with Facebook Education, we seek to disrupt the dominant educational paradigm and broadcast the efficacy and efficiency of youth activation to a national and global audience. Once we capture the attention of international educators, we will facilitate a global Youth Activation in Schools summit and begin to establish PFAs in other countries. | Essentially, we need growth capital to scale. We charge an affordable fee-for-service to the cover variable costs. Short-term: We need $200,000 to establish the first two PeerForward Affiliates in the United States. We need $1.5M to create a PeeForward in College product and offer it to the U.S. post-secondary market. We need 3 U.S. college campuses to host and cover the costs of a 4-day training workshop in the summer of 2020. We need a corporate or university host for a 3-day U.S. Youth Activation in Schools Summit. Total impact, 115,000 students per year. Medium Term: $1,000,000 to create 10 additional PFAs by 2025; $500,000 for 5 additional colleges by 2025; 10 multi-year general operating gifts; consulting to design a training infrastructure to respond to rapid national and international interest; host for an international Youth Activation in Schools summit. Annual impact by 2025, 250,000 students per year. Long Term: Installment of an infrastructure to respond to the need for an exponential increase in coaching talent to deliver national and international youth activation in schools credentialing and training to thousands of schools in the U.S. and throughout the world. | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/opinion/college-student-aid-education.html https://ssir.org/articles/entry/cutting_costs_to_increase_impact https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/08/18/could-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends-become-the-next-college-access-anthem/ https://www.peerforward.org/peerforward-announces-2018-youth-activation-summit-hosted-by-facebook-education/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcBngFEepXw&t=9s | https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-can-motivate-low-income-high-school-kids-to-apply-to-college https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOW5aXXLoYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkJ4EljEUbM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQzkt55O6LY | 2000 Ashoka Changemaker 2006 Skoll Awardee 2010 U.S. Chamber of Commerce for Top Non-Profit/Corporate Partnership 2010 President Obama shared his Nobel Peace Prize with College Summit 2014 White House Education Datapalooza Innovation Award 2019 The Lumina Prize | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
680 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Catherine | Nakayemba | Gejja Women Foundation | www.gejja.org | Co-founder | female | Uganda | Uganda | English | Nakayemba Catherine is a female born of October 1996 Ugandan by nationality an orphan who lost both her parents at the age of two (2yrs), because of that she was taken to kankobe orphanage home where she studied from until she finished her primary seven in 2010, at the orphanage she was the leader (head)of all the children because of her leadership skills and care for her fellow children , she was appointed the head girl of the school. She faced a lot of challenges as she was growing up especially with menstruation because she did not have any relatives to tell her about it and as a result she suffered from infections several times through using dirty materials during her periods. When she finished primary school Catherine received sponsorship from Jangu e.v international in 2011 till 2014.she joined social innovation academy after her sponsor run bankrupt. She studied entrepreneurship course from online with Boccon University and received a certificate in 2016 In the same year Cathy co -founded gejja women foundation an organisation that empowers rural women and girls to become economically stable. She is an entrepreneur, passionate about empowering rural marginalised girls and women. With the coaching and mentorship she received from the Social Innovation Academy she has trained over 500 girls in rural primary and secondary schools how to make reusable sanitary pads under the safe girl. Being a scholar at Social Innovation Academy also supported her in highly improving her personal and professional growth, communication skills through attending and facilitating non-violent communication sessions and implementing Holacracy in her enterprises. Cathy is passionate about making life better for women that have fewer opportunities to do it themselves through empowering them to become economically stable and stand for their rights and she is making sure she continuously learns and develops more ideas that can make the world a better place for everyone regardless of their color, race, culture, origin or tribe | Nakayemba Catherine Uganda is a scholar at the Social Innovation Academy (SINA) graduating in 2019 with a certificate in social entrepreneurship and in mentorship. Catherine has been working with Gejja Women Foundation first as the safe girl coordinator and here she worked closely with the girls in schools and the women in rural communities sensitizing them about menstruation, female reproductive system, sanitation and hygiene at large. As a result she is able to speak in public; conduct sessions on different topics and voice out issues that she feels are relevant to the future generation. Catherine has been fortune to be part of the scholars at the social innovation academy where she has learnt many things like nonviolent communication, holarcracy, seven habits of highly effective people but most of all personal development skills. With her passion in empowering rural girls and women to become economically stable and stand for their rights, Catherine hopes to come up with more ideas that can make the world a better place for everyone regardless of their background, color, race, culture, origin or tribe. | Safe girl | Menstruation should never isolate,shame or oppress and woman or girl. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Uganda and East Africa at large | Yes | Social Innovation Academy, Foundation or care and education Germany and Bamboo foundation | Transition to Scale | We came up with the idea of making reusable sanitary pads after realizing that one of the most challenges girls in rural areas face is menstruation since most of them luck what to use during that time, moving to the community doing research we visited over 20 schools interviewing girls why they miss school during their periods. We developed our first product which did not work to the customers need but we kept improving it up to now where we have tested the market our product does not differ . | Uganda notes that at least 84% of young people living in rural areas cannot reliably access and afford sanitary pads therefore an estimated 3.75 million Ugandan girls are living without adequate menstrual hygiene management, mainly as a result of limited access to proper menstrual products. Many of them rely on traditional and crude materials like old clothing's, pieces of foam mattress, toilet paper and leaves to manage their periods all of which are unhygienic and ineffective. | Menstruation is an integral and normal part of human life, indeed of human existence. Safe girl envisions a generation where menstruation never shame, isolate or oppress and woman or girl, we create a safe space for girls to learn and talk about subjects that they might not be able to discuss otherwise. Through weekly school visits our peer educators teach about the female reproductive system, the menstrual cycle, how to keep healthy during menstruation and how to track their cycles so they can be prepared. These classes also allow girls to be curious and ask questions for us to dispel myths and provide the real facts. We produce reusable sanitary pads that cost US$3 all this comes with 3 in a pack with two cotton knickers. It takes 8hours to get full thus one can be used during day, washed to dry and another one at night. These reusable pads take 1 hour to dry when under sunshine and 5hours inside the room. Safe girl reusable pads takes one year of use which is cost effective compared to the disposable that cost 1$ per month spending 12$ annually thus saving up to 9$. We expect every girl to have access to safe and healthy menstruation in Uganda and east Africa at large as a result of availing of proper, safe and comfortable menstrual products at a cost effective price. We expect a decrease of 10% in the number of girl’s missing school because of menstruation thus receiving quality education We expect menstruation to become Comfortable, normal to all people . | Similar social enterprises have emerged to address the issue, like relief pads, making reusable menstrual kits, maka pads that make disposal pads out of paper waste and Bana pads that makes disposal pads from banana fibers. The cost of their products is generally lower than the imported disposable pads, however all these do not provide information about the usage which makes menstrual hygiene remain poor unlike safe girl which goes far and educates the girls and women how to use the pads as well as educating them about menstrual hygiene, how to tack cycles and how to manage cramps. | Gejja Women foundation has a team of 8 lead-links including the 5 co-founders and the lead links for the women and girls groups, we use holocracy model where all of us in the team including the employees and volunteers take up roles with defined purposes and accountability in glass frog. We are committed to create women leaders instead of leading by letting everyone one have ownership of their responsibilities. Before and after the sensitization campaigns students are given attendance forms where they register their names and contact information that way we can know how many people we have impacted or trained. After a week we do evaluations in the same schools we conducted training from where we get feedback on our services Through the small women startups we have mentored and they have grown into successful business helping the women take care of themselves as well as the children. Through sales made from pads as well as pads distributed in different schools and communities | Getting a UNBS Mark(Uganda National Bureau of standards) certifying our product will increase customer trust hence more sales. Since we also target rural girls where most of them do not have nickers , we plan to make menstrual belts that girls and women that do not have nickers can still use our reusable sanitary pads. We are currently taking an entrepreneurship course with SINAPIS which has helped us to discover and widen our market, since safe girl has been targeting only rural girls and women with our safe girl reusable pads we have widen our market to companies that take people working abroad because most of them are not allowed to go with disposable pads. we have tested their market and it is really working. | SHORT-TERM Acquiring the Uganda National Bureau of standards (UNBS)mark Improving the package to make it more eco-friendly and cheaper so as to minimize production cost. MEDIUM-TERM Getting a marketing manager for safe girl pads Purchasing one more industrial machine for production of reusable sanitary pads. LONG-TERM Fundraising for construction of our production house at the gejja women foundation center. Training local women how to make safe girl reusable sanitary pads so that they can supply safe girl in case of big orders. | https://www.gejja.org https://socialinnovationacademy.org/enterprise/gejjawomenfoundation.orgh/ https://facebook.com/gejjawomenfoundation/ https://instagram.com/gejjawomenfoundation6/ https://twitter.com/@gejjawomen | https://www.gejja.org https://socialinnovationacademy.org/enterprise/gejjawomenfoundation.orgh/ https://facebook.com/gejjawomenfoundation/ https://instagram.com/gejjawomenfoundation6/ | Rotary club of uganda 2019 The DIANA Award 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
681 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Oladiwura | OlDEPO | Technology for Social Change and Development Initiative | www.tech4dev.com | Executive Director | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Overtime, we've experienced gender disparity in the technology industry and discovered that female enrolment in technology and engineering courses of higher institutions across Africa is lower than men. To a large extent, this leaves men to shape the technology trends while women are largely passive users. With the fourth industrial revolution in view, 90% of the jobs in the next 10 years will require technology skills and knowledge. If women are under-represented as technology developers and sophisticated users, we will then be left with a huge imbalance to deal with in tomorrow's world. Our program is designed to strategically foster inclusion and minimize the gap between men and women in the tech space, while creating enabling environment for more entrepreneurship, employability, and access to decent jobs that will promote economic growth across Africa in the long run. At Tech4Dev, we are a nonprofit social enterprise that creates proactive and reactive technology solutions for decent work engagement through digital skills empowerment and advocacy. We would like to share our lessons and experiences on how to engage women with skills that they can use to access job and business opportunities in the technology industry and for the future of work. | Diwura is the Executive Director for Tech4Dev, a non-profit social enterprise that creates proactive and reactive technology solutions for decent work engagement through digital skills empowerment and advocacy. She has a Master of Advanced Management from Yale School of Management and an MBA from Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University. She serves on the Executive Board of the Lagos Business School Alummi Association. Diwura works as the Managing Partner of Prunedge Development Technologies, an enterprise technology solutions organization.She is passionate about a world of no poverty through improving the livelihood of women by giving them access to financial independence and freedom, and also creating and providing equal opportunities for women especially in the technology space by bridging the digital divide between men and women. | Women Techsters | The Women Techsters program will train 5,000,000 women across Africa to code by 2030 | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Our solution is currently in Nigeria and we intend to scale to Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius in next 1 year | Yes | Microsoft Philantrophies, Liquid Telecoms | Scaling | The Women Techsters is a proposition for scaling an existing initiative known as the Nigerian Women Techsters Initiative, which has been deployed across 12 states within Nigeria and has recorded success in training 2400 women with digital skills across these three tracks: Web and Games Development and Embedded systems. After recording success in implementing this within Nigeria, we seek to actively collaborate to upscale our impact to 5,000,000 women across 15 African countries by 2030. | The Women Techsters initiative has one of its focus as bridging the gender gap between men and women in the technology space. By 2030, the initiative seeks to train 5,000,000 women across 15 African countries with digitally enabled skills that will equip them to drive social and innovative change within their communities by providing access skills that gain them access to decent jobs, employability, entrepreneurship and preparedness for gig economy and the future of work . | Our solution, is targeted at women with the aim of build an inclusive eco system with more women taking active roles in creating solutions for innovation and social issues. We will be training women in the following learning tracks: With a robust curriculum, we will be training women across these tracks; Web development Games development Embedded system Data science Artificial Intelligence The women will be trained for 2-6 weeks depending on the learning track and afterwards, they will go on a 10 week internship or 3 months incubation program depending on whether they are on the technology job track or business track. With exposure to incubation and internships, it is expected that the women will receive adequate life exposure to technology and would eventually get jobs and build sustainable businesses in the technology industry. Our long-term vision is to create an Africa where women have access to decent jobs,in technology, lead tech driven startups, drive technology driven innovation around Africa and beyond | Over 5 million women within 15 African countries, between ages 16-40 years will be empowered with digital skills for a period of 3 Months, with internship and incubation opportunities for beneficiaries to harness and develop their career and business ideas over a 10 year period. We are also very intentional about ensuring that through the program, the women develop solutions using technology to address one key social issue within their communities. This will foster ownership of tech driven startups run/owned by women Our unique solution is intentional towards ensuring that 70% of the beneficiaries get technology focused jobs and the remaining 30% start technology and technology enabled businesses. | Within the context of the Women Techsters, we have been able to draw out learning experiences from the Nigerian Women Techsters initiative to design a more robust curriculum that covers current day reality as regards technology needs and the future of work which led to our inclusion of data science and artificial intelligence tracks within our curriculum. We have also been able to map out a workable implementation plan, that covers the intending scope of the initiative. The major indicators for the objectives are how many women graduated from the program, how many women have moved from zero knowledge to basic knowledge in coding, how many women have started their own technology start-ups or technology enabled businesses, how many women passed through the accelerator/incubator process, how many women still run their businesses a year after the program among other indicators. Data verification can be done be through attendance sheets, baseline and end line assessment and surveys | Within the first year of implementation, our goal is to deploy the Women Techsters training in 3 countries(Ghana, Kenya and Mauritus) train 300,000 women with digital literacy skills. Also within this time, we will recruit 1 national coordinator per country and 36 local volunteers who will take responsibility for the initiative within their local jurisdiction. Our estimated indirect impact is estimated at 1,000,000 people across 3 African countries. | - The need for international partnership for funding, that covers cost of operations - The direct human capital to successfully implement the initiative across the first 5 countries of intent - We also need partnership for collaboration to deploy trainings within these countries such as partnerships with incubation and innovation hubs, organizations who are willing to take in our beneficiaries as interns amongst others - The need for government endorsement and support in each country in order to gain traction in reaching out to potential beneficiaries - For medium term, we need international partnership for monitoring and evaluation to access level of impact of the program on beneficiaries - For long term need, the long-term partnership for incubation and internship/fellowship opportunities for beneficiaries | www.tech4dev.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRET5QdzEkzhWHqGqj2QdSA/videos | My cofounder-Joel Ogunsola's speaking engagement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZSGIT60ZK0 | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
682 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sam | Teicher | Coral Vita | www.coralvita.co | Founder & Chief Reef Officer | Male | Bahamas | United States of America | English | Throughout my life, I’ve been afforded incredible opportunities that fuel my passion to make the world a better place. The UN Solutions Summit embodies the spirit of my life’s work. My family plays a huge role inspiring my drive to fix broken things. My parents met in DC, where they’d both moved to try and make peace in the Middle East. Although he no longer worked on this once I was born, my dad’s experiences and dedication helped shape my belief that I could always make a difference. Knowing that he worked relentlessly to foster peace - putting duty above comforts and more-than-once placing himself in dangerous situations because the mission mattered - continues to inspire me to this day. Alongside his stories was my mom’s determination that her children should know we have the power and responsibility to help fight for justice, which gives me the desire and strength to fight to repair the world. For me, there are a host of issues that I want to solve. In high school, it was reforming the US education system to ensure every student gets the support and guidance we all deserve. I also worked on eradicating all forms of discrimination through organizations like Operation Understanding DC and Yale’s Intercultural Affairs Council and its Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Committee. I studied international security in college, wanting to help make peace like my dad. And ultimately I committed myself to climate change, as it impacts almost every issue that matters to me along with the natural world I’ve loved my whole life. If you asked me six or seven years ago if I’d be building a global reef restoration company, I'd have thrown you a quizzical look. “A coral farmer? I don't even know what that is.” And truthfully, I still can’t believe I live in a world where we need to create businesses to prevent ecosystem collapse. But when I lived in Mauritius and saw how fishermen were struggling to feed their families as reefs crumbled around them, I couldn’t stand by and do nothing. And when I witnessed the impact of coral farming revitalizing these dead reefs with funding from the United Nations, I knew I had finally found a fight for the long haul. What was clear from the experience though was that the current model for restoration needed rapid and bold innovation to scale this solution globally, leading me to launch my company Coral Vita. The Solutions Summit represents my belief that we can create and sustain meaningful impact to make the world a better place. | Sam Teicher co-founded Coral Vita in 2015 along with friend and former Yale classmate Gator Halpern. Coral Vita works to restore dying coral reefs globally by accelerating coral growth up to 50 times their natural rates, while strengthening their resiliency to climate change. Coral Vita’s sells its reef restoration services to customers that depend on coral reefs to drive tourism, maintain healthy fisheries, and protect their coastlines. In 2019, Coral Vita launched the world's first commercial land-based coral farm in Grand Bahama, with plans to deploy large-scale farms in every country and territory with coral reefs so they can be preserved for future generations. Prior to founding Coral Vita, Sam worked to implement climate adaptation initiatives at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and for the Global Island Partnership, and was a contributing author to SDG Goal 14: Life Below Water. In addition to being named a Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur in 2018, Sam has also been recognized as a Global Climate Action Summit Climate Trailblazer, an Echoing Green Fellow, received the JMK Innovation Prize, and through Coral Vita created a Fast Company World Changing Idea. Sam holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Yale University where he played rugby, excavated ancient Athenian ruins, and analyzed climate change as a global security threat through the school's Studies in Grand Strategy program. | Coral Vita | Growing climate change resilient coral up to 50x faster to restore dying reefs | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Our solution is currently being implemented in The Bahamas. We intended to scale this to the nearly 100 countries and territories with coral reefs | Yes | Grand Bahama Port Authority; Grand Bahama Development Company; Government of The Bahamas; Global Island Partnership; Coral Restoration Consortium; Mote Marine Lab; Gates Coral Lab | Proof of Concept | After raising a Seed Round of $2.1M, we launched the world’s first land-based commercial coral farm for reef restoration in Grand Bahama in May 2019. The science we use to accelerate coral growth (microfragmenting) and strengthen coral resiliency (assisted evolution) have been proven out by our advisors and partners. We’re now proving out our restoration track record and revenue model before raising our Series A next year to create large-scale coral farms globally. | Coral reefs sustain up to 1B people and 25% of marine life, but half the world’s reefs are dead and more than 90% are on track to die by 2050. Coral farming has been shown by NGOs and scientists to revive reef health. But in addition to relying on grants and donations, traditional small-scale projects can only grow limited species, can’t enhance climate change resiliency, are jeopardized by storms or other events, and must be established near each restoration site. Simply put, they don’t scale. | Coral Vita integrates breakthrough methods like microfragmenting and assisted evolution to supply restoration projections with more diverse, resilient, and affordable coral. Native coral are grown in high-tech land-based coral farms (farms), which can potentially supply an entire nation’s reefs. We use a mission-driven business model to transition the space to a commercial industry away from unsustainable grant funding. Coral reefs conservatively generate $30B annually through tourism, fisheries, and coastal protection. Global degradation threatens the livelihoods of communities and welfare of industries that depend on these benefits. Coral Vita generates revenue by selling restoration and through eco-tourism. Customers dependent on reefs’ ecosystem services (e.g. hotels, developers, coastal insurers, governments) can purchase restoration. And our farms function as attractions where guests can pay to visit the facilities, adopt coral, or plant them with our team. As well, we use a community-based approach for our work. Farms serve as education centers for locals, and we work to hire from within communities as much as possible to promote long-term stewardship over healthy reefs. We ultimately envision farms in every country and territory with coral reefs. By proving out this financial model we can help inject the capital required to solve this global problem by executing the previously unattainable large-scale projects needed to preserve reef health for future generations. | Coral Vita’s unique model facilitates diverse revenue generation and better scalability than any current restoration practitioners. Instead of traditional ocean-based coral farms, Coral Vita uses high-tech commercial land-based farms, supplying restoration projects with more diverse, resilient and affordable corals through microfragmenting and assisted evolution. Depending on land available, tanks can be added to increase capacity, with the potential to grow millions of fragments annually from each farm to ship out to reefs. Our revenue-generating model can finance previously unfeasible large-scale restoration. Selling restoration services is our primary focus long-term. Stakeholders who depend on reefs’ ecosystem services can purchase restoration to protect these critical assets. Customers include governments, resorts, tourism operators, coastal property owners, re-insurers, and corporate sponsors. Our farms also generate revenue from eco-tourism like farm visits, coral adoption and planting, and restoration SCUBA certification, financing the growth and outplanting of more corals. While carrying out these projects as a mission-driven for-profit, we’re also building partnerships with governments (e.g. through the Global Island Partnership), international development agencies (e.g. the United Nations), scientific institutes (e.g. the Mote Marine Laboratory), non-profits (e.g. Save the Bays), and the private sector to create the most sustainable and scalable impact possible. | We raised over $2.1M to fund our pilot coral farm, launched in May 2019 in partnership with the Grand Bahama Port Authority. We also partnered with leading scientific researchers and institutes, integrating both proven and breakthrough methods to scale our impact. And we are both generating revenue and running educational workshops for local community members. As a mission-driven company, Coral Vita’s foremost priority is ecological health of coral reefs. No actions we take will jeopardize marine life health, and will further be guided by promoting the welfare of reef-dependent communities and stakeholders. For example, our pilot’s Environmental Impact Assessment received local input and was approved by the Bahamas government. We measure success and results through a rigorous monitoring process, tracking impact metrics before, during, and after each project. Social metrics include (but are not limited to): local jobs created, fishermen trained, students educated, and individuals engaged in restoration. Environmental metrics include coral cover change, transplant survivorship, sexual propagation of transplants, coral growth rates, changes in marine life population and species diversity, wave energy suppression, total reef area restored, Setting the standards for measuring these metrics is done in consultation with relevant experts such as coral scientists, reef managers, ecosystem economists, hydraulic engineers, and community leaders. | We plan to start outplanting our first batch of coral for reef restoration in Grand Bahama in Spring 2020. This will give us several months to collect data on the restoration project in advance of the Series A funding round next year. Leading up to that point, we’ll also focus on continuing to build out community-based programming, generating revenue through eco-tourism and restoration contracts, and launching R&D projects to further advance the field of coral farming. Since May 2019, out of an island population of ~60,000 we’ve already educated ~400 Grand Bahamian students (the farm serves as a hands-on marine education center to teach and empower locals about the health and importance of ocean life) and plan to ramp up this work once the school year restarts. We also hired our first full-time Bahamian employee, as we plan to staff this and all future farms as much as possible with locals. We plan to hire our next Bahamian staff member this August, and have created over two dozen part-time jobs through the farm’s construction. We ultimately plan to launch coral farms in every country and territory with reefs to preserve these ecosystems for future generations. It’s difficult to project how many lives we can impact through educational programming, tourism, and reef restoration. But given coral reefs sustain the livelihoods of up to 1B people, scaling restoration global has the potential to positively impact a vast number of lives together with ocean wildlife. | The most valuable resource for Coral Vita is partnerships. We currently have a diverse range of partnerships that play a key role in our success so far, and that must expand as we scale our impact and solution globally. Thus far we were able to secure land for our pilot farm for next to nothing by partnering with the Grand Bahama Port Authority; the Government of The Bahamas expedited permits needed to restore local reefs; the Global Island Partnership opens doors to island nation regulators as we look to where our next farms will be; and the Mote Marine Lab has enabled cooperation with leading coral scientists. Looking ahead over the short through long-term, we’ll continue building partnerships to rapidly and seamlessly expand operations, improve scientific practices, and create an industry to finance global reef restoration. We plan to raise our Series A round in 2020, which will finance our first large-scale coral farm(s). At this scale, we can achieve high levels of impact as well as become self-sufficient through revenue generation. Investment over the short and medium-term will be critical for achieving these goals. And as we build out the market for global reef restoration, there are emerging international development financing schemes that can accelerate and amplify this potential. Blue bonds, debt-for-adaptation swaps, and reef insurance policies can help provide funding streams to finance the large-scale restoration projects needed to preserve reef health. | http://www.coralvita.co/ https://facebook.com/CoralVitaReefs https://instagram.com/coralvitareefs https://unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/worlds-first-land-based-commercial-coral-farm-opened-more-resilient-reefs https://edition.cnn.com/2019/06/13/world/land-coral-farm-reefs-climate-change-scli-intl/index.html https://fastcompany.com/90234454/the-worlds-first-land-based-coral-farm-will-soon-grow-reefs-in-the-bahamas https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkart/2018/07/22/startup-creating-more-resilient-coral-to-replace-reefs-wrecked-by-climate-change/#3afbd5155a14 https://www.greenbiz.com/article/how-startup-coral-vita-making-business-case-restoring-reefs https://www.woi.economist.com/raising-reefs/ http://www.coralvita.co/blog/2017/12/20/coral-vita-and-mote-marine-laboratory-develop-formal-partnership-to-scale-coral-reef-restoration https://impactalpha.com/new-models-for-financing-reef-restoration-in-the-caribbean-and-beyond/ https://ewnews.com/gb-officially-opens-worlds-first-land-based-commercial-coral-farm-for-reef-restoration https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925857418303094 https://www.pnas.org/content/112/8/2307 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On64Cu2NhWo&t=2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kLjUfR4IeQ&t=1s https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/welcoming-our-seven-young-champions-nairobi https://www.jmkfund.org/coral-survival-xprize/ https://www.global-geneva.com/coral-vita-making-reef-rescue-fun-and-a-business/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Af_IPlGIo&t=14s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L66k6T_MdR4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9iWZFzlayU https://player.fm/series/social-entrepreneur-1029819/top-twelve-popular-podcasts-2018-gator-halpern-and-sam-teicher-coral-vita http://asustainablemind.com/033-gatorhalpern-samteicher/ http://dowellanddogood.co/episode092/ https://shows.pippa.io/dollars-and-change-podcast/episodes/restoring-dying-coral-reefs-with-sam-teicher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL_-vMRwbT4 https://radiopublic.com/social-entrepreneur-WxD0aE/ep/s1!ff37f https://www.iheart.com/podcast/966-constant-wonder-30182939/episode/first-impressions-coral-reefs-wounded-places-30319237/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYJMuAgPWps https://www.facebook.com/TheEconomist/videos/10156371555859060/UzpfSTQzMTU1OTQ2MDM1NzgyODo5MzIzODc4ODY5NDE2NDc/?story_fbid=932387886941647&id=431559460357828 (starting around 29:00) https://www.covestro.com/en/company/strategy/attitude/comfortzone/youngchampions?fbclid=IwAR2pT12XXAd3QHJUEW5ZEPakyZiPGhLU23fuxbd8uCmhSBGm2nUHwyhQfNg https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/03/a-startup-is-farming-corals/ | •Forbes 30 Under 30 (Winner) •American Conservation Coalition 30 Under 30 (W) •Global Climate Action Summit Climate Trailblazers (W) •WeWork Creator Awards Global Finals (Finalist) •Echoing Green (W) •JMK Innovation Prize (W) •Halcyon Incubator (W) •Fast Company World Changing Ideas (F) •ROI Community (W) •Ocean Exchange (W) •Wild Gift (W) •Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award (F) •Yale Entrepreneurial Institute Innovation Fund (W) •Yale Green Innovation Fellowship (W) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
683 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mercedes | bidart | QUIPU | www.quipumarket.com | Co-founder and CEO | Female | United States of America | Argentina | English | Spanish | I am passionate about creating strategies to tackle structural inequality and foster democratic economic development in Latin American cities. I'm obsessed with finding pathways towards systemic transformation. Throughout my career, I learnt that development has to be done hand in hand with the most marginalized people in our communities and that innovation comes from the margins. I think that the UN Solutions Summit is a unique opportunity to share this vision with peers and learn from worldwide transformative experiences. My action and research focus on the potential of technology to foster civic and economic collaboration in marginalized communities. I explore how a situated knowledge of marginalized communities’ problems, and assets as they understand them, might be leveraged and strengthened by technologies which enable them to gain a consciousness of themselves and their economic strength within the urban socioeconomic system. In 2017, I founded and built a team that works with micro-business owners in Villas de San Pablo (VSP), Barranquilla, Colombia, to develop a platform called QUIPU. QUIPU is a reference to the Incan knotted strings record-keeping devices of census data, transactions, and narratives such as royal histories, myths, and songs. Adopting a Participatory Action Research method, I use the design of the QUIPU digital technology platform to strengthen community economic ties and local wealth, and inspire radical planning for social-economic transformation. The result of the design process is a digital market-place that supports the development of thriving place-based economies in low-income communities. QUIPU maps and connects local “prosumers” (or local producers that are also local consumers) and creates a trading system that promotes shared wealth creation and wealth retention in place. Just as other marginalized communities have used self-enumeration and mapping exercises to spur community cohesion and advocacy, I argue that co-designing technological platforms in the service of local solidarity economies can help build a pathway for change and equitable urban development. In short, QUIPU aims to translate situated knowledges into situated technologies that work by and for marginalized communities. | Mercedes is a fellow at NYC Deputy Mayor's Office for Policy Strategy. She is part of the strategic team of business development and new economy initiatives for NYC. She is also the co-founder of an MIT awarded start-up called QUIPU, that through community engagement and technology supports small businesses in low-income communities. During her time at MIT, she focused her research on the potential of technology to foster civic and economic collaboration in marginalized communities. She also collaborated with the Community Innovators Lab, U.Lab, MIT CREATE, and the SPURS Program. Mercedes is also a research assistant of the Presencing Institute’s ‘Societal Transformation Lab’, a systemic change global network. Before MIT, she coordinated the projects' development of CIPPEC's Cities Program and run community development projects in informal settlements with the NGO TECHO. She has five years of experience leading consultancy and research projects on sustainable governance and economic development in cities across Latin America. She earned a Masters degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019. During that time I was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship. In Argentina Mercedes did a graduate course in Governability, Political and Public Management from the University of San Andrés and George Washington University. Before that, she studied Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires. During her time at UBA, she was visiting Alumni of the University of Bologna in Italy. | QUIPU: Strengthening place-based economies | Digital community marketplaces designed to leverage the untapped economic potential of micro-entrepreneurs living in informal settlements | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | We are in the process of implementing our solution in Colombia. Within the Within five years, we plan to expand our solution beyond Colombia into Argentina, Peru, Brazil, and Mexico. | Yes | As of today, Quipu has partnered with Fundación Mario Santo Domingo, a non-profit group advocating on behalf of sustainable development in Colombia. We work with Fundación Mario Santo Domingo in our pilot neighborhood, Villas de San Pablo. | Proof of Concept | We have been working for a year in the design of the app with more than 50 micro-entrepreneurs of a social housing project in Colombia. We spent the summer of 2018 in Villas de San Pablo doing primary market research. We returned later that year in November to test a prototype of the platform (https://quipu-146e4.firebaseapp.com/). We developed our Minimum Viable Product to pilot in June andwill launch the beta version before the close of 2019. | Informal micro-entrepreneurs operating in slums remain economically stagnant and struggle to retain wealth within their communities. During times of financial downturn, people cannot afford basic necessities. Additionally, transactions between buyers and sellers go unrecorded decreasing the capacity to manage one’s own business and access financial services. Lastly, the large majority of the business offerings in slums struggle with a lack of visibility limiting the amount of potential clients. | Using Quipu, a web-based and app platform, informal micro-entrepreneurs can create business profiles allowing them to buy, list, and sell goods and services using a local currency. The digital market increases economic activity in the local area by promoting visibility and connecting buyers and sellers, ensuring that wealth is created and shared locally. The local digital market can be viewed by Quipu’s mobile app that can: Visualize available local products and customers on a map Connects local buyers and sellers in a collaborative trading network with a local currency that mimics the bartering systems familiar to the informal economy. The creation of a local trading system increases users purchasing and saving power because they can use the local credit to buy within the local market and reserve national currency to either save or spend outside of the community Generates and visualizes data about community production and consumption which can be used to optimize Quipu-registered businesses and establish credit worthiness Quipu’s long-term vision for global impact is to be a disruptive digital tool fostering economic justice by breaking cycles of chronic poverty omnipresent throughout informal settlements in the Global South. Our goal is to fuse technology like blockchain with grassroots-community-organizing in order to facilitate trade, increase disposable income, grow collective wealth, and alleviate some of the pressing market failures that plague such communities. | Quipu stands out from other approaches that exist in this space by focusing on collective solutions rather than individual ones. Fintech companies that provide financial services to people at the bottom of the pyramid focus on solutions for individuals, like digital payments, and fail to see economic stagnancy as the result of a complex financial ecosystem that is interconnected and dynamic. Quipu understands that poverty is about place - it’s a function of lacking essential networks. The Quipu Market takes a collective approach to tap the social capital of place-based, informal economies and unlock the power of their strong communal bonds, high demand for goods and services, and innovative capacities. Moreover, Quipu is unique because the platform is an invented place of planning by its users rather than an invited place. We understand that citizens and communities should be at the forefront of identifying their civic problems and building effective solutions to address them. Our technology supports communities and their citizens in the designing of their own marketplaces as a way to enhance creativity and empower people as the makers of their own world and systems. The Quipu digital platform helps users gain consciousness of their positionality within the economy to help them begin to conceive of an economic development counter-plan that focuses on the community beyond the individual vendors. | In March 2018, Quipu partnered with Fundación Mario Santo Domingo in Barranquilla, Colombia. With their help, we were able to conduct primary market research and co-design the first iteration of the web-based application with the community living in Villa de San Pablo. In November of 2018, we prototyped the value proposition alongside this community. Currently, we have completed the Minimum Viable Product and are prepared to beta test before the end of 2019. There are no users of the app yet, but we have around 15 dwellers of Villas de San Pablo that are organized, have been aware of the project from its beginnings,and are leading the work of spreading the word of the project (aiming to reach around 50 business owners interested in the tryout. We will continue to track our progress not only in terms of user adoption but impact. In terms of user adoption, our KPI’s include the number of producers/consumers using the app, the total count of transactions made, the percent of the population in the community using Quipu, and the number of local partners (grassroots, non-profits, local governments) engaged. With regards to impact, we will track consumption patterns, wealth creation, improved credit scores, and more. | Within the next year we want to launch, raise funds, strengthen our organization, and build out our internal capacity specifically with regards to UX design. Through grassroots viral marketing, our estimates model that by year 3 we will be operational in 8 communities (2 small, 4 medium, 2 large). At year 3 we project to hold accounts for 40,000 users and will have processed 1.9 million transactions. Within the next five years, we want to have cross-continental socio-economic impact. We plan to expand beyond Colombia to Peru, Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil. Next, we want to enter the African market. Most of all, we want to see the communities we operate in thriving, Quipu businesses growing, livelihoods improved, and partnerships with local stakeholders as lasting. We believe in the importance of spending time to make sure the app matches user expectations. This will require iterations after the MVP, capacity building and receiving feedback. We will use grant money to have our team travel several times from the US to Barranquilla to track Quipu’s progress on the ground and to hire a local liaison (reporting to our Project Implementation leader) who would work full-time in the community. It is vital to Quipu’s success to engage the community we work with, follow-up and be in constant communication with our local partners, and be responsive to business owners using the app. | Currently we have a primary financial obstacle. In order for Quipu to make the impact it has the potential to have, we need to raise funds to complete the platform design, employ ourselves, and implement Quipu on the ground. Many of our revenue streams will not kick in until roughly a year after our launch, remaining fiscally afloat is vital in the meantime. Funding is the resource we most need to bring our solution to scale and make lasting impact. Long term our needs revolve around our partnerships. We need to be connected to as many organizations as possible committed to serving local informal settlements. This is our strategy for growth - to engage and build trust among local stakeholders who will help spread Quipu to business owners throughout the communities they operate in. Connections to these types of organizations is another critical resource for Quipu’s sustainability. | www.quipumarket.com Video about the solution: https://youtu.be/fcvSg-TDnvk Alpha version of the platform: https://vsp.quipumarket.com Prototype: https://quipu-prototype.firebaseapp.com Prototype video: https://youtu.be/W0BaD-yO6DA MIT Thesis about the design process and rationale of QUIPU: ""Situated Technologies: A radical planning tool for popular Economies"": https://drive.google.com/file/d/1K9muVr3_HMwVA_L0Tpi8HvCpsvMBGSH9/view?usp=sharing | Presenting QUIPU at Demo Day organized by MIT Transnational Innovation Alliance: (sept 2018): https://youtu.be/yZVPdi52pcM UN Habitat III: Interviewed, selected as one of four global Young Leaders by Mega-Cities Project: https://news.un.org/es/audio/2016/10/1416941 | MIT Transnational Innovation Alliance 40K: competition on FinTech and Blockchain - MIT DesignX Accelerator 18K - MIT PKG Public Service Fellowship 5K - Fast Forward Accelerator 2019 Cohort 25K: Selected as one of 10 teams that use technology to create scalable social impact - Norman Foster Foundation: Informal Settlements and Technology Scholars: Selected as one of 10 global scholars recognized for researching on informality and technology - International Development Design Summit: Embu, Kenya. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
684 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | AONDOSOO | IJIR | SOO GREEN | UNDER CONSTRUCTION | CO-FOUNDER/ INITIATOR | MALE | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The importance of food and energy to human existence can not be overemphasized. A huge portion of the world extremely poor people, live in rural areas and for the most part they depend on agriculture, forestry, fisheries and related activities for survival. The promotion of the rural economy in a sustainable way has the potential of increasing employment opportunities in rural areas, reducing regional income disparities, stemming pre-mature rural-urban migration, and ultimately reducing poverty at its very source. As an agricultural enthusiast, I have realized those facts. Over the years, I have put into use knowledge gained from my studies in the university, resources, time and motivation to design solution to problems faced by farmers and the most vulnerable. Recently, I assisted African Independent Television a Nigerian TV station to produce an agricultural program titled “Farmers Market” aimed at exposing to agricultural value chain stakeholders the agricultural challenges faced by farmers in Benue state. The web link for the program is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezeS_0ihS8o&feature=player_embedded. I perform agricultural extension services for free to educate farmers on better farming methods with emphasis placed on controlling post-harvest losses of food. Further, I acknowledge that the future of human existence is also in the efficient use of energy and energy generation. Thus, I linked my agricultural passion to sustainable energy: Technologies and Management to assist proffer solutions on access to cheap clean domestic energy. Thus I initiated a project ""My Waste My Energy"" to substitute the use of firewood gotten from felled trees with rice husk briquettes. The Solution aims to slow desertification, deforestation, increase access to clean domestic fuel and preserve our forested resources. Fuel wood accounts for over 50% of Nigeria’s overall domestic primary energy consumption with a daily consumption of 0.120 million tons/day. The huge dependent on fuel wood resources causes an estimated 93,000 deaths of Nigerian women yearly from exposure to smoke inhaled and respiratory related diseases while cooking with firewood. Also, it has encouraged deforestation, desertification and soil erosion that has adversely affected the socioeconomic well-being of the people. | Ijir Aondosoo is a Staff at the Africa Centre of Excellence for Control of Post Harvest Losses, Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria. He is an Agricultural and Environmental Engineer with a Masters Degree in Sustainable Energy: Technologies and Management from Brunel University, London. He is the Initiator ""My Waste My Energy"", a green energy project aimed at preserving our forested resources often used for firewood with a sustainable source of domestic energy made from rice husk waste. The project has won the following awards; 2nd runner up of the Startupper of the Year by Total Challenge and runner up at the Africa Energy Ideas Competition. | MY WASTE MY ENERGY | “My Waste My Energy Rice-Husk Briquettes”,a viable source of domestic energy produced by briquetting of 300,000 tons of rice-husk waste in Benue State | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Nigeria and the ECOWAS sub-region. | Yes | Total Nigeria, Benue State University, Benue Investment and Property Company (BIPC) | Transition to Scale | SOO GREEN through a Project Team of five (5) persons with verifiable credentials in areas of waste management and biofuels has commenced the project, developed and successfully tested prototypes of the product “My Waste My Energy Rice Husk Briquette”. Prototypes have been displayed at 2019 Startupper of the Year by Total Challenge and the African Energy Ideas Competition organised by Total and the Nigeria Energy Forum respectively with development of 200 kg/hour briquetting machine ongoing. | My Solution intends to solve the challenge of cutting trees for firewood used for cooking and industrial applications. Nigeria consumes 0.120 million tons/day of firewood. The huge dependence on firewood causes an estimated 93,000 deaths of Nigerian women yearly from exposure to smoke inhaled and respiratory related diseases while cooking. Also, it has encouraged deforestation, desertification and soil erosion that adversely affect the socioeconomic well-being of the people. | Benue state is renowned for rice production, notorious for unhygienic deposits of huge amounts of rice husk while a huge number of her over 400,000 households depend on depleting fuel wood resources for domestic energy. The State produces 1.5 million metric tons yearly of rice with an estimate of 300,000 metric tons of husk deposited at various dumpsites as waste. It is estimated that every ton of paddy produces about 0.20 tons of husk. Rice husk contains about 30-50% of organic carbon and have high heat value of 13-16 MJ per kg. It can be used to generate domestic fuel through a process called briquetting. Rice husk Briquetting is a process of compressing rice husk into combustible material for fuel, which can be used to start fire for cooking and various thermal purposes. The end product after briquetting are consistent and log-like compressed mass of rice husk referred to as “My Waste My Energy Rice Husk Briquette” that will be packaged in sachets containing 4 pieces. The long-term vision of my Solution is: ""Transforming the way we live in Benue State, Nigeria through available and sustainable domestic energy"". The vision will translate to the following goals: 1.Reduction in domestic energy cost by 40% for Nigerians, 2.Access to sustainable domestic energy 3.Reduction in environmental degradation, deforestation and environmental pollution arising from felling trees, 4.Elimination of health hazards associated with cooking and use of fuel wood. | The ash from the burnt briquettes were analyzed in the laboratory and confirmed to be a good soil conditioner that can be used by farmers to enhance crop production and food security. Further, under same operating conditions, similar quantities of My Waste My Energy Rice-Husk Briquettes when compared to fuel wood used in heating 2 liters of water attained 100oc in 15 minutes while the fuel wood attained 100oc in 21 minutes.Thus, the Solution offers more value that firewood. A ton of My Waste My Energy Rice Husk Briquette is valued at N18, 000 ($49.2), while 1 ton of fuel wood and charcoal cost N50, 000 ($136.8) and N30, 000 ($82.1) respectively. | 1. Thus far, the Project has formed a formidable team. 2. The Project team has developed and successfully tested prototypes of the solution and achieved heat value of 15 MJ/kg. 3. The Initiator of the Project has raised a sum of $8,055 from donors which has been used in the development of prototypes, consumer analysis and Research and Development activities. 4. The Project team has committed funds towards development of a 2 ton/hour briquetting machine to scale up production to meet the domestic energy needs of 5% of 400,000 Benue State Households. 5. The Project Initiator has undergone mentorship and business development training sponsored by Total Nigeria. 6. SOO GREEN has signed partnership agreement with the Department of Vocational and Technical Education, Benue state University Makurdi and Benue Investment and Property Company (BIPC) for Research and Development R&D) and business development purposes respectively. In addition, Total as part of an agreement signed before the Startupper of the Year by Total Challenge agreed to branding of the product. | 1. The successful launch and subsequent sales of the product will lead to the Enterprise expansion through fabrication and deployment of new rice husk briquetting machines to increase production to 2,920 ton per annum capable of feeding the domestic energy demands in Katsina Ala, Gboko and Otukpo towns of Benue State by 2020 and other parts of the country in 2021. 2. Recruit a minimum of 15 staff to cover production and sales of the product during expansion (i.e 2020 - 2021). 3. Develop institutional briquetting stoves for institutional users namely Boarding Schools, Prisons, Bakeries to facilitate aggressive and systematic adoption of the product by big consumers of firewood. 4. Meet the domestic energy needs of 5% of Benue State's 400,000 households after launch and by 2nd Quarter of 2020. 5. Offset about 1,600 tons of Carbon-dioxide per year at startup of the solution. 6. Convert a minimum of 15% of the 300,000 metric tons of rice husk waste deposited in dumpsites across Benue State into domestic energy for cooking. | Short-term: 1. The Solution needs funds estimated at $2,000 to fabricate and deploy in Makurdi, Benue State her 1st 200kg /hour briquetting machine by December 2019. 2. The Solution has a proposed model for institutional markets that include Boarding Schools, Prisons, and NYSC camps which depend majorly on firewood for fuel. The Business model includes provision of free briquetting stoves to the institutional markets in exchange for a 5-year contract as sole supplier. The briquetting stoves are estimated to cost $1,500 per unit. Medium Term: 1. The Solution needs funds to fabricate and ensure deployment of 6 briquetting machines to Gboko, Otukpo and Katsina ala towns by 2020 with a briquetting machine unit produced at $3,500. 2. , Carry out Research and Development (R&D) of new products like, compression of; rice husk waste with shredded paper waste and rice husk waste with wood saw dust by the 3rd quarter of 2020. This requires inputs of academia, industrialist and an estimated sum of $3,000 to coordinate and facilitate Research and Development activities. 3. Develop a model for collection, packaging and distribution of ash from spent briquettes as fertilizer to farmers. The Value chain for the mentioned activities require an estimated sum of $4,000. Long Term: 1. Extend production of My Waste My Energy Rice Husk Briquettes to other States in Nigeria with particular mention of Ebonyi, Taraba, and Kebbi who are large producers of rice estimated at $25,000 by 2021 | 1. https://www.total.com.ng/total-nigeria-announces-winners-startupper-year-total-challenge 2. https://leadership.ng/2019/02/14/total-nigeria-announces-startupper-of-the-year-winners/ 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tboUttzGSFo 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMQ3V750cDY 5. https://www.thenef.org/ | 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMQ3V750cDY 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tboUttzGSFo | 1. Second Runner Up - Second Edition of the Startupper of the Year by Total Challenge, organised by Total. 2. Runner Up - Africa Energy Ideas Competition, organised by the Nigeria Energy Forum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
685 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Romuald | Rwechungura | FAITA-TRUST | www.faita-trust.or.tz | Chief Executive Officer | Male | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | I am highly skilled, trained and experienced in corruption management at all levels. I am passionate about creating in Tanzania an ethics group of experts to prevent and combat corruption through ethical strategies supporting National government to put in place conducive political environment for direct foreign investment to spur development. | I was born in 1964 in Muleba District of Kagera Region in Tanzania. I am a Sociologist graduating in 1994 from the University of Dar es Salaam. I worked for the Tanzania Government in the capacity of Administrator before I formed into a Civil Diplomat active in anti-corruption and good governance. I have specialized in Ethics Education training facilitation at all levels to bring about and sustain the required social change. | Building and Sustaining the National Integrity Alliance | TaNIA = Tanzania National Integrity Alliance | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan and DR Congo | Yes | Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau -PCCB of the Unted Republic of Tanzania | Proof of Concept | Ethics is a new discipline in the development equation in Tanzania, Africa in general. It is yet to be integrated into the national education curriculum to be adopted at the socialization stage of human moral development | Corruption and irresponsibility among Tanzanians have become cancerous for years now. The current government administration under president John Pombe Joseph MAGUFULI has demonstrated that it is only through integration selflessness culture of individual leaders that corruption could be prevented and combated to zero ground. Individual leaders like Maguguli deeply need expert support to institutionalize their character for the needed leadership to sustain social change. | My solution introduces in any nation the culture of life-long-learning and adoption of Ethics and Integrity as best policies to create a conducive environment for sustainable change | NIA engages specialized ethical strategies to sustain development locally whose architecture is globally conceptualized and nationally processed. | Over 200 Tanzanians and businesses have been introduced to the concept of National Integrity Alliance - NIA. Most are ready to support the training and resulting education to improve their lives through preventing and combating corruption in the country by supporting the incumbent president Magufuli who seems to be fighting alone given the upbringing of most citizens and the past political space that embraced kleptocracy - that is ruling by thieving. In Tanzania, we need a new generation of Ethical Leaders to sustain development initiatives by President MAGUFULI - 2015 - 2025 in Tanzania | New East Africa Community being formed that include Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Rwanda, and Burundi is a big market of over 400,000,000 citizens in great demand of an ethical space to excel in industrialization and corporate citizenry | Funding for expert seminars and workshops to develop and sustain a culture of Ethics and Compliance in society ready for great social change. More experts have to be trained and financially supported to come out with innovations to support the youth. | www.faita-trust.or.tz | www.tbc.go.tz/tanzania.mpya; tbc/saikolojia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
686 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Naomi | Fevlo | Central University | prokectempowerment.home.blog (word press) | student | Female | Ghana | Ghana | English | It was a beauty pageant I part took dubbed ""SDG AMBASSADORS"". This was not a beauty pageant for the name ""beauty"" sake. It was brainy and intelligence check. Each lady was to pick one of the sustainable development goal and make a project on it. It was to be presented for judging and assessment. I am therefore applying to be apart because I see my project very useful and important. My project was on goal number 5 which is ""Gender Equality"" but I dubbed my project the ""project empowerment"" which seeks to incorporate all the other SDGs because it is when the is equal balance between both genders hat all other SDGs can be carried out peacefully and towards better goals and a future. My project is to empower all genders especially in deprived communities to be powered to carry on all the other SDGs. How do I do it? Because my empowerment is all round and in a 360 circle,it can take place in agriculture,employment,entrepreneurship,health,education,ecosystem and the likes. It is just amatter of visiting communities and through authorities,get to these people and first educate them and then aid them to complete the project empowerment. | I am NAOMI FEVLO. A young lady of 21 and a law student at the university in Ghana(CENTRAL UNIVERSITY). I am an African,a Ghanaian precisely both by birth and blood. I am from a very disadvantaged home but I beloeve in myself and in my goal and my tomorrow that, I have the grace and ability and will power to change every unfortunate circumstances in my life and family. I love fashion and aspiring to become a great entrepreneur someday. | PROJECT EMPOWERMENT | A PROJECT TO EMPOWER BOTH GENDERS IN ALL FIELDS BE IT IN HEALTH,AGRICULTURE,BUSINESS,ENTREPRENEURSHIP,EDUCATION,LAW,ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TO AID. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Ghana,malawi and kenya | No | Ideation | This is because I just started it recently and trying to develop a website and also get people on board to by my idea and help me | Health issues,agriculture problems,marriage and relationship issues,enterprising,business issues and it aims at all other SDGs | my solution is to get to talk to people and aid those in need of any solutions especially financial wise | My idea is unique because it is geared towards the other SDGs. In all,every SDG is going to be worked on by just the goal 5 because of the mpowerment. | measure of progress for now is 40% because I have started letting other people know and trying to develop my personal website to let the whole society know | I planned of starting in my country Ghana and later to other parts like in Burkina Faso,Togo and kenya. I will start by visiting school in my community and to teach them about their rights as I have had the opportunity studying law at the moment. After which i will form a girls club and more of empowerment projects in fields of health,entrepreneurship,engineering and driving will be paid for the girls to parttake. | I will kindly need resource persons in other fields to talk and teach and impact in my young club girls. I will also need fields for proper practicals like the farm for my agriculture projects,the court for law, and most importantly,finance. I will also print out books if necessary or short notes and sometimes shirt for donations and my staff to wear during outreaches. | please because I am young and a beginner, I only started a social media platform on instagram. I named it project_empowerment. I am now in the process of paying for my website to be created. | None for the mean time please | None for the time being please | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
687 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | KOKOUVI | VIDJE | UTI-DED | http://utided-international.org | Project Manger | Male | Togo | Togo | French | Awareness-raising, sharing knowledge with a mostly young audience is an ambition that I have been nourishing since elementary school. This ambition has been changed into a passion since I became a member of the NGO UTI-DED entitled 'A Painless Earth - Sustainable Development' and served as Project Manager for raising awareness among students, children, adolescents, young people, men and women on environmental education to make them eco responsible for nature. My desire to better understand our environment to identify ways and means of resilience and adaptation to the ever-changing climate, was filled by my internship - training funded by UTI-DED in Cameroon where I participated in an internship 'de 6 months on wetlands. This internship culminated in an International Youth Forum on Wetlands (IPYW) which saw the birth of the African Network of Youth on Wetlands (RAJEZOH) of which UTI-DED holds the presidency through me and a training on the Environment and the Sustainable Development of the IFDD has equipped me to the point where my work has a global impact on the Togolese territory because I sensitized more than 30 school complexes touching more than 8000 children, adolescents and young people. Achieving the SDGs for a more livable and sustainable world motivates us to such an extent that the flagship project of the ONg UTI-DED entitled 'Respect for the Environment in School Environment' in abbreviated REMS, a project that aligns with: • ODD4; Target 4.7: • ODD12; Target 12.2: By 2030, achieve sustainable management and rational use of natural resources. o Target 12.5: By 2030, significantly reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse. o Target 12.8: By 2030, ensure that all people around the world have the information and knowledge they need for sustainable development and a lifestyle that is in harmony with nature. • ODD13; Target 13.3: Improve education, awareness and individual and institutional capacity for climate change adaptation, mitigation and impact reduction and early warning systems. • SDG 15; Target 15.2 By 2020, promote the sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and significantly increase afforestation and reforestation globally. | I am the named VIDJE KOKOUVI born 02/12/1992 and holder of a degree of scientific baccalaureate, I had a degree in Physical and Human Geography at the University of Lome. My desire to better understand our environment to identify ways and means of resilience and adaptation to the ever-changing climate has been filled, led me an internship - training on wetlands in Cameroon funded by UTI-DED. This internship culminated in an International Youth Forum on Wetlands (IPYW) which saw the birth of the African Youth Network on Wetlands (RAJEZOH), of which UTI-DED holds the presidency through me. A second training of the Virtual University of the IFDD allowed me to be at the height of my task within the NGO UTI-DED. | REMS | Respect of the Environment in School Environment | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | We are based in Togo and already have relations for the representations of Niger and Cameroon | Yes | The Founder and her Accounting Expertise Firm | Scaling | The realization of this project has brought us to about thirty schools complexes of Togo. As part of the environmental dynamics of the Togolese government, we act in the knowledge and view of the two ministerial institutions of trusteeship namely: - the Ministry of the Environment, Sustainable Development and Nature Protection - The Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Vocational Education. - The Ministry of Higher Education and Research | We want to achieve the SDGs for a more livable and sustainable world that motivates us so much that our REMS flagship project is part of SDG 4 and also addresses other goals. : • ODD12; Target 12.2: Target 12.5 and Target 12.8 • ODD13; Cible13.3 • SDG 15; Target 15.2 | In addition, on February 20, 2019, as part of the realization of the REMS project and the sub-program ""A Pupil for a Vegetable Garden"", we brought the 20 best students from the LA CONSTELLATION School Complex to the landscaped area Green Point of the AgriEcoBio Association located in AgoèMinamadou; an opportunity to confront these students to the realities of organic farming. After a brief presentation on the benefits of producing and consuming natural products free from pesticides, insecticides, in short chemical elements harmful to our health; we took the time to introduce them to the installation of a kitchen garden even if we are in a rental house and there is not enough space. These children, adolescents, young men and women have followed with particular interest this basic training. All together, and practical in support, we set the stage, after the desire to produce and consume oneself was born. The boards were sown. Using an existing nursery, proceed to transplanting. Practical tips and techniques were shared with our target audience to allow seedlings to grow and succeed. In the form of gratification and home exercise, each participant in the training received a seedling. Through these different actions, we make our targets eco-responsible for the environment. | REMS is one of a kind because, besides the fact that we show children the importance of planting trees and maintaining them for all of us; our activity from the past February 20th focuses on organic farming for better health and the positive impact of green spaces on the health of children is highlighted. The project refocuses the role of the family unit in the protection of the environment and sustainable development then; an affected child is an affected family because children easily replicate the actions learned. | In addition, on February 20, 2019, as part of the realization of the REMS project and the sub-program ""A Pupil for a Vegetable Garden"", we brought the 20 best students from the LA CONSTELLATION School Complex to the landscaped area Green Point of the AgriEcoBio Association located in AgoèMinamadou; an opportunity to confront these students to the realities of organic farming. After a brief presentation on the benefits of producing and consuming natural products free from pesticides, insecticides, in short chemical elements harmful to our health; we took the time to introduce them to the installation of a kitchen garden even if we are in a rental house and there is not enough space. These children, adolescents, young men and women have followed with particular interest this basic training. All together, and practical in support, we set the stage, after the desire to produce and consume oneself was born. The boards were sown. Using an existing nursery, proceed to transplanting. Practical tips and techniques were shared with our target audience to allow seedlings to grow and succeed. In the form of gratification and home exercise, each participant in the training received a seedling. | Our presence at COY12, COP22, at the summit of Consciences, at the summit of Climate Chance and president of the network RAJEZOH 'Afriacin Network of Young People on Wetlands', made us several relations to have representations in differenst countries to know: Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire and Niger for the moment. We will carry out the same actions on the global scale because our project is convincing, topical and easily replicable. | Our budget makes an amount of 63,000,000 FCFA in the short term over one year; in the medium term, the project will be feasible over three years and the long term over nine years. Our needs are financial because we have the technical staff available at all times for the realization of the duduit project. We have signed partnerships with other sister associations and NGOs working in the environment and sustainable development to achieve our goals set for 2030. | http://utided-international.org; https://www.facebook.com/uti.ded https://www.linkedin.com/in/uti-ded-org-51163118a/ https://twitter.com/UTIDED2 https://www.climate-chance.org/bonne-pratique/uti-ded-togo/ https://jeunesse.francophonie.org/le-portail/annuaire/item/327-uti-ded-une-terre-indolore-developpement-durable | http://utided-international.org; https://www.facebook.com/uti.ded https://www.linkedin.com/in/uti-ded-org-51163118a/ https://twitter.com/UTIDED2 https://www.climate-chance.org/bonne-pratique/uti-ded-togo/ https://jeunesse.francophonie.org/le-portail/annuaire/item/327-uti-ded-une-terre-indolore-developpement-durable | Our awards for the moment are solicitations to summits, symposia and seminars on evidential themes from the collective work published in one of the networks of which UTI-DED is a member with the theme: 'Sustainable Development - Its Importance for the 'Environment' We communicated on several convincing themes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
688 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jacobet Edith Atieno | Wambayi | Uzima Women Relief Group International | www.uzimawomeninternational.org | Executive Director | Female | Canada | Kenya | English | My work focuses on vulnerable populations especially women and children in Canada and globally. As Executive Director of Uzima Women Relief Group International, I reach out to grassroots women internationally providing support to alleviate poverty among other issues. Currently, I am spreading awareness of female genital mutilation/cutting in Canada and globally. Uzima is a non-profit organization dedicated to women empowerment and gender equality and includes men and boys in its programs. Uzima is training women groups and their families in Kenya in new methods of farming and encouraging Kitchen garden farming. More families can have nutritious meals grown within the homesteads as well as surrounding areas. Those who can afford are also improving their cash crop farming to improve their economic status. Uzima board and members are vigilant in ensuring that training of new members is successful as the number of model homes increases. There are more than 20 model homes since the project started in 2017. Women have embraced this approach and we have begun to see the impact on nutrition and economic development for the women and their families. Women are engaged in other income generating activities such as handicraft making. Women sell the crafts and use the money to improve their livelihoods. 480 women in rural Kenya have enrolled in the program. More children have joined school and school drop out due to lack of resources has reduced in some households. | Jacobet is Executive Director of Uzima Women Relief Group International whose mandate is to support vulnerable groups especially women domestically and internationally. She owns “Health and Life Promotion Research Consultancy” providing research and community education and support services to hospitals, local and international organizations caring for the sick, the poor, the homeless and the marginalized. Jacobet conducts needs assessments on mental health and social determinants of health with agencies serving marginalized communities in Canada. She volunteers on several Boards and Committees to advocate for violence against women, oppression, and discrimination among other social ills. From 2007 to 2015 she was a member of the Ministerial Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS advising the Federal Minister of Health, Canada, on the Federal Initiative on HIV/AIDS. Edith’s International work includes working in Bangladesh with Canadian Public Health Association/Canadian International Immunization Initiative/WHO/CDC as Technical Advisor to the Bangladeshi government on vaccine preventable diseases. She also conducted a Gender Equity project for CIDA in Bangladesh. Jacobet started her career in Kenya working with the Ministry of Health as a Public Health Officer and researcher. She holds a PhD and MSc in Medical Sciences, a bachelor’s degree in Education/Science, a Diploma in Community-Based Program Planning and Management, and several certificates in the health and social work sectors. | Promoting Gender Equality for Economic Development In Rural Kenya | Rise above cultural norms and practices to uplift women and girls in rural Africa: Educate girls, improve nutrition, make women leaders | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Kenya | Yes | Canadian: 1.The I Do! Project with Stop Forced Marriage www.idoproject.ca 2. Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Torono. Kenyan: 1. Kipepeo Community Empowerment Program 2. Light of Hope (Kimbilio) www.lohyiinternational.org | Ideation | This project is at the ideation stage because it was launched in 2017 and there has been limited funding to proceed faster. However, core women groups have been identified in three regions in Kenya: Western, Rift Valley and Eastern). 10 women in each region formed the initial core groups. Core women have been trained to train 480 women reached. Uzima- Kenya chapter was formed. The Board of Directors is pursing the registration of the chapter with the NGO Board of the Kenya Government. | There are major socio-economic, cultural and religious factors and differences which affect economic development for both women and men in Kenya. Women’s access to economic opportunities and constraints that affect women’s effective participation in programs and projects are the key issues this project is addressing. Uzima recognizes the importance of women’s economic participation for advancement of women’s rights and gender equality and for economic well-being of families and communities. | Engaging women, girls, men and boys equally in the project ensures a balanced approach involving everyone. Additionally, a multi-sectorial approach is used involving key stakeholders from various fields: Education, Agriculture, Health, Economic development etc. Training in better farming methods, improved healthy lifestyles, sending more girls to school as well as economic empowerment of rural impoverished communities ensures that the very poor people are involved in the project. Improved farming will not only result in nutritious food production and improved food security but will also generate income from selling surplus food. The holistic training will include training in human rights standards guided by the 2010 Kenyan constitution which is rights-based with elements of international human rights standards. There will be a better understanding of gender equality where diverse men and women will be able to participate fully in all spheres of life especially in food security. As a result, there should be significant reduction in the level of poverty in the three regions. Many households will have improved food security, better health practices and better understanding of gender equality. Uzima envisions a world where women have equal rights as men leading to higher economic development for global impact. By building local capacity at the grassroots this project will contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). | This project is targeting the very poor people at the grassroots directly. Most projects are usually implemented for poor people without the poor people’s input. The project is community-based ensuring community ownership for best practices. The project is promoting gender equality therefore it is engaging women, girls, men and boys equally so men can understand and recognize women’s contribution to development. Other gender equality projects usually involve women only leaving out men who may continue to oppress women knowingly and unknowingly. That way the project is employing a balanced approach involving everyone. The project is using a bottom-up approach rather than the conventional up-bottom approaches which do not reach most vulnerable and poor people especially women leaving beneficiaries out of programs. The project is controlled and monitored by Uzima Board and members in Canada and Kenya without going through third party agencies. One of the ways Uzima will continue to empower rural women in Kenya is by continuing training of the ‘Kitchen garden” a concept Uzima is promoting in the three regions. With improved nutrition all women, their families and communities will be able to reduce chronic hunger in rural Kenya. | A core group of 30 women were trained in 2017. Model homes were identified where hands on training takes place. Additionally, Glory Value School for girls in Kakamega Country was identified as a model training institute. The school engages the students and teachers in organic farming and can sustain food production. They grow local vegetables, fruits maize, beans and tubers. Using the train-the trainer method, a total of 480 women and 50 households including men and boys have been mobilized to get involved in the kitchen garden faming. Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture are invited to training sessions including the hands-on sessions at model homes and the school. As well as food production, women and men are taught Human rights and women empowerment so that more women can oversee their lives and pursue leadership opportunities. As a result, it is expected that there will be significant reduction in the level of poverty in the three regions measured by the number of households with improved food security, better health practices and better understanding of gender equality. After every training session participants give input on how they found the training, what they learnt and how they will use the knowledge to improve food production. The number of women and men responding positively is a measure of progress. More women have developed kitchen gardens, and some have expanded the gardens to include more crops, dairy and poultry farming. | Goal and objectives: Uzima aims to promote gender equality for economic development in rural Kenya by engaging Women, men, girls and boys in activities that will enhance economic development with the goal of reducing poverty among the rural poor. Uzima aims to focus on women’s issues and advocate for women’s equality by promoting societal awareness, engagement and action on advancing gender equality. Uzima aims to use a feminist approach to fight the root causes of poverty that can affect everyone, namely inequality and exclusion. This project will ensure that men are engaged in ways to challenge the traditions and customs that support and maintain gender inequalities in Kenya. Objectives: •To build the capacity of communities in rural areas of Western, Rift Valley and Eastern regions of Kenya to undertake activities that will promote gender equality to empower women and girls •To increase food security to stimulate sustainable economic growth in the three regions of Kenya •To work with local partners and Government departments and the private sector in an integrated and holistic approach to achieve gender equality There will be a better understanding of gender equality where diverse men and women will participate in all spheres of life especially in food security. Approximately 5 million lives in the three regions will be impacted in the next 5 years. The project will be expanded to the whole country and beyond. Uzima has planned to start a pilot project in Jamaica. | Short-term needs: •Trained core women leaders •Farming materials and instruments for each family to engage in productive farming: farming implements, drip irrigation apparatus, water tanks, irrigation canals •Funds for purchasing the above, seeds, organic manure etc •Commitment from Ministry of Agriculture to provide officers and materials to assist women and their families Medium-term needs: •Markets for families to sell surplus produce from kitchen garden, dairy and poultry •All our implementing partners must consult with women and involve them in needs assessments, decision making and planning of initiatives, as well as in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects. •Crosscutting approach to gender equality means that all our international assistance initiatives, across all action areas, should be developed and implemented in ways that improve gender equality and empower women and girls. Long-term needs •Stronger political will from male Government leaders •Change in policies on gender and empowerment of women and girls in a manner that is both targeted and crosscutting •Sustainable economic growth | http://www.uzimawomeninternational.org | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb074euLzcA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0Ujvk-Bmxxer3u631NYAULyJwpnrkCAPqM2sZE2BEX86JNpffoTYKHMpU | •The African Canadian Community Leadership Award, Excellence in Humanitarian Award Category, 2019 - African Canadian Social Development Council, Toronto •The Excellence Award, 2018 – Afro Global, Toronto •Distinguished Mother’s Award, 2017 – Nigerian Canadian Newspaper, Canada •Women’s Courage Award, 2014 – Women’s Courage Award International, Toronto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
689 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mustafah | Otieno | Sauti ya Mama Advocacy | www.sautiyamamaadvocacy.org | Executive Director | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | Elimination of mother to child transmission is part of 90-90-90 an ambitious treatment to help end HIV/AIDS globally. I believe the UN Solutions Summit shall help catapult the achievement of the 3.3 Sustainable Development Goal.""Sauti ya Mama Advocacy"" a high impact social enterprise that aims to prevent mother to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV by ensuring ART adherence by HIV positive expectant mothers and their infants. We strive to ensure as many infants are born free of HIV scourge and continue adhering to ART medication in the next 2 months to ensure the infants are free of HIV completely. We follow up on expectant mothers through partnership with public health facilities, community health volunteers and other stakeholders. We offer innovative solutions that helps in reducing the communication gap between public health facilities and the expectant mothers who are living with HIV. Our Solutions include but not limited to: Reminder Calls /SMS to expectant mothers living with HIV Support group/peer meetings Data on elimination of mother to child transmission/Maternal health Public/private partnerships in the quest to explore new approach in combating HIV/Maternal health care Advocacy of pertinent Maternal Health care issues. | Mustafah Otieno is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Sauti ya Mama Advocacy. He holds B.A (Hons) in Arts (Sociology) from Nairobi University. He is very passionate on issues in African socio-economic development and always eager to learn the current affairs from all over Africa and what can be done to make Africa the best continent to live in terms of social and economic sustainability. He believes in social entrepreneurship in fighting poverty, social injustice and inequality. Lastly, he has extensive experience in social entrepreneurship as way to fight poverty. | Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission | Sauti ya Mama is a high impact social enterprise that partners with public facilities and aims to prevent mother-to-child transmission (PTMCT) of HIV | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania | Yes | Nairobi City County | Transition to Scale | We have done the pilot phase which involves testing the change model that we intend to deploy to help increase efficiency in prevention of mother to child transmission programmes in the public health facilities that offer free antirtrovial therapy. Therefore, we are ready to scale so that it reaches deserving population. | Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT, also known as prevention of vertical transmission), refers to interventions to prevent transmission of HIV from an HIV-positive mother to her infant during pregnancy, labor, delivery, or breastfeeding. Approximately one-third of children born to mothers who are living with HIV will acquire HIV infection in the absence of preventive measures. | Approach. The following shall be the organization approach to prevent mother to infants’ transmission: Infants sign up for sms Service/Reminder Calls: This will be achieved through collaborating with experienced Ground community health volunteers who will be on the Mathare slums to educate and assist the infants’ mothers who are HIV positive. It should be noted that Ground community health volunteers help in mobilizing and educating these mothers to accept their HIV status, encourage adherence and enrollment to health centers for purpose of testing and PMTCT programmes. Infants receive 3 sms in a week/Reminder Calls: The SMS are structured in a specific format to ensure adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimen and act as reminder tool to ensure the infants attend the health centers appointments. Infants adhere to ART regimen & PMTCT Programmes: The model increases adherence to 85% success rate. This will ensure the expectant mothers attend on time the clinics appointment for both PMTCT and antenatal programmes. Data Collection & Monitoring: This is a very integral part of the distribution model because it helps tracks the results. Our long term vision is to reach at least 10,000 expectant mothers who are HIV positive in the next 5 years.This shall help in achievement of 3.3 by 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases and combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases. | We believe our innovation entails social innovation and involves the community in the quest to improve the maternal health of the mothers. We intersect both the social and technological aspect in the quest to improve the adherence of the ART medication by the expectant mothers living with the virus. Through the use of reminder calls/sms and follow up with experienced Community health volunteers we exploit both the technological and human aspect to bring change. | We were fortunate to get a pilot funding to test our change model. We partnered with 2 public health facilities and experienced Community health volunteers. We conducted the pilot program for 3 months and have data to support our results. Monitoring and evaluation plays an integral role in collection and analysis of data. Therefore, we have a staff who is an expert in monitoring data and analysis. We are now gearing for scaling the change model to other areas affected by mother to child transmission. | Goals 1) Reach at least 50,000 expectant mothers living with HIV 2) Eliminate mother to child transmission by 97% success rate with proven intervention(ART) in low resource settings 3) Achieve 95% clinical appointment attendance. 4) 90% increase in facility based births to reduce the risk of HIV transmission | Resources are vital for scaling of any project to great heights after the pilot program. Resources are diverse but at the moment the short term need is a grant to scale our operations to other vulnerable populations in the country. This shall enable the organization to reach more women who need our services in order to ensure elimination of mother to child transmission global goals are achieved. Moreover, Medium term needs are to scale our operations and include other health services that are essentials for the mothers. We have a goal of reaching at least 10,000 women in the next 5 years. Our long term needs is to form win-win partnerships that shall help create an impact and hence achieve 3.3 Sustainable Development Goal. | www.sautiyamamaadvocacy.org https://d-prize.org/winners/profiles/2018/11/29/sauti-ya-mama | N/A | Winner. D-Prize https://d-prize.org/ https://d-prize.org/winners/profiles/2018/11/29/sauti-ya-mama | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
690 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mario Valentino | Romeri | Independent Consultant | https://www.facebook.com/valentino.romeri | Independent Consultant | Male | Italy | Italy | English | For long time hydrogen and fuel cells seem to be a Cinderella low-carbon solution in energy, transport and climate change debates but recently something happened. In recent months this low-carbon solution is living a new favorable momentum in the international debate. From longtime I underlined the possible relevant implication of hydrogen and fuel cell use in stationary and transport applications and I presented works in which I argued that it’s time to consider Fuel Cell Vehicle (FCV) as a relevant possible low-carbon solution in energy debate. The electricity produced by a hydrogen fuel cell can be used both for stationary and transport application and the traditional model to link transport to energy sector is the Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) approach. But I think that it is time to consider the link between the transport sector and the energy sector not only in a V2G approach but in another perspective more direct, relevant and disruptive. In fact the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powertrain (H2FCPowertrain) or, in other words, the propulsion system of a FCV, is a small power generation plant (typically 100 kW). In the coming years the high volume associated with the possible FCVs mass production will permit to reduce dramatically the FC system manufacturing costs, in order to be competitive with gasoline in hybrid-electric vehicles. In a mass production perspective, H2FCPowertrain will be so cost competitive to be useful adopted also for stationary power generation application, also in LCOE terms. From 2010 I wrote studies where I compared the H2FCPowertrain LCOE, based on the DOE data, with the traditional power generation technologies with very promising results, in the U.S. context and in other contexts around the world. From 2017 in my analysis I started to use also the IEA data for the H2 production costs. Today hydrogen and fuel have made a strong comeback in energy portfolio options and today it is considered as one of possible ‘game changer’. At this point, most important thing to do seem to be well explain to all involved actors, with peculiar attention to policy-makers, all the advantages to use hydrogen and fuel cells and the possibility to utilize H2FCPowertrain as power generation plant. In this way we hope to accelerate even more the introduction of this breakthrough low-carbon solution and to support this new and feasible path to implement the Paris Agreement pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. | Employment: From 2007: Independent Consultant. 2002-2007: RASFIN (Allianz SE Group), responsible of “Analysis Research and Advisory” unit, with focus in new and renewable energy (in particular hydrogen and fuel cells). 2002-1988: RAS Group, senior financial analyst specialist on energy and industrial sectors. Membership: IAEE (International Association of Energy Economics), AIAF (Associazione Italiana degli Analisti Finanziari). More detail in the CV. | Consider Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powertrain (H2FCPowertrain) as power generation plant. | H2FCPowertrain, the power plant bridge to the future. From bridge between transport and energy sectors to bridge toward Paris Agreement implementation | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | April 12, 2019 Hyundai Motor Announces Pilot Project to Generate Electricity from Hydrogen with NEXO Technology in Korea. | No | Proof of Concept | According to April 12, 2019 Hyundai News Release “Hyundai Motor Announces Pilot Project to Generate Electricity from Hydrogen with NEXO Technology”: ""Hyundai Motor signs MOU with Korea East-West Power and Deokyang to build 1 MW hydrogen fuel cell power facility.” And “The 1 MW power facility, scheduled to break ground later this year in Ulsan, will consist of two container-type 500 kW generator modules, each loaded with multiple power modules from Hyundai’s flagship fuel cell vehicle NEXO”. | Produce electricity at very low cost (LCOE) without pollution using a new low-carbon solution. H2FCPowertrain LCOE: Current 70-243 USD/MWh; for 2020, 56-206 USD/MWh. Assumptions: 80-kWnet PEM Fuel Cell System (U.S. DOE data) Current: Overnight cost, 45 USD/kW (500k/year; 50 USD/kW at 100k/year; 179 USD/kW 1k/year); 52% System Efficiency; Lifetime, 4100 hours; for 2020: Overnight cost, 43 USD/kW (at 500k/year); 60% Efficiency; Lifetime, 8000 hours. H2 production costs (IEA data): 1-4 UDS/kg-GGE. | In the same way as I wrote in my 2018 application. In LCOE terms (USD/MWh) H2FCPowertrain plant appears competitive with many of power generation technologies considered. In the most favorable conditions of low H2 production costs the H2FCPowertrain plant seem to be able to produce cheapest power in comparison of almost all the technologies currently adopted. In terms of Overnight Cost (USD/kW) an H2FCPowertrain plant is equal to 1/113 of the cost of a Coal with CCS plant or a Nuclear plant; 1/43 of the cost of an Advanced Gas Combined Cycle with CCS plant and 1/14 of the cost of an Advanced Combustion Gas Turbine plant. Thanks to the introduction of H2FCPowertrains power plants the Power Generation Sector could progressively modify its capital intensive profile. In terms of plant lifetime, H2FCPowertrain appears poor (also in the 2020 DOE target of 8000 hours lifetime) if compared to other generation technologies. But, in a long-term investment perspective, it is possible to foresee the planned replacement of the stack at the end of each lifetime a cost that is about 60% lower than that of the whole system (without taking into account the value of recoverable Platinum from the exhaust stack). Thanks to the introduction of H2FCPowertrains power plants the Power Generation Sector could progressively modify its long-term investment profile. | In the same way that I wrote in my 2018 Solution Summit application. In the coming years thanks to the introduction of H2FCPowertrains power plants the Power Generation Sector could progressively modify its capital intensive and long-term investment profile. | In the same way that I wrote in my 2018 Solution Summit application, and today I confirm my point of view. The progresses are not made by me or my team, but mainly depend on the progresses in term of FCVs mass production and consequent H2FCPowertrain cost reduction or the dynamic of H2 production cost. | With regard the FCVs mass production begin, worldwide the timeline seem to converge to 2020-2022. | The same as I wrote in my 2018 Solution Summit application. The Paris Agreement introduced a new paradigm to a durable global framework to reduce global GHG emissions. In this global framework it will be useful well explain the advantage to utilize H2FCPowertrain as a power generation plant to all the actors involved in order to offer a new and feasible path to implement the Paris Agreement and to advance the SDGs. In my independent consultant perspective, the main target could be to promote and integrate this new low-carbon solution into National Determined Contribution (NDC) and national policies, strategies and planning against climate change. In this perspective, I’ll need first to finance my activity and then to find one or more partner in order to be more effective. In another approach it will be possible to realize one or more public-private partnership with main institutional actors and other type of partners, carmaker, power generator, utility and customers in order to start and planning production and commercialization of H2FCPowertrain power plant in coherence with NDC, national policies, and strategies against climate change. In both the case the detailed needs, need to be identified and discussed (around half million dollar/year in the first case and the same amount for each initiative in the second) | 2018 “Consideration about Hydrogen and Fuel Cells in the Paris Agreement 1.5°C Perspective” http://www.aieeconference2018milan.eu/documents/AIEE_SYMPOSIUM_2018_proceedings.pdf (pp. 294-307). 2017 Considering Hydrogen Fuel Cells Powertrain as Power Generation Plant – 2017 review http://www.aieeconference2017rome.eu/documents/Rome-Proceedings.pdf (pp. 254-260). 2015 Hydrogen and Fuel Cell: A Cinderella or a Disruptive Low-Carbon Solution? http://ecst.ecsdl.org/content/71/1/227.abstract or http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/07101.0227ecst 2013 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles Powertrain Possible Future Roles in a Global Perspective http://www.iaee.org/en/publications/proceedingssearch.aspx (Author: Romeri) 2012 The Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles Powertrain Possible Roles in the Kyoto Protocol Second Commitment Period Perspective in the Pacific Rim Area http://ecst.ecsdl.org/content/50/45/75.abstract or http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/05045.0075ecst 2012 Consideration about the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powertrain LCOE http://eneken.ieej.or.jp/3rd_IAEE_Asia/pdf/paper/025p.pdf 2011 Hydrogen Fuel Cell Powertrain Levelized Cost of Electricity http://ssrn.com/abstract=2006758 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2006758 2010 Considering Hydrogen Fuel Cells Powertrain as Power Generation Plant http://www.evs24.org/wevajournal/php/download.php?f=vol4/WEVA4-4131.pdf | In Italian language: Valentino Romeri “Celle a combustibile e GNL” Workshop organized by Symposia and World Energy Council (WEC): “GNL a chilometro zero”, July 16, 2014 – Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università Politecnica delle Marche – Ancona, Italy https://youtu.be/_irftG_EAX0?t=15398 | none | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
691 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | sakina | benabdelkader | Ibn El-Bitar Project | https://ibnelbitar.wordpress.com/ | project leader | female | Algeria | Algeria | Arabic | English | French | I'm sakina benabdelkader from Algeria.I'm Biologist and project leader.the main objectives of my project are the preservation and valorization of our natural resources in medicinal and aromatic plants. my research study at the university was about the Bio activity evaluation, separation and identification of bioactive compounds from medicinal plants. As a young women-project leader,IUCN SSC Medicinal Plant Specialist Group Member (International Union for Conservation of Nature/Species Survival Commission), Arab Youth Sustainable Development Network Ambassador and GYBN Member (The Global Youth Biodiversity Network) I'm very interested by the UN Solutions Summit2019. | Sakina Benabdelkader is a Biologist and project leader.The scientific research for the preparation of her theses at the phytochemistry laboratory of the University allowed her to understand the value of medicinal and aromatic plants. That is why she decided to enrich her university course by other training courses in the preservation and valorization of medicinal plants and the participation in the different national and international scientific events.Then, she had the chance to complete her professional career by several national and international training in Entrepreneurship. these trainings allowed her to discover the path that leads her to the success in entrepreneurship and consequently, the success of her project. she was selected and invited to participate in several national and international events as the best young women-project leader.actually,she was crowned by the National Award«The Woman Entrepreneur2017» and the Regional Award«The Best Idea2016». Sakina Benabdelkader is a, ambassador and member with several foundations that promote Biodiversity Conservation,Sustainable Development,youth and women in ""Sciences,Business and Innovation"",entrepreneurship and leadership. | Ibn El-Bitar Project | the production of Bio natural products based on medicinal and aromatic plants. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Algeria | No | Transition to Scale | Currently, I'm at the step of getting an agricultural land and the registration of my company. | the premature cellular aging triggered by the oxidative stress gives rise to many diseases.this oxidative stress caused by free radicals,chemical species,extremely unstable containing an electron not paired.This compound may react by attacking the more stable molecules cells of our body to match its electron,thus speeding up the cellular aging.GM foods,artificial food additives,excessive consumption of drugs and emotional stress is the main source of free radicals. | to address this serious problem of free radicals, we tried to have a solution by production of the Bio natural products based on medicinal plants, rich in natural antioxidants that they have the ability to inhibit the free radicals by creating the covalent addition, thus inhibits the triggering oxidation chain reactions and stop their propagation. the first activity is the cultivation of the regional medicinal and aromatic plants,after that we transform these plants into Bio natural products. Climate change is causing noticeable effects on the life cycles and distribution of the world’s vegetation, including wild medicinal and aromatic plants. Plant secondary metabolites are unique source for pharmaceuticals, food additives, flavours, and industrially important bio-chemicals. These groups of plants should not be left as they are potential sources of bio-molecules and nutraceuticals. in my region,many species of medicinal and aromatic plants have become endangered. developing conservation strategies as well as practice of cultivating medicinal and aromatic plants can avert the impact of climate change. one of the main objectives of my project is the protection of the regional natural resources in medicinal and aromatic plants through its cultivation and practice beekeeping at the same land to contribute also in the protection of the regional bees. | as a young women project leader,I believe that all solutions that have a positive global impact is an unique sollution. about my project,we have an innovative protocol in the production of our products. | the market of Bio natural products is in continuous development in the world. | offering our products in the international market. | collaboration with international phytochemistry laboratory. funding to start my project. | https://www.omicsonline.org/conference-proceedings/1948-593X-C3-044-014.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijJhd70FCPI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsaRSy2QNmg | *National Award«The Woman Entrepreneur».Ministry of National Solidarity,Family and the Status of Women,Algeria.2017. *Regional Award «The Best Idea ».Chamber of Commerce and Industry""SAOURA"".Algeria.2016. * finalist in ""Startupper of the year by TOTAL""2016.Algeria. *finalist in ""Casbah Business Angels (CBA)""organized by the Algerian-American community residing in the United States. 2016.Algeria. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
692 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Christi | Mabunda | NappertoirPtyLtd | https://za.linkedin.com/in/chris-mabunda-88662abb | CEO | Male | South Africa | South Africa | English | I would like to part of the Un Solutions Summit simply because i have got new ideas that will change and the world as whole. I am new into the the business world and i want learn more about Entrepreneurship and how other peers think around the world about Entrepreneurship. I am from a developing country where people are behind and have no idea what's happening around the world and me being part of the workshop will an advantage for them and will learn and share them the insight/heads up of what's going on, on the outside world. The other reason i want to be part of this workshop is simply because i have brilliant ideas that will change the world in different ways , I'm bringing new innovations , technology and Efficiency into the industry and i need help from the top business gurus in the world to help me make my dream come true. | Christi Mabunda is a young social entrepreneur with a passion for reducing climate change effects through creating innovative technological solutions. Chris’s journey began when he was 14 years old operating informal businesses (Spaza shop which was owned by my mother, cutting hair and selling sweets and snacks). While studying at University of Witwatersrand he realised that he was drawn towards entrepreneurship and innovation. He then co-founded a Ecommerce company in 2016 together with his friend Shava Bathandwa, wherein they developed technological products which are meant to make students life easier when they want to load, transfer and receive money directly into their student cards without using over Charging and Expensive bank cards as well as getting student discounts when they buy in selected retail stores. Chris was then involved as a Treasure in 2017/8 in an NPO/ Student society called Wits Venture, which mainly focus on student Entrepreneurship Development, coaching and Mentorship. Above entrepreneurship Chris is a part-time tutor and motivational speaker for scholars and youth in disadvantaged townships across South Africa, trying to instil and show scholars the importance of education and help bring out the best in them. Currently Chris is the Cofounder of Nappertoir Holdings; the entity uses waste materials to produce/manufacture low cost, affordable and Eco-friendly building materials i.e. Bricks, Cement and Tiles. | NappertoirPty:td | We use industrial to produce Sustainable, affordable and Eco-friendly building materials i.e. Bricks, Cement and Tiles. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | South Africa | No | Proof of Concept | We have developed our first prototype and we are currently testing it out in the country and i must say we have been getting positive responses. | The current manufacturers uses clay, lime and sand to produce cement and bricks which is not good for the environment and the people as it uses natural resources to produce this products, soon or later they will run out and there will be loss of topsoil, there will be a loss of water and energy. | We create innovative and environmentally sustainable products for the built Environment industry, while researching and developing alternative automotive fuel and energy saving solutions all made from industrial waste, and other recyclable materials. Currently we are creating samples for low cost, affordable and Eco-friendly building materials which will be more affordable mainly for Disadvantaged, low/minimum wage earners in South Africa and Africa as a whole. Our value chain merges Employment, Industrial, mining, technology and Clean technology to ensure that our products protect the environment. The long term vision is to have zero waste in both mining and non mining industries and have a safe and a healthy environment for all. | The current manufacturers uses clay, lime and sand to produce cement and bricks which is not good for the environment and the people as it uses natural resources to produce this products, soon or later they will run out and there will be loss of topsoil, there will be a loss of water and energy. We do not use any/ less natural resources in our products, we use less water and energy and we do not harm the environment in a any way and we ensure safe, healthy and sustainable environment. | We are currently testing our product in the market we are pushing to get assistance from both the private companies and the government. | Once our product has launch and in the market we planning to expand our company to nearby neighbouring countries since they have the similar problem of deforestation, housing and climate change. | The short term resource we need is to get funding to purchase the machinery we need. Our middle term need is funding for accessing other market and our long term vision is to have a world class plant that only produces Eco-friendly materials and serve the entire world. | https://witsvuvuzela.com/2018/08/25/witsie-needs-funds-for-munich-programme/ https://www.google.co.za/search?rlz=1C1GCEB_enZA830ZA831&q=christi+mabunda&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKjaDrhuzjAhWCSRUIHVYrAVQQsAR6BAgHEAE http://tropicsmag.com/meet-the-top-200-tropicschangemakers-by-tropics-magazine-part-1/tropicschangemakers-christi-mabunda/ | https://www.facebook.com/yayamagazine/videos/177007199844988/ | I won Hook Up Dinner & Varsity TV Student Entrepreneurship Competition in 2017, Selected to go represent south Africa at the Start up Safari in India, Next Gen in New York and in September 2018 I was the only south Africa who was selected to go represent south Africa in Munich, Germany at the Global Entrepreneurship Summer School( Social Entrepreneurship Akademie) which was mainly focused on Consumption and Climate Change and in December he won the Tropics Best Young Social Innovator | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
693 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ken | Nuss | Gruntify Inc | www.gruntify.com | VP of Sales, North America | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | The elderly, sick, and disabled population will have a greater chance of surviving a disaster; natural or other; if there is an active, updated database coupled with each person's medical history and home/residence geo-located on digital maps; managed by a dispatch/command center that will enable Government Agencies to send the appropriate resources/prepared First Responders to their aid in real-time. Our platform will be routinely validating pertinent contact/location information on the most vulnerable. | Considered one of Australia’s leading location intelligence experts, Igor Stjepanovic is the Founder of Gruntify. Igor is highly regarded for both his technical and business acumen, and helps large enterprises apply smart geospatial technology to problem-solving, including through the award-winning data management platform, Gruntify. | Gruntify | Providing First Responders the ""who, what where, where and how "" in real-time. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | AU, USA | Yes | MIcrosoft | Sustainable Scale | Our solution has been battle field tested in AU; starting with the damage assessments that were recorded after the destruction caused by Cyclone Debbie in 2017. Over 10,000 field inspectors were collecting data, videos, audio recordings ect in real time; and submitting it to the ""Command/Dispatch"" center. That information then was shared with the AU govt in real-time; enabling the Govt to begin rebuilding efforts, as well as make claim payments to it's citizens in record time.. | The elderly, sick, and disabled population will have a greater chance of surviving a disaster; natural or other, if govt agencies have active, updated database coupled with each person's medical conditions, and their home/residence geo-located on digital maps; managed by a dispatch/command center. This will enable Govt Agencies to send the appropriate resources/prepared First Responders to their aid in real-time. | Gruntify's platform can function ""out of the box"" to collect data in the field by mobile users; as well as by call takers in a ""dispatch"" environment. Development ""behind the scenes"" is required to build/create the workflows and ""technical bots"" necessary to design this living database to be both accurate and smart. Further development is necessary to be able to allow the platform to send out alerts to geographically located areas based on need/necessity. Any community can be affected by a disaster; natural or otherwise; each having varying populations of sick, elderly, and disabled people. During our proof of concept phase, we will deploy our mobile app to the designated field workers; as well as place our consumer facing app in the app stores. Both field workers; and the public who have download our app will be able to ""register"" the most vulnerable (elderly, sick, and disabled) into our live ""database within an average of 15 minutes. Once the person has been registered; there will be an icon that is embedded on a digital map, with all the data collected on that person specifically attached to the icon. Furthermore, based on the questions asked on the digital form, map layers will be created so similar types/group of people can be identified by a specific color. For instance, you may need to know where people are located that are on a respirator/ or oxygen; and a person who requires those devices/meds may show up on the map with a red dot. | Gruntify allows for the real time collection of data from a mobile device; by either a field worker; or even a member of the public who has a smart device by simply downloading our app. Information can also be called in to a dispatcher; and the pertinent data can be entered by the call taker directly in the Command/Dispatch Center. Information can also be ""obtained by ""chat bots"" hosted in social media sights such as Facebook. Once the data file is submitted; and received by the Command/Dispatch Center, it can be shared in real-time with whomever is deemed to need the information. Those receiving the information on their mobile devices will also have the capability to ""respond' on their digital device in real-time back to the Command/Dispatch"" center as required. In essence; once the elderly, sick, disabled people are entered into the database; they can be ""grouped"" by whatever categories are deemed acceptable. Then; those categories become layers on digital maps; enabling decision makers the ability to know what type of resources should be sent to what geographical locations. Additionally, for those people who have been entered into the platform by themselves or dispatch; they will have direct access to the people working the Command/Dispatch center; and if there is an emergency alert in a particular geographical area; the Dispatchers can send mass alerts to everyone that has downloaded the app and supplied information on themselves or a loved one- all in real time. | The platform is up and running; however conceptually, it has not been used by any organization in this specific manner. We are in the process of developing ""Grunts"" which are ""technical auto bots"" to go out and search/verify data on the particular people registered in this database. There are some legal challenges that may come up around having/sharing a person's medical information. Fortunately, we have built in a mandatory HIPAA form that must be acknowledged by everyone requesting to be ""active"" in the ""living"" database. | We are willing to pilot Gruntify wherever any governments or organizations share in our belief...Specifically, that we as a human race, need to make resources available in real-time to the most susceptible people in the population(sick, elderly and disabled); who may not have the resources to prepare or evacuate before a disaster strikes, natural or otherwise. More often than not, First Responders do not know where these people reside; and they are rather searching aimlessly for people when time matters the most. With our platform, responding agencies/groups who share our philosophy will have an exact location to send resources; in addition to the knowledge in advance of what medical emergencies they may be facing based on the information provided when the person was entered into the system. Each person will be geo-located on a map, and all their data linked to their file. As people are added, heat maps will be generated, showing where there is an increased number of registrants. As time goes on; and more people have been entered into the database, communities may be able to use ML or AI to even deploy drones to communities with necessary medical supplies- in real-time- knowing where the supplies can have the most benefit based on the number of people in a certain geographical area. | We would appreciate introductions to various aid organizations, that have already identified the need for technology that would make them and their staff, volunteers and associates more efficient and productive. In addition to the human aspect of the initiative, we have helped with conservations of jaguars in the Amazon, and are scoping out a project with Microsoft regarding animal poaching - i.e. saving elephants and other animals from poaching. So again, being introduced with animal welfare or conservation groups would be also highly desirable and appreciated. In terms of the funding, we are happy to provide a heavy discount for our Gruntify technology platform or, in some cases in-kind, and only receive funding for the time and effort required to implement and integrate solutions for various countries and organizations. | https://youtu.be/-qeg-GBQb4U https://efficientgov.com/blog/2019/07/30/op-ed-australian-ai-tech-offers-disaster-solutions-to-u-s-governments/ https://www.gruntify.com/gruntify-partners-with-civstart/ | https://youtu.be/-qeg-GBQb4U | We are a Microsoft Gold Partner & have participated in and won the following STIR challenges: Miami Dade County Public Works Challenge City of Houston Asset Management Challenge San Francisco's Metropolitan First Responder Challenge Peoria's Self Inspection for Landlord and Tenants Challenge City of San Jose's Disaster Management Challenge Won the 2019 Best Australian Utility Week Startup award Won the 2018 US Ignite Innovative Technology award Recently inducted to CivStart's govtech accelerator | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
694 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Gibson | Mpofu | Global peace chain | http://www.globalpeacechain.com | Ambassador | Male | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwe | English | Firstly let i incorporate these consideration for the peace advocacy, that of excellence and professionalism, as i combine these and are committed to strong performance to create significance value for social peace building in my respective community. I work with the future in mind, striving for perpetual: resilience, cultivate the culture of tolerance, interfaith harmony, importance of coexistence and love across the globe, as to work in promoting more people from all kinds of backgrounds e g religious, cultural and sectoral with each other under single umbrella in order for us all to embrace the social peace building and be part of the tradition of excellence, so that we can increase next generation of peace makers however mostly important of my consideration ""Conflict and instability, the sources of which are both diverse and endemic, the most violent and devastating conflicts have notably been intra-state in nature: conflicts with considerable peacekeeping consequences for regional and international role-players . Such conflicts have led to despair, destitution, poverty, cease, refugee problems, and internally displaced persons. In my view violence in any form is condemned, irrespective of religious or other differences between people and all conference-goers committed themselves to the promotion of peace. I do all this through peace camps in educational institutions, religious institutions, interactive session, peace talks with society stakeholders, diplomat, influential community groups in my community by the engagement of my pitivol role as an global peace Ambassador. | Gibson Mpofu is a career oriented young man, who is pursing his aviation career as a pilot in south Africa on part time training. A born again Christian, constitutional married to Loureen Mambasi, Gibson Mpofu attending his primary and secondary level in Bulawayo in Zimbabwe after then he studied at school of hospitality and management , he was graduated with diploma. Currently he was elected to be a global peace Ambassador whilst he is doing his part pilot training. | Promoting peace studies in educational institutions, religious institutions, cultural and sectoral. To create a peaceful eful and inclusive societies | Advocating for peace in educational institutions, religious, cultural and sectoral, promoting importance and significance of peace | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | The whole southern African region, China , USA, UAE, UK, Nigeria Canada | Yes | Provided at our international website: http://www.globalpeacechain.com | Research & Development | Peace studies programmes sometimes go beyond through and as far as possible, objective and honest appraisal and advocacy moreover on bases of research it is important to note peace studies requires empirical accounts of the causes of war , violence, injustice and practical understandings of how to prevent and ameliorate harmful social conditions. This subject matter raises many basic but pressing questions: what is peace? What is conflict? How can one be encouraged and other avoided? | peace studies in particular, should avoid political advocacy or any actions that would constitute participation in any conflict, taking sides or promoting the claims of ant of the parties. In presenting the details of any conflict, it is important programmes standard of objective are heeded.on realist perspectives concerning the nature of violence and the use of force to manage conflicts, are often ignored, while idealist models tend to be presented uncritically | Organizing peace camps, providing equal opportunities to youngster to bring solutions for peaceful and inclusive world. -Visiting any community school, college, university, cultural, religious institutions and deliver a short motivational lecture on importance of peace and coexistence Mostly important: sign the petition #peacebydialogue which says ""We the world's youth to endorse terrorism and violence has nothing to do with any caste , race, ethnicity, religion. | Despite the fact that an academic approach or attempt cannot solve all problems, it can still provide valuable knowledge and skills, peace should therefore form part of schools, religious, cultural and sectoral curricular or programmes moreover peace studies/ promoting peace as a distinct area of scholarly inquiry, the origins of peace studies as an academic field of inquiry could be traced to the late 1940s and the field has been developing steadily since then , it is in the realm of peace studies, research and peacemakers have engaged themselves who have been motivated by strong moral concerns (that of me Gibson Mpofu, a global peace Ambassador) working in promotion that faculties at various tertiary institutions to use their skills to educate students about the causes of war, while pointing out various alternatives to violent behavior, Also worldwide, graduates in the field of peace studies engage in peacemaking careers in the areas of arms control, human rights, law , freedom of journalism. Peace as a scholarly endeavour seek to encourage reading lists, lectures and related activities that fully present the different ideologically based depictions and paradigms regarding the sources and manifestation of conflict. | In our research on peacemaking has made an important contributions to the understandings of problems such as : 1.Process leading to war 2. The escalation of violence 3. The relationship between individual personality characteristics and the phenomena of bigotry, prejudice and national hostility 4. The economic consequences of disarmament and arms control programmes and the sources of public attitudes toward foreign countries and alien cultures. | The ultimate goal of peace studies in the schools, university, religious institutions and sectoral context be to produce practical and useful scholarship on how to create a more just and peaceful world however in Universities specifically within the social sciences to improve the need for producing students with knowledge, skills, an intellectually capacity on issues pertaining to a a (much needed) resolution of conflicts. To make a plea to our government of Zimbabwe that, conflict resolution and peacekeeping should be the centre of Zimbabwe's foreign policy outlook towards the African continent and whole world moreover a pivotal part of global peace as peacemakers' roadmap to a future of development and progress. Schools should dedicate teaching peace studies and issues relating to understanding the causes, dynamics and effects of conflict and promote through this understanding an addressing of the conflict through mechanisms of conflict resolution and peace building. While students generally understand what is meant by the concept of warfare, they often ""have very hazy ideas about the nature of peace"" few people seem to have considered that the messages we send , via the media as well as the school curricula, process and structures. | Long term : mode of transport, to move from one place to another, financial support, United nations endorsement, training facilities and media coverage. Short term: drawing charts, computers, books, t shirts with peace slogans Medium term: volunteering work in particular in public events | http://www.globalpeacechain.com http://www.globalpeacechainzimbabwe.com | Please visit our international website to get some videos http://www.globalpeacechain.com | None so far, because the project is on infant level | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
695 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Shahid | Qamar | Teach A Kid Make Individual Life | takmil.org | Founder | Male | United States of America | Pakistan | English | On December 16, 2014 when Pakistan was hit by a terrorist attack in Army Public School resulting ruthless murder of 134 primary school innocent children then it changed my life and I decided to work for those children who cannot go to school for whatever reason. Since then, I worked hard day and night to develop a model that can provide education to millions of out of school children living in developing countries using technology. Today, we are running 18 non formal schools in Pakistan and providing education to about 900 out of school children using latest technology. We reach out to those communities who do not have access to electric power, internet and any formal or non-formal school. We use local community members and train them to run the program on ground. Our vision is focused on marginalized communities and to provide free but high-quality education to youth who are currently not enrolled in schools with an innovate approach to education. We have developed an accelerated curriculum using ICT Learning Kit. This kit includes an accelerated digital curriculum, offline content delivery via mobile lab, attendance system using artificial intelligence (AI) along with biometric-based data verification, digital assessments and data-driven analysis with the utilization of business intelligence and cloud computing. The uniqueness of our model is inherent in its applicability in diverse geographical settings as well as the content delivery system. Our curriculum is based on the ICT model and provides an accelerated digital curriculum with benchmark assessments. | Dr. Shahid Qamar is a Research Scientist at James Graham Brown Cancer Center, USA and conducts research on Breast Cancer. He also teaches Physics at John Hopkins University. Dr. Qamar obtained his MS in Physics from Punjab University, M.Phil. in Physics from Quaid-e-Azam University and then obtained Ph.D. in Bio Physics from Arizona State University, USA. Dr. Qamar has more than 25 years of research and teaching experience. Dr. Qamar is very actively involved in social and community based projects in US since he moved to there in 1995 but he kept his strong connections to Pakistan via his educational and social projects. Dr. Qamar is involved in multiple educational projects in Pakistan and is a founder of Pakistan Society for Computational Science, High School Summer Science Research Program and Teach a Kid Make Individual Life (TAKMIL), a nonprofit organization. He is also a business entrepreneur and social entrepreneur, as well. Recently, Dr. Qamar has developed a unique disruptive educational model designed to provide basic literacy to out of school children in Pakistan using innovative technology. His educational model is based on a mobile lab, cached contents, AI based monitoring, data driven program assessment and evaluation. He is running 12 schools in different remote areas of Pakistan and is committed to provide education to millions of out of school kids in Pakistan and other developing countries. | Educating out of School Children using Artificial Intelligence | EducationForOutOfSchoolChildren | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Pakistan, Afghanistan | No | Transition to Scale | Our project has made a successful transition from one pilot program (January 2017) to 25 functional programs. Moreover, 16 projects made a successful transition to next level. The inclusion of digital technology made it possible to scale it up. The convincing data obtained from 25 programs showed that this innovation works well in diverse geographical environments and can serve the underprivileged communities at larger scale in different parts of the developing countries. | UNICEF states that 14% of school age children worldwide are outside the school system (UNICEF, 2017). Since education is a fundamental human right, the world is at risk of not achieving the UN sustainable development goal of quality education for all by 2030 (UN, 2018). This problem requires disruption & innovation in the very educational system that is not currently working for this vast splice of invisible, unserved youth across the globe. | Imagine a solution with community-based facilitators, locally-relevant content, and technological innovation in the form of cost effective, hand-held technology aimed at reinventing the role of the modern-day classroom and the role of the “teacher”. We have created a disruptive, creative, and unconventional educational framework, model, and system that is currently live in 18 informal schools. We train and empower community-level facilitators using small, open-source devices that inspire out of school youth with 21st century skills. Invisible youth can now compete and thrive thanks to mobile technology aimed at rethinking how to teach, train, coach, mentor, track, evaluate, and improve education in high-poverty areas. The mobile digital learning kit is powered by solar energy and can provide basic education to underprivileged communities. This kit includes 1) an accelerated digital curriculum, 2) offline content delivery via mobile lab, 3) students attendance system using artificial intelligence, 4) digital assessments and 5) data-driven analysis with the utilization of business intelligence and cloud computing. The model is designed for out of school children living in slums, refugee camps, remote areas, and other conditions for those at the bottom of the pyramid. Our priority is to reach those who are not connected to the world. In the digital age of Artificial intelligence, we just can not ignore millions of out of school youth who could be potential world leaders. | The model has five essential unique components as follows. 1.Offline Content Delivery: The model can deliver digital contents in the form of video lessons in diverse geographical regions where there is no electricity, internet and school are available through a hand held mobile lab powered by solar energy. 2.Digital Assessment on Phone: Students performances are assessed using custom made digital assessments based on their learning outcome. Each assessment is developed from class lessons coupled with multiple choice questions giving student an opportunity to learn on their own pace. 3.Artificial intelligence-based student attendance: Student and teachers class attendances are monitored using Artificial Intelligence image recognition method. A teacher just uploads a class picture to a designated cloud computer using a mobile application. The image is then analyzed using AI to generate daily student attendance report. 4.Data Analysis using cloud computing: Students assessment and attendance data is first submitted to a cloud computer using mobile App & then data is analyzed using business intelligence analytics methods. 5.Facilitator/Teacher Training Program Facilitators/teachers are trained onsite & remotely using state of the art videos to prepare next generation for 21th century. The training videos can be accessed by any mobile phone using mobile signal for training purposes. These videos are designed to train teacher on latest and state of the art teaching methods. | 1.Mobile lab: The beta version of mobile lab is completed, tested & validated. The kit includes a Raspberry Pi device with an embedded mini-projector & a 500GB memory card powered by solar energy; it is accessible by up to 30 tablets using local Wi-Fi.The device comes preloaded with curricula, video lessons, student assessments, & other related digital materials.The beta version is tested in 12 different non formal school settings to validate its performance. 2.Digital Assessments: The digital assessments of all subjects are ready & have been used to assess about 200 student performances in 5 different locations. Each subject has 9 assessments to be conducted in 12 months. The students login into using smart phones & take the assessments in the form of multiple-choice questions & drop & drag style. The assessment data is then transmitted to cloud computer for further analysis. 3.AI based students attendances: The students attendances are monitored by 1) class attendance using AI feature. It tells how many students are present in the class on a given day (testing phase), 2) each student attendance is monitored by facial recognition using AI method (under construction) 4.Cloud Data Computing This feature is 80% completed & would be functional very soon after it goes through testing & validation process. 5.Facilitator/Teacher Training A locally relevant teacher training module is being developed to train teachers remotely using mobile signal &/or offline mobile lab. | •Provide primary education to 10,000 out of school children living in different parts of Pakistan in next 3 years. •Recruit & train 400 local community members as facilitators who will lead the project on ground at local level •Improve the quality of life of more than 200 small-targeted communities through education, mentorship, training & awareness. •Provide small business opportunities to at least 20% of community members in the targeted areas to the local community members to improve their livelihood. •Expand the program in more diverse areas. More focus would be in Sindh & Baluchistan provinces where 18% & 19% children are out of school, respectively. •In Pakistan, about 40-45% young girls are out of school. We are working on girls education in remote areas so that they can become an integral part of our society •Develop a business model to generate revenue for sustainability of project. •Conversion of Digital Content in Regional Languages: Our content is in English language & we are working on AI based model to translate English language content to any other regional language within the country & any other country •Model Integration with private & Govt sector: We plan to reach out to local private & public educational sector & offer them our services to improve the quality of education. That will help our organization to generate revenue that will keep our project sustainable. | Short Term Goals •Hardware resources for development of ICT Infrastructure (Tablets, Raspberry Pi, mini projector, solar panel) •Content Translation into local languages: Our 500 hours content in English language requires a translation and voice over into local multiple languages. An Artificial intelligence based solution is under consideration. It will help students to learn in their local language. •Development of Teacher Training: Teacher training is an integral part of this model. We are working on to develop online and onsite training modules so that new teachers can be trained on latest teaching methodologies. Medium Term •To develop a business model to generate a revenue to make the project self-sustainable •Recruit more team members and expand organization horizontally in different department including but not limited to oBusiness analyst oData analysts osoftware development, hardware development oHR ogrants and proposal writers, osocial media experts oweb development o and consultant who can help us to move to next level Long Term •Provide education to 10,000 out of school children in next 3 years •Identify the local job market in our targeted areas •Train and equip local community members with required tools which can help them to find a job, start a small business, can train other community members to find their livelihood. | 1) Organization Website https://takmil.org 2) Organization Social Media Link https://www.facebook.com/wearetakmil/videos/vl.302258447001910/1101670366693764/?type=1 3) Microsoft Hackathon https://youtu.be/1_Bdui1aGcU 3) Project Description https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGdn1SUs9z0 4) Project Model in 2D https://www.facebook.com/wearetakmil/videos/vl.302258447001910/1101670366693764/?type=1 | Pictch by Founder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiaxXGjhRnI | Learning Equality Hardware Award for 2019 and 2020 South Asian Triple Helix Best Innovation in Education Award 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
696 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ezequiel | Vedana da Rosa | Piipee | piipee.com | Founder and CEO | Male | Brazil | Brazil | English | Spanish | I'm a Global Young Leader for the SDG's by United Nations. I'm working for more than 9 years in a project that saves water. I've developed a biodegradable solution to save water in toilets and urinals. With our solution you can eliminates in 100% water waste when urinating. | I'm entrepreneur since 16yrs old. Today i'm developing my 3th business. Piipee. Since i had the idea in march of 2010, i'm focused to make it happen. In 2015 we started the sales in Brazil. Today (2019) we have more than 1400 clients in Brazil, some multinationals like Braskem, Ambev, Itaú, etc.. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezequiel-vedana-da-rosa-3317b9a9/ | Piipee | A biodegradable solution that eliminates in 100% water usage when urinating. Cheaper than the flush. Simple, quick and cheap. | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Brazil, France, South Africa, Mexico, Nigeria, and others. | Yes | BASF, Braskem, TOTO, SparkNews, Clarivate, Givaudan. | Scaling | March 2010 = Idea Jun 2013 = Patent pending Nov 2015 = Starting sales Dez 2015 = Patent recognized as innovative solution for Climate Change by UN and French INPI. Representing Brazil at COP21. 2018 = 1000 clients. | Up to 40% of the world freshwater is wasted on flushes. More than 15 Bn flushes are pressed every 24h, this represents more than 100Bn liters of clean water wasted and more than $500M are paid every 24h in water bills only for flushes. And 80% of this consumption is just to eliminate urine. | Instead using the flush and wasting 6-10 liters of water every time, with Piipee is just 1ml. With our solution we can eliminate in 100% water waste when urinating. Our solution cost less than water too, so the user can save water and money at the same time. Today more than 100k people have access to our solution and are saving water every day. Vision A world where no water is wasted and that anyone has access to water. Mission Create and promote innovative solutions to reduce wasteful use of natural resources and become an example of profitable and eco-friendly business. Motivation We are lead by three important pillars: Purpose, Innovation and Sustainability. | Compared with other solutions like Vacuum toilets, waterless urinals, or rain water, Piipee is cheaper, simple and easy to instal and use it. It's a plug and play solution. In less than 2 minutes is ready to be used and to save water. | We measure the user base and devices installed. But the best one is the water savings. Since we started we saved more than 62M liters of water that is enough for more than 330k people live for a month for eg. | We want to address 1M users in 2 years. Today we have distributors in Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria and Mexico. We are entering in China and France. | Investment. We need to improve our sales team, our devices, our brand and marketing. | www.piipee.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcS8yyqi8p0 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v614AzRMvvVvsY913CFtuPUkIBmNA8Kd/view?usp=sharing | EN: https://youtu.be/OgskEATxmtg?t=5284 PT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne1bgbn3Pec PT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n_B7RvWIi8&t=9s | https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ezequiel-vedana-da-rosa-3317b9a9_here-is-a-full-list-of-prizes-and-awards-activity-6564170819738583040-uGdR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
697 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Diaaeldin | Mohamed | CHILD DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | http://cdf-sd.org/en/index.php | FOOD TECHNOLOGY ENGINEER | MALE | Sudan | Sudan | Arabic | English | I SEE IT IS IMPORTANT TO PRESENT AN INITAIVE TO HELP PEOPLES AND COMMUNITEIS IN THE CONTEXT OF UN SOLUTION SUMMITS. IT DEEMS NECESSARY TO BENEFIT FROM SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY AND INNOVATIONS FOR LOCA;L , REGIONAL AND GLOBAL IMPACT ESPECIALLY IN THE FIELD OF HEALTH AND SANITATION FOR THE WELBEING OF HUMANITY. | Experience: -(2005- 2017):Determination of Bromate Ions in bottled drinking water and bread, using the device of the High Performance Liquid Chromatography, HPLC, ( Shimadzu ®). -(2005- 2017): Determinationof Wet and Dry Gluten in Wheat. Tests are conducted by gluten-testing device (Perten®) -(2005- 2017):Determination of Falling Number by using the Falling Number Instrument, 1900(Perten®) -(2005- 2017):Determination of oil amount by using the oil extraction Instrument: Soxtec, (Foss®). -(2005- 2017):Determination of nitrogen determination in foods, Kjeltec 2400, (Foss®). -(2005- 2017):Determination of residual pesticides in foods, using the gaseous mass chromatographic technology: GC MS MS TQ 8040(Shimadzu ®). -(2005- 2017):Determination of heavy metals in foods and drinking water, using the Inductively Coupled Plasma technology (ICP) (Shimadzu ®). -(2005- 2017):Determination of Additives and Synthetic Colors in foods, using the High Performance Liquid Chromatography (Shimadzu ®). -(2005- 2017):Determination of Aflatoxin in foods, using the High Performance Liquid Chromatography (Shimadzu ®). -(2005- 2017):Conducting laboratorial tests in the technology of wheat, flour, corn and cereals. -(2005- 2017):Determination of bromide ions in drinking water, using the High Performance Liquid Chromatography (Shimadzu ®). | WATER AND SANITATION PROJECT | to collect samples of water from targeted locations | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | I am intended to implement my solution project in Sudan | Yes | UNDP-WHO-SUDAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH | Research & Development | YES TO MADE AVAILABLE A CLEAN AND POTABLE WATER I THINK ITS A BEST PRACTICE SOLUTION AT THE NGO LEVEL IT IS UNPRECENTED | THE PROPLEM WHICH IAM INTENDING TO ADRESS IS CONTAMINATION OF WATER | THE SOLUTION WORK AT THE LEVEL OF STATES AND MUNICIPILITIES IN SUDAN I WILL ALSO WORK IN REFUGEES , IDPs CAMPS | I WILL WORK THROUGH SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGIES TO ELEMINATE TOXIC MATERIAL FROM WATER | MY TEAM IS WELL TRAINED TO CONDUCT SUCH PROJECT AND WE WILL USE THE SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGIES TO PROVE THAT WATER IS SAFE , HEALTHY AND POTABLE | I WILL DISSEMINATE THE PROJECT IN SUDAN AS WELL AS HORN OF AFRICA COUNTRIES IN LATER PHASES | THE NEEDED RESOURCES IS EQUIPMENTS SOLUTIONS CERTIFIED REFERENCE MATERIALS REAGENTS | http://cdf-sd.org/en/index.php | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
698 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Azer | Corleone | Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyası | http://www.yap.org.az/az/ | Üzv | kisi | Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan | Russian | mənim həyat devizim belədir. Yaşadğın yeri qoru və təmiz saxla ! Sudan qənayətlə işlədirəm. Heyvanları müdafiyə edirem. Təbiəti qoruyuram. və tanıdığım insanlarada məsləhət görürəm | Azər Carleone Rahib oğlu 1989-cu il iyulun 8 Bakı şəhəri anadan olmuşam. Azərbaycanlıyam. 1996-2007-ci il Bakı şəhəri otra məktəbə getmişəm. 2008-2009-cu il hərbi xidmətə getmişəm. 2010-cu ildən 2015-ci ilə kimi xarici şirkətlərdə işləmişəm. 2015-ci ildən kino sahəsində işləyirəm. və Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyasına, Gənclər birliyinə və Gənclər evinə üzv olmuşam. 2015-ci ildən 2016-cı illərdə ictimai işlərdə, xeyriyə tədbirlərdə, Biznes forumda, Liderlik təlimlərdə, lahiyələrdə, seminarlarda, iştirak etmişəm. 2016-ci il yanvar ayından tv verlişlər yazıram. 2016-ci il sentyabr ayında Gənc Tamaşaçılar Teatrında Səhnə tərtibatçısı işləmişəm. 2016-cı il oktyabrın 15-dən 2017-ci il aprelin 15-nə kimi Elşad bəyin rəhbərliyi ilə keçirilən Modern və Rebrus Teatrında Aktyorluq kursuna getmişəm. Rejissorluqdan Ceyhun bəy Aktyorluqdan Elnur bəy Səhnə danışığı dərslərindən Elçin bəy dərs deyirdilər. 2017-ci il mayın 1-dən Mirzə Ələkbər Sabir M.Ə.Sabir adına balaxanı Xalq Teatrında Aktyor çalışıram. 2017-ci il mayın 1-dən 31-dək 2-ci respublika xalq teatr festivalında mayın 22-si Mərdəkan Mədəniyyət Sarayında, iyun 1-i Balaxanıda Mirzə Ələkbər Sabirin 155 illik il dönümünə aid tədbirdə iyun 12-si isə Akademik Milli Dram Teatrında AZDRAMA Heykəl danışır tamaşasında jurnalis rolunda oynamışam. 2018-ci il Sentyabrın 22-dən Azərbaycan Teatr Xadimlər İttifaqında Bəhram Osmanovun Teatr Rejissorluq Laboratoriyasına getmişəm. Subayam. Bakı şəhəri Sabunçu Rayonu Balaxanı qəsəbəsi yaşayıram. boş vaxtlarımda yeni ixtiralar üzərində çalışıram, musiqiyə qulaq asıram idmanla, kitab oxumaqla məşğul oluram | Yeni Həyat/New Life | Tarix bizə bir şey öyrədib oda Bölünsək YOX OLARIQ Yox əyər Bir Tək Yumruq kimi Birləşsək VAR OLARIQ! | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Azerbaijan | No | Proof of Concept | Çünki Konsepsiyanın sübutun mərhələsindədir | lahiyem veb saytdir | buutun insanlari bir yere toplayan ve birlikde bir birine komek edirler | qisa muddet erzinde heyat seraitini yaxsilasdirmaq yuksek qəlir elde etmek az vaxt serf etmek | bir xeyli irelleyib 10 bal | baxir buna siz hansi terefden yanasirsiz amma size deyim ki hami razi qalacaq | Öncəliklə inam etibar daha sonra maliyə eytiyac olur | yoxdur | https://www.facebook.com/azer.don.carleone | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
699 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joseph | Mwaniki | Neverest | www.neverest.co.ke | Head of Communications | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | I believe that every person with some empowerment can make a big difference and make the world a better place. Over the last four years (From the year 2015), I have been a Kenyan Sign Language Interpreter volunteer and I have worked with Deaf youths and students and have been a mentor in Kasarani Treeside Secondary School for the Deaf where I taught Physics Mathematics and business studies in Kenyan Sign Language in the year 2015 before joining my University studies. I have studied and trained as a Control and Instrumentation Engineer where I graduated in July, 2019. While in Campus, I took part in JKUAT Tech Expo 6.0 and presented a solution dabbed Zero Laptop Loss, A solution to curb Campus laptop theft by using technology. With this inspiration, the university improved laptop security. I took part in JKUAT TechExpo 9.0 2019, Where my team and I presented an innovation dabbed Zima Na Text, a home automation system for Energy management that enables homeowners to know responsibly the amount of energy (Tokens) consumed per circuitry like (Lighting Circuit, Heavy Duty, Security Circuit and Normal Sockets Circuits). We won the Peoples choice award for this innovation We took this innovation a notch higher for industrial application. We took part in the Kenya Association of Manufacturers 15th Energy Management Award and Won Student Innovation Award, a National Recognition for people whose innovation contribute to Energy Management. It's this my innovative nature that I am now working with Deaf youths to develop solutions that improve the lives of people with disabilities using technology. | Mwaniki Ngatia is a Control and Instrumentations Engineer with a special interest in Robotics and Automation. Am passionate in programing in Machine and Assembly language from Arduino to Raspberry Pi, InternetOfThings, AndroidThings and learning the use of new micro-controllers. Am committed to creating solutions that will redefine the absolute definition of Automation. Am also an experienced Kenyan Sign Language interpreter having worked with the Deaf people from 2015. Am a stand for creating a new possibility for the Deaf people through Programming, coding and in the world of Robotics and Automation. | Deafhub | Where we work together to transform lives of People living with Disabilities | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | East Africa Community- Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi | Yes | Neverest Ltd, Karen Technical Training institute for the Deaf | Research & Development | Deafhub was founded eight months ago which aims at training Deaf youths and girls on Computer Programing to make products that transform lives. We have trained Five (5) software Engineers on Kenyan Sign Language Communicative Skills and now we are ready for incubation which we intend to start September 2019. | In Kenya, Youth unemployment is a growing challenge. The challenge is even worsened for youths with Disabilities. Deafhub offers an additional career path for Deaf Youths where we impact skills on software development. We solve the problem of unemployment and create an inclusive community where we work both hearing and Deaf. We also create a platform where we incubate innovations and finance solutions as a way of creating entrepreneurs and job opportunities as we solve real problems. | Deafhub is an innovative space where both Deaf and Hearing people can work together in an inclusive space to empower and give back to the community and have solutions that solve real-life problems. For hearing people, the only condition is to learn Kenyan Sign Language and bridge the communication gap. How Deafhub works is, we train Deaf youths on Computer programming skills. This creates a platform where we are a source of Deaf Coders in Africa and the world. This is also a space where we incubate innovations that transform lives and generates income. An example of this is an IoT device that helps Deaf parents know their child is crying. | This solution is an inclusive space. This itself is unique. We are the source of Deaf Coders and we incubate ideas and make solutions. In Deafhub, The developers own the space and any innovation is owned mostly by the innovators. | We are now in Research Development. We have trained the Developers in communicative skills that is Kenyan Sign Language who will be training the Deaf Youths on Programming skills. We have scheduled our incubation and training to start September for the first batch of youths. We intend on training Ten youths who we are partnering with Technical Training Institute for the Deaf in Nairobi. How we measure our progress is on the number of Developers we produce per year and the products or services, innovated by our hub and now going for production. | Our First goal is to have TEN developers trained and ready for the market by September. We already have the first innovation, our goal is to have the pilot test completed and product ready by September. We plan to sell the product first to East African Market before expanding to Africa at large. For the Next Two Years, We hope to be a source of Deaf Developers for the big tech firms like IBM, Google, etc and the world towards UN 5% of people with Disability act Employment. | Our short term resources needed are laptops and Capital to invest in doing Intelectual Property protection and development of the prototype before the actual product. The total needed cost is $10000 to scale up for the next one year. Partnerships with companies requiring tech services like Websites, System Development, and maintenance services, Mobile applications development which all will create a platform to employ Deaf youths with Tech skills. Our long term resources need is as the source of Deaf Coders in the world, to have partnerships in different countries and offer training that led to employment and production of PWD centered solutions. | https://neverest.co.ke/front/projects | https://neverest.co.ke/front/projects | During the 9th Business Innovation Challenge by Tangaza University college 2019, Deafhub took the forth runners up being among the Finalist. The winner of the competition was a start-up with a solution to solve seat-toilet splash problem. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
700 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ariel | Rojas | Transdiaspora Network | www.transdiasporanetwork.org | President/Founder | M | United States of America | Cuba | English | Spanish | My ECOSOC-accredited NGO, Transdiaspora Network (TDN), is advancing HIV prevention, youth development in urban low-income communities, and improving health education through innovative strategies, art and cross-cultural curricula in NYC. Our NGO bridges the gap between mainstream approaches to HIV prevention and the needs of culturally diverse communities that do not connect with the science behind HIV/AIDS, or do not fully embrace the most standardized prevention strategies let alone new concepts like U=U. We offer the interconnectivity of peripheral communities related to common social issues such as health literacy and youth engagement. Our programs translate the language of science into the language of diasporic communities beyond dialects. | As an interdisciplinary cultural entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the fields of mental health, HIV/AIDS, counseling and youth development, I have experience working in New York City’s multi-faceted social service and healthcare industry, delivering culturally competent services, creating inclusive environments and implementing highly effective outreach strategies in diverse communities. I have in-depth knowledge of the local challenges affecting the Caribbean and Latino communities as well. In the field of international development, I played a key role in the intergovernmental negotiation process at the United Nations by constructively engaging in various informal interactive hearings of the General Assembly with NGOs, civil society organizations, major groups and the private sector in preparation for the summit that officially adopt the post-2015 Development Agenda. In collaboration with other U.N. Major Group members, I advocated for the improvement of global policy issues related to youth engagement, cultural diversity, women inclusion, families rights and health promotion. Since 2014, I have been an NGO representative at the United Nations' Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC) . | TDN RIPPLE Program | Promoting Prevention: One Teen at a Time. Talk Things Out | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | United States | Yes | NYC Department of Health, Brightpoint Health | Transition to Scale | As a benchmark in the community, TDN wants to be a reliable leader guiding and supporting grassroots/community efforts creating transformation in the lives of young people addressing HIV stigma and promoting good health and well-being. TDN’s ultimate goal is to integrate and collaborate with other entities serving young people, so together we can add value to the service programs already in place. | Through our pioneering RIPPLE Program (Reflective Interaction Promoting Prevention and Learning) -- TDN engages youth in a new kind of dialogue about health promotion, personal growth and civic engagement . | TDN’s unique RIPPLE Program™ is centered on the notion of embodied knowledge and the cultivation of multiple intelligences — emotional, intellectual and physical. Participants are given a different language to communicate with, drawn from their cultural reservoirs, as well as a venue where they can freely conceptualize and vocalize their feelings. | Combining educational, recreational and therapeutic elements, our programs’ PRE-primary HIV prevention model brings innovation to the traditional public healthcare approach by bridging the wellness gap among youth of low-income and immigrant backgrounds, incorporating the community’s cultural values, and creating a sense of ownership over their own health, which they need to sustain the development of their local communities and to compete fairly in today’s interdependent world. | We are in the process of implementation and localizing our three SDGs (3, 4, 5). We measure our progress by the number of young people we engage every yea, by the new knowledge they earn during our workshops, by their level of civic and community engagement and by their change of attitude toward HIV stigma. Our methodology is survey date, questionnaire and evaluation cards. | We're planning to expand into the Caribbean and Latino-America geographical regions | Be connected to the philanthropic sector, have access to technology, develop an app and create local service provision. | Publications: Written Statement on the occasion the 54th Session of the Commission for Social Development (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs -E/CN.5/2016/NGO/46-, January 2016); Written Statement on the occasion of the 59th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (UN Women -E/CN.6/2015/NGO/136- March 2015); | Visit our website at www.transdiasporanetwork.org. | We are recipient of the New York State Health Commissioner’s Distinguished Service Award provided by the AIDS Institute. TDN’s cutting-edge HIV prevention curriculum and cross-cultural understanding as well as its community leadership has been praised by U.N.-related entities, NYC governmental offices and high studies institutions as well as prestigious institutions from the public and private sectors. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
701 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Patrick | Walsh | University College Dublin | http://csds.ucd.ie/ | Professor of International Development Studies | male | Ireland | Ireland | English | Our Innovation, outlined below, will be centered on getting youth voices into government and parliamentary deliberations on SDG policies. In general we are exploring an inter-dependency between the UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) and national level “whole-of-society” implementation of SDG Policy in Governments. The working philosophy of our approach is based, to a large degree, on the existing open governance adopted by the UN HLPF at a global level. We wish to explore a form of interoperability of public policy dialogues at national and global levels. Outcome documents, such as ministerial and leaders declarations, at the UN are not binding while parliamentary committees at national levels are pathways to legislative change are binding. By exploring HLPF structures in national governments/parliaments and making them interoperable with the UN HLPF we are proposing how a body like the UN HLPF can induce ‘whole-of-society’ participation at different levels, but particularly at the binding level of the nation-state. This has the potential to create very effective global ‘whole-of-society’ partnerships, led by governments that set, implement and review sustainable development public policies around the globe. In a paper (http://friendsofgovernance.org/index.php/section-3), we first review the role and functions of the UN HLPF. Then we explain in detail our proposed hybrid government/parliamentary committees and how it would provide a participatory space for non- governmental major groups along with exploring possibilities to legitimize them by making the government obligated to consider their inputs in the policymaking-process related to the UN 2030 Agenda in the same spirit of the UN HLPF. We argue that implementation of such an approach at national levels will induce a more effective UN HLPF that will produce a more effective global partnership for sustainable development lead by government in a new wave of multilateralism. As global, or interstate, challenges worsen, governments alone do not have the finance or capacity to address the problems such as climate change. A new wave of multilateralism in the forms of a global partnership lead by governments is badly needed. Getting national-level parliamentary committees focused on sustainable development with non-government check and balances is an important first and necessary step. | Patrick Paul Walsh is a Full Professor of International Development Studies in University College Dublin, Ireland. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His professional activities include honorary secretary and editor of the Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. He is Chair of the Global Association of Masters in Development Practice, Earth Institute, Columbia University and Senior Adviser to the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. During 1992-2007 he worked in Trinity College Dublin. He left Trinity College Dublin as a Professor of Economics, College Fellow and Dean of Social and Human Sciences. He was a Visiting Professor at K.U. Leuven during 1997-1999 and a Research Scholar in the Department of Economics, Harvard University, during the academic year 2002-2003. During the Academic Year 2014-2015 he was made a Senior Research Scholar at the Earth Institute and an Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, in New York. He worked as a Senior Adviser to the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, New York and participated in the UN Scientific and Technological Community Major Group during the Inter-Governmental negotiations of what is now the UN 2030 Agenda. He contributed as part of the scientific expert group that authored the last two editions of the UN GSDR 2015 and 2016. He given a series of Keynote Speech’s across the world on the UN 2030 Agenda. His current research is on the Governance of the UN 2030 Agenda. | SDGs GOVERANCE THROUGH THE LENS OF A CHILD | SDGs GOVERANCE THROUGH THE LENS OF A CHILD: Creating a space in participatory democracy for youth voices on the SDG Policy in Ireland | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | The innovation has been implementation in SDG Governance in Ireland. Hope is that every country can make her SDG governance inter operable with Global Partnerships via the UN | Yes | Department of Children and Youth Affairs in consultation with of 65 stackholders from Government /Civil Society/Private | Proof of Concept | As a result of the pilot the Minister is setting up an annual Irish Youth Forum to feed into the Irish SDG National Stakeholder forum to induce whole of society interoperability between the UN HLPF and her sub-committees such as the UN Youth Forum. Creates a lot of opportunities for Innovation on the SDGs by youth in partnership with all sectors. | Creating a space in participatory democracy for youth voices on the SDG Policy in Ireland that feeds into global partnerships | We ran a pilot SDG Stackholder workshop on the ""SDGs through the lens of a Child"" to have a unique government report that made recommendations on policy but also a process for having a youth focus and youth voices in policy making that feeds into our National SDG Stackholder Forum that would be interoperable with the UN Youth Forum and the UN HLPF meetings. Our youth now have institutions that allow a youth voice at home and globally. After the workshop a youth delegation of high school children presented the report to the UN Youth forum in April 2019. The Irish National Stackholder Forum has now formally set up a National SDG Youth Forum. Both are to be interoperable with global meetings of the HLPF and Sub-committees on Data, Finance, STI forum etc | Reform of Institutions at a national level to allow ""whole of society"" voices in government on SDG Policy seems straightforward but is not. Needs to be replicated across all nations to create effect SDG Global Partnerships. | Our project has been implemented and was a success. We had limited goals of showing how stack holder meetings can work with a youth focus and voices, sending a delegation to the UN Youth Forum for feedback and getting everyone to agreed to fund and set up an Irish SDG Youth Forum. Clearly, we need to get the annual Irish SDG Youth Forum up and running. The Irish SDG National Stackholder Forum has only has its fifth meeting since set up in 2018 (preparation of the Irish VNR). | We would like encourage other countries to set up similar approaches to participatory democracy for youth voices on the SDG Policy in Ireland that feeds into global partnerships | SDG partnerships committees are about well resourced stackholders committing to working together, pooling resources to achieve elements of the SDGs. Bringing the project to scale in terms of setting agendas, implementation and follow up and reviews just requires a blind faith for all parties to work together. Child poverty is worth theeradicating at home and abroad. | http://csds.ucd.ie/centre-for-sustainable-development-studies-contributes-to-report-on-children-and-the-sdgs/ https://www.dcya.gov.ie/docs/EN/25-03-2019-Launch-of-the-39-UN-Sustainable-Developmental-Goals-Through-the-Lens-of-a-Child-joint-report-39-%C2%A0by-Minister-Zappone-/81/5203.htm ‘UN SDGs Through the Lens of a Child' The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Dr. Katherine Zappone T.D. launched the ‘UN Sustainable Developmental Goals Through the Lens of a Child’. https://www.dcya.gov.ie/documents/publications/20190326SDGSLensChild26Mar2019.pdf | The written report by the Department of Children and Youth Affairs and the Geary Institute for Public Policy, University College Dublin was in consultation will a total of 65 workshop participants from ; Government departments (including Departments of the Taoiseach; Children and Youth Affairs; Communications, Climate Action and Environment). Government agencies ( including CSO and Tulsa); Research and academic institutions (including University College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, NUI Galway). Civil society organisations (such as Early Childhood Ireland, Children’s Right Alliance, One Family, Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Youth Council of Ireland, The Wheel, ECO-UNESCO, St. Vincent de Paul, National Youth Council for Ireland) Other Stakeholders (including Irish Times, Katherine Howard Foundation and Church of Ireland) Youth Voices (UN Youth Delegates) ) This an unique “whole of society” report on Child Poverty in Ireland written by government and non-governmental stockholders. An Irish Youth Delegation (of high school children) presented the findings of this report to the UN Youth Forum in New York in April 2019 during the SDG10 session. The Minister is also setting up an annual Irish Youth Forum to feed into the Irish SDG National Stakeholder forum to induce whole of society interchangeability between the UN HLPF and her sub-committees such as the UN Youth Forum. | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
702 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chelsea | Chee | Mentari Alam EKO (M) Sdn Bhd | www.maeko.com.my | Founder | Female | Malaysia | Malaysia | Chinese | English | Sustainability related project Project 1 is “Green Love in Community Composting” starts from April to December 2018. Food waste composters were placed in 5 selected locations (Police Station, Mosque, School, Urban Farm, Restaurant) in TTDI community to create awareness on stopping food waste to landfill. This project is a mini living lab allowing individual in every location experienced food waste segregation and easy composting using technology. The end product is then used as organic fertilizer for community farming to promote food security. The result achieved is the community understanding on food scraps being resources and not waste Project 2 is “Clean Our Plate” which involved AIESEC members from local undergrads and international universities delegates initiate food waste reduction programs in more than 20 secondary schools for the students . Since 2016, Chelsea is involved in all Winter and Summer program where she volunteer as advisor and knowledge partner in food waste reduction and management. | Food Waste has been a rising pollution issue in Malaysia and no one has taken serious attention of this segment of waste. As many look towards recycling as a lucrative business to hop in , organic waste has been left un-touch due to its messiness and high cost in handling. Very few people make an attempt at saving the mother earth, and even less succeed in doing so. Ms. Chelsea Chee, founder of MAEKO overcame strong opposition in her paradigm-shifting quest to create awareness for responsible food waste management. She research and improved on conventional food waste composting method by creating a convenient and easy to adopt technology for the people to recycle and reuse food waste. She holds strong to what she believe in reducing food waste and continue to volunteer and contributes in schools, community and corporate green initiative programs to educate, advise and initiate sustainable programs. Ms. Chelsea Chee graduated with a licentiate degree in Sound Engineering, and ventured into business combining both high technology and green awareness. Chelsea’s personal journey in her career began way back in 1992 when she first started with her new business in laboratory furniture manufacturing. She then ventured into interactive media solution, an industry that constantly evolves with times and later interior designing of green buildings. In the year 2011, her boundaries were pushed even further when MAEKO was formed. There’s no turning back since. Ms. Chelsea Chee is all set out to pursue the bigger picture of the country’s waste management and greening initiatives. | Innovated Food Waste Aerobic Composting Technology | Innovated composting technology to divert resources from landfills by composting food waste at source | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong, China | Yes | NGOs, Malaysia Green Technology, Solid Waste Corporation, Bio Economy Malaysia, Green consultants | Scaling | We have already implemented some successful sites over the few years and we are looking at scaling up to more sites by offering rental options. | MAEKO’s food waste composting machines are engineered to divert resources from landfills by composting food waste at source and resolving negative impacts of food waste towards economic, environmental and societal significance. MAEKO helps reduce high haulage cost, reducing carbon foot prints, methane gas pollution from the landfills, reducing GHG emission, eliminate foul air pollution, leachate, and to minimize the continuous creation of hazardous landfills. | MAEKO food waste composting machine converts food waste into bio-organic compost within 24 hours that can be used to enrich the soil, a natural resource to return to the environment. MAEKO food waste composting machine uses a patented Microbial Aerobic Compression Composting Technology with a built-in Aerobic Filtration System. This technology combines the best of both mechanical and biological functions which enables food waste to be composted in the shortest time. Our technology is scalable and flexible to be adopted as decentralized units located at each waste generating sites like hotels, school , factory etc. Our vision is to make the solution so flexible that all organic waste will be resolved at source and therefore no more food waste is being discarded into landfill rotting and generate green house gas which caused climate change. We will also develop home composter where each family is responsible to settle its own organic waste. | The current solutions are usually organic recycling or recovery centre which still required transportation of organic waste to the centre which is usually far from the waste source. The start up of a organic recovery centre are usually high and therefore government in developing countries have less budget allocation to implement enough such recovery centres to tackle the amount of organic waste they have. Therefore our small start up cost of stand alone compositing machines do not tax on government spendings, individual waste generator is given an options to own, lease or rent MAEKO composting machines to immediately kick start this green initiative . The fast start can bring the country towards achieving zero waste status at a faster speed. | Over the few years, we have successfully implements composting machines in various segment markets including hospitality, wet markets, factories, highways rest area, school and institutions, dams, shopping mall and food courts. From the volume of the composting machines implemented, we have tabulated the daily real time amount of food waste being composted using our technology and the data is publish real time on our MAEKO food waste composted matrix counter. | Indonesia is our next target market which we will be resolving food waste issues by tackling at the source of 52 wet markets. An initiative together with the local municipal council of the province. MAEKO will start with 2 sites in 2019 and expand in phases to fulfill this 52 wet markets within 3 years. We believe through this expansion, MAEKO will create job opportunities to the locals in a hygiene and clean environment. A total of 52 tons of food waste per day will be diverted from landfills by the completion of the expansion in year 2022. | 12 months - we will be initiating a crowd-funding activity to raise USD1,000,000 3 years - to expand towards Social Enterprise through ""Composting-On-Wheels"" 5 years - to expand International Market / Go Global | Website: www.maeko.com.my Process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcMJXAJMs34 Customer Testimonies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzVU1I5lLOQ | TV Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpaXVVmQ4UI An Interview Session: https://www.awanireview.com/articles/2019/05/03/news/saving-good-food-from-becoming-bad-waste-648/#.XM6E-kr5eeU.whatsapp Research Paper on MAEKO: http://www.maeko.com.my/pdf/APJIHT7SI_2018_GanWong.pdf | Frost & Sullivan Award 2015 BEST Food Waste Innovation Technology Award LUX Research 2016 (from USA) International Corporate Research Company On Emerging Technologies Global Cleantech Innovation Malaysia - Best Women Led Entrepreneur Award 2016 Cradle CIP500 Recipient and CGP Program Recipient 2017 WTOIP Malaysia Gold Winner for Intellectual Property in Technology 2018 BEST Greentech Innovative Award GuangZhou 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
703 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dr. Srinivasa Raju | Gannavarapu | MANTRA (Management Association for Nurturing Technologically Resourceful Assets) | TheGreenMantra.com | General Secretary & CEO | Male | India | India | English | 1. The motivation is to share our bit of contribution to support and allign with several UNSDGs and to promote eco-friendly products in collaboration with UN / UN networks for attaining better impact and to explore possibilities of implimentation accross the globe. 2. To gain visibility for our solution to reach masses and to create public awareness on adapting the green mantra solutions in best interest of the planet earth. 3. To obtain sustainable partnerships with various communities across the globe and give way to future developments. 4. To create sustainable business opportunities and raise the scope of employment in line with UNSDGs. 5.To explore possibilities of fiscal support to run various scalable campaigns on conservation of biodiversity. An innovative solution that puts a check to usage of plastic carry bags has been implimented under the banner 'The Green Mantra' as a proof of concept involving youth and the student community. About 10,000 of The Green Mantra's seed embedded compostable carrier / shopping bags were distributed free of cost at various vegetable markets and important holy places not only to substitute 'plastic bags' , but also to increase the green vegetation. Awareness programmes were conducted to let know of people the usage and importance of usage of these bags over plastic carry bags. Primary objective is to provide extraordinary solution for mitigating hazards of plastic pollution while pawing way for enormous GREEN COVER. Designed and developed several eco-friendly products and viable alternatives to petro-polymers using raw materials derived from plant based renewable biomasses and do not contain any heavy metals. These products are embedded with assorted seeds to germinate PLANTS at end of the use life cycle. When disposed-off, The Green MANTRA products undergoes aerobic process of degradation biologically, decomposes over a period of time under composting conditions while seeds implanted start germinating upon exposure with soil, moisture and required temperature, and can safely be absorbed by the earth averting all negative effects. They biodegrade into compost benefiting plants germination and growth. Being flora, they provide ample of flowers at one’s own living space. Time tested ‘Tulsi’ (Holy Basel) seeds containing high medicinal properties embedded within would yield ‘healthy air’ supporting ‘Billion Breaths’. While, assorted vegetable seeds embedded would produce ‘Organic Food’ propagating kitchen gardens. | Dr. Raju is a dreamer, pioneer striving to bring in several green technologies to attain the objectives of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) in association with United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)/ Global Compact Network India (GCNI). As a Chief Mentor, he is actively leading ‘The Green MANTRA’: a socio-economic moment in pursuit of protecting the Mother Earth from global warming. Prestigious ‘Billion Breath’ and ‘Plant-Ó-Planet’ campaigns are underway to enhance enormous green cover to mitigate climate change. Dr. Raju is a first-generation entrepreneur turned academician; promoted various institutions and business ventures. ‘Mantra School of Business Management’, a reputed B-School and ‘Gurukul Group of Institutions’, an Integrated Campus offering Bachelor and Post Graduate Degrees in Engineering, Pharmacy and Management were his flagship ventures. Played pivotal role in promoting ‘M/s. Procorp Enertech Private Limited’ (Manufacturing of Renewable energy products like LED Lights and Solar Power Systems) and ‘M/s. Schemax Technocrafts Private Limited’ (Software Development & Service provider). One of the largest and oldest universities in India, Osmania University has nominated him as ‘Board Member’ of Faculty of Management. Dr. Raju has acquired over 28 years of cross-functional experience in education and managing business operations. Travelled across the globe for academic pursuits as well as for expanding business networks. Presented and published over 20 papers in national and international research journals in his accout. | The Green MANTRA's Plant-O-Planet solution | In pursuit of protecting the Mother Earth... | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India & Kenya | Yes | 1. UN Global Compact /Global Compact Network India, 2. Forest Department, Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, 3. Forest Department, Government of Telangana, India, 4. County Government of Kisumu, Kenya, 5. Miramar Foundation, Kenya | Transition to Scale | The solution has passed through the stage of Proof of Concept and yielded objectives anticipated. Necessary techno-commercial colloborations have been accoplished and mandory test certifications, permissions were obtained from relevant government authourities in India. On African side, County government of Kisumu, Republic of Kenya has inked and executed partnership agreement(MoU) for manufacturing and colloborative promotion. Hence, solution is ready for commercial production. | 1. Mitigating Plastic Pollution: Considering Plastic Waste Management (PWM) has three scinarios i.e., Past, Present & Future. The Green MANTRA's solution would certainly curb plastic waste accumulation to the best part of 'present' and most part of 'future' if implimented at scalable levels. 2. Mitigating effects of Climate Change/Global Warming by increases enourmous 'Green Cover' without any additional efforts. | The solution works by creating awareness on ill effects of plastic and how it is a feasible alternative to all the shapes and sizes of plastic. we've designed and developed several eco-friendly products and viable alternatives to petro-polymers using raw materials derived from plant based renewable biomasses and contain no heavy metals. These products are embedded with assorted seeds to be germinated at the end of the 'use life cycle' . When disposed-off, The Green MANTRA products undergo aerobic process of degradation biologically, decompose over a period of time under composting conditions while seeds implanted in them start germinating upon exposure with soil, moisture and required temperature and can safely be disposed off. They biodegrade into compost benefiting seed germination and growth of plants. The long term vision of the solution is to be replaced as a primary material instead of plastic in all the fields of plastic usage. | The innovative solution of embedding plantable seeds to eco-friendly products to create enourmous green cover post disposal and/or end of the use lifecycle is a unique value added innovation which has never beed implimented known to us or recorded yet. We have filed for obtaining necessary IPRs. The solutions have been designed using available technologies in producing compostable products to develop a unique product adding plant based compounds to customise as per product utility. | The product has undergone the stages of research and development, lab scale production, production for conducting proof of concept, has undergone through necessary tests and certifications, has got techno - commercial collaborations to manufacture commercial scale production. It is in the process of recruting channel partners,and franchise bussiness associates for marketing and promotion. on the commercial front, the team is rigorously working to meet the project schedules and achieve implementation of commercial production to make available by the end of the year 2019. on the social front, The Green Mantra team has alligned with several NGOs to partner the awareness campaigns namely ‘Plant ‘Ö’ Planet’ and ‘Billion Breath’. | At the first phase, we intend to replace all plastic products in all sanctum - sanctorums and inter faith pilgrim centres with the Green Mantra alternatives. In this direction, negotiations are on with Tirumala Tirupati devasthanam, the largest hindu Pilgrim place, were it is estimated that on an average about 3 lakhs carry bags are being used in a day. About 50 thousand carry bags are being picked up by pilgrims at Laddu Prasadam counters at Tirumala alone. About 2.5 lakh carry bags per day are being consumed through hotels, restaurants, retail outlets and street vendors outside Srivari temple, Tirupati and other temple towns under TTD where pilgrims do visit during their sacred tour. These plastic bags could be given a rest and substituted with The Green Mantra seed embedded bags. At the second phase, we wish to step into commercial spaces and introduce The Green Mantra film based products as a feasible alternative to plastic flim based products. | We envisage to have a strong allignment with the UN and UN partner organizations to hand hold and promote our solution. As a short term need we would require support from various governments to create a global awareness. As a medium term need we look forward to engage as many entreprenuers / intrapreneurs as possible in dissiminating the products. As a long term need, we require to obtain susutainable community engagements and financial support achieve the objectives at large among many others. | http://thegreenmantra.com/ | https://drive.google.com/file/d/11-bw1iZs6ZiteDtiVfMOoKjiB6Bdz8m_/view?usp=drivesdk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QbPJ7vcw2eNH2pr6w6rUKxh01EGMnQqb/view?usp=drivesdk | Not yet | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
704 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Eva | Kulabako Nalubowa | Wazazi mothercare limited | Wazazimothercare.com | Director | Female | Uganda | Uganda | English | ■ I was motivated to submit our project as a company to the UN Solution Summit because our project is aimed at adrressing the third goal of the Sustainable Development Goals of ensuring healthy living and promoting the wellbeing of all at all ages which is in line with the UN Solution Summit objective of lifting up innovators that are advancing the sustainable Development Goals. ■ I aslo believe that submitting our project as a company will give us a worldwide platform during the UN Solution Summit to discuss the progress we have made in ensuring healthy living and the wellbeing of all at all ages and also discuss the challenges we are facing as a company and through the interraction with the policy makers,enterpreneurs and the members of the general public,I believe we shall get insight on the best way forward and also receive funding to enable us achieve both our short and long term goals. ■Through our innovation as a company we have carried out medical outreaches and health education drive in various communities such as Kijabijo and Bwwebajja among others. Through these medical outreaches we were able.to sensitize expectant mothers about the foods they need to eat during pregnacy,the importance of antenatal visits and the period within which such visits are required to made.We further sensitized the community about the various methods of.family planning both natural and artifical method. | Am a female adult Ugandan , a lawyer by profession and a director of wazazi mothercare Limited a company whose objective is to improve maternal health through technology.Am very passionate about improving maternal health in my community and my country at large and to achieve this goal i have attended a number of medical.seminars where i have acquired knowledge about maternal health.I have also worked with a team of medical professionals in our company in organising medical outreaches and educational.drives through which we senstitized mother about the importance of maternal health and family planning. I also prepare proposals and look for funding opportunities to faciliate the operations of our company. Aside.from work I enjoy attending christian fellowship,reading books and spending time with family. | Mothercare Application | Improve maternal.heath through the use of technology. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Uganda | No | Transition to Scale | It has been tested successfully through the previous stages mentioned and modified to provide practical tailored solutions to the challenges its meant to solve. | Our innovation is aimed at eliminating maternal mortality in uganda.Maternal mortality in Uganda still remains among the highest in the whole world reported at 343 per 100,000 live births(WHO 2018). Most deaths occur during pregnancy, at birth and within 42 hours after birth. Most deaths are attributed to challenges in accessing antenatal care Barriers to antenatal care include: information gap,poverty or lack of financial planning for pregnancy.among others. | It is an android and ussd application that couples financial saving and health information pertinent during pregnancy. With this application, mothers can be able to save money and cater for the increasing direct and indirect medical costs during pregnancy.Worth noting, it can run on any phone and utilizes the infrastructure of mobile money that already exists making transactions very easy to make. For the information part, mothers can be able to receive fast hand information on pregnancy through text messaging and offline articles in different languages.It has a feature meant to promote compliance to antenatal care through which a mother can register every time they go for antenatal their current and next antenatal visit for which they get reminder and follow up text messages. The application also enables mothers to access services they may need like car hire, pharmacy,baby clothes, e.t.c .In addition, for first time mothers, it can link them to various health centers and also provides a platform for interaction with a medical practitioner about medical challenges a mother may be undergoing | It has the saving component and provides platform for easy access of services making pregnancy journey a good and joyful experience and also empowers mothers , spouses, community to financially plan for pregnancy as it has financial demands like, buying drugs, clothes for the baby, transport to health facility e.t.c | We finished the ideation process, research and development, prototyping and testing.The progress has been a learning process and has enabled us to refine the idea to a point that it is user friendly and tailored to the needs of the mothers.The idea has been protected under the copyright and neighbouring act of Uganda. We believe as a company we have made tremdious progress since we had projected at the beginnig 9f this year to work towards transitioning to scale which level we have achieved.The main challenge we face as a company is funding since we plan to have a sustainable scaling.I have approached a number of government entities but to limited funding of innovations in my country we havent gotten a funding opportunity. | Our dream is in a story where every mother/girl pregnant or planning to be pregnant will always be very confident of the new journey they are undertaking ,because of our application tailored to their needs, it can be able to address most of their needs. We want to involve the community through empowerment , health awareness and financial inclusion to help the underprivileged have access to maternal health. -Bring on more technical staff especially the ICT personnel. -Do final touches on the application -Launch the application and do thorough marketing and establish strategic partnerships with health care providers to populate the idea with the aim of recruiting every pregnant mother. Our target is to recruit 300 mothers every month for the beginning and follow them up till delivery. -Expand to other East African countries that is Kenya,Rwanda,Cong and South Sudan. - | SHORT TERM -Licensing costs -Operational costs -Infrastructure -Training costs/workshops -Utilities/equipment -Marketing and branding costs Mid -term -Strategic partnerships Long term -Financial backing for the poor through involving the community and donors | http://wazazimothercare.com | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfUQqZdVoqw&t=9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S10k0rqAZJY&t=12s | We were awarded certificates during the medical camps that we conduct.in our communities such as Kijabijo and Bwebajja. http://wazazimothercare.com/awards/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
705 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Idicula | Mathew | Hera Health Solutions | https://www.herahealthsolutions.com/ | CEO | Male | United States of America | India | English | Hi! My name is Idicula Mathew, CEO & Co-Founder of Hera Health Solutions. At Hera Health Solutions, our team is truly honored to have the opportunity to be developing and commercializing innovation that aims to have a positive global impact on communities all around the world. Three years ago, our company started from a simple class research project while our co-founders were pursuing degrees at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Although our team never imagined that our research would evolve into a company, our roots stayed strong to engineering solutions that really solve real world problems. Along the way, at Hera, we had the opportunity to conduct a global customer discovery initiative. We met with hundreds of clinicians, physicians, medical device professionals, and everyday users of long acting medications. These conversations helped drive our innovation and still serve as motivation to propel our products into more markets. Furthermore, personally, my roots are from India, and my mother grew up in Dubai, areas of the world where problems of receiving long acting medications are especially magnified due to issues with access to healthcare as well as social and religious push back. We are so proud to be developing a product that our end customer helped design – the way that positive innovation should always be. | Idicula Mathew is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hera Health Solutions. Idicula has a background in product development, as well as a focus in biotechnical research. Prior to starting Hera Health Solutions, he worked as a Procurement Engineer for General Electric. While there, he focused on supply issues and finding ways to increase product efficiency. He previously also co-founded CrossX (now exited & FitGenie), a social media platform promoting safe exercise habits for fitness enthusiasts. In addition, he served as an Innovations Analyst for AT&T Foundry, a subsidiary of AT&T that enables entrepreneurs to collaborate on new ventures. Idicula worked as a bioengineering researcher at the University of North Texas where he focused in DNA testing. He holds a degree in Biomedical Engineering and Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology. | Eucontra | Long-acting biodegradable drug delivery system - starting in contraception | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | United States, European Union, Africa, India | Yes | Innova Memphis, Hatcher, Camargo, FHI360 (Advisory Partnership) | Transition to Scale | Hera’s first product, Eucontra, a long acting bioerodible contraceptive implant,is fully functioning and scaled to manufacture. Eucontra is in an implantable form that has concluded its benchtop validation and all in vitro trials. It has concluded trial Eucontra is GMP certified, concluded sterilization checks, and packaged. (Visuals of the product can be seen in videos linked). Eucontra is now undergoing toxicity and sensitivity in vivo trials to finalize FDA approval for market launch. | Today, offering quality and controlled medication over long periods of time is often times troublesome. Current implantable solutions on the market make it necessary for a complicated removal procedure. This procedure has caused huge problems surrounding bruising, scarring, and even migration of the implant. Specifically in the field of contraception, our first target market, thousands of FDA reports have been filed citing these issues and some have even been life-threatening complications. | Hera’s proprietary biodegradable implants created by using existing generic drugs in combination with already FDA-approved structural materials will deliver trusted medication over extended periods of time. Hera Health Solutions’ innovative technology is the first of its kind to address the removal complications that occur from long acting implants. The device will offer a safe, effective, and flexible solution. Starting in the contraceptive market, we recognize the fact that family planning mindsets are changing globally - the long acting contraceptive market is expected to grow by 15% by 2021 – an estimated $22B industry. Furthermore, the issues surrounding removal are magnified in developing countries. In nations with limited access to healthcare and societal and religious pushback to contraceptives - monthly birth control pills and intrauterine insertive devices aren’t even an option leaving more than 215 million women around the world without access to modern contraception – a number that we hope to have an alleviating effect on through the launch of our product, Eucontra. Furthermore, we are excited to announce that we have already finalized our round of market metrics and studies for movement into other markets. Hera’s technology and IP is surrounding a novel drug delivery platform that can readily be replicated to move into other areas and applications including opioid addiction treatment, long acting breast cancer treatment, and even areas in the veterinary space. | Hera's innovative technology is the first of its kind to address the removal complications that occur from long acting implants. The device will offer a new safe, effective, and flexible solution. Our flagship product in development, Eucontra, is the first of its kind long acting biodegradable contraceptive arm implant. The product is a combinative drug delivery device that allows for the currently generic birth control on the market, etonogestrel, to be delivered via a subcutaneous arm implant. Although subcutaneous arm implants are by no means a new innovation, the first one came on to the market in the early 80’s, however decade after decade as the technology has grew in the marketspace– the issues surrounding the difficulty of removing the implant has remained. At Hera Health Solutions, we have completely reengineered this design from the inside out. Eucontra is successful in maintaining the relevant size and rod shape necessary to be implanted subcutaneously while still having the chemical properties to be bio-compatible as well as bioerodible over an extended period of time. Eucontra is manufactured with a patent pending solution mixture that utilizes already FDA approved structural materials (now today in biodegradable bone screws and sutures). Hera’s technology is a reengineered combination product of materials that have already been tested as safe and effective in the market place today being repurposed to deliver medications for an extended period of time. | To date, since ideation – we have been named a top emerging medical innovation at an international conference. We have finalized our product’s full regulatory strategy and product testing protocols. We have filed our full utility patent on our technology, and have engaged and partnered with our FDA grade GMP certified manufacturer. Through this partnership, we have successfully tested and scaled up our fully packaged and sterilized implant samples that have concluded all benchtop and validation studies. We have taken our company through a nationally ranked medical device accelerator program that has given access to some of the top aids in launching successful medical products. | 1)Conclude preclinical trials to achieve design freeze a.ISO 10993 Testing GLP In vivo testing 2)Conclude FDA submission a.PIND submission 3)Gear up for market launch a.Aligning partnerships both domestic and internationally 4)Continue research & development and alignment of resources for follow up products a.Primarily in the veterinary space & opioid addiction treatment | Short Term: -Continued access to bench top and small animal lab space to conclude GLP testing space -Working R&D capital to push product through testing -Continued access to FDA regulatory consultants to navigate through approvals Medium Term -Access to WHO Preapproval process -International distribution pathways for early sales -Access to relationships with NGOs and non-profit organizations Long Term -Access to KOL’s to spread education surrounding health, well-being, and product safety -Continued R&D expenditures for future product launches -Marketing and Sales pipelines and strategies | Company Website: https://www.herahealthsolutions.com/ Product Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhQsy5by45w Featured in PharmTech: http://www.pharmtech.com/new-dose-forms-focus-patient-0 Featured in Hypepotamus: https://hypepotamus.com/people/idicula-mathew/ Featured in GreenBiz: https://www.greenbiz.com/article/2019-greenbiz-30-under-30 - Highlights Hera's contribution to SDGs Top Innovation DMD: https://www.medgadget.com/2017/05/design-medical-devices-conference-2017-minneapolis-glance-future-healthcare.html | Company Demo Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIMEd210A9U Interview with Epicenter: https://www.epicentermemphis.org/vital/hera-health Interview with LA Business: https://www.businessreport.com/article/sponsored-content-pitching-win-get-started-louisiana-welcomes-best-brightest-2 Interview with StartCo: http://neverstop.co/founder-spotlight-idicula-mathew/ | Memphis Zeroto510 Accelerator Portfolio Company BioExel Portfolio Company Greenbiz 30 Under 30 – Idicula Mathew, CEO of Hera Health Solutions Medical Device Global DMD Conference – ‘Top Innovative Solutions’ LA Startup Prize 2017 – “Top 5 Finalist” SXSW Startup of the Year – Winner Global Entrepreneurship Summit – Portfolio Company | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
706 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Robert | Kesten | PDHRE | pdhre.org | executive director | male | United States of America | United States of America | English | We are the organization that conceptualized the idea of the UN Decade of Human Rights. Over the decade we learned that it is essential for as many people as possible to know and own human rights as their own if it is to have an impact on government and society. Without that knowledge we will continue to defile the environment, limit democracy and demand that people sacrifice their inalienable human rights for survival. Participating in the Solutions Summit will give us a chance to reach an audience that will be sympathetic to this call and have the bandwith to reach people with the message...opening doors where too many are closed. Our work to date has challenged prejudice of indigenous people in Argentina, protected minority rights in Austria, opened a discussion for human rights based development during the Arab Spring in Egypt, included the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the redrafting of the Ghanaian Constitution and has resulted in discussions at the UN on Human Rights being a foundation for the organization, not a pillar, but the very floor all things are built on. We have used our outreach tools to establish the concepts of Human Rights Cities and Corps around the world and continue our efforts to ensure that every woman, man, youth and child claim human rights as a guiding principle in the way they lead their lives. | I conceptualized the idea of the Decade of Human Rights Education and have taken that message around the world. I've used the notion of knowing and integrating human rights into all aspects of life, from family relationships to business to government, from the most local level to the global level. It has become the cornerstone of my life and my work. I'm the father of a son with mental illness, the integration of human rights at home has made a world of difference in understanding him. I ran for political office making the argument that government's role is to protect and defend human rights...and insisting that healthcare, housing, economic justice and political inclusion are not luxuries, but inalienable rights. Since my run for office, candidates for all offices in the US and other nations around the world have also taken to referring to these social, economic and cultural issues as human rights...it is the opening we need to change our world, giving something to be for, not simply offering something people can be against. I learned from my time in the former USSR, in Tahrir Square during the Arab Spring and in the Middle East during the Gulf War and Intifada. People need to be for something...that is the foundation of my biography, to help people find that shared value that keep us united even after the tyrant has fallen. | The Human Rights Revolution | To save ourselves and our planet we must be for something! | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Ghana, Argentina, Austria, USA, intend to be in 100 countries before 2023 | Yes | We have affiliate organizations around the world | Transition to Scale | We have worked on this for a number of years and have continued to refine our strategies, goals and understanding of how to reach people. After all this work, drafting and redrafting, we are ready. | We offer an alternative, ways to integrate human rights into all aspects of daily and communal life. Once people understand what belongs to them, that it is inalienable, they see the world differently, they see their place in the world. They see their personal responsibility for making this a better, safer, sounder world. Our solution provides the oil so human beings can save our planet, establish guiding principles for live and work together for shared goals | We provide materials, establish regional and local cohorts, that are run and operated by locals, giving them ownership of the solutions to their concerns. By providing the tools, by offering assistance, we have found that people find and implement workable solutions to achieving their jointly arrived at goals. The long term vision is that every human being on the planet will know and own human rights, their inalienable rights not given by government and that they will not permit government to take them away. | There are no other organizations or entities any where who believe or are working on, based on 25 years of experience in over 100 countries, the concept of giving every human being the tools they need to excel and take control of themselves and the world around them based on international law and the concepts found I the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We have seen the light go on in people's eyes when they first understand what human rights are and that these are theirs simply because they are human beings. In Egypt I was asked by someone working for a major human rights organization why didn't his organization do this...why didn't they even treat their employees in a way that respected their human rights? We are unique because we believe that when people know and own human rights as their own they treat others and the very earth itself differently, not right away, but over time. Once human rights are fully integrated into their very DNA, everything changes for them and those around them. PDHRE is the only group working to make this a global reality. | We continue to refine and engage and improve. We measure our work in different ways, based on the capacity of the community we are working with. In Argentina and Austria we had the assistance of NGOs and municipalities to help keep records and statistics, in Mali we had to rely more on visuals and change in behavior. In Egypt we base our findings on continued conversations with people on the ground, as the government is not a willing partner. So in each location we have to be cognizant of our limitations. | We are looking to expand at all times and looking for local partners to take ownership of the programs within their regions. We do not want to expand the size of our organization too much, but grow the people in places we work, as human rights integration is local if it is going to be successful. Our overarching goal is to reach 2 billion people by 2023, the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with either Human Rights Cities or Corps in over 100 nations, including India, Philippines and Indonesia. | Our primary need is outreach tools, building relationships with organizations that have reach and are sympathetic to human rights integration. We are starting a fundraising program shortly to help us with a need for funding, we will need to raise $100 million over 5 years to ensure our partners have the resources they need to fully integrate the programs in their localities and for us to establish a global center for Human Rights Learning and Integration. | www.pdhre.org, https://www.facebook.com/Global-Alliance-of-Human-Rights-Cities-Corps-139618689468953/ https://www.facebook.com/Alex.HRC/ Human Rights Corps of Jordan | Some of these can be found on our website. www.pdhre.org | Our founding president received the UN Human Rights Prize and the Gorbachev Prize | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
707 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Linda | Farrelly | Wendevr Ltd | www.riscalert.com | Founder/CEO | Female | Ireland | Ireland | English | We have developed an early warning and emergency communication platform that allows highly accurate warnings to be disseminated to impacted individuals directly from both local and national authorities. Climate change is upon us and extreme weather events are devastating more lives than ever before. By applying to the UN Solutions Summit, we wish to gain further momentum and build global awareness of our solution so that it may reach more vulnerable communities quicker. | With a background in geography and remote sensing, Linda Farrelly has maintained a keen interest in how technology can be created, applied and harnessed to improve the lives of vulnerable communities. She has worked for a number of software companies throughout her career in sectors ranging from global payment technology, payroll, easy access mobile video production. Her experience in both well established industry leading companies as well as startup/scale-ups has allowed her to gain knowledge and wisdom regarding serving the customer and solving for the pain of that customer. Linda is well travelled on both a business and personal level and has experienced many cultures. She has volunteered in Uganda and Thailand (post tsunami 2004) in the past and has remained in touch with her volunteer companions and the organisations she worked for. She also continues to have strong connections with Uganda where she and another continue to fund the education of two young sisters. Both have attained incredible results to date and continue to grow their interest and appetite for business careers in their home country. Linda's interests range from applying technology to solve global issues, reading and self learning, hiking, travelling and music. She enjoys the company of a wide circle of friends from all walks of life at home and abroad and aspires to continue to learn from such a deep well of knowledge throughout her life. | RISCalert | The Real-Time Public Alerting Platform | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | We are preparing for launch on the island of Grenada in the Caribbean with ambitions for a wider regional rollout over the following 18 months. We have interest from the National Meteorological Organisation of Iceland, EUMET in Europe, Telefonica in Spain | Yes | Regional telecommunication providers in the Caribbean and Spain. | Proof of Concept | We have recently joined Microsoft for Startups and are now using the Microsoft Azure stack for RISCalert. In installing RISCalert on the Microsoft cloud, we have structured it in a way that is ready to be quickly rolled out upon completion of our initial pilot in Grenada. We are currently testing and debugging and aim to launch in the final quarter of 2019. | Globally, disaster management agencies have a need to communicate more effectively with their local communities in emergency situations. Currently, alerting accuracy is quite poor due to the nature of incumbent systems leading to over-alerting & alert desensitisation. RISCalert allows local & national agencies to pinpoint alerts right down to the individual citizen level providing updated information on evolving events such as floods, wildfires, hurricanes, evacuations, recovery operations etc. | RISCalert is an online platform enabling public safety agencies and utilities to communicate with their local populations as they prepare for, face and recover from disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires, dam failures, flooding, chemical spills etc. The platform enables customised messages to be sent to at-risk individuals or groups based on the recipient’s location right down to house level. Agencies can further segment the audience of an alert based on the type of recipient -whether they are a resident or a business for instance. RISCalert provides all agencies with an unrivalled degree of alerting granularity that can be used to better prepare and guide affected populations throughout every kind of crises. For the citizen, RISCalert significantly improves their current reality of needing to monitor, coordinate and decipher numerous sources of information at the height of a life threatening emergency. RISCalert gives authorities the opportunity to communicate with the general public directly and accurately, giving the public one true source of critical, trustworthy information with which they can make better decisions and have more time to take preventative action. The long term vision for RISCalert is for it to become the leading global public alerting system, used by all responding agencies throughout all kinds of disasters experienced in every type of environment- from flooding in Queensland or tidal surges in Bangladesh to landslides in Venezuela. | RISCalert allows alerts to be sent to individuals based on the individuals location. Incumbent systems use a more broad-stroke/broadcast approach alerting all recipients within a cell tower area or zip code. A zip code area could be as large as 90 square miles in the USA or a cell tower area could contain hundreds of thousands of people or more. In many developing countries alerting systems do not exist yet social media is prevalent. Effective alerting involves giving impacted people the right information at the right time based on their location so that they may act accordingly with information that is timely and highly relevant to them. Our research suggests that the RISCalert platform is currently the only dedicated public alert and warning system that brings all responding agencies under the one roof, centralising all public alerts from all agencies in the one place, freeing up first responder resources for other tasks whilst reducing the stress and anxiety experienced by the general public during disasters usually spent frantically searching through multiple sources for critical, life saving information. In offering the highest level of alerting granularity, agencies can distill customised information that may differ from neighbour to neighbour and home to home. RISCalert will change disaster communications and emergency management. | As briefly mentioned above, RISCalert, with the help, guidance and advice of Microsoft's technical architects, has now been migrated to Microsoft's global Azure technological stack ensuring global access and technical support. We are currently completely rigorous internal testing and will complete a beta test in the field in Grenada in the fourth quarter of 2019. | We aim to be beta live by the end of 2019 in Grenada in preparation for a wider rollout in the Caribbean for the 2020 hurricane season. RISCalert is currently being reviewed as a potential public warning solution to a number of nations in the Pacific, in Iceland and Spain. Development and headquarters are planned to remain in Ireland whilst sales teams and customer support centers will be implemented regionally ensuring local knowledge, providing culturally attentive support to all users. The Caribbean alone has over 40million people. We hope to serve those and many hundreds of millions of more as our solution proves to be effective and scale to reach our global ambitions over the coming years. | Short-term: Funding is currently required to ensure we have the right resources in place by way of a core team and supports for our launch and wider rollout in the Caribbean Medium-term: Funding will be required to ensure the continued growth of the RISCalert team including research and development, customer support, technical support and sales. We envison much of this funding will come from sales but additional external funding will be needed in the initial stages in order to establish ourselves in the market in the Caribbean and other markets such as Europe, Australia and the Pacific. Long-term: | https://www.riscalert.com/ | n/a | n/a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
708 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John | Kaganga | Kikandwa Environmental Association | www.kikandwaenvironmentalassosiation.org | Director | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | Am the Director and founder of Kikandwa Environmental Association,a local NGO based in Uganda, an environment activist, professional food security fellow who for a long time have been struggling and advocating for rural development and sustainable environment and natural resource management, I have been implementing a project known as Promoting Local Innovation “Prolinnova” (Promoting Local Innovation in ecologically oriented agriculture and natural resource management) in partnership with people from national and international community. Am a rural farmer, an innovative, passionate and charismatic leader who have committed my life for the betterment of local communities, a retired teacher, climate change and food security activists, specialized in sustainable agriculture and environment management to achieve SDG 1, 2,6,7,13 and 15, working on induced climate change migration and wise use of wetlands such as the Nile water basin wetlands. I participated in shaping of human development agenda since Rio 1992 and during Rio+10 held in Johannesburg, participated in shaping post 2015 development agenda expressing the concern, challenges and interests of the smallholder farmers, vulnerable and marginalized people not to be left behind. | Am a retired teacher, rural smallholder farmer with expertise and experience in rural development, interested in sharing best practices and innovations with local and international communities, I participated in a High Level Panel of Eminent Person meeting on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in UK in 2012 and Rio+20 conference which took place in June 2012 in Brazil, and COP22, COP23 and COP24, board member of Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development (UCSD), advisor on the platform for Ecosystem based Adaptation for Food Security Assembly for Africa, I identified Lake Wamala as one of the Lake in East Africa threatened by degradation, over exploitation, drying up and bordering extinction due to climate change and weather variability, I spearheaded the Lakes profiling providing information on it with the support of East African Living Lake, the Lake got published globally by Global Nature Fund which brought a lot of its attention by different stakeholders ranging from local to international communities to take action to save the lake, participated in 2018 Global Festival of Action on Sustainable Development Goal held in March 2018 at the World Conference Centre in Bonn, Germany with a Theme “Promoting Local Innovation to Achieve Sustainable Development and Parish Agreement under the title “Road Water Harvesting and Nature Based Conservation to combat Climate Change and Eradicate Poverty to Achieve SDGs”,I was selected and featured at the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Studio on ‘live stage’ to share ideas, initiatives and success stories | Community Roads Water Harvesting practices as means of adapting to climate change in Uganda | Community Road Water Harvesting for development and climate change adaptation: a case study from Uganda. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Uganda | Yes | Kikandwa Local Government,Community members,Uganda Coalition for Sustainable Development. | Scaling | Kikandwa Environmental Association, came up with an innovation known as Community road water harvesting which has been experimented, tested and proven as one of the most innovative and cost effective technology for water catchment area management, community road cleaning and maintenance as well as water management. It is based on two pillars namely harnessing local knowledge and self- help practices (Voluntarism).The solution is already in use but need replication and up scaling. | Poor watershed or catchment management leads to soil erosion, flooding, water logging, drainage congestion, poor water retention in the farms, and siltation, sedimentation and water scarcity during the dry seasons. Road infrastructure is one of the main drivers of these problems; areas including sloppy areas are deprived of vegetation cover and become exposed to run- off waters creating gullies and potholes within the community roads. | Communities are mobilized on agreed days, time and place where the activity will take place. Men, women and youth bring their domestic tools to use in the exercise. They start by removing the grasses from both sides of the road, dig up trenches on both sides of the road, fill the potholes and flatten the ridges developed by runoff water. Trenches are dug and directed to the bushes or gardens. Other channels may be directed to different points within the farm or collection points or dug up ditches lined with polythene sheets in the gardens. These act as storage tanks for water to be used during the dry season. This unique new innovation is an approach which is based on local knowledge to harvest, clean and repair roads by the community itself through voluntarism (self-help),it empower local communities to use their own knowledge and decision-making to solve their own problems without waiting for government and development partners. Therefore this give it a long term vision for global impacts. | The solution is unique from other approaches because it uses community roads which are generally perceived as infrastructure to deliver transport services, use them to harvest water through self-help by connecting road construction, maintenance, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and water management as one process to address water and sanitation, contribute to clean and safe water sources management, can create permanent water sources by recharging water table through hydrology water systems, control malaria and other water borne diseases by removing breeding sources developed in the community roads and gardens. Farmers are able to grow crops such as tomatoes “off season” through irrigation, the solution can also recharges aquifers, contribute to animal watering while keeping the roads clean, control flooding, water logging and drainage congestion, save public fund through self- help road cleaning and maintenance, improve environmental healthy and climate change resilience. Properly maintained roads improve access to health centres, schools, markets and business. | The solution started with local communities at the grass root,then, adopted by the whole parish of eight village, it is now adopted by Kikandwa local government with nine parishes with a population of more than 30000 people who use the solution by mostly applying their local knowledge and meager resources to adapt to climate change, fight poverty and food insecurity, there are many communities in Mityana, Kakumiro and Amuru district in Uganda who have taken up the innovation of Community Road Water Harvesting. Kikandwa Environmental Association is in the process of lobbying and advocating for soliciting support from central and local governments, development partners, donors, policy makers, and research institutions, local and international NGOs for financial and technical assistance in order to upscale and replicate the innovation in all parts of the country and other countries in Africa in order to contribute to the achievement of SDGs and agenda 2030.The progress is measured through the communities which are adopting and replication of the solution and their cooperation with the initiators. | Our main goal is to mobilize, train, sensitize and lobby for support from local and central government and traditional leaders to give community road water harvesting a political will, financial support and tools needed by the different communities. Sensitize community members who have lost the sense of voluntarism and self-help to change their mindset because public resources which are being used on such activities have become so inadequate. Mobilize the present cultural institutions, traditional and local leaders to adopt and emulate the good example of system of their former leaders by spearheading voluntarism / self-help / community services as it used to be in the 1960s.Advocate for districts and sub county local governments to include the solution into their budgets to reduce public cost expenses. Advocate for funding from donors, government and development partners Kikandwa Environmental Association (KEA) as one of the initiator of the innovation is ready to replicate and upscale it to other districts within the country and the entire East African Region through awareness creation and training once it is financially and technically supported | The solution has been adopted by different communities within some few district but we have planned the solution cover each and every parish in the three districts of Mityana, Kakumiro and Amuru in order to achieve our goal in short and medium term, we want also to advocate and lobby for the solution to be adopted by all the district in Uganda and to be introduced in other countries in the East African region. The resources needed for short, medium and long term will be to recruit paid up staff with different technical capacity and expertise starting with at least 20 staff, open up offices at local and national level of the country on medium and long term, acquire bicycles on short term and acquire motor cycles and motor vans for medium and long term services. Although the communities use their home tool to do the work but according to the survey made there is an urgent need to support communities by buying them with some of the tools like wheel barrows, spades, hammer, axes, hand hoes, curvet, murrum, and others depending on communities needs and locations, in some areas communities need financial support to hire machines for road construction especially when the road is being opened up for the first time or when it is passing via a wetland. | http://www.ugandacoalition.or.ug/sites/default/files/Kikandwa%20Environmnetal%20Association%20protecting%20bigger%20waters%20by%20protecting%20wetlands.pdf http://www.ngoforum.or.ug/2015/02/11/civil-society-leaders-learn-from-a-community-immersion-at-kikandwa-environmental-association-in-central-uganda-5/ https://www.gfar.net/organizations/kikandwa-environmental-association https://web.facebook.com/BoldLeaders/posts/kikandwa-environmental-association-kea-mityana-co-uscd-po-box-27551-kampala-tel-/10153464124320694/?_rdc=1&_rdr. https://www.weadapt.org/organisation/kea Video with Bill McKibben at Rio+20: https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=-B0DbEOrrJY Video of Kaganga John at Rio+20: https://www.com/watch?v=ENIk4NRcyNg | ad water harvesting video and other pictures for road water harvesting on the face book https://web.facebook.com/john.kaganga/ Benefits of Road Water Harvesting in Kasejjere Village of Kikandwa subcounty in Mityana District You can watch the video to see what we are doing at the grass root https://youtu.be/yvn2xfZFYjI | The most inspiring award to me is receiving full sponsorship to go and attend COP22 in 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco, COP23 in Bonn, Germany. In March 2018, I was sponsored in Global Festival of Action for Sustainable Development to present a paper on Promoting Local Innovation to Achieve SDGs. In June 2018, present a paper at the 5th Climate Change Adaptation Conference held in Cape Town, South Africa. Also I was sponsored to participate in COP24 held in Katowice, Poland in 2018 etc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
709 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ronald | Eporu | Medific Consultancy | http://aerotherapy.wordpress.com | Coordinator | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | This summit provides unrivaled opportunity for me to present my innovation to policy makers who are our target customers. I had conducted a 2 year research to compile over 30 scriptures for promoting conservation, and composed a bible guide for promoting environmental protection. Governments can use this bible guide to build extensive partnerships with religious entities at the grass roots and include it in school curricula to engage masses to save environment in developing countries like Uganda, where at least 84% of people are Christians. The goal of this innovation is to forge lasting alliances between government and church entities at the grassroots of society to promote and implement initiatives needed to attain 9 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to environmental protection. I will also use this opportunity to promote my medical innovation in which I had invented new methods of using free cool air as a first aid therapy (aerotherapy) to quicken recovery from fever diseases like; common colds, flu, malaria and typhoid fever. The committee of health experts in Tech-i competition of Global Innovation in Science and Technology (GIST) had praised my solution as a great idea with a huge potential. The scientific merits of my health innovation have been appreciated by top health experts like; Prof. A K Prasad (Flu expert from India) and Prof. Steve Lindsay (malaria expert from UK) who reviewed my literature. I will target investors or philanthropists to support further research, development and sales of this health innovation. | I am a male adult from Uganda who spent 6 years studying geography in Nabumali High School where I learnt the importance of our environment. I graduated with a Hon. Bachelors of Science in Quantitative Economics from Makerere University in 2005. I spent over 10 years conducting experiential research on applications of cool fresh air as a therapy to quicken recovery from common infections like flu, colds, typhoid fever and malaria. This medical experience enabled me to appreciate medicinal value of cool fresh air. Pollution of air is therefore a major threat to wellbeing of society, which everyone should recognize and seek to prevent. I have relied on my background of being a practicing Christian over the last 28 years to study moral obligations that all Judeo-Christians have in the bible to ensure sustainable use of natural resources and protect our environment. I studied Certified Public Accountants course and worked as an Internal Auditor in the private sector, which background enables me to design accountability tools for ensuring viable environmental committees at the grassroots. I have applied for a Climate Launchpad competition as an opportunity to promote green business to people all over the world to mitigate climate change in their respective localities. | SAVING ENVIRONMENT | Engaging masses to attain 9 sustainable development goals using scriptures and religious entities | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Uganda and all other countries having Christians/Jews in their populations | No | Research & Development | I completed a 2 year research in which I recorded a broad of collection of verses in the bible that are applicable to promoting environmental protection to constitute a bible guide for advancing achievement all SDGs related to conservation. We have completed preparation and development of a project proposal for a feasibility study to assess engagement of masses to protect environment using religious entities and prospects of including bible text on environmental protection in school curricula. | Our society lacks effective alliances at the grassroots among religious entities, government institutions and academia to promote adoption and implementation of environmental SDGs by masses. Most of the population in Uganda (75%) and other developing countries are based in rural areas beyond the reach of print media and television. Substantial aspects of behavior by masses are not directly influenced by governments rather by religious entities and schools that are ubiquitous in our society. | We shall license our literature for promoting environmental protection to all governments with significant populations of Christians or Jews. Our literature includes questionnaires for undertaking surveys to identify Christian leaders who subscribe to key bible verses for promoting environmental protection. Our literature inspires Christian leaders to practice conservation and engage all their followers to attain this goal in their respective communities. It motivates Christian entities to promote environmental protection, and partner with government entities to initiate or support implementation of environment protection projects in their local communities. Our bible guide motivates Christian entities to invest in green businesses that promote energy saving stoves, agroforestry, energy efficiency, use of public transport, waste & water management, sustainable agriculture, etc. Many Christian entities are already offering health and education services to their local communities, hence, rendering environmental protection to the same communities is a reasonable addition given the gravity of climate change and several bible verses that call on Christians to protect environment. Our bible guide will be included in school curricula to inculcate a culture of sustainable consumption and production to future generations. Our long-term vision is to replicate this intervention across all continents where significant populations of Jews/Christians are resident. | Most approaches in this competition aim at achieving a single or very few SDGs but this solution is a cross-cutting promotional platform for engaging masses to attain 9 related SDGS. It introduces a viable cost effective and influential promotional channel of using ubiquitous religious entities and schools to engage masses to produce and consume natural resources sustainably and protect environment with leadership or support of government institutions. Our local government environmental committees at villages, parishes and sub counties in Uganda have been isolated and dormant without inspiration or support from religious entities and schools in their localities. Our environmental conservation activists and lobby groups are thin on the ground and few and far between with activities largely limited to advocacy. Our promotional platform will propagate practice of environmentally saving solutions such as; agroforestry, energy efficiency, use of public transport, waste & water management, sustainable agriculture, etc. We are taking a triangular approach to promote attainment of 9 SDGs through networking of government, academic and religious entities including: advocacy approach to enact and enforce laws, regulations and policies by governments; academic approach that appeals to elite masses using scientific literature that supports environmental protection; and religious approach that appeals to all less educated masses to act on religious scripts on environmental protection. | We have a prototype that can be used by religious entities, schools and government institutions to promote environmental protection. We have completed preparation of a project proposal for conducting a feasibility study on applications of our prototype by religious entities to engage masses to protect environment. We are soliciting for funding to conduct our feasibility study. We have already extended an invitation to a relevant government agency called NEMA to review and contribute to our project design. We measure our progress by level of improvements made on our prototype each year. We measure our progress by the number of partners we bring on board each year. We measure our progress by the amount of financial resources we raise and number of employees we can engage. We consider the number and prominence of awards that we win to measure our progress. We gauge the proportion of target groups including religious leaders and academicians that understand or get convinced by our literature. We ultimately consider increase in the proportion of end users that practice environmental protection based on our literature. | Our first goal is to license our product to our government as the first client and have it deployed across the country. The milestones include: completion of our feasibility study in 6-9 months from November 2019; obtaining a contract from government thereafter; recruitment of staff within a month of getting a contract and completion of training in the second month; piloting our solution in 5 districts in the country from the third month of getting a contract for proof of concept; project evaluation report at the end of the first year of piloting this solution; project evaluation report at the end of second year on support rendered to roll-out of this solution across the across the country. Our second goal is to expand to the second country within 3 years from attainment of our first goal. | We need expertise, human and financial resources in the short-term to facilitate feasibility study and pilot our solution in the first 5 districts of the country. We need € 9,712 for the feasibility study alone covering: office space at € 1080; Research experts at € 1200; Coordinator at € 3150; data collection at € 1260; research permit at € 187; Accounts staff at € 1080; M&E staff at € 1080; administration expenses at € 675. We need human and financial resources in the medium term to roll out our solution across our first market. In the long-term we need partners from different parts of the globe. | Project proposal environmental innovation link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=101JfsylGFT3HpL0bsRVQuJLUojbwf9KK Health innovation link: http://aerotherapy.wordpress.com | Health innovation link: https://youtu.be/i94Upfw_cnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ZXCoG6oIM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIUoMHk13gQ | My health innovation was listed among the top five finalists in Uganda Communication Commission ACIA AWARDS of 2014 catalogue. I emerged among top 10 finalists in Africa in HYPE Innovation in sports Competition of 2016 for my health innovation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
710 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ekanikpong | Ben | EL-kanis and Partners | https://elkanisgroup.com | Founder/CEO | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | At El-kanis, we believe innovation in agriculture is the central driving force for achieving a Nigeria free from hunger and malnutrition. That's why we harness the power of digital technologies to accelerate impact in food and agriculture, transforming digital solutions and services into national public good. Our farmTRUST Agsensor drone services improves crop health and yield predictability for over 20,000 farmers that previously been experiencing pre-harvest losses, farmX mobile Apps and farmTRUST local dialect IVR works as food value chain mobile business solution that connects input suppliers and agro service providers to farmers and vice versa, with wider market access, mobile payment and financing option. FarmTRUST Blockchain creates traceability and authenticity on our food value chain and our farmTRUST ag IoT mitigate risks and increases farmers productivity and profitability. Our solutions holds the potential to unlock better livelihood for farmers and create robust food and agro sector that will provide more affordable food to the tables of a growing, hungry population. | Ekanikpong is an experienced entrepreneur, engineer and agricultural systems solution Innovator with a demonstrated history of working in program development, energy sector, construction, agriculture and food industry in Nigeria. Skilled in Project Management, Rural Development, Business Planning and Operations Management, he has acquired several capacity development training within and outside Nigeria, made presentation at United Nations conferences. He happily married with a son and has a Bachelor of Science degree focused in Engineering Management from University of Lincoln. | FarmTRUST Digital Solutions | Agricultural intelligence platforms that addresses crop and food specific issues for increase efficiency, profit and sustainability of farming system. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Nigeria | Yes | 1. Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. 2. Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Agriculture. 3. New Dawn Bank 4. Nigeria Agriculture Insurance Corporation. 5. All Farmers Association of Nigeria. 6. National Union of Road Transport Workers. | Transition to Scale | We've begun selling beyond our initial target customers (early adopters). We initially launched our product with farmers because the problem is most acute for them, and they are the most accustomed to an unpolished user experience. Now we've expanded and are targeting sales and marketing teams who expect a near consumer-grade user experience. We're proud to say the product has reached a level of polish where these less technically savvy users are delighted by their experience. | Nigerian farmers have been battling the repercussions of whether, volatile commodity prices and data shortages. 50 million smallholder farmers population in Nigeria still do not have access to improved agricultural services, nor have access to market. Rural farmers lack access to veterinary services, credit, insurance, financial services and input suppliers, likewise service providers lack access to farmers and their data, increasing pressure on food security for growing 200 million population. | My solutions offer farming needs, along with inputs driven by Data Analytics/Artificial intelligence directly to farmers and service providers. Farmers, input suppliers and service providers sign-on, registers, get verified and on-boarded on our platform through our mobile Apps, Whatsapp, SMS and local dialect Interactive Voice Response. The platform then matches farmers request to service providers and vice versa, where farmers access wider markets, credit, insurance and inputs, and agro service providers access wider farmers customer base. Farmers now receives daily market and weather updates, access transport services to convey produce to market, buys and sells on our platform. The platform also supports agro trading, processing, and distribution, as well as offering a range of farmer services and risk management solutions. The long-term vision is to accelerate agriculture and food security program, scale our solution to reach 1 million users, improve smallholder farmers’ yields by 30%, de-risk food supply chain, increase agricultural productivity by 30%, expand market participation by 40%, increase resilience of 1 million vulnerable households, improve business enabling environment and increase access to finance for rural smallholder farmers. | 1. USERS GET MORE DONE FASTER Increases farm productivity and accelerate adoption with a flexible request tools that matches requestor to service provider based on location. 2. USERS GO WHERE THEIR BUSINESS TAKES THEM Order inputs on mobile devices, check inventory, take customer orders, approve purchases, and view key performance indicators on the go 3. USERS GAIN CONTROL OVER THEIR BUSINESS PROCESSES Eliminate inefficiencies, and streamline operations with end-to-end integration of farm processes to control costs and improve profits. 4. USERS SERVES THEIR CUSTOMERS BETTER Accelerate issue resolution in farms and increase service provider responsiveness with a faster and simpler access to the information they need. 5. USERS EXPAND THEIR MARKET ACCESS Increase capacity and sell agricultural produce to consumers, guide farmers on increasing market value by effectively selecting the right produce specification. 6. USERS GAIN AGILITY AND FOCUS ON THEIR BUSINESS Take advantage of online training and functionality, security, and scalability. 7. USERS GAIN INSIGHT WHEN THEY NEED IT Get notification and monitor performance in real-time with user dashboards and SMS. | Our team can built the product without outsourcing design or development. We prototype, design, and develop the product. Our leadership team is executing effectively as evidenced by users feedback . I am confident they can lead the company through its growth as we can communicate our sales and operational strategy succinctly and effectively. USER GROWTH KPIs •Average order value •Online customer retention rate •Online order frequency •Number of customer service phone calls and emails •Average time taken to process orders | In 3 years’ time, we anticipate: • 1 million farmers to demonstrate shift in values, engaging with divergent approaches to solving perennial problems. • 1 million farmers accepting farmTRUST solutions as fundamental to tackling food loss challenges. • 1 million farmers managing and supporting other interested farmers in adopting farmTRUST solutions for impact and change. • 1 million farmers scaling to a point where they are operationally self-sufficient and engage in double-bottom-line activities. | SHORT-TERM NEEDS US$200,000 to strengthen rural agricultural production and women empowerment initiative through revolving loan on our platform and Improvement of agricultural supply chain. Expansion of local dialect Interactive Voice Response extension platform. MEDIUM-TERM NEEDS Establishment of 10 call/mobile money centres. Establishment of 20 agro input/support service shops. Establishment of 10 numbers 3 tonnes 8 horse power German cold rooms. Purchase of 10 delivery trucks with 3 mobile cold rooms. Purchase of 20 farm tractors and accessories for leasing. Purchase and programming of 5 agriculture sensor drones. LONG-TERM NEEDS Create linkages between agro processing companies, off-takers and small holder farmers. On-boarding and profiling 1,000,000 farmers and service providers. expand activities to 20 States. Increasing capacities to delivery agencies and scaling up and supporting business-oriented groups will open up institutional space for larger number of smallholder farmers to benefit from economies of scale, link up with service providers/produce off-takers in the marketplace for the long-term profitable sustainability. | https://elkanisgroup.com/ https://elkanisgroup.com/index.php/blog/item/8-digital-agricultural-services https://elkanisgroup.com/index.php/blog/item/15-digital-agricultural-services-2 http://nigerianpilot.com/aibom-to-partner-firm-in-innovative-technology-for-agric/ http://www.nggovernorsforum.org/index.php/homepage/73-featured-news/1152-akwa-ibom-partners-private-company-on-agriculture-development https://vc4a.com/food-connection-challenge/food-connection-challenge-2018/ https://thefork.online/blockchain-food-implementation-biofortified-seeds/ https://dailytimes.ng/aibom-partners-private-company-on-agriculture-development/ | https://youtu.be/LuAHc9-u5P8 | 1st Prize Winner, Young Agriprenuer Exibitor - 1st South South Agric Expo Summit 2018. 1st Prize Winner, (AgriTech) Ibom Agribusiness Forum 2018 Runner Up, Food Connection Challenge (Winner, Soupah Limited) 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
711 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Stephen | Maina | Imara Digital Media Foundation Limited | Imara.Tv | Co-Founder/Product Owner | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | I'm a BSc. Hons Computer Scientist from the University of Nairobi. I am a mobile software developer who is enthusiastic about solving local problems using cheap and available technology such as SMS, low end features phones, Java, MySQL and Linux. While in campus I co-developed a simple SMS based app that enabled students to elect union leaders using SMS to replace the expensive and inefficient ballot box queue system. I also developed an SMS data collection system that allowed Non-Governmental organizations to use a laptop and a modem to collect community based field work data in remote parts of Africa where there is no internet connection. In 2016, I innovated Imara.tv, a online Tv where youth in Kenya could collaborate to create entertainment videos such as plays, comedies and animations to educate their fellow youth and the public in Kenya about Sexual Reproductive Health issues while earning money from advertising for their economic empowerment. I’m also passionate about sharing my knowledge with less fortunate youth to empower them with job-creation skills. I train high school and college graduates software development methodologies in partnership with other likeminded organizations at www.codepamoja.org I’m excited to be alive at a time when the world is waking up to Africa’s untapped potential and gladly play my role in building a sustainable future that benefits all. | My name is Stephen Maina, a 32 year old Kenyan and Computer Scientist by profession. I am the Co-founder and CEO of Competa Millman Ltd, the company whose staff innovated Imara.Tv in early August 2016. Competa Millman began operating in March 2010 in a hostel room at the Chiromo campus of the University of Nairobi when Dunstan Machoka from the School of Engineering partnered with Fred Onyango and I from the School of Computing to develop custom mobile and web software solutions for diverse clients within and around Nairobi. We help organizations adopt technology either to overcome operational challenges or achieve strategic goals. My role in the company is mainly as the Product Owner but I also double up as Scrum Master or Software Developer when necessary. As Product Owner I get to translate our customers’ needs and requirements into feature stories for the development team to implement. As Scrum Master I ensure the developers have all the resources they need and observe all the rules of the scrum project management methodology to guarantee successful delivery of software for our clients. | Imara.Tv | Entertainment films that educate the public about health and empower the youth financially with sustainable digital careers in the movie industry | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Kenya | Yes | UNFPA Kenya and Ministry of Health, Kenya Government | Transition to Scale | The I-AM Initiative gave us a KES 1,000,000 grant as seed capital on 1st August 2016 to develop the Imara.Tv proof of concept and produce the initial video content. To date, we have generated over KES 4,000,000 in sponsorships and paid advertising from non-profit organizations such as ICRHK, UN-HABITAT and Action Aid Kenya, to produce over 100 original films with over 300 youths hence the pilot was successful but unsustainable unless we scale as we only keep 10% of revenue to run our operations | Every day in Kenya, over 96 youth acquire HIV! Every year, over 15,000 girls drop out of school due to unwanted pregnancies. Our research shows this occurs mainly due to poverty and ignorance. Poverty due to unemployment makes the youth engage in risky sexual behavior like prostitution to earn an income while ignorance due to lack of credible sex education keeps them from using protection thus end up suffering from these SRH-related challenges. | Imara.Tv is a non-profit digital Tv that delivers entertainment films directly to the Kenyan public educating them about sexual reproductive health in a private, safe and fun way. What’s even better, these videos are created by small groups of talented youth here in Kenya who self-employ their artistic and digital skills to create music, movies, comedies and animations that tackle SRH-related issues that they deal with on a daily basis where they live, work or play such as HIV/AIDS and other STDs, Rape and Gender Based Violence, Female Genital Mutilation and Forced Early Marriages, Sexual Identity and Rights, Early Unwanted Pregnancies and Abortion among other issues. Imara.Tv hosts the videos on the cloud, distributes through smartphone apps, Tv and social media then monetizes the content using advertising, product placement, premium pay-per-view streams and sponsored content among other revenue channels. Imara.Tv then disburses 90% of the Net Revenue generated by the videos to the youth groups forever to create a regular source of income and tangible wealth for the content creators and their support services providers such as caterers and fashion designers in the local film industry. The 10% retained goes into building the capacity of the systems and people required to manage and run the Imara.Tv platform in order to add new features and scale it to as many youth as possible . | In Kenya, sex is a taboo subject due to our strictly conservative culture and sex education is not only brief but only officially accessible from college level. I, like most of my fellow Kenyan youth, learned about sex from cheap pornographic tabloids highly sexualized and sensationalized to increase sales at the expense of credible information hence ended up learning the wrong things. We thus end up practicing out what we have erroneously learnt behind our parents back and get STDs or unwanted pregnancies which adversely affects one's academic career. Imara.Tv as a pedagogy innovation for sex education is, first and foremost, created by youth for youth with youth so our needs came first. For example, by using personal smartphone apps, Imara.Tv is able to privately deliver comprehensive sex education to any youth anywhere even if sex education is not allowed where they live, work or play. Secondly, Imara.Tv uses entertainment to advocate for safe sex and disseminate proper sex education. The ""edutainment"" content is localized and contextualized to make it appealing and relatable to the audience hence the lessons are more memorable hence effective. Furthermore, Imara.Tv indirectly creates limitless job opportunities for unemployed youth to express their artistic and digital skills to create the edutainment content hence engaging them in constructive work over and above creating digital wealth. This keeps the youth away from negative influences and risky sexual behavior | We are a technocratic team of software engineers that have iterated 3 times on a solution before the current version of the app that is designed to address the unique needs of our 3 main user groups namely content creators, consumers and sponsors. We are currently automating the copyright ownership tracking and revenue distribution using a blockchain-based database that uses smart-contracts to track which youth owns which part of which film. We measure our success based on 3 key metrics which are numbers of original films produced, number of youths engaged to produce and number of video views received across our platform. | Our next goal is to launch a Free To Air Tv channel on the Kenya Digital Video Broadcast Terrestrial platform with our content rated ""GE"" to enable people in areas with no internet connectivity to watch and learn from our content. We plan to recruit new people and develop capacity to handle the increased content volume and develop sales channels for increasing revenue for the content creators. We also target to reach 1 million regular monthly viewers attract high net worth organizations with big advertising budgets to spend their money on our platform | Our short-term goal is reaching every youth in Kenya which means our short-term needs are launching the Free To Air Tv platform. This requires recruitment of TV signal and content creators managers to have the capacity required to manage a 24/7 Tv channel. Medium term we need to increase our administrative capacity to supervise the increased operational and technical overheads for efficient operations. Our long term needs are developing a robust and scalable platform that can manage high video content traffic to scale gracefully beyond Kenya to the rest of the region and possibly even Africa where SRH related challenges plague the youth. | 1. https://imara.tv 2. https://businesstoday.co.ke/10-innovative-kenyan-ideas-on-sex/ 3.https://www.nation.co.ke/lifestyle/My-love-for-cartoons-led-me-to-a-fulfilling-career/1190-4276802-fd14as/index.html 4.http://www.mediamaxnetwork.co.ke/people-daily/online-tv-takes-sex-education-closer-home-292209/ | https://youtu.be/qxe27fA5LHw?list=PLoSbFpAKL_ROv0y-9KGN8YKM91r0_M57q&t=2855 | 1. Unleash 2017 (talent nominee & event attendee) 2. Action Aid Kenya - SDG Ambassadors 2018 Winner 3. Kenya Film Commission 2018 Kalasha International Film Festival - Nominee under Animation Category for The Diary of a College Girl Tv series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
712 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Michael | Lwin | Koe Koe Tech | https://www.koekoetech.com/ (note that this website hasn't been updated in years and will be late this year) | Managing Director | M | Myanmar | United States of America | English | Koe Koe Tech is growing very fast and has many exciting projects underway that address a variety of SDGs and that would benefit from increased capacity building support and attention from senior policymakers, industry leaders, and fellow entrepreneurs. We are excited to share our project to learn from the experiences of others, as well as motivate others to conduct similar projects. Our innovation is helping break the vicious cycle of low tax intake that prevents the sufficient and effective delivery of government services to vulnerable pop | Michael Lwin, co-founder and managing director of Koe Koe Tech, is the son of two doctors who came to the United States from Myanmar in the 1970s. After earning his J.D. at NYU School of Law, he worked as a research fellow at Georgetown University and an antitrust lawyer at the Washington, D.C. office of Arnold & Porter LLP, working on antitrust M&A and litigation matters and pro bono immigration asylum cases. When the parliamentary elections took place in Myanmar in 2010, Michael left Arnold & Porter shortly after to work as a C.V. Starr Lecturer at the Peking University School of Transnational Law in China. During this time, he also wrote for Al-Jazeera English and did research for the Economist Intelligence Unit. When U.S. sanctions for Myanmar were suspended in 2012, he came to Myanmar to form Koe Koe Tech with his cousin, Yar Zar Min Htoo, a then-impoverished Myanmar doctor. As Managing Director, Michael has led the development of Koe Koe Tech’s maymay app, Development Affairs Organization tax app, and electronic medical records software. He now oversees 145 employees and has over 7 years of project management experience. Michael’s responsibilities at Koe Koe Tech include creating, communicating, and implementing the organization's vision, mission, and overall direction, leading the development and implementation of the overall organization's strategy, soliciting advice and guidance for various projects and overseeing the complete operation of an organization in accordance with the direction established in the strategic plans. | Tax Software and Municipal Citizen App | Tax Software and Municipal Citizen App | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Yangon, Myanmar | Yes | The Asia Foundation | Transition to Scale | Our solution has been implemented effectively in multiple contexts (it’s being used by 13 of Myanmar’s 300+ local Development Affair Organizations) but requires additional support for widespread adoption. Already, we are seeing results. In certain DAOs, use of MyanKhon has increased annual revenues by 15-20% and has reduced tax collection times from 6 months to 2 months. | Myanmar’s low tax intake leaves local government with inadequate funds for public services and infrastructure. Governments are under-resourced and under-staffed, crippled by an outdated paper-based tax collection system that eats up labour productivity and raises risks of human error, data insecurity, and corruption. Meanwhile, citizens are unfamiliar with local governments’ roles and functions, and resist paying taxes to cities they feel disconnected from. | In 2016, to end the vicious cycle of low tax intake, KKT developed MyanKhon (“fast tax” or MK) for Myanmar DAOs, digitizing and increasing the transparency of tax collection from beginning to end. MyanKhon is comprised of two components: 1) a web app for the DAO offices, on which the managers can digitally generate household tax demand letters and manage taxpayer and household profiles, and 2) a mobile app for tax collectors to input tax data, update records, and issue tax receipts. MyanKhon’s accompanying citizen-side app, MyoTaw (MT), launched in 2019, is designed to increase citizens’ understanding of municipal government and to provide a new communication and digital payment channel between government and citizens. Citizens are currently able to read about different aspects of municipal governance on the app, provide suggestions and feedback to their local DAOs, and calculate the amount of tax that they have to pay, among other tasks. After 3 years of testing, MK is ready for scaling. MyoTaw, as a newer product, requires greater investment in user-testing and iteration, as well as distribution. KKT’s long-term goal is to analyze the data collected through MK and MT, and advocate for policies that promote better governance. We also plan to develop versions of MyanKhon and MyoTaw that work in other fragile and developing states, promoting both more effective governance and societal trust around the region and then the world. | Our solution is innovative because it’s the first of its kind in Myanmar. It’s distinct from electronic tax payment systems in that its companion app, MyoTaw, provides a broad education on the functions of local government, both to improve voluntary compliance with tax payments and to build a broader sense of social trust among users (which is particularly valuable in Myanmar’s ethnically-divided, conflict-affected context). | MK has been under development since 2016, and is currently being used by 13 of Myanmar’s 330 townships. Getting one DAO on board is hard work, as DAOs have shown some resistance to integrating this new product into their workflow. KKT has in-house M&E specialists who have developed M&E indicators to measure progress like number of DAOs exclusively using MK, and percent of DAO Executive Officers and Directors using MK. Eventually, we will measure impact using indicators such DAOs’ percent cost reductions after switching from paper to Myankhon, percent increase in average taxes paid, % reduction in household search queries using MK versus paper, and reduction in fraud due to MK’s audit data trials. Microsoft SQL databases and Google Analytics are the primary tools used for continual monitoring of our software, overseen by the Data Scientist. Dashboards and dynamic reports provide daily/monthly/quarterly updates on KPIs, allowing for agile adaptation. On-going user testing by our Ethnography team provides a feedback loop which keeps the development team informed of user behaviour, potential issues and demand. MK was initially provided free of charge to DAOs in 4 townships in the trial stage, funded by grants; DAOs have shown over time that they are willing to pay monthly subscriptions, meaning that they value our service enough to invest in it. MT was launched in early 2019 in 3 townships. Its progress and impact will be tracked in similar ways. | Once MT is ready to launch in more townships, we will need to hire more distribution staff. We hope to eventually impact all 14.9 million people living in urban Myanmar, with all taxpayers using MT to learn about and communicate with their local governments and to pay their taxes. For MK, a major milestone will be reaching 66 DAOs (20% of the total), the ultimate milestone being all 330 DAOs in Myanmar. As MK is adopted in more townships we would need to hire training and customer support staff. Because MT and MK both have to be tailored to each township, we have to continue to invest in user-testing and software updates. | DAOs currently lack the resources to pay for the hardware and installation of MK, as well as the services of KKT. In the short to medium term, they require grant funding. In the medium and long term, once they acquire enough revenue from tax payers, they will be able to fund their continued use of MK. With funding (either from grants or the DAOs), KKT can add and improve functionality in MK, perform user testing for new features, as well as provide training and customer service support to DAO officers about how to use MyanKhon. For MT, we need funding for distribution. In Myanmar, many people don’t have Google accounts or stable Internet connections, both of which are necessary to download an app from the Google Play Store. This means that our staff has to travel around the country to transfer the app via Bluetooth. In the long term, we aim to form partnerships with telecommunication companies so that MT can be preloaded onto phones. In the long term, increased digital literacy and connectivity will increase the number of people who can download MT themselves. Funding is also required to add and improve functionality in MT as well as conduct user-testing, which is essential in the short term given that MT is a relatively new app. In the long term, user-testing and software updates will still be necessary but less frequently. | “Mobile app a step forward for municipal governance,” Frontier Myanmar, August 7, 2017: https://frontiermyanmar.net/en/mobile-app-a-step-forward-for-municipal-governance “From Paper to Platforms: Tax Collection in Myanmar,” The Asia Foundation, November 29, 2017: https://asiafoundation.org/2017/11/29/paper-platforms-tax-collection-myanmar/ “Managing the challenges of rapid urbanisation: a review of the existing property tax system in Myanmar,” Renaissance Institute, December 19, 2017: https://rimyanmar.org/en/blog/speech-managing-challenges-rapid-urbanisation-review-existing-property-tax-system-myanmar “Are Municipalities the Champions of Reform in Myanmar?”, The Asia Foundation, February 28, 2018: https://asiafoundation.org/2018/02/28/municipalities-champions-reform-myanmar/ “Mobile apps bridge health care gaps in Myanmar,” UN News, October 28 2015: https://news.un.org/en/audio/2015/10/605842 | “Launchpad 2015: Koe Koe Tech - Michael Lwin”, Unreasonable Institute: https://vimeo.com/135413086 “Doing Development Differently,” Revolution of Necessity https://www.revolutionofnecessity.com/myanmar-koe-koe-tech-michael-lwin “Koe Koe Tech: A maternal and child health app for Myanmar,” Grand Challenges Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpamayjfLyc “How Myanmar Can Embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” TEDxYangon: https://youtu.be/fl4BcB6Ul4o “Michael Lwin and Koe Koe Tech: Improving Health Care in Myanmar, App in Hand,” January 10, 2019, Innovate Podcast: https://innovatepodcast.org/michael-lwin-and-koe-koe-tech-improving-health-care-in-myanmar-app-in-hand/ “About Koe Koe Tech,” May 22, 2016, Koe Koe Tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkFv4zad_Xs “Mobile Tech Spans Health Gap for Developing World’s Pregnant Women,” March 24, 2017, Voice of America, https://blogs.voanews.com/techtonics/2017/03/24/mobile-tech-spans-health-gap-for-developing-worlds-. 'A company of my own': the rise of Myanmar's tech pioneers,” February 13, 2017, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/feb/13/myanmar-yangon-tech-pioneers-startups-apps-sdgs “14 Noteworthy Social Ventures Looking To Scale,” August 22, 2016, Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/devinthorpe/2016/08/22/14-noteworthy-social-ventures-looking-to-scale/#161c06434b01 | Koe Koe Tech co-founders won the Echoing Green Fellowship (2014). Michael Lwin has won the Unreasonable Institute, and Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI) fellowships and was a finalist for the Obama Foundation Fellowship 2019. KKT’s maymay app has won the GSMA Connected Women Award and a Stevie Award for Women in Business. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
713 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jurriaan | Ruys | Land Life Company | https://landlifecompany.com | CEO - Founder | Male | Netherlands | Netherlands | English | Climate change and land degradation are two of the greatest threats facing our world today, destroying livelihoods by bringing drought, famine, disease, and flooding to communities across the planet. Land Life Company was founded on the belief that we must restore the two billion hectares of our planet’s degraded land, revitalizing our global ecosystems and the communities that rely on them. I firmly support UNFCC and UNCCD in combating climate change and desertification. Reforestation of degraded land will serve both goals, whilst also creating jobs, support local economies, restore biodiversity and eventually prevent the forced migration of people. Over the past 5 years, we have proven that our innovative planting methods and data-based reforestation approach is highly effective and have seen first-hand how restoration changes the lives of those most in need. I want to be part of the UN Solutions Summit to show all attendees how effective reforestation on degraded lands at scale is, and that together we can combat climate change, halt desertification, and build community resilience. I firmly believe that we must do everything in our power to restore the 2 billion hectares of degraded land on our planet and revitalize global ecosystems and the communities that rely on them, for this generation and the next. | I am a chemical engineer by training, attended Delft University and joined Shell after graduating. After a few years, I moved to McKinsey where I became partner, specializing in sustainability practice. It was around the time my third child was born where I really started to think about how I wanted to spend my time and what I wanted to share with my children. I often dream about walking with my kids through a forest that Land Life helped to rebuild - in November last year I took my 8-year-old daughter to plant trees with me in Spain. My mother will say that she is not surprised that I made this pivot and am dedicating my work to reforestation. I was a WWF ranger as a child. The specific idea for Land Life Company came through meeting Eduard Zanen in 2013, our co-founder. Eduard is passionate about the environment and an inventor and years before we met, he was investing in R&D on how to create a technology to help restore nature. He had a great prototype but it was plastic and expensive, making scale prohibitive. We met through a mutual friend and started brainstorming about ideas to make the Cocoon biodegradable and make it a technology that could truly tackle land degradation at large scale. I resigned McKinsey 4-5 months later and started Land Life Company with Eduard. We didn't become commercial until June 2015 and that's when we sold our first Cocoons to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in California. In 2016 we performed our first end-to-end reforestation project and now in 2019 we will plant 1.1 million trees. | Data-driven reforestation of degraded land using state-of-the-art technology | Impact you can see. Impact you can touch. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Spain, Mexico, Cameroon, Zambia, USA, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, China, South Africa, Australia, Kenya | Yes | Governments, Companies, UNHCR, UNICEF, US Fish & Wildlife Services, WWF, US Forest Service, CONAFOR, WRI, Univeristy of Texas, University of Wageningen | Scaling | Land Life Company is a social enterprise that plant trees globally to reverse land degradation and climate change. We do so at scale and use technology for optimal impact, reduced resource consumption and transparency. We’ve restored nature in 20+ countries and tripled our planting from 300k in 2018 to 1.1M trees this year. To address these challenges, we need to keep scaling our impact 3-fold annually for the coming years to be able to restore millions of hectares per year. | Our reforestation solution addresses climate change and land degradation - 2 of the greatest global threats today, destroying livelihoods and bringing drought, famine and flooding to communities across the planet. Trees are a crucial part of the solution to remove CO2, stabilize water cycles and preserve critical agricultural soils, echoed by recent findings of the Crowther Lab that tree-planting could restore a Sahara-size area and remove up to 2/3 of all man-made emissions to-date. | Our proprietary Cocoon technology is one intervention especially suited to severely degraded drylands. The Cocoon is a biodegradable tree incubator that helps establish and grow seedlings into resilient trees. This technology uses up to 10-15x less water than irrigation and yields a 75-95% tree survival rate. The Cocoon is a game-changer in the market, as current tools are made of plastic requiring ongoing labor, water, and energy. Via our state-of-the-art technology and data-driven reforestation methodologies, we are able to successfully reforest at scale. Since we track and measure each tree we have planted, we continue to learn from our global planting results to continuously improve on the future planting performances. For example, up until 2018, we planted a total of 300.000 trees. Just this year (2019) we will plant 1.1 million trees, and expect to plant 3-5 million trees next year. Reports from various research sources (PNAS, Crowther, UNFCC) support our long-term vision that climate change risk can be partially mitigated via large scale reforestation. In addition, revitalizing formerly degraded land brings a multitude of new employment opportunities. 60-70% of revenues flow directly into local communities while restoring biodiversity and building natural watersheds. Last, a healthy ecosystem increases livability, providing shade, healthy soils, higher living standards, happiness and halts the migration of people. | What differentiates our approach is the use of data and technology across the nature restoration value chain. Pre-planting, we use drone imagery, satellite data, and soil moisture measurements to determine the ideal approach to warrant successful reforestation. Post-planting we monitor and process impact data by QR tagging trees to track individual growth and vigor; satellite data and LiDaR imaging to measure biomass changes; overlaying climate data to assess performance in different climatic conditions. Over time, we will also measure biodiversity, habitat creation and community engagement. The result is a dataset from global projects that helps us continuously improve our project outcomes. Many nature restoration projects do not use much expertise or technology and achieve poor results. We have come across numerous projects that achieved survival rates of 0-15%. On a macro scale, China has planted 66 billion trees since 1950 and experts estimate that 85% of these trees have or will not survive. Where experts are involved, the expertise is often not explicit and not fact-based, but rather experience-based or opinion-driven. Some of these experts are excellent and realize great results, albeit on a small scale. | Land Life’s proprietary database capabilities are continuously developed and enhanced. Since 2015 we track and trace each tree we plant, enhancing the identification of trends to further improve planting methods. The database is designed to capture qualitative data, satellite and UAV / drone remote sensing data (vegetation, climate, boundary mapping, fauna) and ground-based monitoring data (hydrology, soil composition). For monitoring the first 2 years after planting, we use our in-house developed app-based monitoring system, which offers a rapid assessment of tree and cocoon performance in the field, and automatically synchronizes with our database. Simple “machine learning” models use statistical analysis to interpolate results and derive suggestions for improvement. More advanced AI models include theoretic plant growth models to derive optimizations. The models we are building will integrate data on a time and location basis and allow us to run simulations to generate outcomes and compare these to real outcomes to calibrate the models. Determine for new plots of land what is the optimum intervention to optimize our KPIs. This data-driven approach allows reforestation at the “ultimate performance” and lowest cost, providing guarantees and the “optimum design” for future large scale reforestation projects. | The UN General Assembly has declared 2021-2030 the ‘UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration’. To echo this call to action, our overall objective is to plant 10M trees successfully in 2021. For context, this implies reforesting roughly a 10km x 10km area and requires tripling our planting scale for the next 2 years. To do so, we will drive major investments into large scale nature restoration projects, particularly on public lands in Europe and North America where there are strong legal protections and government institutions to ensure permanence. We are currently developing a €10-100M investment vehicle for nature restoration in Europe with a coalition of major European companies and financial institutions. The envisioned milestones would be to announce the initiative in NYC Climate Week 2019, launch in 2020 and expand into NA in the near future. In parallel, we will also continue to develop tailored, innovative climate solution models. An example is the “Green Refugee Camp” model co-developed with UNHCR, where we address the deforestation- and social challenges around refugee camps by establishing productive trees with the refugee community - improving the environment, livelihood and mending relationships with the host community. We’ve successfully delivered in northern Cameroon, planting 40k trees, some now 3 meters tall, and soon in White Nile region in Sudan for 10k trees. The future goal is to scale up both locations and enter new geographies like Kenya or Zambia. | This year we've built and tested our first automated planting machine successfully and are able to plant 200 tree seedlings per hour. Short-term: Funding to expand the number of our GPS controlled automated planting machines in projects where the Cocoon is not needed. This will also accelerate populating our reforestation database with more data. Medium-term: Government commitment towards large scale reforestation as a means to combat desertification and climate change and provide work for its local communities. We seek commitment and help from (local) government to locate and appoint degraded land for reforestation which currently has no alternative use. Think of abandoned agricultural land, land destroyed by forest fires etc. Long-term: To successfully conduct reforestation projects on dry and severely degraded lands at scale, we seek funding to develop an automated planting machine - a GPS steered tractor that digs holes, plants trees, places and fills the Cocoon with water and closes the lid. Similar machines are used in industrial agriculture. These tractors are critical to reducing planting costs and time required (5 min to 1 min per tree). | Company website: https://landlifecompany.com/ Land Life Company - Planting 1 million Trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR2DsxJFw10&list=PLutaEgRme_2t2MB7az7jvAyOrT9VnEXMZ Land Life Company: Saving the Monarch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtdEKHEZmBc It Will Be Green Again: http://itwillbegreenagain.com/ It Will Be Green Again Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT-ZmEs80yc BBC - How do you bring forests back to life?: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190304-how-do-you-bring-a-forest-back-to-life Fast Company - This Biodegradable Paper Donut Could Let us Reforest the Planet: https://www.fastcompany.com/3068775/this-biodegradable-paper-donut-could-let-us-reforest-the-planet The New Yorker - How to Plant a Tree in the Desert: https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-to-plant-a-tree-in-the-desert World Resources Institute (WRI) - The Business of Planting Trees: https://wriorg.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/business-planting-trees_0.pdf Crowther Lab: https://crowtherlab.pageflow.io/trees-against-climate-change-the-global-restoration-and-carbon-storage-potential?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Toolkit&utm_campaign=TreePotential#215055 GreenLeaders: https://www.duurzaambedrijfsleven.nl/greenleaders/31951/green-leader-land-life-company-jurriaan-ruys | Sprout TV and 7 Ditches TV: https://www.sprout.nl/artikel/sprout-tv/dit-gaat-land-life-company-doen-met-500000-euro-prijzengeld-video (in Dutch) Green Challenge 2015, Pitch by Juriaan Ruys, LandLifeCompany: https://youtu.be/GgDw0-1sruA BNR - Green Quest Awards - https://www.bnr.nl/player/audio/10096419/10357262 (Dutch) Green Challenge 2015 Winner - Revisited: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7KKwrAtS3E&list=PLutaEgRme_2tghhzzrjyz0cQOcKLR1oNQ&index=6 Rebekah Braswell on Land Life Company - EXPO Live Dubai 2020: https://www.expo2020dubai.com/en/programmes/expo-live/iigp/global-innovators/land-life-company | 2015 Winner of GreenChallenge start up prize by Dutch Postcode Loterij 2016 Awarded Global Innovator Grant by Dubai EXPO 2020 2017 Winner of Dutch Postcode Loterij Extra Trekking partnership with UNHCR (for the “Green Refugee Camp” model) 2018 Winner of German GreenTech award - sustainability category 2019 Top 20 finalist of GreenQuest hosted by BNR (Dutch business news radio) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
714 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jean | Onyait | Akellobanker | www.akellobanker.com | CEO | male | Uganda | Uganda | English | Since my childhood and throughout my university, I had a dream, a dream to build a perfect world where human beings can live with dignity. My dream was engineered by the discomfort my family experienced in a peasantry life and the transition thereafter. My desire was to share with the farming community the experience of transiting from Peasantry into a commercial farmer propagating new seed varieties, processing and adding value to traditional food crops. While in the university, I worked with groups of farmers and supplied seed varies to displaced peoples camps, after completing university, I joined the ministry of finance to be able to acquire skills in microfinance. Indeed while I was at the Ministry of finance, innovating banking platform-www.questbanker.com, a platform that would enable cooperatives, Microfinance Institutions, and Rural financial services providers to automate their operations, while using data and mobile tools to enable farmers to easily access credit. With the inspiration of the banking platform, I later on innovated www.akellobanker.com, a data-driven mobile platform that enables millions of low-income earners to access really important and some times life-saving products and services (such as inputs, animal traction, tractor hire services, extension workers and medical services) all on Credit. To date, our solutions have transformed the lives (Increased production and productivity, increased incomes, social protection) of over 120,000 farmers and service providers in Uganda. | Plot 1674, Valley Curve, Kiwatule Road Ntinda. P.O Box 29250 Kampala Uganda Tel: +256-414694251 +256 - 754114004 | Akellobanker | Credit made easy equates to a dignified life | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Currently in Uganda with intention to expand to Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana and Rwanda | Yes | USADF,Government Of Uganda, International Trade center -Netherland Trust Fund IV-Uganda, ResilientAfrica Network, Ministry of ICT, Global Innovations Exchange | Transition to Scale | Our solution is at this stage because, we successfully conducted the need-finding assessment (in November 2017 ) which informed the design and development of a client-centered Platform, to the time of conducting a high-level Pilot where our platform was deployed in 32 locations with 52,000 users. Since then, we have witnessed growth from the 52,000 users then, to the current 120,000 users across 52 location In Uganda. The rising uptake and demand mean growth in revenue, employees, and impact. | Low productivity among smallholder farmers is majorly caused by poor farming practices due to lack of knowledge (no extension services) and lack of modern farming tools (mechanization or other tools). Access to these services and tools is both an issue availability and efficient allocation. Most smallholder farmers cannot afford to acquire some of the modern tools of production. It is also not economical for them to fully own the tools since they have small farms. | Our Product is a data-driven digital platform that allows farmers to access, order for and shares farm extension workers, tools and equipment. With the integration of mobile money and Microfinance institutions, Our platform enables farmers to pay for these services and as well as access them on credit. Some of the functionalities/ intervention that our technology provides include but are not limited to; a) Allowing farmers to identify available equipment and agricultural services within their area, this includes seed, animal traction, extension services & Tractor Hire services. b) Allowing equipment owners and commercial service providers to offer their equipment and services to farmers on Credit. c) Allowing farmers to hire and pay for equipment and agricultural services using their mobile phones or Via partner Microfinance Institutions d) Guaranteeing payments until the service is provided e) Allowing for the verification of users and service providers f) Provide a feedback service for both farmers and service providers to allow for the development of a trusted online community g. Allow for matching search requests with actual services available Our long term vision for global impact is to serve 20% of the over 2.2 billion farmers, youth, women and the disabled persons who need to engage in productive agriculture, yet lack access to financing, resources, and equipment to boost the production and productivity of their farm and non-farm enterprises. | Unlike other financial service providers who rely on financial information to issue cash credit to farmers, at Akellobanker, we use data-enabled mobile technologies to offer products and services on credit. The platform is USSD, SMS and mobile money-driven and utilizes credit scores as a basis for instant credit underwriting to borrowers. This makes us Inclusive, Accessible & Convenient. Our unique delivery channels which include partnerships with the rural financial service providers, specifically SACCOS and merchants such as seed service providers, tractor providers, extension workers and medical providers who are established in the community to offer their services and products on credit make us superior. These service providers are key in enabling us to profile users, manage credit and conduct digital literacy. This helps in easing access, usage, uptake of the platform, reducing transaction time, reducing the credit risk rate and risks associated with falsified data/credit scores from self-assessment. | At Akellobanker, we believe that “An awesome team breeds Success”. To live to this reality, Akellobanker attributes its success to the commitment of the team who have built the system from prototype to a commercially viable product. The successful development and deployment of the product has attracted partnerships and given us Several awards including, 'Resilience for Conflict Award, World Summit' Award, Young Achievers Awards, GSMA Mobile Mobile Awards, National ICT Initiatives Support Program (NIISP) Awards, RUFORUM Young Innovators Award, to make mention. Our team is driven by Vision, that means that every team members works towards the same goal and diligently execute their task. our Progress is measured by the outcome and the time our staff take with us. | Our planned goals and Milestones include We are; 1. Raising $500,000+ in capital towards; 60% digital credit services, 20% operations, 15% Marketing, 5% Legal. 2. Increasing the number of users to over 2Million in 5 Years by digitizing 2,300 partner service providers and providing incentives to users who bring other users. 3. Achieving a maximum of 0.5% default rate on nonperforming assets by integrating machine learning and Artificial intelligence. 4. Enabling Peer to peer credit assessment, approval, and guarantees. | The resources Need include: 1. Raising $500,000+ in capital towards; 60% digital credit services, 20% operations, 15% Marketing, 5% Legal. 2. Recruit Operations Manager, 5 Marketing & Sales Managers, 2 Technical Support Officers and 2 Software Engineers. | http://www.akellobanker.com https://www.questbanker.com | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tNRVBM8U1qHsV3yzOo2MEeZKGJn8ToJr https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xubDw_CjcU71OoZLCiD9pOoKPmgir4QR | We have won several awards including Resilience for Conflict Award (Winner), Young Achievers Awards (Winner), GSMA Mobile Money Awards(Winner), National ICT Initiatives Support Program (NIISP) Awards-Winner, RUFORUM Young Innovators Award (Winner), Seedstars Kampala (Finalist), Digital Innovations for Agriculture (Finalist), Alibaba -UNCTAD E-Founders Fellow, Mandela Washington Fellow, International Trade Centre-Netherland Trustfund IV Uganda beneficiary to make mention. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
715 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alice | Rathjen | DNA Compass | https://www.dnacompass.com | Founder | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | I'd like to see if the mapping infrastructure used to map the earth can be reused to provide all countries their own infrastructure for managing genetic data. The benefits of mapping infrastructure reuse would be as follows: 1. No requirement for adding additional software to existing entity networks. 2. Provide every country with their own low cost access to genomics infrastructure for managing their digital natural resources (both human and non human genomes) 3. Extend network of existing human and organizational relationships that already successfully collaborate around map data to include collaborations around genomic data. 4. Rapid low cost deployments to enable regional /local control and consent of genomes at scale. 5. Provide countries with foundational infrastructure for participating in the digitization of life. 6. Establish critical mechanisms for distributing genomic information for mitigating pandemics and mobilizing populations for cures. 7. Promoting genomic literacy. | Founder, CEO of DNA Compass, a benefit corporation that leverages mapping software to help make the benefits of genomic medicine available for all. Entrepreneur, previous attendee of Novus Sumit at UN. | DNA Compass - Regional | Reuse of Worlds Mapping Software Infrastructure to Create Regional Genomics Infrastructure | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Global - requests for possible pilots in Ghana, Argentina, Haiti | Yes | Not formal partnerships but WHO expressed interest in pilot project | Transition to Scale | Solution is built upon ESRI ArcGIS online - although any software used to map the earth can be reused to provide infrastructure for security and collaboration of genetic maps. | Countries need their own genomics infrastructure so that they can participate as partners in genomic medicine and research rather than as merely providers of DNA samples. | We built a micro-geocoding service that enables any software that is used to map the earth to be reused to map genomes. What this allows is for any entity that has software for mapping the earth to now have it's own genomics infrastructure for managing genetic data as it sees fit. Our solution also allows for entities currently sharing map data, to now share genomic data. Our current solution is up and running on ArcGIS online - which is used by 7,000 Universities, most governments and NGO and health clinics world wide. It's available already in 30 languages. Entities current ESRI ArcGIS online organizational logins work. | We understand the importance of data reuse - but haven't yet grasped the benefits of IT infrastructure reuse. The ability to consent genomes at scale with regional/local control helps promote digital human rights. | We're ready to scale. Simply need contacts between entities that want to secure their data and collaborate with each other. | We'd like to prove that an entity in an emerging market can reuse their mapping software to provide a security and collaboration layer with any researcher world wide they would like to work with. | Jacques Kpodonu, MD, at Harvard wants to run a pilot project with University of Ghana such that we prove the Univ. of Ghana can reuse it's mapping software to provide security of a patient's genome which would then be available for a research at Harvard for collaboration purposes. The idea is for countries to be able to make patients genomes available without giving up control of the data. If this works, the project would then scale to make patient genomes consented for research purposes (with local clinics able to reuse ESRI's marketplace to monetize patients data to pay for delivery of health services). Project requires 100k in funding to be eligible for review with Harvard's IRB ethics board Research Contact https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueskpodonumd The platform exists. Just need funding to allow me to connect entities wanting to work together. | Information on existing global infrastructure that can be recommissioned to consent genomes at scale: https://www.esri.com/en-us/home (same platform used for UN Sustainability Goals Hub) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/using-maps-help-people-meet-up-locations-genome-alice-rathjen/ Sample map for rare disease: Putting X-linked Hypophosphatemia on the Map https://arcg.is/1ubmeq0 | Older Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbUhwZgqE1E Can provide updated video soon. | - Kaufman Award for Women in Science and Engineering - Inventor - patent was awarded for mapping genomes 2d and 3d (written up in 1999, never monetized due like of willingness to give VCs exclusive rights to patent) https://patents.google.com/patent/US7089498 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
716 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Appala Reddy | Yendreddi | India Youth For Society | www.plasticfreeindia.org | President | Male | India | India | English | My innovation is clean-to up the damaged and to restore the rivers in India. My passion for plastic pollution free India made me learned about plastic reprocessing (recycle – recycling is the only solution for clean environment) so that water bodies in India would be restored to their honour (source for millions of Indians). Recycling is an old method but India did not adopt it so I researched why Indian Industries never indulge themselves in this business. Indians recycle PET and quality plastics not MICRO-PLASTICS and LOW-DENSITY PLASTICS. It is not much profitable enterprise. I challenged myself and spend a month in a recycle unit and a dump-yard. I approached local government that I would like to take up this job and I said I would provide recycled plastics for their dustbins and road-construction. The Urban Local Body was happy and agreed to my proposal. I was provided with building, water and electricity and acquired basic machinery. My team (organization and I) cleans beaches and water bodies. We recycle such collected plastics and supply for road constructions. New innovation is to make tiles for footpaths and manufacture garbage bins for under-privileged. I am looking forward for people who join with us and shake hands with kind hearts who can take forward this initiative. | I am Appala Reddy from North Coastal Andhra Pradesh, India. I work for environmental protection, rural development and human rights. I was graduated in English Literature from Periyar University, Tamilnadu. I am currently pursuing Master of Social Work through Distance Education. I also studied Theology & Philosophy but this is not the area of working. I have three siblings – two brothers and one sister. My father worked as a porter in Food Corporation of India, Visakhapatnam. My mother is a homemaker. I had been working for an NGO for almost 11 years before I choose to be a teacher in 2008. I worked as a teacher till Dec 2016. During this period, I established an organization ‘India Youth For Society’ (IYFS). Being a teacher, I could get support from many students. The organization aims for clean environment, road safety measures, and discarded plastics. We started a campaign with a slogan, “Prevent Polythene – Protect Planet (P4).” We renamed this campaign as ‘Plastic Free India.’ It could gain a lot encouragement from all sections of people. As a part of this, we used to resell cloth, jute & paper bags. Lately, I felt it could a business and I am working on it. My work for community development gave me much satisfaction. At the same, I worked for several social causes. The outcome from the entire work is good. Now I am a social entrepreneur and a social worker. | Recycle Plastic Waste to Restore Water Bodies | Teaching Kids and Educating Youths for the Protection of Mother Earth | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal | Yes | Local Government | Transition to Scale | Partly, our organization is successful in establishing this recycling unit and able to pay salaries to the workers. 1)Collection from some areas is going on regularly 2)Cleanup Drives are taken up on volunteer basis. But, the team is not able to expand its work to other areas / cities due to lack of logistics (own transportation). We are appreciated by the people and press but we are able to improve this initiative to a large scale. | Plastic Pollution as per Ministry of Environment, India generates 16000 ton/day out of which only 9000 ton/day being collected and the remaining pollutes the soil, clogs drains, pollutes waters and kills the animals with its indigestive nature. It is evident that improper handling of solid waste and indiscriminate disposal in open spaces, road margins, tank beds, and etcetera, give rise to numerous potential risks to the environment and to human health. | Solution To prevent this plastic pollution, IYFS works on 1) Create Awareness about the hazards created by discarded plastics; the team defines 'awareness' as behavioural change of plastics consumption (plastics consumption to be reduced). 2) Make Available Alternatives to Single-use Plastics 3) Scale-up Plastic Recycling Unit through Training Rag-Pickers Long-Term Impact It is a service to the local environment and help public health with cleanliness and at the same time, it is revenue generate model for the rag-pickers and a project to train unskilled as skilled. The project also intended to help the rag-pickers with health check-ups. The unit shall create a source of livelihood initially for about 1200-1500 women who are under poverty line and help rag-pickers. In addition to this, any number of Self-Help Group women can be a part of this project. | Well, we are unique and it is a challenging project. In fact, it is much required for a country like India. It does not mean that India is a poor country. Yes, there are many recyclers in India. But, they do not deal with micro-plastics or low-density plastics. We are lovely and dedicated people who took up to clean the water bodies and recycle all the micro-plastics and LDPE so that the water bodies would be restored. It may not a great profitable business yet we love to do it to restore our water bodies. In deed, we face water crisis now and our groundwater levels are very poor. Probably, we do not know how to manage our water sources. Therefore, our project addresses not only local environment but also animals protection, clean rivers, clean beaches, clean lakes, healthy life. Yes, India requires self-assessment how we beat the mother earth. | In spite of many troubles, we continued this project (solution). We would be continuing it further. How do we measure? 1) Till date, we cleaned a small lake completely 2) We cleaned and recycled a beach stretch; 11 tons of plastics and 19 tons glass is found. It is all recycled. 3) We could be successful in achieving the minimum results as 800 tons of micro-plastics is recycled. Now we would be going to door-to-door to education about segregation of waste and tell them about the benefits of recycling. We are also going to clean lake by lake. | Goals for December 2020 1) We would like to develop the unit for 3000 TONS/ MONTH capacity. 2) We would like to 100 people working in this unit 3) We aim to see CLEAN VIZAG BEACH 4) We would be establishing a unit for Solid Waste as well. 5) We would like to launch this programme in Bangladesh as well. Milestones: 1) We are sustained so we are confident that we would be going going a head | Awareness Experts: 1) People who can teach the individuals about the damage we make 2) People who can motivate the public towards segregation 3) Experts who teach the importance of Water Bodies and their protection Logistics & Manpower: 1) Three Trucks for Collection of Plastic Waste from source level 2) 12 manpower (staff) is another immediate requirement 3) Waste Management Experts with Passion Machinery: Machinery, Infrastructure & Installation: 50 HP AGG50 Automated Plastic Washing Machine LCB & Spares for Washing Unit Extruder EXTS200 Electrification/ Installation Basement for Unit & Civil Work Water Tank Office Cabin/ Cabin for Staff/ Toilets Safety Tools / Shoes/ Uniforms Drums / Tins / Packaging Material Waste Water Pipe Line Industrial Trolley Weighing Machine Logistics / Transport Tempo / Mini Van (New / Used) / Motorcycle (New / Used) Staff: 1 Manager 1 Supervisor 1 Marketing Manager 2 Machine Operators 1 Helper to Operator 4 Labourers 1 Accountant | www.plasticfreeindia.org https://youtu.be/Iz5coSiEwyo Edwin, a volunteer is explaining about the unit, https://www.facebook.com/yendreddi/videos/10160963095765721/ https://youtu.be/58DfFqKljoM DW Documentary's video is the best to explain the situation about plastic menace in India. https://youtu.be/-s9UkX9eT64 http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/on-a-mission-for-positive-change/article7169237.ece http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/Campaign-against-honking/article13997234.ece http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/survey-highlights-pedestrians-plight/article7808661.ece http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-telangana/campaign-against-plastic-use/article22393769.ece https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIH%2F2018%2F01%2F08&entity=Ar00910&sk=1C0F4850&mode=text | Special Interview with me in Times of Inda<https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/visakhapatnam/youth-orgs-100-day-long-clean-up-campaign-focuses-on-govt-hospitals/articleshow/69224468.cms> Edwin, a volunteer is explaining about the unit, https://www.facebook.com/yendreddi/videos/10160963095765721/ https://youtu.be/oHTt5LKb9jU https://www.facebook.com/yendreddi/videos/10161949498675721/ https://www.facebook.com/yendreddi/videos/10161949501140721/?lst=741440720%3A741440720%3A1565020402 | 1) LEAD Fellowship - Cohort-19 from LEAD INDIA 2) ELPC Fellowship from Kangwon University, South Korea 3) Best Youth Social Worker from Vasantha Mohan Foundation 4) Young Environmentalist from Kannam Srinivasa Rao Charitable Trust Best Waste Management NGO from Pollution Control Board, Government of Andhra Pradesh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
717 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lorna | Muthamia-Ochido | Speech Therapy Totos | https://speechtherapytotos.com/ | Founder/Director | Female | Kenya | Kenya | English | The UN Solutions Summit is a platform in which we can use to bring awareness to the speech therapy needs in Kenya and the world over and get the much needed support to increase access to speech therapy services. Currently through our dedicated online platform- Speech Therapy Totos, we have educated over 1,000 parents on how to realise superior communication outcomes and overall learning for their child/children. We have developed various articles posted on our blog, courses and free videos for this purpose. | I’m a speech-language therapist based in Nairobi with over 15 years’ experience in practice. I am the founder and director of HearSay and Read clinic, a physical clinic space in Nairobi, Kenya & Speech Therapy Totos, an online presence of the clinic. I am passionate about empowering parents and serving families. I completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch New Zealand and later began my practice in Melbourne Australia before relocating to an underserved country i.e. Kenya in 2010. I am currently pursuing my doctorate studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and my topic of study is literacy instruction in early grade classrooms, knowledge, phonological backgrounds and self-rated confidence of teachers in public schools in Nairobi, Kenya. My areas of specialization as a Speech-Language therapist include: Early intervention, Literacy acquisition Cleft speech therapy Articulation/Pronunciation Stuttering/Stammering Oral habitation As a speech-language therapist working in an underserved country part of my mission to empower parents and serve families was to start an online - Speech Therapy Totos (https://speechtherapytotos.com/), to share quality, evidence-based content that can add to their knowledge base to realise their child's/children's communication and overall learning outcomes. I also started an online training school- Speech Therapy Totos Online Training School (STTOTS) to devise sustainable solutions to the severe shortage of speech therapists in Kenya or any other country for that matter. | Speech Therapy Totos | Empowering parents and serving families in underserved countries & locations for Speech Therapy | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Kenya & the world over | No | Transition to Scale | The project is relatively new, Speech Therapy Totos was launched November 2018. The online training school is currently taking in students for enrolment but training has not officially started i.e. the students have not been granted access to training materials.The materials are only accessible to the staff at my clinic. At the moment, most of our traffic and inquiries are coming from Kenya. | Kenya is an underserved country for Speech Therapists. But this shortage is not only limited to Kenya but to Africa and many countries in the world. Parents in many countries find themselves wait-listed for several months when seeking speech therapy services. The online training school is designed to fill a much needed gap for professionals in a country or location that is underserved for speech therapy. The school is also designed for parents looking to empower themselves. | Professionals (Speech therapists, Speech therapist assistants, teachers) and parents interested in joining the online training school- Speech Therapy Totos online training School (STTOTS) will be required to pay a monthly fee to access:Training Videos & Webinars (recorded and live), Therapy Planning Ideas, Therapy Demonstrations, Continuing Education and Certification in order to increase their knowledge in children's communication and overall learning outcomes. Increasing access to quality speech therapy training will increase the number of speech therapy professionals who will be able to fill in a much needed gap. Parents who are unable to get quick and easy access to speech therapy services will be able to do so through the school. The school will see an increase of much needed speech therapy professionals and an increased access to speech therapy services. | The Speech Therapy Totos Online Training School (STTOS) is the first of its kind in Africa and 1 of a handful in the entire world. The idea of a training school was born out of working in a country that is underserved for speech therapists. This saw me needing to devise sustainable solutions in order to continue serving my clients whilst avoiding the burn-out. Having an online method of training allowed me to be able to train my own speech therapist assistants at the clinic. | At the moment, we are developing course materials and carrying out live webinars with my staff at the clinic. These recorded webinars will be among the webinars used to provide training once the school opens. We also have a wait-list for those interested in enrolling. The school is also being marketed to our subscribers on our email list, Youtube as well as Facebook and Instagram followers. Progress is measured in the number of therapy sessions that a client attends before seeing an improvement in their speech and language. Reduced number of sessions means an increase quality of sessions provided by speech therapists and speech therapist assistants. | The online school is planned to officially launch in September 2019 with approximately 20% of the courses already uploaded. Every subsequent month will see an additional 5% more courses added onto the platform and by the end of the December 2019, the platform will be at approximately 65% capacity. This will be the equivalent of around 35 courses and resources. The membership site will continue to experience steady growth and readjustment as the time goes by with the site adapting to its members’ needs or the changing face of the field. I also envision the opportunity to collaborate with other professionals in putting together training courses that are informed by experts in the different disciplines. My goal is to have 180 members by our first year. | Short term 1. Software 2. Recording equipment Medium term 3. Research Long term 4. Speech Pathology Professional membership 5. Platform & hosting 7. Human resource | 1. YouTube| Speech Therapy Totos-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfO6r2YHtviyiWZTlTNEF9A 2. Facebook| Speech Therapy Totos- https://www.facebook.com/SpeechTherapyTotos/?ref=bookmarks 3. LinkedIn| Lorna Muthamia/ Speech Therapy Totos- https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorna-muthamia-ochido-911094a2/ 4. Websites| www.speechtherapytotos.com 5. www.blog.speechtherapytoto.com | 1. Caroline Mutoko, Amazing Women: Lorna Muthamia Ochido Episode 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKid287Dsiw 2. Caroline Mutoko, Amazing Women: Lorna Muthamia Ochido Episode 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZhhxbKulPA 3. GBS Interview part 1- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=291&v=ZpBoQTbmm4c 4. GBS Interview part 2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=357&v=HYtMnBQgiOY 5. Autism Awareness and Child Care (Part 1)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=427&v=f5U5haYJwmw 6. Autism Awareness and Child Care (Part 2)- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=469&v=5CIeLIcIYs8 7. Wellness Wednesday on K24 Alfajiri- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=521&v=e1u8M5wHcno | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
718 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mawa | Zacharia | SINS LOKETA | www.sinaloketa.org | Co-Founder & director | Male | Uganda | South Sudan | Arabic | English | We’re excited to be part of UN SOLUTION to through this submit ,i belive that our project will gain alot of skills that will make the organisation to move to another level.And also the submit will help us to developed new innovative ideas in our startup. Our current innovcation we are using is very uqniue were youth are incharge of themselves in self-organized and freesponsible community hubs.skills are gained through taking over responsibilities,leading the community through self-management and learning how to become a leader through actually leading. Therefore,through this innovation jobs will be created and refugeea will start building their sustainable future in Uganda partcularly in BIDIBIDI refugee settlement | My name is Mawa Zacharia, am 27 years old and I was born with two sisters, a south Sudanese by nationality and a refugee in Uganda. It was in July 2016 when heavy war occured in my home country where thousands of civilian lost life and properties including in lost my father in a horrible life living me and my family into uncertain future. Due to the too much killing in the town we ran into bush to hide from the gun bullets where we took 68 days in the bush. Our situation became worse in the bush where there was no food, too much insecurities, and no medication etc. We decided to leave everything behind with my sister who had 5 children and I with my mother and 4 young cousin brothers to flee into Uganda as refugees to get a safe place. However, after two months, life became harder for us in the refugee camp due to limited support by the UNHCR, no access to job opportunities, poor medication, limited food, different education systems in the host country etc. Furthermore, being the only young man in the camp without parents was a terrible life where I could not get any slight support to care for my family hence made my life difficult. This always made me live in traumatized life and as a result it led me to practice drug abuse, living in idle life etc. it is not me alone,my fellow friends face thesame challenges,therefore the above story and pain made as to create our refugee initiative were we come together and unleash our potential and developed our passion and talents into social enterprises to sustain our self and our communities. | SINA LOKETA | SINA LOKETA is a refugee led organisation that empowers young refugee and marginalized youth to become job creators through enterprenuership. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | we are currently operating in the leading refugee hosting country in Africa particularly in Uganda (bidibidi) | Yes | we are currently partinering with UNHCR after wining the 2018 UNHCR innovtion aword were they support as with the full implementation of the project,also we have JANGU INTERNATIONAL which support with runing cost and JANGU.EV .support us with mentorship. | Scaling | we are currently on this innovation stage becouse we have already tested the idea can work and fit into our community and as per now we are on scaling level to other camps becouse we are opperating in a big place. | Due to war and insecurities in countries such as such as DR Congo, South Sudan, Burundi and Somalia, millions of people were forced to leave everything behind and become refugees.Today, there are 65.6 million forcibly displaced persons in the world and over 1.6 million of refugees only in Uganda a country were 83% of youth are unemployed this makes the situation impossible for refugees and marginalizes youths to get access to jobs opportunities.. | The Social Innovation Academy Loketa (SINAL) tackles failing education and resulting unemployment in Africa particularly in uganda through creating self-organized and freesponsible learning spaces where disadvantaged youth unleash their potential for positive change through Social Entrepreneurship Through mentoring and coaching, SINAL supports emerging business ideas from problem-solution-fit to productmarket-fit, gain traction and generate revenue. SINAL provides mentorship, networks, workspace, internet, and finances (for prototyping and customer discovery), as well as support in a five-step empowerment process supports “scholars” to develop personal and professional skills to create their own enterprises. After an initial training, beneficiaries overcome limiting beliefs, discover their purpose and set goals. creating professional, formal and sustainable organizational processes. We envission at aworld were young refugee and marzinalised youth are self sustainable and are able to contribut to their communities. Our long term goal,we expected by 2028 500 youth would go through our empowerment and 90 social enterprise will be created and 1000 youth will get acess to jobs opportunities. | The SINA LOKETA Model use a self-governed system and “freesponsible” approach that lets young adults learn the skills needed for creating own enterprises by taking up responsibilities within a SINA LOKETA community, In essence, there are no “staff” but management through self-organization. Through their roles and sessions individual and professional growth takes place. The ultimate goal for a SINA L member is to create teams and form social enterprises, tackling challenges of the community and become an independent organization. Within the ideation and incubation phases of an enterprise, the team will interact with a variety of beneficiaries, depending on the nature of their enterprise. first SINA L Social Enterprises have e.g. Eco-Designs is turning plastic waste into products of high value to create employments for young mothers in Bidibidi through craft making. | Scholars start to understand their past as a strength, rather than a subject of shame and unleash their potentials. The youth become job creators by nurturing innovative project ideas into social enterprises with positive impact on society and the environment. Informal and non-formal alternatives to the school system are looked down on as inferior. Without a drastic mindset-shift in the policy making, the SINA model and any other similar approach can hardly get beyond being a drop in the ocean. For wide scale adoption frameworks have to be designed giving space for alternative educational approaches. Through multiple innovative tools and methods such as design thinking, social entrepreneurship trainings, e-mentorship, life-coaching, trauma healing and personal and professional development we support refugees and marginalized youths to become self-reliant and overcome the fear of failing and start turning their innovative project ideas into social ventures. SINA Loketa aims at increasing job opportunities for refugees and disadvantaged youth in Bidibidi to prevent the raising social problems from the root causes by identifying and empowering an additional 100 refugee entrepreneurs, giving them all necessary skills and support needed to turn their business ideas into realities for a self-actualized and sustainable community of refugees. | SINA LOKETA have a goal of 500 youth under go through the empowerment by 2028 were 90 oscial enterprise will be created and 1000 youth will have access to job opportunities.bidibidi settlement will be well developed and refugee will live in agood standard of living. | we are looking for number of resourec that can enable as to scale our project to another place e.g Training materials and equipment for one year. Creation of the learning a spaces in zone 1,2,3,4 and 5. Income generating Activity to sustain the project . Project incubation for scholars during the program. our long term,medium-term and short term needs are;- NEEDS DOUARATION EXAMPLES Long term (Impact) 10 year+ Creation of learning spaces from zone 1,2,3,4,5 Medium term (Outcomes) 3-5year Income generating Activity to sustain the project Short term (Output) 1 year Training materials and equipment for one year We believe that SINA LOKETA is a worthy cause that will do a great deal for refugees in Uganda and outside. We’re excited to be part of this submit to make this project a reality, leading to substantial benefits in the short, medium, and long term. | https://www.raptim.org/largest-refugee-camps-in-2018/ https://sinaloketa.org/partner.php https://socialinnovationacademy.org/sina-loketa-unhcr-ngo-innovation-award-acceptance-speech-in-geneva/ https://www.facebook.com/sina.loketa/ https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgbc-education.org%2Freact-in-action-avanti-communications-to-deliver-free-broadband-connectivity-to-social-innovation-academy-in-uganda%2F&data=02%7C01%7CDREW%40unhcr.org%7C95ead7fa7cc6430e97e108d6d569c5a3%7Ce5c37981666441348a0c6543d2af80be%7C0%7C0%7C636931047598422574&sdata=iOBMetr3uWgICVUUAycfDm%2B3clzITJ5NBeDNgHKwva4%3D&reserved=0). https://sdgactionawards.org/initiative/1725 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cypbFY7EBGw https://www.facebook.com/socialinnovationacademy/videos/882215172177842/?t=11 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjNnMACx2EPOZGfgGlzaG5g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HYlhakd5Wk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NPVGLfEjkg | UNHCR NGO Innovation Award 2018. 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719 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rajamanohar | Konerirajapuram Somasundaram | Aquaconnect | https://cari.org.in/ | CEO | Male | India | India | English | Aquaculture in India has evolved as a viable commercial farming practice and being a livelihood for 2 million people who belong to rural & coastal communities. Aquaculture requires constant monitoring of water quality, feed intake, and diseases outbreak and biomass conversion. The above said parameters are inter-related and having effect over one another. Low production efficiency, unregulated feed usage and diseases occurrence are depleting ocean resources put enormous pressure on them. Further, unscientific farming practices prevents them in achieving production efficiency and diseases prediction, indeed, shrimp aquaculture requires automated solution to increase farm productivity and diseases management. To overcome these challenges we are promoting data-driven farming through our AI mobile advisor app “FarmMOJO” among Indian rural and coastal aqua farmers to regulate feed usage and achieve high production efficiency and predict disease occurrence. FarmMOJO’s serves as friendly farm companion by using its Artificial Intelligence and machine learning capabilities to provide advisory services to aqua farmers in every point of culture operations. Currently we are operating with 3000 farmers in three major Indian states by creating entrepreneurs and empowering women to take up aquaculture as a viable occupation. | Rajamanohar Somasundaram is a serial technology entrepreneur with an extensive experience in building Internet and mobile technology driven businesses. He co-founded Aqua Connect, South Asia’s largest Aqua farmers network. Aquaconnect works with Indian Shrimp and Fish aquaculture farmers to improve their farm productivity through Deep learning/AI technology intervention. Around 1 million rural farmers and coastal communities depend on shrimp & fish aquaculture, where the traditional farming practices prevents them in achieving production efficiency and diseases prediction. His team built FarmMOJO, an AI driven advisory solution that helps farmers improve productivity, predict disease and ultimately achieve higher farm income (up to 5%). His team has been named among the TR35 - TOP 20 Young Innovators in India and won ‘Social Innovator of the year 2012’ by MIT Tech Review India for the development of speech enabled mobile solutions for Indian market. World Economic Forum has named me among “Young Global Leader in 2012” in recognition of the leadership and contribution in the field of mobile communication and information services. He became a ‘TED Fellow’ in 2009 for his accomplishments in ‘Mobile4Good’ initiatives in emerging markets. In 2016, he was offered Draper Hills Fellowship at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law for his work on technology interventions for inclusion. He holds a graduate degree in Industrial Design from IIT Kanpur, India | Farm MOJO | Artificial Intelligence advisor for Fish farmers | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | we implemented FarmMOJO in the major shrimp producing states in India. we have been selected as “Seafood innovator of 2019” by seafood innovation project-Indonesia. We shall commercially launch our solution in Indonesian market by the end of this year. | Yes | IDH-The Sustainable Trade Initiative, Utrecht, The Netherlands | Transition to Scale | At present we are commercially deploying our app FarmMOJO across rural and coastal India. Additionally we are working with 3000 rural and coastal farmers to upscale our user base by implementing FarmMOJO in another 5800 ponds by end of this year. | Traditional fish farming practices leads to high production cost and poor utilisation of marine resources. 1 out of 4 farmers have been losing their farm income due to the disease spread and that is prevalent in the industry. The lack of data and data-analytics driven decision has a negative impact on production efficiency and disease management. Also, the lack of farm-level data prevents farmers from accessing financial assistance, Insurance coverage and efficient market linkage. | FarmMOJO records and monitors the real-time production data gathered from the farms through the mobile application interface. Collected data will be analyzed on real time and our prediction model uses the deep learning algorithm to provide context-sensitive suggestions and alerts to improve the water quality parameters, feed consumption pattern and health management. FarmMOJO understands the farmer’s needs inherently based on the input given by the farmer as well as the data captured by the IoT/Smart farm management platforms. FarmMOJO alerts the farmers about parameters which are not in optimal levels. For instance, it is important to ensure effective feed usage and biomass conversation, at any point MOJO observes poor Feed Conversion Ratio(FCR), it will suggests the necessary actions and relevant product should be used to normalize the pond environment to boosts FCR. Likewise, FarmMOJO helps at every point in culture operations using artificial intelligence and creates patterns using the collected data to get intelligence on culture practices. Thus it simplifies the farm operations for the farmer and improves the efficiency, predictability, and transparency. | Globally, Aquaconnect competes with the likes of San Francisco-based AI company Aquabyte, Australian machine learning platform sense-t, Indonesian AI and IoT enabled company efishery, and Norwegian Seafood Innovation Cluster’s AquaCloud. Here is how we differ from our competition 1.Full stack aquaculture tech platform that aims to improve farm production using AI powered farm advisor. 2.Pay as you go – There are no Capex requirement to implement FarmMOJO. It can customized to the workflow of small, medium and big farms. 3.Data Intelligence- FarmMOJO is location-aware, context-aware and also connects them with up-streams (Processors, Certifying bodies) and down-streams (Inputs and healthcare) players of the aqua supply chain. Our data-driven approach supports sustainable procurement& traceability, financial assistance & crop insurance to aqua farmers. 4.Traceability –FarmMOJO provides complete transparency of the shrimp and fish supply chain 5.We deployed deep learning technologies to provide them real-time data-driven decision-making capabilities. FarmMOJO personalized suggestions and advisory module reduces the dependency on technicians in daily culture operations and reduces operational costs. 6.Our Farm care ML algorithm analyses the performance of competitive farm care products (Feed, Probiotics, Minerals) based on their past performance and provides recommendation to the farmers. | During pilot run, we implemented our AI based “FarmMOJO” in 400 shrimp farming ponds in the three Indian states: Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. Its machine learning capabilities give alerts and suggestions to help farmers on maintaining optimal feeding, water quality parameters. It serves as a friendly companion and decision support system to the farmers throughout the culture cycle. We measure our progress by following criteria’s: 1. Production efficiency: Low Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) reduces the operational cost and increase profits. With FarmMOJO we aim to achieve 1.2 FCR by regulating available ocean resources and optimizing farm inputs. 2. Survival: Reduction in mortality level and achieve survival rate of 80% in FarmMOJO implemented ponds. 3. Volume of Sustainably produced production: The amount of sustainable seafood production as the result of the FarmMOJO’s implementation. 4. Antibiotic Use: Continuous monitoring and reduction of antibiotic usage in farms and thereby reducing environmental footprints. 5. Rural employment generation and support alternate livelihood. 6.Transparency in seafood supply chain | expand in, staff you will recruit, and projected lives impacted?) * Goals: We aim to implement FarmMOJO in 5800+ ponds by end of this year in Indian states. In a period of 3-5 years, we envisage to become a full stack global aquaculture technology provider. To facilitate FarmMOJO for wide range of aqua species to boost productivity and complete traceability support to achieve transparency. Milestones: 1.Lowering cost of production by efficient feed usage – Growth of the animal depends on the right feed usage. However, bringing feeding efficiency can help farmers to have better returns from their farms. FarmMOJO’s AI helps farmers to reduce 10% feed cost through it feed efficiency model. 2.Reducing the occurrences of diseases – So far, FarmMOJO predicted the diseases in over 120 ponds and helped farmers to take corrective actions and also minimize the losses. 3.Through our data intelligence, we connected farmers directly to the market place and helped them sell 300MT of shrimp to importers. The traceability data of the shrimp has improved their commodity value up to 5% in the import markets. | Short-term needs- Funds Small and Medium holding Fish & shrimp farmers have always been practicing farming through the word of mouth advices from the peers. Awareness on modern tech tools was low among aqua farmers community. To overcome this, we conduct regular workshops and convene to give adequate exposure and training. We are looking forward to raise funds for such developments. Medium-term needs- Partnership with International sustainability agencies and local government to promote Sustainable Aquaculture practices in their respective regions. Long-term needs - Raising institutional funds and expand the impact globally would be our priority. | https://inc42.com/startups/aquaconnect-shrimp-farmers-app/ https://yourstory.com/socialstory/2019/05/chennai-startup-artificial-intelligence-aqua-farmers https://www.edexlive.com/40-under-40/2019/jun/10/why-ai-can-get-your-mojo-on-rajamanohar-somasundaram-and-the-farm-connection-6549.html https://www.governmenteuropa.eu/aquaculture-innovation-europe/94056/ https://www.thebetterindia.com/128580/iit-aquafarmers-aqua-connect/ https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/here-s-how-an-iit-kanpur-alumnus-is-using-ai-to-improve-the-lives-of-shrimp-and-fish-farmers-369255.html | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9hWgkeg0vE | “Seafood Innovator 2019 ” award by Seafood Innovation Project- Indonesia.SIP Community Accelerator is a business accelerator program supporting innovations to improve sustainability within the fisheries sector in Indonesia. Won World Bank Group- Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) Agri Insuretech Challenge in 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
720 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | David Mike | Terungwa | Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation- GIFSEP | www.gifsep4climate.org | Executive Director | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I grew up in a local community in Benue State Nigeria were streams and river were prevalent. Over the years i found out that the stream had dried up and i didn't know the reason for it, even more alarming was the fact that my older community members could not explain either. This event sparked a passion within me to understand why the stream and rivers in my community are drying up. And that was how my journey as an environmental enthusiast and environmental conservationist began. In the last few years, i have worked closely with local communities in Africa particularly Nigeria and have observed that these local communities are the most severely hit in the global climate crises. Whereas the international community is focusing on mitigating the effects of climate change, these communities are already grappling with the impacts of climate change. This has motivated my team and I to focus our attention on how local communities can live sustainably within the current realities of their communities. Therefore, we continue to promote community based solutions to environmental challenges. Recently, i have developed a template to engage communities in order to create positive impact in the implementation of interventions in these communities. The community Participatory Land Use Planning is a tool i developed to address land use challenges using indigenous innovative solutions. | David Michael is a highly efficient & dedicated individual with over 15 years' combined experience in project management, operations, research & administration in non-profit and social development. Passionate about environmental management, sustainable agriculture and renewable energy, dedicated to enabling sustainable development in Sub Saharan Africa. David is the Founder and Executive Director of GIFSEP- Global Initiative for Food Security and Ecosystem Preservation based in Nigeria; Mike advocates, educates and mobilises communities to respond to a changing climate through participatory land use planning. He is the African Regional Coordinator for Citizens Climate Lobby and the West Africa Coordinator for The African Climate Reality Project, He is also the head of Energy and Mitigation of Nigeria's Civil Society Frame Work on Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals. Driven from deeply held conviction, with his personal mantra “Thou shall not pollute the Earth”, he applies a degree in Agricultural Engineering with a specialisation in Soil and Water Management and a post graduate certificate in Renewable energy. His passion is training people, young and old, in best practices for sustainable land management, food production and environmental conservation. | Local Community Sustainable Development Goals Lab | The Local Community Sustainable Development Goals Lab is a tool that collects local communities data with respect to the 17 SDGs goals. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | Yes | International Fund for Agricultural Development-Climate Change Adaption and Agribusiness Support Programme | Scaling | The solution have been implemented in about 150 communities across Nigeria and have been very successful in promoting community ownership of intervention particularly by the IFAD-CASP project. | It is no longer news that many communities in Least Developed Countries are already been affected by climate change impact and one of the most affected sector is agriculture. Many initiatives designed as interventions to help communities adapt and build resilience do not involve communities who are the land users and are the key stakeholders in the design and implementation leading to the failure of many of such initiatives and projects after millions of dollars are spent. | Community land use planning and mapping is a key planning instrument that involves community members in exploring local land-use planning issues. It is an interactive process in which local communities discuss and determine how to manage the land and other natural resources in their locality thereby helping communities adapt and build resilience to the changing climate. The very first step is the identification communities with land use challenges; priority is giving to farming communities. The initiative is introduced to the micro group after which public awareness and sensitization is held during which some members of the community volunteer join the participatory land use team. The sustainable Development approach of leaving no one behind is put to use here where the community formed must have a representation of all based on gender. To further ensure active participation and better understanding of the process, training is organized for the team to assist in data collection. They are provided with and trained on the use of hand-held global positioning system (GPS) and how to conduct oral interviews for the purpose of obtaining historic data. I hope that this tool will be use globally to engage communities in an attempt to build resilience communities across the world. | it is no longer news that many communities in Least Developed Countries are already been affected by climate change impact and one of the most affected sector is agriculture. Many initiatives designed as interventions to help communities adapt and build resilience do not involve communities who are the land users and are the key stakeholders in the design and implementation leading to the failure of many of such initiatives and projects after millions of dollars are spent. Methodology 1. Training of Participatory land Use Team Data collection is critical to the overall success of this initiative; this action is carried out by the organization (GIFSEP) with the assistance of the Participatory Land Use Team. Some of data collected include the following: Statistics of Land Use and Land Cover Demography 2. Transect Walk A transect walk is a systematic walk along a defined path (transect) across the community together with the local people to explore the land, water, forest by observing, asking, listening, looking and producing a transect diagram. Depending on the size and land of the community the PLUP team is divided into groups to work with the technical team from GIFSEP. 3. Participatory Sketching of the Community Map. 4. Identification of community Problems and Ranking 5. Community Action Plan Development 6. Production of a Geo-Referenced Map | We have successfully carried out this initiatives in 150 selected communities in Northern Nigeria with positive outcomes and with several request for replication in other communities. We have been able to secure interventions the communities really need through the community land use mapping method of engaging the communities. | This solution seeks to secure intervention in about 4000 communities severely affected by climate change in order to build their resilience to the impacts of climate change in their communities | The cost of this project can be divided into two. The cost of conducting the participatory vulnerability and land use mapping. The cost of the interventions of the identified problems. The cost of conducting the participatory vulnerability and land use mapping can be categorized into the following: Inception and Documentation Training Field Exercise Consultation and validation of activities. It will cost $3500 to conduct participatory vulnerability and land use mapping in a community of less than 10,000 people and a land size of about 10,000 hectares The cost of the interventions of the identified problems; this cost varies from community to community. Using Tree planting to halt deforestation and desertification as an example, the cost will involve raising a community nursery depending on the size of the land. It cost about $10 to raise one Tree from nursery, transplanting and maintaining to maturity. Therefore, to plant 10,000 Trees per community it will cost at $100,000. Other cost could involve provision of water for irrigation, livestock and domestic use, the cost here again depends on if it’s a borehole or a small earth day. Average cost of a Borehole depending on the depth and accessories can be put at $15,000 while a small Earth dam can be can cost between $100,000- 200,000 depending on several factors. There are other costs that will involve training and hands on activity on land and water conservation and management and can be put at $5000 per training. | https://gifsep4climate.org/ https://www.climatecolab.org/contests/2019/reshapingdevelopmentpathwaysinLDCs/c/proposal/1334609 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hrRP6KnXNA&t=16s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHHRoBGEfnw&feature=youtu.be https://gifsep4climate.org/projects/solar-for-idp-camps/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
721 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Daniel | Lago , Okomo | MAONI NETWORK | www.generalassemblyofpartners.org | Proprietor/Operator | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | I have worked for the local Kenyan chamber of Commerce and Industry, later on founded a media house and served for sometimes as both Publisher and EDitor | As in above, I have for for an organisation, and founded a business | NDHIWA TOWNSHIP PARTNERSHIP ENFORCEMENT | PROMOTING WATER AS A PROMISE TO LIVELIHOOD IN THE TOWNSHIP | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | 1 | Yes | This project is out of County Government of Homa-Bay [Kenya] seeking partners, making them my partners too. | Proof of Concept | Partnerships and collaborations have come of age and are the trending BEST PRACTICES globally | The need to forster adequate shelter in Ndhiwa township, and the nucleur approach strategy is to work with Business Community in the very township. Cities & Urban Areas Act[2012], Kenya implementation being underway, only the business community could be the pilot points. The county government in their request for Water Partnership in 2016, including Ndhiwa township in the list of seven others, and the town itself being the eighth[8th] | Consultation on the priorities and order will matter most | Public Participation, being the written Article in Kenyan Constitution 2010 in addressing governance matters | HIVOS , an International Civil Society Organisation, with global headquarters in Hague, Netherlands has agreed that I present to them our our approach, but our request is for a public participation event before September, 2019 Solutions summit in New York | 6,7, 11, 12& 17 | Ideas, and cvollective will, intelligence of the residents to see us in the right direction, right path etc | We have none, as ours is a smaller media outfit, and we are just trying to fundraise, although the County demand for partners appeared in the Nation Newspapers of Kenya on September, 7th, 2016 | As in the immediate above, we have none.We can only tip your desk to consult GOOGLE to do the same, doting .....Ndhiwa township, Homa-Bay County, Kenya. In that way, there could emerge a clue | As already explained, we have none, as towns in Western Kenya or Lake region of Kenya has never won any before, however, Kisumu City has won bid to host AFRICITIES Summit, in 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
722 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Geoffrey | Omoding | Sayans | www.sayans.org | Founder and Lead | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | I was raised and studied in a rural community in Uganda. This had its specific challenges especially being a young man passionate about science, technology and innovation. School was and is still based on making sure I pass examinations. Having graduated with BS. Physics and Mathematics, I then got to know the real impact of the nature of learning we have especially for rural youth who don't have access to resources for practical learning. It is based on this that am motivated to transform the landscape of learning in Africa and make sure students from rural areas get access to resources, tools and the support to bring relate sciences to real life situations and build a better foundation to nurture a new generation of techpreneurs in Africa. Being part of the UN Solutions Summit will give me an opportunity to interact with and learn from other change makers, establish collaborations and partnerships that will see us easily scale out to other African countries and access to financial opportunities that we can leverage on to make Africa ready for the 4th industrial revolution. | Geoffrey was born and raised in the eastern part of Uganda. In 2012, he graduated with BS Physics and Mathematics from Makerere University and later a hands on certificate in solar technology and basic electronics from Nsamizi Training Institute of Social Development. Upon completion, he was retained to lecture the same course. In 2014, he underwent a fellowship program from Social Innovation Academy (SINA) where he became an entrepreneurship trainer, business startup mentor and consultant. SINA empowers marginalized youth to turn their challenging experiences into social ventures. He also is a personality and people development facilitator and currently conducts tailored training for numerous organizations and corporate entities. In 2018, he became the country Coordinator for the Social Impact Award (SIA), a global organization supporting young people transform ideas into successful ventures through workshops and providing seed funding to the best ideas. In 2016, he started Sayans based on his experience studying sciences in a rural school. Sayans seeks to transform the nature of teaching and learning sciences in Africa with the aim of supporting and nurturing techpreneurs. | Sayans Africa | Transforming science and technology in Africa through Education | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Uganda | Yes | Afrodjango Initiative - Python ambassadors in East Africa | Transition to Scale | We have so far set up Sayans programs in 10 schools. With these schools, we have been conducting mobile workshops on the different topics in science and technology. We have seen the impact in these schools with more students joining from an average of 50 per school to 100 students. We are now ready to scale out and stream the workshops. With the workshops being streamed, we shall be able to get thousands of schools and impact millions of students across Africa. | Learning is impossible without adequate classroom resources. It is even more challenging for sciences when students are not able to practically experiment and apply concepts. Unfortunately, this is the reality for rural schools in Uganda and Africa at large. These schools have few teachers, ill equipped or no science labs and resources for research. And so, students focus on memorizing to pass exams and abilities to engage in application of science and tech for development are not harnessed. | “Fortunately, recent studies prove that learning doesn’t necessarily demand a trained teacher. Organizations like Khan Academy are proving that a “flipped classroom” model can deliver quality education. In this model, students learn lessons at home, and classroom time is spent doing activity-style homework assignments. With a flipped classroom approach, we get doctors, teachers, engineers, entrepreneurs and researchers etc. to conduct demonstrations and explanations on topics in science and technology that are streamed from our main facility to a network of centers within the schools. With one workshop, we reach millions of students across our networks. The centers are coordinated by Sayans fellows, university graduates who engage students in activities, support develop projects and stream the videos at a low cost. We aim to achieve a price point of $30 annually per student payable in installments termly. The centers are equipped with basic hands on tools for student practical engagement in the workshops and for use in developing their own projects to enhance application and deeper understanding of concepts taught in class, nurture creativity, innovation and problem solving, and above all have FUN. Our goal is to cover all African countries. Each school will participate in the within school, regional and country science fair competitions with the country winners competing in the Africa Sayans competitions. | In as much as other organizations are working to foster science and technology through education, we are uniquely placed. Our approach gives students the possibility of interacting with and practically learning from experts in the different science fields. Cyber school in Uganda currently provides an online digital software and a virtual lab where students watch and/or read the different topics covered in the different syllabi. This is very well convenient for students who own computers and have access to internet. The software costs $30 per year FundiBots conducts training with students in schools on robotics. The workshops cost as much as $66 per workshop (http://fundibots.org/whatwedo). We work with rural schools, having no access to computers or internet. We bring closer services needed the most by a very unprivileged group, rural students. Our workshops are practical and give the students the platform to develop ideas that are presented in the inter-country Sayans makers competitions with innovative student ideas having a possibility to attract support for growth. Our approach not only supports the students learn with real life application but also grow as innovators who use science and technology to solve societal problems. | So far, we have established Sayans in 10 secondary schools in Mpigi. In these schools, we are conducting mobile weekly workshops. These workshops are being conducted by innovative teachers, doctors and engineers so far from Uganda and Germany. We measure the number of students who joine the workshops per school. In the beginning, we started with students 30-50 per school and in one term, the numbers increased to between 70 and 120 with parents calling us to have their children join. We have seen the students who joined the Sayans program much more active in class (survey with teachers within the schools) and we are still looking forward to their end of term results to see any improvements in their performances. | Stream the workshops with the start of 2020 Impact at least 1,000,000 students by December 2020 Have at least 20 schools having the Sayans program starting with the year 2020 and over 1000 schools in Uganda by 2023 Have Sayans program in 3 other countries - Cameroon, Rwanda and Kenya by December 2020 | Short term needs. A projector for each school One university graduate for each school who will work as a Sayans fellow Engineers, doctors, researchers, teachers to conduct the workshops A camera for capturing the workshops An assortment of basic tools and resources for student engagement in the workshops - Paper microscopes - Electronics working tools - Raspberry pi computers Midium- term needs A specialized streaming platform where students can even chat with the facilitators and get career guidance. Long term needs Set up a central facility where students can access bigger machines and tools to fabricate their ideas. This are one time and shared tools and resources. | https://web.facebook.com/sayansacademy/ | https://youtu.be/9Q-mJm-dsRk | Innovating in Education Expo 2019, Gaborone Botswana. Exhibitor Unleash 2019, Shenzhen China. Unleash talent African ChangeMakers Fellow Cohort 2 Autumn School for Sustainable Entrepreneurship 2018, Stuttgart by Engagement Global and ASA Program. Participant. Total StartUpper of the year challenge Uganda 2018. Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
723 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mariéme | Jamme | iamtheCODE | https://www.iamthecode.org/ | Founder | Female | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Senegal | English | French | With the ambitious goal to empower 1 million young women and girls by enabling them to gain the digital skills that they need for their future, the primary motivation to be a part of the summit is to spread the word and showcase the work done thus far by our solution - iamtheCODE. Our hope is that marginalised girls from all over the world will be able to take their place in today's digital forum, with the support of mentors who are willing to join the cause. Taking Mariéme's own innovation journey into account, she grew up in rural Senegal, from an oligarch mother who gave her away at an early-age, and later was raised in various foster houses including in an orphanage and then trafficked as a young prostitute to Paris. She did not have a formative education until the age of 16 years old, when she taught herself how to read and write. Mariéme is an autodidact, coder, blogger, tech and education activist who now devotes herself to African development in all aspects. She works tirelessly to empower girls all over the world through education, empowerment, mentoring, leadership and economic development. | Mariéme Jamme is a Senegalese-born, French- British businesswoman, a pioneer in System Change and Technology. She is best renowned for her motivational & inspirational speeches about girl's education and humanity. In September 2017, she was the first black woman to win the Innovation Award at the Global Goals Award 2017 by UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a Goal Keeper for her work in advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, supporting globally young women and girls and governments. She was nominated on the BBC 100 Power Women UK list and was named twice on the UK Powerlist as Britain’s 100 most influential people of African and African Caribbean Heritage. Mariéme Jamme became the Duke of York Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award (iDEA), Industry Ambassador in 2018. Marieme’s latest venture includes the launch of iamtheCODE, as the first African-led global movement aiming at mobilising governments, businesses, philanthropic foundations and investors to support marginalised girls and young women to have access to STEAMD (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, and Design) education. Her goal is to empower 1 million young women and girls globally to become coders by 2030. iamtheCODE is now a UN recognised organisation. | iamtheCODE | iamtheCODE is a pivotal movement to mobilise governments, business and investors to support young women in STEAMED. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | United Kingdom, Brazil, China, Kenya, South Africa | Yes | UN Women, The Forum of Young Global Leaders, UNDP, AllAfrica, ThoughtWorks, Microsoft, UBS, Unilever, Alibaba Cloud, Salesforce, Nasdaq | Sustainable Scale | We believe that we are on a sustainable scale, with our global reach across over 65 countries - we have connected to around 15,000 young women and girls between the ages 11 to 18, teaching them to code, gain Digital Skills and change their lives, since our launch in 2016. | In Africa, young girls in the worst parts of the continent are often forgotten and have zero chance to find a sense of creative direction. With over 65 million girls being denied access to basic education, a new bold vision on girl’s education is imperative if we want to create digital leaders. The evidence shows that if we do not break down barriers and help move girls in the tech industry forward through inclusion, we will be creating layers of citizenship and a digital divide in society. | By 2030, the iamtheCODE movement will ensure that 1 million women and girls have equal access to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university. We are creating a generation of female digital leaders, in Africa especially. Here’s how: 1. Digital Clubs: The iamtheCODE Digital club is a safe space where a variety of technologies, solutions and innovations are used to enable the next generation of digital leaders to become digitally intelligent. Our successful 12-weeks Digital code club in over 13 libraries in Africa, Asia and UK including Guildford Library in Surrey saw 100% completion and is growing – driving innovation, and revolutionising libraries. 2. SDG Hackathons: SDGs Hackathons are a code-a-thon where developers, designers, hackers, students, entrepreneurs and educators gather to collaborate on projects including applications, software, hardware, data visualization and platform solutions. 3. Mentorship Programmes: The iamtheCODE Mentorship programme is designed to fully support women and girls and their networks. While mentoring the girls, we focus on retention, education, measurement and encouragement. Our large, diverse network of mentors and business leaders includes a range of women and men, from the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum to industry Experts in Technology, providing personal advice for mentees and tremendous experience to share. | iamtheCODE is a movement of direct action for the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to improve economic outcomes for girls. If Africa wants to be part of the Global Digital Revolution, we must invest in our young women and their future. We believe Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, Entrepreneurship and Design (STEAMED) will play a great role in the measurement of the Sustainable Development Goals, specifically Goals 4, 5, 8 and 9 which are Education, Gender Equality and Innovation to assure that No One is left behind. iamtheCODE will harness a proven methodology to work with governments, business and investors to support young women break the code, find work and become digital leaders. | With the aim of the iamtheCODE movement to support marginalised girls and young women, we are still in the process of gathering data to track their career growth and development. However, the outcomes are measured through not only numbers & facts, but also the intangible notions that are evoked from the girls and young women who participate in the events – from building self-confidence, pride and self-love. Essentially, this movement brings hope to girls and young women about a whole range of careers they might have never thought possible. The overall success of iamtheCODE will be measured through numbers of girls and young women empowered, and job opportunities created. | Milestones: Around 15,000 young women and girls between the ages 11 to 18 are learning to code, gain Digital Skills and change their lives in over 65 countries, since this launch in New York in 2016. With a total of 167 events (involving Digital Clubs, Bootcamps, Mentoring Activities and Hackathons) conducted thus far and much more to come in the future, the young women and girls obtain hands-on experience across various technologies and applications including but not limited to Python, JavaScript and Ruby. Planned Goals: By the end of 2019, iamtheCODE will reach 16,000 girls. In September 2019, iamtheCODE will present at Nasdaq in New York. Our digital club efforts are increasing the employability of girls, resulting in interviews, internships, and potential jobs with major international partners and employers. | Short-term: First and foremost, we need a well-organized global team. As we are in over 65 countries, it is vital to our operation to hire employees dedicated to the cause. At present, we primarily work with part-time employees and volunteers. Successful full-time hires would help distribute the workload across a core team and facilitate longer-term growth for the organisation. Medium-term: With the visibility that comes with being associated to the UN, we hope to influence more talented individuals to take up mentoring roles. Our aim is to build a large, diverse network of mentors and business leaders from young global leaders to industry experts in technology - providing personal advice for mentees and tremendous experience to share. Long-term: As with the medium-term goal, we would look to build strategic partnerships with companies - to facilitate internships and job opportunities for the young women and girls that we have reached out to as a part of the movement. | https://www.iamthecode.org/ | Mariéme Jamme speaking at: TedxKingstonUponThames: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXGt5aVmoHo TedxAmsterdamWomen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MahC4n0A8MM&t=12s TEDxMünchenSalon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_j0EibuaC8&t=16s Impact'18 in Kraków: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYduQtuSM2s&t=36s (Many more available on Youtube!) | Awards won by Mariéme Jamme: - Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum - Innovation Award at the Global Goals Award 2017 by UNICEF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a Goal Keeper for her work in advancing the UN SDGs - Nominated on the BBC 100 Power Women UK list - Named twice on the UK Power list as Britain’s 100 most influential people of African and African Caribbean Heritage - Duke of York Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award (iDEA), Industry Ambassador in 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
724 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dennis | McClung | Garden Pool | https://gardenpool.org/ | Founder and CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | My motivations for applying for the UN Solutions Summit are driven by the urgency for achieving the SDG’s and putting solutions into immediate action. The UN Solutions Summit is the perfect platform to present Garden Pool’s Climate Smart Farm (CSF), a disruptive technology that is ready to implement and scale in a sustainable way. The CSF is sustainable, resilient to the effects of climate change, and yields 10-18 times more than traditional agriculture while using 98% less water. We know that vital natural resources are dwindling rapidly and climate change is accelerating extreme weather all over the world, threatening how the world feeds itself. By implementing CSF technology, any community will be able to build a sustainable foundation for lasting resilience. I have a track record of using innovations for positive global impact. I formed an international NGO for sustainable development and have partners in over 40 developing countries. I have worked hands-on with the implementation of Garden Pool innovations in refugee camps, schools, and hurricane ravaged countries. I strive to uphold my “boots on the ground” initiative and am eager to showcase Garden pool’s multifaceted solution that addresses more than half of the SDG’s at the UN Solutions Summit. | Dennis founded an internationally-recognized NGO for sustainable development, food systems, and education with programs in over 40 countries. Dennis is a globally recognized innovator and invented the Garden Pool in 2009. The concept went viral in 2010 as a sustainable solution to agricultural challenges. Garden Pool became an international NGO in 2012. Garden Pool has since partnered with international organizations such as IICA. Dennis is passionate about open data for sustainable development and spends his free-time pushing for global change. As the first Goodwill Ambassador for the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, and a GODAN Champion, Dennis stands as a representative for the entire Western Hemisphere. His strongest attribute is his hands-on experience and field work. As a project manager, visionary, and global leader, Dennis is the epitome of passion and is the perfect applicant to be considered for the UN Solutions Summit. | Climate Smart Farm (CSF) | Accelerating climate resiliency and fostering food security through sustainable innovation | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Current United States Trinidad & Tobago Antigua & Barbuda St. Kitts & Nevis Haiti Dominican Republic Puerto Rico Suriname Brazil South Africa Intended (Eastern Caribbean States) Mexico Dominica Brazil St. Vincent & the Grenadines Grenada St. Lucia | Yes | Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) & Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) | Sustainable Scale | CSF’s have evolved to an innovative system that can be replicated by any community and are ready to be implemented on a global scale. With the ability to adapt to any climate, location or environment, the CSF can not only maintain balance in a sustainable way, but can also generate a whole new industry in agriculture.10 years of successful implementation has demonstrated the capacity of redefining a new sustainable economy while fostering future innovations. | Communities around the world are devastated by the impacts of climate change and extreme weather. Regions that are most vulnerable to the effects (rural areas) are faced with dwindling resources, flooding, soil erosion, saltwater intrusion, limited access to nutritious food and more. CSF’s offer a solution to these complex challenges while also addressing the agricultural knowledge gap across generations and within rural communities by tackling the threat of food deserts and malnutrition. | The Climate Smart Farm is a multi-solution, ecosystem-based, food-energy-water system with the ability to maximize community resilience and resource efficiency on a global scale. As a closed-loop system, the CSF supports an ecosystem that is in balance with no need for external inputs. The recycling of nutrient water in a soilless greenhouse with a vertical layout allows for automatic irrigation and no weeding. This ecosystem recycles harvested rainwater in ponds with fish and a blend of algae and pond plants. Nutrient enriched water is cycled through the areas that the crops are grown and returned back to the pond. Poultry raising can be symbiotically integrated into the system, as well. Each CSF can be built using recycled local materials, and training is provided in order for local citizens to be able to maintain and replicate the system. CSFs are scalable to the investment level of the farm, allowing for them to choose their level of resilience. Garden Pool would like to lead the global shift from traditional agriculture practices to sustainable development, and would like to see CSFs become common practice, not just an exception. Implementing a multi-solution approach through sustainable manufacturing practices will not only reduce freshwater usage in agriculture by 98%, but will encourage entrepreneurship and innovation. By changing the global food system with disruptive technology, CSFs will enable every community to feed itself with controlled-environment agriculture. | CSFs use fewer resources and are built inclusively, bridging the agricultural knowledge gap in rural communities. When compared to conventional agricultural methods, CSFs utilize 98% less water and have an agricultural output of 10-18 times more. High water and energy efficiency, paired with advanced techniques and modular design, generates a resilient system that drastically lessens the effects of climate change and increases profit. A reusable grow medium and closed-loop ecosystem eliminates the need for external fertilizers and the worry of soil degradation. CSF systems are designed with a vertical layout which not only makes food production possible in challenging environments, but also allows for easy disassembly in the event of extreme weather. This protects the system and the vitality of crops produced. CSFs are easily replicable and can scale to any environment or climate using 3D printed materials. 3D printing technology utilizes local plastic waste which eliminates the need for new materials and reduces plastic pollution. Along with the implementation of CSFs, GP offers locals training on how to build using 3D printing which will help farmers sustainably maintain their systems while also mitigating the amount of local plastic waste. These farms provide a stable source of nutritious foods to rural communities that may not have been accessible to them before. CSF’s offer a unique solution that decentralizes food, water, energy and manufacturing in a sustainable way. | Garden Pool has been producing CSFs for around ten years and has successfully implemented them in eight countries, including nations ravaged by hurricanes. Over the course of ten years, CSFs have been developed at commercial and industrial levels, have been adopted by multiple governments, and have been the focus of hemispherical partnerships. With successful adaptation to multiple climates and scales throughout various locations within the Western Hemisphere, the GP team has progressed immensely in the development of this solution. Garden Pool’s progress has been recognized on a global scale, including representation from the entire Western Hemisphere, which has supplied many opportunities to better our methodological rigor. We measure our progress with partnerships, universities, and countries through implementation. Government and academia involvement has allowed us to measure progress effectively. Trinidad and Tobago’s government, as well as IICA, has been integral in quantifying the impact of our solution in their country and other countries that have implemented the project. | Garden Pool plans on the development and expansion of regional hubs by working with universities and local volunteers from previous agricultural sectors. Implementation will be focused in the Caribbean for the next two years with movement to Central and South America in the years following. Ultimately, expansion to the Eastern Hemisphere is one of Garden Pool’s major goals. Over the next five years, GP plans to establish 12 offices throughout the Western Hemisphere. Developing offices located in places like Brazil and Mexico will allow for easier execution of Garden Pool technology within those areas and surrounding regions. Regional coordinators and supportive staff for each office will be established to train and pass on knowledge. Raising awareness of Garden Pool’s mission and work through partnerships with universities, institutions, and interested philanthropists is an existing goal. A milestone that Garden Pool would like to achieve is organizing an MOU for knowledge transfer to institutes in the Eastern Hemisphere. Ultimately, GP would like entire countries to have access to CSF’s in order to ensure long-lasting knowledge, skills, and resources that can be passed down through generations with countless lives impacted throughout the future. | Ultimately, Garden Pool requires self-sustaining financial funding to continue the considerable impact of CSF’s. Ultimate transparency and anti-corruption is needed in order to accomplish short, medium, and long-term goals. Short-term, over the next 1-2 years, GP would like to develop deployable versions of CSF’s that can be delivered to countries in need. GP will also build off of their pre-established partnerships with universities in order to successfully implement knowledge transfer with GP curriculum. Medium-term, within 5 years, GP is determined to advance the implementation of CSF’s throughout Latin and Central America. In order to do so, administrative staff and offices need to be established in port cities. Additionally, furthering partnerships with various governing institutions will greatly magnify the impact of Climate Smart Farms. Diplomatic ties can provide easier collaboration with countries and the increased ability to accomplish key goals and milestones. Long-term, over the next 10 years, GP is committed to becoming well-established in the Eastern Hemisphere. Raising GP’s recognition around the world would increase access to commercial producers, stakeholders, investors, and philanthropists. A larger awareness of GP’s goals can create a larger network to work with. | https://news.microsoft.com/features/global-garden-how-one-mans-vision-to-feed-his-family-blossomed-into-an-international-effort/ http://www.iica.int/en/press/news/his-contributions-sustainable-development-iica-appoints-garden-pool’s-ceo-goodwill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6SfZT0JNkw&feature=youtu.be https://gardenpool.org/story/garden-pool-founder-becomes-goodwill-ambassador-for-sustainable-development | https://youtu.be/MvgtHIcSD3Q?t=7m20s https://vimeo.com/343880906 https://vimeo.com/298408565 https://vimeo.com/242847378 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6AqQHW0D8o | IICA Goodwill Ambassador for Sustainable Development (October 2018) - http://www.iica.int/en/press/news/his-contributions-sustainable-development-iica-appoints-garden-pool’s-ceo-goodwill Connect4Climate Uniting4Climate VR/360Video Pitch Competition - https://www.connect4climate.org/initiative/uniting4climate-international-vr360video-pitch-competition-highlights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
725 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | MYRTHA | VILBON | GLORY INDUSTRIES | WWW.GLORYGROUPHT.COM | FOUNDER - CEO | FEMALE | United States of America | Haiti | English | French | I am motivated to be part of the UN Solutions Summit to: 1- Share my personal experience and contribution to the SDG in Haiti. The progresses made to date, the need to scale these activities and to seek support in the pursuit and scaling of theses goals, in order to meet the set objectives. 2- Have the opportunity to address the special situation of Haiti in terms of hygiene habit changes needs, exposure to diseases causing illnesses and preventable death, deficit of well being, in search of means to bring dignity to ives of the less fortunate part of the population and create global positive impact 2- Achieve better support to sustainable sanitation. We do our hygiene promotion through road shows, with free hand washing with soap, while we also promote toilet paper consumption. We have gained 55 of the market among more than 90% of imported brands. 3- Continue to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, by creating productive inclusive employment - we created 50 direct (80% women) and 2,000,000 indirect jobs all women street vendors. 4- Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, by maintaining continuous production to be able supply on a regular basis, gain market share, make the toilet rolls available nationwide. The miniature toilet rolls are a serious innovation for Haiti, where 40% of the population uses tree leaves, cement bags paper, news print, magazines, notebooks, books, rags, stones, river, fingers, to wipe after defecting. All these unsanitary means are causes of numerous diseases transfers causing ,diarhea, diphtheria, cholera among a number of other diseases, costing great amount to the health care system and reducing productivity, often times causing the lives of the Haitians. This innovation has been used for positive global impact. The innovation shapes better hygiene habits thru hygienic paper usage, proper hand-washing habits, overall sanitation and hygiene education through school lectures, road shows, graphic hygiene messages inserted in toilet rolls. We create jobs direct and indirect especially for women, we support women financial autonomization by extending credit to street vendors, we protect the environment by avoiding rivers spoliation, our waste paper is recycled into paper mâché for art purposes, we promote well being, dignity, health, productivity. We contribute to the improvement of the economy. We are looking for opportunities to scale and create a higher degree of impact. | MYRTHA VILBON Born in Haiti, Nov. 26, 1957 I like to resolve challenges. I am passionate, ambitious, perseverant, dynamic, social entrepreneur. I strive to be a successful woman in today's society. I have 40 years of experience in Sales, Production, Distribution, Marketing, Construction, Industry. 1977 - 1979 licensed Real Estate Agent, New York; Sept. 1979. Business Management degree, Saint John’s University, N.Y; 1970 - 1980 Spanish language and culture - Spain; 1980 - 1985 Assistant Manager of family owned confectionery, Haiti; 1985 - 1987 Owner of retail candy store, Haiti ; 1987 - 2014 Exclusive Agent in Haiti of Dutch Lady Dairy products of Multinational FRIESLAND COBERCO DAIRY FOODS, The Netherlands; Exclusive agent in Haiti of Dairy Products of Multinational Besniers, France; Exclusive agent in Haiti of Multinational Bavaria Beer, The Netherlands; Exclusive agent in Haiti of ARISCO products, Brazil; Exclusive agent in Haiti of CEVAL products, Brazil; Imports and distribution of toilet paper and other consumer goods, Haiti; 2004 - 2008 Road Construction Sub-contractor, Haiti; 2008 - 2015 Distribution of locally produced consumer goods, Haiti; 2011 - 2015 Law Degree - Haiti; 2015 to date Implementation of Glory Industries , a tissue Converting company, Haiti | BETTER HYGIENE, BETTER HEALTH - STAYING HEALTHY WITH HYGIENIC PAPER | GLORY PAPERS, THE HYGIENE SOLUTION! | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTED IN HAITI | No | Transition to Scale | Mini toilet paper rolls 30gr, contribute to the promotion of better hygiene in Haiti. 40% of the population has no access to tissue hygiene for reasons of remoteness and high cost of larger rolls. This solution controls communicable diseases, ensures healthy lives, well-being , inclusive job creation (80% women), sustainable economic growth, women financial autonomy, generates income, sustainable industrialization, sustainable consumption and production, reduces global health risks. | The solution addresses a social problem within 40% of the Haitian population, with limited access to a basic necessity: toilet paper, taken for granted by most.Traditional unhealthy alternatives, rags, notebooks, stones, tree leaves, fingers, walls, river and else are used by vulnerable disadvantaged part of the Haitian community creating a global health risk. They lack access to hygiene education, affordable hygienic alternatives to improve their hygiene habits, and quality of life. | Our solution offers low cost alternative to traditional unsanitary means, such as rags, newsprint, ciment bags, notebooks, magazines, tree leaves, stones, river, fingers, walls, and more, putting at risk the individual and its surroundings. We reach out to non-users nationwide, in the most remote areas. Affordability solves the problem of low income non-users. Our vision is to access a greater number of non-users by scaling our operations. Our present network will increase from 150 to 250 distributors, wholesalers and retailers, 49 direct jobs to 70 and 2,000,000 indirect jobs to 3,500 nationwide. Our goal is to reach 70% of market share, increase production of the mini rolls from a total of 50,000,000 to 200,000,000 within one year, satisfy local demands for standard sizes, substitute import by 40%. Our direct marketing approach will implement health via road shows, hygiene campaign, free hand washing, revitalizing public information, stimulating community participation, with the objective of achieving personal hygiene behaviour changes, while increasing hygienic paper consumption to attain both goals, social and financial. At scale, we will attain a 20% growth short term, with the potential of reaching 80% of the most vulnerable, underserved, at-risk part of the population, substitute imports with our larger rolls by 50%. Overcoming this challenge will have a global impact on the Sustainable Development Goals in an affordable and effective manner. | The uniqueness of this innovation cannot be duplicated by imported goods due to high freight cost. Our uniqueness: 1- The availability of our small, affordable toilet rolls; 2- Outreach to vulnerable non-users nationwide 3- Mobile Hand washing and hygiene education programs - sound truck road show 4-Private sector's goal of resolving this social challenge in Haiti Our perspective has been tested on a pilot basis, with PADF then Red Cross of Haiti. As a young company ready to scale, our perspective is to achieve our expansion plan on a high a level, to generate enough revenue to become a socially responsible company, to independently engage and support, as a private sector, Hygiene, handwashing promotion, educational activities, messages that can be tied to our expanding hygienic tissue brands, stimulate consumers. This solution effectively improves healthy hygiene behaviour, controls prevention of diseases proliferation in Haiti, while promoting the products of the company. Health improvement can only be sustainable through hygiene habit changes, raising awareness in support to WASH efforts. I am seeking financial resources for scaling, to launch this program. At scale, this innovation has the potential to reach 90% of the most vulnerable, at-risk population, resolve a social disaster related to non- access to health related basic necessity, lower health care cost, save countless lives, address development challenges in a cheap and effective manner. | This solution has been implemented, we have thus far reached out to our target consumers with more than 50,000,000 mini toilet rolls, among other sizes. The full development of this solution is pending our scaling stage. We have been active in seeking the funds to reach this level, it is difficult to mobilize financial resources for scaling in Haiti. This causes a hindrance to domestic production capacity building and export readiness.The socio-political circumstances of Haiti also reduce the opportunities of foreign direct investments. Household surveys is the ideal method for collecting data, we don't yet have the resources to carry out these surveys. We presently measure our progress by the frequency and volume of reorders of trade by zoning. Our team maintains close rapport with trade and consumers, for direct dynamic interaction, feedbacks on competition, market demands, overall market surveys, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of our solution's progression and growth projection, to assess resource efficiency and progress towards the sustainability of our solution. We supply more than paper, we are hands on hygiene promoters. We shed proper light on priorities, economic opportunities to advance our solution in reaching our final goal: more hygiene awareness, more paper consumption. The actual size of our company, our limited cash flow, does not allow a budget for social progress, performance and sustainable development measurement. | Our planned long term goal is to generating a desirable healthy environment , better quality of life, dignity through hygiene education and promotion solutions to achieve healthy hygiene habit awareness in the Haitian community on a level of 90% within in the next 10 years in the context of the Sustainable Development Goal. Using private sector means as social responsibility contribution to Haiti while building capacity, revenue and profit. Company restitutions or pay back mentality is not common in Haiti. At scale, we will be have standardized products to satisfy the local market, and be in a position to be have our products certification and enter the export market in neibooring countries, most exactly the Caricom countries. We will reorganize our staff, training on site our present employees and hire more qualified technical staff, administrative, production, sales and marketing. The full implementation of our solution will create 30 additional direct jobs and 1, 500 indirect. It will increase revenue and income for the company and trade, ensure sustainable consumption, promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for 80 people , impact 7,000,000 lives by ensuring healthy lives and sustainable well-being, create income for 3,000 more women street vendors, increase inclusive productivity by 20%, reduce health care cost, reduce mortality. | Resources to scale: 1-Capacity Building, Standardization, Machinery, Equipments 2-Technical support 3-Administrative reinforcement 4-Health / Hygiene Medical professionals 5-Sales/Marketing logistics 6-Cash-Flow Needs: Short Term - 2,800,000 USD Toilet paper, napkins, Jumbo rolls Production, Capacity building, Standardization automatization, Machinery, Equipments, Installation,Training cost Cash flow Hygiene Education Program Free Handwashing Medium Term - 2,650,000 USD Baby Diapers production, Machinery, Equipments,Installation Training cost Cash Flow Hygiene Education Program Free Handwashing Long Term-USD - 2,400,000 USD Feminine napkins Production, Machinery,Equipments installation,Training Cost Cash Flow Hygiene Education Program | http://www.glorygroupht.com UN DOCUMENTARY ON MYRTA VILBON / GLORY INDUSTRIES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghCo_KEvDHQ patternswww.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article85131647.html startupcompete.co/startup-idea/consumer-goods/glory-paper-the-hygiene.../49788 https://leadinvestmentshaiti.info/news/ges2016 startupcompete.co/startup-idea/consumer-goods/glory-paper-the-hygiene.../49788 leadinvestmentshaiti.info/glory-industries-sa/ https://padf.smugmug.com/keyword/ambassador;haiti;glory%20industries haitiinnovation.org/en/blog-tags-3/glory-industries www.padf.org/news/2016/2/18/factory-tour-reveals-thriving-haitian-economy www.haitilibre.com/.../news-17819-haiti-economy-4-haitian-entrepreneurs-at-global-... https://medium.com/@industries.glory/founder-general-director-98b41aab5ed6 www.indeed.com/cmp/Pan-American-Development-Foundation-1 www.follownews.com/how-one-woman-is-bringing-hygiene-to-haiti-1g6mo https://jhuprojectmedishare.wordpress.com/ http://www.inusanews.com/article/39499651509/haiti-bringing-hygiene http://article.wn.com/view/2016/06/22/she_8217s_a_8216professor_8217_in_toiletpaper_making_in_hait/ http://www.15minutenews.com/article/95081731/how-one-woman-is-bringing-hygiene-to-haiti/ http://www.imgrum.net/user/padforg/413595895 http://govnews.us/id/16234468648 | UN DOCUMENTARY ON MYRTA VILBON / GLORY INDUSTRIES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghCo_KEvDHQ patternswww.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article85131647.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7XPisDtwXQ&feature=youtu.be http://www.gradientglobalcollective.com/ep005-myrtha-vilbon-founder-general-director-of-glory-industries-2/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti1ZVEIqEYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMcqDCjql68 patternswww.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article85131647.html | LEAD - USAID - BUSINESS COMPETITION - WINNER GRANTEE GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPMMIT DELEGATE - SILICONE VALLEY - 2016 DELEGATE OF NOVUS SUMMIT 2016 DIGICEL ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR 2016 - FINALIST- JUNE 2016 DIGICEL ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR 2016- WINNER - DEC 2016 PRESIDENT OF THE DIGICEL ENTREPRENEURS ASSOCIATION - HAITI - JULY 2017 TO DATE DIRECT ASSISTANCE GRANT TEAM - GRANTEE - OCTOBER 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
726 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Niël | van Staden | Jobz4Afrika | www.jobz4.com | CEO | Male | South Africa | South Africa | English | I believe that my personal and company goals has a significant alignment to the UN development goals. I have spent more than 7 years working on a solution, to what I believe will make a significant impact on the African continent, bringing a tech solution that is scale-able across the board to address unemployment and create financial inclusion. Our program links the great efforts other NGO's are doing together with our proprietary tech to bring a simple practical tool to the masses. A program that will help deliver on the hope of the people of Africa. | Enthusiastic, ambitious, driven and self-motivated Entrepreneur. Target focused, innovative and performs effectively under pressure. Passionate about Africa and obsessed with resolving inequality and the unemployment challenge. Living every day to be the change we need in this world. Left a lucrative career in Banking to live out his passion for the people of Africa. | Jobz4 Platform | A marketplace to stimulate localized market supply and demand. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Launch in South Africa, but expandable across Africa | No | Transition to Scale | The Jobz4Afrika application development started early in 2018. On 1st April 2019 the Jobz4Afrika application was introduced as MVP in a controlled pilot study which is still ongoing. The aim of the study was to investigate how users relate to the application interface and evaluate the ease of use of value addition within pre-determined segments. The next phase of development would entail improve workflow design based on market feedback to customize a launch-ready product. | The South African job market is facing several challenges. With an unemployment rate of 29% and faced with a situation where the future generation are showing high levels of disengagement, it is clear the market needs innovation to stimulate new labour activity. Barriers to economic activity within the informal communities include limited access to markets and/or capital; lack of skills development; and lack of enterprise development support to stimulate new economic activity. | A tech solution that will provide a framework around any individual/small business to succeed in challenging economic conditions. The solution starts as a basic ""micro economic simulator"" platform enlisting entrepreneurs to sell their services/products. The solution will ultimately function as a full AI business and development assistant guiding the users to new economic opportunities. Such opportunities will be unlocked through identifying promising talent and ideas and facilitating the development of such talent and ideas through a trusted network of training and mentorship partners, government investment, and corporate / individual social responsibility programmes promoting more integrated communities. The solution will initially focus on so-called township economies which can be seen as ecosystems of economic activity. The economic activity within these ecosystems will be formalise to mine accurate data to assist further economic development. Within the ecosystems the Jobz4 platform will facilitate idea incubation and increase SMME activity to promote the overall economic footprint of the ecosystem. Such trial-and-tested ecosystem blueprints will enable the scalability of the business. Long term vision is to be the place where everyone has the opportunity to feel they have an equal chance in life. Where people will have access to education, skills development and job opportunities, create wealth for themselves, have access to an inclusive financial system. | The Jobz4Afrika application is more than just a smartphone application. The product fundamentally aims to provide a common platform for job applicants and people in need of a service to be rendered. Compared to other job matching applications, Jobz4Afrika will differentiate on the following aspects: - Offers the supplier (job seeker) with a convenient access point to the labour market. In addition, it provides the supplier with a career and/or business management platform offering value additions such as job scheduling, reminders, payment facilitation and career profile management; - Offers the customer the opportunity to manage everyday services through a reliable platform interface, facilitating recurring events, reminders and expense management; - Offers the customer a medium to facilitate social responsibility through rating and endorsements and social investment scoring/indexing; - A platform to facilitate talent management whereby promising talent can be identified and earmarked for upskilling courses either through the existing NGO network or sponsor corporate programmes; - Build and leverage a network of trusted partners to facilitate a talent/skill audit function to instil trust in the customer services offered on the platform; - Within the age of “Big Data”, it can be argued that the data collected will be the most valuable to provide much needed insights in the South African job market to start addressing the underlying problems with intent. | The Jobz4Afrika application (Android-based) MVP was completed and are currently being tested in within a controlled pilot study. The aim of the study was to investigate how users relate to the application interface and evaluate the ease of use of value addition within pre-determined segments. The next phase of development would entail improve workflow design based on market feedback to customize a launch-ready product. Development goals have been set as part of a phased roll-out plan. The major objectives relate to: 1. Establishing a township-economy blueprint marketplace for scaled operations 2. Product refinement to ensure product-market fit and scalability from a devOps perspective. | Initially the product will be focus on South Africa starting on a region level, migrating to a provincial and then national solution. Expansion into Africa will be based on a franchise business model once a critical adoption count has been exceeded (1 million users). In terms of business objective, breakeven is targeted within 3 years. Market penetration of approximately 10% is targeted amongst suppliers and customers. The initial success of the Jobz4Afrika business is very much dependent on: ▪The ability to establish a trusted network of partners ▪The creation of a product (application) which appeals to a wide audience across all LSM groups ▪Establishing a community-based brand association which echoes the sentiment of empowerment and ubuntu ▪A trusted and secure infrastructure and an efficient operational team | As mentioned, the success of the Jobz4Afrika platform is dependent on the involvement of key external partners as well as a strong internal operational and development team. At present, the application development are outsource which needs to be migrated in-house as soon as possible to ensure development agility and control. From a financial perspective, the company requires approximately ($300k short term) and $2m (longer term) to ensure it can sustain operations and become profitable. | www.jobz4.com | None | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
727 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | TIMOTHY ISSA | MTITI | DR CONGO GIRL UP CLUB OF THE UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION / TIMOTHY MISSION INTERNATIONAL | www.girlup.org | Community Leader of DR Congo Girl Up Club and Founder & Leader of Timothy Mission International | M | Democratic Republic of the Congo | United Republic of Tanzania | English | French | As a community development visionary since my childhood realized through my talented call or mission called Timothy Mission International which its innovation solution has been accepted and approved worldly in the process to shape a sustainable peacful, united, spiritual, living and propserous world for all in general and poor in particular. The mission is the contribution for the promotion of the 16th SGDs around the world in general and Africa in particular ""Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels"" PRESENTATION: Is an individual, independent and non-profit Christian mission or organization of a citizen character in accordance with Law 004/2001 of 20 July of the Democratic Republic of Congo, initiated by a young visionary Mr. TIMOTHY ISSA MTITI of the Mtiti family following its community development talent, vocation or call and its determination in the search for long-term and sustainable solutions from the political, ethnic, war and socio-economic development conflicts for an united, peaceful, spiritual, love and prosperous world whose Children will be the main actors in the process of achieving the outcomes to be achieved. THE MISSION: Is to make the children in particular and the parents in general true reconciliatory, pacifiers and real actors of social and economic development within their society. MAIN OBJECTIVE: To assist mentally, spiritually, socially and economically the children in particular and the people in general affected by the political, ethnic, economic and social wars / conflicts and to assist Christian missions, organizations, ministries, projects and programs in particular and non-Christian in general, which have not achieved their targeted objectives in the process of completion of human development goals for the glory of God in Jesus Christ. | Born in Kigoma Tanzania when my Parents were refugees from DR Congo. I have hold my primary certificate and my secondary school in 2005. I have made many trainings on community development, leadership and bilble studies (in Mozambic, Tanzania, South Africa and DR Congo) In the objective to participate in the consolidation of the peace in the Great Lake African Countries, is the reason in 2000 I thought on this mission ideas. Assisting mentally, spiritually, socially and economically the children in particular and the people in general affected by the political, ethnic, economic and social wars / conflicts and to assist Christian missions, organizations, ministries, projects and programs in particular and non-Christian in general, which have not achieved their targeted objectives in the process of completion of human development goals for the glory of God in Jesus Christ. ACTIVITIES TO BE CARRIED OUT: • Organizing crusades, conferences, debates, retreats and workshops • Build conflict resolution centers for children and parents • Build boarding schools, free universities for vulnerable children for a new generation of good citizens • Building orphanages • Restore the scholarship system for poor • Establish a community credit bank for poor • Provide assistance to poor families • Provide assistance to Christian and non-Christian organizations, missions, ministries, projects and programs • Build social houses • Support for pastoralists • Infrastructure • Industrialization • Combat climate change • To act in the emergencies to save lives in danger… | Peaceful world for all | Children inclusion, a tangible reality for peace and SGDs | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | DR Congo in particular. In other Countries is working through the tax-deductible organizations, such as the United Nations Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, UN, Organizing for Action, Carter Center... | Yes | United Nations Foundation, Girl Up of the UN Foundation, UN, The World Bank Group... | Transition to Scale | Without peace is impossible that the SGDs by 2030 be realized. Is the reason to think to integrate the children in the process of an united, peaceful, living, spiritual and prosperous world building for all in general and poor in particular,the children in particular and the parents in general true reconciliatory, pacifiers and real actors of social and economic development within their society. With this process to have a long term positive impact is possible and a reality. | We consider peace as the core pilar of the development through SGDs and its achievement by 2030 out of it is impossible that the SGDs be realized. Is the reason wants to assist mentally, spiritually, socially and economically the children in particular and the people in general affected by the political, ethnic, economic and social wars / conflicts and to assist Christian in particular and non christian missions, organizations, ministries, projects...working in the same field | The mission is to make the children in particular and the parents in general true reconciliatory, pacifiers and real actors of social and economic development within their society assisting mentally, spiritually, socially and economically the children in particular and the people in general affected by the political, ethnic, economic and social wars / conflicts and to assist Christian missions, organizations, ministries, projects and programs in particular and non-Christian in general, which have not achieved their targeted objectives in the process of completion of human development goals for the glory of God in Jesus Christ. Is to make the children in particular and the parents in general true reconciliatory, pacifiers and real actors of social and economic development within their society. | To empower the rich consciousness or leadership or good ethic of the children in particular and parents in general in the spiritual, patriotism, peace, love, forgiveness, living in harmony, ethical and civic values to guarantee their integration into the peaceful society shaping that the education, toys and socioeconomic investment or industrialization... through boarding schools, toy studiums, socioeconomic investment and industrialization... which will take the children from 5 - 18 years old. | From 2000- 2002 the mission was working in the Congolese refugees camps, Lugufu and Nyarugusu in Kigoma - Tanzania through the Nursery schools in collaboration with the Bilbe Church, Christian Outreach Relif and Development. From 2003 - 2010 was working in Maratane refugee camp of Nampula - Moambic in collaboration with UNHCR and Lurtheran World Relief...through a church where we gathered with the children in the community center of the UNHCR. The children have started living together ith others..., From 2003 - 2007 in South Africa through Global Unifcation International in collaboration with UN Millennium Campaign, CIVICUS, ONE Campaign and Global Call Action against the Poverty...where the mission was busy to faciliate the global connection From 2007 - 2019 in facilitation process through LUNACOP Bukavu; UN; Youth National Council; UNited Nations Foundation, the United Methodist Church... We measure our progress against the objectives set up to achieve. Now the mission works through DR Congo Girl Up of the United Nations Foundation in collaboration with UN Youth Employment Decade 2020 - 2030... | IS sure that the mission targets all countries around the world. As there is not yet any operating budget available to support the mission's activities costs is the reason to think at this time to expand it in other countries. The mission needs to extend its activities in those countries in wars, socioeconomic, ethnic conflicts, such as Iraq; Burundi, Rwanda, Libya, Syria, Israel, Pakistan, Palestin, Soudan and the peaceful countries too | Short - term: Construction of the headquarters, infrastructures for the children (boarding schools, toy studiums, health care, farms...) Midium: Peaceful workshop participation, capacity building trainings on peace and management...) Long-term: Operating budget | As the mission still to work out of ant any operating budget which is the challenge to overcome, is the reason does not have any web site now. Except of the GIRL Up of the UN Foundation. www.girlup.org, www.unfoundation.org In the last time ago, the mission was linked to the web site of Global Unification International and the Idealist, which is not yet done by the United Nations Foundation and its programme Girl Up and others as tax-deductibles for Timothy Mission International such as: Clinton Foundation, Organizing for Action, United Service Organization, League of Conservation Voters, Child Fund International, UN... | Is not available now, thus in the next time | To be gifted the United Nations Foundation; Clinton Foundation, League of Conservation Voters; United Service Organizations and UN as the mission tax-deductible or supporter. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
728 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Victor | Niemogha | Vicjones Digital Video Studio Production | www.vicjones.com | Professional Video Production And Editing | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My idea pitch Solution for UN Solution Summit is all about the Flood wind Storm and Drain Leakage Shield Preservator, this very flood wind Storm and Drain Leakage Shield Preservator has an underground in build flood wind storm and Drain Leakage Shield Preservator that has an electronic computerize Digital Signal that will Communicate through the Computerize Detective Road Map Satellite Screen researcher that also Detect about 200,000 Kilometers Road Map of a Particular District , City , Community , Streets, and Town. | i was Born and Brought up in Jos North Local Government Council in Jos Plateau State , I Originate From Delta State In Uwvie Local Government Council, and A Nigerian by Nationality, I a Christian by Religion . | Flood wind Storm and Drain Leakage Shield Preservator | Victor's Idea On Flood wind Storm and Leakage Shield Preservator | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | My Idea Pitch Solution is currently intended in Nigeria ,but will be Implemented in New york City , in the U.S | Yes | idea connection and Herox Innovation | Ideation | My Solution is at the Stage of innovation because it is already a Proof Concept and Documented Idea for Solution Solve Prototype. | My Solution Innovative Idea Solve Pitch is Addressing the Problem that will Prevent Flood Disasters and Storm , Including Water Erosion from For Example Penetrating in to the Town, Cities, Villages , and Community , how ever it will help maintain to prevent the Damages of the causes of Erosion, food plants , infrastructures , Road Construction , Electricity , and Buildings , in Our Community , and Country all Over The World at Large, its of a kind of large in build Infrastructural Metals Produc | My Solution works for the very good of protecting the Human race from the very event of the Flood Disasters, Erosion , Buildings , Infrastructures , Electricity and of cause the saving of the Human's Life as a Whole. | this very Solution specifically is very Unique in the approaches of an existing idea solution Concept of A Production Manufacturing exist of a reality Product , yet it is a Newly advance Technological Methodological Infrastructural idea pitch Product Digitization . | My Team has advanced and greatly progress in terms of this very Idea pitch Solution Concept . | I will Plan to Recruit Staffs for the CCTV Security Camera in combined with the Screen TV Install, and Flood wind Storm Researcher Preservator Staff maintenance that will always maintain this very Newly in build Infrastructural metal Products , and of its Own be Marketable because of its kind of Uniqueness and how impactful it will greatly help in Solving the Major Problem of the entire Human Race and of cause it will first of all be brought into Production Construction Process and then become a Manufacturing existing Products at the end in the U.S.A New York City, when there is fund grants, networking , and Marketing tools use in making this very Idea pitch Concept a reality of an Existing Product. | The kind of Resources needed for my idea pitch Solution to be Consider and then make a very great impact is when in a short term run, there is availability of fund , Grants, Sponsorship of this very great idea pitch solve Solution from an Organization that are very interested in this idea , Secondly when in a long term run there is a help of networking , Marketing tools needed and then an introduction of my idea to most Infrastructural and Computerize Companies that will look over this idea pitch Solution and then make it come true by Manufacturing this ideological solution Concept. | www.vicjones.com | WWW.YOUTUBE.COM | My Solution is yet to win an Award of any of My Solutions i currently have , but i have Summit Some Creative Idea Concept Solution that will eventually change the entire lives of the whole aspect of the humanity at large , and that will make a very great impacts in the lives of So many Community all together, that will make a very meaningful impact world wide in all genders of lives. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
729 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sarah | Marchal Murray | Kiva | www.kiva.org | Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Launched in 2005, Kiva was the first to democratize the world of microcredit financing. Since then, Kiva has facilitated the flow of over $1.3 billion USD by connecting more than 2 million individuals to more than 3 million micro finance borrowers in 85+ countries. Kiva’s technological platform was the first of its kind and innovation runs through the fabric of our organization. With a mission to end financial exclusion, Kiva seeks to provide access to finance for underserved populations around the world. Continuous innovation is essential to exponentially increase Kiva’s impact on the lives of the unbanked. However, too many times, we’ve seen innovation happen without community input or thoughtful action. In my personal career across global health and international economics, I have learned that anytime innovation occurs without community and action, it rarely is successful. The SDG framework has been invaluable in directing collective innovation to address systemic barriers that exist for a more equitable world. In our 13 years of operation, we’ve learned intimately about the systemic barriers to financial inclusion. These learnings have subsequently fueled the next phase of growth for our organization, one that goes beyond our traditional technological platform. We are deeply motivated to share our sustainable solution to financial exclusion and believe that input from thought leaders will be invaluable in helping Kiva achieve its next phase of growth and impact. Kiva believes that by making finance more accessible to underbanked populations, we are actively working toward the ambitious goals of eliminating poverty, ending hunger, achieving gender equality, promoting sustainable agriculture and providing everyone on the planet with opportunities to obtain clean water and a quality education. If successful, Protocol will be a revolutionary asset to the 1.7 unbanked individuals around the world. | Sarah joined Kiva in June of 2019 to identify, build and strengthen partnerships vital toward our collective aim of creating a financially inclusive world for all. Besides Kiva, Sarah advises a range of philanthropists, nonprofits building or restructuring initiatives, and social enterprises looking to attract impact investment. She has served in a variety of executive roles in the global development space, including with the END Fund, Center for Global Development, WaterAid America, and Community Counseling Services. Early in her career she was a political media consultant and served in the PeaceCorps. Sarah graduated from Villanova University and earned her Master’s degree at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and studied nonprofit management at the School of Business. | Kiva Protocol | Kiva Protocol groundbreaking new initiative to give unbanked people digital identity and secure control over their own credit information. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kiva Protocol is currently in the implementation phase within the country of Sierra Leone. Subsequently, Kiva is in discussions with several other countries about future implementation. | Yes | United Nations Development Programme, Hyperledger, Country of Sierra Leone | Proof of Concept | Sierra Leone President Maada Bio, announced Protocol in a speech to the UN General Assembly on Sep 27, 2018. Since this announcement, Kiva has built out a localized team in Sierra Leone and started the technical infrastructure and product build. We are currently in pilot implementation of the initial technology and will soon be testing with several financial service providers before rolling this out nationwide. As illustrated, Kiva is still ideating and perfecting the initial proof of concept. | Financial exclusion is still a global problem. The World Bank estimates that 1.7 billion people worldwide do not have access to any form of financial account. Under the current equilibrium, these unbanked individuals are unable to access formal financial products and services. Even locally in the United States, 33.5M U.S. households are still unbanked or underbanked, leaving 12.8M households with no bank credit and banking history. This is the problem that Kiva Protocol seeks to address. | Kiva Protocol is a platform that uses decentralized technologies to enable verifiable ID and federated credit history, and empowers individuals as self-sovereign owners of their data, removing their reliance on any central institution to maintain their financial inclusion. Kiva Protocol has two components: KIVA.id is a self-sovereign digital identity (DID) system built using Sovrin. KIVA.id enables users to generate and manage DIDs that are compatible with existing microfinance partners as well as formal Know Your Customer (KYC) identities necessary for financial inclusion. KIVA.id is borderless, which is especially important to vulnerable populations who are frequently displaced and must rebuild ID from scratch. KIVA.credit is a self-sovereign credit history system, built using Hyperledger Fabric and enables users to record any type of credit event in a single, verifiable ledger -- from bank loans all the way down to informal consumer credit with a local shopkeeper. Together KIVA.id and KIVA.credit make up Protocol, which enables Kiva to record credit transactions that are not currently recorded and tie those credit transactions to globally-unique, self-sovereign identity that meets the KYC/AML compliance requirements of formal financial institutions, hence providing an identity to unbanked individuals. Our vision is for Kiva Protocol to becomes a core, globally interoperable part of the global financial operating system. | To date, financial inclusion has been pursued through a “push” mechanism. That is, Kiva and countless others operate outside of the existing financial sector to “push” incremental funding to the world’s unbanked, mostly via charity and microfinance institutions. This is because the current global financial systems cannot cost effectively serve the world’s unbanked: they lack the necessary KYC identity, physical infrastructure, and underwritable credit history to price risk appropriately, especially for the rural poor. This leaves us at a stalemate -- the capital required to bring financial inclusion is locked into a system that cannot provide it to those who are excluded. Today, the technology exists to fundamentally shift the way people and banks interact. This presents an opportunity for the unbanked to leapfrog the old centralized system that excludes so many and lay the foundation for a more efficient and financially inclusive world. The Protocol allows reading and writing of credit transactions from this database in a very low cost way, controlled by the end user. By enabling verifiable identity across financial institutions the platform also reduces the compliance and underwriting costs of lenders thereby reducing structural barriers to service. There is currently no system that exists that can address what Kiva Protocol is seeking to address in a cost effective manner. | Kiva has built out a localized team in Sierra Leone and started the technical infrastructure and product build. We are currently in pilot implementation of the initial technology and will be soon testing with several financial service providers before rolling this out nationwide. In short, the solution has been developed and we are currently testing the proof of concept. Currently, the Protocol team is following a highly detailed product roadmap and progress is measured against initial goals that were set during the product kick-off. The Protocol team meets weekly to discuss current progress, roadblocks, and next steps to ensure that development and implementation continues to move forward. | At a high level, these are our recently achieved and currently planned milestones, Kiva is currently on track to meet the targeted milestone goals: Milestone 1 (May 2019): First digital ID that can be used by the Sierra Leone financial sector Milestone 2 (Aug 2019): First eKYC check by a financial service provider (FSP) Milestone 3 (Oct/Nov 2019): First credit entries facilitated by the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) Long Term Outcomes for Sierra Leone include: Digital identity to 3.5 million adults Robust digital credit ledger infrastructure and effective credit bureau A new mobile bank Injection of $10-$30M of credit spread across millions of participants Kiva Protocol represents a unique opportunity to remove the systemic barriers to formal financial inclusion and establish long-term, economically sustainable architecture for ID and credit history. The resulting platform can be implemented in multiple geographies and leveraged for adjacent applications such as voting, health records, business registration, disaster response and recovery, and creates a bulwark against potential totalitarian abuses of more centralized systems. While we are still implementing in Sierra Leone, Kiva is already in discussion with several other countries about the next launch. We hope to sign another MOU with our second country to the end of this year. | To accomplish the activities above the most immediate need that Kiva has is funding and resources to complete the implementation of Protocol in Sierra Leone. Kiva has successfully fundraised for the R&D portion of the project, however, we are currently funding the subsequent implementation with our own cash reserves. In the medium-term and long-term, we are seeking introductions to Heads of States to start conversations about scaling our solution to help other countries improve infrastructure to support their unbanked populations. | https://www.kiva.org/protocol https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerhuang/2019/01/23/kiva-partners-with-un-and-sierra-leone-to-credit-score-the-unbanked-with-blockchain/#ae5fd3460a46 https://www.kiva.org/blog/kiva-sierra-leone-and-un-agencies-partner-to-implement-credit-bureau-of-the-future https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kiva-sierra-leone-and-united-nations-agencies-partner-to-implement-credit-bureau-of-the-future-300720556.html | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
730 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Isaac | Ejakhegbe | MumBaby | https://mumbaby.com.ng/ | Founder and program officer | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | As founder of MumBaby- a social enterprise that provides pregnant women and mothers with access to life-saving maternal and child health information and services using the power of mobile technology and affordable clean birth kits, UN Solution Summit fits my professional goals and ambitions to give more back to my community supporting a mission I am passionate about in respect of using technology to address maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria. The Summit will connect me to other fellows working in closely or same areas and for possible collaboration. I also hope to learn best practices in setting and achieving organizational goals and most importantly, I hope to deepen my knowledge of measuring and evaluating results and impact. Upon return home, I hope to do a step down training for my staff (https://mumbaby.com.ng/team/) | Isaac Ejakhegbe, Associate Fellow of the Royal Commonwealth Society has over 6 years of experience in maternal and child health, family planning, and issues on gender equality. He holds an MSc in Applied Health Social Science, University of Ghana and was named the top student in his graduating class. He currently works as a program officer at the Wellbeing Foundation Africa- a leading NGO in maternal and child health in Nigeria where he and team from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK) oversee a collaborative project on improving the availability and quality of maternal and newborns care in Kwara State, Nigeria. Mr Isaac is also an award winner of the prestigious 120under40 family planning recognized for his work to improve SRHR of adolescent girls in Nigeria. He is also the founder of Youth Spotlight Initiative- a registered youth-led non-governmental organization consisting of a multi-disciplinary youth team of health, social science and legal professionals working to support and empower girls, women and youth particularly those in slum communities through capacity building, advocacy, education and research to lead healthy lives ( http://yspotlight.org/ ). | MumBaby | Improving maternal and child health, a win, win for mothers and babies. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Nigeria | Yes | Wellbeing Foundation Africa | Transition to Scale | It has being review by a team of health experts (3 doctors, 4 midwives, 5 Consultant in O&G, 4 nurses) and we gotten feedback. It was also extended to 20 nursing and expectant mothers and their feedback lead to our pregnancy calculator on expected day of delivery. We have a toll free line that enable pregnant and nursing mothers to have access to our health care providers https://mumbaby.com.ng/team/ | According to UNICEF, daily, Nigeria loses about 2,300 children under five and 145 women of childbearing age. Research carried out in various parts of the country have repeatedly identified that poor access to maternal, and perinatal health services is the major factor that puts women and babies at increased risk of adverse maternal and infant mortality. Poor communication, and poor quality of care, can also significantly hamper routine immunization for newborn. | We are a social innovative enterprise with a unique mission to improve maternal and child health in Nigeria and link mothers to healthcare. Our immunization tracker, pregnancy calculator create scalable solutions/critical life-saving healthcare information and strengthen health care services in a timed and targeted manner, empowering mothers and enabling healthy babies. With it, nursing, and expectant mothers, are reminded of vaccination date and benefit thereby leaving no expectant and nursing mothers’ baby behind. Our long-term vision is to see a world free of maternal and child death- a win, win for both mothers and babies and become West Africa's leading digital healthcare service provider. | MumBaby is unique as it promotes other pressing critical healthcare information such as breastfeeding and proper nutrition. Raise awareness on cancer screening for mothers, HPV Vaccination to mother for their adolescent girls, as well as on social norm on female genital mutilation. The new perspective is to strengthen our platform with AI and to provide stage by stage age appropriate learning comic games with kids through parents engagement. This would help promote meaningful interpersonal connection as well as expose kids to curiosity-building and brain-boosting experiences. | Our progress is measure by the numbers of nursing and expectant mothers benefiting from our platform. The end users of our pregnancy calculator, ovulation prediction and immunization progress is growing daily. At the back end we are currently piloting a platform that would link nursing and expectant mothers together. Helping nursing and expectant mothers to connect and to share personal experience through the interactive end user platform will be a valuable space for advice and support, since many motherhood experiences are fairly the same. With grant from Women Deliver, we have done some work on female genital mutilation. Moving forward on how to better champion awareness on HPV vaccination our research in that regards has been accepted at the upcoming International Cancer Conference (September 22-25, 2019) in London and I will be having speaking and oral presentation along with a team of oncology experts. | MumBaby is hoping to reach 50,000 nursing and expectant mothers in 2019 and double the number in 2020 and so moving forward every other year. We are planning a partnership with Wellbeing Foundation Africa http://www.wbfafrica.org through the organization Mamacare program that has benefited over 200,000 women in health care facilities across 3 states in Nigeria. We hope to grow the partnership in 2020 with at least a major organization working in maternal health in the 6 geopolitical zones in Nigeria. We equally plan extending partnership to private sectors and sustain the cost of maintaining Mumbaby and the service through their corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts and improve brand presence. We hope to collaborate with game tech and hospitals so they include it into their infant and maternal care package. Other sustainability revenue streams would further include advertising and survey services/ consultancies. | Short term support is assistance for visibility. Mid-term support is Technical support and more training for staff. Long term support is best practice for fundraising as we plan to expand including best practice on engaging the private sector. | 1. Mumbabay https://mumbaby.com.ng/ 2. My engagement with midwives and other health expert for MumBaby and the work I do in Maternal health at the Wellbeing Foundation Africa https://www.instagram.com/p/ByQKFb8F7zp/?igshid=1p7mztogkmcl5 3. My presentation following the engagement https://www.instagram.com/p/ByQKPHbFQw7/?igshid=15vg8z8gpxbvp 4. Breastfeeding: Nutrition for Health, Nutrition for Wellbeing http://womendeliver.org/2017/breastfeeding-nutrition-health-nutrition-wellbeing/ 5.Enhancing Maternal Survival in Nigeria by committing to Agreed global health policies https://www.mhtf.org/2016/07/11/enhancing-maternal-survival-by-committing-to-agreed-global-health-policies/ | 1. My speaking interview in Canada on VAPP Act law to address female genital mutilation. A key aspect Mumbaby raise awareness on for nursing and expect mothers educating them on the Ill of female genital mutilation https://www.instagram.com/p/ByS3cTllVQE/?igshid=qv340qohp0t7 | 1. Sponsorship award recipient for the UNLEASH SDGS innovative challenge in Denmark for MumBady to improved maternal health in Nigeria. 2. Currently under final review for the ReDefine 100 Innovation technology innovation https://www.next100symposium.org/redefine-n100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
731 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Abhishek | Shrestha | Digo Bikas Institute | www.digobikas.org | Program Director- Climate Change Program | Male | Nepal | Nepal | English | THE WORLD REQUIRES COMMUNITY LED SOLUTIONS TO TACKLE THE CLIMATE CHANGE AND TO LIMIT THE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE TO 1.5 DEGREE BY THE END OF THE CENTURY. THE COMMUNITY SOLAR MICRO GRID LED BY WOMEN'S GROUP IN DHAPSUNG CAN BE REPLICATED TO TACKLE THE CLIMATE CHANGE . WE WANT TO SHOW THE WORLD THAT WITH THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND MOTHER'S GROUP WE HAVE CREATED A MODEL VILLAGE THAT RUNS ENTIRELY WITHOUT FOSSIL FUEL. UN SOLUTIONS SUMMIT WILL BE GREAT PLATFORM TO MEET AND INTERACT WITH LINK MINDED INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS WHO ARE WORKING TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE AND ALSO SHOW CASE OUR SOLUTION FROM THE COMMUNITY AT THE GLOBAL SCALE, WHICH CAN BE REPLICATED TO TRANSFORM THE COMMUNITY AND LEAVE LASTING IMPACT. | Abhishek is a climate change professional who has taken different role throughout his career, worked as a climate activist, researcher, teaching professional, campaigner, community Organizer followed UN Climate negotiation and worked as Program Manager.He is leading Climate Change track at Nepal People's forum on SDG, event focused upcoming UN General Assembly and UN Climate Action Summit. He is Spearheading Inter generational dialogue on Climate Change in Nepal ahead of UN climate Action Summit. Shrestha was awarded Prestigious Chevening Scholars by the UK Government in 2012 to pursue his Masters in Climate Change and Policy at University of Sussex, UK. He Completed his undergraduate in Bsc. Environmental Science from Kathmandu University in 2008. In 5th June 2017 on the occasion of the World Environment Day, he was awarded the Climate Change Award 2017 from Rt. Honourable President of Nepal. Shrestha in 2017 received JWH Initiative Environment leadership Award and “Jaycees Samman 2018” from Biratnagar Jaycees for his contribution to Environmental Sustainability. Shrestha was awarded British Council International Climate Champion in 2010 and in 2012 was elected to Serve as YOUNGO Focal Point from Global South (YOUNGO- Youth constituency at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change-UNFCCC). Abhishek has been invited to speak in different national and international conferences on the issue of climate change, environmental sustainability, community solutions and movement building. | WOMEN LED COMMUNITY SOLAR MICRO GRID | SHOWCASING GRASS ROOT BRILLIANCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH WOMEN LEADERSHIP | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | NEPAL ( DHAPSUNG VILLAGE, RURAL EARTHQUAKE IMPACTED VILLAGE OF SINDHUPALCHOWK DISTRICT | Yes | DHAPSUNG MOTHER'S GROUP | Sustainable Scale | There are very examples of energy system owned by a women's group, in addition they also make al the decision on their own, it’s an example of providing the next level of electricity from solar micro grid for an off-grid rural community. It is not only used for lighting but for the eduction of young children, capacity building of women group and economic empowerment of the villagers. | Families Dhapchung village rely on Kerosene oil and Fire wood i.e expensive, unreliable, and toxic non-renewable energy sources for their lighting and cooking need. Problem address the issue of affordable clean energy, Gender Equality and also economic empowerment to the villagers of Dhapsung. | community partnerships are is the key to success of the project in dhapsung. We think that communities need energy for productive end uses, not just for lighting or basic services, but for developing micro-enterprises so that their livelihoods can be enhanced. We should focus on localization of the economy, so that the villages can become more and more self-reliant with access to energy. Long term vision is to replicate in to other similar villages like Dhapsung in Nepal and other parts of the world. | This is an opportunity to have a very direct and manifest impact on the quality of life for the people of difficult terrain with remote access and no connection to national grid electricity . The power generated through women led solar micro grid have laid the foundation for sustainable economic growth in the community. Energy generated through solar micro grid have empowered the women's in dhapsung and changed lives of many people. Community owned solar micro grid led and operated by women's group is uniqueness. | Progress is being measured by total dependency on the solar micro grid, as after the installation of the solar micro grid, people have stopped using kerosene oil and fire wood. Empowerment of Dhapsung Women's group Economic upliftment of the Villagers of the Dhapsung Frequent visit form individuals and organizations to understand and observe dhapsung community solar micro grid. | depending upon the partners and donors we will be interested to expand to the other parts of the country and in the world. We are lobbying with government of Nepal for Community solar micro grid policies | Trainings on vegetable farming, carpentry, and other business opportunities to make the use of the energy generated is needed for the lasting impact for short, mid and long term. In addition, frequent visit and sharing the success story and impact created in the lives of the villagers of dhapsung should be shared to have the considerable impact. Further more working on the solar micro grid policies to have impactful implementation is the long term needs. | https://gridalternatives.org/programs/international-program/projects/nepal2016 | https://www.britishcouncil.org.np/abhisekh-shrestha https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=emkGmQ_oBpw | NA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
732 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nicola | Gryczka | Gastromotiva | www.gastromotiva.org | CEO | Female | Brazil | Poland | English | French | Russian | Spanish | Our work around the Social Gastronomy Movement (SGM) is contributing towards many of the SDGs as food plays such a central role. We are using SDG17 as our base, as only through partnerships will we really be able to make a shift. I have attended UNGA when selected as a MIT Solve finalist 2017. I saw the potential of bringing new and innovative solutions to the table, finding supporters, getting input and engaging the right stakeholders to scale the presented solutions, when given the opportunity to speak up. In 2017 our ideas where still in a very embryonic state and post UNGA and MIT Solve we were able to formalize and adapt the vision for SGM which was then launched at the World Economic Forum 2018. We feel ready now to present our innovative glocal vision and engage new relevant voices towards a more inclusive food system as outlined in the questions. Gastromotiva (GM), the Brazilian NGO of which I am the CEO, is powering the SGM. GM won different recognitions for being innovative. For that reason we had the luxury to invest in an innovation coordinator, which is a very rare position inside of an NGO. This investment was only possible thanks to the trust relationships we have with or partners. GM founder David Hertz, our innovations coordinator and myself are part of the 7 core team members and co-creators of the SGM. We got selected by Ashoka Globalizer to develop the SGM towards a systematic change in the food industry trough a multi-stakeholder approach. | Social entrepreneur, food activist and change-maker. Gryczka is currently the CEO of GASTROMOTIVA, Brazilian social enterprise that works with food as a tool for transformation, offering gastronomy training towards employment, food entrepreneurship classes and nutrition education for under privileged communities. During the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 Gastromotiva launched a novel food waste restaurant school. Since she has started to work with innovative solutions to stop the vicious circle of food waste, such as a food surplus product line, online educational content and tech solutions. She is also a co-founder of the global Social Gastronomy Movement that aims at making our Food System more inclusive. She started her career at the WEF, where she worked with strategic partnerships and later within the Latin American Centre for Regional Strategies where she demonstrated her entrepreneurial spirit and co-creating novel regional project areas and engaging new countries. Later moving on to TIME Magazine and other self-driven projects. With a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management, and an Entrepreneurship specialization from the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne, as well as a Masters in International Negotiation and Policy Making from the Graduate Institute, her passion lies at the cross road of grass route activism and policy making, especially in fields of food, agriculture and education. Gryczka has become a motivational speaker and consultant at renowned organizations such as FAO, Interamerican Development Bank or Concordia among others. | Social Gastronomy Movement (SGM) | To connect those who are growing, preparing and sharing food in order to co-create an equitable future, inclusive society and healthy planet. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | We have 11 hubs in 8 countries and 4 continents: Brasil, Chile, USA, Sweden, Germany, UK, Switzerland and Cambodia. | Yes | 1. Gastromotiva is the backbone organization of the SGM, based in Rio de Janeiro; 2. Other social organizations who run the SGM Hubs around the world; 3. Cargill is the SGM´s supporter. | Proof of Concept | 2017: the ideation of the SGM under Ashoka Globalizer program which helped to reflect on key issues related to social gastronomy and establish a solid strategy for the SGM to spread the impact. In 2018, the first SGM Summit took place in Miami to further develop the concept. 70 relevant individuals in the food industry particiapted. The SGM has been officially announced at the WEF2018 in Davos. The SGM is now being proved. 11 SGM Hubs are being piloted. In Oct2019, we aim to transition to scale. | The SGM is a human-centred movement that believes in the power of food as a tool for social change. There are many organisations around the world working with Social Gastronomy towards reducing inequality, hunger, the double burden of malnutrition, unsustainable food systems, and unemployment. The challenge is that often they work in silos and are invisible. The SGM aims to connect people and projects around food and farming to disseminate best practices, promote equity and drive inclusion. | The SGM works on three complementary fronts. Our approach is glocal, we connect local communities and link them to a global network. The 3 action fronts are thus inter-connected: -SGM Hubs: empowering social entrepreneurs to engage local communities. The SGM Hubs are collaborative spaces representing the Social Gastronomy community in the regions.The SGM Hubs make the Movement tangible. The movement offers a support system and guidance to the HUBs. Currently 11 hubs are being piloted. -Events: bringing together the main actors of the SGM community. Since our launch during the WEF Annual Meeting 2018, we organised 3 international summits. These platforms play an important role of co-creation of the SGM. Besides, we developed a social gastronomy round tables toolkit. Those are organized on different levels on a regular basis and allow different stakeholders get together and explore the synergies for collaboration and greater impact. -Engagement: informing and engaging those who want to join the SGM on two levels: 1. Through the SGM communication channels (website, social media, monthly newsletters). 2. Through an online platform (that is currently being developed), a digital portal to share best practices and to connect the active members of SGM community. Our longer-term vision is to generate a more equitable, inclusive, innovative and solidary society by integrating, educating and connecting human beings through food and Social Gastronomy. | We believe our approach for the SGM is innovative because: 1. Our vision of Food is 3 dimensional. HEALTH: By connecting with the self, human beings can address their physical and mental health CULTURE: By connecting with society, human beings create culture. ENVIRONMENT By connecting with the planet, human beings relate to their natural environment. All our consumer choices should be guided by these three dimensions. 2. The SGM brings different stakeholders and offer a safe space to exchange. 3. The SGM co-creates to ensure we do not reinvent the wheel. The SGM researches and explores existing solutions, tests them, adapts and shares the solutions. 4. The SGM connects actors to each other to create a greater collective impact. 5. Our network is very diverse from top chefs, to grassroots social entrepreneurs and international organisations representatives: we are building a unique gastronomy community to share knowledge and scale social impact. | We measure impact on both direct and indirect levels. Direct impact: awareness raising at global events, SGM community gatherings local and global,Hubs direct local impact in thel communities. Since its launch in 2018, the SGM has been present and raised awareness around the Social Gastronomy at two World Economic Forum Annual meetings in Davos, two UNGA sessions in New York and at the major digital and innovation conference SxSW in Austin. We co-organised and hosted side events around topic relevant to SGM s mission with the stakeholders in both private (Cargill) and public (UN WFP) spheres. We were able to use these global platforms to build alliances with other non-for-profit organisations like Project Everyone, James Beard Foundation and Global Citizen. We fundraised and organised 3 SGM summits and ensured the participation of in average 70 guests from 30 countries. We are incubating 11 active hubs in 8 countries and 4 continents and have a list of more than 400 hundred projects mapped. Indirect impact: SGM connections create, new community members engages and SGM stories told. Today our best impact measurement are the stories of individuals that connected to each other and to the cause thus multiplying the local impact in their cities. To strengthen our impact measurement we intend. 1. To elaborate a global Social Gastronomy curriculum. 2. To create X inclusive jobs in their regions. We are also developing an online platform, to scale our project and measure | Goals: -Grow the SGM team: grow and professionalize the team bringing on board specialists and experts from other sectors, while significantly increasing investments, tapping into new funds and unleashing the full potential of our work and vision. -Engagement: grow from 400 mapped projects to 1000 by 2021, and includ them on our online platform -Hubs: 40 hubs by 2021 -Strategic partnership: get 2 more global founders on board in 2020. -Online platform: launch the online platform by the end of 2019 Next Milestones: -Launch of the engagement campaign in October 2019, the month of Social Gastronomy -Nordic Summit in Malmö, bringing together the 11 hubs and the Core Team, in October 2019 -Rio Summit in Brazil, bringing together the Brazilian community -World Economic Forum 2020 and Zürich Summit, announcing the 10 years strategy to help deliver the SDGs by 2030 | Financial resources: Short term (S): we have funds to run our project until mid-2020 Medium term (M): 2 more global partners in 2020 with a 3-year commitment Long term (L): Building a system to redistribute parts of the funds to the Hubs Technological resources: S: Find the right partner to develop the digital platform connecting our community online L: Potentially invest in other technologies, scaling and measuring impact. Human resources: S: Until the end of 2019 hire one marketing manager and a community coordinator M: 2020, decentralize the team, hire specialists/experts for each of our action fronts: engagement, Hubs network and events. L: Grow the team as the project grows Expertise: S: Engagement strategy M: Legal structure of the SGM L: Self sustainable business model | https://www.socialgastronomy.org/ http://www.gastromotiva.org/ https://www.instagram.com/social_gastronomy/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWPq_uaXuYXVm8tYmGO4C4A https://www.foodnavigator-latam.com/Article/2019/02/11/Food-for-thought-tools-for-change-Gastromotiva-announces-Social-Gastronomy-hubs https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/sponsor-content-food-for-change/ https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/social-gastronomy-can-food-change-society | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKSUTN0bhwc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0lESqlALJs https://changehackers.org/2018/05/12/3-nicola-gryczka-on-carving-a-career-from-passion/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb9s-kXDlGY http://hicash.pl/artykul/5587/food-gives-people-real-power-nicola-gryczka-gastromotiva-infoshare2019m https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mptqVGkCMtE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUaT4PXDtYw | SGM -MIT Solve Finalist 2017 -Ashoka Globalizer acceleration program 2017 Nicola -Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne Entrepreneur of the Year winner 2017 -Part of the worldwide association of female professionals 2018 Gastromotiva -2015 winner of the Amil price for the fight against child obesity -2014 winner of the Rio Show of gastronomy of O Globo David Hertz, Founder of Gastromotiva and Co-creator of the SGM -Young Global Leader (2012), Ashoka fellow (2011), Ted senior fellow (2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
733 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Victor | Shikoli | Hydrologistics Africa Ltd | www.hydroiq.co.ke | Co-founder & COO | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | I was born in Nairobi, in a densely populated slum, and from a young age, I saw how my parents struggled to buy water, spending sometimes up to $1 a day, almost 20% of their income. Piped water was unavailable; hence we had to rely on the unsafe and untreated water sources and buying from illegal water vendors who could illegally collect water from vandalized water pipes in estates. The unreliable and unsafe water lead to frequent illnesses from water borne diseases which prevented me from attending school. | Techpreneur & Africa Change Maker using technology to transform society through SDG 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. My keen interest centre around investing in digital technologies solving the most pressing issues on planet (Water,Healthcare and Food) in the 21st century. I plough in emerging technologies at the time of 4th industrial revolution as the core economic pillars for sustainable development and wealth creation. My focus is to align Technology and Business to blend in the African context. I am passionate about technology as a means of social and economic empowerment and growth in Africa. | HYDROIQ | HydroIQ is a virtual water network operator turning existing water systems to smart grids | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Kenya | Yes | i. 7 Water Utilities Boards in Kenya ii. Liquid Telecom iii. Safaricom | Transition to Scale | HydroIQ tested the product with real-time feedback on the implementation and new changes in the final iteration of the business model. This year we are targeting 4,000 Household which have begun with average monthly installations of 200 HydroIQ meters. We already have a pipeline of two Water service providers in Kenya with a total of 15000. We established partnership with Liquid telecom with the goal of leveraging on their communications infrastructure to roll out a PC in Zimbabwe this year. | 319 million people in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to clean and safe water. Additionally, 50% of the water supplied by water utilities is lost before reaching the consumer. The challenge facing water utilities is the high level of water loss in distribution networks; hence meeting consumer demands is much more difficult. Since this water yields no revenue, heavy losses make it harder to keep water tariffs affordable due to high Non-Revenue Water that is not billed which averages 50%. | HydroIQ is a GPS and internet enabled device plugged into existing water supply systems to automatically monitor water use, quality and leakages using sensors, and sends data to an online platform, turning traditional water systems to smart water grid. HydroIQ leverages on internet of Things (IoT) technology to send the data from HydroIQ sensors. The data collected include the water pressure, volumetric consumption and GPS. The device has the ability to expand its data by adding sensors for water quality monitoring. The data is sent to an online platform for analytics and presentation in a form that is easily interpreted on a dashboard. The online platform allows registered users to monitor and receive water bills and make payments via mobile money, eliminating the need for costly and erroneous physical meter reading in the traditional model. | HydroIQ purely specializes in optimizing efficiency across the whole water distribution process, unlike the dealers of water meters who do not provide a complete solution to both customers and services. Our solution caters for efficiency by eliminating the need for physical monitoring of water networks and automating everything from sending and receiving payments to detecting water leaks, bridging gaps in both consumer and utilities. HydroIQ’s allows for a pay to own model for distributed payment plans hence reducing the upfront cost of taking up the technology, which has been a barrier to adoption of technology by utility companies, water service boards and consumers. | The solution has the ability to directly impact over 7 Million people in the next 5 years in Kenya alone. This will be as a result of increased access to water and better management and distributions available water. We measure impact by monitoring the number of new people connected to clean piped water, reduction of cost of water to the consumer, reduction in cost of delivery of the water and the reduction in the unaccounted water from the source. Through data analytics will bridge the data gap in the water sector in developing countries which has hampered proper urban planning, distribution and management of water resources. | Raised an Angel investment round of $230,000 successfully. Build a sales and marketing team, created a strong board of advisers. Successful pilot launch with a pipeline of 2000 households in 8 months. We plan to partner with global corporate partners in the water utility industry to leverage on their network in respective local countries to first test and validate our product the focus on scale. In most countries, the water systems are very similar hence minimal need for modification of our solution. We plan to reach 20 counties in Kenya by end of 2019 and scale to three countries (Rwanda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe) in the next 5 years. | Water is a public utility with lots of regulation, licensing needs which may slow down implementation. We will work closely and partner with water regulatory bodies to obtain licenses. Financing: Our projects will initially be capital intensive which will require reliable funding to execute. Proper Planning and anticipating project costs to initiate fundraising early enough. To enter new markets, we will leverage on partnerships with local technology players like Telecommunication companies who better understand the market and the technology adoption. This will highly reduce our cost of entry and accelerate our expansion rate to the new markets. | i.https://www.hydroiq.africa/ ii.https://borgenproject.org/tag/hydroiq/ iii.https://ventureburn.com/2018/11/appsafrica-innovation-awards-winners/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wGvX_Kumcs | Techstars Accelerator Africa Startup of the year Apps Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
734 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Byamungu | Ayunva | DUNAMIS | https://byams.herokuapp.com/ | Président of the organisation | Feminin | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | English | French | In a country that has experienced several troubling war periods and who lies still in this situation, many families live in promiscuity in the Kivu province of the Congo Democratic Republic DUNAMIS promote, the health of women and girl from this province exposed to several diseases due to the lack of means to take care of their body (intimate hygiene).DUNAMIS is educating women and girls to the maintenance of their intimate hygiene by making reusable sanitary pads by recycling their unsused clothes. | Byamungu Ayunva Wivine born in Democratic Republic of Congo on 22nd april 1994 .Founder and CEO of BYAMS couture and Co founder of DUNAMIS project. Has a degree in Fashion and Design in Buruburu Institute of fine Arts Nairobi. After her study in Nairobi she went back in her motherland and saw how women suffered from infections due to poverty and lack of means to take care of their intimate hygienes she decided to start DUNAMIS project in 2017and started teaching those women how to make reusable sanitary pads by recycling their clothes. | Animation on hygiene project intimate among women and girls victims of war and displaced in the province of South Kivu and North Kivu (Goma and Bukavu) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Save a life ,create a story : just helping one of those women's life can change her whole story forever and that change can affect her generations | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | In D.R.CONGO ,Kenya and Rwanda | No | Research & Development | Because in some rural places women are not willing to use sanitary pads while in their periods and use herbal plants instead. -they don't know much about recycling their clothes to use it for something more usefull | Women empowerment :-Ignorance that some women had about their menstruation and their intimate hygiene. -women financial independance -Air pollution by recycling old clothes instead of throwing them. | We ask women to recycle/bring used or unfitted clothes then from there We teach them how to make by stitching by hand re usable sanitary pads and We educate them on how to use them and take good care of their intimate hygiene to avoid various diseases and infections.and We teach them how they can sell them to become financially independant. Once we are We will be done with the eastern part of Congo,we will go to other part of the Country and go allover central Africa. | Most of organisations distribute disposable sanitary pads to women in rural areas which is good but after the ones the got are over the go back to their old ways of using plants or leaves which cause them infections and diseases.Us as Dunamis we first teach them how to stich reusable sanitary pads by hands by using the things they have which is old or unused clothes so that even when we won't be there they will make them by themselves and to avoid to pollute the environment and we educate them on how to use them properly. | We have seen that many women have started recycling old clothes instead of just throwing them away and it bas reduced so many infections and diseases to Women who are using the reusable sanitary pads insteads of leaves. We are at 50% because due to society belives some women refuse to use pads they prefer to stick to their old ways which is using leaves,and plants. | Since D.R.Congo is a very big country we still haven't cover the whole eastern part ,So we are planning to cover the whole eastern part of the country then conquer the whole country in 3years.then Go in Rwanda and Burundi | -Short terme:We need more skilled facilitors to teach women and girls about the importance of their intimate hygien. To buy the right équipements for women and girls speciffically distributing sewing machines to evryone of them. -Medium term :to Start distributing our produits (reusable sanitary pads) in schools and educating young girls about their intimate hygien. To take those young girls back to school. Long term: open businesses for Women so that they may become financially independant. | Website: https://byams.herokuapp.com/ | https://youtu.be/PJTVxOOTczo | 1.Award MWANA MBOKA: we were finalist in the category of the best project of the month in february 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
735 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Adewale | Adelakun | GosolarAfrica | www.gosolarafrica.org | Business associate | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The Shelf Life Food and Farm Produce is not guaranteed for most farmers in rural communities thereby forcing them to lose 60% of their profit and livelihood for lack of preservation. GosolarAfrica Will respond and deploy Solar Powered Refrigeration ColdKiosk systems at a Pay As You Go model while helping farmers extend the lives of their produce and increase improve their Livelihood. Farmers and Market Entrepreneurs will be able to access Clean Energy to preserve and extend the self-life of their produce through the use of Solar ColdKiosks especially the remote and low income communities. Income and revenue will increase for our farmers as Solar Powered Coldkiosks will eliminate wastes and remove the fear of Selling off their produce below the market price due to previous concerns that the remains might go into damages and wastes. Through provision of this innovation, more people will be engaged and farmer ill build more wealth to support their family and the expansion of their farm. Solar ColdKiosks intervention means helping to reduce hunger and food insecurity thereby strengthening the local food security, increasing nutrition and ensuring fresh fruits, fishes and vegetables are available all year round to power and support the Government. Women, youth and farmers will double their ratio of job creation. Productivity will increase across the entire Agriculture value chain. More women and youths will respond by becoming gainfully employed while reducing the rate of unemployment in the country. The introduction of Solar ColdKiosks technology, there will be better awareness on the importance of using technology to improve the delivery of superior value and services across the entire value chain. Education and Capacity development around the importance and benefit of Solar Energy will be part of the delivery benefits to be derived from the project. Youths and qualified women will participate in the installation and management of all Solar ColdKiosks across the communities we operate. | GoSolarAfrica is the frontier and leader in clean energy design, installation and design across Africa. We make clean energy available to households, businesses, schools, non-profits and government organizations at a low and innovative rental plan never available in the market. GosolarAfrica is a member of UN-SE4LL High Impact Opportunity Initiative, working with ECREEE, AfDB, Cti-Pfan, REEEP, USAID and Governments. 1-watt Solar Initiative partners World Bank to create Carbon Exchange platform where customers can earn Solar Credits (STC) on their solar installations in Nigeria. GosolarAfrica carefully designs, develops and deploys its technologies to attain maximum output and maintain highest standards. Few of the system features include: For the past 6-years, SMFUNDS GoSolarAfrica have distributed over 200,000 Solar Fitila (lantern) and have replaced over 1,000 ""petrol generator"" operated phone charging centres across the country with new safer and cleaner Solar powered phone charging systems, leading to improved economic status. Successfully implemented Solar Grid Solution both for households and small business. We have a strong management and technical team with more than 50 years cumulative industry experience. Key partners include; USAID, GIZ, UNFCCC, AfDb, UNSE4ALL, EU and more. In partnership with our key partners, we have deployed 5 Cold kiosks at different locations in the South Western region of Nigeria to serve farmers and fishermen. | Cold Kiosk | The solar powered walk-in cold room | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Nigeria | Yes | USAID, GIZ, UNFCCC, AfDb, UNSE4ALL, EU | Scaling | We have deployed five Cold Kiosks to two communities in the SOuth West region of Nigeria to serve market entrepreneurs and farmers. Two cold kiosks are currently situated in Oluwo market iin Epe where Fish sellers pay to store fish longer than before. The other 3 cold kiosks are deployed to the Fruits and vegetables market in iseyin LG of Oyo state where farmers pay to preserve their farm produce for between 2-21 days to keep it fresh for the consumers. | Markets, fishermen and farms suffer post-harvest loss due to lack of storage facilities, to store their products for sale. Fish, fresh fruits and vegetables start to deteriorate as soon as they are harvested because they are cut off from their source of water and nutrition. They lose weight, texture, flavour, nutritional value and appeal.The Cold Kiosk provides clean energy to preserve the products for a longer period and increase the shelf stability of the farm produce. | Our Technology is a Made in Nigeria Solar PV assembled system with Deep Cycle Gel Battery for Solar Back up at night hour. The Solar PVs takes power from the sun to charge the Batteries and the batteries supply power to the Inverter which supplies the Freezers that refrigerates the Cold Kiosks. Micro Inverters for Street lighting and Mobile phone charging system ware auxiliary services installed. The long term vision for global impact is to reduce post harvest losses, inrease income for farmers in the rural communities,create jobs for women who will manage the cold kiosks and reduce malnutrition by keeping food in its natural state for longer. | Current Cold rooms are either powered by the Grid or Generators in when there is a power cut from the grid. Our solution is 100% Solar powered and this makes it possible to be deployed to remote areas where Grid power is yet to reach. It is also a clean solution where carbon emission is zero compared to the emission from Generators and power from the Grid. | Five Cold kiosks have been completely built and deployed to site. The solution is providing refrigeration for fruits and vegetable farmers in a farming community in oyo state and another two have been deployed to Oluwo fish market in Epe to provide storage and preservation for their produce. We carry out periodic evaluations on the Cold kiosk in spite of its for near zero maintenance. This evaluation is done to ensure that optimum service is constantly provided and to confirm if there is any need to upgrade the kiosk | Our goal and milestones is to first cover the 6 gepololiticak zones in Nigeria, to locate a minimum of two or three cold kiosks at every farming communityy in Nigeria from where we plan to extend this to West African countries and ultimately to cover the entire continent of Africa. | Short Term needs - financial support to situate more cold kiosks in more rural and agrarian communities across the world. Medium-term - Training materials to increase knowledge by users Long Term - Partnership to reach more communities where the solution is needed. | http://gosolarafrica.org | https://youtu.be/awCbp0SmtnM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
736 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohamed | Saleh | An invention for demonstrate the close relationship between strong vehicle lights dazzled at night, which violate darkness of the sky with environmental pollution of lights and global warming. | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004858111350 | General Manager, Inventor & owner of two patents invention No. 26771 / 2011 and No. 29238 / 2014 | Male | Egypt | Egypt | Arabic | Safe transportation is the main engine of sustainable development for easy communication between the developed peoples and the marginalized poor people's; Also for implement the completion of vaccines for all persons in isolated areas and remote villages, it depends on establishment of a complete transport network without accidents, by implementing the inventions that contribute to that. The latest numbers from the UN’s demographers are in: The world’s population is projected to reach 9.7 billion people by 2050, and more than two-thirds of all people are expected to live in cities this phenomenal growth is part of a longer, global trend toward urbanization, In 1950, 750 million people lived in urban areas ,,, Today more than 4 billion call cities their home, Over the last century the city has expanded from 500,000 residents to more than 10 million as more people move to cities we must find new ways to help cities adapt and thrive. Asia and Africa are expected to experience the most growth over the next three decades, accounting for more than 90% of all urban population increase,,, Development challenges, like Road Safety, Climate Change and Global Health are now urban challenges to solve them increasingly requires consideration of the special ways that cities work. At least, 650 people were killed daily in road accidents throughout Africa, Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy for Road Safety said, at Africa Road Safety Conference 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa. According to him, 90 per cent of people and goods on the African continent are moved by road, adding that road crashes “can strip a country from realizing its true development potential.” The continent suffers from the highest road traffic fatality rate than any other region, despite having less than five per cent of the world’s registered vehicles.” so Africa has been hit particularly hard by the global road safety crisis. In order to take on the road safety challenge must be the implementation of all inventions and innovations that contribute to stop accidents and facilitate travel security during the night because there are no paved roads sufficient to allow the movement of a large number of people, as the establishment of the paved roads with illumination costs the budgets of these countries large sums of moneys that these countries cannot provide. I’m from Egypt , I have two inventions were implemented to develop the night lighting system from, Academy of Scientific Research in Cairo Egypt. | Name : Mohamed Metwalli Khalifa Saleh Address: 16 Elkama St, Alexandria Egypt The job: General Manager, and Inventor with two patents Mail: mohamed_metwaly333@yahoo.com Qualifications and Experience: I,gets studies in Industrial Safety and Occupational Health from the American University in Cairo year 2004, and I have two inventions were implemented to develop the night lighting system, patents No, 26771 /2011 (Extra Spotlights through Xenon, Laser or LED Bulbs) and patent No, 29238 / 2014 (A device that provides powerful lighting for all types of vehicles using lights tubes without dazzled) from, Academy of Scientific Research in Cairo Egypt. Member of the Council of Egyptian Scientists, member of the Arab Union for Sustainable Development and Environment in Cairo and member of the Egyptian Inventors Syndicate. In touch with the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and International Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety. Participated in a large number of exhibitions held in Egypt obtained a number of certificates of appreciation that the importance of the invention to develop the night lighting system for all vehicles, the main cause of 75% of night accidents | Manufacturing an invention for the actual application of sustainable development through the establishment of complete transport network without accidents, Also for implement the completion of vaccines for all persons in isolated areas and remote village | Safe Transition is the main engine of sustainable society for easy communication between the developed peoples and the marginalized poor | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Asia and Africa are expected to experience the most growth over the next three decades, accounting for more than 90% of all urban population increase, Development challenges, like Road Safety, Climate Change and Global Health | No | Transition to Scale | To development of night lighting system currently used in all vehicles to reduce night accidents, environmental pollution for the light, To increase and enhance night vision and control the orientation of light dazzled (only control available now is to turn the light on or off) there has been no any development since invention of first car in 1886 till now, It kicks off light by speed of km/s 300,000 Come out strong blow hit the optic nerve and cause vision stopped for all creatures. | To reduce killing of, One million and 350,000 human beings annually in road accidents they are killed in the worldwide also Every 6 seconds someone, somewhere in the world is suddenly and tragically killed because of injury, Their total amounts to five million deaths annually! Even if the accident reduction rate is 10% the lives of 350 people will be preserved daily, also causing losses of 500 billion US dollars, If a 10% halt occurs $ 50 billion will be available to change the world's economy | Manufacturing an invention for the actual application of sustainable society through the establishment of a complete transition network without accidents, Also for implement the completion of vaccines for all persons in isolated areas and remote villages. Is done by installation inside of body vehicle to the rear is far from the front (An invention of device that provides powerful lighting for all types of vehicles using lights tubes without dazzled) to control such glow on, then redirected to the front for radiate through the Tubes of lights within it a nanotechnology-treated lighting element, to support and increase the power of lighting without dazzled, with diffusion of light at a near-Earth horizontal level in all directions, They are installed inside the projector at specific angles and degrees to control the direction of light away from the vision of others, through optical sensors, one mounted at the driver's view level and the other above the light exit slot, for steering the light is far from the other drivers vision level to prevent light dazzled interference traditional. Installation of this on a number of vehicles of all kinds to demonstrate the positive results of this advanced lighting on the vehicle manufacturers to be implemented in all new and used vehicles now,To development of night lighting system currently used in all vehicles. | All inventions made before provided to solve the problems of the night lighting system for all vehicles follow the traditional system used since the invention of the first car, by installing the strong headlights in a narrow place at the front of the vehicle directly does not allow the installation of control devices in the direction of the light of the lights,only control used so far is to turn ON the lighting or OFF This invention proves the close relationship between strong vehicle lights dazzled at night, which violate darkness of the sky with environmental pollution of lights and global warming to reduce climate change What is Light Pollution? Most of us are familiar with air, water, and land pollution, but did you know that light can also be a pollutant? The inappropriate or excessive use of artificial light – known as light pollution – can have serious environmental consequences for humans, wildlife, and our climate. By joining IDA you can make a difference in protecting our Planet, saving billions of dollars in wasted energy, and connecting future generations with our legacy of starry skies. As well as pollution caused by the spread of optical dazzled have a direct adverse effect on the natural environment for the life of insects working on the pollination of crops for continued agricultural production without the cost, such as bees endangered and poor production of food is very important for human health. | The invention controls at the dazzled lights when approach the cars each other the strong headlights become very painful because they cause severe interference to the vision, as they approach each other, leading to a complete loss of vision and forcing the two drivers to turn off the strong lights and walk only in the light of small lights so that each car can Is a way away from the collision of the two vehicles and without disturbing the vision of the road to each of the leaders of the two vehicles to the other where this causes the loss of focus into make the safe decision. Also light orientation control stops the diffraction and of light reflection from snow when it falls and covers everything on the roads with a white crystalline layer, considering that the crystalline ice property becomes a powerful reflector of light from everything on the road collides with the strong traditional lighting According to A RAC survey of more than 2,000 motorists a driver recovering from being dazzled for five seconds while driving at 60mph, would cover a distance of 134m, more than the length of a football pitch. Among the 88% who think at least some modern car headlights are too bright, 49% claim to dazzled by headlights in their rear view mirror. 66% of respondents say they now struggle to tell if oncoming lights are on full or dipped beam, while 68% admit to having difficulty telling whether some approaching vehicles have their indicators on due to the brightness of the headlights. | Africa is a continent where there are many wealth, but unfortunately there are no luminous roads for travel long distances therefore, all kinds of support and assistance should be provided to the countries of this continent to improve its road safety distances to exploit these wealth for open new areas of work, Because our have only 2% of the world's vehicles but 20% of road fatalities, so Africa has been hit particularly hard by the global road safety crisis. According to the World Bank report, Rapid urbanization and motorization: Cities will be home to some 5.4 billion residents by 2050, equivalent to 2/3 of the projected global population the number of vehicles on the road will double to reach 2 billion by 2050. Asia and Africa are expected to experience the most growth over the next three decades, accounting for more than 90% of all urban population increase, Development challenges, like Road Safety, Climate Change and Global Health are now urban challenges to solve them increasingly requires consideration of the special ways of cities. Professional drivers for heavy transport vehicles and passenger transport are in dire need of this invention as they are forced to drive long distances under the influence of dazzling lights which have many damage to the safety of their eyes causing accidents, in Egypt only 9 million vehicles of different types increase annually by 10%. Also over hundreds of millions of people worldwide need this lighting in order to keep their lives. | Manufacturing 100 searchlights Laser or LID Bulbs and photovoltaic tubes work with a light sensor connected with a small motor to move the projector inside the vehicle from the rear to change the angle of light exit from the front to control the direction of light away from the eyes of others based on contact with other optical sensor, is adjust at other vehicles by the driver of the other vehicle and control by level Height of the center of the vision , The price of the searchlight is 8 thousand dollars ,,, this price is expected to decrease by 20% when producing in commercial quantities and manufacturing all components by ourselves. Plan to manufacture a searchlights in the first year Manufacturing 500 searchlights with xenon lamps The price of selling the searchlight 8 thousand pounds, the proceeds of the sale 4,000,000 million Egyptian pounds Manufacturing 500 scanners with laser or LED lamps with photovoltaic tubes Selling price of one scout 15 thousand pounds Selling proceeds 7,500000 million Egyptian pounds Demonstrate the positive results of advanced lighting on All international road safety bodies such as the U N, which issued a resolution in 2011, signed by all countries to reduce road accidents by 50% until 2020 and civil society organizations interested in reducing road accidents, and push for concrete action from our governments in the lead-up to the Third Ministerial Conference on Road Safety, to be held in Sweden in 2020. | https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004858111350 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp2Jx-r8fPc&feature=youtu.be | There are contacts with the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Bank and International Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety. I have received more than one invitation to attend international conferences, which I could not meet because they did not send tickets and accommodation. The last attend I received from UN SDG Action Campaign, We are delighted to inform you that your application to attend the SDG Global Festival of Action has been accepted! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
737 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Emmanuel | Kakooza | KAKOOZA NUTRITION SOLUTIONS | https://www.facebook.com/emmanuel.kakooza.5 | Chief Executive Officer | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | I am passionate about eliminating fruit wastage to contribute to: zero hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, ensure healthy lives and well being for all at all ages, ensure responsible production and consumption patterns, end poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030. I strongly believe that this is my opportunity to get the fruit synergy and vacuum technology solution to the World to save small and medium holder fruit farmers who suffer from exploitation due to unfair prices in peak seasons from different middlemen; and other post-harvest losses along the fruit value chain. I am enthusiastic to get World class mentorship, networks with like-minded entrepreneurs and get an opportunity to improve my leadership skills. I want to use this summit to transform the fruits of this scientific discovery into affordable products; and get them into the hands of millions of small and medium holder farmers in tens and thousands of urban and rural communities who come from dozens of Countries. With the financial, moral and technical support from the summit experts, the technology will impact on over 50,000 lives in Uganda in the next 2 years and over 1,000,000 lives by 2025 in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. | I am Kakooza Emmanuel, a 36 year old male Ugandan. I hold a BSc. Human Nutrition and Dietetics from Kyambogo University, Kampala Uganda. I hold a certificate in Business development services from Intellecap Nairobi Kenya I hold a certificate in Product certification schemes from Uganda National Bureau of Standards. I hold a certificate in child protection and safeguarding from terre des hommes netherlands I am a self-motivated social entrepreneur who innovates sustainable solutions for community challenges. I am passionate about zero wastage of food. I won an award in the green business plan competitions for my natural juice product made using fruit synergy and vacuum technology in 2011. After getting challenges of pineapple processing, i used my principles of physics to innovate a hydraulic pineapple juice extractor which has a 98% efficiency rate. In 2016, supported a pineapple growing youth farmer group who faced exploitation from middlemen to acquire this machine. With my innovation, i emerged among the top 10 finalists in the 2017 East- Africa Post-harvest technology competitions held in Windsor Nairobi, Kenya; and joined the East Africa trade and Investment Hub. I founded Kakooza Nutrition Solutions; a business which provides solutions to post-harvest food losses and health challenges among consumers I exhibited the technology products at the 4th Eastern Africa Farmers' Congress held in Munyonyo, Uganda in 2017. I am a member of: Uganda Small Scale Industries Association, the consortium for enhancing University responsiveness to agribusiness development (CURAD) | Fruit synergy and vacuum technology | The technology produces high quality natural juices with a longer shelf-life, improved nutrition value and total elimination of wastage and losses | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | The Solution is currently implemented in Uganda. It is also intended to be implemented in Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia | Yes | Fluvial Bounty CIC, trading as Micro Gen Renewables, Inter Region Economic Net-work, Uganda Small Scale Industries Association, Economy Of Communion Network, operating under the Focolare Movement | Scaling | The Solution has gone through the key stages of design thinking namely; Empathize, define, Ideate, prototype, test, and implement. The juice produced using this technology has gone through sensory analysis and evaluation by customer judges and passed all the parameters. The juice products have been tested against ISO 4833, 4831, 7251, 21527-1. The juices passed all the micro-biology and chemistry parameters. The technology is now used to process fruits into natural juices which we are scaling. | In December 2007 mangoes were ripening in Uganda. At home, our tree yielded heavily. Despite that yield, there were mangoes wasted and lost. This wasn't different elsewhere. The World’s population projection for 2050 is 9.8 billion (UN department of Economics and social affairs); yet 1/3 of the World’s produced food gets lost and wasted. Global fruit and vegetable losses and wastage (44%) are due to fast ripening, molding, bruising, poor facilities, physical damages, and primary fermentation. | Fruits are harvested fresh and taken for sorting, grading, cleaning and washing at the processing unit. A hot rinse is the final washing stage to ensure zero bacteria and any dirt left , after 2 cold washing cycles. Specific ratios for both acidic and alkaline fruits are calculated The fruits are peeled and processed into natural fruit juices, then blended according to the calculated ratios. This give the fruit synergy aspect. Bottles are washed and sterilized, then the juice is packed. Vacuum technology is applied to eliminate any micro-organisms. The flavor, nutrient content, color are preserved and the final shelf-life is 1 year. | It promotes maximum utilization of both raw-materials and waste, and this reduces on the costs of production. In the existing technologies, waste is just dumped and the raw-materials are not properly utilized. The technology is used to produce 100% natural fruit juice free from chemical preservatives, food colors and artificial sugars. This gives it a unique position into the market where non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension, are on the rise and such interventions which aim at addressing pressing consumer health needs are on high demand. The waste generated can be: transformed into animal feeds, dried for making charcoal briquettes, or used to produce manure for recycling into the gardens. This supports a sustainable agricultural cycle and enables achievement of environmental protection. | In 2010, we embarked on development of a technology which would produce 100% natural fruit juices. I conducted experiments which failed 4 times.I found the bottles broken due to fermentation; and I almost gave up at the fourth experiment. I continued to follow my genius and was strengthened by the pieces of advice I read from the Books; “Rich Dad Poor Dad” and “Think and grow rich,” by Robert Kiosaki and Napoleon Hill respectively. At the fifth experiment, success was registered. The technology has already been field tested in processing fruits into 100% natural juice products. The natural juice products were tested in 2014 using the ISO 4833, 4831, 7251, 21527-1. The chemistry and micro-biology parameters were all successful. This proves that the solutions is worth scaling up in the local and International markets among small holder farmers to support them eliminate fruit wastage and losses; and improve their livelihoods. | Planned Goals and milestones 1. We plan to work with Fluvial Bounty CIC, trading as Micro Gen Renewables to mainstream fruit synergy and vacuum technology in the off grid electricity generation and distribution in th Districts of Kaseese, Hoima, and Bundibugyo during the pilot phase likely to begin in January 2020. 2. After this pilot, the project will be scaled up among other districts growing different fruits and this will boost the technology upscale. 3. Tanzania, Kenya and Zambia are the next target Countries for up-scaling. This is projected to take place in 2023. 4. Staff recruitment will be done beginning in January 2020. A total of 20 staff members are expected to be recruited. 5. Over 50,000 lives are expected to be impacted upon in the next 2 years. This will cover both direct and indirect impact. | The following resources are needed: Short term needs include: Human resources, 3 in Country Vehicles, Registration and License fees, fuel, wear and tear, Salaries, stationary, meals,accommodation, professional fees, per diem, 20 laptops, Rent fees, overhead costs(electricity, water, security) Human resource recruitment and capacity building: USD 20,000 Acquiring patent rights: USD 3,000 Sustainable cross border partnerships and networks: USD 25,000 Scaling technology to local markets: USD 50,000 Construct and equip a fruit processing unit in Masaka District, Uganda for training farmers: USD 300,000 Medium term needs Human resources, air tickets, 3 in Country Vehicles, Registration and License fees, fuel, wear and tear, Salaries, stationary, meals, accommodation, professional fees, per diem, 20 laptops, Rent fees, overhead costs(electricity, water, security). Train small and medium small holder farmers in and outside Uganda on use of the technology: USD 250,000. Countries targeted in phase I include: Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia. Long term needs Human resources, air tickets, 3 in Country Vehicles, Registration and License fees, fuel, wear and tear, Salaries, stationary, meals, professional fees, accommodation, per diem, 20 laptops, Rent fees, overhead costs(electricity, water, security). The target is 4 Countries, namely; Nigeria, Rwanda, Angola and Ethiopia Scale up the technology in International Markets, including monitoring and evaluation: USD 5,000,000 | https://www.facebook.com/emmanuel.kakooza.5 https://younginnovatorsinagribusiness.com/post-harvest-2017/ | https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrDQ3J4KEhd4kkApQX8w8QF;_ylu=X3oDMTF0c2NyMTNhBHNlYwNjZC1hdHRyBHNsawNzb3VyY2UEdnRpZAMEcnVybANodHRwczovL3ZpbWVvLmNvbS8zMjA1NTA5NTk-/RV=2/RE=1565038840/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fvimeo.com%2f320550959/RK=2/RS=TjLJq9MFjvtIHu7BMSSgF.ytEsk- | 1. Finalist for East Africa Post-Harvest Technology Competitions 2017 2. Winner of the 4th award for the natural juice product produced using the fruit synergy and vacuum technology in 2011; organised by International Labor Organization and Youth Entrepreneurship Facility | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
738 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | fatima | azhar | comsats | comsats.edu.pk | student | female | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | it is great platform to share our innovation .we are working to make farming experice better Farming plays a significant role in today’s world. It requires proper environmental and diet care. Therefore, there is a need of a system which can be operate and monitor farm animals remotely. It is aimed to propose a smart farming system in order to help farmers to monitor their animals which requires his attention most. Keeping the needs of a farmer in mind a system should be proposed which can store important data regarding to animals name/tag-number, provides security and health care to animals. As well as, tracking and monitoring of animals. This type of system can be designed cost effectively by using electronic devices combined with the IOT. It will be like virtual assistant to a farmer to assist him/her in taking care of their animals. | we are 4 electrical engineering students working to make life of cattle better .as they are mostly neglected | dunger care smart system | better life for cattle | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | pakistan | No | Research & Development | we are currently trying to make a device which has all sensors attached to it .it gathers all the readings and compare it with the refernces provided | Managing a dairy farm is not an easy job. The proposed system is supposed to be beneficial for the owner/labor as well as for animals. From any part of the world the owner/labor will get an update of his farm any time he wants. If his animal gets some disease or is stolen then he will be notified. The biggest problem with the animals is that they can’t tell their problems. Therefore, this system will help labors to identify the animal which needs attention. | it will change the concept of farming world wide | all the work that has been done on farming doesnot provide all the features .we are trying to provide many features under one name .which has gps for tracking ,ear tag for management and sensors for keeping track of life . | we are on designing the hardware all of our sensors work data is collected now we are seeing how to put all of them together | we will first launch it in our country then make to the countries where farmimg is given much importance | we need animals a cattle farm to test our product | none | none | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
739 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ignatius | Noronha | - None - | https://www.mozziquit.com | Managing Director | Male | India | India | English | It is known to all of us that one of the most important thing required for the development of any country in the entire World is the basic Infrastructure Development which is construction of Roads. In Forests Road gets automatically made by Elephant Walking in its way where ever it wish to move ahead. As of now the cost of making roads is very very expensive and it lasts for short duration demanding for repairs and maintenance every year after the rains any where in the World. Mostly many countries Asphalt Technology is in use which also demand for repeated repairs every year due to rains. If the Roads are constructed for easy and fast movement in any city in any country many multi national companies set up their offices and business to expand their multi billion dollar business without wasting any time which could create huge employment for many people. Presently the cost of construction including raw material, labour and time is very expensive with conventional prevailing technology with 12"" thick road concrete of 28 days curing which do not guarantee the demand for frequent repairs and maintenance every year after monsoon in all countries. Our Innovative Material, Labour & Time Saving Specialised Concrete of just 4"" thickness of only 1 day (24 hours) curing against the conventional expensive 12"" thick road concrete of 28 days will save Billions of Dollars to every Nation in the World if implemented for various applications like Roads for Highways, in Urban Areas, in Rural Areas and even in forests or places of high elevation natural places. I being just an B.Com. Graduate have invented this technology in the year 1999. Proposed to Indian Oil Corporation Ltd for their Drive Way of Petrol Pump in Industrial Area in Goregaon East, Mumbai. Since it is the first Technology of opening of Roads after concreting within just 24 hours I was asked to make Sample at Parikh Petrol Pump at Ville Parle West to test. Sample was casted on Friday of second week of December 1999 which was tested by the Testing Lab Officials on Saturday of December 1999 with 3 methods i.e. first they may one 10 tonne loaded water tanker to move many times on the concreted sample which got passed as no hairline cracks were found. Second test was to make same loaded tanker to move with full speed many times and apply break on sample slab many times which also passed and finally they asked one labour to hit with hammer many times on the slab which also passed without any cracks | I have enclosed my Resume which is included I being Serial Innovator all information including MozziQuit Mosquito Trap as well as innovation of Cost saving Road Concrete as well as the application of same cost saving concrete which could be used for construction of Run ways of Airports, thin roads of just 2 inches thick at rural areas etc. I am a Serial Innovator. Pls see details of my other innovation in Application No. 10398524 See Biography in https://www.ibef.org/download/IBEF-Ideas-May%202014.pdf and video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVkZ8p5Xv9w&t=1s I have already got US Visa B1/B2 stamped on my Passport valid till 25 April 2027. | Cost Saving 4"" Thick Road Concrete of just 1 day curing for implementation at multi purposes including for Runways of Airports | Technology is already tested, implemented and observed beyond 19 years for its quality, durability, success and ready to implement across entire World | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Now tested in India and having need to use in every country in the entire World as the roads are the immediate need for development of e every country | No | Proof of Concept | This specialised cost saving 4"" thick Road Concrete was first casted in December 1999 and tested very next day in 24 hours. Executed the works for Drive Way of IOCL's Petrol Pump at Goregaon East Mumbai in April 2000. Made presentation at 74th Annual Session of Indian Road Congress held in Guwahati, Assam in January 2014 IRC uploaded my presentation videos in their websites i.e. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AalU0-lSTPw&t=29s and in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoRATI0cYBo&t=7s | As of now mostly Asphalt roads are been constructed in all the countries which get damaged due to rains in monsoon calling for repairs every year incurring national loss to every country. Damages incur depending on the rain fall and mainly on the fate of the country. If the Roads are intact and long lasting beyond 50 years every nation will prosper automatically as the Roads are the basic requirement for development of any country. To make low cost roads in rural areas even at 2"" thickness | Please see the details of Road Concrete Technology already proved by me in 1999 and executed in 2000 for Driveway of IOCL's Petrol Pump at Goregaon East, Mumbai without having any financial support and the Testimonial of said specialised concrete are self explanatory about the extra ordinary quality, durability and success of my Innovation achieved purely in my individual capacity though millions of dollars are available at government level in public works and road development and with Indian Road Concrete Organisation the top most authority I have proved in 2014 by presentation 4 of my construction chemicals need to be added to the same concrete mix of any grade of concrete while mixing in the concrete mixer which provide extra ordinary strength and required three dimentional strength to the concrete. One chemical has to be coated after the concreting not to allow water content to evaporate from the concrete. Complete information on Product details, abstracts and specifications are in uploaded pdf file Resume of Orwin Road Concrete | Road Concrete of conventional method is of 12 inches thick requires 28 days curing without allowing movement of vehicles/traffic which is very expensive and is bound to develop cracks. Innovative 4"" thick Road Concrete can enable to lay road concrete same approved budget every year to more than 2 folds of length and width without losing any additional cost to the Nation Complete information on Product details, abstracts and specifications are in uploaded pdf file Resume of Orwin Road Concrete Could be used to make new roads or repair existing deteriorated roads in Rural Areas so that living of people in rural areas improve. | Unfortunately I have not received expected support from Indian Road Congress inspite of presenting in 74th Annual Session of IRC held in Guwahati in Assam in January 2014 due to corruption in India. Father of India Mahathma Gandhi was not recognised in India but got recognised in South Africa during his hardship there and he could enable Indian's to get the Freedom of Nation on 15th August 1947 through his innovative movement of Ahimsa and Sathyagraha. Same way now I have to get the support of International community if they could understand my single handed efforts put in for the benefit of our Society not only in India but in entire World Complete information on Product details, abstracts and specifications are in uploaded pdf file Resume of Orwin Road Concrete | Looking for organisations, like mind people and all who wish to reap the benefit of innovations to join hands with me to proceed further to utilise my innovation We need support from international community to overcome the Lobby of PWD, Civil contractors, bureaucrats, politicians as first priority Complete information on Product details, abstracts and specifications are in uploaded pdf file Resume of Orwin Road Concrete | We need funds to make few samples at various locations. Get them evaluated and recommended for implementation upon providing the evaluation reports as I have already got the evaluation reports on my other innovation of MozziQuit mosquito trap which can Make Entire World Free of Mosquito Menace in short span to time as the device will cost less than $ 4 to produce in mass production having less than $ 0.0015 cents operating cost per day only for electricity to operate without use of any chemicals or consumables or emission of any UV Radiation. Pls see more details in www.mozziquit.com and also in https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=608544 I am ready to donate this technology which is been invented by just a Bachelor of Commerce graduate for the benefit of our society if my hardwork, R&D efforts and the long term benefits to our society get recognised on public platform like United Nations Organisations | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AalU0-lSTPw&t=29s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoRATI0cYBo&t=7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYJWsGV2hqU&t=5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGHPXyae6sw&t=1s https://www.mozziquit.com https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=608544 https://www.ibef.org/download/IBEF-Ideas-May%202014.pdf http://www.theweekendleader.com/Innovation/2043/a-terminator.html http://www.mozziquit.com/images/pdf/Final_Report_MozziQuit_NIMR_BNG.pdf Published in NIMR Annual Report 2017-18 in page no. 49 in http://nimr.org.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Annual-Report-2017-18-Web-FINAL1.pdf Test Certificate confirming Zero % emission of UV Radiation from MozziQuit http://www.mozziquit.com/images/pdf/Zero-Emission-of-UV-Radiation_Report.pdf Evaluation Report by Director of Research of KVAFS University confirming increase in Milk Yield and Weight of cows after using MozziQuit in cow sheds http://www.mozziquit.com/images/pdf/Evaluation-Report-KVAFSU-Bidar.pdf Validation Report issued by Assistant Director of Veterinary Hospital confirming increase in Milk Yield after using MozziQuit in cow shed Poster Abstracts RBMP in event held in Geneva on 30 Jan - 1 Feb 2019 MozziQuit pages 5 & 6 https://endmalaria.org/sites/default/files/Posters.pdf Millennium Alliance/USAID https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqqdLKC1tIc&t=30s | 1. https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=608544 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGHPXyae6sw&t=4s 3. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ignatius+orwin+noronha+mozziquit 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVkZ8p5Xv9w&t=8s 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3GGXLMivq4&t=21s 6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGHPXyae6sw&t=6s 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqqdLKC1tIc&t=1s 8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTxr8imwpA 9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWNTdytJY58&t=6s 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV7_2kMjfQA&t=25s 11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuLWGxYN7cE 12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQaP4XRrMuo 13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYKnbhFSXP0 10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGXba43jD7o&t=1s 14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0kgR3qKVoc&t=2s 15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZWXq8js88A&t=144s 16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQtxPUuw1J0 17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB47lScy_ZI&t=13s 18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjz4OyZ8gCc 19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dIcx0mJ_Mg 20. http://tedxiimranchi.in/2017.html. 21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIYNfC1iC_s 22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppDWD3VwxVg 23. https://www.indiainnovates.in/pdfs/Impact-Analysis-Report.pdf | 1.Nominated for Game Changing Innovator Award in REACH Awards 2019, UAE 2.May 2019 WHO included MozziQuit for Preq. Process 3.MozziQuit displayed at Geneva in RBMP Event Jan 2019 4.Most Pr.St.up MSME Awards 2018 5.FICCI Ex Awards 2018 Healthcare Startup 6.Millennium Alliance IV Awards 2017 7.Nat. Agripreneurs Award 2017 8.SESB Award 2016 9.S. I. Busine Award 2016 10.Displayed at Rashtr Bhavan in Fest of Inno 2016 11.GoldMedalAward in DST-Lockheed Martin 2010 12.ISABestElectr ProdAward 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
740 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chandrika | Bahadur | UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) | http://unsdsn.org | Director, The SDG Academy | Female | India | India | English | When we started the SDG Academy in 2014, our goal was to empower a new generation of change-makers to drive progress towards the SDGs, and to do so at an unprecedented scale. We believe that a population educated about sustainable development can achieve sustainable development; and so we set out to bring the best scientific knowledge on sustainable development to a global audience using massive open online courses (MOOCs). Since then, we have produced 28 MOOCs on subjects such as macroeconomics, climate science, human rights, and public health--all taught by world-renowned experts and available for free. Our courses have enrolled more than 236,000 civil servants, professionals, innovators, students, and citizens from over 180 countries, giving them the knowledge they need to make informed decisions and inspiring them to be more sustainable in everything they do—from making policy to making purchases. While our numbers are high and our reach broad, the true impact of our work is difficult to quantify. SDG Academy learners come from different walks of life and spheres of influence, each with their own unique capacity to make change; and the nature of the education itself is diffuse--the more that learners share their knowledge with others, the greater the potential for impact. The feedback we receive indicates that many are inspired to think and act differently as a result of what they have learned. For instance, many tell us that our MOOCs have inspired them to pursue further study or a career in the field. Others vow to share what they have learned with friends and family. A farmer in our course “Feeding a Hungry Planet” was moved to join a national exercise on sustainable agriculture. One UN staff member in Africa told us that she organized a regional meeting to share the learnings from our “Tech for Good” course with colleagues, and was actively incorporating those lessons into a new technology roll-out plan for her office. These are only a few examples of how the SDG Academy’s model is driving transformative action in countries, companies, and communities across the world. It is the enormous potential of education at this scale, and the ripple effect it can create, that makes me excited to share the SDG Academy with the UN Solutions Summit. I look forward to learning from the expertise of all the “big thinkers” in attendance and hope to inspire everyone engaged in SDG solutions to ask themselves, When you educate a population, what can they do? | Chandrika Bahadur is the President of the SDSN Association and Director of the SDG Academy. From 2008-2011, she was an advisor to the Chairman and Managing Director at Reliance Industries, where she helped set up Reliance Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic foundation focusing on areas of education, health, rural development, and urban renewal. From 2001-2008, Chandrika worked with the United Nations in different roles. In her last assignment, she was a Policy Advisor at UNDP’s Bureau for Development Policy in New York, working in Africa to help Ministries of Finance and Planning align their strategies to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), across 20 countries. From 2003-2006, she was part of the leadership team of the UN Millennium Project, an advisory group convened by the then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to recommend strategies for the MDGs. From 2001-2002 she worked on trade and HIV and AIDS programs at the United Nations. She has prior teaching experience at Harvard and Columbia universities. Chandrika holds a Masters degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a BA (Honours) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University. | The SDG Academy | Educational resources from the world’s leading experts on sustainable development | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | All, online | Yes | edX.org, universities, research institutions, NGOs, the UN System | Scaling | The SDG Academy creates free educational content to prepare the next generation of global leaders to achieve the SDGs. We disseminate content to the public through partnerships with leading online education platforms and select institutional partners. Since 2014, our online courses that have reached over 236,000 learners in 180+ countries--but our goal is to reach 1 million. We are looking to create new distribution channels to ensure that this knowledge reaches the people who need it most. | Crucial to the mission of the SDGs is the dissemination of related knowledge to the policymakers, innovators, and citizens who are on the front lines of this work. The SDG Academy was created with this need in mind, putting foundational SDG knowledge in the hands of people with direct capacity to act at multiple levels. By giving actors the information they need to address the issues that matter most to them, our work contributes not only to SDG 4, but to all of the SDGs. | The SDG Academy’s massive open online courses (MOOCs) allow anyone with internet access to learn from the world’s leading experts in sustainable development, including researchers and practitioners from top universities, research institutions, think tanks, development agencies, and the UN System. We create content in partnership with organizations from around the world, such as UNESCO, UNICEF, Harvard University, the World Bank, and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. Courses are designed to combine scientific knowledge, global and local perspectives, and a pedagogical approach that is engaging and informative. We produce materials for the general public, training for policymakers and practitioners, and resources for educators of sustainable development in institutions around the world. Courses are available on edX.org, one of the world’s leading MOOC platforms, as well as regional platforms in China and the Middle East. Our long-term goals are to 1) reach 1 million learners by 2020; b) build partnerships with professional, educational, and government institutions to create and disseminate ESD content; c) create online professional certification and degree programs to provide ESD at scale; and d) to become the premier platform for learning about the SDGs, using technology to enrich engagement and promote diversity. We will achieve these goals through capacity-building partnerships, volunteer Alumni Ambassadors, and the guidance of our network of experts. | As an initiative of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), a network of over 1100 universities and research institutions in 100 countries, the SDG Academy is able to leverage a unique access to the world’s leading experts in sustainable development to create our online courses. Our reach, quality, and the extent of our impact is unparalleled. Our approach merges substantive knowledge with grassroots movements, putting SDG knowledge in the hands of the people who need it most. Other education for sustainable development initiatives lack our reach and capacity for expansion, particularly for learners in low-income countries who may be unable to access resources of this caliber. The MOOC format allows anyone with internet access to receive instruction from the world’s leading experts in sustainable development, and our global community of learners enhances the experience by contributing their a wide range of experiences and perspectives to the course discussions. The SDG Academy is the only SDG-focused institution on edX.org, which boasts more than 18 million users worldwide, and partnerships with regional platforms and the global development community offer opportunities to increase our reach through content translation and regionalization. The SDG Academy also helps institutions increase their capacity to teach about the SDGs through our University Partnership Program, and content is made available under a Creative Commons license for anyone to share. | Since 2014, the SDG Academy has produced 28 MOOCs, enrolling over 236,000 learners from more than 180 countries. Nearly 100,000 learners have enrolled on edX alone since the Academy joined the platform in September 2018, with a growing number coming from low-income countries. An average of 35% are professionals in an industry related to the topic of their course, many serving in government or NGO positions. Our Facebook Alumni Group, launched in April 2018, currently has over 4,000 members. The SDG Academy uses each course as an opportunity to reflect on and refine its pedagogical and outreach approaches, collecting demographics and learner feedback from edX and through pre-and post-course surveys. Each post-course survey also asks learners to explain how they will use what they have learned. Responses vary from a UN official suggesting that our course on technology and development be mandatory for all UN staff, to a Kenyan farmer pledging to reduce food waste as a result of our sustainable agriculture course, to learners around the world committing to educate their communities about the SDGs. In July 2019, the SDG Academy began a robust qualitative impact assessment to gauge learners’ satisfaction with their learning and the educational and career opportunities it has provided them. We expect to publish our results this coming October. | The mission of the SDG Academy is to enrich the field of sustainable development by becoming the premier source of high-quality educational content on the SDGs. We have 5 main objectives: To create a full online program on sustainable development, with courses covering all 17 SDGs and relevant inter-disciplinary concepts. 1. To build strategic partnerships with key institutions to promote education for sustainable development through trainings, tailored courses, blended programs, translated content. 2. To build the world’s first fully online Master’s degree on sustainable development, which will launch in 2020. 3. To engage at least 1 million learners by 2020. 4. To encourage inclusion and equity in the reach of our materials by making our content relevant to more learners, especially those in low-income countries, through translation, regionalization, and strategic partnerships. With a catalog of 28 courses and more in development, we are well on our way to a complete program on sustainable development. In 2018 the SDG Academy released all our courses on edX, a global platform with 18 million+ users, as well as China’s XuetangX and Jordan’s Edraak platforms. In 2019 we partnered with Edraak and the Inter-American Development Bank to regionalize a course on natural resource governance for Middle Eastern and Latin American audiences, respectively. We also contributed courses to UN SDG:Learn, a central repository for SDG learning developed by the UN and key partners. | The SDG Academy has already made enormous strides towards advancing education for sustainable development at scale--however, to meet our ambitious goal of reaching 1 million learners by 2020, we need to continue producing high-quality content while strengthening our partnerships with academic institutions, NGOs, and the private sector. One major barrier to scaling up is capacity--we are a small team, and often have to make strategic decisions about how best to allocate our time and resources. In order to expand our outreach within these constraints, we are developing a publicly available, searchable library of Academy course videos, so that partners can access our content outside of the MOOC environment and use it as needed. Ultimately, expanding the SDG Academy’s reach through new partnerships and products will require increased capacity; so we are actively seeking funding to support additional staff and the development of new projects. Finally, a robust external evaluation would allow us to see exactly how much impact our work is having on our learners, and how they in turn are impacting the world. | SDG Academy website: https://sdgacademy.org/ SDGAcademyX, the SDG Academy’s institutional page on edX: https://edx.org/school/sdgacademyx Watch the SDG Academy’s trailer for an overview of our work: https://vimeo.com/219136001 This Vimeo album contains trailers for all SDG Academy courses: https://vimeo.com/album/5312043 SDG Academy’s University Partnership Program: http://unsdsn.org/what-we-do/education-initiatives/university-partnership-program/ | Throughout my career I have spoken in a variety of capacities about development and education. Two examples include: a series of interviews in 2017 for the global education innovation nonprofit HundrED about the role of education in a changing world. (You can find the series here: https://hundred.org/en/articles/chandrika-bahadur-the-longevity-and-the-changing-nature-of-work-are-changing-why-people-go-to-school); and a “Lightning Talk” about education for sustainable development and the SDG Academy at the Future Learning 2020 Summit in 2015 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niiLNDMbh24). | In 2018 the SDG Academy and its partners won “Best Project in the category of Human Capital and Education” from Forum PA, a Italian competition for innovation in public administration, for our course Sustainable Food Systems: A Mediterranean Perspective. The SDG Academy and EdCast (our original technology platform) received an award at the first NOVUS Summit in 2016, as well as an Excellence in Learning Gold Award from the Brandon Hall Group, a global human capital research firm, in 2017. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
741 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tapuwa | Ndongwe | Wecol Limited | www.wecolepz.com | C0-founder and CEO | Male | Kenya | Zimbabwe | English | I am a Zimbabwe-born, Australia and New Zealand educated, Kenyan resident. All these places have two things in common, the accumulation of waste and the need for clean reliable and affordable energy. Instead of complaining about it whilst on the sidelines, thanks to the information revolution, innovation is widely accessible. Easy access to information has been key in building tailored solutions to specific problems. For example, we learned that modular technology can convert waste plastic into diesel. We developed a turnkey solution for Nairobi by partnering with youth groups and community-based organizations to collect valuable plastic and selling it to us. This eventually turns waste into an asset, it creates jobs and cleans up the environment. A triple bottom line win for all. | Growing up in Zimbabwe during the economic downturn motivated me to be entrepreneurial from a young age. I quickly learned the concept of supply and demand. After 2.5 years of study in my tertiary years in Australia, I eventually settled in New Zealand where I gained a Bachelors in Finance. During my studies, my brother (a qualified mechanic) and I established and ran a vehicle repair shop, logistics company, and a car dealership. The automotive industry gave me insights into blue ocean opportunities in waste management. I migrated to Kenya after meeting my wife in 2009. Initially working in the logistics industry delivering energy products sparked my desire to venture into the energy industry. In the past 10 years, I developed a team that developed a waste plastic to diesel turnkey that is investor ready. I am the co-founder of Wecol (Waste Energy Company Limited) that is a Kenyan based energy development company. | Biomass energy from grass | War on coal and wood-fuel using energy grass | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Kenya | Yes | Nulands Limited, Sidai Limited, KARLO, KEFRI | Transition to Scale | We have achieved biomass feedstock hedging by developing drought-resistant grass that can be grown in semi-arid or arid land. We are currently supplying the biomass industry using sugarcane waste that acts as a sustainable wood-fuel alternative. We have an off-grid power off-taker that consumes just under 1 MWe in the pipeline. | Africa's main source of energy is biomass-based. Kenya, for example, about 70% of its energy consumption is biomass-based. This is at least a US $5 billion industry. The industry comprises of agricultural waste, firewood, and charcoal. Annual consumption is 35 million tons with a sustainable supply of only 15 million tons. Unfortunately, the deficit of 20 million tons is met through un-sustainable sources. This has resulted in deforestation, flooding, and land degradation. | Our solution is to commercialize drought-resistant grass that will be grown in semi-arid to arid areas. This constitutes nearly 80% of Kenya's land. This species of grass unlocks land that is underutilized whilst not displacing existing cropland. The grass is a sustainable biomass source that displaces wood fuel from the market. This method is modular and scalable. Our vision is to adopt the commercial use of grass for energy like that implemented in Thailand. | Our competitors are in 2 segments namely electricity and thermal power: Off-grid electricity competitors include: 1) Diesel generators: the running costs are more than the grid 2)Solar power: it is not firm on-demand power and storage costs are high 3)Geothermal: the infrastructure for off-grid captive power is lacking 4) Co-generation providers: blue ocean market in Kenya Thermal power: 1)Wood fuel: most suppliers source from unsustainable means. Sustainable forests have long yield times 2)Agricultural waste: seasonal supply so it increases feedstock supply risk 3)Coal: ""cleaner"" coal must be imported into Kenya and it is more expensive 4)Fuel oil: expensive | Phase 1: 1) Enter the biomass supply market using agri-waste as feedstock (achieved) Input: sugar cane bagasse from millers in Kenya Process: collect, dry and briquette Production cost: US $ 50/ton Output: Briquettes sold at $100/ton Status: 11 months of operation produced 800 tons. Gross revenue $80,000 2) Build traction with biomass off-takers (ongoing) 2 loyal clients that consume 60% of the capacity of our machine 4 clients in the pipeline that will be consuming 125 tons per day Phase 2: (ongoing) 1) Feedstock supply hedging by developing drought-resistant grass proof of concept achieved partnered with a commercial farmer and transporter Phase 3: Combined heat and power to off-grid off-takers Cost of production: $0.07 / kw Selling price: $0.15 / kw 1 off-taker in the pipeline with a total capacity of 900kw split into 2 sites | 1) Reduce carbon emissions by closing the gap of unsustainable biomass consumption by industries. This will be done by providing a sustainable alternative to wood fuel for industries. The sustainable alternative is briquettes made out of drought-resistant grass. For every kilogram of grass-based briquettes used, we will save a kilogram of firewood. Ultimately we expect that for every ton of briquettes, there will be 1.2 tons of CO2 reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE). While the project will target only a small part of the country; as more land is placed under vegetation cover, the vegetation will act as a carbon sink. 2) Increase income to smallholder farmers in unutilized semi-arid and arid land. We will engage smallholder farmers as out-growers of drought-resistant grass that we will then buy from them for use in making briquettes. We will build the capacity of these farmers by setting up a model farm, training them, supplying them with seed and extension services to ensure optimal yields. We will then buy the grass from these farmers. They will thus earn an income from previously idle land. 3) Contribute to energy security using sustainable alternative biomass fuel. Industries need affordable and sustainable energy sources. As grass-based briquettes are not dependent on international prices (as oil is), will be available all year round. This will encourage industries to move to briquettes and away from wood fuel. | Funding Strategic partnerships in standardizing the biomass fuel and cross border acceptance Partnerships with hardware manufacture to establish compatibility standards Safeguard product development in intellectual property format mainly the conversion process. Measure and verify the impact | Website: www.wecopz.com Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK7mWiWY1aVBTJR3BJZdDJg?view_as=subscriber Youtube waste plastic to fuel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncwF_oArUgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN-VBJCplTU | http://www.my-led.org/sp/experience/201 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0DkQTGkSYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSyWHXLOpiM | Tony Elumelu entrepreneurship programme 2015 cohort | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
742 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Malcolm | Mooi | Dr CL Smith Foundation | drclsmith.org | Founder & CEO | Male | South Africa | South Africa | English | Our main motivation for applying to be a part fo the UN Solutions Summit is the opportunity to present our innovation to key stakeholders at this annual catalytic gathering. As a solution-maker, it is often a lonely journey filled with setbacks, rejections and failures. Attending the UN Solutions Summit is an opportunity to connect, learn and share with like-minded people as well as have access and exposure to the people and organisations who would influence and accelerate our progress. On some level, it also provides the right motivation to keep going despite the adverse challenges we face in solving some of our most complex challenges. My journey to innovation is the culmination of a lifetime of events and circumstances. I grew up in the tail-end of apartheid in South Africa and experienced firsthand how policies and laws prevented people from realizing their potential. I come from a family of educators and understand the important role that these professionals play in building nations. Our journey mimics innovation in that innovation is not linear or logical. In the case of zibuza.net, it started out as wanting to digitize textbooks to solve the challenge of ensuring learning had textbooks when the school year started. Through this process of innovation and aspirations for global impact, zibuza.net evolved into an online professional learning community that aims to elevate the status of teachers in society, with the goal of improving learner outcomes. We used our knowledge and understanding of the basic education ecosystem to reimagine a world where our teachers are respected and celebrated. Our solution goes beyond technology and this is what makes us innovative. We've applied knowledge and experience to digitize currently manual and paper-based processes; we've looked into human behaviour and applied gamification to positively change behaviour that encourages a culture of sharing and collaboration amongst all stakeholders in the schooling ecosystem. Our mission is to break down silos and fragmentation that is preventing us from harnessing the combined knowledge, experience and investment to make a significant impact on the quality of education outcomes, locally and globally. | Malcolm Mooi is the founder and CEO of the Dr CL Smith Foundation, a registered non-profit company (NPO) and public benefit organisation (PBO). The goal of the organisation is to support the Government’s effort to improve the quality of education outcomes as well as provide better access to quality education to all. Under Malcolm’s leadership, the NPO is an official implementation partner to the Department of Basic Education, a service provider of the South African Council for Educators, a member of the Teacher Appreciation and Support Programme (TASP) and partner of the Educator Labour Relations Council. A key project lead by the NPO is Zibuza.net, an online professional teacher community that advocates professional development, support and teacher appreciation. Mooi is a purpose-driven serial entrepreneur with a passion for unlocking opportunities to unleash human potential. He founded Marvel Technologies in 2014 with the goal of building next-generation social networking platforms to bring together all stakeholders in Basic Education. Described by his peers as smart, selfless, resourceful and persistent, Malcolm is also a creative at heart and in 2017 launched his debut book as a self-published author. Indigo Child | Chasing Dreams Money Can’t Buy is fast-paced, highly entertaining and disturbingly thought-provoking. A memoir of sorts, it details the compelling story of a courageous dreamer and his curious journey of discovery and transformation. | zibuza.net | Elevating the Status of Teachers in Society | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | South Africa, we plan to scale to other countries and regions in the future. | Yes | Department of Basic Education, South African Council for Educators, Educator Labour Relations Council, Teacher Appreciation and Support Programme | Transition to Scale | We successfully completed a Proof of Concept in 2015, learning a lot of hard lessons along the way. Our community has grown to 8000 members that include teachers from across the country as well as Organisation members that include government, business, unions, agencies, CSIs, NPOs and professionals. We have a proven business model and community is growing daily. We are now working towards a scalable and sustainable solution. | Of the many well-documented challenges in our education system, zibuza.net has taken the unconventional approach of identifying the highly fragmented and silo-driven efforts by the many stakeholders in the school ecosystem as the root cause of our problems. As teachers are the number one driver of learning in schools, another related key challenge is the lack of curriculum and holistic support for our teachers, which has a direct impact on learner performance. | zibuza.net is an online professional learning community that aims to improve teacher capacity and the adoption of 21st-century practices by providing a common platform for teachers to connect with their peers, professionals and a multitude of organisations. As the common platform for stakeholders to connect and engage, we create value by facilitating interactions between the multitude of stakeholders with the goal of building a more inclusive and equitable education system. Our long-term vision for global impact is to harness the combined efforts, experience and investment of the collective ecosystem for a measurable change in the quality of learning and teaching outcomes. We believe that teachers are the heartbeat of our nation and our goal is to elevate the status of teachers in society. As such, we are working to embrace the holistic needs of the teacher, from cultivating an appreciation for the work that they do to addressing issues that they deal with beyond the classroom, such as stress and financial difficulties. | Online communities are socially driven and typical activities include searching, authoring, sharing, rating, correlating, monitoring, discussing, aligning, enhancing, mentoring, collaborating and communicating. Zibuza.net's unique differentiator is to leverage these socially-driven interactions to calculate where value is created, thus enabling us to recognise and reward teachers at an individual level for their participation and contributions to the greater teaching community, and in real-time. We believe that teachers are the heartbeat of our nation and should be celebrated every day. Our long-term goal is to recognise and reward excellence across all age groups, curricula, achievement levels and reward offerings. We aim to provide an efficient way for schools to reinforce positive teaching and learning behaviours amongst teachers, leaders and learners as a means of increasing their motivation to academic outcomes. It is important to consider that in South Africa there are 437,449 teachers (our primary beneficiaries) across 25,154 schools in 9 provinces, leading and nurturing 12,819,542 learners (our secondary beneficiaries). | Our team has successfully completed a Proof of Concept and we are now working towards scaling and sustainability. We measure our progress through impact goals that are aligned to SDG4 targets. Our impact goals include both depth and reach measures, and are articulated as SMART metrics (Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant and Time-bound). Furthermore, we operationalise our impact measurements. This is reflected in the manner in which we collect, capture, analyse and communicate our impact metrics. For example, our impact goals include providing access to resources that support high-quality learning, transforming training and professional development and reinventing the recruitment process. These impact goals are aligned to SDG targets 4a; 4.7; 4b; 4c; 4.4; and indicators 4.a.1; 4.7.1; 4.b.1; 4.c.1 and 4.4.1. Each SMART impact metric is defined in detail to define our strategy, implementation and measurement thereof. | Our 3 primary goals for the next 12 months include 1) providing access to resources that support high-quality learning, 2) transforming training and professional development and 3) reinventing the recruitment process. Our key milestones are reflected as community growth (teachers, organisations and resources), engagement (social interactions) and retention. As a data-driven platform, we leverage both quantitative and qualitative data variables to track our goals and adjust our implementation - what's working and what's not. From a scaling perspective, we first want to validate the sustainability of our solution in South Africa before venturing into new countries and markets. In South Africa, our key milestone over the next 12 months is a reach and impact the 437,449 teachers across 25,154 schools, leading and nurturing 12,819,542 learners. From a recruitment perspective, our staff complement will grow, but it is important to mention that we incorporate exponential organisation methodologies like Staff on-demand for platform development, Community and Crowd to drive interactions, Algorithms to drive engagement via gamification, Leveraged Assets like Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, open standards (AST.net core) and API technology, thus allowing us to collaborate with other ICT initiatives and Basic Education stakeholders, Dashboards will be used as a key reporting tool for tracking growth and value metrics like user engagement and retention. | Our short-term needs include raising adequate grand funds to ensure we are able to finance the development of our platform. As a development project, we are reliant on donor funding. Software development will span enhancing existing features as well as new functionality. Our approach to software development is defined by digitizing currently manual or paper-based processes eg. communication and Continuous Professional Teacher Development processes. As we are transitioning to scale, our focus will also be balanced in terms of growing the community with users (teachers, organisations) and resources, as well as meeting qualitative metrics such as engagement and retention. This will require growing the team with various skill sets. In the medium term, we will work towards the scale and sustainability of zibuza.net. We are currently supported by Misk Foundation who have assigned a coach to ensure we maximise the Grand Challenge award. We also receive training from the Accelerate2030 program for national scale-readiness, and should we get through to the next round, global scale-readiness. In this regard, we would welcome resources and investment to aid our social impact journey. Our long-term goal is to have a global impact in unlocking opportunities that support inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. At this stage, we will require the resources, investment and training to support our SDG4 ambitions. | http://www.drclsmith.org/ https://www.marvel-tech.co.za/ https://zibuza.net/ https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/grant/project-heartbeat https://miskglobalforum.com/winners_of_mgc/ | https://youtu.be/kLwhLZnAmGc https://iono.fm/e/527027 | 2018 Misk Grand Challenge Winner by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2018 Country Winner for best and most innovative Edtech solution by the World Summit Awards, Accelerate 2030 country finalist for SDG4 by the UN and Impact Hub | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
743 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tori | Samples | Leaf Global Fintech | www.leafglobalfintech.com | Co Founder and CTO | Female | Rwanda | United States of America | Spanish | Leaf offers virtual banking services to vulnerable populations crossing borders. My personal experience working with resettled refugees for fifteen years has shaped my life. I have walked through the extreme highs and lows of the resettlement process with people she considers to be my family. I found that, most often, refugees’ success was disproportionately based off their access to finance through friends and family members. Without this critical lifeline, it is almost impossible to thrive. Alternatively, a bit of financial security can provide psychological safety during a traumatic time. My experiences have bred my passion for working with a population that is often overlooked, stereotyped, and underestimated. The UN has designated over 68 million people as forcibly displaced, with another 100 million at risk of becoming displaced. Often their only option is to forfeit value or carry cash across borders when they are forced to flee, which is dangerous, inconvenient, and expensive. Refugees and migrants cannot safely store and transport assets across borders, making them targets in the short-term and economically excluded in the long-term. We have started to address the financial needs of refugees with our technical solution. Leaf’s innovation is a method of managing money (depositing, sending across borders, exchanging between currencies, withdrawing) from a basic phone, secured by a distributed ledger back end. Leaf's core technology is a proprietary Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) application, which allows mobile devices to send and receive text from an application. Leaf's novel USSD platform is powered by a blockchain back end and integration with SMS for notifications. The use of blockchain makes the application secure and transparent, while USSD/SMS allow the service to be used on mobile phones without advanced functions or the internet. Leaf's broader impact is to enable an underserved refugee market to access the formal economy. | Tori Samples, Leaf’s CTO and co-founder, is a Data Architect and brings fifteen years of personal experience working with refugees. As a Data Architect at HCA Healthcare—the leading for-profit provider of healthcare in the US—Tori designed and developed on some of the largest datasets in the world. She holds a patent pending in claims-based longitudinal care summarization through Health Information Exchange. As a manager of HCA’s 130 terabyte enterprise data warehouse, Tori trained over 200 developers on database design and product development. The products she built brought HCA an additional $1B in revenue over the course of six years. | Leaf virtual banking solution | Leaf provides digital financial services to refugees so that they can store and transport assets across borders from a feature phone, avoiding cash. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Currently in Rwanda and DRC on the Gisenyi/Goma border. After becoming established in East Africa, Leaf will expand into areas with similar challenges and mobile infrastructure such as Colombia/Venezuela, Myanmar/Bangladesh, and Afghanistan/Pakistan. | Yes | Western Union, PNP Baribas, Clic.World in Uganda, DPO (Direct Payments Online) in Kenya, Rebric Inc. | Proof of Concept | Leaf has conducted two successful pilots in Rwanda and DRC to prove technical capability and market demand. The team tested cross-border transactions, which were successfully posted to a public blockchain. Leaf also tested vocal and facial recognition technology to link identity across borders. Test users deposited cash in a mobile money account in DRC, crossed the border without cash, and withdrew the money to a separate mobile money account in Rwanda through Leaf. | The UN has designated 68 million people as forcibly displaced with an additional 100 million living in a state of social, economic, and political crisis. Carrying cash increases the risk of violence and theft, becoming inconvenient and expensive to exchange across borders. Many refugees rely on international remittances but lack a way to receive them safely. | Leaf offers virtual banking services to vulnerable populations crossing borders. Leaf stores and transports assets across borders from a mobile device—no smartphone required. Refugees and migrants can journey without cash, knowing accounts are safe and accessible globally. Digitizing the process drastically reduces exchange and transfer fees. Friends and family abroad can also contribute into the Leaf customer’s account in a convenient and affordable way. Leaf protects customers’ savings through blockchain technology without exposure to cryptocurrency. By allowing customers to retain more value and increasing accessible funds through contributions from abroad, Leaf gives customers a better start with financial security and lessens their dependence on host countries and foreign aid. Leaf ultimately creates an economic identity that customers can use to establish themselves in a new country, complete with biometrics, transactions, and savings history. | Leaf offers both asset storage over time and the transport of assets across borders. Competitors typically only offer one service or the other, and very few extend services to refugees. Additionally, existing solutions mainly require a smartphone or internet access while Leaf operates on feature phones. Leaf is uniquely tailored to refugees’ and migrants’ needs and values: affordability, convenience, immediacy, accessibility, and physical security. Potential competitors include banks, mobile money operators, money transfer services, international remittance apps, and the status quo (carrying cash). Formal financial institutions often will not serve refugees. Most refugees are unbanked before fleeing because they distrust banks. Mobile money does not cross borders. Money transfer services like Moneygram charge exorbitant fees and still leave refugees carrying cash. International remittance apps like Wave Money currently do not serve Rwanda and Congo. Leaf offers a low-cost, convenient, secure solution. The use of new blockchain technology and a virtual model make Leaf cheaper to operate than brick-and-mortar financial services companies. Funds are delivered straight to a mobile device for nominal fees. Leaf is trusted because of credibility built organically through word-of-mouth networks, clear incentives as a for-profit business, and a base in the United States. Leaf also differentiates itself by meeting its customers in their technological context. | In addition to testing the solution with 25 cross-border traders, Leaf worked with 160 refugees in DRC who are ready to start using the Leaf prototype. Another 100 refugees in the Kiziba refugee camp in Rwanda have pre-registered for Leaf. Leaf has established companies in Rwanda and DRC and is working on regulatory approval with the Rwandan Central Bank. It is seeking microfinance and money transfer licenses to begin operations on the border. Overall, the Leaf team has performed over 350 customer interviews. Leaf will track its impact through standard and custom metrics. Leaf’s primary impact metric is the ratio of previously accessible funds to accessible funds with Leaf, tracking the increase in wealth retained and contributed by others. Secondary metrics include client households provided new access, total deposits, and decreased dependence upon host state (metric comparing accessible Leaf funds to daily assistance from UNHCR/WFP). Leaf will use the US CFPB’s financial well-being scale to qualitatively capture lives positively affected. | Over the next five years, Leaf will expand its virtual delivery model to reach other migration corridors across East Africa, including Uganda, Burundi, and South Sudan. Once Leaf has demonstrated its model’s success, there is potential to expand globally to other international migration corridors. Border areas in Colombia/Venezuela, Myanmar/Bangladesh, and Afghanistan/Pakistan have similar challenges with refugees, migrants, and the additional 100 million people at risk of becoming displaced by 2040. Leaf anticipates breaking even in its first market with 24,600 accounts at the end of year two. Once profitable, Leaf will have achieved a major milestone in proving refugees can be a viable market for commercial business. Based on its deep expertise with this customer segment, Leaf will be able to grow with and retain customers as it expands its service offering to include microloans, asset financing, and insurance. These services will be incredibly impactful, eventually aiming to reach the two billion people still unbanked in the world today. In ten years, Leaf intends to operate in every major conflict zone in the world and provide services to over 10 million people as they cross borders seeking safety. A new industry segment will have been created through Leaf’s work, restoring dignity to refugees by treating them as customers with choice rather than charity or as a threat to society. | Leaf must implement a model that conforms to international regulatory requirements, especially regarding new technology. Current partners are providing this support for local banking licenses in the short-term. Leaf will require additional capital to cover technical, partnership, and regulatory costs related to the launch of operations. This includes hiring a local team, building several core features into Leaf’s existing tech platform based on user feedback, integrating systems with a bank and telecom operator, and initial customer acquisition through virtual and physical marketing channels. New capital is required in the medium-to-longer term to meet the capital requirements to secure microfinance and money transmitter licenses in Leaf's current geographies. Seeking local licenses, provides Leaf with significantly more freedom than its current partnership model. This capital will also allow Leaf to demonstrate the viability of its revenue model in order to attract additional private financing to expand the company throughout East Africa. | http://www.leafglobalfintech.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFWGX2jXZWg&list=PL2gLMHweXjFXLIohukWmJtNs3Dlj-W_yF&index=1 | https://youtu.be/4Hg_XsD8D8c | Leaf won $44,000 through pitch competitions including: LaunchTN competition (first place), Vanderbilt University’s Sohr Grant to support early stage businesses (winner), SXSW’s “Best Bootstrap” award, and PitchTX (second place). Tori recently won the World Summit Awards Young Innovator and Global Champion awards sponsored by the United Nations for her work with Leaf. Leaf was also a top 10 winner of the Laudato Si’ Challenge winner in partnership with the Vatican. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
744 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nirupam | Saha | Onsmaak Ventures Private Limited | www.onsmaak.com | Founder & CEO | Male | India | India | English | According to the readings from Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the Greenhouse gas emissions increased exceptionally and the concentration now rose to 414.8 parts per million in May 2019. In fact, global warming caused by such GHGs is threatening us with irreversible consequences that require immediate attention and actions to stop the reckless man-made situation to save ourselves. We must sleeplessly fight together to solve this problem. The consequences are felt by everyone, every human. It is a global problem which we have to solve together. The advent of civilization from the past few centuries, especially from the industrial revolution, has led us here. Chopping off of lush green forests the only natural absorber of CO2 to settle cities, for industrial farming, for mining along with rampant fossil fuel usage has led us here. We are not only in this age of over-production and over-consumption but also with low formal employment opportunities. Both the environment and economy require sustainable solutions. We know that around one-third of food produced for human consumption is wasted or lost accounting for 1.3 billion tonnes of food or 1 trillion dollars a year. In fact, in a United Nations-Food and Agriculture Organisation report of 2013, such wastage accounts for more than 8% of the total GHG emissions. It also negatively impacts SDG2 (To end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture), SDG12 (Responsible consumption and production), SDG13 (Climate action) and also SDG1 (No poverty). We as an organisation are working with farming communities and informal producer clusters to establish sophisticated labor-intensive production networks to positively impact SDG8 (Decent work and economic growth), SDG9 (Industry, innovation and infrastructure), SDG10 (Reduced inequalities) and SDG11 (Sustainable cities and communities), SDG12 (Responsible consumption and production) and SDG13 (Climate action) along with indirectly impacting other goals. In fact, we are an organization that works on communities and clusters to regenerate and boost the existing livelihoods. Most importantly, we are one of a kind producers’ marketplace where consumers purchase from such producers. We are motivated to make this marketplace a model for community development and positive change. | It's our visions that drive us to pursue things that we have never done, never experienced before. It's the courage along with inherent innocuous spirit that constructs the road to our destiny. And, we know along with passion and co-operation, the building blocks of human society, we can make this world a better place. Integrating the uniques, structuring, and building organizations of humans could create a sustainable economic system necessary for human existence and exuberance. From my college days, I am pursuing social ventures when I started a few programs on science and arts. Further, while studying M.A. in Economics with real-life examples I was exposed to understanding the complexities of people, society and institutions. Institutions evolve differently in the space of the human mind, which again form our society and then new kinds of people. This was a fundamental understanding of my student life. Now, I am a social entrepreneur and a doctoral researcher in economics at Visva-Bharati. The research is oriented towards finding out the best possibilities of progression of the Indian informal sector. Actually, while looking into the transforming features of the Indian informal sector and working on efficient and effective policies that could integrate the sector, I along with my friends started two companies which deal with agriculture and informal sector. We work with farmers and informal entrepreneurs who are the primary producers and is the most neglected population of our Indian growth story which we plan to solve with community development. | Onsmaak | We all have tribal origins but have somehow forgotten it. We, Onsmaak, are here to remind you of that connection with nature and rebuild communities. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | India, Nepal, Bangladesh, etc. | Yes | Campesino Organic Private Limited | Transition to Scale | Along with 150 farmers, we have already started our agricultural revolution. These 150 farmers are cultivating black pepper, as a companion crop, worth more than $150K only in their home gardens. Now, we plan to introduce more exotic sub-tropical crops that could enhance the economic conditions of such co-producing agro-clusters by utilizing the under-utilized and un-utilized lands into 1000s of villages across Eastern India to encourage youth to participate in these co-producing structures. | Industrial farming is harmful to our societies and more generally is negatively impacting our climate. In fact, for many years, La Vía Campesina and GRAIN are campaigning about how the agro-industrial food production system causes half of all greenhouse gas emissions. And, now we need more natural forests and vegetation cover and there must be a sustainable way of managing such vegetation and producing food at the same time, which we are trying to do by establishing such co-producing clusters. | We as an organization are a start-up and have just completed our first year of pilot phase operations where we along with 150 farmers have already started our agricultural revolution. Their per-capita household income is about to rise by $1000 annually by only cultivating black pepper, as a companion crop in their home gardens. In the upcoming years, we plan to introduce more exotic sub-tropical crops that could enhance the economic conditions of such co-producing agro-clusters or farmers’ producer organizations (FPOs) by utilizing the under-utilized and un-utilized lands. Such crops are cultivated considering Climate-Smart agriculture and practicing agroecology which would help us to re-establish bio-diversity across the rural communities. Further, these crops would help us to provide stable employment opportunities for the unemployed youth and informal producers through establishing new as well as rejuvenating the old production organizations and infrastructures. Thus, this would also allow us to create clusters of informal producers who would be able to obtain affordable resources along with various support to produce sustainably. Moreover, we have engaged with local and state-level production organizations, governmental and non-governmental authorities to support us in this initiative which could positively develop the lives of more than 3.5 million people within 5 years. | The only feasible solution to climate change is to keep and manage good proportionate green cover and we have seen that industrial farming is a problem for the environment and not a solution. In fact, Climate-Smart agriculture and agroecology is the existing solution and the best way to practice it is with communities to ensure food security and sovereignty for the majority of the dependent global population. We as an organization are acting as a catalyst to ensure community development through community-based co-production organizations. Thus, providing solutions to the two major existing global issues that are of climate change and youth employment. This practice would also help us to reshape modernity into practicing traditional production methods in more sustainable ways. More specifically, we promote co-production practices in the form of clusters or organizations along with branding and marketing their surplus produce to the consumers through our online/offline counters. We plan to establish better or sophisticated supply chain management infrastructures such that we can reduce crop wastage to ensure sustainable production and consumption methods. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is saying that we have 12 years to make a serious shift and to protect civilization we need to save the environment and bring a green balance to our lives. We help these communities to reshape our environment through more sustainable and managed production-consumption habits. | We are working with 150 farmers who are cultivating black pepper as a companion crop, worth more than $150K annually, only in their home gardens. Now, the goal we have achieved could be rated 3 out of 5. Since, we have started our social entrepreneurial journey with our own meager funds of $1500 and some debt of nearly the same amount, which I think we have utilized efficiently. Everything is possible if you believe in it. I believe we as a team are quite efficient in solving problems, but still, we faced few hiccups while implementing solutions which happens with almost all newly formed organizations. The hiccups are because of the lack of operational funds, which was something we should have arranged before starting up. However, we have arranged solutions to those funds and now have a deeper understanding of how community development works. Still, as a start-up, we need to be more rigorous in achieving goals. We are also in touch with experienced professionals ranging from management and agricultural universities, governmental organizations and also non-governmental organizations to help us tackle such problems at ease. In fact, we have tested various management techniques or methods to finally adopt more appropriate methods of applications in our pilot phase of operations. We have learned a lot from our pilot phase and are keen on implementing these methods in our upcoming endeavors. | We plan to introduce more exotic sub-tropical crops that could enhance the economic conditions of such co-producing agro-clusters. We are working towards creating farmers’ producer organizations (FPOs) across 1000s of villages in Eastern India by utilizing their under-utilized and un-utilized lands. Furthermore, apart from farming communities we also plan to engage and encourage more rural youth and women to participate in these co-producing structures such as Self-Help Groups (SHGs) for livelihood. These informal production organizations could solve the problem of unemployment and provide better livelihood than menial factory or urban jobs. We plan to directly impact the lives of more than 3.5 million people within 5 years which includes employing staff, empowering farming communities, SHGs, and clusters of informal producers as well. Thus, creating a sustainable environment and livelihood for the masses. In our Phase one of operations and in the first two years, we plan to reach and directly impact more than 500,000 people with sustainable production and consumption practices across South Asia. In this phase, we also plan to open online/offline stores across major cities to brand the essence of community which would act as a model of sustainable development. In our next phase of operations, we plan to expand our operations across the globe. | This promising social venture requires funds to grow and develop communities at best. We require an investment of $100 million that would help these communities to develop. The investment is dedicated to co-producing crops, agro-processed food as well as non-food products such as handicrafts, etc. The community-based farming would adapt Climate-Smart agriculture along with agroecology which along with fruits, vegetables, and agro raw materials would also produce other valuable exotic crops beneficial for the global population. Further, many of these naturally produced community crops would require sophisticated supply chain management. These food and non-food agro produce would be provided to other community production organizations for processing and packaging. Finally, the products are stored and are transported to our urban community stores quite similar to farmers’ markets or consumer co-operatives to sell. Thus, we would require funds to invest in preparing such forests, agroecology community agriculture, advanced and sophisticated supply chains, labor compatible technology and to set up stores and employ people across regions. In the short-term, for the first 2 years, we would require $35 million and in the medium-term, for the next 3 years, we would require $65 million to improve more than 5 million lives. Then, in the long-term for the next 5 years, we would require more than $150 million to achieve our goals of improving another 5 million lives. | Company website: https://onsmaak.com/ | I do not have any such videos till date but would try to keep it from next time. Since most of our meetings and gatherings are at the initial stage of operations which we rather focused on grabbing peoples attention to the culture. Thank you. | Our solution is at its initial stages of the application and implementation. Hence, no such good news yet. Thank you. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
745 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Wole | Odetayo | Pronov Inc. | www.pronov.co | Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.) | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | ""Healthy citizens are the greatest assets any country could have"" - Sir Winston S. Churchill Nigeria is now home to the highest number of extremely poor people in any country; a whooping 87 million people that represents about 50% of our population as a country. These extremely poor people are the most vulnerable in society because of their low economic power. They have some of the poorest nutritional habits which typically leave their immunity vulnerable to disease attacks. They also have no health insurance coverage and usually rely on self-medication. Their community medicines stores are their first responder in case of medical emergencies too. Also, because of low-profit margins, medicine stores in low-income neighbourhoods resort to buying medicine from unregulated open markets where ""pharma-pirates"" peddle their fake merchandise. Both the low-income citizens and their counterparts that own medicine stores are largely driven by their economic conditions; low-income or extreme poverty. These people are typically one or two health crisis away from poverty. Therefore, access to quality health services and essential medicines is key to stopping this ""Poverty Haemorrhage"". Access to affordable quality medicines resolves or helps to affordably manage their health challenges hence leaving them with disposable income to spend on other themes like education that will help with breaking the poverty cycle. The data we gather from our cohort of micro & nano-dispensaries shows that our work is causing a change in behaviour, spending pattern and outcomes. Beyond the joy derived from these revelations, we equally draw enough strength to widen and deepen the impact Pronov creates. Despite the prevalence of poverty, Nigeria holds enormous economic potential as the largest economy in Africa and the largest informal market in Africa (about 100m people strong). I strongly believe that financially including the poor and providing access to quality essential medicines will open them up to a variety of services, opportunities and disposable income that will dramatically improve their economic and health outcomes amidst other outcomes. This potential is true throughout Africa and true for 1.7 billion people globally especially in Latin America, Sub-Sahara Africa, Eastern Europe and South-East Asia. This potential inspires us! | My career in the Social Development Space started in 2002 as an entrepreneur at the University despite my rigorous field of study; Medicine & Surgery. Although my first venture, a staples food business started as a response to meet my needs at the time, my focus & vision quickly shifted from meeting needs to solving key challenges & then to the benefits of my local community at the time - the university community (and now Africa). My staples business grew to multiple GSM call centers, buying/selling new laptops & to acquiring the University Bookshop business in a student community of about 10,000 students at the time. Although the University Bookshop business later became my first failed business (out of 2), my experience from putting the deal together became the source of confidence in serving my community for a greater good & ultimately co-founding a company (LoftyInc) to do just that. Today, LoftyInc has given birth to Wennovation Hub; Nigeria’s premier innovation incubator & accelerator with locations in Lagos, Ibadan, Kaduna, Abuja & have syndicated seed investments in a handful of top technology startups like Andela, Flutterwave, Printivo, Reliance HMO, Pronov, Crop2Cash to mention a few. Wennovation Hub has supported 400 startups since inception, creating about 2,000 direct jobs & over 10,000 indirect jobs. In November 2017, LoftyInc spun off Pronov. Given my background in the Medical & Surgery, I was unanimously appointed by the Board to serve as CEO of Pronov. Like every other venture out of LoftyInc, Pronov is focused on tackling the poverty challenge. | Pronov | Essential medicines for the bottom billion | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Nigeria (then expansion to the rest of sub-saharan Africa and developing countries in South East Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe) | Yes | Bill and Melinda gates Foundation; The Society for Family Health; LoftyInc Allied Partners Ltd; Redstar Express(FedEx Nigeria); Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria; Pharmaceutical society of Nigeria; Biofem Group Limited; Wennovation Hub; | Transition to Scale | We have tested and tried our low-touch/low-margin model and it has proven to be working optimally and profitably in the last 2 years. We are now ready to improve and grow our numbers to reach 25,000 stores out of the 200,000 retail drug stores in Nigeria by 2023 then to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa and Developing countries around the world. | Access to Affordable & High-Quality Vital Medicines by Poor & Low-Income Communities. This group of people mostly pay out of their pocket to cover medical bills & are usually one or two health crises away from chronic poverty. Access to medicine is basic to survival, hence the poor end-consumer is left with no choice but to pay the ""Poverty Premium"" for the inefficiencies either as cost of accessing genuine medicines or as cost of treating complications from using fake or substandard medicines. | Pronov applies digital technology to inventory management by providing a smart, cloud-based solution that brings management efficiency to pharmacies & medicine stores. With our innovation, these bottom of the pyramid stores is better enabled to serve their customers efficiently. Through our research, we discovered 16.7% of medicines circulating the Nigerian pharmaceutical industry are fake (2012 WHO report). Sadly, it is the low-income members of our society that are most susceptible to the consumption of these drugs. This menace leads to the death of thousands of people & it is encouraged partly by store management inefficiencies & the high cost of doing business in Nigeria which leads to high tendencies of stocking fake products, especially in poor communities. It is also vital to note that the customers that Pronov’s niche market serves make-up the majority of the Nigerian populace. In Nigeria about 70% of the population (130 million people)(https://bit.ly/2v3usz3), about 50% of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa (about 600 million people - https://bit.ly/2VyFd89) & about 1.7 billion people globally (https://bit.ly/2Z3ohJ7) in developing countries (South-East Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe) are without ease access to genuine medicines & medicine stores. Our long-term vision is to simplify access to essential medicines for the population at the bottom of the pyramid in these developing countries. | Our Solution is unique in the following ways;- 1) Our range of Value Added Services (our competitors do not provide the following services) i) Pronov Cooperative; registered and operative in 4 cities, facilitates access to credit for store owners, especially through peer-to-peer lending. ii) Pronov Academy; Consultancy Services & Manpower Supply to Nano & Micro Stores to help them scale their business, reach and impact in their communities iii) Pronov Loyalty Program; Connects end-consumers with local stores for a range of last-mile services iv) Pronov Digital Services; (through 3rd party partners) Financial/Digital Services to diversify store Income, improve profitability and provide financial services to Patients/Customers e.g Agency Banking, micro-insurance, B2C micro-credit, etc 2) Our easy-to-use product & cooperative model yields our proprietary ""low-touch"" method which makes signing up digitally excluded merchants to our digital platform very easy. (""low-touch"" = low education). This is a ""sweet spot"" for us | The solution is reaching levels where it is widely recognized by the value-chain. We have reached over 2100 nano & micro dispensaries over the last 20 months (from inception-till date) that serves over 2 million low-income Nigerians with a total footfall of 281,000 transactions. By end of 2021, We hope to have expanded cross country and reach 25 million Nigerians through at least 25,000 stores out of the 200 thousand nano & micro dispensaries Gross Merchandise Value recorded on the platform over the last 20 months is $780,000 across locations to date. We have about 1000 active users using our Smart Inventory while 50 recurring customers monthly patronize our supply chain services. For deploying Pronov, both active users and recurring customers have since saved about 100 thousand dollars for their low-income communities in the last 20 months. As a company, we have made about 60 thousand dollars in revenue from just 5% of our active users since inception. We are currently fundraising to unlock more recurring revenue from the remaining 90% of our active users and provide more savings for more low-income communities. | We are focused on tackling Access to Essential Medicine linked to Poverty in Subsaharan Africa starting from the biggest market in Africa - Nigeria. We currently cover 3 states in Nigeria & the Federal Capital Territory (Lagos, Oyo, Kaduna & Abuja-FCT). We plan to expand to the entire 36 states + FCT across Nigeria by 2023 by growing our 2,000 micro & nano-dispensaries reach till date to 25,000 out of the over 200,000 medicine outlets in Nigeria [https://bit.ly/2LeoC7A]. Therefore by 2023, our reach will extend to 25 million Nigerians which is equal to about 5 million households. Our partnerships with National Associations of Community Pharmacists, Proprietary Patent Medicine vendors, Regulators, Pharmaceutical Companies makes the potential of this scale very easy and seamless. However, beyond our 2023 or 25,000 stores spread projections (whichever comes first), we plan to expand immediately into the West African bloc of nations (Francophone & Anglophone) before expanding to other regions within Africa to reach 100,000 stores across Africa by 2026. | In order for us to scale and have a considerable impact, we need are access to regional markets and finance. We have categorized these needs into 3; 1. Short Term Needs: a. Marketing Development: The recruitment of additional ad-hoc staff for marketing purposes to maximize our top of the mind value and thereby reach our other milestones. Also, massive advertisements to further sensitize the population of our aims and objectives and our benefits. b. Talent Acquisition and Training: We would need to fortify our current A-team. Hiring seasoned professionals for sensitive roles which would include a Chief Marketing Officer, Supply Chain Manager, etc and offer training is needed by new & existing members of staff. 2. Medium-term needs a. Supply Chain Development: To unlock more supply chain customers from our pool of active stores, it is imperative that we expand our source of Pharmaceutical products from the top 10 that we currently distribute to the top 50 licensed manufacturers and importers. b. Product Development: We plan to integrate a CRM platform and improve on our AI to optimize our business intelligence, to optimally utilize our ""Big Data"" to the benefit of the nano & Micro dispensaries. 3. Long term needs: a. Global Expansion: We aim to meet the needs of the medicine stores at the Bottom of the Pyramid and the consumers who buy medicines from these stores. We want to improve their lives by improving the quality of medicines they have access to. | Company Website: https://pronov.co Process Videos: Pronov Illustrative Video: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Rcicqgv8ST2peBsrzcAnxlkJhTC9nbZU Pronov Desktop Version: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1uukw_MRwg9xQDQ5Je9eRL7RNHRMM3Kbq Pronov Mobile Version: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11MCYicxvsMT_IfD0Bj7-VjMzDISRu98R | Video Link for an interview: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VG8PK73eOETGq94fSKPGjzU-5oq_gRcv/view?usp=sharing | Pronov as a Solution; Merck (Seedstars) Personal Award; Winner of Chief Ebitimi Banigo Award for Mentorship (Tony Elumelu Foundation; AMIP 2012) 2019 Acumen Fellow https://acumen.org/fellowships/meet-the-fellows/?bio=wole-odetayo 2018 Cordes Fellow https://ocglobal2018.pathable.com/users/1240044 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
746 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Peter | Hjemdahl | rePurpose Global | http://repurpose.global/ | Co-founder | Male | Norway | China | Chinese | English | Raised between China and Norway, I have always been acutely aware of economic and environmental disparities in our world. Growing up, my hometown’s severe air pollution was a point of despair while Scandinavia’s progress in combating climate change was a beacon of hope. Slowly but surely, I realized that we can solve climate change if we dedicate our collective intelligence to the cause. With this mission in mind, I arrived as a first-year student at Wharton and stumbled upon the concept of a social enterprise. The thought of creating a sustainable organization that changes lives and betters our planet instantly infected me. Despite pressures to pursue corporate careers from peers and parents alike, I crafted my own path and constantly sought new experiences to acquire the skills I need to build a social enterprise from scratch. One such experience was when a global module took me to Deonar, Asia’s largest landfill just outside Mumbai 2 years ago. Standing between waste pickers scavenging atop mountains of plastic and a seemingly endless city skyline, I covered my nose from the unbearable stench and realized that we had to change the way our society produces and manages urban waste on a daily basis. Armed with a social entrepreneur’s toolkit and mesmerized by the enduring energy of urban India, I committed to use my business education to take on a largely ignored yet consequential issue: waste. Along my journey to create impact across 8 countries and 5 sectors, I have witnessed first-hand the power of individuals to come together with our collective voices to heal the damages inflicted on our planet. Along this journey, I also realized that the way our leaders have tried to make us care about the Earth is not working: ice caps and polar bears in remote corners of our world, apocalyptic climate predictions making us feel hopeless...our empathy is fatigued. I would like to attend the UN Solutions Summit because I am eager to learn how other youth leaders are inspiring their own communities to fight against the climate emergency - to share the lessons learned from our approach of plastic neutrality to the issue of climate change and to be inspired from others from across the world. In addition, creating social and environmental change is often a lonely and challenging uphill battle for young changemakers. I would like to lend a helping hand before, during, and after the summit because nobody should fight this battle alone. We are in it together. | Peter Wang Hjemdahl is a recent grad from Wharton @ UPenn, Chinese-Norwegian social entrepreneur, and international development strategist. He is a co-founder of rePurpose, a global community of conscious consumers and businesses going #PlasticNeutral by measuring, reducing, and offsetting their unique environmental footprint. He has worked on business model design and growth strategy with social ventures across 4 continents and 5 sectors (education, energy, sustainable cities, global health, homelessness). As a Dalberg consultant, Peter advised the World Bank and USAID on the financing of interventions in clean cookstoves and community health in Sub-Saharan Africa. With a crisp understanding of the impact ecosystem ranging from global strategy-setters to local implementers, Peter is passionate about building powerful movements and resilient systems in climate-friendly sectors that empower 500M+ members of the urban poor worldwide. Founder TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JtowTJgGME Philly Citizen profile: https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/business-for-good-plastic-with-a-purpose/ Think tank guest blog: https://medium.com/circleeconomy/plastic-offset-is-here-heres-how-to-do-it-right-5682757cec66 YourStory profile: https://yourstory.com/socialstory/2019/04/online-platform-repurpose-plastic-waste-reduction | rePurpose Global | rePurpose helps consumers & businesses go #PlasticNeutral by measuring, reducing & offsetting their plastic footprint, thus empowering waste pickers. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | The rePurpose platform has the ability to strengthen plastic recovery and recycling ecosystems across the world by creatively unlocking necessary funds through conscious consumers and businesses. By encouraging plastic users to take responsibility for th | Yes | Our field partners - Saahas Zero Waste, Aasra Welfare Association, and Waste Ventures India - implement the waste recovery and operations on the ground. They have decades of experience formalizing the waste management sector. | Transition to Scale | Launched in May 2019, we have seen some significant traction and are now moving to scale impact. Since launch, we have galvanized a community of over 6000 individuals and onboarded 8 reputable organizations in the US, Europe & India going PlasticNeutral (e.g. Tata Trusts, Dalberg Group). We are also engaging with UN Environment, UNDP, World Bank, and McKinsey.org on designing plastic crediting as a new financing instrument for the circular economy worldwide. | At rePurpose, we are solving two distinct pain points. First, there is a growing momentum of consumers and brands across the world who are looking for easy and efficient opportunities to take responsibility for their consumption and fight environmental degradation. Second, we are also working with thousands of waste scavengers in India who have been subject to generations of abject poverty and are in severe need of formal systemic solutions to provide them with upward socioeconomic mobility. | Too much of plastic is too low-value to be collected, waste workers across Asia live in poverty, and individuals are not changing the way we waste. In response, rePurpose is a global community of consumers & businesses going #PlasticNeutral. Our web platform enables individuals and brands worldwide to go #PlasticNeutral in three steps: 1) measure your consumption through our proprietary 3-min interactive tool 2) offset your footprint by contributing $3-5/month to a vetted environmental organization in India who will ethically recycle an equivalent amount of low-value plastic that would have otherwise been landfilled, burned, or flushed into the oceans 3) join a community of reBalancers leading a thoughtful lifestyle through personalized ConsciousLiving tips & tricks, curated just for you to help you reduce your impact on our planet. We partner with businesses and brands to create #PlasticNeutral workplaces and experiences, embedded into the everyday life of the conscious consumer, such as our EverydayNeutral program wherein any e-commerce brand offering products containing/packaged-in plastic can add a simple tick-box at the point of checkout for customers to add < $0.5 and neutralize the unique plastic footprint of their purchase that day. Using these mobilized financial resources, we enable our waste partners to use technology to transparently track waste-collection, processing, and recovery to bridge the tech-gap facing India's informal sector and ensure ethicality. | In the plastic offset vertical of our venture (#PlasticNeutral businesses, EverydayNeutral), we are amongst the first three organizations in the world, with each in the same stage of legitimizing the concept of PlasticNeutrality. The problem here isn’t necessarily competition, but educating corporations about the product. Just like carbon offset, plastic offset will become regionalized and commoditized in 5 years, with a couple of big players globally and many small, regional providers. Because this product hinges on reputation, it’s great that we are one of three first movers in the market globally - it sets us up to be one of those big players in 5 years. However, we firmly differentiate ourselves by not limiting ourselves to be mere offset-providers and instead adopt an individual-level focus to serve as a guide to #ConsciousLiving to consumers and business alike. We are the only ‘personalized PlasticNeutral provider’ in the world, as we define Neutrality as a three-step process: measure, reduce, and THEN offset. Our eventual long-term goal is to become the world’s first MaterialNeutrality platform, expanding beyond plastic to ALL material streams (paper, food, metal etc), which have environmental, economic, and social value. This allows us to differentiate our offering from current competitors, through various types of material offsets - for example, empowering farmers in drought-stricken countries to go FoodNeutral, or planting paper-producing trees to go PaperNeutral. | We measure our impact in three ways. First, our environmental impact is measured in tons of low-value plastic waste recycled that would have otherwise been landfilled, burned, or flushed into the oceans. At the rate of 0.5$/kg, we finance the collection of low-value waste like multi-layered packaging (chips wrappers, chocolate wrappers) because that has 100% additionality. Unlike PET or HDPE that is already widely recycled by the informal industry, soft plastics are often contaminated by food & not worth the waste scavengers’ time & energy right now if there wasn’t for a financial incentive. We also aim to benchmark the environmental cost-effectiveness of our platform (kg per $ deployed) with other recycling programs in a similar operational context. On the social side, we will measure both the income increase quantitatively with the workers who are sourcing and collecting the plastic as a part of any offset scheme. Within the first two months of launch, we've received 350 individual sign-ups and 8 businesses in the US, Europe, and India going #PlasticNeutral (~1500 staff) with zero marketing spend, totalling ~$74K in committed revenues. With current funding mobilized, we will raise the monthly income of 150 now formally-employed waste-workers by 25%, offsetting 152 tonnes of low-value plastic waste that would otherwise have been dumped into oceans. We are now in the stage of scaling customer acquisition strategies and ensuring context-appropriate impact M&E procedures. | We are reimagining the world as we see it today - into one where consumers and brands have easy solutions to take responsibility for their plastic footprint, where waste management enterprises have the resources to maximize their environmental impact and one where waste workers are no longer marginalized in society. In our 1st year we aim to mobilize $500,000 in additional income for inclusive waste management organizations, helping over 500 waste pickers sustain formal livelihoods, and recycling 3 million additional pounds of plastic. We aim to do this by onboarding 10,000 individuals and 25 businesses by year-end. Furthermore, we aim to expand our impact to waste picker cooperatives in 3 new cities in Indonesia, Brazil, and Thailand by year 2. We will make 2 key hires- one with prior experience at consumer brands to lead B2C Marketing & one industry veteran within corporate sustainability to drive sales and develop our plastic crediting offering for FMCG companies. We plan on investing in the power of youth as a voice for change - such as a PlasticNeutral fellowship program in universities. In 5 years time, we hope to be closer to this ideal vision on all fronts. We plan to onboard 1 million PlasticNeutral individuals, as well as 1000 additional PlasticNeutral businesses - diverting approximately 4 million tonnes of low-value plastic waste away from our oceans and landfills. In doing so we will also create new jobs for former waste pickers in the formal sector. | Over the next year, we aim to raise $100K capital, deployed in three key ways to both accelerate traction in the short-run and build core competencies that can last into the future. 1) Make 2 key hires, one with prior experience with innovative consumer brands to lead B2C Marketing & one industry veteran within corporate sustainability to drive sales and develop our plastic crediting offering for FMCG companies 2) B2C and B2B marketing projects: ad dollars, experimental content projects, promotional partnerships w/ influencers, thought leadership content for B2B audience 3) Product and technology development: ConsciousLiving platform & app, rePurpose website v2, offset tracking system On an ongoing basis, we truly believe that alumni, mentor, and peer communities we are welcomed into such as at the UN Solutions Summit, will carry us forward the most by serving as sounding boards and providing feedback on milestones, priorities, and partnerships. As one of the only women-founded enterprises in the waste industry, it would be wonderful to share experiences with other women around the world and receive their support and guidance. We think it’s so important to connect with seasoned mentors within both technology and social impact who can act as sounding boards and provide us constructive criticism on milestones and priorities on a regular basis. | rePurpose product and information website - go PlasticNeutral today at http://rePurpose.global/ Awards: Winner of 2018 UPenn President’s Engagement Prize ($100K, largest prize in higher education globally), Winner of 2019 UC Berkeley’s Global Social Ventures Competition ($25K), 2019 Good Brand Award by Sublime Magazine, 2019 Katapult Future Fest Impact Startup, for more: https://repurpose.global/honourandpress Founder TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JtowTJgGME PennToday feature: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/going-plastic-neutral Philly Citizen profile: https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/business-for-good-plastic-with-a-purpose/ Think tank guest blog: https://medium.com/circleeconomy/plastic-offset-is-here-heres-how-to-do-it-right-5682757cec66 YourStory profile: https://yourstory.com/socialstory/2019/04/online-platform-repurpose-plastic-waste-reduction Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/repurpose_global/ PennToday feature: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/going-plastic-neutral Ubuntoo company profile: https://ubuntoo.com/solutions/repurpose LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-wang-hjemdahl-8553239a/ | Founder TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JtowTJgGME Founder Podcast feature on Rubicon Global's industry leading podcast, Town Haul: https://www.rubiconglobal.com/news/founders-of-repurpose-global-and-saahas-zero-waste-the-latest-guests-on-rubicons-town-haul-podcast/ Philly Citizen profile: https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/business-for-good-plastic-with-a-purpose/ Think tank guest blog: https://medium.com/circleeconomy/plastic-offset-is-here-heres-how-to-do-it-right-5682757cec66 YourStory profile: https://yourstory.com/socialstory/2019/04/online-platform-repurpose-plastic-waste-reduction | Awards: Winner of 2018 UPenn President’s Engagement Prize ($100K, largest prize in higher education globally), Winner of 2019 UC Berkeley’s Global Social Ventures Competition ($25K), 2019 Good Brand Award by Sublime Magazine, 2019 Katapult Future Fest Impact Startup, for more: https://repurpose.global/honourandpress | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
747 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Bahiyah Yasmeen | Robinson | VC Include | www.vcinclude.com | CEO | Woman | United States of America | United States of America | English | I launched VC Include as an ecosystem that supports increasing female and diverse asset managers in the impact investment and venture capital space. We currently have a platform of 20 funds, managed by diverse asset allocators, that invest in the next generation of startups and impact focused, technology enabled innovations in the US, LATAM, Europe and Africa. I have personally worked in LATAM, Africa and the US supporting, coaching and sourcing capital for tech and arts entrepreneurs for the last 15 years. I also invested in the first generation of tech startups with the World Bank and US Bureau of African Affairs from 2012-2015. VC Include integrates learnings around inclusion, investment, and innovation to create a new solution that addresses the supply chain of capital that is broken at the late seed/series A level, where women and people of color do not have access to that layer of capital. 3% of women receive venture capital in the US, and .02 women of color receive venture capital. In order to change that, we need to engage more diverse asset managers in the space. Overall, only 1% of capital is managed by women and diverse asset managers in the US ($70Trillion). We are addressing one specific area where we can see exponential growth in innovation and gender lens investing over the next 5-10 years. Also, it's shown that women and diverse teams deliver higher returns and revenue within investment funds as well as companies. We believe that it's time to accelerate and amplify these outcomes, and that the VC Include ecosystem of our members, programs and partnerships will change the paradigm. | Bahiyah is the Founder + CEO of VC Include, an advocacy organization that connects female and diverse emerging managers in the Venture Capital and Impact Investment space with LPs that care about returns, impact and inclusion across the lens of gender, ethnicity, sexual identity and race. VC Include has produced curated convenings in New York City, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco. These intimate gatherings are designed to create meaningful, longterm relationships through knowledge exchange and pattern matching, while creating a more diverse pipeline of investors in the alternative investments ecosystem. Bahiyah is also CEO of Robinson (+) Consulting Group, a New York City based company that provides insights, strategy and investor connections to corporations, NGOs and ecosystems of startups, with a focus on women, women of color, and the African Diaspora. She's lead multiple technology, investment, fundraising and social impact initiatives in the US, Brazil and across Sub-Saharan Africa since 2001. Her collaborations and investments have been recognized over the years by the Knight Foundation, Echoing Green, Entrepreneur, CNN and Forbes. Bahiyah was born in Palo Alto, California. She was raised and educated around the themes of science, technology, and equity. | VC Include | VC Include convenes female and diverse VC and impact fund managers and institutional investors for change | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | US, and key countries in Latin America and Africa | Yes | UNCDF, NYCEDC, PEWIN (Women in Private Equity), Nexus Global, Net Impact | Transition to Scale | We had a 6 month pilot in June 2018 that attracted 16 funds to become members, along with sponsors and partners that validated the need to support diverse VC and impact fund managers. Then we officially launched in January 2019, and we already have 20 funds on our platform with a waiting list. We will have around 30 funds by the end of 2019. In just one year, we've attracted over 10 sponsors and have held 13 events nationally, in LA, NYC, SF and Salt Lake City. | 1- Diversity in Asset Management (currently 1% of $70T are managed by women or people of color) 2- Gender equality in Venture Capital 3- Inclusion in the VC and Impact Space 4- Empowering the voices of Women of Color, globally, as investors 5- Creating an ecosystem of integrity, dignity and access for the next generation of innvators 6- Providing a solution to access to capital for women and women of color founder technology startups | We are building an inclusive ecosystem. The first part of VC Include is the platform, which is a marketplace of institutional investors and female + diverse fund managers. The next part is the programming - we are advisors to our funds, and deliver LP feedback and produce convenings to connect our fund managers to LPs nationally. Lastly, we are working with larger LPs that are looking to invest in product that is returns driven and inclusive. We currently have 20 funds that have approximately 20-30 portfolio companies. All of the funds over index on women and people of color. This means that there are currently 400-600 companies, and at least 30% of them are women or people of color founded. If 120 diverse founders get funded, that will create a ripple effect in terms of the ability of some of these startups to scale their businesses. This is just in 8 months. Imagine these numbers in 2 years...3 years...5 years down the line. We can literally drive exponential growth by empowering diverse allocators! | We have a differentiated perspective and methodology in the following ways: 1- We focus on diverse Venture Capitalists and Impact Investors. This is because we believe impact should not only be baked into VC, but also that Impact Investing will increasingly become more technology enabled. Understanding how the two intersect is a differentiator and will yield a higher probability for returns long term. 2- There are a handful of gender lens/investment platforms, but we're a little broader. We want to have diverse funds - not all one nationally or ethnicity, because we know that diversity of background, thought, etc. creates higher returns. 3- We haven't found a platform yet that's a community development approach to fund managers in Venture Capital exclusively. We don't work with the startups, only the fund managers. 4- We provide advisory services and matchmaking for LPs that are looking to connect with high quality, inclusive funds. | We are at the first phase of our strategic plan, which is to build the core ecosystem (platform - programs - products). In this phase, we're measuring our progress by 1- The number of funds that we can provide opportunities for funding and learnings 2- The number of high quality LPs that will invest in the funds on our platform 3- The larger financial institutions that will commit to work with us around financial inclusion and gender equality. Our goal is to drive $500M of capital into female and diverse fund managers by the end of 2020. | Year 1: US National expansion (we're now in NYC-LA-SF-Salt Lake City, adding Chicago, DC and Detroit in Fall 2019). We're hiring more staff by Q4 Year 2: Emerging Market Expansion (Africa + LATAM). We already have two funds that focus on one or more of those regions. We will open an international office. Year 3: We will produce an impact report on the space, how many funds we've helped to capitalize through our advocacy and advisory services. | 1- Large LP commitments to the funds on the VC Include platform. Our funds are raising $20-200M funds currently, and we have $1B AUM represented by the current funds on our platform. Investment into them will scale investment into the next generation of innovators. 2- Capital to expand VCI ($1M-5M) - for our national and international expansion. | www.vcinclude.com | https://www.forbes.com/sites/shanisyphrett/2018/04/19/meet-the-woman-connecting-the-dots-between-investors-and-underrepresented-founders/#368b4caa3285 https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/accelerating-future/e/56331657?autoplay=true https://www.builtinnyc.com/2018/06/19/women-of-color-founders http://www.techinafrica.com/enter-bahiyah-robinson-working-connecting-underrepresented-startup-founders-investors/ https://impactalchemist.com/webinar-archive-store/making-impact-investment-work-for-women | Knight News Challenge Winner (Appfrica), Most Innovative Companies (NewsDeeply platform, I was co-founder of Ebola Deeply) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
748 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Todoproductividad ingeniería | empresa | TECNOCE, S.L. | https://www.todoproductividad.es | ENGINEER | male | Spain | Spain | Spanish | Research and innovation are routinely carried out in the richest and most highly populated regions of the world, and seeking an immediate benefit. This means that millions of people still live in a pre-industrial situation. The first milestone took place in the jungles of Peru in the year 2.009, when they explained to me the enormous difficulties and inoperability of conventional power lines that tried to give energy to the populations. At best, energy arrived with such low power that productive activities were not possible. There I realized that only with distributed generation systems could be able to achieve large-scale production activities, In the first world, it is not aware that the poorest also have to bear far higher costs than those developed by equivalent services. This second milestone I could verify very well in one of the most abandoned places on earth, the jungles of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. There I realized the enormous effort and work that people have to do to send a few messages by mobile phone, something unthinkable in the West. The children had to work days to be able to send a few messages. It was during my work in the reconstruction of Haiti that the third milestone took place, because there I realized that the lack of modern infrastructure greatly penalizes any productive activity that you want to develop. Any building in Haiti required the construction of energy, water and sanitation systems, all at far higher costs than in the West. | Santos Lozano Palomeque is a Spanish Industrial Technical Engineer, with more than 30 years of experience in the analysis of engineering processes. Since 2,003, together with my team, we researched the solutions that agrotechnology can provide using distributed generation systems in remote locations. Research has progressed over the years to build the first pilot plant specially dedicated to developing and testing solutions in remote mid-mountain environments, using only renewable energies. From 2.012 I started working controlling the thermal conditions of the enclosures to look for germination, rooting, growth and post-harvest applications. In the southwest of the Iberian peninsula I have designed and executed some 700 facilities that work with distributed energy. I have also implemented distributed energy projects in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Equatorial Guinea. I am the author of two books, and numerous articles that address engineering processes, and in recent years agrotechnology. I have been promoter, and currently president, of the Association of Associate Entrepreneurs for Rural Agrotechnological Development. This association has 40 partners in Extremadura and about 25 international organizations collaborate on the project. I also collaborate in promoting the Mokala project, an initiative aimed at producing and marketing food within the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | AGRITECH-MED | AGRITECH-MED is the first solution that creates a complete and sustainable food production process for use in extreme environmental conditions. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | All available prototypes are in Spain. Work is being done to implement it in Jordan, Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. | Yes | For the implementation of the project I was promoter of the EADRA Association, of which I am president. It currently has partners in 7 African countries. In the case of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the local association AFASO, the regional gover | Sustainable Scale | We currently have perfectly functional prototypes that have demonstrated the viability of the technology. That is why we consider that it is in the scalability phase. | To produce plants or trees, poorer peasant communities use seeds or root by cuttings. Seeds and cuttings are buried and will thrive or not depending on the rain. The results are generally very poor. Success rates of difficult varieties can be as low as 10%. The only post-harvest processing system will be drying in the sun or fire. These systems are slow and do not eliminate alcaloids, and in tropical regions moisture will cause pathogens. | Three components: 1) Germination chamber: This process consists of having the seeds moist and at a temperature that ranges between 20 and 30º C. We only use renewable energy (solar and biogas) to achieve this. 2) Rooting Chamber: The process we have achieved allows to obtain plants of difficult propagation with performance. Varieties where rates of 10% are achieved have increased them to 90%. In the rooting chambers we are producing 104,000 trees a year on surfaces of 100 m2. We can greatly increase plant production capacities in remote locations. The great advantage of this system is that it allows us to propagate local genotypes, that is, plants better adapted to the conditions in which we are going to grow them. This allowed us to achieve propagation rates using exclusively renewable energies that have not been achieved until now. 3) Postharvest: We can get the product sold throughout the year, and not when its price is lower because the market is flooded. An accelerated dehydration process was developed, much more energy efficient. in air jet at 50o C. It does not require additional power because we reuse the capacity that is available for the rooting process. The percentage of humidity in the final product can be controlled automatically, and also the maximum temperature. This allows to control the alcaloids and obtain fully marketable products. We use a solar hybrid + biogas system. The post-harvest process can also incorporate high-capacity mills. | The main uniqueness of the approach we are thinking of is because so far there is no integrated solution to create a complete value chain for the production and processing of food in remote locations. Renewable energy has so far not been implemented in these complex processes. The main reason is that the technology available are conventional off-grid photovoltaic systems with generator support. These systems are not appropriate when moving different pumps, fans, and heat generation systems. So far, different techniques have been developed, applicable to greenhouses, but they are designed for conventional greenhouses, not remote places. Let's review the most relevant ones. | Progress of my team working 2003-2012. Research on the use of photovoltaic solar energy for isolated applications. 2012-2015. Development of new solar thermal energy applications in remote locations. 2016-2018 Development of a new renewable heating system for greenhouses. The techniques developed are as follows: 2018. Rooting prototype 2018-2019. Investigación de las variables ambientales de un invernadero alimentado con energías renovables. 2019. Preparation of PRIMA application (H2020) with project Measuring progress The measurement of project progress has been based essentially on analyzing the impact indicators that the project can potentially have. I have classified the indicators into two groups: -Changes that project results can lead to beneficiaries. -Key indicators for climate change mitigation or adaptation. Methodology Operationally, the methodology of Agritech-MED includes: 1.PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION: 2.CONTINUOUS CO-DESIGN AND VALIDATION METHOD THROUGH MULTI-AGENT STRUCTURE: 3.SOCIOECONOMIC, POLITIC AND TECHNICAL BARRIERS ANALYSIS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF TECHNOLOGY AT THE PROJECT INTERVENTION PLACES: 4.GREENHOUSE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT. TEST AND TRIALS OF COMPONENTS AND SUB-SYSTEMS: 5.PROCESS ENGINEERING AND ITS APPLICATION TO CULTIVATION PHASE: COMPARATIVE AND QUALITY ANALYSIS 6.TECHNOLOGY AND TRANSFER AND SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE 7.AGRITECH-MED BUSINESS MODEL DEFINITION AND EXPLOITATION OF RESULTS: 8.COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION | We need to take an action that really demonstrates it and serves as an example of success for so many places in the world that are in a similar situation. The chosen place is the former Belgian mission of Mokala, Kwilu Province, in the interior of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. •Almost all aid to Africa stays on the coast, or in accessible places. We need to implement the solution in a place that actually meets the insulation criteria and needs extreme. •Mokala is located approximately 1,000 from the Atlantic coast. •The Democratic Republic of the Congo has 10,956,000 people at risk of food security (CpI'Phase 2 or higher). •In the DRC, the availability of infrastructures is very limited. •The planned intervention area is right on the edge of one of the most unknown and intact jungles on the planet, spread across six countries. More than 200 million hectares that largely remain a mystery to science. •Growing demand for food, wood and coal; extreme misery, and illegal trade in species are beginning to eat the most pristine corners of the Congo Basin. Forests that support 60 million people; they shelter one in five known species, including about 10,000 plants, and regulate the climate and rainfall patterns in the world. •Intensification in food production can therefore have a positive impact also on the conservation of forests. The reason is that it reduces the pressure of grazing and burning agriculture. •Severe migration crises are taking place in Central | Resources needed to implement the solution The resources that are intended to be obtained are those necessary to build an experimental plant with the following characteristics: The experimental plant would have five zones:1) Germination chamber (100 m2),2) Local genotype cutting propagation unit (100 m2), 3) Plant production greenhouse (500 m2), 4) Experimental crop plots outdoors (5,000 m2)and 5) Hybrid technology tunnels for curing, drying and dewatering agricultural products and fish by jets of hot air at 50 oC (50 m3). Funding is needed to acquire the necessary equipment, finance the transport of equipment, and also the means of implementation. | http://www.todoproductividad.es | No available | So far the most important thing is that the AGRITECH-MED project has passed the first stage of evaluation of the Scientific Committee of PRIMA (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area). In call 2.019, AGRITECH-MED has been a finalist with only twelve more projects that propose solutions for greenhouse production or agricultural intensification throughout the Mediterranean. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
749 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Baljeet | Yadav | Varitra Foundation | http://varitra.com/ | Director | Male | India | India | English | I was sent to a low income private school near my village but my parents were not being able to pay my school fee on time. Due to which every month I had to face embarassments from my teachers and principal. I was asked repetitively to not come to school until my parents pay fee on the time. And because of embarassment in school, I started bunking my school from seventh standard. It was my self-study which helped to pass the examinations. This led me to think about the existing problem of lack of quality education in government schools. With this question I started a platform called Varitra Foundation. A great divide has been created by privatization of education in India. Such is the state of public schools in India that parents who are not able to send their children to private schools are sending to government schools. This has created a mindset among people that government schools are not good and in many states of the country. Enrolment in government schools is decreasing day by day while in private schools it is on the rising path. There will be hardly any government officers who are sending their children to government schools and this shows the confidence of government officers into government institutions. Many private schools are unrecognized and they are being run in small spaces without proper facilities yet they are running without being questioned by the authorities. These schools are not only violating laws but they are also putting futures of many children into danger as they are not recognized by the government. I have the opionion that education and health should be available free of cost to all human beings despite of their country, region, religion, etc. I am looking to strengthen leadership skills, communication skills and organizational management skills through UN Solutions summit. I am looking forward to connect with like minded people to collaborate for better impact. I hope this platform will also give me chance to share the current plight of educational status of rural schools of India and will guide to work towards improving it. Financial support will also be a great support to me as currently it is very difficult to manage my travel expenses for organization’s purpose visits as well as operational expenditures at the organizational level. | Baljeet is the Founding Director of Varitra Foundation. Born in a small agrarian family, he has experienced the challenges faced by children in rural areas. Baljeet has grown with a keen interest towards improving of government school as a quality learning space, the thought of which has stemmed out of his personal experiences during childhood. He started missing classes from class VI onwards due to the inability to pay fees and to avoid the ensuing embarrassment by teachers. These experiences triggered Baljeet to work on transformation of the government education system so that every student receives accessible and quality education for free of cost and do not find themselves helpless. Baljeet has had a vast experience in working on developmental issues from an early age. He was the Organizing Secretary at Kachra Vahatuk Shramik Sangh, Mumbai and has also worked with the International Union of Food Workers (IUF) as a Policy and Research Officer. After actively advocating for people’s’ rights, he joined National CSR hub at Tata Institute of Social Sciences where he conceptualized projects on Education, Eldercare, NGO Capacity-building, monitoring CSR projects, providing advisory support to corporates on CSR and conceptualizing projects for corporate sector. Baljeet co-founded Varitra Foundation along with his colleague, Ayeshna Kalyan with an aim to curate, develop, implement, support and strengthen development interventions at the grass-root levels through collaborative partnerships and community participation. | Varitra Foundation | Cultivating Sustainable Collaborations | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India | Yes | Jindal Global University, Shiv Nadar International School, LaboutNet Pvt. Ltd, Wipro Sustainability Fellowship, Edumentum, Pravah, Haryana Government, G P Birla Women Leaders Fellowship, Goonj, Monyati Initiatives, The Toy Bank | Transition to Scale | Under our School Transformation Plan, we have successfully adopted and launched initiatives across 15 schools positively impacting approximately 3250 children and 15 villages in rural Haryana, India. Currently we are a team of 7 people full time provide a dignified life to our 27 grassroots change makers through providing them an opportunity to explore their calibre, dream and ideas of change. We will training 100 such youth changemakers in the next 3 years to transform education in schools. | Unavailability of quality education in rural government schools in Haryana is the key problem we are addressing. Challenges or hinderances to provide quality education in government schools can be mapped at three levels: school, community and education department. 1. Low infrastructure, low learning environment, poor quality of education, lack of healthy competition, lack of teachers etc. 2. Low response, less awareness. 3. Lack of Capacity building trainings, lack of monitoring staff. | Varitra is working on Whole School Transformation through collaborations. In any target area one cannot hope to make tangible change by just impacting one or few components of development indicators. All components of the development indicators have to be impacted to drive visible change. Varitra believes that there are individuals (teachers, principals, government officers, community people, NGO staffs, etc.), organizations who are doing tremendous work and we need to recognize their efforts. We try our best to replicate the best practices adopted by teachers, schools, organizations, government and don’t waste our time in reinventing practices. We document these practices and try to replicate into other schools/communities. Varitra has partnered with different organizations to develop quality learning government schools. For example in one of partner school: Varitra partnered with different government departments (education, MNREGA, panchayat) development organizations and CSR foundations. Panchayat did white wash: Varitra developed buildings as learning aid through BaLA paintings MNREGA department developed the playground: Varitra is providing sports equipment and training to children School provided space: Varitra is running post school classes to improve the learning levels of children Varitra’s partner organizations are providing technical support to Varitra in setting up book library, sports for development, e-library and study classes in school. | Varitra creates collaborative platform for development organizations, government departments, local panchayat and CSR foundations. The uniqueness of the idea is not creating any new system instead working on filling up the gaps in the existing education system. We don’t duplicate anything, for example organization A has developed SRHR curriculum so we approach them and replicate their model with some modifications as per the requirement in our intervention schools. We act as a facilitator between various governments departments to take proper benefits of the available government schemes. The uniqueness of our project is that we don’t apply same model to all the schools instead we develop school specific model as per the need of the school.Varitra is creating community owned government schools where children from village get equal quality education. Children of both rich and poor should study in the same space. Varitra is acting as facilitators for SMC, villagers, etc. to motivate them for the development of their village school. For longer terms, an ecosystem will be created into the village with SMC strengthening, intergenerational learning, etc. to work towards development of education system into the village. Improving the government system at execution level is the need of the hour and development organizations can play a very big role in bridging the gap between policy level and execution level of the government system. | The organization got registered in January 2018. The team building started post registration and a robust team structure has been built. Pilot project has been executed and the project is under going in 15 schools. As Varitra completes 16 months, here is a snippet of our progress: 1. Under our School Transformation Plan, we have successfully adopted and launched initiatives across thirteen schools positively impacting approximately 3250 children and 15 villages in rural Haryana. 2. Partnerships formalized with Shiv Nadar International School, The Toy Bank, SRI Foundation, Monyati Initiatives, Aroma Agrotech and Income Tax Department for CSR implementation. 3. IIHeD (Jindal Global University), The Eight Dimension Consultancy, Beyond Eye, Commutiny Youth Collective (CYC), Medha Foundation also partnered with Varitra for Knowledge-building and Training. 4. In 5 villages, Varitra has already undertaken infrastructural transformation through BaLa painting, setting up school playground and gardens, tree-plantation, setting up libraries, etc sports kit, etc. 5. In 15 villages, Varitra is regularly running the post-school Learning Enhancement Centres (LECs) to improve the learning levels of the children. Total 27 young people are working as field team members to run LECs. 6. Formal partnership with District Education Department formed for three years to transform the government schools in Karnal district. | Our vision is to build the leadership of the local youth to become development agents to advocate social issues in their villages. By the end of the year 3, we would like to create 100 such change-makers to transform the education system of Karnal district. Following is our plan for five years: Year 1 - Having launched our flagship model “School Transformation Plan”, we shall be focussing on the overall school transformation process of 15 schools wherein the organization will work on improving and upgrading existing school infrastructure, setting-up new library, designing/refurbishing playground, sports facilities and e-learning. Year 3 - By Third year, the organization would have scaled up the model in 100 schools impacting approximately 20,000 children. The organisation would have also completed the 2 year program in the 15 schools adopted in Year 1 and would have worked on improvement of learning levels, increased enrollment ratio and zero drop-out. By the end of the year 3, the communities would have taken up the ownership of their respective schools for the sustainability of the project. Year 5 - By the Fifth year, the project would be replicated to other backward and primarily agro-based areas of the country. Meanwhile, in the existing intervention areas, monitoring and technical support will be provided to the communities to run the project efficiently. | Short-term resource requirements: Books, stationery, science equipments, financial support for salary of staff and field changemakers, paint for transforming school building, computers and projectors for e-learning, etc. Medium-term requirements: Mentorship, NGO partners, Corporate partners, volunteers, financial support and all the supports required in short-term. Long-term requirements: Experts support for scale up to other parts of region and to other countries, team management experts and all the requirements of short-term and long term included. | http://varitra.com/; https://www.linkedin.com/in/varitra-foundation-b63742169/; https://www.instagram.com/varitrafoundation/; https://www.facebook.com/varitrafoundation/; https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/how-varitra-foundation-is-giving-a-new-lease-of-life-to-rural-schools-119042000621_1.html; https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/weekly-pullouts/haryana-tribune/paintings-as-a-novel-way-of-teaching/620406.html; https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/2019/03/varitra-is-creating-inclusive-creative-spaces-in-karnal-haryana/; https://pravahdelhi.wordpress.com/varitra/; http://www.the8dc.com/drama-stories-in-education-at-varitra-foundation/; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6vFMAqwvrU; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdLG9WyQ61A; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg888_YMWRE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg888_YMWRE; https://www.facebook.com/Changelooms/videos/202534790626940/; | G P Birla Women Leaders Fellow won by Vartira Director, Ayeshna Kalyan; Pravah Changelooms Fellowship won by Varitra Directors Baljeet Yadav and Ayeshna Kalyan; Wipro Sustainability Fellowship won by Varitra co-founders Baljeet Yadav, Ayeshna Kalyan and Narendrayash Das Edumentum Fellowship by Mantra4Change won by Varitra Directors Baljeet Yadav and Ayeshna Kalyan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
750 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Satish | Cherukumalli | TrakitNow, Inc | www.moskeet.com | CEO | MALE | United States of America | India | English | I was born and raised in a farming community in southern India. I used to see my Dad putting a plastic fence around the farm after spraying pesticides. This is to prevent the pests (crawling ones) from neighboring farms to come into our farm. I enquired with my Dad on why all the farmers use pesticides at the same time so that with coordination the impact will be more. My Dad replied that there is no way to coordinate with all farmers. I kept thinking on how we can bring this coordination. Fast forward … I got an opportunity to study computers and later business administration. I am co-founder of an IoT (Internet of Things) company and had an opportunity to meet the program director for smart cities in India. He gave a problem statement and it is to control mosquito borne diseases using technology. I felt like this is a calling as we can use the latest technology in creating a social impact and it is also commercially sustainable. Moskeet is our innovation and it is a Smart Mosquito Density System that gives real time data of mosquito populations along with species and gender. This data is used to determine the control operations – when to spray, where to spray, what to spray and how effective are the sprays. Key benefits are – better control of mosquito population and hence mosquito borne diseases, reduced usage of pesticides and cost effective control operations. We are currently deploying Moskeet in India and USA. Real time data platform with mosquito populations, weather conditions, socio economic conditions will help us to better coordinate the control activities. This is what I learned on my farm when I was young. Road map is to introduce virology feature which helps to understand the real time transmission of the disease. Our goal is to be the platform to predict the outbreak of mosquito borne diseases. | Satish Cherukumalli is an entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of TrakItNow – a company that innovates technology to improve the quality of life in a number of areas. Before he turned entrepreneur in 2010, he worked with some of the leading MNCs and Fortune 500 companies. Satish has Bachelor's in Computers Science& Engineering and an MBA from Webster University. His career spans several industries including manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, logistics, automotive and agriculture & in several countries like US, Europe, China, India and Australia. He closely interacted with C-Level executives to understand the corporate strategy, and define & manage IT to align with corporate goals. He worked extensively on streamlining IT operations with respect to current and future development and support. Satish is passionate about new technology and how to utilize it to add value to communities and companies around the globe. This passion led to start of an Internet of Things (IoT) journey in 2011 and later starting of TrakItNow, which focuses on IoT technologies. He has designed turnkey solutions that include hardware, firmware, cloud, mobile, web and analytics. His current focus is how technology can improve the quality of life of millions of people in the public health and safety sectors. | Moskeet | Moskeet helps in control and prevention of mosquito borne diseases by providing a data platform, which enables coordination among all stake holders | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Moskeet is currently implemented in India and USA. Future plan is to expand to South East Asia, Africa and South America. | Yes | 1) Florida Medical Entomology Lab, University of Florida, USA 2) Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India 3) Indian Institute of Information Technology - Design and Manufacturing, India | Transition to Scale | We are currently deploying the solution across cities in India and counties in USA with successful results. We are currently working on scaling up the manufacturing volumes. We also signed up resellers in India to expand the market reach. | Mosquitoes are the deadliest creatures in the world causing approximately 1 million deaths. Mosquito borne diseases impact nearly all countries in the world. For instance, 400 million Dengue cases and 200 million Malaria cases are reported every year. Mosquito control operations relies on extensive use of pesticides which results in toxic impact on environment. Also, there is no real time disease outbreak risk analysis to prevent loss of life. | A critical component of controlling mosquito borne illnesses is monitoring the mosquito population density to provide health and mosquito control personnel information on where and when control is required and the efficacy of the control efforts. Moskeet solution is a network of smart traps that uses state-of-the-art IoT technology to operate autonomously and provides real-time mosquito population data both by location and species. We believe that you have to understand the problem before you solve it, and our network does just that. There are four key components to the solution - Sensor network, Social network, Real time analytics and Predictive analytics. Our solution is to deploy Smart Mosquito Monitoring Network of sensors across cities to identify where problems exist, the efficacy of control methods, and when to reapply. Our sensors use novel artificial intelligence AI algorithms to classify mosquitoes by species. We provide customizable web reports and mobile applications, including density heat maps, conditions effecting breeding, health information and vector control history. We provide a mobile app for the public to report on health and mosquito density issues. The platform is designed to capture data across several areas like epidemiology, entomology, socioeconomic, location and weather to help in effective management of diseases. We are first in the world with a holistic and scalable solution for mosquito surveillance. | Current methods of manually gathering mosquito density information are labor intensive, requiring extensive travel and resulting data can be inconsistent. Even with trained technicians, collection, identification and counting errors occur. Our sensors will provide years of autonomous data, consistently counting and classifying mosquitoes, substantially improving and lowering the collection costs. Effects of sprays are shown in real-time. As the population comes back, mosquito control personnel can predict when another application is needed, saving time, money and reducing the harmful environmental and health effects of over spraying. Data collected can be analyzed by various stakeholders and operations can be coordinated. Our road map is to add the virology feature which will give real time disease transmission capabilities. Our approach is in line with World Health Organization, Center for Disease Control (USA) etc. | We started field deployments in India in December 2018 and in USA in May 2019. We developed supplier relationships for components and assembly, and are confident to scale as per the market demands. We are also working on the second production version of the device which is cost effective and smaller in size. second version is currently deployed in USA. We will complete the second version testing in India by end of September. Moskeet testing in USA is in collaboration with Florida Medical Entomology Lab which is part of University of Florida. In India, our test partners are Indian Institute of Chemical Technology and Osmania University. We measure the effectiveness of the devices by regular calibration activities by our teams and our partner teams. | Currently we are deploying in India and USA. Our plan is to expand to South East Asia, Africa and South America. Market Milestones by geography Q3, Q4 2019 – Stabilize in India and USA Q1 2020 - Expand to South East Asia with the help of partners Q3 2020 - Expand to South America Q1 2021. – Expand to Africa Technology milestones Q4 2019 – launch production version 2 in India Q2 2020 – Virology feature Q2 2020 – Risk analysis on outbreak of diseases Market Segments Present – Government agencies Q3 2019 – Residential communities / corporates Q2 2020 – Individual residences Resource requirements Sales & Marketing – 4 Product design – 2 Data Scientist – 2 Projected Lives Impacted 2019 – 5 Million 2020 – 20 Million 2021 - 50 Million | Our immediate requirement is to setup a R&D lab in India. This lab will help to maintain mosquito colonies which will be used for new product revisions testing. We also want to create a cost effective attractant to be used in traps. Also, need additional funding for virology research along with Florida Medical Entomology Lab (University of Florida) Short Term Sales & Marketing – 4 Product design – 2 Data Scientist – 2 Entomologist – 2 Support – 2 Mid Term Sales & Marketing – 6 Support – 4 Data Scientist – 1 Long Term Sales & Marketing – 10 Support – 10 CFO COO CTO | www.trakitnow.com www.moskeet.com Deployment videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh6naG5V_qE&t=63s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFKJpbdeU5I&t=49s | https://www.trakitnow.com/awards/trakitnow-wins-iot-start-up-award/ National Public Radio - Mike Switzer interviews Satish Cherukumalli, co-founder and CEO of TrakitNow in Columbia, SC. Link to audio: http://southcarolinapublicradio.org/post/mosquito-surveillance-company-launches-Columbia https://www.facebook.com/EntrepreneurInd/videos/1539728529438213/ Peggy Smedley Show http://peggysmedleyshow.com/portfolio-items/08-08-17-episode-523-segment-4/ https://community.nasscom.in/communities/iot-ai/the-pitch-trakitnow-smart-mosquito-density-monitoring-system.html | Won the startup award at IoT India Congress. We were selected from 132 IoT companies. https://www.trakitnow.com/awards/trakitnow-wins-iot-start-up-award/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
751 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Aditya | Vishwanath | MakerGhat | http://makerghat.org | Co-Founder | Male | India | India | English | I was encouraged to apply by Radhika Shah, a close mentor to our company. I have been working with underserved community learning environments in Mumbai, Chennai, and Atlanta for the last 4 years, as an ethnographic researcher, teacher volunteer, and entrepreneur. My PhD at Stanford's School of Education (and the new Knight-Hennessy Fellowship) is deeply rooted in having a strong social impact on curriculum and teaching critical thinking skills using technology with underserved communities in the US and India. Given that we founded MakerGhat with the goal of advancing the SDGs through social entrepreneurship and engineering tinkering, this seemed like the perfect opportunity for us to amplify the voices of the students we serve. | Aditya Vishwanath is a PhD candidate in Learning Sciences and Technology Design and a Knight-Hennessy scholar at Stanford University. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), earning a bachelor’s degree in computer science. His research focuses on designing and building educational technology for use in underserved communities around the world. He is the co-founder and CEO of inspirit (inspiritvr.com), a design firm focused on the instructional value of virtual reality, and the co-founder of MakerGhat (makerghat.org), a research makerspace and incubator for low-income youth in urban Mumbai slums. Aditya takes a human-centered lens to his work with a focus on designing technologies that facilitate universal access to immersive and meaningful learning content. | MakerGhat: A Community Maker Lab | Nurturing creativity, curiosity, and community among underserved youth through a community makerspace in a slum community in Mumbai, India. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | India | Yes | Stanford University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Asha for Education (USA and India), Vidya India NGO | Transition to Scale | We are currently at the transition to scale stage. We have demonstrated a proof of concept through a community makerspace we set up in a slum community in Mumbai, India. The makerspace has been operating for 7 months now and has scaled up to reach 200+ students every week. Our next step is to scale this model across other low-income neighborhoods in Mumbai and other cities/tier-2 towns in India. | India’s rote-learning public education system has failed to generate and support the needs of students from underserved backgrounds. We solve the problem of lack of access to resources and learning materials that support skills such as critical thinking and problem-solving among this population. MakerGhat equips students with the tools, resources, and skill set to become thinkers, problem solvers, researchers, and entrepreneurs who can solve problems in their communities. | Situated inside a large slum, we provide a safe, non-judgmental, physical space with access to mentorship, workshops, and equipment around cutting edge technologies as well as for creative artistic pursuits: 3D printers, soldering stations, electronic components, woodworking tools, art and craft materials, and more. Our parent foundation’s long term vision is to serve as an incubator for students generating local solutions to local challenges and to enable change in their communities. We want to build a hyperlocal network of entrepreneurs working on local (and eventually scalable across the city/country) challenges that align with the SDGs. | 1) Our solution takes a very community-centric approach to education, while focusing on emerging technologies that will be shaping the job market in the next 10 years. 2) Our solution is a physical makerspace and studio at its core with all our workshop and incubator offerings, but also simultaneously extends outwards into the community through outreach events and workshops conducted at schools every weekend. 3) We address the ‘last mile’ in building confident learners and critical thinkers: providing support at every step of their learning journey. Maker kit sellers are a good initial foot-in-the-door to tinkering and problem solving, makerspaces are great for second-step prototyping. We offer both and also the third step of continuous mentorship and support with our extensive network of Stanford, Georgia Tech, IIT-Bombay researchers, social enterprises, and independent tinkerers and professionals. | We have so far been running a makerspace for 7 months. We measure our progress and methodological rigor along three dimensions. First, we measure member engagement by tracking how frequently a member visits (returns to) the space, the amount of time they spend on the space, activities they participate in, and progress made on their projects. Second, we measure learning outcomes by conducting assessments before and after every workshop or program we conduct. Third, we track each student’s employment status by following up with them right after and six months after they have graduated from the makerspace. | 1) Our next step is to build partnerships: we are partnering with local schools, the government’s official tinkering/making program, and national educational non-profits to provide simple physical ‘maker kits’ with supporting online curricula in regional languages that enable these institutions to replicate the model that we have created and tested out with MakerGhat. 2) We are simultaneously working to create more such centers in other slums across Mumbai for hyperlocal innovation. We aim to reach at least 3 new communities in Mumbai (and create 3 such innovation centers / makerspaces) by the end of the year. New Markets: other slums in Mumbai as well as smaller towns and 1-2 rural sites (each space will be built around a theme that is locally and culturally relevant and determined by the community) New Staff: we are hiring 2-5 new project and internal admin managers. We also want to build an outreach and communications team Projected Lives Impacted: Ramp up from 200 to 2000 students per week by the end of the year. Also launch specialized workshops and incubator programs for women makers and engineers. | Short-term: network of mentors for students, funding for the maker kits program or donations of equipment Medium-term: connections to industry, government, and academic partners to create pipelines for employment, which builds a stronger long-term buy-in for parents, also more funding Long-term: success stories of entrepreneurs who built careers using MakerGhat as a foundation, connections between our maker labs across Mumbai and across cities in India that we expand into in the coming months, potential partnerships with research institutions to conduct novel research and development work at our centers, and also more funding | https://www.makerghat.org https://kingcenter.stanford.edu/research/india-program | Our Co-Founder, Azra Ismail’s TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4M4_Rrbsbk | Georgia Tech's Denning Global Engagement Seed Fund Winner Stanford Knight-Hennessy Social Enterprise Seed Donation from Dr. John Hennessy Ideas 2 Serve at Georgia Tech First Place 2019 Accepted into the N/Core Launchpad Program's 2nd Cohort (Bangalore) Stanford King Center's Grant to Fund a Maker In Residence Program for Summer 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
752 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rubab | Tahir | Galearth Private Limited | www.galearth.com | CEO | Female | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | I am convinced that at this point of time I need to grab every opportunity to showcase my venture and breakthrough in order to get as much exposure, acknowledgement and backing as possible, to make it a success that I have been dreaming for it to have. International audience, a chance to network with multidimensional personalities and investors at a scale such as ""UN Solution Summit"" means a lot for me. My innovative approach to solve local and global issues came to realization through the advent of a private Research & Development Company that brings together young university graduates, retired faculty members, scientists, industry experts and R&D geeks with the aim of bringing revolution in private research sector of Pakistan, focusing on the most important social and economic issues of the region and beyond. Speaking off the first challenge our society is plagued with i.e. pilferage and adulteration in almost all fluids, purity in particular is rapidly becoming rarity that in turn is jeopardizing human as well as machine lives. The issue of adulteration is deeply rooted in fluids ranging from petroleum fuels to all types of oils, milk, chemicals, paints, and various other eatables. To curb the issue my team has researched and developed a highly accurate Quality Sensor for Fluids in almost a fraction of a price that similar sensors are available anywhere in the world. Starting off from Pakistan with an aim to curtail fuel adulteration and pilferage, we intend to get into other industries and regions with a mission to identify and uproot any sorts of impurities. The efforts to eliminate fuel contamination lead us to have clean fuels and better vehicles, which imply the commencement of a journey towards less polluted/healthier environment. Climate change is one of the most alarming global issue and our innovation is rightly focused to deal with the same. | I am a Public Administration graduate from National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST). After finishing my university in 2014 I have worked my way up to the ladder of Career from a Management Trainee to becoming the CEO of Galearth Private Limited. Being an ultimate believer of pure intentions, the phenomenon has always worked for me and paved my way without putting in much efforts. Having a strong image of a career oriented woman posed me to a lot of expectations from friends and family, however the dilemma caught me up when I decided to get married right after my graduation, this move apparently validated my surrender to the societal norms and resulted in a pseudo disappointment for my family and acquaintances. Owing to my strong will to prove everybody wrong or a mere serendipity, the journey never really stopped for me despite of so many hindrances and has always been an ascending flight. Working mostly as a hiring manager and dealing with human resource has polished my intuitive ability to rightly judge people that served as a major breakthrough for me to take up a leadership role and further unleash my true potential to act as a catalyst of change. Undoubtedly delightful, yet it is just a beginning of an inwards venture with a vision to transform the world at large. | Quaspect | A Quality Sensor For Fluids | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Pakistan, can be extended to Sub-continent and beyond | Yes | Institute of Space Technology , Islamabad | Proof of Concept | With utter dedication and persistent hard work for almost a year, my team was able to get a breakthrough in the form of a proof of concept for quality sensor. After testing upon various technologies we were finally able to ascertain the most promising methodology to serve the purpose. The sensor is now in the form of a working model that needs to be converted into a commercial grade prototype. | The proposed solution is aimed at eradicating the widely prevalent issue of adulteration and mixing in almost all kinds of fluids ranging from petrol, diesel, oils, milk, chemicals, paints, food items etc. To begin with our main focus is to detect any type of contamination in petroleum fuels with the help of an economical and made-to-measure type of sensor with an ability to discern adulteration as minute and trivial as 5%. | The solution exists in the form of a sensor which when dipped in a fluid determines the level of adulteration and relay it through an on-board digital display. As discussed earlier, Environmental dangers that arise from bad quality fuel usages shall come to an end as a result of this solution. Besides it will bring forth huge savings, quality control and transparency, preventing irregularities and delinquencies that would on one side, impact the life spans of vehicle and generator engines by increasing their efficiency and longevity and on the other side users will be able to make informed decisions on the basis of relevant data reachable to them. In the long run it will yield the culture of accountability by curbing corrupt/mal practices, as the sensor/device shall be easily accessible from industries to end-users due to very low cost and ease of use. | There exist simply few quality sensors in the whole world, for fuels to be checked for purity, and that too merely on an industrial or lab scale. Their application is limited mainly due to typical scientific outputs that they provide, only concerned engineers can read and understand them, also their abilities are severely limited due to proprietary protocols and software limitations. Moreover these sensors are so expensive that are almost unattainable for most of the entities to use, also the minimum level of adulteration they can detect is 10%. Whereas our solution is way more inclusive due to extremely low price, its user-friendliness, and the ability to act as an independent device able to transmit data to the internet cloud or dedicated server for mobile or web interfaces. Additionally it can measure the nominal level of adulteration i.e. 5% or less. | As mentioned earlier my team has come up with the proof of concept. The sensor is a working sample that needs to be modeled further for a commercial grade prototype. I see this breakthrough as a biggest achievement since we were able to attain the required milestones in almost no time. The level of precision this solution carries is almost perfect | Planned Goals and Milestones for your solution? (for example, any new countries or markets you will expand in, staff you will recruit, and projected lives impacted?) * •HR Acquisition & Office setup •Setting up a proper lab facility •Creating a commercial grade prototype. •Modifying the same prototype for application in other industries/markets (i.e. chemicals, aviation, food etc. | The most important resource that we need today is: Capacity enhancement for the commercialization, production, marketing and sales of our Sensor Establishment of our own Mech/Electronics Lab Capacity to hire and manage required staff for research and development of further projects | https://www.galearth.com | i have not given any interviews yet, as i plan to showcase my sensor once a fully functional prototype is developed | not participated in any competition yet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
753 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ghida | Anani | ABAAD - Resource Center for Gender Equality | www.abaadmena.org | Founder & Director | F | Lebanon | Lebanon | Arabic | English | French | ABAAD – Resource Center for Gender Equality was founded in 2011 by a small team in Beirut, as a model organization that aims to tackle the root causes of gender-based violence in Lebanon. Today, ABAAD is perceived as a reliable reference and partner by the local, regional and international entities that are working to promote gender equality, empowerment, protection and sustainable development. We are an ECOSOC-accredited organization that aims to achieve gender equality as an essential condition to sustainable peace, democracy and social and economic development in the MENA region. The dynamic team is comprised of more than 120 dedicated activists, lawyers, consultants, social workers and researchers, who creatively test new approaches as part of a larger effort to achieve an equitable society, free of hegemonic masculinities and violence against women. In 2017, ABAAD's nationwide campaign resulted in a historical vote of the Lebanese parliament repealing article 522 from the Lebanese Penal Code - the infamous rape-marriage law. In May 2019, the campaign won the UN SDG Action Award for the most impactful campaign globally. This year, ABAAD also joined the UN Global Compact and is proud to align its strategies with a global movement to work together to promote and achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The Solutions Summit presents a unique opportunity for us to showcase ABAAD's work on the ground, specifically the Jina Al Dar - Mobile Bus Programme that uses innovation to foster protection through using mobile vehicle and apps, to address forced mobility of refugees who are in constant moving reality! As we continue to work tirelessly to reduce and eventually eliminate gender-based violence in the region, we believe this recognition will provide the necessary exposure to generate wider support for future plans that involve expanding and replicating the work in Syria. | Ghida ANANI - Assistant professor in the Faculty of Public Health at the Lebanese University. In 2008, she received the ‘’Excellence in Collaborative Teaching Award’’ from the American University of Beirut. As an expert in Gender-Based Violence and Child Protection, Anani has published a number of studies, articles, training kits and community educational materials on GBV & Child Sexual Abuse in Lebanon. In 2009, she was a guest speaker at the UNSG press conference on the occasion of the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women. In June 2011, she founded and continues to manage ABAAD – Resource Centre for Gender Equality, which was awarded the ‘’Womanity Award’’. In 2014, Anani received the “Women Leadership Achievement Award” by The World Women Leadership Congress. She has led a number of public opinion campaigns, notably the latest #Undress522 which resulted in a historical parliamentary vote, repealing article 522 from the Lebanese Penal Code. In 2019, the campaign received the first prize “UN SDG Action Award” for the most impactful campaign globally. In 2018, Anani has been honored as part of the program “Icon of Pioneering” & “Leaders from the land of Cedars” beside a number of Lebanese leaders innovative in different sectors. She was also listed by the World Bank as one of ‘’10 Inspiring Women Entrepreneurs Making a Difference across MENA’’ and was featured in the ‘’Pioneers & Leaders HUB’’, launched by the Women as Partners in Progress (WPP) Project within the Gibran Chair for Values and Peace at the University of Maryland. | “JINA AL-DAR” – MOBILE BUS | Fostering protection by reaching the unreachable! | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Lebanon and Syria | Yes | UNHCR, Norwegian Church Aid, RDPP, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Scaling | Through the Mobile Bus, ABAAD in 2018 reached 12 400+ individuals. The team however identified a gap in activities and services provided to persons with disabilities/special needs (physical and mental). As such, we aim to test adapting PSS sessions to the needs of the persons with physical and mental disabilities so as to ensure their inclusion in the sessions and also on the longer term, we aim to replicate this work in Syria. | Following assessments conducted by ABAAD in the field, the below key problems have been identified: -Displacements and migration are accompanied with a high prevalence of GBV among Syrian refugee communities in Lebanon -The scarcity of adequate holistic GBV services in Lebanon makes it difficult for Syrian refugees to break the cycle of violence -There is lack of information on available GBV services and relevant referral pathways among refugee communities | “Jina Al-Dar” is a bus touring the most marginalized areas, towns and villages in Lebanon, with a specialized team and volunteers that provide services aiming to prevent and reduce all forms of violence against women and girls such as: • Awareness, education and information sessions on women’s and girls’ legal rights, sexual and reproductive rights and health • Referral to the relevant long-term psycho-social support, legal and medical services provided by ABAAD’s centers • Psycho-social support recreational activities targeting boys and girls • Recreational activities targeting families, women and men, including interactive theater, puppetry and screening of documentaries The overall goal of Jina El Dar is to improve protection prospects for both refugees and host communities in Lebanon, not only by providing life-saving services but also empowering right holders to exercise their rights, gain full agency and fulfill their potentials as full and equal members of society. This is done through the different activities and interventions that promote the self-reliance of participants, building their capacities, enhancing opportunities, removing constraints and ensuring their personal safety & security. Furthermore, ABAAD aims to promote an enabling environment in which social norms around violence against women and girls are shifted. | ABAAD has developed the capacity to deeply analyze relevant gender issues and design innovative interventions. Using a ‘Holistic Care Approach’, ABAAD provides GBV survivors and vulnerable persons with contextual, responsive and assistive services while simultaneously empowering them and building their awareness and knowledge. The mobile bus intervention is the only outreach modality of its kind, within the GBV sector, that ensures access for vulnerable population in remote areas. We aim to use technological innovation as transformative tools for both people in need and those providing humanitarian relief, as such, digital media and technology are often used in our interventions: In 2018, ABAAD launched the RESPOND Mobile Application which serves as a tool for frontline workers to familiarize with the SGBV referral pathways in Lebanon, GBV guiding principles and safe identification and referral principles. The app was also disseminated and shared across all ABAAD’s structures, including ABAAD’s Mobile Unit interventions to promote social cohesion and encourage disclosure of GBV cases. The app helped in linking such disclosed cases to the nearest available GBV structure. Through the Mobile Bus, ABAAD is also conducting workshops with children and adolescent boys to build their capacities in animation techniques, specifically the “Stop Motion” animation videos, as a tool for self-expression. | Each year, ABAAD is reaching more rightholders through the Jina Al Dar Programme. In 2018, the team conducted crossed 11,385.5 KM in 134 villages and reached: -5,223 women -713 men -6,517 children ABAAD team's highlighted: • Increase in number of participants, which reflects increased community interest in the intervention modality compared to previous years • Inclusion of programme axes for individuals with disabilities • High participant satisfaction rates • Expansion of activities to include positive masculinities sessions • Use of innovative and interactive approaches that ensure the delivery of quality services • Active engagement of participants The impact is measured by the number of individuals reached and the percentage of right holders reporting satisfaction from services. | Through the tours conducted in peripheral communities across Lebanon, the team identified a high gap in activities and services provided to persons with disabilities\special needs (physical and mental). As such, within our Mobile Unit interventions, we aim to extract the relevance of the adapted PSS sessions and facilitation techniques to the needs of the persons with disabilities, by training our facilitators and implementing the sessions. This approach will be monitored and evaluated and the results will be used to feed into a learning document outlining general recommendations and guidelines on conducting inclusive PSS activities at the community level, always abiding by the Do No Harm principles in serving our beneficiaries, and preserving the best interest of all beneficiaries, staff members and partners. ABAAD also plans on: •Developing a mobile APP which will help staff members better manage the schedule of interventions and access data. •Creating relevant M&E tools to effectively collect pre-post tests and measure impact and adjust our services when necessary and always improve and better reach and serve our beneficiaries. •Extending its work to Syria to help women directly through programs implemented by ABAAD and indirectly by building the capacity of Syrian CSOs and enabling them to effectively implement gender equality and GBV prevention & response programs. | More funds must be secured to support growth and replication in other contexts as ABAAD plans on: -Expanding the team and securing extra buses to conduct more rounds for greater reach -Installing access ramps on buses -Developing a Mobile APP for staff to better manage the schedule of interventions -Creating relevant M&E tools to better measure impact -Adapting PSS sessions and facilitation techniques to the needs of the persons with disabilities -Extending the work to Syria | Watch the Jina Al Dar Documentary at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB_V_LpQs8o&t=62s (English subtitles) Check out ABAAD's 2018 Annual Report at this link https://www.abaadmena.org/documents/ebook.1564757015.pdf Check out ABAAD's Summary Strategic Plan 2017-2022 at this link https://www.abaadmena.org/documents/ebook.1510322700.pdf Reuters Article on ABAAD's most recent campaign https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-rape-rights/shameonwho-campaign-uses-art-to-change-lebanese-attitudes-to-rape-idUSKCN1NC2GK CNN Report video on ABAAD's most recent campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1AINlOmUc4&t=78s Caste study on ABAAD's #Undress_522 campaign https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8maT86luhyo&t=27s | https://www.facebook.com/abaadmena/videos/ghida-anani-speech-oslo/2008890985860957/ https://twitter.com/AbaadMENA/status/1131931779026345985/video/1 https://www.facebook.com/abaadmena/videos/un-sdg-award-undress-522/898660570466059/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKbPMXrT-EM | Some of the awards received by ABAAD Womanity Award 2014 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Award 2017 Shorty Social Good Award Best in Gender Equality 2018 UN SDG Action Award for Most Impactful Campaign 2019 Some of the awards received by the Founder & Director of ABAAD Listed by the World Bank as one of ‘’10 Inspiring Women Entrepreneurs Making a Difference across MENA’’ 2018 Featured in the ‘’Pioneers & Leaders HUB’’ 2018 launched by the Women as Partners in Progress (WPP) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
754 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Salma | BOUCHOUCHA | Global Business Program | https://www.facebook.com/Global-business-organisation-1523277597889337/ | computer engineer | female | Tunisia | Tunisia | Arabic | English | French | Awareness and participation in a new development power of the product named digital women entrepreneurship through the construction of entities to implement this program through financing and coaching and support entrepreneurs to create research centers and sign partnerships | Salma Bouchoucha member of JCI Tunisia, having a degree in computer engineering I start my career as webmaster and developer of applications after six months elected project manager web, my post allowed me to enrich my knowledge about digital; and allowed me to participate in digital transformation training and therefore have the position of digital project manager well deserved in all Tunisia south, Ouest more than 3 years certified in management of ecommerce projects and PMP-PMI project management and the financial education of projects, in business inteligence and reporting services I worked as a consultant with industry to set up their digital system including training of staff this success was the advantage of having new investments as mediterraneen women in Algeria - Europe – Italia, the staff working in Tunisia and collaborate with women entrepreneur leader to make extern network community | New Digital Women Empowerment | Awareness and participation in a new development power of digital women entrepreneurship through the construction of new company | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Tunisia, Algeria, Maroc | Yes | International Investment Group (IIG) | Sustainable Scale | I am in partnership with a group of company for 7 years which work in the digital I have experience in networking with women leaders which allouw for us to create new network | Tunisian woman's incontinence of her rights and her social and economic mission, role and rights Lack of social media information Lack of coaching Lack of contience of gendury | Make entrepreneurs aware of global goals The entrepreneurship women will share their knowledge and their experience with their selves Organization of events and seminars and press conferences, creation and fianacement of mini economic and commercial projects for women, creation of listening center and sociological coaching | our public target and efficient quality allows us a fast execution of the program real evaluation of the psychosocial situation of the woman to have a systematic reading of the problems and the suffering and the mistreatment of the real capacities a systematic reading of the real causes problems, we will have scientific results having a relationship in relation to the global planning goals and my program to achieve the dream of the woman | we have our network composed of entrepreneurship, working and diplomated, women we organised meetings, seminars and digital events to develop our community and we are working to share the global goals Select womens to participate on coaching to sensiblilize the leaders to build their power, to be active women in the program, | Our staff in Tunisia have public is Est, South, Ouest , to coach the mediterraneen women to make extern network community more than 3 years, than create new leaders and network in Algeria - Europe - Italia | Diplomated women Entrepreneurship women Working women , Married women Student girl No learned women Researcher women Foreign women | https://www.facebook.com/Global-business-organisation-1523277597889337/ | https://www.facebook.com/Global-business-organisation-1523277597889337/ | Price for the best digital projects price customer relationship management Partner Relationship Management Award | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
755 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Amutha Devi | Ravikumar | Biofi Medical Healthcare India Pvt Ltd | www.biofimed.com | Chief Executive Officer | Female | India | Indonesia | English | Biofi firmly believes that healthcare marketplace is experiencing an unprecedented transition with developing technologies acting as a centre of attraction on a global scale. The UN Solutions Summit is the ideal forum to connect and network with world-class professionals and thought leaders from the industry, government organizations, regulators, research organizations and exceptional teams. This forum would be a quintessential hub for young innovators and entrepreneurs who have already taken up the task of solving world’s most complex challenges. Biofi understands that attending the UN Solutions Summit will be of a significant benefit not only for itself, but also to other organizations and humanity. Globally, across all sectors, data-driven decisions are gaining traction for attaining precise, reproducible results. It is obvious that a ‘smart’ healthcare sector with an improved quality will replace the conventional methods. Currently diabetic sector does not have a comfortable, prick-less, effective, economical, and safe device along with access to data to make decisions. This is the main hurdle in diabetes management and treatment leading to complications, morbidity and early death. Biofi strives to solve this problem statement using innovation in technology (NIR) and device design. With 600 million diabetics across the globe, annually more than USD 100 Billion is lost just over strips of glucometers. Further, the devices and lancets will hike this value causing a massive blow to low- and middle-income countries. For eg, in countries like India and APAC regions, the average cost of measurement is around INR 12000-15000 per year. We predict that, per year, our solution can save around 60% of monitoring costs (consumables/devices), 20-25% reduction in medication costs as well as 50% cost reduction in logistics (for hospital/pharmacy visits) due to better disease management using analytics. There are ~1 billion pre-diabetic adults with no easy way of regularly monitoring their blood sugar. Our device can be used to reduce the possibility of diabetes onset by proactive monitoring, thereby helping atleast 50% of the pre-diabetic population to lead healthy lifestyles. Diabetes being the 5th leading cause of death in the world, contributes to 8.6 % of death rate. According to statistics, every 10th second, a death is due to diabetes. With Biofi glucometer, we predict 8-10% increased life expectancy for diabetics with reduced life time complications. | Dr.Amutha Devi Ravikumar comes with a research background, with a doctorate degree from Indian Institute of Technology, which is one of the top-most prestigious universities of India and world-wide. She has a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy and a masters in Biochemical Engineering. Her interest towards diabetes management took ground even during her research years, while she observed many of her relatives, including her own mother, going through endless painful pricks in their bodies to manage diabetics. With diabetes becoming a house-hold name, yet with no better diabetes management device, and the same problem persisting even over two decades, the urge to do some better change to the society took over, which led to the inception of her own organization, Biofi, along with immense family support. Her corporate stint for over 10 years in various multi-national companies like Accenture, Infosys, and Deloitte helped her to gain a holistic view on pharma and healthcare sector. During her corporate work, she has worked with major pharma companies like Pfizer, Sanofi, Merck, Novartis, Amgen, Astra Zeneca, and Bristol-Myers Squibb and several mid-size pharma companies too. She has pioneered in the area of virtual clinical trials and proposed this solution to many pharma companies. Currently, she has taken over the role of CEO at Biofi Medical Healthcare India Pvt Ltd, with a vision to transform diabetes management. | A non-invasive diabetic profiler | Diabetes Management Simplified | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Currently this product is in the proof of concept stage. However, India and APAC regions are the first markets to be targeted in the near future followed by the RoW | Yes | Indian Institute of Technology Chennai and Indian Institute of Technology Mandi for R&D collaboration, Kyocera and Osram for additional R&D and mass manufacturing of NIR devices, Diacon hospital and Jnana Sanjeevini hospital for clinical trials | Proof of Concept | Biofi has developed a prototype which is undergoing multiple iterations to increase accuracy, stability and consistency. Currently, we are able to quantify glucose values from human blood directly using prototype, with a reasonable accuracy, as compared to the conventional devices available in the market. We have also kick-started the fundamental studies on finger mimicking phantoms, which can be further validated on humans, after appropriate certifications to release the product into market. | Our proposed solution is a class apart from the existing solutions. The current conventional diabetes monitoring devices come with the following pain points. •They are invasive, painful, and cause discomfort •They have low glucose selectivity •They are uneconomical –refill strips required •Continuous monitoring is not an easy option •Potential infection from blood extraction points •There is no data-driven inference possible to find what habits stabilize the individual’s glucose level | 4.Biofi aims to produce an affordable device to commons, non-invasive, continuous glucose monitoring device with high precision and accuracy coupled with data driven decision making. Biofi is working on near-infra red spectroscopy to measure glucose values non-invasively without withdrawing blood from the body, hence the need of recurring consumables and cost is eradicated. The device will be user- friendly, pain-free with no risk of infections and will provide the glucose readings with the click of a button. Globally, there are 600 million diabetics and about 1 billion pre-diabetics, making them a targeted market. To reach masses of such number, Biofi has officially teamed up with Osram and Kyocera for large scale manufacturing and marketing across the globe. To secure the product Biofi has applied for Provisional patent application on March 13, 2019. On or before March 20, 2020 we must file complete patent application, and are on process of filing complete patent. Parallel to this, we will also apply for Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) which includes 154 countries like USA, China, Japan and Europe etc, opening a gateway into countries across the globe. Looking at the big picture, to improve the health services on a long-term basis and deliver clinical and financial benefits. Biofi will utilize clinical data-driven technology for early detection of diabetic complications, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and various other diseases or disorders. | The device has its own unique, design, principle & algorithm. The design of the device is paramount in glucose detection. Firstly, mechanical design of the device obstructs stray light entering device and creates an occlusion in the finger to enhance the optical properties and to create a localized blood flow to sensitize the finger. Secondly, the emitter detector arrangement is 3d planar structure where a single emitter is surrounded by multiple detectors to support bidirectional reflectance distribution function to attain maximum reflected light back to the detector and to eradicate skin roughness. Our device uses a highly specific wavelength with unique viewing angle, irradiance, and intensity in the NIR region to measure the glucose concentration in blood. The device uses a visible range wavelength to enhance the optical properties of the finger, and to self-calibrate the device. The unique chemometric model will then convert the sensor data to a glucose value. The model is highly specific, as it considers many physiological parameters such as skin temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, skin precipitation, comorbidities, pulse rate and humidity. Data driven diabetic management: Helps diabetes to understand better about their metabolism and lead the healthy life be adopting the lifestyle through diet management and fitness management. We create the market space which helps diabetes to get a necessary help from physicians or from hospitals and pharmacy on the need basis. | a.Biofi is incubated in Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre. All the development activities happens optimally under one roof. b.In a span of 10 months, the team has scaled from 1 to 10 determined intellectuals. Official R&D collaborations has been made with prestigious universities like IIT Mandi and IIT Chennai. We have a tie-up with Kyocera and Osram for additional R&D and mass manufacturing of NIR devices. We have identified centers for conducting clinical trials in Diacon hospital and Jnana Sanjeevini diabetes hospital. c.Till date the team has performed different experiments with artificially spiked human blood samples and developed a method using Bruker Tango spectrometer to detect the blood glucose levels. Also, we have identified highly specific glucose wavelengths. d.The initial proof of concept has been developed using Bruker spectrometric study and is being implemented on the hardware for development of the final device. e.Our engineering team and the biosciences team meet with our technical/scientific advisors on a regular basis to review our progress to ensure we handle the roadblocks in our defined approach. We measure our progress using decisive timeliness in achieving set milestones. f.We have recieved the ethical committee approval from well-known diabetic care centres, headed by Dr.S.R Aravind and Dr. Srikanta Satyanaraya, who are renowned experts/endocrinologists. | Prototype development (0-3 Months): Initially a sensitive circuit is built by selecting the glucose specific wavelength. The prototype will undergo multiple tests in order to test its stability, reliability and consistency. Quantifying glucose in whole blood and glucose-water mixture using Biofi prototype (3-4 Months): A total number of 500 blood samples and 400 different glucose water mixture from 0 mg/dl to 800 mg/dl at 2 mg/dl interval will be taken and its spectral analysis performed using Bruker, Biofi prototype. Quantifying glucose in finger mimicking phantoms (4-6 Months): A total number of 800 different finger mimicking phantoms, and the readings on phantoms are collected using Biofi prototype Predicting glucose in human subjects non-invasively using Biofi prototype (6-12 Months): Non-invasive blood glucose readings from 20000 subjects are collected using Biofi prototype. Biofi readings will be correlated with respective analytical blood glucose readings, to improve the hardware and algorithm/software related details, until desired accuracy and precision is achieved. Strategic positioning of the product would be initiated. Regulatory approvals to be addressed, enabling the sales and marketing of our device in APAC & RoW. Getting MVP(12-15 months): Additional 3500 human subjects will be enrolled for the final study, just to ensure that the accuracy is achieved and reproducible, giving the final MVP for release into the market and get certification from CTRI and DGCI. | We consider that the following are our most needed resources for our solution to scale and have considerable impact: a.20000 human data for clinical validations for device to self-learn from AI collected data for which we need to manufacture 1000 devices which can go for field trials (Which may cost ~ 1M USD) b.FDA approval and CE approval and certifications (Which may cost ~ 500K USD) c.Manufacturing partners: Dreamtech South Korea has been evaluated and seem to be a potential partner for mass manufacturing stage. d.Distribution partners and S&M team: We need to hire a new team for marketing, sales activities, while the core team will handle the initial pre sales operation (Which may cost ~ 300K USD) Short term 0-3 months: Apart from core team we need to hire a new team members and resource cost of 500k USD required Mid term 3-6months: Materials and resource cost and overall clinical trial expenditures 750k Long term: 6-12months : 750K USD required to complete the approvals and certification purpose. | http://www.biofimed.com (company website, under construction) | Work in progress in this section | Elevate 2019 winners (Start-up event organized by the State Government, India), recognized as one of the top 100 start-up companies in the state of Karnataka, India, which helped us in getting incubated in BBC, which is an incubation center of the State. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
756 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Suyam | Baidya | Green Coins | https://www.facebook.com/WalkmanGreenCoins/ | CEO | Male | Nepal | Nepal | English | It will be my great pleasure and honor to be a part of UN Solution Summit to present my project in front of the worlds' most prominent Leaders and the opportunity to let the world know and join hands on our mission of building a greener and better Earth. ""Together We Can""- Green Coins WALKMAN ""Green Coins is a brand by Green Coins to motivate people to choose low carbon travelling like walking/cycling. Launched on FEB 16th 2019, our 1300+ app users have already covered more than 45000 kilometers distance using Walkman which is Equivalent of reducing more than 4500 kilograms of carbon emission into the environment. Based on tCO2 emmison of 125cc of vehicle, 1 Green Coins = 8.19 gm of CO2 and thus far, our users have already generated more than 571,000 Green Coins inthe market which is exactly equal to the carbon emission noted above. “Green Coin” is a digital currency which can be used to redeem discount coupons and free give -aways in our Green-Commerce platform “Hariyo Bazaar”. It can be generated by choosing low carbon activity like walking, cycling, recycling, upcycling, using electric vehicles, rainwater harvesting and so on through our green partners who are commercial environment enterprises. For eg. Walkman is our green partner which is one of the way to generate green coins via. walking/cycling; others are our recycling partners like Khalisisi, Blue waste to value whose customers will also be rewarded with green coins based on weight of goods recycled. With Green Coins, our vision is to transform nepal and the world into a greener and eco-friendly society by promoting the use of eco-friendly alternatives. We intend to do this using the reward based method popularly known as positive reinforcement technique in psychology which uses incentive mechanism to motivate people to do something not of their usual interest. The more the green coins generated, the more our earth is being saved... | Suyam Baidya is an engineer who worked in ICIMOD as a WebGIS and Database intern within the MENRIS initiative of NASA & USAID. Suyam believes what Steve Jobs did..“Those people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who actually do!”. He is also a trained Drone Pilot and satellite+aerial image analyst. Suyam is a co-Founder of Green Coins and holds a degree in Geoinformatics Engineering from Kathmandu University. | Walkman by ""Green Coins"" | Green Coins- ""Together We Can"" | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nepal | Yes | Health at Homes Nepal, Khalisisi.com, Tyre Treasures | Transition to Scale | Its been more about six months since we have launched Walkman Beta Version in Playstore and we are privileged to have more than 1300+ active users supporting our initiative who have collectively covered more than 40,00 kilometers using our app equivalent of reducing more than 4500+ kilograms of CO2 into the atmosphere. We have been fortunate to be nominated for ICTAward 2019 "" Nepal's Biggest Technology Award"" We are launching our Version 3.0 by the end of Aug 2019 | Every year an average Nepali emits more than 6000 kgs of CO2 into the atmosphere. To balance its effect in the ecosystem, we need to plant at least 134 trees individually. Which is near to impossible! On the other hand traffic jams have been a major problem. Every year more than 200,000 vehicles get registered just in Kathmandu and with this rate of registration, road widening projects are just not the appropriate solution. So, the only solution is to bring in change in our behaviour. | This is where ""Walkman"" comes in the picture. Walkman is a mobile application platform which motivates its users to walk/run/cycle instead of taking vehicles by rewarding the users with incentives from brands across the valley. Incentive based discount coupon partnership is the first of its kind in Nepal and moreover, rewards are also proven method to be the best way to motivate people. We make this possible by incentivising the users with our virtual green coins which can be used to redeem discounts adn free-giveaways through our app or in our green-commerce platform ""Hariyo Bazaar"" perfectly suited for small and medium entreprises to market their business with no cost. | 1Green Coin=8.19gm of CO2 (Disclaimer:calculation based on tCO2 emission of 125cc of vehicle) Walkman is one of the ways to generated green coins via walking/cycling. Green coins can also be genrated from recyclign, car-pooling, rain-water harvesting, electric vehicles, upcled goods monitoring through our green partners like local recyclers, upclyers, walkers.etc. Others have walking incentivisation but that limited to walking only. We created this unique way to link all the green alternatives with green coins and incentives for every green activity. | We have already launched our app on FEB 16, 2019 and will be launching our Version 3by end of August 2019 along with our new green-commerce platform ""Hariyo Bazaar"" where green coins can be used for either discoutns or free give aways. | Our mission is to reduce more than 10,000 Kgs of CO2 by the end of 2019 and expand to 5 major cities of Nepal by mid 2020. | We need to integrate blockchain technology in our system to have even more considerable impact for our solution. Short term needs: Funds/Grants/Investment to sustain for a year Medium term needs: huge marketing campaigns and viral strategies to reach more larger audience Long term needs: Resources to go global and promote the product in a blobal scale starting from similar markets. | https://ictaward.org/walkman-green-coins/ https://www.blincventures.com/walkman/ https://www.facebook.com/WalkmanGreenCoins/?modal=admin_todo_tour https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigfoot.www.walkman&hl=en https://kathmandupost.com/escalate/2019/01/14/walk-and-earn https://medium.com/@NEHUB/walkman-a-step-to-a-fitter-life-577ae3180866 https://www.facebook.com/nepaltourismboard/photos/a.290783287625250/2337766386260253/?type=3&theater https://www.facebook.com/kuwed2019/photos/a.1554338911533930/2063738133927336/?type=3&theater http://pahilopost.com/content/20190209071153.html?fbclid=IwAR3tDrj2FqzTvIJKDyd0fKnpqaXlvjNk-o3rTLiu4mYwehH7tw2y-_MHNjA | 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvKGWooY2O8 2. https://www.facebook.com/sunwaycollege/videos/1542976089171780/UzpfSTI0MzI3MTg1OTcxNzQ3NzozNzQ3MTQ3NzMyMzk4NTE/?q=sunway%20international%20business%20school%20-%20sibs%20-%20kathmandu&epa=SEARCH_BOX 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYQR0mZ2rQw | Top 5 finalist all over Nepal in Connect in inassociation with Indian embassy and Clock B' Innovations Top 5 in ICT awards "" Nepals Bigest Tech Award"" Top 7 in UNDP Youth Colab 2018 Top 12 in WWF Greenovation Challenge 2016 Top 6 in HULT prize, kathmandu university edition Top 25 in Nation SOcial Challenge 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
757 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Martin | Kiyeng | Decode Yield | http://decodeyield.com/ | Founder | Male | Kenya | Kenya | English | Hunger isn't a scarcity problem, Hunger is a logistics & nutrition problem. There isn't a lack of food, rather an ineffective redistribution of wasted food or surplus nutritious food especially if live in a tech-enabled world where logistics issues are practically obsolete. Why are we still tolerating such a contradictory equation? Our solution is On demand technology powered by block chain technology that helps businesses manage food waste and positively impacting their bottom line through food recovery, redistribution and farming within the food supply chain delivering the competitive advantage of real-time social impact reporting analytics.Our solution impact is two sided where we focus on Producing Food in which we care about: Availability, affordability, convenience,desirability and nutritious food in which in the Supply chain infrastructure and practices across the value chain will mostly include food wastage to ‘close the loop’ by re purposing unused food before it becomes waste.On the other side is Consuming Food Where we care about: People making healthy food choices and building healthy eating habits in which we are empowering and incentivising people to change their eating and feeding behavior, Reinforcing positive and nutritious cultural and social practices, Educating around the needs of humans and the value of food, Improving people’s understanding of what is and is not healthy, with this we use big data to create transparent,comprehensive metrics that can be used to define and measure various aspect including health and food waste thus impacting our scale. | My name is Martin Kiptoo Kiyeng, I am a passionate social entrepreneur focusing majorly on impact investment, I have studies in Project Management, and I have 5 years’ experience working with Non- governmental International organization and 4 years running a social entreprise.I am result driven, I communicate prolifically, I promote team work and build relationship as a champion of change in developing others in establishing stretch goals and practice self-development.My approach to sustainability looks at various factors this is; Identify roadblocks to ease the path to change through this, one understands the dynamics of resistance and adopting the appropriate strategies for dealing with it make it easier to anticipate and adjust | CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND FOOD WASTE SOLUTION-THE CIRCULAR FOOD LOOP SYSTEM | Food circular project approach and re-using the food that we already have | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Kenya | Yes | Government,Non-governmental organisation, restaurants and hotels, community based organisation, telecommunication companies | Proof of Concept | Currently we are in the process of launching in the market with different products.We evolve from bootstrapping and utilizing our own limited resources to meet our milestones which is really challenging and tend to be constrained to reach this point.The other part is building and proving social business model and strengthening key capabilities,market entry, product-market fit process and launching customers.Our talent acquisition and creating system change since we are more on behavioral change. | Globally, 1/3 of all food produced is wasted; this is environmentally devastating and profoundly unsustainable. We have another 2.2 billion people joining the planet by 2050, and in order to feed everybody we need to increase global food production by >50%. Over the past 15 years, we’ve seen how climate change and resource utilization are closely linked, and food is one of the most important resources in that equation. This puts food waste squarely at the center of many global challenges. | On Demand Digital Economy of platform and mobile application that helps businesses track and manage their food waste. Our end-to-end service works in real-time to connect businesses with surplus or wasted food to those who need it right now, all while helping businesses understand and reduce their food waste reaping high financial benefit and positively impacting their bottom line by feeding them. We are creating an efficient and sustainable means of nutrition to low- income families & the vulnerable. We addresses hunger as a logistics issue, not a scarcity issue. Decode Yield ensures that surplus food and waste food is safely delivered from businesses to non-profits and those who need it. Food supplier/donors pay for decode Yield services — which include data, supplies, and logistics— to help them increase profits, reduce their carbon footprint, and optimize inventory while feeding their communities. | We are using key drivers of impact, sustainability and quality, our solution focus on Circular approach and re-using the food that we already have to solve three enormous problems: food waste, food poverty and climate change.We are consistent, predictable, measurable supply of food for our recipients, thereby preventing wasting of any of the food that we rescue.Our marketplace allows from any individual or organisation. | we have been evolving our technology usage from a whatsApp group of organic food of responsible homemade food consumption and crowd sourcing food to recently beta testing with mobile technology in food recovery and redistribution and also soon also launching our web technology.Our plan is advance our best-in-class technology, ensuring web and mobile usability and expand our reach in order to build a global movement with a dedicated community exercising for a hunger-free world and proper nutrition and protection of the landfill.he metrics to measure our impact will be the number of successful transactions made on our platform, meals served, grams of food rescued, carbon footprint, money saved by businesses using the service, and the satisfaction of our users.Our priority is allocating more resources towards on boarding clients through marketing, direct sales, and expanding our operations geographically. improve our web and mobile technology and design to improve accessibility and satisfaction. | Building a global, scalable, profitable and impactful business with over 1 billion users by creating a sustainable business model by reducing and eliminating food waste. Re-designing the food production systems on the basis of the circular economy that would guarantee that all people across the world have nourishing food, and that this is produced following environmentally-friendly sustainability.The double food and environmental pyramid will will have developed highlights the extremely close links between two aspects of every food: its nutritional value and the environmental impact it has through the stages of its production and consumption.Every person involved in the food system—rowers, food processors, distributors, retailers, consumers, and waste managers can play a role in ensuring a sustainable agricultural system.Every person involved in the food system rowers, food processors, distributors, retailers, consumers, and waste managers should play a role in ensuring a sustainable agricultural system. | Allocate more resources towards on boarding clients through marketing, direct sales, and expanding our operations geographically. improve our web and mobile technology and design to improve accessibility and satisfaction.By focusing on our growth and scalability,we will be able to expand our reach and increase impact in next 6 months. Partnership and collaboration for scale | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGZWN5Pt2oU&t=9s http://decodeyield.com/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGZWN5Pt2oU&t=9s | Gogetaz Finalist 2019, Shelter Tech 2019 finalist, Cisco accelerator 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
758 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Vanessa | Kisowile | SheFound | www.shefound.africa | Co-Founder | Female | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | Coming from a technology background and having worked in the innovation space for almost 6 years now, I have come to understand my role in building Africa's economy through female empowerment and gender equality. I have worked with a couple of organizations like Apps & Girls, Buni Divas, Help To Help among others, supporting females in technology and in entrepreneurship which has given me a first-hand view of what is lacking and how we can do better. Through a number of my own initiatives like Girl Next door, which was a program designed to cultivate and invest in the visions of future female leaders among others, I have had the honour to work with this economy driving group. As much as to me, supporting children, girls and women is personal, here is why supporting female entrepreneurs and female-led businesses are crucial for socio-economic development in Africa. Africa, which is the only region in the world where more women than men choose to become entrepreneurs, has the total number of almost a billion people, 50.4% of whom are female. I believe being part of the UN Solutions Summit will give me a rare opportunity to meet change-makers, potential partners, investors and industry leaders that can play a crucial role in maximizing role played and impact brought by SheFound. Even more, I believe this is an avenue to learn from those ahead of me, how an innovative and impactful solution can grow sustainably, bring the foreseen impact and without changing its core. I believe in the world where we invest in the visions and abilities of females, among the SGD goals, economic empowerment and gender equality are very crucial for world's socio-economic future, this summit is a great opportunity to be exposed to other players facilitating these goals. | Vanessa Is a Tanzanian born tech-enthusiast, impact - catalyst, entrepreneur, inclusion and diversity champion working in the innovation and tech space to create better opportunities for African entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Her journey began in Tanzania, where she was part of Buni Innovation Hub, a co-working space that encourages tech-entrepreneurship for early-stage startups. Vanessa then expanded her working territories, as she joined Sahara Ventures a company striving to build a stable innovation and technology ecosystem in Africa as the lead of Sahara Sparks Events Ltd, a company behind Africa’s largest innovation and technology entrepreneurship event. Vanessa is also passionate about impact projects, leadership growth, diversity, and inclusion. Has been a volunteer for a couple of for-impact programs, including the TGEE project by Help To Help, worked with Apps & Girls to support young female tech-entrepreneurs and now championing SheFound, a platform striving to support female entrepreneurs and female-led enterprises in Africa. Vanessa is proactive, has founded programs like ""Girl Next Door"" and ""Gentmin"" and has been able to reach a number of young adults. Also leads her own business ""itravelar"" telling untold African stories and exposing travellers across the globe to best places in Africa. Vanessa is a fan of writing and a graced communicator who uses her work to create extraordinary results and amazing levels of personal fulfilment through her writings and messages. | SheFound | is a platform leveraging every resource possible to support female entrepreneurs and female-led enterprises. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Tanzania, Zambia | Yes | Sahara Ventures | Proof of Concept | SheFound was launched last year November and started operating early this year, taking its first batch of aspiring founders and bloom founders (females already running businesses) and had it's first marketplace event this June. This was a piloting stage because this is when we learned more on what the female entrepreneurs from each group need, how can we deliver better value, the direction we want to take and the position we have in supporting Africa's socio-economic development. | Africa is the only region in the world where more women than men choose to become entrepreneurs where 50.4% of a billion people are female. Sub-Saharan Africa leads the way, with its female entrepreneurship rates the highest globally. 25.9 per cent of the female adult population engages in early-stage entrepreneurial activity in the region. however, also there is the highest discontinuance rate at 8.4% reasons being either unprofitability or lack of finances as a reason. We step in to help. | We are creating an avenue for these female entrepreneurs to constantly learn from people that can prepare them to be investor-ready, expose them to the business world and add value to their businesses and personal growth through trainings and mentors network. We provide platforms for female-led enterprises to be showcased, exposed to emerging markets and explore new potential partnerships and investments through marketplace events and business portfolio platform. Through the investors' network and the female entrepreneurs' network, we are going to create a platform linking the female-led enterprises with potential investors, partners or advisors. A group that can really bring investment value to their businesses. Our long term vision is to become Africa's economic driving force by supporting and investing in female-led enterprises. Also by connecting yet another dot in facilitating gender equality and economic-empowerment to females in Africa. With this role comes even further impact by creating chances for adding more employment opportunities for those businesses that grow and better living standards for the African communities. | SheFound is providing a number of value propositions to the female entrepreneurs and their enterprises through leveraging and creating tools, partnership, opportunities and platforms for them. Through the Bootcamp and Acceleration programs including the post-training, we are providing these female entrepreneurs and leaders with tools, resources and assistance needed for each stage of their businesses. Through the Marketplaces, we are providing platforms for female-led enterprises to be showcased, exposed to emerging markets and explore new potential partnerships and investments. Through the Mentors network, we are creating an avenue for these female entrepreneurs to constantly learn from people that can prepare them to be investor-ready, expose them to the business world and add value to their businesses and personal growth. Through the investors' network and the female entrepreneurs' network, we are going to create a platform linking the female-led enterprises with potential investors, partners or advisors. A group that can really bring investment value to their businesses. | The program has a defined structure, that includes the tools, resources and methodologies being used to run the program in the African context for the need of each group involved. Our first batch of aspiring founders have now moved their ideas to prototypes and are in a critical stage of building their teams and creating a foundation. Our first batch of blooms, most of them who had not registered their companies have done so, some of them have grown their market values, some have reevaluated their products. We have also already started working with other partners to deliver value to the female entrepreneurs ( we are in conversation with a legal firm and with an organization from Holland to deliver training). With each feedback from the entrepreneurs, we are able to tell our progress, impact and how and if our methods are working. So far, the feedback is very positive and we are working to do even more. Also using our checklist, looking at where we wanted to be, where we are and what we are supposed to do, we are able to measure our progress. | The goal is to become the driving force in facilitating Africa's socio-economic growth through supporting and investing in female entrepreneurs. So we are expecting to start the second round of Acceleration for the first batch of aspiring founders and blooms until April, then take in a second batch. We are also expecting to start working with other hubs and partners across Tanzania with interest to female entrepreneurs and see how we can leverage value in supporting this group. We are also in conversation with a hub in Zambia to host our first ever out of Tanzania event as a marketplace. The event is expected to be done during international women's day as a way of celebrating Africa's economic driving force. We are expecting to have 5 meetups, 1 Marketplace and 4 trainings by June next year, which is like the end of the year for the program. We have also started building mentors, partners and investors networks and get a new technical person to join the team. By June next year, we are expecting to showcase the products of at least two aspiring founders that moved from ideas to business, expecting to have at least two of our bloom founder to have reached the investor ready stage. By March Next year, we are expecting to start working with other hubs in supporting female entrepreneurs. | Short Term Needs: 1. Mentors for female entrepreneurs and female-led enterprises. Medium-term Needs: 1. Funds to run the programs and gather resources needed to create sustainability. Long-term Needs: 1.Mentors for the female entrepreneurs after the first two basic and acceleration programs. 2. Investors to invest in accelerated female-led businesses. 3. Partners who offer value to these businesses, like legal partners, etc. | Website: www.shefound.africa Twitter: www.twitter.com/afroshefound Instagram: www.instagram.com/afroshefound Facebook: www.facebook.com/afroshefound Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaF2fxG9Alo8JxqBb_qUCQ Medium: https://bit.ly/2Yp0VBi | At Sahara Sparks 2018 event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3efrDDZVuYc At Female Founders Marketplace event 2018: https://youtu.be/ShucOPqmh0M | IT Woman of the year 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
759 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jaya | Rajwani | Aurat Raaj | https://www.auratraaj.co/ | Chief Technical Office (CTO) | Female | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | My motivation to attend the UN Solutions Summit, is that it will help me: 1. To network with other people working on SDGs & exchange learning. 2. Have a platform to share our work at a global level. Talk about Raaji and get feedback/partnerships to pilot in other countries with other social enterprises. 3. By pitching our AI-based solution & being a strong advocate of using tech for social good, I will have an opportunity to represent Pakistani women in STEM globally. Personally, being a girl from a minority background I will be immensely honoured to represent my country on an international platform. This representation will play a significant role for me to inspire other girls to enter STEM fields & be a role model for them. 4. Entrepreneurship is lonely but social entrepreneurship is lonelier. Finding female mentors from other regions & experiences can be crucial in such times attending the UN Solutions Summit can help attract the right & like minded mentors. Learning from someone else's experiences can save so much time & errors. My interest in impact & social development started when I saw a darker side of society. In my class at university, our male counterparts would believe women can’t code? To challenge this mindset & support women in STEM: - I joined IEEE Women in Engineering. As Chairperson, I organized technology focused events & also conducted a digital campaign “Femina Engineers” to celebrate the achievements of women in technology that was applauded internationally. - To emphasize on women in STEM in developing countries, I remotely interned at a program where I worked with Nigerian girls. This exposure helped me gain understanding about the commonality of issues faced by girls in technology in Pakistani & African region. - Additionally, I joined Civic Innovation Lab where I created a platform where NGOs could geotag themselves, connect with investors & potential volunteers using Artificial Intelligence (AI). - I could’ve stopped there. But instead I used my technology expertise & social impact exposure to extend my work & reach a global audience by joining Aurat Raaj. At Aurat Raaji, we are working on an AI-chatbot that is a safe space for girls to talk about their reproductive health, get professional help & access to sanitary resources all in an anonymous manner. Raaji also has the potential to reach millions of girls. As each of these steps brought me closer to making an impact, I believe this Summit can help continue to do that. | I remember sitting on my terrace wall as a kid, pretending to fly a starship around the universe like my idol Lieutenant Uhura - a fictional character from Star Trek. I would pretend to give out orders to my team & work well with robots and science stations. Like Uhura, I was a minority in my country & like her, I was determined to carve a name out for myself in STEM fields. And this stuck with me for a very long time. Growing up with such relatable characters, I pursued a career in computer science. Despite the backlash, I became the 1st female engineer of my family & continued to support women in technology by leading IEEE Women in Engineering Student Branch. I also worked closely with women from Nigeria in an internship to emphasise on the same issue in Pakistani and African regions. My desire for social impact & interest in Artificial Intelligence led me to join Aurat Raaj. Here, I am involved in building /testing/training the AI chatbot called Raaji which provides reproductive health education to women. I also receive mentoring from international advisors on board about social entrepreneurship & technology, pitch at competitions for my organization, talk at technology events about our product and lead a team of technology interns & professionals. Working closely for impact makes me realise there is nothing more fulfilling than knowing that your product can make lives better. And that, through technology one can change behaviours from unhealthy to healthy, from uninformed to informed & from afraid to empowered to create a better world with strong & healthy women. | Raaji - A Reproductive Health Education Chatbot for Girls | Using AI to educate girls from developing countries on menstrual hygiene management and providing access to products, services and professionals. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Currently working - Pakistan Intended to be - India, Africa, Nepal. | Yes | 1. UNICEF Pakistan 2. Santax 3. Non-profit Schools & private institutes in Karachi 4. Health Startups - ReliveNow & Infertility Dost 5. Girly Things | Proof of Concept | We are currently testing menstrual hygiene english(Reference[4]: https://tinyurl.com/y4z26bzu) & urdu version[5] of chatbot in schools[6]. It is to test the robustness of chatbot in real-time, get validation for guided conversation & measure knowledge improvement [31]. Some of these pilots helped realise Raaji could be used independently by a teacher in classrooms & made available in the form of a dashboard where teachers can play the lesson and get insights about student's learning outcomes. | Unhygienic menstrual health practices and misconceptions among girls are widespread in Pakistan. Girls aren’t allowed to discuss sexual health and menstruation, shamed for curiosity, or given answers that are unhelpful. Lack of knowledge & unhygienic practices are factors for girls not going to school, gender inequality and poor sexual health[7]. 49% girls with no knowledge prior to first period[8], 79% of girls managing periods poorly[9], & 1 out of 3 girls missing school during periods[10]. | Our solution Raaji [11] is an Artificial Intelligence chatbot to equip young girls across Pakistan with the knowledge they need to understand the facts about menstruation, learn how they can manage their periods using healthy practices & be more empowered to stay in school. Girls are introduced to Raaji through an animated video series, in which we tell localized, engaging and informative stories about a female empowerment superheroine that teaches young girls about taboo topics (Appendix i: http://tinyurl.com/yxupk7gv). Raaji can also help girls to get access to proximal health care resources or get connected to human support networks. In cases of emergency, doctors, psychologists and lady health workers can take over a conversation and solve the concern of the user. We are also working on integrating e-commerce players where we can help users to order different health products while endorsing these brands in terms of ad placement on our platform [12] In the long term, Raaji can be extended to many countries as her content can be contextualized for multiple languages. Raaji can also be independently used as a reproductive health education tool by schools. We will create a dashboard through which the teacher can play Raaji lessons while real time data collection will help them see the knowledge improvement and learning gaps of the students. We also intend to go towards open source technology so Raaji’s code can be reusable and people around the world can contribute to it. | In Pakistan, we see traditional approaches to information dissemination (i.e. non-digital, offline, in-person) by international (eg. UNICEF[13]) & local NGOs (eg. AHUNG[14]), private health/hospital networks (eg. AKU[15]), FMCG’s (eg.Unilever[16]), & institutional health programs (lady health workers[17], greenstar[18]). Other approaches are: crisis-line & call centre (eg.Aman Telehealth[19]) or SMS-based systems (eg. MomConnect, ParentUp, SMS-baby), or a mHealth approach (eg. SehatKahani[20], RingMD[21]). These approaches are cost intensive, rely on human resources, prone to judgment & human error, do not iteratively improve using data, & not enough engaging for young users. They are also not scalable. From our field work [22,23,24], we learnt that girls wanted to learn about their bodies, get access to resources in a private & non-judgemental space. A new approach to tackle these issues is to use AI-powered chatbots which provides information in a private & human like manner. There are international solutions (Eg: GirlEffect[25], Lily Health[26], & TIA[27]) which are using this approach to tackle the issues mentioned above. Our bot also introduces complex topics via its animated videos & provides required information anonymously in local languages and allows a human takeover by gynecologists & psychologists. This extends empathy & professional advice so the user can talk to a human from the comfort of their home without revealing any personal information. | Currently, our chatbot is available for users [1,2] to test and talk about various reproductive health & hygiene topics. The analysis we did on the basis of data collected through is as follows: App & Web Demo: Approximately 3000 sessions (avg 10 messages per session) Facebook conversations: 50 Emergency sessions: 777 Revoked: 63 Bot failed: 728 sessions Resolved by experts 447 sessions Unresolved due to busy experts: 281 Total volunteers for human takeover: 20 Active volunteers now: 7 We also tested this version in 5 different settings. One in rural setting (Tharparker), one in city slum setting (Abdul Goth), in incubation center (The Nest i/o & NIC Karachi), one with English speaking school and then finally in a Government Urdu speaking school setting (Orangi). From the data collected from these pilots, app, web demo & human takeover conversations, we figured out the content and domains which girls wanted to talk about. So we created domain specific datasets with professionals[28] & trained a chatbot prototype on it to get feedback about the content[3]. Upon receiving positive feedback for the design, we created an English[4] & Urdu version[5] on the topic of Menstrual Hygiene. We are already taking this version to private & public institutions[6] where we teach Menstrual Hygiene to kids[29, 30]. We also do knowledge improvement & impact measurement to see how if the tool is useful for the kids. Some of our key findings from these visits can be seen here[31] | Our goals for next year are: 1. Doing pilots, testing & collecting data to train the model. 2. Build webhook for integration with e-commerce provider. 3. Improve local language pipeline technology integration. 4. Measure impact and test learning outcomes. A 12 month milestone based plan is: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OGM1QzfbAwReaRDFoRtjduQH9BO8tuySS2liSAEjUtE/edit?usp=sharing Our goals for the next five years are: We’ll prove that AI is mature enough to have knowledgeable conversations in important areas of society. In doing so, we potentially better menstrual health practices of 5 million+ women around the world. With the use of formal monitoring & evaluation we would be able to prove the efficacy of our solution & help contribute to Pakistan sustainable development goals. Eventually, we expect to contribute significantly to improved knowledge, reduced stigma, improved health outcomes, and improved school attendance for girls in Pakistan. In terms of technology/data, we expect to have a robust/scalable technology solution (topics, geography, language). We hope to have developed multiple domain knowledge data sets, that we can use to do social good. We have Raaji deployed in schools as a course where the teacher can help students to use the tool and can see data & insights about learning gaps and knowledge improvement. We also intend to expand our outreach to developing countries like India, Nepal, Africa, etc & build content specific datasets. | We have been in a proof of concept phase for the last year and tested our chatbot in communities and schools. Now in order to scale the product we need to improve on the technology i.e. improve the chatbot’s intelligence, collect more data, onboard human experts, and integrate product fulfillment. Moreover, we intend to make Raaji accessible through an application where students can talk to her and the teacher can see their progress & knowledge improvement. Therefore, we also need application developers who can do that. So our immediate need is to raise at least 200,000 dollars fund to hire these resources. To scale and sustain, we majorly need brand partnerships to build ecommerce functionality within the chatbot and school partnerships for deploying Raaji. As the numbers for these grow in time we will need a business development lead + team to conduct these meetings from time to time. For a long term scaling plan, we will majorly need context specific datasets, geography specific brand partnerships and human experts to localize Raaji for other regions and languages. Other miscellaneous needs include: Mobile and internet devices for testing Marketing and distribution (social media + animation) for marketing Raaji | Website: https://www.auratraaj.co/ Press: https://www.auratraaj.co/press Interact with our MHM web demo here: https://auratraaj.com/Raaji/MHM/, https://www.auratraaj.com/urdumhm/ Photos and videos https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1LezHCE-yWxxdtAannmBHVziVpD7yrI9I Appendix: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1517g1CfkKpObyC0pFM4AMAsKaiF9fJXzY5Nt9mRTrtY/edit?usp=sharing References: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ShrE-C72oZOiIvFFR98TrAETX1lT6mv9QFxqS84XAN8/edit?usp=sharing MIT Solve application: https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/healthy-cities/solutions/7239 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/auratraaj/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AuratRaaj Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raajibaaji/ | Pitches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syfQBXQmHAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-nLzR8BruQ&t=1s Trainings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7lB1BARSUg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siAg8jPZKwQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzgbiW-3rQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfYVOQ14ORY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SywdY3bXBo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBobu149ZSQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRJYRNNqCQI Google IO Recap: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iQBAkbk-Md5TPefWx4XyHXMxW41MayhU | A Global Sustainability Award from tvE at BAFTA - https://tinyurl.com/yxf6wwme A World Summit Award 2019 - https://tinyurl.com/yxb5cefw Social Media for Empowerment Award 2018 - https://tinyurl.com/y2dch274 Winner of She Loves Tech 2018 - https://tinyurl.com/y3zjqo3s Global Champion WSA 2019 - https://tinyurl.com/y224jr5u Finalist for Index Award - https://tinyurl.com/y4mkovso Other competitions and grants - https://tinyurl.com/yypy8lhg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
760 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Seydou | BELEM | Handle & Advice Consulting | None | CEO Founder | Male | Burkina Faso | Côte D'Ivoire | French | I have been a member of the Junior Chamber International since 2010, precisely in January 2010. For years since my induction, with different responsibilities I have been able to see the degree of poverty that undermines the communities, the unemployment that puts young people in the disarray. But I also saw the potential that technology gives us to help improve life in communities. It was then that we decided to set up a platform dedicated to employment called ""Job Carrefour"". With Job Carrefour, we would like to be a bridge between job seekers and employers. With our platform, we would like to allow job seekers access, even with a simple smartphone to the database of multiple job offers. They will also be able to submit their curculum vitae so that employers can consult directly. As for the employers, without any other form, they will be able to submit their job offer on the Job Carrefour platform and also collect applications directly. They will be able to consult the curculum vitae and directly contact the interested ones. We have thought more, training sessions for job seekers will be organized to better equip them for jobs in full swing The goal is to put more chances on the side of job seekers. Training for socio-professional reintegration. We make ourselves available to employers for upgrading employees so they can perform better at their different jobs. Every year there is a forum for employment. With our platform, we aim to contribute to the eradication of unemployment and thus to poverty. | Born on 03 November 1983 in Konédougou, Soubré / CIV, Howard Seydou BELEM graduated in Business Law and works as CEO Founder of Handle & Advice Consulting and the magazine ""laune.net"", a communication-consulting-training agency . He currently resides in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Howard Seydou joined JCI Universitaire Ouaga Soleil in 2010. Thus, by climbing the ladder He became Executive Chairman of JCI Ouaga Mètba in 2017, position that constitutes the highest rank in a local member organization. At the National level, already in 2012 he was taking his first steps as National Assistant in charge of the Secretariat of the National Training Institute of JCI Burkina Faso and in 2015 National Assistant in charge of Strategy and Development of the National Institute JCI Burkina Faso Training Course. National Vice-President in 2018 and JCI Burkina Faso's 2019 National Executive Vice President, since 2010 he has been contributing to the personal development of JCI members and the community as a Trainer, Positive Change Agent. Since 2010, Howard Seydou has participated in 5 National Conventions, 3 Leaders' Summit, 5 National Councils, 2 National Congresses (registered for 2018), 6 Local Conference and 8 Solemns, the last of which in 2018. He took part in celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of JCI Côte d'Ivoire in Yamoussoukro in 2013 and the 10th anniversary of JCI Niger in Niamey in 2013. He has participated in 7 UEMOA Inter-Organization Meetings (RIO) since 2010. He has been honored Best Member of JCI Burkina in 2015. | Job Carrefour | The question of employment, our priority ... | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Burkina Faso | No | Ideation | With our platform, we would like to allow job seekers access, even with a simple smartphone to the database of multiple job offers. As for the employers, without any other form, they will be able to submit their job offer on the Job Carrefour platform and also collect applications directly. They will be able to consult the curculum vitae and directly contact the interested ones. | The Carrefour job platform aims to contribute to the eradication of unemployment in the community. | With Job Carrefour, we would like to be a bridge between job seekers and employers. With our platform, we would like to allow job seekers access, even with a simple smartphone to the database of multiple job offers. They will also be able to submit their curculum vitae so that employers can consult directly. As for the employers, without any other form, they will be able to submit their job offer on the Job Carrefour platform and also collect applications directly. They will be able to consult the curculum vitae and directly contact the interested ones. We have thought more, training sessions for job seekers will be organized to better equip them for jobs in full swing The goal is to put more chances on the side of job seekers. Training for socio-professional reintegration. We make ourselves available to employers for upgrading employees so they can perform better at their different jobs. Every year there is a forum for employment. With our platform, we aim to contribute to the eradication of unemployment and thus to poverty. | With Job Carrefour, we would like to be a bridge between job seekers and employers. With our platform, we would like to allow job seekers access, even with a simple smartphone to the database of multiple job offers. They will also be able to submit their curculum vitae so that employers can consult directly. As for the employers, without any other form, they will be able to submit their job offer on the Job Carrefour platform and also collect applications directly. They will be able to consult the curculum vitae and directly contact the interested ones. We have thought more, training sessions for job seekers will be organized to better equip them for jobs in full swing The goal is to put more chances on the side of job seekers. Training for socio-professional reintegration. We make ourselves available to employers for upgrading employees so they can perform better at their different jobs. Every year there is a forum for employment. With our platform, we aim to contribute to the eradication of unemployment and thus to poverty. | Our platform is in a project phase. | We would like with our platform to be the leadership of the field of unemployment eradication. We are primarily targeting universities and institutes to help young people who are at the end of the cycle. We are in contact with companies that have employment potential. | Our project needs investment for the launch of the actions. Also the coaching and capacity building of our team that is built. | @Jobcarrefour.net | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
761 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sweta | Sarkar | iTeach Schools | http://www.iteachschools.org/ | Co-Founder & School Leader | Female | India | India | English | I am applying to present a project. Pune city in the state of Maharashtra, has around 330 public schools, out of which only 54 schools are English Medium Schools, the rest are multi lingual schools. Out of the 54 primary English medium public schools, none go till grade 10. Students have to seek admissions in private schools which are mostly unaffordable. Families that send their kids to government schools come from low income and vulnerable families. The above crisis over the years has led to massive student dropouts before they even finish grade 10. The government isn’t equipped with human or monetary resources to solve it at large. While this might be a crisis in my city, but I am aware that many schools in rural India only aim at giving access to primary education and at a global level so many developing nations have access to free primary education but no access to secondary. Young adults globally are dropping out of the system. If they are not in school, they are not in a good place. The risk of getting married early, the risk of getting into prison, the risk of being unemployed and the risk of growing into individuals who will not value the power of education, worsens the social fabric of our nations. The solution to the above crisis is opening charter schools to secure free access to secondary education for all students. Most struggling nations secure primary education until grade 5. A charter school system ideally stitches alliances with the government and private partners (corporates). While the system might not be equipped to run secondary schools, they still have something to offer to somebody who’s willing to run on behalf of them. In our case, the government provides us the space to run our schools. Our schools operate out of a government school building. The government also supports us with any form of permission that states that we are a school fit to run a secondary school. The government has always something to offer. As for money, the world has businesses that are waiting to fund such programs and play their active part of corporate social responsibility. We have highly committed partners like Volkswagen, Cybage, Forbes Marshall, Credit Suisse to name a few. These organizations have been around for a very long time. Thirdly, the world is filled with highly passionate people waiting for a ground breaking opportunity to create an impact at the grass root level. | My name is Sweta Sarkar, Co Founder & School Leader at iTeach Schools. I am a Bachelors in food technology, but an educator by profession for last 8 years. While I was in college, I saw a lot of young kids being out of school either serving tea and snacks in our college canteen, washing cars, running a small tea centre just outside college, working in a dry cleaning shop or fixing cycles. That was the first time I was aware of the huge privilege gap around me. I started small, I started volunteering with an organization that worked for the children of the sex workers. I taught them English post college hours, their willingness to change their current realities has been what inspired me to what I am doing today. I worked as a consultant for the first 2.5 years in a non-profit, until I started to work at the grassroot level education. I started with the Teach For India Fellowship in 2013, taught students from grades 6th & 7th in a government school in Pune city. By the end of the 2 years of my fellowship, the class grew by 5 years in literacy and improved their Math mastery by a 40%.The only tool they had, was education and a teacher who believed that poverty will not dictate destiny. Post the fellowship, the ed crisis in the city was massive with no public school having access to free secondary education. I along with another alum, started one of the first secondary schools in Pune city in 2015 from grades 8-10, our single mission to get students through secondary education and to college. In 2019, we are 6 schools with 1200 students and 600 student alumni in college. | Charter Schools For Free Secondary Education | Under developed and developing nations to universalize charter schools to increase the access and decrease the high drop out from secondary education. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Since the access to a free secondary school is crisis specific to my city, my solution is implemented in India, specific to the Pune city in the state of Maharashtra. | Yes | Our key partners are the government who gives us the space and any form of legal permission to run the schools & our donors- Cybage Software, Volkswagen, Forbes Marshall, Credit Suisse have been our major monetary partners. | Sustainable Scale | My solution has figured out a way to breakthrough with the government and trust us to run secondary schools successfully. This gives us the liberty to design a successful school model that enables the teacher to shift learning outcomes in his/her classroom. My solution also allows to change the false narrative around teaching that has been built for years in the system, which has stopped the system to produce transformational teachers for our students. | My solution is addressing the following 1) Free secondary education for all. 2) Making teaching inspirational for both teachers & students to stay in schools. 3) More individuals from low income & indigenous communities getting to college. 4) The opportunity to get better jobs is higher once a student graduates vs when he/she drops out. This also addresses the number of young boys staying out of prison and number of women forced to get married at an early age in most under developed nations | My solution involves giving the opportunity to passionate educators to start/run schools. While the government in a few countries might be not be equipped to run secondary schools, smart individuals can mobilize the private and public partners to support them run the schools. We have inspiring educators who would work with the students and the communities in almost all of our nations. The charter school system opens up an avenue for them to take charge and not wait for the government to bring about changes. My long term vision is to see community builders/ passionate educators having the autonomy and the support to start schools. Currently the accountability for students dropping out of school is entirely on the government. The charter school system distributes that accountability to people with power, passion and permission. | For years, in countries where students do not get to finish school, interventions have been used either via overseas volunteering, starting a learning center program, training the existing teachers in the system, holistic programs teaching them skills to earn some livelihood. While it must have had some impact at a temporary and at a concentrated level, none of the above are sustainable if they do not see the sight of a school. Starting charter schools would help level the playing field for some of the most vulnerable children of this country. Most parts of rural countries do not even finish beyond 5th grade and that's because the system isn't capable to fund both monetarily and manage human resources. When you outsource this to the people who know how to do it and have the resources to, they would do a much better job. There isn't lack of money in this world. If we channelize this money to start more schools and get the right people to run it, students would stay. | My team,in the beginning was just the two of us, two school leaders who started the first 2 schools in the city. We worked with our key partners to secure permissions and monetary support and recruited a team of teachers to get started in a month's time. Fast forward, 2019 we are 6 schools in the city, giving access to 1200 students a free and high quality secondary education and supporting 600 student alumni to get through college. Out of the 54 English medium government schools in the city, we have been able to provide access to students from 9 government schools with a secondary school. We measure our progress looking at a) student learning outcome goals achieved in all our schools b) Percentage of students enrolled from primary to measure the access c) Percentage of students graduating school to measure impact of the school system d) Percentage of students making to and through college to measure sustainability of our school model. e) Number of public schools partnered with continue with secondary education. | Goals & Milestones are: a) Access: Currently 9 out of 54 public school students in the city have access to secondary schools via iTeach Schools. Our goal in the next five years is create access to 20 out of the 54 public school students, which would mean open 12-15 schools in the city to reduce the city's drop out rate by half. b) Influence: Currently, the government support is limited to giving us access to classrooms in a school building to run our schools and ease out time taking permissions for us. While we are able to operate our schools smoothly, the government's accountability to primary student learning outcome has been low. Ideally, we would want to move to a place in our partnership with the government, where they 100% fund 2 secondary schools. c) Impact: Currently, our school system has enabled almost 40% of our students to achieve a distinction and be at par with students from middle income and high income background. In the next 5 years, we would want 100% of our students to achieve more than 60 percentile in their state board examination d) Sustainability: While 100% of our students go to college, we are only getting to know now that getting through college is another challenge altogether. The same barriers come back, but with more strength.Our student alumni wing has been working to see 100% of our students getting through college. e) Retention: Currently, the staff at all our schools are at 75% retention, the goal would be to move to a 90% retention. | The resources required are as follows a) Dedicated Teams that know their job well: A Government Relations Team, Recruitment & Selection Team, Fund raising team b) Implemented Curriculum from grades 8-10 that bridges the achievement gap students come with c) School Leadership Philosophy (Refer Leverage Leadership) d) Teacher Training Module | Organization's website: http://www.iteachschools.org/ Approach to School Design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHQXZurp5gk Changing the narrative around the teaching profession: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v80cEMBHqEA Building the line for leadership to start more schools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ-Uvd49wkM Student impact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9mgXkhePHI External social media house covering our work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiZ905qI0NY | During the Teach For India Fellowship, my classroom was among the top 5 classrooms (Transformational Impact Journey) nationally in my cohort. My cohort had close to 480 fellows. a) Fellow Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNifn7BZubk&t=25s b) Classroom Teaching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ckuwa7HyL4&t=488s c) Student Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krFV3OstkaU&t=171s d) Podcast on Building Restorative Culture in Schools: https://connect.teachforindia.org/hub/teachforindia/post/how-to-build-a-restorative-culture-in-schools | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
762 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Bayo | Adelaja | Do it Now Now | www.afritech.xyz / www.doitnownow.com | Founder & Chief Do-er | Female | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Nigeria | English | For the past 10 years I have worked in the social impact space across Europe and Africa. I started my journey as a tech for good entrepreneur in my late teens and early twenties, cutting my teeth in university led entrepreneurship programs. Since then I have run multiple entrepreneurship programs in different countries and online, developing content and structures from scratch. Today, I am an impact tech entrepreneur and a key contact for international NGOs, government departments and corporations on the topic of social impact and organisational development for impact across both continents (and beyond - extending into Asia and North America). My company Do it Now Now, specialises in re-purposing resources for the benefit of underserved communities. From Bill and Melinda Gates funded projects, to corporate funded programs, we have built impactful campaigns and movements from scratch. Through this work, I have empowered groups of people to engage with stakeholder resources in effective ways and helped organisations reframe their offerings to suit the actual and felt needs of the beneficiaries. The foundation of my organisation’s methodology was built during my time as a social policy researcher at the London School of Economics. I coordinated large projects across multiple universities, helping the stakeholders communicate with each other effectively and translate their research and findings to beneficiaries in real terms. | Bayo Adelaja has been awarded by Durham, Harvard and Oxford University's Business Schools. In 2018, Bayo was named one of the most influential women in social entrepreneurship in the UK, by Natwest bank. She has been the subject of a TEDx talk and was twice quoted by David Cameron while he was the UK’s Prime Minister. Bayo was once the youngest person working in a professional capacity at the House of Commons and has enjoyed a 10 year entrepreneurship journey during which she has helped over 1000 individual founders build better businesses. Bayo currently works with organisations such as Google and Facebook to create movements that spark a massive shift in the discussion around African development and the UK’s BAME population. She is Chief Do-er at Do it Now Now, a social impact marketing and program development agency that provides brands, charities and corporations the opportunity to create truly impactful campaigns and programs that edify and equip the communities they are targeting. | AfriTech XYZ | We're connectiong founders, mentors and investors for the benefit of the tech ecosystem across Africa | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia | Yes | Strand Sahara, Academy London (Google), PYPR | Transition to Scale | Over the past 3 years we have built run in-person programs that support tech for good entrepreneurs across Africa. Our program has helped entrepreneurs create jobs, gain partners and funding. Harvard and Oxford University's Business Schools have recognised our work as innovative and we've been called on to consult as Google for Startups continues to work with tech entrepreneurs across Africa. In September, we’ll be launching our app, AfriTech XYZ so that we can scale our impact. | The African tech ecosystem is growing, but it is growing in such a way that perpetuates privilege. For example, according to extensive research done by Orange Digital Ventures, they found 1 out of 5 funded founders studies in 1 of 8 universities (Oxford, LSE, MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, INSEAD, Wharton). We're leveling the playing field by providing world-class entrepreneurship education, specific to the African tech ecosystem through an app. | We are supporting the growth African tech entrepreneurs at scale. Our original qualitative research has shown, they need: - access to domain experts - access to tools and resources that make scale and growth easier - access to investors - access to each other Through our app, we're providing - access to domain experts (we’re going beyond the founder highlights they see on YouTube or on the main stage of tech conferences) - access to tools and resources that make scale and growth easier (everything from Google cloud credits to 1-2-1 mentoring from qualified experts, we’re sourcing from the UK) - access to investors (we’re making intros to local and international investors) - access to each other (for peer to peer recommendations and support which is so lacking in the disjointed African tech ecosystem) The impact of our work will be seen in: - Gender equality - all tech businesses we support have at least one woman in their senior leadership team - lifelong learning - we are upskilling Africans so they are continually resourced for the changing tech world throughout their careers - job creation - we are in tech because tech companies need everything from cleaners to developers. We're supporting companies so they have the ability to create 300 jobs with 7 years - reduce inequality - we're leveling the playing field so locally educated people can learn all they need to continually succeed in their careers. Through our app anyone can become a developer, marketer, or a CEO. | We are not the first to recognise that technology is the answer to many problems we see across Africa. By investing in the creation of technology companies that are solving key issues at scale, we will surely see the sped up development of the continent. The problem arises when those newly created tech companies are left to fend for themselves in extremely difficult circumstances, without the tools or knowledge to help them overcome. This is the first platform across Africa that is seeking to democratise access to quality education across ever sphere of professionalism. Rather than seeing it as our role to create more tech companies (which is what the 618 tech hubs across Africa are doing), we see it as our role to ensure those tech companies remain sustainable and last long enough and become strong enough to create hundreds of jobs across Africa. Rather than competing with existing organisation, we are creating a space that unites all the existing organisations for the benefit of entrepreneurs. As well as providing our own original content, we'll plug in other resources from across the tech ecosystem allowing entrepreneurs to benefit from stellar online and offline communities. We will also be supporting hubs directly through free provision of our original content so they can continue to boost the technology companies they are working with at no extra cost or effort to themselves. | We've been working on this for three years and are transitioning to scale our solution through an app, that will first launch in Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. In three more years, we expect to have a presence in 30 of the 54 African countries. Our impact measurement practices are highly influenced by my time as a researcher at the London School of Economics and particularly fortified by technological advancements such as machine learning and Artificial Intelligence. Assessments - each individual will take part in a placement test regarding their skill level in key areas that pertain to their role within their company. For example, if a marketing professional sought to engage with our solution, they would first take a 20 minute exam that allows us to see exactly where they are skill-wise and what resources we have that can help them. Gamification - through our technology, we will organise those resources in levels that will give them a sense of accomplishment and a certificate. These certificates can be used as part of their employee assessments when they apply for a promotion, or for a job in another company. Progress Reporting - our goal is to give senior leadership of high potential tech companies the opportunity to track the professional development of their staff and learn ways they can support their employees to improve. This will allow senior leadership to gauge the progress of their entire staff. | We will fist launch in Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and Zambia. In three more years, we expect to have a presence in 30 of the 54 African countries. Expected impact - By June 2020 we expect to have supported 1000 adults working in tech SMEs across our chosen countries in Africa. We will have assessed each company and begun supporting the senior leadership team and key staff around all they need to know to ensure their continued growth. Recruitment - we expect to recruit 2 network managers in each of our chosen countries over the next 3 months. These locally based people will be point of contact for all our partners and entrepreneurs in each country. They will ensure everyone can easily access our resources for free. Lives impacted - by ensuring continued professional development becomes an easily adoptable standard within tech companies in Africa, we are ensuring the continued skill relevancy of the professionals they employ. In this way we will contribute to reducing the skills gap across Africa | short term needs - gaining more partners and publicity for the solution will be very helpful. It means we won't have to spend much money on PR and digital marketing efforts. As we have not received any external funding to run this project, this will result in a significant cost-saving for us. medium term needs - access to pro-bono experts who are willing to support n the creation of our more in-depth content. For example, Intellectual property rights and patent laws in Uganda. As we grow, we'll seek to cover ever area of business in extreme detail, and entirely specific to Africa. long term needs - government support across the countries we are active in means we will have an easier time of reaching more entrepreneurs and SMEs (tech enabled companies) | Company website - https://www.doitnownow.com Project website - https://www.afritech.xyz | N/a | Top 10 Finalist - African Innovator - Harvard University Business School Top 10 Finalist - African Innovator - Oxford University Business School Winner - Natwest Top 100 women in social entrepreneurship Winner - Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
763 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joseph | Kaizzi | Tado Energy | www.tadoenergy.com | CEO | Male | Uganda | Liberia | English | The summit boasts of top innovators, funders, industry experts and hosts of other professionals, who collectively bring immense value to an early stage venture like Tado Radio. The event also presents numerous networking opportunities. Through being granted admission to the event, we envision sharing our expertise and equally engaging members on different fronts. From potential consumers of the product, to social venture capitalists and experts that can help improve the product. Over the years, the summit has become a go-to place for cutting edge humanitarian innovation. We anticipate that the exposure that comes with being a finalist will go a long way in enabling access to new partners and markets. We believe in the potential of Tado Radio and the numerous possibilities it presents in bridging the civic inclusion gap. However, as entrepreneurs – often times you need to be reassured that whatever you are solving matters. Acceptance to present a project is a validation of sorts that we are onto something; which is good for our motivation. | In late 2005, I co-founded a company that taught youth basic computer skills and how to blog online. The idea behind Blog-Media at the time seemed far fetched but with social media sites like “Facebook”, “MySpace” and “Hi5” just hitting the airwaves, youth were scrambling to get online! However, the prohibitive internet cost at the time, coupled with the low computer / smart phone penetration left social media out of reach for many. Right about the same time, a new breed of social organizations sprang up that provided free internet access to youth but didn’t have the expertise to prepare the youth for this new frontier. Being computer science undergraduate students, we immediately saw a gap and quickly took advantage of it. Blog-Media is no more, but it was a key pivotal step in my entrepreneurial journey. The trajectory of events described earlier is what defined my entrepreneurial journey moving forward. Despite the good intentions of the numerous ventures I have founded and the excellent teams assembled to execute, we have still failed a few times. From micro-management, to budgetary constraints and a lack of clear strategy; have been some of the bottlenecks. Leveraging lessons learnt from past failures, we conceptualized Tado Radio in 2018 and proceeded to quickly build a prototype which continues to positively impact thousands of lives today. | Tado Radio | Increasing community participation by rethinking the capabilities of traditional radio. | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Uganda | Yes | Pollicy Uganda | Proof of Concept | We have a functional product that is being | Numerous studies have documented the linkage between civic inclusion, lowered corruption levels, development in communities and better government service delivery. In Uganda, 84% of the population lives in rural areas with limited access to energy resources, internet and broadcast channels like Television. This greatly stifles their participation in civic matters.We are promoting increased participation through use of radios, that are already common place in rural sub-Saharan Africa. | The Tado Radio is a regular listening radio that has been equipped with a host of functionalities that ease participation in live programming. From content recording, to instant feedback (voice or textual); the radio provides a voice to the masses that is not only affordable but trans-formative to policy generation around the world. To put this into perspective, let us assume a legislator is live on radio talking about budget allocations to his constituents. If he/she wanted to hear back from those listening in, the listeners would either have to call the radio station phone number or use their phones to send messages. While this works, it limits participation to only those that have mobile phones. Even with mobile phones, there’s no guarantee that they will have airtime to interact with the programming. Even when they have airtime and are able to participate, the feedback / response is often times overwhelmingly, making it almost impossible to be addressed by the programmers at that instant. Immediately after the programming, all information is lost and there’s no concrete follow up on issues raised. For the typical rural listener that is probably engaged in farming, their listening is mostly passive and there’s no way to save the content for later listening. Our approach involves the listener responding to polls by tapping buttons on the radio or leaving recorded messages for complex feedback. | Community radios have long been the preferred mode of mass information dissemination i.e. broad cast media. This is mostly attributed to the low cost of the receivers (the radios) coupled with constantly decreasing overheads in setting up commercial radio stations. Numerous governments, development agencies and regular companies have leveraged radios to reach citizens, beneficiaries and customers respectively. Content ranging from security information, to educative information, adverts and regular entertainment is broadcasted on a regular. However, given the design of the radio, this communication is mostly one-sided; making it impossible for the listeners to actively participate or react to whatever information is being shared. To address this bottleneck, radio producers are leveraging phones to complete the loop. Listeners can text in or call in during live programming and contribute. Thi presents numerous challenges in resource constrained settings who happen to be the majority consumer of radio programming. Due to limitations in phone battery, coupled with the difficulty with recharging in energy deficient locations; listeners are not quick to contribute this way. In some cases, the phones come fitted with radios but are not practical because of energy constraints and phone privacy concerns. Our solution addresses the numerous gaps identified. | We have a functional device and have made sales. | We are currently operating in Uganda but plan to expand operations to Rwanda and Liberia within the next 12 months. | Currently, we do not have the capacity to manufacture radios at scale and enjoy economies of scale. We also lack in-roads to some of the development agencies that could greatly leverage the Tado radio for their activities and in-turn generate larger impact. The team is composed of mostly engineers. We will need expertise in marketing, product branding and communications to help improve on our narrative and make the product more appealing to the end users. | http://www.tadoenergy.com https://youtu.be/oCjxZZRysCQ | - | D Prize: https://d-prize.org/winners/profiles/2018/6/7/tado-lamp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
764 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | shashwat | gangwal | InfinityBox | https://shashwatgangwal.wixsite.com/website | Founder | Male | India | India | English | A stellar academic record, National Olympiads, securing a rank in the top 1 percentile of what is dubbed as India’s most difficult exam, making it to one of the premier institutes of the country and now being the department rank 1, I had been the typical example of the ‘herd mentality’. But then, I became a part of the Hult Prize community and if I could, I would call that as the turning point in my life. From wanting to be rich and living a lavish life, my aspirations had changed to doing whatever it takes to help people who don’t have anyone to look after them, who shiver every night because they don’t even have a blanket, who starve to death because they don’t have food, but most importantly people who work hard but are exploited and maltreated. So, I surveyed hundreds of villagers, construction workers, homeless people, and came up with the idea of sustainable housing structures which could potentially affect 100 million people just in India. In January 2018 I joined UNEP MGCY as a member and have been extensively involved in a variety of tasks. I recently joined the world’s largest completely youth-run NGO- Green the Gene where I have been a part of the fundraising team. Being chosen as one of the youngest talents to represent India at Unleash 2018 was another step towards achieving my goal of Equity and Sustainability, where I got to work with and learn from 1000 talents from 108 countries. My dream is to develop a startup and to have a positive social impact at the same time. If we want to achieve the Agenda 2030 we have to work on new solutions. There is not much time left and we need to start finding new ways of solving these problems. That's why I feel really committed to InfinityBox and want to make it a reality. As a founder, I am convinced that our idea could solve one of the biggest problems that our generation faces. As the founder of InfinityBox, I have been responsible for a variety of tasks ranging from doing a consumer survey to reaching out to restaurant owners and aggregators for partnerships to building the revenue model. It is one thing to talk about it, but I went and implemented it. I reduced plastic from being dumped into our landfills and oceans. I helped forge partnerships with different organizations to help us scale up. I helped begin our bi-weekly blog series to make people aware of the harm they are causing to the environment on a daily basis. And this is just the beginning. The change starts here, with us! | I believe that the people who actually create an impact possess three qualities- readiness to face any challenge thrown at them, the ability to gel well with peers, and most importantly, indomitable perseverance. While successfully carrying out the diverse roles of Campus Director Hult Prize at IIT Kharagpur, Member of Hult Prize India team, and Director PR MUN, I’ve had the opportunity to hone all the three. Under my leadership, Hult Prize raised its highest funds and was the only Campus event in India to have multiple articles in national news. My steepest learning curve came during UNLEASH where I learned to work with talents from 108 countries while representing India as one of the youngest SDG delegates. My internship with UNDP Amman and AltFin Lab resulted in an improvement in the offerings of the Youth Leadership Program (YLP) and the roll-out of CedarCoin(an impact coin). Multiple interactions with CEOs and industry leaders, international exposure, and the experience gathered over the years have polished my execution abilities and presentation skills. I was awarded the best all-rounder for 3 consecutive years. I maintain a stellar academic record which is reflected in me being the department rank 1 & having 2 publications. Proposing the bronze-winning solution for refugees in Kenya at UNLEASH, presenting a prototype that can help 400 million migrants at Hult Prize Dubai, and suggesting and implementing recommendations to improve YLP in Tunisia, showcase my ability to breakdown a complex problem and follow a structured process to come to a meaningful conclusion. | InfinityBox | The reuse revolution in the food delivery industry! | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India | Yes | Skills4Change, Innopack | Proof of Concept | After having done primary research of 700+ people and speaking to executives at all the major online aggregators, we realized that- 89.10 % prefer a particular food delivery service if it uses Reusable packaging instead of single-use plastic packaging at a similar price, and 91.20 % would opt for reusable packaging and 96% are concerned about the plastic menace due to food delivery We implemented it in 2 different markets & are now ready to integrate with an online aggregator for a PoC in a city | Food delivery industry in India has been growing at over 30% p.a. and serves 60 million+ orders every month. This generates 3,000 tons of plastic as they use single-use plastics for food packaging. 6.3 billion tons of plastic has never made it to a recycling bin. Fish, birds, and other wildlife are harmed; 8 million tonnes of plastic is added to the oceans every year. This plastic further breaks down into microplastic, contaminating every living organism on the planet | InfinityBox is a revolutionizing solution aimed towards creating a circular economy for reusable and recyclable environment-friendly food packaging containers. A future where food containers can be reused 100+ times and the reverse logistics is hassle-free. Through the help of various food aggregators, we will deliver InfinityBoxes to their partner restaurants. After that, the only change that will affect the customers is an option on their food delivery app which will allow them to opt for InfinityBoxes instead of single-use plastic containers. After the food has been delivered, users will be incentivized by lower packaging fees to return the containers and will have 4 ways to return them: 1. To the delivery person when the food 2.To the delivery person when they order food the next time 3. To the delivery person by scheduling a pick-up from their house/office 4. Place it in the containers in strategically placed smart bins across the city Then these containers will be collected and taken to our partner kitchens where they will undergo a detailed hygiene management process and checked against CTQs. By capturing 20% of the market share of an aggregator in Bangalore, we will be able to reduce 200,000 Tons of Plastic from being dumped into landfills in just 2 years. More than 800,000 orders would've used InfinityBox and been made aware of the plastic pollution menace. We aim to reduce the 300,000 tons of plastic expected to be generated in India in 5 years to 0. | Facing no direct competition in India, we have the first mover’s advantage. But we do face indirect competition from single-use plastic containers and various other single-use biodegradable alternatives like Paperboard packaging and Sugarcane Bagasse packaging. These options look more appealing environmentally, but when we do a comparative Life cycle assessment of Infinity Box with these biodegradable alternatives for 40 uses, we see that not only do these alternatives release more Greenhouse Gases, they also use up more water and energy. Their usage also generates more waste compared to that generated during cleaning and reusing of Infinity Boxes, making them less environment-friendly. Besides the environmental perspective, InfinityBox’s unique business model benefits all the stakeholders- End customers: Lower packaging fees, Better quality containers, and Contribution to the Zero-Waste movement Online Food Aggregators: Carbon Credits, Eco-Friendly Tag, Better quality containers Partner restaurants: Eco-Friendly Tag, Environment: Reduction in single-use plastics consumption This is different from the existing competitors abroad like Vanilla Beans in Germany as it operates directly with restaurant owners, or CupClub in London which not only operates directly with restaurant owners but also deals only with coffee cups. These competitors also charge customers an upfront fee and because of their model of dealing with just restaurant owners, they aren’t as scalable. | After having done primary research which included online surveys of 700+ people and speaking to executives at all the major online aggregators, we conducted two pilots. First pilot- Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur aIn Kharagpur. We partnered with 2 restaurants and served over 50 orders within a week. We made some improvements in the operations by focusing on some food items, streamlining the collection process, and also took some other feedback. The pilot in Gurgaon- Partnered with 10 restaurants and served over 300 orders in just 6 days (despite a dip in the number of orders due to the festival of Holi). Hit rate (number of people who opted for InfinityBox™) of ~80% The collection rate of containers ~90%. Plastic waste prevented from being dumped into landfills ~20Kgs Our model makes use of underutilized assets (partner kitchens), piggybacks on existing supply chains of aggregators, requires a low initial investment, and incentivizes all the stakeholders to adopt it. These elements of the value chain are found everywhere and thus out model is extremely easy to replicate. And since the major cost component is containers, as we grow the economies of scale will kick in. KPIs 1. Hit Rate (number of people who opted for InfinityBox) 2. Collection Rates (number of orders returned) 3. Breakdown of the way used to return containers- Will help us move towards an optimal reverse logistics cost. 4. Number of restaurants willing to partner with us | We have successfully executed two pilots till now. Now we are looking to conduct a proof of concept with one of the largest aggregators in India, Swiggy, in a city Integrating Infinitybox into their app. After meeting with them and finalizing the business model we have already started the process of drawing consumer insights by focus group discussions, surveys, etc. Besides that, we are looking to partner with colleges across the country to conduct pilots by recruiting campus ambassadors and their teams to work with us. We see several advantages in reaching out to college students as it helps ingrain the idea of reuse into the minds and We have partnered with Skills4change, an organization which has partnered with 80+ colleges across the country to conduct live projects. Two new colleagues are looking to implement Infinitybox's model in Germany where the problem is huge and growing. But the govt. is looking to ban single-use plastics by the end of 2021 and hence the regulations are decisively in our favor. They are already in talks with online aggregators and are looking to conduct online surveys. Our next steps would be to expand to all Tier 1 cities in India & to different college campuses. Post that we look to expand to Germany. And given the ubiquitous nature of food-delivery, we expect to impact millions of lives, not just humans but every single organism which is hurt by the dumping of single-use plastics. | Our revenue model is a subscription-based model and the fees will be offset by a zero packaging fee over the subscription period. Our costs- Fixed cost breakdown Washing Facility Rent 36% Electricity and Maintenance 27% Smart Bin Setup 0% InfinityBox Cost 28% Miscellaneous 8% Variable cost breakdown Transportation 10% Labor at Washing 27% Payment to the delivery guy 60% Removable label Cost 4% The fixed investment needed for the next couple of years won't exceed USD 2 million and we'll be cashflow positive by Q8. For Q1 and Q2, we'll need an investment of USD 300k and will incur a variable cost of $300k. With economies of scale, the fixed costs will go down and the variable costs will hinge on the payment to the collection executives. UNIT ECONOMICS Q1 Q8 Savings per order 13 13 Direct cost per order 9.52 8.32 Gross margin 3.48 4.68 Contribution margin 3.48 4.68 Rent + Electricity + Maintenance + Bin setup 5.26 2.59 Net margin -1.78 2.09 Salary -0.18 0.21 Cash inflow -1.6 +1.9 | WEBSITE- https://shashwatgangwal.wixsite.com/website FACEBOOK PAGE- https://www.facebook.com/InfinityBoxCo/ BLOG SERIES- https://shashwatgangwal.wixsite.com/website/blog Pilot Feedback- https://docs.google.com/document/d/12QbKaGS1G1SX-425VPm83Th3k--YvsHu2bJ7wypOdAs/edit?usp=sharing Pilot Photos- https://drive.google.com/open?id=17Sx-mLLYxYNrTC4onfzE7aLQfH7aktQc | VIDEO- https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1i_8LyA_P5fBQAX5WBHO-vtYyAC-Xqshy | 1. Inter IIT Case Study champions, 2018- 1st position from amongst 23 IITs 2. Kshitij National BPlan- 1st position from amongst 100+ participant teams 3. INAE Youth Conclave- Finalists (Finals on 9th August) 4. Millennium Ocean's prize - top 15 for the pre-final round (100+ entries/ 130 countries) Results not announced yet 5. Finalists- Proof of Concept competition, organized by Ministry of Human resources and development, 5. International Business Model Competition, 2019- Quarter-Finalists | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
765 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Milind | Pimprikar | CANEUS | www.caneus.org | Chairman | Male | Canada | India | English | .CANEUS is a unique Global organization of professionals I created in 2000, with the aim of cost-effectively transitioning emerging technology concepts to serve societal needs. CANEUS represents a first-of-its-kind approach to address the problem of transitioning new and emerging technologies through the infamous ""Valley of Death"" in which a large majority of these concepts are unable to achieve the technological maturity required for infusion into societal / end-user driven applications. CANEUS is a Permanent Observer Member of United Nations COPUOS, as well partner of UNISDR for various DRR initiatives, and founding contributor to the UNFCCC frontier technologies forum. Thus, the solution constitutes an important initiative under CANEUS’s cooperation agreement with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). CANEUS and UNOOSA share common objectives and missions with regard to the SDGs and other key global agendas. Thus we have agreed to cooperate to enhance the effectiveness of our development efforts in areas of common interest, including earth observation and space-based technologies and applications that can address the SDGs. Furthermore, our proposed solution was selected as the top Innovation concept at the 2019 Global Platform on DRR by the UN-ISDR, to contribute and meet implementation of Sendai framework. Therefore, the UN Solutions Summit offers an opportunity to advance the innovation concept to prototype demonstration and test the benefits of knowledge-based automated management system for disaster risk prediction and assessment based on application of neural networks AI and distributed information using elements of Blockchain technology as well 3-D printing. | I am founder and Executive Chairman of CANEUS International, a Global organization created in 1999 connecting the “haves” and “have-nots”, to serve the societal needs for collective safety, security and socio-economic prosperity through development and advancement of emerging technology concepts. I successfully led CANEUS with 20 years of proven track record of transitioning innovative technologies into successful products / projects / systems over $500M for societal needs worldwide. I work closely with several UN agencies to support their efforts covering disaster management, space technology capacity building and Technology Advisory Missions to UN Member States. In 2006, I created CANEUS NPS (Nano-Pico-Satellites), world’s first enterprise for manufacturing of low-cost small satellites and hosted King and Queen of Sweden. Later I launched a 58+ countries initiative “Low-Cost Internationally Shared Nano-Satellite Constellation System, with exceptionally low barriers to entry for participating nations” to support the local and international activities relating to safety, security and prosperity. I am also founder and chairman of the Centre for Large Space Structures and Systems (CLS3), Canada’s first initiative to develop advanced technologies; I created following my Ph.D. research with $2,500 seed fund leading to $150M+ projects. I have successfully represented and led Government of Canada’s Science &Technology missions to 40+ countries covering Europe, Americas, Asia and Africa, and contributed to the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on Science and Technology. | Integrated Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technology based tool for prediction, assessment and management to build resilience and reduce the human and economic impacts of natural/environmental disasters | AI based Disaster Risk Prediction and Assessment Tool | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India, Gabon, Tanzania, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Canada, USA, Italy, Nepal | Yes | Technology developers: CANEUS (Canada-Europe-US-Asia-Africa) network, COPE-Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research, SDG Fablab of University of Geneva Prototype Demonstration: (UN-SPIDER) United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster M | Proof of Concept | Our solution is at the prototyping validation stage, because our team proposes to provide the AI-DRR innovation to end- users, obtains early feedback about the concept, and confirm how the disaster prediction / assessment solution shall be used. This is the most critical stage considering the cost and time required for prototype testing to be aligned with all stakeholders. It will further help to identify potential shortcoming in order to develop the final field ready easy to use solution. | Climate and disaster risk call for the adoption and implementation of resilience measures for better protecting human, economic and natural assets. Thus, for effective prediction and preparedness, there is a need to provide information in real-time, enabling cities, businesses and the resilience ecosystem based on cost-effective big data deep learning algorithms with predictive intelligence so communities could better prepare for building resilience and reducing human and economic impacts. | Our solution offers a novel knowledge-based automated management tool for disaster risk prediction and assessment based on application of AI using neural networks and distributed information using elements of blockchain technology. Disaster risk is a function of the probability of occurrence of a natural hazard of varying intensity and vulnerability. Components determining disaster risk—hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capacity—are spatial / temporal in nature, i.e. they relate to a specific geographical location, size, and extent. Through our tool, using historical relevant data, a set of training neural networks NN are able to estimate probability of disaster, its identification and class from real time observation. The outputs of NN in terms of classification and prediction models for different scenarios and risk assessment offers decision-making capabilities which could be further decentralized using blockchain application. Additionally, the solution proposes on-demand fabrication of parts using 3-D printing with variety of materials and integration of AI, which will reduce time and cost by producing supplies locally and cost-effectively, to avoid mismatch of what is needed in a crisis and what is supplied. Our long-term vision contributing to implementation priorities for the SDG’s is to offer the integrated AI and Blockchain solution to stakeholders globally that is affordable, can be replicated and scalable, and designed to motivate users with novelty. | The traditional disaster risk management approaches focus on response and recovery rather than much needed proactive approach emphasizing prevention and mitigation, and development of community capacities to provide timely / effective response. The suitability of different spatial data types varies depending on the natural hazard(s) and exposed assets under preliminary screening and investigation and intended use of data. Our NN method have advantages compared with other methods used for data analysis and classification because it ability to find and use nonlinear correlation in analyzed data and provide better accuracy for solving classification and prediction tasks. Additionally, key feature of blockchain is immutability; i.e., almost impossible to modify any information without having network consensus. Therefore, the convergence of these two technologies could complement each other to revolutionize the prediction, assessment and preparedness of various disasters. Our solution, developed through collaborative efforts of several communities and agencies, uses integrated AI and Blockchain methodology that offers a simple solution to use, and the resulting knowledge provides local communities, organizations, and governments with a basis to (a) identify how particular activities contribute to increased disaster resilience, (b) prioritize DRM needs and (c) adapt or replicate to scale globally for sustainable impact to better protect human, economic and natural assets. | Our team devised this novel solution following the outcome of our initiative at Sendai. www.caneus.org/undrr https://www.wcdrr.org/wcdrr-data/uploads/692/CANEUS%20Workshop%20Report.pdf The NN models were developed and tested in Canada followed by a sustainability analysis to find greatest opportunities for improvement for disaster risk prediction and assessment. Based on this assessment, the team is working with collaborating partners and stakeholders to formulate pilot projects to evaluate the costs and efforts needed for implementation. We presented this concept at the Resilience Frontiers 2019 brainstorming interagency effort coordinated by the UNFCCC in Korea, contributing to measurement of issues related to methodological rigor in terms of planning, reliability and validity of the tools. Our integrated solution was selected as the top innovation idea and showcased at the 2019 United Nations Global Platform on DRR for its simplicity, easy to implement locally, and offering new ways. http://caneus.org/GPDRR.pdf At the GPDRR, we received interest from over several public, private and civil sectors organizations worldwide, to adapt, replicate and scale the implementation of proposed tool in their local regions. http://caneus.org/GPDRR_2019.mp4 Our project partners include CANEUS, UNOOSA, Copenhagen Centre for Disaster Research, SDG FabLab and State Governments of Karnataka, amongst other stakeholders to replicate and scale the tool.. | The creation of a risk assessment tool is an iterative and interactive process designed to be refined over several revisions and scaling up. Hence, with “scale in mind”, we have devised milestones to assist in the prediction and assessment of different types of disasters and reduce the cost and complexity. This includes producing a Scale Testing Plan with explicit testable variances, case studies with multi-stakeholder alliances, and a learning framework to gauge and improve scale potential. Initially, we propose to test in pilot countries those expressed interest, e.g. India, Nepal, Kazakhastan, Tanzania, Italy, etc to achieve three outcomes: resilience ecosystem, improved protection for human, economic and natural assets, and enhanced reliable provisions. By learning from these experiences, we are able to generate knowledge-base, both internal and external stakeholders data to scale up the tool through expansion, replication and adaptation. The pilot project stakeholders knowledge feeds the scaling-up efforts, and the experience from scaling up further feeds back into new ideas and learning. Our 10+ year’s partnership with UNDRR, and by pooling resources, our value chain partnerships approach is expected to generate results, through cross-sector collaborative advantage in the implementation of this novel tool. Our goals include range of actions and strategies including financing needed to scale and measures to enhance the use of the tool and its incentives | We propose multi-stakeholder value chain partnerships approach to implement the integrated solution to increase resilience, and scale and adapt the pilot projects for inclusion of diverse stakeholders. In the short-term we need to formulate series of pilot projects for suitability of different spatial data types depending on the natural hazard(s) and exposed assets under preliminary screening and investigation with potential stakeholders to evaluate the costs and tangible (social, economic, environmental) impact of the solution. During medium-term, to grow and diversify, we need to create a set of standards by integrating project goals with those of the host organization, by generating requisite resources and success measuring matrices for adaptation of the tool to specific types of disaster. It would help create financial, societal and environmental sustainability. In the long-term, given our collaborative international PPP implementation approach, the project partners should be able to follow the standard template to ensure sustainability and cost-effective scalability. Finally, a portal is needed to facilitate communication amongst project teams, feedback on successes, challenges and barriers, and solicit new ideas to ensure growth and long-term sustainability. Additionally, comprehensive training program need to be devised, which is flexible and adaptable to local requirements, we propose to offer through partners, e.g. UN-SPIDER and other global DRR networks. | We propose multi-stakeholder value chain partnerships approach to implement the integrated solution to increase resilience, and scale and adapt the pilot projects for inclusion of diverse stakeholders. In the short-term we need to formulate series of pilot projects for suitability of different spatial data types depending on the natural hazard(s) and exposed assets under preliminary screening and investigation with potential stakeholders to evaluate the costs and tangible (social, economic, environmental) impact of the solution. During medium-term, to grow and diversify, we need to create a set of standards by integrating project goals with those of the host organization, by generating requisite resources and success measuring matrices for adaptation of the tool to specific types of disaster. It would help create financial, societal and environmental sustainability. In the long-term, given our collaborative international PPP implementation approach, the project partners should be able to follow the standard template to ensure sustainability and cost-effective scalability. Finally, a portal is needed to facilitate communication amongst project teams, feedback on successes, challenges and barriers, and solicit new ideas to ensure growth and long-term sustainability. Additionally, comprehensive training program need to be devised, which is flexible and adaptable to local requirements, we propose to offer through partners, e.g. UN-SPIDER and other global DRR networks. | We propose multi-stakeholder value chain partnerships approach to implement the integrated solution to increase resilience, and scale and adapt the pilot projects for inclusion of diverse stakeholders. In the short-term we need to formulate series of pilot projects for suitability of different spatial data types depending on the natural hazard(s) and exposed assets under preliminary screening and investigation with potential stakeholders to evaluate the costs and tangible (social, economic, environmental) impact of the solution. During medium-term, to grow and diversify, we need to create a set of standards by integrating project goals with those of the host organization, by generating requisite resources and success measuring matrices for adaptation of the tool to specific types of disaster. It would help create financial, societal and environmental sustainability. In the long-term, given our collaborative international PPP implementation approach, the project partners should be able to follow the standard template to ensure sustainability and cost-effective scalability. Finally, a portal is needed to facilitate communication amongst project teams, feedback on successes, challenges and barriers, and solicit new ideas to ensure growth and long-term sustainability. Additionally, comprehensive training program need to be devised, which is flexible and adaptable to local requirements, we propose to offer through partners, e.g. UN-SPIDER and other global DRR networks. | I was nominated as “National Interest” by the Governor in Council, in recognition of my contributions in the service of Canada. Our solution won the Innovation Award at the 2019 Global Platform on DRR by the UN-ISDR, to contribute and meet implementation of Sendai framework. The solution constitutes an important initiative under CANEUS’s cooperation agreement with UNOOSA and was highlighted by UN COPUOS. I am Member of United Nations Technology Advisory Missions to several countries. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
766 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jetzely | Espina | REDECIM | www.redecim.org | Institutional Development | femenine | Mexico | Mexico | English | Spanish | We understand innovation as looking for different ways to solve problems. I am a believer that through organizations we can help solving social problems, for that to happen. We have become articulators and promoters of local social impact projects with a global approach, through networking and integral project development, as well as the linkage with the International Cooperation seeking to influence the fulfillment of the 2030 agenda. We contribute to the sustainability of institutions that work with vulnerable populations, to offer them a better quality of life and development opportunities, through the detection, articulation and strengthening of social initiatives and projects that promote positive peace and the strengthening the social fabric. To achieve this, it is necessary to grant tools and methodologies that allow the development of comprehensive peace-building projects from the defense of Human Rights, creating solid actions that contribute to social change. In REDECIM, we work to achieve a more just and equal Mexico through the search for effectiveness and commitment of civil society. We are convinced that they play a crucial role in solving social problems, not only as guarantors of issues such as democracy, transparency and accountability, human rights, gender equity and environmental sustainability; but as full actors, which have a direct impact on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and compliance with the 2030 Agenda. We currently have 29 organizations working in networks from the states of Puebla, CDMX, Michoacan, Hidalgo, Chiapas, Monterrey, Aguascalientes, Tlaxcala and Oaxaca. | I am passionate about civil society, and promoting projects with social impact, I believe that even the smallest actions, if carried out in an orderly manner, can create a change in the world. I have worked in the social sector since 2010, occupying various positions in civil society organizations such as Operational and Project Coordination, Fundraising, Management and Institutional Development, I have worked in different causes including: autism, education, community development, disability, art, youth and poverty. I have won several awards, the ""Race Award"" from Harvard University in the category ""Social Entrepreneurship"" (2018), I was selected as one of the Peace Leadership Workshop as part of the 2nd National Meeting ""A Stronger Mexico: Pillars of Positive Peace. "" I currently work as Project Coordinator and in charge of the Institutional Development area in VALORA AC, I am an Advisory Council of the Foundation for Animal Protection FUPA A.C, Consultant on issues of professionalization of civil society, strategic planning, fundraising, among others; Active member of REMECID (2017) and CIVICUS (2019), Part of the Table for the Protection of the Rights of Children and Adolescents in the Institute of Human Rights of the Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla (since 2018) and, since 2016 I am Co-founder and Director of Institutional Development of the Mexican International Cooperation Network (REDECIM), born with the idea that through networking we can have a better impact on the development of our country through the optimization of resources International Cooperation. | Diagnosing, identifying and enhancing social impact of mexican social causes through alignment to the SDGs | A digital platform that diagnose Mexican Civil Society Organizations (first stage), to identify, alignd and enhance their social impact on the SDGs | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Mexico | Yes | Wingu: For the platform development and programation. 29 CSO that are REDECIM associates, and will promote the project. ITESM and IBERO University as promotion spache and facilities to make mvp | Research & Development | We have tested the MVP through our strengthening workshops, obtaining positive results among the participants. Our goal is to diagnose 50 organizations that have an impact in Mexico, developing 50 social impact projects aligned to the agenda. By Increasing the understanding and knowledge of the 2030 Agenda in such a way that both CSOs and Mexican collectives really manage to take ownership of the Agenda and thus assume a more active role in achieving it. | Implementing the SDGs is taking a boost, but there are still many challenges ahead. Numerous groups and people remain ""invisible"" and many development challenges are not yet clearly challenged. There is a gap between the work carried out by civil society and the 2030 Agenda, we know that its work affects, but it works in a disjointed way, there are no measurement mechanisms and the work of promoting the agenda has not permeate civil society yet. | With our initiative, we will identify the incidence of civil society organizations in Mexico with respect to the SDGs, and in this way strengthen their links with international cooperation actors, and thus improve the impact of their social causes. To do this, we will build a digital platform that, through a self-diagnosis, allows Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), that defends and promote human rights in this first stage, to know the SDGs and in this way identify how their social cause aligns with them. With this, CSOs will be able to align their projects to achieve a greater impact on the impact of the 2030 agenda. To achieve this, through strengthening sessions we will promote the development of organizations' capacities, developing social impact projects, then offering users and the general public, a mapping of how Mexican CSOs get involved with the SDGs, this step is very important since it will make the project visible and call for action. | Promote the 2030 Agenda to civil society to contribute to its impact at local and global level. Diagnose the impact of civil society on the 2030 Agenda, to be catalysts of change. We want to Prototype an interactive digital platform where CSOs identify, align and measure their impact with the SDGs, in 3 phases: self-diagnosis, use the data obtained to build solid projects that can obtain financing, and publish open data and best practices that promote generation of intersectoral alliances. Our goal int his first stage is to diagnose 90 organizations from across the country, developing 90 social impact projects aligned to the agenda, then offering general public a mapping of how Mexican CSos get involved with the SDGs. We see the existence of a platform for SDGs as a gateway to development, as well as a means to implement many of the SDGs. Generating data on the incidence of CSOs in the SDGs as well as the impact they have on social issues is vital for governments, development partners, international organizations, civil society, the private sector and public can make informed decisions,fulfilling the implementation of the 2030 Agenda Monitoring the progress of the SDGs requires the collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of data and statistics. | By developing an MVP as model. Strengthening organizations to ensure their sustainability over time to SDGs approach, Sensitization and training in the area of Agenda 2030. With our 18 associates we have aligned their causes and projects to the Sustainable Development Goals obtaining positive results in their causes and identifying more funding sources from international cooperation, that will help them to enhance their social impact. We have given strengthening sessions to more than 120 organizations from different states of Mexico, where we identify as a common denominator the lack of monitoring, impact measurement and work for a common agenda. In these sessions we developed the base questionnaire for the self-diagnosis of the CSOs and the alignment to ODS. In addition, as a result of the measurement of the strengthening sessions, the CSOs were positive and about the future existence of the platform. We developed alliances that allow us to disseminate the project and the design of the prototype of the platform, with Wingu Mexico, which is a non-profit organization dedicated to information technologies, who will be dedicated to the programming of the platform. | Civil society organizations (CSOs) are a fundamental actor for social development, democratic practices. International organizations have stressed the importance of strengthening this sector, due to its “collective power in the preparation of social, economic and political programs - both locally and globally” (UNDP). We seek that Mexican CSOs in addition to being implementers of the 2030 Agenda; Become decision makers, change catalysts and able to create a link between the SDGs and local communities. To achieve this, we will develop a digital platform that can be another ally for the fulfillment of the 2030 Agenda, based on the actions of civil society, which through various strategies seek to influence the common welfare, however, ignorance of resources and information has limited the action of CSOs towards the benefit of their target populations. Our methodology consists of 5 key activities: 1.OSC diagnosis and information generation for the platform * 2.Platform Development 3.Dissemination of the platform and 2030 Agenda through campaigns, workshops and forums. 4.Systematization and mapping of the incidence of Mexican CSOs in the 2030 agenda 5.Evaluation and monitoring. Through the model of project management for results, we can measure the scope of our strategy for the sustainability of the project and make changes if its necessary, also the diversification of funds is key since it will guarantee the flow of funds. | The prototype will allow us to test within 50 CSO´s alignment to social causes, also we will detect 50 social projects that can enhance their social impact and find more funding resources through international cooperation. We need financial resources to design the prototype an interactive digital platform where CSOs identify, align and measure their impact with the SDGs, in 3 phases: self-diagnosis, use the data obtained to build solid projects that can obtain financing, and publish open data and best practices that promote generation of intersectoral alliances. Our goal is to diagnose 50 organizations that have an impact in Mexico, developing 50 social impact projects aligned to the agenda. The total cost of the project (the 3 stages) is 75,000.00 USD, the only prototype design of the platform, which is the first stage has a cost of 25,000.00 USD. The diversification of sources of financing and the generation of alliances is essential for the achievement of the project, within our allies for financing we have contemplated Rotary, local OSCs, and International Cooperation Agencies. | Website: http://redecim.org/ Institutional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIqILHJFAL4 Link to REDECIM work: https://bit.ly/2LMr9a4 | Enterviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kw4_zZvmbc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjRZshjra3I&t=115s | Winner. Race Award ar Harvard University (2018) Winner. Listed as one of the 100 emerging entepreneurs with social impact. Ashoka and American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
767 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Aobakwe | Gofamodimo | Thari Communications | N/A | Director | Male | Botswana | Botswana | English | I believe in helping others. i believe that for society to prosper, its members must help one another. This is the only way the gap between the rich and the poor can be closed. This is the only way food insecurity and poverty can be eliminated. This is why I have always been doing everything I can to ensure that no one is left behind. I have been using various platforms to help train farmers, for free, in rural areas on climate smart agriculture. Especially with use of conservation agriculture techniques. I'm currently working on an innovation that is likely to revolutionize farming in Botswana. This cloud-based app will connect smallholder farmers with buyers, transporters, processors and other key stakeholders. The app will also have location specific weather forecasts to help farmers take climate informed decisions on when to plant as well as other production needs in order to minimize risk on their enterprises. | Aobakwe Gofamodimo is the founder of Thari Communications, a public relations and events management company that specializes in the agricultural industry. Thari Communications also publishes Farmers Review, Botswana's premier monthly agricultural magazine. Aobakwe has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Botswana and recently completed an executive program on Inclusive Innovation. Before Thari Communications, he co-founded On the Farm, a social entrepreneurship company that aimed to assist small holder farmers and rural communities with innovative solutions. He is the founding Chairman of Botswana Sheep Breeders Association, an NGO whose objective is to present a unified voice for small stock breeders for sustainable growth of the industry. He is currently involved in the registration of another NGO, Agricultural Communicators Association, another NGO whose objective is to work with the Ministry of Agricultural Development and Food Security and all relevant stakeholders to build an economically-just, environmentally-regenerative, and community-focused food production systems through information dissemination, capacity building, innovation and research that directly supports farmers and rural communities. He has volunteered at organizations such as The Lady Khama Charity Trust, and Visionary Grooming Empowerment Association, an organization that equips rural youths with life skills. | Solincu | Simplicity Defined | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Botswana | No | Ideation | This is due to limited technical support and financial capacity to move from the ideation stage. We are currently looking for funding from various sources to | Small holder farmers based in rural communities have no power to run incubators. As such they either let the free range chickens hatch naturally, which takes time, and has a poor hatching rates. In order to improve their profitability, other buy electric powered incubators and leave them in urban areas, then transport the eggs to where the incubators are and come back a few days later to collects the chicks. This comes at a disadvantage as some eggs are broken or chicks die on the way | The solution involves a manufacturing a cheap solar powered incubator for the local small holder farmers who are mostly women. There are many opportunities that come with a solar powered incubator. Apart from supporting the hatching process, a solar powered incubator will cut operational cost for farmers. Those connected to the power grid can also use the solar powered incubator as electricity supply from Botswana's national grid is unreliable. There are constant power outages which can result in loses for the poor farmers because incubation/hatching must not be interrupted until after 21 days. This package will include appropriate high capacity solar panels, power storage batteries and the incubator designed to use solar power. The solar panels harness the sun energy and convert it into power for storage in lead batteries before supplying it to the incubator. In order to make sure hatching is not interrupted, This initiative will use big capacity batteries for back up too. This way farmers wont be losing eggs a day or two days prior to hatching because of power shortage as that would be disastrous. | This solution is unique and new to the local market in that no one is offering solar powered incubators to rural and smallholder free range poultry farmers in Botswana at the moment. The aim is to make it as cheap as possible. | We are still at the market research level but the results are promising as farmers that we have talked to really need the product | The plan is to take sell the incubator in the rest of the Southern Africa Development Community ( SADC) once the incubator is up and running and we are fully satisfied with it's efficiency and production | The largest resource that's needed to scale is capital. We also require capacity building to enhance our knowledge in the area of efficient photovoltaic harnessing. we need to produce a prototype and a few products to give to farmers for testing so that we get opinion of different users to demonstrate viability. Medium-Term Needs include larger scale production and establishing a larger sales team for national market penetration. Long-Term needs are obtaining backing from financial backers to produce for regional penetration | N/A | http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/member/aobakwe-gofamodimo https://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=59409&dir=2016/april/20 https://www.gabzfm.com/index.php/gabzfm-news-details/id/572/mosisedi-association-says-drought-that-hit-their-area-means-that-the-association-is-anticipating-zero-harvest-this-year/ https://www.thevoicebw.com/ndb-hosts-small-stock-workshop/ | https://www.ifaj.org/agricultural-journalists-named-to-2018-ifaj-corteva-agriscience-master-class/36722/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
768 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alec | Bernstein | H2Go | www.h2go.org | CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Providing clean water to citizens around the world has been a passion in my life, and I have been fortunate to work on this mission through various different capacities with different organizations in various different countries. Throughout, I have seen extreme poverty and people drinking poor quality water. Whether it was in a small rural village or in one of the world's largest urban conglomerates, at every step of my career I have been eager to diagnose problems and find innovative solutions. It started in Honduras when I was part of a team designing and building water treatment and distribution systems for rural villages. Although our treatment technology wasn’t novel, it allowed me to realize the best solution may not necessarily be the right solution for the local culture and context. My work took me to India where I worked with water NGOs to diagnose areas in their operations which could increase sustainability. There I saw the importance of developing water treatment innovations with buy-in from local stakeholders to ensure sustainability. Now, I am focused on harnessing the innovative power of technology to improve access to water in rapidly growing urban areas. Many times the problems have technical solutions which require appropriate implementation or education. Other problems require institutional changes which can require a different approach to find solutions which benefit all. And many times, trade-offs need to be made when solving problems. | Alec Bernstein is the founder of H2Go. His experiences have provided a varied background in the fields of water supply, water resources engineering, sustainable development, systems analysis and business development. Alec has a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College and the University of Massachusetts, respectively. While at Lafayette College, Alec led his school’s chapter of Engineers Without Borders. He effectively led teams to design rural water treatment and distribution sites for multiple villages in Honduras. He led multiple missions to hold stakeholder discussions and coordinated the construction logistics for implementation. Alec was a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar and embarked on a year long fellowship in 2013 in Kolkata, India to evaluate the sustainability of rural water treatment systems. Working closely with NGOs in the water supply space, Alec learned a lot about how water is accessed across India. Following this, Alec was a water resources and hydrologist consultant in Seattle, Washington, and has founded two start up organizations to improve water system monitoring and delivery. Currently, Alec is managing the development of H2Go and is also the project manager to the Hydrosystems Group, based at the University of Massachusetts. He enjoys collaborating with stakeholders to solve complex water resources and supply challenges, and his work has led him to Latin America, South Asia, Africa, and across North America. | H2Go | H2Go is a mobile based solution which improves the efficiency of trucked water delivery services for underserved people in cities around the world. | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | The proof of concept for H2Go will be implemented in Bangalore, India, but we envision scaling globally, where over 200 million urban dwellers lack access to a safely managed drinking water source. | Yes | We are partnering with existing private tanker operators in Bangalore, India as initial users of the H2Go platform. | Research & Development | H2Go has completed initial customer discovery interviews and has garnered relationships with tanker companies who currently delivery bulk water in Bangalore India, and with over 100 end users. Tanker companies and end users have shown enthusiasm to improve the trucked water supply networks. We intend to build upon this customer discovery while developing our application and the future proof of concept in Bangalore. | Urban water infrastructure systems around the world are failing citizens of rapidly growing low and middle income cities due to unreliable supply and unsafe quality. Where these urban systems fail, other supplemental sources are needed, and in many places, private water vendors fill this gap with trucked water delivery. However, this service comes at a high social cost for many who are forced to use it: exploitative pricing, poor quality, unreliable service, and the use of unsustainable sources. | H2Go is a mobile web application which improves the efficiency and transparency of tanker water delivery systems for the most vulnerable and underserved people in urban areas. This application is a last mile solution for accessing bulk water for those without taps or consistant access, and it provides improved reliability of the service through accountability, increased price transparency, and reduced operating costs for tanker providers. This mobile app and SMS based system will function as a platform to connect existing tanker delivery operators with end users who place orders through H2Go’s platform. It will not be feasible to effectively reach all citizens in rapidly growing areas of cities around the world by thinking of traditional piped infrastructure as the only solution. Water supply of the future will require innovative thinking to reach citizens in these dynamic cities in a cost effective way, and the flexibility of tanker deliveries proves to be a viable solution to reach these people. The goal of this social enterprise is to significantly improve water access for poor and vulnerable households in cities around the world by harnessing the power of transformative technologies with the flexibility of water tanker systems. | The prevailing paradigm for urban water supply system design remains unchanged from traditional practice despite evident failure in supplying citizens of rapidly growing cities in low and middle-income countries. It is clear that centralized, infrastructure based distribution systems are a failure when viewed from the perspective of poor and vulnerable city inhabitants who tend to receive the least accessible water service. Water supply system design remains rooted in assumptions of sufficient water availability, adequate funding and maintenance, and gradual, planned population growth. This model is ill suited for the water-stressed, rapidly growing cities of lower and many middle-income countries. Water tankers fill the gaps where traditional systems fail, delivering water directly to households when and where needed. There is a clear opportunity to couple the responsiveness of tanker water delivery with improved monitoring, access to information and optimal delivery mapping. Examples from transportation highlight the potential for digital technology to dramatically transform infrastructure systems, including ride-sharing apps and the potential of autonomous electric vehicles. H2Go can extend this transformation to water supply distribution. By using digital technology to integrate vehicular water delivery with existing water infrastructure, H2Go will re-engineer water delivery and dramatically improve access to safe drinking water for the poor and vulnerable. | To date, our team has developed the conceptual framework for the H2Go platform, including technology stack, back end servers, and UI/UX for the mobile application to place orders. We are continuing customer discovery to thoroughly understand value this service will bring to customers through extensive interviews and discussions with tanker companies and end users in our pilot study location: Bangalore, India. We have completed initial interviews to identify, broadly, the value that this service can provide to consumers who rely on tankers for water. We have also gauged enthusiasm from companies for this service to improve their existing tanker operations and bring in new customers. Through these initial discussions with tanker operators, we have identified 8 local private companies who currently operate tankers to roll out this proof of concept in Bangalore who are willing to pilot the H2Go platform. Our progress and success will be measured primarily by the number of customers served, and more importantly will be the number of returning customers. Additionally, the benefits to individual tanker companies will provide measurable success through reduced operating costs and increased customer base. As a social enterprise, our impact is measured by the people we serve who are receiving reliable, clean bulk water through tankers. | In order to fully develop the proof of concept in Bangalore, India, additional local staff will be hired for operations, technology development, and marketing. Staff who can manage strong relationships with tanker companies and end users is crucial for successful partnerships during implementation and testing. Once the proof of concept is developed and operational, additional customer service staff will be needed to effectively service customers, handle inquiries, and manage challenges in day-to-day operations. H2Go’s initial proof of concept will be implemented in Bangalore, India, however, there are many other cities with tanker water delivery operations that can benefit from the advantages of the ordering platform. WHO and UNICEF estimate that over 200 million people in cities globally lack access to a safe drinking water source. At full implementation, H2Go strives to reach as many of these people as possible - anyone without a piped water connection who relies on tankers for their bulk water supply is a potential customer. We envision this initially spreading to other water stressed cities in India where tanker water services are common (Kolkata, Chennai, Mangalore, Pune), and members of the H2Go team have experience and networks in these locations to aid implementation in these new markets. | At this stage of development, financial resources are needed to hire staff and complete the team necessary to carry out the proof of concept in Bangalore India. We estimate hiring a local operations manager and customer service representatives (along with overhead for office space and equipment) will cost ~$250,000 USD per year. In Bangalore alone, 20-30% of the city’s population lack access to piped water connection. With the right team, fully developing H2Go in Bangalore alone can serve 2-3 million people in the short term. We intend to fully develop a working proof of concept by December 2020 in Bangalore. As more customers use H2Go, and as more tanker operators use the service, scaling potential is great within India. Upon completion of the proof of concept, we envision scaling within India to reach 10-15 million people in urban areas without piped water connections, including Pune, Kolkata, and Chennai. This scaling will require additional financial support for opening new markets and customer service in multiple languages across the country. Global expansion will require a larger team for additional scaling efforts. Beyond India, additional work is required to integrate mobile payments in multiple currencies as well as to bridge the vast cultural divides that can exist between cities in different parts of the world that rely on trucked water supply. A global team with staff in each operating country will be needed in the long term. | H2Go’s website can be found at: https://www.h2go.org | Unfortunately, no videos or audio recordings exist of pitches and presentations given by Alec Bernstein on H2Go. | H2Go was awarded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorer Round 22: Urban WASH H2Go was selected for the initial UMass NSF-iCorps Spring 2019 cohort H2Go was a semi-finalist in the MIT Water Innovation CHallenge in Spring 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
769 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lincoln | Peedah | Neat Eco-Feeds Limited | https://web.facebook.com/neatecofeeds/ | Team Chief Executive | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | We operate a meat processing facility, Neat Meat Company Limited since July, 2014. We have always looked for ways of disposing of the slaughter waste responsibly and making sure our operations do not affect society. Communities and neighborhoods around slaughter houses in my country suffer from stinking smell from these abattoirs. My motivation is to see these communities free from smell and hence our innovation of recycling this waste to produce maggots as feed for poultry, fish and pig production. I will share this innovation at the UN Solutions Summit for other Entrepreneurs and persons to learn and replicate same in their communities to keep our neighborhoods safe for all. | Lincoln worked as Credit Manager of Toende Rural Bank Ltd, a community bank from August 2008 to June, 2014. He then founded Neat Meat Company Ltd in July, 2014 as a poultry processing facility. He later founded the Neat Barbering Services which provides decent haircut services for the people of the Zebilla Community and beyond. In May, 2018, he was passionate of finding a solution to the continual dumping of slaughter waste to river bodies and causing water pollution and scarcity and awful smell and discomfort to neighborhoods. Lincoln and his Neat Eco-Feeds Ltd solves this problem by recycling this waste to produce maggots as feed for sale to Neat Meat supplier farmers and other farmers in Northern Ghana. Lincoln holds a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Technology and a Master of Arts in Business Planning, from the University for Development Studies, Ghana. Lincoln is also a 2016 Mandela Washington Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Stout and has won several awards at the local and international levels including the 2019 Transformational Business Awards. Lincoln is passionate about finding local solutions to local problems. | Using slaughter waste to produce maggots as poultry feed | Recycling abattoir waste to produce maggots, a cheap and high protein feed for poultry and fish production | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Ghana, Togo and Burkina Faso | Yes | Ghana Climate Innovation Center, African Entrepreneurship Award, SNV Ghana, Growth Mosaic | Transition to Scale | We currently have proved the concept and have four (4) products available in the market; live maggots feed, dried maggot feed, powdered maggot feed and compost. We have over the past year produced close to 120 tons of maggots to a profiled 640 farmers. There is a potential market of close to 2,400 poultry farmers with a feed demand of close to 10 tons per day. Currently, we are unable to meet this demand and looking for an investment to upscale production to meet the demands of this market. | In Ghana cost of protein feed is high,(usually accounting for 65% of the total production cost) for fish and poultry farmers. Sadly, most of this feed is imported and further increasing the prices and making farmers investment unattractive. Farmers over the years have relied on termites harvested from the wild using unsustainable methods and soy and carnivorous fish meal. Also, close to 15 tons of slaughter waste is left unattended each day and causing environmental, air and water pollution. | At Neat Eco-Feeds Ltd, our solution is we cleanly and efficiently collect and process slaughterhouse waste into high protein maggot feed. This feed helps poultry and fish farmers in Ghana to reduce the cost of protein feed from 65% to 30%. The by-products are bagged for use as compost for crop cultivation and ensuring a circular economy and zero waste. In addition to reducing farmer costs, the company helps dispose of fifteen tons of waste left to decay daily in areas of northern Ghana | Neat Eco-Feeds (and parent company, Neat Meat Enterprise) gathers waste from abattoirs and other vendors and recycles it to produce maggots. Harvested maggots sold as live maggot feed.The rest are processed to dried feed, powdered feed and pellet feed all rich in protein, about 60%.The entire value chain helps the environment and lowers costs We initially relied on flies from the open to deposit their eggs in the constructed tanks containing the slaughter waste substrates. This way, we were not getting the required quantities of maggots per tank. So we introduced a technology, here we rear the flies ourselves and nurture them to lay the eggs. We currently rear the housefly and the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) in cages.Once they lays eggs, they are introduced to the substrates in the tanks hatching to larvae/maggots. | From an idea stage in May, 2018, we have progressed to the proof of concept stage and now have four (4) products in the market. We initially mixed the substrates using our hands. We have now procured a commercial mixer which mixes 250 kg in 6 minutes helping reduce drudgery and improving efficiency. Hitherto, harvesting of the maggots was manual. The team has procured a harvesting and sieving machine helping automate the process and increasing speed of production. Another remarkable progress is the development of two fly species insectarum containing ten cages where we raise our own flies for egg and larvae production. A 175 substrate tank capacity larvarum is also established for the larvae production from an initial 50 tanks. Oven rooms are also been constructed for drying of the harvested maggots to dried feed. Our progress is measured by the improved daily production of 675kg to 2.5 tons per day on introduction of the insectarum. | Increase production tanks from current 175 to 300 and increasing production from current 2.5 tons per day to 10 tons. We planned increasing our insectarum to accommodate 60 cages from current 15 and increasing egg production by 400%. This way we will meet production targets and meet market demands. One of our planned milestone is to launch a pellet feed range to serve the aquaculture market by the end of the third quarter of 2019. We will have grown our product range from current four to five and growing revenues by 30%. Our live, dried and powdered feed ranges have already been piloted in neighboring Burkina Faso to the North and the Republic of Togo to the East of Ghana. The feedback is impressive and we looking to expand to this market. We are planning to recruit and retain high talents in research and innovation to continually stay in the feed market and compete effectively in the feed market. | In short term, we looking to grow our insectarum to cover 60 cages, increase the production space at the larvarum from current 175 to 300 tanks. In the medium term, we looking to launch the pellet and maggot oil feed ranges. By this, we will need to procure boilers, coolers, pellet making machine and oil pressers to achieve this set goals. In the long term, we will be looking to procure transport systems for carting the slaughter waste from the abattoirs to our maggot production facility. This way, we will reduce the cost of transport of the waste which constitutes our largest cost currently. We will also require millers and huge capacity packaging systems to reduce production time and improve productivity. | https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/news_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/news+and+events/events/2019-ifc-ft-awards http://www.ghanacic.org/neat-eco-feeds-recognized-for-their-zero-waste-production-cycle/ http://www.akoobooks.com/2018/12/15/press-release-ghanaians-win-big-at-the-african-entrepreneurship-award-in-casablanca-morocco/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu9Mq4Kh4AM https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZXyzl0oT3PrxGlAP1N4u2g | 2018 African Entrepreneurship Award, finalist and winner, Innovation Category 2019 FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards, Finalist; Highly Commended, Transformational Solutions in Food, Water and Land Category and Overall Winner, Excellence in Circular Economy Innovation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
770 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Retlareng | Hlalele | Free Experience (styled freeXperience) | http://freexperience.co.za (future domain name) | Student/ Founder of FreeXperience | Female | South Africa | South Africa | English | I believe in dignity for all people and in the country of my birth, indecent work during the Apartheid era was very common. Even after democracy was achieved, not only was indecent work still around, we were confronted with a bigger enemy: youth unemployment. I am applying to be part of the UN Solutions Summit because rather than complain about the problems in this world, I want to solve them using technological innovation. The project I am submitting is something I'm passionate about, something that's relevant in the context of South Africa's landscape and something that will impact the world positively, should it be scaled on a large level. The rate of youth unemployment is not strictly due to unqualified individuals but rather due to enterprises not wanting to take the risk of employing inexperienced graduates who lack soft and technical skills. The latter is a skill needed now that we are in the beginning stages of The Fourth Industrial Revolution hence due to such skill deficits, our countries is ill-prepared for the technological change. We are not doomed. Not yet at least. Not if FreeXperience, my project, is implemented in the coming months. I have taken my technical abilities and knowledge to create an innovative solution that will aim to provide decent work and economic growth in my country. I believe that we can use technology as an enabler to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and FreeXperince intends to do just that. I intend to steer it the path of progression and prosperity; to create positive change with the help of 4IR technologies. | I attended Hoerskool Uitsig for Grade 8 &9. I had achieved my Academic Honors and played for the School’s netball A-team. In 2013 I was enrolled at St Stithians Girls’ College on a Leadership and Academic scholarship. I completed Grade 12 with ten subjects, two of which are Advanced Programme subjects (Mathematics and English). Culturally, I have written and directed a play for the school's One Act Play Festival. The play won four of the six awards it was nominated for and went through to the Festival of Excellence in Dramatic Arts. Consequently I obtained the Best Writer Award for the play, Virginia. I have recently graduated from the Spirit of Youth Leadership program which is founded by the Gordon Institute of Business Science. I held leadership of Head: Independent Seriti portfolio and Deputy Chair for Community Service. I have been in two community service initiatives: ‘Warm Them Up’ and ‘It’s not SHOE late to donate’ campaign. I am passionate about community service and have availed myself to the Pink Drive initiatives. My academic interest is in Information Technology and my continued enthusiasm & passion has encouraged my desire to study it further at University. I am able to code in the languages Java, Delphi and C++. In 2015, I attended the Winter School Java Programme at University of Johannesburg. My people skills enable me to communicate and assist clients with technological difficulties effectively. Moreover, I pride myself with entrepreneurial skills. I am a firm believer of grabbing whatever opportunity presented to me and making the best of it. | Free Experience (styled FreeXperience) | Enhancing the work readiness of students and assisting in creating a 3D holistic view of potential employment candidates. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | FreeXperince is currently set up in South Africa and given that the problem we are trying to solve affects the continent at large, we hope to expand beyond our borders to other African countries such as Rwanda, Botswana or Ghana. | No | Research & Development | FreeXperience was conceived from a well-defined problem statement. What followed was intensive market analysis to thoroughly search the scope of the issue. The team then worked through the ideation stage, finally arriving at our current stage. The reason our solution is at Research and Development is due to the legalities surrounding people’s data (GDPR and poppy act) which we intend to investigate before moving on to the next process. | There is no model that aggregates technical capability & soft skill competencies for students to better asses their fit for the job market. CEOs struggle to source talent that would enable their organisations to transition digitally to match technological needs. The problem of skills development and recognition has to start early and be continuously assessed and improved. Institutions of higher learning seek to improve curriculum offerings to fit the skills shortage. | Our interactive web-app platform is a virtual readiness and resume builder designed to capture the full scope of candidate abilities from academic to extracurricular. We work with information loaded onto system by students and institutions to continuously update and generate a CV. In addition to this, we can simulate mock interviews to assess preparedness and virtual work environments to foster acclamation to complex work tasks. FreeXperience uses 4IR technologies to level the skills and experience gaps that act as a barrier to employment access. Simulated environments and processes give candidates the opportunity to work with materials and situations that would otherwise be beyond their reach. By granting early access to interview presentation we maximise on the ability of a candidate to be successful in their chosen field. This not only assists the candidate but the company hiring now gets better prepared candidates that have fully fleshed out resumes that truly represent one’s potential and ability to perform on the job. Our goal is to enable students to seek out opportunities to get industry relevant experience and create a sense of ownership that will encourage them to invest in themselves by improving their technical & soft skills. We desire to develop a global youth employment strategy, promote youth employment, edutain and training as well as promote policies to support job creation and growing enterprises. Thus, reducing youth unemployment. | FreeXperience provides a unique offer to the three parties involved. Firstly, from a student’s perspective, we provide them with a dynamic resume that will assist potential employers to view them as a three-dimensional candidate, solidifying their abilities and skills. Secondly, companies interacting with our platform will be provided with an aggregated pool of candidates that fulfil their requirements of employment. Our platform will assist in the decision-making process in choosing which recruits would be best fit for their business as well help with intra- and intercompany transitions. Moreover, they benefit by saving time and resources on training incoming workers. Our system will allow companies to streamline the process of training employees for new roles and responsibilities, giving them practice in a controlled environment, instilling them with more confidence. Lastly, we will provide tertiary institutions such as TVET colleges, a specialized virtual experience for specific courses that will supplement their practical components of their curriculum. This will ultimately enhance TVETs’ responsiveness to today’s complex labour market. Integrating our product with systems of tertiary institutions will enhance the quality of graduates that they produce in a way that is more pragmatic, accessible and less constraining on their resources. | As mentioned before the team has arrived at the Research and Development stage where we would need more in-depth and specific information in order to progress forward (i.e. the exact number of high-demand courses students register for across the higher learning spectrum; basically, our market size). We keep track of tasks that need to be competed with a management app, that way measuring our progression. Moreover, we analyse how much needs to be completed from the technology side as well as the business side for there to be a seamless connection in our organization. Due to team members having other commitments (college-related) we try to have meetings at least once a week and every other day will consist of members working in rotational shifts. | As mentioned earlier, we hope to expand to other African countries where there is an urgent need for our product. Going forward, we hope to extend FreeXperience to high school students in order to build a culture of collecting value from experience gained as well as offering students an opportunity to engage complex experiments and simulations that and in academic proficiency. Given our data intensive project, we would have to recruit individuals specialising in all things data science. It was reported in 2016 that there were 203 076 graduates from public universities and 135 492 in TVETS and private colleges, hence we can estimate that the projected lives impacted (for students) will be around those numbers. | Our short-term needs would be to get information that is not readily available for a proper break down of which group of individuals to target. Also, it would be great to create conversation surrounding youth unemployment and anything in relation to that, to get people talking and thinking about our Sustainable Goal. With respect to medium-term needs, one of the key resources would be funding, however we cannot begin to raise funds without passing our current stage (that was mentioned earlier). Once we move up to scaling, we would need to register the organization before funding stages begin. Followed by investing in a solid group of data science students/graduates. In the next year or two, we would need to establish our relationship with institutions of higher learning, enterprises and students in order to create the FreeXperience environment. Lastly, long-term needs comprise of setting up a fixed working space (i.e at a coworking building such as WeWork), recruiting additional people for different parts of the organization, having impact in the market that can be measured quantitively and qualitatively. The latter will validate our work and cause for collaboration with South African and international groups we wish to achieve goal number 8 as well. | Digital post on freeXperience winning the MIT GSL Winter Program 2019- > https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=369216243779386&id=137635653604114 | (N/A) | 1. MIT Global Startup Programme Johannesburg, South Africa 2019: First place winners 2. GirlCode Hackathon 2019: finalist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
771 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Samia | Dittu | doctHERs | https://www.docthers.com/ | Head Of Clinical Operations, Health Integrated Systems | Female | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | As a Pakistani female doctor, I embody the experience of tens of thousands of qualified female doctors in Pakistan who find themselves at the margins of the mainstream healthcare system, a system that has not adapted to the agile healthcare needs of contemporary women. According to the AMA, there are over 300,000 licensed female doctors who at any given time are not participating in the global workforce, either transitionally due to childcare or parental care responsibilities or permanently due to sociocultural barriers. This represents a massive loss of human potential and is especially problematic in a country such as Pakistan where a majority of the population lacks access to affordable, quality healthcare. At doctHERs, we believe that it is critically important for women from our part of the world to have a voice and to have their voices heard within the global community of nations. In my specific case, I’d like to raise my voice to highlight our impact on SDG3 (better health) and SDG 5 (gender equality). I’d also like to share our unique experience of using technology to reintegrate female healthcare professionals into the workforce while delivering high quality healthcare to underserved men, women and children. | Dr. Samia is the Head of Integrated Health Systems for doctHERs, a global award winning health venture that connects female doctors (who would otherwise be excluded from the workforce) to health consumers via tele-medicine and digital technology. She earned her medical degree from Ziauddin University and completed her Diploma training in Family Medicine from Ziauddin University. Currently, she is preparing to give her MRCPGP(UK). Prior to joining doctHERs, Samia worked in the traditional healthcare space, i.e. in hospitals and clinical medicine. doctHERs was a radical departure for Samia from conventional medicine and opened up opportunities for her to explore ways in which she could apply her medical knowledge and clinical skills towards delivering high-quality, technology-enabled primary healthcare. Samia leads a team of dedicated healthcare professionals including nurses, patient care coordinators and a remotely located, nationwide network of female physicians. | SMART Clinics: Tech-enabled healthcare for an agile workforce | Connecting Women, Improving Health, Transforming Lives | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Pakistan | Yes | Unilever, DFID, Greenstar/PSI, Accenture, UN Foundation, Philips, Ashoka, Insead, MIT, | Transition to Scale | We have demonstrated proof-of-concept of our SMART clinic model in an industrial setting (inside a textile factory) and are now poised to replicate this model across multiple industries including FMCGs, pharmaceuticals, etc. In addition, the 'virtual' mobile version of our SMART clinic model is already active with 20 field teams deployed across 1500 villages in Punjab, impacting over 1 million women per year. | The exclusion of women in the health workforce in both developing countries and mature markets has resulted in not only a massive loss of human potential but also loss of human life. In Pakistan, the good news is that 60% of medical school graduates are women. The bad news is that 3 out every 4 of these graduates are not participating in the workforce - largely due to sociocultural barriers that prevent them from balancing their professional aspirations with their family responsibilities. | doctHERs matches the under-utilised capacity of female doctors (who otherwise would be excluded from the workforce) to the unmet needs of health-seekers from underserved communities. We intend to replicate this tech-enabled model across 6 continents (North America, Europe, South America, Africa, Asia & Oceania) and envision a world where no one is more than a (video)call away from accessing high-quality healthcare. By 2025, we will have impacted over 10 million lives across Pakistan. We strongly believe that the re-integration of women into the workforce (output) by leveraging technology (an input) will yield increased economic empowerment for women (outcome) which will ultimately lead to increased returns for both society and participating corporate/business partners (Impact). This theory of change is based on compelling evidence cited by Dalberg (1) and the Cherie Blair Foundation (2) which reports that ""female sales agents had superior customer service skills and processed customer queries more quickly than men"" 1. Dalberg: ""The business Case for Women's Economic Empowerment""; 2014 2. Cherie Blair Foundation: “Women Entrepreneurs in Mobile Retail Channels”; 2011 | doctHERs is unique in that it uses a digital health platform (technology) to match the under-utilized capacity of female doctors (who would otherwise be excluded from the workforce) to the unmet needs of health consumers in emerging markets. We recruit, capacitate, and equip front-line health-workers (nurses, etc) with laptops, tablets and smartphones. These trusted intermediaries are pivotal to our model as they help to engender trust with health consumers in a culture which prefers interpersonal human interaction (as opposed to virtual). By leveraging technology, we are able to expand access to quality healthcare to remote rural populations alike. | Our team has already deployed our solution in 3 different venues: (i) community settings via the Unilever-DFID co-sponsored TRANSFORM project - in this project, we are leveraging off of Unilever's consumer marketing and distribution assets to mobilise 1500 villages across 20 districts of Punjab, impacting over 1 Million women in 2019-20; (ii) Corporate Value Chains: in this model, we provide mobile-enabled, primary healthcare services to ~20,000 lives affiliated with the value chains of Unilever & RB (this includes distributor sales reps (DSRs) and their spouse, children and parents); (iii) Industrial venues: in this model, we are deploying SMART telemedicine clinics inside factories with a special focus on women. Aside from measuring outputs (e.g. number of lives enrolled in our digital health & wellness plan), we also measure outcomes, including the following: (i) % change in income of frontline health workers (female nurses, midwives, community health promoters) (ii) % change in maternal, neonatal and under-5 child mortality & morbidity (M&M) (iii) Number of patients successfully treated for hepatitis C (as measured by quantitative PCR) | (i) SMART Clinics: expansion of model nationwide across Pakistan, including in public sector (ii) Private-Public Partnership: integration of doctHERs health & wellness plan into public sector national health insurance plan (iii) Organisational Expansion: Over the next 18 months, we plan to expand our sales force by 12 reps nationwide. In addition, we plan to hire a CFO and CCO, for which we are raising a Series A round of $2 Million (iv) Projected Impact: By the end of 2020, we intend to impact over 2.5 Million lives, of which 2 million will be women and children. | (i) Access to Capital: We are raising a Series A round of $2 Million out of which we have already raised $1.25 million (ii) Access to Markets: We are expanding our strategic partnerships with large multinationals such as Unilever to enable us to replicate our model globally (iii) Access to Human Talent: we are aggressively recruiting for top-knotch talent that is like-minded, mission-aligned and keen to work at the intersection of technology, healthcare and gender inclusion. | https://www.docthers.com/ https://unreasonablegroup.com/articles/docthers-talk/ https://healthmarketinnovations.org/program/docthers https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/women-and-technology/solutions/2085 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUsQ0gaZAC0 | 2019: VivaTech Global Finalist Awardee 2017: MIT SOLVE; Winner, Women & Tech Category 2017 World Health Summit (Berlin): Winner, Start-up Track 2016: MIT Inclusive Innovation Competition; Winner, Judge's Choice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
772 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Monika | Shukla | LetsEndorse | https://www.letsendorse.com/ | Founder & CEO | Female | India | India | English | The UN Solutions Summit is a great platform for LetsEndorse to present its work and - 1) Lear from different participants and stakeholders. 2) Form partnerships and get access to patient capital from the most sought after investors. 3) Get recognized at a global stage which might catalyze the scale-up process. 4) Get access to unparallel resources which would prove to be very instrumental in the success of LetsEndorse 5) Get noticed by exceptional talent who might want to join LetsEndorse to achieve its mission. 6) Get visibility with policymakers from around the world who might find value in our work and therefore offer to work together. Apart from the aforementioned points, I consider this coveted opportunity as a personal and joint achievement of the efforts that we have put to build LetsEndorse. This opportunity is something that I shall cherish for times to come and I promise to make the most of it, live up to the standards of it and continue to work as hard as possible towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, building an equitable society and ending poverty. | Monika is the Founder and CEO of LetsEndorse. She graduated as a silver-medalist from IIT Kharagpur (Instrumentation Engineering) in 2010. She was an active member of the Entrepreneurship Cell at the Institute. While working as a technologist at Goldman Sachs, she spearheaded employee engagement initiatives. She studied Liberal Arts and Leadership from the Young India Fellowship Program (Ashoka University and University of Pennsylvania) to garner a well-rounded perspective of domains beyond engineering. It was there that she got an understanding of subjects like rural microeconomics, public policy, anthropology and started working with several social enterprises/NGOs. She then headed marketing/merchandising of Health & Wellness portfolio at Healthkart.com for a year before kick-starting her research project on Corporate Sustainability as a German Chancellor Fellow at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is a Global Shaper (World Economic Forum) and a GRI-G4 Sustainability Reporter. She was awarded amongst the Top 15 Women Entrepreneurs who are Transforming India by the Vice-President of India, organized by NITI Aayog and United Nations. Monika is extremely motivated to tackle inequality through equality of opportunity and several of these local and global issues. She believes that the inability to disseminate existing and practicable social innovations is the biggest challenge and the biggest opportunity. More about her: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monika-shukla-49989638 | LetsEndorse | Mobilizing global social innovations to eradicate local social issues at scale, sustainably and irreversibly | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, China | Yes | Tata Trusts, NASSCOM, Nexus (US Embassy), Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) | Transition to Scale | LetsEndorse is a four years old initiative and has a community of 1500 grassroots non-profit partners, 500+ social entrepreneurs from 40+ countries, 12,000+ users including 4,500 donors on the platform. We have deployed almost 300 projects and raised USD 1.2 mn in the last 15 months. Some of our customers include Intel, Grant Thornton, Sony, Target Corporation, Samsung, NTT Data, Thoughtworks. Since we have found a good product-market fit, we are ready to now scale-up. | We are solving the problem of 'Pilotitis', which means the inability to scale proven and successful solutions. The development sector continues to work in silos and while there are hundreds and thousands of pilots going on, there is little work being done to document and scale-up proven projects while learning from the failures. We are solving for lack of data on real-time needs and challenges, access to solutions for local challenges along with transparency, and accountability. | At LetsEndorse, we have built a unique model which allows us to identify social challenges at the grassroots, map the most befitting social innovation from across the world, raise sufficient funds from corporations under CSR budget, individual donors and philanthropists, other institutional contributors like Foundations and family offices and the government to implement the solution at the lowest possible cost with complete transparency and accountability of the costs, timelines, and impact. We have created 'deployment blueprints' of over 500 social innovations which give us complete information and data of each of these solutions including, their technical specifications, previous successes and failures, training required, guarantee/warranty including service level agreements, other competitive products, expected impact and the parameters on which the impact could be assessed amongst other things. By continuous impact assessment post-deployment and developing a deep understanding of the local communities and their nuanced challenges, we are able to match the local need to global solutions. We have done over 300 deployments in the last 15 months and have a 100% success rate on each of these deployments. We envision a society where everyone has a stake in solving local and global developmental issues and exists a robust support-system for every noble intention to transform into action. We envision a cohesive future, together, collaboratively, and sustainably. | At LetsEndorse, we have created the World's first social innovations marketplace and technology platform that brings together multiple stakeholders to collaborate, leading to the deployment of the most befitting solution in a community that needs it, thereby eradicate the problem and providing complete visibility and accountability. We believe that the world, especially the underserved communities, would transform when people and local organizations in nooks and corners can discover, access and deploy the most powerful innovations and solve their problems themselves. Be it bio-toilets or solar-powered cold storage systems, arsenic water or waste de-composters, maternity simulators or digitized classrooms, solar-powered hearing-aids or breast prosthesis for breast cancer survivors, clean cookstoves or pocket ECG devices, communities from far and wide can discover, compare and procure (or raise funds for) the solutions which fit their geography, demography, cultural habits and behavior. This model also gives a boost to a new and emerging community of local micro-entrepreneurs who take these globally recognized solutions to the last-mile, generate awareness and earn livelihoods for themselves. We believe that we shall replicate the success of the ""The Polio Campaign"" in the realm of social innovations by taking innovations of-the-shelf, creating success trails and repeating how the world eradicated Polio by scaling up the Polio vaccine, collaboratively! | The solution is developed and brings together multiple stakeholders including non-profit organizations, social entrepreneurs and innovators, Corporations, individual donors and philanthropists, family offices and foundations, Government, and volunteers to collaborate with the result that a proven and befitting solution gets deployed at the last mile in a community that needs it the most. Apart from the marketplace platform, the technology suite provides complete visibility, accountability, and governance and ensures maximum effectiveness of each project and efficiency of every dollar invested. We have 1,500+ non-profit organizations across India including 400 paying non-profits, 500+ social innovations from over 40 countries across the globe, 12,000+ users including 4,500 donors on the platform. We have deployed almost 300 projects and raised USD 1.2 mn in the last 15 months. Some of our customers include Intel, Grant Thornton, Sony, Target Corporation, Samsung, NTT Data, Thoughtworks amongst others Our most important metric is how many solutions are deployed at the last mile with sustained impact over a period of time. We also measure the amount of philanthropic capital being channelized through the platform, number of donors, non-profits and social entrepreneurs and are constantly putting efforts to scale. The need assessment and impact assessment for each project is done by multiple stakeholders apart from the local NGO partner via the community members, volunteers etc. | Next three months - 1) Onboard 1000 social innovations from over 50+ countries. 2) Onboard 2500 non-profit organizations from across India. 3) Work with five state Governments in India. 4) Raise USD 1 million in development capital and implement over 250 project developments. 5) Grow from 15 to 25 people 6) Impact the lives of 10,000 people Next 6 months - 1) Onboard 2000 social innovations from over 50+ countries. 2) Onboard 5000 non-profit organizations from across India. 3) Work with 10 state Governments in India. 4) Raise USD 2.5 million in development capital and implement over 500 project developments. 5) Grow from 15 to 40 people 6) Impact lives of 25,000 people Next 12 months - 1) Onboard 5000 social innovations from over 50+ countries. 2) Onboard 10,000 non-profit organizations from across India. 3) Work with every state Government in India along with the Federal Government. 4) Raise USD 10 million in development capital and implement over 2500 project developments. 5) Grow from 15 to 75 people 6) Impact the lives of over 500,000 people. 7) Expand to Nepal and Bangladesh. | Short Term - We are looking for partnerships with stakeholders across the world who are working on achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, primarily the grassroots implementation partners and non-profit organizations. We are also looking to build a core and geographically diverse team based out of different countries along with raising scale-up capital. We are also looking at development sector experts to mentor us on various aspects of building a scalable and global social enterprise. Medium Term - We would look at partnering with Governments across different countries and also several development finance institutions at national and international level. Long Terms - We would be looking at scaling the platform and becoming the global connector and enabler for multi-stakeholder partnerships globally to facilitate invention, scaling up proven solutions, facilitating development capital, providing technology for impact assessment, governance and accountability and eradicating social issues at scale. This would require a global presence and stage, multi-stakeholder partnerships at different levels, a strong advisory board, and most importantly a very solid and large core team committed to achieving the mission that we have set out. Needless to say, it would require a lot of scale-up capital as well until we become sustainable through the internal accruals. | https://www.letsendorse.com/ https://www.letsendorse.com/innovation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFhAA0NMIng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imxcw7uBb2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIuBYR-b2e8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syf3XIRrWrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ5vZ4BqJtA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvUHTfCOBKU | https://www.dw.com/en/the-german-chancellor-fellowship-recipient/av-18384195 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LvlXo1ho2w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMl65QJgX3I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRalVQtXCeg | Winner of NITI Aayog and UN’s Women Transforming India Awards 2018 Anita Borg Fellow - Women Entrepreneur Quest (WEQ) 2017 Winner of Startup GrandSlam, World Blockchain Summit, 2019 One of the 11 women-led startups, Google's Launchpad Build in 2017 Finalist, TIE Inflect Silicon Valley, 2018 German Chancellor Fellow Young India Fellow Selected among 25 women entrepreneurs for “TechCamp South Asia”, Dubai India representative at TBN Asia Conference held in Indonesia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
773 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sandra | Kishi | Brazilian Federal Prosecution Service (MPF - Ministério Público Federal) | www.mpf.mp.br | Federal Circuit Prosecutor | Female | Brazil | Brazil | English | Spanish | Share with us your motivation(s) for applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit (to present a project or serve as Selection Committee Member). Describe how you have used innovation for positive global impact. * The Water Connection Project - “Communication and Digital Network Management Project for Governance and Sustainability” is an innovative Brazilian initiative of the MPF - Federal Prosecution Service (different from the usual model of institutional activity in Brazil and also of Prosecution Services activities in other countries). The Water Connection Project proposal was conceived in the first quarter of 2013 and entered into implementation in January 2015 by the MPF (Ordinance PGR / MPF no. 40 of January 19, 2015) and is still under implementation to date. The Project is suported by the 4th Chamber of Coordination and Review of the Federal Prosecution Service ( MPF ). This Project aims new strategies of involvement of the Federal Prosecution Service, focusing on preventive and integrated planning and articulation with stakeholders, in a resolution manner, and on an innovative management model for collaborative governance, especially on water resources, sanitation, environmental monitoring, economic and financial planning, social and environmental management, preservation of protected areas and indigenous issues in Brazil. The Water Connection Project was also designed in accordance with the United Nations SDGs. In addition to the articulation and engagement of stakeholders from several different sectors of the society the Water Connection Project has brought positive and practical outcomes for the compliance with the management of public policies through continuous multisectorial, interdisciplinary, multilevel, and inter-institutional technical meetings (with stakeholders who did not communicate among themselves). Thus, the Water Connection Project contributes an innovative methodology to a model of spaces for collective construction of work plans, with stakeholders from various sectors, in collaborative thematic networks for the effectiveness of good practices and compliance in public policy management of environment, water, in a new concept of collaborative governance for sustainability. Positive results have been proven (as links, documents and videos brought at the end), at practically zero cost, and in a real process of democratization of a collective built culture for the effectiveness of social and environmental justice. | In the Water Connection Project, Sandra Akemi Shimada Kishi and Suzana Fairbanks Oliveira Schnitzlein are respectively Manager and Deputy Manager. Sandra Akemi Shimada Kishi, Federal Circuit Prosecutor (MPF) and Manager of the Water Connection Project • Graduated in law by the School of Law by the University of São Paulo; Master in Environmental Law UNIMEP- Methodist University of Piracicaba •Visiting Professor in “lato sensu” Graduate courses in Environmental Law at the Methodist University of Piracicaba (UNIMEP, 2005-2014) • Research DFG Group Researcher Brazil-Germany at the University of Bremen, Germany, on ""Access to Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge and Benefit Sharing"" (2007-2009). •Representative of the Office of the National Ombudsman at the Federal Attorney Office for Citizens' Rights on ""Access to Drinking Water and Sanitation"" of the FIO - Iberoamerican Federation of Ombudsman (2014). •Representative of the Federal Prosecution Service in the Management Board of Genetic Heritage (Ministry of Environment) •Participant of the International Visitor Leadership Program on Water Management Issues (I.V.L.P.) of the U.S. Department of State's Premier Professional Exchange Program (March-April/2016) •Member of the Environment Commission of the CNMP - National Council of the Prosecution Service in Brazil (2018-2019) •Vice President of the ABRAMPA - Brazilian Association of Public Prosecutors | ""Water Connection Project"" – coordinated by the Brazilian Federal Prosecution Service (MPF – Ministério Público Federal) | ""Water Connection Project""- ""Communication Management and Digital Network for Governance and Sustainability Project"" | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | The Water Connection Project is an innovative Brazilian initiative with resolutive action by the Brazilian Prosecution Service. | Yes | The main partners are public institutions, private sector representatives, members of the academia, NGOs and several stakeholders of society in Brazil. | Sustainable Scale | The Water Connection Project is an innovative Brazilian initiative of the MPF - Federal Prosecution Service (different from the usual model of institutional activities of Prosecution Services), which aims at and regarding the new strategies of involvement of the Federal Prosecution Service, focusing on preventive and integrated planning and articulation with all stakeholders, in a resolution manner, and on an innovative management model for collaborative governance in Brazil. | .To work proactively with public and business institutions to improve and effectively integrate water quality monitoring data into the various official control and management agencies; . Need for greater institutional articulation and implementation of water, sanitation, environmental and health policy instruments; .Scenario of degradation of water quality and impairment of its uses and the Water Crisis in Brazil; .Need for greater transparency in sustainability issues; and others. | a) Articulate the transparency, monitoring and social control tools (Digital Network) and innovative strategies in pacts, conventions and public and private agreements (Good Practices), aiming to obtain effective results in the improvement of water quality and quantity, of sustainable development, as well as social environment perfomance indicators. b) Promote the innovative public and private articulation toolsgood communication and digital network management, which lend themselves to providing ideas and methodologies to society to implement and proactively strengthen appropriate integrity measures; c)Use innovative instruments that foster compliance in the public sector, good socio-environmental practices, good practice protocols with business sectors, mandatory guidelines in Plans, Programs and Projects of the various sectors, aiming at achieving water quality goals and prioritizing environmental award of damages and the Conservation Unit System for the preservation of watersheds; M. Conduct Communication management and the intelligent digital information network proposed in the Connection Water Project, which aim to connect initiatives of good socio-environmental practices and give applicability to academic studies, and c) To act as a facilitator for sharing ideas and results of related projects encouraged by the Connection project, in light of important indicators such as health, sustainable development, the best applicable technology and effective risk control. | The Water Connection Project uses several working methodologies, depending on the specific activities or actions, acoording to the following scope and UN Sustainable Development Goals (see the list of links of documents of the Project). Main actions and activities being implemented by the project are the following: 1) Water Connection Virtual Portal (allows the crossing of data and information related to water resources, environment and health issues; 2) Dissemination of information by the Water Bulletin; 3)Training, education and Capacity Building in partnership with the Higher School of the Public Prosecution Service; 4) Manual of Practice ""Effectiveness of the Water Quality Framework and Targets in Brazil; 5) Dissemination of inovative experiences, methologies and results of the socioenvironmental projects stimulated by the Water Connection Project; 6) Communication Management Committe; 6) MPF Water Connection Project Advisory Committee; 7) Water Biomonitoring Website and an application that provide awareness and education for sustainability by encouraging the effective implementation of the monitoring practices; 8) Synergy of methodologies and positive results sharing of Incentive Projects under the Water Connection Project and by its products. The details of each topic above are showed in the documents presented in the list of links of the Water Connection Project (bellow). | There are already positive outcomes from this articulation of the Federal Prosecution Service with the other sectors of society, in a fruitful joint of efforts of external collaborators and partners, without financial burden to the MPF, as the fruits already harvested in the review of the Ministry of Health's Portability Ordinance which is in the process of reviewing the parameters for water to be considered safe and with the opening of water quality raw monitoring data and information from the Water Quality Surveillance Information System for Human Consumption. The Water Connection Project held 197 technical meetings with different stakeholders (public and private sector institutions, NGOs, academia and other actors of Brazilian society), from November 2014 to July 2019. The Water Connection Project constituted an Advisory Committee composed of a group of Counselors members of the Federal Prosecution Service (70%) and well-known external collaborators, representatives of academia, the judiciary and civil society (30%). The Advisory Committee is responsible for assisting on technical, legal, institutional and scientific matters.This Commission also analyzes the results achieved by the Project, according to the methodology established by the MPF. Measures and procedures were established for the evaluation and analysis of the results of actions and results of the Water Connection Project, which are periodically reviewed and reported to the MPF headquarters in Brasilia. | The evolution of the Water Connection Project had demonstrated the need to continue to develop, implement and operate efficient communication and information technology tools to support the fruitful articulation of different stakeholders, aimed at improving water quality and public health, and to clean up pollution of watercourses and water supply springs and transparency and efficiency of water quality monitoring, providing methodologies and technical and scientific support for decision making, as well as facilitating access to information and mobilizing civil society for effective social control of the social and environmental risks involved in water governance, by crossing data and information on water quality, in the MPF Digital Water Connection Portal. The improvement of communication management and the development of intelligent digital information networks, proposed by the Water Connection Project aims to connect initiatives of good social and environmental practices among the stakeholders. The Water Connection Project also proposes to function as a facilitator for sharing ideas and results of related projects that it encourages, effectively contributing to risk control and the participation of the Brazilian Prosecution Service in social and environmental public policies and water resources management, in light of important indicators such as health, sustainable development, the best applicable technology and effective control of environmental risk. | Short term: • Creation of New Digital Portal of the Connection Water Project with Information Technology tools; Medium term: • Continue to improve the diagnosis of the qualitative and institutional situation, by surveying water management programs, projects, policies and legislation; •Continue Benchmarking Programs in search of successful national and international experiences; • Continue the implementation of the Water Quality Improvement Action Manual with Technical Guidance Guidelines for the resolute performance of the Federal Prosecution Service, using as didactic material in training courses; • Promote and instrumentalize the strategies of the Federal Prosecution Service by Watershed, using the Water Connection Portal and other Project products. Long Terms: • Continue the Technical Meetings aimed at collaborative institutional articulation of projects and experiences with interdisciplinary and multisectoral participation; • Continue to publish issues of the Water Bulletin and Water Magazines, of interest not only to members of the Brazilian Prosecution Service; • Continue the relationship activities among the members of the Consultative Committee of the Water Connection Project with Officers of several institutions (such as Central Bank of Brazil, Securities Commission, CGU and other private and government organizations) using new methodologies and mediation processes, seeking consensual solutions regarding social-economic-environmental issues in Brazil. | Please find bellow the link for the attachment with the list of several links of articles, documents, videos and pictures of the Water Connection Project: link: http://conexaoagua.mpf.mp.br/atuacao-estrategica/eventos/2019/2019-08-05/List%20of%20Links%20of%20Water%20Connection%20Project.pdf | Please find bellow the link for the attachment with the list of several links of articles, documents, videos and pictures of the Water Connection Project: link: http://conexaoagua.mpf.mp.br/atuacao-estrategica/eventos/2019/2019-08-05/List%20of%20Links%20of%20Water%20Connection%20Project.pdf | none | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
774 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Georges | Bitar | Live Love Recycle | http://www.liveloverecycle.com | Founder | Male | Lebanon | Lebanon | Arabic | English | French | Dear Sirs, It is my pleasure to apply to the UN solutions Summit and the possibility to be one of the global innovators to give a talk outlining the breakthrough efforts to an audience of senior policymakers, investors, philanthropists, fellow entrepreneurs, and members of the public, including youth, who will bring additional creative insights. The reason I would like to take part in this summit is because I would love to be exposed to various cultures and engage in interesting topics about innovative solutions that advance the Sustainable Development Goals and convenes resources and talent around them. I am currently managing a Lebanese non govermental organization called Live Love Recycle. It is an instant mobile app solution that collects recyclables from households and businesses. I do hope that through this summit I will be able to talk about my experience and share my knowledge in running an NGO that focuses on building a healthier environment while learning from other people how they are dealing with the same issues in their own countries and have the possibilty to collaborate on future projects. I am also very interested in in-person accelerator sessions and social media interaction between Acceleration Partners and the selected solution-makers. Thank you for your time and consideration. Best regards, Georges Bitar | Georges Bitar, 32 years old, born and raised in Lebanon. I have more than 10 years of experience occupying different managerial positions. Co-founder of Live Love Beirut, a social enterprise on a mission to create the next generation of hope and change in Lebanon. Our media channel, @livelovebeirut is the widest social media channel in Lebanon. Our NGO, Live Love Lebanon has been creating initiatives and partnering up with local NGO’s to protect the environment since 2012. We use positive storytelling to give youth the energy to preserve their country's nature and people in need. From social media to social action. Live Love Recycle was born as a program of Live Love movement. In the last 5 years we have also initiated 2 other programs: the Live Love Tours, an offline series turning locals into guides of their regions and generating income for their villages, and the Live Love app, the very first mobile guide of everything to see and do in Lebanon. Both ventures are self-sustainable social enterprises by Live Love. | Live Love Recycle | Live Love Recycle is an instant mobile solution that collects recyclables from households and businesses. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | We are currently only operating in Beirut, Lebanon. We are looking to expand locally and globally. | Yes | Our current partners are: Bel Group Total Unido Unilever Lebanon Touch Lebanon Bellevue Medical Center Different recycling facilities: Arc en Ciel, BiClean, Lebanese Recycling Works. | Transition to Scale | We've been collecting for free for almost 2 years to help raise awareness on the importance of recycling and reduce the amount of waste going to the landfills and seas. Since April 2018, we were able to register more than 4,500 active users who made 48,000 requests and saved 100 tons of clean recyclable waste from being dumped into the sea. More than 10,000 extra people subscribed to our service and are waiting for us to expand outside our current covered areas. | In 2015, our beloved country was dealing with a catastrophe. Lebanon's garbage crisis was on the media all over the world. We were angry and ashamed to see our streets, seas and mountains filled with piles of garbage left untreated. Our main cause was to find a permanent solution to the garbage crisis. We needed to approach the situation efficiently and find ways to minimize the waste as much as possible. We knew we had to take matters into our own hands and make the change ourselves. | Live Love Recycle is a new environmental and social project founded by Live Love Beirut to help counter the garbage crisis in Lebanon. It is a recyclables collection service based on a mobile application where residents all over Beirut are able to order on demand pick-ups for their recyclables bags with one click. A driver on an electrical bike will be present at the designated location in less than 30 minutes after the request is made, to pick-up the bags and drop them back to the nearest recycling facilities. Our initiative was able to establish a reliable recycling service that was missing here in Beirut. Lots of people, who could not recycle before, are now able to do so with us. We have created a service that allowed users to recycle quickly and easily at no cost by using eco-friendly transportation means to help reduce pollution, gas emissions and traffic. | Live Love Recycle offers a reliable recyclables’ collection service at your convenience with just one click. 1- Our initiative is based on a mobile application which allows our users to: - Recycle in an easy and playful way - Order on demand requests at their convenience - Learn tips on how to reduce, reuse, recycle - Get incentives on requests - Know how many kilograms they are saving Driver’s app - Identifying the best route to reduce the cost of transportation 2- With our app's data, we can easily plan the concentration of our users and create targeted marketing campaigns. Through this same data we can collect many types of figures that will enable us to broaden our research on different subjects in the future and work more efficiently. 3- We are using an electrical fleet including 55 electrical bikes in order not to pollute which also makes us not directly affected by the variations of oil price. We are also using solar panels to recharge our bikes. 4- Because we have our own social media channel through different Live Love accounts, we are able to reach more than 1,000,000 local views per day and easily engage with potential customers. Live Love Recycle offer a free collection service with just one click. | In 2018, after three years of developing our project and searching for funds, we received a grant from the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the World Food Programme to finance our project for a period of one year. This grant allowed us to buy a complete electrical fleet and recruit 436 drivers. This grant ended in December. Earlier this year, we launched a Kickstarter campaign to help us transition to the next phase of Live Love Recycle. With the funds from this campaign, we are able to code our new technology and create a brand new collection system that will make us operate more efficiently, based on the lessons we learned. For the time being, our team is currently made out of 15 full time employees are we are catering more than 4,500 households and businesses in Beirut. | Planned Goals and Milestones for our solution: 1. launch our new mobile application Which needs 1 year of development and should be ready and tested by mid 2020. This will allow us to have e-payment and therefore start our business service too. 2. Increase our customers With an intensive and targeted marketing campaign, we hope to grow from 4,500 users (households) to 20,000 users (households and businesses), knowing that we will extend outside of Beirut which will help us reach this goal. 3. Increase our number of requests Increasing our customers will certainly increase our requests and adding items to our recyclables list will also increase the number of requests per user. We are looking to expand into clothes, batteries, electronic waste, used oil, among others. 4. Operate our own sorting facility To increase the revenue coming from sorting the recyclables which could be sold at double the price if sorted. 5. Expand to other countries In a world where 90% of our plastic waste is not being recycled, we believe that our idea can be easily implemented anywhere around the globe to help reduce the amount of waste being dumped into our landfills and seas. | In order to grow our initiative, we are in the process of developing more products that will allow us to cover parts of the operations' expenses to keep them at low price for the user. 1- Work on designing a new mobile application: 1.a- Enable e-payment. 1.b- Launch our business service. We are already in contacts with different interested entities. 1.c- Offer incentives through eco-points 2- Having our own sorting facility to be able to sell our recyclables and reduce our costs. Once we start charging users, we will be able to: 1- Increase the number of items that we collect. 2- Provide more jobs for people from vulnerable communities to collect & sort the recyclables. 3- Increase our revenue by selling the recyclables to be able to reduce the price per collection and obtain even more requests. | http://www.liveloverecycle.com https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/livelove/live-love-recycle-lets-reduce-lebanons-waste-crisi Please refer to the following links for prizes and media coverage: http://www.livelorerecycle.com/prizes http://www.liveloverecycle.com/articles | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG_8dpg3a4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFHk-5jE5bc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJOlq-GjElA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSmQ7Qe2w20 | Winners: Darwazah Startup Accelerate 2019 Competition of Innovative Entrepreneurial Ideas in the Renewable Energy / Environment Sector Green Project Of The Year Competition of Innovative Entrepreneurial Ideas in the Renewable Energy / Environment Sector in Lebanon Startupper of the year by TOTAL Kaynona competition E4SC TIP Program Viva Challenge - Région Sud Provence Zero plastic waste in the Mediterranean in 2030 Finalists: ScaleUP OIC Kazan Impact Hackabu Carbon Footprint Challenge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
775 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Khaoula | Ben Chaabane | EPT | http://www.ept.rnu.tn/ | Engineering Student | Female | Tunisia | Tunisia | Arabic | English | French | I want to participate in the UN Solutions Summit because I believe that my idea can bring global change and have a direct positive impact on the world. I hope that through this summit, I will be able to present it to an international and knowledegeable panel of experts and gain construcutive feedback in order to implement it and contribute to the improvement of the world. Tunisia held its first municipal elections as a democracy in 2017, however a few people were interested in voting. I decided then to take action to encourage citizens especialy youngsters to participate in this historical event. I organized with a couple of friends and with the help of Tunisian NGOs a series of training session and advocacy campaigns online designed to teach participants the structure of municipalities and how their work directly impact our everyday lives. We had the satisfaction of knowing that partcipants immediately registered after attending the sessions. | Khaoula is an engineering student at Tunisia Polytechnic School in her final year. Passionate about technology, science and women's empowerment, she wants to combine both of her passions to have a positive impact and get closer to closing the gender gap. Khaoula participated in various entrepreneurship competitions including ""Open Startup Tunisia"" in which she worked with a team to try and find a solution to reach UN's SDGs specifically goals 5 and 6. | WomenWorking | Encouraging women to join the workforce by showcasing the entreprizes and job offers that have the most gender equal environment and policies. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Tunisia, Morroco, Algeria | No | Ideation | My idea has not yet been implemented and is still in the ideation phase. | Despite some progress, the gaps in labor force participation between men and women remain large. To take just one example, no advanced or middle-income economy has reduced the gender gap below 7 percentage points. This disparity and inequality is a major problem holding back the global economy. Accoring to the world bank women constituted only 39% of the global active population. The situation is even more alarming in Tunisia as only 24% of the active population were women. | My solution will be a platform offering women the possibility of selecting job offers based on the committment of entreprizes in offering a safe, gender equal work environment. Entreprizes will be ranked on my criteria including statistics of women in leadership and managerial positions and maternety leave policies. Users will have the possibility of commenting, sharing their experiences and feedback. | This solution offers the chance for women to chose their employer and the job in which they feel valued and have the opportunity to evolve. I think that this will be the future as more and more women are educated and hold degrees as it is the case in Tunisia for exemple. | I am still in the ideation phase. I believe a good methodology to measure progress is to set regular and measurable goals with a fixed timeline. | Work on the implementation of the platform. Recruit staff. Market the project to both entreprizes and users. | On the short term: Marketing tools and distribution chanels. On the medium term: More staff members a,d collaborators. On the long term: Technical ressources (servers) to organize the data base as the number of users grows. Institutional and international partners. Partnerships with entreprizes that share the same values. | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
776 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Johan | Juul Jensen | SolarSack | www.solarsack.com | Founder and CCO | Male | Denmark | Denmark | English | Being a part of the UN Solutions Summit is an exceptional opportunity to present our innovation solarsack, which is the world's cheapest water purification solution only using the sun's energy to clean water. Solarsack is a mindfully developed polymer water container which in total can clean 600 liters of water for only 3 USD. Outlining the innovation to relevant stakeholders will create awareness about the importance of ensuring access to clean water through a sustainable method and give us access to a network which can help solarsack scale and create a positive global impact. Being the cheapest water treatment solution on the market, solarsack is able to reach people that not before have been able to afford clean water thus reducing the amount of water-borne related diseases and deaths. Moreover, as using charcoal to boil and clean water is the most common method for water treatment in developing countries currently, a swop to a solarsack from using charcoal will ensure decreased deforestation and CO2 emissions. Solarsack thereby advances on many of the SDGs. | Johan is a serial social entrepreneur with a flair for working in the nexus between public goods and business. Johan is co-founder of SolarSack and has the overall responsibility for projects and the commercial development of the company and product. He thrives when it comes to working with technologies and their implementation in social systems to solve complex problems. E.g. the nature of the SolarSack as a product relies on the affordability of it to even the poorest customers across the planet. Only very few companies have managed to introduce new innovation in such a cash restricted communities without relying on rent to own mechanisms that over the long run of the product increases the price drastically. Johan has developed an innovative approach to commission based sales organized through existing social structures (cooperatives & VSLA’s) assisted by a simple feature phone application. Before joining SolarSack, Johan started Mobilized Construction, an innovative technology platform, that assisted governments across East Africa in handling performed based contracts in the road construction sector while also enabling them to collect cheaper and better data. Mobilized Construction is still operating but its primary revenue is generated in Europe. Johan has a background in international development policy from the Hertie School of Governance and Georgetown University | SolarSack | The world's cheapest water purification solution | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Currently: Uganda and Honduras. Intended: Low- and middle income countries. | Yes | CARITAS Denmark, Community Integrated Development Initiative Uganda, Care Denmark, Danish Church Aid, Grundfoss, Novozymes, Aalborg University and The Danish Technical University | Transition to Scale | Through a comprehensive understanding of the need and habits of water purification from different field studies, a bottom up user approach and an improvement of the so-called solar disinfection method only using sun to clean water, solarsack has developed the world's cheapest water purification solution making it relevant and affordable for most of the 2 billion people without access to clean water in the world. This makes it ready to scale. | Currently, more than 2 billion people don't have access to clean water. Being the cheapest water purification solution on the market, solarsack provides access to clean water to people that previously have not been able to afford it and works as an alternative to use charcoal for boiling and treating water. Solarsack thus prevents water-borne related diseases and deaths, reduce deforestation and decrease CO2 emissions. | The solarsack is a polymer water container, which cleans 4 liters of water within 4 hours when placed in the sun. It can be used 150 times equal to the provision of 600 liters of water. This corresponds to water for half a year for one person. The solarsack makes use of the 25-years old solar disinfection method in which the sun's UVA and UVB rays kill all biological contaminants in the water. The solarsack is made out of a mindfully developed plastic composition and is constructed in a way which ensures strength, long life span, high UV penetration and ease of use. Solarsack's vision is to provide safe and affordable water for the people who need it. By reaching a substantial amount of the 2 billion of people without access to clean water, Solarsack has the opportunity to create an enourmours global impact in terms of reducing water-borne related dieseases and deaths, reduce deforestation by being an alternative to boiling water as well as reduce CO2 emissions by saving trees. Moreover, by hiring local sales agents to distribute and sell solarsacks, Solarsack will create a substantial amount of local jobs. | The solarsack distinguishes itself from other approaches that already exist in different ways. By only using the sun's energy to clean the water, the solarsack is produced at a very cost effective price making the product available for a greater user segment than similar products. The improvement of the solar disinfection method by the mindfully choice and composition of plastic, a dark blue color on the backside as well as the design of the sack with two weldings in the middle accelerate the treatment proces and increase the strength and durability of the solarsack, decreasing the liter price for cleaning water. The solarsack is furthermore an all-in-one solution that includes a manual for use, a handle, features for hanging it up and a tap for easy dispensing of the water which altogether minimize the risk of misuse. Our human-centered product design, a bottom-up user approach, ensures that the solarsack stays relevant for those who need it. The material is further lightweight, making the product easy to transport, yet the product still feels robust and durable for the user. | Since the idea was formed in 2017, the team has progressed substantially in the development of the solution. Various product-, bio-, and user behaviour tests in relevant settings have improved the quality of the product and made it user friendly and relevant. It is expected that the next version will be able to clean the water within 1 hour and last for 600 recycles as a result of further research and development. This will make the liter price even cheaper and the product will be available for even more customers. | Solarsack's goals and milestones for the coming years look as follow: 2019: Operating in 3 countries. 200.000 solarsacks distributed. 2020: Operating in 10 countries. 2 million solarsacks distributed. 2023: Operating in 25 countries. 12,5 million solarsacks distributed. | Short-term: Strategic partnerships within product development and distribution/sales. Medium-term: Investments and certifications. Long-term: Distribution partnerships, alternative fundings streams herunder CO2 quotas, user data and advertisements. | Website: https://www.solarsack.com Use of SolarSack: https://vimeo.com/350045158 Solar disinfection: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2009/pp/b816593a#!divAbstract Solar disinfection: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jctb.5005 Solar disinfection: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389412007960 | - | SDG Tech Awards, Denmark: Winner within the Health Category The Danish Tech Challenge: Finalist Climate Launchpad for climate impact start-ups: Winner Danish Design Award: Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
777 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Laban | Jemba | LipaMobile | www.xuldime.com | Enterprise Leader | male | Uganda | Uganda | English | enabling families plan, save and manage educational expenses, support efficient school administration and extra income for teachers. We provide an integrated cashless platform for parents, school admin, school canteen vendors and suppliers to exchange value for educational expenses, supplies & school services. We save families time and money by providing an easy means of transacting on their phones eliminating the long distance travel to banks or shopping markets, and bypassing con men and fake and hazardous product distributors, unlocking more productive time at their social economic activities. We facilitate families keep the girl child longer when they are able to save money and also reduce over heads, and provide genuine safe affordable scholastic materials and supplies such as sanitary towels/pads – there by contribute more the social economic activities of societies. We introduce digital financial literacy to the bottom of the pyramid societies families and students at an earlier age and thereby foster financial inclusion through the quest for good education to their children. | Founder & Enterprise Leader LipaMobile BPO FinTech in Uganda, While studying for BSc. Financial Econ University of London took on a full time life Insurance / financial consultancy with ALICO (UK) made branch top agent in 12 mths,in 6 mths attained Ass Branch Manager & MDRT status. After graduating from University faced a similar challenge with other students of no dedicated forwarding service to African countries co-founded the Jemson Transworld to serve fellow Africa students to conveniently,cost effectively ship cargo back home. Jemson Transworld grew serve other continents and many business people. He extended the services to trade consultancy for foreign businesses importing from Europe. When the UK liberalized the telecom industry away from the preserve of British Telecom, He founded Futura Communications (UK) Ltd headquartered at the Canary Wharf- London EC2, hired his previous boss at ALICO (UK) as the sales director to serve SME in UK with toll free numbers (0800 0xx..) at of the cost. Armed with this business experience moved back to Uganda at the invitation of the Buganda Monarch to share this experience with loyal subjects our business experience with then newly restored Buganda Kingdom and started Crown Ad (U) Ltd a thriving media communications company. Today he runs LipaMobile with its flagship Xuldime - A Certified Guerrilla Marketing Practitioner -Jay Conrad Levinson student, loves technology, continuously updates his business skills and a keen MOOC student of coursera. He enjoys tennis, running, swimming but most of playing with his 3 little girls | XULDIME | Xuldime : School Expenses Simplified | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Southern Sudan, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, Cote D'ivoire | Yes | Mobile Network operators- 1. MTN Uganda, 2. Airtel Uganda | Transition to Scale | We have executed operational contracts with the Mobile Network operators MTN and Airtel Uganda and with 55 schools administration – supporting over with over 25,000 registered [families/ students] users transactions and growing - out 156 registered schools, over 18,000 start ID cards have been issued. 14 suppliers already delivering on orders placed to the students One Bank is already contracted to integrate for real time tuition bank transfers, 2 have completed due diligence to contract | Mostly peasants families in the rural settings and of low disposable income means’ •Inconvenienced procuring and transporting supplies to schools in time. •75% students are unable to save and pay tuition on time. •Lack means of effectively sending and managing student pocket money. •DIFFICULTY procuring & transporting supplies to schools in time. Inconvenienced finding genuine and affordable student school supplies Results in high girl child school drop rates and early motherhood marriages. | We provide an integrated cashless platform for parents, school admin, school canteen vendors and suppliers to exchange value for educational expenses, supplies & school services+ Parents: •By the use of a mobile phone a parent is able to Save & pay tuition •Manage children’s pocket money •Manage student school materials •Manage loans/Insurance •Notifications SCHOOL ADMIN MANAGE •Tuition/pocket money •Access to student school services •Distribution of student school materials •Notifications •Other services & reports STUDENTS Uses smart student ID card to: •Transact at canteen •Access school services; Gate pass, Sick bay, Dining hall, Role call & Library Canteen operators •Accept transactions from students (cashless) •Manage stock •Order from suppliers (cashless) •Monitor sales+ •Pay out to their suppliers+ SUPPLIERS MANAGE •Multiple purchase orders •Coordinate credit supplies •Co-sharing multiple deliveries Long term vision for global impact. Parents will no longer have to worry about managing school expenses, there will more equitable education opportunities for the Girl Child, and they will have all quality requirements easily available for the under banked or low income families too. They will simply ""Xuldime it"" for all school expenses management | Xuldime offers a holistic approach- solution to resolving all pain point issues related to managing school expenses for all the stakeholders – from a) parents- planning , saving and managing expenses (tuition, pocket money, scholastic & school requirements adhoc payments), to the b) school administrators, c) to the students, d) to canteen vendors and their suppliers, d) school & scholastic suppliers touch points. In addition it supplements the incomes of the low paid school teachers. We both have a ussd application as well as mobile application for the parents. Other approaches are only dealing with tuition payments without any savings feature or the rest of the services we offer. | We have developed the entire solution from end to end and are now constantly improving the features and consumer experience. We measure our progress by the number of schools and quality of uptake – that is the adoption rates of the users number of transactions per day for the students, number of transactions per term for the Parents, the deployment of the solution by the schools. Our applications gather analytics on the usage of all features and thereby offer valuable evaluation data to enable us track our progress methodologically. | 1.National scaling September – 2019 We are recruiting- a) 4 x Regional Business Development Managers b) Business Development Executives c) Marketing, PR, and Brand Manager d) Product Manager / Owner January 2020 – December 2022; We are rolling out to cover the rest of Uganda with the collaboration of 3 Major banks ; 2.New countries January 2021 - December 2021; Pilot projects in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania January 2022 – December 2022; Rollout most promising pilot country – in b) above January 2023 - December 2025; Scale the countries above | Short Term 1.Funding to a)recruit and retain higher level key staff – such as -Product Manager, Sales Managers (Business development managers), Software developers, Operations Manager, Marketing PR and Brand Manager b)Train/ sensitize the school admins, operators, students, parents, c)secure whole supplies for the POS devices, smart ID cards, d)Secure office and field hardware – computers, laptops Medium Term. a) Re develop - bothe Payments gateway and Xuldime applications to take on scale b) Build on Business Continuity - Increase on DRP and securities, c) Increase server capacities d) Recruit more Software developers e) Country wide mass sensitisation campaigns Long Term a) Build automated tracking and management systems b) Scale internationally | www.xuldime.com https://www.gsma.com/mobilefordevelopment/country/rwanda/our-four-insights-from-mobile-360-africa-2018/ https://pctechmag.com/2016/07/lipamobile-only-ugandan-startup-finalist-among-30-at-demo-africa-2016/ https://observer.ug/education/51047-schools-parents-take-up-smart-technology https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW_o1cLDRVQ&t=303s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgxTemdj7yc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWZnhUBrNM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiaNIhMA7SQ | Demo Africa 2016, finalist Village Capital 2017, finalist 1776 World Challenge Cup 2016, Africa regional Wild Card- Winner, Global finalist, GSMA Accelerator Program 2018 - Awardee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
778 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Magauta | Lenong | Dipono Visions Pty Ltd | We don't have a website | Executive Director | Female | South Africa | South Africa | English | I would like to present my SDG project because I believe that my project has the power to change the negative situations that many South Africans (especially youth)are going through right now which are mostly caused by a high rate of unemployment. I understand their frustrations very well because I too have walked that road before. Many of them have lost hope of ever getting jobs again. Through educational awareness workshops of all 17 SDGs, I can inspire others to be innovative, creative and use their problems to their advantage through entrepreneurship, just like I did. However I need help and support of like minded people and those that are wiser, more powerful and influential than me. I am am keen to learn of what others are doing globally to tackle SDGs and I too am willing to add in a good hand of help to others. UN Solution Summit is the right platform to showcase my project and link me up with such caliber of people who care about changing the world for a better tomorrow. Being part of entrepreneurial networks of a global communities, like UNLEASH SDG Global Lab, Ship The Start Up festival, and World Youth Forum has taught me the importance of exploring new innovative approaches to partnership and entrepreneurial strategies. Through these networks of great people on my phone the world has become very small and simpler because whenever one of us needs assistance which can not be found in their own country but for example can be found in my country, I am able to help that person or link them to someone else who can help them. This saves us time and unnecessary stress of searching for information in unlikely places when we could be focusing on our projects that are ready to impact the lives of others. This is just some ways I have used innovation for positive global impact. | Magauta Lillian Lenong is a executive director of a youth, female, eco-inclusive company called Dipono Visions Pty Ltd in the field of Waste Management. The company's core business is waste paper but handles other types of dry waste such as PET,etc... Before her career transition as an entrepreneur, Magauta came from long years of IT and project background. Amongst other fantastic things she is a daughter, sister, and a friend to many and always aims to enjoys life to the fullest and believes love should be shared and spread. Above all a daughter and a firm believer in Christ. | South Africa Lead 2030 (SALead2030) | Our lives matter - think green, think technology and act your SDG NOW - The future is here... | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | South Africa | Yes | UNLEASH GLOBAL LAB - We from their name from leverage from their name as their Talents, their SDG knowledge support, their networks and their recommendation support to us so we could form collaborative partnerships | Research & Development | We are at a stage were we are conducting research (collecting data and recording) through these methods: 1. Survey was released through social medial, emails and through paper based survey at local schools, paper method gives me a chance to do face to face. Soon we will be able to analyze the data. 2.Currently busy planning to secure a venue for Face to Face survey with public and will be recorded on video. After this then we can plan the launch a pilot project, for obtaining proof of concept. | South Africa(SA) has not done much to localise SDGs. Also we are the dawn of 4th industrial revolution(4IR) which has brought fear to many, in June more than 20 SA companies retrenched staff due to 4IR causing an uprise of 29% unemployment rate from 27.5%. Due to slow economy, SA is struggling to meet 4IR capacity like energy, internet is expensive for regular person all, funds, infrastructure etc... Climate change also has a bad effect on the biodiversity and the economy. | Through educational workshops for teaching (raise awareness, encourage advocacy, encourage behavioral change and action taking on all 17 SDGs), but pressing more focus on climate change, environment, economies and 4IR. Through this method we are simply opening their minds, encouraging and preparing the communities for social and green entrepreneurship as well as jobs and skills of the future(4IR). At the workshops we will turn all 17 SDGs into a real human conversation that will turn them into real action by the public. In simple terms we plan to teach the SDGs in all South African 11 official languages and hopefully get rid of jargon language where we can for fast and effective understanding of SDGs. This will as make it much more easy for the public to interact into the conversation and also feel comfortable to action on their immediate SDGs. While at the same time we will use drama/ story telling to make the SDG's not too intellectually serious but be fun so that even unskilled/ uneducated/ old and young audience can easily understand & relate to our point. We also want to bring opportunities, resources and tools to communities by forming different collaborative partnerships. In turn we will give partnerships value back through BBBEE or Corporate Social Responsibility. Our long-term vision for global impact is to master this solution in South Africa then take it to the world so we could grow more green economies, reduce poverty & climate change and grow all other SDGs | 1) So far the are no workshops/ entrepreneurs in South Africa that are delivering/ localized all 17 SDGs AND We are targeting ordinary people/ communities. Most 2) Our innovative engagement with communities, like drama story telling, delivering the message in native tongues, removing jargon will give us more advantage as people will be more free and comfortable to engage us and/or even come up with solutions that will change their communities for the better. Like more people becoming, entrepreneurs of their desired SDGs but thinking green too, therefore reducing CO2, saving trees and reducing impact of pollution on landfill and being more 4th industrial technology survey in order to be part takers or competitors of the economy on a global scale. 3) SDGs are broadly known and spoken of at fancy institutions like universities, science, research & technology institutes, paliarments etc...by so policy makers, governments, scientists. Hence a lot of jargon and technical terms are used, which excludes the ordinary people/communities out of the debate. Like grandmother who is polluting the environment and unconsciously/unknowingly impacting on climate change or that young person who lost hope because the don’t have a job due to 4IR. Our target market: communities (ordinary people). | We have developed a plan of action for collecting data for research, this is how we measure ourselves if we are meeting targets or not. We released a needs assessment survey on the 26th July via social media platforms and then also conducted paper based survey at 1 school. We are expecting to approach more schools and reach more people on social media In the weeks of August. So far we learned that in primary schools SDGs are not taught as part of the curriculum and in general do the kids do not know what they are. We are currently working hard to secure a venue for the week of 25th August for a focus group with community. After this we would like to approach potential collaborative partners and propose business for a pilot project we would like to develop, so we could gain proof of concept. | Once we have established the viability of 2 pilot projects in the City Of Johannesburg at the SOWETO township within the next 2 months, then we hope to scale the solution to more places within the Township of Soweto and gradually move out to other townships in the Province of Gauteng (Johannesburg and Pretoria). If all has gone well next year we will be planning to access all remaining 8 provinces of South Africa. We also hope to employ at least 5 graduates who need work experience will work and 5 other high school graduates and/or high school dropouts. The University graduates will transfer their skills to these other 5 people who will be operating as the University graduate assistants.. | We will need access to great and strong networks, so we could build collaborative partnerships that will be able to share with us their resources like knowledge, networks, educational material, finances, logistic, technical support and people in all different stages of our goals.This must increase in all stages and will enable us to create and increase social, economic and environmental impact. Our Short term goal is to boast up our image in terms of branding like creating websites, logos, etc...so that potential partnerships and our target market take us seriously, professional and build trust. We need to marketing tools for creating awareness for our brand and SDGs, we believe this will help us get a good share of the market and increase our traction. Also we need human resource, most especially students and volunteerism so we can afford payment of wages. We need to be compliant with industry standards and law. Medium Term goal: At least by year 2022 is to secure our own an office space, 2-3 vehicles for logistic purposes and be financially stable so that we could create at least 4 sustainable jobs directly within the business. | Survey Link for my project: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PJ2CGBV | Do not have such yet | These are awards/ achievements received as an entrepreneur, even though some are not specifically linked to this current project.1)UNLEASH LAB 2018 Singapore, Position:SGD 6 Talent. 2)Seed South Africa Symposium 2018, Position:Green Business Development Support Receiver 3)Ship Startup Festival Finland 2017,Position:Pitch Finalist for Green Business 4)Green Youth Indaba 2017,Position: Pitch Finalist for Green Business 5) South Africa’s Ultimate Brand Ambassador 2014, Position:Top 4 Semi Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
779 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ny Aiko Nomenjanahary | RAZAFIMAHEFA | NIKITA CORPS MADAGASCAR | none | CEO AND FOUNDER | BISEXUAL | Madagascar | Madagascar | English | French | I see myself as a recognize African Activist well known for my ability to influence policies especially about ENVIRONMENT and be a strategic person at every international meeting as a bisexual ”eco-feminist” but also inspire other young people for gender equality and positive masculinity. By joining this summit, I hope I would be exposing to international activism as I have seen than countries like Madagascar and other French speaker countries are excluded from global dialogue due to language barrier which has ever limited our access to resources to build our capacity. I firmly believe that joining summit will provide me with opportunity to become an outspoken youth advocate and most importantly will provide me with a platform to echo local advocacy we implement at local level. Thanks to an incredible opportunity, the UN Solution Summit , many young leaders who tackle the same problem as me can draw inspiration. It will be a real revelation and a driving force for me, I would exchange with other leaders to the same vision as me. Finally, I could share and exchange knowledge/experiences with other amazing activists who also engaged in shaping a better world. | My name is Ny Aiko , i am a young bisexual female of 28 years old and for over three years, I was the CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND FOUDER of a youth-led organization called NIKITA CORPS MADAGASCAR” which develop innovative programs around recycling for Women health-WASH, gender based violence for positive masculinity, eco-feminism education for low carbon emission .With each programs, we build capacity about leadership, self-esteem and social values for vulnerable young women and girls for social change. I am also an UN VOLUNTEER NATIONAL WASH SPECIALIST at Madagascar with working agency UNICEF, WASH Section. I am also a ONE YOUNG WORLD AMBASSADOR and a ""mentor an advisor "" of FRIDA THE YOUNG FEMINIST FUND. For me, a commitment to true equality should make an absolute essential. And to be both young, woman and bisexual duplicate challenges in my way | NIKITA SANITATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR HER | NIKITA SANITATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR HER. This program aims to build capacity around; the sorting and recycling of ""plastic bottles | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Madagascar | Yes | Women led organizations, LGBT community and Sex workers communities | Proof of Concept | because we just need little technical and financial help to proof the impact and pertinence of our project. | Born and growing up in Madagascar, raised in a middle income family and supported by my single mother, I see myself self in every statistic that speaks to the struggles that young women in poor and middle income family go through in life to claim their voice, rights to access quality education, basic health and descent work. But all these could not be realizable if we are not aims living and behaving pro-environmental | I would like to talk about our NIKITA SANITATION and ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOR HER PROGRAM. It a four-month program that is based on environmental peer-education of vulnerable young women that our organization takes in hand including young single mothers and girls aged 14 to 25 living in the poorest conditions of Madagascar. This program aims to build capacity around firstly; the sorting and recycling of ""plastic bottles"" to become raw materials for innovative, green and sustainable latrines called “Nikita eco latrines” but also to become “tip tap” washing hands for WASH: this project is for vulnerable women in Madagascar. It will be an intersectional collaboration between plastic bottle producers and consumers Secondly, we also build capacity around gender-based violence; it means that we educate and engage young men for positive masculinity and to overcome Malagasy women discrimination. Thirdly; we build capacity around “GREEN JOBS for women entrepreneurship” for economic empowerment. Finally, we build capacity about leadership, self-esteem, social values, advocacy, project management links to the 17 SDG’s for vulnerable young women and girls for social change. We have faith in environmental education which can increase consciousness of climate change, producing new insights not only at the scientific but also at the sociological and political level : it is a life-long responsibility and therefore a commitment. | For me, a commitment to true equality should make an absolute essential. And to be both young, woman and bisexual duplicate challenges in my way The challenge is huge because mobilizing a whole planet is not easy when everyone has their own interest in the passive and active destruction of our ecosystem. Yet, I still have faith in humanity, I am motivated by the need to leave a healthy land for future generations because if I myself do not give the example, who would? Pro-environmental behavior requires the adoption of some small eco-behaviors, it is important to raise awareness especially young people who represent our future that they can become ECO HEROES by simple behaviors and that together they can be stronger than “the Avengers” if they want it. Women’s voices must be heard, and their priorities supported as part of climate justice. In many countries and cultures, women are at the forefront of living with the reality of the injustices caused by climate change. They are critically aware of the importance of climate justice in contributing to the right to development being recognized and can play a vital role as agents of change within their communities. I have not given up yet because it is not yet too late to be worthy of this beautiful planet which has been left for free and the miracle is that the protection only requires that we learn to show him our love for free too. | Young people with each difference have already understand that difference is a strength not a weakness. Only young people have enough power to achieve climate stabilization which necessitate radical changes in lifestyle and behavior and pro-environment peer-education has the power to equip future generations with the skills and knowledge they will need to thrive and survive. Through strong preparation, implementation and advocacy of strategies addressing the climate crisis, our fight will be successful because young people might share experiences and responsibilities with team work and engagement. This UN solution summit is the best platform to show to the whole world how young people can empower, share love and hope, inspire through standing up and claim our voices to be heard but also promote peace and justice. Climate change highlights our true interdependence and must lead to a new and respectful paradigm of sustainable development, based on the urgent need to scale up and transfer green technologies and to support low carbon climate resilient strategies for the poorest so that they become part of the combined effort in mitigation and adaptation. | apart from Madagascar, i would like to help all African countries which face the problem of bad sanitation , gender base violence's and discrimination. So i planned to recruit young volunteers under 30 which are 80 percent unemployed in my country above all vulnerable women ,young single mothers, young sex workers. I dream to reach all categories of young people that Africa is composed without no discrimination or sexism | more volunteers for human resources, partnership with industry of plastic bottles, capacity building about social marketing, financial and technical help, media partnership | we have not enough financial budget to develop an official website but our facebook adress is :Nikita CORPS | none | none | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
780 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Leo | Clarkin | AESP Green Energy Inc | www.i-kabin.com | EVP Business Development | male | Canada | Canada | English | We designed, developed, and field-tested the IP protected i-Kabin (www.i-kabin.com) solution specifically for the sub-Sharan African marketplace and its 600 million residents, living ""off-grid,"" i.e., those persons and families having no access or unreliable access to the electrical power grid. The i-Kabin solution is a village-centric IoT (Internet of Things) Solar-powered Battery Recharging Kiosk akin to that of a ""Solar-well."" As one would come to the communal village well to gather water, families and small business people would trek to the i-Kabin (nominally located in a Market area) to recharge a portable Li-Ion battery (weighing approx. one kg), aka, the i-Pack battery. The i-Packs' 15 amp-hour energy capacity allows for illumination of two rooms in a family home for 3 to 4 hours per night for approximately one week. The i-Pack's USB and 12-volt port/outlets allow for powering small consumer electronic goods such as fans, mobile phones, radios, torches and even TVs. Once depleted of energy capacity, the i-Pack battery returns to the village i-Kabin for recharging. The i-Pack battery removes the need to procure and use noxious kerosene currently used throughout SSA as a source of fuel to light lanterns. Not only is kerosene an expensive and inferior source of home illumination, but it is also an insidious substance devastating the health and safety of hundreds of thousands of SS Africans yearly and mainly women and their children owing to poor indoor air quality. Kerosene usage kills mostly African mothers and their children; an iPack does not! Each i-Kabin supports a community of five-hundred families and business owners. In other words, its design enables the recharging of 500 i-Pack batteries in a recurring weekly cycle. Therefore, should a family consist of five members, each i-Kabin directly impacts 2,500 to 3,000 SSA denizens. The deployed i-Kabin assembly takes unless than one day, and that same evening, it is providing a clean source of affordable and renewable energy to five hundred families. | AESP Green Energy (Montreal, Canada) (www.aespge.com) shall be the implementing organization for this proposal/grant. We shall do in-coordination with our Nigerian Partner, iKON, www.ikon.energy. AESPGE designed and developed the i-Kabin and owns all associated patents and IP of the i-Kabin. The Canadian Patent office refers to our ""Autonomous Recharging Station"": http://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/2946038/summary.html?query=*&start=101#=50&type= After extensive marketing research including in-field focus group discussions, AESP GE formulated the i-Kabin requirement and developed the pre-production i-Kabin prototype, which was field-tested in Côte d'Ivoire. Seven prototype i-Kabins were tested and trialled with over 500 rural Ivorian families. The following is a YouTube vignette of the i-Kabin prototype installation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCNpx8lGb60 AESP Green Energy will manufacture and package and deliver the 20 i-kabins to our Nigerian Operational Partner in Lagos, iKON. The actual location for individual deployment shall be established with iKON and in consultation with in-country government seniors. However, it's intended to optimize the impact of the i-Kabins through implementation in rural, peri-urban, and urban in both North (Kano region) and probably in the Nigerian Delta region. We would also desire to highlight the i-kabins attribute in humanitarian, developmental, and commercial environments. We already have commitments with UNHCR to establish the i-Kabins in refugee settlements. | The i-kabin Service: a renewable, clean, and sustainable lighting and Electrical power solution for Africa's People | The i-kabin service: a renewable, clean, and sustainable lighting and Electrical power solution for Africa's People | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | The i-kabin is not intended to be a panacea in solving SSA's electricity deficit; nevertheless, the i-kabin provides a quick to deploy and to deliver energy service. It is renewable, clean and affordable. It removes to the need for kerosene and as shall b | Yes | All of the following entities have verbally agreed to be shareholders for this grant funding project from USAID. All are aware of the of the i-Kabin numerous positive attributes for SSA deployment. (A) Sterling Bank Nigeria is already partnered with iKON | Transition to Scale | The i-Kabin is at a Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 8 as assessed by the Canadain Government (for a previously submitted proposal). We conducted a seven (7) i-Kabin proof-of-concept test and trial period in five (5) Côte d'Ivoire villages. This trial proved both the technological and the business model approach. The lessons learned from this 24-month trial were dovetailed into the current (and early) commercial model of the i-Kabin. . | We refer to the USAID study, a ""CBA on PAYG Solar Home Systems"" published in Jan 2017, in an attempt to justify them an i-Kabin business case. The primary constraints are the excessive cost of product distribution, high default rates among pay-as-you-go customers, and a breakdown in partnerships among different actors along the supply chain.""With the i-Kabin PAYG off-grid solution, we are attempting to provide a business model to meet the fundamental needs of SSA's ""off-grid"" communities. | Our TAM, the Total Addressable Market, are those approx 600 M persons living without access to light or power in sub-Saharan Africa. As stated above the i-kabin solution provides renewable and affordable access to clean home light and energy. The economy-of-scale provided by the i-Kabin along with its optimized location used to serve a community of 500 families and small business is the key to its success. This ingenuity allows for a vast cost reduction when compared to individual Solar Home Systems. Each family only needs the ipack battery and two LED lights that provide energy capacity to light two rooms for 3 to 4 hours per night for one whole week. Furthermore, the ipack's energy storage capacity is much more significant of regular SHS batteries. There is no direct cost amortization of the i-Kabin cost placed on the family unit. ) The i-Kabin has women entrepreneurs as Franchise owners. The spectrum of family ipack owners covers all ages, genders and even economic strata. For example, we shall commence our Pilot is Lagos a city-state of 21 million. Those families that can afford supplement power supply with diesel gensets and power-invertors, both of which have a high CAPEX, running cost and pollute! The i-Kabin solution is available to both urban and rural populations. It can support those people living at the BOP and economic strata much much higher who must depend on the unreliable electrical grid infrastructure. | Why? Price, availability, and effectiveness. Most of the off-grid power solutions in Nigeria (our beachhead into all of SSA) are SHS products, which has OEMs partnering with either Mobile Network Operators or local Banks. The centrally located i-Kabin offers ""economies of scale."" The capital price of the i-Pack battery is $ 50 and much lower to procure or to obtain a micro-loan. Home SHS can cost up to $ 250 to buy. The overall capital cost of an i-Kabin community, consisting of the installed i-Kabin and its 500 paying and weekly recurring client (i.e., the iPack owners) is approx 35% of that of a hypothetical SHS community of 500 SHS owners. Also, the efficiency of establishing field operations, an I-kabin is installed in less than a day, and the 500 ipack batteries can be pre-sold and distributed to the families that same day. If a micro-loan of, for example, USD 25, i.e., half the ipack price can be repaid with an additional weekly fee when the consumer is recharging their ipack. The energy capacity of the iPack battery is generally much more substantial than many of the standard SHS batteries, and ergo cost per Whr is much more economical. Solar Home Services has previously described that they could replace the use of i-Kabin services. However, these numerous SHS are available today, but they are unaffordable to much of impoverished rural residents. i-Kabin's are a village-centric marketplace, and SHS requires users to commit to financial debt to procure the products. | As stated before the i-Kabin are IoT, internet of things devices using cloud-based analytic tools to capture and analyze its ""big data."" This IoT connectivity provides for by either mobile or satcom networks depending on location, availability and affordability. As figures-of-merit (FOM), each i-Kabin was designed and developed to support 500 clients, i.e., the recharging of 500 Li-Ion portable battery weekly. This ipack battery provides 15 amp-hours light and power to each of the 500 client families (impacting approximately 2,500 people) on a recurring weekly basis. Its cloud-based software only allows for a pre-paid recharged and ""handshaking"" recharged scenario, i.e., once confirmation of the PAYG mobile money transfer, the i-pack's recharge process starts to flow. All data is captured on a transactional basis and with all the various 'stakeholders"" having available to them real-time accessibility to computer dashboard statistics. So real-time engineering ""heart-beat"" data is flagged to forecast and prevent i-Kabin shutdowns and shutdowns of its revenue generations capabilities. Daily, weekly, and monthly rollups of such parameters of i-packs batteries recharged, (and how many times over the month was the battery recharged) can all be analyzed. Private Blockchain ""smart-contracts"" on a transactional basis shall direct appropriate and predetermined proportionality of a transaction to, say, an investors or creditors accounts. | AESP Green Energy envisions the deployment of 50,000 i-Kabin Kiosks, by the end of 2025. Our Beachhead for this deployment is Nigeria and using our Nigerian business model. This vision relies on an i-Kabin Franchisee model with a focus on women Franchisee owners of the i-Kabin. Our Nigerian partner, iKON, www.ikon.energy has commenced discussions with both IFC and some Nigerian commercial banks regarding the mechanism that would flow DFI concessional loans through Nigerian banks. The local banks would then assess risk before granting loans to the women entrepreneurs. We have determined that the loans are a low risk, both noting the collateral of the i-Kabin capital and the quick ROI from various i-Kabin revenue streams. iKON intends to use newer FinTech techniques to reduce risk further and assure creditors, such as cashless PAYG mobile money and transactional Blockchain techniques, such that upon completion of each transaction the money capture is distributed to creditors and others following a pre-arranged ""Smart Contract."" The collection of IoT data analytics on the various cashless revenue stream and partnership arrangement shall also support local banks embracing this Franchise business model. The Figures of Merit: (a) each i-Kabin developed and tested for recharging 500 ipack batteries on a weekly recurring cycle. This merit provides light and power to 500 families and small businesses. We envision 10K iKabin deployed with Nigeria impacting directly 25 M people. | The i-Kabin approach is akin to that of a communal village “solar-well”; where residents come to the i-Kabin Solar-well kiosk to recharge a portable Li-Ion battery every week. The i-Kabin has been developed to serve a community of 500 families (and small businesses). This model enables families to purchase the i-Pack battery at USD 50 vice an SHS USD 250! The overall CAPEX of the i-Kabin system, serving a community of 500 families is only 35% of that of providing a population of 500 families with SHS. Furthermore, each i-Kabin service is deployed in less than one day, thus servicing an i-Kabin community with a week of electrical power and light. The PAYG model is similar to that of the SHS service, where i-Pack users use cashless mobile money payment methods, usually weekly, vice daily with SHS use. For AESP Green Energy, our approach in deploying i-Kabin service is SSA countries is via a partnership with a reliable local partner who would implement, operate, and maintain the various i-Kabin services. AESPGE maintains a “Capital Lite” approach, whereby our “in-country” partner is required to procure 100 % of the CAPEX associated with having i-Kabin deployed and financially operational. AESPGE and our “in-country” partner agree on an appropriate ratio of the i-Kabin recurring revenue “split.” AESPGE has transferred much of the financial risk to our partner, and ergo the partner receives the vast majority of the generated revenue stream. | A. i-Kabin spec, dimension and pic https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4PY1SSja2HrZGZ0QzB6S0ZnVjJjSWhzN25oUFR6QWh1cGxr/view B, IKON Presentation of the Nigerian Market https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GLaHYzZdm21E0SKfrjW0Ilhrp2geQBdv/view?ts=5c7ee828 C. i-Kabin Youtube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA3mdVWfrpA&t=89s D. I-Kabin Picture https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4PY1SSja2HrcmdaRFhuNkRmRTdoZE1FdDlrdExLQ0hodGRF/view?ts=5c7ee7dd E. I-Kabin IFC Discussion Paper https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q7fPhE3VjR2nQgfQtb9XFs3TCXGsaLvh/view?ts=5c7ef4a3 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA3mdVWfrpA&t=89s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9dJE-fGG30 | A Government of Canada Program winner for the ""Built-in Canada Innovation Program"" ; A CAD 500K award. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
781 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Frida | Njogu-Ndongwe | Afyakit Technologies Ltd | www.afyakit.com | Co-founder and CEO | Female | Kenya | Kenya | English | I am motivated by the desire to have people living quality lives everywhere. As a young doctor in Kenya, I often lost patients to curable illnesses, often due to health system challenges e.g. lack of IV fluids, staffing shortages, lack of antibiotics, etc. When on call on one day I lost four babies. Fourteen years later, while I am saddened by that memory, I have hope that I can contribute to ensuring that does not happen again. I have dedicated most of my career to improving health systems. I have had the fortune to manage donor-funded HIV, TB and maternal/ child health projects. While managing these projects, colleagues and I have managed to ensure project goals are met while simultaneously strengthening broad health systems, thus affecting quality of work beyond the specific funded program area. We have leveraged specific donor funding for broader health system strengthening. More recently, our innovation, Afyakit, has helped identify gaps in quality of services and package them in a way managers are able to target resources, with significant improvement in readiness of the health system to provide quality services, and actual quality service delivery. Innovation need not be a totally new product developed. An improvement in a process can have significant impact. We have changed the tools using which supervision of health facilities is carried out, thus availing health managers with a management decision support tool to guide action and resource allocation for maximal efficiency. While so far this has been used only in Kenya, the opportunities for impact in other resource-constrained countries especially in Africa is immense. In Africa, due to inefficiency, about a third of health resources are wasted. Our tool will help minimize inefficiency by helping managers target their actions, contributing to improved service delivery. | I am a medical doctor and public health practitioner keen to deliver sustainable innovations in public health motivated by a vision for ‘Healthy and quality lives for people everywhere’. I've had a dynamic 14-year career covering health systems and policy leadership, program conceptualization, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as clinical work and consultancy in public health. I have worked in diverse areas including HIV, TB, reproductive, maternal, new-born & child health. I provided technical leadership in developing project proposals that secured grants worth over USD 125 million. Between 2011 and 2017, I served as Director of Programs at the Centre for Health Solutions - Kenya (CHS), where I led implementation of donor-funded HIV projects worth over USD 22 million reaching 1 million people in Kenya, with various life-saving interventions including reducing mother to child HIV transmission rates by two thirds. I was involved in developing various national policies, guidelines and curricula under the Ministry of Health’s National HIV and TB programs. I have worked for McKinsey & Company as a public & social sector consultant. I am currently on a long-term consultancy engagement through UNOPS/ STP supporting the Kenya TB program to identify missing people with TB. I am co-founder and CEO of Afyakit Technologies, an organizations prociding analytics for health. I hold an MPH (First Class Honours), from University of Auckland and an MBChB from the University of Nairobi. I have published a book addressing the challenge of TB diagnosis in Kenya. | Afyakit | Analytics for health | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Kenya | Yes | Lexlink Consulting; Nairobi County, Kenya | Transition to Scale | We have already successfully completed a technical proof of concept and been able to attract some funding in addition to the initial seed funding. We are now working to fine-tune the revenue models and to scale to other geographies using an expanded scope. | Sub-optimal oversight of health facilities leading to lack of actionable data for decision making in healthcare. Health managers at various levels are constrained when making decisions to improve quality of healthcare as they lack useful information on the status of health facilities. For instance, a district or national manager grappling with low immunization coverage doesn't know what is the specific challenge at which facility at a given point in time is. This affects resource allocation. | Our solution is Afyakit - a mobile based health facility supervision platform. It targets health managers who currently routinely supervise health facilities using poor, paper based tools. Users download the app on their mobile devices; the app has pre-loaded assessment tools (based on national and WHO standards). On the app, users pick which facility to supervise and complete the supervision. Once the data is submitted, the web platform processes the data and it is sent out to users via email as factsheets. The platform also has a dashboard with metrics filtered by tool, time and facility, which users can use to make operational decisions. Inbuilt analytics allow for aggregation, and comparison between facilities or regions and over time, and presents these in intuitive outputs e.g. dashboards, graphs, etc. Reports are time- and geo-stamped for accountability. This information is close to real-time, and is useful for making resource allocation decisions. Our goal is to avail this tool to all health managers to ease their work and ensure data on service quality and facility readiness is available in useful format to decision makers, thus informing their resource allocation decisions, ultimately contributing to improved quality of care at health facilities. We plan to scale up to other geographies and have other users such as NGOs, donors, private hospital chains, etc take up Afyakit. | We are not aware of any other comprehensive mobile-based health facility supervision platform in Kenya or Sub-Sahara Africa. Most supervision uses paper-based tools that are not comprehensive and require manual report-writing thereafter. These reports are often subjective. As they're in prose, they are not actionable especially for senor managers in charge of hundreds of facilities; they don't lend themselves to aggregation and are not easy to analyze. There is an android tuberculosis supervision platform in Kenya that mostly looks at performance, not quality of services. It neither provides reports to supervised facilities nor generates analytics. Some supervisors load supervision questionnaires on ODK for electronic results; this is usually individually driven, with no analytics or structured system to feedback health facilities. We are aware of a mobile based supervision tool in Nigeria that does not provide analytics. Our platform is android and web-based, modular, scalable, and can host multiple tools (currently contains MNCH, HIV, TB, and integrated supervision modules) with others e.g. malaria, GBV, NCD, etc in development. It is currently used for supervision by health managers in Nairobi, Kenya. We are also in discussions with managers to incorporate a module for assessment of standards at eateries in Nairobi. Afyakit can also be used for daily field-based reporting e.g. during rapid-results initiatives or outbreaks. We have recently developed a module for this. | We have carried out technical proof of concept: we have developed the application, piloted it in two sub-counties (districts) within Nairobi, Kenya and implemented it for over 18 months with impressive results: improved readiness to provide services (e.g. 50% and 169% increase in facilities reporting critical commodity availability and staff with relevant training respectively), improved quality of services (177% increase in facilities providing required medication to reduce post-partum bleeding). There was improvement in patient feedback as well. Users (district health managers) also reported positive experience with the application, and were especially pleased with the auto-generated reports, that were timely, and that were able to highlight (red-frag gaps for action. We used a pre-post method to assess the changes in user perception, readiness of facilities to provide services and actual quality of services provided. While initially funded to implement a supervision tool for maternal and newborn health services in 6 facilities, we have expanded to include TB, HIV and integrated tools, and had over 150 health facilities supervised in Nairobi. This has been made possible by the modular nature of the application. | Currently we're covering 150 facilities. We target to reach 1000 facilities by year end and 10,000 within 3 years. We target to expand beyond Nairobi to the rest of Kenya over the next 18 months and into 3 SSA countries within 3 years. Within 6-9 months: We plan to expand the tools to include others on malaria, sexual/ gender based violence, non-communicable diseases (NCDs), immunization, etc; co-develop analytics for these modules with users and roll them out. We are also working on a patient satisfaction tool that is expected to be ready in this period to give a holistic assessment of the facility. Within 18 months: Beyond scale up to other geographies we target to have other users such as NGOs, donors, private hospital chains, etc take up Afyakit. We will also link the platform to DHIS to ensure inter-operability and seamless data exchange, and work with linking with various electronic medical records (EMRs) based on the needs of each county or entity. Beyond the management team, we will recruit 4 developers, 7 field officers and a support team of three over the next one year to support this expansion. By three years, at expansion to each country, we will replicate this team and a management team in each country. | Short term (6-12 months): we require to expand the team of developers and health professionals to ensure all requisite additional tools are covered, optimize user experiences and inter-operability with various systems including DHIS. This will need approximately US$ 1 million Medium term (1-3 years): Focus will be on geographic expansion to cover all of Kenya and at least 3 other sub-Sahara African countries. This will entail expansion of teams working in all these countries. Needed: US$ 8 million. Long term (over 3 years): for expansion to an additional 5 countries in sub-Sahara Africa, we will need funding (approximately $3 million per country entered into per year for 2 years). Other usefu resources: linkages with the relevant people in various countries. | www.afyakit.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqxfM9Zs70k https://www.forbes.com/sites/meghanmccormick/2019/03/09/in-the-boardroom-and-the-birthing-room-afyakit-advances-kenyan-women/ https://1drv.ms/b/s!AlXJa5e7iW7TrDV6XklJ-BW_arUf | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqxfM9Zs70k https://www.forbes.com/sites/meghanmccormick/2019/03/09/in-the-boardroom-and-the-birthing-room-afyakit-advances-kenyan-women/ http://innov.afro.who.int/innovators/dr-frida-njogu-ndongwe-5 | WHO Africa Innovation Challenge - finalist Pivot East - winner Harvard President's Innovation Challenge - finalist Harvard Business School Africa Venture Competition - finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
782 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | LUKE | MULEKA | SIGNS MEDIA KENYA LIMITED | www.signsmediake.com | FOUNDER/MANAGING DIRECTOR | MALE | Kenya | Kenya | English | Persons with disabilities have been left behind in all matters of Social, Economic, Political and Talent development because of lack of information and hence the solution of a television station broadcasting in Sign Language with voice as an override, where all the presenters and Hosts are persons with disabilities to tell their own stories that will change the perspectives in the estimated 1 billion PWDs globally according to the WHO 2011 report. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognize the importance of including PWDs in the gobal development agenda, within the spirit of ‘leaving no one behind”. Specifically, five (5) of the SDGs target inclusion of disabilities within the wider sustainable development including: •Goal 4 which aims at guaranteeing equal and accessible education by building inclusive learning environments and providing the needed assistance for persons with disabilities •Goal 8 which aims at promoting inclusive economic growth, full and productive employment allowing persons with disabilities to fully access the job market •Goal 10 which emphases the social, economic and political inclusion of persons with disabilities •Goal 11 which aims at creating accessible cities and water resources, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems, providing universal access to safe, inclusive, accessible and green public spaces •Goal 17 which underscores the importance of data collection and monitoring of the SDGs, emphasis on disability disaggregated data. With SGDs 1,2.3 as crosscutting. | Luke Kizito Ojiambo Muleka was born in 1981 and is a follower brother of a Deaf sister who experienced alot of challenged due to lack of entertainment or information because the TV were not PWDs (Deaf) friendly. Born in Busia, County in Kenya, I undertook to change the narrative by coming up with a platform where my own sister would relate and enjoy broadcasting. I have college education in business related courses with a leaning towards finance. | SIGN LANGUAGE TELEVISION STATION-SIGNS TV | A television station propagating social, economic political and talent development of persons with disabilities. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kenya | Yes | ActionAid | Scaling | Have been in operation for 2 years, employed 17 people where 60% are PWDs and broadcasting in 14 counties out of 47 counties. Revenue of 100,000USD first year and 160,000USD second year. | To create awareness and information among the key stakeholders, SIGNS TV, a social enterprise which deals with public broadcasting was established in 2017 by a group of young Kenyan social entrepreneurs. SIGNS TV is a well-recognized champion of the SDGs having won the 2018 SDG Ambassadors Challenge organized by UNDP, Action Aid and British Council. This puts the station at obligation to lobby for and advocate for the implementation of the SGDs. | Signs TV works in three main approaches; Participation of PWDS in media: Under this activity the station develops and publish easy to share and interactive, short videos inviting interested PWDS to participate in the creative arts industry. These stylized videos are accompanied by necessary materials and invite audience interactions. The PWDs identify the topical issues and the models. Innovation for employment of PWDs: under this activity, the station creates economically viable opportunities that will catalyze employment of PWDs in the creative economy and greatly reduce unemployment and poverty. Incubate and share innovative practices: this activity will identify innovative PWD-friendly economic and livelihood interventions including smart agricultural approaches such as aquaphonics and aquaculture, which require little physical movement and are sustainable. The station will seed-fund such initiatives, record and broadcast them throughout the development stage. The station will work closely with County Government officials to build their capacity on such innovative approaches. This opportunities have the capability to cause a national, regional and global impact. | Other media houses only use sign language captioning during news and when they carry stories they tend to stigimatize PWDs, at Signs TV PWDs tell their own stories in a language they understand for 24 hours a day. | Signs TV is now one of the preferred stations that are watched in the capital Nairobi ranking among top ten and still growing. It is doubled up by allowing creative writing and contribution on its website portal by the PWDs. | Once the model has proved successful in Kenya, we plan to roll out in the other East African countries and capitalize on the nearly 200,000,000 population. | Technical assistance through training and equipment; considering PWDs don't undertake journalism as a training due to stigma. Content Creation; Create alot of content that will involve PWDs and hence employment of PWDs and non- PWDs. Marketing; Embark on marketing campain to both the advertisers and viewers of Signs TV. | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaUubK7_VrPJnzB_-hiRJlA/videos http://www.signstv.co.ke https://www.facebook.com/signstvkenya | https://youtu.be/nh9sN4qJ14I https://youtu.be/mr_YayTvz5g | SDG Ambassadors 2018 Award DIAR Inclusion Awards 2019 Communication Authority of Kenya -KUZA Awards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
783 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kennedy | Nzuki | 13 Foods Company | www.13foodscompany.com we are still creating this site | Founder | male | Kenya | Kenya | English | I was brought up in an agriculture community, just like my single mother most people are Maize farmers. So I created a company in 2013. The company was teaching farmers the importance of better storage in the community, but the main objective was the creation of better facilities for storage so that wastage and produce deterioration. My company worked close the community to help the store maize but the main problem was aflatoxin in maize due to our storage systems. This made us run at a loss for two years. The company was closed down. For three year now I started to develop the solution to this problem. The same agricultural village I have grown up I have seen and experience hunger-ravaged villagers in the region in the past years days, I found the graves in friends and family, with more residents showing signs of starvation. Frail faces of children, the elderly and expectant mothers — are a picture of a humanitarian crisis. My cousin three kilometers from my home was found died. The look at Her widower and the six children sitting under a tree in the scorching afternoon sun. Though they were supposed to be taking the afternoon meal, the children had dried lips, an indication that they had not taken anything. Why would my friend and country kin die yet throw maize? That is my motivation. I will want to leave Kenya and Africa where food security is a right. I will use this maize to feed my people for a better tomorrow | I was born on January 13th, 1991 in Eldoret, Kenya. I was raised in various parts of the rift valley. I began my school in a town called huruma. Then, moved to various school in the next 6 years of my life. I have a diploma in procurement from Kenya institute of management, a degree in Business Management from New Charter University California USA and doing a degree in economics for Moi University 2014 I was involved in a self-reliance group form by LDS charities. My role was to be second in command of the program and also a facilitator to help teach some of the groups. I was helping members understand their level of self-reliance and create a plan for improvement, help in mentoring, and providing resources to job seekers, the self-employed, and prospective students. I did work closely with community members struggling with self-reliance and help them understand the importance of self-reliance, assess their current level of self-reliance, determine the skills and income needed to become temporally self-reliant and select the self-reliance group that will help them reach that goal. I have helped more than 30 people to make the right decision going to school, teach 7 small scale business how to better operate and help a lot of people get a job. The year 2010-2012 was worked as a voluntary work in Ghana I love to help people and this business will be a channel to help my fellow Kenyans. I will love to make a better Kenya with cheaper food. | Bamba Unga | Safe, cheaper and better food with minimum waste | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Kenya we want to expand to East Africa the the whole Africa | No | Scaling | For 3 year I began to develop the solution to this Aflatoxin. I have applied to almost 20 business programs to help me with this developed. My biggest help came from bio-engineers in test and development. We tested the market for a month in Eldoret with the product it was a great hit. We have a certificate from KEBS. The Kenya Bureau of Standards is a government agency responsible for governing and maintaining the standards in Kenya. We also have 3 more certificates from leading universities. | Aflatoxin is a serious threat in Kenya’s food security with a substantial portion of the harvested grains going to waste. This leads to 15 million people to be food insecure. The national maize post-harvest losses are to be between 12 and 20 percent of the total national production. The loss is between 4.8 and 8 million bags annually which accounts for about 130 million. The loss would be enough to cover 2.4 months of consumption demand for Kenya. Africa loses up to 30 percent of its grain | We buy or given maize affected with Aflatoxin from our supplies. We pick stones and other impurities from the affected gains. The maize is then boiled with our developed formal chemical that we have developed. The gain id boiled for 15-13 minutes. The Water: 150.0–300.0% (Lb / 100 Lb maize) based on corn weight. The Boiling at atmospheric conditions (non-pressurized): 15 to 13 minute at 176–212°F (80–100°C). The maize is allowed to remain in the solution for 6 to 1o hours. We then Wash and drain the solution, the step is repeated several times until sufficient the solution and kernel components have been removed. We then grind the maize and dry then package and sell for consumption We are wasting maize worth 130 million Ksh in Kenya. Our neighbors Uganda and Tanzania are wasting also 200 million shillings. Africa, on the other hand, is wasting 450 billion dollars due to aflatoxin. This is a great opportunity for Economy and food security in Kenya and Africa. The impact would be huge In terms of food security. We can feed Africa and end food insecurity in a massive way. We can save a lot of wasted maize yet feed people at a cheaper price. From our number in Kenya, we can reduce the cost of food for people living below the poverty line by 92 percent. This will, in turn, reduce 85% of food insecurity in Kenya. | The methods that are now focused on the prevention of the problem. A lot has been done but the little impact has been seen. Our method with feed a lot of people with more healthy food and cheaper. The process helps the maize more nutritional value for the mass. Our production cost is 0.20 USD per kg and sold at 0.70 USD to the consumers less than a dollar. We have a better yet superior product compared to anyone in the market today. The other uniqueness of the methods are 1. We are using wasted maize to make Flour. This means we have 8 million bags of maize materials (in Kenya) 2. Our flour is cheaper 60-90 Ksh per two-kilogram- Affordable to the common man. 3. The flour is more healthy than common maize- it has zinc, calcium, iron, Proteins, and sodium -Lab report can prove 4. The product can be used to cook ugali, Chapati, Tortillas, Taturi means it a value for your money. 5. Our production cost is low meaning high profit for investors. | We started at the process in 3 years now. We have worked with top bioengineers in the field to make sure that we have the right product. We have tasted our product and the process used over 20 times with the top universities and independent labs. We have the papers for all the process. We have the final report on the steps of the report. We now have a final certificate from the Kenya Bureau of Standards to sell our products | We as a company have a great potential for growth and change in Kenya. Our target market are Kenyan who eat ugali that means 13 millions Kenya. We also have an oral contract with Java Kenya to supply them with tortillas worth 700,000 ksh monthly. Our profit margins is a little above 50 percent . We estimated if we could be in production by September of 2019 to make a profit of 6,000,000 ksh by April 2020. Our production cost is 30 per kg and sold at 90 sh to the consumers. We have a better yet superior product compared to any one in the market today. | The most needed resource now is plant machinery for operation and training for the workers. With the machinery, we can expand once we have it. | we have al the copies of the work via hard copies. They can be provided when needed | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwaMN97iZM&t=997s from 20:40 | Tony Elemelu 2019 yet to go BYOB Business camp -winner BYOB TV Show-Finalist Eldoret Creation Camp -Winner Moi Business camp -Winner | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
784 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kevin | Gibbons | Health Access Connect | https://healthaccessconnect.org | Executive Director | Male | Uganda | United States of America | English | Spanish | Our solution has the potential to change the way that the world provides health services to people living in remote, difficult-to-reach areas. The UN Solutions Summit could help us connect with partners and organizations who could support, improve, and adapt our model to improve healthcare distribution around the world. We have been implementing Medicycles in Uganda since August 2015, and we have served over 15,000 patients in over 40 remote villages in Uganda. We have also shared the Medicycles model in presentations at a variety of conferences, including AIDS 2018, Health Innovation Conference, and Health & Humanitarian Logistics Conference. We want to scale our operations in Uganda and East Africa, but we also want to make our solution collaborative and open-source so that it can help other service providers in resource-limited contexts around the world. | Kevin Gibbons is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Health Access Connect (HAC). He is a leader and social entrepreneur with a background in program design, organizational management, community organizing, and global health. He co-founded HAC after spending many months researching livelihoods and food security in remote Lake Victoria fishing communities. The puzzle he and his colleagues address is, “How do we improve health outcomes of people who live in remote areas?” Since 2014 he has acquired expertise in healthcare delivery and logistics in remote, underserved communities. He co-authored a baseline assessment of emergency medical transportation services for Clinton Health Access Initiative. He previously worked as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. He has a BS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Tulane University and an MS in Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Global Good Fund 2019 Fellow and has presented on Health Access Connect’s work in numerous venues, including the AIDS 2018 Conference and the Ugandan Health Innovation Conference. As Executive Director, Kevin is in charge of program development, administration, monitoring & evaluation, fundraising, and communications. | Medicycles | Sustainably bringing essential health services to remote villages using microfinanced motorcycle taxis and community contributions | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Uganda | No | Transition to Scale | HAC has implemented Medicycles in over 40 remote villages in 5 districts of Uganda. We have iterated our model and proven that it can be expanded quickly. We would like to scale to serve people living in remote areas all over Uganda and East Africa and document our model so that it can easily be understood and adapted to other contexts by other service providers. | Distance is bad for people’s health. In remote areas of Uganda (>5km from health facility) people have limited access to essential health services (vaccinations, perinatal care, family planning, and HIV services). A round trip on a motorcycle taxi costs between $3-14, yet many live on <$2 per day. Waiting for patients to travel for care doesn’t work. Health outreach activities are engaged in Uganda and around the world, but there are challenges with coordination and financial sustainability. | HAC sets up a sustainable outreach clinic system for Ugandan public sector health workers and their supplies to treat patients in remote areas (>5km from nearest health facility) on a monthly basis. The Medicycles model has three parts: 1) Transportation & microfinance If the partner health facility does not have reliable access to transportation, HAC offers microfinance loans to entrepreneurs to start a motorcycle taxi business. As a condition of the loan, motorcycle taxi drivers transport health workers and their supplies into remote communities to host full-day outreach clinics in three villages, and on those three days per month they are only compensated for the fuel used. 2) Mobile integrated health outreach clinic 2-4 health workers served patients with integrated health services, including HIV testing, anti-retroviral treatment, family planning, perinatal health, and other essential health services. All services are provided free by Ugandan government health workers. 3) Community oversight and ownership This model is managed and sustained by the communities as each patient is asked to pay the equivalent of US$0.55 (half for children). These funds are collected by the community and used cover the transportation costs of the outreach clinic (~$22-30 per outreach clinic). The community collection ensures sustainability and gives the community control over the program because they are the ones bringing their health workers and medicines to their doorsteps. | There are three important program differences in the Medicycles model: 1) Microfinance HAC uses microfinance not as an end itself, but rather a tool for achieving a social good: providing reliable, low-cost transportation to health workers. In this manner, the Medicycles program not only improves the distribution of health services, it also stimulates and promotes economic development opportunities in target areas. 2) Integrated health services Many global health and development interventions focus solely on HIV, maternal health, family planning, vaccines, or 1-2 other specific health services. Yet study after study shows that target health services are taken up more when integrated with others. Focusing on one specific treatment also misses an opportunity to help communities meet more of their health needs. HAC is focused on meeting community demands and addressing global health priorities. 3) Community contribution & sustainability HAC’s goal is to improve the Ugandan health system and make ourselves unnecessary. To achieve this, we start with financial sustainability from Day 1, and we put the community in charge. Community members support outreach clinics with a small payment. This small payment changes the tenor of interactions with communities who request more services from their health workers and take ownership of the program. By focusing our efforts of serving communities in remote areas, HAC has developed expertise in working with these communities. | Between August 2015 and June 2019, HAC has achieved these numbers: 40 Villages served with monthly or bimonthly outreach clinics 338 Outreach clinics 14,693 Patients served (43.6% male) 43.5 Patients/outreach 4,876 Given anti-retroviral treatment (ART, 45.6% male) 3,025 Tested for HIV (50.1% male) Our primary key performance indicators (KPIs) are number of active villages, average patients per outreach clinic, and number given ART. HAC currently targets fishing villages with high rates of HIV. Our secondary KPIs are number of patients tested for HIV, couple years of protection (a measure of family planning protection), and number of women and children receiving perinatal care. These data are gathered through our Outreach Clinic Information Form that partner health workers fill out to quantify the number of services distributed. Our M&E Officer validates these data and regularly visits and trains health workers to assure data quality. We also gather data through exit interviews and through the national Health Management Information System. The exit interviews help HAC staff to understand and respond to service and quality demands at outreach clinics, such as improving privacy, addressing the impact of medicine and supple stockouts, and working with health workers to improve patient care and treatment. In the future we would like to conduct a third-party evaluation of the Medicycles program to measure the impact on health and health-seeking behavior in target villages. | By the end of these years we will have achieved these targets: 2018: 30 active villages in 3 districts, 840 patients served per month, 8,534 patients/year, 7 full-time staff, $35,000 annual budget 2019: 60 villages, 5 districts, 1,680 patients/month, 20,160 patients/year, 10 full-time staff, pilot health worker training, $60,000 2020: 120 villages, 10 districts, 3,360 patients/month, 40,320 patients/year, 15 full-time staff, research article on impact of model, $205,000 2021: 300 villages, 24 districts, 8,400 patients/month, 100,800 patients/year, 30 full-time staff, secure government contracts, explore expansion to neighboring countries, $365,000 | # Short term In the next three years HAC needs funders who share the HAC vision for sustainably improving the distribution of health services and improving the health of people living in difficult-to-reach areas. Growing and scaling will be dependent on making those contacts. # Medium term To be effective in the next 2-to-5 years, HAC will need to build key partnerships with organizations that specialize in topics that include supply chain, water and sanitation, health worker training, and maternal and child health. HAC’s role in the health system is to get services to the user at the last mile, and we can be most effective is we have partnerships with service providers who want to expand the reach of their services. Additionally, through our research activities, we measure community demand for things like clean water, latrines, and specialized health services, but we do not specialize in these assets. If we build partnerships with other organizations, we can meet community needs. # Long term In 5-to-10 years the structure of the health system will need to adjust to a more collaborative and service-oriented model. HAC would make a good sub-contractor to the Ministry of Health and other service providers to serve people in difficult-to-reach areas. For that to happen, there will need to be a change in the structure of how contracts are awarded and collaborations are built from a territorial model to a service-oriented one. This change is overdue. | HAC Website: https://healthaccessconnect.org HAC Slide Deck: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XgULYFejBcFb6uOiBxmkAZSkLs4Nwk9i Outreach Clinic Standard Operating Procedure: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OlOZXQDoUQU-x5UGAJyV6nwkSCJiKb-8UGQYcPjTjVg/edit?usp=sharing | https://youtu.be/wD1VT_N7LcE | Global Good Fund Fellowship 2019 (winner) International AIDS Society, AIDS 2018 Scholarship (winner) Distinguished Alumni Award 2018, Nelson Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison (winner) OpenIDEO New Life Challenge 2017 (honorable mention) Connecting to Clinic, Incubation Prize 2017, Positive Action Challenges, ViiV Healthcare (winner) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
785 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Hans | Herren | Millennium Institute | http://www.millennium-institute.org | President | Male | United States of America | Switzerland | English | French | We have developed a unique solution that we believe is deserving of the platform that the Solutions Summit will afford it to bring the solution to the attention of the key stakeholders involved in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We also hope to be able to galvanize financial and technical support to scale the solution. The Millennium Institute (MI) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization with a mission to support countries to develop effective strategies that will lead to measurable advances in the welfare of society in the context of the 2030 Agenda. Our goal over the next five years is to support national governments representing at least 90% of the global population to effectively and efficiently domesticate and implement the SDGs. We believe this is a fundamental prerequisite to enable global shift towards a sustainable development path in time to meet the SDGs. We have a three decades’ track record of assisting policy-makers, program implementation and evaluation planners, country fiscal leaders, and other stakeholders across government and society on all aspects of integrated national development planning. Though a small organization, the impact of our work on sustainable development planning has been significant at the global scale (e.g. providing the modelling and analysis for UNEP’s landmark 2012 Green Economy Report); at the regional scale (e.g. providing the modelling and analysis to guide selection and implementation of largescale projects of the ECOWAS Commission economic integration programme in West Africa); and at the national level, in over 40 countries, where we have used our unique approach to help governments identify goals and strategies that offer all people access to food, water, health care, education, and equal opportunities for women and men. | Hans Herren is an internationally recognized scientist who lived and worked for 27 years across Africa in agriculture, health, and environmental research and capacity development. As Director of the Africa Biological Control Center of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Nigeria, he conceived and implemented the highly successful biological control program against the cassava mealy bug and the green mite that saved the cassava crop, the staple of 200 million Africans and averted Africa’s worst-ever food crisis. For this achievement, he was awarded the World Food Prize in 1995. He thereafter led the International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Nairobi, where he developed a new research and capacity development paradigm that integrates the key elements of human, plant, animal and environmental health into one development framework. Dr. Herren’s interest in policy development issues is based on the conviction that science-led sustainable development can only be achieved through programs that enable countries to make their own evidence-based development policy choices. He advocates for holistic and multi-stakeholder approaches to development planning that take cognizance of the three dimensions of sustainability and result from a shared vision of sustainability by all the key actors. Dr. Herren earned his PhD at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, and completed post-doctoral research at University of California, Berkeley. | iSDG - Integrated Sustainable Development Goals Policy Simulator | A simulation tool for understanding the SDGs and designing efficient pathways to reach the goals | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Australia, Cote d'Ivoire, Malawi, Nigeria, and Senegal; with ongoing applications in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, and Uganda | Yes | UNDP | Scaling | The solution has been applied in Australia, Cote d'Ivoire, Malawi, Nigeria, and Senegal, and there are ongoing applications in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, and Uganda. Other country governments which have expressed a desire to apply the model in their countries include Bahamas, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Costa Rica, DRC, Eswatini, Jamaica, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, South Sudan, Togo, Tonga, Zambia. | Successful implementation of the SDGs require careful adaptation to country-specific circumstances through localization of goals and targets, prioritization, and sequencing of policies and investments aimed at achieving the goals. This is a daunting task because the SDGs are a complex system of interconnected feedback loops, lengthy time lags between causes and effects, and nonlinear relationships that are not easily discernible, which can lead to incoherent policy solutions. | iSDG helps policy makers and other stakeholders to make better and more cost efficient decisions. It gives stakeholders better insight into the complex SDG system, and visualize the web of interrelated benefits of policies in one sector on the other sectors. Decision-makers are able to identify the potential costs and benefits of policies under consideration, identify synergies, and high-impact leverage points, and make investment decisions having understood the likely long-term impact. Our goal over the next five years is to support national governments representing at least 90% of the global population to effectively and efficiently domesticate and implement the SDGs. We believe this is a fundamental prerequisite to enable a global shift towards a sustainable development path in time to meet the SDGs. | iSDG is the only policy simulator conceived and developed specifically for the SDGs. All of iSDGs indicators match the global indicator framework developed by the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG Indicators (IAEG-SDGs). It maps key dynamic feedback loops running between and within the SDG sectors, and time lags that generate the complex systemic behaviors characteristic of interactions between the SDGs. This key feature makes iSDG especially useful for studying the diverse elements comprising the economic, social, and environmental systems, as well as human perceptions and decision-making processes, which all influence the development outcomes of a country. iSDG also traces the impact path of every policy intervention, thus helping to better understand the intersection of policies, to prioritize interventions, and to mitigate the negative impacts of a policy. This feature distinguishes iSDG from other static indicators databases and indexes that only provide a measure of where a country is, but not the dynamic interactions within the SDG system, or show the best paths and progression towards achieving the SDGs. iSDG also includes a “Synergy Assessment Tool” that shows the contribution of a policy intervention to the change observed in other SDG indicator or target. This is important for understanding the synergistic effects resulting from impact of interventions. | Development of the iSDG began in 2014 and to date, has been applied in Australia, Cote d'Ivoire, Malawi, Nigeria, and Senegal; with ongoing applications in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, and Uganda. The simulator has been tested by over 2,000 persons representing subject-matter experts, government, academia, NGOs, and others. The model has undergone extensive structural and behavioural validation to establish that the relationships used in a model are an adequate representation of the real-world relationships, and consequently, the simulation results can be trusted. This included subject-matter expert reviews, basing model structures on structures published in peer-reviewed journals and technical reports published by agencies such as the United Nations, and comparing the behavior resulting from model simulation with actual historical data. In addition, a recent peer-reviewed paper published in the Environmental Science and Policy journal ranked the model highest among 80 policy integrated planning models reviewed by the authors. | iSDG model implemented in 24 countries by end of 2025. Six regional reports examining conditions and progress to achieve the SDGs produced by 2025. Support national governments representing at least 90% of the global population to effectively and efficiently domesticate and implement the SDGs by 2030. | Short-term: $1.6 million Medium-term: 1.8 million Long-term: $1 million | http://www.millennium-institute.org/ https://exchange.iseesystems.com/public/millenniuminstitute/isdg-20/index.html#page1 http://www.wri.org/climate/expert-perspective/addressing-climate-sustainable-development-linkages-long-term-low-carbon https://doi.org/10.1108/K-11-2017-0440 https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.1721 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-017-0457-x | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l_vifwNh50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9UiwL7JTTc | Recipient of the 2017 System Dynamics Applications Award for advancing the field of System Dynamics through new ideas and applications. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
786 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ruth | Awori | Uganda Network of Young People living with HIV/AIDS | www.unypa.org | Advocacy officer | Female | Uganda | Uganda | English | I would like to be part of the UN solution summit happening in September in New York in order to pitch what my organization does in line with the sustainable development goals. This is because i believe that the work we do is of great impact, not only to the direct beneficiaries but the whole community at large and therefore it deserve global recognition and scaling up. Also, despite the fact we have partners that we work with on this project, the funds we usually have for it are at times inadequate therefore i would like to use the platform for resource mobilization. In the summit, i plan to come along with much more information in terms of best practices that i think would be of great impact if the other contestants replicated them. Also, am looking forward to learning from the other people that will be pitching their projects to pick learning that i could implement back in my country. In many countries, i learnt that young people living with HIV still face a lot of stigma, discrimination and other sorts of social injustices. I would therefore like to attend the summit to pitch our initiative through which we have been able to reduce these injustices and created a safe space for young people living with HIV. | Awori Ruth is a policy, advocacy and program officer at Uganda Network of Young People living with HIV/AIDS where Ruth coordinates the implementation of the Get Up Speak Out project, leads in the capacity building of Y+ ambassadors trains young people as peer educators, engages stakeholders on the rights of Young people living with HIV. Ruth has worked with different entities which include Makerere University John Hopkins University as a volunteer, Makerere University Joint AIDs Program as a community linkage facilitator and has enrolled for a bachelors in law following her diploma in law to enhance her advocacy work among other distinctions in the field. Am very passionate about creating an environment that is safe for Young people living with HIV and empowering them to ably take up opportunities availed them when meaningfully engaged. | Y+ Beauty Pageant | Breaking through stigma and discrimination | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Uganda | Yes | AIDSFONDS, UNAIDS, UN WOMEN | Scaling | The campaign has been run since 2014 and over the years it has been transitioning from one stage to another. This year, we are at a stage of developing the campaign into a business model that can be used by other entities using a standard procedure. | As per the Stigma Index Survey (2017) report of Uganda 19% of PLHIV are subjected to verbal harassment, (12%) blackmail, and (9.5%) physical harassment. However, the rates of internal stigma are even higher: 60% hide their HIV status, 32% feel guilty of their status and 22% experience feelings of worthlessness due to their HIV status. Also, 23% reported that their HIV status affects their ability to find love. This affects their uptake of HIV services, adherence, academics and social life. | The Y+ Beauty pageant is a unique model campaign that envisions promotion of “Beauty with Zero Discrimination” aimed at fighting stigma and discrimination against young people living and affected a with HIV at local and national level. The Y+ Beauty pageant takes place annually through developing a brand of Y+ ambassadors to change the perception that comes with living with HIV and AIDS. It is a pageantry for young though the contestants are specifically young people living with HIV. It addresses both internal and external stigma through empowering the young people by boosting their confidence, giving them skills to stand up for their rights but also restoring the self esteem. It further addresses external stigma by creating awareness among societies since one of the biggest causes of stigma and discrimination is ignorance. The solution engages different stakeholders in the communities such as cultural leaders, religious leaders, parents, politicians, policy makers, school heads, and key decision makers to see to it that the Young people living with HIV enjoy equal rights just like those without the virus, are not subjected to sexual and gender based violence, and are not exploited in their communities. The solution is aimed at achieving an enabling environment for YPLHIV in the communities where they can enjoy equal rights, and opportunities just like everyone else across the globe. | The solution takes the pageantry approach that involves regional auditions which comprise of a series of activities that provide a platform for YPLHIV to speak openly about the pressing issues in their community. These include integrated outreaches, community dialogues and flash mobs to build awareness of the need to fight stigma and discrimination among the young people living with HIV and advocate for an end to all forms of injustices against YPLHIV from the auditions 16 ambassadors are selected, 4 from each region. These are followed by a one-week boot camp for capacity building training of the 16 regional YPLHIV ambassadors where self-esteem and other life skills are built to prepare the ambassadors to advocate for their rights. The climax of the solution is the grand finale which is an advocacy platform where all the stakeholders including decision makers, and other YPLHIV come to support the 16 Y+ contestants. It consist of speeches to advocate for policies, sharing of the ambassador's plans to combat stigma, and the catwalk. The national Y+ ambassadors are selected basing on their knowledge on issues affecting YPLHIV, ability, willingness and creativity to voice them to duty bearers of various levels and these are crowned National Mr. and Miss. Y+. These are provided platforms there after to do their roles. The uniqueness of the solution is that it is educative, impact full but also fun for both the direct and indirect beneficiaries | So far, the pageant has been run for 5 consecutive years without fail making impact in the lives of Young people living with HIV. The progress of the solution so far has been measured by the impression and publicity it gets from different sources including press, Young people living with HIV, decision makers and activists in and out of the country. The growth in the numbers of the contestants that participate in the pageant is also a measurement for the progress of the solution since in increase signifies acceptability of the solution and the way how young people living with HIV are breaking through stigma and discrimination willing to champion the fight. There has been a drastic change for the better in the lives of Young people who have been through the pageant. Having been empowered, many of them have become international advocates like Nakato Martha Clara, other have competed and won in the employment spaces winning themselves jobs and other have taken into supporting their fellows in the communities. In addition, there has been a improvement in the political atmosphere of the country as a result of the solution. For instance, policies such as the anti stigma policy have been developed which is a great win for the solution. Therefore, apparently there is no standard measurement for the impact but the progress in evident in the success stories. We have plans though to conduct a survey or research to generate authentic evidence for the impact created. | The main goal of this campaign is creating a stigma free environment where all young people can enjoy equal rights and opportunities irrespective of their HIV status, race, sexual orientation or beliefs. This year, we have developed a business model for the solution as a prerequisite to securing it's patent rights. This is one of the risk mitigation plans we have for the solution to avoid duplication. So far, we have been reached out to by a South African based organization that is interested in implementing the solution in South Africa therefore we shall be providing technical assistance there and hope to do the same for other countries if need arises. Having conducted the pageant for many years, there is a plan for conducting a research in order to asses the impact of the intervention of the pageant but also to inform how best we can improve the solution. Since 2014, we have so far been able to impact 710 young people living with HIV who have contested in the pageantry. The growth is a growing curve with 8 contestants in 2014 and over 100 in 2018. We anticipate a 30% growth even this year. | For the short term, what is urgently needed is funding and technical assistance since the campaign is back this year and is supposed to be run till the end of November. There is also need for more publicity in order to increase the reach of the campaign & effects and creation of more opportunities for the ambassadors selected to pitch/ advocate for the issues of their fellows. Now that the solution has been tested and proven in Uganda, we have a big dream of scaling up the implementation area to outside Uganda to other countries as we believe that there are many more Young People Living with HIV/AIDs that are still being subjected to these injustices. | https://matookerepublic.com/2018/09/17/beauty-pageant-for-hiv-aids-youths-launched-over-100-set-to-participate/ https://kampalasun.co.ug/2018/09/18/100-to-participate-in-youth-beauty-pageant/ https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1490687/central-region-sweeps-beauty-contest https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1485298/value-beauty-pageant-campaign https://bigeye.ug/the-y-plus-beauty-pageant-is-back/ https://unypa.org https://unypa.org/and-this-years-winner-of-the-fast-forward-golden-egg-is/ | Apparently, i don't have any links for the videos and audios of my speaking but there are photos and blogs about the work i do on the UNYPA pages. | Fast forward Awards 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
787 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | WAQAS | AHMED | Shifa4U | https://www.shifa4u.com/ | Founder/CEO | Male | United States of America | Pakistan | English | In 2017, after the adoption of the universal Global Goals, I launched a digital healthcare platform to integrate the fragmented system in Pakistan. The revolutionary and inclusive digital platform of Shifa4U is not only successfully implemented in over 21 cities across Pakistan but also has been scaled in Kenya and the United States. As a practicing nephrologist in Jacksonville, Florida, I recognized the need for an upgraded, inclusive and integrated system in the United States as well. The effectiveness of the Shifa4U model was tailored and scaled to meet the challenging needs of the developed healthcare system and now has partnerships with hundreds of providers, diagnostic labs, etc. The efforts have been recognized both internationally and regionally by conferences convened by the World Bank and by the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce. As I was born, raised and studied medicine in Pakistan, I realized the dire need for upgrade and innovation in healthcare practice to ensure quality and access to healthcare for the most vulnerable people and in the most remote locales. Having the opportunity to practice medicine in the United States led me to recognize the need for a unified holistic healthcare platform that does not exclude, but include all people, resources and services and provides education. I believe in leveraging the power of technology and working towards sustainable development. Shifa4U prides its values and mission alongside of the UN Global Goals in efforts to direct all development towards a unified purpose of sustainability. | Dr. Waqas Ahmed founded American TelePhysicians Group of Companies with a vision to provide patient-focused connected healthcare across the globe. He believes in disruptive business model and foresees digital health and telemedicine as a promising way to deliver healthcare services across the globe. He pioneered the concept of establishing online healthcare eco-systems and interlinking them using information technology. He is also the driving force behind the concept of connecting American healthcare market with the emerging international markets. As a CEO, he oversees the development of company’s strategy along with its board and leads the implementation of the company’s long and short-term plans in accordance with that strategy. He is a medical graduate of King Edward Medical University in Pakistan and has worked in various healthcare networks around the world including UK and New Zealand. He moved to US in 2007 and completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Mercy Health System in Cincinnati, Ohio, followed by Nephrology Fellowship at Christiana Care Health System in Delaware. He is currently based in Jacksonville, Florida, where he also practices Nephrology. Prior to founding ATP, he worked in various leadership roles and received numerous awards for his clinical research and educational work. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American College of HealthCare Executives. | Shifa4U | Providing quality healthcare access to all, especially the most marginalized by revolutionizing digital healthcare by consolidating and connecting ser | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Shifa4U works to connect individuals and services from rural to urban; local to regional; and regional to geographic through its digital healthcare platform. Currently, it is successfully implemented and is operational in Pakistan, Kenya and USA. | Yes | Quest Diagnostics Labs, Green Imaging, American Telephysicians, Islamabad Diagnostic Centre, Al -Razi Healthcare, Aznostics, Excel Labs, As-Nasar Diagnostic Centre, FESF, CDRS, Raiwalpindi Medical College, Dow Medical College | Scaling | Shifa4U has provided integrated solutions and comprehensive state of the art telemedicine to expand service spectrum by adding various new domains like audiology services, home-care, rare specialties etc.,in over 21 cities in Pakistan, is currently operational and has successfully bridged the implemented gap across the developing and developed divide (Pakistan and US). | The need for quality, access and reliability of medical care is not available to the majority of the world’s population, especially in vulnerable and marginalized communities. Goal 3 target 7 Goal 9 target 1 Goal 9 target 3 Goal 9 target 4 Goal 9 target 5 Goal 17 target 6 Goal 17 target 18 | Shifa4U successfully connects individuals and healthcare services and is designed to provide access for all people. The holistic program offers a one-portal digital solution where the user can keep track of their health through educational material, schedule healthcare services online after comparing prices from various healthcare providers, maintain their medical record that is accessible anytime from anywhere, and get consultation and 2nd opinion from specialists and centers of excellence around the world. Long term vision of Shifa4U is to globally connected healthcare to allow for a free flow of healthcare knowledge and global access of resources through digital technology and telemedicine for all regions of the world and for all people. In addition, Shifa4U also hopes to integrate essential healthcare practices into national policy agendas to ensure sustainable partnerships through cooperation. Shifa4U addresses core factors that discourage facilitation of good healthcare access by transforming the current reactionary approach to health care towards a preventative and proactive process through its focus on patient education, adequate provider training and price transparency to ensure elevating the suboptimal standard of living. | Shifa4U directly aims to achieve Global Goal 3 target 8 by meeting the challenge of securing access to essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medical care for all. Existing solutions provide singular stand-alone services that lack an integrated system. This makes it difficult for individuals on multiple-levels to access healthcare, to interact with individual doctors, pharmacies, labs, etc., for care, and to receive general information on essential health care, services and resources. The Shifa4U vision of one-stop-healthcare hub allows patients to find every healthcare service under one digital roof. The patient’s journey starts with educational material distributed on the website and through various social media and conventional channels, leading to the desire of getting tested. All major tests and diagnostics are available on the integrated portal with pricing from various providers and with options to order them online from Shifa4U portal, app and helpline. The results of those tests are uploaded in the patient’s electronic medical record being securely maintained on Shifa4U (through HIPAA compliant AWS). | Shifa4U has successfully built a resilient technological infrastructure platform to promote inclusive and sustainable innovation to healthcare. The solution, Shifa4U platform, is developed and maintained in-house with a team of over 40 professionals from healthcare, IT and business sector. Shifa4U has expanded to 21 cities across Pakistan in just under 2 years. This highlights the need for such an integrated infrastructure in healthcare to bridge divides across the industry and people. The team has engaged as thought-leaders and experts at healthcare, ICTs, and development forums, dialogues and conferences across the globe. WIth global partnerships in areas of pharmaceuticals, medical teaching institutions, private sector patient services, and government health ministries, Shifa4U exemplifies as a leader in the field of healthcare innovation and technology towards sustainability. Shifa4U team has offered insight, best practices and recommendations at events convened through the ICF World Bank Global Health Conference,, the UN High Level e-consultative process at 2019 High Level Political forum, Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, World Congress Healthcare Conference, the Connective Health Conference, the annual American Pakistan Physicians Association Conference, at the American Telemedicine Association Meeting, the Samsung Digital Health Summit, among others. | Shifa4U aims to operationalize and integrate across Pakistan, in every small and remote towns and villages, to ensure equity in access to basic health services through telemedicine and digital health. In doing so, the initiative will educate and facilitate individuals in taking control of their health in a proactive rather than retroactive manner and at the same time, ensure price transparency which, in free markets, results in affordability. Shifa4U acknowledges that remote areas are the regions truly affected by serious healthcare crisis like high mortality rates upon childbirth, lack of postpartum care, lack of assistance for disabilities like deafness, lack of common knowledge about communicable diseases, and lack of even the most common practices for making food and water hygienic to consume. Shifa4U experienced a milestone when it launched Shifa4U under the localized name of Cura4U in the United States. This resulted in the Shifa4U platform successfully scaling innovation across the developing and developed healthcare markets highlighting its adaptability across the globe as a unified healthcare access solution. Future efforts include expansion of the Shifa4U platform in to South America, the Middle East and North Africa, and South Asia. In the longer term, we intend to make connected healthcare a worldwide phenomenon, allowing access to top healthcare services beyond borders in efforts to achieve the universal global goals. | The resources required to obtain our Pakistan-wide goals include: successful upgrade and transformation of current healthcare infrastructure to include telemedicine and connectivity equipment; effective patient education to encourage the population to shift from retroactive healthcare approach to proactive healthcare by getting regularly tested, and not wait for the disease to show severe symptoms in order to be taken seriously; human resource development in order to engage and incentivise local community into becoming health ambassadors in their specific locales; and quality marketing in order to increase outreach and get our message across the country. The global expansion goals require (for each new country): resources to localize our services including the transcreation of material from English to local languages; engagement/recruitment of local healthcare providers; and engagement/recruitment local talent for operations/marketing. Shifa4U hopes to create an interlink digital ecosystem that is both affordable and accessible to ensure quality, reliable and sustainable healthcare as a global phenomenon. | Shifa4U aims to build a resilient infrastructure, promote inclusion and to foster innovation in healthcare (Global Goal 9, target 1) to meet current challenge of providing access to essential healthcare services and access to effective, quality and affordable essential medical care for all (Global Goal 3, target 8). Shifa4U platform aims to upgrade the healthcare industry (Global Goal 9.4) and to digitize infrastructure (Global Goal 9, target 5; Global Goal 9B) for sustainable development by 2030. Shifa4U aims to ensure innovative technological development through knowledge sharing and cooperation by ensuring market access (Global Goal 17, target 6), especially in the developing countries. Shifa4U aims to meet the challenges of collecting healthcare related (social development) disaggregate data, especially in the developing countries, by ensuring reliable collection of high quality and timely data geographic and relevant national context (Global Goal 17, target 18). Project website : www.shifa4u.com Company website : www.americantelephysicians.com Process video: https://www.shifa4u.com/Content/images/Tutorial.mp4 | https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.dcmsonline.org/resource/resmgr/files/md_life/2018/2018_nov_md_life_ahmed.pdf Following the universal adoption of the Global Goals, Shifa4U was launched in Lahore, Pakistan in October 2017, to integrate services and markets through ICTs to provide healthcare access at discounted rates. “Shifa” means to cure and to heal and is built on values of providing safety & security; healing and harmony; innovation and information; faith and focus; accessibility and affordability for all segments of society, especially the most vulnerable. Since the launch, Shifa4U has provided integrated solutions and comprehensive state of the art telemedicine to expand service spectrum by adding various new domains like audiology services, home-care, rare specialties etc.,in over 21 cities in Pakistan. The team has engaged as thought-leaders and experts at healthcare, ICTs, and development forums, dialogues and conferences across the globe. WIth global partnerships in areas of pharmaceuticals, medical teaching institutions, private sector patient services, and government health ministries, Shifa4U exemplifies as a leader in the field of healthcare innovation and technology towards sustainability. Shifa4U has expanded to 21 cities across Pakistan in just under 2 years. This highlights the need for such an integrated infrastructure in healthcare to bridge divides across the industry and people. | Finalist : GEC Catalyst Award at Connected Healthcare Conference 2018 Top 6 : ATA Pitch Jam 2018 Think Tank : IFC Worldbank Global Health Conference, Miami, 2018 Presented : World Congress Healthcare Conference, Washington, 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
788 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Amin | HADDAD | Hardware Software Solutions 'H2S' | www.h2st.com | engineer | male | Tunisia | Tunisia | Arabic | English | French | Thanks to my experience in the field of engineering, especially in the field of electronic control and gain experience thanks to the projects that I have done and I was involved in, which revolves around the application of artificial intelligence in the field As well as the project that has worked on it and is the completion of a project in the treatment of cerebral and neurological disorders, and it will allow humanity to provide some treatment solutions for some neurological diseases or problems related to the nervous system (such as Treatment for Alzheimer's disease, rehabilitation technology for people with some kind of motor disability, or a way to read the brain to communicate with some patients who are unable to speak) | My name is Amin HADDAD I got the certificate of industrial information engineer from the National School of Electronics and Communication in Sfax, Tunisia in 2016, in the specialization of network and industrial control. During my studies I worked on many projects in the field of computing and artificial intelligence, such as the project of automatic quality control and projects in software development , And after graduation worked in the company as a quality control machine numerical control, and after gaining experience in the field of entrepreneurship established a private company called Hardware Software Solution 'H2S' interested in the establishment of innovative projects and solutions in the industrial field, especially in the medical field | Treatment of cerebral and neurological disorders Using nerve technology | will allow humanity to provide some treatment solutions for some neurological diseases or problems related to the nervous system | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | In every country it is a project of humanity but currently applied in developed countries | No | Proof of Concept | Because I worked on this project four years ago and it was my dream and it is achieved every day , The introduction of artificial intelligence into neural technology is new | treatment of cerebral and neurological disorders, | solutions for some neurological diseases or problems related to the nervous system (such as Treatment for Alzheimer's disease, rehabilitation technology for people with some kind of motor disability, or a way to read the brain to communicate with some patients who are unable to speak) | in a deep learning way, With the use of smart sensors, computers or artificial limbs. | As for the progress of the project is in 30 % from the theoretical side, it is the basis of the project and the practical side is not difficult | My first goal is to deliver this product to developing countries all over the world, especially Africa, emerging institutes, especially in my family because we have a case of my father's hardening | short-term : Small electronic equipment for model medium-term : Join a research center in this field long-term needs : Company on behalf of the product | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-ZPWpzyoVTHZHBoWDJ1TVlPa0U https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-ZPWpzyoVTHRXkxQzNPVTNGX00 https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-ZPWpzyoVTHUFotUzdicklnSFk | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-ZPWpzyoVTHTVlwX0NHUnpEaTQ https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-ZPWpzyoVTHUFotUzdicklnSFk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
789 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chidinma | Emodi | The Footwear Academy | www.thefootwearacademy.com | Cofounder & Chief Marketing Officer | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I would like to present The Footwear Academy at the UN Solutions Summit. At The Footwear Academy, we are reducing poverty, unemployment and fostering economic growth by enabling young people especially women produce export standard footwear products through training, access to quality raw materials and finishing services. Our ambition for Africa is to train and enable the next generation of footwear brands that can compete globally. We want to export African shoemakers to the world. I am most passionate about solving youth unemployment in Nigeria and fostering economic growth by encouraging and mentoring more youths to take up skills especially in shoe making in order to be financially independent. Why ? 1. Nigeria has a bulging youth population and an estimated 30 million unemployed youths that need to be engaged and mentored on how to run sustainable businesses. 2.. The shoe making industry is an old but yet untapped industry in Africa. Impact From August 2017 till date, we have empowered and trained shoemakers who have gone on to own successful footwear brands. Though we are a for-profit organization, we have partnered with Ford Foundation and the Abia state Government to develop the footwear industry in Nigeria and as well empower and encourage more Nigerian youths to take up the shoe making vocation in order to reduce poverty, unemployment and foster economic growth. We currently provide a Footwear Makers Hub in Aba, Abia state. The Hub provides footwear training, support, finishing services and access to raw materials at a subsidized rate. Our work is currently empowering over 25,000 shoemakers in Aba, Abia state, Nigeria. We are currently in final talks with international donor organizations like PIND to provide shoe making training for FREE to Nigerian youths with profound interest in the shoe making industry. Our Innovation is quite simple. We have developed long and short footwear business courses that cover the entire footwear value chain from footwear manufacturing to Sales. And because access to quality and affordable raw materials is still a big problem in the footwear industry in Nigeria, we are creating an eCommerce website for leather and footwear making accessories. | I am a youth and women entrepreneurship advocate and the Cofounder of The Footwear Academy; a company created to foster economic growth and reduce youth unemployment in Nigeria through shoe making. I learnt shoemaking at Accademia Riaci, Florence, Italy and have since used my work at The Footwear Academy to improve the lives of shoemakers in Nigeria by enabling them produce export standard footwear products through training, finishing services and access to quality raw materials. I have received several awards, prizes and grants. Noteworthy of my achievement is being named the Star of Business & Entrepreneurship at the YALI West Africa Nigeria Cohort 4. We are the recent winners of the Proudly Made in Aba Hackathon - winning a grant prize of $50,000 from Ford Foundation. We also took 2nd place in 2017 at the Open Mic Africa startup Pitch competition organized by Techpreneur Africa and MIT Legatum. I have contributed to various youth centered entrepreneurship and Nation building events including This Generation Conference, Abuja, Sigma Pension Future Tour Events in various Nigerian Universities, GSK Sponsored social entrepreneurship training for young pharmacists in Lagos state and a HR forum panel discussion at Regenesys Business School. I am a pioneer member and one of the administrators of The Young Enterprising Women in Africa network (YEWA), a nonprofit group geared towards empowering and enabling women entrepreneurs in Africa. I am a recipient of the South-West Nigeria Excellence Awards in recognition of my contribution to youth empowerment in Nigeria. | The Footwear Academy | Changing Africa, One Shoe at a Time | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Nigeria | Yes | Ford Foundation, PIND Foundation | Scaling | We are at the scaling stage of our innovation because we are currently revenue and impact generating. | 1. Economic crisis that can be attributed to high rate of importation - Nigeria imports over 20 million pairs of shoes yearly. This indicates that there is a huge n untapped footwear market in Nigeria with a limited number of local shoe producers who are mostly unskilled and unequipped with the latest technology in shoe making. 2. High Rate of Youth unemployment and Poverty - Nigeria currently has the highest rate of poor people and an estimated rate of over 30 million unemployed youths. | At The Footwear Academy, We are reducing poverty unemployment and fostering economic growth through the following services : 1. Long & Short Courses in Footwear Making - we have formalized the entire process of learning how to make shoes with over 10 short and long courses that cover the entire footwear value chain from manufacturing to the business of footwear making. It is our mission to enable shoe makers produce exportable standard products. 2. Footwear Makers Hub - the hub provides finishing services and access to quality leather works accessories. 3. E-commerce website for shoes and leather accessories. For further impact, we provide the following post training support; - Internship opportunities, job matching, alumni engagement and post training mentor ship. | 1. Our uniqueness lies in our ability to teach shoe making in the simplest and shortest possible time. With over 10 courses in footwear manufacturing, we are able to transform beginners in leather crafting into masters of footwear manufacturing in just 3 weeks. Our teaching methods has also encouraged more youths and women to take a keen interest in shoemaking. We've made shoemaking the new cool. 2. Our prices are competitively very affordable and unbeatable. Students can sign up for less than $100. 3. We are marrying Shoe Making & Technology (Tech Enabled) with the eCommerce platform for shoes and leather accessories. 4. We are enabling shoemakers and leather works designers through the Footwear Hub that provides access to standard and affordable finishing services and raw materials. | We started in August 2017 and we have successfully trained over 30 young people. We do a quarterly check up on our students to provide support and mentorship. We've also incorporated job matching and internship as part of our post training activities. | One of our planned goals this year is to train over 150 young people in shoemaking. We are already finalizing talks with PIND in sponsoring these young people. They will be trained for 3 months in shoemaking, career development and entrepreneurship. We;ve gone ahead to speak with over 137 footwear brands interested in employing at least one trained shoe maker. Over the next 3 years, our work at The Footwear Academy will include building more strategic partnerships and relationships with notable government and non-government institutions in Nigeria and beyond in providing free or subsidized footwear training programmes for youths and women. We will also expand the Footwear Hubs to major cities in Nigeria to provide finishing services and access to raw material sales. | 1. We need a larger team. 2. A larger office space. 3. More Sewing & Finishing Machines | Project Presentation : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11giAaq7iK_5J0U4DfV-TORTh944EAUQQtY0-5wHlXZ8/edit?usp=sharing Company Website : https://www.thefootwearacademy.com https://facebook.com/thefootwearacademy | https://web.facebook.com/summit.abuja/videos/1935681736731628/ Media Mentions Linda Ikeji Blog - https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2018/3/the-footwear-academy-clintonel-technologies-and-ogwugocom-are-finalists-at-proudly-made-in-aba-hackathon.html Punch Newspaper - http://punchng.com/footwear-academy-wins-entrepreneurship-challenge/ Guardian - https://m.guardian.ng/business-services/firm-wins-hackathon-challenge-with-new-production-technology/ Vanguard Newspaper - https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/footwear-academy-wins-made-aba-hackathon-challenge/ Tech point - https://techpoint.ng/2018/03/17/proudly-made-in-aba-hackathon/ Yalian Studio - https://www.yalianstudio.press/my-yali-story-from-yali-entrepreneurship-awardee-to-winning-50000-grant-sponsorship-from-ford-foundation/#comment-4 Sme Peaks- https://smepeaks.com/2018/04/26/nigerian-female-shoemakers/ She Leads Africa - https://sheleadsafrica.org/chidinma-emodi-chukwuemeka-footware/ Victor Ugoo Njoku Blog- https://victornjoku.com.ng/blog/2018/08/07/the-footwear-academy-co-founder-chidinma-mirianjess-chukwuemeka-talks-about-her-brand/ The Nation Newspaper - http://thenationonlineng.net/a-female-shoe-maker-and-her-passion/ http://www.mediaroomhub.com/chidinma-trailblazing-male-dominated-path/ https://thejollofdiary.com/dont-feel-like-drop-ocean-industry-filled-men-shoemaker-chidinma-trailblazing-male-dominated-path/ http://lexbrainworks.com/2018/09/15/finally-best-be-digital-fashion-magazine-is-out-free-download/ | March 2018 - 1st Prize Winner - Proudly Made In Aba Hackathon Challenge - we won a grant of $50,000 from Ford Foundation March 2018 - Star of Business & Entrepreneurship Award - Young African Leader Initiative (YALI RLC, Nigeria Cohort 4) January 2018 - Top 9 finalist at Techpoint Build event, Lagos, Nigeria July 2017 - 2nd Place winner, MIT legatum & Techpreneur Africa Start-up Pitch competition - we won $500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
790 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Seeba | Salifu | Farmable World Company Limited | www.farmable.me | Agritech | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | I have always been enthused and fascinated right from my childhood days about the environment. From my undergraduate days, the zeal to enquire and know more about the environment kept soaring. I believe my penchant for this field stems from the fact that environmental issues are increasing day by day in all over the world. The dramatic increases in public awareness and concern about the states of the global and local environments which has occurred in recent decades has been accompanied and partly prompted by an ever growing body of evidence on the extent to which human activities has caused severe environmental degradation. Uncontrolled population growth and the concomitant additional requirements have led to deforestation and the destruction of the natural habitat for thousands of species. Oil spills, industrial waste and the indiscriminate use of agricultural chemicals have polluted our environment to an alarming level. Having appreciated these concerns coupled with knowledge acquired during my undergraduate studies at University of Ghana (BSc. Agricultural science; Soil Science major), my passion to enquire and know more has increased. My educational background has instilled in me the qualities required to meet the rigor of this demanding profession. | I am an ambitious, optimistic and self-motivated professional with more than 6years"" versatile experience in agricultural technology. I am also the Co-founder of www.farmable.me, a crowd-funding platform for smallholder cattle farmers in Ghana. My interest is in the implementation of ICT tools and the Internet of Things (IoT) to solve peculiar problems in Agriculture and Governance | Sustainable Smart Energy Ranches | Climate Smart Energy Farming For Africa | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cote divore | Yes | World Bank, Ghana Climate Innovation Centre | Transition to Scale | We've started empowering remote and rural communities in Ghana | The dilemma faced by non-electrified rural households living below poverty line is that they are least likely do get electricity because they are poor, and they are most likely to stay in their poverty because they do not have electricity.According to the latest report on “Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report 2019”, the total number of people that lack access to electricity fell from 1 billion in 2016 to 840 million in 2017. | I propose to address this challenge holistically with energy systems that can provide not only electricity, but can also support money generating activities. An example of such a system is a solar/biogas microturbine for off-grid electrification. The turbine can operate on solar energy during the day and on locally produced biogas (biodigesters) during the night! The biogas is produced locally from available resources such as biomass, manure etc. The waste heat can also support small economic activities such as food and beverages, or local textile industry. This type of system is advantageous since it can enhance the livelihoods and community spirit. I would like to discuss with you such systems and their power to transform. | However, despite the progress, the report also indicates that 650 million will still lack access to electricity by 2030. This is because powering the remaining population possess some prominent challenges, such as people living in remote areas or overburdened cities. Up until recently, grid extension was by far the most common solution to bring electricity into people’s homes. However, the recent technological advancements coupled with a decline in associated costs for off-grid solution are changing the energy solutions landscape. | Many studies outline a significant momentum in providing electricity access through off-grid and mini-grid connections and the potential of these solutions to address the existing challenges of access to electricity and clean energy. Other studies (Bloomberg NEF) suggest that besides all of our efforts, a significant share of rural households will still most probably won’t get electricity till 2030 since they live with less than $5.5 per day and thus can not afford it. Therefore, innovative business plans that transcend the financial aspects alone are required and that's what my team an I are focused on | At Farmable, our vision is to create a self sustaining enterprise that empowers small holder farmers in Ghana to fight hunger without reliance on external aid or charity. We started Farmable to support farmers in emerging markets through crowdfarming; to equip farmers with the tools and resources necessary to fight hunger and build a sustainable food supply. | Subsequently, the potential entry of renewable energy sources in cities in the form of building integrated systems is of great importance. What I recommend is the replacement of the already in use awnings across the Mediterranean countries, with a solar renewable system which could be mechanically possible to integrate on buildings facades in the form of awnings providing the same functionality while being economically profitable and energy efficient. | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2yhbW9WgaiI ,https://mobile.twitter.com/farmableme, www.Farmable.me | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2yhbW9WgaiI | TOP 50 young Entrepreneurs in Ghana. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
791 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | hashim | Lihumbo | Nuru Health and Disability Technologies | www.nuruhealth.co.tz | CEO | Male | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | By virtue of the fact that the available statistics indicate that more than 70% of people with disabilities in my country are dependent in terms of lack of income, limited family support, lack of appropriate information related to availability of a broad range of health services, technological advancement as well as economic opportunities to enable them to lead an active life. Thus, by using innovation I have so far managed to open a company to a person with disability which deals with eCommerce website (www.wakeneji.com) and I am having a queue of another 15 disabilities who need my organization to open them a company. with plans to open different programs to many more people living with disabilities by having programs that may be generating the income One of the things we faced when we were making people with disability financially free is the issue of mobility, so in the past period, we have been. developing mobility devices including electric wheelchair together with artificial legs, where after controlling disability mobility, then we will hire their brains. So as to reach much more disabled, and hire their brains I am currently developing a mobile app (a social media app) which will be special for people with disabilities and connect them with jobs, opportunities, events, education, rights and matters that concerns them. | Hashim Lihumbo is the CEO of Nuru Health and disability Technologies a company that deals with the development of new health information systems and shaping entrepreneurship minds to people with disabilities by creating them businesses and brands. I have covered different fields of technology including Artificial intelligence, system designs, system development, applications designs, circuit control, and user interface designs. despite being a college dropout because of low vision and decided to open a company that will be dealing with health and disability technologies, in a period of one year I have been working on a project to prevent malaria by using technology. I have signed a paper with the global fund to end malaria by 2030, also I have been doing different projects like making electric wheelchair, producing the mechanical part of artificial legs, working on the disability app and hiring disabilities brains by opening them different programs that will make them become financially free with the aim of removing poverty to them. | I Can App | a social media app special for disabled that will connect them with opportunities, works, jobs, events, education and rights concerning them | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | my solution will be implemented first in Tanzania before spreading the whole of Africa | Yes | the key partners on this project is an organization called SIMAMA CBR an organization which deals with creating opportunities and provision of education to people with disabilities aiming at making them employ themselves at the end of the teachings | Research & Development | Creating a social media app that will connect people with disabilities with connections, jobs, events, opportunities, and education aiming at shaping entrepreneurship minds to them and hence reduce poverty is one among the things which need very hard research before starting developing the innovation. That's the reason which made us be int the stages we are now. | . By virtue of the fact that the available statistics indicate that more than 70% of people with disabilities in my country are dependent in terms of lack of income to lead an active life and lack of appropriate information related to the availability of a broad range of health services, Thus, we are trying to solve the challenge by solves the challenge by developing them an app where all matters concerning them will be found and hence creating good ways of making them become financially free. | we bring all people with disabilities in one place, we bring organizations dealing with disabilities in that one place also, we bring good samaritan also in one place, they can both communicate in one place, so all opportunities, call for proposals special for disabled, funds, programs all around the country will be found in the app easily and reach the right people. we are planning to scale to another African country soon after having some successful disabled resulted from our platform | A mobile app that will connect all people with disabilities with the aim of showing them opportunities, so as to make them become financially free, Is the uniqueness that my solution has. | we have enough data which was collected by my team concerning this project and so far we are using that data into ensuring quality and speed development of the platform. | Soon after launching the application, we first plan to attract organizations dealing with disabilities join the platform so as to expose their works in one platform, were after by using the data we have, all organizations and people with disabilities, we will start connecting disabilities with organizations operating in a particular area hence start approaching the problem of poverty among disabilities. After the project is successful in Tanzania, we will scale up in east Africa and Africa in general | Short term resources Advertisement fees for making advertisement in another social media Other operational costs for running the platform Medium Term Resources Opening offices in different countries Other operational costs for running the platform Long term needs Computers to be used by the administration team having our own server for storing data A team of high-quality proposals writers Other operational costs for running the platform | http://nuruhealth.co.tz/application.php this is the link of the company website directing to the project we are developing now | we currently have no video or audio explanation of this project | we have not won any award so far | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
792 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lazarus | Amukeshe | African Pathfinder Leaders Initiative (APLI Namibia) | http://www.apli-nam.org/ | Finance Director | Male | Namibia | Namibia | English | I serve as the finance director at African Pathfinder Leaders Initiative (APLI) a, a youth development organisation which provides training to young Namibians equipping them with the key skills, resources and networks enabling to contribute to socio-economic development in their communities. APLI was founded in 2018, and within our short time in existence we were able to train 20 youth who are all working to solve pertinent problems in their community. Some of the projects our trainees are working on include providing public speaking training, building an ICT center in a village and building an agricultural project. The value proposition of APLI to address the shortage of skills, resources and networks that young people need to fully realize their goals and create sustainable change in their communities. | I am a 25 year old, Namibian and passionate about youth development and an upbringing that is responsible not only household but with a view of the world in its entirety as a house we must ensure that it runs well and to the benefit of everybody. Other than my work at APLI Namibia, I am a trained tax consultant, currently an investigative, business and economics and business reporter with The Namibian newspaper (Namibia's largest newspapaer). A PwC Namibia taxes academy alumni and an Accounting degree holder, with a postgraduate HDip tax and certificate in VAT. I love team playing that yield necessary results, sucker for innovation and working towards that is to the betterment of nations, regions, continents and the globe. I have a strong belief that we all have a purpose on this world, all have a role to play in this and we need each other to achieve most of the goals we set for our selves. When like minded individuals come together, a force is created. We need like minded people that will see to it that the world becomes a better place to live for everyone. | African Pathfinder Leaders Initiative (APLI Namibia) | APLI is an earnest vision born out of the aspiration to develop and mobilize change-makers, youth leaders and innovators in Namibia. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Namibia, we are almost a year in operation. | Yes | The USA Embassy Namibia, The US Mission to the African Union, Coca Cola Namibia | Scaling | The young people taken in yearly undergo a year-long leadership development and ideaincubator with 3 residential trainings. As part of the residential trainings, the Fellows receive comprehensive and interdisciplinary leadership training which is delivered in an intensiveand participatory manner.As the year progresses, the Fellows are required to start their initiatives or scale existingones and provide progress reports during the following residential programs. | Young people are at the forefront of global and national issues as change-agents, researchers and advocates who are effecting and inspiring change. Even so, young people still lack the requisite skills and resources to effectively implement and scale their initiatives or businesses. The project aims to provide a platform for young people to develop and hone their leadership potential and skills and to provide an environment which recognizes,appreciates and invests in the potential of youth. | APLI yearly timeline takes on 20 fellows, for the current year we have, 19 fellows (12 male and 7 females) . The fellows have projects spanning from public health and children care, high school motivation talks and tutoring, orphans support, student representatives, musicians, cancer awareness advocates, and climate change advocates, limiting every fellow to at least 25 ripple effect, at least about 500 people are expected to benefit from the skills impartation. We are looking at developing a programme for the male child as we have seen in most cases, women get an emphasis as they have been previously disadvantaged, we want to develop male children as part of our boys programme that will allow the young to see all people equal regardless of whether they are male or female. | The project aims to provide a legitimate platform for young people to develop and hone their leadership potential and skills and to provide an environment which recognizes, appreciates and invests in the potential, aspirations and achievements of young people. More than the acquisition of soft and hard skills, the Initiative aims to work alongside the young people to ensure that these skills are translated into successful ventures. | Regarding evaluation we use 3 main strategies: Trainees reports: As mentioned above, the APLI Trainees undergo a year-long leadership development and idea incubator with 3 residential programs (trainings). This was done to ensure continuity and sustainability as well ensuring close monitoring of personal growth of the trainees and the growth their businesses or projects. Between the trainings, the trainees will get to work on their businesses/projects and submit 12 reports on their progress throughout the entire year. 6 reports are personal development reports which are aimed at monitoring how the trainees are progressing on their personal leadership journey, and the other 6 report are business/project report to assess how the trainees are progressing business or project wise. Surveys: - After every training there is an evaluation for the trainees to evaluate each trainer, in that way we gauge the value delivered (we forward this feedback to the trainers in order to allow them to improve for next time). -At the end of each training there is an evaluation of the overall training. This gives the trainees space to evaluate the overall training and give the team strategic feedback to improve the next trainings. Focus groups: - Every morning at the training we have what we call a morning check-in session, this is a chance for the trainees to reflect on the previous day and give us immediate feedback | Yes, we currently in discussion with several youth leaders from the following African countries to expand APLI into their countries. Those countries are Mozambique, Mauritius, Malawi and Ghana. | At the end of the project, we hope to achieve the following goals: -To engage with fellows understanding of what leadership, community development and entrepreneurship look like in Namibia, redefining them as to create change makers with a strong identity. More importantly to form a family amongst these change makers, so that they feel/know that there are other people on the road less travelled -To have young people professionally equipped to enter job markets and to run projects and businesses that contribute positively to the country -Similarly, we want said businesses and projects to be well thought out, as a solution to a specific local problem. Complete with strategic plans to give value to their customers and beneficiaries, to compete and scale where necessary. -In addition we would like to bring high impact individuals into the networks of our trainees, as a resource for their own growth and personal development -We also want fellows to become proactive in their approach to problem solving and the future in general, that having initially been “spoon fed” or enlightened/made aware of available resources and skill sets they now pursue their own goals relentlessly -We would like to see the results/impact trickle down to the communities where these young people work. | http://www.apli-nam.org/ https://twitter.com/APLINamibia https://www.facebook.com/APLINamibia/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7K2LTDumYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd8J8xl3Vg0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYD_euYsAc8 | We unfortunately have not participated in any awards yet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
793 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sina | Akinwumi | Member, Ondo State House of Assembly | None | Honourable Member | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I have been involved in training of youths and women in my community on entrepreneurship program for more five years. My innovation has succeeded in training an average population of youths and women. | I am Akinwumi Sina Emmanuel, born about 40 years ago. I studied Chemistry Education from Adeyemi College, Ondo. I have developed various skills in the area of business and financial management through FGN/Youwin program. | Training the mind of the youths through entrepreneurship training | Train the youths, build a nation | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Nigeria | Yes | House commutee on Community Development | Transition to Scale | I believe that the innovation will solve the problem of unemployment in my community | Unemployment Reduction of youth restiveness | To discover more markets | Online presence Feedback on services rendered | Reduction in the number of employees Increase in the standard of living among the community dwellers | In the next three years, the company would have been established in about 3 local governments area council's of the state | Finances Equipment Human resources | Road maintenance at Okitipupa main riad | None | I have once won a federal government of Nigeria grant award | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
794 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kakine | HOUSSOUBE | Zonal | www.zonalchd.org | Président | H | Chad | Chad | French | Je représente l'Association Zonal basée à Pala (Tchad). Nous avons un large programme de mobilisation des communautés de base sur le processus de mise en oeuvre des ODD dans les 18 cantons de la région provinciale du Mayo-Kebbi Ouest. Ce programme est un plan de communication sur les ODD et la formation et l'accompagnement des communautés de base en matières d’élaboration et de gestion des actions soutenables. Durant 6 mois, nous avons effectué les réalisations suivantes: 1) Communication continue sur la problématique de développement durable: distribution de flyers, animation à la Radio (en Français et en langues locales), débats interactifs, points de presse cantonaux; 2) Élaboration des plans de développement communaux: révision et mise à niveau des plans de développement des Communes au regard des ODD, formation des personnels des Mairies; 3) Formation des communautés de base: Mise en place d'une méthodologie de formation des communautés de base sur les actions de développement durable (document destiné aux formateurs locaux), animation et orientation des organisations des communautés de base sur les modèles d'innovations soutenables; 4) Développement de réseau des acteurs au développement durable: Création d'un réseau communal d’autorités entre les 3 Communes de la région, réseau de partenariat entre 5 associations (Zonal, Pembang, Code, Badjolki et Oplo). Le résultat de ce programme étant satisfaisant au regard des ODD, au nom de l'Association Zonal, je souhaite présenter cette riche expérience avec le monde entier afin que les organisations sœurs réalisent des actions similaires dans leurs régions. Ce résultat a été publié sur le site de la Francophonie: https://www.francophonie.org/8000-apprenants-clom-developpement-durable-49620.html Objectif de cette proposition: favoriser la mise en oeuvre des ODD par les communautés de base à travers le monde entier. | Je suis Expert Technique en diagnostic stratégique d'entreprise, formé par l'ONUDI dans le cadre du projet régional de restructuration et de mise à niveau des entreprises d'Afrique Centrale (PRNM-AC). Manager des projets technologiques, je suis le Président fondateur de l'Association Zonal. Zonal est une association sans but lucratif établie dans le cadre de la gestion sociale et environnementale de risques au Tchad. La mission conduite par l’association est centrée sur les pratiques d’atténuation du changement climatique, avec la vision de garantir un développement durable. La stratégie d’action de l’association pour le développement durable au Tchad est axée sur la mobilisation des ressources humaines et l’orientation sur les innovations de développement. Elle vise à développer et à promouvoir des meilleurs talents et à qualifier des acteurs au développement durable dans les régions cibles. L’Association Zonal encadre sur les piliers du développement durable dans le contexte local: - Dimension sociale - Dimension économique - Dimension environnementale | Programme de mobilisation globale (PMG) | Allez, les acteurs de développement durable! | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Tchad | Yes | Commune de Pala | Transition to Scale | Le présent programme est un outil efficace pour favoriser la mise en oeuvre des ODD. Nous l'avons réalisé dans notre région et nous aimerions étendre cette action à travers les organisations travaillant sur les outils de développement durable. | Le programme PMG est élaboré pour mieux informer les communautés des base au sujet de développement durable, ses piliers et ses principes. Car bon nombre de communautés n'ont pas accès aux NTIC et ne sont pas informées des 17 ODD ou des décisions prises lors des sommets de haut niveau. De même, certaines collectivités autonomes africaines sont manquées de compétence technique en matière de plan de développement durable. Ce programme est un outil efficace au renforcement des capacité. | Le programme PMG met en relief le développement durable par un réseautage. Il s'agit de la formation et l'orientation des communautés afin de les impliquer massivement dans le processus de développement durable: - large communication sur les ODD (de préférence en langues locales); - création de réseau entre les OSC et les OCB; - création de réseau entre les collectivistes autonomes; - élaboration de plan de développement; - formation et initiation aux modèles d'innovations; - accompagnement technique. Notre vision à long terme est de créer des réseaux entre les acteurs OSC et OCB à l’échelle internationale. | Au Tchad, il y a un manque d'action de mobilisation des communautés sur les ODD. Le plan national de développement 2017-2021 est toujours dans le cadre du développement conventionnel, ou plutôt la plupart des projets menés au Tchad sont d'ordre humanitaire. Nous estimons qu'il est judicieux de concilier des actions humanitaires aux actions de développement durable. | L’équipe Zonal a réalisés des actions très appréciées dans la région du projet. Une formation a été réalisée en collaboration avec l'initiative Objectif2030 et la Commune de Pala. le résultat de cette activité a été publiée sur le site de la Francophonie: https://www.francophonie.org/8000-apprenants-clom-developpement-durable-49620.html | L'Organisation espère admettre des experts et des volontaires pour des échanges d'expertises. nous estimons cependant qu'il n'y a pas d'impact négatif sur la vie des intervenants. Toutefois, les risques encourus au Tchad sont, entre autres: La chaleur (jusqu’à 45 degrés Celsius dans la région du projet) et la cherté de coût de vie. | Besoins à court terme: outils de communication (1 projecteur de film et accessoires), moyen de transport (1 véhicule), moyen financier (dépenses d'exploitation de 20 000 EUR). Besoins à moyen et long termes: Moyens financiers (voyages, projets pilotes et autres outils de formation) | Faute de moyen financier pour entretenir, le site a été désactivé depuis Avril 2019. Un montant vient d’être payé au service LWS (français) et le site sera de nouveau actif dans 5 jours couvrés. Nos résultats sont publiés sur le site web de la Francophonie: https://www.francophonie.org/8000-apprenants-clom-developpement-durable-49620.html | •Lien vers ""Rapport du forum des enjeux du développement durable et du changement climatique"" : https://www.cjoint.com/c/IEzwhpC7VMR •Lien vers ""Rapport d'inspection dans la région du lac"" : https://www.cjoint.com/c/IEzwoPTb4iR | Sans objet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
795 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | DAMILOLA | MUTIU | GREENPAD CONCEPTS | www.greenpadconcepts.com | Founde/CEO | MALE | Nigeria | Benin | English | Damilola Mutiu, an innovator and visionary, developed the concept of biodegradable sanitary pads that manufactures biodegradable sanitary pads, made in 99% from local materials - plantain and banana stems, abundant all over the country. The pads made by GreenPad Concepts are 60% cheaper than the ones available in the market, therefore girls and women from underprivileged communities and low-income families can afford them. This idea addresses a number of problems from different fields: A. Education: it combats absenteeism and decreases the rate of school dropout among girls. In rural Nigeria a considerable percentage of girls entering primary and secondary school never complete their education. One of the reasons behind it is lack of sanitary facilities at schools and access to personal hygiene products. Another level of efforts in the field of education is spreading awareness on menstrual hygiene, reproductive health and family planning through campaigns and speeches delivered in schools, communities, neighbourhoods and parishes, with the aim to eradicate reproductive tract infections and diseases that, when untreated, lead to deaths. Economically empowering and job creation Employment: it provides employment to women, thus empowering them and creating opportunities for their personal and professional growth, that translates into assuring the wellbeing of their families and whole communities. C. Environment: the sanitary pads made by GreenPad Concepts are biodegradable and disposable, which constitutes a solution to one of the most pressing issues this country faces and that causes the degradation of the environment: the problem of waste management. My motivation to be a part of the UN Solutions 2019 Summit to present my project is to gain more experience into new way of thinking, have access to network of likeminded innovators and get support to procure other needed equipment to scale-up production capacity to reach millions of beneficiaries. | Damilola Samuel Mutiu, Founder/CEO: Damilola’s experience as an entrepreneur began in 2010, when he co-found an agripreneurship organization called ‘Springboard’ and he was the project director. Damilola received Young Africa Leadership Initiative YALI scholarship in 2015 to receive 17-weeks intensive training in Ghana on leadership and entrepreneurship, powered Barack Obama Initiative YALI. Damilola is a social entrepreneur and he has also received support $5,000 seed capital from Tony Elumelu Foundation to support his start-up after he successfully completed 9 months’ entrepreneurship training in 2016. Damilola is a Leap Africa Alumnus and certified entrepreneur by Microsoft. Damilola was awarded a Microsoft #Insiders4Good Fellowship, part of a new initiative at Microsoft designed to support promising entrepreneurs with extraordinary solutions to social problems. https://insider.windows.com/en-us/community-news/tackling-problem-causes-1-10-african-girls-drop-school/ Damilola holds Diploma in Computer Science from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, Nigerial and he is a final year student studying computer science at National Open University of Nigeria. | GreenPad | Supporting Feminine Hygiene | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | GreenPad solution is currently in Nigeria and we aim to reach all African countries | Yes | TrustAfrica, Springboard Nigeria, Durian, | Scaling | GreenPad Concepts have recorded following accomplishments in Nigeria •Reach over 50,000 girls/women of reproductive age in rural areas with adequate reproductive health information •Over 50% increase in Education uptake and retention among young girls from economic disadvantage background •Over 80% reduction rate in Reproductive Tract Infection among Girls and Women of reproductive age •20% Job creation for women and young people •Contribute significantly to National Gross Domestic Profit (GDP) | 1 Improving women’s health and awareness: Most women are not educated about proper feminine hygiene and they resort to use rags, old towel, etc during menstruation 2 Economically empowering: We allow rural women to set up groups to start production of the pads 3 Affordability/Accessibility: Western pads are cost prohibitive, they only target upper and middle class and they are have no distribution channel in rural area and this are the gaps we see to fill 4 Keeping girls in school/Biodegradable. | GreenPad Concepts Business Model that helps rural women form cooperatives that extract fibre from banana stalks, an agricultural by-product. GreenPad purchase the fibre from the women, as well as employ women to produce the pads at its manufacturing facility. The finished product are marketed and sold to rural women distributors, local health maternity centres, Nigeria’s health and education ministries, and national and international non-profit organizations. GreenPad Concepts also develop a health education program that raises awareness about healthy feminine hygiene and eliminates the stigma and taboos surrounding menstruation. See our recent activities on our Facebook page: https://web.facebook.com/GreenPad-Concepts Global Social impact: At the heart of GreenPad Concepts is the desire to collaborate with women in rural communities and help them achieve a new life for themselves by providing them with the means to exploit their full potential as entrepreneurs. GreenPad Concepts has the goal of providing employment to over 800 women in 5 Africa countries we aim to site our branches; while creating access to sanitary pads to over 20,000,000 women and girls in the first 5 years of operation. | GreenPad Concepts value proposition include: A. Education: it combats absenteeism in school and decreases the rate of school dropout among girls. In rural Nigeria a considerable percentage of girls entering primary and secondary school never complete their education. One of the reasons behind it is lack of sanitary facilities at schools and access to personal hygiene products. Another level of efforts in the field of education is spreading awareness on menstrual hygiene, reproductive health and family planning through campaigns and speeches delivered in schools, communities, neighbourhoods and parishes, with the aim to eradicate reproductive tract infections and diseases that, when untreated, lead to deaths. B Affordability and Accessibility: Pads are too expensive. Women find $1.5 per pad unaffordable especially since many are not earning incomes. Large companies and multinationals such as P&G do not have viable distribution channels in rural areas. GreenPad is 60% less than products available in market and our model engages rural women in distribution channels. C Environment: the sanitary pads made by GreenPad Concepts are biodegradable and disposable, which constitutes a solution to one of the most pressing issues this country faces and that causes the degradation of the environment: the problem of waste management. . They are fully biodegradable within 6 months, unlike westerns pads that stays in the environment for about 500 – 800 years. | In 2016 and early 2017, GreenPad Concepts team tested the product in several communities in Nigeria. With support from Tony Elumelu Foundation TEF, Nigeria, we purchased materials needed and tools to produce 250 biodegradable sanitary pads, with the use of banana fiber. We distributed these pads to school girls girls and young women in 3 communities in Ondo State, Nigeria to test. With positive responses from our first users, we fabricated couple of equipment scale production i.e. fibre extractor sterilizer etc. Since then we have been in production and we have reached over 50,000 women and girls. We measure our progress by using monthly Summary Form (MSFs) with indicators such as: No of eligible persons enrolled during the reporting period No of adolescent girls now uses the GreenPad No of adolescent girls now have easy access to free GreenPad in their respective schools No of Persons that commence receipt of monthly summary form (MHS) No of persons clinic screen for Reproductive Tract Infections (RTIs) No of referrals for medical testing No of feedback received from medical testing with outcome. | At the heart of GreenPad Concepts is the desire to collaborate with women in rural communities and help them achieve a new life for themselves by providing them with the means to exploit their full potential as entrepreneurs. GreenPad Concepts has the goal of providing employment to over 800 women in 5 Africa countries where we aim to site our branches; while creating access to sanitary pads to over 20,000,000 women and girls in the first 5 years of operation. This will as well help tackle the pressing issues Africa counties faces and that causes the degradation of the environment: the problem of waste management. . GreenPads are fully biodegradable within 6 months, unlike westerns pads that stays in the environment for about 500 – 800 years. We planned to setup our factory at the four geopolitical zones in Nigeria, this will help to easily reach users regardless of their location and it will facilitate quick delivery; likewise in other Africa countries. | The resources most needed for the GreenPad to scale and make so much impact are the equipment needed to scale the production capacity and reach millions of women whom are at the bottom of pyramid. Arunachalam Muruganantham, a young Indian entrepreneur, has already designed a sanitary napkin making machine to address similar issues in India. He has openly stated his interest in selling the machines to support similar causes. We will purchase the machine from him at a price and import into Nigeria and other countries we aim to setup our production units. In the mid-term, we need equipment to setup production units in all the 4 geopolitical zones in Nigeria, as this will facilitate easy accessibility of GreenPad in other locations. In log-term needs, we will need minimum of 4 tricycles in each production units. This will help in easy distribution of sanitary pads to rural wholesalers and those communities with bad roads. We will also need at least 1 distribution van in each production unit. This will facilitate quick delivery of product to distributors and retailers. | Website: www.greenpadconcepts.com Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/GreenPad-Concepts Article: https://insider.windows.com/en-us/community-news/tackling-problem-causes-1-10-african-girls-drop-school/ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf1HXiTGxSY | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf1HXiTGxSY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypGQg6s61N0 | Microsoft #Insiders4Good Fellowship Award: https://insider.windows.com/en-us/community-news/tackling-problem-causes-1-10-african-girls-drop-school/ GreenPad Concepts Won Chivas national first prize award in 2017 and dropped at stage 9 at global competition on social impact project. Mzuza Africa first award 2017. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
796 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ajitkumar | Sudke | Piramal Swasthya Management and Research Institute | http://www.piramalswasthya.org/ | Senior Vice President, Clinical Domain | Male | India | India | English | Maternal mortality declined by 44% between 1990 and 2015, and neonatal mortality declined by 49% between 1990 and 2017. Despite this progress, each year more than 300,000 women die due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth and 2.5 million babies die during the first month of life. It's an irony that despite the health system knowing in advance that a woman is pregnant and will deliver in 37 weeks, we are not able to save her. I believe that innovations can accelerate impact at scale. Ending preventable maternal and child mortality during my life time and to contribute in this global journey is my passion. Saving lines of mothers and children is my motivation to be a part of the UN solutions. I have been involved in multiple innovations. In Assam I developed a dashboard for the district gap analysis under the RMNCHA strategy roll out in six high priority districts. An abstract titled “How Assam leveraged ICTs to address Health system Gaps: The inside Story” presented at the Health Tech Innovations 2015 Conference organized by SAMEER (Society for Applied Microwave electronics Engineering and Research under the aegis of DeitY received the best concept note award under the theme Technology Innovations in E- Health, M-Health and R-Health. The abstract paper “District Gap Analysis (DGA) Dashboard– Decision-making tool for policy-makers/ managers to address health system gaps in Assam, India.” Was presented at the 14th World Congress on Public Health in Feb 2014 in Kolkata. I was involved in developing a mobile based effective vaccine management tool used in Assam. Link http://evmindia.org.in/dashboard. This EVM tool has been adopted by UNICEF and WHO head quarter’s for global use. I introduced a low cost Voucher to track home visits made by the community health worker (ASHA). The aim was to increase accountability of ASHAs by establishing a community-led monitoring mechanism for their scheduled home-visits. Government of Assam scaled up this intervention across the state investing approximately USD $ 300,000. This intervention was included in the Global best practices published in the Call to Action Summit in New Delhi in 2014. Involved in developing a Quality Improvement Technology platform for newborn care to collect, collate data and use it for improvement. Link http://safecaresavinglives.org/. I am currently working on leveraging Health Information Helplines to build actionable data systems by linking the beneficiary with the health system. | In my professional career of 17+ years in India, I started my career as a medical officer in a primary health centre and later worked as a clinician paediatrician in a District Women’s and Children’s Hospital for six years. I also managed a neonatal and pediatric intensive care unit with a team of five other pediatricians. I underwent the IMNCI (Integrated management of neonatal and childhood illnesses training) which attracted me to community pediatrics. I joined UNICEF as a district RCH consultant in Warangal, Andhra Pradesh where I rolled out the IMNCI program. I then joined at the state level as a state Child Health consultant and led the facility based newborn care program in Andhra Pradesh which involved procuring funding of 5.6 million $ from the Government and establishing 622 New-born Care Corners (NBCCs), 221 New-born Stabilization Units (NBSUs), and 44 SCNUs (Special Care New-born Units) across the state caring for more than 60,000 babies every year. I then joined UNICEF Bihar as a Health Officer (NOB) and then joined as a Health Specialist (NOC) in UNICEF Assam field office. I left UNICEF after six years to join the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and was involved in driving MNCH programs in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. In ACCESS Health International I led a Quality Improvement program in special newborn care units in public and private sector in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. My current role is Senior Vice President, clinical domain in Piramal Swasthya, a not for profit organization present across 20+ Indian states supporting India achieve the SDG 3. | 24/7 Actionable Health Information Helpline | Saving Lives by connecting Health Systems to Beneficiaries in real-time leveraging Health Information Helpline | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Assam, India; Himachal Pradesh, India; Karnataka, India | Yes | The Department of Health and Family Welfare, of the respective State Government's are the partners in each state. | Proof of Concept | Currently health information helpline (HIHL) is used to seek health information. Outbound calls are made to track mothers for ANC, PNC which is able to reach only 17% mothers. The POC is to make the community health worker call 104 and share critical details in real time which is followed by an outbound call to the beneficiary seeking feedback on experience of care. HIHL will share actionable information of beneficiaries to mapped facility and the transport system one week in advance. | India contributes to 15% maternal, 24 % neonatal and 18% U5 deaths globally. Accessibility to quality RMNCHA services across the continuum of care is a challenge. The community health worker creates a demand for services and is paid an incentive and can be utilised for reporting in real time, while the Auxiliary Nurse Midwife provides the MNCH services. This can address the delay in data flow. The system does not get actionable data and is blind to beneficiaries experience of care. | We plan to transform the Health Information Helpline by engaging with front line workers and beneficiaries in real time. The ASHA calls 104 and provides critical clinical data following service delivery by the ANM / Staff nurse or Doctor during the continuum of care starting from registration of pregnancy, antenatal care, delivery outcome, discharge, postnatal care, immunization etc. She also confirms the beneficiary mobile number. An outbound call is immediately made to the beneficiary to get her feedback on experience of care. The clinical data points captured will help identify and categorize high risk pregnancies. The system will map delivery points and suggest the appropriate facility for delivery to the beneficiary based on her high risk profile. HIHL will provide information to all delivery points and to the ambulance services one week in advance regarding the expected deliveries ensuring that they are well prepared to handle any emergency. The outcomes of delivery will also be recorded in the system and tracking of every mother and baby will be possible. The ASHA will be able to provide services as per schedule and the mother would be able to hold the health system accountable and share her grievance if any. The public health system will be strengthened by operationalizing health facilities and building capacities of HR to ensure effective scheme implementation. Actionable data systems are a challenge globally and mobile telephony could probably be an answer to this. | Currently ANMs have been provided tablets to punch in data, however connectivity issues as well as huge workload makes it difficult for the health worker - Auxiliary Nurse Midwife to enter data in real time. The ASHAs role ends once she mobilises the beneficiary to the service point, following which she only has to call and inform the information filled on the Mother child protection card by the ANM, or on the case sheet, discharge card by the Staff nurse. This cuts the delay currently required for the data from the field to reach the health system. Connecting to the beneficiaries in real time is unique given that the existing feedback system of the Government of India - My Hospital is an inbound calling system for patients to share their feedback about the hospital services which is not always in real time. Our solution being outbound and immediately following a call from the ASHA ensures that the call happens in real time. Using data for action is another unique feature of this solution, which can be life saving as it helps to guide beneficiaries to appropriate health facilities which are informed one week in advance about the patient ensuring that they are ready to handle the patient. Assured referral services help reducing the time to reach the facility. The health system becomes more accountable and the Government would always want their citizens to be happy and satisfied with the services provided. | The team is making the necessary changes in the existing HIHL system and has developed a plan of action for implementing this solution across Assam, and in other states - Himachal Pradesh and Sikkim. These states are also operating HIHL and outbound calling through Mother Child tracking System. Piramal Swasthya has rolled out an electronic medical record system for HIHL which helps in capturing detail information of the people calling for health information. Piramal Swasthya has a partnership with National Institute for Transforming India (NITI) to support the Aspirational Districts Transformation program in 25 districts across 7 states, and we have a tripartite MOU with Government of Assam to implement the SATH program (Sustainable Action for Transforming Human Capital) which includes strengthening data systems, improving high risk pregnancy tracking by linking the existing RCH data with the MCTS data from HIHL. The progress will be measured by tracking input, process and outcome indicators. Input measures would include the percentage of ASHAs calling to 104; Percentage of outbound calls to beneficiaries according to individual services. Percentage of pregnant women reaching the planned facilities for delivery. Time taken to reach the facilities for delivery, time taken to provide care after admission. On the beneficiary side, we will track the satisfaction scores, star ratings of service providers. Outcomes include reduction in maternal, neonatal and infant mortality. | The goals for the solution include - Saving lives of mothers, newborns, infants and children. The milestones include - launching the solution in a staggered manner in select districts in each state as planned. Implementing this solution will need appointment of Health advisory officers to receive the calls, medical officers to make outbound calls to high risk mothers, counsellors to provide counselling services. Quality assurance and quality improvement measures will be taken on a regular basis. The number of pregnancies registered in first trimester, pregnant women provided at least one ANC, three or more ANCs, full ANCs against estimated. The number of pregnant women provided assured referral services, delivered without complications, discharged after 72 hours, babies breastfed within one hour of delivery, PNC visits as per schedule, babies weighed after birth, LBW babies tracked, reduction in the number of obstetric complications, newborn complications, immunization coverage for individual vaccines, full immunization. We expect to impact the rural women and children in all districts implementing this solution. Based on the results of the solution in select districts / states, we expect the Government of India to scale this solution across the entire country ensuring tracking of all pregnant women and children from rural areas. | The resources needed are for developing the software which can connect the inbound calls to the outbound calls. The existing IT systems are independent of each other given that inbound calling is not linked to outbound calling. The other resources include human resources to run the HIHL centre. To implement this solution across the state of Assam our estimate is a 750 seat centre, which will require adequate space and the necessary hardware. Once the solution is developed, it will be easy to take this solution to any other state or country. | http://www.piramalswasthya.org/ https://psmri-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/ajit_sudke_piramalswasthya_org/EW5WwkBzzJ5BgYV4vW35dXYBSO2P1-9pktEtv0P8ksW_6g?e=IyzAeZ https://psmri-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/ajit_sudke_piramalswasthya_org/ER8HbiQZdlBIjEp5rmv4mPIBUdm5GurCG7usyP59b-ucUA?e=3dXJQ1 https://psmri-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/ajit_sudke_piramalswasthya_org/EUQkK8CvaXRHtCqhoBxCT5IBVn1ErVK8eNUrYGNfk4GlBw?e=RLLeBP https://psmri-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/ajit_sudke_piramalswasthya_org/Ec4-Ot9TFRxCpgmNgwSt6fYBCeO90rn4s_EwGXNpDONT6A?e=UUxT47 | https://youtu.be/IHn7fgjxhv8 My presentation at the Global PMNCH Partners Summit side event on Quality Equity and Dignity organised by WHO India, care India and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in Dec 2018 in New Delhi. https://youtu.be/Xi4S-FOGDQk Shot after the QED side event in the PMNCH Partners Forum New Delhi Dec 2018. https://youtu.be/MUfa7Qn51hw My speech in Assam on using technology for improving health outcomes. | NIL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
797 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joëlle | Lafeber | 3 Times Impact | https://vraagapp.nl/ | Implementation Manager | Female | Netherlands | Netherlands | English | Our innovation allows people who find society complex to move more freely in the world and to have more self-reliance and less stress. It can prevent costly societal problems such as debt, loneliness, depression and issues with the law. It also reduces costs of professional care takers and improves the quality of contact between people and their (professional) care givers. At the moment our innovation is mainly focused on Dutch citizens but we are scaling up and want to expand internationally. I am a member of Impact Hub Amsterdam and have found the catalytic qualities of a network of social entrepreneurs highly valuable and motivating. Both for developing our idea and for keeping the persistent mindset that is needed to pursue a social goal. I would love to participate in this event because while we at VraagApp want to accelerate and scale up our impact, we also want to contribute to other social projects and to be part of the community that is naturally formed when you work together on SDG goals. Our mission is first and foremost to improve quality of life and it would be an honor to be able to add something meaningful to other projects that try to accomplish this. | Joëlle has a deep interest in human thinking processes and in quality of life. She has a scientific background in cognitive science and in social work and combines that with her wish to develop innovative solutions for social impact. She uses her analytical and empathic outlook in implementing VraagApp in municipalities and care organizations, setting up pilots and doing user research. She is fully committed to creating as much self-reliance and self-worth with VraagApp as possible. | VraagApp (Question App) | VraagApp (Question App) increases self-reliance and quality of life by connecting people with questions to flexible volunteers | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Currently The Netherlands, intended to implement in Belgium and on longer term globally | Yes | LFB, ASVZ, Prisma, Amerpoort, MEE Amstel en Zaan, MEE Rotterdam Rijnmond, 's Heeren Loo, municapility of Amsterdam | Transition to Scale | VraagApp was developed using the lean start-up methodology and was launched in October 2017. Along the way, VraagApp was extensively tested by our target groups and numerous pilots have been conducted with new target groups. By now, VraagApp is a proven concept and is being adopted by municipalities (such as Amsterdam and Rotterdam) and 10 care organizations. 3 Times Impact is now focused on the improvement of implementation and on scaling through-out and across organizations and municipalities. | Many people with diminished resources or cognitive abilities experience the rapidly changing world as complex. They have a lot of questions, but often have a small network to rely on. This creates stress and avoidance, and unanswered questions sometimes lead to bigger problems. People with (minor) cognitive disabilities or other challenges run a severely increased risk for debt, crime, unemployment, isolation and low quality of life. | In this same world, where time is scarce, there are many people looking to do good. However, they don’t want to commit to certain hours or people. VraagApp is an easy to use mobile application that connects people with practical questions to flexible volunteers in a manner of minutes. “Questioners” can ask their question, anonymously and at all times, by typing it, recording it in speech, or by sending a photo. The question is sent in a notification to 5 “answerers” at the same time. If 3 minutes pass, the question is forwarded to 5 more answerers. The first answerer to accept the question is connected to the questioner in a chat conversation. All conversations are monitored by Team VraagApp for security and quality management. VraagApp's algorithm ensures that questions are always answered by volunteers who know the answer, have time to talk to the questioner, and are at that time motivated to help. Thereby, eliminating the worry of burdening the volunteer. VraagApp's vision is to increase self-reliance in groups of people with vulnerabilities, improving their opportunities and quality of life. Our research shows questioners feel like they are solving their issues themselves, even though they are in fact reaching out for help, allowing them to move more freely in a complex world. Simultaneously, VraagApp decreases the work-load of professionals and enhances the quality of contact between care giver/family member and questioner. | VraagApp is unique because it has a triple aim, VraagApp: 1.Increases self-reliance of people with vulnerabilities 2.Relieves care givers and professionals and improves quality of contact 3.Creates opportunity for flexible, non-demanding volunteer work With VraagApp, questions that otherwise often go unanswered, are answered by volunteers who are always free to choose whether they want to help at that moment, and questions are always heard. This prevents costly complex problems because small questions can grow into bigger problems when they do not get attention. There are no comparable solutions that are as safe, privacy considerate, and low-cost as VraagApp. VraagApp has received a lot of positive attention and health care organizations and municipalities are implementing this innovation. The climate in The Netherlands is one that values citizen participation and inclusion highly and one that aims to focus on self-reliance and self-worth. However, it does not have enough modern solutions for people who struggle with it. VraagApp meets that demand and allows for many opportunities of collaboration and innovative ways of implementing the platform for more people in more places: VraagApp is highly scalable and is met with great enthusiasm in many different fields. | At the moment VraagApp is being used by the municipality of Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Soest, and by 10 care organisations. VraagApp has 485 volunteers who have answered 2732 questions by 964 questioners. The questioners rated those answers an average of 4.1 on a scale of 1-5. From over 220 interviews we have done with questioners and professionals we have learned that very often questioners experience a feeling of pride and self-dependence when they ask their question with VraagApp as opposed to asking their care giver or family member. A reduction in stress is also often reported. VraagApp is reviewed and evaluated by several commissions and follows the Lean start-up methodology. New developments are always reviewed by a privacy expert. Quantitative progress is measured monthly in 40 key performance indicators and yearly planning is in place. There is ongoing qualitative (user) research that measures the compatibility of the product to the demand of our target groups. A review system is in place so the questioners can rate and comment on the answers. At the moment the answers are rated an average of 4.1 on a scale from 1 to 5. The chat conversations are monitored twice a day for quality control and safety. | By 2023: -VraagApp is used by 80 municipalities in The Netherlands. We are currently working with the Vereniging Nederlanse Gemeenten (VNG: Society of Dutch Municipalities) to accomplish this. -VraagApp has been adopted into policies of care organizations and municipalities -VraagApp is expanded to other target audiences (such as new comers) -VraagApp is available in different languages (such as English, Arabic, French and Spanish) -VraagApp is available in 10 countries outside The Netherlands -VraagApp is collaborating with research organizations such as Applied University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam to improve impact and retention. Our network is currently expanding within these organizations -New question categories are introduced (such as “finance” and “work”) -“Super” volunteers are introduced with extra credentials (for example trained professionals in poverty relief or mental help professionals) -Technical developments have been implemented that make it possible for questioners to answer questions, and for answerers to ask questions -Impact on self-reliance and stress in questioners is structurally (and quantitively) measured with the app -VraagApp is approved for funding (VraagApp is already eligible for many different funds) -Technical developments have been done to increase retention and frequency -An in-house developer, marketing specialist, international relations professional, and a data scientist have been recruited | Short term -Financial aid to develop the platform into other languages -Community building with other projects that focus on inclusion, quality of life and poverty relief -Collaboration with research institutes that focus on measuring self-reliance and self-worth -Financial aid to develop new question categories Medium term -Network strengthening for recruiting new staff -Consultancy in expanding to different countries -Financial aid to perform technical updates (such as switching roles from questioner to answerer) -Financial aid to expand our team Long term -Network building in other countries | Company website: https://3timesimpact.nl/ Project website (Dutch): https://vraagapp.nl/ Project website (English page): https://vraagapp.nl/english/ VraagApp in 90 seconds video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRJXUL4eLL4 Collaboration with municipality of Amsterdam video (English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5716-2UvW4w LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/18249908/ Download link app stores: https://vraagapp.nl/download/ Review video questioner (in Dutch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqvpeynmqCI&t=3s Review video professional (in Dutch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEVYsfX7-QU&t=11s | There are not too many videos available of Joëlle’s speaking engagements. However, since the videos below, she has had a considerable amount of practice giving workshops, pitches and presentations. ASVZ innovation & inspiration conference 2018: https://youtu.be/plqaIwyI6bs ‘s HeerenLoo innovation conference 2019: https://youtu.be/QCD8ta1BMUM | - Dutch Interactive Award (winner) - Amsterdam City Fellowship (winner) - MKB Innovatie Top 100: top 100 most innovative companies in The Netherlands in 2018 (winner) - Omarmprijs Amsterdam: poverty reduction (winner) - E-health4All prize: most accessible E-health application (winner) - Dutch Privacy Award (finalist) - United Nations - World Summit Award: Inclusion and Empowerment (nominee) - Pier de Boer prijs (nominee - outcome announced end of September 2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
798 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tuija | Pakkanen | Planetary Architecture Research Studio Ltd | https://paras.design/ | Urban Analyst | Female | Finland | Finland | English | We have built the company Planetary Architecture Research Studio to rethink urban areas in sustainable way. Our concern lies on accelerating urbanization causing inequalities between people in urban areas in regarding of food, energy and safety. We built a company to research and design buildings and urban areas that can produce its own food and energy in sustainable manner and, hence, can bring equality and safety among people. In our company, I bring the substance in research and data analysis. The company has designed e.g. a factory for new food company SolarFoods. We are the winners of XPRIZE Visioneering 2018 contest in category ""How to feed the next 1B people"" with our solution of launching a competition in soilless food production technologies. Our aim was to accelerate new food technologies' development especially adaptable in urban areas. These technologies can be hydro-, aero- and aquaponic systems, insect and fish farming or biocellular technologies or combination of these. I am also a Singularity University Global Solution Program 2017 alumni. SU GSP is a world know education program in Silicon Valley for taming newest technologies to innovate solutions to world's grand challenges like climate change, world hunger or global biodiversity loss. University is created by Ray Kurtzweil and Peter Diamandis. In 2011 I graduated in development country geography dreaming of making the world a better place by development cooperation. My specialization is data analysis and geographic information systems. I ended up specializing my skill-set in the United States Forest Service making their data analysis in various field research projects, and for 2,5 years I used that knowledge as a technical adviser in Finland-Nepal funded National Forest Inventory project in Kathmandu. I was in responsible of building and teaching open source forest inventory systems for Nepal government officers so they would know how much and what kind of forest they have and what kind of climate impact their forest have globally. I lived in Kathmandu 2010-2013. With this application I see continuation in our development in soilless food technologies to be widely known among architects and designers. By participating the summit, we would take our innovation into next level by making it more know globally and finding possible partners and collaborators where to implement our idea further. | Tuija Pakkanen is geographer and analyst who handles data to make urban areas better places for people to live in. As an enthusiast of making the world a better place, she has years of experience working among data science from forest inventory to urban planning in various countries. In addition, she is a Singularity University Global Solution Program 2017 alumni and an XPRIZE Visioneering 2018 finalist. | Urban Food toolkit | Bringing food production in cities | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Finland | No | Research & Development | Our aim is to bring the ideology of sustainable food and energy production as solid part in the architectural process in urban areas. Therefore, we are in phase of proofing that our design works. Currently, we require a few destinations where the there is food and energy production implemented and data collection on using it, so we can proof that our toolkit works in practice. | The nitrogen and phosphor is running out in our fields. The humankind is over-consuming the use of these vital elements in keeping soil fertile and hence growing food. According to Stockholm Resilient Centre's publication, the biochemical loss of nitrogen and phosphor is in high risk of running out. It is classified as bigger problem than ocean acidification or climate change. Running out of fertile land will increase the possibility of increased local hunger, mass migration and political riots. | The solution, soilless urban food toolkit, is a set of technologies varied from hydro-, aero- and aquaponic systems to insect and fish farming or biocellular technologies should be implemented into every city by harnessing every empty space into food or energy production. Our solution comes out as as a manual, so that these food and energy production solutions can be implemented in different locations. Currently our food is brought from surrounding areas and sometimes even different continents, but in the future at least half of the food consumed in the city should be produced in of in certain vicinity of the urban area. This will increase the local food security and reduce transportation costs and CO2 emissions per produced food kg. In addition, transportation in the cities is changing is such way that cars will be on move all the time and there will be void parking space available in other land use purposes. These areas could be taken into various societal activity use but also food or energy production. When considered buildings, both built and planned, there are several other ways to transfer surfaces and building materials into food growing and energy capturing units. This is especially now possible when energy is getting exponentially cheaper and various laboratory food-tech is getting more and more available. | Currently the new, advanced food technologies are kept in laboratories and national food libraries. When energy gets cheaper, also these food production methods become more available to everyone -- not just researchers. No other party is implementing new food technologies as an integral part in urban planning or architecture. To obtain food security in cities in the future, new food technologies in a big scale must be implemented in urban areas. As the other solutions concentrate on hydroponics and green roof development, we want to urban farm the whole diet (2000-2500kcal/person/day) with its all components (carbohydrates, proteins and fat including sufficient amount of vitamins and trace elements). Therefore we have encountered that to become sustainable, green roofs are not enough anymore but instead, we need to bring advanced food production methods especially focusing on energy consuming protein production. New, advanced, and innovative protein production technologies has been developed only lately, and it has never been expanded into urban scale before. | We have started a company around this ideology. Under a architecture competition arranged in Helsinki, we have planned an city center old hospital area with as green and noise reductive, energy and food productive housing with top floor bike path. We have also made initial sketch plans and have an order to make detailed plan for artificial protein factory that plans to make edible protein using massive bioreactors and soil microbes as their technology and air (CO2) as their resource. (Please see https://solarfoods.fi/) We measure our success by including sustainable food and energy production methods in most of our design. Our aim is to have at least 75% of all our designs having food and energy production component included. We also are aiming to close a deal for a whole building block in Jätkäsaari area, Helsinki, where we are able to examine various food and energy production methods and how to build a house in respect of circular economy values. | First goal is to get Jätkäsaari, Helsinki housing block (or other big housing block) into planning phase and have it planned in sustainable manner using recycled / recyclable materials and have food and energy production integrated in its structure. The building will be made to collect user information and the data will be used into enhance the existing building solution but also to enhance the plan for the next plan. After having 1-2 houses' systems integrated, in use and tested, we will have a toolkit of new food smart technologies. The toolkit will be made available to all planners them to implement it to any new house. The aim is to make a toolkit to everyone to apply in their buildings in planning phase as well as in already-built buildings. First case study will be carried out in 2020-2025 and the following ones starting in 2022/2023. The toolkit will be carried out during the first phase but it will be updated according to the data collected from the second phase. | In current phase when entering the pilot case study, we need funding for research and designing (250 000 e) and (2 full-time architects). Second phase, when implementing the plan, we need funding for the establishment. The building we are applying now is collecting funding and the approximately costs of the building is 15 million euros, of which most of it is loans and investments. In building phase we need construction company, investors, and the whole management team in addition to permissions to realize all the aims that we have planned. | The idea of starting developing soilless food technologies started with the competition, but now we are in phase of making the first pilot project in an actual building. XPRIZE Visioneering looks for problem definition that has power to start new business around a certain subject. https://paras.design/soilless-agriculture/ XPRIZE Visioneering 2018 challenge semi-final video: https://youtu.be/66IqVlb5eAI | WSP Urban Analyst presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDDOLWaeUcc Talk The Talk public speaking challenge finalist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wokaj3zNNL4 Voice-over in Soilless challenge video: https://youtu.be/66IqVlb5eAI | ""Future Service Station"" idea and concept competition, Tuusula Finland, 1st prize winner 2019 XPRIZE Visioneering ""How to feed the next 1B people"" 1st prize winner 2018 Talk The Talk (SLUSH side kick program) public speaking contest finalist 2017 Singularity University ""Global Impact Challenge"" pitching contest, Finland, 2nd prize 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
799 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lauren | Roth Venu | 3Rwater | www.3r-water.com | CEO | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | 3Rwater is dedicated to provide climate change adaptation tools for communities, property owners, utilities and government agencies who are encountering flooding and water quality problems in urban areas associated with stormwater runoff. Currently there are a lack of tools available for communities and government agencies to address stormwater runoff in a meaningful way. Our innovative solution is the Follow the Drop mobile application (FtD) that identifies where and how much stormwater runoff is occurring and opportunities for runoff reduction. 3Rwater also serves as a data platform service for utilities and other agencies to track stormwater runoff and green infrastructure projects. In 2018, Follow the Drop was beta-tested and piloted in five schools with over 350 students in Hawaii. Alongside the app a 12-lesson plan, design-thinking Follow the Drop curriculum was created for students to learn about sustainable water management, water infrastructure and its vulnerabilities to support student-led projects on their campus to build resiliency. We are currently seeking partnerships with utilities and government agencies for Follow the Drop to have the most impact and widest reach into communities worldwide. We believe the UN Solutions Summit would allow us to introduce our solution and provide the platform to forge partnerships to support meeting the goal of building resiliency in communities who are impacted by flooding and water quality issues caused by stormwater. | Lauren Roth Venu is the Founder and CEO of 3Rwater and inventor of the Follow the Drop mobile application. She is also the Founder and President of Roth Ecological Design Int. LLC, a strategic water planning and design firm with a focus on integrated water resource management and green infrastructure. She is considered an innovation leader in climate resiliency and water security planning, and the design, installation and operations and maintenance of green infrastructure systems. Her academic background is in the water sciences and policy with a Bachelor of Arts in Water and Environmental Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Master of Science in Oceanography from the UH Manoa. She is also a fellow of the Water Environment Federation Leadership Program and the United Nations University /East- West Center’s ProSPER.net Leadership Program. Lauren was also recently certified by the Water Environment Federation as a National Green Infrastructure Certification Program Trainer. Lauren has participated in a numerous of public service and advisory roles for both the City and County of Honolulu and State of Hawaii supporting the development water security and resiliency policies. She is a frequent lecturer, invited TEDx speaker, and author over the topic of ecological design. Some of her accolades include an Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 awarded project and she was named top Forty Under Forty Business Leaders by Pacific Business News in 2014. | Follow the Drop mobile application | The Follow the Drop mobile application is a climate change adaption tool to address the impacts caused by stormwater runoff. | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Currently our solution was developed in the United States and New Zealand, however it was designed to be used and implemented throughout the globe. | Yes | State of Hawaii, Hawaii Community Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, Polynesian Vogaging Society, Kupu | Proof of Concept | The Follow the Drop mobile application was developed, beta tested and piloted in five schools in 2018. We currently have a working minimum viable product (MVP); however, we are finalizing our customer discovery to support our financial modeling to launch the Follow the Drop product and go-to-market. | Stormwater runoff is the leading cause of flooding and water quality pollution in waterways. Globally, over 21 million people are affected annually by flooding and the United States alone over $6 billion are spent on flood related repairs. Moreover, runoff causes water quality issues by conveying pollutants into waterbodies, as well as, overwhelming sanitary sewers that can overflow during wet weather conditions. Many communities lack the technological tools to address stormwater runoff. | Local governments in over nine countries are implementing stormwater utilities that place a fee on properties based on their stormwater runoff contribution. In the U.S. alone there are 2000+ stormwater utilities serving over 35 Million people. Follow the Drop mobile application (FtD) product serves to bridge the educational gap between these utilities and their customers, as well as, provide a data platform for utilities/government agencies interested to monitor stormwater runoff and green infrastructure projects in urban areas. FtD is a data collection and analysis tool used to identify and quantify where and how much stormwater runoff is being generated and supports the user to ideally size a rainwater harvesting tank or rain garden for their property to reduce their stormwater runoff. The app allows the user to congregate and compare data in multiple viewpoints (map, chart and list view), which allows FtD to also serve as decision tool to identify ideal locations for green infrastructure projects. FtD also includes an administrator viewpoint that is designed to be used by utilities/government agencies to view customer data, monitor runoff and prioritize funding towards community green infrastructure projects. We believe the impact of the FtD product could greatly support climate change preparedness and build resiliency in cities and their surrounding communities, impacted by stormwater runoff across the globe. | Follow the Drop (FtD) is the first mobile application serve both as an educational outreach tool to as well as provide Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) to utilities and government agencies. Currently we have not discovered any direct competitors or other products on the market that achieve what the FtD mobile app does in one program. The following are other mobile applications/software products identified that address stormwater runoff, but lack the unique features of FtD: 1.NDS Stormwater Drainage App: Similar features to FtD and is geared towards property owners. User must buy their store products. Not DaaS business model rather a mechanism for the user to buy the store’s products. 2.2ndNature: Provides DaaS to stormwater utilities for meeting Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System compliance in the U.S. It lacks a community use component and does not include green infrastructure. 3.RainGrid: Rain tank product that tracks stormwater captured. Only offers one product (their rain tank) as a solution. Significantly more capital and O&M costs to meet similar end goals. 4.Rainwater Harvesting Web Calculator: Developed by UNESCO -IHP AMCOW, this website serves to support communities to size their rain catchment tanks. Does not include data analysis or DaaS. We view this group as a potential partner. 5.Netamo and other rain sensors: Stores rainfall data in the cloud but does not calculate stormwater runoff. We view rain sensor companies as potential collaborators. | 3Rwater’s traction to date includes: 1.Received ~$85,000 grant from the State of Hawaii and Hawaii Community Foundation to develop the Follow the Drop mobile application into a minimum viable product (MVP). 2.Received ~$20,000 from the City and County of Honolulu to support the educational program. 3.Development of a 12-lesson plan design-thinking Follow the Drop curriculum. 4.Beta-tested and piloted the educational program and app in five of Hawaii’s schools with over 350 students. 5.Applied for a software copyright for the Follow the mobile application. 6.Developed a website and marketing materials. 7.Migrated our data management server to enable a global reach and prepare for storing large amounts of data. 8.Accepted into the Purple Mai’a Purple Prize Building Phase Cohort (2019). 9.Applied to Elemental Excelerator (in final round and awaiting acceptance response). 10.Initial engagement/customer discovery with potential utility customers including: City and County of Honolulu, Auckland City Council and Anglian Water (United Kingdom). 11.Presented the Follow the Drop app at conferences 12.Initial engagement with other resiliency leaders for potential partnerships. We measure our progress by setting near (0-1 year), mid (2-3 years), and longer range (> 4 years) goals and establishing key performance indictors (KPIs) to track our progress towards meeting these goals. | Our near-term goals are: 1.Complete the financial model for pricing of the Follow the Drop app (FtD) as well as the fee structure for the data, and Data-as-a-Service. 2.Developing a fundraising strategy. 3.Hire a software engineer to support the data management, app maintenance, and development of new app features. 4.Launch the FtD product and secure a contract with a utility that is prioritizing reducing stormwater runoff. We believe partnering with utilities would allow us to have the greatest impact. We envision the cost for using the FtD app to be integrated into the utility’s fee structure as part of their educational outreach efforts to their customers. The app would then been made for “free” to all of the utility’s customers. 3Rwater would also offer Data-as-a-Service to the utility to monitor stormwater runoff and prioritize green infrastructure project funding for the community. We have currently engaged with, and received interest from the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii (US), Auckland City Council (NZ), and Anglian Water (UK). In addition, over the next several months, we plan on meeting with the city of Houston and the city of New York, both of which are building resiliency in their cities following hurricane disasters that caused substantial damage. 5.Initiate partnerships with nonprofit organizations such that our contracts with utilities support the FtD curriculum in their schools and funding for student-led green infrastructure projects. | Resources needed to scale and have positive social impact: Near-term 1.Funding to support finalizing our financial modeling and marketing strategies. 2.Support salaries of the Founder to meet face to face with potential utility customers and sales partners. 3.Support salaries to hire a software engineer for data management, app maintenance and development of new software features. 4.Legal resources to support securing intellectual property. 5.Creating an advisory board. 6.Launching the product and securing a contract with a utility. Mid-term 1.Securing partnerships with nonprofit organizations and/or NGO’s for a give back program whereby the commercial purchase of the app allows the Follow the Drop app and curriculum to be free for educational use and provides funding for student-led green infrastructure projects. 2.Funding that supports the research and development of a compatible rain sensor to be sold with the Follow the Drop app and/or securing partnerships with existing rain sensor company. 3.Support identifying and securing win-win partnerships for sales and marketing that will help to accelerate Follow the Drop into new geographic areas and markets. 4.Hiring a CEO and diversifying the staff to support company growth. Long term 1.Partnerships/funding to improve product software features/development of new products that adapt to the customers’ needs, minimize churn rate, and improve the overall customer experience. 2.Resources for company acquisition. | Company Website: https://www.3r-water.com/ Trifold Brochure: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/105613_5ed9af68e64f40e98af6c8937debb216.pdf Educational Brochure: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/105613_da2ba4ff760a48689d9b07d2db76f90a.pdf Promo video: https://vimeo.com/344696805 Technology Demo: https://youtu.be/HRYaleUmcA4 | Think Tech Hawaii: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqib0v5G7Eo Tedx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqib0v5G7Eo | 1. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9 awarded project (Punawai) 2. Named ""Top Forty Under 40"" by Pacific Buisiness News 3. University of Hawaii West Oahu - Administration & Allied Health Facility, Kapolei, Hawaii, 2015 Award of Merit, American Institute of Architects Honolulu (AIA) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
800 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Denis Cadet | ST VIL | La Ferme Tropicale | www.lafermetropicale.farm | CEO | Male | Haiti | Haiti | English | French | Spanish | I am a young Haitian fighting for a better Haiti with zero hunger. The United Nation always is a non profit organisation always working with my country to help us to come over our problems. Minustah was a mission of the UN in Haiti to help us with insecurity. They helped also financing small project that can give work to a maximum of our people. It's not a secret for anyone that Haiti is the poorest country in America. So when i saw that the UN is asking for innovation, i was motivated because i always have many ideas that can help with the problems of my country and many others country around the world. By myself, i can not go far. But if i can share my ideas, my projects with the UN, they can help me to reach more country and help more people. My innovations are specially about agriculture and green energy. With a combination of those two, we can make many things. Only we have to mix them to have a cleaner and sustainable productio. I choose Agriculture because it can help us to reach the Zero Hunger objectif. With the agriculture, we can feed more people and animal. And we can also give work directly or not to many people. | My name is Denis Cadet ST VIL. I'm 30 years old. I was born in Haiti, Cap-Haitian an august 23 1989. When i graduated from college in 2010, i went to Dominican Republic to University. I studied Industrial ingeneering in a very good University named PUCMM (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra). That's why i speak fluent Spanish and French because in Haiti we learned in French. After that i work in a plastic company in Dominican Republic where they made plastic bag to export to haiti and other products. After that my parents where sick, i went back to haiti in 2017. And i started a small poultry farm because i saw all the difficulties for the peaple in haiti to get meat to eat. They had to import everything because we don't produce nothing. I didn't have much money, and we don't really have access to credit even when we have a start up. And after i expend also to produce eggs, and also i introduce the goat. And a Taiwan Construction Company OECC (Overseas Ingeneering Construction Company) recruit me to be their translator because they speak english. And since then I'm working with them and i use the money to expend the farm. | Smart Bin | It's a project of 1 smart bin per home. This bin is a biodigestor (cleaner production)It will transform our waste of food into biogas and fertilizer. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Haiti, Philippines and south America. | No | Proof of Concept | My solution is at the proof of concept stage of innovation because actually some peaple are using this solution in very big farm to transform excrement into energy and fertilizer. But they can also expand this one to small scale to transform waste into energy in every home. It will be like a recycle bin in every house. They wilk throw their waste of food and after this one will be changed into biogas so they can cook their food. After that they will use the discompound waste as fertilizer. | There are many problems in my country that my solution is adressing. Most of the people are cutting the trees to cook their food. In Haiti, we don't have enough junk truck collector to take the food waste. So all the people will throw them to the sea or in the middle of the street. Haiti in a country essentially agricole but we can't produce because the cost of the fertilizer is too high. People are too poor and can't afford to buy propan gas to cook their food. Cleaner production. | This is a solution of cleaner production where all the waste of food in every house will be throw into a kind of recycle bin. This one will be a small biodigestor. You put cow manure in one end and get out usable cooking gas and organic fertilizer. The odorless gas is piped into the kitchen where it can be burned for 4-5hrs a day, replacing the need to collect firewood. The liquid fertilizer is rich in nutrients to boost crop production. And, the patio is no longer littered with cow manure. Biodigestors are relatively simple to construct and made with cheap local materials. So all the waste of food will be used. This one will help to protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. After this transformation, we will be able to use the biogas to cook our food. And the fertilizer to grow crop. Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. | They usually use very big biodigestor in big farm to use the excrement of porc to make biogas. But we can also use small biodigestor as a bin to turn our food waste into biogas and use this biogas to cook our food again and repeat the process. It can be very helpfull because in my country people invest a lot of money to buy wood carbon everyday to cook, some of them can afford propan gas. According to a study, peaple waste at least 2 liters of food every day. So this smart bin would help them to apply the cleaner production and get biogas from those same waste of food to cook again. They wouldn't cut the three again to cook. But they would use the fertilizer from this smart bin to grow crop and plant more trees to protect the environment. | We have a chicken farm. We have also laying eggs chicken. Before, we started to use the chicken manure as fertilizer and we started also to grow peanut and we sell with a company named Acceso. And after we introduces goat and porc. But we had only small quantity. So we couldn't afford a big biodigestor. That's why we fabricated a small one. And we saw that it was working perfectly. And one day i was observing the quatity of food that we are throwing to garbage every day and then came the idea to use one biodigestor in my house so we can benefit from our waste. | I would start in Haiti because this is the most needed country. We would make the fabrication as cheapest as possible so every family can afford one smart bin. | For this one, the most expensive is the plastix container we will use as the bin. And after that, tire tube and other small accessories. In the beginning, we would provide to places when they have many waste of food like restaurants, school, public and private institution. And after we would expend to home. | https://www.lafermetropicale.farm https://youtu.be/d3o_elkOgUQ https://youtu.be/fDw2IoPxY9k https://youtu.be/mWefbc1spd0 https://youtu.be/YRu2Hsdfoj0 https://youtu.be/eB-ifas5x98 | I don't have. | I don't have. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
801 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Emmanuel | Owobu | MOBicure | http://mobicure.biz/ | Cofounder | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am extremely excited about the prospects of being part of a network of young global leaders. The UN Solutions Summit program brings together a network of carefully selected social entrepreneurs, policy makers, stakeholders, diplomats and mentors from different socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. This creates a unique opportunity to interact and exchange ideas that could prove potentially vital to the growth of my organisation and in extension my community. Also, the program provides the opportunity to speak with top decision makers, enabling me to be able to extend my voice to global development through their influence. The growth of information and communication technology and in extension ehealth, has seen new innovations in solving the global health challenge. Being an expert and leader in global health with a focus on ehealth and mhealth for global development and universal health coverage, I have the I have developed and supported discussions on policies on universal health coverage as well as use of mobile technology in other areas of public interest and social good. I will bring over 6 years’ experience of building digital health solutions in low resource settings as a well as the knowledge through my Commonwealth supported Masters in Global eHealth at University of Edinburg to the program. My objective for the program is to build networks which would help to develop practical solutions for my community, as well as lend valuable knowledge to the global community through policy development. | Dr Owobu Emmanuel is a medical doctor, social entrepreneur and mobile health enthusiast with passion in public health, social entrepreneurship, ehealth and ICT4D. He is currently the cofounder of MOBicure developers of multi award winning mobile platforms; OMOMI and myPaddi. His work in improving access to maternal and child health as well as sexual and reproductive health rights in developing countries through his organisation has seen him impacted over 60,000 lives in the last 5 years of implementing these solutions. His passion for universal health coverage has seen him continually seek new strides. He is currently a Commonwealth scholar, studying Global eHealth at the prestigious University of Edinburgh. He has won multiple awards including Social Innovator award from LEAP Africa. He is also a Commonwealth youth finalist awardee and a MAKE-IT 2019 Fellow. In his early career, he along with his team won the UN Online volunteers award with the Delta women organisation. His is particularly interested in solving health problems in communities using ICT. A lover of new technologies and innovative trends as well as always seeking to improve. He is a big fan of The Big Bang Theory and Silicon Valley, two T.V shows that help relax and educate him. | myPaddi | myPaddi is A.I an powered mobile platform that provides young people with anonymous access to accurate information on sexual and reproductive health | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Nigeria | Yes | United Nations Africa Development Foundation | Transition to Scale | We launched in July of 2018 and have reached 15,000 people as of July 2019. We currently have about 2,500 monthly active users and have had over 1000 paying customers. We are ready for more funds to reach more people and are actively seeking partners. | Nigeria accounts for about 14% of the global burden of maternal mortality and young girls bear the greatest share of this burden. This is largely because every year, almost one million teenage girls become pregnant in Nigeria and most of these pregnancies are unwanted and the result is the prevailing sexual abuse that occurs in one out of every four girls in Nigeria. Furthermore, 3.1million Nigerians are infected with HIV, and young people aged 15-24 years account for 40% of all new infections. | myPaddi (meaning ‘my confidant’) is a bottom-up, innovative intervention to rewrite the existing narratives. myPaddi is a platform consisting of a mobile and web app that at the touch of a button provides young people with anonymous access to accurate information on sexual and reproductive health, with emphasis on prevention and management of sexual abuse, teenage pregnancy & HIV/STDs, as well as providing them access to trained counselors and medical personnel. In addition, myPaddi has an open COMMUNITY where young people across Nigeria can anonymously interact with one another, & with trained counselors and doctors, plus get real-time guidance on sexual abuse, contraceptive usage, and HIV/STDs prevention. The aim here is to deploy myPaddi as a tool for behavior change modification through gamification, positive reinforcement, and access to health information. Knowing that people would make better decisions when armed with accurate information(United Nations Population Fund, 2008), it is our objective to deploy this tool to empower young people to take charge of their future while gradually reversing existing negative stereotypes. Access to youth friendly health services is vital for ensuring sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and well-being of adolescents(Denno et al., 2015). | •Cost effective: To use the platform is free. We also reward active users with coins which they can use to chat privately with doctors and counsellors. Also, less active users can purchase coins for as little as $1 to chat with a doctor or counsellor. Compared to other similar platforms, the private chats either aren’t available or are done physically. Although “heart to heart” centres are free, these centres are sparsely available or totally unavailable in many communities •Gamified: In other to keep young people engaged, we have gamified the app usage. Here users are rewarded with coins, leader board points etc based on app usage. Coins are used to upgrade levels and pay for private chat a doc service. •Behaviour Modification: With increased engagement and activities on the app, young people are exposed better sexual and reproductive health information which potentially helps with behaviour modification. Also, gamification and a reward-based system creates a positive feedback for behaviour modification. •Anonymity: The uniqueness of myPaddi is the anonymity within our social component that ensures that our users are constantly engaged with freedom and no judgement. Our online community enables our users interact securely, anonymously with one another thus keeping them constantly engaged. Topics from sexual violence, contraceptive usage, STDs, HIV, personal relationship experiences etc are being discussed daily while being moderated by doctors and counsellors. | Our impact on users is on behaviour change and access. We currently have reached over 15,000 young people directly via our mobile apps. Although we have not done an assessment to measure these impacts, however our plans for measuring impact includes either or both methods. Some of the common metrics are lives impacted, and geographic coverage. A simple impact assessment measurement that takes a quantitative and qualitative methodology. Here attitude and perception will be measured while gaining insights from users to understand their usage of the platform. Also, we are measuring the impact on behaviour change and access to health information as well as improvement in sexual health. In other to achieve this, we will align our theory of change into the impact assessment model and set goals achievable goals and measure metrics. We are also looking to use an adapted and simplified form of the Technology Acceptance model (TAM) to measure behaviour change, usage and acceptance of our solution by young people. The TAM model also fits well into our research tools of qualitative and quantitative method of data collection. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) will measure the why, when and where of user’s attitude, perception and adoption of the solution. The TAM model is a highly advanced model that provides insights into the key metrics to be measured. This method has a standard questionnaire that can be adapted for an impact assessment measurement. | Current lives reached: 15,000 Projected lives reach in 12 months: 50,000 Projected lives reached in 48 months: 250,000 New Technology lunch 6months: myPaddi for low end smartphone (a .mobi site) 12months: myPaddi A.I for improving behavior change 24months: myPaddi chatbot powered by A.i | We are championing a movement and young people are already showing they believe in us as evidenced by the rapid growth. As we grow, we plan to seek a hybrid of private and public partnerships. These partners will be from privately owned organisations, non-profits, international NGOSs like UNAIDS, UNFPA, PEPFAR and government bodies like The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA)etc. These provide both the basis for operational and financial growth. For example, networks international organisations like UNAIDS, UNFPA can provide mentoring and partnership support in building sexual and reproductive health solutions at scale. Another example is partnership with private organisations like MTV Base, which airs a sexual and reproductive program, Shuga. A partnership with this program has the potential to be mutually beneficial to both parties, as both parties seek larger audience. Similarly, another great partnership will be with Operamini, easily Nigeria’s biggest mobile web browsers, being used by over 50% of Nigerian internet users on mobile. This will greatly increase user base and revenue as well as provide as reduce cost of marketing and onboarding new users. In general, these kinds of partnerships are key for the overall operational and financial growth of myPaddi. We will reach large number of users faster, provide cheaper access to healthcare and in a cost-effective manner as well as provide strong sexual and reproductive health using a gamified solution | http://mobicure.biz/ https://makingprosperity.com/solutions-details/mypaddi https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobicure.mypaddi&hl=en | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4qreREr4m8 https://youtu.be/1QlA2oK5osQ | Top 30 Finalists WHOAfrica Health Tech - 2019 Apps Africa Award - Finalist, 2018 LEAP Africa SIP Award Winner 2017 Dubai Expo 2020 Winners 2017 UN Online Volunteer of the year award 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
802 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Azure | Grimes | Libraries Without Borders | https://www.librarieswithoutborders.us/ | Project Coordintator | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Positive global impact require dynamic solutions to complex issues. I'm extremely interested in meeting fellow change makers and hope to be a part of a wonderful movement towards it! | Azure Grimes is a Baltimore native and the Project Coordinator for the Wash and Learn Initiative (WALI), a program with Libraries Without Borders that will advance digital equity by transforming laundromats across Baltimore into pop-up libraries. Azure is passionate about racial equity, specifically with dismantling anti-black policies. | Wash and Learn Initiative (WALI) | Libraries in Laundromats - Literacy and Digital Resources Meet People Where They Are | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | USA | Yes | Public libraries (Enoch Pratt Free Library, Detroit Public Library), Robert W Deutsch Foundation, legal aid providers, other nonprofits, Media Democracy Fund | Transition to Scale | We are currently located in 8 states around the US and are evaluating what we have and identifying best practices to set up new WALI sites (i.e. San Antonio and Oakland) | The digital divide. While most Americans agree that “internet access is essential, and everyone needs it in the 21st century economy,” roughly 30% of households across America lack broadband internet access. Even more concerning, many of those without access to the internet belong to minority groups in the US. In fact, 46% of African American households, 50% of Hispanic households, and 55% of individuals 65 and older lack internet access. | The Wash and Learn Initiative (WALI) brings laptops and iPads into laundromats and providing laundromat patrons with formal training on digital literacy. Each laundromat incorporates children’s books and story-times run by librarians from Pratt. We also download curated educational resources and applications onto the digital technologies we provide at our WALI sites. Our organization is also concerned with improving access to legal and health information. In partnership with legal aid providers, local libraries, and nonprofits, we have curated, contextualized, and simplified legal resources to meet the needs of the communities we serve. With oversight from our Legal Literacy Advisory Board, we provide these communities with a steady stream of relevant and reliable legal information. In addition, we partner with local legal and health-focused nonprofits in areas around our WALI sites. These organizations then come into the laundromats and, with the help of the digital technologies and books we provide, engage in formal learning sessions with the laundromat patrons. | There is a distinct difference between access and accessibility. Technically, most Americans have “access” to online resources that can improve their health, education and general quality of life if they own a computer, cell phone, or live near a library. However, without the relevant tools or skills, resources like quality legal aid and medical knowledge are out of reach of many Americans, particularly the lowest-income. Some are simply unaware of its existence; some lack the digital skills to find what they’re looking for; and others simply don’t have the time. Our program addresses the barriers that render these resources inaccessible for low-income Americans by meeting people where they are and delivering information in a format that is relevant to their everyday life. | We have established eighteen sites and counting so far, with the support of many local and federal actors. Our first evaluation, conducted by Dr. Susan Neuman from NYU, confirmed that our project enacts positive change. For example: - Laundromat clients have demonstrated a change in behavior inside the laundromat (e.g. from watching TV to completing a new session of a MOOC) while they are waiting for their laundry to wash and dry - Laundromat clients engage with community organizations and community programs with which they were previously unfamiliar - Librarians, library administrators, and local organizations have increased their capacity and garnered additional external support to design outreach programs As we transition to scale, we want to identify our best practices and areas of opportunity, so we’ve partnered with Inciter, a Baltimore consulting firm. Inciter will be conducting a year-long evaluation to determine the impact of facilitated digital literacy programming on laundromat users’ digital literacy skills versus self-guided independent learning; gather feedback, inform the improvement of the WALI program, and better understand how access to technology affects different community member groups. | Our goal is to spread awareness about the Wash and Learn Initiative. Our hope is to create a sustainable partnership between business owners, such as laundromat owners, and educational anchor institutions that can be replicated around the country and expand to communities that lack connectivity. With around 30,000 coin laundromats around the country, WALI provides a model that can have resources curated for that specific community. We hope to inspire communities across the country to find out of the box solutions to common issues. | When connecting folks to services, most important resource is the library or other educational anchor institution. Our project is not here to reinvent the wheel, we are here to expand the reach of services that already exist. The next resource is finding a laundromat in the area that has the space and the capacity to install tables, chairs, and educational materials like computers, iPads, and bookshelves. Short-term: Research local nonprofits or community groups that have existing programs available and find ways to reinforce what exists by providing the space for them to facilitate programs and a diverse population of people who may be interested in receiving those services. Explore local laundromats that may have managers and staff members who are already involved with the community. Medium-term: Evaluate existing work to examine the impact on laundromat patrons and set up new sites in other communities. Needs: Evaluation team, programming partners, laundromat owners, and funding to expand programs. Long-term: Once the project is sustainable, either a representative of the library or the laundromat manager will become the main coordinator of the project. By this stage, there should be a consistent programming schedule, a main source to obtain books and educational materials, and a contact to troubleshoot any potential technology issues. Needs: Coordinator from either the library or the laundromat and additional programming. | https://www.librarieswithoutborders.us/wash-learn-initiative https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bf406caa2772c50777ebf07/t/5d09267f0310f600010578c6/1560880778853/Libraries+Without+Borders+Impact.pdf https://www.librarieswithoutborders.us/partners | https://technical.ly/baltimore/2019/06/11/wash-learn-initiative-digital-access-at-baltimore-laundromats-libraries-without-borders/ https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-laundromat-libraries-20190610-story.html https://www.wbal.com/article/402007/180/wash-learn-in-baltimore-opportunity-to-get-more-citizens-connected | Library of Congress Literacy Awards International Prize recipient in 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
803 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Johanes Koku | Nyagblordzro | Center for Africa Development and Progress | https://africaprogressblog.wordpress.com/ | Executive Chairman | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | The Organization is a known campaigner for peaceful and transparent elections, and a key participant in civil society activities in advocating for a transparent election processes. The Center for Africa Progress and Development held regular seminars on many topics - ""FOCUS ON SUCCESS"" for politician and other stakeholders during the processes for the year 2008, 2012 and 2016 elections in Ghana. CADeP have also been engaging in philanthropic activities especially in the education sector, free distribution of school materials (books and assorted items) and orientation at some deprived schools in Ghana. | Johanes is an ardent advocate for a Change of Culture in leadership and youth development. He calls for redefinition of Education in Africa, and also a promoter of entrepreneurship. He has strong views on how development can be accelerated in underdeveloped countries, and he provides advisory services to government and State institutions. He has represented his organization on many forums in Ghana and presented the organization’s stance on local, national and international issues. Mr. Nyagblordzro contributes ideas at discussion programs and occasionally grants interview to national newspapers. He is a Ghanaian, was born 60 years ago. Johanes Koku Nyagblordzro had his Executive Leadership training at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). | Redefine Education In Africa | Education has failed Africans and affecting Leadership.African education is for survival.Skills and knowledge are taught in schools but without values | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | The whole African Continent and its environs | No | Research & Development | Upon the realization of how Ghana and Africa’s quest for development had been derailed and undermined by corruption and lack of transparency, and there was an urgent need to raise public awareness on these tendencies and the concomitant effects on progress .The goal is to show the path to eliminating backwardness through education. | The attempts of Center for Africa Development and Progress (CADeP) is to improve quality of education with the firm believe that a well-educated people would eventually embrace the tenets of good governance and practice same. Redefinition of education will affect leadership | The Center for Africa Development and Progress as an advocacy group for good governance practices in Africa, and promoter of quality education and African innovation. CADeP held its regular seminars with the topic: ""Focus On Success"" during 2008, 2012 and 2016 election years in Ghana and contributing to transparent and peaceful elections. CADeP also engages in philanthropic activities especially in the education sector. | One of the policy objectives of CADeP program after the realization of where Africa fall short, is to strengthen citizens of Africa on their democratic freedoms and to deepen its relationship with other advance democratic jurisdictions to support development in Africa. The objective was development based on a thoughtful consideration that Africa’s functional capacity is relatively weak; particularly its capacity to raise awareness. To ensure better understanding on the different factors, aspects, processes and key institutions that exist within and make up the UN Solutions Summit. Such an understanding will impact on our capacity in areas of governance and be able to apply acceptable standards in our operations. | The Center for Africa Development and Progress over the years has built capacity in identifying some loopholes and weaknesses in education curricula and proffering remedies to improving education in line with the Millennium Development Goals and to make education more meaningful in the lives of Africans. CADeP is a campaigner for development paradigm shift with the focus on building quality leadership as a pathway to true economic, social, political progress. | Our efforts to strengthen citizens of Africa on their democratic freedoms and to deepen its relationship with other advance democratic jurisdictions which will enhance the development in Africa, CADeP's aim is to be represented all over Africa. As an educational institute, CADeP is dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free Africa that ensures opportunity for all as well as providing public education especially for the young on the essentials of progress and Africa civilization. | As part of the ongoing efforts to build and enrich our technical know-how and experience to educate the society, the organization requests the opportunity to partake in the UN Solutions Summit 2019. Knowledge acquisition is crucial and where better to acquire such knowledge and experience than on a platform that brings together experts and policy makers- The UN Solutions Summit capacity building workshop. CADeP needed strategic partnership and supports from all well wishers to enable us achieve the aim of Africa development and progress. CADeP will also provide a critical assessment of the impact of UN Solutions Summit on African countries. | https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&channel=crow&q=Johanes+Koku+Nyagblordzro https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&channel=crow&q=Johanes+Nyagblordzro | http://www.aidforum.org/media-center/interviews/interview-johanes-koku-nyagblordzro-executive-chairman-of-cadep/#.WqFGEyzPF1o.facebook https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Put-Nation-First-Quantson-Appeals-To-Ghanaians-251869# | No awards yet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
804 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anna | Koukkides-Procopiou | AIPFE Cyprus-Women of Europe | www.aipfe.com | President | Female | Cyprus | Cyprus | English | As gender practitioner, both on professional and voluntary basis, I have always believed in creating impact in everything one does. Our responsibility and legacy as female leaders is to motivate and empower other women to be leaders, too. Practically, this is impossible in the absence of the provision of specific tool kits, as well as, personal/professional development support. Both are necessary to close the confidence and skills gap, which often prevents women from reaching decision-making positions. My work focuses on political and economic inclusion, as these operate on a mutually reinforcing basis. If,currently, we find few women leaders sitting around the table or even willing to bring gender issues to the table, in politics, business, the environment, technology, education, or in peace talks,the same situation will continue into the future. Change cannot happen unless we make it happen. Focusing on female leadership is the very embodiment of innovation, exactly because female leadership is still, unfortunately, rare, but yet a catalyst of change on many levels once it exists. A champion of female leadership in the last 20 years or so, my scope has always been global and I have often worked in UN-funded/related projects.Applying to be part of this summit seems a natural progression for the kind of work I am involved in and wish to expand and continue doing in the near future. Unfortunately, a global approach to female leadership seems to be lacking funding and resources, leading to an absence of linkages, knowledge and good practices transfer among women, who face similar problems, even if in a different context. This needs to be addressed. The global impact of my work can be found in the outreach of gender diversity and female leadership projects and working groups I have so far contributed to, as project manager and expert, including work under the auspices of the EU and the Union for the Mediterranean. I am currently a mentor with the UK Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, working on an economic empowerment project for victims of gender-based violence in India. I am also a member of Exxon Mobil's Global Women in Management and sit on the Executive Advisory Committee of the Women Economic Forum- an international network for women leaders On another note, I have conducted training and research work for gender-based political and economic inclusion in conflict areas, such as my own country, Cyprus, but also Liberia, Moldova and Ukraine. | Anna Koukkides-Procopiou holds degrees in History and Economics from UCL,where she studied as the recipient of the UCL Cyprus Scholarship,an MSc in International Relations from the LSE and a certificate in Religion and Politics by the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. She trained as a professional Political Risk Analyst with Teneo Intelligence and holds an Executive Development Diploma (mini-MBA for professionals) from Cyprus International Institute of Management. She is a Senior Fellow and Member of the Advisory Board of the Center for European and International Affairs, University of Nicosia and a researcher with SeeD-Centre for Sustainable Peace and Democratic Development. Her work focusses on political and economic inclusion. An outspoken feminist and political analyst, she has written for the Economist, the Huffington Post, Modern Diplomacy, as well as Greek and Cypriot media. She acts as executive advisor and ‘thought leader’ to the European Commission Gender-SMART project, focusing on gender mainstreaming research and academic institutions in Europe and works as gender expert with the European Study in Industry Group team of data experts on the societal challenge of lack of women in STEM in Cyprus. She currently serves her third term as President of AIPFE Cyprus-Women of Europe, the local chapter of a pan-European NGO focusing on the political/economic empowerment of women. As an active member of civil society, she received the Iconic Women Changing the World award by the Women Economic Forum international summit in New Delhi (2017). | Mind the Gap | A project empowering female leaders and closing the gender gap | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Cyprus, intending to create a linkage of good practices and knowledge transfer in the Eastern Mediterranean region | No | Transition to Scale | The project is currently in its third cycle, known as Women Fit 4 Business. So far it has twice run as a local project, utilising 'skillanthropy' i.e. experts donating their time and expertise to our organisation plus private donations by EY and The Cyprus Institute of Marketing. It also ran on EU level through EU-funding:Cyprus, Estonia, Lithuania, Turkey, Spain, Germany, Poland. There is now need for a modified version of the project to go on regional scale, in the Eastern Mediterranean. | The Eastern Mediterranean is a troubled region, where political and economic inclusion is not at desirable levels. Acknowledging the inter-sectionalism of existing problems in a mostly conflict-ridden region, we still believe that the empowerment of working age women and the creation of a generation of female leaders through targeted training can initially aid sustainable and inclusive growth locally and finally, the creation of linkages of cooperation and thus, inclusive security regionally. | Mind the Gap will work under three pillars: a. Unlocking Female Leadership (targeted female leadership training, focusing on the idea that equal does not need to mean same and embracing a unique female leadership style, stemming from the concept of Centered Leadership i.e. Leading from Within. There will also be emphasis on developing emotional intelligence indicators and soft skills, such as negotiation skills, how to handle difficult conversations, giving/receiving feedback etc). This pillar will aim at closing the gender confidence gap. b. Financial Literacy, as a necessary tool to help close the Pay Gap, Savings Gap and Pension Gap, which women face plus help women acquire the necessary confidence when dealing with numbers and money, while becoming more employable c. Digital Literacy, as necessary precondition for the modern world, whether a an entrepreneur or employable worker, serving as a means towards the goal of economic and political inclusion, but also as a means to providing women with a voice in the social media and on the internet. The programme will be made up of modular learning building blocs under the three pillars, adjusted to Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Levels for each module. Participants will be assigned a mentor. What's more, there will be emphasis on the added value of creating and strengthening alumni bonds each year: they can then act as future ambassadors,mentors, advisors, selection/steering committee members, on a local/regional level. | The uniqueness of this project is that it takes a holistic approach to female leadership and gender diversity in decision-making positions. It aims to be a long term, sustainable and resilient programme rather than a project. There is a modular matrix approach,whereby the three learning pillars can be sub-divided in different modules,adjusting to different levels of ability.In each country where the project is implemented,the approach will rest on a common denominator of pillars and values,but emphasis will be placed on local needs. For example, in a glass ceiling,highly-skilled,highly-competitive working environment, emphasis could be placed on targeting middle-level managers and building their corporate leadership skills,whereas in other markets where female market participation levels are extremely low,other pillars could be given priority.In addition to this, what is unique to this project is its three-tier approach. Local women will start working in mono-communal groups, with the intensity/priority of each learning pillar to be decided upon prior local mapping. At regular intervals, these women will come in contact and work together in inter-communal, inter-sectional platforms, with other women in different communities in their own countries. (e.g. in Cyprus, Greek Cypriot women interacting with Turkish Cypriot women). Finally, the national platforms will regularly connect and interact with other national platforms across the region, while creating strong alumni ties. | As we have been running this programme for a number of years, we have been able to tinker its weaknesses and elaborate on its strengths. We have considered most new aspects of the curriculum and revised methodology plus we already have in place a pool of mentors, coaches and trainers, as well as experienced logistics/project management team members, to work with. Monitor and evaluating of previous programme cycle has been done internally, through use of 360 methodology, but, also, via EU evaluation processes, when the programme had run on EU funding. We believe that a number of prospective partners and current associates in a number of countries will commit to the project, once funding and endorsement are formally in place. | Planned goals: Pilot project to run in Cyprus, focusing on Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities (Start year 1, first six month period and run through year 2 and 3) Project to expand to countries with which Cyprus has already formed cooperation /regional hub links:Israel, Egypt, Greece, Jordan (start year 1, second six month period and run through year 2 and 3) Project to expand to additional countries in the region: Palestinian Authority, Lebanon, Turkey (Start through year 3) Funding will serve to pay for services of coaches/trainers+admin stuff plus additional management fee for AIPFE to run logistics and coordinate the project. Project Manager necessary. Mentors will not receive a fee. Each country participant groups to vary accordingly. An approximation could be: 2 teams of 20 running concurrently in each country for each year, graduating after an intensive six-month period and then, entering the pool of alumni. This will allow an exponential growth rate for Mind the Gap platform members. Tracking future career trajectory of each alumnus for 3 year period important for M&E purposes and measuring of effectiveness of this intervention. | Human resources in terms of training and logistics (including tadministration, technical, M&E and financial support) Technical support for online communication platform/forum and online modular learning (creation, update and maintenance) Creative design services Communication team for programme results dissemination and recruitment Translation/interpretation services Venues for on-site training. Travelling arrangements/funding will be necessary | http://aipfe.com/ https://womenfit4business.wordpress.com/?s=fit+ https://www.facebook.com/Women-Fit-for-Business-Cyprus-392777441082682/ https://www.facebook.com/women4business/ https://www.facebook.com/aipfecyprus/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZIWbfR_OFs (in English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYWbqNnCcTU (in Greek) | Iconic Women Changing the World award by the Women Economic Forum international summit in New Delhi (2017) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
805 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jared | Bainbridge | Dark Horse Technologies | www.darhorsetech.co.uk | Founder and CEO | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Australia | English | There are many different Agri-tech companies trying to do good in the space. With so much noise it can be difficult to ""break through"" even with a truly novel and compelling product. Being a part of the UN Solutions Summit gives Dark Horse Technologies the opportunity to show case our solution to an audience who will appreciate what we are trying to achieve. This will help us find the investors and partners we need to roll-out and scale globally. | I was always interested in food security as an issue. Prior to founding Dark Horse Technologies I worked at Deloitte. In the Sydney office I was in the Infrastructure Advisory team, which shaped my thinking on food security to consider it a largely policy/market structural issue which made it unprofitable for farmers to adopt new practices or sell their products to particular market segments. After I transferred to the London office I began automating functions for some of the worlds largest banks. Seeing the clear benefit of automation to banks made me consider whether automating and adding intelligence to agricultural practices could be the solution which enabled farmers to profitably sell to market segments they otherwise would not. I envisioned that this would be achieved by increasing farmers profits through: increased yield and decreasing cost per tonne to produce. The increased profit margin would enable farmers to sell to less profitable market segments. I founded Dark Horse Technologies and pursued the development religiously during my MBA at Oxford University. I recruited a robust and dedicated team and we secured pre-seed investment earlier in the year which has funded the development of our IP. We are almost ready to begin selling our solution more widely. | Canopy | Every farmers' experience in the palm of your hand. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Currently Implemented: United Kingdom, United States. Intended for Implementation: EU, Australia, Tanzania, Nigeria. | No | Research & Development | We are already working with farmers in both the UK (Oxford and surrounding areas) and Texas, have raised pre-seed capital, and have begun building our envisioned MVP solution. Whilst the Yield Predictor is essentially complete and being tested in the field, the disease diagnosis engine is still in development. | By 2050 agricultural output must increase 70% to ensure inclusive global food insecurity with an ageing global population and no increases in the amount of farm land... Crop production must become more efficient. Farmers lose on average 30% of each crop before it leaves the farm due to disease, pests and weeds. DHT has developed a better yield predictor and crop loss diagnosis engine which diagnoses the specific cause of crop loss; as in specifically: what pests, what weeds, what disease. | How does the solution work: Step 1: A farmer flies a drone over their field. Any drone, Dark Horse Technologies software is hardware-agnostic, making it cheap, versatile and able to be offered widely. (We offer auto-pilot as part of the solution helping to ensure the farmers safety, quality control, and removes the need for UAV flight certification for the farmer to use the drone). Step 2: After the mission, the farmer uploads the captured images to Canopy. Step 3: The images are stitched together to provide a map of the field, they are analysed to predict yield and examined for signs of diseases, pests and weeds. Step 4: Should any signs of diseases, pests and weeds be found the solution will diagnose the specific cause based on the image output. Step 5: A report with Dark Horse Technologies findings is emailed to the farmer along with suggested solutions. Long-term vision: We continue to improve the technology to the point we can operate in remote locations with minimal internet or electric infrastructure. Likely going to means 'Intelligent Drones as a service', where a drone will fly from a bay station where the drones are maintained, to the farm, a survey is conducted before the drone returns to the bay station. The data would then be uploaded to Dark Horse Technologies solution as usual and a report emailed (or texted) to the farmer. | Dark Horse Technologies solution is unique because: 1 - Yield Predictor: Dark Horse Technologies' can count and size the individual kernels of wheat from drone gathered images. This takes the guess work and assumptions out of yield prediction and instead directly measures expected yield. All other crop yield predictors only measure yield indirectly by measuring the relative health or ""green-ness"" of a crop, then applying a broad assumption of how correlated leaf health or ""green-ness"" is to crop yield. There are several issues with this approach, one being the rather large margin of error; and the other being the potential for other plants (e.g. weeds which are very green in colour) being included in the calculation. Additional challenges with the ""correlated colour prediction"" method are that it is less helpful for crops which change colour during the growing cycle (e.g. wheat). 2 - Disease Diagnosis Engine: Dark Horse Technologies' solution is able to diagnose the specific cause of crop loss, as in specifically: What pests? What weeds? What Diseases? are affecting a crop, from drone gathered images. No other crop health analysis engine does true disease diagnosis. Every other platform that claims to be diagnosing crop loss events is either: 1: Correlating input data at scale to make a ""best guess"" as to what is affecting a particular crop, or 2: Involves taking physical samples of the affected crop, making it a non-scalable solution. | As we are heavy in R&D we measure the completion of our goals based on the successful completion of code and testing of our products. 1: The yield predictor: Code is built and is currently being tested in the field. 2: Disease diagnosis engine: Code is being built - anticipate in-field testing in September. | New Markets: Initial roll-out is planned for the US, UK, EU and Australia. These profitable customers will enable us to develop services for more difficult markets, such as Asia, Africa and South America. Staff: Need a global sales team; R&D to be centered in the US (likely Austin, Texas). Lives impacted: Eventually, millions if not billions of lives. | Short-term: Seed Investment, the right partners initial roll-out in different markets (US, EU, LATAM, ASIA, AFRICA). Initial target customers are large commercial scale farming operations. Medium-term: Dark Horse Technologies being able to offer a suite of combined software and hardware solutions capable of serving farmers of almost any scale in any location. Some markets will be more willing and able to accept this service sooner, they will be identified and targeted. Long-term: Global reach, billions of lives positively impacted through cheaper, healthier, more abundant and sustainable sources of food. Large company capable of giving back and investing in local communities. | About us: http://darkhorsetech.co.uk/about-us/ | None yet. | None yet. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
806 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Emmanuel | Kateregga | SafePal/Outbox | www.safepal.co | Communications officer | male | Uganda | Uganda | English | I have served as a peer educator for the last 5 years in rural Uganda where see many young people facing different challenges in their day to day life. In one of the organisations I volunteer with (Reach a hand Uganda) I was so moved by their slogan that goes ""young people for young people."" It is through this work that me and colleagues managed to co-create and designed SafePal a platform for confidential reporting of sexual and gender based violence that links victims or survivors to service support centers for assistance.. | I am a 24 year old Uganda development practitioner advocating for the Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights for young people with my primary interest/major in Sexual and gender based violence access to youth friendly services and accurate information. Through public dialogues and community engagements with different stakeholders support fellow young people build positive mindsets and ensure that they are responsible human who are zero tolerant to human rights violation especially rights that are aimed at Gender mainstreaming. | SafePal | Confidentially report incidents of sexual violence and get linked to the nearest service providers for help | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | East Africa(Uganda), Somalia | Yes | Action Aid Uganda, Reproductive Health Uganda, FIDA, Reach a Hand Uganda, Naguru Teenage and Information center, Ministry of Gender,labor and social development, Ministry of Education and Sports, Outbox | Transition to Scale | We have registered success in Kampala district the capital of Uganda in the central region and we are trying to replicate/scale SafePal to the West-Nile region of Uganda where we want to learn more since connectivity in this region is not as good as is in Kampala. We want to also innovated other tools for reporting under the SafePal platform that may not be mobile or web based. This makes me think we are progressing to scaling thus the selection of the stage above. | Discrimination against women & girls, gender based violence and harmful practices severely affect women and girl’s health. Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a human rights violation ,abuse and a public health challenge. It's also a barrier to civic, social, political, and economic participation. GBV remains under reported due to stigma around reporting GBV, people not trusting the existing reporting systems. SafePsl comes to rebuild & strengthen confidentiality reporting in the GBV reporting space | SafePal is a platform that young people can use to confidentially report cases of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and get linked to the nearest service providers for help. Service providers include health centers, psycho-social support and legal aid and mediation, Judiciary, (GBV) safe shelters, police and district local government. Through mobile and web applications survivors or their friends are able to report cases of abuse confidentially into the system. The system further provides a dashboard through which service providers can view survivors who have reported and require assistance. SafePal also allows stakeholders like Government and service providers have access to real-time Gender Based Violence data and analytics provided through an Artificial-Intelligence-powered dashboard. This helps provide statistical trends from the data recorded as trends e.g. the number of reports from females’ vs male survivors. SafePal has built linkages to integrate with the interventions in the country (Uganda) like Sauti 116 which is the national Child call center. SafePal will continuously work with different partners within and out of Uganda to extend services to different people globally and bridge the time gap between reporting a case and receiving a service. | With SafePal, one of the most unique feature is confidential reporting where we do not capture the identity of the person reporting until the case is accelerated to a stage where identity is required to capture evidence. The system receives a case and generates a unique code which acts as the reporter's identity in the whole system so that the real identity like name and picture are not revealed. There has not been any mobile and web based reporting platforms in the country, Safepal is still the first and currently the only online reporting tool for GBV as opposed to other approaches which are call centers and paper-based reporting tools. | The team has manged to build a functional SafePal system and rolled it out to the target population in Kampala district which has resulted to increased reporting and access to services of sexual and gender based violence. SafePal has also been integrated with already existing approaches in the space and made more partnerships with different stakeholders. We measure progress of the solution through a dedicated dashboard that captures different data on cases reported and handled by our partner civil society organisations and government agencies. We also track our downloads and users from google play developer's console and capture the trends. We also use registration forms to register the number of people we have reached with information about GBV in our awareness campaigns. | We continue to explore as many features as possible in-line with cofidential reporting for sexual and gender based violence. By year 2022 we want to have expanded to SafePal to all the 5regions of Uganda and also piloting the feasibility of the innovation in Kenya and Somalia. Before the year Ends, we want SafePal to cover about 15districts in Uganda and handling more that 1000 cases of GBV in the country. With the ongoing scaling to West Nile, we want to co-create morw platforms under SafePal that help young people without access to smartphones and xomputerst be able to report and be referred using low-tech tools since this region ranks relatively low in connectivity and tech penetration. We are also in talks with the Office of the prime minister and UNHCR to penetration the refugee settlements and help more young people with in these camps that are affected by GBV and are most vulnerable. | Technical expertise in spaces of e-health innovations and GBV and humatarian. We need more partner CSO and government partners that are key players in GBV case management to broaden the base of service providers on the platform offering comprehensive GBV management. We need funds to continue support system maintenance, development, and operational costs for the SafePal team. Partnerships with telecom companies to ensure the innovation is given free access to it's audience since majority of the target population are unemployed therefore making SafePal costing data charges to access will limit young people access to it. | https://www.safepal.co https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unfpa.safepal https://www.girlsglobe.org/2017/09/04/meet-safepal-innovative-app-designed-young-ugandans/ https://wd2019.org/appy-hour/ https://earthr.org/challenge/how-can-sexual-and-reproductive-health-education-and-services-be-made-more-accessible-for-young-people-5b2e9188c591f | https://youtu.be/ZDkHzJtL0jk https://youtu.be/glmM6MvGP58 https://youtu.be/5r6WTXaIZss https://youtu.be/gsc4GFclaWQ https://youtu.be/WrRHUsOoQng | Reach a hand Uganda Peer Educators Academy innovation award 2016. Honourable mention at the Ideas for action 2018. Women Deliver Appy hour 2019 Women In Technology Leap2 second cohort | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
807 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ashley | King-Bischof | Sprout Insure | http://sproutinsure.com | CEO | Female | Kenya | United States of America | English | The UN supports and demands change for the large, yet underserved population of smallholder farmers around the world. Both through the clarified UN Sustainable Development Goals and SheTrades, a program with the ITC. International actors, like the UN, are very important stakeholders in taking on critical forces that impact farmers, like the risks associated with climate change. Our solution is poised to have impact at scale and would be a great fit for the UN Solutions Summit dialogue, particularly the Climate Summit on September 23rd. We are also seeking support for our pilot next year and would like to have vigorous debate about its efficacy and potential. Furthermore, we will present an analysis done by the Climate Finance Lab in New York at the Rockefeller Foundation headquarters the following week. | Ashley King-Bischof is a founder and CEO of Annona, a company dedicated to improving the lives of smallholder framers. For 9 years she has worked in microfinance in Africa, consulted social enterprises around the world and helped grow technology start-ups in the Silicon Valley. Ashley has successfully built alliances across Africa, Europe and the United States in local and international trade with smallholder farmers as well as placed her company in top stops in competitive incubators and business plan competitions, including a pitch opportunity with SheTrades, a program of ITC. Ashley holds an MBA from IE Business School and a B.A. in Business Economics from Brown University. | Sprout Insure | Climate Change Risk Crop Insurance on Blockchain | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Kenya, In the future: sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and South-East Asia | Yes | Yes, with signed MOUs. Our partners are ACRE Africa, Etherisc. ACRE Africa is a recognized service and data provider for index insurance products across sub-Saharan Africa, currently covering over 1 million smallholder farmers. Etherisc is a smart contrac | Proof of Concept | Sprout has an enormous amount of momentum and support at this stage in our development of our concept. Currently we are in the Climate Finance Lab final phase and will be launching a pilot in April of 2020, where we will test our concept with a few thousand farmers. For that reasons, we believe we are in proof of concept phase. | In developing countries, around 270 million smallholder farmers are underinsured, with only 20% with access to agricultural insurance coverage. At the same time climate vulnerability of crops is increasing and smallholders have not yet developed the capacity to adapt, posing a significant threat to global and local food security. As a result, climate change is forcing smallholders to adopt low risk low return crops or, in the extreme, it threatens food access and its utilization by smallholders. | Sprout Insure’s Blockchain Climate Risk Crop Insurance enables the offering of index insurance at scale, by addressing critical barriers for smallholders. The main barriers for insurance in the market are limited demand, limited supply and lack of trust between insurer and farmers due to delayed pay-outs or an absence of pay-outs to the insured. A combination of weather-index insurance and blockchain technology enables a standardized offer of insurance while increasing access to smallholders through lower premiums and increased trust. The Sprout Insure platform relies on the contribution of three main components on the supply side: 1) the user interface, 2) the application layer linking to blockchain 3) the insurance or, on its behalf, insurance service and data provider. There are variations in the role and responsibilities for each of these components between the pilot phase and beyond. Social Impact. The pilot would serve an average of 500,000 smallholder farmers every year and provide financial coverage to the yearly caloric needs of 280,000 Kenyans. During its pilot stage around 1,200,000 new smallholder farmers are targeted – through different phases of market expansion - by the insurance, with an average of 500,000 served every year if a 50% retention rate between one season and another is assumed, and a total of 2.15 million policies sold in 4 years. | Different types of agricultural index insurances, both for crops and livestock, have been piloted in sub-Saharan Africa, a high-impact region for this concept. Broadly speaking there are two clearly distinguishable types of microinsurance products addressing the agricultural risks faced by farmers: indemnity-based crop insurance and parametric or index insurance. Major actors in Sub-Saharan Africa are intermediaries such as ACRE Africa (with over 1,000,000 customers), Sum-Africa, Pula Advisors (mostly East-Africa), Ghana Agriculture Insurance Pool, R4 initiative (mostly East Africa) and Planet Guarantee (mostly West Africa). The latter have been driving or supporting initiatives as intermediaries alongside national insurance actors as UAP in Kenya, NIRSAL in Nigeria and CNAAS in Senegal. However, to date only one initiative Is active in the SSA region which combines parametric crop insurance products with new technologies as blockchain. Hence the platform can be defined as a unique concept in the region. The only key actor identified in a new development for crop insurance in the SSA region other than the proponent are WorldCover in Ghana, a major mobile microfinance actor in Ghana, which has announced launching a blockchain initiative through its existing peer to peer microinsurance platform at the end of 2018 to improve the process of their instrument. | The main goal of this platform is to achieve financial and social sustainability. For financial sustainability, the goal is to provide enough farmers with weather-index crop insurance to break-even. In order to reach social impact, Sprout aims to see a world in which more than 50% of farmers in our target region are covered by weather-based crop insurance. Milestones reached by the team for the implementation of the pilot include: •Completed a rigorous evaluation of the concept (instrumen)t with a dedicatted team of experts in climate change, smallholder farmers and consulting from the Climate Finance Lab •Architected the platform with Blockchain developers and insurance companies •Establishing an MoU with ACRE Africa and Etherisc •The selection of the crop and risk model for the pilot, namely the Bima Pima insurance product developed by ACRE Africa, focusing on maize. | The pathway towards implementation consists of two distinctive phases: the pilot and scale-up phase. During the pilot Sprout will stress-test its technology by observing farmers during one crop cycle April 2020-October 2020. Simultaneously, they will execute the required legal and operational tasks, hire technical experts, and start fundraising for the required grant in the pilot phase and establish relevant stakeholder relations.The risk model will be improved through a partnership with PIK. The following 3 seasons (October 2020- April 2022) will be dedicated at piloting the product to a target group of 1,000,000 farmers. In the mean-time Sprout will engage with private sector investment groups for VC funding. They will also apply for long-term regulatory approval from Kenya Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRS) to use Sprout across Kenya. In the second phase (April 2022- April 2024), the company will focus on a roll out of various types of index insurance products in different geographies. Therefore, they will establish connections with brokers, aggregators and insurers. At the same time, Sprout will roll out a technical implementation of smart contracts, including an internalized risk pool. Therefore, Sprout will also take legal action to become an insurance provider (envisioned after April 2024). In its long-term structure, the platform would reach full commercialization whereby risk is recovered through premiums and the company is financed through commercial financing. | We expect a private mobilization during the pilot stage iif only Technical assistance grant for product development is provided, or 0.68 if all support options are considered. After the investment of USD 168,000 to build the concept, during the 4 years of pilot implementation the platform would mobilize an upfront equity commitment of up to USD 350,000 from venture capital, and aggregate private investments in premiums from farmers equivalent to USD 10m over 4 years. Potential grant support may be needed to support product development in new countries for replication, estimated in USD 168,000 by the proponent, and a USD 5 million liquidity facility backing up the duplicate risk pool during the testing phase of the project. However, the bulk of public support mainly consists of USD 10m premium subsidies to guarantee that enough demand is driven in the market together along with an expanded (thus more effective) insurance coverage for the farmers. At scale, the index-insurance market has a large potential among high-impact countries, valued up to USD 6 to 10 billion in annual premiums, or USD 180-320 million under the conservative assumption that it would only manage to upgrade existing offer of weather index insurance. The market potential of the platform at scale is valued up to USD 6 (for <2Ha) to 10 billion (<5Ha) in premiums, an estimate in line with ISF Advisors 2018 estimate, who reports a potential market value of USD 6-8billion in premiums. | http://sproutinsure.com http://sproutinsure.com/demo https://www.climatefinancelab.org/project/climate-risk-crop-insurance/ https://nextbillion.net/news/press-release-investor-initiative-chooses-ideas-that-will-mobilize-investment-for-sustainable-cities-energy-access-blue-carbon-and-sustainable-agriculture-in-developing-countries/ | N/A, but a really great audio + video coming in September. In the meantime: http://sproutinsure.com/demo | Winners, Climate Finance Lab, Global Lab Cycle 2018-2019 Engineers Without Borders Fellow recipients (competitive process) Westerwelle Foundation Young Founders Program Fellows (both founders Ashley King-Bischof and Sandro Stark) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
808 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tamar | Valdman | Saillog | www.saillog.co | Chief Business Development Officer | Female | United States of America | Israel | English | I seek to present our project to the audience and Selection Committee. Our innovation is used by farmers and inspectors around the world. It elicits positive global impact by progressing the agriculture sector (through technological advances and competition) and making crop protection management more efficacious for agriculture workers. | Tamar Valdman has a Master of Science in Social Work degree from Columbia University that provided her with a unique understanding of social movements and sustainability trends. Tamar received her bachelor’s degree is in psychology—which she completed in three years and graduated summa cum laude (3.93 GPA). Prior to procuring an academic education, Tamar was the Communications Manager for an award-winning graphic design firm in Washington, DC where she liaised with a division in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration and was on the division's Communications Team. As a hobby, Tamar is an independent social psychology researcher. Her latest manuscript was conducted with two well-known social exclusion researchers and is the first experiment to cognitively measure motivations to approach and avoid others and oneself (and in tandem) following social rejection. The research was ""accepted in principle"" to a reputable social psychology journal and is expected to be published at the end of 2019. | Agrio | Saillog digitizes crop protection through its Agrio app to maximize agriculture productivity in developing nations and emerging markets. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | India, Indonesia, Phillipines, Myanmar, Mexico, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Morocco, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia | Yes | World Economic Forum's Grow Asia and Syngenta Foundation | Scaling | To date, our smartphone app has procured over 100,000 downloads organically worldwide, is available in 16 languages, and has a 4.6+ out of 5 rating. In July 2018, we were the first to identify—and respond to—the invasion of the fall armyworm to the continent of Asia. We discovered the pest when a user in India uploaded an image to Agrio. We immediately notified tens of thousands of users in high risk zones and provided guidance on what to look for and how to tackle it. | There are around 7.5B people on earth, and 2B of them live in smallholder farming households. Seventy percent of the global food productivity relies on 570M smallholder farmers. Agriculture is indisputably one of the most important sectors and happens to be the largest employer in the world. However, there are not strong systems in place to maximize smallholder farmers’ productivity. The ratio of extension workers to farmers is a disproportionate 1:1000 in countries like the Philippines. | Saillog is a socially responsible startup that digitizes crop protection in developing nations and emerging markets. We created proprietary artificial intelligence and computer vision algorithms that are platformed on a mobile app called Agrio to empower agriculture workers with the latest technology that can enhance productivity. Farmers upload images of crop problems (e.g., diseases, pests, nutritional deficiencies) then receive instant identifications, locally-relevant guidance on integrated pest management techniques, and communication with extension workers. Farmers who do not possess smartphones can be helped by those in their proximity who do, which elicits community development. We developed the first AI-based global alert system in agriculture that dispatches notifications for impending infestations in affected areas and high risk zones. We developed the first voice-to-text scouting solution for inspectors and field workers. Moreover, we created Workgroup, a private channel for farming organizations and agri-entrepreneurs within Agrio. The vision for Saillog is to create a digital infrastructure in the agriculture sector to elicit a united response to crop epidemics. By digitizing crop protection, we supplement the lack of extension workers worldwide and disrupt archaic extension services to actualize profound growth within the agriculture sector. | The most common crop protection approach is non-digital; extension workers scout farms and identify problems that reduce yields through their visual perception. This approach is time consuming and limited by the deficit of extension workers and their knowledge. Most extension workers are familiar with certain crops and cannot offer support on crops that are not within their expertise. Likewise, they are familiar with recurrent crop diseases, pests, and nutritional deficiencies; they are often unsure how to handle new species that are introduced to the environment. Given human biases, it is impossible to monitor if experts are providing the same services to marginalized populations such as female farmers. Moreover, in countries that have limited infrastructure, growing areas are often less accessible than in countries where infrastructure is advanced and the costs are higher due to travel expenses. Common digital approaches involve visual and contextual references for plant problems, such as a virtual library where farmers look through images of symptoms then make assumptions on their diagnoses. With this approach, farmers do not receive feedback and have no engagement or support from an external contact. Other approaches include Facebook and WhatsApp groups, which are dependent on the engagement of others and the information they provide informally; their responses may be subpar and propagate pseudoscience. | We were called “Food Waste Fighters” by Forbes Magazine, and Nvidia (a global leader in artificial intelligence) published that our algorithms have “superb accuracy”. We documented a successful case study in July 2018 when we were the first to identify the invasion of the fall armyworm (which caused a humanitarian crisis in Africa) to the continent of Asia. The fall armyworm migrated from Africa to India, and we discovered the pest when a user in India uploaded an image to our app; we were able to immediately notify tens of thousands of farmers in high risk zones about the invasive species and provide guidance such as what to look for and how to tackle it. We are members of Farming First, a global coalition dedicated to sustainable agriculture. We were selected as Residents in the competitive Google for Startups program in Tel Aviv Israel, and we were selected as the only non-Southeast Asian startup to participate in the Digital ASEAN program. We measure key values for the mobile app, such as user satisfaction (ratings and reviews), number of downloads, number of monthly active users, average amount of time users spend on the app, etc. We measure the accuracy of the classification algorithms by comparing the AI diagnostic outputs to a panel of experts' majority votes and to the results of laboratory tests. We are conducting a pilot with WEF's Grow Asia; we anticipate to record farmer adoption and usage and an additional measurement for the accuracy of our algorithms. | We plan to train our algorithms to identify pests, diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and abiotic stresses in the vegetable crops grown in the Philippines (e.g., coffee, corn, rice, Japanese eggplant, Asian long beans, bokchoy, green tomato, and long bottle gourds) to provide Filipino smallholder farmers with immediate identifications of crop anomalies and suggestions on how to treat problems. This data collect will be relevant for similar crop species, such pechay, and for nearby nations such as Cambodia, Myanmar, etc. Our network in the ASEAN region, has agreed to introduce us to other non-profit organizations and farming associations in the Philippines and nearby nations. We are also currently speaking with a senior official in the Philippine’s Regulatory and Operations at Bureau of Plant Industry. We plan to recruit local agronomists, data collectors, project managers, and a sales team. The projected impact is approximately 35,000 Filipino farmers. Though, this is just one example of our immediate goals. Our solution is available for anyone to download in the Google Play and iTunes stores. | We plan to raise $4M in the near future, and after 18 months, we plan to raise an additional $6M. During this time, the company will employ 35 employees. Many components of our solution are already commercialized and are in the growth phase. | https://www.saillog.co https://nocamels.com/2018/04/saillog-ai-app-farming-disease/ https://agromavens.com/index.php/2018/09/28/ai-entomologist-spots-fall-armyworm-in-india/ | N/A | Finalist: USAID's Fall Armyworm Tech Prize | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
809 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Antonio | Dixon | SolarFi - Connected to the world | https://solar-fi.com | Co-Founder and President | Male | Ghana | Jamaica | English | Our organization is a member of the United Nations Global Compact. I was recently a finalist for the United Nations SDG Young Pioneer award https://www.globalcompactusa.org/2019-sdg-pioneer?cid=3fe83906-1888-4a49-8196-fa7929bae8ab&chl=soc I invented a brandable solar lantern and lobbied politicians including the former CEO of UN-Energy and Chairman of SE4all (Sustainable Energy for All) to give out solar lanterns instead of t-shirts. This has provided solar lanterns to over 300,000 African homes. Thus reducing the cost of energy at 25-40%, reducing carbon emissions, and providing a better quality of life. We've now partnered with Microsoft to bring energy to areas that lack access to the internet. Given my background in the medical device industry. I have leveraged those contacts to use telemedicine to bring healthcare to those who need it. | Antonio Dixon is a multilingual, highly-awarded global entrepreneur with expertise in new market acquisition, innovations for development, and medical devices. Mr. Dixon was recently recognized as a Top 100 Startup Changemaker from Harvard and MIT, and honorable mention for the United Nations SDG Young Pioneer Award. Mr. Dixon has always had an abiding interest in sustainability. To that end, as co-founder of SunPowerd Mr. Dixon developed alliances to provide solar grids to developing countries and orchestrated key partnerships with Microsoft, Royal Dutch Shell, Care, and the UN. Based on his experiences as a resident in Africa where access to the internet and even continuous power is sometimes a luxury, Mr. Dixon saw an opportunity and leveraged his deep knowledge of technology to co-found SolarFi. SolarFi has the life-altering potential to bring energy and economic development to developing countries and seeks to connect the under-served and unconnected populations in Africa through solar-powered technology centers. SolarFi provides a ""business in a box"" and creates a methodology for promoting micro- franchise businesses based on solar-powered technology centers. When operational, these centers can serve myriad purposes: as a mobile charging station. The centers can also deliver internet, telemedicine services, and educational content. Prior to co-founding SolarFi and SunPowerd, Mr. Dixon enjoyed a highly successful career helping companies expand internationally, and as an advisor to Presidential candidates and hedge funds. | SMART (Sustainable Modular Access to Renewables and Technologies) | smart innovations for using private public partnerships to reduce poverty | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Ghana, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Kenya, and Nigeria | Yes | Microsoft, Touhey Associates, Henry Schein, UNDP, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), ABCDE, MCW Global (Miracle Corners of the World) | Proof of Concept | We have used solar energy to provide energy in off-grid communities, provided solar lanterns for people in rural areas through branding and marketing partners such as MTN, CARE International, and other NGO's. We have worked with doctors to developed countries to speak with patients in developing countries via skype about some of their health concerns. At the center of our solar hubs is a digital monitor which runs educational content focused on STEM. What we now need to do is build out the IoT. | 1. Access to energy 2. Access to education 3. Access to healthcare 4. Creating local jobs | Development Objective(s): - To tackle energy poverty in: Sierra Leone via the installation of sustainable and portable solar-powered smart centers. - To bring communities together, whilst economically empowering citizens and giving businesses the opportunity to flourish. - To improve the health of citizens, by ensuring that SolarFi users can gain access to healthcare and vaccinations. - To empower citizens through access to knowledge such as hand washing, HIV prevention, polio, and other health-related issues. - To provide a library for people to study, do their homework. To actively address: The Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) global initiative, established in 2010. The UN sustainable development goals established in 2015. | We create a unique eco-system and environment for people to come and charge devices, receive education, and we believe that if the clinic is nearby you can get diagnosed, take preventative healthcare measures before the problem worsens. SolarFi will help people at the BOP (bottom of the pyramid). It is capable of charging mobile phones and can provide Wi-Fi in areas that lack access to the internet. It is designed for “off-grid” locations, offering an immediate resolution to isolated communities, who can be expected to benefit from the Kiosk’s services 24/7. In addition to these services, SolarFi will provide access to free, potentially life-changing healthcare information provided by USAID and UNICEF, including HIV prevention. SolarFi centers will strategically partner with hospitals and clinics. Mondays will be Medical Monday’s, Tuesday Tech days teaching kids Microsoft word, and how to code, Wednesday’s best practices in agriculture, farming is the backbone of an African country. Furthermore, SolarFi will partner with the necessary aid organizations to ensure that citizens have access to language-learning classes, encouraging professional development and education. Furthermore, it will offer a free messaging service, similar to WhatsApp. The cost to use the centers is low. The average user is expected to save up to 33% of their income by using SolarFi thus encouraging them to be around the proper healthcare environments. | Our team has been adding the right team members and putting together the right partnerships with corporations, healthcare organizations, multi-lateral organizations, and advisors. We recruited one of the best engineers in the world. Dr. Shah, Life Fellow of IEEE, received his B.Tech. (Honors) from Indian Institute of Technology. He received MS and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He recently retired as a Principal Engineer from GE’s Global Research Center after almost 34 years with GE! He spent his career working on electrical devices with the main focus on electric machines. He has ~70 US and many foreign patents with several pending. He has also authored/co-authored over 45 technical papers; some of them have been prize papers. He has given many invited talks internationally. He has been active in the Electric Machines area for IEEE in various capacities and is a past chair of our Schenectady section. He received the 2015 IEEE Gerald Kliman award, the 2012 GE-GRC Coolidge Fellowship award and the 2012 IEEE Nikola Tesla award. We recently recruited a program manager that worked for IsraAID as a program manager to measure outcomes, provide sensitization, determine community needs. Currently, we are measuring the improvement of education, access to information, increase in income to our female entrepreneurs. We are putting together a committee that comprises members from the following organizations: Oxfam UNICEF Save the Children Mercy Corps Africa Intel (Policy) | Our goal is to impact 500K people. We need a CMO in which we have identified that is a Cheif Medical Officer at UNICEF. However, we currently cannot afford his salary. We will recruit two development professionals to manage the project. Our goals are the following: 1. Build out our IoT (The internet of things) system 2. Run a campaign with the largest supplier of medical supplies to have their doctors donate time to diagnose patients 3. Partnership with Health Organizations (Vaccination Promotion) 4. Provide better healthcare for pregnant women by creating an IoT wrist band which will aggregate information from the following: - Blood pressure - Blood glucose - Body temperature - Pulse oximeter - Weight scale - Fetal heart weight The data is stored in the wrist band. When they get to the internet it pushes to the cloud. We will use AI to make predictions, and notify the doctor to communicate with the patient. Normally the doctor reads this form from a nurse. The nurse takes the data and the doctor makes the decision. The problem is that many times the patient goes to the hospital when she doesn't need to and people in live-in far remote villages. The problem we are solving is maternal deaths and that many doctors don't want to work in the rural areas, telemedicine enables us to work with doctors in the city center of developing countries and in other markets like the USA where doctors have better training. Doctors will receive the patient's information through an app. | Short-term - Raise funds We need to solidify a partnership with WHO and UNICEF Medium-term We need to purchase the following: - ultrasound device - urine analysis device - refrigerator for vaccines - Digital X-ray machines - Hospital beds Long-term: This is a public domain so we must remain cautious on what we share. We are happy to clarify by phone/e-mail - Have drone delivery of emergency supplies - Utilize machine learning and data analytics to determine health trends in communities - Predict when people may get sick - Notify people to know when their friends are sick | Many of the links are for our other solutions and don't reflect the telemedicine solutions. SolarFi's co-founder receives honorable mention for the UN SDG Young Pioneer Award: https://www.globalcompactusa.org/2019-sdg-pioneer?cid=3fe83906-1888-4a49-8196-fa7929bae8ab&chl=soc https://www.apexsolarpower.com/solarfi-umass-amherst/ https://menafn.com/1097615762/SolarFi-announces-crowdfunding-prelaunch-for-lifechanging-solar-power-platform https://headlineplus.com/new-york-based-solarfi-to-launch-crowdfunding-campaign-at-microsoft-in-boston/ https://www.apexsolarpower.com/apex-solarfi/ https://www.wattsupnewyork.com/companies/2018/12/4/solarfi https://www.wattsupnewyork.com/nyc-events/2018/11/28/solarfi-crowdfunding-campaign http://news.salemnewsheadlines.com/story/159017/solarfi-announces-crowdfunding-prelaunch-for-lifechanging-solar-power-platform.html https://www.thecrowdfundingcenter.com/?page=project&id=BX35X9 https://in2townpublicrelations.com/new-york-based-solarfi-to-launch-crowdfunding-campaign-at-microsoft-in-boston/ https://senmernewswirepr.wordpress.com/2018/10/ http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/4006028 http://news.themorninglead.com/story/191028/new-york-based-solarfi-to-launch-crowdfunding-campaign-at-microsoft-in-boston.html http://news.themorninglead.com/story/191028/new-york-based-solarfi-to-launch-crowdfunding-campaign-at-microsoft-in-boston.html https://www.vvmaccelerator.com/finalists-2018 https://2018.hubweek.org/page/1362647/demo-day | My talk at Microsoft: https://drive.google.com/file/d/133nvK8yfaTlDJArludxKP_gX4G0vv0Ex/view Team members: Jerry Shaye, Educated at Dartmouth College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Mr. Shaye entered the Peace Corps, serving as a volunteer in Venezuela for two years. Mr. Shaye continued working in Venezuela for 21 additional years, as an entrepreneur, an executive of a trading company and general manager for the country’s largest farmers’ cooperative. Shaye worked as Director of International Trade Development for the New York State. Mr. Shaye’s career with NY, he led trade missions to over 20 international markets.. Shaye teaches International Business and International Marketing in the MBA programs at Clarkson University Graduate Center, The Sage Colleges and The State University of New York at Albany. Dr. Spio-Garbrah. is a former CEO of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) based in London. He is one of Africa's pre-eminent public servants,[citation needed] and an authority on mass communications who has held several high-profile positions in the field. He is a former Minister of Communication of the Republic of Ghana, one-time Ambassador of Ghana to the United States, Minister of Education, Minister responsible for Mines and Energy and a member of UNESCO’s Executive Board in Paris. Spio-Garbrah is a former member of the board of directors of South Africa Telekom, AngloGold Ashanti and recently of Vodacom. | Top 100 Startup changemaker by Hub week (Founded by Harvard and MIT) Global Carbon Foot Print Challenge Finalist United Nations SDG Young Pioneer Award (Finalist and Honorable Mention) Valley Venture Mentors, a leading Massachusetts based accelerator (Winner of cleantech award) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
810 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anton | Holovachenko | UniExo | http://www.uniexo.com/ | Founder & CEO | Male | Ukraine | Ukraine | English | Russian | My motivation easy and global, improve health life for a lot people and make future more innovative with affordable services. From 2025 and next 20 years will work for space technologies, it's need human intellectual resources with innovation technologies. Wearable exoskeleton tecnology may open access for 1.3 billion people with movement problems for affordable healthcare treatment, for now only 1 person from 1000 can use exoskeleton. Machine learning and big data of patients, helps collect and improve treatment more faster and automaticly update programs without human work. Thanks for that we can reduce prices and grows trust for robotic tecnologies. In next 2-3 years with AI assistant we can make global positive impact on healtcare industry, and change stationary equpment in clinics. | 4 years ago my grandma got paralyzed, and was need help, thanks for Iron Man movie I created robotic exoskeleton for rehabilitation, and starting create startup which help for 1.5 billion people with movement problems. Since I am a pioneer of exoskeleton technology in the medicine industry, I was able to achieve breakthrough technological results to improve the health of patients, and for the European community to provide more accessible robotic technology that was built from scratch to a working product. My startup has been working with private clients since 2017, currently there are more than 35 of them, in 2019-2020 we start cooperation with medical institutions in the European Union. I see now for people with disabilitites needs more and more exoskeletons, than old equipment for example wheelchairs, as well as cybernetic prostheses, so I make every effort to popularize this technology and also grow UniExo that builds these devices. | UniExo | UniExo exoskeleton device reduces recovery period caused by injuries by assisting and supporting patients outside the healthcare facilities. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Ukraine, Poland, Germany | Yes | HKSTP, Primelex law company, TIANHE 2, UNICEF Ukraine | Transition to Scale | UniExo exoskeleton device reduces recovery period caused by injuries by assisting and supporting patients outside the healthcare facilities using modular exoskeletons. We are high tech startup company, that creates modular exoskeletons using machine learning algorithms and doctor online-surveillance. Our modular devices combine medical science, experience of doctors, modern robotics and advanced programming, that give us a leadership position in exoskeleton industry of innovations. | Hundreds of millions of people after accidents, neurological diseases need physical rehabilitation. It's also different traumas in different situations. Only 3 out of 10 people are fully restored, 7 out of 10 this people receive ineffective, uncontrolled and rather expensive treatment. And as result have problem with movements after rehab, but only 1 person out of 100 can buy and use exoskeleton. As a result treatment is unproductive, people feel unwell do not return to a full life | UniExo is working now on «UniExo rehab service"" business model, where patients will be able to rent a suitable exoskeleton for a rehabilitation period assigned by the doctor. Upon the termination of the rehab program, the patient will return the exoskeleton device back to UniExo company, for the next clients. That can provide exoskeleton more affordable to many regions and reduce price can open opportunity to use devices for many social categories with insurance or without insurance. It's good reason change old wheelchairs to new technology of walk and assistance for people with movement problems and disabilities. For grows number of devices we need more resources ( about that, local factories will need work make around 5000 devices every year, two super computers during the first few years, can provide computing power for UniExo service and our assistant AI of making movements), for providing our devices with healthcare facilities, hospitals and insurance companies our UniExo service with exoskeletons by affordable prices. If we start in 2020 launch service, according to our plan for the future, every month we can cover 416 people with problems using these devices. | First innovative it's modular construction of device, not need stationary equipment and lot assistance. Second, price and not need additional assistance of doctors every time, device in remote doctor's supervision. Third, machine learning algorithms helps track health, also self-work with doctor to change programs of rehab. Fourth, flexible business model, patients will be able to rent a suitable exoskeleton for a rehabilitation period assigned by the doctor, and comeback device to company after use period. Fifth, UniExo team tests ""UniExo rehab service"" with machine learning and AI assistant, for use devices everywhere under remote doctor's supervision. It's can help exoskeletons work more efficient and safe in online and offline mode. | 1. 90 successful closed tests in clinics and rehab centers and 35 active users. 2. Finished Robotic acceleration program by HKSTP & Siasun 2018 3. Marketing campaing with UNICEF, there was a take-over where founder talked about the UniExo robotic exoskeleton story with a grandmother, our mission and where we are striving and how we can promote UniExo together for potential investors. On top of that, David Beckham family liked products of UniExo, and we in conversation about future marketing program. www.instagram.com/p/BpZGayMFDXW/ 4. Dialogue with WHO for future cooperation about elderly people and assisting service with exoskeletons. 5. Finished YCombinator startup school, health track. 6. Our startup was choose as one of innovation Dubai Health Forum 2019. 7. Also UniExo was selected for Dubai Innovation Month 2019 from small number of Ukrainian startups. 8. Working on AI service for UniExo. From February 2019 to February 2020 will created and developing . | We will spend for production for 100 exo-devices and sell to clients, expand team, grows R&D center to developt UniExo AI rehab service for exoskeletons, and attracting seed round of investment for grows production. Our team have plans for China and Middle East markets and we need resources for grows, this award can help for that. And in 2020 UniExo need produce and sell about 2020 exo-devices in order to occupy about 20-30% of the global market. Because UniExo it's not only exoskeletons, it's also software, all data, include analycisc of human mobility and thinking. We work on software and algorithms during hard 2 years, and receive succsesefull result of that, now founder see time for starting work for sell to mass market and production commercial products. Thanks of this all data, we can produce robots in 2025 year with human thinking, also potential for build in 2030 year nanotechnologies system under AI control ML algorithms for medicine, human health, and cyber health of human in future. | From 2020 we want move to more strong business model, take device and buy time of using device, but exoskeletons will be own company no clients. It's payment for use exoskeleton in limited time for rehabilitation mode, and subcribe-payment model for assist movements mode of UniExo exoskeleton. Usually prices will start from 799 $ per month for one year, 899$ per month, for using during few months, and up to 20.000 $ for personilazed product. About that, for potential local factories, will need production around 5000 devices every year, two supercomputer during the first few years, can provide computing power for UniExo service and our assistant AI of making movements. For providing our devices with healthcare facilities, hospitals and insurance companies our UniExo service with exoskeletons by affordable prices. If we start in 2020 launch service, according to our plan for the future, every month we can cover 416 people with problems using these devices. All this is possible with investments, since it will work slowly on self-financing, and it will take more time than we expect. And for that we looking seed round of investment about 1.5 million $ | Video UniExo 2018: https://youtu.be/gInMoGx8OIc https://www.dropbox.com/s/zg1lvv0c4n27wyz/UniExo.pdf?dl=0 UniExo in Tech Ecosystem guide to Ukraine, 43 page: https://data.unit.city/tech-guide/Tech_Ecosystem_Guide_To_Ukraine_En-1.1.pdf Semifinalist V4 Starup World Cup Europe summit: https://www.swcsummit.com/contest 5 Top Rehabilitation Devices Startups Out Of 525 In Healthcare https://www.startus-insights.com/innovators-guide/5-top-rehabilitation-devices-startups-out-of-525-in-healthcare/ UNICEF: https://www.instagram.com/p/BpZGayMFDXW/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BpZULQWl_XT/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BpZh8ciAeT7/ https://www.facebook.com/exportpromotionoffice/videos/492747911241019 https://www.facebook.com/exportpromotionoffice/posts/2153703454947078 | Dubai Health Forum 2019: https://youtu.be/wZf34E6GlPU https://youtu.be/8il_E7jT_so https://uatrade.cn/exporter/uni-exo Voice of America in prime time https://ukrainian.voanews.com/a/anton-holovachenko-uniexo-ekzoskelet/4441126.html and detailed interwiev in ukrainian https://www.facebook.com/chastime/videos/2017715678263139 About pitching in New York https://razomforukraine.org/pitch-night/ https://www.usukraine.org/ukrainian-entrepreneurs-explore-us-startup-environment/ | Finalist of Kansas Tech Week 2017 Participant Bits & Pretzels 2017 Winner award of competition for startups of robotics “Robot Launch 2017” Participant in CUBE Tech Fair 2018 Viva Technology 2018 one of TOP-5 innovations. Founder one of TOP 5 European startup impacting on healthcare industry 2019 Second place at International entrepreneurship and innovation competition of Zhejiang 2019 Miratech European R&D4 Equity 2019 Exhibitor at Dubai Expo 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
811 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anna | Petrova | Startup Ukraine | www.startupukraine.com | Founder and CEO | female | Ukraine | Ukraine | English | My name is Anna Petrova, and I'm social entrepreneur. I found mission based company in 2012 just from scratch from 1000 dollars. Why? Because I want to make an impact in Ukraine, to make changes not to wait but start. I just have a dream that bring as on 7 years journey and SME development in Ukraine. We open first cowering space in Ukraine, first entrepreneurship school, first community etc. Startup Ukraine was one of the first initiatives in entrepreneurship development from 2012 in Ukraine. My motivation to apply for UN Solution Summit because I need support in transition for scalling up organization. I always seek for new knowledge, new experience, new environment. I'm social entrepreneurs from Ukraine and I want to be even more involved I'm global impact and helping achieve SDG globally. I will use innovation for calling up our work minimum for more 6 countries, I will collaborate more with national and global ecosystem players and this experience will help me in my PHD work. | Read first book in personal development at 10-12 years old. Went to first leadership training at 14 years old. Had my first job at 17 had my first management position at 20. Started my first business at 21. Open my first mission based company at 24. Next at 25.And next at 27. Forbes cover at 28. Published first book at 29. 10 finalist on national TV New leader program at 30. Started to work for government at 30. YTILI Fellow at 31. In couple of days 32 I'm ready for what is next in my life. Global impact? | End poverty in all by entreprenurship development around the world | Entrepreneurship is a key instrument to achieve 1,5 and 10 Goals. When you are have opportunity to create your own business you will be empowered. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Ukraine and intended to be in easter partnership countries | Yes | Entrepreneurs as role models, Ministry of Youth, Corporates, Coworking places, Media, Universities | Transition to Scale | We are 7 years old and ready to scale up our methodology, our business model nationally and SME ecosystem in Eastern Partnership Countries. We achieved near 1 min people reached by media and web, near 20 000 people trained, more than 2000 people were on our complex program in starting a business, more than 800 people started their business. We believe that SME number increasing by complex approach in communication (pr & events), education, infrastructure and community | We are addressing such problems as poverty in general, country competitiveness and foster innovation and peace making. | We live in peace, no military forces on territory of Ukraine or Europe. Entrepreneurship development key instrument for peace. We have 10 years vision for Startup Ukraine Network development. We will reach 10 min people, train 1 mln people and we will create 100 000 entrepreneurs that will create 300 000 jobs. ( min 3 persons each) We will boost Ukraine economy that will impact on investment opportunities and country prosperity. Also we have plan to develop SME ecosystem in general to work with academia, corporates, governments, hubs, schools, media to foster entrepreneurship and innovation. We believe that for experience will impact minimum on 6 more countries from eastern partnership. This example will make more global impact by empowerment leaders around the world to focus on entrepreneurship development around the globe. | Main is complex approach. We as organization did such things as: inspiration and putting entrepreneurs as role models by stories and events, second we started courses how to start a business, than we created first cowering space in Ukraine and than we created community for support. We build small ecosystem as organization. Next build ecosystem as country. And than build ecosystem regionally and than globally. Further we focus not just on entrepreneurship skills but we also working a lot with mental health and psychological state of the person in our community. Complex approach give more results than just hub, or just course or just incubator, complex give geometric progression | Our team focusing on SME development more than 7 years. We experiment in Ukraine and we see that we can scale up our solution because its working but we definitely need support in funding strong partners, finance support and media support for next stage of the organization development. Also our founder Anna planned to start Phd degree with research in SME ecosystem topic and write book and spread methodology around the globe. | We have 10 years plan. We will reach 10 min people by creating our own media Be entrepreneurs Voice, train 1 mln people by Startup Ukraine and we will create 100 000 entrepreneurs that will create 300 000 jobs. ( min 3 persons each) . Also we have plan to develop SME ecosystem in general to work with academia, corporates, governments, hubs, schools, media to foster entrepreneurship and innovation. We will open courses in universities minimum 7, we will open courses at schools minimum 100 etc. We will expand more 6 countries eastern partnership with startup Europe network. | Mostly on short-term stage we need empowerment from strong international community that we are good on the wright way. When you are staying on the path especially woman you need someone who will say to you Yes, you can! Medium term goals to find partners globally and sure to find finance support to scale up SUN 2020-2030 and long term perspective achieve our goals in Ukraine and make great global impact. Its big big dream.Celebrate entrepreneurship around the world and make impact in achieving 5 SDG. | http://startupukraine.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpiNfhc4f6Y http://startupukraine.com/blog/startup-ukraine-5-years http://krymsos.com/ru/settlers/news/u-kiyevi-vidbuvsya-tridennii-biznestabir-dlya-pidpriyemtsivpereselentsiv/ https://biz.nv.ua/experts/ne-it-edinym-malyj-biznes-vo-vseh-sferah-2128105.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iDT94khtsQ | TedxKyiv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjFo2OjqrBI TedxIFrankivskWomen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjmgJHshdr8 1+1 https://tsn.ua/interview/zasnovnicya-startup-ukraine-anna-petrova-blagayu-vsih-ukrayinskih-pidpriyemciv-pochatkivciv-ne-kopiyuyte-846960.html https://tsn.ua/video/video-novini/zasnovnicya-startup-ukraine-rozpovila-pro-formulu-uspihu.html https://novilidery.com/news/dayu-sobi-5-rokiv-schob-stati-prezidentom-ukraini-anna-petrova https://rokitne-blog.at.ua/Novinu_2017/January/zhinka.jpg https://theukrainians.org/anna-petrova/ | Anna Petrova was under the list 30 Forbes 30 and was on Forbes cover with other 2 young entrepreneurs. Also Anna was 10 New Leaders of Ukraine with SME ecosystem development. TV project, national ICTV channel ▪ Titan of the Future. Communication Davos Forum in Ukraine. Received award as a leader of the future. ▪ AIESEC alumni award. For impact and organization support. ▪ A project of the year at Business Talent Contest in Ukraine ▪ Startup of the year Amway contest in women entrepreneurship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
812 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Damilola | Obidairo | LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited | www.loftyincltd.biz | GM Business Development & Strategy | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Our motivation to join UN Solution Summit is our determination to provide Agro-solutions to serve rural farmers with limited or no access to proper equipment or practical knowledge for increasing farm yield. LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited is a business and project development company that develops start-up teams, manages innovation programs and facilitates impact projects in West Central Africa. LoftyInc uses innovation to support projects and businesses across Technology, Infrastructure and Social Impact sectors. We have partners spanning the globe, including Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with whom LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited have partnered to launch various Innovation projects ongoing in Agriculture, Financial Inclusion and Healthcare. LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited is noted for diligent execution and value-added delivery leveraging for-profit and non-profit funding for social impact projects. It has partnered with organizations like CTA/European Union, NIRSAL, IITA, FCMB, AFEX and TCU Ranch Management Program among others to deliver state of the art pilots in locations as diverse as Lome, Ibadan, Lagos, Katsina, Kano and Port Harcourt. One of our prominent innovative solution directed at global social impact is PRONOV. | Obidairo Damilola is a graduate of Chemical Engineering with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Degree from Lagos State University, Lagos, Nigeria. He had earlier obtained his West Africa School Certificate from the Lagos Baptist Academy, Obanikoro Lagos. He holds a certificate in Management Proficiency from the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM), of which he is a member. He has also been trained in Project Management by JK Michaels, Nigeria and holds the CAPM (Certified Associate in Project management) credential from PMI (Project Management Institute) the United States. Some relevant examples of relevant Projects he has recently worked include: - Project VOX (Client CASOD-Center for - http://projectvox.co/) Project sponsor. Lead project development and Delivery. Client Interface Manager - BDSP (Client BOI) Lead the Preparation and Evaluation Loan Request Proposals. June 2018 till Date. - ProNOV - Healthtech Product Deployment (Client: Bill and Melinda Gates) Partnership Management and M&E Support. - OML55 GAS MASTER PLAN Development for Belema Oil Ltd Interface Management between PWC – main Consultant, AsproPetra Energy – Contractor, Newpoint LCC – Subject Matter Experts and Client. Project Engineer – (04/2017 – 07/2017) AsproPetra Energy Ltd | Farmslot | Securing the food of the future using innovative technology | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Nigeria | Yes | Vertmance Agric, Asusu.ng, Wennovation Makerspace, National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization | Research & Development | Our solution has moved beyond the idea generation and evaluation stage, as a product has been developed. We carried out research into the agricultural practices of African farmers and in our research, we realized that the economic and infrastructural support available for these farmers is weak, therefore contributing to the majority of Agro-related problems. We seek to bridge this gap by making available accessible economical opportunities to sustain these farmers and their farms. | Farmslot engages stakeholders in the agricultural ecosystem: farmers, farmer associations, farm communities, agro-researchers, government agencies, food scientists, food processors, etc. involved in the Agricultural value chain, thus making Farmslot a one-stop-shop where aggregated customers facilitate trade. The Farmslot solution targets the following problems; - Low agricultural yield - Food shortage and wastage - Hunger and famine - Improper food processing | Farmslot engages stakeholders in the agricultural ecosystem: farmers, farmer associations, farm communities, agro-researchers, government agencies, food scientists, food processors, etc. involved in the Agricultural value chain, thus making Farmslot a one-stop-shop where aggregated customers facilitate trade. In the long term, Farmslot's vision is to drive increased participation in Agriculture and ensure that more arable lands are cultivated. It would also create more jobs, ensure food security and availability of food while increasing the economic outcomes of rural farmers. Thus contributing to the end of hunger, achieving food security and improving nutrition while also promoting sustainable agricultural practices. | Farmslot's offering differs from any competitor in the space. A marked difference is that while Farmslot provides an integrated, all-inclusive technology platform that serves the entire value chain (from farm mapping, farm cultivation, farm machinery leasing/lending, farm financing, farm extension services, farm logistics/supply chain management), other technology-driven AgriTech solutions are targeted at a single feature (for example:- Hello Tractors - strictly focused on Farm machinery lending, Farm Crowdy - focused on farm inputs, farm-market linkage, farm extension services and Crop2Cash - focused on agro supply chain). Farmslot, on the other hand, is a robust all-inclusive agro-technology platform that does more. Farmslot also takes into great detail, the challenges faced by rural farmers thus creating a solution that not only targets them but is finetuned to solve their challenge. | Our team includes professionals that cut across software developers, software engineers, project managers, business development personnel who have worked (and are working) on this project. We have developed enough internal capacity to drive the Farmslot project and have moved beyond the idea generation and evaluation stage into the proof of concept stage. We constantly stay updated on our goals by tracking our progress and analyzing challenges faced in execution and product development. We make use of various progress tracking tools that analyze our efforts and results against our targets and goals | LoftyInc Allied Partners Limited has a strategic goal to drive development in Africa by facilitating Impact projects in health, agriculture, and energy. It is our goal to ensure that the socio-economic problems in Africa are met with Africa-centric solutions. Farmslot uses the following milestones to ensure it meets all if its goals of providing an integrated, all-inclusive technology platform. We seek to ensure the success of the SDG goal 2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture by enabling the major stakeholders in the Agricultural sector and positioning them for success. 1. Product Optimization (Technology) 2. Market Development 3. Customer Service Development 4. Personnel Development 5. Monitoring & Evaluation A scale of the operations of Farmslot will drive increased participation in Agriculture and ensure that more arable lands are cultivated. It would also help drive Farmslot's adoption and operations in other regions in Nigeria (and later Africa) and create more jobs, ensure food security and availability of food while increasing the economic outcomes of rural farmers. | 1. Product Optimization (Technology) 2. Market Development 3. Customer Service Development 4. Personnel Recruitment, Development & Remuneration 5. Monitoring & Evaluation Short-term needs In the short term, we need the economic and infrastructural capacity to deploy farmslot to 2 Nigerian states ( with our target on the states that need them the most) Medium-term needs Our mid-term needs is a strong and diverse team well equipped with modern tools to ensure the reach of our product and its offer to the needs of our target customers. Long-term needs In the long term, we intend to take our solution across Africa and globally and ensure the eradication of hunger and bad agricultural practices. | https://loftyincltd.biz | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmZtg--jJfU | NA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
813 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sayre | Nyce | Talent Beyond Boundaries | https://talentbeyondboundaries.org/ | Executive Director | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Xenophobia, populism, and nationalism have swept across historically immigrant- and refugee- receiving countries in recent years, and options for the safe, legal migration of refugees have diminished even as the need for them has grown. Some governments have recognized the vital role of immigration in securing their economic futures. Unprecedented international agreements -- the Global Compacts for Refugees and Migrants -- recognize cooperation on these issues as paramount. Increased availability of economic pathways, including for displaced populations, is noted in each agreement as a strategy to meet goals of greater economic and human security. Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB) is the only organization in the world opening international employment and economic immigration pathways for skilled refugees to fill talent gaps. Our work at Talent Beyond Boundaries is driven by employer demand while also generating a new, cost-effective solution for refugees, aligning with priorities across the political spectrum. TBB works closely with governments and the private sector to overcome those kinds of barriers that prevent refugees from having equal access to the international labor market. My goal in being part of the summit is to multiply and accelerate TBB’s impact by increasing the visibility of our work and opening up new opportunities for collaboration with governments, NGOs, and the private sector. | Sayre Nyce, Executive Director of Talent Beyond Boundaries, has led the organization from its initial development and through the demonstration phase in close collaboration with its founders. Sayre has an extensive background working on refugee response with the UN and non-profit organizations, including the International Rescue Committee and Refugees International. She also served as the Regional Operations Officer for the UN Refugee Agency in Jordan and Lebanon during the Iraq and Syria refugee crises. In that role she launched the first UNHCR Data Analysis Group, an innovative approach to regional data analysis and reporting. Sayre has worked to improve refugee policy and operations in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. She has a B.A. in Psychology and French from St. Olaf College and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University. | Talent Beyond Boundaries | Helping refugees resume their careers and reclaim their futures in welcoming communities by unlocking skilled immigration pathways | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | We are currently implementing our solution in Lebanon, Jordan, Canada, the UK, and Australia. Our headquarters is in Washington, DC. By the end of 2029, TBB expects the labor mobility pathways that it is building with the UN Refugee Agency to move many th | Yes | The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Immigration, Refugees Citizenship Canada, Refugee Talent, Jumpstart, Pictou County Regional Economic Network, Private Sector Employers (Accenture, Bonfire, Paramount Foods and others), Department of Home Affairs Australia | Transition to Scale | Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB) completed the proof of concept phase in 2019 when the first cohort of refugees began moving to Canada, Australia and the UK on labor mobility pathways. The next phase of our work is to turn our tools, processes, and advocacy successes into replicable structures and regular, accessible pathways. The key work in this phase is to regularize the visa pathways sufficiently that substantial numbers of refugees can access them each year independently of TBB. | Millions of skilled, talented refugees are stuck for years in countries where they are prohibited from working. They are often forced to choose between working in exploitative conditions, unemployment and dependence on aid, or taking perilous journeys with smugglers. In contrast, countries around the globe use economic visas to bring skilled workers to fill critical gaps, and communities vie to attract international talent. | TBB's model makes international employment accessible to refugees so that they can integrate into communities and regain self-reliance while sharing their hard-earned education and skills with the global economy. We showcase refugee talent to employers that have a critical need for skilled workers, and we develop policy solutions for national governments so refugees can access economic migration like everybody else. TBB developed and maintains a digital “Talent Catalog” to identify and showcase the breadth and depth of refugee talent. This first-of-its-kind searchable database contains information relevant to global employers, including work experience, education, and skills on more than 14,000 refugees. Equipped with this data, TBB works with employers willing to recruit from a previously hidden talent pool of refugees (primarily in Lebanon and Jordan at this time). Using technology, TBB supports remote international recruitment efforts of refugees for dozens of companies. With these refugee/employer matches as exemplars, we engaged governments to work with us to make economic immigration pathways accessible for refugees. In June, the Canadian government announced that it planned to substantially increase the work it is doing with TBB and will use labor visas as a way to expand the number of refugees admitted. TBB expects the number of refugees using labor mobility in 2020 to be at least double those in 2019 and to grow exponentially from there. | The world sees refugees as a problem to be solved. We see them as offering solutions to companies and communities around the world who need their skills. TBB focuses on refugees’ strengths and talents, not their vulnerabilities. Unlike resettlement, where governments make decisions about where a refugee will move and live, we actively involve refugees in designing their own futures in communities where their particular skills and work experience are needed. We also engage destination country governments, municipalities and the private sector as key movers and partners from the beginning and enable refugees to arrive in new host communities as valued contributors from day one. We are the only organization that has mapped refugee skills and talents in Jordan and Lebanon and this work provides the data to challenge widespread and false assumptions about refugees. TBB is at the forefront of developing a new solution for refugees. Our advocacy successfully led to the inclusion of language supporting labor mobility as a complementary pathway in the Global Compact on Refugees which will drive policy for years to come. TBB has been recognized as a pioneer by the UNHCR, the International Organization for Migration, and the Governments of Canada and Australia. We want our work to be replicated broadly and look forward to the day when labor migration options are so established that refugees can access them autonomously. | In just three years, TBB has created the first database of refugee skills for 14,000 refugees in Jordan and Lebanon, engaged more than 100 employers in Canada, Australia and the UK to recruit refugee candidates to fill talent gaps, and coached more than 540 job candidates. The first candidates, with their families, have arrived legally in Canada, Australia and the UK to take well-paying jobs. Our candidates and their families are moving from precarious positions with restricted access to property ownership, banking, or free movement, to permanent residence and all the rights attendant upon that status. By the end of 2019, TBB will have moved about 50 refugees in this first cohort. Furthermore, TBB’s work has been publicly endorsed by the UN Refugee Agency, in its new “three-year strategy on resettlement and complementary pathways,” as well as by governments. In Canada, the Minister of Immigration cited TBB’s work as a critical tool for Canada’s leadership on the Global Compact on Refugees, and expressed intention to “massively ramp up” the project moving forward; Key metrics of success are: # of refugees moved on labor mobility pathways # of employers engaged in this solution # of government institutions that have adopted refugee-inclusive design of economic migration pathways | In 2019 and 2020, TBB will build on the success of its government-supported pilots in both Canada and Australia by 1) increasing the volume of refugees moving to stability, 2) moving towards greater financial sustainability, and 3) support capacity building to enable future scale by other refugee-serving organizations and goverments. TBB is launching new projects with industries and communities in regional or rural Australia and Canada that urgently need talent. They are aiming to recruit dozens of refugees from international locations, as they see the value of bringing in groups of talent and supporting their integration in order to retain skilled workers. Through this work with regional partners. TBB will move towards greater financial sustainability by testing the feasibility of different financial models, such as employers covering marginal candidate costs and refugees with job offers accessing loans. We will support our current government partners to share lessons learned with fellow nation-states who can similarly facilitate labor mobility for refugees. | Short-term - TBB believes our impact can scale and become sustainable with finite philanthropic capital, but in the short term needs philanthropic support to approach readiness to scale. Our model has costs per-refugee including visa applications, language exams and medical checks. These costs are partially covered by employers, and in some cases by provincial or territorial governments. We are developing partnerships with financial institutions to provide refugees who have job offers access to loans. Medium-term - TBB is the only organization helping refugees move from countries where they cannot work to jobs in communities where they can rebuild their futures. TBB plans to grow its impact by expanding the network of government, NGO and corporate partners committed to opening pathways for refugee labor mobility. To do this, TBB needs platforms that can provide the opportunity to mobilize and share knowledge, expertise and technology. Long-term - Our vision is for dozens of communities and industry groups in all regions of the globe. Labor mobility will provide a route to a sustainable livelihood and stable life to thousands of refugees from Jordan, Lebanon and beyond. For this to succeed, employers and industries will need to take advantage of the opportunities to recruit international refugee talent as a key human resource strategy. | Website: https://talentbeyondboundaries.org Talent Catalog: https://tbbtalent.org/site/index Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBBforTalent Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/TalentBeyondBoundaries/ Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/company/6638257?trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Acompany%2CclickedEntityId%3A6638257%2Cidx%3A2-1-2%2CtarId%3A1468956937983%2Ctas%3Atalent beyond b Process videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLOv59A1BFY&t=2s Scientific/technical articles: Towards greater visibility and recruitment of skilled refugees: https://www.fmreview.org/economies/nichles-nyce Access to Resettlement and Complementary Pathways for Syrian Refugees: https://drc.ngo/media/4676369/dsp-resettlement2.pdf Complementary Pathways for Admission of Refugees to Third Countries Key considerations: https://www.unhcr.org/5ce55faf4.pdf The Economic Mobility Pathways Project – Policy Principles and Lessons Learned: https://www.unhcr.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/The-Economic-Mobility-Pathways-Project-Policy-Principles-and-Lessons-Learned-June-2019.pdf | Why can't skilled and talented refugees work internationally?, a look at how and why Talent Beyond Boundaries started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV3zMDD0MS0&t=70s CTVNews Interview: https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1648785 UN multi-stakeholder meeting on refugees and migrants in anticipation of the Sept. 19th Summit (Second Hearing, Corporate Outreach Advisor Gary Slaiman speaks at 2:38:45): http://webtv.un.org/search/1st-meeting-interactive-hearings-on-addressing-large-movements-of-refugees-and-migrants-general-assembly-informal-meeting/5040608003001?term=interactive%20hearings Refugee Summit Held On Sidelines Of U.N. General Assembly Meeting, interview with TBB’s co-founder Bruce Cohen: https://www.npr.org/2016/09/21/494837176/obama-hosts-refugee-summit-on-sidelines-of-u-n-general-assembly-meeting | MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge 2019- Finalist (US & Canada region) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
814 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joel | Ojema | Famunera | https://www.famunera.com/index.php/ | Co-Founder and C.F.O | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | It will be an exciting opportunity to meet and interact with successful entrepreneurs, investors and peers still early in the entrepreneurial journeys. Famunera has been bootstrapping from inception this will be chance to get meet potential investors, showcase our products and Promote our brand. | I am Small town boy from a Uganda. I was born and raised at the boarder district of Tororo in Eastern Uganda to Business Parents. My parents are in Agri-business and buy produce from Eastern and Northern Uganda to export to Kenya. One of the key challenges they face in their business is sourcing for Quality produce for exports. After completion of my University in 2015. My friend [Julius Naika the C.E.O and Co-Founder at Famunera] decided to come up with a solution to alleviate produce supply Gap. | Famunera | We Agro based e-commerce company that provides a platform for Farmers to source for Quality and Affordable Agro-inputs and services and offer market | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Uganda | Yes | Growth Africa, The Innovation Village, Uganda National Farmers Federation | Transition to Scale | We have tested the market with our MVP for the past 3 years and have registered over 1,200 farmers, 200 Agro-inputs sellers and over 20 service institutions to trade on our platform. | Poor Quality Agro-Inputs. According to FAO, Close to Shs14b is lost annually through counterfeit Agro-chemicals. Counterfeiting is highest within herbicides, maize seeds especially Hybrid varieties. Famunera seeks to close the supply Gap for Quality Agro-inputs in Uganda | A. Farmers signs up/ registers to trade on Famunera using his/ her National ID number, Telephone contacts. This also done by our Village Agents. Famunera verifies the registration details and approves the account created. A farmer can then go ahead and search for what they need on our platform. He/ she then places an order, selects a payment option and confirms place of delivery. We collect the items ordered from our manufacturer partners or distributors. The order is then dispatched to the Farmers delivery location. To become the ultimate destination for your search for High Quality and Affordable Agro-inputs, equipment, machinery, services and produce to help create sustainable growth for Small-holder farmers in Uganda. To achieve this, we leverage technology to improve the incomes of small-holder farmers in Uganda. | We offer advisory to our farmers when placing orders. We also deliver within the shortest time possible. We offer seamless payment options Farmers can also save for Inputs purchase. | Our team has been patient with our customers are motivated with finding solutions for the Farmers in Uganda | 1. Development of a Farmers’ Credit Score Tool to enable farmers with limited credit history access Agri-business financing using their data as an alternative to Credit history. This will enable farmers more farmers 2. Setting an Agri-business Micro-Lending facility. 3. Migration to Blockchain Technology. This will help make the platform more secure, enable traceability on the platform. 4. Marketing to find institutional buyers to offer guaranteed markets for farmers’ produce. | Human Capital Mentorships Financial Capital | https://www.famunera.com/index.php/ | https://news.mak.ac.ug/2018/07/ran-pitch-tuesday-hosts-famunera https://agriprofocus.com/post/5d028f5a26b72a0f76f97589 | Tony Elumelu Foundation 2018 Young Achievers Awards 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
815 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ayah | Dajani | Young Explorer | http://www.mostakshef.net/ | CEO | Female | Palestine (State of) | Palestine (State of) | Arabic | English | The program is a unique opportunity to meet and connect with fellow entrepreneurs to share our experience and interact with, and successful mentors to learn from their experience. And to strengthen my entrepreneurial skills. I'm very passionate to share my innovative idea with the amazing innovators who will share us in the summit, it's a great opportunity to hear from the people who have close thinking and innovative minds, and to share our experience with them. It's will be amazing opportunity to meet with the investors who will be there and hear their professional opinion about what we had done so far, and maybe make a good relation with them. I believe that building a strong network is very important for any entrepreneur to benefit from the others and to benefit them. I think also that I would benefit my colleges and fellow entrepreneurs because: 1- I have good experience in thinking about projects in terms of technology, as I studied computer systems engineering and worked in web design for years. 2 - I consider myself a positive person capable of spreading the spirit of optimism and challenge and encourage my colleagues. 3 - My experience in teaching children and help them discover their passion through experience and handicrafts can be useful for those who need to apply it in there tech ideas. | My name is Ayah Dajani, Computer system Engineer, and mom of 2 kids, business women and entrepreneur. I am passionate about technology tools infusion and utilization in elementary education- particularly for kids with special need. I am also interested in unconventional and innovative teaching techniques such as STEM, STEAM, Cross learning method, Montessori and waldorf. I enjoy handworks such as crafts and electronics.I believe that programming and electronics are one of the most powerful engines for the present and futures. I am a quick learner and have the ability to learn new technologies and skills when needed. I see myself as a good team player and problem solver. I am a mother for a child who has medical issues (functional impairment) , and I applied the teaching/learning strategies to help my child recover and become an active person. I started my first startup three years ago which is Kids Lab®, an educational project where STEM concepts come to life. | Young Explorer | Young Explorer is bringing the THERAPY home! Is mobile app to develop and assess the skills of your child at home. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | We are living in Palestine, but the solution will work for the whole Arab countries, in the first 6 months for Palestine, then Jordan. In the next year will move to Gulf then to other countries. | No | Proof of Concept | We finished the ideation, the market research, we sfinished the MVP development and uploaded it for the testing. We got the feedback from the users and working on them. Meanwile we are completing the development of the algorithm. | *In the Arab world there are 20 million kids suffering from disabilities and learning difficulties, 50% of them don't have access to the rehabilitation due to: the huge lake of rehabilitation centers for those kids, their expensive services, and most of these centers centralized in the main cities. Which makes it very difficult and expensive for a lot of families to reach these centers regularly. * therapists struggles with the traditional patients records that need more writing. | Young Explorer"" is mobile App with a creative, new approach to develop and assess the skills of kids with difficulties at home by their families using smart AI algorithm. Its content are designed by functional therapists and education experts, and framed in the shape of howto videos, and sequenced in daily plan, in addition to progress evaluation tool and reports. IT has two parts, the AI algorithm for plan customization and progress tracking, and the content of the App. The content will be developed by functional therapists, specialist pediatric developmental who have strong experience in developing skill's developmental plans for kids with difficulties, and depending on the best scientific approaches that are used in the worlds to treat kids and assess their skills. The algorithm is based on machine learning techniques. We aim to use decision tree in this project (existing technology). Decision tree is used to create a model that predicts the value of a target variable based on several input variables.We will collect therapists scenarios regarding patients, and based on empirical studies we will choose the suitable (DT). Finally we will deploy artificial neural network (ANN) to build the decision automatically. we aim to become the first reference in the MENA regions for families and centers of kids with difficulties to develop and assess the progress of their kids’ physical, cognitive, linguistic, and social and emotional intelligence skills. | Our solution is creative, new approach to develop and assess the skills of kids with difficulties at home by their families using smart AI algorithm. In the Arab world there are no web or mobile based solution that provides the families with fully personalized play plan to apply with their kids at home, and there are no solutions that records the progress of each child. Comparing ourselves with the global apps, using Arabic is great value for our targeted market. Using AI & Machine learning in the app makes it the only Arabic solution that provides customized rehabilitation plans for disabled kids to fits their needs, depending on their initial assessment and activities evaluation results. Our app is bringing therapy home for kids who don't have access to it | *In this stage, we finished building the MVP, with a full customer journey of one functionality, which will take into consideration the feedback of its users. The core function of the MVP is: to enable users to evaluate their kids performance of the activity, and receive a performance and progress report suggesting the next step.This requires the user to create an account/login, choose a category, choose an activity (video), implement, evaluate the performance of their kid, and then receive performance and progress report suggesting the next step. *We uploaded the back end system to the server, and sent the apk to 50 users for the testing. *We started working on the AI and machine learning algorithm. *The functional therapist is working on the assessment system content for 0-3 years old, it will be developed and added to the App by the end of august | *Have the best user satisfaction about the App. Analyse and fix the users feedback each month by design experts. Fix the immediate daily complaint about the App. test the simplicity and usability of each new feature. *After 7 years we aim to become the first reference in the MENA regions for families and centres of kids with difficulties to develop and assess the progress of their kids’ physical, cognitive, linguistic, and social and emotional intelligence skills. a)Will build AI system which analyse the available data and results of users to develop a realistic personalized play plan for each child. b)Build strong assessment system. c)Focus in Arabic language. *At the end of first year to have 100,000 users from Palestine. a)Will increase our videos to 150 videos. b)Hire 2 more media guys, 2 more developers. c)After sex month we will target the local companies that targeting moms to advertise at our site. d)Will make partnership with more 10 centres of kids. *In the second year we plan to move to Gulf market, and double our incomes. a)We will use Gulf public figures for marketing. b)Will make FB marketing campaign that targets in Gulf areas. c)We will make partnerships with local Gulf companies and centres that have the same targeting markets. *After 5 years we aim to reach one million users in the MENA region. a)We will hire more employees. b)We will use a part of the income to rent our place. c)Will make fully equipped recording room to record more videos. | In the short term we need fund or investment to bring more therapist to work closely with the AI developer to finish the algorithm. Then we need to buy camera and it's accessories and bring media guys to turn the scripts to short videos. After this stage we will make a marketing plan and launch the first realease. After the first 6 months we will start moving to Jordan markets, we need more employees, connections, partnerships. After the first years we planned to move to the GULF, so we need more fund, employees, connections. Our long term is to move globally, this needs to translate the App and the videos to the ENGLISH language! | http://www.mostakshef.net/ https://www.facebook.com/alMostaksshef/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayah-dajani | https://www.facebook.com/FIRamallah/videos/357473018475886/UzpfSTEyNDIxMzgyMzkyOTAzNDg6MTMyNjk3OTEyNzQ3MjkyNQ/?__xts__[0]=68.ARCcGvg3hgEdGqABNLcICe9B94fjseHS7hNWXcIrx9GEWwWHQ4PumlgRvTn01BJpJn1Xl4hNwonaU-UcC0H7QJt5ReoPurCqMTmCJ4eQ4V0MmCFDPHko6QeUwFHxK87IUi8sNsJ9QotQcH-H-ZxRIOu7yI2SqteWdwwPtgJUPbLmVBKaoVIntmED3d9fJ8qFEQQ8m2vBBNtCSisLjBCJEqNRkiqgw18-u-DOfm8F1ZEl-ZycE97J9VIfhtPl4i8c2VjOvAwOVyy2UQdy-C1GQz7WSSqNxlNZqoCBUIEd7pOsyYtMBeUqQTuMoxonGKyBgcYICo8&__tn__=k*F&tn-str=k*F | no awards. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
816 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alan | Greenspan | Nes.city | nes.city | founder | m | Israel | United States of America | English | To present this startup/project, because most economists will agree the current real estate + financial system is broken, and cities are the hub of our society, are only getting bigger & more packed, with trickle down economics affecting rural areas. I have tried being innovative for positive global impact the past 14 years, my first invention at the age of 20 being a solar bracelet I envisioned could scale to solar sandals, solar hats, etc, that charge phones, and could be used for marketing/branding, and even wanted to do the Toms model of buy 1 give 1. Unfortunately it was my first failure, unable to find a co-founder, unable to get funding, I just paid an electrical engineer to design it... I wish I would have just gotten a loan. We need this project to be presented at the UN Solutions Summit, because it is so possible to solve most of our urban city problems, as even at the basic level, it isn't so much of a paradigm shift, just a perception shift. But to really change the world and eliminate poverty, we do need advanced forms of regulations in real estate, creating a REIT where tenants gain equity as they rent, and as many people say a universal basic income would eliminate poverty, a universal basic equity would go that much further. We can solve homelessness, most urban crime, much of health/wellness, and low education, by creating wealth at the bottom of the pyramid, instead of allowing it to be extracted by rent. | Alan Greenspan has been passionate for improving the world since a young age, leveraging technology for good. In college he was an idea generator, inventor/designer of cleantech gadgets and circular economy initiatives for smarter cities for all socioeconomic populations. Over 10+ years of strategic business development experience, from marketing, sales, customer success/support, mentoring & project management through various verticals: agtech, foodtech, renewable energy, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, nano, space, fintech, edtech, smart cities. He has lead teams of 5-10 to scale businesses and NPOs, catalyzed receiving several term sheets up to $23+ million dollars, and enjoys creating collaborations globally, especially when it involves technology and investing for sustainable development and solving the SDGs. | nes.city | Eliminating rent, turning tenants into co-investors of rent-to-own shared equity properties, to further finance sustainable development. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | globally | Yes | NGOs, affordable housing developers, municipalities, Corporate HR/CSR programs, banks | Proof of Concept | We have already researched the market to understand what solutions are currently available, and what ways there still is to improve. We are now working on a POC that can be used in collaboration with our first customers, with the vision in mind that it can be scaled globally. | The biggest root problem that causes a majority of issues in the world(crime, low education, disease, etc): wealth inequality based on inability to gain equity in real estate. Renting is extracting profit, and for those who can't even afford a mortgage (at least 1/3rd the population in the world), they will be stuck in poverty for a majority of their lives, as they are not only giving 1/4th-1/2th their monthly income to others just to live, while living paycheck to paycheck. | First we start with a platform for affordable housing developers to convert their rental properties to rent-to-own, with shared equity. Then we create a coalition to create a global network of shared equity rent-to-own properties, offering liquid equity transferring. This will be as if the tenant is investing into a 'green REIT' fund, which we will use the crowdfund purchasing new properties, or reinvesting into sustainable urban development, and social entrepreneurs. We also envision being able to partner with Corporate HR/Social Responsibility programs to include shared value in equity benefits We also want to allow tenants to transfer their equity into their neighborhood via a pay-for-success model. From here, we could also integrate rooftop farming to provide more means of financial sustenance and sustainably grown food, have technical skills training workshops spread throughout the network, integrate orphanages and homes for refugees & the elderly to facilitate blending in with communities, and offering more work with these communities for mutual shared success. With the introduction of opportunity zone regulations to the US giving incentives for (impact) investors to dedicate over $8 trillion in these areas, it should be easier to negotiate with some of the funds to create rent-to-own properties. The long-term vision is the elimination of rent, turning all citizens into co-investors in a sustainable world. | In the startup world, there are at least 10+ other startups 'reinventing' rent-to-own as fintech companies sharing equity, helping with mortgages, downpayments, etc. Thare are plenty of real estate crowdfunding websites, and 10+ ones using blockchain/crypto tokenization. And of course there are too many NGOs around the world who help with affordable housing, but then again even affordable housing is still just more rental properties, which isn't really solving the wealth generation issue. Almost none of our competitors have the same vision as us, to eliminate 'rent' from the world, as no one sees the possibilities allowing for equity to be transferred to different properties, instead of just settling down into one location for 20+ years. Only through the realization of an actual paradigm shift in real estate, of liquid equity shared together in public private partnerships, will it be possible to move into an era of abundance, which is another way we are different in what was mentioned previously with sharing equity with employers and perhaps NGOs and foundations, offering them the chance at long-term capital benefits. And creating this idea of digital equity considering all stakeholders in neighborhoods is also brand new, as there really isn't even any open available urban planning applications on Google/Apple store | We have a mockup so far and working with some corporations & NGOs to analyze a POC that offers a sustainable business model. The prototype is < 6 months away. No methodological rigor, no measuring progress yet, just hard work. When we get funding will I start monitoring the sales pipeline via hubspot, and the CTO will start managing his time. Until then, he's just working on this part time. | Milestone 1: finish a prototype by 2019, and have 3-4 working POCs. 2: have 2 corporations LOI from their Corporate social responsibility department by 2020. Milestone 3: raise $200k in seed funding also by 2020 Can continue from here for the next 5 years, but let's first accomplish 1-3 first. | Funding to work on this full time. medium-term would be partnerships w/ NGOs, municipalities, celebrities, etc, marketing, branding, videos. Long-term would need to work with regulators to create a new type of REIT where tenant's rent also offers them equity. | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tcc6P6qWNIHm8I4evZq6wFWMHK8-zBfh http://www.nes.city | https://youtu.be/RGQUAbTjeXI | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
817 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Kossi Atim | LABAN | Réseau des Organisations de Jeunes Africain Leaders des Nations unies (ROJALNU - Afrique) | www.rojalnuodd.com | Coordonnateur Afrique de l'ouest de ROJALNU Afrique | Masculin | Togo | Togo | French | La 74ème session AGNU 2019.Le lundi 23 septembre, le secrétaire général convoquera un sommet sur le climat et l’Assemblée générale des Nations Unies et tiendra une réunion de haut niveau d’une journée sur la couverture sanitaire universelle.A cette occasion, le réseau des organisations de jeunes africain leaders des Nations Unies en Afrique (ROJALNU-Afrique) organisera le lundi 23 septembre 2019 de 15h00 à 18hoo au siège des Nattions Unies à New York Un Side Event : vers l’appropriation des Objectifs du Développement Durable (ODD) et l’accélération de la capture du Dividende Démographique (DD) par les organisations de jeunesse et de femmes en Afrique agencé en deux sessions : PANEL 1:Vers l’appropriation et le Suivi/Evaluation des Objectifs du Développement Durable (ODD) : « Engagement et rôle des jeunes et femmes leaders ; quel partenariat ». lors de laquelle seront présentées la contribution des jeunes de ROJALNU à l’atteinte des Objectifs de développement Durable sur des interventions ciblées :PANEL 2:L’accélération de la capture du Dividende Démographique (DD) : « Santé et bien-être - Education et développement de compétences -Emploi et entrepreneuriat des jeunes - Droit, gouvernance et autonomisation des jeunes » qui sera consacrée à des échange sur de bonnes pratiques et définira des résolutions sur les engagements des jeunes et établira des actions urgentes de terrain pour impliquer d’avantage des jeunes hommes et jeunes femmes aux actions de capture du DD en Afrique | Le Réseau des Organisations de Jeunes Africains Leaders des Nations Unies en Afrique (ROJALNU Afrique) ; une première institution internationale de la jeunesse africaine, réunissant les jeunes des 54 pays de l’Afrique basé au Burkina Faso par un accord de siège signé avec le gouvernement burkinabé le 16 février 2015 et travaillant au profit de toute la jeunesse en Afrique et dans le monde. le réseau des jeunes africains leaders des nations unies ayant été à l’avant-garde et promoteur des 17 Objectifs de développement Durable était à son 6ème Sommet Panafricain des Jeunes Leaders des Nations Unies tenu à Ouagadougou au Burkina Faso du 06 au 10 Août 2018 et réunissant les jeunes leaders des 54 pays de l’Afrique. Par ailleurs, l’organisation des sommets panafricains des jeunes leaders des nations unies en Afrique, fait de notre organisation, une institution internationale de référence des jeunes auprès des Etats membres de l’Union Africaine et du système des Nations Unies pour assurer la contribution des jeunes à l’atteinte des 17 Objectifs de Développement Durable et l'accélération de la capture du dividende démographique en Afrique. | Vers l'appropriation et le suivi/évaluation des objectifs du développement durable et l'accélération de la capture du dividende démographique vecteur de Paix et sécurité par les organisations de jeunes et femmes en Afrique | #ROJALNUAFRIQUE | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Burkina Faso et tout les 54 pays de l'Afrique | Yes | Le gouvernement Burkinabé et l'État Burkina Faso | Scaling | Ayant été à l’avant-garde, promoteur des ODD, c'est d'engager des jeunes et femmes leaders pour un partenariat durable; de débattre et d’échanger sur comment accélérer la capture du dividende démographique vecteur de paix et sécurité issus des bonnes pratiques des jeunes à des échelle et préparé à cet effet l’initiative du 7ème Sommet panafricain des jeunes leaders qui sera présenté lors de la journée de l’Action qui se tiendra en novembre 2019 au NU sur la rencontre des jeunes de l’ECOSOC. | Engagement des Chefs d’Etats et de gouvernements d’intensifier les investissements en faveur de la jeunesse exprime leur volonté à exploiter le dividende démographique et l'appropriation des ODD, comme le levier principal de résilience et de la lutte contre les causes profondes des inégalités, de l’instabilité, de la vulnérabilité et de l’insécurité. Cela intègre aussi le manque d’espoir occasionnant, la migration forcée, la criminalité, la radicalisation, l’exploitation et l’extrémisme violent. | Convaincu que la jeunesse devrait avoir une place centrale dans la dynamique du processus du développement durable, le ROJALNU à organiser conjointement avec le ministère en charge de la jeunesse du Burkina Faso, le 6ème Sommet Panafricain des Jeunes Leaders du 06 au 10 Aout 2018 à Ouagadougou, la capitale de la jeunesse Africaine : « Vers l’appropriation des Objectifs du développement durable (ODD), la contribution des jeunes au cœur du plan de rattrapage du VIH (90-90-90) et la capture du Dividende Démographique ». L’engagement des Chefs d’Etats et de gouvernements d’intensifier les investissements en faveur de la jeunesse exprime leur volonté à exploiter le dividende démographique comme le levier principal de la résilience et de la lutte contre les causes profondes des inégalités, de l’instabilité, de la vulnérabilité et de l’insécurité. Cela intègre aussi le manque d’espoir occasionnant, la migration forcée, la criminalité, la radicalisation, l’exploitation et l’extrémisme violent. Il faut souligner que la réalisation de cette volonté manifeste des dirigeants ne saurait aboutir que si les jeunes eux-mêmes y contribuent. Ce capital humain en bonne santé est au centre d’une utilisation optimale du dividende démographique. Ce sommet va permettre de donner un signal fort aux communautés internationales, converger leurs agendas respectifs mais également pour inscrire les jeunes et femmes au premier plan du processus et au niveau des mécanismes financements dédiés à cet égard. | « Engagement et rôle des jeunes et femmes leaders». lors de laquelle seront présentées la contribution des jeunes de ROJALNU à l’atteinte des Objectifs de développement Durable sur des interventions ciblées : le mécanisme de suivi et évaluation de la mise ouvre des ODD en Afrique par les jeunes, Genre – Climat et Gestion des Risques de catastrophes (ODD 13 en marche), la technologie et l’innovation pour favoriser l’engagement, le développement et la résilience de la jeunesse (ODD 8 en marche) ;jeunesse citoyenneté, paix et sécurité : lutte contre le terrorisme, la violence et l’extrémisme violent (ODD 16 en marche). L’accélération de la capture du Dividende Démographique (DD) qui sera consacrée à des échange sur de bonnes pratiques et définira des résolutions sur les engagements des jeunes et établira des actions urgentes de terrain pour impliquer d’avantage des jeunes hommes et jeunes femmes aux actions de capture du DD en Afrique. Des interventions ciblées sont les suivantes : Amélioration de l’accès au service intégré de base de qualité et l’utilisation des services gratuits de planification familiale pour les jeunes et adolescents ; renforcer l’accès des jeunes à une instruction et formation appropriée et créer des opportunités pour leur employabilité ; développement des connaissances et attitudes qui rendent les potentiels des jeunes plus productifs ; amélioration de la gouvernance à tous les niveaux et renforcer les mécanismes d’inclusion des jeunes. | Engager le plaidoyer de haut niveau et la mobilisation de ressources pour la mise en œuvre et le suivi des plans d’actions et programmes alignés sur les Objectifs de Développement Durable ; Promouvoir et accompagner l’intégration et la priorisation des questions de jeunesse, de genre dans les politiques, programmes et projets de développement aux niveaux national et régional ; Contribuer à la mise en œuvre de politiques et programmes soutenant en priorité Emploi, Education, Santé et Gouvernance et les 17 Objectifs de Développement Durable ; Renforcer les capacités de ses membres en management et leadership dans les domaines pertinents des Objectifs de Développement Durable. | Vers l’appropriation des Objectifs du Développement Durable (ODD) : « Engagement et rôle des jeunes et femmes leaders - Quel partenariat ? » sera de restituer les conclusions et les recommandations issus du 6ème Sommet Panafricain des jeunes à travers le lancement de la campagne des jeunes en action « Youth in action for africa » préparé à cet effet et l’annonce de l’initiative du 7ème Sommet panafricain des jeunes leaders qui sera présenté lors de la journée de l’Action qui se tiendra en novembre 2019 sur la rencontre des jeunes de l’ECOSOC. L’objectif de cette session de ce side évent est de débattre et d’échanger sur comment accélérer la capture du dividende démographique issus des bonnes pratiques en matière de gestion et de bonne gouvernance dans les domaines de la Santé et bien-être, de l’Education et développement de compétences, de l’Emploi et entrepreneuriat des jeunes, du Droit, gouvernance et autonomisation des jeunes à l’échelle local et national. | l'acceptation de la solution financement des jeunes délégués des 54 pays de l'Afrique implication des représentants diplomatiques auprès des nations unies l'accompagnement des programmes pays du rojalnu appui des organismes onusiennes et autres partenaires Appui institutionnel et organisationnel à ROJALNU Afrique | les page facekook: Rojalnu Afrique Rojalnu Odd Afrique Rojalnuodd Afrique | http://m.youtub.com/watch?v=HNORdWgZRcv&feature=share | Le Réseau des Organisations de Jeunes Africains Leaders des Nations Unies en Afrique (ROJALNU Afrique) ; une première institution internationale de la jeunesse africaine, réunissant les jeunes des 54 pays de l’Afrique basé au Burkina Faso par un accord de siège signé avec le gouvernement burkinabé le 16 février 2015 et travaillant au profit de toute la jeunesse en Afrique | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
818 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rachel | Nungu | Balanced Voice | www.cfs.co.tz | Program Manager | Female | United Republic of Tanzania | United Republic of Tanzania | English | have been involved in co-founding two local organizations that promotes human rights particularly health rights for women and children. I advocate for changes I want to see in health sector in my country and take part in bringing these changes through these organizations that I lead . Everyone deserve quality health services regardless of their gender, age, economic status or ethnicity. My current innovation, an SMS platform enables community to raise their voice on the quality of health services they receive at the health facilities. This helps in accountability and creation of a feedback loop which is essential for improvement In quality of services. I am particularly interested in this Global summit because as a youth of today's generation, I believe I have a role to play in global achievement of the SDG goals and Agenda 2030.. With the challenges of diseases,poverty, unemployment, inequality, global warming, civil wars in our community , coming together and working as a team will make us achieve a better future for all. Being a youth it is a prime time and my responsibility to contribute to my country, continent and the world at large. Also in this innovative era, I look forward to share my innovation in mHealth and meet my fellow innovators with whom we can widen our visions, polish our innovations and come together in transforming the world through our innovations. | Dr. Rachel Samuel Nungu is a medical doctor who is passionate about promotion of health rights. She has 5 years experience working in locally found organizations that deals with promotion of quality care. She is a co-founder and country coordinator for Tanzania Clubfoot Care Organization that promotes clubfoot treatment to children born with the condition so as to prevent permanent disabilities that may reduce their quality of life. She is also a founder of Balanced Voice, an organization that uses a n SMS platform to facilitate feedback loop between the health facilities and the community they serve so as to improve quality of health services. Through her community work, she has been awarded Queen's Young Leaders Award in 2016 and Mandela Washington Fellowship in 2017. She also had opportunity to study Leadership course at University of Cambridge and Public Management course at University of Minnesota. . Through her Balanced Voice project , she has won Data For Local Impact Challenge under PEPFAR/MCC funds to kick start the project and last year she was among the Tony Elumelu Foundation finalists. She is currently persuing Masters degree in Public Health at Catholic Univesity of Health and Applied Sciences. She is also working into scaling her Blanced Voice project nationally to cover all regions. | Balanced Voice ""Our Voice, Our Health"" | Our Voice ,Our Health | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | My solution is curently implemeted in Mwanza region in Tanzania with hopes of spreading to the rest of teh country and eventually to East Africa | No | Transition to Scale | First phase of this project was carried out in 5 facilities .We were also able to focus on antenatal clinic to ensure that we improve the quality of services pregnant women receives so as to encourage their attendance and ensure safe delivery .We now want to introduce the platform to private hospitals,finding means to integrate with other existing platforms or link with Hospital electronic systems as we aim at strengthening our feedback loop and add more functionalities to our platform. | Lack of patient satisfaction could be contributing in a reduction of numbers of people seeking medical care in hospitals rather than attending to traditional healers.Despite the availability of the traditional accountability mechanism still, there is little awareness and utilization of these mechanisms to promote community engagement in improving quality of health service delivery. With increase in 90% ownership of mobile phone across the globe and emphasis on including ICT in health sector. | The Balanced Voice is an SMS based platform that bridge the communication gap between the health facilities and the community they serve.Using a 2-way communication mechanisms, Balanced Voice has developed a platform where the Feedback Survey form which will be sent to the registered patient attending the facilities. The database through sms gate away will send text messages in a sequential to the daily registered patients. The sms context will include them stating the challenges encountered in health service delivery or compliments on a particular health facilities and the replies from the patient will then be stored in the database and exported in PDF or excel form to the head of department health facilities in-charge asking for his response or remark. Their responses will be fed into the database and sent to the patients and they are allowed to do further followups. This promotion of feedback is important for proper planning and budget allocation in health sector that contributes in quality improvement in health service delivery thus promoting good health . | The solution focuses on the feedback loop. Most solution in the feedback area only concentrate o one side, the sending of feedbacks from the customer. They don't work in giving back he feedback to the customer on how his /her response is been taken care. This discourages most people to provide feedback Our platform ensures that both sides gets the response from the other hence sense of communication. This helps in building eh trust that both sides has a role to play in quality improvement. | After development of the platform, my team and I had tested our product in 5 public health facilities where we offer education on Client service Charter and Importance of Client feedback. We also trained clinic staffs on how to encourage and assist patients to provide feedback on our platform.We were able to get results from our initial deployment with 75% achievement by the number of feedbacks we received on our database. | We plan to expand our project to include private hospitals since not all private hospitals provide satisfactory services and they may be happy to hear what do their clients think of their services. We would also try to be specific and set targets to deal with particular sector at a time since we cannot solve everything at once. Currently we have focused o improving he services in Antenatal Care . Therefore our immediate plans include; Link the platform to health electronic systems to simplify our data collection and work closely with the facilities. We also plan to work with quality Improvement coordinators at district level since it is among their duties to promote quality improvement of services. Furthermore we want to educate the community on importance of providing feedback . We aim at reach out to 20,000 people by 2020. In the near future we would like to have expanded to the rest of Tanzania (by 2022) and eventually East Africa. | Resources most needed are the funds to own a short code that people can be used to send their feedbacks and for community awareness as we are currently renting it from a telecommunication company. Medium term needs includes funds to support expansion eg. recruiting more staffs, owning our own receiver , maintain our website Long term needs are the TV programme that can be airing out our findings and hold discussions that can be heard across the country or regions on how we can improve the quality of services based on the findings we get from our platform | www.csf.co.tz | www.cfs.tz | PEPFAR/MCC Data for Local Impact Window one - Winner Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme - finalist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
819 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alexandra | Garcia | World Central Kitchen | www.wck.org | Chief Program Officer | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | French | Spanish | World Central Kitchen (WCK) served nearly 4 million freshly-prepared meals after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017. As we purchased locally-sourced produce from smallholder farms, we became familiar with the many challenges this particular community faced in recovering production and overcoming financial, crop, and infrastructure losses. In early 2018, we determined that the best way to continue “feeding an island” was by supporting these farms and businesses in the food economy. We launched our Our Plow To Plate program in September 2018 with the aim of helping to increase food security in Puerto Rico by providing funding, training, and networking opportunities to smallholder farmers and businesses that support local agriculture. In the first phase of the program, our goal is to help farms revitalize their operations through direct grants for farm and capital infrastructure. As we move forward, we will help our grantees contribute to a system-wide increase in food security, sustainability, and resiliency against future disasters. In addition to grants, Plow to Plate offers our grantees access to a variety of learning opportunities in the areas of agriculture and core business skills. We also connect grantees with volunteers to provide crucial human capital and support a growing agro-tourism industry. Our holistic methodology is unique in Puerto Rico, and after only a year, are already beginning to attract mimickers – which we wholly welcome. With a collaborative platform to engage other civil society actors and agricultural agencies and NGOs – we are already beginning to see concrete outcomes such as 110% crop production increase by one of our grantees in Ponce, increased sales by others, the beginnings of new farmer led small wholesale channels, improved relations between farmers and restaurants, and a strengthening of the learning ecosystem among and by farmers. The private sector is joining with funding and logistics support as leadership in these organizations understand that their customers and employees are directly impacted by the food insecurity that currently exists on the island and that it is in their best interest to support this sector at multiple levels. WCK has committed $4 million to Plow to Plate in Puerto Rico through 2023, and we are now working to expand the program into other countries in the Caribbean and Central America. We would be excited to share our experience and achieved successes with the UN community. | With more than 20 years of experience in non-profit management in the international development and environmental sectors, Alexandra joined the World Central Kitchen team in May 2018 as Chief Program Officer to oversee the organization's long-term programs in health, education, jobs, and food security. Prior to joining the WCK team, Alexandra served as the Executive Director of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP), an organization dedicated to supporting environmental, wildlife and cultural conservation agencies around the world by providing quality, ethically-sourced photography from the League’s 100+ Photographer Fellows. Before iLCP, Alexandra spent 3 years as the founder and principal of WEDGE Resources, a strategic consultancy focused on organizational planning and program implementation. WEDGE’s client portfolio included The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves and The Netherlands Development Organisation. Before this, she served as the President of The Fabretto Foundation, the US-based fundraising arm of Familia Padre Fabretto, a Nicaraguan NGO focused on serving children and families in rural communities through programs in education, health, nutrition, agriculture, and sustainability. Alexandra earned her master’s degree from George Washington University and her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. In addition to her professional pursuits, she is a wife, mother, planet earth lover, travel junkie, road biker, photography enthusiast, and is always looking forward to the next great adventure. | Plow to Plate | Reducing food insecurity by strengthening smallholder farms and local food ecosystems | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Puerto Rico | Yes | The Clinton Foundation, Triple-S, Marriott, Southern S.A.R.E., Para La Naturaleza, Grupo Guayacán, EverFi, Tourism Cares, The Puerto Rico Science Trust, Hispanic Federation, Mercy Corps | Transition to Scale | After a year in what we are calling the ""beta stage"" in Puerto Rico during which we have supported 55 farms and businesses with a total of $910,000 in grants, hundreds of volunteers, and numerous workshops, we are setting up systems to export the Plow to Plate model to the US Virgin Islands, Haiti, Nicaragua and Guatemala. We expect to strategically expand in these and potentially other locations starting early 2020 and will continue roll out on a continual basis over the next 3 to 5 years. | Smallholder farms and related food-system businesses can and should play a tremendous role in reducing food insecurity in their communities. However, the barriers they face in accessing human and financial capital often preclude them from wholly participating in the food economy. Plow to Plate reduces these barriers by bypassing traditional financial, market, and networking systems while preparing our grantees to better access these resources once they have completed the Plow to Plate program. | Smallholder farmers produce over 80% of the food supply in developing nations, a critical piece to global food security. Nevertheless, they largely live in poverty, work below universal standards of productivity and do not operate in the formal economy. Moreover, the Caribbean islands slated for early expansion of Plow to Plate are net food-importing countries whose import dependency makes them increasingly vulnerable to climate change, disaster management and diet-related diseases. Decades of agricultural mismanagement and neglect are aggravated by climate-fueled pressures, making it increasingly difficult to produce financially accessible and environmentally sustainable food. Plow to Plate addresses these challenges by providing small-scale farmers, fishers and businesses the financial assistance needed to sustainably increase quality agricultural production and gain increased access to formal markets. Our solution leverages our networks and partnerships in the hospitality industry and our flexibility to bypass traditional financial-lending and government assistance programs so long relied upon. Our long-term vision is the revitalization of existing local food systems, and reimagining and connecting diverse small-scale solutions incorporating communities, technology, innovation, urban areas, agro-ecology, and public policy guided by the SDGs. The global impact would be to provide localized, entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty and hunger. | Our unique approach aims to build resilient and innovative food systems that work to not only to produce more food and more farms, but to conserve our lands and our waters, to drive inclusive economic growth, and to promote sustainable well-being for all. Our approach is three-fold: 1) direct funding grants to small-scale farms and businesses aimed at capital improvements to increase production capacity and grow the business 2) Capacity building (in technical and business areas) to enhance market reach access 3) volunteers to bolster human capital for our farm-based grantees that offer new agro-tourism opportunities visitors. Combined, these activities provide support pillars to develop a sustainable and resilient food economy. Our unique methodology is unique incorporates a bottom-up approach, constantly molded, informed, and guided by surveying our participant population and their communities. Our perspective is that food is much more than just gas for the body, it can be used as fuel for social change and economic empowerment. We believe this program has long-term scalability and sustainability, and truly has the power to be transformative for the Caribbean, Latin America, and beyond once we are able to successfully scale. | While Plow to Plate as a program has officially been operating for less than a calendar year at the time of applying, we have already received tremendous positive feedback and interest on behalf of government agencies, NGOs and the private sector to expand Plow to Plate to other locations. Currently, we measure our progress through Key Performance Indicators compiled at the 3, 6, and 12 month mark of participation in the program. All participants must monitor and report on net sales and volume of food produced. They must also choose at least two of the following KPIs to report on during their course of participation: number of employees, clients, sources of income, products grown/sold, and/or acres in production. These are submitted via electronic surveys that participants can easily fill out and comply with on their mobile phones, tablets, or laptops. We also consider the qualitative reports and responses from volunteers, individual donors, institutional funders, and our program partners. Their feedback helps us to assess programmatic activities and expectations and make any adjustments needed. Reflecting our founder's core belief of ""just get it done"", we pride ourselves on being able to pivot quickly, without a lot of red tape so that we can be most responsive to the needs of our grantees, field and funding partners, and staff. Our progress is measured then in part by how these stakeholders evaluate our ability to respond to their needs. | In the next 3 years, we look to expand Plow to Plate to at least four other countries: the US Virgin Islands, Haiti, Nicaragua and Guatemala. In each location, we will work at first with local partners and contractors to conduct the necessary outreach and market analysis needed to understand the particular circumstances and challenges of each location. Then, we will hire local staff, at least 1 each country at the outset for early launch and then grow the local teams as necessary. Within 3 years, we expect to support at least 50 farms or small business entities in each of the four location. By leveraging global alliances with international partners such as Marriott or the Clinton Foundation, as well as existing local partnerships in countries we currently operarte long term-programming like Haiti, we will be able to replicate and scale much faster. | In the immediate short-term, our most pressing needs are to gather resources and funding around expansion of the program to other locations. These includes budget for travel, hiring specialized contractors, and conducting assessments and focus groups. Our medium-term needs include incorporating appropriate technology that will allow us to effectively and rapidly implement and track our methodology across countries and regions. In the long-term, we need to galvanize public policy that incentivizes sustainable and localized small-scale production and distribution of food and encourages innovative solutions to some of agriculture's oldest and most-pressing challenges like land access. | https://wck.org/plow-to-plate https://wck.org/apply-to-p2p https://wck.org/volunteer https://online.flowpaper.com/736e070d/P2PBooklet2519/#page=1 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b48ae2d96e76ffeb9871ba6/t/5d4853f7db83e70001738ad9/1565021181705/PR+Ag+Assessment%2C+Report+%26+Exec+Summary+combined%2C+2018-07-21.pdf | On Assignment with the Clinton Foundation (English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=39&v=xvXcbNrJ4p4 Tourism Cares Delegation Visit and Volunteering at Plow to Plate Partner Farm (Spanish) https://www.wipr.pr/iniciativa-tourism-cares-visita-centro-de-microempresas-y-tecnologias-agricolas-de-yauco/ Plow to Plate Summit Interview (Spanish) https://www.wipr.pr/agricultores-y-empresarios-intercambian-estrategias-de-seguridad-alimentaria-en-plow-to-plate/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdz3nEh0-xg&feature=youtu.be The Power of Food according to Jose Andres (Spanish) https://www.elnuevodia.com/entretenimiento/farandula/nota/elpoderdelacomidasegunelchefjoseandres-2470780/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
820 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Heather | Ross | Arizona State University - SolarSPELL Initiative | http://solarspell.org/blog | Clinical Assistant Professor | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | For five years, SolarSPELL (SolarSPELL.org) has been working with US Peace Corps volunteers around the world to bring offline digital learning content to education and health volunteers in remote, resource-constrained areas. We have realized improved health outcomes in small-scale evaluations in Vanuatu. Based on these successes, in 2019 SolarSPELL expanded its footprint to bring SolarSPELL Health to East Africa. During a recent site visit to Juba, South Sudan, health officials consistently identified lack of access to medical texts and guidelines as the primary barrier to clinical education and effective medical care. Limited and costly electricity, internet, and books make medical libraries unfeasible and training difficult. As a result, providers trained with outdated protocols do not follow current clinical guidelines. Vulnerable populations across South Sudan including active conflict zones are subject to misdiagnosis, incorrect treatment, and preventable death. SolarSPELL Health is designed expressly for resource-constrained settings. Because it is offline, self-contained, and solar-powered, it can overcome ICT and infrastructure barriers. Its portability and ability to connect multiple users, using their existing smartphones, allows it to provide lifesaving information to healthcare workers even in remote areas. Successful implementation of SolarSPELL Health in South Sudan means improved access to medical information for healthcare providers in conflict zones. Improved information access for clinicians will lead to better healthcare services for vulnerable populations and improved health workforce training, even when active conflict restricts critical resources. SolarSPELL Health has the potential to transform South Sudan’s medical culture from ad hoc practices to guideline-driven evidence-based practice (EBP) that is responsive to local contexts. SolarSPELL Health both addresses immediate health needs and builds the context for a future healthcare workforce pipeline. Other approaches to providing healthcare in conflict zones center on NGOs or multilateral missions delivering humanitarian services, a short-term approach at best. SolarSPELL Health will enable the development and deployment of a local healthcare workforce that can overcome the problem of long-term reliance on foreign health workers. Bringing SolarSPELL Health to South Sudan - and other challenging resource-constrained regions - will result in better treatment and save lives. | Heather M. Ross, PhD, DNP is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Arizona State University in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation. She is the project director for SolarSPELL Health, expanding the focus of the established SolarSPELL project in the Pacific region and East Africa (SolarSPELL.org). Dr. Ross’s research centers on sensor-based human-technology interaction, health technology policy, and implementation science. She is the co-host of the Future Out Loud podcast (futureoutloud.org), covering a wide range of topics related to emerging technologies. Dr. Ross maintains an active clinical practice as a nurse practitioner in cardiac electrophysiology and is a volunteer leader in health policy advocacy for multiple national and international professional organizations. | SolarSPELL Health | Bringing lifesaving health information to resource-constrained areas | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Vanuatu (current), South Sudan (planned) | Yes | HPF South Sudan, University of Juba College of Medicine, Juba School of Nursing and Midwifery | Proof of Concept | SolarSPELL Education has been in place in the Pacific region and East Africa, and SolarSPELL Health has had small-scale success with limited content in Vanuatu. Our proposed expansion of SolarSPELL Health to build a region-specific medical library for healthcare practice and education represents a significant expansion for the SolarSPELL technology platform. We anticipate that following initial implementation success in South Sudan we will be ready to scale SolarSPELL Health to other regions. | During a recent site visit to Juba, health officials consistently identified lack of access to medical texts, and guidelines as the primary barrier to clinical education and effective medical care. Even in teaching hospitals, providers often work with a single outdated textbook as the sole resource and lack access to national clinical guidelines. This results in frequent misdiagnosis, leading to over- or undertreatment that contributes to South Sudan’s high morbidity and mortality rates. | The SolarSPELL Health library is self-powered, ultra-portable, and offline. It works anywhere without the need for ICT infrastructure, is loaded with locally relevant content, and works with the smartphones that most healthcare providers own. Existing approaches to providing medical information include physical textbooks or require Internet connectivity, both of which are impractical in conflict zones. SolarSPELL Health is the only health-focused offline digital library tailored to meet local needs. SolarSPELL Health has the potential to transform South Sudan’s medical culture from ad hoc practices to guideline-driven evidence-based practice (EBP). In addition to providing SolarSPELL Health units, we will partner with local medical and nursing educators to develop culturally relevant professional education modules for EBP and use a training-of-trainers approach to enable widespread use. This approach enables ongoing professional development and continuing education regardless of challenging local conditions. SolarSPELL Health both addresses immediate health needs and builds the context for a future healthcare workforce pipeline. | Existing approaches to providing medical information to clinical and educational sites include physical textbooks or require Internet connectivity, both of which are impractical in conflict zones. SolarSPELL Health is the only health-focused offline digital library tailored to meet local health and resource needs. Other approaches to providing healthcare in conflict zones center on NGOs or multilateral missions delivering humanitarian services, a short-term approach at best. SolarSPELL Health will enable the development and deployment of a South Sudanese healthcare workforce that can overcome the problem of long-term reliance on foreign health workers. | The SolarSPELL digital library platform is developed and extensively field tested in primary and secondary schools in eight countries across the Pacific region and East Africa. Limited testing has been completed in health clinic settings in Vanuatu. We use the RE-AIM implementation science assessment framework. Our planned metrics for SolarSPELL Health in South Sudan and other resource-constrained healthcare environments are as follows: Reach: How many sites and clinicians can access SolarSPELL Health? (internal project data) How many patients receive guideline-driven care? (project site data) Effectiveness: Are clinical outcomes improved? (WHO trends overall and at project sites) Is clinician General Self-Efficacy improved? (GSE scale) Is cost-effectiveness improved? (project site data) Adoption: Are clinicians using SolarSPELL? (site visits and interviews) Are clinicians using Evidence-Based Practice? (EBP belief and implementation scales) Implementation: Is SolarSPELL being used as intended? (site visits) Is SolarSPELL being used in new ways? (site visits and interviews) What modifications were necessary? (site visits and interviews) What is the cost-benefit impact of SolarSPELL Health? (clinical outcome effects, clinical service capacity enhancement) What are anticipated costs for effective scaling? Maintenance: Trends for SolarSPELL use, clinical outcomes, and self-efficacy over time? (EBP and GSE scales, site visits, project site and WHO outcomes data) | Our plans at this time focus on development and implementation of the SolarSPELL Health library in South Sudan. Our work in South Sudan will impact up to 13 million people, as SolarSPELL Health will introduce evidence-based practice using clinical guidelines throughout the country. We continue to develop community-focused content for our partnership with U.S. Peace Corps in Vanuatu. SolarSPELL Health devices are presently reaching catchment areas serving approximately 50,000 people in Vanuatu. Future expansion plans include Ethiopia, Uganda, and Comoros in East Africa; and Guatemala and Honduras in Central America. As a university-based project, we continue to engage students from undergraduate to doctoral levels in nursing, engineering, and innovation studies. In addition, we anticipate expanding our current SolarSPELL staff of ten full-time and part-time employees to bring on a new project manager for SolarSPELL Health. | Our short-term needs (12 months) include funding to hire a project manager and support travel for development and deployment of the SolarSPELL Health library for South Sudan. Our medium-term needs (3 years) include relationships with on-ground partners for focused expansion of SolarSPELL Health to other countries. In addition to relationships, we will need funding for expanded dedicated SolarSPELL Health project staff and travel to support the development and deployment of localized digital medical libraries. Our long-term needs (5+ years) include relationships with international NGO and multilateral organizations to provide ground-level relationships for widespread expansion. | Video on SolarSPELL - How it Works: http://solarspell.org/about or https://youtu.be/9vohJ6YuJgM Details on SolarSPELL Health in South Sudan: http://solarspell.org/blog Details on SolarSPELL Health in Vanuatu: http://solarspell.org/vanuatu-travel-post-field-report-from-emily | Future Out Loud podcast episode featuring Dr. Laura Hosman, SolarSPELL Director and Dr. Heather Ross (this podcast recording led to the development of SolarSPELL Health): https://futureoutloud.org/2017/02/13/solarspell/ Dr. Laura Hosman introducing SolarSPELL at the launch of the SolarSPELL Teacher Training Center in Juba, South Sudan (July 2019): https://youtu.be/Gg34rmQmvi0 (Dr. Hosman speech begins at 5:42) | SolarSPELL and Dr. Laura Hosman won the 2017 PLuS Alliance Education Innovation Award. 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821 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rita | Dayoub | Health Workers at the Frontline | https://www.healthworkersatthefrontline.org | Founder | Female | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Syrian Arab Republic | Arabic | English | French | My initiative, Health Workers at the Frontline, combines the art of storytelling with the latest tech innovations to bring the voices and experiences of health workers in conflict zones to the attention of the global audience. It is a public platform that is managed through collaborations with locals working in the health sector in countries facing conflict or political unrest. Often, their voices are not heard amidst emergency humanitarian responses. Moreover, they bear most of the challenges caused by armed violence. This platform will serve to enhance the global. solidarity and awareness of the issues and challenges they face. It also could serve as an open-source for relevant research and media outlets. I would like to take part in the UN solutions summit because I believe in the power and sustainability of grassroots initiatives, and I would like to advocate for the voices of health workers in conflict zones as drivers of change. I believe that the Summit is the right place to present my initiative to like-minded innovators and policy-makers to build collaborations and to scale up in the future. | Rita Dayoub is a Syrian dentist specialized in periodontology and implantology from Damascus University. Alongside her clinical work in Syria, she was a first aider with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent from 2011 until 2013 and she wrote bi-weekly columns in the Arab Awakening section of Opendemocracy.net. She started working in the humanitarian response before being awarded a scholarship to study an MSc in Public Health at King’s College London in 2014, where her research examined the participatory and community-based approaches to health promotion in refugee camps. After finishing her studies in London, Rita started working internationally on the provision and the protection of health humanitarian response in Syria, Zimbabwe and South Sudan with ICRC. In 2018, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for International Leadership Fellowship at Chatham House in London. She continued to focus on the protection measures and strategies implemented by local health providers in the Middle East. She became an expert on the protection of health care in conflict, and she presented in over fifteen international conferences and events speaking about this issue. In 2019, Rita founded the Health Workers at the Frontline story-telling initiative, which collects audio stories from local health workers in areas facing conflict or political unrest. The objective is to communicate the personal experiences of health workers to the public and decision-makers in the UK and beyond, to bolster the protection of and the solidarity with healthcare workers during conflicts. | Storytelling as means of enhancing global solidarity | Storytelling art and tech innovations together to enhance global awareness and solidarity with people affected by armed conflicts | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Nigeria, Iraq, Libya and other conflict zones | No | Transition to Scale | My solution is at the stage of transition to scale because I have collected more than forty audio stories so far and launched the website in July this year. I have established strong collaborations with health workers in different countries in conflict and globally, and I will need to scale in order to accommodate the different languages they use and the varied insights they give. | The problem is the 'othering' that affected communities in conflict zones are subjected to. Media outlets speak on behalf of people facing armed violence instead of giving them the voice to express. This othering caused more pitty than solidarity when the latter is desperately needed. One of the major problems of the 21st century is that, despite globalization, affected communities don't have a strong voice. This is negatively influencing policies towards international security and conflicts. | Health Workers at the Frontline Initiative collects audio stories from health workers in conflict zones using a remotely managed platform. Through key contacts in the health sector in conflict zones, storytellers are identified and risk assessment is conducted. It requires only a smartphone or a computer with internet access to create an account where data protection regulations are explained and storytellers choose their anonymity levels. Then they find prompt questions but can also narrate whatever they find relevant. After the submission of the stories, I get to review them with the key contact in the area to crosscheck the facts. Translation and transcribing the stories are then done and double-checked by a network of volunteers before being uploaded on the website. The global impact is three folds: Raising awareness through highlighting and analyzing the issues raised by health workers in their stories. Enhancing solidarity with health workers through personal stories on challenges, hopes, and fears. Being a public platform means that media outlets could use the stories in their campaigns and research institutions could use them to generate evidence. | The innovative tech aspect is unique because it allows recording stories from areas inaccessible due to armed violence. It is also unique because the structured recording process is fully compliant with the GDPR regulations and it respects the anonymity and safety of the storytellers who can withdraw their stories any time if their circumstances change. Moreover, recording audio is, in conservative contexts, more culturally appropriate and less sensitive security-wise than videos. | Recording more stories and expanding the geographical coverage are two indicators to measure the progress so far. I managed to collect 40 stories from three countries and I expect more before the end of 2019. The launch of the website in July 2019 was a major step because it gave the initiative a lot of visibility. The initiative has been presented as a humanitarian innovation in several conferences, and it will be the core content of a workshop I am facilitating on the role of storytelling in influencing global policies at the Qualitative Evidence and SDGs symposium in October in Brasilia. The stories will also be used to curate pieces of interactive art in an exhibition on contemporary conflicts by the Imperial War Museum in Manchester in April 2020. The methodological rigour is sustained through continuous feedback from the key contacts and storytellers in each country. | The planned goals are to expand into 5 countries in conflict by the end of 2019 (Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Iraq, and Nigeria) and to add French and Spanish translations on the website. Improuving the website and adding relevant analytical work is essential too but will depend on obtaining seed funding. | The short-term need is seed funding to cover the costs of media studio hire, translations and editing, website maintenance, and being part of networks that focus on social impact and more visibility in media and conferences. The medium-term is more involvement in relevant art projects through more collaborations with museums and humanitarian organizations, funding for two or three staff, identifying trustees, strategic networking, expanding into more conflict zones and facilitating the growth of an organic network of storytellers. The long-term needs are registering as an NGO or as a charity, sustainable funding through partnerships with humanitarian organizations and research institutions, designing solidarity campaigns with health workers in conflict zones, facilitate annual events of networking and knowledge exchange between local health workers from the storytellers' network. | https://www.healthworkersatthefrontline.org | https://www.chathamhouse.org/event/can-investment-prevent-conflict https://www.chathamhouse.org/file/undercurrents-episode-32-protecting-health-workers-conflict | Not yet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
822 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Albin | Jose | Lal10 | http://lal10.com | Co-Founder and Vice President | Male | India | India | English | I am extremely motivated to be a part of UN Solutions Summit due to the following reasons: 1. I envision that skilling the Indian artisans to implement the latest technology trends in fashion can make them empowered. This can help them to blend tried and tested traditional techniques with innovations in fashion, which can empower them into entrepreneurs themselves. This can disrupt the supply chain of handloom weaving and slow fashion as an industry, and Solutions Summit provides a great platform to showcase it. 2. I feel that coming together with the best minds in terms of entrepreneurs, technologists, innovators, and designers in fashion will be an enriching experience for me as well as my company. The learnings from this program are something I can take back to my team so that I can support and inspire to make a difference in the craft sector of India. 3. It would also be great to pitch our solution in front of global leaders and experts, who can give a multi-dimensional approach to our solution to the problem we are solving. I hope to get the following experience out of UN Solutions Summit: - A strong network of like-minded individuals who have different perspectives and approaches towards solving the same problem - Rich international exposure in terms of learning from the experiences of other team members from different parts of the world and different fields of work. | Albin Jose is the Co-Founder and Vice President (Product Lead) and handles the product development, design and hiring at Lal10. He did his Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He was the Alumni Affairs Secretary of his hostel, Narmada and deeply involved in organizing the cultural festival of IIT Madras as a Sponsorship and PR Coordinator. Post his graduation, he worked for almost a year in an MSDF-funded social enterprise called Avanti Learning as a part of their Content and Curriculum Design team in Mumbai. He is a Forbes 30 Under 30 awarded entrepreneur and a proud alumnus of global accelerators like GMC Calibrator by Gray Matters Capital. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/albin-jose-26670532/ | Lal10 | Lal10's mobile application empowers artisans by providing skill development, creating sustainable designs, and helping them to do commerce globally. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Artisan Base: India; Client Base: India, USA, UK, Australia, Indonesia, Mauritius, Finland, UAE, Iraq, Canada, France | Yes | Gray Matters Capital - Product & Behavioral Science Partner; TrustLaw - Legal Support Partner; Fair Trade Forum, CraftMark - Authenticity Certification Partners; BayTree, Ekcle, Alsisar Impact - Investment Partners; Techugo - Tech Development Partner | Scaling | We have 400+ retail buyers. We work with established brands like Zara, The Four Seasons, Toast, AB InBev, Reliance, FabIndia, Okhai, House of Anita Dongre, Myntra, ITC Wills Lifestyle, etc on a regular month-on-month basis. We have increased our revenues by 10 times, working with 9 key accounts and increased the artisan income by 25% from the last year. We have scaled up to working with 1200 artisans (850 women artisans) and 28 cluster champions from around 350 artisans in the last 2 years. | Supply Problem: India has 9.1 million artisans. But Indian handicrafts sector contributes to just 7 Billion US Dollars - merely 6% of the global demand. This is because 83% of these artisans are unable to get access to formal markets globally. Demand Problem: Major global retailers plan to go 100% sustainable and eco-friendly but face problems in working with un-organized artisans in India and other countries as artisans do not create contemporary designs or work on high volumes and timelines. | The Supply Chain Solution: Artisan Micro-entrepreneurial Model We have enabled a business model of micro-entrepreneurs called cluster champions. We manage 1200 artisans with the help of closely monitored 28 cluster champions who use our mobile application. These champions are hand-picked from the artisan community and skilled and trained by Lal10 to: a. Efficiently package orders b. Crowdsource artisans from the cluster to cater orders in high volumes c. Using WhatsApp and Lal10 mobile applications to sell their products online d. Conduct quality control tests by global retail standards The Technology Solution: Handheld Mobile CRM for Artisans With the arising in-efficiencies in communicating with Whatsapp like a loss in communication and informal nature of WhatsApp, we are now enabling artisans to use Lal10 mobile handheld CRMs, which are as easier-to-use for the artisans. This will create a sustainable income to thousands of artisans as they will be able to put live inventories of their products to global retailers to choose and buy in bulk. Future Vision: Our vision for the tech product is to create an ecosystem where the artisans can procure raw materials, access affordable working capital loans and insurance, etc. In the next 5 years, our vision is to create a million livelihoods in India. We want to let artisans have sustainable livelihood throughout the year, and in turn, helping global retailers to source easily by having access to their live inventories. | Lal10’s competitive advantage lies in our tech solution that: 1. Organizes how the artisan does business, without creating a radical change in the what they are comfortable using - it is as simple to use and intuitive as WhatsApp 2. Provides detailed information about the product being inquired about to the artisan, avoiding miscommunication happening due to interfaces like WhatsApp and traditional Vendor Management Systems 3. Providing awareness about the various benefits available to the artisans through grants, loans, medical insurances and so on. 4. Support in creating a catalog document for the products that they have created 5. Multilingual support to help them understand and converse with their potential buyers and customers in the language they are comfortable with Our core differentiators are: Innovation in Design - Lal10 focuses on form and material designs making our artisanal products have a global appeal and demand the right value. Cluster Champion Model - The cluster champions in the clusters ensure that the artisan network of Lal10 becomes automatically scalable based on demand. Technology-enabled model - With the scale of our in-house inventory management product for artisans, we aim to map and digitize the latent inventory that is available with the artisans, making the marketplace inventory light at scale. Quality Control - We have skilled our 28 cluster champions to do quality checks and incentivize them to deliver products to Lal10 without any defects. | For the cluster champion model: We have been successful in skilling 28 cluster champions across the 10 states that we are working on at present. We have provided them with smartphones and skilled them to use WhatsApp to scale their business. We operate in women-dominated tribal belts of Orissa, West Bengal, North Eastern states and MP. This makes 70% of our 1200 artisans women. And 20 of the Cluster Champions are women leaders as well. For the Artisan Mobile CRM: Although the use of WhatsApp is easy to learn for the artisans and for us to work with the 3000+ inquiries we receive every month, the artisans had some genuine issues with using WhatsApp for commerce. This led us to research what the artisans (primary users) want. We hired a team of UI/UX Engineers from IIT Bombay who traveled to 8 clusters and conducted the primary user interviews with artisans. Based on this, we identified the biggest pain points of artisans in using WhatsApp for commerce. Based on this, we developed initial paper prototypes for our user persona and further, our initial beta prototype for user testing and gathering feedback for iterations. We received positive feedback from the 50 artisans from 8 states we piloted the prototype with, wherein they accepted and loved the prototype as it was easy to understand, use and navigate like WhatsApp, but built for them to do commerce seamlessly. We measure progress and methodological rigor in projects using tools like Gantt Charts and Zoho CRM. | Impact Roadmap: The following is the expected impact according to our projections for the year 2019-20 as per our progress in this year so far: 1. Percentage Increase in the wage of artisans - 35% 2. The total value of products sold/ Total Sales to artisans - USD 701,000 3. Number of livelihoods impacted - 12000 4. Total number of artisans working with - 3500 5. Increase in the average price of the product from the year 2017-18 - USD 0.35 6. Number of products sold - 55650 7. Total number of clusters working with - 165 We aim to work with 3500 artisans in the next year and around 6000 artisans by the end of 2020-21. We aim to impact a minimum of over 30,000 livelihoods by the end of the next 3 years and a million livelihoods in the next decade. Revenue Roadmap: We intend to double our revenue from our B2B clients through improving the tech infrastructure by investing a part of our profits into scaling the tech product from 2021 onwards. Our projected revenue from B2B business for 2020 (before EBITDA profitability) - SGD 1.64 Million Our projected revenue from B2B business for 2021 (after achieving EBITDA profitability) - SGD 3.21 Million (approximately 2x of the revenue before achieving net profitability) Expansion Roadmap: Key Markets to expand to after India in the next 5 years: Vietnam, Indonesia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Latin America (All of these are countries with strong artisan populations, but low per-capita income for artisans. | Funds for Artisan Skilling and Capacity Building (Long-term need): This amount of funds will go into helping the artisans in skilling them in using technology, understanding designs and executing quality control at scale. By investing in skilling and educating the artisans, we ensure increasing our capacity to cater to bigger orders and more clients. This will ensure the building of a robust supply chain network for creating a sustainable impact. In return, it will improve the brand awareness of Lal10 among the artisans. Mentorship/Partnership for Ecosystem Development leveraging Technology (Medium-term need): Technology is not the core activity of the company but it will trigger scalable impact in the community as access to affordable smartphones and internet is available to the remotest villages in India now. The target users are mobile-first and will require implementation partners to skill them to use it. We look to partner with NBFCs/MFIs/Banking Partners for providing access to affordable, short-term working capital loans for artisans as well as access to affordable health/life insurance for these artisans. Referrals for Strategic Team Building(Short-term need): We would need the right professionals in the space of technology with experience of working in the social sectors to develop the technology and to implement it across the artisan clusters which we do not have today. We wish to harness powerful peer networks to ensure the best people working on our product. | PROFESSIONAL WEBSITE: http://lal10.com ARTISAN MOBILE CRM PROTOTYPE VIDEO: https://youtu.be/_k0fhHfWVjU PROFESSIONAL SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Lal10.Official/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/lal10_official/ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lal10-com/ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSw7PljCJng7grhdNEaLwaQ MEDIA COVERAGE: Entrepreneur - https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/280041 VCCircle - https://www.vccircle.com/ttk-prestige-chairman-former-itc-execs-invest-in-b2b- marketplace-lal10/ Economic Times Tech - https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/startups/how-rural- indias-artisans-find-global-buyers-through-lal10/59728173 Forbes India - http://www.forbesindia.com/article/30-under-30-2019/forbes-india-30u30-2019- already-setting-benchmarks/52409/1 http://www.forbesindia.com/lists/30-under-30-2019/1755/all The Indian Express - https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/interview-maneet-gohil- was-featured-in-forbes-india-30-under-30-lal-10-5640069/ CNBC - https://www.cnbctv18.com/videos/changing-india/heres-all-you-need-to-know-about-lal10-2962971.htm https://www.cnbctv18.com/videos/entrepreneurship/here-is-the-list-of-30-young-achievers-of-2019-2185881.htm Hindu - https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/lal10-startup-optimises-how-handloom-clusters-streamline-global-orders/article28823180.ece https://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/fashion/2019s-zero-waste-designers/article26090577.ece | 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlZPq2QDWAQ&feature=youtu.be 2. https://www.cnbctv18.com/videos/changing-india/heres-all-you-need-to-know-about-lal10-2962971.htm 3. https://www.techcircle.in/2016/06/08/how-lal10-com-helps-rural-artisans-reach-out-to-global-buyers | - Forbes 30 Under 30 2019 - Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) scholarship recipient - Winners of Economic Times - Power of Ideas - Winners of Action for India - Silicon Valley Trek and Scotland India Impact Link - Cohort Members of GSBI Accelerator, GMC Calibrator and Westerwelle Foundation, Germany - Winners at Eureka, IIT Bombay - Winners of Business plan competitions in IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, and Delhi College of Engineering - Selected to be part of the Ellis Accelerator, New York in 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
823 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ehsan | Allahyar Parsa | Rootify | https://www.rootify.me | CEO and Founder | Male | Germany | Germany | Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Spanish | My intrinsic motivation is deeply reflected in my roots. I’m a German student of Persian origin. My parents chose Germany as a new home for me and my brother to have a better chance for education. Despite being grateful for this opportunity I always felt the urge to help my family in Iran. This inner drive resulted in an attitude of making the most out of the available resources as well and as quick as I can. Stepping out of my comfort zone is my passion which led me to living and working in 7 different countries (Beijing, Bristol, Frankfurt, Medellín, Taipei, Brussels) speaking 10 languages & having travelled to 30+ countries My life goal is to use all available resources as quickly as possible to ensure my constant personal growth. Being a German student of Persian origin my intrinsic motivation and high ambitions are deeply reflected in my roots. As supporters of the Pahlavi dynasty my parents had to emigrate due to political persecution during the Islamic revolution in Iran. They chose Germany as a new home so my brother and I would have access to free higher education. As a small child, when I was overhearing conversations of my mother talking to our close relatives who remained in my home country, I realized how lucky we were to live in a social democratic welfare system. Nonetheless, I always felt the urge to help my family in Iran which resulted in an attitude of making the most out of the available resources as well and as quickly as I can. This inner drive is visible throughout my whole curriculum: Starting with an premature school entry at the age of five years, continuing with a one year faster high school completion (G8) with a parallel International Baccalaureate Diploma and eventually enrolling as well as graduating quicker from university, even though I had been working simultaneously at Lufthansa and Deloitte. Growing up in a completely trilingual setting, speaking Persian to my siblings and mother, German with friends and colleagues and attending classes held in English, I have always strived for becoming a global citizen. Especially nowadays where Europe has to cope a lot with the refugee crisis, I think learning a language is more important than ever to diminish barriers and enhance intercultural understanding. As a consequence, I am working as a translator on a voluntary basis to help other people to have equal opportunities. By now I have learned ten languages. Apart from my two native tongues, ... | ... I have certificates ranging from Cambridge to CertiLingua proving my fluency in English, Spanish and French. In addition, I took classes in Portuguese, taught myself Afrikaans and I’m currently accomplishing my MBA in China because I want to be prepared for the great market potential of the BRICS . Working full-time at the German airline Lufthansa gave me the opportunity to get to know many different cultures and apply my language skills on a daily basis in face-to-face conversations. Even though I was working for the best European airline by then, I didn’t feel comfortable in my role as a single gear in a huge complex. I strived for more responsibility and impact. This is why I had quit working there and decided to continue my studies with a whole new approach and focus. For the past six month I’ve been spending my weekends on developing a revolutionary language learning app called “Rootify” that has risen up to a global top 20 early stage startup of which I am the founder and CEO. This unique experience will not only provide invaluable insights but also give me the privilege of working with likeminded professionals. This is why I consider it the perfect bridge between my academic and professional career lying ahead of me. I would like to conclude my application by quoting Elon Musk. Having read several biographies of successful entrepreneurs his character was the one I could identify with most: “We should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness [ ... ] the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.” | Rootify | AI-/R assisted language learning App which connects cultures by going back to the roots & enabling an universal understanding … literally! | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil | Yes | BMW Mini ; Justus-Liebig-Universität , Entrepreneurship Cluster Middle Hesse ; Caritas | Proof of Concept | We had 1368 beta-registrations after our first public pitch and have successfully tested the concept which I developed learning the majority of my languages. In September we will be in national TV at Prime time which is why we're currently sleeping 4,5h a day on average to meet this deadline for our launch. | Building the bridge between cultures by facilitating the process of language learning and matching native European citizen who are willing to share their language skills & are interested in new cultures with refugees. This process is further improved by an uniquely efficient learning method: Languages are acquired based on similarities to one’s native or learnt tongues. Users can swipe their way through vocabulary they actually want to learn. Simply think of us as the Tinder for language lovers. | What makes Rootify unique is the focus on friendship and intercultural exchange. It is not supposed to be strict private lessons, but rather casual get-togethers like cooking traditional dishes for instance. More specifically, refugees will be able connected to speaker’s profiles and request teaching sessions via our app which functions as a cultural bridge. Our team is convinced that in contrast to current education platforms enhanced learning by immersion will eventually lead to integration which hence constitutes the leading principle of our vision. Our app further includes various gamification features like rankings and bonus points for new friendships and meeting frequency. We incorporate the best features of all existing solutions to finally have the All-in-1-learning App everybody has been waiting for. Another unique selling proposition Rootify incorporates is that users can swipe their way through the vocabulary they actually want to learn. Through my empirical research within my bachelor-thesis I discovered the strong linkage of motivation and memory: Language learners will be able to memorize the self-selected offered vocabulary significantly longer compared to those trying hard to learn all including personally irrelevant ones. Once selected they can swipe if they remembered their vocabulary or not. Based on that self-assessment the algorithm adapts the repetition frequency of those specific words. | Among all my ideas I would like to highlight this personal favorite lastly: The implementation of Augmented Reality. As a perfect symbiosis of individual learning sessions and social get-togethers users can turn on the camera to explore the world around them and the vocabulary will magically pop up in the other’s native tongue. Just as us humans our respective languages share similar roots. These similarities even become apparent within distinct language families. Comparing my mother tongues German and Farsi which is spoken by many refugees is where I first had this realization. Our vision is to connect cultures by offering the most efficient learning methodology focusing on what we have in common. Refugees will be provided an individualized learning experience based on their prior knowledge in their native tongue/other languages. Think of us an Tinder for language learning. We offer a similar minimalistic user interface design where individuals can swipe not only back and forth between vocabulary but also user profiles they want to exchange with. All in all, Rootify will turn language learning into an effortless experience enhancing mutual understanding in its most literal sense. Let’s go back to the roots ; Let’s Rootify ! | Several newspaper articles and interviews in different languages which can be found here: http://bit.ly/PresskitRootify each time led to hundreds of beta-registrations over our website. Further we included refugees in our conceptual development who used our method offline with amazing success rate! | Shortterm: Freemium Middleterm: B2B offering individualized courses with project-specific vocabulary. Longterm: Institutionalization: Handing out certificates for companies and users likewise for reaching a high level of fluency | App-Developers and Computerlinguists | https://www.rootify.me | Please find our speaking engagements in multiple languages including my Speech at the United Nations regarding UN SDG10 in our presskit within the folder ""Media Coverage"": http://bit.ly/PresskitRootify | WINNERIndo-German Entrepreneurship Pitch Competition; MLP; Hesse Idea Slam 2ND Ceo1Month (2018&19); Start-Up & Go; Start-Up-Weekend Mittelhessen FINALISTEU Y-Award ; NextDoor ; NextLevel ; Creative Biz Cup ; Pitch&Network ; 3DS ; SEMIGlobal EdTech Startups Award; Hessischer Gründerpreis (statewide founder award) QUARTER Global Top 20 Early-Stage Startup at the Alpha Web Summit in Lisbon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
824 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dumisani | Kaliati | MicroMek Limited | https://www.micromek.net/ | Founder and CEO | Male | Malawi | Malawi | English | My country Malawi is one of the least developed countries in Africa and has some of the highest HIV rates in the world, with 10,000 children dying from it yearly. Maternal mortality rates are at 634 deaths per 100,000 live births, and mortality under five years old is at 0.64%. Getting people tested and delivering medicine is a challenge given that over 80% of the population live in rural areas characterized by bad terrain and poor or non-existent road networks. Floods during rainy season completely cut off road networks, making it very hard for health services to reach remote areas. It currently takes an average of 11 days to get samples from health centers to testing labs, and up to four weeks for the results to be delivered back. The longer the delay between test and results, the higher the risk for the patient. Unfortunately, the situation for rural populations in many other developing countries is similar. Drone technology for the delivery of medical diagnostics and treatment can provide an effective solution, they not limited by bad terrain or poor road networks, and they use low-cost battery power. They could reduce the delivery of blood samples for HIV tests and other time-sensitive supplies from 11 days to less than 30 minutes. This has led to my current work where I am locally developing low-cost, autonomous, fixed-wing drones made from 3D printed parts and foam board for use in the delivery of medicine, vaccines and HIV test kits for young children and pregnant women in Malawi, and it can contribute to progress on SDG 3 (good health and wellbeing) by increasing coverage of essential health services, as called for in SDG target 3.8, among the most disadvantaged populations. | Dumisani Kaliati was born in 1994 in Mzimba, Malawi. He holds a bachelor’s of science degree in Information technology obtained in 2016 from the University of Malawi, The Polytechnic. He is an innovator and the Founder and CEO of MicroMek, a Malawian based hardware startup that is locally constructing low cost autonomous fixed wing drones made from 3D printed parts and foam board for delivery of medical diagnostics for young children and pregnant mothers in hard to reach areas of Malawi. He is also the innovator of TDOSE, a low-cost SMS reminder device for outpatients to take their hospital prescribed dosage. In 2018 he was selected for the Mandela Washington Fellowship for the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) where he harnessed his leadership skills and obtained his executive education in Business and Entrepreneurship from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A. In 2019, he was selected for the Goalkeepers youth Action accelerator award, a mult partners initiative between the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, CIVICUS, Obama Foundation, the Bush Institute and Restless for development that seeks to support 26 young data innovators across the world working on innovative solutions to achieve the UN global SDG 1 through 6, under which he is focusing on SDG 3(Good health and wellbeing) through his FlyingThings drone project. He is also a top three winner of the social impact Total startupper of the year challenge for Malawi. | Project FlyingThings | Locally constructing low cost autonomous fixed wing drones for delivery of medicine in health in hard to reach areas of Africa. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Malawi | Yes | 1) GoalKeepers youth action accelerator ( https://www.civicus.org/index.php/what-we-do/innovate/actionaccelerator/dumisani-kaliati ) | Transition to Scale | From November 8 to 9, 20117 through training by the Virginia Tech University, one of our locally constructed low cost EcoSoar aircraft made from 3D printed parts and foam board, flew 19km journey carrying a drug package from goged clinic in less than 15 minutes. This year from May and July we have built 6 additional aircraft’s and conducted more than 65 flights carrying pregnancy test kits, HIV test kits and flue medication for children as a proof of concept. Now we are transitioning to scale | In Malawi 10,000 children die from HIV yearly. Maternal mortality rate is at 634 deaths per 100,000 live births and mortality under five years old is at 0.64%. Getting people tested and delivering medicine is a challenge given that over 80% of the population live in rural areas characterized by bad terrain and poor or non-existent road networks. It currently takes an average of 11 days to get samples from health centers to testing labs and up to four weeks for the results to be delivered back. | Our locally constructed low-cost, autonomous, fixed-wing aircraft are made from 3D printed parts and foam board, their use is quick delivery of medicine, vaccines and HIV test kits for young children and pregnant women in hard to reach remote areas of Malawi. Our drones are autonomous, they are only given coordinates of where to go and do delivery through a computer/mobile App. They can carry 0.4 to 0.8kg of medical payload and can cover over 30km distance in 20 to 25 minutes. The project is called FlyingThings, and it can contribute to progress on SDG 3 (good health and wellbeing) by increasing coverage of essential health services, as called for in SDG target 3.8, among the most disadvantaged populations. The initiative will also contribute to: (1)Target 3.1: By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births; (2)Target 3.2: By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births; and (3)Target 3.3: By 2030, end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other. In Kasungu, Malawi, the UN Fund for Children (UNICEF) and the government of Malawi have set up a drone test corridor, which is the largest one in Africa and the only one dedicated to humanitarian operations. (http://unicefstories.org/drones/malawi/). We have been conducting our pilot drone delivery test in the drone corridor since November 2017. | In Malawi Getting people tested and delivering medicine is a challenge given that over 80% of the population live in rural areas characterized by bad terrain and poor or non-existent road networks. Floods during rainy season completely cut off road networks, making it very hard for health services to reach remote areas. Medical Samples are currently transported by road, either bicycles and motorbike or local authority ambulances. It currently takes an average of 11 days to get samples from health centers to testing labs, and up to four weeks for the results to be delivered back. The longer the delay between test and results, the higher the risk for the patient. The longer the delay between test and results, the higher the risk for the patient. Unfortunately, the situation for rural populations in many other developing countries is similar. Our locally constructed autonomous fixed wing drones use low cost battery power and are made from cheap 3D printed parts and foam board. We are able to cover over 30km flight distance at an average of 20 to 25 minutes which is fast as compared to road transportation. Drone technology for the delivery of medical diagnostics and treatment can provide an effective solution, they not limited by bad terrain or poor road networks, and can fly over flooded regions. They could reduce the delivery of blood samples for HIV tests and other time-sensitive supplies from 11 days to less than 30 minutes. | In November 2017 my local team got training in local construction and operations of the low cost EcoSoar aircraft made from 3D printed parts and foam board. One of our locally constructed EcoSoar aircraft successfully completed a 19km distance carrying a drug package from gogode clinic( http://unicefstories.org/2017/11/20/malawi-low-cost-drone-built-by-students-delivers-medicine-over-19-km-distance/ ) The aircraft are capable of carrying 0.4 to 0.8kg of medical payload to an over 30km distance on an average of 20 to 25 minutes. In January 2019 I got selected for the Goalkeepers youth action accelerator award, an initiative of the Bill and Melinda gates foundation to support young data innovators working on solutions to achieve the UN SDGs 1 through 6. (link). This financial support has enabled us to build additional six aircrafts through technical support form Virginia Tech university. The aircraft have been tested through the month of June and July where we have conducted more than 45 autonomous flight pilot tests with 5 communities, carrying rapid pregnancy test kits and HIV rapid test kits around the Kasungu UNICEF drone test corridor in Malawi and at MUST campus ( https://youtu.be/DjA4IPBEb1c) , The Goalkeepers youth action accelerator also provides us with mentorship support and project monitoring rubrics to track project progress for each quarter, that we communicate back to them. | 1)By December 2019, we aim to have locally constructed 10 additional low-cost aircrafts made from 3D printed parts and form board that will be capable of carrying 0.4 to 1Kg of time sensitive medical diagnostics such as HIV test samples, pregnancy test kits and vaccines for young children and pregnant mothers in the remote areas of Malawi over a 30 to 60km distance in less than 30 minutes. 2) We aim to expand our pilot test from the current 5 communities we are testing with to more than 10 communities surrounding the UNCEF drone test corridor in Kasungu Malawi. (http://unicefstories.org/drones/malawi/ ) 3)We aim to conduct a community survey with 50 to 100 rural young mothers in order to identify challenges they face to access health care as related to poor road networks and bad terrain. 4)We hope to gain additional support in both finance and mentorship from organizations such as the UNICEF and the UN solution that can provide us with finance to continue product development and transition to scale. We also hope to get support from Global health organization that can sign contracts with us to us for our drone delivery solution in remote areas that they support 5)We aim to train over 50 additional local youth drone operators in a local capacity building for constructions and operations of drones for delivery in health. | 1)Partnership with Global health organizations. These are crucial for us as they will be able to share with us their experience in last mile medical delivery and achieving the Universal health coverage especially for remote areas. Global health organization will also be responsible for paying for our solution on a hardware as service-based model since the remote clinics we aim to deliver to can not pay us for our services. 2)Financial support. As a social impact venture, we require financial support to continue developing and testing our technology. We need funds to buy electronics and hardware equipment as well as transportation as our drone operators navigate remote areas to do last mile medical delivery in hard to reach areas using our drone technology. 3)Mentor-ship. We need experienced personal that have successfully implemented technology-based solutions in low resource setting that can share us skills gained for a successful integration of emerging technologies in the communities 4)Networking opportunities. We hope to gain from the partnerships and the influential individuals that the UN solution is connected to that can further support our activities | 1)Link to our company website is: https://www.micromek.net/ 2)Link to our Project award under the Goalkeeper’s youth action accelerator is: https://www.civicus.org/index.php/what-we-do/innovate/actionaccelerator/dumisani-kaliati 3)Link to our project feature on the international institute for sustainable development (IISD) article: https://sdg.iisd.org/commentary/guest-articles/drones-for-sdgs-fast-low-cost-delivery-of-health-care-supplies-for-remote-populations-in-malawi/ 4) 5)Link to our project videos: https://youtu.be/6JmMH_v7phU , https://youtu.be/DjA4IPBEb1c and https://youtu.be/ZBliawLC17k 6)Link to our June project featured by the Malawi University is: https://www.poly.ac.mw/news/lets-build-drones-12-06-2019 7)Link to our project featured on Virginia Tech University: https://team.cired.vt.edu/dumisani-kaliati/ 8)Link to feature by IREX under YALI Mandela Washington fellowship: https://www.irex.org/people/dumisani-kaliati 9)Link to our U.S.A embassy of Malawi public lecture on our project: https://twitter.com/USEmbassyLLW/status/1050695910848643074 10)Link to June community survey with local women: https://twitter.com/MicroMek_LTD/status/1152142209141170176 12)Links to our social medial handles: @MicroMek_LTD | 1)Link to our U.S.A embassy of Malawi public lecture on our project: https://twitter.com/USEmbassyLLW/status/1050695910848643074 2)Link to our featured Young entrepreneurship forum by the U.S mission to the African Union: https://youtu.be/ZCUYl7GwXSA 3)Link to our project video interview: https://youtu.be/6JmMH_v7phU 4)Link to our podcast interview: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/not-your-african-cliche/e/59646596?autoplay=true | 1)Awardee of The Goalkeepers youth action accelerator: https://www.civicus.org/index.php/what-we-do/innovate/actionaccelerator/dumisani-kaliati 2)Top 3 winner of the Total startupper of the year challenge: https://startupper-of-the-year-challenge.total.com/en/challenges/malawi/pages/winners 3)YALI USADF business plan competition finalist and awardee ( https://www.poly.ac.mw/news/drone-genius-wins-five-awards-worldwide-26-03-2019 ) 4)Northwestern University YALI pitch competition winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
825 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Klein | ILELEJI | JUA Technologies International, LLC | www.juatechnology.com | CEO & Chief Technology Officer | Male | United States of America | Nigeria | English | We apply to the UN Solutions Summit because the UN is a global organization that is inclusive to member states and one of the organizations where innovations can be shared among members’ states across various spectrums of development. We strongly believe that our solution, a novel, portable solar crop drying device (Dehytray) designed to reduce food wastage and provide a livable income for smallholder farmers will help smallholder farmers in member states meet several key UN sustainable development goals. The Dehytray was launched into the market in December 2018 and is currently undergoing field trials in Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, Tajikistan and the United States. The goal is to equip smallholder farmers and agribusinesses with the Dehytray that would enable them deliver micronutrients in premium quality dried plants and crops. If we must to feed 9 billion people by 2050 and maintain a healthy global population, food wastage must be reduced by half of current levels (over $20 billion lost of food value), and also as reported in the 2019 EAT-Lancet Commission report, global consumption of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes must double. It is most logical and quite feasible that the dry-chain approach of preserving nutrients in shelf-stable dehydrated crops offers the most cost effective and feasible solution to preventing wastage and deliver premium plant-based micronutrients. Unfortunately, even when market opportunities are available such as the supply of quality dried produce in urban supermarkets or oversea markets, smallholder farmers are not able to meet quality standards. In most parts of the world, smallholder farmers still dry crops using primitive method such as by the road-side and on the bare ground. In fact, it is difficult today to purchase a solar dryer for smallholder farmers (please try investigating to buy one). | Dr. Klein E. Ileleji is a Professor and Extension Engineer in Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Dr. Ileleji's research focus and interest at Purdue University are in the areas of grain post-harvest technology, powder technology and biomass feedstock systems engineering. He teaches Biomass Feedstock Systems Engineering (ABE591K) and previously taught Electric Power and Controls (ASM420) for 6 years. Dr. Ileleji also leads both the renewable energy and grain post-harvest extension efforts at Purdue. He is a 25-year member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and a 12-year member of the Grain Elevators and Processing Society (GEAPS). He has extensive international experience in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and China. His activities can be found at https://engineering.purdue.edu/~biomass/index.html and www.grainquality.org. He is leading postharvest activities of the Feed the Future for Food Processing and Post-Harvest Handling Innovation Lab in Kenya and Senegal (https://ag.purdue.edu/ipia/fpl) and a USAID/USDA-FAS funded capacity building effort in stored commodity management in Nigeria. He has won several awards for his academic scholarships and entrepreneurial activities. He is the co-founder, CEO and CTO of JUA Technologies International, a start-up company based in Indiana and incubated at Purdue Foundry developing solar dehydration technologies for small and medium growers. | Dehytray TM | A portable solar crop drying device | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, Ghana, Tajikistan, Peru | Yes | University of Nairobi, Federation of Agricultural Commodity Associations of Nigeria (FACAN), University of Ibadan & six other universities in Nigeria, farmers cooperatives, NGOs | Transition to Scale | JUA Technologies International (JTI), DEHYTRAY is a portable solar crop dehydration device, which was launched to the market in Q4 of 2018. We have exclusive license from Purdue University in the USA for its commercialization. We have sold about 500 units of the DEHYTRAY to several private individuals and funding agencies such as the USAID and USDA for field testing conducted in the Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, Ghana, Peru, Tajikistan and the USA. We are ready to transition to scale. | In Africa, Asia and the Americas, there are about 525 million smallholder farmers who produce 80% of the food for their population and export. They unfortunately lose about over $20 billion of food annually from poor post-harvest practices and lack of technology. JUA Technologies’ mission is to meet this need with simple efficient multipurpose dehydration devices powered by renewable energy. Our goal is to cut food wastage by half, as well as provide profitable businesses for small growers. | Our solution, the Dehytray is a simple and modular solar crop dehydrator device that can be assembled in one minute, provides hygienic drying of crops (grains, fruits, vegetables, pulses, herbs, spices, medicinal plants, etc.) and foods (processed cereals, meat, fish, etc.) and is portable. It's portability make it very easily to transport by bicycle, tricycle, automobile, truck or canoe. It consists of a blackbody tray, which holds the product to be dried, made of US FDA approved polymer for food contact, which heats up when exposed to sun, doubling the temperature inside the drying chamber. The tray is covered with a transparent window that enables 92% transmission of Ultra Violet (UV) light to further enhance drying. This transmission window can be replaced with other windows that block various UV rays according to crop sensitivity and nutrient loss by UV. Our model for impact is to come along side agricultural cooperatives and farming communities to provide our technology, working in collaboration with NGOs to provide training, buyers of the dried product to enables financial viability of the venture by buying/paying for premium quality, and financial institutions to financially support the project. We would work to target women and youths with a focus on creating successful businesses from value added agriculture. Our vision for long-term impact is to form this type of project partnerships that would guarantee success, impact and sustained growth globally. | Our solution is unique because it is one of the first, or probably the first innovative portable solar dehydrators commercially available on the market today. We also bundle our solar dehydrator with a simple electronic hygrometer to determine when your crop is sufficiently dry and ready to package for safe storage, and a food grade scrapper to stir crops during drying or peel-off from the tray for sticky materials. The dehydrator is easy to transport using various transport means (bicycle, tricycle, automobile, van, ocean freight, air freight, etc.), and modular so that you use a many units as you can. We would like to try various business models of technology access, such as leasing dehytrays weekly, financing models or crop processing models. It provides hygienic drying of crops because it is made of a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) material and so will not support bacteria or mold growth. As different from other solar dryers that are made from wood, its production is easily scaled with the potential of reducing its cost drastically if demand grows to the millions. One other unique features is that it would be amenable for use with displaced populations in refugee camps, especially for many who were farmers before unfortunate events led to their displacement. There is an opportunity to create profitable businesses in refugee settlements. | The Dehytray was developed out of a 5-year sponsored USAID Feed-the-Future Lab for Post-Harvest handling and Food Processing led by Purdue in collaboration with local institutions in Kenya and Senegal. Two solar crop drying devices were developed and licensed to JUA Technologies. The Dehytray is currently on the market, launch in December 2018 and has sold about 500 units currently in various countries (Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, Ghana, Peru, Tajikistan and the USA) were they are being used or field tested prior to deployment to stakeholders (farmers). The Dehytray won two prestigious awards in 2019 for product innovation. It has been exhibited in Kenya and Nigeria, and about 1,000 will be shipped to a local distributor to customers in Kenya. Progress is measured by the independent field studies being done with the Dehytray, and the results are being disseminated in trainings in various countries. Workshops using the Dehytray have been conducted in Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, Peru and Tajikistan. Training is vital to successful deployment. Secondly, in projects, we would be documenting impact of the Dehytray on crop quality and market access by farmers who use the Dehytray. Monitoring and evaluation will be conducted by individual consultants. | The goal of JUA Technologies is to deploy the Dehytray technology to 10 million smallholder farmers and households in 10 years, and save several million tons of foods (USD value), primarily fruits and vegetables rich in micronutrients from going to waste. This will not only improve health of these populations, but also provide profitable businesses. We are working to scale the Dehytray in Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal and Ghana in sub-Saharan Africa and to some extent based on resources scale in India. These countries are chosen based on current interests from commercial distributors and partners with universities, NGOs, and some familiarity with them. While we are working to raise finances based on sale, we know we could rapidly scale impact through funding provided by donor organizations, etc. However, our goal is not to cultivate a culture of dependency, but to structure partnership with donors in such a way that the open market through profitable agricultural businesses created by the use of the Dehytray fund its expansion and scale. | Short-term needs (1-2 years): $200,000 to $500,000 to test large pilot-scale business models on the field in at least 1-2 countries. Medium-term (2-5 years): $1M to $1.5M to scale distribution and business models in 2-3 countries. Long-term (> 5 years): Use profitable business models tested in short-term and long-term to launch sustainable scaling of the Dehytray and large solar crop dehydrator/power generator, Dehymeleon in several countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the America. We just received a small business innovation grant (SBIR) Phase I from the USDA National Institute if Food and Agriculture to pursue R&D on the Dehymeleon device. Besides finance, of great need would be key partners such as food companies that we envisage would open their markets to small growers, NGOs to partner in training, and government organizations to help fund and support small growers and SMEs in agribusinesses. | www.juatechnology.com https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2018/Q4/purdue-solar-device-to-dry-grains-other-food-products-and-fight-waste-wins-national-product-design-award.html https://cavs.uonbi.ac.ke/sites/default/files/cavs/processing%20technologies%20Banner.pdf https://www.agupdate.com/agriview/briefs/crop/purdue-ag-celerator-invests-in-startups/article_98a1e411-5a2d-556b-84cf-e8ab46626118.html https://www.froghollowcsa.com/blog/2018/8/17/farm-focus-usda-dried-fruit-testhttp://www.wisconsinagconnection.com/story-national.php?Id=2364&yr=2018 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIoYwvni7DA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGRMZJTbeAc | DEHYTRAYTM recently won two prestigious awards in 2019: - the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering AE50 Innovation Awards. https://www.asabe.org/Awards-Competitions/AE50-Awards/2019-AE50-Award-Winners - Finalist in the food category of Fast Company 2019 World Changing Ideas. https://www.fastcompany.com/90329244/world-changing-ideas-2019-all-the-winners-finalists-and-honorable-mentions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
826 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Emma | Arcodia | Search for Common Ground | https://www.sfcg.org/ | Senior Program Coordinator, Middle East & North Africa | Female | United States of America | Italy | English | French | Search for Common Ground (Search) is the largest dedicated peacebuilding organization in the world, working in over 35 countries globally since 1982. Search equips individuals and societies with the knowledge and skills to find solutions to conflicts, emphasizing that while conflict is inevitable, violence is not. Search’s media approach is based on innovative television and radio programming implemented in over 20 countries and leverages popular culture to communicate messages of mutual respect, non-violence, democratization, and inclusion. Search believes that electronic media - whether TV, radio, cell phones, or the Internet - has enormous potential to influence how millions of people think about themselves, their neighbors, and their government, and we hope to leverage the power of the media to transform social norms that are conducive to sustainable peace. Often media, especially social media, is considered as having a negative global impact. But when you flip the script and look at media as a connector rather than a divider, it has the potential to shift social norms and promote positive change in societies around the world. As an organization, we specialize in producing innovative TV and radio programming that delivers high-impact educational messages. We collaborate with and train grassroots stakeholders - often those who are poor and disempowered - and, by doing so, enable them to make better use of the media to voice their opinions and contribute to their society. | Emma Arcodia is Middle East and North Africa Senior Program Coordinator for Search for Common Ground (Search). She has worked extensively on preventing violent extremism, promoting social cohesion, and enhancing youth engagement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and West Africa regions. She has designed successful peacebuilding and conflict transformation projects, including in Yemen, Iraq, Tunisia, and Libya. Prior to joining the MENA team, Ms. Arcodia developed programs to enhance county-level reconciliation processes in Liberia, and to mitigate intercommunal violence and prevent violent extremism in Nigeria, Niger, and Mali, namely a UNICEF-funded project that led to the reintegration of 900 children associated with anti-Boko Haram militia groups in North East Nigeria. In 2015-16, Emma coordinated the “Bottom-up Approach to Countering Violent Extremism in Tunisia” project of Search in Tunisia, where she conducted thirty community dialogues across the country to research the push and pull factors to radicalization into violent extremism and briefed key government stakeholders with her findings. Before that, Emma worked on a women's empowerment project at Caritas Egypt in Cairo, which aimed to strengthen women's capacities in rural areas and increasing women's engagement in local affairs. Emma holds a Master's degree in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) - University of London, and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milano. | The President-Tunisia Reality Show | Reality TV to increase Youth Civic Participation in Tunisia | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Tunisia | Yes | The Ma'an Network, which is the largest independent TV, radio, and online media group in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. | Transition to Scale | Auditions for participants were completed in mid-July, and eight episodes of auditions will be aired between July and September. The first live episode will be broadcast on September 6, and will be broadcast on a weekly basis through October 25. | Tunisia’s youth are becoming increasingly disillusioned and disengaged from politics as the gap widens between youth and the government. The levels of trust between young people and their government remain low, driven by a sustained lack of delivery of promised youth-focused programmes and services. The issue is compounded by a general lack of knowledge and capacity among youth regarding the political process. | Fostering youth engagement in the political sphere has the potential to develop lifelong engagement in the democratic process and sustain Tunisia’s democratic transition. Search leverages the role of mass media by producing and broadcasting a reality television programme, called The President, combined with a large social media component, to reach youth and adult audiences across Tunisia. The President Reality Show aims to establish a dialogue between youth, parents, and decision-makers, on youth’s role in democratic governance, educate the audience on political and democratic processes, capacitate a select group of youth participants in leadership skills, and connect youth to decision makers. Using a hybrid between popular formats like Pop Idol and The Apprentice, the Tunisian audience votes through SMS or social media for its favourite would-be young ‘president’. A hundred selected youth participants gain leadership skills, increase their knowledge of politics, business, civil society, practice democratic governance, and increase their professional networks. They have the opportunity to participate in an exclusive youth leadership programme alongside some of the most prominent Tunisian leaders from the private sector, academics, politics, and civil society. The show instills social norms on democratic governance, educates the audience on political processes, and triggers positive intergenerational conversations about democracy, inclusive governance and youth leadership. | Media campaigns can disseminate messages to promote peace and enhance peaceful dialogue, and shift attitudes and behaviors of viewers away from adversarial, destabilizing approaches, towards greater tolerance and moderation. Yet most programming geared towards the promotion of peace, tolerance, and acceptance is not engaging or ideal for consumption by the masses. However, the innovative approach of reality TV provides a unique means to amplify the democratic voices of young men and women, while modelling the potential and value of youth civic engagement and government accountability. Moreover, the high entertainment value of interactive, competition-driven shows have proven popular in past programmes and will ensure audience interest and engagement throughout the duration of the programme. Although television alone cannot provide people with all of the skills necessary for seeking non-violent solutions to conflicts, a thoughtfully produced series can play a role in reaching large numbers of people in an entertaining and popular format to facilitate conversations. In order to connect youth to decision-makers and illustrate the importance of political participation of youth, Search together with local CSOs will facilitate community dialogues between youth and local authorities throughout Tunisia, with a special focus on rural and semi-urban communities where many marginalised youth reside, and using the TV show’s episodes as an entry point for discussions. | The Search-Tunisia team has so far finalized several meetings and one-on-one discussions with different stakeholders involved in media, the Advisory Board, CSOs, feminist NGOs, political parties, and other public and private institutions in the youth empowerment field to strengthen coordination and prepare the ground for the upcoming activities and the pre-selection process of candidates for auditions. Search has also issued a call for applications through a nationwide outreach campaign targeting young people (18-35) from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds and regions to showcase their innovative ideas and leadership abilities in a televised competition. Search’s local Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation (DME) team manages all DME activities with technical support from the MENA Management and Direction Team and Search’s Institutional Learning Team (ILT) based in Washington, D.C. Search has conducted a baseline assessment based on audience surveys, targeted interviews and focus group discussions with youth involved in the programme to identify key indicators and measurable performance benchmarks. Regular monitoring tools such as focus groups, surveys, viewing sessions, and Google analytics will measure and report the effectiveness of The President in the form of: - Size of audience of the show - Did the TV show and social media messaging content resonate with the target audience - What audience members actively do as a result of engagement with the programme. | Search’s project seeks to increase the youth’s interest in politics, peacefully engaging with their national and local governments, and improving mutual understanding and trust, ultimately contributing to higher youth turnout in the 2019 elections in Tunisia. The project has been implemented in the lead-up to the legislative and presidential elections that are set to take place between October and December of next year. The goal will be achieved through two the following objectives: - Increase the knowledge and support of millions of Tunisians for democratic political processes at the local and national level. - Promote a conducive environment for youth’s participation in formal politics. - National and local level governance is more inclusive and accountable, by strengthening political parties and parliament and promoting democratic space and inclusive political decision-making. | Short term: Resources to conduct research designed to provide vital information for structuring the project in a local context to develop the curriculum and script. Medium/Long term: Financial support to cover production and broadcasting expenses, as well as contracts for data collection and evaluation. | Facebook page containing videos of the audition, among other videos: https://www.facebook.com/kenjitra2is/ | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
827 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Timothy Olawale | Bogunjoko | TimAgri | Not yet | Construction/ Rehabilitation of Airport | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am excited to shear idea here because I believed is an opportunity for me to shear the value insight for well-being of human and for the better of tomorrow. | My name is Timothy Olawale Bogunjoko, I was born on 16th September 1993. I am a native of Owa-Onire Ifelodun local government of Kwara state and I was brought up at Kajola Ojuirin village in Ondo state Nigeria. My father married 3 wives with twelve children, two male and two female for each wife but unfortunately I lost both my parent to the cold hands of death at a tender age, I fend for myself throughout my studies from secondary school to tertiary institution and at the same time I serve as a bread winner for my siblings. My primary and secondary education was in Odigbo local government area and after my secondary education I proceed to higher institution and I have National Diploma in civil engineering from the Federal Polytechnic Offa, Kwara State Nigeria Moreover, after my National Diploma program I have work with 3 different companies of which I have 4 years of working experience in civil engineering field. Above all I realized that I have much interest in business of which I believe the dream will come pass. | Construction/ Rehabilitation of Airport in Nigeria | International standard Airport will guarantee safety of flight and fast and easier exportation of agricultural products. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Nigeria | No | Research & Development | I have done some study in the past couples with the information I pile from Nigerians and the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) I concluded that this innovative idea is at research and development stage. | The only functioning international airport in Nigeria is Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) and the challenges of infrastructure that face the Airport and his Air-Cargo port have limited is standard to call it international airport. Congested of the airport have discourage investor, travelers have complained a lot about their safety, with this challenges safety of traveler’s is not guarantee Importation and exportation of goods by air is quite worrisome. | Nigeria the most populous country in Africa has only one functioning international airport and one functioning Air-Cargo Terminal. The Air-Cargo Terminal reduce the rate of exportation and make the exportation business limit to some calibers of people If there is an alternative standard international Air-Port there is no doubt about the patronage of travelers, investors, and also investors will not be afraid to take reasonable risk in agricultural business. Moreover easier and fast exportation will be achieved. Nigeria exportation business will attract foreign buyers. It is understand that during harvesting most farm product always sell surplus at a lower price on market and there is always wastage of farm products. If this solution can be achieved, wastage of agricultural product will be defeated. Farmers will be encouraged to invest more, and if farmers invested more high volume of agricultural products will be generated. Directly or indirectly; 1)Food security sustainability will be achieved 2)Since Nigeria (Africa) is blessed with good land suitable for farming ; this solution will encourage Nigerians to beautifully invest in farming occupation and it will transform to creation of decent jobs 3) This initiative will enhance economy | 1.This solution is unique because it will capitalize on infrastructure challenges face by the only functioning international airport in Nigeria. Safety and convenience of travelers will be guarantee 2.Air-Cargo Terminal with Modern equipments for fast and easy exportation 3.Foreign buyers for exportation of different kind of agricultural products. 4.Buying of farm products from the local buyers and resell to foreigners | I measure it high because there is no such kind of innovative in Nigeria | I wish to implement this kind of innovative in other Africa countries facing such infrastructure challenges especially in Air-Cargo Terminal. The best for Africa is to use their LORD given land that is suitable for agricultural occupation to maintain food security sustainability for the world | Loan one of Federal Government of Nigeria international Airport, rehabilitation to international standard and profit make from airport and from exportation business will be use to build a world class standard of International Airport and also, in future building such kind of world class standard to other Africa countries facing such a challenges. To build an Industries as a center for processing of farm products for standard exportation. To have an offices across Nigeria for buying of different kind of agricultural product from local buyers | An article from the manager of Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) that highlight how congested Murtala Muhammed International Airport; https://punchng.com/40-years-after-lagos-airport-due-for-decongestion-faan/ An article from Prof Ademisoye Joel that show how unsafe and how below standard the international Airport compare to other international Airport in the world and also economy enhancement; https://punchng.com/improving-the-poor-condition-at-lagos-airport-a-reflection/ | Not yet | Nothing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
828 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | YEWANDE | OLATUNDE | SMEFUNDS | www.smefunds.com | PROJECT & RESEARCH OFFICER | FEMALE | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | With a population of over 190 million of which 60% are youth and women; Nigeria, faces one of the worst electricity access and connectivity per household. Access to safe and affordable electricity with women traveling miles to source cheaper wood fuel remain one huge challenge faced by the disadvantage group. We imagine a different narrative for our Women and youths to be empowered with life skills and soft skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) learning, New environmental awareness and action in Sustainable development. Women and children are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and global warming though wide spread use of fossil fuel for household cooking, poor sanitation, Open deification, and poor waste management system and increasing deforestation.These effects have been heightened majorly due to poor awareness and Education, low level of girl child enrollment in School, cultural limitations and perceptions on gender imbalance. These challenges faced by the female folk and youths motivated my interest in STEM and simple solutions that can foster better cooking procedures and clean fuels, DIY renewable energy projects that can be designed, built and maintained by the female gender ranging from solar lamps, solar blenders, bio-ethanol cook stoves and fuel, waste conversion to biomass briquettes for cooking and heating, solar chargers and other basic amenities powered by RE. In over two (2) months, I and my team have been able to train over 500 women and children on energy efficiency, improved cooking methods and energy sources, solar projects that can be replicated in homes and used. These have gone a long way to change the mindset of the nation about women's involvement in STEM but there is still a huge populace to cover especially in the rural area where these global warming challenges are most evident. | Yewande OLATUNDE, Project and Research Officer at SMEFUNDS is a passionate multidisciplinary professional with a deepening expertise in the design and development of mini-grids, economics of Renewable energy, energy efficiency and management and health and safety with the aim of providing sustainable energy solutions. She is proficient in the use of HOMER, RETScreen, PVSyst and other relevant software for renewable energy technology design and simulations with an award-winning innovation on de-carbonizing Western Australia’s Grid at the 2018 United States Association of Energy Economics Case Competition. Yewande heads the STEM-NPR (Next Production Revolution) team at SMEFUNDS; working on training's and workshops for children, students, women and communities to develop their skills and improve their knowledge on the sustainable development goals, energy access, climate change, energy efficiency and basic solar electricity projects. She also hones the design and supervision of solar systems installations ranging from rooftop solar systems to mini-grids. She is passionate about the female gender ensuring they are well grounded in basic technology of solar systems, energy efficiency and environmental management. | Women Energy Ambassadors | Women in Clean Energy and STEM Education for Africa | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | NIGERIA, SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA | Yes | Ignite Science, IRead, | Transition to Scale | My solution is in the transition stage as it still needs a good catalyst to drive it to scale. My solution is implemented to meet the needs of Children and women in my target market. With waste and recycled materials, we are able to develop multiple projects that provide an innovative perspectives to youth and women in appreciating how STEM and the Environment co-create the nexus of a new science backed economy. | In line with the selected SDGs; my solution addresses these listed problems below: 1. Hazards women and children face using unclean and polluting energy source/form for domestic chores. 2. Cultural and societal barriers to women having technical and engineering skills 3. Improper waste disposal into the environment and water that causes several health challenges affecting women and children. 4. Energy Inefficiency | The solution aims to: 1. Build the capacity (mentally, physically and technically) of women, girls and children on what climate change and its effects is all about through local engagements, simple DIY workshops and how to repair small electronics. 2. Student Engagement and training starting from the primary level to tertiary on STEM and the next production revolution which is digitization. 3. Set up an Energy Ambassadors Club in Schools and well and Energy Efficiency Advocates in Communities championed by the female gender and Children. 4. Sensitize and create youth teams on environmental management; working on empty pet bottle gathering and sales to recycling companies, reporting wrong disposal of waste into water ways to relevant bodies that will address the issue and meet necessary punishments. Long-term vision for global impact: The vision is to ensure there is a synergy between every training hub, school, ambassadors club and advocacy team to the government and international bodies to allow for scale up and continuity. These projects will be established and ensured to be passed down to next generations and sets of students independent of changes in leadership or government. Data collection and analysis will also be properly coordinated to keep tabs on progress achieved. Monitoring, evaluation and review will also be carried out periodically to ensure the projects remain relevant and in line with global goals. | This solution is multidisciplinary in nature as it aims to not just build the intelligence quotient of the female gender but also the emotional and social quotient. STEM Education for youth and Women provides a unique opportunity that offers first time exposure and knowledge to beneficiaries in communities without access to green Education, Access to Internet and STEM education basics. | We have been able to successfully run a number of STEM projects on solar electricity, carbon emission offsets and improved cooking methods. The STEM trainings have been targeted more at students of primary and secondary schools on hands-on solar electricity projects. Each school selects students to participate in the project with teams working on individual unique projects after proper detailed training. The community engagement training has been channeled at women on clean cooking, Biogel and improved cookstoves and the business aspects of these solutions. Progress is been measured through proper and routine monitoring of trainings and modular projects carried out. This is in order to ensure proper execution of the strategic objectives and to ascertain the level of knowledge gain the students are operating on. The projects and activities are measured and evaluated through –Physical interactions and supervisions of students together with the facilitators –Examinations and hands-on practical’s –A phase report on the activities and things achieved. The method used is very dynamic and flexible; trainings are executed in clusters, hubs and schools. This is to reduce the difficulty of transporting participants to a central location, also a train the trainer session is carried to encourage local content and domestic competence, brochures, training manuals, raw materials that can be easily sourced are used for the projects such as pet bottles, waste papers and boards etc. | Presently we have worked with private primary and secondary schools, some private universities and women in the peri-urban communities which is a tangible milestone for us but inadequate. Our planned goals and milestones are to: 1. Ensure training is channeled more to the rural areas of Nigeria through a local content approach; translate the training modules to their local language. 2. Empower at least 50 women per month locally on technical skills on electrical and solar energy 3. Orientate and empower 200 women and youths in each state monthly on environmental management; incentives for proper home waste management (sorting, recycling, reusing, drop-off at disposal points) 4. Expand the training team to cover multi-disciplines in order to deliver robust soft and technical capacity. 4. Expand the solution to neighboring countries in Sub-Saharan Africa; | For proper scaling up of the solution, resources needed for there to be considerable impact are: Short term: a. Access to finance in terms of grants, partnerships and sponsorship's b. Access to more schools especially government schools in immediate location of influence Mid-term: a. Integrating the ambassadors club into the curricula of the schools b. Establish training and maintenance hubs in communities for women for the electronics and solar systems that need repairs. c. Expand the solution to tertiary institutions as a technical/vocational course Long-term: a. Work with the government to develop a policy to support the establishment of an energy ambassadors club in every school in the nation, community hubs for female STEM and clean energy innovations. b. Platform to upscale the solutions on a macroeconomic level c. | https://smefunds.com/npr-hub https://carboncreditnetwork.org/ | https://web.facebook.com/carboncreditnetworkmembers/?_rdc=1&_rdr https://web.facebook.com/mamakikeskitchen/?ref=py_c | One of the winners of U.S Consulate General Small Grants Program on ""Solar Electricity Projects for Schools"" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
829 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Anushka | Ratnayake | myAgro | www.myagro.org | CEO | Female | Senegal | United States of America | English | French | I am interested in presenting the work and story of my organization, myAgro, to the UN Solutions Summit because I want the world to see smallholder farmers as I do: powerful agents of their own destiny with the means and drive to invest in their farms and pull themselves out of poverty. Globally, smallholder farmers are one of the largest groups living in extreme poverty. Most interventions focusing on smallholder farmers assume that farmers don’t have the financial means to gather enough income to make a meaningful investment, and so they fall back on giving farmers loans or cash handouts. Instead, my organization myAgro has proven that by providing a new financial tool adapted to how farmers already manage their money, we can unlock millions of dollars of financing from the farmers themselves. In 2019, 60,000 smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa invested their own money in their farms using myAgro’s innovative financial tool: mobile layaway. Working with myAgro, these farmers were able to purchase high-quality seeds and fertilizer to improve their harvests and income. Presenting at the UN Solutions Summit would be an amazing opportunity to share what we have learned in eight years of designing financial and agricultural solutions with and for smallholder farmers. | I am Anushka Ratnakake, Founder and CEO of myAgro. I have lived in Sub-Saharan Africa, working to alleviate poverty for smallholder farmers since 2008. I was drawn to this work after witnessing a tsunami destroy the coastline of my parents’ home country of Sri Lanka. While I immediately volunteered where I could, the sheer enormity of devastation overwhelmed first responders, and much of the country was too paralyzed for the first few days to help. Fisherman and coastal farmers who survived literally sat on collapsed homes, guarding their tin roofs from confiscation because they didn’t believe the government’s promises to rebuild homes further inland.That image of defiance in the face of hopelessness stays with me today as I and the myAgro team fight for farmers to have the dignity of choice. The dignity of choice that I deeply believe in is linked to having the economic freedom that comes from not living under extreme poverty. Before starting myAgro, I joined and learned from two of the fastest growing and innovative social enterprises that empower people living in poverty: Kiva and One Acre Fund. In my position at One Acre Fund, I developed key components of the core operation model, created management-training programs and traveled across Africa and South Asia in search of innovations in the microfinance and agricultural sectors. At Kiva, I was a part of the early team and created the Kiva Fellows Program. I received my BA in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz and my agricultural training from smallholder farmers in Bungoma, Kenya. | myAgro | Mobile layaway for poverty alleviation | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | myAgro currently operates in Mali, Senegal and Tanzania. We plan to add three more countries in the next five years. | Yes | myAgro partners with Catholic Relief Services in Mali, Aga Khan Foundation in Tanzania, and Stromme Foundation in Mali to implement the myAgro program with their existing networks of savings groups. | Transition to Scale | myAgro is at the stage of transitioning to scale because we are preparing to double our reach in the next year, growing from 60,000 to 120,000 farmers. After growing steadily for the past several years, myAgro has progressed past proof of concept and shown that our model of mobile layaway, input delivery and agricultural training is an effective system to reach rural farmers and increase their harvests and income. | Smallholder farmers make up 80% of the world’s poorest people. There are 1.6 billion+ smallholder farmers with limited access to financial institutions. Their cash flow is “lumpy”. Farmers have the highest amount of income at harvest time, but their greatest need for cash is at planting time when their cash is depleted. Without liquidity at the right time, farmers can’t invest in their farms to increase their harvests, thereby locking themselves in a cycle of poverty that’s difficult to break. | myAgro, an award-winning non-profit social enterprise working in Sub-Saharan Africa, has pioneered a mobile layaway model that enables farmers to invest their own funds in high-quality seed, fertilizer, tools and training to significantly increase their harvests and income. Using a prepaid scratch card model — similar to buying prepaid mobile minutes — farmers pay in advance for inputs and training. After selecting the package of seeds and fertilizer they would like to purchase, farmers buy myAgro cards (valued from $1 to $20) from their local myAgro Village Entrepreneur whenever they have cash available. They then use this card to deposit their money into a layaway account by texting in the card’s scratch-off code to myAgro. After a few months of laying away funds, myAgro delivers the fertilizer, seed, and training the farmers have paid for in time for planting season. myAgro’s North Star goal is to work with 1 million smallholder farmers by 2025 to increase their income by $1.50 per farmer per day to move out of poverty. However, this North Star is simply an intermediary goal, designed to be surpassed. myAgro’s long-term vision is a world where hard-working farmers grow enough food to eat each year and break the cycle of poverty. Every farmer, regardless of gender, will have access to the financial tools, agricultural inputs and training they need to succeed. | myAgro’s solution is different because we provide a financial tool that matches farmers’ existing income streams, views farmers as viable customers capable of investing in themselves and is designed to scale. Most rural farmers, particularly women, earn and spend money in small increments - make $3 selling vegetables, buy $1 worth of oil. myAgro’s model of mobile layaway matches these habits and leverages a technology that farmers already trust - scratch cards. myAgro’s perspective is new because we see farmers as customers. Conventional wisdom says that poor people are poor and therefore must not have any money. myAgro sees this theory disproved every day. By providing a financial tool that matches farmers’ existing habits and income stream, in 2018 myAgro unlocked $1.3 million in agricultural financing that came from the farmers themselves. The most common approach to addressing low-income populations’ need for financial services is microcredit (i.e. small scale loans). Despite making strides, microcredit has not yet found a cost-effective way to serve smallholder farmers. Only 25% of the $200 billion annual financing need for smallholder farmers, estimated by Dalberg, is currently met by formal financial institutions. myAgro’s innovative saving-led approach has the capacity not only to help the 75% of smallholder farmers currently beyond the reach of microcredit but also to move farmers out of poverty by increasing their income without putting them in debt. | In the eight years since myAgro’s founding, the organization has grown from a simple idea that there might be a better way to reach rural farmers to an innovative, dynamic organization helping thousands of farmers across three countries. myAgro measures progress in terms of scale, impact and sustainability. With regards to scale, since myAgro’s founding in 2011, our organization has grown from serving 240 farmers in a small pilot in Mali to working with 60,000 farmers across Mali, Senegal and Tanzania. In terms of impact, myAgro farmers consistently grow 50-100% more food and earn an average of $110 more per year than farmers who plant without myAgro. These impact calculations are made by taking samples of both myAgro farmers and non-myAgro farmers, measuring their harvests, and comparing the outcomes. Finally, as for sustainability, myAgro is a social enterprise with a goal of reaching 100% financial sustainability for our field operations by 2023. Currently, revenues from farmer payments cover 40% of those field costs. | myAgro’s North Star goal is to reach 1 million farmers and increase their income by $1.50 per farmer per day by 2025. To accomplish this goal, myAgro will: - Expand to reach 120,000 farmers (100% growth) in 2020 and expand from three to six countries in the next five years - Grow the network of village entrepreneurs (commission-based sales people) who sell myAgro scratch cards from 800 to over 3,500 - Increase myAgro’s impact per farmer from $100 per farmer per year to $140 per farmer per year in 2020 and $550 per farmer per year in 2025 | In order to accomplish these goals, myAgro must increase our layaway revenue, donor funding and human capital. - Layaway revenue: In order to reach our growth and sustainability goals, myAgro must increase the revenue we earn from farmer payments. As mentioned previously, myAgro’s long term goal is to reach 100% financial sustainability of our field programs to ensure that all existing country programs can run sustainability on their own. In order to accomplish this, myAgro will need to cut costs by implementing new technological solutions and increasing farmer payments by developing and refining our agricultural packages to meet farmers’ needs. - Philanthropic funding: Until myAgro reaches 100% field financial sustainability via layaway revenue, the budget gap will be covered via donor funding. After myAgro reaches field financial sustainability, donor funding will continue to cover R&D and expansion. Therefore, myAgro needs to continue diversifying and growing our philanthropic funding to cover these costs. - Human capital: None of myAgro’s goals are possible without a strong team. Already, myAgro has grown from a scrappy team of just five in 2011 to 400 full-time employees and 800 village entrepreneurs. In order to reach the next stage of growth and meet our 2025 North Star goal, myAgro must develop middle-management and bring on more talented leaders. | myAgro's website: https://www.myagro.org Video about myAgro produced by Skoll Foundation for the 2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F9lUhuEJUk Gates Notes blog post: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/mobile-phones-bigger-harvests?WT.mc_id=20181114043200_myAgro_BG-FB&WT.tsrc=BGFB&linkId=59594194&fbclid=IwAR1IqCgvtKtgzcEuhuN3Dyo-bR1nDCcT-FdJaquB8yZGgstXCNKvcJ8p8Cs “With scratch-card savings, farmers dodge drought” - Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-senegal-drought-farming/with-scratch-card-savings-senegalese-farmers-dodge-drought-idUSKBN1OI0WZ “Helping Smallholders Buy Inputs, One Scratch Card at a Time” - CGAP article: https://www.cgap.org/blog/helping-smallholders-buy-inputs-one-scratch-card-time | TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQO-ptAaYFk Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship Award acceptance speech (speech starts at 00:52): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9OzgGl POP Tech presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE1yM5N2fu4 Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs podcast: http://inspiringsocialentrepreneurs.com/episode-58-interview-with-anushka-ratnayake-is-the-founder-and-executive-director-of-myagro/ | Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, 2018 - winner Lipman Family Prize, 2018 - winner Drucker Prize for Innovation, 2018 - winner Fall Armyworm Tech Prize, 2018 - finalist Orange Social Enterprise Africa Award, 2015 - finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
830 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ulrich | Ngoumezong Tsamo | TKswift Service of Software Development | http://www.tkswift.com | CEO | Male | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | French | We see a Framework/Opportunity that can allow us to make this project a company, to meet young leaders from other countries passionate about sober and sustainable development in order to work in synergy to achieve common objectives, to meet experts who can help us to better manage our projects or channel our ideas by being coaches/mentors for us (In a favourable framework of concept sharing). Expand our network, benefit from financing opportunities and finally acquire new knowledge in marketing, fundraising, corporate structuring, resource and project management, leadership, etc. So that we can be the main ear of the company we represent. | Ulrich is a young entrepreneur and volunteer who recently graduated from the University of Yaoundé I in mathematics and ICT. While working as a multidisciplinary LEDS modelling specialist with the Ministry of Environment in Cameroon, he helped to produce a CO2 quantification and impact measurement model and to build Cameroon's development strategies by 2035. Ulrich co-founded TKSWIFT consulting with which he deployed the AFROSHOP and SAPGA platforms, with which he facilitated the marketing of agricultural products and inputs and optimized the rate of return on agricultural plantations in partnership with farmers' organizations, UNEP and ADEID. As a volunteer at EBAFOSA, Ulrich contributed to the distribution of improved cassava plants to farmers in southern and central Cameroon, the installation of a cassava processing unit in the northwest and the installation of a solar power plant in the southwest; actions that have led to the improvement of the living conditions of the local beneficiary populations. Thanks to these experiences, he has acquired strong skills in project coordination and implementation. Ulrich likes to work on the themes of sustainable agriculture, climate change and the digital economy, and has a strong passion for empowering young people and business processes. | LANDPAD | Reduce agricultural risks by 20% for small producers at low cost and efficiency | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Cameroon | Yes | EBAFOSSA, ADEID, UNEP, MIRAI-iA, DJS-TECH | Research & Development | We have a functional prototype running on 4 applications, pilot plantations for testing, a database of 1320 agricultural producers and sellers, technical and administrative partners. Currently we validate our product in the field and prospect our customers while finalizing the development of the remaining apps and refining our machine learning equations. | In Cameroon 70% of the population lives from agriculture. she is characterized by small producers, with varying farms between 1 and 4 ha. Farmers face production problems: lack of control over the agricultural calendar due to climate variability, waste of resources, lack of technical assistance, fluctuation of input and product prices on the market and difficult access to credit agricultural. All these elements contribute to the decrease of the yield and therefore of the incomes and hunger. | LANDPAD is a tablet with a set of applications to digitize agricultural plantations and optimize production by facilitating access to markets, information and training. This System is based on prediction algorithms (AI) and a management system (ERP). Designed on the Android core and also powered by solar energy, it extends along the agricultural product value chain and integrates the following dedicated application suite: LAND MANAGER administrative management of the plantation; (ERP) LAND ANALYSES predictive management and analysis of land, weather and plantation using the behavior of existing plantations and their history to make predictions of other plantations; LAND LEARN training space for farmers on agricultural production methods, techniques and standards; AFROSHOP Marketing of agricultural products and inputs (E-commerce); MELU Agricultural voice assistance LAND INVEST application of participatory financing (crowdfunding) for agricultural projects based on the Block Chain LAND NEWS continuous agricultural information and discussion forum categorized by speculation LANPMAP Land mapping and geographical breakdown by agro-ecological zones LAND STORE allowing the integration of solutions designed by third parties. vision: reduce risks related to agricultural production by 20% and facilitate market access (products and inputs), credit and agricultural insurance. This is achieved by providing farmers with a generic, low-cost, efficient, autonomous and context-specific tool. | In the past, econometric-based methodological approaches such as modelling and optimisation, technical efficiency have been used to provide a generic exploitation model to farmers. Also some farmers use the EKYLIBRE platform to manage their plantations. However, these methods have shown their limitations in terms of accuracy (modelling and technical efficiency), contextualization (EKYLIBLE), management and management difficulties. LANDPAD combines all approaches by positioning itself as a framework and providing less generic and accurate forecasts. In addition, LANDPAD is easier to use, cheaper, generic and integrates intelligent resource management (all in a single agricultural solution). Its structure and autonomy (solar) allow it to be an asset in the collection, processing and dissemination of agricultural data to facilitate decision-making. | First of all we started by carrying out an engineering of producers' needs, then we selected plantations and test markets where we tested and validated our ML algorithms and finally we carried out training in the use of the solution and in making sales and services. An impact analysis is carried out based on the SROI method. This method proposes the following indicators: cost-benefit analysis, demonstrative value, global reporting initiative, impact reporting and Investment standards and intersectoral model. Cost-benefit analysis consists of comparing two groups (LANDPAD adopter and non-LANDPAD adopter) in order to assess production costs and benefits. The demonstrative value also takes into account the number of people who integrate the platform over a period of time and the number of monthly requests to the servers. The global reporting initiative makes it possible to validate costs, quality, functionalities and deadlines by using deliverables for the various activities in accordance with the established specifications. We use the Agile method on SCRUM for planning and development. | We are reaching agricultural producers in sub-Saharan Africa because agriculture is the backbone of their economies for 90% of these countries. And some European and Maghreb countries that are facing problems of lower yields due to climatic variations. We also reach standardization and micro-finance agencies for certification and agricultural credits. the next step is to: - finalize the prototype of the forecast module (all steps included) - launch 5 pilot projects on the 5 agro-ecological zones - release of the professional commercial version - deploy the solution to partners and train third parties - deploy 5 weather stations and buy a pixi4 drone. Objectives and milestones planned for your solution ? (for example, any new countries or markets in which you will expand, the staff you will recruit and the projected lives affected?) Objectives and milestones planned for your solution ? (for example, any new countries or markets in which you will expand, the staff you will recruit and the projected lives affected?) Train 10,000 farmers, have more than 20,000 products and inputs available on AFROSHOP and 7500 farmers using LANDPAD benefiting from the optimization of their yield and participatory financing of their projects grouped in cooperatives over 3 years. | Attached as an excel file are the short-term resources needed to be profitable and self-sufficient over a year. It presents the material and financial resources. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1dQtEbKfsSbcfC4TZXWfg2a1m1sIGA9ru Attached are the human resources needed in the long term as we currently use partnerships and consultants. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1IV8vHRiHDDgwPM7Ocd9jTGbpYpCKNNyw | https://landpad.tkswift.com https://drive.google.com/open?id=1z8OpTalFdP4U0tfoqwVzdj26PL7mprKh https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SiToPfEilMWojlkSVOxFVy0fyquHrfwD | https://www.tkswift.com/landpad.mp3 | JPO solutions Award 2018 (Finalist: MARC Concour) KTA innovation challenge 2018 (finalist: DOBRA, ASSO) Tony Elumelu Foundation 2019 LAGOS SFAN 2019 ACCRA (finalist: ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
831 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Edward | Duffus-Butler | Plan International | https://plan-international.org/ | Head of Innovation | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | As Head of Innovation at Plan International I lead a team that is constantly looking for new ways to empower girls and young women and tackle gender inequality. We are driven by a vision of a just world for all children which is free from all forms of discrimination. I work with an amazing team that are passionate about their work and believe in the social impact that it is creating. I would like this opportunity to share with a wider audience the important work that we are doing and to showcase one specific project that has the potential to be a real game-changer, given the right support. I’m motivated by the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular SDG 16.9, ""by 2030 provide legal identity for all including free birth registrations"". Since joining Plan International in 2013 I have been on a mission to find innovative solutions to address the identity crisis that currently exists and the solution that I would like to present, OpenCRVS, tackles this head-on. We have created an open-source solution for civil registration as a global public good so that every individual on the planet can be recognised, protected and provided for from birth. If we are able to share this solution at the UN Solutions Summit and attract further funding, OpenCRVS has the potential to make a massive contribution towards achieving universal birth registration by 2030. With a commitment to leave no one behind, OpenCRVS can help ensure that other programmes are inclusive but this vision needs to be shared with a wider audience so that we can forge impactful partnerships with other stakeholders of legal identity. | Edward Duffus-Butler is the Head of Innovation at Plan International, a global development and humanitarian organisation that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. He started his career in the British Army, transitioned to IT consulting but then found his niche at Plan International, where since 2013 he has been able to use his expertise as a technologist to make a real social impact. In particular, Edward has been leading a global programme on birth registration and is pioneering the use of digital technologies to strengthen civil registration systems in the Global South. As a core group member of the African Programme for the Accelerated Improvement of CRVS and the Regional Steering Group for CRVS in Asia Pacific, he created the CRVS Digitisation Guidebook (www.crvs-dgb.org) and is now leading the development of an open-source digital public good for civil registration in low resource settings, OpenCRVS. He is also a member of the International Advisory Group for MOSIP, the Modular Open Source Identity Platform. Edward now leads the global innovation capability at Plan International and is working with partners to find new ways to tackle the most urgent issues facing girls and gender inequality around the world. | OpenCRVS | Ensuring all lives count by first being counted | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Bangladesh and Zambia | Yes | Vital Strategies, Jembi Health Systems, Government of Bangladesh, Government of Zambia | Transition to Scale | We are commencing an OpenCRVS pilot in two sub-districts of Bangladesh for birth and death registration, at the request of the Government of Bangladesh following a successful proof of concept. We are preparing to demonstrate the value of OpenCRVS for the African context by configuring the product for Zambia and showcasing this at the African Conference of Ministers in Oct 2019. The OpenCRVS version 1.0 will shortly be available as an open-source global good. | 290 million children under five don’t have a birth certificate. Without this fundamental proof of identity, children cannot realize their rights to public services including healthcare, education, and protection from exploitation like child marriage. For people to count, they must first be counted, and that’s what a CRVS system does, recording the details of all major life events, such as births, deaths, and marriages. Yet 100 countries do not have functioning CRVS systems. | OpenCRVS is an open-source digital public good for civil registration that will help achieve universal registration of birth and death, making sure no one is left behind. OpenCRVS utilizes a user-friendly, web-based mobile application to reduce the inefficiencies of manual and paper-based processes. Crucially it brings the registration process directly to communities through field agents, community health workers and local health clinics where key life events take place. The system is interoperable with national ID and health systems, which reduces duplication of effort and increases quality, shared data. Incubated in Plan International, OpenCRVS has been designed according to the Principles of Digital Development. OpenCRVS is: • Freely available with no license fees or ties to software vendors • Safe and secure using best-practice security features • Easily configurable for all country contexts and low resource settings • Accessible and inclusive extending registration coverage to the hard to reach and marginalised • Gender aware, where the needs of women and girls have been core to the design of OpenCRVS, and data captured is disaggregated by age, gender, and location. OpenCRVS will generate real-time continuous population data views, allowing evidence-based decision making by governments and partners and the identification of vulnerable populations for resource allocation. | OpenCRVS is the first open-source Civil Registration solution on the market. As such it is free to use and adaptable to different country contexts. It is interoperable with government systems (e.g. health and ID), and rights-based to ensure it protects those most vulnerable. The needs of women and girls have been core to the user-centric design of OpenCRVS, which informs gender aware policies. To create OpenCRVS we have partnered with registration authorities, leading health system providers, expert software developers, and communities to design and build a global digital product that will serve the needs of end users. No other CRVS solution has made this sort of investment in product development. Other civil registration systems on the market are proprietary and countries have long suffered from vendor lock-in. Typically these solutions are not designed for low resource settings and hence are: • not operable in remote areas • difficult to use by low-skilled users • not interoperable with government ID and health systems Governments of developing countries are approaching the OpenCRVS team requesting implementation support, proving we meet their needs and requirements above others. | After a successful proof of concept of a production ready version of OpenCRVS, which was demonstrated to the Government of Bangladesh, we are now commencing a pilot in two sub-districts of Bangladesh for birth, death and marriage registration over the next 24 months. We have also conducted a scoping exercise with the Zambian government. Alongside this we continue to develop our core product and aim to make this available as a global public good with an open-source license early in 2020. To ensure the long-term success of the product going forwards we have also explored sustainable business models and aim to create a separate legal entity to manage the product and support scaling to multiple countries. . Progress is measured by the demand and engagement from governments and partner agencies, however actual implementation and product evaluation is done through a continuous improvement process using the following measurements: -Reduction in processing time of birth and death registration -Number of births registered using OpenCRVS -Number of birth certificates issued -Number of deaths registered using OpenCRVS -Number of death certificates issued -Number of causes of death assigned -Number of policy decisions made based on civil registration data -Number of resource allocation decisions made based on civil registration data | Planned goals and milestones for next two years: - Core product completed and published with an open-source license by June 2020 - OpenCRVS pilot completed with Government of Bangladesh for birth and death registration by Dec 2020 - Scoping and reference implementation completed with Government of Zambia by June 2021 - Demonstration of the OpenCRVS product at the African Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Oct 2019 - Demonstration of the OpenCRVS product at the Asian Pacific Ministerial Conference on CRVS in Oct 2020 - Scoping and small pilot implementation completed in India by Dec 2020 - Integration with other global goods such as MOSIP by Dec 2020 - Creation of OpenCRVS legal entity for sustainable product management by June 2020 - Identify future country implementation pipeline Current recruitment and contracting targets: - Bangladesh implementation team - Zambia implementation team - OpenCRVS legal entity core team Projected impact by the end of 2021: - 1 million births registered (scaled deployment in Bangladesh and Zambia) - 500,000 deaths registered (scaled deployment in Bangladesh and Zambia) - Network of developing countries using OpenCRVS and led by local teams that have built capacity from the OpenCRVS developer community | Short-term: - Additional funding for successful Bangladesh pilot implementation of birth and death registration, including business case for scaling: 500k euros - Digitisation & Design research in Zambia: 120k euros Medium-term - Seed funding for the creation of the OpenCRVS legal entity and product management activities (until self-sustaining by end 2021): 1.2m euros - Scoping and piloting of marriage registration in Bangladesh: 700k euros - Product configuration and field testing in Zambia: 250k euros Long-term - Pilot implementation of birth and death registration in Zambia, including business case for scaling: 1.5m euros - Integration of OpenCRVS with other open source identity systems: 300k euros | OpenCRVS website: https://www.opencrvs.org/ OpenCRVS was recently published in Digital Square’s Global Goods Guidebook: http://digitalsquare.org/global-goods-guidebook | TEDxWoking, Innovation for social good: the case of the missing millions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=bLWzNimxwlE IDRC: Integrating health and civil registration data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG59Qly3vsI IDRC: Navigating the digitalization of national CRVS systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m69mb8ghh1E | Open-CRVS was named a “Best Bet” in a guide published by The Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP) from a selection of MacArthur 100&Change applications in 2017: https://www.impact.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/CHIP1217_BoldIdeas_Final.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
832 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Olga | Krupskaya | NDI Foundation | www.ndif.org.ua | President | Female | Ukraine | Ukraine | English | French | Russian | I'm running NGO targeting to support Deep Tech ecosystem development in Ukraine, I'm in scientific based business since 2009 and we've made the research that since 1971 the technological innovations all around the globe stopped their dynamic growth, partially it's related with more easy profit obtaining and quick growth on business related to IT technologies and projects - that switched global investors from been investors of the future of the World to been investors of widgets and gadgets. On the other hand it's also related to the brake of new energy development, there was not any significant change in appearing of new and efficient energy source that could replace hydrocarbons. In the meantime all around the globe there is huge amount of new technologies and innovations those are not developing to been converted into business and solving critical global society issues like - still 1bln people in the globe without electricity; lots of people in the globe has no access to the food wth a good quality while lots of food waste both in logistic cycle or sales and consuming; not solved critical decease of the globe like cancer, diabetic, HIV/AIDS, in 21 century people still die of hepatitis, tuberculosis etc; even paying attention to extreme development of flow of information in so called ""digital era"" it still doesn't open access to the education and new knowledge for all the people in the globe. Moreover new knowledge, technologies and innovations are mostly kept for strengthening some exact country development and local economy while like some innovations should be without borders and be opened for all the globe to bring better future to the society. What are innovations by their nature? In my opinion that's an ability to get access to the resources - in most of the cases or using exact resources more efficient or in the new way. What does the lack of resources mean? That means conflict in spreading the limited resources. By developing innovations and making them partially out of borders we develop peace in the globe. Me and my team made kind of philanthropic project - the platform based on AI that analyse the risks of investments into new technologies and innovations - by judging them based on Technology Readiness Level, Investment Readiness Level, Risks; matching business and science and giving them joint language of understanding; making science and innovations without borders | Bologna Complaint Master of Science in Economy and Strategy. President of the NDI Foundation - NGO developing deep tech ecosystem and technological economy in Ukraine and working internationally with universities, research organizations, global industrial research organizations, venture and investment companies. Olga has over 100 projects in the field of forming management and project teams for international companies operating in the markets of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East. She has experience in launching greenfield & brownfield startup projects of international industrial companies in Ukraine, Russia and post-Soviet countries. She launched co-sponsored projects in the field of science and innovations such as Tech Today Hub (national platform for matching business and science), Tech Today Awards (Ukrainian scientific competition), TechExchange (web crowd-platform for innovation management), Science Camp (science and technology camps for talented Ukrainian Olympians) etc. Olga is representing Ukraine in IFIA www.ifia.org Taking active part in strengthening deep tech ecosystems in partnership with different countries | TechExchange | The AI based platform for decreasing risks of investment into new technologies and development innovations over globe | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Ukraine, France, Monaco, Russia, Ghana, Kongo, South Korea, Canada, Algeria, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Indonesia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Rwanda, Senegal, Thailand, Turkey, UAE | No | Scaling | We've developed it and are in the process of sending free of charge licenses to different countries | We solve the problem of new technologies and innovations development and scaling - both by matching science and business and managing risks. It also makes possible to develop very quickly the most important and critical for the globe innovation to be developed all over the globe like: - Food and Water - Energy - Health - Ecology - Education We'd like to support solving critical issues in above directions because scientific base exists | The platform is a web-based software product built on artificial intelligence and big data processing algorithms. Access to the platform is available in the cloud anywhere in the world. There are three groups of user profiles: Business / Investor Science / Innovator / Developer Expert of new technologies The platform has the following key modules and functions: Module 1. Technology Demands Submission and processing of technological requests / searching new technologies Module 2. Technology Offers Submission of technological proposals / proposal of innovation Module 3. Tech Grow Canvas Acceleration / development of innovative projects - commercialization and transfer to successful businesses TechExchange allows to unite science and business on country level, cultivates high-tech innovations. It makes possible to attract funding at every stage, creating consortia and search for partners for the introduction of new technologies. The platform is merging national innovation infrastructures of various countries. | We've worked for more than 5 years in cooperation with experts from USA, France, Switzerland, Poland, Spain, Israel, Ukraine and in late 2018 launched TechExchange platform for innovation management and business and science integration. We've bought the experience we missed, we've collected all the best practices from all that's exist. There is no other tool today in the globe that allows to structure the creative industries like innovations by mathematics. We're unique as far as we've built the deep mathematics algorithms to be applied for innovation management - its absolutely real today to make assessment of innovations not by experts, but by Artificial Intelligence that puts zero sentiments and analyse TRL (technology readiness level), IRL (investment readiness level), integral risks of innovative project. That allows to make innovations efficient and increase significantly access of growth and development. The platform is built on the philosophy that innovations targeted to solving key issues of the society should be opened for implementation in every country. Its also allow to solve technical issues in exact low developed economy by involving scientists and engineers all around the globe. The platform is efficient tool to be implemented for making science for better future. | We've developed 70% of the functionality that we're going to develop. In current stage we've structured and develop AI for new technologies and innovations assessment and management. We've collected successful and failed cases of biggest technological companies for recent 30 years and implemented Big Data tool for their systematization. We're in the process of developing of simple for innovators and scientists chat-boat that will help them to turn their project into implementation. We've developed all the algorithms and tools for matching business and science. We're in the process of scaling | We're going to develop at least 3-5 new countries development in the month. By development it means that we find relevant partner in the country, provide them with the free license for our platform and teach them how to develop that for deep tech ecosystem growth and integrating their ecosystem with other countries. We plan to solve energy, food, water, health, environment issues within several years of project development | Short-term: we've put about 650 thousand Euro to the development from our own money - we've developed 70% of basic functions, rest requires some additional funding in amount about 500 thousand Euro. We also need promotion and market access for scaling our solution in the globe and making the world better. Medium-term: development all over the globe requires intensive traveling of our team and support in the place - that's time and resources consuming. We need support in different countries in finding and involving key deep tech ecosystem organizers (which are government, but not always) In parallel to development we would need in every new country opening develop more strong cyber-security. That's money consuming Long-term needs: we need further development that would require additional funding for managing the developed network and data protecting | www.techexchange.info | Unfortunately we don't have the link to interview in English, meanwhile by request we're able to provide some | KIWIE South Korea Women Invention Forum 2018 - first release - Silver Medal Won We didn't compete in any other ones | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
833 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Emma | Arcodia | Search for Common Ground | https://www.sfcg.org/ | Senior Program Coordinator, Middle East & North Africa | Female | United States of America | Italy | English | French | Search for Common Ground’s (Search) goal is to promote a more peaceful and prosperous Yemen as part of our wider commitment to stability in the region. While the impacts of violence are felt across a society, conflict hardships are often felt most acutely by society’s marginalized individuals and groups, such as women. Despite the fact that women actively participate in conflict and peace in the country, they are often excluded from formal civic engagement or participation in peace processes. Search-Yemen believes that as women face unique gendered consequences and opportunities in conflict, it is essential that they play a central role in the conflict prevention, resolution, or peacebuilding processes. Our solution contributes to Yemen’s stabilization by enhancing women leaders’ role to transform conflict collaboratively and without violence at the local level. Search’s global expertise and work on gender equality, and women’s social, political and economic empowerment as avenues to advance women’s roles in peace and security has been at the core of the organization for over two decades. The programmes that have promoted and enabled women’s peace leadership from the grassroots to the highest political level. As Yemen heads into a critical moment in its transition, Search is committed to building on the success of its current work in Yemen to further support Yemeni capacities for peace and collaborative leadership by engaging women leaders. | Emma Arcodia is Middle East and North Africa Senior Program Coordinator for Search for Common Ground (Search). She has worked extensively on preventing violent extremism, promoting social cohesion, and enhancing youth engagement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and West Africa regions. She has designed successful peacebuilding and conflict transformation projects, including in Yemen, Iraq, Tunisia, and Libya. Prior to joining the MENA team, Ms. Arcodia developed programs to enhance county-level reconciliation processes in Liberia, and to mitigate intercommunal violence and prevent violent extremism in Nigeria, Niger, and Mali, namely a UNICEF-funded project that led to the reintegration of 900 children associated with anti-Boko Haram militia groups in North East Nigeria. In 2015-16, Emma coordinated the “Bottom-up Approach to Countering Violent Extremism in Tunisia” project of Search in Tunisia, where she conducted thirty community dialogues across the country to research the push and pull factors to radicalization into violent extremism and briefed key government stakeholders with her findings. Before that, Emma worked on a women's empowerment project at Caritas Egypt in Cairo, which aimed to strengthen women's capacities in rural areas and increasing women's engagement in local affairs. Emma holds a Master's degree in Middle East Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) - University of London, and a BA in Political Science and International Relations from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milano. | A Future Called Peace | Promoting young women’s inclusion in peacebuilding in Yemen | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Yemen | Yes | Due to sensitivity, we are unable to provide partner names at this time. | Sustainable Scale | This project creates sustainable peer-to-peer linkages among young women peacebuilders through capacity building, peer-learning, and community engagement. By leveraging the role of both young men and women role models, we set the ground for this approach to replicate, expand, and sustain over time. Search enables young women to take forward their new skills after the life of the project, and we will work with the Ministry of Youth to replicate our program in more governorates in coming years. | The ongoing civil war in Yemen continues to strain social relations and solidify pre-existing and emergent divisions between religious and tribal groups and Yemenis from different governorates. Conflict is altering social norms in dangerous and constricting ways: women’s opportunities to engage in public space have sharply closed. In many places in Yemen, women are not encouraged to participate in the public arena and their leadership is generally relegated to the family and women-only spaces. | Our program promotes the inclusion of young women to ensure that their unique capacities and concerns are represented in inter-communal dialogues. The program identifies young women to act as “Insider Mediators” (IMs). Search trains young women IMs, provides them with the platform to mitigate conflicts, and showcases their leadership and mediation skills through capacity building trainings. Through this process, women have entered into new leadership roles, such as conducting conflict scans, designing community dialogue sessions, and facilitating mediation sessions over communal grievances. A key tool that we leverage is our Community Dialogue Approach (CDA), developed and refined by Search-Yemen over the past six years. This approach enables communities to identify and address local conflict dynamics through mediation, culminating in locally led interventions targeting issues related to basic service delivery and governance. Within this approach, program activities are designed in a highly gender-sensitive manner. Trainings and community events are held at appropriate times of day and at accessible locations to maximize women’s participation (for example, activities hosted by local women in their homes makes female participation more socially acceptable). Search trains female IMs to to lead women-only community conflict scans and community dialogues, ensuring that young women’s unique concerns and perspectives are captured in the wider community dialogues and initiatives. | Search has historically worked on mediating divides in women’s movements in the MENA region, and our analysis shows that while women’s activism can be seen as monolithic externally, there are often schisms related to ideology, socio-economic divides, generational divides, and sector-based divides between civil society and political parties. Creating opportunities for work between national and local women’s movement in support of peace would greatly leverage the participation of young Yemeni women in peacebuilding and mediation processes. Through our program, female IMs lead program implementation in their target areas, holding overall responsibility for coordinating with local authorities and communities. Young women also lead consultative processes within the community, holding positions of power and impartiality and demonstrating clear capacities for leadership skills, such as management, critical thinking, and decision-making. These young women act as the face of peacebuilding in these communities and are publicly acknowledged as equal peers alongside their male colleagues, providing concrete examples of women’s leadership. Female IM leadership counters stereotypical and normative conceptions of women’s traditional roles in Yemeni society; this encourages other women and girls to step into leadership roles, acting as agents of positive change. This works to acculturate women’s leadership among the wider community. | Search-Yemen is in the final stage of the program, with plans to conclude in September 2019. However, Search will be initiating similar projects across Yemen to further enhance young women’s participation in peace processes. Upcoming activities for the current program include selecting and funding youth-led community initiatives based on criteria developed by Search-Yemen and local partners. Each initiative will be developed based on the conflicts identified in the conflict scans reports and dialogue sessions. Moreover, Search is in the process of coordinating with local partners to document all the community dialogues that have and will be taking place and the process of implementation of community initiatives. At the regional level our Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation (DM&E) Specialist leads the constant monitoring of program activities and change achieved, ensuring high quality programming by capturing results and adapting our activities based on lessons learned. The design and use of DM&E tools is conducted in an inclusive, participatory, and culturally sensitive manner. Illustrative examples of methods include surveys, focus groups, and targeted interviews. Search monitors stakeholder buy-in and the way that women’s engagement is being perceived locally. Search also monitors the conflict context to ensure that project activities are not contributing an increase of community tensions, particularly across religious, ethnic, generational, or gender lines. | Between December 2017 and December 2018, Search-Yemen trained 88 youth IMs, of whom 37 were young women, and a total of 485 participants in the community dialogues activities, totaling 573 overall youth participants. Search was also able to secure the meaningful participation of women as IMs across three target governorates, notably with equal 50-50 participation in one city. Between January and March 2019, there were a total of 1232 participants in community dialogue sessions, of whom 42 percent were women. The conflicts discussed across the sessions included issues related to youth clubs, health, basic services, electricity, education, security, and other development issues. While the program is coming to a close in September 2019, Search will be initiating similar projects across Yemen to enhance young women’s participation in peace processes at the local and national levels. | Short term needs: resources to conduct partner capacity assessment, benchmark assessment; procurement of equipment (vehicles, computers, etc.) Medium-term needs: more personnel in the Search-Yemen office to support the expansion of the project; contracting team for documentary film; conflict analysis and conflict transformation training; stakeholder workshops to identify conflicts and peacebuilding potential; Long-term needs: logistical and technical support for regional expansion; communications and media outreach; publication and dissemination of reports and videos of conflict mapping and potential for peace; mid-term and final evaluation. | https://www.sfcg.org/beyond-labels-woman-mediator-yemen/ https://www.sfcg.org/breaking-the-mold-woman-mediator-challenges-gender-norms-in-yemen/ Evaluation on the use of IMs in a previous project: https://www.sfcg.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/YEM704_ISCD_Project_Final_Evaluation_report.pdf#new_tab | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
834 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Teofilo | Tijerina | Onko Solutions | www.onkosolutions.com | Co-CEO | Male | Mexico | Mexico | English | Spanish | Our motivation for applying to the UN Solution Summit is to get exposure for the solution we have implemented in Mexico. The solution has a global reach, and our desire is to take it to every corner of the globe. As such, we seek a platform to help us connect with governments, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, and investors willing to partner with us in our mission of saving women's lives. We have used the latest scientific discoveries in cancer detection to develop a portable and low cost medical device that provides an instantaneous, and more accurate cervical cancer screen than the Traditional Pap Smear. The technology is called InstaPap, and it allows practitioners to reach patients in marginalized areas. The device is easy to use and training takes less than 30 minutes. InstaPap has been deployed in Mexico with over 20,000 screens performed to date. | Teo Tijerina has a career trajectory that spans capital formation, regional economic development, high-tech entrepreneurship and community development. He is an innovator and founder of both for-profit and non-profit ventures in the fields of impact investing and social entrepreneurship. In 2004, Teo co-founded his first company, Innovei International in El Paso, Texas. The next year, Teo also launched EDCO Ventures, a technology accelerator that partnered with entrepreneurs to commercialize technologies and launch innovative business ideas in economically distressed communities. Most recently, Teo partnered with Mexican entrepreneurs to launch Onko Solutions. Onko has successfully raised two rounds of institutional capital and has been operating in Mexico. In addition to his private sector experience, Teo also served as a Board Member of Latinitas and the Economic Growth Business Incubator, and as a Mentor for Unlimited USA. In 2014, he was appointed to the Austin Hispanic Quality of Life Commission. He was voted into El Paso Times 52 under 40 and was a finalist for Austin’s 40 under 40. Teo received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, and he was also a graduate student in the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) program at the University of Texas El Paso from 2002-2004. He graduated from McAllen High School in 1991. Teo was born in Reynosa, Tamaulipas Mexico, and was raised in McAllen, TX. He maintains citizenship status in both the United States and México. | InstaPap | A New Light Against Cancer | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | The technology is currently operating in Mexico. We intend to spread to South America, Africa, India, and Asia. | No | Transition to Scale | We have released an Beta Product to the market, and in 6 months we aggressively start selling the product after improving our detection algorithms. Moreover, we need regulatory approval for our version 2 of the device which allows us to substantially reduce the price and reach the Bottom of the pyramid. | Cervical Cancer is major problem, especially in the developing world. Every year, 530,000 women around the world are diagnosed with cervical cancer, and 85% of them are in the developing world. Given that cervical cancer is one of the easiest cancers to treat, the question becomes: Why are so many women dying from cervical cancer? One of the reasons is that the Traditional Pap Smear is not very accurate. What is needed to improve cervical cancer screening. | InstaPap solution works by utilizing spectroscopy and electrical impendance The long term vision for global impact is to deploy the technology in the private sector, government entities, and to work with NGO's to reach screen women in marginalized regions. | InstaPAP is a portable, effective and non invasive medical device for cervical screening that in comparison with Pap smear test, HPV tests or biopsy, does not require any lab test or tissue sample. InstaPAP combines multiple technologies leveraging Intelligent systems based on neural networks and support vector machines, including optical and electrical spectroscopy. Biophysics is an increasingly important field in the area of cancer prevention and diagnosis. It is especially valuable because it provides several advantages over cytology including immediate results and the inclusion of artificial intelligence to improve the collection, dissemination and visualization of results during the screening of cancerous cells in-vivo. InstaPAP combines a set of features offering a superior solution that is minimally invasive, portable, and inexpensive, while providing immediate results with higher efficiency. The solution is unique from other similar technologies in that utilizes Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning to self learn. This means that over time, the device will improve its accuracy. | The team begun in 2016 with nothing more than patents issued and a crude prototype. Since then, a commercial version of the product has been designed, prototyped, and manufactured. Moreover, the software and intelligent algorithms were coded to provide the best readings. In addition to the research and development, the supply chain was established and regulatory approval was obtained from the Mexican FDA. Now that the product is available commercially, progress is defined in both financial and social impact terms. The company board sets annual goals for revenue and profitability, as well as number of women screened using InstaPap. | The key milestones for the next 24 months include: •Grow Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) to $120K USD •Pre IDE Submission and Finalize Regulatory Strategy •V2.0 Mexican FDA Approval •V2.0 United States and Mexico Clinical Trials •Close Series B Fundraising * Expand into 2-3 countries in South America via Strategic Partnerships | The resources that are most needed include personnel, investment capital, and grant capital. In the short term, we need partners on a global level that will help us perform reputable clinical trials. The more studies we have regarding our technology, the more confidence the medical community places on our technology. We are also seeking a $2.5 million dollar equity investment to help us accomplish the milestones laid out above (See Planned Goals and Milestones Section). In the mid term, the company hopes to close a Series B of $20M in equity. This technology will allow for: 1. US FDA approval 2. Scaling in 2-3 countries in South America 3. Expansion into China In the long term, the company hopes to raise another $30M to enter Africa, India, Europe, Turkey, and other large markets. | www.onkosolutions.com (website) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2p6G29mVzw&t=124s (Video 1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wtZaRd3iQ4&t=3s (Video 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqOXhIUoTV0&t=88s (Video 3) https://www.dropbox.com/s/o02xxluv81s8o93/Sensitivity%20and%20specificity%20of%20a%20portable%20optoelectronic%20medical%20device%20INSTAPAP.pdf?dl=0 (Technical Paper) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-jm0Z30Lo4 (Tren de La Salud) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkQqzOBFixo (Conoce InstaPap) | Mexican Science Foundation (CONACYT) grants Nuevo Leon Technology Innovation grant (FONLIN) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
835 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Djbril | Diallo | African Renaissance and Diaspora Network | https://www.ardn.ngo | President & CEO | Male | Senegal | Senegal | Arabic | English | French | Spanish | In 2017, African Renaissance and Diaspora Network (ARDN) launched,,in collaboration with the UN Senior Africans Group, the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, governments, civil society and the private sector, the ""Pathway to Solutions"" initiative, a special project for the UN to popularize the SDGs. ARDN's mandate is two-fold: to popularize the SDGs and to increase public awareness and understanding of the UN, its strategies and its positive force for the planet. To this end, ARDN has mobilized cooperation across sectors in countries in Africa and the African Diaspora, and implemented innovative programs within Pathway to Solutions. In 2018, ARDN, in partnership with the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the UN, several UN system entities, and civil society, co-organized the Africa: Open for Business Summit, during UNGA , to help the integration of the SDGs and Africa Agenda 2063 into core business practices in Africa. ARDN also organized a fact finding mission to Senegal and Gambia in April 2018, comprised of American elected officials, journalists, university presidents, , which highlighted efforts to popularize SDGS. In December 2018, Secretary General of FIFA invited ARDN to Final Draw of 2019 FIFA Women’s Football, in Paris, using the convening power of Sport to popularize SDGS In July 2019, during African Union Summit, in Niamey, Niger, ARDN, in partnership with Government Niger and UN system co-organized the Youth and Climate Change Summit in Africa . The outcome included significant observations and forward-thinking undertakings such as: - recognition that all people, as members of one human family, share responsibility for the planet earth and its well-being. - commitment of young people to give due regard in actions they take in their daily lives to minimize, prevent and combat climate change and its negative effects.. - Recognition that women and girls, displaced persons, and others who have traditionally been underrepresented, bear a disproportionate burden from of climate change; and that their voices are crucial in building the Africa and world we want. - The commitment of young people to ensuring that the voices of of women and girls, displaced persons, and others who have been underrepresented, are heard and considered equally to those of others, and to uplifting and empowering all such persons against those who would seek to impair their equal dignity, both in the climate change dialogue and elsewhere. | Dr. Djibril Diallo, President, Chief-Executive-Officer & Board Director Coordinator, United Nations Senior Africans Group; former Regional Director for West & Central Africa and Senior Adviser to the Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; former director, of Communications of the UN Development Program (UNDP), Former Director of the New York Office of the Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on Sport for Development and Peace; former Spokesperson of the President of the United Nations General Assembly; former Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the United Nations Childrens Fund(UNICEF), former Deputy Director of Public Affairs at UNICEF, former Information Officer at UNHCR in Geneva, Switzerland, Former Modern Language Teacher in Secondary Schools in Nottingham, England, former Deputy Director of the International African Institute(IAI), London, England | A Pathway to Solutions | Accelerating the attainment of the African Renaissance on the continent and in the diaspora by supporting, and advocating for, the UNSDGs. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | We are active in over 80 countries in all of Africa and the Diaspora , with recent programs in NIger, Senegal, The Gambia, Ghana as well as the US, and Colombia | Yes | Our partners include international organizations, international sports entities, NGOs and governments. We have formally entered into memoranda of understanding and other agreements with a number of United Nations entities: UNFPA, UNDP, UNHABITAT | Sustainable Scale | Pathway to Solutions was launched in December 2017, and built partnerships throughout 2018 and 2019. Due to our investments in partnership and coalition building, we have achieved broad global visibility, and have been able to implement more activities and programmes within the Pathway to Solutions framework. | The ""Pathway to Solutions"" initiative, which is a special project for the UN to popularize the SDGs, seeks to amplify the vision of the UN Charter as articulated by the UN Secretary-General. ARDN's mandate is two-fold: to popularize the SDGs and to increase public awareness and understanding of the UN, its strategies and its positive force for the planet. | Our goal is to accelerate the attainment of the African Renaissance on the continent and in the diaspora by supporting, and advocating for, the development objectives of the United Nations. To achieve this goal, we mobilize and leverage the passion and comparative advantages of government, educators, artists, intellectuals, journalists, the private sector, civil society, youth and other stakeholders; and harness the power of art, sport and culture to unite and induce action. While our world is growing ever interconnected through technology, a decrease in personal interaction and an increased sense of spectatorship has led to the unintended result of a growing and perpetuating indifference and apathy. Our initiative aims to create a movement to break out of this holding pattern, guided by the vision of a world defined by the virtues enshrined in the United Nations Charter: peace, justice, freedom, respect, social progress, equal rights and human dignity, human rights, tolerance and solidarity. | Beginning with Africa and the African diaspora, our initiative facilitates and encourages collaboration between and amongst youth, local governments, academia, the media, the private sector, civil society, international organizations and other stakeholders, to create understanding and awareness about the United Nations and its work, and to create an enabling environment for implementation and ownership of the Sustainable Development Goals framework. | A measure of our success includes the following : —The increasing support of UN agencies and various governments. This is especially notable on the local level as we continue to deepen our working relationship with the Global Alliance of Mayors and Leaders of Africa and African Descent, with Youth networks, the media, women’s organizations and educational institutions. —-The strong media coverage of the ARDN activities in Africa and the Diaspora —-Building of a Constituency for Sustainable Development in Africa among the American leaders including the Private Sector, Black American elected officials, media executives, university presidents and celebrities —-The recognition of the importance of ARDN’s work by Governments and intergovernmental organisations in Africa and countries with substantial presence of people of African Descent in the Caribbean, Latin America, North America and Europe. ——Quantified results of partnerships developed between institutions of higher learning in the United States of America and African Universities | ARDN is currently operated by a dedicated voluntary staff. With sufficient resources, it envisions increasing its capacity with full-time and part-time staff and consultants. ARDN has an extremely strong footprint on the African continent, and envisions strengthening its footprint in the African diaspora. | Scaling ARDN's solution , and the speed of scaling, will depend on financial resources and partnership building. | https://www.ardn.ngo https://www.ardn.ngo/pathway/ | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fgh9R96tPk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvmOI_TzddU https://www.dakaractu.com/Education-Le-senegal-choisi-comme-exemple-de-popularisation-des-Objectifs-de-developpement-durable_a150817.html https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=860386854165038 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSVh9SErVC0 https://youtu.be/hywiZYFSii8 https://youtu.be/KCNpwgbuCaI | Most recently, ARDN was honoured at the 2018 SDG Leaders Reception, and I received the 2018 Rainbow/PUSH International Humanitarian Award. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
836 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Christian Lucrès | KENGNI KOUESSO | TKSwift Consulting | www.tkswift.com | Chief Business Development Officer | Male | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | French | I'm applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit to present a project to decision-makers and investors that can validate, mentor and support the project development as to propose a solution for the good of the humanity. | Christian KOUESSO, 20, comes from the city of Dschang, in the west of Cameroon, where he attended primary and secondary school before joining Yaoundé in 2015, to follow and obtain a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems and Networking at The ICT University. He develops some skills, thanks to his curriculum as well as his personal learning, specifically in information systems analysis and design, mobile application development, digital marketing and project management. While waiting to follow an International Master in Business Administration (iMBA), he devotes his time to offer IT services, developing personal and collective projects under the banner of the startup TKSwift, in the role of Chief Business Development Officer. Passionate about technology and militant of social progress; he is very interested in the wonderful impact ICTs could have on society while improving the country's economy. Hence a progressive orientation towards entrepreneurship and business management to set up and implement innovative projects for the good of humanity. Thus, in collaboration with his brother, towards the end of his medical studies, they have the vision of a company that offers various IT (Information Technology) solutions that meet the medical needs of the context of African populations. Among three solutions in development today, there is MediQuick (prevention, detection and management of diseases) who has won the STEMPRIZE competition in 2018. | MediQuick | We offer a complete set of features, following a comprehensive roadmap, prevention - detection - care, applicable to the medical needs of all people | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Cameroon, Africa | Yes | Denis & Lenora Foretia Foundation | Research & Development | The idea has been validated by a panel of experts during the STEMPRIZE competition organized by the Foretia Foundation in 2018. It as also been widely appreciated by prospects we have exchange with. The current stage consists of research to consolidate the idea, obtain data and partnership to establish a prototype that will help to prove our concept to a wider audience. | Chronic noncommunicable diseases (NCD) account for 63% of deaths worldwide. WHO states that about 20% of people aged 30 to 70 in Cameroon are likely to die of it. This is due to well-known factors such as lifestyle, food habits, urbanism, sedentary lifestyle and lack of medical follow-up. NCDs, beyond the health impact, represents a huge economic loss. Far more than the cost of care, it impacts the quality of life and productivity of those affected and is a primary factor of early morbidity. | MediQuick monitors patients' health status by relating symptoms and dietary, sports and professional habits to determine a risk index. An Intelligent algorithm connects habits, symptoms, antecedents, and similar case studies and triggers an alert on the risk index when the system suspects the development of a disease. The patient is advised and directed to what to do and/or the tests to be performed to confirm his / her state of health. The effectiveness of medical management is very often a function of responsiveness; thus, in line with the possibility of preventing and detecting certain diseases, MediQuick puts at the disposal of the guidelines applicable in case of health emergencies. Beyond this, a pre-diagnosis allows the patient to move towards the most appropriate specialist; information such as an address, location, hours of services and consultation fees on health centres across the entire territory improves this process. Moreover, advice and tips are regularly given to the patient already suffering from NCDs so that they themselves can administer a certain number of treatments and take specific measures favourable to the improvement of their condition; this under the supervision of their doctor who controls in real-time some key data. Our vision is a world where everybody is engaged in habits that help prevent, ease detection, and optimise care for chronic noncommunicable diseases. | There exist several solutions for remote consultation, countless health advice means, but most of these online services operate only in the ""West"" and in highly urbanized areas. More importantly, they are always generics, not all from a trusted source, and don't personalize advice to each user's context. MediQuick feet perfectly with each user, taking into account his personal data and being assisted by analysis on previous data in the system, this is achieved by a concise combination of Artificial intelligence and Big Data. MediQuick is also the first solution to fully integrate all crucial steps of the health roadmap, prevention, detection and care. | After validating our idea, we are now working on a minimum viable product that will be available earlier September. Our progress is in line with the initial planning, as we have to put in place a group of Doctor for provisioning the application before delivering it to the public. Our methodology is based on Scrum, and we use Social return on investment (SROI) to evaluate our project at earlier stages. | The WHO also states that around 20% of people between the ages of 30 and 70 in Cameroon are likely to die from one of these four chronic noncommunicable diseases: this is one of the highest rates in Africa sub-Saharan Africa. Our main goal is to reduce this percentage by half (10%) by 2025 by sensitizing and supporting prevention. Chronic noncommunicable diseases account for 31% of all deaths recorded each year in Cameroon. Our secondary goal is to reduce by half the number of patient who died of these diseases, expand the lifespan of patients by assisting and improving their personal care. Milestones: 1 year: 5 000 users - 5 IT Staff / 10 Medical Staff 3 years: 1 000 000 users - 7 IT Staff / 30 Medical Staff - Artificial Intelligence assistance 5 Years: 5 000 000 users - 7 IT Staff / 30 Medical Staff 6th Year: Expand to other African countries 10th Year: Explore the world market | Short-term: 20 347 USD Marketing and communication (6 200), IT Resources (1 700), Data collection and processing (6 800), Office & Furniture (3 500), Legal aspects (1 700), 5% Majoration (447) More concise estimation of our medium-term and long-term needs will be available at the next phase (Proof of Concept) of our project development. | https://youtu.be/peeTcCsX6P8?t=3495 https://stemprize.org/2019/06/17/stem-prize-2018-competition/ https://ictuniversity.org/a-team-from-ict-university-wins-3rd-price-at-stemprize-2018-for-their-project-mediquick/ | https://www.tkswift.com/mediquick.mp3 | 3rd Prize at STEM PRIZE 2018 COMPETITION https://stemprize.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
837 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | NKOLO AYISSI | Victor Ridrigue | NAVR-GRACE | www.navr-grace.org | Designer | Male | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | French | As a young person, I represent the future and a leader of tomorrow. My role in the fight against the climate crisis is to say, on the one hand, NO to everything that is a hindrance to this future. On the other hand, I am a bold player in the energy transition through concrete actions that I am taking now, through innovative and ambitious solutions. I have to work in synergy with political leaders and all actors in civil society because, The worst is already there and visible through the global imbalances that put billions of people on earth in extreme poverty because of the impact of climate change. My motivation to apply and participate at the Solutions Summit is to introduce and adopt my ABSORBER-CLEANER innovative project. This project is a technological and human feat combined with the power of innovation. The positive global impact of this ambitious innovation makes it possible to respond to and overcome the battle against climate change, which represents the greatest threat and the greatest challenge of our time because, the worst is already there and visible through the global imbalances that put billions of people on earth in extreme poverty and insecurity because of the impact of climate change. | I am Mr NKOLO AYISSI Victor Rodrigue born on 15 September 1988 at NKOLFEP in the Department of LEKIE, Central Region Cameroon. Self-taught, I invest my artistic talents as an illustrator-illustrator-innovator consultant in Government Institutions, Foundations and Ngos, projects to raise awareness and support the Sustainable Development Goals (Sdgs). I also identify opportunities where young people of my age see only obstacles and crises, which is why I decided to design and innovate differently by committing myself to the planet through my innovation project (ABSORBER-CLEANER). I have 13 years of experience in the field of art and I am a bachelor. Other: Knowledge of Clip Studio Paint, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Indesign. Knowledge and mastery of the Wacom Instuos Pro graphics tablet for CAD/CAD work. Project Lead (ABSORBER-CLEANER). President and founder of NAVR-GRACE Design. | ABSORBER-CLEANER | ABSORBER-CLEANER Nicknamed the Solar Impulse and the Energy Earth Observer (ACSIEO), will be equipped with the first mobile climate technologies that | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | The implementation of this project is in Cameroon and destined to the world. | Yes | THE HOLY SPIRIT | Research & Development | The particularity and the great novelty of the ABSORBER-CLEANER project is its operation with a renewable energy mix that combines: Geothermal and carbon stack. We know that geothermal energy has remained for domestic use today with some industrial applications. The car will be able to recharge automatically in mobility or parking mode and will no longer have to go to an energy charging station. This will make it possible to have an energy autonomy extender without such an ecologically y. | The real climate issues I address in my project are: Put an end to the use of fossil fuels that are the source of air pollution, completely clean our environment from greenhouse gases, end the storage of CO2 in the soil in order to avoid a future ecological disaster linked to the pollution of our underground ecosystem, integrate the application of geothermal energy, which is a clean renewable energy source within the vehicle. | The ABSORBER-CLEANER project works with two essential deposits: geothermal energy and the carbon cell. Faced with the urgency of the situation and the expected long-term consequences on the environment, the ambition and the challenge of the ABSORBER-projectCLEANER aims to mobilize for green growth and complete decarbonization in the transport sector. First, this technology absorbs the earth’s internal heat via geothermal energy to convert it into energy, and second, it absorbs carbon dioxide from the air (CO2) to convert it into energy. | The ABSORBER-CLEANER project is a unique and more than significant contribution to existing project approaches such as: SOLAR IMPULSE (first solar plane), ENERGY OBSERVER (first autonomous boat), hydrogen cars, projects (Carbon Engineering) and (Climeworks) that capture CO2 for storage in the ground, and the Project (Newlight) in California that captures CO2 and turns it into an object like chairs. The particularity and the great novelty of the ABSORBER-CLEANER project is its operation with a renewable energy mix that combines: Geothermal and carbon stack. ABSORBER-CLEANER will be the first mobile climate technology to capture CO2 and convert it into energy We know that geothermal energy has remained for domestic use today with some industrial applications. The ABSORBER-CLEANER project will be the first mobile climate technology to integrate the application of geothermal energy in transport. This is by capturing geothermal steam from the earth to convert it into energy. The car will be able to recharge automatically in mobility or parking mode and will no longer have to go to an energy charging station. This will make it possible to have an energy autonomy extender without such an ecologically unique, saving people and consumers time and money. | Our team progress in the development of this project through hard work, faith and perseverance. We measure our progress and methodological rigour by our results achieved today. | -The ABSORBER-CLEANER project aims to optimise energy efficiency, boost energy consumption and reduce fossil fuel consumption for a cleaner future. -Terrestrial applications are numerous, in addition to hydrogen fuel cell mobility, the ABSORBER-CLEANER project adds to the distribution of hydrogen,geothermal energy and the carbon cell to enable these vehicles to continue to be democratized in other markets such as habitat and all that can continue to decentralize these energies, which can be managed in a decentralized way and no longer centralized by individual or remote dwellings as well as energy sectors that may appear. -For mobility, the ABSORBER-CLEANER project contributes to soft mobility with technical solutions and urban environments that do not pollute according to sectors where this technology may be applicable particularly in habitat, industry, education, rail, aviation, and marine transportation. | The resources most needed for my solution to evolve and have a significant impact are those of the governments of the international community because the energy transition depends on them. -Short-term needs are finances for prototype development. -The long-term needs are capacity building how to manage this business through marketing distribution of this innovation. | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B70eCkInLDUkl10hZ6lBk9hyyqq5VB1d-veudGsc3YM/present?token=AC4w5Vi7YhYA8x7uCtub2Iwx_LuRDvN4dA%3A1563529083432&includes_info_params=1&eisi=COWP9dzXwOMCFYWyHwodtZkM0A#slide=id.gcb9a0b074_1_213 https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive file:///E:/NAVR%20FOLDER/keys/Lettre%20de%20Recomendation.pdf | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B70eCkInLDUkl10hZ6lBk9hyyqq5VB1d-veudGsc3YM/present?token=AC4w5Vi7YhYA8x7uCtub2Iwx_LuRDvN4dA%3A1563529083432&includes_info_params=1&eisi=COWP9dzXwOMCFYWyHwodtZkM0A#slide=id.gcb9a0b074_1_213 https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive file:///E:/NAVR%20FOLDER/keys/Lettre%20de%20Recomendation.pdf | https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B70eCkInLDUkl10hZ6lBk9hyyqq5VB1d-veudGsc3YM/present?token=AC4w5Vi7YhYA8x7uCtub2Iwx_LuRDvN4dA%3A1563529083432&includes_info_params=1&eisi=COWP9dzXwOMCFYWyHwodtZkM0A#slide=id.gcb9a0b074_1_213 https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/my-drive file:///E:/NAVR%20FOLDER/keys/Lettre%20de%20Recomendation.pdf | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
838 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | prajwal | kumar | mangalore robautonics pvt ltd | www.robautonics.com | Techno Entrepreneur CEO | male | India | India | English | I'm here to present a innovative project called ""remote controlled system for power tiller"" technology which will make the work of farmers easier, safer comfortable and saving his time and money on requirement of labour. My ancestral background I'm from a family of farmers who have indulged in agricultural activities which includes paddy , cash crops , coconut and arecanut plantation. i used to see farmers operating a agricultural machine called power tiller , where he had to walk behind the machine for 8 to 10 hrs unlike than a tractors where some one has to sit and drive the machine. power tillers are extensively used where tractors fails to operate due to heavy weight while working under sinking muddy soil. walking behind the power tiller under hot sun , rain , muddy and dusty soil condition along with poisonous snakes crawling in the field, many times farmers get injured by legs getting trapped between rotary blades which result in amputation or even death. This motivated me to develop a wireless RF( radio frequency) based remote control system with sturdy electronics and mechanical suited for all weather condition to operate the power tiller from a far of point without the need to get into the filed or walk behind the machine . This technology has revolutionized power tiller and is empowering women's to operate power tiller with ease. | I'm Born on 16th nov 1979 in a south Indian city called mangalore. during my childhood days itself i was passionate and keen in learning about machines and electronics which further motivated and i completed my bachelor degree in Electronics and communication engineering. Developing advanced robotics system liked Unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) during 2003. After working for an telecom electronics industry , quit the job and started my company at the age of 26 to start working developing robotics and automation system for agricultural to make the work of farmers easier, safer comfortable and same time avoid the dependency on skilled labor and saving on huge labor cost . With development of one innovative product my passion never allowed me to sit quite, raised grant money from various Government funding agencies and developed some of the innovations like Tree climbing harvesting robots, paraweeder weed removing machine for paddy fields, Soil seed and water depositing machine for nursery trays, portable paddy nursery making machine and automated shuttle for Hand looms. Always intend to do something for the farming sector to improve the lifestyle of farmers and provide farmers advance technology and affordable price. To make sure farmers gets the right technology and train them to put it into actions to revolutionize the agricultural sector by making them adopt new method of farming. My big aim is to make all my technologies available for the farmers across the world . | Remote controlled system for agricultural machinery power tiller | Making the land tilling work for a farmer easier, safer, comfortable and avoiding the need for a labour | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | India | No | Scaling | The solution which has been invented is been tested in all different soil conditions across India. It has taken me nearly a decade to make it sustainable to all weather condition to work for 150 days in year without any system failures and with least maintenance. Technology has been rigorously tested by power tiller manufacturing company called VST tillers tractors Ltd , Bangalore . After all these testing and trails remote system is now ready to go for commercialization. | Power tiller is an agricultural machine wherein a farmer needs to walk behind to control the machine. Poor working Conditions: 8 to 10 hrs a day in wet and sinking muddy soil, extreme weather conditions. Safety issue: Might meet with accident while walking behind. Loss of limbs by getting trapped beneath the rotary blades and some may have even result in death. Loud engine noise. Lack of labour resources: Farmers don’t find physically fit, skilled operators as labour cost is too high. | Remote controlled system for power tiller is in teh form of Remote kits consisting of 1. Handheld wireless remote unit 2. Controller unit mounted on top of the power tiller and an 3. Alternator unit coupled to the engine . This system is easily retrofitted on any brand of power tillers across the globe. Easy to operate and maintain. Farmer can now operate the machine using a handheld remote . basic control can be performed like right direction control left direction control and to stop applying brake using the switches provided on the hand held device which has a rechargeable Li-Ion battery and can be easily charged. Maximum operating range is 100 mtrs LOS range has been fixed considering the maximum visual distance based on land area. If the power tiller goes out of range machine will stop immediately and if any of the mechanical or electronics system fails power tiller will stop these safety features incorporated. Global impact will be in Countries like Haiti farmers are unable to get int the filed they catch cholera where this technology will be very useful, further African countries females are using power tillers where this technology will be a boon and will empower women farmers | With the Incorporation of remote system on power tiller. 1. Small holding farmers who intend to buy a costly tractor will go for a power tiller fitted with remote which will save him 50% of the cost of purchasing a tractors where a tractors is really not a machinery for small or medium holding farmers 2. Farmer who where using seating arrangement for power tiller now will use remote power tiler there b avoid the risk of operation and injuries while operating the machine with a seating arrangement 3.Further the tiller operation could be completed at much faster rates since farmers can now operate power tiller at higher speed which was not possible earlier with walking methods 4. Farmer can now rent out his power tiller fitted with remote since he himself can perform the drudgery operation with ease which will generate income for him. Problems solved: Drudgery of walking behind the machine is avoided Operator Comfort i.e. he can stand peacefully under a shade avoiding exposure to elements and irritating engine noise.Health issues and accident involved during the operation is overcome. Empowering women: Women can operate a power tiller Investment of the farmer is reduced to 50%.Cost of product is comparatively low as such high return of investment due to saving on labour cost . | We have already developed many prototypes and tried and tested the system using Motorized technology, pneumatic systems and hydraulic system. Out of the among system we found motorized system are easy to manufacture and has less maintenance and operating cost . We have tried and tested the system in all different soil condition from sinking sandy soil to hard clay soil across different region of India. Technology is now ready for commercialization with a pilot manufacturing plant and looking for expansion. | 1. At present technology is being commercialized in India. We are selling the system to farmers in southern part of Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh. 2. We are planning to sell the system to farmers in north eastern parts like odisha, West Bengal, Assam, Uttrakhand and north western states like Maharashtra, Gujarat. 3. May be in year or so we are looking to introduce the system in African countries , south american countries and south Asian countries where power tillers are used extensively. With the focus on medium and small holding farmers, this system will encourage farmers to cultivate more part of the land since in agricultural process most difficult task is tilling land and for other work like planting weeding and harvesting machinery are available. Technology is going to benefit farmers in may from saving cost on labour and purchasing cost machines like tractors. same time improving is lifestyle and making his work safer comfortable and easier same time with renting our power tiller fitted with remote can generate him livelihood | 1. Primary resource we are looking for is funding support in terms of investments or grants for scaling up the present ,manufacturing facility. 2. Getting the remote control kits subsidized under Indian government sponsored subsidy scheme so that farmers gets the remote kits at half the price. 3. Introducing the kits in others countries using a goof network of dealers and distributors through proper training for installing operating and servicing the system. 4. Further funding to develop other innovative agricultural product which are being designed and needs to be developed. | Youtube Video Links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6pV45-z3Rw ( aerial videography) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPUB26W3Cgg ( remote tiller 2018) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qaMmpCRMek ( remote tiller) https://youtu.be/ZJcPzvnFwH0 ( women plouging with remote control) | Interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brdhp1wnqMw | ISA (Indian Semiconductor Association) “Best Electronics Product of the Year 2010 under Agriculture Category” MIT, USA - TR35 “Young Innovator of the Year 2010” DST-Lockheed Martin Gold Medal Award 2012 organized by DST, GOI and LockHeed Martin Corporation, USA National Award For Commercializable Patents 2013-2014 presented by TIFAC, a wing of DST, Govt of India , New Delhi on 10 Feb 2014 Awarded Economics Times “ Power of Ideas” on January 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
839 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mariam | Adams | HamazonACADEMIA | https://hamazonacademia.business.site | Founder/CEO | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I have wanted to be a doctor so I can touch lives by saving lives but my detection of fainting at the slightest sight of blood robbed me of such dream, it was a blessing in disguised as I got entagked in the world of technology, I realised I could touch lives with different innovations through tech. Part of my innovations are as listed below. MaiEDUpad, an out of school children initiative educational pad to eliminate and reduce number of children with no access to education Alert.ng, an application that connects Government and Citizens to promote good governance and also provide vital information as regards to Government policies and other information in the country. WEP Nigeria, an empowerment programme for young ladies and women to encourage entrepreneurship to foster a life of sustainability Tech5000, an Information technology educational programme for youths to encourage STEM DigitTEENs a digital media empowerment programme for youths to reduce unemployment and create avenue for job opportunities and start-ups. AGalHasAName is a back to school initiatives for young girls. Empowering them with technical digital media and giving them the opportunity to go back to school to finish their education. HamazonACADEMIA DigitTECH Hub is an educational and capacity building hub using digital media technology and filmmaking to create a life of sustainability for Nigeria youths through technical hands—on performing acts, fieldwork experience and filmmaking. My aim with all my innovations is to create a positive impact and environ for youths in Nigeria and across borders | ADAMS, PRINCESS MARIAM is an Agriculturalist,a Software Programmer and Digital Media Technology Expert trained in India with 10 years experience in the Industry. She has worked with both local and international companies before setting out to found HamazonACADEMIA. She also holds various certified professional certificate. She is a beneficiary of European Audio Visual Entrepreneur 2014 Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur Programme 2015 (GRANT $5,000) Think Gender Award 2015 Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts 2016 Cherie Blair Road2growth Women in Business 2016 Global Startup Ecosystem 2017 African Startup Ecosystem 2017 Rise Up Leader 2018 Enter Africa Gamification 2018 Global Startup Ecosystem 2018 | Maifarmland | Creating financial Stability for Local Smallholder farmers | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | No | Proof of Concept | Presently our Solution is at the entry level of proof of concept because because we have just created and launched the MVP to test run which has proven successful with the number of users and transactions that has been conducted on the platform for the period of six month running. | My grandmother was paid $20 for the sales of her cocoa crops from two plots of land in real sense this sales worths $450 , our involvement into the matter made us realised she is not the only victim in the village but other local smallholder farmers have been victims too. Our deep research showed that middlemen involved in the acquisition and distribution of these local crops created discrepancies in the market which favours them as a distributor but keeps the local farmers at a greater loss. | Maifarmland creates a life of sustainability and financial stability for local smallholder farmers by aggregating the demand,supply and distribution of local crops in wholesales unit within Nigeria markets and International markets | Our Solution is unique compared to our competitors because we market the local crops in wholesales price, we connect the consumers straight to the local smallholder farmers and we engage in international markets partnership | We have progressed so far as we have been selected to undergo some incubator programmes . We measure our progress so far with the numbers of users we have acquired through the platform and the active numbers of users who have purchased from the platform. | Presently we are aiming to have partnership with other African countries like GHana,Gambia,Zambia,Botswana to market Nigeria locally grown crops and also International markets like China, USA,UK and Canada for now. We plan to recruits about 500 workers over the next two years to work in the distribution channels. | Conducive administrative working space Large and secured Warehouse for storage of local dried crops Solar Storage for perishable crops Distribution Buses and Motorcycle Mini Kiosk at strategy places within the states of reach. Trading Licenses | https://www.maifarmland.com.ng https://maifarmland.business.site https://www.twitter.com/maifarmland | https://ventureburn.com/2019/07/40-african-startups-seedstars-investment-programme/ | European Audio Visual Entrepreneur 2014 Winner Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur Programme 2015 Winner Think Gender Award 2015 Winner Microsoft Innovative Educator Experts 2016 Winner Cherie Blair Road2growth Women in Business 2016 finalist Global Startup Ecosystem 2017 finalist African Startup Ecosystem 2017 Finalist Rise Up Leader 2018 Finalists Enter Africa Gamification 2018 Winner Global Startup Ecosystem 2018 Finalist Tops Creative Business Cup Nigeria 2019 Finalist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
840 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Oluwaseun | Ayinde | pyheptagon strategy consultants limited | pyheptagon.com(under reconstruction) | Founder/CEO | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The Role of Science, Innovation, Information and communication technologies for the implementation of SDG The world as a whole, in terms of wealth, (financial) resources and the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community has progressively engulfed in Science, Innovation, Information and Communication Technologies Such as Big Data, Iot(internet of things), Automation (robotics), Knowledge engineering(AI), 3D and 4D printing and High-speed network etc. All have the huge possibility to fast forward progression in (SDGs) Achieving SDGs is a huge task with a lot of expectation for technology solutions and challenges. In view of this: We need to know the auspicious actions for maximum hold of technology for SDGs and also to know the type of technologies and level of their fulfillment that would be important for 2030. Discussion Some reports have been slow to engage with the SDGs, the ICT industry has been keen to emphasise what it sees as its key role in contributing to the achievement of the SDGs. While the ICT industry has certainly emphasized its commitment to contributing to the achievement of the SDGs it has also argued that governments have a vital enabling role in allowing the industry to make that contribution. The ICT industry is united in calling for government investment in wholesale improvements in connectivity in less developed economies. Technology and technological innovation are often seen to be vitally important in improving efficiency across the sustainability spectrum and in helping to deliver sustainable growth. Conclusion Sustainable Development Goals has a lot of worldwide vision for a reliable sustainable future. The goals proved that digitization towards a sustainable development. There are many important technologies for the SDGs subjected to further elaboration. The technology we have today is robust enough to keep us as well as stakeholders engaged and networked. Current technologies in the nearest future will be even more advanced for creating an effective technology for a better future for all as predicted in the SDGs. the ICT industry has certainly identified the SDGs as a massive business opportunity and also The ICT industry has envisaged the the role of governments in creating a liberal environment. the United Nations advised all stakeholders to play a vital role for a successful SDGs. Inspecting the function of the ICT industry in the progress SDGs seems complex and trial process. | My name is Ayinde Oluwaseun Ayodeji, The founder/CEO of Pyheptagon Strategy consultant limited. Software Analysts, Data Analyst and a Security Consultants. I develop, implement, and enforce IT policies and procedures. A University degree in Computer Science with over 9 years of experience in Data management and utilization, project management, information science, database languages, database management systems, business management, accounting and communications. Expert in computer programs, exceptional in Microsoft Excel( Visual perception of information with charts, diagrams, tables and work with graphical information) and Access and STATA;Good at data visualization and master reporting techniques; Proficiency in statistical language (R, STATA, SPSS). I am responsible for directing, managing, and coordinating all of the IT and non-IT related functions of the organization. My experiences makes me feel fully confident in my ability to research and analyze data with any technology related problems, issues, and requirements. Although my key strengths lie in the fields of Data management which includes Data management supervision to protect and ensure its values and also movement of data across multiple systems; oversee its validation and organization and to make sure that it is available to appropriate people and systems within an organization. I have consulted privately for government agencies, universities, hospitals and insurance companies. I also have extensive experience in Certified Security Analyst Certified Information Sysytems Security Proffesional(CISSP) in-view, | Using Science, Innovation, Information and communication technologies for the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals | The impact of tech on SDG | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | NIGERIA | No | Ideation | We are still defining and analyzing the development problem and by that we are generating ideas for potential innovation to address the problem. | Inexperience facilitation, few team, unfriendly space, unclear goals, closed mindedness, limiting ideas, early judgement, old pattern thinking. | Focusing on the business opportunities for the ICT industry associated with the SDGs might be seen to resonate with the concept of shared value and it will offer opportunity for people running businesses to cash in on the huge market potential in solving the most pressing issues of our time, by stresseing the importance of extending network coverage to rural areas, while the ICT industry has certainly emphasised its commitment to contributing to the achievement of the SDGs it has also argued that governments have a vital enabling role in allowing the industry to make that contribution so by calling for governments and the private sector to work closely together to address the SDGs. lastly Implementing capacity process, which is about human and institutional capacity building for science, technology information policymaking; Governance and coordination which it is open and multi-stakeholder engagement such as across government entities, private corporation and local communities; Resource by proper funding for implementation. | Achieving SDGs is a huge task with a lot of expectation for technology solutions and challenges. In view of this: We need to know the auspicious actions for maximum hold of technology for SDGs and also to know the type of technologies and level of their fulfillment that would be important for 2030. | There are lots of query to address. expanding the breadth of science, technology and information policy to accept the problems facing sustainable development and Reviews would be solely based on different methods and depends on qualitative and quantitative measure. Stating (Governance, sustainability, and data) science, all tied together with idea of digital democracy and to interactive process (b)Encouraging citizens to be interested in SDGs (c)Stating the importance of Government polices (d)Using data from different sources (e) Enhance communication between Government and people (f) To make the recognition and understanding of SDG | Helping the country to get ready the effect of the experimental strategies should be a policy. To maximize the potential of youth, Develop national capacities and access to technologies and innovation and promote entrepreneurship and employment among the youth. Creating an effective technology for a better future for all as predicted in the SDGs because the nearest future will be even more advanced. | Short term - Office Space and Logistic equipment, ICT gadgets, , medium term - Funds for Research, Tech development, Training, Media and advert,Staff and long term - Partner with International organization in achieving the vision. | Our website is under construction | Our website is under construction | We have never been awarded but we have been recognized due to our problem-solving and change management, our ability to contribute to a team objective and to understand and respond to user/customer requirements. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
841 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Denis | Parfenov | DaMaHub | damahub.org | founder | male | Ireland | Belarus | English | Russian | In the society of the future it is no longer capital but data that connects and drives everything, helping to fill the gap between the rich and the less privileged. Services of medicine and education, will reach small villages in the remote and deprived regions. Boys and girls will see beyond their own village, a wider horizon where the sky is the limit. I aim to enable environment where not the big, capital intensive industries, but rather we individuals who will benefit from data-driven evidence-based decision-making facilitated by verifiable and discoverable content-addressed data flowing freely through censorship-resistant distributed network of nodes driven by openly licensed software. Participation in the summit will provide me with opportunity | Denis Parfenov is an entrepreneur, open data activist and founder of the Data Management Hub (DaMaHub). He is also an Open Data Governance Board member and the Open Knowledge Ambassador for Ireland. Denis is passionate about empowering evidence-based decision-making through open knowledge and employment of openly licensed distributed data infrastructures for preservation of discoverable and verifiable information. He holds a Master’s Degree in International Business from University College Dublin and a Master’s Degree in International Relations from Dublin City University. | Data Management Hub (DaMaHub) | Git for Science | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Worldwide | Yes | University College Cork, Living Knowledge Network, Blockchain for Science | Research & Development | Today, on one hand, we have groups which are developing openly licensed distributed content-addressed solutions for preservation of data in authenticated and discoverable formats (IPFS, DAT, Madesafe). On the other hand we have consortiums of organisations elaborating on data standards, packages and persistent identifiers, which is a slow and labour intensive process to reaching consensus. | In order to enable citizens, their governments and corporations to employ algorithms to facilitate evidence based decision-making, we need data which is persistent, trustful and discoverable. To be able to achieve this we need to reach consensus amongst technologies, librarians and potential funding agencies regarding data standards, data governance and funding sources. | Data Management Hub (DaMaHub) is a community driven infrastructure which complements the existing institutional repositories with a layer of openly licensed content-addressed protocols which aims to create censorship-resistant, reliable and secure distributed network of nodes. | At the moment data which is collected on citizens' behalf and taxpayers' expense is stored on servers and addressed by location where it stored. That creates uncertainty regarding authenticity and accessibility of the data. However today we have openly licensed technologies which allow us to complement the existing institutional repositories with the network of nodes which enable to address data by its' content, making it verifiable, discoverable and censorship resilient for anyone anywhere in the world. | We are elaborating and documenting the implications of immutable content addressed references and collaborative storage for the preservation the global scholarly record. Through a collaborative network of trusted nodes (libraries, research centres, infrastructure providers), we investigate open and permanent access to fundamental primary research data and analysis. The progress is slower than we'd expected but steady. Reaching consensus amongst stakeholders takes time and energy. | Our current goals (1) to launch a distributed test network with participation of 10 institutions based in 7-10 countries while utilising currently accessible climate data; (2) to outreach national institutions which are mandated by their goverments to preserve publicly funded data and demonstrate usefulness on content-addressed solutions; (3) to develop sustainable funding model which will ensure that infrastructure for free flow of verifiable data is maintained properly. | In short term we need resources which will enable to design and to develop distributed network of nodes. In medium term the network needs to be scaled. In long-term resources required to make the network sustainable. | http://damahub.org/ https://github.com/damahub https://github.com/SciDappSDG/futurehack https://ti.to/damahub/decentralised-data-infrastructure-for-science https://zenodo.org/record/2584331 https://zenodo.org/record/2548922 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x31ZvXQUUK0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZY5qsXeLlo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=451&v=tU7qiby6jOk https://web.archive.org/web/20190216052248/https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blockchain-hackathon-2019-tickets-55006472841 | 2nd prize in Accenture-Hyperledger's 'Blockchain for Good"" Hackathon, Dublin, October 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
842 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Linda | Staheli | Global Co Lab Network | https://globalcolab.net/ | Founding Director | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | The Global Co Lab Network engages teens globally on the SDGs in a global video contest, in Co Lab gatherings, and in virtual rooms or ""Dream Hubs"". The Co Lab has hosted over 60 Co Labs engaging hundreds of youth and stakeholders resulting in a series of initiatives, including Teens Dream, which empowers teens to act on the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, engaging some 480 teens from 40 countries in an annual video competition and countless more in virtual rooms. The Co Lab builds on design thinking, mindfulness, peer coaching, and other techniques and has designed a straightforward template that all can use to host a Co Lab focused on empowering youth to be change agents, connecting them with collaborative oriented experts, stakeholders and organizations. The Co Lab is now collaborating with the Smithsonian Conservation Commons to utilize Co Labs and virtual rooms to build an Eco Teen Action Network that is tackling plastics, zero hunger, and climate change aligned with the SDGs. Teens Dream currently hosts seven Dream Hubs on the SDGs with teen ambassadors and mentors meeting virtually to empower teens globally to be change-makers in their own communities addressing hunger, education, gender equality, mental health, climate change, plastic pollution, and engaging artists for the SDGs. We have brought teens from our network to the United Nations over the past few years and are now building a global movement connecting teens with stakeholder organizations for positive global impact. | Passionate about empowering youth-oriented solutions working with established networks to more effectively curate change and action in small living room gatherings, through the Global Co Lab Network. Astute, versatile, and tenacious senior executive with expertise in U.S. government affairs, offering more than 30 years of building and managing global science and innovation policy and programs working at White House, State Department, NIH, and multiple other orgs. • Helped established CRDF Global by implementing effort to take from legislation to actual organization and ensured the organization’s success with the first U.S. government match from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). • Co-founded and directed U.S. - North Korea Science Engagement Consortium credible with US and DPRK governments, negotiating and signing agreements, building partnerships, and securing over $800,000 to implement science engagements. • Visioned and led science diplomacy campaign • Developed campaign in 2008 targeting presidential candidates to focus on international science engagements; proposed a Global Science Fund unveiled on Capitol Hill. • Co-authored study for RAND’s Science and Technology Policy Institute entitled “Linking Effectively: Learning Lessons from Successful Collaborations in Science and Technology” • Directed first major science engagement authorizing legislation to be voted out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. • Secured two annual appropriations totaling $10M resulting in the creation of the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative. | Engaging Teen Change-Makers Globally on the SDGS | Utilizing Co Labs, video competition, mentors, stakeholders, and virtual rooms | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Global - all contries | Yes | Smithsonian Institution and Multiple Others | Scaling | We have spent four years building a global video contest that focuses on the SDGS, identifying mentors and partners, and are now working with teens to build action-oriented virtual rooms to connect them with stakeholder orgs. Our video contest has engaged over 500 teens from 40 countries on their visions as they relate to the SDGs, and we have honored 45 teens and brought winners to Washington DC to link with mentors. We now have 7 hubs and hope to have Dream Hubs for all the 17 SDGs. | We all know that youth need to be more involved in solution generation, but teens are often under-represented in ""youth"" initiatives. Few schools encourage teens to be ""change-makers"" yet teens see a world crumbling and want to have a voice. Teens are digital natives who are comfortable with technology. Many of the organizations that do engage teens to so for a limited time. Everything we do is focused on following teen passions and helping cultivate them as leaders and/or change-makers. | The world has awakened to the welcome reality that many of today’s teens care deeply about global issues. We know teens are wizards at using technology, yet there are very few good platforms designed for them that merge chat, video, and other tools focused on the SDGs. We are a new, non-governmental organization that acts creatively and unconventionally in that we connect teens with established networks, using the living room “Co Labs” and virtual space to support youth-led action. One of the initiatives we have created is a teen led global video contest engaging teens on the SDGs where we have engaged hundreds of teens from over forty countries. JAYO, our grand prize winner in 2015 learned about the SDGs via our contest, made a rap SDG promotional video which we shared with the Earth Optimism Summit which flew him to Washington DC to perform live for eight hundred global environmental policymakers to widespread acclaim. Having educated teens and teachers on the SDGs with our contest, we are now piloting a place for teen aspirations and dreams: Dream Hubs that connect teens globally to build on the contest where inspiration, education, and expression can move to global collaboration and action. Our long term vision is a global network of teen changemakers connecting and learning from each other and mentors/experts in virtual rooms resulting in actions that then empower even more teens to engage and connect. | Our approach that is unique is the notion of identifying teens globally through a video contest coupled with teen-led virtual rooms that connect to experts and stakeholder organizations focused on empowering teen changemakers - a global support system for teens to lead change. Much has been made of this new generation of connected and aware adolescents, more recently addressing gun violence and racial injustice. What teens need are safe, web-based communities where they can receive encouragement, tools, and other resources for greater collaborative impact. The Dream Hubs are premised on the notion that digital natives will use the chat, video, and other functions contained within our new platform, and over time expand the number of teens working collaboratively and globally with each other to move from education to action on the SDGs. We have demonstrated that teens want to engage in action on the SDGs through our teen-led video competition. We seek to prove that through the Dream Hubs, where teens in Mexico are connecting with teens in France, Romania, Indonesia, to discuss strategies for action on education, climate change, mental health, and gender equality. We believe that if we combine teen leadership with engagement of experts and mentors in a safe virtual space, young global citizens can accomplish tangible short-term results and help create the next generation of leaders on the important long-term issues embodied by the SDGs. | Over 4.5 years we have educated and engaged hundreds of teens from over 40 countries on the SDGs in our video contest. We are now piloting virtual rooms for them to convene on action in our Dream Hubs where teens work locally on the action with a collaborative global support network. This past year we dedicated project coordinators for the first time on the first 7 Dream Hubs working 15-30 hours a week, building a teen-centered virtual space. Each Dream Hub is led by a small number of vetted teen Ambassadors who are either winners we have met at our annual celebration of the video contest or local teens we have vetted along with at least one adult mentor. The Hubs are managed by a project coordinator, supervised by the Co Lab's Director, and each has a dedicated web page with a coordinated action plan for teen engagement via chat and video with supported social media and a calendar of activities. We next plan to collect data on teen engagement at the beginning and end of their time in the Dream Hub. Teen Hub participants will fill out a pre and post-enrollment questionnaire to measure how much knowledge they acquired via the Hub experience. Changes in their behavior and attitudes, actual projects developed, and their intention to be future champions for the SDG will also be included in the survey. The overall assessment will also include an analysis of the platform, technology, design model, and staffing of the Hubs. | Seven Dream Hubs have been piloted; we plan to extend this pilot into 2020 but need greater funding and partnerships to reach teens via social media and established organizations. We then want to conduct an evaluation after 2020 on what works based on survey data collected. While studies show that youth awareness of the SDGs is generally stronger than the general population, this doesn’t necessarily translate into knowledge or action. Glocalities (2016) finds that, across 24 countries, only around 1 in 100 citizens know the SDGs ‘very well’, while 25% say they know the name only. The next step will focus on redesigning the Dream Hubs based on lessons learned and scaling both in numbers of teens engaged as well as numbers of Dream Hubs. The long-term goal is that by year six Dream Hubs will be established and populated for all seventeen of the SDGs, engaging hundreds of teens in a proven safe, fun, educational and action-oriented platform with a system for measuring educational, behavior and project impacts. | The Co Lab is working to raise $150,000 to effectively hire key program personnel and management to scale of the global teen engagement platform. In the short term the Co Lab will work with the Smithsonian via a small contract to expand the video contest and Dream Hubs working with its co-created Eco Teen Action Network to focus on Earth Optimism and align with the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and as a way to focus the video contest and program around this April 2020 event. In the medium term the Co Lab is seeking to raise the necessary funds to secure staff to manage the Hubs and video contest and in the long term it seeks to align with an existing youth-oriented or SDG oriented organization to build out the vision and fully scale. The initial $150,000 funding will help provide effective management, technical support, and advice to design, test, and gather data to learn from the experience and expand to this vision. | https://globalcolab.net/ https://www.teensdreamcolab.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zje9SFH4HRY&list=PL5uluWlJX25daipq3nzok359BXrEyGy91&index=2 https://indi.com/9gthv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnuvsCrFaJ4&feature=youtu.be Triggered | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbOTQoShCYg&app=desktop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfMVXBkUVp4&list=PL5uluWlJX25daipq3nzok359BXrEyGy91 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTBaFq2NPc4 Youth Can change the world https://vimeo.com/310497625 https://vimeo.com/308030927 https://vimeo.com/turkishamericantv/lindastaheli20190518 | Starbucks Challenge we were a top finalist and received funding. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
843 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | William | chai | Global Innovation Center | www.innoglobal21.com | senior adviser | M | Canada | China | Chinese | English | I have met Dr. Megan Smith (3rd CTO of United States ) in Canada Discovery workshop and greatly inspired to promote innovation for the global worming and climate change solution. My company Alpha Ring Canada has developed the hydrogen on demand technology to provide the zero emission pure hydrogen technology which will have positive global impact. Meanwhile, I am senior adviser of Global Innovation Center ( GIC ), initiated by Obama government and chaired by William Perry ( former US secretary of defense ). GIC has resisted in New York and recruit more than hundred Nobel laureates and famous professors as advisers devote for the innovation to solve the global problems. | WILLIAM T. CHAI, PHD, EMBA Cell. 647-282-1473 williamchai66@gmail.com 1646 Lewes way Mississauga L4W3L2 QUALIFICATIONS -Over twenty years senior investment advisor experience in the fields of clean energy investment, green industry park development, hi-tech company investment, project management, fundraising and funds management -Senior adviser of Global Innovation Center ( GIC ), initiated by US president and China president to propagate the green energy. -International exposure and business discussion at US, China, UK, France, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and South America, etc. -Invested Hon Hai Precision Company and nowadays global largest company ranked #27, revenue 130 billion US $, employee 1.3 million. -Invested TSMC group and market cap reach 250 billion $. -Mentored Alibaba group and market cap reach 488.8 billion $. - Initiate Asia Creativity Society, Global IP platform and Innovation Center in Canada - Establish Alpha Ring Canada and dedicate develop the engine for hydrogen on demand | hydrogen on demand and carbon removal | Eliminate the carbon to achieve the zero emission | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Canada and USA | Yes | Hydroponics and Ballard Inc. | Transition to Scale | The hydrogen on demand machine to provide human ultimate green and clean energy source. | Zero emission by fusion engine to convert the nature gas or any other carbon based fuel to the pure hydrogen and on demand base. So waive the hydrogen storage tank and charging station. | The long term vision is providing fusion unit in a cheapest way to tremendous houses houses in the world for the brightest lighting, hot steam and water, direct electricity and green hydrogen. | The fusion engine is in the on demand mode with the positive energy gain which means the power factor is larger than one . This solution is very unique and never exist in this space. We are using the quantum tunneling methodology to lower the coulomb barrier. | We have chief scientist who study fusion methodology for more than 40 years and got breakthrough by the mouwa particle. Our technology has been measured and verified by Google environment group and PPPL of Princeton University. | The hydrogen on demand and carbon removal machine will be installed in the transportation vehicles ( bus, truck, passenger car, rail , airplane etc. ) to provide zero emission and application in various countries. | We need endorsement from UN ( global solution ) platform. short term : fusion hydrogen machine verification and validation middle term : site safety and environment test long term : volume production | we have business plan and prospectors to be provided | videos are not in the public domain | International who's who of professional | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
844 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Muhammad Waqas | Halim | Information Technology University and Punjab Information Technology University | http://elearn.itu.edu.pk | Director, Centre for Technology in Education /Project Lead The eLearn Initiative | Male | Pakistan | Pakistan | English | Spanish | t will enable me find a like minded co-founder with technical perspective. Interaction with peers as well as advisors and mentors will very much useful for gaining feedback, learning from the community about their success , knowledge sharing, understanding the global ecosystem and thinking about problems and solutions from different angles. Networking and connection building will be another great advantage for finding better partnerships, fund raising, hiring quality resources and global presence. UN will be a great resource for not only the launch, but also for global expansion, better access to other opportunities and information, and relationship. UN Global Solutions will be instrumental in streamlining all ideas and structure our plan, help us strategize, and monitor our progress. For the global launch, licensing, opening of bank account, registrations and patents, and skills training, this fellowship will be greatly useful. | have been teaching since I was 12. It helps me define my sense of purpose and help those who are disadvantaged. I believe I have reached an opportune time to take an initiative and start a tech venture now. I have developed right skills through leading 3 different large educational technology projects, and have 7 years work experience to know how tech education projects work and create impact. I have garnered great market insights and understanding of ecosystem in Pakistan, and have interviewed several hundred students, teachers and parents to know their needs and feedback. Also, I have developed strong relations with government agencies that led them to open up and provide us access to schools and teachers as well students which was almost impossible earlier. Moreover, I believe over last five years I have accumulated enough social and intellectual capital, that can be useful now for the global scale of the project. | The eLearn Initiative | Smart classrooms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Pakistan | Yes | Punjab School Education Department, DFID UK AID | Sustainable Scale | After completion of the ITU eLearn Project, government has adopted it and expanded it to 8,000 Multimedia class-rooms in 35 districts in Punjab have benefited from the cutting-edge solution. The low cost sustainable durability of the solution allows it to be innovative with minimal cost required. The fact that existing infrastructure of the government educational institutions is used. There is one TV and one tablet that are required. they can be replaced by cell phone of a teacher even. | The project introduced technology to boost the role of teachers and increase the effectiveness of content delivery in mathematics, English and science. Using widely used technologies, the project’s ambition was to shift the focus from merely increasing access to education to improve learning outcomes in a manner that can be measured. The project focused on students in government schools and remarkably results exhibited by the end of Phase 1 demonstrated an increased student achievement by 120%. | The intervention entailed developing technology-mediated materials for use in the classroom. Classrooms were equipped with television sets and teachers were given tablets with instructional content and a learning management system for each class. Teachers were trained to use the technology-enabled multimedia content through blended learning and to enhance the pedagogy of specific topics in the classroom. Quality assurance and monitoring of the entire process were done through multiple levels of student assessment, such as reporting activity to teachers via tablet and in person monitoring.The new content comprised engaging creative instructional videos and interactive animations and simulations for every lecture, assessment and in-class activity. The multimedia supplements were complemented by comprehensive lesson plans, rigorous teacher training, and effective use of multimedia equipment and online repositories. In addition, ITU partnered with various departments in public sector to deliver the best innovative technology in the education sector including the Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) and Punjab School Education Departments. Given its huge success, the initiative has a goal to reach-out to children studying in public schools in disadvantaged areas across the world and the entire developing world. | The innovation of such a design is its scalability. The major cost of the program design is in the initial development of content which will created using the primary funds from the grant. Once created, these tools can be distributed and reused year after year. The animations, and multimedia can also be transferred via usb, SD cards, and do not rely heavily on large scale internet connectivity infrastructure making them extremely accessible to marginalized communities. This makes the investment a one-time cost and once launched, the project’s running and expansion costs are minimal. Since 60.2 % of people have televisions in households nationwide and cellphone usage has gone over 83% in rural areas in Pakistan using multimedia as a tool for teaching only increases access to those who would otherwise be unable to attend school. With so many people now using technology in their daily lives, the next logical step is to incorporate it to solve development issues such as dismal learning outcomes. Children in particular respond well to interactive teaching methodology and since this intervention augments the role of the teacher the benefit of such a design cannot be understated. | The project is suitably been run for several years now with minimal running cost. Various outcomes of the proposed intervention is monitored; Parent engagement is tracked through a dashboard displaying statistics of call responses from the parents, Progress monitoring of the teachers is done through real-time tracking of their activities in the class and the Intelligent Tutoring System is monitored through the summary tables of quizzes taken through SMS and Second Screen interactive responses using smart phones. A three-pronged strategy is deployed to track the improvement in learning outcomes of students; first, regular visits of M&E field workers of the School of Leadership (Partner Organization) with tablets and application for tracking, is tasked to visit each district once in two weeks and conducts spot tests of students; second, A call center, to respond to the complaints related to technical issues; and an overall coordination team for M&E which is responsible for conducting formal assessment of the student to authenticate the results assessed by M&E field workers. The team visits the schools four times in an academic year, one in the first week of April, one at the end of May, third in the first week of September and the last visit in December or January. Additionally, the Mohalla Committees set-up in all districts by the School of Leadership serves as an additional layer of oversight through providing feedback on compliance in the schools. | We aim to reach to 7 other developing countries soon with the help of DFID UKAID. Most of these countries lie in Africa and Asia and follow the priority agenda of DFID UKAID. GIZ and USAID have agreed to support our mission as well. There is not much requirement for staff since the project relies and embeds into the existing structures and uses the School department teachers and educational staff. The monitoring and evaluation after the first year deployment is transferred to the government School departments too. Already there have been 200,000 children impacted through this intervention. Through digitized books and classroom content, the the project is dissemination knowledge to lacs of children. | In the short run the curated content and socially customized content are created. However, once the content is created in local content, its efficacy outweigh the cost. The schools spent millions in the children without getting the desired result. If the same amount of money is spent on TV screen and a tablet, out content is freely available for the consumption and the results are quite effective ie 120 percent more than the children who did not have access to the the intervention. Per child cost after the initial year is Rs. 10 per month per child. Girls have shown more progress than boys when it comes to the adoption of elearning solutions. Likewise, rural areas have been more responsive to the changes in educational technology reforms with government as the partner. Short term goal will focus on improvements of small scale but in the medium term the goal is to reach to maximum number of children in next three years. The target we have set for ourselves is 1 million kids. Long term goal is to educate and improve learning outcomes of 25 million out of school children in Pakistan and enhance contribution of Pakistan. Further, another goal is to improve the learning outcomes of the students by 50 percent in science, Math and English by 2025. | https://elearn.punjab.gov.pk/books/math/8th/index.php?c=6 https://elearn.gov.pk/books/science/7th/index.php?c=4 Other examples are present on the elearn website | https://propakistani.pk/2015/01/08/elearn-punjab-celebrates-one-year-revolutionizing-education/ https://nation.com.pk/24-Jan-2017/this-punjab-government-initiative-is-revolutionizing-classroom-experience | Winner of Ilm Ideas grant among 500 applicants, grant of 2 million UK Pounds Winner of JPAL MIT funded grant for evaluation study of the project , funded $50,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
845 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Douglas | Karugaba Baguma | Innovex (U) Ltd | https://www.remotonline.com/ | Managing Director | Male | Uganda | Uganda | English | Growing up, I saw very little of my dad. When he was 16, my dad left school due to financial constraints and joined the army. The perils of being an army man always on the move with a wife that had her first child at 16 never getting the opportunity to go through school, life gave my dad few options but to serve diligently. As a young couple, raising a family of 4 children was no easy task and my mom had to work overtime running a retail shop to raise money for our family basic needs. We hardly ever enjoyed any time with our parents by the time I was 13, we were all in boarding school. I always heard that it is only in business that one can get freedom of time and choice of what to do with your life and I admired starting and running my own business. My motivation starting out was to get rich and retire before 40. However, while in business, I discovered my true passion to be the joy in making an idea work for other people and witnessing their lives change out of my creation. My dream to be rich has never changed, over time, what has changed is my description of ‘being rich.’ My graduate training and early work with Uganda’s rural communities incrementally brought me to question my true motivations. The major turning point for me came in 2015 during a World Bank funded energy audit where we assessed the state of donor funded solar installations in over 40 rural health centers in 13 districts in Uganda. 80% of the systems were broken down under 6 months of installation labeling the program a failure with neither economic nor social benefits from the huge donor investments. At one health center in Kyegegwa, western Uganda, records showed that 4 in 10 mothers died during night births as doctors had resorted to using kerosene lamps to provide light and there was no hot water to sterilize the equipment. In our kind of society, I measure my wealth by the number of lives my ideas and creations are able to transform. And I am getting rich, one life at a time. | Douglas Baguma has over six years’ experience working in the Renewable energy industry majorly focusing on Solar energy. He is an internationally trained Renewable energy engineer with a bachelor’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Makerere University holding a first classPost Graduate diploma in Business Administration from the Uganda Management Institute. Douglas is currently the managing director at Innovex, a Ugandan business helping solar companies make access to energy affordable for low income populations and rural communities by providing essential Pay as You Go and solar monitoring technologies to Solar contractors. Douglas is driven by the dream of global access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy. He has vast experience in business and a commendable acumen of integrating innovation with business. He has been part of various entrepreneurial fellowships in and outside Uganda such as the Global Innovation through Science and Technology in South Africa, the Mandela Washington Fellowship at Kellogg school of Business and the eFounder’s program with Alibaba in China. | Remot | Transforming the distribution of off-grid energy systems and equipment using digital tools | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, DRC and Ethiopia | Yes | Off-grid solar distributors | Transition to Scale | Through our work, over 3,000 households and 300 schools access solar lighting and powering facilities such as computer labs, over 60 rural health centers have solar systems remotely monitored in 5 countries across the region i.e Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, DRC and Ethiopia thus a validation of our product-market fit. We have raised more than USD 150,000 from DFIF, CISCO and Impact investors from Belgium to scale ‘Remot’ | 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity. Over the past 5 years, off-grid solar has bridged this gap growing by over 500% (GOGLA, 2018) However, much of this growth is not sustainable as companies rely on building person to person relationships. Overall, this has high setup and operation costs, and poor income generation. Meaning (1) high costs have to be covered by the end user (2) solar companies cannot quickly scale their operations in a sustainable way. | We are strengthening operations of solar businesses with IoT based digital tools to lower the cost of access to solar systems and solar equipment. Our platform we call ‘Remot’ offers cloud based Customer Records Management, mobile money integration, and automated KPI tracking. The hardware connected on a solar system or solar equipment (solar water pump, solar maize mill) enables remote performance and health monitoring, ON/OFF product activation and location tracking. ‘Remot’ consists of a locally manufactured hardware and a locally designed cloud based web system. With these data driven features, solar companies can offer their products on credit and become more proactive as they quickly respond to product breakdowns. 90% of solar companies are located in the capital city with a few physical branches scattered in other regions. ‘Remot’ digital technology tools are helping solar companies become proactive. For example, in after-sales support, real time remote monitoring has enabled one solar company cut downtime of solar systems by over 90% as system faults are seen before they happen and this has increased their referral sales from 12 to 20 solar home systems a month. The access barrier has been lowered thus accelerating solar for rural farmers, rural businesses, institutions. Remote monitoring puts power in hands of solar consumers to control their energy habits and influence their decision to move from one form of energy to another. | Solar companies have used one of two strategies to address this problem. (1) Develop these digital tools internally. These companies are vertically integrated and the companies manufacture their own solar products, own their distribution channels, digital tools on top of operating as a credit financial institution. This model is capital intensive and these companies have not managed scale profitably. Examples include M-Kopa and Fenix international operating in Uganda. (2) Service providers building digital tools. Here companies fix their costs and expand sustainably. However, service providers such as PayG Opps are focused entirely on building software tools while others such as Angaza and Mobisol include product ON/OFF activation but do not offer remote monitoring. ‘Remot’ is the only platform making the ‘solar for productive use’ industry accessible for low income households, businesses and farmers with remote real-time system monitoring and payment offers tailored to each client. | Moving in over 13 Districts in Uganda visiting over 40 rural health centers, I came to learn of the major setbacks affecting the solar industry. The high upfront cost, counterfeits, poor after sales services that see 60% of products fail, poor business practices by many solar businesses causing many donors and investors to shy away from the industry. Starting January 2016, we tested and built a solution we called ‘Remot’ with Incafex solar as a partner. By 2017, we had raised USD26,000 (USD6,000 from former lecturers, USD20,000 from a client) to take ‘Remot’ to more solar companies. From 2 companies in 2016 to over 25 companies in Uganda today using ‘Remot’ and a recent pilot with Energy 4 Impact in Kenya, with over USD 13,000 revenue in the last 16 months, USD 10,000 grant from CISCO as winners in their annual global Challenge solver and additional 7% debt financing of USD 22,000 from Belgium based impact investors plus USD 90,000 from DFID. We have partnered or worked with NGOs such as PEAS, UNCDF through the cleanStart solar program, Uganda Solar Energy Association and Global Leap in an initiative to document energy consumption of solar vaccine fridges in health centers and soon CLASP on their mission to standardize off-grid equipment. Through our work, over 3,000 households and 300 schools access solar lighting and powering facilities such as computer labs, over 60 rural health centers have solar systems remotely monitored. | One strategy is to work with manufacturers interested in making their solar equipment in Africa available on credit. We embed sensors into the solar equipment connecting them to our web platform. We have secured partnerships with Ennos, a Swiss solar water pump manufacturer and Agsol a maize mill manufacturer. We will get to new markets by establishing distributor networks through partnerships. In Kenya, we started a pilot with Energy 4 Impact where we are monitoring 20 solar systems in rural health centers and schools. Over the two years, we plan to grow to Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia. In 2020, we will conduct studies on customer ability to pay to improve our credit rating functionality and lower the risk for solar companies selling products on credit. The big picture is for solar businesses to adopt better practices for profitability, standardize the industry and make it more attractive for investment while making data available to researchers and stakeholders. | 6 months: -USD 300,000 -2 senior software developers -Contract manufacturers 2 years: -USD 1,000,000 -10 countries -Team of 10 in marketing department | https://innovex.org/ https://www.sautitech.com/startups/innovex-uganda-bags-shs37m-in-cisco-global-ict-face-off/ https://www.sautitech.com/startups/numida-awamo-won-inclusive-fintech-50/ https://pctechmag.com/topics/innovex-uganda/ https://pctechmag.com/2019/07/ugandan-startups-winning-blockchain-pitch-competition/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVcG8PodHu0 | Overall winner for the Africa blockchain pitch competition 2019 (https://pctechmag.com/2019/07/ugandan-startups-winning-blockchain-pitch-competition/) 2nd runner up for the CISCO global challenge solver 2018 (https://web.facebook.com/CiscoGlobalProblemSolverChallenge/photos/congratulations-to-innovex-uganda-limited-from-makerere-university-for-winning-t/1017694525049481/?_rdc=1&_rdr) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
846 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Umali | Leonard | University of Malawi | http://www.tsinde.com | Lecturer | Male | Malawi | Malawi | English | 2010 World Bank report indicates that transition from primary to secondary school represents a bottleneck in Malawi, with gross enrolment ratio of 18%. Of that number, only about 14% finish secondary education. About 40% of secondary school national examination candidates fail. For example, out of 136,247 candidates who sat for national exams in 2018 62% passed. Since about 80% of Malawians live in the rural areas (Malawi Housing and Population census, 2018), many students have their education in community secondary schools which are understaffed, have less qualified teachers, and are resource constrained. Malawi has youthful population where 51% are below the age of 18 (MHP census, 2018). This demographic group is mostly a primary and secondary school going population. I believe Malawi can only be liberated from the poverty when we invest in our youth through education. Internet and AI technologies can be used to achieve access to quality education for all. It is against this background that my friend and I are developing a platform called Tsinde. In this era of Internet, AI and multimedia technologies, it is time to employ these technologies in the poverty-stricken countries such as Malawi. With Tsinde, we can provide lessons via internet or multimedia as videos, texts and audios. These can be used in the classes where instructor would play them and students watch. This may not need many teachers at a school as the lessons are already prepared and just requires someone to facilitate the sessions. For community secondary schools, we just need a minimum of 4 computers and projectors, one set for each level. Where internet access is enabled, the course might be delivered live online to all schools from central education unit. We plan to enroll our project starting with few schools and be expanding with time. Later we would like to utilize the power of AI to dramatically help achieve quality education through internet-based AI education assistants, as well as building class robots. Tsinde plans to have centers called Tsinde Education Centers (TECs) which among others may serve those who dropped out of school to be enrolled and take a training path not based on national curriculum, but rather emphasizing on specialized skills such as language, computer skills, national history just to mention a few. Our current focus is on developing the online platform and creating the course contents. | Umali Leonard was born on 14th August 1989. He is a second born in then then a poverty-stricken family of eight. The first born dropped out of school in standard eight when she was about 17 and got married. The third born dropped out of school in standard four. The fourth born dropped out of school for three years and then re-enrolled in standard 8. He has now finished secondary education. The fifth born dropped out of school too. The last three (one boy and two girls) are under 13 and are progressing well with their education. Umali did his primary school, standard 1 to 6 in the remotest areas of Malawi. Standard 7 and 8 he moved to nearest small town and got selected to national secondary school. In form 2, his father could not afford paying school fees. The headmaster and other teachers came to his rescue before he could transfer to a community secondary school, which had a very cheaper tuition fee at an expense of quality education. Umali finished secondary school and got selected to University of Malawi to pursue Bachelor of Science in Management Information Systems. He graduated from University of Malawi in 2014 with distinction and joined the university as an academic staff. In June 2019, he graduated from Nankai University, CHINA, where he was pursing master of engineering in software engineering. His broken educational family background has made him to have passion in solving problems in education sector as he sees this as the only tool to free people from abject poverty, him being a better case. | Tsinde Education Platform | An education platform for providing online and offline education based on Malawi's education curriculum. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Malawi | No | Ideation | The solution is not yet deployed for use. We are still developing an online platform and mobilizing resources to roll out the innovation idea. Of course, the online platform is currently hosted at http://www.tsinde.com, but is just for the testing purposes. We are yet to develop the courses. Currently, I have identified two people who are co-founders of this innovation. Also, we are yet to look for the local and international partners to see the solution come to life at a full scale. | Malawi's education system faces many challenges ranging from poor infrastructure to lack of education resources. These problems have made and continues to make many Malawians to fail to have access to quality education. 2010 World Bank report indicates that transition from primary to secondary school represents a bottleneck in Malawi, with gross enrolment ratio of 18%. Of that number, only about 14% finish secondary education. About 40% of secondary school national examination candidates fail. | Tsinde Education Platform is aimed at providing both online and offline education based on Malawi’s curriculum. Since about 80% of Malawians live in the rural areas (Malawi Housing and Population census, 2018), many students have their education in community secondary schools which are understaffed, have less qualified teachers, and are resource constrained. With Tsinde, we can provide lessons via internet or multimedia as videos, texts and audios. These can be used in the classes where instructor would play them and students watch. This may not need many teachers at a school as the lessons are already prepared and just requires someone to facilitate the sessions. For community secondary schools, we just need a minimum of 4 computers and projectors, one set for each level. Where internet access is enabled, the course might be delivered live online to all schools from central education unit. We plan to enroll our project starting with few schools and be expanding with time. Later we would like to utilize the power of AI to dramatically help achieve quality education through internet-based AI education assistants, as well as building class robots. Tsinde plans to have centers called Tsinde Education Centers (TECs) which among others may serve those who dropped out of school to be enrolled and take a training path not based on national curriculum, but rather emphasizing on specialized skills such as language, computer skills, national history just to mention a few. | There are many online courses globally. But none of them are addressing unique challenges of Malawi as they are not based on Malawi’s curriculum. Tsinde will provide alternative mode of education in Malawi providing online quality education to those with internet access as well as those with limited or no internet access, even those living in remotest areas of Malawi. The kind of online-to-offline model of education. Tsinde Education Centers (TEC) will complete a puzzle for those who dropped out of school and are planning to go back. Currently, those who dropped out of school in primary are left with no alternative to formal primary education if they would want to resume their education ambition. To many they find it hard to go and be together with in class with pupils who are over 10 years younger. Also, these people may not want to undergo a proper national curriculum, instead it would be ideal for them to just focus on few subject areas such as language, computer skills and many more. Also, for remote places where internet is a problem, the content can be downloaded to a local Tsinde Education Platform application on a computer to be used for streaming to students. Later after this computer is connected to the internet, it will update the central Tsinde system that such a class of students consumed such a content, and hence keeping the track of each school involved centrally. | Currently, I am working with two colleagues as co-founder of the solution. We have secured hosting space and domain name (http://tsinde.com). The testing platform for online content is already live at aforementioned website. In the past few months we created a textual content for some of the form 3 Mathematics. But our main focus is to have video content. Knowing that more and more people are having access to internet through mobile phones, we have also started working on android application so that students can also practice some questions and take some quiz online. | We plan to complete the well-tested web and android platforms by end of 2019. We plan to secure some partners by mid 2020. Also, in the same period, we will be developing some content starting with secondary school courses. This activity will go until the end of 2020. The little content that will have been developed will be piloted beginning of new academic year in September 2020. In the space of five years we plan to reach to as many school as 1000. These will also mean more facilitators needed in those schools. one facilitator can handle one class in secondary school per day, hence a need of minimum of four facilitators per school, making a total of 4000 facilitators in five to 10 years. | short-term needs of resources - computers for streaming - projectors for streaming - digital cameras for content development Medium-term needs - computers for streaming - projectors for streaming - digital cameras for content development - human resource Long-term needs - some infrastructures for Tsinde Education Centers (TECs). - Assessing students thru offline exams in the centers | http://www.tsinde.com | Not applicable | My solution initiative has seen me being selected as one of the 2019 UNLEASH Innovation Lab talents for sustainable development goals. In May I was also selected by YALI (Young African Leaders Initiative) to participate in their training program under business track. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
847 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Bernard | Jere | Palm Oil Experts | https://palmoilexperts.wordpress.com | Cofounder, Environmental Sunmstainability Officer, Market Research Analyst | Male | Malawi | Malawi | English | I am a MasterCard Foundation Scholar with an academic background and career interest in Global Agribusiness. Agribusiness is one of the key contributors to climate change. Palm oil cultivation and processing is one of the major agribusiness activities that has had and continues to have negative impact on the environment through such things as clearing of forests, grasslands and peatland in most places where palm trees are grown. In Ghana, like in most west African countries, palm oil is a staple and a major part of the rural economy helping lift people out poverty. Most palm oil plantations are developed in areas where rainforests and peatland grow, and in some cases where endangered species thrive. Clearing land for palm oil cultivation has been devastating for wildlife, people and climate change. In most parts of the rural communities in west Africa, cultivation of palm trees has led to deforestation as a result of the need to create space for more plantations and worse still, in these areas the traditional means of extracting and processing palm oil mostly relies on firewood as a source of energy hence leading to more deforestation. In an effort to promote sustainable and environmentally friendly means of palm cultivation and palm oil production, in year 2014, while pursuing my bachelors degree in Global Agribusiness at Arizona State University (ASU), I cofounded Palm Oil Experts with a fellow ASU student. Palm Oil Experts provides technologically innovative and environmentally friendly means of extracting and processing palm oil in rural communities in Ghana and also provides palm tree farmers with education on sustainable palm oil cultivation’s best practices as set by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Since establishing Palm Oil Experts, we have raised about $24,000 in start up and operation funding as well as collaborated with some faculty from ASU’s Morrison School of Agribusiness in developing solutions to this pressing issue. Among other things, solar powered extraction and processing machinery have been procured and installed at our pilot project site. Attending the summit will be a golden opportunity for me to interact with, learn from, and potentially collaborate with some of the brilliant minds that are committed to solving pressing environmental issues of our time including the issue of agribusiness’ impact on climate change. | Bernard Jere is a MasterCard Foundation scholar with a specialization in Global Agribusiness, and a social entrepreneur passionate about opportunities that capitalize on a strong interest for business development projects promoting sustainability and community empowerment. He is from Malawi. A strong believer in the power of education to transform lives and communities, Bernard received a tertiary education scholarship from the MasterCard Foundation, an organization that is committed to identifying and supporting young people from Africa with outstanding leadership potential and commitment to community development. He is the co-founder of Palm Oil Experts, a social venture aimed at providing environmentally friendly and technologically innovative means of extracting palm oil. | Palm Oil Experts | Environmentally friendly and technologically innovative means of palm oil extraction | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Ghana | Yes | MasteCard Foundation, Arizona State University’s ChangeMaker Central, Morisson School of Agribusiness at ASU, The Morrison School of Agribusiness at ASU’s W. P. Carey School of Busines. | Proof of Concept | We have plans to set up multiple centers for our Palm Oil Experts project. The current one was a pilot project and has so far proved to be a success. The lessons learnt from here will be applied on improving the set up and operations of other successive project centers. | In west African rural communities where palm oil is a staple, clearing of forests for new palm tree plantations and overreliance on firewood as the energy source in palm oil processing has been leading to widespread deforestation and air pollution.This environmentally unfriendly palm tree cultivation and oil processing continues to worsen due to a significant deficiency in the necessary technological resources and educational awareness regarding best practices for sustainable palm oil production | By replacing traditional means of extracting and processing palm oil which heavily relies on using firewood as the source of energy (which has led to deforestation), we aim to provide centers that provide technologically innovative and environmentally friendly means of extracting and processing palm oil. Solar panels and electronic machinery have been installed to ensure an environmentally clean process. We also provide education to farming communities and cooperatives on best practices for sustainably cultivating palm trees as formulated and approved by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). We eventually plan to expand to rural communities of other West African countries whose economies is dependent on palm oil production. | We have collaborated and partnered with a diverse network of key players in ensuring that we provide technologically innovative and environmentally friendly means of palm oil production. This diverse network of partnerships and collaborations include university faculty at ASU’s Morrison School of Agribusiness, smallholder farmers cooperatives, local chiefs, and other stakeholders all aimed at ensuring that both environmental and social justice is being fulfilled. The plan to set up multiple palm oil agribudiness technology and educational centers within several palm oil farming communities will ensure a quick spread and adoption of the environmentally friendly resources are project aims to provide. | First phase of project completed: building constructed, equipment procured and installed. Second phase completed: operations began, monitoring and evaluation ongoing. Third phase not started: Scaling it up by establishing other multiple centers in other palm oil farming communities in rural areas of Ghana and eventually west Africa. | We plan to establish 7 more palm Oil agribusiness centers in rural communities in Ghana by year 2021 Expand to rural communities of Ivory Cost and Togo in 2022 by opening pilot foreign centers in each country. Raise $10, 000 by year 2021 through grants which will be used to procure more palm oil extraction and processing equipment | In the short term, we need at least 11 more solar panels and 7 electronic boilers. In the medium term, we need more land/property where we can establish more centers for the project In the long run we need more equipment, partnerships, and human capital to contribute to the financial management and investments of the enterprise. | https://studentlife.asu.edu/entrepreneurship/a-hope-for-farmers-in-the-palm-of-two-Sun-Devils-hands | None available. No recordings were made. | Finalist, Venture Devils. Awarded $5,000 Finalist, Edson Student Entrepreneurial Initiative. Awarded $19,200 https://www.instagram.com/p/BTV4wyzBDbB/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
848 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Victoria | Adepoju | African Development and Empowerment Foundation | http://africandef.org/ | Team Lead | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit to showcase how I am using innovation to achieve SDGs especially SDGs 3 and 10. I also want to use the summit to network with potential partners and establish collaborations. In addition to sharing and networking, the summit will also avail me with the opportunity of learning best practices, successful models and experiences of colleagues in various parts of the world. | I’m a community health worker-turned-medical doctor with over 12 years experience in healthcare delivery and advocacy. I am the Project Lead at the African Development and Empowerment Foundation where I am responsible for the project scope, lead project team, mobilise and coordinate resource management. I am directly responsible and accountable for the success or failure of the various interventions. In addition to my medical training as a doctor, I’m also one of the US government-sponsored Young African Leaders Initiative-trained leaders in Public Policy. I’m passionate about reducing the burdens of Nigeria’s high maternal mortality rates by focusing on rural communities where the impacts are worst felt thereby tackling the challenges of health inequalities in Nigeria. | AfricanDEF Community Mobile Diagnostics: Laboratory & Ultrasound | Saving Nigerian pregnant women from preventable deaths by ensuring early detection of danger signs in pregnancy | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Nigeria | Yes | Oyo state government through the Oyo State Primary Healthcare Board, Association of Community Health Workers in Oyo State | Proof of Concept | We have screened 2800 pregnant women and have saved 2478 newborns. We have also provided 5,200 women of reproductive age with family planning services and trained 4640 health workers in the communities. We plan to do even more. We have also secured a partnership with the Oyo state government through the primary health care board that provides access to hundreds of primary healthcare centers in the state. | Nigeria has one of the world’s worst maternal mortality rates with 814 deaths per 100,000 live births. This is attributable to only 35% of births being assisted by skilled health personnel, according to UNICEF. The reason for this is the inefficiency and lack of diagnostic opportunities in government-owned primary health care centers. This is the problem that the solution is solving. | The solution is integrated into the schedule of antenatal clinics and the results are delivered same day thus enabling quicker decision such as referral of pregnant women who would require special care. To drive down cost, we deploy new technologies such as pre-charged portable ultrasound scan, point-of-care devices and test strips to screen for different parameters in pregnant women at various primary health care centers. | The solution brings the laboratory and ultrasound scan to the patient attending antenatal clinic at the government-owned primary healthcare centers unlike what currently obtains widely in which patients go from one location to another for the investigations. The cost of our service is incredibly cheaper and in addition to the affordable diagnostics, pregnant women and healthcare providers get trained on the danger signs in pregnancy according to WHO recommendation and national guideline on antenatal care. | We have rolled out the solution at pilot sites in southwest Nigeria where we have screened 2800 pregnant women in 24 communities that are being monitored up to the point of childbirth and beyond, and saved 2478 newborns. We have also provided 5,200 women of reproductive age with family planning services and trained 4640 health workers in the communities up till date. We have acquired a vehicle (Toyota Matrix) for this project in addition to ultrasound scan machine, kits and strips for the laboratory tests. We have also secured partnership with the Oyo state government through the primary health care board that provides access to hundreds of primary healthcare centers in the state. We also have incentive mechanism to motivate pregnant women in the communities to come to the primary health care facility by providing free screening to early comers at the antenatal clinic, thereby making it fun for both health workers and patients. | Within the first 2years, we plan to be able to cover 568 primary health care centers in Oyo State targeting at least 10,000 pregnant women for screening and 5000 health workers for training. In 5 years, AfricanDEF Community Mobile Diagnostic will be providing providing equity in healthcare for all pregnant women in Nigeria by identifying danger signs in pregnancy using diagnostic services in all the 36 states in Nigeria. | Short term (Within the next 2years) Improved coverage, AfricanDEF Community Mobile Diagnostic will expand to cover the 568 primary health care facilities in the state as a major diagnostic service provider for the local communities at affordable cost and training of at least 2000 health workers on how to identify danger signs in pregnancy using WHO recommendation and national guideline on antenatal care. Procurement of more Diagnostic equipment. This component of the programme implementation plan is a system of procurement of diagnostic products, rechargeable ultrasound scan machines and vehicles to ensure that they are adequate for the implementation and scaling. Long term Expansion (5years goal) Expansion to all the 36 states in Nigeria, providing equity in healthcare for all pregnant women in Nigeria by identifying danger signs in pregnancy using diagnostic services. This will be achieved by engaging stakeholders in health space after the success of the first phase as measured by our indicators, procurement of more equipment to enable more tests to be carried out at site and employing more health workers who will ensure more pregnant women are being reached with diagnostic services. There will also be need for accounting, administration, and other institutional expenses in relation to managing the project. | https://africandef.org/2019/06/30/tackling-maternal-mortality-by-filling-diagnostic-vacuum-at-rural-communities-in-southwest-nigeria/ https://africandef.org/2019/03/08/announcing-africandef-community-mobile-diagnostic-services/ https://web.facebook.com/1240948906037083/posts/1531074030357901/?_rdc=1&_rdr https://web.facebook.com/1240948906037083/posts/1542066905925280/?_rdc=1&_rdr https://web.facebook.com/1240948906037083/posts/1607155256083111/?substory_index=0&_rdc=1&_rdr | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1DZas--EMbJ1PEyWNLbEQrluE3lOH0YxY | healthnews.africa 2018 Award of Excellence for Impactful and great work in reducing Maternal mortality. ICFP 2018 Satellite Event Grant Award, Sep 2018, by Global Health Strategies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
849 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | David | Osore | Nestle Nigeria Plc Flowergate Factory | Nestle.com | Project Draftsman | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Tragedy struck in Nigeria in 2014, over 520,000 job seekers appeared for a job screening that was meant to employ just 4,500 people. This led to death of 16 vibrant promising Nigerians that were meant to be the bread winners of their family due to congestion and stampede. As at this incidence, the unemployment rate in Nigeria was around 10%, this rate has now moved to a massive 23.1% and the unemployment rate in Africa is now Young school leavers in Nigeria and Africa no longer have the future to look forward to, after struggling through school some even find it very hard to eat in a day talk less of three square meal. Nigeria is now referred to as the headquarter of poverty because a lot of these young individuals live below $1 per day and this has of course led to a rise in the number of suicide cases and social vices in the country. Parents that have struggled to train their children with the hope of having children to take care of them are already stranded. | David Osore was born 22nd of August 1994, he is the last of five siblings raised by a single mother. He attended Lagelu grammar school in Ibadan before proceeding to Oladipo alayande school of science Ibadan to complete his high school in 2010. November 2010 he gained admission to The Federal University of Technology Akure where he graduated in 2015. During his stay in the University, he served in different leadership positions such as Organizing secretary if CFI, technical director of CFI. In 2012, He was voted as the overall best student at Alpha 5 boot camp in Ibadan, During his mandatory one year service, he served as the president of SDGs Agbara CDS unit, in this position he executed a project on Entrepreneurship for high school students, he also executed project targeted as SDG 4 and SDG 3. Between August 2018 and now, David has trained over 1,000 Nigerian youths on different legal means of making money over the internet. | DigiSkillAfrica | Using digital education to reduce poverty in africa | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Nigeria | No | Research & Development | We are currently building our website and mobile which will be deployed Q4 2019 for proof of concept | We are addressing the problem of unemployment in Africa | We run Facebook ads to get people to enroll for our courses free of charge, the students go through the course and are subjected to quiz to ascertain they full understand the course and can apply it in real life. Certificates are issued to participants. After the course, every student must take a course on freelancing to learn how they can create their profile on different freelancing websites and start making income from the websites. We believe some of these students will develop to become entrepreneurs that will start creating jobs for others. We hope to train 1,000,000 Africans within the first one year, we will work with tertiary institutions to enroll their students on the platform to ensure that each student learn at least a digital skill before graduation. Our long-term vision is to reduce the level of unemployment in Africa to the minimum there by achieving SDG 1 | We don't have any solution like this for Africans. | We have gone 75% developing the website for e-learning. | We hope to launch officially by Q4 2019 in Nigeria We will recruit two staffs by Q1 2020 and expand to Ghana Q2 2020 we will expand to Gambia Q3 2020 we will penetrate into South Africa Q4 2020 we will expand to Kenya | On the short term we need connections to expert in different digital fields like email marketing, Wordpress etc. On the longterm we will need money to buy courses from experts. | https://digiskillhub.com | https://mega.nz/#!vNxGDAoY!gJQ8WY10wZgNBKl8GwsyUbqk7JkfexDWoNDioZtXPDA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
850 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Adedoye | Kayode | Society for Development & Community Empowerment (SDCE) | www.sdcec.org | Executive Director | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am motivated to replicate and scale up the use of and demand for innovation models that can create track record of success in addressing development problems to benefit poor communities .The proposed initiative will use private-sector innovation tools and methods to discover social breakthroughs that development organizations and social entrepreneurs can use to respond to the complex circumstances facing poor and vulnerable populations The key focus of the proposed solution targets strategic initiative that would help to domesticate ICTs and life-skill education in meeting with the objectives set out in the SDGs in the field of poverty eradication and economic empowerment The CIS Model will not only equip the youth especially the teeming poor unemployed graduates with skills that would make them both locally relevant and globally competitive but also to develop an effective system of job creation through self-employment promotion. The two major areas of our proposed project are: high-end ICT skill acquisition for global job competitiveness, job and wealth creation through sustainable agriculture and financial derivatives. I have used innovation to address the role of community Microfinance , ICTs, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in tackling Vulnerability, Hunger and Nutrition in order to achieve sustainable poverty reduction. Vulnerability is a major obstacle to social and economic development. Poor people are especially vulnerable, as they have few buffers or resources to cope with hazards or shocks. | A graduate of Chemistry ,an administrator, technical instructor, ICT Specialist, teacher, scientist,counselor, safety professional, volunteer, life educator and social worker; have made positive impacts on social and economic empowerment, drug abuse and rehabilitation, child and reproductive health, sexuality, sex work, HIV/AIDS, emergency and first aid, welfare of Seniors and crime control, environmental sustainability & other community development services; runs 24-hour consultancy service employ ICT, modern counseling and other informal teaching approaches in changing harmful lifestyles of people & encouraging youths to embrace skill development programmes; enjoy a membership of several International and National Associations.. About 20 years of versatile pre & post degree experience that cut across administration, banking & finance houses services, projects and laboratory management, teaching, oil services & NGO sector among others; Noted for rendering value added services and has the capacity to influence others to render such services too. A public spirited and social crusader/arbiter. | Community Investment Society (CIS) Model | Community Investment Society (CIS) Model for Wealth Creation & Economic Empowerment.. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Nigeria | Yes | Rivers State Agric Development Project,Specialized Marketing & Logistics, Spain | Research & Development | Solution is at pilot stage The target community and audience are involved in planning at the beginning of the project, implementation, conducting routine monitoring and evaluation process of the project. They will also participate in overall project budget and cost –effective mechanism. SDCE has carried out mapping and assessment of project in two communities, the youth and young graduates that will benefit from the program from our survey ,demand for these solution. | The solution is called the Community Investment Society (CIS) Model for Wealth Creation & Economic Empowerment.. Apart from 1250 entrepreneurs created, and enhanced food security, solution creates one million (1,000,000) jobs in 4 years | The CIS Model: A grant is instituted by a donor or group of donors A pilot population is nominated (say, 10 participants as proposed herein) from a unit A skills’ factory is established for competence and proficiency training in select enterprise schemes. Graduating trainees are formed into a group or partnering groups/clubs(cooperatives), and these groups together with the CIS initiators and managers, including the donors all form the larger CIS – Community Investment Society Model A pilot enterprise scheme is instituted and groups/clubs(cooperatives) are given start-up seeds (financial resources and or equipment) to commence, The groups are carefully guided, supervised and mentored to create production cycles for the select enterprise schemes, On achieving a certain number of production cycles group members are evaluated and those certified as proficient are inducted as full members of the Community, while those who performed poorly will repeat the apprenticeship scheme. Some proportion of profits generated from successful enterprise schemes are shared among members of the Community while the rest is ploughed back to grow and expand the community thereby eliminating the need for additional grants, The successful pilot scheme is immediately replicated in other communities as proficient members’ train and mentor new entrants/participants to the scheme to proficiency level. Schemes create a self-sustaining and self replicating program. | The CIS Model: A grant is instituted by a donor or group of donors A pilot population is nominated (say, 10 participants as proposed herein) from a unit A skills’ factory is established for competence and proficiency training in select enterprise schemes. Graduating trainees are formed into a group or partnering groups/clubs(cooperatives), and these groups together with the CIS initiators and managers, including the donors all form the larger CIS – Community Investment Society Model A pilot enterprise scheme is instituted and groups/clubs(cooperatives) are given start-up seeds (financial resources and or equipment) to commence, The groups are carefully guided, supervised and mentored to create production cycles for the select enterprise schemes, On achieving a certain number of production cycles group members are evaluated and those certified as proficient are inducted as full members of the Community, while those who performed poorly will repeat the apprenticeship scheme. Some proportion of profits generated from successful enterprise schemes are shared among members of the Community while the rest is ploughed back to grow and expand the community thereby eliminating the need for additional grants, The successful pilot scheme is immediately replicated in other communities as proficient members’ train and mentor new entrants/participants to the scheme to proficiency level. Schemes create a self-sustaining and self replicating program. | Solution is at pilot stage, the target community and audience are involved in planning at the beginning of the project, implementation, conducting routine monitoring and evaluation process of the project. They will also participate in overall project budget and cost –effective mechanism. SDCE has carried out mapping and assessment of project in two communities, the youth and young graduates that will benefit from the program from our survey ,demand for these solution. The solution will be widely acceptable across different geographies. The enterprise schemes targeted for investment was test run on a micro scale and yielded positive result.(www.sdcec.org) We have already established preliminary contact with some of our development partners and held some discussions with other private sector organizations with a view to soliciting their support and or collaboration. * . Program will empower citizens of the community in a pool with relevant and requisite skills and the needed start-up funds they require to make them globally competitive. These can then draw foreign direct capital from the global pool as well as local capital without the usual debt strings and the risk of mortgaging future generations. . More can be achieved when people pool their resources together for a common goal than when they work alone (men and women in cooperatives). This is the principle that drives cooperatives, banking, insurance and religious bodies.etc. | Program will start in one of the 36 states in Nigeria and replicated in other states. Expected Milestone after 4th Year: The class of 1250 *1250 unemployed and vulnerable people have been taken off the streets and put on a monthly stipend of 250 USD each. *They have received critical skills’ transfer and empowered through training and mentoring program. *They have become globally competitive and have joined the club of investors, agric farmers and traders. *They have each received IT equipment and start-ups of US$5000. *This class of 1250 have grown their start-ups and collectively accumulated about US$32,248,627.50 in 9 months of sustainable agricultural investment and trading activities, while the class of 250 in its second production cycle has collectively accumulated about US$57,506,397. The class of 50 now in its third production cycle has accumulated about US$102,546,557 and the class of 10 now in its fourth cycle has accumulated about US$182,863,094. In all, a total of US$375,164,675.50 will be accumulated . *Replication process is complete but production cycles continues. Apart from 1250 entrepreneurs created, solution creates one million (1,000,000) chain jobs in 4 years. Program will empower citizens of the community in a pool with relevant and requisite skills and the needed start-up funds they require to make them globally competitive. These can then draw foreign direct capital from the global pool as well as local capital without the usual debt strings. | Training of 10 pilot participants and take-off grant/seed money is 100K USD, Setting up and carrying out Sustainable agriculture(Fish Farming /Cassava Production Venture -65K USD & setting up of a Resource Centre will require 35K USD, for pilot beneficiaries. Total cost required for a pool (pilot) Is 200K USD. ICT Skill Empowerment: is a special scheme that leverages on the power of ICT in ushering the participants into a globally competitive market having equipped them with world-class training to international certification levels in five key areas of Sustainable and Intensive Agriculture, ICT, Engineering, Database Management & Financial Derivatives. Trainees who demonstrate adequate capacity would serve two purposes. Firstly, they would be assisted with start-up capital to set up investment platforms from which they may grow their financial portfolio through capital accumulation (profit). Secondly, these same set of graduates will serve as resource persons for new entry level trainees. This approach greatly enhances the capacity of the scheme to replicate success by multiplying beneficiaries over a short period of time in a sustainable manner. Medium-Term-No external resources are needed here. The impact is continuous and is going to create a chain reaction and band wagon effect. There is a Training of Trainers program for replication that multiplies beneficiaries over a short period of time in a sustainable manner. Long-Term—Program generates income for replication. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YLhtkZ3Izrz3Dah7b4S_c1UAPC0iiemW/view?usp=sharing http://www.sdcec.org; https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayode-adedoye-ab72a426/ | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YLhtkZ3Izrz3Dah7b4S_c1UAPC0iiemW/view?usp=sharing http://www.sdcec.org; | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
851 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chiangeh | Richard | Sports and Health Development Organization | www.shdoonline.org | Managing Director | Male | Cameroon | Cameroon | Chinese | English | French | Due to the rise in Noncommunicable diseases [NCDs] caused mainly by inactivity and poor dieting. about 80% of Bamenda city dwellers of ages 25 and above are not actively engaged in fitness activities. The few existing Public or private sporting facilities are either too crowded or lack adequate equipment and materials. It is due to these circumstances that led to the launching of SHDO fitness center. This well equipped gym now offers weight control programs ,Fitness training, body health screening and dieting workshops.We aim to reduce or prevent the high rates of diabetes,hypertension,obesity and other cardiovascular diseases in the North West Region of Cameroon thus helping over 900,000 inhabitants. During our dieting workshops, we educate participants on how to control what they eat, how they eat and when they eat . This project will help and educate over 5000 community dwellers yearly on the importance of dieting and physical fitness. Our programs will definitely drop down the high rates of NCDs and enable people to adapt preventive health measures while cut the cost of buying expensive medication. | Chiangeh Richard Nsom is an ESL teacher with over 15 years working experience in China.He is also the founder and Managing Director of Sport And Health Development Organization, [ SHDO] an organization that uses sports as a tool to fight noncommunicable diseases[ NCDs]. Highly driven by the high mortality rate in Cameroon due to NCDs, he founded SHDO and started sensitizing communities ,raising awareness about the benefits of physical exercises and dieting.His sports and health campaigns, dieting workshops and keep fit programs have been very successful in the fight against NCDs. Chiangeh Richard holds a BA in English Modern Letters from the University of Yaounde1, Cameroon. He also obtained an International organization management certificate offered by the University of Geneva . He is a dynamic leader with a rich experience in management. | Exercise for Health | Physical exercise and dieting is vital for good health. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Cameroon | No | Sustainable Scale | Since the launching of our fitness center in 2017,more than 300 members have joined our Health and Fitness programs. In 2018, we started our Free body health screening and outdoor sports. We have also partnered with local institutions in organizing sporting activities in Bamenda. | Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) represent the leading cause of death globally.The rise in Noncommunicable diseases [NCDs] is caused mainly by inactivity and poor dieting. About 80% of Bamenda city dwellers of ages 25 and above are not actively engaged in fitness activities. The few existing Public or private sporting facilities are either too crowded or lack adequate equipment and materials. | Our well equipped gym now offers weight control programs ,Fitness training, body health screening and dieting workshops.We aim to reduce or prevent the high rates of diabetes,hypertension,obesity and other cardiovascular diseases in the North West Region of Cameroon thus helping over 900,000 inhabitants. During our dieting workshops, where we can educate participants on how to control what they eat, how they eat and when they eat .This campaign will educate over 5000 community dwellers yearly on the importance of dieting and physical fitness. Our programs will definitely drop down the high rates of NCDs by 50% during a period of 5 years. It will also enable people to adapt preventive health measures while cut the cost of buying expensive medication | Being the only Non governmental organization actively promoting sports and sensitizing communities about the risk of noncommunicable diseases, we stand a great chance of succeeding in our sports for health campaigns. We offer Free body health screening for High blood pressure and diabetes for the elderly. We also organize free outdoor exercise in order to encourage more people to stay physically fit. Our Free Campaign approach as well as our quality services makes us unique. | For over 4 Years now, we have been working in partnership with local hospitals and sporting institutions in the fight against NCDs.. SHDO currently has over 300 registered gym members of which over 100 are active. Positive feedback and recommendations from members who accomplished their health and fitness goals has boosted our credibility in combating NCds in Bamenda. | By 2025,we hope to have more volunteers joining our Sports and Health campaigns. we also aim to screen at least 250,000 people for NCD related illnesses and offer them the required treatment or therapy. This plan can only succeed if we follow these steps; - Set up more fitness centers in rural and urban communities in the North West Region. - Set up 5 body health screening posts . -Organize more sports and health Campaigns, workshops and sporting competitions. | At this stage, we need funding and material support. We do not have enough funds to expand our services and campaigns to other communities or districts in Bamenda urban area. Most of the equipment we use at our fitness center are broken and need to be fixed or replaced. | https://www.shdoonline.org https://www.facebook.com/shdoonline.org | https://youtu.be/gIAlsbBiACE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
852 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jose L. | Flores-Guerrero | University Medical Center Groningen | https://www.rug.nl/staff/j.l.flores.guerrero/ | PhD Candidate / STEM Coordinator | Male | Netherlands | Mexico | English | Spanish | The discovery and recognition of the microbiota´s role in human health is perhaps one of the most groundbreaking achievements of the modern medical era. Nonetheless, given the high cost involved, its applicability to the large population is far from being a fact. We would like to be part of the UN Solutions Summit 2019, by presenting our project “Biophotonics DBT”, to share how technology and interdisciplinary work can contribute to the UN development goals, particularly Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. Biophotonics DBT is a project which combines the use of Raman Spectroscopy and Deep Learning in order to identify biomarkers that allows the early detection of Non Communicable Disease, such as diabetic kidney disease, in the most cost effective way. To achieve such goal, we are implementing a non-invasive, (we do not extract blood from the patient) low-cost and sustainable technology, (the measurements do not requiere any reactives or additive substances) to identify novel biomarkers, such as microbiota derived molecules. We believe that this project can provide a new opportunity to include the general population, particularly from developing countries on cutting edge research, in order to prevent the progression of non communicable diseases, such as diabetes complications, which represent one of the most important public health problems. | J.L.Flores-Guerrero, MD, MSc, is interested on the characterization of new biomarkers for early detection of diabetic kidney disease, T2D, cardiovascular events and mortality. He works on large and long term cohorts to assess metabolomic and proteomic biomarkers. His work has contributed to describe the use of a multidimensional biomarker that contains 273 peptides to detect the progression of diabetic kidney disease and mortality (Currie et al Cardiovasc Diabetol, 2018). He has also explored the potential of the Branched Chain Amino Acids in the assessment of diabetes risk (Flores-Guerrero et al. JCM, 2018). Dr. Flores spent 6 months at The University of Helsinki in a research fellowship of genomics and obesity. Since December 2017 he is working as PhD candidate in the department of Nephrology of the Univeristy Medical Center Groningen. Dr. Flores is the most prolific reviewer of his institution. Dr. Flores also has a close collaboration with the department of Biophotonics of The National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (Mexico), helping in the development of non-invasive instruments for the diagnosis of diabetes and microvascular complications. Besides research, Dr. Flores is interested on the achievement gap issue. For that reason he worked with the international organization Teach For All-MX, teaching natural sciences in schools located in high need areas. He also participated in several education seminars and courses in Washington D.C and New York. | Biophotonics DBT | Diminishing diabetes complications in developing countries: using microbiota biomarkers with low-cost & noninvasive spectroscopy | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Mexico and Latin America | Yes | National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (Mexico), Department of Health (Mexico), Mexican Social Security Institute (Mexico).University of Carabobo (Venezuela) | Research & Development | After 2 years of ideation, we have been conducting research on the field of medical optics in order to demonstrate the feasibility of using raman spectroscopy as a non-invasive technique to identify important biomarkers such as glucose. Many of our research outputs are already publish in peer review journals i.e The Journal of Biophotonics (Wiley Online Library). | Diabetes and its complications represents one of most important public health problems. The economic burden of such health issues severely affects developing countries. At the same time, the interaction of the microbiota with human health (one of the most important medical discoveries), remains far from being implemented in medical practice, mainly because of the high associated costs. Consequently the potential benefit of such medical research are even more distant to developing countries. | Biophotonics DBT solution works under the principle of spectroscopy of the inelastic scattering of light by polarizable molecules that reveals the vibrational energy levels of the chemical bonds in the molecules. Therefore, a rapid and non-destructive analysis of the chemical structures changes associated with biological processes in the human body can be carried out in human fluids, such as plasma or urine. The data collected, is afterwards analyzed with several methods, including deep learning and other frequentist as well as bayesian statistical methods, in order to evaluate predictive microbiota enriched models that allow us to identify people at high risk to develop diabetes complications, and therefore take action in order to decrease the mortality and morbidity of the cardiometabolic complications. According to the International Diabetes Federation, by 2030 it is expected that the global number of people with diabetes will reach 438 million people worldwide. Only in the US, it will represent a cost of $622 billion dollars. The long term vision for global impact is to scale this project to reach the remote communities in Mexico and Latin America that have the highest percentages of diabetes and poverty, in order to provide them with this technology that allows them to have an early detection of diabetes complications, i.e. diabetic kidney disease, in that way, an early intervention can be implemented and other complications, related costs, and mortality can be avoided. | Biophotonics DBT propose a unique solution, given that we are the only research group on implementing the inelastic scattering of light to identify microbiota biomarkers in order to built prognostic model that can be used to avoid diabetes complications. Our project is based in a rapid, non-destructive and low-cost method that does not require previous preparation of samples to be analyzed, in order to provide a quantification of the desired biomarkers. As well, the instrument has small dimensions, therefore, the spectroscopy fits a regular backpack and can be taken to any remote area, where the communities with lowest incomes are usually located. Biphotonics DBT has a new perspective, since it is one of the few projects that is not only focussing on achieving a medical application, but also is considering the economic limitations as well as the remote location of many communities where the people affected by diabetes and its complications are living. Moreover, we are taking in to account the sustainability, since our technology do not requiere to use any biochemical additive and do not requiere blood sampling, therefore, this technology in fact reduce the plastic consumption normally associated to biomedical testing. | In the last 4 years we have progressed in the development of the proper algorithms that allow us to identify key metabolites such as glucose and albumin in a non-invasive way. During this time, several technical aspects such as: time to exposition, focal distance, eave length and many other factor have been investigated and documented in order to obtain the best and more reliable spectra. At the same time we have conducted several trial to perform the measurements in municipalities located in low-income and distant areas. We have successful documented the reliability of the portable spectroscopies to measure clinical relevant biomarkers. The methodological rigor has been measured via the publication of our results in peer review journals well recognized by the international scientific community. | Our first medium term goal is to achieve full coverage of the 1,793 municipalities living in social marginalisation in Mexico (very high 441, high 408, medium 944), which means to provide a screening to approximate 10 million people. This stage will require 64 spectroscopies (2 per state). Such goal can be achieved in 3 years, during such time, the improvement of the field work strategy will be documented in order to planify the second stage of the project. The second stage of the project (+3 years) consist of a nation wide coverage of all the people living in poverty in Mexico, which represent 26 million people. Such goal will be achieve with an expansion of the personal to 320, that will be trained in the 32 strategic units (1 per state). During this second stage, and after a proper documentation of good practices, we will run at least 2 pilot projects in 2 latin american countries, with similar demographic and epidemiological profile. | Given the fact that the maintenance of the spectroscopies is not expensive, and also considering that the proposed solution do not require any extra additive, the key resources are needed at the beginning of the scale, in order to acquire the spectroscopies, the computers. The middle term financial needs, such as transportation, and training of the personal, can be covered by strategic agreements with the governments and universities of each state. We have estimated that 10 million dollars are needed to cover the start and maintain the operation of this project for 3 years, which is the need time to cover the 1, 793 mexican municipalities living in high poverty. The proposed budget will cover the nation wide logistics, local transport capacity, safe data and internet domain, educational outreach and scientific dissemination. | Optical systems (Scientific Article): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26076276 Identification of glycated hemoglobin (Scientific Article): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28009134 New proteomic poly-marker panel to identify risk of mortality in patients with diabetes (Scientific Article): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29625564 New metabolic biomarker of incident diabetes (Scientific Article):https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30518023 New lipidomic biomarker of incident diabetes (Scientific Article): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30591414 | English subtitle video about Biophotonics DBT project: https://youtu.be/l4RcUpr5vcQ | 2019. 2º place. Falling Walls-Lab Groningen. The Netherlands 2019. Finalist. 3M thesis competition. University of Groningen. The Netherlands. 2018. Finalist. STEM Innovation National Contest. Mexico 2018. 2º Place. Young Researchers Meeting. Mexico. Personal. International Scholarship. Heidelberg University (Germany,2018) Research Scholarship. Government of Finland (Finland,2017) The Youth Prize. Government of Puebla (Mexico,2015) Invitation to the Nobel Prize Ceremony. SIYSS (Sweden,2011) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
853 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nadia | Catraio | Katraio Services | na | CEO and General Director | Female | Sao Tome and Principe | Sao Tome and Principe | English | I am an entrepreuneur and I own a business that can be classified as a social innovation. I have a event's hall with a playground attached where people do celebrations like birthdays, weddings and mainly children baptism (Sao Tome and Principe is a very catholic country). We dont have playgrounds in the country therefore my place makes the difference. futhermore, I work with single mother (mainly fruit of massive immigration of the men from the islands to other countries in search of better life) and young people that has never worked before. We rent the place, we decorate, we do cathering, DJ and music, etc... I value people and always aiming for high quality and professionalism, I do training to my team in order to prepare them to deliver high quality service to the clients but also to prepare them for the life behind my company. Most of workers never before had a formal job, regular salary paid, social security paid, etc... There is so much to do in order to complete this project: facility's improvements, trainings, new equipments, etc... But I think I am very far from where it all began. My project is working. Is giving hope to women and youg girls and young boys and I would like to share it with the world. How a O&G worker left her well paid job to create jobs and giving hope to several womena nd young people in a place where so many people are hopeless... | My name is Nadia Catraio Costa Alegre, born 26th Sept 1978 in Sao Tome and Principe, the 3rd daugther of a family of 6 children. I am an Industrial Chemical Engineer by education, but now an Entrepreuneur by choice. Due to the fact that my parents had to immigrate to Angola in search of better life, I had to leave STP in 1996 to Angola, where I went to University and graduated in 2005 by Agostinho Neto University. My parents had to struggle to provide and take care of the 6 of us, being my dad an Admistractive Assistant in a Construction company. Because he could not finish his University degree thats the job he did for his entire professional life... Seing my dad struggles made me to decide to do better for myself. I worked for over 10 years in Oil and Gas industry which allowed me to travel a lot and to be exposed to different cultures, situations, people and environments. Thanks to those tools I am now able to apply those knowledge into my personal business. Today at 41 I am a single mother of a lovely daugther (7yrs old), a successful Entrepeuneur (working specially with sinlge mothers and young people) and happy with my life. | O Cantinho da Diana - Salao de Festa e Parque Infantil | Women Empowerment through legal employment | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Sao Tome and Principe, Cape Vert, Equatorial Guine, Nigeria | No | Scaling | The business started in May 2016. Since then we have improved and helped several ladies and young people. We are now on our 3rd year, so I belive we are Scaling. | Unemployment. We are addressinf the problem of Lack of formal work for so many women and young people. | We create jobs for ladies and young people. Specially single mothers. For the future we intend to trainee those ladies and give them some seed capital in order that they can become selfemployed by creating their own legal business. For the young one, we have been training them in order to be able to find any job that tey wish after leaving this company. | Working with women and young people. People who never had a job before. We do lots of training to them. We have a safe and secure place to play while the parents are at the party. | Very far. We started with a smaller place and we have expanded and improved on the facility itself. My team did not know how to attend to the client but they now can do it fruit of constant trainings. | I would like to expand to Nigeria, Equatorial Guine and Cape Vert. But locally I would like to build a traing Center not only for my personnel but to prepare ladies with tools that will allow them to gain financial independence either by finding a legal job or by creating their own business. | Funding to: - Improvement of the current facility; - Construcion of the training center; - Stabilish the business in another country. | NA | NA | WIA54 - Women In Africa Initiative - Cohort 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
854 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Judi | Aubel | Grandmother Project - Change through Culture | www.grandmotherproject.org | Exec Dir | female | Italy | United States of America | English | French | I am applying to present at the summit our innovative grandmother-inclusive approach to promote the rights and well-being of girls. Globally there are concerns regarding the rights and development of girls who face multiple challenges across the Global South. Many girls have limited educational opportunities, often due to teen pregnancy and child marriage. Female genital mutilation threatens many of them. These girls need to be supported, especially during adolescence. Many programs target girls while ignoring an abundant but neglected cultural resource – the grandmothers. In our innovative approach, African grandmothers are empowered to catalyze community change in harmful social norms and to collectively protect and promote girls’ well-being. Building on grandmothers’ traditional role in socializing girls, we strengthen their knowledge and self-confidence to provide girls with the support they need, and to convince other community members to change their expectations of girls to allow them to excel at school and beyond. Our work has disproven the assumption that grandmothers are closed-minded and unable to change. Our grandmother-inclusive approach has been tested in several African countries and can potentially be used across Africa, in Asia and Latin America. “Innovation” often suggests a technological solution. Our work empowering groups of grandmothers and building on their collective commitment to support girls involves “Innovation through Tradition”. | My background is in adult education (MA), anthropology (PhD), and public health (MPH). The past 20 years, I have worked with community programs addressing social, health and educational needs of women and children in more than 100 different cultural contexts in Africa, Asia and Latin America. I have primarily worked with NGOs and provided assistance in the design and evaluation of programs. In all contexts, I observed and was concerned with the gap between cultural roles and realities and development programs, which often either ignore or blame culture for many problems faced by women and children. I am convinced that this gap has significantly contributed to the limited results of many development programs. My work has always focused on developing approaches that build on positive cultural values and roles, involving the elders, and specifically grandmothers. Since 2010, with my African colleagues, we developed a grandmother-inclusive and intergenerational approach to strengthen communication between adolescents, parents and elders in order to promote systemic and sustained change in social norms within families and communities and increase social cohesion in communities. I authored a book “Grandmothers: a Learning Institution” and eight articles on different aspects of this approach and the results thereof. I have presented this work in several international conferences and several universities in Holland, UK, Australia and US. | Empowering grandmothers to empower girls | Grandmothers are an abundant and underutilized resource to support girls and to catalyze change in norms that limit Girls’ Holistic Development. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Senegal: there is an ongoing program with schools & communities: in Mauritania, with World Vision on a grandmother-inclusive mother & child health project: in Sierra Leone with PikinToPikin we are working on an education program. | Yes | UNICEF, UNFPA, Dining for Women, Brach Foundation, Dutch Embassy in Senegal | Proof of Concept | Proof of concept We started with the assumption that “involving grandmothers to promote the well-being of girls would be beneficial.” We developed our GM-inclusive and intergenerational approach to address various facets of Girls Holistic Development (GHD), namely girls’ education, child marriage, teen pregnancy and female genital mutilation. We now have considerable evidence that our methodology contributes to positive change related to these four issues. We have proof of this concept. | Girls in southern Senegal face these problems: 1) Families don't value girls’ education; 2) Child marriage is widespread; 3) Teen pregnancy is among the highest in Senegal; 4) Female Genital Cutting is widespread. 5) Girls need psycho-social support, communication between generations is weak and GMs’ traditional role in socializing girls has weakened. Girls lack the educational & psycho-social support they need at home and at school to fully develop physically, emotionally and intellectually. | Several key features of African collectivist cultures underpin our solution. 1) Change in harmful social norms requires the involvement of all segments of society, i.e.men and women of all ages; 2) Social norms are perpetuated by the elders; 3) Senior women, or grandmothers (GM) are responsible for supporting women’s and children’s development. In family decision-making, GM have an influential role regarding girls’ education, child marriage & FGM. Our solution leverages the culturally-designated role of GM, increases their knowledge of GHD issues and empowers them to catalyze change in norms and attitudes in their communities. GM empowering activities include: Days of Praise of GM; songs of praise of GM on the radio and in schools; under the tree non-formal education sessions on GHD with GM, younger mothers and adolescent girls; GM Leadership Training to promote GHD. Community-wide intergenerational forums, including teachers, elicit discussion of GHD and GMs’ important contribution to GHD to build consensus on how community actors can support GHD. We believe that a GM-inclusive and intergenerational approach for GHD can be wide used across Africa and Asia. Our vision is to build capacity of other organizations across the developing world to integrate this approach into their programs. We do this through: dissemination of methodology guides on our approach; training other NGOs and government staff; integrating the approach into universities and basic training schools. | GMP’s approach has several unique features regarding: who is involved; and the approach used to promote change. 1) Many programs addressing GHD and rights narrowly focus on girls, the risk group, while ignoring other family actors who must be involved to promote sustained change for girls. Girls’ empowerment programs are beneficial but often lead to greater conflict between generations if parents and elders are not also involved. An intergenerational approach promotes systemic change by building community-wide support for it. 2) Our approach is GM-inclusive. Development programs often see elders, and specifically grandmothers, as those who perpetuate harmful practices and resist change and therefore focus on younger people, believed to be more open to change. GMP believes that abandonment of harmful cultural practices can only occur if those who contribute to perpetuating them change their attitudes. 3) Most programs use a message-driven approach to persuade community members to change according to our priorities. GMP’s approach is based rather on adult learning principles where dialogue and critical reflexion is catalysed using various participatory learning activities. In our approach, communities are not told to “keep girls in school” or “stop child marriage” but rather are challenged to analyze past attitudes, to consider new information and to come to agree on how to best support GHD. It has been very successful in empowering and mobilizing communities to promote GHD. | I have a strong background in evaluation and a priority for GMP is ongoing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for both accountability and learning. GMP has a system of qualitative process documentation that feeds into the iterative learning process. Also, simple quantitative information is routinely collected. Our internal M&E system is being strengthened. Various external studies and evaluations have documented the positive effects and impact of our approach. Most significant is the 2-yr research project just completed by the Institute of Reproductive Health (IRH), Georgetown University with the University of Dakar on our GHD program. The IRH research, based on two qualitative and quantitative studies concludes that after 18 months of implementation, the grandmother-inclusive and intergenerational approach has contributed to positive change related to GHD program goals: increased family support for girls’ education; increased girls’ school performance; decreased child marriage (i.e. before 18); greatly decreased teen pregnancy; decreased FGM through a grandmother-led process of community abandonment; strengthened communication between 3 generations (elders, parents and children); girls’ increased sense of empowerment; empowerment of grandmothers and their increased role supporting girls; and increased community cohesion to support development of girls and boys. GMP collects both quantitative and qualitative data collection for learning and evidence building. | GMP aims to have high quality human resources and a well-structured and operating organization. GMP is very small and there are challenges regarding both parameters. GMP currently has only 8 full-time and 2 part-time employees. Our goal is to expand our activities within Senegal and West Africa. Each year we set targets for expansion but resources and capacity consistently limit our ability to reach those targets. In Senegal, we aim to expand our impact on other NGOs and university programs through training and provision of methodological tools. We conduct West Africa regional training sessions for NGO and university staff which depends on their ability to pay for the training. More than 200 people have participated in our 5-day workshop (in French or English). However, many smaller NGOs, while very interested in our approach are unable to attend due to the cost. We have a new partnership with the Rural Development Training School at Dakar University and are working with them to integrate our approach into the curriculum. The challenge is to mobilize more human and financial resources to ensure more support for training and materials on a larger scale with NGOs and universities. Almost all of the grants received have been for one year and do not support institutional development. For this reason, we have not: been able to recruit more staff; provide ongoing training/capacity building opportunities to staff; nor have sufficient management support on specific issues. | As discussed above our needs for additional resources relate to strengthening: the organizational structure and systems of GMP; human resources: programs; and communication on GMP’s work. Organizational structure: continue to strengthen administrative and financial systems and skills of admin & finance assistant. Human resources: recruit a full-time Senegal director to coordinate programs and coordinate with national level organizations and ministries; recruit an assistant program director in Velingara office; recruit additional community development staff Programs: refine and publish GMP’s innovative training and community/ adult education learning materials for distribution to other NGOs and universities; develop video materials for use in training activities at different levels. Communications: hire a part time communications/media assistant to develop video and print materials to “market” GMP’s approach for; other NGOs and government departments; potential donor foundations and individuals; and for the public at large to increase understanding of the importance of supporting GHD using a culturally-grounded approach that involves elders, and specifically GM, and that supports intergenerational communication. We have a communications assistant in our organizational chart but have never had resources to hire one. | website: www.grandmotherproject.org Videos: there are several videos on the site but I am sorry but I don't know how to link them here. Thanks for your understanding. Related documents on website: all 6 documents in--> programs/Girls Holistic Development http://www.grandmotherproject.org/what-we-do/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1303rSdb_l57q8yR-tlDdg On website in Maternal & Child Health: The role and influence of grandmothers on child nutrition. Review article from the Maternal and Child Nutrition journal. | BBC interview in French.""Les grand-mères nous aident dans notre...bbc.com https://www.bbc.com/afrique/region-48686368 Link to my keynote presentation at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, May 2019. https://panopto.lshtm.ac.uk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=547f63ec-5ac4-4a4f-8096-aa4600bf0473 | Trust Woman Award - 2013, Thomson Reuters & Int Hearald Tribune (winner) Ashoka Fellow 2015 (Winner) BBC - Inspirational and Influential Women award (winner) Global Thinkers' Forum Award 2017 (winner) Open Society Foundation, London 2018 (winner) African Union Award for Innovations in Education (winner) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
855 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohandarezki | Lahdiri | Arc en ciel school | no website | teacher | male | Algeria | Algeria | Arabic | English | French | Many essential services are lacking in Algeria. Instead of relying on a government to solve problems, this project aims to instill the value of community service. We will replace the idea, “the government should fix that” with a proactive concept, “If not me, then who?” It is known that in the US, high schools mandate students to perform acts of service in order to graduate. The US has the 2nd highest rank for most ‘giving back’ (US News). The value of community service is instilled very young in that society. People of all ages tend to continue to ‘give back’. First, students will read about not only the idea of community service, but about a multitude of such projects as have been implemented by high schoolers around the globe. They will then think about their own personal interests. They will each come up with a host of possible actions. The top 5 will be chosen, decided by vote. Then, students will team up in groups of 5-7 to complete the projects. Money is needed to implement the designs. If students want to bring food to the elderly, for example, food needs to be purchased. If students want to create a playground for children, tools and supplies need to be purchased. Dr. Jessica Ashe at Miami University Regionals in Ohio (herself a seasoned veteran in implementation of community service projects) has agreed to manage and tutor students via video conferencing. | My name is MohandArezki Lahidri, I am a teacher of English, I was born on August 12th, 1978, in Bejaia, a wonderful coastal town in Algeria. I like my job . I am absolutely passionate and interested by my job. Besides, I devote all My time on it, I always think new ways in order to progress and improve My skills. My hard efforts and work have valued me to become in July 2005 , the Bachelor of Arts In English ( BA) University of Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi ouzou. in 2007to 2013, I taught English In the electronic department at University. In addition, I truly believe into the Human right and justice which leads me to be currently a teacher of Legal English in the court of Tizi ouzou. In February 2010, I received the Certificates of participation of two workshops on civil commitment with the National Democratic Institute Directed by Jeffery England, which obviously attest on My civic engagement. Moreover, I spent all My spare time for helping people , My many participations to associations proved it. I am a member of “ Association against violence” and “Amin EL Tifi” which means Children’s hope. Both fight against violence to children and women. | Creating the Value of Community Service | increased sense of self-efficacy in youth and a creation of self-chosen community service projects around the community | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | First of all the project will be implemented in Algeria as a first step then it will be spreaded into neighbouring countries such as Tunisia and morocco | No | Research & Development | My idea of setting a community project came up after a long time of thinking abut the issues that raises day after day in my community and other communities as well. the project has come up after discussing lonlgly and after doing many researches to find a sustainble solution that will benefit our communities, thus it will help government reduce the challenges and afford other developments. | The details that we don’t pay attention but destroys our daily life. The roads, sidewalks and streets are always crowded of people, trash eveyrwhere. There are no places for parking. Besides, that causes and constitutes the result of big traffic jump’s issues, many way of pollution, the air and the sound. In addition to this, Huge and big hotels are erected every years, it generates destruction of nature’s parts and disturbs the architecture of my town. | The capacity to easily communicate helped me a lot in my work: I am a teacher, patience is rigor and I have to understand my students for avoiding conflicts and future problems. It is also a big aptitude in consideration of making people listening, concentrating and interesting by my courses and lessons: it is the greatest manner to share my knowledge. Secondly, there is work experience which is a perfect potentiality to become a leader . I acquire this ability by exercising my work’s functions in different parts of my country as the desert but also by travelling in other countries: I have participated to many training especially in England. That is how I observe, learn and master different ways and various methodology in order to develop and increase my skills and abilities. Furthermore, it is a measure for living new experiences and sharing ideas. Furthermore a responsible must be accessible to convince and to make people confident about his work. He has to be sociable and closer of the people with who he works . He must be always staying informed of the difficulties to overcome but also of the victories which were done . I am truly persuaded that is the thing which will make people unfold, and self-assured. Moreover, It is the greatest manner for encouraging people, analyzing their capacities to find imminent and practical solutions in a short time. In addition, we learn how managing obstacles for future. It helped me a lot . | I want to know how people work between them and also alone , how they memorize and shape their projects or their company. I want them to share their experiences and I want to share mine too. It is really important to know how and why people took risks at that time and not another or choose this project and not another, it is the excellent way to develop our critical mind and to manage these kind of situations if we maybe will have to face it, it will avoid useless stress and future troubles and problems . In addition, It is also really imperative to discover their story, their project’s story, if it was unthinking, by starting with a good feeling , by instinct and then they shape their idea or if it was totally reflexive, absolutely organized and for a specific purpose. These news are significant in order to change or modify my way of thinking, of organizing so it is a great way to improve my skills and my competences. Secondly, discovering new people means communicating and communication is the necessary and imperative quality to earn for becoming a leader, it is with people that we practice. I will argue you that communicating with others and sharing experiences is the perfect manner to compare our capacities, level and skills, to evaluate ourselves so it constitutes an other means for progress and improvement. | My team of work has progressed gradually after doing experiences on the ground, bringing people together and organzing debates about the issues that the community faces everyday. we realised that taking initiatives and think about any solution that can help us solve any problem that prevent people to live a peaceful life. this long experiences led to many suggestions and the more we discuss the more we get to come up with new ideas and solution. the methodolgy is doing surveys and collecting information that people give in the answers of the form . we also organize compagin of awareness and involving people to participate in debates and how the issue can be solved temporarly and then to think about sustainable ones. | Well after implementing my project within in my community it will be surely for the other part of the country ,thus for the international context because the goal is to bring solution for the humanity. The real market is the school in which educators will be the masters of inculcating the value of leaving in a clean environment and comfortable life. My recruitment will be based on volunteering and somehow payable vacations in terms of communication and dialogue. There will some areas where recruited people and staff have to be paid to keep the sustainability of the work. | We will need a budget of nearly 25000$ an amount that provide some equipments and financially speaking,transportation | I don’t have any | I don’t have any. | I don’t have any award for the moment. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
856 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohammad | Mikati | OrganyClean | www.organyclean.com | Founder | male | Lebanon | Lebanon | Arabic | English | As a social entrepreneur, I am interesting to be a part from the UN solutions summit, since I believe I can have a change. My innovation have got really a hit on more than positive impact and SDGs. Where my innovation can make a big difference in the organic waste (agro wastes) management, in addition of making a health impact. | I am a 23 years old lebanese entrepreneur , who is always looking for creating and innovating new products and solutions that can really have an impact on our life. I have been raised up in a medium where I was curious about knowledge of ""how things work"" and ""how its made"", so as a child I haven't had a toy that still virgin! I have studied Civil and Environmental Engineering and get specialized in material science where my passion drive me through. After finishing my degree , I have realized that the major I have studied wasn't exactly what I want to continue my career with, since my background experience have been shaped to let me be a serial social entrepreneur. Till now, I have acquired two patents related to products having an environmental impact , I have also attained and enhanced my entrepreneurial skills by being enrolled in a lot of entrepreneurship programs ( Injaz , Cewas,...) , and participating in local and regional competitions ( Stars of Science TV show , Hult Prize,...) where I have won some. Now my focus is on my new project OrganyClean , where I seek a rigid potential to be successful. | OrganyClean | OrganyClean provides a healthy hygiene products, by turning agro wastes in to unique innovative cleaning products. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Lebanon | No | Proof of Concept | We have a proof of concept product which we had validated and got a lot of interests in our prototype. We are at a stage of developing to a high end product in which we can enter the market with. | OrganyClean is trying to address more than one problem. -1- the bad effects of chemical based cleaning products that do not only harm our health but also our environment. -2- the organic wastes management (especially agro wastes). These wastes are thrown into garbage, thus complicating the process of wastes sorting (organic and inorganic) in addition to that bad odors in streets. -1- the surplus of the farmer's crops, due to the market saturation and the lack of exporting facilities. | OrganyClean have solved the bad effects of chemical based cleaning products by developing an ecofriendly natural cleaning solution (plant based). This cleaning solution is mixed up with agro wastes (for example: orange peels which we get from juice stores), or vegetable/fruits bought at a lower prices from farmers (such as zucchinis), to create a unique, new, and beneficial cleaning products. | Our products are combining two innovations , in which we are using green cleaning solutions which is plant based, in addition of turning agro wastes in to a new ,unique ,and valuable cleaning products . Thus contributing in agro wastes management and promoting safe hygiene. | We have been working in developing such solution more than 4 months. OrganyClean is really start doing some impact especially in decreasing the agro wastes that we take from juice stores before throwing them into garbage. In addition some farmers that we deal with, really seek a new opportunity to have a new market for their surplus crops. Also people having skin sensitivities were showing adoption for our products to be used instead of chemical based cleaning products. | Our startup is really seeking for new regional and global markets to scale up and have more impact. From now till 1 year later , the market we are initiated in will be considered as a validation of our concept , where then we can expand to enter regional (UAE , KSA ) and global markets (Germany , USA ,UK ). | What scale up our impact is the machinery we need, and part of the raw material since the other part of raw materials are wastes.We also need to have a good logistic networking, | http://organyclean.com/ https://cewasmiddleeast.org/community/organyclean/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtLSOlBgr3U&t=6s | BAU Hult Prize on Campus Winner. Cewas Middle East Program Competition Winner. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
857 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | FELIX | MUGISHA KAMARI | MUGISHA FELIX INITIATIVE : MFI | I will creat a site as soos as possible | Director | MALE | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Democratic Republic of the Congo | French | Morning ! my motivation for applying to be a part of the UN Solution Summit it because I like Equality, peace, security and international cooperation between people and states. And I think that the UN Solutions Summit is the key of peace in the world if we work together with willpower. That why I propose my beautiful project about PEACE WATER for protecting women right, so that I consider women like water. For a good health or life we need to drink clean water and in the other side for a good life we need to have safe women. Each peaople who will drind the peace water will think about safe woman, so I say stop rapping woman for creating a beautiful world | I am Mr. FELIX MUGISHA KAMARI from the Democratic Republic of Congo. I am 32 years and was born in 1987 28th May in KANANGA City I am an orphan of father since 2002 I Stayed with my mum and 5 children I am living in Goma city in the Eastern region I am an Economist of GOMA UNIVERSITY I have done many training during my life in different domain like : Leadership, Entrepreneurship, peace education, Cinema, cooking and breeding I am a christian | MANUFACTURING OF CLEAN WATER called PEACE WATER by UN | PEACE WATER to sensitize the entire world to fight against rape done one women by men everywhere during war, rebellion, revolution or in normal life | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Firstly in Democratic Republic of Congo, in many African and Asian countries and in the entire world | No | Sustainable Scale | Because if people understand that to rape women is to destroy life and the future generation by taking the Peace water that can make a Sustainable Scale on women respect | My solution is adressing to stop women rape by takend this peace water and read the message on it that why I want to produce that water to send a big message to everyone and everywhere for respecting women and create a better world and a new generation LOOK THE MESSAGE ON BOTTLE : -RESPECT WOMEN -PROTECT WOMEN -DON’T RAPE WOMEN THINK THAT IT CAN BE YOUR MOTHER, YOUR SISTER OR YOUR DAUGHTER? -CREATE A BETTER WORLD AND NEW GENERATION WITH SAFE WOMEN - WOMEN MUST BE CLEAN LIKE WATER | THIS WATER WILL BE DISTRIBUTED IN THE ENTIRE WORLD TO GIVE THE BIG MESSAGE OF RECONCILIATION AND THIS CAN HELP THE WORLD TO CHANGE BECAUSE WOMEN ARE MANY THAN MEN SO IF THEY ARE SAFE THEY CAN HELP TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD BY THEY KNOWLEDGES. I am living at GOMA city in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the rate of rape is high; Sexual rape becomes one of the weapon that works the most because when you destabilize a community, you rape the women of the entire village in front of the children, the husbands; that community is broken completely because the men cannot look their wife in eyes and say we were unable to protect you and say we cannot live again together and women cannot survive that trauma they stay alone in that incredible situation, and the lose their value in the community for example if you have a fiancée he will abandon you easily in saying that he cannot share a girl with rapists. Congo is one of the worst places in the world to be a woman girl, according to HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, the 2011 report recorded that 1,000 women had been raped daily, so the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the east of the country in particular, has been described as the ""Rape Capital of the World,"" and the prevalence and intensity of all forms of sexual violence has been described as the worst in the world. Then that kind of life revolt me and I don’t want to see women raped day by day I need The United Nations to stop that and promote a Sustainable Development. | My new methodology is : To sensitize the entire world to fight against rape done one women by men everywhere during war, rebellion, revolution, even in normal life; because women are the guardian of life, they kept us nine months in their belly so we have to respect and protect them. Before rapes a woman think that she can be your mother, your sister, your cousin, your grandmother or your daughter if you think like that so you must stop what you would like to do. Rape has many consequences for example Victims can have bastards, or be infected by HIV/AIDS or others STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) because rapists don’t use condoms and all of those diseases have a negative effect on the victims. | Every saturday we teach people of our area about respect and proctetion of women and at the end of teaching we share Peace water as symbol of peace because I take women like water and you know that water is life and women are also life so without water we cannot have life and without women we cannot have true life. Water must be clean for a better life and women must be safe for a better life | My goal is to produce more quantity of Peace water in the entire world especially in war countries to send the important message of respecting women. If we work hard with a correct attitude, ideology, discipline and love to our country whatever happens to us there is no way we can fail, some people choose to fail but as a leader I should not choosing to fail | Short-term : I need the UN to accept my project and give me necessary means of producing more peace water Medium-term : I need to open more branch of producing Peace water in the entire world and teach to people the importance of peace Long-term : I will want to distribute Peace water in the entire world for making a global peace | Actually I have only photos and some videos about my initiative. Show me the way I can send it to you | I have all my videos on flash disk in my computer I will create a site sa soos as possible | Not yet beacuse I am at the begining and that why I need to moove far by your support | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
858 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Osariemen | Omoruyi | Hope Behind Bars Africa | https://hopebehindbarsafrica.org | Co-founder/Director of Programs | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | This opportunity is important to me because it will build my confidence and help me improve my leadership skills as well as afford me close professional networking opportunities. I would be able to meet young leaders like myself and it will be an opportunity to have my ideas challenged as well as help me to become a more active and concerned global citizen. Human rights issues are no doubt global issues and I have contributed immensely to provide access to justice for indigent inmates in Nigeria. As the co-founder of Hope Behind Bars Africa, an NGO focused on prison reforms, I have successfully handled several cases on flagrant human right violations that led me to push for reforms in Nigerian Criminal Justice System. In the last one year, our organization has provided welfare interventions for over one thousand inmates of Sulej,a Keffi and Afara Prisons and over 300 children in correctional centers will benefit from our rehabilitation and reintegration programs before the end of 2019. I am certain that an opportunity at the United Nations Solutions Summit would help me have a global perspective to this solution as well as help me scale this project to sustainability. | Osariemen Grace Omoruyi is 26 years old with 4 years’ post call experience as a lawyer. She is the Co-founder of Hope Behind Bars Africa (HBBA), an NGO focused on institutional reforms that helps her to connect indigent inmates with lawyers. She is also the founder of Confident Teens Initiative, a registered club in Secondary Schools in Umuahia that mentors teenagers to become future leaders and helps them shun teenage vices. She also volunteers with the Human Rights Committee, Nigerian Bar Association, Abia State Chapter. Osariemen holds a Bachelor Degree in Law from the University of Benin and she is most passionate about raising purpose driven teenagers. She has reached out to over one thousand teenagers and students in Umuahia in the past one year. She is equally passionate about prison de-congestion and reforms in the Nigerian Criminal Justice system. As a result, she has successfully represented over twenty indigent inmates pro-bono in the last two years and recorded 95% success. She chose this work because Abia State where she resides is highly underserved; the secondary schools are poorly equipped, the prisons are over-congested and replete with pathetic cases of Human Right violations. | Spark Justice Project | This project is focused on institutionalizing reforms on the Nigerian Criminal justice system. | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | Yes | Nigerian Bar Association, Accountability Lab, Legal Access Foundation | Transition to Scale | I believe my solution is at the fourth stage of Transition to scale because at Hope Behind Bars, we have recorded huge success in our primary projects and our solution has equally demonstrated good prospect in the three Nigerian prisons where we carried out this model project. We are successfully attracting partners including international donors and local government agencies to assist in fulfilling the technical and financial gaps we would encounter in our capacity to scale. | Access to justice for indigent inmates. Implementation of the United Nations Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (The Nelson Mandela Rules) in Nigerian Prisons which have become a living hell. Institutionalizing Rehabilitation for inmates who are released from custody which is currently almost non-existent in Nigeria. Implementation of the Anti-Torture Act to address flagrant human rights violations. Implementation of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act to guarantee Human Rights. | In line with the indicators of SDG 16, precisely indicator 16.3, my solution ensures that the rule of law is followed as it pertains to awaiting trial inmates by insisting on speedy trials for inmates who have spent over twelve months in prison without trial. We equally ensure that indigent inmates who cannot afford legal representation are represented in courts pro-bono. Also, we ensure that prison facilities are true correctional facilities by organizing workshops for prison officials. Most importantly, we are ensuring the proper rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates who have been released from prison custody by educating them on life after prison and sources of wealth creation. This solution equally focuses on leveraging on technology to protect suspects against torture in line with the Anti-Torture Act by ensuring police stations and law enforcement centers have CCTV. Finally, we are alerting the Government through advocacy and awareness that minor offenders be allowed to serve non-custodial sentences so they can be available to cater for their families as this would highly decongest the prisons. | My solution is unique because it seeks to employ technology which is a missing link, to the administration of Justice in Nigeria. Apart from educating people on their rights, this solution seeks to strengthen the institutions involved in the dispensation of justice by training officers on international best practices. Also, the Anti Torture Act which is a welcome development in Nigeria may eventually become another cosmetic piece of legislation without its implementation. This solution therefore seeks to ensure that detention centers comply with the provisions of this Act by installing CCTV cameras, demanding monthly reports from officers etc Finally, rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates especially those minor offenders who cohabited with hardened criminals most time become greater dangers to the society and sometimes become repeat offenders because they had no proper rehabilitation. This solution seeks to institutionalize rehabilitation exercises according to international best practices. | In line with the indicators of SDG 16, precisely indicator 16.3, my solution ensures that the rule of law is followed as it pertains to awaiting trial inmates by insisting on speedy trials for inmates who have spent over twelve months in prison without trial. We equally ensure that indigent inmates who cannot afford legal representation are represented in courts pro-bono. Also, we ensure that prison facilities are true correctional facilities by organizing workshops for prison officials. Most importantly, we are ensuring the proper rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates who have been released from prison custody by educating them on life after prison and sources of wealth creation. This solution equally focuses on leveraging on technology to protect suspects against torture in line with the Anti-Torture Act by ensuring police stations and law enforcement centers have CCTV. Finally, we are alerting the Government through advocacy and awareness that minor offenders be allowed to serve non-custodial sentences so they can be available to cater for their families as this would highly decongest the prisons. | We intend to explore the internal as well as external partners to work with at different stages. We would also recruit and organize training for more human rights lawyers across the country as well as gain international development for our workers. We also intend to extend impact through replication of this solution in other states in Nigeria as well as influencing policies in these institutions. Furthermore, through the results and impacts of this solution, we intend to model our projected future impact to other African countries that may be battling with these same problems as well as learn from the success stories of other countries. | My organization currently needs financial as well as non-financial support: Financial support in terms of grants which the organization will judiciously disbursed for the following: a.Stationary: i.Rim of paper. ii.Files iii.biros b.Cost of filing our processes in court: i.Cost of printing the documents. ii.Regulatory filing fees per process. iii.Cost of serving processes by a bailiff of court. iv.Cost of transportation to and from court on each sitting. c.Cost of rehabilitating inmates who are released: i.Lectures. ii.Skill acquisition. iii.Empowerment. d.Cost of training and workshops for lawyers i.Food expenses per participant. ii.Travel expenses for participant and speakers. iii.Rental expenses of venue. Non-financial support in terms of team capacity building as well as international development. | Hope Behind Bars Website: https://hopebehindbarsafrica.org https://www.facebook.com/rosygrace.osas | Nil | winner SDG Innovation Challenge, 2019 by Accountability Lab | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
859 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lilian | Aremu | Green Energy and Biofuels Limited | https://www.gebiofuels.com | Business relationship Associate | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My motivation for applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit (to present a project), is as a result of the zeal in me to ensure that my Country and Africa as a whole is environmentally safe from the hazards caused by carbon dioxide emissions, thereby making certain that people live long and healthy through sensitization and availability of a distribution/ Network that ensures safe products replaces dangerous and life threatening products. | Lilian Aremu is a Business Relationship Associate for Green Energy and Biofuels Limited. EDUCATION B.Sc in Sociology from University of Abuja, Nigeria. Diploma in Mass communication from University of Abuja, Nigeria. She has great experience in client relations and business development which stands her out among others she is also passionate about the environment and keeping it safe. When she is not working, she finds pleasure in the kitchen doing African dishes, learning more dishes and trying to finish a game of solitaire in the shortest time possible. She is currently working on starting a healthy tips show that will be tagged 'Green Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays' on social media (Instagram, Facebook and Twitter). | Green Market Africa | Green Market Africa is a market hub for the distribution of innovative solutions in renewable energy such as Clean Cook stoves, Pico solar lanterns... | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Green Market Africa operates currently in Nigeria, Ghana, Benin Republic, Guinea, Cameroun, Niger, Namibia and Uganda and intends to be in other African countries. | Yes | USAID, AfDB, Arizona State University (ASU), CTi-Pfan, Santa Clara University (SCU), SEFA, Burn Design, FIIRO, EcoBank Plc, Novozyme, (SON), Global Alliance for Clean Cookstovas, IFC, Bank of Industry. | Sustainable Scale | Market Africa is at its sustainable scale because it has been proven to be an effective avenue by which a large network of people in different countries are serviced by a single organized system using an online application. It has successfully recorded the number of over 50,000 people registered and in business through the network. | Green Mareket Africa addresses Africa’s health, economic and environmental problems. The Green solutions distributed through the network include the Kike Clean Cook Stove – an innovative technology for clean cooking prevents users from being exposed to black carbon and solar lanterns and kits that work towards eradicating carbon-emitting generators in households. Additionally, poverty is slowly being eradicated through our distribution model, aiming to empower those at the bottom of the pyramid. | Green Market Africa has an online platform which requires free sign up (registration) by downloading an application (Green Turbo) or by visiting the website: https://www.carboncreditnetwork.org. Activation process towards becoming an Ambassador is next, after which an individual becomes a ‘’green ambassador’’ and leverages on individuals in their sphere, distributes and ensures that green products get to these individuals by signing them up in the network and earning a living in the process. The long-term vision is to create a global platform for team leaders in renewable energy to influence communities and countries. | Our platform makes adequate use of the evolving technologies in the world today with the adoption of an app for monitoring activities in our marketplace. The Green Turbo app developed for Carbon Credit Network functions as an online shop as well as a data capturing and analysis platform – where the users as well as the team can monitor business growth. Currently, the app has been downloaded and is actively been used by over 1,000 entrepreneurs on the network. | Green Market Africa team through has been able to reach over 600,000 homes globally, empowered 50,000 entrepreneurs to start green businesses, distributed over 5 million clean cook stoves and ultimately achieved 100,000 tonnes of carbon cut. | Currently, the network majorly services countries in West and east Africa. We intend to expand to several other regions in Africa, Asia and the middle east. Our target beneficiaries are third world countries and we intend to recruit staff and volunteers as representatives in these countries. We also plan to expand our information technology platforms to capture larger and more accurate data of those in the network. | Reliable logistics/transportation channels. Data analysis online platforms. Access to finance for community engagement and empowerment. Human resources: technology experts | https://www.carboncreditnetwork.org https://www.greenbankglobal.com https://www.greenmarketafrica.com https://gebiofuels.com/apps/greenturbo https://www.facebook.com/carboncreditnetworkmembers/ | https: www.youtube.com/channel/UCRVf7XvZEOB6ajPeJ_AoLA | Winner, Bank of Industry Energy Challenge for enterprises. Winner, West Africa Forum for clean energy financing. Finalist, Eighth Annual Zayed Future Energy Prize. Energy Access champion, Ecowas sustainable energy forum and exhibition 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
860 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jaime Antonio | Mendoza Gonzales | EnerGea | www.energea.com.bo | Executive Director | Male | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | English | Spanish | Because I think that our approach is interesting and not common, we would like to share it to a more global audience as well as be able to listen to other entrepreneurs who share their solutions. We think that there are many actions that can be taken and plenty of ideas yet to be applied if we want to achieve the SDGs. | I was born in La Paz, Bolivia, taught English to myself with the help of TV and Internet: If I have to describe myself in one word would be curiosity, always wanted to know how things worked, why people behaved in that way, why things are the way they are. I studied for my bachelor degree Telecommunications Engineering, then I briefly worked in information security before taking part as a fellow in the first Bolivian satellite project, entering 1st of more than 1700 engineers in the selection exams to travel for a year to have training in satellite technology. Then I came back and worked for the Bolivian Space Agency and became a teacher in a local university. After a couple of years I had the opportunity to enter in a project competition called by the Interamerican Development Bank, regarding green ideas (Greenovators) and won a seed fund, thus EnerGea originated. I also have a MBA, a Master in Solar Energy, diplomas in Leadership, Higher Education and currently doing one in STEAM education (called by the Organization of American States). I work full time in EnerGea and part time as teacher in Univalle University in La Paz. | EnerGea | A social enterprise with local sustainable solutions and STEAM education programs that walk the talk | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Bolivia | Yes | For waste management projects, we work along with the municipalities and the Ministry of environment. For education, with funders and recently took contact with UNICEF | Proof of Concept | Because we have developed some solutions, but we haven't scaled yet to other states or countries. We also didn't do yet an external financing round. We are proving our model and adding new allies that suggest new ways of work (after all, our approach is new in our context) | More than half Bolivians have low skilled, low-paying, informal employment. The increasing level of unemployment in overly saturated job industries is in large part due to the limited access and opportunities available to develop and apply skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). To compound this, we use imported products and solutions, keeping local professionals and ideas in an incipient stage of development and not having any innovations in sustainable technologies | We try to foster sustainable consumption and waste management, through education and ""global problems, local solutions"" mindset. We have a three-pronged approach: - Energy efficiency solutions - LED lighting, solar energy projects; implementation of low-cost sustainable technologies locally built, such as solar ovens, solar water heaters to improve life conditions in vulnerable populations - Special waste management - Fluorescent tubes and bulb waste management, now piloting ABS and PET plastic waste management with recycled sheets and bricks fabrication; along with related awareness raising campaigns. - Educational programs - Created primarily for kids and youth, to build STEAM skills and 21st century competencies such as problem solving, systems thinking, teamworking, and environment and social conscience. The long-term vision is to contribute to waste management and energy efficiency models tailored to developing countries, and to often-neglected peri-urban and rural places, and seeking not to export the materials, but to create circular economies in our communities. In education, our vision is to impact every child and teen and inspire them to be an active part of sustainable development in their communities. We are preparing virtual education, and video segments to expand our reach. We believe that in this digital and knowledge age, now more than ever is possible to narrow the gap between developed and developing countries. | Most recyclers we know, aim to either collect and export the materials (sometimes not even raw materials), perpetuating the cycle of exporting materials and importing finished value added products. Education in our country has become a source of profit and exploitation, a lot of times professionals get their degrees and not have a place to work, have been trained for the industrial age, or their only chance is to seek job abroad. We think our approach is an integral one, focusing on the why and tackling two elements that are imperative for any community: Environmental sustainability and education. We believe that we are planting the seeds of change, that between local actions and education we can create a critical mass that can seize the opportunity to narrow the gap between developed and developing countries but in a sustainable way, learning from the mistakes and experiences that developed countries had during the 20th century. | There is only so far we can go alone. That is why we keep adding allies to improve the development of local solutions such as value-added recycled plastic products that don't require a million-dollar factory to be implemented, but we lack the resources to be more rigorous in our research, since we have to juggle at the same time our commercial activities to fund ourselves. Our indicators are KwH of energy saved; weight of plastic, glass and metals recycled; units of fluorescent lighting managed; kids and teens reached directly with our education programs; and people reached trough social media, municipal fairs, presentations and other awareness raising activities. | We plan to expand our educational STEAM model. Right now, we have classrooms. We are piloting in Q4 2019 a funded program that takes our sessions to the schools, and we plan on perfecting that model in 2020. We have signed an alliance with a local TV broadcaster to have 25 minute segments for STEAM education, and plan to implement an app to interact live with the audience in this segment, further increasing the engagement and interest in education. With this we expect to increase our monthly reach at least four-fold. In waste management, we are currently lobbying to manage more than 30000 mercury and sodium vapor lamps of our city, which will make the transition to LED. This is scheduled for 2020 as well. Also we conduct yearly campaigns in our city for electronic equipment and lights waste management, another milestone is to make this campaign in other two state capitals of Bolivia, and keep reaching more cities or countries. Lastly, our milestone for value added products made of recycled plastic and glass is Q1 2020. If this goes as planned, we can have an alternative for exporting products to nearby cities and countries. | Short-term: Partners who can give us visibility, funding for STEAM education in public schools and foster homes, allies to standarize our educational content. Allies who can buy our products from recycled materials, stronger media or social media to reach more people with the recycling campaigns. Medium-term: Funding and partners to patent the innovative processes or methods we have, partners who can help us pilot our solutions abroad. Long-term: Funding, partners with experience in the target countries, mentors in public policy and scaling | http://energea.com.bo/ http://tecnonautas.energea.com.bo/ http://facebook,com/energeabolivia http://facebook,com/tecnonautasbolivia | I can't find videos of engagements, we usually don't have a formal footage. However, here you can find a couple of them (both are in Spanish, I can't find any in English): https://www.facebook.com/RUJEBOLIVIA/videos/1998169367098469/ https://www.facebook.com/energeabolivia/videos/344852716149572/ | Greenovators project contest, IADB (1 of 16 winners in Latinamerica) Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Fellow 2016 Prize ""Wonderful Youth"" 2016 from the municipality of La Paz Yunus and Youth Fellow 2017 VIVA Idea Nicaragua workshop participants, 2017 Finalist in Global Good Fund, 2018 1 of 500 winners in ""Premios Latinoamérica Verde"", 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
861 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Eva | Wissenz | Solar Fire Concentration OY | gosol.solar | Executive Chairwoman | Female | Finland | Morocco | English | I am motivated in participating in the creation of a society based on kindness, tolerance and sustainability. Based in Tampere, Finland, I work in multiple environments. With my company GoSol.solar, I’m spreading solar thermal energy among vulnerable populations. With Seepia, I offer consulting services focused on impact practices and sustainable lifestyles. I’m also a writer of 12 books published in French, I’m an editor and a speaker. Khalid Gibran said that “Work is love made visible,” and I have made these words my own. I view them as an invitation to a joyous responsibility that shall be executed with confidence within the perpetual motion of our lives. GoSol.solar develops a technique to concentrate solar energy and the applications required to utilize the solar heat generated. This enables individuals and groups to run their business with clean affordable solar energy. GoSol work include solar bakeries, dried fruit, roasted nuts and large scale power generation. To make solar energy accessible to all, we work at the intersection of clean energy, entrepreneurship and education. We also have developed trainings. Having access to clean energy helps reduce pollution from charcoal burning, limits deforestation due to firewood collection, and stimulates the work of entrepreneurs in developing countries while allowing them to save money and strengthen their economic stability. We’ve been working in projects in Haïti, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, India, Philippines, Amazonia and Europe. | Originally French-Italian, I was born in Morocco and grew up in Corsica and Paris. I studied art history at the Ecole du Louvre and Italian literature at the Sorbonne. At the Sorbonne, I began my PhD studying the 19th century philosopher Giacomo Leopardi (1999, ongoing). I enjoyed studying and lecturing at the university but I needed more adventure. I left academia to explore our beautiful planet while working freelance in art and tourism publishing. Then I gained corporate experience in tourism and publishing but my awareness of the global climate crisis propelled me to co-create Solar Fire / GoSol, a solar energy company in Finland, 2012. I have also created Seepia who was first a publishing house. It is now a consulting agency focused on impact and sustainable lifestyles. I have 8 years experience (4 as CEO) managing international partnerships, handling communications, providing mission logistics in developing countries (India, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Haiti, South Africa), and multi-cultural team management. I worked at the intersection of clean tech, education and agro-food sectors. My experiences working as a free-lance, corporate and entrepreneur have made me flexible, rigorous, organized, creative, passioned about sustainability and focused on customer satisfaction. French is my mother tongue. I speak fluent English and Italian and beginner/intermediate Portuguese, Spanish and Greek. I am beginning to learn Finnish. | gosol.solar | Breaking the cost barriers to solar thermal energy access. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Brasil, Philippines | Yes | Our key partners on the ground are Plan International, World Vision, Forest Trends, Global Resource Alliance, with support from Autodesk Foundation, Deloitte Foundation, Tampere University, Berkeley. | Transition to Scale | There is only one solution to poverty, climate change, inequality that does not rely on futurism, such as AI or Nuclear fusion, which is much cheaper and decentralized energy access without dependence on imports. With pilots complete demonstrating ROI pay-back-period of less than 2 years, our solution is ready to scale up while continuing to lower capital cost and improve performance and versatility. | Due to policy inaction for decades, large scale change is needed that does not have long lead times; i.e. the time to fix policy or overcome physical bottlenecks to turnover existing high-capital infrastructure. A global thermal energy source below a critical cost barrier can rapidly out-compete low-capital fuel-burning in poor countries and power clean production, with a large scale potential to reverse deforestation and cause a severe, but necessary, collapse of fossil based capital assets. | Our solution works by concentrating the sun's light to make higher temperature heat. The problem our technology solves is the either high capital cost or insufficient value production of existing solar thermal systems for the requirements of most agricultural processing, cottage industries, or small-scale SME producers in poor regions. To compete with low-capital-cost-equipment and locally built setups that burns wood or other fuels, requires breaking below a critical cost-effectiveness threshold. Above this threshold a technology cannot proliferate exponentially. To run a real business a technology must be easy to use, maintainable and produce enough value to motivate people to use it. Solving this problem means optimizing batch sizes, bake/roast/dehydration times to be as-good or better than alternative fuel-based solution, and, critically, building this equipment locally to reduce costs, tariffs, foreign exchange negative-arbitrage, and ensure the technology is fully maintainable locally. With open source and educational packages that can be deployed globally both through institutional channels as well as viral local initiative, if the cost-barrier threshold is in fact reached, the technology can simply out-compete alternatives, be built by existing trades-people and entrepreneurs all around the globe simultaneously, tap into a long tale of further refinements and cost reduction, and scale to hundreds of millions of units. | Other projects have attempted to break the cost barrier, including with local fabrication, but so far no high-temperature solar thermal technology has gone exponential in emerging and developing markets. What we have done to try to break the barrier is first lot's of on-the-ground experience simply going places to see what we can build and what people are doing, how they live and what their requirements are. We built solar concentrators in Mexico, Cuba, India, Burkina-Faso, Mali, before even creating a company to professionalize the activity, increase our expertise and attract partners. Once we were confident we knew enough about real building and user conditions, we then developed software to deeply analyses every aspect of the problem both from technical and economic perspectives. With a full software model we were able to not only optimize the efficiency of any design but also model potential use-cases. There is no one single factor or component that dominates the cost of solar thermal technology, but rather many design aspects, fabrication process, user experience and deployment choices add up to either make the technology look, feel and really perform for users or then not do anything interesting. Solar thermal technology has a narrow window of cost-effectiveness for any given use-case (if a solution even exists) and it takes experience, knowledge, skill and software algorithms in addition to a viable, local manufacturing technique to create an optimized solution. | We have just completed long term pilots that prove the economics and maintainability over the bay-back-period and also completed educational pilots in Uganda with Plan International. We measure progress in terms of the pay-back-period of the technology; i.e. the acquision cost divided by the average value produced per month. Above a critical threshold the technology can simply not scale and any small consequences of an irrelevant technology is superfluous to measure or think about. We constantly test new design specifications and fabrication methods to reduce the cost of producing the technology while optimizing the size and characteristics of the solar-concentrator as well as application to be optimized for real business cases we encounter. | Next milestones: - open sourcing our SOL5 concentrator with oven, roaster and dehydrator designs, with high quality construction guides, automatic updates to the construction guides due to small material variations input by the user, as well as series of video tutorials in different languages. We are launching a crowd-funding campaign for this, but also welcome institutional support from organizations with a, at least declared, mandate to improve the world. - trial technology in refugee camp setting. - design and prototype a larger version of SOL5, the ""SOL10"", that can do larger capacity batches but also has enough power for new applications like pottery and ceramics. - complete development cycle of even larger steam generating designs that can power steam pumps, desalination, paper recycling, and small SME producers such as textiles. | Funds are needed to open source our existing piloted solutions in the short term, about 400 000 Euro to achieve our open source vision of high quality fabrication guides, video tutorial and both supporting use-courses (such as baking) as well as theory courses. Medium term more funds are useful to develop and pilot more applications as well as finance large scale educational programs, micro-finance and other entrepreneurs supporting programs, but, critically, such funds are not necessary for further scaling, if the technology is at core economically viable, only useful in accelerating adoption. Long term, further support to education to empower further innovation as well as large scale use of the technology is useful. | https://gosol.solar https://youtu.be/ESXtXai8HnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1o_2pnNj0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HtL2rP61-Y&list=PLEk880UUXQHrX41lc8OG4mLD06Sw-82v7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBzjqSb6T4w&list=PLEk880UUXQHpNNYI7KTFyawlkunO21HAB | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
862 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Flavien | Kouatcha | Save Our Agriculture | http://www.saveouragriculture.com/ | CEO | Male | Cameroon | Cameroon | Chinese | English | French | I was born and raised in a rural farming family in my country Cameroon. I was very close to small farmers and I understood the challenges they faced in everyday life to transport their food from rural production areas to commercial sales areas in major cities. In addition, many villagers who had practiced agriculture all their lives were regularly sick at retirement because of the chemicals used to maintain their farms. This is how I have been nurturing for several years the ambition to find a way to cultivate consumer convenience, and especially without chemical fertilizers, to obtain organic foods that protect the health of the farmer rather than the customer. The aquaponics kits we designed and are currently making in sub-Saharan Africa are systems consisting of a fish farm and a plant nursery. The principle is to collect fish waste and use it as a natural fertilizer for growing vegetables. Thanks to a closed cycle that connects the two tanks of plant and animal production, this mode of production uses only 10% of the water consumed by the conventional agriculture and makes it possible to obtain 12 times more harvest. To date, we have created some 30 jobs in 4 countries and we intend to reach the African continent in the next 10 years. | Flavien Kouatcha is a 29-year-old engineer who believes in the quality of good farming since his early childhood. Coming to the world in an extremely poor family, he quickly became aware of the need to fight to earn what one earns. Thus, after a brilliant academic career culminating in an engineering degree, he worked for 3 years in management positions in multinational companies and decided to resign to reconvert in agriculture, his field of passion. Flavien therefore creates Save Our Agriculture with the intention of bringing a new sustainable production mode to the African continent. In 3 years, his company is quickly emerging as a hope for the ecosystem of agricultural start-ups in Africa. Flavien is also very involved in associative life, he has built twenty school gardens in Central Africa, he is also National President of the Network of Young Farmers of Cameroon which has about 25,000 members. | Aquaponics units | We are going to change your life | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Cameroon, Senegal, Rwanda, Madagascar | Yes | Pierre Castel Foundation, EDF Foundation, USAID | Scaling | Once we designed our aquaponic systems, we tested them in several geographical areas: Cameroon for the equatorial region of Central Africa, Senegal for the desert Sahelian environment, Rwanda for the eastern part of Africa. and Madagascar for the Indian Ocean. Our intention was to have results after testing the systems under these conditions. Now that this objective is achieved, we're looking for funds to expand the implementation and reach a larger customer base with a validated concept. | In Africa, more than 40% of food crops are lost in the post-harvest phase because smallholder farmers cultivate in villages, far away from consumers who live mostly in large cities. To be able to solicit expensive logistics, they use a lot of chemicals to boost the yield. As a result, foods are not healthy and poison people. According to the WHO, more than 500,000 people die each year around the world for consuming contaminated food, half of them from Africa and South East Asia. | Our aquaponic systems are based on a scientific principle. Feces of fish that are ammonia, when in contact with the bacteria that are in nature, become nitrate and can therefore turn into a beneficial for plants. For this phenomenon to take effect, we create two systems of crop and animal production that we connect together in a closed cycle. Excrement from the animal system is a fertilizer for the plant system. And this plant system by absorbing nutrients into the water from the animal system, cleans it to make it a nice new water for fish. We designed individual systems and aquaponic units in container sizes 20 and 40 feet. Our long-term vision is to deploy these systems as much in large cities for the proximity of citizens with their food, as in the villages for the increase of harvests, the reduction of water consumption on the planet as well as rejections CO² in the environment. | To tell the truth, the world is growing is young people are more and more innovative. To say that the solution would be unique is to tell an incredible lie. However, we can assure you that this solution has many advantages that distinguish it from similar systems already on the market. It allows to consume only 10% of water compared to conventional agriculture, it allows to harvest 10 to 12 times of food on the same arable surfaces, it allows to reject less CO2 in the environment by eliminating the traditional fossil energy consuming logistics. Finally, this 100% natural process makes it possible to obtain biological products of an irreproachable flavor, which has an important place in the agri-food industry. | To measure our progress, we have set up dashboards. Since we bring a whole new skill, we had to train ourselves the agricultural technicians and engineers who work today in our company. We evaluate the evolution in relation to their performance in the field and the harvest volumes produced. As for the administrative team, key performance indicators have been set up individually. To join the whole together, we follow very closely the figures such as income, the growth rate of income month after month, the gross and net margins, the working capital requirement that give us the financial health of the company. and allow us to assess whether the activity is sustainable or not. | The 4 current countries will operate until the end of the year and will allow us to record numbers to attract or convince investors. At the beginning of the year 2020, we will launch a fundraising of 2,000,000 USD to build a hundred aquaponics units in 40-foot containers and create a network of certified organic producers on the African continent, which will be closer to consumers wanting to know the traceability of their food before eating. In 2020, we will create 210 direct jobs and 150 indirect jobs. Our food will be consumed by 2.500.000 people in the 4 countries of implantation. Finally, we will formalize the franchise that opens the door to fifty other countries and a potential market of 21 billion USD. | In the short term, we need the network, volunteer farmers who can help us test the solution. The more tests we have in different conditions and countries, the more our deductions and research results will be refined. In the medium term, we need financial resources to continue to innovate and increase our productions. Because we already see it in Cameroon. Customers are interested in the solution but need to be able to offer larger production volumes. Finally, in the long term, we need lobbying and regulation that facilitates the development of our business. Because we focus on the quality of food, the rest of our farmers for a better life, but our systems are more expensive to invest and it is sometimes important to attract the attention of users on this kind of details. | Company website: http://www.saveouragriculture.com/ An article related to a scientific work I did: https://afrique.latribune.fr/think-tank/tribunes/2017-02-08/ce-que-l-aquaponie-peut-apporter-a-l-agriculture-africaine.html | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN0O6Eq8ww0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWg3gIkYx_I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3TVuRt1K3o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX_qMv0dhnk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efquWQ71dhs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKYenEDi8L4&t=12s | COP22 Best added-value solution in the area of fighting climate change, in 2016 Winner of African Entrepreneurship Award in 2017 National SDG Young Champion in Cameroon in 2017 World Francophone Young Entrepreneur of the year in 2018 Winner of 1st Edition of Pierre Castel Panafricain Prize in 2018 Winner of Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Foundation in 2018 Rebranding Africa Innovation Prize in 2018 Land Of Africa Prize 3rd winner in 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
863 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | SACHIBU | MOHAMMED | GREEN-EF ECO-BUSINESS VILLAGE LTD | www.greenef.com | FOUNDER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER | MALE | Ghana | Ghana | English | My motivation for applying to be part of the UN Solution summit stems from the fact that our proposed solution has the potential to accelerate the achievement of the SDG6, target 1 Secondly, we are motivated by the fact that the produced product is cheaper and can therefore significantly reduce the cost of water purification in Africa. Thirdly, the summit will provide us with a global exposure and possible support to roll out our investment. Last but not the least, our solution has additional effectiveness against chemical pollutants. Over the past five years we have successfully introduced and commercialized rhizobium inoculants for legumes that helped to increase legume yield among small scale farmers in Northern Ghana In 2016-2017 we successful introduced soil testing and fertilizer recommendation to over 5,500 small scale rural farmers in Northern Ghana. We have been selected among the final 10 organizations under the UNDP Ghana Waste Recoverey Innovation Challenge | Dr. Sachibu Mohammed is a researcher, development practioner and an eco-entrepreneur. He holds a Doctorate Degree in Endogenous Development from the University for Development Studies, Ghana; Master of Science in International Development specializing in Economics and Management of Rural Development from the University of Manchester, a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences specializing in Economics and Law from the University of Science and Technology, Ghana. He has over 20 years’ experience in development practice having worked with reputable local and international organizations such as Hivos East Africa as a Country Engagement Developer for Ghana, Nigeria and Liberia; SNV Netherlands Development Organization as an education and renewable energy advisor, the Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition as acting National Coordinator, the Integrated Social Development Centre as a Policy Assistant in Essential Services and Economic Justice. He is currently the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Green-Ef Eco-Business Village Ltd and the African Research Centre for Indigenous and Decolonial Studies Ltd. Having managed and coordinated several multi-stakeholder processes, donors, grantees, staff, clients/customers and partners at various levels, Dr. Mohammed has sharpened his competencies in Project and program management and business development. His work experience spans the private, public and civil society sectors in Ghana and West Africa | Indigenous Solutions for Global Problems - Accelerating global access to safe and affordable drinking water using Purified Kenaf Seed Protein (EcoAquaTab™) | Fast tracking SDG 6.1 with EcoAquaTabs for safe and affordable drinking water | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Ghana | No | Research & Development | We have done an extensive amount of research into the use of the Kenaf plant to make over 10 eco-friendly products and services including water treatment. We discovered the effectiveness of kenaf seed protein to treat bacterial contaminants and improve turbidity while the stalk biochar removes chemical contaminants in drinking water par WHO standards. Due to limited resources however, we have not been able to do the protein extraction to do a pilot & commercialize. | In sub-Saharan Africa, 76% of the population do not have access to safely managed water services. In Ghana, 93% of the rural and 73% of national population have no access to safely managed drinking water services. Annually, the Ghana Water Company spends over GHC4.5m importing calcium hypochloride for water purification resulting into higher and unaffordable tariffs. This is directly antagonistic to SDG6.1 which aims to achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water | The solution starts with growing and harvesting the seeds and other essential parts of the kenaf plant (Hibiscus Cannabinus,L). Using a supercritical CO2 fluid extraction technology, the seed is cleaned and defatted. The defatted kenaf seed residue is then subjected to a protein purification process. Once the purified Kenaf Seed Protein (PKSP) is isolated, it is made into a 5g composite tablet (consisting of 2mg PKSP as the main ingredient). While PKSP (like other water purification tablets) treat biological contaminants, it does not eliminate chemical contamination. Our PKSP is therefore fortified in 5gram kenaf stalk biochar to take care of chemical pollutants. At a dosage of 5g/litre of water, fortified PKSP treats both bacterial and chemical contamination and significantly improves turbidity in drinking water par WHO standards. PKSP is suitable for domestic, small, medium and large scale water treatment facilities. Currently, 1g of chlorine dioxide water purification tablet costs $1.25 and treats 2.3 litres of water while 1 gram of PKSP treats 500 litres and costs 0.1 dollar cents. At scale, we plan to cultivate over 15,000 hectares of Kenaf resulting into 60,000Mt of seed which can treat up to 36 trillion litres of safe drinking water per annum | •Kenaf seed extract for water treatment is over 80% cheaper than all known / available water purification tablets in the market. •Our (proposed) formula treats both biological and chemical pollutants (None of the aquatab products in the global market has this capability. They only treat biological contaminants. •The kenaf plant whose seed and the stalk our EcoAquatab is derived is indigenous to West Africa having been cultivated some 1,400 BC. •In the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone of Ghana where our solution is born, the plant is still being cultivated by smallholder farmers especially women. And so the raw material would be readily available. •Effects of exchange rates on availability and cost is very minimal as compared the imported inorganic substitutes •The process of producing kenaf seed protein may give rise to over 10 other by-products such as jute sacks, eco-friendly carrier bags, charcoal briquettes, newsprint paper, edible, pharmaceutical and cosmetic grade oils, poultry and livestock feed •Our product is organic and its application can easily be replicated in many rural communities in developing countries without need for a huge infrastructural setup. | 1.We have passed the ideation stage with the solution by establishing experimental farms of Kenaf in Ghana for six consecutive years. 2.We have tested the level of crude protein in kenaf seed as a protein source for poultry feed. 3.We have also tried and tested defatted crude kenaf seed powder as a coagulant and disinfectant in water treatment. 4.We have developed about 8 product lines from the kenaf plant and tested some of them in local and external laboratories 5.We measure progress by measuring specific milestone achievements along our research journey with the product such as the number of products we have successfully developed and tried on an annual basis 6.We document all our processes and procedures in a step-wise manner noting associated successes and challenges and building these back into a learning framework for our business development. 7.We have been able to pitch our investment in kenaf to Ghana’s President (Please see video pitch on our website | i.To develop the cheapest and most effective water treatment tablet in the world. A major milestone is to build an ISO certified protein purification and muilti-purpose laboratory in Ghana by mid 2020 ii.Obtain organic certification for the product by mid 2020 iii.Obtain WHO certification for the product by 2020 iv.Treat 360b litres of safe and affordable drinking water in developing countries (especially in sub-Saharan) Africa. A major milestone is to cultivate about 15,000 hectares of kenaf plantation and process 60,000 Mt of seed by December 2020 v.To supply 20 million people in SSA with safe drinking water by June 2021 vi.To be the leading supplier of kenaf-based water purification solutions in the world by December 2021. vii.To engage two civil (water) engineers / experts in our company to support the production of the Water treatment tablets. viii.Establish 15 regional / global sales and distribution centres (agencies) across all developing countries by June 2021 ix.Establish a vibrant water purification research and development unit by December 2019. x.Increase our profit margins by about 40% in 3 years xi.To roll-out about 5 additional product lines from the kenaf plant into the market by 2025 | Short Term (2019 – 2022) 1.Establish an ISO certified (multi-purpose) Protein Purification Laboratory with a Super critical Co2 Fluid extractor and an inductively coupled, plasma optical spectrometer 2.Technical training for our company staff 3.Establish 50 hectare Kenaf plantations in Ghana. 4.$200, 000 – 300,000 Medium Term (2022 – 2030) 1.15,000 hectares of Kenaf established – Agricultural equipment and implements 2.$10m Long term (2030 – 2050) 1.Operationalize our Kenaf Agro-climate Industrial Complex investment plan (KCIC). KCIC is a multimillion dollar investment into Kenaf that is aimed at commercializing over 13 essential and climate smart products and services from the Kenaf plant alone 2.Establish over 25,000 hectares of Kenaf farms 3.$200 - $ 400m | www.greenef.com | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYCtafIJnpI | Enhancing Growth in New Enterprises (ENGINE) - Award Winner - £1,500 Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC) - $24,000 (total) - http://www.ghanacic.org/clients/green-ef-eco-business-village-ltd/ UNDP Ghana Waste Recovery Innovation Challenge (Finalist) - https://web.facebook.com/UNDPGhana/videos/482007569232072/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
864 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Faith | Inebiri | Faith's foundation | None | Medical student | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | My motivation, is practically the death rate of innocent and helpless people due to poor health care | My name is Inebiri Ebimoboere Faith, I'm a medical student of the Niger Delta university, I volunteer for local health care programs like education of teens on unwanted pregnancy and STI's . Also enlightening of pregnant mother's and kids on the importance of antenatal, vaccination and clean drinking water | Training of more peer educators and enlightening team | Health care improvement | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Nigeria | No | Research & Development | Because it is at this stage we just practically move from house to house, and give oral enlightenment, we need more volunteers | Poor health care | By enlightening these individuals, the date rate due to poor drinking water, unwanted pregnancies and the spread of STI'S will be curbed | It's unique because, a personal approach, actually gives this assuring feeling to people | We have covered some rural villages around and I believe we can do more if, more people are involved | Other African countries, suffering from these, apart from Nigeria | World class health facilities and we'll trained health personnel | None | None | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
865 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Eugene Trevor | Maseya | MamaBird | MamaBird.io | Co-Founder, COO | Male | Malawi | Malawi | English | I think the UN Solutions Summit is a wonderful opportunity to be part of the conversation, to engage with like minded startups and social entrepreneurs working in this space. The opportunity to present our project to decision makers, key ecosystem players and stakeholders interested in making a positive global impact would be immense and invaluable for us. We would definitely value the feedback, idea exchange and validation that would come out the summit. | Eugene Maseya is a Malawian Born Dronepreneur, been working with drones for the last four years. In his first start up Craft and Theory Flying Labs Malawi, a drone service providing that provides high resolution mapping with drones in Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, Forestry to mention. This start up has been operational for 3 year has 6 employees fulltime and has of late done work for UNHCR, GIZ and the Department of Forestry in Malawi to mention a few. In 2018 Eugene Cofounded his second startup with close friend and fellow drone enthusiast and entrepreneur Thomas Lauzon. MamaBird was set up to build a network of heavy lift drones to carry vital life saving supplies to communities living on the last mile with a specific focus on women and children. | MamaBird Drones | Drones that nurture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | malawi | Yes | Ayzh, MOH, Harris Aerial,Unreal works | Proof of Concept | Because our drones are working and we have completed two months of functional and technical testing but we are now focused on user testing and scenario testing for our solution with real life scenarios and use cases in the field. We have secured two customers who will be paying limited number of flights in different scenarios with a view to longer term operations and we also have secured funding from over 50 individual flight sponsors to deliver clean birth kits to hard to reach areas in Malawi | Our solution is addressing the problem of lack of access to quality health care for people living at the last mile, our specific focus is on mothers and children as these are the most vulnerable groups when there is a gap in health care access. The lack of access is mostly caused by poor road infrastructure in remote areas with up to 60% of roads in subsaharan Africa unusable in the wet season. | The solution is a heavy lift drone that can carry up to 20kg on a hybrid platform,over 60km to hard to reach areas with poor health access. Our long term vision for global impact is safer drones operating safely in the ecosystem this will only be possible with enhanced safety and advances in technology as well investing in air traffic management systems for our drone platforms something we are already looking into. Drones that can fly further carrying more payload at a fraction of the cost of what it costs right now. Bringing serious improvement to current situations for people in hard to reach allover the developing world. | So currently it is well documented the advances made in drone cargo deliveries especially with Zipline in Rwanda. How we are different is that we are focused on heavy payload delivery so anything from 10-20kg. There is a market and a demand for such medical products in bulk and we feel like this payload category would open up new exciting possibilities. | So far we are done with functional testing on two of our drones 7kg and 15kg payload drones Our MamaBird Instant Impact App is in Beta and will be ready by October. | Our MamaBird Instant Impact App is currently in Beta and in the final months of development we hope to be done with it by early october. This app will allow for individual flight sponsors with a smart phone and the app anywhere in the world to be able to sponsor a drone flight to areas in need of supplies. Think of as crowd funding for health, this is one way we feel we can make an impact with our platform without having to rely on big long term serice contracts with big INGOs. We also aim to have expanded to a second location in Africa with similar challenges by fall of 2020. We are aiming to impact atleast 200,000 in Malawi in the next six months with a full time national service operating from October onwards. Specifically we also aim that our drones and payload capabilities be significant in the fight to reduce infant and maternal mortality for hard to reach communities without health care acess. | Human Resources definitely will be a need to build a team of local engineers, pilots and field ops staff. Funding needs to be able to build a big fleet of drones to service new routes and populations, train new staff and improve the technology. In the long term we would like to partner with large multinational NGOs that would like to bring quality health care to more people in hard to reach areas on a large scale | https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOwePfbiD2Q5nTjY1qe1pQHmvXmgLa1jEPWnUdTbP_X5kJ6bmT-blihyJ_FGC7p1A?key=RTJpd1hhU3poYWkwVURaeDc0S0RUckZMRFktVGV3 | https://youtu.be/bPF3V2CGxDg https://youtu.be/26dogbE4ewA | https://www.echoinggreen.org/fellows/eugene-maseya (Finalist) https://www.f-lane.com/class-iii/ (Finalist) https://www.airbus-bizlab.com/news/africa-s-top-10-tech-start-ups-selected-for-africa4future-accelerator-programme/view (Finalist) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
866 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Mohammad | Modarres | Abe's Eats | www.AbesEats.com | Founder/CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | In the wake of a new presidential administration, America was confronted with rising levels of racial bigotry with anti-Semitism rising by 57% and anti-Muslim bigotry by 91%. This increasingly hostile social climate inspired me, to host a dinner called “Shabbat Salaam” with friends of Jewish, Muslim, and all backgrounds to share a meal and discuss the faith-based issues affecting our communities. However, planning a meal for Kosher and Halal diets proved to be an expensive and logistical nightmare. The inefficiencies of dealing with separate Kosher and Halal preparation only to result in a communal dinner where attendees were still culturally and physically separated by virtue of their dietary laws seemed counter intuitive to the intended interfaith ethos of Shabbat Salaam. It was here that I saw an opportunity where an innovation in food and religious dietary laws could foster a more inclusive society where coexistence is more and more possible. Shortly after, I created an impact-based food brand, Abe's Eats, to offer food for everyone regardless of their creed or beliefs. I also saw the opportunity for Abe’s Eats to be a multifaceted impact organization championing both social impact AND sustainability mantras. At its core, Abe's is about fostering inclusivity in our society through the power of food, but for the food industry and the environment, we can be much more. Abe's produces sustainable meats from livestock that graze on natural pastures which helps reverse our climate impact on soil erosion, sequester carbon, and reduce other GHG emissions. We commit to supporting farms that practice regenerative agricultural techniques by sourcing from them. Abe’s Eats will also reduce food waste and overhead because our 2-in-1 merged products that can be consumed by all. Institutions that service food do not need to manage independent Kosher and Halal verticals and their separate vendor, inventory, and storage implications. From caterers to airlines, our products are built for the consumption desires of the modern day societal melting pot. Having been previously involved with UN initiatives along with knowing individuals who have presented at the UN Solutions Summit in the past, this summit would be a unique and special opportunity to share and collaborate with a community of innovator thinkers and thought leaders to further the solutions we are all focusing on. | With past lives as a public health practitioner, co-founder of an operating California-based biotech company, and NY Times-published cartoonist, Mohammad has always focused on producing products and programs that bring people together. Mohammad is currently using the power of food to bring people together and celebrate their commonalities by making the growing need for faith-based (religious) foods more accessible to individuals and organizations that want to foster inclusive spaces (and dinner tables!). Mohammad entered the food world by accident when he produced the first 2-in-1 ""Interfaith Meat"" that was both (Zabihah) Halal and (Glatt) Kosher at the same time for a ""Shabbat Salaam"" he wanted to organize. Beyond following the most Orthodox laws of each faith to help all denominations eat from the same plate, Interfaith Meat helps food businesses save time, money, inventory space, and food waste. Beyond ""Interfaith Meat,"" Mohammad offers other food products through his latest venture Abe's Eats. Outside of food, Mohammad has 5 years of experience working with the executives of private and public companies across industries on branding, program development, and general strategy. He is a public speaker with past appearances at TED, Columbia University, and Specialty Foods. Mohammad is a Johns Hopkins alumnus where he studied public health and a George Mitchell National Scholar and attended Trinity College Dublin on a full scholarship. In his spare time, he loves to work on his 1979 VW Bus and host “Shabbat Salaam"" interfaith dinners. | Interfaith Meat | The first-ever Zabihah Halal and Glatt Kosher Interfaith Meat that helps foster inclusivity and religious harmony, starting at the dinner table. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | United States, Europe | Yes | Brian Lai | Transition to Scale | In 2017, we established proof of concept for Interfaith Meat by meeting with religious leaders and food experts to validate the theological legitimacy and feasibility of our production process. Shortly after, our products were piloted at our Shabbat Salaam interfaith dinners. In 2018, we formed a co-packer relationship with Kol Foods to generate our first CPG sales for early supporters. We are now transitioning our supply chain in-house with the help of a Kickstarter campaign this September. | Despite similarities in faith-based dietary restrictions between Muslims and Jews, no venture has produced meat products approved for both communities. The root of this separation stems from generations of theological, political, and financial differences and at times, contention. As a result, most Halal and Kosher meat products are very niche, misunderstood, damaging to the environment, abundant in waste, low-quality, and inaccessible for the growing Muslim and Jewish consumers in the US. | By creating meat that combines Muslim and Jewish dietary laws, we show that thousands of years of religious practices can merge. At “Shabbat Salaam” interfaith dinners we host across the country, our attendees are enamored by the concept of “Interfaith Meat.” After learning about the production process, they ask “what else can we bring together?” At its core Interfaith Meat is meant to foster inclusivity in our society through the power of food. Food is integral to our cultural identities, and what better way to generate harmony than by breaking bread, literally! We want to see a world where the food at all restaurants, cafeterias, sports arenas, and even on airplane rides can be accessible (and shareable) amongst everyone. Like language, food is a major gateway for society to understand each other at the dinner table, where sociopolitical issues can be left at the door. We envision students sitting in dining halls building bonds over meals for years. How’s that for peace building? While we are focused on growing our venture at home in New York and the United States in large, we see the value of Interfaith Meat being able to succeed in countries across the world with increasingly diverse populations. Europe would be an ideal landscape for Interfaith Meat to also foster inclusivity within the layered, complex social fabric of the EU and beyond. | Abe's Eats has developed a unique meat production process that has been accepted by Muslim and Jewish religious leaders across denominations. Our first to market ""Interfaith Meat"" is helping to make the growing demand for Halal and Kosher faith-based foods more accessible, high-quality/healthier, and eco-friendly. As a 2-in-1 product, Interfaith Meat can make religious foods more accessible while helping food businesses save time, money, inventory space, and food waste. We embed a triple-bottom-line value system throughout our venture and products to help solve social, ecological, and economic problems in the food space and our increasingly diverse communities in our country. Our products break the mold of traditional for-profit meat distributors as we aim to champion our social/environmental impact initiatives and put them at the forefront of our organization. We desire to place pressure on industrialized factory-farmed meat production to practice regenerative agriculture techniques that help reverse climate change deterioration on our food systems. There may be hundreds of high-quality, grass-fed meat products, but we are the only meat company that offers Interfaith Meat. In such a saturated market, we are on our way to building the most recognizable brand in Kosher AND Halal foods. From our Abe's Meats name to our design work to our grassroots movement through our dinner events, we are bringing a fresh perspective to an industry held by very old players. | Since our breakthrough in 2017 in actualizing the proof of concept for Interfaith Meat, we’ve shared our Interfaith Meats with +1,000 customers and supporters through our ticketed Shabbat Salaam dinners, piloted D2C product sales, catered dinners, and other interfaith programming across the United States. Many early supporters were drawn to our vision of fostering inclusivity and offered us valuable feedback that has help evolve the social, environmental, and economic value system that Abe's Eats can provide to food businesses and communities alike. While our commercial B2B products near full development development, we have bootstrapped our operations with our beta products and brand-centric services that serve to enrich brand awareness while providing working capital. We have generated sales leads from a handful of interested businesses, including interfaith youth camps, NYC-based caterers, a major league sports team, a specialty food grocer, and a national e-commerce retailer. Fortunately, our efforts and overall vision have garnered us many honors across the religious, food, and impact communities. From delivering two official TED.com Talks through the TED Residency, to being honored by former president Bill Clinton, to being named a breakout talent to watch by the Specialty Food Association; we’re grateful for the validation every individual and organization has provided us. | What excites us about the brand and vision we mapped out for Abe's Eats is the potential for this venture to have positive social and environmental impacts that can be generated in many forms. Our ultimate goal of our social impact vision is to help curate a more inclusive society; in our case, through the food industry. We want to enable food providers to serve customers from all backgrounds and empower their spaces to be a haven for stronger community bonds. Our social impact can be actively measured with every food establishment that is finally able to cater to their entire communities by carrying our products. Additionally, we are inspired to follow the examples set by other companies, like Chobani, that attach a strong sense of activism directly to their bottom line. So we are constituting a % of all profits to be allocated to non-profits that promote religious and cultural harmony. (ie. Seeds of Peace, Sisterhood of Shabbat Salaam) We wish to champion other organizations that share our primary vision of interfaith peace that is in line with Zakat and Tzedakah giving. At our current pace of development, we project to reach sustained commercial operability in early 2020 for our B2B business mode to begin servicing our local communities in the Northeast United States, with sights to expand nationwide and eventually overseas to Europe. | Our largest focus for the next 12 months is the commercial rollout of our meat products. After having spent 2018 building and testing our supply chain, we are turning our attention to bringing our supply chain in-house and closing initial B2B sales leads that we generated over the past year. Throughout September and October, we plan on launching a Kickstarter campaign to further connect with the consumer market and expand our visibility to consumers everywhere from the modern-day millennial to the most orthodox of faith-based individuals. The undertaking of a successful Kickstarter campaign is immense in and of itself, but if done effectively, can provide us with working capital along with a virality within the kickstarter community to further garner supporters. In addition, we are patiently keeping our eyes and ears open for potential funding from outside investors while consistently pursuing non-dilutive capital in the form of grants and other contributions. We believe there are partnerships available in the industry that can not only provide capital for scale, but the “right fit” relationships and valuable resources that come along with them. Long term, with adequate funding and growth in our local region, we will look for larger partners to scale nationwide into other food service establishments and retailers. The focus will be determined on how accessible we can become to communities across the country. | Company website: AbesEats.com TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/mohammad_modarres_how_to_build_a_more_inclusive_dinner_table Article: https://religionnews.com/2019/05/16/entrepreneur-markets-interfaith-meats-to-combat-surge-in-religious-hate-crimes/?fbclid=IwAR1zwcHJ8Lkw1wjyex24pQT1xPn578fBySIA_lChEe2CWAGQt1amVgQppPA Podcast: https://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/interfaith-meat-with-mohammad-modarres/ Podcast: https://interfaithcenter.org/creating-community-at-the-dinner-table/ Article: https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/13170-three-big-ideas-in-food?fbclid=IwAR23gI5Z6rlePptJdZxt5whS8f95eJ0DcDyqVdtTZvhgGqXK6BdnmK4gkHo | TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/mohammad_modarres_how_to_build_a_more_inclusive_dinner_table Article: https://religionnews.com/2019/05/16/entrepreneur-markets-interfaith-meats-to-combat-surge-in-religious-hate-crimes/?fbclid=IwAR1zwcHJ8Lkw1wjyex24pQT1xPn578fBySIA_lChEe2CWAGQt1amVgQppPA Podcast: https://heritageradionetwork.org/podcast/interfaith-meat-with-mohammad-modarres/ Podcast: https://interfaithcenter.org/creating-community-at-the-dinner-table/ Article: https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/13170-three-big-ideas-in-food?fbclid=IwAR23gI5Z6rlePptJdZxt5whS8f95eJ0DcDyqVdtTZvhgGqXK6BdnmK4gkHo | - 2018 TED Resident - 2018 American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute Fellowship - 2018 Ariane de Rothschild Fellowship - 2018 Social Enterprise Alliance Pave a Path Scholar - 2018 Clinton Global Initiative University Honor Roll Award - 2018 12 Under 35 Breakout Talent to Watch by Specialty Food Magazine - 2018 TiE New York Top 7 Startup - 2018 ebay Startup Cup Top 7 Startup - 2019 Republic Academy - 2019 TED Resident - 2019 Forbes 8 Spotlight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
867 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Timothy | Prestero | Design that Matters | https://www.designthatmatters.org/ | CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Design that Matters (DtM) collaborates with leading social entrepreneurs and hundreds of volunteers to solve problems in global health for the poor in developing countries. As a nonprofit, DtM focuses on creating social impact in areas not served by market-based solutions. In assessing our impact, we carefully account for externalities, including the total cost of ownership, the cost of product failure and the opportunity cost of treatment time. DtM is recognized as an international leader in human-centered design, rapid prototyping and cost-effective low-volume manufacturing. This allows us to deliver breakthrough global health technologies to niche markets in poor countries at a fraction of the traditional R&D investment. DtM's track record demonstrates our ability to deliver social impact in the face of market failure. As of August 2019, DtM’s Firefly phototherapy device has reached 25 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and treated more than 260,000 newborns. Products that DtM has helped design and launch have treated a total of 450K patients worldwide. We are apply to be part of the UN Solutions Summit because great design can only have an impact if it is adopted at scale. Although individual DtM products can save hundreds of lives, we see the greatest potential impact in our influence on global health standards. DtM’s vision is that each product we develop will become the standard of care in low-resource settings. | Timothy Prestero is the founder and CEO of Design that Matters, an American 501c3 nonprofit based in Redmond, WA. Tim was a Peace Corps volunteer in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa, and he has led design and global projects in two dozen countries across Africa, Latin America and Asia. Tim holds graduate mechanical engineering degrees from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. He is a Martin Fellow at MIT, an Ashoka Affiliate and a Draper Richards Kaplan Fellow. Tim was included on the Public Interest Design 100 list, representing one-hundred people and teams working at the intersection of design and service, and profiled in Fast Company’s Generosity series, as one of the “11 Most Generous Designers.” Tim lives in Sammamish, Washington with his wife and two sons. DtM's design work on Firefly has been recognized with more than a dozen international design awards, including a Silver Award for social impact design in IDSA's 2012 IDEA Awards, a 2013 Edison Award and the 2015 Good Green Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum. In 2012, DtM was named the winner of the National Design Award in Corporate and Institutional Achievement. | Firefly Newborn Phototherapy | For rural hospitals with limited resources and inexperienced staff, Firefly is a high-intensity newborn phototherapy that is ""hard to use wrong"". | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | In order of implementation scale: Myanmar, Vietnam, Philippines, Uganda, Ghana, Malaysia, Nepal, Haiti, Tanzania, Benin, Thailand, Nigeria, Laos, Cambodia, Mongolia, South Africa, Somaliland, East Timor, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Indones | Yes | MTTS in Vietnam (co-design, manufacture, distribution); Day One Health in USA/Europe (co-design, distribution, user-training, monitoring and evaluation) | Scaling | As of August 2019, DtM’s Firefly phototherapy device has reached 25 countries, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and treated more than 280,000 newborns. That's a great start, but even in those countries, current Firefly installations represent less than 10% of the total demand for high-intensity phototherapy. | For all that we understand about the incidence and treatment of newborn jaundice, every year in Asia and Africa roughly five million jaundiced newborns go without treatment. Global health experts estimate 5-10% of all newborn mortality is due to newborn jaundice. The challenge has not been the cost of medical technology--inexpensive versions of conventional overhead phototherapy devices remain poorly suited to the needs of rural hospitals in developing countries. | Since launching international distribution in September 2013, the Firefly team, which includes DtM, MTTS Asia and our in-country government partners, has implemented Firefly devices in 25 countries in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, treating more than 280,000 newborns. Compared to conventional overhead LED phototherapy, clinical studies have shown: >> Firefly’s double-sided phototherapy reduces newborn treatment time by over 25% >> Firefly’s single-patient bassinet reduces the instance of hospital-acquired infection by 50% >> Firefly’s high-intensity phototherapy successfully treats severely jaundiced newborns who would otherwise require an exchange blood transfusion, an expensive and risky second-line jaundice treatment of last resort. Hospitals in Yangon, Myanmar saw a 68% reduction in exchange transfusions among inborns (newborns delivered in the hospital), and 38% reduction for outborns (newborns transferred to referral hospital after birth). A hospital or healthcare program that implements a Firefly device instead of a conventional overhead phototherapy device will save an average of US$50 per week, or more than $10,000 in healthcare system costs over the device’s five-year lifespan. We see growing evidence of support for DtM’s position that international medical device standards are insufficient and often inappropriate for low-resource settings, specifically in the increasing number of government tenders for double-sided phototherapy devices. | DtM has identified three specific issues with conventional overhead phototherapy devices in developing countries: >> They are difficult to set up correctly. Unless the user correctly sets the overhead phototherapy device’s orientation, height and angle, the newborn will not receive the necessary light intensity. >> They encourage bed-sharing, which spreads disease. Bed-sharing (placing many newborns under a single light) increases the risk that some newborns at the edges do not receive therapeutic light intensity, and more seriously, significantly increases the risk of spreading infectious diseases between newborns. >> They are not bright enough. One-sided phototherapy devices designed for the US or European market do not offer sufficient light intensity to treat the severe jaundice cases that are much more common in Southeast Asian countries (where newborns are genetically predisposed to higher rates of jaundice), and in low-resource settings where diagnosis and the start of treatment occurs days later than in the United States. Unlike the conventional overhead phototherapy devices they might receive through international donations or a government purchase, Firefly provides high-intensity phototherapy that is “easy to use right and hard to use wrong”--in other words the device eliminates the most common sources of product failure and user error. | The Firefly team of Design that Matters, MTTS and Day One Health, support rigorous control studies of Firefly effectiveness. For example, here are two recent peer-reviewed papers: A two-year peer-reviewed control study comparing Firefly phototherapy treatment to standard single-sided phototherapy devices showed an increase in the hourly rate of bilirubin reduction by 54%, and a reduction in newborn treatment time by 21%. Firefly’s faster treatment saves hospital costs and allows babies to go home with their parents that much earlier. [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205432] A peer-reviewed control study across ten neonatal treatment units in Nigeria compared the effect on the reduction in hyperbilirubinemia and the necessity of exchange blood transfusion (EBT) as a second-line therapy of total body exposure (TBPE) using Firefly, compared to a control of conventional partial exposure (COPT) using overhead phototherapy. The paper concludes that Firefly’s TBPE was quicker and safer for reduction of hyperbilirubinemia and patients rarely required EBT, and recommends TBPE for rapid reduction of serum bilirubin levels and the reduction of treatment costs, morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries. [https://doi.org/10.1080/20469047.2019.1610607] | The Firefly team continues to seek opportunities to scale the impact of the Firefly phototherapy device. This includes working through procurement and partnership with government ministries, international aid agencies and private donors. The UN Solutions Summit will provide an excellent opportunity to raise the profile of the project and connect with new partners. | SHORT TERM: connections with public and private individuals and organizations that can help us scale Firefly. MEDIUM TO LONG TERM: -- assistance influencing global standards for newborn phototherapy and other medical devices where US or European protocols are a poor match for low-resource settings. -- financial support for the development of ""adjacent innovations"" that will allow us to further extend the reach of context-appropriate newborn care technology. The Firefly team is currently working on tools that will allow Firefly to function on solar-powered batteries (in the most remote settings), and on a complementary newborn warming device that will allow Firefly to treat preterm and otherwise vulnerable newborns and to reach those in colder climates. | https://www.designthatmatters.org/firefly http://www.mtts-asia.com/firefly-phototherapy/ | https://www.ted.com/talks/timothy_prestero_design_for_people_not_awards/transcript?language=en | DtM's design work on Firefly has been recognized with more than a dozen international design awards, including a Silver Award for social impact design in IDSA's 2012 IDEA Awards, a 2013 Edison Award and the 2015 Good Green Design Award from the Chicago Athenaeum. In 2012, DtM was named the winner of the National Design Award in Corporate and Institutional Achievement. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
868 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Obinna Victor | Eze | 360degreeHEALTH NETwork | www.360degreehealthnet.org | Founder/Public Health Advocate | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | As the founder of the 360degreeHEALTH NETwork; I focus on bridging the gap in health care service distribution through advocacy for effective health care financing; engaging the government to create health initiatives that benefits underprivileged populations; fast tracking the attainment of WHO Sustainable Development Goal 3. Growing up; I lived in a local community that suffered from the financial risk of diseases; which is why I am motivated to promoting an initiative that would impact on the health care system of every other vulnerable populations and launching a primary health care delivery system that permeates the wider field of politics, ideas, cultures and social activism. My initiative has reduced the burden of diseases through health campaigns, testing and counselling services, promotion of safer sex practices, early diagnostic initiatives, linkage and referral programs to health care services. The overall impact of my work is that my initiative has bridged the inequality gap in health care service delivery through free medical outreaches in rural communities; engaging the government to create health intervention plan to serve the health needs of vulnerable groups. Being a part of the UN Solutions Summit to present a project would help me develop connect with experts from the global community to formulate effective strategies to identify problems and solutions to address global issues related to increasing access to equitable health care service delivery. | I am Eze Victor Obinna; a Registered Nurse, Public Health Advocate, author of the Amazon best seller ‘’Positioned For Leadership’’ (A leadership and self-help book) and founder of 360degreeHEALTH NETwork; an NGO that bridges the inequality gap in health care service delivery through free medical outreaches in communities and engaging Nigerian government and health agencies to create health initiatives that would benefit vulnerable populations. I worked with the ministry of health, health care agencies and in communities through my organisation; organising health awareness campaigns, diagnostic testing and medical outreaches in underserved regions of Nigeria and as a Registered Nurse; meeting the health needs of people from diverse cultures. As a young leader; I teach and coach individuals and groups in schools, organizations, companies- via conferences, online webinars with publications in other media channels such as Nursingworldnigeria.com, leadnurseafrica.com, fellownurses.com, 360degreehealthnet.org. I am also a radio personality with Buzz Fm 89.7 and Real Fm 99.1 in Nigeria; where I discuss issues of Public health relevance every Saturday. I volunteer and partner with non- profit organizations focusing on free health outreach in rural communities, youth and leadership empowerment and public health care advocacy. | Equity in Global Health Care- Ensuring Health For All | Bridging the inequality gap in health care service distribution through intersectoral collaborations | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Nigeria, Benin Republic, Ghana | Yes | Scientist Festus Odoh Obinna, Doctor Enoch Onyemachi, Nurse Felix Obasi | Transition to Scale | Stringent policies affecting our operations by host nation governments, increasing expectations from team members and volunteers to demonstrate good duty of delivering health care, and the wide geographic spread of our target population creates a challenge when seeking to effectively manage risk and still function as an NGO operating in one or more countries. | My solution addresses the challenge created by increased burden of infectious and chronic diseases, inadequate health facilities, poor implemention of national health programs, inequitable and unsustainable health care financing, out of pocket expenditure on health care emergencies and chronic diseases, low health financing, inadequate health awareness campaigns, drug unavailability, inadequate vaccination intervention programs and low health care labour force in local communities. | My solution focuses on bridging the inequality gap in health care service distribution through the delivery of free and affordable medical services in rural communities; engaging the government and health agencies to create health initiatives that would benefit underprivileged populations such as the disabled, children, pregnant women, elderly, victims of terrorist attack and the chronically ill. It will address the challenges of inadequate health awareness, drug unavailability, inadequate vaccination intervention and low health care labour force in communities through drug distribution to rural health posts and community members, organising routine vaccination programs and training of health care personnel in collaboration with government and non-governmental agencies. The long term vision for global impact; 1.Global health research is essential for health care advancement. In the future; the solution will engage its mission towards equitable distribution of research efforts and raising funds directed towards supporting populations suffering the world's greatest health problems. 2. Launching a primary health care delivery system that permeates the wider field of politics, ideas, cultures and social activism expressed through partnerships, alliances and other forms of collaborations that will provide the framework for health care innovations outside our present operating domains in West Africa. | The solutionb is unique as it focuses on saving lives and improving the health of the worlds poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. It ensures that everybody has access to qualitative medical care regardless of their age, tribe, academic qualification or social status; providing health care at affordable cost thus improving their economic resource potential and quality of life. The initiative is different as it addresses the following; •Setting up of a system to fill the wide disparities in health service delivery between dwellers of the urban centers and the rural unprivileged population as demonstrated by the baseline survey conducted in 2007 by the FCT MDGs Project Support Unit. •Training of health care providers on strategies to promote evidenced based practice and health emergency preparedness in rural communities. •Participating in immunization programs, grassroot community mobilization to increase participation in Community Health Care targeted projects and government sponsored health care interventions. •Collection, collation, analysis and interpretation of data for action and maintaining database on Disease control. •Adoption of new technology (ICT) to Improve on the very poor status of Primary Health Care Management data base through Partnership with other members of the private sector. | Our data as a form of rural proofing indicates that through our initiative; more pregnant women, the elderly, children, low income families, the chronically ill, the disabled and others affected by the financial risk of ill health will be the focus and gain assess to equitable and affordable health care services as we continuously engage Nigerian government, health and non health affiliated agencies to support health care intervention plans that would impact on improving the health of populations from diverse cultures . By partnering with a variety of stakeholders including the Ministry of health, a variety of health initiatives, field visits and medical outreaches will be organised as well as meetings with governance experts. As an outcome, more health policies will be formulated and health professional trained to take responsibility and play an active role in effective health care service distribution to vulnerable groups. | The important source of funding for our initiatives has been through voluntary donations and gifts such as medical supplies; mostly from individuals or informal groups, private charities, community organizations and support/collaborations with other health affiliated agencies that are more privately handled and have a better focus on equipping local NGOs like ours; not just financially but also technically. We also generate revenue through affiliate and multi level marketing with brands such as pharmaceutical companies, health service providers and food/beverage companies such as dufil foods, Longrich Nigeria and Johnson and Johnson; helping them sell and scale up their products, especially consumer health products to the consumers we come in contact with in Nigeria. In the future through awards and grants; we look forward to bilateral and multilateral aids from foreign offices of developed countries interested in extending international support for alleviating the financial risk of ill health and reducing the socio-economic gap between the developed and the developing countries and supporting health care delivery services in sub-saharan Africa or from the multilateral organizations set up by different countries such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and other international corporate groups | SHORT TERM; As a self-funding entity; we are also planning on raising more funds to invest into wholesale of consumer health products with dealership directly from manufacturing companies. We will deal more on marketing and selling everyday consumer health care products such as Cosmetic/Skin Care, Household Cleaning,Baby Care Products, Skin & Hair Care, Wound Care and Topicals, Oral Health Care products, Over-The-Counter Medicines, Nutritionals as well as the distribution of medical devices, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods. Through these products and services; we will achieve financial sustainability and scale up profits to run the course of our initiative of meeting the immediate health care needs of underprivileged populations at risk of ill health. MEDIUM TERM: We look forward to bilateral and multilateral aids from foreign offices of developed countries interested in extending international support for alleviating the financial risk of ill health and reducing the socio-economic gap between the developed and the developing countries and supporting health care delivery services in sub-saharan Africa or from the multilateral organizations set up by different countries such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and other international corporate groups. LONG TERM: Raising funds to launch community based global health educational and research institutes | www.360degreehealth.org https://www.dailyhealthng.com/2019/01/health-care-delivery-in-rural.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUk1CbaPXY4 https://www.virallisa.com/rural-health-care-disparities-free-medical-outreach-to-550-people-in-delta-state-rural-community/ https://fellownurses.com/2019/01/health-care-service-delivery-in-rural-communities-the-role-of-ngos-in-ensuring-equal-coverage.html?fbclid=IwAR1U5m0nSO9zjcf1YKN9YQ5Ek00gwOX-jmZ88ZXx660vP0L6ey-aVtEo8iI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUk1CbaPXY4 | - Award of Excellence as a Community health service provider and advocate by The Centre for Public Health (CPH) Umuahia, Abia State; Nigeria; 2018 -Delta State Youth Leadership Award by the Rotaract club of Nigeria; 2018 -Rivers State Primary Health Care Management Board Award for Community Health Service; 2017 -HIV/AIDs Peer Education Award; by Association Of African Universities (A.A.U), 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
869 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ana Cecilia | Flores | Webee Corporation | webee.io | Co-Founder | Female | United States of America | United States of America | Spanish | I strongly believe that a sustainable future cannot be achieved without building a solid infrastructure, encouraging sustainable industrialization, and nurturing innovation. Only by working towards these goals will we be able to achieve a sustainable world for our future generations. That is the heart and soul of what we do at Webee. I believe in the endless possibilities that the IoT and AI bring to solve some of the world's most urgent issues but it’s development has to be inclusive, affordable and easy to implement so that it can serve the world and truly make a difference. We created a disruptive innovative end-to-end platform that doesn't require technical expertise. It's simply connectivity out-of-the-box so that organizations of any size, anywhere in the world can deploy IOT and AI at a fraction of the cost, without expensive setups and the need of specialized engineering. This innovation is being applied to many different industries, solving complex issues that go from Air Quality CO Monitoring, LiveStock Monitoring, and Farm to Table traceability in the Food Industry. The UN Solutions Summit will be a unique opportunity to help us accelerate the process of democratizing the adoption of disruptive technologies through strong partnerships, opportunities for collaboration, helping us scale technology adoption for cities, manufacturing and industrial operations. We are committed to creating long-term value for organizations of any sizes in different regions of the world, through technology that allows access to data to make progress at the desired pace and remain competitive in a rapidly changing world. | Ana Cecilia is the Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Webee Corporation, a tech company focused on streamlining knowledge through data automation. Their unique management software and cutting-edge hardware are designed for businesses of all sizes and industries to help them modernize operations by reducing manual work and inefficiencies. They currently serve clients in Latin America, Asia, the United States and Europe. Ana Cecilia was a finalist for the WE Empower SDG Challenge for the United Nations 2030 for the Latin American Region. She is a women's equality advocate and an active member of Vital Voices, a non-profit organization focused on Women Empowerment and equality. She participated in the Mentoring Walks in three different continents and was recently selected for VVGROW Fellowship, a 1-year global accelerator program for women owners of small- & medium- enterprises. She is a member of the Advisory Board of WE EVOLUTION, a non-profit focused on leading the women’s third revolution and she mentors entrepreneurs in the Stanford Latino Entrepreneur Initiative, the Cherie Blair Foundation and others. Her areas of expertise are marketing, corporate communications, startup-tech entrepreneurship, strategic planning, corporate social responsibility, and design thinking. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Corporate Communications from Blas Pascal University, a degree in Advertising from IES Siglo 21, a Master’s in Strategic Communications and Postgraduate in Business Management from the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina. | Webee | Intuitive Platform for Data Extraction, Transformation, and Action | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Argentina, United States, Japan | No | Scaling | We generated $1.5 M ARR in 2018 and we are currently building our pipeline to achieve $3.0 M 2019. We have more than 900 sensors and gateways connected to the platform and deploying 3000 houses with CO monitoring in the US and 2500 humidity monitoring in the real state. Our product is ready to scale and the technology to deploy. | Emerging technologies are changing industries and businesses dramatically granting access to data to add digital intelligence to operations. However, the connectivity landscape is still very confusing with technology fragmentation and the need for specialized engineering. In this very confusing evolving market, it usually takes decades until many organizations and industries in under-developed countries, and smaller-sized companies can adopt these technologies and remain competitive. | Webee is an out-of-the-box hardware and software solution that provides organizations with the simplest way to measure operational processes, understand its performance and improve efficiency with the true power of connected edge-to-cloud technologies, powered by IoT, AI, and computer vision. Our patented end-to-end approach makes it possible to deploy solutions at a fraction of the cost and without the need for specialized engineering. The proprietary gateway and wireless sensors send the information to our software that allows to create and deploy solutions with a visual interface and deploy applications in minutes. Our mission is to democratize the access to data through intuitive technologies and provide business value and growth acceleration. We believe that a sustainable future cannot be achieved without building a solid infrastructure, encouraging sustainable industrialization, and nurturing innovation. Sustainable industrialization can only be achieved through innovation and technological progress. If industrialization is no longer sustainable, then eventually infrastructure development will have to stop. Our ultimate goal is to make technology accessible and continue to develop more and more innovative technology for manufacturing and industrial operations, to allow businesses to optimize their processes, increasing resource energy-efficiency and leading to more sustainable operations. | We developed the first end-to-end, no coding IoT and AI solution that overcomes the challenges of massive adoption: A suite that combines hardware and software and no technical expertise is needed for customizations that allow data extraction, transformation, and action based on edge-connectivity and AI algorithms. The platform is protocol-agnostic and has edge capabilities for environments with connectivity challenges. Hailed as a disruptive solution, the intuitive platform allows businesses of all sizes to gain valuable insight and optimize operational processes. The solution can be applied and customized to any type of industry as it adapts to different environmental conditions and requirements, such as: Modernize facility management; retrofitted ventilation systems for Air quality CO emissions control receiving real-time alerts of changes in conditions; Transparent supply chain: Full visibility of the cold-chain from the farm to the table to reduce the risks associated with temperature variations and ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Competitive Benefits: Small and medium-sized businesses remain competitive by using this affordable technology such as local small-size markets that saved $1M due to temperature loss. An Affordable, Easy-to-Implement and Flexible Solution that can be implemented by any type of organization. It also works on-premise and in the cloud adapting to different connectivity infrastructure scenarios. | Our solution is already in the market in many different verticals. The technology is finalized and we are optimizing the architecture to continue to scale our businesses. We have very strong performance KPI’s on the manufacturing side and comply with most regulations. These vary depending on the industry in which our deployment works. Our technological road map is measured by: -The volume of smart-device data processed -Datapoints -Gateway connectivity -KPI - number of bugs reported. -Resolution times Sales KPI -CPA’s. -Churn Rate - Customer lifetime revenue. Internal KPI -OKR for our engineering team. -Employee satisfaction -Attrition -Gender and equality inclusion Financial metrics -P&L -Gross Margin | Our plan is to continue to grow in our existing markets and develop POC’s in rural areas with connectivity challenges to test harsh environments. Double the number of connected devices by 2020. Integrate 50% more third party sensors. Create new strong partnerships that allow accelerating deployment and go-to-market. Continue to grow in the food industry as well as industrial operations. Transform the professional services revenue into a subscription-based one. Grow our data science team. Continue to engage with local organizations to develop solutions that can solve the most urgent issues through technology. | Short-Term Network and access to global partnerships with other enterprises. Seed round. Medium and long term: Financing Advisory board. | https://www.webee.io/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9Lfzk0EKR0 Webee Patented Solution https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160139575A1/en Temp and Humidity Testimonial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGFsezc3uwE&t=2s Hospitality Testimonial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sry7SJUBWOk Air Quality Monitoring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlJPwuv9pU8 Smart Cities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrXi6HmO5Ew | https://www.lagacetasalta.com.ar/nota/11370/sociedad/saltena-feria-electronica-mas-importante-mundo.html https://eldoce.tv/videos/curioso/la-cordobesa-cecilia-flores-del-colegio-universitario-ies-silicon-valley_79924?fbclid=IwAR0fL7ExPZBQvEjugf0fWn_kdxKVkgx6u8RjvkZAT1U4f6jMZpoPVGA4nHM https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=789229194763284 https://www.facebook.com/LadyFrenesiBlog/videos/vb.598776803504246/153907915553902/?type=2&theater https://informatesalta.com.ar/noticia/168623/comunicacion-disruptiva-un-encuentro-para-mujeres-emprendedoras https://www.ladyfrenesi.com/eventos-mujeres-disruptivas-paso-por-salta/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=uxUknL5kpgM https://puntoapunto.com.ar/mujeres-disruptivas-la-nueva-propuesta-de-voces-vitales/ https://issuu.com/revistafesta2017/docs/festa_58_octubre18 | We Empower SDG Goals Latin American Finalist https://sustainability.asu.edu/we-empower/awardees-finalists/ Gartner Cool Vendor https://www.webee.io/blog/webee-selected-as-cool-vendor-on-gartners-cool-vendors-in-the-connected-home-report UPS Innovation Award https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imjPAB4ba-o&t=5s VVGROW https://www.vitalvoices.org/what-we-do/signature-programs/economic-empowerment/?fbclid=IwAR3fsJnT-5vdHR0sA8VenZXwGmtxbClLfgsAxfpnSWz7UZuvThcUPa8vUIg Blog https://www.webee.io/blog | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
870 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chikondi | Chauwa | Girl Rise Up | Www.girlriseup.com | Founder | Female | Malawi | Malawi | English | The summit will offer me with opportunities to participate in panel discussions, and community-of-practice conversations in relation to women empowerment and quality education.My participation will allow me to present my project and engage on the impacts and successes my projects have had in my community, and gain insights into how to improve on the implementation of future projects.This will also be a good opportunity to gain professional networks. I have used innovation for positive global impact by developing an Exam result management system to be used by students in secondary schools across Malawi. During Africa’s Talking (AT) Hackathon, I developed an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD)Farmers Management Information System to reduce the cost of running extension workers by bringing farming information to farmer's handsets. | Chikondi is an IT specialist, currently working with the Ministry of Finance, National Authorizing Office in Malawi.She is a Social Entrepreneur, a Women Rights Activist as well as a Girl Education Activist. Chikondi is a graduate of the University of Malawi who specialized in Management Information Systems. She is the Founder of Girl Rise Up Initiative that aims at empowering Girls and Women in the areas of Education, Information Technology and Sustainable Energy. She is also the Co-Founder of Sustainable Energy for Africa (SEFA) initiative that focuses on ending energy poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. She was the first and only Malawian selected for an energy leadership training by Power Africa.She has empowered school girls through mentorship programmes.She hopes to open a technology hub in her country to offer free computer training and tutorials to girls.Her goal for the work she do is to see alot of girls go through tertially education and fend for themselves and their families. | Absenteeism Track system | It collects dats from girls who are missing school and the data will be used to provide resources and help to the particular girls. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Malawi | No | Research & Development | Because I have pitched the Idea at Africa ideas summit at The presidential precinct in Virginia,USA and I received positive feedback. Now I am in contact with the users of the system which includes girls,Social workers,community leaders and teachers where I am doing research on the Content of the system and what they would like the system to have. | 90% of girls in Malawi don’t make it to secondary school because they lack mentorship, resources and cultural believes where they believe that their place is in the kitchen. A lot of girls drop out of school without anyone knowing the real reason why they dropped out. We cannot speculate but get real time data in order to better help the girls. This solution is addressing the problem of School drop out for girls in rural schools | This solution will be used by teachers to report to social workers if a girl is missing school and the social workers will collect data from the girl Why she is not in school. The data will be sent to girl rise up where we will take necessary action whether to provide resources or mentorship or any support the girls need so that they have no reason to miss school. This data will also be used by policy makers to formulate better policies for school girls especially in rural areas. | The other solutions only records the number of girls not in school for records sake. This solution will collect data from the actual girls on why they didn’t go to school and the data will be used to send help to that particular girl, whether she needs mentorship,resources or extra help. There has been situations where people who already have resources received more resources while the vulnerable poor people who should benefit are left out. This methodology will also enable the government to properly formulate policies that we meet the needs of girls in rural schools. | We have contacted the beneficiaries of the system and have done Preliminary study. We have designed the system and we are now developing the prototype which will soon hit the testing stage We measure our progress by the feedback we get from our clients. | I want to start with my community then expand to Tanzania and Zambia where they have similar challenge of high school drop out for girls. I want the system to enable us help two million girls in Malawi to stay in school and complete their education. | Short term We will require laptops for coding,smart phones for testing,transport to visit local communities for more feedback. Medium term Testing the system costs Long term Maintenance costs Survey costs | https://www.facebook.com/girlriseupinitiative/ | https://youtu.be/QyYz54jqNOs | None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
871 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Steve | Scully | Thaddeus Medical Systems, Inc | https://www.thaddeusmed.com/ | Founder, CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Thaddeus Medical is eager to leverage our innovations to help improve some of the most pressing issues in global access to temperature-reliant and environmentally-fragile medical supplies and essential medicines. We are motivated by an unprecedented lack of access and the lives at stake - along with the opportunity to gain awareness and market access in the places most in need of these technologies. We created the first cold chain delivery system/device that consistent temperature control, GPS tracking and chain of custody validation to prevent damage and spoilage of life-saving, temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals. | Stephen Joseph Scully, Jr., M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O., Ph.D. Dr. Scully is Founder and CEO of Thaddeus Medical Systems, Inc. As a M.D. / Ph.D., he has over a decade in research and clinical laboratory environments. Building on his medical training, Steve holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Fellowships in Clinical Pharmacology, AutoImmune Neurology, and Biomedical Engineering, Steve created Smart-Sleeve with a Graphene enabled Thermoelectric device in a thin, flexible material, reducing a significant amount of medical errors. At Mayo Clinic, he substantially contributed to the development of four molecular assays for potential clinical use in the Neurological Immunology Laboratory. Steve has also developed patents for Thaddeus Medical Systems, designing a small, light thermoregulatory device to maintain the temperature of blood immediately while being drawn. The device would keep the blood at 37 degrees Celsius days at a time while in transit and track any deviations in temperature. The device went on to inform additional use cases for temperature sensitive pharmaceuticals and essential medicines. Steve has also been responsible for critical research in neuroimmuniology and has been the recipient of the Mater Foundation Award and Cleveland Clinic Innovation Awards. He has led numerous NIH-funded studies and been awarded 10 USPTO patents. Steve completed his medical degree from Univ College Dublin, Ireland, his Pediatric Residency at Cleveland Clinic, his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology at the Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst and his PharmD at Mayo Clinic. | iQ-ler | SMART PACKAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE PRODUCTS | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | US, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Bolivia, Philippines | Yes | Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium, Newborn Foundation, CHAI, Maersk Venture Programme, Rochester Area Economic Development Inc. (RAEDI), | Transition to Scale | Thaddeus has identified key markets for development, has a functional market-ready product ready for manufacture at scale. | Thaddeus, Inc. was born to close the technology and cost gap for temperature-sensitive medical shipping. More than $35B is wasted each year due to temperature excisions and lost medical products. Cold chain failures carrying vaccines, blood, tissue, organs and various drugs are still occurring, impacting over 20% of shipments. This leads not only to financial loss and poor use of government investments (in short supply), and in the worst cases, loss of human life. | Thaddeus's iQ-ler is a fully integrated cold chain packaging solution that actively controls temperature, reduces material and labor cost, and minimizes exposure to human error and human harm associated with damaged or destroyed medical commodities and essential medicines. Operating on a cloud based platform - provides access even in the most rural and remote locations and transparency and connectivity for the precious commodities being shipped via iQler.Shipments can be tracked real-time via the portal based on GPS location of iQler and field use has shown temperature consistency for up to 4 days of transit - an unprecedented time period that will help medical commodities get to the places most in need, including life-saving vaccines, antibiotics and other temperature-sensitive therapies. The device has configurable alerts encompassing temperature, location, product security, shock, vibration and a wide array of shipment parameters. An onboard portal provides automation of key receiving and documentation processes and has predictive analytics to support variability in transit patterns. Our long-term vision is to the the preferred carrier device for all temperature sensitive parcels - and may have opportunity to expand beyond medical needs into food security. | We convert shippers of temperature sensitive products from the unreliable 'cardboard and ice' passive solution towards a smart 'data-driven' active solution that increases product protection and streamlines supply chain processes. This patented hardware & software platform utilizes active temperature control, powered by an energy source and is entirely self-sustainable. The device has on-board GPS, enabling real-time tracking and bluetooth-enabled communication with built-in GPS to provide real-time, product level transparency. In a first of its kind compartmentalization design, each compartment can hold a unique temperature setting with interchangeable housings to ship different types of products – from vaccine and blood vials, to tissue cells, to culture media – all at different temperatures and all within one device. includes built-in RFID to prevent any unauthorized access, security sensors on the lid and a reader on the cooler to ensure that the lid is closed throughout the lifespan of the shipment. | We have multiple working devices in the field - working with key prospective customers in pharmacy supply chain, delivery logistics, curriers, pharmaceutical manufacturers. We use all standard measures for compliance in the UL standards within the US market and have and have our CE mark in progress, and hold multiple patents for design and utility around our delivery device and delivery system. The leadership team has conducted numerous NIH-funded trials and been through robust patent application processes - providing a critical level of methodology for our product development, pilots, and larger implementation plans. | Goals: Our goal for 2020 is to have 1,000 units in global cold chain logistics. 75% are slated for the US as part of the ramp up period, and 25% for low and middle income countries (LMICs). Each unit has the capacity to impact 10,000 lives through its 2-year lifecycle and we are currently iterating and testing around replacement and recyclable components to extend beyond that lifecycle. Milestones: Expansion into LMICs and global markets by Q1 2021 with yearly increase in global market penetration year over year to achieve a minimum of 50% of product in low-resource settings. Make formal commitment to UN Public Private partnerships in support of SDGs. Work with Global Innovation Exchange platform to accelerate relationships with pharma manufacturers, governments and key global health investors. | Capital to produce units and refine hardware / software is our immediate short-term need. Partners to provide qualitative feedback and stress test is second on the list. Global partners to help us test across broader cultural needs is our long-term need. Global health investors interested in VC and impact investing to achieve critical SDG goals. | http://www.thaddeusmed.com http://tcbmag.com/news/articles/2018/april/one-rochester-medtech-startup-ok-d-for-public-fund?utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=postfity&utm_content=postfity78064 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td-2Nr2huag https://medicalalley.org/2018/02/iot-healthcare-company-one-of-ten-selected-from-around-the-world-for-maersk-venture-programme/ | gener8tor Accelerator Milwaukee 2018 Minnesota Cup Finalist 2018 Maersk Venture Program Finalist 2018 CBU Healthcare Packaging Consortium 2017 Epicenter Logistics Accelerator (Sponsored by FedEx) 2016 Fuel Incubator Participant XLerateHealth Cohort | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
872 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Nfomi | Laura Berka | Her Voice club | www.denismikifoundation.org/webmail | Program Cordinator | Female | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | As a female youth leader working in the area of Sexual and Reproductive Health Right in my community and with organizations both national and international like MenEngage, Cameroon National Planning Association For Family Welfare, Big Step Outreach Network, Community Center for Intergrated Development. I have realised that there is a great problem concerning sexual and reproductive health rights especially towards Women and I belief strongly this is a platform to solve my community’s issues and attain the sustainable goals. This solution will not only benefit me, but benefit my community and women especially as it will empower these young girls so they are mainstreamed in the development process and achieve gender equality. | Nfomi Laura Berka is the first daughter out of two girls. She is a 20year old Cameroon. She attended Our Lady of Lourdes Secondary and High School where she was the school’s health prefect, science club leader and the best prefect of the year 2014/2015. She enrolled in the University of Buea 2015 in the department of Women and Gender Studies with Law which is a double degree program. During her time in the University, she has worked with the Regional Hospital Bamenda, Community Center for Intergrated Developement, Denis Miki Foundation, Vision in Action, Women For Change Cameroon, UNESCO, Big Step Outreach Network, Cameroon National Planning Association For Family Planning, Regional Delegation of Women Empowerment Bamenda. Nfomi Laura is a very hard working, smart, honest, respectful and good person. She is an easy person who can blend in any situation she is put in and works with passion to attain gender equality and serve her community unconditionally. | Sexual and reproductive Health Rights in times of conflict | Sexual and reproductive health rights as a means to gender equality and youth involvement and monitoring of global fund projects and leading advocacy | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Cameroon | Yes | MenEngage, Big Step Outreach Network,Regional Hospital Buea, Community center for Intergrated Development | Proof of Concept | Research has been done in my community by my organization and a conclusion has been made that there is a huge problem when it comes to sexual and reproductive health rights making the adoslescent girls and young women together with the youths marginalized and the Men both young and old are at the decision table and there is a problem because of the social constructs. | Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights is a big issue in my community as the rights are one sided that is women do not enjoy these rights as they turn out as the ones with the highest number of HIV/AIDS virus, the ones whose gender and sex roles are child bearing and rearing, The oneswho suffer from rape, child marriage especially in times of conflict as faced in the Cameroonian setting like today. These problems have left women behind as just a passive reciepiants to development. | This solution addresses women practical gender needs and strategic gender needs which are both long term and short term goals. In the short term, it’s getting Adolescent girls and young women in Sexual and reproductive health rights field actively participating in the global fund project, engaging their peers and running advocacy programs. Also this is aim to improve maternal and infant health, no poverty , hunger, reduce HIV/AIDS transmission. In the long run, it will attain strategic needs like education for girls, Employment for women and will empower girls leading to gender equality. Also it will build capacity in taking key leadership positions in the global fund and sustainable development goals related activities and enhancing community advancement. | This solution is unique because it is interlinked with so many sustainable development goals like family planning is related to health, zero hunger, education for girls. It is unique because this solution comes in the time of conflict where the adoslescent girls and young women are very vulnerable to abuses especially that concerning their sexual and reproductive health rights and it is a means to empower women while aiming at gender equality. | In a scale of 10 I will say 5. Due to some contraints as a result of the crisis and funding. But an activity profile was taken as to know who does what or who does not interms of Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights and was seen men are at top in the decision making, control and access to resources making women to be so vulnerable. In general all strategic positions are given to the men and elderly and everyon. So there is a need for reconstruction at every stage depending on the caliber of people. | Yes neighboring Countries like Nigeria, Ghana, also by partnering with more organizations both national and international like Neolla Lyonga Foundation, Ministery of Health, Ministry of Women Empowerment and the Family, Ministry of Social Affair, UNWomen,UNHCR, UNESCO, UNICEF. | Resources will be needed like funds. This is to purchase family planning methods such as condoms, pills, test kits and others, to pay health personnel’s to administer family planning methods and test. To acquire material for collection of data after the project, halls for workshops, writing materials and food and drinks for the participants. | http://www.denismikifoundation.org/webmail | http:/www.denismikifoundation.org/webmail | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
873 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | MARTHA ISABEL | RUIZ CORZO | GRUPO ECOLÓGICO SIERRA GORDA IAP | www.sierragorda.net | General Director | Female | Mexico | Mexico | English | Spanish | With 40 years of experience and recognition, the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve has operated for more than 34 years as a civil society organization. We organize the Alliance for Conservation along with 4 other organizations, carrying out hundreds of sanitation and recycling projects. We also organize community environmental education, training for productive diversification, technical assistance for natural resource use, regenerative soil management, food production, beekeeping, planned grazing, private reserves, compensation to forest owners for reducing emissions, valorization of forest services, and financing for trainings. We help strengthen the infrastructure and equipment of 54 tourist microenterprises within the Sierra Gorda Sustainable Destination and promote public policies at the subnational level. Our work creates networks with a changing rural society, linking multiple actors in the interior of the protected territory and connecting them to global possibilities. Queretaro is the first state in Mexico to operate a mechanism that mitigates the carbon footprint through local protocol through applying small subnational taxes that finance the regeneration of natural infrastructure. This monetization benefits community landowners who adopt regenerative management that we pass on to farmers, technicians and public officials in other states of Mexico. This is an important innovation to reduce emissions through natural regeneration and poverty alleviation. The initiative is embodied in the NAMA, “Subnational Actions for the Regeneration of Landscapes” validated through the 5 ICAT Guides (Initiative for Climate Action Transparency). These are the tools used to standardize the MRV system (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification) for emission reduction through regenerative management of soils and forests, public policies at the subnational level, non-governmental actors and transformational change, thus initiating the transfer of the Querétaro Model of subnational action to 7 other states in the country. Our proposal promotes actions at the subnational level, which is a great opportunity through which to act on climate solutions, grounding global protocols that do not apply to the conditions of local communities. We should carry out the regeneration of forests and soils with adequate, reliable and transparent local protocols that make the economic valuation of natural capital viable for these communities. | Martha Isabel “Pati” Ruiz Corzo is an activist with more than 35 years in action and she has long been fighting against global warming emergency in those years. In search of answers to this emergency, she radically changed the life of her family, and with her husband and two sons moved to the Sierra Gorda. There she learned how to live a simple, self-sufficient life through experimenting, learning, and getting to know the region and its social contexts. With her family, she opted for a more frugal and self-sufficient life, finding her life’s passion. Energetic and persistent, without slowing down, she organizes, innovates, and joins many stakeholders for the purpose of re-greening Mexico. With the government of Querétaro, a strategic ally, she mobilizes and promotes the replication of the subnational action model that works successfully within the state. In 1989 Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda was already an organization. Maestra Pati along with her husband, Roberto, and their children, started a movement that has transcended into a renowned model of participatory conservation. This model produces concrete results and valuable social capital, supporting hundreds of projects, building bridges between extreme poverty and global possibilities, and capacities and new values for nature's services. A tireless leader, she has won 25 national and international prizes for her experience, accomplishments, lessons learned and her ability to implement solutions. For decades she has ignited collective actions that allow for natural regeneration. | Subnational actions for the regeneration of landscapes | Economic valorization for nature´s services, an effective climate solution | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Mexico | Yes | Queretaro State Government | Scaling | Synthesized in a registered NAMA and through a validated MRV, subnational action and organization is a successful formula for adopting regenerative tools for the landscape in order to increase the scope of ecosystem services. We rely on a technical team, established 5 years ago, in order to transfer knowledge and to share it with many associates at all levels in other states of the country. It also allows for Querétaro government to undertake responsibilities at the sub-national level. | A lack of economic value for natural capital in the face of extreme poverty. Other issues are risk of provoked fires, illegal logging, change in land use, forests degraded by extensive grazing, and lack of economic opportunities and social development for communities. We seek to boost Mexico's vision embodied in its NDCs by adopting regenerative tools and promoting public policies, along with regenerative actions that strengthen the national green agenda. | Replicating and adapting sub-national protocols, the project will be based on a proof of concept. We are sharing years of learning with simplified methodologies, tools and located fiscal opportunities in states across the country. We share practical knowledge, a plan of action that offers hope for reversing desertification, drought, loss of biodiversity, and other scourges of climate change, producing healthy food and forming a conservation economy that favors impoverished rural communities. We also know that failed global attempts to implement financial mechanisms that can be linked to forest owners are well-known. Our proposal recovers biodiversity, biological functions and heals the planet plot by plot. This initiative has a verified model of MRVl that is contextualizable to other ecosystems. In compliance with the requirements of the ICAT Guidelines, it is a tool for transparency in subnational public policies, which provide a carbon reduction service where regenerative management is encouraged, increasing the current possibilities for carbon sequestration, thus reorienting the traditional management of agricultural soils and forests with extensive grazing. Natural capital without economic value puts ancient forests with high biodiversity at serious risk. Through monetizing these services, their survival is assured. We can improve the forest frontier by promoting natural regeneration with the seeds of parent trees and nature's regenerative energy. | Global protocols have complicated requirements that are impossible for rural landowners to comply with. We have a lot of experience pursuing carbon markets and have gone through bureaucratic labyrinths, learning with great frustration that they do not apply here with very expensive criteria and a lack of demand from a non-existent market. REDD with its sophisticated monitoring systems is unlikely to go beyond a few pilot projects around the globe. It is costly and exclusionary and it is far from being a replicable solution. The mummified and almost non-existent federal government leaves enormous institutional gaps and a wasting environment. We propose to pursue niche opportunities in state governments, promoting the integration of sub-national environmental funds, with formal and proactive collaboration from civil society in order to address local threats. Each state in the country will assume responsibility for climate change. The local protocol is adapted to different contexts, with improved methodologies. Emission reduction through payments to landowners for adopting regenerative tools is a mechanism that allows for a win-win situation. It also allows for the recovery of soil productivity, the production of healthy food, and the formation of water and carbon sinks in agricultural and forest soils. Finally, it allows for biodiversity to find refuge and a strengthened regional resilience. Our local protocol is a formula with great potential and much hope. | We are an interdisciplinary team with high technical capacity, experience in the field, and knowledge of local contexts. Our expertise shows those protocols are not proposed for rural communities. Natural regeneration struggles to obtain solutions and spaces in the global dialogue, yet, there is an urgent need to develop the tools to make nature conservation a reality. We achieved the VCS Gold Standard and are the first project on the planet to achieve validation under the CCB and VCS standards for community reforestations. In light of the Kyoto Protocol´s impracticality, we began to tropicalize the design. We developed improved methodologies in order to compensate for the shortcomings of extreme poverty. This means a forest or livestock carbon emission reduction program with a transparent process and robust certainty for our clients, whether they are private stakeholders or the result of a public carbon footprint reduction policy. We have expert regenerative educators ready to share this knowledge. We operate a SROI, taking strict control of key success indicators such as biological recovery, carbon sequestration, adoption of regenerative tools, savings in agricultural supplies, increase in livestock numbers, permanent plots of forested carbon, and a system that allows us to integrate field information with the developed methodologies. We rely on a CRM database and manage an up to date inventory to monitor the commitments made with rigor and transparency. | We are underway in training forestry and agricultural technicians, as well as forming practitioners at all levels: producers, young leaders, extensionists, gardeners, and public servants at the institutional level. In alliance with the Savory Institute since 4 years ago, we began a transfer of regenerative knowledge with an on-going educational offer, training educators in holistic management. We hope to continue training by offering three diploma courses in regenerative management per year and organizing events to exchange experiences. These are forums that allow us to strengthen the regenerative community at the national level. We plan to take the Querétaro model to 12 states in the next 5 years, through 1,000,000 hectares under regenerative management and 216,000 hectares of forest with cattle exclusion, projecting a capture of 6,224,858 tons of CO2e in forests and soils participating in the project. | Queretaro State Government is our partner, strengthening alliances with strategic legislators to replicate the initiative and providing consistent technical assistance to at least 10 states over the next 3 years. In the mid-term we will replicate the model in 10 states, strengthening work teams through knowledge transfer, thus forming a critical base in regenerative management. We hope it will be a priority for the new Querétaro government to remain a leader for climate action in the face of the global crisis, and to encourage our participation in international movements such as Under2°Coalition and NY Declaration of Forest, movements that strengthen Mexico's leadership. In 5 years, we hope to see sub-national governments responsible for their natural resources, with climate agendas already adopted. In the long term, we hope to rescue land and resources for forests and biodiversity from the Federal Government, mobilizing legislators to strengthen sub-national action and generate financing and public policies that operate solutions to climate change, so that in 7 years it becomes a national policy. We have come a long way, learning from projects around the planet, and we have seen the ineffectiveness of globally recognized protocols. This local model will apply to many other countries, as it is a public policy that allows for the regeneration of natural capital and the promotion of collective action from rural society in high biodiversity areas. | www.sierragorda.net 2019: National workshop for 15 Mexican States to learn how to use our tools to replicate the model and increment NDC reporting at a sub-national level: http://sierragorda.net/accion-climatica-subnacional/ Webinar by GESG with Under2° Coalition for their membership in Latin America: https://youtu.be/813w55_F1Hc 2018: Global Climate Action Summit event: https://youtu.be/SS03PzNihpk Partnership with The Climate Group/ Under2° and Querétaro State, México, case study: https://panorama.solutions/en/solution/transformation-rural-society-regeneration-and-valorization-services-provided-nature-1 The Capital Institute case study: http://fieldguide.capitalinstitute.org/grupo-ecologico-shares-stories-of-biodiversity-and-regeneration.html The singing conservationist: https://theecologist.org/2016/aug/25/activist-pati-ruiz-corzo-singing-conservationist NS-272 Subnational mitigation actions for the restoration of landscapes: https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/PublicNAMA/_layouts/un/fccc/nama/NamaSeekingSupportForImplementation.aspx?ID=197&viewOnly=1). ICAT Guides https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ixz16h5ugnt7uka/AAD4jH_P0jIt9kw7fHTDD0xIa?dl=0 Holistic Management in Sierra Gorda http://bosqueysuelo.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/GESGIAP-Manejo-Holistico-2018-web.pdf Testimonies from beneficiaries Carbon biodiversity program https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8H9n_0U8nM&t=89s | A champion in the hills: Martha Isabel Ruiz Corzo at TEDxNairobi: https://youtu.be/Z9YtLiPqe2s The Mexican environmental campaigner Martha Isabel ‘Pati’ Ruiz Corzo has won the Collaborative Partnership on Forests Wangari Maathai Award 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGln0CAEiIg Speaker at Social Good Summit 2018 https://youtu.be/kB2frRpZV2M Women´s Forum Mexico City https://youtu.be/APXMZCrVY4Y Vu du ciel, with Yann Arthus Bertrand: https://youtu.be/AICq3Nis74A Discover Inspiring Sierra Gorda destination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUdpmL8Sjho&t=256s | Winner Xochitla Award 2019. VI Edition. Innovators of America Award 2018 in the category ""Social Development"". National Geographic Buffet Award 2012, Conservation Leadership. Prize for Ecological Ethics 2015, Spanish Association for Environmental Education. Wangari Maathai 2014 Award from the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF). National Geographic World Legacy Award 2016 BBVA Foundation Award for Biodiversity Conservation Projects in Latin America, 2008 Champion of the Earth UNEP 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
874 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chris | Czerwonka | Mosabi | https://mosabi.co | Founder & Chief Innovation Officer | Male | Germany | United States of America | English | I and everyone who reads this has almost certainly completed higher education, and many of us have multiple diplomas and certificates. If not literally, we all ""hold up"" those credentials virtually in the world around us and derive value from those investments we made to learn and build skills. Why shouldn't low-income, grassroots entrepreneurs in emerging markets be able to do that as well? That's what we're building. We believe passionately that the value we provide our users is transformational and practical. Our training helps users increase their income, but our lessons and economic incentives are also specifically designed to drive behavior change. Mosabi creates unique value from learning for people excluded from traditional educational pathways as we help them understand and access further resources. We strive, monitor, and measure for that impact: inclusive education and a platform that will contribute to generating employment, eradicating poverty, and developing skills. | Chris strives to achieve social impact in emerging markets through the intersections of entrepreneurship, education, technology, and creative design. After a decade-long career in management consulting at Deloitte, Chris was inspired to switch from the corporate sector into social impact pursuits. He spent five years in Africa doing global development sector technical assistance on capacity-building, financial inclusion, entrepreneurship training, and social business. It was there that his eyes were opened to the transformative power of education to boost incomes and livelihoods for underserved citizens. As a leader on regulatory and supervisory initiatives for banking sector reform and entrepreneurship promotion in Africa, he helps to advance best practices, transparency, financial literacy, and alignment of microfinance with collective sustainable development goals. Chris holds keen interests in using compelling storytelling and human-centered design to help people improve their lives. With the rest of his team, he builds and grows the Mosabi platform to digitize business and financial literacy education to make it scalable – bringing opportunity and financial access to underserved populations through mobile learning. He remains a founding steering committee member of the Financial Inclusion Forum Africa. | Mosabi | Mosabi links fintech and edtech by unlocking financial opportunities to underserved citizens through innovative mobile learning. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Senegal, Sierra Leone, Mexico, India, Kenya, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam | Yes | Current customers and partners include Société Générale, Ecobank, UNCDF, Salone Microfinance Trust, World Vision, Accion/Smart Campaign and Banco Azteca. | Transition to Scale | Mosabi is early stage, but we are post-revenue and have a solution that is far beyond an MVP. We have sold custom content, licensed content to partners, and been paid by development sector actors to launch in certain countries for various pilots. We have validated proofs-of-concept for our impact theory of change, our B2B value proposition and our business model. | Mosabi envisions a world where everyone has the tools and skills to improve their livelihoods – and where education and access to financial products are available to all. Informal sector entrepreneurs often have limited formal education and financial literacy and little to no access to capital. Financial exclusion makes upward mobility more difficult, and it generates cycles of subsistence-level income. Critically, financial institutions that could serve them find it too difficult to do so. | Mosabi empowers underserved populations with the ""MBA for the rising billions"" – phone-based, business-focused e-learning to help citizens increase their income and link to digital financial services. Lesson topics include entrepreneurship, business skills, digital resources and financial literacy. Partner financial institutions see B2B data insights, including our alternative credit scoring via API – and can then offer financial products to clients more confidently and efficiently. On their phones, learners go through topics such as entrepreneurship, business skills, digital resources and financial literacy through compelling, lightweight video lessons (available in major languages as well as hyper-local tribal languages). Our platform also uses gamified quizzing, surveys, chatbots, and other messaging to drive meaningful engagement. Mosabi then links fintech and edtech by harnessing analytics into user risk profiles that our partner financial service providers can use to screen and onboard clients. Catalysts of local economic development – entrepreneurship skills, financial literacy, expanding access to formal financial accounts and credit, and driving adoption of digital payments – are core to Mosabi’s curriculum, and it all serves to build resilience through finance. That is our long-term vision for global impact. | Mosabi’s key innovation is that we are revolutionizing the evaluation criteria for assessing the preparedness/creditworthiness and enhancing the customer journey of the unbanked, low-income informal sector entrepreneur using educational content and “big data” predictive analytics. Mosabi’s ethos is around creating compelling, mobile educational content targeted at improving livelihoods and building stable families among low-income, underserved populations in emerging markets. We link edtech and fintech by driving behavior change through incentives and calls-to-action – and then empowering learners to onboard to digital financial services and qualify for loans, microinsurance, and other financial products based on their journeys. Our solution is unique because of its scaling potential and human-centered approach. Among other edtechs, none connect learners to telecoms and financial institutions; among other credit scoring fintechs, none also do education. Some big data competitors do invasive harvesting, which could discourage adoption and cause regulatory hurdles. Our unique approach means indirect competitors can also be our closest allies – we work with other fintechs, for example, to help achieve shared objectives for onboarding, adoption, and meaningful engagement of their digital financial services. | We track operational metrics to show return on investment for our B2B customers, and we also rigorously monitor and evaluate impact metrics aligned with our mission as an inclusion-focused social enterprise. Our key business metrics are uptake of, and performance within, financial products. Operational metrics are tracked via API integration with our partners' core banking systems; customer banks and other institutions see data insights on credit risk scoring, performance and engagement with our content, and other metrics to comply with local market KYC requirements. In turn, we have visibility into user performance, engagement, dropoff and repayment rates for financial products. This big data approach informs the training of our credit-scoring algorithm. For social impact metrics, we track an array of indicators aligned with the IRIS initiative of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). Our key impact metric is the increase in the earnings of our users, and # of people employed. Indicators also include living standards measurements, baselines and progress-out-of-poverty indexing (PPI). We are happy to share details on our monitoring and evaluation strategy and plan across these operational and social impact indicator metrics. Our solution is far more than an MVP – we have proof-of-concept validation of our business model, social impact, and the scalability of our content and platform. | Our B2B customers are organizations with strategic priorities for financial inclusion in emerging markets of Africa, Latin America and Asia. Potential verticals includes banks, microfinance, insurance companies, telecoms and fintechs. Current customers and partners include Société Générale, Ecobank, UNCDF, Salone Microfinance Trust, World Vision, Accion/Smart Campaign and Banco Azteca. We then expect to capitalize on the infrastructure and product efficiencies offered by our established integrations and proven value to expand across the pan-continental footprints of Société Générale, Ecobank, and hopefully BBVA – and others – and cover 10 countries and 4-5 million learners within 3 years. We leverage the footprints and reach of distribution partners for our go-to-market strategy. These include NGOs, aid agencies, UN bodies, and other organizations who provide support to the same demographic we target – low-income, underserved citizens who are often unbanked/underbanked and usually rely on informal entrepreneurship for generating income. A distribution partner who signs on with us also wants their members to benefit from our transformative education and also link to the financial products of our partner banks. While our roots are in Africa, in Sierra Leone (central bank and UN) and Senegal (Société Générale) we continue to see strategic value in larger, hybrid markets. Mexico and India are our next launches. Our next Africa launches are Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Kenya. | Mosabi’s “Theory of Change” is that our work on this initiative can provide substantive impact – for both individual and household livelihood outcomes, but also for societal economic improvement. Account ownership drives empowerment and gives informal sector workers greater control over their financial lives. They access capital to build micro-enterprises, gain safe places to keep money outside their homes and handle finances with greater privacy and efficiency. The formal platforms for digital payments foster strengthened budgeting, investments in business operations and steps toward credit histories. The social impact is also tremendous: household expenditures on health, education and sanitation all increase as returns on investments in education and financial inclusion of grassroots entrepreneurs. In the short-term, we need equity investment to fuel content development, technology development and field marketing to unlock the opportunities that lay before us. In the medium-term, we need to actualize and scale monthly B2B revenue. In the long-term, we'll evolve our company with the best minds to bring our vision to reality. We have top focus priorities for strategic markets – continued platform development and learning content production. As we address product features requested by clients, refine strategically important technical stack elements, and scale our data analytics we can capitalize on opportunities in front of us to scale both our sustainability and impact. | https://mosabi.co/app | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exkY931vJJA | https://www.inclusivefintech50.com/winners | https://acumen.org/cocoa-interrupted-report | https://entrepreneurclub.orange.com/project/donner-accees-a-des-opportunites-financieres-grace-a-un-apprentissage-innovant | https://www.techpreneurmag.com/two-african-start-ups-kenyas-mumsvillage-sierra-leones-mosabi-make-gray-matters-capitals-gmc-calibrator/ | http://ventureburn.com/2019/03/gray-matters-capital-calibrator/ | https://smepeaks.com/2019/03/19/gms-calibrator-accelerator-programme/ | http://disrupt-africa.com/2019/03/sierra-leones-mosabi-combines-ed-tech-fintech-to-boost-inclusion/ | https://impacthub.net/6-education-champions-worth-time | https://sdgactionawards.org/initiative/1031 | https://medium.com/series/90d8ea857061 | http://sdg.iisd.org/commentary/guest-articles/fintech-for-sustainable-development-a-bold-step-in-sierra-leone | https://meltwater.org/fintech-startup-mosabi-completes-societe-generale-accelerator-program | http://www.mas.gov.sg/News-and-Publications/Media-Releases/2018/2018-Global-FinTech-Hackcelerator-winners-announced-at-Singapore-FinTech-Festival.aspx | https://www.startupbootcamp.org/blog/2019/02/startupbootcamp-scale-fintech-announces-best-scale-ups-startups-latin-america | https://awoko.org/2018/08/17/sierra-leone-business-invest-ed-reaches-the-top-11-at-ecobanks-fintech-challenge-2018/ | I have spoken at sector conferences on financial inclusion, inclusive business approaches for base of pyramid citizens, alternative credit scoring, and AI/machine learning/predictive analytics as it relates to fintech platforms and microfinance. I've included some sample recent press links for me and my startup and my bio below. I'm happy to send more details at your request. MEST Africa Summit, Nairobi: https://www.mestafricasummit.com/speakers; CEGA Digital Credit and Women’s Economic Empowerment Convening 2019, California: Digital Credit and Women’s Economic Empowerment Convening 2019; Inclusive Digital Future: A Summit on Responsible Finance in Action, Nairobi: https://sptf.info/annual-meetings/2019-summit-inclusive-digital-future; Techne Summit, Egypt: https://www.einpresswire.com/article/464690361/techne-summit-2018-strikes-the-tech-world-again-bigger-stronger; ITU Telecom World, Korea: https://telecomworld.itu.int/2017-daily-highlights-2/ai-financial-innovation-applying-power-ai-financial-services; | Winners List, 2019 Inclusive Fintech 50 Winner, 2018 Singapore Global FinTech Festival Finalist, 2018 Orange Social Venture Prize Finalist, 2018 Ecobank Fintech Challenge Winner, Société Générale’s 2018 fintech competition Winner, 2018 Sierra Leone FinTech Challenge Finalist, 2018 BBVA Open Talent Finalist, 2018 insight2impact Data Hack for Financial Inclusion (DataHack4FI) Finalist, 2017 ITU Telecom World SME competition | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
875 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Christian | Harrison | Adolescent Health EMpowerment and Development Initiative Nigeria | www.aheadng.org | Founding Coordinator/ CEO | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The UN Solutions Summit is famous for providing leaders and change-makers the platform to showcase bold and innovative ideas with potential to make global impart especially as relates the SDGs. I have for a myriad of reasons opted to participate in presenting our innovative health solution at this summit, trusting that my passion, my leadership experience and the ripple effect of such opportunity on the unique population we serve, makes me standout. That Nigeria has highest number of new HIV infections among children (UNAIDS, 2013) leaves much to be desired in our health sector given the challenges in meeting their healthcare needs. As a Pharmacist in the public health sector, I have over the years witnessed the emotional torture these children face; hence, my passion to effect a change. Also, having had the privilege of occupying a number of leadership positions including; being health prefect, Secretary General, Lead Volunteer and CEO, I do believe an opportunity to participate in the UN Solutions Summit will enable me harness my full leadership potential as a change maker. Therefore, an opportunity to participate in the Program will broadening my scope of reasoning, thereby allowing us scale-up Project ""The Link"" such that it benefits more people globally. Furthermore, through our novel project “The Link”, AHEADNIGERIA, through use of social medial (Instagram, twitter and Facebook) has contributed to health and well-being of young people globally although on a small scale being it is in its pilot Phase. I am fully persuaded that this opportunity will enable me hone the finer professional and leadership skills needed to positively impart the health indices of my country, Africa and beyond through a scale-up of our health solution. | Christian Harrison is a Pharmacist, a supply Chain Management expert and Founder of Adolescent Health Empowerment and Development Initiative Nigeria (AHEADNIGERIA) where as CEO, he works to improve the health of young people through ""The Link "" project, which promotes positive lifestyle by raising awareness on health in religious, social and academic gatherings; advocating free healthcare for OVCs. He is a graduate of University of Jos and had volunteered for The Nigeria Red cross, Holding Hope Foundation and WCMM where he reached over 50,000 beneficiaries. His passion derives from the desire to halt the many disease-related loss of lives, having had his fair share in the loss of his best friend's brother, who died of Ebola, his wedding coordinator who died of Lassa fever and his father in-law whom he lost to Hepatitis B induced liver Cancer. His impact on the Plateau, especially while implementing a World Bank funded HIV Program Development Project in 2014 earned him the Prestigious Plateau Humanitarian Service Awards having reached over 13,000 Men-and-Women of Reproductive age with Minimum Prevention Package of Intervention. He has currently been selected for the YALI West Africa cohort 11 fellowship program. Aside this, he is involved in providing technical expertise in strengthening the Supply Chain Systems for Management of HIV commodities Plateau State for Centre for Disease Control’s (CDCs) “Improving Comprehensive AIDS Response Enhanced for Sustainability” (iCARES) project, implemented by APIN Public Health. He envisages a Nigeria where OVCs access free healthcare. | The Link | Linking young People to health Information, quality healthcare Services and Empowerment opportunities using an Application | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Currently in Nigeria, but intends to scale-up to other African countries hopefully | Yes | Adoo Cam, Stallion Mobile Medical Services and Faith Alive Foundation (NGO), SheiAPP(Application building company) | Research & Development | My Solution is at this stage because having done a pilot during the trial phase, we have realized some loopholes that needed to be closed for greater impact. Despite having produced a few video clips, we are still working to see to the development of the application which will coordinate all the expected activities proposed for the project. | Globally, there are about 153 million orphans (UNICEF, 2018), with 2.5 million of the 7.5Million orphans in Nigeria attributed to AIDS (UNAIDS, 2010). In Nigeria, there is an increase in number of OVCs despite progress in mitigating the impact of the HIV and AIDS, since more children have lost one or both parent to recurrent ethno-religious crises; While on HAF2 Project, we realized that most orphanages and IDP camps had inadequate access to quality healthcare, hence our resolve to intervene. | ""The Link” is a novel project aims to promote sustained access to quality health information, healthcare and other social services for OVCs in IDP camps and Orphanages nationwide. Generally, it will involve building an application that will: i. Link orphans in orphanages, IDPs and rural communities to health facilities (That will provide free surgeries to OVCs selected through voting), government engaged medical personnel and organizations providing other health services that contribute to their wellness (will collaborate with Legislative arm of Government and Nigerian Medical Association to sponsor a bill to ensure medical personnel deliver one day compulsory service to an orphanage as part of community service). ii. Establishing a unique Platform that combines humor and health awareness (behavior Change communication) creation thereby generating traffic and resources for salvaging orphans with financially demanding health challenges. iii. Build linkages for empowerment of OVCs and indigent children in hard-to-reach rural communities in Nigeria (This will also use social media to mobilize resources for highly indigent children, as a voting system will be introduced). In Summary, an application will provide; -Linkage to free and quality healthcare (for OVCs) -Linkage for adequate health information -Linkage to social services and empowerment In the Long term, I anticipate a scale-up to other African countries in such a way that fosters unity and diplomatic ties. | Past approaches: i. merely canvassed help and linked OVC to hospitals without a sustainability structure ii. Depended on foreign donors and local philanthropy which are not readily accessible iii. Provided direct services which had limited coverage. “The Link” is sure better as sustainability is guaranteed. The innovative catch about ""The Link"" is that it involves the use of an App. The project is scalable and could translate into an income generating activity especially when entertainment is infused into the sensitization program. Another veritable reason for the uniqueness of this project is that it offers Minimum Prevention Package of Intervention which includes; Behavioral (awareness creation), Biomedical (direct medical out reaches involving diagnostics services) and Structural Intervention (proposing Policies and reforms that favour free healthcare for OVCs) | Actually, we have come a long way in developing the solution. It is worthy of note that we have produced preliminary videos tin which we infused commedy and health awareness creation. Here a medical condition is elaborated on by our health personnel and then public knowledge (voux pop) is obtained in a way that adds humour to the whole process. Currently, we are working with SheiAPP to develope an application that coordinates all the activities contained in the program plan. Moreover, we had progressed immensely in co-sponsoring a bill for free community service to be provided by Government engaged medical personell atleast once in a year at an orphanage or IDP camp to be determined by the Application. This was however, disrupted by the demise of the then chief Whip, Plateau State house of Assembly who had promised us maximum support. Although with renewed talks and visits to the newly elected Speaker, we believe this vision will be achieved. | Basically, The Link Project is quite scalable and we intend to replicate successes to other African countries, a vision achievable through the use of social media platforms (Instagram and Twitter). We intend to create a huge well-coordinated programme that allows individuals from different countries the opportunity to participate in voting for most preferred candidates (OVCs) needing medical or social intervention for complicated cases and pathetic stories. This will be designed in a way that spurs participation. To achieve this, AHEADNIGERIA will recruit and form a The Link team in each participating country to help coordinate our activities in-country | Sacrosanct to the successful scale-up of our novel The Link Project is financial resources, given the many involvements that require finance. In addition to this is the need for equipment to be donated for the construction of an ultramodern hospital where selected candidates from Nigeria and Africa at large can be made to access a quality healthcare for free. My short term needs include being given recognition and publicity such that will foster easy partnership with my country's Legislative arm of government to achieve passage of bills in line with the Link's. Furthermore, the project will require mentorship to help Phy tune it for greater impact. In the medium term, I believe that donations in the form of equipment and materials. Also, media professionals will be handy in creating the needed publicity. Finally, in the Long term, there will be need for sustained human resources (volunteer physicians and other health professionals from around the world) as this will help give class and quality to the healthcare obtainable from our hospital). | 1.Joint Publication (NACA/World Bank/ AHEADNIGERIA and co) on PMTCT: http://www.questjournals.org/jrhss/papers/vol5-issue1/N518994.pdf 2.Website; www.aheadng.org (being upgraded) 3. Social Media Links: AHEAD Page on Instagram and Facebook: aheadng, aheadngr (Twitter, IG, Facebook). @chimaharris (Twitter), chimaharris (IG) | 1. AHEAD and tomorrow: https://youtu.be/jd2YxjRV0M8. 2. Interview with Harrison: https://youtu.be/e93fOnMA7Lo | 1. The Prestigious Plateau Humanitarian Service Awards, 2018. Presented on the 3rd of February, 2019. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
876 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tcharbuahbokengo | NFINN | Federation of Environmental and Ecological Diversity for Agricutural Revampment and Human Rights (FEEDAR & HR) | https://www.facebook.com/groups/246746985442760/ | DIRECTOR GENERAL | MALE | Cameroon | Cameroon | English | Working closely with the Government of Cameroon to achieve effectively the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030 through the Cameroon Commission on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (CamComm-UNSDGs2030)is one way to bring governments and Civil Society | Tcharbuahbokengo NFINN is born on the 12 Nov 1973 in Kwakwa Bakundu village in the South West Region of Cameroon, Africa. He is the Co-Founder of FEEDAR & HR, FEEDAR & HR Microcredit Unit Co-operative Society with Board of Directors and the Coalition of Civil Society Organizations in the Central African Region. Held the following positions:- • Co- Chair Farmers Major Group United Nations Environment Program 2015-2018 •Rapporteur EBAFOSA Cameroon 2015 www.ebafosa.org •1st Focal Point for the Civil Society (2012-2014): Global Environment Facility- Civil Society Organizations, Central African Region. www.gefngo.org •Co- Founder and Focal Point Central Africa, Global Youths Coalition on HIV/ADS 2004/2006. Working closely with the Government of Cameroon to achieve effectively the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030 through the Cameroon Commission on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (CamComm-UNSDGs2030) | Cameroon Commission on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030. | The Commission incorporates and integrate Government Ministries, Civil Society and all stakeholders | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Cameroon and possibly the Central Africa Region and Worldwide | Yes | Community Organizations, Forests dwellers, Farmers, Fishermen, Small businesses, Co-operatives, Women groups, Youths, Schools and Colleges,Scientific Community, Mayors, Traditional Rulers, Members of Parliaments and Forces of Laws and Order | Proof of Concept | The pilot phase Kumba, Meme Division of the over 300 Volunteers brought in from across the country between 2016-2018 is the PROOF OF CONCEPT of the Cameroon Commission and meeting the slogan LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND. Their involvement, actions and activities ranging from Data collection in Food and Nutrition, concerns and needs of local councils and meeting community needs and capacity development and training in all 17 UN Goals needs to be emphasized. It has been proven to be the ideal. | The Commission is to serve as a portal between communities, Stakeholders and government ministries in the smooth implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030 and fulfilling the slogan “LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND” Actions would be stepped up every where. It will serve as a Watch Dog on all 17 Goals and the way and approach in implementing them at the national level with independent monitors and evaluators of projects will surface on both government and civil society projects alike. | The Commission works in a decentralized system with regional concerns of projects. In line with government policies projects related to participatory conferences, schools and other educational establishments,Farm to Farm Roads and Farm to Market Roads, Pipe Borne water, infrastructure including Bridges, Communication, Transportation, Clean Energy, Waste Management, Food Security and Agricultural Innovation, Sustainable Housing, Research, Scientific Innovation and Financing for Development options. Long term solution would be lessons learnt from the Millennium Development Goals which lasted between 2000-2015 shows that much more additional commitment was needed to reach out to communities that matter as many were left out. The UN Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030 is too complex and needs robust attention including all stakeholders group. Since the creating of the UN Agenda 2030 Goals 4 years is gone already and more than 85% of Cameroonians are unaware or do not know how to go about implementing these Goals and except efforts are stepped up we risks not fully attain the UN Sustainable Development Goals Agenda by 2030 in Cameroon. | It will serve as a Watch Dog on all 17 Goals and the way and approach in implementing them at the national level. That is to say independent monitors and evaluators of projects will surface on both government and civil society projects alike. | the crisis in the English Cameroon keep situations very uncertain and peace is requested to return as to push the agenda ahead | The Commission is to serve as a portal between communities, Stakeholders and government ministries in the smooth implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals Agenda 2030 and fulfilling the slogan “LEAVE NO ONE BEHIND” Actions would be stepped up from every corner of the country and touching the lives of every individual, family and communities. | Financial and Human Resources are needed at all levels of the project in both short term and long term. | https://www.facebook.com/groups/205974019984513/ | https://www.facebook.com/groups/205974019984513/ | for the moment none | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
877 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Hua | Wang | SmartBridge Health | https://www.smartbridgehealth.com | CEO | female | United States of America | China | Chinese | English | Spanish | A presentation at the UN Solutions Summit will give us access to the tools, training and networks needed to build a scalable, economically impactful company. | Hua Wang is a FUSE Executive Advisor at the Office of the Mayor and is working to make DC government more delightful. In addition, Hua is the CEO of SmartBridge Health, a cancer telemedicine company making world-class cancer care accessible, regardless of where you live. Prior to SmartBridge Health, Hua Wang was a private equity lawyer at Proskauer, in-house counsel at Cisco Systems, and a Global Scholar at the Kauffman Foundation. Hua graduated from Duke University and Northwestern University School of Law. Prior to law school, Hua was an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers and a healthcare strategy consultant at Accenture. Hua was a United States Presidential Scholar, recipient of the American Bar Association Legal Opportunity Scholarship, and a contributor to the MIT Entrepreneurship Review. She took 1st Place at the Amazon & SBA Hackathon. | SmartBridge Health | We believe everyone should have access to quality cancer care, no matter who you are or where you live. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | USA, Australia, Netherlands | Yes | Inova Personalized Health Accelerator, Biden Cancer Initiative, ZERO Prostate Cancer, CancerAid | Transition to Scale | Our business model is not brain surgery. We’re a two-sided marketplace. We connect patients with top oncologists at a fraction of the cost and charge patients directly. We take 30% and give 70% of our revenue back to our oncologists. Starting at $55, you can have a same-week call with a cancer doctor hand-picked specifically for you. For $299, we gather and review your medical records, diagnosis and treatment plan and provide a personalized, written roadmap for the next three months. | Statistically speaking, one in three people will have cancer in his or her lifetime. Moreover, according to a Johns Hopkins study, the third leading cause of death is misdiagnoses. If there’s any moment in your life when you want to be absolutely certain, it is when you are diagnosed with cancer. | It can take weeks to reach an oncologist. Imagine the stress, worry and fear of trying to find the right information and the right oncologists when cancer cells are growing exponentially in your body. We challenge the notion that high-quality, accessible cancer care is either unachievable or prohibitively expensive. We prove that optimal cancer care is affordable and accessible. We offer a seamless experience that saves time and money and also leads to better health outcomes and happier lives. We connect patients, caregivers and survivors with top cancer doctors remotely for phone consultations, expert second opinions and clinical trial navigation. Our passionate, curious cancer doctors are trained and practicing at the best cancer institutions in the world. They have incredible expertise and have significantly lowered their rates to help us cure cancer at scale. | We are different from our competitors. We focus only on cancer, and we are making world-class cancer care accessible. We will be the global source for real-time patient-reported outcomes to accelerate cancer research. Where one data point and one patient story and the amalgamation of stories can serve multiple purposes. One data point serving precision medicine, continuous quality improvement, driving patient education and improving biologic discovery. | We have lost family members to cancer. We would have loved to have the certainty that we were doing all the right things to ensure that our family members get the best care possible. SmartBridge Health is the solution that we wished had existed when we were going through those difficult times. We launched a successful pilot to connect cancer patients and family with top oncologists remotely. We added value at difficult part of patients' cancer journey. We provide peace of mind on diagnosis and treatment, connect rural patients with specialists who focus on their type of cancer, help patients choose between different treatments, and help patients find and enroll in clinical trials that extend life. | Our Ultimate Goal is to become the #1 cancer telemedicine company in the world with $1B+ in annual revenues. Our Company Goal is to become a profitable company with 600+ patients a month and a customer acquisition cost < $25. | We need to build finance, marketing and operations, and have an effective team that hits 70% of Objectives and Key Results. We need $50K for the next three months and $250K for the next year. | https://www.smartbridgehealth.com https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2019/06/03/startup-of-the-week-meet-smartbridge-health.html?iana=hpmvp_wash_news_headline | https://youtu.be/BsYJpl3r2yY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cvfhp8W2-Q https://vimeo.com/311686589/d9bc58c4e9 | Halcyon Incubator Rockstart Digital Health Accelerator Rent the Runway Foundation's Project Entrepreneur Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
878 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Daniel | Momoh | El-Moor Communication Limited | https://sellonlinecourse.com/ | Mr | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | According to global statics, e-Learning Training Course Market accounted for $165.21 billion in 2015, $176.12 billion in 2017 and this figure is expected to reach $275.10 billion by 2022 at a 7.5% growth rate annually. [Source orbisresearch.com] In Nigeria, the number of active internet users is currently more than 98.3 Million, 55% of this number use the search engines for resource research on a weekly engagement. [Source ncc.gov.ng] This means in Nigeria alone, over 57million people are searching for How to’s and other recourses on search engines like Google/YouTube every week. It can, therefore, be deduced that 1. There is a vast number of ‘hungry internet users’ on the world wide web looking for answers. 2. The number of users is increasing astronomically every year. 3. The number of searches is also increasing. 4. The time spent on the internet for content information is growing rapidly. 5. People are spending a LOT OF MONEY on digital content every single day 6. More so, More Nigerians, and Africans are increasingly embracing distance learning via the internet. Hence, there are vast untapped opportunities in the Online Courses Market globally. Therefore, attending the UN Solution Summit will be a lifechanging opportunity for me, I intend to learn, network and connect with industry leaders in my sphere. I believe physical meetings for training and 4 wall classroom learning is gradually becoming obsolete. Online learning is speedily becoming an acceptable means of learning with the geometric penetration of broadband internet in Africa. Attending this conference will help me to learn cutting edge tools and funding investment in achieving my goal of creating a platform for ease of learning in Africa. | My Name Is Daniel Momoh, I am an Information Technology Graduate from a Nigerian University, a Tech Entrepreneur; Founder El-Moor Communication Limited [RC: 1179721] an ICT solution company based in Lagos Nigeria and a Tony Elumelu Foundation [TEF 2016] Alumnus. https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-momoh-4632749/ | Sell Online Course | Create, Launch and Earn from Online Courses | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria, and Africa | Yes | Paystack Nigeria | Scaling | My solution is functional, launched and already generating income, we are poised to scale and network for industry recognition and establishment. | We are solving 1 Solving Literacy Problem [EDUCATION]; making educational materials accessible, available and affordable via the internet. 2. Providing Marketing Services [SALES PROBLEM]; serving as a sales middle man for course instructors 3. Creating Jobs [EMPLOYMENT]; Our platform offers academic training for trainers and would-be instructors, thereby creating more cyber entrepreneurs on a large scale, we also offer direct employment for our operations. | The Sell Online Course [sellonlinecourse.com] platform serves in two ways: 1. As an online course learning management solution tools for course instructors: which enables instructors to upload, manage, market and earn from their online course. Instructors can upload unlimited courses, set quiz and exams, issue certificates, contact students, monitor earnings and also promote physical events. 2. As an online resource center for students, where formal courses, corporate advance courses and skill acquisition courses can be learnt. Our Core Objective is to offer ease of accessing educational programs on the worldwide web, enhance the human capacity development, nurture and produce more cyber entrepreneurs and make educational courses more affordable at a very friendly cost. | Major global competitions are UDEMY and TEACHABLE; WE HAVE IMPROVED ON THE SOLUTION THEY PROVIDE IN THESE AREAS 1. Their major payout option requires a PayPal account which is nonfunctional in Nigeria as a receivable payment channel for instructors. This we have been able to solve by connecting Instructors Local Bank Account directly to our online platform, so instructors receive their funds straight into their local bank about. 2. UDEMY often buffers instructor’s payout funds for weeks and even up to a month. We have been able to solve this as ALL payments and Commission Sharing and done automatically. The company’s commission and respective instructor receive payment instantly for every sale as funds are remitted instantly to the various local bank accounts simultaneously. 3. Both have less presence and penetration at the instructor level in Nigeria, this we hope to take advantage of as quickly as we can. 4. Our Solution has a multi-currency option, this means, funds can be remitted in instructors account in USD and in Naira Local Currency | We launched the beta phase which gained immersed acceptance in the market. Our solution is now fully operational for usage see https://sellonlinecourse.com/ | MILESTONE LMS Development [COMPLETED] Test the System and Market, Make First Sales [COMPLETED] Business Plan Development [COMPLETED] Create Dept., Hire and Train Team [IN PROGRESS] Advisory Board [COMPLETED] Raise Funds [IN PROGRESS] Content Acquisition [IN PROGRESS] Marketing, and MOU [IN PROGRESS] Advertising & promotion [IN PROGRESS] SEO [IN PROGRESS] | On the immediate need We need a standard video recording studio Digital Cameras, computer systems, and staffing. Medium Term We need funds for Marketing, Brand recognition, B2B MOUs agreements and Marketing, Vehicles for Mobility and logistics. Long Term To Become a hub of online learning in Africa We intend to launch physical offices across the continent. | Company Website https://sellonlinecourse.com/ | Speaking Engagement video not available | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
879 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Carl | Emerson-Dam | Climate Change Centre Reading | tvb-climatechallenge.org.uk | Urban Resilience Organiser | Male | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Sweden | English | Climate Emergency; Why should anyone who reads this care? Because it’s in everyone’s interest in SAFETY PLANNING INTERVENTION generate appropriate plans for shelter-readiness, protect and safeguard all inhabitants of our community in the best possible way. Everything is inter-linked, the sooner we realise this connection, the lesser the urban disaster risk. We must rely on our local government to make the correct and bold medium-term decision for future generations. For the local authorities to carry out and deliver on – Duty-to-Protect. | Consultant consulting on the Making Cities Resilient campaign – “the Disaster Resilient Scorecard for Cities” after course completion and successfully achieved the final assessment. Skills: •Raise awareness about the Making Cities Resilient (MRC) Campaign; •Identify initiatives and best practices on how to integrate disaster risk reduction and climate change adoption into urban planning; •Assess the risk management situation in their cities by using a tool; •Develop a safe and resilient country/city action plan; •Analyse the purpose, the goals and the outcome of the HFA and the Sendai Framework for DRR Looking to unlock cities green infrastructure potential – Driving its Resilience bid for the 2020 European Green Capital Award for non-avoidable risk-impact assessment in urban data-driven development and design. Climate Change Centre Reading is a small NGO. Advising stakeholder on DRR implementation, educating the public and raising awareness of the DRR targets and indicators, and research to support rapid achievement together with SDG 11 (the New Urban Agenda). We understand every business is different and must work within its own financial constraints, but the common goal is a clear focus to reduce climate risk-impact, and not by 2050… ASAP! | 1 EXTREME HEAT POLICY 2 SHELTER-READINESS | Innovation Height in Climate Disaster Risk Resillience | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Australia | No | Ideation | Climate Emergency; Resilience Action Planning - Implementing at the Local Level strengthen the capacities of government officials, especially those at the local level, and climate disaster management professionals to design and implement plans and programmes that reduce disaster risk and enhance organisational resilience. https://tvb-climatechallenge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ClimateChangeCentreReading-UNSOLUTIONSSUMMIT_Innovation-Height-in-Climate-Disaster-Risk-Resillience.pdf | Climate Emergency! New Local Plans (NLP) do not comply with enough guidance or recommendations set by the government. Reviewed National Planning Policy Frameworks (NPPF) contains ambitious policies on climate change but on-the-ground local authority delivery remains slow, largely because of a lack of taking on-board practical advice/support. Extremely weak urban emergency response planning causes harm, this requires immediate climate action to overcome the barriers faced by the municipality. | Climate Emergency; Resilience Action Planning - Implementing the Sendai Framework at the Local Level strengthen the capacities of government officials, especially those at the local level, and disaster management professionals to design and implement plans and programmes that reduce climate disaster risk and enhance organisational resilience. | Climate Emergency; Implement strategies to mainstream and monitor the Disaster Risk Reduction targets: Substantially increase the number of towns/cities adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans. Open local government includes different departments of the city council and all municipal agencies. It is considered as the institutional level closest to citizens, turning citizens into city-makers. It provides a strategic planning vision to better prepare the city to respond to disaster risk and improves people’s health, well-being and education. Furthermore, local government is responsible for ensuring the continuity of some services in the city which may include highways, energy, water and telecoms infrastructure. Any local government has a Duty-to-Protect all resident’s lives and assets. If municipalities decision makers and planning department not up-to-date urban Emergency Plan and Services Demands PLANNING INTERVENTION! The objective of a New Local Plan planning intervention is Safety Planning Intervention, policy innovation and risk/protection impact evaluation, to improve the town’s local urban capacity development practices, planning and design to support the national realm and ambition to become a great global leader in the fight against global heating. In the context of meaningful urban disaster risk resilience actions and transparency on local implementation | Climate Emergency! Climate Change Centre Reading’s Campaign for Climate and Disaster has certainly developed over the last six years from being informative and teaching to rising awareness. Climate Change Centre Reading has a notable interest from a broader society, local gov, academia, business and civil society including professionals. Clienteles can identify the link between unpreparedness and disaster readiness. Responsive and responsible Placemaking action being understood from planners and decision makers. Shelter-readiness as New Local Plan checkbox, a risk protection mechanism, councils and municipalities must invite all non-state actors to truly inclusive integrated DRR group discussions so that these can consult and move forward with fit solutions on track to the future with a holistic overview? INNOVATIVE SOLUTION - To engage with non-state actors, local communities and experts in inclusive urban planning, design and decision process of town development is vital, has been avoided? The consequences will follow; the whole city’s New Local Plan will need to be revised with new and updated sub-documentation and sustainable appraisals and most important with a risk-impact assessment in place. Yes, this will delay the NLP planning approval for by one year but it’s worth it and will save many lives and assets doing so. | ACT as your house is on fire. Because it is. Call to all municipalities - Global Climate Alarm for Climate Emergency!!! “If humanity doesn’t have protection in place, mankind will never be able to kick back and restore the very biosphere the planet and all life are dependent on “ •SDG18 – Global Goal for Disaster Risk Resilience #SDGDRR •UCEEP – Urban Conservation Emergency Evacuation Plan #UCEEP •AGW_drill_days – GLOBAL DISASTER DRILL DAYS – (1st March & 1st Sep.) #AGW_drill_days •Data-driven development planning… • Not only are new innovation initiatives a warning for risk, new ideas like shelter-readiness / urban conservation is interacting risk mitigation slowing urban growth and protecting the people, their assets and the planet, web link; https://tvb-climatechallenge.org.uk/2018/12/31/top-3-responses-to-globalheating Any protection from external damage is a solution to risk and can be turned into a humanitarian business. The reinsurance industry would be very interested in shelter-readiness in the context of loss and damage reduction. | Climate Emergency. In the last 10 years placemaking has been a town and city tool to generate purpose to a dedicated area. Often to improve quality and prosperity in any urban habitat. Indicators have supported the mean to make it a success. Targets and indicators has not always in place when local government develop city plans with planners and architects. Positive is that a layer of drr indicators easily can be applied on any local plan or planning-application. The campaign “Make Cities Resilient” is an important legacy of the Sendai Framework. Reviewing the data from environmental monitoring through analysis is going to expand growing demand for shelter capacity needed in case of a mass evacuation etc. Shelter-readiness can be applied to a field, a square, a road, an open space, a place, a building, an arena, a stadium, a local government, a business, an educational facility or and public institution etc. The strategic leadership is responsible for town housing and planning development (built environment) and are required to ambitiously exceed minimum expectations, minimum regulations, especially when we are under health threat from climate change and global heating. A Local Plan missing a Model Risk-Impact Evaluation Plan, therefore is not legally compliant. | Climate Emergency! https://tvb-climatechallenge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ClimateChangeCentreReading-UNSOLUTIONSSUMMIT_Innovation-Height-in-Climate-Disaster-Risk-Resillience.pdf REFERENCES **** The new guide, ‘Planning for Climate Change and Net Zero Carbon Buildings https://www.tcpa.org.uk/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=0acefe4f-9712-4b37-b2a1-06cd0f8b0293 http://www.worldgbc.org/news-media/world-green-building-council-calls-companies-across-worldmake-their-buildings-net-zero ***** Links to the New Urban Agenda, SDGs (SDG11) in partnership with World Health Organization http://nua.unhabitat.org http://habitat3.org/the-new-urban-agenda http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/blog/2018/cities-2030--implementing-the-newurban-agenda.html https://unhabitat.org/books/international-guidelines-on-urban-and-territorial-planning https://unhabitat.org/winners-of-the-11th-cycle-of-the-dubai-international-award-for-bestpractices-to-improve-the-living-environment https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300 ****** Ninth session of the World Urban Forum – Kuala Lumpur Declaration on Cities 2030 http://wuf9.org http://wuf9.org/kuala-lumpur-declaration | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
880 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Spandana | Palaypu | ZoEasy Solutions | http://www.zoeasy.co/ | Founder & CEO | Female | United Arab Emirates | India | English | For decades, recruitment in the blue collar sector has remained archaic / cumbersome as it relies on low qualified middle-men who prey on the financial desperation of workers. The migrant blue collar community mainly comprises of youth, where many young people lack the basic education, guidance and skills needed to pursue overseas careers they aspire to, thus, making them susceptible to fraud and exploitation. Middle-men hold strong leverage over placement pricing, and though Governments try to regulate, most costs are borne by the job seekers (up to USD 2800) ZoEasy is a socially driven platform which facilitates the education, direct employment and economic empowerment of migrant blue-collar workers, regardless of age/gender. This enables the creation of a diverse workforce which boosts skill/knowledge transfer, and creates a sustainable impact at macro and socio-economic levels via greater learning, exposure, development, productivity and standardization. This also results in reduced attrition and employer-employee conflict thus, contributing to the overall Happiness Index. The ethical and surprise-free hiring process improves the labour supply chain and contributes to poverty alleviation by job creation at a fair salary based on skills / experience. Removing middle-men from the equation rids job seekers and employers of chaos and financial burden. The transparency of the solution also reduces inequalities and increases candidate employability by engaging in skill development / training programs in association with source country governments and agencies like the ILO. Having already established relations with prominent state governments in source countries like India, and improving placement processes in progressive host nations such as the UAE, ZoEasy creates a win-win situation for all stakeholders involved, and can achieve social impact on a global level. The UN Solutions Summit is all about bringing like-minded innovators together from around the globe who are tackling the world's most pressing issues. To combine these innovators' efforts with the expertise of senior policy makers, investors, industry leaders and young creative minds is a very powerful thing which can work wonders for a sustainable future! By attending this Summit, I wish to be inspired by like-minded individuals, collaborate, share opportunities and gain a fresh perspective on how we can further innovate and scale our overall impact to contribute to a better future! | Spandana founded ZoEasy to help educate and match blue collar job seekers with validated employers in a more ethical and transparent manner. She graduated at the age of 20 with a First Class Honours in Business and Management from Aberystwyth University (UK) and is an Alumna of Stanford University’s EPGY Program. She has been featured on World Economic Forum and Financial Times for the work she is doing and has received several awards, including Forbes 50 Startups, Duke of Edinburgh and World Challenge. As a World Challenger, she visited Tanzania and assisted in building schools and teaching. She has been awarded the Enterprise for Peace Scholarship by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is also an Ambassador of One Young World, where she was chosen as Delegate Speaker for the Education Plenary Session. She is also a part of Akon’s inaugural team of 9 social entrepreneurs to work on his global social impact program. She recently became a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum and is contributing towards education and ethical employment based projects. Spandana also recently won Lead 2030’s United Nations SDG Challenge for Goal 4 (Quality Education), funded by Credit Suisse and is a winner of Expo 2020’s Innovation Impact Program. Spandana is a strong believer of EQ over IQ and loves the company of people from diverse backgrounds and different walks of life. | ZoEasy | An ethical and transparent platform which educates and directly matches blue collar job seekers with best-fit validated employers. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Our solution caters to job seekers & employers. Employers: UAE, rest of GCC and other nations which attract migrant workers. Job seekers: Indian Sub-Continent, English speaking African nations & South East Asia (Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand etc.) | Yes | Global Shapers Community @ World Economic Forum, Credit Suisse via Lead 2030, Expo 2020 & Expo Live (Dubai Govt.), One Young World, Area 2071 (Dubai Govt. / UAE PMO Initiative), EIDOS (Y20 Social Innovation Warehouse), Team Akon, Indian State Governments | Transition to Scale | - Database of 65K with 100 job seekers successfully placed - Established new tech roadmap and testing features like Video Interview; gathered positive feedback from job seekers & employers - Established Government Partnerships in India for training & placements. Also have other strong strategic partners in place - Exploring VR based Skill Development and AI as a tool to enhance employer/employee matching process - Expressions of interest received from NSW Govt. (Australia) and more | Migrant blue collar workers (mostly youth) go overseas in search of economic empowerment. In UAE, this community forms 43% of the overall population. Recruitment in this sector is archaic and relies on middle-men who influence hiring processes and prey on financial desperation of workers. They have placement pricing leverage, exposing migrant workers to fraud/exploitation. Also, there is a huge disparity in the skills & expectations between employees/employers leading to conflict/attrition. | Job Seekers and Employers cross 6 layers of middle-men before hiring. The lack of direct communication causes serious gaps in accuracy and transparency. Each blue-collar worker is unique, with different skills and experiences to offer. We need to help job seekers realize their potential by educating and placing them based on skills/experience rather than financial desperation, or factors such as age/gender. At ZoEasy, we focus on understanding the job seeker’s requirement, assessing their skills/psychometrics, enhancing these skills, and placing them with best-fit employers who are rated against background checks and feedback mechanisms. We also educate job seekers on the pros/cons of migration, working conditions and cultural similarities/differences, thus, providing transparency and facilitating informed decisions. We are now working with different State Governments and reaching out to agencies such as the International Labour Organization to enable international level training programs for youth. With 26 million blue collar workers in the GCC and nearly 2 Billion worldwide, this community's contribution to the Global GDP is 3X of the white collar market. However, there has been no change in the system for decades. By combining technology, ethical hiring practices and the right strategic / skill development partnerships, ZoEasy's vision is to create greater diversity, economic empowerment and reduce inequalities in the Blue Collar Community as a whole. | Though existing “talent” platforms within the HR space play a key role in basic skill development and employment, this is only focused towards the white-collar community. There is nothing particular that caters to the blue-collar workforce. Currently, direct competition is mainly offline, from a network of non-transparent, disorganized middle-men (i.e. agents, brokers etc.). With the system being paper-based, employers have limited choice and have to go through tedious processes while employees take up jobs they are not suited to or happy with. Both parties compromise as the focus here is on the number of placements rather than the quality of each placement. A happy employee leads to greater productivity and performance. ZoEasy’s platform is very different to the current solutions available in the market as it is completely blue collar oriented, with the primary focus being the employee’s perspective. This system moves away from the traditional “one size fits all” model, where there is no differentiation between a candidate’s experience, skills and abilities. ZoEasy amplifies accuracy and transparency by focusing on the quality of each placement and educating / empowering blue collar job seekers via our established ties with Employers, Governments / Skill Development Programs. Managing expectations and removing surprise factor is the key to enhancing the overall matching process and creating a system which is fair and ethical. | In order to come up with a comprehensive solution suited to our target audiences, we needed to understand how the process worked offline. We started our operation with a simple website, contact form and a Chat Bot which has also been implemented on our Facebook Channels. So far: - ZoEasy has generated a candidate database of 65,000 job seekers - We chose 100 job seekers of diverse job profiles and conducted pilot placements using ethical / transparent hiring processes. This went successfully, where all job seekers now have access to better salaries and working conditions. One of the most important measures we considered during this process was the boost in salary for the job seeker, which ranged from 30% up to 150%. Employers are also encouraging of the platform as job seekers were more motivated and productive, with little to no conflict arising. - Continuing to collect feedback from both target audiences on new tech features (Video Interview) - For transparency, scalability and reduced inequalities, we are establishing partnerships with Governments / Skill Development Programs / similar social enterprises; where the first 2 partnerships have been established in India - Being a part of Area 2071 and having won Dubai Government's Expo 2020 Innovation Impact Grant, we can reach out to more pro ethical employers and integrate further impact measures via the Happiness Ministry & Ministry of HR - Global recognition: World Economic Forum, Forbes, Financial Times, KPMG etc. | Our Main Goal: Ethical and transparent job creation for 100,000 domestic / blue collar job seekers in the next 3 – 5 years’ Short Term Goals: - Improve existing Tech Platform to make the solution more scalable & increase overall engagement - Successfully train & place 200 blue collar job seekers via existing Skill Development Partner and independent database - Onboard 5 major corporates known for fair recruitment practices Medium Term Goals: - Replication of training and placement model in other host & source countries via established partnerships – establish at least 1 partner in each of the 5 source countries over the next year - Increased presence and influence of the Blue Collar Community and ZoEasy via online / offline CSR campaigns - Be known as a major contributor to the overall Happiness Index (UAE and eventually abroad) by diversifying our impact in this community Long Term Vision: - Reduce poverty via job creation at fair salaries and working conditions for blue collar job seekers – SDG 1 - Quality Education and reduced inequalities via skill development and ethical employment processes – SDGs 4 & 10 - Facilitate Skill & knowledge transfer, greater exposure, development, productivity and SOP implementation in both host / source nations – SDG 8 | In order to achieve our short / medium / long term goals, we will need to work on the following: - Grow our team in the areas of Technology (key hires include CPO and CTO), Business Development, particularly for increasing employer / CSR networks and Government / Skill Development Partner networks (general job seeker engagement), and Digital Marketing (job seeker engagement via Facebook & WhatsApp) - Funding - USD 500K to be raised in the next 6 months - External Support - Establishing partnerships with MNCs, Governments, Skill Development Programs, similar social enterprises and NGOs in both Host and Source Nations to replicate our existing training and placement models and to also diversify our impact in the blue collar community (e.g. financial inclusion, health, e-learning, telecom etc.). This will help with scalability and will also act as regulatory support when expanding into new markets. | - Design Flow Prototype (basic version) containing upgraded features (e.g. Video CVs / Chat Interviews) to be integrated in the upcoming phase of our solution (currently finalizing the same based on feedback): https://www.figma.com/proto/QNUIpiQNSybnOXWTIl9SiywK/Application?node-id=5225%3A0&scaling=min-zoom&redirected=1 - Website (social media links on here as well): http://www.zoeasy.co/ - Article by the University of New South Wales and Open Society Foundations on ""Transformative Technology for Migrant Workers"": https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/uploads/dfe50370-e15a-4a78-99f9-3954c0e73bb3/transformative-technology-for-migrant-workers-20181107.pdf - ZoEasy Project Information uploaded on Social Innovation Warehouse Website (by Y20 & EIDOS): http://youth20.org/siw/projects/zoeasy-solutions - General Project Pictures: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WJuSTb9wPgyu-7jjY31Cn7aqJ8izwTr8/view?usp=sharing - ILO Labour Market Trends Analysis - https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_protect/---protrav/---migrant/documents/publication/wcms_378239.pdf | - Financial Times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UNCPl1l2jM&t=68s - World Economic Forum (WEFLive): https://www.weflive.com/story/fab75e601b4711e9a490b3bed7fd1ece - Speech from One Young World's Education Plenary Session: https://vimeo.com/296883144 - Interview by KPMG for their Alumni Magazine: https://view.pagetiger.com/kpmg - Google Drive Link to project pictures: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uW9acltFaTiS1VxPXlcNSjftP9PHHzPn/view?usp=sharing Google Drive Link Contains: - Pictures from my panel at the World Forum for Foreign Direct Investment - Pictures from my panel at the Annual Investment Meeting Summit on the ""Future of Entrepreneurship - a Government's Perspective"" - Pictures from the ILO's centenary celebrations in Nigeria in the form of the Global Youth Employment Forum. Was one of 50 people chosen (selected by UN IANYD) to attend the same and contribute on the calls to action to improve Global Youth Employment Levels. | - Winner of Lead 2030’s United Nations SDG Challenge for Goal, funded by Credit Suisse - Winner of Expo 2020's Innovation Impact Grant - Forbes 50 Startups - Awardee of the Enterprise for Peace Scholarship by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Ambassador at One Young World and listed as a top initiative contributing to SDG 8 - One of Akon's 9 Global Social Impact Team Members - One of 17 Best SMEs of 2017 listed by SME Advisor - Finalist at Boeing Challenge Cup Competition | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
881 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alexandra | Hiniker | NYC Mayor's Office for International Affairs | https://www1.nyc.gov/site/international/index.page | Program Director, Global Vision | Urban Action | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Through developing and implementing NYC’s Voluntary Local Review of the Sustainable Development Goals, I have engaged with global and local stakeholders and seen firsthand how local and regional governments can benefit from using the SDGs as a common framework to discuss shared challenges and solutions. My motivation for applying to the UN Solutions Summit is that I’d like to get more partners on board to strengthen the global movement for cities to submit Voluntary Local Reviews to the United Nations, helping ensure we achieve all 17 SDGs by the year 2030. | Alexandra Hiniker has 15 years of development, policy, and advocacy experience working in 18 countries around the world. Currently, she is Program Director for Global Vision | Urban Action at the New York City Mayor’s Office for International Affairs, where she is responsible for highlighting the connections between local and global sustainability strategies using the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals. This includes creating and launching the world’s first Voluntary Local Review, making NYC the first city to report directly to the United Nations on its local implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. Before joining the NYC Mayor’s Office, Alexandra established the PAX United Nations liaison office in New York, and served as the Representative to the United Nations for five years, focusing on the protection of civilians in Syria, Iraq, and South Sudan. Previously, she spent five years working on humanitarian disarmament in some of the world’s most bombed and mined countries, first with the United Nations in Cambodia, and then with the Cluster Munition Coalition in Laos, followed by Lebanon. She began her international development career implementing pandemic preparedness projects in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Prior to that, she was a Princeton Project 55 Fellow with the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago. Alexandra earned a B.A. from the University of Chicago, an M.A. from Uniwersytet Jagiellonski in Krakow, Poland, and an M.S. in Urban Policy and Leadership from Hunter College. She also studied at Sciences Po-Paris. | New York City’s Voluntary Local Review of the Sustainable Development Goals | Local and Regional Governments Speaking the Common Language of the Sustainable Development Goals | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Currently implemented in Argentina, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, and the United States, among others, with the aim for this to be a global movement | Yes | Our office has formed extensive external partnerships, including member states, local governments, UN agencies and offices, city coalitions, civil society, and academia. Internally, we worked with NYC agencies to educate them about the SDGs. | Scaling | Since NYC announced the concept of the VLR in 2018, cities around the world have either published a VLR or announced publicly that they planned to submit a VLR. Additionally, the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments, which coordinates city networks, committed to VLRs, the Brookings Institution has formed a working group to advance the concept, and several other organizations are also identifying ways to support local and regional government engagement in the VLR process. | Throughout the 2030 Agenda, there is recognition of the critical role that local authorities play in achieving the SDGs, but there is no process for them to systematically engage in global SDG conversations. The VLR transforms the way they can use the SDGs as a common language to identify challenges and share solutions. This includes city-to-city cooperation as well as engagement with other key stakeholders, including the UN, civil society, academia, and other groups. | The VLR is a tool that demonstrates how all stakeholders can engage in the SDG conversations, and can be adapted to local contexts. All local governments advance the SDGs in their daily work. Whether the issue is climate change, education, gender equality, or more, a related SDG can be tracked. The VLR relies on local data and resources that already exist, so no extra resources are required. NYC has developed three key commitments that we believe local and regional governments can undertake to strengthen our engagement with the SDGs. The first commitment is to identify how existing strategies, programs, data, and targets align with the SDGs. The second commitment is to provide at least one forum where stakeholders can come together to share experiences, lessons learned, and information gathered using the framework of the SDGs. The third commitment is to submit a VLR to the UN during the HLPF. We hope that these commitments can serve as a catalyst to identify additional possibilities for engagement with cities and other stakeholders so that we can build momentum towards achieving all 17 SDGs by 2030. The long-term vision is for local and regional governments of all sizes across the globe to use this tool so that we can all meaningfully engage in global conversations about achieving the SDGs. | Since 2015, NYC has been localizing the SDGs through the Global Vision | Urban Action platform established by the NYC Mayor’s Office for International Affairs. Other local and regional governments have also been considering how their activities relate to the SDGs, but NYC’s VLR in 2018 is the first instance of a local government directly reporting to the UN on its activities, establishing a foundation for other local and regional governments to systematically engage with the UN as well as with other stakeholders on these critical issues. | NYC has made significant advances in efforts to localize the SDGs since the Global Vision | Urban Action platform was established in 2015. We use both qualitative and quantitative metrics to measure the impact our work in a three areas: internal coordination with NYC agencies; engagement with cities; and cooperation with other stakeholders. In terms of internal NYC coordination, we worked with NYC agencies to ensure that SDGs were incorporated into OneNYC 2050, NYC’s updated strategic plan published in April 2019, which includes a commitment to submit a VLR annually. We also organize panel discussions and site visits for the UN community. Regarding engagement with other cities, at least five local and regional governments published their own VLRs during the 2019 HLPF, and others have committed to submitting a VLR. Furthermore, the Global Taskforce of Local and Regional Governments promotes the VLRs, and city networks such as UCLG and ICLEI have requested deeper engagement on this topic. Groups such as SDSN and the Brookings Institution have also expressed support for city engagement. As far as external partners, the VLR been lauded by the UN Secretary-General, the UN Deputy Secretary-General, the UNDP Administrator, the UN Habitat Executive Director, and numerous other high-level UN representatives. The UN Foundation identified NYC’s VLR as a trend to watch, and we have briefed academia on these topics. | Our aim is to universalize this tool so that local and regional governments around the world are employing the VLR as a means to share success and challenges in achieving the targets laid out in the SDGs. We would like to strengthen engagement at all levels of government, as well as with other stakeholders like the UN, civil society, and academia. | The most important resource needed is sustained access to local and regional governments around the world so that we can share more information about the Voluntary Local Review and discuss with them how to strengthen the process. In the short term, we want to reach as many local and regional governments as possible to explain what the VLR is and how it can be a useful tool. In the medium term, we want to be able to systematically engage with these partners to figure out how we can improve the tool so that it will be even more useful for all of those involved in the VLR process. Finally, in the long term, we need to make sure that this is a sustained effort that local and regional governments continue to engage with until the year 2030. | NYC Mayor’s Office for International Affairs website: Background on the Voluntary Local Review, including links to the 2018 and 2019 NYC Voluntary Local Reviews: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/international/programs/voluntary-local-review.page Short clip on the NYC Voluntary Local Review: https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/international/NYC-Guangzhou.mp4 Short post on NYC’s approach to the SDGs: https://medium.com/@globalnyc/global-vision-urban-action-speaking-the-common-language-of-the-sustainable-development-goals-1db1e75caa54 | Interview with the World Association of the Major Metropolises (Metropolis): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFc1hbbZmFk&feature=youtu.be | Winner: 2018 Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation Finalist: 2019 SDG Action Awards, Connector Category Named a 2019 DESA Good Practice in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
882 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | David | Alozie | Finaclusion (Wiretooth Technologies LTD) | https://finaclusion.com | Founder | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | I am a strong believer of the United Nation Sustainable Development Goals as a tool for making our world a better place. I have been focused on efforts focused on alleviation of poverty, inclusivity, industrial innovation and life-long learning opportunities. I have been promoting financial inclusion solutions and awareness among youths in the use of Disruptive Innovations and Technologies to help create new kinds of jobs, business and reduce the need for funds for already existing businesses that leverage disruptive technologies. In search of fulfilment, I quit my job with a prestigious Telecom company in 2015 to start up the first Disruptive Technologies advocacy platform in Africa to drive this course. Presently, my initiative is in dire need of scaling through global partnerships in order to help us garner rich network. We believe participation in the UN Solution Summit will be a platform to help us connect with like minds and foster meaningful relationship that could help us achieve more. | David is the founder of Wiretooth Technologies LTD and Disruptive Africa Innovation Consulting. He has been providing financial inclusion platforms to organizations since 2017. He built acumen and interest in financial inclusion while running mobile money projects in Nigeria since 2013, he supported Ecobank Mobile money, Etranzacts’s Pocketmoni, Etisalat/Gtbank Mobile. While providing financial inclusion platforms to lending companies, he identified bigger problems and opportunities which exist in the financial sectors which is yet to be solved by the Government and financial institutions which led him to start Finaclusion platform this 2019. He is a passionate in the use Disruptive Innovations and technologies of the Fourth Industrial revolution for actualization of the UN SDGs in Africa. Over the years, his has worked supported projects in Tech Startup scene, Tech hub setup, Telecoms, Rural Connectivity, Advocacy and brand evangelism, Community and Developers Engagement, IoT, BigData, Telecom Innovation, Strategy, Digital transformation strategy, Public speaking, Consultancy trainings and the Fourth Industrial Revolution as it relates to Africa. He also executed projects in collaboration with reputable global brands like Intel Corporation, Ubuntu, Uber, Etisalat on Disruptive Africa programs and also received Awards, Partnership and Support from the Nigerian Government ministries/agencies Presently, he offers technology consultancy, trainings to individuals and organizations, he is also a guest facilitator to Lagos Business School on Big Data and Business Analytics. | Finaclusion | From Unbanked to Global Banking | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | Yes | Banks, Credit Bureaus, Insurance?pension companies, Fintech communities across Africa | Transition to Scale | Before we metamorphosed into an open Financial Inclusion SaaS, we have setup for a number of agents, who have grown their customer base by about 20,000 unbanked market men and women. A good example is one of our clients called Imagine Global Lenders, who achieved a 15,000 customer base within 24 months of operation, with over 20 branches across Nigeria, Benin republic and Ghana and 70 field agents working under him. We hope to scale this model | According to World Bank, about 60% of the African population are unbanked/under-banked and live below $2 a day, hence they lack access to adequate financial services (banking, micro-insurance and micro-pension) Hence, there is no way to know and leverage their financial standing in their communities and informal financial groups to enable them access quick loans and financial services. This leaves most of the unbanked to die in poor living conditions. | Our solution is an Ecosystem-driven and democratised Digital Financial Inclusion Platform powered by agents/individuals across Nigeria/Africa to bridge the divide and create synergies between the unbanked and financial institutions (which includes the banks, Insurance Companies, health insurance organisations, Telecom operators, pension managers, mobile money operators and Credit bureaus). The agents/individual who manage informal groups or cooperative only need to download our app and immediately have access to provide mobile money services to their group. A percentage of the group/cooperative’s compulsory membership fee/income is allocated for group health insurance and pension contribution packages. The platform helps curate financial activities and digital identities of these unbanked who are members of these informal groups which could be easily used by financial institutions or other organisations to easily offer them instant credit facilities. Their membership standing in the group becomes the financial records which will be used to assess their credit worthiness and access to insurance/pension benefits. Our long term vision for global impact to become Globally recognized as the go-to blockchain Identity management platform that help Africans verify their identities and financial standings with financial institutions in other continents of the world enhancing global and cross border trades and partnerships with Africa. | •Blockchain Powered Digital Identity Platform Our Linux blockchain digital identity integration will help make the identity of the unbanked, credit scoring and membership easily accessible and verifiable by any institution anywhere in world. Hence making their financial records usable across borders. •Ecosystem Driven and Aggregators Our solution will purely an ecosystem-driven aggregation platform that connects the unbanked with financial institution, we do not engage in providing loans/savings/insurance/pension but we enable this opportunities through our platform. •1-2 months free trial We offer our agents/providers full access to our platform free of charge especially for those that have no financial means but possess the entrepreneurial capability to drive social impact. We believe new agents should have raised enough funds to cater for their needs and our monthly subscription fee by the 3rd month. •Cost-Effectiveness Our monthly subscription starts from $4 per month which is one of the lowest in Africa •Administrative Mobile Apps Our platform has easy to use mobile apps which helps field agents to update records remotely and realtime •Our Solution addresses 5 UN-SDGs 1- Eradicating Poverty 2- Achieving Food Security 3- Profiting Health and Well being 5- Achieving gender equality and economic empowerment of women 8- Promoting Economic Growth and Jobs | Our system is only provisioned based on demand which has been our method of running since 2017. We are presently upgrading platform to enable auto provision of clients online and also giving them ready access to banking through our integration with payment gateways. We are presently exploring integration directly with at least 2 banks preferably GTBank and Stanbic, to auto provision special Bank accounts/purse for clients who signup with our platform, giving them privileged control of the bank accounts, saving us cost and giving us leverage to expand. Also, the provision of Visa Debit cards through our partnership with banks and payment integrators has helped the unbanked have access to their funds using the card system in connection to a bank. We are able to measure our progress based on our targeted milestones and satisfied and growing agent and end user base. | Our planned milestones include integration with more Financial Institutions (Banks, Insurance, Credit Bureaus, Pension managers and payment gateways) in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Cameroun, South Africa, Tanzania and Botswana within the next 12 months through our virtual partners in those locations. The integrations will helps reach to new customers in those regions. | In the short term, we require more partnership with recognized Informal and cooperative group networks and organisation which help our solution gain more acceptance and hence help us generate enough revenue through subscription to sustain the platform. In the mid-term, we will require forward thinking mentors/advisory from different industrial sectors to voluntary support our community of users with contents, as our major aim is to ensure that African business become more sustainable in line with UN SDGs and the fourth industrial revolution. We will also require first round of funding of about $500,000 in equity or convertible debts to help our expansion efforts and recruitment of team across Africa. In the Long -term, wider participation and usage of our platform to help us make our platform robust and rich with reasonable network effects based on financial records and digital identities on our platform. In order to reach this wider audience, we require endorsements/partnerships from international organisations in order to gain further acceptance across Africa in order to earn bigger collaborations with global financial institutions. We hope to use our democratised Digital financial inclusion platform to garner a community of unbanked and informal groups across Africa supported through an institutionalized systems to accelerate our growth and in turn support the UN SDGs. | https://finaclusion.com https://youtu.be/sS-g6oLDs5w | https://youtu.be/Gct2SlD5ZAI?list=PLl6IvhbhEqwzV2v4CTam4lBbNNEXgskWJ&t=5 | Scholarship by the Central Bank of Kenya and Monetary Authority of Singapore at the Africa Fintech Festival July, 2019 Finalist, Global Fintech Accelerator Kenya, August, 2019 Top 50 Innovative Africans, Centre for Global Enterprise 2016 Top 100 Entrepreneurs award by Bank of Industries, Nigeria 2016 Top 6% outstanding Company Executive in Nigeria 2015 Most Innovative Youth; CFT International 2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
883 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Andrew | Tarvin | Humor That Works | https://www.humorthatworks.com/ | CEO and Founder | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | When I was presenting at an event and heard another speaker mention the “world’s most important to do list” aka the Sustainable Development Goals I was surprised that I had never heard of the SDGs before. As I did more research about the goals, I realized that they should be something everyone is aware of as a way to inform decisions, align actions, create accountability, and build momentum towards achieving each one to ensure that no one is left behind. Through my company, Humor That Works, we have delivered programs in all 50 states and in 25 countries on the value of using humor to create more positive team cultures, improve communication skills, relieve stress, and boost happiness within organizations. These efforts have previously focused on workplaces, but my solution suggests they could work for the SDGs as well. If we strive to achieve sustainable development, ensure rights and choices for every individual, and serve those most at risk of being left behind, we need to generate collective momentum, aligning every individual’s voice and action towards achieving these goals. To do that, we need create greater awareness for what I agree is the “world’s most important to-do list.” | Andrew Tarvin is the world’s first Humor Engineer teaching people and institutions how to get better and sustainable results while having more fun. He has worked with 35,000+ people at 250+ organizations, including the Red Cross, the United Nations Population Fund, Microsoft, the FBI, and the International Association of Canine Professionals. Combining his background as a project manager at Procter & Gamble with his experience as an international comedian, Andrew reverse engineers the skill of humor in a way that is practical, actionable, and gets results for sustainable development and growth. Tarvin is a best-selling author, has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and FastCompany, and his TEDx talk has been viewed over 5 million times. He has delivered programs worldwide and all over the United States. He loves the color orange and is obsessed with chocolate. | Mission: Humor | Developing Humor for a Better World | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | United States of America, Worldwide | Yes | United Nations Population Fund, Red Cross Climate Centre | Proof of Concept | Humor That Works created a framework through delivering more than 600 programs that are entertaining, engaging, and effective. For my most recent book, I did a deep-dive into research on the benefits and dangers of using humor, and developed ten humor strategies that anyone can use to improve their organization. Next is to define a proof-of-concept applying these same strategies for building collective ownership of the SDGs in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund. | The problem we see is awareness of the SDGs within the general public. Our solution is to create a series of events, including workshops and public programs, that help educate SDG stakeholders on how to use humor to better communicate their initiatives, communicate with the public at large, and make the SDGs understood by everyone. | The solution has two components. The first component is to provide training to SDG stakeholders in how to more effectively communicate their initiatives and goals with the broader community. This includes hands-on programs provided in-person and virtually, helping stakeholders learn the ten humor strategies for increasing effectiveness while also workshopping messages appropriate for each goal. We have seen how humor enables breakthroughs in how stakeholders collectively embark on dialogue and problem solving. The second angle is in producing public events, including live comedy shows framed around each SDG. This will introduce the general public to the SDGs while also humanizing them, moving each goal from a theoretical task to very real challenges that we should all work towards solving. Humor That Works applies an innovative approach to engage development partners, civil society, and individuals in conversations about what is needed for sustainable development, for the individual exercise of rights, for individuals to make informed, evidence based choices. The long-term vision for global impact is to generate the ownership of these goals among the general public. By educating, enabling, and encouraging all people to work towards achieving the SDGs, the scale of what can be completed and in what time frame grows exponentially. | The solution is unique in that the focus is communicating the SDGs in a way that is engaging to the general public with humor as a primary means of doing so. The methodology is built on the past 10 years of research and work with more than 250 organizations from around the world. The methodology is centered around the 5-step process for effectively using humor in nearly any situation. The broader steps include: 1) Defining the Humor MAP: the medium in which the message will be communicated, the audience who will receive it, and the purpose of using humor. 2) Developing potential humor ideas. 3) Deciding on which humor content to use based on effectiveness and appropriateness. 4) Delivering the humor content in a way that ensures it is received appropriately. 5) Debriefing the effectiveness of the humor used to improve in the next iteration. | Idea and research & development have been completed. The next stage is Proof of Concept for each of the components: humor workshops and SDG public events. Progress is measured by event delivery, attendance, and ratings, as well as uptake of humor material in SDG workshops by different stakeholders. | Belief: That every single person should be aware of the SDGs and their individual responsibility to contribute to the 2030 agenda Goals: By 2020, deliver at least five workshops and 14 public events to communicate the 2030 Agenda. Milestones: Milestones will scale with demand with a vision to 2030 SDG Stakeholder Workshops 2019 - Pilot workshop with SDG stakeholders. 2020 - 4 workshops in different regions on the value of humor for the SDGs. SDG Public Events 2019 - Pilot comedy show + secondary comedy show communicating the SDGs. 2020 - 12 comedy shows each covering one or more SDGs. | The primary resources needed for the solution is buy in, both by government and UN stakeholders as well as the public at large; support in identifying entry points for measurable impact, travel funding to reach a larger audience worldwide. Short-term: travel and development resources beyond CEO of Humor That Works. Medium-term: Regional and global partnerships with potential stakeholders, social media support to amplify an accelerate messaging around proposed solution. Long-term: Staffing for additional facilitation to scale with demand. | https://www.humorthatworks.com https://drewtarvin.com/ https://www.amazon.com/Humor-That-Works-Missing-Happiness/dp/1989025838 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdZAMSyn_As https://drewtarvin.com/programs/leadership/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jycp8UuezXM | Won Platinum “Power of You” award f NSA NYChapter Presidential Award for Service NY Comedy Club: Laughing Buddha – Buddha Battle IV Nominated as an All*Star Player at ComedySportz World Championship 2013. Funniest Person in Cincinnati Finalist at Go Bananas! Comedy Club. Sketch Video Finalists in Inaugural Upright Citizen Brigade’s Web Video Cram-Off Selected performer at the Inaugural Cincy Brew HaHa Festival | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
884 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chisangalalo | Kanthema | Dolphin Health | N/A | CEO | Male | Malawi | Malawi | English | As an innovator and a leader i always thinking about the development of my nation and my fellow youth. I always seek for knowledge and mentor-ship in order for me to contribute to my community. I train youth in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics in different education institutions and i develop healthcare solution through my initiative Dolphin while am supporting my fellow innovators to venture into entrepreneurship. We need to make good policies for youth to thrive that is why i decide to participate in this one of the biggest summit in the world so i can share my experience with my fellow innovators and leaders. This is a great opportunity for me to connect and network while am learning and contribute to make good decisions to achieve SDGs | Chisangalalo Kanthema, is an innovator, entrepreneur, a tech enthusiast, and a Global SDG’s Advocate. He is founder and CEO at Dolphin and a TME Education Ambassador in Malawi. He is a 2019 TEF entrepreneurship fellow, a YALI RLC SA alumnus and 2019 International Connector’s Young Innovator. He is a 2017 Malawi Innovators design Competition awardee, 2018 Global Innovation Through Science and Technology (Gist Tech-I) and John Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition semifinalist. He obtained Malawi School Certificated of Education (MSCE) in 2013 at Njamba Secondary School. He is passionate about Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Through TME education, a program that aims to promote and popularize electronics and technology-related knowledge in regions where the access to proper training is limited, He trains youth from Secondary schools, teachers training, technical and vocational colleges and university to change their mindset towards innovation and entrepreneurship. He advocates for the UN SDG goals and how each and every one can be a responsible citizen by working towards achieving them using technology, programming and other technical skills that he provides during his workshops. | Wireless Cardio-diagnosis System | To curb chronic diseases by developing diagnostic | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Malawi | No | Proof of Concept | We developed our first prototype that was tested by doctors and engineers from university of Malawi and the results was amazing that attracted most physicians and healthcare facilities, and we won some couple of awards. We were encouraged to finish the solution so it would be used in healthcare facilities. Currently we are developing a product | An estimated 17.7 million people died from Cardiovascular (CVDs) in 2015, representing 31% of all global deaths. We only have 9 ECG machines of 25 districts, not more than 6 Cardiologist for more than 11 million population, ECG tools are bulky, expensive and wired they can not connected to the mobile devices People especially elderly people and pregnant find it hard to travel long distances frequently for heart check/examination, it cost them energy and a lot of time to get diagnosis done | Our solution is a device that is used to detect body vital organs of a person and translate this health information. This information is being transmitted from a remote healthcare facility to a cardiologist or any physician for analysis. An AI based software or mobile app is used to diagnose different diseases (cardiovascular diseases) easily and fast. Since diagnosis is done on mobile devices so patients will never travel for heart examination again and even with few physicians most people can be diagnosed at less period of time and reduce the queues in healthcare facilities Since we're piloting this project in Malawi so their is possibility to scare it through production of these devices to be used in some other countries. We found that many developing countries are facing similar challenges so we want to scale into other regions to share the benefits and reduce healthcare challenges by developing more diagnostic systems | Our solution works like conventional 12 lead standard ECG machines but is very portable , non invasive and low power consuming. The winning part of our solution is that it is using Artificial Intelligence to assist a doctor during diagnosis while other exist solution doesn't have and it can connect directly to a physician through internet (Iot) at same time it can be accessed by a nurse/healthcare system. Despite its unique connectivity this hardware device it include electrocardiogram (ECG), digital stethoscope and body temperature sensor all in one and all can be used at same time to get a patient's health information at same time. All important body parameters can be monitored at same time to allow wide signal analysis, this is the greatest part of it. to analyse it i can say it is using all new advanced technology and all medical diagnostic methodologies to diagnose cardiovascular diseases easily and fast. | I can we are almost to launch the product, we will launch it on 26th September, 2019. We have been developing the prototype for a year now and progress has been recorded throughout process. We will launch hardware (Device) only but before January we will launch also mobile application and online platform for physicians | After piloting the project in Malawi, we have planned to expand it to other neighboring countries to improve peoples health. We want to employ other youth but currently we only have interns from Malawi polytechnic university. Wireless cardio-diagnosis system will be connected to all remote rural healthcare facilities and we are going to have a all healthcare facilities connected together to have a big healthcare network to curb chronic diseases. | currently we need more funding in production since we need to distribute these devices in many areas as possible and we need to establish a workshop to assemble them locally. We will also want to expand our workshops and warehouses in other regions/counties and employ engineers and technicians to reach that goal. As we are expanding we will need materials (electronic components), tools and building to use it as a workshop. Our team rely on doctors to provide us with medical information so we will need more of them for mentor-ship and we will also need business and entrepreneurship skills to scale at that level We may need approval from our government even other countries we're going. Currently we're working on that here in Malawi soon we hope we will be approved. | https://youtu.be/7VrSg7dT-YA | https://youtu.be/7VrSg7dT-YA https://medicalfuturist.com/africa-hotspot-digital-health https://www.dr-hempel-network.com/digital_health_contact_lists/16-young-digital-health-healthcare-innovators-in-africa/ | 1) 2017 Malawi Innovators design competition (winner) 2) Global Innovation through Science and technology (Gist Tech-I) semifinalist, winner was Wassim El Hariri, SASHA, Lebanon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
885 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | MULLER | NANDOU TENKEU | KEMIT ECOLOGY | www.kemitecology.com | CEO FOUNDER | Male | Cameroon | Cameroon | French | Je suis le directeur général de la société KEMIT ECOLOGY qui est spécialisée dans la production du charbon vert à partir des déchets organiques solides municipaux biodégradables. Nous avons créé l'entreprise en août 2014 et avons réussi à changer le mode de consommation des populations en Afrique au sud du sahara, nous avons aussi crée plus de 200 emplois au Cameroun, Gabon, Tchad, Djibouti et le Mali. Nous avons transformé les mentalités technologiques locales et l'activité prospère sur le continent grâce à notre exemple. Nous sommes d'ailleurs passés dans plusieurs médias internationaux comme Africa 24, France 24, CCTV, BBC, etc... Notre vision est de combattre la déforestation dans nos pays en apportant cette solution énergétique alternative au bois de chauffage et au charbon de bois qui font plus de 600 000 décès chaque année sur le continent. Nous avons gagné le Prix international Initiatives climat Afrique Francophone lors de la vingt deuxième conférence des nations unies sur les changements climatiques | Muller est un doctorant Ph.D en énergie renouvelables spécialité biomasse, ayant été pendant une année de 2015 à 2016 consultant junior à l'organisation international des sciences de la technologie et de l'innovation de la section Unesco pour l'asie et l'Afrique. Il a également participé à la création de l'émission les observateurs du climat sur la chaîne internationale france 24 comme pionier. Il a participé au concours mondial des solutions climat lors de la conférence des nations unies sur les changements climatique à Paris en 2015. Ce qui lui a valu d'être désigné président de la plateforme initiatives climat afrique francophone où il oeuvre depuis quelques années (2017) à aujourd'hui à la détection des projets vers des jeunes entrepreneurs du continent pour les documenter, les améliorer et les mettre en lumière pour le financement. | Production du charbon vert à partir des déchets solides organiques biodégradables | Le projet de production du charbon vert à partir des déchets solides lutte contre la déforestation, les changements climatiques et le manque d'énergie | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Notre projet s'étendra au Cameroun, Tchad, Djibouti et le Mali qui sont les pays où les conditions de production de ce produit innovant sont adéquats et où la facilitation d'acheminement dans d'autres pays est important. Ces pays jouissent du climat. | Yes | Nos partenaires sont le Ministère de la Recherche Scientifique et de l'Innovation du Gouvernement de la République du Cameroun, le Programme international Initiatives climat Afrique Francophone où nous sommes président du jury pour l'Afrique central ouest | Scaling | Nous avons déjà 5 ans d'existence, avons testé le marché depuis 2014 date de notre création. Nous avons également amélioré le produit et avons aujourd'hui un portefeuille client de plus de 5000 répartis en Afrique, en Europe et aux états unis notamment le canada. | Notre solution vise à réduire les piles de déchets dans les villes du Cameroun, combattre la déforestation et les changements climatiques, combattre le manque d'énergie pour la cuisson surtout pour les populations des régions reculées comme les villages. | Le projet de production du charbon écologique à partir des déchets solides organiques municipaux a été initié en 2014 par un groupe d’étudiants spécialistes en écologie, biodiversité et environnement de l’université de Douala au Cameroun, après obtention de l’autorisation du Maire de la Commune de douala deuxième où est implantée l’entreprise, nous avons travaillé avec les comités d’hygiène et de salubrité (environ 70 dans 20 quartiers de l’arrondissement de Douala deuxième, ce qui nous a permis de sécuriser la matière première de départ (environ 7 000 tonnes en 2014), avec l’impact national que le projet a eu, nous avons eu l’aval de la Communauté urbaine et l’onction du Gouvernement de la République à travers une subvention du Ministère de la Recherche Scientifique et de l’Innovation. Cette subvention, de 80 000 USD ( Quatre-vingt mille USD en 2016 et 2017 ) nous a permis de bâtir une unité semi-industrielle transformant 200 tonnes de matières premières chaque mois en environ 20 tonnes de charbon écologique, ce qui a permis d’avoir une évolution progressive du chiffre d’affaire tel que montré dans les tableaux suivant en FCFA. | Le marché de la consommation d’énergie pour la cuisson au Cameroun est dominé par le bois de chauffe environ 2 203 496 tonnes dans les zones urbaines et le charbon de bois environ 356 530 tonnes (Source MINFOF1, 2018) pour un chiffre d’affaire estimé à 188,33 Milliards (environ 313 000 000 USD). Dans la capitale économique Douala où l’entreprise est implantée et souhaite accroître sa capacité de production, une étude marché réalisée en 2013 montre que le marché de l’énergie est dominé par le Gaz domestique 32%, 27 % pour le bois, 23 % de charbon, 2% de sciure bois pour une population enquêtée de 8407 ménages, il est à noter que la consommation du bois et du charbon de bois représente 50 % de la consommation et si on y ajouté la sciure de bois qui est un dérivé du bois, on atteint les 52% déjà majoré. Ce qui explique tout l’intérêt du projet d’accroissement de la capacité de production du charbon écologique à partir des déchets solides organiques municipaux. Dans les villages selon une étude empirique réalisée par l’entreprise en 2017 lors de ses descentes de terrain, ce sont près de 6 000 000 | Le charbon vert a un pouvoir calorifique de 25 MJ/Kg, un peu plus supérieur que celui de certaines formes de charbon de bois rencontrés sur le marché, donc il brûle bien et mieux que le charbon de bois, ne noirci pas les dessous des marmite, donc avantageux en terme d’éponge métallique et de temps de lavage, ne produit pas de fumées toxique à la combustion donc avantageux pour la santé des consommateurs. Il coûte en plus deux (02) fois moins chers que le charbon de bois. Ses formes cubiques et cylindriques de 4 cm, puis 1cm2 pour le fumage de la chicha et l’allumage de l’encens en font une particularité appréciable par la plus part des consommateurs sur le terrain. En plus il est disponible même en saison des pluies quand le bois et le charbon de bois se font rares, en plus au même prix standard qu’en saison sèche. L’engrais organique au charbon vert est une innovation au Cameroun, car le procédé d’obtention est innovant et le rôle majeur qu’il joue de « reconstructeur » des sols pollués par les fertilisants chimiques est très important. Il permet à partir des déchets de culture de ré-engraisser les sols pour permettre aux sols de mieux mobiliser le phosphore parfois facteur limitant dans les sols pour la plus part des cultures. C’est un engrais qui permet également de corriger les impuretés du sol puisque le charbon est un antioxydant qui absorbent les microorganismes nuisibles de la rhizosphère (portion du sol où les racines des plantes. | Nous souhaitons conquérir 10% du marché tchadien au premier trimestre 2020 par ce projet, 2% du marché Nigérian, 4% du marché Malien, 15% du marché de Djibouti où nous avons déjà une base sérieuse. Ceci nous permettra de conquérir l'Afrique du Centre et de l'Ouest en terme de clients et de technologie. | Nous avons signé en fin 2016 un contrat de financement avec le Gouvernement de la République du Cameroun à travers le Ministère de la Recherche Scientifique et de l’Innovation pour un montant global de 80 000 USD, ce qui nous a permis de passer à une unité semi- industrielle qui transforme 120 tonnesde matière chaque mois en 12 tonnes de charbon écologique fini, en 2018, cette production est passée à 22 tonnes chaque mois avec la performance des équipements. Si on prend en compte le brevet obtenu à l’Organisation africaine de la propriété Intellectuelle, alors les investissements matériels et immatériels déjà consentis à KEMIT ECOLOGY en cinq ans s’élèvent à 185 000 USD | www.kemitecology.com https//www.facebook.com//kemitecology | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUArfmXChD0&t=167s https://web.facebook.com/Kemit.Ecology/ | Nous avons remporté le prix international initiatives climat afrique francophone lors de la vingt deuxième conférence des nations unies sur les changements climatiques à Marrakech. Nous avions gagné en finale les projets de franko kossi dolagbenoun du toko energy for people, de walid machrouh du maroc green energy maroc et du béninos almithy services Roméo azohénoc, www.initiativesclimat.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
886 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tosan | Mogbeyiteren | Black Swan Tech Ltd | https://usaidpubs.exposure.co/automating-public-health | Progarm Manager | Male | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The business of working in and making an impact in Development can be equal part challenging and rewarding, because one has to address perennial challenges within the constraint of limited resources and, if done right, one can make the kind of positive impact that reverberates in the lives of millions for years to come. The achievement of a feat like this the dream of any development professional. I aim to design, develop and deploy contextually-relevant technology solutions that help the vulnerable, marginalized members of the global community live meaningful lives. | a trained medical doctor from the Obafemi Awolowo University, and the Program Manager of WeMUNIZE at Black Swan Tech Ltd. He has been in the technology space for 14 years supervising the conceptualization, development and successful deployment of high traction web applications and mobile platforms in partnership with government institutions, which have been used by millions. He brings a skill mix, as a public health specialist in the IT space, of wide travel experience in Nigeria and a deep understanding of the meeting point between public health and ICT systems within specific context of Nigeria at both national and sub-national levels in addressing developmental and humanitarian challenges. | WeMUNIZE: mHEALTH for improving demand for Routine Immunization services | WeMUNIZE: Automating Public Health | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Nigeria, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Mali | No | Transition to Scale | Over the last 4 years, working with our partners, including the Governments of Nigeria and Sokoto, USAID Nigeria, UNICEF and other international partners, we have designed, developed, and deployed WeMUNIZE as a pilot program. Our current engagement sees us deploying WeMUNZE to support the immunization of 4 million children <1 year old in Northern Nigeria as part of the USAID-Integrated Health Project in Nigeria. | We aim to address the challenges of poor Routine Immunization uptake and RI data among the poorest, vulnerable and marginalized communities in Africa and the rest of the world. Thus reducing inequities of access, utilization and data to and for Routine Immunization services. | WeMUNIZE enrolls children under 1 year of age, schedules their immunization appointments and makes Robocalls of call-to-action immunization messages that double as reminders for next appointments in local languages voiced over by influential personalities of the community, such as religious and political leaders. The WeMUNIZE mHealth application is designed to improve these indices by creating an increase in demand for RI services, especially in places with the poorest numbers.Thus WeMUNIZE supports real-time indicator reporting, generates relevant data to support Routine Immunization supply chain management and generally contributes to primary health care policy-making by community mobilization. The additional component of picture taking has helped to strengthen home-based record keeping, a possible source of under-reporting in many national health surveys | The WeMUNIZE value matrix begins with the caregiver of the child whose immunization appointment is scheduled at the nearest facility. They are reminded of the child’s appointment when it is due. Male and female influential community leaders (both religious and traditional) who wish to support the efforts of routine immunization in their communities are coopted to upload voice recordings that are then customized to individual children and families. Local and state government officials involved in the effort to drive the demand for routine immunization get routine updates on the performance indices of individual facilities and communities. The state&RI partners benefit from the data generated from the platform to inform decision making and impact assessment in real time. Caregivers: 1. Proper and complete vaccination of all children in the prescribed age bracket. 2. Caregivers obtain physical photographs of their children for the entire period of immunization. Community Volunteers: 1. a tool which facilitates reportage and strengthens the ongoing Routine immunization advocacy efforts of frontline workers International Partners: 2.Cost-effective Routine Immunization advocacy platform 3.Sustainable platform for improving community engagement Government: 1. a platform for effective social behavior change communication with which the SPHCDA addresses high dropout rates 2.An efficient and effective data gathering tool to strengthen monitoring and evaluation efforts | In 2018, USAID/Nigeria funded an external assessment following he conclusion of the 2-year pilot. We have also collected historical baseline data spanning over 24 months to assess the counterfactual rate at which infants are being immunized. We conducted in-depth assessments to determine the quality of the supply and administration of vaccines before rolling out the program in a particular health facility and continue to conduct these assessments on a periodic basis to learn how increased demand affects the supply of vaccines. Externally, independent evaluation, endorsement and recommendations were conducted by the National Routine Immunisation Working Group, CORE Group and state primary healthcare development agencies for rollout | Black Swan Tech seeks to closely collaborate with many and diverse partners including government, funding agencies and research partners in order to achieve the results and maximize impact, access important networks, meet other innovators, leverage the reach of Solve to secure more resources to enable us achieve the vision. We seek partners with whom we can collaborate and who have the reach to enable us achieve the full scale of our vision. Partners with grant giving and/or international research capabilities who will join us in taking risks, pushing for new solutions, reinterpreting old notions and harnessing the power of science and technology to bring lasting impact and change for all. Partners with a clear record of success in working with governments, private sector, communities and individuals who can help us take WeMUNIZE to scale. Partners who can help us ground our approach in evidence-based implementation. | We seek partnerships withthat will enable our team scale WeMUNIZE to serve millions of families and client communities around the world. Our pathway to scale is to seek out strategic partnerships that enable us deliver this solution to over 10 million children over the next 5 years. This will further drive down our cost per infant, specifically, our cost per infant who complete its RI to less than $1.10 per child per year. | www.wemunize.ng https://www.usaid.gov/digital-development/digis/2018 https://usaidpubs.exposure.co/automating-public-health | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpUcqYSQNgg&t=27s | 2019 Grand Alliance for Vaccine Initiative INFUSE 2019(Finalist) 2018 USAID DIGIS Award for most innovative technology program funded by USAID(Winner) 2017 USAID Mission Award (Winner) 2016 Aso Villa Demo Day Award by the Presidency of the Federal Republic, One of the most innovative technology start ups (Finalist) 2016 Future Hack Award for most innovative Solution for with Impact for the Future(Winner) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
887 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alexandra | Harrington | Centre for International Sustainable Development Law | www.cisdl.org | Rsearch Director & Lead Counsel, Peace, Justice & Governance | F | United States of America | United States of America | English | French | Spanish | We hope to share a novel and innovative project that engages child authors from different regions as voices of future generations, to promote intergenerational, inter-disciplinary dialogue, inspiration, and educational action on the SDGs, and to build new partnerships with policy makers, NGOs and others who are similarly dedicated to achieving sustainable development. To us, the UN Solutions Summit is an ideal location for the Voices of Future Generations Children's Initiative, sponsored by CISDL and Global partners, to launch new children's books from different regions of the world on the SDGs, share innovative educational materials and techniques, and engage with stakeholders, sharing the views and voices of children with new partners and those deciding their futures. | Dr. Alexandra R. Harrington is Research Director and Lead Counsel for Peace, Justice and Accountability with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law and Fulbright Canada Special Foundation Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. She was the 2018 – 2019 the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance, based at the Balsillie School of International Affair, and holds a doctoral degree in law from McGill University Faculty of Law. Dr. Harrington is the author of the book International Organizations and the Law and the forthcoming International Law and Global Governance: Treaty Regimes and Sustainable Development Goals Interpretation. She is the Director of Studies for the International Law Association Colombian branch, a member of the International Law Association Committee on the Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development, and an adjunct professor at Albany Law School. She also guest lectures globally on topics related to international law, environmental law, global governance and sustainable development. | Voices of Future Generations Children's Initiative | Empowering children to realise their CRC rights to a voice in decision-making process, promote eco-education and become ambassadors for the SDGs | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Globally | Yes | Regiona; Goodwill Ambassadors. UNESCO | Sustainable Scale | The Voices of Future Generations Children's Initiative is Transitioning to Scale because, it has already proved incredibly successful in disseminating the works of 9 child authors on the SDGs from 6 regions, with over 1,000 books published or downloaded, a new film entering schools, intergenerational dialogues in key cities and events, online webinar trainings, and outreach over social media, it is only now scaling up to select additional child authors and ambassadors from further countries. | Children represent the potential of future generations. However, they are often left out of decisions which most affect them, such as key challenges facing their communities and world. This can lead to marginalization of a vital constituency, silencing energy and ideas for new solutions, and reducing the opportunities for kids inspire younger kids. Children should be able to share their insights and views with each other and with the broader world community, in books, film and other media. | The Voices of Future Generations children's initiative, supported by CISDL and an international commission of educational charities worldwide, supports kids rights and intergeneration dialogue on sustainable development, empowering children to promote the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Sustainable Development Goal agenda (SDGs). Our mission is to assist children of different regions to advance their right to education and literacy globally through the children's book series. Books are authored by children aged 8-12, for children aged 6 and above. These stories from around the world are illustrated and published, and the books disseminated globally to schools and libraries for all children to benefit from the knowledge and insight. The focus is on empowerment, kids engaging other kids and adults, and promoting a new, more active global citizenship and education for sustainable development. Through our Intergenerational Dialogue Programme, we enable children to enter into effective and inspiring communication with experts and global leaders, who are effecting positive change in the fields of children's rights and sustainable development. | The Voices of Future Generations Initiative is unique in methods and ways to address multiple SDGs by empowering and giving a place to the voices of children – the generations who will be most impacted by the decisions taken today regarding the SDGs and their implementation. The children to speak for themselves and to their peers as well as to decision makers and civil society, through their new books on the SDGs, films, online blogs and educational materials and intergenerational dialogues in, for instance, the UK House of Lords, or the Children's Summit on the SDGs. By creating an expanding network of child authors and child ambassadors, the VoFG has created and continues to foster a forum for children from all continents, backgrounds and experiences to come together consistently and discuss their concerns and ideas. This is a way to generate a self-sustaining community of passionate and informed advocates in the future. | o date, the VoFG has accomplished the following, which are all quantifiable and verifiable: 1) 9 books published in hard copy and disseminated globally; 2) More stories being written and illustrated by children around the world; 3) A contract for an anthology with prestigious Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.; 4) Books translated into several of the UN languages; 5) Global launch of a short film about the initiative; 6) Writing of a children's declaration on the future they wish to see in New York; 7) A strong presence as an initiative working on children's rights and sustainability; and 8) Events and talks in the UK, USA, Mexico, Taiwan and other worldwide destinations. | Planned Goals and Milestones for your solution? (for example, any new countries or markets you will expand in, staff you will recruit, and projected lives impacted?) * In the coming year, the VoFG will be unveiling a new book written by an indigenous child author and selecting a new child author from the Middle East. In addition, the VoFG will be holding several events to highlight and honor the work of the child authors and child ambassadors on several continents, and searching for ways to scale up social media and media | In the short term, the VoFG is constantly seeking new supporters to allow it to grow the scope and quantity of child authors represented in the book series. This is a long term goal as well, along with the generation of a consistent pipeline of child authors to take the places of those who complete their obligations. Partnerships and connections with national authorities from the child author and child ambassador countries, and with helpful NGO mentors working towards the SDGs would also be invaluable. | www.vofg.org www.vofg.org/shortfilm www.cisdl.org https://nicosnaturalworld.org/ | www.vofg.org/shortfilm | VoFG child authors are Trust for Sustainable Living international schools essay competition and debates finalists and medallists, winners of the Luna Spark writing competition, winners of the Justicia Fundamental Regnorum junior award, and other key honors. The kids also vote to grant a Global Inspiration award to adults and organisations, every year. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
888 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Prof. Ahmed | Yousef | DRC, Egypt | http://drc.gov.eg/home/ | Prof. of Water Resources and Environment | Male | Egypt | Egypt | Arabic | English | I have wide experiences in project management, water resources, environment, land reclamation, policies and planning in different countries. Also, i have wide experiences in project building, monitoring and evaluation. I would like to transfer my view elsewhere. | Prof. Ahmed Yousef has gained wide experience for more than 25 years in various management related, agriculture plans and implementation, water resources policy, hydrology, hydrogeology, sedimentation, dams, environmental treatment and management, environmental planning, ICZM, disaster risk management of climate change, desertification, transboundary strategic action programmes, economics and social issues, and documents. He participated in a number of development projects with scientific, governmental, private and international organizations. I gained managerial and technical experiences in agriculture, desertification, water resources management, pollution control, social studies, risk assessment and environmental & social impact assessment for development projects. Dr. Ahmed has been working as a consultant and team leader for a number of development projects sponsored by the World Bank, WFP, Delegation of the European Commission, FOA organization, the African Development Bank, Nile Basin Initiative and United Nation. I have lectured in short courses and workshops and have published more than 55 scientific papers on agriculture, water, environmental & Hydrological issues and management implications. He has extensive experience in agriculture policies and implementation, water resources polices and dam hydrology, environmental management project design, implementation and delivery. I have prepared project-scoping documents, and detailed project and work plans complete with an on-going performance measurement framework using Result Base Management (RBM) approach. | Changing climate change from problem to gift | forecasting, cooperation, solidarity and integration among peoples | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Kenya, Mali, Togo, Yemen, Uganda, Uzbekistan, China, Zambia, South African Region, Guinea and Saudi Arabia | No | Research & Development | Discovery a lot of groundwater aquifers. Recording a lot phenomena that can be useful to improve the life of peoples. New methodology. | How to change the climate change from problem to gift. water resources and agriculture planning in some poor countries. | Do and lead a lot of programs for disaster risk reduction of climate change and their impact on water, agriculture and coastal resources. | New methodology | I have a lot of methodology to improve the life of peoples elsewhere. I have different solutions for sustainability development especially in arid and semi-arid zones. | I planned to start in poor countries in middle and south Africa and east Asia that need a lot of assistant in development fields. I can do a lot with my colleagues from different countries. My view will improve the life of huge peoples in objective countries. | Water resources, agriculture and environment. | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/?trk= http://drc.gov.eg/home/ | https://www.linkedin.com/feed/?trk= http://drc.gov.eg/home/ | •Member in National Egyptian Specialist Councils and Egyptian National Committee of Irrigation and Drainage. , Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research from 2011 till now. •Editor, associate editor and member of different international journals. •Reviewer in different international journals. •Global Goodwill Ambassador 2018. •Marquis Who's Who Awards 2007, 2009 and 2018. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
889 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | AYODELE | OLUWAROPO | ONEWATTSOLAR | https://onewattsolar.com/ | Portfolio & Transaction Officer | MALE | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | The SDG7 which is to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all as well as SDG 13 which is to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts inspired me to be part of the UN Solution Summit. I have committed myself as a young Leader in Nigerian to proffer solution to the energy poverty the nation is currently facing. Having lived and studied in the United Kingdom as well as my visit to about 3 continents, I have observed and seen the backwardness electricity problem as brought upon our nation Nigeria. Hence, I want to participate in the UN SUMMIT by presenting the solution to solve the energy poverty in Nigeria through a Blockchain Solar Technology. This will allow thousands of Nigerians to pay for solar energy using blockchain tokens without having to pay for the solar system infrastructure, which is funded through financial backers. This makes electricity cheap and accessible to everyone thereby breaking the energy poverty in Nigeria. This innovation brings about economic growth as small business are able to thrive as the cost of power is been reduced. Hence, their standard of living is increased. | Ayodele is dynamic and innovative. He excels in promoting green business and climate solutions, as well as helping micro entrepreneurs grow. He is an Innovative and dynamic young Leader who holds a BSc Hons in Economics with Finance and a master’s degree in Finance and Investment Management from the University of Hertfordshire UK. He has a proven track record in: Business management, Climate Solutions, Business Analysis, Business Development, Customer Management, Data Analysis, Project Management, Price Analysis, and Entrepreneurship. He prides himself in working with excellence especially in his leadership roles, which has earned him various awards and nominations in the work place and in the University. Ayodele is ultimately interested in the growth and development of SMEs and start-ups in Africa. His passion for eradicating the energy poverty in Nigeria made him join the OneWattSolar team which uses Block chain technology to enable cheap and easy access to electricity for everyone including homes and small business. His goal is to develop SMES that will thrive in Africa, knowing that electricity is the biggest cost to small business in Nigeria. Hence, the Onewattsolar solution will reduce the cost of electricity to the barest minimum thereby allowing business to succeed. He also offers pro-bono services to various local SMEs especially women, by giving them adequate training on relevant skills such as: financial management, book keeping, customer management, data entry, process of obtaining loans to expand etc. | Onewatt Solar Solution | One Watt Solar pays for, installs, owns and operates the Solar Residential Energy System for a Billion People Through BlockChain Technology. | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | Yes | GOSOLAR AFRICA, SMEFUNDS, GEBIOFUELS, | Transition to Scale | We have completed our research and development and the concept has been proven through pilot projects in Nigeria. At the Moment, all that is needed is investments to scale and serve 2000 consumers in Nigeria for the first phase. | Electricity crisis is the most important infrastructure bottleneck in Africa today as Businesses Experience power outages with less than 2-Hours of Power a day and 85 percent of them own a Fossil Generators as alternative source of power generation. Nigeria requires More than 100,000MW of Electricity to Support Its production by 2030. The Grid holds a distance promise with less than 4,000 today; an annual investment of $4billion appetite for the next 10 Years — But Where is the Money? | OneWattSolar pays for, installs, owns and operates the Solar Residential Energy Unit (SHS). Zero up-front investment. There are no out of pocket expenses to the consumer. Energy Access in the 21st Century Require Disruption of the Incumbent By Creating a Digital Decentralized Generation & Distribution Assets Through Citizen Enabled Model. OneWattSolar Block-chain Backed Ecosystem Aggregate Data and Behavior to Mimic Patterns that Helps Build Trust and Transparency for Investors, Developers and Consumers to Create Healthy Outcomes for unlocking GigaWatt Electricity to power a Billion People Starved and Excluded. The aim is for customers to purchase tokens in the local naira currency using the platforms of third party tech finance companies. ""It provides transparency, you can see the utilization of funds, how many systems we have purchased and how many are being used."" The tokens used have been built on the block-chain platform, Ethereum. On a traditional service using fossil fuels, energy usage is around 70 Nigerian naira ($0.19) per kilowatt. ""But the block chain system is 50 percent cheaper than diesel. Our long term vision is to fulfill SDG 7 AND 13 by making electricity cheap and accessible to all Africans promoting clean sources of energy which will reduce the impact of climate change. Making electricity cheaper will have a positive effect on small business enabling them to expand, it will also benefit the economy in general, bringing people out of poverty. | OneWattSolar pays for, installs, maintains and manage Solar Home System units (SHS). All you do is pay a monthly access fee that allows you to generate electricity from your SHS setup to enjoy up to 50% reduction on your current grid electricity or generator Cost. Moreover, this low rate is guaranteed for the length of your contract. Unlike other solutions OneWattSolar requires Zero up-front investment. It has an automated a process to ensure there are no out of pocket expenses to consumers. There are no installation hassles. OneWattSolar audits, obtains all permits and handles engineering, procurement and construction. Unlike the others consumers pay a monthly access fee to enjoy uninterrupted power supply at a significantly cheaper cost and Since PV technology is extremely durable with no moving parts, little maintenance is needed. | The OneWatt Solar Solution is ready to be deployed and it has been tested through pilot projects in Lagos. The next phase is to get more investment to scale up and offer clean energy as a service to people in Nigeria. OneWattSolar is working with innovative, forward-thinking, and dynamic real estate developers to accelerate the adoption of solar energy by forging and nurturing mutually beneficial strategic business relationships. | Our Blockchain and AI Architecture has already been completed. Our two year action plan: June 2019 we started Eko solar crowd funding August 2019 SHS project installations 60% completed. December 2019 Complete installation of 1000 SHS and pay first investors semi annual dividend March 2020 push customers sign up to 7,000 June 2020 Start Regional installations across Nigeria and pay investors dividend December 2020 Install new 5000 SHS across regional cooperatives. March 2021 start Solar cooperatives in Accra, Dakar, and Abidjan June 2021, Start local manufacturing/assembly of solar components | For the Clean energy Solution to scale we need more investors to purchase solar tokens so we can to reach more customers as the investments are used to purchase and install SHS for customers at no cost. The customers in turn pay a monthly rental fee from which investors are paid from. We also need more associate partners who act as our solar engineers to install SHS across different areas in Nigeria. | https://onewattsolar.com/join-the-solution https://medium.com/@onewattsolar https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/24/africa/onewattsolar-nigeria-blockchain-solar-energy-startup/index.html https://blogs.worldbank.org/psd/leveraging-finance-nigerian-grid-solar-market https://gridlessafrica.com/a-match-made-in-heaven-blockchain-and-renewable-energy-in-africa/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5D8zjGUPwo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvhUhRJDU8c&t=192s | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
890 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Eliza | Squibb | ZTwist Design | https://www.ztwist.design/ | Co-Founder and Art Director | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | French | I am applying to present at the UN Solutions Summit because, as a visual artist and textile designer, I am passionate about collaborating with artists around the world to create visual communication design that supports the SDGs. My social enterprise, ZTwist Design LLC, co-founded with writer and health advocate Julia Shivers, is a design agency with the mission to make innovative visual communication tools for social impact. The ZTwist two-person team believes that art and design can solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. We partner with organizations and institutions to apply our human-centered design process to communication challenges across a range of development initiatives including health and education. Combining years of experience in design and writing, ZTwist specializes in collaboration between art and science with an interdisciplinary and inclusive approach. By collaborating with local artists as cultural authorities within existing traditions of art and language, ZTwist promotes access to information for equity around the world, especially in regions where lack of information and social stigmatization interfere with available health services and educational resources. ZTwist’s process centers on co-creation with local artists to illustrate messages that are contextualized and actionable for vulnerable populations that may have language barriers or low literacy rates. Lack of adequate outreach and communication negatively affects organizations’ impact goals, and ZTwist provides site-specific communication to help organizations expand their reach and accomplish the SDGs. Today, nearly 17% of the world’s adult population is not literate, and 775 million adults around the world lack minimum literacy skills. 67.4 million children who are currently out of school will only contribute to the need for accessible outreach and communication materials. While many examples of visual communication tools exist, such as posters, brochures, and billboards, these products are rarely adapted for cultural relevancy and may fail to have high outreach impact or connection with their intended audience. Our signature innovation, “the talking textile,” is an adaptation of a historical tradition of using textile designs to convey messages. Our goal is to help organizations tailor their outreach messages with innovative art and design tools that are culturally appropriate for inspiring behavior change and improving people’s lives and well-being. | My art practice uses textile design to bridge the worlds of art and health. My research in traditional art practices has led me to Tunisia and the Peruvian Amazon, where I organized design workshops in Yine-Yami, Shuar, and Shipibo indigenous communities to discuss, explore, and experiment with traditional and contemporary artisan techniques. Living as a guest in these communities shaped my professional experience and formulated my priorities as a designer. My personal focus has been to explore artisan agency; how traditions are passed on, transformed, reinvented, and what cultural information, or story, is included in the making of a handcrafted object. In many communities, artisans have leveraged craft production to increase cultural visibility, raise awareness for political issues, and gain economic resources. These experiences impressed on me the cultural significance of a single object. Art, artifact, and craft carry layers of cultural narrative, and it is the artist’s cultural authority to imbue objects with social meaning. Our social enterprise, ZTwist Design, was catalyzed by these experiences, in addition to Julia’s experience as a health advocate in East Africa. Our goal is to create a platform for artists and artisans to employ their cultural story-telling skills to communicate with their communities for the SDGs. My home base is Providence, Rhode Island, where I am an adjunct faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and I teach at Project Open Door, RISD’s college access program for teen artists. | Talking Textiles | Visual Communication for a Better World | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Past projects have been implemented in Uganda, Mali, and Guinea. Current initiatives are in Uganda, Niger, and Ethiopia. We plan to expand future projects in South and Central America, Asia, and Africa. | Yes | ZTwist Design has established implementing partnerships for technical support with the World Health Organization Expanded Programme on immunization in Geneva, Switzerland, and Niamey, Niger; UNICEF Communication For Development; and the Niger Ministry of | Proof of Concept | We are launching a project in Niamey, Niger that is funded by a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations grant. Our initiative, The “Vaccine Calendar Baby-Wrap” provides new mothers an illustrated version of the government–issued pediatric vaccination schedule in the practical form of a baby-carrying cloth. The GCE grant will fund a pilot project in partnership with the Niger Ministry of Health, and we have technical partnerships with the Niger WHO and UNICEF teams. | Niger subsidizes vaccinations, however, 59% of mothers surveyed had incorrect knowledge of the vaccination schedule. With the lowest female literacy rate in the world, only 52% of children are fully vaccinated, and 1 in 10 children do not survive past age 5. By leveraging the power of traditional textile design with visual symbols for counting time frames between appointments, the “Vaccine Calendar Baby-Wrap” will relay urgent health information, increase coverage, and reduce child mortality. | We are partnering with Nigerien artists to co-create a textile pattern that will use local symbols to display the vaccination schedule and total number of appointments. Printed with a West African printing company, the fabric will be distributed to new mothers as a complement to the Ministry of Health vaccination record booklet. Partnering with the Ministry of Health, we have aligned our message with government communication priorities, and this illustrated cloth serves as a baby-wrap: a useful, everyday reminder that is visible to other women in the community. By evaluating completion rates, we will advocate for inclusion in the Ministry’s next large-scale campaign. Leveraging existing traditions of textile design, the baby-wrap is a communication tool that supports and celebrates caregivers with accurate information and promoting health advocacy with their peers. The low-cost intervention of 2m of printed cloth will complement the existing health booklet and vaccination poster that are used within a gov't-sponsored program. This initiative is scalable for Niger and other resource-limited countries that struggle to convey accurate health information to a highly illiterate population. Outcomes of the Baby-Wrap project will be shared and assessed by our partner organizations as “best practices” for future initiatives. Our objective is to build upon our rapidly expanding network of international organizations for site-specific communication strategies in future campaigns. | While organizations dedicate time and funding towards developing programs and services to address the SDGs, there is a serious lack of culturally relevant communication materials designed with and for the populations who could benefit from the programs and services. ZTwist’s design strategy is an innovative process to inspire and facilitate collaboration between two distinct professional groups with contrasting skill sets—local artists and development professionals—for the co-creation of innovative communication materials that deliver specific messages to target audiences. ZTwist has a unique five-step process for building effective communication tools: 1.Introductory conversation with a partner organization with a communication initiative that fits our approach, including a review of the client’s programs or services and an analysis of the project scope and users’ needs. 2.Identification of a local artist for the co-creation of site-specific communication materials customized for the organizations needs and liaising between artist and client to develop and produce the new artwork. 3.Prototyping the new communication materials based on the organization’s prompts and input from providers and focus groups. 4.Delivery of art-based communication tool to the organization for distribution to population beneficiaries. 5.Analyzing impact with beneficiaries in focus groups and producing outcome studies. | The ZTwist Team includes focus groups and we conduct outcome studies for each of our initiatives in order to monitor and assess our work in an ongoing manner. Our impact is measured according to our partner organization’s goals for the outreach campaign and the intended behavior change. Example of current/past projects: 1.Cervical Cancer Prevention, Mali, West Africa. For GAIA Vaccine Foundation. “Talking Textile” produced with illustrations and messages to promote screenings. Impact: 3,271 women screened, 5-fold increase in screening rates. 2.Gold Star Clinics: Rebuilding Trust in Maternal Health Care, Guinea, West Africa. For Johns Hopkins Health Communications Capability Collaborative. Impact: “Talking Textile” distributed to 500 women who completed prenatal care and gave birth at a Gold Star Clinic. 3.HPV Vaccination and Cervical Cancer Prevention, Mali, West Africa. For GAIA Vaccine Foundation. Impact: 5,611 women screened. 793 girls received HPV vaccination. 4.Family Planning Options for Women in Southwest Uganda, Mbarara, Uganda. For Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. Impact: 100 printed calendars were distributed to women patients at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. 5.Girls Go to School, Kasese, Uganda. For the Kasese Elders. A mural in the village center depicting images of young girls working and at home surrounding a central image of a young girl at school carrying books and surrounded by protecting village elders and her parents. | Year 1: Niger Pilot Project with the “Vaccine Calendar Baby-Wrap”. Project collaborators will include Ministry of Health partners, our behavioral scientist collaborator, Mika Kunieda, of Keio University, and Nigerien artists. 1,000 mothers will receive the baby-wrap and we aim to improve vaccination coverage among 1,000 infants. Year 2: Niger project submitted for scale-up through the Gates Foundation, GAVI, and UNICEF. We aim to implement a pilot project currently in development with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health Communication Team to create visual education tools to promote cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination. Ethiopia implemented their first national HPV vaccination campaign in 2019, and it is a crucial time to communicate about cervical cancer prevention. Year 3: ZTwist Design will scale up the Ethiopia cervical cancer education project for national distribution with the Ministry of Health Communication team. Summary: By working in partnership with country Ministries of Health, we seek to create sustainable solutions, such as connecting ministry communication teams with local artists, that can have a national impact and serve as best practices for equitable communication strategies. | ZTwist is currently seeking investor funding and grants for the first three years to support our staff salaries during our pilot programs, which will serve as proof of concept for national scale-up and integration into Ministry of Health communication strategies. Short term: Start-up funding to support staff salaries during project pilot phases. We currently have two active grants to support pilot phase activities. Medium-term: Expanded visibility and documentation to share best practices. We have been invited to international conferences, and we continue to seek opportunities to share our work and collaborate with new partners. Outcomes of the Baby-Wrap project will be shared and assessed by our technical partners (WHO, UNICEF) as “best practices” for future work with ZTwist. ZTwist’s objective is to build upon its rapidly expanding network of international organizations as clients for site-specific communication strategies in future campaigns. Long-term: After year three, we expect to reach the break-even point for our start-up costs, and we will continue to scale-up efforts while supporting ourselves with new organizational clients and projects. | https://www.ztwist.design/ | While I have had many opportunities to speak, including presentations at international conferences and guest lectures at universities, I do not have any videos of audio recordings yet. I have also participated in 3 “pitch night” presentations, including the United Nations World Food Program Innovation Accelerator funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A selected list of speaking engagements is copied below (full list in CV): 1. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Innovation Accelerator Pitch Night, “Vaccine Calendar Baby-Wrap: Carrying Infants to Vaccination in Niger, West Africa”, Vaccine Delivery Bootcamp, United Nations World Food Program, Munich, Germany, June 2019 2. New England Medical Innovation Center Women's Health + Entrepreneurship Lecture Series, “The Talking Textile Designing New Patterns of Healthcare Access in Low-Resource Regions”, Providence, RI, May 2019 3. Global Health and Innovation Conference, ""The Talking Textile: Designing New Patterns of Healthcare Access in Low-Resource Regions,"" Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 2018 & 2019 4. Guest Lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Design-Lab class, ""Working in Communities: Building Trust as the First Step for Successful Development Initiatives,"" Boston, MA, April 2018 & 2019 5. Better World By Design Conference, “Experiments in Social Fabric: Community Workshops in Peru and Textile Design in West Africa,” Brown University, Providence, RI, Sept. 2018 | 1. Winner of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations Award, Increasing Demand for Vaccination Services (Round 22, $100,000) for the project, “Vaccination Calendar Baby-Wrap: Carrying Infants to Vaccines in Niger, West Africa” 2. Winner of a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Design Innovation Grant ($6,000) for ““Information Equity for Ethiopians & the Ethiopian Diaspora” 3. Winner of a DesignXRI catalyst grant ($5,000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
891 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ali | El Husseini | Medici Land Governance | https://www.mediciland.com/ | CEO | Male | United States of America | Lebanon | Arabic | English | French | Spanish | As we have begun to build a portfolio of collaboration with partners in various parts of the world, we are drawn to locations in countries with developing economies where there is a strong sense of community along with a sincere desire to ensure everyone has the means to achieve a quality of life that is productive and manageable. We believe this starts with the gateway to land and property rights. Thus, we work with governments and their communities to build blockchain-based products to help them manage land titling, services administration and revenue generation. | Ali El Husseini, Ph.D., is the CEO of Medici Land Governance (MLG), a company established in 2018 as a subsidiary of Overstock.com. MLG’s mission is focused on using emerging technologies, including blockchain, to empower governments in developing countries at the national, regional and local levels to secure land rights for its citizens and to develop interactive systems and mobile applications that provide unprecedented access and economic opportunity to landowners. The long-term impact is to foster transparency in land administration and land reform programs and promote the objectives of gender equality, financial inclusion for all citizens, poverty reduction and elimination and sustainable economic growth. MLG currently has pilot programs and signed MOUs in Zambia (both at the national level and with the capital city of Lusaka), Rwanda, and Tulum, Mexico. MLG recently completed its first partnership in the U.S. with Teton County in Wyoming to record property records to a blockchain-based land and property management platform. Recently it announced a revenue-generating contracts in Lusaka Zambia. He has been with Overstock since 2009, serving in a variety of positions including vice-president of the company’s global division. An expert in Lebanese constitutional politics, he received in his PhD in political science and government from The University of Utah. He also is a board director with Bitt, a financial technology company utilizing blockchain and distributed ledger digital applications to facilitate secure peer-to-peer transactions with seamless mobile money. | Systematic Land Titling, Land Administration System, Land Records on BlockChain | Medici Land Governance is using blockchain and other technologies to provide user-friendly, low-cost land administration systems. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Zambia, Rwanda, Liberia, Mexico, St. Kitts, USA | Yes | Government ministries, Municipalities: Ministry of Land, Zambia; Lusaka City Council; Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, Liberia; Government of Rwanda with emphasis in Kigali; Rwanda Land Management and Use Authority; The World Bank | Transition to Scale | Successfully conducted a pilot project in Zambia (Lusaka) to collect homeowner data for 50,000+ titles. Also proof of concept made Teton County the first county in the United States to record land information, including warranty deeds, mortgages, release of liens, and other similar documents, on a blockchain-based platform. | MLG formally recognizes land & property rights and ensures marginalized individuals have access to essential documents and titles. With land records stored on blockchain, ownership is verified & recognized by local and global economies. Blockchain applied to land & property rights improves lives, stimulates economies, provides economic security & strengthens communities. MLG supports agencies in the digitization of their current land records, engendering trust in data by reducing human error. | In its simplest definition, Blockchain is a verified digital ledger of transactions. to deliver fully operational blockchain-based architecture to handle all types of land information records and to process transactions for payments of taxes, public utilities, permits, licenses, and other levies. It has the capability to authenticate information and make it tamper proof. It can enable micropayments and open the doors to new forms of economic entrepreneurship and enterprise for all users. There are real benefits to be achieved with this revolutionary paperless platform. With what we plan to accomplish, all of the activities associated with a land registry can be automated. The risks of losing data are all but eliminated. And, with a fully secure record now accessible, the data will be accurate. This means that both government and businesses can improve their planning and their forecasting. The blockchain ecosystem gives a voice potentially to every person in a city, district, region or country. | We provide features bundled together that exceed or are distinguished from competitors and that meet all key LCC expectations as officials have defined: proven implementation in a governmental unit, precise drone technology, demonstrated capacity for immutability, open source mobile platforms for payment and transaction processing and a perpetual license for the system. | In terms of the phases of solutions methodology, MLG already has moved from the requirements analysis and documentation as well as the pilot design and build phases to the current system testing and implementation phase. Medici Land Governance (MLG) has instituted a series of validation checks throughout data collection and post data collection to ensure one goal: home owner information is accurate and reflected appropriately in our database that feeds to a government’s land titling system. We understand the importance of supplying complete homeowner information to the council and the Ministry for recommendation and offering a title to the appropriate home owner. MLG’s thorough validation checks and additional insight into 3rd party data sets are compared to MLG’s data. These 3rd party data sets include World Bank Center for Statistical Offices (CSO) and relevant public and governmental offices responsible for such data. | Impacts for Individuals: Propensity to invest in or develop property; access to capital and financial markets; confidence property rights will be protected by law enforcement; secure rights for women and children. Impacts for Nations: GDP growth; per capita annual income growth; higher foreign investment: secure rights for women and children; improved systems that efficiently administer and serve citizens in a user-centric, efficient, and cost-effective way. Potential expansion markets: Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa. Projected expansions and targets: We will expand on existing projects with a focus on creating sustainable revenue streams. For example, in Rwanda and Zambia, plans for the full scope of the project include developing a blockchain-based program that includes a mobile platform and capabilities for mobile payments. The platform will accommodate streamlined regulations and data collection to assist future government decisions around city planning and land use. The year of 2019 represents an ambitious goal: We are targeting producing 5 million records ready to be validated for issuing land and property titles. We believe this is feasible, especially as we look toward exponential growth of as much as tenfold annually in the forthcoming years. Likewise, we are exploring how to grow our presence and network through preliminary discussions elsewhere on the African continent, Central and South America and other regions including the United Arab Emirates. | Short-Term: Allocate resources and formalize arrangements for consistent high-quality performance in contractors who are supervised directly by an MLG manager (develop better referral sources locally; hire a country manager with proven business and project management skills). Short- and Medium-Term: Strengthen high-level communications with spectrum of stakeholders and secure formal signoff as early in the process as possible (e.g., respective government ministries, local authorities, field managers and technicians, The World Bank). Fix, revise and implement technology requirements, expectations, and objectives by adoption and implementation of blockchain with follow-up thorough database reporting, which should be standardized. Medium- and Long-Term: Identify country-specific advantages and disadvantages in political, economic and business issues. Highlight network connections in key industries, land governance reform and advancement, technology implementation and adoption. Identify and cultivate relationships with skilled regionally- and locally-based professionals whose expertise can fortify our knowledge base and capital (e.g., enumerators and community centers and councils for logistics coordination). | https://www.coindesk.com/wyoming-county-moves-to-put-land-records-on-blockchain https://coinreport.net/rwandan-govt-medici-land-governance-mou/ https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/overstocks-medici-land-governance-mlg-to-use-blockchain-registry-in-zambia/ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/medici-land-governance-makes-teton-130000838.html https://www.coindesk.com/overstocks-medici-inks-deal-for-local-land-registry-in-mexico https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2018/12/142602-overstock-subsidiary-medici-land-governance-signs-up-wyoming-county-to-provide-blockchain-based-records/ https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/overstocks-medici-land-governance-to-use-blockchain-with-the-rwandan-government/ https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/05/22/1840827/0/en/Medici-Land-Governance-Signs-MOU-with-Lusaka-City-Zambia-to-Develop-and-Deploy-a-Land-Governance-Platform-and-Support-Property-Title-Issuance.html https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/this_just_in/article_c3244ee3-dd0f-5c92-b01f-b3d7644b2faa.html https://mediciland.com/; http://www.lasnoticiasdetulum.com/2019/02/firman-carta-de-intencion-para.html | https://youtu.be/xHugPfMs2Jg https://youtu.be/xaVHIG05bsg https://youtu.be/SWkXCn0JMlQ https://youtu.be/rsNeKP3CQ5o https://youtu.be/m8maUCbS0Oo https://youtu.be/1ig6w0NS6sA | https://medium.com/floblockchain/medici-land-governance-to-be-showcased-at-the-land-and-poverty-conference-with-the-world-bank-dd371694d97 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
892 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Laura | Stachel | We Care Solar | www.wecaresolar.org | Co-Founder and Executive Director | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | As an obstetrician, I envision a world where all mothers and newborns survive childbirth. I co-founded We Care Solar to address a critical aspect of global maternal and newborn health care - the need for reliable electricity. We Care Solar designs innovative “Solar Suitcases” to equip last-mile health centers with energy-efficient medical lights, fetal monitors, and mobile communication. We are launching our ambitious ""Light Every Birth"" initiative to scale our solution by 400% over five years, working country-by-country in SubSaharan Africa to ensure EVERY public health center has clean energy for safe childbirth. I am eager to connect with key policymakers, peers, and global leaders at the Solutions Summit to (1) highlight the importance of clean energy access for maternal-newborn survival and (2) optimize scaling opportunities for Light Every Birth, catalyzing new partnerships; and building global alliances. Annually, 300,000 mothers and 1 million newborns die from pregnancy-related complications, primarily in energy-deficient health centers in SubSaharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Health workers struggle in near darkness, unable to perform routine and emergency procedures. They rely on substandard and polluting forms of light including candles and kerosene lanterns. We Care Solar interlinks SDGs for health care, energy access, gender equity, and climate action. We partner with governments and NGOs to implement our programs, promoting clean energy, women’s leadership, and building local capacity in solar installation, maintenance, and servicing. To date, we have reached 4,000 health facilities in 20 countries, improving healthcare for 3.6 million mothers and newborns and reducing mortalities. We estimate more than 100,000 health centers lack reliable electricity and we are eager to address the urgent need for our sustainable solution. | Dr. Laura Stachel worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist for 14 years before turning to public health after a back injury curtailed her clinical practice. While researching maternal mortality in Nigeria in 2008, she observed physicians struggling to provide basic obstetric services and perform C-sections without electricity, by the light of a cell phone alone. Stachel realized the connection between extreme energy poverty and extreme maternal mortality rates in the developing world. She co-founded We Care Solar with her husband, a solar innovator, and developed a simple, portable solar unit to equip remote health facilities in some of the most neglected regions of the world. Stachel received her M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco and M.P.H. in Maternal and Child Health from the University of California, Berkeley. She was the associate director of emergency obstetric research in West Africa for the Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability; the P.I. on a MacArthur Foundation project on We Care Solar Suitcase usage in Nigeria and Uganda; co-investigator for a collaborative Population Council study to assess the standard of maternity care in Nigerian state hospitals; and a staff researcher at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at U.C. Berkeley. She serves on the editorial board for the Berkeley Wellness Letter and co-chaired an international working group on energy and health for the UN Foundation. | The We Care Solar Suitcase | We Care Solar provides the power to save lives. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Subsaharan Africa, with current focus on Liberia, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. We are working in Nepal. | Yes | International NGOs (e.g. Pathfinder International, Jhpiego, CUAMM); local NGOs (e.g. One Heart Worldwide, Brick by Brick); UN Agencies (UNICEF, UNFPA, UNWomen); Ministries of Health; midwifery associations | Scaling | We have refined our product, established proof-of-concept, and analyzed our programs and processes. Now we are accelerating operations to support the rapid scaling strategy of Light Every Birth, partnering with ministries, UN agencies, and NGOs. Country-by-country, we are enlisting economies of scale and collaborative networks cultivated over years. We just completed Light Every Birth Liberia, reaching 430 centers. We aim to cover five countries in five years, to reach 8300 health centers. | Tragically, maternal and neonatal mortalities claim 1,000,000 newborns and 300,000 mothers every year; most deaths are preventable. The lack of reliable electricity in last-mile health centers is a significant barrier to lifesaving care. WHO estimates 72% of Sub-Saharan health facilities lack reliable electricity: 25% have no electricity at all. Reliable electricity is critical for healthy childbirth, and by replacing candles and kerosene lanterns, clean energy also promotes a healthy planet. | We developed an innovative technology and a sustainable service delivery model to provide midwives and doctors with reliable electricity for life-saving care. The We Care Solar Suitcase is a compact, renewable power source designed to provide the first 100 watts of electricity to maternal health centers. This complete 12-volt DC solar electric system comes with medical lights, rechargeable headlamps, a fetal heart monitor, and phone chargers for urgent referrals. It is designed to be easy to install, operate, and maintain. Waterproof medical LED lights last 70,000 hours and have appropriate color rendition for medical and surgical care. Solar panels recharge the system fully each day, ensuring light throughout the night. The lithium ferrous phosphate battery requires no maintenance and is easily replaced every five years. Local partnerships have been critical to the success and ‘ownership’ of this solution. We work with NGOs, government agencies, and UN agencies to identify energy-poor health centers, install Solar Suitcases and to train technicians and health workers on operation and long-term maintenance. We foresee collaborative R&D for additional energy-efficient medical applications. Our Light Every Birth initiative calls upon a coalition of governments, UN agencies, and NGOs to ensure every health center has reliable electricity for safe childbirth. Our long-term vision is to eradicate energy poverty in maternal health care by 2030 so that no woman dies giving life. | We Care Solar is the only organization providing a compact institutional-grade solar electric system for obstetric care that can be implemented at scale. The Solar Suitcase was designed in collaboration with health workers at under-resourced facilities in harsh environments. Each generation of the suitcase incorporates user feedback that advances the solution’s functionality and features. The Solar Suitcase is distinguished by its efficient approach to: •Need: Addresses an overlooked barrier to quality Universal Health Care (light and electricity) •Human-centered design: Immediately operational, plug-and-play, easy to use, friendly user-interface •Safety: Pre-wired system features overcurrent protection and a sealed battery •Medical optimization: 70,000-hour, surgical LED lights and fetal Doppler •Durability: Waterproof, break-resistant lights and connectors, 5-year battery •Adaptability: Rugged case enables either permanent installation or mobile use •Complete product: All installation hardware and tools are included •Sustainability: Remote monitoring capability improves tech support Our solution goes beyond technology alone. We work in partnership with local governments and NGOs to bring our technology to last-mile health centers and create long-term service plans. Our training programs build local capacity in solar installation, operation and maintenance. Proudly, our organization is led by women and promotes gender equity through our Women Solar Ambassador Program. | We have developed the third iteration of the Solar Suitcase, incorporating user feedback from health workers in multiple countries, and have analyzed our programs to develop a set of Best Practices Guidelines. We measure our impact through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, including interviews with health workers, technicians, and community members, and field observations of health centers with and without our technology. We also conduct surveys and secondary data analysis of health outcomes. We are developing a remote monitoring system to track performance and reduce the frequency of site visits - lowering maintenance costs and improving long-term reliability. In addition to health indicators, our metrics include: •number of health centers equipped with solar lighting and essential power; •number of mothers and infants served; •number of hours of nighttime medical lighting; •number of trained health workers, technicians, and installers; •tons of CO2 averted by displacing fossil fuels; and •number of development partners. We use these metrics to determine the success of our delivery model, measure the performance of the Solar Suitcases, and measure our impact on health outcomes and quality of care. | Our Light Every Birth initiative scales up operations to match the scale of the problem of maternal mortality in Liberia, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe. Our goal is to equip every under-resourced government health center in these countries by 2025. In 2019, we successfully reached all 430 designated facilities in Liberia. Future milestones include phased completion of Uganda (600 facilities equipped to date/1500 remaining); Sierra Leone in (200 to date/700 remaining); Zimbabwe (135 to date/900 remaining) and Tanzania (485 to date/3000 to go). We will reach an estimated total of 8,300 communities, serving catchment populations totaling 41 million. We will add 3-5 staff per country to strengthen program management, partnerships and technical support, and train 800 technicians in installation and maintenance. 41,000 maternal health workers will have reliable electricity, ensuring they can promptly and confidently conduct routine and emergency procedures, detect fetal distress, and call for emergency help. In the first five years of Solar Suitcase operation, 20 million mothers will have access to quality care and 20 million newborns will have a safer start in life, meaning 20 million families will have a better chance of thriving. | Short term: Building local teams for program oversight and technical support; financing for product and program expansion Medium term: building a cadre of skilled solar installer and technicians, expansion of partners, enactment of our remote monitoring and sustainability plan Long term: Government ownership, government financing of maintenance plan | Website: www.wecaresolar.org Facebook page: www.facebook.com/WeCareSolar The Story Exchange: https://thestoryexchange.org/pain-derailed-doctors-career-started-5-million-nonprofit-saves-pregnant-womens-lives-world/ New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/climate/climate-change-groups.html BBC Report on Nepal: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40790559 UN Women on Liberia: http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2017/7/feature-maternal-health-gets-a-new-boost-in-liberia BBC on Malawi http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03nmfdw Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-doctors-solar-suitcase-idea-saves-african-lives-1407532625 Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-laura-stachel/shining-a-light-on-health_b_4254989.htmlhttp:// We Care Solar—The Power to Save Lives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=Ux1AB2K5jsE Innovation Solar Suitcase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC5LanAD6Eo | TedX Oakland: 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmoboaTNtWU UNDESA Acceptance Speech: 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEjvtg0f2B4 CNN Hero, 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=12&v=FZAvDmwjJnQ CNN Hero, 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=brrntOcgSMc TedX Bay Area, 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqsLZ374-DI KQED, 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=154&v=3h_Quso1QyM PBS News Hour, 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=rhJMmvW8UB4 PBS Evening News, 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=H95pkdoZu4A | Zayed Sustainability Prize, 2019 Edison Innovation Gold Award, 2019 Drucker Prize, 2017 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneers, 2017 Finalist, Lipman Prize, 2017 UNFCCC Momentum for Change Award, 2017 Finalist, Zayed Future Energy Prize, 2017 National Energy Globe Award, Ethiopia, 2016; Eritrea, 2015 UNDESA Award, 2015 UBS Optimus Award, 2015 Alumni Excellence Award, University of California San Francisco, 2015 Katerva Gender Equality Award, 2013 CNN Heroes, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
893 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | SAANI MOHAMMED | SAANI | HUMBLE SHEPHERD ORGANIZATION. | None | INNOVATOR | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | My motivation is to present a final cure for HIV/AIDS and all chronic diseases for testing and scale globally. My solution has other superseding benefits for washing and bathing without only my new water without soap and cleaning teeth with only my new water without toothpaste. My new water derived from my solution is used to water crops, it takes away smells from toilets and naturally treat toilet waste. It is a daily drinking water that also instantly dissolve more oil for more benefits. It is superior to all pharmaceutical medicines and is for both human and animal health, curing almost all diseases in one product. It is for fish rearing and conservation, wildlife, river and environmental conservation. It the best personal and dental care product. | I about 55 years old. I have Certificate in Education and served briefly with the Ghana Education Service till 2006. I have had many downfalls that also led me to discover and develop my solution. I am presently a student online with University of the People. | WATER BUTTER. | Dissolved vegetable oil ( Shea butter) in drinking water (H20).p | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | My solution is presently with me in Ghana but I wish to relocate to USA or Canada where I believe I could get support to scale it globally for a better world. | No | Proof of Concept | I have developed product to be scalable globally now and have discovered it uses and benefits through brief sale and. field observations. | My solution is for nutrition, healthcare, sanitation, agriculture, fish and animal rearing and health, personal and dental care, has potential for clean energy with seawater, etc., etc., | My solution is simply the ability to dissolve edible vegetable oil in H20. that offer many and superior benefits. It many consumer products in one. I am able to dissolve oil in water using data or information culled from the Quran. There is no any other material added to the Shea butter and yet it more potent that chemically produced products. Little quantity of WATER BUTTER can give us many gallons or litres of bottles of my new water. for cheaper and more effective and satisfying solutions and consumptions. | It is chemical free and contains no other material than data that is able to dissolve oil in water. It is many products in one and would replace normal drinking water, pharmaceutical medicines, soaps, toothpaste and render all cooked food and soft drinks into both nutritional and medicinal productd | I am the sole innovator. | Scale it globally now to cure HIV/AIDS all almost all diseases and for other benefits. | Money and equipment | www.vimeo.com/352140575 | www.vimeo.com/352140575 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
894 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Christie | Saint-Vil | NYC Mayor's Office for International Affairs | https://www1.nyc.gov/site/international/index.page | Strategic Relationships Manager | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | My motivation to be involved in the UN Solutions Summits is to continue to design and implement innovative practices to youth programs in NYC. Youth engagement on local and global solutions in the SDGs is critical and is a voice and presence that is often missing in conversations about challenges and solutions. I am inspired by our youth and their dedication to work towards addressing the SDGs in their own neighborhoods and to connect this work with global efforts. NYC Junior Ambassadors (NYCJA) is a powerful platform that empowers youth to become actively engaged with the United Nations by exploring the intersection of the most pressing local and global issues using the Sustainable Development Goals. Our office has proven through NYC Junior Ambassadors, that cities can be important partners to the UN in mobilizing people around the SDGs. NYCJA is sustainable and replicable because it’s a program that is cost effective. The tools we use are easily accessible and the partnerships (United Nations Foundation, UN Department for Global Communications, NYC Department of Education, NYC Department of Youth and Community Development) we’ve built can be replicated by other cities. | Christie Saint-Vil is the Strategic Relationships Manager, NYC Junior Ambassadors (NYCJA). In this role, she is responsible for designing and implementing quality program for youth and educators throughout NYC. She also plays a critical role in delivering on the Office’s core operational and protocol obligations, including facilitating the visits of delegations from governments (municipal, state, federal) around the world, while continuing to foster the strong relationship between the broad diplomatic community and the City. An experienced Educator, Christie has worked with non-profit organizations dedicated to global justice education with a focus on amplifying the voices of immigrants, women, and youth of color. She has served these communities in several capacities - including roles of program development, curriculum design, organizing, qualitative research and communications. Her past roles include consulting for Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa-- where she researched the social cohesion of immigrants and women through urban development and upgrading in Cape Town’s largest township. She also participated in Oxfam’s advocacy campaign: Protection of Civilians (P.o.C) in Armed Conflict. In that role, she delivered a practicum that provided an analysis of core issues, challenges and strategic recommendations to the United Nations’ P.o.C mandate. She is thrilled to work with the City where she can continue directing her passion for improving the welfare of individuals in NYC and in the Global South as well as providing access for marginalized communities. | New York City Junior Ambassadors | NYC Junior Ambassadors: Creating Global Diplomats, Locally | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | United States of America; the program can be replicated other cities as desired | Yes | nited Nations Foundation, UN Department for Global Communications, NYC Department of Education, NYC Department of Youth and Community Development | Scaling | Our office focuses on how 7th graders experience the UN and the SDGs. Though this focus is still a priority, the program has evolved into an experience for all stakeholders. NYCJA has fostered a community of people that are deeply committed to the SDGs because they’ve seen through our program the direct impact of their actions. Our original cohort of students is now in high school. Yet, they continue to work on the SDGs and to advocate for their issues. | In many communities around the world, youth are often excluded from decision making & lack support to create change in their lives. They are exposed to messages promoting exclusion over inclusion. Our office is at the forefront of combating harmful messages while reinforcing the values of equity, inclusion, & sustainability. We’ve worked to develop initiatives and programs that create strong links between the UN and New Yorkers as a way of highlighting the value of localizing action. | NYCJA targets New York City 7th graders (ages 11 – 13) at a critical time in their personal and intellectual growth and seeks to help them understand the real connections between themselves, their communities, and the world. In order to ensure equity of access, the application is geared toward educators in schools (public, private, charter), after-school and non-profit programs. This ensures that youth, regardless of their socio-economic backgrounds are able to benefit from the program. Particularly, it ensures the inclusion of youth with special needs and those that stem from low-income households or are new English language learners. NYC is home to the UN headquarters and the largest diplomatic community in the world. The city is also one of the most diverse in the world. As such, our office recognizes the importance of promoting diversity, inclusion, and global citizenship. We also know that the success of the Global Goals requires actions from all stakeholders. NYCJA is a program that is cost effective. We use existing staff lines to operate the program. Due to the limited budget, we identified key partners that could help us achieve our objectives by providing the services and tools needed. As the program has continued to evolve, our office also built partnerships with various UN and local entities. | The program transforms the way that people, especially youth, are able to connect their lives and experiences to the SDGs. NYCJA gives New Yorkers the capacity to identify ways they can take local actions to make a global impact. The program promotes inter-generational conversations about the importance of the UN and SDGs across NYC. The NYCJA program also engages UN community members at various levels and helps build closer connections to NYC. For program participants, curated and guided tours of the United Nations, UN tour guides and UN SDG subject matter experts participate in exchanges with NYC students and educators, learning about topics that interest them. Through the classroom visits, senior UN diplomats and their staff visit different parts of NYC and engage with NYC schools around the SDGs. They meet with numerous school administrators and learn about the operation of NYC schools. Ambassadors also have the opportunity to take tours of the schools and review the SDG learning taking place in the classroom. Other senior UN diplomats have also hosted program participants in their Mission. NYCJA successfully deepens youth and educators’ knowledge of the UN/SDGs by facilitating their learning and engagements. Students build a strong foundational understanding of the UN, providing them basic tools for understanding international affairs. NYCJA can serve as a strong model. The program mobilized various local and global stakeholder groups in order to promote all 17 Goals. | Since its launch in 2015, over 2,000 youth and educators have directly learned about the United Nations and its work through the SDGs. Thousands of additional youth and New Yorkers have been impacted indirectly through peer to peer learning and campaigns by our office and the students. Our participants have also welcomed senior diplomatic representatives in their classrooms from over 30 countries. The program has helped youth develop their self-concept and identity as global citizens. Educators reported that their students felt more connected to the world because they understood their power to resolve key issues. Participation in the program was also integral to helping youth develop a sense of responsibility for their wellbeing, those of their communities and the world in general. Educators in the program report feeling empowered to engage their administrators in continuing to teach about the UN/SDGs beyond the program. They also mentioned that they became more dedicated to global citizenship because they saw the growth and complexity in the thinking of their students. NYCJA also helps partners fulfill their mandate toward youth and the SDGs. It provides partners with access to NYC youth and educators. The program also gives them visibility in terms of ensuring New Yorkers are aware of their work toward achieving the SDGs. Many Ambassadors have continued to engage with the program because it enables them to better understand NYC’s efforts to localize the SDGs. | As our program enters its 5th year along with the alignment of the 75th anniversary of the United Nations, we are working with a new cohort of nearly 600 youth and educators. We also continue to leverage our alumni network by providing opportunities for engagement around the SDGs through partners such as UNICEF and the UN Department of Global Communications. Finally, we share best practices with cities and organizations interested in implementing their own versions of NYCJA. | The key resources is the development of more platforms for youth engagement. NYC Mayor's Office for International Affairs continues to work with partners to best identify these opportunities, we also continue to use existing resources that our partners have created to continue to empower these young people. Our program has been impressive in the way it has been high impact with limited resources. | Program Page: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/juniorambassadors/index.page 2019 H.E. María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés UN PGA of the 73rd Session to NYCJA Graduates: https://www.un.org/pga/73/2019/06/24/new-york-city-junior-ambassadors-year-end-celebration/ 2019 Press Release from Mayor De Blasio and IA Commissioner Abeywardena: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/international/downloads/pdf/nycja-2019-graduation.pdf NYC Junior Ambassador @ 2019 ECOSOC Youth Forum (SDG Media Zone): http://webtv.un.org/meetings-events/watch/young-leaders-sdg-media-zone-2019-ecosoc-youth-forum/6024363143001/?term=Universal 5 Middle School Girls Explain How Young People Can Change the World- Teen Vogue: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/five-middle-school-girls-change-the-world Who’s on the Security Council? New York City Junior Ambassadors Tour the UN- Patch Blue: 20 NYC Students Picked For Junior Ambassadors Program-Patch.com: https://patch.com/new-york/new-york-city/20-nyc-students-picked-junior-ambassadors-program Support Girls’ Empowerment Today –UN Medium Post: https://medium.com/@UN/support-girls-empowerment-today-18b13887367b | N/A | Named a 2019 DESA Good Practice in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/partnership/?p=30666 NYC Junior Ambassadors Program Educators Win Excellence in Education Awards, April 9, 2018 : https://www1.nyc.gov/site/juniorambassadors/media/2018-04-09-excellence-in-education-awards.page | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
895 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Robert | Rollins | US-Africa Children's Fellowship | www.usacf.net | Bridge Project Director | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | We are applying to the Solutions Summit to spread awareness of this remarkably powerful and economical tool for addressing the needs of under-resourced schools. Each of our pilot projects has brought educational resources to hundreds of students. Our upcoming projects in South Africa and Zimbabwe will train cohorts of young people and teachers to build their own digital library solutions. | Robert began his teaching career in 1991 in South San Francisco at a Model Science and Technology School. An early adaptor of educational technology in the classroom, Robert presented at many conferences and workshops. At Park Day School in Oakland, California Robert ran the technology department and was head of strategic planning. He successfully secured a grant bringing 110 Chromebooks to the school, bringing the middle school to a 1:1 student to laptop ratio. Robert has worked as an educational technology consultant for public and private schools and co-presented a research paper at the ACM- Human-Computer Interaction conference in Toronto. Robert joined USACF in 2015 and launched the Bridge Project in 2016 to use educational technology to help support teachers and students in under-resourced schools. | Learning to build low-cost, portable, solar-powered digital libraries from locally available components. | Teachers and students are learning to build and deploy digital libraries for under-resourced schools and classrooms. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe | Yes | CAAP (Zimbabwe), The Mother's of Africa Trust (Ghana), Teba Fund Trust (SA) | Proof of Concept | Initial Digital Library implementations used a commercially available product - the RACHEL-plus from World Possible. This innovation (the ""Bridge Pi"") is a low-cost, locally build-able and supportable device, that is aligned to local needs. This is now being tested in several communities/schools in resource constrained African countries. | In 2017, the Ghanaian government made secondary education free. Many students attend schools that are under resourced. Many children, particularly those living in rural areas, struggle to stay in school. This intervention is aimed to boost access to educational materials that are high quality and motivational to teachers and students. This addresses: - Low literacy rates - Low pass rates between grade levels - Lack of STEM materials - Low confidence | This ""digital library"" solution uses widely available parts and opensource components, including a solar panel, battery pack, Raspberry Pi computer and high quality content and materials that can be built and supported locally. Using a video projector or screen, along with WiFi enabled computers or tablets, this allows for easy access and management within the school. Students then have access to otherwise inaccessible materials (books, instructional videos, math and science video lessons, computer science instruction, and more). This augments the existing curriculum, providing a rich learning environment that intends to improve educational outcomes and keep girls in school longer. | There are others providing similar solutions, but this approach blends hands-on training with schools, a ""maker"" approach with students who become engaged ""design thinkers"" who are able to mentor others, support the library and provide feedback for improvement. In addition, using simple, open source tools, it has a locally customization web interface allowing for local control and ease of access to the materials (to use, and to add new materials directly at the school). Finally, it's relatively simple to use and support, is low cost, while providing a robust collection of materials organized for easy access and use! | We launched our first pilot in Zimbabwe in 2016, added two sites in South Africa in 2017, and then four more in Zimbabwe. Our first deployments used the “RACHEL-plus” device purchased in the U.S. Late in 2018 we began focusing on teaching students and teachers to assemble digital libraries on site. A first way we assess progress is by analyzing the data from the digital library’s usage log which records not only time and duration of use, but which content was accessed. We can see whether teachers or administrators are adding their own content. Also, we see how many students are progressing in active student accounts. We have not yet been able to conduct a study comparing progress at a participant school with a control group. We rely on interviews and observations taken during M&E visits three times/year. | Ghana: Zimbabwe: South Africa: | To bring the Bridge Project to a new site the principal cost is for the support visits (three a year for two years). Reaching schools in very remote areas adds cost, of course. We use the estimate of $3,000/school. Our short-term goal is to add 20 schools (roughly $60,000). Our medium-term goal is to set up “Build Days” in more remote areas. We are targeting 40 schools requiring roughly $120,000. Our long term goal is for the Bridge Project to scale to 1,000 schools, with a pricetag of over $300,000. | https://www.usacf.net/cause/bridge-project/ https://sched.co/SeYO https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2557225 | Testimonials: • “Things that I found were amazing, absolutely great . . .” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfBY_F4PaN4 •“Inspired me to write more poems . . .” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKo-jsY8_DA •“3-D diagrams that have really assisted students . . .” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyYhOrsagpk | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
896 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Susan | Harnett | Rewriting the Code | www.rewritingthecode.org | Founder & President | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | When Rewriting the Code (RTC) launched in January 2017, our efforts focused on supporting college women in the United States. We quickly discovered that the low retention rates of women studying computer science and engineering was not a uniquely US challenge. Rewriting the Code fully expanded to incorporate Canadian women in late 2017. The tremendous growth of the Rewriting the Code student community in the US and Canada has generated awareness across the globe with student inquiries from sixteen countries to date. Research supports the outpouring of interest for educational programming, community building, mentorship, applied work experiences and more. Rewriting the Code has opened online webinars to this broad international community of college women, but we know we can do much more in building and activating communities across many more countries to support many more young women. The UN Solutions Summit would allow Rewriting the Code to share the nonprofit business model we have created and serve as a platform in deploying across many countries. We would recommend expanding to Europe, China and India as countries with both student need and RTC corporate sponsor connections. | Sue Harnett has been an entrepreneur in the technology space since 2003. Her most recent venture is a virtuous startup: Rewriting the Code. RTC couples Harnett’s passions for mentorship and technology through a 501(c)(3) structure. The organization's mission is to recruit, retain and advance college women-in-tech. Since the nonprofit’s launch in January 2017 over 3,000 undergraduates from 360 universities joined the RTC community. RTC is conducting prospective research to understand and address why women leave technology-related degree programs and jobs at unprecedented rates. Harnett entered the startup arena when she founded Replay Photos – a sports e-commerce + technology business with a host of top collegiate and professional brands. Harnett’s success with intellectual property commercialization, college students, entrepreneurs & start-up companies comes from her ability to recognize the viability of a concept, develop a foundational infrastructure for it, and quickly scale the idea into a business. She has deep experience in raising multiple rounds of capital, and attributes the largest part of her success to creating teams of highly-motivated colleagues who embrace a culture of independence and motivation to do great things every day. Harnett, a native of SI, NY, holds 2 degrees from Duke University, including a master’s degree in Health Care Administration. Harnett started for the Duke women’s basketball team and graduated as an All-America selection. She is a charter inductee of the Duke Basketball Hall of Honor and the fourth all-time leading scorer | Supporting, Retaining and Advancing College Women in Tech | 50% of the enrollment in introductory college computer science & engineering courses are women, the average graduation rate of women with computer s | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | While 50% of the enrollment in introductory college computer science and engineering courses are women, the average graduation rate of women with computer science and engineering degrees has been less than 20% for the past 15 years. | Yes | 3,000 college women studying computing majors and company supporters including Bank of America, Bandwidth, Capital One, Fidelity, the Investors Exchange, American Express, Apple, Facebook, Lyft, Teamworks, RTI, Cree, PwC, Two Sigma and more | Scaling | Rewriting the Code has developed a community of 3,000 women in tech and partnered with 25+ tech companies. | While 50% of the enrollment in introductory college computer science and engineering courses are women, the average graduation rate of women with computer science and engineering degrees has been less than 20% for the past 15 years. And the dropout continues at an alarming rate once these women have taken jobs with tech companies. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics | Rewriting the Code’s (RTC) goal is to retain college women in computer and engineering degrees and prepare them to excel in future tech careers. RTC’s fast-growing, student-led and empowered community of 3,000+ college women comes from 360+ universities across the US and Canada. Over the course of the 12-month program, RTC builds a supportive community to cultivate skills and support women navigate biases and feelings of isolation. RTC also connects women with companies across a variety of industries and locations. Partner companies benefit from access to a more diverse, skilled talent pipeline. Companies also take an active role in women’s collegiate journey by providing career path exposure, personal and leadership development, mentorship, role models, and summer work experiences or internships. Over 600 RTC graduates will join technology companies in 2019, and RTC will continue to support these women through the Alumni Program as they transition from their respective academic campuses to the technology workplace. Alumni strengthen the RTC community by infiltrating the tech industry and providing valuable mentorship, opportunities, and access to undergraduate women. | RTC is focused on college women in tech. While 50% of the enrollment in introductory college computer science and engineering courses are women, the average graduation rate of women with computer science and engineering degrees has been less than 20% for the past 15 years. And the dropout continues at an alarming rate once these women have taken jobs with tech companies. RTC is the only organization focused exclusively on supporting college women in tech. | I. Student Programming RTC’s 12-month student support programs mirror the relevant needs of Fellows & Members throughout the community’s academic and summer schedules. II. Undergraduate Student Community Support The ability to identify, build and participate in peer communities is the cornerstone for retaining college women in tech and helping them flourish in their academic journeys and future tech careers. III. RTC Alumni In the spring 2019, RTC alumni and upcoming graduates came together to create a post-graduate community of women who participated as RTC Fellows + Members. IV. Mentorship RTC Fellows have access to a wealth of women and men who support, encourage and share personal and professional guidance. V. Longitudinal Research Since the inception of RTC in January 2017, the organization has collected student data and experiences though an array of channels including Fellow and Member applications, surveys, interviews and social media. VI. Conferences National and regional conferenced focused on college women in tech offer an opportunity for education, community building and interaction with tech companies. | Goal: To achieve maximum insights from RTC students, alumni and company constituents relating to a variety of topics. Examples may include: Undergraduates: academic, internship and recruiting experiences as a woman in tech Alumni: transition from campus to the workplace, experiences in the workplace, lessons to share with undergraduate women in tech Companies: most effective recruiting practices, factors that affect student employment decisions, how to best relate to underrepresented minorities, internship program best practices Time Period: •August 2019-July 2020 •4 Surveys (ideal): •RTC would provide the draft survey objective and questions for each survey PopulationFocusTimelineStatus 1RTC Undergraduate Students Post-Internship SurveyJuly 2019: Design August 2019: Data Collection Sept/Oct 2019: Data Analysis/InsightsSummer 2019 inaugural survey designed. Data collection and analysis forthcoming 2CompaniesStudent InsightsNov/Dec 2019: Design Jan 2020: Data Collection March/April 2020: Data Analysis/InsightsNew 3AlumniEarly Career ExperienceApril 2020: Design May 2020: Data Collection Jun/July 2020: Data Analysis/InsightsNew 4RTC Undergraduate StudentsPre-Internship SurveyMarch 2020: Design April 2020: Data Collection May/June 2020: Data Analysis/InsightsSpring 2019 inaugural survey designed, data collected, initial analysis completed | Rewriting the Code has developed a strong model and infrastructure that is ready to scale and deploy worldwide. Short Term: dedicated employee to launch the European market Medium: employees and travel to construct a relationship with China-based universities with relationships to US-based universities, I.e., Duke University Long Term: corporate relationships and staff to deploy model across India & Africa | Rewriting the Code: www.rewritingthecode.org https://youtu.be/E510OOE43eY http://movesforum.com/2019/06/04/sue-harnett/ | not available | Finalist for a 2019 Triangle Business Journal Leaders in Diversity Award 2019 TAPIA Conference Presentor: Rewriting the Code College Women in Tech Data Initiative – Findings and Recommendations http://tapiaconference.org/schedule/friday-september-20-2019/115pm-215pm/rewriting-the-code-college-women-in-tech-data-initiative-findings-and-recommendations/ ACT-W: Achieving Equity, our diversity, equity & inclusion focused summit, will be held from Wednesday, June 26 to Thursday, June 27, 2019. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
898 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Gloria | Sackey-Bobson | Green Africa Youth Organization | www.greenafricayouth.com | Program Assistant | Female | Ghana | Ghana | English | This opportunity presents my organization the platform to share our sustainable community project to a larger audience. The sustainable community project is the roadmap we have in mind to improve the waste menace, especially plastic waste and curb the indiscriminate dumping and burning of waste in open spaces in a lot of Ghanaian communities, a situation which is not so different from what occurs in other West African Countries. It takes on a zero-waste model approach together with education to steer the locals' minds from the traditional linear economy to a more circular economy to help us make good use of our limited resources whilst minimizing our waste. As part of our project which is currently in a pilot stage in a rural community in Ghana, we have been able to sensitize the community on the importance of segregating their waste at source and using the organic component to grow their own food, and recycling the plastic waste into valuable artifacts like raincoats, laptop sleeve etc to prevent them from blocking the drains which leads to flooding every time it rains in the community. Our innovation has also helped decrease the number of respiratory diseases report at the hospital as open burning which was the preferred way of getting rid of waste has been brought to a halt. | Gloria Sackey-Bobson is the Programs Assistant for the Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), a youth-led organization that provides solutions to pressing environmental issues. Gloria is a passionate environmentalist who's research focuses on empowering women and youth while conserving biodiversity. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Toronto, Canada and a Bachelor’s from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science Technology, Ghana. In her spare time, you are likely to catch her reading a book on development or watching a documentary on marine life. | Sustainable Community Project | The Sustainable Community Project is a zero waste model approach that seeks to ensure that communities are greener and safe from filth | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Ghana | Yes | Global Alliance Against Incineration, KidsRight and Challenges Ghana | Proof of Concept | We have been able to engage key stakeholders like the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, the Ghana Education Service, the District Assembly, and the traditional rulers within the district on the project idea. We have involved three (3) schools on disaster risk reduction management workshop and acquired a plot of land where we use organic waste to fertilize the soil and teach the students how to grow vegetables and other food crops. | The New Edubiase community battles with the improper and indiscriminate dumping of waste which has led to an increase of sanitation-related disease like cholera, malaria, typhoid, diarrhea, as well as increase respiratory disease. Women and children are the most susceptible to this when there is an outbreak of disease. It has been asserted that 2 out of 5 children lose their lives to the preventable environmental hazard. | The Sustainable Community Project emphasizes the segregation of waste at source, an activity that is not prominent in most urban and rural cities in Ghana. We collect segregated plastic waste and organic waste from households to our material recovery facility. The plastic waste is recycled and used for an artwork by students. This is later sold to the general public to generate revenue to help fund students who cannot afford necessities for school. Organic and agricultural waste are composted and carbonized for fertilizers and charcoal briquettes respectively. The long term vision is to see this project replicated in all urban and rural communities in Ghana. This will help reduce the number of plastics in our seas, improve agricultural yield because of the compost addition, reduce the deforestation rate as the charcoal briquettes will replacing the felling of trees for fuelwood, and ultimately lead to a cleaner, greener and healthier environment. | The project is purposely set out to identify and work with school children, unemployed youth and potential drop-outs by re-enrolling them in schools and empowering them with sustainable behavior which instills in them a sense of responsibility for their environment and at the same time making the children feel and know they are heroes of change in the society. It also allows for the training of women to use excess agricultural waste such as rice husk and coconut shell in producing briquettes to replace the felling of trees and producing charcoal for sale. The project makes use of the incentives and rewards system helping to sustain the project. The people in the community are eager to separate their waste because they are rewarded via a scholarship base for their wards, students are made change ambassadors and the women are empowered as they make extra income to take care of their household. | We have made progress of about 60%. Our project is measured against the following key performance indicators: establishing a proper waste management structure for the community and reduction in santion related diseases; reducing child labor and increase youth participation in proper waste management; providing compost for farmers and setting up organic gardens for impoverished families; and empowering women with skills to generate income from waste and save trees. | In the next 18 months, we have plans of reducing the usage of single-use plastics by 70% within the community, directly engage over 300 youth in compost production and setting up community farms, and provide direct employent to at least 100 marginalized women in the community. | Funds are our most vital resource. We have estimated a budget of US$50,000 to cater for charcoal briquette production and establishment; compost preparation, community farm and urban gardens; waste management, disaster risk reduction workshop and dustbin distributions; business support service and training for participating farmers and briquette producers amongst others. Our short-term needs include resources to organize education forums for pupils, farmers, firewood producers and wood mill operators. The medium-term needs spans include empowering and training of partipants in recycle arts and production. The long-term needs are equipment for charcoal briquettes production on a larger scale, acquiring several pieces of land for compost preparation for community farms and urban gardens. It also include endorsement of our products by regulatory bodies in order for us to obtain access to both local and international market for our compost, harvest and recyclables. | https://greenafricayouth.com/category/sustainable-community-project/ | https://www.voaafrique.com/a/4643408.html?fbclid=IwAR1Mf6VlCS9bZu5yOmBgLFeXuyA1g2mokHYxFgnJfbbegpcaQtxg4ENUSEo&withmediaplayer=1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
899 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Dele | Atanda | The Internet Foundation | www.theinternet.foundation | CEO | Male | United States of America | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | Technology is changing the face of our planet and the fabric of our societies in ways hitherto unimaginable. I strive to be counted among those who have made it more empathetic and successful in advancing humanity and humanness. I am an entrepreneur and visionary, passionate about data’s role in transforming society. I am CEO of metaMe, the world’s first self-sovereign AI and universal smart data marketplace, and founder of The Internet.Foundation, NGO dedicated to advancing the ethical use of data. | Dele Atanda – Entrepreneur, Innovator, Future Hacker Dele Atanda is a serial entrepreneur and acclaimed digital visionary. He is CEO of metaMe, the world’s first Self-Sovereign AI and Universal Smart Data Marketplace, and founder of The Internet.Foundation, an NGO dedicated to advancing the ethical use of data in commerce while establishing digital rights as an extension of human rights. Atanda is a celebrated innovator having led digital innovations for FTSE10 and Fortune 100 companies that have become the gold standard for digital engagement within their sectors. Prior to metaMe he led IBM’s Automotive, Aerospace and Defense sector as Chief Digital Innovation Officer. Atanda has been a pioneering voice on the emergence of web 3.0 technologies, notably with his critically acclaimed book The Digitterian Tsunami: Web 3.0 and the Rise of the N.E.O Citizen published in 2013. He is an avid advocate of the potential of decentralized technologies to advance humanity while positively and dramatically transforming society. | metaKey | 1.The key to your digital life - Private, secure and resistant to crime | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Curerently in the US with plans in Thailand, China, Japan, the UK, Kenya, Ethiopia. | Yes | Muckr.ai, metaMe Inc | Proof of Concept | Architecture and design have completed Alpha product currently in development. It will be used in a closed pilot initiative with a world leading technology company beginning in Q4 of 2019 to test a “trusted data” and “trust-less data sharing” proposition with a test group of users sharing highly sensitive medical information. The pilot will be used to prove the technology’s ability to create reliable data that can be shared confidentially without risk of identification by unauthorized parties. | 60mn stateless people lack reliable ID. 2bn are unbanked from a lack of formal ID. Centralized ID hacked regularly exposing billions. People reducing digital footprint to minimise exposure to crime. Surveillance economies proliferate influencing and exploiting societies. Surveillance proof IDs are essential for growth and preventing a failure of democracy, but in conflict with the need to track to prevent crime, presenting an extremely difficult challenge to solve privately and securely. | metaKey is a self-sovereign identity service bringing citizens ID ownership and networks activity analysis to isolate and expel malicious actors without exposing IDs. On one hand it gives citizens agency, ownership and control of their ID. On the other it uses AI with anonymous and pseudonymous activity analysis to identify nefarious activities like money laundering, terrorism and other crimes across the network, preventing them from happening while preserving identity confidentiality. It is private by design and shares the minimum data needed to complete tasks and access services, commonly known as zero-knowledge proof. It is also network agnostic and can integrate multiple private and public identity provisioning services. It is immutable and censorship resistant meaning citizen’s identities can be persistent regardless of citizenship status. It models fidelity of identity data based on footprint through activity, and vectors of relationships of the identities within the system, with sentiment analysis and analysis for bots built in to gauge associated content and transactions in how they are created and the velocity of their spread. It also verifies data using various forms of attestation ensuring it is reliable and trustworthy while using state of the art cryptography to enable trustless data sharing. This means authorities and service providers can be rely on data veracity while citizens can prevent their identity being used to persecute or discriminate them. | Other solutions use surveillance and tracking to reduce fraud and criminal activity at the price of privacy and human rights protection or use libertarian privacy principles at the expense network protection from malicious actors. metaKey uniquely balances privacy with best in class security. It is also universal and able to integrate multiple private and public identity services into its operating framework meaning it can be deployed across a wide range of social, political and technical setups. The solution uniquely uses blockchain and cryptography technologies to containerize and isolate identity data assets allowing them to be processed in ways that do not expose their owners to unnecessary identification risks. Additionally these assets use smart contracts to enable them to be embedded with immutable policy and rules meaning they can be programmed to function in pre-determined ways based on the latest, best in class identity and data management standards. Additionally the solution uses advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning to gauge patterns and anti-patterns in transactions based on game theory to predict attacks reliably predicting integrity of identities and dramatically reduce bad actor risks from the network while giving maximum privacy protections to at risk and vulnerable groups likely to benefit most from the system. Furthermore the technology is quantum resistant and future proof while remaining user friendly, intuitive and easy to use. | Architecture and design have been completed and an alpha product enabling privacy preserving access to digital services while at the same time enabling network analysis to identify malevolent behavior and prevent it is currently in development. It will be used in a closed pilot initiative with a world leading technology company beginning in Q4 of 2019 to test a “trusted data” and “trust-less data sharing” proposition with a test group of users sharing highly sensitive medical information. The pilot will be used to prove the technology’s ability to create reliable data that can be shared confidentially without risk of identification by unauthorized parties. We use small, closed loop iteration cycles with samples of users for each of the features measuring for usability, potential security or data leaks; integrity of identities and accuracy rates for each the machine learning APIs. | 1.We want integrate this system with a banking partner to create a payroll solution for refugees in Jordan, or other refugee camps. 2.Identity will also be key to validating, and securing voter registration rolls in Singapore and South Korea, with the view to test in swing states in the US. 3.Measuring and tracking fake double identities in social media to flag troll farms and other bad actors who create and spread disinformation using algos. 4.We have a mechanical turk of trusted dev teams already in place, and relationships to governments through our network of advisors. | 1.Securing early stage funding to deploy an alpha network 2.Developing a network of partners that can drive adoption of our standard and protocol at scale. 3.Recruit an ecosystem of partners that embrace our ethical data standard and use it to deploy large volumes of datasets that can be used to deliver value adding services to users of the identity service in commercial and non-commercial ways. 4.Pilot test runs with sample of active use cases within the UN network or alpha customers of funded non-profits and foundations. Medium Term Needs 1.Work with the UN to create a global standard for self-sovereign digital identity that is private with world-leading levels of information integrity. 2.Deploy solution at scale with multiple stakeholder groups across the UN’s SDG tracks. Long Term Goals 1.Develop a suite of ancillary high impact services for at risk groups that can be deployed on top of the service and can be used to add greater value to citizens. | Susan Oh, Co-founder & CEO, Muckr.ai Blockchain For Impact, UN HQ NYC 2017 (start 00:57) Blockchain For Impact, UN HQ, NYC 2019 “032. BLOCKCHAIN IMPACT AND DATA SOVEREIGNTY WITH SUSAN OH” by Shannon Grinnell AI Dentralized. Toronto 2018 London Fintech Week, 2017: | Susan Oh, Co-founder & CEO, Muckr.ai Blockchain For Impact, UN HQ NYC 2017 ( https://tinyurl.com/y3ak7owp Blockchain For Impact, UN HQ, NYC 2019 https://tinyurl.com/y635v5cr “032. BLOCKCHAIN IMPACT AND DATA SOVEREIGNTY https://tinyurl.com/y4yb6xw3 AI Dentralized. Toronto 2018: https://youtu.be/9IJ4MWqJZ9c London Fintech Week, 2017: https://youtu.be/XgzB_Dg_9ts Dele Atanda, Founder and CEO – The Internet Foundation // metaMe Inc BBC World Update Report https://tinyurl.com/yy2qofrq Rebuild 2019 https://youtu.be/IUjANcxW_pE IBM Blockchain Network https://youtu.be/ZwWKUiJMeRY IBM Think Conference 2019 https://tinyurl.com/y3ol3hh4 CIS Conference 2018 https://youtu.be/VOy9VQ3F4MA Impact 2016 https://tinyurl.com/y2pczxbl FIS – Balancing Privacy with Personalization: https://youtu.be/S7nZf28r1-g The Internet of Insurance https://tinyurl.com/y6qwwzep The Internet of Business – How to Thrive as an IoT Startup https://tinyurl.com/y3gtjy9c Universal Declaration of Digital Rights 2013 https://tinyurl.com/y2nl2e5m Cake Interview https://tinyurl.com/yy3mubsq Decentralized AI Alliance 1 https://tinyurl.com/y2h53a9b Tony Keevan Interview – The Universal Declaration of Digital Rights https://youtu.be/sBDCnQpYwLs IAPP – A Campaign for a Universal Declaration of Digital Rights https://tinyurl.com/yy67y3zl IAPP – Ethical Data Standard: https://tinyurl.com/y5plf4lu Oreily Media – The New Fintech: mobile, decentralized and friction free. https://tinyurl.com/y4522q8a | Susan Oh Recipient of The Quantum Impact Award #DecadeofWomen in partnership with the UN GA as one of Top Ten Frontier Women in Digital. 2011 AAJA Knight-Poynter Fellow; 2011 AAJA Ford Foundation Fellow. Nominee for 2010 EDDY award Edible Communities publications, 2011 James Beard Foundation Publication of the Year 1997 Overseas Press Club Ed Cunningham Award for reporting handover of Hong Kong to China Two winning submissions to the 2006 Media Innovation Awards (MIAs) by Marketing Magazine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
900 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Princess Stella | Amadi | Greene Happy Home Care | https://web.facebook.com/www.ghhcare/ | Programme Coordinator | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | uring the Solutions Summit, global innovators give a a positive ideas or talk’ outlining their breakthrough efforts to an audience of senior policymakers who have the means to pave solid regulatory foundations, investors who care deeply about long-term change and impact, industry leaders who are able to deploy quickly and at scale, fellow entrepreneurs who can share wisdom on starting up, and members of the general public, including youth, who bring additional creative insight using social media interaction with the selected solution-makers | Princess Stella Amadi, work with Greene Happy Home Care is a community base registered organisation that work with women and youth for economic development. I am the Programme Coordinator on Wellness, Mentalities that enhance the socio-economic, cultural underprivileged in Nigeria, especially women. They do this by providing skills and vocational training, microcredit programs, health education and coordinated a multi-year program advocating for women’s inclusion. I holds a B.Sc in Physiology, from University off Calabar Nigeria. | The Concept of Urban City, Environment and Health Planning | Health is the manifestation of community participation and cooperation of public and private sectors. The characteristics above show autonomy and coop | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | No | Research & Development | The focus is on issues associated with a fair distribution of global resources, awareness of ecological limits and so on | Environment, Climate Change & Energy in the cities is the result of growth forces rural uses of agriculturally productive land, including previously forested areas, encouraging erosion and desertification. Urbanization in coastal areas can result in destruction of essential wetlands and alter critical habitats, such as beaches and coral reefs. The loss of both of these habitats can result in seasonal flooding, mudslides, loss of food production, increases in certain insect and animal vectors. | The significance of a Healthy City can vary between the three levels: individual, group and community, and global. Such as 1. At the individual level: Health refers to citizens' rights to growth, development, peace, freedom from fear, and power over affairs affecting their lives. 2. At the group and community level: Health means individuals are free from exploitation, enjoy meaningful work, develop trust and cooperate with others when working in a group. 3. At the global level: The focus is on issues associated with a fair distribution of global resources, awareness of ecological limits and so on. | This Presentation is as a result of series research. According to WHO, there will be world population living in the city with many problems posed by industrial society including hygienic, environmental, and ecological problems will become increasingly severe, and it will begins to promote the concept of healthy city and expects that populated cities should not have only the negative impacts such as nervousness and environmental pollution but also the positive ones including Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability | This broader environmental assessment should he applied not only to products and projects, but also to policies and programmed, especially major macroeconomic, finance, and sector policies that induce significant impacts on the environment in Urban City. Environment and Healthy Environmental condition of urban settings is a major issue both for individual resident, Industry, local and national governments. Urban climate change-related risks are increasing (rising sea levels and storm surges, heat stress, extreme precipitation, inland and coastal flooding, landslides, drought, increased aridity, water scarcity, and air pollution) with widespread negative impacts on people (health, livelihoods, and assets) and on local and national economies and ecosystems. | Health Center collsboration Cities consume about 75 per cent of global primary energy and emit between 50 and 60 per cent of the world’s total greenhouse gases. Carbon-based energy generation has a large ecological footprint, not only due to rising greenhouse gas emissions and pollution caused by burning fuels, but also because of extraction techniques that contaminate the environment, and frequent production or delivery accidents. Health, Water & Sanitation, Often severe health crisis is observed in poor urban settlements, where concentrations of people and wastes create environments that undermine health and human dignity and add considerably to the challenges of daily survival. Rapid urbanization in developing countries is often accompanied by overwhelming demands on existing water systems. Most of the health problems and their wider implications are related to inadequacies in the provision of clean and safe drinking water and sanitation. • Migration from rural to urban areas poses a major challenge for city planners; extending basic drinking water and sanitation services in slum areas to reach the poorest people is of the utmost importance to prevent outbreaks of cholera, water-related diseases in these often overcrowded places. | This Presentation is as a result of series research. According to WHO, there will be world population living in the city with many problems posed by industrial society including hygienic, environmental, and ecological problems will become increasingly severe, and it will begins to promote the concept of healthy city and | https://web.facebook.com/www.ghhcare/ | 1.https://youtu.be/iNGHQMrhd5I | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
901 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Devin | Nakano | Y STEM and Chess Inc. | http://ystemandchess.com | Founder | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Y STEM and Chess Inc. (YSC) is utilizing our 21st Century technology and understanding to help the world infuse their core jobs into the world of high tech whether it applying technology to agriculture or into something new. By recruiting children from underserved backgrounds, we can draw from a huge talent base that has not been tapped to meet our needs. We can easily identify, educate, and mentor children that will be able to succeed in STEM programs/jobs in the near, mid and long term. This will develop the talent pipeline that everyone wants but no-one knows how to expeditiously build, until now. Y STEM and Chess has the solution. We can help unfilled STEM jobs around that leads to billions missed in economic growth. By investing in YSC and its online program today, we can help a premier program to allow our most vulnerable communities to engage in STEM establish itself as the premier STEM powerhouse regardless of the country. Mastery has to do with the content in the form of clearly defined (quantified and qualified) Learning Objectives comprised of Tasks, Skills, and Knowledge that must be mastered (100%) before moving on to the next Learning Objective. Anything less than 100% is not Mastery. The Mastery process of learning is individually focused and personally relevant to that student. Put simply, it is a go/no go testing threshold. The objective is to ensure there are no holes in each student’s learning foundation. | My inspiration for Y STEM and Chess inc. came from multiple sources. The first came from the reading of Hillbilly Elegy from JD Vance. The book discusses growing up in poverty, systemic and how hard it is to escape. I figured that if I got kids to graduate with a degree in STEM that would break the cycle of poverty in one generation. The second source came from 15 years of being a STEM and Chess tutor since I was a freshman in high school. The third source came from my journey into STEM starting with chess, I was always good in math and then finding computer science/cybersecurity in College. I wanted to build a program shifted my path down to younger children. When I was a toddler, I was diagnosed with Visual Processing and Motor Functions Disorder to add on to the fact that I was already deaf. The doctors said that the chances of me leading a productive life were “slim.” Instead, I graduated at the top of the class in high school with a scholarship to college then finishing a Master's degree in Cybersecurity. Finally, I grew up in Oceanside Ca. Most of my friends came from families that had little money. Almost all of them were from Mexico either legally or illegally. They wanted to succeed so bad but few did because they lacked the funds, support, mentoring and resources due to their status or family. I genuinely care about these kids because I'm very much one of the kids that we are trying to help the most and I grew up with them. | Y STEM and Chess Learning Platform | Y STEM and Chess Inc. is a means of empowering the most underserved while providing inclusivity lowering the job shortage and reducing poverty. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | United States | Yes | Local Boys and Girls clubs, shelters and schools | Transition to Scale | Y STEM and Chess Inc. is about to launch our online platform where students can get remote tutoring no matter where they are geographical. We have added 2 state Idaho State Champions last with a National qualifier. One of the students had only been playing for 6 months. We have a few students starting to learn how to code this fall Additionally, we have several students who will be attending local colleges while still in high school. Our model works and scaleable with the right resources. | Y STEM and Chess Inc. addresses goals 1, 4, 5, and 10. We are a means of empowering the most underserved while providing inclusivity lowering the job shortage and reducing poverty. By focusing on students from the most vulnerable populations, we help those that could benefit the most from high paying STEM jobs. These kids know what struggle is. STEM is difficult but nothing compared to what they faced previously. They are ready to become something greater if given the opportunity. | YSC is based on mastering three foundation building blocks of 21st Century thinking. The first is Chess, second is Math, the third is Coding and the fourth is mentoring. In reverse order: A distinguishing factor in those that find success in STEM is those that have mentors. The students need to have the positive affirmation of being told that they can do STEM. That they have the aptitude to be successful. Student needs to hear that everyone struggles but those that succeed are those that push through. Next up is, Coding is part of the universal language of the 21st Century. If you don’t have the ability in these languages, you are illiterate in today’s world and for the foreseeable future. Math in its many forms is the foundation of quantifying and qualifying problems and their solutions. It is also an integral element of Coding. Without a foundation in math, today is the same as not having a vocabulary or being able to read and write in the last century. Everything we do in life has a connection to math. Finally, there is Chess. This is an ancient game developed by Indian, and some say the Persian, royalty around the 6th Century. We started our program with mastering the game of chess because it is the most efficient way to rapidly learn the critical mental skills required to participate in the world of STEM. We build skills from the ground up, supply the mentors and the feedback to continually improve until they can start taking their education in their own hands. | The Y STEM and Chess Inc. differentiator is our end-to-end approach. Our approach takes students with no foundation in STEM then turn them into engineers by graduation from our program. We also provide them the necessary resources like the internet, computers and mentoring for our students to fully realize their potential as successful STEM professionals in the future. Instead of doing day-long or week-long seminars once a year building curiosity that you have to pay for that leave the students with the joy of learning but no path afterward the rest of the year. With Y STEM and Chess Inc. we build the curiosity and offer a path to realizing their goals. No longer do families have to pay hundreds of dollars per subject per month. We offer our integrated solution free to underserved communities or a small monthly fee to middle-class families and above. No longer do we have to rely on short term solutions that feel the child wanting more. These solutions are what everyone else is doing and not really working. We can build STEM skills from the ground up, and remotely preparing students for STEM careers today. No longer do we have to question where we are going to get the talent to continue to innovate. We can recruit them by making STEM accessible to everyone. No longer do we have to question how we are going to have to help the most vulnerable populations. Success should not be determined by where you grew up, who your parents, how much money you have but how hard you work. | Our program will have a measurable impact as well as we tutor and mentor students that have largely done poorly on standardized tests. Instead, we have to build our own metrics which are based on Mastery which demand a pass or fail metric of %100 knowledge. Our metrics will be supplemented by state standards to provide an unbiased view of our students progress. We will be able to accurately identify areas that the students struggle then deliver material to fulfill the holes in our students understanding. With our remote platform, we can help these children realize their hidden potential in STEM and school. This new found confidence in their education will raise education ranks around the world. Finally, the last metric is how many students we can recruit, educate, graduate from our program, continue with advanced learning and become STEM professionals. What we need is to build a strong foundation for long term solutions to fulfill the requirements of a 21st Century “technology embedded” society. Those solutions demand that all our population have a firm mastery of the basic skills, knowledge, and language of this emerging world in order to be productive citizens. Unlike the Industrial Age, we can no longer afford the practice of competitive education that discards our human assets with arbitrary testing models. Models that subjugate a large portion of our citizenry to inadequate learning and government support programs. | Over 3 billion children live in poverty zone around the world. These students from around life in horrific conditions but may have the drive and the willingness to work hard to become STEM professionals. These children represent a huge talent pool that can be used to We will be scaling into new market’s up and down the west coast from San Diego to Seattle in mid-August. This scaling will be of the fee-based solution will fuel continued investment of the online chess platform, buying a license for ST Math, a math tutoring program, and then start planning the development of the coding modules. Additionally, we are recruiting interns from local colleges that include marketing, PR, and finally engineering. By the end of the year, we should have over 5,000 students into the program on a bootstrapped budget. As we obtain more donations from our fee-based model, those funds will be used to scale our program to underserved schools in Idaho in more rural communities. The more students we have in the program, the more success we can show that will recruit the kind of support we need to grow our program including larger corporate sponsors, grants, and donations. Over the next 10 years, we believe we can get a billion students in the program with the proper funds increasing STEM graduation rates among underserved children and young girls by at least %50. In 15 years we hope to hit 2 billion kids and then 20 years all 3 billion-plus students into the program. | YSC Objectives Short Term Objectives: Help the target audience students (K thru 12) realize their real potential in our STEM-related world through individualized mastery programs in Math, Chess, Coding, and Computer Science. Continue the development of Lichess.org into our branded website for remote learning. Complete development work of our Mastery Programs. Provide mentoring services and build student confidence in these skills and their futures. Medium Term Recruiting a board that will help establish our fundraising apparatus, technical acumen to further develop our technology, strategic vision, and infrastructure partners including internet and computer companies to rapidly scale our program. Long Term: Work with communities across the world to provide access to the necessary tools (computers and internet access) to continue their STEM-related development. Procure resources to help students apply for advanced learning and related financial aid. Establish student scholarships program for advanced education in all things STEM-related for the underserved. Move the Y STEM learning platform online to provide greater efficiency of our resources and easier access to our learning system, particularly in rural areas. This will also make it feasible to rapidly scale our program geographically across the state and beyond. Create additional STEM-related disciplines in our program, allowing students to choose and explore their interests. | Now, every school can have a computer science class regardless of having the staff to teach. Our program is designed to prepare kids for AP Computer Science A/B, AP Calculus A/B and the first two years of college. With our methodology, the core logic learned through chess, math and coding tutoring can then transfer to whatever STEM or business degree/profession that the child is interested in. Part of our program includes preparing children for advanced learning whether it be a college degree or self-learning. http://ystemandchess.com https://linkedin.com/in/devin-nakano A short video of why our mentors work with our students https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P48z0WuFiBk A short video from one of our local partners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9jtADQs_Dk A list of testimonials from students, parents, and organizations. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y_uqcAIcgnYNv1Gv8LLNqea85JyJo_QH-D3s2FN9R1w/edit?usp=sharing https://woochess.com/en/blog/10-benefits-of-teaching-kids-to-play-chess https://www.growingstars.com/benefits-online-math-tutoring/ http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/educating-for-equity-and-access-in-computer-science https://massinsight.org/2018/10/24/importance-computer-science-education/ https://www.usnews.com/news/stem-solutions/articles/2014/04/24/the-crucial-role-of-mentors-in-stem | None available | None. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
902 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Marco | Maldonado | MSW Tecnologias | www.msw.com.mx | COO | Male | Mexico | Mexico | English | Spanish | The problematic that our project deals with, is of total importance for our country and for the world. Bringing technological tools to people in vulnerable situations is currently necessary. | We are a company with 36 years of experience in generating technological solutions focused on the information technology and telecommunications sectors. Our company has been characterized by a wide dynamism in managing projects with a high degree of specialization as well as mission critical projects with specific delivery times. The current strategy is linked to technological research that enables us to continuously improve company projects. | Plataforma tecnológica para alerta, denuncia y seguimiento de la violencia de genero. | We are designing an information and denounce platform for gender violence, involving government institutions that participate in the process. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | This Platform will be implemented in Mexico, firstable we are creating the model in Colima, Mexico; and it´ll be testing in the occident region because of high statiscs of gender violence in this zone, once had been will implemented the first stage, then | Yes | The council of Science, Technology and Innovation in our state, CECyTCOL (Government) The STI commission at Governors Conference CONAGO (Government) The National Institute of Women (Government) The Public Security Secretary (Government) The Technology Ins | Research & Development | This is an integral digital platform that allows all the actors responsible for safeguarding the integrity of victims of gender violence to be articulated, allowing the victims to make a call for help through a digital alert, a quick complaint, at the very moment of the first violence event This will allow to promote the denunciation, avoid recidivism, and the most important, to reduce deaths due to violence. It will also inform women about their rights. | It addresses gender violence, focused on resolving the lack of articulation of the authorities to respond to complaints of violence, as well as the ignorance of the rights of victims and existing organizations and programs for their help and security. | This platform will help women in conditions of violence in 3 fundamental areas: 1 The informative part, which helps victims to know their rights, to identify the agencies that can help them, the programs that exist to combat violence, to know the laws that protect them, and how to exercise justice. 2 In the execution part, they will be able to carry out alerts, complaints and follow-up through the platform. This technological platform will connect the dependencies responsible for the flow of denunciation and detention on issues of gender violence. 3 In the final phase, it will focus on supporting people in restoring their peace and promoting their education to enter the labor market. Supporting women to leave the circles of violence, to reestablish their emotional stability, help their educational training and include them in the labor market, is essential for the development of communities and regions, it is demonstrated how economic growth is triggered when Women join the labor market and how it has a direct positive impact on the community. In addition, this digital platform will generate data, which through the analytics will be able to identify patterns, risk areas, preventive alerts, etc. but above all it will allow governments to define efficient public policies that reduce gender violence and reduce femicide. This platform may be adapted in the subnational governments of Latin America, seeking to reduce gender violence and consequently improve the welfare of society. | The innovation focuses on the digitalization of the process of the solution to gender violence, through the identification of the crime of violence and the systematic synergy of the institutions through digital media for the integration of the complaint and safeguarding of the victim; this through artificial intelligence in social networks, an application of program and report information, a data center and the georeferencing of gender violence. The above, together with programs to restore peace and justice, vocational training programs and job placement programs linked to the platform, will allow the solution to the problem of gender violence to be integrated. In addition to solving the problem of the disarticulation of the institutions responsible for the exercise of justice through the implementation of a Work Flow system, parallel problems will be addressed such as the lack of information about the aid, the ignorance of the institutions involved, existing programs and options to improve living conditions after having suffered violence. | We have previously developed systems of violence alerts from social reporting platforms, to gender violence alerting platforms, and although the previous platforms were complete and help could be requested at the time of the act of violence, it did not address the complaint process, and this is usually slow and with many challenges; This is the main reason for the lack of denunciation and the growth of this type of crime due to the high impunity index. In order to develop the platform, we have different indicators of gender violence, issued by official security institutions, which allow us to estimate the impact indicators, because as it is not technified we cannot know the real data. | Phases of the project: Phase 1. Design of the informative section of the platform. Phase 2. Design of the digital reporting protocol platform. Phase 3. Design of the social part and impact on productive development. Objective: 1.Implementation of the platform in the state of Colima and the western region in a period of 1.5 years. 2.Implementation of the platform in Mexico in a period of 2.5 years. 3.Adoption of the platform. 4.Adaptation for Central and South America Impact: Reduce gender violence Gender violence in Mexico is the physical or psychological violence against women (including cisgender or transgender) in Mexico, generated by the fact of being a woman. According to the last census conducted by INEGI in 2015, 119 million 938 thousand 473 people lived in Mexico, 51.4% of whom are women. According to data from the National Survey on Dynamics of Household Relations of INEGI, 2 conducted in 2016, 66.1% of women over 18 have suffered some type of physical, psychological or sexual aggression; that is 66 out of 100 women. Only 9.45% made a complaint about it. The United Nations Organization considers gender violence a ""pandemic"" 3 and classifies the country among the twenty worst nations with problems of this nature, making Mexico and Central America the most violent region in the world for women outside a country. war zone. | Short term Human capital in different areas of knowledge. -Technological training -Legal training -Training in design -Psychologists -Sociologists -Digital communication -Administrative staff Basic development equipment. -Software and licensing -Computers -IA Medium and long term Data center for information processing and storage. Platform Implementation Communication and marketing program for adoption. | www.msw.com.mx www.aietic.org www.rcalerta.com.mx http://reporteciudadanoenlinea.mx/ | http://reporteciudadanoenlinea.mx/video/RCENLINEAPRESENTACION.mp4 | Winner - Gobernarte 2014 given by the Inter-American Development Bank | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
903 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | James | KATARY | Education & Development Foundation | www.educationdevelopment.org | Founder | M | Benin | Benin | French | First of all my motivation for applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit is related to the fact that at the age of 8 , I became hearing impaired. This life situation has deeply transformed the way I see human development and inclusion. Also , I have always been interested in all UN activities from promoting peace, fighting hunger, eradicating poverty , preventing conflicts, protecting environment,,,, Also as Change Agent, it became obvious to me apply for this event. | James KATARY is the Founder of the NGO Education & Development which promote equal education in West African countries. The NGO also develops many educational programs to enable disabled persons to study in equal quality and the hard of hearing student tu use an innovative way to learn. My innovation may help those ones to understand in signing-language Visio-description when the teacher is explaining the courses and also in the opposite sens. | Edu1st (Education First) | Building an inclusive society consist in implementing equal education. We often notice that disabled persons especially hard of hearing students have | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | BENIN | Yes | The NGO Act For Development | Proof of Concept | I am still performing my innovation and i strongly think it will enable to promote an equal Education un Africa as long as i am helped. | My innovation is to reduce discrimination between two types of young learners: those are disabled and those who are not. more often, we notice how hard it is for disabled people especially those who are hearing disabled to follow an education of quality at the opposite of those who has no disability. Thanks to my innovation, we could contribute de build an inclusive society by implementing equal education. | Designed as a video-learning application to help deaf or hard of hearing students to learn computer skills, ""Edu1st"" (which means Education First) is the innovation that will allow this category of students to learn just like normal student a subject that is proving essential today if one wants to succeed. Learners will be able, through the sign language training video, to progressively learn the basics of computer science to the most advanced techniques in the digital world. They will then be able to realize their own end-of-training memory, their resume, to work on Excel etc etc ... which would promote their autonomy and their integration into professional life. This is all the more necessary because today the inequality in knowledge is garish. We have the moral obligation y to build a fair and caring society if we want to reduce poverty. | My innovation is better in that it allows a more fluid interactivity in learning, an ability to generate new learning applications. More over, it allows a large number of people to learn simultaneously or independently. It can also be useful for well-hearing. What sets it even more interesting is that it stimulates the creativity of the learners. | My Team is making a deep progress in this innovation. I often compare from what West have be en doing from a couple of months to amocher couple of months to evalute the progression. | I expect to be present in Togo and Ivory Coast after being strongly implanted in Bénin. | We need up to 80.000dollars US to scalpe up in short-term | In progress | In Progress Possible to sens pictures. | Prize of the Best Inclusive Contrinutor Citizen Prize of Climat change Agent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
904 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Catherine | Von Burg | SimpliPhi Power, Inc. | https://simpliphipower.com | CEO | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | As former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon once articulated: “Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, social equity, and environmental sustainability....Widespread energy poverty condemns billions to darkness, to ill health, to missed opportunities.” SimpliPhi's mission is to empower anyone, anywhere in the world to generate, store and use clean, renewable power on his or her own terms as a means to eradicate energy poverty and foster equal opportunity worldwide. SimpliPhi’s ExprESS provides a simple, proven and ready-to-deploy solution to achieve that goal. | Long a proponent of distributed energy, Catherine Von Burg presents widely on energy storage as a means to achieve universal energy access and security. Under Catherine’s leadership, SimpliPhi Power has successfully deployed non-hazardous lithium ferro phosphate (LFP) energy storage solutions in more than 40 countries since 2010, providing access to safe, reliable, durable and highly scalable power domestically and in some of the world’s harshest and most remote environments. Her career spans strategic planning, policy development and executive roles in biomedicine, health and human services and environmental conservation. She has spearheaded program, policy and business initiatives on behalf of Pew Charitable Trusts, Rockefeller Institute, Columbia University, NY March of Dimes, John Hopkins School of Biomedical Engineering, Wilderness Education Assoc. and First 5 Commission of CA. She serves on the California Solar & Storage Association and Footprint Project advisory boards. Since 2017, Catherine has been part of the Unreasonable Goals program, hosted by the U.S. Department of State and Unreasonable Impact Group focused on achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. SimpliPhi’s energy storage solutions were chosen to represent UN SDG No. 9, ‘Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure’. Collaborators include USAID and the World Bank. Catherine earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and a master’s from University of Pennsylvania, School of Social Policy. | ExprESS | A mobile, fuel-free, non-toxic, lithium ion battery-powered AC generator | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Worldwide deployment | No | Scaling | Initial ExprESS deployments have been to empower schools and emergency centers in the USA. We are currently working with partners to deploy the solution globally to medical clinics, refugee camps and in connection with disaster relief. Our ultimate goal is to deploy ExprESS worldwide both as a rapid response power solution in any emergency, as well as to provide immediate access to safe, reliable power for the billions of people who do not have access to electricity or only intermittent access. | ExprESS creates universal access to distributed, uninterrupted renewable power in conjunction with or independent of the grid. It provides reliable emergency power; supports the shift from carbon-intensive fossil fuels to sustainable power generation; extends power access beyond the limits of centralized transmission lines to the most economically disadvantaged communities; eliminates the need for costly top-down infrastructure; and places power back into the hands of people, on their terms. | ExprESS allows people to generate, store and use their own power without relying on centralized infrastructure. The mobile, non-toxic, fuel-free lithium ion battery-powered AC generator stores electricity and provides instant, reliable power in remote areas, during emergencies and whenever the grid is intermittent or unavailable. ExprESS can be charged with solar, wind, diesel or grid power. It can optimize or completely replace diesel generators that are polluting and expensive to fuel. ExprESS can end energy poverty while protecting our environment. ExprESS has the potential to have the same impact on energy access that cell phones have had on communications access -- allowing people to generate, store and use their own power today without relying on centralized infrastructure to deliver the power they need. The ExprESS is available in 5.4 kWh/24V or 7 kWh/48V models — providing a sufficient power reserve to operate computers, appliances, AV equipment, refrigerators, power tools, fans, electric blankets and medical equipment for hours or days at a time. Because it is enclosed in a NEMA-3 rated cabinet on wheels, ExprESS can be deployed inside or outside in a wide variety of commercial and emergency use cases. ExprESS is safe for indoor use, is non-toxic, environmentally benign, poses no risk of fire, and does not require ventilation or cooling. It is also suitable for outdoor use in temperatures up to 122°F. | * Fuel-free: Can eliminate or reduce need for expensive fossil fuel. Charge with any power source - solar, wind, diesel or the grid. * Environmentally benign: No toxic fumes. No noise pollution. * Safe: No risk of fire. Non-toxic. Safe for use indoors or outdoors in temperatures up to 122°F. * Maintenance-free: Simplifies deployment in remote locations * 10 Year Warranty: During the warrantied lifespan of an ExprESS, it is likely that you will have to replace a fuel-based generator two or three times. | The solution is commercially available for purchase worldwide. Progress is measured by the number and impact of global deployments and partner feedback. | Our next global area of focus is on the continent of Africa, where we hope to deploy ExprESS as a solution for off grid clinics and hospitals with intermittent access to power. Our ultimate goal is to bring immediately deployable, safe, reliable power to the estimated 1.5 billion people worldwide who are marginalized because they do not have access to electricity and the 1.2 billion people who only have unreliable and intermittent access due to aging and failing centralized infrastructure and transmission lines. | In the short-, medium- and long-term, the most valuable resources in scaling the ExprESS solution are introductions, awareness and access to the government agencies, NGOs and local government officials worldwide that are actively engaged in disaster preparedness/response and in global electrification efforts. | Company website: www.simpliphipower.com Product web page: https://simpliphipower.com/product/express-48v/ Product overview video: https://youtu.be/MDn8tmK8oII | * https://simpliphipower.com/company/news/video-audio/simpliphi-power-ceo-catherine-von-burg-speaks-united-states-institute-peace/ * https://simpliphipower.com/company/news/video-audio/e-capital-summit-entrepreneur-catherine-von-berg-simpliphi-power/ * https://simpliphipower.com/company/news/video-audio/unions-renewable-energy-innovators-collaborate-to-help-bring-power-back-to-post-hurricane-dominica/ * https://simpliphipower.com/company/news/video-audio/suncast-interview-w-catherine-von-burg-ceo-of-simpliphi-power/ | Gold Stevie Award 2016 Silver Edison Award 2016 Silver Stevie Award 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
905 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lila | Cruikshank | One Family Health | www.onefamilyhealth.org | Director, Business Development | female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Spanish | OFH is helping to catalyze private investment and support government to achieve global goals to achieve universal health coverage and expand access to primary care. Working through a partnership model and a franchise approach that also fosters entrepreneurship, our model directly supports multiple SDGs. We are excited to showcase this solution to other governments that might be interested to adapt or adopt the model to improve lives around the world. Being part of the UN Solutions Summit would help us to substantially raise the visibility of our public-private partnership approach to delivering healthcare and fostering entrepreneurship, inspiring partners and governments around the world to consider how this solution could help achieve goals. | Lila is the Director of Business Development for One Family Health. She has worked in social marketing and as a management and strategy consultant for a variety of clients dedicated to global health from social enterprise start-ups to large foundations. Lila holds a BA from Brown University and received her MBA from Duke University, where she earned a certificate in Health Sector Management. | One Family Health | Public-private partnership to expand access to sustainable, affordable, quality primary care | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Rwanda | Yes | Government of Rwanda (Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Local Government), Ecobank Rwanda, Pfizer Foundation, USAID | Transition to Scale | OFH has demonstrated proof of concept of our operational model, including both the franchised clinic model and our partnership with government. OFH operates 110 health posts across 13 districts and has provided services to nearly 2 million Rwandans. In 2017, the Ministry of Health extended our public-private partnership agreement for an additional 5-year period. OFH recently received funding from USAID to help us scale towards our target of 500 health posts in Rwanda. | Lack of access to quality healthcare is a critical barrier to achieving global development goals because poor access causes people to seek healthcare later and less often. Consequently, preventable and treatable illnesses can become life-threatening. Reducing the distance between patients and health centres has been shown in multiple studies to increase the use of health services and improve key health outcomes such as infant survival rates. | OFH works to improve health-seeking behavior and, ultimately, health outcomes by sustainably improving access to primary care. OFH works with the Rwandan government to achieve national health goals by opening health posts (HPs) in underserved areas. Through a franchised model, OFH supports nurses to operate profitable HPs that provide sustainable care. OFH operates under a PPP that links our private, franchised network of primary care HPs with the public health system and subsidized national health insurance scheme. OFH HPs prevent and treat the conditions that account for the majority of illness and mortality in rural communities, such as acute respiratory infections and malaria. Considered part of the public health system, clinics are co-branded by the MoH, refer directly to higher-level public facilities, and accept the national health insurance, which is tiered to make premiums affordable for the poor. OFH has an ambitious long-term vision to expand access to healthcare across the African continent. OFH’s initial priority list includes 11 countries, where OFH could make affordable, quality care accessible to more than 20 million people for less than $2 per capita. In contexts without national health insurance, OFH has developed strategies to establish provider-driven, subsidized micro-health insurance products, enabling more people to afford high-quality care while ensuring long-term financial sustainability. | OFH uses a proven franchise approach to enable us to deliver high-quality care via a scalable solution. What makes OFH’s model truly unique is our use of partnerships to enable us to serve the most vulnerable populations while having a path to financial sustainability. OFH projects to reach sustainability at a scale of 500 facilities in Rwanda, enabling us to continue working in partnership with the government to deliver health services without sustained donor subsidies, Our financial model relies on revenues from the national insurance program to support health post profitability and royalties from health posts to fund supervision and support services provided by the head office. Other approaches include community health worker models, which cannot deliver the same level of care, and purely private sector models that do not have the same ability to serve the most vulnerable while maintaining financial sustainability. | Currently operating 110 health posts, OFH has a proven track record of delivering on objectives. Surveys show OFH HPs have reduced walking time, on average, from 75 to 14 minutes. OFH has provided care for more than 3 million patient visits, saved more than 1,000 lives, and averted more than 93,000 disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) through treatment for pneumonia, malaria, and dehydration from diarrheal disease alone. Our approach is supported by evidence showing that proximity to health facilities increases the uptake of health services and improves key health outcomes. Several studies have documented the impact on infant and child survival rates, while others document health and socio-economic benefits of access to family planning for women and girls (e.g. reducing the likelihood of dropping out of school and improving infant survival rates). OFH clinics are not only more accessible and convenient, but also offer high quality services. In customer surveys, better customer service and consistent availability of drugs were cited as key reasons that patients preferred OFH clinics over public sector facilities. These reasons build trust and improve health-seeking behavior. Selected studies: Okwaraji (2012) PLoS ONE 7(3): e33564 Schoeps, Anja (2011) American Journal of Epidemiology 173(5) Kavanaugh and Anderson (July 2013) Guttmacher Institute | By 2022: OFH's three-year plan is to open 150 additional health posts, enabling us to serve 630,000 additional patients and save more than 1,400 lives. By 2027: OFH’s medium-term goal is to open 500 clinics in Rwanda and to achieve financial sustainability in Rwanda while supporting the government to deliver on its vision of universal access to healthcare. OFH is also exploring expansion into other countries and has conducted market assessments in Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia. | Short-term priorities: - Additional operating funds to support expansion activities in response to demand from government partners beyond what we can meet with current funding - Technical support to enhance data analytics and reporting capabilities - Expanded staff to support network growth Medium term priorities: - Additional lenders to diversity sources of health post start-up financing - Technical and financial support to expand package of services delivered to increase health impact and post profitability. - Funding and partners to refine plans for expansion into new markets Long-term priorities - Capital and partners to support expansion in new markets | http://onefamilyhealth.org Introductory video from Social Innovation in Healthcare Initiative: https://youtu.be/NdKuLDCaiVY | National Academy of Medicine Panel: https://youtu.be/6TchXI7z6W8 Switchpoint 2019: https://youtu.be/lCvnqnw6TS8 | Endorsements: -Social Innovation in Health Initiative: OFH was selected as one of the top 25 global health innovations (2018) -World Economic Forum: OFH was studied and highlighted as a case study in the WEF report “Health Systems Leapfrogging in Emerging Economies” (2015) -Innovations in Healthcare: OFH was one of the first global health innovators selected by this network organization created by the World Economic Forum, McKinsey, and Duke University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
906 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ailsa | Gilliam | Sherohub LLC | www.sherohub.com | CEO | Female | United States of America | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | English | French | Spanish | My motivation for applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit through the presentation of my project is to accelerate and expedite the positive impact Sherohub will have globally. Sherohub proposes to meet a global need of combating violence against women and girls (Sustainable Development Goal number 5) through its program of awareness raising around domestic violence. Domestic violence is a global issue that calls for action! Sherohub is already fast developing culturally relevant versions of its products to eliminate violence against women and girls in numerous countries through a growing network of international partners. To accelerate this progress via support from the UN Solutions Summit would be extremely meaningful. Sherohub's innovation is found in its method of leveraging technology to provide an easily disseminated product that will raise awareness of themes of violence against women across the globe. Sherohub innovates through leveraging a global network individuals who are equally passionate about SDG5 to provide a culturally, linguistically and visually relevant video game product individualized for each market penetration by following a prescribed formula. | Ailsa Gilliam is an entrepreneur with a passion for leveraging technology to combat domestic violence and foster women’s empowerment. A prior technology executive, this Harvard Master’s candidate is a 20-year veteran of commodities and investment banking. As a domestic violence survivor, she has a strong drive to further the UN Sustainable Development Goal #5, “eliminating all forms of violence against all women and girls in public and private spheres”. Leveraging her corporate technology expertise, she realized technology was a scalable and replicable way to address the issue. She creates video games and eLearning that provide the player with strategies and resources for safety and freedom from abuse, raising awareness of the subtleties of domestic violence in the community. A firm believer of Nelson Mandela's quote ""If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."", Ailsa creates video games globally that are culturally, linguistically and visually relevant to the audience, with game prototypes for four cultures, the US, Haiti, South Africa and German-speaking nations already and another thirteen countries in the queue. A British expat and New York resident, Ailsa is grateful to be Mom to four amazing visionaries, and step-Grandma to two cherubs. Ailsa’s philosophy for life is: “Work wisely and with integrity, play with zeal, pick your battles, eat well, and sleep like a log!” | Sherohub | Culturally, linguistically and visually relevant video games for teens globally; teaches domestic violence awareness, provides empowerment strategies. | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Currently: US, Soon: Haiti, Switzerland, South Africa, Intended: Guyana, UK, France, Spain, Greece, Germany, Cyprus, Malaysia, Luxembourg, all of South and Central America, | Yes | Share Hope Foundation, Haiti | Research & Development | Sherohub piloted its videogame in New York with 51 kids (13-19 year olds) in a workshops, proving the concept informally. Engagement & participation was enthusiastic, results concluded that the video game is effective for raising awareness of domestic violence, increasing participant understanding of resources & how to behave, with a non gender specific approach helping both potential abuser and potential victim to modify behavior and expectations. Further research needed in global markets. | One three women globally experience domestic violence, one in four experience it before the age of 18! Sherohub addresses lack of knowledge of the warning signs of domestic violence amongst teens as well as adults. Via societal messages, abuse is often hidden, accepted, and allowed. Bringing clarity to potential victim and abuser on healthy vs unhealthy behavior and providing boundary setting strategies, Sherohub empowers the community to safely provide support to the victim. | Sherohub's video game teaches the red flags of domestic violence, tells the player about resources and gives self-help and other strategies for exiting or correcting unhealthy relationship dynamics. The video game is made in visual novel format, providing role play opportunities through a number of character stories that represent the different types of domestic abuse detailed in the Power and Control wheel (Duluth Model) such as physical abuse, financial, psychological and verbal, amongst others with different themes that are encountered in today's society such as revenge porn, body shaming, cyber bulling and other such themes. The game can be deployed to individuals via download to laptops, tablets or smartphones or can be rolled out as part of a workshop model whereby a trained representative of Sherohub contracts with an after school program or other teen organization. The game can be played with a group of youths, displayed on a smart board with facilitation and discussion. This same model is available wherever Sherohub's network extends within the world. The long term vision for global impact is to continue to create relevant versions of the game for deployment in additional cultures by leveraging teams in those countries. | There are a few other video games that raise awareness of domestic violence in existence, once was created by a non profit called Jennifer Ann. This option is not as prescriptive as Sherohub's solution in terms of addressing the different types of domestic/dating violence, neither is it international. Another option, by the University of Huddersfield in the UK has been deployed in some countries in the Caribbean, however is not culturally relevant for others. Only Sherohub, as far as we know, is gathering traction as an internationally diverse model. The international nature of Sherohub opens Sherohub's data collection on its use and efficacy to be very powerful as the refinement of its embedded quizzes continues. To have international data on participants as well as their understanding and response to domestic violence will be useful to crafting responses to policy on a global level. | Our team has progressed through some major milestones in terms of global reach. Sherohub measures progress in each country or culture by number of people to be impacted by the rollout and success is measured by increased understanding of the participants of violence against women as well as available resources as shown in the game. Also evaluated is increased empathy of the participant to the victim of violence, for example, seeking to address Victim Shaming behavior and abusive behaviors. Development of more sophisticated technology solutions will proceed with budget allocation. The current version of the game is simple but also very effective for rollout in diverse cultures no matter the technological sophistication, as long as smart phones, tablets or laptops are available to the participants for individual play or for facilitators if the workshop model is to be employed. Sherohub's methodological rigor is measured by acceptance and approval by country level experts, such as The Ministry of Women's Affaires and approval by CPFO in Haiti. | Sherohub is aiming for the following goals and milestones: Q3&Q4 2019 -US: Application to US SBIR program for further enhancement of the Sherohub basic platform prior to further rollout in target markets in the US. -Haiti: Testing, Updates and Rollout of the Haitian Creole version of the game to 2000 factory workers at Sonapi, Port au Prince, Haiti with data analysis on results. Initiate creation of the team to create the prototype for Haitian Youth, work with existing partners to solidify rollout and ensure country-wide impact via various school networks. -South Africa: Team formed, complete Shosa videogame prototype, engage local partners, corporate and other such support. -Malaysia: initiate prototype with Malaysia Digital Enterprise Corporation (Malaysian government technology arm) per agreement with CEO -Morocco: corporate partner and psychology professionals identified, onboard agreed writer, create video game prototype -Germany/Switzerland: complete prototype (intern in Zug), onboard 2 already identified country ambassadors, continue partnership conversations with corporates, non-profits. -Europe: Await results of European Commission grant proposal submitted July, write Erasmus grant proposal with established consortium of European entities. Establish French/Irish Sherohub entity for further applications (retire UK Sherohub) pending Brexit. -Guyana: Meet contacts, review rollout potential of initial prototype via leveraging existing network. | Short term: Sherohub needs psychologists, researchers, sociologists and analysts to participate in a global nature on the project. We have engaged a number on the local level for each culturally relevant version of Sherohub, which is also very important, however, to have the involvement of internationally renowned specialists will bring potential for far greater impact. Short term, Sherohub is able to expand quickly with MVP's (minimum viable products) or prototypes to engage markets due to a wide international network of enthusiastic participants. Medium term: Sherohub seeks to expand to additional technologies including AI and VR for additional solutions around combating violence against women and girls. Sherohub has identified potential partners and is in need of funding to be able to take the technology to the next level. In addition, the legal structure of Sherohub on the global level is a theme that could do with some support and assistance. Medium term, Sherohub intends to continue expanding to as many countries with versions that are applicable, even to the level of regional languages such as Catalan to reach the Catalunyan population in and around Barcelona. Longterm: Sherohub intends to become a hub that collects data and provides analysis that may equip decisions for policy making. Sherohub plans to create a community based game that allows for collaborative play over the internet in a model which benefits all participants through interaction with others. | https://www.sherohub.com https://drive.google.com/open?id=1E3C5unqFoPGbEQuLtvvHCGVNmZZZ2ofE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE04KoHu6ds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkqmyLzuC9k&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BjnFCuROu8&t=16s | BWTT (Black Women Talk Tech) Pitch Competition: https://pikdo.net/p/blackwomentalktech/1990252516689082058_4729879351 Westchester County New York 2019 budget award: https://www3.westchestergov.com/images/stories/budget/2019/2019adoptedoperating.pdf page A-22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
907 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John | Gilowski | Encore Global Network, LLP | https://www.EncoreGlobalNetwork.com | EVP | male | United States of America | Poland | English | Dear Friends at the UN Solution Summit, I, my Partners, Affiliates, and Members at the EnCORE Global Network (https://www.EncoreGlobalNetwork.com), a small startup, Carmel, IN, USA, based company promoting innovations related to the environmental protection, energy, education, healthcare, all critical for all of us, on the global basis. Therefore, one of our projects is challenging development of the Environmental Center Offering Research and Education (EnCORE) in Krakow, Poland, not only highly beneficial to this city, but also for the global population. The EnCORE design and selection of very attractive lot have been already completed. We are working with the professionals and scientists from USA and EU universities and the European Research Council (ERC) in order to jointly address all issues related to the proposed Center. We sincerely hope that we can also count on your support and mutually beneficial cooperation from the UN Solution Summit. Please advise if you have any questions or comments. Thanks for your time and consideration of the above. Sincerely, John P. Gilowski, EVP John.Gilowski@EncoreGlobalNetwork.com | I’m engineer, businessmen and developer with forty years of professional experience in the USA, Europe, Asia, and South America, while working for many leading international companies, including Gibbs & Hill/Hill International, Bechtel, University Research Association, Inc. (URA) / U.S. Department of Energy , Lockwood Greene/CH2M Hill, Fluor, and Lilly, I believe that the sufficient environment protection is critical for all of us and especially future generations. I believe that forging effective collaborations and strategic partnership between creative people and companies with vision and drive, including assessment of the unique ideas, implementation of innovative technologies, development of new products, or effective marketing is extremely important. Therefore, all possible assistance from small and large companies, organizations, and agencies, especially without any cost or obligations, should be taken under consideration by all parties involved. Public knowledge of availability of such support is of great interest and importance to all of us. | Environmental Center Offering Research and Education (EnCORE) in Krakow, Poland | The EnCORE design and selection of very attractive lot have been already completed. We are working with the professionals and scientists USA & EU. | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Krakow, Poland, Wola Justowska, district 364, lot 423. | Yes | Leszek Bobowski, Phd, Piotr Nowak, Elizabeth Gilowski | Proof of Concept | The EnCORE design and selection of very attractive lot have been already completed. We are working with the professionals and scientists from USA and EU universities and the European Research Council (ERC) in order to jointly address all issues related to the proposed Center. | The most important climate and environmental issues require extensive global research, cooperation, and coordinated implementation of the found solutions. | In the EnCORE (Environmental Center Offering Research and Education) Poland, LLC, conducting highly coordinated searches for emerging environmental protection and pollution control technologies and products, professional evaluation of the found possibilities, presentation of the best solutions to the industries, and assistance in implementation, should be provided. All these activities should be conducted in cooperation with the creative professionals and scientists from universities, organizations, institutions, scientific communities, and government agencies, and companies with vision and drive. | This is a unique Center offering highly coordinated searches for emerging environmental protection and pollution control technologies and products, professional evaluation of the found possibilities, presentation of the best solutions to the industries, and assistance in implementation and education. | Highly attractive design and construction site for the Environmental Center Offering Research and Education is in Krakow, Poland have been completed. It is in Wola Justowska, district 364, lot 423, the suburban green part of Krakow, most desirable and attractive area, facing forest (Las Wolski), near park, on the hill with a beautiful view and 10 minutes from center of town. | Obtaining construction permits on already selected construction site and required funding for this development. | Short term: Obtaining construction permits on already selected construction from City of Krakow, Poland. Medium term: Obtaining required funding for this development. Long term: Update/finalize design of this project in coordination with selected universities, organizations, institutions, scientific communities, and government agencies, and companies. | Please select suitable links provided on the EnCORE Global Network (https://www.EncoreGlobalNetwork.com . | Please select suitable links provided on the EnCORE Global Network (https://www.EncoreGlobalNetwork.com . | I have received numerous awards working for international companies, including Gibbs & Hill/Hill International, Bechtel, University Research Association, Inc. (URA) / U.S. Department of Energy , Lockwood Greene/CH2M Hill, Fluor, and Lilly. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
908 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jessenia | Morales | Fundación vive con bienestar | www.bive.co | marketing and resource director | femenine | Colombia | Colombia | English | Spanish | More than 30% of the population in Colombia is from rural areas, although is one of the richest agricultural country rural people have different barriers they have to live with, one of those is access to an efficient health system, in fact for a rural person access to health specialist service takes over 4 to 6 months; Recognizing this, Bive Foundation set out to provide them with healthcare that is quick, easy to access and affordable. One the ways that we make it happen is through Social projects in health, in 2019 we launch Mujer BIVE tu salud- MBS (Women Your health), this project represents a solution for early detection and prevention of breast and cervical cancer, because only in Colombia every year de more than 2.700 die because of one of this illnesses, That’s why we want to present this innovation to the world, because de the problem that are trying to reduce is taken down hundreds of women every year around the world and UN solutions summit is the perfect platform to multiply it and improve saving women’s life. We want to make it happen; we make it happen. | Business Administrator of the National University of Colombia, Specialist in Marketing and Sales Management of the University of Manizales, Elected Councilor of the Municipality of Neira for the period 2016-2019. I am a young dynamic and accustomed to teamwork and under pressure; With experience in control and coordination of administrative activities and personnel management, capable of generating added value through the creation of ideas and initiatives for problem solving, as well as having a high sense of responsibility, focus on results and ease of communication in 2 languages With the interest of expanding my knowledge and dealing with jobs that involve challenges and new professional challenges. | Mujer Bive tu Salud- MBS | Project in female health care in early detection of breast and cervical cancer, aimed at rural women in the central region of Colombia. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Bive is currently implemented in Colombia | Yes | Linked Foundation, Lefil Consulting and growers coffee cooperatives | Transition to Scale | Bive, will be developed ""Transition to scale"" model, this proposed model is develoment during the year 2020 and 2021, we intend to extend the project in Antioquia, and Quindío, to facilitate access to health services through the Bive plan, strengthen the network of health providers in 2 departments, establish a network of providers in health services in 2 more departments in the central region of Colombia. | Cervical and breast cancer are the largest contributors to premature death and disability of women worldwide as well as in Colombia. Rural Colombian women must overcome barriers to access health services such as long waiting times, complex administrative procedures, and a lack of knowledge about their rights to healthcare, which make this group have low HPV vaccination rates among girls, and low uptake of cervical cancer and breast cancer screening compared to urban women | MBS, facilitates access to integrated cancer care for rural Colombian women across their life course for timely, high-quality and low-cost health services implementing mobile health clinics in villages away from the centralized medical infrastructure of the central region of Colombia. Likewise, the MBS project strengthens the local capacities of primary healthcare providers and builds a network of local female health leaders to improve comprehensive management of female cancer Bive has designed a methodology that integrates the self-sustaining model that already has, the growth projection in other regions of Colombia, and the necessary tools to implement capacities in the most vulnerable rural communities. The foregoing, will facilitate access to medical assistance and health services not only in the states of Caldas and Risaralda, but in the central region of Colombia, which includes the states of Antioquia, Quindío, Caldas and Risaralda. MBS, look forward to sustainable Development Goals (SDG) acknowledge the importance of health and well-being as well as opportunities for women. SDG 3, Goal 3.4 and 3.8 aim to reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment, and achieve universal health coverage respectively. On the other hand, SDG 5, goals 5.1 and 5.6 aim to end all forms of discrimination against all women and girls, and ensure access to sexual and reproductive health rights respectively | MBS, facilitate access to early detection and prevention of cervical and breast cancer, with a focus on gender equity, on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for 1.750 female rural coffee growers, in the central region of Colombia, (states of Risaralda and Caldas), the MBS project provides innovative solutions, from the gender equity approach of rural women and the colombian families, in sexual and reproductive health, human right (SRHR) and femenine empowerment: In a fragmented health system, Bive is an efficient integration solution that allows connect: patients with their health system, making it possible for them to access timely diagnosis and continuity of care through Bive; to the communities, installing self-management capacities to give continuity to the projects in which they participate, to the staff and primary providers, delivering high quality training so that they provide high quality services to the most vulnerable population. Access an early diagnosis; The MBS project guarantees for coffee growers a network of providers in primary healthcare (first level) close to rural populations, specialized attention in a particular way at low costs and fast. Health insurers, responsible for health care in Colombia, do not allocate resources for education in health rights and gender equity for rural population in rural, MBS reaches the rural population with education and professional information on prevention in the care of sexual and reproductive health | In 2019, MBS, has begun its execution with 1,000 women in the states of Caldas and Risaralda, in 2020, will expand the coverage to the total of 1,750 rural women The monitoring and evaluation of the MBS project comprises three areas: Health education intervention and quality assessment: Bive will execute a longitudinal correlational descriptive study to test the changes in beneficiaries knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding female cancer care (prevention and early diagnosis). -Sample size: 25% of women participating in MBS project. Total sample for the study: 1,750 stratified by age and geographical location. - Data collection: Semi-structured questionnaire developed by Bive. The collection and ordering of the information will be in charge of the coordinator and the social manager of the project. Data will be collected In two moments: At baseline, during the health brigades in the municipalities (rural villages) and 3 months after the educational intervention has been completed, by telephone, for the quantitative component. - Analysis: Descriptive statistics for baseline and after intervention will be presented disaggregating dependent variables by age, level of education, geographic location and and socioeconomic status. Analytical statistics will be obtained from the sample to test the relationship between dependent and independent variables at baseline and after intervention. | Milestone 1: generate public-private partnerships for the comprehensive care and continuity of women's health care for the rural population of Colombia. Milestone 2: expand the project to 2 more states in Colombia. Milestone 3: Impact 1,750 rural women in the Andean region of Colombia Milestone 4. Build capacities with 40 dead rural natural leaders in leadership, female empowerment and health care. Milestone 5: Build capacities with 10 first-rate health professionals in the villages where the project is developed. Milestone 6: generate knowledge for decision-making and public policies in the distribution of public health resources | Short term needs: -Manage all the financing resources of the project. -Manage legal permits with the territorial health regulatory entity of the states where the project is developed. Medium term needs: - Expand co-financing resources to extend the impact to more rural women - Manage the network of health providers in the 2 new states of the Andean region of Colombia. Long term needs: - Manage resources to establish the MBS project, to leverage the growth of Bive at the national level - Colombia and start our expansion to another South American country. | company website: www.bive.co facebook: @bivemanizales | The first pilot test showed the need to scale female cancer care to the most-deprived population and the ones facing barriers to access to healthcare, such as rural populations. For more information about the MBS project: http://www.bive.co/es/proyectos/mujer-bive-tu-salud | Bive with its solutions to health problems has won the following awards and recognitions: Winners of the SWAP Program- 2015- Semifinalists VIVA Schmidheiny Awards 2015 Winner of the l3LATAM program 2016 Global Health Innovation Grant program Pfizer Foundation 2017- 2018 The network of Innovators in Health - The World Economic Forum McKinsey & Company Leadership program for Social Entrepreneurs ""The Global Good Fund"" The investment portfolio of Yunus Social Business Semifinalists Accelerate 2030 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
909 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Javier | Okhuysen Urrutia | salauno | http://salauno.com.mx | co-CEO & co-Founder | Male | Mexico | Mexico | English | Spanish | Health is a precondition for human development. We envision a world in which the status quo has been turned around to make today’s marginalized population part of inclusive development and everyone is empowered to do great things. We envision entrepreneurship as the leading driver for change, fostering inclusion, sustainability and development. We know that this major change will only happen if we work diligently and collaboratively to achieve it. Our vision is to be an agent of change, disrupt traditional approaches and bring together different actors to work towards a common goal. We celebrate initiatives focused on creating awareness and fostering knowledge sharing among actors. We are sure we have a lot to learn from this conversation and also a lot to share about our own experience that will foster debate and the expansion of successful solutions and the development of new ones. In the past 5 years salauno has provided eye health services to hundreds of thousands of people who could not access them otherwise, restoring people´s life quality by giving them back their sight through cataract surgery, glaucoma treatments and retina treatments among others. These treatments have proven to be some of the more cost-effective ways of enhancing people’s lives and make them able to reach their full potential. This has been achieved through innovative schemes that leverage economies of scale, highly standardized operational systems and the use of advanced technologies. | Javier Okhuysen is co-CEO and Co-Founder of salauno. He is an Industrial Engineer (Honors) from the Iberoamerican University in Mexico City where he was vice president of the Student Society and member of the Engineering Council. He worked since September 2008 in London for Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a US $5.6 billion venture capital fund that invests globally in infrastructure assets (transportation, water and energy). During his time at GIP London, Mr. Okhuysen participated in various transactions that include the acquisition of Gatwick Airport (US $ 2.4bn), Greenstar UK (US $ 200m), among others. Javier worked at UBS Investment Bank since January 2006 in the Infrastructure and Transportation team in London and then in the Latin America team in New York. At UBS, Javier advised clients on various transactions that together have a cumulative value greater than US $ 7bn. Among the relevant transactions in which he was involved are the merger of Iberia and British Airways. Before UBS, Javier worked in Madrid for Rothschild for a year in the telecom, utility and leisure sectors. Javier has received several acknowledgments such as Schwab Foundation Entrepreneur of the Year (2015) National Entrepreneur Award (2014) and Global Shaper of the WEF (2013) Among his hobbies is running, soccer (Arsenal fan) and reading biographies. | salauno | With operational efficiency and the use of technology, we offer specialized healthcare services to underserved populations | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Mexico | Yes | Institutional investors like IFC, Adobe Capital, LCA, LGT Impact and Endeavor-Catalyst; philanthropic partners like the IADB, the WDF, Pfizer Foundation and Linked Foundation; public and private stakeholders (such as IMSS, ISSSTE and Cinépolis) | Scaling | salauno began as a pilot clinic to prove the viability, sustainability and efficiency of the model, (2011 to 2014). As a result of its success, we began to test the hub and spoke model, opening in 2015 three satellite clinics (spokes) that referred patients. From that year until 2018 we had 18 clinics and 1 surgical hub. Our strategic plan 2019-2021 is focused on scaling this proven solution. This year alone, our expansion plans include opening 12 new clinics in Greater Mexico City. | Vision impairments limit human potential and life quality. Blindness is the second cause of impairment in Mexico and 80% of cases are preventable. Restoring sight has a transformational impact on their life quality. In Mexico 43.6% of the population lives in poverty and access to quality care is asymmetrical. We believe sight should be a right and not a luxury. We work tirelessly to provide access to quality healthcare for all. | salauno is an ophthalmic care system founded in 2011 that has become the largest in its field in Mexico. Through innovative schemes that leverage economies of scale, highly standardized operational systems and the use of advanced technologies, we provide eye care services to low-mid income and marginalized populations who are underserved. We offer high-quality services through community outreach camps and a “Hub-and-Spoke” network that has 18 clinics and a surgical center located across Greater Mexico City, where 21% of the Mexican population lives. Our scope is all eye care main sub-specialty treatments, complementary products such as imaging, laser, optical shop, pharmacy and vertical integration services such as operating room rental and sales of medical supplies to private and public hospitals. We have reached over 1,264 communities within Mexican territory. Our mission has guided us to provide quality eye care to more than 343,000 people, performing more than 49,000 surgeries. We envision a healthcare system focused on patients' needs, assembled by solutions that reinvent ways to reach more people. In the next 7 years, we plan to be covering most of Mexico’s national territory with eye care clinics, developing a strong replicable platform. We believe we can change the dynamics in healthcare to build a more sustainable and inclusive ecosystem sharing know-how with other countries, contributing to our vision of healthcare. | Traditional means of providing eye care haven’t sufficed resulting in millions of underserved people due to economic, geographic and information constraints. salauno tackles each of these barriers through innovative model that constantly incorporate the use of new retail, management and medical technologies, to defy the status quo. There are two lines of innovation within our business: innovation in the operating model and innovation in technology-enabled solutions. The first one is incorporated in our working way; we call it “the salauno way”. We are highly specialized, high-volume driven, cost-efficient, patient-centric and our team is intersectorial to avoid being healthcare blindsided. The second, our technology-driven innovations enable us to increase access, fostering economies of scale benefits to large volumes of people. salauno is different from any other competitor. Private institutions lack vision and operational focus to lower their costs and be affordable. Public institutions sometimes lack operational capabilities and the constant innovation drive, and are dependent on budget cycles. NGOs hospitals depend on donations, lack scale potential and have no economic capacity to guarantee sustainability. In this context salauno is a one-of-a-kind option transforming the Mexican healthcare ecosystem. | We have developed a strong platform that can still be optimized through the use of technology. The core of our platform is our hub and spoke model which gives us physical presence, this has been almost fully developed. We are still developing other technology enabled solutions to strengthen and leverage the physical presence. Through our hub and spoke model, we have been able to carry out an organic and stable growth. Our model consists in opening new clinics that diagnose patients and refer them for treatment to the surgical hub. Opening new clinics allows us to constantly reach more patients while we leverage economies of scale. This cost-effective solution has given us the potential to reach great scale with financial sustainability which allows us to expand even further. Also with initiatives such as outreach campaigns and telemedicine we expand the scalability of our reach. Today we are the biggest ophthalmological network in Mexico. We have 18 clinics and 1 surgical center in 14 municipal districts in Greater Mexico City, the third most densely populated city in the world with over 22 million people, the most populated city in Latin America. Additionally, through our outreach campaigns program we have served other communities outside Greater Mexico City, in states including Puebla, Tlaxcala, Hidalgo, Veracruz, Chiapas, and Guanajuato. | salauno’s vision is to become the leading specialized health services provider in Mexico by offering innovative solutions to conditions that affect large segments of the population. Our strategic plan 2019-2021 is focused on scaling this proven solution. This year alone we will open 12 new clinics in Greater Mexico City. Having started with eye care, our main goal is to construct a platform that will be used to expand to several specialties. In the next 7 years, we plan to be covering most of Mexico’s national territory with our eye care clinics. Within the next 15 years we expect to open 1-3 new lines of medical attention such as women’s health, geriatrics or orthopedics. After proving that our model is extremely efficient and scalable, and through a culture of constant innovation we believe we can change the dynamics in healthcare to build a more sustainable and inclusive ecosystem that leaves no one without access to timely and high-quality healthcare options. | The most important resource in our model is the ophthalmologist. Ophthalmologists are highly specialized professionals that are at the core of our operations and in Mexico are scarce with around 3,000 ophthalmologists, yielding a very unhealthy doctor-patient ratio. Thus, we really need Doctors’ training, professional development and retention schemes to be able to scale our model and have considerable impact. Given the scarcity of doctors we constantly work in developing technology enabled solutions that enhance doctor productivity and ensure that care reaches more patients. These developments include tele-diagnosis programs, app-based referral channels and AI algorithms for massive screening of patients. Thus, another critical investment for salauno is the development of technology. Finding the right funding for these developments is key for the scaling, replicability and sustainability of our solution. Finally, resources for physical expansion are also needed. We recently raised a round of equity which will allow us to comply with the expansion plan 2019-2021. If we want to carry on an aggressive expansion, we need to secure the funding for these investments. | •Company website https://www.salauno.com.mx/ English •IFC Case Study https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/c7db8dfa-1efc-4f00-86f3-cae75151b8ea/IBiz+Case+Study+-salauno+-+final+-+no+covers.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CVID=lLZYzAn •Mexicans See a Better Future with Inclusive Eye Care Offerings (2017) https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/news_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/news+and+events/news/impact-stories/mexicans-see-a-better-future-with-inclusive-eye-care-offerings •Latin America impact investors set sights on social returns (2017) https://www.reuters.com/article/us-latam-investment-society-resilience/latin-america-impact-investors-set-sights-on-social-returns-idUSKBN16S2GO •salaUno: Eliminating Needless Blindness in Mexico (2014) https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47117 Spanish •Salauno suma nuevos inversionistas para acelerar su expansion (2019) https://expansion.mx/emprendedores/2019/06/03/salauno-suma-nuevos-inversionistas-para-acelerar-su-expansion •Sala Uno busca erradicar la ceguera prevenible en México (2017) https://www.forbes.com.mx/sala-uno-busca-erradicar-la-ceguera-prevenible-en-mexico/ •Sala Uno, la mexicana premiada en el Foro Económico Mundial (2015) https://expansion.mx/emprendedores/2015/05/12/sala-uno-la-mexicana-premiada-en-el-foro-economico-mundial | IIC Video https://vimeo.com/131911677 BBC 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p015217z Corporate video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXXltqZCQsE El FINANCIERO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Ju_AZq0PU Imagen noticias https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxOXF2ZABTo A quien corresponda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ulFC6-rIzY Endeavor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w3uo9OPnmM Startupmania https://open.spotify.com/episode/7x9RVgplegD1D9DPBOeRe3?si=DngJ4j-8TXSSh9qoYpVy2g | - Schwab Foundation Entrepreneur of the Year -2015 - National Entrepreneur Award 2014 - Global Shaper of the WEF - 2013 - IPIHD Entrepreneur - 2013 - CNN/Expansion Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year - 2012 - Innovations in Healthcare cohort 2012 - Endeavor Entrepreneur– 2012 - Business Call to Action initiative by the UN - FT/IFC Transformational Business Awards (finalist) - Grant recipients from: IADB, WDF, Pfizer foundation, Linked foundation - Case studies by: HBS, Darden-Ipade, IPIHD and IFC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
910 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Maria del Carmen Patricia | Morales | Terra curanda | www.terracuranda.org | Visiting Professor | female | Belgium | Belgium | English | French | Spanish | We are living in a process of innovation worldwide, that can benefit or not our understanding and action on the Earth and humankind. The goals of Agenda 2030 offer a new route for developing new shared ethics taking into account the future generations. the use of new technologies (radio internet, virtual exhibitions) in combination with traditional methodologies (meeting, rotating exhibition) offers innovative ways for rethinking the content and the implementation of the goals of Agenda 2030. Planeta 2030 is creating a new space of dialogue and cooperation at an intercultural, interdisciplinary and intergenerational level. | Patricia Morales studied philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires and Goethe University in Frankfurt. She got her PhD in 1997 at the University of Buenos Aires with her thesis Derechos humanos y etica de la responsabilidad solidaria. She is visiting professor at the University of Leuven at the Faculty of Arts for the master of Iberoamerican Studies and for the Institute of European Society and Culture. She has been a researcher at Tilburg University on issues of ethics, human rights, sustainable development, at global and Latin America level. She also collaborates with the University Blas Pascal in Argentina on human security. At Tilburg University, she became involved in the Earth Charter and the Declaration of Human Duties and Responsibilities. She is editor of Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Global Interdependence (1994), Towards Global Human Rights (1996), and Pueblos indigenas, derechos humanos e interdependencia global (2001) and author of several articles worldwide.Feminae (2012-14) and II Academic Summit EU CELAC (Brussels 2015). She has participated in the coordination of the Opening Conference of the UNESCO-IHE, Institute for Water Education (2002) and in the edition of the Water Wisdom Book (2005). She collaborates actively with members of several universities, UN Agencies and NGOs of different countries, being an active member of Terra curanda, Mundus Maris, ARABEL and other associations dedicated to supporting rural schools and educational projects on values. She has coordinated projects on the Agenda 2030, UDHR and the Earth Charter. | Planeta 2030 | A global dialogue and cooperation toward the goals of the Agenda 2030 | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Belgium, Argentina, worldwide via internet | Yes | marcelo morales yokobori | Scaling | The project promotes dialogue and reflection worldwide on the goals of the Agenda 2030. By now we have developed a radio programme in www.radioalma.be and FM101.9 in Brussels and has the initial support of Shout It Out of the University of Leuven. We have produced 7 radio programmes (of 60') with one or more goals as the main topic. At the same time, we have organised an art exhibition with the paintings of Carmen Yokobori (Tenerife, Hoeilaart, Brussels, Leuven, Buenos Aires) | The goals of Agenda 2030 are the major topic of the project. With the participants of experts, students, and artists we promote the comprehension of this document with a pedagogical, philosophical and scientific perspective. | Agenda 2030 deserves an exhaustive study and analysis for inviting a broad public and transcending cultural, linguistic and generational differences. Invited participants and the public are very interested in taking part in this process for strengthening a better future. Experts of different disciplines and cultures address the content and challenges of every goal of the Agenda 2030. Mutual support and interaction among the visions of artists, experts, and students open new routes for maximalizing the Agenda 2030. | We are using alternative methodology (radio, exhibitions, website, meetings) and various perspectives (art, science, education, philosophy) for promoting the goals of the Agenda 2030 in their interaction. At the same time we are making the efforts at international level. For example, the radio is made in Leuven and Buenos Aires with participants of different countries. | We have developed various radio programmes, exhibitions and events with interesting results. Progressively we count with the participation of prominent figures, as Federico Mayor Zaragoza formal director of UNESCO. The project will complete the study of the 17 goals of the Agenda 2030 through interdisciplinary, intercultural and intergenerational dialogue and solidarity. The feedback of the public, the scientists, the students, and artists are continuously considered for improving the outputs. There is moreover consultation with experts on the Agenda 2030. | We will continue weekly with the radio programs, the realization of 7 exhibitions yearly and several meetings in Belgium and Argentina with international participants. Moreover, through videoconferences, the dialogue on the goals of the Agenda 2030 does not have frontiers. | The process of Planeta 2030 could benefit in a short time through more promotion and translation in more languages (not only Spanish and English) In medium-term it is considered to have some publications and videos and in the long-term more impact and exchange worldwide, in particular offering the perspective of the Spanish and Latin American region of the world. | www.terracuranda.org | http://www.terracuranda.org/index.php/es/latitud-0 | A previous program of the codirector Marcelo Morales Yokobori has received a mention for the radio program | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
911 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Papa | Drame | Act for Africa International, Inc. | www.actforafrica.org | President | male | United States of America | Côte D'Ivoire | English | French | Our Vision: ""MAKING AFRICAN YOUTH END HUNGER IN AFRICA"" I am Papa Drame, President, and co-founder of Act for Africa International whose mission has been the alleviation of rural poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. We do it by creating a social-economic environment through agriculture that will provide rural young people with sustainable employment to discourage permanent migration to urban areas and overseas. Food production in sub-Saharan Africa needs to increase by 60 percent at least over the next 15 years to feed a growing population. The continent is bursting with potential: -the youth population is increasing rapidly (850 million youth under 25 by 2050, youngest population globally), and, at 600 million hectares of arable lands, sub-Saharan Africa is home to nearly half of the world’s uncultivated land that can be brought into production. Intensification of land use can be considered a key element of unemployment and poverty reduction. Agriculture is the bedrock of rural revitalization. Its survival rests without equivocation on the African young women and men. Until now, the teaching and learning of agriculture have proceeded in a traditionalistic manner that has failed to successfully attract youth into the world of agri-entrepreneurship. Let’s look at youth differently and we’ll see grassroots entrepreneurs, full of energy and ideas. Let’s help them turn their skills and potential into jobs and they find a way up and out of poverty. In response to the situation, Act for Africa International has launch Agro-Villages Network Project which is an initiative aimed at inculcating entrepreneurial skills to thoughtful, engaged and responsive women and young people in practices of farm production, and at easing access to farming resources and working capital. We would like to talk about our strategy on how African youth can feed the growing population in the African continent and this is why we are submitting this application to present the AGRO-VILLAGES NETWORK PROJECT at the UN Solutions Summit in September 2019. The initiative border on curricular reorientation that integrates entrepreneurship education, retraining of youth, financial support system among others. We are in alignment with the SDGs #8 that stipules: ""Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all"", and also with the SDGs #2 that says: ""End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture"". | Mr. Drame is the principal designer of Agro-Villages Network concept with over 17 years of experiences in projects managing in the field of logistics and transportation. He is a detail-oriented with knowledge and experience in leading and coordinating projects. Extremely motivated to constantly develop leadership skills and teamwork building, he's confident in his ability to come up with interesting ideas for impacting projects. - Agro-Villages Group, Inc. Sept 2018 to present. Founder & Chief Executive; Responsible for the overall project operations and ensures that tasks are completed and the objectives are successfully met. - Act for Africa International, Inc. May 2007 to present. Co-Founding President; Presided over the board, handling the organization’s day-to-day operations and monitoring ongoing projects - Logistics Specialist in the field of transportation. February 2002 to present. Providing planning and coordination of goods transportation and warehousing. | AGRO-VILLAGES NETWORK PROJECT | A WAY TO GROW MORE WITH MORE IN THEIR HAND | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Currently, we're launching the prototype of Agro-Villages in Cote d'Ivoire with the plan to replicate it in the ECOWAS region and then in other African regions. | Yes | In Ivory Coast, we're partnering with several ministries such as the Ministry of Justice to manage a vocational center that will be our first farm school. Others partners are the federation of cooperatives of farmers and youth associations. | Proof of Concept | Since 2015, my collaborators and I went several times on the ground in Cote d'Ivoire to develop the concept. A team was set up to work with local partners. Among them, Allen Ahien, a farmers association that regroups +1,500 farmers within 11 villages and made up mostly with women and youth growing cassava. We're also developing JURU, the App that will coordinate, interconnect stakeholders to ease access to funding, inputs, and markets in order to sustain smallholding agriculture in the region. | Whenever we're in Africa, we see young people well educated but struggling to find work. Currently, there is +55 million unemployed youth with no hope to find a decent job because local markets are not able to absorb and provide opportunities for all of them. Thousands risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean to reach Europe in search of job opportunities. PERIL or PROMISE? On the other hand, people are dying from hunger and malnutrition while millions of acres of lands are underutilized. | We're promoting sustainable livelihood thru a network of farms. AGRO-VILLAGES NETWORK is an innovative and inclusive incubator/accelerator platform that brings a propitious environment for young people to embrace agriculture and farmers to grow more. Our main objective is to facilitate access to services and products that are necessary for efficient farming production. It includes: • Education & Training; • Integration of A.I into the farming ecosystem; • Farming Input Trade; • Commodity Storage, Logistics & Transportation; • Commodity Marketing; • On-site Product Processing. Agro-Villages network enables young people to stay home and run their agriculture-related business. The platform will develop most of the skills of these young people, and convert their potential to something useful: start a farming business. The platform provides them with the necessary resources and technology so they can see agriculture as a potential to explore. | Our job creation approach is based on a philosophy of entrepreneurship to unlock potential. Currently, there is one major challenge faced by farmers: LACK OF COORDINATION. If fulfilled, this could help reduce other challenges which are: • Lack of information: #1 problem. Most miss out on new and improved methods of farming. • Poor financial support: Lack of financial support to enable farmers to grow, expand and maintain their yields. • Poor technology: Inappropriate and obsolete technology is the greatest disadvantage that affects agricultural production and makes youth shy away to embrace agriculture. • Access to markets: For farmers, lack of access to markets makes almost impossible to sell and to profit from harvests. The main reason for launching the initiative is that the tool to coordinate farming and make available funding and resources is nonexistent. It is unrealistic to make available economic opportunities for youth and expect changes without proper coordination. Our approach is more complete than the competition's approaches. We intervene in our approach downstream and upstream by: • Regrouping, educating and training, • Easing access to funding and resources to enhance productivity through JURU, coordinator, and interconnector, • Providing mentorship and advice during the production phase. • Helping to identify market opportunities by linking with local and global markets before harvest. The competition may use one or two approaches above. | We are currently in the development's phase of Juru, the App to coordinate Agro-Villages Network platform's activities: from the profiling module (identification of stakeholders) to the interconnection module to connect farmers to suppliers, bankers, and buyers and the finances module for mobile payment. As for the project pilot direct beneficiaries who are members of the cooperative ALLIE AHIN, we have listed 350 active members for the entrepreneurship education and modern farming practices training. We are starting in September 2019 to train 25 field agents to be trainers of participants. These agents will then train and give advice during the production phase. | We're currently in Cote d'Ivoire working for the prototype of Agro-Villages of Cote d'Ivoire as a part of the Agro-Villages Network which is a network of agricultural development centers in sub-Saharan Africa. The pilot project that is currently implemented in Côte d'Ivoire, is taking place in the Moronou province. It targets cassava producers and young non-farmers living in a dozen localities in the province. Our intention is to pilot the project in this province as a replicable model in other provinces of Côte d'Ivoire with other crops, then later in the ECOWAS region (West Africa). The program will be in three phases starting in September 2019 and will last 15 months: • Phase 1: incubation • Phase 2: production • Phase 3: Transformation and marketing network. The first participants in the pilot project are 500 women farmers from the cooperative ALLIE AHIN. The other participants are young people from the province but are not farmers. They haven't yet obtained their first job years after graduation. We enroll 30 of them as field agents to be the trainers of participants. In total, the pilot phase targets 530 people. This number will increase by at least 1000 people each year. With the pilot, we expect to improve the lives of 530 families. With a ratio of 4 members per family, 2,120 people will be impacted at the end of the pilot phase in December 2020. The number will increase every year as young people, once trained, will supervise new participants. | The implementation of the pilot in Moronou is planned for 15 months: from September 2019 to December 2020. From September to October 2019, we will train field agents for 45 days. Incubation of participants begins on November 2019 after the training of the field agents and ends on December 2020. The cassava production is included in the incubation phase and will start in October/November 2019. The integration into the digital platform Juru will take place after the final test of the App that is expected in January 2020. The processing and marketing phase will start 6 months after the cassava production starts in May 2020. Activities will continue in Moronou once the pilot phase is over. Turning rural communities into agricultural growth poles that can achieve sustainable development require holistic and integrated approaches. We are seeking seed funding in term of Grant/Loans or investment for the acquisition of farming equipment, for training purposes and for the development of the App in the short term. We are looking to partner with development agencies for guidance to ensure best practices in terms of sustainability, and also with impact investment firms that can provide funding to invest in innovation and incubation centers, processing plants infrastructures and logistics equipment for postharvest management in the medium and long-term. | https://actforafrica.org | n/a | n/a | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
912 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Abhishek | Syal | ARISE Impact | www.ariseimpact.org | Founder | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | My motivation is to share our solution for generating self-confidence and ""can-do"" mindset amongst people with disabilities across the globe. Through building self-confidence and skills of PWD, we can bridge the inclusion gap in society. | Abhishek is Founder, CEO, ARISE Impact, which has impacted 1,174 PwD since 2011. He has been recognized as MIT TR35 Under 35 India Innovator & also been awarded NCPEDP-Mphasis Universal Design Award. | SPECIAL training programs | Building self-confidence and skills of PwD for lifelong livelihoods | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | India, Colombia | No | Transition to Scale | We have successfully tested out our pedagogy across 4 learning groups, and ready to expand to more learning groups. | People with disabilities are often educated in special high-schools and then, they join colleges which are open to all for higher education. This presents mainstreaming challenges for students with disabilities. This problem is increased in developing countries, where there are higher accessibility and inclusion barriers, less open society mindsets and inadequate support systems. | We solve above problem by creating an inclusive support system that fosters a growth and self-confidence mindset change in PwD. This helps them face various challenges and overcome perceptions. They become able to communicate their value-add, and instead of going to stay at home, start pursuing college education with intent to develop professionally, start pursuing job opportunities or freelancing or even starting their own business. | The new perspective is to change the mindset and life approach of students with disabilities from that of looking for constant support, to that of self-confidence, and discovering their ability to do things on their own. They also start to look at, present & communicate about their disability in a positive way, as contributing members to society. | We have initial Proof of Concept across 4 learning groups. We track outcomes through awareness, confidence-building and application metrics using pre-test - post-test survey. We have observed increases ~20-30% across students in our initial SPECIAL training programs. | We plan to continue expanding in India & Colombia, recruit ~20-30 more volunteers, and project to impact 100 - 300+ more students with disabilities by next year. | Short- term needs: fundraising to hire more full-time staff, more volunteers, program design support to complement and strengthen. Train the trainers at 2-3 new locations Medium term: outreach support, online platform development, employer support/inclusion program to run in parallel, train the trainers at 3-10 new locations Long-term: train the trainers at 10-50 new locations, systems design for managing programs, fundraising | Ariseimpact.org | https://youtu.be/NJDi7KDdVdY This is from how our non-profit org started. Details the process by which we create content- and make it usable, relatable and inclusive for people with disabilities. We replicated our methodology to start creating self-confidence and soft-skill development trainings | NCPEDP-Mphasis Universal Design Award (winner) - Govt. Of India eNGO Award (1st place) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
913 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Olga | Elizarova | Play, Collaborate, Change | https://vimeo.com/342354741 | Behavior Change Designer | Female | United States of America | Russian Federation | English | French | Russian | I am applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit, because I think it is the best platform to engage in the conversation with NGOs, community and business leaders, social enterprises, CSR and sustainability departments of large corporations, philanthropists and other people passionate about solving wicked societal problems and creating solutions that can help us achieve SDGs. I am using innovation for positive global impact by designing a Social Innovation Game that aims to increase awareness about important social problems and NGOs/social businesses addressing these issues. The game aims to support communities to participate meaningfully in co-designing and determining solutions to these problems, and apply human-centered design and behavioral science to social problems. The game is now in the prototyping phase. Together with my collaborators on the game we have piloted our social innovation game at two conferences one in the U.S. in 2017 and one in France in 2019 with about 20 participants in each. We also tested the game-based workshop approach in Muskegon, Michigan and in North Hartford, Connecticut. We collaborated with local NGOs and community members. Each community had about 15 people engaged in the workshop. | Olga Elizarova, DDS, MPH, MBA is a Behavior Change Design Director at Mad*Pow and an entrepreneur. Together with her teammates, Olga designs behavior change interventions to promote health, reduce risks and prevent noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. In her work, she applies the fusion of her human-centered design skills, clinical expertise, public health knowledge and insights from analyzing data. Olga has helped design digital interventions for pharmaceutical companies, health insurers, and startups. She is a cofounder of a Russian digital health startup Panacea.Cloud, digitized intervention based on a clinically proven program for weight loss and chronic disease prevention. Olga devotes a significant amount of her free time to volunteer projects. The goals of these projects are to bring design to the places that need it most, and to create a community of young people who want to volunteer their time and skills to help organizations and communities reduce their inequalities, and grow the sense of hope and creativity. | Play, Collaborate, Change | Tapping into creativity and game play to increase awareness about important social problems by bringing people together to create solutions. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | USA | Yes | Paige Thompson, Aidan Hudson-Lapore, and Way to Wellville organization | Proof of Concept | We have piloted our social innovation game at two conferences one in the U.S. in 2017 and one in France in 2019 with about 20 participants in each. Each time we tested it we got amazing feedback from participants and lots of interest in seeing this game brought to live for the general public. We also tested the game-based workshop approach in Muskegon, MI and in North Hartford, CT. We collaborated with local NGOs and community members. Each community had about 15 people engaged in the workshop. | Almost 20% of non-profits experience underfunding in technology, employee training, and increase in fundraising expenses. There is a need for talent and funding that doesn't come with strict restrictions for use. Communities are saturated with people who are interested in volunteering their time for social good. ""Volunteering” is often associated with inconvenience or duty, rather than an engaging and rewarding experience. It is further worsened by low awareness of the root causes of problems. | We facilitate game-based events and workshops between communities and individuals who experience social problems, non-profits that work in and with these communities, and either CSR/Sustainability departments of large corporations (B2B) or general public (B2C) who by playing the game create solutions & implementation strategies for them. 1. We create a questionnaire and share it with an organization solving an important social problem. 2. The organization “donates a problem space” describing their beneficiaries, beneficiaries' barriers, the program they do and what works and doesn't work about it. Feedback and insights come from community members. 3. Our team takes a ""donated problem space"" and orgs existing program with it's results, and creates a game structure around it (tasks, cues, rules, players, etc.). 4. Everything is put into a board game format (V1). The organizations logo and company information are added to customize the board. 5. The game-based events or workshops are organized by our team and sold to CSR/Sustainability teams or general public who want to play social good games or volunteer in their communities. 6. As the game evolves over time it will expand into more geographies and will integrate more digital technologies. Long-term vision: Decreased stigma around social problems, increased number of people interested in providing direct and indirect help, wicked problems get solved faster due to a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach. | The innovative part is the application of what has already been successfully launched and tested in other industries. Play, Collaborate, Change borrows from the following existing solutions: Games (board games, escape rooms, trivia, date night in a box) Entertainment (Paint & Wine night, Sleep no more, Secret cinema) Crowdsourcing (Hackathons, Bootcamps, Phylo DNA puzzle) The same experience design principles are applied to develop a customizable social innovation game around real-world social problems. Similar to an Escape Room experience people will be problem-solving collaboratively, but this time the problem will be real, e.g. lack of public transportation in an underserved neighborhood. Similar to Paint & Wine night where an expert teaches you how to paint, NGOs or social businesses will be sharing their subject matter expertise, sharing knowledge and insights about the community, and their programs. Similar to hackathons, our events will be designed as fast-paced interactive experiences. People directly affected by the problems, NGOs or social businesses will be co-designing ideas that could be partially or fully implemented in these organizations. Our solution is about merging a positive social experience people can enjoy with a meaningful real-world challenge. We want to help people feel empowered, restore their belief in the value of civic participation and their ability to help not only by donating money. | We have piloted our social innovation game at two conferences one in the U.S. in 2017 and one in France in 2019 with about 20 participants in each. We also tested the game-based workshop approach in Muskegon, Michigan and in North Hartford, Connecticut. We collaborated with local NGOs and community members. Each community had about 15 people engaged in the workshop. The solution is now in the prototype phase, so the process is very iterative. After each event or workshop we collect feedback from participants and implement the changes in the next version for the game. This version that I am submitting, is a 3rd generation of the game prototype. | Goals for next year (2020) Organize 6 public and corporate events Serve at least 3 CSR departments Serve at least 6 NGOs or social businesses Increase geographical reach (4 more cities in the U.S. and 2 more countries) Get at least 300 people to participate in our events More than 20 community organized events and meetups using the social innovation game Generate more than 60 solutions to important social problems for NGOs and social businesses Unlock $50,000 in unrestricted funding for NGOs and social businesses Goals for the next 5 years (2020-2025) Organize 50 public and corporate events Serve at least 15 CSR departments Serve at least 60 NGOs or social businesses Increase geographical reach (15 more countries) Get at least 3000 people to participate in our events More than 1000 community organized events and meetups using the social innovation game Generate more than 600 solutions to important social problems for NGOs and social businesses Unlock $1,000,000 in unrestricted funding for NGOs and social businesses | 1. Many of the barriers that we experience at the moment and that prevent us from moving forward are related to lack of connections with CSR/sustainability departments of corporations and lack of established NGOs and social businesses network. I started addressing it by going to events and networking with people from these organizations. I believe that the media and conference exposure can also help us continue growing the network with the stakeholders. 2. It will be very helpful to have a team of mentors or advisors who work in the CSR or sustainability departments of corporations that can help us understand how to frame and further develop our solution so that it answers their unmet needs and at the same time generates positive social impact in the community. We hope that having them as mentors or advisors can help us refine the short-term and the long-term strategy, align it with their business operations and understand the best mode of engagement. 3. It would be fantastic to connect with more social businesses, young entrepreneurs passionate about solving wicked social problems and businesses that want to create more positive impact. 4. We haven't raised any funds yet. We have been designing, prototyping and testing the game using our own resources so far. It would be great to raise at least $100k this year to be able to take the solution to the next level and make it available to general public through game-based events. | https://vimeo.com/342354741 https://www.slideshare.net/MadPowLLC/play-collaborate-change-workshop https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e6o0f520durb8jv/AADB3pZNScqRrbBNRs8gDQUla?dl=0 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7Byx_I1JB4 Behavioral Marketing Summit SF 2018 https://vimeo.com/225909155 Keynote at the Healthcare Experience Design Conference 2017 https://outcomesrocket.health/olga/ | Together with my collaborators we have applied for the MIT SOLVE grant under the category of community-driven innovation, but the decision on this grant hasn't been made yet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
914 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Gavin | Armstrong | Lucky Iron Fish Enterprise | www.luckyironfish.com | Founder & CEO | Male | Canada | Canada | English | Lucky Iron Fish Enterprise aims to be an international and respected leader in iron deficiency alleviation worldwide. Our mission is to create sustainable approaches to improve the lives of women and girls in line with the sustainable development goals. We are ambitiously aligned with UN SDGs looking to address Hunger, Wellbeing, Gender Equality and Sustainable and Ethical Purchasing. As a social enterprise, we deeply believe that business can function as a force of good, doing well while doing good. I am applying to be part of the UN Solutions Summit to connect with other like minded entrepreneurs, innovators, activists, policy makers, investors and academics all working to accelerate the SDGs throughout all sectors. The opportunity to present the Lucky Iron Fish to other passionate individuals would be incredible valuable for us as a company and me as an individual. I have dedicated my academic and professional life to social impact. In 2011 I Coordinated the highest student fund raising campaign for the local United Way chapter (raised close to $10,000) and in 2013 I organized Guinness World Record Events “Most emergency relief meals packaged by a team in one hour where over 2,000 volunteers packaged 659,000 meals. I continued my commitment to using innovation to solve complex issues by founding Lucky Iron Fish. My doctoral thesis focused on the efficacy of Lucky Iron Fish and how to create it into a social enterprise. My intention has always been to show that companies and businesses can function to solve problems, that they can be ethical, socially & environmentally responsible while maintaining financial sustainability. Social impact is part of our DNA at Lucky Iron Fish, we are based on science, and built on values. We look at all aspects of our company through a social lens, always working to improve. We continue to maintain BCorp status, winning top 10% of BCorps each year. Globally, we face some incredibly complex problems that will require the world to come together to co-design solutions. Innovation of all kinds can help solve some of these issues, but this cannot happen in silos and it requires a global understanding that we are all connected and must work together. | Dr. Gavin Armstrong is a committed impact entrepreneur. He is currently serving as the Founder and President of Lucky Iron Fish Enterprise®, a social enterprise attempting to alleviate iron deficiency around the world using a simple health innovation. Through this role he was a Fulbright scholar at Auburn University and was awarded the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 in the Social Entrepreneur category in 2016. In 2017 he received the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award and was named 'Social Entrepreneur of the Year' by EY Canada. In 2018 he successfully pitched his company Lucky Iron Fish Enterprise on CBC's Dragons Den where he was able to secure a deal with two dragons. A long-term advocate and activist against hunger and malnutrition, Gavin is the first Canadian to receive the William J. Clinton Award for international work against hunger and is the inaugural recipient of the international Michaelle Jean Emergency Hunger Relief Award. He has also helped the Lucky Iron Fish win multiple Cannes Lion awards including the Grand Prix and several Clio Design Awards including the Grand Prix in healthcare. Gavin holds an honours bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Guelph and a PhD in biomedical science from the University of Guelph | Lucky Iron Fish | Simple cooking tool clinically proven to address iron deficiency anemia. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | India, Peru, Benin, Senegal, Malawi, Guatemala, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Canada, USA, London, Australia | Yes | Grand Challenges Canada, Saving Lives At Birth, World Vision Canada, Care | Scaling | We are in the process of scaling as we have conducted 7 clinical trials that demonstrate that the product works, is effective, safe and easy to use. Our research shows that our compliance rates are high, especially when compared to our competitors. We have sold to large NGOs to conduct pilots in regions around the globe. We are in the process of scaling to larger projects and moving beyond the pilot stage. We have sustained online sales and continue to build on our global partnerships. | Globally, iron deficiency anemia (IDA) is the largest micronutrient deficiency, primarily impacting women and children. Globally, an estimated 2 billion people are anemic, with 50% of the cases attributed to iron deficiency. These numbers are often under reported. Anemia and poor nutrition are directly linked to income earning potential, causing a global GDP loss of 70 billion USD per year. There are many existing interventions, however, each community requires a localized approach. | Lucky Iron Fish (LIF) is an innovative solution to iron deficiency, the world's largest micronutrient disorder. LIF has developed a clinically proven & easy-to-use cooking tool that releases natural iron when boiled. There are no side effects and it ensures that the entire household benefits from increased iron levels. the LIF sees high compliance rates (89%), resulting in increased iron status and a decrease in iron deficiency anemia. LIF is a sustainable intervention, lasting up to five years. LIF is on a mission to prevent and address iron deficiency anemia. To do so, we work in collaboration with local partners around the globe to provide localized and tailored nutrition training on nutrition and iron deficiency anemia. LIF provides a sustainable solution to addressing iron deficiency on a global scale. As women and girls are often the last to eat, they are more likely to miss out on nutritious food. The LIF adds iron to the food pot, ensuring that women and girls who consume food will receive iron enriched foods. By working closely with local partners, the Lucky Iron Fish fits into existing nutrition, WaSH or Menstrual Hygiene projects, providing comprehensive nutrition training, with a focus on iron deficiency, to beneficiaries. LIFE's long term mission is to provide women and families with a long term solution to IDA can both address and prevent IDA, working to reduce malnutrition & end the intergenerational cycle of hunger. | LIF is a simple, but highly effective & scalable innovation. LIF Electrolytic is a new formulation of the ingot made from elemental iron powder produced by a patented technique. This form of electrolytic iron produces iron particles that are sufficiently small to meet the CODEX requirement for iron fortification and has been shown to have superior properties for for iron absorption. Principal competitors to the LIF are iron supplement pills and powders. The advantages of these competitors are: power and reach of pharmaceutical companies; current market share of the companies who provide iron supplementation programs to millions of people; and governments. The disadvantages for iron supplements and powders are that: they produce a variety of side-effects which usually means that compliance rates are relatively low (30-50%) – in contrast, there are no reported side-effects from using the Fish/Leaf and compliance rates are >90%; traditional iron supplements are expensive (approximately ten times more expensive than the LIF); and each person has to take pills or powders regularly whereas the fish serves the whole family. Finally, pills and powders are not culturally sensitive – many people in the developing world who do not understand iron deficiency, do not understand why they should take pills or powders regularly especially if there are side effects: they report that they would rather feel weak and exhausted than feel sick from the side effects of taking iron pills. | Lucky Iron Fish registered as a company in 2012. Since then, we have received funding from Saving Lives at Birth and Grand Challenges Canada to conduct 7 clinical trials in Cambodia, India, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. We have conducted trials testing the effectiveness of the Lucky Iron Fish, the improvement in iron levels (both circulating and stored), compliance and use, and reduction of signs and symptoms associated with iron deficiency. We conducted trials working with women of reproductive age, children under 5 and school aged children. Ton ensure there is no bias, our trials are completed at arms length. Lucky Iron Fish provides the fish and fundraises but the trails are conducted by third party, independent clinicians and scientists. Lucky Iron Fish has also developed an additional product, the Lucky Shakti Leaf to address the India market, where many people are vegetarian and are hesitant to use a product shaped like a fish in their food. We measure our progress based on expansion to new countries and new projects, along with the number of units sold and distributed. We measure our success through quantitative and qualitative measures. For all of our projects conducted with NGOs & charities, we measure an improvement in hemoglobin levels (an increase in iron status and decrease in anemia). Qualitatively, we measure a decrease in signs and symptoms associated with IDA, an improvement in cognitive development among children. | LIFE is looking to expand further into India. The company will focus on (1) empowering local organizations and established on-the-ground networks who have credibility within the community(ies) they serve for distribution, training and impact assessment – this provides a sustainable model for growth and opportunities for women’s cooperatives to engage in distribution and appropriate nutritional education; (2) overseeing and monitoring due diligence and adherence to standard-operating-procedures for reliable, rigorous impact assessment; and (3) supporting and advising on data collection, security and confidentiality and analysis, interpretation and publication. The company will focus on these objectives in three ways: (1) establishing partnerships with effective networks and organizations in-country; (2) establishing partnerships with international and national agencies with iron supplementation programs in target LMIC who have the capacity to support scale-up; and (3) partnerships with universities and organizations with expertise in iron deficiency, impact assessment and advice on logistics, regulatory processes and government relations. The goal is to positively impact the lives of over 1 million people through our work in India to improve health, nutrition and socio-economic status. | To expand we are looking for both capital and personnel investment. The challenges that the company need to overcome and manage are: (1) facilitate smooth transitions for governments, regulatory bodies, and international organizations to include the Lucky Shakti Leaf as a viable component of a strategy to alleviate and reduce iron deficiency anemia; (2) efficient logistics and supports for distribution, training and advice for third parties to carry out impact assessments; and (3) establish an Indian subsidiary to be able to market and sell the Leaf on-line and through retail to the emerging middle class in the country. Short term the company needs capital investment to facilitate the transition to India. In addition the company will be seeking government approval to expand in India to work at state and national level in India. Medium term the company will need to hire additional staff in India and Canada to manage the expansion and impact reporting, ensuring that our growth is effective and impactful. Long term, the company needs investment to help continue expand to new markets. | Impact Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY0D-PIcgB4 Visionary Leaders Magazine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA7VsvS4r5w Lucky Iron Fish video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBtasDtBSV0 Lucky Iron Fish Distribution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF0doge62XM Website https://luckyironfish.com/ Iron Release Safety Considerations https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28049274 Testing the efficacy of the Lucky Iron Fish® in reversing iron deficiency anemia in rural, impoverished regions of Guatemala http://www.joghr.org/article/joghr-02-e2018014 | Elevator Pitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snfOCJR7Q0M Let's talk Science https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=IXjGGKKmybc TedX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8VGU8fG_mQ TedX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crcDBod82_0 | EY Entrepreneur of the Year, Ontario 2018 (Social Entrepreneur citation), Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award 2017, The T&C 50: The Top Philanthropists of 2016, 2016 Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneur Award (Finalist), Social Innovator of the Year, Babson College 2016, Business Intelligence Group, 'BIG Innovation Award' 2016, Forbes Top 30 Under 30 - Social Entrepreneur 2016, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
915 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Chiara | Cecchini | Future Food Institute | http://futurefood.network | Executive Director, Americas | F | United States of America | Italy | English | French | Spanish | With Future Food Institute, I made one of our dreams reality: the Food Innovation Global Mission. FIGM is a 60-day research trip around the world (12 counties), to scout impact-driven innovators, makers, policymakers, entrepreneurs. Out of the entire global research we did, there is one single element that kept on repeating despite the topic we were studying and the country we were in: SUSTAINABILITY. Out of the 200+ innovators, we mapped out and spoke to globally, everybody aimed to go beyond changing the world: they all aim to find the sustainable solution to transition to. Working with sustainability should become the new norm and Sustainable Development Goals the new focus. The age of consumer-first at all costs is over: we’ll not have any more consumers to serve if there will not be our planet anymore. We live in an era where technology is not holding us back anymore: feasibility is not a problem anymore. Therefore, there is an important opportunity to focus on something more important, on something that more and more final consumers, investors, potential partners are focusing their attention on: scalable sustainability and circular systems. For these reasons, I believe being part of the UN Solution Summit would be a great opportunity to share our learnings and recommendations with policymakers, investors and industry leaders, enabling them to connect the dots and deliver more aware actions. Along my journey, I leveraged innovation for a positive global impact in many ways. I've been a researcher at UC Davis for 2 years, where we developed an open ontological framework around food, physical activity and health (ICFOODS), to support exponential technologies (AI, blockchain) into food and wellness industry. The outcomes have been personalized nutrition applications and nudging systems for overweight people. I've been working for the last year with the biggest brewery in the world, to convert their spent grain into edible, protein-rich and fiber-rich powders to improve nutrition in developed and underdeveloped communities. The last example, 18 months ago in Bologna (Italy) we developed our first Future Food Living Lab: an innovation lab, opened to both food organizations and students, in the middle of the city's university campus. It is feeding 2000 students/day with healthy food, engaging in food-centered activities and involving them in corporate products design projects, making sure young eaters are involved in the food innovation process. | Chiara is the co-founder and executive director of Future Food in North and South America. . She has a MSc in International Management (ICN Business School, France), a MSc in International Relations (MGIMO University, Moscow), and a MSc in Design Thinking and Food Innovation (UniMoRe, Italy). Based in California, she is also a Research Scholar at Food Science and Technology at UC Davis, working on building the first comprehensive Internet of Food to enable food care through food systems semantics. She is a selected member of Barilla Center Food Nutrition Foundation, Unleash, a global innovation lab organised on the SDGs, as well as a Research Affiliate at Institute For The Future. She writes for The Spoon, Food Tank and Make. She teaches food innovation and user-centered design at San Francisco State University. She is part of Sandbox San Francisco (US) and Global Shapers Sunyani (Ghana). She is part of the Expert Network for the World Economic Forum. Four years ago she founded a company in Italy, Feat, providing wellness-focused software to corporations. | Future Food Living Labs | Catalyzing food innovation around next generation consumers | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | It's implemented in Italy, and will be soon implemented in Singapore, United State, Puerto Rico, DR, Chile, Mexico | Yes | Sara Roversi, Andrea Magelli, Valerio Nannini, Mauro Piloni, Matteo Vignoli | Transition to Scale | Because we have a first prototype that has been working for 1.5 y, showing great KPIs both in terms of impact and financial feasibility. We are now transitioning to scale, aiming to open 6 more Labs by the end of 2020. | The food and beverage industry has a colossal impact on both the environment and human health and this has placed immense pressure on large scale companies to innovate for sustainability. As a result, they are losing market share and the ability to connect to a new-born purpose-driven audience base, Gen Z who has an estimated $44 billion buying power. How might we enable F&B org and young population, to co-create the food of tomorrow, increasing the young population involvement in what they eat? | FFLL are a network of spaces where foodservice best practices come together with a comprehensive innovation infrastructure. The first-ever living lab is situated in Bologna feeding 86,000 students. The lab comes alive by a sustainable and edgy restaurant concept that encourages informed, healthy food choices. Our food retail concept is where tradition meets innovation. Words like local, organic, seasonal and sustainably sourced describe our sourcing philosophy while techniques like fermentation and new food products like the plant-based beyond burger stay true to our sustainable innovation mission. Space also hosts a series of community engagement activities creating a dialogue around the Sustainable development framework and the food system. Innovation Lab Along with food retail, space is designed to be a food innovation studio and maker space where we work with our corporate clients on some of the biggest challenges our food system is facing today. We use cutting-edge prototyping technology like food 3d printers, dehydrators, indoor growing systems, warm temperature cooking, and preservation setups and fermentation lab to experiment, prototype and test innovative future product concepts. FFLL is embedded into campuses, to feed students' bodies and minds. Large-scale Food production companies pay a membership, to have access to a unique innovation platform which is enabling them to research, prototype and test solutions in a neutral space with end consumers. | You can find int he markets food accelerators for startups, corporate accelerators, testing kitchens, co-working spaces focused on food. What's unique here and never done before, it the fact of building a space which is open to everybody, which is embedded into university spaces and which has restaurants, popups, innovation lab, testing kitchen, innovation workshop capability, and community events space. | Corporate traction: we have 5 companies at the moment, which are paying for being part of the ecosystem. They are from Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Germany. Gen Z traction: In our first FFLL in Bologna, Italy, the number of people getting in weekly is 31,795, recording an average of 1,150 receipts a week, for an average amount of 4,21€. Weekly revenues from food service are about 31.000€, and 1.6M€ yearly. 60% of consumers are under 26 years old. We are negotiating 2 deals for opening the other 2 spaces. | Our vision is that one day all the universities of the world will have an FFLL inside, students will grow having a strong, direct connection with SDG-centered food design and large corporations will never innovate again, without directly involving final consumers. Milestones: opening 6 spaces in the next 15 months (Singapore, United States, Puerto Rico, DR, Chile, Mexico). Opening an additional 6 in 2021 (Japan, China, India, South Africa, Ghana, Ethiopia). Students' lives impacted: we are now impacting 78000 students, we aim to impact 260000 students by the end of 2020 and 500000 by the end of 2021. | We need financial investments to create the toolkit that can enable other communities to scale the model. We need strategic partnerships with universities, in order to have access to spaces within campuses. | https://scuderia.futurefood.network/ https://www.foodinspiration.com/nl/winst-maken-zonder-winstoogmerk/ https://vimeo.com/255044769 | https://vimeo.com/255044769 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
916 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Jessica | Sheffield Zamora | Guardianes de la Naturaleza | www.movimientoguardianes.org | Executive Director | Female | Costa Rica | Costa Rica | English | Spanish | Many sustainability initiatives and policies attack symptoms of a problem and not it's root cause, perpetuating the problem and causing long term negative impacts on people and the environment. The root cause I am addressing is the lack of education and understanding of our interdependence with our natural world and each other. I am doing this by creating a FREE, accessible, digital educational platform in SPANISH to address environmental and social-emotional learning needs with teachers' interests and needs at its forefront. This platform is more than a digital library of materials. It is a component of a more holistic initiative which touches the human emotion: inspiring a movement of children and teachers who identity as Guardians of Nature. In the past, environmental and social emotional tools have been created to address the issue, however most of these tools are in English, and not free of charge, creating barriers to its access for the majority of the world population. The Guardians of Nature initiative will help us break barriers toward reaching the agents with the most potential for an intergenerational effect in sustainability issues: children and teachers. | I'm a Costa Rican marine biologist. In 2004, I was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to obtain my Masters Degree in Environmental Resource Management. Visiting National Parks when I was young made me fall in love with nature. I've always been in awe of nature’s beauty, complexity and connectivity. I have dedicated my past 20 years to educate and inspire children to be guardians of our planet through different environmental educational initiatives. In 2007, I co-founded an International School in the rural town of Nosara, CR. Del Mar Academy now has 260 students representing 20 nationalities. DMA is the living laboratory that originates the free educational tools and training we provide through the Guardians of Nature initiative. I am co-founder and vice-president of Nosara Recycles, a community initiative that helped to address the lack of waste management and the need to educate the population to properly manage its waste. In 2017, I published my first children's book. This book is the spark that started the GN children's movement. To date, it has been donated to more than 10,000 children in rural areas of CR, and for many of them, it is the first and only book in their homes. My books empower children, especially girls, to lead change. I was a finalist in an entrepreneurial competition for my Sustainable Homes proposal. It is now part of a national initiative that has awarded more than 300 homes for their sustainability efforts. My work toward inspiring a Guardians of Nature teacher’s and children’s movement is a life mission, which I do with all my heart and soul | Guardians of Nature, a children's and teacher's movement | Advance free, easily accessible environmental and social-emotional educational tools to teachers in Latin America . | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Latin America and other Spanish speaking countries | Yes | Ministry of Education of Costa Rica, Ecoins, UNDP Costa Rica, Nature for Debt Swap CR-EEUU, 10 NGO's in Costa Rica, 7 Hotels who have adopted each a rural school as a pilot program. | Transition to Scale | Our tools have been piloted in our laboratory at Del Mar Academy, an International School in the rural community of Nosara, CR, with students representing 20 nationalities. In addition, 32 rural schools in CR are implementing these materials and tools. All these lessons were launched in the digital platform in May, 2019 and 249 of the lessons have been downloaded from several areas of Latin America. We are ready to create and adapt more material to reach more teachers in the region | The goal 4.7. of the SDG aspires that by 2030 students will have the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to promote sustainable development. How can we reach this goal if most teachers don't have the preparation or tools to achieve it? | In order for our country, and the rest of Latin America and the world, to continue advancing on the path of sustainability, it is vital to empower citizens and provide teachers with the necessary tools to enrich environmental and socio-emotional education in the classroom. The first obstacle that must be overcome is the fact that literature and environmental and social emotional education resources in Spanish are limited, and those that do exist are far from being accessible to teachers and students, especially in rural areas. Without the necessary resources, it is difficult to develop effective teaching plans to educate children. With a clear vision, Costa Rica can become a regional model that promotes a global transformation to live in peace with nature through a fundamental solution to many of the challenges of sustainable human development: free access to environmental and social emotional education tools beginning in childhood. | FREE, EASY ACCESS & BEAUTIFUL DESIGN: free educational platform designed for teachers and adaptable to all Latin American countries, a very new concept for the region. CURRICULUM: hands-on lessons aligned with basic school subjects that promote critical thinking. RATING & QUANTIFY: teachers can rate lessons and offer feedback to improve materials. We can quantify # of times lessons are downloaded. STEP BY STEP: each lesson has a step-by-step guide and background information so teachers feel comfortable teaching any environmental subject. MINIMUM RESOURCES: All hands-on lessons require minimum to none additional resources to create the activity. FILTERING SYSTEM: the digital filtering system allows teachers to choose between age range, school subject, type of material, etc.providing the teacher what he/she needs. SOCIAL EMOTIONAL: we are starting to include social emotional material which is key for a peaceful coexistence. GUARDIANS OF NATURE MOVEMENT: the digital platform is tied to an integral approach of inspiring a children's and teachers movement. ALLIES: through our Guardian Mentors (allied NGO's), Guardian Teachers, and Guardian Leaders (children who lead change) we are able to scale the impact in other parts of the country, and eventually in other parts of Latin America. | -Free online educational platform, with more than 70 lessons in 12 Environmental Themes and 6 core subjects launched May 2019: 249 free lessons have been downloaded and 7 of those have filled up the feedback form. -Publication of 2 books of the Guardian of Nature children books series (Spanish and English). -10,000 Guardian of Nature children’s books donated to students in rural areas, and 530 views in the online platform (in only 2 months) since it was launched only two months ago. -150 Guardian of Nature children workshops. -Training to 35 teachers (new program). -7 hotels in the rural community of Nosara, Costa Rica have each adopted one local public school. We use surveys, web analytics and we measure outputs and outcomes. We would like to improve our methodological rigor in the upcoming phase. | SHORT TERM: -NATION WIDE: Through our cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Education of Costa Rica we have the potential to reach thousands of teachers and students. -EXPANDING GRADES IMPACTED: we have recently begun creating middle school material to expand the grades impacted. -NEW COUNTRIES: We plan to expand to the rest of Latin America with our allies Ecoins https://www.ecoins.eco/. Ecoins is a virtual coin that gives value to recyclables in the region, by exchanging them for discounts on products and services. Ecoins was created in Costa Rica as ecolones, and now has expanded to Panama, Perú and soon to Guatemala and other Latin American markets. We are their educational platform, which will help us reach more countries and be known by more teachers. MEDIUM TERM: Sign cooperation agreements with Ministries of Education in Central America. | Short term: hire 2 additional full time staff members and double our budget to: a) help create more original content in Spanish and adapt already created material by allied organizations, as well as content translated from other languages, b) increase the number of trained teachers, c) create tools to develop, trial and establish a wellbeing measurement framework for schools, d) create a national communication campaign of children and teachers identified as Guardians of Nature. Medium term goal: a) establish partnerships with Ministries of Education in other Latin American countries, b) continue to enrich the educational platform, c) extend communication campaign of children and teachers identified as Guardians of Nature, strengthening a regional movement. Long term goal: Translate and adapt free environmental and social emotional educational material in other languages, and strengthen a global movement of Guardian of Nature children and teachers. | https://movimientoguardianes.org/ Free educational platform https://movimientoguardianes.org/plataforma-educativa/ Inspirational video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAfmwgkJYMM Video tied to the first book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNOxUXQ_aiE&t=203s Second inspirational video (not launched yet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E7Wucpp8dk | Interview: https://richburnam.com/2018/12/24/the-guardians-of-nature-how-jessica-sheffield-plans-to-change-the-world/ | Ranked by ""Premios Latin America Verde"" in the top 30 environmental projects in Latin America, and the 8th in Human Development Category. https://vozdeguanacaste.com/en/guardians-of-nature-is-one-of-the-30-best-environmental-projects-in-latin-america-according-to-the-ranking/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
917 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joseph | Sam | Cogniconsult Ltd | https://www.cogniconsult.com/ | Founder & CEO | Male | Ghana | Ghana | English | I reckon that the UN Solutions summit epitomizes a valuable collaborative platform to connect with, and establish relationships with like-minded leaders, so as to share ideas, knowledge, insights and perspectives on common issues. I strongly believe that by engaging in open dialogue during the summit, consensus and partnerships can be built around innovative solutions to the sustainable development challenges across the world. Personally, I am very passionate about the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and its potential to create lasting, global socio-economic impact, especially in emerging / developing countries. This summits thus represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for me to demonstrate how I’m using nascent technologies like Artificial Intelligence to address the SDGs in a revolutionary way. I have always enjoyed engaging people from diverse backgrounds, especially during meetups, summits, conferences and hackathons, where I have been privileged to participate in various capacities such as a speaker, mentor, judge or convener. I count myself fortunate to have been able to do this in many countries including Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi and Tanzania. Thus, I anticipate that this summit would be building upon my previous efforts in driving innovation in several countries. I aspire is to become a ‘Fortune® 40-under-40’ thought leader in social innovation and technology entrepreneurship, and pitching at this summit would be the springboard to achieving this. | Joseph is an award-winning digital innovator, tech entrepreneur and design-thinking practitioner with proven experience in technology innovation and business strategy. He is very passionate about digital technology, and its ability to empower people, businesses and society. With expertise in cloud-computing and artificial intelligence, He is excited about applying such nascent/cutting-edge technologies in solving critical societal challenges, as embodied by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Joseph is currently the Founder / C.E.O of CogniConsult Ltd, a technology startup, aiming to spearhead the adoption of nascent technology across Africa. He has previously worked in Fortune500 Technology Giants across three continents, including Ericsson, General Electric (GE) USA, IBM UK and IBM West & Central Africa. Joseph holds a masters degree in Engineering Management from the University of Greenwich, UK. He is also an active member of the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Shapers Community. Joseph excels at public-speaking, a skill honed by the numerous client meetings, conferences, panel discussions and TV/Media interviews including CNBC Africa. Recently, Joseph was a recipient of the British Council’s maiden #IdeasChangeLives Global Innovation Award (Jan 2019), comprising prize money and a partnership to create digital solutions towards the UN's SDGs. Joseph aspires to become a ‘Fortune® 40 under 40’ thought leader in social innovation and technology entrepreneurship. | Digital Collaborative Policing (DigiCop) | Digital Collaborative Policing - Towards A Resilient, Sustainable and Peaceful Society (SDGs 16 & 11)) | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Ghana would be the pilot country. However, countries that do not meet the UN’s police-citizen ratio of 1:500, and ranks very low on the World Internal Security & Police Index (WISPI) (e.g. Nigeria, Kenya, Pakistan) should be good candidates for DigiCop. | Yes | The British Council UK | Proof of Concept | The solution has already gone past the Ideation and Research & Development stages. The problems statements, user personas & journeys have all been defined. Upon gathering research data, our team progressed to build an MVP that was implicitly validated by virtue of a global award it won (January 2019). At present, the solution is being enhanced and refined to make it ready for piloting. Upon completion, additional partners, stakeholders and funding would be required, to then transition to scale. | We are witnessing heightened extremism, conflict, trafficking and rights abuses all across the globe. In my country Ghana, the police-citizen ratio is 1:848, compared to the UN’s recommended 1:500, with a reported gap of 23,000 officers! There are alarmingly not enough law-enforcement agents to keep the estimated 30-million citizens appreciably safe. With increasing crime rate and under-resourced police units, peace, security & justice, and ultimately, economic growth, are under serious threat | DIGITAL COLLABORATIVE POLICING: Towards A Resilient, Sustainable & Peaceful Society. Our solution is to use AI technology to improve access to police for Ghana's 19 million mobile phone users. We built an A.I-powered Digital Police Officer – (dubbed ‘DigiCop’) – which provides immediate and rapid police assistance, during both emergency and non-emergency situations. DigiCop works hand-in-hand with citizens to fight crime and build a peaceful, resilient and sustainable society, in line with SDG 16 and SDG 11. DigiCop is a virtual chat app with a human personality (chatbot), which interacts autonomously with citizens in natural language. DigiCop is accessible via Facebook, WhatsApp and other digital channels. DigiCop easily scales i.e. it can engage millions of citizens concurrently and on-demand (24/7, 365 days/year), hence no queuing. CITIZEN EMPOWERMENT Citizens can digitally report incidents like sexual abuses, theft, bribery/corruption, murder and police misconduct, as well as share anonymous tip-offs (whistleblowing). This emboldens crime victims and/or witnesses to fearlessly ‘speak up’ and seek closure, while expediting criminal investigations and promoting social accountability. Subscribing citizens would automatically receive critical, timely, life-saving security tips / alerts and human rights education from DigiCop. These should result in reduced crime, and ultimately, a safer, fairer Ghanaian society with stronger institutions, poised for steady economic growth | Essentially, this idea is a convergence between Digital Policing and Community-Oriented, Collaborative Policing. The Digital component comprises a cloud-based, chatting application that mimics human interactions. The A.I. technology allows DigiCop to answer questions, guide users through procedures/steps, as well as collect, provide and process information, without any human intervention. Citizens and Law-enforcement agencies alike would both receive timely, relevant information/intelligence electronically (E.g. text, images, videos), to act upon quickly. The Collaborative Policing component comprises the ability to crowdsource information from, and cross-pollinate the masses into the law enforcement framework. This is innovatively achieved by deploying DigiCop across several social/messaging channels, including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and SMS. These are platforms where large audiences already reside and are accustomed to. Thus no special devices and no separate installations are required. There is no training/learning curve for users, since interactions are primarily chat-driven. This unique approach lowers the barriers of adoption and makes this solution highly feasible and scalable. Moreover, data-driven insights would help to improve policing strategies, while building / restoring public confidence in law-enforcement agencies. With DigiCop, nations around the world should experience stronger, resilient institutions of peace / justice and truly-democratized economies | An iterative, agile, scientific methodology is being applied in developing DigiCop. The first stage involved understanding the market opportunity, where we identified the target user segments and user personae, based on which user journeys were created. The second stage involved defining / proving the value of DigiCop, where we identified the suitable digital channels (Eg. Facebook) and the relevant policing services that could be delivered on the various channels as well as the gaps and risks that needed to be addressed. We are currently at the third stage, where we are refining a pre-validated prototype/MVP, to make it ready for piloting on Facebook Messenger. (The prototype earned a global award from the British Council UK in January 2019). DigiCop is now successfully integrated with Facebook Messenger, and the A.I. components are also functional. The outstanding tasks are to develop a comprehensive reporting system with commensurate dashboards and analytics. DigiCop should then be ready for field testing in Ghana. The final stage would involve collecting and evaluating field results. We would measure both qualitative factors (e.g. public perceptions), and quantitative factors (e.g. Net Promoter Scores, request-to-response ratios) among other standard engagement metrics. Further measurements would be based on proven tools / frameworks such as the World Bank’s Digital Citizen Engagement Evaluation Guide. Outcomes would then be fed back for improvements, to close the loop. | Our home country, Ghana, has been chosen as the pilot country. However, any country that does not meet the UN’s police-citizen ratio of 1:500, and ranks very low on the World Internal Security and Police Index (WISPI) (e.g. Nigeria, Kenya, Pakistan) should be a prime candidate for piloting DigiCop. This does not rule out the ability of countries outside this category to embrace innovation and further enhance their policing setup by piloting solutions like DigiCop. In Ghana, there are an estimated 19.5 million unique mobile phone users, with about 10.11 million internet users. Out of this, there are 4.9 active mobile social users with a growth rate of over 20% per annum. An optimized version of DigiCop is being planned, and should be accessible to non-internet users via SMS/USSD for greater social inclusion and wider global impact. Given that both internet and non-internet users would be served the solution, It is safe to assume that we can reach over 10 million residents (30% of the population) within 12 – 18 months. Millions more can be reached when scaled across other countries or continents Our growth plans include the up-scaling and diversification of the services provided by DigiCop, to include Medical Emergencies, Counselling / Suicide Helplines, Mental Health support, among others. This naturally requires that we involve experts in these fields in cost-effective manner. Ultimately, we aim to replicate the concept of DigiCop in other countries across the globe. | Given the ambitious but high-potential nature of DigiCop, varying expertise and competencies would be required throughout the process. The current team already boasts of strong expertise in Artificial Intelligence, business strategy, engineering management and design-thinking, as well as some limited application development skills. Thus, in the short to mid term, additional expertise required would largely consist of experts in security, law enforcement, peace, justice and democratic governance. These resources would provide thought leadership on how to ensure that DigiCop indeed delivers on its promise. Complementary expertise in the area of business intelligence would also be highly advantageous. The mid to long term requirements include strategic partnerships with UN Agencies, Global security-focused institutions who will provide both institutional support and funding to help transition from to scale. The funding should cover further development and implementation costs, as well as further research into new markets where this idea might be relevant. Ultimately, the buy-in of governmental stakeholders (e.g. Police Services, Ministries of Interior), as well as brand ambassadors/champions would be critical to the upscaling, sustainability and longevity of the solution. Finally, it would take passion, commitment, time and energy to overcome the challenges ahead, in order to implement DigiCop successfully and create lasting impact | 1. Ghanaian digital innovator wins British Council funding (Web Article) https://www.britishcouncil.org.gh/about/press/ghanaian-digital-innovator-wins-british-council-funding. 2. DigiCop considers ‘the needs of police and citizens alike; this idea could revolutionise communities.’ (Official British Council Tweet) https://bit.ly/BritishCouncilPraisesDigiCop 3. Andrew Horton, Director Digital, Partnerships and Innovation, British Council UK. https://bit.ly/AndrewHortonHighlightsDigiCop | https://bit.ly/GhanaianDigitalInnovatorWinsBritishCouncilFundingpInnovator | DigiCop was adjudged a winner of the British Council’s maiden #IdeasChangeLives Global Innovation Award (Jan 2019) - a competition that received over 2000 entries globally. DigiCop, was highly commended and received a GBP £10,000 award. Some of the notable judges included: •Eva Grosman, Chief Executive, Centre for Democracy and Peace Building •Vikas Shah, Chief Executive, Swiscot Group •Rosh Gammampila, Director at PwC •Richard Halkett, Worldwide Lead, Digital Innovation,Amazon Web Services. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
918 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | ABIR | IBRAHIM | Inua Naturals Inc. | www.inuanaturals.com | Founder and CEO | Female | United States of America | Sudan | Arabic | English | French | Inua Naturals is a for-profit that uses agribusiness and innovation to empower marginalized communities by facilitating handcraft talent from emerging markets with the global consumer. We work with over 154+ small-scale women farmers and artisans in East Africa to build their businesses, improve production capacity, sustainably increase income, and provide community-drive solutions to improve healthcare services and education. We provide the tools, training, financing and support to enhance artisans traditions, while connecting them directly to global consumers. With Inua, small-scale farmers and artisans have access to department stores, boutique shops and e-commerce; expanding their business horizons and entrepreneurial prospects. Inua combines health and social impact to create refined products with a purpose. Every product supports a community of talented entrepreneurs and helps reinvent the skin and body care industry for good. Our mission is to make personal care work for the poor and the environment, rather than against it. We believe that traditional practices can be utilized sustainably. Our handcrafted natural bath and body care products are formulated with only pure 100% ingredients that are locally and ethically sourced, such as Moringa, Baobab, Turmeric, Lemongrass and Coconut Oil. We are redefining ethical cosmetics, formulating powerful and effective natural products inspired by African beauty and health traditions; that nourish, heal and soothe your body from head-to-toe. We are proud to provide our customers with a new kind of luxury: handcrafted, ethical cosmetics at accessible prices. Inua works to create social impact and promote conscious consumerism. | Abir Ibrahim is a dynamic and multi-disciplinary program manager and M&E technical provider with over seven years of progressive nonprofit experience. Specialization in: Economic Development and Entrepreneurship, Public-Private Partnerships, and Global Health. Versatile with strong skills in Strategic Planning, Quantitative Research, Resource Mobilization, Behavior Change Communication, Livelihood Strengthening, Community Engagement, Poverty Reduction, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition, and Gender Empowerment Interventions including community-led organizations and movement building advocacy campaigns on FGM/C and GBV. Direct prior experience with UN donors, institutional USG donors including USAID and PEPFAR. | Inua Naturals Inc. | Ethical Ingredients, Meaningful Impact | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Tanzania, Sudan, United States | Yes | UNFPA, UNICEF, Local Government, Institute for Economics & Peace | Transition to Scale | Inua's revolutionary supply chain innovation has increased income 10x for marginalized women, supporting over 154+ marginalized women across East Africa and generating $300,000 in income to farming families. Inua have successfully partnered with 15 global retailers. With Inua, a small-scale woman artisan in Tanzania who otherwise does not have any access to the global marketplace – enhancing their horizons and expanding their entrepreneurial prospects. | Inua believes women offer the most effective solutions to reduce poverty and malnutrition. Yet, millions of women are subject to gender discrimination resulting in greater marginalization in local markets and unable to earn enough to sustain their businesses and families. By providing small-scale entrepreneurs the tools, training, financing and access to the global consumer - women expand their entrepreneur prospects and at the same time promoting conscious consumerism and social impact. | Inua’s mission is to eradicate extreme poverty in the developing world by investing in sustainable industries and stimulating local economies that work for the poor and the environment, rather than against it. Inua does this by providing marginalized women farmers and artisans the tools, training, and financing to jump start their farms, build their businesses, sustainably increase income, improve production capacity, while connecting them directly to the global consumer. With Inua’s supply chain innovation, women have access to an entire world of consumers, expanding their business horizons and entrepreneurial prospects. Africa has always been utilized for its raw materials and little investment in establishing localized manufactures. No nation has ever been able to compete with developing countries without industries. Inua wants to change that by producing luxury ‘Made in Africa’ products that work for the poor and the environment, rather than against it. Building African communities by empowering women and young people through capacity building and technology. | Inua’s revolutionary supply chain innovation works directly with small-scale farmers in East African communities. Our grassroots approach to business and development makes Inua standout from other existing solutions. Inua provides training at the grassroots level and felicitates microfinances solutions to support women to jump start their famers, build their businesses, sustainably increase income, improve production capacity, while at the same time providing community-drive solutions to improve access to better healthcare and education through our local partners including UNFPA, UNICEF and district government. | Since inception, Inua has successfully developed over 10 products that are currently in the marketplace across the United States, Europe, China and Africa. In 2019, Inua has partnered with over 20 physical shops in Washington, DC with a consistent annual capital growth. In addition, Inua has a tremendous increasing market awareness and an online total following of 5,000 and a database of 10,000 customers thus far. | Recently, Inua was selected to showcase products at the first China-Africa Economics and Trade Expo in Changsha. Inua is currently exploring various opportunities in China to expand customer reach and enhance value chain and providing marginalized women farmers and artisans in Africa to access the largest market in the world with 1.5 billion Chinese customers. We want to show Chinese consumers that what you can get from Africa is not just raw materials, you can get some high-quality, beautiful products that have great sustainability stories behind it, something which could help people escape poverty. A lot of people don't understand Africa the way Africa really is, except from extreme poverty and disease that are being projected in the media. Africa wants to improve its trade structure with the world and cultivate economic growth points by exporting more finished products, and that's exactly what China wants as well. China has been Africa's largest trading partner for 10 consecutive years since 2008, but the direction of the trade has been mainly moving from China to African countries, due to the higher production capacity of China. There are 600 million people in Africa who are unemployed but are ready to work, and ready to escape poverty. China has a real opportunity in helping to shift that, part of that is by demanding African goods in China. The desires of developing economy by improving the manufacturing capacity of African countries coincide with China's vision. | Inua's aims to establish Africa's first Naturals Cosmetics Manufactory utilizing local agricultural ingredients to combat crop waste, improve nutrition and create jobs for millions of women and young people, stimulating local economics and eradicate extreme poverty. Inua also aims to redefine the African narrative and produce more finished premium products 'Made in Africa' to the world. | 1. www.http://inuanaturals.com 2. https://en.caetexpo.org.cn/html/2019/Trade_0630/92.html 3. https://britcham.eventbank.cn/event/why-is-africa-so-important-to-china-22587/ 4. https://dailynews.co.tz/news/2019-07-135d29b8999be1d.aspx 5. https://africanbusinessmagazine.com/press/youth-entrepreneurship-empowered-via-daraja-la-mafanikio-bridge-success-seminar/ 6. https://21ninety.com/these-tanzanian-women-are-redefining-what-luxury-body-care-looks-like 7. https://blavity.com/how-shopping-consciously-can-positively-impact-the-lives-of-women-across-africa | 1. https://marcoleroc.com/media-item/episode-40-abir-ibrahim-on-building-a-global-social-enterprise-with-inua-naturals/ 2. Interview on CGTN China: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2019-06-30/African-companies-invest-in-China-changing-China-Africa-equilibrium-HWyaIB41MI/index.html 3. www.http://abiribrahim.com (Events & YouTube) | G20 Young Global Changer Winner World Economic Forum Young Global Leader Nominee GivingTuesday Women Who Give Winner UN Global Compact Expert UMW Literary Award Winner x2 120 Under 40 Nominee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
919 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Emmanuella | Ekpoki | Trayjobs | https://www.trayjobs.com | Chief Executive Officer | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | Gain more knowledge and ideas to have a better understanding of global issues, discover the resources, opportunities, rights, and duties I have to promote a better future for the world. Learn more ways on how I can actively be a part of addressing global issues and be a very vibrant catalyst of change as a female entrepreneur. Share my ideas and views on how challenges the world is faced with can be addressed especially in the aspect of Software Engineering. | Emmanuella Ekpoki is the Chief Executive Officer of Trayjobs. Before she became a full-time CEO of TrayJobs she was an Information and Communication Engineer at Jos University Teaching Hospital. As a graduate from covenant University with bachelors in Information and Communication Engineering, she worked as Information Technology staff at Reapsun Arizona and was able to build a device that detects symptoms of Cardiovascular diseases and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Emmanuella is also the Vice President of Senema love Foundation a Non- Profit organization aimed at putting an end to child poverty and providing access to education for every child and youth in Northern Nigeria, Her passion to solve the problem of increasing unemployment among youths in Nigeria and provide online solutions to organizations led to the innovation of Trayjobs. She has won several awards such as Best innovation 2016, Role model award at Airforce School among many others, | RENTECH | software, web development, app development, develop software solutions for innovators | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Nigeria | No | Scaling | I think my solution is at the scaling stage because we have started producing online solutions for companies, schools, government parastatals, etc | Our solution is addressing: 1. the manual and tedious processes involved in office administration system, the communication system, accounting, etc. 2. Limitations innovators have in creating their online solutions. | Software solutions for small business Healthcare solutions: online consultation. It has fully integrated electronic health records, practice management, scheduling, electronic billing, internationalization | Our solution is unique because we don't only create websites, we study our clients' organizations for a given period of time and profess software solutions. | My team measures progress based on the scale of the project, time taken to achieve the project, customer satisfaction, recommendations made. | we would like to extend our services to small businesses in other countries in Europe, America, and especially Subsaharan Africa (Ghana, chad, Zambia Cameroon). we will recruit more developers, animators, and videographers. | Short-term and medium-term needs: Consultations and mentorship from experienced professionals on how to get to the sustainable scale stage. Long term: employing more developers. | sample project website: http://workwithbergerpaints.com/ | https://youtu.be/-pJW5QaqMzw | Best innovation 2016 at Covenant University Role model award at Airforce School | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
920 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Phil | Chow | Humanitas Technologies | humanitas.ai | CEO | Male | United Arab Emirates | China | Chinese | English | I am seeking to present my project at the UN Solutions Summit. My team and I are leveraging first principles data to reorient how entire countries define and utilize philanthropic support. | Philip Chow is an entrepreneur, humanitarian, and futurist. As the CEO of Humanitas Technologies, an AI-powered data and philanthropy tech startup, Philip and his team unlocks first principles data enabling philanthropy to be transparent, scalable, and evidence-based. Philip has more than 20 years of experience in the nonprofit & philanthropy sectors with complementary expertise in computational linguistics, financial engineering, government affairs, and behavioral psychology. Philip completed advanced studies at Stanford University and Singularity University. In his career, Philip has worked in over 15 countries and currently divides his time between MENA, Asia, and USA. In his spare time, Philip enjoys preparing gourmet meals for friends, innovating new applications of natural language processing for the humanitarian sector, and authoring children’s books. Philip is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper from the Beijing hub. | Humanitas Technologies | AI-powered fund-of-funds for nonprofits | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, UAE | Yes | Foundations and government departments | Transition to Scale | Proven our work in Jordan. Now testing scalability of our model across different MENA countries | Data collection is not reliable / dependable from local grassroots communities. Makes collaboration, evidence-based approach, and scaling of interventions extremely difficult. | Work with youth volunteers to serve as relationship managers with local organizations. They have weekly calls to collect basic financial and impact data. My team then aggregates that and transform it into useful, actionable data for donors. As there is more trust by local organizations to share their data honestly in direct exchange for funding, we will introduce more tools to further automate data collection with deeper integration. Long-term vision is to build next generation tools that can help humanity solve global issues. | We work at the intersection of AI, popular media, and youth. 1) We are able to bring the cost of training specialized natural language processing models down by 70-90% 2) We found a very sustainable way of leveraging current and new media 3) We found a model that can mobilize youth at mass-scale | Learned a lot in the first 3 years based on stealth pilot in Jordan and Lebanon. We are now ready to debut publicly. Primary KPI is measuring how much funding we can deploy on behalf of donors based on our methodology. Secondary KPI is at a broader scale, whether our approach is statistically significant in helping to address selected global issues. | Rest of 2019 - Expand to most MENA countries 2020 - US and EU 2021 - India, China, and Africa Re: markets to expand in. Most countries around the world by 2023. Re: staff to recruit. Probably reach 100 staff over next 2 years. Re: projected lives impacted. Over next few years help Gates Foundation, Rotary, WHO, etc. to effectively eradicate Polio. Then explore other major public health diseases. | Short-term: 1) Funding for recruiting talents and 2) funding to be disbursed Medium-term: Mainstream validation of an evidence-based approach to giving Long-term: Integration with major iNGOs and other legacy operators | humanitas.ai More details available upon request. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prbl8E8sfKQ | Accepted to Hub71 incubator in Abu Dhabi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
921 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Reekelitsoe | Molapo | Conservation Music | www.conservationmusic.org | Director of Local Chapters | Female | Lesotho | Lesotho | English | Growing up as a child, I remember that most of my learning came about through music. My recollections date back to my childhood, from learning the alphabet in school, to learning about my tradition and culture as an African child through song. Today those songs are still very fresh in my memory. I have no doubts about the power of music and the impact it has on the human brain. I have since learned more about the scientific research that backs this up. As I grew older, I fell more in love with music and pursued it in various ways in my life. However, after a series of negative encounters with individuals within the music industry, I left that life behind. Years later, after attending a Conservation Music event in my home country, I realized that my voice could be used for something bigger… something important. As I realized this, I learned more about the importance of soil, water, a livable climate, and a healthy environment. Eventually I co-founded Conservation Music Lesotho; an organisation that produces and promotes musical media that educates listeners and viewers in conservation and sustainability, with emphasis on rural developing communities. In early 2019, I became a member of the Global Board of Directors, within which I fulfill the role of local chapter liaison, as well as identifying opportunities for professional development and funding for the organization. I believe in the catalytic power of music to transform minds, educate and inspire action, as it crosses all boundaries, cultures, and ideas. I am applying for this opportunity because I believe in employing innovative and creative approaches to solving the world’s current problems. | Reekelitsoe Molapo is a social entrepreneur and an environmental activist who is passionate about education, sustainable development, renewable energy and responsible production and consumption. She is versatile and multi-skilled; with training in research, entrepreneurship, leadership and African studies. In the past she has worked and volunteered with organisations like the Global Business Roundtable, World Vision, US Embassy and EU Maseru amongst many; which equipped her with various skills. She believes in sustainability and doing impactful business and this led her to found a company called Alternatives Co. Outside her professional work, she has co-founded Conservation Music Lesotho and Educate Your Peer Foundation which are organisations centred around community and youth development. She recently completed a short leadership course with the University of Cambridge and is currently pursuing her studies in business with University of the People. She is a One Young World Ambassador, a Pitch at Palace Commonwealth alumni, a YALI RLC alumni, one of the first 40 African women that Power Africa in partnership with YALI chose to train in Energy and a recipient of 2 international awards. | Conservation Music | Through the catalytic power of music, we confront environmental collapse and humanitarian disaster in the developing world and beyond. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Ongoing work in Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, and United States, with additional work in other countries and materials being developed to scale globally. | Yes | National Geographic Partners, James Madison University, Malealea Development Trust, Lesotho Ministry of Education, Massive Apparel, Greenpeace Africa, CoalitionWILD Environmental Education Association of Southern Africa, Summit Series | Transition to Scale | After three years of ideation, research, development, and proof of concept, 2018’s Expedition #K2K resulted in accelerated content creation, partnerships, global press, representation at conferences, and public following. Today, we are focused on applying the lessons learned, relationships built, and media produced over the past 4 years to equip artists, activists, educators, and everyday people with the tools they need to create continuous positive impact through music. | We are currently left with 11 years to turn the tide on climate change and biodiversity loss and curtail ongoing humanitarian disaster. Musicians worldwide have been frustrated by their lack of ability to do anything for the people or the planet, facing a lack of continuity, results, and scalability. Millions depend on their natural surroundings to survive and provide for their families, yet they are often last to hear about what is expected, and what they can do to adapt. | Conservation Music equips performing artists with the tools they need to confidently reach their listeners with this crucial information. We produce world-class song and music video productions which integrate into workshops and curricula that local Conservation Music youth chapters use to directly engage with and distribute to communities and schools across their countries, on top of the broadcast and online engagement. Our local chapters provide a continuous resource to the music, education, and environmental spheres at the national and regional level. Our global team acts as an on-the-ground catalyst and a strategic guide to this music-driven network of organizers, activists, and educators. We produce educational songs, engaging listeners’ thoughts and emotions with relatable lyrical stories. A subtitled music video accompanies each song production for broader engagement. Recorded content is scalable and transcends timelines and borders long after the song has been sung. We partner with our chapters, broadcasters, events, and the artists themselves to keep impressions and engagement high. Our long term global impact involves providing our tailor-made tools, handbooks, structures, technology, and existing content to activists, musicians, educators, and members of the public all over the world. Globally, scores of people are ready to leverage the catalytic power of music for the benefit of the planet and the people who depend on it. | Typically, music has been used for development in two different ways: to raise money for other organizations involved in a cause, or to raise awareness during a single ticketed event, or a series of such events. We have yet to encounter another organization or movement focused on continuous impact through music. Our own approach is focused on education and advocacy, reaching students and the public with information, and engaging public will towards both grassroots and political level change. On top of this, our work to date has been geographically focused on the frontlines of climate change. Southern Africa is already facing historic droughts, village-consuming floods, cyclones and other natural disasters out of season and out of scale. This is resulting in migration, xenophobic attacks, sex slavery, and other human trafficking. Musicians in this part of the world must engage with the issue at hand, and we are there to help them do so as effectively as possible. Lastly, whereas music has been used to confront humanitarian issues many times in the past, environmental efforts through music have been much more sporadic. Through our work, we are uniting a musical effort for the Earth across borders, genres, languages, colors, and cultures. We are doing this in a way that is designed to be continuous, accessible, and measurable. | To date, we’ve recorded with 113 performers across 8 different countries to produce 24 songs and music videos while engaging with over 10,000 individuals on the ground, and reaching millions on the air and online. Along the way, we’ve charted a top ten hit, empirically quantified our impact, and partnered with the likes of the UN, EU, US Embassy, and the National Geographic Society. We measure impact through pre/post survey analysis, quantifying artists and communities reached, and online performance metrics. In 2017, 200 residents of Lesotho's Malealea village were surveyed on pre-existing knowledge of conservation and sustainability. Based on the results, environmental education programming and eco-songs were created. The final result was an eco-focused concert that informed the community about erosion, desertification, conservation agriculture, water conservation and the harmful effects of burning, littering, and climate change. At the conclusion of the concert, follow-up surveys were conducted. According to the results, the audience collectively recognized 56 solutions and preventative measures. Through collaboration with over 40 artists including celebrities, rural communities, and everyone in between, plus dozens of other music industry stakeholders, we have reached hundreds of thousands of people across Africa and around the world, and formed strategic partnerships with over 47 organisations and companies in the 38 months that we have been in operation. | Our plans include developing a global network of musicians and performing artists to bring the power of music and musical performance to this cause, expanding our local chapter structure throughout eastern and southern Africa, extending our approach to South America and Asia, and developing an extensive environmental school curriculum and set of classroom resources with educational experts and in collaboration with other NGO’s, Within two years we plan to have a presence on three continents, with at least four locally staffed and directed chapters in each, a collection of celebrity artists as Conservation Music Ambassadors, and a full curriculum module of at least fifteen lessons written for two age appropriate levels, piloted in Lesotho and subsequently improved as a framework to be scaled to other countries. | Short Term - To date, we have focused as little time as possible on raising funds in order to maximize time spent on our programming and development. As we transition to scale, fundraising has become more important. As a tenacious and capable volunteer organization, we are now preparing to take what we have learned and built to the next level. This includes hiring a small team of full time staff, addressing the recruitment of Conservation Music Ambassadors (musicians who join us under the Conservation Music banner by contributing their time, talent, and treasure), chapter development, educational curriculum, and M & E. Hence we are looking to increase our annual budget from five to six digits this year. Medium Term - Collaborative partners to assist us with visibility. These partners will be found within the music industry, the global development sphere, and the corporate world. They may take the form of influencers, major organizational partners, or marketing experts.Other partners that will be important are distribution partners, app and web development partners, research partners, education partners, and audiovisual production partners. Long Term - Expanded capability to execute a timely communications strategy on all social media platforms and marketing methodologies, to manage artist relations and support their efforts on our behalf in their roles as ambassadors, sophisticated metrics to be able to clearly demonstrate our impact through effective M & E. | Official website: https://www.conservationmusic.org/ Educational music video example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9F9LEEoUGE UNEP Blog Q&A: https://web.unep.org/youngchampions/blog/qa-alex-paullin-founder-and-ceo-conservation-music National Geographic Article (2018): https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/01/conservation-music-spreads-environmental-message-africa/ National Geographic Progress report (2017): https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2018/01/30/2017-a-landmark-year-for-conservation-music/ | Interview, James Madison University: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEnN-Yuh7xI Interview, WTVR CBS 6 (Emmy-winning): https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=3-9OvVV6VCQ | National Geographic Young Explorer (Winner) One Young World Ambassador (Winner) UNEP Young Champions of the Earth (2x Finalist) Commonwealth Innovation Awards (Finalist) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
922 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Steven | Stavrou | CyprusInno | https://cyprusinno.com | Co-Founder | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Since the inaugural Summit in 2015, I have felt a great desire to be a part of the Solutions Summit, not just to be able to present the work of our team and raise awareness for the challenges we aim to solve, but to also listen to and learn from the inspiring work of others and to network with them and contribute to this great dialogue. Everything we do aligns with the mission and vision of the UN and its SDGs, and we want to share that at the Solutions Summit. As citizens of a divided country, we have always wondered how to best build peace. We have taken a novel approach to peacebuilding that uses entrepreneurship and innovation to bring rival communities together on the divided island of Cyprus by connecting and empowering entrepreneurs across the border. A solution to the Cyprus problem, which has been one of the longest-standing unresolved international issues on the UN agenda, can also serve as a model for the highly volatile regions of the eastern Mediterranean, the Levant, and the Middle East, and we feel that our concept in Cyprus can be applied to other conflict regions worldwide. Since the failure of the Cyprus talks in Crans-Montana, it is more important than ever to unite the island at the community level. I would love the opportunity to share how we are doing that by using entrepreneurial capital and economic opportunity to successfully build peace in Cyprus, how that can be replicated in other conflict regions worldwide, and where it addresses many of the SDGs. | Steven W. Stavrou is a social entrepreneur and the co-founder of CyprusInno. He is currently working to unite Cyprus through entrepreneurship. Steven began in the medical research field, conducting research at NYU in Mass Spectrometry and at Binghamton University in Neuropsychology. He received dual Bachelor’s degrees in Biological Anthropology and Communications from Binghamton University. Steven is also an MBA graduate of the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College, where he was awarded the Price-Babson Fellowship. As the founder of Idalion Ventures, he spent 4 years managing a portfolio of websites related to sustainable tourism development, independent music, and global entrepreneurship that have totaled over 1,500,000+ unique visits. He also helped run a medical website training online cardiologists from all over the world as part of a research institution studying new devices and drugs to treat patients with heart disease. He also consulted for the UN on healthcare innovation in Africa. Steven is dually based in NYC and Cyprus. He has presented CyprusInno and the concepts behind entrepreneurship for peace in New York, Washington D.C., Boston, and across Europe. He has published various articles on entrepreneurship, digital health, and sustainable tourism. Steven was selected this year as one of the 22 2019 Yunus & Youth fellows, a social business incubator supported by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus. He was also named the 2019 Emerging Young Leader by the US-Cyprus Chamber of Commerce. | CyprusInno | CyprusInno uses entrepreneurship, innovation, and tech as peacebuilding mechanisms to bring together divided communities in post-conflict regions | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Our solution is currently implemented in Cyprus. Our vision is to replicate our model in conflict regions across the Eastern Mediterranean, The Levant, Eastern Europe, and eventually the world. (e.x. Palestine-Israel, Kosovo-Serbia, Albania-Georgia) | Yes | We have over 40+ partners in Cyprus and abroad including: Accelerators, Incubators, Investors/VCs, Universities, NGOs, Governments, Private Corporations, Youth Organizations, Co-working Spaces, Media, and more. | Scaling | We have proven our model in Cyprus through a portfolio of digital tools and live events that have been measured by various success metrics and impact measurements. We are at a stage now where we can take some or all of these digital tools or event series and scale them globally to other post-conflict regions. We have shown through our model that we can build a team, secure funding, create diverse partnerships, and grow while continuously innovating. | There is a strong link between economics and conflict. Cyprus, for example, has been divided for 45 years, leaving young Cypriots uncertain about the future of their country where hate between communities still exists and unemployment is high. Cyprus can serve as a model for peace, stability, and prosperity in a highly volatile region. Many post-conflict regions that can benefit from our model and we have seen the willingness of communities in these regions to come together via entrepreneurship. | CyprusInno is a social venture led by Greek and Turkish Cypriots who have overcome social and geographical division to create the first cross-border platform connecting entrepreneurs on the divided island. As citizens of a divided nation, we are motivated to unite our communities and lead by example as a mixed Cypriot team, forging the path to a peaceful and prosperous nation. We challenge the status quo by operating an island-wide entrepreneurial ecosystem and increasing business collaborations between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Our digital platform hosts an online community of 2.5k+ innovators and 30k+ followers, and features 200+ mapped startups as well as Cyprus’ first e-learning lab for entrepreneurial skill-building with 30+ hours of coursework and over 200 enrolled students. Offline, CyprusInno organizes networking events, trainings, and mentorship with hundreds of attendees on the UN Buffer Zone border of Cyprus. Our mentorship program pairs Greek Cypriot mentors with Turkish Cypriot startups and vice versa. We have also made EU/UN policy contributions on youth, peace, security, and digitalisation. We measure our impact through cross-border business collaborations and social metrics such as first-time interactions between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. This year, we will open the first buffer zone innovation center to help launch and accelerate inter-communal businesses. Our vision is to replicate our model in other post-conflict regions worldwide. | We have introduced a novel approach to peacebuilding that uses entrepreneurship to bring rival communities together in a bi-communal startup ecosystem. Peacebuilding in Cyprus has historically been carried out using traditional methods. Many of these initiatives face sustainability issues and fail to reach new people. There is a need to unite Cypriots using new methodologies. What makes our solution unique is that the economy is a common issue among people from both sides of the island, regardless of ideology or political affiliation. Entrepreneurs are the same all over the world. They are like-minded and focus on growing their business and not their differences, making them great peacemakers. By providing them tools and networking opportunities to help them prosper, we bring people together all around the island. This not only helps them cooperate, grow, and succeed, but also creates dialogue and builds trust among communities. Entrepreneurship is and will continue to be an important driver of growth, as will a future unified Cypriot economy. We are also a truly bi-communal team, proving our model in its own implementation. By building a bi-communal platform online, we have been able to convert this into lasting in-person business relationships amongst Greek and Turkish Cypriots, with success stories already materializing. Our focus on innovation has allowed us to partner with many diverse individuals and organizations island-wide and abroad to tackle the Cyprus problem. | Digital/Live Engagement – This includes number of users, subscribers, online learners, event attendees, and more. Economic Success – There is an economic benefit to success measured by the number of business collaborations we are able to achieve (i.e. inter-communal joint ventures). We have witnessed a handful of success stories from Greek- and Turkish-Cypriots who met at our mixers for the first time and collaborated on their businesses or on a new business shortly thereafter. Social Success – Our social success metric is measured by cross-border interactions. The initiatives described as part of our solution have led to first-meetings between Greek- and Turkish-Cypriots in the name of entrepreneurship. We also see success in attracting right to center-right politically oriented people who normally would not proactively contribute to peace-building environments. Digital Initiatives: • 2500+ Community (members/subscribers) • 200+ Startups Mapped • 436+ Events Posted • 206+ Jobs Listed • 30,000+ Followers/Social Media Reach Physical Initiatives: • 12+ CyprusInno Events • 500+ Attendees • 4 Inter-communal Partnerships Leveraged • 10+ Expert speakers • 350+ Hours Mentorship E-Learning: • 37 Modules, 101 Lessons • 63 Quizzes, 30 Videos, 14 Practical Exercises • 6 Local Cyprus Case Studies • 30+ Hours of Coursework • 198 Students *260,000 euros of value created through island-wide entrepreneurial collaborations within our network (we want to see this in the millions) | In Cyprus, where we have proven our model, we would see fluid trade across the Green Line (border) between north in south Cyprus, resulting in economic interdependence, a united economy, cross-border collaborations and innovation, and more. Second, we would see our model and platform be replicated in other post-conflict regions across the world. From the Eastern Mediterranean, to The Levant, to the Greater Middle East, Eastern Europe, and worldwide, we would create partnerships and local expansion teams to build a localized version of our digital platform and our portfolio of live events to implement our model in these post-conflict regions. Examples include Palestine-Israel, Kosovo-Serbia, Albania-Georgia. These regions would not only have a customized version of CyprusInno's digital entrepreneurship platform, but would also have an entrepreneurship and innovation center in our sister network of innovation labs, starting with the one we are currently building in the UN Buffer Zone in Cyprus. These centers would work together to exchange knowledge and resources, help startups launch in other regions and partner with international co-founders, create a neutral and safe place for entrepreneurs and innovators from divided communities to collaborate and innovate peacefully, and conduct ecosystem visits to other centers to see entrepreneurship and peace in action and bring back learnings to their home countries. We want to double the size of our team within the next year. | Short-term: - Additional grant funding and crowdfunding - Additional staff (increase by 100%) - Physical space (coming soon in the Buffer Zone) Medium-term: - International partnerships for global expansion - Sustainable revenue sources - Large-scale funding from social impact investors - Additional staff (increase by additional 100%) Long-term: - Satellite teams/staff in other countries - Offices/innovation centers/spaces in other countries | Press: https://cyprus-mail.com/2018/11/11/bicommunal-start-up-leading-the-way/ https://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2018/10/12/innovation-as-a-path-to-peace/ https://nextbillion.net/entrepreneurs-all-over-the-world-are-the-same-person-and-thats-a-good-thing/ https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-07-25/olive-oil-company-unites-cyprus-taste-peace http://us10.campaign-archive2.com/?u=79b36f35670840149dcab2abb&id=f480a26f4b http://www.goldnews.com.cy/assets/companies/cyprusinno--the-new-digital-platform-connecting-startups-and-entrepreneurs http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/08/23/first-bi-communal-startup-mentorship-programme-connects-across-divide/ Tools: https://cyprusinno.com https://cyprusinno.com/press/ https://cyprusinno.com/ecosystem-mixer/ https://cyprusinno.com/sdgs-mixer/ https://cyprusinno.com/forum/ https://cyprusinno.com/knowledge-lab/ http://funding.cyprusinno.com/ https://cyprusinno.com/economic-benefits-cyprus-solution-visual-series/ https://cyprusinno.com/startups/ https://cyprusinno.com/jobs/ https://cyprusinno.com/events https://cyprusinno.com/newsletter/ Research: https://www.nesta.org.uk/report/paths-to-scale/? https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/5/1437 | https://www.facebook.com/cyprusinno/videos/2037768023011933/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEyishdV1z8&feature=youtu.be&t=461 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE-eemqNyzI&t=1480s https://www.facebook.com/cyprusinno/videos/230820457570708/ https://www.facebook.com/Cyprusv.U/videos/559975611179428/ https://www.facebook.com/Cyprusv.U/videos/1170032383179270/ https://www.facebook.com/panispieri48/videos/825334264476610 https://www.facebook.com/disruptcyprus/videos/1151879718300368 | 2019 Intercultural Innovation Achievement Award, Government of Austria (CyprusInno) 2019 Yunus & Youth Fellowship (Steven) 2019 Harvard SECON Showcase Startup (CyprusInno) 2018 UN Young Leader (Burak) 2018 European Youth Awards Finalists (CyprusInno) 2018 Stelios Bicommunal Award (CyprusInno) 2018 Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative Fellowship (Burak) 2017-20 British High Commission Bicommunal Initiative Grant (CyprusInno) 2017-19 US Embassy Bicommunal Initiative Grant (CyprusInno) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
923 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Frédéric & Max | Urech & Rumpf | blau.vc | blau.vc (under construction, reach out for the internal beta) | Co-Founder & Co-Founder (a representative of shift7 confirmed we'd be allowed to apply as a team, but travel would only be funded for one person... this is completely fine, we wanted to apply together nonetheless) | male | Switzerland | Germany | English | French | We're both motivated by the huge challenge that lies ahead of us – climate change. While Frédéric has been concerned about the environment for a long time now – he was involved in the quickest-growing party of Switzerland (Green Liberals) since shortly after the beginning and has been on the party's board until he left Switzerland for Stanford University in fall 2018 – Max has only started questioning the impact we as humans have on the climate and the effect climate change in turn has on (especially the most vulnerable part of) humanity more recently. What unites us (apart from our friendship), however, is that both of us need to fly again and again, and that we know that doing so does irreparable damage to our planet. However, as one is often required to travel for business/for university, not flying is sometimes not an option. However, neither is continuing to pollute the planet while knowing that a couple decades down the line, it will be too late to act. Thus, we started looking for alternatives. The first thing that came up is of course CO2 emission offset programs, as offered by foundations such as myclimate.org or atmosfair. However, after taking a closer look at their modus operandi, we realized these organizations are neither sustainable nor particularly effective (more about that below). Therefore, we founded a new initiative – blau.vc – to offset the damage of flying more effectively. By taking part in the Solution Summit, we hope to not only learn from other startups and innovators in the field of green technology and sustainability, but to get access to the United Nations' vast network of support, of thought leaders & investors and of exchanging best practices that will enable our initiative to take off not only in Switzerland, but globally – a crucial step for our initiative to find success and have the impact needed to escape the tragic fate that this planet will otherwise see with ever-increasing numbers of people flying. In short, we'd love to join the Solutions Summit to learn more about what people in other parts of the world are doing to advance a sustainable future and to share our approach of reaching the UN's development goals. We believe strongly that by exchanging views and ideas with other innovators hailing from all corners of the globe, we will not only be able to refine our approach, but will be motivated to never stop fighting for our climate – even when expanding our initiative becomes tougher than it already is now! | While attending a Session of the Swiss National Youth Parliament aged 14, Frédéric (*1999) quickly realized that politics was his thing. While interested in global affairs ever since, this was the first time that he was confronted with international issues – things that weren't on his mind growing up in a town in rural Switzerland. Fascinated by the bustling atmosphere in the Swiss capital, he joined the lobbying team of the National Youth Parliament and quickly became its president. Meanwhile, he joined a party (the Green Liberals), was active in EYP and represented youth at the Council of Europe. After graduating from high school, he founded a youth parliament in Thurgau, bringing global issues to schools throughout the Canton in cooperation with MPs. However, he always enjoyed his lobbying work most, as it allowed him to have a real impact (instead of ""playing games"" like EYP) on the decisions of the Swiss parliament and give youth a voice – something especially important regarding sustainability: lawmakers must be reminded of the demands of youth, as the young generation will face the consequences of our (lack of) actions today. Currently, Frédéric is working in Venture Capital. Max (*1999) moved to Switzerland when he was young. Growing up with both parents working, he spent most days reading and developed a deep interest in technology. While mostly focusing on academics in high school, he has founded Glitz (a technology startup) while studying Computer Science & AI at ETH Zurich. He's passionate about aviation, and about using technology to the advantage of humanity. | blau.vc – offsetting your flight, done right | blau.vc lets people offset the emissions from indispensable flights by investing in and mentoring green-tech startups tackling the *hardest* problems | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | HQ and Fundraising Efforts mainly in Europe (to begin with), deploying capital at Entrepreneurship/Innovation Hubs in Europe, Asia, Africa | Yes | Students at the Federal Technical Institute of Zurich (ETH Zurich) and Stanford University | Proof of Concept | We've confirmed there's a demand in people to offset flights. Furthermore, we've developed a proprietary model which accounts for the damage done by the global airline industry and uses this information to translate the damage done by an individual passenger wishing to offset their flight into a single contribution amount which is based SOLELY on the scientific calculation of damage caused, yet still manages to take purchasing power/willingness to spend of the offsetting person into account. | If abstinence is not a solution (which it isn't as many people need to fly regularly and have no alternative), the only remaining option for people who care about the planet are carbon offset programs. However, these are fundamentally flawed: the models used are inaccurate, and the ways in which carbon is offset is unsustainable without a constant influx of donations, due to their focus on lowering carbon emission where it's easiest and cheapest, i.e. going after the lowest hanging fruit. | Our solution works like this: flyers wishing to offset the damage they cause by boarding yet another flight are given the choice to make up for their journey by making a contribution to the blau.vc fund. The contribution is set by the scientific model we developed which allows a passenger to make up for the damage caused by them based on the price of the ticket they purchased (in tons of CO2 equivalents). Every ton of CO2 emitted then is charged at the current rate of making up for CO2 emissions. Instead of focusing on fundamentally inaccurate models which focus on the exact route and class flown (incorporating numbers that are made up out of thin air) our model uses the price paid for an itinerary to calculate the damage done by a passenger in a more simple, more robust and always accurate way which automatically accounts for the exact amount of damage done by a certain passenger. The advantage of this method, in addition to always being accurate (guaranteed) no matter what plane type is flown and no matter the load factor of a specific trip, is that the contribution which is calculated thus automatically matches a passengers' ability to pay for carbon offset. As it is highly unlikely that someone who paid only 150€ for a transatlantic flight is willing to pay almost as much just to offset emissions, this is a decisive factor which must be taken into account given our plan to expand CO2 offset to the masses – instead of focusing on the few people already doing so. | Instead of pursuing the lowest hanging fruit, we believe the best way to sustainably compensate emissions we can't yet eradicate is to invest in people. It will be people that are going to come up with the tech to better and more affordably compensate CO2 emissions and the technologies allowing us to eradicate the ""need to pollute"" in the first place once and for all. Today's problem's that the best & brightest aren't incentivized to develop scalable solutions for limiting CO2 emissions (although this is the world's most acute problem), but are sucked into optimizing social media ads... since that's where the money is! We want to change this, by providing founders in green-tech – from CO2 removal to alternative transportation – with the capital and network needed to succeed. We plan on doing so by setting up a VC fund that will finance such startups as long as needed, with financial aspects being secondary. As long as there's no better alternative, people will fly and pollute: Why can't we travel from Zurich to Berlin (<700km) in 2hours by train? It's hard to accept that no-one is changing this. Imagine what can be achieved if the collective capital of travelers is spent on innovation. If, 10 years from now, just 1 in 50 travelers at Zurich Airport decides to chip in an average of $50 to compensate for her flight, our fund will be $500M. Now imagine if we roll out our program to airports in Europe? Worldwide? This VC-based green-innovation-heavy approach is completely novel. | We've been pursuing this idea for months during day and night, and so a lot is already set up. Our (beautiful) website will be complete and all ready to accept payments by the time we take part in the Solutions Summit. Furthermore, we've already figured out the details of a ""growth-hack""which is the pipeline: a controversial campaign involving a most famous Climate Activist which is projected to make us known to a much bigger audience in Switzerland, Germany, Austria & Luxembourg than the one now (which as of now mainly consists of people who know us personally from working in this field over the past years and months). They were enough to get us started, but in order to enable us to effectively set up a venture fund in order to attract young talent, fund their endeavors and accompany them on their journey to success (hopefully in more than 1/10 cases – which is the minimum bar among venture capitalists) we need a wider reach. The way we did set it all up, we luckily won't need tens of thousands of people ""compensating"" their flights in order to start supporting entrepreneurs as we are initially just writing small checks for startups in Seed or A-stage. But in order to make this a truly sustainable initiative which lives up to our global aspirations, we aspire to expand to other European markets ASAP to ensure we can fund startups not only at Europe's top entrepreneurship schools (which we have identified in another proprietary study of ours) but in Africa and Asia as well. | We're measuring our progress by analyzing how many of the people reached via impersonal channels actually do compensate their flight, and then of course by the total number of people offsetting their emissions (and the total capital raised this way). In order to fuel ""contribution growth"" in Switzerland we've already recruited a number of volunteers for campaigning at Swiss transportation hubs and get passengers to participate, plus we're of course planning to recruit volunteers in other European countries (and track the conversion there) too. Regarding milestones, we're planning to raise $100'000 in contributions by the end of the year (at an average of ~$50, we ""only"" need 2000 people to offset their flight in order to reach this first goal). Once the German speaking markets are up and running smoothly, the next goal will be to scale in order to increase the fund size, which will leave us much better equipped to pursue our mission: inspire students to tackle environmental problems and invest in founders who solve environmental challenges through technology and other means (we already have a shortlist of potential companies). Then, the next goals (end of 2020) will be to a) get more partners on board (e.g. Swiss Airlines) so as to enable offsetting emissions as part of the booking process (we checked, there's general interest in exploring this), to b) partner with local VCs and c) to conquer new markets (in terms of CO2 offsetting) to expand our funding to more countries. | Short-term, our main concern's reaching a large enough audience, and banking on more & more people wanting to offset their CO2 emissions in order to ensure we have enough funding to start writing at least $50k cheques to fuel green innovation, thereby unleashing green energy, carbon removal & mobility startups' potential of helping humanity as a whole. Here, every help (e.g. getting connected to other organizations which might help with outreach) will be most helpful. Meanwhile, Max has a track-record of using tech to penetrate markets, and his experience in AI & cybersecurity will allow us to acquire users efficiently, make sense of gathered data and keep our spending for technical assistance to an absolute minimum! Moreover, Frédéric too has experience in data analysis, PR and search engine optimization. Thanks to the unique combination of our skills, we were already able to lay out a strategy, and thus believe we'll overcome this challenge. Medium-term, our success will depend on attracting, motivating and selecting top-tier founders. This is a field Frédéric has experience in, but we're currently looking for 3-4 mentors (ideally seasoned but socially responsible Venture Capitalists/Investors) to help us in this endeavor (we already have 1). Lastly, long-term our problem is that if we're really successful, we'll destroy our own ""business model."" However, once that's the case we've not only fulfilled a big part of our mission, but we're confident we'll be able to adapt! | Sadly, there are few documents we can share as of now. Our model to calculate the appropriate offset amount is awaiting publication, and our website is not online yet. If you want a taste of the kinds of companies that will benefit, please look at the website of our fellow ETH students (climeworks.com) which is just one of the kinds of startups the world needs more off (and will get more off with us). If it wasn't so hard to find the capital and get access to the network/mentors needed to scale ideas like that, we're absolutely certain we would see more startups like this, bettering our chances of limiting climate change as much as possible, and coping with the remaining effects in a way which leaves humanity's most vulnerable as unscathed as possible. In addition, please check out this spreadsheet (https://jmp.sh/YbM5oR6) for our projection of ""contribution growth"" over the next 10 years in case we'd just focus on Zurich Airport – incorporating data for industry growth and our educated guess for what a share of total carbon offset amounts blau.vc will be able to capture. The form was created assuming a $50 contribution per passenger and 20% return on capital (which is realistic according to other VCs). Further, it assumes that from 2019 to 2029, the share of people paying for carbon offset programs will rise from 0.33% today to 2% in 2029 (which will result in significantly more ""offsetting revenue"" as the total no. of passengers is scheduled to grow by 60% in this period). | No speaking engagements relating to the specific mission of blau.vc yet. But feel free to peruse the following sources showing/evidencing some of our work (some of them are in German, but I'm confident that with the help of Google Translate you'll still be able to get an impression of the various projects we've been involved in): 1) https://soundcloud.com/generadio (Click on *Episode 29* to hear a discussion between former Swiss President Moritz Leuenberger and me: Frederic Urech) 2) https://www.tagblatt.ch/ostschweiz/arbon-kreuzlingen-weinfelden/kreuzlingen-politik-braucht-eigeninitiative-ld.853108 (Newspaper article about Frederic Urech's initiative in Eastern Switzerland's largest newspaper) 3) http://www.sajv.ch/2017/09/11/jugenddelegation-schweiz-kein-weiteres-blutvergiessen-durch-unkontrollierten-waffenhandel/ (Press release Amnesty International/Swiss National Youth Parliament) 4) https://www.amnesty.ch/de/youth/youth-news/2017/jugenddelegation-an-der-att 5) https://faces.stanford.edu/news 6) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex2L3cHGRzI | Both of us have won awards, but as of yet only for other projects. Frederic was the best graduate in 5+ years in State School in Thurgau and Max has been accepted into the German Scholarship Foundation – the highest honor for a German student. Further, we've both been honored with the award for the best final project in Law & Economics with a paper we authored together, where we focused on corporate tax optimization, how it negatively affects developing countries and how this can be mitigated. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
924 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ruth | Coleman | Sustainable Growers Rwanda | https://www.sustainablegrowers.org/ | Executive Director | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Sustainable Growers and its partners in Rwanda have created an innovative program that integrates and elevates the role of women in the male-dominated coffee industry. It is a program that trains female coffee farmers at the grassroots level to see themselves as businesswomen. The program has helped these women to become leaders of cooperatives, managing processing facilities while increasing their access to local markets by learning how to roast coffee. With the training provided, women coffee farmers acquire a sense of where they fit in the global marketplace. Sustainable Growers delivers an incentivized training program coupled with local and international market access opportunities to ensure that the women can reap the benefits of their work. The women farmers receive rewards if they apply the lessons learned and adopt government initiatives such as health insurance, school enrollment of children, and cleaner home latrines. This initiative includes a social enterprise, Question Coffee Cafe and Roastery, that markets and sells products to build a domestic market. Rather than simply focusing on farmer training, this seed-to-cup program provides training along the entire value chain, which includes cooperative training, quality control, processing, and barista training. As such, in addition to farm-level improvements, this creates more job awareness and opportunities for farmers, youth, women, and men. Sustainable Growers and its partners are building market supply and demand to create more economic opportunities for women and their families. Recognizing that women are the bedrock of communities, we developed a platform of key initiatives that encourage and support the socio-economic development of women farmers and their families. The program has a positive impact on the social, economic, and environmental well-being of the communities where we work. Our dedication to promoting sustainable agriculture practices continues to have a positive effect on the environment, which benefits the entire coffee-growing community. In the future, our strategic partnerships and global coffee campaigns will help increase awareness among coffee companies and their consumers by demonstrating the positive social and economic impact associated with their choice of choosing women produced coffee. We will also use the SDGs we have identified to spark the appropriate collective actions (local buy-in, partnerships, projects) and ensure lasting change. | Ruth Coleman serves as the Executive Director of Sustainable Growers, a professional training and trading program helping women farmers build prosperity. Ms. Coleman oversees the organization’s operations and manages its strategic relationships. In 2013 Sustainable Growers was selected by Bloomberg Philanthropies to bring its inclusive relationship model of development to low-income rural women based in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Sustainable Growers’ community includes farmers, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers. Ms. Coleman manages a multi-year project to improve the livelihoods of over 30,000 low-income women coffee farmers from Rwanda and DRC. In its first full year, the program succeeded in doubling yields and income for its graduates. Before joining Sustainable Growers, Ruth served for ten years as Director of the California Department of Parks and Recreation. Earlier in her career, she worked for the California Legislature as a fiscal analyst, a natural resources policy advisor, and a legislative director. Ruth was a Peace Corps volunteer in Swaziland. She is a graduate of Occidental College and has a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School | CoffeeWomen4SDGs | Women Produced Coffee for Sustainable Development | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia | Yes | Sustainable Harvest, Bloomberg Philanthropy, Mastercard Foundation, InterAmerican Development Bank, Roasters include Peets, Strauss, Equator, Collectivo | Transition to Scale | Our program started as a partnership between Sustainable Harvest Coffee Importers and Sustainable Growers (non-profit). Over the past 5 years, the program has grown to 3 countries targeting 40,000 farming families (representing 200,000 people). Our next phase is to become self-sustaining without external donor support by creating a consumer coffee program that shows the power of consumers' consumption and impact of each cup of women produced coffee purchased on farm families. | Women carry out much of the labor in the coffee supply chain, from tending to the farm to processing and sorting, yet receive little compensation for their contribution and direct impact on the quality of the end product. Meanwhile, men overwhelmingly occupy positions of power in the supply chain where they can capture more of the benefits of the product, regardless of their labor contribution. | Promoting gender equity is the most viable approach to impact the livelihoods of coffee farmers throughout the coffee sector. The program utilizes a “Training+Trade” approach to help female coffee farmers acquire management and leadership skills, leveraging coffee farming to increase income and new opportunities, including employment. Currently, we partner with local governments, foundations, international development agencies, and coffee companies to provide a strong support system for the program. Our long term vision is for our investment in women to yield the following outcomes throughout the supply chain: - Better Quality: Equipping women with knowledge and skills in cupping and best agricultural practices improves cup quality and volume. Our internal cupping data indicates that women-grown lots return a higher cup score than non-women-grown lots from the same cooperative. - Improved Livelihoods: We know that value from coffee returning to women means more significant investment in the family, leading to improved livelihoods. Studies show that women invest 90 cents of every dollar they earn in the household; this investment leads to transformational change in coffee-growing communities, increasing supply chain sustainability. - Inspire Change: Coffee produced by women come with inspiring stories, offering a compelling opportunity for coffee companies to brand and position itself as a pioneer in the global movement to promote gender equity. | The solution is unique by introducing an inclusive business partnership model that is commercially viable while also having a clear social impact case. As such, it creates a strong foundation to bring lasting change for communities and households involved. Our solution has four key pillars 1. Market Access: At the foundation of our work is the Relationship Coffee Model. We connect women directly to local and international buyers so that they are compensated and rewarded directly for the quality they deliver. 2. Organize and Develop Leadership: Training and workshops unlock the power of women to become leaders, organize and grow their coffee enterprises, and work collectively to identify solutions to business challenges. 3. Training for Best Practices: Our training programs are carried out by cooperative agronomists and outside consultants who bring the industry’s most relevant learning to the growers. Training includes best agricultural practices, cupping and quality control, yield, productivity improvement practices, and entrepreneurship. 4. Recognition and Rewards: Premium Sharing Rewards, a keystone of our training program, was developed as a way to respectfully incentivize farmers to achieve their quality and production goals. Through the program, farmers earn points for attending training and implementing the skills they learn. These “reward points” accrue over time and can be used to acquire tools, like pruning shears, or other goods of the women’s choosing. | In the 5 past years, we have implemented two phases of the program to prepare our women-produced coffee model for scale. Phase One: we piloted the program by working with 4001 women in Rwanda. The women formed two cooperatives and over three years, doubled their income from coffee. By 2016, the cooperative members began to see themselves as businesswomen having gone from zero profits in 2003 to net $36,000. Phase Two: we worked with 28,232 women coffee farmers by engaging with 1133 Village level farmer groups and 75 cooperatives in Rwanda. We adapted our model to include incentives and a social enterprise to grow the domestic and international coffee market for the farmers. We expanded to the DRC, Mexico, and Colombia. We also developed a rigorous measurement platform to track the progress and impact of the program that allows Sustainable Growers to identify risks, measure changes in outcomes and evaluate the performance of program activities. There are 3 components: 1. Activity Reports - standardized reporting to measure the program outputs 2. Baseline and End line Assessments - Measures key components of the social, environmental and economic characteristics of participating cooperatives, farmers and relationship coffee women (extension workers) 3. Key Performance Indicators- Measures outcomes through program activities and provide critical information to manage program progress and improve both efficiency and effectiveness. | We plan to use mobile tools for multi-directional information exchange to support our network of women farmers and the SDGs through mobile apps that: 1. facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experience among farmers and between farmers and agricultural technicians during training. 2. facilitate access to markets by providing transparency in price and market requirements while strengthening the position of the farmers. 3. allow farmers to self-report, reducing the burden of spending time on surveys. We plan to increase awareness among coffee companies and their consumers to educate them on the power of their choice. Sustainable Harvest (Importing Partner) will work with coffee roasters, and retailers located in the United States, Canada, and Europe (Netherlands, Germany, Scandinavia, UK) to increase consumption of women produced coffee. Furthermore, we will work with roasters and retailers in coffee producing countries to promote domestic consumption of women produced coffee. Our program plans to demonstrate a positive social and economic impact on 100,000 farming families (representing 500,000 people). We will also continue to have a positive environmental impact in the coffee-growing communities where we work. To achieve the goals mentioned above, we would like to expand our sales staff and increase field staff support in our eight countries (Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras). | We are seeking financial and in-kind resources to develop a suite of mobile applications designed to support the needs of women farmers. Women farmers will be trained in utilizing these tools to gather data that provides course correction for the program. Using technology will help us to scale positive results to strengthen women empowerment solutions that are business-driven and measurable, contributing data towards the overall Sustainable Development Goals and other coffee platforms. Short Term (2 Years): Pilot Program in 2 countries (Rwanda and Peru) targeting 10,000 Women Farmers. Budget required for 10,000 smartphones, in-country staff to support program and costs associated with the development of applications and data services. Medium Term (2-5 Years): Distill lessons learned and expand the program to Uganda, Honduras, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, targeting 50,000 women farmers. Budget required for 50,000 smartphones, in-country staff to support program and costs associated with the development of applications and data services. Long Term (Over 5 Years): Expand mobile services program to 100,000 farmers in 8 target countries (Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras). Budget required for 100,000 smartphones, in-country staff to support program and costs associated with the development of applications and data services. | Sustainable Growers: sustainablegrowers.org Sustainable Harvest: sustainableharvest.com Question Coffee: questioncoffee.com | Sustainable Growers: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s1hbv6ycjguyyl1/LTCR%20Opening%20short%206.27.mp4?dl=0 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G9PZBUEpET2w79HBq09m6zhYNfunDca_/view Relationship Coffee Model: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9jLo_UwTZQ&list=PLbzQqtdg4sFu-v3pyogghmy_0n6SxYVfH&index=2 Question Coffee: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17dVtfE2O8X21Ek8TAQBW-gpPPg6kMFVv/view?ts=5d162561 | We were selected in 2019 as the top NGO in Northern and Western Province by the Rwandan government's Joint Action Development Forum (JADF). We have been awarded Best Exhibitor for many of the JADF events where organizations, district and nationwide, present their program accomplishments and impact. We were also selected by NAEB to be the sole source vendor for farmer training. We were selected by the African Fine Coffee Association (AFCA) to host the 17th AFCA conference. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
925 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ami | Shah | Face2Face Health | https://face2facehealth.com | CEO & Founder | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | The motivation for Face2Face Health began with Dr. Shah’s own experiences with her twin children who had developmental delays. Despite being a board-certified Integrative and Internal medicine physician with an extensive medical network, she encountered significant difficulties in finding answers and solutions. Not tolerating the thought of what most mothers in her situation must feel when faced with similar challenges, Dr. Ami Shah founded Face2Face Health. Face2Face Health offers a complete “whole-istic” digital healthcare platform that serves as a “GPS system” as a guide for parents and caretakers to navigate the complex health care ecosystem and to optimize the health and wellness of children. A “Learn, Care, Share” model is solving the current barriers to timely care, providing trusted evidence-based information on the top challenges impacting support, and offering online support systems for caregivers and parents, all is one centralized, conveniently accessible platform. Dr. Shah’s own experience as a Telehealth Practitioner helped guide the development of Face2Face Health. | Dr. Ami Anand Shah, MD, FACP, FAARM is a pharmaceutical industry executive, active part-time integrative medicine practitioner, philanthropist, and leader in several local, state, and national medical non-profit organizational communities. She currently consults to restructure biotech/pharma companies and is a consultant in the business arena of due diligence and M&A. Fellowship-trained in Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine, as well as Aesthetics, She has over 15 years of clinical practice. Dr. Shah is a versatile global pharmaceutical industry executive experience with demonstrated leadership, management, and expertise in the arenas of pharma co-vigilance and risk management, clinical development, strategic business development/due diligence, global labeling, OTC/Nutritionals formulation, clinical trial development, drug formulations (compounding), and medical marketing. Dr. Shah has held several leadership positions and is currently the Treasurer of the New York County Medical Society (NYCMS) and is involved in committees at NYCMS and the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY). She is on the local board of South Asian Health Initiatives (SAHI) in New York City and the Vanderbilt YMCA. Dr. Shah is on the Board of Trustees of the National Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), which represents nearly 60,000 US physicians of Indian Origin, and is also the founding member and past President of the local NYC metro AAPI chapter. | Face2Face Health | Changing the Face of Children's Healthcare | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | United States, with plans for global expansion. | Yes | Working Mother Media, CoupleWise, b.Well, Accountable Health, Chadis, Quest, VentureOut, Subscription Insider, Benefits Manager Pro, Meridan Medical Practice Solutions and FullScript | Transition to Scale | Platform UAT tested by providers/users. Pilot projects completed, others planned. Partnerships secured with top organizations: Fullscript (HealthWave® allows thousands of health professionals to dispense professional-grade natural health products)., Working Mother Media (large subscriber base), CHADIS (a large developmental screening platform), Meridian Practice Solutions, and Benefits Manager Pro, several others in the pipeline. Over 200 providers across various specialties onboarded. | We address problems related to poor access to care, especially in rural areas (particularly to specialists), a lack of children’s screening (only 30%, U.S.) a need for early intervention, incomplete/inaccurate consumer medical information, poorly coordinated care across specialties, decentralized medical records, a need for higher quality of care based on best practices, a high rate of health illiteracy, employee absences ($76B/yr, U.S.), spotty parental support, and rising healthcare costs. | Face2Face Health, an integrated care platform, accessible 24/7 on any connected device, allows families to manage their child’s health & wellness in ONE place. We provide comprehensive, care in General Health, Emotional Health, Developmental Health, Mind, Body & Nutrition, and Education & Advocacy. Our LEARN, CARE, SHARE model addresses areas critical to complete care. LEARN: Access to 125+ peer-viewed meaningful self-paced health and education e-learning modules and resources focused on the top 100 children’s conditions, attend expert-led webinars and read original educational and medical articles. CARE: Specialists from a broad range of disciplines offer virtual & concierge healthcare, and can access centralized electronic health records, and remote monitoring and screening & diagnostic tools. Care coordinators work with parents and caregivers. SHARE: Members can interact with other caregivers via moderated on-line communities for advice and advocacy. We integrate and centralize all the tools, peer-reviewed information and best-in-class technology needed to support patients, caregivers, and providers in an easily accessible online community. Our smart platform utilizes data analytics and machine learning to determine best practices and guide better clinical. Providers extend their reach, especially important to underserved areas. Our integrated online “virtual practice” manages typical administrative tasks, freeing up time for more focused, quality, care. | To date, Face 2 Face Health has researched over 200 companies that compete in the digital health market. With few exceptions, Face 2 Face Health is the only company that focuses exclusively on pediatric health and development. None offer the comprehensive holistic solution presented by Face 2 Face Health that includes general and behavioral health, development approaches, mind, body & nutrition, education, advocacy, coaching and tutoring. Many competitors are narrowly defined, providing services such as screening only, concierge services only, telemedicine for general health only, remote monitoring only, online communities only, healthcare information only or technology platforms only. Examples follow: Qidza: Early childhood screening app. Brain Power: AI system to help children with autism learn self-control Babyscripts: Remote monitoring of pregnant patients CarenaMD: Telemedicine technology services Teledoc: General health, emotional health, nutritional counseling eMindful: Mindfulness WebMD: Health information Face 2 Face Health, on the other hand, offers all-of-the-above services that represent a truly unique solution to the pediatric population. | We currently have a working platform and have initiated final phases of user acceptability testing. We have developed a number of key partners (see list above), that include a leading screening tools service that guides decision support and patient engagement systems designed to streamline patient communication and optimize healthcare, a test prep and skill-building service for pre-K to 8th Graders and selective Parent Groups (ADHD, Autism) pilot, partners interested in using our e-learning content, marketing partners, fund-raising partners, and co-promotional opportunities with partners who give us access to 1MM+ subscribers interested in our services. We have agreed-upon pilots pending, and have implemented our provider recruitment strategy. We are engaged in ongoing negotiations with healthcare providers for a white-label enterprise solution. Earlier progress included research with 500 providers and consumers to assess product-market fit and user interface user experience, which met with highly favorable reviews, and alpha testing with private users. | High-level goals follow: Q3 2019: User Acceptance Testing (in progress) Q3, 2019: Recruitment & advanced marketing (in progress) Q3 2019: Funding Q3 2019: Release integrated website and mobile app Q3, 2019: New York launch 2019: State-by-state nationwide launch 2020-21: Global expansion | SHORT TERM: Funding More providers Customers LONG TERM: Additional staff Ongoing platform development | https://face2facehealth.com | Company Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=ivub05z2lxE World Healthcare Conference 2018 interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivub05z2lxE&t=41s Work Beyond Summit: About Face2Face Health https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fdypqC64As Work Beyond Summit: On Health Literacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoyR1PX1gcw Work Beyond Summit: Our Complex Healthcare System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tubY39hquWE | Dr. Shah was a national American Medical Association (AMA) delegate for the Young Physicians Section of New York State for several years. She has been the recipient of the prestigious top 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in business (2012) and is also featured as one of the top 101 Indian American Emerging and Global Leaders by Roshni Media (2015). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
926 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Francesco | Piazzesi | ECHALE | www.echale.mx | CEO | male | Mexico | Mexico | English | Spanish | We are convinced that there can be many 2030 communities around the world with the sum of the right actors. That is why we want to add more and more allies throughout the world. | Francesco Piazzesi use to work developing construction machines. During the late 80’s the company developed a machine that produces compressed earth block aiming to stop the high pollution brick ovens are associated to. The product is a green, thermic, aesthetically pleasant block commited mostly of earth, called Adoblock. To introduce this product to the market, a non-for profit organization was created and started working with communities that were shocked by natural disasters. The product and technology was highly accepted. However, the impact of giveaway programs is low, resources are always scarce, people do not feel a sense of ownership, but it proved there was a market ready for the product, ready to work for their houses and ready to pay for them. Thus, ¡Échale! a tu Casa program was born. In 1997 a huge natural disaster took Chiapas, hurricane Paulina. A test pilot of the ¡Échale! program was put into action were families collaborated in the design of their house, worked towards building their house receiving a salary for their labor, and paid the majority of the cost while the government subsidized a small percentage. With the success of this pilot, a new for profit company was created: Ecoblock Internacional | Echale . Self construction of houses and community infraestructure | We build with families for families | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | México , | Yes | Imperative Fund, New Story Charity, Ilumexico, Al grano, indigo Impacto, red con cero, CIES, gobierno del estado de tabasco | Sustainable Scale | ÉCHALE together with Imperative Fund , has worked on the Community Integral Development Model for 10 years, which addresses 14 of the 17 SDGs. ÉCHALE, contributes to the model: An efficient construction system, which allows the generation of local jobs and economic spills in the region. A scalable model supported by Ecoblock technology This material is composed by 90% earth and 10% cement It does not need term process for drying. | In Mexico there are at least 6 million people who do not have access to adequate housing. These families add other problems such as extreme poverty, lack of education, no access to the health system. Access very services such as drinking water, electricity, drainage. Digital divide by not having internet. A financial arm that provides access to financing to unbanked families. | We are working on a comprehensive community model with six stages Adequate housing Connectivity Elimination of poverty tax (volume purchases) Access to drinking water and solar energy Access to health through telemedicine and health workshops Garbage handling | The ability to replicate the model. | The first 2030 community is under development in Nacajuca in the state of Tabasco in Mexico. The applied methodology belongs to the Imperative Fund. and we are planning to implement PM4R methodologie for BDI . | We are in talks to export the model to south africa. | The resources that are most required are the economic resources to obtain the housing materials as well as generate the development of the community infrastructure. Alliances with state governments are often the main obstacles we encounter. | https://www.echale.com.mx/ https://youtu.be/Uh9sFiqEwP4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7As-cCt0EFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSSmEZDP88w | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSSmEZDP88w | •World Entrepreneurship Forum, Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 •Stephanie Schmidt Award 2015 •B Corporation. Best for the World, 2015, 2014 and 2013. Certified since 2013. •National Quality Award, Mexico. 2014. •Momentum BBVA Social Impact Investment Project, Mexico 2014 •Clinton Global Initiative member. Since 2009 •National Housing Award for the program “Echale a tu casa”, 2007. •National award form the Ministry of Social Development, Technologies for social housing, 1999. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
927 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Robai | Naliaka | Civil Society Urban Development Platform | www.csudp.org | Programme Manager | Female | Kenya | Kenya | English | On behalf of the Talanta Mtaani Consortium (a partnership between the Civil Society Urban Development Platform, Uwezo Awareness Organization and the Center for Intellectual Property Law Research and Advocacy) I submit my interest to speak at the UN Solutions Summit. I am currently serving as the secretary to the Talanta Mtaani Consortium and coordinating the Talanta Mtaani Youth Empowerment Programme and keen to share this innovation with the world and learn from the existing experiences for increased global impact especially amongst the youth interventions and practices, policies and the youth themselves. At the Talanta Mtaani Youth Empowerment programme and at my current employer – the Civil Society Urban Development Platform, I have spearheaded the development and implementation of the PIMA capacity building and employability programs and initiated unique partnerships between the Talanta Mtaani Consortium and the State Department of Culture in the Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage. Serving in different institutions, I have had the privilege to lead innovative education, training and livelihood programs for socio - economic self reliance and resilience amongst the youth and women in Kenya and Djibouti. These have comprised of policy instruments, practices, partnerships, curriculums and community based programs as well as replicable approaches. As a leader and creative guided by my purpose of empowering the vulnerable members of the communities to achieve socio –economic self-reliance, I have always desired to help others and bring the best out of them. Discovery, nurturing, exposure and use of talent as an alternative livelihood is an opportunity of bringing out the best in people. This approach, coupled with community work, capacity building, counselling, coaching, mentorship, networking, advocacy and lobbying, partnership development, policy influence for social and economic inclusion of the vulnerable and marginalized members of the communities have become my way of life in development. Anchored on values of global citizenship, integrity, responsibility, diversity and resilience, I aspire to leave no one behind, I facilitate change, strengthening systems, improving stakeholder synergies and empowering communities. Given the opportunity, this platform will help increase the global impact amongst the youth using of talent for self discovery, self development and self reliance and promotion of the creative economy. | Aged 42 years, Ms. Naliaka is a social justice change agent with over 20 years hands on experience in programme management in Kenya and Djibouti. Influencing, Innovating, Organizing and Inspiring socio - economic transformation for marginalized and vulnerable communities, Ms. Naliaka has served and promoted alternative youth and women livelihoods development, in education and child protection, institutional development and governance. Prior to her current position as the Program Manager at the Civil Society Urban Development Platform, Ms. Naliaka worked for the Lutheran World Federation as a Sub Program Manager in Djibouti upholding the rights of refugees and displaced communities through multi stakeholder approaches. She has also headed the Training Department at Ujima Foundation for Training and Development, empowering vulnerable youth to achieve self-reliance through access to the labor market in Kenyan urban areas. With an Education, Development and Management background, Ms. Naliaka has strategically contributed to the promotion, access and fulfilment of the rights and improvement of the quality of life for the marginalized communities embracing the principle of leaving no one behind. Ms. Naliaka is currently the Secretary to the Talanta Mtaani Consortium and coordinates the Talanta Mtaani Youth Empowerment Program that consists of Talent TV show, PIMA capacity building and Employability programs. | Talanta Mtaani Youth Empowerment for expanded socio-economic opportunities amongst youth | Talent for self discovery, self development and self reliance | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Kenya and later East Africa | Yes | Talanta Mtaani Consortium (Ciplar International, Uwezo Awareness organization),State Department of Culture, ministry of sports, culture and heritage; Standard Group Media, Kenya Highlands | Transition to Scale | The concept was first tried in 2017 within one county of Kenya. Currently in its 4th season has been able to attract over 3500 youth participating in the process from 26 counties of Kenya. Beyond the Talent search show, there is now a capacity building model embedded in the program, and an employability program that ensures the youth are equipped to access the job market. The innovation has also attracted other stake holders such as the culture, governance and TVET providers | Overall unemployment in Kenya is at 56% yet Kenya’s education system churns out millions of skilled graduates who end up frustrated which is not just a policy failure but also is security threat. There are no specific national programs that help the vulnerable youth to adequately prepare for work and life. The focus on academic performances has made this worse with no particular linkage to talent nor the individual's family's and the socio - economic elements of youth development. | Talanta Mtaani Youth Empowerment Program (TMYEP) is now organized by the Talanta Mtaani Consortium (Civil Society Urban Development Platform, Ciplar International, Uwezo Awareness Organization). The main aim of TMYEP is to expand the socio – economic opportunities for the youth from the neighborhoods - ‘mtaas’. It is a holistic (individual, family and socio – economic environment) youth development program, with integrated programs comprising of the Talanta Mtaani Show, the PIMA capacity Program and the Employability program. Talanta Mtaani TV Show focuses on competitive talent search, exposure and talent development. PIMA capacity building: delivers personal values, skills training and knowledge transfer that lays emphasis on Protection of self, Interconnection with key stakeholders, Mentorship and Assistance to acquire market confidence and presence towards the desired social economic self-reliance. The training focuses on personal development, employability, leadership development and mentorship, business development and entrepreneurship, intellectual property and the practice of the creative and performing arts. Employability program: facilitates the awareness and sensitization on turning talent into livelihoods while providing platforms that monetize talent and promote access to gainful income opportunities. The Talanta Mtaani Youth Empowerment Program is a champion of the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals 1, 4, 8,11, 16 and 17. | This solution is new especially in Kenya where exceling in life has been focused on academic excellence. With the current shift to competence based education and training, this solution gives more emphasis on identification of talent and utilization of the talent to prepare for both work and life. Besides the competitive nature of the intervention, there are more opportunities towards holistic youth development where the individual, family and the socio - economic environment is constantly considered to bring value to the development of the youth. In this case, meaningful capacity building is integrated into the talent search with linkages to various stakeholders and industries for skill development, work experience, mentorship towards good citizenship and of course the actual employment. The public private partnership is an element that brings in technology and media as well as the competitive social enterprise nature of the intervention bringing in social value to the society. The involvement of state in the promotion of national values, social cohesion and the promotion of cultural diversity expressions cannot be underrated especially in a county where cultural diversity has previously been used for disunity and conflict. This therefore becomes a platform not only for talent search, personal and professional empowerment, a pathway for alternative livelihood through the creative economy, but a peace building, cultural prometon and national cohesion opportunity. | Great progress indeed. 1. The progression has moved from initial trainings for youth from informal settlements, to partnership with a nascent national talent search show. 2. This has then later progressed to co - development of PIMA (Protection, Interconnection, Mentorship and Assistance) capacity building curriculum model that is anchored on Holistic Youth development 3. The increase from one region to 6 regions within one year and from 1 county to 26 counties 4. The capacity to undertake research and add value to programming is of importance and now embracing technology in data collection 5. The partnerships established moving from individual organizations to a consortium that is bringing in diverse expertise 6. Partnerships with the media houses and private sector and utilization of media and technology to bring value towards social impact 7. Working with youth, the Linkage of intervention with SDG 4 on access to quality education - mainly TVET access, SDG 8 on decent work for all and productive employment, SDG 11 on promoting inclusive, resilient an safe cities, SDG 16 peace building, inclusive and just societies through SDG 17 on strengthening partnerships for sustainable development with the end goal of SDG 1 of reducing poverty amongst the marginalized and vulnerable youth | Our main goal is to expand the socio - economic opportunities of youth through talent in the coming 5 years by: 1. Talent search targeting 10,000 youth (through the Talanta Mtaani TV show and partnerships with media houses and private sector) 2. Holistic youth empowerment for 5,000 youth (digitally and in partnership with TVET institutions) 3. Employability - access and maintenance of jobs for at least 2000 youth (in partnership with various industries for formal employment and self employment) 4. Increased reach across the entire Kenya and within East Africa 5. Social enterprise with 40% programmatic sustainability, 20 staff employed to support the project | 1. Financial resources to reach out to the entire country with awareness and sensitization messages on the importance of utilization of talents towards holistic youth development - preparation for work and life 2.Institutionalized partnerships with the government especially in the curriculum recognition space to allow for talent to take preeminence in education and the development of individuals in a holistic manner 3. Institutionalized partnerships with the industries and the market towards matching the youth development with the industry needs 4. Technological resources to digitalize the innovation, its related capacity building and employability programs 5. Technical expertise and related equipment towards scaling up in the entire country and within East Africa 6. Research and development on Talent and achievement of the SDG 4, 8 and 11. | www.csudp.org https://youtu.be/SUWBqu-fWgY | https://youtu.be/SUWBqu-fWgY | None | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
928 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lindsey | Saultz | TechNation | https://www.mytechnation.org/ | Regional Director | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | We are applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit in order to get out project in front of world leaders. We truly believe we have a solution to underemployment among refugees and forced migrants while simultaneously addressing a talent shortage in a major industry. We have combined years of IT experience in our Executive Director with years of experience in refugee resettlement in our Regional Director to create a solution that works. Allowing for better career opportunities for refugees upon third-country resettlement not only impacts those who go through the program, but will also help establish stronger immigrant communities and smoother transitions for future immigrants. | Lindsey Saultz began her career with Lutheran Family Services as an Employment Developer in May 2014. She hadn’t ever considered working with refugees as a career path, but knew she wanted to work in assisting displaced people, so she focused some of her education and experience toward disaster response. Prior to her employment with LFSRM, she studied at University of Colorado Denver and received her Master of Public Administration degree, concentration in Nonprofit Management, in May 2012. In her last year of graduate school, she moved to New Orleans, LA, for her field work with Rebuilding Together New Orleans. She assisted with grant writing and volunteer management, though her primary responsibility was to assist case management in implementing the Nonprofit Rebuilding Pilot Program. This Community Development Block Grant allowed the organization to completely rebuild homes in New Orleans destroyed by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This was her first time working with displaced people and helping them regain stability in their life. She is excited to now have a similar impact on the refugee and asylee population by helping them regain stability and self-sufficiency through employment. | TechNation | Building Careers, Building Lives | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | We are currently operating in the United States of America and have had conversations with partners in Germany and Czechoslovakia. | Yes | IBM, Regis University, InterSkill | Proof of Concept | We are currently scaling up our operation in Denver, Colorado and are running pilot programs in Phoenix, AZ and St. Louis, MO. We are still making small changes to the program to ensure its success and create something that can be scalable nationally and internationally. | Our organization is addressing the underemployment rate among immigrants, particularly refugees and other forced migrants, by providing coaching, training and education, mentoring and job placement in the mainframe computer industry. Simultaneously, we are addressing the talent shortage in the mainframe computer industry and setting our students up for success by giving them the skills and certifications necessary for mainframe employment opportunities. | Our organization addresses the underemployment problem among immigrants by offering a pathway to a strong career and potential for rapid career growth. The long-term vision for global impact is to implement this program in other countries, starting with those at the forefront of third-country refugee resettlement. We also envision expanding this training to refugees as they await their resettlement, preparing them for a smoother transition to employment once they are resettled. | Refugee employment tends toward being a quick solution to a pressing needs and refugees end up in jobs below their potential, with career growth as an afterthought. After first placement in a job, it is uncommon for a resettlement agency to continue to engage with an individual to help them advance into a better position. Our organization strives to create better career opportunities for this population by working with students through their training and education and into job placement, with access to career mentors throughout. | In the past year, we went from having 2 students in the program to having more than 30 students in the program in Denver, CO and 1 student in the program in Phoenix, AZ. We have strengthened our community partnerships with IBM, Regis University, and InterSkill. We have had 2 students hired into IT positions with a few more currently being interviewed. As we grow and can collect more data, we will measure our success by the percentage of students who complete the program and get a job offer from it along with the percentage of students who get a job upgrade after the program (measured in wages, benefits, etc). | In the next 12 months, the organization plans to hire three staff and expand both in our current locations as well as expanding to other areas in the United States. We hope to have 10 cities targeted for expansion, with preliminary work done for that expansion, in the next 12 months. Furthermore, we plan to continue our conversations in Germany and Czechoslovakia and have preliminary plans to implement the program in those countries. | Currently, our largest need is capacity funding. Our organization is run by 5 volunteers, and while there is increased pressure from our partners to expand to address the talent shortage in the mainframe computer industry, we, as volunteers, don't have the capacity to expand that quickly. We seek capacity funding for three full-time positions to support the organization's growth. Our organization expects to be self-sustainable in three years, so our medium-term need would be for advocacy and support within the technology industry to continue to grow the program. Finally, for sustainability, our long-term need would be assistance with connecting with global leaders and NGOs to support the skill development and career potential for those awaiting resettlement. | https://www.mytechnation.org/ | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
929 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Amirul Dipo | Wicaksono | - | - | Student | Male | Indonesia | Indonesia | English | I am passionately with education development. As the growth of human needs, education becomes the important thing to face the development of technology. Thus, by utilizing technology, I look forward to overcome inequality education especially for the children who are located in the rural area in Indonesia. For me, education is the way to improve the human capacity of knowledge and it should be implemented well including for every children in Indonesia. I want to make the children in the remote area feel the same education learning as well as the children in the urban area. My noble purpose is to improve the children insight and expand their way of thinking due to be ready to face the advanced progress of technology and Industrial Revolution. | I am the student of Electrical Engineering at Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology. I am currently pursue the bachelor degree and active in the research of telecommunication field of study. I always curious with the development of technology and I like reading and playing music instrument. I always seek logical solutions to everyday problems facing in my daily life especially in the field of telecommunication studies. | RARE | Remote Area Reading Education | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Our solutions intended to be implemented in Indonesia | No | Ideation | My solutions is just at the stage of ideas when i look at the inequality education in Indonesia especially in the remote area which are always suffering the lack of education. I try to make my ideas could be implemented well. | Our solution are facing the inequality of education in the rural area which are not as good as in the big city / urban area. The problems are so complicated because of there are so many student who lives in the rural area which are not covered with the appropriate education like there just a small amount of teachers/volunteer, poor of education facility and infrastructure, and a lot of things which can affect by the discomfort of education learning. | Our solutions are combining the technology with the social project. We build an integrated mobile application which serve the free online educational video and digital library for children in the rural area. We engage the volunteers / teachers in the rural area to use our apps during their own education learning process.We would like to deliver our solutions spread out targeting the global area. | Our solutions are unique. First, we engaged the volunteers and teachers in the remote area to use our digital library mobile apps, including they can access free online reading book for live education learning. Second, by this apps, all of the volunteers/teachers can order our mini USB products containing the downloadable requested digital books from our apps belongs to the students need and we serve the suitable education curriculum. Third, we connects our apps by cloud so any users can save and store their book and access it offline. Fourth, inside our apps, teachers / volunteers could meet and talk to each other because we provide multi-chat and sharing group discussion, then they could share its own moment in educating children with our platform. Fifth, our apps containing daily progress and daily report feature, which mean everyone could monitoring the development of children studies in the remote area specifically. Sixth, our apps could be access with mobile and web platform, including there are many resources of online educational video learning for children. Last, our apps are connected with the nearby education learning center and national digital library in order to make sure that every educational resources are supported well. | Our team still in the stage of the developing idea. We do hope someday our solutions would be greatly implemented by our team and also given a good feedback for the volunteers / teachers who have already give their passion to help the children in the rural area in Indonesia the same chance and same access of education to face the life-long learning. | I planned to recruit more and more volunteers / teachers in the rural area to use our apps and educate them intensively about the urgency of the collaborative works in the field of education. | Our solutions start from the short-term goals which are every volunteers / teachers in one of the small rural sector area can utilize our apps in their daily activities of teaching process. Our medium-term including expanding the area of the implementation of our solutions and recruiting more volunteers / teachers together to develop a community itself in order to be integrated learning, sharing experience, and help the education problem each other. The long-term ideas are every volunteers and teachers who works in Indonesia can use our apps and makes all of the students who lives in the rural area in Indonesia as clever as the urban students. | - | - | I haven't get any awards yet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
930 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Paul | Cunningham | IST-Africa Institute | www.IST-Africa.org | Director | Male | Ireland | Ireland | English | Founded in 2002, and supported by European Commission and African Union Commission, IST-Africa (www.IST-Africa.org) focuses on strengthening ministry policy and strategy capacity through cross-border collaboration, helped African universities secure over €200 million in research funding over the last ten years and supports wider implementation of public and education and research sector hosted Innovation Spaces to create an entrepreneurial culture, and necessary capacity to address graduate and youth unemployment through co-design and collaborative open innovation. Through mHealth4Afrika, we have demonstrated the capacity to leverage relationships with key stakeholders across the health innovation ecosystem to co-design a cross-border solution for primary healthcare delivery in resource constrained environments, that has been successful validated and deployed in healthcare facilities responsible for delivering healthcare to a cumulative population of over 800,0000 with a limited budget (€2 million), supported by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme. We would welcome the opportunity to present mHealth4Afrika (www.mHealth4Afrika.org) as part of the 2019 UN Solutions Summit, to raise awareness of achievements to date and build necessary partnerships to secure access to the financial, infrastructural and other resources necessary to scale adoption - initially in Amhara Region (Ethiopia), Bungoma County (Kenya) and Zomba Region (Malawi), followed by other regions of these and other IST-Africa Partner Countries as well as other resource constrained environments around the world, including but not limited to all ACP Group Countries.. | Prof. Paul M Cunningham is Director, IST-Africa Institute, a not-for-profit strategic collaboration with ministries and national councils responsible for Innovation, Science and Technology policy and adoption, implementation and research in 18 African Member States, open to participation by all ACP Group Countries. IST-Africa is a member of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and recognized by ITU as a WSIS 2018 Prizes Champion. As President & CEO, IIMC, Paul leads teams providing technological, strategic, and policy expertise to national and international government organizations and research programs. Paul has enormous experience organizing ministerial level technology research & innovation conferences around the world. Affiliated with IUM (Namibia), and Wrexham Glyndŵr University (Wales), Coordinator of mHealth4Afrika, Paul has an interdisciplinary background (Trinity College Dublin; Kodály Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music; UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School; DSV, Stockholm University) and was recognized by Enterprise Ireland as an Irish Champion of EU Research (2015, 2017). Paul is a member of the Institute of Directors in Ireland and a former member of the Board of Directors of MPI, a global association of conference and event organisers. A Senior Member of IEEE, Paul has served as President (2017 - 2018), VP Conferences (2016, 2019) and Distinguished Lecturer (2015 - Present), IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) and Chair (2018) and Past Chair (2019), IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee. | mHealth4Afrika | Strengthening Healthcare Delivery in Resource Constrained Environments | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Currently Ethiopia, Kenya and Malawi, followed by other IST-Africa Partner Countries and other ACP (Africa, Caribbean, Pacific) Group Countries | Yes | Ministries of Health and local universities to support sustainable foundational digital literacy, training and deployment | Transition to Scale | Alpha, Beta and Pilot versions of mHealth4Afrika has now been co-designed and validated with Ministries of Health, District Health Officers, Clinic Managers and Health Workers in Northern Ethiopia, Western Kenya, Southern Malawi and Eastern Cape, South Africa over the last three and a half years. To date, it has been successful deployed in semi-urban, rural and deep rural primary healthcare facilities and a number of tertiary health facilities. mHealth4Afrika is ready for Transition to Scale. | mHealth4Afrika replaces traditional paper-based registries with a comprehensive, scalable, adaptable and multi-lingual patient-centric technology platform that integrates Electronic Medical Record and Electronic Health Record functionality with the use of medical sensors at the point of care, strengthening the quality and accuracy of aggregate reporting to inform resource allocation and policy formulation, and strengthening healthcare delivery, staff capacity and community engagement. | mHealth4Afrika is a HL7 FHIR-compliant patient-centric health platform built on DHIS2. It integrates electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) functionality with the use of medical sensors, and analytical, visualisation and decision support tools to facilitate monitoring and interpretation of patient results. It saves time through automatic generation of aggregate data, lab integration and presenting easy-to-digest client histories and supports greater client retention through SMS appointment reminders. mHealth4Afrika is designed to support the efficiency and effectiveness of both management and healthcare staff, particularly in primary healthcare facilities. It does this by increasing: • Quality and impact of care through timely capturing of patient information, systematic storage of important data points in patient records and improved frequency of follow up • Frequency of contact with a focus on healthcare prevention through use of state-of-the-art technologies at the point of care and SMS reminders • Accuracy and quality of monthly aggregate program indicators used for decision making • Access to educational materials for clinic staff and patients to improve skills | mHealth4Afrika has gone beyond current state-of-the-art in the use of mHealth in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and South Africa based on a co-design methodology with key stakeholders. Any solutions previously used or evaluated were siloed-solutions – i.e. program specific, limited to one or two medical programs funded by a specific donor organisation. mHealth4Afrika adopted a holistic approach to strengthening primary healthcare delivery. The introduction of basic ICT infrastructure, digital literacy and preventative maintenance training and support will make a significant difference to operational capacity and further strengthen the quality and consistency of primary healthcare delivery. With the introduction of medical sensors, mHealth4Afrika will support a reduction in cases referred for tests in secondary and tertiary health facilities and help earlier identification of cases requiring referrals. We can minimize the risk of errors by using digital measurements. The level of enthusiasm with which our work has been received is reflected in the requests to extend medical programs and functionality to address the needs of specialist clinics and hospitals, including referral hospitals. The expected results from mHealth4Afrika will make a significant contribution to informing and supporting the evolution of current and future eHealth implementation strategies in Africa and support generational leapfrogging in terms of primary healthcare provision in resource constrained locations | As part of the co-design methodology, extensive consultation was undertaken with key national stakeholders in Ethiopia, Malawi, Kenya and South Africa between October 2015 and January 2016 to inform the needs requirements and carry out a base line study. The needs assessment analysed end user profiles, usability and user experience requirements, health data elements to be captured, overall clinical workflow and reporting requirements. The baseline study documented: previous use of digital technology in healthcare delivery and working practices in primary healthcare facilities. The specification for the mHealth4Afrika alpha prototype was prepared and implemented on the basis of a common crossborder platform. The alpha prototype was validated in a mix of urban, rural and deep rural intervention clinics in Ethiopia, Malawi, Kenya and South (November - December 2016). Feedback received on the alpha prototype was positive, validating data sets included and identifying additional functionality and data sets for the beta system. This co-design process ensures mHealth4Afrika addresses real-life requirements Following validation of the alpha prototype, the specification for the beta and subsequent pilot platform was updated to have a much broader medical program focus and incorporating a significant level of new functionality. A series of CE approved medical sensors were short listed for use in the clinics. Digital literacy training was provided to healthcare professionals. | Based on the competitor analysis undertaken in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and South Africa and ongoing discussions with Ministries of Health in the intevention countries and Lesotho, Namibia, Uganda, Tanzania and Cameroon, Burundi and Senegal as well as the World Health Organisation (WHO), currently there is no system in use in Africa (and potentially any other resource constrained environments around the world) comparable to the mHealth4Afrika patient-centric platform and its comprehensive functionality and breadth and depth of medical program support that allows a patient's well being to be tracked holistically on a longitudinal basis. mHealth4Afrika has the immediate opportunity to scale adoption in Bungoma County (Kenya) to 200 healthcare facilities providing healthcare to over 2.5 million people, with the support of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. mHealth4Afrika has the immediate opportunity to collaborate with the Amhara Health Bureau to scale adoption in Amhara Region (Ethiopia), which has a population of over 21 million people. We have the opportunity to scale adoption in existing intervention countries and collaborate with Ministries of Health in other IST-Africa Partner Countries. We will work in partnership with local universities to support deployment with necessary digital literacy support to achieve a sustainable scaling model. We will continue to build a team to coordinate with national Ministries of Health and local partners supporting deployment. | The IST-Africa Institute and mHealth4Afrika have an immediate requirement for resources to support digital literacy capacity building with healthcare professionals and rolling out necessary infrastructure at health facility level to support wider deployment, initially focusing on Ethiopia and Kenya, other intervention countries and other IST-Africa Partner Countries. We also require resources to build necessary development and deployment teams to carry out systematic needs assessment and baseline studies, manage and coordinate digital literacy training, infrastructure installation and platform deployment, and carry out monitoring and evaluation in each new partner country to ensure any necessary adaptation (including workflow, data points, language) is successfully implemented and incorporated into the core cross-border platform. Finally, resources are required to continue to extend existing functionality and language support, further strengthen existing analytical, visualisation and decision support tools to facilitate monitoring and interpretation of patient results and integrate additional modules. | Organisational Website - www.IST-Africa.org Program Website - www.mHealth4Afrika.org Publications - http://www.mhealth4afrika.org/page/resources/ | https://youtu.be/DiyrLQx9U5E https://youtu.be/RfafHf2CKIg | IST-Africa Institute is a member of UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and recognized by ITU as a WSIS 2018 Prizes Champion. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
931 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Tyler | Mantel | Watchtower Robotics | wtrco.com | CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | 20% of the world’s cleaned water is lost every day due to leaking infrastructure. Just half of that water is enough to serve one billion more people. Not only does this $160 Billion of cleaned, treated water never reach a customer but it also causes major damage along the way. As climate change and population growth exacerbate our finite water resources, we need innovative solutions to not only conserve water, but also to avoid water loss in the first place and the associated infrastructure damages. We can solve these problems and bring Watchtower’s solution to the world. The UN Solutions Summit is a platform to showcase the Watchtower technology and establish partnerships with philanthropic organizations, governments, and innovators around the globe. | Tyler Mantel graduated from Purdue University in 2013 with degrees in Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Tyler started his career as a field engineer at Schlumberger where he managed multi-million dollar projects. He later went on to become a product manager of digital and manufactured products for municipal waste haulers. He also has experience running high growth technology companies. One such implemented IoT into garbage trucks to improve safety, and another that helped truck drivers stay in a job, mitigating the 120% annual turnover experienced by the industry. He is passionate about using technology to create a positive global impact. | Watchtower Robotics | Find Leaks, Save Water, Protect Infrastructure | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Countries with water pipes | Yes | Severn Trent Water, KPMG, San Antonio Water System | Transition to Scale | We have delivered pilots with customers in Saudi Arabia, the United States, and the United Kingdom, including two of the largest water utilities in the world. These pilots have proven that our product can work in real world environments. Our robot has been able to examine pipes and gather the data required to both map our customer’s pipe networks and detect leaks within them. We have inspected 27 miles of pipe on 24 robot deployments. | Twenty percent of the world's cleaned and pumped water is lost due to leaking pipes. Saving just half of the water lost is enough to support one billion additional people. When leaks grow they turn into pipe bursts causing millions of dollars in damage. In the US alone, 240 thousand water mains break every year and that break rate has increased 27% over the past 6 years. | Watchtower is revolutionizing leak detection in the water industry. We developed a patented robot that combines soft robotics technologies with in pipe leak detection techniques. By inserting it into one fire hydrant and retrieving it from another downstream, our robot creates an interactive 3-D map of the pipe network and accurately locates tiny leaks, all in any pipe material. Our system integrates seamlessly with our clients’ existing arcGIS system, allowing municipal water companies to locate leaks, save water, and prevent millions of dollars of infrastructure damage. Watchtower Robotics was founded in June 2018 on a mission to save water by finding leaks and protecting infrastructure. Moving forward, we seek to be the industry standard in leak detection and make a global impact in water supply. In three years, our goal is to help a client city water company reduce non-revenue water by 50%+, save 40%+ on annual leak repair cost, reduce the number of pipe bursts by 70%, and improve their water service quality to their residents. In the next five years, we will establish ourselves in the global market. We anticipate deploying our solution in over 30 cities around the world, where we will save an estimated 37 billion gallons of water annually, enough to serve 1.3 million more people. | Current technology fails in a few main ways. Acoustic technology fails to find leaks reliably enough or early enough to prevent massive damage to infrastructure and water loss. On average, water utilities have to dig 3 times to find one leak when using these technologies. Current in-pipe inspection tools are too expensive, forcing utilities to only monitor a small portion of their network. None of the current technology works reliably in plastic pipes, or in noisy environments (like city centers). The new methodology combines an in-pipe inspection perspective with soft robotics and AI to bring accurate and fast leak detection to the industry. | In the past year of Watchtower’s existence, the team has accomplished several major milestones in the process of taking the lab-validated sensor technology to a field validated product. After Watchtower’s fourth commercial pilot project in March 2019, San Antonio Water System project manager, Josh Trent, complemented the Watchtower team saying that Watchtower’s robot is “the most user-friendly robot the water utility technicians have seen so far.” No special training or equipment is needed to deploy robots. In these four pilot projects, Watchtower has successfully built a system and procedure. In just the past two months we have made huge strides in quality control (failures per robot) and time to build each robot. Just a couple of months ago, we did not have rigor around quality control tracking. We are currently tracking many robot-related key performance indicators. For example, just two months ago each robot took us 80 man-hours to build. Today, production is down to 39 man-hours. | In the current year, we have focused on commercialization effort in the US and pilot projects in Vietnam and the UK. Specifically, in the US we are hiring sales representatives and partnering with third-party labor providers to implement our solution across the country. In Vietnam, we are partnering with KPMG and local labor in the Da Nang region to bring a large scale pilot to DAWACO (letter of intent and project plan in place). In the UK, we have an additional large scale pilot lined up with Severn Trent water. Looking ahead at 2020, we plan to commercialize our service in Vietnam and the UK, along with implementing a pilot in Brazil. With regards to Vietnam, assuming a successful pilot in Da Nang in 2019, we intend to build up service partnerships with local agencies in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. In the UK, we intend to use Severn Trent as a distribution partner to deliver our services across the country. We envision our Brazil pilot to have similar growth endeavors to that of Vietnam in 2019. In 2021, we will expand our efforts into South Africa, China, and several European countries. In this way, we will be on track to reach our goal deploying our solution in over 30 cities around the world, where we will save an estimated 37 billion gallons of water annually, enough to serve 1.3 million more people in less than 5 years. | Short term: As we scale and increase our addressable market, technical development, commercialization, and personnel requirements create a financial need close to $3 million dollars. We currently have an open funding round to address this need. Financial resources are imperative as we scale in order to establish consistency in our manufacturing, improve our provided solution through R&D, and bring large-scale projects to cities around the globe. Medium-term: In order to scale our solution into countries around the world, and to offer a product at a price point that makes an impact we will need to partner with local service providers. In some communities, we might be working with local water utilities. In others, for example areas in sub-Saharan Africa, we will partner with environmentally focused local entrepreneurs and allow them to franchise our service. These partnerships will allow us to scale and make a huge global impact. Long term: In the long term, we hope to cut water loss in half worldwide. In order to make this possible, we will need help navigating regulatory agencies around the globe. Because water regulation and distribution looks different all over the world, having the right connections and partnerships in place will allow us to deploy our technology most effectively and drive the largest impact. | Company website: https://www.wtrco.com/, News articles: https://solve.mit.edu/challenges/sustainable-urban-communities/solutions/1804, https://www.forbes.com/sites/marktercek/2018/08/07/techstars-sustainability-accelerator-10-start-ups-driving-innovation-for-the-planet/#5f776dfd19e9, https://www.fastcompany.com/90232363/this-leak-seeking-robot-just-won-the-u-s-james-dyson-award, https://www.businessinsider.com/mit-grad-made-a-robot-to-detect-water-pipe-leaks-2018-9, https://biomimicry.org/watchtower_2019/, https://www.3blmedia.com/News/Nature-Inspired-Water-Leak-Detection-System-Wins-2019-100000-Ray-Hope-Prize, https://www.greenbiz.com/article/jellyfish-robot-grabs-2019-ray-hope-prize Scientific/Technical articles: https://wwtonline.co.uk/news/severn-trent-set-to-expand-trial-with-leak-finding-robot, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/these-technologies-could-put-end-leaky-water-mains-180971177/, https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612150/the-skirt-wearing-water-saving-robot/ | Cheddar Interview: https://cheddar.com/media/the-water-saving-robot, Techstars Pitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOqre2lmOA | MassCEC Catalyst (Winner, 2017) MIT Solve (Winner, 2018) MassChallenge Diamond (Winner, 2018) The James Dyson Innovation Award (Winner, 2018) Environmental Media Agency Invention of the year (Winner, 2018) Imagine H2O (Finalist, 2018) Imagine H20 Asia (Finalist, 2019) Urban Future Lab: Smart City Prize (Winner, 2019) Biomimicry Global Design Challenge: Ray of Hope Prize (Winner, 2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
932 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rachel Y | Carillo | Self | http://vizualize.me/pt4breakfast# | Writer & Idea Creator | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | Spanish | Life has given me the opportunity to live through some major global challenges and work with incredible collaborators to solve them at both international & hyper- local levels. From climate change adaptation, helping install solar panels in Colorado's low-income homes to solar water pumps in Southeast Asia, to cleaning up plastics pollution from Washington, DC river banks to Thailand's Andaman Sea, to designing positive coverage of news of the continent of Africa from Denver, Colorado, I've been inspired by the global change makers who I've worked alongside. Finding homes for the nearly 7O Million displaced is the most presiding challenge after ( and due to) climate change. This is viscerally important to me, as I've not only worked for 10+ years serving US-based homeless communities, but because I too have experienced homelessness for nearly four years. | I'm a gig-economy writer, social & climate activist, share-economy & sheltering-economy denizen & transportation lover who devotes who advocates for the homeless, the displaced, as well as clean energy & food systems. I've led nonprofit organizations in the Pacific Northwest (where i lived in a tree house), & have worked & lived in Thailand three times (in a 6X12 ft hut on a Buddhist Temple for a year). With a Master's degree in International Studies, I am obsessed with Peace, poetry, parks, noodles & human dignity. I'm currently in DC while writing my first novel. I take homelessness personally. It hasn’t been enough to raise millions of dollars to help nonprofits serve folks without a home. I’ve been there myself, and personally have exprienced health impacts from bad processed food to no food at all. I have also experienced the impacts of black mold in the shelter system, from lethargy to upper repiratory infection. The systems designed to help people are themselves unhealthy, & need an overhaul of ideas, policy and organic goodness to help. | Healthily Housed | Making America Housed Again | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | USA | No | Ideation | People aren't healthily housed because the systems currently serving the homeless operate sickly. I just attended a 2,000+ national conference with homelessness specialists across the USA. Less than 1% of these attendees had ever experienced homelessness themselves. Homeless folks are made to go through security metal detectors each time they enter a shelter, & given items that reinforce being ""disposable,"" like single-use plastic cutlery for every meal & no recycling options. | Improve the health and quality of life for homeless communities by reducing hazardous waste in the shelter system by taking a zero-waste, health-centered approach. We all hear about waste in Washington, & don’t hear how waste affects Washinton's homeless. 7,000-some homeless residents contend with piles of plastics, mountains of discarded bedding, food scraps & recyclables, contributing to the accumulation of vermin, pests and black mold. Respiratory illness and bacterial infections. | Much of this waste can be diverted into recycling and compost streams while fresh, organic, local and healthy foods rather than prepackaged and processed foods to be accessed in the shelter system. Fresh produce and homecooked meals as well as organic, non-toxic cleaning products will improve the dignity, sanitation, hygeine, health and safety for DC's homeless. Researching Developing an app targeted to homeless users - where to access healthy resources for housing, food & cleaning products, as well as templates and direction on how to report consumer complaints. App will include resources for free and low-cost health programs like yoga, electric scooter & bike share programs - &community garden programs. Housing and food security is at an all-time high in Washington, DC. The Mayor's FY 2019 budget dedicates $40M for a new emergency housing program. A building boom in its Southeast neighborhoods is pushing residents from their generational homes. 7,000 people are homelessin Washington, made the more vulnerable by lack of access to healthy food, bed-bug free shelters & impending spread of tuberculosis. Trash mingles with cans & plastics on top of bedding.NIH, CDC, PEW Research and WHO have consistent reports showing that organic, healthy diets and stress-relieving exercise like yoga will boost the immune system, and prevent the impacts of respiratory illness like tuberculosis. By taking aa health-centered rather than a housing-centered approach to homelessness. | DC has a wonderfully intense innovation sector, with a host of tech and social good incubators like General Assembly & coworking buildings that support organizations like local urban farming communities. DC has an increasing focus on local food systems as a key ingredient to health of residents as well as ecosystems. Moreover, urban and rooftop gardens are increasingly used as a tool to measure resiliency against climate change. Currently, the city hosts dozens of new rooftop farm to table enterprises, like Up Top Acres which grows thousands of squarefeet of greens and produce. The micro level economy is turning more macro, with these groups selling and catering to local businesses. The shelter systems have budgets for comprising food security, and could direct these funds to the local growers and producers rather than purchasing in bulk from Walmarts and Sams Clubs. The funds are a direct investment back into green roof and other urban farms, aiding in climate resiliency and carbon reduction as well as supporting the local economy. Less fuel and carbon emissions is needed to transport and package produce. | Communiity mapping and and network building of local urban & rural farms, household cleaning products & transportationservices with social mission. Compare their annual revenue to competing producers andorganizations that don't have a social mission. Map the prevalence of bed bug infestations, diabetes and blackmold-induced respiratory illness and associated health carecosts for Washington DC. Survey the regulatory and human service goverment programs on services and reporting capabiilities of DC'smajor shelters. | Dec-Jan- Feb – Approach organic and health-focused cleaning product companiescompanies for donated product. Organize Volunteer crews to use organic solvents – cleaning and recylcing commences in shelters across the city. March- April- May – Approach chefs and local restaurants to team up with urban farm once/twice a month to cook meals on-site at shelter (or prepare in commissary kitchen). June-July-August – Survey members of the community on health and well being, and what they would want to access in the way of healthy food and transportation services. Work with volunteer app developers to start the app development | This is on ideation stage, so no website yet. However, linked to current responses and issues to housing DC homeless, as well as waste management and plastics reduction in the city as a whole: I joined the Way Home Campaign with DC nonprofit Miriam's Kitchen in fightinf for funding for additional DC budget allocation for individual units for the homeless. Read the June updates here: http://www.thewayhomedc.org/app/document/33518864 The city of DC officially banned plastic straws in January 2019, jump-starting what could be a process to minimizing the mountains of plastic waste used in the shelter system. Read more on a local DC National Public Radio article: https://wamu.org/story/19/01/02/plastic-straws-now-officially-banned-in-d-c/ | Review of one shelter in DC I wrote and posted to Google maps focuses more in dignity than waste, though they didn't make me throw away my reusable flatware as security ar the shelter said my forks, spoon and chopsticks could be used as weapons. This is the main reason I've been given to use of plastic cutlery at shelters: the danger of a fork: https://www.google.com/maps/contrib/104881282545108748927/place/ChIJ4SKmy423t4kRo6zLvSA3sO8/@38.9152768,-77.0220032,11z This is on ideation stage, so no website yet. However, linked to current responses and issues to housing DC homeless, as well as waste management and plastics reduction in the city as a whole. I joined the Way Home Campaign with DC nonprofit Miriam's Kitchen in fightinf for funding for additional DC budget allocation for individual units for the homeless. Read the June updates here: http://www.thewayhomedc.org/app/document/33518864 The city of DC officially banned plastic straws in January 2019, jump-starting what could be a process to minimizing the mountains of plastic waste used in the shelter system. Read more on a local DC National Public Radio article: https://wamu.org/story/19/01/02/plastic-straws-now-officially-banned-in-d-c/ | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
933 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Soumyadipta | Acharya | Intelehealth | www.intelehealth.org | Co-founder/President | Male | United States of America | India | English | Access to health is a basic human right. We believe in the vision of Health for All - that everyone should be able to access the care they need, when and where they need it, without facing financial hardship. Our mission is to improve access to affordable, quality comprehensive primary healthcare services for the last mile. Intelehealth is a Tech Non Profit, spun out of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID). Intelehealth is a tech-enabled model for delivering comprehensive PHC services to the last mile. Supported by funding from Fast Forward San Francisco and Google.org we incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit and expanded the model to tribal and remote regions of Odisha in partnership with the Arogya Foundation of India (AFI), in Philippines with VSO International. Our PHC programs cover 76+ villages and a population of 55,000 We will soon be expanding to conflict-affected regions in the Philippines and to Syria with the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) supported by an award from Grand Challenges Canada. | Dr. Soumyadipta Acharya is an Indian Physician, Biomedical Engineer, Inventor, Social Entrepreneur, and Educator. He is also the cofounder of Intelehealth, a tech non-profit that brings novel telemedicine solutions to remote rural communities with limited telecommunication infrastructure, which is now serving patients in tribal villages in India, rural areas in Philippines and soon in conflict zones in Syria. He currently serves as Faculty and Program Director at the Johns Hopkins University, Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID). His work focuses on humanitarian healthcare issues of rural communities in Asia and Africa, specifically on developing innovative low cost solutions to issues related to maternal and neonatal health, infectious diseases, and health systems strengthening tools. Dr. Acharya is the inventor or co-inventor on several technologies that are making a substantial impact on healthcare, especially in the last mile of the health system in Asia. Dr. Acharya has over 20 patents (granted and applied), and over 40 peer reviewed publications and book chapters. He is the founding Graduate Program Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID), a program that trains graduate students in the process of healthcare technology innovation, especially for humanitarian and global health issues. He is the recipient of several innovation and teaching awards, including the NASA Tech Briefs Award, and the NASA Space Act Board Award, for his work on developing novel technologies for human physiological signal analysis. | Intelehealth | Intelligent tech for comprehensive primary health care | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | India, Philippines, Syria | Yes | Johns Hopkins University, Syrian American Medical Society, VSO Philippines, Department of Health Pangantucan, Arogya Foundation of India, Health Foundation for Rural India | Proof of Concept | We are currently running two successful pilots in India and in the Philippines which demonstrate improvements in health outcomes. We will soon move towards scaling up each of these programs by adding new health workers and expanding the coverage to new beneficiaries. In addition we are also expanding with a new pilot to conflict zones in Syria. | The WHO estimates that over 3.8 billion people, or half the world’s population, lack access to essential medical care. Existing primary health care (PHC) programs for last mile populations struggle to meet the needs of their beneficiaries and face hurdles in providing high-quality care. Doctors are often not available, and PHC is mostly delivered by community health workers (CHWs). CHWs lack the training and capacity to diagnose and manage a wide variety of conditions. | Intelehealth is a knowledge-enabled telemedicine platform that empowers community health workers (CHWs) to provide a suite of primary and specialist level health services in hard-to-reach areas. Intelehealth is deployed with a knowledge engineered expert system to assist CHWs in providing basic health services autonomously. It can connect them over extremely low bandwidth unreliable networks with a wide on-demand network of remote doctors to meet the needs of a crisis-affected population. Intelehealth’s knowledge engine (HxGuide) task-shifts basic care processes to health workers. It also provides virtual access to doctors over a barely functioning telecom infrastructure in hard-to-reach areas with few local providers. This novel tech platform, co-designed with CHWs from multiple countries, supports & greatly augments the scope & quality of health services that they can provide as compared to traditional community health programs. We have a vision to scale up to 600 villages and cover health services for 1 million people by 2022. | The knowledge engine contains evidence-based medical information and presents this information to a non-expert like a community health worker in a way that’s easy to understand. This way they can be guided by cutting-edge medical expertise, and provide high-quality services through the support of this intelligent digital health assistant. It's like a Google Assistant for health workers that's really easy to use. It independently guides the health worker through a series of questions and exams based on the patient's presenting symptoms and medical history. Through this the health worker can cover patient intake for a wide range of conditions like maternal health, nutrition, non-communicable diseases, infectious diseases and are able to screen for common conditions. They are also able to conduct basic physical exams, and create a health record which is shared with a remote doctor, who can provide an ePrescription and a treatment plan. Using the telemedicine module a doctor’s expertise is made available to the most remote communities, even if the expert can’t physically reach there! | The Intelehealth platform is free and open source. This platform has been used by various organizations all over the world for their last mile programs. Currently we support three active programs. The first is in tribal regions in Odisha, India; in the Philippines in the Mindanao region which is a conflict-affected area. We will soon launch a program in Idleb, Syria inside camps of internally displaced persons due to the ongoing civil war. So far we have demonstrated, Improvement in patient outcomes - 51% of patients reported an improvement in health status Patient compliance with medications - 40.8% of patients fully complied with treatment, 46.9% had partial compliance Reduction in time, distance and money to access care - >70% reduction in distance traveled to access primary care >75% reduction in time taken to access primary care Approximately 60% reduction in the average spend to access basic primary care Patient satisfaction with care received - 99.3% patients reported they were satisfied with care received | Through robust monitoring and evaluation processes, we will measure the outputs of the program in terms of number of beneficiaries, number of intermediaries, outreach activities, trainings conducted. We also conduct rigorous evaluation in the impact of the program in terms of estimating the number of lives saved (preventable deaths) and the number of lives improved (preventable morbidity reduced). Goals for 2019 - Population coverage: 60,000 No. of CHWs: 40 No. of remote doctors: 10 No. of clinics: 14 Beneficiaries enrolled in managed care program: 10,800 Estimated no. of lives saved (preventable mortality): 122 Estimated no. of lives improved (preventable morbidity): 7560 | Key resources we need for the solution to scale are, Short-term: Technical mentors to improve the security of our platform, translators to help translate content for HxGuide into multiple languages as well as contributors for content. Medium term: Research partnerships for third party evaluation of our programs, access to networks to expand in countries we are currently operating with new partners particularly partnerships with government, press and PR to promote our work, funding support to grow our existing programs, interoperability with other platforms. Long term: Supportive digital health policies and advocacy to promote our platform as an open source solution for government adoption | About us: https://vimeo.com/346350219 Organization website: https://www.intelehealth.org/ Technical paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8037404 | https://youtu.be/54hwhLml6DE?t=3357 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2f_vcwaiYQ | #4 on the realList of 20 Best Startups in Baltimore 2018- Technical.ly Baltimore Winner of the “Startup Award” - 2017 EndPoverty awards by the Social Ventures Foundation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
934 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ivan | Shumkov | Build Academy | www.buildacademy.com | CEO | Male | United States of America | Bulgaria | English | Spanish | I would like to share with your guests strategies for solving some of the world's biggest and most urgent problems in the built environment. Back in 2013, I launched Build Academy as global platform for professional solutions, innovation and education in the building industry. By bringing professionals from the fields of architecture, engineering and design, we can create solutions for some of the World's most challenging problems. Through partnerships with World Bank, NGOs and Private companies, architects can leverage resources, political will and knowledge to ensure that designers sit at the table with other institutions that aim to provide innovative solutions. In the past years we have brought forth innovative designs for shelters, resilient homes, schools and others that provide opportunities for building better habitats. | Dr. Ivan Shumkov is a New York based entrepreneur, architect and professor. He is the founder of Build Academy, an organization dedicated to providing professional solutions and education for the built environment. His company has cultivated an industry-wide, global community of professionals and organizations and supplies them with an online platform for collaboration, networking, education and professional resources for the implementation of high-impact projects worldwide. Dr. Shumkov is a licensed architect in Spain and Italy and principal of ISA – Ivan Shumkov Architects, a NYC based architecture firm operating at the intersection of architecture, design, urbanism and technology. He has lectured and exhibited his projects and research extensively across Europe, Latin America, China, and the USA. During his academic career, he has taught at New York University, Harvard University GSD, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Parsons the New School for Design, the International University of Catalonia, and ETSA Barcelona. Dr. Shumkov earned his PhD in Architecture in 2009 at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Columbia University GSAPP, as fellow of the Fondation Le Corbusier. He graduated with masters degrees from ETSA Barcelona, University of Florence, and Harvard University GSD, as a Fulbright scholar. | Build Academy | Global platform for professional solutions, innovation and education in the built environment. | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Globally but mostly in South-East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean | Yes | World Bank, UN-Habitat, GFDRR, AirBnB. Agha Khan Foundation, EY | Scaling | We have already successfully completed 7 crowdsourcing challenges on resilient homes, schools, infrastructure, refugee camps, solar lights and others. This fall we will launch 5 more challenges on housing, schools, coastal resilience, floating sities and sustainable homes. We have a number of global partners as World Bank, UN-Habitat, GFDRR, AirBnB. Agha Khan Foundation, EY and others. Our work has been featured in media and conferences. We are seeing the positive impact of our work globally. | Natural disasters are on the rise. Since 1990, natural disasters have affected on average 217 million people every single year. Hundreds of floods, storms, heat waves and droughts have left about 606,000 people dead and 4.1 billion injured or homeless around the world since 1995. And it is often the poorest that suffer the most from these shocks. Most of them don’t have access to architects and engineers who can help them learn how to build and live better. | Build Academy’s platform and community of professionals can provide design solutions and offer open-source skills and knowledge to anyone anywhere around the world. As architects and engineers, we can design resilient, sustainable and conscious architecture that both reduce the risk of damage and enable rapid reconstruction following a disaster. Crowdsourcing design solutions is a new way to engage the global creative community and harvest some of the best designs for resilient architecture. Architects, as leaders in the built environment, can find opportunities to design and build projects that can help some of the most vulnerable communities around the world. Design can have a huge impact on improving people’s quality of life and raise their consciousness. | Our solutions are the result of a continuous process. The ultimate hope for our Challenges is that they would raise awareness on the topic of resilience beyond its participants, and that the participants would start or expand their work in the space of resilient design after the challenge. In short, we were hoping that this Challenge would create a community of practice that is spread across the globe and pushes the agenda of resilient design further at the local and international level. We igniting and support a global community. Build Academy began hosts weekly virtual meetings with the challenge participants, covering case studies, submission guidelines, inviting participants to present and discuss their initial designs and having guest speakers. In addition, we help match those participants who were looking for team members via a team matching process, created a forum for all participants to exchange and share ideas, and supported the participants every day via email and with educational tutorials for those architects who were still new to the subtopic of resilient architecture. Our community grew to more than 80,000 participants who connect and exchanging ideas and resources. | While our most recent Resilient Homes Design Challenge has come to a close, the challenge of “Resilience for All” is still far from overcome. We all face a common challenge in achieving the 2030 Agenda, and initiatives like this enforce and drive the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal number 11.1, which calls for providing safe, affordable and resilient housing for those most in need. “We should not be looking at this design competition as a one-off”, emphasized Sameh Wahba, World Bank Director of the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice. ”We should look at this as the beginning of a community of practice around the very important agenda of resilient housing design and retrofitting. We hope that this competition has jump-started a movement and a community of practice that can exchange knowledge, experience, and ideas, and continue to grow.” The first next step is embodied by the book on resilient design - the documentation and sharing of the winning and finalist designs, in the hope that others will be able to make use of this information. In addition, on March 11th, 2018, winners of the Challenge were invited to exhibit and present their designs at the World Bank in Washington D.C., USA, and UN-Habitat’s headquarters in Nairobi, as well as the Global Platform for Disaster Risk and Reduction in Geneva, the UN HQ in NY in October 2019, and Singapore in 2020. | In the next phase, Build Academy, the World Bank and UN-Habitat will collaborate to conduct advanced tests of the design’s resilience via computer simulations. This will be followed by the construction of prototypes and a continued collaboration with the designers to tweak and improve the designs to get them fully ready for deployment or to inform inform resilient housing or reconstruction work for World Bank-funded projects in places like the Caribbean, South and East Asia, etc. We look forward to seeing the results developed by Build Academy and its partners contribute to the goal of enhancing resilience for cities and communities across the globe. We again congratulate the participants and the winners for their contribution, and we thank you for your willingness to engage with this important topic. | Our most urgent need is new partnerships and clients. We also need to scale our team to be able to handle the higher volume of challenges that we receive requests for. We are also looking for strategic investors who will help us with knowledge, connections and capital to scale our business and maximize our impact. | www.reslienthomeschallenge.com https://buildacademy.com/crowdsolving-for-clients/ | http://webtv.un.org/search/xix-infopoverty-world-conference-opening-session-first-session-and-second-session/6025788683001/?term=Infopoverty&sort=date&fbclid=IwAR0qTbIdj2zI3Ce4g74mS1iyhrIvLVJNMg1hETOKzK8JjslZM9bguUUrMdM#t=0h10m45s https://buildacademy.com/ivan-shumkov-at-the-un-occam-conference/ https://www.facebook.com/BuildAcademyNY | Foundation Le Corbusier Award Fublright Award Edison Award Harvard GSD Unsung Hero Award | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
935 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Reasat Kamal | Faisal | BRAC | https://linkedin.com/in/reasat-k-faisal/ | Programme Specialist, Urban Development | Male | Bangladesh | Bangladesh | English | As a technical expert on urban development at BRAC (the world’s largest NGO), I noted that fires in urban slums are frequent; low-income communities living in these settlements are at high risk as they lack both knowledge and adequate support to prevent or respond to such disasters. In response, through my programme, I piloted a fire prevention mechanism in an informal settlement/ slum of Dhaka city named Korail. This mechanism involves a holistic approach to tackle fire through co-creating fire prevention solutions through testing different prototypes by introducing innovative technical intervention, training firefighting volunteers among the slum dwellers, developing materials and animated film for instigating fire prevention practices and establishing a strong relationship between the slum dwellers and the government institutions like the Fire Service & Civil Defence. Furthermore, he has helped train 400 volunteers from within these communities. The success of his mechanism was evident when two urban slums stopped the fire from spreading and prevented the loss of more than 1500 households and 5000 dwellers in recent times. | A Commonwealth Scholar, Reasat obtained his MA in International Planning and Sustainable Development (Urban Resilience Pathway) with distinction at the University of Westminster. Following graduation, as a passionate development practitioner, he is combining the knowledge and skills gained at the university to contribute towards reducing urban poverty in Bangladesh. While Reasat’s work spans across many areas, he is focusing on solid waste management and fire prevention mechanisms in informal urban settlements. Besides Reasat's interest in fire prevention, waste management and renewable energy are other sectors which are his passionate areas of work. As waste management is a serious challenge in Bangladesh’s informal urban settlements that have insufficient local government financial resources and comes with big costs for public health. Reasat worked on setting up a waste disposal management system that acts as a common platform between low-income communities and local governments to collaborate on waste management. Among other priorities, the system targets better recycling practices, behavioural change and creation of green jobs for low-income communities. Till date, Reasat’s project has helped 50,000 low-income people living in urban slums and is being replicated in five cities across Bangladesh. | Fire Prevention in informal settlements | Prevention is better then cure | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Its currently piloted in Bangladesh but I intended it to be in other south asian informal settlements | Yes | Bangladesh Fire Service & Civil Defence & the community | Proof of Concept | The process is in the pilot phase. Knowledge and evidence are gathered every day. There were many prototypes that were tested before finalising the 8 prototypes for a pilot. In Bangladesh, no individual or organisation works directly for the prevention of fire incidents in slums or informal settlements. It has always been ignored even though every year numerous incidents occur and many lives and assets are destroyed. That is why my solution is at the stage of innovation. | Fire hazard has been a very daunting issue in Bangladesh; specially in Dhaka City. Every year many lives and assets were destroyed due to fire hazards. The megacity Dhaka consists of hundreds of informal settlements, which are not well equipped to withstand any kind of extreme fire incidents. That’s the reason why this process was placed so that the community along with necessary infrastructures can be resilient to tackle fire hazards. | The fire prevention in informal settlements pilot project will cause slum dwellers to adopt fire-preventive habits and become empowered to safely tackle a fire incident because of the trainings, awareness, communication materials, innovative fire prevention technology and equipment’s we have developed and tested, which in turn will create positive impact in the form of fewer occurrences of accidental fire incidents, and lowered loss of property in case of such incidents | The idea is unique in its approach itself besides trying to solve a problem which has been neglected by all the key actors of the country including the public themselves. Using HCD method, taking feedback from the target users, brainstorming whenever we had a chance, taking opinions of other stakeholders was all a new approach. Having hundreds of insights, then filtering and selecting the best ones for designing prototypes, then taking them to the users for testing. Then discarding the prototypes which did not work out and then fine-tune the ones which actually worked. It is a unique method of doing a piloting for such a difficult problem which the slums and informal settlement dwellers face frequently. Moreover, this pilot also included a holistic approach to tackle this problem with providing the community with valuable skills and also innovative technology like fire sensors, fireballs, etc. to aid in adaptation and mitigation of this hazard. | The solution has been progressed from inspiration to ideation to implementation. The prototypes were tested in a small scale in a portion of the slum (Korail). From the testing, the prototypes were redesigned and discarded the ones which did not produce good results. However, the selected prototypes are now in the second phase of testing. The methodology that was taken for to identify solutions is Human Centered Design (HCD). Involving the community in every phase of the project. | The goal for this project is scale-up the holistic approach solution to other informal settlements and slums of Dhaka city and other cities of Bangladesh. If successful in Bangladesh, then this solution can be scaled up and implemented in other countries as well which similar kinds of informal settlements. Moreover, even if the context of the settlements is different it will be interesting to see how the solution can be tweaked to match the requirements of that slum of informal settlement. | Short term needs are volunteers and training materials Medium term needs are partnership with relevant stakeholders like Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence and community buy in. Besides, human resources will be required Long term needs will be a office, human resources, training materials and expenses, transport, office materials (laptops, desktops, etc.) | https://youtu.be/8vBdAmCawU0 (apologies for this video in the local language) | https://youtu.be/8vBdAmCawU0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
936 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Andrew | Hirsh | Olive Branch Pictures Inc. | olivebranchpictures.org | CEO & Founder | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | First and foremost my strong Jewish identity has led me to develop a close connection with the Jewish people and the land of Israel. With this deep connection comes a connection to a violent, hateful, intractable conflict between the Israeli and Palestinian people. I have dedicated my life to helping to mitigate this conflict. I was inspired to start my project in October 2017 in culmination of several facets of my identity, experiences, and beliefs including my experiences living, volunteering and studying in the Middle East, my professional and academic pursuit of Diplomacy, Entrepreneurship, and Storytelling, a visceral need to express my creativity, the Jewish value of ""Tikkun HaOlam"" - ""Repair the World"", the Buddhist value of the middle path, the values of Humanism, and the passion born from my first love. I cannot say I have a proven track record of innovation for positive global impact, not many 23 year olds can say that have, but I have been working on this project near every single day since the beginning October 2017 and I promise that if you agree to give me the opportunity to present my project at the Solutions Summit, it will be a catalyst that will help me bring my ambitious goals to life and truly achieve a positive global impact through innovation | My name is Andrew Hirsh, I'm from Philadelphia, PA, USA. I am 23 years old, I've studied for 6 semesters at Wesleyan University, 1 semester at Brandeis University where I focussed my studies on Entrepreneurship, Diplomacy, and Storytelling. I've spent a total of 16 months living in the Middle East where studied at Tel Aviv University, volunteered in a Syrian Refugee Camp in Zaatari Jordan for the Korean International Cooperation Agency KOICA, worked for a HIAS, a refugee resettlement agency, the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, an Arab-Israeli Summer Camp called Project Harmony, and studied Judaism at Aish HaTorah, and worked for a production studio - the Jerusalem Media Group, spent a lot of time in the West Bank learning more about the Palestinian culture and narrative. I left school this past year to dedicate myself to the research and development of my start-up - Olive Branch Pictures Inc. - and our first production - the story of ""Shira and Amal"". When I am not working on my project you can find me reading a book, watching a movie, cooking (or at least trying to cook), or learning something new | Olive Branch Pictures Inc. | a media platform for diplomacy using multi-narrative animated storytelling with a fully representational, balanced production team and advisory board | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Israel/Palestine | Yes | Partners: Abdul Rehman: CFO, Elliot Dickman: CCO Advisors: Orli Wahba, Dr. Abdel Monem Said Aly, Dr. Shai Feldman, Dr. Khalil Shikaki, Derrick Duplessy Legal: Michael Adler Artists: Matt Bauman, Annie Solley, Julia Fucci Music: Orian Shukrun | Proof of Concept | We are currently developing our first marketable, scalable, proof-of-concept is a Graphic Novel which we plan to publish in approximately 1.5 years. What has been most challenging is building a cohesive team and generating the funding to support them We are at the beginning of the proof-of-concept stage largely due to my own dedicated work over thousands of hours We are also applying to grants, competitions, conferences, and fellowship, etc. and developing a crowdfunding campaign | We will help mitigate the cycle of hatred, violence, and xenophobia, biased media surrounding regions facing with traumatic and/or long-term conflict between two or more distinct communities. Our first production addresses the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict using a multi-narrative, animated storytelling formula that can be applied to almost any conflict | Olive Branch Pictures Inc. is a media platform designed to help break the cycle of hatred and propaganda surrounding intractable conflicts using collaborative multi-narrative animated musical storytelling. We are building a creative production team of writers, artists, directors, producers, etc. and advisory board of diplomats, religious authorities, academics, and industry professionals that represents a full and balanced spectrum of ideologies and backgrounds to expose children to the humanity, culture, and perspectives of the “other.” Our first project addresses the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict with the story “Shira and Amal” about an Israeli girl and a Palestinian girl who escape their trauma through music and come together to compose and perform a song of peace for all of Jerusalem to hear. We intend to produce ""Shira and Amal"" as a graphic novel as a marketable, scalable, proof-of-concept to support the production of an epic animated feature film. We are utilizing a hybrid non/for-profit model. Most of the funding for the graphic novel will come from donations. Our model for the feature film is approximately 20% donations and 80% investments. We will seek to raise between 15-70 million USD. Following the distribution of the feature film our goal is to establish an animation studio and use our model to address other intractable conflicts i.e. India-Pakistan | Our greatest advantage is our commitment to ideological and identity balance from expert representatives Due to the controversial nature of this project we have devised a unique distribution strategy including: •Grassroots Reading & Screening Campaigns in Schools, Libraries, and Community Centers •Coalition of Major Publishers/Digital Content Distributors as well as related NGOs, NPOs, and IGO branches in order to reach millions of people and diffuse the responsibility for addressing such a controversial subject •Free access in target demographic dialect translations •Collaborate with Arab/Israeli Gatekeepers of Culture/Media (i.e. Lebanese Minister of Culture) to access national communication channels Additionally, our unique hybrid For-Profit-Non-Profit Hybrid business model receiving both tax-deductible and private investments Furthermore, our business model features a unique revenue recycle system by which approximately a 10% of all our profits will be donated to existing peace building efforts such as “The Hope Fund”, “Seeds of Peace”, “The Hand in Hand School System”, and the Peres Center for Peace” in order to further ensure our social impact, with the remaining 2/3rds being used to finance our future productions. We believe that this revenue recycle system will increase our popularity and thus generate more revenue | Our accomplishments include: - Conducted thousands of hours of Research both field and academic - Developed a cohesive and tested Business Plan - A Consistently Growing Diverse Team - Won Brandeis University SparkTank Innovation Competition and Drexel University Ciright Dragon Startup Competition - Developed a cohesive, balanced, multi-narrative story - Created LLC and incorporated NPO - Developed Concept Art - Created Website Our metrics for measuring the effectiveness of first our graphic novel and later our animated feature film will be based on Viewer survey data, Longitudinal studies of our youth viewers,, Public opinion, and Critical reviews. | 1 Month from now - Finish Look Book 2 Months from now - Launch Crowdfunding Campaign 6 Months from now- Finish Script and Storyboard 12-16 Months from now - Publish graphic novel 6 months of distribution - grassroots reading campaign at schools, libraries, and community centers all over the Middle East, airdrop packages of books including Hebrew/Arabic Harry Potter, Winnie the Pooh, etc. as well as our graphic novel at the doorstep of these schools/libraries to encourage reading, promote peace, and build publicity for our book to garner the support of actors, directors, producers, etc such as Natalie Portman, Steven Spielberg, Hiam Abbas, Daniel Barenboim, Tsahi HaLevi, etc.for the feature film 3-4 years produce feature film 1 year distribution Then establish animation studio in Jerusalem to continue to produce animated content to help repair the cycle of hatred surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as expand to address other conflicts Our Graphic Novel Market is based on data from graphic novels such as Art Spiegelman's ""Maus"" (1980), Marjane Satrapi's ""Persepolis"" (2004), Naif Al-Mutawa's ""The 99"" (2007-14) and Joe Sacco's ""Palestine"" (2001). We aim to reach approx. 3 million people in the first two years after it's publication Our Feature Film audience is based on data from Dreamwork's ""The Prince of Egypt"" (1998), Disney's ""Frozen"" (2013), ""Persepolis"" (2007), and Ari Folman's ""Waltz with Bashir"" (2009). We aim to reach approx. 9 million people | Short-Term: - We need to build more partnerships with credible and relevant institutions and organizations to increase our credibility, network reach, and access to resources Medium term (Graphic Novel) Long Term (animated feature film): - We have expressed interest from many of the right people we need to make this production happen but we need the funds to pay them and we need to need to sort out the logistics to allow the production to happen, this is an extremely controversial topic so this is an extremely difficult task i.e. permit issues, political/religious cohesion and balance, housing, etc. Medium Term: We need approximately $150,000 to produce our graphic novel, so far we have raised $9,000 Long Term - We will need to raise approximately 15-70 million USD for the animated feature film budget Medium Term - We need to gain access to famous (graphic) novelists to help supervise the creative process and promote our product Long Term: Get major players i.e. actors, directors, producers, etc. and production companies on board with our project | Website: https://www.olivebranchpictures.org/ pitchdeck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1se4dn3XYZQdWpxtZLcbyXmWCiCayKFy3RWqnHeKI7Jc | Video: https://youtu.be/Uw7sxNYIc0Y | Brandeis University SparkTank Innovation Competition (Finalist) and Drexel University Ciright Dragon Startup Competition (Winner) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
937 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alyson | Myers | Fearless Fund | Fearlessfund.org | President | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | French | Our oceans offer an opportunity to remove CO2 to reduce climate change. The solution crosses national boundaries In order to scale. The UN is an ideal body to efficiently gather consensus to act in international waters, The solution will assist island nations experiencing excess macroalgae that beaches and causes environmental and economic harm. Currently, > 20 millions tons are floating in the E Caribbean. | President, Fearless Fund, NGO dedicated to solutions for feed, food, fuel and circular economy. 2015-Present. President, Kegotank Farm, an organic farm raising oysters and land crops. 2014-Present Speaker: IOCARIBE May 2019. A Regional Plan to Manage Sargassum. DOE ARPA-E MARINER meetings. Ocean Energy from Macroalgae. 2018-2019. Green Chemistry Conference, Poster Session. Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting: Impact of Ocean Acidification on Business. House of Sweden: Innovation Panel, Solutions for the Baltic Sea and Chesapeake Bay. Les Dames D’Escoffier: Oyster Aquaculture Education Duke University, MA Environmental Management. 2015. Wesleyan University. Political Science, English Litterature. 1981. | Macroalgae: An Ocean Climate Change Solution | Carbon Farming for Healthier Oceans and A Sustainable Economy | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Caribbean countries (Netherlands, US, France, Britain, Dominican Republic...) Mexico | Yes | DOE ARPA-E, NOAA, Universities, TNO (Netherlands) | Proof of Concept | The team conducted field trials in 2018 to de-risk key components of the novel technique. This year, the team will demonstrate the full technique, including remote sensing and sustainable harvest (to conserve marine organisms). As the Caribbean and Mexico are seeking solutions (they are loosing tourist revenue as the natural production beachies on the coasts and decays (release of hydrogen sulfide) | Increasing concentrations of CO2 in the air and oceans are changing the chemistry of our ecosystems and causing warming/ acidification of oceans. We are dependent on our oceans which cover 70% of Earth’s surface and contain 97% of our water. Meanwhile fresh water supplies are declining. We need to restore these sustems and grow more biomass (Fish, shellfish—all the biodiversity) in our oceans to reduce pressure on land with a growing global population. Biodiverse systems are resilient. | The goal is to remove CO2 from surface waters where the ocean absorbs it from the air (26% since the industrial age). If scaled, this will lower concentrations in air. Macroalgae (seaweed) is approximately 30% carbon. There are two pathways. 1. If we farm it, we are accelerating the removal of CO2 in surface waters as we harvest the additional biomass, and/or 2. If we remove excess algae, resulting from excess nutrient pollution running off land, (that will soon beach), we are helping impacted Caribbean economies, as tourists don’t want seaweed on the beach. | Farming of seaweed can not scale with aquaculture gear in the water. It will entangke marine species; it’s expensive; and it’s at risk in storms. Instead we copy Nature and use a floating alga that does not require equipment. We locate the plants by remote sensing. We understand the currents through oceanography (10 years analysis), and we can predict travel through particle tracking. The last task is to determine where we will store the carbon: in building products, in soils, at the bottom of the ocean. Our chemists are working on this this year. | We have successfully tested each part of the technique, but we still must perform an end-to-end demonstration. We have the best scientists in their fields. Our field tests were guided successfully by them. We need to determine product paths. | 1. Test and scale harvest equipment 2. End-to-end demonstration of farming and harvest of about to beach plants 3. Techno Economic Analysis to determine production cost/dry metric ton 4. Refine regional plan (already presented) to assist Caribbean countries. 5. Confirm test sites (currently in discussion) 6. Determine product streams 7. Train initial staff to reach commercial scale | Short term: we have enough funding for the year but we need to accelerate scaling in the 2-3 year period Medium term: the most important component is international agreement and permission Long term: we require large vessels. Vessels, biomass volumes and revenue streams must align | Https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=arpa-e-programs/mariner (See Fearless Fund) Https://www.Fearlessfund.org | Https:/:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX1sUoP-jyM (A pH Balancing Act: Ocean Acidification and Ecosystem Impacts - Alyson Myers) | DOE ARPA-E MARINER Funding Phase 1: $500,000, Phase 2: $1.2 million, approved, and negotiating task list | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
938 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Neil | Deshmukh | PlantumAI | neildeshmukh.com | CTO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | In 3 to 5 years, I want to keep on with precisely what I am doing now, which is developing solutions to help people less fortunate than me. The fact that people are living around the world without enough to eat, and without access to medical care, deeply saddens me. I hear about the struggles that many people in such areas must go through, in stories from my family in India. They are what power me through all the challenges I tackle. The people I meet every step of the way that are benefitted by the solutions. It is what gives me a purpose, because it is my dream to continue to help people around the world live the same privileged life that I live. I hope that through the UN Solutions Summit, I will be able to share my solutions with the world, and reach my goal through the support of an established community of professionals. I dream of a world where you can not tell where you are from the state of life there, a world where everyone has a chance to live the life they dream, and this ideal is the infinite fuel for all my endeavors. I won't stop until it becomes a reality, and there are an immeasurable amount of problems still plaguing our world. So I won't be stopping anytime soon, and I hope that I will be able to participate in the UN Solutions Summit so I can make strides and share the story of my ventures. | Neil Deshmukh’s interest in Artificial Intelligence grew in 8th grade, and after realizing the potential of this technology, he developed an AI-based app to detect plant and skin diseases. For this research, he won a 2nd Place Grand Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Los Angeles. Neil formed a Limited Liability Company, PlantumAI (a Penn State Lehigh Valley Launchbox Portfolio Company), and co-founded a non-profit organization, VocalEyes (an MIT Launch Incubator Company). Through these ventures, he has developed two products; VocalEyes is now available on the Apple App Store, and PlantumAI is in field testing. His current project is the development of a low-cost device for medical diagnosis using deep learning. His research paper related to this effort won Best Paper in the Machine Learning category at the UEMCON’18 Conference at Columbia University. His research also won the International BioGENEius Challenge. He is also working with researchers from Penn State University for AI-based disease detection on cassava plants, which are an essential food staple for developing countries. He developed an algorithm to expedite the analysis of motor vehicle trauma patients by emergency personnel, by processing vital signs patients to predict the area of trauma. Neil has been recognized as a World Science Scholar, and was selected as one of the 100 Leaders of Tomorrow at GapSummit’19 by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. | PlantumAI | An AI-powered App Platform for Help Farmers in Developing Areas Optimize their Crop Yield and Identify Disease | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | India | Yes | Akola Agricultural University | Transition to Scale | We believe that we are at this stage due to the hard work over the last two years in both the development and implementation of this project that everyone has worked hard to contribute to. We are in this stage, and are having moving trouble though, as we require the connections and resources to push past our preliminary testing and implementation with the connections that were already established. Now that we have validated PlantumAI, we hope to be able to partner with the UN to scale.. | Many people are falling seriously ill because farmers not only use a single pesticide, but instead, shower their crops with many in the hope to eliminate all chances for disease. The pesticide leaked everywhere, including into the water supply of many people. Initially, I was upset at the farmers for not regulating the pesticide use, but I realized that if a pathogen destroyed their crop, then there would not be enough food to feed everyone, which was another dire scenario. | PlantumAI is a powerful device platform that allows farmers to snap pictures of their crops' disease, and returns the specific disease, along with the unique pesticide treatment to save the harvest. It also examines environmental data of the region, and provide analytics for farmers. It does all of this, and also links farmers to local agricultural centers, to get professional advice. PlantumAI uses environmental values to provide advice for the farmers, about when to plant and when to harvest to optimize their crop yield and to save time and resources. The device costs $25, can run offline, can be recharged, and is durable. PlantumAI will allow farmers' harvest to flourish, while also reducing the negative impact on the environment by optimizing pesticide usage. The agricultural centers can utilize the data to educate farmers, along with training undergraduate plant pathologists; meanwhile, the farmers are given an analysis of their crops using low-cost technology. With this grant, we hope to impact even more farmers, assisting them to feed their regions. We are currently working with 23 farms near Akola, but hope to double our number by next year by partnering with more farms. Overall, PlantumAI addresses the significant problem of crop disease in less fortunate areas. It solves the problems of, the threat of crop loss to disease, over-pesticide use, and rapidly changing environmental factors misaligning with previous planting and harvesting procedures. | The neural networks that have developed for this device are far above the current standard for crop analysis. In general, the results of the crop disease analysis are comparable to the rates of trained personnel. The algorithms also utilize a variety of neural network understandability measures, which allows the device to identify anomalous sections of crop data, not simply identify end disease, which makes the job of plant pathologists much easier, by identifying anomalous sections automatically. The user interface is simple and intuitive. The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithm can identify 46 various diseases, along with providing treatment advice. These algorithms run on a Raspberry Pi processor or Android device. On top of this, the device costs $25, and due to the open-source hardware utilized in its construction, anyone, anywhere, can download the code for the algorithms and UI, and easily construct a version of the device in just under an hour. The algorithms have already been trained, so now they can be instantaneously deployed. This is much better than other implementations that require custom hardware, which delays production, and also are expensive. PlantumAI solves these problems. PlantumAI is also entirely offline, which allows for usage without a consistent internet connection. Overall, PlantumAI prioritizes users above all else, making sure that people have access to the tool, while providing superior accuracy and comprehensive crop analysis. | For the last two years that PlantumAI has been in place, more than 1500 crop disease instances have been detected and processed. These are instances that, without the app, would have required students to analyze these crops physically. It has allowed three times more farms to receive directed assistance, through the algorithm and database link, about their crop harvest. It's fantastic to see the device assisting 18 villages and many, many farmers within those villages, with 23 farms outside of those villages, and it is extremely gratifying that many farmers can provide crops for their areas more reliably, while also reducing their use of toxic pesticides. Many farmers are actually, themselves, asking to be a part of the initial trials of PlantumAI, as it provides them with disease detection of crops. It has allowed the farmers to focus on other important aspects of their farm, as PlantumAI can easily tell them if their crops are diseased. It also has simplified the process of planting and harvesting, as farmers receive a detailed analysis of environmental factors. The database also allows the university to keep track of any outbreaks of crop disease in specific areas, which is integral to their research, while allowing them to provide directed education to farmers. So far seven outbreaks have been identified through PlantumAI. | The primary step is to continue growth within India to even more villages than established, as we hope to reach more than 50 villages by the end of this year. In this regard, we will be impacting more than 15,000 lives, while also protecting the environmental regions of these villages from the destruction of overpesticide usage. We are talking with a few other universities in India for partnership opportunities, and, are planned to spread into areas of Africa through collaboration with Penn State University to test a cassava disease detection tool. Overall, we will continue to make PlantumAI more accessible to help a wider range of people, and leverage technology to protect communities. | We are interested in scaling PlantumAI, and for guidance in the implementation of the device. It is difficult to find resources to expand the tool and actually create the change that we want to make. By working with the UN, we will have access to the resources to not only determine the process to begin implementation of PlantumAI in other areas, but also identify how to put PlantumAI into production to help even more people. Although the research into the technology behind PlantumAI has been worked on extensively, we would appreciate if we could have professionals in the field provide feedback, so that it can become an even better tool. Having mentors who have worked towards implementing these type of solutions would be an incredible asset, to the pipeline to bring a life-changing, technological solution like PlantumAI to the masses. While the structure of PlantumAI's implementation has been identified, we would like to work with the UN to establish a business model to make sure that BayMax can continue to democratize access to medical care across the world. The connections that the UN would be able to facilitate would also be an asset, as they would be able to link to professionals and experts to work with to further the progress of PlantumAI. Most importantly any opportunities to spread the word about PlantumAI would be appreciated, as our primary goal is helping farmers across the word build safer communities, and through this summit, we would be able to do so. | https://plantum.ai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx6Cz-U8AII | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGjkg7pfqN8 | 1st Place at International BioGENEius Biotechnology Challenge World Science Scholar 1st Place and Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award, Delaware Valley Science Fair 2017, 2018, and 2019 DECA Internationals: Top 10 Award | States: 1st Place Semi-finalist Conrad Challenge 2nd and 4th Place Grand Award, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Winner: General Motors STEM Challenge 3rd Place Global Health Award from USAID Emergent Ventures Grant Winner Gap Summit Leader of Tomorrow | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
939 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Hanna | Yim | Sentbe | www.sentbe.com/en | Head of Business Impact | Female | Republic of Korea | Republic of Korea | English | While previously working for the Korean government’s aid agency, I assumed unknowingly that foreign aid was the only way to support developing countries. After learning that remittances by migrants are 2.73 times greater than foreign aid, I realized how narrow a viewpoint I had. I also learned that the UN and the G20 have been aiming to reduce the transaction cost of remittance. In fact, remittance service in Korea has only been allowed for banks for over 50 years until 2016 when relevant regulation was changed. As a result, the cross-border money transfer service quality has remained as costly, slow and complex while sticking to SWIFT code, thereby making migrants but also MSMEs irresistibly bear negative consequences. Giving up the security of a government job was not easy, but I believed a change was necessary for furthering those who have been excluded in the conventional financial system and I joined Sentbe, a fintech startup currently operating online P2P remittance service from Korea to 17 countries. It has carried out 426,960 transactions amounting to 250 million USD. It lowers the fees to 1.2 % of remitted amounts, it has helped users save approximately 17 million USD. Further to the P2P remittance service, Sentbe is about to launch a cross-border B2B payment within 2019. I would like to share this business use case directly contributing to the improving financial inclusion of migrants and MSMEs with respect to SDG 8 and 10 at the UN Solutions Summit to inspire others. | When I was working for the Korean government's aid agency, I learned that remittances are 2.73 times greater than foreign aid. This fact ignited my initial curiosity in remittance and led me to study further the related policies and the remittance market in Korea. I was immediately drawn to the case of Nepali migrant workers whose total remittance amounts to 30% of the country’s GDP, but curiously, in Korea, 90% of them are estimated to rely on informal remittance channels. One of the critical hurdles, I learned, was our government’s policy: banks had monopolized the remittance market for over 50 years until 2016 when a regulatory change allowed non-banks to provide remittance services. Shortly after the regulatory change, in fall 2016, I interviewed the CEO of Sentbe, a non-bank financial institution, which aimed to make remittance cheaper, faster and safer. As we genuinely shared goals, we looked further into a possible government-business partnership focusing on Nepal. Although the Korean government did not fund the project due to bureaucratic overcautiousness, the proposal helped Sentbe raise a series-A investment and successfully launch its on-line remittance service to 12 countries in Asia in 2017. With a constantly growing social impact, the CEO offered me the position of Impact Manager last summer. Giving up the security of a government job was not easy, but I believed change was necessary in furthering migrant workers’ welfare and I wanted to be part of that change. | Cheaper, Faster and Safer P2P & B2B Digital Cross-Border Money Transfer Service: Inclusive for Migrants and MSMEs | Sentbe constantly questions traditions in finance and find innovative and inclusive solutions in cross-border money transfer to inspire the world. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Sentbe is incorporated and licensed as a remittance business both in Seoul, Korea and Singapore. It has been operating its online B2C remittance service from Korea to 17 countries - 7 ASEAN countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, | Yes | Samsung Pay, Welcome Savings Bank, Thunes, Instarem, Money Gram, Ripple, BRI, and Vietcombank etc. | Transition to Scale | Cross-border money transfer is considered one of the common financial services in many countries. The case of the Korean market which had allowed only banks to provide remittance service for over half a century has, however, a background giving a particularity to Sentbe. Distinguished from others, Sentbe is the only one player focusing on those who have been largely excluded by banks, challenging and beating the incumbents with a lens of financial inclusion. | Korean banks have made no significant efforts in improving better cross-border money transfer services in fee, accessibility, simplicity, and risk management. Such problems have been, for migrants, the major pillar of remitters, more than inconveniences or annoyances: they rather chose to use illegal remittance. Korean banks also tend to provide larger sized enterprises with more benefits in transaction fee and exchange rate but offer less favorable conditions to MSMEs. | Sentbe has identified that cross-border money transfer in a traditional way by banks is expensive, limited, inconvenient and slow. Sentbe accordingly aims to improve the financial inclusion of its key target user groups - migrants and MSMEs - both in Korea and abroad. First, Sentbe has reduced the cost of remittance to 1.2% of the total remitted amount while it appears that the remittance cost of banks remains at 9% in practice. Sentbe is incorporated both in Seoul and Singapore with respective remittance licenses. The two entities enable pooling, pairing and netting methods which collate and process numerous transactions into a single transaction or send over only the unmatched surplus amount after matching amounts going in reverse country corridors. It would offer up to 90% reduction in fees, easy transaction procedure, fast processing, and diverse receiving points. Second, its online-based service is far better off from the convenience side than banks' offline-based service. Money transfer request via bank requires a visit: it is often concomitant with banks’ limited opening hour which is from 10 am to 4 pm during the weekdays, a long waiting queue, and complex documents preparation. Sentbe, thus, offers online service enabling customers to send money abroad anywhere at any time via mobile devices or PCs. With respect to the processing time, Sentbe completes a transaction within 20 seconds after a request while banks’ chronical SWIFT-based transaction takes 3 to 5 days. | The key uniqueness Sentbe has over the competitors is interoperability. Sentbe is the only money transfer operator in Korea with inbound and outbound APIs: its inbound API is developed as an open API to provide inward payout service for overseas partners and it already successfully integrated its outbound API to Samsung Pay and Welcome Savings Bank. While other non-bank remittance service providers in Korea have no in-house expertise in FX management, Sentbe has its own treasury team led by a top-tier FX dealer and its CEO is a former FX broker. It enables Sentbe to provide competitive FX rate to customers, thereby improving its own profitability. Sentbe is also deemed the only one player which seriously takes care and addresses cross-border money transfer with a lens of financial inclusion. D3Jubilee, one of the representative Korean impact investors, invested in Sentbe by appraising its impact in financial inclusion in a positive way. It continues to deepen and advance its impact: needs assessment on remittance-linked financial products with the UNCDF and study on the correlation between changes in the currency exchange rate and users’ behaviors with the National University of Singapore and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Head of Business Impact ,selected as an Obama Foundation Scholar, is to conduct an in-depth study on the remittance and financial inclusion based on Sentbe's business practices and disseminate its progress to global audiences. | Since December 2017, Sentbe has sequentially launched its P2P remittance service to 17 countries and recorded 250 million USD in 426,960 transactions for the aggregated monthly active users of 180,965. Above all, Sentbe reduced the cost of remittance to 1.2% of the total remitted amount while banks' fee remains at 8% in practice. Sentbe views its service contributes to the improvement of financial inclusion of users, particularly migrant workers and female marriage migrants from low- and middle-income Southeast and South Asian countries. Its remittance cost which is 1.2% of the total remittance amount is far less than the UN SDG 10.c's target which aims at reducing to less than 3% the transaction costs of migrant remittances. As a result, Sentbe's users appear to save up to 90% of remittance cost, compared to when using banks' remittance. By referring to Sentbe's own business dataset and market analysis, if 1.2 % of Sentbe's remittance fee and 8% of banks' fee are applied to the Sentbe's remittance aggregated since its launch which amounts to 250 million USD, it is estimated its customers, mainly migrants, save approximately 17 million USD which is increased disposable income. Currently preparing its B2B cross-border payment launching, Sentbe is to scale this impact by targeting MSMEs - both Korean enterprises and their business counterparts all over the world in line with the UN SDG 8.3 encouraging the formalization and growth of MSMEs through access to financial services. | In addition to the current 12 corridors of developing countries in Southeast and South Asian region, Sentbe expands between 4Q of 2019 and 2Q of 2020 its corridors to Central and Southeast Asian countries to scale-up the impact beneficial to migrant workers coming from low- and middle-income countries. To amplify the impact more, it also plans to link its service to local mobile bankings and wallets of customers' remittance-receiving countries. Sentbe is also designing a financial service platform, named Remittance+, for migrants customer group, which incorporates remittance-linked financial products such as loans with a low- and mid-level interest rate with financial institutions in Korea and abroad. Paying attention to the migration cycle, Sentbe is to provide migrant customers with programs tailored to each phase to help them success their well-planned migration experience. Its market share is projected as 10% by 2022 with its monthly remittance volume growth rate of 10%. Further to its P2P remittance service, Sentbe is to enter into B2B cross-border payment market within 2019 by setting up the regulatory and technical foundation. Amount of annual payments in import and export by Korean enterprises appears to exceed $1.2T: its largest part is composed of the payment in import and export of general goods. Its total Korean market size appears to be 200 billion USD: Sentbe plans to gradually increase market share from 1% in 2019 to 30% in 2023 with its transaction fee of 1%. | In order to efficiently and effectively scale up Sentbe's impact on financial inclusion, its technical and data-related sides need to be strengthened. Sentbe's cross-border money transfer service - both P2P and B2B - is already set as online-based. However, there are many more rooms to develop. First, Sentbe already designed its mobile wallet type platform. It makes users charge their account with their preferred or available currency and the charged amount remains as deposited in the wallet. The users send money to the wallet's other useres or to many other banks and non-bank financial service providers both in Korea and abroad. To develop this, Sentbe needs to recruit 19 developers or a bit more by 3Q of 2020. Marketing and customer service are the core elements to create and amplify Sentbe's impact. It is mainly because marketing and customer service activities are the frontline where Sentbe meet users and identify their pain points. The two areas are also important with the perspective that meaningful data are generated along with the business practices. In these regards, Sentbe plans to employee 20 staff - marketers and data scientists - for the two sections by 3Q of 2020. In particular, data scientists will be working on impact measuring and management. | Company website: https://www.sentbe.com/en/ (By clicking the language menu, you can see the different versions of the website by language.) Sentbe's Youtube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHuhh2W6kfgTIW1iwJ_YgrA (Currently being established before official launch) Sentbe's Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/sentbe.expat (More groups of each corridor countries are found on the page) Sentbe & Philippines Airline Promotion Story Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhEF8BpFYjs&t=180s | Head of Business Impact's Obama Foundation Scholars Program Application Video: https://vimeo.com/user7488436 | (2017) Promising Company by the Korean Ministry of Science, Technology and Information (2016) Start-up representing Korea for Demo Day in New York by Seoul Metropolitan Government; Winner of the 1st MK Fintech Award by Maeil Economy; Start-up at UK-Korea Financial Forum in London, co-hosted by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and the Korea Financial Services Commission (2015) Member of 1QLab, KEB-Hana Bank’s Fintech Lab; Member of SparkLabs, No. 1 Accelerating Program in Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
940 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Akshay | Kamath | Nutrivide | nutrivide.org | CEO & Co-Founder | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | My motivations for applying to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit stem from a combination of my skills, experiences, and inspirations. As a recent graduate who has been to the UN twice in his college years (for the International Day of Peace in 2015 and the ECOSOC Youth Forum in 2019), I feel a great humility in giving back to an organization that has helped both my company, Nutrivide, in accumulating momentum and the world in maintaining harmony. As the team lead and co-founder of Nutrivide, a company that is developing a pacifier that delivers nutrients non-invasively for infants who are malnourished, I have devoted most of my time in college to understanding hunger in my community and beyond. | Akshay Kamath is a recent graduate of Rutgers University - New Brunswick, as well as CEO & Co-Founder of Nutrivide, an infant consumer products company devoted to ending global malnutrition via the development and distribution of low-cost medical devices. His commitment to service above self is typified by his efforts to tackle food insecurity in his community, volunteering regularly at the Christ Church Food Pantry and Elijah's Promise Soup Kitchen. Speaking to his experiences, Akshay has been recognized as a Finalist at the MIT-HMS Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp, a Forbes Under 30 Scholar in Healthcare, and an exemplary commitment-maker on stage at CGI U 2018 for his humanitarian and leadership efforts. | Nutrifier | The Nutrifier is a pacifier modified to store and dispense micronutrients non-invasively for healthy infant growth and development. | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Within the next year, we intend for our solution to be implemented in New Brunswick, NJ. Within the next three years, we intend for our solution to be implemented in local towns within Karnataka, India and Johannesburg, South Africa. | Yes | My business partners are Joseph Bajor and Yash Dave. Organizationally, we are working with the Honors College of Rutgers University - New Brunswick, Clinton Global Initiative University, and the New Jersey Technology Council. | Proof of Concept | To date, we have developed five prototypes for the Nutrifier, the most recent of which is mechanically functional and can seamlessly pass liquid. Now, our focus has shifted to reducing part count. Special emphasis is placed on testing the nipple, as we aim to include side-mounted exit holes to allow the formulation to bypass an infant’s tongue. As the process of prototyping silicone parts for manufacture is expensive and high-maintenance, making this prototype will help us run integrity tests. | Specifically, the Nutrifier addresses a problem faced by many mothers around the world: the inability to healthily breastfeed their infants. Whether they suffer from a low breast milk supply, the side effects of medication, or HIV/other STIs (that they assume is transmissible to the infant), these mothers do not breastfeed their babies, and accordingly, these infants lose out on precious micronutrients. The Nutrifier aims to bridge this nutrient gap with an affordable and easy-to-use device. | For the setup, the internal delivery mechanism of the Nutrifier warrants the placement of individual liquid micronutrient packets (developed by Nutrivide) in the void space of the Nutrifier’s rear. Specifically, each nutrient packet contains a combination of vitamins A (400 µg Retinol Active Equivalent), B12 (0.4 μg), D (5 μg), K (2 μg), iron (0.27 mg), zinc (2 mg), and arrowroot in a safe dose. This fluid mixture is enclosed by a thin, non-toxic bioplastic film and is placed into this recessed chamber on the back of the Nutrifier. The nutrient delivery feature of the Nutrifier begins to operate as soon as the user screws the twist-lock cap to orient it with three equidistant interstices along the rear of the device. When covered with this cap, the twisting motion simultaneously locks the nutrient chamber and prods the plastic straw to pierce the packet, allowing the infant to safely ingest the nutrients with no air bubbles on account of the ergonomic shape and size of the straw. Integrally, this lock is child-proof, preventing the nutrient capsule from being dislodged by the infant while the pacifier is in use. Conveniently, then, the role of the administrant is to simply place a packet into the Nutrifier and allow the baby to suck on it. This approach to reduce child malnutrition is comparable to the iodization of table salt, which seamlessly combined a common household staple with a micronutrient to combat iodine deficiencies, dominating the salt market. | The products that currently combat nutritional deficiencies in infants include liquid supplements like NovaFerrum. However, because these supplements must be measured for each individual dosage and may be difficult to directly administer to an infant using a dropper (and must thus be administered in meals which can cause taste aversions), they lack in their ability to address these deficiencies conveniently. Additionally, variations of basic medicine-dispensing pacifiers do exist (e.g. Safety 1st® Pacifier Medicine Dispenser), in which parents can place medications necessary for their infants within the chamber of the pacifier, allowing infants to suck on the pacifier and quickly consume the medication. However, these designs fall short since they (1) necessitate precision from the parent in measuring every dose to then place in the chamber and (2) are only useful for liquid medicine in very small quantities. The Nutrifier’s use of pre-measured gel packets conveniently dispenses nutrients in their necessary dosages, while still allowing for delivery via the infant’s natural sucking reflex Other novel elements of the Nutrifier are its locking mechanism and delivery mechanism, essential for safety and ease-of-use in areas where education may be less accessible. | Upon completing our fifth prototype, our team has significantly progressed the development of our solution. We will measure our progress toward goals by analyzing device-specific and health-related metrics. For example, as we test our prototype with different micronutrient solutions, we will list the active ingredients in all instances, document the flow/diffusion rates, and identify the percentage of the solution that came out of the nipple smoothly without added pressure. More qualitatively for this example, we will also see if the solution has an appealing viscosity out of the nipple and if modifications can be made so the solution resembles a familiar nutritive substance. We are able to maintain the necessary level of methodological rigor because our mentors are experienced researchers in the Department of Food Science and Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University who have taken a multitude of projects with similar processes for grant applications. | By the beginning of the 4th quarter of 2019, Nutrivide will have developed a complete advisory board, encompassing professors, doctors, engineers, biochemists, and lawyers. These group meetings currently occur once every quarter to discuss progress, potential areas of improvement/new areas of focus, and the most appropriate markets to enter. By the 1st quarter of 2020, we will have completed a final version of our mechanically fully-functional prototype, and hope to begin a local pilot in New Brunswick, NJ (since the FDA does not need to be invoked for micronutrient delivery mechanisms). A successful pilot will enable us to gain broader access to investors, hopefully allowing us to pursue a TOMS Shoes' business model and launch internationally in Karnataka, India (subsidizing the international costs with U.S. sales), the government of whom I have currently been in talks. Upon reaching this market, we hope to expand to Johannesburg, South Africa, which can benefit the greatest from our product according to our primary market research. | In the short-term, we would need access to a thermoforming machine, allowing us to thermoform on a plastic sheet, heating it until it’s pliable and forming it to the size and shape of the nutrient packet in a mold for short-run production. In the medium-term, the most needed resources are injection molds, which can enable us to consistently mass produce the device (as the methods used for production may have a significant impact on the form of the device itself). In the long-term, we would need multiple machines to streamline the process of creating both the packet as well as the parts of the device, naturally inviting the presence of economies of scale. | https://www.nutrivide.org/ (Company Website) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6cWCRkqpaQ (Basic Prototype Demo) https://honorscollege.rutgers.edu/features/hc-student-path-purpose (Team Lead's Progress) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi1PsfyTQa0&t= (Clinton Global Initiative University 2018, Opening Plenary) | RWJMS BEN Health Innovation Summit - 1st Place Winner & Finalist, $8,000 award and meeting with the New Jersey Health Foundation MIT-Harvard Medical School Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp - Finalist New Jersey Technology Council, Innovation Video Contest - 1st Place, $1,000 award Honors College Mission Presentation - 1st Place Forbes Under 30 Scholar, Healthcare | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
941 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Ranjani | Sridharan | Social Impact Bank PBC | www.socialimpactbank.com | Founder and CEO | Female | United States of America | India | English | French | My motivation to apply to be a part of the UN Solutions Summit is to share a project which I believe has tremendous potential to draw additional capital for social impact. From an analysis in a recent UNEP report, there is a severe mismatch of availability of revenue and capital against development needs specifically in emerging markets. Conversely, in developed markets, retail investors are faced with low-interest, low growth environments with few options to deploy capital for direct social impact. Therefore, entrepreneurs and innovators have to consider the possibilities and potential of blockchain and digital token networks which will allow capital to flow across borders in more seamless and efficient ways. While this technology is new, the potential is apparent and needs to be harnessed for good. Social Impact Bank PBC (SIB) is a FinTech intermediary which offers a Platform as a Service to generate value to end users by connecting them to the financial offerings and resources in the impact investing marketplace. SIB also leverages distributed ledger technology to provide a liquid debt offering which improves returns on cash and fixed income portions of investor portfolios through offering working capital for small medium enterprises. SIB’s credit risk underwriting process includes qualitative feedback from accelerators to reduce repayment risk. The venture will seek to issue a digital token offering which will offer competitive fixed income type returns to institutional and retail investors who are in low interest environments. As the regulation evolves, the tokens can be exchanged or traded within the impact network to offer investors more immediate liquidity and drawing in more capital from the sidelines. Currently, as described below, the concept is at a research and development phase. Our team is exploring the suitable technology, regulations and partnerships to take this venture to market. While we do not have any active users as yet, we expect that we can gain quickly through the channel of approximately 1000 plus existing social impact accelerators and incubators around the world. With the increasing demand for new financial products in the impact investing ecosystem, we believe that we will be able to make the convincing case to investors to reallocate portions of their fixed income portfolios to support social enterprises in need of working capital. | Ms. Ranjani Sridharan is a finance and investment professional with 14 years of social enterprise and impact investing experience. She is motivated by a strong belief that capital should have the purpose of making societies more equitable and promote a humane standard of living for all. With a belief that education is central to human development and progress, Ranjani has held senior management and finance roles in the education sector non-profits, namely Room to Read and Summer Search Foundation. After completing her MBA, Ranjani pivoted to impact investing by spearheading portfolio management for Distributed Sun, a US-focused renewable energy fund. Currently, as a Consultant at Living Cities--a syndicate of some of the world’s largest Foundations and Banks--she works with the investment team analyzing credit worthiness of Social Enterprises and Funds focused on improving outcomes around racial equity in the US. Ranjani is inspired by the power of creative collaboration and co-founded the DC women impact investing network to promote knowledge and networks across the women professionals working across impact investing. Education: MBA, The George Washington University, BA, Economics from Mount Holyoke College and licensed Certified Public Accountant (State of California). Multicultural and Multilingual: Grew-up in Kenya and India, studied abroad in France, and has lived in the U.S. over the past twenty years. Ranjani speaks fluent Marathi, Hindi, English and conversational French, and Tamil. More information can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjsridharan/ | Social Impact Bank PBC | Bridging capital gaps in the token economy | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Global | No | Research & Development | Our venture is at its current stage as our team evaluates blockchain technology options for the purpose of creating our lending marketplace. Ideally, we are looking to adopt a model that will be easy to scale, lean to maintain, and ideal for the business model of cross-border investing. Along the same lines, our team is working closely with legal professionals to set-up the venture for long-term fiduciary success. The previously mentioned due-diligence will allow us to secure investor interest. | The Social Impact Bank seeks to address the challenge of few capital options for early-stage social enterprises leading them to spend disproportionate amounts of time seeking capital. Our market research has revealed that entrepreneurs need both varied financial products as well as more affordable debt in the early stages of growth. Our hypothesis is that there is still a huge market of viable social businesses who will be benefitted by access to more affordable working capital. | The Social Impact Bank leverages behavioral finance and digital ledger technology to influence the re-allocation of investment towards entrepreneurship and development. We believe that investors are more likely to embrace platforms that look and feel similar to what they might be used from traditional brokers. By showcasing financial products and financial asset allocations which align investments with values, we believe that we can mobilize more capital to be invested for impact. The platform also offers a SDG investment allocation dashboard (self-reported) which allows investors to view and learn about how their peers (whether it be Corporations or HNW investors) are investing. Again, the hypothesis is that the friendly competition will offer incentive for investors to collaborate further on aligned SDGs. The long-term vision for Social Impact Bank over a five-year period is to provide $270M of additional funding for social enterprises above and beyond current sources. Our venture is also focused on leveraging women finance and social sector professionals who might be seeking direct transaction experience. Over five years, we expect to train and leverage the talent of 250 such professionals. The Bank also has the ambitious goal of bringing 180 plus new investors to invest with SIB. Over time, the network token can also be leveraged for social projects between Banks of different countries. Two entities with AAA ratings could take advantage of interest rate arbitrage. | This solution is unique in that it pushes the envelope further with behavioral finance to promote growth. This concept also borrows from design principles in the technology sector, where massive scale, innovation and uniformity has been achieved. We need to adopt such similar principles to finally close economic development gaps across countries. With blockchain technology, we have enhanced efficiency in the capital markets to allow capital to flow more freely across borders. In the impact investing ecosystem, till-date, we have not have a tradable offering which offers growth capital to early-stage social enterprises. Our hypothesis is that this will draw in more capital from the sidelines with the perceived risk somewhat reduced through the ability to liquidate the instrument. The token economy offers both the ability to create a secondary market for debt investors in the impact investing ecosystem and significantly better returns for those investors. | Our team has undergone thorough market research and ideation and is presently working to build a minimum viable product (MVP) which will be tested real-time with customers. During this stage we will plan to engage with accelerators, incubators and entrepreneurs to ensure that we can offer a seamless process and integrate our platform with their APIs. We will measure progress through incremental milestones. We plan to publish a whitepaper for our impact network to gauge investor interest. Secondly, we plan to test our interface with customers both before and once we develop the MVP to ensure that we design for compatibility with current applications and wallets. On our website, we have listed our trusted advisors who have expertise across blockchain technology, private sector and small enterprise development, as well as impact investing. We will conduct phased check-ins to ensure that we are being methodical with our growth and to avoid as many of the pitfalls of start-ups as possible. | The intended goal for this venture includes completing the platform and wallet prototype by December 2019. This will enable us to solicit requests for working capital through our partners as established in Q3/Q4 2019. We plan to pilot our solution in Indonesia, Kenya, and Peru as they have been recognized as early test markets with vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystems. Currently, there are three team members working on the design of this project, they include: Ranjani Sridharan, Founder and CEO, Gwen Snyder, Capital Strategy, and Mariella Belli, Partnerships and Demand Aggregation. We expect to recruit both the CFO and Head of Product positions once we receive an initial investment. The CFO will help create a recruitment strategy to drive further growth based on revenue milestones. On our website, we have listed several milestones that we are aiming for. In Year One, we seek to support at least ten social businesses in 2020, impacting all their associated employees, customers and vendors positively. Anticipating a multiplier of 4, we expect that $20M of lending generates $80M of economic impact in our customer markets. We also plan to educate twenty new investors on available impact investing products as well as provide apprenticeship opportunities to fifty women professionals to build on relevant experience. We believe that all these combined activities will accelerate private sector capital flows towards Sustainable Development Goals. | In order to scale Social Impact Bank, we will seek out capital with the right risk attributes to ensure we build partnerships which provide value to the ecosystem and build upon what currently exists. Our team will be seeking out partnerships with Foundations who are interested in scaling this lending innovation. We believe that we can offer tremendous value to social enterprises and generate significant investor interest once we have a first-loss position. Similarly, we are keen to make our platform inter-operable to the extent possible. Therefore, we are looking to establish partnerships with accelerators and networks who work closely with a large group of social enterprises and have relationships with several such organizations which we plan to pursue. Our short-term needs include working capital to continue design of the MVP and to continue legal consultations on evolving SEC framework, medium-term needs including building partnerships for the pilot stage and long-term needs include hiring a larger team to build the credit, sales and strategy teams who can help scale the organization into a market leader offering working capital to social enterprises. At scale, Social Impact Bank, with the right operating model, can add to the efficiency of the capital markets, generating better investment returns for debt in low-interest environments while providing much-needed working capital to increase entrepreneurship, employment, and social impact. | www.socialimpactbank.com | None as yet. | N/A. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
942 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Daniel | Taylor | Future Generations University | future.edu | President and Professor | male | United States of America | United States of America | English | I have dedicated a five-decade-long career to creating opportunity for members of each and every community to discover their potential to work together to change their future for the better. Using both formal and non-formal education, my colleagues in the Future Generations global family have turned this vision into reality in dozens of countries, hundreds of communities, and the lives of tens of thousands of people. From 1990-1992, my father, Carl E. Taylor and I co-led a global taskforce commissioned by UNICEF to study how community development is best achieved at scale. This research concluded that the most successful examples were not achieved by donor-driven projects led by international NGOs, but by community-led efforts to learn how to change behaviors in partnership with outside experts and top-down agencies. We synthesized these findings into a universal process for community-driven social change—SEED-SCALE. Future Generations University serves as the nucleus of a world-circling learning network of this method. The collective impact of these organizations has resulted in hundreds of thousands of lives improved, a hundred million acres of land protected, national health care reform in two countries, and increased income opportunities in hundreds of communities. | Dr. Taylor is a scholar of community-based development, having led global research and published extensively on the topic of sustainable, equitable development. He has inspired others to join a world-circling universe of learning which he created in his roles as teacher, researcher, practitioner, author, speaker, institution-builder, and leader. He co-chaired the global task-force that synthesized the SEED-SCALE method. Additionally, for three decades he led major sustainable development projects, particularly in Asia. He was the driving force behind creating two national parks in Nepal and China surrounding Mt. Everest, then a series of nature preserves, distinctive because they are community-based, through the length of the Himalaya. He teaches extensively in a community context and online. He earned Master’s and Doctorates in Education and Development from Harvard University. | Investing in the only generation that can save humanity | Inspiring one million communities to action by engaging 10 million young people to learn how to deliver sustainable development progress worldwide. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Global advancement initially focused on the Philippines, South Africa, Indonesia, South Sudan, Turkey, Ethiopia, India, Brazil, Algeria, and Poland to create regional centers of learning and grassroots solutions | Yes | World Scouting, led by the World Scout Foundation and the World Organization of the Scout Movement. Together these organizations support a grassroots movement with over 54 million members across 170 countries. World Scouting educates young people through | Transition to Scale | Our solution is poised for rapid scale by combining Future Generations University’s time-tested SEED-SCALE method for sustainable community development with World Scouting’s global reach. SEED-SCALE synthesizes best practices from global research commissioned by UNICEF in 1992 and published by Oxford and Johns Hopkins Presses. World Scouting can mobilize its 54 million volunteers to learn and implement this method, scaling up 6+ million existing community projects and 1.2 billion service hours. | Global crises like climate change, conflict and inequality threaten the future for humanity’s largest generation yet. Over half the world’s population is under 30, 90% of whom live in emerging economies. Connected by technology and shared ambition, they can lead their communities towards resilience against fragile global systems. Our solution trains youth to engage grassroots implementation of the SDGs, equipping them with adaptive, affordable strategies for sustainable change. | Our solution extends a proven, scalable method for inclusive, sustainable community development—SEED-SCALE—through an in-situ, globally connected network of trained change agents—Scouts. World Scouting—the world’s largest global youth educational movements—unites 54 million youth across religions, cultures, gender, and 170 nations. By integrating SEED-SCALE learning into existing Scouting programmes, like Scouts for SDGs and Messengers of Peace, we will magnify the scale and impact of being carried out at community level by Scout groups, building the skills of local Scouts and their leaders to better engage community members in the change process. Over the next five years, we will build a 10-million-strong, global learning community which will produce broad and long-lasting social impact in one million communities. They will document their successes, creating a global compendium of local solutions for SDG attainment. This online platform will allow Scouts to report on progress based on criteria developed for the SDGs and learn strategies to improve their work through peer review. Sharing these projects projects, within and beyond our network, will inspire more to take action. | Our program equips 1 million Scout groups to lead sustainable community development projects using SEED-SCALE. This method advances techniques synthesised from rigorous analysis of how communities prosper with simple action-oriented steps that help local people build on successes and create lasting impact. Peoples’ energies and passion drive success, leading to low-cost, locally-supported solutions. This partnership promises to deliver what none other can. Scouting’s Messengers of Peace initiative has already inspired 28 million young people to action: over 1.2 billion hours of community service since 2013 on 6.5 million projects, each contributing to one or more of the SDGs. Recognized by the UN in November 2018 as the “largest popular contribution to the SDGs,” this project strengthens our existing grassroots momentum. Of 6.5 million local projects recorded online, 99.9% have been funded entirely by local resources (material, financial, volunteer). In other words, scaling is not limited by centralized funding/availability of external resources. Scouting’s 500 million alumni, today’s community leaders, are key in this local resource mobilization. SEED-SCALE applies Emergence (an aspect of Complexity Theory) to social change. Emergence explains how uniform principles cause local forces to interact, creating locally distinct outcomes. This universal method gives guiding principles, strategies, and criteria for site-specific growth and steadily improving local capacity. | A cohort of Scouting leaders are currently studying SEED-SCALE in Future Generations University’s Master’s of Applied Community Development program to lead National Scouting Organisations’ adoption of this new effort. SEED-SCALE curricula will be adapted to the Scout learning platform (and in local languages) for global release within the next 2-3 years. Evaluating our solution involves assessment at three levels: individual, project and programme. Individual assessment determines if Scouts are learning SEED-SCALE competencies and can apply these to engage other Scouts and community members as they lead community development projects. Project-level assessment will focus on: a) measuring effectiveness of the approach Scouts are using to engage community members; b) whether the projects are achieving the Scouts for SDG Metrics (adapted from SDG indicators); and c) determining if projects are inclusive and resulting in sustained behavior change. Programme-level assessment will examine: a) if Scouts are iteratively learning throughout the project; b) whether communities deepen their commitment to the projects over time; and c) integration of the programme through the Scout network. Key in growing SEED-SCALE iteratively toward evermore effective results is the feedback loop monitoring to project redesign. This will occur annually. The process not only re-targets direction, as a learning experience it also grows team capacity, so they are more effective with each iterative plan. | Our short-term goal (2-3 years): develop a user-friendly, easily-accessible platform to boost capacity development and cultivate momentum. This will include new and improved, mobile-ready Messengers of Peace (MoP) software with enhanced training and peer review capacities, SEED-SCALE toolkits and guidelines. Global online platform capable of complex multimedia exchange and evidence capture, based on grassroots feedback, including peer reviews to feed into evaluation. Case study-based, multilingual grassroots educational toolkits developed, and field tested. Our intermediate goal (5 years): train and support 10 million Scouts to drive sustainable development in 1 million communities, delivering SEED-SCALE. The program will be released globally across all 170 National Scout organizations, but initial infrastructure will be built in 10 priority countries representing Regional hubs with the largest Scouting membership. These include the Philippines, South Africa, Indonesia, South Sudan, Tukey, Ethiopia, India, Brazil, Algeria, and Poland. Our ultimate goal (8-10 years): a global network of changemakers and SDG demonstration sites to advance sustainable development. Documented action in excess of 3 billion hours of community service. In Wikipedia fashion this will be peer-reviewed by Scouts to advance objective recording of community development achievements. It is almost in possible to estimate the total numbers of lives impacted by this emergent process. | The solution requires the most resources now during program development, capacity-building and initial roll-out. Once new SEED-SCALE training materials are integrated and leaders trained on implementation, Scouts worldwide will be empowered to grow place-based sustainable development solutions without much additional cost beyond the Scouting program’s normal operations. Short-term: -Personnel time to develop adapted SEED-SCALE training and toolkits -Train-the-trainer type programs to equip volunteer Scout leaders as mentors in SEED-SCALE implementation Medium-term: -Consultation and collaboration with NGOs and governments where we focus on initial roll-out -Incentives for Scout participation in learning, project implementation, and peer review (e.g. Merit badges, Certificates/Diplomas of achievement, eventually accredited) Long-term: -Community-based buy-in (financial, in-kind, social) where 1 million Scout groups launch projects -Software development expertise for long-term maintenance and improvements of the Wiki-Solutions platform | MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change Quick Pitch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtxucSTFer0&feature=youtu.be “SEED-SCALE Manual” (July 2019). Future Generations University: https://issuu.com/601designinc/docs/fgu_seed- scale_3?fr=sMDRjNzEwMDg4OA “Future Generations University’s most recent Annual Report” (November 2018). FGU: https://www.future.edu/annualreport/index.html Just & Lasting Change: When Communities Own Their Futures, 2nd Edition (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016) Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change (Oxford University Press, 2012) “Scouts for SDGs Platform” (2018). WOSM: https://sdgs.scout.org/ - ""The 13th World Scout Youth Forum Report."" (August 2017). WOSM (p.18-19): https://www.dropbox.com/s/8qfi67olpever4y/13th%20World%20Scout%20Youth%20For um%20Report%20%28final%29%5B1%5D.pdf?dl=0 “Messengers of Peace Initiative.” (2011). WOSM: https://www.scout.org/messengersofpeace [3] ""Annual Report, 2018: Finding Rafi."" (May 2019). WSF (p.29): http://www.worldscoutfoundation.org/news/annual-report-2018 ""Messengers of Peace"": Mid-term Evaluation, October 2015. (February 2016). WOSM: https://www.scout.org/ru/midterm-evaluation-messengers-of-peace | Interview on Podship Earth Podcast about YETI: The Ecology of a Mystery. (June 2019). https://www.podshipearth.com/yeti?fbclid=IwAR3rbQII1niznOLyzOKvdqCuUOjAGQwE3-3bf2ms-pXAG-Po-SzdOhffFgc Interview at 2017 Himalayan Consensus (March 2017): https://www.facebook.com/futuregenerationsuniversity/posts/10155424338383581?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARAfwclNX0Zm-cztnRmVlRJwsthF0F8e5WCv2S6Sjbog2MVznIbvbu-eLEcboytIfx37SdRUBKHU39TqlXFHBiOLUOvMyWJ65MrQG9WYV-jLLvCWP7RlelQTn-u4NCQfhrpDC8hQf_tVIBc_qCtm9SKbcmh9_FCaz-tI0xdnJK2_y_iRMo8_uPwJGDn7LSgtzXTJL5A_q0lFhglO-DUqmzNV3beS08ZQABCeTDNEC-X9-2gY1eRejmhI0hDGBGhR88tj68WVpec8VYfJhreVBjPf7ZeQU2H5Ev3Ob_T4d4m_nux8GbMkHH3sYgu6tHZQWEIs350lcHL5iHgVEZso1leGuhMa8rCVKzSpXfnYqWUz4AeVQvJWHeH2g-hqIt-MgIve9NBN2WI0ZAuQegaF5LCqw_NX2tGgc-qzNqPL2lvMTHohzTqbPx1icp0TeiYHUeJwBapEvbRAMKJ9vxYIG6-PIe6jCc0R3d4hAd-R3Ha8QCKXbnGw7WJtabw&__tn__=-R Short video explaining SEED-SCALE through context of Himalayan conservation (March 2018): https://www.facebook.com/futuregenerationsuniversity/posts/10155402975743581?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCYEeKxGQKTV_yEab3QMX6ADoDDLq6KfGivlhCcfWr0SdmVHm5EPj2RqnPdLetpnB5uY5AzuI-Q7zTgLmPjtMJDOvyxEsmqaWnzMEHj0kcZw15n_zBN9X6RSUtRzq3wivJMI3N1yP5GPtDiXdYxTTz959xIVVvaWLVvpWKacyjWdqHs4HaxcAXaFDwIjcAZIn1vxEtGcRkHKR7BIXXIenN2uUStwnhSEiDuwhPpEcx6A5d_U2v2vziIngyxJu7USLrr3DCmenu9F9zFdLvU3DrH67UMdeLXu28kkab3gd9EdxtM06wo4l5d7bVYlaKwv1337EePbnQEI9ZJDyx1QvgxJirkst-e&__tn__=-R | Order of the Golden Ark, presented by HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, for work in international conservation, May 2004. Honorary Professor, Institute of Botany, Laboratory of Quantitative Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, February 1993. Knighted Gorkha Dakshin Bau III by His Majesty King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah of Nepal for work in Nepalese conservation, May 1990. Commencement Speaker, U.S. Presidential Scholars, Washington DC, 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
943 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Madison | Sturgess | EarthSpark International | www.earthsparkinternational.org | Project Manager | Female | United States of America | Australia | English | Madison joined EarthSpark with the express intention of enabling the team to better meet its goal of eradicating energy poverty in Haiti. After over a year with the organization, she has indeed delivered on that goal. EarthSpark's innovative technology + community approach to energy access has so far spun off two companies, one of which is now active in 30 countries helping to solve energy poverty. | Madison is a Haitian-Australian who joined EarthSpark's Haiti team in 2017 as Communications Associate. She went on to work as EarthSpark's Project Manager for administrative and microgrid development projects. Currently, Madison is developing the tools and templates needed to prepare microgrids for scale. She has a B.A. in History and International Relations from the University of Queensland, where she nurtured her passion for sustainable and enterprising development in Haiti. | Scaling smart solar-powered microgrids in Haiti | Innovation to solve energy poverty | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Haiti | Yes | Enèji Pwòp, SA (Haitian social enterprise), 22 municipalities in Haiti | Transition to Scale | EarthSpark turned on Haiti's first pre-pay microgrid in 2012 and expanded it to Haiti's first town-sized solar-powered smart grid in 2015. We have since conducted a national microgrid market study, built a second grid, and advocated for significant policy and institutional funding changes that are re-making the landscape for microgrids in Haiti. With 22 LOIs from municipalities in hand and traction with impact and institutional investors, now is the time to scale. | Energy poverty is acute in Haiti, with 70 percent of the population lacking access to electricity. In the absence of reliable electricity, economic growth is stifled and households must resort to costly fuel-burning lighting and cooking solutions, which also present serious indoor health threats. EarthSpark International's decentralized approach to grid infrastructure development makes sense in Haiti where the central grid is crippled and >100 unconnected towns sit in darkness. | EarthSpark in a non-profit that builds and incubates businesses to solve energy poverty. SparkMeter, our first technology spin-off company, is now serving microgrid developpers in 30 countries with low cost smart meters suited for low-bandwidth environments. Enèji Pwòp, EarthSpark's microgrid operator spin-off in Haiti, is managing EarthSpark's current microgrids. Our next spin-off will expand our microgrid development work, taking our # of grids from 2 to 22 in Haiti. Smart, solar-powered community electricity grid infrastructure delivers 24/7 power to homes and businesses in towns un-served by the national utility. Customers pay for electricity through pre-pay credits the same way they pay for mobile phone minutes. Compared to what they had been spending for kerosene, candles, and 3rd party phone charging before the grid, modest homes save 80% when they switch to grid electricity. Businesses save up to 50% over what they had been spending on individual diesel generators. Local operations with robust project oversight and asset management ensure project sustainability for at least the 20y life of the projects. All of this is done in deep collaboration with the communities so that energy literacy and local energy governance become part of the local vocabulary. Coupled with EarthSpark's 'Feminist Electrification' approach, EarthSpark's grids empower people with more than electricity. | EarthSpark's 'integrated electrification' approach combines a gender lens with local business accompaniment with conservation and technology innovation. | EarthSpark currently operates one grid and is about to turn on the second. We primarily measure success by the number of people gaining access to affordable, reliable electricity. We have robust additional metrics around grid performance, gender inclusion, environmental impact, and grid power quality. | EarthSpark is raising blended finance to scale from 2 to 24 solar-powered community electricity grids in the next 3.5 years. Leveraging EarthSpark's integrated electrification approach which prioritized gender inclusion and support of local businesses, these grids will not only bring electricity to over 80,000 people for the first time but also unlock economic, health, and environmental opportunities for the populations served. | Short-term: $500K in grant funding for project development and further R+D on adjacent, complementary value streams Medium-term: Additional technical partners for adjacent value streams (i.e. electrification of cooking), health + climate funders for electrification of cooking project Long-term: IFI infrastructure debt, long-term, high-impact investors for microgrids | www.earthsparkinternational.org http://www.mfc2018.net/activities/feminist-electrification?fbclid=IwAR1srb6BbEclomZRFKFy5jxyIjDfyb5X02IwflkMIzNz6HZSfDA-l1h2BbU#pid=2 | The Economist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-m9OR9vcaM UNFCCC: http://www.mfc2018.net/activities/feminist-electrification?fbclid=IwAR1srb6BbEclomZRFKFy5jxyIjDfyb5X02IwflkMIzNz6HZSfDA-l1h2BbU#pid=2 | 2018 UNFCCC Momentum for Change Award for EarthSpark's ""Feminist Electrification"" approach to microgrid development in Haiti : http://www.mfc2018.net/activities/feminist-electrification?fbclid=IwAR1srb6BbEclomZRFKFy5jxyIjDfyb5X02IwflkMIzNz6HZSfDA-l1h2BbU#pid=2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
944 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sowmya | Lakshminarayanan | Lead by Design | www.facebook.com/dhivedesignstudio | Co-founder | Female | India | India | English | My passion for social change began when during research days. Moving amongst my peers during my college days, I recognised that it was not always that everyone had opportunity either owing to financial status or the gender they belong to. This difference both in gender and financial abilities particularly played an enormous role in the field that I was interested in - STEM. This created a strong urge in me to bridge this gap. Hence, I applied for Teach for India fellowship in 2017. The fellowship gave me an opportunity to understand the grass-root level challenges in STEM education particularly in the lower economic background communities in India. During the fellowship, I got to meet Shreyas Prakash and Krishna Thiruvengadam SBI Youth for India fellows, who had similar passion to bring in systemic transformation by design thinking. Our shared passion towards STEM education brought us together as a team. Post their fellowship, both Krishna and Shreyas have opted to enhance their design skills through a masters course offered by the prestigious TU Delft University. We believe that our combined research, educator and design expertise gives us a unique advantage to use our fullest potential in bringing the organisation’s vision alive. | I did my PhD in cell biology and then shited to education sector. I was selected as a Teach for India fellow. As a fellow, I worked in under sourced private school in Chennai, India. I taught grade 2 and 3 for 2 years. | Lead by Design | Creating a generation of student leaders through social innovation | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | India | Yes | At dHive, we believe in collective action for transformation. Hence, we enter into partnership with schools and organisations to attain our outstanding vision. We partner with organisations who shares our vision in self-reliant communities. We believe suc | Transition to Scale | In the past 3 years, we have done our ground research to understand how to bring our solution to work. We have thus far developed a design tool kit (curriculum), based on the contextual understanding of working in rural areas. We are currently in the process of transitioning to implement our solution in other places and make our design tool kit more comprehensive and accessible to all. | Children are highly creative and have natural problem solving abilities. But their voice is often neglected in community development. This leads to Lack of ownership in school and community development. Lack of inclusivity of children, who are not academically inclined but have great creative potential. Lack of connection to the real world. At dHive, we are committed to unleash creative potential of children to solve problems that matters to them the most. | We propose Children Led Participatory Design (CLPD) as a key solution to bring in self reliance in the community. CLPD enables children (ages 9-18) to empathise, identify and co-create contextual solutions with stakeholders to the real world challenges in their communities. Our solution impacts children, youth and women in the communities in a 3 step approach 1. YOUNG MAKERS MOVEMENT Through our uniquely tailored and contextually driven Design tool kit and cost effective MAKERS spaces, we enable children and youth of the community to identify and solve challenges that are pertinent to their community. Through this process, children become empathetic, self reflective and develop team skills amongst other 21st century skills. 2. LOCAL CHANGEMAKERS MOVEMENT During the course of step 1, local youth, who have potential capacity to lead the MAKERS space is identified in the community and are given training to run the MAKERS space and facilitate design thinking sessions. During this phase, the identified local youth also known as the innovation manager enables more number of children in the community to be a part of the YOUNG MAKERS movement. 3. COMMUNITY LED MOVEMENT Once the innovation manager has been identified and trained, the products that were developed by the children are scaled up along with the help of women SHGs in the community. Thus, our 3 STEP approach builds brings in leadership qualities in our children and self reliant community in the long run. | Our Children Led participatory design focuses on 3 fundamental aspects of education Community empowerment Tertiary Education and Workforce Development Inclusive Education We believe that by solving problems of their community, children not only become tinkerers but also become empathetic towards the world that they live in. Through our program, we identify children and youth, who show promising potential to run the innovation centres. They are trained on their management and leadership skills. These innovation managers further grow our design program by reaching to several other children in their community. Lead by Design’s core belief is in the power of collective action from various stakeholders to attain the outstanding vision of creating community changemakers. The stakeholders who would influence and get influenced through Lead BY DESIGN's operations include teachers, community centre leads, school leaders, government functionaries, local artisans and the community. Hence, our actions (both long and short term) involve close association with these stakeholders. We believe that such inclusion of the stakeholders is the only way to attain our vision in a sustainable way. | dHive's grand vision of self reliant communities through young change makers calls for 3 STEP approach towards solution. Currently, we are executing the first step of creating YOUNG MAKERS movement by intervening in schools and community spaces. We are currently reaching to 200 students and youth through our Lead by Design program. In the next year, we intend to reach 500 students and youth through interventions in schools (semi-urban setting) and community centre (rural setting). In next 5 years, we intend to reach 5000 students and youth in the community through our YOUNG MAKERS and LOCAL CHANGEMAKERS movement. We believe that the greatest strength that we see in our solution is identifying the local change makers and training them to create ripple effect in the sustainable community development. We measure our impact in 2 orders. 1. Student level impact 2. Community level impact Our impact amongst students has been Scholarships and National design awards for children who participated in the program Girls equally participate in the design thinking process, hence dissolving the gender inequity in STEM. Our impact in the community has been Identified a local changemaker in Lobhi, who runs and maintains the space, along with training the children in the village. 10% of products made were scaled up, thus forming an alternate source of livelihood for the women SHG. The local government body has allocated community space to set up rural makerspace. | First year: Implementation of the DESIGN PROGRAM in 5 schools (semi-urban India) and 2 community centres (rural India). Fundraising for dHIVE operations. Facilitator/Intern recruitment to run the Design program. Design thinking workshops in schools and in community spaces. Third year: Reach 1000 children in semi-urban and rural setting. Conduct design workshops to reach out more number of students and educators. Setting up of “Child friendly” Design Lab that would in-turn allow children and adults to use the space to design solutions. Fifth year: Expand to 50 schools and community centres. (Reach: 5000 children ) Launch of Children friendly Portfolio system: Sharing of products developed by the children, through an online network of different schools and community centres where dHive operates, through a version control platform. Partner with domain specific NGOs and NGOs that work with livelihood projects to further develop and scale the deserving innovations of children. | Immediate resources in the next year Organisational resources Human resources to set up the operations of the organisation. Finances to set up and run the organisation in self reliant model. Consistent intervention model post first year in schools and communities. Operational level resources Design mentors to conduct the Lead by Design program. Training the facilitators in understanding children (adolescent) psychology to bring in effective facilitation Identification of community space in the village that would be used as MAKERs space. Resources in the next 5 years Organisational resources Scale up of the project and expansion in other countries. Systemic social impact measurement of the project Maintaining the culture and ethos of the organisation Collaboration with organisations and institutions across the country to expand the scope of design education Financial model for self sustenance of MAKERs spaces. Operational resources System level permissions to conduct design education as a part of in-school program Setting up fellowship program to recruit and train Lead by Design mentors Identification and training of the local youth as innovation manager. Co-ordination with the local NGO in the project locality to set livelihood projects. | Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/dhivedesignstudio/ What we do at Lead by Design (earlier called dHive) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhgfolRblvw Sample of the products made so far https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfQ5qmCQKX8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG2_JJZxMNk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvom2tzLiaE | Our story https://youtu.be/OOf9XBddNw8 | UNLEASH talent -2019 winner | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
945 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Reginald | Parker | Optimal Corporation Inc. dba Optimal Solar | http://www.optimalsolar.energy | President | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | Energy poverty hurts a community's ability to educate, heal, or employ. Energy poverty prevents modern business development and entrepreneurship. Sanitation and other infrastructure services are non-existent in areas where energy poverty exists. Energy poverty and the its associated ills impact up to 20% of the world's population. Further, up to 70% of the energy poor are female. In developing countries, women and girls gather the wood for cooking and to perform other domestic work. As a result, up to 780 million women and girls breath toxic fumes and expose themselves to health and a multitude of other risks. By providing access to energy, economic development, social development, and human development is matched by opportunity. The opportunities are aimed at addressing Affordable and Clean Energy, as well as Climate Action. In visiting Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa, Optimal's leadership saw first hand the need for energy solutions. Given the management team's engineering training and its portfolio of technologies, we believe that our contributions to the world can be met by providing power to the energy poor. To date, we have developed over 24 solar projects including the first African American solar farm in the US. It was from these experiences and the CEO's engineering background, it was decided to invent a high efficiency and lower cost solar technology | Dr. Reginald Parker is Founder of Optimal Corporation (dba Optimal Solar). Optimal is a minority-owned, cleantech firm. Dr. Parker has more than 25 years of experience in technology design and management. He has developed over 15 clean energy and manufacturing technologies, commercialized material and renewable energy technologies, developed and implemented successful business plans, and optimized manufacturing processes and products. Dr. Parker developed a nanobiocomposite which can be used as a semiconductor, solar material, conductive paste, and a structural enhancer. Dr. Parker developed two associated manufacturing process which can be used on a wide class of nanomaterials. A former university professor at Morehouse, FAMU, FSU, and UND for 8 years, Dr. Parker has distinguished himself as a thought leader in business, engineering, and commercialization. Dr. Parker graduated one Ph.D. and four MS students, managed a 14-person research group, was a co-PI on a $2.5 million IDIQ research contract with the Army Research Laboratory, and received several awards for his work as an academician. He was a GEM Fellow, NASA Fellow, NCEA Fellow, Kodak Fellow, Beta Gamma Sigma Inductee, Delores Auzenne Fellow, GA Tech Tower Awardee, GA Tech PPA Fellow, Moot Corp Fellow, MIT’s Karl Taylor Compton Awardee, MIT’s William L. Stewart Awardee, Mobil Scholar, a 3M Scholar, and Who's Who Worldwide. Dr. Parker earned three degrees in Engineering and one in Business Administration: 1.BS in Engineering, MIT (1992) 2.PhD in Engineering, GaTech (2000) 3.MBA in Finance, FSU (2000) | VIA | Ending Energy Poverty | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Currently: US. Intended: West Africa (Liberia, Sierra Leon, Liberia, Nigeria, and Ghana). | Yes | Sienna Group (OEM) | Proof of Concept | We have developed and tested the solution. We will work to test UL soon. | Sunlight is abundant and free, but traditional solar power plants rely on incentives to be cost-competitive with conventional sources of electricity provided (“grid parity”). Solar energy’s competitiveness depends on its ability to minimize the cost of electricity (“COE”) of a solar project. Low fossil fuel prices are driving grid parity lower and current competing PV modules do not yield high enough conversion efficiencies to overcome the COE challenges for solar to fully reach grid parity. | The VIA™ technology is a portfolio of five patent applications making a PV module (and other embodiments) which is a highly disruptive and differentiated PV module. VIA™ has been developed and successfully tested to capture and concentrate sunlight, separate it into visible light and infrared radiation (IR) and efficiently generate electricity through the separated light sources. Through this innovative PV process, VIA™ produces solar energy more efficiently. Furthermore, the module’s design reduces the area needed to generate solar energy. VIA™ will serve as a platform from which other proprietary technologies can be developed. | VIA™ solves a major pain point by helping our customers realize COEs below grid parity. This increases their rate of return for their PV power plants and is made possible by VIA’s ability to produce up to 90% more electricity than current competing PV technologies over a defined operating footprint. In addition, VIA™ reduces the size of a power plant footprint by up to 33%. Finally, VIA™ uses commercial off-the-shelf mounting solutions, thus installation and maintenance are simple and direct and installed cost is on par with conventional PV modules. | Optimal Solar has engaged in talks with four major US utilities, several domestic and international municipalities, and several commercial clients. One of the utilities has requested a pilot facility. This facility is expected to be a 10 kW system with revenues of $30,000 USD. Two of the commercial clients are seeking a solution to improve their operations which include lowering their energy costs for both and improving a drying process for the other. The smaller of the two is a 3 MW rooftop system with revenues of $4,500,000 USD. The larger of the two projects is a 10 MW with revenues of $15,000,000. The project also includes additional energy efficiency installations with revenues estimated at $4,500,000. | By the end of 3Q 2019, Optimal Solar intend to complete all non-recurring engineering work and be ready to submit for UL and IEC listing certification. We seek to achieve UL pending status by end of 1Q 2020 which will enable us to be sales ready. We intend to begin manufacturing by 2Q 2020. Our 3-Year financial projections are listed below. | Optimal Solar is seeking $2,000,000 in seed capital to make VIA™ sales-ready by 1Q 2020 (proposed terms are tranches and use of SAFEs). Uses of funds include: 1. Developing the manufacturing design and process for VIA™ by end of Q3. This will include rigorous testing ensuring the safety of design and performance. 2. Obtaining UL and IEC listing certification for domestic and international sales by end of Q1 2020. 3. Field testing a set of solar arrays to validate performance observed in earlier prototypes. 4. Finance working capital needs for sales, general and administration. Work will include converting our three strategic clients into fully executed contracts. These clients’ interests are currently subject to UL listing certification. | http://www.optimalsolar.energy | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCLm6E8GkmI | Backstage Capital (Headliner 2019) Microsoft for Startups (Since 2019) Clean and Smart Grid 2019 Winner, California Climate Cup Google for Entrepreneurs Exchange: Black Founders (Demo Day Winner 2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
946 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Lauren | Weiniger | SAFE Group | https://www.safehealth.me | Co-founder and President | Female | United States of America | United States of America | English | We would love to present at the UN Solutions Summit because it will give us a widely respected, global platform, to accomplish our mission, to end the spread and stigma of STIs in our lifetime. Technology has radically changed the way we meet, date..and mate. Social networks and dating apps are connecting people like never before, but there are serious unintended consequences with STIs having reached a new ALL TIME HIGH in the U.S., and globally. The problem disproportionately affects young people, minorities, women, and LGBTQ+. 1 in 5 college students will graduate this year with a chronic, incurable STI that can lead to cancer, infertility, even death if left untreated. We hope that with awareness, access, and education, people will be empowered to take control of their sexual health, and stop the exponential rise of STIs around the globe. People can import results from wherever they were last tested, for free, so there is no upfront cost to download or use the app. In the app there will be resources for education about STIs, sexual health, consent, and how to have these difficult discussions with your future partners. We are looking into partnerships in Africa and India to create initiatives where we can offer free STI testing for rural or impoverished populations, as well as solutions that don't involve a phone/internet. | Lauren is Co-Founder and President of SAFE, a sexual health platform with a mission to disrupt the spread of STDs in our lifetime. SAFE lets people show their verified STD status on their phone, and makes it easy and inexpensive to get tested. SAFE’s secure technology platform connects through proprietary integrations with diagnostic labs and health care providers, social media platforms and dating apps, providing the first practical, private, and secure solution to the growing STD epidemic. Previously, Lauren was the CEO of GrowthCity, which worked in partnership with the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce to accelerate growth in Atlanta’s investment and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Lauren was previously Chief of Staff for TAU Investment Management, an impact-focused PE fund based in NYC. She also previously oversaw a portfolio of healthcare startups for a Forbes 50 family office in Los Angeles, and spent several years as a conference director for large-scale investor conferences across the US. An MBA graduate of Oxford University, Lauren serves as an adviser to several companies from start-up through growth, including Glow Concept, GTV, and MashandGrape. She is a member of influencer groups including the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle and Summit Series, is a founding member of Dreamers//Doers, and an ambassador to Breakout. | The SAFE App | SAFE App lets people show their verified STD status privately on their phone, and is the easiest and least expensive way to get tested and treated. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Currently implemented in the United States, with the UK and Canada to be launched soon, but in short order, we plan to be accessible globally | Yes | Mayo Clinic, Quest and LabCorps labs, RB, Epic, Cerner, Mckesson, Sequoia Project, | Scaling | The SAFE App is growing rapidly at over 120% month over month. We have the team and partnerships in place and have proven product market fit. | Healthcare industry players are not providing tools necessary to protect young people. Consumers face serious pain points: Getting tested is either inconvenient/expensive. There's never been an easy/verified way to confirm the status of a potential partner. It’s unnecessarily awkward & stigmatized to have the conversation. Enter SAFE. More than an App, SAFE is a movement to disrupt the spread and stigma of STIs in our lifetime, and to reduce the cost of commodity diagnostics at scale for all. | SAFE works by employing the network effect. Initially targeting women and gay men, we want to empower people to take control of their sexual health, and feel comfortable with having the STI discussion with potential partners. This means getting tested regularly, using a condom, and common sense, with the SAFE app. We are in the process of getting an at home device that can be attached to your phone, through FDA clearance, so we can make testing for STIs and other low complexity care issues even more accessible. In partnership with RB/Durex, we will create a testing kit that is expected to be in 50,000 stores by January 2020. This kit will be used with the device and the SAFE app, so patients never have to leave the comfort of their home (or pay the sometimes outrageous prices of co-pays), and can take care of their health for a low cost, even those who do not have insurance. We want to create accessibility to affordable healthcare for underserved populations around the world. | SAFE is the ONLY app that lets you import your STD status from absolutely anywhere - no matter where you were last tested. The 100% HIPAA-compliant app pulls results directly from the electronic records of your healthcare provider, so there's absolutely no faking it. With the SAFE app you can share your status with potential partners igniting a conversation around safe sex. Test results on the SAFE app, must be updated every six months to stay verified. SAFE also offers the cheapest and easiest STD testing on the market. Our partnerships with major labs Quest and Labcorp, plus our platform partnership with the Mayo Clinic, enables us to offer the most accurate testing at 1/3rd the cost of the next cheapest option, enabling access and affordability for the populations that need it most. | The SAFE App launched on the App Store April 9th, 2019, and on Google Play in June. We already have 30K users and are growing 120% month over month. We have partnerships and direct data integrations with many of the leading players in healthcare, including Quest, Labcorp, EPIC, Cerner, Kaiser, CVS, Mayo Clinic. Next month we launch the SAFE pharmacy for affordable sexual health prescriptions, in partnership with McKesson. We also acquired a device that tests on the spot for all STIs as well as strep throat and UTIs, which will be distributed by RB and fast-tracked through the FDA by the Mayo Clinic. We see STD verification and testing as the perfect case study for our long term goal - drastically reduce the costs of ‘commodity diagnostics and treatment, to create greater efficiency and lower costs, with as or more reliable accuracy. | Right now SAFE Is only available in the U.S., but we are already in discussions with leaders at the NHS and will soon expand into the UK, followed by Brazil and the Philippines. We aim to be available globally by 2021. Our goal is to reduce the spread of STDs in the U.S. by 30% by 2021, and to bring new transmissions of HIV to close to 1% by 2022. | The SAFE Badge is currently live on one dating app, and we have signed deals with three major dating apps that will be announced over the next few months. In order to create the cultural shift we aim to be an expected feature on all dating apps by next year. Importantly, the SAFE Badge will never show someone’s status (test results), as we don’t want to stigmatize but rather incentivise people to get tested and to verify that their partners have been tested. The SAFE Badge on dating apps is a binary indicator saying the person has been tested recently, and can prove it in person with the SAFE App. Short term, as SAFE continues to scale we will need to bring on additional tech and customer support personell. We have systems in place currently and are onboarding additional resources to ensure we are able to support the massive demand for this product. | http://www.safehealth.me http://www.safespace.me http://www.safeapp.me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anlwq-Z2yLo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq7znEiteX8 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2AVNOkQAPo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZifCfX0X8xM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUgLCcKKzm8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4vZ7N1k1kk https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MBBV-y-PtrCk2aw6ncHupTZh54--1mTe/view?usp=sharing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7gYLlh9Aps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NTYmxMN9Bg https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XgYjuVN5T4tdZYOtVAt6qCQEwWxmaQY-/view?usp=sharing | SXSW Pitch Contest Winner Finalist Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Winner: Microsoft Medmo Pitch Competition Winner: Funding Post LA pitch competition Lauren Weiniger awarded Ellis Island Beacon Award for Leadership Winner: Republic Women's Health Tech Innovator Accepted / Completed Mayo Clinic Accelerator Program First ever platform partner with Mayo Clinic Republic Women's Health Tech Innovator Award Rosenman Innovators Award Winner of Google Startup Coil Competition | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
948 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | gloria | marmolejo jaramillo | Consejo Estatal de Ciencia y TEcnología del Estado de Colima | www.cecytcol.gob.mx | General Director | Female | Mexico | Mexico | English | Spanish | The model we are designing is based on demonstrating how the STI is the basis for the construction of the SDGs, and how through knowledge generation we can transform our environment. | I am Gloria Marmolejo Jaramillo, I was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas Mexico and I grew up in the port of Manzanillo, Colima, where my mother was born, my father was a naval engineer of the merchant marine and my mother a housewife dedicated to her family, in addition I had 2 brothers, the youngest died of cancer at 39 after a 16-year fight. My paternal grandfather from whom I obtained a great education, was a recognized businessman who built fishing and shrimp boats in the southern Pacific of Mexico and my maternal grandmother, an accomplished altruistic woman who did not hesitate to help everyone she needed. I studied Computer Science and I specialized in Telecommunications, and Photovoltaic Solar Energy. I have developed my professional career in the Academic sector, in the government sector, in the business sector, in the social sector and I am currently collaborating again with the government of my region contributing knowledge in the search for development. I have 26 years of professional experience, and in the personal area, I am the mother of 2 young people, Maria of 18 years and Carlos of 20, currently studying the career of visual arts and public administration respectively. In sum, I am an accomplished technologist who has developed her expertise in different fields, due to the same transversality of technology. I am committed to my environment and seek to contribute towards a better planet. | STI divulgation and appropriation network for SDGS with the Smart Specialization Stratagies Driver | STI Communication Network for Sustainable Development, which develops dissemination focused on natural vocations and SDGs in the region | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | The strategy of boosting the 2030 agenda through STI using the smart specialization driver, we proposed in May 2018 at the Seville JRC of the European Commission; This initiative has been shared in Mexico and in the Balkans and Africa. | Yes | STI Commission of the National Conference of Governors (CONAGO). The National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACyT), the JRC of SEvilla of the European commission | Proof of Concept | We have created the STI State Network of disseminators for the challenges of Sustainable Development, which communicates in our region with a focus on productive vocations. The vision of the strategy is to sensitize and raise awareness in society of the transformation of its economic and social environment through the generation of knowledge through STI; We will implement the strategy and measure the results. | The lack of knowledge generates lag and inequalities, in a survey conducted by INEGI, the following was revealed: The population considers that we trust in faith and not in STI 49.03% point out that ""Technological development creates an artificial and dehumanized way of life"" 41.4% of respondents consider that ""Some people have psychic powers."" Data are recognized that indicate the need for STI to be considered relevant in the social life of the population. | The STI is the engine of the development of a Region, it allows to generate knowledge that generates Sustained Economic Growth, based on the linkage of the triple helix; Currently, new strategies are being developed so that R + D + I impact on the Social Development of Entities, and this will be achieved through the fivefold helix where the Society and the Environment join. to achieve the development of the regions with a vision of Sustainable Development, considering both the productive vocations and the social challenges of the regions, setting the actions in the R + D + I around the social challenges, one of the efforts more specific is to align the actions to achieve the SDGs stipulated by the UN We have designed a communication strategy of sti, which aims to define a State Network of Reporters for the challenges of Sustainable, professional and certified Development that develops dissemination actions with a focus on natural and productive vocations, as well as the social challenges of region, privileging communities of very high, high and medium marginalization, as well as vulnerable populations and indigenous communities in the region. The vision of the strategy is to sensitize and raise awareness in society of the transformation of its economic and social environment through the generation of knowledge through the STI; thereby achieving a comprehensive social development. | The solution is unique because it is based on the principle that knowledge generates development and efforts are focused or aligned to the natural and productive vocations of the region. that is to say, the productive and social agenda is developed through the STI and with the driver of the intelligent specialization of the regions, managing knowledge to generate sustainable development in the region, from the perspective of the quintuple helix, Government, Academy, Companies , Society and Environment. The basis of the integral growth of a society, is based on knowledge, every human being must have the right and access to the STI to generate manage their own knowledge and therefore their well-being. | We have developed the Scientific Knowledge Dissemination Network focused on Sustainable Development with the intelligent specialization driver, based on the region where the model will be implemented today, using STI statistics and indicators and at the same time using data and indicators from the platform 2030 Agenda of the Federal Government of Mexico. Currently, the model and activities that will be carried out during the pilot project process will begin, which will begin on September 1, 2019 and will end on April 30, 2020. During this period a series of activities will be developed in the different points of the region, focused on social challenges and aligned with the productive vocations of the development poles of the region to be modeled. The activities are framed in the 17 SDGs and there will be a general coordinator and a communication strategy that generates, in turn, human capital in scientific journalism. Communicating actions and raising society's awareness of current challenges is an important part of the strategy. At the end of the project, we can identify the impact that the actions had on the specific SDGs in the region. | The main milestone is to position in the political and social agenda, the use of the STI as an engine for sustainable development of the regions. governments and companies must invest more and more in the STI, the academy must generate knowledge that is linked to the sectors of society, so that it can generate an impact on it. The main objective is to empower society in knowledge, so that it can generate changes in its environment and generate its own development. ""A society empowered in knowledge is a free society"" Our vision is to be able to implement a network of dissemination and appropriation of scientific knowledge focused on the objectives of sustainable development and aligned with the productive and natural vocations of the regions, throughout Latin America. We only inhabit a planet and it is time to take care of it | It is important to implement a digital platform for measuring and monitoring STI indicators correlated with the SDGs, as well as an international linking platform of the STI knowledge network for SDGs. In addition to the medium and long term, it is important to implement centers for the appropriation of scientific knowledge that allows society to appropriate knowledge and apply it, driven by actions of Social Innovation and Transformative Innovation. | www.cecytcol.col.gob.mx @cecytcol https://www.facebook.com/www.cecytcol.col.gob.mx/ | https://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/-/mexico-governmental-visit-to-dg-jrc-seville-to-explore-avenues-for-further-cooperation-on-smart-specialisation?inheritRedirect=true http://www.sfsa.co.za/sfsa2018/smart-specialization-empowering-local-communities-to-shape-innovation-led-socio-economic-transformation-agendas/ @gloriamarmolejo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
949 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | David | Sands | The Toothpick Project (The Toothpick Co. Ltd. Kenya) | www.toothpickproject.org | chief innovator, co-founder, board of directors, professor | male | United States of America | United States of America | English | I've dedicated my life to agriculture research. Every project was driven by a benefit to humanity and the environment. With this project, all the pieces have fallen into place for success. In my 10+ years working against the weed, Striga, I've been motivated by some leading factors: eliminating hunger, reducing poverty, achieve equity for women farmers (and their daughters who want to attend school), end chemical pollution that is impacting our soil, water, and foods, create jobs, and work in partnership. With these driving forces and motivation, it is obvious how the SDGs fit with our work. I have an additional concern of a global scope. Chemical management systems are the leading solution for weed control. However, the industry is struggling: weeds are increasingly resistant to the chemicals (there are super-weeds, like antibiotic-resistant super-bugs); and, farmers and consumers are concerned about potential toxins on their food and in the environment. A game-changer is required. We envision a shift in weed management, mobilizing our safer, more effective technology. We were recently invited to attend the XPrize Future of Food Roadmap Lab to help shape future competitions on food. Part of the process was to identify the problems - ranging from nutrition to waste, to land use, to growing populations, to pest management, to culture. As an innovator, I was able to suggest potential breakthroughs such as 3D printed seeds (conceptually grafted at the seed stage), enhancing precipitation by planting seeds with ice-nucleating bacteria to cause rainfall, and this big idea, bioherbicides. Indeed, innovation is our way forward to solve our global food issues. This is exactly why I started the Biotechnology major at Montana State University - to cultivate students who think outside disciplinary silos and see the connections between the laboratory and the humanity and world it can impact. At the UN Solutions Summit, I'd like to address our new technology - and discuss how it can break through in a market dominated by the chemical industry. And, I'd like to show how Africa is leading the way in global bioherbicide development. | David Sands, professor, Montana State University. Co-founder of The Toothpick Project. Sands received a Charles Lindberg Award and two Bill and Melinda Gates GCE awards. The first GCE was 2013 Biological control of Striga in Kenya, where enhanced strains of a friendly fungus were used to safely and effectively knock out the worst weed in Africa. The most recent GCE was granted in 2018 to conduct a proof of concept: Plasmid Curing in Calf Scours in Brazil. Sands founded the Biotechnology curriculum at Montana State University, was PI of a USAID Project involving barley genetics and pathology in 11 countries, and was the leader in USDA biocontrol projects. He is a PI on a current NSF-RAINS grant. Sands was instrumental in reporting the observation of ice nucleating bacteria and their possible role in precipitation. He coined the term Bioprecipitation – now a hot topic with the drought, flooding and fires created by a combination of the two. He has developed nutritional crops for food-related diseases (Celiac disease, Type 2 diabetes). Sands has authored over 150 peer reviewed papers, and some poetry including this one: Nzioki HS, Oyosi F, Morris C, Kaya E, Pilgeram A, Baker C, Sands D.C. 2016, Striga biocontrol on a toothpick: A readily deployable and inexpensive method for smallholder farmers. Frontiers in Plant Sci. 7: Article 1121: Toothpickproject.org. ph.d. 1969, University of California, Berkeley, B.S. 1963 Pomona College | The Toothpick Project: Improving Food Security through Biocontrol Innovation | A Toothpick and a Foxy Fungus Can Help Smallholder Farmers Control Weeds | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Our pilot project social enterprise launched in Kenya in 2018. In 2018, we trained 12 early/mid-career scientists from research organizations in Uganda, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Cote d’Ivoire, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Mali, and Ghana. | Yes | Partners are Plant Pathologists at Montana State University, Virginia Tech, and Kansas State Univ., and for International collaboration Welthungerhilfe and 12 countries in Sahara Africa mentioned above. | Transition to Scale | We completed a decade of research to develop the technology for metabolic selection of virulence enhanced plant pathogens, specifically focusing on Striga. In 2014-15, we conducted proof-of-concept trials with 500 maize farmers in western Kenya (Gates funded) resulting in yield increases of 42-56%. We launched a pilot social enterprise in Kenya in 2018, anticipating our product approved by the end of 2019. In 2018, we trained mid-career scientists in 11 more countries to build our science base. | Striga is an increasingly destructive invasive parasitic weed on 40 million farms, affecting 300 million people across sub-Saharan Africa. Attacking the roots of maize, sorghum, millet, cowpeas, and upland rice, it depletes crop yield by 20-100%, resulting in a lack of sustenance and income for farmers. Striga infests 50 million hectares of African croplands, causing $9 billion in annual crop loss. 70%+ of maize farmers are women. Striga is considered the #1 pest threat in African food security. | For decades plant pathologists have tried to use plant pathogens to control weeds, but they have not found pathogens that work any near as well as the chemical herbicides. This does not have to be the case. Weeds are inhibited by certain amino acids and these can be sprayed directly on plants. A more sophisticated solution is tod select for pathogens that produce amino acids as they attack the plant directly. We have done this with a fungus (Fusarium oxysporum) that attacks Striga, the worst weed for smallholder farmers in Africa. The virulence of the fungus was raised from approximately 40% kill to over 90%, giving 500 maize smallholder farmers in Kenya an increase in yield of 40-55%. The FOXY fungus can be cheaply produced and distributed on a toothpick. The farmer inoculates it into cooked rice producing active on farm inoculum that is applied at her planting of maize. This system of biocontrol is now in scale up transition to 11 other countries where Striga is a serious problem for smallholder farmers. The long-term vision is that we will best solve biological problems with biological solutions. Development of a global network of plant pathologists committed to the development of safe and cost effective bioherbicides will be an important step toward many of the Sustainable Development goals. | This is a game changing approach to agricultural sustainability and food security. While chemical herbicides offer immediate solutions to weed problems, we are now seeing their unintended consequences of human and environmental exposure. Plant pathogens can be used to control weeds, and if they are sufficiently virulent, they can be inexpensively produced for distribution to smallholder farmers who can produce their own secondary inoculum, on farm. Seed transmission on non-host seed is another method of distributing bioherbicides to the soil where they are known to persist. These options present different business models for technology transfer - biological solutions to sustainability are very different from traditional chemical approaches. It should be noted that, despite many efforts, there are not any commercially available bioherbicides, mainly because plant pathogens for this use must be host specific, non-toxigenic, and highly virulent. The last criterion is the stumbling block, but we have developed a virulence enhancement technology that creates highly effective long term weed control.and there will likely need to be development of some new paradigms of technology transfer from the laboratory to the field. There are some Striga-management technologies but, they haven’t been widely adopted by farmers due to mismatches between technologies, socio-economic conditions, safety, effectiveness, and availability. Costs often exceed the farmers’ economic means. | The technology involving the use of enhanced plant pathogens for weed control had to be developed in a country where there were smallholder farmers with no alternative controls of weeds available. Our first metric surprised us. The smallholder farmers that we employed to put out field trials of fungi started expropriating the fungi for use in their own farms. Then in our 500 farm paired plot experiments, the yield increases over untreated controls were very significant (42-56% average increases). All 500 farmers signed up for a second season. When we put out a training call, over 50 scientists working on Striga applied for 12 positions. We had our first training session in 2018 and the scientists have now started isolation and testing of FOXY fungi for Striga biocontrol in 11 countries. Our measurements of impact involve yield increase, farmer satisfaction criteria, impact in terms of NGO participation, and regulatory agency acceptance. We launched our pilot social enterprise, The Toothpick Company Ltd. in Kakamega, Kenya, in 2018. We've raised funds to cover most of the scale-up process in Kenya (DBU German Environmental Fund, Welthungerhilfe, and private donors). | We are aiming for introduction of this bioherbicide throughout Sub Saharan Africa where Striga is a principal problem. Maize is not the only crop effected by striga. Sorghum, millet, rice and wheat (new report) are also parasitized by Striga and our goals must include control of Striga in these crops. As with maize, our milestones are 1. Development of enhanced strains in the laboratory; 2. Field testing for efficacy; 3. Toxicity testing to assure farmer safety; 4 Registration of the fungi and production facilities; 5. Acceptance of NGO’s and implementation into their integrated pest management programs. These milestones will be assessed for each of 11 countries following the Kenya model of FOXY bioherbicide development. We’ve selected 17 countries for scientific capacity building, trials, partnership development, and registration. We are clustering these countries by the African Trade Zones. | The most relevant resource is the scientific infrastructure for this new technology. The scientists that applied for the training described above, had to have worked with the Striga problem, and they had to have their institute’s approval of continuance beyond training. Most of the scientists had facilities in place for standard plant pathological research although upgrading is often desired. Scale-up will require production of toothpicks and seed treatment. Short term: resourse requirements include transportation to training workshops and for in country field surveys. Medium term; resource requirements include labor and supplies for virulence enhancement experiments and field-testing expenses associated with registration. DNA fingerprinting and toxin testing expenses will need to be covered. Long term: Resourses will be needed to provide for large scale production of primary inoculum and for training for NGO adaption of the technology. The objective is to make bioherbicide production a self-sustaining project, funded by sales of inoculum. If done, other ventures into biocontrol can thus be supported. Currently, every country in Africa requires separate product registration (including years of trials, ecotox testing, etc.). There are ongoing proposals within trade zones to begin collaborative registration processes. We are hoping to see these come to fruition (and have volunteered to participate as a poster child). | www.toothpickproject.org Nzioki et al., 2016. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2016.01121/full. https://patents.justia.com/patent/6673746 https://patents.justia.com/patent/5538890 https://patents.justia.com/patent/6403530 Ejeta and Gressel, 2007. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303415720_Integrating_new_technologies_for_striga_control_Towards_ending_the_Witch-Hunt Biocontrol Africa, https://www.newaginternational.com/index.php/en/conferences/our-conferences/1481-biocontrol-presentations. Sands and Pilgeram, 2009. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19288472. Sands et al. 2009. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168945209002167?via%3Dihub https://www.bfi.org/ideaindex/projects/2017/toothpick-project https://youtu.be/YD38kjJqyiE | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFuvOB7FByw&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9ZeYxoWsuk https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2016.01121/full http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/multimedia/player/david_sands https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/its-buggy-out-there.html https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/science/25snow.html | Moonshot Fellow – Mozambique 2018, Kravis Lab for Social Impact (winner - fellowship held by Claire Baker, The Toothpick Project director) Biocontrol Africa 2018 – two keynote presentations SOCAP 2018, 2017 – Entrepreneur scholar (held by Claire Baker, The Toothpick Project Director) MassChallenge 2017 Finalist, Boston 2017 Blackstone Launchpad 406Labs Charter Entrepreneur, Montana State University 2017 Buckminster Program Catalyst Program 2013 Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration grant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
950 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Javier Francisco | Ortiz | Gaia Foundation | www.gaiacr.org | President of the organization | Male | Costa Rica | Costa Rica | English | Spanish | We are absolutely sure that we are doing what we all know what needs to be done to slow climate change: create the solution in the education of our children. Our project is making a reality, at a national level, at least four resolutions of the United Nations. So the 2019 US Solutions Summit is the best place and the best time for our proyect to be known in the world. Those US resolutions are: (1) April 22 proclaimed as International Mother Earth Day to promote a life in harmony with Nature and Earth; (2) the First Resolution on Harmony with Nature, to promote activities and exchange views on the conditions and principles necessary to build that life; (3) June 21 proclaimed as International Yoga Day to take advantage of yoga and meditation to lead people to create a new connection with the earth and to participate actively with climate change; (4) the Seventh Resolution of Harmony with Nature to adopt holistic and integrated approaches of sustainable development as it is learned and professed by indigenous cultures. As can be seen in the link on the history of the project, in Costa Rica we are developing a successful collaborative project with the participation of ALL Indigenous Peoples, to create conscious, healthy and sustainable lifestyles through public education with yoga and meditation. After 35 years of work and research, to take it nationally we are only lacking the support of the experts and the sponsorship that the Summit can offer us. | Javier is a sociologist, anthropologist, transpersonal psychologist, sexologist, holistic therapist and president of the Gaia Foundation. Graduated in Tibetan yoga and meditation, body therapy, Touch for Health, hypnotherapy, acupressure and tantra. In the 80 he studied with Stanislav Grof and Alexander Lowen. In the 90s it caused a cultural change in sexuality, gender and environment, making Gaia declared of public utility and all its activities of public and national interest. In 2012, he created an alliance with the Original Peoples around a Declaration of Principles, an Agreement of Peace and Well-being Mother Earth (see), a new holistic health model and the project Paths of Peace Mother Earth. With his proposal he managed to sign the executive decree Madre Tierra (2016) and declare Yoga and meditation (2018) Public Utility, achieving the necessary legal basis to bring both disciplines to public education. He currently provides education with the Morpho Method through yoga, meditation labyrinths, complementary therapies and collective action, teaches Gaia Yoga and Tantra for the soul and directs a program to take his method to public education, wellness tourism and the CSR program in harmony with nature. http://www.harmonywithnatureun.org/profile/Yd4NVGRdhmSijTAabmpLqKufesTMHy+mErAEYCf8LJXFRwm8WN80slFD7LZVaOeuNgzkQhEbltkG0icPv8Q3mQ== | Yo Soy la Respuesta (I am the Answer) | Saving the world through yoga and meditation in public school settings. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Costa Rica | No | Transition to Scale | I Am the Answer is at the transitioning stage to a much larger scale inside Costa Rica because we have already concluded the pilot educational processes and are now establishing the replicable program. We aren't fully expanding yet because of the need of funding. | It takes into account the dimension of personal responsibility in terms of global impact, to promote concrete actions from the community so that it becomes part of the solution to the imminent threats of Global Warming. It focuses on promoting an evolved way of living with planetary consciousness in the formal education environment, which has a great difficulty doing so on its own. | We are absolutely sure that with adequate support from the United Nations and UNESCO, we can make the proposal of Mr Modi, Prime Minister of India to be developed worldwide. That is, we believe that the 500 million people who do yoga every week are enough to cause a worldwide change by reducing, measuring and compensating their personal carbon footprint in indigenous territory. If at the same time Costa Rica manages to initiate the educational program at the national level and the United Nations supports us in promoting the Mother Earth Peace and Welfare Agreement, we can produce a worldwide impact and wake up those who have not yet wanted to get involved in the true solution. We always show this with the words of one of our girls, who usually makes the following observation to her listeners and readers: do you think you already understood what your personal responsibility to climate change is? Have you measured and offset your personal carbon footprint? If you have not done it, do it today, and do not come to teach the children anything else until you have not done so! Please realize that doing so causes us to lose faith even in adults who know what is happening and say they are doing something about it. Because if you don't know that you are the answer, it's because you still don't know the question! | Its an educational program like no other in the world. One that pictures a whole and conscious individual, that understands their personal power inside the solutions for the climate crisis the world is going through. It teaches kids, teachers, and communities to understand that if you are at peace with your own self, you can be at peace with the environment that not only surrounds you, but that is the same form of life that all of us are. Planet Earth should be taken care of like a mother and this idea was specially endorsed by the UNs Harmony With Nature. It endorsed the Morpho methodology we use as a tool for self awareness and appreciation, which naturally induces a process of personal transformation into the individual ideal form of being and construction of the life they wish to have. Individuals recognize themselves, their intrinsic creative capacity, empower themselves and understand they have the ability to create their own reality. They understand they can choose between reproducing their old habits of consumption or changing them and taking into account marine life, taking into account that there are options that reduce pollution. They learn how to change their own habits like eating habits, exercise, sleep, taking care of themselves, and they understand they are a whole individual with thoughts, feelings and a personal and unique light. All is done with environmental education through yoga and meditation based on the Morpho method created by Fundación Gaia. | Our team is developing a measurable and scalable educational process. Right now, we are being able to reproduce the I am the Answer program outside the initial project area with the help of key interested and committed individuals. Our objective is to visit all public schools in Costa Rica. We are advanced in that objective because we got an Declaration of Educational Interest by the Ministry of Education and a Work Plan approved by them also, which means we have permission to visit schools during school hours if the director of the school agrees, making it part of the official curricular grid. Finally, in addition to the programs and guides for teachers we are creating, we are testing out evaluative measures to decide what's the optimal one of them. Up until now, we have lots of qualitative measures and data obtained through observation in each of the groups visited. | The increase in greenhouse gases is a visible fact of global warming whose causes lie in the proliferation of styles of life and production without planetary awareness, and in the predominance of economic and political decisions over and above environmental decisions benefitting the great majorities and peoples of Planet Earth. Events have demonstrated the failure of attempts by traditional education to achieve a change of consciousness, and the failure of diplomatic and political means to generate a change in styles of life and production for the benefit of Mother Earth. For the Gaia, diplomatic and political means failed in that the Paris Agreement and Agenda 2030 omitted the dimension of personal responsibility with global effect. These means were also ineffective in inducing citizens to take concrete actions to stop being part of the problem and become part of the solution. For this, it is necessary to generate a process of personal transformation leading people to build conscious, healthy and sustainable lifestyles, in harmony with their nature, family, community and Mother Earth. Gaia’s contribution is to make each person part of the solution through the signature and compliance of the Mother Earth Peace and Wellness Agreement (Mother Earth Agreement) by promoting personal, civic and corporate responsibility toward the goal of making Costa Rica a carbon-neutral country and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). | Short term (3 months) Financial resources (financial support through sponsors) and human resources (at least one person working full time) Medium term (6 months) Financial resources (sponsors and financial advice), human resources (keep the person full time and add an educator working part time), material resources (to develop the activities and events of the project and a computer for each of the educators of the project) . Long term (1 year) Financial resources (sponsors and financial advice), human resources (keep the educator working full time and the educator working part time), material resources (to develop activities and events of the program) and technological resources (to scale it’s essential to develop an app for the project) | Noticia Teletica: http://bit.ly/yogateletica Noticia La República: http://bit.ly/yogarepublica Gaia website: https://gaiacr.org/ Project website: https://gaiacr.org/yo-soy-la-respuesta-2/ Project History and UN resolutions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mw5hBfaS5R2RMIv_RLcwL7omMQ_uYOTA/view?usp=sharing Javier Francisco Ortiz Gaia President and UN independent Expert biography: http://www.harmonywithnatureun.org/profile/Yd4NVGRdhmSijTAabmpLqKufesTMHy+mErAEYCf8LJXFRwm8WN80slFD7LZVaOeuNgzkQhEbltkG0icPv8Q3mQ== 2017 Schmidheiny VIVA Awards Third place in latin america: http://www.vivaidea.org/blog/post/conoce-a-los-ganadores-de-los-viva-premios-schmidheiny Organization of Ibero-American States II Edición del Premio de Educación en Derechos Humanos ""Oscar Arnulfo Romero 2017"" Winner: https://www.oeicostarica.org/Oei/Noticia/entrega-reconocimiento-organizacion-sociedad-civil | Videos: I am the answer graduation: http://bit.ly/graduationvideo21 Corporate social responsibility in harmony with nature: http://bit.ly/rsegaia I Am the Answer: http://bit.ly/yosoylarespuestavideo I am the Answer document: http://bit.ly/documentoYSR Child teacher: http://bit.ly/ninamaestra I Am the Answer Inauguration: http://bit.ly/inauguracionysr | Endorsed by the UN, from its office of Harmony with Nature, as an example of the new paradigm based on the Jurisprudence of the Earth. Also recognized as a model project, in Report A / 73/221 of the Secretary General, presented at the 73 session of the GA First place at the 2nd Ibero-American Human Rights Education Award “Oscar Arnulfo Romero 2017” sponsored by the Organization of Ibero-American States for Science, Education and Culture. Third place in the VIVA 2017 Schmidheiny Awards. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
951 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Sebastian | Jaramillo | Tirando x Colombia | Tirandoxcolombia.com | Founder | Male | Colombia | Colombia | English | Spanish | What better motivation to talk about sex to reduce poverty. What is cooler than that? Our solution can help reduce the poverty trap of teenage pregnancy in latinAMERICA. We are so close to scale our solution. | Social entrepreneur. Built the first payment processor for the unbaked in Colombia. Worked at the UNDP centre for public digital innovation. Created Tirando X Colombia, to en a social problem from the conception root. | TxC transmedia kit to prevent teenage pregnancy. | The cure for unwanted teenage pregnancy in a box to ship to schools. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Colombia and intend to scale to latam. | Yes | 21 alliances, national and international. Including the profesor that one best school teacher of the year for reducing from 70 to 0 cases of teenage pregnancy. | Transition to Scale | We tested positive on 10 schools. Now we have the road map to build a solution for forming teachers remotely. Keeping the same theory of change output metrics with out our presence. By shipping a box with al the tools and guidence needed. | Poverty. In Colombia, and not so different in latam, 1 of every 5 teenager is or has been pregnant. And this is the second cause of school disertion. | Has a well proven theory of change that works to prevent teenage pregnancy. We are building a method to put all tools and guidence needed in a box. So we can massively ship boxes to all schools in latam, and without our presence maintain theory of change output metrics. | It uses internet of things, big data and human center design to guarantee and monitor theory of change output metrics. | We have the theory of change positively measure with methodological rigor in 10 schools. We have the rout to design it, and will have the minimum scalable impact product by November. | 1. Finish the box and test in 5 schools. 2. Test on 100 schools. 3. Build a strong Storytelling crowdfunding to massively scale. | Short term. Credibility Middle term. Operation scalability Long term. Brand building. | https://noticias.caracoltv.com/es-el-momento-de-todos/tirando-x-colombia-asi-se-habla-de-sexo-sin-tapujos Www.tirandoxcolombia.com | https://www.pictame.com/user/tirandoxcol/5963407890 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
952 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Christian C | Anyanwu | Cmaxdatanigeria | N/A | Public Health Research Consultant | Male | United States of America | Nigeria | English | The reason behind my motivation to be a part of the UN Solution; is based on my research findings on Early Child Marriage in Nigeria which focuses attentions on the Socio-Economic implications; Health and Psychological implications; political and Legal impacts. As a matter of urgency to the global world, I want a o use to the point this opportunity to bring to the knowledge of the global society that Early Child Marriage in Nigeria or anywhere in the world is a Crime against the Girl Child and Women in general. It is a problem confronting national and international development with special considerations on UN 2030 agenda. Early Child Marriage is associated with many problems that demands global solutions because it is affecting the larger society. Take for instance, it encourages poverty and hunger; increase in maternal mortality rate; poor health living conditions and wellbeing; gender inequality and discrimination, Girl Child Rights abuse and Child Brides; lack of education and women empowerment. Using Nigeria as a case stud, according to UNIVEF report 2014, Sub-Sahara Africa will have the largest number of the global share of Child bride but in Africa, Nigeria is expected to have the largest absolute number of Child Bride by 2050, Because of population growth and this practice under socio-cultural and Religious pretense. Considering the prevalence rate of 43% of young girls married off before their 18th birthday, 17% married off before their 15th birthday, without respect to their consent and human rights, the girl Child and women n general are the Most-At-Risk population. I want to speak to the global body concerning this unchecked trend because research and Statistics alone is not enough and Connor solve this global phenomenon. I want to create awareness campaigns and advocate for the rights of the victims to be respected, seek for support for the evidence based research findings and partnerships with voluntary organization that has interest in girl Child’s Right, her education, development and women empowerment in general. Because I am, interested in UNA 2030 agenda, I want to make my own positive contribution through a solution that would change the trend from Early Child Marriage to Early Girl Child Education. | I am Christian C Anyanwu, I have first degree in Biochemistry and a Post graduate Diploma on Gender and development studies. I have well over 7 years experience working as a research monitoring and evaluation consultant in public health. | Eradication of Early Child Marriage or Child Bride | Early Child Marriage in Nigeria | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Nigeria, Africa and to the global world | Yes | Rights-Watch legal Practitioners &Consultant | Research & Development | Basically, this research work has a lot to learn as a baseline study even though various institutions and private organizations has made significant efforts. Generally before anyone proffers solution to a problem, it is very important to conduct a well designed integrated approach to research in order to have useful informations and the right knowledge. The establishment of problem statement, Early Child Marriage is a Crime any where in the world. | My solution seek to address the following goals of SDGs1,2,34&5. | Through knowledge sharing of research findings. To encourage gender responsive program, Access to education, Access to | Because is on evidence based research findings. | Through research, Monitoring and Evaluation | Expand to other African countries and beyond. Conducting similar research on evidence based information and knowledge sharing, creating awareness campaigns and advocacy. Looking forward to change the narrative from Early Child Marriage or Child Bride to Early Child Education, development and empowerment. According UN report on education, about 262 Million Children are out of School; 617 Million lack proficiency; 750 million adult still remain illiterate while 1 out 5 children aged 6-17!. | Government support because of the legal implications. Partnerships with UN UNICEF, Volunteer group and other organizations that has interest on Child Rights to Education, development and wellbeing. Partnership with socio-Cultural and religious institutions etc. financial support for more research findings and dissemination. | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
953 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Edwin Maria | John | Neighbourhood Community Network | www.childrenparliament.in | Director,Global Outreach | Male | India | India | English | We have been promoting a solution that would have great relevance for all SDGs, and for governance in general. Just a few weeks back we coined a new name for this: Neighborocracy. We identified helplessness or powerless of people as one of the two root problems behind the various evils today. People need to have a system where they can have an effective ongoing voice. Not just a few but all. Not just during the once-in-five-year or so elections but throughout. This meant inclusive, talking-forums (""parliaments"") for people, forums that are neighborhood-based, well-federated at various levels of governance in a numerically uniform pattern, small-sized at every level, with scope any day to recall elected representatives elected from one level to the next, and acting on the principles of subsidiarity, convergence, consent-based decision-making and election-process of sociocracy. This we projected the blueprint for a new world-governance-from-below. http://www.childrenparliament.in/Documents/bravenewworld.pdf. We could see hope-giving initiatives in this regard, the examples being the 289,00 neighbourhood groups ( ayalkkoottams) of Kerala State, India, www.kudumbashree.org and the Neighbourhood Assemblies (Ayal Sabhas) of the local governance in the same State, both of which have a three-tier federation and have won international awards and appreciation. We started Inclusive Neighbourhood Children's Parliaments (INCPs) and their multi-tier federations as a way to help children live this dream and make a contribution. We found that INCPS can be the best way to ensure child-led action for SDGs in every nook and corner of the world. We wanted to create alliances of interested organizations and individuals, at various levels to promote this. Hence our motivation to join UN Summit Solutions summit. | Born in 1945 in India, i was a child with a lot of flair for reading and initiatives. A child leader, I organized children's clubs, drama clubs, library public meetings and the like. After High School, I studied for Catholic priesthood. Along the process, I read a lot on motivational psychology, group dynamics, group power and the like. After my ordination as a priest in 1970 started organizing a lot of youth groups. and conducted leadership courses for the grown-ups. In 1975 to 1977 while doing a master's course in journalism I got even more convinced of the decisive role of groups in effecting social change. At this time the Basic Community movement in Latin America alerted me to the possibility of making the groups inclusive and to the power that could come from federating groups through representative structures. I experimented the same in a parish organizing 17 neighborhood communities of about thirty families each. The experiment had a ripple effect leading to hundreds of thousands of neighbourhood-based groups and federations. This made me evolve the concept of a new political and economic world order of governance from below, and power remaining at the base. through principles of smallness, numerical uniformity, subsidiarity, recall, and convergence. Eventually, we heard of non-divisive decision-making and election process of sociocracy and integrated them To help realize this new world order, we organized also Inclusive Neighbourhood Children's Parliaments and their federations. We are being invited to various countries to share the dream and success stories. | SDG-focussed Inclusive Neighbourhood Parliaments of Children and Federations | Child-led, neighborhood-based, SDG-focussed, globally federated action forums | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 14. Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | tion"" and ""neighborhoodization"" in India and we have a stronger presence there. Now the concept has travelled to various countriesept of children's parliaments have travelled wide | Yes | Over the years we partnered in big and small ways with UNICEF, Christobel Blenden Mission, Everychild, Save the Children. , | Transition to Scale | The concept of INCPs has now been traveling to various countries. People from various countries are inviting us to share the concept. Some beginnings are also there in signing up memorandums of understanding with government departments. But we need a lot more advocacy to get the program upscaled as an integral process in schools all over as practice-based education for (global) citizenship. We need advocacy also to government departments related to SDGs to this child-led action seriously. | People, especially children, do not have forums or a mechanism, inclusive and well-federated, where not just a few but every child can come together in every neighborhood, and at wider levels to discuss issues, make decisions, act in a sustained manner and contribute to solution of issues small and big and thereby be groomed for collaborative citizenship and proactive leadership. Such neighborhood-based, child-led forums can also ensure that every neighborhood in the world echoes with SDGs. | We organize children as inclusive, territory-based neighborhood units of about 30 children each. in residential neighborhoods or in schools. We call them Inclusive Neighbourhood Children's Parliaments (INCPs). Some schools have about forty such units functioning in the same school and meeting every week for an hour. The membership of each INCP is not according to the classes or grades the children study but according to the residential neighborhoods they hail from. Every child is made a minister. 17 such child ministers in each INCP are for the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The weekly one hour meetings alternate between neighborhood-based parliaments meetings of territory-based parliaments and the theme-based meetings of various ministries. A handbook gives dozens of action-suggestions on each ministry. Children get theme-based inputs and deepening in ministry meetings and discuss and decide about territory-focussed action-responses in their neighborhood-based parliament meetings. The INCPs are federated at the levels the school/ward, local governance, sub-district, district, state, and nation. Now we are on for international and global parliaments of children. Children achieve a lot through these structures. They have planted trees. They have conducted rallies for the environment. They have ensured clean water supply. They have brought child laborers to school, they have created awareness regarding dengue fever. They have stopped child marriages etc. | Ours is not a mock-parliament that we have in some schools. Our INCPs are small-sized units. ' Our INCPs are inclusive Our INCPs are not isolated units. They are territorially federated making the children's voice heard art ever wider level Our ICPS are targetting not just a few children but all children. our INCPs are a comprehensive and integral approach. Through its ministries' structures, it can handle many issues at the same time. As regards SDGs, for example, it can handle all the SDGs simultaneously, ensuring due attention to each goal, convergence and multi-sided awareness growth in children regarding the challenges the world presents. | We have created the theoretical framework and the strategy We have piloted models and demonstrated the efficacy. We have unpteen success stories. We have got federations created in some places. We created animators' handbooks and meeting modules and training materials. We have trained various people as trainers and concept promoters. We have taken the concept to various countries But we don't have the adequate staff to keep monitoring and measuring with methodological rigor, as regards INCPs. In general, the progress could be measured by the number of INCP-units started, the periodicity or frequency of their meetings, the presence of SDG-focused ministers in each INCP, success stories or achievements of these parliaments and ministries etc. | Our ultimate goal is to have for children a global structure for inclusive participation that starts from below. All the children in the world get included in this process and make a contribution. Our milestones: - Forming alliances of interested UN bodies, INGOs, FBOs, CBOs, etc at global, regional, national, state and district levels. Evolving processes for convergent impact for child-led SDG action at the base and various other levels. - Global communication campaign: concept promotion using social media; mass media; stories, novels, feature films, songs, art forms site. - Setting up a nucleus global action team or staff (with a minimum number at New York and the rest in developing countries so as to cut down cost) - Literature (handbooks, meeting modules, etc.) in all major languages. Websites and social media sites. - Training of Trainers at various levels. - Starting INCPs in at least in half the countries of the world with a focus on those who show interest first. - .Electing child ministers in each INCP for SDGs and other relevant concerns. - Federating INCPs through representatives at the levels of local governance, district, state, etc. - Linking child ministers as theme-based federations (e.g. getting all the child-ministers-for-quality-education federated at various levels), and linking them with related organizations/movements of grown-ups, at respective levels. - Virtual or in-person meetings at various levels for sharing stories, action, and advocacy. | Clear details regarding resource needs will be worked out while the core supportive alliance of INGOs and others get formed. We are in the process of getting this alliance formed. Once this is formed we will jointly plan the various steps and identify the various needs together. That said, we project tentatively that resources will be needed for the following needs: Short term - A seed fund to get relevant projects and plans drafted and start moving - A skeleton-office around UN in New York for contacts, support mobilization, and advocacy . (A director and an intern) - Advertising through social media in various languages Medium - Supportive staff in a developing country where salaries would not be forbiddingly high. - Relevant literature in various languages - Websites in various languages - Art-based campaigns to get the concepts and visions internalised' - Training of trainers - Federating INCPs at various levels - Supportive alliances at various levels Long term - meetings at various levels of the federation of INCPs, in person or online - meetings, in person, of INCPs at the global level as an annual feature - advocacy action at various levels - efforts to make the processes self-sustaining/ provisions for the continued support | www. childrenparliament.in; https://www.facebook.com/neighbourhoodchildrenparliament/ ; https:ncnworld.org http://www.childrenparliament.in/Documents/bravenewworld.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqMx5JzrRA8&t=19s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5OIi942xX8&t=82s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd6tfDFEliE&feature=em-share_video_user https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd6tfDFEliE&feature=em-share_video_user https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehcyBlIqf1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haGz44C5o5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5OIi942xX8&t=82s https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=edwin+maria+john https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTcANOOEbZQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF8DRw43emo&t=236s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOB3cMchag0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UtkZRMvbpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PuJ2HOZkk8&t=99s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd6tfDFEliE&t=353s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdvrKNe_51I&t=25s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fWNKGJhrtQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-03i_nLOf8&t=16s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H68UaLJqpuQ&t=4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2Yh-DMXegE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7EJNwXm2nc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5nytvFgBwo&t=80s | Our Taminadu-Pondicherry State Parliament of Children won in 2009 the global UN-San Marino Alexander Bodini Award for the Best Child-led Organization for Child Rights Action In the State of Kerala,India, Kudumbashree, a government-promoted organization that echoes the principles of ""neighborhoodization"" and ""smallification"" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
954 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Emily | Jacobi | Digital Democracy | https://www.digital-democracy.org | Founder & ED | female | United States of America | United States of America | English | I would be thrilled to participate in the UN Solutions Summit: 1) for the chance to represent Digital Democracy & the solution we have been co-building with indigenous partners from the Amazon 2) for the opportunity to connect with other leading changemakers from around the globe 3) most of all to learn from the incredible community at the Summit Since my early years as a youth journalist, I've been motivated by how building bridges across the things that divide us can lead to innovative solutions. As a journalist, I profiled many of these solutions. Twelve years ago, doing research with refugees in Southeast Asia, I was asked to share my skills as a media-maker & technologist, so that others could tell their own stories. That formed the basis of my co-founding Digital Democracy, and since then I have been lucky enough to collaborate with local partners on innovative projects around the world, all locally led & addressing the problems most important to our partners. I believe that the most effective solutions are designed by the people most affected by a problem, and through Digital Democracy we've been working to ensure that these people have the tools & support they need to design such solutions. | Emily Jacobi is the Founder and Executive Director of Digital Democracy, whose mission is to support marginalized communities using technology to defend their rights. Beginning her career as a youth journalist at the age of 13, she has led technology, media and research projects in Latin America, West Africa, Southeast Asia and the US. Prior to founding Digital Democracy, she worked for Internews Network, AllAfrica.com and as Assistant Bureau Director for Y-Press. Under her leadership, the Digital Democracy team works directly with frontline communities to build tools that they are using to map hundreds of thousands of hectares of rainforest, document illegal logging and mining, and stem the tide of deforestation in biodiverse regions. | Mapeo | Offline Mapping & Monitoring to Help Communities Protect What They Love | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Mapeo is currently implemented in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru & Panama. We are seeking to scale it so that it can be used by communities around the globe. | Yes | Witness, Amazon Frontlines, Alianza Ceibo, Forest Peoples Programme, and many other local indigenous groups in Latin America | Transition to Scale | We're at the Transition to Scale stage because Mapeo is currently being used by local partners in Colombia, Ecuador, Panama & Peru, but initial setup still requires external support from. We are working to reduce the barriers to using Mapeo so that local groups can download & begin using it without external support. We've heard from dozens of organizations around the world - including indigenous & other community-based organizations - who would like to use Mapeo. | Many people around the world are facing threats to their natural environments and human rights. Mapping & monitoring can be powerful interventions against these threats, but local groups are rarely able to do these without outside help. Existing mapping tools are hard to use, don’t work offline, and make collaboration & data management difficult. We built Mapeo to fill the gap, so that local groups have a tool to address the most pressing environmental & human rights challenges. | We designed Mapeo in partnership with indigenous communities in Latin America who are facing a variety of threats, including oil contamination, illegal mining, and deforestation. What these have in common is a threat to people’s safety and the natural environment. Our partners needed to be able to create maps of their territory and document ongoing threats, turning that data into reports that can be shared with government agencies, to hold officials & corporations accountable. Based on these needs, we collaborated with our partners to build Mapeo, a free, easy-to-use platform that allows anyone, anywhere to map the world around them, document threats & share their stories. Our partners are able to use Mapeo to generate evidence based advocacy & storytelling, in order to protect themselves & their environment, and hold rights abusers accountable. For example, we worked with the Waorani people on a 4 year mapping process, where they used Mapeo to generate detailed maps of more than 500,000 acres of primary rainforest. Those maps then played a key role in a recent legal case where the Waorani prevented oil from being drilled on their land. Mapeo as technical solution goes hand in hand with the trainings and program design that Digital Democracy offers to our local partners. As we scale Mapeo, we have a vision of serving as a hub not only for community groups all over the world to download & use Mapeo, but also for sharing resources and connecting peer-to-peer learning. | Mapeo is the result of decades of living & working alongside indigenous communities, and an iterative, user-centered design process to determine what solution would best fit local needs. Some key details distinguish it from other approaches. Mapeo is: - Truly local & offline: data can be collected and shared offline and doesn’t rely on any existing technical infrastructure. - Secure & Easy-to Use. - Built to monitor and document how the environment changes over time. - Enables collaboration within a community. - Supports participatory mapping and environmental monitoring initiatives. - Allows for mobile data collection built around a map with an emphasis on photos, video and story-telling in addition to data. - Prioritizes local data ownership - local people are not just data-collectors, but data owners and managers. In existing approaches, anyone can collect data, but using data is usually only accessible to experts. - Completely open-source and free to use. - Designed with and for local communities from the ground up. | From 2016-2018, we iterated & piloted Mapeo in Ecuador. This year, we expanded to supporting communities using Mapeo in Colombia, Panama and Peru as well. We first piloted Mapeo Desktop in 2016 and Mapeo Mobile in 2018. The Mapeo platform is currently being used by 10 different community groups in four countries. Mapeo Desktop has also widely been shared among open-source mapping communities in North and Central America, and has been downloaded more than 800 times. Because Mapeo is a solution that aims at systemic change, many of our partners are still in the process of using Mapeo to achieve lasting victories towards their goals of protecting their livelihoods, halting deforestation, and reducing inequality. We are tracking outcomes like the number of users, the number of cases documented, the number of acres mapped, as well as impacts such as court victories and policy changes. So far, our partners have mapped more than 600,000 acres using Mapeo, have documented dozens of cases of illegal logging and mining, hundreds of oil spills, and won two legal cases protecting their territories from extractive industries in primary rainforest. | In 2020, we have active plans to support our current partners and expand to new regions, and we are receiving approximately one new partnership request a week. Over the next few years, our goals & milestones include: Goal: Through the end of 2019, meet demand from local partners, and partner with additional 7 local groups in the Amazonian countries where we currently work We have trainings planned in Peru this fall to support additional partners from across Peru & Colombia We will continue to provide ongoing trainings, workshops, and remote support for our existing partners Goal: From 2020-2021, scale to additional four geographies/ new use cases, potentially SE Asia & Pacific, West & East Africa, and North America Goal: By 2022 hire 10 additional staff including additional programs and field team, user relations and technical staff. Milestone: By 2021, 10,000 downloads of Mapeo Milestone: By 2021 translate training materials into 6 languages, and make it easily translated into other local languages. Milestone: By 2022 our partners use Mapeo to win 5 legal cases/policy campaigns, directly affecting the lives of more than 100,000 people, and indirectly the lives of people around the planet who depend on clean air & intact forests for our health & well being. | We’ve developed Mapeo thanks to incredible local communities, a dedicated board of directors, and key relationships with international partners and funders. Right now our greatest challenge is the need to dramatically increase our budget & team in order to scale Mapeo as a technical product and expand to work with additional partners around the globe. In the short term (~3 months) we are trying to raise an additional $500,000 for our 2020 budget, in order to serve existing & additional partners. With this support, we plan to test the applicability of Mapeo in new areas that have requested it. In the medium term (~12 months), we are seeking $750,000 for multi-year support to grow our technical and field staff to implement features needed to scale, including a) making it easy to install and customize Mapeo b) continuing to add features on our backlog c) examine and build integration with other tools used by local partners d) build in security features, end to end encryption Over the long-term (3 years) we’re working to raise a total of $3 million to support a full team of ~30 staff members to support Mapeo as a world-class resource, with associated training materials, user guides, localized languages and peer-to-peer learning networks. We envision Mapeo as easily accessible for local communities to download and use, enabling them to conduct the most critical mapping & monitoring work they need to do to defend their rights & protect their futures. | - Mapeo website: http://mapeo.world/ - Al Jazeera video featuring our partners in Ecuador using Mapeo to defend their territory: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/amazonian-tribe-defending-land-technology-181220113423595.html - Pacific Standard article: “How Drones and GPS are Helping Indigenous People in Ecuador Save the Amazon” https://psmag.com/environment/how-drones-and-gps-are-helping-indigenous-people-save-the-amazon - Oxfam blog: “Maps in Court: how the Waorani are upholding their rights in Ecuador” https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/maps-in-court-how-the-waorani-are-upholding-their-rights-in-ecuador/ | - State of the Map keynote: https://2017.stateofthemap.us/program/saturday-keynote-emily-jacobi.html - Decentralized Web talk: https://archive.org/details/dweb-8_1_18_FE_Tools_of_Solidarity-EmilyJacobi - Personal Democracy Forum keynote July 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3mBcOWrVi8 | Poptech Social Entrepreneur Fellow - 2013 Wired - Making Tech Human Agent of Change - 2015 Finalist - Mulago Foundation Henry Arnhold Fellow 2019 Samsung Stack Zero Award - 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
955 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Diana | Guzman Barraza | Guzman Barraza Energy Engineering & Consulting | https://www.guzmanbarraza.com/solutions-to-sargassum | Founding Partner | Female | Mexico | Mexico | English | French | Spanish | Paradise, and the corresponding billions of dollars from tourism industry, are on their way to completely disappear –very soon- from the Sargassum reproducing exponentially as a result of over-depletion of resources, unsustainable tourism, use of fertilizers, warming of our oceans, and climate change -in addition to the unsustainable use of one-time plastics that take over 1000 years to decompose . I am taking matters into my own hands, and presenting a viable solution, that consists of eliminating sargassum sustainably, becoming resilient to environmental change, and generating energy from this newly available organic source, turning in to electricity, liquid and solid fuels. This solution has the potential to transform the way we manage waste globally, and achieve a significant environmental, social, and economical change, by turning the current context of crisis into an opportunity to adapt and prosper . This project is an urgent call to action to the different sectors to respond to the sargassum crisis, save our beaches, marine life, jobs, and tourism-based economy, from the permanent loss that is taking place as we speak, from Florida to Brazil, Seychelles in the Pacific Islands, and Asia. I turn to the UN Solutions Summit for an opportunity to bring this scalable, replicable project to the attention of high-level audiences, investors, and government officials, with whom we could deploy this solution at a large scale. | Diana Guzmán Barraza is an Energy & Sustainability Consultant, with a Master ́s Degree in Sustainable Energy Engineering from the University of Nottingham (UK, 2014). She is internationally certified as Greenhouse Gas Technical Expert (ID 352-UGHGIS) by City Climate Planner –World Bank, WRI, ICLEI, & C40-, by the Korean Greenhouse Gas Inventories & Research Center (GIR), and by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), where she has recently been nominated to Roster of Experts by Mexico. She was a Delegate of Mexico, and Tajikistan at the global negotiations on climate change during COP 24 (Poland), and COP 23 (Germany), respectively. Her consulting work directly reduces GHG emissions through projects. She is currently developing the Ozone Depleting Substance destruction protocol for Mexico. She has influenced over 800,000 hectares and 820,000m2 of new construction, worked to build the 1st Net Zero Energy Building in Latin America, and has experience managing 149 GWh of Power Purchasing Agreements, 649 buildings, and 1.5MW of new solar energy capacity, water/waste management for 60 university campuses. As a Speaker, in 2018 alone, she presented her work at NASA Health & Air Quality, the Korean Pavilion at the United Nations COP 24 in Poland, former USA Vice President Al Gore ́s Climate Leadership Training, US Green Building Council in New Orleans, and the Global Engineering Congress in London. She has also written for Newsweek en Español, has been featured by former US VP Al Gore. | Sargassum & Plastics -to- Energy (SP2E) | Saving paradise: Generating renewable energy, biofuels, and carbon sequestrating biochar as an urgent response to current sargassum & plastics crisis. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | -Transitioning to scale in the Mayan Riviera, Mexico. -Can & must be scaled horizontally to Sargassum-affected areas in North, Central & South America, Caribbean, Seychelles, Indonesia, France, with 100% plastic input, globally | Yes | plastic recycling company with 15 years of experience, local government, and civil society. | Transition to Scale | We have demonstrated the technology at a small-scale, successfully generating sustainable electric energy from mixtures of sargassum and plastics with USD$30,000 of private capital. We have USD$250,000 in funds to start transitioning to scale. We will build a reactor with the capacity to transform 25 tons of sargassum/day into low-carbon fuels & energy, while we continue to refine the larger scaling plan, and connect with new financial/technical partners. | Sargassum plagues the entire coast from Brazil to Florida, connects Africa and America with an algae belt, and has turned the once-turquoise waters of the Caribbean beaches chocolate, with 50,000 tons/month arriving onshore, killing marine life by altering the composition of ocean water. In addition, the Mayan Riviera is experiencing tourism decline, economic loss, excessive plastic waste, and continuous power shortage due to over congestion of the existing energy transmission grid. | The algae recollected from the beaches will be brought to our site by the government, who employs 4000 workers in the Riviera, and who currently DOES NOT HAVE a way to dispose the smelly decomposing algae that piles up quickly. The sargassum will be received in API tanks, and will go through a preparation process before being fed into a reactor, where it is heated to 400-600C, to achieve a thermochemical conversion in the absence of oxygen, resulting in combustible greenhouse gases that are then fed into a turbine to generate electricity, liquid output further refined to produce biofuels, and commercially valuable biochar. In addition to clean energy, by converting organic matter into biochar, this method produces an alternatively to permanently, and safely sequester carbon, and to prevent the emission of greenhouse gases –including methane- which, if nothing is done, are due to be liberated to the atmosphere as a result of the natural decomposition process of sargassum. This solution results from the sargassum crisis, but also caters global need for municipal solid waste to energy solutions, since the reactor can be fed both organic biomass (sargasum), or trash, as an input to generate alternative fuel sources & energy. This is the long-term vision for global impact: waste to energy solutions in the cities of the future, such as the innovative new economic zone NEOM in Saudi Arabia and sustainable networks cities -such as of ICLEI or C40. | The real challenge with sargassum is not how to remove it, but rather how to dispose of it. Mountains of decomposing algae pile up high very quickly, and neither the government nor the hotels know what to do with it. Some entrepreneurs have appeared, offering notebooks, shoes, and building blocks made from sargassum, but can only process 1 ton/month while 50,000 tons/month are incoming Quintana Roo. These solutions do not have the capacity to solve the crisis, whereas our first sargassum to energy plant will have the capacity to destroy 750 tons/month, and can be horizontally replicated to significantly impact the region. In addition to saving coastlines, this solution: -Avoids greenhouse gas emissions, that would otherwise be liberated if nothing is done. -Contributes to solve power shortages in the region, by generating on site renewable electric energy, avoiding further need for expensive new energy transmission infrastructure lacking in the national electric grid. -Produces biochar that can fuel combined heat and power plants in Europe, competing with bituminous coal in its calorific value, without the pollutants (NOx, and SOx emissions). -Creates thousands of new resilient (sargassum recollection) jobs across the coastline, through which migrants can integrate themselves to our economy legally. -Contributes to save existing jobs at restaurants, hotels, and shops that employ millions of people, and generate billions in revenue from 47 million annual visitors. | We have engineered an industrial process that has can process both algae and trash, auto generates process heat and energy, and produces profitable products (electric energy, fuels, and char). We have demonstrate the technology using the first USD$30,000 of private capital to build a small-scale plant. We have USD$300,000 to transition into a modular plant, with a daily operating capacity of 25 tons/day/module. We will work to secure partnerships with the local government, for the delivery of 200 tons/day, and to provide a 4000m2 site for the industrial process. Methodological rigor is followed by measuring, controlling, and reporting technical parameters and operation conditions, such as temperatures, humidity content, weight, and composition of inputs, volume and temperature of output gases, electrical input & output, lab analysis of biochar properties (carbon content, calorific values, pore size, distribution, etc), overall efficiency of the process, and more. Strict records & books are kept for transparency both in financial flows and quantification of emission reductions. Progress from this stage onwards is measured in installed operating capacity (tons of sargassum/day), investment & capital funds to cover upfront costs of new capacity (USD), km/coastlines saved, number of partnerships/constituencies developed, and volume of output sales (USD/year). | -Legal and operational setup for plant. -Milestone: Start operation of the first 25-ton/day module. -Refine business models and power purchasing agreement proposals -Approve the technology as a new emission reduction process, and submit to the United Nations environmental Program (UNEP) Technology and Economic Assessment Panel (TEAP). -Quantify, verify, and approve the emission reduction activity as elegible for international certificates, sellable in the international carbon markets to help self-finance new plants. -Learn from first pilot module, and adapt changes (if applicable) to the process. -Milestone: Raise 2 million USD to scale to full capacity. -Milestone: Start operational capacity of 200 tons of sargassum per day (1/8 of the approximate volumes arriving to Quintana Roo´s coasts). -Scale vertically to influence regional policy -Penetrate the market more deeply with the diverse uses of biochar, with international sales for applications as fertilizer, carbon sequestering agent, activated carbon, combined heat and power plants, toxin elimination for animal feedstock, etc. -Milestone: Build public-private partnerships to scale across the affected countries mentioned earlier in this application, through collaboration, power purchasing agreements with hotels, and opportunities for investors. | Short-term: -Additional USD$100,000 for permits: license to operate a solid waste combustion process from the Ministry of Environment SEMARNAT, energy generation permit, technology assessment, and consulting services. -Formalizing local government partnership for the delivery of 200 tons/day, and use of 4000m2 site (or alternatively renting or buying land for USD$100,000) -Exposure to international potential partners, investors, and high-level government officials. Medium-term: -USD$2,000,000 to manufacture steel process equipment (heat exchangers, reactors, API tanks, generator, conveyer belts, etc) to scale to full capacity (200 tons/day). -USD$50,000 to quantify emissions reductions, develop and approve international protocol for the destruction of sargassum by thermochemical conversion. This solution has the potential to achieve economic, environmental, and social transformation, but its international scalability depends on the availability of upfront capital for the fabrication of the industrial components, legal and operational set up of each 25tons/day module, as well as the political will to support distributed renewable energy generation, legislation & tax incentives to help sargassum solutions transition to scale, and coordinated daily beach cleanups with heavy machinery. Long-term: -Further sets of 2 million US dollars to replicate horizontally, and generate revenue from electric energy, carbon offsets, biochar, and biofuels. | -Current project website: https://www.guzmanbarraza.com/solutions-to-sargassum -PET Recycling partner: http://www.salecbr.com/ -Sargassum situation: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45044513 Features & interviews related to my work: -Poster Session at NASA HAQAST. https://haqast.org/haqast-4/ (scroll down to the poster session to find my name listed and to download my poster). -Written Interview by Cambridge Network and by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE): https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/sustainability-urgent-action-a-necessity-across-every-level-477/ https://www.ice.org.uk/news-and-insight/latest-ice-news/diana-guzman-barraza-urgent-action-necessary -Guatemala featured: https://futuroverde.org/2017/12/16/diana-guzman-barraza-defendiendo-y-construyendo-un-presente-renovable/ -Italy. 4th World Conference on Climate Change. https://www.omicsonline.org/speaker/diana-guzm-n-barraza-guzm-n-barraza-energy-engineering-consulting-mexico/ -USA. USGBC Forward Symposium featuring bio. https://usgbclouisiana.org/page/FORWARD -USA. PRS Biz News. Featured at the USGBC Symposium https://prsbiznews.me/tag/sustainability/ -Group interview by Telemundo TV. featured on screen on minute 2:09. https://www.telemundo.com/noticias/2018/03/22/mexico-acoge-los-futuros-lideres-climaticos - Stanford University blog: https://studentsforasustainablestanford.weebly.com/blog/sss-and-pes-begin-innovative-collaboration | Links to speaking engagements regarding reality and solutions to climate change: -24 Hours of Reality segment: my climate leadership work featured by Al Gore in his live transmission that reached billions of people who tuned in from over half a billion TV sets and over 30 million online watch parties in over 140 countries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vwy-SKKjQE - ICE interviews: Institution of Civil Engineering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owN_3K3Tiss from minute 1.33 onwards. -Global Engineering Congress Promotional Video Featured on minute 1:09. https://www.ice.org.uk/events/global-engineering-congress | -1st runner up in the Energy Track at UNLEASH Innovation Lab in Denmark (2017), presented by Ashton Kutcher -(Silver Medal) Leadership Recognition from former President of Mexico Vicente Fox -Friendship Award from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Research Center in Korea -Santander High Achievement Award, UK. -Scholarship from the Univ. of Nottingham (UK), Technology Transfer Institute, and Science & Technology Council in Mexico. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
956 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Amar | Srivastava | 1993 | http://ww2.road-safety.co.in | President | Male | India | India | English | The main motivation is to share our solution with the world and learn from the best practices in the world on road-safety. We have been able to create a unique solution related to SDG 3.6 and 11.2 - how we are creating a youth led citizen driven movement to create sustainable hot-spots across schools and colleges to enable local champions to solve problems related to road-safety across the sector. We have also built the largest multi-stakeholder platform to solve the problem holistically in India with govt, institutions, international organizations like UN and WHO, NGOs and civic societies with 1.4 million participants working on road-safety across 50+ cities. We want to scale this platform across to countries so as to be able to solve the problem across the world. We believe we can only solve the problem across the world if youth, technology and collaboration are come together for safer roads. We have ignited the competitive spirit of people to solve the problem across the sector by doing what they like to do. Every year 1.5 lakh people lose their lives in India so it is a very important problem and hence is important to come together for road-safety. | Amar Srivastava, is the Founder and President of Solve, a non-profit working to change the scenario of road-safety and education in India. An under-graduate from IIT Delhi and pursuing an Executive Degree from University of Pennsylvania in Social Impact Strategy, he has been working in the Social Impact space since past 5 years. Started an initiative on road-safety post losing seniors from college to a road-accident which has become one of the largest youth-road-safety organization in the world! Started and built an initiative in education space to give the same access to innovation and creativity to govt. school kids like private school kids impacting 30,000+ kids! Have a passion to use tech for social impact and build scalable & sustainable initiatives and products to solve some of the pressing global challenges while building lean organizations from ground up for social good! | Policy Internship/Fellowship Program | A program By the Youth, For the Youth | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | India | Yes | Ministry of Road Transport and Highway, Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs | Sustainable Scale | 3 Year back when we started we have got around 20-30 Participant. Now at current Stage we have more than 1500 Interns teams Joining our Policy Program. With more than 20+ On ground Implementations and 50+ Suggested Solution in Pipeline. We are active across the country and are solving problems across more than 98+ cities through our scalable model. | Policy Program is designed to find out the existing Infrastructural issues like Black spot, Blind Spot, Design defects, Damaged Road signs, Markings, Potholes etc causing various traffics and safety problems. It not just limited to design and Construction but target all aspects of issues like managerial, Law & Order Implementation, Awareness. The Policy Program target all related aspects to resolve Infrastructural issues and reduce accident, fatalities and Traffics problems too. | Policy Program is a internship Program in which the interns from various streams/background from various colleges and School Students Joins us. The interns find a existing Problem nearby their dwelling area. The program also include a fellowship Program in which the selected Fellows which are generally from Traffic engineering,Transportation, Architecture, Urban Planning and related streams, mentors the interns to propose a Problem Statement and Provide technical guidance to purpose the Solution for the identified Problem. The interns adopt a step by step by approach which is designed by IRSC through is year on year experience. We have also designed a Portal to ease the task of guiding interns, Mentors and track the progress of all. Interns Not just identifies problems and device solution but also analysis the whole situation and took feedback from various stockholder to find root cause of problem and accordingly device a solution that is acceptable by all. The program does not end by just devising solution. But Policy Program also include presenting the study to concerned authorities and get the solution implemented through authorities. Till Date we are now able to get 50+ solutions purposed to authorities but we want to get these number increased to 500+ implemented solution with 00% increase each year in order to bring down the road fatalities rate to 50% by 2025. | What is seen in general that Authorities does not give proper attention to road infrastructural issue which results in large number of accidents and fatalities. Also when a problem is identified by the People they just approach the authorities and eventually stop taking follow ups due to lack of responsiveness from them. Here Policy Program does not adopt such conventional approach but a improvised and Structured approach is adopted. In the program a proper study is taken to find the causes of the Problem, how it is affecting stack holders, Possibles solution in consultation with various stackholder and then presenting the same to concerned authorities so that action can be taken in faster and timely manner. | We have developed the structure in proper manner by now. During the starting of the project we used to use verbal guidance with all decision lying on the team discretion but we have now developed a proper and well documented program. We are now even started collaboration with various schools and Universities to increase our outreach and have gained a reach to more than 500+ schools and College. We are on our way to get 200+Implemented Problem resolved by end of the issues which will be saving hundreds of human life life. Till now we had successful Journey as more than 20+Practical Implementation and 50+ in progress will be soon getting implemented and will save and estimated number of 300+ Human Life each year. We are also improving the program on management part too. We have developed the dedicated portal for the management of whole program. The portal is being used to fulfill all task starting from on boarding the interns to processing their deliverable, tracking the progress to evaluating their work. All is being done by the portal that increasing the efficiency and outcome of the Program. | * 300+ Implementation by 2019 *100% increase in implementation each year *Reduction in fatalities rate by 50% by 2025 *Establishing Local Management team for each state Above are our major goals that we want to achieve. We are estimating that these targets will save around 0.2 Million Life and Billions of Money that will add on the GDP of the nation. | The needs can be divided on terms too like Short Term- Improved Portals and APPS to ease out the approach and making easier connectivity among Fellows, Interns and the Management Team. Also New Member will be required to join us in management team that will ease management and help in connecting locals. Mid Term Goals- We need Financial Support and Funding to run the Program. To keep people motivated to cover the expenses occurred on the program. We will wi requiring the funds. Long Term: Supports from the government by Providing support to run on large scale and providing resources like use of Goverment institution like AICTE, UGC to increase the outreach. Making the program a part of curriculum of School/College Students. | ww2.road-safety.co.in, https://ww2.road-safety.co.in/projects/ | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmN5nuHy_lo&t=695s https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=indian+road+safety+campaign | Diana Award India Representative to UN Maruti Suzuki Best Project on Road Safety India Nominee to Paris Peace Forum Case Study by United Nations Awarded Best Practice by United Nations Awarded by WHO Awarded by Central Govt in India UN SDG Award Finalist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
957 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Alma | Hernández Quiroz | Juguemos a Limpiar AC. | https://pedazodelahistoria.wixsite.com/arte-y-patrimonio | “El Hombre Arte y Patrimonio” Un Pedazo de la Historia en tus Manos | Femenino | Mexico | Mexico | Spanish | “El Hombre Arte y Patrimonio” un pedazo de la historia en tus manos, industrias creativas el arte y la cultura son indispensables para lograr un desarrollo social integral y fortalece el crecimiento económico sustentable y sostenible en nuestras comunidades. Producimos innovadora línea de artesanías y mobiliario, decoradas con pinturas rupestres y que solamente nosotros elaboramos en el mundo, son únicas, las producen artesanos con discapacidad motriz que nosotros capacitamos para elaborarlas con las técnicas ancestrales (pigmentos naturales sobe cantera). INNOVACIÓN Nuestra Marca “El Hombre Arte y Patrimonio un pedazo de la historia en tus manos” artesanías innovadoras y únicas para el mercado global, trabajamos las pinturas y petroglifos con las técnicas de pintura primigenias de más 10,000 años de antigüedad, utilizamos métodos ancestrales que investigamos durante dos años, las mercancías son elaboradas con materiales 100 % naturales y perdurables (óxidos sobre cantera), la fabricación es ecológica y totalmente artesanal, no tenemos competencia en el mercado. IMPACTO- El año pasado contrataremos a 6 personas con discapacidad, este año registraremos derechos de autor en América, Asia y Europa de la marca, logotipo, diseño y proceso de fabricación que son aportaciones de nuestro equipo. Promovemos nuestros productos en las tiendas de los 132 museos del Distrito Federal, en 54 zonas arqueológicas, en los destinos y rutas turísticas del país e incursionaremos en el mercado internacional. Elaboramos artículos del tamaño de un pisa papeles hasta muebles y murales, fabricamos piezas de mediano formato complementadas con un aditamento que permite de manera fácil colgarlas en la pared, producimos murales de grandes dimensiones en el parque ecológico “El Cantil” en CDMX. Con el apoyo de MICROSOFT MÉXICO, crearemos una página web elaborada con un Modelo de Planificación de las Estrategias de Marketing y Comunicación adecuadas. Pasar de un equipo de trabajo integrado por 12 personas, a un equipo de 28 personas con discapacidad para proveer el mercado nacional y de 20 más para el mercado internacional. Mercado global, estamos interesados en llevar nuestros productos a las Ferias Internacionales de Artesanías para posicionarnos en el ámbito comercial mundial, nos interesa llegar a los cientos de miles de turistas que visitan los vestigios de pinturas rupestres y petroglifos en las zonas arqueológicas alrededor del mundo. | Pintora, Escultora, Muralista, Investigadora, Emprendedora Licenciada en Arte y Patrimonio Cultural, con especialización en Gestión Cultural por la Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (UACM). 2017 Profesora, Arte y Patrimonio. (UACM) Plantel Cuautepec. Iniciativa de Ley “Cultura de Paz y la no Violencia” Congreso Constituyente CDMX 2016 Profesora de Apreciación Artística en el colegio de Bachilleres, Plantel 11. 2016 Diputada juvenil, Parlamento Juvenil 2014 de la Asamblea Legislativa del Distrito Federal. Octubre de 2012 – abril de 2013. Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información de Artes Plásticas (CENIDIAP). Asistente del Maestro Carlos Blas Galindo Mendoza, Director del CENIDIAP, como investigadora de archivo sobre gráfica. Asistente en Montaje de exposiciones. Abril de 2014 Colaboración en la Asociación Vivir Más y Asociados A.C. Proyecto cultural de promoción y difusión del Camino Real de Tierra Adentro financiado por CONACULTA Colaboración en la investigación “Camino Real de Tierra Adentro”, correspondiente al trayecto del Distrito Federal. Colaboración en la realización del catálogo fotográfico “Camino Real de Tierra Adentro”, la trayecto de la Ciudad de México. Miembro del Secretariado Juvenil del Movimiento Mexicano por la Paz y el Desarrollo (MOMPADE) 2014 - 2015 Integrante del Observatorio de Derechos Juveniles de la Ciudad de México. 2015 Tallerista en el proyecto federal Jóvenes en Riesgo, dirigido por la Coordinación de Prevención del Delito del Municipio de Ecatepec de Morelos, Estado de México | “El Hombre Arte y Patrimonio” Un Pedazo de la Historia en tus Manos | artesanías y mobiliario, decoradas con pinturas rupestres y que solamente nosotros hacemos en el mundo son únicas, las producen artesanos discapacit | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Promovemos nuestros productos en las tiendas de los 132 museos del Distrito Federal, en 54 zonas arqueológicas, en los destinos y rutas turísticas del país. Mercado global, estamos interesados en llevar nuestros productos a las Ferias Internacional | No | Transition to Scale | Empresa social elabora artesanías innovadoras y únicas para el mercado global, trabajamos las pinturas y petroglifos con las técnicas de pintura primigenias de más 10,000 años de antigüedad, utilizamos métodos ancestrales que investigamos asesorados por investigadores de INAH durante dos años, las mercancías son elaboradas con materiales 100 % naturales y perdurables (óxidos sobre cantera), la fabricación es ecológica y totalmente artesanal, no tenemos competencia en el mercado. | Instruimos y desarrollamos capacidades de personas que sufren de marginación y olvido por tener una discapacidad física. Elaboramos mobiliario y artículos del tamaño de un pisa papeles hasta murales, fabricamos piezas de mediano formato complementadas con un aditamento que permite de manera fácil colgarlas en la pared o en un atril de alambrón metálico que también nosotros diseñamos producimos murales de grandes dimensiones en el Parque Ecológico “El Cantil” | Ecatepec de Morelos el municipio más peligroso del país, la pobreza y falta de oportunidades de crecimiento y desarrollo económico y social tienden a generar un círculo vicioso entre la población que vive en la comunidad en condiciones de pobreza, asediados por la delincuencia y violencia desbordada. Debido a la falta de oportunidades para la población que en el caso de personas que viven con alguna discapacidad es todavía más extrema su situación y que se ve inmersa en una serie de privaciones y riesgos, de ahí la importancia de realizar nuestra iniciativa de proyecto productivo con la implementación de una empresa social, incluyente, innovadora, culturalmente aceptable, socialmente justa, ecológicamente equilibrada y económicamente viable, lanzamos al mercado una nueva e innovadora línea de artesanía, que hasta este momento nadie elabora o comercializa a nivel global, y que por lo tanto no tiene competencia alguna en el mercado mundial, ¡es única¡. Cada pieza es única porque no obstante se pinte la misma imagen (venados, cazadores, etc.) en diferentes piedras, la cantera-laja tiene diferentes formas, colores y texturas, no hay una igual a otra, simplemente la naturaleza se manifiesta de manera esplendorosa. Por medio de Talleres Lúdicos de Cultura ayudamos a ampliar y desarrollar habilidades artesanales a vecinos con alguna discapacidad que viven en la pobreza y muchas veces marginadas por familiares. | A principios de 2017 concluimos la etapa de proyecto piloto “El Hombre Arte y Patrimonio, un pedazo de la historia en tus manos”. Innovadora línea de artesanías de pinturas rupestres y petroglifos elaborados con técnicas ancestrales (pigmentos naturales sobe cantera), que solamente nosotros elaboramos en el mundo, ¡son únicas!, las producen artesanos que tienen alguna discapacidad y que viven en nuestras comunidades, el proyecto piloto consistió en identificar, proponer, capacitar y desarrollar una empresa social, nos propusimos crear una empresa que fuera innovadora, escalable y potencialmente exitoso, se procedió a investigar las técnicas ancestrales con que se elaboraron las pinturas rupestres y los petroglifos para lo cual contamos con la asistencia técnica del antropólogo José Antonio Contreras del INAH, elaborar los prototipos con adecuaciones y presentaciones contemporáneas, se capacito un grupo de 15 vecinos discapacitados, 12 terminaron el curso y de estos 9 continúan en el proyecto, se investigo el mercado local, nacional e internacional y descubrimos que no hay otra empresa en el mundo que las fabrique | Con el apoyo de MICROSOFT MÉXICO Desarrollar un plataforma digital que promueva en la red una empresa artesanal exitosa que dignifique a los artesanos que viven con discapacidad motriz, generando el desarrollo económico que necesitan los artesanos en pobreza extrema por su condición física. En México una parte importante de la herencia cultural se ha preservado a través del trabajo artesanal ha sido y es un referente de nuestro país a nivel internacional, y en el contexto nacional, las artesanías son y han sido símbolo del patrimonio y la identidad mexicana. Una de las características principales a tomar en cuenta para entender la lógica de la producción artesanal en México, es que muchas veces las artesanías no se producen con miras empresariales, sino como parte de una tradición que complementa la economía familiar a través del intercambio de productos y la venta al menudeo sólo para satisfacer necesidades muy básicas e inmediatas. | Comprar directamente la cantera en las minas donde se extrae el material y pasar de proyecto piloto con un equipo de trabajo integrado por 12 personas, que vende sus productos en tianguis, mercados locales y oficinas de gobierno, a un equipo de 28 personas con discapacidad de la localidad para proveer el mercado nacional y de 20 más para el mercado internacional de países que tienen pinturas rupestres y petroglifos. Llevar nuestros productos a Ferias Internacionales de Artesanías para posicionarnos en el ámbito comercial mundial, nos interesa llegar a los cientos de miles de turistas que visitan los vestigios de pinturas rupestres y petroglifos en las zonas arqueológicas alrededor del mundo, en alianza con OSC fraternas de los países en referencia | Comprar directamente la cantera en las minas donde se extrae el material y pasar de proyecto piloto con un equipo de trabajo integrado por 12 personas, que vende sus productos en tianguis, mercados locales y oficinas de gobierno, a un equipo de 28 personas que viven con discapacidad motríz de la localidad para proveer el mercado nacional y de 20 más para el mercado internacional de países que tienen pinturas rupestres y petroglifos en diferentes partes del mundo. Llevar nuestros productos a Ferias Internacionales de Artesanías para posicionarnos en el ámbito comercial mundial, nos interesa llegar por medio de una tienda virtual patrocinada por MICROSOFT MÉXICO (que nos proporcionara el software y el hardware), en la red a los cientos de miles de turistas que visitan los vestigios de pinturas rupestres y petroglifos en las zonas arqueológicas alrededor del mundo, en alianza con OSC fraternas de los países en referencia. | Participamos en octubre de 2015 con un stand en la Semana Nacional del Emprendedor, evento que se realizo en el Centro BANCOMER (Santa Fe), en el que reporta el licenciado Enrique Jacob Rocha, presidente del Instituto Nacional del Emprendedor (INADEM), asistieron cerca de 300,000 personas, información del periódico La Jornada http://www.jornada.unam.mx/ultimas/2015/08/19/la-semana-pyme-se-llevara-a-cabo-hasta-octubre-se-690html en este evento conectamos varios clientes. Participamos con un stand de pintura rupestre y petroglifos en el Foro Interactivo Global de la Conferencia Mundial de la Juventud ONU, que se realizo en el Centro de Exposiciones de Irapuato Guanajuato al cual asistimos miles de jóvenes. Además de manera continua llevamos colecciones de pintura rupestre y petroglifos y damos talleres a escuelas primarias | https://youtu.be/2HCW68JAlxM https://youtu.be/XlZ6K1sK4XY Elabora pinturas rupestres en el Siglo XXI Un pintora que promueve el arte rupestre Ana María Rosas / ELUNIVERSAL.com.mx El Universal Viernes 07 de diciembre de 2007 Alma Hernández es pintora, hace 2 años fundó el taller lúdico de pintura para dar clases a niños de forma gratuita, en estos momentos encabeza un proyecto para promover el conocimiento de las pinturas rupestres en México. Convierten cantera en centro de arte La artista cuenta que desde hace algunos meses trabaja con la delegación Gustavo A. Madero en un proyecto para convertir lo que fue la cantera ""El Cantil"", ubicada en el rumbo de Zacatenco, en un espacio de arte. ""Ese espacio era utilizado por la delegación para depositar materiales de construcción, residuos y cascajo, hace algunos meses la delegación planteó realizar en ese sitio una unidad de transferencia de basura pero nos opusimos y varias organizaciones de vecinos iniciamos la defensa del espacio y en su lugar se planteó realizar un proyecto de difusión de la pintura rupestre"". En México más de la mitad de los estados de la República tiene antecedentes de pintura rupestre de las primeras épocas de la humanidad, aunque las más conocidas son las que se encuentran en cuevas en Baja California. Explicó que las pinturas se hacen con al técnica original, con colorantes naturales que pueden ser minerales o vegetales. | Fuimos seleccionados y patrocinados por DIAGEO para recibir la Beca de PROEMPLEO DF. Fuimos seleccionados en la Semana Nacional PYME, para ser entrevistados por el Periodico EL UNIVERSAL DE MÉXICO | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
958 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Remy Florian Frero | Koulimaya | Association les Jeunes Cadres | https://facebook.com/lesjeunescadres | Civil society | M | Congo | Congo | English | French | Russian | I want to be part of the UN solutions summit because it is the place where the decisions are made. I want to participate to the development of my country by fighting devils and promote general interest. Here in Africa, my vision is to empower young to join volunteerism to promote general interest and fight selfish, bad governance and corruption. This vision is implemented by some social and educative missions. Since 2015, we act to achieve our goal. | I am koulimaya Florian. I funded a nonprofit association since 2015 in Republic of Congo. Our vision is to motivate young to promote general interest and meritocracy. | Implement meritocracy | Good governance | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Republic of Congo | No | Ideation | It will favorite the inclusive development and good governance. | My country is gangrened by some devils as bad governance, bad leadership, selfish, unemployment, nepotism and we have crisis and problems. We have more politicians than entrepreneurs and leaders. So to bring people to understand that the solution is good governance, meritocracy, efficient leadership and to show them the way to practice these values is the best way to help our country. | My solution will help my community. To put each people in the place they have to be. People will love each other with nonprofit and leadership will be efficient. | Put people in front of a mirror, establish new methods of work with feedback and supervisions. | We sensitize young at schools and districts. We follow them and notice changements. We promote autodiscipline, abnegation, rigorism, resiliency and persistence. The team supervise if the work was efficient, they usually cane back to schools and districts to investigate. | Enroll the most volunteers possible to implement sensibilisation in all districts Show young methods to self employment, entrepreneurship. To analyze needs and bring solutions. Practice good leadership to lead their community and empower more young | Logistic (vehicle) to sensitize in Departments (long term) Spotlight (medium term) Finance to indemnify volunteers (long term) | https://facebook.com/lesjeunescadres https://facebook.com/collectiftombola | https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OKMWMzEp6eM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f2zxb_ySdwo https://facebook.com/FlorianKoulimaya | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
959 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Joseph | Valenti | The Albizia Project | www.albiziaproject.com | Founder | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | We seek to present our project at the UN Solutions Summit: the Mauka Marketplace (MM). The fundamental problem driving most of the social and ecological crises that we face today is that the vast majority of the world is entangled in a global economic paradigm of growth without limits. This paradigm is built on highly sophisticated tools, which drive efficient marketplaces that reward the extraction and degradation of our socio-ecological resources above all else. The MM is the world’s first global e-commerce marketplace optimized to direct its profits towards bioregional projects and initiatives working to restore and regenerate the damage that has been done to our planetary life support systems. Our vision began as a design response to two seemingly unrelated problems: Hawaii’s distressed ecosystems, and the housing crisis. Founder Joseph Valenti believed Hawaii’s prolific, invasive albizia tree (F. moluccana) could be harvested to provide a local timber source for building innovative and affordable structures. Co-founder Matthew K Lynch worked w/ Joseph to build a cost competitive housing prototype made entirely out of local albizia wood. The Albizia Project’s prototype is currently displayed at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus, demonstrating that pragmatic and beautiful solutions can be created from local materials. The project aims to grow into a global marketplace that is explicitly designed to create economic drivers for ecosystem restoration. | Joseph Valenti is Founder of the Albizia Project (TAP) and leads the team in developing innovative solutions in response to socio-ecological issues identified in Hawaiʻi. In 2016 he earned a Doctorate degree in Architecture from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His research investigated the state’s low-value forest resources to develop an innovative building system that utilizes the invasive albizia tree. Joseph has since partnered with Hawaiʻi’s Division of Forestry and Wildlife and was awarded the 2018 U.S. Forest Service Wood Innovations Grant. He continues to pursue his passion in innovation and regenerative design, crafting new products in support of TAP, and as Director of the Hawaiʻi Wood Utilization Team weaves together multi-sector networks to strengthen supply chains and markets for the local forestry industry. Matthew Kamakani Lynch is Co-Founder of TAP and advises its leadership team on Regenerative Enterprise Design. After barely surviving a 10-year career in mortgage banking and real estate finance (which culminated in the global financial crisis of 2008) Matt has worked to atone for the excessive and extractive practices he contributed to during his time working in financial services. Matthew currently serves as the Director of Sustainability Initiatives for the ten-campus system of the University of Hawaiʻi, as well as serving as President of the Board of Directors for Kahumana Organic Farm, and Sustainability Measures Co-Chair for Hawaiʻi Green Growth. | Mauka Marketplace | This global online marketplace creates economic drivers for ecosystem restoration. | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss | United States of America | No | Proof of Concept | We have developed multiple products made from invasive species, including a kit-of-parts dwelling, performance surfboard, furniture, and architectural artwork. MM was accepted into the 2019 Purple Prize indigenous innovation incubator program to establish the web platform. We are diversifying the product offerings and are receiving user feedback from the supply and demand sides. We expect to have a web-based marketplace launched within the year. | MM is addressing the problems caused by unconstrained material consumption of natural resources, which is increasing the pace and scale of social and ecological crises that we face today. The global economic paradigm we are entangled in is optimized for resource extraction and ecological plunder. Creating supply chain transparency & accountability, and directing financial profits towards socio-ecosystem repair & regeneration, are keys to reversing these globally destructive trends. | MM directs its financial surplus to projects and initiatives working to restore and regenerate ecosystems. Our mission is to prove that a regenerative e-commerce enterprise can stimulate local economies and provide quality jobs in support of sustainable use and management of natural resources. Our approach builds upon pioneering innovations such as Novica (a direct access marketplace optimized for social equity), to develop an e-commerce platform that is optimized to direct profits into ecosystem restoration projects and initiatives. MM is a global platform that connects consumers to local artisans that utilize material harvested from ethically sourced species to support regeneration of natural resources. MM will visualize supply-chain transparency & socio-ecological key performance indicators on its platform, tracking how we are reducing emissions, sequestering carbon, and supporting individual makers, in turn strengthening local living economies. Our long-term vision for global impact is to generate equitable economic growth by creating a transparent, localized, regenerative supply chain around sustainable resource management and biodiversity initiatives. | There are essentially two existing approaches in this space: 1) global ecommerce platforms like Etsy, Ebay, and Amazon that do not optimize for an ecological benefit; 2) localized farmers markets and retail stores that curate goods created by artisans. We have not yet found a large-scale approach that meaningfully combines the two. Our business model, which provides funding for restoration initiatives brings innovation to this space. Amazon has “Amazon Smile”, but its enterprise is not optimized for maximum socio-ecological impacts. MM will direct global revenues into local artisans’ pockets, and invest profits into bioregional projects working towards social-ecological restoration at scale. We are inspired by existing platforms such as Novica, which has been successful in creating economic drivers for social equity - over $92.5 million sent to local artisans so far. Novica demonstrates that a well-designed e-commerce platform can create access for local artisans to sell directly into a global marketplace. MM will require that vendors accessing our platform commit to crafting their products from locally available species that are ethically harvested. This will drive incentives to promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, to protect and restore sustainably managed forests and resources, and encourage reversal of land degradation. | Our 1st prototype debunked common misconceptions about the utility of invasive albizia trees in Hawaiʻi, demonstrating unequivocally that beautiful solutions can be created with locally available building materials. A second project is currently under development to demonstrate that we can remove albizia from a landscape, utilize its timber for local building projects, and invest financial surplus from this enterprise in restoring the native forest. The economic activity generated during the process of harvesting and milling the albizia lumber required for the first prototype suggests that there is significant potential for growth in a local regenerative forestry sector. Albizia is now trending locally, with inquiries increasing from the media, architecture & design community, and other local companies making products from this material. When the team was accepted into the Purple Prize, we were challenged to think about how this approach to problem-solving might leverage digital technology. What if we created a platform that brings people together across sectors to build solutions that create value for land and communities? The MM was born. We are working with Natural Resource Data Solutions to leverage their experience in building efficient workflow and information paths to develop rigorous methodologies for tracking KPIs that measure efficacy of ecosystem restoration efforts to repair, restore, and regenerate landscapes. | Phase I of MM serves the the islands of Hawaiʻi. Through our work with Purple Prize, we will build a prototype e-commerce platform to test with our primary users - artisans who are creating locally-made products from ethically harvested species, and patrons (can be located anywhere in the world) who want to mindfully consume and support individual makers. We will use a prototype to market test with our primary users, and to build a functional BETA version. Concurrently, we are working with landowners and community groups in Mānoa Valley, Oʻahu island, to develop a larger ecosystem restoration pilot. This project would remove and mill non-native trees from infested areas to allow the landscape and its watershed function to be restored. The pilot will help develop rigorous methods for supply chain transparency, and tracking & measuring for future restoration initiatives. Phase II of MM scales up to serve island communities across the Pacific that face similar challenges. For example, communities in the South Pacific are adapting to climate change by developing high-value single-origin chocolate, utilizing agroforestry systems and co-operative ownership models to strengthen socio-ecological resilience. Communities like this, will be able to leverage the marketplace to access a global reach for their products. Profits generated would then be directly invested into their bioregion ecosystems. | Short Term Needs (next 6 months): App development and graphic design to take prototype to BETA version. Artisans and regenerative enterprises willing to provide input on BETA version under development. Partners & funding resources to support above needs. Medium Term Needs (12-24 months): Artisans and patrons buying & selling products on our platform. Partnerships with organizations and landowners engaged in ecosystem restoration. Interactive web graphics and/or video storytelling to visualize supply-chain transparency & socio-ecological impacts. Marketing and awareness-building. Explore use case of potential for blockchain technology to increase transparency, rigor & accountability of ecological regeneration and stewardship. Partners & funding resources to support above needs. Long-term (2-5 years): Partners & funding resources to support expansion of platform to bioregions around the world. | Website: https://thealbiziaproject.com/ White paper: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57f60daf8419c247073e68b7/t/5cd3df558c5c890001a6ec10/1557389182171/White+Paper_AP+2019.pdf Structural testing paper: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57f60daf8419c247073e68b7/t/5d47fde246f3930001fa5f48/1564999143617/Material+Testing+of+Albizia+Lumber+For+Structural+Applications.pdf News articles: https://www.hawaiibusiness.com/albizia-project/ https://www.civilbeat.org/2019/04/can-a-sustainable-industry-be-built-from-an-invasive-species/ https://hanahou.com/22.2/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-albizia | https://vimeo.com/297636557 https://www.facebook.com/SustainableUH/videos/393361244836376/?t=914 https://www.facebook.com/SustainableUH/videos/10155603839068099/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek_KC9j2MXI http://www.bytemarkscafe.org/2018/06/20/episode-512-wood-innovation-grant-june-20-2018/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p05PAzooYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBs1WBlQ7VY | Winner - 2018 US Forest Service Wood Innovations Grant of $250,000 Winner - US Forest Service Seed Grant $10,000 Winner - 2016 ARCC King Student Medal for Excellence in Architectural + Environmental Research Winner - 2016 Hawaiʻi Housing Finance & Development Award of $31,000 Winner - 2016 University of Hawaiʻi President’s Green Project Implementation Award of $10,000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
960 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Rennis | Joseph | Ignis Careers Private Limited | www.igniscareers.com | Chief Executive Officer | Male | India | India | English | We set up Ignis Careers Private limited as a sustainable organisations, serving the under-served communities in India in terms of English and Life Skills education. Ignis offers. Ignis works mostly with affordable private schools in India. Ignis provides capacity building support to these schools, training teachers and students in these schools. We supported close to 50,000 students and it costs less than $6 per child per year. Our programs improve the learning skills of the students, break the culture of learning by rote and instill a sense of purpose in the schools that we work with. The students have shown improvement in their learning skills, and have demonstrated better enrollment in higher education. The pilot schools with more than 8 years of work has also improved gender parity. English skills give better access to information and wider employment market while life skills enable people to negotiate a dignified life. | I was doing a PhD in cultural studies when I got to work on a UNHCR program supporting Afghan and Burmese refugees in New Delhi. Teaching them changed my perspective to live as I realized how life skills education can transform people lives in a short duration. After trying to partner with different organizations and people, we launched Ignis. My studies in language learning and socio-cultural dimensions of language, helped me design programs that are culturally sensitive and age appropriate. Studying the people at the margins as part of research, made me set up a social enterprise. | English and Life Skills Lab for Affordable Private Schools | Promoting purposeful education among the under-served students in India, through English and Life Skill learning. | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries | India | No | Transition to Scale | We currently work in 12 cities of India reaching a population of 50,000 students. In the financial year 2018-19, Ignis also achieved break-even. We are looking to raise funds and I am part of the in-residence program of the accelerator program run by Miller Center of Santa Clara University. | About 40% of students in India go to affordable private schools that charge meager fees. These schools manage themselves by under-paying teachers and end up hiring under-qualified and under-skilled teachers. This along with the culture of rote learning leaves students with out any genuine skills and leaves a huge chunk of the youth un-employable. The rate of unemployable graduates is as high as 65% to 80%. | Ignis designs personalized and interactive learning activities that are appropriate to the age of the learners and their culture. We then train teachers in schools who in turn train the students. That way we transform the learning culture of schools and create skilled teachers. The life skills component of the program empowers students with critical thinking and communication and inter-personal skills that would enable them to negotiate their lives better. English skills expand their access to information and employment market. More over, by transforming the learning culture, we enable students to lean better and pursue learning purposefully, helping them with their higher education. | The capacity building is unique to the program. It makes the solution sustainable. Even after Ignis has ceased to support the school, the learning culture that we set up, would continue to inspire future generations. This also make the program affordable at less than $6 a year per child. Our programs are a series of activities that are appropriate to the age of the students and the culture of the students making very relevant to them. | We have so far supported about 500 schools in the last 5 years and reached about 200,000 students and 4000 teachers. We measure the outcomes based on the random sample assessments at the beginning and the end of the year. Acumen has helped us with lean data study of the parents of the students as well. | We are developing a teacher assistant app that would enable the learning of the teachers and would help them facilitate the learning in the classrooms. We are looking to scale the operations in to 40 cities by the end of 2024. | Raising $1 million is our immediate target in a mixture of equity and grants. We would need technical support to design teacher assistant app and student support app. In the next 5 years, we intend to raise a further round of 5 million to reach 125 cities in India. | http://igniscareers.com/ https://www.facebook.com/IgnisCareers/ https://yourstory.com/2017/12/hyderabad-ignis-careers http://impactpreneurs.com/Ignis_Careers https://acumen.org/investment/ignis-careers/ https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/companies/ignis-careers-raises-150000-from-gray-matters-capitals-edlabs/article26128273.ece | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd_Cr9fS8iI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehdnSHuh0BIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YBTz-L_UD8&t=703s | Selected BSE50 in 2019 Top 60 social Enterprise by DBS NUS Social venture Challenge 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
961 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | John | Heller | Little Sun Inc | www.littlesun.com | CEO | Male | United States of America | United States of America | English | What started as a humble idea to create a small, portable solar lamp for people without electricity in Ethiopia is now a global project that has changed over two million lives through the awesome power of the sun (see our global impact). Launched in 2012 by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen at London’s Tate Modern, Little Sun’s social business brings clean, reliable, affordable energy to the 1.1 billion people in the world living without electricity while raising awareness for energy access and climate action worldwide. Our premium solar products are for everyone. Little Sun solar lamps and phone charges are sold online and in partner stores around the world. Each time you buy a Little Sun, we deliver one to someone living off-the-grid at a much lower, locally affordable price. On the ground, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa, we work with local entrepreneurs, organizations, and municipalities to create local jobs and to bring the power of the sun to everyone. In 2017, Olafur Eliasson launched the Little Sun Foundation, as an extension to the social business. The Foundation brings light to those beyond the reach of our entrepreneurial distribution channels, especially school children, refugees and people affected by natural disasters. | John Heller currently the CEO of Little Sun, a social enterprise dedicated to enhancing access to affordable clean energy in emerging markets. Earlier, he founded and led a social purpose advisory practice within the Synergos Institute that enabled companies and foundations to achieve social impact in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Clients included Unilever, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Walmart Foundation, PepsiCo Foundation, eBay Foundation, Royal Dutch Shell, Bloomberg Philanthropies, DuPont-Pioneer, Conservation International, the UN Global Compact, among others. All profits from the practice supported Synergos’ programs to reduce poverty. Previously at Synergos, Heller developed a portfolio of inclusive partnerships to address complex development challenges, including initiatives to reduce maternal mortality in Namibia, improve agricultural performance in Nigeria and enhance aboriginal peoples’ quality of life in Western Canada. Prior to joining Synergos, Mr. Heller worked with the Council on International Educational Exchange, the Open Society Institute, and the Population and Community Development Association. He served for two years as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in rural Thailand. He serves as an investment advisor to the Heller Group real estate company. Heller speaks Thai and Spanish and holds a BA in Sociology from Haverford College and an MA in International Affairs from Columbia University. | Little Sun | By providing clean energy solutions and inspire people to take climate action, Little Sun envisions a world without energy poverty. | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 7 Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Sub-Sahara: Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, Senegal | Yes | Ministry of Education in Ethiopia, UNHCR, Save the Children, IOM | Scaling | Little Sun has distributed 850,000 artfully-designed personal solar devices worldwide, generating over 500 million study hours for children, reducing 135,000 tons of CO2 emissions and stimulating $35 million household-level savings. We will distribute our millionth lamp in 2019. Beyond their pragmatic utility, Little Sun products have significant iconic value and have become a symbol of light, galvanizing citizen engagement and action around renewable energy and climate change solutions. | In sub-Saharan Africa alone, some 625 million people live without access to energy, contributing to deep disparities in income, educational attainment, health outcomes, and economic opportunity. Without affordable sources of power, African entrepreneurs cannot start or maintain businesses, farmers will struggle to irrigate fields or gain value from post-harvest processing, school children will lack light to study at night, health workers will struggle to attend patients in remote areas. | Our high-quality solar products are increasingly successful in facilitating and securing the daily routines of underserved individuals in off-grid rural areas. The distributions of our pico solar tools have contributed to: an increase of academic attainment in the Sub-Saharan region, as it allows students to study when the dark sets; health workers can efficiently attend patients in remote areas with the help of lamps and chargers; women and girls in refugee camps can minimize the safety risks by carrying our portable lamps; farmers can empower their tools and entrepreneurs can take a leap on their ideas. Furthermore, it is estimated that households that are given or invest in a Little Sun product, save 90% over a 2-year period once they switch from toxic fuel to clean solar power. Our lamps and energy solutions have also spread the knowledge about health hazards that appends toxic fuels, the environmental risks they permit and the climate risks enhance. Lastly, the attitude towards renewable energy has shifted to one of awareness and acceptance. Through Little Sun's significant iconic value, our solar energy tools, communications platform, and an inspiring ambassador in Olafur Eliasson, we believe the impact of our outreach will establish awareness and action towards clean energy and climate change. | Little Sun has a track record of delivering a unique narrative as well as a unique and highly appreciated set of pico solar tools. Our integration of high-quality solar technology and art has led Little Sun to become a symbol of light, which has proven to be an excellent platform to spread awareness about climate issues and action towards clean energy solutions. We are confidently expanding our solar toolset in our own structure and with partners while refining our story and communications/outreach. We are in a unique position to bring together stakeholders from different worlds, and we believe that we can catalyze highly relevant R&D and project implementation with our unique placement. | Little Sun has become the light of choice for many off-grid users as well as in the humanitarian sector. Our high-quality solar products are increasingly successful in facilitating and securing the daily routines of refugees, IDPs and underserved individuals in the off-grid rural area of Ethiopia. In the past 5 years, we have reached 2,229,834 people and distributed over 838,308 little suns worldwide. Our work has enabled students to study an extra 20,452,126h in the dark since 2018, households have saved 48,065,312$ in energy expenses and we have reduced Co2 emissions by 182,041 tonnes. We measure our impact by conducting follow-up individual interviews and focus groups with recipients following the distribution to ascertain the detailed impact and we collect data from our project partners. | Over the next three years, we plan to distribute solar phone chargers to 3,000 public health workers, we intend to triple, to 600, the number of renewable energy entrepreneurs operating in the markets and our target is to distribute 450,000 solar lamps in off-grid areas. Our pico solar tools will reach 2,250,000 people, generating 540 million hours of study time, reducing 180 million kg of CO2, and generating $90 million in household savings. | Little Sun's long term vision for sustainable energy in our areas of focus is a radical increase of available energy solutions and supply models, including the development of in-country manufacturing for job creation and FOREX independence. Within our vision, we have a component of global climate advocacy, movement building, and most importantly the vision to unite a highly diverse network around our core ambition: Clean Energy Access for All. Short-term: Most of the sub-Saharan countries have a hard currency / FOREX issue, making a traditional investment into the country challenging. Our blended finance model, seeking grant funding to establish scalable social business systems, is our solution to this matter. Long-term: Our local team would bring solar energy solutions into testing in three main categories: - Solar Lights for Students, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education. - Solar Productive Use Appliances (such as water pumps, mills) for farmers, in cooperation with the Agricultural Transformation Agency - Solar Micro Grids for a model solar village - R&D - seeking locally manufactured energy solutions All solar solutions would be based on PAYG systems, but donations would enable the first series of tests. | https://littlesun.com/ https://vimeo.com/228204096 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgUzoo-r5_s | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-82r-A8Psw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK8LSuT_7Pk | KfW-Award GründerChampions, Germany (winner): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bBuRktqPk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
962 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Gang | Chen | The Desert Green House Project | http://www.xinjiangoasis.org/index.php?c=zgfront&mod=front&m=cp&cl=cp&nowmenuid=10062095 | Executive Director of Xinjiang Shawan Oasis Sustainable Development Institut | Male | China | China | Chinese | English | There exist several hundred thousands of small green houses, which had been built and under continuous production and operation in China. Desert green houses have been and are being built in several desert provinces in Northern China including Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and Gansu. Xinjiang, where I live, is a part of China with the greatest desert area including the world’s second largest flowing desert – the Taklimakan desert. People in Xinjiang have been facing the challenges of reduced arable land due to desertification and the shortage of local supplies of fresh vegetables and fruits, that is the reason why I came up with the idea to develop desert green house to turn barren desert land into productive farming land. | Gang Chen is the Executive Director and Desert Resources Development Expert of the Xinjiang Shawan Oasis Sustainable Development Institute, China. Till 2009, he worked as Project Manager and Research Fellow in the Xinjiang Environment and Natural Resource Conservation Research Institute in China. Furthermore, he’s worked as part-time Associate Professor of several universities in China. | The Desert Green House Project | Desert greenhouse is a method for transforming sandy wasteland into arable land to plant vegetables & to increase output of high-quality agriculture | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | China | No | Scaling | There are an increasing number of waste desert lands in the world, reducing the availability of agricultural land and agricultural yields. People in many developing desert countries are requesting project work replications from us. | There is an increasing number of waste desert lands in the world, reducing the availability of agricultural land and agricultural yields. Thus, prices for agricultural products go up and the quality of life for low-income people decreases. Furthermore, people in many developing countries are forced to leave their previous habitats because of the threat of desertification. | The desert greenhouse is great innovation to turn the waste sandy land into arable land to plant vegetables, fruits, increase the area of arable and output of agricultural products with high quality. According to scientific inspection and verification, many desert areas possess good natural conditions which can be developed and utilized to build greenhouses. Due to the scarce rainfall, wheat, straw, twigs and other organic materials are valuable building materials in desert areas. Especially sand is an inexhaustible source for construction and cultivation substrate. Using these cheap resources to construct greenhouses, planting can not only save costs for construction and operation, but also achieve organic cultivation. Thus, building greenhouses for vegetable production in the desert has very good social, economic and ecological benefits. Few organic substances are required for the growth of crop on sandy land. Grooves of a certain size and depth are dug, which can hold tree bark, sawdust, poultry manure or oil cake mixed evenly with sandy soil. When fully fermented, this mixture creates a vegetative environment in which seedlings can be planted. The temperature in the desert greenhouse is usually between 15 centigrade degrees and 25 centigrade degrees for most kinds of planted fruits and vegetables, while the humus balance is usually not less than 3%. | The most innovative aspects of my project is the great environmental benefits achieved through the construction of our desert green houses, which can fix and control flowing sand, reduce the area of desert land, and increase the area of arable land, the desert land has been turned into farming and forestry land, the ecological environment is improved in consequence. Furthermore, we also developed technologies to turn waste desert sand and desert rocks into construction materials used on building the desert green houses, the construction cost of the desert green houses can be reduced greatly in consequence, while keeing a high quality, the low cost of our desert green house is competitive enough to beat all existing similar innovation or solution. It had been listed as a low-cost and high-impact solution for economic empowerment by Siemens Stiftung (German foundation) and Technology Exchange lab (technology transfer services NGO, USA). | In one of our typical greenhouses in China, eggplants, peppers, watermelons, tomatoes and other crops flourish. Data shows that the quality and yield of these plants are far better and higher than that of products from regular ground greenhouses. The annual amount of real harvest from each of these desert greenhouses is at least 20,000 Chinese Yuan (or about 3,200 USD). Our desert green house project work has made more than 1.4 million square meter desert land into forest land and arable land and created more than 1200 new jobs with stable income for marginalized groups, forming a more sustainable development environment for desert communities in Xinjiang and other parts of China in the past 5 years. Furthermore, residents near or in desert regions have a better ecological environment due to fewer sand and dust storms reduced by built desert green houses. The costs for a typical desert sunlight greenhouses are 45,000 Yuan (or 7,150 USD), which includes building materials and construction worker salary. If build in a larger number, the costs for greenhouses can be further reduced because of economies of scale. These expenses are affordable in the proposed sales market, particularly when the investment return period is considered. Typically, a desert green house investor can recover his investment within 2 years. | Individuals and organizations from desert countries such as South Africa, Botswana, Egypt, Somali, Kenya, India, Iran have made requests of project cooperation to me and my organization. I and my organization are making every effort to help build at least one desert green house in each of these poor or low-income countries as a pilot project to demonstrate to local people and communities the benefits of the desert green house can make. | The desert green house project aims to to turn more waste desert land into productive farming land and forest land, stop and reduce desertification, improve the environment and help realize sustainable development of the desert regions in the world. Funding Goal: 1,000,000 New Implemented Countries: Mongolia, Ethiopia, Botswana | https://www.empowering-people-network.siemens-stiftung.org/en/solutions/projects/the-desert-green-house-project/ https://www.empowering-people-network.siemens-stiftung.org/en/service/press/article-interview/4-questions-to-gang-chen-of-the-desert-greenhouse-project/ https://www.globalinnovationexchange.org/innovation/the-desert-green-house-project https://solutions.giz.de/solutions/43 https://www.techxlab.org/solutions/desert-green-house-project-the https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rxAqE8PtLv-pIhOZnB9tg_3MGr244T3W/view?usp=sharing | N/A | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
963 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Reb | Thomas | Innovation Economy | InnovationEconomy.Com | Entrepreneur and Patent Attorney | male | United States of America | United States of America | English | More and more people around the world are realizing that if innovation is to have a positive global impact, it must have an impact on the economy (locally, regionally, and/or globally). I am working to build a global #InnovationEconomy network in continents, countries, and cities around the world. My startup efforts involve getting leading universities, companies, and/or government ministries to use a relevant ""InnovationEconomy"" domain (for example getting a UK university to lead UK use of InnovationEconomy.UK). | I have practiced tax, software and/or IP law for more than 30 years. | The ""Innovation Economy"" | Working to help build the #InnovationEconomy worldwide | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | InnovationEconomy.Com, .EU, .AFRICA, .ASIA, .UK, .FR, .DE, .IT, .ES, .NL, .CH, .DK, .SE, .PT, .BE, .CO, .CN, .JP, .IN, .KR, .SG, .TV, .AE, .QA, .SC, .London, .Paris & more | Yes | Currently in discussions with a Fortune 500 company to be the lead partner | Research & Development | Lack of funds | I and many of the people I'm networking with realize that innovation is so important to future growth and that it must happen at scale to have real impact on the economy where it is being created. My startup is working to scale this understanding and build connections that will create more sharing of ideas and knowledge about the best ways to accelerate innovation growth. | The solution starts with finding great partners to use InnovationEconomy.Com, .EU, .AFRICA, .ASIA, .UK, .FR, .DE, .IT, .ES, .NL, .CH, .DK, .SE, .PT, .BE, .CO, .CN, .JP, .IN, .KR, .SG, .TV, .AE, .QA, .SC, .London, .Paris & more. Once this is well underway we will be developing a mobile app for individuals in these continents, countries, and cities to better capture and selectively share their ideas as they advance into innovations and even into inventions that may be protected under relevant patent laws. Along the way the app will provide feedback and suggestions as ML & AI capability is developed. | The branding as the ""Innovation Economy"" is what provides our unique perspective. We make the case for innovation at scale right in our name. | We are beyond what is called the ideation stage and are working on R&D as we work to secure partners and users. We are not yet ready with proof of concept although we are not far off that stage. | We are actively recruiting universities, companies, and/or government ministries in 5 to 10 countries & cities. We hope to get a cohort of about 5+/- users to launch with InnovationEconomy.Com. The current plan is to rely mostly on user personnel and contractors rather than hire too many staffers, but once we get the first couple of cohorts of users using their InnovationEconomy sites to reach their citizens we anticipate educating and encouraging millions about ways they can create more innovations and thereby have greater economic impact on their lives and the lives of people around them. | Funding from one or more partners to get dozens of countries using their InnovationEconomy domains to press their case to their citizens and to others around the world that they know how to create innovations at scale. In the short-term that is around $1-200,000. In the medium and long terms we may look for up to about $1 million but we also plan to be growing user fees of various types but probably mostly consulting on collaborative app developments. | http://www.innovationeconomy.com/ (still mostly ""coming soon"") InnovationEconomy.EU, .AFRICA, .ASIA, .UK, .FR, .DE, .IT, .ES, .NL, .CH, .DK, .SE, .PT, .BE, .CO, .CN, .JP, .IN, .KR, .SG, .TV, .AE, .QA, .SC, .London, .Paris & more will be launch when and as relevant users signup to lead their continent, country, or city. | I don't think any such videos or audio recordings exist as in recent years I have not been doing a lot of speaking except one on one pitching. | The #InnovationEconomy has not yet won any awards, but I won a Microsoft sponsored business idea contest several years ago (several thousand dollars of software and they flew in a noted small business consultant and author to work with me for a day) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
964 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Raul | Trenado | RecircUP | www.recircup.com | CEO/Co-founder | Male | Spain | Spain | English | Spanish | Waste management is an old, dark and not known process where people is not involved. Our solution wants to change that, as we believe that to fight against global climate change, running out of raw materials and contamination, people has to be involved into the circuit. Technology is there to help us achieve that, but until now, it's not uses correctly in this type of business, being used only in the waste plants, very poorly by collectors and with a cost to the citizen. Our goal is to show that there's another way than just DROP or PAY.. There’s also FUN! As part of the UN Solutions Summit, we will be able to share our message to the world, find partners and stablish a strong network to implement RecircUP in every country, company or organization that want's to improve their carbon footprint, and also encourage their citizens, workers and young people to keep a cleaner world for the next generations i a funny and collaborative way | The 3 people that conforms this project has a vast experience in their fields (Technology and Design), and with our partnership with an international container manufacturer, we don't have to worry about making containers, just creating a strong technology. We have more than 50 combined years of experience. Our CEO and CIO has been working as project directors and consultants for many years (in and off-shore) in different and international projects with many verticals and markets. Our CCO has been working with many firms creating the right contents in the right way for over 15 years. | RecircUP | The new recycling experience: Recycle, Play, Collaborate, WIN! | Goal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable | Goal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns | Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts | Worldwide | Yes | Sanimobel (container manufacturer), IBM | Transition to Scale | RecircUP is actually on a pilot test phase of their MVP in a real environment for 15 months now. It has been installed in a school summer camp and it’s currently in a public environment. It has had a great reception by citizens and students, and other organizations have shown interest in the solution already. | To start recycling improvement, it is essential to educate the community and thus create the habit of separation at the source. RecircUP reinforces the current initiatives for recycling improvement, by adding a game component, citizen collaboration and circular economy, providing added value to the actions of citizens who already recycles, and encouraging those who does not. Also it encourage and teach citizens about the benefits of recycling with their interactive and personalized messages. | RecircUP consists of a KIT (that is installed in conventional waste collection containers, that provides IoT capabilities), and a Cloud Platform (as the backend to store and manage the information). With these elements, it’s very easy to transform the current waste bin infrastructure into a RecircUP system, which will include: gamification, information and learning station, and real time container monitoring. It uses state-of-the-art technology: •IoT devices •Consolidated software platform resident in the cloud •Mobile app •Responsive Web 5.0 •Sensors analysis. •Back-end to store real-time data •Business intelligence metrics •Geolocation and spatial positioning, providing information on how to get to the nearest containers •Ready to be used only with renewable energies with 0 ecological impact •Interactive pet that launch messages to the users, and motivate their actions •Incident reporting •In highly demanding or more complex scenarios, the solution can be adapted to work with other technologies •Offers a direct communication channel between citizens and organizations or municipalities It can be adopted by any organization, government or private company that wants to improve recycling and make their citizens, workers or students more sustainable aware. It can works with current fidelity systems, to add even more value. | It gives value to the citizens recycling actions, but has nothing to do with returning money (though it could be set up for that too in a deposit return system scenario). It’s a learning platform that promotes environmental education with the use of funny games and competitions. It offers a collaborative and circular economy model, promoting proximity and sustainable shops. With the introduction of team objectives, encourages citizens to work in groups. In schools, we can make recycling become a natural and fun habit from the start, adding competitions and games, and bringing new generations close and familiar with activities related to the environment care. In case of companies, associations or governments, we can help them promote CSR campaigns, and provide information about the container’s status, so they can optimize collection routes and gain knowledge about recycling and consumption habits. RecircUP can work directly with organizations that sell products related with recycling, sustainability and the environment. It also allows NGOs to obtain support and crowdfunding. The main difference VS existing platforms are: 1-Easy to adopt 2-Zero cost for citizens 3-Adds Gamification (challenges, games, leagues…) 4-Adaptable to customer needs 5-Real time monitoring 6-Easy to use 7-Works with children’s up to old people 8-Doesn't change the actual waste recovery systems, it just add a new layer 9-Open to everybody 10-Provide metrics and analytics | Since the start of the solution (back in mid-2018) we have achieved multiple recognitions, prices and went live in a real scenario. We have appear in TV, Radio and digital media. We have been accelerated by 3 incubator programs until now, one of them supported by one of the 3 biggest waste management companies in Spain (Ferrovial Servicios). In terms of soft/hard, our solution has evolved to a stable infrastructure and hardware platform. Our cloud system is now ready to be deployed everywhere at any time. Out kit can be adapted to most of the existing containers but now we can also provide smart bins with the system fully integrated and ready to be used. Our progression can be seen on our incidence backlog that has been reduced from 10 incidences a month to 1 every 3 months. | As it has been developed relying on cloud technology and reduced cost hardware, it's easily replicable and scalable. The presented solution, is focused on packaging recycling, as it’s intended for the smart cities scenario, but can be adopted by other sectors like electronic waste & green points everywhere anytime. To do that and fulfill our business plans (now focused in the Spanish market due to the fact that we are a small group of people) we need to increase our sales potential. With a good network and partners in different regions, we would be able to provide our services everywhere (as we have a partnership with an international container manufacturer). The impact will be different de[pending on the culture of the adopter, for example, in Spain, the waste is managed by official companies, but in other territories, like south America, Asia or Africa, our system can help governments to equality balance the access to waste resources to different groups of people that lives of the waste collection. In capitalists’ countries, our system may help to identify the bad & good recyclers so actions can be taken based on that information (pay per generation, etc.) | In short terms, our main goal is to increase our sales structure for the Spanish market, in med term, access to partners will be our main requirement, so they know the exact particularities of the regions/markets/culture and can provide a first level of support. In long terms, access grow to be present in every continent is our last goal, to provide our services near to the customers. For that, we need money to organically grow. We also need to have visibility and access to the right decision makers, government and organizations, so a good promotion like being part of this program will be excellent.. | Website: www.recircup.com Video presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCxr-QqQmzI | TV appearance (spanish at the end of the video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF0zGHXrLnM | WINNER - ""LONG LIVE TO PRODUCTS 2018"" by UNLIMITED SPAIN ACCELERATED - CONECTOR ACCELERATOR BANKIA 3 SELECTED - ""MOST INNOVATIVE IDEAS"" RECUWASTE 2018 SELECTED - assist to the SCEWC2018 with ICEX WINNER - ""LAB GREEN UNDERTAKE #FORTHECLIMATE"" SPANISH MINISTRY OF ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION ACCELERATED - BRIDGE4BILLIONS WINNER & ACCELERATED - UNLIMITED SPAIN, FERROVIAL & CJC UNIVERSITY ""GAME CHANGERS & CITIES"" WINNER - ""INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS IN RETAIL"" by WONDERFUL ACCELERATED - ""ELEVATE"" by HUBSPOT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
965 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Xabiso | Lombo | Guardian Gabriel | www.guardiangabriel.co.za | CEO | Female | South Africa | South Africa | English | My solution aims to promote safer spaces, especially for women. My solution has the potential impact to save lives. Femicide and gender Based violence in South Africa is something that needs our attention. The government has not placed much importance to it. I have decided to take the road less traveled and to try and solve this problem. | Xabiso Lombo is a 22-year-old woman currently studying towards a bachelor's degree majoring in accounting at the University of Cape Town. She is also an Allan Gray Candidate fellow. Additionally, she has recently been selected to be part of the RedBull Amaphiko Entrepreneurship Academy for the 2019 Cohort. She was a candidate in the Women in Entrepreneurship Campaign driven by Karisani IT and sponsored by SMG BMW Cape Town in 2018. Xabiso is the founder of Guardian Gabriel, a wearable panic button which works independently of the cellphone. Her great passion for entrepreneurship has seen her being invited to numerous entrepreneurship panels, one to highlight is the African Business and Social Responsibility Forum in Mauritius. Here she impressed the organisers of the event and was granted a special invitation to meet the President of Mauritius at the state house. One of her most recent achievement is being part of the Inside Education 100 South African Shinning Stars list 2019 and a nominee for the Inspiring Fifty Top Women in Stem Award | Guardian Gabriel | Her Safety is our Priority | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | South Africa | Yes | French South African Tech Labs | Proof of Concept | We have developed a prototype and are about to start testing | , South Africa is the 17th most dangerous country in the world.Additionally, 3 South African cities made the most dangerous cities in the world. These cities are Cape town, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg. South Africa has a femicide rate that is 5 times higher than the global average. According to statistical- general, South Africans spend more than R15 billion a year on personal safety.This spending is further divided into direct and indirect measure of acquiring safety. | Guardian Gabriel’s core purpose is to provide its users with a panic button that does not require any connection to a cellular phone. An added value to our consumers, is that we foster a community of safety through creating a community of first responders through our web-based platform which a consumer becomes a part of when purchasing our product. Our product uses the Internet of things technology to offer the best service and value to our customers. Private Security have become significant role players in providing personal safety. We therefore seek to partner with them to give an additional added value to our consumers. | Guardian Gabriel does not rely on the use of a cellphone to send a signal to relate parties that you are in danger | We have managed to have build a prototype and are about to begin Beta Testing | We want to scale throughout the African Continent strategically. Buy year 3 we want to have created 9 Employment opportunities | We want to have buy-in from the government | https://www.redbull.com/za-en/Xabiso-Lombos-personal-safety-innovation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Vh8XLb0Zc | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjSUJetPBmk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41ukntIpI5Q | AfricArena Innovation Challenge (FSAT LABS) 2017 VivaTech CPA award 2nd place Allan Gray Venture Award top 10 2019 Allan Gray Ideation Top ten award 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
966 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | Faith | Adesemowo | Social Lender | http://www.sociallenderng.com | CEO and Co-founder | Female | Nigeria | Nigeria | English | We are building a social network for Trust, Credit & much more. We are in search of strategic partners who can help accelerate our growth while we in turn deliver value based on our unique value proposition and strong network. We believe a partnership with you can achieve this. We are currently in a fundraising round. | Faith has over 7 years’ experience with a background in sales, structured & project finance. She has worked in Investment Banking at BGL Plc. She is a result driven investment banking professional and has pioneered Start-ups. She left BGL with the vision to focus on Social Lender. Social lender is a platform which harnesses value in users’ digital fingerprints using a proprietary algorithm to perform a social audit of the user on social media, online and other related platforms and giving a Social Reputation Score to each User. Users can borrow from Banks and other financial institutions based on their Social Reputation Score. | Social Lender | Social Lender | Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere | Goal 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture | Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all | Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Social Lender is currently operational in Nigeria and South Africa. We are targeting Ghana, Other West Africa countries, East Africa countries and developing economies. | Yes | Social Lender have signed partnerships with 6 Financial Institutions in 2 Countries of Operations with a pipeline of 4 partners in 2 countries. Our key partner includes: Sterling Bank (Nigeria), Absa Barclays Bank (South Africa) and iTrust (Nigeria), | Scaling | Social Lender is currently in the scaling stage. We already have a solid product with a good value proposition for a good market size in Africa alone, over 50% of the adult population have little or no access to formal credit scaling our product to meet this demand is key. Social Lender is operational in two country with proof of success in those market. Social Lender is revenue positive. We have a formidable team. | Over 50% of adult Africans lack access to formal credit. Sub Saharan Africa faces a dual problem when it comes to access to credit. First, there is an absolute lack of access to credit for a large percentage of people across Africa because of the lack of traditional collateral and the ineffective traditional credit scoring system. Majority of these people who lack access to credit are young professionals, small business owners, National Youth corps members and students. | How Social Lender Works == Social Lender delivers cash guaranteed by social reputation in most cases within 10 minutes. In three steps, users are able to get quick cash from Social Lender. First, users access Social Lender’s platform using any of the following channels; Web, SMS, USSD, Mobile App (Partner App Add-On or Dedicated Apps), Partner Bank ATMs, APIs or Pay with Social Lender (E-commerce Checkout). Immediately a social audit is conducted on the user (with user's permission) and the user obtains a social reputation score based on their digital fingerprint. Second, the user applies for cash using any of the available channels. Third, funds are approved based on partner specific business rules and funds is disbursed to the users' verified Account (Bank Account or Mobile Money Account) usually within 10 minutes. Our Long-term Vision for Global Impact == Social Lender technology can be used for much more than Lending. The lending space was the easiest entry point and there was a massive and glaring need in this industry. We are building a social network for Trust, Credit and much more into an Asset for Individual Empowerment and Financial Services. We look forward to Social Lender being used in other areas including but not limited to KYC, Insurance and so on. | What makes our solution (Social Lender) unique is our social reputation scoring and social guarantor model which can be licensed to financial institutions in this group. Social Lender is providing technology to enable our partners compete in these markets. Other Alternative credit scoring companies like Lenddo, Kreditech and Hello Soda are exploring this market from the point of view of big data only and not from the point of view of reputation is Social Communities. Unlike our competitors, Social Lender depends on the User's Social Reputation Score computed by a proprietary algorithm. Also Social Reputation Score can be improved by providing more information. For example, Social Reputation Score is improved by the introduction of Social Guarantor who provide electronic personal guarantee on the personality of the borrower or the transaction. Social Lender is uniquely positioned to work with each of the groups mentioned above (Peer to Peer Lenders, Banks, and Credit Scoring Companies). | Founded in 2015, Social Lender has signed up over 40,000 users on their platform and recorded less than 2.5% bad debt on loans facilitated through their platform. Over 75% of Social Lenders first time borrowers return to the platform for more transactions. The Company has signed partnerships with 6 Financial Institutions in 2 Countries of Operations: Sterling Bank (Nigeria), Absa Barclays Bank (South Africa), iTrust (Nigeria), Unity Bank (Nigeria), Reliance Microfinance Bank (Nigeria) and FCMB Microfinance Bank (Nigeria) with a pipeline of 4 partners in 2 countries. Social Lender is accessible on multiple channels which include SMS, USSD, Mobile App and Web. Recently, Social Lender launched a USSD only channel in Nigeria targeting low income communities. The Company has grown organically and made revenue of $300,000. It has raised $120,000 from Barclays Accelerator Powered by Techstar and $300,000 from Enhancing Financial Innovation in Nigeria (EFINA). We measure our progress using the below KPI’s - Number of partner financial institutions actively using and marketing the Social Lender Technology - Number of net qualified users based on social reputation score (who may not access a financial service immediately but now have access when needed) - For Lending - Percentage of Recurring Users - Number of Users who get access to formal credit for the rest time. - Bad debt / Non-performing Loans of less than 7% of the total disbursed. | Goals == We are building a social network for Trust, Credit & much more. We want to give more africans access to Formal credit with no hassle and access to quick cash. Milestones == Launch Social Lender in 5 African country by 2020 1 Million user base in by 2022 Integrate with all Nigerian commercial bank by 2022 Reduce our non performing loans to 1% leveraging on machine learning and AI Social lender is seeking to raise $1 million in equity or convertible note to: expand their staffing, implement and integrate more technology interfaces, expand Social Lender’s brand and marketing reach, and to expand into new markets and countries of operation. Social lender also plan to add additional online, mobile and social data sources, include machine learning and Improve our algorithm, all to reduce our already low bad debt of 2.5% to even lower. | Resources most needed for Social Lender to scale and have impact Short-term == We are launching with a Ghanaian bank this quarter. Medium-term == Our medium-term goal is to launch Social Lender in 5 African countries. Long-term == - Partnership - Growth - Fund Partnership: On our roadmap is to increase our partnership in countries of operation in order to drive financial institutions. The lesser partner we have the lesser customers, the more partners we have the more customers we will grant access to formal credit. Growth: We are currently raising fund to expand our staffing, implement and integrate more technology interfaces, expand Social Lender’s brand and marketing reach, and to expand into new markets and countries of operation. Funding: Social lender is seeking to raise $1 million in equity or convertible note to: expand their staffing, implement and integrate more technology interfaces, expand Social Lender’s brand and marketing reach, pool of funds (capital pool for lending as some licensees prefer this option) and to expand into new markets and countries of operation. Social lender also plan to add additional online, mobile and social data sources, include machine learning and Improve our algorithm, all to reduce our already low bad debt of 2.5% to even lower. | Website: http://www.sociallenderng.com Demo to users (2 min video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAMPkKbBbnA Demo to Financial Institutions (1 min video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhzSferx7V0 Social Lender Pitch Deck: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZjdR02_ePfl7vvX39yG_HC-onXDw26VH?usp | https://youtu.be/FLQMmZXZNeQ | Awards: - December 2017 - Absa won the Most Innovative Digital Business Model at the Gartner Eye of Innovation Award as a result of its partnership with Social Lender. https://www.gartner.com/technology/eye-on-innovation-awards/financial-services/ - June 2017 - Ecobank Fintech Fellow - http://www.ecobankfintech.com - 1st Runner Up, Technology Project of the Year - Nigeria Technology Award 2015 - October 2015 http://www.nigeriatechnologyawards.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
967 | I am submitting a Solution to be considered for inclusion in UN Solutions Summit | WAQAS | AHMED | SmartClinix | www.smartclinix.net | Founder/CEO | Male | United States of America | Pakistan | English | short write up included: In 2017, after the adoption of the universal Global Goals, I launched a digital healthcare platform to integrate the fragmented system in Pakistan. The revolutionary and inclusive digital platform of SmartClinix is not only successfully implemented in over 21 cities across Pakistan but also has been scaled in Kenya and the United States through its project Shifa4U. As a practicing nephrologist in Jacksonville, Florida, I recognized the need for an upgraded, inclusive and integrated system in the United States as well. The effectiveness of the SmartClinix model was tailored and scaled to meet the challenging needs of the developed healthcare system and now has partnerships with hundreds of providers, diagnostic labs, etc. The efforts have been recognized both internationally and regionally by conferences convened by the World Bank and by the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce. As I was born, raised and studied medicine in Pakistan, I realized the dire need for upgrade and innovation in healthcare practice to ensure quality and access to healthcare for the most vulnerable people and in the most remote locales. Having the opportunity to practice medicine in the United States led me to recognize the need for a unified holistic healthcare platform that does not exclude, but include all people, resources and services and provides education. I believe in leveraging the power of technology and working towards sustainable development. My initiative prides its values and mission alongside of the UN Global Goals in efforts to direct all development towards a unified purpose of sustainability. | Dr. Waqas Ahmed founded American TelePhysicians Group of Companies with a vision to provide patient-focused connected healthcare across the globe. He believes in disruptive business model and foresees digital health and telemedicine as a promising way to deliver healthcare services across the globe. He pioneered the concept of establishing online healthcare eco-systems and interlinking them using information technology. He is also the driving force behind the concept of connecting American healthcare market with the emerging international markets. As a CEO, he oversees the development of company’s strategy along with its board and leads the implementation of the company’s long and short-term plans in accordance with that strategy. He is a medical graduate of King Edward Medical University in Pakistan and has worked in various healthcare networks around the world including UK and New Zealand. He moved to US in 2007 and completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Mercy Health System in Cincinnati, Ohio, followed by Nephrology Fellowship at Christiana Care Health System in Delaware. He is currently based in Jacksonville, Florida, where he also practices Nephrology. Prior to founding ATP, he worked in various leadership roles and received numerous awards for his clinical research and educational work. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a member of the American College of HealthCare Executives. | SmartClinix | The world is going digital. So should your practice. Make your practice smart and efficient. | Goal 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages | Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation | Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development | Currently running in Pakistan, United States & Kenya. It is intended for sustainable healthcare development in global consumption/markets. | Yes | Inspired by Global Goal 9 target 4, Smartclinix solutions is an implementation platform for serves to upgrade and digitize the healthcare infrastructure for sustainability. It integrates systems through a unified infrastructure platform centered on physic | Scaling | SmartClinix is a comprehensive TeleMedicine EMR designed with simplicity, ease of use and remote access kept in mind. It is implemented in various healthcare individual practices, non-government organizations, universities as well as hospitals in Pakistan and abroad. Has been scaled in developing and developed healthcare markets. However for better penetration in global markets, localization of the product, automation and local marketing & business development is required. | Lack of medical record keepingby providing cloud based simple to use EMR system to doctors, hospitals and non-government organizations; inaccessibility to primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare in remote regions by providing built-in telemedicine solution to connect advanced healthcare in bigger cities with patients/primary healthcare providers in smaller cities/remote villages; Providing timely insights to national and global healthcare crisis by elaborate first hand data analytics. | The ultimate goal of SmartClinix is to make the world a global healthcare village by providing a platform with unified medical resources and knowledge beyond borders. In other words, a superspecialist based in Florida may be able to provide consultation through Telemedicine and save lives in a village in Africa. | Most EMR systems are focused at record keeping and require elaborate training. SmartClinix not only keeps medical records on HIPAA compliant AWS servers, but also provides a simple to use, tablet friendly Telemedicine solution. | SmartClinix team of top consultant physicians, IT professionals and UX/UI interface have invested in developing a state-of-the-art yet simple to use EMR for outpatient processes. SmartClinix team is currently working on interoperability with different systems as well as modules to incorporate inpatient processes as well. SmartClinix measures progress by the number of users and the outcomes; quality outcomes; education and training (how many physicians have trained, linked, and linked with physicians working in US and UK); and by healthcare outcome of early prevention and disease management. | Localization for countries and regions with English not as the primary language starting with Spanish and French. Inclusion of In-patient modules Interoperability platform for integration with all major existing EMRs. SmartClinix goal is (to achieve sustainable development global goal 17) provide innovative technological development to meet the growing healthcare challenges of our time by ensuring that, for the majority of world population, if not all, is access to electronic health record and top class healthcare services through telemedicine irrespective of their location and socio-economic status. | In development domain, needs include localization in different languages and locales and the development of in-patient modules and interoperability. In infrastructure domain, SmartClinix requires a basic laptop/tablet and internet connectivity. Short-term needs include introduction into adaptability into the ecosystem and the training of physicians (need funding, staffing and govt support). Mid-term needs include increasing presence, awareness and user base. Long-term goals include: becomes a widespread phenomenon and essential tool in healthcare ecosystem to connect services, resources, patient care options and patient education; transform the healthcare culture into that of proactive knowledge sharing; and to collect data analytics for artificial intelligence purposes. | Company website : www.americantelephysicians.com Project website : www.smartclinix.net Process video : https://www.smartclinix.net/Content/video/how_works.mp4 | https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.dcmsonline.org/resource/resmgr/files/md_life/2018/2018_nov_md_life_ahmed.pdf | Finalist : GEC Catalyst Award at Connected Healthcare Conference 2018 Top 6 : ATA Pitch Jam 2018 Think Tank : IFC Worldbank Global Health Conference, Miami, 2018 Presented : World Congress Healthcare Conference, Washington, 2019 |